Fantasy Football Today - Live Mock Draft With Industry Experts! (05/07 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Jake Ciely and Joe Pisapia are joining us today for a 12-team, 0.5 PPR mock draft. We'll take you through the entire draft as Jake waits and waits for his tight end, Joe drafts a number of rookies, Dave takes Jeremiyah Love in Round 3, Jamey never leaves without a Charger and Adam lucks out with Kenneth Walker 32nd overall. Enjoy the draft!  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

This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? It's a no idea. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Robinson first pick. Oh, terrible pick, Jake Sealy.

What are you doing? No, just kidding. Welcome, everybody. Jake Sealy of The Athletic is here. Joe Pisa Pia from Fantasy Pros is here. Joe, Jake, Jake, Joe. I'm glad you guys are meeting. What's going on?

Jake, how do you... It's the first time. How do you feel about having the first pick in a draft? Do you like picking first? Not so much this year, but as I told Jamie before we came on, yes, I finally get the first pick in a draft that doesn't really matter for the competition that we're in every single year. Oh, there you go.

And Joe, you have the best pick in the draft because you get to pick after me. And I can't... I'm not a good drafter to begin with, but when I'm hosting, I'm even worse. So congratulations. Yes, I requested that specifically from Jamie in the draft order. I said, I want to draft right after Adam, so he continuously makes bad decisions the entire time. Like that tuxedo I heard that you wore on the show the other day, lots of bad decisions around the Azer household going on. But yeah, excited to be here today and I'm excited to continue my week of listening to Jake Seeley complain about things on shows.

Oh, I got the first peek and it draft. It doesn't count. Shut up, Sealy. Just draft. I don't really feel like I might have to do a lot of work today. This is great. I have so many hosts here that could just. just take over.

Dave and Jamie are also here. Hello, Dave. Shut up, Azor. By the way, I do think the tuxedo was a hit. People were loving it. The comments in the chat were great.

The comments on the video on YouTube after the fact were awesome. I think you should wear the tuxedo at least once a week moving forward. Oh, geez. Yeah, as long as my wife is home to do the bow tie for me because I could not do that on my own. All right. We are five picks in. And Jamie, by the way, in all seriousness, thank you for organizing this draft

and getting these guests on our show. Jamie is responsible for the content today. Good stuff. We have a 12-team half-p-R draft, and right now our guy Brandon is on the clock. The first five picks were Bejohn Robinson, Jamir Gibbs, Jackson Smith & Jigba, Jamar Chase, and Jonathan Taylor.

Dave, you took Jonathan Taylor in half-PPR over Pooka Nakuo. I don't usually see Taylor go fifth discuss. Half-p-pr kind of says it all. We know that Pukua in a full PPR league would be the better pick, but I'm already, I'm back to 2000 fantasy football drafting, baby. Give me those running backs, not necessarily in full PPR this soon, but in half PPR, non-PPR, absolutely. I think Taylor's great. He's the third running back on my board.

This is a stud player that I can get in round one when catches don't count for nearly as much. Okay. We are still waiting on the sixth pick. Sometimes takes guys a little while to get into the draft. Is anybody So with JSN actually going as the first receiver off the board Okay, there's Puka, I was waiting for that JSN the first receiver off the board

Jake Sealy, what do you think about that in half PPR? It wouldn't be my first wide receiver, but I don't have a problem with it. You're picking between Chase, Nakuha and Smith and Jake, but if you want to take JASN, I'm okay with it. I would go Nakua still, as long as Matthew Staffer's playing one more year. But if you want to go JASN, it's not like you're crazy to do so. All right. Our first six picks are Bijan, Gibbs, JSN, Jamar Chase, Jonathan Taylor, Pooka Nakuwa. Adam.

Yeah. Who led that group of six in half PPR points per game last year? Oh, um, Puka. Nope. Anybody else want to guess? Joe, Jake, Jamie. Anybody else whose name begins with a J? I feel like you're setting this up for the fact that it's,

Taylor. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently, but yes. See, Jake was right. I don't know why you trash talk him, Joe. Jake is, accurate. I trash talk him because he's my friend. And that's what friends do. They trash talk each other to their faces.

Yeah, clown. Bad friend. Yeah, jackass. Jeez. All right, Christian McCaffrey was the seventh pick. I will take Amon Ross St. Brown with the eighth pick. Joe, you're on the clock with the ninth pick. Well, I was hoping Jonathan Taylor's going to make it down to me, but

unfortunately, Dave Richards in this draft, so I have to come up with other plans here. And I'm glad I didn't have to make the Christian McCaffrey decision because he makes it all the way down to you 10, which is where I am, I believe, here today, right? Or I'm at 9, sorry. It's hard to say no, but there's so many concerns of saying yes based on the work of the last year. So I'm going to think Justin Jefferson because I think everyone forgets that, you know, last year was such a disaster with the quarterback position.

I just don't think it's going to be nearly a disaster with Kyla Murray. I think Kyler Murray's got a lot to prove. I think Kyla Murray's in a fork in a row his career. I understand the limitations of Kyler Murray. I think we all do. But at the same time, it's a massive upgrade over whatever they had last year. And Justin Jefferson's not that far removed

from being the number one overall pick consideration. So I'll take him at 109, even in the half PPR. You have a comment of the chat that Joe and Jake won't get, but who did Adam take at 108 instead of C.D. Lamb? Was it A. Aban-Russet Brown? What a game show, Aiser. Yes, thank you. It was Avon Rose-A-Brown.

Justin Jefferson goes ninth. We're waiting for the 10th pick. Joe, do you think you could have gotten Jefferson with this, what, 13, 14th, 16th pick? I don't know. And I wasn't going to wait to find out. I think for me, I want to take the guys that I know are just all world players. And when you look at the board as well, I think there are some guys now coming back to me that I feel okay at the running back position and I feel okay at the wide receiver position.

But I'm trying to think what kind of home run can I hit here? And I think the only guy in this list of players still left there, maybe Seekwans that guy. maybe still. But Jefferson, to me, still in the problem of his career, I think I will take my chances there. Because the best thing you could do at the end of a draft is try to say, who's going to outperform this ADP potentially by a landslide? And I think Jefferson's that guy remaining on the board. All right.

After Jefferson, Devon A-chan is the pick. And then we had back-to-back. Heath Cummings went receiver and a half-PPR league. Now, this is a three-receiver league. I should mention that. He went with Rishie Rice and Drake London. Okay. Okay. We have a lot of, you know, enticing running backs available.

Chase Brown, Ashton, Janty, Josh Jacobs, O'Mari and Hampton, Derek Henry, Seguan Barclay, Jeremiah Love, Ken Walker. That's why I took St. Brown. That's not the only reason why, but considering some of the running backs, I felt a lot better about the running backs I'd be able to get with the fifth pick of round two than the wide receivers. So we'll see what happens. There's a few picks between now and then. C.D. Lamb off the CD Lamb 14th. That's just weird. Finally. Yeah, right? Jake, any thoughts on what we've seen transpire here?

The last four picks have been James Cook, Rishie Rice, Drake, London, C.D. Lamb. It feels chalky outside of the C.D. Lamb. I'm surprised that he fell out of the first round at this point. Like, I know that George Pickens was right there with him in points per game and he's back, but, I mean, we're talking about it's still C.D. Lamb went healthy. Still top five.

I would take, I mean, Joe just, I was talking about the home run with Jefferson. I still take him over Jefferson. Okay. And Joe, you took Jefferson and now you're on the clock. And since you took Jefferson, A. Chan, Cook, and four receivers have been picked. Rice, London, Lamb, Nico Collins was the last pick. 16th overall, you are up. Who are you going to take?

Yeah, again, I like all these running backs here, especially in half PPR, Chase Brown's there, Derek Henry's there, Ash and Gentie's there. I'm going to take Chase Brown and see where that one goes. And going off Jamie Eisenberg's ranks, it looks like he agrees with me, at least on CBS. So that's always a good thing. And Jamie and I typically are in lockstep quite a bit. But this is why I went wide receiver, because I want to take the chance. I sure, the guys that made it back to me are intriguing at the wide receiver position still. A.J. Brown, depending on where he lands is definitely that guy.

But as you look after that, I think there's a lot of question marks. Whereas the running backs, I think they're all much closer to each other. So I'd rather get towards the end of a first round, one of those stud wide receivers, lock that in. Omarian Hampton, I would have been happy with. Sequin I would have been fine with. And even Derek Henry to a certain degree, too. I mean, half PPR, we're looking for yards, we're looking for touchdowns. and Henry brings you all that still again, I think, in 2026.

