Mock Draft Episode + Pacheco Parade - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/23
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Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast, with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in!

Happy Mock Draft Friday. Andy, Mike, and Jason, the fantasy footballers, joining you. Big draft weekend. One of the biggest of the year, if not the biggest. We're so close to football. It's time.

And so we want to get you prepped up. And mock draft is a good way to do that. Yeah, there's football tonight. I noticed this year we have omitted the entire preseason. There is no, it's not football time until real week one kickoff, Mike. Yeah, the preseason is just, it's not what it once was. So, I mean, I'm excited. I like the preseason. I watch as much as I can endure, but...

It will be soon, though. It will be the real football time. Well, we've got news to talk about before we get into our mock draft, and today we're going to have the Ducers. We'll all be picking different teams, but then we've got four members of our team taking up some of the mock draft as well. So it's going to be a little bit of a different ride than we've been used to. It should be fun. It should get us prepared.

Yeah, people have been saying, you know, when you mock draft against a computer, it's helpful. That is a good resource. It's a good tool. It is not quite as good as being able to mock draft with real people. Oftentimes when we mock draft, like we've got this doc for our League of Record. I call it the Skeleton Key. You can find links online for it. But...

We do it by hand. I will draft every other person based on what I know. And people have been saying these drafts sometimes are too easy because the computer. We want to draft against other people. They just didn't know that the other people we would find would be worse than the computer. Yeah, take a computer and then like, I don't know, like...

Take out some of the Ram. Yeah, it's missing some ones and zeros. Right. And then you get deuces. So, yeah. Well, that didn't last long. I told them I probably wouldn't talk about their teams. I wouldn't make fun of them. But I was talking to them as a group. And as a group, I kind of let myself jump right in there. We can't really help ourselves. The water's warm. I'm not saying nothing over here.

You are in your heart. You're afraid they're going to put up a fight in the draft? What? Why would I be afraid of them? There he is. There it is. There he is. We have a mock draft shortly. We've got a big trade to talk about. We're recording this episode a little bit earlier than we normally do because we are heading to Los Angeles for a live show. Yeah, on Saturday evening. Tickets a handful available at ballerslive.com if you want to get in there.

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How to join at megalobull.com. Like I said, up over 8,000 over the last couple of days have joined. And you can pick your draft spot. We're drafting August 31st through September 4th. Your draft time. Draft time. Yeah, you don't get to pick where you... I didn't want that to get crossed. No, it's fair. You don't get to pick where you're at in the draft, just when you are available to join. Yes.

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Well, we did have big news this morning when we're recording this show. So you're listening to this. This happened yesterday. The Eagles and Commanders interdivisional trade took place, and it's a big one. It's a big one for your future hopes and dreams of a player that had a lot of potential as a first-round wide receiver who had a nice rookie season and is no longer a member of the Washington Commanders. Jahan Donson,

You know the vibes? The vibes were spot on with Jahan Dotson. Yes, they were. We had said that the team is just saying some things about Jahan Dotson that we don't like. The fact that they're still trying to figure out who a wide receiver two is. Well, it's not Jahan Dotson because he's been shipped out the door to the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles send a third and seventh. The commanders sent Jahan Dotson and a fifth. The Eagles had been

Really looking to find somebody to step up as a wide receiver three in this offense. That's why you got the Paris Campbell acquisition. That's why you had talk of Johnny Wilson. And Jahan Dotson is who they went after. And it's close to the season. This is a pretty big deal. Well, he doesn't need to learn a playbook. He just needs to learn, okay, when you're on the field,

You run that way. You run down the field as fast as you can, Dotson. It is a, I think a valuable, but not fantasy consequential pickup for the Eagles because barring injury, I don't think any of us are looking at Dotson as viable in any capacity. He would be at best an undrafted gym type of player if he

An injury took place. Yeah, and from a dynasty perspective, I think yesterday... I actually have a sound effect for his dynasty prognosis. Oh, yeah. Is it similar to a falcon? Oh, man. Oh, did you want me to go... Yeah, I thought this is more indicative of... Yeah, I... His actual value is currently...

circling the drain. Let's keep talking and we'll find it. Did they hide the toilet from me or am I just blind? I don't know. Whatever. All right. Well, there was going to be... Imagine a toilet sound. There it is. There it is. I still don't see it, Al. I'm sorry. I think he's good for a couple long touchdowns though for Jalen Hurts. So the interesting thing on the commander's side is that we know Terry McLaurin is the number one bona fide

you know, highest target option in the offense for Jaden Daniels. We had heard and seen on the field through two preseason games a rapport built with Diami Brown. He was on the field way more than we expected last year because we hoped Jahan Dotson was... Like, this kind of happened. Like, the team kind of... And mind you, they changed head coaches and offensive coordinators. But we were hit in the face with the Jahan Dotson disappointment early last year. And we continuously would come in here and say...

Diane Brown caught the touchdown today. Or, you know, it was obviously they had Curtis Samuel in the offense and it wasn't Dotson. Now, Diane Brown profiles to line up outside opposite of Terry McLaurin. Didn't take me long, but I watched every Diane Brown snap this morning. Every route.

You saw all 168 yards on the season. I saw all Sam Howell missing a burner down the field. Damian Brown is a burner. Do we have a, is this a Nico Collins situation? No, because I, I Nico, I, I could see being an upper echelon talent and we would call that out and hope for a better quarterback. Diami is a,

kind of middling route runner with burner speed. And there were three or four touchdowns that were 100% Sam Howe can't throw the football. It was so similar to when you watched Darnell Mooney with Justin Fields. But when you look at, you know, for a dynasty league, you should pick up Damian Brown. I mean, you should, this is somebody that's going to get targets and snaps. He's a nasty boy. But when you look at, can I find a diamond in the rough long-term on this roster that isn't Terry McLaurin?

You've got to bring yourself to the conversation about Luke McCaffrey, a third-round rookie,

even if he doesn't profile as a starter this moment, you know, cream rises to the top. Yeah, and I think Luke McCaffrey plays a large role in them wanting to ship him out because this isn't like they're still looking for their wide receiver too because I don't think it is Diami Brown. Diami Brown will be on the field, but I don't think he is talented enough to really be who they want to have in that slot in the future. But they had moved Jahan Dotson to the slot.

