PPR Mock Draft! + Movers & Shakers - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/25

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Welcome back, Brooksie. Thank you. Hal Borland is here, the Rapscallion, with us, and great show for you today. Hopping into another mock draft ahead of the weekend. A lot of drafts happening, Saturday, Sunday, and maybe even tonight, Friday night drafts. One of the two biggest draft weekends of the year, and we want you ready to go. There are a lot of movers and shakers and opportunities. for you to take advantage of your league mates and make them feel stupid. It's one of my favorites. Goal number one for me during the year is to win. Goal number two is for the people closest to me to lose. Yeah. Okay. No, I have the same checklist so far. Misery loves company. And if I lose, I do not want others to win. Yes. Right.

So I plan to both draft so I can win and draft so you can lose. Yeah, it's a good goal. I've got my goals slightly reversed. I realize how difficult it is. No, no, no. That would be. I want to shame my leaguemates first and win the championship second because I, you know, winning the championship. Right. I can't do that every year just to be honest. I can shame my league mates every single year. That's got to be top priority. Yeah, I like to imagine like if I were in a lake and we're in the middle, I've got a nice fancy raft with a motor on it and I'm just driving by you guys, right? As you struggle to stay afloat. Right. But should I fall in to the water? Oh, I'm just, I'm jumping on your backs. And I'm just, I'm doing the pushdown move to elevate me up.

while you go to the bottom of the lake. Okay, so you, you will murder us is what you're saying. Metaphorically. Okay. Jason. I think that might have gone a little too far. This is fantasy football we're talking about. Yeah, it's serious. Very serious. This is a pretend game that I take very serious. So, Mike, you could tell them to pick up the ultimate murder kit at ultimate draft kit.com. I mean, if you pick it up, you're not going to get very good tips for that. You can get figurative tips, right? This is a big show, though. We got a 12-team PPR mock draft. We've got some news to talk about, and we welcome you in to another episode of the show. Please make sure you're following, subscribing. Stay with us all season, five days a week until the end of the football season. And then we never go away, even if you want us to. Just part of our contract. We're there. Our contract with you. With the people.

Quick question of the day comes from John. He says I'm co-managing a team with my friend. What tips would you suggest to make sure the season runs smoothly and successfully? I mean, the biggest tip is whose team is it? That's number one. Who is the manager? Is there a true co-ownership? Yes, yeah, yeah. Who is the head manager and who was the co-manager? So I will, for example, the infamous Dino Jr. team that Jason and I run. Champ, champ, champ. That news is widely available. I am the co. Jason is the one who was signed up for. Yeah, we're both coes. And he's desperately trying to slide in here. He wants to be on champ, champ, champ, champ. He keeps trying to get us to add him as another co-manager so that he can ride on the coattails of our amazing championship run.

It's smart, and I recommend you do that too. It sounds like the most Jason thing ever. Yeah. No, I don't blame you. I'm not going to allow it, but I don't blame the effort. But the point is, I fully understand and recognize that Jason was the one who signed up for the team, and then I signed up to help. And my job is, as the co-manager, I like, for its dynasty. So I'm all, you know, I'll scour the waiver wire. And then I won't input the move. I just, I'll message Jason, say, hey. This player, I think, looks like someone we could drop because look on the waiver wire, there's this player, what do you think? And then Jason gives the green light and then he either puts it in or I put it in. But as I understand that I am the co-co, so I am simply in a support role and that the true manager. So you're the support? Champ, champ, champ. Yeah. And I have no problem with that because I think I am a tremendous co-manager. You are a great co-manager. Thank you. I have a co-manager for my League of Record team that.

You just, you tell them to shut up. I don't really seek enough advice from. Yeah, I mean, what happens is I have good intentions there. But when push comes to shove, when you get into the nitty gritty, you need to make a trade. You need, sometimes, you know, it's like if you own a company, you know, your employees, they might do the work, but then like, then you sometimes you got to go do the work yourself and get it done to make sure it gets done right. Yeah. And sometimes I just take over. Yeah, most of the time, like our League of Record team, I've had a co-manager for a long time. And most of the time I don't ever even think to ask, you know, anything with, I just make my moves. And then he helps from time to time whenever he sees something he wants. I don't even think of going to him. But it is nice to be able to say in the trade discussion, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to talk to my co-manager. I'm not sure if he will allow me to make this.

offer it's so good so i'll have to use them he says that he starts a stopwatch he lets it get to five minutes so let the other person sweat a little bit and he's okay i'll i'll take it if you do this right and then once the trade goes through i'll let the co-manager know they're great at drafts they're really fun at drafts if you have a co-manager that's the most enjoyable part of it is being at the draft with your team because then you can make those decisions together It's fun. So, you know, in terms of making it smooth and successful, it's the same stuff we talk about for a league, too. Communication. Have a chat going for the league. Make sure that you can talk about everything. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Ravens tight in Mark Andrews missed Wednesday's practice with an unspecified injury. Come on. John Harbaugh's quote says nothing serious. He's dealing with something that we're kind of working through right now.

