Mock Draft MAYHEM! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/21

I mean, it was like, what are you talking about? Because that would be the going. That's not the going rate. That's the best quarterback in the league rate. Which at this point, that would be the going rate. He is not. Oh, I agree. He's just not in the tier. Like if he was, if he was not the best, but he's like a top five, top six guy, he is no one, including him, can possibly think you're in the elite of the elites. This ain't Dubai chocolate. This is the.

The Hershey Bar. You can't pay the same price. The Texans are in a really bad spot. So are the Panthers. Because it's like, okay, let's say Stroud hits free agency. He does make that money. He makes that money. No way. Yes, he does. Yes, he does. Yeah, I think we got to remember. Yes, he does. You got to remember the big picture with Strout. Like, I mean, Herbert had a horrific playoffs.

I mean, Stroud had a horrific, so did Herbert. Like, Struts had about two years in a row. Sort of. I mean, it's been up and down. There have been games. I don't think he's worth that money. I'm just saying he will get it. But you're just, you're, if with franchise quarterback. This is Tampa with Baker, too. You're hamstrung. Like you, I think he would, but anyways. So. Wow, Mahomes is 63 a year. He won 70. Stroud. Slow your role, man. Just to even want to. I mean, he's negotiating. That's the starting point. Yeah. Okay. So this is, you know, you know.

ADP-wise, it actually, I'm at the turn, so if there's guys I want, I have to take them. So the truth is at this first pick, even with everybody who's on the board, I would be selecting Ken Bone Walker. I knew you were going to say it. Go for it. Excellent. Ken Walker locked in for Mike. So ADP-wise, it's early, but I prefer him over Barclay, Genty, H. Ann, Hampton. So it just kind of, it.

It is what it is at this point. I could see this happening when push comes to shove towards real drafts, people making that same decision that they see that there's a lot more security there than there is on some of these other, you know, like the A Chan and Genti picks where you know you're on a bad team. Right. You know you're on a good team here and he's going to get all the work. And then I would, if the pick is mine, I will be following that up with I like the

At the turn here, I want to try and get the two elite running backs. So I would be drafting. Yeah? Who would you be drafting? Dang it. Who would you be drafting? Chase Brown. So, Mike, you would think I would want to mayhem you here. No, I have no idea what you want to do. But, in fact, I am. Mayhem. Wait, I feel like you said one thing and you did a different thing. Yeah, I mean, that's all I can do here. I'm not even drafting. This is my entire experience. I'm going to give Jason.

The power here. Oh. I'm going to let Jason select your pick. This is really early for Metcalf. My goodness. I, and so we'll decide what Jason has to do. Medcaf? No, I'm not going to make up here. No, that's, that's the joke. No, I think it's an easy pick to give you here. It's slightly above ADP, but I've, I've been saying I have no problem taking this player. Slightly above 80P? Okay.

Cool. That sounds like lowercase mayhem. Yeah, well, I mean, look, it's my choice. I'm going to be kind. It is your choice. Best friend of Mike. Now I feel like I got to be rude. Oh, you're good. I was going to give him Brock Bowers here. Oh, my gosh. Force him into seeing what it's like to have no wide receiver going into the third round. I think Brock Bowers deserves to go here. Oh, that's a great reason to make him the pick. Yeah. So I will, I will give you D.K. Metcalf final answer.

Oh. So. Idiot. Oh. Eat dirt. Oh. Is this really what we're doing? Oh, man. I can't even find him. Hold on. Scroll down. There's a search bar. You just type D.K. Mike. Kaff. Ah, you really tricked me, Jay. Honestly, I was going to get Brock Bow. All right. So the 83 of 76 and a half, you're making me take this guy? Blame me, Andy. I was going to give you Brock. Fine. He thought it was a lowercase maim.

Yeah, I'll be honest. I thought I was maybe going to use my choice here and give him Jacobs because I know he's like out on Jacobs and that would be earned for him. There were plenty of guys that I would have been like, dude, that sucks. This is. And it still makes sense for a draft. Looking at your team with Ken Walker and D.K. Metcalf is the first two picks is really a delight. Because I think, you know, one guy you love more than life itself and the other guy is D.K. Metcalfe.

