Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Mock Draft Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 5/22

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

Fantasy Football show for May 22, 2025. It’s mock draft time! On-the-clock decisions and fantasy football draft tips for 2025. Find out which players standout the most at their current ADP. It’s never too early to mock draft and try different strategies! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.Get the lowest price on the 2025 UDK at UltimateDraftKit.com - Instant access to the Dynasty Pass with the UDK+ (00:00) Introduction(04:50) NFL News(11:15) Mock DraftConnect with the show:Subscribe on YouTubeVisit us on the WebSupport the ShowFollow on XFollow on InstagramJoin our Discord

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in everybody. It's mock draft time oh yeah baby oh you got me we are still back oh I didn't see that coming Mike that was a surprise and what a great time you you stepped into the void because I won't be welcoming in for a while I stepped into the void and you delivered the excitement that people have been looking forward to. I got a DM from Bruxy.

Oh boy. And he was like, I mean, you know, Christmas Carol Tiny Tim? Yeah, that's, is that Bruxy? Yeah, he was, or like all of you, he was like, please sir. He wanted it? I need it's mock draft time sir. You know what? And then he shakes his butt.

And then he shakes his butt. Yeah, yeah. The first mock draft of the season, Thursday, May 22nd, it deserves some special attention. We are degenerates, what are we doing? This mock draft is going to be outstanding today. It is filled 100%, like the three of us are in the draft. The rest of the draft is filled with staff

from the Fantasy Footballers live. So there won't be any, you know, no AI drafting in the middle of May. It's actual decisions and picks by parts of our team. And so- I'm AI in this draft, bro. We build the ADP. Yeah, this is gonna be so much fun.

I don't know what's gonna happen. I'm sure my team will look great. But it's gonna be a good time. We have other things to talk about first. We have 10 days. 10 days until. Oh my goodness. The ultimate draft kit. Ultimate Draft Kit. It has been requested, this song. I don't think we have to fulfill every request.

I haven't hit that button in a long time, Mike. You know, over the last couple of years, AI has really come a long way and that was an AI made song a couple years ago. I feel like they could do a better job. I feel like if we were to... I don't know, man. That might be the pinnacle. That was the peak of AI. You ever heard that song? Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah, 10 days until the ultimate draft kit, which means you have 10 days to get it at pre-order pricing. All of our tier-based rankings, all the customized scoring for your league. We have the ability now, you'll be

able to import your ESPN private and public leagues, your NFL leagues, Sleeper, Yahoo. We've got support for the most platforms we've ever had. We've got 100-plus player profile videos coming out. We got all our Sleepers, Breakouts, Busts, and Values figured out, consistency charts. The mobile app is outstanding. A huge shout out to our team here. Oh, busts and values figured out, consistency charts, the mobile app is outstanding, a huge shout out to our team here.

Oh man, the update that is coming, the update that is coming, by the time the Ultimate Draft Kit launches, it will be out, make sure you download the latest version of the app, it is. It's faster than it's ever been, it's more effective to be able to switch between scoring systems and to search for players and to be able to filter players and mark them, it is an extremely valuable tool. It is our, like, now you are

laughing. What's going on, Juggles? I'm laughing because I just saw a piece of poop on our set. Wait, what? Oh, come on! What is this? There was a piece of poop just sitting on the set. Oh, man, going back to Deucer's Alley. Jokesters. You know, it doesn't take much to entertain low IQ people, you know what I mean? Man, that's why Jason left.

Oh. It was a great joke. It was a good gag. Yeah, that was funny. UltimateDraftGit.com is where you want to go for that. And we do have an announcement. Hit an announcement sound. Thank you.

The dynasty week. I already did that. We did have dynasty week last week. There we go. That is three versions. We have a winner. We were giving away a signed Nico Collins jersey. The winner, gentlemen.

Oh, let me pull the tab back up. We got Max Hughes. Max, congratulations. You will be receiving a Nico Collins Jersey. Signed. Any more poop on the set? Not yet. Not yet. Oh, okay. Okay. Oh, great. This is a thing now. It's a thing that we do. Just hide poop on the show. Great. Oh gosh. It's a reason to go to YouTube I guess. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Well, well, well. I sat on the show on Tuesday. I did not think that the Tush Push ban would pass and then every single tweet and

Piece of news that we got from that moment on said it was definitely going to get banned You look real stupid and I was like, I guess I was way off and then Adam Schefter reports Today the proposed ban of the tush push did not receive enough votes at the owners meeting there Well, the last thing I had saw was that they're pulling it behind closed doors. They did. They did that. Oh, and then they voted.

And it's not passing. I believe it is a done deal. 10 teams did not vote to ban it, so they voted to keep it. I need names. Oh, I've got the names. I tweeted them out. I need names. I need to know who the true heroes are. Let me tell you who the true heroes are.

The whole division wanted it banned. Of course. Other than Philly. The NFC West wanted it banned. Of course. Other than Philly. The NFC West wanted it banned. And you know what? We're weak. Look, I will allow all NFC East people to want to ban it.

Right, yeah. That's fine. I would too. That's fine. I would be in the Cowards position and I would own it. I would say, yeah, I don't like that play. Okay, give me that. Yeah, they won the Super Bowl, I don't like that. Yeah.

Yeah, so I'll tell you who is awesome. Cause there's ten teams that banned that said we're not banning this plan We're gonna stop to play nine or men nine of those ten teams. They don't play the Eagles this year That's pretty cool, but the real juggernaut I mean the Lions the Lions are out there there they're on the schedule They got the Eagles this year and they're like, no no we're not we're not Dan Campbell is not going to stand for weeks on and Campbell man. Coming through guns. Oh my dude. My dude Dan the legend of Dan Campbell just man Campbell. It's just like kneecaps. It grows and touches. This is like is he pulp Bunyan Eagles Ravens Browns Lions Jaguars Dolphins Patriots Saints Jets and Titans said

we're going to play football and try to stop. Yes. Love it. Okay. All right. It won't go anywhere. I don't know if Mike was you know publicly it seems like you know man Campbell it's the manly thing to be pro tush push. But I think somewhere deep down with the first pick in our league of record draft and Saquon Barkley sitting there, you might have wanted it to be banned. I would have accepted it because I would have personally benefited from it, but I still did not want it to be banned.

Couple other things you can talk about real quick before we jump into the mock draft. The Titans, you know, this is more discussion from head coach Brian Callahan. He says he wants the backfield to be more of a split in 2025. A healthier division of labor between Pollard and Taji Spears. Part of the quote that I find the most interesting is he says, I think in a perfect world,

it's a healthier division of labor. Yeah, we don't live in that world. And look, Tajay Spears is fine, but Tony Pollard is a good running back. He's a better running back, which is why- So the perfect world is like, the better player needs to be on the field more. It's exactly what was- I think what he's saying is, in a perfect world, Tajay Spears would be good enough

to split 50-50. That's what I'm reading. This is not any different than the way they walked into the season last year. All the talk last year was about an even split. But then push came to shove and Tony Pollard was better and that's gonna happen. Move Pollard's ADP down and I'll take it.

