Fantasy Football Today - Preseason Awards, Buy or Sell, Our Favorite Fantasy Teams (09/02 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

We have plenty of drafts today, so which players do we want to make sure we get on some rosters? We also have news (5:45) on Matthew Stafford, Jauan Jennings, Najee Harris and more ... Let's do some preseason Fantasy Superlatives (18:45)! Who will be the Fantasy MVP this season? Who will be the Rookie of the Year? Sophomore of the Year? Biggest Bust? We have additional superlatives and some answers from our audience ... Buy or Sell (31:35) on Demario Douglas, Chris Olave, Kyler Murray, rookie wide receivers and many more. Then we talk about our favorite Fantasy teams that we've drafted (41:00) and we take a look at the Most Added list (52:30) ... Email us at [e-mail] 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 FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow our FFT team on Twitter:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @FFToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @AdamAizer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @JameyEisenberg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @daverichard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @heathcummingssr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday 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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I am very excited for today. We have three drafts. I have three drafts today. How many do you guys have? Four. One. Oh, just one. Just the FFT League, Dave.

You know I've been cutting back a little bit on my league so I could focus more on some other things. And so this is one of the things is just not having a ton of drafts this time of year. I had one last night. I have FFT today. I've got the Waterbury open tomorrow. We're rolling. I'm still deep into it. Just don't have the quantity that I used to.

What are some of the things you might be trying to accomplish in your draft or drafts today? I would like to draft good players. Good luck with that. Yeah. I mean, I don't understand the question. I would like to draft. I would like to get Dak Prescott on my team. I don't have any DAC.

I don't really have a lot of, I don't have any Lamb, Pickens, or DAC. So I've got three drafts today. I'd like to change that. Yeah, I don't know if there's any other players. I think I'd like to maybe try to get Lamar Jackson. I don't have any Lamar Jackson so far. So I just want to know if there were any blind spots for you guys that you might want to cover today. I've been drafting a lot of the same players.

I do want to switch it up a little bit. So the last five drafts I've done, maybe more, a lot of Tyler Warren, a lot of Ricky Pearsall, a lot of, Bachel Tutin, a lot of, like, the same guys. It just keeps, like, a lot of Braylon Allen, obviously. How about this? So two father-son leagues where there's the same situation like me, friends with kids at the same age. So in my 10-year-olds league, the dad says, like,

who's like one of your favorite guys that you're taking? I'm like, oh, Braylon Allen's like somebody to take a lot. We had taken him in that draft. The next day, we have our seven-year-old draft for our seven-year-olds. he takes braille out on like the sixth round awesome jokes on him yeah

what was it oh I don't think I have any I don't know if I have any Travion Henderson that one I really that's something we'll have to remedy because I definitely got to fix that all right well anyway good luck in all your drafts today good luck to all of you out there

tomorrow week one it was weird to do week one research yesterday it was uh it was like oh I thought it was awesome no I didn't mind it It was just eight months of draft prep, basically, right? We start in January, and now I'm doing week one prep, and it was just a little bit weird. But, Dak Prescott's averaged 31 and a half fantasy points

in his last five games against the Eagles. This is the best Eagles defense he'll have faced in that stretch. And one of those games was week 18 with the Eagles resting starters, but still he's had some great history. And his worst offensive line, too. And his worst offensive line, yeah. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Good receiving for.

Uh-huh, yeah. There's a lot going on, and Eagles have some questions in their, in their secondary, safety. Yep. It's cornerback. Yeah. All right. Anyway, today we're on CBS Sports Network. We're going to be giving you last minute draft tips.

I gave you a few yesterday, but there'll be a lot. It'll be nine last minute draft tips today. I'm one of them, Dave and Jamie are just going to, well, Jamie especially is going to just totally disagree with. So I'm looking forward to that. So CBS Sports Network 1 p.m. Eastern, if you miss it, I think it'll be in the audio feed. It'll definitely be on YouTube.com. slash fantasy football today. We are going to be on CBS Sports Network

at 1 p.m. Eastern every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the season. Waiver Wire on Tuesday, starter sit on Thursday. No, rankings on Thursday. Yeah, but it's kind of starter sit, isn't it? It's diving into our rankings. We're going to have Robert Turbin on with us

at times when he's available to discuss basically tear down our running back rankings, but it'll be fun. Okay, okay. But that's weekly rankings. So, yeah, it's got a starter sit flare to it. All right. Rams, news and notes, not just for the Rams, but for other teams. Alaric Jackson, the left tackle. He's looking like he's going to play this week, and Matthew

Stafford is expected to start. I don't know if it was just the terminology, guys, but when I saw Matthew, they're expecting Matthew Stafford to start. It didn't inspire me in terms of Matthew Stafford's long-term outlook. Am I reading too much into that? I, when I see Jaden Blue is expected to play in week one, I'm like, oh cool when i see matthew staffers expect week one i'm like why are we still discussing this because that means a problem yeah that's exactly what i was thinking so it's like it's obviously encouraging that he's okay and it's encouraging that you know we've dealt through that we've we've gone through this whole you know month and a half of training camp and preseason of will he practice

won't he practice will he be okay is he going to be ready for week one so you know you want some reaffirmation or affirmation that he's going to be you know fine but yes it's uh it's a it's a little concerning that we're still talking about this now. So one bad hit, one, you know, tweak, you know, I think we've all, at some point in our lives had, you know, back concerns or issues or something that's bothered us. I was coaching my 10-year-old, and one of the coaches was sitting on a bucket, throwing batting practice, and he's like, I can't get up, watching him trying to hobble off to the dugout. You know, like, and he's, he's not even 40 yet, you know, so like it's not good if something

happens to him and, you know, what the potential fallout could be for Puka and Devanti Adams and maybe Karen Williams, like, could be bad. Yeah, we haven't talked too much about Garoppolo, Dave. You know, the last time we saw him as a starter, he struggled with the, with the Raiders. But, you know, before that, in his San Francisco days, he was solid. I mean, Super Bowl, he went to a Super Bowl. He was, you know, yards per attempt was good. Of course, that's partially the Raiders, but the Niners, Rams have a great system.

