Fantasy Football - Mock Draft! + Flashy & Trashy Picks - Podcast for 7/15

All right, you're on the clock, Mike. No Rashi Rice available for you. Which that is a bummer because then when you look at the wide receiver positions, McLaren, Evans, DJ Moore, Sutton, Metcalf. Those guys are not as exciting to me, just speaking of trying to find what their ceiling is. The running back room, I think it's still got enough, enough interesting names for me to take Georgie Porgy, George Kittle here at the back of the third round. I mean, if Joanne Jennings wants to skip any time in camp, okay. It doesn't bother me if I got George Kittle on my team. So Kittle was the other name that I had to decide between Rice and Kittles. So I had some dreams that maybe he would, he'd fall through, but not even close. Mike ends up Gentie, Brian Thomas Jr. and George Kittle. Kyle goes with Evans next. Then Josh Allen off the board as the first quarterback, Omarian Hampton, as the first running back for Betsy's team.

And Lamar Jackson off the board to Kyle doesn't want to get caught at the back end of a quarterback run, it looks like, because he's got a long wait ahead of him. Mike, you are back on the clock with your fourth round pick. I am, and I was hoping that I would get one of the running backs who I fancied at this point. You're talking James Cook, Kenneth Walker, Alvin Camara, Joe Mixon. I think all those guys that has a running back too in the fourth. That's some good value. I believe I have James Cook technically a couple spots higher. But come on, guys, the heart wants what the heart wants. Ken Bone Walker will be on my team. And for the love of God, man, just come on. Stay healthy. Do some yoga. Take some peptides. I don't, whatever you got to do, man. Just stay healthy, please. Wow. Drink some milk. Yeah. Ken Walker.

Ken Walker is, look, he's, he's got all the talent in the world. He's so good. He's the T. Higgins of running back. Yes. Yeah, I think that's, I've got a type of player I really like. Yeah. Yeah, you do. Really good on the field, not always there. Yeah, not always on the field. Yeah, it's tough. I, I'm looking at the board right now. It's my pick. Henry, AJ Brown, and Rashi Rice on my team. Kittles gone. I figured you'd take Ken Walker over Joe Mixen. So Joe Mixen is on the short list right here. I could go quarterback, but I don't think I'm going to do that. I think I want to build this team 12 team league. Stay with the positions. I need more depth. It's a little hairy going Henry Mixen as a combo. A little bit aged. You're mixing over Camara for you? Well, yeah, that's what I'm looking. I see Camara there and I see James Cook still there.

I'm checking my rankings here to verify anything from this morning, and James Cook is still back behind Joe Mixing. So it feels like that's the pick, but the button click is slower than I thought it'd be. Joe Mixing at 405. Oh, no. Starting to cool your jets on. No, I'm not cool in my, it's the, it's the Henry mixing combo, really. It's the like. Just the age? Yeah, because both players have the potential. Like both players, it's come into an end. And it shouldn't be this year. But I like mixing over a guy like Ken Walker because I like the situation for the team. I like the fact they're going to win more games, be in the red zone. Mixing was so effective last year. The number one running back through the first 11 weeks is just wear down. Like the second half of the year for a Henry mixing combo could be tough. And then you got AJ Brown. He's also not as young. So I don't have as much. And then Rashi Rice coming off an injury. I got a little bit of a scary team here.

Cortland Sutton off the board next. Alvin Camarra goes at 407, Jaden Daniels off the board at 408. Papa Josh finally pulls the trigger on James Cook and Jalen Hertz goes next to Jake. So Jason, you are back on the clock with the impervious Bijan and then Jonathan Taylor and T. Higgins. There's two players here that I want. So I've got to look. I'm near the turn. Look and see who I think Al Borland might or might not take. But when it comes down to that, it's more about which player I would rather. not lose the most. And that would be D.K. Metcalf. So I will draft D.K. Metcalf. I've got Bejohn and Jonathan Taylor. So T. Higgins and D.K. Metcalf in the third and fourth round, I think, balanced my team out nicely. Joe Burrow was that other player. I know Al had the chase stack. I had the T. Higgins stack. And I was like, but the thing is, is if I. So what happened? So Al took Joe Burrow after I took.

