Head-to-Head Mock Draft! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/5
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Monday Mock Draft! On today’s fantasy football podcast, it’s Jason vs Mike in a PPR mock draft! See what strategies they take, and lessons learned! Plus, injury news out of training camp, and a “Ready to Roll” redzone deep dive. Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for August 5th, 2024.
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Oh, man.
It's Monday, Jason.
It's Monday, and we're here, which means it's August, this show is going to be hot. I mean that physically. Physically, yes. Our AC in Arizona, of course, in the studio, decided the morning of our first morning recording, it's like, I'm not going to work. I'm broken. That's fun. So, yeah, this show is going to be fire, going to be hotter than the devil's butt crack up. But we're here. We're not going away.
Is that a particularly hot place for the devil?
That's most people's hottest place, I think.
I was not aware.
It's my hottest place.
Good to know. It is August fifth. Like Jason said, so the AC doesn't work. I come in here, I walk in the room, and I go, It's like being punched in the face with a heat glove. Then the deucers are superhero men. They really are. Because they're like, Hey, the AC's out. I'm like, Well, that means one thing. We call a professional, and they say, Well, Hold on, let us look at it.
What do you mean look at it? You can't look at an AC and diagnose it.
They start breaking things down. They realize that the power source for the air conditioner were like, Oh, no, it's actually plugged into power in the roof. I better run up on the roof and see if... I'm like, Well, first of all, you can do that?
I didn't know. I can't get to the roof. Do you take a chopper like Arnie? How do you get to the roof?
I have no idea. Somehow, he teleported onto the roof, saw that we had a bad circuit breaker. Or circuit.
A fuse. A fuse. A fuse. That's correct.
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He had some steal. He had a surgery, so he's recovering, and we'll be back soon.
Yeah, we're hoping he is back tomorrow, but it doesn't matter. Jay Griz, a. K. A. Jay Riz, the cardboard bear extraordinaire. I'm Jay Gris.
I'm Jay Gris.
That's even stupider than I remember.
Yeah.
But yeah, he's sitting in the chair over there. He is holding it down. Welcome in, everyone, the fantasy footballers podcast, five times a week. You heard our great friend at the beginning of the show, Arnie. Recommending the ultimate draft kit. If you are getting ready for your draft, which if you're listening to this podcast, you definitely are, the ultimate draft kit is our flagship product It is our baby keeping this thing updated. There are a lot of updates going in right now as Training Camp news is unfolding. We're going to get into a lot of that, but check that out at ultimatedraftkit. Com. And a reminder, the 10th anniversary Megalas show, presented by Sleeper, is live in LA, Saturday, August 24th. We will be at the Palace Theater. We'll be cutting it up, doing a live recording of the podcast, a live AMA after that is done, giving away Enjoy incredibly cool stuff from Pristine Auction. We're working with fantasy Cares. We're blowing it out.
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And the tickets are going fast. Ballerslive. Com. Okay, that was a lot of intro. Jay, how are you doing today?
I'm doing fantastic. Had a great night of sleep, and I'm excited to hop 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 On the general public.
Welcome to Ready to Roll, presented by Nissan. That's hot, Mike. Thank you. That's good stuff. With Ready to Roll every week, we are taking a deep dive. We're trying to go... 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 The quality of the information on the show is good, is ahead of the curve, is going to help you find the right players. It's like you always have those draughts 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 don't draft the busts. We're looking each week at something deep, something unique. 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 takeaway, 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 more zone. And these are the numbers since 2019. The NFL was 58 % zone in 2019, then 62 % in 2020, then 65 %, then a very nice 69 1.5%, and last year, over 70% of coverage was zone. And so you go, Oh, well, we want zone beaters. Beaters? Yeah, beaters. But here's the thing. Is it 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 4% man. You see a lot more man. And you might be smart out there and go, That's not 100 %. And that's true because once you get down to the two- The goal line look. Yeah, you got a whole different... You got to sell out defense.
If you If you've ever played any 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? Aj Brown is one of them. Now, he's obviously super high in the drafts. You've got to get lucky to have him. I'm all in on both A. J. Brown and Devante Smith, but he is eighth in man, yards per route run, 14th against zone. The only five other wide receivers were top 15 at both. That's Tyreek. Nico. Nico Collins.
My man.
Dude, I was really surprised to see him here. I know he had a great season, but both zone and man, he's great. Brandon Ayuk, 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 were designing things for A. J. Brown in the red zone. By comparison, Devante Smith only had three. So it's like, okay, that's why he's in the first round, and Devante Smith is later. Two other targets, I think, in draughts. We just talked about this guy on the fire show, Jaden Reid. Jaden Reid had 17 red zone targets, which is Pretty good, 18th among all wide receivers. That's not like a top five, but he was a rookie, and he missed games. Sixteen of his 17 targets were first read targets. When they get in the red zone, they are designing plays for him as a rookie. I think Andy is correct. I have started to shift. I was always the 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 Reid when they get in the red zone.
