Fantasy Football Daily - FFPC Pros vs. Joes Draft Breakdown: Theo Gremminger’s High-Stakes Strategy

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game In this episode of Fantasy Football Daily, Theo Gremminger recaps his full draft strategy for the FFPC Pros vs. Joes challenge—one of the most prestigious high-stakes fantasy football contests in the industry. He walks through every key selection and decision point, including his Bengals stack, how he approached the tight end premium format, and why he prioritized upside at specific roster spots. Theo breaks down positional runs, draft board dynamics, and how he balanced risk and reward throughout the build. He also gives a nod to the contest’s organizer and shares his excitement for the season ahead. Whether you're prepping for your own high-stakes league or just want expert-level insight, this episode is a must-listen. Where to find us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://twitter.com/TheOGFantasy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Join the Discord here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com/media/discord#/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Fantasy Points for FREE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com/plans#/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Podcast Transcription Here: https://podsqueeze.com/embedded/transcript/6M4PAbQPSVDR52b6PLE4p5 Fantasy Points Website - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ NEW! Data Suite - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://data.fantasypoints.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/FantasyPts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/FantasyPts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/FantasyPts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@fantasypts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ #FantasyFootball #2025Rankings #DaveKluge #RB1 #WR1 #QB1 #TE1 #FantasyFootballAdvice #NFL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Really a fun one. I've been fortunate to participate this in this contest for a few years now. A few years back, I was in this contest as a Joe. I got my start doing high stakes, drafts. I got in there as a Joe, did really, really well my first year in my division. I was top three in a really tough division and like top 10 overall finisher. Then with the Goat District podcast a few years later, Dan Williamson split a team with him. We're fortunate enough to take down the entire thing.

So we won it that year, won the overall. And then last season, I won my division, got a free FFPC main event entry, was able to edge out a division. a division where it was like Sigmund Bloom, Pete Overzette, like some really, really sharp people. And Sigmund Bloom has been by far in a way the best sort of pro here. Like of all the, of all of the content creators who participate in this contest, Sigmund Bloom's like way up there. He's been in, I think, every every entry. And there's been 17 years of this. So what this is, it's started by Darren Armani. And it's pros versus Joe. And a lot of the Joes are the best drafters.

So like you have a bunch of these managers who have won six figures in some cases, like really, really successful high stakes FFPC managers. And then people who are doing content creation. So it's been a really, really good contest. Again, I've had a lot of success with it. This year I had my own team. This is the third time I've had my own team. and then of course splitting that team with Dan Williams in years back.

So just a quick review of how this went for me. It's a 20-round best ball tournament. So for me, I drew the 102, and really my all-day-long dilemma was, do I go with Bejohn Robinson, who's my number two overall pick in my, excuse me, number two overall ranked player in my rankings at fantasy points, my top 50 rankings, which I dropped? do I push up a wide receiver like C.D. Lamb, or do I just take Brock Bowers, who is my tight end one overall and a viable number two pick in this contest? I was pretty set on Bowers for a lot of

the day because of the structural nature of the FFPC, taking Bowers of the two locks down elite tight end scoring that I would lack at the 211 or the 302. Because George Kittal, has been routinely going in the middle of the second round in a lot of these FFPC leagues. In a couple of the other Pros versus Joe's contest, he was going off the board, something like the 207, the 205, somewhere in that range. And even in FFPC main events and FFPC big guerrillas, which is their $350 contest, $350 entry contest, those are redraft leagues. You're starting to see Kittle sort of the gravitational pull of Bowers and McBride has pulled kittle closer to like the mid-second. So structurally, Bowers was sort of what I was set on. Now, I'm drafting in the two-hole. Number one pick, the first overall manager at the 101,

is John Rozick, who's been a wildly successful high-stakes manager for many years in multiple formats, FFPC included, has taken down some really, really big pots. I thought there was a chance he'd go contrarian in this and not take Jamar Chase at the 101 because the benefit of drafting, this was the seventh and final FFPC Pros versus Joe's contest. So the benefit for John and also myself was being able to see these other boards. Now, there's no monetary value for finishing as the number one overall finisher. It's just bragging rights and really cool bragging rights, but just bragging rights. It's like the goal is to win a 12 person contest.

