Final MOCK DRAFT of 2020 + New Nicknames Emerge - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/28

scenario, but I have prepared. And when I look at the board and I say, okay, if I take Chris Carson, who to me is another tier down or Todd Gurley or Leonard Fournett, these other tier running backs, I'm not going to be able to compete with Mike who's got...

Clyde Edwards-Elair, Kenyon, Drake combo that is better and then gets better picks before I go again. So I'm going to take a difference maker. It is not on brand for us. Wow. I was going to say, are you going to take Lamar? Here in the third round, I am taking Lamar Jackson. And I realize all the, we're a late round quarterback.

Lamar Jackson is a difference maker that I think will give me an advantage. And if I have the chance to draft them in the third round and I don't like anyone else there as a true difference maker for their position, I would much rather have taken Travis Kelsey, George Kittle, or any of those running backs I name. I'm excited on multiple levels for you having done this. I want to see what happens the rest of the way because you've been so.

pronounced in your middle round wide receiver world, but now you've invested on Kenny Gallaudet and Lamar Jackson. I'm excited because, look, the psychology of fantasy football, you have the best running back in football. You've now potentially secured the best wide receiver. The temptation to combine Christian McCaffrey and Lamar Jackson and then figure the rest out, I get it. I mean, I'm excited to watch you figure this out, not me.

But it's Christian McCaffrey, Kennedy Gallaudet, Lamar Jackson. After Lamar Jackson, Mike Evans, Odell Beckham went, Mike is on the clock. And this is interesting because I know Mike is staring at Chris Carson's name, but he has Clyde Andrew Zillera and Kenyon Drake. He's in the third round. Is he willing to go through running back here? So this is a two wide receiver one flex format. That's the format that we generally play in. If this was a three wide receiver league, I would.

100%. I'd be taking DJ Moore here. He's my number seven wide receiver currently. And I know there's a discrepancy of saying, well, I'm going to pass my number seven wide receiver to take my number 12 running back. But leaving the first three rounds with three running backs that I project as RB1s, it's, to me, is an advantage over everyone else inside of this league of things have really opened up here for me.

Quarterback, tight end, it doesn't matter. I am set here at running back until I choose to start grabbing some backups. Yeah, that is quite the start. And then you get to put into practice that middle round wide receiver, find the value that you like. I would assume somehow, some way you end up with DJ Chark on your team. Because you almost always do. Should get at least one of my my guys here.

All right. Yesterday we had a very big discussion. Was it a discussion? I don't know what you would define it as. We talked about Levion Bell. And I received messages on Twitter, basically finding it our conversation, which was a bus show. Jason brought up the name. There's a lot of negative press. Feeling like our discussion was incongruent with our ranking of Levion Bell that is still in the UDK.

I told you I don't have them in my top 10 anymore. But I'm looking at options at running back here. After Carson went Alan Robinson, Juj, DJ Moore, I was hoping Mike would pass on Carson and he could sneak through. Leonard Four Nett just before me at 308, my running back options, which I would love to secure a running back here, it's Levy on Bell. That's the decision for me. I mean, there's James Connor, there's Todd Gurley. I was going to say the, if I were you and I'm looking at Lev Bell,

Todd Gurley, James Connor. Right now in my projections, I might have to update here. I have Connor two spots behind Levion Bell. I think I would be taking the chance personally on Connor. Now, so my decision making here is I believe that there are players that I'm content with alongside Levian Bell at this pick. And I don't have a long wait. Like I'm at 309. I got to wait six picks. And then I like Lev Bell, but I would be content with David Johnson or Mark Ingram.

as my running back two. I think that there's a tier difference at wide receiver here. Okay. And that pick is Amari Cooper for me. So I'm going to take Amari Cooper at 309 and gamble on the return of a running back I'm happy with. James Connor went next. Robert Woods, Adam Thielen, Mark Andrews, A.J. Brown, and then David Johnson. So had I taken... Well, well, well. You gambled in one. Had I taken Levion Bell there, it would have been a mistake.

But I'm going to take them right here. So I end up with Amari Cooper and Levy on Bell. I do not think I have any shot at Amari Cooper if I went to Love Bell in that third round. So, hey, sometimes you win. Yeah. Sometimes you gamble. Sometimes you win. So I will be looking at my first wide receiver off the board here. Both my my guys are here talking about DJ Chark and Terry McLaren. Calvin Ridley, Cooper Cup, Todd Gurley, Melvin, Gordon off the board. Now there's another wide receiver on the board.

Who is one of Jason's My Guys. Could. Some of the options. Read them out. So Tyler Lockett, that's what I'm talking about, is Jason's My Guy. You're going to have a great team. Nick Lauren, DJ Chark, Metcalf, Sutton, Keenan Allen. That's kind of the wide receiver crew that I am looking at. Now, Jason, this is where he is lucky that I grabbed Chris Carson, because had I not drafted Chris Carson? I was going to ask you, yeah.

It would have been really fun to just take another one of Jason's players right in front of him. But, like, I've been doing it all off-season. You know where I'm going. Chark Wing Duck, DJ Chark, baby Chark, whatever you want to call him. He is now my wide receiver 1, and I'm very happy about it. DJ Chark, you're taking him over Terry McLaren in all situations? I am. He is ranked higher for me by a little bit. It's...

It's tough. To me, the difference maker is simply a little bit more trust in, or a lot of bit more trust in Gardner Minchu than Dwayne Haskins. All right. So you went DJ Chark. You would have gone locketed. You just didn't want to stack Seahawks? The only reason to do that would be to troll Jason. DJ Chark is much higher in my rankings. Okay. Jonathan Taylor. Next at 410. Jason, were you thinking about Jonathan Taylor if he came back to you?

