Fantasy Football Daily - Fantasy Football 2026: League-Winning ADP Targets & Draft Strategy LIVE 🚨

Episode Date: May 26, 2026

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So like locked in live. But I brought you in because we competed against each other. In a draft that we compete against each other every single year, the FFPC Hardway League, which I talked about a little bit with Scott Barrett. We dropped a draft that Scott and I are in the middle of like this slow 350 big gorilla FFPC draft. And I talked a little bit about the Hardway draft. We drafted it Friday evening. We didn't stream it live.

We, in fact, just are covering it. but the picks are in, the teams are built. I was drafting out of the three hole. Mike was out of the 10 hole, and you split a team with Adam Crowell worst, and anybody who plays high stakes in FFWC or FFPC has gone up against Adam. Adams finished very highly in a lot of like overall contests,

but we were on sort of opposite ends of the draft, so it was pretty rare that we were sniping one another. So I think it's a pretty good conversation here. Yeah. But a little bit of like kind of set, the table for what this draft is. This draft is a invitation only league that was put together before the two of us even joined it. It was going on for years before. But you had guys like Dave Hubbard, who's one of the best drafters probably in the country. Abib Agbatobova joined about

the same time we did, Mike, or maybe before you did. Probably. Abib's a two-time champion. The Go-Bills guys joined recently. That's Sean and Nick and Dom. Those guys took down the main event twice. A B-Bagg Butobo, of course, took down the $350 contest twice. Both back-to-back. Back-to-back. It's absolutely crazy. And a big shout-in to those guys, really, really sharp drafters.

Dan Williamson, who's a good friend of ours and a top-notch, high-stakes drafter. He was drafting right next to me in the two-hole. Then you got a couple of guys who are in the industry who are known for drafting. Davis-Matic, who's streaming with you on ship-chasing regularly. then Bradley Stalder, a player profiler, a very sharp guy, really, really a sharp ranker. You got a bunch of other guys in this draft, too. And then there's Noah Riddell, Austin Martin, a bunch of people have sort of been involved with this draft. Sometimes they're in it, sometimes they're not.

But it's a bunch of hitters. There's no sort of weak drafters and a lot of people who are willing to reach. And I feel like I want to say we all pay for it. We all pay the freight. This is not a comp. This is not a promotional vehicle of theirs. They didn't stream it because guys weren't available. We all pay the $3.50.

I'm not sure. I'm not bragging by that, but I think sometimes people sort of assume that, as is the case often, like that industry drafts are sometimes comp, but not this, which makes me wonder why I'm doing it. I think I do it for the clout of coming on this show so that I can. I do it for the cloud of the cloud of the clout. And I'm in this draft, and then I draft in the New York Super over the NFFC, and that's a $2,500 one. that I split with Nelson Sousa, so 1250 each. That's a lot of skin in the game.

This is a lot of skin in the game too, especially when you consider we're doing it in May, and crazy stuff can happen throughout the summer. It's low EV for those looking for soft rooms where you can exploit. So you're playing for the overall million dollar prize, but it's impossible to put together a team that's going to compete for that one

against this group of drafters. It would be really hard. I had a team years ago that was like 60th in the overall for like a while. I think I finished first that year. I've won this league twice, not a humble brag. I finished as a runner up another time. So not a little brag, little brag, Mike. But it's a really honor, an honor to you in this one.

Are you playing the same way, like I did another one of these last night against people that I didn't know until Adam joined and I played against Adam. But nonetheless, are you, is your strategy the same? when you're trying to sort of like represent against your friends and colleagues as it would be, if not. Because I think there's a temptation to try to just sort of win the league when you're playing in a group like this and then you can fly that flag. And next year you or I can go on podcasts. It'll be like we won the hard way. Like Darren has, Fantasy Mojo has always that posted on his site like won the hard way. And otherwise drafting in this, I'm trying to win a million bucks.

Like I think that there might be a different, there's a resignation, if, you know, so to speak, in this where you're like, okay, well, I'm not going to crush it because too many sharp people are around me. But I still want to play for the seven figures, you know? Like I don't want to just try to win this league. I want to do what I'm supposed to be doing in my mind in this tournament. Does that make sense? Yeah.

I agree with you. And I think it does influence me where it feels like I'm trying to win a closed league as opposed to trying to win the overall prize. But again, like, you can't win the raffle unless you get a ticket. So finishing first or second in this league, you do get access to the overall big gorilla prizes. So, like, I get it to an extent. We'll talk about the fifth round. The fifth round for me, for sure, was a structural pick instead of, like, swinging for the fences.

Like, I'm going to draft some David Montgomery this year for sure, but he doesn't feel like a player that is going to go absolutely bonkers in like the three-week stretch and drop a couple of 30 pointers. But I do think he's got that safe baked-in floor that will help me get like into the playoffs in this league and potentially, you know, finish number one and, and have like a decent, decent regular season. So just a little, a little bit of like a brief if you don't understand this contest. You also get paid for finishing first or second in the league. Then there's going to be a two-week playoff just like every other FFPC like main event and 350. So like the top four seeds get in.

They'll play one another. So you can get there with overall points. You can get there with best record. It's great to do both, Mike. That's always the most fun way to do these FFPC leagues. Good luck in this one. For sure. Okay, so let's talk about it from the top.

You text me earlier in the day and you said, am I going to take Brock Bowers at three overall. And I kind of like... You have a reputation. Yeah, I mean, I've taken Brock Bowers in this league. I think his rookie year I got him in a tremendous value, and I sort of flag planted him and took him as my only tight end. I took him as, I took Brock Bowers, and then I drafted, like, Michael Mayer in like the 19th round,

and I'm like, that's my tight end room. Brock Bowers, no matter what. This year, I sort of punted tight end. At the three hole, I sort of went back and forth on Jemar Chase versus Pukukkah. I knew that Bejohn and Jemar Gibbs would be gone. Jamir Gibbs goes at the 101 in this draft. So just to give me an example, like Bijon and him are sort of, I'd say it's the majority Bijon at the one from the drafts I've been in.

