Fantasy Football Daily - Fantasy Football FFPC Main Event Draft Review: High Stakes Strategy to Win $1 Million w/ Dan Williamson

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

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over here on the Fantasy Points Podcast Network, joined today by Dan Williamson, a player profiler. Dan and I have podcasts together a lot over the years, but we're also co-managing a number of teams every single offseason. We usually split a number of FFPC. and sometimes NFFC teams as well, splitting some big high-stakes entries that we're going to review on this podcast sometimes throughout this off-season. Dan, we did well last year. We did well.

We ended up recovering very well. We won the $5,000 entry, FFPC League. That was a really, really nice one. Big shout out to Brock Purdy for bringing the heat there for us in week 17 when we had Jalen Hertz out and Brock Purdy stepped up. Dan, that was a really, really big one. We also participate in the FFPC Varsity League. We split that one with Andrew Schellenberg. That's a $3,000 entry.

So, you know, we're in the streets. We're not just doing content here. We're also putting a lot of skin in the game. Dan also give you a shout out. The Dynasty Life crowd knows about this because I talk about it. But Dan is also my dynasty consigliary. So I've ever have like a really hard dynasty trade to make or I want to bounce something off somebody I really respect. It's Dan Williamson.

And so Dan's a top-notch, high-stakes player, really, really strong content creator, great dynasty player as well. And great co-manager, too, Dan. I don't need to, like, talk to you about waivers. We just put them in, that sort of thing. So how deep are you in the streets right now, drafting-wise, drafting every day, drafting every week? These two main events we're going to review are slow drafts. How are you doing on the live drafts these days?

So I haven't done a live draft for a couple weeks. I'll probably get back more into them in August, but I'm getting really. ready to, like, July, I'm going to be gone pretty much the entire month. So I'm just kind of wrapping up slow drafts and, you know, getting ready for my trips. And, you know, we're, we're going to see how it goes. But I'll definitely be into the live drafts come August. So this is a controversial one where I really like slow drafts and some people just bash me over the head for that take. Do you think you have more of an edge in a live draft situation that you can see a little bit of an edge in a slow draft where managers have two,

to six hours, sometimes longer, to get their picks in? Yeah, I think sometimes the slow drafts tend to be just a little bit sharper, but you know, you can also run into, you know, there's just easy rooms either way. So, like, I'm doing a 250 best ball right now, and the room just feels really soft to me. And normally that's not the case in the 250s, but it's a slow one and it's working. So, yeah, so slow drafts are great for this time of year when there's not a lot going on, and I can just have a bunch of them going in the background. Sometimes the room is sharper, sometimes not.

So you never know what you're going to face until you get into a room. But I've found that slow drafts have worked pretty well for me over the years. Yeah, for me, I don't necessarily feel an edge either way. I do think once in a while I agree with you, like you get into an FFPC main event live in Vegas. And Dan and I will be drafting together in Vegas again this year. That's becoming sort of an annual tradition, always something I really look forward to. Once in a while you get to a table in a live event where you have somebody who's sort of there for the ride. A big shout out to the Vegas drafters for the most part are really, really sharp.

It's really, really difficult. But once in a while, you show up to a room and it's somebody maybe splitting a team with like two people. They want the experience of an FFPC main event. And if you've never drafted an FFPC main event live, highly recommend it. It's got sort of a world series of poker type atmosphere to it, a lot of energy in a room. It's a absolutely massive ballroom in years past, Planet Hollywood, this year at Paris Casino. It's a massive, massive ballroom. There's tons of tables where there's just so much action going on with all of these drafts over a long period of days.

And Dan, I always look forward to walking through, oftentimes with you, where we walk down that hallway going to draft. and they put every single board in this hallway. So you're walking by like the $10,000 entry league, the FFPC main events, all of them, a bunch of auction drafts that you've participated in. So it's like you get this crazy energy looking and seeing sort of how these other boards turned out. And these boards are like the size of like a size of like the side of your car.

They're not like small draft boards either. So it's absolutely energetic, absolutely fun. And we're hoping to do very well. there in Vegas, but we thought we'd get some of these main events sort of in the mix early on, especially with you traveling. I'm traveling end of the month. And we decided to enter two. So we each did one entry and we had each other as a co-manager.

And we end up getting the 11 in one draft and we get the 12 in the other. So this is sort of, you said you've sort of been cursed by this. I don't mind drafting from this end of the draft. Do you feel like you want to really vary your teams? are you concerned about that or do you figure I'm going to get exposure to these earlier slots just by drafting more teams in August and early September? Yeah, I figure I'll get my exposure, you know, where I need to get it. The only thing that concerns me is, like with the main event, you know, I'm not going to be doing, you know, like 20 or 30 of them or anything like that.

So it's, you know, like when you get two of them at one end, you feel like you're going to be a little bit heavy on that side. And especially if you happen to get a third one. But, you know, we adjust and, you know, there are other drafts and other platforms and everything else that you can find ways to vary, like you say, I do the auction drafts as well out in Vegas. So that's one place where I can kind of, you know, if there are players I'm under exposed to that I really want to have that exposure, I can prioritize them in the auction. And, you know, basically, if I'm willing to spend enough, nobody can take them away from me. That's right. And I'll say that the one challenge off the top, like I'll say the last two seasons, the win rates for the 10, 11, 12 spot have been very, very high, specifically the turns

because the league winner last year, Sequin Barclay oftentimes went in this range of drafts. And the year before, C.D. Lamb oftentimes went in this range of drafts. If we were trying to circle sort of a huge ADP winner from the last two seasons, both those guys would be very close to the top. But I'd say that the one challenge that are starting to present itself when you're drafting FFPC, and again, this is PPR, tight end premium managed leagues, is you're not getting access to Brock Bowers or Trey McBride. And you're also not getting access to George Kittle unless you wanted to go crazy and sort of push him to the one-two turn. So you're sort of in a little bit of a disadvantage from drafting a tight end who could,

legitimately be the tight end one overall. We could make a case. You could you could start painting a narrative that this guy could be the tight end one overall. But I think if we had to bet on it in the window in Vegas for PPR scoring, which tight end is going to score the most points. It would be Bowers, McBride, and then Kittles somewhere in that order. So we're missing out on those guys. Bowers usually goes inside the top six picks. Trey McBride, Dan, like if we were doing this two months ago, you might have had access to him at the 11. I'm seeing more and more McBride at like the eight, nine, that sort of area. You're seeing that as well?

Yeah, definitely. You know, even if I've got the 10-hole, I feel kind of fortunate when McBride falls to me. And also Leporta tends to go kind of around that four or five turn as well. So, you know, if you're looking for him, you've got to really reach. So, you know, your top four tight ends basically are out of reach from this end. But there are some tight ends that are nicely within reach. so it all works out. Yeah, for sure.