DK Matt Kaff and he grabbed James Connor as well. So he completed the stack with Jamar Chase. I was tempted to take him there to complete the stack with T. Higgins, but I like a lot of the later quarterback. So I'm just going to, at this point now that the big three tight ends are gone and the big five quarterbacks, that's to me where I'm like, I'm focused on running backs and wide receivers for a while. So I'm just going to take whoever I think has the highest upside of that group left. And this might surprise, in fact, I know this will surprise you guys, because we haven't talked about him a lot. He's very high in my rankings. I still see a really, really solid, a big improved season coming this year. I think he is the clear one for the team, even though there's a lot of debate, is DJ Moore. DJ Moore is a good wide receiver to have it as my third wide receiver in the fifth round.

I believe he's my wide receiver 20 right now. It's funny because Higgins, Metcalf, and DJ Moore are three players who we already, there's no question about the talent. And yet all three have lived in different places in fantasy players like, you know, do they like them? Do they not like them? They're all three. Does it feel good? Does it not feel good? I think they're all three super talented players who have had success in fantasy that people are burned out with. And so they're all three kind of truly undervalued right now in fantasy drafts. RJ Harvey goes after DJ Moore here, RJ Harvey, Isaiah Pacheco, Terry McLaren, who would have been my pick here in the fifth had he made it that far, Teteroa McMillan and Jaden Waddle in the middle of the fifth round here. I have Henry Mixon at running back. Kurt's building the super dolphin stick. Someone's got to put an end of that. He does have Tyree Kill and Jalen Waddle. Well, Andy.

You are the pick before him. So if you want to take Tua. Yeah, cool, man. I mean, speaking of that, the Jason allowing the, the borough, Jamar Chase stack to actually, like, connect. If you, if you see that happen on your draft board, that is going to be. There's no way he takes, there's no way he takes D.K. McCaff with those two bigs. Would you have taken D.K. McCaff if he had taken Borough? Yeah. Yeah, I had three players queued up. Oh, you did. Okay. Okay. I still would rather have him have DK. Man, I will say this might. You running the league. Letting that unleash on the league. If this was not a mock draft, if this was a real league where I'm going to have to play these teams and I worry about the every team in the league, I probably would have avoided that just to stop him from completing that stack because I know how devastating that stack can be. But I wanted my team to just.

look the best that my team could look and I didn't care about other teams. That's fair. Let me tell you something. I'm going to say this because I think it is only to my benefit to say it out loud. As the League of Record Manager with Jamar Chase, it has gone through my mind to take Joe Burrow in the first round of our draft. That's how much I want the stack. And I feel like I can say it because if that scares anybody. take burrow go do it i dare you making a bad choice either way take burrow early like it doesn't hurt me at all but i i'm going to tell you right now i'm going to try real hard to do it because that combo will be it is devastating i mean that's so much fun i don't care about the other players yeah it's too fun all right i'm on the clock and uh you know what time it is it's jamo time jamison williams he would not i thought that was two rounds ago i know thank goodness it wasn't right my goodness

Jameson Williams with the eighth pick of the fifth round. Mike, you said he would have been your pick? Yeah, I would have taken him. All right. Well, Zay Flowers goes right after him and Mike, you're back on the clock. Gentie and Ken Walker are your running backs? You got Brian Thomas Jr. holding down your whiteouts right now with Kittle at tight-in. So, man, I'm looking at, I'm just going to peek at the running backs. You're talking Montgomery. Aaron Jones. I don't love Aaron Jones. Montgomery wouldn't be. That's a nice consolation pick if I end up going Ronnie back here. What about Quinn Sean Judkins? I think that he's going to be missing some time for being a bonehead. Looking at the wide receivers, you got you got delightful wide receiver twos for their team in Devante Smith and George Pickens. And he got Chris Lave. Goodness gracious. He's the hardest player in every draft. The Briseau decision, I think, is really difficult.

