Fantasy Football Daily - STOP Drafting The WRONG 2026 Rookies 🚨 Make The RIGHT Picks (w/ Jacob Gibbs)

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

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Besides Jeremiah Love and Fernando Mendoza, who is the biggest fantasy football star to come out of the 2026 draft class? Probably Lemon, I think, is the best bet. His game is so fantasy friendly. I think he can win in all situations, and he's really good with the ball in his hands. I mean, if he's going to get the draft capital that we're expecting, I think it's just going to be really important to get him the ball, you know? Even like situations where he might not have that insulated target share or whatever,

like we were to go to the Rams or something, it's like, well, that would still be awesome. The Rams signaled that type of belief in him as a player. Like, I would be really, really intrigued in that. I feel the best about him from a fantasy perspective. I have a wide receiver one for fantasy. That's him. That's the old sheet. Talking about fantasy football questions that fantasy managers need answered

heading into the 2026 NFL draft, we are in the end game now. We are in the final days heading into the NFL draft. Fantasy points will be covering each and every minute of it right here on Fantasy Points YouTube. But today I'm joined by Jacob Gibbs. Jacob, I haven't had you on in a while. We chopped it up a number of times last year. You, of course, a podcast with Ryan Heath, numerous times, Scott Barrett numerous times.

Welcome back to the Fantasy Point Streets. How are things these days? Things are great. Yeah, thanks for having me, Theo. Always good to be here. I think we had a lot of fun last draft season, came up with some crazy calls with Bill Crosky, Merritt, and players like that.

So it's good to be back. I've been, you know, doing my sicko thing over here, diving really deep on these players. You send me the show sheet, and I'm really excited to get to some of these answers because I think that they'll be kind of out of nowhere. Like, I don't have that much idea of what consensus is at this point. I looked at some rankings beforehand just to like get a better grip of where the dynasty community is at on stuff. And I'm like, okay, good. We're going to have some fun, hot takes.

This will be fun. Yeah, it's funny because the dynasty community and the best ball community sort of have their favored players and their sort of pockets of ADP. So we're starting to see where players fall in line and like the overall dynasty ranks. I know I updated my positional rankings with rookies this week over at FantasyPoints.com. Going back and forth with people like Scott Barrett on it. Very interesting. And this year's like last year's draft class was it was incredibly lit. At this point, like go back in time one year.

We're getting ready for like the landing spot for Ashton Genti for Tedaroa McMillan, Luther Burden, all those tight ends. Colson Loveland, Tyler Warren. You were certainly hyped about Colston Loveland last year at this time. There was a couple other players, obviously Omari and Hampton, Trayvion Henderson. It was like this glass half full, everyone hyped for 2025. What could happen? It could be the historical running back class. And then this year, I've recorded with so many people and a little bit pessimistic.

There's not as much hype. It seems like it's a down class. I know that in some NFL circles, people are sort of saying the same thing, probably one quarterback, maybe two going first round, and then a couple of positions that are non-historically highly drafted are going to go high. So let's sort of push it down. Where are you at in your enthusiasm level, bird's eye view of the 2026 class? Yeah, it's really interesting. I don't remember a draft that people were like so apathetic about it. It does not feel like there's very much interest right now. I actually think it's a really fun and interesting draft because we literally have no idea

what's going to happen after pick one in the actual NFL draft. And so that's really fun. And then for fantasy, it's kind of the same. Like we know loves one. And beyond that, it could be all sorts of mixed up. It's going to be really fun to see everybody lands. So, yeah, maybe I'm just a sucker. And I'm like getting into the inevitable hype that comes as you spend more and more

time with the rookies. And then you get the landing spots and stuff. but I do kind of find myself feeling a little bit more optimistic than most seem to be. I will agree that the class is not nearly as exciting as some of the ones that we've had recently, but wide receiver and tight-in are really, really deep. And there's a lot of really, really interesting profiles at both those positions. And then there are some flashes of potential upside, I think, at both running back and quarterback. So it's going to, I think, probably be really landing spot,

And running back is, I'm really nervous that we're going to get bad draft capital across the board because the last few draft class has been so good that I just don't know if there's very many teams that are going to need to draft running back really this year. If they already feel good about the options that they have. But if we do get good landing spots, I think that the back end of round one and even like all the way to the end of round two could fill out pretty nicely in dynasty drafts, which is definitely different than the sentiment right now where people are just kind of selling those picks at all, you know, any opportunity they have. They're kind of just dumping those picks is kind of what I seem to be feeling from people online. So I think it could be a lot better than that. Yeah, I think you've got the right take where I think it's sort of it's, it's almost jumped the shark

where it was okay to be not as hyped as 2025, but it's gotten so bruised and battered that I think right now, like there's going to be players that are going to break the mold, going to be fantasy contributors. And a lot of the, there's no contributors in this draft class. There's no good running backs. Some of those takes are just so simplistic that they're bound to be wrong. And we're going to talk about some of those deeper players, some of Jacobs players, some of your flagplants a little bit later on. But I've been workshopping this one. I workshopped it with Scott Barrett.

It's sort of like the game, like the abbreviation is FMK. And Scott's like, just say it. And I'm like, you know, we like the, you know, we like the, you know, YouTube monetization. Shout out to Trey Camberling. I'm not going to say the F word on a fantasy football daily podcast. Add some guests to it. Feel free to go for it, Jacob, if you're feeling it, but I usually don't. So this is sort of the version of FMK. Let's go from the top here. Let's go Jordan Tyson, Carnell Tate, Mackay Lemon, and we'll say draft one, cut one, and roster one. It's tough. Yeah, there's a lot of upside for all three of these. It's pretty clear, I think,

the upside case for each of them. I know our buddy Ryan Heath. I'm pretty sure has Tyson one. I definitely get the appeal if you want to draft him. How I'm going to take this question is I'm going to draft Tate, cut Tyson and roster limit. I do have Tyson the lowest. I think he probably has the most hypothetical upside in this class at the wider super position. But like him and Casey Concepcion are really similar in my mind, where there are a lot of questions. into their profile, but even more for Tyson in my mind. I know that everybody loves the analytical profile with Tyson, and it's totally fair. Like he broke out earlier, which is rare for most of the receivers in this class.