And that's one strategy that I think we've had over the years where we're able to sort of dumpster dive the tight end position on teams that we split. Last year, I know I drafted a very good amount of Brock Bowers. I know you've had some huge tight end success stories

over the years. In FFPC tight end premium, a lot of times I think people get themselves in trouble, really trying to overdraft the tight end position and pass up at sort of potential league winning values at running back wide receiver and sometimes quarterback. So we kind of, I think for both of us, our philosophy has been draft tight end when it's an edge pick,

not necessarily its structure, and be willing to dumpster dive when it sort of presents itself. It's a little dangerous. You have to be comfortable with your kind of target tight ends, but I think we did quite well. And in both of these drafts, we didn't draft a tight end until the 511 was the first tight end selection we made. So let's just go ahead and start.

talking about it right at the top. The first draft we started, we draw the 11 hole. We ended up with Puka Nakua and Ashton Genti at the 11 and the 13th overall pick. Excuse me, the 14th overall pick. Really, really excited about that start, Dan. Do you have any sort of regrets on either one of those picks? No, not at all. Definitely like Nakua over both BTJ and Nico Collins and having Gentie come back to us was just really a bonus, I thought, because, you know, if I had done anything different, it might have been taking Gentie at the 111 and then, you know, pushing around the other two. But it worked out this way that we got both the wide receiver we wanted the most and then that running back too. So love that start. Yeah, and we talked about that

a little bit. Like we specifically looked at Gentie and we sort of circled him. Malik Neighbors if anybody's curious and listen to this on the pod, Neighbors went 10th, McCaffrey went 9th. So neither one of those guys were in play. Nakua gives us that, like, I love BTJ. I love Nico Collins. I think both those guys are really good values. I know you do as well.

We'll talk about BTJ for sort of our next main event team. Spoiler alert, we ended up taking BTJ. But Dan, like Nakua, the target ceiling is scary. This has been a player that has 160 target season. last year he was if over a 17-game pace would have been north of 160. Now he's entering year three. There's potential that the Devante Adams presence is going to help the entire offense. What Nakuwa hasn't had is a huge touchdown season.

Do you think that that's in the range of outcomes, sort of like we saw from Amman-Ross, St. Brown, we took a massively forward in terms of touchdown scoring. Do we think we could see that with the Kua? With Devante Adams' prowess around the end zone, I think that he's probably still going to be one of the primary end zone targets in Nakuwa. Though, I feel like he's just had some bad luck on touchdowns, you know, where he's getting hauled down pretty close to the goal line. You know, because he does have some targets pretty deep downfield. So, you know, I don't see any reason why he shouldn't be able to bump up his touchdowns.

I just don't think he's going to get like a massive, massive. total with DeVante Adams a round two. Yeah, I think that's a really good point. I think that there's a chance that it goes up, but Adams is also really, really, really productive. I think it's going to be incredibly consolidated between the two of them. I think they'll coexist very, very well. Adams we didn't get in this draft. I sure would have been in on taking Adams at the 310.

Are you opposed to drafting Nakua Adams teams? it's been something that's been like sort of automatic for me on like underdog. It becomes a little more interesting decision in a managed team like an FFPC main event. What are your thoughts on having a Nakuwa Adams team? I would have still smashed that because, you know, we've seen with Kup and Nakua that both of them can coexist. I mean, the only time that basically they weren't both scoring pretty big was when Kup just basically turned into dust at the end of last year. So I don't have any concerns about that. I don't think you've got to just pick one horse there.

Yeah, I think that's a really, really good point. So Ashton Genti pick, it's sort of a no-brainer. At the time, I think we drafted the lowest Ashton Jenty share of any single main event. Since we started, there's been a number of more main events. That might not be the case. But at the very least, I think we'll be one of only a handful of teams at this point in the year on, with the time we're recording this is June 30. where Gentie ends up being the the 202.

You're starting to see Gentie fall a little bit more in some of these 350s, the big guerrilla FFPC contest. So I don't think it's out of the realm of possibilities that you end up seeing like a Gentie at the 205. You know, these drafts get very random as there get to be more of them and people chasing millions of dollars worth of earnings. Your thoughts on Genti just overall ceiling? Like I've said that I think he could lead the NFL all running backs in touches this year. sort of your enthusiasm for him.

Yeah, I'm very enthusiastic about him just because of the fact that he should be getting a monster workload. It's really how fast does the coaching staff want to put it all on him. You know, he can catch passes. He's a great rusher. And those are the kind of guys you want to have because you need to have access to a lot of targets to have a chance to be the, you know, RB1 overall. So unless your name is Sequin. in which case you just, you know, just rip off 70-yarders, right?

Right, and bust off like, you know, 400 carries and do it that way. But, yeah, I like those dual threat running backs up towards the top, you know, McCaffrey, Genty, A. Chan, Bejan, Gibbs, you know, right there, there's five guys that can easily challenge Sequin. And then, you know, of the more pure rushers, you got Derek Henry and Jonathan Taylor right afterwards. So, you know, if they had a huge volume season, and you can see them challenge as well. But I'd rather be putting my money on the dual threat guys.

Yeah, no, I'm with you. Just an interesting question. The time we're recording this, the Jonu Smith trade just went down. So Jonu Smith is now a Pittsburgh Steeler. A lot to unpack there, but specifically Devon A-chan in terms of the targets, you've got to think there's going to be a bump. A lot of those low A-DOT looks to A-chan. The other low-a-d-d-d-looks were to Janu in this offense.

So both those guys sort of really thrive on the get the ball out of a tongue of a low his hands extremely quickly. Now I think with Achan's receiving upside in this offense, there's a case to be made that you should take him ahead of Genty. I think that my overall take would be Genty has a safer floor. A Chan has a maybe a higher ceiling. Are you there with me on that or do you kind of want to push back? No, I don't want to push back too much other than, you know, I think there's probably another shoe to drop at tight end in Miami because they've really left themselves without any real good options. I mean, when you're talking about Farrow Brown as being, you know, like the- Julian Hill. Julian Hill, yeah. And, you know, a couple real young guys, too. I think that they're probably going to try to look and make a trade. I can see Mark Andrews. I could see, Michael Mayer, perhaps, maybe even Dallas Goert, since they were looking to get rid of him earlier.

So, you know, there's some interesting possibilities out there. Heck, Cleveland might even want some. Kyle Pitts. Kyle Pitts. There you go. That would be huge. Can't even imagine what there would be a few. There would be a few takes on an X about that one. There just might be, yeah. Let's take a quick break. We come back. We're going to talk about what we did at the three four term. Welcome back, Fantasy Football Daily. Dan, what do you have going on content-wise this off-season? Yeah, so I'm over at Player Profiler. Bradley and I are doing stack hunters on a weekly basis. We generally record on Wednesday and release it a little bit later in the week.