But I think there's a real wave of Jamir Gibbs drafters at that 101. So I get to the three hole. Sort of all day long I went back and forth on Jamar Chase versus Puka Nakua. Love JSN, but for me, I worry about a little bit about new offensive coordinator in Seattle. So it comes down to Puka versus Jamar Chase. And I go Jamar Chase. Chase just to me, it's like, it's like the king is back type year. The triple crown is there. I think he gets his second wide receiver one overall season. I get the allure of Puka Nakuwa,

but Jemar Chase is just so good. And Mike, it comes down to targets for me. Pukonakua is an elite target earner too, but Jemar Chase feels like the kind of guy that could have a 200 target season. Sure. You know, I'm not quite the number cruncher that you are and my ADP chasing colleagues are, especially Jacob, I mean, those guys can just rattle off as yourself, you can do yourself just sort of, you know, the yards per route run stuff and all the metrics. And I want to find sort of another way, another angle. And I think, you know, sometimes you can fall for certain narratives, but I like for Chase in, you know, in terms of breaking those ties, that the Bengals have blown it the last couple of years, you know? And the schedule comes out and they are favored in 15

games. Cincinnati is favored in 15 games. That's wild. It is wild. It's a function of the Browns and the Steelers, but they're playing the NFC South, you know, maybe also the AFC South. And it turns out that like they could be set up for a big year. And a lot of the noise on the Bengals is negative. It always is just because, you know, how they run their organization. So Chase, I mean, he's certainly young enough. It's already proven. You've got Burrow. Everybody's healthy. I would do the same thing. Yeah, I think that for me, it's, I don't have any sort of regrets there.

And when I look down the list, how would my drafted looked if I drafted Brock Bowers at the 103? I feel like I would have been trying to play catch up at wide receiver a little too much. I love getting access to Bowers. I like the idea of Trey McBride, but I'm a little not comfortable kind of reaching and pushing them up to like this kind of God tier. For me, the top five is pretty set. We go just to rattle off the picks. You had JSN go at the five. Puka goes to the four, JASN at the five.

James Cook goes at the six, and that's the team with Steve and also Dave Hubbard. They're splitting those teams this year. Really sharp guys, sort of they made their flag plan on James Cook. Then you get Brock Bowers at the seven. Amon-Ross St. Brown goes at the eight, CMC at the nine. Then you and Adam come up to pick. And I really liked what you did. I would have done the exact same thing.

thing. You took Jonathan Taylor running back Indianapolis Colts. And was there any consideration to anything else? Not really. I should say that Adam wasn't really available so much for me in this draft. And I say that sort of to defend him for anything that maybe isn't great about it. But he was in, he was playing golf with his wife. And we did talk beforehand and a couple times in the middle, but really, most of these picks were left up to me. And once it got to nine, I felt like we were going to take McCaffrey or Taylor, and that was it. It would have been Genty otherwise, but the Cook Pick made that possible, and it was just sort of like one, two, three. That was the order. Genty would have been tempting, was tempting, but there's also sort of

ADP considerations and getting Taylor at 10 seemed like a pretty good move. So that was that. That was that. We did, Adam and I, when we spoke about this draft, agreed to start with two running backs because how, of how, I mean, by round five or six even, like it's just sort of shot. And other years, I feel like there are more interesting dart throws as early as rounds six, seven, eight, you know, but this year looked different to me. So this is exactly how we wanted to build it. The one slider ended up being McBride versus ADP, and we were never taking McBride. That was something Adam liked them, likes them more than I do this year, but Bowers, yes, otherwise we were taking, you know, we were going green. Yeah, and I'm in another

350. I'm in the, like the tail end of the one with Scott Barrett. We'll cover part two on this channel. We did part one if you want to watch the draft that Scott and I just drafted. We sort of talked about our early round strategy. Went back and forth on George Kittle. It was pretty interesting conversation. Scott is very much in the pro George Kittle camp. I'm sort of fading him, Mike. We'll get your thoughts on him.

Well, he also, Scott also famously likes to wait on tight ends. I know. We went early, early on tight end in that one. So Scott has sort of pivoted a little bit. But the Trey McBride, let's go back to you on that one, Mike. I took him the other day at the 201, and it felt like a structural bet to make. I get sort of the apprehension, and I understand there's a bunch of different negative points that people have made with Trey McBride. Some people are on like the touchdown regression angle.

Some people are on the new coach angle where maybe LaFleur is coming from a system that emphasize wide receiver a little bit more. Then there's just the like the Carson Beck fears. Where are you at? Is there like one thing or is it a combination of many? It's not really one thing, but I've just gotten a little bit. swayed by how much real negativity there is about the overall with them. And I know that in fantasy, that doesn't have to work against you. Look at the Cardinals last year.

I mean, how many games did they win? And Harrison, well, especially McBride, but like their skill guys were good. I mean, there was value in that with Brissette. I don't know if they want to just roll out Brissette again. I think they could, but they have to pay them first. And then at some point they'll pivot to Beck and we'll see what we'll. get. It was really, again, more for me, less than any sort of negativity, particularly toward

McBride than it was, the combination of the tight end options later and the lack of running back options later. And we chose Walker. This is, you know, we're teaming up and we both felt good about him. Last night, I did one of these and I picked Chase Brown in the same spot over Walker. Walker's a little bit early at 203, but really it wasn't so much. It wasn't so much. much anti-McBride propaganda or anything as it was just sort of like, all right, well, you can always figure out tight end in these. And I don't know if we did. I mean, Adam was big on La Porta.

That's later on in the fifth round. And so I capitulated on that. And, you know, he didn't really have a chance to participate so much in this draft. So let's just lock up that and figure the rest out. Yeah, the Leporta selection was interesting. And it's one that we'll talk about. I sort of like what you did there. Walker, I get the allure of Walker, and I'm into Kenneth Walker this year.

