Lineup Fantasy Football Show - The BEST Pick in Every Round of Your Underdog Best Ball Draft

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

We break down Underdog best ball draft strategy from the 1.1 all the way to the final round. Whether you're locking in anchor players early, chasing spike week upside in the middle rounds, or hunting league winning sleepers with your late-round lottery tickets... we've got every corner of your board mapped out 0:00 - Underdog Best Ball Best Picks Every Round 0:40 - Round 1 1:37 - Round 2 2:51 - Round 3 4:18 - Round 4 5:33 - Round 5 6:55 - Round 6 8:42 - Round 7 10:01 - Round 8 11:29 - Round 9 13:54 - Round 10 14:47 - Round 11 16:15 - Round 12 17:55 - Round 13 20:06 - Round 14 21:57 - Round 15 23:32 - Round 16 25:22 - Round 17 27:38 - Round 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last year, the best ball players who made money avoided one common mistake. They stopped drafting the players they liked and they focused on their roster construction. Today, we're giving you the best pick for every single round in bestball, including one guy in the double-digit rounds that is going to win you more lineups than anyone you draft in the first three. Welcome into the lineup fantasy football show. I'm Mitch Anderson. I'm Justin Mello. And Mello, it's been a minute since we've talked best ball. We had really our best ball primary episode with Matthew Betts from the fantasy footballers a few weeks ago.

I can link that in a card up above if you want to watch. that but best ball season is officially here so mellow let's kick this thing off we're on the clock in round one who is the best value let's start with a guy i think we are both very much in agreement of being the best pick of the first round that's amman raw st brown going at ninth overall ridiculous how are we letting this demon slip that late he is the safest bet in fantasy he still has elite upside and look i love jonathan taylor and i love cd lamb they're both great players but both have higher ADPs and under no circumstance should that be the case, Sun God is going way too low in the first round.

Our favorite stat, last three finishes, last three years, wide receiver three, wider receiver three, he's the best bet in sports to end as the wide receiver three. Normally, I actually hate these seven, eight, nine picks in best ball. It's actually likely my least favorite range. But now, regardless of where I am in those three picks, I'm almost always stacking almond rock exposure, at least this early in the summer, because I kind of think he's going to climb a little bit before we get closer. I think there's a very good chance he does because there's no reason he should be going at 9 right now. Absolutely not. On to round two, our favorite value, Derek Henry at a round 2.9 ADP. You gave your hot take on Derek Henry winning offensive player the year earlier on our

hot takes episode and leading the NFL in yards and touchdowns on the ground, which sounds a little been insane, but he was third in yards per carry last season with 5.2, still incredibly efficient at his age, still has a nose for the end zone. Now he gets back a healthy Lamar Jackson, and they can't just stack the box on every play to try to tackle Derek Henry because that's all they got. So don't let age scare you off or the name fatigue. He's a league winner in sheep's clothing. Yeah, especially when we talk about best ball, that's where upside is really king. And Derek Henry is all upside. Like, if he hits the cliff this year and you have some exposure, it's like whatever. There's no difference between that and him being the RB 21 this year. But what he does have

is top three running back upside, top three finish upside. You can get him in the late second and best ball more than any other format. I think it makes a ton of sense. And it can feel really, really good. If you can grab one of those elite wide receivers at the beginning of the first round, and then grab Derek Henry towards like the back end of the turn, the second round, like that's a great, great start. Oh, I'm thrilled with that start. And I'd be even more thrilled if I go into the third and I somehow end up with Josh Allen, who is right now going as the 3.5. I'm like banging the table at this point anytime we bring it up because we draft him too late every single year. Every year, we just ignore the fact that he is the safest, cleanest, easiest path to a significant