And we're working on getting the Fantasy Empire back together. So we're trying to, you know, make sure everybody's agents are happy with the contract before we sign it. But, you know, Nelson and Chris and Matt and I, We're really looking forward to it. And probably the biggest news is that the Goat District is back together. J.D. and I are riding again. So that's been a lot of fun. We've just been recorded a couple episodes so far,

but we're going on Tuesday nights. This week we've got John Lobb, and we're going to be talking rookies and kind of how they fit into these tournaments and which ones can give us the bang that we're looking for. for in the later parts of the draft. So looking forward to that as well. Yeah, highly recommend all of the podcast, Dan's on.

Go districts where I got my start. Fantasy Empire is awesome high stakes content. If you're an FFPC, NFFC manager, Nelson Sousa, Chris Vicarro, unbelievable. Matt Modica and Dan Williamson every single week, incredible content there. And then the stack hunters for you best ball managers out there, Bradley Stalder, and just dropping really, really strong shows every single week there. Dan, let me know where they could follow you on X as well. Yeah, so at X, I'm at Overhyped Sleeper.

Drop that final E from Sleeper. So if it helps you talk like a pirate, overhyped sleeper. There you go, Dan. There you go, Dan. So let's talk about this. This was one where we actually went back and forth a lot. I'd say that we had almost no conversation. I mean, a little bit of conversation,

but I think we were 95% sure what we wanted to do. little to no pushback. It was let's slam Pooka. Let's slam Ashton Jenty, easy picks right there. Then you get to the 3-4 turn, and we had some conversation. So Tyree Kill, Devante Adams, both go at the 309, 310. Would have been an interesting conversation if either one was on the board there. We get to the 3-11, and we had started with a running back in the first round.

A lot of times our teams just kind of turn into here or our B teams, the way we draft were usually attacking wide receiver pretty hard. And this was also the case. So we had a conversation here. Marvin Harrison Jr.'s name came up. Terry McLoren's name came up. We talked about both of them here. Ultimately, we went with Kenneth Walker.

I think it was the correct decision. We take him a few picks ahead of ADP, but we both really like his upside and the potential to get like a 17 point per game score as our RB2. Yeah, I really like that pick. I felt once Adams was off the board, then Walker was kind of the easy pick there for me. You know, with Marvin Harrison, you had to kind of talk me into him a little bit, and I'm glad you did. Terry McCorn was kind of another. That was sort of the default. Well, if we can't think of anything else, we can always go McCorren. And we did give some thought to doing McCoran, Jaden Daniels turn there too. So that would have been another way to go.

it's, I mean, the way that drafts are falling right now, it seems like that's just kind of easy click to make. And so I think a lot of people are going to be making that click. So we wanted to just differentiate a little bit. Yeah, no, for sure. I think we'll have access to a lot of these guys down the line. But Marvin Harrison Jr. end up taking at the 402, it's been a player where I think the range of outcomes for him could go many, many ways. But getting him as our fourth player as our wide receiver two and not our wide receiver one. And you have the really high floor Pukua as the wide receiver one. It was sort of like almost a no-brainer to get access to Harrison Jr.

I think you're going to see some main events where he's like the 307, the 308. People are going to reach for him. I think that the offseason is going to be, the rest of the off season is going to be very kind. All intensive purposes, you have the GM, the coach, Kyle. Miller Murray, even Trey McBride, multiple Cardinals have come out and said Harrison Jr. has just been working his tail off. Incredibly jacked. He put on size. I mean, you can see it. Some of the pictures, he looks noticeably more jacked this year. Always was a very good size wide receiver. Looks almost like a tight end in terms of build. And Harrison Jr. last year wasn't bad. He had just this incredibly bad inconsistency where it was seven games with eight points or fewer.

seven games with 15 points or more, if we can just see a little bit of a less of the awful games and maybe a few more of the 15 plus point games, I think the chances is he's going to pay off at this ADP. And we don't need him to be the wide receiver one here. We just need him to be like the wide receiver 13, wide receiver 12, and give us some spike week. So I like the way that turn.

I will say that we did pass on Lamar Jackson with both those picks. Lamar is also, I think, an edge pick at the 3-4. Yeah, I think so too. I mean, basically both Lamar Jackson, Jaden Daniels, you know, you can put them in a hat and draw out whichever one you want, and I'm going to be happy. So those guys, I definitely want to have exposure to, and I have and I will have that exposure.

So, you know, those are ones you don't want to miss. So five, six turn comes around. And I think just generally, like people looking, for edges. Like, when you get the turn pick, I think you get a really, really strong edge in the first round and the second round. We talked about all our great options we had there. We didn't even talk about guys like Amon Ross St. Brown, who's also available to you in the early second this year. The third and fourth round, it takes a little bit of creativity, a little bit of like conviction in your picks to find like the league winners in that range. I think it's a little more flat than we would

have liked. But then you get back to the five, six turn. And I think the five six turn is a real edge. There's a ton of names there that are appealing. You start seeing a wide receiver cleanup at the round of round five. We had specifically circled T.J. Hawkinson as a player that we wanted to get, if he's available to us at this five, six turn. We ended up getting him at the five eleven, which I was thrilled about. Then we had talked about Jameson Williams for for for a little while because we're both very high on his upside this season. Anybody who's listened to this podcast has heard me make big claims about Jameson Williams. Had Andrew Erickson on, I made my bold predictions for the year. I said Jameson Williams is going to be a wide receiver one this year. Dan, I have a ton of Jameson

Williams now. I took him in the hard way draft. We draft against each other in this invitation only FFPC 350 they do early in the off season. Dan, I took him there. We took them in this main event. Spoiler alert, we took them in the next main event. And I did two FFPC dynasty startups this off season back to back Jameson. So I'm all there. Talk about the Hawkinson pick and then talk about Jameson. And just to give you, if you're, if you're listening to this on the pod, the 507 was D.K. Metcalfe, 508, Cortland Sutton, 509, Zayflowers. Trayvion Henderson goes at the 510. So we took Hawkinson there at the 511. And then it was RJ Harvey, David Montgomery, at the 5-6 turn. Jameson Williams, we took at the 602. Yeah. So with Hawkinson,

There's a couple things. Number one, we're talking about a rookie quarterback in Minnesota, and Hawkinson is really looking back to full speed now after having an off year due to the injury at the end of the 2023 season. So I like the value that we're getting on Hawkinson there, and the fact that he's going to be working with the rookie quarterback, I think actually works in his favor because, you know, when you watch the Vikings play a lot, which I do, he's just the easy button. It's just so simple to check it down into Hockinson, and the guy's always getting you at 8, 10, 12 yards, whatever, and it's like a super high catch rate.

