Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Mock Draft Episode! + Importance of SOS and Tiers

A positive regression. Only one last year, despite pretty productive numbers and dealing with injuries. I don't want to go Jack Doyle and have another pass catcher on the Colts to deal with. All the Colts, baby. It is a D. Now, that being said, Kareem Hunt is on the board. High upside Cream Hunt. I lean Hunt over Ebron here, and I would wait and just take another tight in. I do too, because if we lose Ebron, I don't really care. If we lose Kareem Hunt, I think we miss out on a huge...

home run hitting, running back in a standard league. So I'm always willing to miss out on the tight end, should we lose them. And we didn't. Kareem Hunt, we took with the fourth pick of the 10th round. Saw some big names going off the board here in the 10th. Stefan Diggs, Corey Coleman. A lot of upside for Coleman this year. Pierre Garcin, who should be the one for Hoyer in San Francisco. Terrence West, great value. I looked at him a little bit. He didn't seem like a good pick for us, but Terrence West, second pick of the 11th round.

And then you have James White going off in the 11th round. Johnny Brown. And John Brown. Yeah, that's a great, that's a great option here. But I want to throw this out because I have not been unhappy with our team. I look at our team. I think it's really a good team. And I don't have like major regrets for the Andrew Luck pick. But sitting here where we're at, Dak Prescott is on the board who I've got, you know,

Too high. Sure, you can say I've got too high, but for my rankings, he is not that far away from Andrew Luck. And if you say, hey, we can have a fifth round pick back, add to the team and have DAC, I would rather go that direction. I'm just saying when I say I wouldn't have drafted Andrew Luck in real life, this is why. The reason why is because of what options are still available super late. And if you don't love DAC,

Philip Rivers is still there. Andy Dalton is still there. None of. Those guys are another extra. Have the same, if you have the same conversation about Dak Prescott with Aaron Rogers, it's just, I understand. You don't think luck is Aaron Rogers. Yeah, that's the difference. But to say you'd be happy with Dak, that's totally fine. I get it. And I think that illustrates it. I wouldn't be, but maybe I would be if you gave me the fifth round pickback and had a different name. So.

I think that's why you mock. Like you said, that's why you take a look and you see, hey, am I happier with luck or DAC plus that player? Eric Ebron is still on the board here in the back of the 11th. I think he should be the pick at this point. High upside there. Are you guys okay with that? Yeah. All right. We'll take Eric Ebron, which leaves us with just one bench flyer spot left in this standard mock draft, guys. Joe Williams, very interesting option there. You still have Jordan Matthews, Mike Wallace.

Bashad Perryman, Josh Doxon? Yeah, I think we were talking about arguing for Terrell Pryor earlier in the draft. We ended up going with Sammy Watkins. And I think that prior likely will be, you know, the one, the wide receiver won fantasy output for Washington. But if it's Josh Doxon at the end of the season, that's not a shocking turn of events.

while he's going at the very end of drafts. So I love with last pick, second to last pick, throwing Josh Doxon on my bench. Usually I want those swing for the fences high, you know, the Josh Doction, the home run hitter opportunity, the slate in your draft. However, sometimes I look at my roster and I go, is that what I need? I feel like because we've got...

because we've got three volatile wide receivers with injury histories in Sammy Watkins and Dante Moncrief and Martavis Bryant. We didn't get Martavis. Oh, we didn't grab Bryant? No. We should have grabbed Bryant. This is. We couldn't because he was drafted. We still should have. I remember that. He was drafted by a different team. So it made it harder. The guy I want to throw out, though, is Mike Wallace because he's not the home run chance of a top 10 guy. But what is?

What is Josh Doxon's upside to you? Do you believe this year? Do you think he's like, Josh Doxon is going to be a, if he hits, is he going to be a top 18 guy? If he hits, he's top 15. It doesn't matter because this is the last, we're not dropping Kareem Hunt week one, Willie Sneed week one, Derek Henry week one, or Moncrief week one. So who's got the best chance of surprising you because you're going to need to drop a guy? That's a good point. So if Josh Doxon goes off week one, you found something. Mike Wallace.

