Fantasy Football Today - FFT Dynasty - One Man Dynasty Fantasy Football Mailbag: Answering Your Dynasty Questions! (05/06 Fantasy Football Dynasty Podcast)
Episode Date: May 6, 2025Join Heath Cummings for a solo Dynasty Mailbag as he answers the questions you asked! Rookie running back riddles, Dynasty Cop queries, tempting trades - Heath will break them down and give you the be...st answers. Intro (0:00) Rookie RB Tweets (0:57) Dynasty Emails (7:56) Dynasty Vet Questions (15:35) Questions from Blue Sky (23:58) Chat Questions (29:05) 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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Welcome to Fantasy Football Today Dynasty.
I am your host, Heath Cummings, and this is another one-man mailbag.
We did so much rookie prep in the month of April that we didn't have a mailbag in April.
And I'll tell you what, I went looking for questions and that lack of a mailbag showed so many emails. Appreciate all the
responses I got on social media when I went looking for questions. I just wanted
it right at the start. Say there's a couple of pretty decent questions I
wanted to get to but it makes it really difficult if they're three, four, or five
paragraphs long. So we do want as much information as possible when we're
answering these questions but if you can keep them just a little bit shorter, it really increases the chances of them getting
read.
We'll start with some very short questions because we've got some rookie running back
questions from Twitter.
And we will start with our good friend Trent McBride asks, Achan or Henderson in Dynasty?
Talking about Devon Achan, Trevion Henderson.
I think there could be some similarity between these players
because they might both be really reliant on catches
for production and Henderson in some formats
is ranked as high as my RB2.
We'll talk more about that in just a moment.
But Achan for the time being, still my RB2. We'll talk more about that in just a moment. But HN for the time being still my RB4 in dynasty.
Only B. John Robinson, Ashton Gentry,
and Jameer Gibbs rank ahead of him
in my dynasty running back rankings.
I might prefer Henderson because he's a little bit younger
if I was not contending this year,
but if I'm not contending this year,
I'd really probably be more likely to lean towards Cam Warden, the super flex league, or one of
the rookie wide receivers over the second tier running backs.
So Henderson over a Chan or a Chan over Henderson, just in the dynasty rankings,
Henderson, maybe for a team that's not competing this year, Jake says, name
three of your favorite day three running backs that you are optimistic about long term.
I feel like this would be a class where a few day three guys could put together solid NFL fantasy careers.
I definitely agree with you, Jake. I think my three favorite are a little different than other people's except Kam Skataboo is at the top.
And I think that's the case for everyone. I think Kam Skataboo could be the best running back for the Giants this season.
There were people who thought that he should have definitely been a day two pick, maybe even a top
five running back in this class. There's reasons that he fell to day three. He's not a perfect
running back prospect, but definitely my favorite day three running back. Dylan Sampson and Devin Neal are my other two.
And these are both guys who I was hoping
would go earlier in the NFL draft.
These are guys that I thought I might be ranking
early in round two.
Maybe one of them would even sneak
at the end of round one.
Because of the draft capital and the landing spots,
you can't do that.
Sampson landing in Cleveland
now battling another rookie Kunchon junk jetkins who we think will win that battle.
I actually think Neil's spot is sneaky good because I do believe he could be better than
Kendre Miller and Alvin Kamara at his age could go over the cliff at any moment and Neil is a guy who
sometimes you can find in round three of rookie
drafts, but a lot of times we'll go at the end of round two or maybe early in round four, which kind
of leads us into Jose's question. Who's a good sleeper running back I can get after three round
rookies? After round three in rookie drafts. And the options he gives me are Jarkez Hunter, Woody Marks,
Trevor Etienne, Brichard Smith.
This is almost an impossible question to answer
because from what I've seen early on
in both mock and real rookie drafts,
I can't give you a real good answer
as to who's still gonna be there after round three.
Once you get past really the
first probably 18 to 20 picks in this class, you're going to see a wide range of guys go off the board
from the end of round two to the start of round four. So what I like to do when we don't know for sure
is kind of lean on our good friends over at Dynasty League Football
and their ADP. My favorite three running backs in this class who currently have a Dynasty League
Football rookie ADP outside of the top 36 are Trevor Etienne at pick 39, Ollie Gordon at pick 40,
and hat tip to Jacob Gibbs, Jacori Kroski-Merritt at pick 46. I think really there's a pretty clear path for both Kroski-Merritt and Gordon to have some sort of impact this season.
