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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, you know, it's not. It will be soon though. It will be the real football time.
Well, we have news to talk about before we get into our mock draft. And today we're going to have the doosers. We're 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. She gets us prepared. Yeah, people, people, but you know, when you mock draft the gets a computer, it's helpful.
That is a good resource, 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, 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. Like I will draft every other person based on what I know. And people have been saying like, you know, these 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 pick out some of the RAM. Yeah, it's missing some ones and zeros. Right. And then the producers.
So, yeah. Well, I that didn't last long. I told them I probably wouldn't talk about their teams. I would make fun of them.
I mean, I really hope our self the waters warm. I'm not saying nothing over here. Oh, you are in your heart. You're afraid they're going to like put up a fight in the draft.
What? What? What would be afraid of them? There he 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.
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You were on the roof. You were just ready to dunk on people, man. What's the coffee situation this morning? Because we know you've been bouncing around with the caffeine.
You've been testing different brews and some of them are impacting your cardiovascular system differently. This morning was a double espresso. It feels like it. It does.
It really does. Alright, I'm looking forward. Let's do my draft, baby. I'm going to be using notes from around the league presented by USA Insurance.
Well, we did have big news this morning when we're recording this show. So you're listening to this happen yesterday. The Eagles and commanders inter-divisional 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. John Donson, you know, the vibes? The vibes were spot on with John Donson. Yes, they were.
And I would say that the team is just saying some things about John Donson that we don't like. The fact that they're still trying to figure out who a wide receiver too is. Well, it's not John Donson because he's been shipped out the door to the Philadelphia Eagles, the Eagles send a third and seventh. The commanders sent John Donson any 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 John Donson 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, we're on the field.
You run that way. You run down the field as fast as you can, Donson. It is a, I think a valuable but not fantasy consequential pick up for the Eagles because barring injury, I don't think any of us are looking at Donson as viable in any capacity. He would be at best an undrafted gym type of player if an injury took place.
Yeah, and from a dynasty perspective, I think the... Actually, I have a sound effect for his dynasty. Oh, yeah, is it similar to a Falcon? Oh, did you want me to go?
Yeah, I thought this is more indicative. His actual value is currently circling the train. He's talking to you. Let's keep talking and we'll find him.
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 all. I'm sorry. I think he's good for a couple long questions.
So, four Jaylen Hertz. So, the interesting thing on the commander's side is that we know Terry McClure and he's the number one bonafide, you know, highest target option in the offense for Jayden Dainis. We had heard and seen on the field through two preseason games a report built with Diami Brown. He was on the field way more than we expected last year because we hoped John Dodson was like, this kind of happened.
Like the team kind of, mind you, they changed head coaches and often the coordinators, but we were hit in the face with the John Dodson disappointment early last year and we continuously would come in here and say, Diami Brown caught the touchdown today. Or, you know, it was obviously a courtesy of Samuel in the offense and it wasn't Dodson. Now, Diami Brown profiles the lineup outside opposite of Terry McClure and didn't take me long, but I watched every Diami Brown snap this morning, every route. You saw all 168 yards on the season?
I saw all Sam Hall missing a burner down the field. Diami Brown is a burner. Do we have a, is this an eco-collin 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 Hall 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, you should pick up Diami Brown. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is somebody that's going to get targets and snaps.
He's an nasty boy. But when you look at, can I find a diamond in the rough long term on this roster that isn't Terry McClaren, you 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, this isn't like, they, 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 John Dots into 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, I, I, I, I, 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, you see the Austin Rivers of the situation.
I believe he, I mean, he was a third round pick. He did not get enough. See the South, see the South Curry. Ooh, you know what I mean?
Yeah. I know what you mean. Yeah. I'm just asking.
He doesn't profile to be some breakout superstar. He's not going to be Christian, the Caffrey of wide receivers. But I do think he is, I think, I think he's a quality player. He'll be on the field.
