Mock Draft Episode + Jason Gets Pranked! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 6/4

Henry goes next. High T. Team 7. Jason, you're on the board. Man. Give me the names and the positions you're thinking about here with Hall and A. Chan is your start. Yeah, I mean, right now in the third round, that's where I will look at Jalen Hertz, Josh Allen. I will at least look their direction. If there are no other great options on the board that I love, I'll pull the trigger there, and I might take Jalen Hertz here. Wide receiver. I mean, I know what I want to do in most leagues. And if I wasn't the protein here in this sandwich, I would play the game and I would not take DK Metcalf here because by ADP, he should come back to me in the next round. And he started the same way I did, two running backs. Yeah, I was unhappy when you went second running back because then we're in the same boat of... Exactly. We're both going to be trying to get wide receivers from each other. You know, and really I'm looking at this. If I could start Breese and Devon A-chan and get two solid wide receivers I really like,

which I think I should be able to, like I want Metcalfe to be my second one, but just Andy won't let that happen. You never know. Yeah, I never know. But there are other good options. Cooper Cup, Devante Smith, Jalen Wattel, Tank Dell, guys that if I could get any one of those as my second, I would do it. So I'm going to. Are you high T tempted? I mean, I hate to mention it because Rashad White's sitting there, and I didn't want to mention it because I feel like Rashad White almost in the fourth would be a value, but.

Rashad White in the fourth is a value, but I actually have Isaiah Pacheco higher. So if I were to go at running back, I think Isaiah Pacheco is going to be great this season. I want to, I want a solid running back court and a solid wide receiver core. So now it's just a matter of which game do I play? Do I give Andy the chance to snipe Metcalf? The answer is play dumb games. win dumb prizes. So I'm going to take Matt Kaff here. He's my wide receiver 10. And there's no way you would have let him pass you twice. Probably not. It does put me in a position where Jalen Hertz is interesting at 310. Yeah. You are not paying a premium there. You know what you're going to get. What I think I'm going to do, and since I have two picks before you guys select, I think I'm going to take Jalen Hertz and try to come back with Devante Smith.

I love. With the stack. In my best ball leagues, that is my most common move. When I am near the end of the first round, is that 3-4 turn. If you can get those guys together, I absolutely love it. So we're going to give it a go, and it looks like that's going to pan out because DJ Moore goes next. Lamar Jackson at 312, Malik neighbors at 401, and then Waddle at 402. And I, Waddle would have been the one that would have made the decision harder. But I'm going to go stack. What about, okay. Well, no, go ahead, Mike. Rashad White's still there. He is. Rashad White is there. James Cook is there. That's a brutal decision because the stack is delightful. It's fun. It's high powered every single week. But Rashad, where do you have Rashad White? Is he in your top 10? I have him very high. Yeah.

Yeah, let me take a little look. But you don't want him, just like I don't. I don't need him in this situation. What I need to do is make sure that I secure some wider. I have Rashad White at eight. I need to secure a wide receiver because my weight is very, very long. And I could end up with starting wide receivers in the, you know, my wide receiver one could be like Christian Kirk if things go wrong or T. Higgins if things go wrong. I don't want to do it. So I'm going to take the stack. I value that as a fantasy player and I don't blame anybody out there who wants to enjoy the game they're playing to take that pair and know that you've got the volatility to win a week. Like you can have a big game from Devante Smith and that makes all the difference. So I'm going to go Hertz and Smith since that was my plan. I'm going to pass on Rashad White and the volatility there because I have Gibbs and Williams and I feel really solid. So Jason.

It worked out well for me because there were a couple players I wanted to have in the fourth round at wide receiver available to be my wide receiver too. Those two names would be Cooper Cup and Tank Dell. I'm fine with either one of those guys. Honestly, I'm going to go Tank Dell only and solely because you took Nico Collins, Mike, two rounds earlier. I think Tank Dell is right there with him and fantasy points. So I'll get the value and hopefully the better Texan. at a later point. I think Tank is my favorite Texan wide receiver to go in on just because, you know, both Diggs and Collins went in the second round. That's just so expensive if you're wrong or if it's divided up too much. Fourth rounder to get a piece of that offense, I'm happy. Well, Pittman went next, which was in consideration with Devante Smith, if I didn't have a stack. Rashabai did not make it to Mike at 4.08. I think if he had, he would be on Mike's team right now. It would be very difficult to...

