Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag! Plus Fantasy Cops! (03/19 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

Answering your questions via email (4:40) at [e-mail], Twitter (37:40) and Apple Podcast (48:30). We talk about teams who upgraded their offensive lines, how to evaluate players coming off of major injuries, running backs who will get work at the goal line and more. We also hear from the Fantasy Cops (59:45) Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop our store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shop.cbssports.com/fantasy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Off to the races, and he stays on his feet. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. It's not Friday, though. Thursday, March 19th, welcome to the show. Happy March Madness. What a super fun day. Thursday and Friday, the first two days of the tournament. They're the best.

And we're going to talk fantasy football, though, here. We're all wearing our team colors today. Well, I mean, in a plight of panic, Adam saw that Jamie and I were representing our teams because we are true fans and we love our teams. Oh my gosh. Adam, were you not the guy who went to a kid's birthday party and didn't watch Miami's first playoff game in God knows when? Ever. No, it wasn't a kid's birthday party. IDVR. You know IDVR. It's fine. I guarantee you. I guarantee you that I guarantee you that I'm a kid's birthday party. I deviard. I guarantee you that I'm a kid's birthday party. I deviVR'd. I guarantee you that. I am a bigger fan of Miami basketball than either of you are of Wisconsin basketball or Florida basketball. There's no way to prove that.

We can only lean on the one piece of evidence we have, which is you did not watch the game lot. That was a football game. I care. I care about my team when they're bad. You don't. Is there any proof of that? J.B. didn't start watching Florida basketball until like three weeks ago.

That's my. Now he's just taking. shots. He can't even see the logo. It's like you didn't even change. This, this, but this hoodie is so, I got this my freshman year of college, a 24 year old hoodie that I wear right now. No, it's. Unreal. All right, anyway, you got your emails, fantasy football at CBSI.com. You got tweets. You can follow us on Twitter at Adam Azer at Jamie Eisenberg, J-A-M-E-Y,

at Dan Schneier-N-F-L. Schneier is S-C-H-N-E-I-E-R. A lot of vowels, Dan Schneider NFL. Got your tweets. There's no way you didn't know how to spell his name. You actually had to read how to spell his name. I mean, I didn't want to get it wrong. We're setting the tone here today on the mailback. Unbelievable. A couple of quarterback notes real quick.

The Eagles acquired Andy Dalton for a seventh round pick from Carolina. He might be the number three quarterback on the team behind Tanner McKee. And the Vikings re-signed Carson Wentz, who, you know, did a decent job last year. It was also weird. two weird signings. No team's going to carry three quarterbacks, I wouldn't think. So I don't really know what's going on with either of those. Well, I mean, the Vikings twice now in the last three years have had quarterback disasters.

True. And so insurance. Wouldn't surprise me if they're carrying three. But I also wouldn't be surprised at this point if they traded J.J. McCarthy if they can get value. Wow. Yeah. So Carson went through for 173 and 2, 350 and 2, $2, $3.36 and 1, 3.50 and 2, 236 and 1, 313 and 0, and then 144 yards and a touchdown.

He was so injured when he was playing that last game at the Chargers. I think it might have been a London game or whatever, but... It was in London, and his shoulder was falling off. Yeah, he was so injured in that game. Okay, let's get to it here. Email is Fantasy Football at CBSI.com. This is from Kevin. He says, Dear South Florida, VCU, Akron, and Texas.

Those are Kevin's first round upset picks. Okay, cool. Not sure if you've already... Oh, no, never mind. What are your thoughts on this topic? How have offensive line moves across the NFL impacted your fantasy projections or rankings? Jamie, any major rankings movements

based on the offensive lines? Nothing major. I do like the fact that obviously the Raiders got an upgrade with Linder Mom. That really hasn't changed how I feel about the Ravens, per se. I'm trying to think like anything significant. I like what Houston's done on their line. I like some of the move the Patriots made,

specifically getting Verit Tucker. I thought that was good. I thought the Giants keeping their guys and getting, you know, giving Neil back and adding to it was good. Big one for me is the lion signing Cade Mays. I thought Cade Mays was probably the most underrated offensive linemen on the entire market

and the best center on the market, besides Linderbaum, obviously. And just to add him to that team, I was just watching some of what the Panthers did and what made them so successful in the second half in the run game. And I thought he was a huge part of it. So just him going from that center spot in Carolina over to Detroit where they really didn't figure out a solution last year after Blagena's name, the kid from Arkansas, what's his name, their old center, retired. Yeah. They didn't find a solution and it kind of hurt them in some spots.

So I'm excited for that for the Lions. That's a big one for me. Yeah. But losing Decker, you know, could be. That hurts, yeah. So that's something to keep an eye on. But I wonder if they just move Sewell to the other side at this point. Yeah, and I think the Lions are an interesting one.

I mean, is their offensive line no longer a huge strength? I don't know. I think it depends on the run game. I think they still are. With Mays and Seul, they're still, just having those two weapons in their run game is big. Past game, maybe they could start to see some more cracks. Yeah, I thought the bills might lose their center and their starting guard. They did lose David Edwards, but they were used.

signed Connor McGovern. So I was happy that they were able to get one of them. The chargers were pretty active. They signed Tyler Biotish to a three-year, $30 million deal, signed Cole Strange, Trevor Penning. They were active, but it wasn't major moves. And then you said you liked what Houston did. I don't know they've really done anything too major here.

They did sign Brandon Smith. I think going from Howard to Braden Smith is a good upgrade there, right tackle for Stroud. Yeah. They signed a guard, Evan Brown. out of guard, Evan Ingram, and Braden Smith-right tackle from the Colts. But I don't know if there's a team like the Bears last year. The Bears added three players. It was huge.

And look at what it did for fantasy, by the way, those Bears ads. And I think if you talk about the Raiders, it's not just signing Linderbaum. It's getting Colton Miller back and healthy for a full seat. It would be great. So they could be a team that really improves on the offensive line. All right. Thank you. Great question to start.

I think he's still going too late. Like, in our draft, I was surprised to see him go mid. I think it was late too. Mid two. It was mid two. It was mid two. Okay. I still kind of feel like he should be a one, two, this year with those upgrades.

Here's an email from Matt. He says, hey, Doug, Doug two, Doug three, and Doug four. This is from a movie that Dan has definitely never seen, probably never heard of. Doug two, Doug three, Doug four. No, definitely never heard of this one. Hangover? No, this is multiplicity. No, I've watched Hangover.

What? What? What was it? Multiplicity. What the heck is that? Michael Keaton. He claims. loans himself.

Yeah. I don't know if I've ever seen it all the way through. Wow. Michael Keaton, like the guy from Batman? Yeah. When he was young, I didn't even know he was young at any point. I only know him as Alfred. All right, what else?

