Fantasy Draft Redo + TNF Preview, Buy or Sell - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/13

We're just redrafting. I want to make the better picks than you. Okay. Well, Mike, you are up and I'm curious because it's two people that I'm looking at here. Oh, that's who you would take a number four here? Yeah. I mean, I guess I'm happy with whoever you leave me. I'm not taking a running back. Okay. I'm not taking a wide receiver. Really? I would take Travis Kelsey here. Before. I think he is. I mean, in the draft season, to me, Travis Kelsey was, I had no problem if you wanted to take him.

105, 106. To me, he has moved up in value. I know he had the one down game in week four, but he's just, he is a consistent force at a position that is hard to find that. And he has upside each and every single week. Week winning upside at a position that doesn't carry that. And I'll find some value at the running back wide receiver later. Travis Kelsey to me is a foundational player.

I like how you say he only had one down week two weeks ago when he was the tight end 25. Last week he was only the tight in six, Mike. I mean, that is so low for Travis Kelsey, almost embarrassing. Well, to me, this pick, I would have stayed at running back, and Echler and Elliott are the two that I'm looking at. There's lightning, I guess kind of literally, in a bottle in Los Angeles right now with Staley and what they've captured on offense. Like they...

They're going to be a top five offense this year each and every week, and Echler represents such a big part of that. There's an argument to be made that he should be viewed more similar to Christian McCaffrey than I think people are even... I thought for Jason's pick, I would not have cared. If he wanted a running back and you wanted to go Austin Eccler over Delville Cook, I don't think that's egregious.

But there is more, there's injury risk there with Echler. And so I'm going to go Ezekiel Elliott. I think you have a similar argument, right? The offense is outstanding. They're in a division that's very vulnerable. We've seen that Washington's defense doesn't really exist. And Zika has proven himself so far this year. The team is willing. He looks fantastic. Teams willing to turn the ball over to the running game if they need to. And so I will go Ezekiel Elliott at the fifth pick, stay in running bay.

Yeah, I would have gone Zeke over Kelsey, I would have gone Zeke over Echler, and I would have gone Zeke over Camara personally. For me going forward, it's a shame that, you know, if we were going in a week six, this guy is on by week, but nobody has theirs past, so you've got to suck it up at some point. I would still personally take Alvin Camara ahead of...

Austin Echler, and that's not a slight on Echler. It's more remembering how good Alvin Camara is. I realize that he had no targets. Two weeks ago had a down game, and there's a lot of question marks around the Saints team, around the Saints' offense.

But getting Michael Thomas back, which is about to happen, I think is going to be great for Camara. It's not like Camara has been out here on an otherworldly target pace while Thomas is out. And once Thomas comes in, he's not going to have that. It's just been...

This offense needs a wide receiver one to be able to consistently in every matchup move the ball. I think the Saints become a better team, James, a better quarterback, and Camara Moore's scoring opportunity. So he would be my pick at number six. Mike? All right. So at this point, I am considering what I take a wide receiver here. Maybe it's just, you know, recancy bias, but the running back injuries.

have been fast and furious this year. Not that wide receivers are immune, of course. But I'm not going to go at the wide receiver. I'm going to take Najee Harris here. He's been great on the field. He's been consistent, aside from week one, which was a match against the Buffalo Bills. And now with Juju Smith-Schuster's injury, you could see far more targets, or even more targets going to Najee Harris. So he feels like an extremely safe.

running back pick aside from injury where he, you know, he had the cramps. He had the little calf cramps. Yeah, you freaked out about the craft. Oh, we were watching and it looked like he pulled. Because, yeah, if you watch the sequence of events, Najee, you saw he tweaked something and he starts stretching on the field and you're like, what's going on here? And then Najee says, no, I'm not going off the field. I'm going to play through it. I'm going to play through. And then he runs not a wheel.

I'm not exactly sure what you call the route where the running back fakes like they're going to go out and they hook back into the center. And he slips, he stumbles, and he goes down. And it was like, holy crap, man. You just, you just tweaked your leg and now you plant it and you went down. So it was, that was a frightening few moments. He was smiling the whole time. You just got scared. He was not smiling the whole time. No, he was so happy.

He knew, ah, that's one of those friendly, friendly, friendly, friendly, friendly. So you're taking Najee, thank you. I am. I'll take Austin Eccler. Right now, the top 10 running backs in half PPR, Henry Echler, Elliott, Patterson, Hunt, Najee, Aaron Jones, Nick Chub, Alvin, Camar, James Robinson. I want, the only reason that I would take him over Najee, which is a great pick.

It is because I love the offense. I have confidence in the quarterback. They have confidence in the offensive system. You don't have the confidence in the Steelers. No, but I do think the Steelers are going to be better. I really do. They showed some signs last week. It could be one week, but the offensive line, they got their stuff together last week. So Austin Eckler, though, is if he's active, he's immune to a bad game. He really is. He's five plus targets. He doesn't, I mean, he's the number two running back in fantasy football right now. He's had one game over like,

60 yards rushing. He's just automatic and this team is going to score a ton. Their defense doesn't seem formidable enough to where they're not going to be in a lot of these shootouts. So Echler is an easy pick. Yeah, and I did not think it would take all the way until pick nine before we got a wide receiver. But I understand when you're fighting for these running backs, that being said, I don't know if you guys realize what Devante Adams has been doing. His depth of target leads.

you know, the NFL at the same time, he is the target leader? Like, those two things, they're incredible. He's on pace. He's on pace for only 6.8 touchdowns, but he's on pace for 207 targets, 142 receptions, and 1968 yards. I thought about taking him. So, DeMonte Adams is welcomed on my roster. Yeah, he and the touchdowns will come.

