Fantasy Football Today - FFT Dynasty - Dynasty Fantasy Football Superflex Startup Mock Draft

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

Join us for a full dynasty Superflex startup mock draft with expert strategy and insights. We break down each round, highlight the best picks, and discuss key draft trends. Get tips to build a powerho...use roster and stay ahead of your league. Perfect prep for your 2025 dynasty season! 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 SUBSCRIBE to FFT Express on Apple: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-express/id1528634304⁠ Follow FFT Express on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/6qyGWfETSBFaciPrtvoWCC?si=6529cbee20634da8⁠ 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 FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2⁠ Follow our FFT team on Twitter:⁠ @FFToday⁠,⁠ @AdamAizer⁠,⁠ @JameyEisenberg⁠,⁠ @daverichard⁠,⁠ @heathcummingssr⁠ Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday⁠ Join our Facebook group⁠ https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/⁠ Sign up for the FFT newsletter⁠ https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter⁠ You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." Visit the ⁠betting arena on CBSSports.com⁠ for all the latest ⁠sportsbook reviews⁠ and ⁠sportsbook promos⁠. 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 SUBSCRIBE to FFT Express on Apple: ⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-express/id1528634304⁠⁠ Follow FFT Express on Spotify: ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/6qyGWfETSBFaciPrtvoWCC?si=6529cbee20634da8⁠⁠ 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 FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2⁠⁠ Follow our FFT team on Twitter:⁠⁠ @FFToday⁠⁠,⁠⁠ @AdamAizer⁠⁠,⁠⁠ @JameyEisenberg⁠⁠,⁠⁠ @daverichard⁠⁠,⁠⁠ @heathcummingssr⁠⁠ Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday⁠⁠ Join our Facebook group⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/⁠⁠ Sign up for the FFT newsletter⁠⁠ https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter⁠⁠ You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." Visit the ⁠⁠betting arena on CBSSports.com⁠⁠ for all the latest ⁠⁠sportsbook reviews⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠sportsbook promos⁠⁠. 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to Fantasy Football Today Dynasty. I am your host Heath Cummings joined today by my good friend and like seven time guest Adam Pfeiffer. We've got a super flex startup mock draft for you today. AP, thank you for being here. Always a pleasure Heath. I appreciate you having me on. This is an exciting time. I'm glad we're doing this too because I'm sitting here waiting for my rookie drafts to start my dynasty league, so this will be a fun way to get the draft juices flowing. And Matt is here in the chat just here to see where QB4 Josh Allen gets taken this year. That's a shot at me for ranking Allen as QB4 last year. Might be more of a shot at me too. I do think that Josh Allen may have finished QB4 last year, but you can see the Buffalo Bill shirt on the other side of the screen. So Josh Allen
Starting point is 00:01:03 will not be falling in this draft. This is a full PPR super flex mock draft. I had the first picked because when I'm hosting the show, I like to have a pick on the corner so I can not pay attention. Absolutely all the time, Adam. I started with Lamar Jackson. The very next pick at 102 is Josh Allen.
Starting point is 00:01:23 And yes, we'll have the draft board up here in just a second. So I guess first question right off the bat Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen in Dynasty. Yes. Yes. You would like both of those guys. I think we talked about this last time I was on and I just I have Josh Allen slightly higher and I still like I can't fight anybody for taking Lamar or Josh It's just it's kind of that simple. There's really no other way to put it I mean the two best quarterbacks in fantasy probably two best quarterbacks in the NFL right now with with my homes
Starting point is 00:01:58 Obviously it I just it depends on how you Because like Lamar is going to rush for more yards, but we've seen this year in and year out, especially now with Henry, like they don't use him at the goal line. Like the Eagles use her. It's like the Bills use Josh Allen. And to be fair, even though Josh has been getting more touchdowns, his goal line usage did come down a little bit.
Starting point is 00:02:20 So you can use those arguments to kind of split hairs. But the answer of Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen to me is simply yes. Either one of those feels really great at the start of a draft. Yes, you saw Christian McCaffrey show up on the draft board. No, that's not who Jacob Gibbs took. He got auto picked because Gibbs did not show up on time for the draft. Next time he's on the show, we're going to give him a hard time about that. I guess while we're waiting for him to get started, and he wants me to now send him a link on X.
Starting point is 00:02:52 So Adam, you're gonna talk about at what point should we start seeing non-quarterbacks come off the board in a super flex draft like this? Yeah, obviously goes based off tiers, or at least it should. For me, it's probably right after like the Mahomes, maybe like probably the probably right after Mahomes, I would say. Maybe it would have been you add like somebody like CJ Stroud, if he didn't have the down season he had last year.
Starting point is 00:03:18 But I would say probably like right around maybe even after like the fifth quarterback, which is probably burrow for most people. I would say that's when you can start to see Jamar chase and lamb and Jefferson and those guys come off the board, but probably right around the Mahomes, you know, QB six range. I would say at least I have shared the link with Gibbs. He is in the draft room. Hopefully he's the only one who's made this mistake at him.
Starting point is 00:03:39 So we're thinking it should be Jackson Allen Daniel, Mahomes and Burrow in some order. Those five quarterbacks. And then we start talking about Jamar chase. Jalen hurts too. I would say six quarterbacks for you. I would say probably. Yeah. And Jayden Daniels does go third to Jacob Gibbs followed by Joe Burrow.
Starting point is 00:03:59 So top four quarterbacks off the board, the draft will start getting a little bit more interesting when we start working with position players in there. I have Jamar Chase as my top ranked non QB in dynasty. Does that sound right to you, Adam? Sounds exactly right. What did you think while we're waiting for some of these picks to come in of the NFL draft and how soon do you think we see Ashton Gentry?
Starting point is 00:04:24 I thought the draft, it was funny because like Genty we pretty much knew was going to be in whether it was Chicago, the Raiders, whatever a pretty pretty good spot. I thought there was a lot of like at least for like year one underwhelming spots, but I would say Genty probably within the top what 20 picks of a of a startup. Yeah, I would say that's that's right. He's definitely a first rounder for me in one QB.
Starting point is 00:04:49 I think I have him seventh or eighth amongst the non-quarterbacks. And we're gonna see somewhere around 12 quarterbacks go, I would anticipate, in the first two rounds of this draft. Jamie now on the clock with 20 seconds left. So we start off with Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Chris, Joe Burrow, Jaden Daniels, Jalen Hertz, Jamar Chase.
