NFL Draft Predictions + Upside QB Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast for 4/28

right now more than you like Antonio Gibson because I think we would view Melvin Gordon a slightly larger committee back than JD McKissick, but the offense is better, right? Total touchdown is probably going to be higher. So who do you like more between Giovante and Gibson? Now that Gordon is there personally, I'm going to go with Antonio Gibson. I mean, this is a guy who, I don't know, he's just been a top 12 running back is only two years in the league.

And I would imagine he gets more work, more opportunity on a worse offense. But I would expect him to be another top 12 back. And I feel more confident that Gibson's lock on the goal line role, you're not putting J.D. McKissick on the goal line. So that will be Antonio Gibson, where Melvin and Giovante could split. And that will be, those will be infuriating weeks. Now.

I'm just going to throw this out there. Okay. We are very, we're in the analytics and the stats and those things matter, right? So the one time that they played together in college, Melvin Gordon only had 20 yards. So what are the odds that he only has 20 yards this year based on, you know, the trend. The trend and the math. Man, I've not considered that. Right. Thank you, Andrew. Monti Ball had 1923 yards that year. Melvin Gordon had 20. What a loser.

Oh, the great Monty Ball back in 2011 in Wisconsin. Oh, man. You were right. They played together one year. Incredible memory. And Ball and Melvin Gordon, now legendary Broncos. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, no. All right. One more bit of news. T.J. Hawkinson's fifth year option. It's been exercised by the Lions.

So Hockey Lees, the Hockstrap, whatever you get every single week. It's coming back to Detroit. They've got some draft capital, and they're going to try to make a move with Mr. Dan Campbell at the helm. You guys ready to do some predictions? Let's go. I really thought we had a draft predictions drop. I didn't realize we had to play a game drop. But we are playing a game because one of us, it's a game not to lose. Right. I mean, I'd like to get them all right, and obviously I probably will, but I'd rather.

not get them all wrong and be at the bottom of this list. And I'd rather Mike have to take another picture. Oh, I don't mind. Right. He's got them. He's got them waiting. I'll probably do it. Like, I imagine I'm going to get first in this particular competition. And I'll throw one up anyways. Yeah, you'll just volunteer's tribute. Andy, you won't get them all. And I'll throw up when I see it. You won't get them all right this year because nobody. This.

is an insane year. Like last year I felt really, really dialed in. You know, that was the consensus. I did great, you know, other than switching Mac Jones and Justin Fields destination. I got most. I'm right. This year, I'm like, you can just flip a coin for almost all of these wide receivers in what order they're going to go. You know the teams, but it's just this feels.

wild this year, especially with the lack of clarity at quarterbacks, but we'll see who wins. All right. Jason did have the highest percentage last year. I'm not sure it entered the most of them right category. Most of our picks, right? You were the best amongst us, but you probably were well below 50%. Okay. So most of them right would have been like,

Like if you brought your test home from the teacher and you said, hey, mom, I got most of them right. And it said like 47% on there. And you say, how would your, how would your mom? But the other kids failed worse than me. That's what you, I would say that. No. Grade on a curve. No, exactly right. We grade on a curve here. I was a top 10 quarterback that week. A plus. You did start six for six. Is that true? Yes, that's true. I'm telling you. I rocked it. This guy over here. That's 100%. Yeah, until you started missing them.

Well, sure, I missed a few. I told you. I got, I got Mac Jones going to the Bears. Kyle, don't you have these numbers? I mean, aren't you guys prepared back there in the ball pit? I can look, but Jason, that was insane. Yeah. That's good. That's good. How did he start six for six if Justin Fields went that high? How is that possible? Did you have Justin Fields right? No, I had Justin Fields to the Patriots and the opposite Mac Jones to the Bears. Weird. Okay. Let's start with Malik Willis.

