Fantasy Football Today - Dynasty Mailbag! Answering Your Dynasty Fantasy Football Questions! (Fantasy Football Today Dynasty 1/31)

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

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It's a one man mailbag day. I'm Heath Cummings, your host, and I will be answering your dynasty questions for at least the next half hour. If you're watching live on YouTube, thank you for being here. There will be time at the end of the show, I'll say this multiple times, for your questions on YouTube. I've also got some emails here that I want to read.

I've got some tweets that we need to go through. So again, about a half hour of your questions, feel free to leave your questions in the chat on YouTube. If you're watching on Twitter, you've got to come over here to YouTube to ask the questions so that I can answer them. Cause I can't see what you're asking me on Twitter right now. We're going to start right away with an idea that I love. Well, first I want to start by saying, uh, thank you, CJ. I love doing dynasty.

So, uh, this is my favorite show, I guess shows now of the week, right? And I appreciate you guys that are here in the chat. David, it was trying to basically rebuild his team, but I'm not sure that I would say go into rebuild mode. He made five trades since the end of the season gave up. He made five trades since the end of the season, gave up Kyler Murray, the 105, Isaiah Pacheco, Kenneth Walker, Marshawn Lloyd, the 205, 311, Jacoby Myers, Dontavian Wicks, again, that's Kyler Pacheco Walker, Lloyd Myers-Wicks, 105, 205, and 311. This is across five different trades, but he wanted a grade for all of them.

And I just went to the trade chart and that comes out as a value of 88.6 on my trade chart. Again, you can go to Sportsline and you can get my 1QB and Superflex trade chart. I highly recommend you do that. 88.6, he received Drake May, Brailen Allen, Jaylen McMillan, Jake Ferguson, Luke Schoonmaker, Tucker Craft, Kaishan Booty, the 108, 111, 211, and a 2026 third. So again, that's May, Alan McMillan, Ferguson, Schoonmaker, Kraft, and Booty.

I probably shouldn't say just Alan when I'm talking about Braylon, Alan, because it's a fantasy football show and everybody's going to think it's Josh Allen and think he crushed these trades. And four picks 108, 111, 211, and a 2026 third. 108, 111, 211, and a 2026 third. What you received, David, comes out on the most recent version of my trade chart as an 83.2. So you lose this trade, these five trades by about 5% on the trade chart. I do think you get obviously younger at QB going from Kyler to Drake May. You're getting younger acquiring Braylon Allen and Jalen McMillan. And McMillan's one guy in particular who may go up in terms of wide receiver rankings and

in terms of my trade chart over the off season for sure. But maybe even when we get to the February update, I'm seeing more and more talk about Chris Godwin's ankle injury. I think I said on a show last week with Dave or maybe with Jamie earlier this week that I am really not that concerned about Chris Godwin in 2025. I just kind of assumed it was an ankle injury. He's going to be fine by the start of next year. I've seen some things over the last couple of days, talking about the mechanisms of Godwin's injury and the actual broken bone and there does seem to be some legitimate concern that he may not be 100% next year. And I think there's definitely concern that he's not on Tampa Bay next year.

And if that happens, then Jalen McMillan to the moon and David, you win all these five trades. The other thing that we don't know for sure is how is the new coaching staff going to view the split between Breece Hall and Braylen Allen? Because another opportunity for a big win there. And K. Sean Booty is one of my favorite young players to stash on dynasty rosters. I think I had a Twitter question about that. So we will, so the answer to your question, Dave, is probably a C minus as of the January trade chart, but I, I would say that it's, it's has a potential to turn into a solid B. Sam sent in a

screenshot of his first dynasty team and asked me to evaluate it. I thought this would be a fun way to talk about some players in dynasty. And wow. Oh, wow. His quarterback room, Lamar Jackson, Jayden Daniels, Deshaun Watson, Tyler Huntley, and Dorian Thompson Robinson. Obviously this is a super flex league and you have two of my top five quarterbacks in dynasty. Thompson Robinson. Obviously this is a super flex league and you have two of my top five

