Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Mock Draft! Top 12 Picks for 2026 - Fantasy Football Podcast for 2/19

Episode Date: February 19, 2026

Fantasy Football show for Feb 19, 2026. Top 12 players for 2026! A mock draft of the 1st round with tough decisions to make. Find out which early picks carry the most risk and where there are tier breaks at RB and WR. Plus, a look at free agent Tyler Allgeier's current outlook and best landing spots for running backs. Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.(00:00) Intro(04:50) Tyler Allgeier outlook + potential landing spots(13:35) Early Mock Draft: Top 12 PicksConnect with the show:Subscribe on YouTubeVisit us on the WebSupport the ShowFollow on XFollow on InstagramJoin our Discord Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host. Just a reminder. This won't air for a week. Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast. We're still the fantasy footballers podcast. If you're nasty, it's me, Mike. And it's me, Jason.

We're just two cool dudes. Just two best friends. Just two healthy men. Yeah. Are you throwing up? No. You got the diarrhea? Sometimes.

Right now? A lot of times. I mean, I can't actively. My point is, Andy is sick. Andy is sick. His weak body. Right. He doesn't have a strong man body like us.

His weak body is failing him. So soft. But we're here. We are here. We are recording this a little bit early, just for everyone's information. He can't screen. grew up our mock draft today. That's right.

Yeah. And it's not a full mock draft, but, I mean, we're going to go first round. Let's talk about some heavy hitters at the top. How are we feeling about these guys? Because honestly, I mean, these are not statistical projections. These are vibes. Well, yeah, I mean, this time of year, looking at how the top of the draft is going to go, still can make a lot of sense.

Most of the players at that level aren't going to have drafts. things happen to change. A rookie pick, a veteran coming in. It's not going to really change the lay of the land for these guys. Yeah, I'm very excited for Jeremiah Love to sneak into the first round. Oh, man. Not impossible. I've got the second pick. So we'll see. Don't, don't tempt me with a good time. The UDK pre-order and Dynasty Pass access. It is live. It is going on. This is the cheapest possible price should you want to set the foundation to dominate your fantasy football draft or if you're in dynasty leagues and you want to get the UDK plus the first release of the dynasty pass is out there we're talking rookie ranks the class overview our

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both. All right. Quick question. of the day. Before we get into that, I can't help but notice you forgot one introduction at the top of the show. Oh. Oh. Shame on me. Jay Gris, the cardboard bear, extraordinary co-hosts, always reliable, always filling in. Honestly, never had a sick day in his life. No. Always here. Never leaves the studio. I mean, he doesn't even have a lower half of his body and he still shows up to work. And he makes it to work. You can't have diarrhea. When all of your insides are falling out, you can't have bowel problems because you've got no bowels. It's dynasty season.

So I actually, I like this one because we're talking. The best part about dynasty in the off season is nasty boys. It's calling your shot on guys who aren't superstars. And a guy who, let's see what can happen. Tyler Algier, who before Bejohn Robinson was drafted to the Atlanta, Falcons. He broke the rookie rushing record for that team. I believe Bijon took it away from him. Oh, yeah. But, like, Algier is a good player, good friend of the show. Ian Hartett's tweeted about this, that Alger is currently the all-time NFL leader for most career touches without a single

fumble at 737 touches. So coaches will like that. He has been obnoxious in the green zone for us who love Bijan Robinson so much because Alger is honestly he's a good player so Jason we don't know the landing spot what is your perception do you like a a low speculative ad of Tyler Alger are you holding him like how are you really so so the situation here um if you get a lay of land of incoming rookies and free agent running backs you can kind of see that there might be a place for Alger to go and get a starting contract or at least get a more guaranteed workload. Now, if I

had to predict where he's going to go, I think the odds are still that he's back in Atlanta. Okay. That's probably the number one spot. But my second place pick for him, he is going to be someone that is better than his name. Like, he is a better player than the

hype. No one's going to be like selling tickets to season ticket holders because they went and got Tyler Algear. He's just the put on the the hard hat and go to work type of player. So I think a smart franchise is the type of franchise. It would be like instead of going and getting Brees Hall a sexy name that'll sell tickets and cost a lot of money, who is clearly a better running back than Tyler Algier, let's save some cash, put it to more

important positions, and go get a quality back. And if I'm looking at teams that are well built with the general manager who's doing great work, it's got to be Seattle. Yeah, I was going to throw out. If Kenneth Walker costs a lot of money. the gap between what the Seattle Seahawks and how they play and what they want to do, if you swap them, I mean, they don't have charbs right now. Right.

