The Herd with Colin Cowherd - FantasyPros - Jake Ciely’s Top Targets In The First 10 Rounds (Ep. 1625)

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

Join Ryan Wormeli and Jake Ciely as they highlight Jake’s favorite picks to make in each of the first 10 rounds of 2025 fantasy football drafts that will help you dominate your league! Timestamps: (May be off due to ads) Intro - 0:00:00 Amon-Ra St. Brown - 0:00:49 Drake London - 0:03:09 James Cook - 0:04:42 Signed James Cook Jersey Giveaway - 0:06:02 Kenneth Walker - 0:06:30 Omarion Hampton - 0:08:21 Jaylen Waddle - 0:10:53 FantasyPros Draft Simulator - 0:12:16 Chris Godwin - 0:12:38 Justin Fields and Dak Prescott- 0:15:10 Cooper Kupp - 0:18:19 Bonus Players - 0:20:24 Outro - 0:23:53 Helpful Links: Dynasty Rookie Draft Simulator – Our Dynasty Rookie Draft Simulator lets you complete a mock in minutes with no waiting between picks! Customize your league settings to match your league’s exact format. Premium subscribers can test trade scenarios by mocking with their traded draft picks. Prepare for rookie drafts AND dynasty startup drafts in one place! Use the Dynasty Rookie Draft Simulator to dominate your rookie draft today at fantasypros.com/simulator! Discord – Join our FantasyPros Discord Community! Chat with other fans and get access to exclusive AMAs that wind up on our podcast feed. Come get your questions answered and BE ON THE SHOW at fantasypros.com/chat Leave a Review – If you enjoy our show and find our insight to be valuable, we’d love to hear from you! Your reviews fuel our passion and help us tailor content specifically for YOU. Head to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts and leave an honest review. Let’s make this show the ultimate destination for fantasy football enthusiasts like us. Thank you for watching and for showing your support – https://fantasypros.com/review/ BettingPros Podcast – For advice on the best picks and props across both the NFL and college football each and every week, check out the BettingPros Podcast at bettingpros.com/podcast, our BettingPros YouTube channel at youtube.com/bettingpros, or wherever you listen to podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Why, I shouldn't say every round. We're talking about his top targets in the top 10 rounds of fancy drafts. It feels like every round, but obviously there will be going a few rounds longer in most drafts there. But we'll be talking about his top targets in the first 10 rounds of every draft. And we're going to go through. There's no real, like, position here. It's just who you like in every round.

This is not, to be clear, building a team. You're not saying, like, this is my perfect draft. It's in a vacuum, irrespective of who I've gotten in previous rounds. These are the names I am targeting in these rounds. Fantasypros.com slash rankings. Everybody can check out ECR, you know, kind of those half-PPR rankings, see roughly where those guys are going. We'll move quickly here.

Jake, let's start at the very top. Who's your top target in round one? Everybody. I almost put Chris McAfrey again. I know if we talked about him a few times. But I'm going to say Amman Ross St. Brown, only because it seems that he's getting a little bit of pushback lately. And I know a lot of the concerns are the Ben Johnson leaving and what is the Morton going to do? And I know they said they're doing a little bit of changes.

But I just think it's strange of one of the most consistent wide receivers, wide receiver three in points per game. And overall two years ago, wide receiver seven in points per game in top five again last year. And maybe people want to say, well, wide receiver seven shouldn't be going on the first round. But I feel like it's the floor. I think you're seeing a little bit different with St. Brown last year, with some of the stuff being shorter. And, you know, Jared Gough had this huge passing season and the touchdowns might not be there again. It seems like a lot of is for somebody who is clearly the number one focal point in this passing game, even with the emerges of James and Williams last year, that I'm taking those targets.

I'm taking that consistency. And even if he finishes between last year and the year before, that would still put him inside the top five with what I think is one of these safest floors. You tell me who's more risky, and I love Puka Nakuwa, but who's more risky between Nakuwa and St. Brown? There's more risk with Nakuwa. Nuku would you be shocked if he was the number two alongside Adams this year just because of how good Adams still is? No, I would not be shocked. And let alone the injury history, you think I like Puka. I think when you look at the other guys in this, because I am somebody who has kind of been fading it,

like not all the way out of the first round, but there's just other names in the first round that I've been kind of drawn to. and every single one of them, it's the upside case. It's not the floor case. Puka is the upside case. Malik neighbors up. Nico Collins, upside case. Ash and Genti, upside case. Like, Christian McCaffrey, upside case.

