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It's Monday, Jason. It's Monday and we're here, which means it's August. This show is going to be hot. And I mean, physically.
Our AC in Arizona, of course, in the studio, decided the morning of our first morning recording, it's like, ah, I'm not going to work. I'm broken. That's fun. So, yeah, this show is going to be fire.
It's going to be hotter than the devil's butt crack. But we're here. We're not going to set up particularly a very hot place for the devil. Most people's hottest place, I think.
I was not aware. It's my hottest place. Good to know. It is August 5th.
Like Jason said, so the AC doesn't work. I come in here. I walk in the room. I go, it's like being punched in the face with a heat glove.
And then the deucers are superhero men. They really are. Because they're like, hey, the AC's out. And I'm like, well, that means one thing.
We call a professional and they say, well, hold on, let's look at it. What do you mean look at it? You can't look at it at an AC in time. So they start breaking things down.
They realize that the power source for the air conditioner. Oh, no, it's actually plugged into power in the roof. I better run up on the roof and see it. I'm like, well, first of all, you can do that?
I didn't know. I can't get to the roof. Did you take a chopper? Like, Arnie, how do you get to the roof?
I have no idea. Somehow he teleported onto the roof. It's not that we had a bad circuit breaker. Or it's a fuse.
It's a fuse. It's a fuse. It's a fuse. And he said, oh, I can just run the Lowe's and get this.
I'm like, what are you talking about? No, you cannot. And that's what he did. And so it's not awful in here.
We're surviving. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fixed, but it's starting with a warm box. But it's all right, because the show's already going to be fire.
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I'm doing fantastic. I had a great night of sleep, and I'm excited to hope you in the mock draft. We are doing a mock draft today, but before we get into that, we have a brand new segment to unleash upon the general public. Welcome to Ready to Roll, presented by Nissan.
That's hot, Mike. Thank you. That's good stuff. So with Ready to Roll every week, we are taking a deep dive.
We're trying to go, you know, this is what we do. We make jokes and we have fun, but we're looking as deep as we can on metrics to make sure that the actual quality of information on the show is good, as ahead of the curve is going to help you find the right players. You know, it's like you always have those drafts where it's like, oh, the key to the draft is just draft the best players. It is.
That is my secret sauce. Right. You just, you know, don't draft the busts. And so we're looking each week at something deep, something unique.
And so this week, we took a look at red zone looks. We're trying to adjust how we are looking at coverage in the NFL and see if we can find some takeaways, some actionable, like, hey, this might be really good for this player or that player. So we've got some three takeaway pieces based upon adjusting our red zone look. So we've talked about how the NFL is becoming more and more and more zoned.
And these are the numbers since 2019. The NFL was 58% zoned in 2019. Then 62% in 2020. Then 65%.
Then a very nice 69.5%. And last year, over 70% of coverage was zoned. And so you go, oh, well, we want zone beaters. Beaters?
Yeah, beaters. But here's the thing. Yeah, is that the value of red zone targets is worth a lot more than a regular target. Okay, so if you get a red zone target, it's worth 1.7 normal targets.
If you're inside the 10, it's 2.1 targets. And if you're getting an in-zone target, that's 2.6 targets. That's the value of fantasy points per those targets. And inside the red zone, last year, once you get inside the 20 in the defense, collapse.
It's 39% zone and 34% man. You see a lot more man. You might be smart out there and go, that's not 100%. And that's true.
Because once you get down to, like, you know, the two, the goal line look. Yeah, you've got a whole different, you've got a sellout defense. If you've ever played any sort of football game, you know that. They're like, hey, you get to the goal line and they offer you that.
And it's every man on your defense. Just crush forward. That's the entire plan is don't let them run it up the middle. So what we're trying to find here are players that are good against both man and zone.
But specifically, once they get into the red zone, who are first read targets who excel at man coverage, right? A.J. Brown is one of them. Now, he's obviously super high in the draft, so you've got to get lucky to have him.
I'm all in on both A.J. Brown and Devontae Smith. But he is 8th in man yard per outrun, 14th against zone. The only five other wide receivers were top 15 of both.
That's Tyreek. Nico. Nico Collins. My man.
Dude, I mean, I was really surprised to see him here. I know he had a great season, but like both zone and man, he's great. Brandon Ayoub, Justin Jefferson, and Mike Evans. Inside the red zone, he had 18 red zone targets.
But here's the thing. 17 of those were first read targets. They're designing things for A.J. Brown in the red zone.