Pollard was one of five running backs to average, 16 plus rush attempts and 3.5 plus targets a game. So, you know, if you're the better player, you're gonna play more. And Spears miss games with injuries so yeah this is maybe just a discount on Tony Pollard. Maybe he shows up in the values. I wouldn't like I will say I'm not gonna you know just say I guarantee it's the exact same as last year. You have to pay attention to this stuff but they did say it and it there was just there's such a difference

watching to me there's a different Michael Carter and Spears number one Michael Carter was supposed to have a big part of the yeah on the backfield with you all Kyron Williams says he's feeling good about his chances for an extension so what are we like we're like pre-extension optimism it is this is one of the most important like I would say for fantasy purposes for dynasty leagues this is the contract I've been waiting for because What happens to Kiren's value with or without this extension is monumentally different if he gets an extension I think he's a you know a top six fantasy running back

Who's young enough with several more years to play for a good team if he doesn't get it, he's probably gonna hit the free agency market next year and get replaced and become pretty irrelevant on some other team. We, I did not know this. This is news to me. I did not see this announcement. The Buffalo Bills will be featured on the 2025 edition of Hard Knocks. I like it. That'll be fun. Mm-hmm. And I guess they want me to tell you that Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel will take the number one and number two reps for the Browns Okay, that's not really a shock for me when OTA is up. Well Flacco's not yeah. I list. Yeah, I've heard he may be moving on. Mm-hmm I've heard I've heard he may be a trade candidate for a team that needs a

Real backup. Yeah, because they didn't, I don't think they anticipated the double up in the draft of taking two guys and then they traded for Kenny Pickett. But I guess just, I mean, in the order of things, I would expect the guy who got their first picket to get the first opportunity and then the draft pick higher than Trudeau or Sanders to get the second one.

But if Flacco left, I mean, the door's even more open for one of these rookies to be the starting quarterback at some point during this season. I think we know. It will be really hard. Like I tried to stack Kenny Pickett for 17 games because I believed that that was who they brought in

to be the starter. That is, you know, who will be their primary quarterback. But then the more I dug into it I'm like there's just no way this team with their projected win total with Kenny Pickett's That he can play 17. They're gonna lose too many games. They've got two rookies behind him I just don't see a world where he succeeds enough any other news back there anymore poop on the set No, sir. It sir. Funny clowns over there in Deucers Alley. Okay well it's time let's do it.

The fantasy footballers mock draft. Well, well, well, it is it's time. Maka laka ding dong. Twelve team half PPR. Draft mock draft. We've got one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, one flex, four bench spots. I am drafting at the two spot today, Mike at the three Jason down near the turn at pick 11. But like I said, all the spots are filled with live drafters here from

the fantasy footballers team so we're gonna get right into it and the first pick off the board the Falcon has the pick and Jamar Chase is gone number one okay that puts me on the clock and I think my selection here, tush push or not, will go safe Quan. Say Quan Barkley is very safe and I will take say Quan Barkley here at the 102 and get it off to a smooth start and put Mike in a different position. At the 103, I'm already, like I,

cause I have not mock drafted yet. Please tell me you're tilting. No, I'm not tilted. tilted I've just it's like a oh this is an actual real decision now that I'm I'm looking at it because I got CMC is my RB one but we all and you're not gonna drop them in the second round we all know the risk yeah if I want them

I got to take him here and it's like Bijan's my two mm-hmm now that I actually have to make that selection and inherit the risk that is Christian McCaffrey, am I willing to do it? It is certainly hard. And I mean, he's not even close in ADP, but he won't make it back.

Well, I mean, that is part of the risk rating versus you're projecting Christian McCaffrey in the UDK for a full season. But there is a risk factor to Christian McCaffrey that you've ranked higher than Dijon. 100%. And so that is still a decision to be made. That's why we say you factor all those elements in

when you're making the draft pick, not just the order of operations. How are you gonna build your team? What are you looking at risk-wise down the line? Yep, and upside and Andy you you were talking about on the I think Tuesday show and I'm with you of like looking over the 49ers schedule. It's Tuesday. That's like that's a schedule that they should be really winning games and like I don't see a way I'm just I'll stop talking I'm

taking Christian McCaffrey. Oh! I'm gonna do it. Wow. Part of that decision of like Brock Purdy's there the extensions in it's like and I was voicing I have some concerns about Michael Pennex You know like Bijan is still gonna be great in all but it do we get into week seven and we're like man Pennex doesn't have enough to make this offense really hum and it's hurting Bijan It will be fascinating I would have taken Bijan at two over Saquon. That was one of the things I was surprised about coming into the off season. It was like, okay, Saquon's going to be the number one

running back, you know, what he just did 2,000 yards, rushing all of the rushing touchdowns, the great offense, running it back with all the same personnel. And, um, but when, when the stats fell, I had Bijan in my number one spot. He projects to catch so many more passes than Saquon. And also there is a little bit, to me, Bijan is

the least risky. I know that- I agree. I think he does. He feels like he's the safest, but his true ceiling to me doesn't feel like Saquon or Christian McCaffrey. I agree with that. We know the explosive place. We know that Saquon brings you game-winning, or week-winning weeks. I just looked at the numbers by the way. I have 274 fantasy points in a half-point league projected for Saquon and I have 275 for Bijon. I have them literally neck and neck. I said I think Saquon's safer to me because of the Pinnix variable by a little bit. That's why I went that way. Both guys belong there. After Mike went with CMC, that meant Bijon dropped

to four. Then Jefferson off the board. C.D. Lamb at 106, Gibbs drops to seven. Do you think Gibbs will be higher than that in the majority of drafts? Yeah, I mean, he's gonna be in this range. Yeah, anywhere from five to seven, because Jefferson and Lamb, I don't blame anyone for starting the draft with one of those two guys. It'll just be, how do you prefer to build. So Gibbs at seven, Derek Henry off the board at 108. Wow. He

just signed a new two-year extension. He did. It doesn't really seem like there's a way for Henry to have a disappointing year to me. I think Henry is very safe. Pukunakua goes 109 ahead of Amon Ra St. Brown. Amon Ra goes at 110 and Jason you're on the clock here as we get through the first round. Five wide outs off the board, five running backs off the board. Are you asking AI what to do here? I see you typing over there. Yeah, no. I know who I want to take for sure. So we have a situation here. I see him. I don't know if you know how to type. So we can all...

Jason, let's just announce it. I'm bringing it up. Yeah. Jason is very easy. He's trying to buy time because he cannot find Ashton Gentry, which means he cannot spell... No! He's just sitting there I'm looking right at him you found him didn't you he just he just he just popped back in I refreshed it he's there now I was on the wide receiver tab oh he's not gonna be in there I'm like I know I know there's an eight over your I know it's a gente But there's an a and if you ever try this this would have been amazing if you had to draft a different player That would have been the best possible. I'm down guys. I can't find him

Yeah, I think this is a spot where he will go in August. I mean I could see him climb up But it was great. I can see him going For yeah, yeah He might but I some people are just gonna be like there's gonna be a lot of leagues where he's at the back of the first I mean, I could see him climb up. Oh, that was great. I can see him going four. Yeah, he might. But some people are just going to be like. There's going to be a lot of leagues where he's at the back of the first. And I think that value is astronomical.