quarterbacks in dynasty. So you're doing a fantastic job. A plus at the quarterback position could use some depth because I'm not sure any of those other three guys are ever going to start a game in the NFL again. Yes, I'm including Deshaun Watson in that statement. At running back, Sam has Devon Aitchin, Chase Brown, David Montgomery, Aaron Jones, Blake Corum, and Antonio Gibson. Again, a very, very good running back room. I think you've got two of my top 10 running backs and David Montgomery and Aaron Jones both have the ability to be really like excellent league winning flexes. I have to give you a solid A at the running back position as well. And this is not,

I know the next question when you hear these names, is this an eight team league? No, he has the 12th pick. He won the league in year one. And so this is a 12 team league. At wide receiver, you have Puka Nakua, Debo Samuel, Devontae Adams, Jalen Polk, Juju Smith-Schuster, Alan Lazard, Noah Brown, Darius Slayton, Greg Dorch, and Adam Thielen. So this is where we see that the problem is with Sam's team, even though he won the league, it wasn't a problem last year. But real questions about wide receiver two, Debo Samuel and wide receiver three, Devonte Adams. If I was looking like the first thing that I would do with this roster would be to see if I could move Montgomery and or Jones for a wide receiver to upgrade on wide receiver two or wide receiver three. Might even consider because you won the light league last year because you're a

true contender adding some of the 2025 picks. he has his first, second, third and fourth. Again, that's all the 12th pick in the round. See if you can add one of those 2025 picks to one of those running backs or to Debo or Adams and turn that into a better, younger wide receiver at tight end. Sam has Mark Andrews, Jatavian Sanders, and Jelani Woods would not hesitate to add a tight end from this class. The more I look at it, the more I get excited about running back and tied in in the 2025 rookie class.

The more I get a little bit discouraged about quarterback and wide receiver. So I, I'm not sure you're getting a lot of wide receiver help this year in the draft Sam, which is one of the reasons I'd be willing to use those picks to make your team better as opposed to counting on the draft. But overall, you won year one, you look very good moving forward. Great job, Sam. Ted sent in an email about an orphan. This is one of the ones that Adam tried to read on the podcast yesterday.

And I stopped him. So sorry, Ted, I'm sure you were so excited to hear it read yesterday. Why you get to hear it read today? I just picked up an orphan dynasty team. I've been playing fantasy for over 20 years. That's my first dynasty team. I thought maybe you could talk a little about when to go for it and when to rebuild. I'm putting my team here.

If you want to use that as an example, I'm not sure if this is go for it worthy. team here, if you want to use that as an example, I'm not sure if this is go for it worthy. I also just got offered a trade the 103 for the 108 and next year's first. Do I take it? So I would say first off, I, I really don't love trading next year's first. And I'm pretty much like, I have to win the deal by a bunch to trade next year's first, if I'm not sure that I'm a bunch to trade next year's first if I'm not sure that I'm a contender. So let's take a look at this Superflex roster that Ted has. He has Lamar Jackson, Bo Nix, Aaron Rodgers, and Drew Locke at quarterback. That's Lamar,

Nix, Rodgers, and Locke. Yeah, that could be a contending quarterback room. At running back, he has Bree Saul, Brian Robinson, Chuba, Javante and Marshawn Lloyd. I think if you add a running back in the draft year, that could be a good enough running back room as well. Wide receiver. Again, we're running into a lot of wide receiver problems looking at these rosters today, Cortland Sutton, Devante Smith, Jerry, Judy, and AD Mitchell. Uh, that's a, that's a C minus at best.

That might be a D wide receiver room. And then David Najoku, Theo Johnson and Shago Konkwo. I think looking at this team, I would be trying to see if I could improve the wide receiver room. In fact, like if I was trading 103 for the 108, can I get instead of a next year's first a starting wide receiver? I wouldn't move to immediate tank or rebuild.

