Fantasy Football Today - 9 FINAL Draft Tips to Crush Your 2025 Fantasy Football Draft! (09/02 Fantasy Football Advice)

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

Our final draft advice before the 2025 fantasy football season is here! Dave shares why you should buy the dip (2:10), how to prep for (6:55) Weeks 1 & 2, and why the Week 8 (8:58) bye-nado could wreck your roster. Jamey explains why ADP (12:30) doesn't matter, how to tier your (15:15) rankings, and why waiting on a QB (18:40) can pay off big. Adam makes the case for (22:30) Hero-WR builds, drafting (27:50) backup QBs, and how the Chiefs (29:25) could make or break your season. We also dive into Buy or Sell (31:35) takes on AJ Brown vs. Drake London, TE Premium scoring, Travis Hunter, Najee Harris, and more. Plus, we answer viewer (41:46) questions to help you feel confident heading into your draft. 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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We are pumped to be talking to you right now on this Tuesday afternoon with a lot of drafts coming up for all of us. In fact, we have a draft at 4 p.m. We're going to be competing against each other in the FTA. FFT League. I am Adam Azer with Dave Richard and Jamie Eisenberg. Dave, you have the second pick in this three receiver PPR league. Who are you going to take? Do you think Jekori Kroski Merritt makes it that far? Not at this point, no. I love Bejohn Robinson. I love Jemar Chase. I figure whoever's picking first is going to take one of those guys. I will take the other of those guys. Jamie, you have the ninth pick in the draft. Who are you going to take?

You know, probably for the 28th time, I'll get Christian McCaffrey unless you're picking in front of me. It could be him. It could be Justin Jefferson. Could be Nico Collins. Could be Ashton Genti. You never know. Hold on. You're picking after Jamie in round one.

So as of now, I have the 11th pick. Dan Schneier has the right to swap picks with me if he wants it. He has the eighth pick. So I don't know yet. You see what he just did? He just figured it out how he could get his hands on McCaffrey by asking you about it. No, it doesn't matter because he just looks at my rankings anyway, and that's all he picks. He just goes straight down the line.

It's very frustrating to pick after. or before Adam or anywhere near Adam because that's all he does. I would be surprised if I didn't come away with a running back and a wide receiver with the 11th overall pick and then the 14th overall pick. So that will be what I set out to do. I definitely won't go RBRB. I might go, like I keep going like Neighbors, Thomas.

I did that from 10 or 11-1 draft, so I might do that. All right. Today on the show, last-minute fantasy advice and some buyer sell and your questions at Ask FFT on Twitter a little bit later. We're going to start with Dave's. Dave, I told you on the podcast this morning. I'm having some friends over for the draft tonight.

And I already took your advice. I'm going to make this joke again. I bought the dip and the chips. But buy the dip is one of your pieces of last minute advice, Dave. And we can really give this advice now because the NFL season's about to start. And we've had a full summer of drafting and seeing where these players are going.

And at the beginning of the summer, Bucanacua was a top 10 pick. Devante Adams was a top 30 pick. Devon A. Chan was a top 10 pick. All three of these guys have fallen because of injuries either to themselves in the case of A. Chan, to the quarterback, in the case of Matthew Stafford and the receivers there. But Stafford's ready to go week one. A. Chan looks like he's on track to be ready to go week one. And those are just three names. There's a lot of names later on in the draft who's had some injury news that isn't good, but things have changed recently. And the ADP hasn't adjusted yet. Darnel Mooney. Joanne Jennings, literally back at practice on Monday for the 49ers. That's a good thing.

Godwin, looks like he did avoid the Puplist. He might be back sooner than expected. Khalil Shakir, Naji Harris is back. Cam Scadabu is back. Quinshan Judkins, it's not an injury, but he's expected to be back with Cleveland soon. These are all guys that you're going to be able to get at depressed values in your drafts. Today, all the way through kickoff on Thursday, you might as well take advantage. Yeah, you know, Jamie, we brought up.

Last month that Jemir Gibbs had two soft tissue injuries in preseason last year. And I think it was certainly understandable to downgrade him in drafts. But he ended up being ready for week one. And he ended up being not RB1 per game, but RB1 overall because Barkley sat week 18. Obviously had a great season. But I also think, just on the other side of this, I do think that we should exercise some caution with, let's just take Pukunakua because of Matthew Stafford, and Devon A. He's got a calf injury, he's got some injury history.

We're not necessarily back to where we were with those guys, are we? I don't think you can be in the case of Stafford and his situation because it's not like he got a new back and he's fine. This could still be an issue that creeps up at some point during the season. And we continue to get, you know, I saw some emails today about Devon A. Chan and the CAF situation. You know, is it Christian McCaffrey all over again? Is it, you know, a lot of NBA fans obviously saw what happened with Kevin Durant and Tyrese Halliburton and Jason Tatum over the last couple of years?