edge in fantasy football every single year. Top two quarterback every year of the last six years. He's usually the quarterback one. You're basically guaranteeing yourself a top two quarterback. and oftentimes there's a huge gap between him and whoever's below him. Yeah, like you said, top two quarterback the past six years, he was QB1, 4 of those six years. And the main thing for me is I understand the risk of giving up an opportunity to stack like another receiver here in the first three rounds or one of those upper echelon running backs. But from a roster construction perspective, taking Josh Allen allows you not only to ditch a three quarterback build and stick to two. It also lets you wait until really late in the draft to grab your second because, you know, we always say draft like you. you're right in bestball. And so if you drafted Josh Allen with this high of a pick, you're banking on

him being the QB1 on your team basically all but is bi-week. And so I think this is like such a worthwhile move, especially in larger field tournaments. Yeah. And not only can you wait on your next quarterback, you can wait on your stack pieces too, because bill's receivers are pretty cheap. Absolutely. DJ Moore is the only one running you any level of like, or James Cook, but you know, yeah, the other receivers are very cheap. Yeah. Let's move on to round four. Let's get back to wide receiver and talk about Ladd-McConkey ADP of round 4.5. We've talked about it a lot. Return of Joe Alt, return of Rishon Slater, helping the passing game. Mike McDaniel may not have succeeded as a head coach, but can't deny how great of a

play caller he is, and I want to be invested in any Mike McDaniel offense. Keenan Allen is, for now, off of the team, vacating 122 targets. Ladd finished 2025 as the wide receiver 27 with Keenan Allen, but if you remember back in 2024, his rookie year, he was the wide receiver 12. So if we get anything close to that rookie year, man, round four feels like an absolute steal for Ladd. I think we will get closer to it. I've been very vocal. I'm big on Herbert with this offensive line getting healthy. I'm just big on this offense as a whole with Mike McDaniel there. I think we see a version of Ladd-McConkie that's more similar to the tail end of his rookie year than last year. I think he's going to absolutely eat in 2026. And also just a quick

honorable mention for round four. Another guy we really like a mecca-A-A-Bucah. Just going a few spots higher, so a little bit more expensive, but another guy we really like in this range a lot. 100%. You cannot get me to say a bad word about Abuco, but the value is just slightly better on Lad here, I think. I would completely agree. And another receiver we really like here in the fifth round, we have Roman Dunzee. He's going at 5.7 in ADP. Mitch, are we going to see a new Roman Empire in Chicago here? It's a pretty... Put those t-shirts up with the Lemonhead T-shirts. Yeah, well, oh, we're going to have a whole catalog of corny shirt. Oh, merch catalog.

Yeah. I know you're the bigger Adunze guy than me, but I like him where he's going as well. It's a pretty simple argument. You have Ben Johnson, you have Caleb Williams, you have a receiver at top 10 draft capital who's already showed a ton of promise, particularly in the first half of last season when he was fully healthy. You get him back fully healthy in 2026. It's absolutely worth the shot because there's such a high suing.

Yeah, I've been talking about him so much, so I'll keep it brief. I expect him to be the main beneficiary of DJ Moore's departure and those vacated targets. He was the Y-Receiver 3 through four weeks of the season back in 2025. Week 5 was the buy, and then week 6 is when he ended up on the injury report, which later was revealed to be a stress fracture that he dealt with all of the rest of the year. But I'm not falling for the Luther Burden trap here. I've said it before, I'll say it again. I think he's a great player.

I just think we're valuing him too high. And I think you can buy Roma Dunzee, who I project as a low-end wide receiver 1 here in the fifth round and get an absolute steal. Incredible value. Not even a question. On to round six, my guy who hangs up on the wall at the 6.12, that is Parker Washington. Before I even get into Parker Washington, I want to point out in this round is Brian Thomas Jr. going as the 6.1, he is potentially my wide receiver 3 in this offense.

After, of course, Parker at 1 and Jacobi Myers at 2. But let's get back to my wide receiver 1, Parker 1, Parker 1, Parker 1. Washington, who is a screaming value. We saw Trevor Lawrence and the entire Jags offense finally take the next step under Liam Cohen, and I'm here to tell you it is for real. So who else can reap the benefits of Trevor Lawrence's 4,000 yards and 29 passing touchdowns if it's not going to be Brian Thomas? Parker Washington.

