Head-to-Head-to-Head PPR Mock Draft Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 7/16

Imagine getting Aaron Rogers' number one target this late in the draft. Right. I think maybe for the comedic effect, I'll start with Lizard there. And then see if I get Russell Gage on the way back. I don't think I will. Melvin Gordon was a little tempting there as well because he has some upside and it's interesting. Like if Javante did get hurt, like he's a committee back, Gordon. He's not a full peer backup. And then, you know, when you get a committee back,

in a system where we like Russell Wilson and what they're going to do on offense, and then Giovante gets banged up, or we're wrong about the split. There was some upside there, but I didn't win the gamble. Russell Gage ended up going in the top of the 10th, James Robinson, Christian Kirk, Ramandre Stevenson. It's back to me. At the running back position, it is kind of gross. And then at wide receiver, there are some interesting names, somebody like Gallup that you could wait on.

MVS, you know, let's do it. Let's take MVS. You're taking both my guys? I'm going to take the... Let's go! I'm going to take both players because they are the...

actual different choices is Jason. Jason went with Watson and with Juju. I'm going to go Lazard and MVS because at this point in the draft, I'm going to flip that coin. I'm going to see what happens. I like it. I think it's the strategy that you should take. I would be just as happy to take Lazard and MVS. We don't have a crystal ball as to who's going to come out of these nebulous wide receiver cores, but we know it's a great quarterback. We know there's going to be value there. So call your shot, grab one of them, whoever you like the best or whoever.

is left, and I think you should leave your draft with one of those, you know, four guys, and then it'll be Skymore. Right, right. Mike, you're on the clock. Trey Lance is on your team, you lucky, lucky man. Yep. What are you doing now? I mean, we're still searching for upside, so I'm going to take a sophomore wide receiver who in his rookie year had a game of 10 for 189 against the Dallas Cowboys. They have cleaned house. We've recently talked about that.

But the New York Giants, like, whatever happened last year, they will be better this year. They could pass a ton more with Dable as the head coach here. So I'm going to take Cadarious Tony. I'm going to take youth. I get all the arguments. Gallaudet could return to form and be the guy and earn that contract. But Tony has that Tyree Kill quick twitch ability, and he could emerge as the number one for this team.

All right. Jason, you're back on the clock here in the 10th round. The first pick is easy for me. There was a player that I was targeting almost from the last pick. I did not go with Darnell Mooney when I was close to taking him earlier. And I don't want two bears, but I want those two shots at massive volume. So I am going to take. This is a Cole Commet pick. I dig it. I dig it.

is going to be a very high volume tied in. He doesn't project to have a ton of touchdowns, but in the PPR league, you know, he's, to me, it's like, Cole, how different is he than Zach Kurtz? Obviously, a better quarterback situation, but he's kind of just going to be a volume guy and you can get him really late. And he's actually young and getting better. Yeah, I mean, he will not score. That is clear, but he might catch the ball.

in the middle of the field. So did you guys see the comments from Fryermuth on his goals, by the way, who went right before Komet? I did not. He said his goal is 800, 900 yards this year, and he called his own average yards per catch atrocious at 8.3, which, Big Ben. Yeah. So it could be a little bit more interesting for Frymuth. And if they do indeed, do what I said earlier about Deonti, kind of build this offense a little bit, spread the targets out a little bit more.

because your dependency on Deonte has to go away after this year, if they don't resign them, which it doesn't seem like they will, then Frymeuth could have more upside than we think.

Yeah. So I've got two picks left, two positional players. There are a couple of wide receivers. Two wide receivers, I think, could both make it back to me at the very end of this draft. That would be the 12-11. So I'm going to bypass wide receiver here. I only have three running backs granted their Chris McCaffrey and Aaron Jones at the top. So I'm fine with that. Both super injury prone running backs. That is potentially true. Our quick question of the day was, do you take a complete insurance back? I don't. This guy is.

