Fantasy Football Today - FFT on CBSSN: How to Build a League-Winning Roster! 2025 PPR Draft Strategy for Every Pick (12-Team Mock) | 08/13 Fantasy Football Podast

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

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Today, we'll tell you, 1 through 3, 4 through 6, 7 through 9, 10 through 12. If you have a pick in any of those spots, what's the best way to go about constructing your roster? I am Adam Azer. Welcome to fantasy football today, presented by Bet, Ed. MGM, the sports book born in Vegas. I'm going to say hello to my two co-hosts here. Hello, Heath Cummings. Are you excited about James Cook and that extension he just signed?

It's the most wonderful time of the year. I just wake up every morning excited. Yeah, I'm happy James Cook got his check, and we don't have to have that annoyance in doing the rankings. It does help provide a little bit of clarity, certainly, and we can move him into the third round for most people. He'll settle into that third round range. Hello, Jamie Eisenberg.

Ramandre Stevenson has an injury. We don't know all that much about it right now, but have you posted the Travion Henderson rocket ship emoji tweet yet? Several times. It's hard not to get excited about him. He's probably faster than the rocket ship emoji based on what we saw. So there's a lot to love about where Trevion is right now and potentially could be if this Ramandre Stevenson injury

is something we have to worry about. So Trevion may move back ahead of James Cook if Stevenson's going to miss any. extended period of time. Heath, I can't, you can't hear him either, right? Not at all. Based on his face, it seemed like what he said was pretty funny, pretty clever, yeah.

So right now, can't hear Jamie at the current moment right now. We'll work on that. All right, so Heath, what we're going to do today is look at the teams, the roster builds from a draft that Jamie was a part of last night. It was one of our St. Jude drafts and thanks to everybody who's contributed to

our draft-a-thon. So we're going to look at the results, but let's take a look at if you're drafting early the best way to construct your roster. Now, this team was, or this league, was a 12-team league. It was full PPR where you start one quarterback, one tight end, two running backs, two wide receivers, one flex. So a little bit shallower. Only one flex, only two wide receivers. But if we can take a look at the first three teams, and Jamie was one of them, Jamie was team three. They started out with Jemar Chase to the team one, Bejohn Robinson to team two, and C.D. Lamb to team three. And just there we go, we take a look there. Um, Heath, your thoughts on just the first three

picks and if they look pretty normal to you in a PPR league with only two running, two wide receivers and one flex. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Chase, Bejohn, Lamb are the first three picks for me in a full PPR format. That's the exact order I would take them in. Those are the exact three players I would take them in. Things get very, wonky in round two but i will say those those first three players that were taken what the thing about it especially when you're picking with one of the first three picks and the reason i moved cd lamb up to three ahead of any of the other running backs is i think what you see here in round two with no wide receivers being taken that's kind of how i feel about that range now i wouldn't normally take a

quarterback in round two but i often take tray mcbride in that spot in round two and so if i'm not going to take a wide receiver at the end of round one. I'd really, or the end of round two, I'd really like to get one in my first three picks. Okay, so Jamie gets, can you, give me a hello. Let me see if we can hear you now. Hi, Adam. Cannot hear Jamie yet. Okay, so Heath and I will try to handle this until we get Jamie's microphone going here.

Yeah, so Trey McBride was already off the board when those second round picks were being made. Bowers went in the middle of round one. with the two, seventh pick of round two. Trey McBride went with the eighth or ninth pick of round two. So those last three picks, Irving, Josh Allen, Jonathan Taylor, and Allen was the first quarterback off the board. As we look at these three teams, none of them took a tight end,

early, because, you know, McBride and Bowers were off the board, and maybe it was a little bit too early for Kittle, although he went with the fifth pick of round three, which is a little early what we usually see. When you look at, let's say, the first three picks for these three teams, do you like any of these builds better than the other two? So I think of these three builds, by far my favorite would be Chase, Taylor, and Kyron Williams. And I should say that what I said about the quarterback and not wanting to take one with the first three picks,

what that means, and you can see kind of what happened here is you're probably waiting on quarterback. Because if you don't take one at the start of round three in those first three picks, there's a good chance the top five quarterbacks are gone by the time you pick in round four, and there's not really anybody you want to take it the four or five turn. So I think the fact that only one team took a quarterback, and they did in the second round, kind of makes sense from this place. But if you already have that elite wide receiver in Jamar Chase, I'm perfectly fine, especially if Trey McBride is gone with doubling up on running backs.

And there's a good chance that this team has the number one wide receiver in fantasy and two top 12 running backs. Hi, Jamie. Hi, buddy. Here. You sound great. All right, so you took C.D. Lamb, and then you took Bucky Irving, and then you took Tyreek Hill. So I guess I'll ask you the same question I asked Heath.