Luke McCaffrey is more of a slot type player. He was a late transition to wide receiver from quarterback and he's good. I actually, I like his tape. He had good production in his final season. He is a McCaffrey, which that doesn't always mean anything just because you're the son of, you know, a Hall of Fame player. But when you've got like

you know, multiple, multiple great players in the family that, I mean, it's like the Watts, right? The Watts, the, I mean, yeah, but is he the Austin rivers of this situation?

I believe he... I mean, he was a third-round pick. He did not get enough pre-draft height. Is he the Seth Curry? You know what I mean? I know what you mean. I'm just asking. He doesn't profile to be some breakout superstar. He's not going to be Christian McCaffrey of wide receivers. But I do think he is... I think he's a quality player. He'll be on the field. He'll have a career. And in many rookie drafts, I've seen him go on draft. Right now...

Zach Kiyos is the slot receiver for the Commanders, and McCaffrey will be competing for opportunity. Terry McLaurin, I moved him up a little bit in the target share. I'm kind of big in on Terry this year. I can see that. Dotson wasn't really factoring in a ton to my projections, so it didn't really move Terry for me. Dotson ran the fifth most routes in the NFL last year. Yeah, cardio king. So...

something interesting. And this offense, it's Cliff Kingsbury. Offensive mastermind. I saw something this morning. Kyle, maybe you can shout out who shared it, but there's been, you know, the commanders have 19 screen passes in preseason, and the next closest team is 10. And nothing screams Cliff Screensbury.

Nice. Than that kind of a situation. I'm really hoping this is. Hayden Wink shared that. I'm really hoping this is like a hide your cards, hide your hand before. No, it's not. I know. He doesn't have it. Like he's showing you what he's got all the time. I heard Josh Norris. He also works with Hayden Wink. Breaking down of his time to throw was lower than anyone else's time to throw last year and his yards per attempt was

Who was? Jayden Daniels. Oh, I got you. And then the yards per attempt was lower than anyone else was last year. The stat is something like that, but of just like. Oh, when you have 19 screens, that makes sense. Yeah, like what are we doing here? Well, it's managing a rookie, you know. Maybe. It's part of it. Bo Nix was named the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos. Excited to see that. Sean Payton finally, you know, came out and told us what we knew.

It'll be an interesting situation there to see a rookie. It's hard. I mean, it's just hard to start week one and be productive, and it's hard to provide fantasy value. We've brought that data forward so many times already.

And just, you know, how hard it is to sustain a wide receiver one that isn't a Hall of Famer, that you don't get double-digit touchdowns from somebody. Like last year we had Cortland Sutton. Despite Russell Wilson, he was a double-digit touchdown guy. That doesn't happen with this rookie quarterback. Denver's not very exciting for fantasy. No. All right. Elijah Mitchell, Jordan Mason both returned to practice on Wednesday. So the Niners' backup running back's getting healthier before they can get hurt again. And Dennis Allen.

Dennis Allen, always part of our news. We like to bring you the positive spin of sports. Doesn't believe Rashid Shahid's toe and foot injury would keep him out for an extended length of time. That's also, to me, a news report on Rashid Shahid's toe and foot injury because I don't think I was aware of that. I am just happy that we have news of an injury where...

To my knowledge, Dennis Allen is not dunking on his player for being injured. Did you go watch the whole Kendri Miller presser? Because I saw the whole thing now. I didn't see the entire... I watched the clip. Are we out of context? Yeah. Teach me. No, I mean, because you want to hear the whole thing to get the context. And context is he sucks. I mean, Dennis Allen is...

This cross between curmudgeon and unfiltered and worn out and tired. Stressed. He comes across as so stressed. Like he just, like sometimes, like Mike said it yesterday, don't be that honest. You know, just protect your player. Don't be so honest. He just constantly was like, I don't know. I don't know what he can do. I got no idea. He's never here. I know he's got talent, but I don't know what he can do. I'm a big baby.

Thank you. You're welcome. All right. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. We'll take a break and we'll jump right in to a... Mark-a-lock-a-ding-dong.

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It's pretty good. I'm at a resting 120. So when you get into a mock draft, though, that's pretty normal, right? Your mock drafts are... Yep, yep. Never been under 100 in a mock. Okay, let's jump in. The Fantasy Footballers Mock Draft. Well, this should be a fun one today. 12-team half PPR, quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, a tight influx, and four bench spots.

Jason drafting from the number two spot. Mike at the sixth spot. I'm at nine, but we've mixed the team, the squad, the Foot Clan staff all mixed in, producers and losers alike. B-Cat, our video guy, at number three. Kyle. Kyle's drafting at the five spot. The Falcon dumping on the seven spot. And then Papa Josh.

who he's at 10 and he's worried about me sniping him. The Falcon is very pumped that sleeper has an app on the phone. Yeah, he can take it with him from his laptop, from his desktop, from the toilet. I, and for those watching on the, the YouTube channel, as we kick this draft off, we, I just hit the start button for those watching.

I was feeling a little bit, just a teeny weensy bit, like a small part of me, just a little bit worried and guilty about maybe focusing so much on his bowel habits. Right. And then I roll into this mock draft today, and I got Jason's face. I got Ketchum's ugly face. I got Kyborg floating head. And then I'm looking, Papa Josh looking elderly, and then

What do I see is the Falcon front and center. He's got a toilet avatar. So, you know, this is what, this is the position we put our staff in is when we decide what you are, you decide to embrace or not embrace it. That is such a long flush. Is that right? Yeah. How are you after you had the opportunity to drop the,

The mailbag drop. Oh, I had nightmares last night. Yeah, you said you blacked out. We've got the screenshots of you sweating. It was fun. My skin's still crawling. Yeah, no, you were... At least you did it. At least you delivered. You could have gone silent or sprinted out of the room. All right, we're into the mock draft. The first pick off the board, Christian McCaffrey. Sorry, Jason. Oh, darn it. I thought for sure he'd be there for me at two. This is really easy. I'm going to make this quick and seamless. There's three top picks in every draft. Seamless.