Pass that, yeah. However, second draft in a row, there are running backs that you can be very happy with here in the fourth round. Yeah, certainly. I like Kenneth Walker to have a bounceback year. Do you feel like this is going to be indicative of what you see during draft season where? You know, the attractiveness of the wide receiver position. Yeah. The guaranteed production is going to push some of these running back names down in reality. 100%. This is not, you know, a lot of times this time of year you go, it won't be like this come August. It won't be like this in your home leagues. I think this is exactly how it's going to play out when it comes to where the positions are going. Maybe the quarterbacks might go a little higher in your home leagues. Sure. But otherwise, the running backs will fall here. So you guys, we remember last year it was a disappointing.

year for the early running backs. But I've been, you know, like I'm doing some analysis on values and busts and it was just remembering what really happened. So last year, right, Christian McCaffrey, first running back taken, incredible league winning type of a year. After that, we went, Austin Eccler, who finished at RB 28, Bijon Robinson, who he finished at nine, but you took him as the running back three. Sequin from 4 to 12. Nick Chubb, the injury, Tony Pollard was, he finished at RB 15, it was a bust. Josh Jacobs, Ramandre, Najee. You had eight of the top 10 running backs, had a negative return on their draft price, and you are seeing that swing the pendulum in a major way this year. That's why the wide receivers were happening. So running backs available to me at this pick. James Cook.

Joe Mixon is, that's, you know, that's a close. He's against your brand. It's a close to never drafting type of a player for me. You'd also be your second Texan in four rounds. Yes, yes. Jefferson, Collins and Debo, your first three picks. So if I'm taking a running back here, it would be Kenneth Walker. But I'm not. I have a, I have a zero, I have a zero RB build going so far. I really. I really thought it was going to be Mark Andrews was going to be my pick because my man, Team McBee wasn't going to make it back. But he did. So Trey McBride is on my team. I knew it. I knew Trey McBride. He's on the back of the wall here today. Yeah, was shout. Someone, apparently someone sent that in. Like the deusers didn't tell us. And all of a sudden there's a Trey McBride signed jersey on the wall just is glorious and beaming off the wall. And someone sent that in. So thank you.

Yeah, it looks pretty good. And he's on your roster now. Mr. Hoffman, yes, thank you. Cooper Cup, C.J. Stroud, James Cook and Mark Andrews round out the fourth round. Joe Mixing, Kenneth Walker, Keenan Allen, and Anthony Richardson heading towards Mike's pick in the fifth. We're going to take a break and come back with Mike's fifth round selection. All right, Mike. Seeing how the rest of the fourth and the early fifth played out with Cook, Mixing, and Walker off the board. Does that represent the kind of tier change at running back that makes you disappointed you took Trey McBride? Are you content? I'm actually, I'm very happy with that because it's like, you know, Kenneth Walker again would be the guy I wanted to take with the upside he has. But Camara and Connor here, that's perfectly fine, the Alvin Camara. I think they're both in an interesting situation here of.

Connor and Camara? Yeah, with their backups being guys that we really like that could have a surge over the second half of the year. But at least for the first half, which I'm just trying, that's all I'm trying to buy right now. And yeah, James Connor would be another Arizona Cardinal, which I don't necessarily want to do that. And so it will be, this will be an eyes wide shut situation. Alvin Camara will not be watched by me because I cannot. handle it. The protein is complaining again. The protein is. The protein is complaining again. The meat's gone bad. He's just like the meat's gone bad. I wanted Camara. I think, you know, if you look at a per game basis last year once he was back from his suspension, he was outrageously. That's all you should look at. Only look at the fantasy points. You wanted Kyran. You wanted Debo. And you wanted Camara. I wanted, yep. And you got how many of those guys? I got none of those guys.

So, Breece Hall, Devon A. Chan, D.K. McCaff, Tank Dell. So you're very, you know, symmetrical here. Balanced. Yeah, that's a better word for it. And here, after Camaro went, T. Higgins and Dalton Kincaid. Jason, what are you looking at? Yeah, I mean, so I could go any direction. I wanted a handful of players here. I was really, really, really hoping that somehow Trey McBride or Mark Andrews would fall to me. I didn't. expect them to. I did expect Anthony Richardson to fall to me. None of those guys did. So my backup plan was Alvin Kamara. Thank you, Mike. Now I'm looking at, okay, the onesie position to me is kind of done here. Dalton Kikade may be a little bit in consideration, but I'm probably not going to pull the trigger there. Well, you also can't. Oh, did he just go to? Yeah, he just went before. Oh, fantastic. So I don't think I don't think he will. I don't think you will. So I'm looking at.