Because McCaffrey will not go at the three in, I think, most leagues. I bet McCaffrey's true ADP will be like the second half of the first round. Unless you keep taking them this high, and maybe you drive it up. But Ashton Gentry to Jason eventually at the 111. Josh Jacobs off the board at 112. I have Josh Jacobs ranked very high

in my running back rankings. I have him ahead of Christian McCaffrey and Bucky Irving and those guys. I think that Jacobs will for a lot of, be one of the highest value picks because he just drops. This is just what he does. And I'm not surprised Brooks is the one that took him at 112, because Brooks has always been a Jacobs believer. And, you know, he's the motor on that offense. He's going to score double digit touchdowns, I think. So Jacobs goes at 112, Nico Collins at 201, and Jason back on the clock, hopefully with a simpler to spell

name. Yeah, it should be pretty easy to find this one. I know where I'm going. I will say this. I have Malik Neighbors and Brian Thomas Jr. available to be drafted here. Brian Thomas Jr. I have so high. He's my wide receiver four. He's ahead of Malik Neighbors in my personal rankings. Both would be excellent picks here. However, I think that I'm gonna take that positional advantage. I'm gonna draft Brock Bowers. You know, I've been saying this all season. You are team raiders.

Yeah, sure. I mean, I think both of those players are going to be complete difference makers. And if you've got them at the, you know, there are years where, you know, if you had Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Belt, you're fine. And this projects that way for me because there's not a lot of other people on the roster I'm fearful of.

So Brock Bowers at the 202, neighbors, Brian Thomas and T. Higgins back to back to back off the board after Bowers. And then Jonathan Taylor at 206. AJ Brown goes off the board after Bowers. And then Jonathan Taylor at 206. AJ Brown goes off the board to Betsy. Betsy has Lamb and AJ Brown. Oh man, no T. And so the wide receiver position all filled up. And then Trey McBride goes off the board at 208.

Okay. Look, had he been sitting there for either of us, Mike, I'm sure we would have Very strongly considered, yes. Fought about Trey McBride in the second round here but we'll take a break before Mike and I make our second round selections first round I went Barkley Mike with CMC Jason with Gentie all went running backs I don't know how often we end up that way in these mocks but all running backs in the first round and we'll be back in

just a second. All right Mike you are back on the clock. Christian McCaffrey was the first round pick at 103. Devon Achan just went off the board at 209 to producer Borland himself. What's your thought process right now? So the wide receiver run has changed where, how I'm looking at this. I would have hoped a higher tiered wide receiver would have dropped compared to the running backs. But I'm just going to take the value that's coming to me my in my personal rankings the I have him at running back seven so I will be selecting Chase Brown one of the Big big winners of the NFL draft. I know there's like what's the who's the rookie?

Who's the bangles take that everyone? Tossed hodge Boyd. Yes. Yeah.. Yeah. I know he's got his supporters around there, but I think that Chase Brown is going to be Joe Mixon levels of opportunities and snaps and he's going to catch the ball so much. Yeah, he is going to catch a ton of

dump offs from Burrow. Taj is exciting because so much production and he lands on a roster that's a great offense with only Chase Brown in heaven. But then I watched film and I was like, well, there's a reason he dropped so far in the draft. But it's like Chase Brown was a day three guy too. It took him, they kept going to Joe Mixon who was on the field. That was his best quality.

Chase Brown's a great player. I also knew you would take Chase Brown over Bucky Irving. Yes. Which benefits me. I have Bucky Irving higher than Chase Brown. I'm also sitting here at the 2-3 turn looking at the Falcon who has Jamar Chase in the first round. He needs to pick up a running back because my number seven wide receiver, Drake London, and my number eight running back, Bucky Irving, are both sitting here. Ooh. I'm going to go ahead and snag Bucky Irving here. I think it is the player that I want.

Wait, who put a poop emoji on my draft pick? We're just frying the poop all over the place. It was Baby Jake. Baby Jake, you think I want to find out? We are doing a podcast, Baby Jake. People can see this. Oh my gosh. I knew it was a problem to get him into this draft.

So I went with Bucky Irving to pair with Saquon Barkley. Drake Lunding does go next. I want to pretend that I forced that pick. Yeah. So Jamar chased Drake Lunding and then he gets good value on Kyron Williams at 301. You have to like that, right? Yeah, I mean I love Kyron Williams in the third round. I think that's where he's that's where he's been going all offseason and best ball I don't see him. Is he in your top ten? Yeah. Yeah, he's my RB 10 right now. So it's That's pretty wild

all right, I Am back on the clock Barkley and Irving for the first two rounds. I I am back on the clock, Barclay and Irving, for the first two rounds. I'm in a, you know, this is the point of the mock draft is to work through the thought processes. Absolutely. The first time you react to things. It's between, for me right now, it is between Marvin Harrison, who I have inside my top 12, to be my wide receiver one. Or the place I'm in right now is like if I wanted a top tier tight end, I'm not going to get one with the next pick. So this would be a super early Kittle spot. Sure, because I don't

think there's a chance at 411 that George Kittle is there. It's just a little bit too early for me. So I'm going to go ahead and lock in a top 12 wide receiver by my board and go with Marvin Harrison. Was really hoping you didn't do that. Oh yeah. Yeah, I mean Marvin Harrison is lower in ADP. If people are going by ADP, he should get to the end of this round with me, and that would, you know... By ADP. By ADP. Yeah, I think I passed on like six wide outs that are on Sleeper's ADP. By ADP. I think I passed on like six white outs that are on Sleepers ADP currently listed higher. Yeah, and I would have taken Marvin Harrison.

I would have dreamed of him getting to me at the 311. So Mike, you are on the clock. McCaffrey, Chase Brown, pick 303. So you can tell this is an all-staff draft as a quarterback has not been drafted yet, so I it's very tempting to take whoever it is that you're QB one, you know Lamar Allen, whoever it is if it's hard but I'm gonna hold off on that because Lad McConkie is still available. I mean he is not anymore because he is on my roster. Lad McConkie is in my top 10. I mean just check out anyone's grading of Lad McConkie on the season. The peripherals like the

target and yards per route run. There's just fantasy production. Him being doing that all in his rookie year. People who chart how open a player gets. Like there, I have failed to see anything negative about what Lad McConkey did last year. And it took, just like Herbert, it took time for the passing game to get going. But I think that Lad McConkey's ceiling is tremendous. I do like Trey Harris. I don't have a problem with him at all.

