First Mock Draft of 2019 + Dynasty Draft Tips

We are drafting from the sixth spot and the draft just started. Number one, Sequin Barkley off the board. In fact, three running backs off the board to start the draft in this one. Sequin, Christian McCaffrey, and Alvin Camara, followed by O'Dell Beckham Jr. and Ezekiel Elliott. People taking the sure thing at the running back position to start this draft. Here we are with DeAndre Hopkins on the board at the sixth pick. Todd Gurley.

Michael Thomas. Devante Adams is another great dynasty asset. I mean, to me, the pick that has fallen to us is one of what I would see is the top four dynasty pick. Usually in these drafts, if you're newer to dynasty or you're just, you've got a draft coming up, I prefer in these early rounds to look at wide receivers. We've talked about this before, but the shelf life of a wide receiver.

is so much longer. You know, you can grab Zeke, who I love in Dynasty. I want him in every Dynasty League I'm in. But Zeke in four or five years, he's very well near the end of his career, even though he's awesome. Whereas if you grab O'Dell Beckham or the pick I would grab here, D'Andre Hopkins, four or five years from now, they're hitting their prime. They're getting another big contract. They play far later into their careers.

fewer injuries, things like that. And the fact that you can read, it's much easier to get a running back in your rookie draft who ends up turning into a stud or just has enough opportunity to be very usable than it is to get an elite wide receiver. So Hopkins will be the pick for me as well because we know he's tied to his franchise quarterback. The average draft position for DeAndre Hopkins in a dynasty startup draft is two.

So he's normally somewhere, he's the second or third pick, leaning towards the third pick in the draft. He's sitting here for us at the sixth pick. He's a value in that sense, long shelf life. I'm with you guys. DeAndre Hopkins is our first pick off the board. If you didn't go with Hopkins, Andy, who would you have gone with? I, you know, honestly, I think he was just far and away the best pick. I mean, Gurley could have been in the discussion, but there's just the surrounding.

The one guy who- Like I don't want to be the one to draft curly, as dumb as that sounds. It could be very, very dumb, but I don't want to be the one. I want someone else to be the one. And who do you prefer between Michael Thomas and Devante Adams? I would probably- Whoa, Jason's for cut. I would take Devante Adams. I would definitely go Devante Adams solely because of the quarterback age. I mean, how many years you have left of Drew Brees. Devante Adams, to me, is in consideration with the Hopkins tier. They're both young enough.

have a quarterback in place. They're the ones. If you wanted to take Devante Adams over Hopkins, that's fine. But, yeah, Hopkins is usually going to be first on that list. All right. DeAndre Hopkins was our pick. Gurley followed after. Then three out of four of the next four picks are wide receivers. Michael Thomas, Devante Adams, then Joe Mixon. Interesting. Joe Mixon. It makes sense. A top 10 pick in Dynasty. Mike Evans, then Delvin Cook. And then we enter the second round.

I feel like Mike Evans is so underrated in Dynasty. I mean, here he goes back of the first, but I feel like people are disappointed. To me, I feel like, look, if you look at the career consistency charts, we've got those in the ultimate draft kit, I've been building those lately. So my mind has been on how do people do year after year and the trends and all of that. Mike Evans is just dominated since he's been in the league. He's super young, has a young quarterback, has an offensive system in place. Let me make an analogy for you.

You ever put on those fun house glasses where you put them on and it blurs everything that you see through them and it makes it all weird and funky? Sure. In this analogy, James Winston is the glasses. And if you put him on and you try to look at Mike Evans, he doesn't look quite right because you don't actually have the confidence. Look at the quarterbacks. Well, Odell Beckham has Baker. Hopkins has Watson.

Thomas has Breeze for at least another year or two. Adams has Rogers. And here's Mike Evans creeping up with James Winston. You said you even used it as a point of favor. A great young QB. That was almost not their QB this year. Yeah, but it looks, I mean, you're correct. It looked like they might go a different way. But now that they brought in Bruce Ariens, let go of Fitzmagic, he is, I think he's locked and loaded in that role. I think he's going to succeed. So to me, Mike Evans is a guy that.

