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Fantasy Football - Mock Draft Madness! - Podcast for 7/31

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Mock Draft Madness! | Fantasy Football 2025 - Ep. 1772

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Episode notes & curated moments 4 records
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Mike hoards the Trey Lance Time drop

The show opens with Trey Lance Time, then says Mike keeps and hoards the drop and only deploys it when he knows its moment has arrived.

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The staff live-mock gets the hosts sniped

The three hosts run a full-PPR three-wide mock draft with the Fantasy Footballers staff, and the hosts finish by admitting their employees kept sniping their picks.

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Arthur Smith deploys four tight ends and no backs

The hosts are stunned by a Pittsburgh formation labeled 0-4 personnel: no backs and four tight ends, with uncertainty about whether DK Metcalf even counts as one.

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Episode notes

The mock-draft episode yields strong show-meta canon: Mike hoards the Trey Lance Time drop, the whole staff participates in a live three-wide PPR draft, and the hosts complain that their employees keep sniping their picks. A bizarre 0-4, four-tight-end formation supplies an extra visual gag.

Inside the episode

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So disrespected. Jack Bass drafted over Rashad Bateman. Yeah. Forever and always disrespected. Jason, are you taking Bateman? I'm not going to take Bateman. I'm going to take a guy who is not under contract. We have no idea if he's going to play, when he's going to play. But we know he's a good player, high draft capital. Before the off-the-field issues, this is a guy who would have gone. We know that dude's sitting on your bench for six games a minimum. Four or five rounds ago. But I'm going to take Quinch on Judkins here. Yeah, that's the challenge for those out there with Judkins' IR eligibility won't be there. Yeah, 10th round is where I'll start just taking more risky options with high upside. That's who took Rice and Addison earlier looking at, I think, Rugs and Watson for this. Oh, no, he did not go. He did not go there. Judkins off the board to Jason, Charbonnet, Warren, Dak.

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Kyle Williams, not Kyron, Kyle Williams off the board. Mahomes, getting Mahomes with the second to last round pick is, that's funny. That is wild. I would feel good about it, even if what I get on the field wasn't great. And Kyler, same thing, two picks later. Kyler and Mahomes with the last round, like, if I could go back in time and trade in Jaden Daniels for upper echelon talent in the fourth round and come away with Kyler in the 11th, I might have done that. Johnny Smith off the board as well, Jason, second to last pick. You're up. All right. I'm still looking at the wide receiver position, which as Mike alluded to earlier, is gross. There's, you know, it's really, really picked over. I'm going to take someone, it's very surprising. It's a full PPR. At the end of last season, he was shockingly good. You're talking 13 and a half fantasy points per game.

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a top 15 wide receiver, and he's the type of player that can get off to a hot start. And that is Adam Thielen. Oh. Wait a minute. I'm not taking Adam Thieland. Is that because he was he already drafted? No, he's there, but there's a different player right next to him who is, I thought this guy was drafted already in a full. And anyone who's next to Adam Thiel is going to look a lot better. Dude, Adam Thielen was better than you think. I worry a little bit about the tat. Looking at drafting Adam Thielandt and there's a name next to be like, whewf, that person should be moved up. Wait till I say it. Okay. And then tell me if you still agree with what you thought. Okay. Wondale Robinson. In a PPR? Absolutely. Exactly. In a full PPR. Disgusting. I mean, he'll get so many catches at the line of scrimmage for no yards. And that's a point. All right, Mike, you're on the clock. Still need a tight end over these last two picks. Wondale was the pick for Jason.

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We're wrapping up the full PPR three wide receiver mock. Yep. So it's pretty easy for me. Tyler Warren, Colston Loveland, Tucker Kraft, were the three tight ends who I was perfectly okay going with. Warren's gone. Yeah, Warren is now gone. I do, I have Kraft a little bit ahead of Loveland, but Colston Loveland might be a boat, guys. He's the number 10 overall pick. We're going to go with it. I'm taking to Mario Douglas, who's been the number one target for Drake May in camp so far. Also, slot. wide receivers do really well for Josh McDaniels. Douglas is just highlight after highlight. So I'm going to Mario Douglas. Naji off the board next. I did have my eye on him. Fields. Jalen McMillan, Echler, and Chubb round out the 11th round. One round left. I'm looking at your guys' teams. Jason right now sitting five wide. Mike has six.

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I think I have six wide receivers. Just curious how that broke down. Iyuk finally goes off the board right before me here in the 12th. I'm going to use my very last pick guys on Keenan Allen. I'm going to take Keenan Allen. Hey, why not? The final pick of a full PPR. Who loves PPR more than Keenan Allen? He just doesn't want to do the camp part of the equation this year. But he'll probably land on a team that needs him. So I'll go with Keenan for my final pick. All right. And I want to get, let me see, my wide receivers. I got four that I really like, two rookies. I think that's an okay place to be for now. So I'm going to take a running back. And just in case Jerome Ford is not it for the Cleveland Browns, I will take their rookie Dylan Sims. Did you see what the coach said about him? I hope it's good. It wasn't. Oh, no, undo the big. The pads came on and he got tackled by.

