Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Mock Draft MAYHEM! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/21

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

Fantasy Football show for Aug 21, 2026. Let the mayhem begin! A special mock draft on today’s fantasy football podcast. Jason and Mike go head-to-head, while Andy adds fun and chaos with pick vetoes! Get tips for when things don’t go according to plan in a fantasy football draft! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. 2026 ULTIMATE DRAFT KIT is available now at UltimateDraftKit.com Compete in the MEGALABOWL fantasy football league! Megalabowl.com (00:00) Intro (06:15) Live Draft Pick Timer (07:30) NFL News (19:05) Mock Draft Mayhem! Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on X Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

For the second time in my life, I'm guilty of committing a crime, being horrifically ill-prepared for my fantasy football draft. Cause I doubt my leaguemates minded my team finishing 3 and 10, running the ridicule of not just my friends and family, but of every man, woman, and child I've ever encountered. But this season, I find I'm so excited I can barely still hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement. Only a future hashtag footclan champion can feel.

A future champ at the start of a long journey. Whose conclusion is dispersing a wide range of insults upon my commitments. Things like, you're one pathetic loser. Or it must be a major disappointment to your parents. Or my personal favorite, you suck butt face you know who's going to be

the toilet ball champion this year not me not me to join me on this journey it's the www. ultimate draft kit.com I hope to see you there

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host Andy Holloway Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Welcome into the show, one and all. It's the fantasy footballers. Jason Moore is here.

Howdy. Or as I call him, bald Jason. Ball Jason. Mike, the fantasy hitman in the building as well. Giving you the finger guns. Yeah, baby. It's a Friday. I'm Andy Holloway. We've got the deucers in the house.

And, well, we've got a lot more than that. we have a mock draft on this show today. Not just any mock draft. A mayhem mock draft on today's episode. It's going to get you. And we got a new mayhem for the draft today. So if you've never been a part of one of these or watched one of these, you're going to have a good time.

We have the writing staff and the deusers in the draft as well. We will get into that soon. But first, a lot's going on. We've got one week away until our Megalus show. So shout out to the Foot Clan and all the people attending our live Megalus show in Phoenix at the Van Buren. It will be next Friday. Here's something cool. It will be a bonus episode of the show that will go live on Saturday.

Bonus. So you will get an extra episode next week. Not just five days a week. That was not enough for us. We've got the Megalus show, which will go out on Saturday. So you'll be able to watch it if you're not there. The Fantasy Footballers Live Megalus show presented by Series XM and sponsored by GMC and PetSmart at the Van Buren.

BallersLive.com, if you're in the Phoenix area, I believe there are a handful of tickets available for you to jump in there. I think a couple mezzanine seats might be there for you to come and watch the show. Yeah, I saw there were like five new mezzanine seats opened up that we must have released. Were we hiding those tickets somewhere? I don't know. the paper tickets someplace. The Mez was also sold out and then a couple popped up.

Okay. So we don't even know why. No idea. But ballerslive.com. This was yesterday. Ultimately, this is just so fun to, you know, whether you're going to be there or are you going to watch on Saturday. This is like the launching of the season.

This is like a huge event. We've got bold predictions on that show. We've got some special stuff for people in attendance. A lot of free swag we're going to give away. And so we're just super excited to see you there. I think we're up over 6,000, 7,000 so far for the Megalobole. Oh, there's so much mega going on. It's getting more mega by the minute.

Oh, mega minute. Well, yeah, that's like from the Megalah show to the Megalabole. Yeah. If you want to compete with us and with 20,000 plus fantasy football freaks, is that like complimentary? I think it is. Yeah, that's complimentary. Yeah.

Megalobol.com. That's what you used to see at the circus. The mega little bowl? No, the freaks. Oh, well, see now, I don't think they take. Yeah, that's no, no. You're like, hey, I'm a fantasy football freak. That's fine.

You're like, hey, you're a nerd. That's fine. I mean, that was a weird thing because they, like, opted. They got paid to be the freak. I do believe you would call it exploit it. But, but, I mean. Work was also hard to come by. Yeah, I mean, unless they were like not, like, did they have to do it

matter what? Some of them probably. I don't know enough circus lore. And I really wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit hole in particular. Look, I mean, if you trust the greatest showman, everything's super cool. Don't even worry about it. We cannot start that conversation

because nobody hates that more than you. We do have a winner for our Bejan Robinson giveaway. The sign jersey, Sean Jackson will be in touch sending out that autographed jersey. That's heading your way. I think that's where I'll cut it off for the start of the show. We got so much to get to. I don't want to just talk about every.

I mean, there's just so much going on. We also had preseason, by the way, but we'll talk about that in the news, I guess. Our quick question of the day, let's jump in here. Matt writing in, do you have time limits per pick when you do a live draft? I prefer to take my time and enjoy the day, says Matt, what say you? We and our League of Record do not have time limits. There's live, you know, we get together and there's always trading happening nonstop. And so when people are working trades and doing deals, sometimes it gets annoying.

I mean, there's certainly moments where it's like, okay, already go. And I know back in the day, I remember when we were doing a dynasty start up draft, again, no time limit. but what we did do is once you hit about two minutes, everyone would just start booing whoever was on the clock until they made their pick. It kind of worked pretty well. But yeah, I mean, these are to have fun. And I think if everybody that's in the league is like cool

and trying to do their best, you know, and you're there and you're live, like you're not going to just take forever. Yeah, I mean, I think we get a small window every year where we get to draft. And we love it. And we might as well savor it. Yep. Sometimes it goes a little long and then,

then you look, public pressure. You just start applying it. That's it. News and notes from around the league. All right. Did you guys have some takeaways real quick? Maybe a thought or two from the two preseason games yesterday.

I mean, I had a couple of things that stood out. It's hard to really know, but it's like Woody Marks looked all right. that which he looked better than all right well number one he changed up the number and I was like what who's number four

Woody oh and then didn't make it seem like you lost weight of course to not be double digits numbers this is the aesthetics of the number but he looked good so that maybe that's a like another like red flag for the David Montgomery pick

if Woody Marks actually gets on the field more than you're anticipating It's like Mike Washington had another, like, miraculous run where he was just completely bottled up, but he kept the feet chugging. He's really good at football. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Yeah, I don't. Here's what I don't think Clint Kubiak can do.