Starting point is 00:05:15 So we did not get Mahomes, then Justin Jefferson, then B. John Robinson. Mahomes goes pick nine to another former guest of the show, the fantasy football mad scientist, but best value of the draft so far. Yeah, probably. I just for me, like, just given what hurts is done lately, and we still have suddenly question marks about the chief's offense, I felt like hurts was the pick I should have
Starting point is 00:05:41 made, but I did not anticipate my homes going what night overall, I thought he'd be, you know, maybe chase and then my homes. But yeah, I think that's pretty, pretty good value. And if like I picked my homes to win MVP this time last year, like I just still think he has at least one more of those like 4800, 40 touchdown seasons left. I struggle to believe I struggle to believe he won't do that again. We've seen it happen with. We saw it happen with both Brady and Rogers when you are one of the best quarterbacks
Starting point is 00:06:08 in the NFL for 20 years. There's gonna be a two year stretch where you don't score a lot of fantasy points. Yeah. He's not to the age now where we actually think he might be declining. I thought it was interesting, both Bijan and Gibbs go in the first two rounds.
Starting point is 00:06:20 How would you rank Gentie with those other two running backs right now? Bijan Robinson, Ashton Gentie, J other two running backs right now? Bijon Robinson, Ashton Gentie, Jameer Gibbs. Yeah, he's definitely behind them. I think it's pretty obvious that the top two running backs in dynasty are Bijon and Gibbs. But if you wanted to put Barkley, who just goes off the board right after ahead of him, I get it. But that's more of like a two year window. Gentie, what 21 years old, he is in a spot where, you know, Chip Kelly and Pete Carroll went around the football and there is a path at least in
Starting point is 00:06:52 year one that he leads the NFL and touches right out of the gate. So I think right there is where he should be. If you wanted to go as early as it was right after those two, I don't think that's too early. If you want to put Barkley ahead of him, I think that's reasonable too. But this is where he should go. At least among the running backs. Let's take a look at the full round one. So we have Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Jaden Daniels, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hertz, Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, Bijan Robinson, Patrick Mahomes, and then Jameer Gibbs, C.D. Lamb, and Malik Neighbors. I've been a little bit conflicted on Lamb after the draft. One side of the take is the Cowboys didn't draft
Starting point is 00:07:32 any other pass catchers, so he's going to just have 190, 200 targets this season. The other side I see though is like, is this going to work? Or is this just going to be a bad offense in Dallas? I don't think it'll be bad. I think we've seen kind of iterations of this similar offense where it's throwing the ball to CD Lamb 180 times and they're not going to be
Starting point is 00:07:56 a top five to seven unit, probably. But when you have a healthy deck and I think they have enough around him, I think they could have added more. But I think CD Lamb like I didn't have enough around him. I think they could have added more but I Think CD lamb like I didn't have it this time last year I had chase as my number one player But if you told me CD land finishes the widest year one this season I wouldn't be really surprised at all just honestly based off volume Like I think if you're projecting I know you do projections like if you're projecting targets like I think it's very
Starting point is 00:08:22 You know reasonable to have him leading the NFL and targets this year. We got a wow, Adam, terrible. And I don't think that's for you, but it might be. I kind of assumed it was for Azer who took Malik neighbors and Ashton Gentey at the one, two turn. How do you feel about in a super flex startup, picking at 12th and not getting a quarterback in your funny. It's funny because I feel like every time and I was
Starting point is 00:08:52 thinking about this before the draft, every time I'm in this one of these drafts with you, I feel like I'm where where Acer was picking and it's like you have to it's tough because especially in a super flex, you have to either say, okay, I have to get quarterbacks here and risk the run on the opposite end of the of the draft order. Or you say, look, I have to get my guys here because there's a chance they don't make it back. So I am not jealous. I'm actually happy to be picking where I'm at. But look, there's always a couple of teams that just kind of say, you know what? I'll see what happens at the end with quarterbacks and I can get a couple guys.
Starting point is 00:09:27 And that this is a spot where you kind of have to do it. So if you know with Gentie, I think it's right around where he probably will go in a lot of jazz. But it's also tough too, because especially if you're doing it to your base with quarterbacks, if there's a massive teardrop, then maybe you don't feel as inclined to rush and grab a quarterback. And you are on the clock. I apologize for making you talk. No, you're fine. I am really torn between two players here because it's a similar question,
Starting point is 00:09:52 right? I have Jalen Hurts. I want this other quarterback that I'm extremely high on, but I'm also struggling to pass on Puka. But receivers loaded. So I'm going to take my quarterback here. I'm going to, I'm going to be. I think he's still on the board. He should be. Yeah, I look, I am really high on this player, and I don't even know if this is I don't think it's a reach, especially in Superflex, but I'm expecting his value to be maybe even closer to the first round back of the first round taking Drake Bay. Wow. So I actually had a quarterback, not at the top of my board,
Starting point is 00:10:22 because I do think Pukka Nakua is a great value here. It was between those two but I just thought there's really good receivers left still. I actually thought it was a different second year quarterback that you were going to take there. The guy that got the new offensive coordinator and the new tight end and the new wide receiver I won't say his name because there's a couple picks until I pick but I've got a new nominee for my favorite pick of the draft through two rounds and that is Brock Bowers. Yeah. He was the pick for me. That's why I was debating between May and Pook.
Starting point is 00:10:53 I was hoping Bowers made it back to me. I really, really think Bowers, even in this format should be a first round pick. And I think it's possible that he should be a first round pick in redraft. And he may just have one of those Travis Kelce seasons where he outscores everybody else by three fantasy points. Like we're talking about Bowers as like the wide receiver
Starting point is 00:11:14 four and the obvious tight end one type seasons. Yes. He's in the consideration for a first round pick, even if he was a wide receiver, Justin Herbert goes off the board. So another quarterback, and then there's Caleb Williams, Matt Donnelly. I'm not a big fan of yours right now.
Starting point is 00:11:36 So Justin Herbert. I'm actually glad I took May too, because it feels like it would have gone like those three quarterbacks, so then I wouldn't have gotten one of those guys. So I just thought receiver, I can get somebody on the turn here. Yeah, and I think since I already have a quarterback,
Starting point is 00:11:53 I'm going to go running back wide receiver here. There's a couple of quarterbacks I like, but I don't know that they're real difference makers. I've got my QB one. And so I am going to take the guy who's actually my RB for nevermind. Somebody already took HN. So I guess I'll take, yeah, HN went early second. It looked like, yeah, right in that Barkley. We had a little run of running backs. I'll take Nico Collins here to end round two. And then I, this is not going to be a popular pick in the chat because for some reason it seems
Starting point is 00:12:28 like everybody else is lower on him than I am. But I still believe in the San Francisco system. I think he's about ready to get $50 million for four or five years, be a $200 million man. I will take Brock Purdy to start round three. And that's a good time for us to now recap round two, especially for those of you listening who don't have the draft board in front of you. So Azer started round two off with Ashton Genty, followed by Saquon Barkley, CJ Stroud, Devon Achan, Amun Ra St. Brown, Brian Thomas Jr., Brock Bowers, Drake May, Puka Nakua, Justin Herbert, Caleb Williams, and Nico Collins. So it's Gentie Barkley-Straud, A-Chan, St. Brown, Thomas, Bowers, May, and Nakua, Herbert, Williams, and Nico.