Currently injured. And I could see a team like that going out and making a play. If that were to happen and you basically swap Ken Bone Walker with Tyler Algier, he becomes very interesting for fantasy. Yeah, I did think about that as a potential landing spot. I just want to throw out some teams, our dynasty pass, our opportunity grades for an incoming running back where things are currently because of contracts and free agents and projected guys moving on teams that have an a minus to an a plus from us we got the chiefs the jets the

seahawks the manders the cowboys the jags saints and titans now not every single one of those teams is exciting but but there is opportunity there 100 percent the sea hawks i thought about it it's interesting where would they want to do that where because it's like alger is kind of like a charbes he is more of a charbes clone so you won't have but if they if they could have a different dynamic but if they could have six Zach Charbonnese yeah they would they went out that is a good point because you they know how much better he is than Ken Walker and then would Charbonnet get a taste of his own medicine where he gets to be the man guy he's pulled off on the goal line and then it's Al Jir getting all the touchdowns he's like what the heck dude uh but

there's a lot of teams where there's honestly the best part of Tyler Algear testing the open market and maybe getting a job somewhere else. Like I would love it if he goes to... Which a reminder, he was a fourth rounder? I believe he was a day three pick. So he needs to get money.

Yeah. Like he's an NFL running back. He was a fifth round pick. Fifth round pick. This is his chance. I don't know, I don't know what the appetite is for a guy like Alger. But like this is his one chance to go really make his money.

As the odds of someone, a player like Alger getting a second contract extension, that is anything more than just like, hey, you're a vet, we'll give you the minimum. And not saying that that's not good money, but like the money money where you have that short window in your NFL career, this is it. Yeah, if he can go get $10, $12 million somewhere, he needs to take that. I think there's a good chance. And the best part about that is actually Bejohn Robinson. because if you take the eight touchdowns that Tyler Algier had

and maybe maybe two of them go to someone else and six of them go to Bijon Bejohn is the clear 101 in fantasy I'm saying last year not in today's mock draft we don't know yet Mike we're all trying to figure out who's going to go 101 I do have the first pick I won't spoil it just yet thank goodness yeah I don't people got to stay tuned stay tuned for the for the 101 for the guy that we have been saying for a couple weeks is the 101. Like I said, we are recording a bit early.

So I don't want to do a whole news section, but there was an exciting hype train piece of David Blow. Blow, blah, blah, blah. The new OC for Washington. Quote, the Washington offense will be built around getting Terry McLorn 10 targets a game. We do like to hear that. Wait, we're reporting that Mike Evans is expected to continue playing. Brooks, what are you doing to me?

Of course he's going to keep playing. Yeah, because he's pretty far away from a first ballot, Mike. It can't. I mean, now that it can't. Well, after the fiasco of Bill Belichick. And, like, Larry doesn't count because Larry is the second or third best wide receiver of all time. And no, I will not be taking comments about this. he's probably number two in my opinion.

He's number three. It's Randy Moss. Rice, Moss. And then we know that George is going to get franchise, but we'll see. We'll see if the trades are going to come through. That's George Pickens of the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, we just call him George. All right.

It's George. On this show, it's George. Go to the fantasy footballers. I have, but some people haven't. Yeah, well, they've got to figure it out. Sometimes inside jokes need to be learned over time. Welcome, Fookland. It's George.

George. Carry on. Which a joke that appeared because Jason Moore, professional fantasy football analyst, can never remember George Bickens' last name. It was a real. Can he picket? I was just reminding Jason. Yeah, thank you.

I had no idea who he was talking about. But they are, the rumor was that they're willing to basically trade him for a second round pick. I saw that report it. So Buffalo. Buffalo. if George Pickens is available. If you can get George Pickens.

I know you have to pay him, but imagine that game against the Denver Broncos in the playoffs, and you have George Pickens as your number one weapon. That would be very needed. Honestly, I think we have a different outcome. Yesterday we were going to talk about Brian Thomas Jr. And where we want him to go. And I was thinking about, you know,

if he were to be traded, obviously he's under contract right. now with the with the jaguars it doesn't seem like he's going anywhere but the the comment of like oh just put him on the bills because they need an alpha wide receiver one so bad but is he but that was like is he exactly when you talk about george pickens he is he is and i'm and i'm very confident if he went there he would just dominate if he were to be traded right now would he go in this first round he honestly i was staring him down i like i can't put him in the first because i we just don't know but even if he if he stays if he stays in dallas he's probably a second round pick if he goes to buffalo i don't know if he can sneak into the first i don't i think he'll

probably he would probably stay around the same range i would think i'll bet he i mean it's like him or justin jefferson oh i would i yeah exactly you start answer quick and then you go, oh, there's a lot to think through there. Yeah, I don't want to. I think it's George. Let's get into the mock. The Fantasy Footballers Mock Draft.