All right. Whatever. Well, listen. Get ready to draft a kicker in a league. You can't even use them. Just remember, you have an opponent's choice left to use. You'll get the chance. I know. I know. And I guess we're going, we're going low. We'll just see how you recover. Chase Brown, Sequin Barclay, Ashton, Gentie, and Devon A-chan off the board, Jason with Malik Neighbors in the first round. You are up next. So.

Sitting here is a crazy value on Justin Jefferson. You know, when you're at that like nine spot in the first round, you start going, man, this is where you should be taking Justin Jefferson. I just realized he wasn't drafted. Yeah, but it's, it's, oh, because Metcalf went in the second. You took him over Jefferson? Anyways, Justin Jefferson. Honestly.

It might be the right pick. Well, I'm not taking Justin Jefferson here either. If it is my choice, I would actually be going. So I'm between two players here. Amarian Hampton. Walker and Chase Brown would have been so awesome. I absolutely love Omarian Hampton, pairing him with Malik neighbors. I'd be happy with that. And then if I go wide receiver, I'm actually taking AJ Brown, who I think is, you know, you've got the sandwich of AJ Brown and Justin Jefferson.

Drake London, those three kind of always go real near each other. And I just look at like, do you want a good quarterback or a bad quarterback? Do you want a good offense or a bad offense? And they're all three great players. So here I'm going to, I'm going to take AJ Brown if the choice is mine and start wide receiver, wide receiver. Yeah, yeah, that's always smart to doing a mayhem when you might not get to.

Draft a running back for a while. AJ Brown and Malik neighbors back to back. Made with steak. Antin at the 207. Brock Bowers, Justin Jefferson. And by the way, the mayhem mock draft among many things, it's entertaining. But it's also a lesson in, you know, we've all been there in the draft and there's a panic pick or a mistake or you don't realize something that you're doing. Or a guy gets injured in preseason and you lose an entire, you know, D.K. Metcalf, your second round pick, whoever you grabbed.

You don't get him this year. So this is a training exercise. This is an opportunity for these guys to try to rebuild the rosters from the mayhem because it happens in your draft. Hampton goes at 207. Bowers, I thought you might take him, Jay. Jefferson, Henry, London, and Josh Jacobs goes at the 212. Colson Loveland starting off the third round. Above Trey McBride. I don't mind it at all. Oh, I mind it a lot. I don't.

I'm actually, I'm more on the side now where, like, I realize, like, Colson Loveland, there's a vulnerability to drafting him there. Like, he is far from a guarantee as much as I love him and think he'll do well. He's far from a guarantee. He has to do so much. And he can't. I'm not saying he can't, but he has to do so much to get to what Trey McBride has, is already. Trey McBride broke the record for receptions. He didn't. And he had, what, three or four?

games worth of extra routes. That won't happen again. I mean, but did you see the year before? He was really good, too. Oh, yeah. He will be really good. But I'm saying, like, I think it's, I think Loveland and McBride are going to be very close at the end of the year. Loveland, Alan, Jeremiah Love goes in the third. Nico Collins. Kyron Williams and Trey McBride, Jason, you are back on the clock. Lots of good players here in the middle of the third round.

George Pickens, another great wide receiver. If I wanted to go start my draft with three wide receivers, which is that can work if this is a full PPR, three wide receiver league. This is not. So I probably want to look at the running back position. You've got guys I like Cam Scataboo that I'm afraid of. I'm very afraid of right now with the new coaching staff and bringing in Najee players I don't like at ADP.

like Travis H. Ann Jr. talked about him yesterday. I would be between Breece Hall and Giovante Williams. I think both players are exciting for opposite reasons. Do you want the great offense or do you want the electric player? I'm going to take the great offense. If it's my pick, I would take Giovante Williams here running back. Yeah, go for it. All right. Giovante Williams off the board at 307 neighbors, A.J. Brown, J.