So you rack up, especially when you get this 1.5 PPR for tight ends. I really like the tight ends who can gobble up a lot of receptions, and that's Hockinson. We also knew that Evan Engram, David and Joku, they were going to be gone by the time our next pair of fix came around. So that made it even easier. Yeah, Hawkinson in 2023 finished as the tight end two in points per game. In 2022, he was the tight end four in points per game.

And then in 2021, he was the tight end seven. Hawkinson also got that mammoth contract from Minnesota. They view him as a, you know, a huge piece of their offense. He's only 28 years old. It's sort of this, Hawkinson seems like a guy who's been in the league forever, but he's still only 28, which is very young for a tight end. AJpex doesn't really apply at that position at all. Hawkinson's interesting.

I think like I like Jordan Addison as well. I don't think it's a zero sum. You have to pick Hawkinson or Addison. But whoever ends up with the second most targets is going to end up, I think, really paying off. And even if Hawkinson is like the number three target, it could both be a situation where they're like both around 90 targets in this offense. So I'm with you on that.

we end up getting Jameson again at the 602. Is there anybody behind Jamison that you see that you think we maybe should have pivoted to? For some people listening, I think James over Devontas Smith over Jalen Waddle would have been slightly controversial. For me, it's just this unknown upside with what if his usage goes up. It's a player that we finally saw breakout last year and year three. A lot of positivity from the offensive coordinator. I think Jameson is just really intriguing. Yeah, I agree.

And, you know, the things that the offensive coordinator has been saying and, you know, the things that Dan Campbell has been saying, for that matter, they're both just really, really excited about Jameson. You know, Devante Smith, Jalen Waddle, you kind of know what you're getting. They've sort of settled into roles on their offenses. And with Williams, I think he's still ascending. And I'd rather bet on that ascending player rather than somebody who's just kind of, you know, nosing long might be at a, you know, it's a very nice peak.

I don't mind taking Devanta Smith or Jalen Waddle at these prices at all. But Williams just, I think, gives you that extra little bit of potential juice upside. Yeah, and just barring a really big tight end that they bring in from Miami, Waddle, I think, could creep up a little bit as people get more into the value that he's presenting, again, in this five, six turn area, especially with now no John Hsu Smith there. And then DeBanta Smith, I like him as well. So I don't think it's an anti-Waddle versus Smith. It's more of a let's swing for the fences.

This is our wide receiver three slash our flex. We also sort of went with a high upside pick at the 7-Eleven. And I think this is also sort of a, it's sort of a like a sliding doors effect from us drafting Kenneth Walker over a wide receiver at the 3-11. We felt like we had to grab a wide receiver to get our wide receiver four, to lean into our strength at the 7-11. This round was interesting because you start seeing wide receiver cleanup and then some more tight ends going and running backs off the board.

Chris Godwin goes to 702, Ridley at the 703, Addison 704, David & Joku at the 705, Tony Pollard and Caleb Johnson back to back. Then you see Khalil Shakir at the 708, Brian Robinson, 709, Mark Andrew 710, Ricky Purcell just sitting in our laps. We end up taking him over Jacoby Myers, Stefan Diggs, two players that are projecting to be the number one target on their teams at the wide receiver spot, of course, in Myers' case. But Purcell, he's really interesting because it's sort of an ambiguous wide receiver

room. Purcell was a first round draft pick, really athletic player, flashed in week 17 and week 18 last year. Where are you out on this one? How much exposure to him do you have? I have some exposure. I want some exposure to him. I want some exposure to Joan Jennings because, you know, we think it's going to be a little while before Iyuk is back. And that can give both of them a chance to cement themselves into roles in the offense. I think Pearsall might pick up a little bit of the, you know, the things that Debo was doing as well. So that also made him interesting. and he's a first round NFL first round pick.

So, you know, San Francisco is going to want to get their monies worth out of him for sure. So I see him as still having a really good chance to ascend. It was difficult to pass up on Myers, who's kind of a, you know, again, just a player that you can count on. Diggs. If he wasn't coming off an injury, I probably would have been pounding the table for Diggs a little bit. more. You know, I think probably if I was doing this again, the only way I might have been pounding the table differently is maybe for Egbuka, you know, go ahead and just take Jordan Mason in the 7th and then take Igbuka coming around the 8th. It would be early for Egbuka,

but I think by the time we get to, you know, the end of August, Egbuka is going to move up. So I don't think it would be that bad in the end. Yeah, we're starting to see a lot of sharp money coming in on a Mecca Agbuka. Dan, we've talked about this a lot where he might be the one where it's sort of and I'm not, this is not an over-the-top statement. This is not a trying to be like hyperbolic. I don't think he has the ceiling of Brian Thomas Jr. last year, but the situations are not necessarily unlike one another where there's target competition, but the first round rookie wide receiver ends up being the highest scoring player in the whole wide receiver room. And I'm not, again, it's not hyperbolic. It's going to probably take.

a little bit of a Chris Godwin remaining banged up for this to happen. But it's in the range of outcomes that at Buka scores a lot more PPR points than some people think this year. And I'm with you. I'm starting to see a lot of sharp drafters take him. I was in an NFFC draft the other day. And we saw the guy who won the overall last year. He took him relatively early.

So people are starting to reach on him a little bit. Purcell we took. We get him out of the way. So we now have our fourth wide receiver. then we take Jordan Mason at the 802. And we went back and forth on this one a lot. We ended up taking Mason over Aaron Jones. If this was our RB2 and not our RB3,

would you have made more of an argument to take Jones, take the known commodity? Mason was sort of, again, a big swing for the fences one. Scott Barrett's on Aaron Jones on this one, Graham Barfield's on Aaron Jones. I've sort of come around to, I want a ton of Jordan Mason. I'm starting to draft him a lot. I think his touchdown ceiling in this offense is really, really high.

And we talked about the Hawkinson, Jordan Addison presence. I think that the targets for Jones maybe trickled down a little bit this year instead of going up. I think Jones for me is going to concede some carries to Mason, going to concede some targets to Hawkinson. To me, Jones is sort of a fancy purgatory player in this range where he'll give me some points, not necessarily the one I'd want to bet on as the season gets into the big money weeks. Right, yeah. He kind of wore down last year,

and of course that's why the Vikings picked up Mason was just so that they wouldn't have to overuse Aaron Jones. And I think he is better when he's used more lightly. But I do think that Mason, behind the revamped offensive line they have in Minnesota, you know, if he gets a hole and he gets through, he can be gone. I mean, he's fast.

He can break off some nice long runs. We saw San Francisco doing that consistently with him. And so he's a guy that I like for that reason and also around the goal line. I'm not sure, especially early in the season, how much they're going to want McCarthy throwing right down around the goal line. If they get down there, they might prefer to just punch it in on the ground if they can. So that touchdown equity, I think, is going to really help. Josh Oliver, great blocking tight end too.

