Lineup Fantasy Football Show - JJ Zachariason and the 6 Players Who Will BREAK Fantasy Football in 2026

Episode Date: August 10, 2026

JJ Zachariason joins Mitch and Mello to break down the 6 players you need to be drafting in 2026 fantasy football leagues. Identifying players who are a screaming value at their current ADP to help you win your fantasy football championship. Follow JJ and Late Round Fantasy Football: https://www.youtube.com/@lateroundff 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/ Timestamps: 0:00 - JJ Zachariason & 6 Must-Draft Players 0:42 - Jaylen Waddle 3:52 - Trevor Lawrence 7:18 - Emeka Egbuka 11:21 - Luther Burden III 19:01 - Blake Corum 23:16 - Malik Nabers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And we are joined by a very big. very, very, very special guest today. I'm going to go ahead and just introduce you, even though you are a man who needs no introduction. We've got JJ Zacharias in here. Unbelievable episode incoming. What's going on, JJ? What's going on, guys? Thanks for having me. Very excited to talk some ball.

Dude, we're so pumped. It is time to talk about some fancy football. JJ, as the guests, we are always going to let you go first. Give us your first guy that you can't leave a draft without. I'm going to go with Jalen Waddle. He's coming off a really strong yards per out run season, especially given the environment that he was in, 2.19 yards. He had a 24% targets per route run rate, which is really strong.

Second best first downs per route run mark of his entire career. He's in year six, which historically has been peak production for wide receiver production. That's very exciting. Now you go to Denver. Denver's been an above average team in past attempts with Bo Nix. They've consistently been above average in EPA per play as well. And Waddle has actually only played two seasons. in his NFL career, because his offenses he's played in have not been very good, where his

offenses EPA per play have been positive, have been, you know, favorable. That was in 2022 and in 23. And in those two seasons, he had a 2.59 yards per out run rate and a 2.63 yards per run rate, which honestly, that's like non-JJ McCarthy, Justin Jefferson type numbers. You know, like, you know, let's just throw out last year what happened with J. Jeff. And in those two seasons, with Tyreek Hill as someone he was competing for targets with, he did score 15.3 and 14.2 ppr points per game. Now you get him in Denver where, you know, I think they're going to throw him in the Z

and let him move around the formation a lot. Troy Franklin played that role a little bit last year. And if you guys remember, there was like a five-week stretch where Franklin was out-targeting Cortland Sutton, and that's Troy Franklin. You know, Troy Franklin is not Jalen Waddle. Jalen Waddle is a borderline elite talent. He's a very good player.

Obviously, he's had a little bit of trouble staying on the field. I think that's somewhat of a question mark. But if you can get past that, I think he's in a very, very good spot this year to just go absolutely berserk. I love that couple of weeks where you were basically betting your mortgage in Fab on Troy Franklin. This is, as a couple of bo-levers on this show, like, I could not agree more with this pick. Like he goes to this Denver team that was fourth in passing rate last year. Like you mentioned, top 12 in yards per out run, targets per out-run, first downs per out-run, separation score. I think there was such a stink around Miami last year and Miami this year that people don't want to

believe that Jalen Waddle is still so talented and going into a system with an incredible opportunity. So this guy's been standing out to me too. I'm so glad you brought him up. I've been growing on him a ton too. Like early off season, I think I was your typical like bitter, fatigued fantasy player who's just so sick of Jalen Waddle. But I've come all the way back around for all the reasons you mentioned. And like when you really look at his metrics, he has never, like he has not been the problem in Miami. It's been, especially the last probably two or three years, Tua. Say what you want about Bo Nix being boring or, you know, not the flashiest or most elite of quarterbacks. That is a significant upgrade from what he was playing with prior, with Tua.