All right, some fun, February fun. Who put that R in there? Some stupid Englishman. February. It's ridiculous, but some some fun, February fun here as we're looking at the high end,

the top guys that we're thinking about. The 101 one, I will not let you wait any longer. I will break the suspense. It's Bejohn Robinson. Oh, man. I thought I'd get him. Bejohn Robinson, Atlanta Falcons.

We already touched on it at the top. He was just, he was on the field, the best running back in the NFL. I don't think it's even close. And that's not a disrespect to, you know, like Gibbs and company. of guys who are truly elite. Bejohn is just different and the fact that Alger might be moving on is exciting. It really like if we can truly get Bejon all of those touches in the green zone, he would end up lapping the field, I believe. So I'm taking him confidently with the first pick. Good luck now. Yeah, I know. Now it gets much more dicey when you actually have to put some of these

guys in the same tier in order. You know, you've got the three pack of wide receivers we've talked about recently. Puka Nukuwa, JSN, and Jemar Chase. I'm probably going to take one of them. You've got another tier of running backs. I'm curious where the running backs, what the order they go in here. Obviously, Christian McCaffrey was the number one fantasy asset this last year, but now a lot of workload, another year older.

whatever. We'll see how strong you are, Mike, since you're the... He's C-M-C. Yeah. Gives, who obviously can be super explosive. Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor, I think, is at this moment in time, he's the hardest one to evaluate because up until the Daniel Jones injury, he was the number one guy by points per game. So I guess when I'm saying how great Bijon was, Jonathan Taylor, go ahead, take offense to that. But it really fizzled out in the second half. because they didn't have a quarterback. Meanwhile, Bijan's getting it done

with the likes of Michael Penix and this version of Kurt Cousins. So that's what I'm saying. That's why Bijan's at the top for me. But Taylor's like, where will he go in this first round? Well, he will not go at number two. Okay.

Because at number two, I'm going to take Jamar Chase. That's the three-pack. A wise man. That's exactly what I would have done. Puka is awesome, so consistent, but his play style gets himself injured. JSN, they're coming off of a Super Bowl season. They're going to be playing a number one schedule. I mean, these are splitting hairs, but when you've got Jamar Chase is, I think, the most talented of those three.

And I think his quarterback is the best of those three. So you've got to swing for the fences, even though things tend to always go wrong for the Bengals. Sure. I mean, they went pretty right for Jamar Chase, the wide receiver four on the season, even with a catastrophic first month. If you don't remember how bad it was in the first month, week one, Jamar Chase scored 3.6 points and a half ppr. Week two, Electric, he's the wide receiver three. Unfortunately, though, Joe Burrow gets hurt in that game, which leads to 6.4 points in week three against Minnesota, 4.8 points against Denver and then

the magic that was Joe Flacco number one being traded interdivision. Yeah. Number two, it's Joe Flacko as much as we you know like we praise Joe Flacko for fantasy football purposes on this show because in his elder years he really has come through but he did he did the thing.

He's showing up and oh yeah, he did. He did the thing that we've always said. Why don't you just throw it to your best player every play? 23 times. He threw the ball to Jamar Chase 23 times in one game. I mean, some quarterbacks don't throw the ball. They don't drop back 23 times in a game. Unfortunately, very, very lazy, yet co-champ of the League of Record. Kyle's not here because I would ask, what is the most targets anyone's ever gotten in a game? I don't know if we have anyone who could be a crack researcher. Oh, gosh. Matt is so sweaty right now.

Do you even know how to research Matt? He doesn't know how to spell reason. I'm going to ask chat GPT real quick on. Oh, that's going to work. It looks like 71 targets in a game once. But keep us posted if it sounds remotely good and we definitely won't report it. Yeah, I would have taken Jamar Chase at number two. And here's the thing.

Puka has, I mean, he has his touchdown situation with Devante Adams. Adams will be back. Oh, Matt is saying Brandon Marshall with 28 targets. Sounds reasonable That's awesome It sounds reasonable Sounds like him with the Jets Oh yeah

Was that Jets or Bears Broncos? Broncos I mean You got it totally wrong Pucca has the touchdown situation With Devante Adams And I can't imagine

Adams is not back And then Puka has a new OC I'm sorry JSN JASN JASN is going to be one of these first four picks but we're just saying For things that have changed, Jamar Chase and company, they're running it back.

And we love that. We want them to run back that defense as well. So you want Jamar, that's who I would have taken at number two. So at number three, I'm going to go with Pukukukua in this spot. Oh, Jeremy is saying Chase's 23 targets were tied for the third most in a game. Chris Chambers had 26 back in 2005. 23 is still pretty good. All right, I'm going Pooka Nakua.

here at the third overall pick. Yes, I, I, we, everything we said about wide receivers, how scoring was down, especially in that wide receiver two range, but the elite of the elite were still difference makers. So I'm going to go ahead and jump on board here with Puka. He's just, as we, as you said in the office, Jason, thank goodness Puka found football.