I don't know if I'm going to be into taking him near the one-two turn. He's never had a 300-touch season. It seems like he's headed in that direction in Kansas City this year. I don't know. It just feels like a little bit uncomfortable for me taking him around that one-two turn. I've never had to take him at that level. And it's also a little bit of the, I don't know if it's Freudian, but sort of like the Walker burned us last year at the,

the three, four turn. Now I've got to take him at the one, two turn. I do think you're going to see some main event drafts when we get into August where people are going to be like, I'm taking Kenneth Walker at the 110. I don't care. I don't care. I'm going with Kenneth Walker. And we're going to see him score at a level that we haven't seen an Andy Reid running back score at since like rookie year Kareem Hunt slash early Kansas City, Jamal Charles, those kind of years. So I think we're looking at like it's been a while since Andy's had a really huge fantasy football. relevant running back. We saw Jerich McKinnon. You had the one Isaiah Pacheco year, but those guys were sort of like very low-end RB1 slash high-end RB2. This is like the

Chiefs had a losing record last year. Now they have a bell cow running back. They're going to use them. They paid them. Quarterbacks hurt. Who do you take at 203 if you're me? I think you make a good point. I think the 203 for me, I probably would have just sucked it up and took Trey McBride. And I also would have considered Drake London there, who I'm really, into at cost this year. And I think maybe the balance of a Jonathan Taylor, Drake London would have been really appealing to me. I'm sort of in the minority of people that want to take Drake London in like the first four picks in the second round. So I get it. I do think Tray McBride like structurally when you pick at the two, at the 110 in FFPC, you're not going to get access to Colston Loveland

ever. He's just going to be gone unless you want to take him there. So I get it. Going running back, running back, I think it totally makes sense for you guys because of the look at who's available there at the 310, which we'll get to in a moment. So I get it. I would have made a probably if it was me drafting alone, I probably would have said, gosh, I just got to take Troy McBride there and let the chips fall where they lie. And even if he regresses by like 10%, 15% even, he's still going to end being a really good structural pick of a tight end position. If he has a 15% regression in fantasy points. He's still a top three tight end score in all formats would just be sort of the one caveat I'd push at. And he's paid a fortune. And I do think like I've, and a shout out, this is a Pat Corain one,

but Pat Corain came on the show like so long ago and made the point that like Sean McVeigh wanted Brock Bowers so much. So he has this like sort of theory that the like the McVeigh tree has a plan for like a highly targeted tight end and maybe LaFleur will do that. Make exceptions for the elite of the elite. Sure. Yeah. Well, just, you know, to repeat myself maybe, I liked how receivers were likely to play out. I think at 3-4 there were going to be a half dozen interesting options and there were.

So that was a part of the bet. Yeah, it's a good, and it was a good one to make. So for me, I'm sitting there, Davis Maddox at the 104 spot. So he's at the 209. I'm sitting there at the 210. My cue starts to get decimated. I would have considered Jeremiah Love there. He ended up going a little earlier than ADP.

Drake London, I would have loved to have gotten there. And I would have gone wide receiver, wide receiver, and been totally fine with it. Sequin Barclay I would have considered. But really, it was a structurally. Colston Loveland would have made a lot of sense to me at the 210. He goes at the 209, though, to Davis-Matic. Davis goes wide receiver, tight-end, wide receiver for his start.

I end up with Omari and Hampton, which I've sort of talked about the downside case of Hampton. Is there a chance that he's getting overdrafted? Is there a chance he's steamed up too much in Dynasty? I get it. But the allure that he could also just have a Rahim Mostert year. And if this offense goes nuclear, could he score 20 touchdowns? I think that's also in the realm of possibilities. And at the 210, I'll take the edge of a potential Omar and Hampton smash year,

rather than sort of like worrying about the downside. risk. And I took him, I didn't really consider Nico Collins, Travis Etyn. I would have maybe thought about Chris Olave, but he's sort of somebody I'd be more comfortable in the third. So like for me, I feel like it was a little bit of a cliff right after O'Mary in Hampton. The next four picks didn't have the fantasy upside to me that he presented. I know people are going to say what Theo, like Derek Henry is Derek Henry. But again, older guy versus the unknown upside, Mike. I can't pass up on the unknown upside. Your thoughts on the. Hampton selection. Are you down with drafting him in this range?

Yeah, I don't think I'd get there any earlier than this, or maybe like one or two picks earlier at the most. You said it. I mean, I'm excited for that offense. And Justin Herbert, I'm a friend and big fan of Sam Monson, and Sam was the guy who voted for Herbert for the MVP, and he was never going to do that without having to make a really logical case for it. So, okay, he was never going to win it. But I think that, you know, maybe now this could be his year. I like this about Jacksonville, too. And that doesn't mean that a running back can't score 20 touchdowns or even like 15 or some number like that if they get set up right and the chips fall right.

But I do like L.A. That's why we jumped for McConkey a little bit there in the fourth round. So, yeah, I think that's good. I mean, ETS was early by ADP. Henry, I just never can do it. I almost never can do it because of all the reasons why you don't, but he continues to just murder us for those of us who fade him. And I like the Brise Hall pick a lot in the third round, too.

So again, like I've said about my team, running backs early to me this year is the way. And you made that work. Yeah, no, and we'll talk about Brise Hall. Big shout out to I think it's pronounced how, how, or Ha won F-D, I don't know. I'm not sure how to pronounce this one, but he says he's in an underdog puppy draft with me. I'm maxed out the puppy. I did the slow draft puppy max out. So I'm literally on the clock every moment of my life in some draft, Mike. And then I ended up maxing out the, I think it's the pit bull, the $10 one. Okay. So I'm maxed out two contests on underdogs. So I'm in a ton of slow draft. So yeah, if you see Greminger in there, that's me. I'm Greminger. I'm in every single underdog draft, the slow ones, though. I'm like, are you in underdog drafts right now? I know you're a big underdog draft. Not really.

I have been, but I've backed off on that somewhat this year. So I'm Shope, though. We're the same in how we just use our last names. Yeah, and we've been back to back in underdogs before where we like text each other. And it's like, if you draft enough, you're going to bounce against each other in some of these rooms. So you say you like the Breece Hall pick. This is the second time I've taken Breece Hall in a 350. I did it with Scott.

And then I did it again in this one. I like it a lot. And it just feels like a. structural pick that could end up paying off in a big way. All he needs is the Jets to sort of say, let's get him re-involved in the passing game. And I think Bruce Hall could finish as like 10 spots higher type of guy in the outcomes. I think people are a little bit down on this offense overall. I think there's a chance that changes throughout the summer. I'm not saying that people are going to be in on the Jets as some huge breakout offense, but I think they're at

an offense where multiple players could sort of beat their ADP. And Bruce Hall, they gave him the huge contract. He's got the contract installation. He's got the clarity of where he's going to be for the next couple of years. Right. So you're, you like the Bruce Hall pick there. Are you comfortable sort of taking him at cost? Are you reaching for him? No, I mean, I could, I guess, reach a little bit on him, depending on if I get in one of these early draft slots. I could see myself doing that because I'm definitely a fan. And I like the contract point. I think that might mean a lot that he's after sort of sounding grumpy about being with the jets and sending signals that he might have wanted to be traded in the past. That's over. Like he's going to be there.