you know, with these, you know, Achilles injuries. So it could still be a problem, or CAFITS, excuse me, to become Achilles injuries. It still could be something that creeps up at some point during the season. But I think if you're just looking at it from the standpoint of what you're getting for maybe where they were, you know, you're looking at ACHN was a first round pick and they're getting him in round two and et cetera, et cetera. So I think just in the case of some of these guys that are injury concerns, like last,

you know, I don't know if you're going to bring this up, but, you know, last year, Jimere Giz, we had the injury worries. It was Kairn Williams, who was getting really pushed down draft boards. last year because he was on going to do punt returns, you know, and we had that stupid story. So I think it's, you know, kind of case by case, you know, and how you probably felt about these players before the news happened, you know, so if you were in on Quinn Sean Judkins and now you're going to get him at such a cheap cost, if you were in on obviously the Rams receivers are getting them at a reduced price, Tyree Kill, you know, based on his injury situation,

you know, going to be, you know, playing week one, it goes all down the line. And then there's the, you know, flip side of it, you know, when you drafted, you know, should you panic if you took somebody, let's say, like a Patrick Mahomes, because you thought you're going to have a Rachi rice for the entire season or maybe only missing three or four games, and now you don't have it for the first six games. So it goes both ways. I think just in the case of getting some of these superstars at better prices,

it's definitely a good way to win your league. All right, so would you take A-Chann or Puka first? I would take Puka first. I would, too. Would you take A-chan or Josh Jacobs? I go back and forth on those. I think there's more upside with A-Chann, but they are now back-to-back. Originally, A-Chane was ahead of Seek-Wan-Barkley for me.

That's how much I liked them prior to the calf injury. I've got HN1 spot ahead of Jacobs if it's full PPR. Non-PPR, it's easy to go with Jacobs over HN. Would you take Puka or neighbors Brian Thomas Jr.? I had neighbors and Brian Thomas Jr. ahead of Puka a long time ago. So I would stick with those guys. But I did not. And I originally had PPA, at least some full PPR,

ahead of both of those wide receivers. And now I don't because I'm a little bit worried, I guess, about the Stafford issue. But also, I know I can get Pooka Nakua after those guys. if I wanted to. And would you go with like a guac, salsa, a French onion dip? We're talking specific dips, Dave. What's your choice?

How fresh is the guac? I'm going to the store right now. I'm getting everything is super fresh. I would go with guac. Definitely get a little bit of fresh salsa as well. And don't forget to get some hot sauce to put in both. Okay. No thanks.

On the side. All right, Dave's last minute advice, number two, take a peek. at weeks one and two. Why not? So, Dave, let's talk about this. What does this mean? Take a peek at weeks one and two. So this is more of a tiebreaker. If you're debating between a couple of players and you just want to figure out, all right, which one do I want more? Look and see how their schedule begins. Do they have easy matchups? Do they have tough matchups? And use that as the tiebreaker. And I have a couple examples on something like this. Chuba Hubbard over Brees Hall. Now, both of them in ADP, I know how you feel about Brees Hall. You would never take Breesall over Tuba Hubbard. But look at our ADP. A lot of people have them next year. in neck. And I get it because Breece Hall still has the upside to be good when things are right in New York. I don't know how right they are. But because they're close in ADP, I went and I looked

and I saw the schedule first four weeks of the season. You know how great defenses. I've got Carolina with one of the most favorable running back schedules that you could ask for, whereas the Jets are struggling along. So that's one where I would lean toward Chuba over Breece Hall. How about another one? This is one we've debated a lot. Ladd McConkey and T. Higgins. Those two guys, They always seem to be right there at the two, three turn, which one is better? I've got McConkey over Higgins, and it's because of the schedule. I think the Chargers schedule early on a little bit better than Cincinnati's. I know the volume will probably be there for T. Higgins.

It might make sense for him to be the guy in that regard. But if you want to use a tiebreaker, that's what you should do. Go to the schedule. You can get a grid online just like I've got and just look at the matchups for the first couple of weeks. Jerry Judy has a very tough week one matchup. After that, it does get a little bit easier. He's in the wrong division for this. but against Denver in week one, I don't want to start.

Oh, that's Calvin Ridley. It's Calvin Ridley. What did I say, Jerry Judy? Yeah, Jerry Judy has the matchup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Judy's got the matchup. Ridley's got a really tough one in week one. It is against Denver.

I'm sorry about that. But now you know that if you draft Calvin Ridley, it's great. I still love him. I think he's going to have good volume. But I don't know if he's necessarily startable in week one against Denver. You should get another grid of the roster so you know which they're players. Right.

I talk about players all the time. Sometimes I get a name wrong. wrong or a team wrong. We all do. Yeah, for sure. Now, if you ask me who's on bye in week eight, I don't know, but Dave knows, beware of the week eight by NATO. Let's see if we can get this right. Arizona, Detroit, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Seattle, and the Rams. We got it right because I wrote it down. But those six teams are on by. This is going to be the first real test for fantasy managers over the course of the year. And there's a lot of really good players on those teams.

And I found when I draft, I end up getting a lot of players that are going to be on buy in week eight. And I know that week eight. it seems like a year from now, but it's really eight weeks from now. And if you want to have a headache later on in the season, then draft these guys and then do nothing about it. But it's just something to kind of just keep an eye out for. I don't mind getting two guys with the same bi-week,

but three, especially if they're all going to be in my starting lineup, I feel like that's something that you could avoid doing if you can. Jamie, you feel the same way? I never look at the bye weeks. Really? I don't. Quarterback, if I'm taking two quarterbacks, that's the only time I look at it.