Where's it going? Well, coming out of Liberty Biberty. How did that work? I don't know. That was great. His, we're mentioning him in the order of where they're handicapped to go, the highest. So right now, D.K. has, Malik Willis going around, pick 13 and a half. That's the highest projected quarterback right now. So, Mike, where do you have him going? I believe when the draft, when the clock starts,

Teams will, like the quarterback strategy will be revealed and quarterbacks always go very high. They'll all go higher. Yeah. And I have Malik Willis falling to number nine to the Seattle Seahawks as Pete Carroll, as much as he gets on my nerves because he's, you know, a division rival. I think he's wise and he's, I don't see him entering the year.

with just Drew Locke and Gino Smith without some type of future backup plan. Yeah, I have them going to Seattle as well. I had him at Pittsburgh, which I think is, man, it feels it feels really likely that he could get there. But listening to some of the beat reporters from the Seattle area, their focus on quarterback, and you're sitting there at number nine, the pick that you got for trading Russell Wilson, and you don't have a quarterback if they believe in Malik Willis, who has some of those.

similar skill sets can be mobile, has a big arm. They'll have a chance to grab their quarterback right there. So I switched up to Seattle. I did go with Pittsburgh. I think that there's the chance that 20 is where Malik Willis ends up. I definitely think that Kenny Pickett is going to jump him in the draft. So I went with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So I'm live. I'm all alone. But I think that's the quarterback that they have their eyes on.

The hard part of not putting him with Pittsburgh is just like Najee last year. It was like that was one of the picks where all the consensus, everything was just locked in. If Najee Harris drops to the Pittsburgh Steelers, they're going to take him. And Malik Willis has, in this crazy mock draft season, has been firmly linked to the Steelers. Kenny Pickett is projected to go around the 16th pick in the draft.

I see that we have at least two of us that have an agreed destination. I have Carolina as the home for Kenny Pickett. They cannot. I think he goes at number six. I think Kenny Pickett goes in number six to the Panthers. I think you're insane. Jimmy Garoppolo will be their quarterback. I've got him going to Pittsburgh where he played college ball. So the kind of.

hometown hero being drafted there. If Malik Willis does indeed go to Seattle, then he's the next best quarterback available. And I may or may not have a ticket on, I didn't mean to rhyme that, but a ticket on Kenny Pickett being drafted by Carolina that will make me some cash. So I'm going to stick with that. I'm going to Kenny Pickett to Carolina, baby. Now, you think it'll be at six or tradeback? I think you don't mess around with a quarterback. You take him in six. Desmond Ritter?

who stumbled his way all the way up to some mock drafts in the top 10. But I... It feels like a really accurate way to say that. Stumbling up. Yeah, like he's just not good or... Do you guys like Ritter? I think he's okay. I don't... I'm not sure that there's a huge difference in projected upside between Ritter and Willis. So in that regard, I think that both of them have...

the ability to fail. Yes. Yes, they have wide range of outcomes. They could both be pretty special if things went the right way, right team. Now, I got in and I put all my picks in before I saw any of yours. So this is the first time I'm seeing any of the destinations that you guys have selected. I went with the Lions, and you both went with the Lions at the end of the first round? This is our discrepancy. Or the beginning of the second round. This is where we can have the tiebreaker. Since we all have...

Desmond Ritter going to the Detroit Lions. I think they take him as the final pick in the end of round one. You secure that fifth year option. You don't screw around with heading into day two, give a bunch of teams time to regroup, possibly trade up, and risk that he will fall to 34. So I think they take him at 32. Which is very logical. I think that they're fine, not even having a quarterback in this draft and just rolling with Jared Goff. So I think they, if there's a player at 32, they like.

They'll wait and take them at 34 couple picks later and sacrifice that fifth year out. So you want in on 32 or 34? I'm first round. Okay. So it's just a tiebreaker. Yeah, it's a tiebreaker. It's a tiebreaker in the event of like all the picks at the end. You're not just counting that as a win. No. Okay. It goes that either of those. We both win until we need to tie. Okay. So we have those are the three quarterbacks that we're going to make predictions for. And before we get into the running backs and a long list of wide receivers.

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