Just looking at the first three rounds, is there a team that stands out for a good or a bad reason with teams one through three? I mean, obviously, it's hard to argue with any of the bills if you're going to go with a quarterback as one of your first three picks. I just would not do that. So Team 2 is not the route that I would prefer to go. I would like that much better if that was Bejohn Robinson, T. Higgins, in round two, and then maybe either Tyree Hill in round three or just going, you know, two running back with your first three picks. But I like, obviously, what I did. I was, you know, thrilled to get Bucky Irving at the back end of round two.

Obviously, would have considered Jonathan Taylor as well if he was there or Kiron Williams. And then Tyree Kill is somebody that's, you know, a little bit polarizing. You know, you can put JSN in that spot if you don't like Hill or Devante Adams. So if you want to just play the position as opposed to the player to get two top 12-ish caliber wide receivers and a top 10 caliber running back, I love that start the most. So that's my preferred build of the three. Yeah, and if we just now look at the first seven picks and the way these rosters were built, one quarterback to Team 2, a tight end in round 7 to Team 1, Jamie takes three running backs and four wide receivers. which was an interesting strategy since you can only start three wide receivers. But, yeah, Jamie, that's kind of what Heath was saying.

You didn't get a top five quarterback because you weren't going to take one in round two or three and Burrow and Hertz did not fall to you in round four. You didn't get Kittle. So you didn't fall to you in round four. In fact, he went just after your pick in round three. But anyway, I know you like this roster bill. You just build out your running backs and your wide receivers and then you take a quarterback late.

In this league, you took Justin Fields as your only quarterback. T.J. Hawkinson was your eighth round pick. So I know you liked this team, and drafting early, I think you're going to advocate. Not say this is necessarily how you have to do it, but you like a team that really focuses on running back and wide receiver early if you have one of the first three picks in the draft, right? Yeah, absolutely.

And, you know, we've seen most of our drafts. Now, again, it's not reflective of average draft position, where there is a chance you can get Joe Burrow or Jalen Hurts coming back to you at the back end of round four. It's just rare, but it does happen. And in this, in the case of this draft, so it was one, two, three, four, five in round six, I was considering Sam Laporta. I think he went one or two picks before me where I took Jerry Judy. So it was looking at, you know, some different options of how the draft may have fallen. But then I think you know you play the other side of that. To me, Garrett Wilson in round four, where I got him is

a steel to get Chuba Hubbard in round five. You can make a case that's a steel. Jerry Judy, I think, is probably appropriately priced, but that's a very good pick, especially if Joe Flack was going to start the majority of games. Really of the players that we're showing here, the one where I may have reached on is Jalen Warren. I know we were debating at that point, you know, because you and I were talking it out, Tyrone Tracy versus Jalen Warren, and even Caleb Johnson versus Jalen Warren. For me, at that point, it's more of a luxury pick, and I know you don't necessarily want to say that when you're talking about around seven selection, but if he's the starting running back for the Steelers, now I have another guy to sort of factor in with Hubbard and could potentially be a flex

as well. So yes, to your point, I do like to build out my running back and wide receiver depth. I don't think you have to reach for a quarterback or tight end. And the way that it played out to get Justin Fields and T.J. Hawkinson, I'm pretty thrilled with that. So I think we can take a look at all of these teams individually and, you know, the entire roster, if we have

that and we can just sort of evaluate how these managers did. So this team won, Heath, with Jamar Chase, Jonathan Taylor, Kairn Williams. This is in order of how they picked. So they're going to be starting Kyler Murray. They're going to be starting Taylor

and Kyron. Jamar Chase, Marvin Harrison, and D.K. Metcalf would be the flex. Do they have good enough running back depth with Jordan Mason, Braylon Allen, and Samajai P. Ryan, and then they've got Kelsey and Earths. Looks good. What do you think about this team? Yeah, I think this might be the difference between a two-wide receiver and a three-wide receiver league is that I might have taken one more running back where they took Jaden Higgins, and I would have taken a different running back besides Samajin-P-Rine. But I do also think it shows that like no quarterbacks, no tight ends in the first six picks for this team. They still have Travis Kelsey, Zach Earth.

That's a very good combo even if they're 117 years old combined. And then they have Kyler Uri a quarterback, which is a high upside starting quarterback in the ninth round. So I do think looking at where this worked out, we like Jordan Mason a lot as kind of a bi-week replacement running back for as long as Aaron Jones is healthy. and maybe a must start running back if Aaron Jones gets hurt. And Braylon Allen is moving up draft board just about as fast as anybody. So I do think they do have enough running back depth. Okay. Jamie, let's get your thoughts on Team 2.

And then we're going to get Heath's thoughts on Team 3, which is Jamie's. Team 2 started with Bejohn Robinson and then Josh Allen, T. Higgins. RJ Harvey at 411 and then D'Andre Swift. One of the things you'll notice in this draft as we continue the show is that running backs went pretty early. a reaction, I think, to preseason week one, especially Harvey and Henderson. But, yeah, what do you think about this team that's going to be rolling out? Josh Allen at quarterback, Kyle Pitts, and or Jake Ferguson at tight end. And at running back, it's Bejan Robinson, R.J. Harvey.

