Early Top 20 QB Rankings + Draft Hype! - Fantasy Football Podcast

keying in on some of these available rookie running backs to try to reduce the load of Christian McCaffrey. And then, of course, they went out and paid him all the money in the world. My only opinion on McCaffrey is that he belongs at number one in fantasy football, but I can't imagine replicating the snap count and production of last year. That is not an insult to Christian McCaffrey. It's simply he was on the field for every single snap. And I believe the reports.

from multiple sources that they want to try to work somebody else in. It is the smart thing to do with a 60 plus million dollar investment, right? Yeah, it definitely is the smart thing to do. He doesn't need to be on the field every snap, even to finish as the number one running back in fantasy football. I mean, nobody else in the league is, you know, at running back, all the other workhorse backs, you know, Zeke.

he's not on the field anywhere near the same snaps that Christian McCaffrey is. You know, the Turner system believed that, you know, you show the same look and, you know, that he had Christian out there no matter what the play was. And I think it's wise. Give him a little bit of rest. Give him a break. And I do think they have to, you know, they just don't have anybody serviceable behind him. I think they need to kick the tires on this rookie draft class because.

they have to have it's a running back position you know running backs go down you have to be prepared yeah you just didn't have options last year outside of mcalfrey either and then we have uh peter king reporting the jaggs are not expected to look at the quarterback position they want gardner to be the guy you know i think we all expected that to be the case once foals left town that they weren't going to replace him is that fair if i were them i would really want gardner to be the guy because what's he have uh with three years left on that

Fifth or sixth round rookie deal? That's cashing in, man. Yeah, the rookie deal. I, from a mustache perspective, I'm a big fan. Yes, you guys are in the same club now. Yeah. Yeah, we're equally cool. Exactly the same. You got shorts on? I got nothing on. Oh, yeah. Oh, you are as cool. No way to know. No way to know.

Any other news that you guys have seen? I know Jay Glazer is talking about breaking some news. By the time you're listening to this, he will have already done it. But other than that, is there anything else that? I had to look. Gardner Minchu will be paid $675,000 this year. NFL franchise quarterback. To be a starting quarterback. Is that what they slide over to Joe Mixing when he's debating? He's asking for more money. They go, look. The starting quarterback, 625.

The truth is, if Gardner is the guy, he's not going to finish out his rookie deal on that, but it's certainly possible that they make him play this and next year before they give him a big raise. Yeah, yeah, he's got to prove it. He's got to go out there and show that he's going to be a starter in the NFL. So we're going to talk quarterbacks here on now. Before we do that, I want to say thank you to Omaha Steaks for sponsoring today's show and sponsoring my stomach. If you're staying home, which we all are,

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Take care of it. I'm not joking. I feel very insecure. D-body hair took a shower. I felt like a million bucks yesterday. All right. Early quarterback rankings. We're going to go through as many as we can. Excited to talk about these guys. I know we've been digging in. And there are a lot of questions out there that go beyond our consensus early April rankings. You know, where we have these guys right now, there are questions about.

you know, longevity and where you would put them in dynasty leagues, how you look at them from a long-term perspective. So we'll get into a lot of that. A reminder, a reminder we bring you each and every year. It might as well be a sponsored segment by us. But the quarterback position is tough at the top. I mean, nine out of the first 10 quarterbacks selected in last year's fantasy drafts finished lower than where they were drafted. And...

There's a lot of variables that come to quarterback play and predicting quarterback play year to year. And so when you are investing, remember, when you're investing at the quarterback position in fantasy, you are making a decision to go quarterback over another important position, a position you start.

multiple players in. So that is where you are kind of weighing the value of these guys, right? And positions that are much more difficult to replace. You know, if you're midway through the year and your running back goes down, it's very difficult to replace that. If you're midway through the year and your quarterback goes down, I mean, we do a weekly streaming segment every single week where we're picking guys who are available on 50% of the waiver wire for, you know, your average leagues. And, you know, we put those quarterbacks together weekly at a couple years ago. We tracked that. We ended up.

