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Great Scott! If my calculations are correct, you were listening to this before your fantasy football drafts have taken place. I've been to the future, and those that followed the advice from the Fantasy Footballer's Ultimate Draft Kit had a spectacular season and withstood many victories.

It's almost as if Biff had given each of them a copy of Gray's Sports Almanac. I'd highly recommend heading over to www.ultimatedraftkit.com without any further delay. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in.

Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway, the Fantasy Footballers Podcast, Thursday. It's here, baby. August 15th. Gotcha, suckers. Gotcha good. I was going to say, like, the My Guys episode is one of the next two, and today we're doing a mock draft. Well, there was, I don't know if you followed, Andy. There was quite the hullabaloo on Twitter because both Jason and I were under the impression that

that my guys was today. Oh, you actually thought it was genuinely thought at the beginning of yesterday's episode. I thought it was. So we tweeted out, you know, the, every year we tweet out giving people a chance to guess. You're like, what are our, I did the same thing. Yeah. But except you didn't read our tweets when we said my guys is tomorrow. Oh, you did. Yeah. And then I got a DM from Brooks being like,

mid show yesterday saying, Hey, the, my guy's show. And I was like, whatever I got. I had my timer like to,

To edit my tweet, I got in with like a minute left, so I changed mine to Friday. Mine was saying it was Friday. His was saying Thursday, and the people were absolutely bamboozled. Well, they are just on the edge of their seat. I'm really disappointed that I didn't change all of our show titles for the entire week to mock draft with a question mark. Sorry, my guys with a question mark in front of it. Is it today? It will be tomorrow. I tweeted the same thing. People guessing are my guys, and

You know, I gave a big hint about my my guys. Yeah, you basically gave yours away, bro. Did people get it? Some people got it, but they're not my my guys anymore. Oh, yeah. I did see you. You sent out a tweet of I said you were changing. I just said, you know, sources are telling me that some things may be moving and changing. And, you know, are you the source? I am the source.

I am both sources. Is that allowed? You can be your own source. I think that is. Can you put out and just like, I've got sources telling me that this is happening, but actually you're the source the whole time? I think that happens a lot, Mike, from bad reporters. I just... Look, some injuries... I didn't say it was a good source. Some injuries have taken place. Yeah. And, you know...

I know that big decisions in life, right? If you decide that you're going to get married and you decide this is the person I'm going to be with the rest of my life. And then your bride gets hurt right before the wedding. And you're like, I'm out. You're too frail. Pivot.

Sometimes you pivot. Yeah, you get cold feet. Availability is an ability. I'm just saying. You're out. Get out of here, Tina. In the grand scheme of things, the my guy decision is so much bigger than a marriage. Right. Is kind of my point. Yeah. So you just got to make sure you get it right. Yeah, because these ones are for life.

Any former My Guys you wish you could annul the marriage? Former My Wives? There's been a few. Some exes that you don't want no one to remember? Oh, gosh. What was that? Is this true? Oh, no. Yeah, that's a true story. Dude, that's elite. No, no, no, no. That's elite.

No. Hey, look. This is true. Oh, my gosh. This is the worst podcast moment. Read it. We'll read it. I feel like I can't read it. Oh, I'm going to read it. Welcome, Foot Clan, to the Fantasy Footballers. If you're new, stick with us. We do get into fantasy football content. We try to do a great job at it, but sometimes we just have fun. And we're going to be going up head-to-head today in the mock draft against...

Our stupid producers. Ballers v. Ducers. And one of them, the baby, the Falcon taker. Oh, man, he is embarrassed. The dumb truck is about to get exposed here in a way that you will enjoy. Mike, take it away. So I just found this out that at some time recently, Matt, a.k.a. the Falcon, a.k.a. Poopy Pants McGee, disclosed...

that he previously would take a date to an escape room as a test to see how they, like, can they handle the pressure? Can they solve these puzzles? Because he wants an intellectual match. And if they can't escape, he's out. That's brutal. You did not pass the test? Is that what the...

Is that what the story is? No, it's like a wonder for your date. They didn't pass the test. It's like a compatibility test, you know? Yeah. I totally get it, man. And what happens then? What happens if you're the one who can't figure out the puzzles? They leave me. Yeah. All right. I like the idea that they're in two separate rooms. And if they don't both come out, I mean, whoever comes out first just drives away. Yeah.

Oh man. So yeah, I'm also reacting to some very fresh news that we'll get into. That's going to make tomorrow all the worse. Um,

Before we jump into it, the mock draft is going to be amazing today. It's been a while since the three of us got to combine on a team and we get to compete against the Ducers and explain some of the process. And we're getting so close to regular, real drafts. In fact, I'm in two drafts right now in not League of Record, but like some other leagues. So it's happening, which means we have the most recent, informational, middle of the preseason ADP data to go off of. But...

I mean, tomorrow's a big day for more than just the my guys. Tomorrow afternoon, we will be bestowing. Yeah, a UDK for life will be given away tomorrow afternoon along with a signed Justin Jefferson jersey. So for the rest of your natural life, you could have championships, which seems like something great. It seems like something I'd want.

And the winners will be chosen and announced live on the YouTube channel on the live stream. And to enter to win, you just have to have purchased a UDK or UDK Plus.

before the live stream, which means if you bought it in the past, you're entered to win. We're super excited to be with you tomorrow afternoon on the live stream. And hop on the live stream with us. We're going to answer if you've got a question for your upcoming drafts, you want to get a direct line to us, hop in, see if you can get your question answered, and then see if you're the winner of the Ultimate Draft Kit, which you will already be a winner if you're even in the contest because you will have an Ultimate Draft Kit.

Two things. One, you go to ultimatedraftkit.com to check that out. Two, I have, you know, we're busy. This is August. This is a busy time of year. And we've got, you know, Papa Josh and the Falcon. They handle some customer service questions that come through the support channel. I have jumped in here and there, and I did answer one question about whether you could be queefed.

The UDK. And what was the official answer? The answer I chose to give in that moment was that yes, if it is a written will with a feather pin. That's totally fair. You have to use a quill. Yeah, you have to use a quill and ink. And none of that built-in ink quill. That is not real. That's a dipper. It's a dip in bequeath. Yeah.

Okay. Official. Stamped. We still get to do this show? Yep. We do. Are we good? Are we good, Al? We're doing good, man. All right. Let's jump into some news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance.

Giants rookie Malik Nabors, full practice today. This is something I really wanted to see after the injury, that he'd be back out on the field this week. In fact, there's a chance he plays in the preseason game.