And kicker and defense, if I have to draft those two. I don't want to have the same buy week because I'd have to deal with two transactions that week. So I try to avoid that. You're not drafting two kickers or two kickers. I'm not drafting the kicker and DST on the same biweek. The reason I don't really care about buy weeks is because my roster, for the most part,

is going to change in some cases dramatically by the eighth week of the season. A lot of people ask us about week 14 and those buys. If I have to make trades to cover myself, if I love the player and I love my roster and I love the way it is, I'll figure it out. You can always figure it out later. It's just work, and some people don't want to put in that kind of work.

So if you're one of those people, maybe you're not a diehard fantasy manager. Okay, that's fine. I don't know why you're watching us if you're not a diehard fantasy manager, but... The remote is broken. I got stuck on this. Maybe so. No days off. Put in the work.

We do, 365 days a year. Especially if you're at UNC. All right, we're going to take a break. We're going to get Jamie's last month. minute draft advice when we come back on fantasy football today. At Grey Goose, we believe that pleasure is a necessity. That's why we craft the world's number one premium vodka in France, using only three of the finest natural ingredients, French winter wheat, water from

Jean-Sac and yeast. With Grey Goose, we invite you to live in the moment and make time wait. Seep responsibly. Back on fantasy football today, presented by BEDMGM. Adam Dave and Jamie here. We're talking last minute draft advice. I am currently trying to get an auctioneer for my draft tonight.

If you guys were just trying to get an auctioneer who had no fantasy football experience, give me a job description for the auctioneer. What does the auctioneer have to do? How do I sell this? You should give them money first. I'm giving them food. Or at least the wing flavor of their choice. You should give them food.

Food, yes. And then you just tell them that they just have to manage a group of adults, I assume it's all adults, in a way that they can express what they need to purchase. and count that down. Find somebody who's ever seen an auction before and say, can you do what that guy in the front of the room does? Yeah, get that micrormachine guy.

No. They're not going to be it. They got $4 and $1.00. I got $6.00. I got $6 over there. They're not going to be doing that. They're just going to be saying going once. I think he just found his auctioneer. He doesn't want to do it again. Here's what you should do. Here's what you should do. And you can mark the tape to show him. Have Dan Schneier do it as a way to make up for cheating. And so he just comes to your house.

And all's good. He said he did express interest in doing that. Or the perfect solution would be just Calando. Yeah, no, he wouldn't do that. All right. Now, Jamie's going to say, I don't need his last-minute draft advice. He's going to say, oh, you're going to just use my rankings anyway. You don't need my advice.

But that's not true. I use everyone's rankings. In fact, we now have the consensus rankings option in our draft room on CBS Sports. But Jamie's three tips. Number one is get your guys, screw ADP. Yes, screw ADP. ADP is a great blueprint of what you want to look at to see how all the drafts are going.

But it's your draft. You want to make sure you're getting the player that you want. You want to make sure you're getting the guy that you're going to have to manage the entire season. So, for example, I like Treveon Henderson a lot. I don't care that he's going in the fourth or in some cases the fifth round. I'm taking him in round three. I'm taking RJ Harvey in round four.

I don't care that he's going in round five. And the guy that Adam tries to steal for me all the time, which why I know he's using my rankings, is Braylon Allen, who goes in like round 12, and you can get him in round 9 if you really want to because it's your team. So if you don't want to take a player, let somebody else take them.

But if you have an inkling of a player that you think is going to have a breakout season, Dave like Keon Coleman, for example, he's not waiting for average draft position to take him. Tyler Warren is somebody you're taking ahead of his average draft position. If you love a player and you think they're going to have a breakout season, I don't care what average draft position says. Go get your player.

But you don't want to be a knucklehead about it. Like, I love Keon Coleman. I'm not going to take him in the third round or the fourth round. No, it's obviously not to, you made the joke. You're not taking Jacori-Kroski-Mert second overall because you think he's going to be great. I know you don't, but you made the joke about it. It's obviously within reason. And so whatever you think the range of the players should go in, and the second part of this will be, you know, tiering your players.

So when you start to see the tier of guys that you think are in a certain range, then you reach for that player if you, again, feel a certain way about it. So I think it always comes down to, yes, ADB. should be somewhat of a guide for you but if it says player number 100 and it's picked number 80 and you see that guy come up on whatever rank list you're following again Adam follows mine then you take that guy that you really want because you

want to make sure you get him on your roster do you think a good rule of thumb would be it's okay to reach two rounds earlier than ADP but no more than that I wouldn't necessarily lock myself into that because you know again

Dave is screaming to the rafters Keon Coleman is going to be great this year. If there is Team Dave, and they only look at, you know, Dave's in a draft with 11 other people that are looking at his rankings, well, they know that he has him ranked two rounds ahead or, you know, 50 picks ahead of whatever is average drafts, but I don't know what the number is. It's not quite 50.