He's a career and in many rookie drafts, I've seen him go on draft. Right now, Zac Chias is the slot receiver for the commanders and the Caffrey will be competing for opportunity. Terry McClaurin, you know, I moved him up a little bit in the target, in the target share. I'm kind of big in Ontario this year.
I can see that. The, the, Donson wasn't really factoring in a ton to my projection. So it didn't really move Terry for me. Donson ran the fifth most routes in the FLS.
Oh, yeah. Cardio King. So something interesting. And this offense, it's Cliff Kingsbury.
Offensive mastermind. I saw something this morning. I don't, Kyle, maybe you can shout out who shared it, but there's, um, there's been, you know, the commanders have 19 screen passes in preseason. And the next closest team is 10 and nothing screams Cliff screensberry.
Nice. Then that kind of a situation. I really hope this is, Hayden, we share that. Yeah, really hoping this is like a hide your cards, hide your hand before.
No, it's not. No, 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, wings breaking down of his time to throw was lower than anyone else's time to throw last year and his yards per attempts.
Who was Jane Daniels? Oh, I got you. And then the yards per attempt was lower than anyone else was last year. It's that it's something like that.
But it just like, but we have 19 screens. I'm like, what are we doing here? That's managing a rookie, you know, it's, um, it's part of it. Bonix was named the starting quarterback for Denver Broncos.
Excited to see that. Um, Sean, Peyton, 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 brought that data forward so many times 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 Corbin Sutton, the Spy Russell Wilson. He was a double digit touchdown guy. That doesn't happen with this rookie court.
It's Denver is not very exciting for fantasy. No. All right. Elijah Mitchell, Jordan Mason, both returned to practice on Wednesday.
So the Niners back up running back is 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. Um, doesn't believe her she needs someone foot injury would keep him out for an extended length of time.
Okay. That's also to me on news report on Rashid, she needs towing 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, uh, can you remember?
I, sir, cause I saw the whole thing now. I didn't see the entire I watched the, I watched the clip. Are we out of context? Yeah.
Teach me. No, I mean, like, because you want to hear the whole thing to get the context and, um, context is he sucks. I mean, Dennis Allen is this cross between crumajin and unfiltered and worn out and tired. He's, he comes across as so stressed.
Like he just, like sometimes, like Mike said, yes, don't be that honest. You know, just protect your player. Don't be so honest. You're like, 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.
Oh, big baby. Thank you. All right. That was today's news.
And those presented by USA, insurance, learn more at USA.com slash insurance will take a break and we'll jump right in to a, uh, Marka Locka, being down. All right. Coming back from the break. Uh, we did check Jason's caffeine levels.
They're very high. That was the heart rate. It's pretty good. I'm in a resting 120.
So when you get into a mock draft, though, that's pretty normal, right? Your mock draft, sir. Yep. Yep.
Never been under a hundred in a mock. Okay. Let's, uh, let's jump in. The fantasy footballers mock draft.
Well, this should be a fun one today. 12 team half PPR quarterback to running back. Two wide receivers, a tight influx and four bench spots. Jason drafting from the number two spot.
Mike at the six spot. I'm at nine, but, uh, we've mixed the, uh, the team, the squad, the foot clan staff, all mixed in producers and losers alike. Uh, be cat, our video guy at number three, Kyle, Kyle's drafting at the five spot, uh, the Falcon, dumping on the seven spot and then, uh, Papa Josh, who, uh, 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, uh, he can, uh, from his laptop, from the toilet. You know, I, and for those watching on the, uh, the YouTube channel as we kick this draft off, we'd, I just hit the start button. For those watching, I was feeling a little bit, just a teeny, we see bit, like a small part of me, just a little bit worried and guilty about maybe focusing so much on his battle habits.
Right. And then I roll into this mock draft today. And I'm, see, I got Jason's face. I got Ketchans ugly face.
I got Kiborg, uh, floating head. And then I'm looking, Papa Josh looking, you know, 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 question. Is that right? Yeah. I had the opportunity to drop the mailbag drop.
