Fantasy Football 2017 - Standard Mock Draft + Rising Stars

But it does bring up the fact that the NFL is not washing their hands of their continuation policy. They have expectations for Martavis Bryant, not just to be clean, but to be in a program, to be following through with said follow-up programs and all of the people he's supposed to be meeting with on a regular basis. If this is happening now, I think the chance of him.

forgetting one of those appointments, not following through on one of those appointments, is enough to say to me, I'm going to take other really valuable wide receivers that are on the board where he's going in the fourth round. Yeah, and he'll probably drop from there, but I mean, even if he's in the fifth. Back of the fourth, but like that risk that Mike's talking about sounds a lot nicer in the seventh or eighth round. Yeah, I moved his risk grading up in the UDK. His numbers won't go down, but his risk rating is very high. All right.

Before we get into the Rising Stars, a few more pieces of news. Alshan Jeffrey resumed practicing after his shoulder injury. Curtis Samuel, second round wide receiver from the Panthers, has missed all but one training camp practice with a hamstring injury. And Devin Funches be looking good. Here's some bad news. But what is the good? When Devin Funchest looks good. Catching touchdowns?

Uh-huh. That's good. That's what I want. In practice. Yeah, you should probably do that. Josh Knoxon exited Saturday, uh, Sunday's practice with a hamstring injury. Joshua. Joshua, buddy. Come on, man. Oh, this is, this is deflating news. Yeah, this hurts more than. So Sammy Watkins also kind of rolled up his ankle a little bit. I, I would much prefer that.

I don't want any, I don't want any bad news coming from the Sammy Watkins. No, it's not good that he rolled his ankle. No, it is not. But I would rather that than a hamstring because, you know, when you roll your ankle, you know, the ligaments are going to heal. And if nothing was torn, you're going to recover and be back with a hamstring. We just always see those reoccurring hamstring injuries.

Brooks, take a look and see if we have any updates on Doxon during the show that we can share with the listeners, because I'd like to find out how severe this injury is and how that might affect his ADP. Doxon being injured, that's a problem. I mean, we already talked about Ryan Grant, how good he's looked in camp, Pryor's locked in, Crowder's locked into that spot. Crowder's been injured as well, and Jordan Reed's been out. So we'll talk about this a little bit in the...

Rising Stars section. Todd Bowles, this is headline news for me. This is the second time that Quincy Anunwa has suffered a neck injury. Something went wrong when he fell. Bulls said it might have been similar to something that happened earlier in the off season. I am moving Robbie Anderson up. I've already talked about Anunwa being maybe overhyped to a degree at this point. I mean, his value, whatever. Where do you have to take him? There's not a lot of risk. But Robbie Anderson, if something's wrong with Anunwa,

I mean, there's just not that many people to catch the ball in New York. And Anderson proved he could do it on a bad team with bad quarterback play and be a streaming candidate. So you talk about those late round wide receivers that could kind of become something for your roster. Look, it's disappointing. I like a noon-law. I think he's a really good player. Hopefully this isn't serious. But if it is, Robbie Anderson becomes very relevant. And also the...

the alert for Austin Safarian Jenkins. Oh, yeah. Once he returns, continues to stay, uh, keep an eye on it. Look, he's been in our ultimate draft kit sleeper, uh, bored for a while. I absolutely love Austin Saffarian. We need to, uh, Brooks, you need to make a, a calendar note for week three of the regular season waiver wire show. You can put it in the dock. Seriously. You could, you know, if you make that doc weeks in advance. No, you cannot draft them unless you're in some kind of startup dynasty or.

Deep bench. Yeah, he's not playing the first two weeks, and you're not going to need to roster him at all. But that week three, he'll be completely forgotten about. Yeah, as I was going to say, in week three, he'll be coming back from suspension, a no-name tied-in anymore, and there'll be piles of players that just perform that week, and you'll just slide Austin's Fering Jenkins on your bench. All right, let's talk about Crockett Gilmore has been waived by the Ravens. Yep. They try to wave one tight-in a week, and they have met their quota.

And it is unfortunate. It's rough. And it continues to be, unless you guys have a different opinion, Ben Watson looks like he's going to be the guy. I want to see him healthy. I mean, I want to see Ben Watt. That's the guy. They have Larry Dinell now too on the depth chart. So he'll be released next week after injury. All right. This is interesting news. Very interesting. Brown's coach Hugh Jackson announced Brock Osweiler will officially be starting the first preseason game. One of their beatwriters came out and said that they expected.

