First MOCK DRAFT of 2022 + Best Ball Breakdown - Fantasy Football Podcast for 5/26

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I'm not a quick bake. Those are very different. I thought it was a beak. Martinez Bryant is not here with us today. We did that already on the show a long time ago. But Mike, you are back on the clock. Camara Connor and Devante Adams from the 109. He's going to make people want to draft from the 109. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with that. If Jason had not taken George Kittle, he would have been in very strong contention here for me as the, as I get.

what I was saying, you know, you're into the tight-end garbage. Kittle is still someone who, to me, represents a top-tier value. At the wide, and I think I'm pretty good here at running back, acres, maybe, you know, like the upside is there, but so is the downside of if he keeps playing the way that he played. So I'm back to the wide receiver position. Guys, D.K. Metcalfe, who...

Goodness gracious, if he had a good quarterback, that would be a very easy pick. Unfortunately, you're like Metcalf, DJ Moore. The quarterback's position is not great. Amari Cooper, I think we're still too early to know what his situation is as well. And I actually have to go down the ADP chart a little bit here, and that doesn't bother me at all. Because Rome was not built in a day. And when you're building the city, you got to, yeah, there it is.

You got to draft my dude Michael Pittman, who has, in my opinion, wide receiver one upside. You saw the real breakout. You saw a tremendous jump in the target share. And there's just, there's no one on that depth chart that I believe that can actually challenge Michael Pittman. And Matt Ryan is an upgrade at the quarterback position. I'm just so impressed that the producers got that drop that quick. Which makes me wonder, did you tease it?

Did you let him know? You'll never know. So you went with Michael Pittman. David Montgomery went next, which I think based on my rankings is a steal at 405. DJ Moore, D.K. Metcalfe, the quarterback question crew back to back in the fourth round. J.K. Dobbins at 408. That's interesting. Look, that's a nerve-wracking pick in the third round. It's probably a nice pick in the fourth round. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, with David Montgomery, J.K. Dobbins going and still a round and a half to me, the George Kittle pick is already making me hold of my breath. When you're at the turn and you've got, you know, 24 picks between you, it just, it's so hard to not have two running backs leaving that three-fourth turn. I don't think I caught Mike's line of secrets are secrets. Ah. An adage.

He follows up Romans not built in a day, very famous quote with, secrets are. Well, see, here's what you do is you pick a famous quote and then you throw in your own and then you build up a steam of your quote. Call that a piggyback. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So here's an interesting play that I'm about to make here in this draft. I went with Cooper Cup to start the draft. Aaron Jones, Ezekiel Elliott. What I want to happen.

at 409 and 504 is I want to end up with the Justin Herbert and Mike Williams stack. So if I'm sitting here in a draft and I'm looking at this, Josh Allen's off the board, Patrick Mahomes is off the board. One of the teams that drafts twice ahead of me has Patrick Mahomes. So there's only two teams, team one and team three that could potentially take a quarterback here. But Mike Williams' ADP is much lower.

than Justin Herbert's ADP relative to this spot. So I still think taking Herbert first, coming back with Mike Williams is going to be the way to secure him. I thought you were going to make the argument that you were going to bypass Herbert. And I do not believe he would have got back to you at the 504. We'll never know because you took him, you coward. I am a coward. I didn't want, even though I would feel more comfortable. Well, let's walk this through because you might have been wrong.

All right. Cam Acres went next. I took Justin Herbert at the 409, Brees Hall, Jay Leno Wada, Omari Cooper, Jerry Judy, Lamar Jackson. So that Lamar Jackson pick could have very well been Justin Herbert. That would have felt bad. I really enjoy, just from a fantasy player perspective, I enjoy the stacked wide receiver quarterback, but I don't want to work for that in the top of a draft ever.

But when I'm getting to the fourth and fifth round and a player like Mike Williams, who I think two of us have them as a top 10 wide receiver this year, I'm so excited for this team. I take Mike Williams here at 504. He pairs with Cooper Cup. Again, I see some balance here on this roster where Jones is going to have spike weeks. Mike Williams is going to have spike weeks. But then Cooper Cup, Ezekiel, L.A., and then Justin Herbert, who, you know, Herbert over the back half of last year.

His fantasy finishes at the position weren't just good. They were great. I mean, he was a 5,200-yard 40-plus touchdown pace, 2, 1, 6, 3, 6, 5, 9, 12, 2. He didn't have a week outside the top 12 over the back half of the year. So I managed to put the stack together. Michael Thomas goes next. Kyla Murray, Joe Burrow.

I mean, three quarterbacks going after Justin Herbert here. And then Travis E. TN. at 508, Mike, you're back on the clock. So, Andy, your team is Cooper Cup, Aaron Jones, Zeke, Herbert, and Williams. I have Camara, Devante Adams, James, Connor, Pittman, and Jason has Stefan Diggs, Mixing, Higgins, and George Kittle. All right. And so we are now into the fifth round. This is where you can find some of that scrumptious value at the wide receiver position.

Very frequently wide receivers here who end up taking a true leap. And I'm going with a player that I think the talent has existed. And he got a massive upgrade at the quarterback position. It's very, it's not very often you see future Hall of Fame quarterbacks moving teams. Funny enough, this team actually already saw that happen with Peyton Manning, but I'm going to take Cortland Sutton.