And if you just look at the per route data, the totals, it's all really good. I do think that it was some role catering happened there and some just like out of necessity that the ball was just really, really being forced his way. I'm really curious to see how it translates as a pro. The comparisons that I found in terms of players who had similar A-DOTs, similar target rates, and similar production aren't great. And then there's on top of all that, there's a few concerns with like injuries, of course, but also film. Like if you watch him down to down, there's just inconsistency. I worry a little bit about him being able to beat press coverage with consistency

and be able to beat man coverage with consistency as he goes up against a higher level of competition, a higher level of preparation. I do think his game is pretty predictable at this point in terms of how he wins his routes. So that's where I'm out with Tyson. I see the ceiling because when he does flash, it's pretty spectacular.

But I do think he needs to land somewhere where he can play off of the line initially. and he's going to need a lot of targets, it seems like. It's possible that I do, so I don't want to cling to that too tightly in terms of the sort of inefficient per target numbers. Because like I've heard him compared to Deonti Johnson, and there are other players like that where it's like they've needed this massive target share, and if they don't get it, then are they going to be as good for fantasy?

You know what I mean? Like they are getting it. Targets are earned. That's always the big question is like, is he earning them? And if so, is it just going to continue? and it doesn't really matter that the efficiency is not that great. I don't want to say for sure that he's that type of player, though, because another thing when you watch the film is the quarterback play wasn't very good

in terms of getting the ball to him on time because he was winning routes often and sometimes in really big ways and just the target was late. People often get irritated with his contested catch film. And I think, to be fair, it could be better. But also, he could just, like, not have to find himself in those situations so often because he is wide the F open. all the time.

Yes. Separation is there. Yeah. And I think it's whether it's the quarterback's fault in terms of anticipation and accuracy or also the offensive line being able to hold up and causing some of those throws to be the way they are. That was showing up on film a lot. And I do wonder if he gets in like the right situation, if he could turn into something

really special like a CD-LAM type of player. He's not as powerful as C.D. Lam. But the movement skills are just phenomenal. And so, like, maybe that upside is available. But all things considered, I feel so good about Lemon's game being fantasy friendly that I'm just rostering him, feel good about locking that in. And I'm going to draft say it because I think the upside is massive for him as well. I think he's a lot safer.

There's a few landing spots that would scare me if he was with Cleveland, who's with, if he was with a team that had offensive line struggles and or quarterback struggles, that would scare me a little bit with Carnell Tate. Yeah, it's interesting takes. I'm glad to see you're on the Lemon train. I've been surrounded by so many Lemon haters recently on my podcast. You know, you've got no arguments with not necessarily haters, but people are not as enthusiastic as I am about him and the fantasy ceiling.

It's sort of like the can he be used like Amon Ross St. Brown, Jackson Smith, and Jigba, some of those mega target earners. I think he can. And I think there's going to be offensive coordinators out there saying that if we draft this guy in the top 15 picks, we can quickly sort of build our passing game around him, really into him. Tate I'm into as well. Tate's my wide receiver one in this class. He's the one that I would want the most. Tyson, it's so interesting because like when you say like your upside comp or wasn't even really an upside comp can be used sort of like a CD Lamb, you get these names like C.D. Lamb, Stefan Diggs. I've heard Odell Beckham Jr. And it's like the eye of the beholder tape watcher when it comes to Tyson. Like he does something so, so, so well. The draft capital could be so, so good that he's like the, the, the. the swing for the fences type almost.

I think ultimately it's going to come down to they're all locked into top fives in Dynasty Superflex mock drafts. It's just who's going to be the biggest hit among all of those three when it comes to fantasy. And there's a chance all three of them could end up being very, very good players right after them.

And for some of them, some people they would say put Casey Concepcion in the first group. But I'll throw Casey Concepcion into the second group here just because we're talking about a little bit NFL draft capital focus too. Casey Concepcion, Denzel Boston, Omar Cooper, Jr. The same question.

Draft one enthusiastically, roster one, or cut one. Yeah, I'm drafting Casey Concepcion enthusiastically. I do think that there's an outcome if he gets a landing spot that we feel really good about, and Tyson doesn't. So he gets in a scary spot that he could be somebody I would draft ahead of Tyson. So I'm drafting him. I'm cutting Boston and I'm rostering Cooper. I feel like Cooper has a pretty good shot of being a good bet.

If he's going to actually get round one draft capital, I think he can contribute in a number of ways, but just his ability to create with the ball in his hands makes it so easy to just manufacture him touches. So I think like that floor is just kind of built in. And if a team drafts him in round one, then they're incentivized to do that, right? Like they probably clearly have a plan for him

and think that he's going to be an important part of the the offense. So I feel really safe with him, and I do think there's some upside too that maybe haven't seen quite tapped into yet. Boston, I just don't think he has a fantasy-friendly game. I worry that he's going to be overvalued for fantasy because of the real life value that he brings and the draft capital that reflect that. To me, he and Jedarian Price are similar players at different positions where it's like I can understand why an NFL team might draft them high, but I do worry that in a draft class where it's kind of hard to make sense of a lot of these players, that they might just kind of by default become high in the rankings because they're round one,

round two guys for fantasy. They might become high in the rankings because of the actual NFL draft capital. And I just, I don't really see Boston that way. I think it's pretty unlikely. I think the absolute best case is something like Michael Pittman, and I don't think he's as good as Michael Pittman. And I don't know, I don't know, maybe if an NFL team takes him around one, maybe they roll cater him that way where Pittman has had all these RPO targets

and everything to boost his production. I think it's going to have to be that for Boston because otherwise you don't see many receivers who have average depth of target above 13, 14 yards that are getting enough targets to be good for fantasy unless they're really, really, really good at like getting open consistently and then also creating after the catch. I don't really think that he falls into that bucket of Justin Jefferson, Nico Collins, Julio Jones type players that can do that. I think Michael Pittman Jr. is a solid, a solid comp in terms of what the utilization could look like.

I think he's very effective in the red zone. And I am maybe a little more interested if we see him actually get this top 16 type draft capital. There's been some Jets beat reporters saying, you know, pick 16 is in play for Denzel Boston. and I think he's going to go somewhere between like 16 and 29 with your Kansas City Chiefs. I think he does go in the first round. Cooper is really interesting. The yak ability is exceptional.

