Head-to-Head Mock Draft Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 6/28

So the player that I wanted to come back to me as a player I draft in every single draft right now, just because of his... Oh, Mike Williams, for sure. Yeah, it's Mike Williams. Mike Williams, the best option, the highest fantasy output in Los Angeles for Justin Herbert. We've seen it. We'll see it again. He got the extension. I will say that I look at my wide receiver cord, and I have bought a lot of volatility with Jamar Chase and Mike Williams. I'm going to have some weeks where I'm not going to be...

beatable because of those two players. But I'll be looking to stabilize the wide receiver room with a more consistent body later on. Yeah, when I said, oh, Mike Williams, it's because I saw his name in the list. And we're doing this, you know, obviously live. We're making the analysis and I'm not checking players off of my own. And I haven't printed off the UDK.

cheat sheet like I would do in a real draft. And my highest ranked wide receiver was not Cortland Sutton. It was Mike Williams, who I would have drafted if I saw him. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. When you were reading names. Yeah. I was so happy that you read not his name. I believe it because that was a great pick. Joe Burrow goes next in Hollywood, finally off the board along with teammate Kyle Murray.

Michael Pittman at 512. What's your reaction to him drop into 512? Is that... Yeah, it's a great value. In the fifth round, I mean, this is a guy who last year was, I believe, wide receiver 15. And so you're talking about a guy whose floor is the wide receiver 20? I mean, he is the clear cut one here. I don't know how high his ceiling is. We've got experience with Matt Ryan and...

the great Julio not necessarily connecting around the end zone, which will be the real fantasy question mark for him. But I think that's a great value there. It was really tough for me between Cortland Sutton and him. All right. I have some wide receivers I love that are on the board here.

But I'm not going to take one. I'm going to go with what I consider to be a tier break at the running back position. Oh, going fourth running back. I am. I'm going to go with Miles Sanders here in the sixth round, the fifth pick of the sixth round. Beyond Miles Sanders are a bunch of names that I think are more ambiguous, the Chase Edmonds of the world. You got Rashad Penny and Ken Walker mixed in there. It shocks me that...

Ken Walker is somehow being drafted ahead of Rashad Penny. It is. No sense whatsoever. The name at wide receiver I was really strongly considering was Brandon Cook's there. I find myself drafting him in a ton of drafts now, but I went Miles Sanders. Yeah, that makes sense. Brandon Cook's always undervalued. He went the pick between ours, so he's not able to be picked by me. I probably would have gone Miles Sanders.

as I've got three wide receivers, two running backs. I'm looking at the tight end. I do think that Dalton Schultz is the last tight end left, maybe a Zacherts, that are okay in the middle rounds. You're going to call the doctor? But I'm not going to call the doctor here. In the sixth round, there are still too many good running backs and wide receivers to grab. For me, it's either I get one of the top studs at tight end.

Or I am literally, I am fine grabbing with my last pick of tight end because there's a handful of them that I like, you know, the Irv Smith and Gerald Everett's and Cole Commets that I like just as much as the, you know, the majority of tight ends. And I'm probably going to stream the position if I don't get one of those studs. Dalton Schultz is the sole exception, but he's not worth the six rounder. So I'm going to sit here and look at the running back position first. The guy that I have pined for, spoken well of is Kareem Hunt.

Yeah, how do you not take Green Hunt? He was the running back 10 to two years ago. And obviously that when he was was without Deshawn Watson. So I think that people are going to start falling more and more as the Deshaun Watson news looks negative for this year's outlook. But there will still be fantasy points here. I will take Cream Hunt. I don't know if you're around the office when there were some rumors of Deerness Johnson being shipped out. I just don't know if you wanted to speak directly to Kyle on that or.

Would you enjoy that very much if that were to happen? I just can't fathom a world where that happens. Those are their three running backs. They said there was a camp. There's a camp trade candidate, Giannis Johnson. It makes sense because you don't need him at all. And he's a good running back. But they, you know, they paid him enough. Jason's roster right now, Cooper Cup, T. Higgins, Corlund, Sutton at wide receiver, Ezekiel Elliott, James Connor, and Kareem Hunt at running back.