The Chris Olavi one is at the wide receiver position. He's good. He's a good player. Where we don't want to take him, but then you do want to take him. Because you can talk yourself in and out of Olave with ease. Yeah. I mean, he's an A inconsistency in the last 17 games. When he's out on the field, he's always good. He's the clear number one for this team. Even with bad quarterback play, he's going to get it. But. Any concussion at any time could end everything. You know, in our Scotty Fishbowl league. He's lower in my rankings. It was just, if I want him, I would have to take him here. Yeah. In our Scott Fishbowl league, we did draft Chris O'Lave, obviously a risky pick. But when you're trying to beat 1,000 people in a league. Yeah, you play for upside. Yeah. So depending on your team formation, like in this situation, and Mike, you do what you want, obviously. But you're going to have to lean on him more because you took George Kittle in the third round. So.

Right. From the wide receiver position, OLAV, and an OLAV bet is your wide receiver two versus three. It's a different bet. Yeah, it really is. I'm going to go, I'm going to take the guy who's hired in my rankings, and I know it will make Kborg upset. Yes. No, that's the pick, man. I will take the ADP chalk right there, and I will take DeVantz. DeVonte Smith is a perfect combination. What Andy was just saying, where this is your wide receiver two, I do not want Olave to be my... relied upon wide receiver two. The upside when you grab him as your third or fourth, fantastic. But if I need to rely on someone weekend and week out, Devante Smith is much better. So big run of wide receivers here. McLaren, McMillan, Waddle, Williams, Zayflowers, Devonty Smith, the mic, and then George Pickens and Xavier Worthy round out the fifth. We've got Trayvion Henderson. Yeah, I was really hoping Henderson would make the back. So just to be clear, Mr. Betts has Omari and Hanson and Trayvion Henderson.

starting the year there is a there's a very high percentage chance in week one when both those teams run out on the field those guys are sitting on the bench there's a chance so it's different like you take the you know two wide receivers early you are curious about what kind of work you but you know the the ADP of you find guys that you can like Jerome Ford that you know you can survive with over the the first couple weeks at least in terms of volume So Henderson and then David Montgomery, a good value at 602 there to Kyle. Mike, you are back on the clock. You get the same choice. You get to decide if you want a lobby again. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to take Chris Olive and I'm going to figure out at the end of the draft if I'm happy about that. We'll be after the season. It's a mock draft. Yeah. So I want to let's just, let's experiment here because he's nowhere near that in my rankings.

Well, in light of the experimentation here, I'm going to make a pick that I don't think any of the three of us have done at all this offseason, but it actually makes sense on my team. I have Derek Henry and Mixing at running back, A.J. Brown, Jamison Williams, and Rashi Rice at wide receiver. Aaron Jones went right before me. Probably would have been the pick. But I'm actually going to take Patrick Mahomes. Oh, I'm going to Mahomes. Oh, you got the Kansas City. And Rashi Rice stack here is not Jason Burrow. No. But it is something I'm going to do here with a long wait ahead of me. I want to put Mahomes with Rashi Rice and see if I can catch a little bit of Mahomes magic this year. DeAndre Swift goes next. Jacoby Myers, Caleb Johnson, and then Travis Hunter, Roma Duns Day in the sixth round. Jason's on the clock. We'll grab his pick on the way when we get back.

all right jason who's been uh vigorously writing like a studious uh what's it like a clerk at all you know courtroom you know writing down yeah some notes i was doing it mostly to distract myself from the picks because i wanted caleb johnson so so bad that i knew i needed to have did you get him other options no i didn't the falcon is a toilet and grabbed Caleb Johnson, unfortunately. So that leaves me at a place where your math didn't, nothing in your, your notes over there got you what you needed with Caleb. They didn't. I thought if I just kept writing, right, you know, somehow it slipped to me, but it does, you know, it turns out that makes no sense. Um, so I'm here if, if I look now that we're into the, you know, I'm at the six, seven turn.

