Fantasy Football Daily - Fantasy Football 2026: Late-Round Targets That WIN Leagues 🚨

Episode Date: May 29, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Fantasy Football Daily live right here on Fantasy Points YouTube and the Fantasy Points podcast network. Theo Greminger, joined today by Scott Barrett. That's him. That's the old cheat. Scott and I are covering a ton of subjects. Stick around deep into the live stream. We're also going to pivot to revealing our dynasty startup strategy and a team that Scott and I have drafted in the FFPC triflex startups. But first we're going to talk about our $350.
Starting point is 00:00:43 entry big gorilla FFPC contest team. If you want to see part one of this draft, we recorded like a long thought, well thought out like process draft show where Scott and I broke down what way we went inside the first seven rounds. We made a live OTC decision about our round seven pick. And we broke it down.
Starting point is 00:01:08 So anybody who've missed that, I'll give you like sort of the cliff notes here. Scott, We're Gibbs at the 102. We were thrilled about that pick. We were also thrilled to get Colston Loveland, a player we are both very enthusiastic about inside of round two with the 211. Then we took Breece Hall. Scott and I sort of laid out the bowl case for Breece Hall and how it made sense structurally.
Starting point is 00:01:34 Very Ryan Heath influenced fourth round value in Ladd-McConkey. Ryan and Scott a little higher on Ladd-McConkey than I am, but 4-11. I mean, you can't really go wrong there, Scott. Then we swung for the- Well, you push me to that pick. Why are you saying I'm higher than you? I wanted Terry McLaurin. You were like, oh, no, there's not, I calculated it.
Starting point is 00:01:54 It's 99% chance he gets back to us and then nope. Yeah, you know, it was one of those things, Scott, where we played the ADP game and we lost in that one. I'm going to have plenty of Terry McLaurin. I know you will as well. And I don't think it's like, it's not like we got jammed with some, like, God-awful pick. We got Ladd McConkey, who goes earlier than Terry McLaren.
Starting point is 00:02:11 The 101 drafter ended up. drafting Terry McLaurin two picks later. So we, I wouldn't say tilted, but I would say we swung for the fences because of the nature of the contest. We took Traybion Henderson, who obviously has a little bit of downside risk, but at the 502, it presented this incredible upside scenario. We don't need running back points from him with Breece Hall and Jamir Gibbs. We're looking at like 40 touches plus a game from those two guys combined. So like I think we can handle the swings, the Mike Vrabel mood of the day when it comes to Trayvon Henderson. And Scott, hopefully we bank in a couple of 25-point games from him.
Starting point is 00:02:50 And it would be really cool if Braybill wanted to backload those and make him like the second half of the year league winner. So he took Trayvion Henderson ahead of like some structural picks like David Montgomery, Tucker Craft, some interesting players. My guy, Jalen Waddle, in that round. So we like that one. Make sure you tune in for the previous episode to hear Scott's thoughts on Trayvion Henderson. shout out to Trey Camberling.
Starting point is 00:03:12 We need to get like the song. We're going to workshop Scott's thoughts all summer long right here. Shout out to any office fans out there. Then sixth round, you know, the chef's kiss, the Scott Barrett favorite. And Scott's a Parker Washington guy. Brett Whitefield's a Parker Washington guy. And I'm officially a Parker Washington guy based on my incredible amount of exposure to him in FFPC in Dynasty. And now on Underdog, too, because he keeps falling into our laps.
Starting point is 00:03:39 At the, since we spoke last about Parker Washington, Scott, we've got news from John Shipley, the beat reporter for the Jacksonville Jaguars, sort of alluding to Jacksonville is going to try to sign him to a three-year, $55 million deal, which might look like a relative bargain if he does end up having this 90-plus catch season and they sign him at 24 years old for that contract. I saw Houston, like, just reworked things with Nico Collins, gave him a big extension. like wide receiver contracts going up. Three years 55 million sounds about right, Scott. Sounds about right. Yeah. And I shout out to a couple of high stakes FFPC guys that I talked to behind the scenes saying that Parker Washington,
Starting point is 00:04:21 you know, that trade insulation value in dynasty just keeps going up and up. So if you're thinking about selling Parker Washington, be careful with that one because I think once he gets that contract insulation, you're going to have a much bigger argument to squeezing out maybe some additional 2027 rookie draft capital. or pivot type trade. But we're happy to get Parker Washington wide receiver too. Then the pick we talked about, Scott,
Starting point is 00:04:45 was George Kittle at the 702. Since we spoke last about the George Kittle one, Scott, I ended up, I'm running incredibly pure with another FFPC board. I'm doing a slow draft, solo draft, and I ended up having the 112 in that one. And George Kittle fell all the way to me at the 712. But I passed up on George Kittle at the 712.
Starting point is 00:05:07 I already have exposure with you. And I got Jaden Daniels like 712, which was awesome. But why don't you talk a little bit about the George Kittle decision for anybody who didn't see it? And sort of your enthusiasm, your, I would say, injury optimism when it comes to Kittle. What are you hearing from your injury expert friends these days? Yeah, a lot of optimism. They think there's a very good chance he could be ready week one. That doesn't mean he's going to be full effective.
Starting point is 00:05:37 but certainly by the halfway mark should expect, you know, 100% full health. Yeah, the argument I made with you is just, well, last year, you know, he, what, average the same fantasy points per game as Brock Bowers. And the year before that, he led the position in fantasy points per game. And over the last two years combined, he's tied with Justin Jefferson in fantasy points per game. And that's not even counting that this is a tight end pretty. premium format. So yeah, I really like that George Kittlepick. Yeah, I think for me, it makes some sense. And I also think the fact that it's our tight end too,
Starting point is 00:06:16 it's a little less pressure early on to get those tight end points from him. And again, anybody watching this or listen to this that doesn't understand the format, this is FFPC. So it's tight end premium scoring. So it's PPR. So running backs and wide receivers get one point per reception, but the tight ends get 1.5 points per reception. So if a tight end has, has a unbelievable like Travis Kelsey-esque year. He ends up outscoring all the wide receivers. And then, you know, of course this year, Brock Bowers, Trey McBride, and Colston Loveland. Scott, I think you can make an argument.