And if something happens to HN, Gordon might actually be the best running back in Miami later this year.
So very excited about those guys, particularly if you can get them in round four.
I will say I've seen Gordon
go at the two, three turn. I've taken Gordon at the two, three turn. So they may not be there,
but those are the three guys that currently have an ADP outside of the top 36 that I'm pretty
excited about at the running back position. Nick has the 102 and a pretty bad team.
Ramondre Stephenson and DeAndre Swift are his running backs.
He's in a PPR Superflex league and he wants to know if he should go with Henderson since he has Ramondre or Hampton.
And I probably wouldn't let the fact that I have Ramondre Stevenson impact that pick all that much.
I do like Henderson more than Hampton in full PPR leagues. I think Henderson has a chance to be top
five in the NFL in 2025 in catches at the running back position. Josh McDaniels over the last three
years, 22% of his offense's targets have gone to the running back position. Stevenson has been one of
the least efficient pass-catching running backs in the NFL basically since his second year. And we all remember the
James White years, right, the Shane Vareen years. This offense, I expect, is going to have a heavy role for a
pass-catching back. I think Henderson's that guy. So I do prefer him to Hampton.
I will say that we'll get back to the same thing
about running backs on really bad teams.
A lot of times you're looking at a four, five,
maybe if you're lucky, six year window
for running backs in Dynasty Fantasy Football.
I've got a little bit of a problem on a really bad team
that's not going to be competing this year
using one of those years with the 102.
So if I had a really bad team,
I might be looking to move back.
If I don't have quarterbacks yet,
I might just go ahead and take Cam Ward.
And I would consider Travis Hunter
over both Hampton and Henderson.
But if you've narrowed it down to those two in full PPR,
my answer would be Trevion Henderson,
my number two running back in this class in that format.
Let's take a short break,
then we'll jump into some of your dynasty emails.
So we're already getting some questions from the chat.
You guys know the drill.
When we do the one-man mailbag,
we finish the show with questions from the chat.
I already see a bunch of good ones in there. Go ahead the show with questions from the chat. I already see a bunch
of good ones already in there. Go ahead and put those questions in the chat. We'll get some of
the best ones starred. We will answer those in the last five to 10 minutes of the show.
First, let's get to some emails. Some of these do get a little bit longer, but I thought they
were really interesting. And a couple of dynasty cops questions as well. John is in a dynasty super flex league,
took Trevor Lawrence as his first pick back in 2021.
So he is in a rebuild at this point,
took Brian Thomas last year in the rookie draft,
has the 102 and the 106.
And he's seriously considering taking Travis Hunter
at the 102 to stack with Lawrence,
wants to know how do you feel
about heavily investing in one NFL offense and dynasty especially one like
Jacksonville that might be exciting or a full-on disaster is a smart upside stack
or just compounding risk and praying for a miracle I think it is absolutely 100% an upside stack and compounding risk.
I don't have super negative feelings about stacking players in Dynasty.
The best format for that is obviously in best ball,
because when you get a spike week from one of them, you often get a spike week from multiple of those
guys. I don't have a problem with Hunter, especially if
you're in a rebuild, taking him at the 102. I probably wouldn't personally let the fact that
I already have Lawrence and Thomas impact that pick, but I think you just need to ask yourself
in terms of how you view playing Dynasty Fantasy football. Am I trying to play a little bit safer,
or am I shooting for upside and willing to take on risk to attain that upside? Because if that's the
way you look at it, if you're like, I love the upside, I'm okay with the risk, then I
think Hunter's probably the right pick here, especially if you were in rebuild mode, but
it's not particularly safe. Jake and Casey, I saw a couple of emails from you out there.
I didn't want to read too many, so I'm just going to do the easy one. 10 team, three wide receiver, half PPR, dynasty league,
he traded pick nine for Mike Evans and pick 21. This is one of those times where if you look at
the trade chart, it's going to tell you this, you definitely gave up the most valuable asset in the deal
and you gave up more value in that one first round pick than you got back.
But if you are a true contender and Mike Evans puts you over the top, you're not going to
care about that value.
In a vacuum, I'm probably grading this as like a D or a D plus, but if you're a true
contender
and not as worried about the pick,
I can understand making the deal
and I've made some deals that are kind of similar to that.
Got a dynasty cops question from Rob.
And this, I've got to be careful which words I read.
It's another way that would make really easy
to make sure your question gets read
is if you don't put some words in there
that could trip me up.
This is a weird one.
Last year, my friend asked me to join his startup,
Dynasty Super Flex Salary League.