Wide receiver, it's T. Higgins, Romo Dunezay or Matthew Golden. And then the flex is Swift, probably, or Golden or O'Donze, I guess. And then there's Addison in it after week three. Your thoughts on Team 2. the running backs are great. You know, whenever you have Bejan Robinson and then whatever you pair with them, you know, in this case, it's RJ Harvey and DeAndre Swift. He has three top 20 caliber running backs. And whatever is going to happen in Jacksonville, round nine is a great spot to get Tank Bigsby. So the four running backs at the top of the group here, you know,

or the four top running backs on this team, I think are pretty impressive. The quarterback is obviously a stud in Josh Allen. And I think the tight end will be okay, you know, just in terms of, you know, getting something out of Jake Ferguson, probably more so than Kyle Pitts. But you waited on the position. So, you know, it's not bad there. It's really about the wide receiver spot for this team. You know, so T. Higgins, locked in, fine. That's, that's great. The O'Doonsey Golden Addison problem, at least until Addison is probably ready to go,

could be a major issue because who knows what O'Donzee is going to do. And I do like the fact that there's a little friendship strategy going on here with Oduenzee and Luther Bird. And so maybe one of those guys is, you know, startable in a two-receiver league or flex. But I think that's just a little bit of a concern there. So by taking the quarterback early and then prioritizing running back as much as, they did with the three in the first five rounds, you're obviously leaving yourself a little thin at that position if you're concerned about it.

So hopefully it does work out. I do think, though, the Addison value was great. The Bigsby value was great. I do like the Luther Burden pick as well. But there's just a lot of ifs at that second receiver spot, and especially knowing that T. Higgins has an injury track record. If he misses any time, especially during the Addison suspension, you could be really in trouble with the wide receiver spot.

Heath can get your thoughts real quick. 30 seconds on Jamie's team, team three, which started with C.D. Lamb, and then Bucky Irving, Tyreek Hill, et cetera here, starting at quarterback Justin Fields, tight end, T.J. Hawkinson, and your thoughts on Jamie's team. I'll just say that like when we evaluate each other as teams, we like to give each other a hard time sometimes.

It seems pretty obvious that Jamie was the professional here because this is a fantastic team. He's got great value all the way through. Chris Godwin and the ninth is great. T.J. Hawkinson, I like that value at the end of round eight as you're starting tight in. Justin Fields, I said earlier that I would draft in round seven, I think, last week. So obviously I love that.

Trey Benson's a fantastic backup running back. And I love, I like Chuba Hubbard in round four. So round five is fantastic there. It looks like if there's any criticism at all at the top of this draft, it's somebody who's used to drafting in a lot of three wide receiver leagues that drafted in a two wide receiver league. Like there's a lot of wide receivers at the top and maybe sacrifice some upside at other positions.

But I love the team. well thank you here well yeah yeah great job garret wilson going 46th was also kind of surprising the latest i've seen him go all right that's how to how to pick from the first three spots it's very very okay and perhaps even recommended to wait on quarterback and tight end unless there's really good value there just build out your running backs and your wide receivers let's find out about picks four through six how to build from those spots when we come back on fantasy football today Impact site located.

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We're talking about how to draft in a 12-team PPR League from picks 4 through 6. We just talked about 1 through 3, not necessarily where you're going to get a quarterback or a tight end, unless you want to spend an early pick on a quarterback there. And hopefully Trey McBride makes it to you. He did not in this particular draft. But we get to picks 4 through 6 in this 12 team, full PPR league, where again, you start one quarterback, one tight end, two running backs, two wide receivers, and a flex. Jamie, just generally speaking, what changes from picks 4 through 6 compared to 1 through 3? Well, I think in the case of this draft, it was the running backs getting pushed up as much as they did.

But, you know, really it's after the first two picks, we could see anything between 3 and 12 happen. You know, there's clearly the two top receivers of C.D. Lamb and Justin Jefferson, which you've yet to see so far he was not drafted in the first three picks. He was not drafted in the first six picks. So he fell a little bit here. That group of receivers that typically comes after those top three, they can get pushed up in some drafts, you know, the Malik neighbors, Nico Collins, Pooka Nakua group, or they can fall like they did in this draft. But I think really what you're going to see is some combination of those non, most likely Bejan Robinson, Sequan Barkley running backs, and anything from those receivers behind Justin Jefferson. and C.D. Lamb, they're all in play in this particular spot. And Heath, we see each team took a tight end in the first six rounds. Two of the three teams took a tight end of the first three rounds, a little bit earlier than ADP for McBride. And two of the three teams took an elite quarterback here. Lamar Jackson going at 3.4, Jaden Daniels, at 3.6.