But I think that Lad is a true number one. And top five is in range of outcomes for him. Wow, that is very bullish. Wow that is that is very bullish I love hearing that because I love Lad. I am all in man. Wow. So Harrison to myself, Mike grabs a wide out as well so we have two running backs in a wide receiver through three rounds. JSN goes to Al Borland with the next pick Terry McLaurin off the board. Rashi Rice at the 306 what do you think about that? I hate it I hate it for me no I've got Rashi Rice

very high I don't have the suspension happening this year in my current projections. Let's talk about him for just a split second. Sure. Because I feel like I'm in a different place with Rashi Rice than you two are. I think you two are you have an expectation that he'll just hit the field I feel like I'm in a different place with Rashi Rice than you two are I think you two are You have an expectation that he'll just hit the field and Be their alpha in every capacity fantasy wise and you don't see the emergence of Xavier worthy over the back half of the year or the availability of Hollywood Brown Impacting him very much and I guess I just want to like for me I do see things being a little different than when he was kind of on fire before the injury

But both of you have him graded out really high Yeah I have him being the clear-cut number one target in the offense that that doesn't mean that Xavier worthy and Kelsey and and Hollywood aren't involved, but I do Think target market share of the Chiefs it will be Rushy Rice in the middle of the field, those short quick slants that seemingly were unstoppable last year before the injury. He's my wide receiver 13 right now. He is much riskier here than most people. When you say, oh he's my wide receiver 13, that's great. There's obviously a range of outcomes here where Kelsey's still at a 24% target share and doesn't take a drastic

drop the way that I'm projecting and that Xavier Worthy becomes better. So it's a risky pick, but we're at a place right now in the draft where when I look at the wide receivers available, they aren't to me the, no one is flawless here. So I would rather take the upside of what we saw in those first three games last year with Rushy Rice when he was like the wide receiver two. Yeah and the worthy breakout is interesting to me because they did, it seems like they finally gave up

on how they were using them at the beginning of the year. And then they said, okay, we're just going to try and use you like rice. We're going to be gadget type stuff, and we're going to give you short things and see if you can make something happen. And like, you know, in the fantasy playoffs, wide receiver 17, 12 and 16, but this is 11 targets to get him to 46 yards, 11 targets to get him to 65 and 11 targets to get him to 65 and

then 9 to get him to 79 so maybe he was improving over that but I bring that up because Rice is so much better at that than then Worthy I think Worthy has to go back to being a more traditional stretch the field type of a guy and you you got to put Rice right back where he was because he was so dominant. I haven't heard anybody really look at Rice though with any hesitation due to injury recovery. Yeah, that's fair.

It feels like it's been long enough. Like Godwin's return took some time. It is a major injury, but I think he will be one of the players with the biggest ADP variability. Because if you have a conviction about him and you saw what the peak would be, it's possible you get that. Betsy, no running backs.

Lamb, AJ Brown, Rashi Rice, setting himself up for his Zameer White backfield. All right, we've got Josh Allen, the first quarterback off the board at 3.07, the beginning of a run apparently. Breece Hall goes off the board at 3.088 Lamar Jackson and Jaden Daniels back to back and we're back to Jason who I Gino Smith still there you can get Jacoby Myers. Yeah other Raiders are available. If I could draft Tom Brady right now. Oh

as an executive owner. Yeah I would. But Gentian Bauer so far. Yeah, so I took the gamble. This is being the first mock draft of the year, you're kind of exploring things. When I took Bauer's, it was like, I wonder what it will be like waiting till the 3-4 turn to get my first wide receiver. You wanted Marvin, you wanted Rashi. Marvin and Rashi, and they didn't go.

I would have been happy with McConkie or JSN. Both of those guys went. The answer is it sucks. It doesn't feel good to sit here and there's a lot. So, in the nine side, Bowers wouldn't have been the pick. I'm not, I'll decide after the draft, you know what I mean? Let's see what wide receivers I can mine through this. I'm in old man territory right now, Tyree Kill,

Mike Evans, Devonte Adams. Three awesome, you know. Do you want me to give you some more? this. I'm in old man territory right now. Tyreek Hill, Mike Evans, Devontae Adams. Three awesome, you know... Do you want me to give you some more? You want Cooper Cup in the mix? No, no, no. I don't. I don't want Cooper Cup in the mix. Tyreek seems like the easy best name pick to grab. I'm going to not do that. I'm a little bit scared of what we saw from Tyreek last year when he was not very good and he's older.

I want guys who look like they were dominating. And I'm gonna take the highest on my current rankings, which is. I bet it's Devonte Adams. Not Devonte Adams. Okay, who is it? It's Mike Evans. Okay, Mike Evans off the board at the 311,

but you'll be picking in just a moment because Bruxy went with George Kittle. I did not expect him to make it all the way back around. Certainly not after talking about it. But Kittle at 3-12, do you like Kittle? Like looking at this board and where you have these players ranked so far in the UDK. Kittle 3-12, Bowers 2-0-2.

How does that disparity feel? You can mentally say, oh, Kittle was my fourth round pick. Yeah, if that helps. That's true. I think the right way to look at it is to say, would you be happier with Nico Collins and George Kittle or Brock Bowers and Mike Evans? Because those were the picks there,

the wide receiver and the tight end. And I think I would be happier with Collins and Kittle. I think so too. Kittle off the board at 312 and then a very underrated player, Chuba Hubbard at 401. Jason, you were back on the clock and you made a quick pick. Devante Adams. So you get the guy I thought you were taking.

I get the old men. I like how they pair together. You expect Devante Adams to have a high target count. He also used to play for the Raiders, so I see what you're doing. Right, yeah, it's like hint of Raider. A hint of Raider. And honestly, Mike Evans is a Buccaneer.

You know, it's not that far away. Oh, Raider and a Buccaneer, oh my gosh. It's a pirate thing. I am really going pirate here. Oh my gosh. Your high yard team? Yes. High yard.

What's, what's, what's, What's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's your yard for route run? here. Oh my god. Your high yard team. Yes. High yard. This is this is Ali really like that joke. What's your yard for route run? Oh my gosh. It's high. Very high. Very. Tyree kill off the board at 403 to Papa Josh and then uh the rest of this round goes Ken Walker, DJ Moore. Here's the steal of the round in my opinion. Alvin Camara at 4.06. I was begging, I was just like, oh maybe they'll forget about him. No I was contemplating going one wide receiver, one running back with Kamara being that running

back. Well Kamara goes at 4.06, great pick there. And then Hertz, James Cook and Joe Burrow. So five quarterbacks go between the 307 and the 409, which might end Mike and I's consideration of quarterback at this point in time. Yeah, I had the toes crossed for Jalen Hurts to drop. So it didn't happen because you had kind of said, hey do I start to run in the third round? Experimented with that. You're back on the clock. Christian McCaffrey, Chase Brown, Lad McConkey, and give us some of the names of players that you're thinking about here. So if I

were looking at running back, I mean it's you're into, well James Connor is there, but it's a little bit more of a... Why does it never feel good to draft James Connor? That's what I was gonna say. But it always works well. I'm like, we're in the dead zone for me, but James Connor's there and I don't wanna do that to him because he just comes through year after year. Joe Mixon's still sitting there. I know he's an off-brand for you. Yeah, he's dead to me.