That is great news. Makes you really not concerned of a lingering long-term issue. So however you viewed him before the injury is probably how you should view him going forward. But it's also worth reminding yourselves and ourselves what Mike brought up yesterday about

of how difficult it is for a top fantasy producer to come from a bottom offense. Lots to think about. Yeah. Lots of consideration. For whoever out there. He needs extreme volume, which all reports at a camp are that that is what he is getting in joint practices and everything. So that's the hope, is that his talent is so elite and he'll see a 28-plus percent target share. And if he gets that,

then maybe things are okay. Yeah, man. Glad he's back out there. They also signed former running back of the Chargers, Josh Kelly. Yeah, it's a camp body, I would imagine, because of Tracy's injury. Tracy's injury. And then Jameer Gibbs, what's the latest? We're hearing that he should be ready for week one. Despite the kind of wishy-washy quote yesterday from Dan Campbell,

The reports have gotten more positive. I don't view this as any different, to be honest. When I read the full reporting, it felt more like they were taking the quotes of we think he's going to be fine to just say he should be ready by week one. So I'm still holding my breath. I was trying to remember when you were talking about neighbors and how bad the Giants were and just the fact that like

The Bengals, when they drafted Chase, were a 4-11 team. Well, that was also coming off of – The math didn't add up there. They were a bad team. Right, but that was also the year – Was that when Joe Burrow was coming off of his ACL? No, I think – Let me look that up. It was just that the team changed from being one of the worst offensive teams very quickly. And, yes, Burrow was a piece of that puzzle too. We don't have the Burrow in New York.

Christian Kirk, minor calf injury to Christian Kirk. What do we think about that? He's not a spring chicken. You don't like to see it. It's also been interesting in preseason. He hasn't necessarily been in two wide receiver sets, so I'm starting to get a little bit more worried about the – like I have loved drafting Christian Kirk because of

of the perceived floor of just being like he is the clear-cut number one target for an offense that, you know, I don't think it's going to be a top five offense, but it should be pretty good. It should be a top half offense. And if you've got a clear number one late in drafts, but if he's not on the field in two wide receiver sets and he's dealing with a minor calf in draft, bump them down a little bit. And on top of that, Andy, your boy, Brian Thomas Jr., like the drumbeat has been – it started off –

pretty rough for him, like all the reports, but in the last week to two weeks, it has really been escalating that he's starting to figure it out. He's making plays. He's making people look silly. He was already in the spot of

I'm good taking a rookie wide receiver here no matter what their situation is because the ADP is good. It's where they used to be, right? Late round picks. Yeah, the risk reward was usually a fantastic scenario. Now we got these other guys who are way up there. But Thomas is in an area where I think you should get some exposure. Yeah, it seems similar to kind of a cheaper Green Bay Packers situation where you've got like –

I think Jaden Reed, the better wide receiver, but you worry about the ceiling versus Christian Watson, a complete unknown. But you go the athleticism, the traits, that one period where he was scoring touchdowns at will. That's like if you want to take the rocket fuel chance, that's Brian Thomas Jr. All right, Matthew Stafford, you hate to see this because the fragility of the Rams fantasy prospects –

It's always right in your face with Matthew Safford, and he did not finish practice. McVay said he was experiencing hamstring tightness. Wait, I thought it was his back. No, no, no, it was hamstring. Okay. And McVay just said, yeah, unfortunately it tightened up on him. You don't like to hear this. Just because the prospects of the entire –

You know, Cup, Puka, Kyron. Take, you know, if you take... It's a massive hit. I mean, if Stafford misses time, maybe later in the season when Jimmy Garoppolo comes back from suspension, okay, they've got a serviceable backup. As of right now, I believe it's Stetson Bennett. I forgot he was suspended for BEDs, right? Yeah. Oh, that guy. You don't get that handsome naturally. What happens when the drugs don't enhance your performance? They must be enhancing your looks. What about, like, neutral...

performance drugs. Are those legal? Yeah, those are vitamins. Honestly, I swore I saw something about back yesterday. Maybe I just quickly read through it. Back is way worse to me. If Stafford has a back issue...

Then I'm going to – that'll be red flags. If it's a hamstring, I'm okay. I have not seen anything about a back. I read the thing directly from McVay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm saying when it initially came out, maybe – and again, maybe I just read it. Probably a dream. Probably just last night in your dreams. That's not good. No. J.J. McCarthy.

Underwent a full meniscus repair out for the entire season. This stinks, man. For Vikings fans, for J.J. McCarthy. And J.J. McCarthy comes out, looks awesome in his first preseason game. He leaves that game, to my knowledge, he wasn't injured. It was just, wow, I'm so happy with his performance. He looks great. He's going to take over for the sacrificial baby even earlier than expected.

And then all of a sudden, he's out for the season. It certainly changes things. Yeah, what's your take on Jefferson? And we got a lump Addison in here as well. Let's just combo that news because he, right after the J.J. McCarthy news came out, news broke. Jordan Addison just went down trying to sky up for a ball. Ends up getting carted off, and it's holy crap. You never want to hear carted off, but...

That has been turned into, it's just a minor ankle injury, but it's still an injury. So where are you at just overall with the Vikings offense? Because this is big stuff happening. I would not be surprised if it is neutral to positive for the wide receiver crew, even though J.J. McCarthy looked great. He's still a rookie, and rookies don't throw a lot of touchdowns. Now, I don't think Sam Darnold's going to throw a lot of touchdowns. Yeah, I was going to say, let's just—

bring it into the... DJ Moore was not a weapon with Sam Darnold, right? I mean, this is... I think we have... You can see it go either way. We have different views on this because you guys both kind of have the opinion. And I like your point, Mike. You said this on a social post yesterday. You will have consistency. You will not have this period of the season which is annoying where you're like, are they going to make the change? Are they not going to make the change? If you get some trends with Sam Darnold, at least you know that that's what you're going to continue to get. Mm-hmm.

