Fantasy Football - Head-to-Head Mock Draft! - Podcast for 8/13

erased a couple this morning and i'm consolidating i'm getting very close and this morning if when we finish the show you can go walk in there and you could see one i've got four total names on there and one of them is jordan tyson oh so because i erased it yesterday wrote him on there this morning no i didn't even know you had him oh he was on my list and i erased him yesterday this is a player who is truly

an elite wide receiver. I'm all in on believing in the talent. He was our number one. So anything negative we say, he was our number one, Jason and I's number one scouted wide receiver. Yes. Right? And Mike as well. All three of us ahead of Cornell Tate. Nick Underhill, one of my favorite beat reporters, covers the Saints. I was told this isn't super serious, but obviously less than ideal. That's exactly how I feel about it. I can tell you who's not going to be a my guy.

I mean, with the reoccurring hamstring. You want to have your my guy not play the first four weeks because week one he pulls something? Yeah, I promised you in the UDK, you will see an arrow appear next to Jordan Tyson's name later today, and it will be a down arrow because his risk rating is going to go up. This having a reaggravation of such a longstanding issue says, hey, I'm still willing to draft him, but you got to know that there is a higher risk profile here. That sucks, man. It's not great.

So we're going to monitor that. The Panthers, they signed. Al, I'm giving you a second here. The Panthers signed tight in. Darren Waller. Oh, go, go, go, go, joob. All right. The Panthers. I won your contract. He's still just 33 years old. Caught six touchdowns last year. Look good doing it. So this is an upgrade for Price Young. Right?

You didn't sound like you agreed. So a couple of things here. Tatavian Sanders, I really like. Darren Waller is better. Darren Waller was actually good last year in the games he played, which is a little surprising for his age. I will say that in a dynasty league, he's probably on your waivers and he should be picked up. I don't expect big things here, but when you're streaming off of your bench in a dynasty league, it's nice to have an option in a certain matchup.

Go peek at your waivers and make sure he is out there. I mean, what did he have? Six touchdowns last year in like minimal games. Yeah, on a, where Tua threw for 3,200 yards. Ian Rappaport reporting that Rashi Rice is not expected to be suspended for violating his probation. That's good news, especially coming out right after the fact that it's TBD on Josh Jacobs and Pooka Nakua, that they still are being.

investigated for theirs. I think the people out there need to know what you would do if your draft was tomorrow with Puka Nakua and Josh Jacobs. Because we're getting to the point where the conversation is no longer, well, I'll pay attention a month from now. It's now like you might draft today. You might draft next week. You might. So if that's in the back of your mind, like Puka is my number one wide receiver. Right. And I would imagine right now you.

Would you draft Puka over Jamar Chase today? No, I would. But how far down? Would you move your number one wide receiver in Puka? Would you say, because of potential risk for a suspension, I am willing to take those next two guys? Would you take JSN or Ammon Ra over Puka if your draft was today? No. I don't think I would either. What's funny is I'm looking at my UDK numbers, and the risk rating is going to come up for Puka because of this and did go up.

I took a game away from Puka, and he's still statistically higher than Chase for me. He is really, he's, him and Chase to me are a tier above. I don't mind if you put all either JSN or JSN and Amman Ra on that tier, but I'm going to take two games away. That puts him at three for me. That means that Chase and JASN would be picked for me. So you would. You would pick. I know, you said JASN and Amundra, but right in between those. Yeah, okay. I would go, I would take the, I'd take Jason right today.

If we get word that Puka is not going to get suspended, he goes right back to number one. And Jacobs, let me ask you a couple of questions here. By the way, Puka and Jacobs with the suspensions that could happen, probably not. Both have groin injuries. Maybe they're just faking it, get some sympathy from the NFL. Like, hey, God, I might miss games on my own. You don't need to suspend me. Oh, let's teach him the butterflies. Yeah, seriously.

So right now, Josh Jacobs is going behind Henry and Love and ahead of Kyron Williams and Breece Hall. Would you still draft Jacobs ahead of Kyron and ahead of Breece Hall? Or would you flip there? I might take Bree. You know how high. I might take Greece ahead of him today. And I might take Kyron ahead of him today just so you feel like I picked Kyron once. Yay. Yeah. For the record.

As of this moment, I do not believe that either will be suspended. It seems unlikely. The conversations are ongoing and it's something we need to be aware of, but I just don't like it in the back of my mind. Yeah, I'd put it at unlikely. Ameca Abuka left yesterday's practice with the toe injury, considered minor. That was the update. I think they had the Abuka news yesterday, but not the severity or the type of injury. Yeah, they said it was a minor toe injury, so I have to imagine it's the pinky. Oh, yeah, I was going there. I was going there. What do you even call the one next to the pinky? That one's the real ring finger.

The ring toe. The ring toe. So that's the ring toe. I just feel like that one's really. I feel like that one could go and no one would notice. Like if you did the thanos snap and everybody lost that toe, life goes on perfectly normal. You need your ring toe? No, absolutely not. That's just that one's on the way out. It's a luxury toe. It's a luxury toe. For sure.

