QB & RB Rookie Preview + Fantasy Crushes - Fantasy Football Podcast for 4/5

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to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Tuesday, April 5th, another show. The Fantasy Footballer's back with you, Mike Wright, Jason Moore. I'm Andy Holloway. Yes, you are. Behind the scenes, of course, Judge Giamatti. Hey, ho. Al Borland is here. Please don't speak. Whatever you do, don't speak.

And the Borgogan sitting back there as well, getting ready for the NFL draft, which is coming soon, Thursday, the 28th. A full gang now. It's a bit much. You remember when it was just like the three of us? Yeah. The good old days. And Brooksie. Well, no, I'm saying even before Brooksie. Yeah, it was me and a clothist. Yeah. And Mike's feet in your face. Yeah. The good old days. I meant more of the recording of when it was like.

The three of us. The three of us. People tuned in because of the three of us. It's just, it was so much nicer because not so many distractions. Yes. That's what I'm talking about. I do want to say thank you for clearing up that Al should not talk. When you, when you hit, you know, because Brooks got in with his A.O. And that was great job. But then it was like we also have out of Borland here. Shut your mouth. Don't say anything. And I really appreciate that. How are you doing, Al?

Good man. It's a little test. It's a good test. Yeah, yeah, we've got a good crew. We've got a lot of rookies to talk about over the next two shows for the average fantasy football player. The draft is this month, right? We're into April. And this is the time to get your head around.

the big names that should be drafted with enough draft capital to make a difference in fantasy, which means that after this draft and we have some, you know, we move from pencil season to permanent marker. Thank you. It's more of an erasable pin. Okay, that's fair. Yeah. To a more formidable, secure idea of where these guys are going to make an impact, then you see where they slot into fantasy drafts. They start.

You know, if you're in a Dynasty League, you've got rookie drafts coming up, and this is very exciting and scary because there are opportunities out there. But they're going to be surprises. There always are. And so today we're not going to make those predictions about where they're going yet. We will do those on the 28th. But we will lay the groundwork. We'll talk about today on the show, the quarterbacks and the running backs, who some of our favorites are, where some of the opportunities are.

Yeah, what are the good landing spots that will make a difference if a running back quarterback goes there? And, you know, and the reality is there are, this year is different. This year, there aren't a bunch of great landing spots for running backs. There aren't good quarterbacks. You know, things like that that are just different this year. There are both landing spots and talent.

in terms of the wide receiver position. Yes, that is true. I think this is a pretty deep wide receiver class, and we'll talk about that next episode. Yeah, and we'll talk about a trade. If you guys want to get those trade terms that just took place into our news and notes, we'll talk about that as well. A reminder, the Dynasty Pass, which has team opportunity charts for everybody so you can see the best destinations for every single rookie. You can check that out at Ultimate DraftGit.com. You'll get the Dynasty Pass with the UDK Plus. You can find all of us on Twitter.

The show is at the FF ballers. Jason at Jason FFL. Mike is at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway. And the communities join the foot.com. Quick question. In the draft theme here, what player is the most likely to lose value after the NFL draft? I will also ask it a different way. What player might you want to trade right now before their draft value gets destroyed? Which I like the phrasing like that because I don't.

When I was looking at this question, I mean, there's, you know, what I would say are kind of the lower hanging fruits of like MVS or juju. Like Kansas City, we would all be pretty shocked if they don't spend a day one or a day two pick on a wide receiver. So I didn't want to think in terms like that. But a name that I think could surprise us with a day two wide receiver pick.

is the Dallas Cowboys. And I know that Michael Gallup has his new fancy contract where he, you know, the five-year $57 million. But when you look at the contract, he's guaranteed $27 million. And it's essentially structured like a two-year where after the, after 2023, they can get out of it pretty easily if they want to. And the way, why I'm bringing up Michael Gallup, not because I think he's a bad player,

The guy's coming off an ACL tear. He was the final game of the season, right? Am I correct? Now I was doubting myself. So at what point is he ready to go? Is he ready to go right away? I would doubt that. It would be pretty surprising. So, I mean, how many games does Michael Gallup miss? And that's one year. If he misses three to four games, that's a big chunk of those two years where he's really guaranteed the money and they need help.

I mean, they shocked the world when they took Seedy Lamb. Like no one really was mock drafting or a lamb to the Dallas Cowboys. It was a great player happened to be on the clock when they were picking. So they took the wide receiver. Wouldn't shock me to see one of these big name wide receivers end up there. Get some footing over those first few games. And then sooner than rather than later, Michael Gallup becomes an expendable.

asset for the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, I got it. Dude, would you like to go next, Jason? No, no, I want to hear what you have to say. I was going to say the wide receiver. I have a wide receiver as well. Yours is different. I'll just throw Alan Lizard out there, the Green Bay Packers. I refuse. This is, I think the headline that needs to be out there for Alan Lizard and why I would try to move him now is not that he can't contribute to the offense. It's that we know what Alan Lizard is at this point in his career. He said four full seasons in the NFL.