He's physical. You can do some Debo Samuel stuff with him. But it's Casey Concepcion. Casey Concepcion is the one that we've been flag planting at fantasy points. Brett Whitefield has him very, very high. Scott Barrett has him high up and I have him very high up as well. So he's sort of the player that barring something unforeseen in the. the NFL draft, I'm probably most enthusiastic about taking outside of the top three guys that I

referenced. So KCC, awesome, awesome player. All right, Jacob, what do you have going on this time of year with Beyond the Box Score? When are you dropping pods? And where can people find it? Beyond the Box Score, I do with my buddy Dan Schneier over for CBS Sports. We actually branched off and created our own YouTube channel this year. So that like all of the Sicko stuff that we do is all in one place. So if you happen to follow into this. three-hour podcast where we're going super, super granular. And you're like, whoa, I like this stuff. Like, you know where to find more of that stuff. There's a bunch of it. We also just started rolling out player profiles. And so I'm a little bit behind on the wide receiver class because I got really

obsessed with this tied-in class. And so I've been putting out profiles on Dayquan Wright and Eli Rarodon and stuff. And people don't even really know who I'm talking about, but like, they're really cool players. We're going to get to them in a moment. And so, your next question I think is about receivers and I feel a little bit behind, which I don't like to be when we're so close to the draft week because I've still got a lot of these guys I want to watch. So I'm going to do that. This weekend, going to be binging that. But yeah, Beyond the Box score, it's a lot of fun. We've got a fun community. We go live every Tuesday and Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern time if you ever want to come in

and chat with us. And then we've got like long podcasts in addition to the short prospect profiles. If you're listening to this show on the podcast, go ahead and subscribe to Jacobs, podcast as well. And if you're watching us on YouTube, just go over and check out Beyond the Box Score YouTube. Hit that subscribe button. Jacob, you've been putting out great, great content over the last couple of years, and you're really a friend to fantasy points as well with the amount of utilization you have of the fantasy points data suite. Really, really big shout out to the great work you're putting out. Okay, but let's talk about the position you're not deep in knowledgeable about. The siren song of all the tight ends got you caught up. But is there a wide

receiver you're sort of rooting for. You're saying, I'm into this guy. I want to see him land well during the NFL draft. I'm going to get hyped if he lands well. Yeah, I think I'll have a different answer next week. So I'm really curious to hear where you're at on this because like both of the bells are potentially really interesting. Ted Hurst is really interesting. Lance is really interesting. Brennan Thompson, I think, could be really underrated. I kind of like a lot of his metrics. Really excited to get to more of the stribling tape as well. Like there's a bunch of late round guys who I think could be my answer to this. Who I have. seen a lot of. I do have thoughts on as Malachi Fields because I watched every meaningful

Notre Dame game. And I'm going to give you a weird comparison here with Fields that is, you know, I don't want to get too carried away with this because I don't think I hardly ever compare anyone to Nico Collins. But there are some similarities there. And I kind of did think of Nico at times when I saw him cutting his vertical routes off and breaking back to the ball. He's way twitchier than he gets credit for because I think people view him as not a good athlete because he didn't run a good 40. But he's, I mean, 4-6 at his size isn't necessarily surprising, really. I don't think he's as fast as Nico Collins.

That's totally fair. But there's clearly twitchiness if you watch his route running. Andy did test well with jumps. he has great jumps for a big dude. So the comparison with Nico Collins, he's older than Nico coming into the league, for sure. He played five years. But I think it was four years of Virginia, if I remember correctly.

He had for two 800 plus receiving yard seasons at Virginia before Notre Dame. Nice. So yeah, same size as Nico. He's actually slightly longer wingspan weighs slightly more. And then if you look at the metrics, he did have a higher avoided tackle rate than Nico. This is all over his first three years. And I think that's interesting because that's something Nico has shown Flash as being really good at.

I think Fields has some of that to his game more than you'd expect for a big guy who's thought of as a vertical working X receiver. In their first three years, Nico averaged 2.27 yards per outrun. It was 1.9 for Fields and then 9.2% first down per outrun for Nico Collins, 9.6% for fields are actually slightly higher. I think Nico clearly has the higher upside to make explosive plays. he's just a ridiculously big, rangy, powerful athlete. And Fields is like maybe, I don't know, 70% of that in terms of explosiveness working down the field and creating with the ball in his hands.

But I think in terms of like stopping on a dime and cutting back, the twitchiness is like probably like 90% of Nico. He's a really surprisingly good athlete in that regard. And then, yeah, in his fourth and fifth seasons, they were good too. I just wanted to compare the first three because I think that's more relevant. They were the same age.

And then to me, you don't want to put too much weight into a player dominating as a 21, 22, 23-year-old against, you know, 19-year-olds. But years four and five are also good. Even last year in Notre Dame, the overall production isn't good, but he did average 2.3 yards per run. Notre Dame just had really low passing volume. I pointed this out with Eli Radon, who I think is a massively undervalued player, the numbers were just dragged down by Notre Dame's, the nature of Notre Dame's offense. It was about the running backs. And there were three games where they won by like 175 to 47, I think, was the combined score in those games, where Raradon literally didn't have a catch. Fields had hardly anything. They just ran the ball. And so if you take three games out of a

prospect's single season, that really matters. And so I think the per route stuff is a lot more meaningful and it's really good for both of those players. Yeah, interesting stuff with Malachi Fields. And you talk about the 40-yard dash time in reference to his size. Like, People say, you know, you guys six foot four, whatever, but he's massive. Like when you see, I saw him at Live in the Senior Bowl down in Alabama, there with Brett Whitefield, Cody Carpenterer, a bunch of other people. And when you see Fields, he was just looked so much bigger than all of the other wide receivers. Guys like Jacoby Lane, who's very skinny. Jacoby Lane was sort of built like a Jaden Higgins.

But Malachi Fields looked bigger than a lot of the tight ends that were down there. And he's sort of been forgotten after the combine. It was like the pure steam at the Senior Bowl and then everybody's like a combine, whatever, but you reference Nico Collins, I think that's super interesting. And I remember Brett Whitefield after the Senior Bowl saying the

name T. Higgins to me. I didn't expect that, but Brett, but you guys are both sort of like, they're upside names, but T. Higgins was a one-two turn guy in Dynasty Rurkey drafts. And Nico Collins, the college production was certainly not there. So he got kind of a little bit of wasted in his usage at

Michigan. But very, very interesting stuff with Malachi Fields. For me, I'm, I think Chris Brasel is like the skeleton key guy. I think Chris Brasel, people hate Tennessee players because they burned us in fantasy football so often. It's like reverse helmets got in going on. But when you pay attention to some of like the NFL beat guys that are locked in, they mention like possible first round pick Chris Brasel. And it seems like a throwaway line, but they don't say that unless somebody's telling them that. And a couple of big like, I, I, I, I, I, I, forget the one today that I was reading, but it was one of the main beat reporters for an

