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Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Huh? I'll let it go. Mike, after 2,000 episodes, you of all people know that your mailbags, they have, you know, they got different flourishes. Sure. Sure they do.

Prospector? You know, the volume of laughter from Deucer's Alley this morning is tremendous. That's the second show in a row where it begins and...

And there's just a faint whistle coming from an unknown location. Ah, Stinky Pete. That was the name. I could not remember it. That's a bad nickname, man. Stinky Pete. Is he a Stinky Pete? Stinky Pete. The prospector? Stinky Pete was the Toy Story 2 prospector. Which... I feel like people are confused with what's happening right now. No, they're not. They know. They know. Look, if you were at the live show, you heard full details of...

Because we did a Q&A and people wanted to know about my tooth and getting my tooth knocked out. And so I explained the whole situation. And I told them occasionally the fake tooth that I now have in my mouth as a temp. It's known to whistle. Right. Just unexpectedly from every once in a while, like an old timey prospector. Yeah. Stinky Pete hosting the show. Which...

Maybe it's something I thought about a long time ago, but I had forgotten about. I'm now putting it together of Woody's gang in Toy Story 2. You got this guy named Stinky Pete. You wonder why this guy's a little bit salty? You're calling him Stinky Pete. Get in the box. Yeah, no, you grow up with Stinky Pete nickname. You're probably upset. We have a mock draft on today's episode. In fact, we have nearly the entire team.

uh, in the mock draft. So we've got the Falcon and, uh, Al Borland. We've got, uh, Brooksy in the mock draft. We've got our Borg and Betts boys. Yeah. Borg and Betts are in there. The ramp scallions in there. And, um, the elder bald man,

Which we call Papa Josh. Yeah, he's at the turn. And so we've got everybody in the mock draft, so it should be a good one today. A two-flex mock. Our final mock draft before the season begins. So I had sent out a little, we had sent out an email yesterday. Yeah, one week. Today's Thursday. Yeah, one week. It's a week from today? Yep.

Hallelujah. It's like your heart rate went up. It did. Every year we get to a point. Are you working out? We get to a point, which is usually week 18, which is like, okay, football. And then we get to a point, which is about two weeks ago, which is like, okay, come on, football. I need it. I need it in my veins. Very excited for week one. One week. One week and a lot of drafts happening this weekend. A lot of drafts. So make sure you're ready.

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Well, well, well, Mike is shaking his head because he knows that somebody put their foot in their mouth. And that man, it's Zach Taylor. After returning to practice this past weekend, Jamar Chase did not practice on Wednesday.

And Zach Taylor is now calling it day-to-day because Zach Taylor came out and said, oh, yeah, he's going to be practicing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I've never seen day-to-day referred to without an injury. This is just like it's a situation that's day-to-day. And I guess it's true because every day he has no idea if Jamar Chase will be there. We certainly, I think we all move Jamar Chase's risk rating up.

What's the panic level, 1 through 10? I would say it's at a 7 for where he's being drafted. I'm not worried about Jamar Chase on the course of the season. I don't think he's going to be a bad draft pick, but it feels like there is a legitimate chance he's not playing football next Sunday.

Yep. I'm super. It's really soon. Super excited for my Dynasty squad guys week one to not have Jamar or Brandon Ayuk. Brandon Ayuk. Also, you can see the frustration with John Lynch. Oh, man. What a dummy. Sorry. He's like, I'm not going to talk about it, but at some point you got to play. Like you can tell this guy is so frustrated. Brandon Ayuk, he sent a message and immediately said, John, sometimes you got to pay. Ooh.

Look at Dallas. Just take a look. Take a look at the Cowboys. They played their game of chicken where the report came out that Seedy and his camp, they were at 34. That's what they wanted. The whole entire time. They just said, and the Cowboys are like, how about 31? How about 34? Hmm. Hmm. Okay. Okay. How about this? How about 31 and a half? How about 34? 34.

And then they get to the season. They're like, hey, CD, we got a great idea. How about 34? And they're like, yeah, we got you got yourself a gosh darn deal over here.

Give the man his money. It's so funny. You're going to do it. We talked about this a month ago where it's like you're going to give CD every single penny he wants. Every single one. We all know. The whole world knows he's going to get every dollar he wants. So do it where he can be participating with the team and practicing. You're hurting your franchise. We have football so soon. Lynch, the GM of the Niners.

He was so frustrated on the stand. That's what it felt like. His press conference, he was so frustrated being like, at some point he's got to play. It's like,

This is up to you. This is your... If we're all trying to find the guy who's responsible for this. He wants to play. And there are other teams. But there are other teams that are willing to pay him now to play now. I don't agree with you. I don't agree with you. Jamar Chase has two years left on his deal. Brandon Ayuk has one year left on his deal. So, yes, it's still a two-way street. It's still a decision that Brandon Ayuk makes.

That he believes is in his best interest. And the teams are making in their. What they believe is their best interest. And you know when you're under contract. It's still a debate. I mean it's not just like.

How many years under contract can you be where it's the team's fault? I mean, Jamar Chase has two more years under contract. Yeah, with the Jamar Chase situation, I understand it a little bit more. Now, that second year would be the fifth year option. But this is one of those situations where this is how the NFL works. A decade ago, 15 years ago, when people were holding out, it's like, well, you signed this contract. It's like, no, this is...

This is how contracts at the NFL work. If you're underpaid and undervalued and you're near the end of your contract, you get an extension. That is normal operation. But see, I don't expect these to end the same way. And so that's where I would disagree. I think that Jamar Chase will play football without a contract, and I think Brandon Ayuk will play football without a contract. Hold out, Brandon. That's what I think is going to happen at this point. And I think that, you know, I remember this with Arizona. Anquan Bolden did it twice.

Held out the whole offseason, didn't get a deal and played. I mean, they should pay these guys. I'm not saying they shouldn't. They're worth the money. And guess what? It's always worth doing it now. Like the now is cheaper than the later. Like it always is. DJ Moore just got a deal because the team saw that. And it is like Jamar Chase isn't getting paid more after this season. I mean, that's silly. It's going to happen.

And what do you want Jamar Chase to do on the field? Do you want him to go out and have the best season of his career? I think you do. Right. Let's pull him. Let's pull him before the touchdown so we don't pay him more. I mean, it's counterproductive, but we did see this. This happened last year. We just did it.

Jefferson just did this. Jefferson wanted money, held out for a little while, didn't get his money, played the season, got paid his money. And I do think with Chase, that seems like the path. With Ayuk, this is silly because he has had offers from other teams that are just waiting for the Niners to...

