Mock Draft Episode! + Meat Your Maker - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/27

The Detroit Lions, Isaiah Pacheco is like, I'm free of you, Kareem stealing my touch. Just no. So we'll see how that goes. That's all, Kareem Hunt's manager is like, the only place we can get you to sign, we just got to find out where Pacheco is. And they will prefer you. I know where we got a great opportunity. Oh, that's not even. That was Pacheco going off the cliff. Oh, no. Oh, Jason. That's what the end of that sound effect was.

Jamir Gibbs goes number one. Kyle had the number one pick. Then Bijon goes too. Mike is on the clock. Oh, wait, because Pacheco is, in fact, dealing with injury. Well, he had been. Yeah, he had been dealing for last month. Okay. So I think this is looking at the depth. Oh, it's a new injury. Yeah. So he had an injury and how he's dealing with the back injury. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Isaiah Pacheco now dealing with back injury. Don't worry. The knee injury no longer a concern. Signed Trey Benson, you cowards.

who's also dealing with an knee injury. Shut up, Jason. Jamir Gibbs, Bejohn, off the board. Mike, you're on the clock. Where are you going? I'm perfectly fine. If you want to take Christian McCaffrey right there, if you want to, you know, ride that situation. And you had your time with CMC and you are just, you're doing what fantasy managers need to do, which is look at every year fresh. Yeah. And you have not pounded the table for him in any draft.

I don't think you've ever been against him. No, no. But you've just, you've not, it's not been the mic of last year. Yeah, I still love him as the running back three. But, you know, it's hard to argue with how much work he got last year. Can it really continue? I mean, if he's healthy, he's going to be awesome. But I'm going with Jamar Chase here. I like some of these running backs in the second round. I mean, we'll see how the draft falls. But what I believe about the Bengals this year, I'm going to go with Jamar.

After Chase goes CMC, Puka, Jonathan Taylor and James Cook, Hampton at 108, and Jason at 109, my hope at 110 was, in fact, Alman Ross St. Brown somehow being there. He is there, and I'm going to take him ahead of Jason. Did you hope you would be there at 11, Jason? I didn't think he would be there at 11, but I didn't think he'd be there necessarily at 10. And so whenever a player gets one spot before you, I think the Hampton pick. Just don't make that one. Just make any other pick. The Hampton pick at 108 is interesting.

I'm not criticizing it. I think you can kind of, just like Gentie, you can basically plant your flag and say, you know, the Keaton Mitchell being banged up. Like Hampton could start the year on a great team. Favorite to win the division being everything. But I like the fact it kicked Al Monroe down a pick. This is my absolute worst start for me because every single player picked is exactly who I would have.

picked before me. I would have taken Hampton here if he was available. ADP says he usually would have. You're in Chambles. So I know who I'm going to take with my next pick. I don't think he's going to go out the turn. And so I am sitting here really considering between Chase Brown and Kenneth Walker. It's a little bit high for both of those guys. Alternatively, I could go CD Lamb.

That's what I thought you would do. I figured you did. But I'm going to go between Chase Brown and Kenneth Walker. My goodness. That's tough. You know what? Both of them are for Mike. Well, but one is more. I'm going to take Ken Bone Walker here in the first. Ken Bone Walker. Oh my gosh. Now you've got that. Well, Ken Walker. I took him in the first yesterday.

And, you know, I was pretty excited about it. C.D. Lamb and Devon. This is going to be the worst start. Ken Bon Walker, Chase Brown fall into your lap if you want him. I'm not taking Chase Brown here. Let me catch people up that are not watching the screen. Sorry. Ken Walker at 11, C.D. Lamb at 112. Devon H.N. goes at 201. And so Jason does have the choice of going Chase Brown. He's got options all across the board. And there's one name I'm interesting.

I'm interested to see if he passes on or he falls to me. There is the guy that is the reason I took Ken Walker in the first round. And my choice of him or Brown is because I was very confident the next wide receiver would get to me. I am just, I've turned into, I'm all entirely in on this guy. I think he could be the wide receiver won this year. But I do think he will be a top six wide receiver. I would take him over.