In fact, Parker Washington was already doing it last year. He led the team with 114 targets, 21 more than Brian Thomas. He was ninth in the entire NFL and PFF's receiving grade. No qualifiers, no sample sizes, the straight. up number nine in the entire NFL to be getting this guy at the end of the sixth round probably could slip into the seventh round. He is my favorite screaming value in Vespa right now. That's your guy. I'm glad you got to go in on him because it's been a while since I feel like you've truly poured your heart out to Parker Washington. So I'm really glad this episode gave you

the chance to do so. It always feels good. It's cathartic. I think he's kind of in some people's mine's got that Amin-Ross-St. Brown syndrome where it's like we're, he's going to need multiple years to prove the people he's good. Even though we should know he's good already, it's just like the late draft capital. People don't want to accept how good he actually is. I truly do feel like he's the type of guy that's going to have a breakout season and you're not going to be able to get him any later than like the third round like at the lowest because he is still, I believe, 24 years old too. Yeah, he's young. If he were a first round pick and he did what he did last year, his ADP would be out of control right now. He'd be ridiculous.

He's so much higher. Next round, though, round seven, we do have a first round pick. We have Justin Herbert going at 7.12, so the very end of the seventh round. I already said it this episode, but I want pieces of this offense. He was the quarterback nine last year and what felt like a disastrous season. He had two revolving doors at tackle. You get Joe Alt and Rashon Slater, those two tackles back. They're pro-bowl, if not all pro-quality.

Mike McDaniel, we've talked about, replacing Greg Roman, who was a complete disaster last year. and we've seen Justin Herbert finish as high as the quarterback too before. Like that is in his range of outcomes. I think he gets back to something closer to that with all the stars aligning for the Chargers. Yeah, we don't have to repeat so much of it because I feel like a lot of the argument is exactly why I laid out with Lab McConkey. But the other thing I'll add is a lot of people don't think of Herbert as a dual threat

quarterback with some of these like higher range guys. But he was second among all QVs and rushing yards in 2025 behind only Josh Allen. Like he's got wheels. He's like the whole package at. quarterback. It's beginning him at the very end of the seventh round is crazy. The only guy I'll talk about here is an honorable mention. Two spots hires, Trevor Lawrence, if you're building out a stack or if like me, you believe very heavily in that Jaguar's offense. But honestly, I think both these guys are tremendous values where they are in the seventh round. I agree. If I can come

away with either of them in the late seventh, I'm happy. Absolutely. On to round eight, Mello, this is a guy you recently talked about going at the 8.8, and that is Chris Godwin. the forgotten man right now in Tampa Bay. Break him down for me. Yeah, I've really talked myself into Chris Godwin, talked about him before, like you mentioned, but he was the wide receiver two overall prior to the dislocated ankle in 2024. He may play second fiddle to Emeka Abuka, who we talked about earlier. But Mike Evans was always there throughout Chris Godwin's career, and Godwin still put up elite numbers with that other elite receiver playing across from him.

you look at the contract the Buccaneers gave him, you look at how hurt Baker was down the stretch last year, you get him back healthy, we'll see something more similar to the first half of last year or even in 2024. This is an easy bounce back spot to me. Yeah, this is the right call here. I had my honorable mention here was Jackson Dart at the top of the round, and I've been trying to scoop him up a lot,

but I think there's two really good quarterbacks the round before that are a little bit safer here. And then you look at Chris Godwin, who no one's as excited about him because you're either on our side and you're getting fired up about Abuka, or you're fired up about Jalen McMillan's breakout. Nobody's talking about the veteran receiver who has the most experience with Baker

and just got paid a bag only an offseason ago to return with the Buccaneers. So I think this one is an absolute smash hit that people are maybe just forgetting about, honestly. Yeah, it's like a name fatigue thing, which actually is perfect for the guy we have in the ninth tier two, another receiver that you love Michael Pittman. You go all in on this.

