NFL Draft Preview Part 2: QB & WR Rookies

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Bring it in the other show. Welcome in to the fantasy footballers. Andy Mike and Jason back again Thursday, April 25th. It is Draft Day. Draft is here. Well, almost here. You're listening to this. It could be happening right now. It could be. Yeah, I mean, you might be listening to this after the draft. But we have a great show for you today. More draft preview. We're going to talk through the quarterbacks, the wide receivers.

Get you caught up on some news and notes, including some very recent Tyreek Hill. News, we've got predictions on the show today where we think some of the top prospects may land. What are the stakes, fellas? We didn't even talk about the steak. They are medium rare. Yes, of course. So maybe that is the stakes. Maybe the two victors will go get some steaks, and the other person eats a salad. An eggplant.

Eggplant something. I mean, when other people are eating... I will not eat eggplant again. No, and my foot will go down. Well, you should win the bet. I mean, that would protect you. But if two of us were eating delicious steaks and the other person, no matter what they eat, it tastes like eggplant at that point, because by comparison. See, I'm fine with that. I can be on board. Because you're a salad guy.

Well, I just, I remember we had one of the food bets. You're a rabbit. Where Jason and I did that. We pulled the rope-dope on you. We went to a barbecue place. We came back with ribs, everything, all the fixings. You had a side salad. You had a side salad. And it was far better than getting you something that you didn't want to eat. Would it be funny if for like a week we ordered food for everybody? But then the loser had to wait an hour and eat it cold every single time.

Like they have to sit in the room while everybody else is eating. Yeah, we're not getting Jason to do it. If I lose that bet, this place will burn to the ground. This show will be over taking you with me. You couldn't handle one hour of the smells of food. I can't handle the hour leading up to whenever normal lunchtime is. It's true. So an hour after that is just, I'm gone. Would you just redefine the lunch period? Yeah, I'd be like, okay, that's fine. You guys are ordering lunch at 9 a.m.

Okay. He's in the ring and the bell. Guys, get your order in. It's 9 o'clock. Make sure you follow us on Twitter. I'm sure there'll be some live draft reaction at the FF Ballers. Find out what happens in Arizona nice and early in that draft. Make sure you check out the community, join thefoot.com. And then, guys, three days left. That's right. Three days left. Last chance to tell you about this.

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I don't know, because it's a lot of fun. You call me as the snail? No, it's usually me. If they're right, they're right. That's all we care about. Yeah. Plus, you're automatically entered to win the Ultimate Footballers Prize Pack, which is you get a tour package, you get a set up front. We're giving away a tour poster, some jerseys, VIP tickets, a bunch of cool stuff. You can see all of that information right now at Ultimate DraftKit.com before April 28th, get in there. Do it. I have two quick notes. Okay.

Welcome back, by the way. You pushed through on the Tuesday show. You did not come into work yesterday. No, I did not make it. It was a sensation that I've never experienced. Not a pretty picture? With my body. Oh. But anyways, my quick notes about that. If you already pre-ordered, guess what? You're already in the drawing. Because we've had people ask that question quite a few times. And you are already in it. And two, speaking of tour, there will be big fantasy footballers news.

next week. All right, quick question of the day. We're talking perfect marriage, guys, perfect marriage. Something I know a lot about. Mm-hmm. That's what we've heard. Yeah. Pick a perfect team player marriage for fantasy football. If you could make your ultimate selection for what happens tonight at the draft, what team, what player? So this one might...

seem selfish. It's really not. It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm an Arizona Cardinals fan and I would like them to draft Kyler Murray. The reason I am saying Kyler Murray to Arizona is the best matchup is because where Kyler Murray goes in the drafts is going to make a huge difference. The two biggest odds on favorites right now seem to be the Cardinals and the Raiders. I think that Kyler Murray going to

Greg Olson and John Gruden and, you know, that mess is not going to be as good for him as continuing the air raid offense with Cliff Kingsbury. So I think that's the right marriage for Kyla Murray. I get it. I get it. That makes sense. And the higher the draft capital on a guy like Murray, the more guarantee you have that he's the guy from day one. So, you know, you bring up Oakland. What happens? I mean, it goes to Oakland.

Is he the starter on day one? I bet if he goes to Oakland, Derek Carr quickly becomes available. Yeah, the car is on the road. Yeah, yeah. All right, Mike, who do you, who do you? That one was bad. Who do you have for your perfect marriage in the draft? By the way, last year, in case you're curious, I went with Baker Mayfield to Arizona, would be a perfect marriage. Jason had Josh Rosen going to the Saints. And Mike had Cortland Sutton going to the Packers.

Would have been interesting. But this year, Mike, what do you got? I got no offense going to the Titans Delaney Walker. Going to need a Walker pretty soon. Oh, come on. In terms of NFL age, he's getting up there. Allegedly he's going to be back. But we know how much Marcus Mario likes throwing to the tight end. Get a hyper athletic one out there. I think that that will work out very well for that team. All right. All right. I'm going to throw this out there.