That's fair. To do something. To trade or not trade. And at this point with Ayuk, Mike, how are you treating the draft pick? Because he went. We had a listener league draft yesterday. And he kind of lingered a little bit longer in the draft. And then he went. And, you know, is he a stealer? Is he a 49er? Is he behind the eight ball on preparation? This is one of the reasons why the 49ers have the personnel to repeat in the division and go back to the Super Bowl.

But there's also just the NFL is so wide open and competitive and the emotions of them losing in the Super Bowl. Like that is hard. It is rare to be able to do that again. And now you have this drama with IUK and, you know, one injury or one problem. It's hard to do it over and over again. And this is just adding to the pressure. The IUK situation.

at this point, feels more dire because he is not even showing up. Like, Jamar heard his coach say,

Yeah, we expect him to play week one. And he said, oh, you do? Because I'll show up to practice, but I'm not going to practice. I'm just going to be in these clothes so you can't find me. Where Brandon Ayuk is missing, the fine for the first one is 6.4K. That goes up to 11.2 should he skip the next one, so on and so on, with then a maximum fine of up to $45,000, almost $46,000. I have the solution. I know what to do. What do you got?

Aiyuk goes to Bengals practice. Chase goes to 49ers practice. Oh, I would not like that. I would very much not like Chase to be part of the 49ers. They can't just swap? No. Pay the other guy? All right.

We reported that this was likely to happen, but some actual reports came out. Rashi Rice not expected to be put on the commissioner's exempt list. Which means they're going to let the entire legal procedure play out before they make a decision on NFL punishment. You would expect that they'll be able to push that beyond the season. It does add a little bit of, now I don't know, maybe you know more information, Jason, but

If it were to play out during the season, I doubt the NFL is going to delay a punishment. So if it did come to a correct, if it came to a conclusion, you could just all of a sudden be without Rashi Rice. Yeah, I think we had this with like Zeke, right? Wasn't the where we were going into an offseason and we thought he was going to miss time early in the year. He was on a boat. I remember him on a boat. He was doing very inappropriate things. Yes. On a boat.

Maybe. Where was the boat? Was it International Waters? I think it was. I don't remember. I don't want to speak at a turn. I think there was a boat involved. All right. So Jason, like you said. He's very convinced about this boat. Now, you did mention. Are you thinking about the Giants boat picture?

No, I still think Zeke was on a boat, man. The whole Giants team on the boat. Totally impossible to figure out whether this is a fact. Just speculation. I'm Googling boat and I'm not finding anything. Just look for boats from the past.

Love boat. But to Jason's point, Rice, we think it could get delayed further, but it is a variable in play. It is. Which also factors into how you might view Worthy and Hollywood and those guys. But if it happens, it would be much later in the season, I believe. So I'm drafting him like he's going to play the whole season because –

If I get the first half or whatever with Rasheed Rice and then I have to figure it out at the end, that's fine. August 22nd, 2017. Is it a boat? The NFL has announced the suspension of Ezekiel Elliott. From a boat. Who partied on boat. Oh, there it is. On Cowboys off day amid suspension appeal. So the boat wasn't involved in the incident. It's where he spent his appeal. His boat memory over here. Incredible work. I know boats. I know boats.

Everything that's ever happened on a boat. It was just like a yacht, I would imagine. It was a party boat. I'm sure it was a yacht. They would have called it a yacht. It's a boat. Jacoby Brissett and Russell Wilson have been named the week one starters for their respective teams. If you want to choose a new sacrificial baby, I believe Jacoby Brissett

is willing to accept that role. Yeah, the offensive line there for the Patriots is bad, and so Jacoby Brissett will not be the long-term starter. This is a, you know, the schedule is not easy for the Patriots to start the year, and you've got to set your incoming rookie up for success. I think this is the right call. This is probably the right move. I agree. Yeah, this team is not ready to compete today,

So I'm with you. Like at least Denver, I think they have some personnel. They had a run last year, putting Bo Nix in their best chance to win, um,

So, yeah, I agree with you. Yeah, and then the Russell Wilson starter. That was, I think, everyone's expectation from the get-go. Tomlin was pretty clear that he was in pole position from the beginning. Nothing changed, so he will be the starter. And, you know, they've got that bye week in the middle of the year. Maybe they could make a change later. But it's just one of those things where I expect the Steelers to be above .500.

Because they always are. And if that's the case, you're not going to have Tomlin want to have the turmoil in the locker room of quarterback questions. I think he'll squash things early and often. I'm disappointed that it's not Fields because I would like to see Mike Tomlin's sideline reactions to Justin Fields on a regular basis. I want to see those eyes roll into the back of his head. I think you'll get some with Russ. With every fumble and random toss into the stands.

We got Deontay Foreman back on the Browns. Yep. As expected, he re-signed. We've got...

The Chiefs signing Samajay P. Ryan. Yeah, so running back who caught 50 passes last year. On the Broncos. He is now on the Chiefs. If you had not seen it, there's been some stuff scattering out here about Clyde Edwards, a layer, having massive, massive difficulty with mental health and some PTSD things going on. I don't have all the information on it. He had been in and out of, like,

facility to help him. He's really struggling right now. So Samaj P. Ryan is a late round dart throw that I think is okay to throw. You should view him like McKinnon.

Yeah, I hope he is less than McKinnon for Pacheco's sake. And I do think he had less juice than McKinnon. He did, you know, P. Ryan, he was okay last year, you know, 50 receptions, but not explosive. And then it does appear, digging deeper, that this was a yacht party. It was not just a boat. It was a yacht back in 2017. Oh, we're going back to that? Yeah, I just wanted to confirm what matters.

All right. Speaking of what matters, Jason, Jaron Hall was cut by the Minnesota Vikings. He was one of their backup quarterbacks. And they brought in, speaking of stinky Pete, they brought in Brett ripping farts. Yes. Yes. I hope he, I hope Sam Donald is ripping them on the field. Rip them farts. I...

I think I tweeted something this morning. Like, I don't know what it says about my career and the choices I've made, my life accomplishments that a bit part player like Brett Rippin leads to us being tagged a million times on X about the player. But here we are, Brett Rippin back in the league just for the show. I'm sure he is ready and able to rip.

some farts oh yeah so um we are going to take a break here by the way that was today's news and notes presented by usaa insurance learn more at usaa.com insurance we'll take a break and then we're going to jump right into our final mock draft of the year

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Now I did mention before we jump in here that all of our staff is participating in this mock draft, the majority of them. And I have it on good authority that there is already a good deal of behind-the-scenes panic and tilting taking place here. And the important thing to remember, guys, is that it's only half a million, maybe a million people that are going to see what you did in this draft.