I think he can repeat his shutdown prowess. And then the last one, a guy you stand for over the last little while, the last year, Brandon Cooke. Another surprising one. He lived off of touch downs last year, and you might think like, 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 coverage. And if they are designing plays for him in the red zone, those touch downs 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. Maybe we'll get some of these guys in the mock draft.
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Where's that money drop, boys? You have it? You have it? There it is. Dolphins, wide receiver, Tyreek Hill. When it all started blasting out, first we had the cryptic tweet from Tye Rik, where I believe he said, I'm not going anywhere. You're like, Well, yeah, I know you're not going anywhere because you're under contract for a couple more years, man. What are you talking about? 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. You're like, Whoa, more years for Tye Rik?
No. No, no, no.
Just cash.
Just guaranteed It's great 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. That's all they did. They just gave him a whole bunch of more money. Wide receiver From the Los Angeles Rams, Pukina Kua is considered. Jason bowes his head.
Oh, this is so upsetting.
Pukina Kua is considered week to week after suffering a knee injury. This weekend, Adam Schefter had one source describing it as not serious. But that was compounded by a report, I believe that 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 receiver now?
Yeah, I mean- Because Puka is basically...
Puka has taken on the turn in a 12-team league. So right at the end of the first, early second, Cooper Cups going a couple of 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 he's ranked there at wide receiver, I think, appropriately, but it's too high compared to other runningbacks that are on the board. We almost never draft him there, especially considering you can get the value on Cooper Cups several rounds later. And Cooper Cup could be the one in this offense. I still like Pukas odds to beat Cooper Cup, but it definitely doesn't seem like a multi-round gap. And then you add in this knee injury, and it's like, okay, I'm happy that it's described as not serious. But 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. We see people all the time. 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. They missed two weeks when they came back. It took them 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 keeper.
I've talked about a lot where if I'm on the turn, the Rams feel like the picks, but I don't want to overload with the Rams. I don't personally want to do that with my first and second round pick.
You're saying Kyren and Puka?
Yeah, Kyren Williams and Puka Nakuwa. And it always ends up being, well, I go with Kyren, and then I bypass Puka. And this was enough information for me. I have moved Puka down at least a couple of spots in my projections and my rankings to the point where unless his ADP actually moves from this information, he's not going to end up on any of my teams.
Yeah, this really stinks. Also, another one that stinks, another Another wide receiver I love this year, Lad McConkey, came up limping in Saturday's practice, did not practice on Sunday. I haven't seen any reports of it being serious. I think Harbaugh said he's not concerned. But I don't know if you saw this. The Giants let their draft board leak through the hard knocks, and they had color coding on certain players Now, we don't officially know what the color coding meant, but there are guesses.
It could be like, This guy's handsome.
Right. Yeah, green. Green is like, Those are the handsome guys. Yeah, it could be.
Yeah, really marketable.
But there were some red on players.
Red is not handsome.
Red is not handsome. The assumption, based on who the players were, and it really makes sense, was injury-related, is what it seemed like. One of them that I was a little bit surprised to see a red marker on was Lad McConkey. I don't know of any... I don't know what the specific injury is or what the medicals revealed to the Giants. Again, I'm not 100% positive that red injury. This is a hypothesis. But then you come up limping here, and this is his second time 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 the talent. I like him as well. Panthers' rookie wide receiver, Xavier Liguet. 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 that's something to monitor. More Panthers news, Jason. 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 don't want to- Rookey running back for the Panthers. I don't want to leave a draft without John and then 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 It just sounds like he will start the season on the pup. Now, Mike is making a grimacing 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'm out. 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 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 I believe the Panthers traded up to acquire him. I don't recall that. And Canales will utilize him the way that he utilized Rashaud White. 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, prospect, draft He missed it 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 to the races, and he finished as the RBC7. 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 the running back 43. We've talked about him a little in the offseason when we had no idea exactly what the health of Jonathan Brooks was. Of 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, 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. It was a good serviceable stretch, and that was for the Putrid Panthers.
Yeah, so keep Chuba in mind when you're at the end there. And then Saints wide receiver, Rasheed Shahid. He has missed consecutive practice This is ham string tightness.
You don't want to see wide receiver ham string issues before the year. Those things, they just stick around, man.
Yeah, absolutely. That was today's news and notes presented USAA Insurance. Learn more at usaa. Com/insurance. We will be right back with the mock draft. I'm going to set it up before I hit the button. 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-end, two flex. Jason, do you have your rankings prepared?
Dude, I made them. I used them. Yes, I got them.
I made them, I used them, I win.
That's right. The fantasy footballer's mock draft.
All right, 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 edges. A 10 team ends up looking very different when you're drafting from the edge as opposed to the standard 12 team league. So again, Jason got the third pick. Chris McCaffrey, CeeDee Lamb are the first two off the board. You're 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 Tyree Kill over CeeDee Lamb. So if I was at the two spot, I would have taken Tyree Kill. 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 Tyree Kill? I love it.
It's just like, Hey, Tyree, Tirek, you're real good. Here's more money. Just take this. You don't have to do that. Yeah, but you just take this money.