Starting point is 00:06:50 All three of those guys can end up like top five wide receiver numbers in this format. When we look back on round seven and you look at Kittle and then you look and see like the way the board laid out, at the time that we took Kittle, I advocated for like a Drake May, a Joe Burrow. and a BTJ, a Brian Thomas Jr. When you look at the way that round seven played out, without even looking at the further rounds, is there any other pick in round seven that stands out to you as an exceptional value that maybe you would have liked better than Kittal
Starting point is 00:07:23 or was it Kittal all the way? No, to me it was just Kittle there. Yeah, I kind of, yeah, Jaden Daniels, if he fell, that would have been a different story. But outside of that, no, I think Kettle was definitely the right ball. I do think I'm looking at a lot of landmines in this round, Scott. I think D.K. Metcalf will talk about, like, I like the Brian Thomas Jr. pick, which went two picks after us, because I think that would have been an interesting double bet. It would
Starting point is 00:07:50 have been us betting on the two wide receivers in Jacksonville, maybe sort of a not a fade Jacobi Myers, but a Jacobi Myers is a little bit more of a role player, bet on the two younger wide receivers, and then maybe it would have opened us up to like a Trevor Lawrence correlation in a tournament setting that could have been fun. Joe Burrow, Drake May, those are fine, but I think we like the way quarterback fell for us. But Scott, when I look at this round, D.K. Metcalf could get outscored by Michael Pittman, Jr. That could end up being not a great pick. I mean, it's absolutely going to be the case.
Starting point is 00:08:21 I think D.K. Metcalf is massively overrated. You see it in fantasy every year. He's always overdrafted. He's, to me, you know, sort of a one-trick pony where, and you saw it in his, like, athletic testing, where, you know, all-time great speed score, but one of the worst. three codes ever. And yeah, I think he's a really good deep threat. You can run the goal ball. And then, you know, you'll see the yak show up occasionally. But that's about it. And, you know, he's not a high-end target earner like I think Michael Pittman is. And I think, I think, I think, I think Aaron Rogers are going to fall in love with Michael Pittman as a sort of poor man,
Starting point is 00:08:59 Devante Adams. And, uh, D.K. Metcalf is like a rich man's, uh, Marquezval Descantling. I know people aren't going to like that, but that's kind of how I see it. I know a lot of people think it's very tight. I know I think Michael Pittman's one of the best values on the board. And I really don't have too much interest in D.K. Mecca. Big shout out to Brett Whitefield, who's in the chat right now. Brett joined me yesterday on the live stream. And also we recorded a Dynasty podcast about Brendan Swordsby situation.
Starting point is 00:09:29 Brett live yesterday. Look for Brett to be live next week and many other times early in the morning. Brett and I are morning guys here. Scott, are you a morning guy? Everybody wants to know. No, absolutely not. And also shout out to Scott. Scott, you were in a different time zone. Brett and I are East Coast time zone. You are in Austin, Texas.
Starting point is 00:09:45 So this is even a little bit earlier for Scott. But Scott's going to be here live at least once a week, twice a week in season, I think, Scott. And twice a week sometimes during the summer because we've got so much to cover. And we're going to help you crush your leagues this season right here at Fantasy Point. So exciting, some of the stuff we've been rolling out over on the website. make sure that you are registering and subscribing to Fantasy Points. But if you want to just check out the website, Scott, we've got so many cool free things to look at before you subscribe.
Starting point is 00:10:14 There's some really fun articles that are free. There are some fun tools over at Fantasy Points Data Suite. So you can access and get like a good glimpse of, is this right for me? The functionality of the site has never been better. You get access to all of my dynasty rankings, all of Scott's rankings, all of Ryan Heist rankings, as well as the amazing articles and tools.
Starting point is 00:10:34 Graham Barfield's dropping some awesome stuff this summer. So Scott, anything else cool that you can talk about or is some of the stuff still like top secret information of what's coming out on the website? Oh, man. We've got some incredible stuff coming. I like to under promise and over deliver.
Starting point is 00:10:51 And yeah. So I'm going to keep it close to the vest. But if you're a fantasy point subscriber, let me say we spoil you. You've got some incredible stuff coming. and hopefully we can get a lot of it up before week one. Yeah, very, very cool stuff. And then we're also going to give a special announcement.
Starting point is 00:11:10 We're going to be giving away some Scott Fishbowl entries. You've got to be a fantasy points subscriber in order to get access to it. So if you want to play in Scott Fishbowl, we're going to sort of announce, I think I guess Monday, Scott will announce sort of how this thing will roll out. But go and register on the site if you want access to a, Scott Fishbowl entry. We're going to be given a couple away. Hopefully on this show. Though the entry,
Starting point is 00:11:36 the details will be ironed out by Monday. I'll give out like a proper, a proper like instructions and all that. But this weekend, make sure you go and register at fantasy points.com. Keep talking about round seven, though. Let's get back to it. The D.K. Metcalfe one,
Starting point is 00:11:52 that's, there's some red flags there. I'll say Michael Wilson. I am not opposed to Michael Wilson, but round seven feels a little steep. me considering like a lot of the early hype has been with Marvin Harrison Jr. I think that could end up backfiring. Cortland Sutton, I think, could end up backfiring this year. He's getting a little bit older. And then we've got Jalen Waddle there. And then I'll throw out RICO Dowdell, Scott. I think
Starting point is 00:12:15 like I don't mind RICO Dowdell, but I don't want any part of round seven RICO Dowdell. I think I'd even, I'd much prefer taking the shot on Jalen Warren absorbing some of those Kenneth Gainwell targets that were so valuable down the stretch, especially with the familiar. that he has with Aaron Rogers, your quick thoughts on that backfield. I know that you're still ironing it out, but do you have an initial lien if you're going to lead into one of those Pittsburgh guys at cost? No, I think it's really gross. I have no interest in either guy. You know, I've always taken very much a bell-cower bust approach. And like, really, I center every year's draft around the mid to late round running back value where like last year, it was Cam Scadaboo was the free
Starting point is 00:12:59 square available in round eight round nine whatever it was where like i never felt so we took three running backs in the first five rounds of this draft and i probably wouldn't have taken travion henderson there if uh if we didn't already have two running backs instead maybe i would have went david montgomery as my rb too but with this build i thought he was a perfect fit um but yeah so i never would have taken three running backs of the first five rounds last year because I knew cam scataboo was there and we had to take him this year i'm i'm having a difficult time finding running back value i like after round five and so uh yeah i feel really good about the build that we took where we took our three premium running backs in the first five rounds we have
Starting point is 00:13:47 our upside bet in travion headerson we have our guaranteed starters in the first two um and yeah i i I don't like any of these guys. Theo, like all these guys, you're going to hype up Jonathan Brooks. You're going to hype up Jordan Mason. You're going to hype up some of these other guys. But I have zero interest in any of it. Yeah, I get it.