And then all three of these teams have a quarterback and a tight end by the seventh round. So very different than what we saw from teams one through three. but if you want to get into it, and let's talk about the build for Team 4. Gibbs and St. Brown. Oh, no, nope, wrong. Gibbs and A.J. Brown. That, yeah, Gibbs, A.J. Brown, Lamar Jackson.

James Connor at 409 was a little earlier than I expected. Devante Smith, Sam Leporta, Cooper Cup, et cetera. Your thoughts on this team. So I think this team really, and when you look at all three teams together, you can really see it because this team got a gift with A.J. Brown at 209. we talk quite a bit about wanting to have one of those top 10 or 11 wide receivers and two teams in the four through six range passed on that this team got that so they've got an elite running back they've got an elite wide receiver they've got an elite quarterback and so that that's a good start I think you're right that looking past that there may have been a few reaches in the four through six range and I'm not a huge fan of the bench but that can be overcome

when you've got elite players at three of the four positions, and this team got that because a couple of other guys passed on A.J. Brown. I think it's interesting, though, guys that they took A.J. Brown and DeVante Smith, because that hasn't exactly worked out perfectly the last couple of years. You know, usually one benefits a lot when the other is missing, which has happened from time to time. It's not bad, and I think, again, when you look into value of these guys, like, you know, Devante Smith, some people like him in the fourth round.

So fifth round is probably appropriate for him, but it just felt like that's not the combination of wide receivers you want to pair up just based on how they've operated, especially if they're going to still be as run dominant as they were. I think they're going to throw the ball a little bit more, so I don't hate it, but I just don't love pairing up those two wide receivers in particular. Well, another thing I want to talk about here is how to pivot when one position is being pushed up more than you expected. So this was the first draft that we did since preseason week one,

which saw RJ Harvey look good and saw Trayvion Henderson look amazing. and Najee Harris did not play in week one. We didn't know he was back at, maybe we knew he was back at practice at this point. But my point is Hampton goes 37th, Trevion Henderson goes 39th. RJ Harvey was still on the board when Team 4 took James Connor. But there really were not,

the running backs that were used to seeing in round 5 just weren't there. So he decided that Team 4 decided, all right, look, I'm going to take James Connor here. Maybe he's usually a round 5 pick. Alvin Camara was off the board. Sometimes he's available here. So that does happen where you have to reach maybe a little bit. But Chuba Hubbard was on the board.

RJ Harvey was there. Maybe you guys would have preferred that to James Connor. Either way, that's team four. And let's take a look at team five now, which started with Devon A. Chan and Chase Brown. So this is a team that went without a wide receiver until round four. So, Jamie, how did this team do at wide receiver? Because they're great at running back with A. Chan and

round. We love George Kittle. Quarterbacks Baker Mayfield. No issues. I mean, you want to quibble about having him in round seven wherever. But how did this team do it wide receiver with this build going rounds four, five, six, worthy Hunter Waddle? I think they did okay. You know, when you look at it, you got your two running backs in place. You have your tight end in place. Waited a little bit on quarterback, you know, so dumping into wherever Baker Mayfitt was picked in about the same range that he's going average opportunity. So whether you like that or not, but obviously you got a guy that has a chance to be special based on what we saw last year. And I think the receivers were okay.

Worthy's going to swing this potentially one way or the other. If it's a three-game suspension for Rashi Rice, then Worthy's not exactly the most ideal number one receiver. If it's a six-games suspension for Rice, then Worthy, Hunter, and Waddle, it's a great combination. When the hope would be is you don't need to play all three, you might have to play all three as a flex option, but you do have Giovante Williams.

You do have them eventually, Joanne Jennings. I think the receiving core as a whole is pretty good without having the lead singer at the top. but it's just a good group overall. So the way that this all played itself out, I think Worthy, Hunter, Waddle, you can make a case that all three of those guys could be round four or round five picks,

certainly round five picks, because that's what their average reposition is telling us. So I don't hate it. I just don't think that you ideally want to come out of the first round without one wide receiver, but based on the build, getting Chase Brown in round two, getting George Killed in round three,

if you wanted to have one of those top tier tight ends, it worked out okay, in my opinion, based on how this group of receivers were put together. It could have been different receivers, too. If you don't love these names, that could have been Garrett Wilson instead of Xavier Worthy or Marvin Harrison or D.K. Metcalfe instead of worthy. It could have been McLaurin or DJ Moore or McMillan instead of Travis Hunter. It could have been Jerry Judy or Zay Flowers instead of Jalen Waddle.

All right, let's take a look at position six here, Heath, and how this team that took Ashton Genty, by the way, four running backs ahead of Sequan Barkley. Bejohn Gives A. Chan, Genty, and then Barclay was the next pick. But Gentie, Tray McBride, a little earlier than we're used to seeing. One pick after Brock Bowers, Jaden Daniels. So how did this team do taking running back, tight end, quarterback? That was the only team that took a tight end and a quarterback with two of its first three picks. So when I do go not quite zero wide receiver, but close to it, this is usually what my teams look more like.

