Fantasy Football Today - 2026 Top 12, Week 18 Thoughts, Fantasy Superlatives and Coaching News (01/05 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Who's ready for 2026!? We'll unveil our early Top 12 for next season, but first we talk about the NFL playoff picture and give early Super Bowl picks. Then we've got your news and notes (7:10) including new head coaching vacancies in Atlanta and Cleveland ... Week 18 thoughts (13:10)! Bijan Robinson was bad, the rookie quarterbacks were encouraging and the Jaguars wide receivers are going to be interesting in 2026. Speaking of 2026, let's get into our Top 12 players (20:30). Is Jahmyr Gibbs RB1? Are we concerned about Jaxon Smith-Njigba repeating his success? Is Jonathan Taylor going to be held back by the Colts offense? Did Omarion Hampton or RJ Harvey make the cut? Did Trey McBride get into the Top 12? ... We finish with our Fantasy Superlatives (47:10) as we come up with four finalists for four different categories. You can vote for the winners on our Facebook page ... Email us at [e-mail] Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop our store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shop.cbssports.com/fantasy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's just going to go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Well, it is finally over. It was a long time. It felt like years, felt like decades at times. But Stranger Things is over. So, playoffs are here. I just want to talk about stranger things, basically.

I finish it. But we welcome me to Fantasy Football today, presented by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. We're going to talk a little bit about the playoffs. We have three episodes every week for you. So Thursday will be our wild card round preview. We'll give you some DFS tips, and if you're in some playoff challenges.

I got to tell you, I don't even know, I mean, I guess it makes it fun, but you do those playoff challenges where you can only pick a certain amount of players on each team and you can't change your lineup, so you have to pick the teams that are going to win. I don't know. who's going to win, Dave Richard, I have no idea who's going to win the Super Bowl.

I do know it's not going to be the four seeds. They're going to get probably spent. The Steelers are going to get smashed on Monday. I would say the same about the Panthers, but they just beat the Rams a few weeks ago, but they're probably going to get smashed. But Dave, I have no idea who's going to win the Super Bowl. That's what makes football great. It's what makes the season great.

The unpredictability of it all is amazing. And I've got a Super Bowl pick, but I've got no confidence in it coming through. Strangier. Jamie, I look at the matchups. I feel good about picking the fives to beat the fours. Other than that, I feel good about the, I think the Eagles and the Eagles are going to win. I don't know how much confidence I have in any other pick, including Bill's Jaguars.

I'm sure everyone's going to be on the Bills. How are you feeling? I mapped it out because I have to write the playoff challenge rankings and I have the bills winning the AFC. It's just, it's hard to, it's hard to bet against Josh Allen in my mind. I mean, I agree with you, though. I can see it going any way, except for probably the, although I could see the Steelers actually beating the Texans just because the Texans could text in. But it, it wouldn't surprise me, honestly, if anybody, but really the Panthers make a run, because you can make a case for and against, you know, I mean, with all these teams, you

You know, it's just, it's a very wide open playoffs. The spreads right now. The Rams are 10 point favorites at the Panthers. That's wild. It's a lot. The Packers are one and a half point favorites at the Bears. Wow. Wow.

The bills are one and a half point favorites at the Jaguars. The Eagles are three and a half point favorites against the Niners. The Patriots are three and a half point favorites against the Chargers. And the Texans are three and a half point favorites. at the Steelers. I kind of feel like the Patriots are really good and they're going to win the Super Bowl. Luce the Eagles.

Oh, God, I have to sit through another Eagles Patriot Super Bowl. I already don't want to do it. I already don't want to do this. Have you, do you have a Super Bowl prediction at him? I think I just made it. Eagles Patriots? Yeah.

And, Jamie, you've got the Bills and who? Rams. Okay. I've got Eagles, Texans. But again, like, it could go a hundred different ways. It's beautiful. I love it.

I was talking about this with some people watching games yesterday. You could say any combination of these teams. And I think everybody would be like, oh, oh, oh, yeah, oh, okay. It's like it really is, it's going to be fun, probably disappointing in the end, you know, from, oh, I can't believe these are the two teams that made it in certain cases outside of probably their fan bases. But, I mean, like, you can nitpick all the schedules and how some of these teams got there. You can nitpick some of the injuries that have been fortunate and unfortunate in some cases for these teams and where they're at right now. It's true. Wouldn't shock me if the Bears made a run.

Wouldn't shock me if the Jaguars made a run. It wouldn't shock me anyway with all these teams. You know, these first year coaches that have done fantastic jobs, you know, can they finish it out? What's going to be? It's going to be interesting. I mean, neither of us, none of us pick the one-seeds. And, you know, the thing about the one-seeds is, I don't really believe that much in home field advantage.

I think it's pretty overrated. But those two venues are tough. You've got the altitude in Denver, and they historically are very good home playoff team. And obviously Seattle is a madhouse, just a tough place to play. But usually the one-seeds have a pretty good chance to make the Super Bowl,

and I don't know how many people are going to pick them. If Seattle had any other quarterback, would it be easier to pick them? Oh, yeah. If you could take the quarterback off of any other team in the playoffs right now and replace Donald with that quarterback, that would probably be the consensus pick. They're the consensus pick anyway, right?

They're the betting favorite. But I feel like that's what holds people back on Seattle is that Darnold could go out there and see ghosts get nervous, throw three picks, et cetera, and it costs Seattle the game. bet that is a packer's upset in the first round because then they get green bay in their building if it's the bears winning and the rams winning then the rams go in there i think the rams beat them the futures right now seahawks are plus 400 on bet mgm rams plus 425 broncos plus 650 eagles plus 900 plus 900 bills plus 1,000 patriots plus 1,000 texans plus 1,300 and so on all right Let's get to some news and notes here.

Cam Ward left with a shoulder injury. You guys, anybody worried about that going into the off season if he needs surgery or anything like that? If it's that bad, I think you've got to be a little bit concerned. But really the biggest concern would be is who's the coach and what offseason moves that they make. Because that's going to really determine, I think, how we feel about Cam Ward. He needs a number one receiver. That's the most important thing. And he needs a coach that's going to bring out the best of him.