It's 12 little divisions. They give out 12 FFPC main event entries, which is a $2,200 entry fee, chance to win a million dollars off of that free entry fee. So last year, I got a free entry into the main event, which is a really huge prize. So I thought for John potentially would go contrarian because every single other FFPC Pros versus Joe's League had, Jamar Chase at the 101. But I still think when push coming to shove, I thought John was going to go with Chase. But John does go with Bejan Robinson. So I snap picked Jamar Chase, easy pick for me.

I love Chase. Last year when I won my division here, I had Jamar Chase. I had also Josh Allen. I had James Cook. I had Chase Brown. So I had a couple of players that were really big ADP hits. Again, the structural nature of this, it's 20 round. best ball and it's tight end premium scoring.

So you make a lot of decisions as to just how many quarterbacks, how many running backs, how many wide receivers, and how you get that valuable tight end scoring. So basically, our draft went, Bejohn at the one, Jamar Chase, I took at the two. Justin Jefferson went three overall, which I thought was a little interesting, starting to see him fall to like the midfirst in a lot of these drafts because of some injury concerns now. drafters were pushing him at the three. A lot of times you're still seeing it, but now you're seeing C.D. Lamb and him sort of going back to back.

Then John Paulson of four-for-four, really sharp guy, takes Brock Bowers at the four. Sequin, Berkeley, Christian McCaffrey, Jemir Gibbs. Gibbs was an absolute steal at the seventh overall pick. I think team number seven did a phenomenal job in this contest. Team to eight takes Cidiam, then Malik neighbors, Trey McBride, Ashton Genty, and then Derek Henry goes off the board to Jim Coventry of Rotowire. Jim Coventry then goes Josh Jacobs, which I think was a structural pick. I'm going to have to ask Jim about that.

I wouldn't have gone Josh Jacobs at the 201. I think that's very early for him, but Jim is a guy who doesn't really care about ADP and kind of throws it out the window and drafts with conviction. So I'll pick Jim's brain on that one. But getting Jamar Chase of the 102, don't really have to explain it. it did sort of put me behind the eight ball where if I would have had Bijon, it opened things up to sort of a hero running back build. If I would have taken Brock Bowers,

I could have gone a little bit more fragile at the tight end and really gotten away with potentially two tight end build. It's still a little dangerous, but drafting Bowers of the two structurally is even easier than Chase. But I mean, Jemar Chase, my 101 at the 102, it was an awesome, awesome pick to get. So my basic take with my end of the third round is take the best possible player, take the most dangerous player. Kittle would have been a no-brainer for me there, especially with the tight end premium aspect.

But he went here at the 207, so he's off the board. I really had honed in thinking that Drake London, A.J. Brown, or Ladd McConkey would be there. I also had Bucky Irving circled as a running back target there, would have also considered Chase Brown, wasn't necessarily a huge fan of taking Chase Brown there when it would be back-to-back bangles. So it went Bucky Irving at the 209, then A.J. Brown went at the 210, and I snapped picked up Ladd-McConkey.

So I get Ladd-McConkey, a wide receiver I'm very, very high on. I think this is a great big. pick a great value. I got my wide receiver too. Then John Rozick gets back to it. And I think a lot, another reason I went with Lad over a running back was I didn't think John was going to start with two straight running backs. So he'd have to get a little bit of catch up at wide receiver, because the wide receiver start flying off the board a little bit. So he in fact did go wide receiver, wide receiver. He took Tyree Kill and T. Higgins. So that opened me up to Chase Brown at the 302, which I think is just tremendous value.

You're starting to see Chase Brown steam up in some of these FFPC, NFFC-type drafts. I saw Chase Brown go at the 204 in an FFPC main event recently. You're starting to see Chase Brown enthusiasm completely there. Zach Moss was cut. So really, it's Chase Brown. And the running backs behind them are Taj Brooks and Samaj Apirine. So Chase Brown, I get basically an Anchor RB potentially. in the third round, which I was very, very excited about.