I can peek at the tight end, see if there's any I love. There's not. I mean, Hawkinson would definitely be in consideration. But if I were to grab him, Owl already has McBride, I would do that with my next pick. At the quarterback position, I love Bow Nix, but I like Kyler. I like Brock Purdy. I like a lot of these guys. Baker Mayfield. I'm not too worried about either of those. So I just want to keep building depth, whether that's at running back or at a wide receiver. And right now I'm going to take the guy that I think is best for my team. I've got two running backs, three wide receivers. So I'm going to look to the running back position. And I'm going to take a very sad consolation prize from Caleb. I really wish it was Caleb. I'm going to take Tony Pollard. I still believe that he will get the majority of work. And I think Cam Ward changes that offense to not be putrid. They are one of the teams. Like when you look at the teams who are going to turn things around in a drastic way,

it's almost always the quarterback. And so this year, who's it going to be? Maybe it's the Bears and Caleb Williams gets it together, but maybe it's the number one pick overall in the draft. That's a nice way to spin it. You know that if somebody came running out of the locker room and you thought it was going to be Caleb Johnson and Tony Pollard came running out in this place. Yeah. You wouldn't feel very good. No, I wouldn't. Godwin and Ridley go next to Al Borland goes back to back wide outs. Those guys will run alongside Jamar Chase for him. Jason, you're back on the clock, though. You can take Tajay Spears. You want to go tight and tight. Oh, that sounds fun. I'll let you play them both in one spot. You will? Yeah, I'll allow it. I'm going to go ahead and grab Hawkinson. I think of the tight ends that are left, I don't want to play the Travis Kelsey experience.

Jono Smith is dead as a stealer. Evan Ingram, I don't believe. Mark Andrews is toast. You've been really anti-Ingram, and that's probably a good balance here on the show so that no one over-investing. No Lepa there? No doubt that I have no doubt that he is involved and gets a lot of targets, but I have doubt that he gets eight yards of reception. He just has been such a worthless. efficiency guy this you know the last recent memory that um i don't i think the broncos can do better than evidenting room yeah it's it's a different prototype of tight end for your team it is it can be very nice to have the ppr numbers but you're not getting the big games and the touchdowns as often hawkinson leporta do go back to back laporta would have been my target here in the seventh round judy piercel addison

Pearsall pick. Pretty sneaky there. I was between Hawkinson and Pierceall. That was my decision. Sneaky pick. Addison and then Bo Knicks off the board to Kurt putting me back on the clock. I'm going to go Jaden Reed. I'm going to take Jaden Reed here in the seventh round who I still think has some undiscovered upside in Green Bay. He should. Like he really should. It's a maddening situation. I mean, you go watch the film of Jaden Reed and it blows you away. He is a. He's a very talented wide receiver who they just don't want to play all the time. Well, Mike, you are back on the clock. Chris Oliva, your most recent selection. You're here in the seventh round. And so like quarterback, there's no one really exciting there. My tight end position is held down by George Kittle. So just, you know, looking at guys, ADP certainly starting to matter less and less, especially that were.

drafting with all live people here. So I'm just going to take a player I want to get on my team. I'm going to take Josh Downs. I know he's my wide receiver four, but you've got to build up some depth, and I think he has a chance to have a really special year. Oh, come on, Kyle. All right. Kyle took Travis Kelsey at 7-11. Oh, you wanted the Mahomes super duper stack? I actually passed on Kelsey at the Jaden Reed pick, figuring I could get him in the eighth and do the Mahomes Kelsey Rashi stack. But no, Kyle had to fight for Kelsey. Good pick, Mike, with downs. I like that one there in the seventh. I think you're right. At this point, you've got to throw ADP more out the window and take the guys you like. Jalen Warren finishes the seventh round. Brian Robinson. So he got his flashy, Hampton and Henderson. And then he went his trashy, Brian Robinson and Jalen Warren, who will get the job done in those first few weeks. Like that's a play those guys and then flip over to the other guys halfway through. I like it. Flashy and trashy.