Oh, I had nightmares last night. Yeah, you said you blacked out. We've got the screenshot of you sweating. It was fun.
Yeah. No, you were, um, 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.
Ah, darn it. I thought for sure he'd be there for me too. This is really easy. I'm going to make this quick and seamless.
There's three top picks in every draft. CMC, Tyree kill, CD lamb. The last time I was near the spot I took Tyree. So I'm going to go CD lamb plus you got Tyree with the thumb injury.
You can call that a tiebreaker if you want. There's, there's no right answer. So I'm going 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 CD lamb. Be cat goes Tyree kill. No fear at number three. Jamart chase off the board at 104 leaving the Atlanta native.
Kyle, the board go. Oh, my god. To take Bijon Robinson, just a reach for the homer. What a reach.
Only because he's an Atlanta Falcons fan. And that is a joke. This is a great pick. Bijon deserves to be about that spot in the draft.
That puts Mike on the clock at 106, Mike. What are you thinking hearing your first round? So it's, do I start with a hero running back to a take? Or do I go with Amindran Singh Brown?
Amindran just so unbelievably dependable at the wide receiver position. I'm looking at his week one line. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Sleeper picks line is it's an 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 love that. But I am. I'm going to start with a couple of different things.
I'm going to start with the first round. I'm going to start with a couple of different things. I'm going to start with a couple of different things. I'm going to start with a hundred yards at home.
I love that. But I am. I'm going to start with Breece Hall. Hey, Chi.
I'm going to start that way and just see how my mock unfolds. It is the right thing to do. For some reason it. You would go Breece over Ramanra.
I would. Yeah. And at 109, although I do, you know what? Just to be transparent, I put feelers out on Amindran Dynastyly and our Dynastyly.
Sorry, not the Dynastyly. In our League of Records. Oh, because he's a keeper. And I just.
Good luck, man. I could bark it up. I've never had. I've never had him on a roster.
And I just, I'm so excited about Detroit. And that's why I'm going to start in the Super Bowl this year. So I wouldn't have minded the picks certainly, but Breece Hall just seems so. So reliable.
I want to do to pass on him because there's always a chance that he makes it like one to wait one a night. Breece, Breece because of the fact that like the names. Right? I mean, I got AJ Brown and Amindran Saint Brown and Justin Jefferson.
Yeah, so Breece goes at 106. The Falcon went with Amindran Saint Brown at 107. You know, Tyreek and Amindran 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 Amindran Tyree.
Ron Tybik. I don't know that there is as safe a pick as on Ron. The ceiling we saw last year when he had the touchdowns flowing, the type of player he is, you don't necessarily expect him to be a double digit touchdown guy. So I do worry that he'll come down a little bit, but the consistency that every week you just know you're never getting gooseed from.
They can't. Yeah, their office doesn't function without for sure. Jefferson goes at 108 leaving me on the clock with some options here. This is, I mean 109 just screams, jimmyr gibbs, all offsies.
It just seems like the Gibbs decision is there. We also have AJ Brown on the board. And those are the two players I am looking at is jimmyr gibbs, it's AJ 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 Kyren, Sequin, Henry, those guys, H.N. or do you like coming back around to the Puka, to the Adams in Harrison? And I look at that and I think AJ 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 off, but I'm going to do it today. So AJ Brown off the board giving us six wide outs of three running backs to the first nine picks. Papa Josh went with Gibbs at 110, Sequin 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 the 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 a better sure. In a sense, you can't be much worse. That's exactly what I mean is like there was bad quarterback lay all over. They're always it's but the Jets was no 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 sake one, Jonathan Taylor, staff for team 11, Papa Josh pairs, Jimier Gibbs with Pooka, Nakua at 203. My thought process with Brown is 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.
I'll take Kyron Williams at 204 in this draft. I'm with AJ Brown. You're 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 AJ Brown in the CD, the Tyree category. You don't put Kyron in the Beijon Breeze category, but they really are on a per game basis capable of that. They're offensive talent.
