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Hey, Foot Clan. We'll be going to five shows a week on August 1st at the end of the year. We're excited. We're ready for a great 2018 fantasy football season. And I just wanted to take a second from Andy, Mike and Jason say, we want to say thank you to everybody at Jointhefoot.com who has supported this podcast since the very beginning. All of the Foot Clan supporters out there, we invite you.

Come and join the community at Jointhefoot.com. Get access to a bunch of premium stuff, an extra episode every week, and be a part of this show. We're going to go get some hashtag Foot Clan titles in 2018. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Coming to you from Draft.com Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Always a spectator.

Peculiar honor to be just a joy. I love this show. It's one of my favorites. I feel like it's been way too long since we've had a mock draft show, gentlemen. Correct. That is correct. Yeah, I don't even remember how to do them. I'll teach you. What do you do? Mike and I, we got your back. Yeah, we have a live mock draft on the show today. 12 team, half point mock. We're going to try to assemble.

a winner here on the show. And we'll talk through all of the decisions that we have to make. Just got back from the trip to Dallas, Texas. The live show was a blast. The NFFC was great. Special, special hello to all the Foot Clan members that we were able to meet, hang out with, get some pictures. It was genuinely. It was fantastic. A rewarding experience getting to talk with all of you that build us into your day.

And we don't get to see you until we do an event like this. And you feel like you know us. And then we got to know you. So that was a lot of fun. We have a lot of exciting things that have come out of that event, including interviews with Christian Kirk, Cortland Sutton, Jericho McKinnett, Dedy Westbrook, Melvin Gordon, Josh Doxton. Poo!

So those are all, we're going to break those up and put them on some of the shows coming up. We've got a bunch of great episodes leading into our Philadelphia and New York live shows, which, by the way, if you're in Philly or New York, be there. You got to come out and see us. Ballerslive.com. Grab tickets while there are still tickets remaining. Yeah, I was going to say, now is the time to do it. If you're like, oh, yeah, we get so many messages after the Dallas show, it's like, oh, I was three hours away. I should have gone and I regret it.

Uh, now's the time, two weeks away. Yeah, and we have a very special guests for both shows. Two, one week. What? Right? Oh my gosh, it's next week. Yeah, this is, we are one week away. I gotta go to ballerslive.com right now. Excuse me. Do you not have a ticket? I don't have a ticket yet. Oh, trust me. Awkward. We make Jason buy a ticket to get in the building. No doubt about it. Actually, we just make you, Mike. You're not verified.

I like it. Quick question of the day. Man of the people. Until they make you a man of the Twitter. All right, quick question. Who is the biggest ranking adjustment lately in your preseason rankings? So the ultimate draft kit, we're always making tweaks and edits. We're always looking at the latest news and information and trends and beat writers and all of that stuff, trying to parse it down and translate that into rankings. I want to know who you guys have been moving lately.

Up or down. Doesn't matter. Just who's moving around your rankings? Oh, man. There are a lot of players this week. Once we got back, I took a look at my rankings, top to bottom, every team. A ton of players moving around. The one that I want to bring up that I have moved up a little bit and at the same time, another player down a little bit is the Miami backfield. Despite all the talk.

around town about Kalam Belage. Do you like him? That's just in here by me. Sure. I mean, you know, it was at the NFFC. There's fun stuff on Twitter, you know. Dare I say, Andy has a room at the Bellagio. Oh, baby. Yes, I do. That's recent enough to dig in on him.

But, you know, look, the first and second in that rotation is going to be Frank Gore and Kenyon Drake. And the more that I've looked at the situation, I was hesitant to give Drake, who I love, credit, because of what Miami has done. They signed someone and they drafted someone. But the more that I looked into, it's like they had to sign someone. And...

If there's a signing that should not scare me, it's probably Frank Gore at 35. He does have a motorcycle. We've talked about this, Jason. That is absolutely true. And Kalin Belage is a prospect that I don't like that much. So I do think talent will win out. It wasn't a monstrous change. But I moved him kind of above the next tier of guys in my rankings, the Lamar Miller's.

you know, that tier. I moved him up ahead of them. He was behind them. So I think Kenyon Drake starting to have a little bit more confidence in. There is a difference, and I want to say this now, between really liking a player, like I do believe that Kalin Belage's skill set translates to the NFL. There's a difference between liking him, believing that, and projecting him to take the job right out of the gate. I have no...

allusions of grandeur for Kalin Belage and he's somehow going to set the world on fire and training camp and Kenyon Drake's going to be shown the door or anything like that. I think if he gets an opportunity, he may take advantage of it and then you're talking about a timeshare, but I don't think Drake's going to lose the job. And that's, I mean, look, Drake could be a miss for me this year. I'm going to openly admit that Drake could be a miss because I don't buy into him translating to a year-long starter, but I see a world where it could happen. So he could be a miss.