He's dead to me. Sure. But here's the guys, like, just, you're at question marks like of Joe Mixon's the efficiency, James Connor is the, you know, the age and the history or the injury history. Those are my running backs 14 and 15. Yeah, and- Mixing in Connor?

Mixing in Connor. In Montgomery- 13 and 15. And then it's like, do you start the rookies here, or not, well not Gentie of course. Hampton and Henderson. But I'm Aaron Hampton, what do you believe about the timeshare with Najee?

How long does, I think Hampton will be the leader of the timeshare by the end of the year, but how long does that take? How big is the timeshare 50-50? I just, I struggle with that and so I'm gonna move over. I'm gonna take another wide receiver. I am ready to be hurt again. Oh I know who that is. By Garrett Wilson and I will just be an ostrich and put my head in the sand and believe that Justin Fields is gonna fix everything. I think, I'm gonna call right now.

At least something. I think Justin Fields is gonna be on your roster at the end of this draft. That's my guess. How about you mind your business? Garrett Wilson, I feel like he is like, like Mike is, his next tattoo is probably Garrett Wilson somewhere.

He just seems to find his way onto your rosters. Do you guys remember that Garrett Wilson was a top 10 fantasy wide receiver? Well, because it doesn't feel like he was. I know. In part because of the trade of Devonte Adams halfway through the year that just kind of. We talked about him a good amount

on this week's Dynasty podcast. Because it was like, what do you do with the dynasty value of him but it was like do remember weeks five through nine it was legitimately happening like 22 points 20 points 11 14 25 like he was the breakout was real and the breakout was happening he was in consideration for me and then they went and got Devonte Adams and this wasn't this isn't just we got Devonte Adams it's no his best friend quarterback said we need to get Devonte Adams so I still I still believe in Garrett. I like that you made it it

simplifies things for me I will be going running back you know I love him. Oh you gotta be going. I'm taking Joe Mixon. I will have three top 13 running backs on this roster with Saquon, Bucky and Mixon. It makes, you know, when you have the luxury of taking Mixon this late, it also mitigates a little of the age-related like injury stuff he was dealing with. When he's out there, you know he's going to be productive. So I'm happy with how that came together. James Connor, oh you son of a gun. You did that. You did that on purpose. You knew.

You knew. What? So that's. The Falcon flying high. The Falcon is a son of a gun. This is why. He's blowing up the draft. He just took Jameson Williams at the 501,

who was sitting. How many rounds of, how early is that? He was sitting seven or eight wide receivers below in ADP. I had him tucked to the side. He would have been my pick at 5.02, which you knew. That's what you get for taking old busted Joe Mixon. Well, so let me tell you, I had a backup plan.

I didn't know you'd be a hooligan. So here's what I'm going to do. I look at Chris Godwin, he's my highest rated wide receiver right now on the board. However, I have Bucky Irving. Chris Godwin is coming off an injury. There's some variability there. I have Marvin Harrison. I think what I'm going to go with here is the true alpha of the team. We don't know what it's going to be like yet. We don't know who the quarterback is, but I'm going to take a shot at it because if it's Aaron Rodgers, DK Metcalf will be of value at 5.02, period.

And I don't think he'll go at 5.02 because I think it will be Aaron Rodgers and I think he will be taken higher than this. You know, you talked about Garrett Wilson and what Adams did in New York. It wasn't pretty, but those guys produced and Aaron Rodgers is going to throw to his guy and frankly they don't have anybody else. Yeah. So to me I'm happy getting a one, a true one. Pickens being traded was so incredible for people who want to go in on DK Metcalf.

So I'm going to go Metcalf. I can't remember, like it's very rare that I've drafted DK Matt Caff in any of these moms. Year over year, he's not often on my roster. He's often overvalued in my opinion, but he's off the board. So I've got Barclay Irving, Mixon at running back, Harrison and Matt Caff at wide receiver.

Mike, you are back on the clock. You went wide receiver, wide receiver with McConkey and Wilson. I am balanced, two bees to wide receivers and It's look guys, it's it's May I just want to feel alive and Thankfully my rankings on my projections Blake Jarwin stand up with me. No Adam Troutman Travion Henderson, okay, your 80 at ADP be darned right now. So it's over Hampton.

It will correct. It is because the way that my projection is going is the competition of Ramandre, especially with McDaniels, I think that Ramandre's not an issue. Where Najee is an issue at the start. There's some pretty nice comments about Ramandre yesterday from the head coach, Mr. Raible. Yeah, well, we will see. When Henderson puts the pads on, and he's going to catch way more passes. Oh!

Jason has made a sound and a clap. I knew he was going to. He's right behind Henderson for me. So Henderson off the go to Mike. So it was Henderson or Judkins for me. Godwin, Hampton, Harvey. So three straight rookies. Devontae Smith and then three more running backs. David Montgomery, who I think Jason would have been happy with. Quinchon Judkins. That was who I was targeting the whole time. And then Isaiah Pacheco off the board taking the Taking the Mike Evans Devontae Adams old minute wide receivers. I was gonna try to go

Judkins and Ashton Gentile running back It was a great pick Leave it to Betts and Borg to screw up my draft Kyle you are fired. So here I am, I've got one running back, two wide receivers, and a tight end. Looking at who is available. This last round, you know, it was like,

I knew I could get the rookies to come through. RJ Harvey, Hampton, Henderson, Quincyon Judkins. You thought you could. Nah now I got none of them. They're all gone, but there is One running back left that I believe in that had day to draft capital that I think is going to really surprise No, okay, I'm wondering if yeah, I'm just gonna take him cuz I I was like what what round two But you said day two. Yes day two. Yeah, Caleb Johnson. It was a prospect. I really liked I think that he fits the Steelers style of play five rookie running backs five rookie running backs in a first round five

Okay. All right. Yeah, so old man wide receivers, young, young, young running backs. And, uh, we're almost done with the fifth round here. Brooks has got a couple of picks at the end of round five and the sixth round. We'll take a break and come back with Jason's six round pick. All right, Roma Dunze goes at 512 and Xavier Worthy at 601. I told you guys this when I got done with my projections. I have Worthy projected for more fantasy points than Rashi Rice. But that does not mean, and we know this from watching the Chiefs for a while, they don't always have fantasy relevance at wide receiver.

But I do think Worthy is going to be a big contributor. I think that's a pretty good value in the sixth round. Jason, you are back on the clock. Gentie, Caleb Johnson at running back, Bowers, Evans, and Adams as pass catchers. Yeah, so I could at this point look at quarterback. To me, there's just a bunch of guys in the same tier. I don't think there's a difference maker where I've gotta have one that's left,

depending on how you view Baker repeating what he did last year, or Kyler running more, or whatever, maybe you see someone different. But to me, there's just a lot of guys there that are all the same tier. In fact, my highest ranked quarterback is way lower than ADP, so I'm not worried about the quarterback position for a while. I could go either way. I could go running back or wide receiver. Personally, I think I'm weaker at wide receiver, so I'm going to go that

way. I'm going to take a, and I'm gonna take a gamble. I'm gonna take a risky pick, a guy that has to be the only wide receiver left here who has a consistency score of an A. When he's on the field, he is fantastic. Chris Olave is a great wide receiver. Oh, you got Kyle back there. Yeah, he's a great wide receiver. Obviously,

there are fears of just another concussion that stops the season, but if he's on the field, I think he's going to score a lot of fantasy. You can get shocked. Yeah. And I don't know if that's good or bad. Like, if you get shocked, is that good? I think it's good. I think you'd like to be shocked. I would say in general, I don't think that that sounds like a very positive phrase. No? That's more of a negative phrase. Yeah. I think, I think. Like you'd like to be shucked? I would say in general, I don't think that that sounds like a very positive phrase. No? That's more of a negative phrase. Yeah.