None of them is the safety case. So I think it's a really fair point. And it's one of those things where like I feel like the way I draft and I try to aim for upside, I won't be taking. There will be somebody else who will take Amin Ra ahead of me. But at the end of the season, I think when we look at the rankings and who has outperformed whom, Like, I am pretty confident Amina-Ras St. Brown will be very near the top of that list.

So I think it's one of the – it feels weird to call him a boring play because he's not old and he's been good for a while. But it almost kind of feels like that. A less boring pick and a guy who is also a big upside guy is who you have in round two. Yeah, and I wouldn't be afraid of taking him at the end of round one. That's Drake London. And we've done another show, it was including Debrough on that one. And I said that a lot of people are like, well, we hope Pennix can be blank. And my pushback was like, I don't even need Pennix to be blank.

If Pennix is just the bad version of Kirk Cousins from last year and plays the entire season as such, that's basically about a 4,000 yard 23, 24 touchdown season, that volume, even if it's not the 40% we saw at the end of the year and it's just 30%, which it should be. He's Drake London and this offense centers around him and as the number one option with fewer threats than St. St. Brown has, honestly, if you want to go down that road too, Drake London should be a lock for the top. 10. So I am hammering every time I see him in the second round. And I think you can make a case for him at the end of the first, taking them in the names of St. Brown, Brian Thomas, Malick, neighbors. Like, I think his name deserves to be there, not in the next group with like the A.J. Brown's and Jackson Smith and Jigbas of the world. And you did say on that show with Debrough, which everybody should go check out if they

want to hear kind of a deeper dive on London. I said, are you taking him in kind of that second round or more of the third and you were like neither i'm taking him in the first he is not getting past the top 10 picks and drafts with jake sealy so uh yeah definitely somebody that you are very excited about if you can in the second round which i think you can in most leagues like you wouldn't want to do late depends on where you're picking but um i think that'll be the case in most leagues so that's a that's a good call here and this is one that like we have a lot of consensus on here of fantasy pros like dbrook agrees ericson agrees i agree we are very heavy on drake london this year uh let's go to a running back here in round three yeah it's funny

similar to St. Brown, this running back is getting a lot of pushback. And you and I, we've been on episodes where people are like touchdown regression, everything worked perfectly last year. But it's gone so far that we went from course correcting of like late, let's not get too crazy on James Cook last year. Let's not call him top five, top six running back. There should be like touchdown regression anyway, just from any running back in general to repeat what he did is kind of tough to, you know, put into a guarantee. key. And I know people will say, well, it's the bill's offense. And he should be able to do it again. But there's risk like the contract and they use other. But anyway, I'm bringing all that up to say is like, there's been so much of, well, James Cook can't do it again. James Cook's got this risk, this risk,

this risk, this risk. And now all of a sudden James Cook is in the third round. I'm like, well, thank you. You baked in all the risk. I can now just take him in the third round and potentially still get that round one value that we just saw last year. Even if you chop off four or five touchdowns, he's still going to be producing as a top six, seven running back. So I get it. The yards aren't enormous and it is a lot of touchdown reliance. And Josh Allen's going to take his, but he took his last year and he was fine.

So I'm not saying he's going to repeat and have mid-teen touchdowns, but you've now baked in so much risk that I'm willing to say, I'm in on James Cook in the third round. Speaking of James Cook, this month, if you want a chance to win a signed James Cook Bill's jersey for free, courtesy of our friends of pristine auction.com, all you to do is subscribe to the fan. Fantasy Pro's YouTube channel right now.

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I don't want to repeat too many players from that show, but I wanted to echo because I have come around on this. This is coming from somebody that just a month ago wasn't so sure about Kenneth Walker because I was wondering if we were going to see like a Steelers-type backfield with Charbonnet being involved in the Jalen Warren situation. And then Michael Sean Dugger covers the Seahawks for the athletic. I was about to call us the athletes. The athletic, I hit him up and I was like, hey, you're close to the team.

