Fantasy Football Today - Seven Draft Tips to Win Your League! And a Mailbag (08/28 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: August 28, 2020

Getting ready to draft? We've got seven tips for you to remember if you want to dominate. First, Jamey gives you some rankings risers and fallers (2:06) plus players he finds himself drafting a lot. Joshua Kelley is on a lot of his teams ... Our draft tips start with some TE talk (11:40). We're calling it the "Great or Late" strategy for TEs, and we'll tell you how to implement it. Also discussed: The Rounds 3-5 WRs (16:00), how many sophomore WRs you should draft (18:30), why you shouldn't avoid players with bad track records (20:40), when to draft a Top 6 QB (22:40), why you should prepare for injuries (24:40) and why you can of course wait on QB this season (27:45) ... News and notes (31:40) including some insight on the CHI offense. Then the Fantasy Regulators do their thing (36:15) and we read your Apple Podcast questions (40:00) and emails (46:40) ... Your emails at [e-mail] Bid on a spot in the 2020 Listeners' League (all proceeds to St. Jude): https://www.ebay.com/itm/373174782775 Listen to the brand new Fantasy Football Today in 5 podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-in-5/id1528634304 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow the new FFT Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/FFToday Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @YardsPerGretch, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviK78rIWXhZdFzJ1Woi7Fg/videos Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ 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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Touchdown. Oh, he's done it again. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, Heath, and Ben. Friday Mailbag. Welcome to the show. Adam Acer and Jamie Eisen Heath, and Ben. Friday Mailbag. Welcome to the show. Adam Acer and Jamie Eisenberg here. Happy Friday, everybody. Less than two weeks until the start of the season.

I've got my oversized Odell Beckham jersey on. Jamie, I'm ready to rock and roll, man. I'm ready for football. I've got Danny Connell's jersey hanging behind me in our office here. So, yeah, it's a giant show. No surprise with you on it. Oh, yeah. It's a giant show. No surprise with you on it. Oh, yeah. It is a giant show. We have important questions to answer. You just spoke

to a Bears beat writer, Adam Johns. He gave you some interesting insight. So we'll talk about that. They got a great quote about Blake Jarwin from Jerry Jones, who typically is not full of hyperbole, right? But no, he had some great things to say about Blake Jarwin.

I want to know who's rising in the rankings. Basically, we're preparing people for a weekend of drafting. If you are drafting, we've got, well, I've got, I think, five draft tips. How many did you come up with, Jamie? Well, you told me to come up with five, which I will make up on the run. I don't think I told you to come up with five. Did I? Let me pull up this little machine here. Oh, four or five. Four or five. Let me pull up on the run. I don't think I told you to come up with five. Did I? Let me pull up this little machine here.

Oh, four or five. Four or five. Pull up this machine here that says Adam Azer. Yeah, I said four or five. Hello. Today we are going to do weekend draft tips. You sent me this at 8.30 as I'm leaving the house.

I didn't have a lot of time to think about it. Can you come up with like four or five tips for people as they enter their drafts? Yeah. Okay. So we've got like up to 10 draft tips for you. Can I give one? Yeah.

Draft at least two sophomore-wide receivers. No, don't you son of a... You don't steal other people's draft tips. That is draft tip number one. That is so mean. Let me get like the trending players that are either moving up or moving down for you right now. Last week, we talked Damian Harris and Bryce Love.

Are there any other players right now that you want to spotlight? Don't look at ADP. It's outdated. These guys are higher or lower. Well, I'll start with Bryce Love because there's a report from a guy that I trust. He works for The Athletic, Ben Standick. He's played in some fantasy leagues with me before. He's a seasoned fantasy player.

He says that it's not a lock that Bryce Love will be on the active roster every week if they only carry three running backs because they'll go with Peterson, they'll go with Gibson, and they'll go with JD McKissick over Bryce Love, which is a little bit of a surprise to read that. So he's probably somebody that has to be trending down. One guy that I'm very excited about, I've said this time and time again, but the reports just continue to be glowing is joshua kelly uh you know he's the guy that um i don't want to say that i'll plant my flag with him but he's somebody that i'm going to have a lot of shares of i already have a lot of shares of him a lot of drafts coming up over the next two weeks and anybody that asked me who's the sleeper guy that you are highly recommending, this is the one. Because I do think he's going to be the backup

to Austin Eckler or the second guy to Austin Eckler. And he may not have the job over Justin Jackson now. He will have the job over Justin Jackson by the end of the season. This is the guy that I want on all of my fantasy teams. So would you take Josh Kelly ahead of Bryce Love? I have been. Okay.

Would you take Josh Kelly ahead of Chase Edmonds? See, so that's the interesting part of it. That's where you have to play the draft. So as the hype continues, maybe you have to take Josh Kelly ahead of Chase Edmonds. I haven't had to do that yet. So, you know, if it comes down to those are the only two running backs available, then I'll probably take Josh Kelly over Chase Edmonds. But if Chase Edmonds becomes the guy for the Arizona backfield, he's probably going to be better than Josh Kelly, unless Austin Eckler gets hurt.

So I guess, do you have anyone else, by the way? Anyone else you want to talk about before we move on? Risers, fallers. Guys that have risers, fallers. Yeah, or you know what? Also like players that you find yourself drafting a lot yeah i think i'm gonna write this you know kind of like a my guys column um next week and you know so it'll be you know a lot of will fuller uh marquise brown

dj charke there's three tight ends i had a a buddy last night. I was at my eight-year-old's baseball practice and he had a salary cap draft on Thursday night. And he said, you know, who are some guys that I should be looking at tight end wise if I miss? And there's three I say all the time. You mentioned one, Blake Jarwin. You know, I've talked about him a lot. Chris Herndon is the other one. And then Mike Gusecki. Those are three guys that if I don't get one of the tight ends that I like and for me there's eight like I've dropped Gronk out of the top 12 um I'm not taking Austin Hooper I'm not taking Jared Cook you know guys that are typically drafted as top 12 guys I take one of those three almost every time and if I can get two I'll take two why not Noah Fant in that group he's in he's in that group yes but I'm I'm just saying, like, for me, the three that I target are those three.