All right, Diggs goes at 802, Mike. You're back on the clock. Three wide receivers in a row. You and I both sitting with just two running backs right now. Yeah, so that is exactly where I'm looking. I just deciding how much. Don't look too long. It's not nice out there. No, I know. We're at the point now. Do you want to take the projected starter for week one and who even knows if they will hold on to the job? Who knows even when they're a starter if they'll do anything good? You're talking, you know, Tyrone Tracy, Najee. ETN, Ramandre. Giovante is, it still is interesting to me having the Dallas Cowboys situation. I'd love you to have him. I am, I don't think I'm going to do that. I'm going to, man, I'm going to jump, scroll way down here. And I'm looking at Scatibu and J.K. Dobbins right now of who do I think?

is in actuality will scataboo take the job from tracy the draft capital says maybe it's the but it's not a for sure and then jk david's with all the reports of is he actually going to be the starter and this is your third running this is my third running back uh but assuming health i have two higher profile guys so i'm not worried about yeah you got to presume health with ken walker yes you do yes you do jason uh So I'm going to buy the Denver report a little bit more at this point. I'm going to take Dobbins. Mike didn't like one bit of that pick right there. I think it was the right pick for your team versus him versus Cam Scataboo. Scataboo could just be absolutely nothing. Yeah, he could. So Mike went Dobbins. Keon Coleman went next. I think he's good, man. I think Cam Scataboo is good. I think he.

Does take the job. I wouldn't take J.K. Dobbins over Camp Scataboo in every situation. I was saying with you having two running backs, one of which is Kenneth Walker, that's where. Is the paper mache? Yeah, that's where I worry about. Well, I took Jerome Ford at the 805. I get it. So I don't like what's going on there with Judkins one bit. I get it. So I took Ford. Naji goes next. Either of those would have been fine there. Baker? Travis ETN, Johnny Smith, and Cooper Cup. Jason back on the clock, eighth round pick. You won't need to get a quarterback in the next four picks, but otherwise you're all set to go. Yeah, I've got three running backs, three wide receivers, a tight end. So I'm very balanced. I'm just going to try to take whoever I think can make the most impact. And I believe that that is a rookie wide receiver who should be starting day one on the outside for CJ Stroud. I'm going to take Jaden Higgins.

That's unfortunate. Big guy who has perfect opportunity. This is a second round draft pick. So yeah. No, that's a great pick. It was him or Ford. I took Ford. And I regret it now that I don't have Higgins. So good pick. Tracy and Scataboo. Wow. What are you doing? Oh, that's that's soups interesting. That's the only way to get. two running backs that equals zero in New York. The best thing to do with a team that projects to be a horrifically bad offense is just get all their players. Scoop them up. What a great pick. You know what's funny? Yeah, I'll let you start them both in the same spot, Jeremy. What's funny is you're about to take Tajay Spears? I'm not. No, gross. No, I was going to take Camp Scataboo.

And when I saw him take Tyrone and Tracy, I was like, oh, heck yeah. So I get Scataboo. And then he took Scataboo, like an idiot. I'll let us shake out and drop. Which actually ended up helping me because I was looking at the two running backs I was between. And I want the heart wants with the heart wants. And that was Cam Scataboo. But I knew it wasn't the better pick at running back. I think the better pick is Jordan Mason. Oh, you dirty dog. Jordan Mason will get work. If Aaron Jones, the elder statesman, goes down, I think Jordan Mason will be awesome for fantasy. And in the meantime, he will be a usable depth piece. He's not just one of these guys that are a pure insurance option like Trey Benson. I think it is not an impossible situation that Jordan Mason will be the, even if they both play the whole season, that Mason ends up with more fantasy points. I think it's possible. And that's like Aaron Jones is like this weird.