But I don't like it. I personally think that J.J. McCarthy is going to be a better, higher ceiling opportunity for these players. Yeah, long term, I definitely agree with that. What we know, though, is at least last year, and look, Kevin O'Connell teams, they throw a lot. Even when Kirk Cousins went down and they had quarterbacks who were

quality of backup to backup like these are third string guys out there taking starts for the Minnesota Vikings they were still throwing a ton so at least efficiency it might struggle with Sam Darnold but volume will be there um what do you got going here yeah I mean you know something I probably should have looked into even earlier but it look we're live here and we're we're doing it live

I didn't remember because we've had two years off from Sam Darnold, who was a very highly drafted prospect and people have still believed in. And they've said, you know, he's, he's, he's a good backup and he's going to be fine as a starter. He was the starter right now for the Vikings already. I forgot how bad he was. Here's his touchdown. Cause I'm like, okay, rookies are going to come and what are they going to throw? Are they going to throw for 20 touchdowns and ruin your fantasy output? Here are Sam Darnold's career, um,

passing touchdowns. Rookie year 17. Sophomore year 19. Then the next two years he was still the starter, didn't play the full seasons. I'm going to give you his 17 game pace, a full season pace for those seasons. 12 and 13. Full season pace on passing touchdowns. Yeah. So Andy, you're 100% right. Yeah, it's a concern. It's a real concern for me. Whether you throw the ball a lot, we saw Sam Hell. They threw the ball more than anybody in football.

Did that make Terry McLaurin, Jahan Dotson, those guys super weapons? And Sam Howell wasn't a super weapon fantasy either. I mean, volume, yes, Kevin O'Connell throws it a lot. But I want skill and talent. But this is what we've got. Yeah, no, it is now. But I would not be shocked at all.

if Minnesota, now that they know that McCarthy is out for the year, if we don't see a splashy veteran name arrive on this team not named Josh Dobbs. They're going to go out and sign Matt Ryan?

Oh, P. River back out of retirement. I don't know about those, but I think somebody in the Matt Ryan, somebody in the wind, let the bet live in and the Jameis go get him. Oh, Jameis. You know, that's a great name. Don't forget. Sam Darnold saw ghosts on the field before. Get Jameis out there, man. Let him throw for 5K again. Let's do this. That I would be excited about. So look, I'm sorry, Vikings fans. Yeah, it has not been. It's not been great as of late.

And it even further concerns me about Aaron Jones, just from an offensive perspective, all the stuff you highlighted on the top 10 tips and tricks. Yeah, I mean, Minnesota, when I was doing that study of looking at bottom 10 offenses, trying to project them anyways, it's...

It's hard to not put Minnesota in there, and that was before the J.J. McCarthy injury. They were like a fringe team where I didn't – they could surprise. I think it would be middle of the pack, but bottom 10 is in their range of outcomes. All right. There's been a lot of news, a lot of little injuries. Also, Chuba Hubbard and Tyler Lockett both dealing with injuries not considered to be serious, but pay attention to those.

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All right, we're going to dive right into it. And a quick reminder on the other side of the break, we will be live in Los Angeles for our 10th anniversary Megalith show in less than two weeks. Tickets available at ballerslive.com if you're in the area, if you're willing to drive to the area. Yes, I mean, Sleeper is presenting this show, and they're doing this mock draft. Get out there, ballerslive.com. We want to see you. There you go. I want to give you a...

The Fantasy Footballers Mock Draft. I mean, I put a period. It sounded like you put a period at the end of your sentence. It was a pump fake, man. That's all me. It was a fake handoff. I was dropping back to pass and I got sacked. You did get sacked. That was unfair. I think you were going to say that you want to see them there. I was going to say I want to give them a fist bump. Okay. But, you know. That's a good toss in. Important. And one.

All right, we are diving into a live mock draft here on this show, taking on the Ducers over there in Ducers Alley, who look like they are super prepared. We've got the Falcons smirking, Al with kind of an unsettled confidence, and then... I think is that a scowl from Papa Josh? A scowl from the... Oh, not from the owl. It's hard to tell over the shine. He actually doesn't know what's going on.

We are jumping right in. It's a 12-team half PPR mock draft. We're going to spread it out wide. Trips. Got three wide outs, two running backs, one quarterback, one tight end, one flex, four bench spots. And we randomly selected some spots. We ended up at four. The Deucers at pick eight. Okay. Away we go. Tyreek Hale goes off the board first. I don't mind it. No, it makes a ton of sense, especially in three wide. CeeDee Lamb also makes sense at two.

Is Christian McCaffrey going to drop to us? No. McCaffrey's off the board at three, and we are on the clock at 104. And, you know, you're going to have to reorient your mind. We are not enemies. We're not mortal enemies on this show. We're actually friends. We're friends. We need to draft a better team than the Ducers. That's obvious. That's easy. Well, you know, just be careful.

So obviously I think I assume we all agree this is a three-way decision, not between us, but between three players. You got Bijan and Brees at running back, and you got Jamar Chase at wide receiver, right? That's who we're looking at. Is there anyone else in the conversation here at four? I'm always fine with somebody considering Elman Ra in the same conversation as Jamar Chase, but we don't have to do that. Mike, where would you like to go? The –

Man, there still is elite wide receivers on the board, and having to play three, it changes things. But, man, playing hero, running back here,

I think is the direction I would start this. I like playing hero running back. If you don't know what that is, hero running back is a version of zero running back where you do draft one of, if you get one of the studs, one of the heroes, which basically this year right now feels like only three options, Christian McCaffrey, Bijan and Brees, then you're going to go away from running back for a while, load up on wide receivers or even your onesie positions and,

um I think that's a good strategy in a three wide um because you know you still need running backs but uh it's tough I mean to me I'm between I like Bijan more than Brees and I love Jamar Chase in a three wide so if you don't want to have that strategy if we yeah I'm fine with Chase here I Mike and I are on the Brees side you're on the Bijan side but we're all on the Chase side I think I don't know if it makes a difference I'm looking at like

you know sleepers picks their week one lines we got uh jamar chase at 83 and a half receiving yards bijan at 71 rushing yards get off to a hot start does that sway you towards chase i mean that doesn't but i'll tell you i was i was already swayed i was pretty swayed so we're chasing it yeah we'll go chase i love it oh we'll go chase nope nope uh ty goes to the runner

Jamar Chase at 104. So stupid. B. John Robinson goes off the board at 105. And then Jefferson and Amon Ra.

I have seen Jefferson rising in just anecdotal. My participation in mocks and real drafts, I have seen Jefferson going up. He is brutal. I don't mean as a reaction to the Darnold news, just in general, even before that happened. He's the best wide receiver in football. Yeah, that's a good headline for him. I believe it's a bad pick. I really do. I know that he is. When does he become a good pick?

Like the one-two turn, maybe? I guess, really, it's a matter of who he's going ahead of or behind. Like, I would never take him personally ahead of Amon Ross St. Brown or A.J. Brown. Any of the Browns? None of them. Well, Hollywood, I would definitely take him ahead. So, I guess we can't do that. All right, the deucer's on the clock here, and I don't know who's going to be the, like...