Fant and Hawkinson and John New Smith are also in that group for sure, 100%. Those three guys, I think all six of those guys, it wouldn't surprise me if three or four of them break out. They all could be terrible because from what we saw a year ago. You know, Herndon not playing. Jarwin maybe is not even going to fill the Witten role, but I think you just see paths for all of them. You know, I think fan benefits with KJ Hamler banged up. I think Hawkinson,

we had Dave Burkett of the F not the athletic, the Detroit free press, excuse me on HQ this week. And he said, Hawkinson, despite the ankle injury, he said, he's like, that was a red flag for him. But he said, you know, you watch him play and he's looking great. Um, I moved him up in my rankings. Uh, all those guys are in that 10 to 15 range for me. And to be honest, I would take all of them over Gronk. Okay. And, uh, this is what Jerry Jones said about Blake Jarwin. Certainly Jarwin is getting to spread his wings now, whether it's coach McCarthy, the offensive staff, his teammates, he keeps showing up out there. He's just really coming into his own, and

nothing would surprise me with him in terms of what his production could be this year. He just keeps getting better. His rapport with Dak is outstanding, and I really think that he's got a chance to step right in there and be a really good, if not great, tight end for us. Jerry Jones on Blake Jarwin. I'll give you one more real quick, just because

Pete Prisco was on HQ with us on Thursday and kind of recapping. And I highly recommend if you can find the segment, you could, you know, just check it out on, on demand for our HQ. So Pete usually goes to every, not every, he usually goes to about 15 or 16 different stops and training camp. And that's been changed because of the pandemic, but he's still, you know, on the phone with guys that he trusts and, and, and players, GMs, et cetera. It was just a great conversation and not about big name guys.

One in particular was Ian Thomas. And he spoke to some people in Carolina and he said, same thing like what Jerry Jones just said. He just keeps making plays and you look at this offense. And as Pete said, I think we can all agree, bad defense, going to be thrown a lot. We've heard Ben and but Ian Thomas is somebody that they say has sort of clicked a little bit over the last couple of weeks and they're excited about him. So he's another guy, he's at the tail end of that group, but he's another guy in that conversation that if you take a second tight end, I'd look at him. Yeah. You know, we, we did, I tried to do a segment yesterday called the trip down memory lane where I looked at, I'm actually, I'm going to get, I'm going to get this up right now.

Cause I thought it was pretty funny. Um, I looked at some of the notes from last year's podcast notes and some of the reports that were coming out and things like that. And one of them was about Curtis Samuel and how he was making so many plays and it's going to happen in the regular season. Let me just give you the quote. The Charlotte Observer.

He makes one or two plays every day that brings a wow factor and it's a safe bet the same continues once the regular season gets underway. That was the Charlotte Observer. He makes one or two plays every day that brings a wow factor, and it's a safe bet the same continues once the regular season gets underway. That was the Charlotte Observer. Who would fuck with that? That was on Curtis Samuel. That was on August 15th or 16th. And the thing is, he had 105 targets and 19 carries. He just had bad quarterback play.

And I know you were just talking about Ian Thomas, but I don't want to completely neglect Curtis Samuel here. They are probably going to throw a lot, and hopefully Teddy Bridgewater is a lot better than Kyle Allen. But if a guy gets 105 targets and 19 carries, he's probably going to be a top 30 wide receiver, I would say. You know? So I don't know.

Obviously, they have Robbie Anderson. I'm not saying we should expect the same thing, but I just think let's not forget how big of a role Curtis Samuel had last year. And his role is probably going to change a little bit because now Anderson is the deep threat. And so Samuel is going to run some different routes and they'll move him inside. They'll alternate with him and DJ more. That's one thing Pete was, was bringing up as well. Uh, just one more thing on Ian Thomas. You've heard me say this a couple of times, 80 targets is the number you need to be in the conversation for the top 12. There were 13 tight ends that had 80 targets, 11 of them finished. I'm sorry. Am I getting that right? 11 of the 13 best tight ends had at least 80 targets last year in PBR. The two that did not were Hunter Henry and Jared Cook. So 13 tight ends, I'm sorry, the top 13 tight ends, 11 had 80 targets.

Now, again, you've brought this up and it's a great point. Do you want to be in the 11 through 13 range? Or do you want to be in the top eight? Let's just say, but at least you get in the conversation, right? And it's like, you want to, uh, if you, I don't know if you've watched Hamilton yet, but you want to be in the room where it happens. Right. So if you, if you want to be in at the party, it's that 80 target number. You know what, who had 80 targets last year? Oh, Greg Olson. Oh, Jason Witten is what I meant, but, um, Greg Olson, 80 targets right. Jason Witten had 80 targets last year.

So if he steps into an 80 target opportunity in terms of Ian Thomas, for the investment that you make, the floor is there. The ceiling, we don't know. Yeah. No, you're right. It's a great number to look at.

All right. So to recap, Bryce Love may be down. Look, you don't know. Week one, he might not be active. So we got that report. So Bryce Love may be stocked down a little bit. Still worth it, like a flyer, right, though? Still long term. That same buddy of mine, I told him some of the guys to look for late in the salary cap, and he got Bryce Love and Josh Kelly. He also got James Conner. So he sent me a picture of his roster this morning he said should i drop anybody for

benny snell who's another guy getting some hype as clearly the second guy he's he's passed anthony mcfarlane if there was any concern and i said no you just wait you know obviously connor's not getting hurt hopefully in the next two weeks um to see what happens and so then this report comes out and he texted me he goes should i drop bryce love yet and no don't try don't drop bryce love because adrian peterson's 35 and antonio gibson is still a work in progress but they like jd mckissick apparently and so uh i think bryce love is somebody that you still take late but maybe not in the you know 10 round 9 to 10 range where I think he was starting to go. All right, Josh Kelly on the rise,

and Jamie's looking at Chris Hearn and Blake Jarwin, Mike Kosicki as a group of tight ends if he doesn't get one of his top eight to take a look at Leighton drafts and maybe draft two of them. There you go. There's one of my five draft tips. Draft two tight ends. All right, you know what?

I have a tight end draft tip as well, actually, Jamie, and it's very similar. I'm calling it greater late. And this is based on just all the drafts we've done and what I found myself doing. And I really like Mark Andrews, and I want to take him. I think I'm more likely to take him in a two-wide receiver league, but every league we play in now is three receivers and a flex.

So I feel like when Mark Andrews is being taken round four or five, I'm really building out my wide receivers, my starters, and my depth at that point, rounds four and five. So I haven't been able to get them. So like, kiddo Kelsey in round two

at some point. I'm all about that. I've been doing that. If I don't do that, it just seems like not necessarily intentionally. It just happens this way. I'm getting,

the guy I love to get is Hayden Hurst. And then if not Hayden Hurst, then we're talking Noah fan, Blake Jarwin, that group, and maybe taking two of them. So for me,

it's been greater late. I haven't been messing around with the Evan Ingram, Hunter Henry, Darren Waller group. And it's not like I think they stink and their bus is just, I'm really worried about other positions at that point in the draft. Uh, so I couldn't agree more. A hundred percent.

