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The hosts declare the episode the eleventh My Guys ceremony. Kyle’s count reaches 100 all-time selections only if the old Dante Pettis pivot is included, and the room immediately decides that it counts before defining the day as three 2025 flag plants per host.
The desk treats Tom Pelissero’s report of interest in Odell Beckham as an agent favor and says he is on the take. A host then wagers that if Beckham signs, he will eat cold SpaghettiOs mixed with cottage cheese during the show—even while admitting that a health kick has made the meal sound appealing.
Matt prepares the breaking-news button after seeing a Slack item that Beckham is going to Baltimore, then realizes it describes the prior year’s signing. The hosts call him a buffoon and thank him for nothing while the published video cuts to three producers under the Deucers Alley sign.
After talk that the annual video would be redone, someone says the replacement was canceled and the existing red-curtain clip plays in full. The three hosts appear as crudely composited performers with awkward mouth animation; the desk calls it horrific, a horror movie, and the product of a prime animator paid zero dollars.
After hundreds of guesses, the desk finds at least one person who correctly named Jason’s three My Guys and immediately promises the listener a swag pack.
The exact 2025 board is Andy—Jameson Williams, Omarion Hampton, Tyler Warren; Jason—George Kittle, George Pickens, Emeka Egbuka; Mike—Chase Brown, TreVeyon Henderson, Tetairoa McMillan. Every selection receives a full-screen white player-photo card and then a persistent lower-left cutout, and the closing roll call confirms the three trios.
Jason reveals George Kittle as Georgie Porgy pudding and pie, then says smelling salts were outlawed for about a minute until Kittle called the office and threatened retirement, forcing their immediate return.
Hampton’s yards-after-contact ranking makes the hosts stop over the unfamiliar phrase 100th percentile. They decide it is technically correct and announce that whoever leads anything can now be called hundredth percentile.
Jason says he pried George Pickens from Mike’s cold dead hands. Mike agrees that they made a jersey swap after Pickens spent months on the My Guy board, and Jason claims the selection. When asked whether he received a lit stick of dynamite, Jason says he will throw it at an opponent; the published edit washes close-ups of all three hosts in deep red.
Mike says he normally saves My Guys slots for players he has not discussed ad nauseam and tried to pivot because everyone already knew his TreVeyon Henderson conviction. He finally admits, ‘I can’t resist. I can’t stop it,’ reveals Henderson, and calls him the demon and an absolute speed demon.
In the final roll call Jason lists George Kittle, ‘George,’ and Emeka Egbuka. The room pauses, confirms that Pickens is just George, observes that Jason has two Georges, and rejects Eddie George as a third because only first names count.
Complete review of the published video shows Mike at left in a black shirt and purple cap, Jason at center in glasses and a black cap, and Andy at right in a dark graphic shirt. A brief Deucers Alley cut at 11:58 shows three human producers while the dialogue identifies Matt’s stale Odell Beckham Slack item; the other two seats are not assigned by inference. No fourth desk host, cardboard bear, Jay Griz image, Jay theme, or Jay sound cue appears. The standard opening montage contains generic bear footage around 00:08, immediately followed by a produced five-human WITH THE DUCERS card, but neither element identifies Jay. The static green, purple, and black object at the center of the desk is a Fantasy Faceoff football helmet. The episode calls itself the eleventh My Guys show and reaches 100 all-time selections only by counting the old Dante Pettis pivot. Before the ceremony, Tom Pelissero is accused of being on the take for Odell Beckham’s agent, and a host wagers that an Odell signing will force him to eat cold SpaghettiOs with cottage cheese on the show. Matt nearly fires breaking news from a Slack item saying Odell is going to Baltimore, only to discover that the post describes the prior year; the camera visits Deucers Alley while the hosts call him a buffoon and thank him for nothing. The annual red-curtain My Guys bumper then plays in full with crude host compositing and mouth animation. The desk calls it horrific, a horror movie, and the work of a prime animator paid zero dollars. One listener correctly predicted Jason’s entire slate and is promised a swag pack. Full-screen reveal cards and persistent lower-left cutout graphics establish the exact 2025 board: Andy chooses Jameson Williams, Omarion Hampton, and Tyler Warren; Jason chooses George Kittle, George Pickens, and Emeka Egbuka; Mike chooses Chase Brown, TreVeyon Henderson, and Tetairoa McMillan. These are photographs and graphics only; no NFL player appears physically. Around the selections, Kittle becomes Georgie Porgy and supposedly rescues smelling salts by threatening retirement, the hosts discover the rhetorical power of calling any leader 100th percentile, and Jason says he pried Pickens from Mike’s cold dead hands through a jersey-swap arrangement after months on the My Guy board. Pickens is compared with a lit stick of dynamite; the published edit turns the three hosts red for several seconds during the riff. Mike admits he tried to pivot away from the already over-discussed TreVeyon Henderson but could not resist his absolute speed demon. The closing roll call confirms all nine picks and reinforces the established George shorthand when Jason lists Kittle, ‘George,’ and Egbuka, giving him two first-name Georges.