But you get the point. Like, you know, he's going to have to make some sort of aggressive move. And if there's 12 people that are following Heath's rankings and only Heath's rankings, then they're going to see DeAndre Swift goes in a certain spot, or they're going to see these players that he likes, you know, that he knows that Jaydon Daniels is his number one quarterback, whatever the case may be. Again, I think you just have to,

your personal feelings about certain players, don't let whatever a rank list, an average draft position list, anybody that's telling you, if you believe that player's going to break out, get them on your team, because the last thing you want to do is watch that player go off on somebody else's roster.

Yeah. All right. Number two, tip from Jamie here. Tier your rankings, have some sort of plan. So I don't think everybody has, to go out and make their own rankings. If you like Dave's rankings, my rankings, Heath's rankings, whatever site you play on, take that rank list and start to make tiers. And what that will tell you is, okay, I love all of the top five quarterbacks. If I get Lamar Jackson or Jalen

Hertz, I'm fine with it. But know that when that player starts to come off the board in that tier, you want to make sure you're going to be a little bit more aggressive in drafting that particular tier of players. So I want to get a top five quarterback. I see Lamar Jackson going around two because somebody in my league has to have the quarterback and then it starts the trickle-down effect. If it gets to you and all the next four guys are on the board, you're probably not going to get that guy coming back, take that quarterback.

Every position you could do this with. You know, just start us, where does the difference come between RB23 to RB30? You know, it might be 23, 24, 25, I'm done. 26, 27, 28. That's the next tier. You know, whatever the case may be, you make your own tiers based on the rank list

that you follow. So Adam, in his bedroom, has a list of my rankings with a lines marked off of where he wants to cut off that particular tier. But again, it's not necessarily an overall top 200 list. You could do it this way if you want to, but I think by position you tier your players. Dave has tiers on CBSports.com. I have tiers on CBSports.com. I think Heath does as well.

There are tiers all over the place again from a variety of sites. Take whatever rank list you want. If you want to really be aggressive with it, make your own rank list. But get those groups of players in some semblance of an order and take somebody from that tier if you feel like that's the spot. to get one of those particular positions. I was wondering why my wife's been sleeping on the couch. I didn't have the courage to ask,

but I guess it's the Jamie rankings that laying all over the place. All right, number three here is wait on QB. There is value late. So when do you ever take a top five quarterback, Jamie? I've done it more often than I probably give off the impression that it happens. So like it was in a draft last night, it's Keeper League, so it kind of throws off somewhere where the players are going.

But Jalen Hertz was just sitting there in round three. Now, there are, Dave, do the math, what's 12 times four? 48. There are 48 players gone the minute we, you know, start the draft. So round three, Jalen Hertz was still there. It was like, okay, I'm going to take Jailen Hertz. I've taken Joe Burrow a lot over the last, you know, several drafts. Dave will tell you this a lot.

It's about value. So when you find these guys just continuing to fall, you know, by the dip, whatever the phrase you want to use, you know, you take advantage of, you know, players in your draft falling to certain spots. So I'm not going to pass up a great opportunity to take one of these. quarterbacks. But for the most part, especially in the drafts that I do with a lot of analysts, I'm going to wait on the position. So I end up taking a lot of Drake May, a lot of Kyler Murray. You want to take it a step further than that? Jordan loves a guy that I target. Trevor

Lawrence is a guy that I target. You know, great early season schedule for the Jaguars. Trevor Lawrence hopefully has an opportunity to get off to a great start. And so you can find great players or quality players of the position. And I'll go back to last year. There were five quarterbacks that were basically drafted. It was like picked like 97, 98. So let's just say pick 100 overall or later. In the case of a Sam Donald was not drafted at all. Baker Mayfield, a lot of leagues, was not drafted at all. We saw what Jay and Daniels was able to accomplish. There were

five quarterbacks in the top ten based on their points per game that were pick 100 overall or later. So you know what you're getting with the top five guys for the most part. We saw what happened to Patrick Holmes last two seasons. We saw what happened to CJ Stroud last year. It's not like they're without flaws. But I think if you just wait on the position

depending on how you draft and how comfortable you feel with, hey, Drake May's my starter. You know, I post a lot of my drafts on X, and I get, oh, your quarterback stinks. I'm okay with that. I don't think he stinks. I think he's going to be great. I think he's going to be a breakout player.

He's a guy I want to go get. Screw ADP. So tie them all together, tear your rankings, get a guy that you want. Forget about what the other rank list say. Go get your players. And you can wait on the position if you really want to at the quarterback.

And the worst case scenario, let's say Drake May doesn't meet your expectation. He's not that good. You can go to the waiver wire and find another quarterback. I'm glad you brought that up. So I did a draft. It's our Flex League's draft.

Adam was the champion in the best ball league last year. Jake Sealy of the Athletic does a great job running these different leagues. My quarterback's four points for past touchdowns. I like Justin Fields a lot in that format. I took him as a seventh quarterback off the board, ahead of ADP, ahead of some other very, very quality quarterbacks.