I don't think he can keep. Oh, thank you, Brooks. Mike Washington, uh, running, but rookie running back for the Raiders. Yeah. I mean, you should know them by now because you got two weeks where the highlights, but Clint Kubiak's not going to keep. an electric player off the field just because of some stupid loyalty. He doesn't keep an electric player on the field sometimes. So, I mean, to me, it's like Mike Washington is probably not a humongous threat to Gentie,

but you should put that guy on the field if he has the potential for those kind of big plays. It's kind of a, you know, a bit of a thunder lightning aspect to it where I think Mike Washington in select plays can go out there and try to give them a, you know, a Travion-esque long run. It's been impressive in the preseason. Real quick on the Woody Mark's point, we want to make David Montgomery a three-down back, and some of the logic behind that. We?

Well, some of the logic behind it for some. We? Is that, well, these guys that have success but aren't high draft capital picks like Woody Marks, they just fade away. Well, they don't, like, the other side of it is this guy performed well for them when he was on the field last year. The coaching staff is the same. why would they pull them off the field if they think it can be a good compliment not to mention you bring in Montgomery but Montgomery's been a committee back for the last several years so if you want to argue in the pro Woody Mark's side it's like well Montgomery functions very well as a committee back let Woody Marks have some snaps they do have a different skill set you know it could be a threat to kind of like a like the value of David Montgomery yeah how did David Montgomery do in that preseason game he was zero for zero yes that is

To me, it's like, it's good that Woody Marks did well. And obviously that in order for it to be a committee and to have anyone encroach on Montgomery, they've got to be playing well. And so a little yellow flag there. But the fact that they didn't play David Montgomery to me says, oh, yeah, that's our dude. Woody Marks go out and, you know. You have to have people play the game. Yeah, but I mean, people rest more than one player as well.

You know, you've got teams out there where. you know, all the starting wide receivers or whatever arrested and we see the backup. So that's my only counter argument. I would say some things that stuck out to me. Oh, a strip club. Well, I mean, the strip club is, is, it's open, early, open late. Dejan stribling. He's rookie wide receiver for San Francisco.

I mean, so far through two games, he is targeted a whole lot really early. It's the highest, like, target share and use. of a rookie wide receiver through two preseason games, like of all time. Yeah. Like, I mean, like any of the greats that we've seen didn't get this much work with the ones. It's really, really nice to see confirmation of buzz in camp. You know, when you hear and you hear and you hear, oh, this guy's showing out, oh, this guy's been the best in camp.

And then you get the chance to see it. And it's like, okay, well, he doesn't show up. it's hard to know was this just fluff because beat reporters have to write about something. But when you hear that drumbeat and then all of a sudden the game starts and it's just like he's highly targeted, he looks great, he's making tough catches. You don't know what the problem is though? Yeah. Before these preseason games, there was like no cover charge to go to the strip club. But now the prices are going on.

I don't think the price of his ADP is going to be able to rise fast enough late enough. I mean, in some sharp leagues, you'll have someone that will draft him. You're going to have crazy people, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll have people that'll grab them, you know, four or five rounds ahead of ADP because that's probably where he should be. I think it's going to go. I think it's going to be a trouble. I think especially after next week.

If he, yeah, I mean, if he has a. No, like next Wednesday. Kyle would like to remind people of, do you remember Marquez Callaway of the New Orleans Saints? Yes. Who was getting buzz. Uh-huh. couple big plays in preseason and then bang this dude's like a seventh round pick that did definitely happen and then he was not very good no um a Ronde Gadsden oh no he's

he is dead he is dead I thought you're gonna play taps um yeah he is a backup man I mean he is playing late into preseason he's the backup do the backup he is a backup Orronda Gadsden went from sexy new thing to old busted real quick. It's crazy. So I would take them off your boards. Yeah. And then off the backup board as well. I thought it was interesting for the Chargers.

Keaton Mitchell played the like full series. Because I've had the opinion that should Hampton go down to injury, that Keaton Mitchell will stay in his Keaton Mitchell role. and then Vidal would usurp him on the early downs. So silky smooth. Yeah. I'm with Mike. I still believe that's how it would go.

I don't doubt that, but it was just interesting to see it. It's something I'm paying attention to because I do think that the backup there is important. And I've been pretty out on Mitchell, not from a talent or offensive perspective, but just simply, I figure he's going to touch the ball seven or eight times a game. And you're just not going to be a fantasy relevant player. right if you're doing that so if they are willing to use him in more than just a gadgety role i'm i'm just paying attention to it sam and they're saying and then the and then the traylance run oh man nobody else is paying attention to that mike but you i'm i bet there's some dfsers out there who were paying attention it was just like a oh yeah yeah you're saying

when he ran against the 49ers his old team for i'm saying that it was just like a oh it could have been fun, but he wasn't good enough. Sam Leporta dealing with a hip injury, Dan Campbell won't commit to him being available for week one. That sucks. I mean, I don't know. Like, Jason, what does that do to Dan, or to Sam Leport of the draft? Oh, it's, it's horrific. Oh, I care very much. I mean, this could be something. They talked about how he got hit. And so this could be simply like he got, you know, a sting or a bone bruise or whatever. But there's also, this is a common complication off of surgery he had last year. And so it's like, there is

a little bit of reason to worry that this is more serious than the head, don't worry about it, he took a hit. And I'm not saying it is that, but are you mean, is he off your draft board if you draft tomorrow? He is. I would just lower him around. He's not off my

draft board, but I would probably if I'm taking Leporta, there are those late round guys that I like taking a shot on. I might just draft to to make sure I've got someone on week one. I'd probably just wait it out. Yeah, I mean, you could wait.

And have him throw on IR and Carnal Tate in uniform for Friday's practice with the Seahawks. The in uniform is great. Wait a minute. He's missed three practices. Is that? Is that good news?