The fantasy footballer studio is sponsored by Walmart. To the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. What, you wanted a my guy? Yeah, of course I wanted it. Of course I wanted it. You know what? It's my guy time. Yes, it is. Yeah, that's fine. All right. That's fine. I'm the captain now. Friday, August 15th of fantasy footballers. You write a song. It's a my god. Do you want to have your own lyrics? Episode. Welcome in. We're doing well today. This is a big day. It's a one of one. It's the my guy show. It is the 11th my guy show. According to Kyle, if you count the Dante Pettis pivot, this will give us 100 my guys all time. Okay. Then we count it.
So we're going to count it the five days of Dante Pettits or whatever it was. But today we'll be revealing our three my guys, the flag plants for the 2025 season, the players that we are most excited about that represent a player that we fundamentally believe in their talent, what they represent in your fantasy football drafts. It is Friday, August 15th. You never know what wild cards are coming down the way. We are, we're going to reveal them here on the show today. There's been a lot of predictions out there. I know you two both put a post up that was, you know, people trying to guess them. Did anybody nail it? Did anybody get the three names on your list? I did not, yeah, I haven't gone back after the first few hundred, but I didn't, I did not see one in the first few hundred that nailed all three. Mike, did you have anybody that got close? I am not, but I'm going to, I'm going to run this thing through and see if we'll double check it right now, but I haven't seen a three for three yet.
All right. So we'll get into that very shortly. Start revealing the My Guys for 2025. We've got some news. We got some news. We got to cover it. It was breaking yesterday right when the show released about Rashi Rice. We'll talk about that shortly. We've got time for some mailbag potentially today. We've got the UDK for Life giveaway. It's Friday, which means we want to remind you the live stream is Monday. So your opportunity to pick up the UDK before the giveaway. is, well, we're almost out of time here. Monday afternoon, we'll be doing a live stream event, answering more questions and giving away an Ultimate Draft Kit for life, as well as assigned Jamar Chase jersey. So the way you win that, go to Ultimate DraftKit.com. Make sure you have picked it up. If you've already bought it, if you're already an ultimate member, you already entered to win. Yeah. If you're in the Ultimate Foot Clan subscription, which comes with the UDK, you are automatically, if you did this,
you know, last year and you're signed up, you are in the running for it forever. All right. Let's jump right into that news. News and notes from Around the League. Presented by Progressive Insurance. Well, we did the mock draft show. We talked about Rashi Rice later in the episode. We talked about him going in the eighth round and whether that was a good place for him to go in light of a suspension that is on the way. At that time, the assumption, like Jordan Addison, was that the suspension would occur before the season began. And it would be anywhere from two-day games. We got word yesterday morning that from Adam Schefter and others, Rashi Rice's disciplinary hearing is now scheduled for September 30th. So that means there's a lot of games before September 30th. He's likely to play the first four weeks of the season. The Chiefs play.
against the Chargers in week one, then Philadelphia, then on the road against the Giants, and then Baltimore. It's a gauntlet for those first four weeks. Every expectation on the draft cost of Rashi Rice was based on, hey, at some point, I'll just get him back, and then I'll have them for the fantasy playoffs and for the stretch run, and he represents, I mean, you made the case yesterday, or two days ago on the mock draft, that was yesterday. Yeah. You made the case that, like, the reason you're willing to spend the draft capital. is because he represents a wide receiver one. It was different than the Addison argument. Yes. What's funny is, you know, we're doing the My Guy episode today, and spoiler, Travis Kelsey is not one. But I do know. No, he was on, he was on the somewhat short list for Andy. I kind of toyed with him. I think right now before today, the idea that Travis Kelsey gets off, you know, the first four, six, eight weeks gets off to a hot start.