And I also don't think this is again my way of trying to figure out some other alternate stuff that isn't just based on metrics. And it's more just sort of common sense, I guess. But I I don't think the Jets are tanking right now. That coach is lucky to get another year. They got to win games. Miami's going to be bad. And I think they might have a look at a decent season, which is what? Something approaching 500?

I mean, they've got a lot of talent. They've accrued through different drafts. And really, like, Gino Smith isn't terrible. So Hall, Garrett Wilson, who I guess I ended up turning him down in my turn in this draft, But I'm open to the Jets being functional. What is that to say? We have a question in the chat that I think is a good one. And I love asking you about Buffalo Bill stuff

because if I have a Buffalo Bill's question, I kick it to Mike show up anyway. Mike is, when I say the preeminent voice for the Buffalo Bills, like you're it, Mike, when it comes to Buffalo Bills. This is an interesting one. And I've done this in previous seasons. What do we think about the Josh Allen James Cook stack that we saw pulled off by Dave Hubbard

and Steve over at the 106. I like it, and I think it's plus EV, especially considering that we don't have a wide receiver or tight end that we think is going to be dominant. And I'm sort of burning a candle with the hope that we see a career year receiving wise from James Cook with Joe Brady taking over and sort of a changing of the guard in terms of philosophy in a sense.

Yeah, we'll see about that. This strategy in this draft seemed intentional. with Cook and Allen. In fact, when after picking Cook, I was sort of guessing that Alan would be that pick at 3-6. You would know at least as much, if probably not more than I do, about like the functionality of stacking quarterbacks with running backs. I've come to learn that it's not a bad idea, but it's not intuitive for me. I think if it's ever going to be, it's like these two or it's Jackson and Henry where you have high rushing upside from the quarterback. Allen rushes for touchdowns. Jackson really does not. And Alan's numbers historically in this category are just absolutely insane.

He's somewhere north of, I think he might be at 79 rushing touchdowns through his career. It's crazy. He turned 30 last week. And their schedule is pretty rugged. And you and I have sparred on Cook. I've never been on Cook, but he has proved me wrong two years in a row, close to a bell cow roll. The receiving hasn't been there. I'm not sure it's ever coming.

and Brady is still going to call the plays like he has been doing. They didn't add to the running back room, so you can't rule out a 106 overall worthy season for James Cook, and with that, Alan smashing with him. But I don't want to say it's run its course with the bills. I just have often been because of his size, and I don't know, like he's been very durable. I have to say, Cook, well, both of them. Alan never misses a game. you can really like easily the floor and also dream about what's been happening

the high ceiling with those two guys. It's it's playable. Yeah, it's interesting. I think for him to justify the 106, you are going to need him to catch more passes, though. Like that, for me, that's just like when you take him at the 106, and I get it, people are going to say, well, Theo, he's a first round pick this year. There's a huge price adjustment for James Cook, which he's really kind of earned here, Mike. But when you push him up to the 106 ahead of Bowers,

ahead of, you know, certainly a couple of those wide receivers and some of the upside swing running backs and also the volume bet running back like Jonathan Taylor. I don't know. It's an interesting one. It could happen, but he's still jammed by the same players that he's been jammed by. Now we have DJ Moore as well.

But Khalil Shakir, not to interrupt you, but Khalil Shakir banged up. Could that be something that stretches out throughout the course of the year and maybe reaggravates. And then all you need in terms of just sort of like the reception totals to go up enough that they matter, like 15, 20 more receptions. I'm talking about a reception and a half a game could be a de-emphasis of like a Ty Johnson usage.

Yeah, Shakir has always been a thorn in my side as a fantasy player because there is a floor, but there's no ceiling. and he had an ankle, he had ankle surgery, I think it was, this offseason, which now we're almost to June. If they're worried about that, there are still players they can sign. Like they could still, I don't know, even digs, like they could still do a thing. And the fact that they have Kincaid on the 50-year option coming up, so there's sort of an investment there, I mean first-round pick anyway, and Knox was kept and renegotiated.

Like, there's still the same traffic. plus more. The tricky part for me with Cook is that not only do I think he was really never that impressive as a receiver coming into the league, but if it's third and something and you have a dump off option, Alan's just going to run. That's kind of how he's done it. Maybe that gets scaled back.

It did a little bit last year. They're kind of waiting now for, if you will, their games to become important before they start to do that. And then in the playoffs, you see Allen's just going. So I don't like betting. on Cook as a player who's receiving numbers will spike. But if there was an injury and somehow a different philosophy, they could be losing in games more often this year.

Like their schedule doesn't have to happen. The division looks mostly pretty easy. A lot of ways it could turn out. Yeah, he's definitely one that we're going to talk about throughout the summer. And I think Scott Barrett and I did talk about him as like a dark horse running back one overall type candidate. So I get the enthusiasm. He's definitely, it's like interesting to talk about these guys when they steam up

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We're getting close to 25,000 subs here at Fantasy Points. We're going to rock and roll until we get there. So hit that like button, hit that subscribe button for more videos like this one. Mike, you get to the 310, you take George Pickens, I love the pick. My only question to you is, when you're talking to Adam, do you guys consider Tyler Warren there for the structural nature of a tight end that could lead his team in targets this year, lead his team in receptions, Tyler Warren is good at football, or is it sort of a, no, we're going wide receiver, we want that high end upside.

Pickens was 18 points per game last year. I don't really need to explain the value of a George Pickens. I do think that he's like off the field kind of nonsense stuff has sort of pushed his ADP down this range. I took him at the exact same range. I took him at the 312 401. Probably took him at the 401 just to mess with Darren Armani Fantasy Mojo, push him down in that fourth round ADP. But you take him over Tyler Warren. Was Tyler Warren in consideration there? No, he certainly could have been. I think it was going to be Pickens or A.J. Brown. But Pickens was a little bit of value there. And I don't know.

know. I didn't really think about Warren because, A, we already had the plan on tight end. I knew Adam liked Leporta. I liked Pitts a lot in round five. Like, if that had happened, I think I would have taken Pitts and had to talk to Adam about it later. But, you know, just with tight end, like we talked about, I just kind of want to see what happens. And some, I think a lot of drafts, there's going to be somebody that doesn't end up looking too expensive that you could really like. Warren is somebody like Bowers, I think, on that level or McBride or Loveland, where I think if I'm drafting in these and I pick one of those guys, I never pick another one.