Like when I look at Lamb or this guy, I'm like, I don't know anymore. I'm taking A.J. Brown. Wow. I really think that last year's MVP runner up and that offense and A.J. Brown is either he's lost it or he should dominate. Well, I'm thrilled because I feel like everything you used to describe AJ Brown is how I would describe a guy who's done it. Most of his career, it was a bump last year. I'll take Jefferson in the second. I'm taking Justin Jefferson at 203 with Amon-Ross, St. Brown.

I can't do it. It's pretty tough to keep a player of that ability down. I don't think Kyler's going to do it. Oh, you don't think he's going to keep him down. Yeah, I think I think Jefferson's going to be like, I think Jefferson had a much larger role in the acquisition and the guaranteed starting position for Kyla Murray. There were, there was some talk about, you know, what happened in this offseason. I think Jefferson has a, I mean, this is a, you make the wrong call here.

You don't find a quarterback to supply the man who is breaking every NFL record at his age. This dude's leaving. There were already rumors about Jefferson requesting a trade from this team in this offseason. And I think it's been kept pretty quiet, but I think he had a big role to play. So look, it's scary. But when it's 203 and it's not 109 or 105, I'll take it. We'll see how it goes, though. It's a mock draft. That's the point. Two wide receivers.

to start my draft. Chase Brown does go next. Pickens, Barkley, Henry. Bowers first tied in off the board at 208 and Gentie at 209. Mike, you are on the clock. Let's see. So it got pretty running back heavy there. So that's a bit of a bummer that none of those guys really fell to me. The wide receiver, you know, Drake London should work.

should work we're into the names of it should work already are you in the camp of like london's not off the board no a little while is that because we on this show have thrown the cold water on that situation is then like he may have a jefferson like year like i'm just a little bit surprised he's this far behind jefferson and i'm a little bit surprised that you know like who would you bet to have the better year right today like today between london and jefferson yeah like jefferson

Okay. I'll go to that side. Both of them, I think, have, like, you can see how it goes wrong, not injury related, just play. The play of the team, you can see how it goes wrong. I think Minnesota corrects. I'm getting more and more concerned of Atlanta with Pua over there. Jack Strand. Two apologies for yesterday's show. One, I did say the third string quarterback.

And I didn't say Jack Strand's name. Yeah. And two, humongous apology to my fellow Seinfeld fans. I'm glad you brought it up because you need to address this. The Van Buren Boys, their secret signal was. Yeah, the eight fingers. Was eight fingers, which is the eighth president of the United States. That was so missed. Kyle said he was very disappointed. Sometimes you get a little worked up when you're talking presidents on the show. Yeah. And you just forget what you know. Oh, there. There's Marty.

Ebenezer Van Buren. Yeah. It was a little Ebenezer heavy yesterday. Mike, you're on the clock. Are you taking? So I don't know how the turn is going to go. But, and I don't know if the ankle is ready for a week one, but I'm taking Jeremiah love here. I was, okay, that surprised me. He's at the top of my board. Man, all right. I was kind of hoping he might get passed on through to that third round.

Drake London, Nico Collins, Chris Olavé, Kairn Williams. Mike, you get a pick again. I certainly do. So I got Jamar. I got love. And this is where we're going to inject a little bit of risk already in the third round. And we're just going to take Malik neighbors. He, if you're following the news. Why didn't we talk about that? Because it's, I don't know if it's a.

thing or not. Yeah, we haven't heard any follow-up. He left with a trainer with 20 minutes left to go in practice, but it wasn't like he was injured and left with a trainer. He just left practice 20 minutes early walking next to a train. I mean, literally his head coach came out and said, it's due to injury. I mean, that was the actual head. I just think it's if a guy's had two surgeries and missed a bunch of off-season and we have a bunch of questions around him and then he leaves with a trainer, to me that's news. I don't imagine there should be more information this morning.

Yeah, I mean, maybe he's fine. It's just, I don't want to hear that at all about a player with an injury. Agreed. It is high risk, high reward here. McBride goes 304. Again, Bowers is 208. Devante Smith, Garrett Wilson, Rashi Rice, Tett McMill, and Ladd-McConkie. What do you think of that order for that five-pack of wide outs? Which, by the way, quite the delight for me needing a running back to see. This round has been seven wide receivers, a tight end.