CMC, Tyreek Hill, CeeDee Lamb. The last time I was near this spot, I took Tyreek. So I'm going to go CeeDee Lamb, plus you got Tyreek with the thumb injury. You can call that a tiebreaker if you want. There's no right answer, so I want to go different. Yeah, I get it. You're going to get to see how your team turns out that way. The Lamb contract?

It's the thumb injury of financial issues right now, but it's not fun. McCaffrey off the board. Jason went CeeDee Lamb. B-Cat goes Tyreek Hill. No fear at number three. Jamar Chase off the board at 104, leaving the Atlanta native behind.

Kyle the Borgogian to take Bijan Robinson. Just a reach for the homer. What a reach. Only because he is an Atlanta Falcons fan. And that is a joke. This is a great pick. Bijan deserves to be about that spot in the draft. That puts Mike on the clock at 106. Mike, what are you thinking here in your first round? So it's do I start with a hero running back? Do I take Brees Hall or do I go with Amon Ross St. Brown?

uh, I'm in raw, just so unbelievably dependable at the wide receiver position. I'm looking at his week one line. Yeah. Sleeper picks line is it's at 87 and a half receiving yards. Like it's an over under a 51. It's in Ford field. We love that early schedule. Yeah. He averaged over a hundred yards at home. I, I love that.

But I am. I'm going to start with Brees Hall. I hate you. I hate you. I'm going to start that way and just see how my mock unfolds. It is the right thing to do. For some reason at one. You would go Brees over Romano. I would. Yeah. And at 109, although I do. You know what?

Just to be transparent, I put feelers out on Amon Ra in our Dynasty League yesterday. Sorry, not the Dynasty League. In our League of Records. Oh, okay. Because he's a keeper. I was like, good luck, man. I've been barking up that tree forever. I've never had him. I've never had him on a roster. And I'm so excited about Detroit. I think they're going to win the Super Bowl this year. So I wouldn't have minded the pick, certainly. But Brees Hall just seems so...

So reliable. I wanted you to pass on him because there's always a chance that he makes it to like 108, 109. Brees? Brees. Because of the fact that like the names, right? I mean, you've got A.J. Brown and Amon Ross, St. Brown. Justin Jefferson. Yeah. So Brees goes at 106. The Falcon went with Amon Ross, St. Brown at 107. You know, Tyreek and Amon Ross feel so...

They just feel so safe. Like they do feel safer than Jamar Chase feels. Those two picks. Would you not agree? I mean, Chase does not feel as safe as Amon Ra and Tyreek. I don't know that there is as safe a pick as Amon Ra. The ceiling we saw last year when he had, you know, the touchdowns flowing, the type of player he is, you don't necessarily expect him to be a double-digit touchdown guy. Uh,

So I do worry that he'll come down a little bit. But the consistency, every week you just know you're never getting goosed from Aminah. Yeah, their offense doesn't function without him, for sure. Jefferson goes at 108, leaving me on the clock with some options here. This is, I mean, 109 just screams Jameer Gibbs all offseason. It just seems like the Gibbs decision is there already.

We also have A.J. Brown on the board, and those are the two players I am looking at. It's Jameer Gibbs. It's A.J. Brown. Papa Josh drafting behind me. Quick turn. You start to look at this point. Do you like what you're taking at running back in the second round, whether Kyron, Saquon, Henry, those guys, A. Chan, or do you like coming back around to the Puka, to the Adams and Harrison? And I...

I look at that, and I think A.J. Brown is a tier above those guys, and so that's the pick I'm going to make here. I don't go wide receiver first round often, but I'm going to do it today. So A.J. Brown off the board, giving us six wide outs and three running backs through the first nine picks. Papa Josh went with Gibbs at 110. Saquon off the board next, and Garrett Wilson rounding out the first round. Is Garrett Wilson currently...

A pick that gives you pause. Yeah, for me he is. I mean, Garrett Wilson didn't finish as a top 30 wide receiver last year, and obviously we're just saying it's completely because the quarterback situation was bad. Yes, I am. But there are plenty of, I mean, are you saying that all of the guys ahead of him had good quarterbacks? Because that's not true. I am saying that every player in front of Garrett Wilson had a better quarterback, yes. Well, that's better, sure.

In a sense, you can't be much worse. That's exactly what I mean is, look, there was bad quarterback play all over. There always is. But the Jets was, that was special last year. All right. So heading into round two should be interesting. We get Marvin going at 201. Again, that feels like where he has been going.

Jonathan Taylor at 202. A little Saquon Jonathan Taylor stack for Team 11. Papa Josh pairs Jameer Gibbs with Puka Nakua at 203. My thought process with Brown was that I'm going to like the running backs coming back to me more. That's what happened. I am very happy to take a guy that's going to probably go by his teammate many, many times. But I'll take Kyron Williams at 204 in this draft, pair him with A.J. Brown.

Feel good about that. No, I love that. I mean, both of those guys, I think, are the type of player that could finish number one at their position that is not being drafted like that, right? You don't put A.J. Brown in the CD, the Tyreek category. You don't put Kyron in the Bijon Breeze category. But they really are, on a per-game basis, capable of that. Their offense, their talent. Pairing those two guys together at the back of the first is very nice.

