Early Top 10 TE Rankings + Rookie Steals

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Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. It's great to be back with you. It's Tuesday, May 7th, and this is the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Mike Wright, Jason Moore. I am Andy Holloway. Excited to talk about some early tight-in rankings on the show today, some rookie questions.

It's exciting to just be post-draft. We're in a post-draft world now, guys. You want to know what's exciting? Uh-huh. There are 142 people in a very exclusive club. Okay. Very. Only 1402 people. Got it. I happen to be one of those 142. Okay. Those are the people that head coach Jeff Fisher.

Follows on Twitter. Well, we're going there, are we? Jeff Fisher can't get enough of those FF Hitman hot takes. Yeah, yeah, I would say you hit on seven to nine tweets a month or so. Yes, Mike was very, very excited. Not only, see, Mike, you didn't even play cool. No. Because as soon as he followed you, for whatever reason, you then tweeted.

to everyone else that he followed you. Yes. Why would you not do that? I think if you had played it a little more cool, he would be on the show today. Jason, if we are. If Jeff Fisher followed you, are you just going to keep the mum or are you going to broadcast it to the world? Well, I'm going to broadcast it, of course, but I, you know, I would probably paint it on my chest, take a picture of myself, put it out there, not just a simple screenshot. That was... Well, you became Jeff Fisher for Halloween last year and...

Yeah, and yet he follows Mike. Yeah, so you're putting me on blast. Jason jumped into Jeff Fisher's thread with a, with a photo of him as Jeff Fisher trying to bait that follow. Jeff, Jeff, where's my follow? I dressed up as you. I'm just, I just am surprised. Like, I would have played it, you know, maybe slide into the DMs. Oh, the DMs. And be like, hey.

You know. We are efforting. He's your peer. Getting him on the show. Yes. Once you follow him. He follows you. I slid into those DMs the best I could. But I needed a, this was a blitzkrieg of trying to get Jeff Fisher on this show. You want to know why he hasn't answered you yet? Why is that? Because he was in a little, he drove about 60 miles into a small cell phone window, trolled people on Twitter, and drove back out to Fly Fish in Montana. That's exactly what happened.

You're probably right. He couldn't care. Hey, that just means he does not care at all. It just means once he's got self-service again, he's in. He'll be on the show. He's in everybody. Okay. Well, today we do have early tight-in rankings. Follow us on Twitter at the FFF Ballers. The website is the Fantasy Footballers.com. The community is join thefoot.com. And as always, thanks to everybody subscribing, reviewing on the various platforms, wherever you're listening, YouTube.

Make sure you subscribe, click the bell, be alerted to random live streams. We did one last week. And we did that because we were talking about the live tour. So we do a live podcast tour. We're coming to L.A., San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Phoenix this year. And we'd love to see you there. Yes. At the last count, we just announced it last week. L.A. is – tickets pretty much gone. Well, last we heard there was five left. That's true.

I believe we heard less than five. There are four left. There are between one and four tickets remaining. What is that less than five? I don't know why that's the update we got. It's a very difficult thing to get the exact number of a number that is less than five. Somewhere in that one to four range. Well, so L.A. L.A. maybe filled up.

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You can drive. My point is if you're in or around Chicago, Jason? What states are right near Chicago? What state is Chicago in? Oh, step one. Illinois. All right, okay. All right. We got one. What else? Oh, it's in another state? Oh, no. Chicago, Montana. But yeah, Indiana's close. I think that's true. Indianapolis. You can make it.

You can get there. That's what I'm saying. We'd love to see you. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's a live taping of the show, and it goes live during the most exciting time of the year, fantasy football draft season, live questions, all that stuff, ballerslive.com. Here's your quick question of the day, guys. And I hope to get into some mailbag at the end, answer Foot Clan listener questions as well. Here's your quick question. Who is your favorite rookie that isn't in the first round rookie average draft position? So the ADP.

No one in that first 12 picks. But who's your favorite rookie outside the top 12 by ADP? Last year, this is where Jason brought up Dante Pettis's name. He was not part of the top 12 last year. But Dante Pettis had a, you know, a breakout season before dealing with some injury. But is there a name that you just love? Yes. And it's the one that Mike has. I did it. You want me to jump in there then? You should jump in because I think this.

this should be the first one we talk about. It feels like people have no idea what to do with this guy. And I will readily admit, I am right there with you, but Deontay Johnson was drafted third round, correct? Third round by the Pittsburgh Steelers. And it's just the Steelers are very interested in Deontes. That makes me very interested with him. And I'm seeing him go.