Taking a Tray McBride or a Brock Bowers in round two, taking a Jaden Daniels or Lamar Jackson in round three. I think he has a top six running back and maybe another top 12 running back, but if not a very good number two in Breesall. I'm a little bit more optimistic about Terry McClorn. I think Calvin Ridley's in that blob of guys that we treat as wide receiver threes, but not that far from the low end wide receiver twos. What's really going to kind of tilt this whole thing is Stefan Diggs anywhere close to Stefan Diggs?

Does Brandon I, you come back and look anything at all like Brandon Ayyuk? I think that this can absolutely work because he's elite, really, at quarterback, tight-end, R-B-1, R-B-2. And so you just need your wide receivers to be fine. There's plenty of risk in this receiving core. But if Terry McCorren signs his contract, and Stavon Diggs looks like Stefan Diggs Week 1, this is a very, very, very good team. It's my least favorite team so far are the ones that we've seen. Just a lot of ifs. I mean, look, Gentie, if you want to reach for him, that's fine.

I don't like him at number six overall. I think there are better players on the board. Jefferson was still available, McCaffrey's still available. Like, I like those guys better than Gentie. So first issue there, you know, McBride, Daniels, that's fine. Brise Hall in round four, if you want to go that route, that's fine. But it's just too many questions. Like Stefan Diggs is a potential flex option for you.

I don't like that coming off the knee injury. Brian Robinson, you know, okay, not bad there. But, you know, a lot of just ifs Brandon Iyuk may not play for the first six weeks, garendo, who knows with his shoulder. and just like too many questions for me with this team. And that's fair. However, if you just, if you take the same build in terms of running back, tight end quarterback,

running back, wide receiver, wide receiver, wide receiver, I do think that you could come up with names that you like better. So you could take Barclay there instead of Gentie. You can stick with McBride and Daniels. You could take RJ Harvey for you, Jamie, ahead of Breece Hall, right? Yeah. Okay, and then you don't like McLaurin. You could have taken Teteroa McMillan there.

let's say you stick with Ridley. You go Ricky Pierce all over Stefan Diggs. All of a sudden, for you, this is a team that you like a lot better, and it shows you that you can get away with this build. Yeah, this wasn't a question. I'm sorry, it wasn't the question of the build. It was a question of the player. So, yes, you're right.

The roster construction for me is fine. The players that just have too many questions for me. I think both angles of this are worth bringing up, we'll obviously talk about the players as well. But if we learn anything from teams four through six, specifically teams five and six, I believe, it's that if you don't take a wide receiver with any of your first three picks

or any of your first four picks, there is a big group of wide receivers that go all the way deep to about wide receiver 40. They're okay. They're really not bad. You can take advantage of that blob, as we call it. All right, so that's the first half of the draft. We'll take a look at picks seven, eight, and nine.

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Talking about this 12-team PPR mock draft, one quarterback, one tight end, two running backs, two wide receivers, and one flex. And so these are picks seven through nine. These are the first seven picks for these three managers. A surprise there, certainly with Josh Jacobs going eighth. We're not going to tell you to do that. He should maybe be going in that spot in the second round or even a little bit later.

But it's going to happen in your drafts and you have to adjust to surprises. Heath, if I told you that you were picking seventh through ninth, what would your thought be just going into the draft in a 12-team PPR league? well first off i would think well i don't really like that very much i'm not sure whether have an early pick or a later pick but it's it's perfectly fine i would be thinking about this could be a bit of a scramble to make sure at the seventh pick that i get one of those top 10 wide receivers and closer to the ninth pick i'm thinking i might take two of them which is exactly what happened in this draft jamie same question you have picked seven through nine

your first thought is what my first thought is I'm going to try and get a potential receiver if it falls the right way. And again, knowing that there was Justin Jefferson on the board, knowing Sequin Brock was on the board, knowing Devon H.N. Those are usually my three targets in those spots. But I think, you know, you kind of just have to play the board, really. There's no real, for me, I'm taking this particular player. Like, I know the range of players that I'm going to be looking at,

but I'm not going in with the idea of I'm going to take a specific guy. But I do think you have to consider what's happening in round two, and do I want to go receiver? Do I want to, you know, take the first run on those running backs, which is really where Josh Jacobs typically goes? Or do you want to buy into, you know, one of the tight ends with Brock Bowers most likely being the first one to come off the board? And I'm thinking, man, I really hope I get one of these three wide receivers. Nico Collins, Brian Thomas Jr. and A.J. Brown. Drake London actually went ahead of A.J. Brown in this draft. So that London pick, if you're drafting with us, is usually A.J. Brown.

but I'm not super confident I'm going to love the running backs coming back to me in round two and if you look at the three picks in round two obviously none of them are running back Derek Henry's off the board Jacobs is off the board he's usually in this range I'm not opposed to taking Chase Brown there

by the way Chase Brown went just a little bit after this range he went with the I want to say the eighth pick of round two but anyway let's look at these three teams so Heath taking a look here do you like any of these builds actually I'm sorry can we

throw just the three teams up again and just kind of look at all three of them if possible sorry about that guys um and they're i mean they're all pretty different you got a three receiver there you got running back tight end receiver you got running back wide receiver a quarterback very different here anything that stands out to you is good or bad yeah i i think that the the pick nine team i like a lot more in a league where i have to start three wide receivers thomas and adams that's a powerhouse in that format. But my favorite in a two-wide receiver league would be the Barclay-Bowers-McConkey-Sutton start. I think you've got two top-20 wide receivers.