The project leader? You know when you're in school and you've got to do the project with a group, but then somebody has to present? Which one of the deuces is making this pick? We're going to start with me. Okay. We were hoping Amon Ra would fall, but he did not. He went right before us, so we're going to go ahead and take Brees Hall right here. Yeah, you've got an easy layup of a pick. That stinks. Are you going to have a way to kind of... Are you going to disclaim all of our picks? Yeah, I was going to say, are you going to have a way to make all of their picks kind of like...

Invalid? If I need to, but I think they're going to do it themselves. All right, Brees haul off the board. It was an option for us. I think if we had gone running back, it would have been majority rules on Brees there, so you get them four picks later. AJ Brown goes next. Jameer Gibbs, Jonathan Taylor, Saquon Barkley rounding out the first round. In fact, that is another trend I am noticing is the Saquon above Kyron situation. I'm seeing that a lot. Garrett Wilson.

Starting the second round, Pukunukuwa, Etienne, and then Marvin Harrison at 204 here. Okay. That is a deep cut. It's going back to the NFL draft when our Arizona Cardinals drafted Marvin Harrison Jr. I love you, Marv. And Mike exclaimed that he would never wear pants again. He was that excited. So not going back to the pants. What, you? You?

Didn't get him. I know. We didn't get him. No, I'm celebrating that the Deucers did not get him. Fair enough. The Deucers are back on the clock at 205. Brees Hall in the first round. What do we got going on? What's the thought process?

Also, who are you drafting? The thought process is a lot of the guys we were looking at went off the board. So obviously Kyron would be a great pick here, but we don't know that we want to double up on our Bs in a three wide receiver roster. So I think we're going to reach just a touch and go for Christopher Olave. Or is it Christian Olave? Christian Olave.

No, he drafted Christopher Olave, who is a postman in Nebraska. You don't want to mess with the postman. Drake London goes next. So, Brees Hall and Chris Olave at your first two picks. Oh! Drake London. Oh!

Drake Lydon at 206, Derek Henry at 207, Kyron at 208. Kyron almost fell to 209. That would have been our layup pick if Kyron had fallen since we went wide receiver and grabbed Jamar. Kyron is still in that next tier of elites to me. I still think there's just one pick jumping off the page to me. We went chase. I thought we'd be okay. Now we're going to have a quick turn. We're going to come right back. Mm-hmm.

But to me, there's one guy that I believe should be drafted here. I agree. I know who Jason wants. I don't know who Andy wants to pick. Devon Aitken. Oh, man! That is who I want. Yeah, that would be the pick for me. Now, just to give you a lay of the land at wide receiver, Devontae Adams is still there. If Adams was there at 304, I think that would be a strong pick in a three wide in terms of value. Debo, Ayuk,

Those guys are there. We've had a lot of wideouts go off the board. Kyron would have been a neat steal here, but I'm comfortable with A-Chan. Put A-Chan through. Yeah, I have made the transition to being fully comfortable with him as my running back. One, it is risky. It is a gamble, but you're playing to win. You're not playing to just be a decent team that maybe squeaks in the playoffs and loses week one. So A-Chan.

So far, so good on the like, you know, we're agreeing with one another. Dude, I got my golden ticket. Oh, boy. If I need to sway you, I've still got a golden ticket good for one free Andy Holloway agreement. Well, just make sure Mike's on your side for that. Otherwise, it's going to be a real waste. Oh, that's true. I don't want to waste your golden ticket.

Chase and H.N., our first two selections drafting from the fourth spot. The Ducers have Reese Hall and Chris Olave. Travis Kelsey goes next off the board at 210. A little bit early for where I would be comfortable taking that shot. 100%.

But Jacobs at 211, Adams at 212, Josh Allen, the first quarterback at 301, Ayuk and Nico Collins. We narrowly avoided Mike hard selling us Nico Collins at 304. I feel like it would have been an easy sell. If Nico was here, that probably would have been my pick. Now, we just had a tight end episode where I said I was comfortable with Laporta,

At the 301, this would be the 304, just bringing it up. I know you guys are not going to be on board for that. I'm not going to push you too hard. But I don't mind that advantage at this point in a draft. I might mind it a little more in a three-wide, though, where you have an extra spot to fill, and that does change the equation. So I'm not going to push there. But at running back, looking at names that I know we have some agreement on,

Pacheco, James Cook, Joe Mixon for some stability. I talked yesterday about dynamic duos. I'm not sure it gets better than the Mixon-A-Chan combo as far as a floor and ceiling running back duo. And then James Conner still there. At wide out, we all like Debo. We have him ranked very high, and he is way below where we would have him in terms of what running back or wide out off the board.

Jalen Waddell, Mike, you're a big fan. The question becomes, are you good starting with A-chan and Jalen Waddell? I was really hoping Nico would drop so we didn't have to make that decision. Because I get it if you don't want to overload with the Miami Dolphins with your second and third pick.

Uh, I do like Debo and I get the three wide, but right now I would out of this group, I would push for Isaiah Pacheco. So the, I mean, you just named him. So it's, it's to me, it's Pacheco or Debo Samuel. I love both players. I think both players are undervalued. Um,

Being the fact that we are in a three wide, I think that would tie break for me for the Debo side. I love Pacheco. I would be 100% fine with either one of these guys. Where do you have Pacheco? I'll have to look that up. I think he's about 10, 9 or 10. He's in my top 10, and Debo is outside of my top 12 wide receivers. Consensus-wise, Debo is our wide receiver 7. I was going to say, yeah, we just did that show. I remembered he was at 7. Yeah.

We have him very high. Mike, you have him very high. You've got him at 13. I've got him at 9. Andy at 9. But that consensus-wise puts him up. Because there's a lot of disagreement on the wide receivers at this point.

in the draft. Well, let's play this out for the sake of the audience. What I think the two outcomes could be. If we went with Debo Samuel and we felt like we needed to come back and stabilize the running back position, we're probably going to be in the James Connor, Ramond Ray Swift category, maybe with a chance at Alvin Camara. Okay. If you flip it the other direction, we go Pacheco, you know, you're probably talking about Cooper cup, who I like, um, Michael Pittman, a stabilizer, uh,

Devontae Smith. Tank Dell. Okay. DJ Moore. I don't want to take Dink. Take Dink? I don't want to take Dink.