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He got like hit by the defender and he went flying like a little baby boy. His size is. And then the coach was like, dude's got to get his shoulders lower. He's like, it was, it was brutal. And the hit is hysterical. Like I said, I took Adam Thielen. I took him. I think I could have got him a couple rounds later, but this is the last round. Yeah, I agree with you on that. And I, I don't share the same optimism for that depth chart. I think they got, I mean, I know Ted's better than he is. I think Coker might be better than he is at this point. Renfro, Leggett. I just don't know if there's room for them anymore. I didn't see. I did see that hamstring. By the way, the 49ers currently working out, three agent running back. Jeff Wilson. Oh, that's return to San Francisco maybe on the books. Man, if you got Grendo on your dynasty team, you should be terrified right now. Braylin Allen ends up Mr. Irrelevant, the 22-year-old running back for New York. Did you guys see? There was a recent.

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Blurb. We are in blurb season, but just talking about the Jets backfield of saying it... Way more even split. It might be more 1A, 1B, and not because of a knock on Brees Hall, but a improvement from Braylin Allen. Well, it is also... Who is a Hulk of a man if you do not remember. It is so obvious. Breast Hall's not part of the future plans for the Jets. He will not be getting a contract from them. He knows it. He's come out and talked about it. He said, I'm not their guy. Yes. He said that, like, it was one of the first times that refrain we've brought up were like, hey, the GM and head coach, they didn't draft me. He just said it out loud. Yeah. And if you're not, look, the Jets, what is their win total projection? Kyle, do you remember it? Five and a half. Five and a half, okay? At what point does the five and a half win total Jets think about, you know, are they at the stage? I think they hope they are, and they have got the guy from the same team that did it.

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where the lions were building a culture and a group of guys that were their guys, and they started with almost a winless season. Remember they won in week 10 under Dan Campbell? How soon do you start to give more and more work to the guy that's going to be there? Like Braylon Allen was 22. Breece Hall's out the door. So that's the concern with Breece. It's not that he can't get it done or get another contract. It's that you're not the guy, and if you're not on the way to the playoffs, why do you play that guy? It's really rare and ironic, but like I have...

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I feel like Brees is better in dynasty than he is in redraft. And that is, that's just weird for a veteran running back. You know what I mean? Usually it's like, oh, no, I need my points now when you're getting close to the second contract. But I think his next contract, he'll be set up better than this current season. It could be. At least you've got like some trust from somebody. He'll still have to deliver. But my team ended up Derek Henry, Jonathan Taylor, and J.K. Dobbins is the only running backs I got on this team. That is. It is a little bit. What could go wrong? Of the thick of thin. He is in the thin. It is, yeah, I don't know if I am the, if anybody else only has three running backs. That's where I'm at right now. Jaden Daniels is my quarterback. Evan Ingram. Well, I got Dylan Samson is my fourth, but I don't. So you have three running backs. Yeah, I've got quinch on Judkins is my fourth. So, you know, I'm good. Evan Ingram to my tight in and then my wide out group, Amun Ra, Worthy, Adunze, Godwin, Debo, Douglas, and Keenan Allen.

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Yeah, I've got my running back core, Bejohn Robinson, Joe Mixin, Caleb Johnson, and Quinshan Judkins, wide receivers are T. Higgins, Mike Evans, Ricky Pearsall, Jaden Higgins, Wondale Robinson, and old man, Adam Thielen. He's? I got, and then I've also got Jalen Hertz and David Adjoku. I got Christian McCaffrey, DeAndre Swift, Cam Scataboo, Dylan Samson are my running backs, my wide out core, got Garrett Wilson, Devante Adams. Terry McLaurin, Josh Downs, Luther Burden, and Jack Bess. And then I have Joe Burrow as my quarterback and the rookie Colston Loveland is my tight end. All right. And it looks like we'll be sending any of our legal counsel on retainer over to Betsy so that he can manage his roster for the upcoming season. Before we close it out, like this is just.

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too good to share it. I don't know if you guys saw this come through the camp highlights channel. Uh-oh. Betts just shared it with us. You know, we talk formations a lot. You're like, you know, Jayden Reed. He only gets on the field in 11 personnel because it's one tight-in, one running back, you know, and three wide out. Apparently, Arthur Smith and the Pittsburgh Steelers ran out a formation of 0-4. In 0-4 personnel, no backs, four tight-ins. So I have, wait, four? I have never heard of it. So is John Hugh? It's Pat Friamute. Is Darrell Washington and somebody else? Yes. Why not? I think they're going to, no, because no, John who is in the backfield. They're going to run the ball. Okay. Yeah. I was going to say, does Metcalf count as a tight-in? Is that why that's so far? That is so wild. I love it. I've got, I'm going to be honest. I think Metcalf can have a tremendous season, but there is.

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plenty of fear in the back of my mind that the wheels come flying off of this team and Tomlin's gone and I mean it probably won't happen but all good things even come to an end right I mean it does happen at some point in time all right that'll wrap it up let us know what you think about the drafts if you're on YouTube in the comments feel free to share how dumb we are and look it's fun to test out new that's what mock drafts are about it's about testing out new strategies Seeing where players are starting to land in this time of the offseason with training camp and hype and getting sniped by all of your employees, this is the time for that. Tomorrow, another episode of the show. We've got our Top Ten Titan rankings episode, and then we're on to Monday through Friday episodes here on out. So thank you so much for listening. Shout out to the Foot Clan for supporting us to join the Foot.com. It's very exciting to get to go into yet another.

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fantasy football season with you guys. And so shout out to the Ducers over there in Ducers Alley for taking care of things today. We'll be back with a brand new episode tomorrow. Thanks for joining us. Football tonight. Wee. Thank you for listening. Trey Harris time. Goodbye. You for listening to another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter. at the FF Ballers.