If you look at Sleeper Picks, that's the in-season DFS game, and you look at the lines, Tyreek for week one is already at 98 and a half yards, which he crossed that nine times last year, most in the NFL. That's the consistency I'm looking for. This is an easy pick for me. I'll take Tyreek.
All right, Tyreek goes. Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, Ammon Ross, St. Brown, Pukana Kua, Breast Hall. So we had us a mighty fine run of wide receiver. Jason shakes his head. Is that because I get Bijan?
Yes, it's because you get Bijan. You shouldn't get Bijan at the nine. Bijan should not be that far.
I'm not even going to sit and elaborate on it. I am taking Béjian Robinson. It's the Béjon Minute.
Yeah.
Okay. Mccaffrey, Breese Hall, Béjian Robinson. Those are the runningbacks that I give the best probability to finish as the overall number one, getting him at the nine spot.
That's pretty hot.
I'll take that.
Yeah. So this is the full PPR version, which is pushing wide receivers up. But obviously, when you're talking about Béjon, Christian McCaffry, Burris, 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. Aj Brown finishes off the first round. Then Jamir Gibbs, the rookie sensation going into his sophomore year. Gibbs in a PPR is also-In a what? In a PPR.
Did I say a PR? I don't know. It sounded weird. You're just mad. I am a little mad.
You're just mad. 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 Lovers' Quarles 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 them with passion.
But then there was another one of like, they just seem a little just connected.
The thing is, they are both elite alphas, and they are playing against the Jets defense every practice, which is great. You know what I mean? The Jets defense is way better than the Jets offense. So they're going to have frustrations. They're going to look out of sync, but they're not always going to have to play against the Jets defense.
So it's Gareth Wilson, Marvin Harrison Jr, Devante 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 runningbacks, 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 in the third round, who profiles as someone who can step in for Kyron when needed. But I think that Sean McVay, he loves himself a one running back rotation. So I'm going to start very high T, very macho, body hair everywhere. B. John Robinson, Kyron Williams.
I was really wanting Kyren 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 Béjian and Kyren. I love that start. I like it. Yeah.
So after Kyren, Jonathan Taylor went, Gareert Wilson, Drake London, Marvin Harrison, Devante 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? Who? Who? Who?
Does anyone know? Is that who or whom? What should I have done? I got a lot of blanks there.
I feel like it's whom.
I would go with Whoom.
Okay. Tyreek Hill and Whoom. Yeah, that's right. What is it? It sounds right.
I feel like when I don't know, I just go, whom. Who? Yeah.
Who is found- It's 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 what I mean? 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 All right, so I'm going to play the game. I'm going to risk it. No risk it, no biscuit. I've got Tyree Kill. It's full PPR. I want Devon H. That's who I want. But I'm going- All dolphins all the time? Yeah, I don't care. There are certain players, and it's rare, going back to where it was Antonio Brown and Levy on Bell. It's like, no problem. You could spend your first and second round pick. I think these are two of those type of players. But I don't want to do my first and second. I'm going to gamble and assume that I can get Devon Achan. There's four picks between this pick and my next one. I'm actually going to go with Saquon Barkley. Okay. Try to have two great running backs. Make it pay. Yeah, baby. Yeah. So Devon Achan fell to me after I took Barkley. So I really like this story. If I've got such a stud at wide receiver in Tyreek, if I'm spending that early pick, I often do this in reverse. If I was the Christian McCaffery drafter, my next two picks are probably going to be wide receiver, and I have that foundation piece.
So Tyree Kill will be my foundation. I will add his teammate Devon H. N, with Saquon Barkley.
So you take Devon H. N. 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 how the If that starts shaking up over August as the- That's how my rankings are. You still have Kelsey up top?
I still have Kelsey up top.
For PPR, I would especially... I'd rather have Kelsey. Laporta was low volume, really high, a shutdown success. We'll see Look, he was a rookie. Maybe he gets more utilized in the offense, but they're a very high T team as well, where 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-Izea Pacheco and Nico Collins. Looking at our rankings, I didn't realize you've got Kelsey at four. I do? You do.
You've got-Yeah, because I got my man up there. You got your man up top.
Yeah, I do. You got T. Mcbee. You've got Andrews and Laporta. So the thing is, I think there's definitely four. If you want to include Kincaid like I do, there's five that 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, what are the biggest differences for the 10 team versus a 12 team? And it's your opportunity cost on taking a onesie position. It moves down because you have 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 over, Oh, look at that team.
Oh, look at that team. Everybody's team is pretty fired.
You got to find the small margins where you can make a difference.
The small margins where you make a difference, it's specifically like, 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 a Josh Allen or Hertz or maybe Mahomes, people that can actually gap themselves, like a Christian McAfree or a Terry Kill, where it's the difference between having the elitist versus the fifth or sixth best, that makes a huge difference at 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 got to get those touch downs up, absolutely. But with the return of Kyra Murray, I think that that's going to happen then. Derek Henry went off the board at 3:10. Mike Evans at the 4:01. I am back on the clock. Béjon Robinson, Kyra Williams, Trey McBride, and That was the spot 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'm going to be honest. 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 So over Trey McBride, too, as well. And then I'm going to reach down the ADP a little bit. I'm going to take Jalen Waddle. I have spoke very kindly of him. I think that he is a true wide receiver, one, like a back-end. Tyree kill is still the guy, but I think that we could see a season far more like two years ago for Jalen Waddle 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, Stefan Diggs. Okay, Jalen Hertz, Deepo Samuel, Patrick Mahomes. Hertz 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.
