Lineup Fantasy Football Show - We COMPARED Dynasty Players to Blockbuster Movies (Buy or Sell?) | Dynasty Fantasy Football

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

Every dynasty fantasy football player has a blockbuster equivalent. Massive hype, franchise defining upside, or completely overhyped and headed for a straight blu-ray flop. Today Mitch & Mello rank the biggest names in 2026 fantasy football against the most iconic blockbuster movies ever made. 0:00 - Fantasy Football Players as Blockbuster Movies 0:47 - Breece Hall | Cars 3:10 - Dak Prescott | Fight Club 5:18 - Quinshon Judkins | Se7en 7:46 - Marvin Harrison Jr | Happy Gilmore 2 10:30 - Kyle Pitts | Jurassic Park 13:19 - Puka Nacua | Inception Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're always talking about the blockbuster trades in fantasy football, but what about your favorite players that are just like the biggest blockbuster movies? Welcome to the lineup fantasy football show. I'm Mitch Anderson. I'm Justin Mello. And Mello, today we are comparing the NFL's biggest stars to Hollywood's biggest movies and then giving our verdict on if that movie is a buy or sell. Basically, is it a hit or a flop? I'm so excited for this.

This is the type of stuff I live for, Mitch. I almost started by talking about Michael Vick and comparing him to Shosh. Redemption. But then I thought that's a bad idea. Let's not do that. He's in the out of the league for a while anyways. My first real combo here, by the way, for any of these movies, if you haven't seen them, you don't want spoilers. We should have timestamps. You can jump around, fast forward, do whatever you need. But hopefully you've all seen this first movie, which is Cars. And I'm going to be talking about Breece Hall when it comes to a cinematic masterpiece that is Cars. Early in his career, Brees Hall, no, Breast Lightning, no,

Breast Lightning McQueen was the hottest new athlete there was. His second year in the league, he was the RB2 overall, just like Lightning McQueen was a top three finisher in the Piston Cup. Also, both of these guys rely on speed. That's why they're both named Lightning. But just as Lightning McQueen went missing in Radiator Springs, Breece Hall got lost in the bottomless pit of New York Jets football.

Shockingly enough after Zach Well, Olson left town and things got worse with Aaron Rogers and Justin Fields at the helm somehow. But just when everyone counted McQueen out, he returned to glory. Sure, you didn't win the Piston Cup at first, but if you're familiar with the Carr's franchise lore, which to be honest is a little bit shaky for me because they kind of lost me when the tow truck became an international spy, but if you are familiar, you know that Lightning McQueen went on to win multiple Piston Cups, and Breece could help you win your league as well. Breese's Lightning McQueen is still just going into his age 25 season, and the Jets are still the Jets, but at least the offense as a whole has

improved on paper, which should help him get more opportunities and more importantly, more valuable ones. I'm not saying Breeze Hall is going to go on to be the greatest fictitious animated race car of all time, because that's too high of praise. But I do think we can see him get back to something closer to his 2023 version, so for that reason he is a buy for me right now. As somebody who's not as familiar with the car's cinematic universe lore, I still know enough about Lightning Queen to know that he went through a down spell and then got right back in the mix. And I agree, I think that's what's up next for Breece Hall.

One of the best comeback stories in sports history is Lightning McQueen. And if we can get Breece just like halfway to that level of comeback, he's a great buy. Let me jump into my first one. Can I give an honorable mention first? Please do. I want to give an honorable mention to Xavier Worthy as the movie In Time with Justin Timberlake, because I thought it was a really cool idea, but in practice it kind of sucks,

and I was really mad wasting hours of my life watching it. More than just hours. More than hours. But my actual first player, and please, if you have not seen this movie, jump ahead to another timestamp, because I'm absolutely spoiling the hell out of it. Dak Prescott is Fight Club.

I had to go with this one because it feels like there's a rule that you can't talk about Dak Prescott and fantasy football. But since 2019, Dack Prescott has finished as the overall QB2, QB7, QB3, and QB5. You say that and it seems like

Dak Prescott should be talked about way more, but that's him in odd-numbered seasons. In the even-numbered seasons, it almost feels like Dak has a split personality. Since 2018, in even-numbered seasons, he's finished as the overall QB-32, 18, and 31. I know what you're going to say. Dak was injured during those seasons,

but Mello. Nobody said you'd come out a fight club unscathed. What's interesting now is that everyone seems to know Dak as this unreliable narrator, or we could just call him Tyler Darden, but nobody seems to talk about him when he was simply just the narrator, his first two seasons, 2016 and 2017, finishing as the QB6 and QB10. So for anybody counting all of those numbers,

which you probably weren't, I'll do it for you. That makes Dak Prescott a quarterback won in fantasy football six out of the nine years of his career. And yet we are still not allowed to talk about him. But for those of you who remember the ending to Fight Club, the narrator defeats his chaotic split personality and lights the entire city on fire. And I am buying that it's time for DAC

to defeat this split personality, light the NFL on fire, and have his first good, even-yeared season since 2016. That's, I'm a big DAC guy, so I'm glad you're on that same bandwagon. I see everyone talk about, even number season, even number season. I think he beats it this year too.

