Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - QB Rankings Part 2, News & Notes, Mailbag

I believe. So where is he going to get drafted? Where is he going to finish? I think he'll get drafted right in the two area. So fifth round, maybe the end of the fourth round and the fifth round. He's currently, he's about the 15th off the board at wide receiver. Okay, that's a little bit higher than I would hope to someone's buzzing. You're distracting me. Something like flies are in the room. That's not, I guess, terrible for Hopkins. That's the beginning of the fourth.

He has shown that he is a tremendous playmaker. It doesn't really matter who's throwing him the ball. But the person throwing him the ball might just be Brian Hoyer. That limits his upside. So I don't believe I would take him that high. So if you wouldn't take him that high, where do you think he finishes? I believe he's a wide receiver too. I would put him at...

The 19 to 21 range. Would you take any of these guys ahead of DeAndre Hopkins? And this question goes to both of you. Jeremy Macklin? No. No. Brandon Marshall? No. Yes. Okay. Brandon Cooks? Yes. Julian Edelman? No. Oh, man. That's a tough question. That's a really good one. But no. I'll take, that's a team makeup question to me. Sammy Watkins? I'll take Nuck.

Jordan Matthews. Take Matthews. I love my Matthews. So you might have DeAndre Moore in the back half of the wide receiver 2, like 1920 range. Exactly what I just said. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I guess you're telling the names in there makes it a little bit more real. So the second question that Mr. Daniel asked, let me pull it back up. Do you think Calvin Johnson can be the number one fantasy wide receiver again?

I will field that question. I think absolutely he can be. I don't expect him to be. But I think that there's, he's not, he's not past his prime. He's not losing a step. He was injured and he is still seven foot eight. And he's a beast. And so I, I think that there's no question. He has every opportunity to finish number one. I don't expect him to. I think he will finish top five and he should be drafted top five.

If there was ever a time to get Calvin Johnson at a value rate, it would be this year. Yeah. How far do you think he actually drops, though? I think he drops to the beginning of the second round. So that's the furthest I would say it's going down. It's not going to be very much. 13, 14, at the furthest. At the very latest. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how the wide receivers play out in the first round of drafts this year because of the hype around guys like Odell Beckham.

Brune. People jumping all over Brown to Marius Thomas. There's like six or seven guys right now that I think all have an equal, almost an equal shot to finish number one, which means get those guys, you know, again, that value. If you can, I mean, it really depends on where you're drafting. But if you're able to, you know, wait and get the sixth or seventh of that group after you get a stud running back, I love that. Randall Cobb at the back half of the second or Calvin in the front half?

Calvin in the front half. There's a separation to me between Calvin. I don't put Randall Cobb in that group. Yeah, I don't put Cobb up with Calvin Johnson either, but that's all just... They're both going in the second right now, which is why I ask. It's so closely tied to where your actual draft position is, so it's hard to say which one I would rather be. Yeah, you're not going to ever choose between those guys. I think that's where the tier changes for me.

is around AJ Green and Cobb at the back half of the second round, and then you get into the T.Y. Hilton, Alshan Jeffrey, Emmanuel Sanders, Mike Evans range, which to me is a tear drop. That's fair. All right, this one comes in from Dave from Boston. He has a simple question. David Boston? Not David Boston. That's the second time. It is now David Boston. That's the same dude. No, that was Michael Bay. We got Michael from the Bay. No, I know. You made a Dave Boston joke last season. Did I? Yeah.

I think because we had a Dave from Boston right in from last season. Maybe it's the same day. Well, David Boston. Do you even know who David Boston is? I follow football. David Boston broke my heart. Well, be out here in Arizona. Yes. Man, he was that perfect example of the, he was the Josh Gordon of our youth. He had some extracurricular activities. Yeah. He also had the drops. So Dave from Boston, which could be David Boston.

Who will have the bigger fantasy season? C.J. Spiller or Ryan Matthews? I love this question. We'll let Jason take that. So, David Boston, great question. He is not in Striper, by the way. He's doing some type of serial commercial for TV. All right. So, shut your mouth. And here we go. So, C.J. Spiller or Ryan Matthews, which one is going to be better? I...

I would say C.J. Spiller is going to be better. C.J. Spiller's floor is higher than Ryan Matthews' floor. We don't know how Ryan Matthews is going to be used, and especially if you're in a PPR. If you're in a PPR, C.J. Spiller's floor, I believe, is going to be very, very high. But I think that the ceiling is actually higher on Ryan Matthews because of a DeMarco Murray injury. Boom.

I think that, you know, I love both of these guys, but the floor is higher on C.J. Spiller. I would rather have C.J. Spiller on my team because I think the expectation is...

probably more likely to happen and to play out well. But Ryan Matthews, I don't know where he's going right now. I mean, because of this news, his ADP, I'm pretty sure wherever we're going to look up is just skewed right now. We're going to have to wait and see where he's actually going. But I'm guessing he's going to go really late. And I'm guessing I'm going to really love that value because if you've got DeMarco Murray in front of you from becoming a...

absolute, you know, a top five potential back at that late. I love that value. So ceiling higher on Ryan Matthews' floor, higher on C.J. Spiller. Okay. Yeah, I don't mind that. They're both actually pretty similarly ranked. They're back to back. Oh, my. In the sixth round right now. C.J. Speller's right ahead. Matthew's lost about a round with the trade or at the signing. He's going to keep losing. There's no way that they're going back to back come draft day.

That's my prediction. I'm coming around on Spiller, too, personally. So let's, let's point this question over to Mike, the fantasy hitman. This one comes from Linney. Linney, do you know, Lenny? Lenny. Lenny, Wilkins. Of mice and men. Linney from Salt Lake City. Is that Lenny? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Kills the, kills the. Spoiler alert. Sorry, everybody. We talk literature towards the back half of the show. Is that Steinbeck?

That's right. What do you see Frank Gore's stat line looking like in Indianapolis? Mike, give me a stat line hypothetically. Pull it out of your brain and drop it to me. I will put him at about 1,100 yards on the ground and possibly 200 in the air, which that's probably pretty high considering where Frank Gore's...

catching production has been. Now, the touchdowns is where he really is going to get the boost. I see Frank, and I'm not going to separate him, but I see total touchdowns. Frank Gore easily scoring double-digit touchdowns this year. Yeah, I haven't met about 10. Let me ask you a couple of comparison questions here. Frank Gore or Jonathan Stewart? Ooh, I love Jonathan Stewart so very much, but I'm still going to take Frank Gore. Frank Gore or Latavius Murray? Frank Gore.

Andre Ellington or Frank Gore. Frank Gore. Tray Mason or Frank Gore. Frank Gore. Carlos Hyde or Frank Gore. Let me jump it up a little bit. And just so that, you know, the listeners can see if Mike's crazy or not, I was answering in my head each one of those. I was identical. I would rather take Frank Gore and all those guys for the same. Oh, and on those numbers, I actually wrote. Mark Engram or Frank Gore. Oh, man. That's very hard as I don't.

know what, I don't know what the Saints are doing, but I, I think I'm going to lean Frank Gore. I think Gore has one to two great seasons left in him and put him in that Colts offense and it's huge. Jeremy Hill and the second, Frank Gore in the fourth. Oh, there, there you go. You found the poison. I know. I had to test it. Oh. Do you still have that Jeremy Hill tattoo coming along? Yeah, the shading is done.

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