Mock Draft Episode! + Fantasy Freakouts - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/1

It could be Gino. So I like adding him here. And now it has come back to me. Dak, Pacheco, A.J. Dillon, and Darren Waller, finally off the board. Waller would not have made it pass me if had he made it to me in the eighth. Yeah, it's slightly comforting, Mike. Thanks. So I have three running backs with Gibbs, Acres, and Chubb. I'm questioning, can I just be good with that? Or will I need more players later? Because what I would like to do here is go with another rookie wide receiver. I was very close to doing this with my last pick, but I hadn't drafted JSN. I'm going to add Jordan Addison to the roster. And so my wide receivers, I think, are, I've got some high upside after knowing that Diggs is locking down my wide receiver one. One of the best things I've...

ever done in fantasy was go all in on rookie wide receivers last year in our league of record draft i was depleted picks wise and i went i think i drafted four or five it was oliva it was garret wilson it was tralin burkes um and and a couple others and it proved so valuable for trade capital and for my team having some productivity because they do make an impact quick like if jackson smith and jibba Comes out and dominates in week one. That will not be shocking to me. All right, Cadarius, Tony, Quentin, Johnson, another rookie, George Pickens, Deucers, and Mike next up. All right, we were hoping Johnson got back for the stack, but he didn't. So we are going with Rashad Penny here. That'll probably make Mike upset. I mean, I'm just glad someone else got to do it for once. So when they play you this year and Rashad Penny and Madison are going up against you, how will that feel?

It will feel terrifying because they're both going to be great. Okay. But I actually would not have taken Rashad Penny here. I've waited on this wide receiver as long as I possibly could. I am taking Brandon Cooks of the Dallas Cowboys. Just a reminder. They traded to get Brandon Cooks. They desperately needed a number two. I know Michael Gallops, another year recovered from his ACL, and he still has that contract. But Brandon Cooks, to me, still looks like a receiver who has it. I think Dak is a good quarterback. And if he is helping stretch the field here with C.D. Lamb, I think that Brandon Cook is going to have just another Brandon Cook's type of season where he's excellent for fantasy. Well, I've been sniped again. James Cook was the target at 811. He goes at 8.09. Zach Charbonnet off the board right before me. I am going to turn to.

the starting running back for the Washington commanders. I take Brian Robinson. He's the least sexy pick. Yeah. But even when you listen to Gibson, Gibson comes out and talks about how he's in the JD McKissick role. Like there is an early down role in Washington, and Brian Robinson was pretty good to end the year. Some games, yeah. Yeah, I mean, he was over four carry from week eight on, I think it was. And I think there's going to be. value there. Running backs when you have injuries happen, all of a sudden you're saying, wow, I wish I had more of them. I'm going to take him there. And then looking at wide receiver, I'm going to shoot a shot at a rookie in Zay Flowers. Yeah, that's a great pick. All right. I am watching Corlin Sutton and Deshaun Watson go off the board. Mike, you are on the clock. You and Jason, neither of you have a quarterback yet. Neither of you have a tight end yet. Three picks left.

That is a good reminder. Because I have my pick all queued up. I don't know how much it will impact the entirety of Team Deucers, but I know that one of them is going to groan. I will take the starting running back for the Chicago Bears. I will draft Khalil Herbert. Nice back. I thought it was Rochon. You can't take that, Brooks. It's not Rochon. All right, Brooks, you're back on the clock. The Ducers with another pick here. All right. Team Ducers is going with Gabe the Babe. What? Gabe Davis. Gabe Davis. Gabe, Dave, Dave. All right, Evan Ingram, Pat Friar, Muth off the board. Gabe, Gabe. Not sure how I feel about that. I mean, if he performs, I feel better. Yeah. He has some Babe weeks, but he's like the Seinfeld episode, the girl that Jerry dated that, like, in some.

Sometimes when you look at him, she's really beautiful. And then in the wrong light, he's like, you know, she keeps changing. Sometimes he's a babe. All right. He does have babe games. I mean, he's got babe games. He's, his, that playoff game was was incredible. Yeah. Um, all right. So I am on the clock now. I've got, uh, a lot of wide receivers, three running back still need a tight end and a quarterback. This round I was eyeing Voldemort, um, and, uh, Pat Fryermuth. Both of them went. And to me, the gap between, you know, the next player's available and where I can draft them in ADP says, let's get a running back on my roster. And since I have been loading up on rookies, why change that now? I'm going to take a player I believe in against my normal belief on small running backs. And there's been conversation and discussion. You're going to get a deuce deuce? I am going.

Devon A-chain. Oh, boo. You thought I would go Deuce McAllister over A-chain? McAllister? Oh, man. Yes. I apologize, everybody. You've seen that Dell commercial lately? The Deuce caboose. Yeah. I mean, Devon A-Chane is a much better pick than Deuce Vaughn. Well, not when Dalvin Cook signs there. Well, Dalvin Cook's not there as of this recording. So I still think Devon A-chain. will have a really good role. And they didn't spend a day two pick to not give him a lot of work. And he won't need much. At this point... I don't know. We have Mike McDaniels. He's right out of that Kyle Shanahan tree.