I don't want to step on your toes because this is your guy here. Yeah, we talked about, him as one of the best post-hyped sleepers in fantasy football. I actually have a new number to talk about with how many vacated targets there are in that Pittsburgh offense. Pittsburgh has the second most vacated targets here in 2026, 233. And now last year's wide receiver 18, who is the wide receiver 13 before Daniel Jones injury, gets to slip in and scoop up the lion's share of that. You've talked about it a little bit too, that he fits this offense, this Mike McCarthy offense, this Aaron Rogers offense better than D.K. McCaff does. This guy to me is like, I almost feel like he is a

literal lock to be a wide receiver too, like a solid wide receiver two, and you're getting him in the late ninth round. Yeah, it's ridiculous to me that, I mean, I like D.K. McHaff, I do, like as a player, but like Pittman is just the better fit in this offense, like you said, just his, the skill set that he has, he should be getting drafted over D.K. McHaff, but he's not. And then just one honorable mention this run. I do want to mention another quarterback. Apparently we like a lot of these quarterbacks going in this range. Yeah, we do. We really like the upside of. He's also going in the ninth round. That's something worth addressing to as we talk about this just to take a quick breather here as we're at kind of the halfway point. We talked right at the onset of this episode about how important

roster construction is. And we talked about one of our favorite picks being Josh Allen. And so if you don't get Josh Allen there in that third round, this is kind of us telling you like, I don't know how much I love those quarterbacks from, you know, two through six or seven on the board. And then you get down to like the later quarterback ones. I get a little bit more excited about that upside. Like, I'm a huge Drake May guy. We just talked about him being our number two in Dynasty Fantasy football. I have fears about 2026 not being Drake May's best year of his career and this team kind of having some like hiccups and growing pains. So I think there's some really good value here on the low end QB-1s that actually have higher upside than you think.

Yeah, it's all about cost because sure, like, even we like Drake Maymore and 2026 overall, but at cost, these other guys are a better alternative, probably. That's a great point. Before we jump into our number 10, if you're enjoying the video, please drop a like and hit that subscribe button. That way you can be notified every time we drop a brand new episode and continue to grow this unbelievable community we've got. But here in round 10, we're going with Josh Downs, current ADP of 10.9.

we've called him boring, we've called him a post-hyped sleeper, you can call him whatever you want as long as it's not a bad value because he is simply one of the best buys in fantasy football right now. Michael Pittman out of the building, Alec Pierce isn't going to become a target hog anytime soon. And I don't know why, but we've all forgotten that Josh Downs literally led the Colts in receptions just a year before this past season. That's phenomenal upside in the 10th round.

And I project him to do it, honestly. Like, I think I would pick him to lead the Colts in receptions in 2026. he's still so young. We just talked about Michael Pittman and how good of the player he is. He commanded so many targets last year and now he's out the door. This is going to be like the definition of a post-type sleeper paying off in Josh Downs. 1,000%. On to round 11.

Let's talk Travis Kelsey. Going at the 11.9. We've talked about him so much, but don't let the old man narrative scare you off. Travis Kelsey hasn't been worse than the tight end five overall since 2015. Even in last year's disastrous Kansas City season, he was the tight end three. As long as he's out there, he's going to be producing for you. Yeah, it's tough too. I don't want to diminish my pro-Rashy Rice take I've had all offseason, but you don't know what's happening there.

These other receivers are not very reliable to put it honestly nicely. I feel like that's a pretty nice way of putting it. So Kelsey's really the only reliable guy there. He could be another significant part of this, Mahomes and Reed offense, and give you one last. top five tied-in finish before he rides off into the sunset. A couple honorable mentions, though, in this round, I really like his ball, Rashad White, who could have a great opportunity in Washington,

and then yet another quarterback I like the upside of Malik Willis going in this range as well. Malik Willis is a great guy if you waited on a quarterback and you went with a QB1 like a little bit before this. Maybe you grabbed like a Trevor Lawrence type, and then this is your QB2 with a little bit of upside, but not like, you're not looking for Malik Willis to be your QB1 most likely. No, but at least you're getting that upside.