AFC South team was saying, you know, Chris Brasel lining up some of these top 30 visits and some of the teams interested in him. But I could see a scenario where the draft's a little more wide open than some years. Everyone's projecting Chris Brasel to go like pick 40. Maybe the floor might be like 48 to Atlanta. But could he get the Xavier Leggett, Ricky Purcell treatment that we saw years ago where it was like Xavier Worthy goes, then end of the last. the first round. It was like bang, Xavier Liggett, and then Ricky Purcell, and we all of a sudden have all these wide receivers

steam into day one. Maybe we get seven this year. I podcasted with Dave Kluge. He made that bold call that we get seven wide receivers, and it takes a guy like Brazel to sort of break in for that to come true. And betting markets are saying five and a half, so this is not so crazy in terms of the numbers, but Brazel is the one I'm rooting for. I think there might be a little dynasty

reset with him. And then the other player I'm really rooting for, I want to see Zachari branch going the top 40 to 45 picks. So fantasy analysts, he's already polarizing. He'll be even more polarizing if he gets that great draft capital because that would mean somebody says, I don't care about the usage. This is a player that's explosive, had a great NFL combine, had 81 catches last year for Georgia, he's smaller, but we see a little bit of Tyree kill there and we're going to try to use him in a major way as opposed to he falls to like pick 65 and he's like, three wide receiver sets, maybe special teams use and all that. So Zachariah Branch, Chris Brasel,

the two that I'm rooting for. And I'm interested to hear your thoughts when you dive into those guys in the next couple of days, Jacob. I'm going to hit you up. Yeah, both of those would be really fun because it would just like add so much drama to the fantasy place, you know? And like right now it does feel a little bit boring, kind of. Like people are just kind of tuned out. But those are two players who like fantasy players almost don't, if it's like we don't want them to matter, like we don't want to have to think about it. We don't want to have to get hurt by a Tennessee receiver again. And then Branch is like everybody just acts like he's clearly just a screen merchant and stuff. Both pretty ridiculous athletes. So that could be really fun if they get the draft capital.

Let's go back to the game, the draft one, cut one, roster one. And I'll throw three running backs into a bucket because we're going to talk about another running back who maybe you would include into this mix. but Judarian Price, who has the best projected draft capital, you seemed a little bit unenthusiastic about him earlier. Mike Washington, who is, I'd be shocked if he falls outside of day two based on the athletic measurables and the strong senior bowl week that he had, ripped up the combine, speed score through the roof, and he's a bigger back. And then Jonah Coleman, who right now is being boosted by fantasy analysts, where there's enthusiasm for Jonah Coleman.

And there's also guys like, you know, Todd McShay saying he really likes him, a couple of these NFL draft analysts. But in terms of like where we're actually seeing him being projected to be drafted, we're seeing a lot of fourth round projections mixed in. Maybe he gets into late day two. I think he's a day two talent. But I'm not sure the NFL is going to agree with that. Of those three guys, if you could draft one enthusiastically, roster one or cut one, which way are you going with those three? I love Jonah Coleman. I'm pretty sure.

So like going into the draft, he's the clear top of this group for me. I think he can contribute on all three downs, and I really am just wanting that skill set. I think there's a chance that Washington can, but I thought Coleman's past protection, I just felt like way more reliable with it. But I mean, it's hard to tell with Arkansas, man. It was so messy there.

That team lost 10 straight games, and the quarterback is often bailing on the pocket. It just makes things hard to evaluate. So I'm going to see. say, and this is clearly, especially running back, it's always landing spot dependent, but I'm going to say draft Washington, because I'm actually tentatively in on believing in the skill set there. I think it's pretty intriguing. I think he could offer some receiving too, and I'm going to roster Coleman because I feel the most safe about that. I don't know if I'm playing the game exactly right,

but this is how I'm going to do it. I think Washington's the sexiest of the group. So we're going to draft him roster Coleman and cut price. I love Judarian Price. I loved watching him. I just don't we don't have enough data to really feel any level of confidence so it has to be like an extreme conviction call to believe in him as like the RB2 in this class and i don't feel that good about it especially because there wasn't receiving and it it's not that he looked terrible as a receiver but there were times where he didn't look supernatural as a receiver and his really limited opportunities um so if you look at the players who have had such so few opportunities it's very, very prohibitive that list in terms of who's succeeded in the NFL.

They have to be the best rushers. So that's like Nick Chubb or Kenneth Walker or something like that. And like maybe he could be that good. There's, I mean, he had a higher explosive run rate than, then Jeremiah loved it in the same backfield. You know, there's reasons to be excited about him. I just, I'm personally probably not going to be placing the bet at his cost, if I had to guess.

Could Jonah Coleman be this year's version of Cam Scataboo? I definitely preferred Scataboo's film and analytics. I do think Coleman, he was weighed down a little bit by offensive line problems and then playing through an injury last year. So I don't want to ding his analytics too hard. And they're not bad. I just have a hard time being like, yeah, this guy's this year, Scataboo, because I think Scataboo is so awesome.

I think he's really, really, really good and has a massive fantasy upside. because he has the tackle avoidance that's really good and beyond Coleman that gives him some path to explosive plays. And he's huge and has the touchdown upside. And he has the receiving upside. And so it's like all I ask to do is like not be a complete jackass as a pass blocker. And he can stay on the field all the time and be like a 20 plus touch fantasy monster running back. Yeah. Scottaboo is really the biggest landmine guy in this draft class where if he just avoids Jeremiah Love, I think there'll be like a slow drip enthusiasm when we get to the summer and Cam Scataboo is going to be back. It's Harbaugh. Malik Neighbors is still banged up. We're going to get

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He's really fun. You know, I don't personally ever say anybody is this year's Bucky Irving. Like what I just said about Scataboo, where I love him so much that I have a hard time comparing anybody. That's where I'm out with Bucky except even further, man.

He's like one of my favorite players I've watched in a really long time. But the similarities are clear. The similarities are pretty, pretty obvious, I think, between the two. I've had a hard time trying to like find an archetype like what is this exactly that we're looking at with Johnson

like how many running backs really actually emerge from this type of player and I think it's basically like Aaron Jones Bucky Irving Tai J. Spears, Devin Singletary among recent players because it's like not great in past protection so he has to be something really really special

in the other areas of the game to get on the field. And I think that he can be. I think he's really, really good in space. The more that I've watched him work in the screen game, I think that Emmett Johnson belongs somewhere along that spectrum. I think Tadar Jay Spears is so ridiculously good in space and is a little underrated. So I have a hard time saying he's above Spears. So maybe he's right in that Spears' Singletary range. Singletary's been a really good pro and at times has been fantasy relevant when given opportunities. And I think that this might be a better version of that. I like the names you threw out there, and I don't think those get the people going.