No, I don't think so. So when I look at the board, this isn't how, you know, if you've listened for a long time, you know, I'm heavy running back early, wide receiver in the middle, and then, you know, that's usual. But we stay water and the draft didn't fall to me. This is the situation if I'm on the 101 where I go to a modified zero RB. I have Christian McCaffrey.

One of my running backs is locked down. One and a half, really. Sure. But I just have to fill one running back spot by the end of this draft. This is called CMC and chill. Yes, exactly. Shout out to Smiz. Exactly. Is that what he's called? That's what I saw on Twitter. CMC and chill. I don't want to take an injured David Montgomery or Rahim Moster type over dominant wide receivers, in my opinion, like Tyler Lockett.

Terry McLaurin, Cortland Sutton. I'm not going to do that. Now, I would normally take Zach Ertz here, but if you go quarterback early, which I've done, do not take a quarterback and a tight end early. You cannot do that unless you're going full zero RB.

But no, that's just going to make my depth at the important positions not good enough. I'm going to take my guy, Tyler Lockett. Thank you, Mike. You're welcome. I love that. I'm going to take your guy, Terry McLaren. That's a great pick. That's a great pick. Thank you. I'm pretty happy with the triad of wide receivers. Goladay, Tyler Lockett, Terry McLaurin. That's awesome. That's pretty hot. I've got Christian McCaffrey and Lamar Jackson. All right. Have you perked up? Have you risen out of your killball? I'm back, baby.

Yeah, big shimmy. Big shibby time. And there's a couple of running backs that I am hopeful could make it back to me that I do like. I'll say their names out loud, you know, even though it could obviously let you draft them. But if either Cam Acres or Kareem Hunt could make it back to me, and I would throw Ronald Jones into that mix as well, I'd be super happy with the lineup I have to plug that player into my RB2. So Jason went locket McLaurin.

Russell Wilson went next to 502, Zach Ertz at 503. Mike back on the clock with a team of Clyde Edwards, Alar, Kenyon, Drake, Chris Carson, and DJ Chark. What's your thought process here, Mike? So I'm looking at wide receiver. I would be deciding between Sutton, D.K. Metcalf, Keenan Allen, or if I want to assess the risk that I feel about my team right now.

AJ Green is in the mix for me. I know he's back. It's Andy smirks because it brings him joy. Like it's funny how perceptively on the show like players get associated with the three of us. And AJ Green is clearly associated with Andy. And I only when healthy. Only went healthy. And I've, I've been there the whole time. You have been there. I'm just not as vocal about it. Like AJ Green. But you've said it before.

I completely agree with everything that Andy has said of AJ Green is an elite player. Please clip that out. Just that sentence. I completely agree with everything Andy has said, period. AJ Green is an elite player. We haven't seen him not be elite when he's on the field. It's risky business here, though, to pair him with DJ Chark. That's true. When I feel much safer in Metcalf.

Cortland Sutton. Keenan Allen, I think, does get a bump with Mike Williams going to be missing some time. Maybe you get off to it. I thought you meant with his incredible skills. Keenan Allen? And quadriceps. Keenan Allen is very good. I'm going to stick with my board here, though, right behind Terry McLaurin on, oh, no, I'm taking DK Maccalf by accident. Oh, man. Was that a wrong clip? Wait, wait, wait. Did you really click something? That was, I was, I clicked on the player and I thought they would instantly move up to the top of the.

the mock draft, but it didn't change the order of them. I meant to take Cortland Sutton. Okay. Do we have the, we don't have the ability to do it. All right. Brooks is shaking his head, no. Whatever. We will mentally associate Cortland Sutton. Good thing the word mocks in front of this, huh? Well, and also here, don't be so quick so fast to just click buttons in your draft, or maybe you end up with two Seahawks when you didn't want to do that. Well, that's a shame. Mike.

T.Y. Hilton? That is unfortunate. T.Y. Hilton went next. That's a shame. Well, Andy, Corlin Sutton would be a sensational pick right here. I agree with that. I'm excited about Coralyn Sutton. T.Y. Hilton, Dak Prescott, Kyler, Murray, Devante Parker. What I was smirking out when you brought up A.J. Green's name, Mike, was not so much that you're agreeing with me. It was actually that I was thinking about A.J. Green.

before your pick. And I was thinking about how I would approach it because ADP-wise, the way people look at him, do I need to take him in the fifth round or can I do the same gamble I did before? For your short wait to come back for the sex. Yes. For my short wait. And my thought process was, I'm going to wait. I'm going to see what I can get in the fifth round here. I'm going to try to add a little bit of depth to my running back core with some players that I like.

Because I could go, you know, Cam Acres is an interesting name that I could take here, has an opportunity to start and take that gamble in the fifth round, Ronald Jones, but also Rahim Moster, somebody that I've believed in that has been a breakout candidate for me. So I'm going to take Rahim Moster and see if I can grab A.J. Green in the sixth. I take Moster. Then Sutton, Waller, Watson, Keenan, Singletary, and Stefan.

Diggs. You did it again. Off the board. So the gamble pays off. Now, I have to make the decision here, Hollywood Brown or AJ Green. And the pick is AJ Green. I'm taking him here in the sixth round. And I will prepare myself for the hate. I had dreams of Hollywood falling. I was very hopeful, but it did not happen. So after AJ, Tom Brady, Michael Gallup, David Montgomery drops to the sixth here.

probably go lower than that in your draft. Hollywood Brown at 608. And then Mike is surveying the board for additional Seahawks that may be available. For me to inadvertently click on? Yeah, let's see if that's possible. I was hoping that one of AJ Green, Michael Gallup, or Hollywood Brown would make it through. Unfortunately, that is not the case. So now we are...