Starting point is 00:14:09 And I've been working behind the scenes on, I'm going to roll out a zero RB strategy show right here on Fantasy Football Daily. I have a Hero RB strategy show. And then I usually do like a Zero and Hero RB targets list. did it as an article last year and a pod over at fantasy points.com and I did it as a podcast here over at fantasy football daily. And I'm still planning on doing those, but it's harder this year, Scott. Structurally right now, I think the biggest takeaway, I'm drafting a lot of FFPC. I maxed out the puppy on underdog. So I'm doing a bunch of slow drafts over on underdog,
Starting point is 00:14:44 just sort of like getting the lay of the land, trying to win some money, of course. But drafting all the time is it's it's really a it's really really really I like the my builds when I'm taking two running backs in the first three rounds a lot more than in previous years and I think that the it's going to get even a little bit more pronounced that a heavy early running back approach um is going to be the way to kind of build your teams because within the last two weeks we've had awful injury news on bucky irving which sort of takes away one of those potential edge fourth round running backs with upside takes him out of the equation. And then, of course, the Josh Jacobs news has taken away one of like the best volume bets in the beginning of round three out of the equation.
Starting point is 00:15:29 So like both of those guys are a lot scarier to click on right now to say the least. I think Josh Jacobs probably ends up settling into maybe by next week he'll be a late fourth, early fifth round pick. And Bucky Irving probably about the same. So Bucky goes in the fourth here. But again, we started this draft a while ago. So I agree with you, Scott. Running back is tricky this year and people are paying for it. I do think also, though, it's just from a game theory perspective, I think a lot of smart people like yourself are saying the exact same thing. It's not just Scott and I on fantasy points. You're seeing some other content creators advocating for maybe a running back, running back start or two running backs in the first three
Starting point is 00:16:12 rounds. I've had a lot of them on fantasy football daily and everybody's sort of seeing it the same way. So in a huge contest like the ffPC, I might mix in a few zero RB and extreme hero RB approaches where maybe I get access to running backs that the market might be fading a little bit just to have a little bit of variance and be a little bit different. Your thoughts on that, just the fact that I think everybody's seeing it that way. Yeah, again, I don't think it's the year for it. I think, and I think that really needs to inform the optimal strategy. Again, we're still early in the process. Things can change, but no, I think last year was an amazing year to go ZERRB because of Cam Scadaboo, some of the other mid to late round value this year. I kind of like taking, yeah, doing an approach like we did, is three running
Starting point is 00:17:07 back in the first five. Yeah, and a shout out to Steve, my man, Steve from Queens, Fantasy Sopranos, if you play high stakes, Fantasy Sopranos over at NFFC and FFPC. Steve and I competed last week, Stephen Dave Hubbard, who's one of the all-time best high-stakes players to ever live. Dave Hubbard, Steve, and a bunch of Dan Williamson, B-Bagg-Batoba, the Go-Bills trio, we all, Mike Schope, we all competed in the FFPC Hardway draft last Friday. that on this channel. So if you see, if you want to take a look at sort of who the higher, higher money players, some of the high stakes hitters are steaming up in drafts right now, go check out the breakdown ahead of the Hardway League with Mike Schope as well.
Starting point is 00:17:51 And a big appreciation to all the FFPC viewers and listeners, as well as the NFFC guys who consume this content. We, we love that. We love seeing them over here. If you want to compete against Scott and I as well as Steve, Dave Hubbard, a B. Babatatobah, and many more in the FFPC streets. Use the code points. If you're a new, a new FFPC user, you're going to get $25 free with any sign-up. So you could enter the $35 best ball contest, win a lot of money, and get an entry for only $10 using our sign-up code. Again, the sign-up code is points. Go check that out. So we get through round seven here. I will say I like the Mackay Lemon pick at the 7-12, especially when I, well, you can at all you want. And I sort of had this conversation with Brett
Starting point is 00:18:36 Whitefield. I'll be the resident Mackay Lemon guy. The vibes are good right now. We had some good stuff coming out of OTAs. So I'm into Mackay Lemon at cost. You also court, we see the number 12 drafter correlate Mackay Lemon with Jalen Hertz. I think that could be not bad, especially if McI Lemon comes on and sees moves along. Eighth round keeps going. We see a bunch of running back Scott, Blake Corum, Jalen Warren, Kyle Minungai, Tony Pollard, J.K. Dobbins. They all go. We also see Isaiah likely, who I think is a great value there inside a round eight, a guy who could potentially be, if Malik Neighbors struggles to get on the field, there's a non-zero chance likely could lead the team in targets. I think with Neighbors playing 12 games this year, likely will probably
Starting point is 00:19:18 be the number two target on New York. You get him inside a round eight. I like that pick. Then it gets to us, Scott. Chris Godwin goes off the board, and I think we both really liked the Michael Pittman selection. We talked about we can, in our queue, We had Kenneth Gainwell, we had Caleb Williams, and then I think we had a couple of these other tight ends, but we didn't really need tight end. So we had, it was came down to like a Gainville, Gainwell versus a Michael Pittman decision. We knew that our quarterback target, Caleb Williams, would be there in round nine because the 101 drafter selected Jaden Daniels with the 701. Usually when somebody takes a quarterback in the first seven rounds, they're not going to double tap in rounds eight or nine unless they're like a complete stone. that's sort of a low EV kind of bet.
Starting point is 00:20:05 But your thoughts on Michael Pittman, we alluded to it. I think we're both big Michael Pittman people right now. He's an easy click where he's going. And I think he does lead Pittsburgh in targets this year. Yeah. Again, I'm not a basketball guy, but if I were, I would have like 100% exposure to Michael Pittman. He is, you know, I talk about upside wins championships.
Starting point is 00:20:26 I don't know that he is league winning upside. But in terms of likelihood to beat his ADP, if he stays healthy, healthy to me it feels like 95% like just a really good high floor pick medium projection to me a lot higher than what is ADP suggests I think I think Aaron Rogers are going to fall in love with him I think he's going to be the target hog in that offense and it's going to be a way different offense than what you saw last year Arthur Smith more run heavy Mike McCarthy just you know way more pass heavy and yeah I just I think uh And I'm still kind of bullish on Aaron Rogers. I know that's like the hot take, but it's, listen, the guy won, it is prime, was maybe prime for prime, the best quarterback ever. Like, I don't think that's like an egregious take by any. I don't think as good as Patrick Mahomes is, best quarterback in the game. I don't think his prime is ever matching Aaron Rogers prime.
Starting point is 00:21:29 And so what happened with Aaron Rogers, one MVP, one MVP, one. MVP had a broken thumb that he played through all year goes to the Jets gets hurt in the first nap next year deals with the number of injury and so like all we last year a bunch of injuries bottom three offensive line no no receivers and so it's you know I don't know like even if he is kind of washed and old and injury prone it's like dude he's still like one of the most cerebral quarterbacks of the game he could still Yeah, there's still some like really incredible throws he put on tape last year. You know, Tom Brady, you know, he was winning Super Bowls into his mid-40s.