By comparison, Devontae Smith only had three. So it's like, okay, that's why he's in the first round of Devontae Smith as later. Two other targets, I think, in drafts. We just talked about this guy on the fire show.
Jaden Reed. Jaden Reed had 17 red zone targets, which is pretty good. 18th among all wide receivers. That's not like, you know, top five.
But he was a rookie, and he missed games. Christian Watson, guy I'd rather take the value and have the upside of the athleticism. But the more that I thought about how they use Jaden Reed when they get in the red zone, I think he can repeat his touchdown prowess. And then the last one, a guy you've kind of stand for over the last little while, the last year.
Brandon Cooks, another surprising one. He lived off of touchdowns last year. You might think, oh, well, he's old. But he was first read on all 12 of his red zone targets.
So he's got the history of beating this kind of coverage. And if they're designing plays for him in the red zone, those touchdowns are far more repeatable. So the main takeaway here, red zone usage benefits players who excel both at man and zone, and focus on first read targets. So hopefully that helps pick a couple of guys.
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There it is. Dolphins, wide receiver Tyreek Hill. It was like, when it all started blasting out, first we had the cryptic tweet from Tyreek. I believe he said, I'm not going anywhere.
You're like, okay, I know you're not going anywhere because you're under contract for a couple more years, man. What are you talking about? And then it was announced it was a three-year, I think it was like a $60 million contract extension is what it was reported as. Whoa, four years for Tyreek?
No. No, no, no. Just cash. Just guaranteed dollars.
Straight cash, homie. You hear that, Dallas? Oh, my gosh. Do you hear that?
Every single time. Every single time that I see one of these wide receivers get money, I go, what does CeeDee Lamb feel right now? What is Dallas doing? Anger, rage, fury.
I mean, what? Of course, I made this personal about CeeDee Lamb, but congratulations to Tyreek Hill. They just gave him more money. This weekend, Adam Schefter had one source describing it as not serious, but that was compounded by a report, I believe it was just before it, from ESPN's Jeremy Fowler saying, the Rams offense clearly runs through Cooper Cup.
That was his observation after watching the team have a training camp practice. Where are we with the Rams wide receivers now? Yeah, I mean, Puka is basically, Puka has taken on, like, the turn in a 12-team league, so, like, right at the end of the first, early second, Cooper Cup's going a couple rounds after that. Is that a giant mistake?
It seems like right now it is probably the wrong gap. Puka is a guy, in most of our mock drafts, we talk about, like, he's ranked there at wide receiver, I think, appropriately, but it's too high compared to other running backs that are on the board. But we almost never draft him there, especially considering you can get the value on Cooper Cup several rounds later, and Cooper Cup could be the one in this offense. I still like Puka's odds to beat Cooper Cup, but it definitely doesn't seem like a multi-round gap.
And then you add in this knee injury, it's like, okay, I'm happy that it's described as not serious. But it's week to week, it's going to keep him off the field for weeks, and it's a knee injury. I mean, that's not nothing. That's not good for the player.
You know, we see people all the time, you know, you're talking about, oh, this player gets off to a strong start when we're recapping their last season. They got injured in week three, and then it took them, you know, they missed two weeks when they came back. It took them, like, three or four weeks to get back to full strength. And obviously, I don't know the details of this knee injury, but I would really like to not have to excuse a slow start for Puka.
Right. Especially since he's on my team. I've talked about a lot where if I'm on the turn, like, the Rams feel like the picks. But I don't want to overload with the Rams.
I just, I don't personally want to do that with my first and second round pick. You're saying Kyron. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kyron Williams and Puka Nakua.
And it always ends up being, well, I go with Kyron, and then I bypass Puka. And this was enough information for me. I have moved Puka down at least a couple spots in my projections, in my rankings, to the point where LSS's ADP actually moves from this information. In Saturday's practice, did not practice on Sunday.
You know, nothing is, I haven't seen any reports of it being serious. I think Harbaugh said, you know, he's not concerned. But I don't know if you saw this. The Giants let their kind of draft board leak through the hard knocks.
Okay. And they had color coding on certain players. Now, we don't officially know what the color coding meant. Right.
But there are guesses. It could be like, this guy's handsome. Right. Like, yeah, green.
Green is like, those are the handsome guys. Yeah, good beat. Yeah, really marketable. But there was some red on players.