Yeah, because, yeah, what would that, that Puka crazy guy be? doing. He'd be... Can we get this man a handler? I think he would be... We need a PR handler to just be a Pucket. All the other construction workers. You know what I mean? He'd be like, oh, Puka, come down. Just put the next brick. It is...

He's ridiculously good at football. I love him. I love him. That's where I'm going to go. Before we get into your next pick, Jason, we're going to take a quick break. All right, we're back. Wait, Josh. Pooka... Pookas... He just...

He just said that he liked skydiving. That was the response. I like skydiving. Puka's shooting his shot publicly on social media? Yeah. Yeah. It was pretty funny. Oh my gosh.

Puka. All right. Anyways, he's good at football. He's good for fancy football. Jason. He's a fun time. This makes it very easy to me. To me, it goes Bejohn Robinson and then the three pack of wide receivers.

That's how I had it too. Before questioning whether it's the next wide receiver up or the next running back up. So I'll take JSN. I don't. have a lot of fears here. He is going to have 30% of the targets. And if you get 30% or more of the targets, you're pretty much a guaranteed wide receiver one.

He's great around the end zone. Somehow is always open. And obviously I have the breakout. Super Bowl champs, easy. I don't think there's much to explain there. All right. It does get a bit more difficult here. I want to, you know,

there's the loyalty bump, the pay for what you did for me, but we can't do that in fantasy football. And so no, I will not be taking Christian McCaffrey at this spot. Not yet. No. I think, no, picking McCaffrey right here, how I feel about the 2006, that would be the coward move. It's just be like, no, I'm just going to take Christian McCaffrey. Interesting. Who is in my list. He will go in this first round. but for me with what I'm projecting to happen for the Detroit Lions and the seeming to be phased out David Montgomery, lots of rumors abound of will he even be on this team? Now I know it's, you know, the devil you know is if Montgomery is on the team,

it's Gibbs and Monty and Gibbs took over. You know, Monty, despite Guns Mahoney, aka Dan Campbell's insistence that we're going to get David Montgomery more involved in the game plan he was just miss speaking because he meant Jemir Gibbs because that's what they actually did

a guy who can know the rattle off multiple games of three or more touchdowns and it was unfortunately if you had Gibbs there was the collapse at the worst possible time in championship week but if you had

Gibbs, there's a good chance you snuck into the fancy playoffs and he got you to the championship game. So I'm going to take Gibbs here as my RB2. Yeah, that makes sense. Personally, I would take the guy that I'm going to take now over him. And it is, again, not Christian McCaffrey. It's actually Jonathan Taylor. Okay. I think that when the Colts get reset this offseason, they dealt with so many just terrible injuries down the stretch, obviously none bigger than the one to Daniel Jones. But it's hard to remember how good they were, how dominant they were. They were beating the crap at everybody. They needed three quarters to pretty much shut down their offense every game. And injuries piled up and it made Jonathan Taylor into a very consistent, good fantasy option. But it

took him away from being, I can't lose in fantasy football because I've got Jonathan Taylor. His first 10 games, Jonathan Taylor hit the 30 points. marker five times. Oh my gosh. It was so good. Donnie, he was so good when I had you and you were healthy. He was outrageous and that included what three,

no, I'm sorry, four number one overall finishes, including week two against the Denver Broncos, who as we, as we learned throughout the season, they were in elite defense. And then the masterpiece before everything,

And honestly, it didn't collapse for Jonathan Taylor over the second half after the buy week because you had, you know, 13.6 against Houston, 11.4, 11.6. 15.4. Yeah, that's what I said. He was a really good option, but he wasn't a dominant. Right. But, like, I mean, the, the masterpiece was right before the buy week against the Atlanta Falcons. 32 carries, 244 yards on the ground, three touchdowns, three for 42 through the air. almost 50 fantasy points. I mean, you won that week. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. That's at that,

that's the part, that's the part where you probably went all in. Yeah, that is exactly what happened. I was like, I'm going to live forever. Nothing bad can happen. Yeah.

And then you won the championship and I didn't. That's where the luck portion of fantasy football shows up and can really derail and disenfranchise people. but Taylor is difficult for me because the second half numbers are good

but the second half numbers those are not first round running back numbers and I just don't know what do they I mean number one Daniel Jones is not technically under contract I think he I think he gets a big payday from the Colts but he will have to rehab and recover

and like how much Anthony Richardson do you get at the beginning of the Because Anthony Richards, Jonathan Taylor with Anthony Richardson has not been good for fantasy. I will say this. If it turns out that Jonathan Taylor has an opposite season to what he just had, where he gets off to a decent but slow start. And as the team gets healthy and Daniel Jones comes back in the playoffs, you get this monster. You win the championship.