Stupids games win stupid prizes, Jay.
This time, while I'm going for an exponential prize. I want a stack. We just talked about this in a 10-teamer, I'm willing to take the onesie positions a little bit earlier, including maybe even two of them. Mark Andrews is my tight in two. Oh, okay. Mark Andrews is my tight in two. If I can grab Mark Andrews here in the fourth, and if Lamar falls to me, there's only... Team 1 doesn't have a quarterback yet, but that's it. So I got to play that game.
Come on. Which one are you going first?
I'm going Mark Andrews first. Okay. Oh, man. Gosh. 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, but neither team one or team two has a tight-in. So there's four picks that they could take Mark Andrews, whereas there's really only... Team one is the only team, oh, 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 out 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 tight end. None of them took a tight end. Out of all the four picks, they could have used any of the four picks. Granted, if Mark Andrews was on the board, they might have taken a tight end. All right. Well, that sucks. I don't have my quarterback yet. I would be targeting... 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 Tyree Kill, Saquon Barkley, Devon H, and Mark Andrews. Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and follow the news in the health. Instead of Puka at the one, two turn, in the fifth round, I will take Cooper Kup as my wide receiver.
Over Dike.
I did. I took him over DK. We can't forget how great and dominant Cooper Cup was. The fact that when you look at the games when Cooper Cup and Puka played together, the red zone utilization. I mean, Cooper Cup is where they look. To get them in the fifth round, I'm pretty darn happy with that. I would have liked Metcalf. I would have liked Devante 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 D. K. Metcalf immediately after. James Cooke, Devante Smith went at 506. Dalton Kincaid and C. J. Stroud went at the 508. 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 onesie 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. I only have the one wide receiver. We'll see if I end up liking this team at the end or not. Joe mixed and went afterwards. Zee flowers was the 6:01. I am back on the clock. It's nice not having to... No, I don't even have to think about QB or tight-end. I mean, this is a little mental stress that's gone for the rest of the draft. And the other guy who I would have selected... Let me just check my rankings here. Man. So I'm looking at Tankdel. I didn't get my precious Nico Collins, and I'm just making sure I do have Tankdel that much further ahead of George Pickens, and I do.
So I will take Tankdel. 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- You would do that. No, I would not. No way. Really? No way. My team's way better.
You are full of baloney.
I am not full of baloney. All right.
Kyle Pitz, Keenan Allen, Kenneth Walker, Amari Cooper, Alvin Kamara. Kamara did not make it to you.
Kamara did not make it to me, but Kyler did. Now, both the teams, Team One and Team Two that are on the turn, they have their quarterbacks. So I don't need to take Kyler here. I'm going to get Kyler. That's what you think. Yeah, I guess computers can be crazy. But 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 Connor. 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.
You're still not in?
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 Justin Fields.
I don't like that there's even questions. I mean, maybe these are completely manufactured media questions, but Russ came into camp hurt. Justin Fields is... We had a report that he's having a great camp. This was a quarterback decision that was easy. It's going to be Russell Wilson starting for the Pittsburgh Stealers. To have Any of that floating around? Justin Fields took DJ more to a sensational fantasy last year, so it's not impossible. I'm just saying if you know it's the old, if you have two quarterbacks, you have none. I I like those vibes.
For sure. I don't either, which is why I'm going to take Tee Higgins. Tee Higgins is highest in my rankings. I feel like there are a trifecta of values based upon the same trifecta of disappointments last year. Those would be... Last year, it was around the second round. I think it was mid to late second round. You had Tee Higgins, Jalen Waddle, and Devante Smith. The twos for their teams were twos in fantasy, and all three- Number two is for your team. Yeah, and all three, exactly. Kind of took a dump. But I think that their value has fallen too far. You are higher on Waddle than most. I'm higher on Tee Higgins. I feel like people have forgotten the fantasy value that he can provide when he's got a healthy Joe Burrow. When he's healthy, right now, he's healthy. He's got a healthy Joe Burrow. I think Tee Higgins is in for a fantastic season. To get him this far into a draft, there's upside.
So Tee 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 an Anthony Richardson.
Okay, before you make your pick, because George Kittle opened up the seventh round. Does that 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 voice in the back of my head that goes, Hey, what about George Kittle? It's me, George. George Kittle is so unbelievably freaking awesome to have on your roster when it's a Kittle game. Right. And those games are real. If you watch the Wide Receiver, the series on Netflix, it followed 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 two fantasy points on your roster because 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. I feel like he's the energy of this offense. 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 ADP is factoring a lot into this. What's your level of comfort of having either Debo or Brandon Aiyuk and then taking 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 Aiyuk gets traded. Because if Ayouk gets If Iuk is traded, George Kittle absolutely needs to be considered in the top tight ends.