I would throw Zach Ertz in the Andrews and higher group. If you get Ertz in round five, it's worth it, depending on what your first four picks have been. But I'm with you. I'm not reaching for Waller. I'm not reaching for Ingram. I'm not reaching for Ingram. I'm not reaching for Hunter Henry. I'm certainly not reaching for Tyler Higbee. He terrifies me. You know, it's one of those,

I have him ranked basically for fear of missing out more so than I do in terms of a confidence play. But I think, you know, it's hard to overlook what he did his last five games. So if that guy shows up to any level, he's going to be a top 10 tight end. Gronk is the one that I just kind of decided I'm out on. So I put him behind those guys. But yeah, I'm

with you. I think it's just one of those scenarios of take two of them and play it out. I was really... You took Blake Jarn in our IDP draft, right? I took Travis Kelsey in the second round. And then this is such a deep draft. There's 20, there's 30 spots or whatever.

There's a ton of bench spots. So yeah, I took Jarvin. And I think I called you an expletive in the chat. Yes, you did, yeah. Because I was going to pair him with Evan Ingram, who I got at a good price. You know, so if you get one of those guys at a good price, take it. So let's talk about that.

Let's talk about what that good price is because this really changes, for me, two receiver versus three receiver or like one flex versus two flex. If you have to start three receivers in a flex or let's say it's two receivers but you're playing with two flexes, that is where I think I'm in this greater late strategy

where I'm probably out on the mid-round tight ends. But if I'm in a two-receiver league, I guess I'm really intrigued by Darren Wall. I guess I'm just more likely to go for the tight end in rounds four through eight or something like that. Do you have a range? Where did you take Evan Ingram yesterday, for example? It's such a hard draft to compare because the defensive guys are going,

but I think I got him like round 10. It was something silly like that. All right. I think the thing you got to gauge is, for me, it's, okay, when I get to the point of when I see it's like Jarvis Landry, Julian Edelman, I don't want to put Marvin Jones in that category, but you know those type of receivers that are the number three receivers, the ceiling may be a little bit capped.

The floor is fine, but you know, are you looking for a difference making player? And then it's the quarterbacks. And in some cases when we get, this is usually in the round six range, some cases you still have Watson, Wilson or Murray on the board. So I would lean that way. But when the quarterbacks are gone and that's the group of receivers and the running backs are in the, uh, Marlon Mack,

carry on Johnson, uh, you know, maybe still JK Dobbins, you know, those types of guys, the dolphins guys. And I look at it and I say, okay, what's the best play for me at that point? Then is when I pull the trigger on Ingram or Waller or Henry if they're still there. Okay. All right. Great stuff. That's when I buy into that group. What I would like to do is wait another round and get Hayden Hurst, personally.

Okay. Great. Do you want me to go or do you want you to go with another tip? Go ahead. You can go. All right. The strength of the fantasy draft appears to be the rounds three through five wide receivers. And you should keep that in mind with your first two picks. But I think in terms of where is any position particularly the strongest, rounds three through five wide receivers,

there are probably a dozen of them who have a chance to be top 10 some have a chance to be top five it kenny galladay alan robinson mike evans juju smith schuster cooper cup robert woods and then you know a little bit later lockett metcalf mclaurin charke you want to be in on that run and that's why i don't really see why you shouldn't take at least one running back with one of your first two picks. Basically, my drafts are dictated by the fact that I know I'm going to come away with... Odell Beckham

is in that group of wide receivers I love in rounds three to five. It's amazing. It really is amazing. I think we're going to end up seeing guys like McLaurin, Sutton, Chark, Diggs for sure, late round five and in some cases round six. And look, A.J. Green's practicing again.

If you want to buy in on him, T.Y. Hilton. If you want to buy in on him, round six. I mean, that's probably where they're going to end up. Keenan Allen around five, especially PPR. That's still not bad especially with all the targets you can get so i'll give you an example we talked about this with the draft you did i think it was our our snickers mock draft i think you went julio and drake right at 12 i'm not mistaken yep ppr so i had a decision to make in the idp draft and so this we can actually talk about the offense guys i had the 10th pick and davante adams was there that's what i took but i was i was debating because

mile sanders was still there and i was like you know i don't have any shares of davante adams yet because i've been going running back running back so i'm like okay uh sanders is still on the board drake's still on the board jacob's still on the board uh eckler chubb all on the board i said i don't think i'm gonna miss on one of those guys guys. Let me take Adams at 10 and see which running back comes back to me. It was Austin Eckler. Had I taken Sanders, and let's just say it felt the same way, Eckler or Chubb because Chubb went after Eckler, taking those two guys.

I took Calvin Ridley in round three, so let's say he would have been my number one receiver. Then I took Jonathan Taylor in round four. Instead of taking Jonathan Taylor, I could have taken Cooper Cupp or Robert Woods. I feel like I like that start better. As much as I love Devontae Adams. Right.

So, yeah, just keep that in mind. Those rounds three, four, five wide receivers, it's just loaded this year. My draft day tip number three. So I've got so far greater late at tight end. Strength of draft appears to be the rounds of three to five wide receivers. Number three, draft at least two year two wide receivers. I'm a big believer in this. I said that one.

I wish. And Jamie, and year three wide receivers too. Young wide receivers, but year two wide receivers, it's not hard to do. It starts with A.J. Brown, Terry McLaurin, D.K. Metcalf, Marquise Brown, Deontay Johnson. If you miss out on all of them, Darius Slayton, Debo Samuel, Paris Campbell.

If you're in a super deep league, Myles Boykin's getting some hype. What is this based on? All right, just look at the last three years. Michael Thomas had a great rookie year. He was even better in his second year, 104 catches, over 1,200 yards. Tyreek Hill was wide receiver 22 in ADP,

and he finished as wide receiver nine. He had almost 1,200 yards and seven touchdowns. Robbie Anderson was wide receiver 57 in ADP that year, and he finished as wide receiver 18. The next year, Juju Smith-Schuster was a mid-round pick. He was wide receiver 18 in ADP. He finished with 1,400 yards and seven touchdowns, wide receiver eight. Kenny Galladay, Chris Godwin, they were not top 50 picks in ADP. They both had really solid years. Galladay had over 1,000 yards. Cooper Kopp had a huge second year, but it got cut short with the ACL.

And then obviously last year, DJ Moore, DJ Char, Cortland Sutton, Michael Gallup, Calvin Ridley. These year two guys are breaking out. Try to get at least two of them. That's number three. And, you know, I obviously... No, I was going to say, I talk a lot about the third-year receivers,

but it's a building process. Yeah. You know, so when they have these good second years, sometimes they have a better third year, but, you know, you want to get in on it when it's on the rise, especially if you're talking about, like, some keeper league implications.