Yeah, that's like back at practice. Did we finally get some good news in the news section? Oh, has it been pretty bad? Have you been here? I don't know, man. I'm just reporting it. I'm just cronkiding it over here. is great. We finally get something good.

Okay, let's go backwards. Rashad White's hamstring injury. It's keeping him off the field. No, there's positive. Not serious or long term. Positive, negative. Yeah, I don't know when you get those reports of it's not too bad. It's like, but he's injured. It's like Jason will be available to golf tomorrow. Is that good?

Yeah, no, it's not. That's bad. I mean, I'm happy. Yeah, the people behind us won't be there. Okay. Quinn Sean Judkins didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday, undisclosed injury, but Todd Monkin said, not worried, something nagging, nothing big.

And then Parker Washington, who missed practice this week, yes, expected to return to practice. Yeah, more goodness. We like it. The Parker Washington hype has reached a fever pitch. I saw somebody yesterday, their bold prediction was he was the wide receiver one on the year. Okay. Okay, buddy.

We're getting. Come on now. We're getting pretty whiling out there. Why do we got to do that? Like, we can be excited for Parker Washington. Too much. Too much. You could be really excited for Parker Washington.

You're not allowed to be that excited. That's because Jamar Chase, Pooka, there. We got JSN, we got Jamar, we got Pucca. We got Parker, we got Parker, Washington. It's just, okay. I mean, that's, that's a spicy meat, Paul. Listen, Al, Al points out that my, he thought my spite. First of all, it's a bold prediction show.

Second of all, Aaron Rogers was active when I said the Jets would win the Super Bowl. All right. The one last thing, we didn't touch on it, I think, at all right now, but enough. Is this about your cool hat? It is a cool hat. It is a pretty cool hat. It's pretty sick. No, on the Leporta news, the way that I'm pushing Leporta back, a little bit more hesitant to draft him due to the injury.

James and Williams right now, I just feel like, is a screaming value where he's going draft. I'm pulling the trigger on, I think you're right, on Jameson Williams. Did I ever think we'd, oh, I'd have to stop that. Did I ever think we'd get to the point that the three of us would simultaneously be on Team Jamo? No, I didn't. What a world. No, I didn't. And here we are. And Ken Walker. You're up, you're there. I am there. The argument for Ken Walker is so, if you're not there, you need to go back to bed and try again. that it's just too compelling to ignore. We'll take a break and then we're going to mock draft. The Fantasy Footballers Mock Draft. All right, let me explain what we're doing today. We've done this a couple times, handful of times in the past few years.

It is a mayhem mock draft. Jason and Mike are going head to head in a 12 team, half PPR, mock draft, one quarterback, two running back, two wide receiver, one tight and one flex four bench. but the way this works is I will be not only explaining the picks and telling you what's happening in our mock draft as they make these decisions and think through them but I...

She'll be abusing your hosting powers. I've got some power over here. I have the ability at a moment's notice. By the way, Jason in the seventh spot, Mike in the 12 spot, to inflict a little mayhem on the draft. Each of you will be the victim of three mayhams over the course of the next

what is it, 12 rounds, 11 rounds. One of the mayhams, it will be my choice. I will get to make the selection for you. You will think you're going to make a choice, and you won't get to. I'll make that selection. Whatever you do, don't mayhem my last round pick, please.

Yeah, I might not save it till then. Well, good, because I mean, that would ruin it. It would ruin all of my plans. Unconvincing, Mike is. The other, we have a reach for a player mayhem, which is brand new. It's going to force you to draft a player 20 spots

lower in ADP. So you're going to have to reach for a player and make the best of it. And then the last mayhem, I'm going to give the power. I'm going to transfer it from myself into your hands. And you will get to make the pick for your opponent. So you will get to sub

is that subterfuge, ruin their roster? Yes. And you can decide how generous, kind or unkind you want to be. Yeah. And we also... D.K. Metcalf. I don't care where you are.

He'll work a trade to be able to give you Maycalf. But we also have a bunch of our writers and our deducers in the draft as well. So all the picks will be made by real people as you guys try to assemble a team in the face of some mayhem. So let's start it off.

All right. Gibbs goes number one. Bejohn, Chase, Taylor, Pooka, and J.S.N. Jason, you are on the clock. For me, you will have to pause before you make the selection. I will tell you what I'm going to do and ask permission to lock it in. So for me, this is a pretty easy choice. I think at this point it is a difficult choice between two pretty obvious options.

So you could say maybe. Mayhem. Word there already. I was going to. Here, let me explain. Okay. I thought, listen. I didn't even hear who he was going to pick.

I hadn't even mentioned who my options were. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because I was like, I'm going to let you both make your first pick is what I thought. Okay. So that I can then know what you're trying to do. Then I realized if I use my reach, reach for a player mayhem right off the jump.

My gosh. I feel. I mean, why not do that right now? But my beautiful Ammonrae St. Brown. I mean, you're at the 107. This is nasty. What is the opinion of the deucers? I'm getting a lot of,

I'm getting a lot of knots. I'm getting a lot of knots. I didn't want to be that impatient. That's nice. No, this is fine. Okay, so how far do I have to pick? 20 picks. This is the,

20 picks. I'm at the 7. So I got to get the 27th. You have to take a lot. later. AEP is Rishi Rice. Okay. All right. I got it. I'm going to take a guy who would be at this pick. No, it's a pretty easy one. He would be at this pick. I know where you're going. If he wasn't coming off of an injury and an ACL. And it's not a great pick. I wouldn't take him here.

But I'll take Malik neighbors and say, hey, turns out he's healthy from week one. He's going to be a superstar. Malik neighbors at the 107. I know. That is mayhem. That is. Wow. Right off the bad. You have a lot of confidence in neighbors. take him there. Yeah. Who needs Christian McCaffrey or Hon. Ross St. Brown. Oh, man. I always look forward to these drafts mostly so that maybe a screenshot of the draft board

can hit socials with no way. It will. With no context. It will and people are going to freak out. You took neighbors? The first. The kids call that engagement for me. It's super smart. Christian McCaffrey goes at the 101 after Jason.