And we know what Kyle Shanahan loves more than anything. It's taking a third round running back and never playing them ever. That is true. That is absolutely true. Yeah, that is, that is, that is scary, but this isn't Shanahan. He's just from the tree. Yeah. We'll see how far that Apple falls. All right. So now I'm looking and I've gone three rookies in a row and I need a tight end and sitting there is Dalton Kincaid and I will never. I will never do that. I don't draft rookie tight ends. It's against who I am. So I am grabbing Greg Dulcich. And I think he's going to have a very good sophomore season. All right. The deucers back on the clock after Richardson and Jamal Williams, Damien Harris. Who's the pick? All right. We're going to grab our tight end here and take Chig. Chig of Kong Quo. Not scared off by Hopkins arrival. Mike, you were on the clock. Your last two picks. Got to get a quarterback. Got to get a tight end.

I am happy that Jason let Gino Smith pass to me because I will take the Gino Tyler Lockett stack. All right. Gino Smith, who looks like he's going to have to do even more right now with the injuries at running back. Elijah Mitchell, Rashad Bateman. I am eyeballing Dalton Kincaid, but I think I can take him with my final pick in this draft. So I will take Skymore in the 10th round and come around and grab Dalton Kincaid, my tight end with the final pick of the draft. The camp reports on Dalton Kincaid, which, you know, look, rookie tight-ins are good at camp. That's when they get a lot of articles written about him. But he has been with the first team exclusively. He's been making big plays, and they're going to need him. So Daniel Jones goes next, Jacoby and Myers. And then, Mike, your final pick? A tight-in, please. Yeah, I know who I have to pick here. I don't love it considering I have Cooper Cup on my team. But Tyler Higby.

It's just he's going to be usable. He won't be electric, but you shouldn't have too many weeks where you're like, oh, just getting a zero. There are. He's a tight end. Yes. There are how many tight ends in the NFL that you can realistically say have a hundred targets coming this year? Like four? There's not. And Higby is probably one of them. Like it's rare. He's just not very good. He's fine. Yeah, he's fine. He's very fine. I have a lot of Higby. Who scores more fantasy points in that offense? If you replace Dalton Schultz, which one scores more in the exact same offense? Dalton Schultz. I would say they score the exact same. I would say they scores exactly the same. Yeah. All right. It's time for the deucers to complete this draft. Do you have a special pick for your final pick? We do our final pick. We're going with Tank Biggsby. All right. Take Biggsby. Not tank Dell?

Not Tank Dell. Tank Bigsby, Jacksonville Jaguars, rookie running back. Yeah, I wouldn't bring up Tankdell's name. That's weird. Who would do that? Adam Thieling, Derek McKinnon, Cole Kometh. McKinnon's a good target late late in drafts. Jason, you're back on the clock. Who's your latest late, late, late, late quarterback? Well, my latest late, late quarterback is Matthew Stafford. He was my backup plan should they continue drafting all these teams to quarterbacks, which. happened. But Aaron Rogers fell to me and I think getting him with my last pick, having him, you know, with Garrett Wilson and company, he could still do something special. He is my target if I'm punting the position for sure. I think the upside there is tremendous.

All right, I'm going to read you my final roster. We'll go around and do that. I'll give you the deucers as well. McCaffrey Stevenson, Miles Sanders, and Brian Robinson as my running backs. Alan Ross, St. Brown, Calvin Ridley, Mike Evans, Zaflower, Skymore at wide receiver. Tua is my quarterback. Dalton Kincaid is my tight end. At wide receiver, I have Cooper Cup, Chris Olave, Drake, London, Tyler Lockett, and Brandon Cooks. My running backs are. Tony Pollard, J.K. Dobbins, Antonio Gibson, Khalil Herbert. Then Gino Smith, former quarterback 5 is there as my quarterback. You have to say it. To stack with Tyler Lockett. And then Tyler Higbee at tight end. I've got Aaron Rogers and Greg Dulcich in my onesie positions. At wide receiver, I've got Stefan Diggs, Terry McLaren, Marquis Brown, JSN, Jordan Addison, a couple of rookies. And at running back,

I've got Nicholas Chubb, Jamir Gibbs, Cam Acres, and Devon A-Chain. Brooks, why don't you go ahead and give us the Deucers team? Do you mind? I don't mind. Team Deucers. We have Tyreek Hill. What's the hashtag, by the way? Hashtag Team Deusers. Okay. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, it's on the nose. All right. And we have Tyreek Hill, Devontza Smith, Brandon Ayuk, and Gabe Davis at wide receiver. Josh Jacobs, Alexander Madison, David Montgomery, and Rashad Penny, and Tank Bigsby at running back, Justin Herbert at quarterback, and Chick at tight end. Maka Laca Ding Dong. All right, you can weigh in. I mean, I think we've got the panda bears over there. Oh, we know where the votes are going. Yeah, yeah. But that'll do it for today's episode of the show, but guess what, guys? Yeah. We have another show. Tomorrow. Wow. Ice.

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