Fantasy Football - Mock Draft Episode! - Podcast for 6/4

Just have them both for legal record. For Kenneth Walker and Hampton? Yeah. He's, I don't know what that has to do with this monster. He's just trying to flex his keepers. I was just saying, like, why choose? Have both. How did you get both? It sounds like you had a really bad year. Mike, are you going to pick? Yeah. I'm going to go with Kenneth Walker. After Jason set that up. Man, you should have taken Hampton. What an idiot. So that's five consecutive running backs. Barkley, A-Chan, Chase Brown. Chase Brown ahead of Gentey, ahead of Ken Walker. Then A.J. Brown and Crystal Lave go next.

Hampton does go off the board at 2.08. Chase Brown in the PPR is, that's a dangerous man. He could be. Jason's on the clock here. Bijon in the first. What are you looking at here? You have a quick turn here going into the third round. Yeah. The wide receivers that are on the board right now are all in kind of a big clump to me. I don't desperately love one more than the others. At running back, there are a handful here that I really like. So I assume I'm going to go running back, which means I'm between Josh Jacobs, business as usual,

but obviously has a lot of red flags in the UDK. I think his risk rating is about as high as it can go. But I do think if he plays this year for the Packers, he's going to dominate. You know I'm a sucker for Kyron Williams. I believe in him, and he's great. And then I'm also, you know, Jeremiah Love, it's a little high, but he's so good. And, you know, in the end, I think he'll – I'm starting to have fears about – Two of his games just got harder. Yeah. But, I mean, I think he's going to catch the ball a lot.

I am going to – This is a man who has no idea who he's going to pick. That is what I just – This man – I want to take Josh Jacobs. I really want to take Josh Jacobs. I just worry about that. So, full PPR, you're just like double running backs. You don't even think – you know what I mean? Thinking – No, just because of tears. I want – I definitely want to take one of these three running backs that I like a lot. So, I'm going to pull the trigger on Kyron Williams because I still 100% believe he is the leader for that team.

And he does not have to play against Miles Garrett. He gets to play with Miles Garrett. So, Jason went with Kyron Williams, which I think he's the – he's Corum's backup, right? Isn't that the – That's what some people think. I thought you might think about Brock Bowers, a positional advantage and a full PPR who was sitting there and went next to Kyle. Kyle took Brock Bowers there. I have such a long wait. The running backs when I – like the commitment to Puka was a commitment to two running backs here for my team. And that's what I wanted to experiment with.

Who would actually make it back to me here? You know, I don't – I just don't – maybe this is a good exercise in the situation right now. I don't want to draft Josh Jacobs right now. I just don't. I just don't want to take him. Like if – I understand that. If that news report didn't happen and he doesn't have a bunch of question marks, sure, that's probably the pick here. But I'm not going to do that. And I'm not going to take the rookie in Jeremiah Love. I think it's – it's just asking a lot to count on him to be my one.

I'm going to take Derrick Henry and Brees Hall. So, I'm going to take two guys. Brees Hall, Shoney has pass-catching chops. Derrick Henry in the late second is the bottom of this tier of great running backs. So, I'm going to take two solid workhorse backs because I got a long wait until my next pick to go with Puka. Yeah. So, it's back to me. At this point, full PPR, I'll take McBride. You know, I do prefer Bowers. No wideouts. I do prefer Bowers over McBride. But, I mean, they're both going to catch a ton of passes. And I think going running back, running back to start will let me really shotgun the wide receivers as the draft goes on.

You didn't mention it, but Ted McMillan went between my pick of Brees Hall and your pick of Trey McBride. Jeremiah Love does finally go off the board at 3-0-4. George Pickens and Devontae Smith go next. And then Producer Borland pulls the trigger with Garrett Wilson. Nice-looking team with Jonathan Taylor, A.J. Brown, and Garrett Wilson. I mean, that is two target hogs and then a true workhorse in Taylor. Whether Taylor can get those reception numbers up, we'll see. Mike, you're back on the clock. I'm on Ross St. Brown and Kenneth Walker. And you said, oh, man, because there are names you're struggling with?

Well, I mean, you have the Rasheed Rice question is massive. I mean, you've got a choice between, like, guys with real questions. Just guys doing bull crap off the field. Like, Rasheed Rice here would be crazy. Like, I mean, had his incident of probation violation not happen, I don't think he's available here in the third round. So that's, oh, my gosh. That's hard. So, like, my feel on that situation is if nothing's going to change, it's like, I think he'll be, I don't think he'll end up suspended. For who? Rasheed? For, yeah, for Rice. I mean, I would be very committed to the Kansas City Chiefs if I went with Kenneth Walker and Rice.

I'm going to sidestep that. I feel like if we knew for sure Rice was not going to get in trouble, that's where I would go. I'm going to sidestep it, though. I'm going to take Amika Egbegbu, as he will not make it back to me. And he's just, he's a guy. Amika Egbegbu. I'm pretty interested in Abuka. All right, so a run of five wideouts there in a row. Abuka is followed by Rasheed Rice. And then Josh Jacobs off the board. I guess the price was right for the Falcon. Lad McConkie. Interesting name in full PPR. Followed by Travis H.