Like, if you want to pair him with a much safer, like, pocket passer, I think that's probably what I would look to do. But... 100%. We have another tight end here at 12 after Kelsey, a younger guy. A guy I know you love Mitch, and I'm really starting to buy into that being Isaiah likely going at 12.7. He's finally freed from Mark Andrews, and nobody even cares.

Nobody seems to care at all that he's no longer set behind Mark Andrews. It's honestly rude to him. Why aren't we talking about this? Dart loves his tight ends. We saw it last year with Theo Johnson. Malik Neighbors has some legitimate health concerns now too, which I'm not too concerned about, but like there's a chance early in the year

if Neighbors isn't available or even if he is, but he's limited. Likely could be a volume demon for this offense. To me, the reason why I think this has been getting slept on is that I think Isaiah likely wasn't the highest profile free agent, but he just got in such an unbelievable landing spot. That is like, I completely agree with you, not nearly enough attention going to a guy who's also going to a market as big as New York, but he is my favorite tight end value in fantasy football,

period. Doesn't matter the format, but specifically in best ball, this price is juicy. 12.7, getting a guy who's dominated in his career without Mark Andrews, if you extrapolate his 17 game pace in games without Mark Andrews, he would have been last year's tight end three. Now we're entering into an ascending offense for a team that paid him a lot. lot of guaranteed money with a quarterback that love to target the tight end position. He has the genuine makings of a league winner that if you miss on tight end early, I would say basically after craft, I'm not really drafting tight end until I get down to Isaiah likely. I'll probably be in a

similar boat barring some weird draft falling some on. Or you how, yeah, a guy falls or you're building a stack, whatever. Yeah, exactly. All right, on to round 13. Let's talk about a guy who's not even currently on a team, but we project that his ADP is going to skyrocket as soon as he is. And that's Stefan Diggs going at the 1311. You start here. Yeah, this is like the exact best example of what I talk about, these veteran free agents that are not on a team. And then as soon as they sign their ADP skyrocket, so get them before they sign. That's Stefan Diggs for me right now.

In the words of Stefan Diggs himself, he played 52% of six. snaps last year and still finish with 85 catches for 1,045 yards coming off the torn ACL. That's pretty impressive. I think... That's a tough one to argue against. It's a tough one to argue against. He's not the same elite, Stefan Diggs of, you know, four or five years ago, but he is still very good. He's got plenty of juice.

He's likely going to sign with a contender just giving the situation his age and, you know, the fact he wants to win. He's probably going to go to a team with a good quarterback that could maybe win. And once that happens, his ADP will skyrocket. So get him now before that happens. So here's my pitch for you. What if he does go home and he goes to Washington and he's Jaden Daniels, I guess technically two, probably behind Terry?

But like, where are we drafting Stefan Diggs? First of all, Antonio Williams managers hide their shoelaces. But I don't know what that means, but I'd be hiding my shoelaces for sure because I have some Antonio Williams. But he goes much higher to answer your question, like multiple, multiple rounds higher if he signs in Washington, which is probably the favorite to sign him. Yeah, this was literally one of the points. we hit on in the Matthew Betts episode that we did on top 12 tips in bestball. And that's to identify

guys who have like such a clear path arising in ADP as the summer goes on. I think Stefan Diggs is the poster child for that right now. Him and Tyree Kill. The argument against Tyree Kill is that he's coming directly off of an injury. And the argument for Stefan Diggs is that he's actually had a year to recover from the injury and should be better than last year theoretically. Yeah. At one billion percent. This next one is more controversial though, Mitch. I want, I'm going to let you just take this one away because this one is jarring to me. This is jarring for our own show to talk about. That is a guy that we've been nothing but positive about this spring.

And that's Travis Hunter going at the 14.3. Melo, this is proof that we can be benevolent hosts. We can put aside our biases and we can recognize an incredible value. Of course. Do I think Travis Hunter is going to be involved this season at Wide Receiver the way he was last year? No, I do not. but I do think he's talented enough to get out there and have some blow-up spots significant enough to justify a 14th round price tag.