I made the Aaron Jones comparison a couple of months ago when Brett Whitefield and I did our player comps show for the 2026 NFL draft podcast. Brett couldn't get in line with that one. He's not a huge Emmett Johnson guy, but I talked to a lot of smart people like yourself, and Johnson's kind of a funny player because before the NFL Combine, there was a lot of enthusiasm in like the fantasy streets with him. but then there's a lot of analytical people like yourself who will go back to the hit rates on sub 100 speed score guys and at the running back position,

guys that don't hit over 100 on the speed score, they don't hit as well in fantasy football. But like Bucky Irving, got everybody on that one, is sort of the poor combine for Bucky Irving. You referenced Evan Singletary, who was sub 100 speed score guy, smaller back, and he was still drafted in the third round. Emma Johnson, I think, could be headed in that direction. And when you look at just the sheer usage he had last year at Nebraska as a runner,

and then combine that with the 45 plus receptions he had, he's a high usage guy. Oh, yeah. And the pro day was promising. If we could go back and we could, and I know we can't trust them, can't trust the pro day numbers, but the pro day numbers are getting a little bit better these days with miles per hour testing. Guy runs a 456 at the combine. And then at Nebraska Pro Day runs a 446. can we split the difference and call him like a four or five guy now, four or five flat?

It becomes a little bit better thesis in terms of the analytical models, the speed score. Shout out Scott Barrett, the Spork score. So I'm in Debut Johnson. I want exposure to him in Dynasty rookie drafts. And certainly I can backtrack on that statement if the draft capital is not where I think it's going to be. Yeah. And he plays really fast sometimes. And I also think that like he, so he plays really fast, but he has this deceleration that allows him to just get people off guard.

I think he does a, he like, forced, force, miss tackle stuff is very promising. Oh, yeah. And that's definitely a lot of start, stop stuff. I also just think he's like really, really good at putting defenders in a bind.

And the open field, like he processes space and time so quickly that he almost always is the one, like, dictating the terms of how that interaction goes with the defender in terms of the contact and stuff like that. And to me, that allows you to like almost circumnavigate the speed thing.

Like it doesn't really, you don't, some players like Mike Washington has low, avoid attack rates, but it's like, that doesn't really matter because he's often running around players. This is kind of Emmett Johnson and Bucky Irving and players like that. Their way of getting around players is just by like getting that player to stop their momentum, stop their movement towards them and then dictate the way that that interaction goes and always have the upper hand. I just think he's, when I watch him like the way that he's moving, Dan referenced his shin

angles, which I think I understand watching the film. I'm not quite that deep into the film watching. But to me, it's like that if you just watch his lower body, his feet, his hips are always like in connection in a way that is like getting defenders to hesitate, getting defenders to either hesitate or have to over commit to an angle. And he just seems like he so often is like winning that dance. And he has enough acceleration to then do something. Like I really liked Taj Brooks from last year's class because he was really good at that. But then at the pros, it didn't really look like it mattered. It looked like he was just not fast enough, not quite enough burst. I think this is a player with like significantly more burst than him.

It's going to be interesting to see how it translates. I think that there's a real shot that it can. Interesting player for Emma Johnson and one that we think will go. I would, if I had to put a put a little couple of dollars on it, I'd say round three or round four for the, for the NFL draft capital that he's going to get. A player that's also developing sort of a hive. And I know, I know in the best ball managers have been steaming this guy is one of the, their favorite late best ball running back picks.

And I've had some very enthusiastic guests discussing DeMond Claiborne of Wake Forest. Last year at this time, you were enthusiastic about Bachel Tutin. I'm sure you're enthusiastic about him heading into year two as well. That's sort of another show. But DeMont Claiborne sort of has, he's smaller, considerably smaller. He's like 190. But he has that speed that Tutin possessed. in that home run hitting ability.

And he brings a certain physicality to the position, even though he's smaller. And again, he can catch the ball a little bit. So Claiborne, you can kind of squint and say this is sort of the next low BMI running back to hit in fantasy. Am I wrong about any of these statements? Where is your enthusiasm level? I'm going to say my enthusiasm levels like a six or a seven. I think there's a real shot. I want it to be hard because, man, he is really, really fun.

I think it's a real shot that it can translate. So I like that he, like Johnson, even though he's clearly smaller and has some deficiencies in terms of past protection where he's just, he's just too small. He gets eaten up on those reps a lot. He was still trusted to be like a legitimate workhorse. He had 20 plus touches and 13 out of 22 healthy games with over his past two seasons at Wake Forest, like really got loaded up, had some decent games even against really good teams. If you watched, I went, that's where I started was the film against some of these best teams.

and some of those games, he's only averaging 2.4 yards for carry or whatever, you know, and so I was like wondering, is he going to look overmatched in these spots? I didn't think that he looked overmatch. I thought his offensive line looked completely overwhelmed. But like Johnson, who often was finding himself in situations where his line was getting overwhelmed, Claibor was able to make something out of those situations fairly often. I thought even against the best competition. And so I think it's sort of a similar thing to Johnson where he is processing well.

He's and not maybe as well as Johnson, but well enough for somebody with this amount of athleticism to often be ahead of the defender. He's often making the initial defender miss in the backfield and getting something. And like you said, running more physical than you might expect for somebody who weighs 190 pounds. I wish that he offered more as a receiver. Johnson clearly was used more in that way. So we got to see more and more reps of him that way and feel pretty good about that skill set. I think Claibor might have it, but I don't know for sure. and it feels like probably a necessary part of his game

because if he's if he's going to succeed for fantasy as a pro because if he's like just a rusher, I don't know, man, he's got to be really, really, really, really good if that's all that he's going to bring, if he's going to have to come off the field on passing downs. So he's really interesting, but I want to see the landing spot. I think it's pretty unlikely.

This is going to be somebody who matters for fantasy, but I really hope that he does could be really fun. Yeah, he'll be one more sort of, rooting for on day three. Best season, I think he had a 28 reception season. So again, they didn't really use them in that light. But we have seen a number of players in college football who end up hitting that sort of level. And then they become opportunistic pass catchers at the next level.