The next tier of players for me, and I want someone that can be a difference maker. I know I'm higher on this player than most people are. You know, if you haven't seen my tweet, a five-game sample size with Amari Cooper where Deshaun Watson played the entire game, in those five games that he started, people think like, oh, he wasn't good with Watson, he was good with Flackwood. That's Nojoku. The tight-in position thrived when Deshaun Watson was gone and with Deshaun Watson was. terrible, abysmal. But Amari Cooper, I know it's a small sample size, only five games he played, but the 17-game pace would have been 95 receptions for 1,132 yards and seven touchdowns on a per game basis. That would have been the wide receiver six. Yeah, you definitely changed my mind a bit on Amari Cooper. So I guess with all my preferences being gone, I will draft Amari Cooper to go along with D.K. Mattcalf and Tank Dell. Is that who you were wanting? I would have really loved to put Cooper on the team.

Devante Smith is the two in Philadelphia. Take that, Brad. Cooper, Cooper is the one. I thought you said Brad. What did Brad do? Who's Brad? You're looking around for a Brad. I'm talking about the sourdough over here. Brad's driving down the 57 right now. I was like, what did I do? Take that Brad. So, yeah, Cooper would have been great. It would have made my selection very easy here. I have Gibbs, Kyron, Hertz. and Devante Smith. You thinking about Kincaid here? No, he's gone still. You know, I feel very happy. I went Hertz. It was the beginning of a run on the top tier quarterbacks. They're all gone. You didn't get Richardson. I don't have to worry about that. At wide receiver, look, I have a lot of, we had the conversation, Olave and Pickens and what Pickens has been able to do, develop the route tree, more intermediate routes.

Pickens is at the tippy top of the list here along with Kirk. And I bring both those names up because they're very, very different to me in terms of how they help your football team. So if I'm looking at wide receiver, Pickens, Christian Kirk. We're at the end of, I mean, Calvin Ridley, you know I like Calvin Ridley quite a bit. But I think I could come back in the next round and get Calvin Ridley. James Connor is sitting there at running back. That's very late for Connor. Yeah, I think that's where I'm going to go because I think I can come back and take the leftover between Pickens and Kirk with my six-round picks. So I'm going to go Connor in the flex, Kittle, Pitts, Odunze, and Pollard go. See, Mike, this is the inverse of what happened to you. Like, you dance with the devil and you lost. Now you have to make a choice, though. Yeah, and I'm going to go with Pickens. I like it. I'm going to take Pickens here in the sixth round.

and give him a shot. What was the price of Olave was the beginning of the third in this draft? I think Pickens has a tremendous amount of upside. David Montgomery goes next, and then Jason, you're on the clock with your Hall, A. Chan, Metcalf, Dell, and Cooper roster. Yeah, so here I've got a number of ways I can go. I'm looking at the onesie position, like functionally, philosophically what I do. When I'm loading up on running by some wider receivers as I've done, I look each time at, like, what of the onesie positions are left? And to me, like the tight-in position, Evan Ingram is kind of a value, but I don't want him here. He's a value because he's, you know, should be a couple of rounds later, should be a late round pick. This is still a middle of the draft. So that's out. And if I lose out on Evan Ingram, then I'm like last round, Pat Frearmute. There's basically no one else that I really want. You would take that, Pat? Oh, sorry. Would you put Jake Ferguson in there? Sure. Yeah, absolutely. Jake Ferguson, Pat Faramese, just one of the really late round guys. At quarterback, there's, there's a handful of guys.

Kyler, Dack, Burrow, Dak, that I, you know, I could still play around with. So, wait, did you just give a whole onesie speech and you're not taking a onesie? Right, because I'm saying I'm looking at those positions and I just, I'm not inspired by them. I'm going to take a player that Andy doesn't like. I've talked them up, Andy's talked them down. If you've watched our player profile video on this guy. Oh yeah. Yeah. I still think he's got the juice. He's in a good offense. I know that. rookie quarterbacks have actually not been bad for running backs. They've got a pretty high floor. So I'm going to take Aaron Jones. Oh, I thought you were going to take Tai Chandler. I'm going to take Aaron Jones, who I think still has it, got a bag from the Vikings and will be an important piece to that offense. This is the one situation where I just say wholeheartedly, great pick. Oh, thanks. You know what I mean? Rashi Rice goes 606. Mike, well, he wouldn't have won it Evan Ingram anyway. He already has training. But Ingram goes at 607.

And then Mike, you're back on the clock. You have one running back in Camara. You have McBride and then the three whiteouts. Give me a few names that you're considering. Is there a quarterback on your mind right now? Like you danced around with Kyler last draft. Do you want to do it again? That is an excellent. It is an excellent. It is an excellent question. Thank you for asking. I am. I don't know. You can't win if you don't play. Yeah. You need a running back, man. So I do need a running back. And I'm, I am between two RBs and they could not be further apart of what they are in archetype. One is, it's, it's Najee Harris. I get it. The sentiment on Najee feels bad. It is bad. Feels bad. No, the cinnamon is bad. Yeah. Okay. It's bad. We're.

