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

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Thursday, June 4th, the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Mike, the fantasy hitman right in the building. Jason Moore is also here. I sure am. I'm Andy Holloway. Are you recording the whole show, Jason?

Oh, no, no. Well, I mean, we are. We are recording this entire episode, and we're going to publish it when it's done. I just feel like my privacy is being invaded right now. Because of the glasses? Because you have those glasses with the cameras inside of them? It's not recording. It would light up if it was recording. Oh, you didn't get the hack? Mm-hmm. You didn't get the hack? That's a popular hack. I mean, I know it's recording right now, like, to the people. Yeah. The man is watching everything I do, for sure. Okay. Yeah. I thought maybe you'd share some behind-the-scenes videos.

Maybe someday. See how much you zoom your screen. See how big the letters are. We got a mock draft episode today. Full. Full PPR mock draft on the show. We got news to talk about. We're back again. YouTube.com slash TheFantasyFootballers. If you want to watch the episode, subscribe. Click that bell button. What else is going on? The UDK is available. It's out there. It's living. It's alive. It's extra ultimate this year. No, people have been getting in there and enjoying all of the 130,000 words of content and our sleepers, breakouts, buzz, values, stat projections, value scout, all sorts of stuff.

And then the community is JoinTheFoot.com. Let's jump right into news so we can get into that mock draft. Please. News and notes from around the league. Yeah. Brooks would like me to remind everybody that the A.J. Brown and the Devontae Smith breakdowns for each individual player have just been updated for the UDK as well because, and we talked about the fact it was probably going to happen, but technically it hadn't happened yet. A.J. Brown was traded to the Patriots. The Eagles got a 20-28 first and a 20-27 fifth. Patriots get A.J. Brown. You know what's crazy is the Eagles traded, I believe it was a first and a third four years ago.

I thought it was just a one. Yeah. It was just a one. I think it was just a one. Yeah. I thought it was just a one. Yeah. Look that up, Kyle. But the fact that they got four years of Pro Bowl caliber elite perfection at wide receiver, two Super Bowl appearances, one Super Bowl victory, and then they get out. It's like before. It's like selling your used car for more than you bought it for. Jason was right. Oh, it was a one-in-three? Jason was right. It was the 18th pick and the 101st pick. Oh, man. So for a 3-5 swap.

You get four years? You get four years of prime A.J. Brown. And the Cardinals are in a contract dispute with Jacoby Brissett. So different teams do different things. Mike said this in Slack the other day, and it's exact. The Cardinals are not a serious franchise. Yeah, they're very unserious. They are just not a serious franchise. That's the only way you can view it. There are a few of those, for sure. Yep. Yeah. But the big trade, A.J. Brown, now a New England Patriot. We had talked through some of the implications of the trade that we knew was probably going to happen.

We talked about Devontae Smith and, you know, A.J. Brown, a lot of word has gotten out about the knee and the fact that the Rams basically backed out of their interest in A.J. Brown because of concerns around the knee. I think it's going to be a very, very good singular year. That's how I'm looking at the A.J. Brown situation. I am not personally really adjusting anything with regards to how we viewed him in Dynasty or anything like that. I mean, it's nice that he is going to be the number one target for an offense that threw the ball so much more than Philadelphia did.

It's, you know, almost a thousand more yards. I guess the one thing that we have not really touched on very much is Jalen Hurts, right? Like Jalen Hurts, he had a couple of years where his yardage was up there, but the last two years, 32nd and 27th in terms of passing offense. Losing A.J. Brown is not a good thing for that. I agree. You can do what you want with, you know, you can go get Makai Lemon. He's not A.J. Brown. You can go get Eli Stowers. He's not A.J. Brown. They won the Super Bowl when they were dead last in passing.

So it's a downgrade to me for Jalen Hurts because if you want to project Hurts getting back to where he was in terms of passing yardage, I'd much rather do that with A.J. Brown on that team. Do you guys have thoughts on that? No. It's for Hurts, it just comes down to, you know, like the tush push is going to be a huge part of it. They did not have nearly as many last year as they have historically been putting up. And so, I mean, I think that his passing, Hurts' passing will be fine. I mean, you can slightly downgrade it.

I would agree with that. I also think that the offensive system, and I know that there were a lot of complaints last year about the fact that the system was nerfed because that was all that Jalen Hurts could do. Like, that was a lot of the rumors was they can't really open it up because he's not capable. I say hogwash to that. He's thrown for 3,800 yards before. He's played in a better system with Kellen Moore. I think the offensive coordinator change is impactful. We don't know exactly how good Sean Mannion is going to be or not, but I do think that it is an upgrade for just the scheme.