Good. It's not serious nor specific. Wow, Harbaugh. Dealing with something that we're kind of working through right now. Man, did you hear Harbaugh's quotes about after, because, you know, this preseason, they finally lost. Yes. Which Washington did not care. They didn't care if they were going to break the Ravens streak. 24 straight preseason games. They let us know. They didn't care. They just played their starters. for a really long time against the Ravens backups and then celebrated tremendously when they won. You got to rush the field. It's preseason. But after the game, Harbaugh was salty. Was he? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, it is weird. Like, their streak was something special, though. Yeah. A 20 plus preseason game winning streak. It's so many games. Yeah. Uh,

We have a variety of Jonathan Taylor rumors. Dolphins have some interest. Eagles have some interest. Heard this morning. The Rams have some interest. So the cost is going to be pretty high, I think. And there's also been discussions about the fact that the Colts won him back and Jonathan Taylor has mutual interest in that. He is mutually interested in money. The man wants money. Yeah, he wants to be paid to play running back in the NFL. Which I apologize, I can't remember who tweeted it, but I did not come up with it. But people were, I saw people talk about, well, what are the Eagles doing? Like, they just traded for Swift. And then someone very clever, they said, well, they're making the elite move because they, this is their opportunity to poll at Taylor Swift. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I guess they could. They could pull a Taylor Swift. Well, there you go. Well, I enjoyed it far more than you guys did. The dolphins have had interest in Delvin Cook. Didn't want to pay the price. They've had interest in John. Maybe. Do we know for sure that that's what happened? Or did Dalvin Cook say, no, I'd rather go to the Jets? Dalvin Cook is interested in money, Mike. No, I know. The Dolphins are the hometown team. They were not willing to meet the needs of Dalvin Cook. I'm just saying I hadn't seen a report of like what's an official offer the Dolphins gate. Because like did the dolphins offer six or something close? And he was like, or you know what I mean? I didn't see anything about it just being money. If I'm Dalvin Cook.

I think that the Jets have a slightly stronger chance to win the Super Bowl than the Dolphins do. The Dolphins apparently made an exploratory call on Josh Jacobs. That didn't go far. They are looking. I said, where is he? They're looking for a running back, but they're not looking to break the bank. I mean, I think that's been clear this offseason. Devon A. Chain, Jeff Wilson dealing with injuries. Rahim Oster, it's the starter. Salvin Ahmed, Miles Gaskin is still on the roster. Cole Comet left practice early with an undisclosed injury. We're monitoring that. Alan Lazard exited practice, Jets wide receiver, AC joint sprain in his shoulder. Team had not worried about his week one availability. What was his injury heading in the last year? I do not remember. Yeah, I'll try and look it up. Any other news, Brooksie, that you have seen. It was an ankle. Nothing yet. Lizard has been occasionally banged up. Yeah, for sure.

And we had the news yesterday that Corey Davis has retired, as well as some, I don't know, Cobb hype shrink, that Randolph will be more involved in the offense than people expect. I think that will certainly be the case with McCall Hardman based on the way that Camp has used him. But I don't know if that means fantasy value. Also, considering my projection for Cobb being involved, the offense was almost zero. So if that goes to... 3%. That's way higher than I thought. My guy territory? Almost. Okay. That was today's news and notes brought to you by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. The fantasy footballers mock draft. Well, we're jumping right into it. Head to head to head mock draft. We're going to go 12 team PPR today heading into the weekend, one quarterback, two running back, two wide receiver, one tight end, one flex, four bench.