So my start was Jamar Chase, Ladd McConkey, Chase Brown, two wide receivers and a running back through three rounds. I'm going to take a quick break. When I come back, I'm going to review how the rest of the draft went for me. All right, welcome back, Fantasy Football Daily with Theo Greminger, multiple times a week here on the Fantasy Points Podcast Network. So I start out Chase McConkey Brown. Third round was pretty much no surprises.

wide receivers like Xavier worthy, Devonte Adams, Jackson Smith and Jigba towards the end of the round, Omarian Hampton towards the end of the round. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, as expected, both go inside a round three. And then right after I took Chase Brown, you saw Breece Hall, Garrett Wilson, Jonathan Taylor. So I kind of gave you the third round, not in order. Apologies on that one, but you understand the players. There wasn't any big, big surprises here. Fourth round, I had honed in on quarterback.

This is a best ball contest where having an elite quarterback, especially last year, was a huge benefit to me. Getting Josh Allen was a massive benefit. So I knew that Jaden Daniels is going to be gone, but I had honed in on Jalen Hertz, Joe Burrow. And then structurally, I was open to taking Sam Leporta if he was there at the 4-11. Leporta is sort of in his own little mini tier this year in FFPC where he's not nearly the same level of enthusiasm that we saw for him last year where he was like a one two turn pick. But he's settled in as like a late third,

somewhere between like the late third and early fifth, depending on your draft. He's always off the board as the tight end four. But when the pick came to me, I knew that, so Jalen Hertz goes off the board at the, at the rub one pick ahead of me at the 410, which would have been a real thought, despite my Cincinnati exposure, again, this is not underdog. This is not the FFPC $125 best ball contest.

This is a essentially seven closed 12 team best ball contests with an overall champion from seven total league. So it's not like the stacking is important to me in this contest, but taking the most dangerous possible pick is something that I value more than necessarily the stack. So like Joe Burrow and Jalen Hertz head to head for me would have been a really difficult decision. But team number three took that right off my plate with Jalen Hertz. So I'm sitting there at the 410 and it's Joe Burrow versus Sam Leporta for me. And looking at team one, I remember, you know, this is last night, so it's still fresh on the mind.

Looking at team one, I'm like, if I take Leporta here, I'm going to lose Burrow. And if I take Burrow, I'm going to lose Leporta. Just knowing this drafter, this guy again, very, very sharp, won a lot of money. He's not going to pass up a value like Sam Leporta at the four or five turn here, especially in a contest like this. So he ends up taking Leporta right after I put in Burrow. So I end up going Burrow, Burrow at the 410. So I have three bangles.

Again, I said stacking's not that important. It's still important because it gives you an edge here, I think, but it's not as important as it would be on like underdog or again, the FFPC 125 contest. But having Jamar Chase with Chase Brown and Joe Burrow, I'm the only team in this competition with all three of those guys. I think it's a very dangerous build where there's going to be consolidated touches in this offense, and I have three really, really good ones. Chase can be the wide receiver one overall.

Burrow can have a passing touchdown season that can make him the quarterback one overall. And Chase Brown, I think, has room to run off the last year's finish, potential top five running back out of this offense as well with Chase Brown. So I leave John Sam Leporta. He snap takes him at the 412 and then double taps the tight end position. He takes T.J. Hawkinson at the 501. So he basically takes the tight end four and the tight end five back to back. So this is a pick where at the 502, I really went back and forth. I could have gone with a number of wide receivers.