My roster thus far, Jamar Chase, Mike Williams at wide receiver, Aaron Jones, David Montgomery, Elijah Mitchell, and Miles Sanders at Running Back. One of the things that I think fantasy players, especially new ones, look, it's great to build that beautiful, picturesque, hang it on a wall, starting lineup. It's so much fun. I love it. I love having that team that says, man, if these guys stay healthy all year long, this is beautiful, but they never do, ever.

You will never go through a season where all your players stay healthy. That's one of the reasons I went into another running back position there. I felt like Miles Sanders was a tier above. I have about 10 wide receivers I have confidence in beyond Brandon Cooks. And so that's why I made that choice. Now before you make your next pick, Jason, I am curious. I don't know if we've ever done this, but I'm going to put Kyle on the spot here. Middraft, six picks in, both of us have a roster. Whose roster do you like more this far?

Mr. Borgignoni. I want to say not Kareem Hunt roster, but I'm going to say Jason's. It's more balanced. Yeah, even with your Kreme Hunt. So I gave it a multi-sentence, like kind of lecture on why depth at different positions matters. And you said Jason because it's more balanced through six rounds. Well, also because you have absolutely no depth at wide receiver.

Yeah, after your death comment. All right, so I am back on the clock. Yeah, let me run it back real quick here. Alan Robinson, Jalen Hertz off the board at 609. I figured you were waiting for him, which unfortunately, Dak Prescott went at 702, which is another name I would have been waiting for. Mooney off the board. Hopkins goes at 611. Hopkins is going to be so difficult because I'm going to want to take him. That's what I realized. Because of how far he's dropping and the name.

My emotional response to seeing Hopkins this far down in the draft is he's going to come back in six weeks and then I can really enjoy DeAndre Hopkins, but that is a long time in fantasy football. Yeah, if this is a best ball league where you get all 17 weeks, so not like the best ball mania tournament where there is still playoffs and you get all 17 weeks, then I like Hopkins and you don't have to worry about a roster, a bench spot being taken up. But in a normal redraft league, I.

Hopkins needs to be like ninth or tenth round for me to take him, and I still kind of don't want. I just don't want to have to have a clog on my roster for that long. That's half the season when it comes to making the playoffs. It's hard. We were in a situation with Michael Thomas, what, a year ago, or two years ago with the suspension and not knowing where to take him. You're back on the clock, Jason. No Cordarral Patterson, no Thiel and no Amonara St. Brown. They just went ahead of you.

Give me your considerations. So this is where I really check, you know, I needed Cream Hunt. I like the pick. But in the seventh, I'm going to check and see if a Dalton Schultz or a Jalen Hertz is there. Both of those guys were just drafted. I would go to the tight end or the quarterback here at this point. But those would be the guys I would want. I like Russell Wilson, but he's, you know, Tom Brady is a little too early to draft him. I'm going to continue to add the depth you just spoke of. And I'm going to add it with a great.

Depth piece. His roster's in balance now, Kyle. Rashad Penny. Four running backs, three wide receivers. Rashad Penny, if you haven't watched his career, basically any time that he has been given the ball more than 10 times in a game, he has dominated for fantasy. It unfortunately has been way, way less than we would want for going into, what is this, his fourth year?

He has the opportunity here to be the starter and to be a great fantasy asset. I don't need him to be with the way my roster is built, but the upside is tremendous. So I will add him to my stable. All right. I am going back to the wide receiver well here with a player that is stepping into a 145 target absence on this offense. He drops, and I draft him everywhere. Rashad Bateman is my pick here in the middle of the seventh round. Love that pick.