Maybe seen that way, but I think that's a mistake. I'm actually going to take Isaiah Spiller, rookie running back for the Chargers great offense. If you look at how they've used Austin Echler over the last couple years, there's always someone else. There's other people. The other people just suck. Well, maybe Isaiah Spiller doesn't. He's the big bodied guy, so maybe he's used around the goal line. I think there's a chance that he gets fantasy points with Austin Echler actually active.

And then obviously there is the upside in the offense should something happen there. Mike, you're back on the clock. Now you took Trey Lans in the 9th. Would you have considered Kirk Cousins in the 11th as a, you know, almost the inverse of what we talked about, where you end up with Trey Lance, but you don't know what that story is going to be. I know we like Kirk Cousins. Yeah, I would have been okay with it. You know, nice to kind of get to complete the stack with Justin Jefferson. So I would have been okay with it, but I just.

Well, it could happen. If the passing volume goes up, Kirk Cousins can be, you know, like we've talked about in the show, a top six or whatever, top eight guy. Trey Lance, top five is to me something that could happen. Trey Lance, I think, can shock the world in both directions. He could be an absolute bust, but he could be phenomenal for fantasy football. So here at the end,

You do have to have a tight end. Yeah, I do have, yeah, looking at the tight end position. So I want to take a look at the grid. We have, Andy, you need a tight end. Yep. No one else needs one here. But you're one pick ahead of Andy. I, well, the hard part is, like, for me, the pick is probably Irv Smith at the tight end position. But you know Andy won't take him. I know you won't take him. And do I really want to be rolling out?

Justin Jefferson and Irv Smith every single week. Right. And I don't know if I really want to do that or not. But for the sake of time, I will be doing that. All right. Like the interesting name, especially in PPR to me, is Evan Engram, who signed the $10 million, one year deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars, which Evan Engram, you mean it's.

He is a very easy player to make jokes and say what a waste of career. But in terms of rebuilding your image, he is in a perfect spot with a possibly emerging elite quarterback possible, with Trevor Lawrence, and Doug Peterson, whose system has always, always heavily featured a pass-catching PPR tight end. Yeah, no, I...

I love Evan Ingram as a deep sleeper this year. I think that there's certainly a world where that could come true. I just did I did not realize. You said the contract. I didn't realize he got a fully guaranteed $9 million contract instead of it was up to 10. That's a good chunk of money to pay the man. You can't consider money on that team. That is true. Did you get the money, Christian Kirk paid? That's very fair. You've got to get paid the, what is that the?

It's the Jacksonville tax. An extra stipend, yes. You took my wide receiver, you jerk. Did I? Yeah. So I went with Devante Parker in the 11th round, my final position or non-tight-in. He's going to be the primary target, I think, for Matt Jones in an up-and-coming offense. Could be. And then coming back around to the last round, I'm going to blow your minds on my tight-in pick as much as one can in the final round of a draft. But I think I will go with a player who has a new home.

Oh, yeah. Was the number six tight end the past two times in a row before changing homes and is now going to be featured in a PPR extravaganza because they don't have any other options. I'm going to take Austin Hooper in Tennessee. He had 75 receptions, 70 plus receptions, two years in a row with Matt Ryan, goes to Cleveland, isn't used that way. They don't have options in Tennessee. He has a great rapport with Ryan Tanna Hill, Robert Woods.

I think Austin Hooper ends up being the second leading receiver in terms of total reception. So in a full PPR format with the last pick of my draft and every other tight end off the board, I think Austin Hooper will be a stabilizing four or five catches a week. Yeah, it's interesting. And he could get back there. It was not a good fit for him in Cleveland in that scheme. Yeah, with Birx not reportedly being what they had hoped.