The Fantasy Footballers Mock Draft. Again, no pressure. First pick in the draft goes to the Falcon who can kick things off now. I am at three. Mike is at seven. Jason at the 10 spot. It is a 12-team game.

mock draft. It's full PPR. Full PPR. Thank you, Jason. Didn't know that till just now. Well, you are on the clock, so you're welcome. Two running back, two wide receiver, and two flex. So we are full PPR with two flex spots. So a little bit different than we have done recently. The first pick was CeeDee Lamb. The second pick off the board,

Christian McCaffrey to producer Borland. That is going to make my selection rather easy. The full PPR and the two flex. You know, I've been known to dabble in a little Brees Hall at the three or four spot. You be dabbling. I've been dabbling, but not today. Today it's going to be a very easy pick for me with CMC off the board. Tyreek Hill is going to be my first selection. Amon Ross St. Brown goes at 104.

I have also kind of been curious, guys, about whether you're willing to promote Amon Ra in your minds to be with that top-tier group. I've thought a little bit more about it this offseason. Amon Ra in a full PPR might belong with CeeDee and Tyreek.

Definitely in the same tier as Chase. Yeah, in a full PPR. I mean, he's so consistent. He is the passing offense for that team.

And full PPR, I think, does push him up. Half PPR, he's still not the explosive downfield threat that Tyreek and Seedy and even Chase are. So that, to me, is the tiebreaker is scoring format. All right. Brooksy went with Bijon at 105 and then Brees hauled off the board to Betsy at 106. So I have Tyreek. Mike is on the clock with the 107. And...

This is somehow brutal. We had gotten to the point where it felt very comfortable taking Jamar Chase. Bypassing Justin Jefferson, if you're somehow hearing Chase is there, that's an easy pick. The situation that is brewing, like we said, we've all raised his risk rating in the ultimate draft kit. What about Garrett Wilson? I just...

I can see that type of a movement, but it also – I mean, that is playing super scared of – can Garrett Wilson get to the elite echelon that has Jamar Chase in? I'm still going to take him. I'm going to take Jamar and really hope that he puts some pads on. Well, he still has a 87.5 receiving line for week one on the sleeper picks against New England. So –

Hopefully, we get to see him out on the field in week one. And if not week one, very soon after that, we have Mike with Chase. And then Jason made a weird face in my periphery. He's on the clock at 110. It went Chase-1.

AJ Brown and Gibbs. Now, I think Jason might not want to be staring down Jefferson here. I don't. But I feel like in a full PPR, this is a great pick. Be ripping. Well, now that ripping farts is on the team, Justin Jefferson. He's in the locker room, and that's where they're really dangerous. Open air, you're okay. That's a hot box. This is a spot that I don't personally want to be. I still worry about Justin Jefferson's capped

Now, I do think, obviously, he's the best wide receiver in the league or one of the three best wide receivers in the league. And between the 20s, in a full PPR, he's going to get massive volume. So I will take Justin Jefferson, but I guess in my world, there's a break of the specific nine people that went ahead that I would much prefer. Really? Like, I would much prefer... Emotionally, you're not feeling as good as...

the pick could turn out. Correct. Yes. Obviously, it's weird too. What a world. I love that at 110. Yeah, what a world. I'm kind of, Jefferson and Garrett Wilson in particular, I'm kind of rising on them and feeling very content taking them now. Imagine being at 110 and the best wide receiver of football drops to you. You're like, ah!

I don't know. In full PPR. Yeah. In full PPR. Yeah, I know. It's a great pick. I get it. I get it. Look, I did take Justin Jefferson. I didn't take deeper. Yeah, but I saw your face. That's true. The face was on. It was a stinky face. The face was unhappy. Garrett Wilson went next to Kyle. Makes sense. And then we got a back-to-back wide receivers from Papa Josh at the end of the round and beginning the second round. Harrison and Puka.

Very well could be 200-plus receptions between those guys, full PPR. That hairline shouts low T. That's why he took those two wide receivers. Nice, Mike. Kyle went with it. You bald idiot. It took me a second. I was trying to make sure there wasn't like Puka's hairline. Oh, no. Was it Marvin Harrison's hairline? No, no, no, no. Those guys are luscious locks. This is a Papa Josh attack. Well, we know that a rookie can come out and – And not? Yeah. Shout out.

Yeah. Mr. Perryman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jonathan Taylor goes at 202 to Kyle, so he's got the Wilson-Taylor combination. Jason, back on the clock. I haven't seen a bitter beer face from you yet. Are you okay? This one is pretty easy. In fact, when I was on the clock in the first round –

This player was in consideration. I have risen recently. You've got to make decisions. It's draft time, and you've got to – there's certain guys like Saquon Barkley who you're not sure, like, is it going to work out? Is he going to be vultured on the goal line? I believe Saquon Barkley is a great running back, and he is on a great – This is a significant change. This is a significant change. He's a great running back behind a great offensive line.

for what I think is a great offense. Okay. Now, we're dealing with this right now. Okay. We're dealing with this because, first of all, if you want to watch this draft, I suggest you do it on YouTube because you can see the draft board, youtube.com slash TheFantasyFootballers if you want to follow along. But this is a problem for me because –

We came in here yesterday with the punter news, the punt return news about Kyron. And Jason was here to calm the fears. He was here to say, we're really, he's always viewed Kyron the exact same way. And,

I talked about a duck costume, right? You put another item on, eventually you look like a duck. Jason just put the freaking duck hat on. He gave me a duck hat. You factor into the narrative now. Your decision of Barkley over Kyron right here, right now, is one more thing for me to doubt. Now, I don't know if this is just 4D chess you're playing and you want me to feel bad about the guy I got on my team, but you going Barkley over Kyron, I asked you that question verbatim yesterday.

And you said Kyron Williams. You, in our League of Record, which is a keeper league, you had Saquon Barkley and traded him for Kyron and a move up of a few spots and have been regretting it. So how do you feel in this moment that I took Barkley? Does it make you feel bad? I feel like you did this to hurt me, to make me feel bad.

I don't know, man. We'll never know. But I do. I will say this. How will we find out even? We'll never know. For the listeners, like, to me, the difference between Kyron Williams, Saquon Barkley, I'll throw Jonathan Taylor in there as well. They're...

These are all good picks, good players. I think that Kyron might have the strongest ceiling. And we saw his ceiling last year when he was the running back, too, in a points-per-game basis. But he also has some flags that, you know, you brought them up yesterday. They're concerning for you. I'm not...

to the degree, like I would have been just as happy if I took Kyron there. The truth is I take Kyron in a lot of these drafts. And Barkley, I wanted to talk about, I wanted to say that I believe he's going to be really good this year. You got that chance. You took him. And then the Rapscallion had Gibbs in the first round, went 8-10 in the second. Ooh, yeah. So I don't know if that's not high tea, though.