That's what they call it. That is it. Or as you'd say, a luxury finger. Dave Canales said Chuba Hubbard is week to week with a hamstring injury. Oh, no. Jonathan Brooks going to skyrocket. He's already, he's already like, do, do, do, do, let me go and look at my rank. Jonathan Brooks has already overtaken Chuba in most drafts that I've seen, which I understand the excitement of the upside. But he is the, he is clearly currently the backup. And it's, it's tough.

I don't know about that, man. You think he starts the season at Chuba? I think so. Okay. Well, I think if that's the case, then. Chuba is just, he is the, he is the remandre to the travion. He is the, like, tried and true thumper, but he doesn't have the skill set. We saw this last year with Rico already. If a player comes out and shows explosiveness in this offense, you're never going to see that from Chuba. Ever. So.

If Rico can win the job, J.B. can win the job. And I'll always say this. I've lowered the risk rating for J.B. a little bit. Yeah, I mean, he's healthy right now. And he is going to play football in preseason week one on Saturday. I will be holding my breath during that game. Yeah, that could move the ADP even higher if he looks good. Actually, it will. I mean, if he looks, if he has an explosive play, that's going to skyrocket with the hamstring injury. So we'll take a break. We've got a mock draft coming up.

We'll talk to you in a second, and man, Jason, you're going to draft at 10. I'm at 5. Head-to-head mock, randomly decided. We had a question yesterday of like where's the worst spot in the draft, and I basically said 10. And then the team here gave you that spot. All right, we'll be right back. What's up, Foot Clan? You are confident and disciplined and focused on details, just like everyone here at the fancy footballers, right? Those are words you used to describe us. In other words, you were made to drive the 2026.

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The announcement. There is a zero percent chance they're the Indiana Bears. You put it at zero? Zero. I have it above zero. I want this to be a sound clip when it goes. I want when I see the new logo, you can clip that piece, Falcon, and just drop the new logo over top of me. If it becomes the Indiana Bears. I, I. Oh, brother. That feels, that feels disgusting. I don't think so. But that was making.

all the rounds yesterday. And I know every Bears fan is probably panicking. If it became the Indiana Cardinals, no problem. Whatever. Take them. Yeah, they're yours. But like, dude, you should be able to trade teams. Even when, oh, that'd be great. Even when, like, the Bears weren't good for a long stretch, they're still like. They're the Chicago Bears. They're not changing. This is all, this is some sort of blustery thing. Trying to get more out of Chicago? Um.

Oh yeah, and then when we talk about indie, it would be two different teams. Oh, no, don't do that. Indiana, Indianapolis? Yeah. I can't see it happening, but there's a sound clip for you. The fantasy footballers mock draft. All right, like I said, the mayhem draft kicked back to next week. Today we're doing a 12 team full PPR, one quarterback, two running back, two wide receiver, one tight end, one flex, two, four bench spots.

I have been randomly assigned the five spot in the draft. Jason is at the 10 spot, and we have our writers and producers and staff drafting live. So we will kick it off right here right now. And I'm glad that the way this draft started, push didn't come to shove on the Puka question. You just asked. Jamir Gibbs, Bijan Robinson, go one and two, even in the full PPR, Jamar Chase, and Puka Nakua go next. I'm on the clock at 105. I still have a decision to make here.

We had our top 10 running back show yesterday. If you didn't listen, you can go back and listen to that episode, counting it down. Talked a lot about Christian McCaffrey, and here he is. I mean, a full PPR. Remember what you're getting with Christian McCaffrey. Yeah. You're getting a receiver and a running back in one. J.S.N. sitting here. It's going to say full PPR for JSN. Not too bad either. And I'm on raw, obviously. But I'm going to pull the trigger here. It's rare. I've had an opportunity in any mock. I will take the Christian McCaffrey.

opportunity here at 105 and a full PPR. I think I like the pass catchers, the ride receivers coming around in round two more than I do, the running backs with pass catching potential. And I think somebody like Chase Brown, who will catch a lot of passes, will probably be gone. So I'll go CMC here to start off our 12 team PPR mock draft. Amon Rae St. Brown goes next. Great pick. Jonathan Taylor, JSN, going at 108 in a full PPR is a little interesting.

CD Lamb going next and Jason you're at that beautiful spot where by ADP just so yesterday when we were asked what is the worst spot to draft Jason gave a real number yeah 10 I didn't I said it's wherever you're tempted to draft Justin Jefferson yeah 10 which that's that's where we are Jefferson is the next name to come off the board so I think I agree with you on 10

Tell me the thought process here. You've got A. Chan catching a lot of passes. I know what I'm going to do here. Oh, that's good. I was pretty sad to see C.D. Lamb get taken by cash money right ahead of me. Most of the time I think James Cook goes ahead or people might even be putting Justin Jefferson there. In a full PPR, I would very much prefer to have C.D. Lamb. I think he's the last of a tier one of wide receivers.

I'm going to end up high tea here. I'm very confident of that. This is the first time I've been able to draft James Cook put a little respect on his name. He is an awesome top tier running back for a great team who is projected to score 10 plus touchdowns. And I think he'll be more involved in the passing game this year than he has been. Did you happen to see his comments to our good friend of the show Matt Harmon yesterday? I did not. Harmon basically said,