Yeah, you absolutely could. I will not be scared off of his situation. He's too good of a running back to special. of a human. We always bring up Derek Henry when it comes to the outlier human being. Personally, I think Jonathan Taylor is in that boat. I know he doesn't weigh 250 pounds, but he is, and always has been a different breed. He dealt with injuries. We forget that his second year in the league, like he was the running back one overall in fantasy. Then he dealt with injuries for a while. Bad quarterback play bad team. As soon as he's back to a good team, it was the running back one

and then quarterback injury. It hasn't been a pretty ride, but he is just too special. All right, so that puts me up. Yes, sir. You took Jonathan Taylor. There are two players who I think that they're really, really close in tier.

And this is where I would take McCaffrey. If you don't take my next guy with your next pick, that'll make it easy for me. And who would that? I don't tell me because I already know who I'm taking so okay but Christian McCaffrey the workload was just absolutely outrageous so that definitely is a red flag 440 opportunities for Christian McCaffrey I mean a hundred receptions a hundred and two for nine hundred twenty four yards he was the focal point of the offense I think he will remain the focal point of the offense they have a lot to decide with Brandon Iyuk speeding his way out of San Francisco. We still aren't sure if Ricky Pearsall is an answer. I think Jennings is up for, I mean, Jennings always wants more money.

Jennings. So, I mean, there's a lot to find out. And then the biggest piece of all is George Kittle with his Achilles tear right in the postseason, right? Yeah. So George Kittle will be really up against it to. to be back to start the year. And like there's a difference. There's a huge difference in the 40-9thus office when-

Kittal is. Because last year you were Mr. I'm taking Christian McCaffer every single mock draft. I'm taking him way over his ADP because if he's healthy, if he plays the season, he's the number one running back. He was healthy. He played the season. He was the number one running back.

So correct on all accounts. Now the thing is that should, still be true. I realize that the Kittle injury is actually probably harmful to Christian McCaffrey, but it's not harmful in the sense that now he's going to be, you know, the running back 10. Christian McCaffrey is usually either the running back one or two or he was injured. Like that's, that's his entire career after, you know, his like sophomore season. So what are you actually calling for? Because I, we've had some off the air Christian McCaffrey conversations and you seem very not bullish on him. year the way you were last year. You seem very worried.

I would say, I mean, what did I just take him? Where are we? What pick is this? Pick seven. I took him as the seventh player for a fantasy football drive. I'm not bullish to the point of him, like, where I felt just very convicted that if he's healthy, he'll just, he'll be the number one guy. But you took Gibbs over him and you would have taken Jonathan Taylor over him. Jonathan, I would not have. Okay. So, but you think. Gibbs over McCaffrey, is it because of what you think they do if they both play 17, or is it risk aversion because that's what I'm asking? It's like, do you think Gibbs is a better scoring asset if they are both healthy?

No. Okay. So then it is you are afraid that. I am afraid of the, I do buy into the, when a player touches the ball and gets hit that many times. And that's just a regular season. Look at Seguan. Exactly. And McCaffrey is, McCaffrey will be 30, right?

I believe so. Because he is 29.7 right now. So that should put him on pace to be 30 before the year starts. Massive workload over the last. It's hard to know the efficiency for sure because in 2024, he was at four yards per carry. But he played four games. He carried the ball 50 times. But he was at 3.9 this past.

year. I mean, he had a 102 receptions. That's, that will be, honestly, like, that will be everything. And that was, he hadn't been over 100 receptions since his year three in 2019 back in Carolina. Will he continue to get that level of targets? Because if he's, if he has 100 plus catches, then he's easily a top three running back. And Christian McCaffrey is, he's one of the guys to me, he is different where he's past the age cliff. The age cliff for running backs where things really start to go south is about 27 years

old, and yet here he was at 29 being the number one fantasy running back. I have a little bit more concerns where I'm not at the point though. Like last year it was at least seemingly

perception, maybe you can correct me if I'm wrong of how I remember it. You either were in, on McCaffrey or you're just like, I'm not trapping him in the first round. Pretty much. McCaffrey went to a McCaffrey truther. He didn't just fall to a spot

where people are like... A catheter? He went to a... Oh, man. I'm a catheter. That's painful. Yeah, last year it was people were in or out on him. So it's like, this is... I'm in. I'm just not

as in as I was last year. So do not hear what I'm not saying. I'm not afraid of Christian McCaffrey. I'm going for a repeat in our Dynasty League. I'm super pumped that Christian McCaffrey's on that squad. I'm not trying to dump him. I'm not trying to collect a check before it all falls apart. He is.