I didn't feel like Chuba Hubbard, Alvin Kamara, Trayvion Henderson, running backs like that, gave me any sort of an edge here. I eventually went with Devonta Smith, who I could have made an argument for taking Ted McMillan, who went at the 510, could have made an argument for taking George Pickens, Cortland Sutton, D.K. Metcalf. But Devontas Smith, I really like,

because I think he has spike weak potential, gives me a really strong wide receiver three. So basically I take Devontas Smith. So through five rounds, Jamar Chase, Lad Mokonki, Chase, Joe Burrow, DeVos. on to Smith. And then you just sort of hold your breath. Throughout the entire fifth and sixth round, countless names went off the board. My queue gets decimated. I get to the 6-11 and I still don't have a

tight end. I have Evan Engram, Mark Andrews in my queue, but multiple running backs are sort of standing out. I was really, really happy when team three took Tony Pollard because it left me, R.J. Harvey. And anybody who knows my podcast, whether listen to this one, School of Scott or Dynasty Life here on the Fantasy Points Podcast Network, knows that I really like R.J. Harvey had gone inside the fifth round and a couple of these other pros versus Joe's. For this particular draft, Harvey ends up going to me at the 611, which I have to double check, but I believe this is a pros versus Joe's low for RJ Harvey. So I get RJ Harvey as my RB2. Only five weeks until the start of the NFL season. And we are officially in draft mode. And more specifically, best ball draft mode.

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seven turn. I mean, he could have. That was viable. But he ends up going running back, running back, takes Montgomery and Pacheco, leaving me OTC with Evan Engram and Mark Andrews on the board. I leaned into the correlation with Denver and I went with Engram. I could have gone Mark Andrews there. Both of those guys, I think, are similar tiers for me. Really no rhyme or reason for the Mark Andrews fade there for me, especially with the Isaiah likely looking like he could miss a game or two this year. But I go Evan Engram. So I end up getting R.J. Harvey and Evan Engram. I get a little bit of Denver correlation, which I thought could potentially open me up to drafting Bo Nix a little bit later in the draft.

Bo Nix adding him is sort of a Denver stack there is something I would have been very open to. I didn't go in that direction of the quarterback spot. I just had too many needs. But having a little bit of Denver correlation, R.J. Harvey and Evan Ingram, I think could end up being two of the top three scores for this team. Obviously, J.K. Dobbins, Cortland Sutton are going to have a big say. We on a weekly basis for the skill position players. but Evan Engram could end up being a top two target on Denver. RJ Harvey already getting a lot of coach speak buzz from Sean Payton

and could catch a lot of passes in this offense. So really happy with the way the six, seven turn went for me. I got my RB2, I get my tight end one. Then eighth round, it's another sort of hold your breath moment. We saw Baker Mayfield and Dak Prescott going round seven, start seeing quarterbacks go off the board. My pros versus Joe's group was really kind of playing quarterback chicken. In a couple of these leagues, quarterbacks had gone a lot higher.

This league, everybody sort of cleaned up wide receiver value in round seven. Names like Roma Dunzei, names like Jerry Judy, Stefan Diggs, Khalil Shakir, Ricky Purse, all go off the board. Some running back cleanup, Aaron Jones, Brian Robinson go off the board. So round eight comes along. I would have really liked to have seen Tucker Kraft or Jake Ferguson fall to me get another tight end that I'm sort of into at the 8-11. I eventually went with Jordan Mason, which again, team three took Travis ETN, one pick ahead of me. So I was very happy that Jordan Mason landed there. If Jordan Addison or Jaden Reed or Jacoby Myers had happened to fall to the 8-10, I would have had to think about another wide receiver there.

But Jordan Mason as my running back three gives me a really high-ceiling player. And again, it's an ambiguous backfield, but with the best ball nature of this content, I don't have to worry about which week to start Jordan Mason. And I've talked about it on this show and other shows. I think Jordan Mason could score a lot of touchdowns this year, really thriving in that goal line role and the short yardage specialist in Minnesota. So team number one goes wide receiver, wide receiver at the 8-9 turn, leaving me another tight end opportunity.

And I snapped up Tyler Warren as my tight end too, really excited about it. out how this played out for me to get R.J. Harvey, Evan Engram, Jordan Mason, and Tyler Warren really was able to catch up at the running back position and the tight end position. I felt like my team really came together after these four picks in a row after a really dangerous start. So really, really happy with the way that went. The rest of the ninth round sort of was part for the course, no real shock picks. You did see another quarterback go off the board and Justin Fields. But again, my draft was sort of somewhat pushing quarterback down.