Starting point is 00:13:16 And I'll just be honest with you, I'm not just picking on Gibbs because he was late to the draft. I'm pretty concerned about Justin Herbert ever really matching that upside he showed us early in his career, especially as long as Harbaugh's there. I think he's just a high end QB too. I'm not sure I want to take that guy that early. Yeah, I mean, I took Drake May over him. And to be honest with you, it wouldn't even like I actually didn't wasn't even aware fully if he was on the board still, but it wouldn't have mattered.
Starting point is 00:13:46 I just think it depends on what part of the season you look at the Chargers offense, because the start the season when they had J.K. Dobbins healthy and running well, Herbert wasn't throwing a lot. And then, you know, Dobbins is out for a little bit and they uptick the passing rate. And Herbert had some weeks, but the red zone offense is really bad. He wasn't throwing the ball in the red zone. I just think his ceiling is kind of capped in this offense doesn't mean he's not a good player. Still, I would just like I look at Drake May the reason I like Drake May.
Starting point is 00:14:12 I tweeted about yesterday, but week six through I think was 17 didn't play week 18. I believe he didn't play week 18. So week six through 17. He was the QB 15 of fantasy. He was top five in both scramble rate and rushing yards per game among quarterbacks. And at FTN fantasy, we have the stats. So there's a stat called highlight throws, which are throws that require great accuracy, throw power,
Starting point is 00:14:34 all those intangibles. He was tied with Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes during that stretch in highlight throws. So you see the skill set. Josh McDaniel has already talked about they want to use him in the run game even more with more design stuff. He only had four design runs during that stretch total. Then you give him everything they added in the draft.
Starting point is 00:14:52 You give him Stefan Diggs, Kyle Williams, Trayvon Henderson is not only elite in past protection, but in the passing game as well. I think Drake may and again, I took him over Caleb Williams to maybe maybe I'm'm, uh, maybe I shouldn't be as high on a fellow ASC's quarterback, but I think Drake may set for a top 12 season. And I think he could be drafted at the end of the first round in super flex startups this time next year. Gibbs really just wants us to talk about his team, the entire draft. It seems like because with pick 27, he takes Travis Hunter. I'm pretty high on Travis Hunter. So like I've got him 33rd.
Starting point is 00:15:25 I just traded, I just made a trade in my dynasty league to get up to the 103 to secure Travis Hunter, which I already have the 101. So I'm, this is why I'm excited for my rookie draft to start. So I can just add Gentie and whether it's Hampton or Hunter to my team. You think there's a realistic chance that Hunter's just like a consensus top six wide receiver in
Starting point is 00:15:45 dynasty at some point in the near future? I do. It, the talents there, right? Like there's, there's shades of like CD lamb after the catch and there's shades of like, I don't even know in terms of, um, at the catch point, like it's insane. So we've really seen a big run early in round three on wide receivers and we just are on quarterbacks and we just finished up round three.
Starting point is 00:16:09 So let's talk about that. Cause I think it's really, it's an interesting inflection point to where you have like elite difference makers available at other positions and you have a lot of maybe older QB twos or younger guys that haven't really shown it yet. But I took party to start the round. Then Drake London, Travis Hunter, Derek Henry, Lad McConkey, AJ Brown, Bo Nix, Trevor Lawrence, Kyron Williams, Jordan Love, Baker Mayfield, Jared Goff for Acer to end round three. So Purdy London Hunter, Henry McConkey Brown, Nix Lawrence Williams love Mayfield golf do you like the position players
Starting point is 00:16:47 better in round three or are you think everybody's right to just keep hammering quarterback? I do like to position players but. At the end of the day, like you have to go get quarterbacks as we see JJ McCarthy go who. I think I just keep forgetting about for some reason.
Starting point is 00:17:05 There's a chance that could be really a really good value where he went. But I do like to position players for the most part, but it's also easier for me to say that because I already have two quarterbacks, I guess. Well, yeah, you're definitely like, and that's kind of where most people ended up is they've already got quarterbacks. We saw Dave and Azer pass on quarterback in round one and round two. And here now to start round four, Azer takes Cam Ward, a few picks later,
Starting point is 00:17:30 you just said it, Dave takes JJ McCarthy. There is an opportunity cost to having those elite position players in round one or round two. And the opportunity cost is you might need to start Cam Ward or JJ McCarthy next year. Let's take our first break and then we'll recap round four. We are back and we're still in round four. I mentioned Azer taking Cam Ward. I want to kind of highlight whenever we have the rookies go off the board here, Adam.
Starting point is 00:17:59 Where are you on Ward specifically in Superflex? I think it's easier to just kind of wait and see with him in a one quarterback league, but you're going to make a decision this year in Superflex. Yeah, it's tough because I like parts of that offense. Like I do think in some capacity with Callahan still there, they will try to get him at least a little bit going with the run game. For me though, it comes down to like, he's obviously a better prospect than Will Levis and Levis just couldn't stop turning the ball over. He does have some of those instances where he kind of doesn't take what's there and just kind of forces things. So that's going to be something he has to work on. But
Starting point is 00:18:39 can we get somebody other than Calvin Ridley? Because I was looking at the depth chart and it's like you have 32 year old Tyra Locke and then you have Traylon Burks and they added a couple rookies as well. I just don't know what the ceiling is in this offense. I think he's going to be fine in Superflex obviously as a QB2, but I don't know. I just don't see any quarterbacks in the strap class really. Maybe Jackson Dart at some point just because he runs a lot and he has a true bonafide number one receiver but I just think the ceiling's kind of capped right now with the
Starting point is 00:19:09 way that offense looks. I did want to briefly touch on one of the picks and just kind of ask you your opinion because we did see Derek Henry go in round three we had some comments in the chat what in the world is Derek Henry doing in round three of a dynasty draft people would have said that same thing two years ago though right so how do you feel about Derek Henry doing and get around three of a dynasty draft. People would have said that same thing two years ago, though, right? So how do you feel about Derek Henry there? I mean, it's it's definitely early for me. But I feel like at some point, we should just stop talking about Derek Henry, because he's just going to keep running for 2000 yards and 15
Starting point is 00:19:39 touchdowns. But yeah, I mean, him ahead of Martin Hampton, James Cook, Bucky Irving is definitely surprising. That range that just went to like I wanted so many players, I struggled to decide, but I ended up going Garrett Wilson just because 180 target sounds good to me. I think I have to make an update in my running back rankings at the dynasty position as forced by this four or five turn. Breece Hall was a pretty easy pick for me at pick 48 love getting him at the four or five turn. There's still a little bit of concern, but I also still think there's top five upside there.