The debate of the Broncos wide receivers, it will be very interesting through the offseason. Jerry Judy went earlier in this round. My chips are on Cortland Sutton. He had a true breakout campaign as a sophomore with 1100 plus yards. And we know that Russ is going to be good for close to 4,000. He's going to throw over 30 passing touchdowns. And now with the new offense here,

He could be truly unleashed. What is interesting to me, just making an observation on your team, Mike, two running backs, three wide receivers. All three of your wide receivers have no familiarity with their quarterbacks. Devante Adams joining Derek Carr, Michael Pittman, with Matt Ryan, and then now Coral and Sutton with Russell Wilson. It's going to be interesting to see how all of those situations play out. There is upside and downside arguments to be made for all of them. But it's going to be...

Going to be very interesting. T.J. Hawkinson at 510. DeAndre Hopkins at 511. What size font are you writing your notes there, Jason?

They're getting smaller and smaller as the players get worse and worse. Oh, so it was the confidence. Exactly. It's tier-based font size. It's a new feature in the ultimate draft kit. You'll be able to read the good player's names far easier allowing you to draft them. We shrink the font sizes on players. We want you to avoid because if you can't see them in your draft, you can't take them. But printing it out is going to take.

95 pieces of paper. There's a forest going down every time you... The nice thing, though, is that, you know, the last hundred players print on like a quarter of a sheet. That's right. But it's jaw... Nuffin Taylor. Right, four sheets of paper. Okay, so here I am. I am happy that...

One running back fell to me because there's not a lot of running backs that I like left on the board. The fact that I only had Joe Mixen at the 12 spot thanks to drafting a tight end earlier.

means I was really, really sweating it. This is not a guy I'm trying to get my hands on. I'm very afraid of him. But Clyde Edwards Allaire, we talked about the fact of Daryl Williams, very involved in the passing game, has left. Tyree Kill, obviously very involved in the passing game, has left. Vacated targets usually go to the running back. So I think when I'm talking about the fifth, sixth round here, Clyde Edwards O'Lear, I'm willing to take that risk, especially when I only have one running back.

Do you have any concern based on Tuesday's discussion about the lack of organs that he currently possesses? I think it's going to help him. I really do. I think getting that gall bladder out. Yeah, we really broke that down in a big way. Next, maybe it'll be the regular bladder. We'll see. You think you need that one. Well, I mean, TBD. So here I am, and I've got a real debate in my head, and honestly, maybe you guys can help me make it. I've got Joe Mixing and Clyde Edwards Allaire.

which are fine. I love Joe Mix and I'm questionable about Clyde Edwards O'Lear. I've got Stefan Diggs and T. Higgins, which I really like that pairing, and tight-in is fine. Quarterback, if you have drafted an early tight-in, which I have done, do not draft another early quarterback. It's not even in consideration no matter who's on the board. I need running backs and wide receivers. So I like the wide receivers better if I were to take one here personally. It would be Hollywood Brown. I think he's got really high-end potential. Which would be after Hopkins in this draft.

which to each their own. I would like the guy playing the first six weeks on my, on my roster. And then at running back, I would be looking at Kareem Hunt or potentially, where is he? Damien Harris. Okay, I was verifying that he is still there. Those two running backs are.

both fine, and then after those running backs, it just drops off a cliff. I don't want to be dealing with James Robinson coming off of an Achilles or, you know, I know Andy, you like A.J. Dylan, you might be looking at him here. So based on everything I'm saying, there are plenty of wide receivers I like that I can get later. There aren't a lot of running backs I can get later. So I'm going to take an upside play here, even though I think that Damien Harris is safer.

Kareem Hunt was the running back seven until he got injured. He's getting a quarterback upgrade for the majority of the season, and he's an excellent running back. I will take the pass catching running back from Cleveland. So I now have Stefan Diggs and T. Higgins at wide receiver, Joe Mixin, Clyde Edwards-Alair, Kareem Hunt, and George Kittalett tight in. Elijah Mitchell went next. He was who I was hoping would somehow fall to me in the middle of the sixth. Godwin finally goes. Could be a rocky start, but a nice finish.

And Mike, it's time to make a pick. So the two running backs I would be looking at here. I also like A.J. Dillon a ton. But Miles Sanders is here on the board. And he's just, he's so interesting of he was playing extremely well, running for over five a carry. He just, he didn't score any touchdowns. And I mean, he got banged up again, unfortunately. So those are the two running backs I'm looking at. There is a wide receiver.

a little bit lower on the ADP that I think I'm just going to be okay playing the game. Being at the nine spot, the draft is moving away from me, so I have quite a weight, and I don't think any of these running backs are possibly going to make it back to me. So my running back three, man, I'm going to go with Miles Sanders here. It's so razor thin for me between Miles and AJ Dillon, but I think that...

At the end of the day, Sanders upside should everything go right is higher than A.J. Dillon's. All right. Miles Sanders to Mike. Ken Walker goes next. Alan Robinson, Adam Thielen, and Damian Harris. Adam Thielen in the middle of the sixth. It's a value. And for the second wide receiver for that team, that seems like a steal. Hollywood Brown is still there. Ooh.