I'm just going to like Christian McCaffrey to me in Dynasty. And if you're a rebuilding team, you should definitely trade Christian McCaffrey and do what you can. If you're a contending team, I'm, I will hold the bag. I will let it turn it until it's dust. I will let it turn into a flaming bag. of poop in my hands because with him I feel like it's not over till it's over.

Yeah, that's what we've done with Derek Henry when like five years ago we were supposed to sell him. It's like, no, he's different. We're just going to keep getting fantasy points until he is done. Here's the spot to take CMC because I do think he represents kind of the end of a tier. The next running backs up, James Cook, Devon A.

Chan, what do you believe about Genty or Hampton? it feels like a step down. So I'm going to look at the wide receiver position here. Okay. I'm currently taking the fourth wide receiver off the board because we had the big three-pack go, two, three, and four. Well, why take the fourth wide receiver off the board when I can still take the third wide receiver off the board? I'm talking about the guy who finishes wide receiver three last year, wide receiver three the year before and wide receiver three the year before that. He is the perennial wide receiver three.

Taking Ammon Rae St. Brown. I think that he is. So are you just making a funny joke here about why not take the wide receiver three? As in you don't. Yes, I'm just calling him the wide receiver three because that's what he's finished for three years and a row. The statement kind of sounded like, oh man, I'm glad I didn't get one of those other guys because Amman Raw is actually the number three. I don't know which one of those guys will fall behind him, but mathematically it has to happen. By the end of the season.

But we know he won't pass. Oh, no way. No way. So you've got to take the other two. You've got to take those three ahead. 66% chance. But yes. 66% of the time.

It works every time. Amundraa St. Brown is, and still, like I feel like forever, won't be the sexiest pick. You don't see him as somehow able to finish as the wide receiver one overall, even though he's been pretty close every single year. But if you want a consistent. guaranteed target monster on a very good offense and just there's no questions, right? Like to me, I don't worry about anything. I just know he's going to be targeted around the goal line. He's going to be targeted between the 20s.

He's going to play through injury. There's really no downside to Amin Ra. He's still in the middle of his prime. And he does six celebrations where the balance is on his, Head has a good podcast. Is it good? I don't know. He does a podcast.

I was trying to give the man some props. I don't know. I don't listen. But it's fake. That was phony baloney praise. People say he's got a good podcast. Who? I just did.

See? Oh, man. Facts. I've never thought of that as a... A source says... I never thought of that as a defense. The people. people are saying that it's good. Right. And it can be yourself. Yeah. Because now I'm telling the truth.

I am my own source. I have a source. I feel like the snake ate itself of your circular logic there, my friend. Yeah. Ammon Ra, I don't, I don't believe that. So was that, so you, that was not. That was not. Can I guess who the other? Sure. C.D? Nope. Oh, wow. All right. James Cook. Okay. All right. James Cook, who somehow throughout the process of his career, I've never had the pleasure of having James Cook on my roster. I have had the pain of like, okay, next week's matchup. Who am I? Oh my God. I have to play against James Cook this week. And it is terrifying every single time. he can't hit I'm sorry he hasn't hit the high end

of the running back finishes the super high end because 21 receptions 44, 34, 32, 33 at this point this is just this is what the offense is because I don't know that it's who he is it's who Josh Allen is. It's who he is in this

offense at least. Yes. Yes. The player I mean put him on a Shanahan team I bet James Cook is catching 80 plus passes on that often. But he is, he was the rushing leader. He didn't even play the final game of the year. He has been historically a very healthy running back.

I mean, snaps be darned. Like this dude was on the field, 56% of the snaps for Buffalo. It does not matter. It was crazy. When he's on the field, he's getting the ball. The issue with him is he was so touchdown dependent. And his touchdown rate was outlier high, but he wasn't getting volume. He was not, this was a player who literally the year prior had 207 carries.

Right. That is such a low number for to be a reliable RB1. To be the running back eight. Yeah, that just doesn't happen. That only happens if somehow you get 16 rushing touchdowns. Oh, he did. And that's why he kind of fell in drafts because it's like you can see the riding on the wall. This is a platoon situation where you need those touchdowns.

not a prolific pass catcher in this offense. And then they're like, ah, how about we just give him the ball over 300 times and make him the leading rusher in the NFL? And the team has, they're going through some changes. They got rid of their head coach. They said McDermott hit the bricks. But they took their OC and made him the head coach. And so that, so things are the same. Like with Joe Brady at in charge, he's still the mastermind of the offense.

he the offense is Josh Allen and James Cook and until otherwise noted I mean just we'll just go through the hypothetical because that's where we're living right now George Pickens has traded to Buffalo what is your opinion of James Cook is up neutral or down it would be pretty neutral because I am bullish on James Cook already okay I think that this is a player that they're going to try to give 300 you know rushing attempts to this season as well. He has established himself as the leader, not a committee back. They paid him a lot of money. He's going into year five. He's in the perfect age. I think he's going to be great.