I'll quote tweet it by saying, you won't believe who I took at seven. that's right CMC and James Cook off the board Amon Rae St. Brown does go at 110. I don't know why you didn't take him at 107. And then Cidie Lamb

at 111 putting the hitman on the clock now Mike has back to back picks. He will be at the turn every single time in this draft. So Mike first round pick. So wide receiver wise you know my rankings it's like

Nico, Chris Olau of A. G. Brown, so I'm pretty confident. How do you feel about Nico right now with the Jaden Higgins news with the rumors that Stroud wants $70 million a year? Oh, man. I saw, when I saw that news that he's looking for $70 million a year, I almost had a spit take and I hadn't drank anything. I mean, it was like, what are you talking about? Because that would be the going. That's not the going rate. That's the best quarterback. in the league rate. Which at this point, that would be the going rate. He is not. Oh, I agree. He's just not in the tier. Like if he was, if he was not the best,

but he's like a top five, top six guy, he is, no one, including him, can possibly think you're in the elite of the elites. This ain't Dubai chocolate. This is the Hershey bar. You can't pay the same price. The Texans are in a really bad spot. So are the Panthers. Because it's like, okay, let's say Stroud hits free agency. he does make that money. No way. Yes, he does. Yes, he does.

Yeah, I think we got to remember. Yes, he does. You got to remember the big picture with Strout. Like, I mean, Herbert had a horrific playoffs. I mean, Stroud had a horrific, so did Herbert. Like, Struts had about two years in a row. Sort of. I mean, it's been up and down.

There have been games. I don't think he's worth that money. I'm just saying he will get it. But you're just, you're with franchise quarterback. This is Tampa with Baker, too. You're hamstrung. Like you, I think you would. But anyways.

So, wow, Mahomes is 63 a year. He won 70. Stroud, slow your roll, man. Well, I mean, he's negotiating. That's a starting point. Yeah. Okay. So this is, you know, 80p-wise, it actually, I'm at the turn.

So if there's guys I want, I have to take them. So the truth is at this first pick, even with everybody who's on the board, I would be selecting. Ken Bone Walker. I knew you're going to say it. Go for it. excellent. Ken Walker locked in for Mike. So ADP-wise, it's early,

but I prefer him over Barkley, Gentie, H.N., Hampton. So it just kind of, it is what it is at this point. I could see this happening when push comes to shove towards real drafts, people making that same decision that they

see that there's a lot more security there than there is on some of these other, you know, like the H.N. and Genti pick where you know you're on a bad team. Right. You know you're on a good team here, and he's going to get all the work.

And then I would, if the pick is mine, I will be following that up with, I like the, at the turn here, I want to try and get the two elite running backs. So I would be drafting. Yeah, who would you be drafting? Dang it. Who would you be drafting?

Chase Brown. So, Mike, you would think I would want to mayhem you here. No, I have no idea what you want to do. But, in fact, I am. Mayhem. I feel like you said one thing and you did a different thing. Yeah, I mean, that's all I can do here. I'm not even drafting.

This is my entire experience. I'm going to give Jason the power here. Oh. I'm going to let Jason select your pitch. This is really early for Metcalf. My goodness. And so we'll decide what Jason wants to do. Medcaf?

No, I'm not going to Metcalf here. No, that's the joke. No, I think it's an easy. pick to give you here. It's slightly above ADP, but I've been saying I have no problem taking this player. Slightly above ADP? Okay. Cool.

That sounds like lowercase mayhem. Yeah, well, I mean, look, it's my choice. I'm going to be kind. It is your choice. Best friend of Mike. Now I feel like I got to be rude. No, you're good. I was going, I was going to give him Brock Bowers here. Oh, my gosh. Force him into seeing what it's like to have no wide receiver

going into the third round. I think Brock Bowers deserve. to go here. Oh, that's a great reason to make him the pick. Yeah. So I will, I will give you DK McCaff. Final answer. Oh. So, idiot. Eat dirt. Oh. Is this really what we're doing? Oh, man. I can't even find him. Hold on. Scroll down. There's a search bar. You just type D.K. Mike. Kaff. Ah, you really tricked me, Jay.

Honestly, I was going to get brought powers, but you talked to me. You have 76 and a half your makeup, he take this guy? Blame me, Andy. I was going to give you Brock. Fine. He thought it was a lowercase mayhem. Yeah, I'll be honest. I thought I was maybe going to use my choice here and give him Jacobs because I

know he's like out on Jacobs and that would be earned for him. There were plenty of guys that I would have been like, dude, that sucks. This is. And it still makes sense for a draft. Looking at your team with Ken Walker and D.K. Maccalf is as the first two picks is really a delight. because I think, you know, one guy you love more than life itself and the other guy is D.K. Metcalf.

All right. Whatever. Well, listen. You're ready to draft a kicker in a league. You can't even use them. Just remember, you have an opponent's choice left to use. You'll get the chance. I know. I know.

And I guess we're going low. We'll just see how you recover. Chase Brown, Sequin Barclay, Ashton, Gentie. and Devon A-chan off the board, Jason, with Malik Neighbors in the first round, you are up next. So sitting here is a crazy value on Justin Jefferson. You know, when you're at that like nine spot in the first round,

you start going, man, this is where you should be taking Justin Jefferson. I just realized he wasn't drafted. Yeah, but it's, oh, because Metcalf went in the second. You took him over Jefferson? Anyways, Justin Jefferson. Honestly. it might be that might be the right well i'm not taking justin jefferson here either if it is my choice i would actually be going so i'm between two players here amarian hampton i absolutely

would have been so awesome i absolutely love omarian hampton pairing him with malic neighbors i'd be happy with that and then if i go wide receiver i'm actually taking a j brown who i think is you know you've got the the sandwich of a j brown and jison jefferson and drake london those three kind of always go real near each other. And I just look at like, do you want a good quarterback or a bad quarterback? Do you want a good offense or a bad offense? And they're all three great players. So here I'm going to, I'm going to take AJ Brown if the choice is mine and start

wide receiver, wide receiver. Yeah, yeah, that's always smart to doing a mayhem when you might not get to draft a running back for a while. A.J. Brown and Malik neighbors back to back. I made with steak. Antin at the 207. Brock Bowers, Justin Jefferson, and by the way, the mayhem mock draft, among many things, it's entertaining. But it's also a lesson in, you know, we've all been there in the draft and there's a panic pick or a mistake or you don't realize something that you're doing.