Okay. Well, I hate you because I was going to take Chase Brown. I will take Omar Ian. Now I'm rethinking my pick that you say that. I'll take Omar in Hampton. Yeah, you can make an argument that Brown is more of a PPR. Chase Brown's more of a PPR guy, but he averaged 19 points per game and half PPR

in the last six games of the season with Joe Burrow. But he only hit that number twice. He was actually 16 and a half or fewer in four of six games. He had two massive games, 30 points and 27 and a half. half points for Chase Brown in week 16 and 17. But still great pick there. So I'll go Hampton. The best receivers on the board would be guys like Malik neighbors, George Pickens,

A.J. Brown, T. Higgins. So I think we're going to see a run on running backs here. And we are. Chase Brown, Amarian Hampton, Sequin, Barkley, Derek Henry, and Dave, you are on the clock. And you took, who'd you take? I haven't picked anybody. No, Taylor. He took Taylor in the first round.

Oh, yeah, I took him. All right. So we haven't had a tight end. We haven't had a tight end yet. throwing that out. I'm considering McBride, but the half-PPR thing throws me off, and I wonder if Bowers might make it back to me in round two, or round three, rather.

And even if he doesn't, there's the Loveland, Warren, Fanon, Trio that I can pick up in rounds four and five, or at least I should be able to, in theory, in half-PPR. So I'm passing on McBride in half-PPR. My top-rated wide receiver that's left is Pickens. There was a draft that we did recently. where I passed on Pickens and I went back to back running backs, but Pickens was like the only wide receiver left in my queue that was in that last tier.

I'm going to see what it looks like when I take Pickens. I'm going to draft Pickens now and see what running backs make it back to me in round three. And I think I'll feel good about one of them when I'm up. And then I'll have two stud running backs, one stud wide receiver, and the team will be off and running. I'll feel better about that type of build. Well, when I look at the running backs, I look at your rankings right now, Josh Jacobs, Jeremiah Love, Ken Walker, Kyron Williams. Those aren't updated unless.

What are you looking? Are you looking at the draft room? Yeah, the draft room. The draft room, for some reason, they're not updated properly. All right, but they're probably pretty close. And two of them just went, Kyron Williams and Josh Jacobs. So I don't know how many of these running backs. You might be in the ETN Cam Scataboo range.

Now, if you get Love or Walker, I'm sure you'd be happy. But you know what? Who cares about you? Well, the alternative to that is if there is a big running back run, that might push one of those stud tight ends back to me in round three, which is not something that I was necessarily counting on, but I will happily accept. All right.

So after Dave took Pickens, we had Genti, Kairn, and Josh Jacobs. We had a big running back run in round two. Jake was on the clock with two picks. And after taking Bejan Robinson, what did you do with your two-three turn picks? I was hoping to have no healthy wide receivers from week one. So I took Blake Neighbors and Chris Olavé and that's my top two options there. Similar to what Joe said, though, but I kind of feel like I'm in the position to take a little bit bigger swings when you're at the one or the two and you have a Gibbs or Robinson to take that shot. So I'll see if I might head with the what Hero RB quote unquote situation right here, but I felt like getting the two wide receivers,

mostly seeing what's probably going to come back around on the end of the fourth. I don't think the wide receivers that I want are going to be there. So if I took a running back, which there is value in Walker or love, I just felt like I'd be kind of reaching for wide receivers at that point. Dave, I think this worked out for you. The tight ends are gone. Of course. After Jake took Neighbors and Olavay, we got McBride,

then Bucky Irving, then Brock Bowers, which gives you Jeremiah Love and Ken Walker to choose from. Or if you went wide receiver, you've got Abuka, A.J. Brown, T. Higgins. Got some good options here. I do, but I had a feeling that some of the wrong. running backs that I was looking at in round three would make it back to me in round four. And if they weren't there, one of the tight ends probably would have been.

This worked out great. I'm going to take Jeremiah Love. I've been outspoken on how I feel about his talent. I think the workload will be there for him in Arizona. Little bit worried about the touchdown production because it is the Cardinals. I don't know if they're going to be nearly as high scoring of an offense as they were last year. Part of it was because they played a lot of garbage time. But he's too good.

And that offensive line isn't too terrible at this point. I don't mind taking them ahead of Kenneth Walker. All right. I'm going to ask the other three people in this group here. Jamie, Ken Walker or Jeremiah I love, half PPR. Walker for me. Jake. Walker for me as well.

Joe. Clean sweep. Still Walker for me also. Okay. Jamie, you so far with the second pick have Gibbs, Jacobs, and McBride. I guess talk to me about your McBride pick. And in a three-receiver league, you went with a tight end. so you do not have a wide receiver yet and you won't be picking again until the 11th pick of round four.

Yeah, I, you know, sort of played it out as it fell to me where both tight ends were available. So I didn't have to take, you know, to me and McBride and Bowers, there's, you know, they're so close, so much upside for both those guys. So I was going to just see if Jake took one of them and I would have taken the other who was available when, when I was up in round two. And so Jacobs is right there for me with Walker and with love. You know, I think that tier of running backs. I like them all three of those guys are better than Chiron, for example,

but Chiron's right after those guys. So as Dave sort of alluded to, you know, this is more, I think, at the top of the draft, if you're not getting one of those, you know, I don't know if Niko's kind of the cutoff, but if you're not able to sort of see how the receivers fall at you, so, you know, maybe Pickens, I guess is the last one. So those guys all off the board, to me, the tight ends, make more sense than the receivers that were available. I don't mind neighbors in Olavet,

but I think McBride and Bowers give you a little bit higher end production at that position. So I was going to take the running back that was there, and then whichever tight end Jake didn't take, he didn't take either one, so McBride's still my number one tight end for now. All right, after Jamie took McBride, we had

Bucky Irving, Brock Bowers, Dave took Jeremiah Love, James and Williams went 30th, and then I think the next two picks, 31 and 32, are arguably the two best picks of the so far. Very handsome people taking them. RJ White took A.J. Brown. I took Ken Walker. Ken Walker, 32 overall.

Yeah, and we haven't even had a quarterback get drafted yet. So that's, I just won the draft. All right, Joe, interesting pick for you after you were reeling from me taking Ken Walker, obviously, you went with Colston Loveland, our third tight end off the board. So that gives you Justin Jefferson, Chase Brown and Colston Loveland. Why did you take Loveland there? Yeah, I mean, I'm talking about guys who are going to probably finish in the top five of their position. And now I've got three of those guys on my roster.

And I like the way that looks. I think when you're paying attention to the end of the year for the Bears, it's very clear that Colson level is kind of taken over and been the dominant force. And I think the big conversation that's been going on, it's, oh, is it Roma Dunzee? Is it Luther Burden? How do we value these guys? And we had a great conversation on FPPA the other day about it where I said, I don't think the question is which wide receiver every week? it's which wide receiver and Colston Love one every week.

I think Love one is the guy every week that you can depend on, whereas it could be a Luther Burden game. It could be in a Dunzee game if he's all healthy and ready to go. And to me, I think Love one is the constant going forward in that offense

the way they kind of showed their hand, not just to the end of the season, but through the rest of the playoffs as well. I don't like what Heath did at the turn here. So after Joe to... Speaking of not having healthy things in week one. Yeah. Double dipping though in it too.

I mean, hey, double wide receiver, double RB, why not? So I'll get to that one second. So he took Loveland, PCPia took Loveland, then we had Rob took Tedroo McMillan, T. Higgins went 35th, and then Heath took Quinshan, Judkins, and Cam Scadaboo. I personally would not, Jamie, I would not take two running backs coming off very serious injuries as my first two running backs. I think I probably would have split them.

I don't hate their values or anything, but both of them is a little too risky for me. I mean, it's definitely risky, but you are talking about, you know, this is the range where these guys are going to come off the board. These are two guys that have seemingly, I don't want to say, beat their rehab, but, you know, are on pace or slightly ahead of where I think people thought they would be. Scataboo, participating in April's off-season workouts, you know, Judkins, you know, on track for training camp, I think if you're hopeful for those two guys and you saw what they were able to do in their rookie seasons and you see the path of success, you know, Jake sort of alluded to this picking at the one spot. Keith is at the other end. If he's going to get players that he wants, he's got to do it when they're available to him. They're not going to fall back to him.

So maybe you split it and take Giovante and one of those guys, if that's the route you want to go. But Keith is probably looking at it. If those guys hit to the level that they're capable of, he has a pretty good chance to win the league because of how they looked in their rookie campaign. All right, Joe is on the clock. So after we had Judkins and Scataboo at the 3-4 turn,

we had Javante Williams go with the second pick of round three, Garrett Wilson with the third pick of round four. Sorry, third pick of round four. And now Joe on the clock at 4.4 with Jefferson, Chase Brown. Oh, I'm on the clock. Jefferson, Chase Brown, and Colson Loveland. Who did you take, Joe? I took Breeze Hall, who, again, I think the Jets offense line is pretty good.

