Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Fantasy Risers, Questions & Answers

then Matt Jones is the guy and they're just going to let him go, which is insane. Alfred Morris is one of the most productive backs over the last three years. Yeah, but you just can't ignore spending a third round on a running back. I mean, they're clearly not doing that to happen. They lost Hulu, and so I wouldn't make too much of it yet, but keep an eye on it. They spent the second overall pick on a quarterback who they don't want to play. Yeah, fair. You just never know what to expect when coaches get desperate either.

So, all right, we're going to get into our talk about some risers we have. Guys are moving up the board. I want to remind you about one of the sites we use for mock drafting. If you listen to our last two shows, they were mock draft reviews. Got a lot of good feedback on those. We posted that mock draft on the website. Everybody loves it. Yeah, that's fun. We'll do more of those. We'll do one with some listeners coming up probably in a couple weeks. But if you want to mock draft and test out your position in the meantime, check out fantasy draft wizard.com. It's free.

It's free. It doesn't cost you anything. But you can practice. You can do about, what, 10 drafts in about 10 minutes if you wanted to. I love it. And they let you make cheat sheets on their stuff. We've been using it. Yeah, I mean, we want, see, here's a deal. We want people who listen to our podcast to win your league. We don't want to just entertain you. We want you to win. So our goal here is not just to give you good advice, but to give you good tools. Because there's just some things that...

There are things that we use that help us win championships, and you should use them too. And this is mock drafting. If that's not something that you actively participate in and you are listening to this podcast in the middle of the offseason, then get your life together and, you know, do that. Fantasydraft wizard.com. Unfortunately, brain-to-brain communication still does not exist, so I can't offer that yet.

Because I've had a few people, they've asked me. That'd be a good tool. Personal consultant? No, no. They actually want me to ESP beam my brain waves into their head. That'd be a dangerous, dangerous. Don't sign up. Then everyone would win and everyone would lose at the same time. Because you can't all be winners. Some of us. All right. Let's talk some guys that were moving up our board. One guy I really like, he's climbing my board because of opportunity, talent.

Supporting cast is Brashad Perryman rookie wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens. Some concerns that people had about him were drop-related, but he's coming into a situation where he can really thrive. Steve Smith's older. Perryman's got wheels, yo. Four to six wheels. I've seen better. Does he have sneaky value?

Could he? Could he come out and be one of those top, you know, we had the seven or eight guys last year that just blew the top off the league. Is that Perryman? I think he does have some value. When we're talking redraft, of course he has dynasty value. Mark Tressman over the last two years when he was the Bears head coach, 2014, over 600 attempts for smoking Jay Cuddy, 2013, 580. I mean, so his teams throw the ball.

And you're talking a guy who's 6-2, really fast like we were talking about, and runs in the 4-2s. Tori Smith, gone, 92 targets. Owen Daniels, gone, 79 targets. And as much as people can try and rally around Dennis Peta or Dosakis, Max Williams, you just, you can't bet on a rookie tight end. No. Even if he's in the...

the friendly offense, the friendly Tressman offense. So those targets have to go somewhere. They can't all go to Steve Smith. We saw what happened to him towards the end of the year. I still like Steve Smith to be a decent fantasy player, but he couldn't keep up what he was doing. It just wasn't possible, and he wore down, his fantasy value wore down. Bradshaw Perman's has to carry the load. If the Baltimore Ravens are going to have success this year, it's going to come on the back of this rookie.

Yeah, and all the knocks on Bashar Perman coming into the year were his drops, right? That was one of the big knocks. And then there wasn't a huge history for him. And so I went back and looked at his history to see, you know, what was his draft stock? Because, you know, I don't know what his draft stock was coming out of high school, right? You hear like Doriel Green back on. That carries over. And he was not highly recruited. And the reason why was because when he was a youth, keep in mind.

Yeah, his hairline is, he looks like a 43-year-old man. I, you know, look. I thought he was Greg Oden first time I saw him. Greg Oden disease. Actually, he has another real disease, guys, and that's not a joke, so show some respect. But, no, growing up. Not being too fast. No, Osgood Schlauter disease. Oh, really? Yes, real thing. Oh, now we're terrible. Breaking news. Yeah, no, you're terrible. Wow, dude. Yeah, so he grew up and he had Osgood Schlaughter disease is a true thing. What is it? It hurts your knees.

your joints and so he was in a ton of pain he actually took two years off from football during that time i think i know what that is actually yeah it's when you grow too fast right exactly right so it's because of growth spurts so it's not a long-term thing it's not something you have to worry about you know uh injury history from them

in the Robin Williams movie. Is he only 12 years old? No, but here's the point, listeners. We're getting distracted. The point was in high school, he took two years off. And during that time, right, because his father was an NFL player. He was groomed for this. He was doing aqua aerobics and, you know, was on special diets and things. And then he comes in. He really did look at his history, bro. Explodes in high school. And for his senior year, rolls his ankle and is out for that short.

football season. So he wasn't recruited that much. And then he goes to college and he has the case of the drops from terrible quarterback play. And my point in all of this is when you look at his specs, you look at his father as an NFL quarterback and you look at his opportunity going to a team where you are the bees knees. I mean, you're going to get your.

He's going to be on... He's going to be on... He's going to slaughter them. He's going to slaughter the league. 90%? Oh, man. It's going to awes good slaughter them. Where has this gone? By the way, if you'd like to order the life in times of Brashad Perryman by Jason Moore, it is available on our website, 2999. I'm writing them right now. But 11th round pick right now. 11th round ADP. He's a physical freak. That is going to go up.

