Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Early 2016 Mock Draft Episode

who Kevin White is. Because he didn't play a snap. He was essentially, people were arguing coming into last year. Is it Amari Cooper? Is it Kevin White? Who's the better wide receiver? People felt like Amari Cooper was more ready, but Kevin White was the more talented guy. Yeah, more upside. And to be clear, like, Kevin White, he's not going to be there that late. We're still very early in the process. So.

You got to take it with the salty grains. All right. The final pick in our draft, I'm going to leave the D and kicker off here, but we'll draft them. We'll post the whole draft on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. You can review it, check it out. Tell us where we made ridiculously bad picks. Leave those in the comments. That's fine. Or what you like. Leave them to yourself, is what I say. So this is the debate I want to have with you on the last pick of the draft. And it is a debate of...

Would you take a chance on a second quarterback with high upside because you want to put that guy in your roster? Maybe it's the Cam Newton. I'm a big Marioita fan. That's why I bring it up. You still got Theoretic on the board. David Cobb in Tennessee is on the board. You have, you know, Shane Vareen. You have not a lot of options of running back, but you got a lot of, you know, Bresad Perryman. Do you fly again with him? Coming back on Baltimore. Travis Benjamin's on the board. Mike's guy Rubin Randall.

Yeah, Roobes. You know, at that point, I think, you know, it's slim pickings. So is it Marietta or is it one of those wide receiver options? To me, my last pick almost every single time is I'm going to try and fly and find a starting running back. So at this point, it would be... Theo? It would be... Well, Theo, I don't know if it... Theo will never be a starter. Zinnor? Especially in the Standard League. It would be Cobb for me. I know the...

The probability is very low, but it's my last pick. He's going to be my first cut for waivers after week one. That's exactly why I wouldn't take another quarterback, because you won't have time to see if that quarterback is valuable to you. You'll have to cut it. Because you always want to cut that first guy or somebody early, and so... If my first quarterback was Marriota...

I might consider taking a second. But with Andy Dalton there, you know what you've got. You don't need to grab a second quarter of me. So we will take David Cobb then. I like the idea of flying there. Oh, did you not want me to? Oh, my gosh. That's so gross to me, but that's all right. You can cut them after year one. I'll cut them after we post the draft. A week one, I mean. After we post the draft. So we are done with this mock draft. I want to give you guys our roster, okay? At quarterback.

The Red Rocket himself, Andy Dalton. We've got running backs of Gurley, Lamar Miller, and then Depth with Dionne Lewis, Danny Woodhead, and David Cobb, the 3Ds, as we call them. The wide receivers, AJ Green, Keenan, Alan, Josh Gordon, Doug Baldwin, Larry Fitzgerald, and Kevin White. Those wide receivers. That is delicious. And then we've got Julius Thomas that tied in, which I like the upside with consistency there from Thomas. I'm pretty happy with him where we got him.

And then we've got, I drafted our defense, the Panthers, and our kicker Santos from Kansas City. That'll work. We will post this, as I said. I do want to take just a couple seconds, get into the mailbag, answer a couple listener questions. If you have a question for us, you can go to the website, click on the submit a question button. It's the fantasy footballers.com or dial our voicemail number 302-464 TFFB, and we'll put those on the show. Let's go ahead and answer a couple. Mailbag. Bye.

All right, this is a supporter question coming in from Jeff in Akron, Ohio. He says, hey, guys, I'm in a full PPR league. Assuming Lamar Miller is gone, would you keep Jayae for a ninth-round pick with a seventh-round option in 2017, or Jeremy Hill for a seventh with no option for 2017? Thank you very much. Please answer this on this show, which we're going to do right now. So, oh, he also has a hashtag folk clan title. Oh, congratulations. So he took congrats on your title last year. My name is Jeff.

So, if Lamar Miller's gone, I would do the Ajai keep. If Lamar Miller, because he said, assuming Lamar Miller's gone, he's asking that question, I would actually do the Ajai keep. I think that that also comes with the assumption then that they don't draft a high running back pick. So if no other, you know. You guys aren't scared of Jonas Gray? New. Yeah, and I agree with you, Andy, I would as well. If Lamar Miller's gone and they don't spend a high draft pick on a running back,

then Ajai is capable of being a very good back, and you get him for two years, and you get them at a better value. Keep that seventh round pay. I completely agree. If they don't bring Miller back, that's a strong endorsement for Ajai for at least a few years. We know he fell in the draft over health concerns over his knee for long term, but it sounded at least like he would still have, you know, four or five years before everything went completely south. And for a ninth...

Over Hill and the seventh, I think the upside is greater for Ajai, where Jeremy Hill, we've seen he'll probably be hamstrung by Geo, as long as if Geo can play like he did last year. All right, this next question comes in from Darren in the Great White North. He says, AJ Green, Demarius Thomas, Keenan Allen, Kevin Benjamin, Julian Edelman. Kevin?

What did I say? Kevin. Kelvin Benjamin, Julian Edelman, and Jeremy Langford pick three of those guys. Those are some wide receivers. He's got quite the core here. Wow. It would be really helpful. It'd be really helpful for this group to know whether or not it's a PPR league or not. Keenan Allen and Julian Edelman and PPRs are must keeps for sure. I'm going to hold on to Jeremy Langford here. Just because...

It's a three-keeper league, and I think you're going to want one of the running backs. He's worth a third-round pick. So I would keep him. If it's his PPR, I would have to have Julian Edelman in there. Wow. I'm going to go AJ Green, Keene and Allen, Julian Edelman. And let me see here. I'm also okay if you want to take the risk of Langford over Edelman. I would go Green, Allen, Langford.

myself. Yeah, I can back that. Back that thing up. All right.

That is it for today's episode. Hope you enjoyed our, again, unconscionably early mock draft draft draft draft. It's very fun. It's never too early. It's fun to do. You saw some things that were in there that'll never be in there like Andre Johnson getting drafted. Post your own. Do a mock and post it. And we'll post it on the website. And that's fantasy draft wizard.com. You can mock in minutes. It's fantastic. Over the course of the offseason, it'll update. It'll get better.

pretty quick. Yeah, as the ADPs change, as the expert consensus changes. But thanks for listening to the show. Stay tuned for the show after the show. Go on to YouTube if you want to watch that and visit us on Twitter at the FFBallers. We will be back on Thursday this week. It'll actually be Thursday then. And then the combine will start on Friday. And the combine will start. All right. Bye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter.

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