I was happy to do it, my eighth league.
On draft day, the chat was full
of the usual fantasy trash talk
until someone said that we needed to cut it out.
Unknown to me, one of the members asked the commission
if his 12 year old son can join and run a team.
No one told the rest of us.
Now anyone someone does playful trash talking or creates a clever inappropriate team name.
The dad chimes in and has the commission erase the comments and tell the owner to change their name.
This year even changed my team name without telling me.
I'm not going to tell everybody what your team name was Rob.
To make things worse, when we run out our rookie
and free agent drafts, we have to pause it for half the day
while the kid goes to school and early at night
when it's his bedtime.
Not to mention the potential for collusion
because with the dad helps his son succeed.
He said actually what dad won't help their son succeed. So there was
some implied something I read into that. I really want to hear Heath's favorite line
of kick him out of the league. Also, the dad keeps trying to high road us, but now it's
probably shouldn't read that either. So how do you guys feel? I'm curious about your thoughts
in the chat. You got a 12 year old playing in a league with a bunch of guys
who like to talk trash to each other and like to come up with funny names and the
dad is not having any of it. I don't know if I would go so far as to kick anyone
out of the league. We might need to have a vote as to what type of league we're
trying to have here. I think that there's really some significant concern if you're playing for significant money when a parent brings in a child that is too young for some of the things
that are going on in the league. Not because of that, but I think that just kind of shows their
lack of agency and the type of undue control the dad might have on more than one team in this league. So I think there should definitely be a
conversation with the league. There should definitely should have been one before the commission made this choice, but I
understand you get a little bit concerned. I'm not quite ready to kick anybody out of the league yet, but I think there should be
some sort of conversation amongst the league about what are we trying to accomplish here and do we really like the fact that this dad's probably got more influence
than he should on his son's team.
Brock asks a question in a 1QB dynasty, full PPR league, 10-man league, IFPIX 107 and 110.
Brock has Kittle at tight end, Chase Brown, Ken Walker, McCaffrey, Henry,
Mix and Kamara at running back.
This sure sounds like a win and out team.
Chase, Nico, Worthy, Waddle, Tyreek, Evans,
and Cup at wide receiver.
It's 10 teams, so that makes a little more sense.
At 107 and 110, should I take two shots
at running back with Johnson and Harvey
because I'm old at the position
or best player available, which might end up being a Bucca and Loveland.
If I only take one running back, who should it be? I would say, I want to start off by saying I
would not shy away from taking Colston Loveland, especially at 110, just because I had George Kittle. Kittle does now have basically a two-year contract left.
He is at the age where you should expect in the next two
to three years, maybe as soon as this year,
we're going to start seeing some decline.
Loveland is already a top five tight end for me in dynasty
and could start out producing George Kittle as soon as 2026.
So I wouldn't necessarily let the
Kittle impact that. As for 107, like if it's not a tight end premium league, I'm probably
not taking Loveland that early. I don't think you should be looking at Johnson, Harvey or
Egbuka. I've got a pretty clear top seven in one QB leagues.
It's Ashton Gentry, Travis Hunter, Trevion Henderson, Amarian Hampton, Ted Arroyo, Macmillan,
Quinshawn Judkins.
That's just six.
And then I think, I think at that point you can consider Johnson or Harvey.
I would actually have burden as the number seven.
So Luther burden would probably be my pick.
If you definitely want to take a running back,
I do currently have Johnson over Harvey,
but I'd also consider a trade back.
I think this is kind of the range of the draft
where if you look at my rankings and tiers,
the difference between Golden, Iguca, Burden at wide receiver,
Johnson and Harvey at running back,
and Loveland at tight end is very small.
So I would be happy to move back into early round two
if I could accumulate more assets,
maybe accumulate another veteran starter
because it looks like this is definitely a win now team.
We had some dynasty vet questions
from Appalachian wordsmith.
Where do you value Drake May with the additions of Henderson and Williams?
And I, I didn't really give May a boost for the team drafting Kyle Williams
because I am not certain that he's going to be a difference maker.
I think they've got some decent pieces as number two
and number three wide receivers.
I'm not sure Williams is actually going to be a number one.
So I didn't give May a boost for that fact.
He's currently my QB 13 in the dynasty rankings,
right behind Jordan Love, Bo Nix, Kyler Murray,
Justin Herbert, right ahead of CJ Stroud, Cam Ward, and then a pretty big drop off after that.