Brock to be the starter come week one. Right. And I completely discounted it. I mean, I said, what are you talking about? Is this a thing in real life? Is Brock going to be there starting? You know, are they going full trust the process 76ers over there? No, they're going full display the goods and see if you can get somebody to send you a late round pick for him. Ah, yeah, that's a better angle. That's what I think. I hope so. Other way, hey, if he does play.

David and Joku. I mean, look, you want a guy that targets a tight end. No doubt about it. Or Mr. Devolve. Both. Yeah. Yeah. Are you taking Devolve? Seth DeValb? I mean, I don't know. I don't think I'm taking either of just saying. All right. You guys have any other news? Brooks. Is there anything new on Docson that I should be sharing? He's not practicing. He's there for walkthrough, but he's not practicing right now. Okay. No good. Day to day. Well, it could be worse. All right.

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Raising Cain's Rising Stars of the Week. All right, three rising stars, one from each of us. Who's moving up your draft boards? Who's moving up your cheat sheets? Who's moving up your prep, hype, excitement lists? Look, I'll start it off. You guys can shoot. I tease the fire and then you cut me right off. Oh, no. Bring that fire. You go with yours. That's absolutely fine. Although yours rhymes with.

Fire, so maybe I'll let you take it. Well, here's the deal. I feel right in the middle of some crossfire right in the middle of Mike and Andy. And I'm also in the crossfire of news. I came out hot on this guy when he signed. And then the more I looked, boom, boom, boom. The more that I looked into the target share and, you know, the tendencies of the quarterback, I thought, you know, I think he's being overdrafted. But right now, the guy who has put me in the middle of the crossfire is.

Terrell Pryor. Trell Pryor is the crossfire. I could act like I'm surprised by him singing Troll Pryor in the Crossfire theme, except for he's been doing it around the office for the last two days. So I knew this was coming. Here's my rationale for.

Terrell Pryor rising up my boards. I'm sure a lot of people listening will be happy because they've gotten a lot of grief for all of my flip-flops. Oh! For all of my Terrell Pryor hatred. The reality is this. At this point in time, Crowder's not there. Doxon's not there. Reed is not there. So Terrell Pryor is...

At this moment in practice, today, tomorrow, this week, he is developing everything he needs to develop with Kirk Cousins to become the number one option. My worry with where he's been drafted is that we're assuming he is the number one option, and there's too many mouths to feed there to just completely give him that. Right now, every video that I see from camp, every report that I hear from the coat, not from beatwriters, but from the coaching staff, from Kirk Cousins himself.

The beat is drumming for Torel Pryor. I believe he is a good player, and he is athletic to another degree in the NFL. He's on a good offense with a good quarterback, so I'm going to be bumping him up my rankings a little bit. I'm not calling for him to be a top 12 wide receiver. He has that ceiling. He heard it here first. The drum is not beating. The beat is drumming. Did I say that? Courtesy of Jason Moore. I was letting that one go.

Hey, you don't have to talk me into Troll Pryor. The dude is an athletic monster Soros. If you watched him last year. What is happening today? Look, shout out to, I think is Brett Coleman, who does the film room videos on YouTube. Look, just watch Troll Pryor. I mean, he is 6'5. He's got super long arms. If you watch him play, he looks like Calvin Johnson or A.J. Green running a slant route. His arms are too long.

He gets separation automatically on the inside. Josh Norman couldn't stop him last year. He's a very, very good player. And I think he's going to be exceptional this year and a great value. Carlos Hyde is my Raising Cain's Rising Star. I told you, Fookland. Of the week, look.

There's two ways to talk about Carlos Hyde. First of all, I've never seen a player whose sentiment has changed, whose trajectory has changed more than Carlos Hyde in the last two weeks. Gone, you know, the news two weeks ago from B-Riders in San Francisco was trending. Carlos High might not even be on the roster. He may be the surprise cut. I saw him as a pick on ESPN as a surprise cut of the season. Joe Williams Hyatt. Tim Hightower starts out taking first team reps. So in that regard,

Everything has changed. Carlos Hyde looks like he is locked and loaded as the starter. Last year, nine times he was a top 24 guy, five times he was a top 10 guy when he was healthy. On a really bad team. And look, I have to give the same credit to Shanahan's offensive schemes in San Francisco that I want people to give Sean McVeigh's offensive schemes in St. Louis, Los Angeles, with Todd Gurley. So the ability to use the guy properly.