Do you feel confident in him as a backup quarterback? We have to talk about it in the context of the receivers because nobody's really going to start Jimmy Garoppolo, unless it's a 2QB league in Stafford is for sure out. I think that there would be some sort of downgrade, but I still, first of all, I feel like Jimmy Garoppel as far as backup quarterbacks go is very good. and the offense that he's in is very good. And I trust how Sean McVeigh is as a play caller. We all remember the game where Baker Mayfield showed up like two days to learn the offense. And he went out and won a game. His numbers weren't great, but he won a game.

So I think that the Rams can work around that. Obviously, they'd rather have Stafford. We would rather have Stafford playing. But if I've got Pukukua, maybe I expect like 10, 15 percent decline in stats. Devante, 15 to 20%, max with Jimmy Garoppolo under center. So this isn't as bad as like what we saw last year when Tua missed time. And the backup quarterbacks that we had in Miami were just absolutely atrocious and the numbers tanked for everybody. So I'm not that worried.

Okay. Real time ADP on Fantasy Pros, how about this? Real Time ADP on Fantasy Pros has Puka going 13th overall as wide receiver 7. CBS, Pooka's going 24th overall. But we are a little more running back heavy on CBS. I see him at 16.7. Yeah, you know what? I think I might have non-PPR.

I'm trying to toggle. Yeah, yeah, okay. I thought I had hit PPR. I was non-PPR. Okay, I got him at 16. But that's still a dip. Like, I was thinking about this in the morning. Like, how many players have we seen their ADP fall since the off-season ADP?

Puka is one of those guys H-H-H-H-H-N is one of those guys It's guys that have been impacted By negative news over the last month But it's some of those guys You're talking about the top tier guys I'm talking about anybody Adams more than Puka

Because Adams is like 44th On the real-time ADP And he's 36th on CBS But right Where are you guys Somebody whose value has dipped Because of news That may not be news

That matters anymore Because we were worried about staff We can still be worried about Stafford He's playing and we week one. He's playing until further notice. And if he's playing, we definitely like the receiver. I'm starting Puka and Adams and every league I've got them in. I'm not changing a thing about them just for any reason. Stafford's playing. I feel good about him when Stafford's playing. I think in the case of Puka, though, there's consistently been that group of wide receivers

that have sort of been shuffling a lot. You know, so Nico, a little bit of a riser, you know, based on, I think, where it started for him. St. Brown, maybe a little bit of a faller, you know, because of some people voicing concerns about the lions. Puka, faller because of the, you know, Stafford situation. London, a riser because of maybe Darnal Mooney's injury or just people, you know, really liking him in certain spots, you know, depending on what rankless you look at, what site you look at. You know, so that shuffling, I think, is kind of fair. And then I think it's also when you're talking about comparing these guys to other positions, you know,

So the running backs kind of got pushed up. You know, for our site, for example, like Josh Jacobs being a first round pick in ADP is pushing those receivers down. You know, the fact that we have seven running backs in our first round is pushing those guys down, you know, so. All right. So would you take, how would you rank the old guys

that I talked about yesterday? Evans, Adams, Tyreek. Evans, Tyreek, Adams. Yes. Okay. Next news item. Let's talk about the first. 49ers. Jawan Jennings back at practice.

Oh, by the way, the Rams start with Houston in week one, very interesting matchup. But the Niners are at Seattle. Another fun matchup. Jennings back at practice and offensive guard Dominic Poonie practiced. Let's see where Joanne Jennings is going right now, because he could end up being a steal 109th overall, wide receiver 45 in the Fantasy Pro's real time, and 120th overall on CBS. When would you guys take Joanne Jennings? I need to adjust my rankings for the fact that he's back in practice for anybody drafting, you know, the next 24 or 48 hours.

So he'll move up, not significantly, but he'll move up, and Pearsall will probably move down a couple spots. I do think it's going to be, as we discussed yesterday, this is going to be one of those situations where Jennings comes out and has, you know, eight targets, six catches, 80 yards in a touchdown. And Pearsall has five targets, you know, four catches, you know, 60 yards. and nothing, and people are just going to absolutely lose their minds. Because you can see it. So, yeah, it's one of those things where was he actually injured or was he actually dealing with the contract situation? So I wouldn't overvalue him.

You know how I feel about these guys that were Holdens in the last couple of years. So he's in a similar situation. But it clearly is a great scenario for you if you drafted him late and you're going to get him in week one. Think about where they were before training camp started. Like, we were having debates about which receiver we'd rather have. And they were close in the rankings for all of us. And until today, they've been very far apart.

And so I'd still look at Jennings as someone that I want to take in, like, the round eight range. I'd move them up there. And I think moving Pierce all down just a little bit does make sense. But he did miss all of training camp, you know, so. Could be a slow start. Yeah. All right, Najee Harris expects to play this week. And Quentin Johnston is going to play.

They're playing Friday in Brazil against the Chiefs. And, you know, I just tell you, we're going to preview that game and Thursday night on tomorrow's show. But the two times they played last year, the Chiefs and Chargers, neither team cracked 20 points. Neither quarterback reached 17 fantasy points in six point per passing touchdown leagues. It was low-scoring stuff. But seeing that Najee Harris expects to play this week, it's not, I mean, look,

if he's not back this week, he'll probably be back week two. If you're drafting today, you're changing the way you're drafting Omari in Hampton. Nope, still in early third round pick. So I was the one who was really aggressive on Hampton. And I could probably see myself moving him down just a little, but still in round three. Andrew Thomas for the Giants left tackle. He's questionable there at Washington. Micah Parsons is questionable against Detroit.

Darnell Mooney, day-to-day with a shoulder injury, we don't know about his status for week one. They're against Tampa Bay. What's his ADP at right now? Mooney is just ahead of Jennings on our site, about 120. 20th overall. Okay. And on a real-time ADP from Fantasy Pro, he's 134th. He's wide receiver 52.