And we ended up seeing quarterbacks start to fly off the board in round 10. In round 10, you saw five quarterbacks selected. So round nine was really clean up, a lot of dangerous players off the board. Tyrone Tracy, Zach Charbonnet, Matthew Golden, Kion Coleman, Michael Pittman, Cooper Cup all went off the board. People did a wide receiver cleanup, running back cleanup. Round 10 was sort of more of the same. the quarterbacks all went in that round.

Then you started seeing some of the young upside backs, Trey Benson, Bachel Tutin, Jaden Higgins, who I had in my queue, I would have considered taking at the 10, 11. So Higgins goes off the board, and I'm sitting there.

Team number one has no quarterback, but I didn't think they double-tap quarterback. So I had Tijey Spears, Drake May, very much in my cue. Colston Loveland had gone a couple of picks before, if anybody's wondering, he was gone in round 10. So it's really Tai J. Spears, Drake May, Caleb Williams, Jared Gough, Javante Williams. These guys were all in my queue.

I went with Taij Spears, another ambiguous backfield situation where I think his role could be really fun this year in Tennessee, ended up taking him sort of playing quarterback chicken with John Rozick at the one. John ends up taking Caleb Williams and he takes Kyle Pitts. So he takes his third tight end. He takes Caleb Williams. So he gets his QB1. He gets his tight end three at the 10-11 turn, leaving me really in a spot where a lot of times I take a quarterback in round four. I don't feel the need to take my quarterback in round 10-11.

I might push it to round 12. But Drake May was too good of an opportunity for me to pass up. So I end up taking Drake May at the 1102. I think Drake May just gives me elite rushing upside. And it became sort of a theme for me in this draft where I just kept taking the most dangerous player. And I think Drake May, where I got him, will turn out to be a really, really valuable pick.

And with the floor baked in for a player like Joe Burrow and the consistency for Burrow, the weeks where Drake May is in my lineup, he might be really, really put up some spike week. So really, really happy to get that one. Drake May off the board at the, with the 11th overall, excuse me, in the 11th round. So my draft was really, really coming together through 11 rounds. I'm going to take a quick break when I come back. I'll let you know how I finished everything in the FFPC Pros versus Joe's contest. All right, welcome back, Fantasy Football Daily, dropping multiple episodes a week here. Check out all of our written content over at fantasy points. This is the time of year you're getting ready to win your league.

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I had Ray Davis in the queue. I had Jaden Blue in the queue. Wide receiver getting back to it with Trey Harris and building continuity with the chargers from taking Ladd-McConkey. He was very much in play. and then forcing another Cincinnati Bangle with Mike Jaseki. That was also in play for me. But I go Braylon Allen, a player I'm really, really opening up to this season. Take him as my RB4, excuse me, my RB5 in this draft.

Get Braylon Allen. Again, like Breece Hall, I get it. I have my Breece Hall bags packed. But I think Braylon Allen could end up being in the David Montgomery role in this offense, was really happy to get him in the 12th round. then the 1302, I end up getting Isaiah likely. And likely earlier in the day suffered a foot injury. So there was a little bit of risk in this pick.

But all the reports look like likely has a chance to play week one. And that might be a little too optimistic, but likely will be there pretty soon. So this was one where I didn't feel really like the likely pick was something that was going to hold me back. again, it's the 13th round. So if I miss a few weeks of Isaiah likely, with Evan Ingraham and with Tyler Warren, I have enough firepower and likely could come in and just be an absolute hammer for me.