All right, Team A went with Olave after my Kyron pick, and then Debo goes to the Falcon, who goes wide receiver, wide receiver, Amon Ra, and Debo Samuel. Putting Mike back on the clock, Mike, while you're thinking about that pick, we did not talk about one thing with the Dotson trade. I drafted A.J. Brown in the first round. It's not that Brown or Devontae Smith would be hurt, but do you look at this as at least a minor problem?

to Jalen Hurt in the sense that if an injury happens to those guys, we're not staring down Johnny Wilson to step up and provide him fantasy value? Yeah, that's not even how I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it from that

that Dotson will have a couple long touchdowns and that's, that's good stuff for Jalen hurts. So yeah, I think it's a small upgrade for him. Not enough that I'm going to make a move of putting hurts over Allen, but you know, just, it helps things out. So I took Brees hall with my first pick. I am going there. I mean, there's so many guys here that are delightful of, you know, especially in my, my guy category. Give us some of the names of what you're thinking about. Well, I mean, you know,

I don't mind the reach here to take Nico in the second round. You know, wide receivers, it's London, Adams, Ayuk. That's why to me Nico is the pick at wide receiver. But where I'm going to go, I'm going to go high tee and despite – Well, based on yesterday's take. Right. This is who you are, Mike. Thank you. I've always been this guy. Just clip that out, everybody. And –

Despite it being Jason's my guy. Oh, whoa. I am Isaiah Pacheco. Pacheco is very, very high in my rankings. He is. This was above Henry. This was above a Chan. Yes. Above ETN. Like Christian McCaffrey, Bijan, Brees, Hall, Kyron. And then after that, I'm, you know, taking calling your shot of who I think can really finish as a top three guy. And I think that.

Things can bounce right in a volume department for Pacheco for him to finish top three. You two have been the leaders of the Pacheco parade, for sure. And I'm interested to see how that plays out. Kyborg let me know. Now, Kyle, you would have taken Isaiah Pacheco with your next pick. So...

um you know Mike got his guy there even if it's slightly yeah that's early that's early but that's how some drafts are going to go I mean I I obviously don't have any problem with that I love him I the one that was questionable to me is taking him above Devon Achan like I I would rather have Achan I get it I get the the rocket fuel but I'd rather take a guy who I know that he's well he had the fourth highest running back attempt share last year that's not going to happen and

I mean, it's a full bet on efficiency, which with HN, it's not a terrible bet. Pacheco's current sleeper ADP is 303. You got him at 207, so you had to grab him. He would have been gone. Nico Collins goes to Kyle next. Drake Lennon off the board, as he often does in the second round here. And then BK, with Tyreek Hill in the first, goes ETN in the second. That feels like a pretty good value to me.

him there. I mean, he could have gone as high as 202, 203, Etienne at 210. And then Jason, I see you've already made a pick. You didn't even want to wait for me to put the ball on the tee. You're like, I'm swinging before the ump is back. I'm still on the clock with my next pick, but I had the strategy coming back to this second and third round turn that I was going to try to take a

Devon Achan with my first pick and Isaiah Pacheco with my next one. Turned out that when I got on the clock, Derrick Henry was there. I played the ADP game to try to pair Derrick Henry with Devon Achan. Would you, if that were... So you took Henry. If that were...

human in spot one, would you have played the game? I would not have. I would have taken A-Chan there over Henry. Just don't risk that. But it worked out for me. Having CeeDee Lamb at the top, being able to pair him with two, in my opinion, stud running backs, Derek Henry and Devon A-Chan. And A-Chan always feels

Look, I love A-Chan. A-Chan, as your running back one, is a little tougher pill to swallow. I get that. So as my running back two, I love it. Would it be easier to swallow if you had to switch those picks, but they both went to you still? Like A-Chan was the first pick and Henry was the second? Yeah, that makes the pill more A-Chan size. Henry? Easier to swallow. At 211, then Jacobs and Ayuk off the board, you end up with Devon A-Chan with the second pick of the third round.

And then James Cook, another fan favorite, goes at 303 to BKET, pairing James Cook with Travis Etienne. With Tyreek. That's pretty good. Adams goes next, and then our first quarterback off the board, Kyle goes with... Oh, so he did go Jalen Hurts over Josh Allen. Jalen Hurts at 305 off the board to go with Bijan Aniko, putting high T Mr. Leatherhead himself on.

The fantasy hitman on the clock, Brees, Pacheco, and you have the 306. I don't know. I don't want to speak out of turn here, Mike, but based on what you said yesterday, Mixon is. Oh, yeah. He is very good at football. He's very good at football. You're high T. I would think about it. Running back, running back, running back. I will think about it, but we're no longer in that segment, and I don't like Joe Mixon. Okay. It's down to two players for me.

Ken Bone Walker out of Seattle, who I... You guys almost got a take swap for Ken Walker. I would have liked that. And it was just... I realized, you know...

Trying to talk you into a player over being able to make you say something derogatory or positive about a player, that was too good of an opportunity to pass up. But as I went through and I was making my case for Ken Walker, again, I didn't adjust my stats, but it made me even more confident in his running back attempt. His share was top tier before he got hurt. He misses a couple games. He comes back.

His share goes even higher. It just comes down to his 8% target share. Can the new OC in philosophy, can that bump that up to like a 10? Because if he's getting the same share with his explosive nature and a 10% target share, running back one is easily in the range for him. So it's between him and then my guy who –

Back to practice, everybody. Great news for Jalen Waddell. I'm really pumped that he is back there. Because I started high T, I'm going to take Waddell. All right. Brees Hall, Isaiah Pacheco, Jalen Waddell is Mike's start to this draft. The Falcon does go Ken Walker with the next pick. Josh Allen off the board, another quarterback. So two quarterbacks in the third round here. Putting me back on the clock, A.J. Brown, Kyron Williams is my start to this draft.

Because this is a mock and I think the value is there, I'm going to pull the trigger on a onesie. I mean, I told you guys that I was comfortable enough with both Laporta and Kelsey if they got further down the draft board.

in the third round, and with the quarterbacks going off the board, it knocked them down a little bit. I'm really curious which one you're going to take. I'm going to take Sam Laporta. Wow. I'm going to take Sam Laporta today. I'm neck and neck with those two guys, and we actually – I went Laporta, and then Kelsey went next to Papa Joss. So, you know, I am worried about – like I think accumulation-wise, Kelsey and Laporta will be really close, but I'm worried about the second half of the season for Kelsey. If this team does what they're supposed to do,

lock the division down, and kind of protect Kelsey, then that's a concern. I don't know if you guys realized it because this is the first time I have in Sleeper, that's where we're drafting,

Kelsey has overtaken Sam Laporta. The ADP has flipped. And I just went and confirmed in the draft kit, looking at the sleeper ADP, making sure nothing was wild. That has happened. Now, they're both – Laporta was a back-end second-round pick. He's now more of a middle third.