You've got an elite running back. You've got my number one tight end. And then they did well later than that as well. Jamie, your favorite of these builds? I'd like to take a time machine and go back with the Josh Jacobs pick. Redo that one. But I do think the start I like the best is the neighbor's time. Thomas Adams start, you know, looking at it, again, it would have been Jefferson in that spot.

But taking the three receivers, getting out of the way, getting Joe Burrow. After we get past the quarterback, though, I hate the running back selection. But I think it could have worked out as we could, you know, illustrate when we get to that team. But just in terms of these three teams, I would agree with Heath. It's the Barkley one. And if you don't like Aaron Jones and Najee Harris as your RB's one and two, that could have been Pacheco or Joe Mixin or David Montgomery instead of Aaron Jones. and it could have been

really who else no that it couldn't have been the Najee Harris picks there were no not really good running backs probably Caleb Johnson would have been the pick there at RB2 yeah I don't I think the problem was in a two wide receiver league

I know that you don't want to chase positions but in in this format if you can only start two wide receivers and you see as you can guys have said repeatedly running backs went much earlier than you expected in this draft at some point you do kind of have to adjust to that i think and it doesn't sound like there were a lot like i wouldn't be very happy if isaiah pacheco was my number one and basically nobody else could

be my number two i certainly would have probably tried to take to david montgomery where they took george pickens at least you know the funny thing heath is that running backs did go early in this draft, but it didn't happen until that Devante Adams pick. After that, five of the next six picks were running backs. But when you take three wide receivers with your first six, well, your first three picks, at some point, you're going to need a running back, and you better hope that it falls to you the right way. Otherwise, you're in trouble here, and that's kind of what happened to Adam. All right. So now we can take a look at them one by one here, starting with Team 7, which started with Sequin Barclay. Heath, this is the team you said you like to build a lot. Jamie, I'll get your

thoughts on this team. How do you feel about Team 7? Yeah, and a lot will change, you know, mostly for the positive for Rashi Rice, because I think getting him in round six, you're kind of baking in the suspension anyway. But if you're getting a three-game suspension for Rice, now you're talking about a receiving corps of Mokon, Sutton, and Rice, where all three of those guys have top 20 upside. That's amazing to add to the start of Sequin Barclay and Brock Bowers. So Tony Pollard, I think, is a suitable number two running back.

I think Tyrone Tracy can sort of mix and match once Taije Spears comes back and maybe Pollard loses a little bit of value. Dobbins has huge upside. This is such a great team, you know, just in terms of. the overall build. And so the one concern would be if you're not a Dack Prescott, Drake May, you know, supporter, you got both those guys and hopefully one of them can turn into something of significance here.

I don't love the only thing really that concerns me is doubling up on quarterback and tight end. I just don't love doing both of that. But I think the players that they got huge upside, especially if May hits as a second quarterback and Kincaid hits as a second tight end. So I really love a lot about what this roster looks like and one of my favorite teams. This is the second or third team that we've seen. that drafted a tight-in in the first three rounds and then drafted a second tight-end.

And especially with the questionable running-back depth on this team, they really should have taken another one of those high-upside backup running backs in the double-digit rounds. I'd have to look, but we were talking about it during the draft last night. I'm not sure any team took their own running backs handcuff. There were handcuff running backs being selected, but I don't know if any team actually took their own. All right, let's take a look at Team 8 here, and Heath, I'll get your thoughts on Team 8, which started with Josh Jacobs, which we definitely was too early. And then Drake London ahead of A.J. Brown, so going off the ADP a little bit, and then Jalen Hertz. All right, here's the team for you.

What do you think about with Hertz and Andrews, Jacobs and Montgomery, London Evans, DJ Moore? Again, I'll just say the same thing that I just said about the tight ends. And you took Jalen Hertz in round three. I'm probably not using that round 12 pick on Caleb Williams because again, we've got some questions about the running back depth. Caleb Johnson's a good number three running back. And I think round eight's a good value for him. But you're not confident that Montgomery is necessarily going to be an RB2. And Caleb Johnson's got some question marks.