I'd want to see how does this season go and when I get to the trade deadline, am I going to push in or is it time to rebuild? Because you look at it and even if you're rebuilding, you're keeping Lamar and Bonix. You're keeping Devante Smith. So there's a few pieces here that you would want to hold on. Maybe even Brice Hall, but I don't really like holding onto running backs through a rebuild. So I would make my off-season priority improving

the wide receiver room. If I can do that without trading any 20, 26 picks, then I would see like, can I contend this year? Let's see if the Mar Jackson has another year like he did last year and Breece Hall is actually a top three running back like we expect them to be. And you find a wide receiver one, then this team might just turn into a contending roster. Thanks for the question.

Ted Scott. I'm not sure if he had a question. He had a therapy session. I, Adam almost read this one as well. Last year in his rookie draft, he traded Lad McConkey, Marvin Mims and a 20, 26 first, 2025 first. For Roma Dunze and a second rounder. This fits perfectly with the question that we just got from Ted because he

traded basically traded up in the rookie draft from lad to get Rome and gave up a first round pick this year. He knew he was overpaying, but he wanted Caleb and Rome together. And guess what happened? The 2025 first turned into the 101 and the 2025 second turned into this 10th pick in round two. So essentially he traded Lad McConkey, Marvin Mims and Ashton Shenty for Rome Madunze and a low end second round pick this year.

Do I have any hope to come back from this? And the answer is yes, there's always hope, but this is a crushing, crushing defeat. And this is why I don't like to trade next year's first at this time of year, especially if it's somebody else's first that I don't have any control over. We got another question about the 101 because I just kind of assumed that it's somebody else's first that I don't have any control over. We get another question about the one-on-one cause I just kind of assumed that it's Gentie. Um, this question comes in. I, Adam says I have the one-on-one pick in a super flex slash Titan premium league. I also have one 11, two Oh one, two Oh five.

And last year's rookie draft, I drafted both Drake may and JJ McCarthy in the first round. My other QB is Mahomes. I have Puka, McConkey, Flowers, and Waddle at wide receivers. Running back in tight end is a little bit weaker. The question is, what direction should I go with the 101? Looking at Gentie, but drafting and running back with 101 sounds crazy in a super flex dynasty league. This is the year Adam and everyone else

that it's not crazy. And what the, the, the factors that go into that are the fact that we've got a truly elite running back that I think most people think they're not only going to be drafted in round one, maybe in the first half of round one, and we have a very weak quarterback and wide receiver class. And as you just described your team, Adam, you have a great, great quarterback room, a very, very good wide receiver room and a weak running back room. So this is an easy choice. Use that 101 on Gentie. I probably am looking at a tight end at either 111 or 201, cause you're a little weak at tight end, maybe both.

And then I think that you've got a team that can contend this year, as long as Ashton Genti does what we expect that he will. We had a question about Travis Hunter. Hearing a lot of talk about Dion possibly impacting what teams will draft his son saying he may not want to play for historically bad organizations. What I'm not hearing is why wouldn't Travis Hunter and his agent tell teams to only draft him if they tend to play in primary wide receiver, the top wide receiver makes 10 million more than the top corner.

I don't really have a lot of thoughts on this other than it's great, great thought process and that's exactly what Travis Hunter wish should do. And I really hope it's what happens because if you don't play in an IDP league and he becomes a corner, then one of the most exciting player, rookies in fantasy football, you may not be able to benefit from in fantasy football. The other thing I will say, because we've brought Travis Hunter up. And I just like to say this every time that we do. I, I am a commissioner of an IDP league and I am going to do everything that I can to make sure

that he receives points for the things he does on offense and the things he does on defense. And if that means that he becomes the best player in fantasy football, because he's playing 75% of the snaps at both, then he should be because he's playing 75% of the snaps at both. It probably will be less consequential than that. I think the one area where it could get out of whack is if he's mostly just a corner and so you get to play him on defense, but he scores six receiving