There's a fear around Travis Hunter that we have probably worked to perpetuate that I can't believe I of all people am saying this, but it's actually gone way too far, and I think you should be greedy when others are fearful. That's what these late rounds are all for in best ball is like trying to draft upside and like, how could the second overall pick from last year who got drafted to play wide receiver not have a lot,

incredible upside. It's so weird to me because, well, first of all, when you proposed him as the best value of this round, I almost spit out my drink. I was like, you thought I had a typo. Yeah, I was like, is it, Mitt? Like, are you okay? I didn't know if you got kidnapped or something. Yeah, wellness check.

But I actually thought the same thing before I even saw you put him down. I was like, man, Travis Hunter is actually a value here. It's so weird that I think it's gone too far in dynasty more than any other format where he's fallen. And that's the one format. I'm okay taking him a little higher because Yes. Upside is so important in best ball.

I mean, it is in every format, but especially in best ball, it's king. You mentioned he's second overall pick if he could actually play some receiver. He is talented enough. So the upside is there. We're not betting on it in most formats. But in the 14th round of a best ball draft,

why not fade yourself even if you don't believe? Because his upside is so much higher than the other guys going in that range. I couldn't have put it better myself. On to round 15, let's get into a guy that we're actually excited about in every format for their upside. That's Isaac Teslaw, going at the 15.4. I'll let you take this one.

Yeah, I just think at the very least, he has a ton of touchdown upside. He's going to be used so heavily in the red zone. We saw his snaps in general increase down the stretch last year. I think that trajectory continues. He becomes a bigger part of this offense. So at worst, he's their wide receiver three, and you just get a couple of boom weeks because he gets touchdowns. But at best, I mean, he's like an injury away from being a guy who could potentially be ranked in the top 24 every week. Like if Aminara or James and Williams got hurt,

or even maybe like Sam LaPorte, to a certain extent, he's going to start being much more valuable week to week. So that combination of the upside with no changes and then the extra upside with something happening makes him a great value in the 15th. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I know a lot of people don't care that much about this, but I think the Khalif Raymond departure is kind of a big deal. You talked about this in a past episode. He averaged 15 snaps per game in his first six games last year and then 44 per game in his last six. So the usage increased substantially. The guy who started losing those snaps was Kalif Raymond down the stretch. And like, now he doesn't have to compete with him at all. And he's like very solidly, the wide receiver three. Another stat you had, he was tied for fourth in red zone touchdowns among all wide receivers despite being 40th in targets. I think this lion's offense is looking to be more efficient this year. And I think they're going to be looking for Tesla in the end zone. Yeah, he's going to be potentially an even bigger touchdown machine this year in a good offense. Round 16, we got a receiver in a bad offense, though.

And that is Trey Tucker going at the 1612 last pick of the 16th round. The Raiders just have to throw the ball to someone, right? Like, the ball has to go to someone, anyone. That's like the full argument. It really is. but he's not the highest-rafted receiver in this offense, yet he was their number one receiver, at least especially at the beginning of the year.

He was the wide receiver 9 overall through week 6. So not the smallest of samples, and he was good. Now they get an upgrade at quarterback, or at least we project it to be an upgrade from Gino Smith, regardless of whether it's Kirk Cousins or if Mendoza takes over eventually. So what if Trey Tucker is just Clint Kubiak's number one receiver?

I know he's not Jackson Smith and Jigba, but hey, Clint Kubiak's number one receiver was phenomenal last year. Yeah, and like, look, we've talked so much about how much of a bump we're giving Brock Bowers this year and Ashton Genty. And it's like, look, the whole offense can't funnel through two guys. And someone's going to have to get involved in the wide receiver room and Trey Tucker is the best bet. And when you sent this to me, I was like, you're basically drafted him in the 17th round of the 1612. Like, this upside's crazy. And he's also, we talk about finding guys who could be in cheap stacks.

What if you grab Brock Bowers early on and say like the beginning of the third round and then you get Trey Tucker here. and then you get a late Fernando Mendoza as your QB2. You don't have them to start the year, but your QB1 should be able to hold down the ship for, what, five, six weeks. So I think Trey Tucker is one of those guys that you could sneak in your lineup that could have some really big blow-up spots. We saw it last year. Yeah.