No, actually. I know, but it's great. It was 13, and he moved up to 11. Yeah, he moved up, and right now he's holding steady. It's like the 52nd wide receiver off the board. So I think his values there. I think his talent is much higher rated than what people are saying for him. And the report out of camp right now from Joe Flacco is that he's madly in love with the dude. That's true. Did they go to Mad Max together? It's...

It's going to be Oz good for Prashad Parian. Okay, so we can confirm, though, that that had nothing to do with the hairline. No, that's open... You're really worried. Well, I haven't seen on the hairline. I was feeling like a terrible person. No, no. You can still go after the airline. Now on just 25% terrible. Right. Yeah, well, he's fast. So, all right, another guy that we just... Maybe that's what happened to it. The hairline went back. He's too fast. Oh, my goodness. Well...

We like Barshad Perryman as a value right now. Another guy, we've already talked about him two times, so we don't have to spend forever on him. I don't know, man. I got some good notes on. All right. Let's hear him. I want to hear him. So I knew Yeldon was on this list, and I've started to feel a little bit more confident in him. And then I was researching the Jaguars line. And they made some moves that I actually, I would admit, I forgot that these had happened because these were so long ago.

in the NFL scheme of things for us, which is a couple months ago. They signed from the Cowboys, Jeremy Parnell. He's taken over at Wright Tackle. They drafted AJ Can in the third round. AJ Can is an all-American guard who should take over at right guard. He's going to replace Zane Beatles. Brandon Linder, he graded out as a top 10 guard. Now, that leaves Luke Jockel.

can he recover? Yeah, because he had a bad, bad year. He was not good. So, but the upside, and they also signed, um, uh, Stefan Wisniewski, the center from the Raiders. Yep. So, and he's a, he's a decent player, but he grades out as, as a positive run blocker. When you add all that together, the upside of this O line is, that, that could be a really strong offensive line, especially for running and for all the targets for Alan Robinson on top of that.

But so I've, I like that you just threw that in. Did you, I don't know if the listeners saw the picture, but we unearthed the picture of Alan Robinson with his helmet off. And it is. It's scary. It is terrifying. People like that way more. The target monster. But it's, so the offensive line, and it has me feeling that, oh, crap, am I buying into a Jaguar guy again. There was once a very good Jaguar running back on a team that was very bad.

There was. And so, T.J. Yeldon, does he have that complete amount of talent to, and can that offensive line put it together? Yeah, I think what you need to have as an expectation going in, kind of talking how we did about the offense. Is it a good offense or even the team? Is it a good team? I don't see T.J. Yeldon as having the opportunity to be one of those rookies. You draft and you got a running back one.

But I do really see a good opportunity for him to finish as an RB2 because the offense probably isn't going to be good enough for him to have enough touchdowns and enough yards to be able to put up RB1 numbers. But I do think he's going to be the Belkow. You just brought up their offensive line. And he's going at the back end. I expect this to rise a little bit, but the back end of the seventh round. That's insane. Yeah. Yeah. That'll go up too. Yeah. So he's the 34th. I mean, here's guys going ahead of him. Doug Martin's going ahead of him.

Chris Ivory's going ahead of him. That doesn't even... Doug Martin. Yeah. Don't draft Doug Martin. Sorry. Okay. Melvin Gordon or T.J. Yeldon. Have you gotten that far? Ludicrous. No way. Melvin Gordon's way ahead of T.J. Yeldon to me. Good teams. Good teams. Yeah, that's one of the big differences. But I... It's closer than you think. It's definitely closer because pure volume for Yeldon on a team that wants to run like that and the unknown of kind of...

You know, you got Oliver and Woodhead mixed in with Gordon, and Gordon, you know, he's a home run hitter a little bit. So, closer than you think. It's a lot closer in my way. I might end up with Yelden on more of my teams than I would Gordon, even though I might have Gordon graded higher just from value. All right, let's talk about Sam Bradford because when the dust settled on the draft and everybody was all excited for that number two pick and do the Eagles go after Marriota. And the dust settled in San Bradford, still the quarterback of a prolific offense. Yeah. And an offensive mind.

in Chip Kelly who can do special things as long as his ACL stands together. So is Sam Bradford somebody that people need to move into that top 12? Yes. Oh, absolutely. I have him as a top 10 quarterback right now. And you're talking about a guy, Sam Bradford, the problem with him has always been injuries. It will continue to be injuries. That's the concern. Production should not be a concern. In 2013, with a not good Rams team, he was on pace.

for just under 4,000 yards, 32 touchdowns. He was throwing with 60% completion. Last year, you had Mark Sanchez, who everyone was really quick to get on him in the waiver wire, which, imagine that, right? You have Mark Sanchez, who was just garbage with his butt fumbling and his horrible throwing percentage in New York. He goes to the Eagles, takes over the job.

Everyone wants a piece of that as soon as Nick Foles goes down. But combined last year, Nick Foles and Mark Sanchez, four and a half thousand yards, 27 touchdowns. Now, I think Bradford can easily do that. And I think his touchdowns can go up if he's able to play the whole year. That's the big question. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. And that's one of the things that I love about Sam Bradford, why I like him so much. His health, everyone says, well, if he's healthy.

That doesn't matter. You're drafting him in the 11th round. You're drafting him in the 12th round. So if he gets injured, go get another guy. I mean, drop him and get another guy. But while he's playing, he's fantastic. And honestly, so I, you know, admittedly, even though we're in the NFC West as fans of the Cardinals, I feel like I have not sat and watched ram game after ram game, forgive me.

And so I went and I looked at every pass that Sam Bradford has ever thrown over 15 yards. And there's a highlight. Eight of those? No. There's like a 40-minute video you can watch on YouTube. And you can see these. And I was blown away, blown away by the...