I think they did a good job in the draft. I still have very little faith in the coach or the quarterback situation, which leads me to believe they're going to be a run heavy team, regardless of whatever new toys that they picked up in the NFL draft this year. So I think Brees Hall is your number two running back considering last year. Once again, I think so far the theme of this draft for me is guys who were kind of underappreciated going into or maybe valued very highly last year than didn't perform well last season. And now, I think now are being underappreciated.

And I think that's kind of something you should look forward to in drafts too and saying, well, where's the talent of this player? And did the situation get better or worse? And I think Jefferson situation got better. I think Brees Hall situation got slightly better as well. And I think that you're still looking at. very good talents still in the prime of their careers and I think those are guys still worth investing in. I wanted Javante Williams to be clear. He went two picks ahead of me. I was curious about

Cam Scadaboo and Quinchon Judkins. I didn't think Heath was going to go for both of them. I was willing to take a shot on one of them as my second RB. But Heath Cummings said no no to that. So yeah, so so far I actually kind of like this build. I'm curious to see what wide receivers make it back to me though when it comes back in round five. All right. So Joe has Jefferson, Chase Brown, Colson, Loveland, and Breeze Hall. I'll tell you, I made just another. incredible pick. I'll tell you about it after the break. Or if there's no AJ Brown trade, it's a horrible pick. I'll tell you about it after this break on fantasy football today. Man, round four, we went through this quickly. Cam Scadaboo, Giovante Williams, Garrett Wilson,

Breece Hall to Joe. I took Devante Smith, 41st overall. Josh Allen, 42nd overall, the first quarterback off the board. And I was thinking about taking him, but I know there'll be a good one available to me in the next round. I do expect a lot of quarterbacks to be drafted here, though. So we had Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, 43rd overall. Dave took a Mecca-A-A-A-A-Buca, 44th overall. I know he was pumped about that pick. Zay Flowers, 45th overall, Drake May, Luther Burden to Jamie, and Devante Adams to Jake to finish out round four. Jake went with Devante Adams and DJ Moore. So the last four picks have been his three starting receivers and his flex. Malik neighbors, Chris Olavé, Devante Adams, DJ Moore, to go with Bijon Robinson.

and Jamie took Ladd-McConkey, and then we had Terry McLaurin. Jamie, when you took Luther Burden, who you've been taking a lot, whenever I see you picking late in the fourth round, I feel like that's a guy you target. Did you feel like with this kind of little run of Garrett Wilson, Devante Smith, Emeka, Abuka, Zay Flowers, how does Burden compare to that group? Is he a little bit of a step down from Flowers, Abuka,

Devante Smith, Breeze Hall, or Garrett Wilson, or is burden like right there for you? He's right after those guys, but I mean, yes, he's a little bit of step down. Obviously, you know, are hoping that burden is going to take a step forward. As Joe said, it's, I agree with him. You know, it's Loveland and, you know, and so it's going to be Loveland and O'Donzei one week, Loveland and Burden one week.

Loveland maybe by himself another week, you know, so it's going to be just, you know, kind of a guessing game with the Bears receivers. But, you know, we saw the upside. And, you know, the end of the season, while it was Loveland dominating, targets in those final four games for those five games, you know, right before Loveland sort of got going when O'Donzee was still dealing with the foot injury. It was seven plus targets and four or five for burden with DJ Moore still on the field. Wait, can I interrupt you? I'm sorry, we have a draft room issue. Oh, excuse me.

We had an auto pick from, if you want to just back that one out. Is that a Billy Madison poll there? Eric. You know it is, my friend. You know what it is? You're a real one if you know that that's from Billy Madison. I guess that makes me a real one, Dave. I don't think so. I think it's pretty easy to be quite honest. Are you kidding?

It is the most random part of a movie with a ton of random parts. Well, it's also, if you look at our draft room, that's Eric's avatar. Yeah, it is. Again, people, I don't think the average person who may have seen Billy Madison in their life 30 years ago would know that that sound clip is from Billy Madison or that that picture is of what's his name Bradley Whitford, the actor? Bradley Whitford, that is correct. Hey, I'm getting serious. That's also a good pull. No one knows who he is.

They just know him from, you know, the weird weasley looking guy from Billy Matt. Dave, listen, you're on the clock, but I'm getting serious. I've never seen Billy Madison vibes from Jake Seeley right now from the body language. Oh, of course he has. No, I've seen it. I just haven't seen it within the last 20, 25 years. I'm just more shocked at the memory between these guys. That's all it really comes down to.

I'm not in a video store in college. Oh, I mean, so did I. But I like, I watch a lot of movies once, and then that's it. that's i'm just because i know what happens you're so ill tv shows no i just i have so much i want to consume i just don't go back and watch again uh yeah that's fair all right so here's round five dj moore lad mccon terry mccloren Travis etienne jlin waddle to davezvieve Xavier worthy to brandon and now rj's on the clock question for jake seeley you took explain these two picks right so you had bjohn malique neighbors chris olave and then you go with

Devante Adams and DJ Moore. So in a three-receiver league, now you have four receivers. You did not take a running back there. You got two, you know, one old receiver, one guy who's 29 and DJ Moore. Like, how good do you feel about those picks? I feel great about him. I mean, Devante Adams in week 13 had three more touchdowns than anybody else receiving. And then in week 14, and then week 15, and week 15, and week 18.

Oh, by the way, he didn't play the last three weeks. He's just led in touchdowns. And I know everybody's like, though touchdowns isn't a skill. but I actually believe with Devante Adams and Matthew Stafford, it is. And yeah, the regards weren't there, but he also didn't play the entire season. So I'll take him here. I want to take Devante Adams in the second, third round. But at the end of the fourth, and if you want to flip-flop it with DJ Moore,

I don't get why people aren't more excited about DJ Moore. We finally stopped, well, the bill stopped screwing around with Josh Allen saying, hey, let's make him elevate everybody and got him a one again, again, somebody who's been top 10, actually wide receiver 8 back with Justin Field. you tell me he can't get back to being a wide receiver one with Josh Allen. And again, you're not taking him as that. You're taking them in the fifth round, fourth, fifth round. Yeah, there you go with the four or five turn.

All right. Aftermore, it was McConkey to Jamie, Terry McLoren, Travis E.TN, H-slash-H-N to Eric, Jalen Wattle, Dave, Xavier Worthy, DeAndreauze. I took Mike Evans. And looking at the next wide receivers on the board, got Marvin Harrison, June. You got O'Dunesay, Alec Pierce Sutton, Christian Watson. So I thought I really wanted to take Evans. I felt like there was a tear drop there. And then what did you do, Joe, with your pick?

You came into that with Justin Jefferson, Chase Brown, Loveland, and Breece Hall. Well, you snipe me. I wanted Evans. I thought I was going to fall my lap. I thought you might have kind of missed him with all the conversations you were having with Jake. But unfortunately, you got me on that one. So kudos to you. Well done, Adam Azer.

I went ahead and I took a pivot to what I thought was just the best asset on the board. It might start a little slow for Judarian Price like it does for a lot of young running backs. But to me, when you look at Seattle, what their identity was last year and the fact that Kenneth Walker's gone and the fact that Zach Charbonnet is not going to be around until the end of November question mark. I know Jake and I've had this conversation plenty. Emmanuel Wilson, I think, was admirable in his moments last year when he was taking over for Josh Jacobs. But if you're going to spend first round draft capital and you have your designs getting back into the playoffs and back to. a Super Bowl potentially. I think Judarian Price is going to have a very heavy workload.

And this is a team that's going to run the football quite a bit and play defense. That's their M.O. You're going to see JSN, but I mean, Sam Donald, despite the fact that he got to a Super Bowl, won a Super Bowl, still has some limitations on him. You have to run the football. You have to support him. And I just think that Judarian Price is going to have a ton of work going forward as a rookie. And even if it's slow in September, I'm patient enough with my third running back there,

that I think it's a good pick. Okay. So after, and it was, I had him in my queue. I was deciding between Price and Evans. So I took Evans, you took Price. Then we had Tucker Kraft as tight end four. So still Tyler Warren, Harold Fann & Jr. on the board. Carnell Tate.

Oh, there's a rookie. We haven't really talked about it. It's been a while since we had a rookie get drafted. He's the second rookie. It's been a while. It's been a well. Joe, you mean Judarian Price isn't. Oh, I didn't admit it talking about a rookie.