I would have liked to seen some more backup running backs on the bench. the wide receiving court receiver core is absolutely fantastic we love that and i think mark andrews in round nine's a pretty good value so not not a bad job i probably would have taken a running back where they took caleb johnson if i used three of my first five picks on wide receivers in a league where i can only start two of them but but still a solid job other than the fact that we don't like the order some of these guys were taking it this is like uh we we discussed this on a podcast and adam shut it down quickly because we were doing something else but like this would be like if you traded your first round pick

to get additional second or third round picks. Like there's no real first round pick on this team. But there's a lot of good players that still sort of worked itself out. You know, so I just don't love Jacobs in round one. Like I don't think you got a top 12 player could still work out that way. And Drake London, same thing.

Just don't love the way that it started. All right, team nine, this is the three receiver team. Did not take a running back until round five. that's about a zero RB as you get these days. Neighbors, Brian Thomas Jr., Devante Adams, Joe Burroughs, a quarterback, Evan Ingrams at tight-in, and then the running backs, Aaron Jones, Najee Harris. This poor soul, it just did not get any good running back value

where he took Najee Harris in round seven. Again, the other running backs available at that point, Ramandre Stevenson, Zach Charbonnet, Caleb Johnson, Brian Robinson, Travis E.T.N., Jordan Mason. So it just didn't really fall his way. He does have jaded and blue. Jamie, you do like this team, though? I think you said that earlier.

No, I like the start. And I think the roster construction and the build could have been fantastic. You know, again, you look at, forget about neighbors, right? So let's just say it's Justin, but he was neighbors, right? So neighbors, Thomas, Adams, like those are three top 15 caliber wide receivers. They're two potential top eight guys when you have neighbors and Thomas. Joe Burrow is obviously going to be in the mix to be a top three, top five quarterback,

depending on how you look at him. And then it just starts to fall apart from there, just unfortunately, with how the running backs were. I love George Pickens, but it's a luxury pick that you didn't really, weren't able to afford because of how the draft started for you. So like you said, getting David Montgomery there would have made more sense.

I like Pickens better than David Montgomery, in theory, especially in PPR, but I don't think it worked for you. So if you would have gone, let's just say you like Jones, Jones, Montgomery, and then somebody else, besides Najee Harris, because we don't know when he's going to be ready to play, and obviously he's in a secondary role. Like, that would have been such a better trio there. And then I really like the back half of it because Charbonnet's got a huge upside.

Jane Blue, huge upside. Ray Davis, huge upside. Like, those are smart picks for the way that your roster build is, but I just don't think that you got the best two running backs to start the season with, and that's the big concern for me. Well, if you've been paying attention, we've gone through nine teams, and we have not said Justin Jefferson's name yet. So when we take this break and come back,

we will say Justin Jefferson's name. We say it three times he'll appear on the show. We'll be right back with Teams 10 through 12 on FFT after this. A lot of people don't like having a late pick, but we're going to show you

that it can absolutely work, especially that wide receiver value at the end of the first round, beginning of the second round. Let's take a look at teams 10 through 12, full PPR drafts start one quarterback, one tight end, two running backs, two receivers, and only one flex. So, Heath, the first thing I noticed when I look at this beautiful color-coded draft board, combined in the first seven rounds for these three teams, we have one quarterback, zero tight ends.

Do you think that's something that we should expect for the last three picks to not have Bowers, McBride, Kittle, or really any of the top five quarterbacks? Well, I think I'm the only person here that's willing to take Brock Bowers early and round two and so if you are not then yes because i i mean tray mcbride pretty much never gets to the end of round three in our drafts and i think we're going to get to the point of these george kittle reports being so positive with joan jennings still being hurt with brann i yuk being out till week six i don't think george kittle is going to make it to this range very much and so really the first five rounds there may not be much of an opportunity to draft a tight end at this point

you're not going to get one of the top three quarterbacks likely at this point and so maybe you see a jalen hurts or a joe burrow in this range on occasion but yeah i do think that it's kind of typical that there are less elite tight ends and quarterbacks available to you at the back end of the draft jamie jami obviously jacobie meyers is one that stands out probably went a little bit too early there at going ahead of jameson williams um but you look at these builds here and do you think it was better to go three running backs with your first four picks and have St. Brown, McMillan, Mahomes, Pearsall, like Team 10, or Teams 11 and 12 went two running backs with their first two picks. Do you have a preference? Sorry, sorry, first four picks.

Team 10 goes three running backs with their first four picks, teams 11 and 12, two running backs with their first four picks. Do you have a preference? In this format, I, think it can go either way. I really like what team 12 did though you know just looking at the mixing and matching of you know Henry and Nico JSN and then Hampton and Pacheco just how that worked out. I just like all those combination of players in those spots like James Cook now falling to around four you know Alvin Kumar maybe reaching around three fine to go two and two that that way

and even you know McCaffrey St. Brown and then the two running backs but once you get to that second wide receiver spot it just looks a little bit questionable so I do think think getting two of the receivers in the first three rounds worked that a little bit better for Team 11 and Team 12. All right, let's look at these teams individually here. Heath, I'll give you Team 10, which started with Christian McCaffrey, Amon-Ros St. Brown, then Ken Walker, Trayvion, Henderson, Tederoa McMillan, and Patrick Mahomes and the tight end on this team.