Starting point is 00:22:12 So I don't know. I'm kind of optimistic on at least Pittman, if no one else in this offense, as like the underneath guy, lower ADOT than a DK Metcalf with with some PPR cheat code potential. Yeah, I actually like doing the double tap with. Michael Pittman Jr. in this range and then taking Jeremy Bernard's super late. Jeremy Bernard's there in like the 20th round. I like him as a second round draft pick. People are kind of fading in redraft. But things happen. If there's any sort of contingent upside in this offense, I think Jeremy Bernard could be a fun one. And definitely could have some manufactured touches in this offense. But I'm with you. I think I talked about Jill and Warren being sort of a value. Michael Pittman Jr. I think is a really good value. And it's interesting, Scott, because we
Starting point is 00:23:02 We've had this really strong hit rate on traded wide receivers. But if you ask everybody sort of who's the value of the traded wide receiver right now, everybody's going to say DJ Moore or Jalen Wattle, where Michael Pittman is just chilling there four rounds later. So we take him. The 101 drafter takes Kenneth Gainwell. And Kenneth Gainwell, everybody, price of a brick is going up. I took Kenneth Gainwell at the 801 the other day.
Starting point is 00:23:25 I don't think that price exists in a week, especially with the Bucky Irving news. There's a lot of very smart people, Brett Whitefield, included who are on the Kenneth Gainwell sort of potentially outscoring Bucky Irving this year outright. So Gainwell is going to move up. Irving will move down a little bit. That's going to become a tricky backfield for a lot of drafters.
Starting point is 00:23:44 Then the 101 drafter drafts Mark Andrews. I think that's good value at the 901. But we get Caleb Williams at the 902. And Scott, this is one where if you look at the board, there's a bunch of good quarterback values inside around 9 and inside around 10. But getting Caleb Williams with
Starting point is 00:24:00 Colston Loveland, this is the correlation play. This is, this is, I think, an awesome correlation play to have. We just saw Caleb Williams hyper target Colston Loveland down the stretch. If that happens to, if it's 90% of that sort of target volume for a season long outcome, then I think Caleb Williams, he's going to have a big season, and I think Colston Loveland to the absolute moon this year, Loveland has tight end one overall potential. Would be my bet to be the tight end three, but he could finish as the tight end one. And I think Caleb Williams, despite Chris Wecht, projecting him to be a little lower than I think we were on him, Scott. I think this pick is a really good one. Well, that's the Brett Whitefield's influence.
Starting point is 00:24:41 Brett is just really down on Caleb Williams as a talent. And I, you know, that's not just a Brett take is, you know, a lot of like the best ball knowers, film experts, guys who watch an insane amounts of tape who I really respect feel very similarly, that he's super overrated. And you see it in the fantasy points data over the last two years, Caleb Williams bought, or, yeah, bottom, bottom three and catchable throw rate both years, which is, you know, really awful. But, you know, the flip side of that is he was, what, QB7 last year by fantasy points per game. And he did that ranking bottom three and catchable throw rate. Like, imagine if he's just average this year. Imagine if he's good.
Starting point is 00:25:29 It's a Ben Johnson offense, which, you know, always very high in pace of play, pass rate over expectation. You have this amazing receiving core. Everyone's tripping over themselves to draft Luther Burden, to draft Colston Loveland, Romo Dunesay, and I am too. And yet somehow we managed to get their quarterback in round nine with, with the stack, with the Colston Loveland. So I think I would have stumped up for for Mark Andrews there actually.
Starting point is 00:26:00 But no, I think that was a great pick given what was on the board. I know we also talked about potentially getting Trevor Lawrence, Justin Herbert, Jackson Dart, Brock Purdy, Dak Prescott in the next round. But, you know, all those, we kind of started a quarterback run and all those guys went off the board by our next pick. Yeah, I think we did a couple of times. we influenced the draft board. And it's not like... And you called it too.
Starting point is 00:26:27 I think in each instant. You're like, we got to take a quarterback. There's going to be a run. I'm like, all right. Yeah, I mean, you draft enough. You start being able to sort of see the runs. I think that one huge takeaway is if you haven't drafted yet, there's always the allure of Josh Allen.
Starting point is 00:26:42 And, you know, to quote my guy, Dan Williamson, who I split a lot of teams with a really great FFPC drafter and also a really good podcaster. He always says, like, He leans towards quarterback when there's no other edge at any other position. And I think that's just a simple way of playing it. And it's a really kind of been a helpful way of a simple rule to follow if you're a drafter. When there's no edge anywhere else, you can lean into that high-end quarterback pick. But I look at having to use a third round pick on Josh Allen this year.
Starting point is 00:27:12 And then there's a little bit of a gap between Josh Allen and QB2, Lamar Jackson. But when you look at the way seventh rounds, eighth rounds, ninth rounds and 10th rounds are going, we can end up with a lot of guys with with incredible hit rates at the quarterback position coming out of these rounds. Scott, I got Jaden Daniels the other day at like the 712, 801 turn. Like to me that feels like stealing. Joe Burrow, if everything goes right, is a 45 to 50 touchdown pass guy this year. Drake May last year, incredible. Jalen Hertz, you know, obviously there's some concerns about the offense changing,
Starting point is 00:27:46 but he's been an ATM machine for fantasy points. And then like you said, we take Caleb. Mahomes is back. I think he's, there's some red flags there with like the injury and, and also Rashi Rice, but he's back at OTAs. Trevor Lawrence, Justin Herbert, Dak Prescott, Jackson Dart, Brock Purdy, just money, money values right there. So we take Caleb Williams. Then we see the, the round nine, if you're, if you're listening on the podcast, a lot of red, a lot of purple, tight end cleanup, as well as quarterback cleanup. A couple of wide receivers going this round. Rashad White, Dak Prescott, end the round. Get into round.
Starting point is 00:28:22 round 10. And we start seeing some guys fly off the board. Jordan Addison, I really like at the 1002. Scott, that might be my favorite value in this round. Your thoughts on Addison, just a bounceback guy. Had 19 touchdown catches his first two years. Last year, the wheels fell off for him and Justin Jefferson. But I don't see any reason. Like Jordan, Jordan Addison, when I'm taking him in the 10th round, feels like a nice value. Um, yeah, I mean, I don't really. see enough upside to get excited about him. You know, I think whether it's J.J. McCarthy or Kyler Murray, it's not really a guy who's shown he can support two
Starting point is 00:29:04 super fantasy relevant wide receivers. And you have Justin Jefferson as the alpha there. You want to make him happy after last year. I don't know. I think you're, I think, you know, yeah, put him next to Quentin Johnson, put him next to Xavier Worthy, Wondell Robinson. he's certainly the best value, but he's not, he's not someone I'm, I'm, you know, jumping on the table for it. Yeah. And again, it could be a more of a best ball type type pick. That's what it feels like to me.
