Draft Pick Trading + Keeper Decisions, Heebie Jeebies - Fantasy Football Podcast for 7/31

Uh, I think it gives me slight hebe, jibis. Just a heibi? It gives me a he be. A hebe or a G. I'm not to the Gbies yet. Okay. Uh, but the hebe is. Because you can't get to the Gbies unless you have the hebees. Right. You got to start with the hebeys for sure. Um, the reality. I wonder how much of my fear is just the fact that everyone I love has been dropping like flies. It's like, oh, no, not again. But I don't want to read too much into this because.

He is, we all know he's coming off of the ACL injury. And we know the timeline for that. And that as you get back, you get further and further into full strength. He will, he will fully recover from an ACL. This was a standard ACL. This was nothing crazy. And we see players come back from that all the time. They need enough time. He's out there. He didn't start on the pup. He's training. So if the head coach is like, I think he's holding back a little, I think that's.

fine at this point. And we'll see, you know, this isn't a player who isn't going to play in preseason because he's not recovered enough. So I think we'll have a lot of information by the time, you know, NFL or fantasy drafts are happening. And I'm still fine with Cortland Sutton right now, but it's something to monitor. Hypes rain. What happened over there?

Well, I'm... Did you forget you were holding the mute button? I did forget I was holding the mute button. I'm going back and forth. I'm obviously a little under the weather right now. You can hear it in my voice. So I'm muting when I'm sniffing and coughing. And you just, you got lost. And I got lost in the mute. Henry Rugg's wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raider last year's very high first round pick says he has gained 13 pounds in the off season to try and be a more physical player. Now on my incredibly very

scientific, very data-driven positional player weight chart. Right, which you've always been all about. I looked into it. I plotted him in. I gave him the 13 more pounds. My chart likes it. My chart likes it, Jason. Henry Runks has been one of your favorite sleepers going incredibly late in draft.

quiet. Don't let people know or he'll fall. Oh, we need to protect him? Yes. Well, he's bulked up to protect himself from your curse. Yeah. But what you were going to say is this is usually good. When wide receivers gain weight, you view that as a more positive when running backs gain weight. You view it as a negative and vice versa. That is true. That is how I view it. So we will see for Henry Ruggs. That was today's news and notes presented by Sleeper. Sleeper is currently.

The largest dynasty platform for fantasy football number one by far. If you want to stay connected with your friends all year, Dynasty is the way to do it. And Sleeper is the place. Jason, we're heading into the mailbag. I want to try something. Okay. I know you're a little under the weather, so I just need your best effort here. All right. We're going to harmonize. Oh. You're going to give me the melody. Okay. And I'm going to try and go up.

and we're going to see what happens. We haven't practiced this. This is live. Now, when you say melody, you just mean the norm. Yes. Okay, all right. Let's go. Mailbag. I'm not sure how that wins. Brooks, how was it? 10 out of 10. Thank you. All right. I mean, I was a part of it. I felt good being inside, but you never know how it's going to look on the outside. 10 out of 10. You like that?

Based on the look on Jay Gris's face, I think we rocked it. Thank you, Jay Gris. Welcome to the mailbag. First question. Michael in Sterling, Scotland. Oh, bonjour. Bonjour. Which we have a note here that says the main battle on Braveheart was there. Oh, yeah. Mr. Braveheart, is that true? That is correct. All right. I mean, it depends. I mean, whatever you determined the main battle to be. I don't think there was a main battle.

But sure, Sterling has a big one. That note is from Michael, so we'll take his word for it. Oh, well, well, well. Okay. Got Kyle Pitts in my dynasty rookie draft, but I already have George Kittle. Should I trade Kittle now for a king's ransom? If so, what do you think that fair value is? I actually think you're going to get more value from Kittle at the end of the year than you would now. Kittle was injured last year, and he is not being seen.

You know, last year, last year going in, there was all this debate. Kelsey or Kittle? Kiddle or Kelsey? Kiddle or Kittle? And now he got injured, he disappointed. I don't think Kittles value is at its peak right now, and he's still very young. No, we're all drafting Darren Waller over him. Exactly. So I would, and you know my, well, maybe you don't. Maybe new people are coming in. I stand alone in the sense that I don't think Kyle Pitts is going to have the.

far and away best rookie season of all time to the tune where he's a top three type of guy this year. So I think you're going to want Kittle this year. You're going to want Kyle Pitts to dominate after this year and you're going to get the most value trading Kittle assuming he's healthy after a dominant performance this season. So I would hold on to both. Look to trade Kittle in 2021. All right. Let's talk about this is 2021. Yeah. In 2020. There you go. Let's talk about Chris Godwin off Instagram.

Ted Skalyski? His question is DJ Moore or Chris Godwin in a PPR, both healthy and, oh, playing for payday. We got payday narrative in the question. Oh, good. Good. As an aside, man, I love paydays. They are so good. Really? Oh, I know. They're so simple. It's a chocolate. No, no chocolate. That's a baby Ruth. Oh. It's basically a skinned baby Ruth is a payday. Oh, no. It's just, yeah.