I mean, here, try it. Okay. Try it in a sentence. Is that what you do with corn? Yes. You shuck an ear? Yeah, you do shuck corn. But yeah, I want you to use it.

Use it, but use it. It's like throwing away a pick. Say, I got shucked, but as positive as you can. Yeah, say it really. Oh, I got shucked. Yeah. That sounds pretty easy to me, man. I don you can. Yeah, I got really. Oh, I got shocked. That sounds pretty easy to me, man. I don't know.

This went a different direction than I was intending. I'm just following the rules here. Yeah, I'm surprised you set him up like that. Crystal Lave. Crystal Lave. To Jason. Tony Pollard at 603. And then Teterow Macmillan, rookie wide receiver off the board at 604.

I like that. Huge run of wide receivers here. I like that. Yeah, McMillan is a good pick there. Sutton is a good pick at 605, I think. It's just a very solid wide receiver. You can put Sutton into your wide receiver too and feel safe every week.

Getting that in the sixth round feels good to me. Waddle, Travis Hunter, another rookie off the board, John Jennings and then Ze Flowers. So six straight white outs and eight of nine in the sixth round. I don't like that because I think that's where I would have been looking but Mike you're back on the clock. All right now we're getting into it here. This is where the muck gets really interesting. Yeah, I got the three running backs, so I'll take another running back if I need to,

but I don't, I mean, is Tyrone Tracy a starting running back? Is Jaylen Warren a starting running back? I do not know. And then at the wide receiver position, it's Addison, it's George Pickens. It's Jerry Judy Brandon I you cool. I that's that's insane. That is that current ADP Yeah, but Brandon I I wouldn't I wouldn't read it. I you know, you're like the next six rounds unless you have an IR spot I don't know even still you're you're you're having an offer opportunity cost of even if it doesn't feel like a fantastic

player that you're going to be getting at this particular spot. I'm going to go, so it's my wide receiver three. It's not necessarily where my projections are, but I'm going to go, I'm going to chase a little bit of wide receiver one upside. Everyone's favorite player from last year. I'm going to take a little bit of wide receiver one upside. Everyone's favorite player from last year. I'm going to take Calvin Ridley. Interesting. How did it feel to draft Calvin Ridley?

Not great. No, I realized at this moment in time in the first mock draft of the 2025 fantasy football season, we are entering the land of non-conviction. Yes. Like, ah, that guy's got upside. It also is the land where you don't really want to pay attention to current ADPs right now. Correct. You want to pay attention to kind of like, you know, look a little deeper.

You know, there are a bunch of interesting wide receivers changing teams, right? Like Devo Samuel is a commander now. And the pick I'm going to make here is a wide receiver that is on a new team and is the primary target. And I think we'll get Pepper with targets from an up and coming quarterback. I'm gonna take Stefan Diggs. I'm gonna take Stefan Diggs in the sixth round, well outside of where his ADP lands,

but that's the player I'm gonna take here. He's higher in my rankings, but with Henderson, I don't feel like using my fifth and sixth round on the New England Patriots. No, that's smart. I'll just get one. And that's, you're all full, man. Once enough.

I'm all full. So I'll take. No more Patriots, please. I'll take digs. And then I was with you. Like the quarterbacks, there's so many names that I'm like, I'm wanting it to thin out before I take one in that next bucket.

Because we were talking about this on Tuesday You know you look at that now I could could take him a Holmes or Murray or Nick's or Baker or Dak or there's just too many names Aaron Jones goes next and then Patrick my homes goes off the board first pick of the seventh round Would that be the lowest Patrick my homes has been drafted in? Oh, yeah Since year two yeah, that's that's a little bit wild. And so I am back in the land of non-conviction. What's wild? Is that a good pick?

I have a different quarterback higher than him, so. I, Mahomes is so brutal. It's so brutal, because everything is still there. And it's just turned off right now. I think what I'm gonna to do now is I'm going to take his his running mate of all eternity. Oh, I'm going to take Travis Kelsey in the seventh round. One, because no one's ever gotten to do that before. Yeah. And two, because I know while Kelsey is declining, there is a PPR stability to Travis Kelsey. Like, I

do feel like the position gets fixed with Travis Kelsey. Like I do feel like the the position gets fixed with Travis Kelsey. Like he is your starter. Yeah. You're not you're not streaming the position. You might not get the prolific numbers, but you're getting a seventh round fix at the position. And so I'm going to take it. I'm going to take him in the seventh round. Not feeling like I want to go quarterback. Mike, you are back on the clock. Fresh off of a Patriot and a Calvin Ridley. Mike, you are back on the clock, fresh off of a Patriot and a Calvin Ridley. All right. So now I leave. Oh, man. There's there's one particular player where you just talk to us, Mike. Yeah, well, feel real. It's much harder because if I bring up his name, there's no way I'll do it. I'll do the right thing. Everybody, you're going to take him

or talk about. I'm going to do both. I'm going both. I'm gonna do both of these things. Drafting Jacobi Myers is going to feel... Ah come on man that's my Raider. Yarrrr! Drafting Jacobi Myers is not going to feel great, but he just produces throughout his career. He has Geno Smith, one of the most accurate quarterbacks in the league right now, and it's not gonna feel good. So you can put some stickers or something on him. I don't know. To make him feel spicier? Yeah, you know, I'm gonna do it.

I'm gonna put, how do I, baby Jake, put something good on Jacobi Myers? I don't know how to work this machine so TJ Hawkinson went next after Jacobi Meyers. I was between Hawkinson and Kelsey for tight end So I love that pick I think Hawkinson is it's a player that people are gonna have a hard time having confidence in in drafts But I think he's going to be very very solid Pickens goes at 705 Bryan Robinson at 706 Pearsall at 707 could be a great steal Bo Nix gone at 708 who I was drafting

Well, no, you're not cuz you don't get to pick him. He's already picked I'm saying that's who I was hoping would come back to me. I feel like that's been your story ever around Yeah, you're loving this spot and they'll pick 11 not so. Deandre Swift at 709 could also be a steal. And then Sam. Oh, hold on. We're putting a lot of poop on Sam. Oh, you figured out how to do. Well, apparently you had to do it right after you made the pick. So I can't go back and give Jacobi Myers the gold star that he needs. So now I just got to, I got to bring someone else down. Right. Yeah. So Laporta off the board at 710. Do you like that? Party I gotta bring someone else down. Right, yeah.