Starting point is 00:29:36 I just think it's a, if I'm chasing upside in the flex, throwing Jordan Addison in there, you know, we've all seen it. We've seen the spike weeks from him. If we have a little bit of quarterback stability this year, or like, you know, I talked about this with Ryan Heath. Ryan Heath and I discussed our breakout offenses. You can find it right here on the YouTube channel, one of our recent shows. We're both gravitoring towards Minnesota having a turnaround season. I think there could be multiple ADPs like carried if we end up seeing some quarterback stability in production like we've seen every other year with Kevin O'Connell. Looking through the round, you get the two quarterbacks, dart, purdy, both good values in that range.
Starting point is 00:30:15 Rodriguez, worthy, Jacori Kroski Merritt, Quentin Johnston. then Kenyan Sadiq goes one spot ahead of where we picked. So Sadiq goes off the board. And at this point, we only had three wide receivers. We also had three running backs. So we talked about how the 10-11 turn felt like a wide receiver round for us, like a bang-bang wide receiver picks, just get a little bit caught up at wide receiver.
Starting point is 00:30:41 You start getting down to like the 12th and 13th round in these. And you're down to a term that some people use would be the last draft wide receiver. And there's not like, that's not like the last wide receiver you're drafting, but sort of the last like comfort level wide receivers go off the board in that like 12, 13. And then we're really sort of thrown darts a little bit when you get into like rounds 14, 15, 16 at the wide receiver spot. So we end up sort of like arguing it out. And then Scott, we had in our queue, Wondell Robinson, Casey Concepcion, Jaden Higgins, Jaden Reed, and Matthew Golden. We argued this one out to the point that I,
Starting point is 00:31:19 fell asleep and we clocked out with Wondell Robinson at like 1.30 in the morning. And I think you hated this pick, but I liked the Wondell Robinson hit pick here because my argument to you was like Casey and Jaden Higgins will both be there. And I like the idea of Jaden Reed and Matthew Golden, but Wondell Robinson has had 140 targets in back to back seasons. Last year we saw him go over a thousand yards as a receiver. He's still relatively young and he just signed with his old head coach from New York. So like getting Wando Robinson in round 10, it feels really, really gross, but I think it's a wide
Starting point is 00:31:54 receiver 30. I think it's a guy that could be somewhere in that wide receiver 26 through 36 range. So I get one wide receiver 30 because nobody wants to draft him. He's still a PPR value. I don't think it's a guy that is going to win us a million dollars, but I think it's a guy that can get us through
Starting point is 00:32:12 weeks. Yeah, I hated this pick. You try to justify it as, you know, depth piece. high floor. Yeah, get us to. He's just not a difference maker to me. I also think he ran insanely pure last year with, you know, no Malik neighbors, Jackson Dart really bawling out.
Starting point is 00:32:30 I don't see a lot of potential for him behind Carnell Tate and what's probably going to be a worse offense, more run heavy, slower pace. But yeah, I don't know. Like, you made a bunch of concessions to me. So, yeah, I can, I can, you know, it's, it's not going to ruin my week. It ruined my day, but it won't ruin my week. So Casey Concepcion goes at the, the 1102, and we end up getting him. I think that was a good one.
Starting point is 00:33:06 I do, I do wish, part of me wishes we would have just jammed in Jaden Reed for one of these two picks where Jaden Reed gets paid this off season. I think that he's had a 20, he had a 20 rush attempt season two years ago in 2024. Maybe if this Josh Jacobs madness continues, we could see that number trend up to like 30. I think Jaden Reed has a little bit of an upside argument. Yeah, I think he's another basketball guy, you know, comes off the field and 12 personnel, which Green Bay likes to play a lot of. I don't think he has a, like, I like what we did, right?
Starting point is 00:33:42 to me, Casey Concepcion ceiling play. Jaden Higgins' ceiling play. And, you know, the floor doesn't really matter to me. So, like, I would have been fine just, you know, swapping out Wondell Robinson with Seattle defense there. And I feel like I'd view our roster exactly the same. Okay, so we get Casey Concepcion at the 1102. We get Wondell.
Starting point is 00:34:06 So we caught up a little bit at wide receiver. We get all the way back to the 1211. And Jaden Higgins fell to us. I think we're really happy about this. Jaden Higgins, spoiler alert. We also took them in our dynasty startup. This is a player that Brett Whitefield is also really, really high on. But Jaden Higgins, to me, looks like the number two target in Houston this year.
Starting point is 00:34:28 They drafted him very early in the second round last year. He flashed at multiple points in the second half. So like Jaden Higgins getting him here at the 1211 felt pretty good. Yeah, I thought this is great. This is very much a hat tip to Brett Whitefield. This is one of his, you know, ride or die players this year, certainly from a fantasy perspective.
Starting point is 00:34:51 And then, you know, we did draft him in our dynasty league. Brett thinks there's a chance. Houston moves on from Nico Collins. Well, Nico Collins just got the extension. So he just extended. So maybe that changes things.
Starting point is 00:35:02 Yeah, but I mean, they could still trade him or something, but or maybe the contract. I mean, it's that. But yeah, I just,
Starting point is 00:35:08 you know, and even if Nico's still there, you know if this offense lives up to the expectations we have for it after cj strad's ricky year they both certainly can hit yeah can we get jaden higgins in that hundred target range this year i think i think if he does i think he's going to be really really fun and again it's such a cheap bet to make at the 1211 when i look at the 11th round uh and i'm trying to pick picks that i like i talked about Jaden Reed. I like the Brenton Strange Chigakanco picks inside a round 11. I like the Matthew Golden pick inside of round 11. And then I look through it. I guess the Jonah Coleman feels like a
Starting point is 00:35:49 player that could hit, but it might be a really annoying player for you to roster for multiple weeks of the year until like one of those guys goes down. Of course, J.K. Dobbins probably missed a little time. He misses a little time every year. I think that would be an entry point for Coleman, but he feels like a guy that might be really annoying to roster for the first month of the season. And then I do like the Tyrone Tracy value in round 11. If Cam Scataboo is slow out the gate, could Tracy end up getting maybe a couple of starts to start out the year? I just think that way. So when I look at round 11 and round 12, those are the picks I like. Aconquo and Strange are kind of both fun offenses. Occoncow could be the number two target. Strange had good productions
Starting point is 00:36:29 through 12, 12 games played last year. Any picks stand out to you around 11 and 12 that you said, hey, I really like those guys. I'd like some exposure to them. I like the Stefan Diggs pick, even though he's not currently on a team, but just looking at what he did last year, he's top five in just about every per route stat.