Well, look, it was almost three seconds, guys. Give him a break. And then Trayvion Henderson. Sam Leporta, Tyler Warren, and there's R.J. Harvey off the board. And Joe, you're on the clock. Oh, running back. We haven't talked about one of those from a while either. All right, Joe, your pick, you picked Alec Pierce. Sorry, I'm on the clock. Here's a tough call for me. You make your pick. I'll talk. Alec Pierce was actually the guy that was debating between him and Price. So I'm very happy that he made it back to me. I thought there was a good chance at least one of the

tight ends would go. Both went in between. So that kind of helped me bump. And sometimes you got to pay attention to that too, right? You got to pay attention to what the teams have, you know, who are picking after you, especially if you're at like the 9-10-ish, because, you know, those turn guys are going to go ahead and make the most of their picks there because they don't pick again for a very long time. So for me, I was looking, I was like, I feel like, you know, these elite tight ends at some point, like this, this cabinet's going to be bare pretty soon. And these guys have to go. You got to take a chance on guy like Warren or Kraft here. I think it makes a lot of sense. And I know we're in some smart people here in this draft. So to me, it was a good chance

I could roll the dice and get Pierce back, and I did. So I'm quite happy with that. And I do think there's some other young wide receivers there worth detecting. But look, I think whenever you take an early tight end, like a McBride or like a Loveland, when you go early, you know that your wide receiver two situation isn't going to be ideal. That's the point. The point is that your tight end acts as more of a wide receiver two. So what you've got to do is just build some quality in to those wide receiver two, wide receiver three, and then four positions two to give yourself a little depth. Okay.

So late in round five to the middle of round six, we've had five tight ends come off the board. Tucker Kraft, Sam Laporta, Tyler Warren, Kenyon, Sadiq, and Harold Fannan, Jr. Sadiq before Fannin, too. Holy hat. Yeah, Brandon likes Kenyon Sadiq. He takes his guys.

And now we have, what do we have, Christian Watson? Jamie's on the clock. I'm going to let Jamie talk to his pick. But then I think we should sort of, the picks are flying off the board here. Just sort of recap a lot of the picks. So Jamie, you right now have good. Gibbs, Jacobs, McBride, Burden and McConkey.

Go ahead. Yeah, so there is a couple of running backs that I like here and a couple of receivers. And you have to play the board sometimes. And so looking at Jake's team who's drafting after me, he's got four wide receivers and one running back. So I'm going to play the percentage here and hope that the receiver that I want comes back to me and take one of the running backs that I like. And Chuba Hubbard's that guy. I think the situation has worked out well for Chuba this offseason so far.

O'Dado leaving. Nobody has significant coming. I know they're excited about Jonathan Brooks. Didn't play in 2025, coming off his second ACL tear since coming into the end of college coming in the NFL. So I like Brooks. I think he's going to have a role, but I think Hubbard and hopefully get back to his 2024

level of production, or at least close to that. And so he'll be my flex. And then we'll see what Jake does. I'll pivot if Jake does something different, which he did not. So the receiver that I was eyeing is still available, and I will take him next. All right. Jake took Jaden Daniels and David Montgomery.

You know, look, we have a lot of platoons in the NFL now, and I don't know how many running backs are left. They're just going to get a big workload. David Montgomery might be one of the last ones. Tony Pollard's still there. But I was definitely considering it. My tough call was Burrough versus Montgomery because, you know, I knew, again, these workhorse running backs are basically, we're out of them.

But Montgomery, you know, he's just like, not really that great anymore. I don't know. So I was like, I'll take a swing for Burrow. All right. George Kittle goes. Jamie, oh, Jamie took Marvin Harrison,

Jr. All right, then George Kittle went off the board, and now he's on the clock, and Dave is on deck. But I'm going to read you guys picks from rounds five and six. We're in round seven now. And just tell me,

like anyone can jump in. If there's a really good pick or a really bad pick in rounds five and six, DJ Moore, Ladd McCom. T. T.N., Jalen Waddell, Xavier Worthy.

Stop me, if you hear any. DeAndre Swift, Mike Evans, great pick. Judarian Price, Tucker Crafts, Carnell Tate, Trayvion Henderson. Well, I still like Terry McLaren.

I still don't see a whole lot of competition for him. I think we could all pretty much predict how last year was going to go because everything broke right for the commanders two years ago. And then last year, whenever you get a player that holds out, inevitably they come in, inevitably they come in late, and inevitably they have injuries. So I think you could kind of chalk that one up.

But McLaren's been so consistent. He's still the man there, as far as I'm concerned. So I think McLaurin's still a very solid pick in that grouping there. Okay. I think Worthy probably is a guy that went a little early, just based on his struggles last year. And we've got in round six, Leporta, Tyler Warren. We have R.J. Harvey.

I'm trying to read and keep getting picks inputted here. Sorry. RJ Harvey, Alec Pierce, Joe Burrow, Romo Dunzei, Kenyon Sadiq, a little early, Harold Fannin, Christian Watson, Cortland Sutton, Chuba Hubbard, David Montgomery. Dave, any picks that stand out to you? Well, we can talk about Sadiq, and that was a pick by Brandon. Brandon's one of our editors. He just goes with the guys that he likes. he typically prefers measuring his players based on speed and athletic traits rather than roll in the offense or anything else like that.

He took worthy in the round before. I don't know if those are going to be picks that we'll see in typical drafts once we get to August and September. I think those guys are going to go a little bit later. And I don't know if that necessarily messes up the order that much for how we go about drafting. But it helped me land Harold Fanon in round six, which in a half. half PPR, I still think is incredibly good value. So I know that when I pick Fanon, Jaden Daniels was on the board, I thought that was an incredible value.

I believe Montgomery was still on the board. I was considering him to be my third running back. I just couldn't pass up getting a tight end that I know I'd feel good about starting week in and week out, knowing that maybe one of the other running backs that are in that, it's called fourth tier, could make it back to me the following round, and that I could always wait on a quarterback, feel like I'm stealing one from the rest of the league and take some of those guys

a little bit later on. That's why I took Fanon. All I heard was that Jake's picks of David Montgomery and Jane Daniels were amazing. They were both on my cue. That's the part I heard. Yeah, and Jane and Daniels was in just that he played four healthy games, four games. And in those games

in a six point for passing touchdown league, he was basically QB6 based on the 23 points per game. And you got him as I think QB5, But you got him in the seventh round. So Daniels, Marvin Harrison, Jr., George Kittle, Bejal Tootin, Tony Pollard, that's who I really wanted.

Kyle Pitts, D.K., oh, Dave took Tony Pollard, nice word. Kyle Pitts, D.K. Metcalfe. I took Jalen Warren as my flex. And Mackay Lemon to Joe. Joe, we haven't, that's your first rookie. Now, just kidding. You took Judari and Bryce. This round.

Yes. You took Lemon over Tyson, who I'm considering taking in the next round if he's available. Why Lemon over Tyson? Yeah, if. Somebody else picks before you. Are you going to take them both? I just might. We'll see how it goes.

I've got some other guys in the queue there. But I think Mackay Lemon is the guy that will automatically see. Look, no matter how much more workload you think when A.J. Brown gets traded that Devonte Smith is going to see somebody else is going to get a fair amount of targets. And I think it's clear it's Mackay Lemon. I think that's why, despite the fact that I don't love Howie Roseman's track record taking wide receivers in drafts, he's great to what he does.

But the wide receiver track record has not been great for him over the years. I do think this time they recognize somebody that really can fit in well, hit the running. You know, we've heard the Amman Rae St. Brown comparisons. I think that's a little lofty, but I think in terms of stylistically, you can understand it. He's going to fight for footballs. He's, you know, got that dog at him.

He's a very mere cural. personality, which will either be huge in Philadelphia or a complete train wreck or both at any given time. And I think that Lemon is a guy that I feel very confident that he will be able to get in there right away, be on the field and actually contribute in fantasy. So as my third wide receiver, I feel pretty good about him there. And he doesn't come with, I think, some of the question marks in terms of health that Tyson does, who, by the way, just went to Heath.

Yeah, Heath did take Jordan Tyson. All right, so you took Lemon. Then we had Rico Dowdell, Jalen Hurts. Jacoby Myers, Jordan Tyson. Jamie, looking at round seven, and you see, you took Marvin Harrison, Jr., we had Metcalf, we had Lemon, we had Myers, we had Jordan Tyson with the first pick of round eight. The running backs are Tutin, Pollard, Warren Dowdell. Which position you think is stronger at that point in the draft, running back or wide receiver? Probably running back, just because there's Pollard still should be the lead guy there by how much we'll find out.

but obviously going into the season. I think Warren will be the lead guy in Pittsburgh, but clearly Dowdle going there. The receiver's huge upside, but, you know, questions. So, you know, is Harrison or Wilson better than the other? Someone shot Azer. Damn you, Joe, Pisa Pia. It was me from the grassy knoll.

