Fantasy Football - Mock Draft Episode + Leader of the Pack - Podcast for 8/6

Garrett Wilson, Giovante and Loveland, and it's back to Jason. Brooks has always been a man of exquisite taste. Was that the Zay Flowers pick? Oh, did he take flowers? Just completely unrelated. I was just complimenting it. No, yeah. I mean, Faberjeet eggs. Yeah. So I am. The wealthy.

Oh, man. Brooks moves away and that bit goes away. I know. He moved a bit. You stole that from us, Brooks. Yeah. Just imagine how he's living, though, in Ohio. Oh, my gosh. He's king. He's king. He's king of Ohio. He's the king of Ohio now. That's the only state in the union that elects a king. He elected himself. I like the idea of electing a king. I mixed democracy with being the ruler of a nation. Jason.

You're back on the clock. So it's a pretty easy decision because I've got Gentie and Scataboo. I'm looking between either wide receiver, which is a clear Devante Smith to me. I love Devante Smith. At this point in the fourth, I think he's going to be a top 12 wide receiver. Or I got Tyler Warren. Yeah, I figured he was on the dog. I haven't had enough shares of him. So I'm going to swing on taking an elite tight end, someone that I do think is going to have 140 targets at the position. Yeah, we just talked about it and they go back to back. Yeah.

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Lamar Jackson is going to go here in the next couple rounds. Jaden Daniels and company. McCaffrey, Walker, neighbors, you're up. So the decision on tight end has been made for me, so I'm not even looking or considering that. Wide receiver-wise, it would be down to Devante Smith and also the Jalen Waddle is in that conversation for me. I lean Smith right now and then...

So between those two and Lamar Jackson, I think that really is the decision to be made here. Running backs have thinned a lot. Yeah, but I'm cool. No, I know you're not. I'm just looking at the board. Sure. We have a handful of teams like Team 4 has no running backs, so they've thinned out quite a bit. I'm going to go with Devonte Smith. It's a little, you know. It felt like a safe comfortable pick. He feels a little bit safer than Jalen Waddle. Having him with neighbors, I think, is great because.

We know Devante Smith has always been a wide receiver one when given the opportunity. It's really hard to remember of like Devante Smith, just a true dominant college player comes in as a two is great. And yet you feel like because it took so long for him to get his chance to be the wide receiver one for the team, like, oh, can he do it? Yeah. I have no doubts that he can be a one.

But, yeah, the feeling is definitely unsure because he hasn't been. Yeah, I, I'm upset. Devante Smith, Breece Hall, Lamar Jackson, sorry, yeah, Devante Smith, Breece Hall, Lamar Jackson, DeAndre Swift. Devante Smith and DeAndre Swift is part of the combo of names. Jalen Wattle, McConkey, and Burden go next.

I shouldn't have been surprised that the Betzborg combo would abandon the thought of getting a second running back when they're almost gone just to troll me on the two picks I would have made. I figured Ladd McConkey in a normal draft would get back to me. I should have been smarter here. I've got to go to the wide receiver position, I think. I do believe that Travis A. Chan Jr. here is a good deal. Buck Irving's a good deal here.

I'm going to take Bucky and see what that looks like. And then I'm going to come back with Devante Adams as my first wide receiver one. Yeah, I've got, I can, like, you know, like Mike's situation. I can, I can spend the next four rounds taking wide receivers that I like. Burrow goes next. Was that your disappointment, Mike? No, not disappointment, more of the when this will happen in your draft and you will see someone take Burrow and you go, oh, they have Chase Burrow.

Oh, yeah. The Chase Burroughs stack is a powerful thing. That's just devastating. We get a run of running backs. A Chan Jr., Tutton, Henderson, DJ Moore off the board at 506. You know, the DJ Moore decision is going to be. I'm going to be a big one. Christian Watson off the board. We talked about him at the leader of the pack segment. Mike obviously had his eyes set on Christian Watson. Oh, that would have been elite. But it's not. Well, now I have to actually think about stuff. McCaffrey Walker and Abramsmith.

All right. Let me look at my rankings here, wide receiver wise. Guys, I would like Jameson, Pierce, Evans. Oh, man. I hate that Evans is hurt. And I mean, I have McCaffrey. Do I really want to invest in the substation and everything that's going on there? I'm going to take. So I got two real strong target earners.

I'm taking Jamison Williams right here. I want some Nitro as a as a wide receiver three. Damn it, man. You keep doing it. I didn't even talk to it. I just did it. I know, but it's like that's, I wanted the neighbors got one pick away and of course you did it. And Jameson is a player. Andy's loved. I've always been more hesitant because that archetype of the boom bust less consistent. But I was like, this is perfect for my team. I've got the consistency of lamb.