That brings what I think is a deal on Chris Oliva or close to it. Major deal, yeah. And then Devante Smith and George Pickens, three straight wide receivers here. Oh, man. In the third round. And Abuka goes off the board. Is that who you were targeting, Mike? I just flipped over to look at my rankings and it was like, holy crap, George in the third? Yeah, but you didn't have. You almost. Almost. Almost got there. Even with Metcalf kicking him back a spot, it wasn't enough. Pippin's still out there.

Steeler's Superstack? Mike, you are on the clock here. You got the back-to-back picks. Where do you want to go with your third round selection here at 312? So the top of the ADP for running backs, you got Breece Hall, Scataboo. So those guys are still there, I guess, because it was a full wide receiver run. Wide receiver, receive Rice. Still sitting there. Oh, man.

Is it, let me ask the question. At a point, like at the back of the third or even the top of the fourth, Rishie Rice feels like a very strong pick. But so then it's Tedaroa McMillan, T. Higgins, Ladd-McConkey, Zay Flowers. So I guess with this first pick, man, I mean, just double check my case. I'll give you a thought process here. If I'm picking, I would take rice. Go ahead and grab him. All right. Rice is a real.

He may be the most facts versus feeling situation going on in fantasy football. Correct. Where, like, Cyrus Allen's getting all the, like, publicity for being the... Oh, Rice is getting publicity. For being slow and looking bad. Yeah, so it's just like the... You're strapped in practice. It's, yeah, it's just not great. Walker, Metcalf, Rashi Rice, Mike, to start your draft, you... Yeah, and going, and like, I have Walker.

So, I mean, I'm loaded on the Chiefs now with two of my first three picks, but I won't waste your time. Okay. I won't waste your time. But I was going to say, if that stack with that value, assuming I didn't have D.K. McHaff with my second round pick, it would feel, I'd feel perfectly fine with it. Well, in this case, I'm going to let you, I'm going to let you reach for a pick? Reach for a pick at the 401. You're just in a tough spot. It's like if I don't mayhem you now, I got to wait until a long time.

Yeah. So you need to pick somebody, uh, ADP 57 or later. 57 or later. Darn it. Oh my goodness. Yeah. So you have, uh, you have some choices, Mike. Yeah, you've got some good choices there. Yeah. Oh, so Luther Byrne narrowly does not make the cut. But Bayshall Tootin is there? So James, Adams, Mike Evans are kind of the, um, no Tootin. Well, I'm saying those are the wide receivers. Oh, I got you. No. Bachel Tootin is 100% going to be the.

pick. Yeah, Bayshall-Tooten is the pick. Okay, yeah, the Bayshall-Tuton sentiment this off-season has been mostly positive with a little bit of curiosity around the committee situation. I think Tudan himself will be a great player when he's on the field. It is just a matter of does he get the high-value touches? Does he catch enough passes? You do have... He has high upside. I don't know if we mentioned it, and I, that LeQuint Allen got hurt.

Oh, yeah, I didn't. Who, like, Le Quentin Allen, you know, in the, what we've been's been reported, he got, he's been taking third down, which we've talked about third down is not everything, but I would rather have my running back on the field for three downs for three opportunities. Is he missing the rest of the training camp or something like that? Let's double check that. I just, I remembered off the top of my head that he did, he got hurt. But also, the reports on Tutin just remain.

Glow. Very strong about the talent of the player. You know, big and very fast. So I'm just, I'm still in on Tootin accepting the risk that he does come with. He's not a surefire bet by any means, but if he hits, it's going to be incredible. All right. So, Mike, you have two Chiefs, Walker and Rice, and then Metcalf and Tootin through four rounds. Jason, you have neighbors, A.J. Brown, Giovante Williams. After the Tootin pick, it was Waddle.

H.N. Jr. McCanky. I like that. And then Garrett Wilson, goodness gracious. Yeah, McConkey and Wilson. How are McConkey and Wilson going at 404-405? Well, the running backs were really taken those first couple of rounds. But since all these wide receivers just went on my turn, I was between Giovante Williams and Brees Hall, obviously here having one running back, two wide receivers. If the pick was mine, I would select Brees Hall. What do you think, Mike?