Fantasy Football - Bust & Value Picks for 2026! - Podcast for 8/20

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Thursday, August 20th, the fantasy footballers podcast. Oh, boy. Another day, another groin. That's my motto. Another day. Another groin. Dude, I was going to make a joke. This show is rated R this week. We made it to tomorrow, but I forgot. You forgot? You thought we made it? We had a pretty big one. Just one day. We just want one day without a groin injury. Tyler Warren this time.

Yeah, Tyler Warren. What would you tell him? I would tell him to stretch it out like a butterfly would do. I've got a picture. Honestly, if you go to groin index.com, you can see the technique. I am personally...

presenting it so groin index.com you were briefly going to go there it is oh look at that we are on the show uh nice location nice location for you like a butterfly but you were going to be a pt for a while right i thought about it for long while focusing on groin solely groin a groin pt um but another another day another injury not the only one we'll talk about the news we got leader of the pack today we got

bus picks and value picks on the show today. So if this thing goes over, it goes over. I don't care. We'll just, we got... Oh, Dad's getting crazy. We got fantasy football teams we've got to prepare. On a Thursday? On a Thursday. I was out late. Why not? You know, just keep it going. But you heard at the top, the Megalobole. Go compete right now. Megalobole.com, if you want to participate there.

And don't forget, we still have our UDK for Life giveaway going on. We're going to do a live stream next Monday, answer tons of questions. Drafts are coming up. I'm going to do, I'm going to do it, Mike. We're live on the show. Oh, he's doing it. I'm going to do something that I just brought up as an idea to you a minute ago. Do you know what you? No, I don't know. Now, listen, our My Guys episode is next week. Oh, okay. I'm going to just do it halfway. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Our My Guys episode is next week.

We have had some people like, oh, I'm drafting this weekend. I don't have your my guys yet. And I'm like, okay, the episode's next week. The season starts a week later this year. We have to thread the needle. We don't want all of our nine guys going down with groin injuries. Do you see how many people are getting hurt? But some of you are drafting this weekend, and I know you'd like to know them. And here's what I'm going to do for you. Our show's next week. But.

I am going to go in to our ultimate draft kit and I'm going to mark. Personally, he's going to go. I'm going to mark. We always mark the my guys once we have the show. I'm going to mark one my guy per person early for this weekend. So if you have the ultimate draft kit, I'm going to ask you two things. One, go in, find the my guys. They'll be marked by, you know, we put them in the system. Two, let's keep it secret. Keep, keep, don't tell anybody. Don't blow it. No spoilers.

I feel like I might get more spoilers by asking me. Oh, I mean, you'll get him. The Foot Clan. Someone's going to Lashon McCoy this. They're integrious people. That's why I'm only giving one away. I could go. I could put them all nine in there, but I'm not crazy. But I'll do that. If you're in the ultimate draft kit, if you have it. Josh says, well, there goes my side business. Oh, you guys. You were selling the data early. If you knew how on the street in a trench coat? If you knew how many people have you emailed me asking for the my guys early, you would be shocked. How much money have you made?

I can't say. Check it's live VINMO feed. But shout out to next week's spitballers. Yeah, but yeah, if you, if you, we've had the question being asked because the timing, people don't necessarily know that the season starts a week later. And anyways, I'll reveal, we'll put three of them in there early and then we'll do the show next week. But we're doing the giveaway. We have a live stream coming up. Ultimate draft kit.com. Get prepared.

All of our rankings, right, our projections, our tier-based rankings, 100-plus player profile videos, a brand new, if you're just coming back to the show, because I know a lot of comments lately, they're like, oh, your back wall is different and stuff like that. If you're just coming back to the show, we added a fully featured mock draft tool. That will be going not, it's on the mobile apps. It will be on web today. Nice. It will be on the web today. So lots going on. Ultimate draftKit.com. Let's get the show started.

Leader of the Pack, presented by PetSmart. All right, we are looking once again at a complicated situation, depth chart-wise, on a certain team. We've covered a couple of teams over the last couple weeks. Today we're looking to crown a leader of the pack. And I'm not going to say that, you know, some of these teams, maybe it's a stroll through the meadow and the flowers are blooming. We're going through the swamps here. Sometimes it's like it's a pack of wolves.

Sometimes it's maybe like some coyotes or hyenas. Varmin. All right. I'm terrified of hyenas. In this case, it is. I'm terrified of the dolphins' receivers. It's the dolphins' wide receivers. Brooks calls it a pack of dolphins. Brooks. It's a pod. It's a pod. It's a pod. You idiot. Oh, man. Good box. Brooks, all the money in the world. He works on a podcast. He doesn't know what a pot is. Can't buy an education. Give me a break. So rich. Learn about seed life.