Again, Mark Andrews is still in Baltimore, but Isaiah likely is going to get a huge contract extension. We've seen him put up a lot of spike weeks. Really a big fan of getting this sort of value as my tight end three. Tight end three, I could have called it a day with three tight ends in round 13. taking another tight end a little bit later. So basically, I, after starting the draft off very wide receiver heavy, I had ignored wide receiver. I knew, I talked to a couple people who had been drafting, talked to Sigmund Bloom, I talked to a few other people. And the overall thought for me

was, I'm going to be able to extract wide receiver value in the last six rounds. I've been drafting a ton of best ball this year. And I know that a lot in a lot of my builds, just hammering away at the wide receiver position late. There's a lot of potential usable weeks to be found and some players that could put up some spike weeks. So in fact, I did go in that direction. In round 14, I take DeMario Douglas. I was open to taking Kyle Williams and DeMario Douglas at the 1415, but Kyle Williams went two picks before. So I build some correlation with Drake May and I add a floor play in DeMario Douglas, where DeMario Douglas could catch 80, 90 balls this year in that slot roll. in New England. In Redraft doesn't have that much of an edge. Potentially, he does. But let's say he's a

floor play. Let's say he's a little bit more Wondell Robinson 24 with a little bit more juice than that. DeMario Douglas for best ball helps me through because a lot of these last picks, you don't want to take zeros. You want to have usable plays. So I take DeMario Douglas. I was open to taking Adam Thielen, but John Rozick takes Adam Thielen one pick after Douglas. And he takes Bryce. Young the following pick. So he goes Carolina back to back there. So I end up taking Jalen McMillan, which I thought was an interesting value. Mcmillan, we don't have questions marks about the talent. The question mark is really more about the situation and the question mark about Chris Godwin when he's back on the field. But Jailen McMillan McMillan was awesome to end last season. And to get him

here as my wide receiver five, it's really chasing some spike weeks with him. But I think his consistency could be a little bit better than some people think. Basically, hold my breath for the rest around 15. I see a couple of wide receivers go off the board. You also see tight end cleanup, Chigacanquo, Theo Johnson, Pat Fryermuth, Jathean Sanders, all go off the board. A couple picks later in round 16, Juan Johnson, Dalton Schultz go up the board. So the tight end premium managers are really, really cleaning up. You also start seeing a lot of the high upside running backs that were in my queue, guys like DJ Giddens, Richard Smith, Jerome Ford, Woody Marks, Taj Brooks, all off the board. I get to the 1611, and I was very pleased to get Alec Pierce.

Alec Pierce was a really high, high upside type pick for me here because he does put up spike weeks in best ball. And Pierce has had enough games where he can kind of win you a week in best ball. Like Alec Pierce can put up a 20-pointer, big downfield threat. I also had a little bit of continuity and correlation with Pierce and Tyler Warren. So the team at number one, John Rozick again, takes Donte Thornton and Jarkwez Hunter goes back-to-back rookies at the 16-17 turn, both guys in my queue, both really good picks. So I'm sitting there at the 17-0-2 and I come back to what's the most dangerous pick I can make?

And I already have two Indianapolis Colts. And I sort of made a unnecessary. luxury pick with Anthony Richardson, who is in a quarterback battle, but it looks like he's going to win this year. He's quarterback 29 and ADP. Last year he was going off the board as like the quarterback five, quarterback six in this contest. And I'm able to build some Colts correlation. So I take Anthony Richardson with Alec Pierce and Tyler Warren, three Colts, similar to my three bangles. And then I have my two Patriots. So I really push the chips in on, it's this pretty simple bet. Alec Pierce has had some really big games with Anthony Richardson last year,

and Tyler Warren, I think, is going to take a big step forward and be a high usage player for Indianapolis. So it's a bet on Richardson putting up a couple of usable weeks. And again, with Drake May and Joe Burrow, it's nothing but upside with Richardson. There will be some people critical of my decision to take a third quarterback here. I end up sacrificing another wide receiver, tight end or running back spot. But I feel like Richardson could put up a 30-pointer in a key opportunity week. He's six all-time in NFL history and rushing yards per game. And again, he's only 23 years old.