So if you follow what's most likely going to happen, if it's Matt Nagy, I don't know how much that's going to instill confidence in anybody drafting Cam Ward. But again, can they go out and add pieces to make his receiving court better? Because he definitely played better down the stretch. I mean, he was terrible to start the season. And then you saw a confidence level on him and just the comfort level in his performance, but needs a lot more help. Okay, JJ McCarthy took himself out of the game with the react.

aggravation of his hand injury. The Jets went the entire season without an interception, but they do have the number two pick in the draft. Tassum Hill hurt his shoulder. Houston running back, Joward Jordan left with an ankle injury. He actually got the first two carries for the Texans. When he left carries, Woody Marks had seven carries. Patriots got Will Campbell, their left tackle, rookie left tackle back. That's huge. Travis Kelsey undecided about his future. And now let's talk about the hiring and firings, or not the non-fireings and firings. The Colts are going to bring back their GM, Chris Ballard, and their head coach, Shane Stike. And so the two coaches who've been fired right now, Cleveland's Kevin Stefansky, and Atlanta's Rahim Morris.

He and the GM, Terry Fonten, overfired. Matt Ryan could apparently be named the president of football operations. But Cleveland, Dave, and Atlanta, they have openings. I think that gives us four or five openings right now. Four. It's four. Could be more. We'll see.

I got a GM news just now. Oh, what do we got? Your guy. staying. Here we go. Okay, great. So anyway, I'll tell you, man, as a Giants fan, I want Kevin Siffansky. I think that would be a great hire.

This guy has had garbage quarterbacks. Basically, he had Baker Mayfield in his first year and, you know, in his second year for 14 games. And it's just been bad quarterbacks ever since. I like Stafan, I mean, I think he'd be a good hire. But Dave, what do you think right now? of the coaching cycle. It's going to continue on. And I think the Atlanta job is going to be attractive because of all the

talent that they have on both sides of the ball, not having a first round pick this year, obviously stings. I thought about whether or not a new regime would try and trade off one of those big stud offensive players to try and get into the back end of round one. I don't even know if you could get a late first for, for Bejan, for London, maybe. But I don't know if they're going to do. do that. I think they're just going to take the lumps of the previous regime and try and build around that moving forward. But for now, I feel like either Atlanta or, well, Vegas, the job

isn't open yet. But those two jobs are interesting. The Giants job is interesting. We'll see. We'll see how things shake out. So yeah, it's Giants, Browns, Titans, Falcons. Those are the openings right now. We've got the Raiders as a possibility. The Ravens, the possibility. Anything else? the Steelers maybe, Bengals? I don't think the Steelers now that they made the playoff, so that would be a surprise, but unless Tomlin wants to go somewhere. Dolphins?

There is some talk that Stefansky being let go, maybe opens the door for the Jets, if Stefansky is interested in going there, but I would be surprised if they do move on from Aaron Glenn. The dolphins is still a possibility, although it would be a surprise at this point. And then you got to wonder if there's a one, and done situation in Buffalo

if McDermott is in trouble. I mean, oh, meaning if the playoffs. One and done, meaning what? Meaning they lose the wild card. I see. Well, they finally don't have to deal with Patrick Mahomes. If they can't get to the Super Bowl this year, I think, I don't even know if it's one and done for them.

We'll see what happens. Yeah, I think he's, it would almost be justified at this point. Like they've just. And you said Tampa Bay, right? I didn't say Tampa Bay, no. Yeah, that's another one that could be open. Yeah. Oh, man, but they won.

it won a huge win for them all right so we don't really have a ton of coaching news right now but as the hireings are made obviously we'll be able to react to them we've got three offseason episodes Monday Wednesday Thursday most weeks FFT Dynasty is Tuesday and Friday we have so many other great podcasts

I'm sure you want to listen to some college football podcasts right now right got to cover three podcasts that podcast is huge but go to CBSports.com slash podcast see everything we have you know, soccer, combat sports, college basketball, CPSports.com slash podcasts. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we'll give us some thoughts on week 18.

We'll give you our top 12 for 2026 after this. All right, welcome back, everybody. Any week 18 thoughts, Dave, Richard? I thought the end of the Raven Steelers game was as entertaining as it gets. Tons of fun. A little disappointed that Lamar Jackson isn't going to be in the play. I thought he looked good and played well. Obviously, an amazing fourth quarter.

And we got a little bit of vintage Rogers at the end. That was pretty sick. And I don't know. I don't know where else to go with that wildly open question that you threw at me. There was some weird performance. I'm like, Bejohn Robinson was horrible. Yeah, had a touchdown taken away. He scored, but it got called back.

Yeah. Even with that, it wouldn't have been a good game for him. I thought. Nope. Defense is good, man. They're going to be a tough. I agree. Shuck is someone we could talk about,

and not that we're going to call him a top 12 quarterback, but look at how he did yesterday without Chris Olive. That should tell you everything that you need to know about how talented he is. And that's a team that's absolutely on the rise. They've got the right coach. They've got a lot of good talent on the offensive line. They're going to get better. That's a team that I'm kind of excited about, too.

I was going to say the rookie quarterbacks in general, not Sheter Sanders, but Cam Ward only played one drive, but he obviously finished strong, right? And Jackson Dart had a really good game. Granted, it was an easy matchup, but he had no Wando Robinson. The touchdown pass,

he threw to Tyrone Tracy was terrific, and Tyler Shuck. And this was supposed to be a pretty bad quarterback class, and was Shuck the third one drafted? It was, right? Shuck was the third one drafted. Yeah, the top three have had very encouraging rookie season, so that was good.

Certainly, this Parker Washington, surge is something some pretty awesome pretty awesome right now so yeah so I asked that you know you know Pete Priscoe is obviously very tied to the team I asked him

they keep all four guys meaning Brian Thomas comes back because there's some talk that he might be on the trading block they bring all four guys back with Travis Hunter what's their opening three receivers they got to pay Parker Washington so keep that in mind he's free agent so assuming he's back

he already paid Jacoby they already paid Jacoby Travis Hunter, maybe a full-time defensive player next year. Yeah, yeah, that's what I was going to say. You think so? Yeah. I mean, it makes sense if these are your three receivers because while he certainly makes them better

by playing offense to a degree, it makes your team better if those are your three receivers and he's playing defense. Now, I'm sure he'll get offensive snaps because he'll want those and I'm sure they'll want to use him. but I think from a fantasy perspective his value is probably never going to match up to what we expected

it could be one of the worst dynasty picks oh man if he's just a full time I mean especially when you look at what Abuka and McMillan did because he was I'm going ahead of them in rookie drafts or at least in the conversation and what Luther Burden has looked like

and then what hopefully Matthew Golden can be I'm just thinking about the receivers you know and not even bringing in Jaden Higgins or Trey Harris or Kyle Williams or what those guys could be just from a receiver's perspective. And then we know it was a generational running back class, you know, whatever that materializes into. And he was taking ahead of a lot of the running backs too. So, yeah, it's a tough one.