At the time, I took as a backup quarterback, Anthony Richardson, because we did this draft in early August. You know who I'm going to pick up off waivers, who did not get drafted in this league? Jared Goff. Again, difference in four points versus six points, so he's not as potentially productive, but I'm dropping Anthony Richardson

Imagine this phrase. I'm about to say, I'm dropping Anthony Richardson to pick up Jared Gough. That's how some leagues go. Tua will be available. C.J. Strail will be available. Jordan Love will be available. We're going to see a lot of good quarterbacks on waivers in, trust me, a lot of leagues. You know, believe it or not with Jared Gough, this gets a little lost in four-point for passing

touchdown leagues, but over the last three years with Detroit, he's basically finished the same in four-point as he has in six-point, and that's because of the yards. The passing yards are really important. He's going to be amongst the NFL leaders in passing yards. It's been 4,438 or more passing yards three straight years, and that does boost him. So he's been 14th, 14th, and 7th per game in 4 points per passing touchdown leagues, 13th, 12th, and 8th per game in 6 point per passing touchdown leagues since joining Detroit. And I just want to give one last stat here to support what Jamie's saying.

Over the last seven seasons, when you look at the 14 quarterbacks that have finished as QB1 or QB2, eight of them were drafted at QB9 or later. It's unbelievable what kind of value you get. And last year, Joe Burrow was QB7. He was going after C.J.

Stroud and Anthony Richardson in 80. Yeah, you know what? That just tells me that reaching for a quarterback is like the worst thing you can do. And you're going to see that in a lot of drafts in your home leagues where Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson

especially go in the first 20 picks. We still hear about those quarterback's going in round one in a one-quarterback league. It's the biggest mistake you can make because of what we've talked about for like the last five minutes. All right. When we come back, Adams' last-minute draft advice, I'm going to help you win your fantasy league after this. fan for life turns into the trip of a lifetime. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Pre-sale tickets for future events subject to availability and varied by race. Turns and conditions apply. Learn more at amex.ca.com slash Yanex.

Looking for some more last-minute draft advice. You're going to get it from the guy who doesn't even do rankings. Just uses Jamie's rankings all the time, apparently. So I'm going to try to help you out and we'll see what Dave and Jamie think about my ed, advice. All right, let's start with number one. So HeroRB has become a really fun, important strategy. It just kind of replaced ZeroRB. But I think, guys, this year, Hero Wide Receiver is better than HeroRB. I think it's more important to get, for me, it's one of the top eight wide receivers. For you guys, it might be one of the top 10 wide receivers with your first and second pick. By the way, if you don't know what the hero strategy is, basically taking a position, running back or a wide

receiver in round one or two, you know, and then waiting until maybe round five or so for your next guy at the position. But to me, there's two factors here. You know, the drop off at wide receiver after the elite guys is bigger than that at running back. I don't want to miss out on the running backs in rounds three and four, specifically a guy like Omari in Hampton or Trayvion Henderson. You might love Alvin Camara there. Ken Walker's in there. You might love Chuba Hubbard. I just like those guys better than the wide receivers I'm seeing in that range. Not exclusively, but overall. And then there's the bigger factor is that the wide receiver position from rounds, let's say,

five through eight, it's just so much better than the running back position. So I think you can't afford to take a hero wide receiver and then really just wait on the position. I would say probably not in a three receiver league, but you could get away with it. You want to go, you know, Malik neighbors in round one, and then you're next from rounds five, six, seven, or six, seven, eight, you're getting James, James, Calvin Ridley, and Ricky Pearsall, or some players like that, I think you could do worse.

That's a better way to go, in my opinion, this year, than Hero RB, fellas. So one of the questions I get a lot is, I only, people ask me, I only like eight or nine wide receivers that are at the top of your rankings, but I have an early first round pick, and Jamar Chase is off the board,

and C.D. Lambs off the board, too. at what point do I say, okay, I'll just stick with getting one of those top eight receivers and pass over the elite running backs there. And I have a tough time saying to go after the wide receivers because the running backs at the top of the fantasy draft, they're there for a reason. They could put up huge numbers. Bejohn Robinson last year from week six on,

he was at 23 PPR points per game almost. We know what Christian McCaffrey is capable of doing. I can't pass up those guys, especially as you get later into round one because you're picking earlier in round two. But I get where you're coming from as far as getting, at least one of those stud wide receivers and then building around other positions before coming back to wide receiver

in round five. I think it's there's, like you almost have to like split this up because if you're picking in the beginning part of the first round and the back end of the first round round, you know, you can easily do what you're talking about Adam in the back end of the first round because you're getting a neighbor's, a Thomas, Brian Thomas Jr., you know, Amara

St. Brown, whoever the case may be. And then you can come back in round two and maybe there's Derek Henry or a Gentie there or an A. Chan or Jacobs depending on how you want to, you know, go about doing it, but I think in a three-receiver league, you're not going to see the guys that you mentioned in rounds five, six, or even four, five, and six, it's going to be a little bit more challenging to see those guys go, because the receivers are going to get pushed up a little bit more, and so you may have to reach for those guys a little bit differently. So I am curious

for your take on this, based on the strategy, because I know you like two guys that go in that round three, four range of Tyree Kill and Mike Evans. So if you do take a receiver in the first round. And you're sitting there and you see Tyreek and Evans versus, let's say, A, Hampton and Ken Walker, you know, two guys I think you like. Which way you're going? I'm going Hampton, Evans, Hill, Walker. Gotcha. And I think it's important for fantasy managers before they go into the draft to look at the wide receiver position and see, all right, how many of those elite guys do I look at as like slam dunk, 17, 18 p.PR point per game wide receivers. And then how much