Yes, of course. They always do for him. Mike, you are back up at pick 10 here. By the way, top 10 wide receivers so far as you're thinking, I'll read these off. In half PPR leagues, Mike Williams is number one, Cooper Cut number two, Tyreek is three right now, Debo, number four. Devante Adams is five, Hollywood Brown is six, Jamar Chase is seven, Justin Jefferson is eight, DJ Moore, nine, DK MacKF, 10. Man. So. I can't wait to see where Mike

Williams goes. Honestly, that's the hard part right here is it's five weeks. It's not like it's just back to back. Oh, he had incredible weeks. No, this is five weeks. One of them was an absolute turd, but it's four weeks. The passing game. Well, everyone has a down game. Tyreek has already had two really down games. Or, you know, for Tyreek. Man. But.

Between the wider. This was your draft. If this were my draft, if this were my draft, I would take, let me look at my list real quick, make sure, I would take Henderson. Really? I would take Daryl Henderson. I think, I think Daryl Henderson is about to turn into a week, or a league winning running back. So you're taking Daryl Henderson at 10. Yes. I think that the volume is there. The Rams offense is sensational. People don't.

Like Henderson hasn't fully exploded, but I think that he is about to take off. Wow. I personally have six more running backs ahead of him. So this is, I would say the first surprise. Obviously, if he does get the workload and the offense keeps chugging, that's great. Well, if he can sustain that workload, it seems like every time they give him the ball a lot, he just, he has to leave the field because he's hurt. He's a little heart guy.

I will go with... We've already drafted two injured running backs, Jason. Well, yeah, but I mean, the upside of Daryl Henderson is not near the upside of Christian McCaffrey. I'll go with Aaron Jones at 11. Aaron Jones running back for the Packers. Yeah. Okay. People are freaked out about Aaron Jones. Well, Aaron Jones is going to do what he always does, which is disappear for a week here or a week there, and then he's going to score four touchdowns in a game or five touchdowns in a game.

And so I'm still going to turn to the running back position here with Aaron Jones. Yeah, I don't blame you. I like Aaron Jones. I'm not afraid of him. I think that the Packers offense is going to be good. I'm going to go back to wide receiver and take Tyree Kill. Those two guys, Devante Adams, Tyree Kill, they're not one and two right now through five weeks, but they've done absolutely everything you wanted to see out of them. And over the course of the season, by the end of the year, if every wide receiver is healthy, they'll be the number one and number two wide receivers.

All right, Mike, you are back up. Pick 13 here. Where are you thinking? At the wide receiver, it's between a few guys. They are so close. You still have Stefan Diggs, Mike Evans, DeAndre Hopkins. These are players not in the top 10 right now. Yeah, that is true. But I'm going to take, oh, man, would I actually take him there? And I think I would. I would take Justin Jefferson right here.

He's been sensational the last month. I like the pick. Week one was a very down pick or down week for Justin Jefferson. But he has been, while the Vikings are struggling the last two weeks, it hasn't stopped Justin Jefferson. And so if the Vikings' offense kicks back into gear, I think that Justin Jefferson can easily finish as a top five guy. I completely agree with you. He is. It's his multi-year.

Multi-year consistency as well. 70.6% of his games, he exceeds 10.5 points and half PPR last four weeks. I mean, he had a number 18 finish with no touchdowns last week just because the yardage is there. He's going to compete for that yardage total leader at the end of the season. And I didn't, you know, I don't want to like just dump on Adam Thielen here. But the last couple weeks, this is.

This is more of what I expected from Adam Thielen, that he'll have his flash games here there because he's not bad, but he is getting older, and Justin Jefferson is fresh and ready to go and be the number one guy. I will take, I'm up, right? That is correct. I'll take DeAndre Swift. Okay, I like it. Running back for the Detroit Lions, bounceback week again last week, finished at 13, which means you now have like.

You know, two top six weeks. You have a top 24 week that he got hurt in. And then he bounces back. You know, he had a bad game against Chicago. But, you know, he's going to get, what, six plus targets almost every single game. So I will go with Swift. And the running back league winning upside. I see him very similar to Daryl Henderson in terms of upside. Yeah, this is where it gets really, really interesting to me. There's a couple of running backs out here. Obviously, you've got Nick Chub, Sequin Barkley.

Jonathan Taylor. Joe Mixin, Jonathan Taylor, a lot of great running backs available. And at wide receiver, you have these unfathomably great question marks. Your Cooper Cup, your Mike Williams, your Debo Samuels, your guys that are like. Jamar Chase. Would I, right, Jamar Chase, would I take these guys this high? I would even throw DJ Moore in there. A lot of great options.

All that being said, I think that I don't like having this player on my roster so far he's had three great weeks. Wait, you're going to draft someone who you don't like on your roster?

I don't enjoy him on my roster, but I think this is where he slots in. And this is, so you'll see. I'm going to take Nick Chub because I think Nick Chub deserves to be there. I think at the end of the year, Nick Chub will be a top 10 running back. Okay. I don't like having him on my personal roster because you've seen it so far, the weeks where he hasn't got a touchdown. He's been great all of the weeks, like on the field. But they're not in fantasy. In fantasy, you know, two down weeks, but Nick Chubb's just been.