Starting point is 00:20:14 I had two running backs right at the top of my rankings and they were Chase Brown and Trevion Henderson, and I do have Brown slightly higher right now. And I had this realization as happens when we're drafting and that's kind of what helps us form our rankings this time of year is I'd rather have Trevion Henderson, especially in full PPR. So I'm going to take him. Where do you land on Chase Brown versus Trevion Henderson?
Starting point is 00:20:39 Well, Henderson was in my queue. So good that answers that question. Hopefully Chase Brown makes it back to me but yeah, I mean chase Brown was somebody I wrote about like two weeks ago saying just Just expect the the letdown when they draft the running back with decent draft capital and they didn't they drafted Taj Brooks like in A seventh round. I don't think chase Brown's getting the 24 touches per game. He got one sack Moss went down but clearly they feel pretty comfortable with Chase Brown
Starting point is 00:21:06 getting 16 to 18 touches and. He's probably going to catch four or five passes a game, so I don't. I do think like if we were doing a there goes Chase Brown, I can't be happy. If you're looking at I do think Chase Brown is an opportunity to sell high because most people probably weren't trading for him leading up to the draft because they were expected to draft the running back. But now I think you can say, look, they didn't draft anybody of consequence. Chase Brown is going to get 20 touches per game.
Starting point is 00:21:35 I do think at least trying to sell him high makes some sense. 100% agree with that. This is an excellent time. I hope that you weren't selling him before the draft because you were scared someone was going, they were going to take a quarterback because then you didn't get the full value, but you can definitely get the full value right now. We're a little bit behind on our recaps here. So let's take a look at round four and see what stands out. Cam Ward went first, followed by Kyler Murray, Marvin Harrison, Jr. Trey McBride, three straight Cardinals, JJ McCarthy, Jackson Smith and Jigba, Bucky
Starting point is 00:22:06 Irving, Garrett Wilson, James Cook, Omarion Hampton, Jonathan Taylor, and Breece Hulled around out round four. So it was Ward, Murray, Harrison, McBride, McCarthy, and Jigba, Smith and Jigba, Irving, Wilson, Cook, Hampton, Taylor, and Hall. A lot of running backs in that round. We got another rookie here in Omarion Hampton. He went just a couple picks before I took Trevion Henderson. I actually, not many people do, so this is Heath being an outlier and you can choose to follow
Starting point is 00:22:41 whichever direction you'd like to, but I actually in full PPR prefer Henderson to Hampton. What do you think this split looks like in year one between Hampton and Najee? I think it starts with like, trying to find a good comparison. I think it's gonna start like similarly close to what Pittsburgh was last year.
Starting point is 00:23:04 But then I think by like week six, week seven, it's just pretty obvious that Hampton has way more juice. And I think it could be closer to like 70, 30 in the second half. But also it might not matter because the charges are going to run the ball enough to where they're both going to get enough work to be good. I do think it starts at least in a like 51-49 type split, but then midway through season, we see this with rookies all the time,
Starting point is 00:23:28 especially running backs in the second half, they just start to take over. So I think by like week eight, week nine, we see Hampton get like 65 to 70% of the work is my guess. Yeah, my problem is, and I've talked about this a little bit already, but we've been wanting Najee Harris to come off the field more for like four years. And then the Chargers made the choice to go at him.
Starting point is 00:23:52 He just, he seems like the type of player that coaches want on the field. Yeah, I mean, he's not going to miss games. We know that. And he's not going to, for the most part, like,'s not going to give give you like the 30 yard runs or the explosive plays, but he's also not going to. Like like with Kenneth Walker like you, you at least tolerate the minus one minus two zero yard runs because all of a sudden he's down the field for 50 yards. Harris isn't going to
Starting point is 00:24:19 do the 50 yards, but he's not going to do the minus one minus two is he's going to give you three yards, three yards, and then enough to do enough and not make mistakes, which coaches do value quite a bit. I just think at some point they're going to see him already happen and say, this guy needs to be on the field more. I may have a new favorite pick as we see Dak Prescott pick 57. Now we talked about this earlier with the lack of weapons in Dallas, but we've seen Dak produce top six seasons basically with one wide receiver.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Seems like a lot of guys went before Dak that are probably not going to score as many fantasy points the next three years as Dak. Yeah, I know this is dynasty. I just did my redrive rankings yesterday. I have Dak as my QB seven. I'm probably going to be higher on him than most. I just every time we've seen him healthy for the last couple of years,
Starting point is 00:25:07 he's been towards the top of the NFL. I think he could be towards the top of the NFL in passing attempts as well. Yeah, that's an awesome pick with Dak there. I just think Dak has always kind of been super undervalued in dynasty to start with anyway. And we finished up round five. I took Trevion Henderson to start the round
Starting point is 00:25:24 followed by Chase Brown and Ted Aroha McMillan. He does not like Ted, apparently. Adam tells me. T-Mac. T-Mac. Okay. Rashi Rice, Bryce Young, Tua, Xavier Worthy, Dak Prescott, T Higgins, Tyree Kill and RJ Harvey. So Henderson Brown, Macmillan, Penix, Rice, Young, Tua, Worthy, my screen moved, Prescott, Dak Prescott, T Higgins, Tyree Kill and RJ Harvey. Harvey, yet another rookie taken in the first five rounds 201 in Superflex rookie drafts, Adam. And that seems to be too low to actually draft Harvey if I want to. The rookie drafts I've been in so far, he goes in round one pretty much every time,
Starting point is 00:26:18 no matter the format. And that's because he was around to pick Sean Payton. I think most people would say overpaid on him based on the draft boards, but people, despite what's happened with the running backs the last two years in Denver, still have this Sean Payton running back. Fetish is probably the wrong word,
Starting point is 00:26:37 but I feel like we had this same thing with Andy Reid for a while. Like he came to Kansas City and Kareem Hunt had that great rookie year and we had this extensive history of Andy Reid's running backs. If you can get Andy Reid running back and now the last few years that's not really been true. What direction do you think that's going with Peyton? Does Harvey kind of rekindle our love for Sean Peyton running backs or is he just going to be a mess from now on? I think it lies somewhere in between. I was looking at some of the data at FTN specifically on Javante Williams.
