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

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All right, so I am looking at my wide receiver two here. There's not a quarterback, I think, that is a tier above enough to take here a second onesie. I already took Tyler Warren. So it's running back and wide receiver, but at the running back position, there's nobody as important to my roster as there is at wide receiver. Now, my wide receiver is my second one. Very similar to what you were, when you had Christian McCaffrey and you're trying to decide, do I take the high upside shot at Henderson?

Maybe you need more reliability. That's where I am at wide receiver. Like, I want to take Jordan Tyson, despite the hamstring injury. But he's your wide receiver, too, and a PPR. Exactly. I just don't think I can do that. There's a handful of guys here that I really like Christian Watson is obviously awesome. But again, that's another big risk. He's missed games every year of his career. I'm going to take Old Faithful. I'm going to take Devante Adams, a great offense.

A goal line machine. You know, his separation last year was still good. And so, you know, maybe he falls off, but he didn't last year. I have no problem with it. I think we've been pretty in sync, actually, because I think the last, I think the Wilson and the Adams pick were the other names that are right there when I was on the board. Judarian Price, that'll be an interesting pick goes 511. Tyson does go at 512. And then we see a couple.

I mean, a blessing to you at the quick turn. Two onesies go off the board. Drake made, Jaden Daniels back to back. So you're sitting there. You've got a onesie. You've got two running backs, two wide receivers, and a tight end. And you're back on the clock, quick turn. I think I'm really confident in my James Cook, Amari, and Hampton start. So Garrett Wilson and Devante Adams could use some help. I love Mike Evans, but his hamstring hates him. Evans' Adams' combo is hilarious. The two oldest guys in the draft. I would never do it for that reason.

Christian Watson, I know big fan of him on the show. Mike is in love with him. I'm going to stick to my guns that I have had for a while, a player that a lot of people have just soured on. They just don't think he's any good. They think he's the third best receiver on his team. But he was a top-timed draft pick. He was leading the team in receptions before he got injured last year.

This is all a Rome-Madunesay. This is a Rome-A-Dunze. I still believe in Rome-A-Dunze. I believe in Rome, too. At this point in the sixth round, to get a year three player who was clearly breaking out before he got injured last year, I'm in. I love it. Rome, Parker, Washington, Jalen Warren, Romandre, I had my hopes on one player. When I took A-chan, I was like, one guy, I hope makes it all the way back around.

And the three quarterbacks going off the board helped it happen. Oh. My team is perfect for Mike Evans. Oh, okay. I love having you on board with a draft pick of Mike Evans. Yeah. London, Burden, Evans. I feel outstanding about with Allen and CNC. You've got explosive high upside there. A little bit of risk, but yeah. Like Devante went at 510. I get Evans at 608 and I look at them very similarly in production. Watson, huge.

Kraft. Craft off the board here ahead of Kittle. Craft off the board ahead of Fanon. And I don't blame anyone for it. Johnson, Kraft, BTJ, Marv, Cortland Sutton, 702 as we cruise along here. Jalen Hertz at 703, Jason. That is the cheapest Jalen Hertz you've ever had. That is an awesome pick. I mean, for...

Hertz falling to the sixth, which is where he usually is in most drafts, I think, is a great value where even if he doesn't go back to the 15 rushing touchdowns with the push of the last several years prior to last year, which he could, is still a good value in the sixth. Getting him in the seventh is great. Dobbins, Mike isn't here to applaud that one at 704. I am taking back-to-back 49ers, Jason.

Oh. I don't believe the current ADP is going to be reflective of the ADP, either in this room amongst all of our writing staff and this group, you've got to pull the trigger sometimes ahead of where the ADP has a guy. I'm taking George Kittle. I'm going to take George Kittle. I like what I've seen so far. I feel like, you know, you're such a big Brock Purdy fan. Is their offense?

I think Brock Purdy is. All San Francisco, all in on SF office. I was literally going to say now, before you take that pick, I want to make sure you know. Yeah, I've got. But then I saw that you took the pick. Yeah, I took the pick. I'm aware. You better get Brock Purdy at this point. Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know. Oh, no, you've got Josh Allen. I forgot about that. But yes, Christian McCaffrey, Mike Evans, and George Kittle. I do. I will say this. I think their offense, like usual.

is going to be very good and score a ton of points. So this could be a consolidated offense into those three weapons. It's dangerous. It's dangerous. Substation. A dangerous substation. Jonathan Brooks, Michael Wilson, Alec Pierce, Justin Herbert, and Jason Moore is on the clock. Seventh round. I am on the clock. I'm going to do something I haven't done. Well, I'm not going to do it.

with this pick. I'm going to grab Caleb on the way back. Two putt. Caleb Williams. Oh, man. Hmm. That was rude. That was rude. I had several two putts. You did. You did. But I had a few three put. But that, I mean, you understand the position I was put in. So, such a great joke. Because I took Roma Dunzee and we're here later in the draft, I like the idea of getting.

the high upside explosiveness of Caleb Williams. Are you stacking? I am going to stack, but the two people before me at the turn, they already have. They just drafted quarterback's last pick. So I know they're not going to grab Caleb Williams. Now, I'm sitting here with still just James Cook and Omari in Hampton, which feels dicey, but the running backs on the board, the running backs I want are insurance backs. They're Blake Corum, they're Kyle Munung guy, really high upside, but not guys that I'm going to

be starting and they shouldn't be drafted in the seventh round or even the eighth round. So I'm going to bypass on them. I'm going to look at the wide receiver position. And here in the seventh, I'm going to take, this has been a really fun mock draft because I feel like I'm grabbing guys that I haven't necessarily taken before to give them a little bit more respect. But the gap between Ibuka and Chris Godwin in ADP I think is wider than it will be in real life.