Gibbs and HN don't fit into the high T category. No, they don't. They're not big-bodied, 350 carry. That's like lowercase T. That's lowercase T. Yeah, that's baby boy T. Kyron goes at 205. And, Mike, you're back on the clock. Jamar Chase on the roster already. So I think Iyuk is the pick. He could be. You're just willing your dynasty-wide receivers into existence. If I were to go running back, this is where I would take Isaiah Pacheco. People, you know, you can –

I've seen different reactions to Piran getting on the team. To me, it's like a slight move down for Pacheco. It's not a huge movement for me.

But I'm going to go back to wide receivers. While this is not a full PPR, like I'm going to get almond raw levels of receptions, I'm still going to take Nico Collins, who I think the big plays can overcome the little bit of a lower reception total. I did bring up in the studio yesterday, I'm kind of softening on Nico and Tank Dell just from a consistency standpoint with Diggs' presence.

I think Nico, we rode that. I rode that ride all the way to the tippy top, but I still think it's going to be challenging for both of those players to give us what we really want on a weekly basis every single week with Stefan Diggs' target share involvement. I do have a little bit of

I think Nico's a little lower on my board, but I know you love him. So Chase and Nico, a couple big play guys. He's definitely higher on my board than I think most. Betsy went with Olave next, then Devontae Adams off the board, and then Travis Etienne, which positions me perfectly for... See, normally when we're drafting against the computer here,

I would tell you what I'm trying to get in the third round. Oh, so we'll, we'll put that into the headspace of, uh, the Falcon and Al Borland who pick after me.

But this pick is Josh Jacobs. Josh Jacobs is joining Tyreek Hill. Jacobs is – I posted a screenshot of the depth chart yesterday. He is currently the first, second, third, and fourth running back on the Green Bay Packers. Yeah, and you take him as the running back 10, which I think is a great spot for him. Obviously, I've risen on him with the injuries to the backfield. To start the season, at the very least, Josh Jacobs should have the volume that –

Oh, man. So you wanted live people in the Mocs are happy to get live. Here's the best part, because I think I'm the only person in the world that knows this happened. We don't have the video on Deucer's Alley. But when Andy reacted to being sniped, apparently, we had the Falcon in Deucer's Alley. Give him the double. You went double guns. He went double guns.

Right towards Andy. I turned to him when I saw what he did, and he double-gunned me. And I don't know if he makes that pick if I don't tease it the way I did, you son of a gun. I went Jacobs. Josh Allen went next to Al Borland. Isaiah Pacheco. Good stuff. So here's what's going on. The Falcon is trying to hurt us. That's his best effort. So he goes Pacheco at 212. Then he comes back with the player I wanted, which was Cooper Cup. I wanted...

I think Cooper Cup is worthy of being picked in the second round of a full PPR. So I was considering him with Jacobs, but I played the ADP game. He was way down the board. And I got burned by the Falcon, who is amazingly here at work today. Drake London goes next to producer Borland, putting me into a fresh situation here. I've got Tyreek and Josh Jacobs. And on the board at wide receiver, I like Metcalfe.

I think Metcalf is the lead dog there, obviously. Ayuk is the highest by ADP with the fears in the back of the mind. Debo is there. If I'm looking elsewhere, not looking at quarterback right now, I'm going to go with somebody that I think is less fortuitous by way of

public opinion but is the right pick here in a full ppr i'm taking baby cmc i'm taking rashad white at 303 to pair with jacobs and tyreek hill tyreek hill can serve the role of hero wide receiver for this roster and i think i'm getting myself a nice 80 90 receptions with rashad white all right evans dj more and debo samuel three wide receivers go next the hitman

On the clock with Chase and Collins. Yep. And despite what's going on with the injury fears of Jalen Waddell, if you have not seen, I did tweet out about it that I have slightly bumped him down because of the injury. He's still in a non-contact jersey, still wearing a sleeve on his left calf. But the actions of the Miami Dolphins are they have five wide receivers on this team right now. So...

Does that include Odell? No. No. No, Odell's on the... When they put Odell on the pup, then they claimed another guy off of the waiver wire. Someone Grant? Yeah. I've never heard of this guy. But anyways, to say that I'm going to read into the actions of the Dolphins saying that they are just getting him ready for the season, and I'm still going to take Jalen Waddle. Wow. I can't believe, genuinely. Like, I thought this lined up perfect, and I figured you'd be super happy that, you

you know, five of the first six picks right before you were wide receivers leaving James Cook one of your – If I had gone running back, that's where I would have gone. It was Cook or White for me. Cook or White for me. So Mike goes with triple wide receivers. Leaning into the double flex PPR. And the unavailable.

currently. Yeah. Waddle Waddle's not IU, but I may, I may have Nico Collins only on this roster. Lamar Jackson goes next. And then James cook off the board to a rap scallion who has three. Okay. Now you're high T when you hit, when you go three, like the lowercase became an uppercase T we

We've got three running backs. The testosterone is flowing because you're going to pound the rock. Yeah, three lowercase t's do make one uppercase. Okay. So there you go. Jason, you've got Jefferson and Barkley. You've got some options here. You could go running back with

Kind of a below ADP situation for Derrick Henry. Seems like people are nervous to take him in a full PPR. Yeah, in a full PPR, that makes sense. I'm not going to pull the trigger here on Henry either. There are a couple of players that I really like.

I'll just say this. You know what? What I would love to do here is something I've done for pretty much this whole offseason. I would take Jalen Hurts and then I would come back in the beginning of the fourth and and grab Devante Smith to get that stack. I like that three four stack. Kyborg will have two picks between me. I just said that out loud. And I know he also loves him. You would do that with Barkley on your team.

Just go full Eagles? Yeah. Here's the nice thing. Better than full Saints. I don't think I would with full Saints. I don't think I would do that with Barkley, but the truth is,

Alvin Kamara is a PPR machine. So when you look at Derrick Henry, who I've got ahead of Kamara, generically speaking, in a PPR, full PPR, Alvin Kamara is the number two target on this offense. I think pairing him, you know, I've got Justin Jefferson and Kamara who, they'll both have 100 receptions this year. So Jason goes Jefferson, Barkley, Kamara to start his draft. Hertz goes next to Kyle and

Papa Josh goes with Kyler Murray. Goodness gracious. To finish the round. Sam Laporta? Nice, Kyle. And then he goes Sam Laporta first, tight end off the board at 401. I don't mind that price. We were worried about, you know, 2-9. No, I don't. 401 is fine. And then Devontae Smith. So Kyle does the stack, Hurts and Smith. For me, the way that Josh handled it would be just going with two onesies at the turn as he's, I mean...