They have both Tyler Warren and Colston Loveland. I mean, you want to talk about, sometimes when we're doing our live streams, I say, you know, I'm just going to draft the most exciting team that I can so that all the people are watching like my team. this is an exceptionally exciting team. You've got Christian McCaffrey who might be the most valuable player in fantasy. A Munra St. Brown's been awesome. Ken Walker and Trevionn Henderson, you might have three top 15 running backs there.

And then Teteroa McMillan, I love the upside of this team, the tight ends. Again, upside Warren and Loveland. I might have done something different with some of those bench spots, but absolutely love the upside of this team graphic. Let's give Jamie Team 11 here and see how he's feeling about this. squad, which got Justin Jefferson and then Pooka Nakua, and not a bad start in a PPR league. Absolute gift, you know, and looking at, hopefully Puka is going to be fine, but to take him in round two, fine because of Matthew Stafford, excuse me, hopefully Stafford's okay, but

to get him in round two is just an absolute steal. Look, you know, Kamara and Cook, you know, you flip them, maybe people like it that way. You're still getting two, you know, potential running backs that should be great. Joe Mixon, you're going to love add them that value in round six. You know, I think that's probably appropriate for him, maybe on the high end at this point. like you said, the Jacoby-Myers' pick was a little bit of a reach. Debo Samuel may end up being a steel, depending on how this goes for Terry McCorn and the hold out there.

And I love the value for David Najoko. So it's a solid squad. And obviously, again, when you get a gift like Justin Jefferson at 11, I don't think we're going to see that in any other draft that we do. All right, and let's take a look at Team 12. Any gifts for Team 12? Nico Collins, Derek Henry. This team could have been Nico Collins and Pooka and then,

like Omari and Hampton and James Cook, but, you know, whatever. what is you don't know who's going to be there when you're making your first two picks heath do you like the build for this team yeah i mean you want to talk about waiting on tight-in is this the only team that waited all the way until the last pick and it turned out to be the last pick of this draft and still got dallas gutter i might have taken two tight-ins there at the end i like the combination of pairing up jerome ford and dylan sampson in the double-digit rounds so i i think there's a lot of upside at the top i'm not the biggest isaiah pacheco fan but this is a good round to take him

love of Buka. I like this team a lot. All right. Thank you all so much. If you participated in the draft, we really appreciate it. If you were with us last night for the live stream, that was a lot of fun as well. We want your questions. So our next segment will be all about you or answering your questions. Ask FFT when we come back. Time for your questions. Here's what's on your mind. Zach wants to know why Cooper Cup is available after Pick 100.

Why is he being so undervalued, guys? Heath, this is a great one for you. You like Cooper Cup. Yeah, I think it's a bad one for me because I have no idea why he's available so late. No, it's because he's 32 years old and he got hurt last year and people are scared that this is the end. Yeah, we have a 91 in our ADP, so I would not go into your draft thinking you can get Cup after pick 100, but you can get them fairly late. Now, let's see our next question here.

It is from a lot of numbers in that name, man. Is it crazy to take Burrow at three in a 10-team superflex? I feel like Lamar is going to regress to the mean. I'm not a fan of second-year quarterbacks. I'll take Allen, but if not J.B., then Chase. If not Burrow, then Chase. So he wants to take Burrow over Lamar Jackson, basically. Your thoughts, Jamie?

I mean, I wouldn't do that, but, you know, Burrow is coming off an amazing season. We've talked about this. Like, he's, you know, probably the best candidate to throw for 5,000 yards of the quarterbacks right now. And receiving corps is locked in. So if you have that belief, then do it. But I would still take Lamar Jackson or maybe trade down. See if you can move down and pick up a draft pick someplace else. Yeah, especially if it's a four-point for passing touchdown league,

you don't want to be taking Burrow over Jackson. All right, next question. 10-team half-PPR league, do you value taking an early quarterback or tight end or maybe both for the positional advantage with more players available in the 10 team versus 12 team league heath 100% yes the fewer running backs wide receivers that are going to be started in a given league so two running back two wide receiver no flex leagues or 10 team or 8 team leagues the more i'm going to prioritize having an elite quarterback or tight end and maybe both if it falls that way we'll see if we have one more question we can answer here

Oh, my league awards, these bonus points for 50-yard touchdowns. Which wide receivers are good for touchdown bombs? James, Xavier Worthy. I think George Pickens will fall into that. We've got time for one more. Let's get one more question in there. Heath, you can have this one. What is Travis Hunter's value in Yahoo Leagues that have IDP spots?

If you can count his defensive and offensive points both, then he's a surefire top 20 wide receiver. Take round three maybe? Yeah. Something like that. All right. Well, that is it for Fantasy Football Today. If you enjoyed the show,

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