I'm just going to be done. That's it. Like Davis did with Loveland. I don't need a second tight end. They're all the same after pick tight end like 14 or something like that. So we'll just try to figure out running back, good gambols and the like. But no, this was always going to be a receiver pick. And, you know, Warren and Taylor are on the same team.

Like, could the Colts be so. they're not the bills. Like they could, could they be so prolific with touchdowns that both of those guys exceed ADP? I guess maybe, but I didn't like that idea. We go to the 312 and a B-Bagg Batoba

picking out of the 12 spot. I like what he did with Ashton Genti and Devon A-chan. Then at the 312 and 401, he did the blackjack split of A.J. Brown and DeVontas Smith. A lot of, I've seen multiple people doing this and it'd be certainly a sharp guy. A.J. Brown, Devonta Smith, we don't really need to talk about them at cost there, but my question to you is we're hearing three teams with A.J. Brown, probably the Patriots. Then the Dark Horse team seemed to be the L.A. Rams and the Jacksonville Jaguars. If you had to put a couple of dollars on it, where is he traded to? I don't know anything more than what I'm reading and that what you're reading, but to me, New England, there's probably a little bit of gamesmanship happening. New England, really.

I mean, that should happen. The Rams and the Jaguars both would really throw a wrench into our early drafts. But I'm assuming Patriots. Yeah, that's me too. I mean, I think that's the bet. I think that the one that would sort of throw everybody off, like the Rams one, would it do anything to Pukkah, I don't think so, but it certainly would affect Devante Adams.

Devante Adams, I think his ADP would fall maybe a round and a half. people would and also AJ Brown's ADP I think would fall slightly. People might push back on that one and say Theo, you know, Devante Adams had 14 touchdowns there last year. AJ Brown, and if anything, would might move up. I think that would be one where like I'd be interesting to see where some of the people like Chris Wecht on our channel and some of the other projections experts would put him. But the one that would be wild would be the Jacksonville one because I think AJ would move up slightly. and then the Parker Washington, Brian Thomas Jr., Jacoby Myers guys would all fall a little bit. I think Breton Strange would fall a little bit.

But A.J. Brown in Jacksonville would be very exciting. It would for him and for them as a, you know, in a team concept. But it would really, like you said, really sting the other guy's values. Like, A.J. Brown doesn't ever, he's never not the alpha on a team. Yeah. And I think the Scott Barrett Parker Washington. Washington league winner arguments would go down significantly with AJ Brown there. But we'll keep an eye on that way.

It's probably New England, though. New England, it makes too much sense. It makes too much sense. And it's like the arms race. You're growing up against Buffalo. Like Buffalo goes against DJ Moore, New England goes against AJ Brown. Let's go play each other twice a year. It could be fun.

Be more fun for Mike Schope on Sundays when you get those New England Buffalo games, too. George Pickens, you take him and then you follow up with another wide receiver. You take Ladd McConkey at the 403. Were any other wide receivers in consideration there, Garrett Wilson, T. Higgins, Luther Burden, and Emeka, Egbuka, all go in consecutive order right after your McCocky pick. Yes, this one really was a personal choice. And I'm sure over the course of the summer, I'll draft,

all these guys, you know, on some level. But that really was, okay, we put ourselves in a spot where we can get a, you know, good to great wide receiver here. This was exactly the plan that we wanted to execute. And then it was a matter of choosing one. And like we talked about with Hampton earlier, like I'm excited for L.A. I think Herbert is maybe ready to ascend to another level this year, which means what? I mean, winning a division, winning playoff games, they were such a dud in the playoffs at New England last year.

But I still want to believe in that. And for me, that makes McConkey, you know, he would be the number one most appealing option of the past catchers in that offense easily. And so no real serious arguments against the other guys who followed in this draft or even Flowers. Like you got him and I think that that's a good pick. But it was just a choice. Like let's bet on McConkey. That was all. Yeah.

The Flowers one, and I've talked about McConkey on multiple shows. You can check out Scott and I took Loud of McConkey in our last draft. I sort of shared my ceiling and floor cases for McConkey. Mike, are you sort of of the Keenan Allen would ruin things? with McCocky, like your narrative for taking him at the 403 thing. That's sort of like my only pushback to McConkey enthusiasts is if you're willing to fade him because of like a nearly 34-year-old wide receiver resigns after being like on his couch all spring.

Are you really in on McConkey to begin with? Well, I mean, that wouldn't be good news if they did that. It's certainly possible. But I'll be rooting against it. And then I'm holding my breath the rest of this round. I end up getting. So we said the. four wide receivers went right after McConkey. So five straight wide receivers. I really need a

wide receiver two in this range after taking Omari and Hampton and Breece Hall. Things could have gotten really choppy for me if like Zay Flowers, McLaurin, Waddle, those guys were sort of off the board. And I was one pick away from like that chaos argument happening. But I end up getting Cam Scadaboo and Bucky Irving going off the board towards the end of the fourth round there. Zay Flowers falls to me. I love Zay Flowers. I've talked about him on a million shows. I think it's his year. I love the sort of, I think that there's a chance he outscores all six of those wide receivers that went ahead of them in the fourth round. So I was very happy to get him.

Then I sort of hold my breath there and I would have probably taken a Terry McLaurin or a Jalen Waddle. Would not have taken a DJ more there at the 503. But I get to the 503 and it's sort of like Waddle's gone, McLaren's gone. I'm very structurally balanced with the two running backs and the two wide receivers. This is sort of like a, hey, let's win the flex type pick. And it was David Montgomery versus like the upside case of a Trayvion Henderson. I considered all three of the tight ends there. But I ultimately went with David Montgomery.

And this is sort of like a hard way influenced like, hey, I'm going to take the like the high volume guy that I think is going to excel this year that maybe lacks the upside because I want to be. U-11 guys, as opposed to maybe some other FFPC 350 big guerrillas where I might have like definitely gone with a tight end here or maybe gone with somebody more higher like quote-unquote upside player. Your thoughts on David Montgomery, it feels dead zone-ish, but it also feels like one that could be 15 points per game. Yeah. I understand.