20 plus players about to fly off the board. And if you're going to take Kyler Murray that early, I would at least correlate with Trey McBride personally. So you just don't like what the bald man's doing? Well, let's look at a good thing that the guy with hair did. Kyle used my strategy. He took Jalen Hurts and Devontae Smith right there at the turn. Got that stack. I love it. But

But I also love – so I need a wide receiver. I've only got Justin Jefferson. There are wide receivers on the board I really like, like DK Metcalf. You go high upside with Malik Neighbors. You've got a long wait before your next pick. I love Tank Dell. I'm not going to get any of them because truly my quarterback one, assuming this is –

Six point per passing touchdown league. I mean, I don't think we have that detail in the mock draft. Mahomes. Mahomes is my number one quarterback. I think he's going to be unbelievable. And I don't usually like taking him where he's gone in the last couple years when he's a second rounder.

But if I'm getting him fourth, if I'm getting him as the fifth quarterback off the board, and he's easy to stack with because I can go Xavier Worthy late or Rushie Rice late or take shots on players. So I haven't drafted him much this offseason, but I love the value there in the fourth round. Well, Metcalf goes next. The Reps Canyon finally grabs himself a wide receiver. And honestly, Metcalf as your wide receiver, one in the fourth round. Not bad. It was a gamble that paid off, I think. Gibbs, A. Chan, and Cook are a powerful trifecta.

We've got Kelsey off the board at 405, three picks after Laporta, and then Mike is back on the board. Now, Mike, I do want to make sure you understand, IUK is still available to you if you want to rebuild your dynasty opportunities. I do see that. And if I just want to add on guys who will not be available week one. Right, Jalen Waddell, Jamar Chase.

Hey, what are you going to do? So this one is a tougher decision for me. Ken Bone Walker made it back to me, and I have him still projected to be top 10 running back. PPR could be not as great. He was only an 8% target share player the last year. However...

new OC Mr. Grubb up there has been talking about Walker as a three down running back that doesn't mean it'll happen but at least it is being talked about if we got to get these running backs catching some more passes but passing on Trey McBride here would be pretty tough the tight ends are about to the run will happen and I'm going to do it I'm going to take Trey McBride and bank on his connection with Kyler to put him up over 80 maybe 90 receptions

I'm surprised. I'm surprised that wasn't Ken Walker. McBride off the board. Malik Neighbors went at 407. I was kind of, I was dreaming of Malik Neighbors there with my 410. Didn't get back to me. Betsy took him and that puts Brooks in the driver's seat here. He goes Michael Pittman.

And then Diggs off the board at 409, which means I have Tyreek, Josh Jacobs, Rashad White. We'll take a quick break and then I'll come back and let you know who I'm taking.

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I think it would be Ken Walker for me here. Or, you know, there's some good running backs available. They've kind of slipped down the board with the full PPR, but I am actually going to turn right back to the wide receiver position.

And, you know, we got news about him this morning. I'm going to put Rashi Rice on this roster. Son of a turkey. I thought he was making it all the way back to the five. I totally thought he would make it back to me. No, I mean, so Rashi Rice is really, really interesting in drafts right now because where he is in average draft position is you got to scroll. You need to scroll for him. If you've got your draft coming up this weekend, like a fourth round pick for 10, I

I don't have any problem with it. I really wanted to pair him with Mahomes. His average draft position is probably closer to the seventh round than the fourth. You reach pretty far for Rushie, but if you just look at what he can do, you're going to need to take him before you think you need to take him if you want him in your draft. Stupid pick.

Thank you. Thank you. I always like to hear that. After Rashi Rice, we got Tank Dell off the board, Mark Andrews at 412, and then Brandon Ayuk finally comes off. That could be an unbelievable value. No question. Ken Walker does go at 502, probably just to make sure I didn't get him, let him sneak through. But Al Borland puts him as his RB2 with CMC, looking pretty good there.

At this point, kind of a ridiculous level of value here. So I'm going to take Derek Henry at 503. We play half PPR a lot of the time. I'm not going to let full PPR dissuade me from potentially 15 touchdowns. So I'm going to take three workhorse backs with Jacobs, White, and Henry. Feeling pretty good. Rice and Tyreek as my whiteouts. That's more realty.

Yeah, yeah. That's like...

That font change is a much larger T than any other font. It's bolded. Yeah. All right. Stroud off the board at 504, Mixon, and then Kincaid. Kincaid off the board at 506. That was the only real player I thought about at 503 over Henry. That was who I was targeting to hopefully get to me. I know the hitman and team eight already have their tight end, so if he got past Betts, pretty good chance to get to me, and I would have taken him there at the back of the fifth.

Well, boys, the plan is working. Jamar. Oh, no. Oh, gosh. Is it, though? It was. That was a quick change. Yeah, because it was like I had deleted Jamar. And I'm like, yeah, baby. T Higgins is dropping to me. This is perfection. And then I'm like, do I really want to overload on the bangles like that? Just get burrow and stack with chase. Look, when you're.

Trying to host a show and you lose track of your team, some bad things can happen there. You just drew attention to Jason having Saquon and maybe not wanting Jalen Hurts in the long day. I almost did it. So you have Chase Collins, Waddle, and McBride. And no running back. I really wanted to go T. Higgins right there. So at the running back position, ADP-wise, Jones, Swift, James Conner is there. He's probably the pick if I'm going to go at the running back. Let me peek real quick at the quarterbacks.

Richardson presenting at least a little bit of a value right now with the other quarterbacks that have gone. Burrow, Prescott. I'm just going to take old man James Conner, be my anchor running back here right in the fifth. All right, so you went back-to-back Cardinals. McBride and Conner in the – I am okay with that stack, by the way. I had the Conner-Romandre decision yesterday in our listener league where –

He was going to be my RB1, one of those two guys. I went with Ramondre, but it was close, and you went with Connor here. Probably Connor a – I mean, I guess they're both probably the same value in a full PPR, but Connor is probably a little better there. No, I would think Ramondre would be the one to receive more passes this season. With Gibson there and Connor not having an alternate right now in the passing game, I kind of went the other way. I'll take touchdowns.

Sure, yeah. I do think Connor has more touchdowns than Ramondre. That is fair. Yeah, Ramondre did have a prolific receiving year before, so we'll find out. Flowers and Higgins go next out of the AFC North, and then Jason on the clock with Jefferson, Barkley, Kamara, Mahomes, and...

Another player. Yeah, I mean, right now with Mahomes, Kamara, Barkley, and only Justin Jefferson at a full PPR as a wide receiver, I'm looking towards the wide receiver. And honestly, there are a lot of wide receivers I like here. If all four picks from now until the next one come, there's still wide receivers I like.

Because of that, I had queued up guys a little bit lower, but because there are still going to be guys for my next pick at wide receiver I like, I'm going to take the shot on someone I haven't. I have not unloaded a single bullet out of the gun this year for George Pickens, but Iyuk has dropped Pickens so far. If Iyuk does not go, which it seems like right now, I can't imagine that trade getting done. It could get done.

