Lineup Fantasy Football Show - 10 Draft Tips to Win Your Fantasy Football League

Episode Date: August 26, 2026

Trying to win your fantasy football league? These 10 draft tips will help you win a championship! Including when to draft a quarterback, whether or not you should draft rookies, and the mistakes casual players make every year. Perfect for beginners and even experienced players heading into their fantasy football drafts. Timestamps: 0:00 - Fantasy Football Draft Tips 0:46 - Prepare but don't restrict yourself 4:06 - Take good players on good teams (duh) 6:30 - It's not a reach if they won't get back to you 8:52 - Unless Josh Allen is there, punt QB this season 11:20 - Pay up or punt TE 14:33 - Draft rookies, don't trade them 17:35 - Keep track of the teams around you 20:10 - Upside is king 22:33 - Have fun 25:00 - You don't win your league at the draft Play $5 and Get $50 in Bonus Entries on Underdog with code LINEUP: https://play.underdogsports.com/vgwg/p-lineup Use code LINEUP50 for 50% off Smash Accept Subscriptions for a limited time: https://www.smashacceptff.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome into the live fantasy football show. I'm Mitch Anderson. I'm Justin Mello. And Mello draft season is officially upon us. And if you're tuning in, first of all, thank you. And second of all, we will not let you down here. We are here to help you with the top 10 draft tips to help you build the best team. And hopefully, you'll stick with us through the season so that we can help you land the plane and win your fantasy football. league. But Mello, how about you kick us off with tip number one here? Well, first of all, TGIDS. Thank God it's draft season. This is, it's like Christmas, but better. But I'd be happy to give the first tip here, and that is prepare, but do not restrict yourself. And this is one of the most important tips to me. Obviously, you want to do your homework and have a good

plan going into your draft, but do not let your plan imprison you. The draft can go in a million in different directions that none of your mocks accounted for. So at least to some extent, you need to let the draft come to you and take advantage of how the board has fallen. So for example, if you were planning on going running back heavy early, but they all fly off the board and all of a sudden there are just incredible values at wide receiver, don't be afraid to zig while others zag and take the wide receivers. Or if you were de-inimately against drafting that one wide receiver that everyone likes,

but now he's three full rounds past ADP, don't be too. stubborn for your own good by removing him from your draft board entirely. Take him if the price is right. And one more example, if you already have five running backs and only three wide receivers, but a running back fell to you that you like way more than any of the wide receivers available, take them. Don't feel like you need to draft a position just because you need more of it on your roster. Basically, to sum it up, be adaptable, be fluid, prepare, of course, but don't feel like you have to

go with your plan A and don't close doors to alter. alternate options. Yeah, there's a few points I want to hit here because this is such a good tip to start things off. I think the first one is like, you need to have some sort of structure of what you want to do in the draft going in, but everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the face. And if you stay so rigid in what you were planning to do, you're going to miss out on awesome opportunities in the draft, like the one you mentioned. Sometimes we become so set on I will not draft this guy. I will not draft Woody Marks Mello. But what if Woody Marks is four rounds past ADP, and then he's gone past the point of being a value to you. You just need to know

where your ranking players, not necessarily saying you're in or out, just maybe lower or higher. I think a great example was last year. A ton of people just marked James Cook off. They said, I don't want to take James Cook. There's all this talk around touchdown regression. And then I saw a lot of people talking about how James Cook slipped in my draft, but I didn't feel like taking him. And we all know James Cook goes on and he leads the NFL in rushing yards. And once again, he's a phenomenal asset in fantasy football. So all of that, I just think is a really, really important way of saying, like, you're right, you should have a plan going into a draft, but don't let that plan just keep you in a chokehold the entire time and not let you make the right moves for your team. Absolutely.

And I've done mock drafts, real drafts this year where I go super wide receiver heavy early, super running back heavy early, just depends on how things fall. And then, like you said, like, I mean, some of my best draft picks ever going back years and years have been guys I didn't like at cost, but fell way past their costs. And then, of course, I scooped them up and they ended up working out. So don't be stubborn is really what I can boil this one down to. Yeah, you mentioned about like, okay, you've got five running backs and three wide receivers, but a running back falls to you, take that guy. I'm going to get into this later, but this isn't best ball. Your team is not locked at the draft.