I need a boom bust. You can blame Kurt because I would have sprinted to draft Watson. You know, you could have just, like you get the chance to troll him on the way back. But you never take his players. You keep taking. Loveland won before me. I took Warren. He was more into Loveland. I would have very, I would have considered Warren there. All right. Jamison Williams off the board to Mike's team. Jason's got Lamb, Gentis, Scataboo, and Warren, you're back on the clock. You will pick again here real quick at the turn. Yeah, I definitely need a wide receiver. There's some that I like here, but.

it's a tier down. I'm actually going to pull the trigger. I'm going one, two, three second year running backs. I'm going to take quench on Judkins. I know Mike doesn't like him, but Andy and I do. He's looked great in camp so far, explosive. I think that the Cleveland Brown's offense will be a little bit better. Good pick. Yeah. Alec Pierce goes at 510. Roma Dunesay at 511. As we get towards the second half of this draft, David Mopportunity at 512.

I don't know how to feel about him. I don't either. It changes day to day. Oh, no, Jason. I spent a lot of this officer being really bullish on the fact that he will be a three down back. There's a team that will be in games. They're going to win 10 games. He might. I believe he will, but, you know, it's possible he's not. I just don't know if the offensive line is good enough to allow him to get the double-digit touchdowns that, like that's his upside. His upside is he gets 10 touchdowns? And if he does, he's going to be a great pick here. Yeah. Or is their line good enough?

Goes at 603. I love that pick by Julia. I probably would have taken him at my next pick. I think he is going to be a steal if he goes anywhere four to seven. Jason, you're back on the clock. You've gone a running back, running back tight in, running back the last four rounds. Yeah, I'm really thrilled here. I was between Judkins and Mike Evans at my last pick.

the fact that a sixth round Mike Evans, I still believe he has enough to give. And when he's on the field for San Francisco, and let's say he misses three or four games, that will suck. But when he's on the field, he's going to be good for fantasy. He's going to score touchdowns. Brock throws him. They need him. He's a red zone weapon. You know, I don't think there's any doubt that he is good for fantasy. The way that you've got Devonte Adams, the old man who's going to score a bunch of touchdowns. As my wide receiver, too, I'm fine with Evans in the sixth.

All right, Mike, you're back on the clock. Who's it going to be? So I'm looking at the running back position, you know, Price, Warren. Those are the guys kind of at the top of the ADP. I think Price is interesting here. The value of a first round running back should pay off right there. But, and then a quick peek at the, oh, so Jaden Daniels is still there.

That is interesting. So far we've had Drake May went at 601, Kraft Tate in this round. Lamar's off the board, Burroughs off the board. So this would be the quarterback five off the board at 605. You got a long wait for your next pick. And I got late round guys. I do like, funny enough, I thought I would be picking between Terry McLaurin, old man, or Jordan Tyson, rookie hotness of. Yeah, we tied to. Like, Terry McLaren as your wide receiver four seems pretty awesome.

I'm going to take Jaden here. All right, Jaden Daniels off the board at 605. Judarian Price goes next. And Jordan Tyson does finally go off the board as the wide receiver three for Papa Josh. Tyson's going to be a really interesting selection as well. You know, I like Tate a lot more for year one. But in the draft, talent-wise, I like Tyson the most. So that situation versus talent is an interesting one.

It is. It's the, you know, the Cam Ward versus Shuck. Like the, so Andy, when you think about Ward and Shuck, I know you guys aren't as in on Tyler Shuck as I am, but like when you're thinking through something like Carnell Tate or Tyson, which pick has the higher chance of failing? I think it's Tyson for sure. Okay. Yeah, just because I, Olave is the bona fide number one.

You know, both of these teams didn't score a lot of points last year. But I feel like the floor. I don't think he's going to fall all the way on his. I mean, he's not going to lose his job. No. I think he's going to hyper-target Carnell-Tate, and I know that the target floor is going to be there. But I don't think it's a big difference. I really don't. I think Tyson, if he's on the field, I mean, he's going to be a focal point of the offense, too. You know, we haven't even, probably the name we've talked about the least of anybody in this entire offseason for no real reason other than Jordan Tyson.

Has been Joanne Johnson. Sure. Who's had no conversation. Yeah, they, you know, he was working out with Shuck. Well, he's getting steamed. Yeah. I mean, he's. From the, uh, from the beat writers in New Orleans. Like, not ADP wise. No one wants Joanson on their, their team. But he, he is frequently called out by like Underhill and Crew. So that's where I'm like, I look at Tennessee and I know it's Tate, Tate and All Tate.

I look at New Orleans and I say, look, you've got two good backs. You've got a pass catching Camara, Juan Johnson. Alavi's going to get his. Does it take Tyson more time? I don't know. I'm going to go Harold Fanon at 612. Okay. And Marvin Harrison at 701. Marvin Harrison is 701. I can deal with it. Warren, Stevenson, Harvey, and Brian Thomas Jr. go next into our seventh round. Papa Josh is on the clock. I thought it was Mike, but Papa Josh is sitting there deciding.

probably missed the button with that shooting hand. Am I right? Chuba Hubbard. Chuba Hubbard might be the least sexy pick in the draft, but could work out. Michael Wilson at 707, same round as Harrison. Mike, you're back on the clock. It's a pretty weird. Jason, you shook your head. I just saw how the draft was playing out and I was waiting to see what happens on this pick. Oh. Yeah.