He's going to be on the field a ton. acquired the two offensive linemen from the Indianapolis Colts through free agency, really bolstered that O line. So I agree with you. I think Mason, he converted like 25% of his runs for first downs last year. And when CMC was out, three out of his first four games, he finished as an RB1. I think Mason, there's a lot of, there's a lot of like juice to this profile. Again, I don't mind people taking Aaron Jones. I think my main takeaway is pick a fighter in this backfield. Don't try to ever double-tap this in a redraft setting because the cost is just too high and it could end up being a split, like a pure split. But I think that for me,

I'm going to go with the younger one, the one who I think has incredible touchdown upside. Let's take a quick break. We come back. We're going to talk about how we finished out this draft up to round 15. Welcome back Fantasy Football Daily, Theo Greminger with Dan Williamson. So we end up walking away with some great structure in our earlier picks. Then we get to round nine. And of course, round nine, it's the Wild Wild West. Names start going off the boards. But we know that the 9-10 turn, that middle of the 9th through the middle of the 10th

is sort of running back cleanup round. We ended up circling a number of players and our cue ends up getting kind of hit. At the 908, we see Brandon Ayyuk, the 909 Baker-Macon field 910 Zach Charbonnet, a player that I sort of would have pounded the table for. So we get to the 9-11 and it's Tyrone Tracy. We went back and forth on this one a lot, but we ultimately came away with Tracy. Ambiguous backfield player was good last year. It just seems like a reasonable bet to make to take him near the 9-10 turn when he could easily

win out this backfield situation. If there was no Cam Scataboo, I think people would be drafting him as like a fifth six-rounder. Yeah, exactly. I think, you know, the easy thing to do is pick a fighter here as well. You know, just like with Jones and Mason, you want to pick one between Scataboo and Tracy on any given team. Don't try to take them both, but just take one or the other. Hopefully it works out that you've got the right one, but it's really hard to handicap, so I'm just taking whichever one goes later. You know, Anagie Harris was also a little bit of a consideration for us. But again, I think, you know, with Tracy, we just felt like there was more potential for him to carry the load.

And I just don't see that potential with Najee Harris. Yeah, I think that Najee and I think Dobbins, you'd also brought him up when we, and Dobbins ends up going at the 1010. But like, Najee and Dobbins, I think, are both really solid choices. If it was a best ball draft, I'd probably like them a little bit more. But it's, they're going to be potentially second fiddle to dynamic rookie running backs. where nausea, I just feel like we'd be capping our upside with the pick. Tracy could go to zero potentially.

If he has a bunch of fumbles to start the season, then he's in trouble with Cam Scadaboo who's going to be really, you know, Skadaboo didn't fumble the ball at all at Arizona State. Tracy had like five fumbles last year, dropped a number of passes. But Tracy also is explosive. He can catch the ball. I like swinging for the fences here, especially with the safety we have at the running back position

where he's our running back four instead of like our running back two or three. we then follow up the pick with Colston Loveland. So Najee and Tai J Spears go at the turn, and then at the 10-02 as the tight end 13 off the board, we take Colston Loveland as our tight end too. We both really like this pick. Yeah, I really like it just because of the fact that we have Hawkinson. So, you know, for me, any other tight ends that we get,

we want to shoot for upside. We're not looking for a Pat Friarmooth or, you know, Dallas Goader or a guy like that where there's just not that much upside. It's more of a safe floor than a high ceiling. And with Loveland, I think that there's a potential at least for a very high ceiling. I mean, he's going into the same offense, you know, that Sam LaPorteurton went into, has a lot of similarities to him. You know, you can't discount the fact that Cole Comet is there.

But I think, you know, I think they bad we want for their rookie picks to work out. and, you know, I think Ben Johnson wants Leveland, and I think he wants burden to both be very, very involved in this offense. So that makes it a fun pick. Yeah, you don't take Colston Loveland where you took him to have him split with, you know, Colcomette.

And people bring up the, like, sort of the Dalton, Kincaid Dawson Knox argument. Loveland went 15 picks ahead of where Kincaid was drafted in that draft. So it's like, for me, we saw Sam LaPortea finish as the tight end one, overall in a Ben Johnson offense. That was sort of a Jameson Williams was very underutilized that year. So it was almost a contingent upside play with Leporta to give 120 targets that

year. But things happen in the NFL. And there's no running back in Chicago that's going to be just an absolute belcow. It's looking like a past-centric offense. So if we see a DJ Moore, a Luther Burden, or a Roma Dunezay missed some time, I think Loveland's utilization goes way up. Dan, how about we get Colquemette traded to the Miami Dolphins, get them the hell out of Chicago,

set them down to Miami? Cole Comette dynasty managers would love that one, and we get our boy just for clear off here. So I love that pick. We go to the 11th round, and we still have been taking a quarterback. So when we took Purcell, we had originally talked about, like, stacking,

having a little bit of correlation. I know we like to do that in our quarterback room. there are certain quarterbacks that we would take sort of quote unquote naked quarterback where we don't necessarily need the correlation, guys with rushing upside like Lamar Jackson, Justin Fields. But when it comes to a lot of these pocket passers, we love having correlations. So Marvin Harrison Jr. sort of opened us up to Kyler Murray. James opened us up to Jared Gough. Ricky Persol opened us up, certainly to Brock Purdy. And T.J. Hawkinson opens us up to J.J. McCart.

We see a quarterback run in round 11 where you start seeing these guys fly off the board. Our queue gets decimated. Justin Fields goes to the QB8 at the 1103. Kyler Murray at the 1104. The Bo Nix goes 115. So they're all off the board. Then we see four running backs and Pat Fryermouth go in that Pat Fryermith pick. That manager is absolutely hating that pick today after the John Hussmith trade.

but Brock Purdy falls to us, falls in our laps here. And thankfully we took him because the team at the 12 spot did not have a quarterback. So we thought maybe we could go with a running back, maybe we could go with another positional player and sort of push Purdy around. Ultimately, we saw Purdy as an edge with our build over a deck, over Caleb Williams, and a few other quarterbacks like Drake May, J.J. McCarthy. the, I'm glad we did this pick because the team right after us, Dan went bang, bang quarterbacks. He takes Dak Prescott and Caleb Williams. So Purdy pick, your thoughts on Purdy, real good value, in my opinion, in a lot of builds. Yeah, I really like Purdy. He's a very underrated quarterback for fantasy because he rarely has bad games and he gets well over 20 points

in FFPC scoring a lot of the time. So people look at him and they say, ah, he's just, just a systems quarterback and all that. I don't care if it's the right system, and he's getting consistent touchdown passes. And he can run a little bit, too. He'll use his legs when he needs to. So I don't mind that at all. And then the team 12, taking two quarterbacks,

just pushed Jaden Blue right back around to us. And I was very happy about that when I was glad that he fell to us. Yeah, we'd had Jaden Blue as a Q guy earlier when it was like the Loveland pick. It's just another ambiguous backfield. But Blue is easily the fastest and has the most juice and he's the best receiver. I know a lot of people say Theo kind of slowed down on that one. Javante Williams caught a lot of passes last year was like fifth in running back targets. But Blue just is more of a dynamic explosive receiver.