Or a guy gets injured in preseason and you lose an entire, you know, D.K. Metcalf, your second round pick, whoever you grabbed, you don't get them this year. So this is a training exercise. This is an opportunity for these guys to try to rebuild the rosters from the mayhem because it happens in your draft. Hampton goes at 207. Bowers, I thought you might take him, Jay. Jefferson, Henry, London, and Josh Jacobs goes at the 212. Colson Loveland starting off the third round. Above Trey McBride. I don't mind it at all.

I don't. It's disgusting. I'm actually, I'm more on the side now where like I realize, Colson Loveland, there's a vulnerability to drafting him there. Like, he is far from a guarantee as much as I love him and think he'll do well, he's far from a guarantee. He has to do so much, and he can't. I'm not saying he can't, but he has to do so much to get to what Trey McBride has.

Yeah, I just don't see a world. Tremig Bride broke the record for receptions. He didn't, and he had, what, three or four games worth of extra routes. That won't happen again. I mean, but did you see the year before? He was really good, too. Oh, yeah, he will be really good. But I'm saying, like, I think it's, I think Loveland and McBride are going to be

very close at the end of the year. Loveland, Alan, Jeremiah Love goes in the third. Nico Collins. Kyrn Williams and Tray McBride, Jason, you are back on the clock. Lots of good players here in the middle of the third round. George Pickens, another great wide receiver.

If I wanted to go start my draft with three wide receivers, which is that can work if this is, you know, a full PPR three wide receiver league. This is not. So I probably want to look at the running back position. You've got guys I like Cam Scataboo that I'm afraid of. I'm very afraid of right now with the new coaching staff and bringing in Naji players I don't like at ADP like Travis H. Chan Jr. Talked about him yesterday.

I would be between Breece Hall and Giovante Williams. I think both players are exciting for opposite reasons. Do you want the great offense or do you want the electric player? I'm going to take the great offense. If it's my pick, I would take Giovante Williams here running back. Yeah, go for it. All right. J.

Wendt Williams off the board at 307, neighbors, A.J. Brown, Jvante. That brings what I think is a deal on Chris Oliva or close to it. Major deal, yeah. And then Devante Smith and George Pickens, three straight wide receivers here. Oh, man. In the third round. And Abuka goes off the board. Is that who you were targeting, Mike?

I just flipped over to look at my rankings. And it was like, holy crap, George in the third? Yeah, but you didn't have you almost. Almost. Almost got there. Even with Metcalf kicking him back a spot. It wasn't enough. Steelers Superstack.

Mike, you are on the clock here. You got the back-to-back picks. Where do you want to go with your third round selection here at 312? So the top of the ADP for running backs, you got Breeshall, Scataboo. So those guys are still there, I guess, because it was a full wide receiver run. wide receiver Rashive Rice still sitting there

oh man is it let me ask the question at a point like at the back of the third or even the top of the fourth Rashid Rice feels like a very strong pick

but so then it's Tedroa McMillan T. Higgins Ladd-McConkie's a Flowers so I guess with this first pick man I mean it's double-checked I'll give you a thought process here.

You can think why you decide. If I'm picking, I would, I would take Rice. Go ahead and grab him. All right. Rice is a real, he may be the most facts versus feeling situation going on in fantasy football. Correct. Correct. Where like Cyrus Allen's getting all the publicity for being the.

Oh, Rice is getting publicity. For being slow and looking bad. Yeah, so it's just like the. You're strapped in practice. Yeah, it's just not great. Walker, Metcalf, Rashi Rice, Mike, to start your draft. Yeah, and going, and like, I have Walker. So, I mean, I'm loaded on the Chiefs now with two of my first three picks, but...

I won't waste your time. Okay. I won't waste your time. But I was going to say, if that stack with that value, assuming I didn't have D.K. Metcalfe with my second round pick, it would feel... I'd feel perfectly fine with it. Well, in this case, I'm going to let you reach... Reach for a pick?

Reach for a pick. at the 401. You're just in a tough spot. It's like if I don't mayhem you now, I got to wait until a long time. Yeah. So you need to pick somebody, uh,

ADP 57 or later. 57 or later. 57 or, later. Darn it. Oh my goodness. Yeah. So you have,

you have some choices, yeah, you've got some good choices there. Yeah. Oh, so Luther Byrd. Narrowly does not make the cut. But Bachel Tutin is there.

So Jameson Williams, Adams, Mike Evans are kind of the, No Tudin. Well, I'm saying those are the wide receivers. Oh, I got you. No, Bachel Tuton is 100% going to be the pick. Yeah, Bachel Tudin is the pick.

Okay. Yeah, the Bachel Tudin sentiment this offseason has been mostly positive with a little bit of curiosity around the committee situation. I think Tudan himself will be a great player when he's on the field. It is just a matter of does he get the high-value touches? Does he catch enough passes? You do have... He has high upside.

I don't know if we mentioned it that LeQuint Allen got hurt. Oh, yeah, I didn't. Who, like, LeQuint Allen, you know, in the what we've been's been reported, he got, he's been taking third down, which we've talked about third down's not everything, but I would rather have my running back on the field

for three downs for three opportunities. Is he missing the rest of the training camp or something like that? Let's double check that. I just, I remember it off the time, head that he did he got hurt uh but also the reports on tutin just remain glowing very strong about the talent of the player you know big and very fast so i'm just i'm i'm still in on tooting accepting the risk that he does come with he's not a surefire bet by any means but he if he hits it's going to be incredible all right so mike you have two chiefs

walker and rice and then mccaff and tootin through four rounds jason you have neighbors, A.J. Brown, Giovante Williams. After the two and pick, it was Waddle, H.N. Jr. McCanky. I like that. And then Garrett Wilson. Goodness gracious. Yeah, McConkey and Wilson going at 404, 405. Well, the running backs were really taken those first couple of rounds. But since all these wide receivers just went on my turn, I was between Giovante Williams and Brees Hall, obviously here having one running back, two wide receivers. If the pick was mine, I would select Brees Hall. What do you think, Mike?