Another thing, an interesting development, I think, has been this surge from Ramandre Stevenson. He scored 35.3 PPR fantasy points in week 18. This is one we'll be able to watch throughout the playoffs forever. along their run lasts, but I don't know what the future is going to hold for Stevenson and for Trayvion Henderson, but right now Stevenson kind of looks like they're RB1. Yeah. Didn't see that coming necessarily.

All right. Well, that's enough about week 18. Let's get to our top, oh, actually, I just want to run through the NFL draft top 10. But before we do that, picture this football fans. You bet on your favorite player to score the first touchdown in the game. His teammate scores instead. Ah, terrible. But not with bet MGM.

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Bet MGM, make it legendary. Okay. Top 10 in the NFL draft, the Raiders. They did win yesterday, but they had lost 10 in a row before that. The Jets, their second. They also have the 16th pick, and they lost five straight to end the season. You know, there was talk that once they saw the Giants won that they were going to activate Max Crosby. Is that right?

Oh, okay. Oh, no, he saw it for the year. Yeah. Yeah, right? The Cardinals have the third pick. They lost nine straight. The Titans have the fourth pick. The Giants, fifth, and the Brown six.

Both of those teams won each of their last two games. The commanders have the seventh pick. They won two of their last four. The Saints pick eighth. They won four of their last five. Bengals are ninth and Kansas City is 10th. And there you go. There's your top 10.

How many quarterbacks do you think are going to go in the top five this year? Did more declare or not? I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think he has yet. Yeah. So if he's out, I think two. If he's not out, I think one.

Okay. All right. Good stuff. Unless somebody just wows during the pre-draft process. Yeah, it happens sometimes for sure. I saw Carson Beck in a couple mock drafts in the first round. In the way. Who did those?

I don't want to say. I don't want to embarrass it. Okay, no. That's not going to happen. It wasn't much. I saw one where he was. was going to the Jets and that like that's the first thing that like my eyes popped out not with their first pick with their second pick I think it's more likely geez this could be

insane I think it's more likely that Carson Beck does not get drafted then he gets drafted in the first round that's I just he's gonna get drafted he's just not just pro prospect really to me kind of I don't think he did enough to to prove it even if he goes on and and wins the Natty I don't think he's shown enough over the balance of the year to warn a first round pick. No, I agree. It's just no mobility and average arm, I'd say. All right, let's talk about our top 12 players for 2026.

How about we unveil our top six? Okay. I don't have it in front of me. I'm sorry. You give you a little bit of time. Can you get it? It's not like a piece. It's downstairs.

Oh, do you remember it? I'll do the best I can. It'll be on the site by the end of the week. Okay, yeah, it's fluid anyway. All right, who's number one? Bezion for me. I've already gone back and forth twice between Bejohn and Gibbs, and for now I've got Beijon. You're assuming David Montgomery is off the team, right?

Well, it doesn't matter if Montgomery's off the team or not. Someone will be there to help Jemir Gibbs with the Russian workload. And this year, Jemir Gibbs had a monster season even with Montgomery on the team. Montgomery didn't miss a game. Gibbs still averaged over 20 points per game. Neither of these guys were RB1. Christian McCaffrey was RB1. By a lot, by two and a half points ahead of in PPR over Bejohn Robinson.

All right, so we got a running back number one. Who's two? Whoever isn't Bejan or Gibbs. Okay, I went Puka number two. And Chase three and Gibbs four. What's your top four? Wow. Bejon, Gibbs, Puka.

Chase. That's mine. Okay. So it's the same four guys. Adam, why did you put the two wide receivers ahead of Gibbs? I have no idea. I just think...

Okay. Puka's insane. He's so good. And he averaged 23.6 ppr.mints per game. That's 2.3 more than Jackson Smith and Jigba. What about in the... In Puka's healthy games and Devante Adams' healthy games? That would be weeks 1 through 5 and 9 through 15.

He averaged 23.5. PPR fantasy points per game, almost identical to his full season. So I think Adams would, you know, it's worse for Pucco when Adams is healthy, but he did enough. He's just too good. And then Chase, Chase was the number one pick? Was he the number one in ADP this year? Yes.

And there's a reason for it. You know, last year, 2024, he had 175 targets. He had 127 catches on pace for over 1,700 yards. If you look at the last five games of the season. he was on pace for 193 targets this is when Joe Burrow came back 193 target pace

131 catch pace 1,561 yards only 9 touchdown pace for Chase but I feel like that would be higher over full season with Burrow so

that's just why I went with those guys ahead of Gibbs who's also terrific but all right so it's in some order Bijan Gibbs Puka and Chase

who's five I have A-Cham fifth uh jason i have a chan who's six jason okay so it's the same top six for everyone in some order bijan gibbs puka chase jesn jesn devon a chan so if you all remember i this was a stat that i really i don't want to say i obsessed over it but i really bought into it it's hard to finish top 12 on a team that's bottom five in pass attempts in full PPR. It's really hard to finish top five.

JSN finished second. He has had, since I've been looking at it now, the last 13 years, JSN had the best season for any wide receiver on a team that finished bottom five and pass attempts. Dave, what do you think? So, Jamie, what do you think? I believe it was the NFL site tweeted.

it out or sent out whatever we're saying now. He's the first wide receiver to lead the NFL in passing yards on a team that finished bottom third and pass rate. Yeah, and does that scare you a little bit going into going into 2026?

I mean, a little bit. You know, we got to see what they do with the rest of their receiving core because it'd be surprising if Cooper Cup and Rashid Shaheed are both back. I'm sure they're going to try and get younger at that position. So maybe it's just Tori Horton. And, you know, that's a different kind of player, clearly. but, you know, Kubiak also, is he going to get a head coaching job? And so do they have a coordinator change?

That's something to keep an eye on to because he'll be on the cycle. There are not many, you know, just go back to the coaching stuff. There's not many offensive candidates, which is why guys like Matt Nagy and Mike McCarthy and Cliff Kingsbury and Clint Kubiak and some of these guys that you think, oh, my God, these are going to be potential head coaches. Well, because they're the only good offensive minds that are in the cycle right now, for what that's worth. So I think Kubex days, I think that helps.