Well, 60% of the Dolphin's salary this year is dedicated to players not on the team. Did you know that? That would be Tyreek, Jalen Waddle, two wide outs that are not on the team, but we'll be receiving a ton of money and counting against the cap incredibly. $28 million, will count against the cap, $23 million that Wada will. It has to be a record. Where there is an absence, there is an opportunity, right? That is correct. The most vacated target share and air yard chair in the NFL.

and a wide receiver room entirely undrafted in fantasy. Malik Washington, Caleb Douglas, Chris Bell, Jalen Tolbert. Okay. Greg Dulcich. These are the players that my, not a my guy, but my... This is like your dynasty team. Bad. Excuse me? I have Cyrus Allen. You know, these are the, Malik Wilson has to throw the ball to these players. And he will. By rule.

By rule, the dolphins have to play 17 games this year. And so they will actually have offensive yardage. And I know it can't all be Devon A-chan. So, yeah, I mean, I did have Kyle look up once upon a time because I was like, this team will be playing 60 minutes every single week and no one is drafted. Is there a situation in the past where you see a bunch of wide receivers where we're just not sure? We think it's a bad offense. No one has drafted. And, you know, what's the lowest they finish?

Unfortunately, it did seem like historically, there are plenty of examples where it turned out no one was worth drafting. But the question is, who is, if someone's worth drafting here, who would it be? And I know my answer clearly. Was anybody worth drafting for the Raiders last year? I mean, it was a similar situation. Not a wide receiver. No, no, wide receivers. Mike, what are you doing here? Well, we have a tight end listed in this group here. No, I read the wide receivers.

And I mentioned Greg Dolso. Oh, okay. Well, he doesn't count. We're looking at. Placed I didn't. Just making sure you know. What are you talking about? Greg Dolso, she plays tight end. Yeah. We're talking about the wide receivers for the dolphins. What is it? Okay. Who's the winner for you? For me, it's Caleb Douglas. And it's funny because recently I've made a lot of comments we all have about the fact that.

When you draft, and I don't mean rookie year playing them. I'm just saying our fantasy football draft when you draft wide receivers who weren't drafted in the first round, it is universally usually a bad pick. The reason why is because even day two picks average sub 50% snaps. And that's really genuinely what it comes down to is, are you on the field week one? If you're not on the field week one, it's a bad draft pick. You don't need to hold on to a...

rookie wide receiver who might develop later in the year. You don't need that the first few weeks. But the reason why Caleb Douglas might break the mold, I mean, we always talk about this, right? Even if it's an 80% of the time they bust, that would mean 20% of the time it works out. And the reason that I think Caleb Douglas is maybe able to break the mold is because he will be on the field. From week one, I expect him to be playing.

Pretty much 100% of the wide receiver snaps. He played every snap with Malik Willis in preseason. You've seen enough Malik, Washington to know that he's just not that good. Not good enough to produce. Exactly. He's fine. He's a good NFL wide receiver. He should be on an NFL team. But for fantasy football, he is not good enough to go out there and average 70 yards a game and get a ton of touchdowns. Like I just, I think he's irrelevant for fantasy football personally.

So I want to take the shot of the unknown of Caleb Douglas, a guy if he was the third round pick, 75th overall. He's also been making a lot of noise consistently. The entire offseason, they've been saying Caleb Douglas has looked really good. I'm with you. I think we've seen enough Malik Washington to feel a little bit capped on what the production can be. I like Malik Willis. I think he's a good quarterback. I think we've...

We've really heard no negative news about Malik Willis during this off season. Can't say the same for two at Tunga by Loa or Carla Murray. Like Malik has had some highlight plays in training camp, and I think Caleb Douglas is the highest upside opportunity and probably one where we have been here before. We completely, as fantasy players, dismissed Jalen Waddle. Now Waddle was a higher draft capital player, so it still happened, though. People just didn't believe that the team can have a productive player.

And to broaden the conversation, I know we like Greg Dulcich to be a target in the offense. But Greg Dulcich is not the, he's not Brock Bowers. He's not Tray McBride. He's not a player that, you know, like is going to have 100 receptions on this team. Bowers and McBride can do that. Dulcich can be a higher value sleeper tight end. But at the end of the day, I think you can look at this team and say, wow, if they outperform what our expectations are on offense.

Who would be the beneficiary to me? I like Caleb Douglas. Yeah, his production profile was pretty good. His physical attributes are great. I mean, this is a player who's 6-4, 206 pounds, rain a 4-3-940, which is 91st percentile for weight-adjusted speed score. He's been making plays. I mean, to be honest, I don't think it's going to be anybody.

I think it will be no one. In the last round, you know, you're taking wild shots. And I talked about this on the Tips and Tricks episode yesterday. Be willing to move on right off the bat. If he's out there for 62% of the snaps week one, get rid of him. But I do think there's a chance he's out there for 100% of wide receiver snaps from the get-go. I'm on the Malik Washington side. He's been the name that has popped up the most to me while I've been following the beat reporters.

And it's been pretty positive news. Like, generally speaking, I do agree, Jay, like the process of, okay, he's a, uh, Malik was a six round pick. We're going into year three. He's been a Malik to Malik things going on this year then. Hey, it doesn't hurt. No. It doesn't hurt. We can Malik row down. Hey, he's got my name. But it's like, and Washington is, you know, as a rookie, 220 yards than last year, 317 yards.