I have Stroud close enough in the rankings that if you wanted to rank him as high really as QB9, I wouldn't have a problem with that.
I think he's somewhere in that 9 to 15 range, but right now he's my QB 13. I'm hoping that he can run more next year and still be one of the most efficient
running quarterbacks in the NFL like he was last year.
Wes says, I'm finally poised to contend after a three year orphan rebuild.
Would you trade Garrett Wilson and 102 for CD Lamb?
He already has, in addition to that 102. He has 103, 104,
110, 112, and 201. This is another one of those trades where if you look at the trade
chart, Wilson and the 102 are considerably more valuable than Lamb and even to the extent
to where I would be okay to give up the best player in that deal if I was getting one Oh two and Wilson,
but I do think lambs quite a bit better from a win now perspective this year.
So if you wanted to make the deal,
I think it's probably closer to a C minus on the trade chart.
But if you're a true contender,
I could see how you could view that as a win and I,
I don't have a huge problem with it. I'd rather trade 103 or 104. I wonder
who that person they want 102 is that might make an impact in my decision. Hogfan writes
in I'm an RB to away from being the best team in the league. Who are some veteran running
backs that you're monitoring the price this season as we get to the trade deadline if you are contending. And I'll say this is a great place, I think, to do that because of what we saw last year
with some aging running backs still performing very well.
There are five backs in my ranking.
So I think could be RB1s in 2025 who are currently dynasty RB twos.
They are Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Camara, Joe Mixon, Derek Henry, James Connor.
I would not want to buy any of those guys in May or June unless I'm
getting a significant discount.
Like I'm, I maybe if I had to give up one second round pick for one of them,
I'd be okay with that.
I'd be willing to pay a little bit more when we get to September.
And if you, if you think that you can win a little bit early in the year,
that the best thing to do might be monitor the teams that have those guys on them.
And if one of them starts out, Oh, and two, Oh, and three, one and four,
something like that, then it's time to pounce and say, Hey,
it looks like you're going into a rebuild or at least not competing this year.
Can I give you some picks for your RB1 that might not be worth anything at all in 2026?
So I think it's a if you're in a place where you're a contender
but feel like you need one running back, that's a pretty good place to be in
going into the 2025 season.
Andrew asks a question that I am currently dealing with. Another great way to get your question answered is relate to my teams.
What do you do with Brandon Iyuk, especially for teams that aren't contenders?
What are realistic expectations for his next three years?
I'm pretty concerned we're not going to see Brandon Iyuk look like Brandon Iyuk until
the second half of the 2025 season at the soonest, which makes it really difficult to
trade him because he's reached the age where he's in his prime.
He's not too old yet, but he's also not that appealing to rebuilding teams, and I have
him on a rebuilding team, but also at this point in the off season,
you can't really trade him to a contender because they don't know if
he's going to help them win this year.
I think the best thing to do my current plan with Brandon Iuk is hold hope
maybe that he starts on the pup so you can stash him in an IR spot early in the
year, and then I'm pretty ready to pull the trigger.
The first time he looks like Brandon, I you again, the first time he gives
me production to try to move him to a contender, my, my expectations for
him the next three years are.
Very, very low in 2025, probably somewhere between wide receiver 15 and
wide receiver 25 the next two years.
So I think if you trade for IUK,
you are getting a two year window
of wide receiver two production.
Speaking of my teams, Billy asks,
who are your some of your most rostered players?
And I usually do this later in the summer.
Right now I'm kind of in the middle of rookie drafts, so it's hard to, uh, to put that list together completely.
But I, I did take a look at the dynasty rosters this morning just to see where we were at.
And what I'll say is, first off, as a rule on my teams, the guys who I have on the most rosters are the guys who were third round picks for me in rookie drafts the last year or two that haven't hit yet.
And I'm still trying to hold on to them through these rookie drafts to see maybe if year two or year three looks different.
But they also might be on my most cut list when we get to September.
A few of those names are guys like Malachi Corley or Luke
Schoome maker.
Um, definitely one that makes me sad to even say tank Dell.
Now Dell, I look like a genius for about six months, six weeks, maybe six months.
But now we might just have tank Dell on our IR this year.
So those are the types of guys that generally show up as my most roster.
There are a couple of exceptions to that rule.
One of them, Justin Fields, I just think has been way too underpriced.
There's certainly a lot of risk of him losing his job after the 2025 season.
I don't really think he's going to lose it during the 2025 season, but there's so
much upside and pretty much anytime he's gotten the chance to be the starter,
he's performed like a fantasy starter.