And Jr. of the Saints. And T. Higgins. So Betsy has Jefferson, Higgins, Barkley, and Achan, which is interesting. Achan Jr. Higgins, Jamison, Williams, Bucky Irving starting off our fourth round. Josh Allen, the first quarterback off the board at 4.04. Just to recap the teams right now through three rounds, I've got Puka Nakua, Derek Henry, and Breece Hall. Jason has Bijan, Kyron, and Trey McBride. Mike is rolling with Amon Ross St. Brown. Ken Walker, his dude. And Ameka Ebuka. I think we all expect to have an impressive season in Tampa. Yeah. I'm looking for Abuka to step forward. So here at this pick, at the running back position, I've said it a few times.

It's disgusting how I... Oh, I know the name. But just that intro is Swift. It's DeAndre Swift as the disgusting player I'm interested in here. We have a pretty strong difference of opinion on Zay Flowers and what he offers for fantasy football. I mean, Luther Burden is there. That's what I was going to bring up. Look, I love Luther. I love Luther. I love him. You know what? I love him so much. In fact, I'm going to take actually the better one. I'm going to take Mr. Loveland. Okay. I'm going to take him in the fourth. Let's see what this team shakes up to be in.

Producer Borland on the clock. Mike went with Mr. Loveland. He jumps on Tyler Warren real quick. Mr. Loveland. Tyler Warren goes one pick later. Loveland and Warren will probably be close in all drafts. Javante Williams had been hanging out until the seventh pick of the fourth round. Lamar Jackson goes next. So two quarterbacks in this round. Two tight ends in this round. Fourth round. And Cam Scadaboo maybe... Well, I guess not an option for Jason there. No, I had him flagged. I very well might have taken him. And I still might actually take Travion Henderson, who is on the board as well.

Oh, man. I'm just going to go zero wide receiver in the full PPR. In the full PPR. Yeah. You know, you play around in mocks and see what happens. It's a bold strategy, Cotton. I'm also tempted here with the fact that I am, you know, I'm going into the fourth without a wide receiver. I'm tempted to not take a wide receiver by taking Malik Neighbors. He's at the point where I believe he'll start on the pup, but I also think the second half of the year he'll be a very dominant wide receiver that you couldn't usually get in the fourth round.

If I played it safe, I've got like Terry McLaurin, I think is a very good wide receiver, should be fine for fantasy. I'm higher on Mike Evans. Those are the names that I am currently looking at. And I would say that of those names, I want two of those wide receivers. So I am going to actually take Malik Neighbors here because... Are you upset? No, I guess I'm a little bit upset. Yeah, I would have taken him. But I guess I would have considered you to be the least likely to take Malik Neighbors because you are the most needy for wide receivers.

You're the only team... Not only... Every team has two wide receivers. He's got for three at this point. And that's your first one. And he might not be available to you. I don't think he'll be available to start the season. But when I look at the other names, the wide receivers that I like, I assume that those guys would come back. And I did not think Neighbors would come back. Assuming I'm taking two wide receivers here at the four and five, I'm taking them in the order that I get the guy that I won't be disappointed, you know, the most.

All right. So Malik Neighbors goes off the board at 410. Terry McLaurin is next to Kyle. Luther Burden is still on the clock. Roma Dunzey is still on the clock. Carnell Tate, the rookie. Ma'Kai Lemon, the rookie. BTJ, we haven't talked about it, but he's been getting a lot of publicity of sorts. I kind of have to check one name with you guys. Are you in a position, Mike? Because we talked about him on the last show and you had to explain yourself about him. Would you do the Pukunukua-Devante Adams pairing if it fell that way? Interesting. Where the tier breakdown was Devante's the last of a tier.

Interesting. And you have to dip down into a whole other category. Is that a team with an MVP that you would be into it? I, man. Because I have Puka. Right. He's on the board. Devante Adams is on the board. You do have the built-in factor that if one guy was to miss time, they go nuclear. But it's rare to do that combo. The interesting part that's like it's not making sense in my head is like I am – if a team wants to go Jamar Chase and then, you know, assuming T. Higgins provides a value, I'm fine having those two guys on one team.

And if I do that, it's like, well, yeah, and then I'm going to prioritize Joe Burrow. And it's because I feel like when Joe Burrow is healthy, he's 4,500 yards, mid-30s in the touchdowns. He hasn't always been healthy. And Stafford had the great year, but he's given us some clunkers. Is it Devante Adams who's really helping to unlock plus the new way that they're doing offense? I think I'm okay with it. If the value presented itself, if you want to go all in on the Rams. Yeah, I think that that is fine. I would agree with Mike. Like if I did that, I might be looking – because Stafford in a single quarterback league probably doesn't even get drafted.

He'd probably be, you know, my last pick. My – I'll just, you know, we're talking about everything. I'm not going to hide anything here. So, like, my decision here is a tough one between – like I'm probably going to pull the trigger on a running back here, which I didn't think there would be ones I liked. Travo. Well, to me, Judkins also is sitting there. Oh, man. And so Judkins – Judkins looks great, by the way. If you look at him at OTAs, he looks outstanding. And it's – this is not to take away from the ability of Jared Verse.

