Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Early 2016 Mock Draft Episode

which is counter to what I'm talking about, is Jason brought up the point of Marvin Jones leaving. Maybe Tyler Eifer gets even more involved between the 20s and isn't just the end zone guy. We talked about this. He lost three games off of those stat lines last year too. But we wouldn't want to be from... No, from injury. He missed three games. I'm just saying... Was three including the one where he had the goose egg? Oh, his live action goose egg? Yeah. He was on the field.

No, it doesn't include that. He played 13 games, and then one of them was a goose. So if he actually gets more involved in the offense of bumping up that yardage while maintaining his high touchdown possibility, then I for...

will be fantastic. Yeah, but we're not, we're not saying Eifford's bad at all. You wouldn't necessarily want to pair him with A.J. Green. Not that that's the end of the world, but we've got him on our team, so that's another reason. Well, yeah, and he went in the sixth here in the middle. You got Breeze going off the board in this round. You have Steve Smith going off the board, coming back for Baltimore, Delaney Walker in the seventh, Devante Adams. Walker there is interesting.

I think Walker and the 7th could be a great value. But I think there are other guys like that, too, sitting there. Gary Barnage is available. He went about, you know. Gary Barnage is going to get zero respect for what he did. I know. I completely understand it was one year, and it was very late in his career. It seems like a total outlier. However, for me, where he's going to be drafted, you know. Gary Barnage had 80 catches in a thousand yards. Ninth, 10th round or so for Gary Barnage.

I will absolutely take that risk because there is basically no risk. We'll see what happens when it comes back around. Ertwin this round too. One of the things I would say on the tight-end position, and speaking to what you said a minute ago about tiers, is to me, there are only two guys left on the board that I actually like at tight-end in Julius Thomas and Gary Barnett. Yep. After those two, the field...

is I don't care. Give me any one of them with my third to last pick. You'll figure it out on waivers. And I'll figure it out. But that does mean I may be considering not so much with this one because we're close to the turn. But with those two guys, I think we can probably get one of those guys with the next pick. So this is where I would actually look for a middle of the, middle of the draft tied in, which was not my strategy last year at all.

because it's the end of a tier. So just pointing that out. So we're sitting here with the 8, I'm sorry, the 10th pick of the seventh round. Our roster is Todd Gurley, Lamar Miller, A.J. Green, Keenan Allen, Josh Gordon, and Dionne Lewis. Now we're sitting here and we're looking at some flyer, you know, upside flyers at running back. Guys like, you know, J. Ajai, if Miller were drafting him and he's somewhere else. You got Melvin Gordon sitting here in the seventh round. You got Doug Baldwin.

Last year's Cinderella story in the second half of the season. Larry Fitzgerald, Devante Parker. You've got some starters potentially in Frank Gore and Matt Jones. And I think there are a lot of decisions to be made right here that, you know, and then you could go Barnage. Yeah. You know, but between running back and wide receiver, you're both looking at upside potential depth for your bench.

That means that the tiebreaker, since they're about the same in what's on the market, the tiebreaker to me is the fact that there are three wide receiver positions, and we already have three running backs for two. So to me, I'm looking wide receiver here. I still think when you go high upside guy, Doug Baldwin is in that. He's not as sexy as a Tyler Lockett or some of those other guys, the Devante Parker, because he's older. We had seen what he did for years.

But you've got to keep in mind, if he's on our bench and it turns out, oh, he is as involved as what he showed when he was the number one wide receiver in the league from week 10 to 17, that would be my pick. I'm totally fine with a different wide receiver as well. And I'm completely good going Doug Baldwin here. We've filled out our starting roster of wide receivers. I don't feel like I'm taking Baldwin at an early range here where I'm locked in.