So a lot of it can be indicative about Wake Forest usage for him and all that sort of thing. Jacob, let's talk about Eli Stowers. Because when I say skeleton key guy, we could be extremely excited on Saturday. morning talking about how well Eli Stowers is going to perform on this offense with this very creative offensive coordinator. And look, there's sort of a lack of target competition. I'm excited. I think Stowers can end up being the number two target on this team this coming season. Harold Fanon 2.0 production incoming. Then there's a chance that, oh man, they drafted Eli Stowers to run 12 personnel. He's going to be on the field 60% of the time with this dinosaur play caller. I can't even take this guy

the first round anymore even in tight end premium where where are you at on eli stowers am i wrong on this one to care so much about his landing spot and draft capital uh what's your enthusiasm level for the prospect and do you have these same sort of worries that i do my enthusiasm level is high i i'm very enthusiastic about him as a player because he's just freaking awesome um yeah my enthusiasm for fantasy is very low my worry level for fantasy is extremely high i i don't know if draft capital or landing spot will actually even tell us a story because we don't know what he's going to be as a pro. I think it's extremely unlikely that he's going to be able to play tight in point blank. I'm not talking about playing in line, like just play tight end at all. So what is he then?

If he gets drafted into a spot where it's not clear what his opportunities would be in year one, then is that just a developmental year? Like we don't, I just don't know what to expect from him. Is he going to have to transition to receiver and cut weight or something like that? So, yeah, I think the, from an upside standpoint, the landing spot here is potentially maybe the most important of any player. I'm glad that you brought up Fanon. I think that people are going to love these first two landing spots, but like if he goes to Miami or like the Jets or something like that where it's like, okay, the team is bad, they're clearly just going to be. like invested in like trying to get opportunities for their young players which is kind of what happened with fan in last year um then that would be interesting i think we love i'll say we love

the miami landing spot that's got okay and brett waydfield we're rooting for that one that would be exciting okay well i think it is because yeah he would get opportunities um and maybe be you know if he's if he's featured maybe he looks really really good in year one even though the the team sucks and it might not be sustainable for like actual winning football for him to be the featured piece in the offense. Because I like him a lot, but I'm not from a talent evaluation standpoint, I'm not convinced that he can be what a lot of people want him to be. I think to me he looks very similar to Dalton Kincaid with better winning at the catch point, but I don't think he's as good of a route runner as Kincaid.

And Kincaid is a really intriguing player. And there's a reason he's drafted in a round one. I think that he could be that, something like that. But I don't think, I think, Kaked is probably one of the, like, bottom 10, that's probably enough error. He's probably in the bottom half of slot options, starting slot options. And so I just don't know if that's what you want to be, like, the feature part of your offense. Other teams that I think maybe would be interesting are Cincinnati, Washington, and Carolina.

I think those teams have enough in line that they could use him in the slot more. we've seen Cincinnati be willing to use Gisiki in this way. So those would all be interesting to me. But yeah, there's a lot of landing spots where I would just be like, I don't think I can, I don't think I can draft him if he's going to go like round one for dynasty drafts in tiny premium leagues or anything like that. Do you have any landing spots that you feel good about? I know that I've heard a lot of...

It's right over your shoulder, Jacob. It's Kansas City. Oh, my gosh. He's just, what, he's rice? He's the new rice. Or he steps in and, they try to use him. He can do a lot of the traffic.

He basically becomes the chain mover for Mahomes, like alongside Rice. And Rice is also a 2027 free agent. I think that Kansas City, like, I think the dream scenario is Kansas City doesn't go wide receiver in round one. They pass on wide receiver at nine. They maybe go cornerback, offensive tackle, something pragmatic. Then at the end of the first round, they, of again, skip wide receiver, maybe go with an offensive lineman or a defensive player.

And then they get to pick 40 and the wide receivers are gone. And it's sort of why Buffalo drafted Dalton Kincaid at the end of round one. And they draft Eli Stowers and he'll be on the field in 12 with Kelsey this year. And then sort of a changing the guard the following year. And you got the wild card that Rashi Rice is going to be a free agent. That's the dream. I don't think you can run him in Kelsey in 12. I would be really curious what our buddy Max thinks about that.

I hadn't even thought about Kansas City because it's like you could run him and you could potentially run him and Noah Gray together but they just have with Kelsey and Rice already occupying those spots I hadn't really thought about that being a fit but it could be especially long term

I don't know maybe I'm being too negative about his blocking but it just he does in that he looked like we've got some really bad blockers in this titan class and he looked like clearly the worst than me yeah it's he'll be an interesting player we're definitely rooting for him I had him in Carolina in my last mock draft in round two. So glad to see we're sort of in lot.

I did that with Cody Carpeteer and Brett Whitefield. And I had him going to, I think it's pick 51 to Carolina. So I think that's a lane spot. I think Canales and them, they've sort of been searching for a tight end for years there. They keep drafting these guys. And maybe they say, let's just go get a really good receiver and kind of figure it out. And like you said, that slot usage, Coker could kick to the outside. And they could use Stowers there.

I think that would be pretty fun. Let's talk about kind of your guys at tight end. You brought up Eli Raritan. Why don't we save Eli Raritan for a minute from now? But before we do so, I'd like to talk about Justin Jolie, who's my tight end three in this draft class out of NC State. I was happy to see you sort of hyping him over on X this week. What about his game do you like? Are you with me that I think he's a third round pick?

And I know there's a massive amount of tight ends, but I think there's got a lot to his game as a move tight end. And people chasing that Harold Fanon outcome, I think that could be Justin Joel. Okay, you think he might go in round three of the NFL draft? I do. I think round four or round three. That would be awesome. I've got him a Titan 7 because I'm a little worried he might be like round four or five or something. But if he moves that high, that would be really interesting. To me, there's like kind of this group of players who are the same archetype where it's like,

it seems very unlikely that they'll be able to be even move tight-ins. and so what will they be then? Are they just going to have to be receivers? And that's Raredon at the top. And then Jolie and Michael Trigg. But I think he's clearly the most likely of that group to be able to be a move tied in. The more that I watched him, I feel like he's maybe a better bet than Fanon was coming in to be able to survive in that role in terms of what he has to do physically.