Oh, he's not handsome. He's not handsome. The assumption, based on who the players were, and it really makes sense, was injury-related, is what it seemed like. And one of them that I was a little bit surprised to see a red marker on was Lab McConkie.
I don't know of any, you know, I don't know what the medical is or what the medical is revealed to the Giants. And again, I'm not 100% positive that red means injury. This is kind of a hypothesis. But then, like, you come up limping here, and this is his second time kind of being a little injured.
It's like, come on, man. Yeah, it's brutal when rookies miss time at all during training camp. Let's just complete that. Jason, another guy that you really like to tell him, I like him as well.
Panthers rookie wide receiver, Xavier Liget. He is considered day-to-day after undergoing an MRI on his injured foot. We are still waiting for more news, but someone leaving practice immediately getting an MRI. We do not like that at all.
So there's something to monitor. More Panthers news. Jason, man, it was a rough weekend for you, Jay. I know, because it's all the guys I like.
Jonathan Brooks. I've been saying, like, I want a rookie running back for the Panthers. I don't want to leave a draft without Jonathan Brooks, because he doesn't cost you much. He's at the end of the draft.
It's now being reported he will not play in preseason, and they are hopeful that he is ready for week three or week four. So this sounds like he will start the season on the puck. Now, Mike is making a gruelessing face. That is brutal.
That is brutal. I don't think it is completely and utterly unexpected. You hold on to those roots, brother. I mean, I'm out.
Okay, okay. I am out. That's totally fine. I will say, historically, not buying the injury dip is the right transaction to make.
He'll fall a little bit in ADP. He might be a value in the 10th, 11th round, wherever he falls to. If you're starting with a player that, obviously, hopefully you're going to be able to put an IR spot if you've got it in your league. But he's going to start slow for his career.
He's coming off the ACL injury. This was known from college. But I believe he is the best running back in this year's draft class. And he was drafted as the first running back off the board.
I believe the Panthers traded up to acquire him. So I still believe that if you have an IR spot and he drops into the double-digit rounds, he's a stash I would want to make. If you have an IR spot, I'm okay with it. And a glimmer of hope, there was Todd Gurley's rookie season, which he was recovering from his own knee injury.
Different level prospects drafted in the early first round. But he missed two games. Week three, he played 27% of the snaps. And then after that, it was just off the races.
And he finished as the RB7. Yeah. So it's not impossible. It's just a...
If we know for sure that he's not even going to be ready to play football until week four, and then there's the ramping up period, it's tough. Chuba Hubbard, who's going right now as a running back 43. We've talked about him a little bit in the offseason, but we had no idea exactly what the hell that Jonathan Brooks was. Chuba Hubbard could be another one of these zero RB heroes who just supports your team for a chunk of the season.
Even if Brooks comes back in week six or whatever, takes over the backfield. I get, you know, what, four or five weeks of a starting running back who was good last year to end the season for fantasy? If you look at week 12 on last year, Chuba Hubbard finished as the running back 11, running back 6, running back 24, running back 18, running back 20. I mean, it was a good serviceable stretch, and that was for the future Panthers.
Yeah, so keep Chuba in mind when you're at the end there. And then same for wide receiver Rashid Chahid, he has missed consecutive practices. Hamstring tightness. Yoo-hoo!
You don't want to see wide receiver hamstring issues before the year. Those things, they just stick around, man. Yeah, absolutely. That was today's news and notes presented by...
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We are doing a Mock Draft on the sleeper platform. We are doing a 10-team full PPR, two running back, two wide receiver, one side and two flex. Jason, do you have your rankings prepared? Dude, I made them.
I used them. Yes, yes, I got them. I made them. I used them.
I win. That's right. The Fantasy Footballers Mock Draft. Alright, the draft has begun.
Jason, you pulled the number three spot. I pulled the number nine spot, which, that'll be a fun experiment. We're pretty close to the edge as a 10-team. Ends up looking very different when you're drafting from the edge as opposed to a standard 12-team league.
So again, Jason got the third pick. Chris McCaffrey, CeeDee Lamb are the first two off the board. You're up, Jay. What are you doing?
This is pretty easy for me. When I look at my rankings, how they bear out, I would prefer to have Tyreek Hill over CeeDee Lamb. So if I was at the two spot, I would have taken Tyreek Hill. You just look at how consistent he was last year.
How unbelievably dominant the extra money that they gave him. I mean, put it this way. Who's paid? Who's paid?