You know, if you could get a guy with a mid round pick and then he blows up and you have him at that value going into year three, when hopefully even gets a little bit better. Sure. Yeah. Year two and year three for wide receivers are big breakout years. I'm going to, I'm going to piggyback off that with something similar, but not about the second year wide receivers. And this is something we talk about a lot. Don't be afraid of, this is a tip. Don't be afraid of league winning guys if they have a bad track record, but the situation is good. And you know the guy I'm going to talk about

and that's Will Fuller. Oh, I didn't know who you were going to talk about. It's not just him in particular, but it's guys that, you know, Marquise Brown, for example, Deontay Johnson, for example. I know you mentioned those two guys in particular, but they have scenarios at play with them that you look at and say, can they be league winning type of guys?

Will Fuller, obviously with the injury situation, Marquise Brown, are they going to throw enough? Is he big enough to be a number one type of guy? Deontay Johnson, is he the second guy? Is he the fourth guy? You know, Chase Claypool's having a good camp and James Washington's been there and Johnson's been in this, in this, you know, injury situation that he's been, you know, for a few days. Deebo Samuel is, and when I say league winner, it doesn't have to be a top 10 guy, but somebody that you could end up like, like Robbie Anderson, for example, you said the 57th player off the board. Yeah, a few years ago. Top 18 player by the end of the season, right? It's those type of guys that you could just say, I'm starting them every week and I paid nothing for them. I,

I got them at, at reasonable prices. Now we'll floor is not a reasonable price in round seven or eight, depending on how far he goes. But if he hits to the level that I think he could, and a lot of people think he could, he's going to be a top 10 wide receiver. So yeah.

Who, so who else is in this, is in this group? Like Nicole Hardman maybe? Right. Those guys need injuries. I'm just talking about guys that don't need injuries. But yeah, I mean

Chase Edmonds is a good one. Tony Pollard, Alexander Madison. You know, you want these guys on your roster. You got to be patient in some cases with these running backs, but if they hit, they're great. I was more looking at the guys that with these you know running backs but if they hit they're they're great i'm i was more looking at the guys that are you know uh because the counter argument to that is uh will fuller's always hurt deontay johnson what's roles he's gonna play you know and and

maybe i'm playing off of comments from my colleagues you know dave's not a will fuller guy because the injury track record he's not a deontay johnson guy because he sees a crowded receiving court you know those those type of counter arguments to these type of players. Yeah, right. It's all about cost for sure. Okay, here's another tip from me. Round six for QBs three through six.

It feels like the... Remember what happened yesterday, by the way? How did you not comment on that with Kyler Murray? By comments? That you wanted Kyler Murray? My comments? That you wanted Kyler Murray? You didn't see those? That I am true? I said, okay, I want to, like about four picks before me,

before I was up, I said to you, I want to draft Kyler Murray so badly, like more than I've ever wanted to draft a player at a particular spot ever. And then I said, one more pick all in caps. And then right before I went, Jake Sealy took Kyler Murray. I didn't see the lead up to it. I just saw the whole thing. So it was hard to get the gist of what you were doing. I wrote, I literally can't even. Yeah. So I don't know how realistic it is. They're going, it seems at round five, The Dak, Russell, Deshaun, Kyler group.

But to me, round five, fine. And maybe this is another two-receiver versus three-receiver, two-flex versus one-flex thing. I think, Jamie, as you do more drafts, especially ones that count, you figure out the players that you really, really like. And it's Kyler Murray for me. Obsessed with him. I might have to start taking him in round five. I Kyler Murray for me, uh, obsessed with him.

I might have to start taking him in round five. I don't necessarily want to, but I might have to, but if I can get them in round six, it's a no brainer. I don't even care what my team looks like. Uh, it's a no brainer. That's the, that's the range for range for me, round six for those four quarterbacks. So Prisco spoke to some people out in Arizona and they're just over the moon for him that he's first one in last one out, put on some weight, you know, muscle and really connecting with Hopkins, uh, in that same conversation, he, you know, Pete said there, there, they told him, you know, Hopkins is doing a good job, but don't expect 150 targets.

Um, and then my last tip would be prepare for injuries. And I think this is really pandemic related. Prepare for absences due to COVID, but also what Vic Fangio said about all the soft tissue injuries that his team has had more in like eight days of this year's camp than all of training camp, preseason,

and like OTAs combined, or whatever he said. But in baseball, pitchers are dropping like flies. Have we settled on the amount of IR spots that we should tell people? No. Three, five? Well, the tricky thing for me is who goes on the IR? Anyone who's injured or just COVID?

The way I've done my leagues is COVID related absences, because I think it's just such a weird situation that we're going to deal with for the first time and short-term IR. So like, you know, don't, I'm not going to make somebody, if we're going to put an IR spot out there, you know, somebody misses eight games, they can hold them. Yeah. Okay. And, you know, keep keeper leagues and whatnot. They can put IR guys on that them. Yeah. Okay. And, you know, keep keeper leagues and whatnot. They can put IR guys on, on that spot.

Yeah. But I don't usually do with keeper leagues. Dynasty is different. I do think we might see more injuries this year, just because of the lack of preseason, the lack of contact. And this is a total guess is a total guess, but you know,

I'll give you, I'll give you the running back group I have from yesterday's draft, which, keep in mind, there's really not much on waivers because it's such deep benches. I took Alvin Kamara in round one. I took Ronald Jones, I think, in round five. I took Cam Akers. Did you save off of that one?

I did, actually, yes. I took Cam Akers. Then I took Daryl Henderson, Latavius Murray to back up Camara, Alexander Madison as a long shot, and I think that's it. So I have the Saints backfield. I have two of the Rams guys. I have Ronald Jones, and I have Alexander Madison. But I wanted to give myself a little Camara insurance,

a little Rams insurance, so I'm drafting backups. And I have Alexander Madison if the most injury-prone running back in the first round happens to get injured in this year, which I think will have a little Rams insurance. So I'm drafting backups. And I have Alexander Madison, if the most injury-prone running back in the first round happens to get injured in this year, which I think will have a lot of injuries. Yeah, no. I did the same thing by taking Darrington Evans. I kind of have a little buyer's remorse on Bryce Love. Not that I took him high, but I still drafted

him. And I also handcuffed Jonathan Taylor with Marlon Mack, just in the standpoint of, if Taylor is not getting the workload that I hope, I can plug Mack in there, just in the standpoint of if Taylor's not getting the workload that I hope I can plug Mack in there, especially at the start of the season. So I think I've got six tips total then. Let's see if we're missing anything.