And from a technique standpoint, as a blocker, I think that he's right there with Fanon. he clearly doesn't have the receiving that Fanon does, but his receiving profile is really good, over 1.8 yards per run every season. And then when you watch him, he's really good with the ball in his hands. He has a really, really good feel for space,

I think as a route runner and a ball carrier. So that helps him to just consistently present an open target versus zone coverage, and then obviously create yards after the catch. You see the avoided tackle rate numbers are good. And then he also has the freaking massive hands. It was really good in contested catch situations. I think he's better than Fanon is.

in those situations. So if he goes to a spot, I mean, it's kind of similar to what we just talk about with Raredon, and I think maybe Trigg as well, if he goes to Miami or the Jets or maybe Washington or Carolina

or something like that, where he can get on the field and be somebody who gets some targets in year one, maybe he proves to be someone that's worth targeting more and more. That's, to me, he feels like one of the, I just,

he's a dog, you know, like the more I watch him, I was just like, this feels like someone, I feel comfortable getting the ball to and wanting, like, wanting to be part of the offense. And so I could see that happening. And then if it's a team, like, say Washington isn't that good again or Miami's not that good or whatever, then maybe we actually see like the Fanon thing last year where it's like, well, who else? Like, let's just get this guy the ball. Let's just see what we really have here, you know?

And that's where they kind of take off. So he's interesting from that standpoint because Titan is so volatile. Tol so in flux after the top like six, seven, eight guys in terms of like Sam LaPorta and those guys in Dynasty ranks that I think anybody else can jump really, really, really high where we've seen Fanon. And Fanon is a special guy, right? We don't want to just assume anyone's going to do what Fanon did. But Fanon is like one of the top like 50 assets in Titan Premium leagues. He's so freaking valuable. And just after one year, just after one year of, you. don't want to call it fraudulent, but it's like on this Browns team that literally has no receivers. Ced Tillman's heard. They have no receivers at all. David and Joku's hurt. And so he gets forced fed targets.

It's kind of like the Trade McBride thing or whatever where he has this massive production. And we know he's capable of it. But like, I don't think that's necessarily repeatable. I think there's real reasons to be a little concerned that Fandon might not have that type of production in the future. Even though he's awesome, we all know the reasons to believe that he's awesome. but it doesn't even matter. People don't even have any concerns, it seems like, about the fact that he's undersized still,

all the stuff that y'all said last year about him, athletically and everything, like he's still the same guy. He's been the same guy the whole time. He just got in this awesome situation where he could put up ridiculous numbers, and now he's tight in, he's like above San Laporta,

who had the titan one overall season. As a young player has just been nothing but good when given opportunities is in an awesome situation with a good quarterback who's only 31 years old. Like, I think it's pretty unlikely that Harold Fanon is actually worth more than Sam LaPorte. I know he's really young and he's really awesome. I've been the biggest proponent of Harold Fanon.

Like, that's what I'm saying is we can get out of control with these young guys in terms of perceived value. Yeah, I think Fanon, just like a little pushback was one of the youngest tight ends in football last year and came from the Mac. And the usage was like right there. And he also sort of dusted David and John. He was in a staff. He's doing it right away. Yeah. It wasn't just the injuries.

Yeah. No, I totally agree with you. Like, he is awesome. I just don't know. Max has said it. I think what he says is it was a product of, um, of disease in that offense.

And I think that's, that was that Cleveland offense last year, them and the Raiders were like two of the worst offenses I've seen in like the last five years where it's like the opposite line is absolutely abysmal. And the past. game is abysmal and a running game they have to just give up on at times and so it just became what do you do you just manufacture touches to someone and harold fan was literally the only guy at times last year and he's awesome though like he is i think worth getting the ball to but if he's in a real

offense i don't i don't know if we're going to see like 25% of the targets going his way i i don't man i hate i don't know how i got here this is my own problem but like i i i keep worrying about Fanon because it's like we also have new coaching and stuff and like I just don't know exactly what the role is going to be and it just feels so crazy that we've gotten so high on the perceived value. Him and Trade McBride. I'm on a total tangent now. Him and Trade McBride, I have a ton of in Dynasty leagues because I know that they're awesome. And now I'm at a point where it's like, should I be trading these guys? It kind of feels like I should be trading these guys, which is really, really weird place to be. I don't want to be there. It's funny because the market for McBride didn't steam up

like not to get to Dynasty. I know that the worst people are watching this in the regular YouTube channel, but the McBride and people say, Hey, Theo, what are you talking about? McBride's ranked tight end one or tight end two everywhere in Dynasty. He has teamed up,

but the trade market, you see it in these leagues where if you're playing a lot of dynasty leagues or if you have a lot of Tray McBride, those trade offers are not like pounding down your door, despite the fact that he's young, has contract insulation and had the best possible season of any fantasy tight end like ever last year,

set the record for receptions. it's not like if you have a lot of McBride like I do as well, you're getting offer after offer after offer. And a lot of that could be guys don't want to pay the premium price for like the top of the food chain types and fantasy football, dynasty, whatever. But usually when a guy has a year like that, you'll at least see some offers coming your inbox. It's been quiet in the McBride streets for me.

I figured I'd sell high on at least one share. I traded him from a league neighbors. I sold a single, Trey McBore. I think that's okay. This year could be a little tough for you. this could be tough for you. That's a Scott Barrett type trade. I think Scott would be in with that one.

I worry about a little bit about neighbors. I think there's, I mean, he's an absolute superstar stud, but you could end up not getting six games of him to start the year, and it sort of changes your team trajectory. And Trey McBride could have 60 catches by the time that Malik neighbor steps on a field. So tight end premium, it's a little tough put. But you mentioned Raredin. We talked Stowers.

Why don't you quickly rattle off your, if you don't mind, your tight end rankings. You said there's seven, eight guys. Who are those seven, eight guys? There's like 10 or 12, honestly, I think. And I think, so I have Jolie at 7, and I really like Jolie. And I think basically from, I mean, honestly, honestly from the top, we'll see what happens with Sadiq. But from the top down, I don't think there's that big of a difference. So it's like 1 through 10, basically.

I have Rarodon at Titan 2. I think he's really, really likely to get on the field because he can actually block. It might take a year. I think he does need to fill out a little bit. But I think the blocking was good at Notre Dame, and he has the size, and he's a really good receiver. I couldn't, like, every time I watched Notre Dame, I noticed Raradon. I was watching for the running backs. I didn't even know who he was until I just had to make note of who he was.

He's really interesting to me. I have Max Claret tied in four. I have Oscar Delpa tied in five. I think both of those players could be full-time tied-ins who break out. I'm a little bit worried that they're a little bit undersized. Delp had better blocking footage in college for sure. Claire's concerned me a little bit. But man, the Purdue stuff for Claire is so good.

I don't think it's really a concern that he didn't get targeted to Ohio State or a surprise. No one does. No tight end at Ohio State. I think Claire set the record for the most receptions in a season there by an Ohio State Buckeye because nobody gets targeted there. He's awesome, though, man. You watch him move.

