NFL Draft Breakdown: NFC Winners & Losers - Fantasy Football Podcast

Yeah, yeah, all right. I will say this. I have Dante Pettis on, you know, Mike and I, we co-own a team and we were looking at drops, and he's still on our team after this. But obviously, you know, we'd love to replace. Not on purpose. We looked and he was just still there. By the way, I agree with you, Jason. I think the most are, most are to it's a winner. It gives me more confidence to acquire him in leagues knowing that, look, McKinnon has to overcome a lot to come back and have a big role.

Jeff Wilson has a limited role. Mostard and Coleman are going to be the two that are the focus of this offense in the running game. Enjoy it. It's a lot of handoffs. Seattle, the Seahawks, what do we think of this draft? You got any winners and losers? I mean, they didn't replace. I think the big storyline with Seattle is that they did not draft a running back. High. It should say something. Yes, correct. They did not draft one high. Fourth round pick, DJ Dallas.

Yeah, they got DJ Dallas and DJ Dallas. I really feel like should have gone to the Cowboys. For sure. That's a rule. I see. I see what you did. Should have happened with Goddard too, but you know, the NFL has no respect for the Cowboys. Like Dallas becomes an interesting third round rookie pick because like Rashad Penny is hoping he's ready to go in September. Chris Carson might be ready come training camp. I agree with you guys that.

That has to make you feel confident in Carson's return. The team is showing confidence, but this is also a team that if a player shows up, they don't care about their draft pedigree. They don't care how much a player is getting paid if they are the better player and they're ready to go. So I'm saying Chris Carson, yes, I have some more confidence that he should be ready to go. But if all of a sudden week one shows up and DJ Dallas is the starter of this team, it won't shock me.

That would shock me. That would shock me as well. All right. The Rams, Cam Acres, their first selection in the NFL draft running back out of Florida State jumped off the screen to me as one of my favorite running backs in this rookie class, has a great opportunity here coming into Los Angeles. You know, the loser on that side of the equation is Daryl Henderson.

somebody that we also liked coming out of college last year, didn't establish himself last year behind Gurley. So it looks like a little bit of a two, three-headed monster heading into 2020. I believe Akers has the ability to carve out a large share of this offense at some point in time. What was your reaction to them going running back sorely?

Yeah, it was indicative of what they believe they have in their current group because, you know, a lot of people wanted them to go forward with Malcolm Brown and Darnell Anderson, aka Darrell Henderson, you know, who they traded up for last year and the third. And you wanted, you know, he was a guy who liked. You have to say it like that. And then it's funnier, Mike. But if you look at what the Rams did last year.

in the season. They had every opportunity to give Darrell Henderson run. He was forced into that role for a small time, and as soon as they could take him out, they did. Now, a second round pick on Cam Acres, who they took over. J.K. Dobbins was still available, you know, who had more hype and more production coming in. Plus, you have the fact that Cam Acres in college was able to be successful.

with a terrible offensive line, and that's the situation he's going to find himself in the NFL with these Rams and their decrepit offensive line. Where was Henderson a third round pick last year? Yes. They traded up into the third for Henderson. Yeah. It's going to be interesting. I'm not going to bury the guys who were already on the depth chart of Brown and Anderson, but.

I'm very torn what to do with Cam Acres because the draft capital is there, but I think they may have learned a lesson with what happened to Todd Gurley. So I'm still drafting Acres very high. From a workload perspective in terms of not wanting one guy to do it. Yes, and finding out what happens to your team when everything is based off of one player. So I'm still taking him high in rookie drafts.

But I'm concerned that he'll be part of a three running back timeshare. Yeah, I think he'll be the lead dog of a timeshare this year for a team that has the most vacated rush attempts in the league. So he finds himself in a good situation. I just love Cam Acres. I love the player. I think he's a hyper talented player. Absolutely. And he could catch the ball. He could do everything they want. And Van Jefferson needs to be thrown out there as well because he's a guy that.

I mean, drafted over. Third round pick. Yeah, drafted over, you know, Denzel Mims and, you know, they took the guys they wanted, not who they're supposed to have taken with those picks. And that usually means that a team is, you know, very, very into that player. And you've got a team here that has already supported three wide receivers before. Brandon Cook's now leaving. So I've seen him falling late in the third round of some rookie drafts.

And I just think he's got good value. You know, it was kind of like Deontay Johnson last year, wasn't a pre-hyped guy. And the Steelers surprised people taking him where they did. And it turns out he was good. Yeah, I don't know what to do with Van Jefferson in rookie drafts because I buy into him because the Rams bought into him. And that seems to be the only reason why. Yeah, I mean, second round pick. That's great capital, lost Brandon Cooks.

They add another wide receiver. Josh Reynolds has been involved in the past. Both tight ends have been involved in the past. It's hard to find immediate value there, but the draft capital says you've got to look at them in rookie drafts. Arizona, the Cardinals, they did not go C.D. Lamb with the eighth pick because Isaiah Simmons was still on the board. So they picked up a tackle in the third round, Josh Jones, that had been literally even up to a week before the draft graded as a first round.

tackle, try to get some help for Kyler, bad offensive line last year. Outside of that, skill position-wise, they only took, you know, Benjamin in the seventh round, it's irrelevant for fantasy purposes. Kenyon Drake's the guy. Yeah, there's no winners or losers from the draft unless you're including DeAndre Hopkins as that second round pick, in which case, Kyler Murray is a big winner. Outside of that, you know, oh, yeah.