So Laporta off the board at 710, do you like that pick? Laporta potty. Pfft. Cause of the poop. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, now we got it. We're good, well thank you for telling me. Yeah, I think Hawkinson and Laporta in the seventh round

is very good about you. All right, Jason, you're back on the clock. I don't know how many Buccaneers or Raiders or Pittsburgh Pirates are available, but two picks here at the turn. Yeah, this is interesting. I wanted Brian Robinson or DeAndre Swift along with Bo Nix. Those were kind of my primary targets. When I look at the running back position, this is where my team right now, Gentie, Caleb Johnson. Caleb Johnson...

That's your whole running back room. That's my whole running back room, That's my whole running back room and the running backs thin out Tremendously, there's there's not a lot of people out there that I am really in love with at this point Aaron Jones was off the board. So I feel like I need to take one and it's between two bad options. Givante Williams who is the primary first. I was just starting to run the numbers Jay on my the you know like the running backs weren't the top 24 with projected. Uh-huh. Like I don't haven't projected the their offense like

you know accumulated all the projections for the Cowboys offense but it's like their Dallas is right there again There there's fantasy value in them hills, but I don't know where it is But I think I'm actually gonna take a different running back Oh you coward got a bag of money this off season otherwise you'd be the guy that drafted Gervonta right that would be so though Gervonta Williams is no one calls me yellow unless it's for not drafting Javante, then it's okay. Yeah, yeah, because I'm terrified. No, I'm gonna take Nadji Harris. I think that's a good pick right here. We don't know, obviously they drafted Omari and Hampton. Omari and Hampton will take over. I think it pairs well with Caleb Johnson. They won't not use Nadji. They're not gonna not use him,

and I think to start the season, it'll be Najee as the forerunner before Hampton takes over. I could see Caleb Johnson starting the season as more of a timeshare and taking over as the season goes along. So I think they pair pretty nicely together. All right, Jason went Najee. Jerry Judy goes next at 7-12. That was who I was targeting for the eighth round selection.

I was hoping Judy with the Cleveland Brown st tank on him would slide all the way into the eighth round. He didn't. Two good picks, I think, by Brooks. He's taken four white outs in a row, but Judy and Addison back to back at the turn. Addison is one of those players that's not going to go as high as he probably should. No, he the I wanted to take Jacoby just so I could talk about him. I have Addison just a couple of spots higher take Jacoby just so I could talk about him. I have Addison just a couple spots higher than Jacoby.

Jason back on the clock, always with an opportunity to draft Travante Williams. Oh, he's there. He's there. He's still there? He's still there. Can you believe it? Oh, man.

But you do have other options. Sometimes you get lucky. And I'm going to draft Kyler Murray. Okay, Kyler Murray off the board at 8.02. There was, look, you know. There was a lot of talk this off season about him running more. I believe it, I think Marvin Harrison gets better.

It always is a frustrating experience. I shouldn't say always because it wasn't. It was just this last year, it was so frustrating. It's been, I mean, between that and then the injury played here. Sure, yeah, he's been injured. It hasn't felt good in a while. No it has but if you look at you know eighth round rushing upside I've got Kyler and Baker basically identical in my rankings. I'm gonna take the guy that I think has the higher rushing You know ceiling all right somebody did it John onto Williams is off the board

It was gonna be me if that's the so Tracy cup scatab. Oh, Scataboo. I was hoping he made it back. Okay. Michael Pittman and then Givante goes to Bettsy. So just so everyone knows, Matthew Betts is the guy that drafted Givante. And you can find him on Twitter. Jaylen Warren off the board at 808. What do you think about that pick? I mean, Jaylen Warren is- It was going to be What do you think about that pick? I mean Jaylen Warren is gonna be my pick. So he went behind Caleb Johnson by three rounds and will probably be the day one starter. So that's always one of those fun ones to watch in week one to see what the breakdown looks like. Jayden Reid. Jayden Reid right there. Like that is a great pick. I will take every opportunity to attack Jayden Reid statistically and I do but at the

back of the eighth round is like everyone has value somewhere that that feels great. He wasn't getting past the Packer fan. No he was not. All right Mike you are on the clock eighth round. Man I need uh so I got four wide outs I got three running backs running backs are drying up. Four picks left. Need a quarterback and a tight end over the next four rounds. Tight end is difficult here. There's two guys who I'm looking at and the news of today with you know Kenny Pickett and and Gabriel taking those those reps. I had truly believed, I'm like I think Joe Flacco just wins this job.

Like if their goal is to win as many games as possible and not worry about the future, Joe Flacco is the guy you go with. But if they're considering future, then you gotta give Kenny Pickett and the other guys the chance. And I bring that up because David Najoku with Joe Flacco would feel incredible at this point. So I'm probably

going to have to even go in and make some adjustments on my projections. My tight end four is still on the board. Your tight end four? Yeah. That's probably John who. It is. Yeah, okay, that's my five, which is that's who I was going to go and take. And it's just, what is the truth about who are the Miami Dolphins? I don't know, but in the back of

the 8th to take the chance. I can. I'll replace him if I have to, but. Best case scenario is all of a sudden there's were the same dolphins. He just does what he did and we focus on John Smith. Last year he was the Titan for yeah so. John Smith off the board to Mike. I will pull the trigger here on my quarterback. The top five quarterbacks I have in my rankings were all drafted in the third and fourth round. My number six quarterback overall,

who will also pair nicely in the passing game with my running back, I'm gonna take Baker. I'm gonna take Baker Mayfield at 8'11". Still good about it. Now having doing doing a podcast while you mock draft probably a stupid decision right there because The person drafting after me did not turn already had a quarterback So I could have waited an extra round, but I wouldn't have taken either Ingram or Rashad white that he took So it's coming back around to me at this point

It's weird to see Travis Etienne on the board in the ninth round, but it might be even weirder to draft him. I'm going to take Debo Samuel. I'm going to do a little tandem at wide receiver of players switching teams, Diggs and Samuel. Samuel's connected to a great quarterback on a great offense. So in the ninth round, I think it's a good place to just solidify some, what we'll call it,

veteran leadership in the wide receiver room. Sure. Mike, you're back on the clock. All right. Let me just double check something here. Yeah, I mean, speaking of getting weird, Travis ETN is on the board, but so is the projected starter by this guy. I will take Tank Bigsby, who I think is just a much better running back. ETN, man, I don't know what to do with ETN.

There's a world where ETN's the starting running back and all this is just, we all look so foolish and stupid for Jason's dial team. That world exists, but to me watching the film, it's like Tank is the much better runner making Tooten. Oh, Jay, you didn't want to, okay. Sorry. I thought it was the bit. I just missed it. I think Tooten is a bigger problem for Travis ETN, except he did fumble his first practice carry. I have them back to back. ETN and Bigsby are sitting directly back to back in my rankings and it's not in a good spot. Yeah, I

understand. But from an upside perspective, somebody to take over and be the future, Bigsby is much more likely to do that. ETN went right next in this draft. So Bigsby and ETN, both ninth round picks. Herbert Charbonneau, I like this pick. Tyler Warren off the board in the ninth round.