So I think if they do go in Dallas, if they emphasize that, he could find his way on the field. Or we're just simply betting that Javante Williams and Miles Sanders are not good. and let's take a chance on the really fast rookie. So we basically, we hit three ambiguous backfields in this build with Mason, Tracy, and Blue. If we end up getting the winning ticket in two out of the three, we've done very well with these picks. Yep, no doubt about that. And, you know, on our last turn, getting Mason Taylor and DJ Giddens, I mean, just love getting that upside there with those rookies or at least potential upside. because that's the area of the draft where you really want to be smashing for upside, I think,

rather than just drafting boring veterans or anything like that. We feel like we had a good team put together through 11 rounds. Now let's go out and try to win a million bucks with the rest of the draft. Yeah, Mason Taylor is a smash pick in this range. I know we both really like him. I like him more in redraft and best ball than I do Dynasty. I think that he's going to potentially have the least amount of target competition of any season in his career this year.

It's going to be Garrett Wilson, as much Garrett Wilson as you can handle. Breece Hall certainly is going to get his looks out of the backfield. And then Mason Taylor is just there. And it's a high pedigreed player. His dad was an NFL player. We get him as the tight end three in this build. An absolute hammer.

He might outscore Colston Loveland. And then we follow up with DJ Giddins, another player we really, really like. Direct handcuffed to Jonathan Taylor, a lot of positivity for him. from the beat reporters. I don't think this is a DJ Giddens is going to take away some sort of a weekly touch share from Taylor. But Taylor misses time every single year.

And Taylor could play 14 games this year. And his managers are pretty satisfied with that. And we're satisfied because we get three starts out of DJ Giddens, where in that offense, you're talking about north of 15 points per game. If I'm wrong, and that's Taylor playing eight games and we get nine starts out of Giddens, then maybe we have a least. league winner. Yeah, definitely. So that's, that's exactly what I liked about that pick. We also considered Shipley, Marshawn Lloyd, even Dylan Sampson, Breschard Smith as well.

So any of those would have been fun picks. Yeah, any sort of big takeaways from this team. And again, we're still drafting this team, but you like the way it's shaping up? Yeah, I definitely like the way it's shaping up. You know, there were a couple places where it would been nice if a player would have fallen one or two more picks and we could have, you know, done something different. But, you know, when it's your turn, all you've got is the players in front of you. You can't worry about the players that are already gone. So I like a lot what we did with this team. And hopefully we finish off strong and get off to a good start. Well, if we finish second overall in the contest, it's because the next team we're going to review finishes first.

We'll be right back after this. Dan, we're back. We're back. Talk about our second main event build. Not going to spend a whole lot of time on the first round. We went with, we have the 12 here, not the 11. Trey McBride falls to the 111 in this one. That kind of really was, we're hurt to see that one. Nakuwa goes 10. Genti goes 9 in this one.

We end up taking Brian Thomas and then Christian McCaffrey at the 12 and the 11. We considered Nico Collins, but ultimately we were both really happy about this one, wide receiver and running back that we both like. But let's talk about what we did at the three four turn. You talked about this with last draft where how do we differentiate ourselves? How do we find an edge in this range? We ultimately went with Jaden Daniels and Terry McLaurin back to back. So we pass on Kenneth Walker and Marvin Harrison Jr.

Joe Burrow would have been a quarterback. I don't think either one of us would have wanted at the three, four. but this feels interesting because I think it's going to be pretty common. You talked about how multiple teams are doing this, but we sort of differentiated ourselves with our BTJ, Christian McCaffrey start. Jaden Daniels, Terry McLaren was really good last year. It's an offense that Vegas is projecting to score a ton of points and also win a lot of games. McLaren, of course, is sort of holding out now,

but there's no indication to me that they're not going to reach some sort of a common ground with three weeks to go before training camp. McCloren's still attending like team events. He's still like a big voice in the locker room. And they don't really have a player that can replace him. So I think the fears of McLaren are sort of a little bit overblown. They're not trading him, in my opinion. Your thoughts on the Daniels McClureen turn at 3-4 here.

Yeah, I'd really like that turn. I mean, we did talk about maybe taking Marvin Harrison instead of McLaren, but we just ultimately decided, you know what, if we get to the shootout, having that Daniels McLaren is going to be really nice. I mean, you know, there's, you may see some other McDaniels, McDaniels, McLaren pairings in that shootout as well, but we feel like we have a good team around him.

So, you know, that could be a very, very high-scoring duo, though. I really like Jaden Daniels because I think he's still ascending. I think, you know, he's probably a better passer than Lamar Jackson, and I think he's pretty much as equal almost as a runner. So I love what Daniels brings to the team, and then McLaren having those two pair it up is going to, be great. I don't worry about holdouts too much, especially for wide receivers. Usually these things get resolved anyway. If we're getting into the second week of August or something, and it's still

not resolved, then I'll start worrying about it. But for now, I feel great about those two picks. Yeah, and it's not a, it's not a guy that's missing time with any sort of off the field concerns. Like McClorin, like, he's just such a solid guy, always looked at as like a big locker room presence, a player that's been a sort of a face of the franchise before Daniels got there, at least offensively. So I like it. I think like the way I put it, I think that maybe the team is a little bit more dangerous if it's Marvin Harrison Jr. instead of Terry McLaren.

The unknown upside for me was very enticing. But I think the structural element to getting that sort of correlation play with Daniels and McCorren, especially in a tournament environment, if those guys just go nuts and they connect for five touchdown passes in weeks 15, 16, and 17. We're going to really like our decision to go there. And it's really a double bet. We're doubling down on our Jaden Daniels selection, pushing the chips in and taking his clear number one target.

So I like that one a lot. We get to the five, six turn. And we had talked about balance here. We talked about leaning into wide receiver. I think ultimately the safety net of Christian McCaffrey made us feel comfortable. to do what we did. We take Jamison Williams and Travis Hunter, and anybody wondering who went before us,

Zayflower is 509, RJ Harvey 510, George Pickens 511, Jameson, we take back-to-back drafts. We talked about him, just how enthusiastic we are about him and the upside he presents. Then we went Travis Hunter, which I think I sort of pounded the table for this one.

Jalen Waddle was available, a few interesting running backs, but having Hunter, and BTJ together, I think could be really, really high upside. And spoiler alert, we draft another Jacksonville Jaguar a couple of rounds later. Your thoughts on Hunter. Yeah, I really like the pick there because, you know, again, this is shooting for the upside. You know, I felt like we were really strong.