So that is after Rashid Shaheed and Jaden Reed. Uh-huh. Jamie, do you remember where you had? You were the lead guy on Mooney, and I like that call. Where were you before training camp started on him? Right around like 42, 43. So pick 100 maybe? In that range, you.

So there's another player you can buy the dip on. Christian Gonzalez. Patriots starting cornerback, he missed practice. He seems pretty uncertain for week one against the Raiders. They did sign Carlton Davis, but Gonzalez is their best corner. The Steelers signed Jalen Warren to a two-year extension with $12 million guaranteed. They're at the Jets this week. Does this change the way you look at the Steelers backfield with Warren signing an extension?

I've always liked Warren better, really, for the majority of camp. And so it's just, I think, further an indication. of how they feel about him, which is, you know, exciting if you like Jalen Warren and a little bit of a, it shouldn't be a huge downgrade for Caleb Johnson, but, you know, it does hurt his dynasty value a little bit if Jailen Warren's going to have a big season. Trayvon Diggs, cornerback for the Cowboys, he practiced in full. They're playing Thursday at Philadelphia. Dallas left tackle, Tyler Geithen, thinks he'll be ready to go.

Khalil Shakir's been practicing. They got the big game, Baltimore on Sunday night. Kate Otten practice, that's good news. You could maybe be a week one sleeper at Atlanta. Isaiah likely did not practice and neither did Baltimore cornerback Jair Alexander that they picked up

after the Packers released him there at Buffalo again on Sunday night and Houston Safety C.J. Gardner Johnson is one of the guys that was key for the Eagles last year, no longer on the team and hopefully going to be key for the Houston Texans. He heard his knee in training camp

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Yeah, I think my son would be able to do it. All right, fantasy superlatives preseason picks for MVP. And I'm very interested in what the chat on YouTube, if you like to ever want to participate in our show, YouTube.com slash fantasy football today. We're going to record live 8.30, more like 8.40 a.m. Eastern most mornings. All right, so give me a fantasy MVP.

Christian McCaffrey. literally sold the words out of... Oh, wow. Okay. Fantasy MVP, you know, sometimes that's a first round pick who's just unbelievable. Sometimes that's a second round pick

that plays like a first round, or sometimes that's a waiver wire guy. Like maybe you say Baker Mayfield was fantasy MVP. Kiron Williams was a couple of years ago. Who could be that guy? Who could be the Baker Mayfield? Drake May. Yeah.

I still think Caleb has it in him with the 500-yard rushing. You got that arm talent, sure. All right. We got, let's see, Lamb, Bejan, Drake, London vote, Abuka. I don't know about Ibuka.

You can make a case for Trayvion. He's not a late round pick, but someone that you're drafting in round three and four, and he just absolutely explodes. That would be fun. Oh, I got one. This is the guy. I've said this for so long now,

but the guy who's being drafted last, at latest who could finish number one at his position. I'm trying to think if this should include quarterbacks or not, but Tyreekill. Tyreekill is the last pick who I could see playing like a top three overall player. That'd be fun. Yeah, make a break player.

All right. So McCaffrey appears to be our, we have to write this down. Rookie of the year. And this has, I think this really has to bake an ADP, because otherwise we just take genty. But rookie of the year, what do you think? We're not allowed to take jenty?

No, you can. You can. But it's not going to be like, oh, which rookie scores the most fantasy points? Which rookie gives you the most value, I think? So last year it would have been... Neighbors. B.J. or McConkey, I'd say.

Well, if you're basing it on who gave me the most value, it's Thomas. Right, yeah. That makes sense. I mean, that was like for the whole year. Yeah, Bucky isn't a great answer because he was on. only half the year. What about Jade and Daniels from last year?

Oh, yeah. That would be a pretty good one. Thank you. Thank you. Or Bowers. Oh, yeah. It's a good class. Rookie of the year.

I'll say Matthew Golden. That's a nice call. How about Tyler Warren? What if it's Colston, Loughlin? You cannot rule it out. I think I'm going to go Trayvian. A lot of people.

Match and passes in Chicago. Got to vote for Tedd-Role McMillan, Tyler Warren. You'll get votes for everybody. Yeah. You can see it with some, you can see it with Kroski Merritt for crying out loud. All right, this one's fun. How about, oh, by the way, what did I say? I said five years in a row, correct me if I'm, if this, tell me if this sounds right.

Five years in a row, there's been at least two rookie wide receivers drafted in round nine or later that finished top 24, either per game or overall. Sounds right. Yeah, right. If that's not exactly right, it's something like that. I think that streak ends this year. Because all the good ones are getting drafted too soon? Unless Golden...

I don't know how many good ones are. And Abuka somehow end up with ADP in round nine or later. But I just... Yeah, look... Golden's got to be close. Golden is... Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

He's just about 100th overall on CBS. What about it? Abuka. There's no way he's there still. I can't type to that. Hold on. He's at 83. So that's round seven. I would think if there's going to be a second one,

Luther Burden could be that guy. I think Trey Harris. I was going to take a little while. I was going to say Thornton. I think you're right. I think there's only one. Now, look, I don't think anyone thought Brian Thomas Jr. was going to be

that or McConkey but no but those guys definitely had the talent and uh the draft capital yeah yeah yeah the draft capital someone's making a case for tory horton and i mean that's the stranger things have happened you know uh it said tory horton if cooper cup is washed so this was a wide receiver for the seattle seahawks rookie it's a good call yeah it's kind of you're not going to draft them but you keep an eye on those guys jaden hagan somebody else mentioned that's also a good call all right how about sophomore of the year, sophomore of the year. I would hope based on where they're getting drafted that it's going to be neighbors or

Thomas or McConkey. Yep. But you got Jaden, you got Bowers, you got Bucky, you have, I think if there's somebody that can make a leap, there's two that come to mind for me. One would be Pearsall. I guess Coleman, Keon Coleman, also make a leap. Pierceell and Coleman at receiver based on their opportunities. And then Tyrone Tracy.

I mean, you know, he was basically the second best rookie running back last year. And now you're talking about, you know, maybe a better offense for the Giants. And, you know, he's got that role. Somebody else has made a good call in the chat, too, Drake May. Yeah, I was going to suggest Drake May. And you know, I love Coleman. Yeah, you got those rookie quarterbacks from last year. You got Caleb and Drake May and Pennix.