Jamie, if I say Michael Keaton, what's the first movie you think of? Bealges. I think it is probably bad. Batman for me? Yeah, I think it's Batman for me. Is it? That's not like a main role or anything. He was Batman.

What are you talking about? was Batman. It was the first Batman when they did the movies. Yeah, I'm definitely thinking of the wrong guy. I thought we were talking about Alfred. You've seen the other guys, right? You thought they were talking about Alfred? Yeah.

Michael Kane? Yeah. I was like, what are you talking about? Michael Keaton's never been young? You're thinking of Michael Kane. I thought I were talking about Alfred. Michael Kane. Michael Keating was the original.

You can see how I could get that one wrong. In the movies, anyway. All right, anyway. Okay, the question is from Matt, who's a multiplicity fan. We tend to draft players returning from major injuries through rose-colored glasses. You've already downgraded, yeah, there you go. You've already downgraded Malik neighbors. Who's Wilson?

Garrett Wilson, I guess. He's not coming back from a major injury. Scatibu and Judkins. Have you downgraded them enough? I reviewed 80Ps of players for the same. season after they suffered major injuries and compared it to how they finished. And here's what I found. Chris Godwin, ADP was 91, end of season ranking was 258.

This was the first for last year. Christian Kirk, ADP 145, end of season ranking was 321. Stefan Diggs, ADP was 84, end of season ranking was 119th. I hope this research is correct from Matt. T.J. Hawkinson was terrible. What was he coming back from? Atkinset, towards ACL in 2020,

four? Yeah, week 15 or week 16. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Breece Hall, Brees Hall was not coming back from a major injury,

was he? He meant two years. ACL four games into his rookie season. No. Okay, I don't know. Okay. I thought he was just referring to last year. But yes, Brees Hall.

Anyway, his point is what's something I agree with here. So we do look at injured players through rose-colored glasses. It does make me very nervous. Dan, how do you feel about it? It's nerve wracking. I mean, you have to factor it into the rankings.

But I mean, if those are the only examples we have, I feel like we'd have to do a whole study on this to kind of see. So I just looked up, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six wide receivers in the last. Like Diggs had an ACL and then came back last year and helped. I mean, I wouldn't say helped you in fantasy. He did at times that that was more of like a usage issue than like an actual performance issue from Diggs.

I agree, but they used him that way because he was coming off a torn ACL. So I think he ended up, let's see where he ended up digs. I mean, he probably didn't upgrade. He wasn't playing. He had random games or he just wasn't involved. He outperformed his ADP. He was wide receiver 25 per game. And he was definitely going later than that.

Yeah, and I guess that was he was going later in that in part due to the ACL. So it's one small win. But I don't try to think of some of the other examples. I have to look through. If you want to let me get through the six here. Oh, sorry. I think you had threw it to us, but go ahead. Right.

Then you said, do we have any others? I said, I have six. Oh, okay. But Diggs wasn't one of them, so that was a good one. Jameson Williams tore his ACL in his rookie season and was really bad his second season. Didn't do much. Well, he was also suspended his second season because of the gambling.

Yeah. But he had 354 yards in 12 games. But he didn't share his ACL as rookie season. He was going into NFL. Okay. What happened in his rookie season? Did he break his leg? Until the end of the employee because of it, I think, or for a while.

Okay. Scratch him. Then I have six. No James and Williams. Stefan Diggs. Put him on the list. George Pickens. He tore his ACL in college, right?

His last year? I think so. I do think he did a very good rookie year. He averaged 15.4 yards per catch on an absolutely terrible offense that through 12 touchdown passes. Here's Chris Godwin. Chris Godwin, so this is actually, to me, encouraging. Chris God went towards his ACL and his MCL on December 19th, 2021. And he followed that up with a thousand yards season, 104 catches, 1,023 yards, only three touchdowns.

He wasn't great the first half of the season. The second half of the season, he averaged eight yards per target in his last eight games. He was on pace for over 1,300 yards. Now, Tampa Bay threw 44 times per game and threw for more than 4,700 yards. but Godwin actually the first time around 2022 was pretty good. Last year coming off the fractured ankle, he was pretty bad. Cortland Sutton tore his ACL in week two of 2020, and he was bad in 2021, really bad.

He was also bad in 2022. Keenan Allen tore his ACL in week one of 2016, and he followed that up with a great season. He was wide receiver four per game the next year, and Jordy Nelson tore his ACL in the preseason of 20, He was the number two wide receiver per game in 2016 with 16 touchdowns, I think. 14 touchdowns, 1,257 years. He was much less efficient than he was before the ACL, but he's also 31.

So I found a mix of great examples and some bad ones. I think it's worth noting that Keenan Allen towards ACL in week one, Jordy Nelson was preseason. But Godwin was really late in 2021. He tore his ACL and his MCL, and he followed it up with a good year that was second half backloaded. But Malik Neighbors toured his ACL in week four, but he also tore his meniscus. So, Jamie, I don't know if there's a right answer here, but at least there are some encouraging examples. I think it's just a matter of, you know, how risk-averse you are, you know, and you see the talent of what Malik Neighbors, for example, has to offer.

And so at what point, did you do any of Beckham? Beckham toured his ACL late in his career. No, he had the first tear with the Giants against the Ravens. Oh, he tore twice. That's right. All right, so let's see Beckham. Which year was that, Dan? The Ravens Giants won.

Oh, that was probably 2017. Yeah, played four games. Yeah, right before they trade him. And then in 2018, he came back and he had, he averaged 88 yards per game in 12 games. That's pretty good. I think the fact that neighbors did it early in the season. The fact that he's young should be in what I would consider a better offense this year than he was in last year because Jackson Darch is better in year two. I think if you're okay with the maybe early season somewhat struggles, if you want to put it that way, you know, just because coming back from a significant injury takes a little bit more time.

So they may be cautious with him in training camp, et cetera. To me, round two is a great spot from. Like where he went on our mock draft this week is a little too soon. You know, so, yeah. I think there's going to be a clear-cut top four receivers in Puka, Jamar Chase, J.S.N. and Amarro St. Brown. Five through eight, you can have pros and cons for all of them. Lamb, because he's awesome, but also George Pickens.

Drake London because he's done really well the last year, but to Appenix doesn't think you feel very encouraging. And then this is where kind of neighbor, and then Jefferson obviously coming off the terrible season and is Kyle, the right guy. I think those three are probably the next three. And then it's, to me, neighbors is in the next group. After those three, okay.