CeeDee Lamb or Tyreek Hill? I love it. It's just like, hey, Tyreek, you're real good. Just take this.
You don't have to do that. Just take this money. If you look at sleeper picks, that's the in-season DFS game, you look at the lines, Tyreek for week one is already at 98.5 yards, which he crossed that nine times last year, most of the NFL. So that's the consistency I'm looking for.
So this is an easy pick for me. I'll pick Tyreek. All right, Tyreek goes Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, Amin Rossi, Brown, Puka Nakua, Brees Hall. So we had us a mighty fine run of wide receiver.
Jason shakes his head. Is that because I get B.J.? Yes, that's because you get B.J. You should get B.J.
at the ninth. B.J. should not be that far. I'm not even going to sit and elaborate on it.
I'm taking B.J. Robinson. Okay. McCaffrey, Brees Hall, B.J.
Robinson. Those are the running backs that I give the best probability to finish as the overall number one. Getting him at the ninth spot. I mean, that's pretty hot.
I'll take that. Yeah, so this is the full PPR version, which is pushing wide receivers up. Obviously, when you're talking about B.J. on, Christian McCaffrey, Brees, Gibbs, those are PPR machines as well.
So it's a great pick. Way to play so well. You got to let the draft come to you sometimes, man. A.J.
Brown finishes off the first round. Then Jameer Gibbs, the rookie sensation going into the sophomore year. Gibbs in a PPR is also. In a what?
In a PPR. Did I say PPR? I don't know. It sounded weird.
You're just mad. I am a little mad. Yeah, you're just mad. So that puts me back on the board.
Looking at the wide receivers who are available ADP-wise right now, at least on Sleeper, it's Garrett Wilson, who... Are you buying into this? Anything that there's... The lover's quarrels going on with Aaron Rodgers?
Have you seen them? I saw a video of them yelling at each other. But then I saw Aaron Rodgers. He shut that down.
Oh, really? Yeah. He said, I was telling him how much I love him. But then there was another one of, like, they just seem a little...
The thing is, they are both elite alphas, and they're playing against the Jets' defense every practice. Which is great. You know what I mean? Like, the Jets' defense is way better than the Jets' offense.
They're going to have frustrations. They're going to look out of sync. But they're not always going to have plays against the Jets' defense. So it's Garrett Wilson, Marvin Harrison Jr., Devontae Adams, Drake London.
These are the guys who are at the top of the wide receiver, ADP-wise, anyways. And then I look at the running backs. Jonathan Taylor, Saquon Barkley, and Kyron Williams is there. There certainly is risk that they don't use him as much because they drafted Blake Corum, who, in the third round, who profiles as someone who can step in for Kyron when needed.
But I think that John McVeigh, he loves himself a one running back rotation. So I'm going to start very high T. Yeah. Very macho.
Body hair everywhere. B. John Robinson, Kyron Williams. I was really wanting Kyron to drop to me.
I know different platforms have different rankings. An underdog, I get him in the third oftentimes. I figured in a 10-team, he might make it back to the second. And he might have had you not take him.
So you got B. John and Kyron. I love that start. I like it.
Yeah. So after Kyron, Jonathan Taylor, Garrett Wilson, Drake London, Marvin Harrison, Devontae Adams, another monster wide receiver run. We'll see how I feel about my wide receiver room with all of them flying off the board. But Jason, you're back up.
Tyreek Hill and who? Tyreek Hill and who? Who? Does anyone know?
Is that who or whom? So what should I have done? I feel like it's whom. I like it with whom.
Okay. Tyreek Hill and whom. Yeah, that's right. It sounds right.
I feel like when I don't know, I just go whom. Whom is more sophisticated. The thing is, if you say whom, no one's correcting you. Because no one uses whom.
That's a great point. You know, they're like, oh, he knows when to use whom. Mr. English over here.
All right, well. Do you have a degree? Whom I shall take is... All right, so I'm going to play the game.
I'm going to risk it. No risk it, no biscuit. I've got Tyreek Hill. It's full PPR.
I want Devon Echan. That's what I want. All Dolphins all the time? Yeah, I don't care.
There are certain players, and it's rare, you know, going back to where it was Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell. It's like, no problem. You can spin your first and second round pick. And I think these are two of those type of players.
But I don't want to do my first and second. So I'm going to gamble. And assume that I can get Devon Echan. You know, there's four picks between this pick and my next one.
So I'm actually going to go with Saquon Barkley. Okay. Try to have two great running backs. I can pick.