You will have the ability to make moves later on. So take the value. And most importantly, take the guys that you believe are going to score the most points. That's the hard-hitting analysis you get at the lineup. The guys who you think will score points, take them. You want some even more hard-heading analysis at tip number two here? Let's do it. I'm going to hit you with Take Good Players on Good Teams.

Done. Boom. I just saw a fantasy football for you. But like in all seriousness, this is one of the best tips not only for people who are beginners or not hardcore fantasy players, but it's also sometimes a really good reminder for the people who are so deep in this game that you sometimes miss the whole point of it. Because yes, it's so fun to find the diamonds in the rough. Like I can't believe I got the third string punter for.

from San Jose State who converted into a wide receiver and caught a touchdown in that one game. Sounds like something Bill Belichick would do in real life. It actually does sound like a Belichick move. But I think like sometimes we pass up on these really good players in really good systems because we're trying to get too contrarian. And so how I would actually put this into practice is pretty easy because I think it applies most aptly in like the first few rounds. But let's say you're looking at a player you're excited about and check yourself on this.

Was that player on an offense that was in the top? top 10 to 15 last year. If yes, then there's no strong reason to believe that they're going to take a step back, Greenlight. If they weren't, was there a significant change over the offseason that gives you the conviction that they will enter into those top 10 to 15 offenses? If so, green light, take the guy. Finally, if all of that isn't true, if they weren't on a good offense last year, the offense doesn't look like they're going to get better, are they so talented that you are willing to take the risk that they're an outlier and be the exception to that rule? Which I call the Devon A. Chan rule. And that leads me to my final point here. This rule goes double,

maybe triple for running backs. There are always exceptions, but most of the time, you won't go broke taking a profit with a good running back on a good team. And to me, that is the David Montgomery rule for 2026. I was thinking Devon A. Chan that whole time as you were talking to. Like, you're going to need a crazy volume like that to overcome being on a bad team. And you're right, running backs, it applies to ton. Receivers too, though. Like, I remember four or five years, years ago. I think one of the worst teams I ever drafted in our home league, Mitch, I just kept taking a bunch of number one receivers on terrible football teams. And I'm like, man, I sure wish I had T. Higgins, because when you draft a player, you're kind of drafting their whole offensive

environment to a large extent. So if you can get someone who is, of course, good on their own, as well as in a good offensive environment, that's worth so much more than this elite talent who's just in a terrible situation. 100%. All right. Well, my next one here, something you may I've heard before, and it's that it's not a reach if they won't get back to you. And this is one I constantly have to remind myself, because even I sometimes can be a victim of monitoring ADP a little bit too closely. I think this one probably applies a little bit more to the middle to late rounds than the early ones, but I would say it applies to the early rounds as well. So, for example, if you think Brock Bowers is truly going to be the football robot from heaven that Clint Kubiak suggests, and you're picking near the, one two turn. Sure, that's early for Bowers, according to ADP, but he's definitely not making it

to the three-four turn. So if you really have that strong of convictions, go ahead and grab him, because he's not getting back to you. And if you're like me in the later rounds or the middle rounds, you like a guy like Chris Godwin, but there's six other wide receivers going ahead of an ADP left on the board and there's 14 picks before your next election. Go ahead and fade consensus. Don't take one of those six receivers. If Chris Godwin is your favorite of the bunch, take him don't risk him not getting back to you in those 14 picks so yes you should keep an eye on adp and kind of play that game and always keep that in mind because that'll help you avoid drafting recklessly and reaching like crazy on guys but have the confidence in your own

convictions and your own analysis and your own beliefs so that you're not too overly cautious where you're going to miss out on guys yeah i think brock bowers is such a good one for this i i keep seeing the phrase like Brock Bauer's in the second round no matter what. And it's like, yeah, if he's not going to get back to you, it's not a reach. Something I love saying is like ADP is a compass, not a map. It should be giving you some general direction on where you're going. But if you're just going to pick every single pick that some consensus ADP list is telling you to do, one, you're probably not going to end up with a team that you have a whole lot of conviction about. And two, you're probably not going to end up with a winning team because you didn't take any big risks

and you didn't go against the consensus. And so I think this is a really, really valuable tip that no matter what your experience level is in fantasy, I think we all fall victim to the ADP trap every once in a while. That's a bar, by the way. That's some Confucius level fantasy phrasing right there. Compass, not a map. I love that.