Answer the question. Is it the timeshare or is he the clear lead? And he said, KW9 is a bell cow. I'm like, oh, okay, I'm moving them up. I'm giving him that workload. I'm giving him near 18 plus touches a game. and that puts Kenneth Walker as it shocked me even because even was like, hey, I'll buy in. I was not expecting him to jump all the way to RB12 overall for me.

So to get him in the fourth, do it while you can because I have a feeling he's going to climb into the third. And I think his name should be to go back to James Cook. I would take Walker before Cook, despite the fact you can get him later. Yeah. He is in the late 30s right now. So like overall, so definitely a fourth round pick in terms of the ECR ranking. I don't think that'll last eye. They're like you should be very comfortable.

Don't see this and go, oh, I have to wait to the fourth to take him. See this and go, if I'm picking the back half of the third or maybe even earlier than that, like be very willing to take him. We like Kenneth Walker a lot. And if he's healthy, there's just no way he's not outperforming this spot in rankings. There's just no way. So to me, it's the only question there is health. And I'm, you know, everybody has health questions, right?

It's football. Everybody can get hurt. So I want to take the swing on the guy that is going to be a bell cow. and could be a league winner from the fourth route. I'll take that every time. So it's funny because looking at that rounds three and four and then you also have a running back around five. People often think of this as kind of like the RB dead zone. Dead zone.

There's a lot of running backs that look pretty enticing here. And I agree with you with the guy you're about to talk about for round five too. Yeah. And this one I would almost guarantee it's not going to stay in round five. Oh, no chance. And this was before the eye injury to Najee Harris, which, hey, can we stop playing with fireworks, football players? the JPP teach us nothing, just leave them alone. Let somebody else do it.

But Amerian Hampton, and this is, like, I do believe similar to the Bijan Jamir Gibbs draft that Amerin Hampton should have been thought closer to Ashton Genty than a lot of people gave him credit for. Like, everybody put a clear gap. And I'm not saying I wouldn't take Gentie over Hampton 10 times out of 10. But I think that gap should have been a lot more narrow like the Bejan Gibbs situation, where to say that given the teams, and if they saw, I think this is the risk, if they saw similar workloads, the risk being that Hampton doesn't see Gentis workload, that Hampton could

have the better season, especially on the chargers. And so that kind of upside in the fact that Najee Harris already had that. It was a one-year deal. I kind of, I think most people, and me, including myself, assumed that we would see kind of a split to see the season. It would kind of grow to Hampton's role as the season progressed. But now you're opening the door for him to show what he can do in the preseason and everything. And then Najee Harris doesn't necessarily get on the field that much. And all of a sudden, you are talking about Hampton. getting 17, 18, 20 touches a game, this is not going to last. Get it while you can.

And I would even put him in round four, I would still take them. I wouldn't be afraid of him taking them possibly even. If you said this earlier, I wanted to reference it. If you were like pick 311, you're like, well, I have to wait to round four. No, you don't because you want to make sure you get them. I wouldn't be even afraid of Hampton as like the 311 pick. Do you get worried at all with Hampton? And like, I think you're right that like he is going to go higher than this.

The helium will be there. but do you think there is any cause for concern just that Greg Groman, as much as he likes running, does it typically have the bell cow? We just talked about with Kenneth Walker. I think Mark Ingram that first year in Baltimore is like the most carries that any running back's gotten under Roman. And even that was like a somewhat split back field. Like obviously the quarterback was part of that running game too. So it was a little bit different.

But maybe he hasn't had a running back on the level of Omerian Hampton. I really like him as a prospect. But is that in the back of your mind at all? 100%. And especially because it's a rookie and he hasn't had a prospect like him, but also the Roman like, hey, let's just keep. And that's why I thought Nasha Harris would be more involved. But I think, like I said, this is opening the door from the split starting to go back to the Steelers.

