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to the fantasy footballers podcast coming to you from draft.com studios with your host Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah, welcome in. Tuesday, August 14th. A date? That's a living in for me. I woke up. It was just an ordinary morning. It was like any old morning. Was for me as well.

And then the earth shook beneath my feet as news broke. Woo! Walter Cronkite came on the news. Came across the wire. And, uh, well, let's just... Oh! The man of the people. Yes! Is now the man of the blue check mark. America! I am now the verified man of the people. Oh, that is... We assumed you'd go with that, Mike. Don't worry. I still love all of you beautiful people.

I'm just a little bit better than you now. Does it feel like one or two Mike Tolbert just fell off your back?

Oh, man. You have no idea. I will say this. So this has been years in the making. We've talked about it forever. There may be new listeners that have no idea what we're talking about right now. Andy, myself, have been Twitter verified for a while, for a long while. It's helped our self-esteem. Oh, man. It's helped us relationally. Huge false sense of security came to me personally. And Mike has been left in the dust. Always been the man of the people was his moniker because.

He was unverified swine. Oh, yeah. But there were many things he was called over the last two years. No longer. And I was asked how, I mean, how did it feel when I got the news? And I said, embarrassingly better than it should have. This is where I was going is that when you walked in this morning, I have never, ever seen you as happy.

Not when your children were born. We've been around when big days. You had a glow on your face that shall not soon leave. His chest was puffed out. Feels good, man. Feels good. He was shooting DMs to other verified people. Mike, let me just say this. Welcome to the team. Yeah, it's great to be here. We have, oh, the fireworks, they just keep going. Brooks is now the man of the people.

Brooks is now the man of the people. Heavy as the head, Brooks. Oh, my gosh. Heavy is the weight on the back. Oh, my goodness. Just imagine the analysis, Mike, the fancy hitman is going to bring you. Yes, it's a great day for hitman everywhere, really. What was the, I was following your, you tweeted this morning, and I think it's up over 2,000 likes. This has been a journey that you've taken everybody on. This is true. And, and many Footclan, they're all, they're with me. I mean, I'm getting.

Of course, the trolls are out saying, no, this shouldn't happen. But I would say the overwhelming majority of people, I feel like my, I feel like a proud father, a proud mother right now. The foot clan are good people. So, I mean, that's the thing. This show, you know, we're a positive show. And the people who enjoy this show are positive awesome people. They're happy for you. I'm happy for you. Yes.

Yeah, we have a great show. Let's move on. We have a great actual show for you today. Wide Receiver Rankings Part 2. We're going to get through as many names as we can. Some news. We need to break down for sure. We're going to get into the Foot Clan Mailbag. Answer some questions. Help you win your league. Help you get ready for your fantasy drafts. They're coming quickly. We even have Keep Trade Cut on the show today. So I have a feeling it's going to be a little bonus in terms of length on the show today. Follow us all on Twitter. But.

You can follow Mike, who's super verified. At FF. Hitman. You know, it's me. Jason is at Jason FFL. I'm at Andy Holloway. The show is at the FF Ballers. Also verified. Yeah, that's new, too. I mean, it only took years and years and years of being on television. Touring the country. Yeah, eventually they said, you know what? You are who you said you are. Little Denny Green.

Got to bring him back. I got a Denny Green in the mentions. Yeah. So let's go ahead and jump into the quick question. Keep Trade Cut. We're going to play some Keep Trade Cut on the quick question of the day. Wide receiver. Keep Trade Cut. Robert Woods of the Rams. Kelvin Benjamin of the Bills. Sterling Shepherd of the Giants. Currently being drafted on that 9th-10th round range. Keep trade cut. Robert Woods, Calvin Benjamin, Sterling Shepherd, boys.