To Chris Godwin. And with that, we're going to take a break so I can regroup. I will say the strongest position probably in that round was the quarterbacks, though. Jayden Daniels and Jalen Hurts Yeah, I mean, look at the guys you're getting at this point. And obviously that's our drafts. That's most analyst drafts.

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Find your advisor at IGPrivatewealth.com. All right. You know what? I haven't given up hope for Ricky Pearsall yet. I'm going to take Ricky Peersall. But gosh, do I like Chris Godwin a lot better than Ricky Pearson. Me too, Aiser. Me too. Yeah, a nice pick. All right, so round eight is Jordan Tyson, Michael Wilson, Ramandre Stevenson, Chris Godwin, and Ricky Pearsall. Some players that are available at receiver, Wondale Robinson, Parker Washington, Jordan Addison, who I certainly considered, Michael Pittman, Tyree Kill, Casey Concepcion.

I'll stop there. At running back, we've got, I think Dobbins is still available. Yep, Dobbins, Aaron Jones, Drachori-Kroski-Mert, Tyler L. Jir, Rashad White, Kenneth Gainwell, not great. Chris Rodriguez, Jr., still there. He might, we just had to report a speculation from a beatwriter that he'll have the most carries on the team. Tight end.

Tight end is, I don't know when the next tight end is going to come off the board. It might be a little while. Isaiah likely, Travis Kelsey, Dallas Goddard, Mark Andrews, Jake Ferguson, Dalton Kincaid, and quarterback is obviously deep. Jackson, Dart, Dak, Prescott, Stafford, K, Caleb Williams, Lawrence, Mahomes, Purdy. So I don't know. We might be a little...

Actually, I think Jackson Dart. I think Jake's going to take Jackson Dart right here. Oh, he took James. Yeah, I want two quarterbacks. Real quick. It's super flex. Maybe if he was a rookie. I don't know.

I'm going to take Jackson right here. Waiting for, you know, to see what happened. So it kind of worked out, again, looking at what Jake has on his team. All right. So just catching up on round eight as Jake takes Kyle Monongai. Jordan Tyson, Michael Wilson, Ramandre Stevenson, Chris Godwin, Ricky Pearsall, Brian Thomas, Jalen Wright, Parker Washington, Justin Herbert, Wondale Robinson, Jordan Addison, Kyle Menangai. And then Jake took, who'd you take? Oh, Jordan Mason.

Okay, and Jamie took Jackson Dart. And then Jacori Kroski Merritt, and then Michael Pittman. And Dave, you're on the clock. What are you going to do, Dave? I am, I lost the guys that were in my queue. Dart was in my queue. Crossley Merritt was in my queue. My highest rated player left is Isaiah likely.

And I already have a tight end. So I don't think I can go that route. My next highest rated running back is Aaron Jones. That feels gross. But it is round nine. And I don't mind collecting running back depth. And let me just see who's left at quarterback before I commit to old Aaron Jones, Dax, Stafford, Caleb, Trevor Lawrence.

All right, I'm cool with any of those guys. I bet one of them makes it back to me. Double checking at receiver. Tyreek is still there. Casey Concepcion is still there. Golden Dobbs. Yeah, not excited about any of these guys either. I'm going to go with old man Aaron Jones, strictly for running back depth.

Jake, you took Jordan Mason over Aaron Jones. Yeah, mostly because I think Mason can be the lead at this point. And as you just said, old man Aaron Jones, I feel like he's the past catcher at best. They like the complimentary. And then I want to be shocked that he starts to lose his job this season. So I'm leaning more at Jordan Mason. Both of them are free agents next year as well.

So that's something that you might see the Vikings start to evaluate whether or not they want to bring back Mason because they're probably, in my estimation, are not going to be looking at Aaron Jones to Rio. I think the key here is you're going to see those names in your drafts. And you're going to think, oh, Aaron Jones has been good in the past or Jordan Mason has shown flashes in the past. you just got to wait until the right time to get these guys and getting them for depth like Jake did on his team me for my team yeah that's all there you can't start them unless you're in like crazy 16 team leagues

and you just need a warm body that's going to get at least a dozen touches and even then I'm not sure both of these guys are going to get a dozen touches from game to game all right I am up I have burrow hampton walker Evans I'm on Ross St. Brown Devante Smith Jalen Warren and rickie pierceau I need a tight end but everybody who has, everybody who's picking after me

has a tight end already. So let's just go BPA. I think Dobbins is a good pick here. I think Corum is a good pick here. Huge upside handcuff. Let's see, wide receiver. Tyree Kill, Concepcion, Ayuk, nobody I love.

All right, let's go with, let's go with Corum, actually. The thing is, like, this is my, fourth running back. Dobbins is probably going to be better than Corum if everyone stays healthy. But he's not going to be that good. He basically never catches the ball. And if he doesn't score, you're probably not going to be thrilled starting J.K. Dobbins. And maybe they give R.J. Harvey more of a role this year or, you know, get someone else in the mix. So I'm going to go with a guy who

could get 10 to 12 carries a game, maybe score some touchdowns. And man, if Kyra Williams gets hurt, you got a league winner there. All right, Joe, you're on the clock. What are you going to do? I'm going to go ahead and break down and take my quarterback because I do have a preference here. which I'd rather have Dak Prescott. You know he's going to throw for more than 4,000 yards. You know he's going to approach 30 touchdowns. And with Pickens and C.D. Lamb in house, too. Now, I know the defense is slightly better than it is last year,

but, you know, the proof is in the pudding. We'll see how good they are when they actually get on the field in terms of stopping opponents from scoring. Theoretically, they did add some more talent, so I think it's going to be better, but not enough that we're going to slow down what the Dallas Cowboys can do. And plus, it's going to be a very comparative division. You know, these games between the judges,

Giants and the Eagles and the commanders. I think all these guys are going to be really kind of, you know, they're going to press everybody every single week that they play each other inside that division. So I look for a deck Prescott to have another big season here. Okay. We are done with round nine. We were into round 10.

The rest of round nine after, I'll just read all of round nine. Jordan Mason, Jackson Dart, Jacori Kroski Merritt, Michael Pittman, Aaron Jones, Matthew Golden, Quentin Johnston, Blake Corum, Dak Prescott, Matthew Stafford, Kenneth Gainwell, J.K. Dobbins. Jake, do you like Christian Watson in round six, or Matthew Golden in round nine, better? Still Christian Watson.

I think we're hoping for Golden, but, you know, Reed is still going to be involved plenty. They re-uped him, and whether or not he stays healthy is a question mark. I thought you were actually going to say, I love the value of Josh Downs right there. Like that, I don't know. My mic was on or off because the dogs were playing,

but like I sighed. I was hoping that I might get to steal all the way back at the end of this round with Josh Downs. Is he a guy that you value much differently in half PPR versus full PPR? And Josh Downs went with the first pick of round 10. Then it was Charbonnet. Then it was Jaden Higgins.

And then Chris Rodriguez to Joe. But you can answer that question as I make my pick here. No, it'd be more so like non-PBR to full PPR gets a massive boost. Half between the, you know, play in the middle. I don't think there's a huge difference either way. I mean, definitely vaults him.

And I probably would say around, but to go, like I said, to your first question, I think Watson's the one that you see, Golden and Reed kind of splitting those two. It's almost a different version of the bears we were talking about before, is they're going to alternate weeks. But I think just Downs is getting overlooked. Like Warren was great value by Brad at that point, but I think people are just forgetting that Downs is clearly the number two and has proven that he can handle being the number two for that team.

Adam, I have a question for you, and I think you made the right choice, but would you have considered, did you consider taking Charbonnet for kind of the same reason you took quorum in that spot? Not really,

because I think Judari and Price really limits that that upside there and he's... Well, Charbonet might not play, period.

Like this bad case scenario is November. So, I don't know, he's kind of off the board from a period. I don't know. Yeah, I'm what Jake is too

on that one too. He's kind of off my board also. I was actually trying to decide between likely and Kelsey. And then I remember Charles Barkley last night saying that sports are not for old people. So I went with likely. But I really do like Kelsey's value this year. So likely and Kelsey went back to back in round 10.