Starting point is 00:27:10 I'm going to make my selection real fast. Okay. Walker went, I'm going to take George Kittle here. I know he's old, but he's got the contract. He is, I think he could, I think he's live to be right up there with Bowers and McBride. So I'm going to take Kittle, but with Harvey, like I was looking at some of the data with Javante Williams and last year he was 4.1 targets per game, six among running backs, 13% target share, six among running backs, 67% of the third downs and 62% of the two minute drill snaps. I was eighth and Bo Nicks had the 11th highest
Starting point is 00:27:38 check down rate in the NFL. So this is, and this is tough for me because I was really heavy on the Julia McLaughlin sleeper train this time last season. But Harvey's obviously a way more talented prospect. I think McLaughlin was like undrafted, right? Second round draft capital. They were real like there. It wasn't just them to like I think Jacksonville really wanted Harvey. So the NFL clearly valued R.J. Harvey pretty highly.
Starting point is 00:28:02 And he doesn't have to get like he can lose some short yards work to Audre Guestamane still be awesome in this offense. Like, Javonto Williams was super inefficient, but he got super enticing fantasy volume as a pass catcher. And Harvey's probably going to be the favorite to get the early down work as well. So yeah, I think I'm trying not to get too excited because we've also seen Sean Payton
Starting point is 00:28:24 with some like incredibly talented pass catcher running backs over the years. Harvey's not, you know, Darren Sprouls, Reggie Bush, those types of players, but the draft capital capital, how excited he was to get him. I think they have really exciting plans for him. And again, they didn't really they still haven't added a buddy at receiver of really consequence either. They added Ingram at tight end, but it's really Sutton, whatever they get from Marvin Mims and you know, De'Von Vailay, but there's an opportunity for Harvard to catch 50 plus passes. So I come here to the end of round six with two quarterbacks, Lamar Jackson and Brock Burdey, two running backs, Bree Sahl and Treviana Henderson, and
Starting point is 00:29:02 Nico Collins is my only wide receiver. Thankfully, other than a couple of upside quarterbacks, Jordan Addison is my highest ranked player. So he was a pretty easy pick. Then I've come to a conundrum and I'm going to, I'm going to have you kind of analyze your thoughts on this selection. Cause I've got Roma Dunze, Ze Flowers, Matthew Golden, Jamison Williams are my top wide receivers available.
Starting point is 00:29:25 They're all ahead of any running backs or tight ends. I'm going to stick with my rankings this time and not make a change in the rankings based on the pick. I'm going to take Rome Oduinze, but I have gotten over, like since the draft, a little bit more concerned about what the Luther Burden pick means for either Oduinze or DJ Moore. How would you rank those three in dynasty and how do you think it settles out next year? Yeah, I haven't really moved off Rom Odunze with the Loveland and Burden selections.
Starting point is 00:29:57 I just think he is, and maybe it's because I was so high on him as a prospect to start with. So, but like he had like 60% of his air yards were uncatchable last year. He was used mostly down the field. I think Ben Johnson is going to get him more creative touches. Caleb Williams and the Bears last year were 21st in drop backs that use motion. That's going to change. I do think he's going to like what who's to say Luther Burden despite him being immensely talented
Starting point is 00:30:25 At least in year one isn't used like in a cleave Raymond type role right then DJ Moore and Roma Dunes are getting all the targets I just think he's still an awesome player Caleb Johnson just went I am not happy Not happy with the Caleb Johnson pick while well Adam Tries to figure out what he wants to do So it is very difficult drafting and doing the podcast because when I took Kittle, I assumed Sam Laporte was gone. So that's a that's a terrible pick by me. Sam Laporte was
Starting point is 00:30:51 still on the board. So well, you know, you're you're I think you just switched to win now mode and you think Kittle's gonna be better than Loveland this year. You'll be good to go. So round six, Azer started off with Quincheon Judkins loved that pick. Then we had Christian McCaffrey, Devontae Smith, Jerry Judy, loved that pick. Josh Jacobs, Jackson Dart, I want to come back to that one from Jamie. Ken Walker, George Kittle, Mike didn't want you to feel bad about taking an old guy in Kittle, so he took Mike Evans. Colston Loveland, Sam Laporta, and then I finished the round out with Jordan Addison.
Starting point is 00:31:26 So a couple of rookies here, Judkins and Dart. I'm pretty excited, and Loveland, so three of them. I'm pretty excited about Judkins. I think he's going to be the lead back in Cleveland probably for the next four or five years. I am less excited about Dart. I think like the appeal of quarterbacks and super flex is one of two things. You've got a huge ceiling and so we don't worry as much about your floor and that's kind of where we are with a Richardson or a Fields or maybe you've got a great floor because you're Cam Ward and you're drafted first overall so we know you get to start the next three seasons but
Starting point is 00:32:00 we don't know about the ceiling. With Dart, I'm concerned about the ceiling and the floor. I just don't it's tough because like that front office and coaching staff, they need to win or at least show some promise or they're probably getting fired. Right. And with that mindset, does that push them to saying, okay, let's just take the decent floor. We could get with Russell Wilson, like at least being in games or by week four, you know, the fans are going to be chanting for Jackson Dart. And could that lead to more volatility?
Starting point is 00:32:32 We know Jamis is going to give you volatility and, you know, some really splash weeks there in a tough spot, at least for what they want to do from a front office and an organizational standpoint. But in terms of Jackson Dart, the prospect, I do think if he starts relatively early, not that it's saying much, but he could easily be the best rookie quarterback in fantasy, unless I do think unless Jalen Milorow gets any time because what he could do with his legs.
Starting point is 00:32:55 But Jackson Dart, he's kind of got a lot of that high upside type of play where he throws the ball on the field, will run a lot, sometimes doesn't go out of bounds. But it's tough with that Giants team from where they are right now because these guys need to save their jobs and to do that they need to win games, but also you traded up in the first round
Starting point is 00:33:14 to take Jackson Dart, they're going to want him to play sooner rather than later, especially if this team is, you know, three, four games under 500. I know at least a few of you guys that are in the draft are also listening to us talk about the draft right now and I know that because you snipe us when we talk about players but I just want to say thank you because this has been a remarkably smooth start to this draft. We're 33 minutes into the podcast. We are now seven rounds through the draft. Let me
Starting point is 00:33:42 read this list of names and we'll take our second break and then we'll break it down. Round seven, I started with Roma Dunze, Chris Olave went right after him, then Caleb Johnson, Adam Lament that pick, Travis Kelsey, Chuba Hubbard, DJ Moore, Terry McLaurin, Tyler Warren, Devante Adams, Zay Flowers, Alvin Camara, and Jamison Williams. That's Olave, Dunze, Olave, and Johnson, Kelsey, Hubbard, and more. McLaurin, Warren, and Adams, Flowers, Kamara, and Williams. Tyler Warren goes pick 80, what, probably a round, round and a half after Colston Loveland.