So hopefully, look, last year was a crazy year, right? I don't remember what it was, the first 15 pick. were offensive players. We haven't even, no one said Marvin Herr is a junior, right? Yeah. So a lot of talent, a lot of talent. There's a Marvin Harris. Oh, Dunez.

Yeah, it's exciting. Get some sophomores. All right, biggest busts. Who do you think the biggest bus will be? Overall? Yeah. It's hard for me not to say Sequin, but Tyree could fit that bill pretty easily. I don't know if Tyree can't base on where he's been drafted, though.

Yeah, I guess that's a good point. I think Josh Jacobs is going to be a bust if he's really going 12th overall. Not a huge bust, but... I have a hard time seeing that without injury. Right. With him being a bus, yeah. But you're not taking him in the first round. No.

Well, non-PPR, yes. How about lamb? Nobody has any concerns about the Cowboys? Mild. I think you have to have some concerns about a lot of... players in certain situations. I mean, you know, it's, it's easy to sit here and say, because it happened a year ago, Thomas cover yours, but like J.J. McCarthy sucks.

Yeah. By the way, Dave, mild, very mild is what I'm going to be saying later today when I call up and place my order for wings. You're not going to get any hot wings. You're having 12 people over? I'll get medium for them and I'll sweat it out. Post-hype. You don't have to get one flavor, you know.

No. It's true. I'm ordering it really from a pizza place, though. I'm not getting it from a wings place, so it's not going to be great, I think, quality. I don't know. Have you ever gotten the wings from this place before? No. I do you have a preferred wing joint in town?

I really don't. I don't. All right. Well, post-hype breakout of the year. Post-hype breakout. I'll just get the conversation started with Trevor Lawrence. It's going. Caleb Williams.

So I think he's too much in the sophomore of the year category. Oh, sorry, you can't be in both. There's still some hype there. Marvin Harrison, same situation. Yeah. Who's the guy that maybe has been counted out going pretty late? That isn't counted out? No, that maybe has been counted out.

Oh, been counted out that's going late? Like Kyle Pitts. Kyle Pitts, yeah. If Tyreeks stinks, maybe that opens the door for Waddle to see an uptick in targets. Yeah. See, I think C.J. Strau would be a good one for this category, too. How about Chris Olave? Mm, yeah.

That might be a good one because he's still young enough to make an impact. They're going to go with Rattler, a quarterback to begin the year. He can be aggressive. I don't know if he can be accurate, but he can be aggressive throwing down field. We saw in the preseason that they lined up Olave all over the field. I think that might be a good one. Could Stefan Diggs be a good one? Yeah.

I mean, it's tough to put him in the breakout category, but I get what you're saying. I'm thinking more like a guy that was great or had high expectations took a bad year and now I was back. Michael Piven. Right. So I wanted to talk about Alave. I'm glad you brought him up because Alave. I mean, it's so hard because I just can't really see Spencer Rather having a good year or whoever it is. But 2022, Amari Cooper, I want to say Jacoby Prissette was their quarterback.

Nobody wanted Amari Cooper. He was wide receiver 28 in average draft position. He finished his wide receiver 10. Let's see what he was per game because he wasn't going to be that good. He was wide receiver 19 per game, average 14.6 fantasy points per game. You take it all day for a lot of it right now? Absolutely. 2023, I think this was Mike Evans.

This was Baker Mayfield coming over. Nobody believed in him. Mike Evans was wide receiver 31, and he finished in ADP, he was 31. Evans finished as wide receiver 11, and he averaged 16.6 fantasy points per game. Oh, he was a wide receiver 11 per game. He was probably a top five overall because he played 17 games. I mean, last year, I don't know if it was maybe Chris Godwin. I don't know if there was an example of this last year.

Oh, it was definitely Godwin. Yeah, but I'm saying, but did people think his quarterback stunk? I know I was worried. No, I think people were just concerned about him. who was the guy that maybe people thought their quarterback was terrible and they ended up being good. How about

Sutton? Corlin Sutton was like a back half of the draft pick. Yeah, Corton said what, 112th. I would even put Terry McLaurin in there because I didn't think Jane Daniels was going to stink, but I thought his passing numbers would be pretty low because he was going to run so much.

Yeah, I like McLaren. When you have a, yeah, I know, but when you have a clear number one target, he could outperform his ADP. Now the question is, is he the clear number one target? Because last year, Rashid Shaheed out-targeted Chris Olavé

when they were both healthy. That's what we'll have to find out. And obviously there's Camara. WaiverWire pickup of the year. Who's not being drafted that you think will be the waiver-wire pickup of the year? Oh, boy. I just did all these positions.

The first name that came to my mind was Breschard Smith of the Chiefs. Interesting call, yeah. How about Will Shipley, just in case? See, Woody Marks. You know, yeah. Yeah, Woody Marks is good. He's still out there in a ton of leagues.

Is Tootin still out there in like half of CBS leagues? He was last week. He's over 65% so I didn't know. Okay, so not anymore. You know, there will be some panic drops after week one of some of these handcuff guys that will potentially end up in great spots. So, like, I'll give an example. Somebody just actually put it in the chat.

I had to drop in a magazine draft that we did in May. I had to drop somebody to pick up, and I'll find out today if I get them. Jacori Crosske-Mirrit did not get drafted in this league. So DJ Giddens was somebody drafted, and it's a weird site. You have to actually drop the players before you can add them in the first run of waivers. So I had to drop Giddons, which I don't want to do, but I need to free up Ross spot. And so, you know, you can see a situation like that where you're dropping, you know, handcuff and the starter gets hurt. Yep, for sure.

All right. Those are our fantasy superlatives. We're going to head into Buy or Sell right now from our audience on X. This is from Randy Justice. By herself, Alamede Zakias keeps Luther Burden off the field for more than five games. I feel like that's a sidekick to Austin Powers. Randy Justice? I have a feeling there's going to be so many situations

where these veteran guys on different teams are just a pain in the ass to younger players that have opportunities to potentially be good. Yeah, Zekees was impressive in the preseason, impressive in the practice that I went to. I know they like that he's a veteran and he knows where to be.