When older players, they're better at the front half of the year. Yeah. So it made a lot of sense as a draft pick. But this news really hurts Travis Kelsey as a draft pick for getting off to a hot start. I mean, obviously, we still expect Rushie Rice to miss time this year. Yeah. So I was going to lay the rest of that out. By the way, 2015, my guy, Travis Kelsey was Mike's. It was Mike's my guy in 2015. That was a long time ago. Seems like a good one though. But. The situation now is that Rashi Rice is going to probably play the first four weeks, have this hearing. We don't know whether it will be an immediate suspension. We think it probably will be at this point. That will be two to eight games. You also now have a buy week, right? You've got week 10. Week 10 by week. So just to paint the worst picture here for your Rashi Rice gamble in the draft, it's you spend a pick on him. He plays four weeks.
If he got to spend at eight weeks, which is in the realm of the outcome, they're expecting two to eight, then you miss another game with the buy. So you would not have them from 5 to 13. And then do you have the confidence coming back in a week 14, 15, that this guy that missed, you know, they get into a groove on their offense. They have all these other players doing things. He's going to come back week one and dominate. That's a tough bet. Like, to me, this is worse than the scenario that was already bad. I totally agree. We are, it's a.
You have to be in a holding pattern. But I guess we don't even have time to hold because you won't know. I still believe he can be a difference maker. There's a chance. Because like we're all, we're all three of us expecting six. Is that where we are? That was my prediction. I think Andy was at eight. But you're still, okay. But it's like there's a chance. I guess it's four. And if it's four, then, you know, like the mock draft that happened with the. the eighth round and a 10 teamer, that's still perfectly fine. If it goes to six, because of the by week, now you're really inviting some chaos of just having to hold him on your bench and then really hoping he's ready to go. He won't be on your bench. It's a tough situation. Once the suspension happens, without IR eligibility, right? So instead of like trying to hold in the beginning of the year when you don't need, there's no buy weeks, right, in the beginning of the year. So you maybe can get by with a player sitting there doing nothing.
It's harder to have a roster spot filled up for those other weeks. You can make the argument, but I don't really, I don't see this as significantly worse. From a strategy standpoint, I prefer to draft players who get off to a hot start. I want players that, you know, I want to start 4 and O. It gives me more room to maneuver and make decisions and trades and waiver pickups that, you know, allow me space and time. to prepare for the playoffs. Now, obviously, if Rushie Rice gets into week six and then his suspension comes down for eight weeks, okay, at that point, you can maybe just drop him, you know, but I like getting off to a hot start. And I, we don't know what the suspension is going to be. He's obviously got this meeting on September 30th. I don't know if there's a way to push it into the next year still or not. But I still a possibility. I do like the fact that it's like, okay, if I draft this guy. You play him?
I can play him to start the year. So you're good with the... I did mention the tougher schedule to start the year on purpose. You know, that is one of the things that I think is intimidating. So whereabouts, Jay, are you okay taking him? I'm okay taking him when he's basically not one of my starters. So round six or seven? Yeah, exactly. I would say round seven. I would pull the trigger still. Also, I get the NFL. I'm sure everyone there is extremely busy. Like, you know, multi-billion dollar industry. I get it. Yeah, busy buying ESPN or whatever they're doing. They can't squeeze this meeting in? Like, what? How is it being planned this far in advance when they've known about the situation for like, when did it take place? Why do you need this meeting? Did, did Addison have this meeting?
Or did they just go? I think they all get a chance to go, like, share their side. It does feel weird that it's the end of September. Maybe you need more time to gather information because his legal situation was so significant. I don't know. But that is the lay of the land as of today, what we know, and I'm sure we'll have updates for you. It makes it, it is a gamble. It's a huge gamble. There could be that, you know, I don't know what the odds are. Maybe it's a 10% chance it gets pushed to another year. I mean, you get surprised. You take them. If you get Rashi Rice in the 6th, 7th round,
And he plays the whole year. And he plays the full season. He just stole. So it's wild. Dan Campbell said Sam Laporta. He's going to miss a little bit of time. It's been rumored to be only a few days, though, still expected for week one. Yeah, he said it was not serious. Chris Godwin, at least the most recent report from Scott Reynolds, said he would be shocked if he wasn't on the pup to start the year. Yeah, I mean, I expect he's going to miss the first month of the season and then come back slow. I have a funny feeling we'll talk about him a little bit more later. Shoulder Sanders. Is he a my guy? Yeah, Rashi Rice, Chris Godwin, both my guys. Shadour Sanders, unlikely to play in the second preseason game with the oblique injury. That's a bummer for him. And then this is, this is, I don't know, Beckham's agent must have paid Tom Pelosi. Wait, oh, oh.