So Richardson here made sense and it became a three-quarterback build, even though after the May pick, I was perfectly willing to sort of give it up at quarterback. Now I get to the final couple of rounds. In round 18, I pass on wide receiver. I pass on running back. And I end up taking Harold Finn, and anybody wondering, since I've been talking about Jacori Kroski Merritt,

he went a couple of picks after Richardson. So that one kind of hurt. Rico Dowdell also would have been in consideration for me. But Krosky Merritt, if he becomes a big thing, I could look back on the Richardson over Krosky Merit decision as one that really hurt me in this draft. And if Rico Dowdell gets the opportunity in Carolina, that one could also catch up with me.

So those two picks, if anybody wants to know, those would have sort of been the pick if I didn't go Richardson in round 17. Get to round 18. Round 18, I had circled Harold Fanon Jr. as a target. It's just another swing for the fences upside pick where due to the tight end premium nature and due to Harold Fanon's sort of unknown role but positive vibes, I think Fanon could have a couple of usable weeks for me, either as the starting tight end in a best or whether he's in my flex spot. But Fanon also seems like a player whose role could grow as the season moves along.

So I was happy to get Harold Fanon in round 18. Then around 19, I was sort of pot committed to getting another running back and another wide receiver with these last two picks. Round 19, I end up going very happily taking Jack Besh of Las Vegas Raiders. A player we've been really, really high on at fantasy points for a while.

second round draft capital notably he goes three rounds behind dante thornton a player drafted behind him i think jack bess is going to give me a bunch of usable weeks here and i'm really really hoping for it and then as a just contingent upside if jacobie meyers misses time if rock bowers missed his time Bess would become like a player that I think could be really, really utilized. He might even see similar utilization to a Jacoby Myers if Myers were to miss time. So really happy to get that sort of level of prospect in round 19 and a player that's definitely not going to be a zero for me on my bench barring injury in Jack Besh. Get to round 20 and I'm picking the second to last spot in the entire draft.

And I end up leaning into my Braille and Allen pick. and I end up double-tapping the running-back position. And I take Isaiah Davis. So essentially, I'm buying two-thirds of the Jets backfield with this build. Isaiah Davis, in combination with Braylen Allen, if Brees Hall were to miss time, this would be a really high upside selection for me. Davis, I think, is pretty good at football.

Right now, he's clearly the number three in New York by most beat reporters write-ups and pretty much by the team. But Aaron Glenn has praised Isaiah Davis, and we saw Isaiah Davis flash to end last season. So really pleased with the way my team went. I think I have one of the three or four best builds in this league. And a couple of people told me they liked my build the most. Again, I think I'm a little fragile at running back, but that doesn't really scare me because it's a winner take all type mentality. you want to finish first among 12 teams,

and you have to be willing to finish last to finish first. So the hyper-fret fragility of the running back position, it's not as fragile as I think some people might think it looks because I'm higher on RJ Harvey, Jordan Mason, Braylon Allen than most, and I think Taiji Spears will end up being a really good value for me. So just to wrap up my team once again, out of the two-spot, Jamar Chase in the first round,

Ladd-McConkey in the second, Chase Brown in the third, Joe Burrow in the fourth, Devontas Smith in the fifth, R.J. Harvey in the sixth, Evan Ingram as my tight end one in the seventh, Jordan Mason as my RB3 in round eight towards the end of the round. Tyler Warren at the 902 as my tight end two, Tai J Spears as my running back four in round 10, Drake May as my QB2 in round 11. Then I rounded out the draft with Braille and Allen, running back jets, tight end, Isaiah likely, three straight wide receivers in rounds 14, 15, 16 with DeMario Douglas, Jalen McMillan, Alec Pierce.

Round 17, I take Anthony Richardson, round 18, Harold Fanon Jr., Jack Bess in round 19, and Isaiah Davis as almost Mr. Irrelevant, but not quite, not for this team. and we're rooting for him to have a couple of big weeks. Again, I'm Theo Greminger, Fantasy Football Daily, multiple times a week here on the Fantasy Points Podcast Network. A big shout out to Darren Armani of Fantasy Mojo for putting this contest together. And I'm going to do my best to rep Fantasy Points, doing my best to take this league down,

and hopefully compete for the overall. I'll see you guys soon.