Godwin has a mind meld with Baker and getting him at the, you know, near the 7-8 turn. I'm down with that. We talked yesterday about Godwin or a couple days ago. The place for Godwin especially is a full PPR league. I mean, I think it's a great pick. Fanon, Monongai, Dowdell, and Josh Downs. Jason pulls the trigger now with Caleb Williams. Hey, how do you feel about that? Jay, Jay Gris happy that I got your stack, Caleb Williams and Roma Dunzee?

Yep, I've got burden too, Jay. Don't get out of me. We're going for it. The comments from the head coach, they want to break the scoring record. Did you know that all the other coaches have no interest in scoring? No, you know what? That's actually true. That is actually true. They do not have interest in that. And I'm not joking. I was talking to Mike. You weren't there about Ben Johnson and the quote. I love Ben Johnson so much. Here's his quote.

I want to have the highest scoring offense ever, which happens to be the 2013 Denver Broncos. I know how many points per game they scored, 37.9, and I want to surpass them. I want shutouts. I want blowouts. This dude is a dog, and he is going to put his throat on the, his foot on the throat of his opponent, and he is going to press down hard.

If he can. If he can. And I think he can. But he's in the period of his life as a coach where he is making a name for himself. It is a funny thing to watch. For fantasy purposes, it's fantastic. This is not a coach that's going to try to just get the easy Ws. You know, when you had the 2007 Patriots that were scoring 40 points a game, you won championships. And so I don't know if they can. But.

But certainly they're going to try to just keep running it up and not just like get out of there with an easy W. They want to destroy people. I love it. Yeah, he's setting himself up to need to succeed with the ripping the shirt off and all the behaviors. Dude, I love Ben Johnson. I'm falling further and further in love with that, man. Where did we leave off? Pollard, Mason, Dart, and Corum. There was a...

play a practice the other day where he tells all of his players never reach for the pylon. Never reach for the pylon unless it's fourth down or two point conversion. That is a hard and fast rule. And I think it was one of their rookie wide receivers reach for the pylon. And so in their meeting, he had AI recreate that page where the player was flipping off the camera. Oh my gosh. Just like teaching lessons. Oh my gosh. I love it, man.

All right, I'm on the clock here. Yeah, you ask yourself, what's the price that you'd pay for D.K. Metcalf in a draft, and I'll say the eighth pick of the eighth round. I'll take D.K. Metcalfe, I think in a PPR league, adding that depth in the eighth round is crazy. Yeah, I mean, you know Jalen McMillan was still available, right? Or Jerry, McMillan? Jerry Judy. Or D.K. McCaff. Yeah. C. C. C. C. C. Cawry, Crosky, Merritt, La Porta, Gainwell, Harvey, poor Jason.

You can't have a second tight end that's Sam Laporta. Kyle Pitts, Jacoby Myers, and Wondale going next. We have, my team has got two running backs right now, and that's the, that's an okay spot here where it's between, for me, at running back Rashad White and Chuba Hubbard. Maybe you could say Aaron Jones as well in that conversation. Chuba's not sexy, but I'll take him as a third, guaranteed.

to be out there. So I'll take him at the 905. Only two picks left in the draft. Jaden Reed goes next at 906. How do you feel about your team so far with three rounds left? We both have our onesies filled. It's kind of luxury at this point. Yeah, I love my team as a whole. I think the upside with, in a full PPR, Garrett Wilson, Devante Adams, Roma, Dunezay, Chris Godwin is great. My starting running backs of Cook and Hampton.

are awesome. And then Warren and Caleb Williams, huge upside. My big struggle here with how this roster has been built is I don't have a lot of depth at running back. And there's not a lot of depth at running back left to grab right now. I was pretty upset just a second ago because usually when I see Aaron Jones in ADP on the board, I go, great. Now I could take Jordan Mason. But Jordan Mason, Brooks!

wisely took a round ago. Well ahead, yeah. And as he should go, in my opinion, I will take Aaron Jones. Sometimes these backfields that you don't know who it's going to be, you take the shot on who you think it is. But both players are worthy draft picks late in a draft because there will be fantasy points on good offenses. Mike's talked about this for years. Like you take whatever offense you think is going to be good.

that you don't know who the guy is going to be. That's those late picks. You know, take shots on those type of guys. All right. Well, Jason with Aaron Jones, Golden, Dobbs, Denzel Boston. We talked about him. Jonah Coleman. In two picks left, Jason, we're in the 10th. Well, again, it's very similar to the last one. I would have preferred to take Bill and Jordan Mason. I'm going to end up with Aaron Jones and Rashad White. But it's the same thing where you don't know who it's going to be for sure.