He must have paid us. Why are we? We are choosing to put this in our show now. I didn't know who tweeted it. And I was before you jumped, I'm like, oh, I'm going to guess. This is Palisera. Oh, you were right. Yeah. He, of course it is. He's reporting that Beckham has drawn interest from several teams and plans on the take. Tom's on the take. Tom is. This is a scratch my back. I'll scratch your stitch. He really is. For all of his people. The reason he gets some good scoops. is because he's like, yeah, okay, I'll put this out for you. Next week will be Beckham looks better than he's ever looked. No one. All pro pro bowler from several teams is a flat out lie. Like there's there is if O'Dell Beckham Jr. signs a contract. I'll eat.
cold SpaghettiOs, whatever, you know, what do you do? Oh, SpaghettiOs a cottage cheese. Oh, that's disgusting. Oh, it's delicious. During the show, but it's not cold. But the nice thing is, I don't have to do that because no one's signing O'Dow Beckham Jr. Oh, oh, I'm not going that far. I think he probably finds a team, but I don't think a bunch of teams are interested and I don't think it's going to be a good deal and I don't think he's going to do anything. But, um, you can eat. your humble pie or whatever it is. Spaghettios. That was new. He's like, please sign. I'm really, I've been on a health kick. I haven't had SpaghettiOs in a while. I would really like. Oh, come on. This isn't real. Oh, that's, that's. All right. What are you trying to do back there, Matt? Like we, I was going to hit the breaking news button. You buffoon? He's trying to. You're trying to give us fake information during a man recording? Just.
We got like a slack update that he's coming to Baltimore, but it was just him signing last year. Thanks for nothing, Matt. All right, that was news and notes. Sponsored by Progressive Insurance Quote today at progressive.com, progressive casualty insurance company affiliates and third party insurers. Not available in all states or situations coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. It is time for my guys. I was told we were redoing the video drop for my guys this year. I canceled it. We should have. Did you cancel it? I don't know. That's retro now, guys. It's cool. It's one of the worst things that I've ever seen. Horrific. That's just like this episode is too important. It's a horror movie. Too big for that kind of. Those lips? That's disgusting. That was our prime animator. We paid him zero dollars. I do have an update as I see one person did get
my three and i haven't scoured jason's entire one but at least one person got jasons oh really yeah oh fantastic well we will send you a swag pack do we uh i mean do you guys want to go first do me to go first what do you want to do here do you are you you're up you're up let's get this one out of the way jamison williams james williams is my my guy for 2025 i i alluded to the fact very early in the offseason that if his draft cost does not rise significantly, that he was most likely going to be here. Jameson Williams is currently going in the late fifth round on Sleeper, the late seventh round on ESPN. This was the wide receiver 19 last year. He's being drafted at the wide receiver 27. My guy is always around.
You know, the story of a my guy is draft cost, upside potential. Last year, over 1,000 yards, seven touchdowns. He gets the end of rounds. He gets the rushing opportunity. He was one of nine players in the last decade with 1,000 plus receiving yards on fewer than 100 targets. But what I love about the offseason buzz, the vibes, all of the conversations around their offense, he's taking those next steps. He is a true top 12 potential type of wide receiver with the physical. gifts, skills, and abilities that he has. He is moved all over the field and yet is a full-time guy. He was the primary X receiver in two wide, the Z and three wide, and then he lined up in the slot 36% of the time. He runs super high value routes. It's the explosive play type of situation with him, post, go routes, crossers. He was, you know, on those routes in particular, he's targeted more than Chase, more than Jefferson, and he's got those kind of skills and abilities.
He's the 80-yard touchdown guy. He's the guy that can go out there and do major, major damage and play action. And unlike previous off seasons, the drumbeat right now is so positive around James and Williams. Yes. And so a true breakout for him, it's very clear that you can go from wide receiver 19. You get those target totals up. You get more of those opportunities. He's a threat for double-digit touchdowns. I think those are all within the, you know, the realm of outcomes. You've got comments this offseason. I'll just give you some of that fluff because that's what my guys, you know, we're going to bring some of that up. John Morton, I mean, their offensive coordinator talks about Jameson Williams. He has been unbelievable, unbelievable in the meetings, the attention to detail, excited to have him out there. It's going to be a breakout year for him. Previous years, it's like he's got a long way to go. He's got to figure a lot of things out. Dan Campbell was always equivocating. We always had doubts. Like if you look at- We used to make fun of the-
You know, we talk about negative news is more important than positive news this time of year. And we would always bring up the comments like, this does not seem good for Jameson Williams. And it's completely 180 now. Yeah, no, it's been very, very positive. And when you really look at this, like, you still haven't seen a full season out of him. That was a wide receiver 18 finish in half point in 15 games last year. He played 12 the year before. He played six as a rookie. You haven't gotten the whole picture of Jameson Williams yet. I don't know if that's why he is discounted right now. I don't know if the perception of Jameson Williams is just wide receiver, two, three. Like, that's all you can think about or like it's going to be a very hit and miss. And I think you've got the opportunity this year to take it to the next level. So, you know, to me, that makes him a my guy. He's in that perfect range. A couple years ago, Evans was going much later.