You mentioned the Broncos, like, I think people just default to thinking they aren't a pass heavy team because they have such a good defense. When statistically, that is not the case, Sean Payton continues to air out the football. Jalen Waddle is going to be the number one guy. And all of a sudden, I find myself drafting a ton of Jalen Waddle, especially the last few weeks. Well, I'm going to transition now to a quarterback that I also cannot stop drafting, and that is Trevor Lawrence. I've just fully embraced the fact that the answer to who you want in this offense, when we talk about all these Jags weapons and how we're hyping them all up,

the answer is Trevor Lawrence. Like, if we really believe in all of these different pieces, it feels like the guy you should be drafting as the quarterback, Trevor Lawrence. And hand up, I used to have Trevor Lawrence's arrangement, is something I've worked through. I thought he totally sucked. I'm recovering so thankful that I am. And I'm just all the way back in on Trevor Lawrence, who was the quarterback one overall from week nine on last year. Let me say that again. The quarterback one overall, the back half of the season. And even season long, he was the quarterback four. So he was very good last year. And now you can get him for the low, low price of

the quarterback 11 going in around the ninth round. It clearly worked out with Liam Cohen. I think that's a huge piece of it for Lawrence and now he gets another full season with all of these weapons that we talk about fully healthy he has a full season to get more comfortable in this Liam Cohen offense and that's really what gives me so much confidence that this wasn't just a fluke because he does have Liam Cohen going forward we saw prior to Lawrence's breakout last year to see her earlier Cohen in Tampa Bay with another first overall pick quarterback in Baker Mayfield who was the quarterback four in 2024 so we know Cohen's in the lead offensive mind. You know he can design these offenses to produce high fantasy outputs for

his players. And I think the one legitimate counterpoint I've heard in regard to Trevor Lawrence, besides the fact that he just cut his hair and some people didn't like that. Besides that, it's just the fact that he will not have nine rushing touchdowns again, to which I absolutely agree. It's very unlikely he'll do it. But my counterpoint to that would be two things. One, that's just fully baked into his ADP, the fact that he probably won't have nine rushing touchdowns again. And secondly, a lot of his touchdowns

came on design runs down by the go line where he was being used in Josh Allen-esque ways on powers and draws down by the goal line. I think Liam Cohen's the first person in Jacksonville to realize they have a 6-6 specimen at quarterback who can run the ball of physicality. And they used him in that way.

And I think they will still do that to a certain extent. So I'm someone who's waiting on quarterback this year more than ever. And he's one of my absolute favorite late guys to grab because he is going so late as one of the last QB ones off the board. And he has such league winning upside. Yeah. I mean, JJ, we make the joke on our show all the time that like we're stouting out all these receivers. We're like, oh, we love Parker Washington. We love Brian Thomas Jr. Jocobo Myers is going to have a role. Travis Hunter will work in. Next thing we know Trevor Lawrence is passing for 7,000 yards and 80 touchdowns. So maybe the guided draft is just Trevor Lawrence.

Yeah, no, I love Trevor Lawrence this year. The other thing to keep in mind, too, with Liam Cohen, is that when he was the O.C. in Tampa Bay, right before he went to Jacksonville, Baker Mayfield not only had the best year of his career, but he also got a lot done with his legs that he hadn't done previously. Like, he started running the ball a lot more, had a lot more points per game via rushing. And then, you know, obviously we saw that with T-Law last year,

where he had 5.3 points per game via the ground. obviously like you said, a lot of that certainly had to do with the touchdown equity that he got on the ground. But I do think that, you know, there is a backbone of this happening frequently in these Liam Cohen offenses that should give us more confidence in Trevor Lawrence. Absolutely. All right, guys, for our next person, I am going to take you on a journey, or dare I say an Odyssey, because I feel like it's been forever since I talked about this next guy. Like Calypso's had me on her island eating lotus flour, or in this case talking about Carnell Tate. for about seven long months, and I'm coming home to talk about one of my true loves, Ameca Abuka.

And guys, I refuse to listen to the siren songs of Jalen McMillan. And now I have returned to the wide receiver 20 off the board in ADP, who I believe will be the star of this bounceback Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense. All the talk this past month has been about Baker Mayfield and quarterback. We've seen that, yeah, the sprained PCL and MCL that suffered in week two, that really kind of set off that domino effect for the wheels just coming off of what looked like a genuine MVP candidate year for him. But the injury we don't talk about enough is the hamstring injury that first popped up

in week six for Abuka last year. Before that injury, we saw him as the wide receiver 3 through 5 weeks as a rookie. And then week 6 through 17, the wide receiver 43, which is, I think, the bad taste that's left in a lot of people's mouths. We're now seeing Abuka at camp working with Baker, and I'm not even losing my mind over the one-handed catches and the hype videos that everybody's dropping because they're so excited. What I do care about is the fact that by all accounts, he seems to have some lamented himself as Baker's number one target. And for me, at a wide receiver 20 price tag,

that's just far too cheap for a guy that talented in a role this good. And so with a Buka back fully healthy, Baker back fully healthy, Mike Evans is in San Francisco, and I have arrived back in Ithaca, or Tampa Bay, and I'm stringing my bow to target Emeka Buka in every single draft. I just bought tickets to city honesty. I think I might cancel. I don't think I need to go anymore. Sorry. I know it's only been out for 3,000 years, but apologies for the spoilers. No, I mean, you know, you don't have to convince me on Abuga. I just kind of like his floor as long as he and Baker can both stay healthy in this Tampa Bay offense. I just like the environment.