I mean, he came in the league. Are you saying James Winston is a my guy? Is that what you just said? I like James. Is he your guy? James. James Winston is in a contract year. He'll be someone that I target in both redraft and dynasty. All right. Second round, Melvin Gordon, first pick of the second round, then Tyreek Hill, Juju Smith-Schuster, Amari Cooper, Julio Jones, and David Johnson.

So we have, what is that, nine wide receivers off the board. We are sitting here at the seventh pick of the second round. There are a lot of players to consider. Some of their names, Antonio Brown, Nick Chubb, Keenan Allen. Stefan Diggs. Where are you guys looking? It's tough because here, already in the second round, I'll just pose the philosophical, you know, dynasty question of, would you rather have a player

who's the best wide receiver in the game like Antonio Brown or a complete baller like AJ Green, who are up in their age group, you know, or would you rather have someone like Stefan Diggs or Keenan Allen who maybe they're, you know, Stefan Diggs's ceiling is not what Antonio Brown's ceiling is, but he's so much younger. You're going to get more years from Diggs or from Keenan Allen. You know, so that's where, you know,

Owners are going to be on the clock in this position, and they've got to decide now or later. And usually... You will get more years from Stefan Diggs, but... Do you want two really nice meals? Or do you just want a bunch of, like, you know, fast casuals? I'm not looking at it like that. I want to know, in these rounds especially, can you give me three years? Because you'll, if you're not in Dynasty...

It sounds like a massive commitment to these players. Like, I have these guys forever. But three years is so far away. Levion Bell is 27. Diggs is 25. Brown is 30. Brown will be 31 very soon too. I mean, I lean towards it. And Nick Chubb is there too. And he's 23 years old on a great offense. How do you feel about Nick Chub knowing Kareem Hunt? Kareem Hunt is there. Yeah, in a dynasty. Yeah, I'll take Antonio Brown.

I lean Antonio Brown as well, even with him being the old man. I would personally, I would be drafting either one of three guys. I would go Chubb or if I'm going wide receiver. I would be going Keenan Allen first, Stefan Diggs second. Really? You take Stefan Diggs over Antonio Brown in a dynasty today. I think Antonio Brown in a redraft. Last year, he scored 70 points more than Stefan Dix. Yes, when he had been Roblesburg. Yes. This year in redraft,

Antonio Brown's probably going to be about my ninth or tenth wide receiver. Now, Keenan Allen might be my 12th wide receiver. Maybe he's below Antonio Brown, but I mean, they're in the same tier now. We don't know what their car in Oakland. So to me, if Antonio Brown was on the Steelers, yes, I would grab Antonio. But I think he's near enough these other guys where I would grab the five extra years or four extra years. All right. So Keenan Allen or Stefan Diggs, who do you want? I let Jason make this pick.

Also, some people might wonder, why aren't we talking about Travis Kelsey, George, Cattle Pat Mahomes. Oh, I'm not taking Mahomes here. This is about where Mahomes value will be in most home leagues. People drafting this time of year, he'll probably drop a little lower. If I'm making the pick, I would go with Keenan Allen. All right. Okay. I feel like both of you wanted Antonio Brown.

We did both want Antonio Brown. We're going to shake it up. We're going to see what happens. Nick Chubb next. Stefan Diggs. Oh, we did take Keenan and Ellen. Travis Kelsey with the 10th pick of the second round. Then Antonio Brown dropped to 11, Lev Bell, last pick of the round. James Connor, Jordan, Cooks, Kenny Gallaudet, ahead of AJ Green. Kenny Gallaudet at 304, AJ Green at 305. Another one of those decisions where Mike and I probably would have been like, hey, AJ Green. I might have. I'm concerned about AJ Green.

his health. I'm worried too. We have DeAndre Hopkins and Keenan Allen. It's our third round pick time. We're drafting from the middle of each round. What is this? My Dynasty team? Oh, no. Oh, Brooks chiming in. Get out of here, Brooks. Actually, it is. Where did you put the trophy from last year? I can't find it. Yeah, I didn't think so. You were in the championship game, though, right? And Keenan Allen. All right. So some names to consider, guys, at the running back position. Who are your top three?