Take Tank. You don't want to take Tank? I'd rather take him at 5-0-4 and take that shot at ADP. But anyway. I will say that. So that is a really good thing to do if you're listening and you're trying to decide between a running back and a wide receiver. Look at who's going to be there next. Because that convinced me to switch to the Pacheco side. I feel like I like those wide receivers a lot more than those running backs. You guys want to do that? Yes.

Okay. Pacheco off the board. I'm loving this team. Jalen Hurts goes 305. Sam Laporta at 306. Okay. Mike Evans off the board. Deucers are on the clock. Brees Hall was the first round pick. Chris Olave their second round pick. And I can see Jason shaking his head because he thinks that the Deucers are just going to quick draw on Debo. Yeah. I don't know if that's a – No. Okay. They did. Yeah. They took Debo Samuel.

With no need to explain. Waddle was our other guy we were considering there. Yeah, I mean, it's good. Your team is actually... I mean, I don't want to compliment anything you guys do. However, it's working out very well. The fact that we were considering Brees Hall at the 104 and you got him picks later and we were considering Debo at the 304 and you got him picks later, you're getting good value. Now...

You guys must listen to our show a lot. Yeah, I mean, I hope. Seven wideouts have gone off the board. One thing to consider when I was playing out both scenarios was the fact that three wide, more wideouts might go. Cup is gone. Waddle's gone. DJ Moore, who I love, is gone. And then Diggs and neighbors. So, Deucer's back on the clock.

um, I think I've given them enough time to make the wrong decision. Yeah. I mean, they don't need a lot of time to make a dumb pick. Um, the, the truth is I'm still, I, I, I'm still happy with several wide receivers. I mean, I'll say that and then it will all be wide receivers, but there's a handful of guys I really like here. So I'm, I'm, I think we're set up. Okay. All right. What's your pick? It's funny. They went Trey McBride and I was, um,

I was going to bring the name up if he got back to us as a option at 409. Chase, A-Chan, and Pacheco are first three off the board. Jason is looking around. Tell us what you're thinking.

Is this because James Cook made it back? No, that is interesting. He's looking around because he wants to take Tank Dell as our wide receiver, too. You mentioned earlier, Andy, you want to play the ADP game, wait until the 5th. What we've seen in this draft is because it is three wide receiver, not the 2-2 and a flex, it's 3-2 and a flex.

where the wide receivers have all been pushed up. You know, you talked about Michael Pittman or Cooper Cup or Devontae Smith making it back to us. None of them did. And there's six picks between our next pick, and we're currently with one wide receiver. So to me, we've got to take a wide receiver. Mark Andrews?

I mean, I think the value is there, but if you look at, yeah, you've got two good tight ends, and obviously both could go to Team 1 and Team 2. Team 3 already has a tight end, so we could end up with either one of them at our next pick. At wide receiver, there's Tank Dell and Tee Higgins are really the only guys left.

Cooper, yeah. I've cooled on him a little bit, but I got to remember how hot I was for Amari Cooper this offseason. Well, you've cooled, but you were really hot, so what's your temperature? Is it still above average? Are you feverish? It's like a – Low grade? I think some people call it a low grade. It's 99.9. 99.9. But I would not call that a fever. Thank you. It's not. Some people say that's a low-grade fever. No. No, it's not.

Do you feel good? I feel totally fine. I got a little bit of the sweats. But most of my sweats are for Tank Dell. I mean, this draft is working out well for me. So I like it. But what do you guys think? I mean, you can go Tank Dell and come back with probably Alvin Kamara in the next round if you wanted to. Or one of those tight ends.

Mike, I have not heard from you. I need you to weigh in here because Jason's got a low-grade fever and I don't trust what he's saying. It's tough that Tank Dell would be my highest-ranked wide receiver that I would be going with. The fact that James Cook – You have him ahead of T. Higgins? Let me just double-check. Yeah, yes. Higgins should probably not be a consideration for a Chase team anyway.

Right, right, right. I'm good with Tinkdale, but the fact that James Cook made it back is... I know it's three wide, but having A.Cham, Pacheco, and James Cook, all guys who I...

have a strong conviction, can and should finish as top 12 running backs, it's hard to bypass that. With Cook being here, in hindsight, I would have rather taken Debo and then come back with James Cook. Right, for sure. But we didn't. And if I compare Pacheco and Tank Dell to Debo and James Cook, I'm just as happy with that.

I would take Tank Dell here and then see if we get lucky with Cook or Mixon or Walker or Kamara coming back to us. James Cook will definitely not make it back. If we're sitting here, though, and saying that wide receivers are going to go off the board more often, there's a chance that we get Andrews and Kincaid off the board and a quarterback.

and a wideout, which would make it a fun gamble. All right, let's give it a shot. After Dell was James Cook, Zay Flowers, Joe Mixon, T. Higgins, Kamara, and then Stroud. So we are back. If we want to go running back, we've lost the names I really liked. Cook, Mixon. Ken Bone Walker's still there, guys. Yeah, Cook, Mixon, and Kamara. I mean, Ken Walker's great. Amari Cooper's still on the board. It is three wide pickings.

Yeah, and you have both tight ends. You could take Mark Andrews here in the fifth round. This is probably time to take Mark Andrews. I think so. I've talked about I like leaving the draft with one of the top five. Mark Andrews is, I think, two of our number two tight ends overall. You've gotten guys that you like, though, Jay, so I'm going to let Mike make the pick, and he can decide if he wants Kim Bone Walker or Mark Bone Andrews.

Did you guys see he was in a wreck? Yeah, a car accident. They said the wreck was really bad, and yet Mark Andrews supermanned it? Like when Cam Newton flipped a truck and just walked away? So hopefully Mark is actually okay over there. It's your pick, Mike. I don't care what you do. I'm going to officially say I don't care what you do either. You don't care what I do? No. You live your best life. Okay.

KB Dub. I lied. I lied. I was really wanting Mark Andrews there. Ken Walker on the board. I need people to get on board with Ken Walker. He's going to be great. So you took him as kind of a lead the parade? Yeah. Well, Kincaid, Pickens, and Andrews went the next three picks, which at least, I mean, I guess the Deucers already had McBride, so we weren't going to hand off Mark Andrews to them. But the Deucers have Breeshaw, Olave, Debo, and McBride.

So I'm guessing that they're staring down that running back spot, but maybe not. Maybe they like the value. So looking at the decision for us, like between Walker and Mark Andrews, I hate that I hate this section of wide receivers. Like, I get it with Amari Cooper. The numbers make sense. The numbers 100 make sense, and the offense should be good. And yet I still...