And I know that they want to take their time with burden. I'll buy this. I'll say that Luther Burden is a back half of the season fantasy pickup. Now, on this topic of veterans who could make things hard for rookies, do we feel that way about Cole Commet? I actually remember, I'm pretty sure last year Gerald Everett played a lot in week one, and then they just, obviously, different coaching staff, and they just stopped almost completely.

But do we think Cole Commet is going to be that thorn in the side for Colston Loveland? Yes, I think there's another scenario that also comes to mine is Dalton Kincaid and what happened with Dawson Knox. Like, you know, these veteran guys that are good blockers, first off, especially that position. When they're in 12 personnel, you know, you're going to see a lot of these guys that, you know, still get attention from their quarterbacks, especially if there's a rapport there. So, yeah, it could easily be a situation where Cole commits a problem for Colston Loveland,

unless, of course, they just decide this kid is such a superior pass catcher, like, we have to feature him more than maybe Caleb Williams is. doing. All right. This is from Dayton. Buy or sell. DeMario Douglas will finish, Ohio, is that you say Ohio?

Yeah, this one's coming in from Dayton, Ohio. DeMario Douglas. DeMario Douglas will finish as a better fantasy player than Chris O'Lave. I don't want to buy it, but it wouldn't shock me. I'd sell it. From Ash Rutter. Buy or sell, Kyler Murray is a top five quarterback in four point per passing touchdown league.

Strength of schedule matters. It does matter. I will sell it, but if you amend it to top eight, I will buy it. You know, I don't know if you guys ever feel this way, but I know how our audience is, right? We have this core group of listeners that listen to basically every show throughout the year. And then we get a much bigger wave of listeners and viewers that come in in August, basically, or late July or whatever it is. And I feel like so many of the stats that I've worked so hard on throughout the year, Like 30% of the audience hears them, you know, because once we get into real draft prep,

we don't really have time to go into players, these deep dives on players. But one of the things for Kyler Murray that has changed since he's been elite has been the deep ball. He, with DeAndre Hopkins, had a lot of success with long passes, big air yards, big explosive plays. That did not exist last year with Marvin Harrison Jr. And I do think that is the same thing with Patrick Mahomes. But that is the thing that was missing last year from the offense. I'm not sure he can get back to being an elite quarterback unless that comes back. And I'm not sure that Marvin Harrison is going to be that type of player, unfortunately.

But we'll see. So anyway, I just wanted to throw that out there. Yeah, I would love it if they try and limit that with Kyler. I mean, it's not like he has to do it all the time, but you've got to get some chunk plays every, you know, every night. sure sure all right i think the broken plays will help him i think a lot of the if he wants to run more and we just talk some some off-script plays that that is his game more so than you know being so much trying to throw you know on script on schedule those type of things so if you want the stats in his first three seasons keiler murray gained at least 994 yards and through six to seven

touchdown passes each year on past attempts of 20 or more air yards okay so it's about a thousand or more yards and six to seven touchdown passes on deep balls in his first three seasons. Last year, 553 yards and four touchdowns. It's like basically 60% of his production. Okay. Of his previous production on deep balls. The Cardinals top five in the schedule, fantasy strength of schedule for quarterbacks, top two for the first four weeks of the season.

Cool. They play New Orleans and Carolina to begin the year. So definitely potential for a hot start. This one is from profit is theft. And a good DST, too, if you're looking for one late on draft day, the Cardinals. By or sell Matthew Golden will have more receptions than Travis Hunter. Bye. Bye.

From A.H. Byer cell, Dave and Jamie will disagree on takes at least four times a week. Oh, bye. Oh, it better be. You do that already. Better be a lot. We've been doing that for how many years? We want to disagree.

Oh, that reminds me. I thought it's something to add to the Heath bet. I'll bring it up when I'm on with Heath again. Okay. Schaefer missed the opportunity there to make a Dave versus Jamie graphic. By our sell from Pete Farmer. Nick Chubb finishes better than where he's being drafted and top 15 in touchdowns. So, big sell.

Jose Gonzalez, by or sell, J.K. Dobbins will outscore R.J. Harvey. Jamie? Please be a sell. Jacob Strom. Dylan Samson is a top 24 running back week one against the Bengals. Let me double check my rankings on that. You saw the report yesterday, right? I did.

No? Jerome Ford will handle the majority of the touches, and Samson will be a change of paceback. Yeah, I don't have Samson as a top 24 running back in week one. I have Jerome Ford as top 20 running back week one. So that's the way it's starting this season. It doesn't mean you should just drop Dylan Samson if you drafted him. Be patient here.

Nope, I agree. Steve Davis. I would start Jerome Ford over Brise Hall in week one. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, Wowser. It is Cincinnati, so I get it. I do get it. Buy or sell, Javante Williams,

won't be a viable fantasy back in Dallas, even if he leads the team and carries. Bye. Viable meaning like a weekly starter, I buy. And from Greg Thompson, buy or sell Chris Godwin will be the buck's most productive

fantasy-wide receiver from week five on. Sell. I sell it, but it wouldn't shock me. All right. We're going to be right. back after this. We're going to talk about our favorite teams that we've drafted, and also the roster trends, who are the most added players in CBS Sports Fantasy Leagues. We'll be right back.

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drafts? I am going to try in my auction to get Burrow Chase Higgins and Chase Brown. I'm going to go for it. It's a $200 budget or $100? $100.00. So what are you allotting for those four players? $99. That's a great question. Do you think I can do it for 60? No. 70? Can I do it for 70? I think so. So you're basically got to figure a little shy of $30 for Chase. Yeah, I don't remember what these guys went for last year. Probably 15 for Higgins. Yeah, that's a lot.

10 to 15 for Higgins. 15 to 20 for Chase Brown. Yeah. And Burrow is probably 10. He's the one that might be too rich for me. I'll give it a shot. We'll see what happens. It's the first year of you guys getting together and doing the auction?