Hey, I'm not. What do you think? I'm just an innocent bystander. Yeah. You know what? I just realized. Mayhem. I just feel like what you did to Mike was so disrespectful.

Mike's not an innocent bystander anymore? I mean, the Metcalf situation, look, I'll give the pick to Mike. I'll let Mike make the choice. Okay. I will, I will weigh in. You will weigh in. Willway in. It's your choice, Mike. I'm just saying if there's one player I know from our previous week's discussion, and I'd call it a discussion at the end of the show, I just think Romandre looks like a value here. Romandre is an excellent. I mean, there's a lot of value running backs. But it's your pick. You find your, you find your narrative. You were going to take Brise Hall, Jay? I was, yeah. Take him. Okay.

I'll just go ahead. Take him. All right. I took him. took Brees Hall. I'm so confused. Why are you confused? Because I feel like I was just cursed somehow. I feel like something just happened where I feel like you just injured Brees Hall. With your mind.

What just happened? What just happened, Mike? He took the high road, I guess. No, he wanted Brees Hall. He's playing mine games. No. He's playing mine games. I'm on Tilt.

You wanted Brees Hall. I let you have Brees Hall. I don't know what's happening. I am confused. as well. He's winning. He's winning by giving me what I want. I don't like it.

Breece Hall is off the board. Okay. Sort of to me, on the outside, looking in, feels like maybe a wasted opportunity. I think what it was is he was saying, we're not playing these crazy shenanigans. I'm going to rise above that. Is this a guilt?

You want him to sit in the guilt of Metcalf? No, he wanted Bruce Hall. All right. We continue. Hey, nice, nice my hand, Mike. Probably a good time for an outbreak. It's a good pick. Probably a good time for a break. Breece Hall went to Jason before the break, which I mean really threw you for a loop. It sure did.

Because you wanted Breece Hall. Yeah. Zay Flowers, Quinchon, Judkins, Cam, Scadaboo, Ted McMillan, Tickmonds, and Jameson William's round out the fourth. Carnell Tate at the 501, Trayvion at 502, DJ Moore, 503. Montgomery at 504 and we've got Bucky at 505 there's some names that are just dropping

in this draft. Yes. Yeah, I mean, interesting. They're there, I don't know if you'll let me have this pick. This is the most absurd pick I can remember in any of our mocks. Tyler Warren being in the fifth round is incredible.

I've got two running backs, two wide receivers. There's no chance I would ever pass up on Tyler Warren in the fifth. So if I'm allowed to take it, that would be my pick. All right. Jason, you, yeah, go ahead. Oh, all right. Fantastic. Things are working out for me. I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing with that anyways. Luther Burden goes next. Romandre Stevenson still on the board, but did not go. Burden, Swift, McLaurin, Mike Evans. And Mike, you are back on the clock. There are two mayhams left, one for each of you.

And both are your user's choice. All right. So let me take a look at what's going on here. ADP, you know, quarterbacks are, it's just the two. So, I mean, I could have Joe Burrow, who I think I'm very, I'm very interested in on his upside this, this year. I, sitting here at the turn, running back wise, it's not inspiring. And wide receiver wise, there's some guys who I really like.

And yeah, at this point, this is where I would be taking Christian Watson. Yeah, I mean, I would have let you. Oh, he's mad at you for a beautiful. He pulled some weird stuff with that whole let him take the player and waste the mayhem thing. So you get Woody Marks. Okay. my team's going to be good in the end. Yours is, we're taking you to the shed, putting you down.

So you liked what you saw last night. Woody Marks is the pick. Mike, I'm out of mayhemes. You get to make your 601. Okay, Christian Watson. Christian Watson is the pick. Yeah, that's the fun thing about being at the turn of their, you know, I'm not going to use them back to back and you're out of them.

So Christian Watson, you still get him. Judarian Price is 602. Jalen Warren at the 603. Parker Washington back in action at the 604 and Drake May at 605. I would have been very tempted to grab Drake May there. I don't like taking two onesies in the first six rounds, but with AJ Brown and having Drake May fall past his ADP, it would have been timidic.

So I'm actually kind of happy that Drake May was selected. So you're not tempted? Because I am not tempted. Instead, I'm going to take a player that I feel like I end up with in almost every mock draft because I still believe. I still believe that Roma Dunesay is a very good player. And I think of that range, that's a, I am alone on planet Earth. I guess you're lucky that I let you have that pick. Oh, I forgot you still had one. Yeah,

that's okay. That's okay. Premature selection. Holy quarterback run. A Dunezay to Jason, then Jacori Christi Krikemerit, then three quarterbacks in a row. Daniels, Hertz, Burrough, Devante Adams. And then Julia takes Romandre. Oh, he's gone, darn. Dejohn's tribling. See, there you go.

Yeah, that's going to happen. It is going to happen. All right, it is. We're into the seventh round of the draft right now, Jason, with neighbors, AJ Brown, Roma, Dunzee, with Jvante and Brise Hall as his running backs, Tyler Warren as his tight end. Mike's got Ken Walker, Basel Tooting, and Woody Marks at running back. K. Metcalfe, Rushie Rice, and Watson

at wide receiver. I'm still trying to figure out what his master plan was. But Pitts, Kraft, Harrison, Tyson, and Dobbins off the board in the seventh round, putting Jason on the clock. So I've got only two running backs

right now. I would have easily taken JK Dobbins had he gotten to me. He did not. Yeah, just be careful when you select. I will not select without asking you first. here we're at a situation where the running backs that are on the board, and I need a running back, Jonathan Brooks or Tuba Hubbard, whichever one you prefer there. If you want to take a shot at Rico Dowdell being the starter,

there's Tony Pollard who is a starter. I really like Jordan Mason, but he's usually able to be had much later. I just don't think the value is there. This is what I was talking about recently of like these rounds running backs. They're just, they're pushed way higher than they should be. There are still good shots at wide receiver. I would prefer taking, like, take the shot that Parker Washington isn't better than Jamar Chase, and it's actually Brian Thomas Jr. Or Mackay Lemon, I know he's going to, you know, he's dealing with injury, get off to a slow start, similar with Alec Pierce.