I think Darnold has shown now over two seasons that he can help elevate his number one wide receiver to the heights that we need. He did great things with Jefferson with better talent around him from a receiving standpoint because of Addison and T.J. Hawkinson, J.S.N doesn't have the type of competition for targets. And so I think what J.S. showed you in year three, which is typically when you see the huge jump for guys, like there's a lot to like about where he is. So I don't want to take him first at the position.

I don't want to take him first overall. But I think if you're talking about top five wide receivers, he's for sure there, and I think he belongs in the top three. I do think he's third. I'm seeing now Jackson Smith and Jigba had a 36% target share. I think it was 35.8. Based on what I'm looking at, that's the highest for any wide receiver,

highest target share since Brandon Marshall had a 40% target share with the Bears in 2012. There's a lot of things that are maybe not repeatable, but they also could just throw more next year. It may not have an incredible defense, you know, get some injuries on that side of the ball, and they could just throw more next year. Obviously, JSN has taken a step into the elite

at the receiver position. All right, so top six is in some order, Bijan Robinson, Jemir Gibbs, Pugina Coo, Jammar, Jase, Devon, A. Chan, Jackson, Smith, and Jigba. Seven and eight, Dave. My seventh is Jonathan Taylor, and my eighth for now is Christian McCaffrey, but I'm definitely not committing to McCaffrey that high. Jamie? McCaffrey, 7.

I think I might have Taylor 8. I'm not sure. Oh, wow. Okay, I'm very different. So who we got? I have C.D. Lamb and Amon Rae St. Brown. This is a... Oh, I'm sorry.

I have the receivers ahead of the running backs. Yes. So I think I have Amon Ra and then CD Lamb. All right. We're doing full PPR, by the way. And, all right, Dave, you're sticking with Taylor and McCaffrey. Yep. Okay.

I just, I love what John and Taylor did with Daniel Jones. He averaged almost 25 PPR points per game in 12 full games with Daniel Jones. Save the game when Daniel Jones got hurt. That was pretty early on when he left the game. And he's just, he proved that he can handle a small receiving workload. He averaged just north of three targets per game, both with and without Daniel Jones, got fed a ton of touchdowns,

absolute genesis of that Colts offense. I don't see that changing whatsoever. And it's a good offensive line. Coaching staff is staying. He's 27, so you have to worry a little bit about age and obviously you have to worry a little bit about him repeating north of 20 PPR points. Last time he got north of 20 PPR points on a per game basis,

he came crashing down the year after. But I just love the fit that he has right now. in that Indianapolis offense. Hopefully Anthony Richardson stays far away from the starting lineup, and we've got a decent passing game to bounce off of Jonathan Taylor, and he goes on to still be a catalyst for the Colts. You asked Week 18 thoughts. I wonder if what Riley Leonard did,

and a lot of it came against some backups for the Texans, but I wonder if what he did gives them confidence to resign Daniel Jones at a prove-it deal, and that's their quarterback duo coming back next year. so Leonard as the here's you know bridge until Jones is ready maybe takes the job who knows they you know they had an open competition last year and clearly Daniel Jones beat out Anthony Richardson and it worked out well for them so I wonder if they have something similar and maybe give Riley Leonard the chance to win the job but bring Daniel Jones back make make him comfortable until he's ready and Riley Leonard's your starter maybe to open the season

because I thought he played well yeah he did it's a little surprising I don't remember him I mean, he played well at Notre Dame but I thought he played way better than expectations were. And as a back to quarterback, he's good. He also did a good job and I'm sure this is a lot of chatter from Colts fans.

He did a good job when he replaced Daniel Jones in the game against Jacksonville. And then they go and they signed Philip Rivers at 44 with no would Leonard have been a better option at the time? Now, if you recall, he was also injured, you know, coming off the Jackson game so they didn't know what his status was but you know you play the what if game would

riley leonard have maybe won one of those games so i i think i might be too low on jonathan taylor but i talked about our resolutions and i just i just don't want to draft a player that might be on a bad offense you know seventh eighth overall i have him 12th and i just look at all the other guys here cd lamb i'm on mara st brown christian mcalfrey i have james cook in my top top i have one other guy that i'm not going to say yet and the only guy that i'm not going to say yet and the only guy whose offense really scares me is Jonathan Taylor's. You know, you've got Daniel Jones if they re-sign him. He's coming off a tornado kill. He's

how mobile is he going to be? And I think the wheels were starting to fall off for Daniel Jones anyway, personally. So, look, I have 12. I'm not saying I'm super low on Taylor, but I think when you look at the top 12 and every single player, you could make the case for the

dolphins might have the worst offense. And Devon A. Chan's top six for everyone. I get that. But I just don't want to I just don't know. I don't want to I don't want to draft someone on the Colts before I draft the number one receiver for the Lions before I draft the number one receiver for the Cowboys. It's kind of where I'm at there. And look, for what it's worth, the Jaguars run defense was fantastic this year, better than

anybody expected. The Titans run defense, when they're healthy, is fantastic. The Texan's defense as a whole is fantastic. That's six games, clearly one of them will be week 18, but that's six games that he's got to face those defenses. And that was part of when he started to struggles when he got into his, his division schedule. Oh, totally.

Okay, so seven and eight for Dave is Taylor and McCaffrey. For Jamie, it's St. Brown and C.D. Lamb. I think we might hear the same names here. For me, it was Lamb and St. Brown. Let's go to 9 and 10. Dave? I've got a Monroe, St. Brown, at 9, and James Cook at 10. Oh, okay.

Oner Ross, St. Brown, James Cook. Jamie? Yeah, this would be none of them recalling it. It would be McCaffrey next and then James Cook. and I have cook head of Taylor, so. Okay. So that would be 9, 10, 11 for me, and then McBride's 12. Jonathan Taylor, all right, skipping ahead on the test here.

I have Omarian Hampton, 9, and Christian McCaffrey, 10. Obviously, the Hampton thing is contingent on what do they do. They sign like another running back that's actually going to get work. But I think we're all probably, maybe not Heath, but just the way he's talked about Herbert, I don't know, but we're all probably going to be pretty bullish on the Chargers offense. They're going to have both of their tackles next year, and they could be really a lead offense. And he catches, passes. He's had games with like eight catches, Omari and Hampton.