Starting point is 00:34:19 Do you have a strong take on Loveland versus Warren? And how much do you see Warren's landing spot as a negative? I have Loveland over Warren. It's tough when you have like a player like Warren who is the better blocking prospect but also like would you be surprised if they gave him a couple carries here and there because he did that in college but I just think the landing spot's better. We definitely feel better about the Bears offense. Draft capital was closed, but I don't. I think it was live that Loveland would have went earlier than Warren, but I think most people, if you if you ask 10 people, I would say probably seven.
Starting point is 00:34:54 Six had Loveland or Warren as a better prospect. So I have Loveland ahead. I do think Warren, just in terms of like what he can do with creative touches, if they give him those, could be really good. But yeah, I mean, you feel better about the trajectory of the Bears passing attack for sure. And we had azer in the chat. Thank you, Adam. I was really, really appreciate that.
Starting point is 00:35:16 We are coming up to Adam's pick in round eight while he is on the clock. I'm going to take a look at his team. I have really no idea who's on your team because that's how I barely, I barely do too. You barely do also. So you've got Jalen hurts, just one running back in Chuba Hubbard. We've got a couple of wide receivers, four of them, Garrett Wilson, lad, McConkey, Jalen, waddle, Rushy rice. You got to like that. You just took waddle kiddle is your tight end. Drake may is your QB too. How do you feel about the first eight rounds of this draft? Yeah, I don't love having only two bet running back, but
Starting point is 00:35:51 from the tiers and everything, like I just, I kept getting sniped on a lot of the running backs I wanted. So I didn't feel like, you know, almost kind of saying, you know what, whatever, I'll just settle and take, you know, a 31 year old running back. I just didn't think the value was there. And I'm not even the highest on Jalen Waddle. I think a lot of his usage is really concerning with how they all the scheme stuff goes to John Smith, Devon H. And and of course, Tyree Kill. But middle of the eight towards the end of the eighth round in the startup, I kind of
Starting point is 00:36:16 couldn't really pass that up. I think there's there's a like some a lot of hidden upside there with Waddle as well. Obviously there's all the off the field. I've been writing about this for for what feels like years now, Heath. All the scheme stuff, like if you look at the motion, like if we have a lot of stats where you can look at the targets a receiver has when they were used in motion at the snap, it's Tyree Kill with like 30 of them.
Starting point is 00:36:42 And then Waddle has like five a year where he actually gets a target where he's the guy In motion right at the snap they don't ever use him in that role and He's relying on the post routes and deep stuff Which when they do it to it a gel wad on poster house is one of the better connections in the NFL But we know last year they were checking down everything because the offensive line was bad And that's why you saw a Chan and John Smith get so much work. So Frustrating I actually surprised he was there though.
Starting point is 00:37:07 So I thought it was decent value. I just double tapped rookie wide receivers at the eight, nine turn with Matthew Golden and Luther Burden. It takes away a little bit of my anxiety about what if Luther Burden just makes Roma Dunze go away. Do you have a strong preference between those two? I see them go anywhere from pick seven or eight
Starting point is 00:37:29 in rookie drafts to sometimes falling outside of the top 14 or 15. I prefer Burden just because I think he's the much better player. Landing spot, you probably, I don't know, what landing spot do you prefer? Because you like both offenses, you like the path probably for targets more for trey Harris but man burden like I still can't get what would
Starting point is 00:37:50 have been his 2023 season I can't get that out of my head like I just think if situations were better last year he would have been a first round pick yeah I I thought at first, oh no, he fell out of the first round. Oh no, they've got DJ Moore and Roma Dunze. And then you have that light bulb that goes on that says dummy, you think this guy is supremely talented and has ways to win that are as good as anybody in the NFL when you're using them the right way. And he just got drafted by the offensive coordinator
Starting point is 00:38:21 that we trust more than anyone to use him the right way. Why would you not want to draft that guy? I think I forgot to take the second break. So let's go ahead and take that second break and then we'll break down round eight. We are looking at round eight, which Adam Azer kicked off with Ricky Piercell, followed by DK Metcalf, Joe Mixon,
Starting point is 00:38:41 Cortland Sutton, Emeka Egbuka, Tony Pollard, DeAndre Swift, Jalen Waddle, David Montgomery, Cam Scataboo, George Pickens, and Matthew Golden. That's Piersol Metcalf Mixon, Sutton Egbuka, Pollard, Swift, Waddle, Montgomery, Scataboo, Pickens, and Golden. So we've got a couple of rookies that go in this round. Dave takes Ibuka, 89th overall. I thought he was one of the most pro-ready
Starting point is 00:39:10 wide receivers in this class. And then he goes to the absolute worst place to make an immediate impact with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin already on the team. And then Scadaboo goes 94th, I take Golden 96th. How do you handle a player like Ibuka if you believe in him, but he may not have the opportunity in year one? Yeah, that was, that was one of the more, I want to say perplexing.
Starting point is 00:39:36 I thought it was a solid draft pick, but like frustrating moves for fantasy because I was expecting a book to go somewhere. He could be the widest here for two, at least very easily. There's obviously some factors there, like maybe this is Mike Evans last season. Chris Goblin, how healthy will he be right out of the gate? I think it's going to be really good. But like if you're a dynasty team, it's not contending. You don't worry about taking a Mecca Bucca in the middle of the first round, you know, 7, 8th pick of your rookie draft, but it is a
Starting point is 00:40:09 little head scratching. I thought we could have got him maybe to like a team, I don't know, trying to think of teams that were in that range, but I just thought there could have been better landing spots, but I don't think it should deter you from taking him. Just got to be patient. In round nine, we see both Anthony Richardson and Justin Fields, these quarterbacks probably more than any others. I prefer relative to their peers in 1QB versus Superflex because 1QB, I talk about this all
Starting point is 00:40:37 the time, all that matters is upside. Superflex, you need two starters every week, that's why they fall to the QB three range. Do you have hope that either one of these guys is going to reach their true potential or they just placeholders for their current teams until they can find a real quarterback and we'll take the fantasy points as long as we can get it. It's probably for Richardson like this is the year right? Like if it doesn't happen this year it the culture taking a quarterback relatively early next year.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Fields I think can play well enough to where like the jets can be good enough to where maybe they aren't in a position to take one of those quarterbacks in a draft. I like, I definitely prefer fields. Um, we know what he does when he can play close to a full season. He's going to be right up there. QB 10 ish, I think. And I think what they're going gonna be able to do with him, obviously running the football, but like Wilson, Mason Taylor, I think it's enough.