That would have been tough for me. But I mean, I have a lot of respect for you. You've done so well in these tournaments. So it would have been, I don't think I don't think. I could have clicked Montgomery, but I understand what you're thinking was. Having said that, I don't know who I would have clicked instead. Like, I think Waddle would have been interesting and live. I think, I mean, Devante Adams ends up going at the end of six.

And like, I guess you can't do that at 5.3, but I sort of intuitively think it might have been interesting to do that. Then you get to the receivers at the 5-6 that I tap back into. I don't know. I think I would have probably had a tough time here, feeling like, like I was getting beat based on, you know, just sort of these factors. I guess Tootin probably would have been my pick just to see because you know you're not going to need to start him. And if you get what you want to see in terms of him from the Jags early in the season, then that's a home run.

But that's a big if. It's funny because I had Jamison Williams in my queue and I think taking him at the 503 would have been too high. But I like the upside he presents. I also like Carnell Tate. I've been taking Carnell Tate at like the 5-6 turn right now. Yeah. That also would have been too early to take him. So like I'm mapping out my draft in the morning saying which way could I go if I go this way.

It's sort of like how the sausage is made. I take a pad and paper and I write down sort of like a couple targets per round, keeping it old school, Mike. But James like I get him at the 610. I'm thrilled about that pick. We'll talk about that in a minute. Before we get to it, let's talk about your 510 pick where you said Adam, influenced this pick, but I like it. Kyle Pitts goes off the board, Harold Fannan Jr.

goes off the board, and you're sitting there with Sam Leporta as the tight end seven. Leporta had 17 touchdown catches in his first two seasons in the league. Last year dealt with some injuries. The production fell off. But like Leporta's now in this offense that could he get back and give you an eight or nine touchdown season? Could he end up like outscoring some of these tight ends getting drafted ahead of them in like FFPC and Underdog. I think he could. I think it's probably him or Jameson Williams ends up with a really strong year this year.

But like you don't seem thrilled about the pick. Do you feel like it just feels too structural? No, it's okay. I never argued against it. I just know that it was Friday night and Adam was not really available because he was doing something else. And I wanted, when we got to this pick, we had discussed it. There was no second option for me because I wanted to get him.

somebody that he wanted. So, because he wasn't able to sort of like go pick by pick with me. Again, I think I said, I would have taken pits over him. And then we would have had to, you know, fight it out afterward. But yeah, I think it's fine. I mean, I appreciate the optimistic outlooks on him. It's definitely not crazy to think he'll have a big year like that. So get a tight end in these drafts, FFPC, you want to just, you don't want to put it off too long.

and so I was always fine with it. Yeah, if you put it off too long, you get jammed like I did in this draft where I'm like kind of hoping and praying with my two tight end selections. But Leporta goes there. Let us know in the chat, is there any picks in the first five rounds that you really liked, whether it was from Mike or I or another drafter, or are there any picks in the first five rounds that you really, really disliked? Not a whole lot of like shocking picks in the first five rounds for sure.

Also, let's go right to the sixth round. you took Sam Leporta. It comes back around to you and you continue to hit wide receiver with Marvin Harrison, Jr. Talk about that one. Well, somewhat the same as the Leporta pick.

Adam and I, when we were talking, I was jokingly texting him because my radio partner in Buffalo, the Bulldog, like he's not a fantasy player, but I was just sort of fooling around with him on Friday afternoon during a commercial break. I'm like, what do you think about a, because he hates the Cardinals, famously hates the Cardinals and just has no respect.

I said, what do you think about a McBride, love Harrison start in this draft? And he's like, I love it. So I texted Adam, like, what do you think about starting McBride, love Harrison in this draft? Adam's like, I love it. Like, I hate it. There's no way. Come on, we can't do that. But I know he likes Harrison.

And so much in the same way, I felt like we were accomplishing what we set out to accomplish. And there's so much evenness here. I like Tate a lot. I mean, that might be just sort of in the same way as Tootin, for me, sort of the temptation of the young, not that Tutin's a rookie anymore, but sort of the great season from Tate, like that could happen. But, yeah, Harrison, much like Leporta for me, was like a way to sort of get Adam on board.

Yeah, I think if I'm swinging for the fences there in round six, I'm probably going with Carnell Tate, but I get the allure of Marvin Harrison, Jr. and sort of like, Mike, if you're fading Trey McBride, then you sort of are in on a Marvin Harrison Jr. Or maybe in a Michael Wilson. So I get it. Sixth round comes around to me.

And again, I'm like holding my breath. I had Carnell Tate, Jordan Tyson, Jameson Williams, all queued up. I think I take Jameson Williams every single year in this Hardway draft. And I take them this year. I've talked about it with actually with Davis-Matic on some of these shows. Like, I'm super into Jameson Williams. Scott Barrett sort of busts my chops on this one, but I think he's mega talented,

the spike weeks are there, and I don't have as much pressure with Jamison when he's my wide receiver three flex, so I kind of recover it wide receiver there, end up getting him. Shout out somebody in the chat said they like Team 2. Team 2 is Dan Williamson, who I split teams with. Dan's, and Mike is also good friends with,

like, Dan is really, really sharp. He wins a ton. Dan and I, we split a team at FFPC Varsity every year in Vegas. We also split a couple of NFC supers every year. Like Dan is as sharp as it gets. So not surprised you like Dan's draft at two. But we get over to Jameson Williams goes for me.

And then I end up sort of coming back around. And it's sitting there, Mike. And I had to do it. And it's like the one thing about this draft, you notice all the red in like the middle of the draft and late. Like people wait on quarterbacks a lot. So I'm sitting there. And the 703.

and I'm like, can I actually pass on Joe Burrow at the 703? No. And I can't. It's impossible. When I take Jamar Chase at the 103 and I only have to take Joe Burrow at the 703 instead of like years past where he had to use like a fourth round pick on him, fifth round pick, I can't do it. So I end up building this correlation with Chase and Burrow.

It's pretty simple. Jamar Chase could have a bunch of 30 point games with Burrow in a row. That's how you win a lot of money. And you can overcome. bad drafting in other rounds if these two guys are just hit their ceiling outcomes. Totally. Yeah. I was watching you on that one. I mean, I didn't pick Higgins. I did last night and then was watching to see if Burrow came back around. He didn't, which is fine. Because quarterback somewhat like tight end. I mean, look what happens in this draft a few rounds later.