We're going to talk about some news momentarily. We don't know exactly. I like how yours is written in because Jason wrote Murray to slash Arizona. Oh, I wrote Fant to slash the Titans. And I wrote Hakeem Butler to the Patrick Mahomes. I didn't even write the Chiefs. The perfect marriage is Hakeem Butler and Patrick Mahomes.

I am a huge Hakeem Butler fan. It is rare to see a player at 6-6 with, I just think, an incredible set of skills. He's super fast. Is he a perfect route runner? No, but Patrick Mahomes makes up for that. I mean, extends the play, takes advantage of size and speed. There's no more perfect a marriage than Hakeem Butler to Kansas City if we don't have Tyreek Hill for an extended portion of time.

which we'll talk about right now. News and notes from Around the League, presented by Sleeper. At the time of this recording, we had just gotten done watching the press conference from the district attorney in Kansas City talking about Tyreek Hill and the child abuse case. No charges will be filed. The district attorney did express the fact that he believes the crime was committed, but they cannot prove without reasonable doubt that either Tyreek Hill or his girlfriend committed the crime. I will...

I want to read from what I think came through on Roder World because I think it sums it up properly. So credit to Rotor World on this summary of the situation legally as it pertains to the NFL. He says although Tyree Kill is now legally in the clear, he is likely to face NFL discipline in the form of a lengthy suspension. There is still the chance he's released by the Chiefs, though they have a mixed record on these matters because the Chiefs just signed Frank Clark, who has a domestic abuse.

arrest from college. And here we are now. I think we all kind of hoped for a little bit more finality to the situation this afternoon, whether that was Tyree Kill would be completely exonerated of any and all culpability, even in the NFL's eyes, or we would have definitive notion that he'd be, yeah, he'd be arrested, he'd be released, and we would know. Clearly.

Fantasy is the secondary issue in this entire matter. This is a fantasy show. We're giving you the lay of the land. We have a league right now where we're picking our definitive keepers at the draft, at the NFL draft. That's just when we do it every year. Well, I have to sit there and I have to look at Tyree Kill and say, do I take a chance on keeping Tyree Kill? I'm not going to. So that's the best advice I can give is what I'm going to do. Right. I'm not going to take my chances with him. I think the suspension could be.

six to ten games. I think while a low probability, there's still a chance that he's released entirely by the Chiefs. More information could come out. You never know what hits social media. I'm not going to mess with it. Do you guys have additional thoughts or context? Just to clarify, because people may be wondering, well, if he's legally, nothing's going to happen. That doesn't matter to the NFL. The personal conduct policy is a very large blanket that basically says the NFL has the authority.

to look at you and say, you have done harm to the league, we will now take action. If you look back, there are plenty of circumstances where people did not get in legal trouble, but they got in trouble with the NFL. Yeah, I mean, recently, Ezekiel Elliott, you had Big Ben Rothesburg, Jamie Swinston. The NFL conducts throwing investigations. And at the end of the day, Tyree Kil was accused.

was investigated for, I should say. Not good. He was investigated for child abuse. So at the end of the day, that is his crime against the NFL's conduct policy as of today. ESPN's Adam Schefter reports that Marshall Lynch is officially retiring from the NFL yet again after 12 seasons. Goodbye, Beast Mode. Yes, mercifully doing it before the NFL draft so that the Raiders can make a decision on a potential additional running back. Yeah. Which will say a lot about Isaiah Crowell, Jalen Richard, and Chris Warren.

I think they'll take a running back. Steelers have signed quarterback Big Ben Rothersberger to a two-year extension through 2021. He continues to almost retire for a couple of more years. So he gets a lot of money. He gets a lot of money. So bizarre. Was that two years ago? Leverage, man. I think if you are worried, if you're a general manager, you're worried that your quarterback is like talking about, you know, Philip Rivers. Maybe he's going to retire.

Go draft his replacement like they did with Mason Rudolph. And then Philip Rivers would be like, no, I'm never, I'm never leaving. I'm here forever. That's what Big Ben did. I thought you were going to say, like if you're a young quarterback, like Baker just said he might retire this year without an extension. So no, the Rams have exercised the fifth year option on Jared Gough. And we talked about the big Frank Clark signing, the defensive end.

Going from the Seahawks to the Chiefs and then extended to a big old five-year contract. That was a big trade. So the Seahawks now have two first rounders this year. Yeah, boom, boom, kicker news for Jason. Oh, man. Ravens have signed Justin Tucker to a four-year deal, 23 million bones. Heck yeah. And there you go. Jonathan Stewart has retired officially as well. Oh, come on. Well, I'm just saying he retired like three years ago.