Yep, I'll jump in here. Jason mentioned the name I wanted to bring up, and it was Lamar Miller. I went through, like Jason, I made a monstrous amount of tweaks with all the new information that's coming out at the NFFC talking with a good friend of the show, Brad Evans. He was a part of us on the live show and just getting other industry guys. They've got ears out there.

And they should be taken serious. So I got some good inside information from Evans, from some other people. This wasn't particularly from Evans, but the big adjustment I made was I made the switch to Lamar Miller. I was holding out the hope for Deonté Foreman and I guess just the trying to downplay the red flags of the torn Achilles for Deontah Foreman because I liked Foreman's opportunity coming this season.

The more and more I dig into it. Jason, you talked about him as a risk reward player. For me, it's heavy, heavy risk for Deonti Foreman. So I've moved Lamar Miller up. I currently have him at 27, so still out of the top 24. He should probably be higher because when Lamar Miller was the guy with Deshaun Watson, he was definitely, he was a running back one. Yes, very, very usable fantasy running backs. And I'm.

I'm going to project him as the starter. I'm projecting Deonti Foreman to start this season on the pup. That means six weeks of Lamar Miller having his chance to put a stranglehold on being the, not fully featured, but the predominant running back. When you're drafting him in the fifth round and he starts the first six weeks, if that were to happen, as the starter, that's a value that you can trade. You know, it's Miller time. Miller is one of the more annoying.

concessions that I have to make as a fantasy owner because I had to make it, man. Even if Foreman starts the year off the pup, you're returning from a devastating injury. You're not getting handed the keys to the backfield out of the gate. Lamar Miller may be difficult to watch, but he'll be on the field receiving snaps. And if you are a player that has declining skill set, which I believe Lamar Miller is, and I believe his yards after carry and the whole comparative to Frank Gore number,

What better situation do you have? You have nobody behind you, except for somebody who's currently injured. For this season, he is annoying. He had zero yards after the carry. It was always... What did I say? Yards after care. Yards after carry. Yards after contact that you meant? That's the direction I was going. His yards after carry were the same as Love Bells. Right. That's the truth. I mean, the Houston, Texas, they... Like, Alfred Blue is still there, right? Yes, he is. Shut your mouth.

There's no help for Blue Talk here. For me, it was, I've made adjustments a couple of times now to Juju Smith Shuster. There is a lot of excitement around Juju. I know somebody personally that loves him. I do love him. I know. And I also moved him down in my ranking. Yeah. And the thing is, is James Washington is slotted to start on the outside. There's been a lot of talk from Mike Tomlin and others about.

James Washington, the amount of excitement he has for him the same way he had for Juju. James Washington was first or second on my pre-draft board at wide receiver. He's the defending collegiate wide receiver of the year. And he does get to line up opposite of Antonio Brown. He gets the opportunity to take advantage of favorable coverage. And I just think Juju is in a unique position. He burst onto the scene. You had injuries to Antonio Brown.

You had opportunity because Martavis Bryant was worked out of the system, and he's 20. I mean, he's 20 years old, and he's walking into fame for the first time. And I'm not going to discount Juju's ability. I think he's great. Good. But there are times when you're going to be disappointed in him this year. Maybe he's off the field for a few plays. Maybe it's because Antonio Brown and James Washington are the receivers of choice for a certain week. I just had Juju too high. I had him at 19.

I think it's too high. It's fair. And just to point out, because the talk is James Washington could be starting outside, right? I will say that Pittsburgh, at least under Todd Haley, we assume that the playbook is going to be very similar this season, but just saying again, that was under Todd Haley, but they were one of the most three wide receiver heavy teams, three or more in the league.

Yeah, I wouldn't. The James Washington on the outside, it's like, okay, Martavis Bryant was on the outside last year. This isn't blowing things up for juju. No, not blowing them up, but just another cook, you know, in that second fiddle kitchen. Too many cooks. All right. Do you want to follow us on Twitter? It's so easy. Oh, I already do. Good. You have a ticket to the show. You follow us on Twitter, Jason. Doing all the things you guys are saying. At the FF ballers on Twitter.

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