touchdowns and becomes the number one corner by a big range. But again, he's the most valuable corner in football should be the most valuable corner in fantasy football. Let's take a look at some of the questions from Twitter, because we did have quite a few of those today. Andrew says Caleb Williams or Sam Darnold, Jordan Love or Sam Darnold, Drake May or Sam Darnold. Where do you rank Sam Darnold? And I think this is more of a 2025 question because for dynasty, he's way behind Caleb Williams, Jordan Love and Drake May. And for Red it, the answer is I don't know, which is why he's way behind all of those guys, right?

We don't know where Sam Darnold's going to play. We don't know if he's going to get a long-term deal or because of his struggles at the end of the year, he's going to have to have another one year prove it deal. Uh, looking at my current dynasty rankings, he comes in at QB 17, which is right behind Jared Goff. Just for reference, those other guys, Caleb Williams is my QB seven. Jordan love is my QB nine.

Drake may is my QB 12. If you told me that Sam Darnold signs a three year, $60 million deal with the Minnesota Vikings, then Darnold moves up to be a borderline top 12 quarterback. And I would expect him to be a top 12 quarterback next year, but there's lots of other places that he could go. I mean, what if he ends up in Las Vegas on the Raiders? I'm not going to be super excited about that.

He might not be a top 24 dynasty quarterback at that point, especially if it's just a one year deal that Darnold gets. Right now I would view him as a QB2. I would view him as someone, one of those QB2s that you're not entirely sure is going to be starting next year or the year after. Rob has a question that he asked last year, and I think I gave him a bad answer if I remember right. I drafted Hinnan Hooker as a backup QB in a super flex league in 2023.

I was surprised when he was inactive for the Lions commanders playoff game. That said, when do you think it's time to cut bait? We're rapidly approaching the time to cut bait. Even in a super flex league, there's just not been any signs really. I have Henen Hooker currently as my QB 37. He'll be 27 years old when the next football season starts. Maybe already. It's tough to hold a 27 year old who doesn't really have any future

path towards playing time. Deeper super flex leagues I'm still holding, but I fully understand if you need to cut bait to make room to make a pick in the rookie draft. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll finish up the Twitter questions and it looks like we've got several questions from the chat as well. Get ready for Las Vegas style action at BetMGM, the king of online casinos.

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Bet MGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Oh, we've got one of those questions. You know, a lot of times I get the questions and I'm excited, I'm like, oh yeah, I wanna talk about that. I wanna answer that on the show. And this is one where I just feel like

I'm going to look like an idiot one way or the other Robert on Twitter says, what's the highest 20, 25 rookie draft pick that you would give up for Christian McCaffrey? And so I think if you're talking about your own pick, then it's going to be something like nine, because if I don't have it, like if I've got a team that just finished as the sixth best team this past year, I don I have him valued less than a 20, 25 first, which is just all 20, 25 first. So it's definitely below seven. Um, seven, eight, nine is probably like, if you're a true contender that won the league and just happened to have the seventh or the eighth pick, I'd be perfectly fine with

giving that pickup for McCaffrey. But you just got to know, like that could turn into nothing very early in this coming season. One more injury from McCaffrey and I'm not sure he has any dynasty value at all. We got a question about year two of a rebuild. It says last year was rough. I drafted JJ McCarthy, Roma Dunze and Jonathan Brooks. That Jonathan Brooks pick has hurt a lot of my dynasty teams. I feel that. This year I have 101 and 108. Not sure whether to take Gentie or trade back. It's Superflex, it's PPR. Again, he's got JJ Darnold and Tuah at QB, Puka, Roma Dunze, Xavier Worthy, Jamison Williams at wide receiver. The running backs are bad.