So I know the rush average wasn't great, but I think that could definitely improve. Just make sure I'm not quick. He's had a six-catch game, a five-catch game, a six-catch game, a six-catch game, and an eight-catch game. That's four games. He only played nine. In four of them, Amari and Hampton had five or more. more catches. So he'd be kind of my sneaky pick, and then I went with McCaffrey 10. Why are we so low on McCaffrey, who is, you know, maybe the fantasy MVP, Jamie?

I mean, age and workload. This is the same concern we had with Saquan Barclay. They have a playoff run still in front of them. So if they make another deep playoff run, it was the same thing that happened to him coming off the 2023 season when he had all the work and then all the work in the postseason. So a year older, a lot of mileage on his body. We'll see what happens because I think we all saw a Trent Williams less offense and what that looks like against a really good defense and it wasn't pretty. So McCaffrey is still elite.

I think if you're still going to buy into him staying healthy, the hope would be is that if he misses any time due to injury, it's not 20, 24. You know, we only play his four games. And that's unfortunately been his track record. When he misses his time, he misses a lot of time. It's not like, you know, a game here, two weeks there. You know, it's not season ending in a lot of cases, but in a lot of situations, it's majority of season.

I think you're going to have a lot of risk built in. And depending on who the backup is, if it's Brian Robinson, if it's Isaac Garendo, if it's somebody else that they bring in, you know, that person's probably going to be hyped up a lot by us with the thought of,

okay, if McCaffrey misses time, you know what this running back system has been. So that player may get overdrafted if McCaffrey plays the majority of the year. But I think you just got to build in some, you know, level of buffer of,

okay, who's trending up, Bijjan was great, Gibbs was great, McCaffrey was great, He was better than them, but can you do it again? And then do you like James Cook and Jonathan Taylor in the same, you know, range of McCaffrey? But, you know, the way that these numbers tell us and what these numbers tell us, you know, with the workload plus age, like he's just hitting a lot of red flags, unfortunately, at a time when a lot of people should still be excited about him, just the risk you have to take.

The hope would be is that he's Derek Henry-esque, and he just continues to last until, you know, we finally decide that he's not. What's the track record of running backs that finish first overall the following year? Oh, I think he's the last. Oh, no. Who's the last one to repeat?

I'm asking. Todd Gurley, maybe? Might be Todd Gurley. That sounds true. Repeat is back-to-back number one in fantasy leagues? Yeah. Yeah. I think you got to go back to like Jamal Charles

or Lennon-Tompson. I think it's been that long. well okay what about but it's but it's the same thing finishes first overall then he repeats top five the following year does that happen frequently all right well then that's a good thing for mcalfrey but i i all those issues that jamie talked about 413 touches and he still has games to play 30 years old when he enters the season the 49ers would be wise to pull back on how much they use him and find somebody else that they could use in tandem with

him. And I don't think you could rule that out. Last year, Jemir Gibbs was number one overall, and he finished top five. Okay. So that's a tremendous example. Yeah, but actually, it's not as, not as common as you think. I let him just going back. It's kind of scary. But I don't know, it's, you could probably make the same case at wide receiver, too. There aren't a lot of guys that, that repeat at number one last two years any wide receiver that averaged 20 ppr points per game had a downtick the following year so we're going to have all of our top 12s and top 24 overall on the site this

week so i'm writing quarterbacks um for today and like to go back to your herbert thought on hampton only three people at herbert in their top 12 of the six of us who did it um i'm if i remember correctly because I put the running back list together. I think only Dan may have had McCaffrey in his top three. I could be wrong. Maybe Jacob did too. But we're for the most part in a very similar range. And we all did this independently, very similar range of a lot of players.

So like for the quarterbacks, for example, I know I'm going off topic here. But for the quarterbacks, you were the only one that had my homes. Who's you? Me? Adam was the only one that had my homes in top 12. Heath is just anti-chiefs, I guess, this one. Dave was the highest on DART. Jacob was the lowest.

I just recalling because I'm writing what stood out of the list. Jacob was the lowest on Borough. He had him at 10. Everybody else had him in the top six. Heath was the highest on Stafford, you know, just looking at the quarterback who led the NFL in passing yards, had an amazing season. And Jacob and I were the only ones that had Lawrence ranked in the top 12th.

yeah i had burrow two uh and everybody had him in the top six except for except for jacob so okay yeah that by the way i'm looking now i think the last running back to repeat as rb one

was priest holmes in 2002 and 2003 and boy did he destroy 2002 no i got the chiefs running back wrong i'm sorry yeah 2002 he played only 14 games and he scored about 60 more points than Lidani and Tomlinson. He averaged 31.6 fantasy points per game in PPR.

In 2003, he averaged 27.9 fantasy points per game in PPR. It only scored 27 touchdowns that year, though. All right, so back to the top 12 overall. Top six was, for everybody, was the same six, slightly different order. Bejohn, Gibbs, Puka, Chase, A. Chan, J.S. N. J.S. For Dave, 7-8-9-10 was Jonathan Taylor, Christian McCaffrey, Amon-Ross, St. Brown, James Cook. For Jamie, 7-8-9-10 was Amman Ross St. Brown, C.D. Lamb, Christian McCaffrey, James Cook.

So we haven't gotten to Taylor yet for Jamie, although he's 11. Taylor has, Taylor's 11th for Jamie McBride is 12. We haven't gotten to Lamb yet for Dave. I imagine he'll be 11 or 12. For me, 7, 8, 9, 10 was Lamb, St. Brown, Omari, and Hampton, Christian McCaffrey. Dave, who's, for Jamie, it's Taylor, McBride, 1112. Who's 1112 for you? Hampton and Lamb. Hampton and Lamb. And for me, it is James Cook and Jonathan Taylor.

So that means, in our top 12, the only difference is in terms of names, Dave and I have Amari and Hampton. I have him ninth. You have him 11th. and Jamie has McBride 12th and no Hampton. I don't remember. Let me see where I have McBride. I have McBride.

Oh, I don't even... I have McBride 15. I have both. I'm 13th. Okay. Where do you have Hampton? Jamie. I don't remember.

Okay. You think he's going to be pretty close to top 12? He's round two. I'm not sure. So, we don't. Do you think you have Gentie or Hampton hierarchies? Obviously, Dave and I have Hampton. Hampton.

And did anyone give any consideration to R.J. Harvey or any other sophomore running backs in the top 12? No. No. There are several of the, several. There are a few of the six people who did. I remember what it was that had Trevion Henderson in the top 12 and not R.J. Harvey. Yeah, if Remandre is not there, I could see that happening. All right. Yes.