You could say arrow up because the offense should be even better with George on it. But I, you know, he could end up taking drives away. You know, when George Pickens has a 60-yard touchdown bomb, well, and that kind of nukes.

a little bit of James Cook's points. So I think it'll be pretty neutral if that were to happen. James Cook, to me, if you're trying to zoom out in longer term, I don't know yet if James Cook can be one of those guys that hits 28, 29, and he's still dominating for fantasy football. Agreed. But this, like, the juice is still there right now at a very, very high level. What age did Dalvin James Cook? Because, I mean, they're literally genetic.

They are brothers. But, I mean, Cook was more beat up. I mean, Cook tore, what, towards ACL as rookie year. If we had to wear the device all the time, even though somehow the device powered him up. But the point being, James Cook, he still has it. He is one of, you know, it's like, so we got Bejon, Gibbs, Taylor. and James Cook. Is there anyone I'm not remember where it's like

every single time, if they're on your opponent's roster, every time they touch the ball, you go, tackle, tackle, tackle. Because you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Achan is definitely like, we'll put A-chan in that list. Don't let him touch the ball. And because they can rip off 50-yard touchdown.

I thought those happen all, every week. Those are terrifying. And you're 100% right. If you play fantasy, you know exactly what the feeling is. You're watching against this guy and you just or you're up 35 points going into Monday night and James Cook is on the other side

you don't you're not sleeping well you're not counting your W because you know what can happen before you go into yours Jason we go one more break all right Jay first round of our earliest mock draft three players left in the history of

2006 we have three picks you have two of them I only have one left and I think mine's pretty spicy Oh, interesting. Well, then it probably won't be my pick because I think mine is at this point, a layup. I believe that there will be people who think it's the beginning of the end for CD Lamb. Oh, you know, good.

Good. Good, because I will not stand for any CD Lamb slag. I mean, he is. Or slaughter as if you want to do a lamb joke. Right. Oh, nice. Swish. Thank you.

Yeah, CD Lamb was hurt this year. Obviously, George Pickens was awesome, and things did not go well for the Dallas Cowboys. But he is the number one target. He is in his prime. He is one of the top six wide receivers in the NFL just by talent. If you trade him to another team, he's that team's one immediately. If you trade him to another team, he is that team's one immediately. He's a dominant player who has been the wide receiver one. overall in fantasy in the past already with DAC. So I have no fears about C.D. Lamb. And I feel like there is, you go from C.D. Lamb to huge question marks up next. Justin Jefferson, he just had a whole season where he sucked. And we don't know the quarterback situation. Maybe they get Kyler and then Justin's going to fly up. Malik neighbors? Oh, man, so good. How's his recovery?

Is he healthy? Is he healthy week one? I don't know. Drake London, George Piggins, like you, you enter a tier where I think there's a lot more questions than on CD. So I'm going to take CD off the board here. And if you want to go wide receiver, you've got to do more calculus. Okay. CD is, I believe, the appropriate pick. I would, despite Amin Ross St. Brown, always being the wide receiver three, I would take CD over him as of right now. So now I'm going to pick because my list.

is I believe at this point I would just gamble and I would take Malik neighbors right here because I think Malik neighbors can be the overall number one wide receiver. So I'll just throw that out. But I want, I'm going to put my spicy pick in here because let's have some fun. It's Chase Brown. I knew you're going to do something stupid. It is Chase Brown.

And what I hope I'm doing here for people is Chase Brown will not be drafted in the first. round of fantasy football drafts. No, he will not. His production by the end of the year will yet again be that of someone who should have been taken in the first round. So hopefully, look, I'm not trying to blow up ADP or anything right here. I'm just letting people know that that my confidence in Chase Brown, especially with the, it's rumors and speculation right now of an extension. Because if an extension comes through, especially before the, we do, I would say, we're early NFL draft could still ruin things for

Chase Brown. I fully admit that but I think that I think the extension is coming for him and that will squelch is that a real word? I don't know. Yeah, that's a real word and it was a perfect utilization. Would I use it right? You nailed

that. Chase Brown is going to dominate for fantasy football yet again. Do not let just like Jamar Chase, the beginning of the year was awful for Chase Brown. And yet, once Joe Burrow was back and the offense was who they actually are, Chase Brown just, Chase Brown carried people to titles.