Don't really want to draft Amari Cooper. And Keenan Allen has got a rookie quarterback. Kirk's got his injury. And Terry's got a rookie quarterback. This section of wide receivers is – And Keenan, he hit 300 on the scale. He did it. He hit 300 pounds on the scale.

That is the dumbest storyline of my life. I watched the second episode of Hard Knocks. Kian looks totally normal. He wasn't eating the whole time? He was not eating the entire episode. Was that episode brought to you by Five Guys? In fact, you know who was eating was DJ Moore. He was at the ice cream shop. Mad props to DJ Moore. It is really stupid. We're going to take a break and then come back with the Deucer's Pick.

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All right. Hopefully we iced the kicker by taking the break. You know what I mean? Like too overthinking. Like I think there's a chance. Way to call time out there. They go Bucky Irving here. But Doozers, what are we doing? Amari Cooper. That makes sense. I mean, we are riding super dirty here. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What? That's your fault. No, I know. I want a Debo.

I know. I'm just saying. I wanted Andrews. We are. Well, Andrews is not a wide receiver. When we said we didn't care, Mike, we cared. I think we're okay on wide receiver. Maybe you should use your words better. No, no, no. We cared to have somebody to blame. Amari Cooper, then Keenan Allen, then DeAndre Swift, Aaron Jones, and George Kittle round out the fifth round. And then James Conner.

Always a little sad when he goes because I always like to grab me some James Conner late in drafts, but we're already three running backs deep. Kyle Pitts, Anthony Richardson at 603, and David Montgomery off the board. The Ducers with three wide, Olave, Debo, and Amari Cooper. Trey McBride at tight end and Brees Hall at running back. They have adopted, Jason, the hero RB strategy thus far, and they are back on the clock at 605. Will they keep it going or grab a running back? Let's find out.

We are going low-T on this one, boys, and we are taking Jaden Reed. Okay. Wow, okay. So you really are using the hero running back strategy, which I think in a three-wide receiver league is a great strategy. You can load up on some later running backs who –

guys like Jerome Ford, who might be able to get off to a strong start, and then you pick up waiver pickups to fill in those running back positions. It's a strategy that can definitely win a league. After Reid went, Ramondre, McLaurin, and Kirk. Great. Fantastic. I know exactly who the pick is. You know who the pick is? Yes. I'm curious if I know who the pick is. There are two players in my mind.

that I'm paying attention to right here. And you should know one of them. There's a few. One of them for you is going to be Calvin Ridley. Then that's what the pick is. That's my vote as well. And then hopefully coming back with Kyler.

Okay, maybe, but I was... Okay, the fact that we could take either Kyler or Burrow, because Burrow stacks with Jamar Chase. Okay. And I think that that would be wonderful here. That was just kind of the tip from yesterday's episode. Even a better situation because you can wait. And two of the three teams between us have quarterbacks. So even if they take Burrow, we go Kyler. If they take Kyler, we go Burrow. All I heard was draft Ridley. Yeah.

Calvin Ridley off the board at the 609. Nice pick. Worthy, Harris, Odunze, Pollard, Engram, Godwin, and now we've got a problem. Yeah. It's a good problem to have. Well, the bigger problem for me, honestly. Are there some, like, Rashi Rice on the board? It's Rashi Rice. Yeah. Because at that spot,

where we just took Ridley, I would have been very happy ADP-wise to get Rasheed Rice on the squad there. The reason I didn't even approach it is because we had Pacheco. So it was, well, let's balance out. Let's try and get the Tennessee offense. See if they have anything to give us, it will be from Calvin Ridley.

But now that Rice is back and just push the quarterback spot back. Joe Burrow getting the stack here. You know what? I'm on that side now, I think. It would be great, but Dak is still there. Jordan Love. Jaden Daniels. Yeah. There are other options. And because we went with Kenneth Walker, I feel like –

you know, loading up on wide receiver and a three wide receiver. I'm going to be very happy with that. There's plenty of quarterbacks that are, are good later. And maybe we could still do a stack with one of them. I, okay. Bye bye. We went with a,

Rice. And then Mostert went next, and then Burrow and Murray went back-to-back. Which I love because I know the Deucers were going to take one of those two guys. Oh, and they're all nodding profusely. We literally were down to three guys, and it was those three guys. Oh, it was Mostert, Burrow, and Murray? Yeah. Excellent. I love that. I mean, it worked out, of course. Sometimes playing the game, you lose, but...

With not taking Rice at the 6-0-9, he still has the suspension worries. That will be a looming factor, I think, for most of the season unless you get an official report that everything of the court case has been pushed back. If you get that, then you'll have the all clear. But him as the wide receiver four, and then Ridley's the three, that worked out sensationally.

All right, the deucer's back on the clock. I've given him so much time. There's no way that if I hand it over to them, one of them's not going to talk into a microphone. So who is the pick? That didn't feel like a lot of time. But I think we're going to go ahead and lean on my Homerism and take Jordan Love to stack with J. Wow. Okay.

All right. Hey, Jordan Reed. Get your guy. Jaden Reed, Jordan Love is a back-end stack that I like putting together, so I don't mind that at all. I also think this is one of the reasons why it's really fun to do the draft the way that we're doing it, the three of us versus three of them. We've talked so much about the ADP comparison tool, different platforms, different systems.

Jason talked about stacks. They could have gone a different quarterback. There were several by ADP that might have been higher, but they went with the guy that matched up with the player they just took, and you're going to see a lot of variation in your drafts exactly like that. So it might have been a bit of a surprise to Jason, but fit the deucer's desires. Yeah, I don't mind it at all. After Jordan Love went Zemir White, Brock Bowers.

Absolute steal at 7'10". No, not really a steal. Not really a steal. But I'm excited about him. Addison, Moss, Deontay Johnson, Dak, who unfortunately I was kind of eyeballing as a hopeful selection later. Hollywood Brown and Jalen Warren. And the Ducers are back on the clock right now just to give you a lay of the land and give them a moment to decide who's

Still riding dirty with Brees Hall all alone. But then Olave, Debo, and Amari Cooper and Jaden Reed at wide out. That's super strong. Trey McBride snagging him in the fourth. And then Jordan Love with the bag of money in the seventh. One of the things I love is that they loaded up and they've got four really good wide receivers.