All right, on to tip number four. I'm going to name all of these rules after players, by the way, on my end. And so this one is the, unless Josh Allen is there, punt QB this season. which makes this the Josh Allen rule. But if you do miss out on Josh Allen, I'm calling it the Brock Purdy rule. Because if you have watched us, you have heard us say a million times, this is the deepest QB year in fantasy football and recent memory.

Just because so many quarterbacks can run at this point to some extent now, the floor has been raised so high that the difference between a QB 4 or 5 and the QB 12 or 13, it just keeps shrinking. And now we've reached a point where everybody's desperately trying to scoop up those mid-round QBs, you personally can just wait and strengthen your wide receiver in running back rooms. We've seen how scarce running backs becoming in these early rounds. And then go grab somebody comparable a quarterback later without giving up that opportunity cost. Say you're looking at like a Caleb Williams.

How much different is he really than waiting a couple rounds and grabbing yourself Trevor Lawrence, Bo Nicks, Kyler Murray, or of course, the name of this rule, QB13, my guy, Brock Purdy. I love this. I'm in on this most years, but you're right. This year more than most, because we talk about. about how deep quarterback is. And of course, like, there will be exceptions. Like, if you're in a really sharp league where everyone is kind of like,

yeah, I'm just going to wait and I'm fine with Brock Purdy or Bo Nix or Tyler Murray or whoever late and everyone's waiting, well, then okay, we kind of go back to Rule 1, which is like, don't be too stubborn. I've done some drafts where like Jaden Daniels falls to the ninth round. And I'm like, okay, I'm going to take Jada Daniels in the night. That's too good of a value. But for the most part, like, especially in home leagues where people are so excited to take their favorite quarterback and they want to reach for them maybe even a little bit to make sure

they get them ahead of ADP. You can just wait and you can grab two quarterbacks so late that are so good. Of course, Josh Allen is like always the exception because he's just so reliable. He's always a difference maker at the quarterback position. But if you're not getting him in the third or sometimes fourth round, just wait, just wait on the position. I love the point you just made there about bringing it right back to tip number one. This is a great philosophy to have this year. but if everyone else in your league is thinking this way, then okay, yeah, grab Lamar Jackson a round past ADP. Then I think it's worth it.

And I, like, kind of went back and forth on involving Lamar in this rule. Like, is it the Josh Allen Lamar rule? But I also do like Lamar at costs. I think the tiered break falls right after Lamar. I would completely agree with that. Well, my next hip here, Mitch, is very similar to your tip, just at the tight end position because it's to pay up for tight end or punt altogether. We could call this the Brock Bowers rule or the Tray McBride rule.

Yeah. If we're tagging a player to it. And this one is super specific, similar to the quarterback rule. But it's worth getting into because I think it is so valuable. When you look at the history of it, too, like this is something that has historically paid off. Just last year, if you look from a season-long perspective, if you didn't have Tray McBride in 2025, it did not matter who you rolled out a tight end at all. And sure, guys like Brock Bowers and Tucker Kraft were hurt, and when they were healthy, they were great. And then you had guys like Colston Loveland and Kyle Pitts who had great games down the stretch.

But from a season-long perspective, Trey McBride was the only difference maker. Yeah. Through 17 weeks, he scored over 100 more points than the tight-in two Kyle Pitts, a margin that is bigger than the difference between Pitts and Cade Otten, the tight-in 27 last year. That gap was a little bit less drastic in 2024, but still, the notable top three tight-ins that year, McBride and Kittle, they were the only difference makers. If you didn't have one of those three, it didn't really matter. So this is something we continue to see year over year, even going back to like the prime Travis Kelsey, Mark Andrews, Rob Grancowski, or even Jimmy Graham days if you want to

go way big back. Let's go. You have one of those guys. You're winning the tight end battle. If you don't, it doesn't matter if you have the tight end five or the tight in 18. Like it does not make a difference. So all that to say this year, feel free to pay up for Bowers. Feel free to pay it for McBride. I'm fine when you paying up for Loveland who's going a round or two later than those guys. And I'm even okay with a mid-round shot on Tucker Kraft just because his upside is the same as those guys if he's