So Fields is my most rostered dynasty quarterback right now, and that's really closely associated to how low his cost has fallen over the last 12 months.
And oddly enough, my most rostered wide receiver, that's not one of those round three guys,
is actually Garrett Wilson, who fields will be throwing the ball to.
This makes me a little bit nervous.
Wilson is actually not someone who makes the list because I'm currently higher on him than
everyone else.
It's because I was a couple of years ago, and honestly, that hasn't looked great so
far.
Now I find myself in a place where I'm actually probably a little bit below consensus on Garrett Wilson as kind of a mid wide receiver
too in dynasty and I may try to move off of one of those Wilson shares in the
next weeks or months just because I'm not sure I want to be that exposed. I
still believe in the talent. I don't know that having Justin Fields as your
quarterback is ever great for a wide receiver,
despite what happened with DJ Moore, because so much of his production comes on the ground.
So yeah, Garrett Wilson and Justin Fields, somehow I'm invested in the Jets.
That doesn't feel great. Let's take our second break, and we'll get to a few questions from the sky,
and then I'll answer your chat questions.
Looks like we have a handful of dynasty questions
from blue sky this morning.
Looks like hedgehog action says,
does it seem like the dynasty community
is writing Jonathan Brooks off too early?
And Brooks was someone who was dangerously close
to my must rostered list.
I was very excited about him really maybe undersold the injury too much.
And now he's suffered another one.
He's currently my RB 42, a guy we just talked about a couple of minutes ago.
Ollie Gordon is in that range.
Isaiah Pacheco is in that range.
Brian Robinson is in that range.
So I think I've written him off a little bit too.
It's really hard to
overcome multiple major injuries this early in your career. And Chuba Hubbard's going to be around for at
least a couple of years. I'm fine with Brooks as a by-lo for a team that's not contending that you just plan on
stashing on IR all year this year. I am not convinced you're going to get any more from him in the next 12 months than you're
going to get from Tank Del, which is very depressing, but it seems like the facts right
now.
Shill says, I'm mulling a Puka for London trade.
Which side are you taking?
This one was pretty easy for me.
I have Puka as my wide receiver five in dynasty.
Drake London is my wide receiver 13. I would strongly prefer Puka Naku'a and it would probably
take a late round first on the London side to get me to take the London side. I don't think you're
getting that. So I'd probably just hold on to Puka. Charles asks, is there ever a scenario where you'd trade out of a draft completely?
And the answer is yes. I've got at least one rookie mock coming up where I've already traded my first three round picks.
What I would say about that, though, and I want to make sure I qualified, it would rarely have anything to do with that particular draft class.
I'm not, I don't generally get so down on a
group of rookies that I just don't want any of them. What will happen though
is I'm a pretty big proponent of when you got a chance to win the league, go
win the league. And that's exactly what happened in our YOLO dynasty league last
year. I ended up trading all of my first, second, and third round pick in the 2025
rookie draft to go win the league and
I won the league and I don't have any regrets. So yes, Charles, I will trade completely out
of a draft, but it's because I'm trying to push and win a championship in the year before
you generally and doesn't have much to do with a particular draft class. Two more here
from blue sky. Dave says would you keep or sell?
DK Metcalf and what is he worth? So I'm gonna lean on Dynasty League football a little bit more here I'm I I come in with the impression that I'm considerably lower on DK Metcalf than most to be
27 at the start of this year in a semi crowded situation only because George Pickens does a lot of the same things as him
In Pittsburgh and oh, yeah, they still don't have a starting quarterback.
He is my wide receiver 35 in dynasty,
just looking over at the fantasy football rankings over at DLF to kind of get an
idea of where he is amongst consensus.
My guess is it's going to be higher than where I've got him.
And that means that I am looking to sell him. Metcalf currently comes in.
He thought I'd find it a little sooner than that, didn't you? Wide receiver 27 in consensus dynasty rankings. I would 100% be selling for that. I would be seeing if I could get a late first round pick for
him and I would happily take that. There are some rookie wide receivers that I value more
than him. In fact, all the guys you might consider in round one, I'd definitely rather
have Travis Hunter. I'd definitely rather have Tetaroah McMillan. I would rather have
Burden, Iqbuqa and Matthew Golden over DK Metcalf.
Although those last three, that's probably not true
if I'm competing for a title this season.
So he's in that range of probably a wide receiver three,
maybe a little better than that
if you're a true contender this year,
although I'm not sure how much he's gonna help you.