Starting point is 00:36:49 I think he's still got it to some extent. I wouldn't be surprised if, I mean, like, dude, if he goes to, if he goes to Buffalo, are you going to take him above where DJ Moore went? Yeah. think I would. No way. You think you're going to take DJ? No, no, I'm not thinking it's. Or is more washed than Stefan Diggs is. I think if so I'll say this. Okay, we can go down and play a little ADP ruleette here. I think if Diggs goes to Buffalo, I think Diggs might scheme up to
Starting point is 00:37:14 like where people are taking Cortland Sutton Jacob Myers. So you do have a good argument there. Like people are getting involved with the Buffalo one. But I think people are head over heels with DJ Moore. He's like a fourth round pick on draft games right now. Kansas City and people lose their minds. He can go to Eagles after the trade, A.J. Brown, Washington. Yeah, there's, dude. So I thought that was a really good pick. Jacksonville, I would say, it's a non-zero on Jacksonville because we're hearing
Starting point is 00:37:43 Jacksonville involved with the A.J. Brown discussions. And then I'll say that the other- Why would they get involved with A.J. Brown when they already have A.J. Brown, Prime A.J. Brown and Parker, Washington. Prime A.J. It's like a combination of prime A.J. Brown and Prime West Welker all into one with Parker Washington. That's that's that's right. And prime Tyreek and prime Calvin Johnson.
Starting point is 00:38:04 Why not go Julio Jones? He's like a smaller. When I watch Parker Washington, I see Antonio Brown with Julio Jones size. That's it. You know, Scott is Scott is not unenthusiastic about drafting Parker Washington right now. Yeah, I think I think round 12 round 11, nothing there that's like, oh my God, this guy just won the draft.
Starting point is 00:38:23 Get to round 13. Antonio Williams goes off the board at the 13.01. Williams is another interesting one because if Williams avoids the Stefan Diggs landing in Washington one, and there's a lot of like Washington commanders beat reporters who think both Diggs brothers could end up on the commanders. They both played high school football in Montgomery County, Maryland. Commanders play in PG County, Maryland. So if you know the DMV, that's like side by side counties like 10 minutes away, 15 minutes away from each other, the high school and where the commanders play. That makes a little sense.
Starting point is 00:38:55 but Antonio Williams, I think by the end of the summer, could be drafted higher if he avoids one of those guys. But I do think if Diggs or somebody signs there, Williams drops considerably. Then we get OTC. And this is like, we didn't argue for a couple of rounds, but we argued on this one. This is a Theo Grevenger pick, not a Scott Barrett one. Nicholas Singleton, running back Tennessee Titans, we take as our running back four. Scott, I made a number of sort of arguments to you, and ultimately you just sort of capitulated. I brought up Matthew Stafford as our QB2.
Starting point is 00:39:32 We could have taken. There wasn't really anybody else that was like so good. We talked about Eli Stowers, who ended up going in the middle of the 14th round. But with Nick Singleton, we only were at three running backs, and I like the idea of Singleton, where Singleton, you end up in Tennessee, where it's Tony Pollard, who's been really good. Tai J. Spears, who struggled to stay on the field last year, but also had his moments, especially the end of 2024,
Starting point is 00:39:58 and his rookie season. But with Nicholas Singleton, it's a new coaching staff, new offensive coordinator and Brian Dable. And Brian Dable, we've seen this multiple years, and you hate this. You hate this one, Scott. But Tyrone Tracy two years ago, Cam Scadaboo last year,
Starting point is 00:40:14 fourth round pick, and a fifth round pick, who both had huge production and fantasy. Now you get the fifth round pick in Nicholas, Nicholas Singleton. And then you go back to Buffalo. Devin Singletary was a third round pick, who ended up making an impact as a rookie as well. Singletary coming out of like Florida Atlantic, not a fast guy could have easily been a day three guy.
Starting point is 00:40:35 So three times I've seen rookies contribute as running backs in Brian Daibble offenses in recent memory, but you say no way, can't happen a fourth time. This is a bad pick. Yeah, I think that's an awful. I think it's this was I think I told you this is the worst pick on the board right now like happy to take him and add him to our team because it's like a defer deferring to you like I'm I'm more intellectually humble than maybe I appear on this podcast sometimes like very open to being
Starting point is 00:41:03 wrong but I just love arguing and stating my case I don't think the day three dable argument works when it's I love Tyrone Tracy coming out there is no one else on that team except for a washed Devin Singletary. Cam Scataboo, you can't call him a day three running back when I had a round two great on him. And what did we see last year? It was like a round two caliber running back. And so what do we really have here is, you know, not just like a barely day three like Scataboo was, but you have a round five running back who's very clearly the RB3 on his team.
Starting point is 00:41:40 And it's not a good team. It's like not a team. I'm excited to roster even like the RB2 on. There's like plenty of RB-2s. I'd rather take over Singleton here. So, yeah, I like Spears. I think he's better than what he's shown. I like Pollard.
Starting point is 00:41:57 I don't see any pathway unless, you know, you know, both of those running back suffered, you know, injuries. And Singletary's forced to be the guy. Singleton's forced to be the guy. Okay. So Nick Singleton, okay, you're an upside wins championships guy. That's like your whole motto. You wake up every day and you say it in the mirror before you go on the air and before you write articles. And you're fading a super athletic running back who had a hundred and two receptions in college for nearly a thousand receiving yards.
Starting point is 00:42:32 He had a 41 catch season in 2024 alongside Tyler Warren. He had 41 catches out of the backfield with Tyler Warren having like 100 reception season. He had the most yards from scrimmage in the history of Penn State. The guy has 45 touchdowns as a runner and had nine receiving touchdowns. So like when we talk about Nicholas Singleton, we're talking about elite college production. Is there problems? You're talking about a guy who didn't even lead his own backfield and carries. He's a, he's a change of he's a change of pace guy.