You can pick. Yeah. So Devon Echan fell to me after I took Barkley. So I really like this.
I've got such a stud at wide receiver in Tyreek if I'm spinning that early pick. Saquon Barkley. So you take Devon Echan. Travis Kelsey went next to, I was, I had a small dream that Travis Kelsey would make it all the way back.
Which, that means he went in front of Laporta. That'll be interesting to see if that starts shaking up over August. That's how my rankings are. I would still have Kelsey up top.
I still have Kelsey up top. For PPR, I would, especially. Like, I'd rather have Kelsey. Laporta was low volume, really high touchdown success.
We'll see. Oh, he was a rookie. Maybe he gets more utilized in the offense. But they're a very high team as well.
It's not going to be as many targets as Travis Kelsey will get. But Kelsey goes at the 304, Josh Jacobs, then Sam Laporta. I'm just looking at the... I didn't realize you've got Kelsey at four.
I do? You do. You've got... Yeah, because I've got my man up top.
You've got your man up top. Yeah, I do. You've got Team McBee. You've got Andrews and Laporta.
So, I mean, the thing is, I think there's definitely four. If you want to include Kincaid like I do, there's five that I... You can make an argument for any of them finishing as the tight end one, which means any of them can finish as the tight end five. So, people ask us a lot, you know, what are the biggest differences for the 10 team versus the 12 team?
And is your opportunity cost on taking a onesie position a move down? Because you have, you know, far fewer players actually selected. And the impact that a dominant quarterback... Like Josh Allen at the 302.
No problem. That doesn't bother me in the slightest. Travis Kelsey at the 304 in a PPR. Yeah, absolutely.
Because everyone's team in a 10 teamer, on paper, at least when the season starts, you go, oh man, look at that team. Then you look at... Oh, look at that team. Oh, look at that team.
Everybody's team is pretty fire. But you've got to find the small margins where you can make a difference. And so, the small margins where you make a difference, it's specifically like, you know, we like Joe Burrow. I like Joe Burrow.
Joe Burrow is higher to me than his average draft position in rankings. But he is not a difference maker within the position, the way that Josh Allen or Hurts or maybe Mahomes, if, you know, people that can actually gap themselves, like a Christian McCaffrey or a Gary Kill, where it's like, the difference between having the elitist versus the fifth or sixth best, that makes a huge difference in a 10 teamer. So, I'm taking Trey McBride. I am taking him over Mark Andrews just because I'm going to place my chips, so to speak, on that Trey McBride will be a PPR machine.
We've got to get those touchdowns up, absolutely. But with the return of Kyler Murray, I think that that's going to happen then. Derek Henry went off the board at 310. Mike Evans at the 401.
I am back on the clock. Beeson Robinson, Kyron Williams, Trey McBride. And that was the spot, you know, I would really hope that Nico drops to me. He went right in front of my Trey McBride pick.
I was thrilled to see him go right ahead of you. I saw Nico, and then you were on the clock, and I was like, yes. It would have been an easy pick for me if Nico over Trey McBride, too, as well. And then I'm going to reach down to ADP a little bit.
I'm going to take Jalen Waddell. I have spoke very kindly of him. I think that he is a true wide receiver. One, like a backhand.
Tyreek Hill's still the guy, but I think that we could see a season far more like two years ago for Jalen Waddell when he was healthier, and he finished as a top 10 guy. So, to get what I look at as a top 10 player as my fourth pick here, and I have a difference maker at the tight end position. I like that. Start.
DJ Morris, Stephon Diggs. Ooh, okay. Jalen Hurts, Depot, Samuel, Patrick, Mahomes. So, Hurts and Mahomes are gone.
I was targeting either one of those guys. So, are you even considering a quarterback at this spot? I am considering a quarterback, not at this spot. I am considering...
You're going to play the game again? I'm going to play the game, but this time I'm upgrading the game. Stupid games win, stupid prizes win. This time, well, I'm going for an exponential prize.
I won a sack. And we just talked about this in a 10-teamer. I'm willing to take the 1-2 positions a little bit earlier, including maybe even two of them. Mark Andrews is my tight end, too.
Oh, okay. Mark Andrews is my tight end, too. I can grab Mark Andrews here in the fourth, and if Lamar falls to me... Team 1 doesn't have a quarterback yet.
But that's it. So, like, I've got to play that game. Come on. Which one are you going first?