I pairing those two guys together at the back of the first is very nice. All right. Team A went with Olave after Mike Hyron pick and then Debo goes to the Falcon who goes wide receiver wide receiver, Elman Raul 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 Dots and trade.
I dropped to AJ Brown in the first round. It's not that Brown or Devante Smith would be hurt, but do you look at this as at least a minor upgrade to Jalen Hurts in the sense that like 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 Dotsen will have a couple long touchdowns and 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 Breeze Hall with my first pick.
I'm going there. I mean, there's so many guys here that are delightful of, you know, especially 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.
I don't mind the reach here to take Nico in the second round. You know, wide receivers, London, Adams, I, Duke, that's why that's why I mean Nico is the pick at wide receiver. But where I'm going to go, I'm going to go high T and despite well based on yesterday's take, right? Yes, you are.
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 ranking seat is this was above Henry. This was above eight chance.
So I've eaten like Chris McCaffrey, Beige on Breeze Hall, Kyren. And then after that, I'm taking calling your shot of who I think and really finished as a top three guy. And I think that thinks 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, you know, my guy, his guy there, even if it's slightly.
But yeah, that's early. That's early in the AP. But that's how Stumdras are going to go. I mean, I obviously don't have any problem with that.
I love him. The one that was questionable to me is taking him above the Bonnichan. Like I would rather have. I get it.
I get the rocket fuel, but I'd rather take a guy who I know that he's, I mean, he had the fourth highest running back attempt share last year. That's not going to happen. Yeah. I mean, it's a full bet on efficiency, which with H.N.
It's not a terrible bet. Pacheco is currently for ADP has 303. You got him at 207. So you had to grab him.
He would have been gone. And then Collins goes to Kyle next, Drake London off the board as he often does in the second round here. And then be Kat with Tyrekall on the first goes, E.T.N. in the second.
That feels like a pretty good value to me grabbing him there. I mean, he could have gone as high as 202, 203, E.T.N. at 210. And then Jason, I see you've already made a pick.
You didn't want to wait for me to put that 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 Devonichan with my first pick. And I say, Pacheco with my next one turned out that when I got on the clock, Derick Henry was there, I played the ADP game to try to pair Derick Henry with the Von H.A.N.
Would you, if that were a human in spot one, would you have played the game? I would not have. I would have taken H.A.N. there over Henry.
I don't yet. Just don't risk that. But it worked out for me. Having CD Lam at the top, being able to pair him with two, in my opinion, stud running backs, Derick Henry and Von H.A.N.
H.A.N. always feels like, I love H.A.N. H.A.N. as you're 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 H.A.N. what?
It was the first pick. Henry was the second. Yeah, that makes the pill more H.A.N. size.
Henry, at 2-11, then Jacobs and I, you called the board, you end up with the Von H.A.N. with the second pick of the third round. And then James Cook, another fan favorite goes at 3-0-3 to be kept pairing James Cook with Travis ETN. With three, 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 Jalen. Jalen hurts at 3-0-5 off the board to go with Vijon and Nico.
Putting high-T, Mr. Leatherhead himself. The fantasy hitman on the clock. Breeze, Pacheco, and you have the 3-0-6.
I don't know, I don't want to speak out of turn here, Mike, but based on what you said yesterday, mixin' is Paul. Oh yeah, he is very good at football. He's very good at football. Your 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 to mix it. Okay.
It's the end of 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 just, it made me even more confident in his running back attempt. His share was, it was top tier before he got hurt.
You know, he misses a couple of games. He comes back, his share goes even higher. It just comes down to his 8% target share. Ken 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, it's between him and then my guy who back to practice everybody. Great news for Jalen Waddles.
