2020 Footie Award Winners! + Buy or Sell, Hydro Dipping - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/7

Justin Jefferson, my new favorite player on Earth. T. Higgins, Chase Claypool, Justin Herbert, and Robert Tunyon. The winner. There's three. There's three that I think could win. Yeah. There's only two I think can win. But it should go to who it's going to. James Robinson. That's how you announced an award. And the winner is who it should have been.

James Robinson with 70% of the vote. I mean, when you can get a top five running back, week one off the waivers, too. It wasn't like you had to wait until week five when he got his chance. He was great the entirety of the season. That was a purred happily moment. That was, and the winner of the award is the one who won the award. James Robinson was incredible, and I am very excited to find out what the future holds for him, whether there is a lot of long-term value for fantasy players or not.

The second place, wow, 70% of the vote. Coming in number two was Justin Jefferson, number three, Justin Herbert. I'm surprised Herbert was only at 7%. Yeah, you know what? What's hard about a player like Justin Herbert was he was a great signing, but then how quickly did you play him after you signed him? You know, like, and then how did you buy into playing him every week? I think that was hard. Obviously, we...

We had the shoe dropping kind of narrative on the show for a long time. So Herbert is legit. Yes. All right. Number five here, the fantasy wide receiver of the year. Now, we wanted you to factor in draft position, big game performances. How did that impact your team? Who's the winner of this award last year was Michael Thomas? Michael Thomas.

This year's nominees, Devante Adams, Tyreek Hill, Stefan Diggs, Calvin Ridley, Metcalf, Hopkins, Jefferson. To me, this is a two-horse race between Adams and Stefan Diggs based on draft capital. Come on Diggs. I hope Diggs won it. Let's find out. I voted for him. I did too, and so did y'all. Winner is Stefan Diggs. It was a...

Toy race. Stefan Diggs, 41% of the vote running up Devante Adams with 38%. Devante Adams is going to be pissed when he finds out. Yeah, that is, have you seen this Stefan Diggs how he's been propping up Justin Jefferson everywhere and how they're like, you know, best friends on Twitter type of thing? I have not. No, but that's awesome.

Yeah, so it's like Diggs is really embracing the fact that Jefferson came in there and dominated in Minnesota because what does Diggs got to complain about? He's a footy award winner. I mean, this is big time. But that was a close race, 41 to 38. I don't know if I've seen one that close in a while. I mean, if Adams didn't miss a couple games, he would have taken it home. I think it's all about that draft capital. Stefan Diggs picking him up where you did versus Adams. I don't know. If you had Diggs, I mean, I could tell you as someone who drafted him wherever I could, when you drafted Diggs, you were.

always competitive in every league because you, you know, a middle round pick that's every single week great. I know, like you said, Jason, imagine not winning the championship if you had the Josh Allen Stefan Diggs stack. Yeah, like me. If you, it reminds me of offseason trade offers. Like if you could put the player that you drafted where Devante Adams went in the draft plus Stefan Diggs versus Adams and whatever you would have gotten in the dig spot, I imagine people with Stefan Diggs won more games.

Mm-hmm. So fantasy running back of the year. Same considerations here, draft position, big game performances. Last year, Christian McCaffrey won this award. This year, I imagine it'll be tight. Delvin Cook, Derek Henry, Alvin Camara, James Robinson, Aaron Jones and David, Montgomery. I am really curious about Montgomery's percentage here because of the end of the year. But let's find out the winner.

The winner, oh, this is a tight race. Only three percentage points differ between first, second, and third. But the winner is Derek Henry. Oh, wow. Really? With 26% of the vote. Runner up was actually James Robinson with 25%. And the person I personally voted for, Donovan Cook, third place with 23% of the vote. Wow. Yeah, this is, I tried.

When the winner only gets 26% of the vote, that is a tight race. Camara was 16%, Montgomery with 8%, Aaron Jones, just 1%. Impressive. A lot of, between Diggs and then Robinson finishing this high, that draft capital is playing a role in these votes. I, for one, love that I don't know who's winning these. This has been delightful. It's really fun. Because I care, too. Like, I don't know who's winning, but I really, every single one of these, I'm like, I'm rooting for my guy.

Except for this next one. I know who's winning. I'm very interested to learn who wins the fantasy Travis Kelsey of the year award. Yeah. I don't know. He didn't win it last year. I will point that out. No, but this year, this year is different. It's like. Yeah, no, no doubt. So who's the fantasy tied into the year? Let's just get straight to it. Before we get to it, we've got to call the percentage. We've got to, I'm going to say, I'm going to say 92% of the vote. Oh, I'll go 80.

Oh, all right. 81. Oh, is this Price's right rules? Well, you can certainly. There it is. Drum rule, please. Oh, man. Price is right rules backfired. Travis Kelsey is shockingly the winner, but with only 71% of the vote. Darren Waller, Robert Tunyon, the other two nominees for this fantasy tight end of the year. Really? Waller had 22%. He was outstanding.

Time and time again. He would win you weeks, which is something that, I mean, that's what you're looking for from a fantasy tight end. And then Robert Tunyon with 5%. Obviously, we know Al Borland voted for Tunyon. But I didn't vote for him, but I enjoyed playing him as a Waver Wire pickup. By the way, Travis, Derek, your footies are in the mail. Oh, yes. Yeah. The fantasy quarterback of the year, last year, Lamar Jackson was the big winner. Same considerations here. Kyler Murray, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rogers, Justin Herbert.