We have our sort of shared tight end strategy. We're calling it greater late. Again, if you get a mid-round guy at the right spot, that's fine. You've got the round three to five wide receivers should kind of dictate your draft. Draft your two guys and your three wide receivers. That's three tips.

Number four was don't be afraid of league winning guys with bad track records, but have good situations like a Will Fuller. Round six for QBs three through six, especially Kyler Murray. That was tip number five. The especially Kyler Murray was my thing. I don't want to speak for Jamie there.

And prepare for injuries. That's my sixth tip. Anything else? I mean, I'll just say something we've said for years is, you know, wait on quarterback. And you can find two of Ben Roethlisberger, who is getting rave reviews, Jared Goff, who should play better than he did last year. If you especially take out those four games against just amazing defenses and he pooped the bed, um, Daniel Jones,

Matthew Stafford, who is the number three quarterback or top three quarterback in points per game before his injury. There's just so many guys that are good. Uh, you don't have to reach for a quarterback early. So if you don't get one of the super six guys and Mahomes and Lamar Jackson may go in round one in your league. Speaking of which I have two father son drafts this weekend. My eight year old is going into year four and he wants to take Lamar Jackson

in round two. And my five-year-old is doing it for the first time. And he wants to take Patrick Mahomes in round one. So it's going to be a fun conversation as I teach them the ways of the fantasy world. But you can get great quarterback play late. It happens all the time. Yeah, it does.

All the time. Yep. And, you know, Mahomes was amazing in 2018. We don't know what would have happened if he'd never got the ankle injury or the knee injury. But you know what? Injuries happen. And it could happen to a guy that you draft in the first round

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Must be legal drinking age. Back with your news and notes, and then we'll get to your questions. So Saquon Barkley and Sterling Shepard, they said they haven't ruled out sitting out games in response to the Jacob Blake shooting. We're, of course, seeing that in all the other sports around the country. And if this happens, I don't think it would be exclusive to one team. So I'm not sure Jamie, what to, what to make of this right now. I don't think it's going to change anyone's draft strategy, but we did get some questions about it. So I

thought I'd bring it up. Any, any fantasy spin on it? No, no, no. I mean like, uh, no, no, no fantasy spin. You know what? I'm not going to make you answer that. Just look. I wouldn't let any social situations dictate how you're drafting because you said it best. If it's going to be to one team, it's going to be to every team and the players have a right to do what they want to do. So treat your drafts, non-injury related scenarios as you would prior to any of this thought getting into your head. Yeah, and I'm sorry for phrasing that in such an inelegant way. My least favorite part of this is addressing these nationalists,

which has been 2020 summed up. So look, I support these actions and I hope we can make things better out there. Jamie spoke to Adam Johns who covers the bears for the athletic. And what did he tell you? So we touched on, you know, clearly, uh, the, the, the big topics of the bears this week in this training camp, uh, with David Montgomery's injury, he said, you know, two to four weeks, they're still hopeful to get him back for week one, but he doesn't expect it to be a long-term injury. And when he does come back, you know, he said prior to the injury, they were looking at him as a, and this is a reporter,

clearly a 275 carry guy. You know, he said he didn't think 300 carries, but you know, he's looked really good in training camp. And so it's a unfortunate setback for a guy who I thought was going to have a bounce back campaign. So I don't know what you guys talked about on Thursday's show or Friday show, excuse me, following the injury, but I think he's still a guy that I'm going to look for round seven in PPR round eight. If it falls that way, round six to seven in non or half PPR, because it's not a long-term absence and he still should be the guy for the

bears unless they make a transaction over the next couple of days. But it doesn't sound like that's going to be the case in terms of Alan Robinson. He said the bears are just being cautious with his ankle injury, but he also said that if he's not back soon, you guys start to worry a little bit about week one. So just keep that in the back of your mind with Allen Robinson. I have dropped Robinson a couple of spots just because, you know, you compare him to that group of Mike Evans, Juju, the Rams guys, you know,

so he's in that mix. I put him behind Mike Evans, for example, in PPR, I had Evans a couple of spots behind him. And then the quarterback one was the most interesting. And he said he expects, even though Foles is kind of taking a little bit of a lead right now, that he expects Trubisky to be the starter week one, which I'm sure will make Heath Cummings happy. But he also said that they're going to have a scrimmage this weekend that could determine maybe who pulls ahead of the other guy. And the thing that he was sort of alluding to is it's easier to start Trubisky and then pull him as opposed to starting foals and then pulling him

because, you know, if, if you go that route, at least you're giving Trubisky the opportunity to say, we gave you one more shot and you failed again, but he brought up, you know, the relevancy of the quarterbacks coach of John D Filippo, who was with Nick foals and Jackson, and that influence that he may have. Especially, you know, Nagy also has a relationship with Foles previously. Ty Johnson. Remember him? He has been seeing some first-team reps for the Lions with DeAndre Swift sidelined.

So it's running back Ty Johnson. I don't think we're drafting Ty Johnson, right? No, but you've got to be a little bit concerned about Swift now. Because this is a young player who is missing time. And if the talk is play him in passing situations, that's where he needs the work. So I'm concerned.

I think if you're debating, and I know we've had this conversation with Ben Gretsch, if you're debating Cam Akers, DeAndre Swift, to me, it's easy at this point. I'm taking Cam Akers. What Cam Akers, DeAndre Swift, to me, it's easy at this point. I'm taking Cam Akers. What about David Montgomery or DeAndre Swift? I'm taking Swift because I still think that there's more upside with him.

PPR. Non-PPR, I would take Montgomery. Okay. And Devin Singletary, boy, he's had some fumbling issues, according to The Athletic. It's funny because we're not there, we're not at practice, but it just feels like there have been a lot of negative reports about Singletary. But there's also been some hype, and it's easy to forget just how good he was last year. I mean, per carry, he was incredible. He did catch some passes.

I know he wasn't great in the passing game, but he had a decent amount of catches. He had a ton of carries. I mean, he was one of the biggest workhorses, Devin Singletary, to end the season. And then he got a lot of work in the playoff game. So I'm wondering if he's going to start falling so far where it's going to be good value. But when are you going to take Devin Singletary to end the season. And then he got a lot of work in the playoff game. So I'm wondering if he's going to start falling so far where it's going to be good value. But when are you going to take Devin Singletary? I have right now in my rankings, non-PPR, because I'm just staring at it.

Singletary, Montgomery, Zach Moss. That's how close they are for me right now. Okay. So I'm not taking Singletary yet. The earliest, earliest mid-round six. All righty. Well, let's regulate.