We had Braille and Allen after that. And Dave, you're on the clock. Three names in my cue. One is Tyler Algeria. I had drafted Jeremiah Love earlier. I could lock up the Cardinals backfield. That doesn't sound as sexy as it did in my head 30 seconds ago. And then Casey Concepcion and Tyreek Hill are both on the board.

I do have Hill ranked higher than Concepcion and half PPR. It's on the hunch that Tyree Kill obviously plays and is 75, 80 percent of his former self and goes to a contending team. But I wonder if I could snatch him up later because I'm not sure everybody feels the same way as I do about Tyreek Hill, considering that he isn't on a team right now. And I'm a fan of Concepcion skills. and I love the idea of him being in Cleveland. I think he could be the top target getter there. I know it's bad for him to take two Browns pass catchers on the same fantasy team,

especially in a half PPR. What could go wrong? It's round 10. I can wait on quarterback because everybody picking after me in round 10 and before me in round 11 already has one quarterback. So I'll be able to get one of Caleb or Trevor Lawrence. Hopefully one of the two make it back to me in round 11. So my plan was just to take a guy who I know is going to play this year,

is healthy, is young, and isn't a slow running back behind a top three overall pick in the NFL draft. So I took conception. Dave, I love that pick. Well done. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Romeo Dobbs went after that. Omar Cooper after that.

Jonathan Brooks to Jamie. And Jake, you were on the clock with two hits. I like that pick. I'm actually really mad at Dave talking that up so much. I was worried that, like, Tyrick Hill is in my cue. And just because at this point, when we're taking the upside, if he does land on the team, I mean, the potential for there, and that's the same reason I'm making my other pick. I have to search because they're deeper down the list here.

By you? No. I don't want to double down on that. Everybody was drafting them last year. They have no pass catchers in Las Vegas. No pass catchers in Las Vegas. And yes, Bech was a massive disappointment as a rookie, and it could be Trey Tucker. They signed Naylor.

and we're really kind of shooting at, you know, we're throwing darts here. But the chance that BESH is who we thought he could be like a Jacoby Myers for this team and becomes the number one wide receiver. At this point, I'm throwing away an 11th round pick if it doesn't happen. Okay, so you didn't take Jalen Naylor? Right. No. Not your guy.

Okay. I would go to Besh. All right, Jamie took Jaden Reed. Then we had Dallas got it. And you still don't have a tight end, Jake. How do you feel about that in round 11, no tight end? Do you want me to stand up because I disagree? You have a tight end?

Take a second to let that one stick in that sink in. I'll turn around for you. Yeah, a dad joke for you this late in the game. I'm going to wait. Speaking of late in the game, I'm going to wait. Like, why am I going to chase a tight end when essentially if you don't get the top five or six, they're all the same? You're talking about the difference between nine points per game and eight point three fantasy points per game. Like, I don't care.

But we just had Dallas God. All right. So fine. Hypothetically. If likely. That sounds like some mark. Andrew's noise to me, Easer. If likely or Kelsey had made it to you in round 10 at the end of...

Likely, yes. If likely I'd made it, but I knew there's no way he's going to make it another 24 picks to me. Okay. And, you know, obviously we give Devante Smith a boost because we think A.J. Brown's going to get traded. Did you do not give Dallas Goddard? Because you could have taken him at the 10-11 turn. You give him a... No, because if you want to spend any time of the last three week or two and a half

week since the draft app, but a railing against everybody who says that Jalen Hertz can't throw over the middle. It's McCoy Lemon for me. I think Goddard is still going to be Goddard. We just hope that he has the touchdown equity he has from last year, and that's a touchdown equity I'm not counting on. Okay. See, I read Jake Sealy's tweets.

That's why I took McCoy Lemon. So I'm all in the Jake Sealy tweet threads. He's also had to deal with me on three different podcasts going off about the Jalen Hertz McClellan's situation. But you know what? But I hate hate saying this. You're right. Like you're 100% correct on that and I think that makes the most sense and you know while I think tape

projectable is the guy I want long term I think Tyson takes over next year this season I think McCoy Lemon is the one guy that I feel like from week one has potential more than the other two and I think that's the cliff's nose version is for everybody out there is jalen hurts absolutely can and passes very well over the middle they just doesn't need to or asked to or designed to by this team and he's better throwing outside that is true but at the same time you're going to tell me a team drafted three spots higher, threw away two fourth rounders to do it to a division rival, and they're not going to change up their offense a little bit with Sean Mania now calling plays to throw over the middle at all. By the way, Mackayle Lemon could play outside. Like, why are we pretending

that all of a sudden? Like, people hate Jill and Hurt so much that they've turned McCoy Lemon from being a complete wide receiver to he can only catch the ball five to 15 yards between the hashes. Like they want to crucify Lemon because they want to hate on Hurt so much. Yeah, he had more deep ball catches than Jordan Tyson, a lot more than Jordan Tyson last year. Most in the class. Most deep ball catches in the class? I think it was either the highest ad or the most deep ball. There's one of those numbers that he was actually the best in the class. I don't think it was the ad, but it could have been. Let's see. I've drafted. Okay. Oh, oh, yeah, maybe.

Like the first two day wide receivers, day one and day two. He had 16 catches. It was 20 more air yards. That was third most in the country. Jordan Tyson had five. Anyway, Yeah, thermos in the country, so there you go, yeah. Yeah, so of the drafted people for sure then. If somebody asked, Scott asked in the chat, is it 100% certainty that A.J. Brown gets traded to New England? No, we are banking on it. It was a report.

It's a hundred percent certainty that's traded. Well, I think it's near there or the Rams. Like, those are the two, too. Like, I thought the Rams might dabble in the wide receiver world somewhere, you know, considering Pukanakua's issues in health and Devante Am's another year older, maybe a little bit of more depth somewhere. So I wouldn't be shocked if, like, the Rams made a big splash due,

especially after, you know, they caught so much heat for not doing enough at the wide receiver position. So I think that's the, that's the B team. I don't know if you guys have a second choice. But we are basically, everything we're doing,

we're acting as if he's getting traded. He's getting traded. Yeah. I mean, if you look at what the Eagles have told you and all the players they've acquired, the Hollywood Browns and the, Buckeye Lemons and who else am I forgetting, guys? There's another wide receiver in there.

Wicks. Wicks. Wicks. Yeah, Wix was another one. By the way, I took Aronday Gadsden, so Jake couldn't. On purpose. But also because he is, I think, the best talent still on the board, and I'm fascinated about what he might become potentially with Mike McDaniel as the offensive coordinator.

We've seen some flashes with the Johnny Smith and even to a certain extent, old man, Darren Waller, where I was kind of like, you know, I'd really like to see what he could possibly become here. And if so, again, drafts are about taking talent. It's not all about just like building your own roster. It's once you get into the reserves, it's like, let me take talent here because then I have a situation where I've got Loveland, I've got Gadsden, somebody's being looking for a tight end.

It gives me trade value potential there for me to go do something else. I just hope they don't sign the Joku. I hope so too. I hope so too, especially after I make this pick in this fictional league. You took your first rookie, Antonio Williams. Good job. I want to get the guys take on Chris Rodriguez. that I picked earlier, because I know Azer's up, too, right now, and he's time to make his pick.

No, I'm just going to say, I'm going to take Tyrone Tracy, and I think Heath should have taken Tyrone Tracy because he was going to, I didn't want to, you know, somebody to do it. But I thought Heath had a couple of opportunities here to take Tracy or Simpson or Samson or both just to kind of. He could have. He could have. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, anyway, you're Chris Rodriguez pick. So you took Rodriguez in, what, round nine or ten? Yeah, I'm just curious what the guys think about this because I enjoy Bayshalt-Tooten speed as much as the next fella. But I keep coming back to the whole, like, Liam Cohn relationship and connectivity to Chris Rodriguez and being maybe the early down back and possibly also the guy used around the goal line.

And I feel like in a half-PPR, he might be a sneaky value, but I don't know if I'm on an island on this one by myself. Jamie? Your thoughts on Chris Rodriguez? No, I don't know why I know. They're all looking at their draft boards. I'm on the clock. I think you did a great job.

I think Rodriguez is amazing value here. And, you know, where Joe took him, it's everything he said. You know, there's uncertainty here. We got different reports of who's going to be maybe the better of the two. We don't know until it plays out. And listen, I hope they're done. You know, if you like these two players, you know, there's still the potential of what if they try to get one of these guys that could be a cast off in a backfield, James Connor, for example,

or somebody like that, you know, who could get, you know, released. but I do think as Joe alluded to, you know, the history with, you know, Rodriguez and Cohen in Kentucky, this was a player they targeted. They gave him a two-year deal of $10 million. That's not a lot. But at that position, it's not, you know, something to potentially ignore. And Tutin, who had an opportunity, I think early on in the process to maybe be a little bit more involved, maybe even steal the job from ETN.