I imagine this will be a tight race as well. I think it's going to be excellent. Who did you guys vote for? My vote was for Joshua. My vote was for the stallion. And I went Aaron Rogers. I get it. I get it. He was three picks or three quarterbacks later than Josh Allen. And Alan was the QB8 off the board. So very curious. I mean, don't get me wrong. I hope Josh Allen wins. But I think Aaron Rogers should win. All right.

quarter back of the year and it's not that close is Josh Allen the stallion excellent everything that Josh Allen does well I'm just so happy about yeah because you were you were pro I mean if the Foot Clan if you weren't listening or you weren't close during the draft season in that year

Josh Allen was co-wrapped on by all draft Twitter. I mean, you want to talk about the most hated, most known bust of all time it was Josh Allen. And here's Andy pretty much one of, you know, five people out there who was all in on Josh Allen. Love Josh Allen's talent. I definitely tip my cap to you, Andy, because you were right. And he had to spend the whole first season.

getting crapped on by Josh Allen. I did. Because he was so bad. I had to defend his completion percentage and talk more about his ability to help the team win. But now I don't have to defend that anymore, which is pretty cool. And he obviously ended the year absolutely on fire, including a week where I thought the 40-point first half Tom Brady was the better pick. And Josh Stanley was like, hey, look.

No. You thought Brady was better like an idiot. Yes, it was a horse joke. It was wonderful, Mike. It's spectacular. Josh, your footie is in the mail. Yes, right. All right. Let's get to some more. Does he need four? For his horse? For his hooves?

Ah, no, just let it go with. Just stick with the first horse joke, Mike. You don't wear, you don't wear these trophies on your feet. You put them like on a shelf. You're aware, we don't send two to all the humans so that they wear them on their feet, Mike. Gosh, you could have said does he need a saddle? I would have been on board with that. The saddle would have been okay. Man, even Michael Gallup hated that joke. All right.

Let's go to the breakout player of the year footy, which is quite self-explanatory there. Lamar won it last year. This year's nominees were Ridley, Metcalf, Will Fuller, and David Montgomery. I am curious about how this one will go, although I think Metcalf will win it. I voted Calvin Ridley. I think Metcalf will win it. I voted despite the suspension. Will Fuller. I'm not sure how he got there. I didn't know. I don't know if he legally.

got his breakout, but I voted for Will Fuller because that was, if you drafted Will Fuller and like the, what was that, the eighth or the ninth? Yeah, he didn't help you win a championship. Oh, he helped. I mean, my dynasty team was very happy for the playoffs. Yeah. I mean, look, he dropped you off and he left you there. Yeah. At least he brought you. All right. Who won?

It was indeed DK Metcalf with 36% of the vote. The runner up was Calvin Ridley with 29%. All right. Okay. That was pretty tight. My guy's in last place with 7% of the vote. All right. That makes sense. Well, it's funny, Mike. I actually was in our Dynasty League, you know, talking trades with different teams. And Will Fuller's name comes up. And the retort as to why the player didn't want Will Fuller was Pill Fuller. Because...

Not knowing whether or not the breakout had to do with, you know. That's fair. Steroids or whatever, performance and dancing drugs. Funny, I had to look it up because Jason's, you know, did he help you win a championship? And then you look at Will Fuller, or I'm sorry, D.K. Metcalf's like last eight weeks. He did not help you win a championship. No. That's fair. No, he basically was out with a suspension during that time as well. Rookie of the Year award.

A lot of nominees. Last year, AJ Brown won it. This year, I mean, James Robinson, Jonathan Taylor, Antonio Gibson, Justin Jefferson. Those are the big names to me, Justin Herbert as well. And then C.D. Lamb, Chase, Claypool, T. Higgins thrown in there for no good reason. If only Gibson didn't get hurt. Yeah, I mean, I feel like the rookie of the year belongs to James Robinson personally. And then I would go Jefferson second, Taylor third. That's fair.

But let's see what happens. Who's the winner? The winner is the man I voted for. Justin Jefferson with 42% of the vote runner up, James Robinson, with 30%. He did break the record for the most receiving yards by a rookie. Yeah. Worthy Victor. Worthy Fuddy Award winner. All right. The comeback player of the year, which fantasy player amazed you the most in their return to relevance?

Corey Davis, Rob Grankowski, Jimmy Graham, Alex Smith. This is a bad group of... This is the NFC East of Awards here. Who's the winner? Oh, good. It stays in the NFC East. Alex Smith gets the honorary footy. This award is ridiculous. Alex Smith did not start a game for anybody in fantasy. No, I love that he is the winner because...

He's deserving as a man, as a person. We're rooting for him. And Alex, your ridiculous foot is in the mail. That's right. People are voting with their hearts on this one. Yeah, he wasn't the fantasy comeback player of the year, but he's the comeback player of the year. Yeah. I don't know if he returned to any relevance, but whatever. All right. He's in the playoffs. It's about heart, man. I thought these are fantasy football awards. It says comeback player of the year. Okay. All right.

And then it says which fantasy player am I just, I think we just didn't have good nominees for this. This one should have been thrown out. I mean, if Jimmy Graham's nominated for something, that's a problem. That should be your red alert. Here's what happened, just so you know. Alex Smith won with 35% of the vote. That means 35% of the people looked at this list. Corey Davis, drunk, Jimmy Graham went, gross. I like Alex Smith. I'm going to root for him.

All right, the steal of the draft to footy, which player was the absolute best value in the 2020 draft compared to their average draft position? Lamar won this award last year. This year, a lot of great nominees. Calvin Ridley in the fourth, Metcalfe in the fourth, Gibson in the fifth, Montgomery in the fifth, Diggs in the sixth, Fuller in the sixth, Allen in the seventh and Rogers in the seventh round. And the winner is, my man.