And honestly, that is far more palatable to me as well. I've been just completely off of Laporta because in my head, he's dialed in. People are taking him in the middle of the second, maybe a couple picks after. And that was too rich. But where you got him, I'm okay with that. You're really hoping he takes a tear jump because it's just in points per game. While he was the number one guy,

Overall, for the tight end position, that was a really low points per game, and he needs more receptions and more yards. Well, Kelsey went next, and then Cooper Cup, Evans, Mahomes, Diggs, and DJ Moore. A little disappointed. I was playing a little bit of a game, hoping that somehow, some way, I would see, whether it's Evans or Cup, swing back around. Cup would have been another ram on my team.

Kyron roster. So at this point at 404, I am looking pretty strongly at the running back position. And it's not the sexy pick everybody wants to make, but it's the right pick. And so I'm going to take Rashad White in the fourth round. Rashad White was, we talked about it briefly yesterday. For some reason, there's just like a strong desire to doubt him.

by the community, and I don't... When I watched football last year, I saw a player that was a difference maker on every down for this franchise that made the playoffs and was the best friend of Baker. So I'm going to go with Rashad White. You weren't thinking about Malik there, huh? Not really, no. I mean, I just... Not with Rashad White on the board. DK Metcalf goes next. Devontae Smith to the Falcon. And then we see...

Mike, back on the clock. Brees Hall, Isaiah Pacheco, Jalen Waddell. So the running backs, I mean, I have two what I consider top-tier running backs, and it's the dead zone for me of Mixon, Kamara, Aaron Jones. I do like James Conner, Montgomery, and Swift, where it's just because I have two of them, I don't feel the urge to jump into the dead zone.

I mean, it's a Jason, my guy parade. Oh, your team's going to be delightful. So Brie Saul, Pacheco, Jalen Waddle. And then looking at my rankings, I have Tank Dell inside my top 24. So I think that rounds me out where I feel strong enough with that base. So you took Tank Dell. Malik Neighbors goes to Kyle at 408. So he's in. And then Kamara off the board at 409.

Another, you know, this round, the two running backs that have gone in this round, I think are the unsexy yet very productive Rashad White and Alvin Kamara. Yeah, it just, it doesn't feel good, but it will. It, it, I'm on the side of it should work, but you, it, it feels like you're waiting. You're just waiting for the shoe to drop of what's going to go wrong.

Not me, Mike. No shoes. I'm not waiting for a shoe to drop on Rashad White. I'm less waiting on Kamara. He'll get a billion receptions. It's more on Rashad White. We'll take that debate into the season. Katrin goes Trey McBride at 4'10". So, Jason, you are on the clock now with CeeDee Lamb, Derek Henry, Devon Achan. Drafting out of the two spot, I –

I have noticed you've got the quick turn. I've got the quick turn on the other side, as does Papa Josh. I really do enjoy that sometimes. From a predictability standpoint. It's really nice when you're within two picks of the turn and you can look at the team or the two or maybe even three teams that are picking between your pick and your next one.

take a look at their positions, say, oh, they've already got a quarterback. I don't need to do that. There's a good chance that they're not going to draft a running back here. Use that as a strategy. It's really, really nice. I'm here, and I'm very disappointed

The way that I had built my team starting CeeDee Lamb and then two running backs, I love fourth-round wide receivers this year. Yeah, you were hoping for Tank Dell. I love Tank Dell. I love Devontae Smith. I love DK Metcalf. I love Malik Neighbors. And those guys all just went. Yeah. What happened to your plan? My plan is going a little bit higher tee. I agree with you, Andy. Two...

unsexy players who are probably really good picks in Rashad White and Alvin Kamara in the fourth round. They're going to put up a lot of fantasy points in boring fashion. I'm going to draft Joe Mixon, who's going to do the same thing. Oh, we're going fourth round boring. We're going fourth round boring.

quality, boring running backs. As my running back three, I think Derek Henry, Devon A. Chan, Joe Mixon, that is a solid core I can kind of rely on, and now I'll be focused on finding more value at wide receiver through the draft. So you found the testosterone after your first round. The

The best part of this year will be when Mike loses to a Rashad White-Mixon combo. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm just saying I'm worried about Rashad White. I'm fully out on Nixon. I literally cannot find the capacity to a path that Rashad White's not great.

There's nobody in the depth chart that has any impact on Rashad White. Right now, we feel like that. Which, I mean, this was the same thing with Tucker and Edmonds, and those guys are nothing too. You're saying that of Bucky Irving. Yeah, Bucky Irving, he's not a threat to Rashad White. He might be a compliment, but not a threat. No, the biggest threat to Rashad White is Rashad White. That's my problem.

But you have to have somebody that can come in and do something better than him, and I don't think they have anything close to that from a workload perspective. I think there's a place in fantasy football for the Rashad Whites, for the Leonard Fournette. Leonard Fournette was someone no one ever wanted because he looked so bad on the field later in his career, and he kept scoring a ton of fantasy points, and he kept going, you can't keep getting away with it. Why are you giving him so much work? That's what Joe Mixon's going to do. That's what Alva Kamara and Rashad White are going to do in the fourth. So after me, Lamar Jackson went.

Michael Pittman went. And I chose to go Mixon because of the wide receivers that were left. The guy that I actually liked the most was

is a little bit further down in ADP. It was a guy who Andy kind of finally saw the light on. He's a wide receiver too for his team, but he's really good. His quarterback's good. The offense should be good. T Higgins. I didn't know if you're a lion or not. So you went T Higgins then at five Oh two to pair with lamb as your white outs with Henry H and a mix in. And we'll take a quick break, come back and talk the rest of this draft.

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You know, that decision between those two guys is pretty interesting. That was the decision for me. It was between Higgins and Cooper. I like both of those players, but when I look at their quarterbacks, I'm going to take the one I believe in. I thought the pick was going to actually be Mark Andrews because it would have been a fifth round Mark Andrews. You love Mark Andrews, and...