Starting point is 00:43:05 He's a, you know, a glorified scat back. He's, he's. my model loved Tyrone Tracy. My model loves Cam Scada, it did not like Nicholas Singleton. It had a round five great on him, which is where he went. And what are the expectations
Starting point is 00:43:20 for a round five running back? It's like nothing. It's like special teams. It's depth. It's, and like what's his upside? Even if Taji Spears were to suffer an injury, it's still just like,
Starting point is 00:43:31 okay, four targets and three carries per game max. And what is that worth in fantasy? Nothing. Four targets. three carries per game max for Nick Singleton. Let us know in the comments. With a healthy Tony Pollard? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:45 Let's let us know what you think about this one. Yeah, I agree with you. Pollard's the man to start out. But again, this is a contingent upside pick. And when I look at where I'm getting Nick Singleton versus some of these guys that are going inside of like round 11 and 12 and I'm getting Singleton around 13. I think there's a little bit of a difference there. Scott, the chat wants to know if you're looking for running back in round 13 and 14,
Starting point is 00:44:07 who's a pick that you. think is a better pick than Singleton. I'll say for me, there's one pick here, which I think is pretty fun inside of round like 14 because of the nature of the offense and because of how valuable the running back role is in the offense, I think Tank Bigsby in round 14. If Sequin were to miss some time, Bigsby's like a free square, spend all your Fab Four type guy if he's available on the waiver wire and you just park him on your bench and sort of like let it roll.
Starting point is 00:44:37 your thoughts on a guy maybe in round 13 and 14 where you don't like the Nick Singleton pick who's the guy that you think is a decent pick? Yeah, I think that's a good call on Tank Bigsby. A little more controversially, I like Kalin Black. I would have much rather Kalin Black over Nicholas Singleton.
Starting point is 00:44:55 This is another running back prospect. I didn't think it was anything special. But, I mean, you have Christian McCaffrey, one of the most injury prone running backs in football. And we've seen time and time again, just like any random running back coming in. And when given that starting role, if there's no Christian McCaffrey, being really successful from a fantasy perspective. And so maybe he's not the RB2. Maybe he's, and again, I didn't like the prospect.
Starting point is 00:45:27 But, you know, one of these days, I feel like Kyle Shannon has to make a good draft one of these days. So I'll say I don't mind the Kalin Black pick. think Jordan James and Kaelin Black is one of the most important running back competitions that is going to happen this offseason. And I think if you're drafting on like NFFC, an underdog this is different or draft Kings best ball, it's different because you're in the double tapping backup running backs is like a low EV strategy. But if you're in a format like FFP or NFFC, there is a preseason waiver run. There's actually two preseason waiver runs essentially in FFPC. Um, but. You get one at the late, and then you get another one that's sort of like week before the game.
Starting point is 00:46:08 And then you have another short waiver wire run right after like the Wednesday, Thursday games. So I get the, or excuse me, it might be the Thursday Friday. I got to double check that one, guys. But you get two multiple waiver wire runs. I could double tap Jordan James and Kalin Black and like let the chips fall. And whoever's in the handcuff roll, I continue to roster. Whoever the number three back is, I just cut them in the first waiver wire run. Because when we look at like how valuable that running back run,
Starting point is 00:46:34 is the volume that Christian McCaffrey sustained last year. Any week the Christian McCaffrey would miss this year, it would just be a plug in play from one of these two guys. I'll say that there was no like willingness for the 49ers staff to like trust rookie running backs. A lot of times it's like that younger veteran. So maybe it's Jordan James, but I do think everything Scott said about Kalin Black also applies to Jordan James.
Starting point is 00:47:00 Round 14 comes around to us and we actually go defense here. we take the Seattle Seahawks. Yeah. Seattle, Seattle, oh, shout out to Fantasy Brotime. It also is San Francisco is in the free look week one. So anybody drafting on FFPC or NFFC, the free look is awesome. When you draft these guys to play in the early games, you have the ability to take them out of your lineup. So you're going to see. So for example, like last year, Keenan Allen was on a lot of benches, had that big week one game.
Starting point is 00:47:31 people were allowed to put him into the lineup because you're getting a free look at him in that game with the Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs. It doesn't happen all the time, but sometimes you see like a random guy putting up huge number of points. It even could apply to maybe a wide receiver who houses a kick return for a touchdown and then gets a couple of catches. Sometimes there's like a random tight end who ends up with a few receptions, gets you like a 13 point week. You might just want to bank the points. So drafting players from those early games, there's an. edge to it that you start to see, especially in the later rounds. It's like if I'm stuck, just throw a dart at some backup wide receiver in some of these early games. We end up taking
Starting point is 00:48:11 Seattle defense, which I think was an edge. We don't really need to explain it. They have an awesome defense. They return most of their talent from their Super Bowl championship team. And I think, Scott, the great thing about drafting an elite defense is we don't have to play the waiver wire game. We just sit back and let Seattle start every single week. If there is a incredible edge pick defense. We can pick them up and put them in over Seattle. But when it's when it's all done, anybody who had Seattle last year,
Starting point is 00:48:38 anybody who had Houston last year, you just set it and forget it. And if you play a lot of fantasy football, you don't want to have to do waivers for like, shout out to the IRS, 75 leagues or whatever sick oh number it's going to be this year. So we get Seattle off the board there. Big shout out to everybody live in the chat right now
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Starting point is 00:49:17 And then we had this plan all along when we took George Kittle. I was like, okay, but we're also taking Jake Tongis as like sort of a quote unquote handcuffed tight end because if Scott's injury optimism is wrong, I think Jake Tongis will end up being like a heavily added player in like preseason waiver runs in leagues where he's available. Tonjus had a solid year last year, gets the extension. Does he have the upside of Kittle in this off offense? Absolutely not.
Starting point is 00:49:45 But I think if we had Chris Wecked on the stream and we're like, hey, Chris, where would we project Jake Tongis if we knew George Kettle would play zero games this year? He'd probably have him as like tight end 13 range. And I think for week one, not only do you. get the free look with tangis, but you end up with a player that if Kittles out, you might just have Kittal and Tondjus has like a preferred flex regardless of the of the free look. So your thoughts on double tapping San Francisco tight ends. Yeah, that was your idea. I thought it was a great one. When you get into this range, like I think guys who are just easy cuts, like that's like
Starting point is 00:50:24 a perk honestly is oh, hey, George Kittles fully healthy for a week one. Okay, let's. cut Jake Tonges and you grabbed someone off waivers who, you know, was popping all throughout the summer that we might have missed in this May draft. Okay. So now we are actually OTC. We timed this for a live YouTube stream very, very well. We actually have three hours left on the clock. So this isn't like, you know, this isn't like we're like up against it. But we're going to make a pick right here and we're going to talk it out. And we didn't really talk about this one too much. I will say that, Scott, you wanted to take Malik Willis as our QB2. I totally would have been down with that one.
Starting point is 00:51:04 But he goes two picks after Jake Tongis. So right now, I think we do need to have a QB2 just for safety because this draft feels like a QB hoarder draft. So you end up with like there's some options for us. I think really Daniel Jones stands out to me as the quarterback that I'd want right here. He returned to OTAs this week. He was a QB1 last year on a points per game basis. We have some mobility with him. With Caleb Williams, we have the early by week.