Would you move him over Kincaid?
Yeah. If Ayouk is traded, I would move Kittle up over Kincaid. But yeah, I'm okay with... I like team one in general, but if I had Iuk, I probably wouldn't grab Kittle. All right.
Christian Kirk was next, and then Jason Europe.
Yeah. I will take Kyler Murray here as planned. Again, Anthony Richardson versus Kyler Murray is so funny because- It is. Anthony Richardson is usually in the fifth round. Kyler, I'm getting in the seventh round. You're just hoping that Anthony Richardson can become what Kyler has always been when he's on the field. It could be a boat. Kyler's value is... I mean, Footclan, 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 him.
If I mean, I had Trey McBride. I had expected that Kyler Murray would have been my quarterback. 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 6:02. Right. So in full agreement of Kyler and having a Trey McBride Kyler stack, I think that's going to be pretty fun. All right. Kyler went. Jordan Edison, DeAndre Swift, Terry McLaurin, Joe Burrill, James Connor, A real quick Terry McLaurin conversation. He's in the seventh. Terry, he feels like he's that guy. We know who he is, which is, in my opinion, a better wide receiver than he puts out for fantasy football. And we have been yellow-green with him, where it's his rookie year, '28. Then he was up to 21st, 25th, 14th, back down to 28. But he's basically been a thousand-yard guy every year of his career. Are we undervaluing the potential of Terry here? Not to be a top 12 guy, because we talked about rookie quarterbacks lacking touch downs, but are we undervaluing Terry here?
I don't think so. I think he's valued exactly where he should be. There's still a lot of valuable players on the board, people that are going to be wide receiver twos that you can draft right now, and that's basically what he is. He does lack the elite upside to do something really, really special. When you're drafting wide receivers around this range, you go, Okay, Chris O'Kerke was a wide receiver one a couple of years ago. Zee flowers is going in the year two as the number one. There's unknown upside. With Terry McLaurin, there is known, not upside. But there's also known, not downside. He's a safe mid-pick, so he's fine in the mid-runs if you are looking to just add some quality depth.
Looking at ADP because I am on the clock. My team is Béjon Robinson, Kyren Williams, Trey McBride. Jalen Waddle, Anthony Richardson, Tank Dell. I am, in fact, perfectly balanced somehow at this point in the draft with my two onesies. At ADP for wide receiver is Roma Dunze, who was my ice player just a couple of weeks ago. Or not a week, a couple of weeks ago. Goodness, that was last week?
Yeah.
Time warping. Rashe Rice, which... Hey, NFL. It's August. Can we get an announcement? Can we know what's going on here with the legal troubles, the off-the-field troubles of Rashe Rice? Is he going to get a suspension? What's going on here?
I think we would probably know about it if it was going to be week one. Now, this can come at any time.
Yeah, they can drop it right in the middle of the year. Yeah.
I mean, there's always going to be this looming over him, but it does seem more likely that it's not going to start the season than ever before.
Where are you at then with his ADP?
I've got him marked right now as the top of my queue. Okay. I think that there's a good enough chance he's not suspended this season to take the gamble, because this is a player who was awesome down the stretch as a rookie with Patrick Mahomes. I know that they brought in Hollywood, they brought in Xavier worthy, but he is the wide receiver one for this team. If you're getting him in the seventh, eighth round, yeah, I'm willing to take that gamble, personally.
I think that's where I am now. We're early August, but let's say we get to the end of August and the ADP is holding for Rice and we still haven't heard anything. At some point, it becomes the risk.
I think it becomes a target. It's not even like I'm willing to take that risk on. It's I want to take that risk on because the upside for R ushy Rice is really high.
It's a really blah part of the draft for me because it's Rome, Rashe Rice, Jaden Reid, which you and Andy really like him. Chris Godwin, he's somewhat interesting. Then the Chief's rookie, Xavier worthy, Calvin Ridley. Andy is big time into Calvin and Ridley. Then the runningbacks are Montgomery, Ramondre, Najee, Tony Pollard, Zamir White. It's a weird part of the draft for me. I'm between David Montgomery or taking the chance on Rashe Rice.
Rashe Rice, just looking at this, I wanted to pull this up.
Yeah, give it to me.
From week 12 on, which is the last seven games of his rookie season, he was the wide receiver nine in fantasy points, averaging 14.9 fantasy points per game over that final stretch was obviously important in the playoffs as well. As a rookie coming into his second year, and everything from camps have been like, he is the wide receiver one for this team. I'm all about it.
I think in the fact that it's a 10-team league, and I feel like I can get away with it, maybe take a little bit more risk. It's easier to replace a wide receiver here because of the waiver wire and everything. I'm going to go to Rashe Rice. Roma Dunzé next. Dak Prescott is the 801. I'm back on the clock. There was two guys who I was considering, so I'll just take the second guy, David Montgomery.
Those were the two highest guys in my queue that I wanted. David Montgomery and Rashe Rice.
If I could trade teams with you right now.