So I'm hoping we see the ending to fight club. It's a narrative blown wildly out of proportion that he got hurt in three seasons. And he just happened to be three even seasons. Oh yeah. Basically, that's all it boils down to. And you're right. You get hurt at fight club, even though we're not supposed to talk about it. I'll stop talking about it now.

Well, you mentioned that split personality, Brad Pitt. I actually have a different Brad Pitt movie for you here. I'm going to be talking about Quinchon Judkins and comparing him to the movie 7, which the 1995 thriller was a bit of a breakout role for Brad Pitt, and that's right where we are for Quinn Sean Judkins right now too coming off his rookie season. Nick Chubb kind of feels like the Morgan Freeman of this analogy as he used to be the top guy, but they brought in a new younger version of himself who's meant to be the replacement. The good news is Pitt and Judkins proved that they are capable,

of being the star of the show. It wasn't always pretty, though. Watching this Brown's offense was like watching the tormented and mutilated corpses that Kevin Spacey left behind. In the movie seven, not in real life, I need to clarify. After typing out these notes, I realized that could be very easily misinterpreted. And just like Pitt, Quin Sean Jenkins found himself frantically asking, what's in the box? What's in the box? Only for it to be eight defenders every single play, because the Browns had no passing attack whatsoever. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, the story ends with a brutal, gory tragedy. Quinshot Junkinslow's leg injury at the end of the season.

As for the future, I'm worried that this tragedy could be the case for the rest of his career. The good news is I thoroughly believe in the talent and the volume, but I worry the Browns will ruin him long term. If we're continuing to compare Judkins to Brad Pitt, though, it more than worked out for Brad Pitt, and I still have hope for Judkins, too. he's not a hard buy for me but he's not really a hard sell either I think my main takeaway is that it should depend on your risk appetite

and your current roster construction I that what's in the box joke was the best we're going to get all episode I set up everything else I said just so I could make sure to get that joke in there I think it's very interesting that you went with him we just did the comparisons to products

and you went with him as Desani versus Marion Hampton's aquafina no Fiji but Fiji yep I got absolutely cooked for that. Yeah, not a real waterhead. I'm a little bit in the same boat of, I don't know if he's a buy or a sell for me at the current moment, but I think I'm probably going to feel it out throughout the summer. Yeah, I think it really just, like I said, it's a risk appetite thing, it's a roster

construction thing, it's a timing thing. But he is one of the more unique players, I think, of this offseason. I completely agree. All right, let me get to my next one. People are going to hate me, but I have a bit of a creature double feature here. And that's Marvin Harrison and Marvin Harrison Jr. As Happy Gilmore and Happy Gilmore, too. One of these pairings was an absolute hit on the scene in the 1990s, and it changed the game entirely. We look back at it, reminisce, you watch it,

and damn it, if it doesn't still hold up, Mello. The other one is the sequel that dropped in the mid-2020s that promised to bring the same energy and enjoyment as the first, with a little bit of a modern twist. But both literally and figuratively, it's dropped the ball. Just like Happy Gilmore 2, Marvin Harrison Jr.'s start was actually pretty good. It kind of excited me. 130 yards and two touchdowns against the Rams in week two felt like, okay, I'm watching the Sandman back in his Bruins jersey with his hockey stick

hitting the ball. Like, we might be back. Soon things quickly fall apart, a lack of consistency. I get a laugh here or there, top 24 performance here or there. But am I really enjoying this movie? That's what I have ask myself. Now, the real reason they're so alike, I hated Happy Gilmore 2, but clearly there's a lot of people that love it. I don't get it, but a lot of people love Happy Gilmore 2, and that's exactly the case with Marvin Harrison Jr. And so I think maybe my issue with both the movie and Marvin Harrison Jr. lies in one crucial problem. I may have just had too high of expectations to critique it fairly. But personally, I for one am not going to be swayed by a bunch of cameos or a bunch of pounds of muscle put on in an offseason.

I'm selling the hell out of this flop. You really can't help yourself, but talk trash about Marvin Harrison Jr. I really can't. But you know, I'm in the same boat. I too did not enjoy Happy Gilmore, too. As soon as you mentioned, that was your analogy, I could have just filled in everything you just said.

Like the movie to play your accommodation told the whole story, but I'm right in the same boat with you. But it is interesting you brought up too. like it is the high expectations to a large extent. If Marvin Harrison Jr. was a day three pick like his father was, we'd be saying, wow, that was a steal by the Cardinals. Like, he's got some potential. Absolutely.