The tight ends are bad. Again, I'm going to go take Ash and Gentie. I think there's a very good chance that you have a QB one and a QB two out of JJ, Darnold and Tua. I think there's a very good chance that, I mean, Puka is a top three wide receiver. Roma Dunze, Xavier Worthy, Jameson Williams. Those three could easily turn into a wide receiver two, a wide receiver three, and a flex.

I want to go get my RB one and see if maybe year two of total rebuild could be the end of the total rebuild. Let's start competing. Would you trade Jaden Daniels for Josh Allen? Wow. I, I like Josh Allen a lot more next year. I have Josh Allen ranked higher still in dynasty. If there's a team that needs to go through a rebuild and they're willing to make that

trade and you're actually contending. Yes, I would rather have Josh Allen than Jayden Daniels in dynasty. Go see if you can get that done. Last one from Twitter. Jeremy says, you have any good end of the year, low roster waiver stashes before next year, ones where we hope the situation changes value or can drop for the next rookie draft? Um, yeah, I mean, I think the running backs on the Raiders specifically, I'd

like to see if since Sarah McCormick maybe got dropped when he got hurt is somebody that I wouldn't mind rostering. Um, Will Shipley was a draft pick who got dropped by some people throughout the season, just popped in the playoffs. Uh, could easily be the RB two behind an aging Saquon Barkley next year. Looking at the wide receiver position, the Eagles wide receiver, see if one of those young guys pops in the Super Bowl. I think that's probably about it at that position amongst low owns guys. Like, Yoshivas, if he happens to be available, could become a good option.

Any of the guys we were drafting in round two or early round three last year that you were excited about that got dropped, I would like to see if I could add one of those guys. I'm just going to answer a sad question from the chat. It's not even been started by Thomas. Thomas did a great job of starting seven of your questions, but Rob made me sad. So I'm going to answer it. And that, yes, that, that picture is exactly how I feel. Thoughts on Jonathan Brooks. Looks like he won't play next year.

Just leave an IR for now. Trade value has to be low. Yeah. I think in my most recent rankings, I was probably still too high on Jonathan Brooks. Maybe not. I've got an RB 27 right now. Um, I don't think there's anything to do other than leave him in your IR spot, unless you're a true contender and you want to see if you can get an old running back or an

old wide receiver for him and just play it out that way. get an old running back or an old wide receiver for him and just play it out that way. Um, I, guys I have in the same range are Aaron Jones, um, Najee Harris right now because of the uncertainty due to his free agency, Tony Pollard. So if you're a contender and you want to turn Jonathan Brooks into one of those guys, I think in terms of draft pick value, you're not getting anything better than a mid second, which is not particularly exciting for a guy you just spent maybe a first round pick on. Trent asks, what price is too high for Jaden Daniels? The guy in our super flex league wants Lad McConkey 103, 2027 first and an early 2025

second. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that I would do that if I had Jayden Daniels. Um, like I know Lad McConkey was awesome, but there's not a pick here in this draft that I think is anywhere close to Jayden Daniels value in a super flex league. And so if I have to get up an early 20, 25 seconds and Lad McConkey and the 103, which is probably like a startup third round pick, the 20, 27 first, I don't like it all, but that's 20, 27.

It's a long way. Like that's a lot of Jaden Daniels fantasy points between now and then. I don't think that price is too high, even if it feels like it. And then those types of deals, like you start adding them up in the trade calculator. And it's why I always say if you're doing a two for one, you need to get at least 10% more value. If you're doing a three for one, you'd get at least 20% more value. Cause you

can, yeah, lad and the 103 and the 2027 first and the 2025 second of those all added together are going to show maybe as more of that dynasty value than Jaden Daniels. But Jaden Daniels is so much better individually than any of them that I would go make that deal. Who would you prefer in a super flex league? Drake May or Caleb Williams? I'm sticking with Caleb Williams. I said earlier in the show, he's my QB seven right now.