But more than his floor, just the league winning upside. We already saw the league winning upside the first month or so of last season. If he can have a full season of that, which I think is most certainly in the cards, like I said, as long as this team stays healthy, he's a league winner, like a true league winner in my mind. Yeah, I'm all about some Mexican. Abuka this year. If you look at what happened after week five, so week six onwards, you mentioned that injury, he ranked a hundredth out of 103 qualified wide receivers and catchable targets rate. And that wasn't just Nemeca abuka problem. Because sometimes that kind of statistic can give us a little noise just based on how things were charted and how things look. But that was

certainly a Baker Mayfield thing because Mike Evans had a really low catchable targets rate last year as well. They both ranked outside the top 100 when you're looking at things from like a season long perspective. But Mike Evans also is in Tampa Bay anymore. In games without Evans last year, Bucke had a 28% target share, 1.92 yards per route run rate. And then in games where Mike Evans did play, his target share dropped by about 9 percentage points. His yards per out room was 1.59.

So Evans not being there opens things up. I like this offense and it running through Abuka with Zach Robinson. We've seen him use that sort of like Z move player. You know, Cooper Cup technically played that role during his monster season that he had. You even saw Drake London kind of move all over the formation, you know, in Atlanta. So I am very, very bullish on Abuka. Love them as a prospect. Loved what he was doing at least the first, you know, part of the season last year.

I think that that can continue here in 2026. What's going on, guys? We are officially partnered with Underdog here in August for fantasy football draft season. If you've never used Underdog before and you want to do some fantasy drafts with me and Mello, you can actually sign up right now with a brand new promo using the code lineup, L-I-N-E-U-P, basically just to pop. and play with $5, and Underdog is going to give you $50 in bonus entries that you can use on picks, drafts, or anything in the Underdog app.

So you can either go into the description, hit the card above, or just download the Underdog app and use the code lineup. Deposit and play $5, and you will get $50 in bonus entries from Underdog. But guys, let's get back to the video. Guys, quick disclaimer before we jump back in. JJ's about to break down Luther Burden as we recorded this late last week before the injury that he suffered on Saturday. obviously there's a lot of good insight and information here on Burden, but just make sure to be following any injury updates as we get closer and closer to your fantasy drafts

so that you have as much information as possible before you make your pick. But now here's JJ on Luther Burden. My next guy is Luther Burden. So I know he's getting a lot of steam right now, but I actually thought that Burden was an elite prospect last year. I have the Zap model it's called. And if you look at it,

at how Burden scored in that ZAP model despite his draft capital because draft capital is a big input within that model. He had second round draft capital or some of these other wide receivers like a T-MAC or an Ibuka who we just talked about. Their draft capital was a lot stronger in round one. But despite that, Luther Burden was grouped up with them from a Zapp score perspective last year. He had a really good age-adjusted production. I said it last year. His sophomore season in college was the best analytical season of any wide receiver in last year's class. And then we see what happened last year where things got off to a slow start. You know, he's a little bit banged up in that July, August range.

I think that played certainly played some role in him not having a phenomenal role to start the season. And look, he didn't have a 70% route share in a single game last year. So there's obviously, you know, some volatility to this profile overall. He only ran 242 routes. But on those routes, he had 2.69 yards per round rate. that was the third best of any qualified rookie since 2011. Only OBJ and Martavis Bryant were better.

He can play an inside out role. He did that in college. I think that when you look at Ben Johnson and what he did in Detroit, I do genuinely think that they're viewing Luther Burden as an Amunrah St. Brown type piece to this offense. And it is crazy when he sort of overlay the talent in the profiles that they have in the Chicago team versus what they had in that Detroit team where a dunzee can maybe play that perimeter role like a JMO did.