I think we agree at this point in his career. You probably know what you have. Yeah. So even if Mike Wallace goes off week one, it doesn't change his perceived value. Whereas you might be able to trade Doxon right away or you end up making a move because you feel you have something with Doxin so you can ship off Sneed or Moncrief or somebody. Trust me, I had Mike Wallace last year and he went off. And nobody wanted it. And no one wanted Mike Wallace. It's true.

So if you're all right, I'm going to go Josh Doxton on the final home run hitter pick. You okay with that? I am okay with that. If we only wanted home run hitter possible drop, I might have gone Joe Williams, but that's... Sure. That's fine. Yeah, I think all those guys qualify. So we'll grab the Panthers defense, and we'll swing around here and grab Dan Bailey. And that rounds out our roster. And that's about how fast you should pick your kicker.

That is exactly right. So you guys, Mike, why don't you run back this team that you see on the screen right there. All right. In the current starting roster, we have Andrew Luck, Devante Freeman. That list is now gone from what I was looking at. All right. Andrew Luck, Devante Freeman, DeMarco Murray, DeMarie Thomas, Sammy Watkins, Eric Ebron, Mike Gillisley, in the flex. Then on our bench, you have the baseman, Dante Moncrief, Derek Henry.

Willie Sneed, Kareem Hunt, and Josh Doxon. All right. Well, uh, that does it for today's draft. I must say I find that delightful. Delightful. That's right. Um, standard mock draft. We will, uh, if you want to watch this on YouTube, you can go to our YouTube channel. You'd be able to see the mock draft draft draft. You'd be able to see the mock draft. We use, we use Fantasydraftwizard.com to mock draft frequently. You can experiment with different.

position availability. So three, four wide receivers in a league. You can put in your league format. We're going to do a two-quarterback mock later on this summer. So if you're in a league with a super flex or an extra quarterback position, we're going to have the opportunity to look at that. I'm sure we'll do another PPR mock at some point as well and take a look at how players have adjusted, how players are reacting to guys like Joe Mixing. Or if some other players start to break into the, you know. Yeah, Mixing and P. Ryan could.

move up rapidly. I think you're going to see possibly the shakeout of the New England backfield effect ADP quite a bit. Yeah. It's another thing I'll be looking for. The health of somebody like Josh Doxon may affect how he's being drafted and obviously a lot of other players. So I know I was referencing my 2017 cheat sheet from the Ultimate Draft Kit as we did this mock draft. So you can check that out at ultimate draft kit.com. That comes out on Thursday. It will be...

available on Thursday and update it all offseason long. So that means this is your last chance to pre-order it, your last chance to get it at the cheapest possible price. What do you guys think of this team? Are you happy? Yeah, I am happy. I like the team top to bottom. I think we've got, you know, reliable starters, high upside depth where you could end up, you know, hitting a complete home run. We've got Andy's man crush of the year and Andrew Luck.

Which is rare for us to have. Hey, 509. I'm okay. My man crushing Eric Ebron. Sorry, don't at me. And then, you know, I do. I think this is a really good team. All right. Well, we'd love to have. I just wish we had Martavis Bryant. I told you. Can we still, can we draft them now? Who did we take over him? Is he available? We took Abdullah? No, we didn't. I don't. I don't even remember. No, we took Derek Henry.

Yeah, that's what it was. Because of Brooks, so it's his fault. What I was going to say is if you have thoughts on this pick, tweet us at the FF Ballers. Let us know what you think, maybe where you would have gone differently, maybe a gif of you applauding the beautiful job we did, the quantity of D names on our roster, etc. Comment now on the website through the forum system for all of our...

articles and podcasts. So check that out. Click the forum tab on the fantasy footballers.com. We're always on there. Yeah. With people. Absolutely. So we will get into the mailbag a little bit on Thursday and some news and I'm sure some fun segments on there as well. So thanks for tuning in to the fantasy footballers. And we'll be back on Thursday. Thanks for listening. Check out fantasyjacks.com. If you need a trophy or a ring, our promo code is footballers. We'll see you soon. Goodbye.

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