I suppose the mix in selection kind of box you out of him. Yes, that's exactly right. Mixing being on the board. There was too good of a value, but because I was going into the fifth with only one wide receiver, I feel like I can punt tight end easier than wide receiver. All right, Mike, you are on the clock. Who's the selection. So team four took Mark Andrews and then Kyle took Dalton Kincaid. Mark Andrews was a, that's who I was. I thought was going to fall to me. Uh,

So now the tight end pool is either George Kittle or, for me, essentially Punt. And then at the wide receiver position, it would be between George Pickens and Calvin Ridley, the two of them. I do have Pickens a little bit higher in my rankings between the two of them. I don't like what's going on with the quarterback situation for Pittsburgh. I mean,

Not that I believe in Will Levis a whole bunch more of, but... You can't let Andy get... It's uneasy. You can't let Andy get Ridley. That is a good point. That is... That's how you want to draft, is spiding somebody else. That's how real drafts happen. Real drafts happen when you know the guy next to you really wants this dude, and you're like, I'm taking him. I'll take Calvin Ridley. Yeah.

Hey, I'm going to take a victory lap that Ridley's a 506 at this point. So Connor goes next. I would have taken Ridley this round, though. Of course. Connor goes next. Zay Flowers, who has somewhat been invisible. A little bit, yeah, for us. In the discussions, yeah. And so I'm back on the clock. Kyron and Rashad White. Laporta went the onesie. And then A.J. Brown was my first-round pick. Pickens is jumping out at me as an option here with no Ridley on the board. And then at running back,

I could turn to David Montgomery, Swift, Ramondre, Najee. There's some unsexy options. Or I can go fifth-round quarterback. And I'll probably gamble on one guy getting back to me at quarterback in the sixth. And so I'll take George Pickens. I do believe in the talent. And he's just leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the depth chart there. So I'll take Pickens in the fifth round. Consolation Pickens, that is. Sure.

Papa Josh goes CJ Stroud, and then it goes Richardson, Kittle, Aaron Jones, and Kyle Pitts. So four out of five picks, quarterbacks are tight ends. Nice. Which, you know, I was doing the Kyler Murray gamble. And it paid off. Stroud, Richardson, Kittle, Jones, Pitts, Ramondre. I don't want to pick it too quick. Montgomery's still there.

but I am going to go with Kyler Murray in the sixth round. All right, Montgomery off the board next. We've got Mosterd going at 606. That's a great pick. Almost as good as the pick that I am about to make. Make sure you scroll down, everyone. ADP is a powerful thing that is right in front of your face. But, Jay, how far away from the football season?

Oh, you son of a gun. He's in my queue. No. Rasheed Rice. No. I almost took him last round. That's where he is in my projections, but I studied the field, and I felt that they would not. He was so far down in ADP. I just had him in my queue. He was automatically. I wasn't paying attention to this turn because I was going to take Rasheed Rice here. No, you're not. It was funnier when Ridley was taken from me, right?

Yeah, that was a good goof. That was a good, nice goof. All right, Mike went with Rashi Rice here. Terry McLaurin went next to the Borgogin himself and Joe Burrow. So we've had four quarterbacks go off the board in less than a round. Roma Dunze goes off the board at 6'10". And, Jason, you're back on the clock with Liam Higgins, Henry H. Hannon-Mixon.

Yeah, I'm here and I'm a little upset. Terry McLaurin would have been a great option for me here to go with Higgins and Lamb. Unfortunately, he left at wide receiver. The guys that are on the board, I'm not super excited about. Still more Chiefs wide receivers you can take.

Look, Xavier Worthy, I'm fine taking a shot on him. He's an exciting speedster, rookie, first rounder for Mahomes. This is a guy I believe in the talent of. I do think rookie year, you're going to have Rushie Rice.

I like Xavier Worthy in Dynasty, but I'm not going to take the shot here. Instead, I will go with the wide receiver that Andy besmirched yesterday, Jaden Reed. I don't believe everything Mike wrote for him. I think Jaden Reed is talented. I want shots of good offenses. There was some stuff in that that was really...

upsetting. I didn't know it was down. Was it the hardcore statistics about regression? No, it was the subjective opinion about talent. Oh, when you called him mid? Why would you do that, Andy? When I said he was fine-ish and mid and not talented.

So garbage. Yeah, so now here I am. I'm on the clock. So you took Jaden Reed. I took Jaden Reed. I'm looking at my options across the board. I've got what I think are three good wide receivers, three good running backs. So I'm taking a look at the onesie positions, tight ends or whatever. I don't care about them at this point. I'm not going to draft a tight end until late. I'll probably end up with like Pat Fryermuth, and I'm personally fine with that. Quarterback, I could stack.

cd lamb with dac and that is a little bit exciting to me um i haven't ended up with dac anywhere i could also stack jayden reed with jordan love um and then you know play the game for jayden daniels later and a wide receiver i'm not excited so i am i'm gonna do that i'm gonna have fun i'm gonna take the dac cd stack that won people championships last year and hope they stay on fire i think it's a

I think it's perfect for your team, and I think it's a value. So both of those things, like clicking the button on Kyler above Dak is still hard for me to do. I think Dak has proven –

how dominant he can be for fantasy purposes, and then you get the correlation. That's great. Najee finally goes at 703. Great value there again. Pollard off the board and Godwin the next three picks. Mike with Brees, Hall, Pacheco, Waddell, Dell, Ridley, and Rice has the 706. This is going swimmingly because I evaluated this turn

to see what positions they were going to need to pick. Three of them had a tight end. New Jason always disrespects Schmevin Schmangrum. I thought I would be punting tight end too, but in the seventh round. You did. No way, man. I'll be taking Evan Engram. You just did it. You successfully punted tight end.

I love Ingram. I'm with Mike. Brock Bowers went next. Where was he last year? I think he was like two or three. Two or three. Because of week 18. Before that, he would not have been two. Yeah, but they got rid of some of their wide outs. In the seventh, I think that's – I said I'm punting because I figured there was no way that Ingram would keep falling. Bowers, who we got word would be available for week one with the injury scare.