That's true. And there are, if somebody just put in the chat, there are a couple people that have Camp Skatoo in their top 12. No chance. For me, you know. Who? Scataboo? I don't know.

He'd have to, I mean, he's coming off a pretty serious injury, and he'd have to regain that starting job. I think he'll be sharing originally. He'll probably get it at some point. I'm not really a big Tracy guy, but I don't know. That seems like a stretch. Yeah. He did lead all rookies in points per game.

Yeah, he's awesome. I just don't know if he's worth taking. The round one capital is too rich to take Scataboo. No, no, no, not round one. Top 12 running backs. Sorry. Oh, oh, that's different. Oh, top 12 running backs.

Yes, yes, yes, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He can make that cut up. That would be top 12. So that would be, I think I had seven running backs in the first round. After that, for me, it's Chase Brown, eight. No, I had eight running, I had eight running backs in the first round. Whatever.

I can tell you if you want to have your, I have your round. Oh, no. I had seven, and then I have Jacobs 8, Chase Brown, 9, Barclay 10, R.J. Harvey, 11, Ashton Genti, 12. Dave's that similar list? For my running backs in the top 12? I don't know if you have it. Yeah, pretty close. Yeah, I've got it.

Okay. It's funny. The way, Chase Brown finished, he would have been top three. Yeah, it's going to be hard. I mean, it was exactly what I loved about, what we all liked about him. go chase brown with joe burrow is just an animal he's great and he showed it again uh we got to take a break we come back and we'll do some superlatives but that's your top 12 for 2026 i don't know how much it'll change that's going to be most of the same i have one more one follow-up yeah well i was

going to say i think what happens to malique neighbors justin jefferson garrett wilson could change who's at the bottom of the top 12 at least for me like if those guys get upgrades and in the case of neighbors just if he gets healthy he's ready to go for the start of training camp you could definitely build the case that they're late round one type guys in full ppr yeah and again i don't have in front of me i know neighbors is close for me i might have had him in over taylor for what i probably know um i do think if uh any of the free agent running backs lands in a great spot Brees Hall, for example. That's a guy that could skyrocket up draft boards as well.

So I don't know if any of the rookies crack the top 12. You know, love will be the most interesting one. Yeah, there you go. If he ends up in the right spot. But I think we may have learned our lesson from. Yeah, I got to take a break. We'll take a break and we'll talk about this in a minute here. And Jeremiah, I love Notre Dame running back.

could be a top five pick. We'll be right back to talk about that and some other things after this. Okay, I'm going to ask you this. I'm going to give you the top 10 in the NFL draft. If Jeremiah Love goes to any of these teams, will he be a top, will he be a first round pick in it fantasy drafts? Not going to go to Las Vegas. If he goes to the Jets, will Jeremiah Love be a top top top pick?

If he goes to the Cardinals. No. If he goes to the Titans. no giants no browns no no Washington no saints I don't hear you at all no Jamie talk

Jamie is talking you don't hear us Dave okay I have no idea what's going on get out of get hell out of here uh bangles No. I got a good one for you. 10th overall are the Kansas City Chiefs. Maybe. There we go.

But we fell for this before when they took a running back in the first round. He is so much better than Clyde Edwards Lear and he was the last pick. It's also top 10 capital versus 30 seconds, whatever was. 30 was 32nd. Can you imagine if they had taken Jonathan Taylor.

Yeah, it'd be pretty good. Chiefs don't know anything. All right. Oh, James Cook. It was the last guy. I'll ask you about. So, any, is there any, are you nervous at all with James Cook? You only have 33, well, he had 33 catches in 17 games.

We've never thought of him as a round one type of player. You're cool with that, you just round one? I mean, he should have been a round one player each of the last two years. Why? He wasn't even close to that. We were talking about him. I had to make the, I had to justify him in the third round. No, no, no, no.

I'm not saying we were going to take him. I'm saying post-season, we should have taken him around one each the last two years. What do you think, Dave? About? I don't know. Can you hear anything? Now I can. No idea what happened.

Sorry about that, you guys. If Jeremiah Love goes to the Chiefs at 10. Oh, that's sexy. I would definitely be tempted to take him in round two. Okay. All right, superlatives. So here's how the superlatives. Oh, wait, before superlatives.

I found my document with my top 12 overall for 2025 from a year ago. Should we see how I did? I probably have one of those. Yeah, we do. It's because our preseason rankings. We have those. No, but this is from January. You want it from January?

Yeah, our first look. So my January top 12 was Bijan, Chase, Justin Jefferson. Boy, did I change on that. Puka, Nico Collins. Sequin Barclay, Jemir Gibbs, Christian McCaffrey, C.D. Lamb. I'm on Ross St. Brown. I don't really think we need to get into the next two. Malik Neighbors, Brian Thomas, Jr.

Not bad. Not bad. You did it well. Yeah. Not bad. Okay, superlatives. So this is how we do it every year. We will come up. I think we are going to have four categories. And we're going to let you vote on our Facebook page. So if you go to Facebook, just search for fantasy football today. Ask to join our guy Rob Thomas will let you in, our moderator, very helpful dude.

And you can vote on it. So I have to remember to change that setting that doesn't allow people to write in their own candidates. That makes things very distracting. But we'll do fantasy MVP. We'll do biggest bust. We will do best waiver wire player and comeback player of the year. So we'll come up with the four nominees right now, and you all can vote on it, and we will reveal the results either later this week or next week. All right, fantasy MVP, this is not highest score necessarily.

This is a combination of great season and great draft value. So, Jamie, you've already done this. So where do you want to start? We're going to have to come up. Who would you suggest the four MVP candidates would be? I think I made a case for five. And so you referenced I've already done this. So it's on the site.

I have the all fantasy teams, which are three teams worth of players and the MVP. If you don't want me to reveal the MVP, I won't. Yeah, I don't. But the five guys that I made the case for would be Christian McCaffrey, Bejohn Robinson, Pooka, Jackson Smith, Nijigba, and Trey McBride. We have to take one of them out. So if you're going to take somebody out, I would take out Bijon, just because the reason I included him was based on.

on his finish, his fantasy playoffs were absolutely ridiculous, where he scored 29 PPR points or more in all three games. Yeah. And so his finishing kick was just ridiculous, insane. But I think if you're going to take somebody out, you take him up because Puka was amazing. DASN was the MVP for the majority of the season. McBride, what he did at his position is incredible and just dominated that tight-end spot. And then McCaffrey, I think he speaks for himself.