You have Colston Loveland as a Sam Laporta, and I think Luther Burton is going to end up playing the ARSB role, which certainly gives him some easier routes, some quick throws, you know, closer the line of scrimmage, a lot of imbreaking routes that's going to help him create those giant plays because he's really, really good after the catch. I think Amira-Ras-St. Brown's a better, just pure route runner, and we've seen it, you know, come to fruition in the NFL.

but Luther Burton is unbelievable after the catch. We also have a metric at late round fantasy football called Market Score, which essentially looks at a player's ADP, it looks at previous season metrics, and it comes up with a score to essentially say, okay, here's what ADP is saying, but this player's either a little bit better or a little bit worse than where he's listed in ADP,

and you can look at historical comps with MarketScore, and some of Luther Burden's comps. You get Keenan Allen's 2015, where he scored 20 points, per game. Calvin Ridley's 2020. He had over 19 points per game. It really all comes together. You know, I don't think this is a situation where like the hype train is just out of control and there's no backbone because Luther Burton only ran 240 routes last year. To me, it's a player who was always good. He had an unbelievable prospect profile coming into the NFL. Not everyone believed in it. But there is that backbone. It's not a player who just came out of nowhere from day three,

you know, of the NFL draft to then have a strong yards per out run rate. It's that burden has been building and building and building and everything points to him having a breakout season this year. I'll admit I've been scared. I've been scared of the price. I actually saw an analyst I really respect on Twitter recently tweeted something about how if you like burning, you're not wrong. If you don't like the cost, you're not wrong. There are many possible outcomes. JJ something on Twitter. Go check him out. I forget his name. But I've been on the scared side of that price, but I'll admit I'm also scared that I'm being scared of the price when I shouldn't be because of the upside you talk about. And I've heard all offseason long Amin Raq comparisons, Amin Ra comparisons because of Ben Johnson and the fact that he comes from Detroit.

And I've been like, yeah, that's probably fair. I don't know. Like Amin Ra had really a very unique career trajectory as a day three pick. But now you hear Ben Johnson comparing him to Elin-Ra St. Brown. And I'm like, I don't know. And then you hear Roma Dunsay and this stuff with his foot, which I don't know how to feel about. And the other thing, too, I'll say about Luther Burden in his defense and something that I am starting to think about more as I go into drafts. Like, yeah, we talk about Amundran how unique his career was as a day three pick. Burden was a higher pick, obviously, second round pick like you said.

And the other interesting thing is, if he had come out a year earlier, he would have been probably a top 10 pick in the draft. It was one down year at Missouri where their whole season was kind of a disaster that hurt Luther Burnin's stock. but he's a guy we already projected at a point in time to be a very, very high pick in the NFL draft because of the talent he has. We certainly saw it down the stretch last year. Now DJ Moore is gone. Now Alameday Zakias is gone, which shouldn't have mattered to begin with, but it really did at points last year in Chicago. So the stars are aligning for somebody who could be a huge breakout here in year two. There are two wolves inside of me, and one of them's a massive coward and is really worried about the small sample size of production last year.

And the other one is the one that has to admit that maybe I've been wrong about Luther Burden. And I think it all kind of domino effect kicked off when we first got that news that Roma Dunesay was saying, what, this is his new normal after the foot injury. And it was like, okay, maybe I need to adjust the way I'm projecting their roles in this offense. And now the drumbeat from Ben Johnson himself is something that you truly can't ignore anymore. And Mello, you took the words right out of my mouth.

I keep hearing the ARSB comparison. and for him to say it himself for me has really gotten me in on this bandwagon. And so I think a month or two ago, had you brought him up on the show, I would have pushed back pretty hard. But I think I might be in. It goes against all my morals. Yeah, one thing I'll say too about burden is that a lot of people will cite the fact that, like, you know, we don't see a lot of hits from wide receivers who scored like fewer than 10 ppm points per game in their rookie season, right? Like rookie season production is very, very predictive.

