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Ah, welcome in. Tuesday, August 4th. And we're back. I like it. I like it. I like it. It's nice to be here every day with you fine gentlemen. It is nice. I like being back. Look, I've had worse. Days? Yeah. Or friends? All of the above. Keep going. Okay. All right. Welcome in, the fantasy footballers. You can subscribe. It's easy. Click the button. Apple Podcast, Spotify.

Stitcher, ad-free, Google Podcasts. We appreciate the reviews, the support of the show. Jason mentioned it, I mean, in a very blustering manner. The Ultimate Draft Kit available right now at Ultimate DraftKit.com. You can get access immediately. You can pause this, get it, come back to it, be browsing it while you listen. That is a thing you could do. Quick question of the day. Who is somebody?

that you have been consistently drafting in the very last round of your mock drafts. And we've been in some not mock drafts as well. So is there somebody that is there every time that you take every time? There is someone for me that is there almost every single time. A special someone for you? But I'm curious here because I see your answer as well, Andy. There's somebody for everyone, Mike.

Both of these players are frequently available in the last round. Your answer is what I wrote down by default first. It's kind of the default for all of us. I started looking around at some recent industry mocks, and he was going more in the 11th and 12th round, so I took him away. Yeah, I mean, the ADP I'm looking at, he's even going later, but Deshaun Jackson is my answer. He presumably is going to be.

The number one wide receiver for Carson wins to start the season. Alshan Jeffrey, we don't know for sure his timeline, but the timeline of his injury normally would say that he's going to start the season on the pup. There's been no indication to say otherwise. And then, you know, Jalen Rager, who I love, I love Jalen Rager as a talent, as very exciting, is a rookie with no preseason, no OTAs. It's going to be hard. So Deshaun Jackson, to me,

will be scoring a lot of fantasy points while he's on the field, just like he did last year, which was unfortunately only one game. But in the last round, to get a genuine, it's funny because what happens, I think, to a lot of people this season, here's my guess. They draft to Sean Jackson in the last round of their league. And then the next day when the NFL starts and you're setting your lineup,

He will actually be in your starting lineup, and you'll put him over someone you drafted in the fifth or sixth round when you actually look at the matchup and think, I think D. Jack scores more points. You don't think it'll be because everybody that put him on their bench for the first game last year was weeping and crying and gnashing their teeth. I mean, look, live and learn. The strange thing about Deshaun Jackson is like in mock drafts, I see Rager go ahead of him.

sometimes, and I see DJX. Those two guys are the first wide receiver off the board from Philadelphia, depending on luck of the draw. My pick would be any of these rookie guys with the last pick, whether it's Michael Pittman Jr. from Indianapolis, whether it's Brandon Ayuk from San Francisco, whether it's... Jerry Judy? Yeah, Jerry Judy. That's fine. You know, any of these guys that Justin Jefferson? That's fine.

Well, I'm putting them in order that I would draft them, and Jalen Rager would be at the top of that list. But that's what I wanted to say, right? I have Deshaun Jackson, you have Jalen Rager. With your last pick philosophically, fantasy football, which type of player do you prefer? It depends on how the previous 14 picks went. If I need to start a player, it's 100% Deshaun Jackson. If I have the luxury of, you know, I drafted, I'm three or four wide receivers deep. I know D. Jackson is not in my lineup.

On week one, I'm taking Jalen Rager. I mean, I, we've talked about Deshawn Jackson as this late round value on the show so much. This is still the same player who's finished 124, 37th, 44, 35th, 65th the last five years. You're not getting a season out of Deshaun Jackson. You're getting a game out of Deshaun Jackson. You're getting a couple of games out of Deshaun Jackson. I mean, he hasn't finished inside the top 20 since 2014. The odds are against him. Yes. Yeah. I think we all agree.

There's a reason he's being drafted in the last round. It's not like everybody's forgotten about this guy. It's because he can't stay healthy. But when he's healthy, he should be in your lineup. Yeah, he's still very fast. For me, it's Antonio Gibson, rookie running back for Washington. The ADP I'm looking at right now, running back 57. I know in a lot of our industry drafts, he goes earlier. I don't believe that will really be the case when you start doing your home leagues.

People don't really care about Antonio Gibson, but I like him a lot. The athletic freak. He's one of three players exactly like Christian McCaffrey on the Redskins, according to the Redskins. Oh, I'm sorry. The Washington football team, Jason. And he could take the starting job. We don't know who the starter is with Darius Geis and just this blah. Like who's the guy? It could be Antonio Gibson, but I've talked about him a lot. A player I want to highlight who.