And I like our wide receivers much more. And we have three awesome running backs. So good job, guys. We got there. Yeah. In the wise words that I tell my toilet deuces, eat it. Was that enough time? Yeah, we had enough time. We're going to go ahead and take our RB2 here in the eighth round in Javante Williams.

Okay. All right. That's a good hero RB pick. When you get a guy who is going to have opportunity, and there is the narrative, the path of healing from that injury two years ago where maybe you're getting a top 15 running back in the later rounds, you've got to take that shot. I don't agree with the bet. I think they're going to be a really bad offense, and he's going to be what he was last year. But I probably would have taken the same running back here just for the –

After Javante, Eckler went, which is before Bryan Robinson, who I thought looked good in preseason, is definitely the guy over Eckler to me. So Bryan Robinson going behind Eckler is interesting. Chubb went off the board of McConkie. Just to give a lay of the land for our roster, we've taken three wideouts in the last four picks. There are five selections remaining, and one's going to need to be a quarterback, one a tight end.

Both feel like positions we could wait on right now because I would say our eyes are on Goff, Daniels. The tight end room, which the teams between us and our next pick, two of them have a tight end.

But we're down to David Njoku and Jake Ferguson as players were happy to write. I think in the ninth round, that's where those guys belong. That's what we say. Do we wait one round and take... Absolutely, because we don't expect both to go off here at this turn. So I wouldn't take a tight end here. And you discussed on the Tips and Tricks episode yesterday about those...

Those seventh, eighth round tight ends don't usually work. You want to get a value. If we don't get one of those top guys, it needs to be a ninth round pick or later. There are a couple of rookies, Keon Coleman and Brian Thomas on the board. At running back, there's some starters, Devin Singletary and Brian Robinson, along with Gus Edwards potentially. And then you mentioned wanting to see more Tajay Spears that you could pay attention to down in the draft.

This is really tough. Any other names we should be thinking about there? It's a tough scenario because we're at a point now where I really like a lot of wide receivers, an upside. Coleman, I'm still in on Christian Watson. Brian Thomas, Jackson Smith, and Jigba is like... JSN is... Man, he is such a tough player of the...

The excitement for him in his rookie year was through the roof, and you did not get any of that. You did not get anything back. I mean, you bought a ticket. Yeah, he played, but he didn't come with the excitement. That thing was at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. You hated what you were watching, but not necessarily his fault. So it's just remembering, you know, oh, I was hot for Amari Cooper. Do we need to remember that we were hot for JSN? Yeah, and...

I don't think we mentioned it in the news, but Tyler Lockett is dealing with a leg injury. Mike McDonald said... Oh, come on. Let's see if you can do it. Mike McDonald said that the issue isn't too serious, but we don't have a lot of information, but that is a path for Jason to...

Two Rice. Yeah, I don't mind that pick. It would be awesome if you had a little index card that had four McDaniels, McDaniels pictures, and you could just hold it up and say which one you mean. That's what I mean. Like a cheat sheet? Like a McCheat sheet? A McCheat sheet. Because between the Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald, the Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel, and both the singer and actor Michael McDonald,

my brain is and you didn't even mention former offensive coordinator head coach josh mcdaniel don't do it and you didn't even mention a 20 piece chicken mcnugget oh yeah it is sweet and sour some of us conflate coaches with uh chicken yeah um

All right, so what do we want to do? Jason, you can take the pick. I'm in on one of those wide receivers. Yeah. I'm on the wide receiver side, too. I don't care which one. Thomas, Jason. When deciding, I'm taking a look at our current wide receivers. Jamar Chase, Tank Dell, Calvin Ridley, Rushie Rice. I think they're all really, really good. I want high upside receivers.

I think Jackson Smith and Jigba is a great pick. So that would be my selection. Jonathan Brooks goes next in Purdy, Ferguson, Coleman, Hopkins, and Watson. Now, based on what Mike just said. Guys, I lied.

Well, no, I mean, I lied. I wanted Jake Ferguson over David Njoku. Oh, because you didn't want David Njoku. Okay. I see those guys as so similar. I don't mind them. Do you want to take Njoku here? Yeah, I think that makes sense. He's kind of the last one. After him, you're punting all the way down to Pat Fryermuth, who would be my last pick, like my last round pick, and I'm fine with that. But I do think Njoku is a tier above.

All right, we're getting down to the end here. Singletary and Robinson and Edwards, the starters, back-to-back-to-back. Those were the only players I was really considering over Njoku. Just adding more depth to the running back room. Sure. But we took Njoku and those guys went off the board. The Ducers were probably considering one of those three as well. Is that true?

Yep. You can't nod. They can't hear you nod, Josh. I'm just talking. I wish the camera was on because he's like profusely nodding. It was a sad nod because we wanted Gus Edwards right here and he literally went the pick before it got to us. Well, then take Devin Singletary. No. Well, he's already gone too. We're taking the upside guy. Tajay Spears off the board for the Ducers. Seeing some more quarterbacks go. Caleb Williams, Jameson Williams, Brian Thomas, Tua,

And then starting the 10th round, Goddard, Benson, Sutton, Zeke. Deucer's back on the clock after the hot wide receiver run that they started the draft with. It's been Love, Javante, and Spears trying to fill in those back-end running backs to accompany Brees Hall. So you are back on the clock at 10.05. You have all your position players. You can do what you want. We're going to go Chase Brown. Yeah, I like that. In fact, Zach Moss went off the board at 7.12.

I made a mental note to kind of keep Chase Brown tucked away. We ended up with – Chase is doing a – Are you going drum solo or maracas? Maracas. All right. Okay. All right. I will explain his dance. Also unable to be picked up on microphone. I can do it. Thank you, Mike.

Lawrence Hawkinson and Goff went off the board. That was his Jaden Daniels dance. That is my Jaden Daniels dance. When you look at the quarterbacks, we're drafting very, very, very late here on quarterbacks, and you're just getting...

You're getting, hopefully, a Kyler Murray rookie season here when he was with Cliff Kingsbury, finished as the quarterback seven. You know he's an accurate passer. He's a great runner. He has a wonderful value. I would have taken him over Caleb Williams around before, over Trevor Lawrence. I personally would have taken him over Jared Goff. Both good options.