Yeah, I would take him after those three person. By the way, Beckham fractured his ankle in week five of 2017. That was what that injury was And then he came back in 2018 But he did have two ACL tears I don't know when the first one was He had the Rams one I thought there was one with the Giants

But I could be wrong too I might have just been a fractured ankle I think it was with the Browns in 2020 That makes sense Yeah He played seven games that year He was never really the same after that I guess All right

But yeah he was 28 Okay let's take a break We got a lot more to get to Including the fantasy cops a little bit later We'll be right back on fantasy football today. Next question is from Steve. I just got a text, by the way, from Jesse who said, he really loved playing, uh, doing Now You See Me Too with Michael Keaton. Oh, the old British guy? Yeah. We texted you this? My cousin. He's watching the show? Yeah, he loved doing Now You See Me Too

with Michael. That's awesome. Yeah. I don't believe Jamie. I think it was just the show. No, it wasn't porn. But, no. He wasn't born when he did his own movie. Now you see me too. I'm so confused. Yeah. I don't know what you were referring to when you said he wasn't born. Really, kind of out of left field there.

Me? Dad is completely off. I'm just lost. Yeah. I'm just lost. When we start talking movies. One of my favorite movies, honestly, is when in Mr. Mom, the way that he really hit that British accent was. You know, actually, I tried watching Mr. Mom last month and I found it's so boring.

I could not watch it. What's Mr. Mom? It's an old. Michael Keaton movie, where he loses his job and becomes a stay-at-home home. Stay-at-home down. Stay-at-home down. Okay.

It's, yeah. That doesn't sound like a great plot for a movie. It's a classic, like, cheesy 80s movie. Anyway, a question from Steve in New Jersey says, Dear Joe, John, Scar, and Prince, famous pizzerias in New York City. Yeah. Volume still king.

What was the other one? Prince Street Joe's. What was the other one? Scar and Prince. Is volume still king Or does having another weapon or player on the team Actually increase fantasy production? Does T. Higgins make Jamar Chase better?

Does George Pickens make C.D. Lamb better? D.K. Metcalf was double-teamed all of 2025. Which one is it? No. First of all, I don't think there's any evidence, at least not that I've seen, that D.K. Me was double-teamed all of 2025, but I'd have to look into that.

I don't think that's how you play in Arthur Smith scheme. You're usually rotating safety is down in the box. As far as the other guys go, I still think volume is key. C.D. Lamb was good last year. He wasn't C.D. Lamb of past before Pickens, right? And then you can look at some of the splits of Chase with and without Higgins. And I think Chase wins in those splits without Higgins.

If I'm not mistaken, or at least he did heading into last year. Yeah, he did heading into last year. Last year may have been a little bit different for him. Yeah. But no, I'm on the side of volume as king. Jamie? I'm on the side of volume as king for receivers because of what the past volume is, not necessarily the volume for each individual receiver, which clearly matters.

But, I mean, you know, the examples where it works, specifically last season, Cincinnati throws the ball a lot, Dallas throws the ball a lot. You know, so if you're looking at it for this year, if Denver is going to throw the ball 613 times again, then that should be good for Cortland Sutton and Jalen Waddle in theory. But as we saw, just because they threw the ball 613 times, there was one receiver over 120 20 targets and one barely over 100 targets. So do they spread the ball around too much? You know, so that's where the secondary volume, I guess, comes into play for each

the top guys. You know, so I think it comes down to, you know, you want to have, like if, if DK Metcalf was on a more high volume pass attempt team, he would have been probably really good, you know, just because even though if he was potentially double teamed, you're still getting a lot of targets and a lot of volume in his direction. I mean, there's lots of different ways to look at it. Obviously, JSN was great as a solo act for the most part. You know, if you want to discount what Cooper Cup and Tori Horton slash Rashidjah, he did, you know, as the second and third options there with the tight ends also.

You know, conversely, the Rams, you know, Devante Adams was successful because of his touchdown production, not necessarily his other metrics while Puka was just, you know, soaking up targets and being fantastic. So I think it comes down to each individual team. You know, if you want to get second receivers on teams, for example, you're going to look for the teams that are going to throw the ball quite a bit versus, you know, just settling for guys that are not going to necessarily get a lot of volume. Jamar Chase played two games without T. Higgins last year. He had 14 targets and 16 targets in those two games. Yeah.

They're both against Baltimore. For his career, he actually averaged... That's probably what... 12 and 10 with Higgins there? Like what was he averaging 10 targets for him? Without those two games. No, with Higgins. Right, without those two games, I mean, yeah, probably something.

I mean, a 23 target game in week 7, 19, the week after that with Flacco. Yeah, probably about 10, yeah, if not a little more. He's actually averaged more yards per target with Higgins on the field in his career, not by much, but significantly more yards per route run with him off with Higgins. off the field, which tells me his target rate goes way up with Higgins off the field. All right. Here's a question from Spencer. He says, good morning, idiot moron, dumbass, bumbling moron, and bell.

Whoa. You can say that these days? All things Adam has called and then immediately regretted calling his co-workers. That's so true. Idiot moron is one of them. So true. If you guys only heard the stuff he calls us after we're done recording and we're in that little studio area, you should have no idea. Idiot Moron is one of the best setups we've ever done.

I didn't remember it. That's what I called Heath an idiot moron. It's when you and Heath were arguing over a transaction you made in the team that you share. And then I convinced Heath to drop that player. We were together in the same place, and you, wherever we were recording. And you were remote, and you lost your mind because he dropped the player. Belly is the worst. Belly.

Oh, that's bad. All right, the question. I love when you get heated and you just start throwing out idiot in those types of words. I don't even want to say the other one. It's too mean. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm in a league with a very unusual scoring system. A lot of it gets too complicated for me to put in an email.

But for the sake of this question, it's close enough to call it non-PPR, with yards worth only half as much as they are in standard. So touchdowns are easily the most important stat this year. Who is this year's Tyler Alger? or Zach Charbonnet? The touchdown vulture. Yeah. Tyler Oger might be the Tyler Elger.

Checoe is an obvious one. You know, if he gets that opportunity in Detroit, that David Montgomery scored 33 touchdowns the last three seasons. Chris Rodriguez, maybe? I mean, touchdowns in Montgomery of the last season, though. Eight. Yeah.

I guess it's still up there. For where you're getting. I mean, he went 127th in the draft. We just did in SPPR. So I just figured out of last year. Overall. I hear you. I just feel like last year,

like lines finally did commit to using Gibbs in the red zone. They're like, oh, wait a second. This is a much better idea. Oh, I'm not disagree with you. I hope that's the past game.

Yeah, but Montgomery actually had a lot more carries inside the three-yard line than Gibbs. Overall, yeah, still, but not compared to the two-season before that, I would assume.

Is that correct that? I'm, take a look at that. No, I know it. 2023 was like, Paul Montgomery. 24 was kind of,

even in 2025, it was more so Montgomery. Touchdown vulture. So just specifically guys that aren't going to get a lot of work but get touchdown opportunities. Yeah. And then he said he also, which star players could be hurt by that. So I think Chris Rodriguez could have the goal line work.

Possibly. I mean, I think it's possible. Could it be Dobbins. I mean, Dobbins might just be the starter. So I don't know if that's a good call. KC. Is anybody in a vulture from Walker, Probably not.