Absolutely Why not? Just because you get later. I could have drafted them last round. I chose not to. The guy that I would take here, if my team was not Tyreek Hill and Devon H. N, would be Raheem Mosert. But that's too much That's too much tuna. Can't.
Sir, it's dolphin safe now.
Oh, yeah? Okay. It better be. I love dolphins.
Do you guys remember that? That was a big deal in what, the '90s or something? All the tuna fishing, they were getting in big trouble because they were scooping up dolphins?
That was rude.
You leave them alone.
I need a running back. However, I had set up a queue of a lot of players that I liked. I hope it's empty. It is empty but one. So this pick will be pretty easy. I had R ushy Rice, I had David Montgomery, I had Ramondre Stevenson, some players in there that I really liked. The last one that was in there is Jaden Reid. He dropped to me. At this point, I'm not going to pass him, just because... I would prefer to have a running back over a wide receiver at this spot, but I'm not going to reach for a lower-tiered running back over a really high quality... We talked about it in the ready to roll. Jaden Reid has a very good easy pathway forward. You know what really sparked my imagination on Jaden Reid was when Andy brought up the other day, comparing him to Tankdell, who I'm madly in love with. I would have taken Tankdel rounds ago. I did. Right, yes. But the thing is, who's the better offense? Is it Houston or is it Green Bay? I don't know. It's a fair question. It's a fair question, but they're in the same tier of offense.
You go, Okay, Tankdel, is he the number one target? He could be, but right now, I think you probably don't have him as the number one target. It's just as likely that Jaden Reid is. Who's used more in the red zone? I mean, they're very comparable to each other.
Which is what we've been talking about of the value of C. J. Stroud versus the value of Jordan Love.
The fact that C.
J. Stroud went at the 508. Jordan Love is still available here in the eighth round. To me, really, it's a who's going to finish higher? C. J. Stroud or Jordan Love? I don't have confidence to say one way or the other. I think they're in the same tier. Oh, that. You took Jaden Reid, Chris Godwin, DeAndre Hopkins, Javante Williams.
What was the side? It was Javante Williams. Javante? Okay. I'm running out of runningbacks I like here.
And then DeAndre Johnson.
And so I'm going to just go ugly and nasty here.
Before you do it, because I was going to... Like, Javante was who I was locking in on here of, are we We are in a time warp with Javante Williams of starting the offseason being really staunch in our... Then I'm talking about last year. Javante Williams is coming off of the injury. Be careful. Be careful, because all the reports at a camp, they're going to be flowery and pillowy soft of Javante Williams is back. And we know that guys can, like some Adrian Peterson, superhuman. But Javante Williams, we were really, really scared about him. And then all the training camp, the hype and the drum beat got so loud that I think all three of us were like, Okay, maybe we're wrong. Maybe Javante Javante Williams can do it. We were not wrong. And now I feel like we're repeating that cycle of off Javante, Jaleel McGloughlin, Estime, these other guys that are on the team, What's going to happen? And they're swaying me again. And in my fall, you're going back in. I'm being more and more swayed that as the training camp stuff comes out, that Javante Williams is the guy. The Beat reporters are saying, Audric Estime Looks very good in training camp.
But Javante is still the Rb1, and he's in the ninth round. This is a Sean Payton Rb1 potential who caught a ton of passes last year. He was just a very inefficient player returning from his knee injuries. Another year back. Where are you at in the cycle of Javante Williams?
I am pretty much where you are, where I find myself being slightly more open. We had a plan early this offseason. We talked about it with Javante, which has There's only two cases for him. Either he is fully recovered from the injury and he's back to being an awesome star, or he's never going to be an awesome star. His knee injury affected him to where he's just a guy, and maybe he will still be the volume-based player that he was last year. He got a lot of work, but he still wasn't good for fantasy. And so that all is going to be indicative of camp reports. It's one of the only players that I'm actively waiting to hear the rosy flowery stuff, but it's got to be rosier than it's been. There's been comments lately, a couple of weeks ago, of like, Is he on the roster bubble? That's not the comments of saying, Whoa, he's back. Now, the last thing I heard was Sean Payton talking about how he's lost weight and is looking good in camp. I'm going to keep waiting, but I want to hear profuse. I want to hear, Wow, he looks unbelievable, because he should be looking unbelievable if he's back to health.
So that's my stance on him. I need a running back here, and I'm going to do something very, very gross. But this is where you draft this player, because personally, I can't take Rahima Oster, who I would love to have here Three Dolphins too much. Nick Chubb, I'm out on. Three Dolphins too much. Three Tarts. Zack Moss is interesting here, but I feel like I need a solid guy. Sometimes I'm going to swing for the fence. I would take Jonathan them, Brooks, but I've only got Saquan and Devon Achan right now. So I want a solid guarantee. I don't know about Echler. I don't know about Chubb and all these other guys. But I do know that there is a guy who, when he got the opportunity from Week 10 on last year, was the running back nine in half PPR fantasy points, who is now the only starter. He's the only decent guy on his team. They're talking about sixth-round rookies running as number two. You know where I'm going, right?
I don't know where Nasty is on this.