I have to figure it out quickly if he buss. So I love Baldwin here in this area. So I'm going to bring up a name here. We took Baldwin, and then Palmer and Barnage went, and then Gordon and Giovarius Allen, which are all pretty good picks. There are maybe, you know, Palmer's still value probably at the eighth round there. Yeah, probably. Let me say this. A name that has not been drafted or mentioned and is now...

you know, kind of the guy there along with the O'Ridic, but Amir Abdullah represents some upside in year number two. If you can get the fumbles under control, we're in the eighth round. We just took our fourth wide receiver. We got three running backs, four wide receivers, no tied in, no quarterback, and a few bench spots left. And we're going to have to draft a little bit quicker here towards the back end of the draft, just giving you guys a heads up. But who, are you considering somebody like Abdullah here, or there are just too many names on the board that you like above him? No, and Abdullah is...

is in consideration for me. The other guy who is in full consideration for me because I start doing the value dance. We're getting to the area where other people might pick up on his scent because we're later in the draft. That is Devante. Mr. Rodney Dangerfield of fantasy football because he is a small, small man. I get no respect. Danny Woodhead. RB1.

The last two healthy years for Danny Woodhead, he has been an RB1 in standard and PPR formats. I want him on all of my teams. Wow. I can't do it. And that's exactly why I want him on my teams. This is the area where other people will start doing the... I do it because I think, okay, maybe Melvin Gordon, this is the year he just gets it together. This year number two, he's finally going to, you know... Even if he gets it together.

The amount of the workload that he received... But you're choosing... Just so you know, you're choosing Woodhead over a potential starter in Amir Abdullah, over a potential starter in Jadai, Ajai, Matt Jones, Frank Gore, Carlos Williams with the upside of Williams there. Forset could be back and starting. Duke Johnson. I can't see it. I can't see it now. Because you don't like running back once. I fully understand it. I hate running back once. I hate them. I'm not saying I have to take him here, but this is...

This is Danny Woodhead territory where I'm not going to let him go. Okay. When I look at the running backs and the wide receivers, you named a bunch of running backs there that I liked all of them. Frank Gore for, you know, is a great pick this late. He was also an RB1. I like that. I like a lot of the value at wide receivers. So this is where I say, do you maybe take that Julius Thomas, who's kind of the last guy that I like at tight end?

And then still for the next, then we got round after round just going searching for those values. I dropped Julius Thomas over Woodhead. His upside in that offense, the way he performed in the last four games of the year, I actually do take the shot at Thomas here in the eighth round over Woodhead and where he falls in my running back kind of, you know, it's a 2RB league and you got Lewis still there. And I want it clear for the listeners who are trying to get better. If we don't take Julius Thomas here, which I'm also fine doing, then I don't draft a tight end for.

Until the third to last pick, because the rest are all just the same. For me, at this point, I'm not as big as a Julius Thomas guys as you two. I would personally wait, keep waiting. If he's there later, I'll take him up. If he's not, I'm perfectly happy taking an Antonio Gates, who I expect to be resigned, taking a Ben Watson who had a tremendous value down in New Orleans, even though he's a bit of an older guy.

I'm fine waiting, but if I'm going to get outvoted here, then we'll go with Julius Thomas. You're going to get outvoted, but we're going to give you the next pick off the board. So you get final say on the next pick. So I will take Julius Thomas. We're going to float into the ninth round now. Names off the board. Ariam Foster, Justin Fawcett, Alfred Morris, Frank Gorman, Matt Jones, a lot of the running back names, Ajai.

Amir Abdullah. Pretty confident, I know your pick. And so we come all the way back around to the 10th pick of the 9th round, and look who's sitting there, grinning. It is. Mr. Running Back 1. The Duke of Elves himself. Danny Woodhead. That's such a good nickname for Danny Woodhead. The Duke of Elves. We'll just have to make sure people understand we got that from someone else. And so we took Danny Woodhead.

So everybody's dreams came true there. He went as he, you said. My dreams at least. Look, you said he doesn't get respect. And look, you got him at the ninth, the tenth pick of the ninth round. After him went Crowell, I think a great value in the ninth round. Rashad Jennings of value in the ninth round, Duke Johnson and John Brown. This is the time when we parse potential, right? It's so hard to guarantee it. But now we're sitting here, and Larry Fitzgerald's on the board with a third pick in the 10th round.