Well, no, Hampton's going to keep that. I'm just working through the team. Maybe Jordan Mason. Maybe Jordan Mason, yeah. It doesn't seem like there's that many situations. Who's the guy who was getting work for the Jets the end of the years? He's going to take it away from Breeze to the goal line? Isaiah Davis.

Yeah. No, but Braylon Allen would be. Raylon Allen might be back. Yeah. You could, you can't, probably nothing in New England unless you consider Remandre, but I don't really consider remandre to be a vulture. He's a big part of that offense. Yeah.

So Kyle Monongai and Blake Corum were basically splitting goal line duties with the two guys that we like better than them. Which we knew anyway, yeah. I don't think there are any cultures? No, Dowdell, I think, should start. I think Dattel's kind of the same as Ramandre, like he's going to be a big part of the offense. Yeah.

So I mentioned Sean Tucker. That could be a good one if we get annoying Bucky, but I don't even think Sean Tucker resign. John Dugger's not signed right now. Yeah, he didn't resign. They didn't pick up his tender. Whoever is the complimentary guy to Emmanuel Wilson, so it could be Halani until Sharmer is back. Interesting.

Yeah, this is a bad situation until Charbonnet returns. And he may not return this season, who know. Okay. I think that satisfies that question. Don't say that, Mr. Nevels, please. Don't put that into the ether. What do you say? He said Jeremiah Love for.

Gadabu. No, I was thinking that. If the Giants did draft love, that maybe don't give me with that, please. Enough. I understand. We lived through this nightmare already in 2018. We want to go back to back with this thing and try to do it again. It's like, I feel like I'm in the Arrested Development meme.

You know the Arrested Development meme? No. Did either of you watch Arrested Development or is it's just yeah, of course. Don't do that. Yes, you did? Yeah, don't, don't arrest a development, me. What's the meme? No, the meme is when And it's like, it's when Tobias and Lindsay are talking about trying to get back together.

Yeah, but it might work for us. It's never worked before. It worked for anyone else before in the past. No. So it's like that again. But it might for us. Yeah. But it might work for us.

So it's like St. Guan Barcl, are we going to go back to Jeremiah Love without realizing this is all about the offensive line? I think Jeremiah Love could actually work for the Giants. I think they have a much more complete offense than they did when they drafted. Everyone thinks it could work. It's so easy to think a running back can work. It's the easiest thing in the world to think a running back can work.

I get it. He's explosive. It's fun to think about. It's fun on paper. But then you think about it more than that. You're like, wait a second. Seguan Barclay was voted the number one player by his NFL peers in 2024. All the sudden, with a bad O line in 2025, he could barely average four yards per carry.

But you think the Giants have a bad old line. I wonder why. I don't think they have a bad offensive line. But they were injured. No, I don't think the Giants have a bad offensive line. I think. No, but it's not a, it's a pass block. line. It's not a run blocking line.

Okay. This is from Ben. Subject is Adam sucks. He says, JK, Adam doesn't suck. I know Dan and Jamie were salivating at the title because they love a good hate Adam email. I can only keep two. We know that Adam would never read a hate Adam email, so we know what the stick is. I could only keep two of these three.

Burden in the 12th, Tudin in the 12th, or Abuka in the 7th. I can keep players more than, I can keep players more than one. year and there's a one round penalty every year. So two or three, burden in the 12th, Tutin in the 12th, Abuja in the seventh. Did we mention at all the, it is a PPR? No, I don't know. Okay, don't love that, but burden seems like the, the clear one for me. I guess some people might say, Gbuk over him, but burden in round 12 seems like better value. So I would just go burden and a buga. Okay. From Justin, what is the commander's wide receiver plan. Is there any value to these wide receivers other than Terry McLaurin? Is my two-year

Luke McCaffrey hype train starting to get some steam? Or is it still in the station until the draft? I mean, they bring back to Amy Brown. So there's their like, you know, veteran stopgap who will never really matter for fantasy, but we'll catch a couple touchdowns and being an annoying probably option to what McCaffrey or Jalen Lane could be. You know, they have, you know, a couple of young receivers that I'm sure they need to develop. But it feels like they're not done. So there's probably going to be something in the draft that's added to this roster. And then, you know, the other part of this is they just spent on Chigo Oconquo.

And we know that at times he's looked like a pretty decent pass catching tight end. So I would hope he's second on the team in targets right now for talking about just past catchers. So for me, it would be McLaren. And then if you want to take a late round flyer on Oconquo as a second time. Okay. We've got a question. Gamer Eric is correct, by the way. About what?

You did make a whole kick up a whole big stink about not, you know, doing keeper questions. Right. And I have some keeper questions. I read one. But I said none and none. I said you're going to stick to none. I don't think I said that. I don't think I ever said that.

We'll go back on the tape. We'll go back on the tape. Take a look. I'll talk to Thomas. Here's one from JD. And this was in support of me. He says, my four-year-old, is it the afternoon? Me? It's 1147. No, it's 1147. My four-year-old, well, I call this the afternoon.

And J.D. says, maybe this is one of those cases where it's only the youngest and least inhibited of us who will point out what we all know to be true. Either way, I thought Adam should know he's not alone. Or Adam shares a brain with a four-year-old. Yeah, well. I mean, I'm not disagree. I mean, isn't it as cut as dry as just afternoon is 12-01? It's afternoon. I'm not sure if I've made this argument with. with you, Dan. I'm really curious. I don't think I have, but I know this is a big thing. I've overheard. If I say 12.30 a.m., do you consider that the morning? Good point.

That is the night. It's not only a good point. It is the concluding winning point. But nobody calls the night or the morning like after midnight. You say 1230 in the morning, but you know it's not morning. But nobody said, there's a whole thing. There's a word for afternoon. It's called afternoon.

But the phrase in the morning. You say it. I said 12.30 a.m. Oh, 12.30 in the morning. You were up to 12.30 in the morning. That freight, that has been uttered millions of times. That's true. Across the history of this world. And no one thinks that's the morning. Otherwise, you wouldn't be outraged by someone being up at 1230 in the morning. I win this argument. I just, it is like, you don't win the argument. Yes, I do. You make, I don't. I don't, I don't, I don't, I'm making a great point, but I'm not so sure that that specific point wins you the argument. It wins you something else.

No, it's not like, I don't know how to. I don't know how to. semantics of something being the the afternoon and after noon after 12 p.m. are different. After noon. I don't hate that tape. Thank you. Thank you, Dan. I knew it. I knew it.

As crazy as you are, I knew I could count on you up for this one. You changed it. You changed it. It is true. Like the afternoon and afternoon do have some differences there. Just so we're clear, you're taking a W because of four-year-old and Dan agree with you. A hundred percent. Not the guys you want on your side here for these arguments.