It could be a lot of reception. I think Cooper will have a more interesting season than people believe. Not like touchdown totals, but. No, this is in a PPR league for the last round. I don't mind that at all. I've had a hard time grabbing Hooper in baseball because I feel like for the tight ends to break the lineup, you need those touchdowns. I don't project that. But I do think Hooper is very involved. They don't have a choice. No, no, no. And all the reports are that he, his reports are the opposite of Trail on Bergs. Right. So.

There you go. Final picks from Mike and Jason. So I'm looking, you know, at the running back position, I could go with Mac. I could take Jady McKissick just who, yeah, smooches. Go ahead. Yeah, I thought about him too. Oh, now he won't do it. You scared nobody. Did you actually move the volume up ever? No, I didn't. Okay. Just feels that way. Like McKissick feels like a safer PPR potential, but.

If it truly is a three running back timeshare and Carson Wentz at the helm, not as interesting for me. So I'm looking at the wide receiver. Let's go full upside here. Like DJ Chark, interesting-ish for the Lions who are going to have to throw a ton. I don't believe that Jameson Williams will be ready to go. And Chark will go, he'll be the perimeter wide receiver or one of them. But we're getting, we're starting to get some decent buzz here. So I'm just going to.

I'm going to all upside youth here. I love it. I'm going to take Jalen Tolbert, who we, you know. Such a better pick than going chart. Right now, they're saying Tolbert's going to be a starter, which. Two, three wide receiver sets. What does it mean? Yeah, what does it mean? And I didn't really need them to tell me because Gallup is not going to be ready. And you have C.D. Lamb. Who else? I mean, James Washington. Like, Tolbert's going to play right away. And.

We'll see. Let's bet on some youth and some upside here. Final pick, Jason. Yeah, I was targeting earlier Devante Parker, who went, Jahan Dotson, who went. Then I was like, okay, I will target Kenny Galladay and Jalen Tolbert. And they went and they went. So here I am at the bottom of the barrel. I'm going to take a guy who I think at a PPR league on a great offense has an opportunity to be Cole Beasley. Wait, don't take him. Okay. I want to see if I can sell you on two other players just to end the draft. All right.

David Bell. Did you consider David Bell? I love David Bell. I think he's talented. I think that he could have a big quarterback upgrade. He is certainly in consideration. And then Mark Ingram was the other name I wanted to bring up simply because of PPR plus the Camara situation. Yeah, I don't want the old men at the end of my draft. I would like youth.

So I'll take old man, Jameson Crowder. Yeah, I was about to, I was about to say, I was like, I don't want the old man. I was like, is he pivoting to Isaiah McKinsey then? I didn't know where he was going to go. Well, I wanted to bring up Isaiah McKinsey because I love Isaiah McKinsey. It was touting him last year. I was touting him last year when Colbyza was gone. Which is where James and Crowder is for people that don't know. Yes. And people brought up the contract situation that, oh, you know, they're paying McKinsey more. McKinsey is unfortunately.

a special teams player. And I believe that that's how the bills are using him. I think that it will be James and Crowder in the Cole Beasley role for a PPR. Right now they've been splitting. Yeah, I mean, that's just how I'm projecting it this season. All right, Jason, run back your team for us. My team, I have Kyler Murray at the top, Christian McCaffrey, Aaron Jones at running back. My wide receivers are Michael Pittman, Cortland Sutton, Marquise Hollywood Brown with JuJew in the Flex.

Cole commit and a bench of Rashad Penny, Christian Watson, Isaiah Spiller, and James and Crowder. Mike? Got Tray Lance, of course, says my quarterback, Clyde Edwards, Alara, Kareem Hunt are my RB 1 and 2. But Justin Jefferson, Mike Evans, T. Higgins, and Mike Williams. There's a butt in your... Well, I mean, if when you're focused on wide receiver... Yeah, no, that's okay. We got Big Irv Smith, hopefully holding down my tight-in position, then the bench, Chase Edmonds, Chris Olave and Jalen Tolbert, the rookies, and Cadarious Tony.