So some people, that bad sentiment feels good. Thank you. But the facts are three years in the league. He's rushed for over 1,000 yards every year. The Pittsburgh Steelers made a major investment into the offensive line. It's young players, but that could turn things around. And yet you have, well, they denied his fifth year extension. The reports out of Pittsburgh were, because of Warren would need an extension as well. We want to see how these running backs do in the new system before we make anything for the future for these guys, which I believe. So I think Najee's interest is perfect for my team right here. Just give me some points. And then there's Rahim Moster probably doesn't come anywhere close to last year. But there's a world where Rahim Moster is actually still this like does starting running back. And A-chan is worked in.

as a home run hitter like he was last year. So I like both of those guys. And then it's those two guys and Kyler. And guys, for the sake of the show, I think I have to see. You're going to gamble? I think I have to find out. Let me make it clear. Kyler's your pick at 705 if he comes back to you. Yes. I just want to put that on the record. And you're about to select who. Which the, looking at the draft board, eight picks. Two teams have quarterbacks. Team three and team four. Oh, boy. So they should not.

Double up. But teams one and two have two picks. And Joe Burrow and Dak Prescott are on the board. Just. Yeah. No, you're right. It makes, it just should happen. All right. Let's take the boring pick. I'm going to take Najee. I'm going to take my four yards of carry. Camara and Harris running the football. Yes. DeAndre Swift, Stevenson, Kirk, Burrow, Addison. Come on, man. Tyler Murray is gone for the second straight draft. You don't get him. You have Najee. Um, you have Noggi and, and Christian Kirk from last draft. Footclair, we are here to teach you lessons. Yeah. The lesson here is this is punishing. Learn from your mistakes. Team two had cede lamb. Didn't want the stat. Mostard and Zamir go so you don't get team two learn fantasy football. You don't get Kirk. You don't get Murray. Um, now you could take Dak.

I mean, if you could just come back and take, I think DAC is a better quarterback option than Kyler. It's, let me look, where do I have them ranked? I have. He might be higher for you. They're just so. They're back to back. So it didn't matter. It was more of a, I want the stack. You can also quit the league. Look, if there's a team in your league that does something so stupid as taking quarterbacks win the same tier and not getting their DAC CD stack. the one that was league winning last year. You flipped the table over and get out of there. But let's hope. Or congratulate yourself for playing with a lousy player. So reevaluating now the quarterback position, Dak, Jordan Love, Brock Purdy to Jared Goff, who I'm perfectly fine starting the year with, they're available. But whatever. Screw team two. I'm taking Dak. Dak is gone, though.

to you. All right, Ackler goes next at 706. Jordan Love at 707. Was Jordan Love the, he was the last of a tier for me. When I made my last pick. Oh, so my deck pick. Yes. Excellent. Which means the color pick on you as well. I wanted Borough, Kyler, Dak, or love and all went. Uh, you did not want them enough more than Aaron Jones. Yeah, you got. I got nodging. You got here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, guys. Thanks for bringing me on board. Well, that's wild is it feels like Naji's been in the league as long as Aaron Jones. It does feel like that. Wow. Jason made a selection. Now, he did not. Did it even know what he was doing? He didn't wait. You made this pick, correct? Yes, yes. I just made that pick. Jaden Daniels is 708, not even messing around or waiting. Now, was he in a separate tier?

I want someone at quarterback that can, you know, I'm trying to get as many players as I can that can really, really break fantasy football and, you know, be true difference makers. We just played the game with trying to wait on ADP for Kyler. You know, we've got a team here before me that doesn't have a quarterback. And I look at the quarterbacks here. And, you know, Brock Purdy, I've got ahead of Jane Daniels in my, like, expected median outcome. But I can grab someone later to pair with Jaden Daniels. I want Jane Daniels on the roster if I can't have any of the other top end talent. And I am also punting the tight end position. So that's going to be one of my last pick. So I need some power, some firepower at my onesie position. I'm three and three of running back some wide receivers. I just wanted some explosiveness at quarterback. Three and three will be your record too after six games. Washington schedule. It's on the road. That's not great. But it's against Tampa Bay.