many of them are like good starting wide receivers 15 ppr points per game and there might be like 30 of those names and the more of those wide receivers that you like the higher those numbers are the more you might be willing to wait on filling those positions but it does depend on league format and i and i also want to say adam just kind of stumbled into one thing that we really have not said is you this is the first like strategy thing that we talked about you talk about buying the dip that's on a player you know i'm talking about get your guy whatever yeah adam's talking about a strategy and then we just posed a situation to him to alter that strategy. Do not be stuck in, I'm only doing hero RB, I'm only doing hero wide receiver, I'm only going

zero RB, I'm only waiting on a quarterback. If something presents itself to you that you are like, I cannot pass this up because I like this player that much, you alter your strategy, and you're going to be fine. You know what the strategy is? No strategy. Value. Yes. You want to get good value on draft day.

I think the better way that I could have said this was that there's about 25 running backs that I'm comfortable with as my RB2 RB1 or 2 and there's probably close to 40 wide receivers 36-ish wide receivers that I'd be comfortable with

as my wide receiver too. All right, my second one... I just updated the rankings though, so check sure that numbers... I'm looking at consensus. Just checking. Big guy. My second one is don't be afraid to draft a backup quarterback even if you drafted a stud. You know, look,

busts happen at every position. It's hard to see Josh Allen on the Marge action, Jaden Daniels, Jalen Hertz, or Joe Burrow being a bust. It is hard, but it happens, you know? So if this happens to be a year we think quarterback is super deep. And if you do draft one of those top five quarterbacks, you don't have

to draft the second quarterback. Don't worry about it. You don't need to. But if you really like a guy and you think Caleb Williams or Drake May could be a league winner, or C.J. Stroud could have that huge bounce back. I don't think he has that kind of upside. Or Trevor Lawrence finally breaks out and has a top five kind of season.

If you think that player is out there, I mean, I remember last year, I think in our FFT League, at one point I'm playing Jared Gough over Jalen Hertz. And I didn't draft Jared Gough, but my point is, if you believe in the quarterback, go ahead and get them, even if you have a stud quarterback. You might be able to trade your stud quarterback and then ride your backup quarterback for the rest of the season. And my third one, guys, I think is more interesting, right? It's the chiefs could make or break fantasy.

And I was talking about this with Dave earlier on FFT Express. We don't have a single chief in the top 48 in average draft position. And that is mind-blowing. It's probably been seven years since that's been the case. Now, pretty much all of them, except for Rishit Rice, Mahomes, Pacheco, Worthy, Kelsey. They're all pretty much going in round five or early round six. But I see huge potential for this offense. They're going to be more aggressive.

They're going to open it up. They're going to throw the ball down field. I think they're going to try to get back to their roots a little bit. And to be able to get these guys starting in round five or late, late round four from a homes or something, is pretty exciting. So I think the chiefs could really – I actually don't even know that they could break it because you're not spending that early of a pick. But I think the chiefs could definitely make your fantasy team. Wouldn't you argue that the chiefs are one of the teams that should be – top 10 in just points per game, just scoring in an NFL game points per game.

They should be. Right. They should. I think the larger takeaway is to draft players from teams that are expected to be high scoring because if these teams are going to put up a lot of points, then hello, it means a lot of touchdowns, it means a lot of yardage, it means a lot of catches, it means all the things that are good for fantasy football teams. And so the chiefs are absolutely one of those teams and the fact that you are able to get

as many as you want starting in round five. I think that's a great call. But the better takeaway could be don't go chasing after the teams that might not be top 10 scoring offenses or maybe just use it as a tiebreaker. Yeah, or maybe we need to consider that the chiefs were not a top 10 offense last year. Right, but they improved their offensive line. I think having Xavier worthy for a second season is a really good thing. I think their overall receiving core is deeper. I know that no one's really drafting

Tyquan Thornton or Hollywood Brown maybe like a late round pick on him, but I think they're deeper, I think they're healthier, and I think you're right, they want to be more aggressive. I think if it plays out that way, it'll be very good. Oh, if they would have stayed healthy last year, if Rice was healthy last year and Pacheco's healthy last year. Oh, yeah, they would have been.

It's a much better offense. And so, you know, offensive line as well. So there's a lot to like about it, but I really don't think we're see the best of them until Rice is back because you're taking away or such a big piece of what they can do, but at the same time, know, that's out of everybody's control, you know, from a fantasy perspective.

Okay. All right, folks, we will be right back with some by or sell on fantasy football today after this. This episode is brought to you by Defender. With its 626 horsepower twin-turbo V8 engine, the Defender Octa is taking on the Dakar Rally, the ultimate off-road challenge. Learn more at landrover.ca. Welcome back, everybody. This is Fantasy Football today, presented by BEDMGM, Adam Azer, Dave Richard, Jamie Eisenberg,

and it is time now for some buy or sell. Here we go. Buy or sell number one. Now that A.J. Brown is healthy. he should be drafted ahead of Drake London. What's the format? Four points per reception. Who plays in a four point per reception league?