actually healthy and on the field consistently, which we don't know, which is the only reason his ADP has slipped so far. Right. But aside from those guys, I'm not touching tight-in until the 12th or 13th round at the earliest, barring, again, like a crazy ADP faller. Yeah, this is basically the rule before

about quarterbacks, but there's like a slightly bigger pool that we consider that, elite tight end class. And the phrase you kept using there that I think is the most important is difference maker. Because yes, maybe this year you draft Kyle Pitts as the tight end eight off the board and he finishes the tight end five. But the difference between him and the guy who finishes the tight end eight is probably like 15 points on the season, which is like a point a week. And did that really make a difference in your season? Whereas you could have grabbed a receiver or a running back in those rounds that are way more likely to have a difference of three, four, five point.

versus the guy above replacement. And so I think this is an absolutely great rule. I agree with you. There's such a pool of guys that we love late in drafts. I mean, I can't stop talking about Isaiah likely. I just named him as one of my my guys. Like, he's a guy I'd be targeting here. So I agree.

The Brock Bowers rule, if you can get one of those top three guys, go for it. Even Tucker Kraft that'd bring in. Other than that, unless you have a whole lot of conviction on it, we're just not in on that middle class of tight ends. I just saw so much growth from you, Mitch. all I heard from that whole thing was fade Kyle Pitts at ADP.

And I think I like you more as a human now. I said it and I was like, oh, he's going to run with this. Give him an inch. All right. On to tip number six. You kind of inspired this one, Mello, but draft rookies don't trade them. Every single year, we draft these rookies so highly in our fantasy drafts. And because they're rookies, they tend to start off slow.

So what do we do as fantasy football players? We panic. We get mad at ourselves for investing such a high pick in a guy who's quite literally, never done it before at the NFL level, and then we deal them to try to recoup some of our losses. The old buy high, sell low, as Warren Buffett would put it. But what happens next? That player explodes after their bye week,

and they win somebody else a fancy football championship. Last season, it was Colson Loveland, who was the tight end 50 through the first eight weeks, then exploded down the stretch and was the tight end two from week nine on. In 2024, Ladman Kocki was the wide receiver 45 through week seven, and then the wide receiver eight from week eight. on. That same year, Neighbors was the wide receiver six after his week 11 by, and Brian Thomas Jr., who knows what happened to him, but he was the wide receiver two after his week 12 by.

If you draft a rookie, lock in with them. You are along for the ride with that rookie, and if you don't, and that player disappoints early on in the season, go out and take advantage of the manager who is panicking, who's trying to recoup his losses and go make a trade for them. And this one, Mello, we are calling the Carnel Tate rule. I love it. We need like a 90s style PSA announcement for everyone out there. The more you know. More you know, don't cut Carnal Tate if he gets off to a slow start.

This is a phenomenal tip. I'm actually upset with myself I didn't think of this one because it is such a good tip. And I feel like picking on you today, Mitch, because I already did with Pitt. So I'll do it again here today. But another good example a few years ago, I remember one Mitch Anderson in a league I'm in cutting Rishi Rice. Not another than Rishie Rice himself, his rookie year, just for me to pick him up and him be just phenomenal down the stretch. But of course, it's not just for Shui Rice.

It's all those guys Mitch mentioned. It's multiple guys like pretty much every single year. And the flip side of this rule is if you don't want to draft rookies, make sure when your league mates are cutting them to pick them up before the breakout happens. Yeah, it gets a lot harder when you go into one of those waiver weeks after they had a breakout week and everyone's spending all their fab. Be the guy. I know it costs you a roster spot, but be a week early, not a week late on these guys.

definitely if you have a free spot at any point in this season it's like week five six that rookie that just got cut who was taken in the 12th round of your redraft draft go get them all right well my next one here miss tip number seven is monitor the roster construction of those this is a great one while in the heat of the moment and we all know the heat of the moment of the draft the heart is bumping the blood is flowing it can be so easy to have tunnel vision on your own team but you can garner insights and a competitive advantage by looking at the teams around you. So for example, let's say you're picking at 10 in a 12-team league. First of all, sorry, I don't love that pick for you.

But let's say you are. It's the fifth round. You really love the top two wide receivers on the board. You can't wait to take one of them. But then you realize the two teams picking after you, one of them only has one running back, and the other one doesn't have any running backs left. And then you take a look at the running backs left on the board.