Third round, late second round, and they, the Steelers just, they have a very strong track record of hitting on receivers. It's not 100%, but nobody hits 100% on any position in the NFL. And they have a need. Like Dante, or Dante Moncrief could be eventually replaced in a year or so by Deonté. And if he is a part of that, a part of the starter with him and Juju, if he does earn that spot,

And you drafted him at the back of the second or the third? My goodness. It's really what you're drafting here is more than just Deontay. It's the Steelers organization. Because it's not just the scouting, right? It's not just – teams don't have a good track record of developing the same position over and over because only they're just so good as scouting. It's a combination of the scouting mixed with – they've got the people and the coaches and the team in place to help groom them and bring them along, and they've proven that. So I like –

Can I ask you question? Yes. Because the endorsement that you're giving to the Steelers, right, you lose Antonio Brown, all those targets. And Deontay Johnson's interesting. He's 5-11. He's 180. He's basically a physical clone of Antonio Brown, great open field runner, not a burner. But the argument you make for Pittsburgh, they drafted James Washington in the second round last year. Yeah, it's not perfect.

People were scooping James Washington up at the back of the first round last year. But do you feel the same bullishness about Washington stepping up into that and being developed by that Pittsburgh system into the next rate wide receiver? Like would you say right now you're in a dynasty league you've got to pick Deonté Johnson or James Washington? Who do you pick? It's definitely James Washington. Yes. I mean, without a doubt. This isn't saying, this is saying for rookie only drafts when you're looking for value in the second round and usually value in the second round, you hit.

less than 40% of the time, just on ADP, you go back over years and say, how many of them panned out? You're looking for certain situations or skill types or, you know, little markers that give an avenue for success and the fact that it's a highly drafted steeler. Wide receiver stealer in the year that they lost, Antonio Brown, it just says, yeah, I'll take my dart throw on that guy. The name I was going to bring up, and I know I'm...

much higher than you two. You are. I'm not off of him. You just are very bullish. Yeah, he's my seventh player overall in rookie drafts is Damian Harris, which is the rookie running back drafted by the New England Patriots. And the way that I see it is this. I believe if Rex Burkhead was healthy last year, he would have had a pretty valuable role for fantasy football. He would be used around the goal line. He's used, you know, through the air. And I believe that they are replacing.

Rex Burkhead with Damien Harris, a player who is very overshadowed because he was on the same team, you know, with Josh Jacobs, who was the only first rounder pick this year, was clearly the better talent. But I think he's well-rounded. I think he's solid. He breaks tackles. He's got good balance. He can catch the ball. And you put him in that New England team if they get rid of Rex Burkhead. I think there's an opportunity there for fantasy relevance. And that's just that, and that's speaking this year, which usually in the second round.

of dynasty rookie picks, you're kind of looking more for a longer term of future play. Like Dante Pettis last year was more about the future. I think it's interesting. I think we know a few things about the New England backfield, one that it can be a little bit murky and difficult to ascertain who's playing. The second thing is that Sony Michelle is not going to catch any passes. And so you have James White involved heavily. You've got Sony Michelle.

who they rode to, you know, a very successful postseason, as successful as they get. I was going to say a Super Bowl is pretty successful. But I think it does come down to, you know, Burkhead. Like you said, you know, we all like Damian Harris on film. And James White is also about to hit that point where New England is not going to be interested in him. From a financial standpoint? Just, I mean, he's 27. They just, just saying that the past catchers like that, though, can.

They can last a long while. They can, but the Patriots don't like to pay people. Well, sure. And that's why I was asking, like, when is his contract kind of? He's under contract for two more years. And it's not that he's crazy expensive. They just, I don't know, James White feels like one of those guys that after this season, the Patriots might just say, well, we got Sony and we got Damien. We're good without you. Well, I'll complete the, what, Triple D names here. We got Deonté Damien. And I'll go with Daryl Henderson.

We've talked about him a little bit on the show. Rookie running back traded up for by the Los Angeles Rams. I think he will be an impactful running back three in year one for fantasy football owners. So you're not talking about somebody that, you know, you're not going to project Todd Gurley to be injured and out the entire season.

But he is an explosive player. He is capable in the passing game. He is capable of taking pressure off of Todd Gurley and giving you what I think will equate to a pretty good yard per carry behind that offensive line. So I think you're looking at a rookie season that can be pretty strong for Darrell Henderson, some pop games, probably north of 700 yards rushing. Wow. I think he's a very capable runner, and I think that we just don't know how light the load will be on Todd Gurley, what they will do with him.