One point per reception. I'm still going to take London over AJB if it's full PPR. Half PPR, non-PPR, I'll take Brown. I'll take London in all formats. I think they're both going to have great seasons, but I'm expecting a little bit more of an ascension for, London, because I think Pennix is going to unlock another level for him to get to. I was with you until Darnell Mooney came back for Atlanta, because I think Mooney can be

at least as good as he was last year, and that's going to be somebody that takes a few targets away from Drake London. I'm not saying that it's going to be the only reason. And I like Drake London a lot. He's going to live off of those targets. But as far as the yards and the touchdowns, I get a little bit worried about him hitting new highs there, whereas A.J. Brown, I feel like that's what he's best at getting. Yep. Fair point.

Oh, the yards especially. He's been on pace for over 1,400 yards all three seasons with the Eagles, and Drake London's not even reached 1,300 yards. I'm on Brown here, but it's close. ADP has London ahead of A.J. Brown. Sure. All right, buyer cell number two, tight-end premium is the dumbest thing that's ever happened to fantasy football. Sell.

Very much so. It doesn't make any sense. You know, we've played fantasy baseball for a year, What if they said, we're going to give catchers six points for a home run instead of four. And every time a catcher steals a base, it's going to count for three steal. This is so stupid. I hate tight-end premium. I'm so mad that I'm in a tight-in premium league.

I don't even know if I would have done it because it was for charity. But I resent Heath for making me join a tight-end premium league is the worst, dumbest thing, zero sense. Despise it. Make the case for tight-in premium. And then I'm not even going to listen, but make it for the other people who might be. want to listen. Anti-fun-Azer. Yeah. I mean, that's part of it.

I mean, what do you think about two QB leagues, which is totally not realistic? NFL teams don't play with two quarterbacks. Why would we... But it's fun. Why would we use defensive players? This is so awful. My gosh, it's just terrible to use IDP. Why aren't kickers worth more? You know, but the point is

that you're trying to add value to a position that normally, I mean, a couple of players every year, they're awesome, but everybody else in that position, it's just kind of the same. Now you're doing something that makes them a little bit more value. It changes the game a little bit. It spices things up a little bit, you know, like hot sauce and the guacamole. That's the type of thing that makes fantasy fun.

And 10 years ago, I don't know if Superflex was even a big deal then. I know Tide End Premium wasn't a thing then. Think about how fantasy football has mutated Adam since we started podcasting, which is more than 10 years ago. It's just, it's fun. I love that these things are happening and that the game is changing. There are so many different variations. You need to embrace change. change, Adam.

No, I don't need to embrace this change because here's the problem with it. Tight-end premium basically just makes the elite tight ends that much more valuable. It creates an even bigger gap at the position. But you also draft those guys sooner, which is how people are going to build the rest of their roster. It might have the, you're going to have the exact same gap at the position, Adam, but now the tight end as a whole position gets boosted compared to wide receivers and running backs. And that's what makes it a little bit more challenging when you're drafting. it's the worst

all right buy or sell I'm glad we did your buy ourselves not the audience buy ourselves buy or sell Travis Hunter

will have 1,000 receiving yards this season and Travis Hunter hates tight end premium leagues

sell and sell I think it's a sell for both that's probably the safe way to go about it if I told if I explain to him

oh yeah I know let's play some fantasy football but you're tight-end gets double the points for a catch. He would not play. I know Travis Hunter well enough. He would not play.

Buy or sell number four. I think he would probably play. He'd absolutely play because he's hyper-competitive. He would play in a tight-end premium league and a non-tight-end premium league because he likes to do things. Yeah. Both sides of the leisure. Hey, look, I'll play in a super.

I'll play in an IDP league and a super flexible, but a tight-end premium is where I think I'm going to change the FFT League to tight-in premium league just to piss you off. Now that Najee Harris is healthy, we should feel bad about drafting O'Marion Hampton in round three? Sell? I feel bad about it or be nervous about it. I'm going to sell on that, too. You know, I'm first of all, I'm happy that he's going to be able to play.

And I just, I can't help but think that O'Marian Hampton has had all of this time to show the Chargers coaching staff what he can do. By all accounts, he had a tremendous training camp. We saw him in the preseason. There were flashes there. He didn't really play that much in the preseason. But I kind of feel like after four years in the league. league. We know what Najee Harris is all about.

Armarian Hampton should be a much better running back and someone who can play three downs just as effectively as Najee. If I'm getting that guy in round three on a team that wants to run the football at the Chargers, I'm okay with it. I think there's some sneaky catch potential for

Hampton. I don't think it's like 50 or 60, but I think 40 because Dobbins was on pace for about 40 last year. Hampton can catch the ball. So I don't think he's going to be a complete dud there. I hope anyway. All right, Byers, number five. The best format is obviously 12

teams, half PPR, two running backs, two receivers, two flex, and FAB. Is there a tight end in there? Yeah, tight end quarterback. How many points for tight end catches? The same, half PPR for everyone. Okay, I'm just messing around. I'll buy that.

I like that league. That sounds fun. Sure. Thank you. Okay, good. Thank you. They are not interested in having this dispute. All right, buyer sell number six. Here's a guy that it's almost like his name has been erased from fantasy. I never mentioned him. Rashad White will have 50 catches and be a good flex in PPR.