Second year. What was the auction like last year? Was everybody going crazy, spending money? It was a one QB league and one guy bid big on both Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. These are not like experienced fantasy players necessarily. And this guy went to the finals and lost by like three tenths of a point. Was it Marty? No, it wasn't.

Marty won by three tenths of a point on the Jemir Gibbs touchdown. run in week 17. Marty's listening today, I'm sure. Did you get new dental equipment? It was a lot of fun, but we did it at a restaurant. It went super long, and that's why we're doing it at my house this year. All right. Do you guys have a favorite team in mind?

Yes. All right. Go for it, Dave. We did a auction, speaking of auction, last week, and about part way through the auction. And I asked that question about what was the auction like last year. Because through our auction last week, people were spending like crazy at the beginning. I got caught up with it on one player. I got Christian McCaffrey for 27% of my budget.

It felt like a lot. But there came a point where like half the teams in the league were broke. And we still had 100 players to nominate. So I was able to get some guys really, really cheap. And so this auction league that I'm in, Jamie's in. It's a winner take all league. I am thrilled with the team because I got some steals. I can run down the lineup, bench.

I don't know what you're looking for. Yeah, just go ahead. Give me the team. Holmes is my quarterback. My running backs are McCaffrey and Alvin Camara. My two receivers, it's a two receiver, two flex league. Two receivers are Pearsall and JSN. My two flexes are Cortland Sutton and Jameson Williams.

Did I mention it's full PPR? Yeah, that's good. It's full PPR. So the receivers are JSN, Pearsall, Sutton, Jameson, Williams. Eminem is my $1 tight end. on my bench, James Connor, Stefan Diggs, Brian Robinson, Dylan Sampson, Cam Skadbu, Basial Tutin. So a lot of lottery tickets plus James Connor on the bench.

It's an interesting auction team because to me it sounds like you only have one elite player in McCaffrey. You have a ton of players in the rounds like three to six range. That's what ended up happening because a lot of the elite players were nominated early and they went for a lot. I think that's great. I like that strategy. I love my starting lineup and that my bench is terrible.

terrible. Someone says your wide receivers suck, but I don't agree at all. Who are they again? J.S.N. Yeah. Cortland Sutton. Jameson, Rickie Piersall, and then on the bench is Steph Diggs. No, I mean, that's good. Look, you don't have a first or second rounder, but that's good. But again, a lot of those third and fourth round guys. What's my team in there again? I'll run it down for you. Hold on. This is fun. I drafted three quarterbacks. what why because i got i got drake may for two dollars i got trevor lawrence for a dollar and i was like you know what bo necks was just sitting there for a dollar i'm going to bid two dollars on bo necks i'm just going to drop Trevor Lawrence you dropped over that's five bucks on on the three quarterbacks

so bo necks is in your starting lineup you just heard the other quarterbacks that are on your team chase brown and josh jacobs at running back here's james's receivers wow um mike evans ted mcmillan Xavier Worthy. His other flex is Trayvion Henderson, who, if I recall correctly, you did not spend a ton for $14. Yeah. Out of a hundred. And Kittles are tied end. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah. So he's got a great team. His bench is really ugly. Christian Kirk is his best player on the bench. I mean, as far as starting lineups go, you know, awesome. Well done. By the way, Bo Nix is someone that I have drafted zero of. And don't anticipate it.

And I just never really liked his ADP. I just felt like he wasn't that much better than guys that were going three or four rounds later. And for whatever reason, he was always clearly ahead of the pack. It just, I never took him. In this auction, it got down to the point where there were so many good players, not great players, but good players going for a dollar. And Thomas spent all of his money early and then just kind of had to sort of backfill the rest of his roster. So Thomas and I were in the same boat and Thomas was nominating players before me. And the way that it worked out, I was like, he's going to, he's going to take every guy

that I want. And it ended up happening. I ended up nominating every guy that I want. And I couldn't do anything about it. And one in particular stood out to me, which ended up, you know, not working out for either of us. Thomas in this league, me and in several other leagues was Jalen Coker. I was like, oh, I may I get Jalen Coker for a dollar. And then Thomas right in front of me. Right in front of him. He nominated him and got him for the same buck. I think we should run down Thomas's team because this is something that you see people do in auction drafts where they will spend to get multiple first rounders. And then the rest of their team, they just take whatever they can get and they figure it out later. And so that's what Thomas did. Here's Thomas's

team. Justin Fields is a quarterback. He's got J.J. McCarthy on the bench. Here are his running backs. Saquan Barkley and Derek Henry. With Jordan Mason on the bench. He managed, Jamie was referencing the part of the draft where everybody was going cheap. He got Jordan Mason for, I think, two bucks. Wide receivers. Jamar Chase and Jacoby Myers, Keenan Allen, Wondale Robinson. Those guys are in a starting lineup. Oh, man. Tide end is Kyle Pitts. He's got three first round picks, though. He's got Chase Barkley and Henry. And then his next best player might be Jordan Mason. See, but this is where you two guys make a trade. You give him like three players for one of his thoughts.

I don't think he'll do it. Who's the quarterback? Dave, we did something like that last year because I did the same thing and I didn't have any running backs. And then I traded you like Jamar Chase and you gave me like Rico Dowell, a receiver and I think another running back because you had so many running backs. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, it was something along those lines. That was a nice trade. Yeah, I mean, it worked out for both of us, even though I gave away the best player.

Thomas, if you could do it again, would you go after three studs like that, spend 80% 90% of your budget on the studs? I probably would just blow off one of the running backs and just had an anchor receiver, anchor running back with all those great players that were still available in the mid rounds. Like I had such FOMO. So, yeah, I would have probably blown off one of the other running backs. So the last point is the crazy value, like there's always going to be a bargain section. during an auction, but what we had was just absolutely crazy. And the results are on cbassports.com. So if you want to look for them, you can.

If you can't find them, find me on X. I'll point you in the right direction. But I don't think you should expect it to be like what we had where guys that would normally go for like 10 were going for five or even like guys that were. The first auction, if you're looking for like a fair comp is probably better in terms of the values. Sure. But that was with 12 analysts that knew what they were doing. This draft was a couple of analysts and then everybody else that works at CBS Sports.