I remember at this point last year, we were like, Tank Bigsby's the guy. And, you know, because ETN was coming off that miserable 2024. four and then they drafted to it and it was like okay maybe two is going to be the guy and you know et and you know etienne just had this amazing year in a contract season and they didn't replace him with anybody of significant name value or really pedigree so i think rodriguez could come in and be that type of i don't know difference maker but can certainly be that guy and there is at least that one report uh the sports illustrator report john ship who covers the team his preseason draft depth chart has rodriguez won you know so there are some some thoughts for people to cover the team

that rodriguez may lead the team and carries yeah it's good pick so let's see where did tooten go in this draft seventh round anyone a little help here he definitely went earlier he went around 6th yeah 7th 4 and uh rodriguez went in round 10 so

Joe you you prefer Rodriguez in round 10 the three round discount it's not that I don't like tooting again I just want to come back to that and I don't think I think he's the playmaker I think he's the explosive fun guy but when we're talking about a half point PPR league I think Rodriguez is really appealing in terms of return on investment as a 10th round pick because of all the things that Jamie pointed out too. It's not nothing that they paid him.

It's not a huge contract, but it's a little bit more guaranteed than you would have thought, and I think a little bit more pointed. And I come back to that same thing too, which is that relationship that players have with coaches, when you see somebody targeted and signed quickly, right, and identified by a team, it's clear that if they were just fine with Tutin,

maybe they would have addressed in the draft, maybe they would have, you know, found somebody else or brought somebody else into camp later, but they didn't. They went out there and they specifically went after Rodriguez and free agency, and it was one of the earliest moves. So to me, I think that's tipping the hand a little bit and something. Sometimes we should pay more attention to when we're talking about fantasy. All right. I think we could maybe start talking about our squads here, but I'll just go through picks, rounds 11 and 12. Jack Bech. Did you take Mark Andrews yet? No. Let me get to round 11.

He's not even my top Q tight end. Oh, I bet I can guess who is if I look, though. Best, Jaden Reed, Dallas Goddard, Alger, Caleb Williams, Savion Williams, Rashad White, Jawan Jennings, Arronday Gadsden, Jalen Coker, I almost said Michael Keaton, Keaton Mitchell, Jared Gough. After that, it was Woody Mark. Rashid Shahid, Khalil Shakir, Antonio Williams, Tyrone Tracy,

Emmanuel Wilson, Chris Brasel, Jalen Naylor, Trey Harris, Malik Washington, Trey Tucker, Denzel Boston. Mike Washington. Malik Washington. Mike, it was the wrong one in the draft. That's the right one on the board. The guy who's... I'm looking at the... I'm looking at Thomas's board.

Yeah, so that, yeah, okay. So if you're watching on YouTube where it's... Malik Washington for Jake I, not Jake Sealy, that he actually took Malik Washington of the Dolphins. No, he took Mike Washington. No, he took Malik Washington. What am I looking? Who's on first?

You're looking at Sleeper on CBS. He took Malik Washington. Oh, I'm on the clock. Oh, no. Maybe I'll take Mike Washington. I'm going to take... Oh, I'm sorry. He also took Mike Washington.

Oh, he took them both. Oh, boy. Easier, you're up. I guess, ah, I'm going to take Mahomes, I guess. All right. Anyway, that's where we're at right now. All right. So how are you guys feeling about your teams?

We have one more round, but Jake, you had the first pick, and you'll eventually have a tight end, unless you picked one already. Did you pick a tight end? No. All right. Well, you're going to have to take one eventually, you know. It is the rules.

Okay, so I'll take one in the last round. They're all the damn same at this point. I don't care. air. Are you getting ready to ban tight ends? Yeah, ban tight ends. I'll give you a hint. There's two names. They've both been thrown out as the number one and number two and my cue. And then there's two others that are thrown into my queue, one that I think has been a little underrated from last year, another one that might have a bounce back with a new quarterback. There's the hint from the four tight ends in my queue because I'm not going to be able to be around for that. I got to think. But more

importantly, more importantly, I'm getting out of here, Joe. Shut up for two seconds, please. Go hi, man. I'm good. I really like how my why receiver. receivers went, except I don't love taking the fly. I love the value when Dave Montgomery was there for like Marvin Harrison. I hated that Jamie took him. Jordan Addison was still there. So looking back as why we do mock drafts, I probably would have let Adams & Moore set on the board and went with a running back like

ETN or even Price or Henderson. And then knowing that those wide receivers could be there would change up my draft strategy. Out of that, the bench depth is mostly for upside at this point. And yes, that part of my anger towards Joe, knowing that he purposely took Gadsden just to screw me over the tight position. All right, Joe has to go. I'm sorry, Jake, thank you for coming on today. Yes.

Yeah, I have an appointment. I appreciate you guys. Love everybody over at CBS, including you, Adam, surprisingly. Yeah, we're finally found one. I'm going to read Jake's team here. He has, he picked first overall. He has Jaden Daniels, who he took in round seven, Bejohn Robinson and David Montgomery.

Malik neighbors, Chris Olavay, Devante Adams, DJ Moore. And at tight end, I don't even know who it's going to be. Jake Ferguson, maybe, something like that. His bench is Kyle Monongai, Jordan Mason, Isaiah Pacheco, Tyreek Hill, Jack Beshe, Denzel, Boston. Jamie, how do you feel about your team picking second? Yeah, I mean, the biggest question is obviously a wide receiver, you know, waiting as long as I did to, not waiting as long as that, but, you know, waiting to get my first one in round four. So, you know, throwing some darts there with guys that I still think have plenty of upside.

Burden, you know, to me was, they're all more number two wide receivers, at least at the top. But burden, end of a run. McConkey, I think, will bounce back this year. You know, I said on, I think it was yesterday show on Wednesday show, I leave every draft with a charger, so this was the one I got. I think Harrison with Brissette will be good. Hopefully Brissette's the starter. We got a small sample size of what he was looking like. And hopefully he has the Michael Wilson run as opposed to Michael Wilson.

Addison, I think, will have a bounce back similar to what Joe was saying about Justin Jefferson just because of Kyler Murray. So I'm okay with the receiving court there. But love the running backs, love the tight end, love the quarterback, especially the value. So hopefully, you know, in half PPR, if this full PPR, I'd be a little bit more concerned. But half PPR, I think, you know, running backs will carry me. And, you know, if McBride is still as good as he is capable of being, then, you know, have a significant edge at that spot. Oh, okay.

So once again, Jamie picking second is going to have Jackson Dart, who he took in round nine. Jemir Gibbs, Josh Jacobs. He's going to have Trey McBride at tight end. Luther Burden, Ladd-McConkey, Marvin Harrison, Jr., and then the flex will either be Jordan Addison. Yeah, it'll be Jordan Addison. And he's got Jonathan.

What's that? It'll be Chuba. Oh, it'll be Chuba. My bad. Yeah, it'll be Chuba Hubbard. then he's got Jordan Addison, Jonathan Brooks, Jaden Reed on his bench. Dave, you had the fifth pick. How did you feel about your team?

I like it. I like starting with two running backs with my first three picks and getting pick-ins, especially with the rationale, knowing that the next best wide receiver that might fall to me in round three would be somebody like, well, on my board, it might have been Ibuka or A.J. Brown anyway, and the fact that I was able to get a Bucca two rounds later, A tells me that I'm probably going to be the high guy on a Buka and B, that I knew that picking pickens would save me from having some question marks at wide receiver.

And it really did because the running backs that were left for me in early mid-round three were great. And I was happy to take Jeremiah Love. And then went receiver heavy after that with Bucca and Waddle back-to-back picks. I'm a big fan of both of those receivers. I think they both had potential to be top 15 of Bucca specifically top 12. and having them with Pickens, who everybody's going to draft is one of the first 12 receivers off the board, who honestly has the same type of potential as C.D. Lamb in the same offense, getting the same type of target volume, I don't mind. I think that that's a really good wide receiver trio to go with two really good,

promising high upside running backs. That's how I started the squad. Fanon at tight end, I thought that was good value. Pollard in round seven, I think that's excellent value. If we're looking at Tennessee being a better offense this year, better play caller, Better additions to the team, then it makes total sense that the lead running back in that offense will be a good help for fantasy as well. Getting that in round seven, I like that a lot. And then just really complimentary pieces after that, waiting on quarterback ended up to be, ended up working out for me because Caleb Williams, I think he'll be a consensus top 12 quarterback. Got him in round 11. I think that's excellent value.