Still available. Is it Sony Michelle, Kerry on Johnson? You know I'm going to be Carry on Johnson. He's young. I think he's got the role. Yeah, but I mean, Carry on Johnson, guys, Fournett, those are the type of guys, maybe even Philip Lindsay. To me, Carrie on Johnson would be my favorite running back. I would never do this in a redraft league where you only get the one year, but the one name that really sticks out to me here is Zach Ertz. Zachertz is who I would draft.

Zach Ertz is, I mean, in our dynasty league, I've been trying to trade basically AJ Green plus for Zach Ertz and have been coming up short, haven't been able to get it. AJ Green just went off the board. This is where, I mean, it's going to be rough, right? Because you start your draft, you go into the fourth round. You don't have a running back yet. Yeah, but looking at the running back landscape, I feel like we can wait around and then guys like who don't necessarily have the longest shelf life, but.

Freeman will be available. Mark Ingram will be available. One of the things in a dynasty league is you end up able to piece together running backs for a year or two at a great value. If you draft somebody that's older. If you draft somebody that is a, you know, Mark Ingram is a perfect example. He's not going to be way up the board in a dynasty startup draft. But he's a great target because you might get two years of starter numbers from him, which might not be too many more years than any of these earlier guys. Yep.

Right. And on top of that, why I'm, we took Zach Kurtz, why I would, why he was my pick. Because meanwhile, in a redraft league, there is plenty of tight ends just floating around on your waiver wire pool who you feel like, I've got a pretty good probability shot of this guy catching a touchdown. This guy's got a good matchup this week. Those guys are not available for you to just fully stream the position in your Dynasty League. So we're sitting here with Hopkins, Allen, and Ertz, three pass catchers. Love it. In hindsight.

We could have gone girly and had Antonio Brown and Adam Thieling. Or you could have gone Gurley, Keenan Allen, and Adam Thielen. I like where we are. I do too. All right, Darius Geis right after us. He'll be a very interesting decision for owners to make and gamble.

I picked him up in our Dynasty League. I'm hoping for the best. Patrick Mahomes at 308. His average draft position in Dynasty is right around the beginning of the third right now. Sonny Michelle, Aaron Jones, Adam Thieland, Leonard Fournett, rounding out the third. And then we've got Philip Lindsay, Carri-on Johnson, T.Y. Hilton. Seems like good value in a dynasty startup on T.Y. Hilton. If T.Y. Hilton's going at 4.03, and A.J. Green at the exact same age is going at 305. I think that's a good value on Hilton.

Robert Woods, Corey Davis, and then Andrew Luck at 406. We're sitting here fourth round. No running backs. Is that where you're looking? A couple of quarterbacks have come off the board. As you said, Patrick Mahomes, Andrew Luck. This is where a lot of players will start drafting their quarterback because quarterbacks, like wide receivers, they last a lot longer in their careers, 10, 12 years for a solid quarterback. I still play by the, I would rather get a James Winston and pair them with.

you know, another guy of that tier later in the draft. All right, you guys are going to punt quarterback down the road. No Baker Mayfield temptations coming our way. Oh, I'm tempted just because I like Baker so much, but I don't think it's the right pick. So do you look at another pass catcher, Alan Robinson, Jarvis Landry, DJ Moore? Yeah, we are out of the elite tier, or the at least the known elite tier. Running backwise, you have a few options. I mean, you can go.

Mark Ingram, Rashad Penny. Derek Henry. Derek Henry is there. Devons Freeman. Derek Henry is 24 years old. Man, Henry is very interesting here. But how does the team actually value Derek Henry? Because he, if I'm not mistaken, I'm trying to pull it up, he's in his contract year. Well, let me ask you this as a redraft question. This year would you rather have Derek Henry or Mark Ingram?

This one season. Poof. This one season. Oh, wow. There's a five-year gap between those guys. So if you think you're going to get a year or two from Derek Henry, and he can get that kind of workload that he got at the end of the season, he starts to look more interesting here and maybe undervalued in a dynasty. Henry, I am correct. Henry is in his contract year right now. I would take him...