Yeah. You know, Loveland right after him. Both guys a shot in the ninth round to Yeah, you know, Loveland right after him. Both guys a shot in the night. Take a chance. The Brock Bowers of this year. You're not overpaying. That's a good place to do it. Jaden Higgins, good pick in the ninth round by Kyle. Ramondre off the board. Jason, you are, you're back on the clock. You don't have to think about Gervonta. So congrats. Yeah, don't have

to think about Gervonta. There's not a ton of running backs that I like, but I do think Tajay Spears will get some involvement, catch passes. I need more running backs, so I'm going to take Tajay off the board. All right. So Tajay Spears, ninth round pick to Jason to pair with Gentie, Caleb Johnson and Najee Harris. The string of wide receivers by Brooks. It's over. Roshan Johnson at nine twelve gosh darn it

Who would have thought Mike would be so, you know crestfallen over a Roshan Johnson or just Darn El Mooney in the tent good pick Oh Brooks Darn El Mooney at 1001 very good pick very good pick and Jason you're back on the clock Tajay Spears is on your team A 10th round pick for a guy who's going to be on the field for 80 plus percent of the snaps and catch a ton of passes. That's great. That was probably who I was going to pick. Instead, I'm going to have to look a little bit more upside. I look inward.

I look inward. I look down deep. It is usually a good bet to take second year wide receivers, even the ones that you go, oh, I'm not so sure how their rookie season went, whether I love it or not. But if you've got Josh Allen and you're going into year two without a ton of competition, I'm gonna take Keon Coleman. Wow. And just hope that it works out.

And with Shakir on the board. In the double, well I'm looking for, Shakir is like a known. He's not on board anymore. Shakir's a known commodity and he probably finishes ahead of Coleman and that's fine. But that's not going to crack into my roster with the other wide receivers there. I'm hoping for, you know, in the 10th, 11th round,

I'm not just taking who I think scores more fantasy points this year I'm looking for the upside and who could really level up and and you know become Someone that helps you win a championship. Yeah a lot of picks going off the board that I was targeting Khalil Shakir went next He was the highest on my board rookie wide receiver run Then yeah, Jordan Mason Luther burden Matthew golden was the next highest on the board for me, then Egbuka, and then Jack Besh, and you know who should have been on your team, Jay? Oh for sure, dang it! And then Ford goes next.

You're not a very good pirate. Mike is on the clock. We are wrapping up this draft, 10th round, 11th round, all that's left. So I don't know what you guys... You will need a quarterback. Yeah, I don't know what you guys. You don't need a quarterback. Yeah, I don't know what y'all's plan is with the quarterback position. So I'm just gonna take one. I know you guys have one, but I'm just gonna take one right here. And we're gonna. Oh, man. There's some of those fields. Well, just slow down cowboy. Alright. Cause I would take, in a real world scenario, just letting, I would take a higher ADP quarterback right here, and then on my way back I would take just the field. So do it. So do it.

Coward. Well, we got the Falcon at the turn here who's doing weird stuff just to try and blow up the draft. We'll see what he does. I'm gonna take, I'm gonna take Dak. That's great. Yeah, Dak's a great pick there at 10-10. Has Pickens to go with CD Lamb there, more explosive offense.

I am back on the clock. When you talk about a player that will be on the field all game long every single game, like Darnell Mooney, to me that player is Josh Downs in Indianapolis. I think Josh Downs is a- a that's a fantastic pick right here It's a super underrated player Trey Harris Trey Harris goes off the board at 1012. Mr. Tooten at 1101 and What I've got every position so I can take whatever I want here. I'm with Jason on the philosophy of hey I'm gonna I'm gonna take a shot at you know

Something special working out. Yeah, you're not drafting floor in the 11th. And for that reason, I will take a flyer on Jalen Wright out of Miami at running back. Yeah, there was a little bit of news. So, you know, we'll see, you know, what happens in camp. Mike, you went with fields, like you said, so Dak and Fields together. Brandon Iyuk you that's a good last round pick just to see how the off season progresses to Al Borland, Gerindo Andrews, Gordon Doudel. I'm riding naked with Christian McCaffrey. Yeah, yeah, but we only did 11 rounds. So and let's see who the Mr. Irrelevant is

and see what kind of contract they get here. Jason, you have your last pick. Jaylee McMillan and Njoku went ahead. You have all your positions covered, so it's, can I, I'll give you your pick. You want a pick? Sure. Your picks, you should take Roman Wilson.

That's literally who I have written down. Roman Wilson, and that is who is, do you know how to spell it? Thanks for taking who I told you to pick. Yes. Did you see that? Thank you for listening to it. No, I didn't.

Oh, okay. No, but I just felt like, it felt like you. Yeah, I mean, Roman Wilson, a prospect I really liked last year as a rookie coming in, he only got on the field one game last year, was injured the entire season. If you don't even know who Roman Wilson is, he was last year's... It's not your fault. He was a day two pick, right, for the Steelers? Yeah. The Steelers don't know who he is yet.

Yeah. And so if Aaron Rodgers comes to town with George Pickens gone, I think Roman Wilson has a chance to actually be a real contributor. In the last round, I'm fine taking that. You can see the entire draft board on the YouTube. We'll recap each of our teams. By the way, shout out to Brooks for just a beautiful capstone final pick of Brock Purdy. Brock Purdy was the Mr. Irrelevant of our first mock draft. Congratulations. Brock Purdy, George Kiddlestack, right away. I have Saquon Barkley, Bucky Irving, Joe Mixon,

and Jaylen Wright at running back. Marvin Harrison, DK Metcalfe Diggs, Samuel, and Downs at wide receiver. My quarterbacks Baker Mayfield in my tight end is Travis Kelsey Mike I got Christian McCaffrey chase Brown Travion Henderson and tank Bigsby at the running back position lad McConkey Garrett Wilson Calvin Ridley Jacoby Myers are my wide outs I got John who hoping for the repeat and then for this particular exercise, I doubled up on quarterback. I took Dak, and then my upside pick of

Justin Fields. My quarterback tight end onesies are Kyler Murray and Brock Bowers. At running back, I got Ashton Gentey, Caleb Johnson, Najee Harris, and Tajay Spears. And at wide receiver, Mike Evans, Devonte Adams, Chris Olave, Keon Coleman and Roman Wilson. I can say that the mid-round convictions are still forming. I think that's what we learned on today's show. I felt like the first two, three rounds were pretty easy.

I felt like when we got into those middle rounds it was interesting to see where people are valuing players. You know, Camara going in the middle of the fourth round David Montgomery going in the late fifth round a couple of interesting names there there were some runs the quarterbacks all went together pretty quickly the top five did in the third and fourth round and I think that will happen and those rookie running backs all in the fifth round was pretty interesting as well So I'd love to hear from you out there on the YouTube channel leave us a comment Let us know what picks you liked you didn't like why we're stupid That's why we do these mock drafts just to see how stupid we really are and a reminder the ultimate draft kit

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