The 2026 “My Guys” Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/26

Maybe Marshawn Lloyd ends up with an opportunity. Marshawn Lloyd definitely should be one of your last round picks at this point just in case. Because he's just, he's been a laughing stock because of injury. Like you don't, we have coming out. That's right. We have nothing to evaluate him really on an NFL field. So you have to go back to your prior, which was like.

A long time ago. People are all in on Jonathan Brooks, who's slightly higher drafted, but not that much higher drafted than Marshawn Lloyd. And we haven't seen anything from him. So it's interesting. He definitely has gotten to the tier of player like Tank Biggsby and a Blake quorum where I am very interested. I think the follow-up question from the listenership on this would be.

How do you actually approach drafts this weekend, next weekend, when it comes to Josh Jacobs? Yes. Because that is the ultimate, like, deflation is taking a player that you have to take in the top three rounds that you could find out. Look, the way that the general manager worded it, it was like, well, it could happen midseason. You know what I mean? It might not be.

At the jump. It could happen at any time. And I just don't like that hanging over. I mean, Mike's already been out on Jacobs, but I don't know how much this is factored into it, just having that extra variable. It's just a piece of it. But, yeah, I raised his risk rating in the UDK this morning. I think it's a more dangerous pick. I still think he is going to be very good when on the field and has a spot where I wouldn't pass up on him. But, you know, if I take him there, I'd probably take Marshaun Lloyd late in the draft to protect myself.

Yeah, it's a... I think that's actually... Smart way to do it. That's the way you should handle it. Like, if you draft Jacobs, I would force Lloyd on my bench. I made a trade yesterday for Devante Adams in our League of Record. Yes. Then I proceeded to post Jerry Rice's age 33 season as inspiration to him. Was he okay at age 33? He was okay, 1,800 yards, 18 touchdowns.

What? I mean, he's Jerry Rice. He's the best wide receiver. I understand that. I looked at some other guys, too, and there were some pretty dang impressive year 33 seasons. All that being said, like, one thing we haven't talked about with Puka's rumored potential suspension is like, if he misses time, they don't have, two, two outwall's not even there to take anything. It's Terrence Ferguson. Terrence Ferguson is their wider seeper three. I don't, I don't think I'm there, Jay. That's fine, but.

Just be quick on the waiver wire. I don't know if I'm there because I know they're going to run a bunch of three tight end. That's what they're going to run a ton of. I mean, that's what they're going to run a ton of. He said he's never expected to have to learn the X, the Y, the Z. He's learning every wide receiver position. I know. I know. And maybe you're right. Maybe you're right. That's a lot of information. Yeah, which is why it's taking him two years to get totally into. Are we sure they're not just going to snap the ball and he'll just be vibrating. My problem with them is. I don't know.

I just don't know that he ends up being the highest fantasy scoring tight end on the team. That's the part that's really hard. I think they have a lot of talent. It's a crowded room. But we're going to jump into a break here and then it's time. It's time for the my guys. One reminder here with big time draft weekends coming up. Don't forget that the ultimate draft kit is available right now. All of our tier base rankings. I mean, I saw mid show. Here's an update for you.

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a Pettus, a Dante Pettus moment. Ooh. So like right before we can change. Right before we reveal, I'm just saying it's going to throw production into a complete catastrophe over there. Beautiful. But we don't really. No, we don't care about it. No, we don't care about it. So are there anybody, is there anybody you need to pet us right now? Like withdrawal of my guy from. Yeah. I'm feeling. It's, yeah, for sure. I'm feeling real good. No, it's, it's, it's, yeah, I am too, but I'm going to, I'm going to pet us Andy. You know. Wait, me? Like, I don't even have my guys now?

Yeah, I'm going to say your second one. Oh, you're petting one of my picks. Yeah. Well, you are the pettus. It was you. You are the original and the only. You are the Pettus pivot. I could misdirect or something. Here we go. Nothing you could compare. I am so happy that B-Ked is here. That's what I was going to say. That animation.

That you forget every year only to... He's just done so much work redoing animations that I just thought... Why didn't you update? This is an important show. Why didn't you fix that? Never. Never change it. He does say big as loser on his shirt. What a loser. The problem that... No, that graphic rules. It's terrible. I know. That's why it rules. If that's the first thing that people saw from us, it's the last thing they ever saw from us. Let's time to get into my guys. 2026, my guys. Always...

