Fantasy Football 2017 - Mock Draft Madness + Good Situations

Yesterday. Forte down, Powell up? Yes. My question is... And he starts against Buffalo. Is Blal Powell is no stranger to getting banged up pretty easily himself? Is this a situation where you're grabbing Powell earlier in your draft riding out those first three to four weeks getting some great production and then going, ah, okay, I'll give you this really good deal. I've got this RB1, Bilal Powell. You want him? And then you ship him off.

If I can get value, if I can get good value for a player on the jets, I'm shipping them off. That's a fair point. I mean, I just don't think you're going to be able to be happy with them week in, week out for the whole season. Yeah, quite possibly. So before we move into today's mock draft, it is the main event. I want to tell you, Foot Clan, thank you for sponsoring the show, is Draft. You've heard us talk about it because they are the sponsor of the studio. You can find them at Playdraft.com.

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For the Broncos a couple days ago. Says anybody who's watched Paxton, which played the quarterback position. I mean, he looked in. Paxton's had every chance in the world that you could ever want. He's done, right? Yeah. I mean, two years now, you couldn't beat out a seventh round. Yeah, you know, he's now in the Gabbertville. Right. Right. I mean, once Gabbert, you know, after a certain point, you're like, yeah, career backup.

I mean, there's still a chance, but the guy has shown no ability to ascend as a passing talent. He can run the ball. I mean, that's a backup. I really feel like that's not fair to blame Gabbard. Oh, you don't like Paxton. No, I think Paxton is not. He is not capable of being an NFL quarterback. All right. Let's have some fun. Let's do this mock. The fantasy footballers mock draft. All right. PPR mock draft. 12 team league. PPR one quarterback.

Yeah, just one. Just so you know. Brooks, just one. Okay. One quarterback, two running back, two wide receiver, one tight end. One flex, kicker in five bench spots. We're drafting, Mike. You don't even know this. We're drafting from the third spot. Oh. We're drafting from the third spot. Which is hilarious because the third spot was a, that was gold. That was a lot loaded. That was a treasure cove of I get the third running back who just happens to fall in a three position. Now you go, I.

Oh, crap. Do I go shady? That's why I put us there. I wanted to put us in the situation. So many people in the question of do I reach for that next tier of running back or do I grab that first tier? We have our tiers. I mean, this is what I'm using. We've got our printable cheat sheets from the ultimate draft kit, PPR tiered cheat sheets. This to me is an easy question because we've been asked it so much. Do you go with Shady over the top three wide receivers?

Or do you go with the wide receivers? I think PPR makes it easier for me. Yeah, it does make it easier. So have the recent moves by the bills that we talked about. Oh, man. They're in a position where they're probably not going to score as many points as they would have before. Surprise, surprise. Lev Bell, David Johnson were the first two off the board. Actually, David Johnson. Trots. Number one, Lev Bell, number two. Here we are. You've got Antonio Brown sitting there. You've got Eldel Beckham Jr. You've got Julio Jones and LaShawn McCoy.

If this was a standard league, I would still be taking Antonio Brown here. I believe that the caliber of wide receiver, it's going to make a huge difference to your roster to have. Look, LaShawn McCoy is good. He is important to your team. He will help you plug in that running back role. But he is not a true.

difference maker at the position. That would be David Johnson and Levy on Bell in the sense that every time you play someone, you have that leg up. Yeah, maybe he could. Let's just put it in the tier perspective. He's a tier two, not the tier one. But that's one, he's tier two coming into the draft, but there's all this talk of he could be the leading, he could be the reception leader on the team. And that was before.

They started shipping everybody off. All right. The mic, you get to pick who you want. It said it's PPR, so it makes it easy. I'm taking one of the wide receivers. Antonio Brown is my top wide receiver, so it's brown. If that's where a standard league, Mike, at the three spot, who would you take? It would be rough. But I believe I'm with you that I would still go Brown. Okay. Well, we took Antonio Brown. Did Shady fall to us?

Come on. No, no, he didn't. All right, Julio went next, then O'Dell Beckham Jr. Shady did fall to six. And you had Gordon, Evans, Murray, Green, Freeman, and Nelson to round out the first round. Michael Thomas kicked off the second round ahead of Hilton. And you had Jordan Howard, Jayadai, Des Bryant. I think I said Jayah's name. Very incorrect. Jayadai. Be careful. Be careful. I'm a little under the weather. Be careful. Fancy Reaper over here. Leonard Fornett.

drafted at 206, one spot ahead of Ezekiel Elliott. Okay. Elliot went 207. Is that too early with what we know about Ezekiel Elliott or would you do it? It's certainly aggressive and I don't hate it because, well, we have to see what that person does the rest of the draft because you have to target certain players now. I mean, you're boxing yourself into, I need to be, I need to.

gather supplies to weather this storm, this running back storm, which is McFadden, Jacques Quiz. I mean, you've got to get some starters for the first couple weeks. If you go Zeke early, Mike is exactly right. You probably don't take a late round chance on the guys like Alvin Camara. Right. You probably are taking quiz. Or you're taking, I don't know, Terrence West late, or you're taking somebody that you know can help you buy the time.