I'm really pumped that he is back there because I started high T. I'm going to take a bottle. All right, Bree Salt, I was there for Jalen Waddles. Mike 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, AJ 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 told you guys, I told you guys I was comfortable enough with both La Porta and Kelsey. If they got further down the draft board in the third round and with the quarterbacks going off the board and knocked him down a little bit, you see the. I'm really curious which one you're going to take.
I'm going to take Sam La Porta. Wow. I'm going to take Sam La Porta today. I'm neck and neck with those two guys.
And we actually, I went La Porta and then Kelsey went next to Papa Josh. So, you know, I am worried about like I think accumulation wise, Kelsey and La Porta 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. And that's a concern. I don't know if you guys realized, yeah, because this is the first time I have in sleeper. That's where we're drafting.
Kelsey has overtaken Sam La Porta. Like the ADP has flipped and I just went and confirmed in the draft kit, you know, looking at the sleeper ADP making sure that was wild. That has happened now. They're both La Porta 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 the port because in my head, he's dialed in people are taking him in the middle of the second, maybe a couple of picks after and that's that was too rich. But were you going to hear where you got him?
I'm okay with that. You really hoping he takes a tear jump because it just end points per game while he was the number one guy overall for the Titan position. That was a really low points per game and he needs more reception to more yards. Well, Kelsey went and asked him in Cooper Cup Evans, Mahomes, Dij more a little disappointed.
I was playing a little bit of a game hoping that somehow some way, you know, I would see whether it's Evans or Cup swing back around. Cup would have been another ram on my Kyron roster. So at this point at four oh four, 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 want to take about Malik there? Not really. No, I mean, I just not with Rashad White on the board.
He came back, I've got his next, the Monte Smith to the Falcon. And then we see Mike back on the clock, Reese Hall as a particular Dylan. So the running backs, I mean, I have two what I consider top tier running backs and it's it's a new it's the dead zone for me of mixing Camara, Aaron Jones. I do like James Connor 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 brace off a check out Jalen Waddle and then looking at my rankings, I have take Dell inside my top 24.
So I take that rounds me out where I feel 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 Camara off the board at 409. Another you know, this round of two running backs that I've gone in this round, I think are the unsexy yet very productive Rashad White now in Camara.
It just it doesn't feel good, but it will it. It's I'm on the side of it should work, but 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 drop on Rashad White. I'm less waiting on Camara. He'll get a billion receptions.
It's it's a more on Rashad White. We'll take that debate into the season. Katrin goes to a McBride at four tens. So Jason, you are on the clock now with CD lamb, Derek Henry, Devon H and drafting out of the two spot.
I I have noticed, you know, you've got the quick turn. I've got the quick turn on the other side as does Papa John. 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 drive running back here or, you know, use that as a strategy.
It's really, really nice. I'm here and I'm very disappointed. The way that I have built my team starting CD lamb and then two running backs. I love fourth round wide receivers this year.
You were helping for. I'm out. I love the Monte Smith. I love DK Meckap.
I love Malik neighbors. And those guys, Joel 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 Alba Camara in the fourth round. They're going to put up a lot of fantasy points in boring fashion. I'm going to draft Joe Nixon, who's going to do the same thing.
Oh, we're going fourth round boring. We're going fourth round quality boring running backs. As my running back tree, I think there can read Von H and Joe Nixon. That is a solid core I can kind of rely on.
And now I'll be focused on finding more value water shivers through the draft. So you found the testosterone after your first round. The best part of this year will be when like Mike loses to like a Rashad White mixing combo and I'm going to start. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I'm just saying I'm worried about Rashad White. I'm fully out on mixing. I just don't I literally cannot find the capacity to a path that Rashad White's not great. There's nobody in the depth chart of any that has any impact on Rashad White right now.
We feel like that. Which I mean, this was the same thing with Tucker and Edmond's and those guys are nothing too. You're saying that? I'm fucking hearing.
Yeah, I'm fucking hearing. He's not a threat to Rashad White. He might be a compliment, but not a threat. You know, 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 White's for the Leonard Fornets.
