Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Players Dave Richard Can’t Stop Drafting in Mock Drafts! (06/29 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: May 29, 2026Who are the players that Dave Richard just can’t stop drafting in 2026 fantasy football mock drafts? We break down the biggest targets Dave keeps landing on his teams, including exciting rookies and... breakout candidates like Tetairoa McMillan, Emeka Egbuka, Jadarian Price, Tyler Warren, and more! Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Shop our store: shop.cbssports.com/fantasy SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179 FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1 SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Players, Dave Richard can't stop drafting in mock drafts right now on Fantasy Football Today Express.
All right. You got a lot of these guys? A lot of guys to keep drafting.
I kind of have groups of players. Small groups, not a bunch of names. It's going to be easy to follow along.
But let's say like the first group, a group of three wide receivers, Devante Smith, Ted Aurora McMillan, Amecca, Bucca, would love to have all three on my fantasy teams.
and maybe when I do some auction drafts,
my plan will be to load up on running backs
and then spend for specifically those three wide receivers
and not get any from the elite tier.
But I think these are all three wide receivers
that could get fed nicely and turn into top 12 wide receivers.
There are wide receivers 12 through 15 in that range for me.
Round three is the time to go after them.
I think that I'll have a chance to take a step forward and play.
In the case of a Bucca and McMillan,
better than they did overall last year.
in the case of Devante Smith, as the number one wide out in Philadelphia,
assuming A.J. Brown's gone.
Fully expect him to see eight targets per game and be very, very good.
And how do you rank those three?
I've got a Bucca at the top of the list,
and I'd have to double-check my rankings to be sure.
Why don't I do that in Fibuster for about 15 seconds?
A Bucca is definitely at the top of the list.
Did you see the highlight of him, by the way?
He did.
He catches a pass.
Literally, the ball is way behind him.
It's a terrible throw.
but he catches it one hand, runs to the end zone,
like everything that you could want to see from a healthy
Emeka Boca is right there.
He's first, McMillan's second, Devante Smith is third,
T. Higgins is in that group as well.
I do like a Bucca as the head of the class there.
I can't stop drafting at least one of those three receivers
in every draft I'm in.
And CBS AP right now, early ADP, they're all going.
They're going back to back to back.
They have almost the same exact ADP,
all right around 36 overall at the three-four turn.
Devante Smith, Tetero McMillan, and a Mecca, Abuka, and then T. Higgins right after that.
So, yeah, you could, you could, in theory, start your team with two running backs and maybe get two of those guys at the three, four turn.
That'd be sweet. Yeah. All right, Dave, what's our next group?
So this isn't me saying that I'm going to wait a little bit on tight end. I will obviously get one of McBride, Bowers, and Loveland if they're available at a fair price on draft day.
Certainly, I don't want to retry any of those three, at least not at this point.
but I love the idea of waiting a little bit longer
and getting Tyler Warren, Harold Fanon,
and honestly Sam Leporta should be in this group as well.
So I know we always say greater late for tight ends,
and this is me going against that.
These are still really good tight ends.
I still think that especially in the case of Warren and Fanon,
a lot more for them to do after what they did as rookies.
Leporta, just the fit in what Detroit's offense should be this year.
I think he's going to end up playing a lot.
I think that'll help improve his target volume.
all three of these guys are good.
I don't even want to call them fallback options.
I think they're worth targeting if you don't get one of those first three tight ends at a fair value.
So if you miss out on McBride, you miss out on Bowers, don't panic, miss out on Loebbling.
Don't panic either because you've got one of these three tight ends waiting for you in that round four or five range.
Okay.
Okay.
You think it's better to take a tight end one of those three in rounds four or five rather than, you know, waiting
for a Kelsey or likely or something like that.
I think they're more fun than Kelsey or likely.
And there's things to, listen, it could come to pass that there are two PPR points per game
better than Isaiah likely on average over the course of the year.
And that's not that big of a difference, especially compared to the four round gap that
you might see between those types of tight ends and Isaiah likely.
But I just think that they've got a lot more upside than likely who very, very, very, very,
very few games in his career where he's had a lot of targets. He's done well with them.
No guarantee that he's actually going to come through and do that, which makes him actually
somebody that I don't mind drafting if I miss on all those first six tight ends, likely,
and I'm just thinking this out loud, he's somebody that I'm targeting.