You just skit it, hang it up to dry, and then you haven't paid it. It's peanuts and caramel? Yeah, that's basically it and salt. It's delicious. Huh. Anyways, DJ Moore or Chris Godwin, full PPR. I lean on the DJ Moore side. Okay. I think that the Chris Godwin likely to see more receptions at least. Right. Better for the PPR. You know that he has done it before. He's already been a top five.

fantasy finisher on a season. So the argument is there. But I think that the, if you just look at the talent of the two players, I would say that the talent is better with DJ Moore than Chris Godwin, even though they're both extremely talented. But DJ Moore has the chance to be the clear cut one for his team. Robbie Anderson, Terrace Marshall are there. But I don't think that, I don't think that Chris Godwin could just completely become the man.

while Mike Evans and Antonio Brown and Gronk and the amount of Males to feed are there for Chris Godwin. So I would prefer to take the upside shot of DJ more personally. As would I. So let's follow this up from Chris Long 32, Mike Evans or Chris Godwin.

This is interesting because I like Mike Evans more than Chris Godwin. If they cost the same, I'm taking Mike Evans. We saw a period from Week 9 on the last eight games of Tampa Bay. This is exactly when they signed Antonio Brown, when Chris Godwin was healthy, when Mike Evans was healthy. The whole team was ready, I don't know, to go on a Super Bowl run. And during that stretch, everyone was valuable. Godwin was good.

Antonio Brown was good. Mike Evans was good. But Mike Evans was the clear one of that group. Mike Evans is the 402 from our Sleeper ADP. And Chris Godwin's the 405. So if you're at the beginning of the, if you're in the fourth, it's your hitter's choice. Then it's Mike Evans for me. Is it a fielder's choice?

Yeah, I was trying to knock it out with a good baseball reference. Wait, that was a baseball reference? Fielder's choice is a reference. I feel like you should have to take like a 10 second break from this show. Well, at least I got it wrong, Jason. Okay, all right. Thank you. Yeah, so back-to-back anti-Christ Godwin answers. Wow. But don't take that for an anti-Christ Godwin take. He's phenomenal. He could absolutely be, you know, a top 15 wide receiver this year. But.

In both of those situations, I prefer Mike Evans and DJ Moore. Let's hit a voicemail. If you want to leave us a voicemail, you can do that at 302-464 TFFB. If you want to submit a question, you just visit the site, and you can do it by text, but let's get to a voicemail. Hey, ballers, big fan. Question here, would you keep D.K. Metcats for a fifth or DeAndre Swift for a seventh. Thank you.

I saw this in the dock earlier. Oh, brother. And I'll be honest with you. Dad's rough. I wanted, I was hoping we didn't get to it. This is as difficult to choice because, like, I am. Hey, Jason. Yeah. Which one of your children is your favorite? Are they listening? Ask me off there. It's all of you. It's all of you, children.

So Metcalf or Swift. So obviously the slightly better value is with Swift being a seventh rounder versus a fifth rounder. If DeAndre Swift hits, he's far more important to your team than D.K. Metcalf. Yes. D.K. Metcalf far more likely to hit than DeAndre Swift. So that's why he's going ahead. I love both options. The nice thing about this question is I don't think you're going to go wrong.

You're not going to be, like, completely left out to dry. But if this was my team, I would probably take Swift in the seventh because I see a huge break around the sixth round in most of these drafts. And this is a keeper league, so obviously the rounds might feel a little different, but because you're giving up the round value for the player, it'll probably play out about the same. And a fifth round pick, I really, really love. A seventh round pick, there's some crapshoots.

I'm in on, but I don't feel confident. I don't love my seventh rounders. So I'm going to take Swift and keep my fifth round pick, but man, you could, you could right now talk me into Metcalf. I'm taking D.K. Metcalfe. Talk me into it. Well, it's, like you said, it's the, if Swift hits, it's more important, but the probability lies with D.K. Metcalf.

I have DK Metcalf in my top 10. I believe all of us do. I have him right now at number 8, my wide receiver 8, and I have DeAndre Swift at running back 16. And Swift is just, man, he is such a tough evaluation. There was more chatter out of camp seeing, viewing DeAndre Swift and Jamal Williams as a Mark Ingram, Alvin Camara.

type of a situation, which that works fantastically for both players when you have Drew Breeze and a top three scoring offense. That works out. But if you have that level of a split and you have one of the on paper, at least you have one of the worst teams that is in a full rebuild, that's not great. Yeah. Touchdowns to the running back positions on a team level are great historically for the Saints over the last decade. Not.

Not so much for the lines. So I totally get that. My thing with Swift, and talk me through this because we've been doing this, you know, for a long, long, long time. I find that Swift meets the criteria that I run into every year where when I finished my rankings and just let the stats lie where I believe all the team statistics and every single player breaks down.

DeAndre Swift was very high in my rankings. Like I, he was, he was actually, you know, I think he was a top 12 running back. He was right at the back end RB1. And as time has gone on since then, I continue to move him down, you know, disbelieving the lions and the offensive capability, not thinking this is going to be a team that scores a lot. It could be a time share with Jamal Williams, camp chatter, yada, yada.

But historically, I find that those players that I really surprisingly liked once I really did the math and statted players out and then moved down based on camp news, I oftentimes wish I didn't. Okay. And I was like, man, I should have stuck to my guns there. And so I'm wondering if we are too low on Swift, just as a show because...

because of the stink of the lions. I think that is very possible. DeAndre Swift is an incredible player and an incredible talent where you often have to go back to that. I mean, he's been in the league for one year. Remember how you felt about DeAndre Swift before the NFL draft. And it was this, this is either your number one or your number two.