Miles Garrett's different. Miles Garrett changes things so much. And the only reason that that team could run ever is because their defense was holding everything – was holding the game script close. I think Quinshawn Judkins actually gets a – he gets a knockdown from me from Miles Garrett leaving of will they be able to ball control? At least at the same – kind of the way that we're able to do it last year. Yeah, I think – Or are they going to have to turn to a pass much quicker? I mean, the logic checks out. I think their offense will be better.

I think the play calling will be better with Monken, whether that balances it out. I don't mean to, like, just take forever on this pick. But the decision – Oh, you're fine. The decision between Adams – the other name that I think in a PPR league is the most interesting to me is Carnell Tate. Because when I look at the guys on the board, you know, Mike Evans, that's not going to be a PPR play. I don't like DJ Moore. I don't like Zay Flowers. Jalen Waddell, I don't know what I'm getting. I know Carnell Tate's going to be the target leader of a team that I really like with Brian Dable.

And so I think I am going to split these guys up. I'm going to take Carnell Tate in the fourth round. That's probably the earliest he's gone in any of these drafts. But I have to wait 22 picks between my selections. And I am going to go Quinch on Judkins. I just – All right. I have a different conviction about him than you do. I feel like with Puka on my team, Tate is a perfect, you know, number two option. So I'm going to roll that and see what happens with the long wait. Trevo goes next to Kyborg. And Jason, you're on the clock probably where it's pining for Trevo.

No, because I would have loved to take him. I think the value in the fifth is fantastic. But with my build, I really have to get a wide receiver here. And I'm between Mike Evans and Roma Dunze. Mike Evans I really, really like. But you're right. He is not really the PPR play. I want a guy who can get 150 targets, be a volume play. And I think that is Rome. Obviously, there's disagreement. Most people are putting Luther Burden ahead of Dunze. We'll find out as the season goes. But I'm going to stick with my conviction that he is their primary target leader.

The hardest part, I'll just tell you, because I like Rome as well. The hardest part between those two when I was staring them down was not. I like Rome. But I like the draft gap in ADP is very intimidating there. Like it's 30 picks. Like Burden's going 30 picks ahead of Rome. So when you want to pull the trigger on Rome, that gets into the back of your head a little bit. But you stuck with your conviction. Joe Burrow at 504. Luther Burden goes at 505. So Mike doesn't get him. Should we worry about the Madden cover? You know, you drafted Loveland and me getting Rome.

Who was it last year? It was Barkley. Okay. Jadarian Price goes at 506 ahead of Swift. What do you think of that? Taking the shot on Jadarian Price. I mean, I wouldn't do that. That's the opinion that you're sharing? I wouldn't do that. I mean, I don't mind Price going around this range. But Swift. Do you have any regrets taking Loveland with seeing that Burden and Swift just barely didn't make it back? No. The only regret I would have is I had forgotten before we started. It was like, I think I'm going to go a build because I'll just talk about it now.

You know, with more and more quotes and things coming out. I think Tucker Craft's going to be okay, guys. Like, I think he's going to be good to go at least at some point in training camp. And, yes, there could be a slower start. But for where you get to take Tucker Craft and with what he was doing, I'm starting to shift from being, like, pretty cautious around it to if the news keeps going the way that it's going to go, I'm just going to remove all those red flags and take my price discount on Tucker Craft. Which would be, like, I mean, who knows where he'll go now.

But, you know, generally speaking, it would be at least a few rounds from now. So that would be the only disappointment for me having gone with Loveland early. All right. Interesting. Yeah, I think it's a pretty long wait for DeAndre Swift. Pretty good value there for Al Borland at 5.07. Mike, you're back on the clock. I'm on Ross, St. Brown, Ken Walker, Abuka, and Loveland at 5.08. Who's it going to be? I mean, Zay Flowers is still there. So I will take him. Yep. Last year, I know the final finish is not – he was wide receiver 7. Not totally wide receiver 7, but 1,200 yards and only five touchdowns.

Zay Flowers, to me, is a player who if – I think a fluky touchdown season is in the cards for him at some point of where he's at, like, eight or more. All right. Mike went with Zay Flowers. DJ Moore finally goes. Jalen Waddell. Devontae Adams at 5.11. Bashaw Tootin at 5.12. Sixth round begins with Mike Evans. And how do you like your team and how it's shaping up so far, Jay? I do like it. I mean, I think it's going to depend on what happens the rest of the draft because I went risky taking a onesie in McBride and an injured neighbors in a full PPR.

But I'm pretty happy with how it's going so far. I do want to point out, Basel Tootin that Betts just took at the turn, that was – I've been seeing more and more about Crod being hurt. I was a little bummed that Tootin did not make it back to me. Yeah. He was on my list as well. Oh, you know Tootin's not making it past me. Evans Tyson, BTJ at 6.03, who has gotten a lot of attention. But there's also been quotes from that, you know, from Liam Cohen saying the ball goes to a lot of different places in this offense.