with our Frankenstein waiver wire quarterback as the quarterback six as far as scoring goes. So, yeah, I mean, this is one of those things where these early quarterbacks are great. Lamar Jackson, he was unbelievable, helped people win last year, but you drafted him late. Pat Mahomes two years ago when you drafted him late, and he was awesome. When you spend the early capital, they're phenomenal. They will be a good quarterback, but it probably won't play the game right.

unless they are throwing 50 touchdowns like Pat Mahomes did two years ago. Yeah, yeah. It's just very difficult to get those kind of magical seasons over and over again. Our first two guys, you know who they're going to be, maybe not the order. Our consensus ranks have Patrick Mahomes at one, Lamar Jackson at two. That is what both of you guys have. I have it in reverse. I have Lamar and then Mahomes. But these are the two most formidable.

you know, fantasy options at the quarterback position. Mahomes dealt with the injury last year. We've talked about him a lot. He is part of a great offense. He has explosive weapons. A drive can end in two passes from Patrick Mahomes and change your fantasy outcome on any given week. And then Lamar, you know the season he had. He was the difference maker. He was one of the most commonly owned players on any championship team. And a lot of that had to do with the fact you got him at a great value. Now you go into 2020.

knowing the upside and potential of both these players. We've been through it with both these players. They have won many a fantasy league for owners. So when you look at Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, I mean, I'm not exactly sure where you want to go here, but one question that always comes up is where would you perceive them as a value being somebody that looks for a late round quarterback? What round would you say, okay, this is just too low for me to pass up?

some of that's going to depend on obviously how the ADP of other players pairs out late in the third I would be I would be a little I would be a little curious I would I would you know and it's getting a little higher in the fourth round is probably the closest that I would actually pull the trigger on either guy but usually in those third and fourth rounds there is a very solid running back or wide receiver and obviously I've only got you know three other players so I think the fifth

I would take them all without a doubt, and they will never be there in the fifth. So I don't expect to have Pat Mahomes or Lamar Jackson. Mahomes is my number one, Mike's number one. Andy, your number two. Can't complain about that. But Mahomes had relatively a down year this last year, but he was awesome. He started the year, phenomenal. And then, you know, okay, in weeks four through six, he was disappointing.

Because even though he was a quarterback one every single week, it was a lower end quarterback one. Then he got injured, so that game doesn't really count. He had a MET game against the New England Patriots, which everyone did. Their defense was unbelievable. Denver is when he got injured and the week 17 game. He was actually phenomenal all season. And I think, you know, if I have to bet a house payment on who finishes fantasy.

With more points this year, I'm going back to Pat Mahomes because Lamar Jackson's touchdown rate was just too unsustainable. Mike, if the Ravens added a significant top-tier weapon at wide receiver in the NFL draft, would that sway things for you at all? The reason I went with Lamar at one is simply because I think when Lamar goes off, those games are...

Pretty insane. I mean, last year you saw it, you know, he finished first or second, I think six or seven times at the position. That's something that Mahomes only did one time through the course of the year. So there was a little bit more disappearing from Mahomes. It's splitting hairs, but is it the weapons for Lamar or just the special season that you expect to regress? Or are we, you not even talk about it? It's, it's regressing the special season. A touchdown rate of 9% is, it's just impossible. We've seen.

Time after time when a player has a touchdown rate that's over about 7%. The average drop is multiple points. It's a very, very substantial drop. Again, arguing Lamar Jackson at number two seems like a ridiculous thing to be doing. But that's the only reason I go with Mahomes is I don't think Lamar can repeat the passing touchdown volume.

Lamar will go ahead of Mahomes. Yes. In all fantasy drafts, mostly. I can't, I would, you know, Dynasty might be different, a different story. But in a redraft. Who do you got? Who would you rather have? I think I would take Mahomes.

Yeah, I would take Mahomes. Is that injury risk with all the running for Lamar Jackson, longevity of career? Even though one of them was hurt last year and the other one was. Well, there's an injury risk for every player, but how often you put yourself out there is the only way that you can. It's running, the percentage of your fantasy output is dependent upon running. That would slightly sway it for me. Yeah, Pat Mahomes could be an unbelievably good fantasy asset when he's 38 years old. Lamar Jackson isn't going to be running.