because his value seems like it should be good. He's on the Minnesota Vikings, high-powered offense. I just don't want to draft him. Garando goes next in Giovante. Mike, you don't have to think about that anymore. Ramandre Stevenson, Evan Ingram and Tyler Warren, back-to-back tight ends here in the ninth round. I'm on the clock. I'm going to pull the trigger on a rookie wide receiver myself, Emeka Egbuka of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the ninth round. I would have rather Higgins found his way back to me, but he didn't. So Mike, you're back on the clock. Trey Harris goes directly after Egbuka. Good pick. All right, so three picks. One of them, I do need to take a quarterback. So let's take a gander over there. So we got, I mean, ADP-wise, golf, Kyler, Herbert, Jordan Love, Brock Purdy. There are still so many quarterbacks. Yeah. And the killer bees here on the end, they both took their.

quarterbacks, so I would be pretty surprised if they double dipped at the, with the talent that is on the board. Ah, man, with three spots left, I'm just, I'm, I'm wanting to build some running back depth. And, yeah, it's, it spears, Charbonnet, Rico. Uh, it's not a whole bunch of situations I like. So I'm going to go after, I'm going to target a high powered offense. I'm going to take their pass catcher, presumed pass catcher. I'm going to take Austin Echler. All right, Echler goes to Mike in the ninth round. Charbonnet goes next to Kyle. Khalil Shakir falls all the way to 912, which is a great value. Do you guys, in teams that were, which heaven forbid you be forced into it, but were you to Ken Walker, would you have preferred to ensure Ken Walker there with Charbonnet in the ninth? I think on your team I would have. But I don't mind if you. Just wondering, like, are you going to prioritize that situation? He's one of them.

He is at least. Clear cut back up. Yes, I was going to say he's at least one of the very few people that you know for sure. He is the next man up without a doubt. It's not a question of, is it him or, you know, someone else. So, but Charbonnet goes right after your pick, Mike. Shakir, Mark Andrews at 10.01. Debo at 1002. Mike back on the clock. You do need that quarterback. Yeah, that's where I'm going to look. So I'm going to take a look at the draft board real quick. One, two, so we got three teams. So there are going to be six picks of that will, at least three of them will be quarterbacks. So I'm going to take the guy, let me just double check on my rankings here. Yep. Jay, we were, you talked about the Scotty Fishbowl. Did I convince us to take deck? I think I did.

I don't remember if I did. We'll have to go look. But I brought it up because of, I know recently I mentioned, like, I think Dak could just end up right back in the top five and we're just, we're really overlooking it. We want to find who, we want to get the running back right. Meanwhile, C.D. Lamb and George Pickens are on this team. We did draft Dak. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There are a handful of quarterbacks that have been there before that are in the, that are available. Kyler's the same boat as Dak. We can both end up in the top.

Five. But like Dak is, I think every healthy season of Dak, he's produced for a top level fantasy quarterback. I'm going to take David Najoku in the 10th round here and grab what I think is a tear break at tight end. I have Najoku at five, at tight end five in my rankings. Dude, if it's Joe Flacko, which that is, have you guys seen anything recently? I've seen Pickett with a rapport with Jerry Judy. Okay. Well, I don't. Like actual any drum beat growing louder for someone besides Joe to start for this team. Yeah, I mean, I just think the joke is too important. And now even more important maybe if your running game has been nerfed. So I'll take Najoku. Golden goes next. Roshan Tutin. Thank you. Herbert, Mooney and Jason, your final two picks, you'll need a quarterback one or the other. Yeah, maybe. You don't tell me what I have to do. But yeah, I'm going to take quarterback. I'm going to take Kyler. You need to take a quarterback.