I got you. I'm going to take him. You have to. It's Nasty. But I'm going to take Devon Singletary. This is where, usually at the end of the draft, I'm bypassing Devon Singletary because he's an Rb2 without massive upside. But that's what I'm looking for right now, roster construction-wise, and there is a place for him here. I definitely believe he will be a top 24 running back this season.
You took Devon Singletary. It's Nasty, but I get it Absolutely. Xavier worthy, Jordan Love, then Calvin Ridley, which I am realizing that we hadn't yet talked about the Hopkins knee injury, just of the timing of when that happened. Obviously, it has not affected his ADP just yet. But DeAndre Hopkins suffered a knee injury that they said he's going to miss several weeks to the point of we got an update, I think, yesterday that said he's not going to have to have surgery. But that's the type of injury that we're talking about now with DeAndre Hopkins, who is an older wide receiver, 32?
Yes, 32.
So Calvin Ridley does have more appeal. I still have my Will Levis concerns, but getting Calvin Ridley here in the ninth, he'll certainly move up. So that's something to pay attention to.
Yeah. I mean, obviously, with Andy not on the show, this is the first time ever that Calvin Ridley has gone drafted by a computer, because usually, Andy will grab him a round or two ahead of ADP. He is very all in on Calvin Ridley.
Jason, just real quick, your team is Tye Rik, Saquan, 8chan, Mark Andrews, Cooper Cupp, T. Higgins, Kyler Murray, Jaden Reid, and Nasty, Nasty, Devon Singletary. I have B. John Robinson, Kyren Williams, Trey McBride, Jalen Waddle, Anthony Richardson, Tinkdel, Rashe Rice, and David Montgomery. Looking at the wide receiver, this is the rookie place. This is where rookie wide receivers are supposed to go in drafts. But Lad is there, Keion Coleman, Brian Thomas. And then at the running back position, Moss, you brought him up. He's still there. The Zack Moss, Chase Brown, camp battle. You need to keep watching that because it seems to be tightening. Jalen Warren. Trey Benson is... I think Trey Benson should not be here. Trey Benson should not be this high in ADP. He is being overdrafted, at least when you balance that with the way that the Arizona Cardinals coaches are talking about it.
I thought you were saying he shouldn't still be available to be drafted here. No. I was shocked. I'm like, we're- No, it's the opposite. We're local here. We know that right now the camp reports aren't glowing on Trey Benson. I think this My far and away prospect draft grade-wise, pre-draft, he was my number one running back. I believe yours as well. Yes. It's been very disappointing to hear that he's in a camp battle with D Cotto and Michael Carter. He should have fully established himself as the running back, too.
So I'm taking Christian Watson here. I'll take my swing to find the packers wide receiver one. I'm just crossed my fingers in hope. Brock Bowers went at the end of the night. Then Hollywood Brown. I am back. So this is where we're trying to find some real upside. I have three running backs. I have four wide receivers. The running backs, I mean, I really want one of these rookie wide receivers.
Lad, you're going to take my lad?
It would be really funny if I did that. You think I should do that?
I think you should not do that. Why don't you just tell me who you're going to take?
Man. Okay, so between McConkey, Keion, Coleman, Brian, Thomas.
I mean, you can make cases for all of them. I'm going to take JSM. Oh, really? Yeah. I love that.
It Sometimes you got to remember just how good a player can be despite, let's call it human error up in Seattle last year. Lots and lots of human error with the way that they use JSM with the new coaching staff. We're hopeful that that will bounce around. I'm going to take... I mean, JSM, yeah, 52% of snaps for the first month, which he was recovering from the wrist injury. So he was one of those rookies where he lost to the injury, and it deletes your rookie year. It takes a special circumstance for that to happen, and then you really break out. So I still believe in Jackson Smith and Jigma, the player.
I do, too, completely. I believe that He was used in buffoonish ways, and I'm very excited about Grubb's system. So we're in sync there.
Lad McConkey, nick Chubb, Zack Moss, Kean Coleman, Brian Thomas.
When I look at that, this is the tier of the questionable guys who all could break out and have awesome seasons. Jsn, Lad McConkey, Kean Coleman, Brian Thomas, and there's one more to me. And so I'm going to take that player. And Andy is in on this player. I know you're out, but it's Jamieson Williams.
Who- I'm not out in the 10th.
Okay. All right. Well, yeah. I mean, no one... You're not really- Yeah.
I'm not out on anybody in the 10th.
You're just swinging for fences here. And Jamison Williams, his camp reports have been great. His opportunity, he should be the number two target. He really should. He should overtake Sam Laporta as the number 2 target in this office. I don't know that he will, but in the 10th round, you have the option. This was a... What was he, the number 12 pick in the NFL draft? It was very high, yes. Very, very high. Kyle, vet me on that. 12. Okay, he was 12. You got it. Yeah, I'll take Jamison Williams there. Then the nice thing is, after I took Jamison Williams, a little tight-end run of David Najoku, T. J. Hawkinson, Fergalicious, and Brock Purdy. So I still have all the runningbacks and wide receiver's left. And there is a runningback that I like. In fact, there's two runningbacks I like. Let's talk about these two guys because they're in the same tier, they're in the same situation. I think both are really talented human beings as runningbacks, really good runningback.