Because it hasn't been, like, bad. Did I leave watching Howapy Gilmore too, like, upset that I watched it? Eh, maybe a little. But, like, the main problem was how excited I was to see, like, one of my favorite movies growing up rebooted, which unfortunately never seems to work out how you'd think. No, it's We should have known when it was Adam Sandler in the year 2025,

but I don't know what the tell was from Marvin Harrison Jr., but if there was one, we missed it. Let's talk about another really highly regarded prospect that's turned into a little bit of a disaster at times, and that is Kyle Pitts. Oh, watch you're comparing.

Yeah, I don't know if you're going to like this one, but I thought I cooked with it because I'm comparing him to Jurassic Park. and Kyle Pitts is not only Jurassic Park the movie, but he is Jurassic Park, the park. Coming out of college, he seemed like an impossibly awesome prospect that was once in a lifetime. People said he was not only the best tight end in that 2021 draft class,

but also the best receiver in the class, which is largely why he went before even Jamar Chase in that draft. And people also view Jurassic Park as a wonderful, mesmerizing, unique, opportunity at first. And just like many of the initial guests at the park who thought it seemed too incredible to fail, many fantasy football fanatics looked at Kyle Pitts' rookie season as the beginning of something special. It's only then that many people and many people's fantasy football teams were tragically

killed. It was tragic. Jurassic Park turned into an unmitigated disaster that nobody saw coming. But right when we were all ready to shut it down, Jurassic Park was reborn again in glorious fashion. And in the case of the movies, Hollywood just knew the franchise was way too big of a cash cow to stop making the films. But in the case of Pitts, he shockingly finished as the tight end 2 in 2025 and re-sparked his relevance. So the question is, what lies ahead? Well, if you've seen the movies before,

or if you have any common sense whatsoever, you know that the dinosaurs keep eating people, and the park remains a complete disaster. I fear the same for Kyle Pitts, who I view as someone who enjoyed fluky flashes of ecstasy as opposed to any sort of sustainable, consistent production. Many people are wise enough to fear the dangers of Jurassic Park, though, which is why Kyle Pitts is only ranked as the tight end eight on keep trade cut right now, despite being 25 years old coming off a tight end two season. But to that, I say, not low enough.

I've seen enough dinosaur horrors to fall for this one again, and I am still out on Kyle Pitts. This is going to be the one we disagree on, and it's perfect timing, because I know you're not going to disagree with my last one. I liken him more, and I don't know if this is a character you know, to a guy named Lightning McQueen,

who had a great start and then a bad couple of years, and then he rose back to prominence. That's the vision I have for Kyle Pitts. I think what we just realized in real time here is that our little debate episode we're doing in a couple weeks. Kyle Pitts is on the agenda now. It's Rishi Rice and Kyle Pitts are on the docket so far. For sure, they both got to be there.

All right, let me wrap things up here, and we are going to talk about Puka Nakua, or of course one of my favorite movies, Inception. One of the best directors in the game, Sean McVeigh and Christopher Nolan, just two years after blowing the world away with an instant classic in The Dark Night and Cooper Cups Triple Crown, launch an absolute masterpiece.

The problem is that they're just confusing as hell. It absolutely rocks, but you're confused the entire time. He's this fifth round pick out of BYU that literally just flies up the depth chart and has the greatest rookie receiving season of all time. And the catches Puka makes almost feels like he has the ability to warp reality. Almost like he's in a dream mellow. But as you know in the movie Inception, Dom Cobb goes in and out of dreams the way Puka Nakua goes in and out of the blue tent.

going deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper. But now, Puka's face with trying to pull off the impossible crime to win a Super Bowl with Matthew Stafford before time runs out. Right now, this offseason has felt a little bit like in the third act of Inception when Dom Cobb is stuck in limbo. That's kind of where Puka is. But I expect him, much like in that film, to come out and start kicking some ass this season. And I can already see Puka Nakua spinning his totem in week one, a football in the end zone after

his first touchdown, proving in the world he is absolutely back. So I am buying Puka the way I'm buying this phenomenal movie and this entire thing was probably just as confusing as the plot of Inception. I just got chills unironically a little bit. As somebody who is like the biggest Puka Nakua Stan in the world and also the biggest Christopher Nolan in inception. I knew I had you at this one. You had me hook, line and sinker. The spinning his totem, the ball on the end zone, that's what gave me That whole thing, honestly, similar to the movie Inception, had so many levels to it. Ooh. Bravo.

Bravo. Guys, let us know down below what picks you agree with, and also let us know what movie your favorite NFL and favorite fantasy football players are. We're going to catch you guys next episode, but Mello, we miss anything? I already is too much brainpower for this episode. I'm done. Way too much. We'll see you guys next time.