Finally, you know, he was starting with Baker. You hadn't seen that together yet. I'm just very confident about Jameson Williams and the cost has not gone up. All right. Well, are you in, Mike? On James and Williams? Oh, I thought you're saying, am I up? Yeah, I'm very in on Jameson Williams. The breakout came at the right time to, in his career, to keep his draft costs down. Had he done this a year ago, I think we are not talking about him. going anywhere close to where he is going in ADP. So I, there, there's still, I can still see a path where it doesn't work. Um, because, you know, they, the offenses, there, even, um, uh, the other morning I was reading, I think it was a quote from Amanera on St. Brown saying like, yeah, the offense isn't firing like it had been in past training camps. So like, if we change it a little bit, it could not work out. But the, but.
ADP wise for his upside, it's tremendous. That is the one thing. Like when I look at Jameson Williams, I don't know if I'm as bullish on the full breakout happening. He certainly has the skill set to do it. He has the offense to do it. The path is there. But when he's being drafted as the wide receiver 29, it makes no sense to me. Like it really doesn't, like he finishes a top 20 wide receiver last year with missed games. And now he's being drafted. way below the biggest challenge for me actually is how how much do I overspend on James oh we've seen that because we've done mock drafts the answer's too much the first well there was one there was a third round one time but but the further you get in the draft the more you can make that choice right and the more that the ADP is variable and somebody might take a shot and luckily when I do my real draft I won't be announcing all of my ambitions and picks in front of the entire staff like we did on the show yesterday
But like I am definitely willing to go up around and take that shot because I want the potential of Jameson Williams. All right. I'll go next. I'm going to go with the player that I think is potentially and probably the best single value in all of fantasy football. That's my man. George Kittle. Yeah. Georgie Porgy pudding and pie. Tight in San Francisco 49ers. Maybe the best tight end in the league right now. George Kittles is the man. Okay, first of all, smelling salts. They're back, baby. They were outlawed for about a minute. George Kittle called up the office and said, I'm retiring there like, you can have your smelling salts. Second, he just signed a four-year $76 million extension. He's the highest paid tight in in the NFL. So if you're worried about the age, stop. That's dumb. The camp reports are glowing. Here's from ESPN's Nick Wagner.
Kittle and Purdy have been in sync all camp and continue with the deep ball Tuesday. Maybe it goes without saying, but we'll say it anyways. Kittle has had a tremendous camp. There are zero signs of a drop off and he looks every bit the guy. who was the best all-round tight-in in football in 2024. I sent you that quote, and I know the first thing you thought when I sent you that quote was it was going to be something bad about George Kittle getting hurt. Because San Francisco has not avoided the injuries. No, they haven't. He is fine. He is well, and he will benefit from all those injuries. So here's the thing in 2025. Tight-in strategy is very similar to how it's been pretty much the last decade. Either go early, early, early on a tight-in stud or go late, late, late. Okay, so the earlys are Bowers, Trey McBride, and Kittle.
Well, if you go early with Bowers, who I love, he's awesome, you do not get Drake London or Jonathan Taylor or Bucky Irving or Josh Jacobs. Those are really impactful fantasy assets. If you go early with Ray McBride, you get no Chase Brown. You get no T. Meat Higgins. You get no Kyron Williams. You're sacrificing real studs. Now, if you go early with Kittle, you're missing out on Breece Hall or Terry McLaren or Alvin Camara. Oh, I want to miss out on Brees Hall. If I compare those options between, oh, I've got to take one of these three stud tight ends, I'm fine missing out on Brees Hall or Tara McLaurna, Alvin Camara, and getting Chase Brown and Drake London. Like, that sounds like the path. Kittle is too cheap compared to the other elite options, in my opinion. Literally in the UDK, he's in a tier of his home. He's not moved.