And the idea of drafting a Christian McCaffrey is, you know, you want to draft as if you're going to be right. I know a lot of people are very concerned about, oh, he gets injured a lot, all that kind of stuff. You know what? We can't be worrying about that. You don't want to use the old double condom here. You want to draft a bunch of running backs to go with him. You want to say, hey, there's our bell cow. He's going to be a bell cow for basically most or all of the season. And that's how we're going to roll.

And we're going to surround him with a heck of a good quarterback and then really good wide receivers. And then we can go back and we can fill in running back depth later. So I like how this turned out. Yeah, I do too. I love Hunter there. I think Hunter and William Jameson together, like if we're looking for a five, six turn that could produce 50 point week 17, that's these two guys. Like Hunter and Jameson together, that's incredibly high upside, incredibly explosive athletes there, wide receivers with youth.

And I think what's very interesting, Dan, is anybody drafting in these formats, the five, six turn area is great for wide receiver and then expect a wide receiver. cleanup. And we see it. The end of round six ends up being Roma Dunesay at the, I believe that's a 607, then Calvin Ridley at the 611, Joanne Jennings 612, then Jerry Judy at the 7-1, Chris Alave at the 7-2, Godwin 7-4, Jordan Addison 7-5. So it's a real steep drop-off. I feel like going from Addison to Debo Samuel. That's sort of a cutoff line for me there. So I'm really glad we went with this wide receiver strength. And the Christian McCaffrey take you had spot on draft like you're right. Another note is I've been drafting in a number of these drafts recently with you and then also did the one on my own, starting to see people reach for Isaac Grendo.

For every Christian McCaffrey is back, he's going to average 20 plus point per game this season. For every two of those people, there's a one, this guy shouldn't be drafted there. Cook, you're talking about a 29-year-old running back coming off of an injury. I want his backup. And Isaac Arendo on paper, if you're playing the ADP game with Garendo, you're going to get yourself in trouble because I think his variance is going to be really, really different. I saw him going like the ninth round, end of the ninth in another league, but here we see somebody go really aggressive for him. Isaac Rendo goes off the board at the 806. This has to be in a main event high, but just going to show you, Dan, that

people trying to play catch up at the running back position are really chasing that potential upside with a guy like Garendo. Yeah, definitely. I did go back and look on Mojo and somebody actually took him in the seventh in a main. There you go. But the thing is, if you go look at the guerrillas, nobody has taken them this early. Even at the, you know, the 806, nobody had taken them that early in any of the guerrillas. And there's a heck of a lot more guerrillas out there than there are mains that are

completed right now. So I think Garindo is one of those players. Yeah, you know, you probably want to have some exposure to him structurally if you're trying to build a, you know, a whole bunch of teams together. You want some McCaffrey and then Garendo kind of when he falls to you, not one you want. I don't feel right now the need to reach on him at all. I'm just going to wait.

And if he kind of falls to me, then I'm going to take him. and that way I kind of get my bets covered, you know, because if if the McAfree team flames out, then the Garando team all of a sudden should be super hot. Yeah, I had, I recorded with Scott Barrett for School of Scott and Derek Brown, and we sort of talked about our favorite handcuffs in that sort of like the sweet handcuffs. For me, it's still Charbonnet because I've seen it. Charbonnet had the three RB, our top eight weeks last year,

but they were both very enthusiastic. about garendo. So if you want to hear Scott's take on garendo, Derek Browns as well, go listen to last week's school of Scott. It was good. But you lose your edge when you take him this early, Dan. Like if I'm in a tournament setting and a bunch of people have 10.05 exposure to Garando, 11th round of garendo, and then I take him in round seven, you still lose about three rounds of ADP equity there. If Christian McAfrey goes down week three or four, then you're celebrating. But if McAfrey, Kaffrey is a guy who plays almost every game this year.

Garendo is really a strict contingent upside bet. We talked about a guy like a DJ Giddens who we're taking in like round 15 versus this sort of big bet. It's a tough one. You also have the, and this is, people are treating Garendo like it's a 90, 10 versus Jordan James, probably a little bit closer to 7525 and 8020, where I think Jordan James internally, that organization likes him as well. So just throwing that at one out there as well. So we end up with our structure through the first six rounds of the draft was a quarterback, a running back, four wide receivers.

We then get to the 7-8 turn. We take Mark Andrews as the tight end nine at the 7-12. I think that was a good price we paid. And then we took Jordan Mason once again, this time Jordan Mason as our RB2. So we're really aggressive on Jordan Mason with these back-to-back drafts. We talked about Mason last time. Talk about Mandrews. Yeah, so Mandrews, I think, is going to end up being a really good pick here just because of the fact that he is always such a big part of the passing game.

Anytime he's healthy, the first four weeks last year, he was not healthy, and we saw kind of that mini breakout by Isaiah likely. But then all of a sudden, he gets healthy, and it's much more Andrews, much less likely. So, you know, basically, and we both, you know, just to look ahead a little bit, we ended up getting likely as well, which was what we were hoping to do because of the fact that those two together, it's like when one is out, the other one is going to definitely eat. So you've got like basically a top three tight end if the other one is out. So I like how we put that together. but Andrews has just been such a critical part of that offense. You know, Lamar Jackson just loves him. And you know what?

Maybe they'll trade them to Miami. Who knows? They were kind of looking around to see if anybody wanted Andrews before the draft. So maybe they've settled in. They're happy with having them around for another year. But if they move into Miami, I sure wouldn't complain about that. We'd have the blackjack split. Yeah, we'd have a great blackjack split there.

And I think Isaiah likely would move up about six rounds, maybe seven, eight rounds even. if Andrews was out of the equation. We talked about it when we did it. And I think that people are going to look at that and say that's a low upside type structural play. But I would push back and say with Mandrews and likely, if one of the other misses time, the other is going to tick up. And it's a way for us to sort of punt tight end and have safety with what should be the highest scoring offense in football, top three scoring offense if Baltimore regresses a bit.

I really like the combination of where you're able to get mandrews, where you're able to get likely. We took likely, again, at the 1201. We take Mandruz at the 712. And I think with the aggregate, if one of them just maintains their stranglehold on tight end one with like a true backup, then this is a situation where we're going to end up getting really good return on value. Again, we take Mason at the 801. Then, well, originally our entire plan was going to be taking Garando with the 912. that ship sailed in round eight so we put a bunch of running backs in the queue

Zach Charbonnet nearly falls to the 9-12 would have liked to have seen him talked about Najee he goes a few picks before so Charbonay and Najee right off the board Tyler Warren goes at the 910 Mooney goes 9-11 then we see basial Tutin on the board this was an easy one for us Tutton another ambiguous backfield pick in this build it's a little more danger Dan because it's our running back three where we could have maybe taken a little bit less upside pick. But I think Tutin, they drafted him with enthusiasm. James Gladstone mentioned Tutin during his interview as a sort of player he wants the

Jaguars to start targeting. Big plays seem to be a paramount of what the Jacksonville Jaguars want to do. And we have Liam Cohen, who could be a running back whisperer after what he did with Bucky Irving. Yeah, exactly. And Tutin is super fast too. You can call me crazy if you want, but my comp for him a little bit as a prospect anyway is Jamal Charles.

