Head-to-Head Mock Draft Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast

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It's mock draft time. Oh, mochalakit down. Let's get after it. Thursday, July 2nd. Let's get after it. Yeah, I'm Jack. We get our own team today. So we get to see who constructs that roster that you, the listener, the footclan, or the new listener, that you like the best. We are mock drafting. We do have separate teams. If you're watching on YouTube,

YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. You'll be able to see the draft board. You'll see the decisions being made as I construct my obviously soon-to-be perfect roster. That's, you know, Lamar Jackson in the first. Oh, yeah. Mahomes in the second. Mahomes, you want that stack. In single quarterback leagues, you want both. Hey, team holds over there. I mean, Mahomes got her last year. So you would have had Lamar. I mean, that's just.

I fully expect one of you to take Lamar Jackson. Maybe, you never know. After the last episode, when you were shaking your head profusely trying to ward off the early quarterback demons. Yes, it's going to be a fun mock draft episode today. And I'm sure the judge himself will get a poll up on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can vote for your favorite team. You can ridicule.

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I'm excited. If you can't tell, I'm hyped up. How much energy drink have you already? At least half the can. Okay, Jason's ready to go. Mike, why don't you talk about what's going on? Yeah, so after you check out the new Funky Fresh Fantasy Footballers.com revamp. I like that. Fookland is that time of year. Yes, Fookland Assemble. The podcast awards are taking their nominations. We're trying to make this process as simple.

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Ready to act. So you can vote for us if you want to support us. Footclanvote.com. It is that time of year. Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. Show, show, show. I have no idea what happened. All right, buy yourself, Josh Jacobs, at least 35 receptions in 2020. It'd be a big improvement on his.

20 receptions from a season ago, although those came in 13 games. Yeah, 35 is not wild for a player that as he came into the NFL, everyone expected to be more involved in the passing game than even the running game. The Josh Jacobs receiving game work feels like one of the wishes for the fantasy football genie. Like you rub the lamp, this is one of the things that is constantly brought up. What would Josh Jacobs actually be?

if he became, you know, a viable pass catching option. The answer is a top five fantasy running back. I think that is the answer. It's easy for me. It would be. Yes, he would be if he becomes, you know, a top pass catching running back. I don't think we're going to swing the pendulum all the way to, you know, at this line, if he gets 35 receptions, he's just involved. Right. He's involved enough to be a little bit safer come game script. I can tell you, I have him.

with 41 receptions statted out for this season. So I'm buying that he has at least 35 receptions this season. He has the skill set. We saw that in college. He's an incredible receiver. And you saw last year, players like Todd Gurley and Joe Mixen, who are excellent pass catchers.

just not used in that way. And I would expect for both of those guys, as well as Josh Jacobs, for that to be a single-season outlier. You know, sometimes these things happen in the way the game was schemed and the way certain game scripts fell and he was a rookie. And there's also been comments about getting him more involved in the passing game. You had DeAndre Washington leave the team, which is helpful. So yeah, I definitely think Josh Jacobs is more involved. I'm buying.

at least 35 receptions in 2020. I'm at 40, which puts him at RB6. Wow. You know, you said he'd be a top five guy if he was heavily involved. I've got him at RB6 with 40 receptions. Last year, he was the RB 11 from weeks 1 through 15, and that's missing some time. So jumping from 11 to 6, it feels comfortable, cozy. Yep. And I have him projected painfully, painfully one under.

Is that the John Gruden confidence meter? Well, it's painful because I have to decide if he's going to hit 35 receptions or not. And if my projection is 34, my margin for error is very, very small. But I think I'll buy that he will get to 35. I would. You got to update them rankings. I won't. Delete. I won't be pressured. I will not be pressured into this. But come on.

Come on, Gruden. We've got to get Jacobs up to like 45. We've got to get them up there. Over the past three seasons, only three running backs have finished as a top 10 fantasy running back with less than 35. So I think that might be why Judge Giamati put the line right at 35 receptions. Only three have finished as top 10 running backs with less than 35 receptions. That's just part and parcel with being a top tier fantasy running back. You've got to catch the football. That was Buy or Sell from Pristine Auction.

Pristine auction.com use the code ballers to get a $10 credit. Let's go ahead and mock. The fantasy footballers mock draft. All right, mono e mono e mono. We are drafting 12 team league, snake draft, half point PPR. Pretty standard format, quarterback two running back to wide receivers, tight influx.

Let's get it going. Jason has the seventh pick in the draft. I ended up with the ninth pick. Mike ended up with the 12th pick, lucky. And first round, Christian McCaffrey goes 101. No surprise. Sequin Barclay at 102, Alvin Camara at 103, Ezekiel Elliott, and Derek Henry, top five picks, all running backs. Michael Thomas goes with the sixth spot. And here we are, Jason.

You know, you put the rubber meets the road on Dalvin Cook. Here you are with the sixth pick or the seventh pick in the draft. Dalvin Cook's still on the board. What are you thinking about? Yeah, so I'll be honest. You know, I've done a couple of mock drafts where I'm later in the first round. And I like some of the running backs that are falling there, the aforementioned Josh Jacobs. And I have Kenyon Drake technically the highest of that next tier of running backs.

So according to my rankings, if I'm looking at running backs, I would be looking at one of those two guys. It's very difficult, though, knowing that they usually just don't go this high to pull the trigger. Now, if I go wide receiver, and of course, I'm not looking in the first round at Pat Mahomes or Lamar Jackson. So this is basically wide receiver running back. Devante Adams is there. He is... Joni Smith is there, too, if you're... What? What? How did he not go in those first six? That's ridiculous.

I'm just going to see if he makes it to the next round, though, Andy. Yes, I'd wait. So, you know, I've got my pick of the litter outside of Michael Thomas at wide receiver. The one thing I will say this year, though, is, you know, and Mike, you brought this up several weeks ago, proved to be true, which is later in the draft, you get to that fourth, fifth round, those wide receivers are so good. I want them on my team, and all the running backs there, I don't want. So I actually feel like this year more than usual, I'm really sticking to some of these early running backs.

And if that's the case, I am going to be drafting because I'm at the seventh spot, Dalvin Cook. Okay. This is a mock draft. We're very early. I'm going to keep my eyes out for Alexander Madison later in the draft. You know, I just think at the end of the day, my team will look better with the name Dalvin Cook on it. Yes. It would perform better if he plays, too. Yes. Honestly, he wouldn't get to pick seven if it wasn't for.

uh what's going on so buying a little bit of that and if i can uh you know secure the roster spot with alexander madison then i'm good yeah i'm a little surprised that's uh at 107 you had josh jacobs you had alvin camara no i believe alva went 103 i apologize honestly if it wasn't going to be him it would be between josh jacobs and kenyon drake i would take kenyon drake it would probably be the highest you'd see him go in a draft but i believe in him

Yeah, and I'm staring down Josh Jacobs and Joe Mixing here. I figured you would not go with Delvin Cook. I thought he might get to me at 109. He didn't, and so I'm going to take the buy-sell question, the running back that I think will finish at RB6, according to my projections. Secure the running back in the first round before Mike's picks here, and I will go with Josh Jacobs at 109. Right after him, maybe I had some fading dream that this man would.

flow into the second round. Joe Mixing goes right after Josh Jacobs. And then Tyreek Hill at 111. Mike, you've got a couple of picks back to back here. Yes, and I'm struggling a little bit because of the direction I go here is, I mean, that's setting the course for my entire draft because I have to wait 20,000 picks before I get to go again. On this turn, I could end up with...