Well, he, well, when I put him on the board, he's been like an all year. Did he move? Did he move? He was in the fifth. Okay. Um, now if you look at his ADP, he's, he's a late third round, sometimes fourth round, sometimes fourth round pick, um, but he's great. Here is, I think, the most telling stat. If you, because you, you say, well, okay, you sacrifice less to get kittled than the other two guys, but can he be as good as those other two guys? He's older. Those other two guys are, are alphas. Over the last three seasons, we have, you know, a lot of times we're like, oh, look at this eight-game sample. Look at this six-game, you know, extrapolated to a 17-game pace. We have 38 games in the last three seasons where Brock Purdy has played with George Kittle in full games. Eight without 38 together. In 38 games, he averages 12.67 half-p-PR points. Now, if you don't know how that is, like what, how good is that?
How good is it? Last year, the number one tied in did not score 12.67 fantasy points. He scored 12.2. That was Brock Bowers. The year prior, the number one good. It's number one good. The year prior, Sam Laporta scored 11.5 fantasy points per game. In 38 games together, yeah. And so what's crazy is it used to be George Kittle, this amazing yardage guy, such a great yards after catch, not a not a red zone guy, not a touchdown guy, but he's completely morphed into a red zone monster. I mean, he's targeted 33% of his routes inside the 20. That's number one for all tight ends. 33. Hmm. Sir. Sir. Sir. Sir. Have some respect. There is a draft to Chase Brown again. There is a sanctity.
of numbers yeah sorry and singing it's one of those days he has 18 tomorrow it's 44 yes what are we up to you yeah probably um 18 red zone receptions that was fourth among all pass catchers and if you just look at the situations final thing i'll say here between the top three which i love grabbing one of the top three and kittles the one i prefer bowers last year dealt with no one else to target you had jacobi meyers I mean, the fourth highest target last year on the Raiders. And no running game. Yeah. And no running game in Las Vegas. Well, and no one to throw the ball to. But the fourth highest target on the Raiders last year was Alexander Madison. Nice. Yeah. Trey McBride, and obviously this year, they spent their second round pick and their fourth round pick on Jack Bash and Deontay Thornton. So they've got other people to target to. McBride, last year was the clear number one target, way more targeted than Marvin Harrison. As a Cardinals fan, I would assume we all hope.
that Marvin Harrison's the number one target in this offense. Like he develops into the number one. Not that that'll make McBride bad, but like he should be, he's the number four pick overall. With Kittle, he's got to deal with Debo Sam. Oh, no, no, Debo's gone. Okay. But Brian, Iyuk's there. Oh, wait, no, he's injured. Pop, pop, pop, pop. That's right. I mean, we do love Jennings. Oh, wait, no, Jennings is currently injured. Okay. But Pierceall, just back from injury. Maybe year two is better. I mean, Jacob Cowing is there. No, he's injured. There's too much guarantee. He's there. He's injured. DeMarcus Robinson. He's suspended. Like George Kittle is so needed. He is a value. He is a stud. Don't overthink it. Draft George Kittle. Yeah. Right now, as of today, Bowers 204, McBride 302, Kittle 4.2. Yeah, the, the, the value is Kittle. And you don't sacrifice those upper echel on talents.
It makes sense. All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back with Mike's first, my guy. All right, Mike, what do you got for us? It's 2025. It's not going to be Kelsey, I guess. No, it will not be Travis Kelsey for me. But I'm trying to figure out what order I wanted to go in. But Jason kept saying this guy's name. So we'll start there. Chase Brown. Yeah. Oh, man. I would draft him in any draft. Chase Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals. I am madly in love with the situation. And he, I mean, he has consistently been in the third round. He currently still is there on Sleeper, Yahoo, ESPN. He's looking like a mega value almost going into the fourth round. But here is my case for Chase Brown. Last year, you know, the Bengals, the situation, we know it's good for running backs. We just, we're not sure who it's going to be. The team started off with Zach Moss.
And it wasn't working that great. And then Zach Moss gets injured. Chase Brown takes the job and becomes an absolute fantasy superstar winning people leagues. He finishes the RB 11. But from week 9 on, he was the running back 5 in fantasy. And the final eight game run, he was on pace for 414 total opportunities. Like he was a true workhorse. And not just on the ground, as a receiver, 54. for 360 yards and four receiving touchdowns. That run I was talking about, week nine on, the most routes among all running backs, the second most receptions, the third most running back yards in that time. And when they get in close to the goal line, like the Bengals throw. They're like, hey, Joe Burroughs is the captain of this team. Let's open it up and let's him be the, let's let Burrow keep throwing. So they end up throwing the ball to.