Drake mays, my QB 12. Um, that's not a huge, the difference isn't as big in terms of value. Cause there's kind of a tier there, but yeah, I would still pretty strongly prefer Caleb Williams over Drake may. Got a question. I finished with the number one seed lost in the first round. First off, like set your playoffs up better. You shouldn't, if you've got the number one seed, you shouldn't be playing in the first

round. You need to buy, you should be in the semifinals. You should already have your money back. But anyway, I'm sorry that happened to you. Have the 102, 103 and 107. If nobody's willing to trade, would you view any of these as luxury picks? I want Hunter and Hampton, then take QB at 107. Yeah, I think if you, like, I would like to see if I could go get Ashton Gentry, but if

you can't make that happen with these picks and Hunter does specify that he wants to go play at wide receiver. Then I wouldn't have any problem with taking him with one of those picks. I think Hampton is the running back order. Like I saw today that Henderson of Ohio State may actually be a first round pick. Any running backs we get in the first round are going to go higher than the running backs who don't, obviously. But yeah, Hampton's your favorite running back in this class or second favorite running back in this class. Taking him at the 103 is probably going to go higher than the running backs who don't obviously. But yeah, if a Hampton's your favorite running back in this class or second favorite running back in this class, taking him at the 103 is probably going to make sense. And then QB at 107, just going

to depend on obviously on your league type. But I, I'm not real excited about any of the QBs in this draft. Can you explain to me an email startup draft for dynasty? What's the timing length per pick? Cause I can't see these rules before joining the league. I would, I would definitely send a message to whoever's going to be the commissioner of that league because email draft can mean along, along a lot of different things. Um, four to eight hours, I think a lot is pretty, pretty standard, but don't,

don't hesitate, especially before you choose to join a league to ask the commissioner, all of the questions. He, he needs somebody that's going to be committed to the league for a couple of years, so he doesn't have to do this replacement thing again. And one of the best ways to ensure that is if you understand the rules going in. CJ has a question. I'm the league champion and still contending. Biggest weakness is tight end.

Do I use the 103 on Tyler Warren, ignoring other positions or best available? I would be look, I mean, if I was going to use the 103 to upgrade my tight end position, I wouldn't do that by taking a rookie tight end. I don't think I know Brock Bowers was just awesome and Sam Laporta was really good as a rookie before taking a step back in year two. And maybe one of these rookie tight ends will hit big, but it's not always even the guy who we think is the best in the class is the guy who's the best as a rookie. So like you're a true contender and you want to continue this, this, this run. I would be seeing like,

can I move back from 103 into lower in round one and go get a difference maker at tight end? Can I use the 103 to go get a Trey McBride? Um, I I'd be looking to use it in that manner or to acquire a veteran starting tight end. It ended up being an old one, but just somebody that you already know is good. If you're trying to contend this year, I traded Jonathan Taylor and Jalen Waddle for the 103. Would you trade Bucky for the 104? And with those picks, take Hampton and Johnson. And I think that I would rather have, man have that Bucky situation, especially with the OC change

does make me just a little bit nervous, but I still think I'd rather have him than the 104. I do like the JT. Yeah, I'm going to hold on to Bucky in that situation. Rob says, what's the general approach for holding on to young backup QBs in a Super Flex league? I'm talking JJ McCarthy, Hendon Hooker, other QBs are Lamar, Derek Carr, and Jameis Winston. We just had the Hendon Hooker conversation and the difference between him and JJ McCarthy

is one of them's young, one of them is not. JJ McCarthy is going to be 22 years old when the season starts. They're probably going to be some drafted quarterbacks who are older not JJ McCarthy. He's going to be 22 years old when the season starts. They're probably going to be some, some drafted quarterbacks who are older than JJ McCarthy and an hooker is going to be 27. And the other difference is I'm not sure JJ McCarthy is going to be on the bench next year, I kind of expect if he's healthy that he's going to be the starter. So he is a, a must hold. And I would say even a buy right now in dynasty, if you can.