Send us your questions, fantasy regulators in the subject line to fantasyfootball at cbsi.com. This is from Neil. Keeper League debate requires your influence. Our commissioner recently decided two weeks ago to put our league on

hold until next season. The issue at hand is that there were trades made and approved over the to put our league on hold until next season. The issue at hand is that there were trades made and approved over the summer while our league was still operating as if we were playing in 2020. The question is, should these trades be honored when the league returns for the 2021 season, or should the commissioner rescind the trades? For what it's worth, one team gave up A.J. Brown and Kareem Hunt and got back DeAndre Hopkins and I'm guessing

Derek, I don't know, Henry, he just said. So, Jamie, these trades were made, the season was canceled, put on hold until 2021. Should the trades stand? Yes. Because you made the trades before the league was decided to put on hold. I'm going to disagree

with you. I'm going to say this. I'm going to take the bridge here. Resend the trades and let them, if they want to do it again, knowing the situation, they can do it again. Why not? It's your choice.

Personally, I'd resend the commissioner and play the league out. Yeah, what the hell? Why are people doing this? This is really upsetting me for obvious reasons. Don't cancel the league. I have a league that I started several years ago. And there's, I think, three teams that two people share a team.

Two of the teams are two brothers. And another one is two friends. And one of the friends decided he didn't want to play the league this year and suggested, let's put the league on hold. And I was like, there's no way. I mean, it's just, if they're playing football, we're playing fantasy. If you don't want to do the league, don't do the league. I can't force you to do it.

He's the only person that I've heard. My brother's league is not playing this year. They're convinced the season's not going to finish, from what I understand. He's the only person that I've heard. My brother's league is not playing this year. They're convinced the season's not going to finish from what I understand. I think that it will finish. I'm more optimistic now than I was. If baseball is finishing. Well, but here's the thing about baseball.

First of all, baseball is finishing before flu season. And baseball is able to cancel games and make them up. That is my one question for football. If baseball gets two guys on a team or two guys in an organization, for example, test positive like the Mets last weekend. They canceled their entire weekend series. So they took basically four days off, I think. I don't know what happens with football. I was curious why they didn't say, all right, let's play a 12-game season and let's do it in 17 weeks and give ourselves some buffer. I think football is going to have to have lower or higher standards for canceling games

because like if two people in an organization in football have COVID, you can't just cancel the game. If you do, then we're in trouble. But the testing is getting a little bit better. There's a big development yesterday. I'm more optimistic now that they're going to finish it. But this is why I just say like like, just, like, have rules. Start your fantasy season.

If it gets canceled, then have rules about what happens in terms of payouts. Right. You can figure that out. The other part of it is, and I think this is something that is just purely, you know, conspiracy theory, but football has always kind of wanted to get to president's weekend and have that Monday off. I wouldn't be surprised if they're in their mind banking in, if they had to push back the playoffs a few weeks, I guess.

Yeah. I mean, I guess they could keep extending it. Sure. Yeah. It's done this season. All right. You know what?

Let's get to the questions here. We've got a lot of them. Let's start with Apple podcast questions. Play your league. Play. Start with Apple podcast questions. Player League. Yeah, Player League. From a small town in northeastern Massachusetts. I'm sorry,

I don't have this person's name. That's my bad. Okay. Keep the podcast coming. It helps me get through my crappy work days. Pick nine in a 10-team full PPR two-keeper startup league.

I'm hoping Clyde Edwards-Hilaire falls to me and I can grab Jacobs with pick 12. If Clyde Edwards-Hilaire does not fall to me at the ninth pick in a startup keeper league, PPR, who do you recommend grabbing with my first pick? So you're hoping for Edwards-Hilaire. Yeah, I mean, any of the young running, Miles Sanders would be great.

Josh Jacobs would be great. Yeah. I'm just trying to think like, you know, this, this is something we probably don't say enough of Nick Chubb next year without Kareem hunt there. Yeah.

That's top five upside. Mixing these things. You think mixing, or is he like a little too old? I don't think he's too old, but Mixon, this whole thing with the migraines is starting to make me a little nervous. Because of the contract?

Yeah, I don't think it's migraines. But in any event... How about Jonathan Taylor? Is Jonathan Taylor worth... When you asked me, the first place I went to was actually J.K. Dobbins. That's way too soon for those guys because you want to be competitive this year.

But I think Jacobs, Chubb, Sanders, all three of those guys are probably the trio I would look for. And if you can get two of them, especially since you're picking at the back end of round one, that's where I would look. This is from Nick in California. I just drafted a 10-team league. I'm not comfortable with my last two picks,

Alan Lazard and Robbie Anderson. Should I drop one of them for Brady, Ryan, Wentz, even though I have Lamar Jackson? I would probably drop Robbie Anderson for one, and then should A, Jackson get hurt, or B, one of those guys has a blow-up game,

try and trade them. If those quarterbacks are available, you said 18 league? 10 team league, Wentz, Ryan, Brady available. So I'd go look to see if Josh Kelly was available first. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'm not sure Lazard needs to be owned in a 10 team league. One thing we don't talk about is like,

yeah, you may not need Brady, Ryan, or Wentz, but it's not a horrible idea to keep those guys away from your opponents so you don't have to play against them. So I would definitely drop Robbie Anderson. I might drop both guys. This is something that you run into with 10-team leagues and in some cases if you have a really good 12-team draft or salary cap scenario. So our salary cap league, I don't know if you guys talked about this.

My team, I took a very balanced approach. And my two worst players right now are Mike Gusecki and Jared Goff. When am I going to drop those guys if they play well? I can't. Yeah, I've had that issue before with the quarterback. It's like, I need another position. I have to drop him. He's so good. It's like, right. I can't, I just, I need another position. I have to drop him. He's so good. Right. It's weird. So like you, you run more so in 10 team leagues, like you run into

those scenarios in 10 team leagues. Like who am I cutting? Oh my gosh. This case, it's not so hard, but I think if you're going to drop, like I would, I would probably hold Lazard just in case. Sure. He does have top 30 upside. Cause I think he does. Um. But Robbie Anderson, I think it's going to be hard for him in that offense to be consistently good. Let's now pick it up. Here we go. From Jim in Detroit, how much does running back ranking change when rushing points are

1.5 points for 10 yards? A ton. It's a PPR league. And that's receiving too? No, he just said rushing. Yeah, I mean, you want the guys that are going to be in the rushing leading category for sure. So, you know, Derek Henry is a little better in that department.

Nick Chubb is better in that department. This is like ridiculous. But this is where you prioritize somebody. Just at the top, you prioritize Zeke over Kamara. I mean, I'm not taking a wide receiver. I'm taking any running back. Okay, any running back that could get 1,000 yards, that's like 1,500 yards in normal scoring.