As I speak, but as it stands, George Pickens is the clear number one target without really a solid number two. I mean, I'm making the case for Pat Fryermuth to be the number two target in this offense. And if that's your competition for targets, Pickens should be good this season, especially at this value in the back of the fifth.

All right, we have Montgomery and Cooper rounding out the fifth round. McLaurin goes at 6-0-1 to Papa Josh, who still has no running backs.

um the smallest t imagine going keep it going josh honestly with age you lose testosterone so it makes sense um chris godwin goes next at 602 jason back on the clock jefferson and pickens at wide out barkley and camara at running back and mahomes is your quarterback yeah so i was um i was between two players left after amari cooper and tara mclaurin were on my queue uh love both of those picks at at the turn there josh

And then there were two wide receivers left for me, Calvin Ridley and Xavier Worthy, to stack with Mahomes. I would love to have that stack, but I'm not going to take the unknown rookie who I think is, at best right now, the wide receiver three on his team over Calvin Ridley, who should be a PPR machine. Calvin Ridley at 6'03". Joe Burrow goes next. So that's out of...

contention for Mike to stack with Chase but he does get the Rapscallion Higgins Burrow and the fifth and sixth round combination which is very nice that was honestly the that was the plan like before I had forgotten that I drafted Jamar it was going to be Higgins there and hope that Burrow sneaks back to get that I've done that a few times now in drafts and it's always felt like

Good? Real good. Yeah, it looks. Sometimes the vibe's got to be on. So I'm back on the clock here. I have two Cardinals. I don't know if I want to then super stack another team. Raheem Mostert, I think, is a...

Just a fantastic running back pick here. But for my build, I don't know if I want to go that direction. So I'm going to pivot. And Tony Pollard is slightly higher than most in my rankings. The preseason usage has been very encouraging. Tony Pollard is a pass-catching specialist. We'll see if that works out. All right. Well, this was going to be my pick if he slipped to me, but he didn't. Richardson finally goes at 6'07".

Anthony, you've talked Anthony Richardson down to people to a place where now he's... It's just, it's insane. Like, okay, Listener League, Superflex. We did the draft yesterday. I took Richardson. Like...

As your quarterback two. It's about, it was like QB 10. He was the QB 10, which is where he should be going. Like if you look at his week one lines on sleeper picks, you know, and you remind yourself of how fantasy scoring is, you've got him down with 45 and a half rushing yards. That's his line for week one with 213 passing yards. That would be a combined 327 passing yardage for just total fantasy value. That's his week one line.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it is tremendous value there in the right spot. And that's what all of our... Every discussion we have about every player is about what is the cost versus the return. Kittle and Pitts go next, and I'm actually going tight end as well. This is one of my favorite players to take in general. Definitely my favorite in a full PPR. And thrilled to get him. Evan Ingram, adding him to the roster. I think Evan Ingram could have a...

I think he is a tight end that can finish at one. I think Evan Ingram can finish at one overall. Wow. So I was about to be...

echoing most everything you said until you said that nonsense. Full stop. But genuinely like... You're talking about... He was the tight end two last year. This is not a great leap. He's just never been... Score was way down last year. And he's never been a touchdown guy. If scoring's way down again, then he can do it. That's all I'm saying is like... Yeah. Yes, he's never been a touchdown guy, but what if? What if he caught six?

I mean, if he caught six, he's the tight end one last year. I will say in a full PPR, I think I would rather have Evan Ingram over Kittle and Pitts. He's going to catch nonstop worthless passes. And you've looked at the situation and you've lost Ridley and Kirk was injured. He's back now. You've lost Zay Jones. You want to talk about who's there with a rapport?

Kirk and Ingram. Not Brian Thomas yet. Mostert goes next. Dak at 6'12". Stevenson off the board to start the seventh round. I think that's really good value on a starter there. He goes behind Aaron Jones. He goes behind Pollard and Mostert. Jaden Reed goes next at 7'02".

and I am back on the clock with Tyreek and Rice at wide receiver, Jacobs, White, and Henry at running back, and Ingram at tight end. I am keeping my eyes on the wide receiver spot right now, and even though...

Even though he is aged, I think a seventh-round Keenan Allen is appropriate in a full PPR. So I will take Keenan Allen in the seventh round. Keenan Allen would have been my pick if he had dropped to me. And you take him over teammate Rome Odunze, who went right after. Now, you've spoken highly of Odunze as having potential and not being a bad pick. I've been more negative on the rookie-rookie combination behind two great vets. But it was interesting to me that you chose Keenan over Odunze.

Yeah, I would say that Odunze fits the mold of the kind of pick. If I can take Thomas or Rome or some of these rookies late where they're not having to start for me from week one, that's the upside I have with Odunze, Brian Thomas. If I had to start them on week one, especially in a full PPR, I'm willing to go Keenan where the first half of the year I think is going to be fairly solid.

That would be the differentiator to me, but I think Rome has the ability to emerge over the course of the year. It's been a run of wide receivers. Kirk, Worthy, and Mike back on the clock. So my, other than quarterback, I'm pretty close to positionally filled here. I just need one more flex, but we're, like at this point in the draft, because I feel confident in the guys that I've got to be my core, this is

pretty much an all upside pick for the remainder of the draft for me. And so like Ladd McConkie, Keon Colt, the rookies, you know, Coleman, Brian Thomas, then the Jackson Smith and Jigba is in strong contention here. With it being PPR,

I'm going to go Deontay Johnson. I'm going to trust in the upgraded quarterback play for Bryce Young with Canales being there and Deontay Johnson being his ex-wide receiver. And knowing that touchdowns could be a struggle, but looking at what Adam Thielen was able to do at the beginning of the season last year, if Deontay is anything close to that, which I think he could be the whole season, it could be a PPR nightmare for my opponents.

All right, we got five and a half rounds left. Jason back on the clock. McConkie and Swift went after Mike, and now, Jason, it is your opportunity to make the correct pick. You know, I was going to take David Njoku here, but there's two tight ends I like, only one player that doesn't have a tight end left, so I'm fine if I go with the other one. Najee Harris sitting here, when I've only got Barkley and Kamara, he is a solid player.

player. He's never not finished as an RB2. There's already 24 running backs off the board. So even though I've got Pickens, I'm going to grab Najee Harris. I just think it's a perfect depth here if you're getting him at the 7-8 turn. Well, started a little running back run. Javante, Zamir White, Zach Moss. So Josh has his two starters, which... Zamir White and Zach Moss in the 7th and 8th? That's great. Yeah. It's sketchy for sure, but that could work out

And then Jason goes at 802, putting Jason back on the clock. And I will take David Njoku, who in a full PPR, I think he could be really, really involved in that offense as well. It's a good gamble. Good gamble with Njoku. Still get him. And then that puts Rapscallion back on the clock, who started Gibbs, A-10, and Cook and ends up Metcalf, Higgins, McConkie at wide receiver. And then Joe Burrow at quarterback. He ends up going Bowers.

which I think is that's my most exciting late tight end pick to make. Sure. And then Chubb, who will start on the pup, goes to team eight, can throw him on the IR and sign somebody. Mike, you're back on the clock.