who was, I believe, one of our favorite teams from last year to pick on for quarterbacks and wide receivers, the Giants, the Bengals, and Arizona. That's three games that, at least based off of last year, you'd be happy with. All right, I'm going to make it pretty quick. I was hoping for Calvin Ridley to make it back to me. 7-10 for Calvin Ridley is stupid, but I'm going to keep doing it in these drafts for as long as he's out there. He's the number one receiver for what will be a very pass-heavy team in Tennessee. So Ridley will join the squad. I didn't have to take him at 603. I took him at 710. I'm also very happy with all of you guys's quarterback shenanigans that I just grabbed Hertz and the third. Caleb Williams, Javante Williams, Jaden Reed, and Nick Chubb go next. How do you feel about Nick Chub there in the eighth? Maybe. Worth it or? Yeah, probably. Probably okay there. Yeah. It's tough because, I mean, the team that took them already has their onesies. And.

but didn't have a running back too, so for their team pretty dumb maybe. Sure. But I think it's worth that, you know, eighth and ninth would be pretty good. All right, I'm sitting here with Ridley off the board in the seventh coming up in the eighth. In consideration, Jaylon Warren, who I think will be a better value, Zach Moss and Cincinnati. Both of those guys are at the tippy top of the running back list. Jason, I can feel him. wishing me not to take one of those guys. I could feel it. I'm not even looking at him and I feel the emanating. There's one player. I'll be very upset if you take. I will mention this because there was some positive news. Hollywood Brown is sitting here in the eighth round. None of us have been taken Hollywood Brown. But there was some very positive news from Patrick Mahomes talking about Hollywood Brown driving the ball down the field and how he's making every play. It's worth saying I'm taking Zach Moss. Oh, that's a great pick.

I think that is a good pick. When you're in the eighth round, being able to get a guy who could be a borderline workhorse back on a good offense, like, that's great. Zach Moss can finish in the top 15. Absolutely. So I've already got three running backs and three wide receivers. I'm looking for upside. I'm looking for someone who, as the season goes along, can really crack into the lineup and become a sensational player. That's kind of what I tried to do with Jane Daniels. I'm going to take another rookie here. This is the guy I didn't want you to take. He's at the top of my list. I want Jonathan Brooks. He might start slow, but my team is built for that. That's fine. By the end of the year, if he becomes, you know, the best rookie running back this season, he's probably going to finish the season. We'll talk next year about his final eight games. He was on, he was the running back 10 on that pace. That's when the fantasy playoffs are. I want him on my roster.

Tara McLaren and Hollywood Brown off the board, Mike. You're back on the clock. Dak was your last pick. Where are you going? And so I have my two running backs. Basically everything Jason said, Trey Benson's path is different because James Connor has been great the last few years. But they drafted him in the third round. They drafted Trey Benson to be the future of the running back position for the Arizona Cardinals. He was my favorite rookie prospect at the running back position. And he, to me, is someone who can be work himself into a timeshare. And then if Connor misses games, I think Benson can take the job and they don't look back. All right, Trey Benson and the eighth, Hopkins, Watson, Bowers, and Deontay to finish the eighth round. Unfortunately, for me, because I was targeting him in this round. Brian Thomas off the board, Ladd McConkey, right behind him, a couple of rookies. Jalen Warren goes at 903.

And David Najoku at 904, Mike. You get your ninth round selection here. So now we're just looking for upside. I'm looking at the wide receiver position. I am actually balanced through the eight rounds. Upside picks here for me would be JSN. Can he bounce back after a pretty catastrophic rookie campaign? Keon Coleman of the Buffalo Bills. He's a rookie. Does he really actually become? Josh Allen's number one wide receiver. I mean, that's at the top of my list. And then if I want to go safety, I would be taking Gus Edwards because he's a starting running back right now for a very high T team. So between Jason and Keon Coleman, I'm going to go, man, that's tough. I'm going to see how I like it if I'm going to go Keon Coleman here.

See at the end of the year, or at the end of the draft, I like it. Cross that off my list. Yeah, I just added them to my list, you know. That was the selection. So good pick. Ferguson goes next. Jackson Smith and Jigba. Jason, you had, you built your own sandwich of sorts because you had Brees and A. Chan. Then you went three wide receivers in Metcalf, Dellen Cooper. And then since then two more running backs in Aaron Jones and Jonathan Brooks. So. You're pretty balanced. You don't yet have your tight in with three rounds left. Ferguson was going to be my pick here. Went to Team 6, two picks earlier. So like I said, if there's a few targets I have in the draft. And if it happens to be like this, I'm going to be streaming the position. I'll grab someone with my last pick. I've got three picks left. That's another pro tip. Always make sure you know how much you have left to add. So you can be like, I need a wide receiver. Or if I'm going to take a backup quarterback or whatever you're going to do.