That's like a 40-year-old combined. I don't know how old Dan is, but. And if we played, and if we had a movie, Dan would be played by Michael Keaton. The young Michael Keaton, not the one in Batman. All right, we're going to take a break. I don't think Dan realize that they're both in Batman. I meant not the one playing Alfred.

They're in different badmands, though, just so you know. Okay, we'll be right back on fantasy football today. What is your favorite Batman movie? Adam. The answer to that has changed. It used to be, it's all the Christopher Nolan ones. The other ones that pretty much is not a good one in the room. It used to be the third one, the Dark Night Rises. Because when I saw it in theaters, it was so fun. It was this. You saw it in multiple theaters. What's that? In the movie theater. It was just exhilarating. I didn't want it to end. But the more I've watched that movie, it's got, it's really some pretty weak stuff in there.

I still like it. So I will say the first Christopher Nolan one, Batman Begins is my favorite. How about you? I'll say the second. Second? My favorite is Batman versus Superman for obvious reasons. Oh, I never saw that, actually.

What are the obvious reasons? I don't know. Jesse's in that one. Oh, that is very obvious if I had any idea. But the best Christopher Nolan one is obviously the Dark Night. Yeah, I never saw the Batman or Superman. Is Jesse playing? Who's Jesse playing in that?

Lex Luthor. Wow. I got to see that movie. I think my only issue with... Rules that are totally not Lex Luthor rules. Now I'm intrigued by this. Yeah, I know. My issue with the Dark Night is I feel like it's a little too long,

and they ram the two-face stuff in there where it just doesn't need to... It's like they had to get Two-Face in there, and the whole two-faced thing at the end, it just does nothing for the movie, and it makes the movie about 40 minutes too long. Interesting. Yeah. Okay.

You could say that as someone's probably seen it a lot. I've seen it like once or twice. Oh, really? Oh, see it again. It's awesome. I don't rewatch movies. I mean, the opening scene of Dark Night is one of the best opening scenes in movies.

It is, yeah. The bank scene that is on real. Yeah. It's a good one. The opening scene of the new naked gun movie bank scene is also very good. I recommend. Okay.

Time for some tweets. This is from Poppy Champu. What's the best draft strategy for PPR? Running back, receiver, running back, receiver quarterback. You know, Jamie, position-wise, we've done enough of these now. What do you think the best strategy is? How many receivers do you start? Well, why don't you give me two or three?

I mean, my favorite strategy is Hero R.B. just because I think you come away with quality starting wide receiver specialist three receiver league. And if there is a spot that I want to take chances with, really not have necessarily invest a lot of stock in, it's RB2, just because I think that's the most movement you probably see throughout the course of the season, along with the third receiver, probably in a three receiver league.

But I just prefer here RB. It's the strategy that I've had the most success with over the years. It's an easy one to play out, especially, you know, as we were discussing on the mock draft review, like if you have an early pick in round one and you can either get one of those top tier running backs or what we see at the end of round two, you know, so Dan just referenced Gentis. He's probably going to be in that range. Adam got Chase Brown in that range. Ken Walker, I think, will be in that range, you know, so some very high-end running back.

So you come away with Puka and Chase Brown, Adam did Jamar Chase. and Chase Brown. That could be O'Marie and Hampton. I took Hampton probably a little bit too soon in that draft, so Hampton probably be in that range. So there's a lot of good running backs that, to me, have top five upside, and you compare one of those top receivers.

Okay. Next tweet is from Kevin. Who would you choose if you could send one player to any team in order to unlock the full fantasy potential of a wide receiver by improving their situation? Oh, AJ Brown to... Yeah. To wear.

I think the Patriots will be fine. They're still pretty run-heavy team. I don't love that. Are we keeping the same personnel on the team we're sending that player to? Yes. So then I would say Zay Flowers to the Bills. Wow. I mean, I do like the fit schematically.

I think you would have gone there. I like, it's interesting. What about, oh, we're talking real, we're not talking realistic. We're just talking you can do anything you want. Yeah. Right? Mm-hmm. Okay.

How about give me, you know what I think I'll actually be a great fit, George Pickens to the bills. I love that fit of Allen's skill set with George Pickens. Actually, if I could trade, I would trade Devante Adams for George Pickens. I would love to see Matthew Stafford with George Pickens. So that's why I was saying, like, could we like swap players? No, no, you can't. It's a very strict rule here. Also, one thing I want to add for PBR formats, I forgot that I missed is I do think it is a race too.

and you should be looking to fill your flex with the receiver in PPR formats. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I would like to agree with that, but I just hope receiver isn't as bad as it. Yeah, it's tough. Now,

the receiver doesn't necessarily stink. It stunk last year. We have had years like that where there was a one year like, we're running back was. It wasn't great the year before, though. It was much better. Better than that. Yeah,

it was a total bottoming out, but it was already trending. Running back was so bad. It was like 2016 or something. Devante Freeman is like the number two. That's, of course. That's when we started the zero RB. No, but my point is that it bounces back.

It bounces back. Well, Thomas, do you have the draft board available? Like, can you put that up from the other day? I don't see, like, any signs of it bouncing back, though, with the trend of, like, where the NFL is moving. You wouldn't necessarily see it. It just would, yeah. AJ Brown would have a better year.

And, you know, La, McLeodagh, there would be bounced back. I think we just need, like, teams to figure out how to throw the ball again. So, like, if we're looking at this, I'm trying to, I thought there was a team that stood out to me. Maybe it was third receivers. So you look at RJ's team, for example, at Pick 12. RJ has, his flex will essentially be D.K. Metcalf. So his starting lineup will be Jackson Dart, James Cook, DeAndre Swift, Justin Jefferson,

Ladden, Latton McConke, Luther Burden, Tyler Warren. Tyler Warren, and then D.K. McCaff has his flex. Like, to me, that's a pretty good lineup right there. Yeah, that's good. Look at my team, because my team, I have three running backs with my first four picks. So my running, my flex is going to be Bucky Irving. My receivers aren't all that good, but I still like my team. So you prioritize running back over receiver and you're starting Devante Smith as your second receiver and Brian, yeah, that's not great.

Well, listen, you could say that. That's true. But I do have Chase Brown, Josh Jacobs, and Bucky Irving. I was not prioritizing running back per se, but it just fell that way where I took the best player available. Like I said, I took Jamar Chase in round one, Chase Brown, and round two, and I'm going, ooh, I could have fun and take T. Higgins and go Bengals stack here, but I wasn't going to take T. Higgins over Josh Jacobs. So I have Jamar Chase, Chase, Chase Brown, and Josh Jacobs, in my opinion, potentially three first round caliber players. Bucky Irving as my flex. It was either Bucky Irving or Roma Doomsay, Jameson, Jameson, Tary McClorin, Devante Smith.