If I don't see a fair value at tight end, maybe I'm in a draft where tight ends are going early,
tight end premium. Absolutely. I miss out on those guys. Isaiah likely would be on my shopping list.
So would Kelsey. So would Kittle, frankly, if he's going to keep falling in drafts with his injury.
somebody that can help me in the second half of the season.
All right.
We're going to take a break and get some more groups of players that Dave Richard keeps drafting in his mock drafts.
We'll be right back on FFD Express.
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All right. What's next, Dave?
Running backs. And obviously getting studs early is going to be an important part of my game plan for drafts this year.
But I'm also going to look for running backs in the middle rounds as well. I really want to be loaded at that position.
And the next group of three, they are all ranked anywhere between RB 24 and RB 28 for me.
And this is after the Quinn Sean Breece Montgomery group of running backs, Judarian Price with Seattle, Chubbard with Carolina,
Bachel Tooting with Jacksonville. All three of these guys are going to have an opportunity theoretically at the beginning of the year
to get off on the right foot and lead their backfields.
Obviously, things could happen in training camp.
But as I've been studying specifically the Seattle offense,
and I haven't gotten to Carolinas yet,
but I think I'll feel the same way when I get there.
I think price is a really good fit for what Seattle wants to do.
They're basically keeping the same structure of their offense,
but they're bringing the 49ers run game coordinator,
Brian Flurry to help make it take a step forward this year.
And I don't know if this coaching staff really even has the choice
of taking a lot of work off of Price's plate
because Walker's not there.
Charbonnet's banged up.
I don't know if Charbonnet will even play much this year, if at all.
And so getting Judarian Price on my fantasy team,
if he's my number two running back,
I don't love it.
I better be really good everywhere else on my roster.
But if he's my number three running back,
all these guys are great number three running backs.
I'd be pretty happy with them.
I can't stop drafting at least one of those three
in every single draft I'm in.
All right.
So that's Judarian Price, Chuba Hubbard,
and Bejel
You have a favorite?
Price is my favorite of the three.
Okay.
Would you rather have DeAndre Swift or those guys?
Swift is right.
I'd rather have him.
I think he's a little bit safer.
I love the offense that he's in.
But you can make the case that all three of those guys have a little bit more upside
because they're not going to begin the year rotating drives with Kyle Mononga.
They might be rotating drives with somebody else.
We just don't know yet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
You got to know any more?
I got a lot more.
How much longer are you want to do?
to go. One more group, I think. One more group,
quarterbacks, wait on them because I'm, I'm doing this in every draft so far, Adam. I'm
just waiting and waiting. And then, oh, there's, there's Matthew Stafford, who's the league
MVP in round nine or round 10. There's Justin Herbert, who, not in every single draft,
especially when you're drafting with Jamie. He's taking Herbert a little bit earlier, but he's in
that same range. Trevor Lawrence is in that range. You can get Patrick Mahomes and another
quarterback if you want to. I like waiting on the position this year, feeling like I'm stealing.
Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to take quarterbacks either at fair value or even
reach a little bit for the big name guys. And so I don't mind waiting a little bit on draft
day and getting one, maybe two, it depends on my league size, quarterbacks for my squad,
but there are so many quarterbacks that you can make the case for as 22 to 25 fantasy
point per game guys and six point that you shouldn't have to overpay. Why overpay for
something in life when you can get something similar at a discount at a different store
or in a different place or in a different town.
You get the drift.
You get the point of what I'm saying.
But I am waiting on quarterback and I love the idea of getting somebody like Stafford who
just coming off a huge year, still has great receivers, still in a great offense,
and might be a little bit ticked off after what the Rams did in the draft to come back
and play with some fire this year again.
Okay.
Yeah, looking at CBS ADP, if you wait to pick 100.
Justin Herbert, Caleb Williams, Brock Purdy, Stafford, Trevor Lawrence.
Didn't even mention Caleb or Purdy.
Yeah.
They're in that group, too, for sure.
Mahomes was QB3 per game last year, I think, and he's going 123rd over a hundred.
I'm going to guess that'll change.
He's already working out in OTAs.
If he is in training camp and he's rolling along just fine without restriction,
and if Rashid Rice avoids any type of suspension,
I bet that ADP goes way up.
All right, Dave, Richard.
Thank you very much, sir.
We will talk to you next time.
Have an awesome weekend, everybody.
See you on the other side on Fancy Football Today Express.
Dave is balancing a pen in between his nose and his up with it.
Very impressive stuff.