I thought I wasn't going to have a shot at a good running back. So Andy it said that the tweet was Malik walked off with the trainer with 20 minutes left in practice after having a full workload. Harbaugh said he didn't get an update after practice that the early departure was injury related. Did not. Didn't get an update after practice. It's worded very strange. I thought they said that it was injury related, but he doesn't have an update on it. Maybe I misread it. It could be a different tweet. It's possible, yes, somebody else might have said.

Something different. Here's what you need to know, Foot Clan. I don't like it. We don't know. Yeah, we don't know. Hopefully he's totally fine. Well, I know who Andy's taken here. You do? Yeah, for sure. Here's a direct Harbaugh quote. It wasn't part of the plan. I'll find out what's going on. I'm sure it's something with the trainers. There's no injury. We'll talk afterwards. Okay. I stand corrected. Yeah, that's good. That makes me much happen. Nice pick, Mike. We did it.

I think. Honestly, every word he said of that sense, I went, huh? Yeah, it was a very roller coaster. So this is awesome for fantasy players right now because this is rubber meets the road. I have two wide receivers. I'm on Ross St. Brown and Justin Jefferson. The obvious pick with no variables in play is Josh Jacobs to be your RB1. He's made to be the RB1. I'm not going to take him here. I cannot have the risk of my RB1.

having this suspension thing holding over him. And I have a player that I love. And I mean, he was in my guy consideration too for a period of time or fantasy MVP consideration. I am taking Breece Hall at the 3-10. I think Breast Hall and Garrett Wilson equal Jets offense. You know, they paid him this offseason. I have tremendous confidence in it. And I'm willing to let Jacobs go. Coach, calling them both bell cows. I know that, you know.

Jason will probably take Jacobs. Yeah, I did. I knew you were going to take Brees Hall. And honestly, I think if I was on the clock and had to choose between Brees Hall and Josh Jacobs right now, I would do the same thing. Well, and in your position, you had Ken Walker. So you're a little bit more, like if you were surprised by suspension, you're not completely devoid of running backs at that point. So that was part of my consideration. But if I had already taken a running back, maybe I go the other way.

Yeah, so now that I've got Jacobs and Walker and A.J. Brown, I'm looking for another wide receiver. Trevante Williams and Josh Allen went next. Yes, between my two picks. You know, it's funny here. There's a lot of wide receivers I like, Jalen Warren, Emeka Abuka. One guy that I really am considering here would be Jameson Williams. This is much further. I'm near the turn. So there's no, I just have to take who I think is the best wide receiver. And.

And I would say that of those guys, I would have taken Jameson Williams if T. Higgins wasn't on the board, but T is a tier above for me. Is this because of the meat comments earlier? Is that in the back of your mind? Unrelated. The meat comments are unrelated, but. You're going to meet Higgins? I'm going to meet Higgins. Knowing that you're not retiring Joe Burrough is a pretty big deal to me. Yeah, that's not the plan at least. We'll find out tomorrow night, live at the Van Buren.

All right, considerations for me here. I'm right back on the clock. I'm on Ross St. Brown, Jefferson, Breeze Hall. The trouble I have here is I am a big believer in Travis Echan Jr. in New Orleans. That's at the top of my running back list. But at wide receiver, Emeka Abuka is sitting there. Zay Flowers is sitting there. Both of those guys I see in an elite tier. So it's kind of between those two spots. I will be really thin at running back, and the running backs are a bit of trouble down the way. So long wait for me.

I'm going back and forth here. Bucky Irving, we've heard pretty good stuff. Camp Scataboo's on the board. And that kind of ends my list of, you know, I'm not taking Trayvion, even though he was a my guy yesterday, right? Yeah. No, I know he was a my guy. I can't believe you did it twice. You did it twice. I'm going to go ahead and pull the trigger on Zay Flowers here at 403. My man. I'm going to take Zay Flowers. I mean, I wish you wouldn't, but. I don't know if you can get much better than Alman Raw, Jefferson Flowers. It.