Like a 55-45, where I think the split will be more like 60-40. And Hampton, similar to Treviant Henderson, who I keep bringing up, I don't think Hampton needs 20 touches a game to put up top 20 running back value. Let's go to your number six. Well, not your number six. You're around six. Yeah, this is similar to James Cook. I wasn't in on Jalen a little while ago. but now that the hesitancies and other names kind of getting pushed in front of them in ADP,

like Waddle in the sixth I'm okay with. And I get frustrated with these kind of leg injuries that are recurring, especially tissue injuries and the same leg. And it's getting risky with Jalen Waddle at this point, including the risk with two. Hell, the risk with this entire offense, honestly, from up and down the line. But if Waddle is healthy, we still are talking about somebody who was considered and should still be considered in the conversation with Vante Smith and Jameson William as these twos who can put up top 20 value.

So now that he's been kind of discounted a little bit to the sixth round, I'm going to buy Jalen Wadle on the 6th where I wasn't probably about two months ago. I feel like I have been getting a lot of Waddle. And I haven't been a great. This isn't like the running backs who just talked about where it's like take him around early to make sure you get him. It's just where he's been going. I've been very comfortable with the, I'll buy low on it.

I liked him a lot going into the last couple of seasons just because it didn't pan out for a variety of reasons. I think there's a chance Tyree Kill takes a step back this year. And there's a real opportunity here. Like obviously, Johnny Smith's gone. So it is everything you talk about with the Dolphins offense, there is risk associated with it. But you can paint a fun picture of the upside. And I think that cost wattle is a perfectly reasonable pick here.

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And now the positive spin is just a clean up. And not to say like my wife is anything like an NFL player, but she had to clean up on her ankle. And she was fine a few weeks. And she had the tendon repaired and the scar tissue taking out. Like I'm just saying if she's not even an athlete and she was fine is my point. So like I'm not too scared by this. But if people want to avoid it, I understand. but you're getting Chris Godwin in the seventh round.

You're getting Chris Godwin who was a top three wide receiver before he got hurt. You're getting Chris Godwin who showed last year with that performance that he was a little bit better stylistically with Baker Mayfield. And Mike Evans is still the touchdown guy. But Mike Evans, we've been waiting for him to drop off for how long now. But it's still being the point, even if he doesn't, this duo is still Godwin slightly ahead and consistency-wise. And what Baker does, then Mike Evans, obviously the touchdown upside with Evans.

But in the seventh round, I'm willing to gamble because I still think. think and I still would take a healthy, 100% healthy is the question, Chris Gobwin over Mike Evans. And I know people point to the Abuka thing. I think that was more looking to next year that Mike Evans might finally be done. The contract and whether you want to go either way with it, my positive spin on it, you could go negative to. Debrough brought it up. You and I were talking about after a show.

And Debrough was like, well, maybe that was the way they got him to stay is guaranteeing money and other teams didn't want to. But I go to the contract and the fact there's zero injury clause in there. which makes me just kind of say, if they were at all concerned, wouldn't you put something in there? Again, you're not taking them in the fourth, you're not taking them in the fifth, you're not taking him in the sixth.

You're getting Chris Godwin in the seventh round who could start on your bench, depending on your roster, and then you just get the upside what he is 100%, and that's why I'm going to do it. The cost is a really important factor here. Godwin is the type of player I tend to avoid. I'd rather get the guy the year after the year after the injury.

I mean, just injuries will find you, right? This is football. Your team is going to get hit with injuries at some point. So why start off with a guy that has the injury question marks already? But round seven for a guy that was the best receiver in fantasy before he got hurt last year, you're getting a discount. Maybe it's not a massive discount. But it is a legitimate discount enough so that I do think it's a good pick.

Even if I went into draft season expecting to not be interested in Chris Godwin, if he's in round seven, I'll be a lot more interested than where I really kind of expected him to be. with some of the offseason talk. Let's go to round eight. Who do you have here? Yeah, going to go quarterback, finally. Justin Fields. Let's actually, sorry to cut you up.

Let's move rounds eight and nine together because you have quarterbacks back to back. Yes, I do. I do. Yeah. So obviously to what you said earlier, this is not my perfect draft because I would not be going, quarterback, quarterback, right? Go do it. But Justin Fields and Dak Prescott for different reasons, obviously.