But my pushback would be we also don't see many round two wide receivers. Even the Zat model database, he's a top five ever round two wide, round two or three wide receiver. And the guys who have been, you know, it's like Tyler Boyd and like Juju Smith-Schuster, guys who had like peak seasons in the, in the, Keenan Allen was another one, who've had like peak seasons and good seasons in the NFL and good careers in the NFL. And then not many of these guys who have fewer than 10 PPR points per game have a yards per run rate and were as good per route run as Luther burden was. So I think that like in my opinion, yes, there's a lot of volatility here. Like I again, I understand if people are not that interested

because you are paying for this to a degree. You know, his ADP's not getting like so, so out of control despite the camp pipe just because there's so many good wide receivers in that range, right? And so it's kind of hard for him to get like so crazy out of control. But I do think that there's a chance that he's a special player. And if I lose out on a fourth round pick or a fifth round in the home league, whatever the case may be, I don't think it's going to stick my fantasy team, but the upside is certainly there for him to just smash. Yeah, I think we always talk about,

we always say, like, we play for rings here at the lineup. And I'm looking at real-time ADP right now. You've got him in the wide receiver range going around, like a T. Higgins, a Garrett Wilson, like a Zay Flowers. And to me, like, like you said, yeah, maybe the floor is not there of somebody like a T. Higgins, who's so insulated in this offense. But, like, the upside that exists for Luther Burden

is nowhere close to the upside that exists for T. Higgins. And those are the shock. you want to take to genuinely win your league. Yeah. Yeah. Just to put it more simply, the upside is he is the number one clear-cut receiver on a Ben Johnson and Caleb Baleem's offense.

That would get you's excited. All right, well, I'm going to somebody a little bit less exciting here, but somebody I'm still excited to draft, and that is Blake Corum. And I want to start this out by saying something very important. This is not an anti-Kyrin Williams take for me, because a lot of pro-Corum people,

I think, like to talk negatively about Kyron Williams. and I wouldn't do that because I like Kyron a lot. I think Kyren's a very good player. I think he's still probably disrespected maybe because of the draft capital or whatever. But Kyran's good. The beautiful thing is you don't need to be out on Kyron to be in on Blake Quorum. Corum is going as the running back 35 in drafts right now, which is I think just about his floor.

He was the running back 40 and PPR last year, 37 and half point PPR. If his usage goes up a bit or even if it just stays pretty steady with what it was the back half of last season. I think he should be able to easily hit on that ADP. To illustrate what I mean by that, over his final six regular season games last year, he went from averaging 17 and a half snaps per game to 23.3, 7.5 carries per game to 10 and a half, and most importantly, 4.2 fantasy points per game to 12.7. That was good enough for him to go from the running back 59 over the first 12 weeks of this season to the running back 19 over the final six games. So if his usage and

Success just mirrors what it was last year down the stretch, which I think it theoretically should be that or even better after yet another full off season to solidify trust with Sean McVeigh and this coaching staff. I almost see this as like the lions, how we treated them for a couple years where, yes, of course, Jemir Gibbs, but even David Montgomery was going well higher than Blake Corrin is now because this is an offensive environment that can support two running backs. But the beautiful thing is that Corum is a flex with benefits because if William should ever go down for some reason or if he is, never unavailable. Corum instantly becomes comfortably a top 12 running back week in and week out for me every single week as the lead back in this Rams offense. So with all that said, it feels like you're drafting a guy that his cost reflects his floor, even if he remains in his current role. But the upside is he doesn't remain in that role and his value increases exponentially to the point where he's a true league winner, if anything happens to Kyran. That's

the kind of guy I want to draft late in fantasy drafts. Yeah, this is a great flex with benefits guy. And it all comes down to the cost that you said. Like you're paying an RB35 price tag, which I think you put it perfectly. I think is much closer to his floor than his ceiling. We've talked a lot about the Blake Kieran situation here, though. I'd love to get JJ's thoughts on this. Yeah, I mean, look, I think that, you know, as someone who has been kind of weary of

Kyron, even when, even like last year and a little bit the year before that even, and, you know, it's kind of burned me a little bit. but we did start to see that shift happened last year, where his snap shares were consistently in the 60 to 70% range versus the 70 to 90% range. And his backfield share was certainly suffering as well when you look at his running back rush share. The only thing that would probably scare me with Corum in general

is, you know, last year we did still see Kyron get more of the high leverage stuff that matters most in fantasy football, where like Corum was getting more of like the end. empty calorie stuff, between the 20 stuff. And if you look at the splits whenever Corum started getting used a little bit more, you know, his route share was still like sub 20%. You know, his usage of the goal line was still favoring and teetering towards Chiron a lot more than Corum.