Okay, so just a quick recap. You got Hill, Barkley, H. E. And Andrews, Cupp, Higgins, Kyler, Jane Reid, Devon Singletary, Jamison, Williams. And you're looking at two runningbacks.
I'm looking at two runningbacks. Jalen Warren, and Tajay Spears. They're both the- Perceived backups. They're both the perceived backups. Jalen Warren has proven that he can be really good. When given the opportunity, he's phenomenal. They've improved their offensive line. Now, they've got Arthur Smith there that can help the run game, but also frustrate utilization. And then you've got Tajay Spears, who is always... Around Tennessee, he has just completely talked about as they have two starters. Right now, it's being drafted. Tony Pollard is the starter, and Tajay is the backup. That is not how I believe they will be deployed. Maybe Tony Pollard will be the starter and get the first handoff over Tajay, but I think they are going to be interchangeable 50/50 backs. So who would you draft? Which one of those guys gets you more excited?
Man, I think it's It's a really tough call. I think I'm going to go Jalen Warren right there, though.
All right. I'm just going to listen to you here.
I'm not trying to trick. I just think that I would go Jalen Warren.
I'll take Jalen Warren in the 11th round as my running back four. I like that.
All right. Jalen Warren, Austin Echler, Trey Benson, Caleb Williams, Dallas Guttert, the Dr. Dalton Schultz. This pick is pretty easy for me. It's Blake Coram. I am taking the backup to Kyron Williams because I truly believe that if Kyron Williams goes down, then Blake just... He goes right in, and he gives me maybe not 100% of Kyron.
I hope so, but at least a good percentage of what Kyron can give. You've talked about that a lot, that if It's one of the rare cases over the years where if you draft a certain player, you are also drafting their backup.
That's the one backup I'll take. Brian Robinson, Gus Edwards. And then to take for my final pick, So wide receivers, is there anybody with actual upside? Curtis Samuel, maybe he ends up the number one wide receiver for Buffalo. Khalil Shaqar is being talked about a lot as well from Buffalo. I mean, Josh Palmer would have been really interesting here had the Justin Herbert foot issues not appeared. So over at Running Back, Jerome Ford is there. I think Jerome Ford is a great first chunk of the season. While we wait for nick Chubb to return, I think that Jerome Ford is a good player for that. But the drum beat of Chase Brown is starting to get to a point where I think we have to listen to it. Oh, come on. So I'm going to take it. Oh, come on. Jared Goff to Romeo Dobbs, Justin Herbert, and Tajay Spears right before Jason.
I didn't even think about Tajay making it back to me because he was very high in ADP. Then it was just as the picks kept going, I was like, Oh, wait. Maybe Tajay will come all the way back, and then I can not have to choose between him and Warren, but one pick before me. Okay, so it went after your pick, Goff, Tua, Dobbs, Herbert, Spears. Now I'm looking at... Ziko Elia is there. At wide receiver, Curtis Samuel, I think, will be involved. You've got rookies like Adonai Mitchell, which the buzz, at least thus far, in Adonai has been-Yeah. Tell me how the buzz has been.
Smirking. You can hear the smile in his voice. It has not been great. The substance has been more focused on Alec pierce being locked in as the wide receiver, too.
Yeah. If you can't overtake Alec pierce.
Alec pierce is in excellent cardiovascular shape.
He's in great shape. Okay, so looking at my roster, I've got Tyree Kill, Cooper Cupp, Tee Higgins, Jaden Reed, and Williams. So let's see here. I think, man, is it... I think I'm going to do it. It feels bad. Oh, gross. I'm going to take Zeke. Zeke and Singletary, man. I got some old guys, but I've got Achan up there. He's going to be scoring me overall running back number one points when he's helping. All right, go ahead.
Read your team off, Jay.
All right. My team at wide receiver, Tyree Kill, Cooper Cupp, T. Higgins, Jaden Reed, and Jamal James. I've got Saquon Barkley, Devon Achan, Devon Singletary, Jalen Warren, and Ezequiel Elliott. And at my onesies, Mark Andrews, and Kyler Murray.
At Running Back, I have B. Jean, Kyren Williams, David Montgomery, Blake Corum, and Chase Brown. Wide receivers are Jalen Waddle, Tank Del, Rashe Rice, Christian Watson, and JSN. And then my onesies are anchored by Trey McBride and Anthony Richardson. You feel good about that team?
I feel pretty good.
I think that I've got a lot- I was talking about my team.
I feel okay. Got him. The truth is, Ten team leads, you're always going to have a lot of talent. It's a matter of getting the right guys who are going to hit, especially the later guys. It's like if Jamieson Williams hits, that's huge. If JSN hits for you or Christian Watson, You're going to need to take shots in a league like this of guys that really come through. It's ironic that I've got Jaden Reid and you've got Christian Watson. I think one of those guys comes through in a major way, and our teams will be really healthy for it, but it won't be both.
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