I just like the upside of some of those guys. So if I were to get the pick, I would take Alec Pierce. he didn't want alick pierce man you fell right into that i mean it it didn't matter what he said there i feel like this is the give him alec pierce this is the point in the draft don't you freaking dare do that i can't do that again that's such a good idea yeah why not oh come on mike he didn't even make the pick last time so i'm going to let him make it this time alick all right okay that's a great deal actually i'm just giving it actually worked that's what i was hoping you do. You just want all the Colts?

You're Alec Pierce over BTJ? Yeah. You're Alec Pierce over Josh Downs, which is important. Yeah, I mean, no, I'm, I'm really not. I wouldn't have wanted Alec Pierce there. I was trying to get you to I probably would have given you Josh Downs about three rounds ahead of schedule. That probably would have been my pick. Mike's idea was better. He's kind of redeemed himself. So Mike, I'm not going to use any more mayhams on you. That was a really good job you did. Alex Pierce off the board at 707 BTJ Michael Wilson, Jonathan Brooks, RICO Dowdell. And Mike, you get to, you got five picks to kind of piece things back together.

There will be no piecing together. It's the optimistic way. Rico would have been a, oh, I thought you would have thought about that. I would have. That would have been an instant move him to the top of the list. But going with D.K. Matt Caffe and Rico Dowdell, I'm not sure I would build my team that way. building a team with two completely broken picks is

that's not the easiest thing in the world McHaff could be okay I guess you will have to take a tight in in a quarter minute what are you talking about? I mean this is about where Maccalf probably went last year, right? Yeah, and he's not going to be okay. It's not good. You're not wrong just early? I mean, something like that.

I saw the D.K. McCaf new press pictures, right? the new headshot. Going with the death stare with the really big eyes. Is that what that is? That looks like somebody put Adam Gase on. Some somewhere. Who?

That's just what it looked like. I don't know. Adam Gase. Yeah, I remember that. I understand. All right. Tight end wise. I'm picking up what you're putting down.

Tight end wise. Oh, man. Is anybody you love it tight in right now? George is there. I wondered. I don't even I just like I don't even know what to do with this build here of it's just disgusting it's not realistic that you run into a Metcalf situation in the league of record maybe but not with not combing that with Woody Marks I'm going to take Jordan Mason just

so I know that I have at least one more running back and then I mean this team has to hit on a onesie position so we're just going to take George that's a good point If you have something go little sideways from your scale position players. Getting an advantage at tight end makes sense. Leporta goes next. Dak in the eighth here. Jason's almost back on the clock, but Harold Fanon does go. And RJ Harvey, who, look, the sentiment might not be great for R.J. Harvey,

but we need to be realistic with the fact he's going to be utilized. He's on an offense that we like Sean Payton's, you know, potential. And Harvey late is fine. Yeah, I'm on the- It's fine. I just have little faith that it's going to actually work out. He seems like if we had to do a quick question of, like, players that have like an RB one week out of nowhere or like, like,

oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Number one overall in week one, it's like R.J. Harvey's at the top of that list of and put it in on like eight touches. Yeah, it's like two receiving touchdowns and a long play. And all of a sudden, everyone's talking about R.J. Harvey in week one. Yeah, so I'm here on the clock. I've still only got two running backs. I'm in the eighth round.

I need to look at that position. You only got two? Yeah, yeah. At least you got your guy in Brees Hall. Yeah, I mean, Giovante and Brees aren't a bad one-two punch, but I have very little depth. And so who I want to take here is Blake Corum. I think he is a league-winning upside type of pick. I know I've been Mr. Kiron Williams.

I still am. I think Kiron's a great pick. He's going to be fine for fantasy. It does not mean that that does not mean that Blake Corum is a bad pick. He's a good player. if he does get the opportunity, I'm wrong, then he's a flex with benefits. But should something happen injury-wise to Kyron, Corum will be a league winner. But I feel like as my running back three, I have to have someone more guaranteed for touches.

So I'm wondering about Kenny Gainwell. But after all that talk, I'm going to pull the trigger on Corum. All right. Corum, Godwin, Sutton, Lemon. three wide outs in a row as we circle back around to the ninth i thought about godwin but then my team as i'm just scraping you went for the ones in yeah your your team i don't it's not good i don't really know what you're thinking to be honest through most of this draft mike i don't feel like this is what your team normally looked like no there was two two picks

in particular that you just kind of your brain went not so much here not so much here but right right there here i just uh It's about the second, fourth round. Tony Pollard, Chigua Hubbard, Caleb Williams, Quentin, Johnston, and Concepcion off the board. As we circle back around, we're heading towards the end of the draft. Jacobi Myers and Cyrus Allen going in the ninth. Nice to see that next to Keenan Allen. Jason, you're back on the clock.