Look, this is hard because our goal with the my guys just to state it and you guys can add to it. The goal is not to take a player that is obvious. That is the layup. That is the simple way to do it. I'll take Jemir Gibbs, please. Right. I mean, that is not the goal of the my guys. The my guys is to find and plant the flag on three players each that we feel represent tremendous upside. I mean, we did a show yesterday. We were talking about some players are like,

which players in the NFL have bust to, you know, league winning range. And there's not a lot of guys like that. That's not necessarily the my guy. But just somebody with high upside and comes in at a draft value. A lot of the times they're in the office. And our discussion around my guys is like, if this guy's at this ADP on this date, he's going to be my guy. Right. And so they've fluctuated a little bit. I mean, before we get into it.

You know, Alec Pierce for a long time. I really wanted him as a my guy. This entire season, he was locked as a my guy for you until the last month. Not enough progress. You know, there were some other players like Kyle Pitts that were in consideration. You didn't have to say that. We have inside thoughts for a reason. Do you believe that? I'm going to let you guys go first. One of you guys go first. All right. I will jump in. I'm going to start things off.

Last week. I mean, you've got the button, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I just making sure you know what you're doing. I got it. The fearless podcast host of the fantasy footballers blessed everyone on the UDK. We released a little sneak peek. So I'm going to start with that one. Colston Loveland. Oh.

Mr. Loveland. Oh, Catston Dogland. Mr. Lovell. I am all in. Unsurprised. I am all. Look, you're going to be very unsurprised by my my guy picks here. Colston Loveland, my chips are all in. He's going in the fourth round. I have no problem with that ADP at all because of what I think he can become. So it's remembering the story of last year. Tenth overall pick.

He led the team in receiving yards as a 21-year-old rookie tight end. He's the first rookie tight end to achieve this feat for the franchise since Mike Ditka. Oh, Mike Ditka. Dog Bears. Dicka. Look, it was a slow. But who would win in a fight? Colston Loveland and Mike Dicka. Oh. Dicka. Yeah, it's Mike Ditka. It took some time. You know, training camp. We missed some of it last year.

But by the end of the season, he was the centerpiece of the offense. Look, the final four games for the Chicago Bears. So that's week 17, 18, and two playoff games. Like, you know, we talk about Ramandre of like, when they got in the playoffs, they went to their... You knew who you believed in. They went to their guy. And that ended up being Colston Loveland for the Chicago Bears. Over that time period, 49 targets.

Double-digit targets, four straight weeks, including a wildcard game against Green Bay where he caught eight passes for 137 yards and a touchdown. And in those four games, targeted on 35% of his routes were these empty targets as well? No, seven of the 49 were in the red zone. And they're lining them up all over. This isn't just an in-line player. Like, they're putting them in the slot. They're putting them out wide.

He is the guy. And you have the quote from your head coach that says, Colston Loveland is the son of the bear's solar system. You know, we've spent the offseason debating. Is it, do you like Luther Byrne? Do you like Romo Dunzee? The answer is Colston Loveland. One of the, one of the wide receivers can absolutely pay off. Maybe both of them are pretty good.

Colston Love One is 100% the answer for me. I want Chicago Bears on my team. And the fact that it is a positional advantage in the fourth round of your draft who, in my opinion, the reason he's a my guy is because I think that he can finish as the tight end one, which is a blasphemous thing to say when Brock Bowers is out there. I think that Colston can easily surpass McBride this year. And I think that he can contend with Brock Bowers, who's a second round pick, but you're getting him in the fourth round.

The thing about trying to pick the bears, we love the offense. I would agree with you, Mike. They love using their top 10 picks on offense. But whether it's Rome or whether it's Luther Burden, maybe one of those two leads the team in targets over Loveland. But because he's a tight end, he doesn't have the bar as high as those two wide receivers to be able to be a top three at the position. So I...

I will say we're not sure exactly where it goes there, but it's hard to imagine him being a bad pick. What he showed in his rookie season was pretty amazing. You have him being the guy. You have Ben Johnson wanting to run up the score, which, you know, he's making fun hyperbolic statements, but I think there is a bit of truth to that. I don't think there is any.