Yeah. On this team, it actually looks like it would be the person that took Shady that grabbed Zeeke. So the running back should be all right there. In a PPR, though, they would be obviously missing out on some of the top end wide receivers now. Amari Cooper, Tide Gurley, here we are on the clock, 10th pick of the second round. Now we know the turn, you know, we only got to wait four picks before we pick again, but a lot of the big name running backs off the board. At this point, you're looking at Isaiah Crowell. You're looking at Lamar Miller, McCaffrey, lynched.

hide. Suddenly taking Brown early, you're looking at some of these running backs and you're saying, hey, is there a PPR level top 10 type of guy here? I don't think I can talk Mike into Christian McCaffrey. I would be taking Dalvin Cook over Christian McCaffrey. If you want to reach for a running back in this spot, because it's a reach, it's not huge. I mean, it's.

around maybe two. But it's kind of early to do that. But it would be McCaffrey or Cook in a PPR situation. Now, we technically have, we don't want to diminish Isaiah Crowell's effect in the passing game. We technically have Crowell a tier ahead of Cook. Oh, in my head, Crowell was already gone. Yeah, they're very, very close. I mean, they're two spots away, but they are a tier difference. And Crowell should catch the ball again. He did miss the game with the groin. I haven't heard. He feels so much safer than going Cook or McCaffrey with your RB one.

Yeah, I do agree. It's funny because before the show, I was talking about how disappointed I am with where you have to draft Crowell. And then I keep wanting to move him down. But every time that I go to my rankings and I say, okay, I want to move him down and I look at how many carries I've given him and how many yards he should get and his opportunity, even on the Browns, I land with him right where he is, which is a tier three running back.

And I know what to do here. I think Isaiah Crowell would probably be my pick. Crowell's not coming back. You take Crowell and then you take the remainder of McCaffrey Cook with the next pick. You go RBRB. You only got to wait four picks. I don't think you're going to lose all those guys. And the next echelon of wide receivers, I mean, if you want to talk me into Doug Baldwin, he's still on the board, Thomas Hopkins. But I think you go running back, running back right here. The only other guy you could talk me into right now would be grok. Yeah, with the quick turn. Yeah.

Well, let's, I feel like our last couple. Crowell. We've had Gronk a lot. So let's go Crowell. Yeah. So we'll take Isaiah Crowell. Gronk went next. Aaron Rogers, Doug Baldwin, Tom Brady. So you didn't lose McCaffrey or Cook by going Corwell in that situation. I think at this point, I would probably take another shot at one of those PPR running backs. The wide receivers on the board are Demarius Thomas. It's PPR stud.

Yeah, you have DeAndre Hopkins. You have Brandon Cooks. You have Keenan Allen. And you got a long wait. But I still think this is the thing people might disproportionately value, which is you're in a PPR, so I have to go wide receiver. Whereas the position scarcity still exists in PPR leagues. It's not like that doesn't change. You still need running backs. And you still can get really.

really good wide receivers late. I think, you know, a player like Stefan Diggs might make it back around to us. That's what you're your guys. Crabtree. Exactly. But if you look at who's going to be on the board at running back at the next round with this long way, I think we're going to desperately wish we had taken a running back if we didn't here. So my vote would be my number 11. He's a top 12 running back in full point PPR, which is Dalvin Cook. I had just mentioned I'm starting to believe he is.

He's at least a 50 reception guy. I mean, and in a PPR, what he's shown in the preseason with his college production. We rarely talk about biweeks. But Antonio Brown and Isaiah Crowell are both biweek nine, which is what Cook is. So suddenly you're looking at a situation where maybe the difference, because this is the only time I talk about biweeks is if it's a narrow margin between two players, we both have.

We have Cook and McCaffrey in the same tier. Does it make a difference to you? Or do you just go forward with Cook because you're more confident in him and you figure you're going to make moves during the year and it will matter? I would take the player that I want here because it's week nine. If this was week six, that makes a big difference. But week nine, so much will change. Not their by weeks though. Yeah, yeah, certainly. But your team construction, players coming out of nowhere, players busting. And I have McCaffrey higher.

on my board than Dalvin Cook. Yeah, and this is one of the tough situations where we are trying to go with our consensus together, but we obviously have different opinions. In my opinion, Lamar Miller would be the guy that I would be questioning, taking over Dalvin Cook. I mean, if I'm on the clock here and my two players are the same by weekend, so I'm starting off all three. Are we still? I think they're close enough where I would go Lamar. This is a question from Mike the Fancy Hitman to Jason.