A few picks left here. The last time that I was between two running backs, I got both, and I'm going to do it again. I'm going to grab Gainwell to go with Corum. So now with Giovante Williams, Breeze Hall, Blake Corum, and Kennedy. gain well. I feel fine with my running backs. There was a part of this draft. I almost gave you Justin Herbert, Jason, as your

quarterback. That was a thought there with the Pierce pick. I don't feel like Herbert has been drafted by any of us in any draft at all this entire offseason. It's funny. I am a Herbert apologist. I love them. I love the offense. I find that I'm putting my chips more on Hampton

and the running game and the defense versus Herbert. But he's a good quarterback that is, I think, going to be playing for a good offense. Well, I mean, they're close to one of the highest, you know, AFC title favored teams right now. So if things go right, if that season does come together, I mean, I know a lot of Mike, his thoughts this year is about Cincinnati doing special things

because it comes together. You stay healthy. It feels like a similar narrative for Los Angeles. Tyler Algier and Trevor Lawrence. Mike, you got three picks left. One's got to be a quarterback. Kiddle was your last. last pick. So I'm going to take, I guess it's not for sure volume, but it feels like it of a player

of this caliber who over a thousand yards off of a torn ACL goes to what should be a strong offensive situation. I'm going to go with Stefan Diggs. And then I am, so I got two picks left. I do need a quarterback. I'm scanning through the draft. It appears that you can stack your chiefs. I could. but so Jason's the only team without a quarterback and I know how Jason feels about Jackson Dart and I'm sure you would have taken him so I'm going to take him I have neighbors I was praying for the neighbors

dart stack. Like I said to to recover anything from this team I need an upside player and you made the the bear case for Jackson Dart I don't you can take 10th round Jackson Dart I don't disagree that there's a rip. That there is a bear case, but there is a true bull case to be made for him, so I'm going to take him there. Well, those are two good picks, actually. Not that a Stefan Diggs and Metcalf combo counts as a second rounder, but it's better than nothing. Chris Rodriguez, Caleb Black, Aaron Jones, a nun guy off the board. Jason has a quarterback that he needs to take

either here in the 10th or in the 11th, and he's back on the clock after the Gainwell Quorum selections. Do we remember? Do we remember a time, Kyle, maybe look this up? where a non-injured NFL draft first-round-wide receiver was undrafted in every single, like, ADP just completely undrafted. I wouldn't even consider thinking about drafting Omar Cooper Jr. Like, ever. And it's like, this is a- For good reason. Yeah.

But it's a first round pick? That's insane. Well, I mean, you might be tempted. I will. With Gino. I will take a first round wide receiver from the previous year. I'll draft Matthew Golden here. Yeah, that's, that's the right

spot. Yep. That's and then a guy I'm just in love with right now, Isaiah likely at 1007. Travis Hunter at 1008 getting drafted, even though no defensive players in this draft. But Papa Josh did

take him. Do you know something we don't, Papa Josh? No. Okay. He is a talented wide receiver. But I did see some stuff about him. him and Brian Thomas Jr. Like going back and forth on the reps.

And that was like, is that bad for BTJ or good for Travis Hunter? Kincaid, Mitchell. That would be Keith Mitchell. I'll tell you who it's good for. Wide receiver number one overall. Parker, Washington. Michael Pittman, Tank, Biggsby, Pat Bryant,

Dylan Samson, Malick Washington, or rather Mike Washington. That was not Malik. Dontavian Wicks, sneaky, great pick by the Eagles fan there. And then Jonah Coleman and Marshawn Lloyd, Jason, your final pick is a quarterback. It is a quarterback. I just brought him up as a value.

It's insane that he's basically undrafted in single quarterback leagues. The quarterback six last year, the quarterback seven is rookie year. Ades Jalen Waddle. Take Bo Nix. Bo Nix. First round wide receiver, Omar Cooper, Jr. is with the second team offense confirming what we've seen in camp that Isaiah Williams has leapfrogged him as the wide receiver three. That was about a week ago. Yeah. Scottard, Boston, Strange, Malik, Washington this time. Nope, it isn't.

Oh, yes, it is. Yeah, it is. And honestly, Tank Biggsby, Malik, Washington were kind of at the top of my cue of, of, so I'll just go the other direction of, let's paint the picture. Funny, we were just talking about this wide receiver at lunch, guys, of like, he's good.

He's just, he's a good player. But things haven't worked out for Jordan Addison. And maybe, maybe. Kyler Murray. He's a really good player. Yeah. He's a really good player. So we're going to take talent. We're going to take situation and hope that the quarterback. All right. Your last task is to read back your roster, but the I will not be doing that. The requirement is that you don't,

you're not allowed to mention any of the mayhem. You got to make the case for your full roster. And you got to do it right now, Jason. Sure. I took a healthy Malik neighbors in round one to go with with A.J. Brown, Roma Dunezay, Alec Pierce, and Matthew Golden. My running backs, Giovante Williams, Brees Hall, Blake Corm, and Kenny Gainwell. I've got my onesies of Bo Nix and Tyler Warren. I'm pretty happy with my team. Yeah, because you want a brief.

You want a breeze, and then you got Breece. Yeah, and I wanted Alex Pierce. And, uh, Mike, what were your, what's your, what were you? So we got Ken anyway. We got Ken Bone Walker at the top with the second round pick. I, of course, took D.K. Metcalf. Look, it's one last ride with Aaron Rogers. Right.

Last time we saw Mike McCarthy in charge of an offense. We saw some pretty good stuff. Oh, yeah. From C.D. Lamb. One last, one last ride. Rishie Rice, Bayshall Tootin. Woody Marks, look, I'm pretty much OUT on David Montgomery. and Woody Marks looked good in preseason, so why not?

Why not? Why not get the young explosion play? The arbitrage pick that will certainly usurp David Montgomery and his new contract. Yes. Christian Watson, I love that pick in the sixth round A. And by the way, if you didn't take marks in the fifth, Watson wouldn't have been such a deal in the six. That is a good point. You made it even better for me.

Now you can feel better about the Watson's sick. I went up to the register and I just marked it down a couple of cents. It's like, oh, I'm getting it. you. Jordan Mason, George Kittle, which, hey, all signs point to him having a real shot playing in week one. But it would, which that's good enough for me to be a difference maker for, you're talking for the season.

Stefan Diggs gets some volume. Jackson, Dart, maybe a top five potential quarterback. And then Jordan Addison, because everyone needs a player that they can drop after week one to go pick up the new waiver wire hotness. Or another tight end maybe for your, for your team. Or that. Well, Kittle would just go into my IR. That's true. If you go Tonjus Macbasket Week 1 or something like that. Or Jowanson.

Juwanson himself. There you go. I would say did that fit the mayhem bill? Yeah. For one of us. You were about to give him Brock Bowers. I was. You talked to me out of it. That would have been the ultimate mayhem on me. It's just you guys just give each other great picks and we're in the draft and the show.

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