And Brooksie randomly picked spots for us, Mike, at the three. I'm sitting at the six and Jason near the turn at the 11. Anyway, we go. Justin Jefferson off the board with the 101. Jamar Chase goes off the board with the 102. Is that what you expected, Mike? It is not. I mean, we're in a PPR, so I get it. But my strategy heading into the, I guess my plan going into this draft was, I expect I'll get Jamar Chase, and then we'll see if I just stick with heavy wide receiver. But with the two wide receivers going and Chris McCaffrey on the clock, that's a pretty easy selection for me. All right, Chris McCaffrey at the 103. Ooh, wow. Well, that was spicy. Wow, I'm happy. Travis Kelsey went off the board at 104. Austin Echler at 105, and at 106, I have my pick between two wide receivers, both.

I would be thrilled to get at the 106. That would be Cooper Cup and Tyreek Hill. I currently have Tyreek Hill as my number two fantasy wide receiver this season, and he will be my pick. I was actually excited at the prospect of mock draft here where I started with a wide receiver. I just didn't expect it to happen because I figured I'd be staring down either Echler or, you know, Tyreek and Cup would be off the board. And I'd, you know. not have that option. So I'm going to go Tyreek Hill and see how the early wide receiver goes. Full PPR league. Bejong goes at 107 creeping up draft boards. Mike, you said you've moved them up in your rankings. I have. Cooper Cup at the 108. CD Lamb at the 109. Stefan Diggs at 110 with Jason on the clock at the 11. Yeah. What I'm looking at here is the last true elite elite.

pass catching running back on the board. You've got McCaffrey, Echler, and Bejohn off in a full PPR. Those guys project to have a ton of targets. Maybe you could throw Ramandre in there as a really good pass catcher who might have a ton of targets. We don't know. But Saquan being there, to me, that's the end of a PPR tier. I thought I would be going wide receiver at the end. Usually at the 11th spot, that's where I'm getting a wide receiver. But with Barclay still on the board, I'm happy to select him. McCaffrey to Mike in the first. I took Tyreek, Jason went with Sequin. Would that pick have changed in a half or a full, Jason? Would you have, I don't know where you have Nick Chubb in that format compared to Barclay. Yeah, I think if this was. Or Derek Henry. Well, yeah. I mean, if it was, you know, no PPR, Derek Henry flies up, you know, if it was standard league, which I hate that. Why?

Why do we still call that standard? That's not the standard in any platform. But I digress. Chubb is probably a player I like more than Saquan Barkley if it's half PPR. And full PPR, I want the chance at 100 targets. Makes sense. Nick Chubb did go next at 112 so you don't get both of them. AJ Brown at 201. And Jason, you're back on the clock here at the 202. Yeah. So because I'm near a turn. At the very beginning, I usually prefer to go one running back, one wide receiver so that I have flexibility to double tap whichever position falls to me at the next turn. So I'm looking at the wide receivers here. You got Devante Adams, Amon Raw, St. Brown, and Garrett Wilson. Those are the three guys that I love all three. Full PPR. I am addicted to Amin-Raw-St. Brown. But I'm going to go for upside here. I'm going to go for Youth Explosivito.

Huh. Is that sound like a prescription drug? Yeah. Explosivital. So I haven't done this much, but I want to actually get Garrett Wilson on the roster. I was going to ask, did you, have you watched all of Hard Knocks? Are you caught up? I have not seen the latest episode. There just, there was like a little clip of Rogers being miced up and people are asking, well, how's Garrett Wilson? He's special. Yeah. And we, I mean, it's not that we didn't. Now it's official. We didn't know. We already knew that Garrett Wilson was a special player, but it's, it's nice to hear the captain calling you a special wide receiver. Alan Lazard, injured, obviously is going to be back week one. Corey Davis retired. Garrett Wilson's going to be the dude there. And so I'll take the upcoming new young Devante Adams to Aaron Rogers instead of Devante Adams. All right. So you want Gary Wilson.

Amon Ra went next, and Patrick Mahomes, and Derek Henry at the 205 in a full PPR is probably a steal, especially if you end up with Cooper Cup in the first like Team 8 did. Devante Adams went at 206, taking him off the board for me with the next pick. I would have given him a strong look here in a full PPR when he could push for 160, 170 targets. But he's gone. So I'm staring down options at wide receiver. Tyree kills teammate, Jayne Laudele, Chris O'Lave, you got DeVonte Smith. Would you ever do that? Would you go full dolphins? No. Okay. If this was like second and third round or third and fourth round, you know, for that teammate combination that it would be more tempting. But putting all the eggs in that basket for the first two rounds.