I do not think Justin Fields is going to be on the bench unless he's hurt. The Jess did not bring him in. This isn't like, oh, my. God, he might lose the job if he has three rough games. But you know, I've said this to you before. I said it on Pat Mayo show. I don't know how many times I have to say it. I don't need Justin Fields to be a good passer.

Like, I don't. But the thing is, he's better than Anthony Richardson. He's better than some other quarterbacks because I just need him to be okay as a passer, which is what he was when he was QB6 overall and in points per game because he ran for 1,100 yards. But I also don't even need to run for 1100, just 900. Just 900. And Justin Fields being Justin Fields and throwing for

2,500 yards and 18 touchdowns, guess what? You're going to be a top 10 quarterback. Daniel Jones did it with 700 yards and seven rushing touchdowns, throwing 15 touchdowns and 16 games. I pull that up all the time because that's actually when I somewhat still cared about the giants. But Justin Fields, I'm going to hammer in the eighth. I would even take him the seventh.

If actually cost-wise, I could take Fields in the seventh and still get Godwin in the eighth. I just don't know if he'll fall that far. I would do that. That's how willing I am to go in on fields. And then if you don't get fields, if you don't get a top-tier quarterback, I think Dak Prescott's a great one to chase late, similar to Jared Golf last year, where all we do is need him to be healthy. Now, Dak looked the worst. He's looked probably his entire career last year on top of it.

But was that the injury factoring in was that it was C.D. Lamb and nobody else to throw to. He now has George Pickens. He has a serious threat as a second option. Finally, again, like Brayna Cook's when he was actually playing well. And I think a healthy Cedley Lamb, a healthy George Picking, a healthy Dak Prescott. And you could be talking about it. It has to do most of it with his arm. But we've already seen Dak Prescott total 5,000 yards passing and rushing

and well approaching 40 total touchdowns between those two aspects. Even a Jared golf-like season. And he's going to be a top six, seven quarterback. The last two fully healthy seasons, Dak Prescott has had, he has been QB7 and QB3. Like even without the rushing being a significant part of his game, there is real passing driven upside here. So like right now he's QB 13. I've seen him going like well below that honestly because somebody wants the upside of like a May or Stroud or whoever.

Like he's consensus ranked QB13. He goes lower than that often. I think he is a great target if you are waiting on quarterback or if you're in a league where it makes sense to have a high end backup. He's a great call in that regard. Fields also I agree with too. That case I think is a little more obvious because everybody knows the running and like he should be going in the top 10 quarterbacks. Like the running is a cheap code. And unlike past years with the fields, we are really confident assuming health he's going to be the starter for the year.

So, yeah, these are two great picks, like you said, for very different reasons between the two. But I'm totally on board with both of them. Last player here in the top 10, round 10. Who do you have? Yeah, the round 10 is the thing. Cooper Cup has not looked good the past year and a half. I mean, let's be honest, last year. Just focus on it.

It didn't look good. Wasn't separating well anymore. Wasn't the Cooper Cup we knew. He's been battling injuries. guess what? You can put Cooper Cup on your bench, and if he looks like trashed the first two weeks, you can move on because you're not drafting him as a starter anymore.

You're not even drafting him as a top 40, 45 wide receiver anymore. You're getting Cooper Cup going to the Seahawks with a revitalized, hopefully, offense with Kubiak opening things up. We also went deeper into that on that other show with Debrough when I talked about JSN. But he's going to open things up. And even if I'm wrong, which was DeBrow was saying, what if JSN is the short one, and Cup ends up being better outside?

at this stage of his career like he was last year. Well, that's even better for Cup, because go back to Alave and Shihid and Kubiak's offense and breaking open downfield. I think Cup is basically a free top 25 upside pick. Do I think he get, like, if you told me 10 times out of 10, how many times does he hit it this year at this point of Cup's career?

I'd say three or four. I don't think this is a definite smashing. You need to get them all your teams. But at this point of drafts round 10, I'm not drafting somebody who I think can be Y receiver 44. I want you to either have top 20 upside or you're not on my bench because that's the league winners at this point. These are guys on your bench who have the top 20, 25 upside.