Starting point is 00:41:33 And I think there's just way less of a chance he gets benched mid-season. You know, I was just looking at the, and you're getting ready to pick, so maybe I should wait just a second to say this, but you've already taken one. So it doesn't matter. I was really thinking, man, that the tight ends have really kind of disappeared from the draft board. And then I scroll down and my top ranked tight end left is Dalton Kincaid.
Starting point is 00:41:59 If I would have told you a year ago that Dalton Kincaid is going to be available in the 10th round of a Dynasty startup draft. Even if it was Superflex, I think you would have said that I was insane. You are our favorite Bill's analyst that comes on to FFT Dynasty, and that's not just because I make you look at the chief stuff for an hour. But how concerned are you that it's just over for contain concave? Are you still hopeful? I am much closer to believing it's over than I ever thought I would. And he apparently was playing with injury last year.
Starting point is 00:42:38 But and this is like this time last year I was all in on Dalton concave, but they spread the ball way more than anybody thought. They have this everybody eats approach on offense. And that means, you know, Kincade, some weeks will have seven targets and weeks left to and I just think from watching the bills as close as I do, there is a trust factor that Josh has with receivers. And I would write Kincade towards the bottom. I think I think obviously Shakir is number one.
Starting point is 00:43:07 I think Dawson Knox is up there ahead of Kincaid Ty Johnson's up up the running backs are all up there ahead of Kincaid I think and we'll see what happens to Josh Palmer then obviously Keon Coleman in year two I'm pretty close to being out. I just think he I just think he might just be a dude and Like that's fine for an offense. It has the weapons and that they do, but not when they traded up in the first round to take him. Yeah, it's and I hope I'm wrong. I really do. It's definitely been a strange journey because the the target per route stuff looks pretty good.
Starting point is 00:43:41 It's just he's not on the field all the time. I am. It was so weird too, because remember the week one game against the Cardinals where he almost had a goose egg? What they had bracket coverage on him every, every, almost every play. Like he was getting doubled consistently. I was like, Oh, this maybe teams are realizing Kincaid is going to be really good. And then it just didn't matter. Like I was such a weird season from him. I, you know, every draft that I host, there comes a point where I kind of lose the script
Starting point is 00:44:08 in terms of who's taken, who's available, what my team needs. That happened here. I actually had to reset my own timer because I couldn't make a pick and I'm going to double tap the tight end position. Now I'm actually going to take Kincaid for the future and I'm going to take Dave and the Joku for the now. So I feel like I've got a starting tight end for at least one year, maybe Harold Fanon's job next year. Joku is a free agent, but I'll take Kincaid as well and hope for some development there. Even with some concern about Kincaid, pick up 11.1, the 121st pick in a startup draft is a pretty good place for him, right?
Starting point is 00:44:50 Yeah, I mean, and again, I could easily be wrong and he could just finally put everything together. But even if you like you can take players at value, you know, if you don't like I took Tyron Tracy pretty late, I don't love Tyron Tracy, but I thought for a team that needs running back help, I think there's a chance camp scataboo takes his job. But what if it what if it isn't that way? Like I just you can not like a player but still like the value and Matt Donnelly takes Kyle Pitts right after Nujoku you more hope for pits or concave I'm done with Kyle The two tight ends I wrote most about last offseason about finally breaking out were Pitts and Kincaid. But Pitts, it's just like, I just, I'm done.
Starting point is 00:45:30 I think Jacob Gibbs is currently trolling me by only taking wide receivers in this mock now. It's not wide receivers, rookies in this mock now. That's okay. Let's read through the round nine results. I started round nine with Luther Burden, followed by Trey Harris, Basial Tutin went next. That was 3 rookies in a row. Then Jacoby Myers, James Connor, Anthony Richardson, Jack Besh, Chris Godwin, Travis Etienne, Justin Fields, Mark Andrews and Geno Smith. So Tutin and Etienne go in the same round. Tutin goes before ETN. I'm still pretty much of the belief
Starting point is 00:46:06 that ETN is gonna be the most valuable back on Jacksonville's team both this year and for dynasty purposes. Are you more excited about Tootin than I am? A little bit. I'm not of the belief that he's going to just, because like Tank Bigsby is still there and he was like in terms of like avoided tackle rates,
Starting point is 00:46:24 stuff like that yards after contact per attempt. He was right up toward the top of the NFL. He was much better than Etienne, which isn't saying a ton. But I think to and it's not just passing Etienne. Like, I think he still has to pass Bigsby because his disastrous rookie years behind him. He was much better last year. I'm a little bit higher on him than you, but maybe it's also I'm a little bit lower on Etienne than you at the same time. Right.
Starting point is 00:46:44 But I don't think toonsin's coming in and moving ETN to a bench roll or anything like that. But there's been trade rumors with ETN for like a year and a half now, so who knows? Right, we also have round 10 results in. Adam Azer started that round with Joann Jennings and he remember earlier in the draft took Ricky Pearsall. I prefer Jennings this year,
Starting point is 00:47:02 but I do like getting both those guys because there's a lot of uncertainty about that situation. I think one of them would be really good. Aaron Jones goes second, TJ Hawkinson, Cooper cup, Khalil Shakir, Isaiah Pacheco, Sam Darnold, Tyrone Tracy, tank Bigsby, Jalen Millrow to Jacob Gibbs, Stefan Diggs, and David Njoku. You talked about it, man. Millrow's upside. If he gets a chance to start.
Starting point is 00:47:28 I mean, he's just right there in that field's Richardson conversation, isn't he? Except for the fact that we think those guys might get a chance to start this year. Right. And like, we saw flashes of it with Clint Kubiak last year with the Saints. Like, that offense is gonna be fantasy friendly
Starting point is 00:47:43 in terms of pace, motion, stuff like that so yeah that's that's one of the landing spots where it's like obviously Darnold's there but if he gets any sort of playing time he could be really really fun for fantasy. We are finishing up round 11 now we're just about done with this podcast we will finish the draft full 18 rounds actually people are being mad at me when they figure that out. Then when we do, I'll publish an article over on CBS Sports like I always do giving you the full results and some of my thoughts on the draft. But let's take a look at our teams. I saw somebody in the chat hates my team. So that's fitting. Let's see why. I have Lamar Jackson and Brock Purdy at quarterback. I have Breece Hall and Trevion Henderson and currently no RB three.