We're going to believe in science here, boys. We're going to hope that the medical teams have fixed Christian Watson's hamstring. That's my favorite comment is that it's now being reported they did fix. Oh, really? It's been reported that it's been fixed. Oh, yeah. That's great news. Zero games of proof that it's fixed, but it is apparently fixed. Well, that's great news because I believe that if everyone is on the field, you know,

I like all the Packers wide receivers, but if everyone is there and ready to go, I think Christian Watson is the one. Well, we'll find out, Mike. We'll find out if he can hold up. Yeah, we will. Brian Thomas and Keanu Coleman go a little disappointing. I was targeting Thomas in the eighth round here, but Betsy wouldn't let that happen. Um,

Thought about going quarterback after my Keenan pick. I have some guys I like, but I guess I will go quarterback because I've not taken this player in any draft. But at 8-10, I'm going to go Jordan Love. Okay. I don't mind it. So that puts Al Borland back on the clock. Love my quarterback. And, you know, the upside was on the field and on display last year from Jordan Love. He was arguably the NFL MVP, you know, as a quarterback over the second half of the year. So I'm going to give it a go.

Brian Robinson and Jalen Warren rounding out the eighth round. Sutton starts the ninth. Sutton is one of the most ignored players in all of fantasy, and yet they cut Tim Patrick. It's being reported that Troy Franklin won't even have a role as a rookie, and then Marvin Mims is supposed to be a full-time player, and Josh Reynolds arrives. Sutton is the only proven commodity there. Yeah, it's really hard. He is the clear-cut number one, but it's really, really hard to trust a guy. I mean, Corlin Sutton hasn't been –

good for fantasy since his sophomore season, which was five years ago. He was, you know, the wide receiver 35 last year, 43, 46 the last three years. And with a rookie coming in, it's just hard to believe in him. Makes sense. I am going to go ahead and pull the trigger here on a full-time starter on a stinky offense. It's Devin Singletary. I'm going to take him in the ninth round, just add some depth to the running back room. We're starting to flex. And so if I'm deciding on

a kind of backup versus a starter. The two flex talks me into the starter with Singletary. Addison goes next, then Tua. Oh, Betts, you snake. And then Chase Brown off the board. Mike, not happy with that. He will have to chase a different running back. Yeah, Chase Brown was easily the pick for me right there. He was also your pick, I believe, in the Listener League. Did you get Chase Brown? Yeah, I do. I mean, it's following the...

Following my research, I want running backs from those teams. So I'm just going to scan the running backs real quick of Spears. I don't know that I don't want to have Pollard and Spears. Benson, you know, I could have my insurance policy here for James Conner. Corum, but Jerome Ford is a starting running back, and he might only have one leg left.

Ladies and gentlemen, but I'm going to, because I didn't get Chase Brown, I'm going to get a player from the Chargers. I'm going to go Dobbins. I can't believe you took. I can't believe you passed on Jerome Ford. That's the, I mean, Jerome, I was looking at your team. I was like, oh, Jerome Ford, man, just fell on your lap. You've only got two running backs. He's the starter. You've talked him up all offseason. And you're like, nah. That was also Dobbins over Edwards. Yeah, because that's the PPR factor. If I'm in a half, I would have easily gone Gus. But like Jerome Ford.

He's a... It's a band-aid. And I'm looking at full season long of... He hopefully would not crack my lineup with Connor and Pollard. Yeah. This is a really easy pick for me in a full PPR. I actually have Tajay Spears just neck and neck with Tony Pollard. This is a guy who... You liked all those snaps he was getting? I liked...

The snaps of preseason? Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, he spent one game going literally the second snap of the game, and then they shared drives. He is the 1B there, and he is, I think, the better pass catcher. He had 52 receptions as a rookie. So on a full PPR, easy pick for me here. All right. All right, Jamison Williams off the board, then Jerome Ford. Talk about a just perfect finish for Papa Josh. Josh has executed the 0RB.

Wow. As well as you can. And I, you know, when you get to take back-to-back picks, that can be very helpful. Sure. When you are executing a strategy like that because you have the opportunity to pile them up. And White, Moss, and Ford. Dude. And Dowdle now. White, Moss, Ford, and Dowdle in a zero RB at the end. That's the, I mean. That feels good. And it feels so bad saying something nice about Papa Josh. It does. Like, I don't even want to talk about it.

Because gross. But, man, good job. Good job, Team 12. Yeah, I mean, what do they say about wine? Right. Yeah. It gets grosser all the time. Ferguson goes next. Jason back on the clock after the Spears pick. I'm looking at the options here and in a full PPR. Curtis Samuel very well could be the wide receiver one target on this team. So, you know, in the 10th, I'm happy about it. Curtis Samuel's the pick.

Romeo Dobbs and Hopkins go next. I was eyeballing Hopkins. People in our listener league let him go so far. He is likely to play week one, and he's not DeAndre Hopkins of old. But we're sitting here where people are talking about, oh my gosh, we're going to take every single option on some of these better offenses. I like Will Levis, so Hopkins is interesting. Mike, you're on the clock after the Dobbins pick.

You are in need of a quarterback within the next three picks. And that's where I'm looking, and I don't know if any of these snakes would double up just to take the shot on Jayden Daniels, but I...

There's no one else that I love on the board, so I'm not even going to risk it. Yeah, why? There's no reason to risk. And Jaden Daniels in the 10th, for anyone that had a quarterback, still would have been a good pick. Yeah, that's why I'm not going to risk it. It would have crossed my mind at some point. Ah, yes, the Falcon was going to take him. Blake Corum goes next, adding to the three consecutive rounds in which Matthew Betts has stolen somebody from Mike or myself. Brooks is on the clock. He went to a last round as his quarterback.

And goes Trey Benson as his third running back. And then Caleb Williams off the board at 10.09. Williams is a great, like if your draft is just punting Caleb Williams, I think Williams fits the mold of that.