So I think we probably need to see that change at least a little bit this year. But given what we've heard and given what like is very possible, I think that we could see that happen this year. And if that does happen, then all of a sudden, Corm is going to easily pay off at this cost. At Desjardin Insurance, we know that when you own a nail salon, everything needs to be perfect from tip to toe. That's why our agents go the extra mile to understand your business

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richer than you think. Couldn't agree more. No, I 100% agree with that. And just going back to like the with benefits. Like, you're right, Corum in some ways was almost like the Ken Walker of a target brand Ken Walker last year. It was all between the 20s. But even that, at least down the stretch, was enough to support him as a flex option. And then you're right, if we see a more dramatic flip

or if we see something happening to Kyron, that's where the real upside is. Yep. All right, guys, let's get into our sixth must draft player. We're going to be talking Oppenheimer this time. I'm just kidding. No movie comp. We're just going to be talking about Malik neighbors. I feel insane. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, but we have somehow brought Malik neighbors into a must draft episode

because he is back at training camp. He looks really good. And it feels like nobody even cares because his ADP is still in the third round. And I will admit, I think that's going to continue rising through August. But we talked about this in a recent episode that a lot of times when we start getting news about a player so late in the offseason, that ADP rise lags a little bit. And you can get a really good value, especially in your home league. So I don't want to be rash here, but I'm starting to think that a celebrity softball game was not the ideal way to measure how healthy a player is. Just last year before the injury, albeit a small sample size, he was the wide receiver two through two weeks. He had that explosive 37 point performance in that overtime game against Dallas.

It was the sixth best performance by any wide receiver in all of 2025. But if you turn back the clock to his rookie season, which is what I really want to talk about, he was the wide receiver six overall as a rookie, commanded the number one target share in the NFL at 34.91%, which is just outrageous, is the second highest we've seen in the past four years behind only JSN this past season. He finished that year of third in receptions, and now you could argue he has even less target competition with our short king Wondale Robinson headed to greener pastures in Tennessee. And he did all of this with Daniel Jones, Drew Locke, Tommy Cutlets, and then last year he was producing with Russell Wilson. I'm just envisioning a world where we see

this Jackson Dart breakout that we're all projecting in 2026. And this guy is just like an absolute slam dunk that like should to me be going a lot closer to like beginning of the second round that one two turn than he should be in like the two three turn. I'm curious to see if the ADP catches up because I think it absolutely should now that everything is looking more promising. Like he won't open the air on the pub. JJ, I'm curious to your thoughts if both from an injury perspective and then depending on what direction things go with the injury where that AVP is going end up falling. Yeah, I think there's still some chance that he's not 100% like week one, week two, but obviously, you know, our bread is buttered, if you will, in the fantasy playoffs.

And that's, that's later in the season where he should be closer to 100%. My only thing would be, like, I've been trying to project where he's going to go and where I might draw the line. I think given the injury concerns, it's probably around that like Drake London area, right? Where, like, like that spot where wide receiver becomes a lot, not a lot, but at least a bit more questionable where you get into like Nico, Rishi Rice, you know, maybe a Pickens or something like that where you can see reasons for like Nico not having quite as good of a season just given the competition there, like Rishi Rice for obvious reasons, George Pickens because C.D. Lamb is healthy. And so like you can you can see these like reasons as to why those players wouldn't

necessarily pan out. And I think that's where neighbors probably belongs when you're getting him after that group of wide receivers very frequently at this point. And look, I was someone that was not very bullish on neighbors' situation a month ago, and it changed because we've gotten really favorable reports. We've gotten to see him. We've heard doctors talk favorably about what's going on with him. And so I think you bring all that together. I do think that that Drake London range is where I would probably draw the line with him, though. I think that is 100% fair. That that range where you've got wide receivers in whatever litany of ambiguity in their situations, I think that's the perfect spot. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's probably

if I had the guess, assuming the report stay consistent with what they've been in the last week or two, I think that's probably where he'll end up. But I agree. If he goes further than that, that's a little bit too rich for my blood. If you're drafting early here in August, go steal Malik neighbors at his price right now. Guys, thank you so much for tuning in. Those are our six must-draft players for 2026. And of course, a massive thank you to JJ.

Make sure to go check out late round fantasy. We've got all of his links down in the description. but JJ, do you have anything left to plug? Yeah, look, you get the late round draft guide. You can find all of that over on late round.com. Awesome. And Mello, before we get out of here, do you have anything left to plug?

Nothing for me. All right, we'll catch you guys next episode.