Right, but it could be the same for the receivers. Well, he didn't say that. He said rushing points are 1.5 yards. It's a PPR league. Right, but okay, so in this case, Austin Eckler gets downgraded even though it's PPR. Behind who, though? Chubb, for example.

In PPR, he goes ahead of Chubb. But to me, Nick Chubb ahead of Michael Thomas. Again, unless the receivers get one and a half. Unless the receivers get. The way I interpret this is what changes for the backs. Yeah.

Okay. From WakeUp23, how do you determine draft order? The one I always choose is draft order will automatically randomize one hour before your draft starts. Feel like it's fair across the league. So you don't want to give people a chance to prepare?

Yeah, I don't know. I like the randomizing, but I don't know that you need to do it just one hour before. Give people a chance to trade, a chance to prepare. Yeah, I think they should know. I would like to do it a few days out. Yeah. This is from MadAussie27.

12-team league two-keepers. AJ Brown is one keeper. Who should my second be? Boston Scott as one of my last picks, or Adam Thielen with my fourth round pick? I'd probably take Thielen, just to get that second receiver. From Jpave,

PPR, keep Juju or Mike Evans? Know your limit or penalty for rounds? Juju. Juju, okay. And from 42 God, are there any... It's just so fascinating because we don't know what's happening next year. Yeah. And they both

could have different quarterbacks next year. Are there any wide receivers with good fantasy matchups, and does this matter? Yeah, I think it matters. It matters. But, you know, I mean, again, I'll go back to it. We saw two teams in the AFC North already lose key members of their secondary, Enroll Thomas and Grant Delpit.

You know, so corners are going to get hurt. I wouldn't base my drafting solely on what the good matchups are versus what the bad matchups are. I'm familiar with wide receivers who have bad matchups. I'm thinking, okay, like, I think the AFC South is going to have some pretty bad pass defenses. So T.Y. Hilton is interesting.

I mean, at Jacksonville, Minnesota, we know their cornerback situation could be pretty ugly. The Jets, yuck. The Bears, not easy. The Browns, they just lost Greedy Williams. The Bengals. And Delpit. The Lions. The whole schedule for every Colts seems to be really favorable. Sorry, I don't have more answers for you. Time for emails. I'm going to shorten. This is a really good email here from Matt in the Bay. I'm going to shorten it and just

say this. He wants to know why people are kind of fading the 49ers other than George Kittle. Not a lot of love for Mostert. Debo's kind of a late-round pick. Nobody seems to give a thought to Jimmy Garoppolo. But they were one of the best offenses last year with Garoppolo coming off an ACL. His first year playing full-time under Kyle Shanahan.

Now they got McKinnon back. They may have upgraded at left tackle with Trent Williams. Maybe. So, yeah, I mean, what's your thought on this? Do you think that the Niners' offense is not respected enough in fantasy? Well, I mean, you have the passing game, for example, which ties in Garoppolo. Their best receiver is hurt.

How much love are we supposed to give Debo Samuel? If he's 100%, he's a top 30 wide receiver. No question. Yeah, let's talk about Garoppolo though, because we never mentioned him as a late round pick, but he just has to throw more.

You can't sit here and say, huh? He just has to throw more. But it's not just that. Why are we downgrading Aaron Rogers? His supporting cast has been stripped away. Yeah. If you take away Debo Samuel for a significant stretch, we don't know what I,

you can just going to do. Who's battling a hamstring injury right now. You can't just rely on George Kittle right now. It seems like Debo's not going to miss a lot of time. We don't know that though. He may not miss a game. I mean, they seem pretty optimistic.

He may not miss a game and he may have a seem pretty optimistic. He may not miss a game. And he may have a setback and miss several games. That's the nature of that injury. Yeah, but you, okay, you sure. But let's say Debo's back in week two or three. You know, Garoppolo, the reason why you would like Garoppolo is that even Nick Mullins, Jimmy Garoppolo, every quarterback in this San Francisco offense under Shanahan, beginning with Garoppolo three seasons ago,

and then Mullins, and then Garoppolo, they have been among the best in yards per attempt. Shanahan's a genius. They're a great offense. So if they throw more, like he doesn't, he's a statue. He doesn't run. That sucks. But he could be, yeah, sure. Throw Garoppolo in there. He could be a top 12 guy, like back end. He was 13 last year. So, you know, in terms of season production, he could be a top 12 guy, like back end. He was 13 last year. That's right. So, you know, in terms of season production, he was the 13th quarterback. He throws touchdowns. I mean, that's the nice thing about it. But to me, Garoppolo and Kirk Cousins are the same type of guy.

They're not going to hurt you, but I don't think they're going to win you your league unless something dramatically changes. And to say, I know you're reading the reports, but what are the 49ers continuing to do? Now, it could be Jalen Hurd's injury. Oh, yeah, it's a lot of injuries. They're just bringing in receivers left and right. I mean, it's pretty obvious that this is a position of need for them. Yeah.

Also, Garoppolo, it just doesn't seem like he has top five upside, and Mostert is in a timeshare. Okay, moving on. Jim in Michigan. Why does Philip Lindsay get more love than Jordan Howard? And the question is not about Jordan Howard now. It's about Jordan Howard in the past. I looked at the first few years' stats for Jordan Howard,

Alfred Morris, and Philip Lindsay. With Melvin Gordon in town, it wouldn't surprise me to see Lindsay get the same treatment that Alfred Morris and Jordan Howard got. Lindsay is in the dead zone, and I, for one, say stay away. You can. I think they're both in timeshares. And I think that Howard,

his lack of a role in the passing game, and I haven't seen this from the Dolphins, but we know it's happened in the past in Chicago and Philadelphia where they said, oh, he's going to be involved as a pass catcher. And he's never really involved as a pass catcher. Now, Matt Burrito's career high is 27 catches.

So it doesn't scream off the page that he's going to come in and be this big-time pass-catching running back. But I would anticipate, based on their skill set, that Burrito's a better pass catcher and used more in that role than Jordan Howard is. So, Lindsey, if you look last year, four of his – I think it was four of his first seven or five of his first eight games, he had at least four catches.

So, while he does not do a lot with it and his past protection may not be good, he's been getting good reviews on that this year. And maybe he takes a little bit of that away from Melvin Gordon. So they're, they're very similar ranked for me. I would, I would look at it this way in non PPR. Howard's probably got an edge because he's probably gonna leave the dolphins and rushing touchdowns in PPR. I think Lindsay has an edge.

All right. Next email is from Mike. Due to their tremendous upside, would you have any qualms about taking Clyde Edwards-Elair and Jonathan Taylor as your two starting running backs in a half PPR league? It's just you're adding risk to the scenario. But I don't know if they're...