and knowing that that football cannot split into midair and be, you know, caught by both of these receivers. No, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be willing to take that chance. Would be a fun team to have Tyreek Waddle and then get to a, as you're late from quarterback, like, you would, if you're staring that down in a head-to-head match, if you go on your platform, you look, you go, oh, I don't know, I'm not so comfortable against that. Yeah, that would be. That would be scary, especially if they had a good matchup. Yeah. The matchup would be everything because imagine, you know, when Tua has a bad game or the dolphins don't too well, you've just got no chance. I think what I'll do here is I agree with Jason. I want some flexibility moving forward and I don't have Adams or Amun Rah who would have been probably selected here. I'm going to go with a running back that had 64 targets in each of the last two years, 53 and 54 receptions in each of the last two years. Oh, and he was the rushing champ.

I will take Joshua Jacobs. You're not afraid of the buffet? The buffet? Yeah. The buffet he's at to become fat Thor as Mike desires. If you think I'm in on this joke to the point where I will remember that you're making it. Jason's in. I love the joke. I think he's going to come back and be awesome. Yeah. He's just going to be Thor. It's just the worst. Tyree killed Josh Jacobs. I am a little nervous. I thought what you were going to say is like a really astute thing. Are you a little nervous that he's still not in camp? I'm saying the same thing. Okay. Yeah, I'm not worried about his weight. I am not feeling great about them. I mean, people are drafting this weekend. You've got, and the player that just went after him, Jonathan Taylor, both those guys have not put on the pads this year. So.

I feel better about Jacobs because the news has been more positive around the organization, but it's still nerve-wracking. Like, I need that. Someone deliver a nice contract and a pin to Josh Jacobs. I really like taking Josh Jacobs right now. He's falling into a place in the second round where I believe he's a good value, and I am not as scared. Like I say year after year, don't buy the injury dip, right? A guy's injured throughout camp and he's falling a little bit. Don't. Don't draft them. It usually doesn't work out. It's like 80% of the time it's a, it's a negative pick to make that. Is Jonathan Taylor an injury dip? Yes, to me, that's the difference. The difference to me between Josh Jacobs and Jonathan Taylor is that I believe Jonathan Taylor is still injured. He's still recovering from that ankle injury. We don't know that for sure.

mainly because he hasn't been at camp. But I, you know, that that's been reported that he is still training, rehabbing through that ankle injury. So that's really the reason I am more cautious on Jonathan Taylor. I'm not cautious at all with Jacobs. So if you're drafting this weekend, that makes me feel great. That's my personal advice. Barkley and Wilson from Jason. I have Tyree Kill and Josh Jacobs through two rounds. They have a full PPR, 12 team. Mike, you have Christian McCaffrey. He fell to you at 103. And you are on the clock. Yeah, this is super tough for me. Chris Olavé is there. Tony Pollard is there. And I think we're at the point of, you know, Ramandre. Jalen Waddle is there. Ramandre. Yeah, Waddle, in a, I know he's got the big play. Will the receptions go back up? That remains to be a question. But of the running backs with the true pass catching chops, guys who can.

Just even if they have a bad game on the ground, they just PPR their way to still top 15 production. Tony Pollard, Ramandre is still, I think, in that category. But after that, maybe Joe Mixin, but we talked to him up yesterday. You might be able to get him next round. Yeah, as well, if I'm playing the ADP game. So I'm going to go, because Joe is there a little bit lower, I'm going to go Chris Oliva. I'm going to take my guy. All right. So you went Olave and Pollard and Devante Smith went next. We're going to take a quick break and come back with the third round of this PPR mock draft. Welcome back in through two rounds. Jason has Sequin and Garrett Wilson. I have Tyree Kill and Josh Jacobs. Mike went with McCaffrey and O'Avary. After the Olave pick in the second round, Pollard and Devante Smith finished out the second and then Javan Hertz. Jalen Hertz and Travis E. T.N. went.

one and two in the third round. So Mike, you're back on the clock. What are you thinking about? I'm thinking about this is a tremendous draft spot to be in because the amount of guys that I'm excited to draft is still very high. So I'm looking at my rankings here. I still have Ramandre as a top 12 guy. Yeah, that's crazy. I have Jalen Waddle as a top 12 wide receiver. I have Joe Mixen inside my top 10. You really liking the 103. Yeah, this is an abundance of riches, almost too wealthy here. You can skip the pick. I don't mind. Am I allowed to do that? Yes. Absolutely. Jason's staring down 10 more picks before a year. Yeah. Well, you heard it. Pass. He passed. Was it the Ravens that did that in the NFL draft? The Vikings. Oh, who missed the pick entirely and had to come back one more pick later? I think it was the two teams. I think it was the Vikings. Maybe it was the Vikings.