So they work in sports and they're on top of stuff, but they're still not, they're not on a podcast every day. I, uh, which content. I, it's normally I don't really like kind of stick to what I had planned in, in an auction. And I wanted to do that for the first time this year. So I wanted Chase Brown and have enough of Chase Brown. So I was going to spend whatever I need to spend to get him. I wanted Josh Jacobs. That was fine, you know, $20 each for those two guys.

And then I was hoping to get four receivers in the blob for $10 each in that range. Evans I got for 11. Worthy, I think I got for like 10. Who's the third guy I have? Ted McMillan. Oh, Ted McMillan, around the same price. And then Kittle was just sitting there, $7. I'm like, you know what?

I'll spend eight, see if I get them. Awesome. I'm going to say it every time. I feel like the rounds four, five, six guys. are the best values in, in auctions for whatever reason. No one gets excited to draft them and they go really late. I don't know, Jamie, if you got those guys late, but no one gets excited to even nominate them and they just end up being...

No, but that's what happened in this auction is that all those guys in that range went later. Yeah, and at that point, some teams are out of money. Yep. So you get good deals. That's generally been my strategy is I usually end up with more teams like Dave has, where not take McCaffrey out of it. Like, I just have, like, it's a lot of balance, but not stars. All right.

My favorite fantasy team was actually in our IDP league. I'm not going to go through the IDPs. Honestly, I don't know if my IDPs are any good. They're probably not, but we start 10 of that. Hey, I helped you get some of those IDPs. Yes, you did. Who is the guy that you really wanted me to get? Schlesinger.

On the Browns. So I got him, but my starting lineup, I think, is really good. And I don't think it was really heavily influenced by other people taking IDPs. That didn't really start, I don't know, round seven or so. But this is an IDP league where we start two defensive linemen, three linebackers, three defensive backs, and a flex. So that's nine IDPs. I have Josh Allen, James Cook, and Isaiah Pacheco, you've heard of him. I have Malik Neighbors, Brian Thomas Jr., and Jerry Judy.

Neighbors and BTJ are my first two picks. I have T.J. Hawkinson at Tight End, full PPR. And I have Keon Coleman at Flex. I also have Giovante Williams, Joanne Jennings, and Jaden Reed, all the Jays. on the bench. So I don't know if I'd brag about all those guys. On the bench, Giovante Williams,

Juan Jennings, and Jayden Reed, I like it. I mean, I guess that's where they belong. It's a super deep league. There's 10 bench spots in addition to all the IDPs.

It's like a 27-round draft or something. Right. So Josh Allen, James Cook, Pacheco. I guess I'll give it to you in the order of how I drafted them. I had a late pick, 10th-ish.

So his neighbors, Brian Thomas Jr., James Cook, Josh Allen. Pacheco, I'm guessing, in round five, Judy in round six. And then Hawkinson, late round seven. And then Keon Coleman, I don't know when. Probably some IDPs in there.

So I'm hopeful for this team. Hopefully my IDPs don't suck so much to drag me down, but I like it. Oh, you got Schwessinger. I said Schlesinger earlier. That's not right. Carson, Swessinger. Let's look at the roster trends, the most added players. Oh, mine?

Fine. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot because you gave the auction. Sorry, my bad. It should be the auction team. I was going to bring up what we talked about last week. That team from the Draftathon League where just everything kind of fell in my way. But I have another one that kind of worked out the same way.

This is a super flex league with other analysts. Michael Fabiano Sports Illustrator runs it. So I had the 10th pick, got Jalen Hertz at 10. Oh, wow. It's four points for past touchdowns, but he should still go. Well ahead of that. Yes. So this is the, this is the team.

Hertz at quarterback, McCaffrey and A. Chanette running back. A.J. Brown, Tyree Kill, is two receivers, two flex. Two receivers, one flex and Superflex, sorry. Tyree Kill and AJ Brown are receivers. David Nijok, who's a tight end. Mike Evans is a flex. Two is the Superflex. And then on the bench, I have Anthony Richardson, which is not great, but I missed on a third quarterback.

Braylin Allen, Tyrone Tracy, Basial Tutin, Ollie Gordon, Jameson Williams, Keon Coleman, and DeMarro Douglas. Is this 10 teams or 12? 12. Geez, Louise. I mean, yeah, not having a QB3 is going to be problematic, but that's a good team.

Yeah. So I'm going to give you guys a name that we have not, we've barely said. He's one of the most added players right now in CBS leagues. And with Travis Hunter, possibly playing limited snaps on offense in week one, Brenton Strange is one of the most added players. And so is Dallas Goddard.

I'm sure you'd start Goddard over Strange. But Strange. He's playing his namesake. Goddard's playing Dallas. Oh, yeah, that's true. Breton Strange was a second round pick in 2023. He had some good moments without Evan Ingram last year. I don't know.

He's interesting, Dave. Your thoughts on Brenton Strange? I like the matchup against Carolina. and they're linebackers. But other than that, we just finished drafting. How many people drafted Brenton Strange and how many tight ends that we drafted are you going to bench for Brenton Strange? Yeah, it's obviously a deep league thing, but he will be a waiver wire ad after a week one. He will be somebody that I think we're going to be discussing as a borderline starter throughout the course of the season,

somebody that will hover around those 10 PPR points per game. They like him a lot. That was part of the reason why they moved on from Evan Ingraham. You mentioned it, the Travis Hunter situation. I think there's a handful of tight ends that sort of fall into this category of chance to be very fantasy relevant. He's won Hunter Henry, based on what he did last year, is another one. Jago Concoe, based on how he finished last year and his role in the offense with really no second receiver for the Titans is another one. Mason Taylor, somebody's going to be very interesting throughout the course of the season.