And the thing about Pucca... Just from an NFL perspective, maybe the offensive player of the year getting to over 2,400 total yards from scrimmage. Who, Bejohn? Yeah. Think about Puka was that because of the Stafford injury, he fell to the second round.

His fantasy pros ADP is 13th. Ours was 16.8. Yeah. Yeah, so he's a, and he had a great fantasy playoffs, too, although not so much week 17. Not that it was bad. Almost did it at that touchdown kind. Right. What was this?

So week 17, he scored 15.7 points the week before that, 46.5. Ooh, man. All right, Dave, if we were, are any other names you want to mention? McCaffrey, Bejohn, Puka, JSN, Tray McBride, maybe we have to eliminate Bejohn, anyone else? I think it's easy to make a case for a quarterback. just because so many of them have late ADP, so they've got to do something really special to make this list.

And I think Stafford is deserving. He finishes the number one QB on a per game basis. It was north of 26. It might have been right at 26 fantasy points per game. His ADP was in the 150s, just an unbelievable value for someone that, in some leagues he wasn't even drafted, and he went on to be the best quarterback in fantasy.

That makes him pretty damn valuable. I think he should be on the list. Drake May he was drafted about 30 picks sooner and he didn't have quite the same average as Matthew Stafford and I get why Jamie didn't have a quarterback on his fantasy MVP list because as good as Stafford was Drake May was maybe a couple points per game lower

Josh Allen was maybe one point per game lower so it's got to be like a really great year from a quarterback to be a part of the fantasy MVP conversation I just think Stafford warrants it because he finishes the number one guy and his ADP was outside of the first 12 rounds. So just one thing for context. I did this through week 17, and through week 17, Alan was better than Stafford, points per game. Right. I think if you're going to make a case for a quarterback, for me, it would have had to be a 30 point per game season to be the fantasy MVP, especially with what McCaffrey did and McBride did.

Bijon's finish and Pucca's season and JSN season. I'm saying some James Cook support in the chat, by the way. It's a really good draft pick, you know. Fantastic draft pick. All right. I think I'm with Jamie eliminating Bejohn. Yeah. All right.

So McCaffrey, Puka, JSN, Trey McBride. All right. Biggest bust. You did that one, too, Gene? Justin Jefferson. Next. Brian Thomas, Jr. Yeah, I didn't categorize anybody for this.

It was Jefferson. There's the list on the, you want me to give you guys that I put on the list. Yeah, who are a four going to be? I think Jefferson, to me, Barclay and Brian Thomas Jr. The quarterback I had was Lamar. And I eliminated a lot of the injuries, you know, so anybody that missed. Jane Daniels, Malik neighbors, you're just taking them off the list. Yeah, Lamar played enough

games to make the list. So for me, it was, I mean, my four would be Jefferson, Thomas, Gentie, and Barkley. I completely agree with those. Barclay was R.B. Overall, he was

R.B. 15. No, per game, he was R.B. 15. Genti was R. B. 17. At the end of week, well, he didn't play week 18. So at the end of week 17, he had lost just shy of eight PPR points per game from the previous year. And people thought we were crazy for not having him, you know, number one overall, basically. So, okay. And then, Dave, you good with that for?

Yes. Okay. Justin Jefferson, Sequin Barclay, Ashton, Jenty, Brian Thomas, Jr. Ooh, that's going to be. I mean, I was thinking about, oh, on, just one other name to throw in there was Ladd McCocky, because he was early round three pick, and I don't think he even averaged 12 ppr points per game, but some of those other guys sucked more than McConkey did.

The toughest one I had to come up, because I did it just as a fantasy lineup. So I had Lamar quarterback, Genty and Barclay at running back. The receivers were easy with McConkey as the third one, joining JJ and Thomas. The tight end I struggled with, and I just went based on ADP, was Hawkinson.

He was so bad by comparison to the field. where he was drafted and then the flex I did Camara because of still being a borderline round two, round three pick and just awful. I actually think you could make a bus case for Tremick,

for Brock Bowers. Yeah, but you know, when you look at his points per game, clearly he did not live up to the expectations. He still was third. And so, you know, depending on where you drafted him, I think by the time we got to the draft

process he wasn't going in the first round he was going more towards the two three turn and so it was just like the hawkinson was so bad yeah hawkinson was ridiculous I had bowers fourth I don't know if you have Tucker Kraft in there so McBride Kittle craft

Bowers um but Bowers like just barely behind he's almost he was practically tied for second basically so in that sense yeah he scored a respectable 14.5 ppr points per game So mine or bust, but not terrible.

Seven touchdowns for, how many touchdowns did that team throw? He had seven of them? That's pretty good. All right, best waiver wire pickup of the year. I think Dave, you probably named it with Stafford. It's going to be the winner. Who else we're looking at? So I think there were three.

And if you really want to, you know, expand it, you could throw in two more quarterbacks because what Stafford did was incredible. What Jacoby Brissette did was incredible for a time when fantasy managers were desperate for some quarterbacks, giving some injuries and whatnot. But really, I think the top guys would be Stafford, Michael Wilson, and Rico Dowell. And if you want to throw – and I struggle with the tight ends too because Kyle Pitts and Harold Fanon, and I actually made Pitts the tight end and Fanon and the Flex for what they were able to accomplish. given their draft capital, too, in the case of Fandon, not drafted at all. Okay, I have got a name that I think needs to be on this list.

Finally, we have a little debate. I have one, too. Wondale Robinson. Wondale was on the list as well. It was in the story. Wide receiver 17 per game. Who do you got, Dave? Kenny Gainwell.

Yep. It's funny, the two running backs were Rico and Gainwell. The receivers were Wondale Wilson. I struggled with the third one. I did Quentin Johnson because of what he did at the start of the season and how we were starting him at points during the year. The tight end was Pits, the flex was Fannin. And it's funny, like, if you really look at the quarterbacks,

like you can make an argument for Joe Burrow. Sure. Because of when he was dropped in many leagues and then picked up and won a lot of people fantasy championships, he was 23 points or more in four of his final five games going into Week 18. Ooh, man. So do we have a, okay, do we have a final five of, Stafford, Dowdell, Michael Wilson, Gainwell, Wondell Robinson?