It's going to be Mark Andrews and Rashad Bateman as the high-low offense for this Ravens roster. And I think he's a very, very talented player. I was so excited. He got off to a bumpy start with injuries and then obviously Hollywood being there. But I'm excited for this season for Rashad Bateman. Traylon Burks, Dallas Goddard, Tony Pollard, Russell Wilson, ending the seventh round. Drake London, Ayuk. Ayukin.

Tyler Lockett. No hot Lockett there for Tyler with Gino Smith. Cold Lockett. I think he'll be fine with Baker. Oh, yeah. Some rumors about Baker ending up there. Did you see somebody sharing, I don't know if it was real, but the Seahawks team shop had like a Baker jersey that somebody had found? I'm sure that wasn't real. It's probably fake, except for he's about to get traded there.

Well, I mean, Carolina is still a possibility. No one is still a possibility. But I do think he ends up in Seattle. And this is because the Seahawks just always find a way to get it done. And they're going to go from Russell Wilson to just getting a free baker, who is not a bad quarterback like Drew Locke. I am going to take Tom Brady in the eighth round. This is the time to draft him. Russ went at 712. Brady has been, you know, the last two years just a dominant force at the quarterback position in fantasy.

And getting him in the eighth round, I am comfortable there. Regardless of the timeline, he is going to throw the ball a lot. I'm hoping that Trey Lance gets back to me in the ninth round. That will be my pick automatically. But I have an even more automatic pick. This is the eighth round. This is my wide receiver four. I don't need him, but I get all the upside of my man, Gabriel Davis, the angel himself.

Gabe Davis. Oh, the angel game. Oh, yeah, the angel, Gabriel. Try that one on for size. I just did. You liked it. You liked it a lot. Devante Smith, Hunter Renfro, Elijah Moore, Devin Singletary, Aaron Rogers, finishing the eighth round. Alave, Gordon. You've got Jameson, William, Zach Earts, Matthew Stafford, and then Jason Instatook. Trey Lance, who probably was not going to last one more pick. So Derek Carr went right after Trey Lance.

Three quarterbacks off the board ahead of my pick. Don't mind that. Say how nice it is drafting from the sixth spot. It's one of those that I look forward to every time I get the middle of the draft. Because this draft has worked out swimmingly. I went with Robert Woods, who I almost took ahead of Brady in the eighth round. Robert Woods is going to be the number one target in Tennessee all season long. He's going to soak up the volume that A.J. Brown used to take.

And all signs point to a very healthy Robert Woods starting the season in Tennessee. Pat Freymouth next, Watson off the board, Gassicki, Edmonds, Carter, Claypool, James Cook, and Christian Watson. There is just two picks left in this draft. I had some hope that maybe Zacherts would make it back to me here. I obviously have to take a tight in with one of these last two picks. It's not going to be Rob Grunkowski. I'm not making that mistake again.

Looking at some options at wide receiver, you have the kind of question mark of Cadarious Tony, Alan Lizard, and the offense for, see, this is why I like the Miles Sanders pick is because I don't feel obligated to take a less than running back over the last three rounds just to check the depth box and draft a Ramandre Stevenson, who will, you know, maybe Stevenson has a role this year that matters if injury happens.

but I would have felt much more stuck. Instead, I can pivot. I'm going to take Russell Gage in the 10th round following up the Robert Woods pick. Russell Gage and Robert Woods really helped. I mean, because your team started out with a lot of volatility, high-end wide receivers, but not a lot of depth behind them. To go into the 9th and 10th rounds and get Robert Woods and Russell Gage, they fit your roster really, really well. And I don't like...

complimenting. No, I know, and I'm sure that hurt. Yeah, it might be thrown up. James Robinson at 106. Jason, you have two picks left. You do need a tight end and then you've got a flexible spot. Usually I will wait for the very last round for my tight end, as I've said, because there's guys like Irv Smith that I like, Gerald Everett, that I like, that you can usually get with that last pick. But there is a tight end that I have been rising on recently. I actually think that he will finish as a tight end one. I have him statted there.