Kirk goes next. So a couple of Jags, depending on your definition of that. Jaguars go two picks apart. I'm back on the clock. I've taken a couple onesies. It's a little bit different here. Kyler was my pick last round, but I'm going to take the shot on the rookie. I didn't think he would slip all the way over to me, but I'm going to take Xavier Worthy at 709. I loved what I saw in the preseason. When you talk about

He could have half the receptions as Rashi Rice and the same amount of fantasy points. That's the kind of player he is. And the separation downfield. McConkie goes next. Zemir White, Nick Chubb, Javante Williams, and Zach Moss going into the eighth round. Austin Eckler off the board to Papa Josh at 8.03. And I am back on the clock, boys. I'm going to take the discount on Jalen Warren, a round behind a very, very,

underrated Najee Harris, but Warren's supposed to be healthy and back out there in week one for this team that's going to run the football with Arthur Smith. And he is the more explosive player and I think the more valuable player. So I'll get them around later and Addison and Jalen Daniels go next. Yeah. So Jaden Daniels, again, this is, this is more, I think in line of you're going to have people who are willing to go in and reach for Daniels. So you, you,

in your competitive leagues. Don't just expect for sure you can get him in double-digit rounds. Be willing to go in on him for the eighth. That doesn't bother me. So I started two running backs and have not taken one since. So I got to start bolstering my running back depth. And the first one I'm going to go with, I'm going to take Gus Edwards of the Los Angeles Chargers. All the things I've talked about have

high-powered offense with running backs that are drafted late. That's where you go. Oh, thank you. That's where you want to take some shots. I agree with Jason who just talked about the sleeper pick of J.K. Dobbins. I don't mind that shot at all. It's just I think Gus Edwards is a slightly better shot at being the guy. All right, Jonathan Brooks goes next. Hollywood and JSN and then Jason on the clock after the DAC pick.

Yeah. Oh, that was throwing it to me? It really sounded like you were going to continue talking. Sorry about that. Yeah, no worries. No, you are on the clock. So I want to bring up the Jonathan Brooks pick. I love it. I was eyeballing him here. I've got three running backs. He could start kind of on the bench. I was curious, though, because...

This is a pick that I believe that's the second running back for Kyle, and that's hard to grab a guy that is not going to play to start the season as your running back, too. But we're in the nasty boys of 2024 here, and if you think you have upside in the second half,

I think you can try and figure it out. Yeah, that's fine. I wanted to take someone like Ladd McConkie. Next time, don't defend Kyle, Mike. Unfortunately, Ladd was gone. I will take Keon Coleman. We never know exactly who the great rookie wide receivers are going to be, but pairing one that was highly drafted with Josh Allen, I'll take the shot on that. I feel like that kind of hurt you, like emotionally. Yeah, I mean –

I could see the path. You want to take shots on good offenses and high draft capital players. So that's what I did. Najoku and Singletary go next. Jason, you're on the clock. I feel like I have sufficiently punted tight end enough. I would be okay with Pat Fryermuth later. But here in the ninth round with Ferg Daddy sitting there, I will take Jake Turd Ferguson.

Christian Watson and Jordan Love go next. Kyborg on the clock after that Jonathan Brooks pick. I think he's probably eyeballing. Yep, there he goes. Yeah, Jerome Ford. That's the pick. Jerome Ford. I mean, he played it right if Jason really was looking at Jonathan Brooks. I would have taken Jonathan Brooks. So, yeah, good job. Mike, you're back on the clock after the Gus Edwards pick. Yeah.

Yeah, so I'm attacking those teams for running backs. Gus Edwards, Zach Moss is unfortunately already gone. He would have been my pick in the eighth and then hoping that I could get Gus later. But I'll take the chance on Chase Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals and see if maybe he becomes the guy. Now, was that – no, Zach Moss went one round earlier. Yeah. If you want to see the entire draft board, by the way, you can go to our YouTube channel.

That's youtube.com slash the fantasy footballers and check out the entire draft board. It's a fun way to watch it. Um, a couple more quarterbacks going off the board golf and Purdy in this round. I am back on the clock. Yeah. The Falcon got almond raw and Jared golf. I was eyeballing one name that I hoped fell all the way through the eighth and ninth round. That is still there. And, uh,

The only hesitation I would have is the fact that I just drafted a rookie wide receiver two rounds earlier in Xavier Worthy.

But I'm going to pull the trigger here. I'm going to take Brian Thomas Jr. in the ninth round. 100%. My build didn't allow me to take him. I was debating. That was my debate between Keon Coleman and Brian Thomas. I was shocking to me that you decided to roll it with Coleman this time. Again, I'm trying to focus on the offenses. It was Josh Allen versus Trevor Lawrence. That's all it was to me. Yeah, makes perfect sense.

There was some very hyperbolic hype train chatter. But just that. Do tell. Just more Brian Thomas. Oh, gotcha. Just that he might. It was something like he might have Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson stuff. Like that was the talk from some people watching him at camp is that that might be some of the makeup we're seeing. Deontay Johnson, Caleb Williams, Trey Benson, Tua.

Brian Robinson and... Stupid computer teams. Tajay Spears. Taking all the quarterbacks. So looking at the lay of the land here, there is one name I'm going to pick up because I've got a Kyron Williams in the second round, and I'm going to take Blake Corm. Oh, that was who I was hoping made it to me. I'm going to take Blake Corm at 10.04, second to last pick, and just...

Do a little risk mitigation. That is a great pick. It's one of the only ones that I look for pairing because of how late he is. If you can get the backup who is pretty much locked in as a great fantasy asset should your starter go down and you're getting them in the double digits, it's a wonderful pick. Well, thank you, Jason. Goddard and Shakir off the board next. And, Mike, you're back on the clock. You've gone Edwards and Chase Brown adding to your running back depth.

Ingram's on the roster. You're going to have to select a quarterback over the next two picks. And I can't risk it anymore with these absolute scoundrels. Oh, that's why you were so mad at the snakes. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to take two and then I'll have to a waddle. I'll feel confident about that. So now at this point, I'm not panicking because of all the quarterbacks are going, they're flying off the board. I'm looking at the early strength of schedule and, you know, trying to project who's got some good games.