I guess I shouldn't say that because I don't know how much risk there is with Edwards-Eeller barring injury. He's going to get the chance to be the guy. Yeah, the question is, Edward Zeller is your first round pick.

Where is, when is your Jonathan Taylor pick? Fourth round. Fourth round. Then no, absolutely not. You probably want to

take some more running backs because you may not want to start Taylor right away. But boy, you could win your league with those two guys. From Paul, I'm a commissioner in a dynasty league.

One of my league mates brought up a question and was hoping you guys can help. Sunday games are played as normal. Matchups are decided, but there's a matchup or two that have players on the Monday night game to be decided. But what happens if the Monday night game gets canceled on Monday because of COVID? What should the protocol be if that happens?

Typically, I think what we have seen with some natural disaster scenarios, hurricanes and whatnot, that our scoring goes through Tuesday. I don't know what we would do if there's a game pushback to Tuesday. For example, let's just say the NFL said we're going to play the game on Tuesday because whatever. My guess is that our system would adjust or you adjust it manually. But if the game happens in that scoring period, that's when it should count. So if they push it to Wednesday, they push it to Thursday,

and then the schedule gets altered, but it's still the week two schedule per se, I would count it the week two scoring. As far as the way baseball has been going um if a game just gets canceled like let's say the game gets canceled and then they the nfl scheduled uh some games so that teams have like common bye weeks early in the season you know you play teams that have a common bye week early in the year so like let's say uh your game gets canceled and then they these teams can make it up on a bye week. And they lose their bye week, yeah.

The way it works in fantasy baseball right now is you just get screwed. Right, that's the scoring period it becomes. That's the scoring period, and if you had the Mets last weekend and they didn't play their weekend games, it got canceled, you just didn't get the points, and that was it. It's a decision you don't have to make, and I don't have a concrete answer, but I would think that if the game gets made up

later in the year, you lose. You just don't get the points. You're basically just kind of crap out of luck. From Feast in Montclair, New Jersey. Dear Harry Lloyd and Seabass. Ben Schrager, you know that? Harry Lloyd and Seabass. Ben Schrager? You know that? Harry Lloyd and Seabass? Nope. Dumb and Dumber.

You didn't like Dumb and Dumber, right? It was okay. I didn't think it was that funny. I've been listening to you guys. Dumb and Dumber, not Dumb and Dumber, right? Is there a difference? Yes. There was a very, very bad sequel. That might have been it.

No, you watched the original one, right? It was the original. Okay, okay, good. But what was the second one when they were younger? Was that considered the sequel? I don't know. Was it a prequel? Or was the sequel the one that they did a couple years ago,

which I haven't seen? Look, man, I'm not watching any of them other than Dumb and Dumber. Like, I'm not watching any of the other ones. The originals is the only one. And it's great to have Schrager on here because his takes are worse than mine. Not true.

So, I have a chance to keep LaVisca Chenault for up to five years in my Keeper League. I'm keeping Kittle, McLaurin, and either Chenault, Gallup, or Debo. So, would you take Chenault, Gallup, or Debo. So would you take Chenault, Gallup, or Debo? And it feels like he can keep Chenault for longer than the others. Why does he have to make that decision now?

That's a draft pick? Yeah, I guess. You have to announce your keepers before the season? I guess so, yeah. That's weird. I mean, McLaurin is an easy one. No, he's keeping Kittle and McLaurin. So it's one out of

Chennault, Gallup, and Debo. I mean, Gallup could be the number one somewhere else for all we know. Who would you keep? I think it's a tough decision. I mean, if I have to make the decision now, I'm keeping Gallup.

Okay. This is from Chris. I'm in a 10-team PPR Superflex League with no spot for a tight end. They have a wide receiver slash tight end spot. With that said, where do tight ends go? When should they be

drafted if you don't have to start one? Kelsey and Kittle would be mid-round two. Kittle would be late round two, early round three. I kind of view them like where I draft wide receivers, where I have them ranked.

Well, but like, we're taking Kelsey over Hopkins, right, in a normal league. Yes. Would you do that in this league where you don't have to start a tight end? Yeah, I think he's going to put up similar type numbers.

Really? Yeah. Okay. From Joe. Salary cap draft questions. I didn't have time for all of them, Joe. I'm sorry. But how do you address your dollar values

for $200 budgets? It can't be as simple as just doubling them because there will still be dollar bids in $200 budget leagues. So it's actually a good point. You double the top guys. You might be able to spend a little bit more on the elite guys, right?

Than just doubling their values. Because you will save money with those dollar bids in a $200 league because the same guys who are going for a dollar in a $100 league are going for a dollar in a $200 league. You have a few extra bucks to spend maybe. Yes, but

I think you still look at the top guys like McCaffrey is around $35 typically in a $100 budget. Let's get one more here. Maybe it goes for $75 in a $200 budget. One more question from Russ. Basically wants to know who the best top 10 offenses

and targeting like number two and number three receivers on those teams. The Jets, Washington football team, Chicago. Yeah, the Chiefs are interesting because Kelsey's obviously their number two receiver. But the Chiefs are the best. The Chiefs, what, Cowboys, Ravens, who don't throw a lot. I mean, the 49ers have a great offense, but they just don't have a lot of great fantasy options. The Cowboys are amazing. The Saints are amazing.

Falcons. I'm going to put the Steelers back up there. The Falcons, yes. I think... See, this is where it gets fun because I think we're going to see some good offensive performances from Jacksonville and Carolina, but those aren't great skill position players in Jacksonville, for example.

I don't know that they're going to be top 10 offenses. I mean, Carolina... No, but I think they're going to throw a lot, both those two teams. Who else? Who else? The Browns? They have the potential to be. The Chargers?

I don't know now with Mike Williams' injury. Giants, Eagles? Eagles for sure. Lions? The Dillard injury is not great. Lions? Yeah, I think so. But again, we're talking passing games in this case.

Some of those teams don't run the ball very well. Bucs? Yeah. Bucs. Yeah. Bucs should. Cardinals, Rams, they have a chance. Every team in the NFC West has a chance to be top 10. We probably just listed half the league as top 10 offenses. All right.

Thanks for your emails, everybody, your Apple Podcast questions. If you're drafting this week, best of luck to you. We got another episode either Sunday night or Monday. You'll hear it Monday morning whenever we record it. So I want to thank you all. It'll be Sunday night. All right, Sunday night. Sunday night.

Have a great weekend. And remember, the Draftathon is Wednesday, 6 to midnight Eastern on HQ for two hours, on Twitch for four hours. See you later, everybody. Thanks, Jamie. Thanks, Ben. Thank you all for listening. I'm going to stop talking now.

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