But yeah, I felt like, you know, that was probably the move. And, you know, there's also no one obvious that you have to have instead. You could have picked your tight end there. That would have, I think, been the most tempting move, whether that's Kittal or, I mean, likely goes before Kittal. It probably would have been, it would have been Isaiah likely for me. That was like the one where I'm into Isaiah likely. I've talked about him on the show with Scott. I like him ahead of Kittal this year. I think he could lead New York.

The chaos theory one is if Malik Neighbors is more injured than they're letting on, maybe Malik Neighbors plays 10 games this year instead of 17, can Isaiah likely lead New York in targets this year and finish us like the tight end five? I think he can. But seventh round does feel like I'm drafting him sort of towards the ceiling outcome, even in FFPC. So, like, I take Burrow. I'm happy about it. And what's funny is Dan Williamson took R.J. Harvey the pick before.

And he texts me right after. And, like, he said he was very close to taking Joe Burrow at the 702 and just sniping me on that one. So, yeah, shout out to, shout out to Dan on that one. Well, good for him that he didn't. I don't know what you do with Burrow without Chase or Higgins. I don't know what you do there. Uncorrelated, uncorrelated Joe Burrough is an interesting discussion because he lacks the rushing upside that some of those other guys have. But I think the argument is if he throws 50 touchdowns, it doesn't matter.

You know, you still bank it. It doesn't matter maybe in that absolute peak outcome. But play the 2V2 game with another quarterback. I mean, he ends up taking Lawrence in round 10. I love that. I'm even sure if he has a stack when he does that. but Lawrence had eight or nine rushing touchdowns last year. If you play out the stats, I don't know.

I mean, we're at a point in the draft here where the running back or even receiver options are a little bit, as my kids would say, sketch. So it's not like they're no-brainer picks. I was excited to get Metcalf at the 7-8 because I think that's somebody, I mean, we know how good he can be, and if the chips fall right,

then maybe there's something, you know, pretty good there. But, you know, when you're picking in this range, you're not necessarily taking a big gamble by who you're passing on. Yeah, it's an interesting one. A shout out to Derek in the chat, why I withdrew a trade offer in our 750 dynasty. Derek, I might have to go look through. I was firing off trade offers driving back from Boston Mass and then Springfield Mass. My wife part of driving, so I'm just firing off a bunch of trade offers doing a bunch of slow draft. So Derek, I'm going to have to re-

Derek, let me know what league that's in, the league number, because I got a couple of those. We're in one together. We could be in the same one. The 750, triflex, 62. I don't mean to look that one up. That's an important one. Yeah, that's an important one.

We'll battle it out this year in that one, Mike. So we get to the seventh round. I take Burrow. It comes back to you. You end up taking a player that I really, really love in this range. You end up taking Mackay Lemon. That worked out very well for you. because you end up with Jalen Hertz in round 10.

Yeah, that was on my mind at that point. We don't really have a stack yet. This could end up being Herbert. It could end up being Gough. I thought maybe it would be Herbert in 10, but Hertz slid a little bit more. So we'll see if A.J. Brown is traded as expected, then there's some path for Lemon,

especially as the season gets later, to be useful. But I was thinking about quarterback combinations at this time, I'm thinking that both Herbert with McConkey or Hertz with Lemon could be in play, or eventually even Golden and Jordan Love. But once I picked Hertz, I didn't feel like I needed to back up. And then you follow up with round eight. Why don't you talk about your round eight and round nine selections, where you continue to hammer away at wide receiver?

You take D.K. Meccalf and then you take Matthew Golden. So D.K. in the eighth, and then Matthew Golden in the ninth. So you attacked wide receiver. six of your first nine picks were wide outs? Well, part of that for me is when it's still so early in the offseason, there's a lot of running back stuff that we just really are guessing at. And I didn't know, didn't feel like I had enough confidence in the difference between some of these running backs after, say, like round 10 versus another.

So to me, that sort of neutralizes their appeal or their value versus each other. and that as opposed to like D.K. Metcalf, well, okay. Like, I know who he is. And he could end up, again, who knows, it's a different coach. Maybe that works out or even if there's a trade. Like, it's still so early in offseason. In nine, I was ready to take Reed over Golden. I like Reed more than Golden, but Reed went one pick before.

And Golden, now I'm at wide receiver six on this team. And the upside is there with him. That's really what that was. Yeah, I like it. I mean, I think that all those guys make sense in that range. And you start getting down to like a little bit of the weeds of like the, the less appealing wide receivers, I think, when you get outside of round 10. For me, I followed up the Joe Burrow pick.

This is one where the eighth and the ninth round did not necessarily go according to plan. But I think I'm rolling with the punches here with these ones where Travis Kelsey goes off the board to Davis Maddoch with. and he was in the, this was the 809 for him. He takes Travis Kelsey, so he'd already taken Rashi Rice earlier. He's double tapping that. Of course, he takes Mahomes in the 11th, gets that correlation. I think Kelsey's fine there. So I end up like saying that I think I'm going to double tap tight end.

I wanted to take Mark Andrews, but I said Mark Andrews, I think, had a better chance of coming back around to the 902. So I ended up going with James. Jake Ferguson, who I don't really love taking in this range, but I didn't want to get completely jammed at tight end. And I do think Ferguson has a very high touchdown upside. Don't need to explain the people watching this that like Dak Prescott likes targeting his tight ends. We saw it with Ferguson. Like Ferguson had a really strong start to the year last year, tailed off a little bit. But like, Ferguson being this year's version of like Dallas Goddard last year and catching like nine or 10 touchdown passes.

Like, I think that's in the realm of possibilities this year if Dallas is a really good offense. Sure. So I take him. And then, of course, you know how it goes, Mike. I go, it goes, Dallas Goddard goes off the board, then Mark Andrews, then Arronday Gadsen. And I'm like, I'm kind of done at tight end.

There's no other tight end I would push up. I said, could I push up Kenyon Sadiq here to the 903? It felt like that was way too high. So I ultimately, like, leaned into my strength. And I took another pick that. was a little bit boring, but I think makes sense in terms of the contingent upside. I take Blake Corum with the 903. Then it goes a bunch of other wide receivers.

