Lineup Fantasy Football Show - Chaos Fantasy Football Mock Draft: Spinning a Wheel Every Pick

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

Fantasy football drafts are supposed to be strategic, so why not introduce some chaos by spinning the wheel! Mitch and Mello go head-to-head in a CHAOS mock draft, spinning a wheel imposes a new rule on every single pick. The loser will eat a CRICKET to kick off our next chaos wheel episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we are mock drafting a full fantasy football lineup for 2026, but every pick comes with a rule from our patented chaos wheel. Plus, we reveal the punishment for the losing drafter who will be voted on by you, the viewer. Welcome to the lineup fantasy football show. I'm Mitch Anderson. I'm Justin Mello. And Mello, I am ready to have some fun. We're drafting one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, a tight end, and a flex. But the only way to make this draft interesting, as always, is to introduce a punishment for the player with the worst team. We're going to let the viewers decide that in the comments.

Just comment the name Mitch or Mello and we'll count that as a vote for the best team. And Mello, whichever one of us gets crickets in the comments is going to have to eat a cricket on screen during the next chaos draft that we will drop as soon as this episode hits 50 likes. So make sure to hit that like button, get ready in the comments and let's get into this thing Mello because you are up and the chaos wheel is spinning. We're going to start you off Mello with the trust me bro, which is that I get to pick a player for you. That is somewhere in the top 12 of their position. I, and that's according to fantasy pros rankings also, I kind of want to give you, I'm not going to be a jerk and give you quarterback or tight end

because that's a messed up way to start the draft. Wow, that is so, I would have given you Dalton Kincaid so quickly. No, I'm going to give you, I'm actually going to show how kind I am, and I'm going to give you Rishi Rice. Thank you. I don't know how I feel about that one. anymore, but I appreciate it. I want to start this on a nice note, just in case

you get something on a chaos wheel for me. All right, wow. We're building an alliance. Unlike the Grinch, his heart grew three times in size or whatever. Meanwhile, you're not going to want to touch my team with a 10-foot pole. All right, and for me, the wheel is spinning,

and we've got lottery ticket by a hair. I have to pick a guy outside of the top 100 players. Brutal. the worst one. Man, I really wish Parker Washington was outside of the top 100.

People are too wise for that. I think I'm just going to take this one easy, and I think I'm going to go Travis Kelsey as my tight end. We talked about it. He finished last year as the tight end three in an awful Kansas City offense. Hasn't finished worse than the tight end five

since 2015. I feel like this is a safe bet for a position. I don't want to be back against the wall on later. I think that's fine. That was like a pun spot and you punted it 50 yards that works out this is why we needed dst in here but got that in there for next time all right spinning the wheel mellow your next chaos is turning back the clocks i just stole someone from you but i think i know your pick you've got to pick a player 32 years old or older yeah i uh it's my first real pick i get to make myself and i'm so happy i get to make

this pick and take derrick henry here a guy we've talked about pick. Old running back who's going to turn back the clock who's going to be great in 2026. I feel so good about having him in my running back spot. Yeah, 5.2 a carry last year. He was like still unbelievable. Now you get Lamar Jackson back healthy. There's no debate on that.

I kind of just wish all of the punishments I put in here were that I had to make your picks. But it's all right that you got to make one for yourself. Wouldn't be very fun for me. No, it wouldn't. I don't think it would be very fun for the viewer either. No. And our next one is going to. be the copycat, which means that I have to select a player from the same team as Mello.

I'm going to go grab Lamar Jackson at my quarterback. Yeah, I kind of, that was like the Dwayne Wade, LeBron James Al-Upe right there. I set you up to get Lamar there after taking Derek Henry. I think there's like a ton of debate around like if Lamar still has it, which I think is a ridiculous argument. We have him ranked like very easily in our top three for next year, potentially maybe even our top two. So, yeah, he's my quarterback too. Yeah,

I think that's a smashback for sure. All right, on to the next one. Let's spin the chaos wheel. And Mello, the rule you've got for this one is the fade yourself, which means you've got to select a player that you sold on a buy or sell episode earlier on this spring. Well, I have talked about some big names, but one player I know, I distinctly remember calling a cell and hearing people very mad about it. is George Pickens of the Dallas Cowboys.

So I will go ahead and I'll take George Pickens here, who even though I think is a cell in Dynasty, as long as he's on the Cowboys in 2026, I love him. I think he'll be very, very good. Probably not as good as last year, but still very good. Yeah, I think that is absolutely the right pick of all the guys you've named as a cell. All right, time to spin the wheel again.

And the Chaos Wheel is going to give me the spelling bee, meaning that I've got to find a guy whose name starts with a vowel to fill one of these positions. There's some good ones. There's some good ones, and I'm, like, so afraid that I'm going to botch this right here. I'm trying to think of all the top ones. I think it's got to be Amin Ra as, like, the top guy, right? Yeah, that's my...

I just went down my list in the top ten. You could make an argument for Gentie if you wanted to go running back, but it's tough to pass up on Amin Ra. No, I think I still want to go Amin Ra. Talked about so many times. Three straight years is the wide receiver three. he's such a safe bet there in my wire receiver one position. Yeah, your last couple picks especially, I feel like, you're building quite the squad here.