You watch the move as a route runner and with the ball in his hands. And Claire legitimately looks like kind of, he looks like Sam LaPorter or something like that. I don't know if he's going to be able to survive. as a blocker. He really is a pretty small guy. This titan class is just really small. We did a whole breakdown of the titan class on Beyond the Box score and just like dove into the comparisons. And that's why I'm so excited for Raradon is like his comparisons are like if he beefs up, he could be Colquamette type size. And coming into the league, he's almost identical in terms of arm length. And he has way bigger hands

and same height, same weight as Colson Loveland is where Raradon is. Like he's a legit like tight in body that has smoothness as a receiver as well. The rest of these guys are pretty small. So Dayquan Wright is another guy really, really like, but he's pretty small. He's interesting. I've got a profile on him on Beyond the Box score. The guy who I think is the,

so I gave you a bunch of those, those are all really intriguing to me because if they get in the right spot, they're, I think, potentially really good receivers. It's just going to be about where they land. The two that I think are the most likely to just survive are Jack Andreas out of Texas. He's like Claire.

in that his metrics last year were really weighed down, and it was his first year in a new program where it's different reasons than Claire, but it was way down because he had to stay in a pass block a lot because their offensive line was a mess, and then the quarterback play was also kind of a mess at times. But if you look at the year before that, at Cal, his metrics are just the shade below Claire, and Clare's are like just below the best seasons from Tray McBride and Sam Leporta and players like that. like Claire's numbers were really, really good on a per opportunity basis of Purdue. That's kind of what we have with Andres too.

And then I went and watched all of his film and it's like, this guy is a awesome blocker. I was really surprised because he's another one that kind of fits into the smaller group. But I talked to Max Descano about it who obviously like knows his stuff with tight ends. And he's like, yeah, I think that he can survive as an NFL tied in. Like he might be able to be a starting tight end. And I don't think anybody really talks about him. He's really intriguing to me if he gets an opportunity. And then Sam Roush is a weird.

one because his arms are so short for a big guy. But like he looks really intriguing to me. And if he gets the draft capital, like I'm pretty in on that as well. And so I think for Titan Premium leagues, like any of these guys could be round two or three picks. If you don't like the other players and running back and receiver, I think this is a really interesting class to, to load up on a tight end. Yeah, tight end's really fun. Brett Whitefield also a big Jack Andre's guy. He's awesome. Yeah, he's really good player in leading a receiver for Fernando Mendo Mendo Mendoza at Cal. He was the leading receiver for a future 101 in the NFL draft. The production was big time at Cal. Everybody's so excited to hear

about Jacob's tight-end breakdowns. Make sure you go and check those ones out. Even my son makes an impromptu appearance on Fantasy Football Daily popping in, checking it out during your talk, Jacob. Let's end the show with this one. I'm going to hit you up with a couple of questions to end the show. So let's go back, and you talked about a lot of the top players at each position and the top guys that you're ranking towards the top of the rookie overall ranks. Fast forward two to three years from today. Besides Jeremiah Love, and let's exclude Fernando Mendoza, the quarterback, besides Jeremiah Love and Fernando Mendoza, who is the biggest fantasy football star to come out of the 2026 draft class at any skill position? I want to say Eli Rarodon.

It's probably Lemon, I think, is the best bet. His game is so fantasy-friendly. I think he can win in all situations, and he's really good with the ball in his hands. And I think he's, I mean, if he's going to get the draft capital that we're expecting, I think it's just going to be really important

to get him the ball, you know? I think that's what the offense is going to, like, really emphasize. Even, like, situations where he might not have that insulated target share or whatever, like if we were to go to the Rams or something, it's like, well, that would still be awesome. If the Rams signaled that type of belief in him as a player, like I would be really, really intrigued in that. I feel the best about him from a fantasy perspective.

I have my wide receiver one for fantasy, even though I like love Cardinal Tate. That's exactly who I want the chiefs to draft is Carnell Tate. I think there's, he's clearly my Wartyceper 1 for real life, but Lemon's game is just so fantasy-friendly. Yeah, I love the take on Tate to KC, and I love the Lemon enthusiasm. You're going to watch the NFL draft just like we all are.

We're going to be covering it over here at Fantasy Points. Make sure you stick with us on the YouTube channel. Where is a realistic landing spot for a player that would get you so hyped? If you could pick one player team fit of any of the skill position players that could actually happen, who would it be? I mean, it would be. It would be awesome. That would free up Xavier worthy to get more off the line opportunities, catching up opportunities and stuff. And I think Tay would be really good.

But they never seem to draft a receiver like that. So I don't know if it is realistic. they just have to have little gadgety guys for whatever reason. So I'm going to go with Emmett Johnson. We've talked about a lot. There's lots of reason to be excited about him. I'm going to go with Emmett Johnson to the Vikings. If he is kind of the Aaron Jones replacement,

and I think that can make a lot of sense. I think it would be a really good compliment to Jordan Mason. I think that he can run really, really well in gap schemes, which I think that KOC has been wanting to move more towards. I think that offensive line could be really good. Early in the year, it looked really good, and then everybody got hurt. So I would be pretty intrigued by that.

Maybe the fit with Kyler isn't great if you're looking for a lot of targets. But I just think he's such a good player that that would be interesting to see him paired up with KOC there in a spot where he might get opportunities in your one. I've had Emma Johnson landing in Minnesota as a spot I'd love to see as well. Minnesota native too, Jacob. He was Mr. Football in the stadium in the Midwest. Totally makes sense right there. Jacob, let everybody know once again what you have going on and where people could feel. find it. Yeah, you can check out all my like prospect thoughts and stuff. I'm putting lots of

cutups and all that on Twitter, some stats as well. It's at JA Gibbs underscore 23. You can ask me questions on there and I'll try to respond. And then yeah, check out beyond the box score. I do write the F-15 newsletter as well. So if you search that, you can subscribe to that. It's free if you want some more like detailed breakdowns in written form. But I mean, you got your boy, Ryan Heath, to fulfill all those needs. Right now what I'm really focused on is Beyond the Box or our YouTube. And we're also on Spotify, all the all the podcasting audio services as well. But we're really trying to build that YouTube community from the ground up

or like 1.5,000 subscribers. So it's fun to like start that from the ground up where you, it's a little more intimate. You really know like all the people who are showing up each week and chatting. And so that's, that's been a lot of fun. And I appreciate everybody showing up. So I hope to see you all there. Yeah. If you're watching us on YouTube, go ahead and subscribe to Jacob's new YouTube channel,

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