Starting point is 00:48:30 I have Nico Collins, Jordan Addison, Roma Dunze, Matthew Golden and Luther Burden at wide receiver. David Najoku and Dalton Kincaid are my tight ends. I've got to find some running back somewhere, right Adam? Yeah. I'm not too far behind you. I don't love my running backs, but again, like the way the draft felt, just I felt like the receivers were better.
Starting point is 00:48:51 Also I know there's a lot of uncertainty with him with the injury, there's been trade rumors, but like I think you can, what, the 11th round? Yeah, I think he is a really hard player to value because he's past the age I'm taking on risk. I have Rushie Rice and Brandon I you great now So but I have the I have the pieces to fill in if I if we're playing this league out where I can put Waddle and I have the receivers
Starting point is 00:49:14 I think so I think a lot of people may look at a super flex draft and think I'm either building to win now or I'm building to Win in the future and it's hard to figure out which one of those I you fit step That's a great point. He is so hard to figure out which one of those IUC fits in. Yep. That's a great point. He is so hard to pinpoint of what timeline he fits in. I am right now expecting both Pearsall and Jennings to be the one and two in terms of total points scored this year for the 49ers.
Starting point is 00:49:38 Do you think there's a chance we get to the second half of the season and IUC's the number one in that offense this year? I just absolutely do because two years ago, this guy was somebody that like, we were vaulting up as like one of the 15 best receivers in the league. And then remember how bad he was last year before he got her like he was dropping passes. It was so weird. Uh, maybe just maybe, uh, missing training camp plays a factor.
Starting point is 00:50:01 We are also about five picks away from me taking somebody else who was bad last year for the 49ers. Devo Samuel is still on the board. We are at pick 140 in this draft. Adams on the clock, so I shouldn't have been talking about this already. Devo is someone I think can really help Jaden Daniels by working underneath part of the field and then maybe doing something with the ball after he catches it. And I actually think that this situation might work out for him just as well. We've talked about how in San Francisco, he's had to battle Christian McCaffrey and George Kittle and Brandon Iuke and all these guys for targets. They have Terry McClure there in Washington, but I don't see anybody else that can prevent Debo from being the number two target in this offense. If he's right, is he not a huge value here? Yeah, like I don't think they really wanted to give Zach Ertz the volume they did. It's just they kind of they weren't ready to play Benson it and they didn't have anybody else that was consistent. Debo, it depends on if you
Starting point is 00:51:03 like people think he's watched. He had obviously the stuff with the pneumonia that impacted him. But last year this was a very screen heavy offense. Jane Daniels was 16 NFL and screen attempts per game at four point one. Again, down twenty twenty four from Debo, but in twenty twenty three off screen passes, he was six in the NFL and explosive play rate at thirty point eight percent. He was first in yards after the catch perception at 16 on screen passes, and he was fifth in EPA per target. If we get that in this offense from Debo, that could be really, really fun.
Starting point is 00:51:33 And I would imagine they probably give him not the same as San Francisco did, but a couple of carries per game, most likely. I'm going to take a couple of backup running backs here at the 12-13 turn. It's the time for that, right? A couple of guys who don't rank quite as high in redraft, Zach Charbonneau because Ken Walker's in front of him, Trey Benson because James Connors in front of him. But I feel like either one of these guys are just an injury away or maybe a trade away from being a top 15 running back in fantasy football. Yeah, Benson is super interesting
Starting point is 00:52:05 because everybody's talking about this rookie class at running back. And then last year's obviously other than Bucky and Tracy was disappointment. But nothing's really changed. Like James Connor is still, you know, missing a couple of games this season, and he's obviously on the older side. Trey Benson, like he was losing work to like DeMarcato and stuff last season. Michael Carter got some work, but like. Nothing's really changed, like if like you could probably trade for Trey Benson
Starting point is 00:52:30 relatively cheap right now, and I think there's there's definitely upside there. Before we wrap this podcast up, let's take one more look over at Adam's team as he is on the clock and round 13. He has Jalen Hertz, Drake May and like me, no QB3. He has James Connor and Chuba Hubbard looking like a win-now roster with Tyrone Tracy and Jadon Blue on the bench at running back. His wide receivers are Garrett Wilson, Lad McConkie, Jalen Waddle, Rashi Rice. Absolutely love that group with Brandon Ayyuk on the bench at tight end.
Starting point is 00:53:05 It's looking like George Kittle. Oh, you had Tai-Jay Spears that you just took there as well. You feel pretty good about this team? I, I feel like most of the time I do these, these drafts live on the pod. I I'm fine with my team. Uh, there's obviously spots where like I just fall asleep at the wheel, but I do think I got a lot of decent value. I do think if I were go back I would have taken Laporta over Kittle just I honestly thought Laporta was gone But that happens. I still think it was gonna be really good. I liked some of the value I got with
Starting point is 00:53:36 Garrett Wilson Rashi Rice went pretty late, too I know there's there's some uncertainty here But I think I have enough behind it to kind of make up for it And I'm just you know so high on Drake made that I like my quarterback room quite a bit. Adam, thank you so much for being here. Just tell everybody once again, I know they know because they've heard you a bunch of times, but tell everybody where they can find your work and what you've got coming up. Yeah, over at F10Fantasy.com, doing a lot of right now, I'm doing a lot of like
Starting point is 00:54:02 work with the NBA stuff for the playoffs, which is really fun. And of course, still doing a ton of we had our NFL draft coverage where we were doing live video reactions, we were doing live blogs, it was really fun. And now we're doing a bunch of draft recap stuff, you know, some of the veterans that are seeing their value rise and fall from the draft, just a ton of amazing content, FTN fantasy.com. I encourage you to check out the advanced stats up. I tweet about it all the time, I mention it all the time. It's something you can just absolutely get lost in with awesome data.
Starting point is 00:54:31 You wanna find the player, what their yards per out run is when they're in motion, you can find that. You wanna find the quarterbacks, advanced stats on post routes, you can find that. So ftnfantasy.com, check out the advanced stats up, all the content as well. Rankings being posted as well I've just finished my um my first run of rankings it was it's really fun to see which
Starting point is 00:54:50 players you come out pretty high on that you didn't expect or or vice versa thank you so much for being here today Adam thank you to Deebo for running the draft board and making everything work thank you everybody was active in the chat it was an active chat today We will talk to you next Tuesday.

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