That's what you've got to do, a quarterback this year. Get one at an excellent value. All right. So Dave, picking sixth is going to have Caleb Williams. at quarterback, Harold Fannard at tight end, Jonathan Taylor and Jeremiah Love at running back, Pickens, Abuka, and Waddle at receiver with Tony Pollard or Parker, Washington,

at Flex, Aaron Jones, Casey Concepcion on the bench. I had the, uh, what did I, oh, Dave had the fifth pick. I'm sorry, not six, fifth pick. I had the eighth pick, and I took Amon Rae St. Brown in the first round. I really liked it. I just kind of one of those drafts where, yeah,

a lot of picks just kind of fell in my lap. Amari and Hampton. I'm a little nervous about Amari and Hampton in round two. He only had one really impressive game last year, as I recall, and it was against the Giants who had the worst run defense in the NFL, but he had a ton of catches last year. So that's good. So St. Brown, Hampton.

Ken Walker. I could have taken Ken Walker in round two and been happy about it. I got him in round three. Devante Smith in round four, which I'm not quite sure he's going to make it that far once the Brown trade becomes official if it happens. Mike Evans in round five, Joe Burrow. I'll just give my starting lineups. It's Burrow.

Isaiah likely Hampton and Ken Walker St. Brown, Devante Smith, Mike Evans and flex is Jalen Warren with Ricky Pearsall, Blake Corum, Joanne Jennings on the bench. And we do have other bench players

that I'm not reading. Like for example, oh no, I didn't take, I wanted to take Emmett Johnson, but I did not get a chance to take him to back up Ken Walker. And Joe, you picked right after me. You have a lot of rookies, actually.

I think you have three. Too many rookie shows. Well, I think, look, I started out with Justin Jefferson as the first pick, which again, I'll defend that one to the death because he is a top three wide receiver talent in this league who had no quarterback help at all last year. And I just don't think that's going to hold two years in a row. And if things break right, this time next year, we can be looking at him as a top five pick overall. So I'll take that every single day. Running back room is Chase Brown, Breeze Hall, Judarian Price, and Chris Rodriguez.

And I feel that's a pretty good foresum there, especially in half PPR where, you know, I think Judarian Price and Bruce Hall are going to see a fair amount of. touchdowns this year. QB is Dak Prescott. And then I think, you know, whenever you go ahead and you take that early tight end, which I tried and experimented with. And I'm curious because I've been writing up all these tight ends of the Blackbook. I'm almost done with that whole chapter. And Loveland, you know, as you continue to dig into the stats and the trend, it just feels so right to go ahead and waste, not waste, but like use the early pick, I should say, on him. But that does put you behind a little bit. So what I try to do is find guys that I think have potential to jump tiers at wide receiver. I think if you can draft Pierce,

is a three and he ends up as a two. That's great. I think Mackay Lemon's a guy. You're drafting as almost a four, but I think he has potential to be a three. And then just taking shots on guys. You know, Chris Godwin, if he's healthy, Chris Godwin automatically becomes my wide receiver two and I'm a love in life. To me, that is the pick that possibly could save me. But I have to build in some more youth and some more options there because that's not enough. Antonio Williams, I think has upside. Same thing with Jeremy Bernard. I think he kind of fits, especially if Aaron Rogers comes back, more of like what Aaron Rogers. is capable of doing it this time in his career.

I don't believe in Ricky Pearson. I don't love what San Francisco continues to do in the drafts every year. And I love Mike Evans, but if I couldn't get Evans and he's older, I'll take a shot on Christian Kirk, who I think could, again, just be a contributor. And then Arronday Gadsden's just a value pick there. It's a guy that should not be on the board, and I believe in price enforcing in drafts and just acquiring talent and drafts. You worry about position stuff later.

You worry about all that stuff. You can get the most talent on your roster in the draft, then you're winning. And then after that, inevitably draft, you know, injuries happen, everybody waiver wire pops up, and you can fill other spots. But you only get that one first shot at acquiring talent. And I just think Gadsden's too interesting of a player this year. If it fails, I cut him. If he doesn't, and he becomes another Colston-loveland, then I've got a great problem there

where I got another guy that I can flex. Okay. You can stop with the price enforcement stuff. You'd pick Gadsden to screw with Jake. Well, that was honestly, that was just like the bonus of it. But I was looking, he was in my queue for the rounds before, too. And I was just like, you know, Gadsden really shouldn't be there anymore. And I'm just like, you know what?

And it tweaks Jake Sealy? Sign me up. I'm good. I get that you want to tweak Jake. That's always fun to do. Let me tell you two tight ends that weren't drafted at all and line them up against Gadsden. Jake Ferguson, Dallas, we kind of know him what he is. Not exciting, but he can be serviceable for fantasy.

And Dalton Kincaid, who last year had his best year, so it wasn't amazing. he's never really hit his potential, but we know that when he's healthy, he can be helpful. How do you rationalize Gadsden? Oh, easy. Over those two. Kincaid, I think, you know,

I think part of Kincaid's upside last year was the fact that there was no DJ Moore kind of presence. So I think DJ Moore's presence automatically kind of hurts that one. And I think with Ferguson, again, it's like, Ferguson's fine, but we know what Ferguson is. We know what his floor is and his ceiling is. I don't know what gas and ceiling is.

Well, it is almost the same. And Gadsden, I look at a guy and I say, again, this is more just kind of putting in the football projectability here. Mike McDaniel is just having to worry about being an offensive coordinator should terrify the rest of the league because I think he is one of the great offensive minds we have in football. I never cared for the idea of them as a head coach. I did not think that was going to work out for him. And inevitably, you know, it came to fruition.

I do think, though, if you look at the way this team is built, do they really have an Alpha dog wide receiver in the chargers? No. But if Gadsden can all of a sudden become this incredible weapon, especially around the red zone and a half PPR league, my God, like that is something really fascinating to see if that can develop. And again, if it doesn't, it's such a late pick, it doesn't matter.

I cut him, I move on, I trade them off, I do something else. So yeah, there's still plenty of tight ends that, that I think are serviceable. So if you miss to Jake's point, hey, I missed on everything, I was just going to take a tight end or two tight ends with my last two picks, you could definitely get away with that. But as you can cut Gadsden. I'm sorry to catch up.

you can cut Gadsden and pick up Ferguson or Kincaid or any of the other 10-ins off-forters. Absolutely. But I don't think that those two guys carry what Gadsden could potentially within his offense this year. Sure. And if people out there are listening and I could go through a couple of other tight ends that might have the same type of rosy upside that Joe sees and Gatson. Kincaid certainly could qualify. Maybe Joanne Johnson, Brenton Strange. These are names that you know.

Joanne especially had a good year last year. any of those guys, if you think they've got upside, that's who you take late, knowing that there's going to be another tight end that you can find off the waiver wire later. It's kind of what I think Jake sees as well. I just don't know if I love Jake taking Mark Andrews to be that guy when you could have had some of these other ones that are on waivers. Yeah, I don't disagree with that. And I'm not trying to buy too much into like the week seven, week eight, or on the gas and performances.

But, you know, it's not every day you see a tight end be able to haul in like 14 targets and 12 catches over two weeks for 200-something yards and two touchdowns. To me, that was very eye-opening. Yeah. And it's just a matter of, we're finally getting away from the boring hardball offenses. And it's the first time that McDaniel also is going to have a real big boy quarterback in Justin Herbert. He's never anything like Justin Herbert to work with in his career. So this is going to be fascinating to see what you could do, especially if the tackle, stay healthy. Yeah.

And, you know, just to weigh in, I'm not really interested in Ferguson because you just look at his season last year. When Lamb and Pickens were both healthy, he had very few, you know, impressive. of games. He did in week two. At that point, Pickens wasn't really all that involved in the offense. And then he had first game back for Lamb. He had 29 yards and two touchdowns. After that, I mean, Ferguson was not, probably not really even worth rostering. I mean, borderline, you know, but, but anyway, all right, that's it for the... It feels like his floor is like seven and a half p.PR points per game, and his ceiling is like nine p.PR points per game. Yeah. Well, Joe P. Spia is a high ceiling. I'll tell

that much. Super low floor, though. Like real low floor. Oh, it's subterranean. It's really bad. Thanks for coming on, man.

I appreciate it. Thanks for staying long. Thanks for saying longer. Absolutely, guys. Thanks so much for having me. This was a fun first effort. I think it helps all of us kind of readjust our brains.

It's always great to draft with the best and you guys are the best. Wow. That is a great close. I never know how to close shows. You should have just shut up. Yeah. Bye, everyone. Talk to you next time.

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