The scheme was so unwatchable last year for the Eagles. You're just saying they changed the coordinator? Yeah. I mean, it could be. It could be worse. The thing with Jalen Hurts is he did not run as much. That's a major problem. If you lose A.J. Brown and you go from, I mean, his years of rushing, 784, 760, 605, 630. Last year was 421. Okay. That's a lot less. 421 is, you know, a big downgrade on how you look at him if he's going to pass for 3,200 yards. The stats have to come somewhere is what I'm saying. And, you know, eight touchdowns last year and 421 yards rushing.

If you told me he's doing that again and I have to bank on him getting to 3,500 yards, I mean, 3,200 last year was 300 more than the year before. He was a 2,900-yard passer. So, yeah, I mean, Mike and I were actually talking about this when we stat players out because we were having this discussion when we got done with our UDK quarterbacks. And then we were looking at the historical numbers of how many quarterbacks actually pass for more than 4,000 yards per year on a regular basis. And then you go to your stats and both of us kind of like we just had too many guys over 4,000.

It's been down lately. Yeah. I mean, really, the number's like, you know, maybe it's 7. Last year, I think it was 6. 6, 7? Last year was low. But also low because of injury. Lamar, Burrow, guys that are usually there. Yeah. But even years before, it's like the number is not that much. But then you go and we looked at our initial run through and it's like the tendency is to go towards the rosier outcome sometimes for these quarterbacks because you think the situation is going to play out. But every single season, you don't have 15 guys with 4,000 yards.

You got 6 or 7 or 8 guys. He's being drafted right now, Hurts, as the quarterback 6. Which is fine. That's totally fine. Seems almost like a value. I just think it's unfortunate, you know, when you lose A.J. Brown, a true alpha. Devontae Smith's good. But Devontae Smith is not, I don't think we think, you know, he's not going to put up 1,600 yards there. He's going to be probably, I bet you his prop and A.J. Brown's prop are similar in terms of total yardage. But you lose one of those guys. So where does it go? If things go right for them, okay?

Mm-hmm. The thing, Sean Mannion's a revelation, right? I think if it goes really well for the Eagles, it will be because Mikhailem and Eli Stowers were good picks who stepped up as rookies. That's the, if you want the rosy outlook, I think those two guys make an impact year one. Which, you know, if you're just looking at odds and bets of whether or not two rookies are going to really have an immediate, you know, high-end upside impact, it's probably unlikely. And currently the most recent report was Eli Stowers did not stand out in any way during the media attended practice last week, but he made a couple catches on Tuesday.

So at least to start, Stowers is not impressing. Well, Mikhailemans hurt the press. He's got a hamstring injury. He has not been playing. Josh Jacobs is at OTAs. Okay. Business as usual, says LaFleur. Okay. We'll see. Drake London, four years, $141 million. Oh! Ka-ching! Get that shmoney! They were like, Alec Pierce is paid how much? Drake, here you go. Yes, thank you. $100 million guaranteed. Good for you, man. Third highest paid receiver in terms of average annual salary per year. Yeah. Yeah, he's one of the good ones. Yep. Now. But, I mean, Jefferson is too. So you just got to make sure you get a guy that can throw you the football.

Right. Regularly. Daniel Jones, cleared to participate in 7 on 7. Okay. You all right? No? We need it? More camp buzz. Mike LaFleur says Marvin Harrison Jr. will play the Devontae Adams role as the X receiver, while Michael Wilson will play the Pukunukua role closer to the core as the Z receiver in Arizona. Obviously, Mike LaFleur came from the Sean McVay LA system. And obviously, Harrison and Wilson are the exact same people as Pukunukua and Devontae Adams. Based off of that report, give me Michael Wilson. Oh, big time. Big time. More free releases. More opportunities in this slot. Because if we got to rely on just touchdowns for Marv.

Yep. Ain't going to be 14. Or targets that ended up with a 50% completion rate for the better Devontae Adams. Yeah. That's where my concern would be. But it does make me lean more towards Michael Wilson with that report. Has anyone ever seen only 30% of their targets catchable? Because Marv might run into that. Brandon Ayuk has been issued an arrest warrant. It was a misdemeanor. And it goes... I don't really understand this because if you recall, the memes enjoyed this very much. He posted a video of himself driving very fast in December. I will... A public service announcement. Don't record that?

If you record yourself doing something that is illegal and then you post it on the internet, they can look at that as evidence and say, hey, you did something illegal. So... Do you get the reward for turning yourself in? Does he get the reward for posting? I'm like, I guess social, he's cool. Well, normally a misdemeanor of that, you don't need an arrest warrant. So that means he didn't show up for other... It's all weird. And I mean, we haven't really talked about the Ayuk situation of all rumors are him going to Washington. Like on Instagram, he follows like Jane Daniels, Washington, and maybe one other person.

The thing about the situation is, as of right now, the 49ers don't have to do anything. They can literally just hold Brandon Ayuk and their contract situation actually improves because they start recouping dead cap because Brandon Ayuk making boneheaded decisions. Like they don't have to trade him. We have not talked about football and Brandon Ayuk in the same sentence in so long. Well, it's just the... He's just... I don't even know what... Will we? I don't even know what conclusions we can draw from him arriving somewhere. How in the world are we going to be like, oh, this is so exciting?