He's outside the 70th percentile in all of the explosiveness categories. He's huge. I mean, he's enormous. His relevance last year, I mean, he had 500 receiving yards. That's not special. He had eight touchdowns. That was special. That can repeat. I'm not saying Alan Azard can't have eight to 10 touchdowns as a wink, wink, tight end wide receiver on this team, much like the Robert Tunyon year of two years ago where he scored 10 times. It's just that I don't think that...

he is the kind of wide receiver that this team is going to be able to lean on, develop to be a Devante Adams or the next great outside whiteout. And so I think they'll invest. I think they'll invest in one or two. I mean, a recent mock draft had them taking two rookie wide receivers like, you know, Oliva and Trelemberg's in the first round. So it's almost impossible that Green Bay doesn't take one considering the draft capital they have. So I think Alan Lazard unfortunately will.

be in a more murky fantasy position kind of battling Randall Cobber relevance. And so I think he may lose it on draft day. He definitely will take a hit because I like the Kansas City Chiefs, I'll be shocked if the Packers don't go in on a wide receiver. But what's wild for the Packers, Alan Lizard was the number two target in terms of target percentage for the Green Bay Packers at.

11% like Devante Adams 30% of the targets what does this team is going to be fascinating where if every everyone knows every play like if he can throw if Rogers could throw to Devante Adams he was going to throw it to Devante Adams and now you will likely have a team where there isn't a true superstar even if they get one of the rookies yeah they have to develop that player yeah that rookie has to hit and we've

You've seen plenty of first round wide receivers. Jalen Rager do absolutely nothing for a team. And other people have to step up. It's a great science experiment because you have a Hall of Fame quarterback. You know, does the wide receiver help the quarterback? Does the quarterback make the wide receiver? Well, you know Aaron Rogers is great. He should be thrown for 35 touchdowns, but he doesn't have the weapons in the receiving corps. Even after they trade for D.K. McCaff.

I was going to say Brandon Cooks, but they will trade for someone. They might. And the thing is, is, Mike, Jason, when you bring up the science, or Jason, when you bring up the science experiment, it's what, this conflicting A.J. Dillon looks so good in the backfield. Yes, he does. Aaron Rogers throws the players he trusts. And Aaron Jones is so incredibly great in the receiving game. So you talk about a 30%, you know, target disappearance.

I just wonder what the train of thought is going to be about Aaron Jones and whether he's going to be undervalued because he was a perennial top five type of running back talent and those targets have to go somewhere and the running back is often where they go.

Jones was tied overall in the season with Lazard at 11%. That's going to go up. It's going to be wild. The player that I think could lose the most, I don't think this is the most likely to lose, but he would lose the most value, would be Devin Singletary, the darling of the end of the year last year. I've seen people in leagues I'm in trade for Devin Singletary in Dynasty in hopes that he just continues what he did at the end of the year as the dude, which he should have been the dude.

a long time ago because it's him and Zach Moss. And so obviously he should have been the dude. Right. But the reality is here, I think this is a great offense who still could benefit from a really good day two running back. And if they were to draft a Breece Hall, a Kenneth Walker in the second round.

I think Devin Singletary all of a sudden goes from this, you know, it's like this hopeful he's going to roll last year's success in the next year into like, oh, he was a great thing for a month. Can we keep a list of who Jason declares that he hates on this show? Because right now it's all the rookie quarterbacks and Zach Moss. And I just want to continue the list throughout the remainder of the show. Absolutely. To be fair, Zach Moss has been on that list four years before he was drafted because he's.

awful. I mean, no, he's probably a great guy. You couldn't even say no. No, I was going to say no offense. There's no way you could have said that. It was pretty offensive. You should have said a fence. Yeah, but offense. All righty, let's, there are some other names that are worth mentioning. Obviously, Sam Darnold could disappear into oblivion. No, I've, I've heard from the rumor mill. He's on track. The quarterback they just traded for and extended has to be mentioned as

On track to be the starter. Yeah, well, there's thoughts within the organization that, you know, at 24 years old, he's going to turn the corner. I mean, does not, I'm not joking about that. That's the actual thing. Other names, Ron Dale Moore, if Arizona, you know, right now Arizona has DeAndre Hopkins and then three short wide receivers. Ron Dale Moore, Andy Isabella, they need another body, whether it's AJ Green coming back or them.

Trading for somebody. They've got, they just picked up Stephen Anderson the tight end. Don't worry about it. Okay. Okay. They're making moves. Yeah. And, and so that's another name that could be impacted. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Do you want to add Steve Kime to your list today, Jason? Oh, yeah. Let's put him on there. Just because he sucks. Oh, my gosh. Wow. No, no, no. At being a general manager.