I'm going to keep Kelvin Benjamin out of this group. I want the guy that I know is the one on the team. I don't expect the bill's passing offense to be prolific. But I, you know, he seems like right now, preseason at least against his former team, playing with a chip on his shoulder, looked good. I am going to trade Sterling Shepard to Brooks. Wow. Because I know how much Brooks values, nay.

overvalues Sterling Shepard. I'm a big Sterling Shepard fan. So I'm going to cut Robert Woods. But in truth, I do think Robert Woods has a better season than Sterling Shepard. I am going to do the exact same thing. I thought I might stand alone on Kelvin, but I am rising and have been raising him in ranks. I'm going to trade away. I'll probably trade away Robert Woods and I'll have to cut Shepard. I think...

I think Shepard will have a better season in the woods, actually. When you have O'Dell Beckham Jr. on the opposite side of you, when you have to come up in the box to stop Sequin Barclay, I think Shepard is going to be the beneficiary of a lot of beautiful coverage. And he's got the talent to exploit it. Certainly. It's very strange that I believe that Woods will have the better season, but I'm going to trade Shepard. You believe Shepard will have the better season, but you're going to trade.

I think the perception is wood. And then the draft position of Woods is around and a half higher. So I guess that makes sense. I think that's why I'm going to trade woods. And even though Woods is currently ranked the highest of these three wide receivers for me, I do need to go in and make some adjustments. I'm going to, uh, swallow the garbage as they say. And I'm going to keep Kelvin Benjamin because I'm with Jason. He's the one woods.

Like I said right now, Woods is projected to have the better season. But at this point of the draft, 9th, 10th round, I don't want a guy who can just maybe fill in for me every once in a while at the wide receiver position. I'm going to go for a one. Kelvin Benjamin can be a touchdown machine. We've seen it before. And then I'm going to trade Robert Woods because I like him more than Shepard. And I think that his trade value.

In the current market, it would be higher. If Calvin could play the Panthers 16 games this year, he might be in my top 10. I think he's got that kind of fire for Cam right now. All right, we're going to get into the news. A reminder, you can go to draft.com. If you want to do mock draft and then get a grade from us, it's a fun way to practice. draft.com.

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I'm going to try to fly through these so we can get into the rankings. You guys let me know what's relevant. Devante Parker has a broken middle finger, hopefully ready by the opener. Devante Parker, I've faded him all off season. I felt the pressure to love him, and I don't. So the targets were there. This doesn't help. The targets were absolutely there. He was one of those guys.

that left, as I said on the show, a lot of meat on the bone, his targets to fantasy finish. There's a huge discrepancy there. But this is great news for Kenny Stills, who has always been a favorite of Jason and mine. But it's also big news for Albert Wilson, who received a sizable contract. The Miami Dolphins say Albert Wilson is going to play on the outside. This opens a starting role for Albert Wilson, who simply may not give it back.

to Devante Parker. The news has not been good about Kalam Belage running back for the Miami Dolphins lately either. He got kicked out of the huddle by Ryan Tannehill, and now he's in the concussion protocol after a fumble in his opening three season game. So it's been a, if you wanted an opportunity for him to kind of break into the rotation, some people have him as a big time sleeper. I think there's opportunity there. This is just a negative start to the season. Yeah, it's not gone well. Hashtag not surprised.

With the concussion, you're not surprised? No, with the fumble, with the pass protection. All that, Jess. Yeah, I mean, he's going to be behind Drake and Gore, certainly, to start the season. There hadn't been news on Eagles wide receiver Nelson Aguilar's injury. They're saying it's lower body and that they're just resting him to start this season. Eagles wide receiver, Alshon Jeffrey, news broke yesterday.

He could start on the pup, which would cost him six games. So this is huge. Yes. We've talked a lot about the fact, or at least I have, that Alshan Jeffrey, without the touchdowns, he's not going to give you a fantasy season you're proud of. You have other weapons there in the offense, and now you've got a pup risk. I stay away from Alshan.

Yeah, I completely agree. I mean, I've had concerns with the offense. You've got to also throw in the fact that Carson Wentz was just recently talking about he's not sure he's going to be ready for week one. That's not completely on him. The doctors have to. I mean, we talked about when the injury happened and the timeline for his specific injury, which was worse than what Deshaun Watson went through from a medical standpoint, that the timetable for recovery would put him right around.