Now I'm not saying he's going to be Jamal Charles as a pro. That would be basically the top 1% outcome. But I think he's got a lot of the same skill set. And being super fast like he is, I mean, if he can just hold on to the ball, he is going to break off a lot of big runs. And those are the kind of players I really like. betting on at this range of the draft, I want to have that juice for the running backs. And Tutans got plenty of that.

Yeah. And also, sorry, go ahead. Oh, yeah. And then as you pointed out, too, we've also got two Jaguars already. So this gave us, you know, three players out of Jacksonville. So we've got a strong bet on the Jacksonville offense here as well as a strong bet on the Washington offense. Yeah, it's easy bets to make.

I think with Liam Cohen, that could be a big turnaround offense. also with like on fantasy points data the design targets for running backs last year in Tampa you had two top five finishers with bucky irving and rashad white no other team had two players inside the top 20 at the running back position so like if tootin gets on the field he's got some pass catching ability there especially if it's a bigsby tootin back field where bigsby would be the hammer tutin could be like a dynamic player in the screen game so love that pick. At the 10-01 and the 11-12, we hit rookies once again. Love this turn for a, not a turn, but love these back-to-back selections. Jaden Higgins and Luther Burden with back-to-back picks

round-wise, with a large gap. Burden was a real value. Higgins is a player that we really circled, Dan. Yeah, he was. We circled Egbuka and Higgins for our 9-10 turn and hoping that one of would fall to us. Egbuka went really, really early. 902 for Igbuka here. Yes, exactly. So, you know, so we still had Higgins. So we knew he was going to be the smash. And then it was just, you know, who else we wanted to get? And since Bachel Tutin happened to fall, that was an easy pick as well.

And then coming around in the 11th, yeah, we had burden circled as well. Neither of us, I don't think, really thought he was going to make it to us. And when he did, that was an easy pick. Yeah, it's an easy pick. also for us, like we didn't really need a wide receiver there, but it was like we're not going to pass up on an edge pick like burden. Burden likely as a 1112 turn is an incredibly up high upside turn of events for us. It didn't help us structure wise, but it was sort of like let's lean into it. We end up getting our Baltimore tight end room locked down with likely. Again, Dan, you talked about

what would happen if there was an Andrews trade, likely would would be a huge. Riser. And then Luther Burdon there, if Burden hits, he could really, really hit. We talked about it with Colston Loveland. Burden, if he takes on the slot role in a Ben Johnson offense, then it could turn out to be DJ Moore is not so good to pick this year because Burden is going to sap up a lot more targets than sort of the community is giving him. And with Higgins and Burden, in the 10th and 11th round, we get two players with top 40 NFL draft capital at the wide receiver spot. I really, really like that. It's sort of a range of the draft where it becomes more and more difficult to find really

high upside players. Both of those guys check off that sort of boxes. And we, again, likely at the 1201. So we get down to the 1312 and 1401. Now's the time where we really, really leaned into it and had to commit to the running back position. Dan, I like what we ended up with. We sort of split it here where we had three guys in the queue and I think I was pounding the table for one. You were pounding the table for the other. Braylon Allen for me, I know you liked him as well here, but it's one where when I'm in this

range and I'm looking to get catch up at the running back position, Alan's a player that I think is going to do well, the Tanner Engstrand offense. We hear that they want to utilize multiple backs. I think there's a scenario where Braylin Allen is sort of an AJ Dylan, type player where he's got sort of his own weekly role. And Isaiah Davis is a little bit more of a handcuffed to Brees Hall type. If this offense gets going, especially with the rushing threat of Justin Fields, Braylin Allen could be a hammer. We saw him flash at times last year.

Davis was good at the end of the year. But I still like betting on Allen here. Yeah, I really like that too. I think that's an easy pick to make here because, you know, he could end up having that David Montgomery role in the offense. So, you know, at the 13-12, you know, you're not going to find anybody with certain roles, but, you know, or roles that are for certain. But I think Braylon Allen has one of the better potential opportunities for standalone value,

which is something that we're kind of hoping to get at least one more running back who might have that standalone value just to kind of round out the room. and then we could start pitching purely for upside. And Breschard Smith, that's a guy I've enjoyed drafting lately because of the fact that he's in that Kansas City backfield. He's got dusty Kareem Hunt in front of him. And then Elijah Mitchell, who's basically made out of class. And then, you know, Pacheco, who did not look good when he came back last year. And I'll throw out there, Pacheco might never look the same way he was ever again.

I mean, it's an optimistic. and I know that we know some smart drafters right now who are on Pacheco at cost. And I know a number of smart drafters double-tapping Pacheco and Breschard Smith, but Dan, there's a chance that Pacheco is just not it. And you're going to want the dynamic player in this backfield. Jerich McKinnon was a guy that in his peak KC years, you had a ton of. It sort of feels like that with Breschard Smith. Yeah, exactly.

And that's kind of the outcome I'm hoping for is that he turns into the, you know, he at least gets the Jerich McKinnon role. And, you know, Hunt is somebody that maybe they just wave and, you know, he's no longer part of the team or else he's just a, you know, a backup for Pacheco. And Elijah Mitchell, I don't really see him as being a big threat either. So Smith, I think I like him at least as well and probably better than Elijah Mitchell when Mitchell came out. So just like taking that chance. Yeah, I agree with you. And I think with Smith, there's a little bit more.

competition there in the backfield, which sort of brings his cost down. Also, his draft capital was lower. I think that the only guy that I see that we sort of passed up on was again, DJ Giddens, where I think it's a direct handcuff and almost a very like for like replacement with Jonathan Taylor, we're not saying he's the same exact player as Taylor, but he could handle Jonathan Taylor like volume. He could handle 85% of the Jonathan Taylor touches. could go to DJ Giddens. So for me, he'd be really appealing here. But again, we got him last draft.

So right now, I would say we're, we have five running backs through round 14, probably need to hit running back a little bit more towards the tail end of the draft. In great shape at wide receiver. We probably need a quarterback too. We probably need a, another tight end. But things are looking pretty good. And the other draft, things are looking pretty good as well. This was a lot of fun today, Dan.

I really hope these drafts finish out strongly. I'm sure they're going to be. And we're going to have to do this again. We'll review some of our builds right here on Fantasy Football Daily. Let everybody know once again where they can find your work and what you have coming out. Yeah. Again, I'm over at Player Profiler putting out occasional articles over there. You can catch me on Stack Hunters on the Player Profiler network with Bradley Stalder.

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