Maybe in retrospect, taking a Michael Pittman, getting a little bit better at wide receiver over Blake Corum. Could have been the pick, but I like Corum there. You talked about your Matthew Golden pick. Then it comes down to Jalen Hertz in the 10th round for you. 10th round for me, I actually really liked what I got. I took Jordan Addison at the 1010. And I immediately get a text message from Dan Williamson sort of cursing me out for sniping him on that one. He really wants to take Jordan Addison in that range.

So it's sort of when I look at it in retrospect, it sort of worked out going tight end, running back wide receiver. Your thoughts on any of the picks you saw in round nine or 10. And then Mike, I'm going to have you kind of recap what you did in the back half of the draft. Okay. Well, we were talking earlier about how rich tight end can seem when you get to these. rounds, this is really the back end of that. And I feel like your challenge is going to be to stay afloat at that position, given other choices that you made.

And that might depend on Ferguson or Brenton Strange, who you picked in round 11, or even Terrence Ferguson from the Rams later on. And that's maybe true of me, too. I'm going to need Leporta, perhaps, to do well in this league. I ended up with Schultz later. That was more sort of like a boring plan B kind of tight-in option. And then Gisickey was the same only. That's plan C.

So Hertz for me was, I guess I have to do that. I mean, I did the lemon pick and was prepared for that possibility, but I liked Prescott a lot, could have waited. I wanted Herbert maybe in that spot. He goes and ends up on Hertz, which I feel like we're living in a world now where he goes in round 10. And is he being benched or something? Or did they ban the Tush? Like, none of these things happened. 10th round, Jell and Hertz seems like free money.

And 10th round Jellon Hertz, I'll say, like, it doesn't happen often. I feel like if you want Jalen Hertz, you can get them, though, now in like the eighth round consistently in the ninth round in FFPC draft. So, like, you get to a little bit of Delta, positive delta where you got them in the 10th. But this is not like crazy that Jellon Hertz goes in this range. I ended up in the same place last night picking at the 109 and picked Hertz maybe in the ninth round. So let's fly Eagles fly. The rest of my picks, I think Singleton is an exciting rookie. rookie with a not crazy scenario possible where he's like really playing a lot for the Titans on

maybe what might be a good offense. I think there is that. So I like that in a landscape where there's not a lot to be optimistic about player to player at that position. Charbonnet, I'm going to have to wait that out. I like in these drafts picking players that I think I can cut without any pain. And he's not going to be that. So I'm going to need good news on him.

for that to play out well for me. Later on, picks I liked Omar Cooper, who knows, in the 15th round. Joanne Jennings, okay. I mean, we'll see what Addison is, but there's a chance for Jennings to be somewhat of a consistent floor, I think, for Minnesota. And Marshawn Lloyd, I can't quit him. That's the 17th round. You know, he might very well be running back two in Green Bay.

Jacobs is older. I didn't pick Jacobs here, so Lloyd, at least, if he can survive training camp. and the preseason, which isn't something he's always been able to do, then I think I could get lucky there. Yeah, the Marshawn Lloyd one definitely brought a tear to my eye because I've been betting on him for years, and I'm like, Mike and I were in this thing together, I guess, Mike. I like what you guys did in the back half.

Nick Singleton one is really interesting. Brian Dable last two years has produced really high-end fantasy production, at least for a large portion of the season from like these day three guys. It was Tyrone Tracy, Cam Scatabo, and now you're, have this roll the dice here with Singleton. I like the Schultz pick, too. I thought that was an interesting one. He fell to a really fun range.

I would have liked to have gotten him in the 14th round. For me, the back half of the draft goes, round 11, I take Brenton Strange, which is a similar bet to a Jake Ferguson. Our friend, Sigmund Bloom, has sort of said, Brenton Strange is like the poor man's Tucker Craft. If there's chaos in the Jacksonville wide receiver room, is there a chance that, like,

Brenton Strange ends up being more impactful? But I don't hate Brenton Strange here. He's still young enough. He's still got a little bit of juice and it's a plus offense. I go Jaden Higgins in round 12, which I like. Scott and I talked about him at length. I think he's going to be a target of ours in this back half of drafts. I go Woody Marks, a sort of double bet on the David Montgomery.

I'm probably more likely to handcuff in this sort of league than I am in other leagues. I handcuffed again in round 15 with Braylon Allen with my Breece Hall pick. round 14, I didn't need Matthew Stafford, but I've talked about him on a million shows, and I just can't get over the fact that he could lead the NFL in touchdown passes, and I get him in round 14. So I guess that one early week six, Joe Burrow by week, is going to really, really be fun when Matthew Stafford has like five touchdown passes. And then Terrence Ferguson, I get in round 16, and just sort of like a little draft secret of mine is I'm drafting Terrence Ferguson and Gunnar. or helm in a lot of like second halfs of drafts looking to get that year two upside play from the

tight end position. Ferguson, there's some decent buzz right now that he's going to be the quote unquote starting tight end. They're playing so many tight ends, but my argument is like is 12 and 13 personnel what we saw last year where it was like guys all getting usage and then maybe Colby Parkinson ends up catching a bunch of touchdown passes. Is that the plan or is it going to be a lot of heavy personnel, but one tight end could end up being like fantasy viable for the year. I think if it's one of them, it's probably going to be Ferguson this year. Maybe it's a gut shot. Maybe I'm not giving up on my priors from like last year.

But I'll take Ferguson and round 16 helps me recover. Round 17, I take Isaac Tesla, round 18, Pittsburgh defense, round 19, my kicker. And then round 20, I take Jeremy Bernard. And then that's kind of, that's kind of it. we went head to head on this one, Mike. Any sort of final notes on the draft and then let me know where they can find your work? It's highly recommended that you're following Mike Schope on X.

It's very highly recommended. You're watching all the stuff he's doing, ship chasing, ADP chasing, stuff you guys do over there. Like if you enjoy this content, like you guys are doing it multiple times a week over there. And then, of course, Mike, on the radio, nobody does it better. It's very kind.

Rams Cardinals, Week 6, let's go. Let's do it. I'm on WGR and Buffalo weekday afternoons, including today, from 3 to 7 Eastern. It's now that the Sabres got really good and their Stanley Cup dream ended last week. So we'll be sort of more into the bills pretty much starting today through the offseason. That's what we do most days. and I'm in my 24th year there, which I'm very proud of. ADP chasing goes tonight.

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