Baker would fit the mold of Washington and then Detroit. Matthew Stafford gets Detroit and then Arizona. I think that that's a pretty good opening combo of games. Do I go with those couple games, or do I hope that Justin Herbert is really ready to go for week one? And

I think I'm a little nervous about that. So I'm just, I'm going to stream those first couple of games with my draft pick and then I will figure it out. All right. Mike went with Matthew Stafford and then Kyle just, he had to, he had to kick me right in the gonads. He hit you right in the dowdles. Um, Rico Dowdle off the board, Rico Suave as Mike calls him. Deandre Hopkins goes next. Justin Herbert off the board, um, which was a choice for you, Mike. Uh,

And then, Jason, you are back on the clock. You're going to make your final two picks here, so just do them back-to-back. Yeah, I'm going to take a running back and a wide receiver. Both of these, I'm looking for high explosive potential that could surprise or get cut. Those are clear to me, and I'm sure that the second one will make it back based on ADP. So I'm going to take...

Jamison Williams to start. Hope that he finally does what he should have done on the NFL field as the wide receiver two for another great offense. And then at running back, J.K. Dobbins. I brought him up on the sleeper episode. To me, he's a perfect last round pick in the sense that week one, he's either going to be like the starter and really involved or.

or he's not. And then I either have a really nice pick for a good offense that wants to run the ball a lot, or I know exactly who I'm swapping out on the week one waiver wire. So Dobbins will bolster my roster.

All right, I like that. Final pick Dobbins is going to be a common theme, I think, in all of our drafts this year. Polk, Hawkinson, Dobbs, Mike, your final selection, anybody you want. Just don't take the guy I want. I hope I do. My wide receiver crew, it's really solid of Jalen Waddell, Tank Dell, Calvin Ridley, Rasheed Rice. So I don't...

Looking at the players who are at the top of ADP, Curtis Samuel, Tyler Locke, Jacoby Myers, even Josh Palmer. I'll throw him in there. They're stabilizers, but I don't think that at this point they're going to really take off and become something huge. Them cracking my lineup over those four guys...

If everything goes to plan, not very likely. So with that said, I'm going to look at Adonai Mitchell from the Colts has been getting a pub as a rookie wide receiver. But I'm going to take the shot on the first round wide receiver. I will take Xavier Lee Getz and hope that he is ready to go and hope he can help turn around the Carolina offense. Zeke goes next, who would have been in consideration. He went to the Falcon Charbonnet with Team 8. And I was hoping this would happen.

You got your guy. My final pick in this draft, I don't draft to trade except for maybe one guy because I know how fantasy players get when they don't have a tight end. And sometimes one big game gets you the opportunity to trade away a tight end. And Taysom Hill will be the pick, multi-positional opportunity. I hear there's other platforms that are –

adopting, they're moving Taysom back to tight end eligible. Yahoo did it this morning. Right. So Taysom Hill at 1109, like I have done, like I've picked up Taysom, had him blow up and traded him before. Like that's been a part of the Taysom experience. So if you catch lightning in a bottle in week one,

Why not? Well, in this one, Papa Josh is in the league. And so, you know, no, no, your league, he would have been gone with the next pick. Um, Curtis Samuel, who the team is saying they hope we'll be back for week one, uh, goes with the third to last pick locket kind of a moment there with locket, having them go almost as Mr. Irrelevant in the draft. Um,

I don't know if the retirement ceremony is too soon for him or not. We're going to find out whether the JS intake was way off base and then Fryer Muth with the last pick in the draft. So running these teams back again, you can see the entire draft board on the YouTube channel. I'm sure we'll share some graphics out. My team at wide receiver, A.J. Brown, George Pickens, Xavier Worthy, Brian Thomas Jr. Feels a little thin.

but also top heavy, a little bit hero wide receiver there. Kyron Williams, Rashad White, Jalen Warren, and Blake Corum.

At my running back position and my onesies, Kyler Murray, Sam Laporta. I guess it's not a onesie if you take two of them. Taysom Hill also on the roster as an extra quarterback, tight end, and whatever else they want to classify him as. My onesies, I've got the stack in Dak and Jake Ferguson. Super stacked with CeeDee Lamb. Then I've got Tee Higgins, Jaden Reed, Keon Coleman, and Jameson Williams.

With Derek Henry, Devon A. Chan, Joe Mixon, and J.K. Dobbins at running back. At running back, I've got Brees Hall, Isaiah Pacheco, Gus Edwards, and Chase Brown. My wideouts are Jalen Waddell, Tank Dell, Calvin Ridley, Rasheed Rice, and then Evan Ingram. Oh, and Xavier Leguette. I apologize. Evan Ingram and Stafford. People ask us all the time, where do you really want to draft? Aside from the Stafford pick,

This is my favorite team that we've mock drafted so far this year. So I guess I like the six. Yeah, if you had taken Jaden Daniels a little bit earlier, you'd be thrilled with this. Or even just –

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Let me just get a thumbs up, thumbs down from the Deucer's Alley over there. Let's see what the confidence level is with the selections today.

We got a thumbs down. We got some sideway thumbs. We got no thumbs ups. Wow. Good work, boys. That's the confidence that we have built up in them. Yeah, that's right. That's the peak. The real go. A real Dennis Allen situation. How dare you? Hey, I think you do great work, Mike. I think you do great work. Thanks, Andy. You know, beautiful team. It's unfortunate when you're injured, but you're still part of the team. That's what I've always said.

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amazing prizes to give away, including just tons of signed jerseys, signed helmets, and we're even doing a silent auction to raise money for Fantasy Cares live at the event on top of all the giveaways. So it's going to be really, really fun. And if you're in the LA area, there are a handful of tickets remaining. I believe there is a

BOGO right now on the mezzanine seats. Could be. Buy one, get one for the remaining couple mezzanine seats. So you can check that out at ballerslive.com. I think we did it. MVP episode next week, the Fantasy Time Machine next week. Don't miss it, and good luck in all of your drafts this weekend. Thank you for listening, everybody. We'll see you soon. Goodbye. You can be better than the deuces.

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