I know, there's a couple traps on this chaos wheel, though, that someone's going to get screwed on. Oh, yeah. Next one you've got Mello is new beginnings, picking a player that's on a brand new team here in 2026. I'm going to finish off my running back spot here, and I'm going to take Ken Walker, who I'm starting to get more and more excited about. Yeah, being in Kansas City,

We love these Kansas City running backs except they've sucked for so long Now we have an actual good running back in Kansas City I'm excited about getting him I too feel like I'm getting like The Ken Walker bug which is never good That's usually led to like food poisoning When you have them in fantasy but I like the Ken Walker bug this year

I'm getting excited about him You and me both is contagious It's very contagious On to our next chaos wheel punishment For the next pick is second string this is the one I really did not want. That means I have to select a player who is second at their position

on their team. George Pickens would have been the very, very easy selection. But I guess just George Pickens' light here is T. Higgins. It really is, like, you can only really go wide receiver here. Yeah, and that's true, I would have gotten. You don't want a backup running back. Yeah, I probably would have gone T.

Devante Adams is like another interesting one you could have made the argument for, but I like T. Yeah, I think we're both in the camp that we're going to see some regression from Devante Adams this year. And so I want a bank on T moving up a little bit, but neither one of those is going to feel that great. Yeah, 100%. We've still got one or two traps in here, though, on the wheel. And then a few that actually aren't too bad. I don't like that I have quarterback and tight end still showing.

That makes me nervous that I'm going to get something really bad and have to fill it with something horrible. Well, you just pulled rehabbed on the chaos wheel, meaning that you've got to take a guy who played five or fewer games last year due to injury. See, this one's tough because I really want to feel quarterback or tight end here. How many games did Jaden Daniels play? Had to have been more than five, right?

I think he definitely played more than five. Yeah, I was not even... I was going to look. I'm not even going to bother. Oh, boy. I like... I don't want to love... leave quarterback and tight end open, but I'm going to have to because how do I not take Malik neighbors here in my flex? I just have to. I have to take Malik neighbors in my flex here. Like,

I have no other option but to put Malik neighbors in my flex here. That stinks for you. I'm looking right now. Jaden Daniels played in seven games so close to hitting the threshold. But Malik neighbors, I mean, how can you argue with this receiving course so far? You've got Rishi Rice, George Pickens, and Malik neighbors. Well, the thing that scares me is. is the Malik neighbor's knee and the Rishi Rice prison cell. But besides that, I feel pretty good.

Besides that, how is the play, Mrs. Lincoln? All right, on to our next spin on the chaos wheel. And I have got Lombardi, take a player

who's won a Super Bowl. I'll take JSN. I'm cooked, dude. That was the one I needed you to not get because you had that flex open. That was the one I needed to get.

That just really broke it open for you. I think I need to hit big on my quarterback in tight end to close the gap here because that JSN with Amundra, that's disgusting. Yeah, that was a huge one for me right there. All right, on to our next spin, and we've got Diamond in the rough, a player in the NFL draft who went later than the 10th

pick this year, who was a rookie. This is the one I did not need, man. This is the one I did not need. I can't take these quarterbacks because they're not going to start. So I have to take one of the two tight ends. I really like Stour's long term, but I don't know how evolved he's going to be. I have to take Kenyon, Sadiq. I really don't have a choice.

Yeah, this wheel has a few killers right now, and you've gotten a few in a row. All right, spinning the chaos wheel for mine. And we're going to land on Young Gun, meaning I've got to pick a player who is 23 years old or younger. Ashen Genty has to be 23, right? I think he's 23 on the dock. Okay. We're going to go with Ashen Gentie to fill out my art running. back one spot. Mello, we each have one final pick. You at quarterback, me at RB2, and you are going

to land on back it up, which means you've got to go with a guy that you named as a buy this season. Dude, I call Josh Allen a buy every single episode. No. That's true. I'm very complimentary of Josh Allen. I don't know if I've ever said he's a buy, though, so I will be a good sport here and not try to force Josh Allen as my pick. I do know for a fact I have called both Jalen Hertz and Justin Herbert a bye. Because of the tush push and those touchdowns, I'll take Jalen Hertz here and not feel like ecstatic about it, but I feel good about it. I feel like he'll be a quarterback one for sure next season.

Yeah, I think that was the right move. That's what I would have gone with. We're going to spin the wheel one more time, but it's set to never land on the same thing twice. So we know that this last one is going to end up being. bounce back, which means I've got to find a player who finished outside of the top 24 at their position. So I need a running back to finish outside of the top 24. I'm trying to think if there's someone who I'm like trying to think of injuries, if there's someone who like barely played and nothing's coming to me right now. I'm going to go with Quinn Sean Judkins though. I'm looking at

the top 24 finishers last year. I don't see him. I think that's probably my best bet here at the RB2. Yeah, I think that's like there's a few guy. I mean, it honestly, if you wanted to take Amari and Hampton, another guy in that draft class, there's like Bramondre Stevenson, David Montgomery, a guy we've talked about, but nobody overly exciting. Hand up, I missed Amari and Hampton, and I would have taken him, but I already logged Quinshawn Judkins in the dock, and so we're sticking with Judkins. Too late. Too late. Sorry. Better look next time.

So a recap of our drafts, Mello with Jalen Hertz at quarterback, Derek Henry and Ken Walker at running back, Rishi Rice and George Pickens at wide receiver, Kenyon, Sadiq at tight end, and Malik neighbors as a flex. I had Lamar Jackson at quarterback, Ashton Janty and Judkins at running back, Amunrah and T. Higgins at my wide receivers, Travis Kelsey as the tight end, and JSN as the flex. Let us know what you thought of the draft down below. Would you have made different picks? And of course, make sure to vote Mitch or Mello for who won this and drop a likes that we can bring you the next chaos wheel and one of us eating crickets. Mello, we miss anything?

Boat Mello. We'll catch you guys next episode.