Uh, Hooker is someone that's kind of a luxury end of the bench guy to hold onto right now. My general rule is if I drafted somebody that I think is going to be good, I'd like to, and they're just a backup quarterback, I'd like to hold them for at least two seasons. And then at the end of two years, you might not know that they're starting the next year for sure, but you should at not know that they're starting the next year for sure, but you should at least know that they are the future plan. And I'm not sure that we know that yet with Hooker.

Okay, we've got a dynasty rebuilding team and he has picked 102 and 110 with no running backs or good tight ends. All indication is the 101 will be Gentie. How should I pivot at the 102? Jayden two are my best QBs. So then the third or fourth team we've seen that no running backs or good tight ends. I think my question is going to be, and for me, draft capital matters a lot more for running backs, maybe maybe that does for other positions. When i don't have any running backs i got the one or two i'm probably looking at what other running back is drafted around one.

If there's multiple than which of the other running back strapped in round one is lands in the best situation. one, it lands in the best situation. And that's probably the running back that I'm going with. And one 10 is a good spot to go get you a tight end. I think there's a couple in this class that can be long-term starters is brought. What this is, I was really hopeful that somebody was going to have a rushy rice question because I mentioned the Chris Godwin injury earlier in the show and how my feelings are starting to change about that one. JM asked, is rushy white rice worth a third round pick in a 12 team dynasty, half PPR.

So if you're talking rookie pick, it's yes, for sure. The question is, is he worth a first round pick? Um, I think he's most people will say he's definitely worth a first round pick as well. In my January update, I had Xavier worthy as wide receiver 20 in dynasty. And I actually had what Russia 18 and I actually had rice four spots lower at wide receiver 22, like Godwin, the stuff that I'm hearing, um, as people talk about the type of injury that rice had and the, and the, the type of recovery that he has coming. I'm feeling less confident that he's going to be a full go.

He, the injury he had wasn't an ACL, it was a PCL, but I guess the recovery timetable is pretty similar. And it's a little bit more unique injury that we haven't seen as often. So I'm a little bit more cautious than most on Rushy Rice. I would still give up a late first rookie pick to go get him, but he's not a top 20 dynasty wide receiver, which is a big change for me. Um, cause while a year ago he was wide receiver 20, um, that's for the first couple of weeks of the season when he was actually delivering on that potential,

he moved all the way up into the top 12 for most people and could be there again, but I'm just not sure it's going to happen immediately. That's all the questions we have from the chat. And I did see, uh, Ernest, thank you for being here. Ernest, I got one more here. I'm going to answer it, but thanks for answering our questions. I appreciate you guys sending in the questions. And I talked for most of January about like if you

if you give us a five-star review over on Spotify send that in so that I can we can see it and we can answer your question. I think that may have got lost a little bit in confusion so we'll do another one of these in February if you send us the review and you send us your question to fantasyfootballatcbsi.com, make sure you put dynasty in the subject because that's how I search for the emails. We'll do at least one of these per month, the one-man mailbag. Maybe Azer talked about maybe showing up to this one. So maybe one of these days it'll be a two-man mailbag.

Last question from Austin, Tyree Kill and the 205 or the 105 12 team 1QB full PPR. And Austin, I think I'll just take the easy escape hatch here. If you're a contender, I would like the Tyreek Hill side. If you're moving into a rebuilding mode, I think this is a pretty good move right here. Tyreek did not come out of a top 12 wide receiver for me in my first run of 2025 rankings. He's over 30 years old. If he's not a redraft top 12 wide receiver, then he's not a dynasty top 24 wide receiver. Being able to get to 105 for that is pretty great, but if you're a contender, then I understand holding onto Tyreak Hill or acquiring him even

at that cost because if he bounces back, he's a league winner. I want to thank Thomas for marking the questions in the chat. Thank you to everybody who watched on Twitter and on YouTube. We will talk to you next week. Paramount Podcasts.