We haven't really talked about a lot on this show, but is interesting, and I think we need to, is Paris Campbell, wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts. Because, like, Michael Pittman's getting the love for the Colts as the secondary option to Ty White Hilton. And I like Pittman. He's a very interesting player. He projects as a guy who could be a number one, an ex-receiver, just a dominant guy. Paris Campbell is not that player. But Paris Campbell's skill set fits a lot with what Philip Rivers

likes to do. You know, take some deep shots, but also check that ball down and let your player with speed and agility and who can break tackles and make guys miss. Let them do the work for you. And that's who Paris Campbell is. He was a second round pick last year. His season was essentially lost to injury. He runs a 4-3-1. Yes, he's very, very fast. And his season was lost to injury and to Jacoby Brissette, not being the answer to quarterback for the Colts.

We were excited. I'll say I was excited for Campbell last year. Andrew Luck was his starting, supposed to be his starting quarterback. So now he has a great quarterback again and is presumably healthy. So I just want to give some love to Campbell. Your points are 100% valid. I wasn't a fan of Paris Campbell coming out and then he was injured his whole year. So he's like not even on my radar. I don't care. But what you're saying.

is absolutely true and should be on our radar. What about this? What about if you're going, I know we don't usually draft two tight ends, but it's your last pick in the draft and you want the chance of the miracle man himself. Will Disley. Oh, yeah. Maybe. I mean, what happens if week one he comes out? I'll draft 30 to 35 tightens before. Will Disley. I cannot believe how much you still believe. I cannot either.

He would be a miracle of modern science if he's back. Which I know either's news. He passed his physical. He tore his Achilles in November. They signed Greg Olson. They have a depth chart of tight ends that just makes Jason's excitement for Will Disley so unfounded. Well, he was awesome. I was going to say it's entirely unfounded. So far, he's been great when he's on the field.

in this offense with this quarterback for fantasy, been outstanding, but has had two really devastating injuries. And I completely realize the odds are that he should not be able to come back and regain that starting role. My point is more, if week one, he is able to be the starter. If that is possible, then he is the guy. Like, there's no way that he gets back and is the week one starter. It isn't. That's how I see it.

And let's hope for the sake of that awesome drop that Big Montana stays around. If he's back, whatever training program Will Disley is on. Could be the Emmanuel Sanders program. See, I question that logic. Because you've talked about that. Like if he can come back from this, he's, you know, he's just a, you know, a miracle. But he also has been badly injured twice. So I don't know that his training. Well, he at least came back for a couple games. It's something that you want to partake in.

He's good at getting back from injury. He's not good at avoiding injury. Too strong. Muscles are too strong for those tiny little tendons. That's why I always say when we played flag football, I couldn't tear my ACL. I am not fast enough. My body's like, I'm fine here. Yeah, you were not fast enough to the degree that the referees actually laughed at you running. Laughed at me running on a breakaway touchdown. That's true. So eat it, ref. Let's talk some news.

News and Notes from Around the League. I would encourage you to check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com. There's an updated article by our editor-in-chief extraordinaire, Kyle Borg. He's the Borgogan. He's the Borgogan. He's Borgoni. He's a lot of things. Vacated Target, RB position article, a follow-up to last year. I encourage you to read it. All right, we had some big news, and I decided just to talk about this live on the show versus...

in here before the show. So I'm going to get some real opinions. Fresh opinions. The deadline for NFL teams to promote practice squad players to the game day roster has now been moved to just 90 minutes before kickoff. This is to accommodate the reality that a player may test positive and be forced to move to the COVID-I-R, potentially the night before you might find out about it the morning of. To me,

I mean, this is just a byproduct of a crazy season. This has to take place, and this is an accommodation that is appropriate for all the teams to be able to play football. But for fantasy football owners, this could cause real problems. If you find out late and you are in a league that runs waivers one time a day, which a lot of people are in, we're in a fab, you know, free agent acquisition budget league. We run waivers at a set time every morning.

We do not have them open. I'm wondering, do we need to make an adjustment here for that situation? Because I don't, I can't see the future, certainly in 2020. I don't know whether we're going to find out about these 90 minutes swaps 90 minutes before. I don't know if we're going to find out about them the night before. And there's a big difference for your team. There is a big difference. I would assume we wouldn't find out about the player being promoted from the practice squad until it happens. So there would be.

a situation where 90 minutes beforehand, they're coming up to that window and that practice squad player is promoted, in which case you've got to make a transaction. Now, of course, you can set the time of your fab to run to be an hour before kickoff. That should accommodate. That should accommodate with the sole, you know, Monday night football or, you know, Sunday night football. Those games might be a little bit more difficult. So I know in our league it would have an added layer.