That's a possibility. Off of a huge year for Larry Fitzger. What I want to know at this point, because we're in the 10th round, I just want to know what quarterbacks are on the board. This is where I start looking for tier breakoffs. Yeah. And see, are there six guys I like? Is there two guys I like? I'm perfectly fine with that because a reminder, the streaming quarterback strategy is if.

Your late round quarterback does not turn into a week-to-week starter like we had last year. I drafted Carson Palmer everywhere, and it was fantastic. So I'm okay in this 10th round starting to peak. Here's the peak. Here's the peak. We've got Blake Bortles, who's a great value here for where he normally goes, but there's also still other really good guys, Eli Manning.

That's two good guys. Andy Dalton, my personal favorite. I would love to pair him with our AJ Green. Ooh, double stuff. Philip Rivers is good. Andy has been high on Marcus Marriota coming in. There's also guys, even later, Tyra Taylor, Taylor, Mario, Mariotta. Tyra Taylor, Kirk Cousin. I feel like there's no reason to take a quarterback here. But for me, because of our roster, I'm looking at Andy Dalton as a guy I hope to get in a couple rounds if he's there. That's fair. 109 catches.

1,215 yards, nine touchdowns is on the board right now. Is that fits? That's Larry Fitzgerald. That's Larry Fitzgerald's line. That sounds good. Yeah. And to me, you have Andy, both Andy Dalton, Philip Rivers, guys who were sat at number one for a while. Or I don't know if maybe Rivers didn't make it all the way to number one. But both those guys were at the top of the quarterback rankings for some time. And they're both sitting there for us in the 10th round.

I want to go Larry Fitzgerald here. All right. Larry Fitzgerald is the pick that leaves us two bench spots, a quarterback and our D and kicker. Coming back around to the 11th round, Charles Sims just went before us, Bilal Powell, Mount Ryan. Ooh, I like that Sims pick. Yeah, I do too in almost the 12th round. My goodness, in a 12th team. So quarterbacks on the board, you know, Eli Manning, Andy Dalton, Phillip Rivers, Mariotta. With just those four. With just those four or five.

I'm fine waiting another round. One more round. Yep. Let's take a look at wide receivers. We are going. Tyler Lockett on the board. Kevin White. A flyer for Kevin White. You got Theoretic. If you like Danny Woodhead, how do you not like Theoretic, Mike? Hey, you're speaking my language. I like Theoretic. A lot. I feel like our running backs are done.

Personally. That's fine. Well, just because we're in a three wide receiver, two running back, no flex. So we only need two running backs. We got four. That's very fair. So Lockett or Kevin White. Lock it or Kevin White. Let's make a pick here. We got to go quicker. So we already have Baldwin. Give me Kevin White. I'm going to fly. Give me Kevin White. We already have Baldwin. You know, do you believe that Seattle is going to be a high-flying two relevant wide receiver team the entirety of 2016? Possible.

It's very possible. I think. I don't think they are. But here's... Kevin White or wait or take a Dalton now if you like Dalton or Eli Manning and wait. You make... You know, I would say that it's very tempting to just grab Dalton and pair him with A.J. Green because there are multiple guys we like that I'm fine with either one of. Mike, you make the pick. Honestly, I would take Andy Dalton. Yeah, let's do it. All right. So Andy Dalton is our pick. The 10th pick of the 11th round.

You get a guy who was the number one quarterback for half the year. And then right after us went two quarterbacks. We made the right choice. And I will not lie, the allure of the double stuff going to our elite level wide receiver one. It just makes. That's fun. It's fun. All right. So we'll take Kevin White here. Kevin White is still on the board. Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, Diggs, and Dee well went. So we'll take Kevin White. And if you don't remember.