He had a lot of really, really productive weeks. Out of nowhere, he was just super good, like the first month and a half of the season. I think I bankrupted my family spending waiver wire money on him after that. So maybe that's why I'm biased against him. on to number 17. I'm going to let you go here because you brought him up to me, but let's talk about Jordan James, backup running back for the San Francisco 49ers,

going at the round 17.6. For me, it's as simple as he's a valuable handcuff, which in round 17, like, that's what you'd look for. He is the front runner for RB2 duties in San Francisco. It's been reported that he will probably win that job, at least as of now. So that's a really valuable position to have. Christian McCaffrey's backup. We've seen many, many years of Christian McCaffrey's career that the

backup is super valuable and a league winner in multiple formats. Most certainly best ball like we saw with Mike Davis and Carolina. We've seen all of these backups just be league winners as soon as Christian McCaffrey goes down and obviously you don't want to root for that injury for CMC to go down, but it's happened many times before and then all of a sudden you have Kyle Shanahan starting running back. Yeah. And I actually don't even think you have to root for CMC to go down. go down here. Like, Shanahan's been vocal already about wanting to give McCaffrey more rests. And if he does that, like Jordan James is obviously the main beneficiary.

And I even think blowout situations. If Purdy stays healthy, like, we could have a lot of those opportunities. And he pulls off some garbage time points here and there. You've got a few, like, usable weeks out of a guy you're drafting in the 17th round. Two quick honorable mentions. One of these guys is more round 16, but I want to put them together because they're both Titans. Nicholas Singleton, if you're deep in this range and you're looking for a different, like,

running back if Jordan James is off the board or if you're in the last round, Trey Tucker's off the board. Like, I think that there's very few guys this late that have a path to being the RB1 on their team. And Nicholas Singleton, though a slim chance, could do that. And the other guy on the Titans is Guntherhelm. If you're looking for another tight end, he's Cam Ward's tight end one in that Titans

offense. If you project this passing game to take a step forward, like seemingly he's going to have to be part of that. And if he's even a slight part of that, he blows this ADP out of the way. water. Agreed. I think those are both fine shots to take late in drafts. All right. On to our final, final round. If you haven't yet and you're still around, first of all, thank you. Second of all, please hit that like button, subscribe button. Give us a five-star review if you're listening on Spotify or Apple. And Mello, let's talk about one more of your guys, Terence Ferguson, going at the

18.2. Another guy I've liked all off season. Max Claire, be damned. Let's shoot for the moon anyways. I don't care that they dropped to Claire in the second round because I don't think his upside has really changed all that much. And that's what I care about in the 18th round of a best ball draft. We saw the athleticism last year. That insane A-DOT led all tight ends in A-DOT last season. Don't be surprised if they give him a bigger role in year two. He already developed a bigger role down the stretch last year. He could easily be a top 12 tight end in 2026. Yeah, we recently talked about the draft pick not being ideal, but the ceiling here is just undeniable in a Shaw McVey offense. And like, trust me, when it comes to pricing assets producing in a Sean McVey

offense, you would much rather be early than late to the party, because if he does break out, God knows what you're going to be paying for him next year. And my last note on this, my final honorable mention, I want to talk about Torrey Horton. You know I love Tori Horton, and I truly believe he'll be second on the Seahawks and targets this season. So if you're drafting and you need some wide receiver depth right at the end here. I think he's one of my favorite dart throws. If you want to get a little bit more of a breakdown, though, you can go to our Sleepers episode,

and I give like a deep dive on Torrey Horton going to 2026. Also could be a cheaper stack with Darnel, too, which I don't hate it all. Absolutely. And that is our favorite pick for every round in best ball here in the summer of 20206. If you have anything that you want to add, make sure to let us know down below, what do we get right, what did we get wrong, and who are your favorite sleepers to grab in those middle rounds. Mello, do we miss anything? I think we got it all. All right, we'll catch you guys

next episode.