Yeah. He was awesome. Chase Brown will be a good value in fantasy drafts because he won't go here. He will, he doesn't have a big enough name, big enough NFL draft capital, and early enough start to his fantasy success in his NFL career. a slow start to last season when people drafted him and got just completely burned out. I mean, he was a my guy for you last year. Right.

And you felt like you took the biggest elf. Oh, it sucked. It felt so stupid and bad. And then, you know, five weeks in, all of a sudden he became exactly who you thought he would be. I mean, Chase Brown, you have, so through six weeks, he did not finish inside the top 20. Week one, he was running back 21, week six, he was running back 20. So I'm saying that's how bad the start was for Chase Brown, running back 34, 49, 37, 28. He started the year like that, six weeks, and yet he still finished as the running back eight over the course of the season because the second half was so good.

And I don't think, I'm not saying Chase Brown could be like a top three running back. but he can be a top six, maybe even a top five type of a guy that you don't have to pay up for yet again and I will be very excited to take him in drafts. Yeah, I hope he drops much further than this, get him near the two, three turn. Also, Jeremy has let me know, squelch usually means to forcibly suppress unwanted expression.

That's basically exactly what you meant. What am I, what am I a word of the day, vocab calendar? I mean, we're helping people out here. Please, ladies and gentlemen, find a way to use the word squelch in your life today. That is a fun word to say. All right. So I got the pressure of the last pick. This is really big. The issue is there's too many people that deserve to be in the first round that obviously are not going to be there because there's only one more and you put Chase Brown in there. That's right. So I want an apology to one of these guys from you. but here are the players in consideration.

Devon A. Chan and Josh Jacobs at running back are awesome. I will apologize to Devon A. Chan. Sure. Then I will not be putting him in so that you may apologize to him. Okay. So now it's between, and honestly, when I look at... Which is that here, please hear what I'm not saying. Okay. I'm not apologizing to Josh Jacobs for not putting him in the first round.

Okay. Then I will select Josh. Jacobs. I actually am going to take Josh Jacobs. Okay. Josh Jacobs super banged up towards the end of the year. It was a bad finish and it kind of got in the way of you realizing how... He was great.

How dominant he was, how... I mean, you look before his injury. You got injured in week 11. From that point on, it was really rough. He's trying to play through it. Some games, he played through it while injured and was awesome. Other games, it was like, oh, I think he fumbled early.

And so then was basically benched the rest of the game. Kind of due to the injury, kind of to save himself. But you ended up starting him and he got nothing. So it was just this trepidatious end to the season that from weeks one through 10, Josh Jacobs was the running back five. He was a couple points ahead of Bijan. He was a couple points ahead of James Cook. His pace would have been 20 rushing touchdowns.

through that stretch while getting over 50 receptions, basically 500 receiving yards, 1200 yards on the ground. He was a dominant force, and they're not going away from him right now. I think the offense, they dealt with so many injuries. Obviously, the quarterback himself and Jacobs himself, going into next season, Josh Jacobs is a running back one, and he should be there. Now, it's tough because Malik neighbors should be here. but the injury

I think Hampton Hampton honestly is the next running back on my list When we go through the UDK rankings and stat these guys out and look at the team projections look at the schedule, dive as deep as we do I will not be surprised at all if Hampton is way ahead of Josh Jacobs

in my rankings ahead of Devon H.N. Or other running backs. I mean maybe even Definitely Chase Brown. Why is it definitely? I'm just kidding because Chase Brown is a good enough fantasy asset to be taken here. It is one of those things where he's not viewed that way, in which case you want the value. The greatest part of Chase Brown is that if you're smart enough to get him where he's being drafted, you're getting a great value.

If you reach where- Because I took him as what, like the fifth running back? Yeah. Like that's egregiously high for ADP. Yeah, he won't go anywhere near there. So just let this be, you know, a little signal to let him drop to you and be more excited about it. But he definitely will not be in the first round of ADP. All right.

I'm going to list some names. After you give an apology. Well, I'm going to list some names and do we need to apologize? All right. Devon H. Yes. Yes. We apologize.

Sorry, my man. There's just, there's too much, there's too much I don't know about the Miami Dolphins right now to put you in the first round. Ashton Genty. No, he, he earned his second round pick this with his rookie season. Sequin Barclay. Mm-mm. No apologies. None.

Derek Henry. Like an honorary apology. Okay, so it's just like a, like a head nod. Yeah, like we get it. We get it. We get it. I'm not going to say I'm sorry, but you know then I'm sorry. Derek, you know.

You know, you know how we feel, but you get it. Yeah, you're awesome. Can I do a first round pick of Derek Henry in the month of November? For sure, yes, yes. The snow is falling in Vermont. Unfortunately, there's the warm months. All right. That's going to do it for today's show.

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