So, yeah, I love that we waited and got Najoku and Jaden Daniels in the ninth and tenth round while loading up on studs at running back and wide receivers. Had this been a live –

A live draft, which the computers sometimes get crazy with their second quarterbacks. If we could have waited this long, got Jaden and then Jared Goff on the way back out, I would have been all about that. Now it is interesting, like no consideration has been given to Justin Herbert, who is now drafted in the 11th round. And I just think that's worth a conversation because Caleb, Lawrence, Goff, and Daniels,

There is not. It's a decent chance Herbert is just fine and fine for fantasy. Could be. It's the combination of

Not only the offensive concerns that we've had for the whole offseason of knowing that the Chargers, while they should be a higher scoring offense, it'll be very high T combined with his injury pushing him down to here. All right, we're back on the clock after the Daniels pick. We can do what we want because we've got our onesies taken care of. We're at five wide receivers on the roster. There are some names that are interesting at that position. You could...

Curtis Samuel with his opportunity in Buffalo. Adonai Mitchell seems to have an opportunity with injury in Indianapolis. Khalil Shakir. Where are you guys real quick on the Buffalo wide receivers? I take Shakir over Samuel for upside. Because I've been the offseason of Curtis Samuel. I'm trying not to let just one preseason thing completely sway, but it looks like it could.

It might be Shaqir over. And this is leaving Keon Coleman out of the equation. I'm saying between Curtis and Shaqir, I think I may have switched to I'd prefer –

chasing after Shakir. He's got a higher yards per catch, and in this offense with the extension of the play. Sorry, Jason. That's why I would go with him, but Jason, what do you think? Yeah, I'm still very much in the belief that Curtis Samuel is better than Shakir, who will be more involved. However, the type of player that Curtis Samuel is doesn't really make sense for our roster. We're loaded at wide receiver now, and we're looking for high extension

you know, potential. So, you know, Shakir makes probably more sense for our roster build than Curtis Samuel, who's just like a veteran plug and play. The one thing I'll point out, we only have three running backs.

There's still a starter available. There are studs. I'm curious who you think the starter is. Like a full starter. A full starter. Are you talking about Chuba? Yeah, Chuba is the starting running back for Carolina. He was the running back, I believe, nine over the back half of the year. He's injured right now. Right this second he is, but they said it was not serious. And Jonathan Brooks will not be playing to start the year.

Just throwing that out there because to start the year though, he wouldn't be in our lineup. That's where we've got a Chan and Pacheco and Walker. So he's not going to crack our lineup until later when Jonathan Brooks comes back later, you might see someone like Rico Dowdle. I know.

I know Mike's unbothered form is in the sense of taking over for a really high-powered offense in the Cowboys. So, like, I would rather go that way for our build personally. I would be personally, Dowdle would be the guy. But it would go, for me, it would go Dowdle, J.K. Dobbins, and then Chuba. Both of you disrespecting the Chuba. It's everything Jason said of...

This is, I want a player who... Jonathan Brooks is not going to go. Week five, he's not the full-time running back on that roster. No, but it's after, once he's back, is it just now a mess of multiple running backs? Just like all the other guys that you were saying. But I think that they... But for a bad offense. You're choosing between the Panthers or the Cowboys. I think that there's a chance for both Dowdle and Dobbins, by the time a couple weeks in the season have passed, that one of them

you can tell they are the guy for like to break it down for the listeners here. It roster construction really matters for our team that has three stud running backs. I would much rather take a guy who could have something happen, break out later. Um, you know, like a Rico Dowdle. If I was the deuces team, I would prefer a Chuba. I would, you know, you're, you're looking at, you pick up people later, but you need starters week one. Well,

Well, they'll get their shot. I took Dowdle for you, Mike. And then Adni Mitchell goes at 11.05. Charbonnet, Curtis Samuel with the Deucers back on the clock. And real quick to put a bow on that, the Carolina Panthers' opening schedule is the Saints, the Chargers, the Raiders, the Bengals, the Bears. Like this is – that's going to be tough for the running back. All right, Deucers, you've got two picks left. They went with Khalil Shakir. Okay.

Friar Muth, Jacoby, Komet, and Mike Williams rounding out the second to last round. And then Joshua Palmer, I was going to bring his name up, but I did not. Chuba goes at 12-0-2. Kirk Cousins, Kendra Miller, and the Ducers have a final selection to add to their roster, which they will be doing in just a minute.

Be with you in a moment, everybody. You can make the pick, Josh. This is why in school they make someone the leader of the group. Right. Because if they all do it, no one does it. Take your pick, Josh. And Josh is still not taking his pick by any second. Take your pick, Josh. We're going Jalen Wright. Oh, that's a good one. That's a really good pick. I like it. I would like to have this last pick.

pick I don't care go ahead Jalen Wright off the board Aaron Rodgers goes in this round Dobbins is gone Jason you can I'm gonna take a guy that we all believed in going into last year and no one believes in going into this year but if Jaden Daniels has a great season and is a a really good quarterback which is our quarterback and you're drafting for things to go right don't don't click it I don't like it just hold on a second who is it's Jahan Dotson but Dotson did you see he played

too much preseason. Way too much preseason to feel good about. Dotson! Dotson! We've got Dotson here! I was actually more encouraged by what was happening in the preseason for Dotson. And then literally this morning there was another report of Washington still looking for their wide receiver too. It's not good, dude. It's not good. Like that's

It's your pick, but I'm not. Look at that. Last round pick. That's played like the whole game or something. Your last round pick. You're hoping that, you know, week one immediately because do I have something here or is this the guy I get to cut for the week one waiver superstars? Okay. Well, I got to make the pick. So I go ahead. Taking it. Dontavian. Yeah. Okay. I'm in. I'm back in baby. I love Dontavian Wicks. I, you know, when you're at the last round, scroll down, scroll down further and make sure that you're looking at all the names.

Speaker 0 : All right. Why don't you run our team back for the listeners, Jason, then one of the deuces, they can play paper rock scissors D while you read it and figure out who's going to read their team. Speaker 2 : So at quarterback and tight end, we've got Jane Daniels and David Nujoku happy with those late round options at wide receiver, Jamar chase tank Dell, Calvin Ridley, rushy rice, JSN, and Don Tavi and wicks loaded with six of those guys.

And then at running back, Devon Achan, Isaiah Pacheco, Ken Bonewalker, and Rico Dowdle.

I love our team. I like that team. Oh, yeah. All right. I like this team. I assume Al's going to read the team back here. Yeah, I'll read it here. We got Jordan Love throwing the football for us, Trey McBride at tight end. We've got Brees Hall, Javante Williams, Tajay Spears, Chase Brown, and Jalen Wright at running back. And our wide receivers are Chris Olave, Debo Samuel, Amari Cooper, Jaden Reed, and Khalil Shakir.

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