You realize there's a clear-cut best running back remaining. Maybe you should go ahead and take it. that running back and make to bet that at least one of those two wide receivers will fall to you with your next pick anyways given that the team's picking next desperately need running back this also i think really applies for the onesie positions let's say we brought jaded daniels earlier let's say you are dead set on taking jaden daniels this year it's your pick and you realize every team picking between you and your next pick already has a quarterback why would you take jaden daniels take your next favorite player at any other position and then wait until the next round to grab Jaden Daniels.

There's probably not a very high chance that one of those teams is going to take him if they already have a quarterback. Just make sure you don't take them if you have pick five. You might have a lawsuit on your hands. But this one seems so simple. Like this is such a simple tip, which is why I love it. But it's so easy to lose sight of it in the heat of your draft during those hectic moments.

This tip is basically just don't be so self-absorbed. Think about your league mates and their teams. This is so true. I like what you said about the onesie positions because especially like, This is slightly different if you're in a Super Flex League, but if you're in a one quarterback league, like you said, if you're near a turn and those guys already have quarterbacks, don't burn your pick going and grabbing a quarterback. Get the guy you really want, and then that quarterback's going to come back to you because they're

not going to, if they have Jayden Daniels, they're not going to grab Jalen Hertz right after that or, you know, Brock Purdy in my case. So I think this is a really, really good tip. Make sure you understand the constructions of everyone around you, but most importantly, the guys within one or two picks of you on either side. Definitely. Don't be self-absorbed. We got to name this one after a famous therapist or something

instead of a football player. As much as I need to see one, I don't know any famous therapists. I mean the do I. All right, on to tip number eight. Recalling this one, upside is king. I think of any fantasy football show, Mello, we may spend the most amount of time

advertising the boring players that can win you leagues by giving you a safe floor. So I do want to give a PSA here. You need the safe guys who give you the foundation and the points that you can rely on. Those are the guys that get on base for you, but then you need the home run hitter that actually gets you the RBIs. A team of Wondale Robinson, Jacoby Myers, and Chris Godwin isn't getting you anywhere alone. But if you pair them with a Ladd-McConkey, a Brock Bowers, a Christian McCaffrey, someone with that home run hitting ability that's a little bit riskier but a little more upside. That's how you end up forming a team that gives you the safe point.

and the upside points that win you a championship. And I think Austin Echler put it so well on our show recently, but we played a win, like in fantasy football. There's no difference between third place and 11th place. You need to take risks. And of course, you need to balance those risks by taking your vegetables and grabbing a Chris Godwin or someone like that. But you should also have that bottle of tequila ready to break out at any time and get crazy.

So I'm going to name this rule after a guy that we've been a little bit more critical of, but it actually matches the rule perfectly. And I'm going to call this one the Luther Burden rule. I found myself drops me a little Luther burden, Mitch. Oh, there we go. There's some growth. You know, you do got to take those shots. And it's, I mean, this almost in a way almost applies to like rule number or tip number one.

We talked about like not being too stubborn. Like you want to give yourself some exposure to some high variance players even if you don't believe it. And even if that's not Luther burden and even if you're not, you know, don't have that much of a risk appetite and you want to wait until the later rounds to take some shots. there are guys going in the later rounds that you may not like, but you have to admit their ceiling is a moonshot. Like, take those guys, especially if you already feel good about your core, you already feel good about your starting lineup,

you have like solid, safe depth. Take shots, some guys that even if you don't believe in, they raise that ceiling and they could be league winners down the stretch. I'm going to say one last thing just to preview your next thing too. Yes, you can go out and draft a bunch of Chris Godwins and you're probably not going to lose your league. but you're also not going to have a lot of fun and those high variants like cool players

are the ones you get so attached to for years to come that make the fantasy football experience so awesome. One billion percent because it is all about fun at the end of the day which is the perfect segue into tip number nine here. Fantasy is supposed to be fun. Draft a team that will bring you joy on Sundays and I know that might sound lame with me like,

oh, it's just for fun guys, but honestly it is kind of just for fun and I am probably more than anyone I know guilty of being super hyper competitive, wanting to just, me, just want to destroy my enemies as if fantasy football were nuclear warfare. But thankfully for the sake of humanity, it is not.