And if Cooper Cup is even a hair of what he was two years ago, you're going to get that in this offense. I was kind of grossed out by this pick when I saw you put it in the sheet. But it's round 10. I was going to say I went and looked at who else is available in round 10. There's some names in round 11 that I like, but in, or excuse me, in round 9 that I like, like just before this stretch. But once you get to around 10, like, it is pretty gross. So there's the, like, what am I going to take? Brandon and I, you can stay, like coming off the injury or Rashad White.

These are some of the names that are near Cooper Cup. So, um, so I, it's a five. I withdraw my initial discuss. Yeah. Rashad White or Cooper Cup. I'm taking Cooper Cup. Yeah, that's, that's very fair. Um, give me two just bonus players anywhere outside the top 10 rounds that you're

interested in. Ooh, top 10. I, we briefly touched on his name. So I'll go a little bit more. Jaden Blue. I think that this is you and I. I have talked about being in on Javante Williams, but I think at cost for both, you can get Williams and Blue, and then hopefully you get whoever ends up being the lead. If Williams

doesn't look anything like he was before, that injury is still taking its toll. Blue in a Warren type of 14 to 15 touches, a game kind of range can have RB2 value. I don't think he'll be an RB1 just because he's not built for it, but I think that's a great value there. And then at this is, it's interesting. I say, you know, the Kenneth Walker, I've changed my tunes and stuff like that. I've been in on saying like let's not just toss away Travis Etyn is like never being able to do anything again. But post draft, the excitement and the hype that people were going, I mean, diving off the hills to go get Bayshall Tootin. Like you have to get him. The most explosive player ever. He's going to be, you know, Bucky Irving in this offense. And I'm like, dude, like, chill out.

Could could be a full blown committee. Well, as you and I are sitting here looking, he's going in the one 30s. Like I was out on Tootan as saying like, oh, I don't want to take Tootan. like the eighth round because everybody's going nuts. But if you're going to tell me I can still get double-digit rounds and get Bachelute, and I would consider him in round 10 with Cooper Cup. It was the problem was that post-draft excitement was just getting out of hand. But it's a warranted cost now. Are you, do you feel the same way I do, which is that frankly, I'd be willing to take

anybody in the Jaguars back that even take Bigsby, like, if they're going late enough, if we're talking like outside the top 10 rounds. Like, I want to take a swing on this back. We know what Liam Cohn can do with a running game. We don't know that Beychal Tootin is going to be the Bucky Irving, right? Like he had the fumble stuff early on in OTAs and like clearly is a somewhat limited player. Everybody in this backfield has red flags. Of course, that's why they're all going as late as they are.

But I just want to take the late swing. And typically ETS is going to go ahead of the other two, at least at this point in the rankings. So I'm willing to take Tank or Tootin if they're outside the top 10 rounds. You just take a shot on this backfield. 100%. Like this is why I go back to that. I want to take the shots. Like I don't want Michael Wilson on my team.

Like, and Michael Wilson's like, okay, cool. Maybe he breaks out twice. Dary Slate, maybe he has one good game. You can go down the list. Like all these kind of wide receivers that people just end up drafting. And it's like, why? What's like, Antonio Gibson? Like, what are you going to draft a third running back on a team for?

Hell, remandre Stevenson. Like, what? We just saw the best case scenario for him last year. Cool, you got an RB3 and that he's going way earlier. I'm just saying, once you hit your bench, those first two players, we did it on the advice show. Those first two players probably need to get your lineup, but those last four spots should essentially be lottery tickets. And what's a lottery ticket?

Somebody with top 2025 upside. Not somebody who's going to finish Y-Receiver 43. Like, no, never going to be on my team. I want to let everybody know that we'll be tackling your fantasy questions all week. Every week on Twitch. We're at Twitch.tv. com. Erickson and Tom Stracken are talking best ball Monday is at 4 Easter.

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Yeah, Jake will be on there. Well, I've got a bunch of people on there. So we'll have a lot of fun on Twitch this season. Hope everybody checks it out. Jake, thanks for giving us your top targets throughout the top 10 rounds of drafts. For Jake, I'm Ryan. We'll see you next time. Thanks for listening to the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast.

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