Throw them on your team with the last or second to last pick as a second quarterback. See what you got. The way people drafted Anthony Richardson last year with basically the last pick. See what the rookie has in week one with amazing weapons. I went Singletary last round. I'm going to come back here. And, you know, there's a couple starters left on the board. I guess I'll take Zeke here and just see if he's the guy, the touchdown guy in Dallas.

which, look, nobody wants to take Zeke. We saw that in the Listener League yesterday. I kept kicking it down. I kept saying, next round, I guess I'm willing to. And then it was like, ah, next round, maybe I'm willing to. But he very well could come out and be the bell cow. Don't draft a boat. Yeah. Joshua Palmer, Jalen Wright, Khalil Shakir off the board. Al Borland goes Hawkinson, which is a good gamble in the 11th round. And that brings it back to me. You better find a starter.

Starting tight end. Well, the nice thing about that, so Hawkins has fallen to a place where I took him in the listener league as my tight end too because you just, as soon as the draft is over, if you've got an IR, throw him on your IR and you get a free extra pick. Well, I am attempting to draft Adonai Mitchell, I promise. I clicked the button.

Nothing happened. Hit the refresh. There we go. Adonai Mitchell off the board. A lot of great reports about Adonai Mitchell right now. Josh Downs is injured. He's pushed Alec Pierce off the field and too wide on several opportunities. So Mitchell will have a quick opportunity there to... I'm curious how you guys view Mitchell in context of Michael Pittman because...

Pittman is very reliable, but there's nothing about Pittman's game that is kind of explosive and exceptional, in my opinion. He's just a great... I kind of look at him like Higgins, maybe. Sure. Where maybe there's an opportunity, if Richardson hits, for somebody to come and be the athletic alpha, if he's the kind of tried-and-true alpha. The...

I don't mind it here in the 11th. My concerns are just they're Josh Downs related. I know he's hurt right now. Sure. But when he comes back, I expect that Josh Downs goes right back into being a full-time player. It's funny to think about. Is there enough volume for Adonai? Jason didn't like Josh Downs, and he went to the Colts, and he didn't like Adonai Mitchell, who also went to the Colts. I wonder if you and what is it? Who's their general manager? His name's escaping me.

For the Colts. Someone help me out here. Chris Ballard. Ballard, I knew it was a B. Maybe you and him are kind of like opposite takes. Maybe you guys scout. You put the film on upside down, he puts it on regular. Not usually. I think Ballard and I are usually in sync. I like a lot of their other picks. Did you see they cut their fifth, sixth, and seventh round picks? No, I didn't. That's not a great sign of drafting well. Like this year's fifth, sixth, and seventh round picks. Didn't you just say the GM was watching the film right side up?

Yeah. Are you supposed to go upside down? If you're cutting that many people from your draft, you're watching the wrong footage. All right. Mike went with Jared Goff to stack with Daniel, something he likes to do, and then Jason back on the clock. At this point, I like my wide receivers, and I think there's good depth. I like my running backs. I think there's good depth. So I'm only looking for upside. I'm looking for someone that can come out and just shock and be great. I'm going to take Xavier Ligette.

And hope that his mammoth body and unbelievable production as a 20th year college player, you know, is out there week one. Fun fact, Josh is one year younger than Xavier Legette. Yeah. Lockett goes in the 11th round, followed by Jermaine Burton. Mason goes at 12.08.

Mason is a great pick that people need to star and put on there. He's going to be super low in ADP. I'm going to take a guy I often take at the very end, Dontavian Wicks, and hope that his talent gets on the field because if he's on the field, he does great things for the Packers. All right. Well, that means Dalton Schultz is a 12th-round pick here for Team 8, and Mike is closing things out.

Throw one more guy in your roster, Mike. Yeah, looking at my team, I only have the three running backs. I got my two starters and then J.K. Dobbins for some upside. Let's take some more PPR action. I'll take Jaleel McLaughlin. Great, great pick, Mike.

I got him in the second to last round of our listener league, and he's somebody that you can start in a pinch because he will have a role. You were talking about standalone value. Yes. He will have a role. My final pick is between two names, and I'll say it really quickly here. I've been taking Jerry Judy with the last pick of almost every draft. I feel like you said that normally.

What did I say? You said you were going to say it really quickly, and I was excited to see how you would say this. Like micro-machines. Yeah, like Jerry Judy. And now it's taking a lot longer. You know what I mean? Don't forget that people were all about Elijah Moore in drafts last year as a second option in the offense. People wanted to make a big deal about Elijah Moore with Deshaun Watson. Jerry Judy is a much, much better wide receiver than Elijah Moore. Well, we know that now.

And well, we knew I knew. Hey, I knew that a long time ago with Elijah Moore for the record. But I'm actually going to go with Ricky Pearsall because if something happens with IUK, he's a great you talk about starring a name for your last round.

You could be in a situation five days from now, after the weekend, where Ayuka's not a member of this franchise and Ricky Pearsall has an important role in a team that is such an effective offense. First round draft pick. Yeah, I mean, there's a first round pick that they believe in. So that will wrap up the vicious fantasy footballers in-house draft. I didn't forget what you did, Falcon. You took a dump on my target of Cooper Cup in the third round.

But if you want to see the entire draft board, go to YouTube, check out the draft board there. And any final takeaways? I'll read my team real quick. Tyreek, Rashi Rice, Keenan Allen, Mitchell, and Pearsall at wide receiver. Jacobs, White, Henry, Singletary, and Zeke at running back with Jordan Love and Evan Ingram as my onesies.

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with how mine turned out. My wide receiver core is Justin Jefferson, George Pickens, Calvin Ridley, Curtis Samuel, Xavier Liget, and Dontavian Wicks. At running back, I've got Saquon Barkley, Alvin Kamara, Najee Harris, and Tajay Spears.

And then I've got Mahomes and David Njoku locking down my onesies. I've got Jamar Chase, Nico Collins, Jalen Waddell, Deontay Johnson, Christian Watson at running back, James Conner, Tony Pollard, J.K. Dobbins, Jaleel McLaughlin. Then I got my guy Trey McBride anchoring down the tight end position, Jaden Daniels, and Jared Goff with the double tap at quarterback. I think my only regret is not fully –

Not playing the draft board of letting Josh get Jerome Ford. I could have gone Ford there and... You would have gotten Dobbins on the way back. I think I would have got Dobbins on the way back. I was more nervous about Jason taking Dobbins with one of those picks and not factoring in Josh enough. And just to create some inner office turmoil, my favorite three teams that aren't our teams, Papa Josh, Rapscallion, and Matthew Betts are my favorite three other teams. Certainly...

Not the other guys at all. So is how I like to put that. So, yeah, I worked out well for Josh to punt the running back position. It actually worked out for both. Like it was like an inverse situation for the Rapscallion and Papa Josh where one went heavy wideouts, one went heavy running backs, and it worked out for both of them. One is old. One is young. One has hair. One has V. Ryle. Yeah. High T low T. Yeah, we got it all. All right. That is going to do it for today.

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