It is just a game. And we play this game because we enjoy it, because we want a fun competitive outlet that gives us a dopamine hit on Sundays. So if some nerd like me or Mitch tells you the draft Ladmokke, but you absolutely love T. Higgins and you want a piece of the Bengals offense to root for from your couch on the weekend? Well, to hell with us then.

Don't draft Ladd-McConkie. Go get yourself some T. Higgins and enjoy the ride. If you think Quintrod Junkins is great, but you don't want to be subjected to watching and rooting for the Browns every Sunday, then don't take them. You don't have to do anything that doesn't sound fun to you. As much as it brings me physical discomfort to admit verbally

because I devote so much time to this game, fantasy football is just a silly game. So if you aren't having fun, why are you doing it? And remember that on draft day. I think this may be the most important rule. And the way I know that is I hadn't looked at Mello's tips yet. And I wrote the exact same tip. I literally said the exact same thing, word for word, fantasy football should be fun.

We are living right now in an age of so much content, so many tips, so much optimal this, optimize that. And I think that's great that we as fans are getting access to so. much data and understanding of the game of football. But I also think it can be a hindrance to this thing that is supposed to be enjoyable. It's supposed to be something that brings you together with your community, whether that's your high school friends, your college friends, your work friends. This should be a thing that you look forward to, not a thing that stresses you out because you didn't optimize your lineup in some way in the way you were drafting. And so draft the guys that

are going to make it fun for you, because I can also guarantee you, there's a way to have fun and win. and if you win with a team that's actually fun to watch every Sunday, those are the championships that actually stick with you. Yeah, those are the ones that you look back and you feel like you won the actual Super Bowl because you had fun along the way. So keep that in mind. That's something I need to keep in mind myself.

I have to remind myself every once in a while, but it really is such an important tip. Let's jump into number 10. You don't win your league at the draft. I think this was the fantasy footballers that coined the phrase, but you can't win your league at the draft, but you can certainly lose it. I think it's very critical to understand that the team you draft is just the foundation.

Most of these guys are probably going to stay on your team, but many of them are going to get traded, they're going to get cut to make room for waiver pickups. And so my advice is just to always be active throughout the season. Don't get too emotionally attached to your players. Also, don't get impulsive with them and say, I don't know, cut Rishi Rice as a rookie. But try to always make the best move possible to make your team better week in and week out. because it's possible, but the odds are very slim that the team you drafted is a championship winning roster, unless nobody else in your league is making moves either.

And so I'm calling this one the U-Rule, because you're the player here and you need to make the plays throughout the season two. So remember when you're drafting, make sure you know your strengths leaving the draft and your weaknesses, identify guys you can target if they start slow. Say Carnal Tate, guys on your team that you're waiting to see what they are, but you're willing to cut quickly if you don't see it because you don't want to rock. or clogger. Just don't rest on your laurels because even if you start hot, if you're sitting back all year, sometimes you can be the hair that gets taken over by the tortoise that outworked

you all year on the trades in Waverwire. I absolutely love that. That's poetic. Bringing it full circle with this being the you rule. It's a phenomenal tip though. And especially if you're in a league that's more active with trades, keep that in mind. Like this isn't your final team and know when to capitalize on certain things. Like if you draft a guy in the middle to late rounds that has a really big couple weeks but you don't project it to continue, someone is going to want to buy into that hype

and trade for him for way more than you spent on them in the draft. One guy comes to mind, I like J.K. Dobbins, Mitch, I know you like. I like him too to start the year, but there are concerns around the health. There are concerns around Jonah. Yeah, longevity.

Like, if J.K. Dobbins through week three is the RB6 overall, maybe you move them to somebody who really needs RB help. So those are the kind of things you want to keep in mind during your draft, certainly after your draft. And just know, the final product isn't there on draft day. Like it is a fluid process throughout the season. This also kind of goes hand in hand with the have fun rule.

Like if there's a player on your team that is just driving you insane and you really don't have conviction on them, picking things back up, there's no harm in trying to make a move just to get them off of your team and to roster someone that you're more excited to watch on Sundays. 100%. Those were our top 10 tips to help you crush your draft here in 2026. Mello, before we get out of here, did we miss anything? I got nothing. Best of luck in your drafts, though.

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