I'm going Mark Andrews first. Oh, man. Gosh. Oh, that's tough, because ADP-wise, Mark Andrews has a better shot at getting back to me.
Lamar Jackson is, on this platform, definitely the highest spot. Neither Team 1 or Team 2 has a tight end. So, there's four picks that they could take Mark Andrews, whereas there's really only like Team 1 is the only team... Ooh, man, which way do I get it?
This is a conundrum. All right, I am going to go Andrews, and the reason why is because if I lose down on Lamar, I'm fine with that. There are other quarterbacks I like as well. Oh, yes!
You must be so disappointed! I am. I am. You chucked a big game up.
I'll be fine. No, you're not. You're sad. And none of them took a tight end.
None of them took a tight end. All the four picks, they could have used any of the four picks. Granted, I had. If Mark Andrews was on the board, then I'm going to take a tight end.
All right, well, that sucks. I don't have my quarterback yet. I would be targeting... You know, now, I'm looking at Anthony Richardson, Kyler Murray, players like that.
You've got two picks before me, but, man, I don't think I want to reach down that far. I've got one wide receiver. I'm going to... So your team is Tyreek Hill, Saquon Barkley, Devon H.N., Mark Andrews.
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and follow the news and the health. And I'm going to, instead of Puka at the 1-2 turn, in the fifth round, I will take... No, Cooper. Okay.
Over DK. I did. I took him over DK. We can't forget how great and dominant Cooper Cup was.
The fact that, you know, when you look at the games, when Cooper Cup and Puka played together, the red zone utilization, Cooper Cup is where they look. And so, to get him in the fifth round, I'm pretty darn happy with that. I would have liked Metcalf, I would have liked Devontae Smith. There's a lot of good options there.
But, honestly, I haven't had Cooper Cup. I don't think in any draft this year. All right, so you went Cooper Cup. Then it was DK Metcalf immediately after.
James Cook, Devontae Smith went at 5.06, Dalton Kincaid, and C.J. Stroud went at the 5.08. Absolutely beautiful. It's a 10-teamer, so I'm willing to put this experiment henceforth.
Anthony Richardson will be joining my squad. Hopefully, I have two true dominators at the 1-2 position, and I don't have to think about them for the entire season, except for one week when it is there by, and I just have to fill it in. We'll see. I only have the one wide receiver.
We'll see if I end up liking this team at the end or not. Joe Mixon went afterwards. Zay Flowers was the 6-0-1. I am back on the clock.
It's kind of nice not having to, now I don't even have to think about QB or more tight end. I mean, there's a little mental stress that's going on for the rest of the draft. And the other guy who I would have selected, let me just, let me check my rankings here. Man.
So I'm looking at Tank Dell. I didn't get my precious Nico Collins, and I'm just making sure I do have Tank Dell that much further ahead of George Pickens. And I do, so I will take Tank Dell. Jay, look at this squad.
Look at this squad. It's coming together rather nicely. It's nowhere near as good as my team, but I'm still proud of you. What if I offered you to change teams with me right now?
Oh, I would definitely do that. No, I'm not. No way. No way.
My team's way better. You are full of baloney. I am not full of baloney. All right.
Cop hits. Keenan Allen, Kenneth Walker, Amari Cooper, Alvin Kamara. Ooh, Kamara did not make it to you. Kamara did not make it to me, but Kyler did.
Now, both the teams, Team 1 and Team 2 that are on the turn, they have their quarterbacks. So I don't need to take Kyler here. I'm going to get Kyler. What do you think?
Yeah, I guess computers could be crazy. But, yeah, I'll play the game and get Kyler in the seventh round, which I like, which means right now I can go take a look at either running back or wide receiver. The running backs on the board are some guys we like, like James Conner. I still think that there is a huge upside in David Montgomery should an injury befall Jameer Gibbs.
Either one of those guys has that league-winning upside built into them. And then a wide receiver. George Pickens is pretty high. I know you guys have talked him up.
I don't know why. But the logic says it should work. He was really good last year. I'll say, I don't like what's going on with all this quarterback chatter out of Pittsburgh.
You don't want it to be Dustin Fields. I don't like that there's even questions. I mean, maybe these are completely manufactured media questions, but like Russ came into camp Hurts. Justin Fields is, we had a report that he's having a great camp.
It was, this was a quarterback decision that was easy. It's going to be Russell Wilson starting for the Pittsburgh Steelers. So to have any of that floating around, I mean, Justin Fields took TJ Moore to a sensational fantasy year last year. So it's not impossible.