Yeah, I think it was the Vikings that missed the pick. And I think they did it two years in a row. Then the other team just, like, ram the card up. Like, no, it takes you back. Man, all right, I'm going to take, I'll take Joe Mixing here. I'll get some exposure to the Cincinnati Bengals offense and a guy who should, should catch 60 plus receptions. Are you shocked? As shocked as I am. I took Mixon over who? Romandre. I have Mixon ranked higher. Yeah. Wow, Ramondres. taking a dip, huh? It's just one spot, to be fair. Okay, I guess I didn't realize that Romandre has been cemented on your Mount Rushmore of running backs for the early part of the offseason, but I didn't, I didn't realize Mixing had moved up that much. I must have Zeeke smushed it. Wow. Okay. Well, then that makes sense. If you have them ranked higher, that makes sense. Not to the point, like, they're one spot apart, so this is just splitting hairs, you know, maybe I'm in.

Maybe I'm just slightly feeling Remandre Stevenson in that moment. Either of them is a great pick right there. I'm about to be, I'm about to be feeling a Remandre Stevenson myself right here because Jalen Waddle and T. Higgins just went next. But your guys there. I know. I know. It was going to be an easy slam on Remandre. PPR League, getting two foundational running backs here with 50 plus receptions each. Like you can, I think you can book it. But you're speaking of Jemir Gibbs. Indeed I am. The running backs right now, or I'm sorry, the wide receivers right now are a tier that I'm willing to wait until the next round because I'm very comfortable in a PPR with a handful of these guys. I wanted to go look and see where I have, where do I have these two running backs that I'm deciding between ranked in a full PPR. Gibbs and Ramandre? Yeah, I've got Ramandre. Oh, I've got Ramondre two spots lower.

Ooh, that makes it easier. I'm following the rankings. Jamir Gibbs, it is. All right. But the heart does one. What the heart wants. Well, Jason might end up with him because. Holy Toledo he did. So let me explain the grunts and screams. I took Gibbs, Metcalf, Lamar, Naji, and then. I'm one pick away. Jason's my guy, Mark Andrews. Mark Andrews almost fell to the 311. That's why I love him. Is Ramandre a consolation price for you? Where do you have him in a full PPR league? Because it looks like 12 to me. Me and you have them at the same spot? That's not so bad, is it? No. He's no Mark Andrews, but he's remandre at the back of the third. Yeah, I mean, getting a top 12 running back there is... You can get Zeke later and just put them together. Oh, man, would I love to have Zeke on my team? And just wake up and hate yourself every day. Yeah, so here I am looking at...

either wide receiver or running back. I have the flexibility to go in either direction. There is a wide receiver on the board that I have been rising on. And I think it will surprise you all. A surprise rise. A surprise rise, as happens sometimes. It better not be DeAndre Hopkins. No, it is Debo Samuel. Oh, you know, I put. I know that you like... I put a big trade together for him. You like Debo Samuel. I like Debo Samuel. But I do think at the running back position when you've got a guy who's going to catch this many passes, he's a top 12 guy in my rankings. I will take Ramandre Stevenson. So I'll have Barclay, Garrett Wilson, Ramandre Stevenson. That's great from the 11. Yeah. I'm happy with it. I don't know how you could start better than that. Calvin Ridley at the 312. Joe Burrow went next at the 401. So quarterback landscape. Mahomes and Allen in the second. Hertz and Lamar.

in the third and Joe Burrow in the fourth. Yeah, this is where it's really, really tough for me. I'm... Yeah, Keenan, the PPR machine there? Yeah, Keenan Allen is certainly in consideration. Like I said, I'm rising on Debo. And then, of course, I want to get a my guy. You guys both got a my guy. I haven't got a my guy. So I think I'm going to go that route. And I'm going to take Justin Fields here. Oh. It's hard to go into the fifth round with one wide receiver. And so this is why you mock draft. You try things like this and say, at the end of this draft, did I find value at wide receiver where I love it when I took Justin Fields and, you know, and two running backs and I, you know, or did I hate it? So I'm going to find out later and I'm guessing I'm going to really like my team. I, it would.