Starting point is 00:51:37 Let us know in the chat. What's Caleb Williams by week? I think it's a little bit early, but I know he doesn't overlap with Daniel Jones. But I'm looking at Daniel Jones, but I don't think we take him here in the 16th. I think we let him come around to us in the 17th. The drafter at the 101 already has two quarterbacks.
Starting point is 00:51:53 So I don't think he's going to go quarterback here. with one of his next two, with his next pick. He just, I don't know, he's got two picks. Does he take quarterback? I don't think so. So I think we're looking at a couple of players. Let me pull up the board. Denzel Boston is one that had a really strong early OTA.
Starting point is 00:52:12 I sort of talked about him with Brett Whitefield as the, hey, Denzel Boston has this upside where maybe if we're, and I don't think we're wrong on it, but if maybe we're wrong on Casey Concepcion, maybe Boston's the one. And I think there's some value. to double tapping the Cleveland rookie wide receiver situation and seeing which one's the more valuable one after like week three, week four. There's potential also Jerry Judy moves on
Starting point is 00:52:36 and both of these guys are on the field an absolute ton. I think they're both very good. So I'll throw Denzel Boston out there. I think Demand Claiborne is an interesting one if we're looking to get sort of a arbitrage Keaton Mitchell type rookie year outcome in a backfield where I don't like either one of the starting running backs that much with Mason and Aaron. Aaron Jones. Kamani Vidal is a free square like handcuff if you're not believing in the Keaton Mitchell hype. Sean Tucker, if we're really fading Bucking Irving, does Sean Tucker have some value here? Even though he's a running back three, if Bucking Irving is going to be banged up all year or can't get over the shoulder, maybe the foot reaggraves. I'll throw him out there. And then the tight ends,
Starting point is 00:53:18 I know you threw in the queue, but we don't need them. Patrick, Pat Freyrmouth, Greg Dulcich. Dulcich, I kind of like more. I think Dolcich, like, if we want to go with a this year's version of, which people love kind of painting this narrative, Greg Dolcich is this year's version of 2025, Jawan Johnson, a sort of out-of-nowhere, PPR scam, tight end, who benefits from a lack of pass catchers around him. Dulcich has been like a guy that we had high hopes for as a rookie,
Starting point is 00:53:47 has become kind of a journeyman, but he was pretty good down the stretch last year. Bobby Slowick back in Miami. So for me, I'm leading into the wide receiver here and going Denzel Boston. I know you also have Jalen Naylor in there, which it's fine. I get it. Could he be the wide receiver one in Vegas? I think so.
Starting point is 00:54:08 Could Trey Tucker end up being more valuable? Maybe. But I kind of, that's not like a, that's like more of a best ball pick for me attacking Vegas wide receivers than redraft. I don't think you ever going to want to really start Jalen Naylor. Do you have a lean among those players? and chat who are you looking at scott why don't you talk it out so boston claiborne vidal tucker dulcich and then nailer and friarmouth are in the queue as well yeah i i don't really have any
Starting point is 00:54:36 interest in denzil boston or claiborne or vidal or tucker to me it's the case for jalen nailer is he's an ascot he was top ten in uh separation score when lined up out wide last year uh But he's probably the wide receiver one in a Kubiak offense. And so I don't know, maybe we're just underrating him and he could be a thing. But yeah, sure, it's a long shot. We're in round 16. Daniel Jones, like you said, we need a QB2. And like there's a big falloff behind Daniel Jones, like don't really like anyone else.
Starting point is 00:55:14 And then the tight ends. Pat Friermuth, there was a report today talking about how, you know, his usage last year was sort of an anomaly with Arthur Smith, who's like King, hipster, doesn't like using his good players, likes using the weird randos. So he should be back into a full-time role. We talked about the Aaron Rogers PPR scam. He doesn't want to take sacks anymore, so he just gets the ball out really quick. And then Greg Dulcich as, you know, I know we don't think super highly of Greg Dulcich,
Starting point is 00:55:48 but he's still a really good pass catching tight end on a team with like, the worst receiving core and football. Gun to my head, I'd probably go Daniel Jones here, even with, you know, just because the, the team next to us doesn't need a quarterback, but also just like, it seems there's a bigger gap between Jones and anyone else. If not, then probably Dulcich. Yeah, and honestly, I'm usually like pretty good at predicting what the 101 draftor is. is going to do. I think that once you, when you draft a long time, you can kind of predict what the
Starting point is 00:56:27 number one drafter and the number 12 drafter do, because people think they're unique. You're not that unique. Like a lot of times you see a lot of repetitive stuff in these sort of formats. So I, maybe he's not that into Baker Mayfield and he took Baker Mayfield just because and maybe he would double tap Daniel Jones here and then we're going to be really annoyed. So yeah, let's lock it in. Let's just take Daniel Jones. I think game theory wise, I think he'd come back around to us, but we don't really love either one of these guys. I will predict that the drafter ahead of us
Starting point is 00:56:59 is going to take Denzel Boston because he's a huge hype guy right now after OTA news. Several Brown's beat reporters saying he was the most impressive Cleveland Brown's skill position player, period in OTAs. Brett Whitefield and I discussed Denzel Boston, Casey Concepcion and more. But let's go live on air. Let's put in Daniel Jones. Scott, is Daniel Jones
Starting point is 00:57:22 just being like too slept on right now? Yeah, I think so. You know, maybe there's some concern about the injury, but, you know, when he went down last year, he was leading the league in passing yards. And the Colts offense was rolling. So, you know, solid high floor, QB2. Hey, what if, God forbid, Caleb Williams tears his ACL, you know, we're going to need to have a quarterback here.
Starting point is 00:57:48 Yeah, and a shout out to McNova. McNova, this is when I draft with partners, you have to be accommodating. And Scott and I think we balance each other out. So I agree with McNova. He'd rather take a swing on somebody whose stock could rise over the next couple of months. I'm with you on, with you on Claiborne McNova.
Starting point is 00:58:08 I think Claiborne's an easy kind of bet. To me, it reminds me a little bit about the Keaton Mitchell rookie year in Baltimore. Claiborne has some juice in a backfield where I think they need it. Vidal, it's easy. If Hampton gets banged up, Fidel rises nine rounds. And then Boston could end up being another really good pick from an organization that hit on Harold Fandon last year.
Starting point is 00:58:28 Maybe they hit on Boston as well. So that's our draft right now. We have rounds 17, rounds 17, 18, and 19 and 20 to make. Shout out to all the live viewers.

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