I would say the three that I would advocate for would be Wilson, Rico, and Wondale. And then I would probably put Stafford forth just because we picked him up so early in the season. Yeah, but that's kind of, he's exactly like Baker Mayfield. I feel like Baker Mayfield was this guy last year. I think Stafford is the winner to me. I would put him on there. Dave, if you were going to eliminate one, who would it be? Doubtle.

He didn't average as many PPR points per game as Gainwell. He was an absolute bust after he had his run of huge games. And if I've got to pick four, I've got to narrow it down. I thought Gainwell helped fantasy managers more. I agree. I don't disagree with that. The way that I kind of approached it was like, who are we starting of the guys that we picked up consistently? and gainwell for the as great as he was down the stretch

and maybe this is a format thing that it was PPR he was being started half and non he wasn't but it was always like 50 or 60 at most in terms of a start percent like Rico Dada was a 90 percent start guy once he became a thing but he's even when we said not to start him like it barely did below 70 percent but that like he'd hurt people with right you know he's he really let people down raise my hand here You know, he let me down quite a bit.

From week 12 on, he was brutal. His best game was 12.4 PPR points. I don't want to make it sound like I think you're crazy or anything. We have to make a tough cut here. I think I'm going to leave it up to the chat. So Stafford's in. Michael Wilson's in. You think Wondale's in?

Wondale's in? Yes. So it's Gainwell or Dowdell. All right. Who stays? That's why I want to know from the chat. Who should be on the... Unless you want to do two quarterbacks.

I don't know with Burrow. No, Berset. Oh, Breset? I mean, Berset, when he became the starter from week six on, he had one game under 20 fantasy. Yeah, you're right. He should be on there, too. Crap!

I think you do two quarterbacks. I mean, two quarterbacks, two receivers? Yeah. Okay, that's fine. Does Berset, but if you put the two quarterbacks on the list, does Berset get any votes? Everyone will vote for Stafford before Berset. It's true, but it doesn't mean to deserve it.

I think the people are going to vote for who they started. Do they use? know so sure look i i think it's going to come honestly maybe this is one where we only have three options where it's stafford wondale and wilson never those are the three that i think people would like seriously vote for i don't think anybody i think no matter which running back we put in that list they're going to finish fourth and i don't think anybody's going to vote for brissette when they can vote for staffer it's brissette deserves it dave like look brissette and look chikobre set in the eye you know how much this means to him and you tell him that he shouldn't be on this list

all right i like what we're doing i like staffer Brissette, Michael Wilson, Wondale Robinson. We're just throwing away. The fourth place is going to go to Brissette. I don't know if I agree with that. I mean, he's definitely not going to win.

But I think Wondale might get fourth place. I think Wilson might win just because of... I think Wilson might win, too. What he did, it was like, hey, Marvin Harris is out. Okay. Yeah. Maybe Berset will be...

Maybe he'll crack a smile if Wilson wins. All right. Who's comeback player of the year? Yeah, Javonte, next. Oh. I like that. McCaffrey. Oh, yeah, I guess McCaffrey makes a lot of sense to.

Yeah, he'll probably win. Christian McCaffrey, Giovante Williams. Who else? George Pickens? So what's the criteria? Injury? I don't think that has been injury. I think it should be coming back from a sucky year.

Yeah, I think George Pickens. You stuck last year. Now you're good. George Pickens, yep. Oh, this is going to be What did Olave do last year? And Kyle Pitts. Pitts isn't bad.

Olave is a good call. Olave went from seeing 9.6 PPR points per game in 2024 to 16.8 in 2025. He should be on the list. So you're right. Like if McAfri is going to be on here, then no other running back should be on it.

I think it's a good point in the chat. Everybody was drafting McCaffrey. So let's take McCaffrey out. Okay. So we're going on fantasy comeback player of the year. So somebody that we were completely writing off or not really excited about and maybe that takes pickens out of the conversation too because

we were excited about pickings that's fair so maybe it's olive it's javanti pits pits didn't even really have that good for a year no but that stretch he had was was awesome i wish we're going to do stretches then do we consider this isn't a great candidate but christian watson had some i would say pitman pitman started the season was amazing and he was an afterthought on draft thing. What about Alec Pierce then? I don't know. I mean, the thing is, don't you have to be, like, to be the comeback player of the year, don't you have to have been

good before you were bad? You know what I mean? Like, Giovante at least was briefly good. Oh, that's a good mention. ETIN. Oh, that is a good one. Yeah, ETIM wasn't good last year. That's a good one. So, Alave,

Giovante, ETIN. I think, how about Jonathan Taylor? No. Again, I think if we're saying, everybody was drafting these guys. Dude, E-TN. His ADP was 92. 93.

ETN's great. He belongs on this list. Yeah. Alec Pierce doesn't belong on the waiver wire list. He just did. He didn't do enough. It was him, Quentin Johnston.

I forget the receiver that I had as the third option. But Pierce, when he had that start of the season, wasn't as good as Quentin. And again, I went by who were people starting. Right. Nobody was ever starting. Yeah, and no one's going to vote for Pierce when they can vote for Wilson or Wondale.

How about now? I was going to say Breeze Hall, but that doesn't even make sense. He had a worst season this year, believe it or not. That's unbelievable. Is there a quarterback? I mean, Trevor Lawrence. Sure. Oh, Trevor Lawrence is a good one.

He's QB4. I think I got to put. Okay. All right, we have five finalists. You can make the case for Drake May, who averaged 18.6 in his last 11 from... Nah, that's got to be like a veteran. Yeah, I think, like, Lawrence follows the arc of comeback player. Like, he was hype.

Yeah, he was at 16.7 last year. So, Lawrence, Olavé, Giovante, and... I would say E.T.N. over Pitts. Yeah, that's fine. E.N. Javante, Olave, and Lawrence, I think it makes sense. Yeah. Okay, cool. All right.

These will be up on Facebook, probably later today, if not tomorrow. Please vote. And thank you all very much. We also have, um, oh, Matthew Stafford. Is that, yeah, Matthew Stafford's a pretty good one too. It's crap. But he's in the MVP conversation.

Yeah. Like, to me, he's, well, I actually, we're not voting for Stafford for MVP. I think I am. Right. He didn't make the top four? No, he is. Oh, he's not. Oh, he's not.

No, he's waiver, wire pickup of the year. Right. Maybe. Fired up for these results. Okay. Thank you all very much. We have FFT Express twice a week. Jamie and I are about to report that.

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