I'm just saying, you know, if you have two quarterbacks, you have none. Right. It just, I don't like those vibes. For sure.
I don't either, which is why I'm going to take T. Higgins. T. Higgins is in my rankings.
I feel like there are a trifecta of values based upon the same trifecta of disappointments last year. And those would be, last year, it was like around the second round. I think it was mid to late second round. You had T.
Higgins, Jalen Waddle, and Devontae Smith. The twos for their teams were twos in fantasy. And all three. And number twos for your team.
Yeah, and all three kind of took a dump. But I think that their value has fallen too far. Like you are higher on Waddle than most. I'm higher on T.
Higgins. I feel like people have forgotten the fantasy value that he can provide when he's got a healthy Joe Burrow. And when he's healthy, right now he's healthy. He's got a healthy Joe Burrow.
I think T. Higgins is in for a fantastic season. To get him, you know, this far into a draft, there's upside. So T.
Higgins to Jason's team, George Pickens, and then Aaron Jones rounds out the sixth. We will be right back with Jason's seventh round pick. I'm going to get the guy that you hope you're getting at Anthony Richardson. Okay, but before you make your pick, does George Kittle open up the seventh round?
Does that? It brings, like, I love Trey McBride. I think he has number one overall upside. But George Kittle here in the seventh versus I took Trey McBride at the 309.
That type of a gap feels value-wise like team one got an absolute steal here. So I have spoke many times about wanting one of the top five tight ends. The top five being Laporta, Kelsey, Andrews, McBride, and Kincaid. And every time that I say that, there's a little...
little voice in the back of my head that goes, George Kittle is, you know, he is so unbelievably freaking awesome to have on your roster when it's a Kittle game. Right. And those games are real. Like if you watch, you know, wide receiver, the series on Netflix, you follow Kittle and Debo along with others.
And it's just like they design game plans for players. And so that's why sometimes he just disappears and you'll get a two fancy points on your roster. It's just like, that's not where they were trying to exploit it. But when they are in on George Kittle and he's such a core piece of this team, like he is the, I feel like he's the energy of this offense.
He's, you know, he can, he can do things that no one else in the league can do, including Kelsey now at this point and team number one, their third round pick was Brandon Ayuk. Now, obviously we're doing a mock draft and, you know, ADP is factoring a lot into this. Do you have, what's your level of comfort of having either Debo or Brandon Ayuk and then picking George Kittle? Is that a team you're willing to double dip on George Kittle?
Top five in five of the last six seasons. No, I would not want to double dip. Now, this is going to work out excellently if Ayuk gets traded. All right.
Because if Ayuk gets traded, George Kittle absolutely needs to, you know, be considered in the top tight end. Would you move him over Kincaid? Yeah. If Ayuk gets traded, I would move Kittle up over Kincaid.
But yeah, I'm okay with, I like team one in general, but if I had Ayuk, I probably wouldn't grab Kittle. All right. Christian Kirk was next and then Jason, you're up. Yep.
I will take Kyler Murray here as planned. And again, you know, Anthony Richardson versus Kyler Murray is so funny because Anthony Richardson is usually in the fifth round. Kyler, I'm getting in the seventh round. And you're just hoping that Anthony Richardson can become what Kyler has always been.
It could be a boat. So Kyler's value is, I mean, let's just keep him where he is. He's just so perfect for fantasy right now in the seventh round. An easy layup of a pick.
Don't overdraft Kyler. Not until it's your actual draft and then grab. If, I mean, I had Trey McBride, I had expected that Kyler Murray would have been my quarterback. Like in that run there where you gambled, Lamar would make it back.
I figured Richardson would get taken in that round and then I would just take Kyler Murray at the 602. Right. So yeah, I mean, full agreement of Kyler and having a Trey McBride, Kyler's deck. I think that's going to be pretty fun.
All right. Kyler went Jordan Edison, DeAndre Swift, Terry McLaurin, Joe Burrow, James Conner. A real quick Terry McLaurin conversation. He's in the seventh.
I mean, Terry, he feels like he's that guy we know who he is, which is a, it might be a better wide receiver than he puts out for fantasy football. And, you know, we have been kind of yellow green with him where his rookie year, 28, then he was up to 21st, 25th, 14, back down to 28. Are we, but he's basically been a thousand yard guy every year of his career. Are we undervaluing the potential of Terry here?