I'll buy the first part and sell the second part. He's had 50 catches every year of his career, including last year when Buck Irving, you know, became a superstar toward the end of the season. And you're looking at a receiving core that is down potentially two guys to start the season in Chris Godwin and Jalen McMillan. So we could see Rashad White still have a big role in the passing game. And you've heard from people out of Tampa and our own Pete Priscoll going there

where they said they don't necessarily want to ramp up Bucky Irving yet until the end of the season. So does that mean Rashad White in pass-downs, obvious passing downs? Does that mean Sean Tucker maybe in some running down situations? I would think it's the former rather than the latter because why would you take Bucky Irving off the field in what he does best? So Rashad White, I think, can still get to 50 catches. I don't think he'll do it, but he can. But I don't think he's going to be a flex on a weekly basis. No. Yeah, he's he's cheap depth at the running back position in full PPR. And it's got to be full

PPR. I wouldn't feel good about him in any other format. And I just checked, he plays New Orleans in week eight. So when there's six teams on by, we're going to be desperate for replacements. In a full PPR league, you might be starting Rashad White against those Saints. Actually, I'm changing the FFT League where Rashad White gets a point and a half per catch. Only him? Only him. It's a keeper league. I have Rashad White in round 14. Buy or sell number seven. The Houston and Miami offensive lines are so bad that we should be devaluing their players.

I'm selling on Houston. I already feel like we've sold enough on them. I kind of buy it on Miami, just a little bit. I think the passing attack for the Texans is going to be great. And they'll hold up enough in pass protection to allow those guys to, you know, perform at a high enough level. So Nico Collins should be a top five receiver if he stays healthy. I think Christian Kirk is one of the best values on draft day in any format based on his potential role.

I am not even concerned about the Texans' running back situation because I'm not drafting them unless the value is just incredible that I'm getting Nick Chubb very late. It's all in the double-digit rounds. For the Dolphins guys, I think there's just so much upside. You mean, you know, you talked about the Chiefs and their offense how they could define fantasy. This is a team that could define fantasy.

You said on our podcast today, if Tyreek kills, you said Tyree kill is the last player at his position that could be a top three guy. I don't want to change your words around. Number one wide receiver and number three overall type of player. Dave made the case that if Tyreek is not back to normal, we could get a huge bounce back season from Jalen Waddle, who has three straight thousand yards seasons to start his career and then just fell off last year. And we started talking about buying the dip on Devon H.

There's so much upside for these guys that, yes, the offensive line can bring them down, but I'm not running away from them because of the potential failures of what could be a terrible offensive line. Do you remember what that offense looked like last year behind a terrible offensive line? That's my fear, is that they revert back to just Tua's getting the ball out super quick and he does it all the time.

But two players were awesome. They were. But not everybody was awesome and that includes Tyreek Hill. Tyreek was okay with Tua. He was okay, but he wasn't amazing. He wasn't himself. We're up against the break. I got one more here.

Buy or Sell, the Giants will make the playoffs. And as a bonus, buy or sell. Dave is insane for buying this. I am absolutely buying this. I think they're a wild cartoon. Cell. Yeah, it's a sell. But I love it, Dave. I love the enthusiasm.

And I was trying to buy an Abdul Carter jersey for my son today, but couldn't find one. All right, we want to hear from you. No. Plus, if I did buy it for him, he wouldn't be able to wear that plus a Giants hat

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All right, we're going to take your questions now. This is from Turner. Drafting seventh in a 12-team half-PPR league, would Christian McCaffrey as a first pick be crazy, versus Nico or neighbors, etc.? absolutely not i i actually love that especially because it's a half ppr league so the catches don't count as much for nico and neighbors yep i would agree take cmc yeah i mean i bring this up but mcalfrey averaged more points in twenty twenty three than barclay did last year we know his

upside this is from dan a guy in my 14 team league started his draft sayquan a j brown and jaylain hurts so three eagles smart or stupid disclaimer i am not that guy? In a deeper league, it's you want to obviously do whatever you can to make yourself win. I would not do this, but if they all hit, he could potentially run away at the league.

I think, what do you think about this theory? If Sequam were to get hurt or something like that, it would only make Brown and hurts better. No question, but then you can say bye-bye to one of those three picks, and that's not optimal. All right. next question

Tyrone Tracy or Ricky Pearsall in week one Pearsall's got Seattle Tracy had commanders I would start Pearsall same mm-hmm thank you Robert

next from Riley why is Baker ranked so high compared to guys like Dak and Purdy feels like Baker has a lot of uncertainty and it comes out

in his ADP as well like his average draft position is so much higher I think his upside is tremendous DAC has it too Purdy, I don't think, has quite the same type of upside. But we saw

last year, Baker was the top five fantasy quarterback. I can't rule out that it'll happen again. Dak has offensive line issues. Purdy has receiving core issues. Baker has both. But we saw what Baker did last year, and I think he could come close to replicating that based on a situation.

All right. Thank you all so much for your questions, and that's going to do it for fantasy football today. I want to thank you guys for watching and listening. We appreciate it. If you enjoyed the show, check out the fantasy football today podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts thanks to dave richard and jamy eisenberg and for those of you watching and listening i'm adam azer we'll talk to you next time on fantasy football today