We haven't seen you on a field contributing in so long. In years. And part of the reason why is because he didn't take his recovery the way that the team wanted him to. So now we're supposed to trust that he's good to go as well. The team's not going to do him favors in getting him out the door. That's my point is if I'm the 49ers and Ayuk, like we gave him the money and then his response was not be prepared for the season. The injury's not his fault, but he didn't recover properly. He didn't rehab properly. He's like, why would I help you?

Like you set the team back. He was a good player when he was a good player. The year before he got paid, he was awesome. And then he was not. All right. We're going to take an early break so that we can jump right into our mock draft. Looking forward to it. Well, we've had one mock draft earlier in the offseason. This is a shot at a 12 team full PPR mock with our entire writing staff and team here in the studio. So no AI will be used in the recording of this mock draft. It will be all individual decisions.

We'll see who makes the worst one. Yeah, so when Jake's doing stupid stuff, it's not a robot. That's Jake. Yeah, any stupid picks are real people. And we'll pass that feedback on. The fantasy footballers mock draft. All right. 12 team full PPR, one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one side in one flex, four bench spots. We randomly assigned draft spots. I ended up with the one. I think it is a decision to make in a full PPR. Like a tough one. Jason's at three. Mike is at eight. Do you have a favorite spot yet this year? Probably haven't thought about that.

No, not yet. Not yet. All right. I mean, one's not bad. I'm going to take Puka Nakua. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think, you know, so much discussion. Jameer Gibbs, B. John Robinson. You can go to Jamar Chase. Full PPR in particular. Puka is a cheat code. This offense is set up for a repeat, if not better, of what they did last year. No, I think Puka and a half PPR league is fine to take with number one overall. But he's my number one wide receiver, and I'm going to take him at one-on-one and a full PPR. It is, you know, the last draft we did, things thinned out really tremendously quick at running back.

So me being on the turn. Two-in wide receiver. Well, me being at the turn, I just need to, now that I know that I need to probably be pretty committed to two running backs on my next two picks. Yeah. I don't blame you for taking Puka there. In a full PPR, he's going to have so many receptions. I still have Jamar Chase over Puka, even in full PPR. But it's pretty easy to me when Bijon is sitting there at three, I take Bijon. And you did. So Gibbs went number two, by the way, to Kyle. So Jamar Chase went 104 and JSN went 105.

So the three big wide receivers, three of the big wide receivers off the board. Brooks is on the clock at the 106 in our first round here of the full PPR mock draft. Brooks went with Christian McCaffrey at 106, who, you know, the team keeps saying they want to give him less work. And he keeps saying, I can handle all the work you want. And then the depth chart keeps saying names that you never heard of. Yeah. So right now I would feel confident that they'll try to give him all that work. It's really hard. I find myself very much not wanting CMC.

Coming off a career high in touches just feels so scary. To be that age and coming off a career high, you know, I mean, obviously if he is on the field and getting that work, he should be the number one. He should be over, you know, you should have taken him instead of Puka. But I'm scared. Well, CMC goes 106 in this draft. Jonathan Taylor at 107. So Mr. Borland opted for a running back here with Jonathan Taylor at 107. Not any of the wide outs that are still on the board. Mike, you are on the clock at 108. I am.

It was going to be Taylor or Amin Ra for me. And then Taylor was selected. So it's easy. I'll take Amin Ra. It's PPR. Yeah. Great pick in PPR. Number three overall the last three years, which puts Papa Josh on the clock. Takes the newly minted Drake London. Take a money man. But that's Drake London over CeeDee Lamb here. Drake London in Atlanta, which is an interesting pick. CeeDee Lamb goes next at 110. James Cook at 111. And then the Betts man, Matthew Betts, has two choices. All right. He went Justin Jefferson. Justin Jefferson at 112 and Saquon. So went back to back there.

Devon Achan comes off the board in the second round, which means that Julio went back to back running backs. But two guys that catch the football, or at least Achan, sort of a receiver. Chase Brown and Ashton Gentty go next. Four running backs in the second round. Mike, you're back on the clock with Amon Ross St. Brown. Take us through two, three names that you're thinking through. So I will be looking at the running back position. My guy, Ken Bone Walker, is there. What does the reception total look like for the Kansas City Chiefs? I think that will be fun to find out.

And Hampton, I think, is my next. Between Walker and Hampton. I mean, let me just say this. Okay. Because if those are the two running backs here between, that makes sense. I think those are the two highest in ADP here. You do nothing but talk about how much you love Kenneth Walker. Yeah. The only thing you do near as much is talk about how you were not that big a fan of Hampton. So the fact that you're sitting here, you're like, I'm thinking I'm going to take Hampton over Ken Bone. Then I just, I say you don't know yourself. You could do what I did and just not even choose between them.