Bredo with our final question before we get to the chat,
is Breece Hall an RB1
still? So from my perspective in my dynasty rankings, yes he is. He'll still just be 24 at
the start of the year. I hope he is because he's a starter on one of my best dynasty teams. For
Redraft, I've got him closer to the RB2 range. He currently comes in as RB15, although there's some older backs that I think you might downgrade
because of age and prefer Hall to them.
I would definitely prefer Hall to them in dynasty.
I actually like him better than all the rookies except for Ashton Gentry, although he's in
the same tier as Trevion Henderson and Hampton and Quenshawn Judkins.
It's a big tier
So he's somewhere in that rb 7 to 14 range. I would say for dynasty purposes. Yes
He is still an rb 1. Let's get to the chat and Miguel had said waivers run in 30 minutes. This was 26 minutes ago
Which order tesla fannon giddens hunter and Marks. So I will go Fanon first.
I will go Jarkas Hunter second. I will go James third, followed by Tesla, Marks, and Giddens.
The ones that I feel really confident about were the quick answers. So Harold fan is significantly ahead of the rest of these guys in my rookie rankings and then everybody else is, is kind of a mixed bag and I think you're
throwing darts so I wouldn't put too big of an investment in those guys.
We got a trade request.
I traded one Oh four in my startup startup for 203 and two first round picks in 26 and 27.
That's, um, I think it's a good.
Sorry.
I had to the one-man mailbag about 30 minutes in usually wears down the voice.
That's why they're usually about 30 minutes long.
So I might have to take a couple extra drinks here at the end, but
I think it's a good haul.
I'd like it more if you're definitely not competing this year, but yeah, I think I,
I like picking up those two firsts for 104.
And as a bonus, you don't have to decide who to have to take with that pick.
So we got a question from Lancelot.
I just traded Garrett Wilson and my 12th, 112.
So the 12th overall rookie pick for Pinnix.
And he has a lot of good players there.
And I'm assuming it's Superflex.
We'll scroll down.
It definitely is.
I would still rather have Garrett Wilson, I believe,
than Michael Pinnix, but it's not a bad deal.
I wouldn't be giving anything extra though.
Oh, Brandon, we got to talk about this.
He says, burden over a book.
I wish I'd heard that before I traded my pick a few days ago,
made my pick a few days ago.
I have gone back and forth and back and forth.
And how do you say that when it's more than two guys?
I think a book is a more sure thing to deliver top 30 for sure production over the next three years,
probably top 25. I just, man, I don't know how to piece together the fact that Burden fell out of
round one, but he landed with Ben Johnson. And there's just at least a, I mean, I don't think
it's too small of a chance that we see Ben Johnson use Luther Bull Burden in a high volume
role, just maximizing his skills.
So I think there's more upside with burden, definitely more risk with burden.
I wouldn't feel bad about that pick as well.
If I had three picks in that range, I'd take a book at least once.
It's, um, it's definitely not, Oh, Mr.
Poppinsky favorite long shot for NFL MVP.
Oh, that's not a dynasty question,
but I like the question a lot.
And I will say amongst this group
that I will go with Caleb at 28 to one.
Can we put too much faith in Ben Johnson?
I don't think we have.
We've got one more question from EM. I traded 104
and George Pickens for 111, 201 and Trey Benson. So you definitely gave up the most valuable asset
in this deal in the 104. And I do think that I agree with you.
I just want to look at these rankings.
So in my rankings, and this is, um, 111,
we're looking at Colston Loveland, 201,
we're looking probably at Jayden Higgins or Trey Harris or Tyler
Warren.
And so those guys in my rankings are going to be very close to George
Pickens. In fact, I've got Pickens just a couple of spots ahead of them. So I don't love this trade.
Let's try to finish on one that's a little bit more positive. I would probably grade that trade
as somewhere around a D. Let's see if we have one more startup
draft startup question or we have a rookie question. Skywalker great
question great one to finish on. I am doing a startup dynasty best ball
super flex league. When do you plan to go for a win now team or a young team? before or during the draft and I would say I'm as
A rule very much against tying myself to anything before the draft even a dynasty startup. I want to have a plan
But my first three or four picks are generally going to determine
The path of my team.
I think that's a good range, because that's right about the point where some of those
older players might become good values if you were contending.
So not until pick three or four.
As you can tell, my voice has run out.
This has been a one man mailbag on Friday.
We'll have a more traditional show with a one QB startup mock draft.
We will talk to you on Friday.
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