I think Bucking Irving was a much better pair. Yeah, Bucking is a better. And Dan talks about this a lot, which I think a lot of people overlook. Like, we kind of look at the flex position, like as the stepchild. Like, they score the same amount of points as your third receiver, second, you know, it counts the same. Exactly. Right. You know, the value is not necessarily different.

So I guess I should take that back. But it's just I don't, I don't love not having two good wide receivers. Like you have one with potential of two, potential of three, potential of four, but it's a lot of ifs. Yeah, right. I have Chase, Devante Smith. Brian Thomas. Like Sutton really saved your receiving core, in my opinion, just where you got. Yeah, it's not great.

It's not great. But hopefully I make up for it by having great running backs. All right. Next question is from A.J. Johnson, Art. Where are we going to draft whichever rookie wide receiver ends up in Miami? What if it's someone like Concepcion or Boston or Cooper that tier in round one? Dan, you probably farther ahead on the rookie wide receiver. It's been frozen for like 10 minutes.

We are. Yeah, but he can hear us. Right? I froze for some reason. I don't know why I keep freezing. This is getting annoying. I got to fix my thing. I don't know what the issue is.

It only happens on this podcast. But that's neither here nor there. Those are anxieties for another moment. But what was the question again? Yeah. How do you feel about the conceptions of the rookie wide receivers of the world? If they went to Miami, which now has Denver's first round pick, and they were the lead wide receiver there.

So you're asking specifically about. Casey Concepcion? No, if a rookie wide receiver went to Miami, how would you value that guy? Okay, okay. I mean, we have such a small sample size to work with Willis, but it does look like he, at least in a lot of ways, progressed as a thrower of the football, from processing to getting the ball out on time, the accuracy, like all the actual tools I never thought, I always thought were there.

I liked him at a liberty. But it just felt like he was overwhelmed from a processing standpoint at Tennessee. in Tennessee. And then it's like sometimes they just never get out of that or they never have a chance. So I don't want to rule him out. I do have some concerns, though, with Miami, just the entire structure, where that team is headed, what they're going to be attempting to do on the offensive side of the ball. I do think it'll be probably run heavy, at least the start. So Miami's probably not my favorite fit for these receivers, if that's the question. I want to share a tweet. Have you had Ryan Heath on beyond the box score? I know he goes on.

He did have Ryan Heath on. Yeah, he had an interesting tweet. If I could just give me one minute here. So, what Ryan Heath said is he said hello. I'm sure when you had him on, he said hello, right? He did say hello. Okay, I've got it. Cued up now.

He said the back end of round one of the NFL draft is where wide receivers lacking elite analytical profiles go to ruin dreams and get people fired. So he basically said that there have been eight wide receivers since 2017 that have been selected between picks 15 and 32 with a 90th percentile or better production score in my model. J.S.N. Marquis Brown, C.D. Lamb, Rashad Bateman, Jerry Judy, Traylon Burks, Ameca, Bucca, Justin Jefferson. It's a pretty good group overall. But what about the guys drafted between picks 15 and 32 with below a 90th percent production percent? 90th percent. 90th percent. Centile production score. Jordan Addison, Nikiel Harry,

Calvin Ridley, Jahan Dotson, D.J. Moore, Quentin Johnston, Brandon Ayyuk, Xavier Ligate, Zay Flowers, Kedarius, Tony,

Jalen Rager, Brian Thomas Jr., Ricky Pearsall, Michael, Matthew Golden. His point is, if you haven't been that productive in college and you get drafted

in the second half of the first round, there's a lot of busts on this list. It makes sense. He mentions Denzel Boston, Casey Concepcion, Omar Cooper are all projected to be drafted in that range, and they're all below that good production, you know, percentile. It's interesting, yeah, because you could easily go back and like just, I test it and get really excited about Concepcion.

There's a lot of reps I've seen where he's won clearly, and his quarterback play stinks. And I feel with Cooper, that's a different story. I don't really, he's been, I haven't watched enough Cooper. I want to get into that tape because people are just steaming him up board. And then Boston's just kind of a player where I could totally see him being a bus based on his profile. Like big long limb player, maybe not. I'm not saying he will be. I haven't watched him extensively.

But like I guess the idea here is Adam from Ryan. It's like usually at the end of round one, the players who get steamed up are the players who break out at the combine. Right. Like they're, wow, this guy was six foot four and he ran a four three. I can do something with those tools. So it makes sense that like more times than not, you can't. Though I would imagine, and I could be wrong about this, that some of the best hits have actually also come from that range.

Well, he showed some, like C.D. Lamb and Justin Jefferson. But those guys were very productive in college. Sure, those guys were productive. I wouldn't be examples. Yeah, I don't know. All right, Jamie, I'm going to give you this one from a trendy nightclub. Jalen Warren, stock up, down, or push with Rico Dowdell. Also, I picked up Luke Weaver in homage to Adam at the end of a Frank Stamphal mock draft. Can we get a Luke Weaver?

There you go, buddy. All right, Jalen Warren, stock up, down or the same with the addition of RICO Dowell. Down. I mean, you know, McCarthy going there, bringing in a guy that he's very fond of isn't going to help the situation. And the only way I think you can say stock up would be is if he sort of shifts back into not solely a past catching role, but more of the past catching role. And that's kind of what he was doing when he was in tandem with Najee Harris. And so he has that potential. And if he takes clearly different offense and we don't know the quarter.

is. But if he takes sort of the Kenneth game well role and, you know, knowing that they added Michael Pittman, so that changes the receiving core and obviously changing the coach in the scheme, but if he could be close to a 50 catch guy or at least a 45 plus catch guy and still maintain like a 60-40 split where he's in the bottom half of that, but still getting enough carries, like he could still be good. I would still draft him over Doudal as of today. We'll see what happens once everything is done with the draft and we get to, you know, can't. But they're basically back-to-back in my rankings. I don't really have a favor right now between the two.

All right, we're going to do our Apple podcast questions, and then we're going to do some fantasy cops to end the show. Alan from Boston on Apple podcast says, just checking that someone did a wellness check on Azer after his beloved Legerius Sneed was released by the Titans.

I did see that. I am doing okay, but I do thank you for asking. Hopefully comes to the Giants. Right, yeah, why not? Take a shot on it. This is from D Thrills. It's a dart azer stat. He says Jackson Dart, interestingly, would have averaged more points per game than Josh Allen

if we omitted the first three weeks and week 16. So the first three weeks we do omit because he barely played. He came in for a few running plays. Week 16 was the Vikings game. Yeah. Where he threw 13 passes for like 33 yards and scored 0.02 fantasy points. We can't omit that one. I'm sorry.