Leonard Fornets 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 kept going. You can't keep getting away at why are you giving him so much work? That's what Joe Nixon's going to do. That's what Alba Camara and Rashad White are going to do in the fourth.
So after me, Lamar Jackson went, Michael Pittman went, and I chose to go mixing because of the wide receivers that were left. The guy that I actually liked the most 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. Move your line or not. So you went T Higgins then at 502 to pair with Lam as your White House with Henry H.
And a mix in. And we'll take a quick break, come back and talk the rest of this round. All right, Jason just took T Higgins and Marty Cooper went next. I, you know, that decision between those two guys, it's 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 boxed 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 Contade. Mark Andrews was a, that's who I was, I thought was going to fall to me.
So now the tight end pool is either George Kittle or for me, you know, essentially punt. And then at the, 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 Davis a whole bunch more of, but you can't let Andy get Ridley. That is a good point. That's how you want to draft is. Well, that's how, that's how real drafts happen.
Real drafts happen when you know the guy next to you really wants to do and you're like, I'm taking them. I'll take Calvin Ridley. Hey, I'm going to take a victory lap that really is a 506 at this point. So Connor goes next.
I would have taken Ridley this round though. Connor goes next. They flowers who is somewhat, you know, been invisible a little bit. Yeah.
Yeah. And so I'm back on the clock. Kyron and Rashad White, Laporta with the onesie and then Adrian Brown was my first round pick. Pickens is jumping out at me as an option here with no Ridley on the board and then it running back, you know, I could turn, turn to David Montgomery, Swift, Ramandre, Nology.
There's some unsexy options or I can go fifth round quarterback and I'll probably gamble on, you know, one guy getting back to me at quarterback in the sixth. And so I'll take George Pickens. He's leaving the talent and he just, you know, leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the depth chart there. So I'll take Pickens in the fifth round.
Consolation Pickens. That's sure. Papa Josh goes CJ Stroud and then it goes Richardson, Kittle, Aaron Jones and Kyle Pitt. So four out of five picks quarterback for tight ends, nice, which, you know, I was doing the Kyler Murray, Kyler, Murray, Gamble and the paid off.
Stroud Richardson, Kittle, Jones, Pitts, Ramandre. 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 Mostur going at 6.06. That's a great pick. Almost as good as the pick that I am about to make.
The 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? You son of a gun.
He's in my queue. No, no, no, I almost took him last round. That's where he is in my projections, but I just I looked at 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 like I didn't even I wasn't paying attention to this turn because I was going to take a rush to rice here. No, you're not. It was funny.
It was really taken from me. That was a good goof. That was a good nice goof. All right.
Mike went with Rashi Rice here. Terry McClurent went next to the poor Gogin himself and Joe Burrow. We've had four quarterbacks go off the board and less than around. Roman Dunesay goes off the board at 6.10 and Jason York back on the clock with Lamb Higgins, Henry H.
and Mix it. Yeah, I'm here and I'm a little upset. Terry McClurent 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 it. Some more cheap wide receivers you can take. Look, Xavier Worthy, I'm fine taking a shot on him. He's an exciting Speedster rookie first rounder from a Holmes.
This is a guy I believe in the talent of. I do think rookie year you're going to have Rashi Rice really be like 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 be smurched yesterday. Jaden Reed, I don't believe everything Mike wrote for him.
I think Jaden Reed is talented. I want shots of good offices. There was stuff in that that was really upset. I didn't know it was down.
Was it the hardcore statistics about regression? No. He's a subjective opinion about talent. Oh, when you called him mid?
Why would you do that Andy? When I said he was fine-ish. Yeah. 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 ones he 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 Briony with that.
I'm personally fine with that. Quarterback, I could stack CD-lam with DAC. That is a little bit exciting to me. I haven't ended up with DAC anywhere.
I could also stack Jaden Reed with Jordan Love and then play the game for Jaden Daniels later. Wide receiver. I'm not excited. So I'm going to do that.