2019 Footie Nominations + Quivering Mustaches!

All right, what's the second category? Our second category, it's an Andy Holloway special. This is the Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year, which players painful injury hurt fantasy owners the most. Last year's winner, Leonard Fournett. Hey, good to see he could get over that, though. Yeah. Mostly. Mostly. Your nominees are we have James Connor. Oh, finished as the running back 32, missed basically the second half of the season.

Carry on Johnson got back at the end of the season. He did. You could have played him and he had an okay game. Yeah. Adam Thielen was the wide receiver 11 off of draft boards and has been useless since week eight. And then how dare you? But Damian Williams. Look, Mike, don't say how dare you because that's the only thing you have to protect you for the season.

is his injury. You want him to be the injured man. You should be happy about that. Although which one do you want to be injured more as Damien Williams or James Connor? Yeah. Which of those two guys that you love are you more happy that you can use the injury as an excuse for the season? Find out on Thursday with the nominations come in. All right. Number three, it's only appropriate. I read this. It's the poopiest pants award despite high expectations. This player.

Let down fantasy owners over and over and over again. Basically, who was the biggest boss? Last year, it was Rob Grankowski. Yeah, it was terrible. You have Odell Beckham. Yep. He was drafted as the wide receiver five, finished wide receiver 26. You have the aforementioned James Connor. The running back six was where he was drafted.

Lev Bell right behind them was drafted as the running back seven. Both of those guys disappointed, obviously. You have David Johnson. Oh, flush it down. Got off to a strong start. What the Cardinals are doing. Yeah. I mean, this is tough, man. Well, I get it. He finishes the running back 38. But he, how many weeks in a row did he have where he was great? The first, I think it was like the first five weeks he was fine. And then he basically was not in the NFL. Zero as a runner.

None. That's true. I mean, basically just still for fantasy. I know. I'm standing up here for David Johnson being in this. And then finally, Juju Smith-Schuster, the injury riddled Steeler offenseless team drafted as the wide receiver six, finished wide receiver 65. Not good. That's going to be very difficult for people to. I bet those are all very even. I could see an argument for, you know, David Johnson taking the cake there, but on the other hand,

You know, some of these other guys hurt you back half of the year. James Connor came back twice to destroy you in-game. Yes. I think to me, O'Dow Beckham is the guy that the whole first half of the year you just kept playing him because he's OBJ. You just kept doing it over and over and over and just kept hurting you. Like Juju. You did that with Juju too, though, for the first half of the year. Even though you lost Big Ben, you weren't abandoning your draft stock on Juju, so you just kept playing him and playing him until he gave up. Juju helped.

his owners with his entries. It's like, okay, I'm out. You don't have to make that decision. I feel like many more people were playing O'Dell Beckham or James Connor than the end of the year playing David Johnson or Juju. WaverWire Wonder, which undrafted WaverWire stud was the best signing of the 2019 season last year. It was George Kittle, the 2018 winner. This one's going to be very interesting. Devante Parker.

Since week four was the wide receiver two. DJ Chark from weeks one through 11. He was the wide receiver five. A couple of Ryans. Ryan Tanahill and Ryan Fitzpatrick. Oh man. I don't know which one to support more. Fitzpatrick. Yes, I know which one you want to. I'm just joking. Ryan Fitzpatrick from week seven on had six top seven quarterback finishes. Only Lamar Jackson had more. And then Darren Waller, 90 catches.

and finished as the tight-in three. I believe he was like 90, 1,100. I mean, heck of a year for Waller. That was awesome. Number five, fantasy wide, sorry, I lost my place here. Still coming back, Mike. Yeah, we're working on it. We'll get the kinks out. Number five, the fantasy wide receiver of the year. And the way we want you to vote on this, you got to factor in draft position, big game performances, impact to your fantasy teams. Who deserves the wide receiver footy?

of the year. This is a sham category. You are probably, hold on, hold on. There's three of them this year that are absolute sham categories. They're just such home run winners that it's clear. Fellas, you're ruining the award show. Go ahead and read the nominees. Well, last year's, let's look at the past. Last year is winner, Devante Adams. Sure. A sensational year. So this year, our nominees are.

Alan Robinson. Okay. He had a very good year. He had to deal with Mitch. Yeah. Kenny Golliday, so smooth, Mr. Kenny G. I don't even know if I have. I mean, he had to deal with his own crap. Oh, so smooth. Not smooth at the quarterback position. Devonte Parker. Yeah, that would be worthwhile. Absolutely. He's deserving of this award. Hey, Chris Godwin.

Chris Goblin himself had a monster breakout campaign. Julian Edelman and Michael Thomas. Okay. All right, moving on. 149 catches. Decent. All right. The fantasy running back of the year again, you're going to factor in draft costs and all of that. Yep. We've got Dalvin Cook had a good year. Aaron Jones won a lot of, won your son, a championship. Andy, you had awesome Echler.

who was tremendous value. I mean, if you are fact fact, Austin Echler was one of the most commonly owned players in championships, you had Derek Henry, just an absolute beast once Tanna Hill took over. Where did Echler finish? I want to say, like, running back. No, I think it was running back six, but. I just learned a Mike, Mike to think he lost the bed. Running back five. Oh, that's, yeah, through 16, he was the running back five. Tremendous value there. Derek Henry has been great. Ezekiel Elliott.

one of the most consistent guys, never finished outside the top 24. And then Christian McCaffrey, who put up one of the largest fantasy seasons of all time. So those are lots of different nominees, each with their strengths and weaknesses. It's not fair. It's okay. It's just what it is. Now we know who's number one next year. Fantasy tight end of the year. Same thing. Factor in your draft position, your big game performances, your impact of fantasy teams.