We have to leave that in. also I think you probably didn't remove week 17 for Josh Allen week 18 for Josh Allen where he barely played so if you did do what what our Apple podcaster D Thrills is suggesting and you took Jackson Darts points per game and removed

the Minnesota game obviously removed the first three weeks but just his starts and remove the Minnesota game he averaged over 24 fantasy points per game he would have been number two or three per game depending on what you do with Josh Allen but unfortunately we do have to keep that zero in there. I did want to talk about Dart, Jamie,

because this is like kind of looking up the injury history thing what we did earlier in the show. If you look up second year quarterbacks, I think you could think of Stroud and Richardson and Bo Nix and kind of shy away from it. Jane Daniels. Jane Daniels, yeah. But Caleb was better, not that he was great.

Drake May was obviously phenomenal. And so was Justin Herbert had an amazing rookie year, and he was even better his second year. Joe Burrow had a very good rookie year, and he had a great second year. So there are examples on baseball. He was coming off in a CEL Territ. Yes, he was, right.

And he only rushed for like 170 yards Joe Burrow that year, and he still averaged over 23 p.m. 23 points per game and 6 point per passing touchdown. It was terrific. So, yeah, I think it could go either way. How are you feeling about Jackson Dart? Very excited. I mean, you know, again, they add at least one receiver. They add a tight end. You know, you get neighbors back. Everything that, you know, this question suggests is without Malik neighbors, too, because that's the game where neighbors got hurt was the first start that Dart made. So, you know, you're giving him three awesome options collectively. And you're giving him a much better head coach. So, you know, I think just from an overall team. team perspective, they should have an opportunity to score more points.

But anytime you get these guys that look like they can continue to ascend as passers, have the running potential like he's shown. Like that's the perfect formula for fantasy. So I think what we're going to end up seeing is four in whatever order, quarterbacks come off the board first. That's going to be Allen, Jackson, Burrow, and May. Five through eight or nine, five through ten, let's just say, can probably go in a, in a variety of different directions.

I have currently Herbert 5th, just because I'm very excited about Mike McDaniel being the coach there and the tackles being back. DART is six for me. Jalen Hertz is right there. And Caleb Williams is right there. No, Danes, Daniels isn't there for you?

And Jayneems, I'm sorry. So that's the next five. So all of those guys, depending on how you want to tier them and what tier you want to jump into, like I'm perfectly fine. Now, our drafts go a little different. Like I took Lamar Jackson.

I think it was like round five, around six on Wednesday. That's just a little different strategy for me overall. But that's the group that I want to be in is kind of five through ten. Just because I think there's so much upside, so much potential. Gamer Eric says, you know, we're sleeping on Matthew Stafford. Yes, you got Stafford and Dak, you know, two guys that, you know, should be awesome as well. If Stafford, you know, can build off his MVP season, which I don't see why not.

And then you have, you know, DAC with those two weapons and what he showed last year, you know, the problem for DAC is just hasn't had consecutive seasons in a long time of, of great production, mostly due to injuries. But I think just looking at that group of quarterbacks, like that's where I want to live on draft day is just getting one of those guys. And just hearing all that, I mean, Johnny Airport names the player that I'm most excited about we didn't even name, which is Herbert. I cannot wait to draft Herbert.

We did name him. Jamie has him fifth. Oh, my bad. There's a lot of names there. I heard Dart and my mind just shot. Yeah. All right. So Dart was overall, he was 17th per game,

but from weeks 4 through 18, when he became the starter, he was QB 9 per game and 6 point per passing touchdown leagues, QB8 per game and 4 point for passing touchdown leagues. But he felt better than that. Jackson Dart, in seven of his 12 starts, he scored 24 or more fantasy points. Wow. That's amazing.

A lot of rushing TDs, though. Oh, yeah. And a lot of rushes. He was on pace for 119 carries. That's, that'll come down. The TDs, I assume,

will also come down from a rushing standpoint. But again, he did that with, you know, Wondell Robinson as a top guy, you know, so now you're getting him,

you're giving him all these options. Yeah. And the nice thing is, is that Harbaugh has dealt with a running quarterback and had success with a running quarterback, you know, so I don't know if we're going to get the, like I,

I can recall, you know, three, four years in a row of Sean McDermott being asked about Josh Allen, running less, running less and he was like, you know, by like year two or three at the owner's meetings, he said, I don't know what to tell you guys. It's the same time.

Yeah. I can't change. It is what it is. You know, so Jackson Dart obviously is going to get, unfortunately probably dinged up. Hopefully it's not anything serious. And, you know, we're going to get the questions of should he run less and is it a danger to his long-term health and all these things. And, you know, I thought he was a little bit better running the ball after the multiple

concussions and being smarter about it. And that's something that'll be probably questioned a lot this offseason and in camp. True. I just want to say, I don't really think we should necessarily be talking about John Harbaugh. I think he actually may have a coaching downgrade this year, going from Brian Dable to Matt Nagy. That's my biggest concern. If you ask me one concern with Dart for Fantasy, it is 100% losing Davel and Kafka. Well, I think there's certainly validity to that, but you're getting a better team.

You're going to get more scoring opportunities, you know, as a team. Sure, you should. I wonder how people will feel if they draft Jeremiah love because the indications to me feel like the Giants want to be a run-heavy team. You know, so we'll see. I don't think we drafted him. What did you say? I don't think they're drafting love.

I think it's smoke. Well, I hope they do just think I would like a live look in at Dan when that happens. It would be good content. You know exactly. It's your team too. He's going to be pissed at first. Then he's going to be like, then he'll wrap his head around it and he'll be excited about it because he loves his giants.

True. James right. That one though, I don't know. Like I never wrap my head around the Sequin Bar. Berkeley pick at any point. Even during his rookie season when he was rookie the year, I never rat. And that's the crazy part. Like they won five games and he put up 2,000 yards just to show how like meaningless

his contribution was no offense to him. Just because you brought this up, let's just say we see the Giants. I'm going to take you out of it because you're too much of invested in it. Adam never really been a true Giants fan. So if you were to say the Giants, everybody in the offensive line stays healthy. Okay. Right now. They have one of these magical years.

Everybody says healthy. Neighbors bounces back to the guy that he is, capable of being. Mooney is the guy that you, you know, the picture you painted the other day likely takes that step forward. So everything works, right? And now you put superstar running back on that team. Do you like it? But in what sense of the word like?

Like, do I like it in the moment? Sure. Is it good on paper? Sure. Or is it electric at times when love breaks one long like Barclay did at times? Sure. Is it good long term for the Giants roster building? Of course not.

And they don't really currently have the same O line anyway. They haven't re-signed their starting right guards. They have no current, currently have no one at right guard. So in addition to no plan beyond what they have on the roster on the offensive line, in addition to not having a second line, they have so many other needs. And it's like, wait a second. Did I also forget to mention Cam Scataboo was really. freaking good on tape and was the only back outside of Ashden Gentie in the last 10 years to

force 100 miss plus tackles or more in a season at the college level. And he will like maybe if they think he's done or something, I can, I guess entertain this type of idea. But no, you can find Scadaboo and Tracy and day three of the drafts. Like this is running back we're talking about. We're not talking about a position that dries out in the NFL draft. It's just we're all talking about a position that's so dependent on the blocking in this scheme. What do we just watch in Jacksonville and in Chicago last year. Is D'Andre Swift now one of the best two runners in the NFL? Is Kyle Menungi, a seventh round pick and All-Star?