And I think now with the injury and the trade, Jatavian Sanders is going to be somebody that has an opportunity to, sort of be in this range as well. So if you're just looking for who can I pair, if you're still drafting, who can I pair with Tyler Warren, Colston Loveland, Dalton Kincaid, one of these guys that, you know, has so much upside, but you might just want to take a second guy, and you miss on Jake Ferguson or Zach Kurtz or Dallas Goddard, you know, some of the solid fallback options that should be very good as well.

Like these are the guys you take swings on, especially a guy like Strange with his matchup for week one, like Dave said. like the um do we get do we get a negative if i agree with dave takes away one of the four argument you just have to disagree with five on five players i mean all the all the comments david and i hate each other um the uh the the breton strange call is is perfect because if he does do well against carolina and we don't see travis hunter play a lot offensively or enough or he plays enough offensively but he doesn't get enough attention you know targets etc like we're going to see you know some of these players him in particular strange

particular like it's it's an easy opportunity cost to just take them before with one of your last picks i i like where you're going with that what i worry about with strange specifically is that they also have diami brown and parker washington and i know that they like those guys i like everybody in the offense so i'd be a little worried about that the name that you said that stands out the most to me like i've got a free roster spot i want to carry another tight end the draft has already happened or i'm in a deep draft i want to take a shot on one of these tight ends it's Taylor with the Jets. We've gone all training camp and preseason.

Who's the number two target guy for the Jets? It could end up being Taylor, who's back from the high ankle sprain, who does have a good athletic profile, who's going to get an opportunity to play. I don't love the quarterback, but if he's going to get a bunch of short targets and try and be a yak guy in that offense,

by all means, like that's a great guy to take a shot on and just kind of, you know, stash him for one week and see what happens. I also like Hunter Henry and where he is. based on last year absolutely true but also it's the Josh McDaniels offense now we know how tight ends get used in that offense it's a good thing I don't like that there's another tight end there Austin Hooper Adam is part of that offense and that passing game but that's an offense that could end up elevating this year and Hunter's definitely going to have some good weeks he's got Las Vegas in week one I don't know if I still have the Hooper sound bites you can just go hoopah hey Hooper All right, another, some other guys on the most out of the... Just really quick, to wrap that up, these are all great options of Titan Premium Leaks.

Like, if you're looking for good bench spots, it could be selects options for you. Like, these are all guys you should be drafting. But I'm not taking any of them over the veteran blob of like Goddard, Earth, and Ferguson, in reverse order. I like Ferguson the best of those things. Demario Douglas is on the most added list. We like him. I get that. Dallas Goddard is on the most out of it.

About slot receivers in Josh McDaniel's offense. Yeah. Dylan Sampson and Quintan Judkins are both on the most added list. You know, I'll ask you again, I asked yesterday, but how would you rank the Browns running backs right now if you're just drafting? Yesterday we said Judkins, Samson, Ford. I may adjust that and go Judkins Ford, Samson. Okay.

Yeah, I get it. Bejel Tootin, we want to get him. And there are a lot of kickers on the most added list. I don't know if you guys have any strong feelings about kickers for week one. We almost eliminated kickers from our long-running keeper league before our draft last night. That's a pretty strong feeling. Any ones that you want to pick up? To pick up?

Yeah, I don't know. For week one. I think Tyler Loop. It's interesting. Yep. People don't really know who he is, but he's the Ravens kicker. That's a team that's been constant in field goal attempts, and he's got a great leg. That's a good point.

Yeah. McMannis for Green Bay, now that their defense is getting even better. Okay. I could see the Steelers be conservative. Boswell's pretty much being. Came a little, obviously, preseason kick.

Yeah, because of that big, boolee leggy. Yeah. All right. Carter Davis. Well, I mean, that goes without saying.

That would be a little too early on that one. I was with our former colleague, our very good friend, Sergio Gonzalez, last night. who went to FAU, and I was like, how the hell did you guys not keep him? He's like, he didn't even kick for us. He was 4 of 11, 4 of 11 at FAU.

Yeah, it's horrible. I don't have a lot of feelings on how bad the coaching was in that game. Speaking of coaching, wasn't a great debut for Bill Belichick last night? No. They went up 7-0. What was the final? 417, they lost? 48-14, my bad.

I missed a couple times. For me, must watch viewing are Bill Belichick press conferences. And so Bill was his usual self, as you would imagine. But, you know, like college football coaches have to sometimes make it rosy to appease the fan base and the boosters and all that. Like, Bill tried to do that and he looked so uncomfortable. Oh, really? He was like, yeah, we had a great atmosphere. A lot of fans really appreciate the fans being loud.

Yeah. Michael Jordan was there. I was thinking like, Michael Jordan was just a few. Two seats away from Lawrence Taylor, like, who, you know, when you think about them, how much, how much better is Michael Jordan at sports than Lawrence Taylor? They're almost equals. At sports or their sport? At their respective sport. You got to get to Jordan. Yeah, Lawrence Taylor is in every single goat conversation. Well, he is the, I think people consider him the best defensive player in football history. I think, I think if, if you're saying, if you were to say, who's the best. two guard and who's the best pass rusher, then they're in the same conversation. Lawrence Taylor has not thought of as the best player to ever play his sport.

Best defensive player, though. He's in the conversation. You can make the past rush, but you can make the argument with several guys for that. Pretty amazing that they both from North Carolina. All right. That's it for, oh, you want to hear it's team name Tuesday. I'll give you the team names for my three. Well, I'm not in three, never mind.

But three beat Chad Smith leagues. is so one of them I came up with Can't Stop the Run I don't know if that's good or not though I mean I get it Chad's teams in the other leagues are Breaking the Gurley and Hardman to concentrate

which those are very good Breaking the Gurley was terrific All right I have an update for the left over leagues Okay I will be picking the teams today We will be drafting tomorrow So if you can draft tomorrow, I know short notice, but the entries were amazing, absolutely amazing.

It was worth staying up last night to read all of them. I think there was 200 some odd entries. It was tough. We're going to do three teams, three leagues again, of 16 teams. Nice. I have fun. Thank you, everybody, for watching and listening. And three of our regular commenters will be in.

Wonderful. We will talk to you at 1 p.m. CBS Sports Network. Have a great day, everybody. See you.