This one's tougher. Yes. Yes. I agree. Because you can vote for multiple guys for multiple reasons. Travis Kelsey? I've made my votes. I don't know if you guys have already voted. I have voted. I didn't know voting was open. This was, well, it wasn't. But, you know, perks of ownership. This one I had a hard time with. Travis Kelsey? You didn't have a hard time with running back of the year? I did not. Mark Andrews, three.

Times, he finishes the tight-in one on the week. He finishes the tight-in two on the year, and he had that late-round ADP, Darren Waller. Oh, the Waller is... Times were great when Waller was dominating weekend and week out. He was eating? Yeah. And then Austin Hooper? I mean, this was the tight-end one before the injury. Who was a waiver-wire guy. I mean, most leagues he wasn't drafted, but...

either that or a super late draft pick. George Kittle, he busted just one time this entire year was solid throughout, and Zach Ertz. Zacherts, once again, a nominee for tight end of the year. All right, fantasy quarterback of the year. I'm getting the good categories here, fellas. Which quarterback should be the quarterback of the year? Yeah. Deshaun Watson, James Winston, Dak Prescott, the Ryan's, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Tanahill.

Maybe if we combine them, they could win this category. Can we do that? Oh, let's try. We can do whatever we want. Ryan Fitzpatrick Hill. This one guy or Lamar Jackson. Hmm. Yeah, if he could win too. Yeah, that's okay. So we got, we got another great category there. All right. Breakout player of the year, which player was fantasy footballer, fantasy footballers? Fantasy footballs.

breakout player. Was it Lamar Jackson, who obviously had a big breakout? Or Aaron Jones, who finally came through for fantasy owners as they've been wanting. Derek Henry getting it done all year. Chris Godwin, a true breakout. A lot of projections saying he was going to be the guy and he actually was. Kenny Goladay finishing as, I believe, a top five wide receiver. Really? Is that right, Brooks? I think that's true. Pretty sure. Devante Parker.

I mean, you want to talk a breakout. Devante Parker coming from, he broke out of maximum security prison. Is that where Adam Gays works? DJ Chark, Cortland Sutton, and DJ Moore, a couple of young wide receivers. And then the tight end combo of Mark Andrews and Darren Waller, late round guys who had hopes and they came through. And Patrick Mahomes was last year's winner.

That is true. That makes sense. Rookie of the year category. Last year was Sequin. This was a tough one. Yes. Because certain players came on at the end of the year, someone more consistent. Does Kyler win it? I'm not talking about the footy, which would be way better for Kyler if he could win a footie. He cares more about the footy, but you're talking about the offensive rookie of the year. I think Kyler wins it, yeah. But yeah, I think he does. Josh Jacobs, AJ Brown, Kyler Murray, Miles Sanders.

Scary Terry McLaurin. Oh, come on. What? Oh, come on. Brooks. Brooks. I know we were supposed to vet these, but Brooks. Yeah, that's David Mopportunity. He doesn't belong here. I want you to un-nominate him before these are listeners. Actually, just add him, but do the strike-through text on him. Okay. Just JK. Just D.K. Metcalf and then Debo Samuel. So I, you know.

I think there'll be some recency bias. Yeah, there certainly will. But, I mean, the truth is you can factor that in because recency bias helped win you championships. You know, to me it's a three horse. I like recency. It's a three horse race to me. I don't know if you guys. Jacobs, Kyler, AJ Brown. Yep. Those are the three. All right. Number 11, Mike, that's yours. The comeback player of the year, which fantasy player amazed you the most in their return to relevance. Last year's winner.

Andrew Luck. That was last year's winner. Yeah. So he's setting himself up for another footy in this category. He just wants comeback player of the year. We give him this prestigious award. And that's all he needed. His career was complete. It was over. We should be careful when you're voting. Keep in mind, once players have their footing and it arrives in the mail, they might retire. Yeah, just be aware. When you're voting. What else is there at that point? Nothing.

So we got John Brown. Great year. Great year for the Buffalo Bills. Ryan Tanahill, once he stole that job away. He was probably given that job. Marcus Mario did didn't do much to hold on to it. Or Alan Robinson. Man, this is tough. Ryan Tanahill, Alan Robinson, both of those guys had such a good, such a good year. And a lot of people left them for dead. And John Brown was very consistent.

at the wide receiver position. Even though he wasn't winning you weeks every week, he was very consistent. All right. This one is the category that wins championships, the steal of the draft. Which player was the absolute best value in 2019 compared to where they were drafted? Amazingly, 2018's winner, James Connor, not on this list this year. All right, we have Lamar Jackson.

drafted in the ninth round. Austin Echler drafted in the sixth round, again finished as the running back five. Aaron Jones finishing as the running back two, and he was a third round draft pick. You have the wide receiver. 19 touchdowns. Yeah, that's insane. That's ridiculous. Regression is coming. You have the wide receiver two, Chris Godwin, who was drafted in the fourth round.

Cortland Sutton, late round, double-digit draft guy, 10th round finished as the wide receiver 19. And Mark Andrews, one of the last tight ends you were picking in the 10th round, finished as the tight end two. Mark Andrews made such a difference on teams like Kittle did last year. Yep. All right, are we into nickname of the year here? Let's do it. All right, this is always a fun one. Last year, I didn't even remember this.

The winner of 2018 was apparently Mark Waltenberg. Hey, it's me. You don't remember Mark Waltonberg? I think Mar Waltonberg should not be mentioned ever again. Probably not. He's not a good dude. Say hi to the warden for me. Oh, gosh. Not good. Oh, no. Let's move into the nominees for nickname of the year, Darren, the Waller.