Outside of that. It's a good second round pick. That's all on the same. You know, they tried to stock up on defense, which they needed. So not much to cover here for fantasy. All right. More to cover here. The Philadelphia Eagles sliding over to the NFC East. We have Jalen Ragar going in the first round pick 21 overall. A new weapon for Carson Wince. Reactions to the fit. Jason, I know we've kind of talked about this. I guess it was on the draft reaction live stream.

But you mentioned before the draft, you're a big fan of Jalen Rager. Do you believe in the redraft value of him walking right into this wide receiver core?

Yeah, I think he can walk in and have a good rookie season. Usually rookie wide receivers, they're going to be more of the back half of the year. So it's not necessarily a guy that you want to draft, but can still have success in redraft leagues. I'm a huge Jalen Rager believer. He was my fourth wide receiver on my board after the three first guys that went off in the NFL draft. And, you know, I comped him.

his upside comp to me is like a Steve Smith. So coming into a position with Carson Wins, I think is wonderful. You have to have a big loser, a huge loser here is Deshaun Jackson because, you know, Deshaun Jackson. That feels like it had more to it than just.

Our show title. Yeah. You know, they went out and they got speed. I mean, they got, you know, they, they traded for Markey's Goodwin. They drafted Quez Watkins and Jalen Rager. These are all speedsters. And so the aging, older, injured Deshaun Jackson, he's not the Eagles plan. I don't think for 2020. Mike, what are you doing? What are you doing with Mr. Miles Sanders? They had so many draft picks.

They did not go running back. It's very tough. What happens to your narrative of workhorse back in Philadelphia when they didn't draft? Well, Boston Scott will still be there and still be a thorn in your butt cheeks every once in a while. But it's hard to not get excited that Miles Sanders can be what he was over the second half of the year. And what he was, he finished in the top 20, four of those seven weeks was top seven and three of them.

Like, Miles Sanders turned into a fantasy monster at the end of the year. It ended with a sputtering cloud that week 17 when Boston Scott had a monster week. But the confidence in Miles Sanders of having the three person, the normal Eagles three person running back timeshare where it's impossible to buy in.

Now it's just two with Miles Sanders being the primary guy. So you've got to be very interested in Miles Sanders. Yeah, I mean, he is the biggest winner for the Eagles. It feels like your biggest winner of the draft. Yeah, he very well might be the biggest winner in fantasy of the draft. His rookie season was comparable to Christian McCaffrey's rookie season. I'm not saying he's going to take that leap. But I will say this. You know, usually undrafted. My dynasty team would like him to make that leap. I would like the formally request it.

But one thing I want to point out for rookie drafts, for your dynasty leagues, and also for this conversation on Miles Sanders, I don't usually give two craps about undrafted free agents. But Michael Warren, he is a running back that a lot of Eagles people, I was live with Eagles people during those last days in the draft. They were expecting him.

to be drafted in the fifth round, the sixth round. Like, I'm surprised they're not taking him. And the second that draft was over, he was signed as an undrafted free agent with the Eagles. He was a guy that they liked and they did bring him in. So he's a big, you know, 226 pound touchdown machine in college. So they did address it, but obviously not with draft capital. So I'm just throwing that out there for you want to.

You want to try to sign a Philip Lindsay on waivers even after your rookie draft goes. Michael Warren's the name you should be aware of. All right. We're going to transition from maybe the biggest winner, Miles Sanders, to maybe the biggest loser. And that means we're flying over to the Dallas Cowboys. And we're going to talk about winners and losers from that draft. They drafted C.D. Lamb, our favorite wide receiver, first round pick out of Oklahoma, and Michael Gallup.

may be the biggest loser of this NFL draft situation because Gallup was clearly an ascending talent, the 113 target number last year was great, especially, you know, Cooper was a little bit banged up, but you saw Gallup really take the next step. It's going to be very difficult for fantasy owners to value Michael Gallup when Amari Cooper was handed the bag of money. He's there at least a couple more years under that contract.

And then, you know, they invest a first round pick on a player that we know is very talented and C.D. Lamb. So weapon-wise is Gallup the fourth option, the third option on this offense. And does that dissuade you from where you had them before this took place?

He's definitely a big loser from being able to step into a dominant 1A1B role, which I think a lot of people were hoping he did this year. Now the pie is split, but we should note because originally I saw C.D. Lamb as a big loser as well coming into that draft pick where you've already got two great options.

But the Dallas Cowboys have the third most vacated targets. You know, having Whitten leave, having Cobb and Whitten? Yeah. There are targets to go around and you have McCarthy here who had a history of having those three wide receiver sets, four wide receiver sets. So it might not be the worst landing spot for C.D. Lamb, but it's certainly not great for Gallup's upside. And it's wonderful for Dak. Dak is one of the biggest winners in the draft.