Is, you know, what Travis E.TN is an amazing player? Or were they scheming up great run blocking and where they scheme a great design? That's one and two in the run game. So I just, other positions to me, Jamie, you can, like linebacker is really impactful across the board. Oh, listen, I'm with you. I wouldn't take love at five at all. I'm just like they feel like they're putting the right pieces in place right now.

And if they feel like, listen, Harbaugh obviously is invested in multiple years. He's also, I'm sure, would love a ring and maybe run out this contract and be done. Sure. So, and obviously, you know, Shine needs to have a big season as well. Shane. So they keep his job. He's done anyway. He's like a background guy now.

He's like scouting and helping with the draft. I feel like he did nothing with free agency. Yeah. Well, that concludes your Giants talk for today. Sorry, I got me heated up. I mean, look, I'll accept that it is what it is, but, like, I can't believe we might be doing running back again in the top five. You have to call the fantasy cops because the Giants do that.

All right, we got a fantasy copse from no name. I was offering a dynasty trade to another manager. In the trade, I would send Jordan Addison, Sequin Barkley, and Derek Henry for the 2026-105 Ashton Genti and Taijay Spears. I tagged the manager in the league chat to let them know a trade was offered because it was the off season. Again, the trade was Addison, Barclay and Derek Henry for the fifth pick in the draft, Ashton Genti and Taijay Spears. One of the other managers made a comment and the manager I made the offer to said he was considering a trade from me.

Multiple other managers said they would evaluate the trade for him in the league chat and then broke down the trade, tearing apart Henry and Sakewan for their age, and Addison for his quarterback. Two other offers I had made involving the same players were in negotiations and both were rejected immediately after as no one else in the league

wanted to look foolish in front of the other two guys who tore up my players killing their fantasy trade value in the league. This is the worst league ever. I won last year so it's clear the guys in the chat were afraid my team could improve more.

I know the guys who posted the trade offer is a moron for doing it, but if people are asking for trades posted in the chat and messing with player values, does this get close to collusion? Collusion might not be the right word, but bad practice, sure. Like, you don't want to be, it's not fun. It's not fun to be in a league where every trade gets micromanaged by all 12 managers.

That's not how the league's supposed to go. Like, that takes, to me, that takes all the fun out of fantasy. And I also don't even know if it's that horrific of a trade. Like, if you're trying to win now and you get Barkley and Henry, like, you are giving up Gentie, but like Addison's a decent ass. Like, Addison for 105 in some classes can be interchangeable, depending on where you think that quarterback, regardless of the quarterback situation in Minnesota at its current time. Like Edison's a good football player and has some fantasy appeal.

So it's kind of, to me, just almost like gentee for the two backs that are win now players. It's not great. Like I'd obviously rather have the gentie side, but like let's have fun. Let's play fantasy. It's just poor etiquette to have that stuff out in the open, you know, because clearly there's going to be people with agendas making those comments. You know, so like, as he alluded to, you know, you're going to have people that that don't want to see him have success again because he won. They're going to be people that don't want to see the other manager have success because they're getting two, you know, potentially three players that can help you win now.

And yeah, it's just that that just takes the joy out of trading. You know, you're not supposed to make it. It's not a public forum. Yeah. Unfortunately, guys, we're the fantasy cops. We're not the etiquette cops here. They didn't, they didn't break any rules. Right, they didn't do anything wrong.

It's not collusion. They suck. They're losers. But, sorry, that's probably a little harsh. But they didn't do anything wrong. So I think the fantasy cops have to let them slide on this one, unfortunately. All right, this is from Liam, who's loving the show from Australia. We have a dispute in our dynasty league.

I'm the commissioner of. We've always turned off waivers after the NFL playoffs to give the not-so-hardcore users a couple of months off before opening them the week after our rookie draft. I also believe this creates a little bit of hype and strategy around FAB, which normally goes unused as our rosters are quite big. Anyway, I was too busy celebrating my championship and forgot to turn waivers off. I said I was going to do it and just never did. I know I need to do better.

One savvy manager has since picked up Tyson Bajant, and no one has complained, but I reached out and said I would likely reverse it, as I said I would close waivers. His argument is that I didn't. The league was rolled over and everyone had the same opportunity. Thoughts on how we solve this? Hopefully the fantasy cops can adjudicate. So the history of the league is to shut off waivers every year, which the commissioner has done except for this particular season.

Yes. And I also think he said, right. He said that he was going to and just forgot. Yeah. So I think of the history suggested and his. message was prior to the transaction happening, then you reverse it. Now, if you do things like Adam does where there's no documentation of it or no history of it, then factually inaccurate.

But yeah, I think we agree here. Reverse this move, right? You have to, yeah. Dan, reverse it? Yeah, reverse it. Of course. There's no, I don't think there's a base. What would Missy Elliott say?

What would who? Missy Elliott. Bramber some bit in my person. That's right. That's absolutely right. And that's it for our mailbag. Oh, guys, I forgot that I'm so excited. Oh, for what?

My kids have a half day. They'll be home in about an hour. And they have no school tomorrow. So I get to have a full March Madness experience with my son. Oh, is that will he watch? He'll watch everything, I think. Is he old enough to be into it? Yeah, he's seven.

He filled out two brats. Oh, that's perfect. That's perfect. So you're going to go through it. Well, first of all, the number one thing you have to do, I hope you already did it is. I don't know if you have one in your house, but print out his brackets. Yeah, I'm going to print it out as soon as we're off the air. And then use the pencil and pick cross out, give it the check, like do the whole fun part of that.

Like the printed brackets is its own experience. Yeah, I'm really, I'm excited. Well, you want me to print it out and then he'll fill one out? No, yeah, printing out a bracket that he fills out with his bracket that he did. I'll print out his filled out bracket. print out his fill out bright whichever one and then you can go through it give it a check give it an act like when you see what's happening i've got it's really great it's just like great timing just that happened this is perfect i'm excited for you that you get to experience that yeah man all right

enjoy the tournament everybody uh who's your who's your uh champion guys uh for me it's michigan repeat time baby here we go that'd be cool i picked in in the fft t podcast league i got a little while i picked Houston over Arkansas. I am obsessed with Darius A Cuff Jr. It guy is insane on Arkansas. So I took them in the finals. We got some amazing talent in the NCAA tournament. So you're an NBA fan.

You're looking forward to the draft. It is really good. Yeah, this is going to be a great draft. It's such a good draft. Okay, go Houston now. And have a great weekend. We'll talk to you Monday on Fantasy Football League.