Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Live PPR Mock Draft, Brian Tesch Interview, Mailbag

So if you're following the money in Dallas, that I mean, Ryan Williams is going to get a shot, at least. I mean, you're going to see he was drafted in the second round, kind of got really, really injured, worryingly so. But I mean, if he's still, I mean, half the back that he was, he can put up numbers in Dallas.

And C-Strong, I mean, he was another guy. He's built as a running back, doesn't catch passes, doesn't pass block. That's the big knock. But, I mean, he gains, he was just dynamite in college, bounced around some practice squads. And I'm really excited to see what those guys can do. I mean, I like the cowboy backs. I mean, just because the fact they're in Dallas. But C-Stronken Williams are guys that you can get as the very last pick in your draft and are players that I like a lot.

Let's see here. Because a lot of them, I mean, there are a bunch of sleeper tight ends that I like. Rob Hausler, again, Target Void in Cleveland, they're going to be a little, they're not going to be as bad as people think they are. I mean, there's really not many people, not much to throw you there. So he might, he can finally emerge from that quasi-sleeper status. Virgil Green, another player I like, probably better than Owen Daniels might not be. I was just going to say, are you going to take Owen Daniels or are you going to take Green?

I take green. It's that awful, that kind of thing with Travis Kelsey last year. Travis Kelsey could have been the number two tied end in fantasy, but then they, they're just, Owen Daniels is probably a better real football player than Virgil Green, but I mean, yeah, I mean, for, in terms of excitement and fantasy relevance, I would take Virgil far, far over, over Owen Daniels. I haven't taken either one of them.

in drafts yet another back that i kind of like uh two to i'll leave it with two backs because i mean i could just go on for days yeah geez brine oh brian the worst absolutely all right let's hear these two those yeah the two that i kind of like right now i like chris polk a lot he was you he might have you were a lishan mccoy owner he uh

Caust you some gray hairs in the red zone last year. But he was a really well-regarded prospect, had some injuries during the pre-draft process, slipped out of the draft entirely. And this looked good when he's gotten the ball in Philadelphia. And he, the only thing standing between him and a really interesting gig in Houston is Arian Foster, a guy who I'd like, but I mean, he's injury prone.

that there's just one tweak, and Chris Polk could end up being an RB2, RB, low end RB1. And I really like Kadeem Kare. I've taken some clack. I love him. I absolutely, Paddington Bear, what are you doing? Dog alert. Dog alert, dog alert. But yes, this is not Kadeem Kare. Kene Karee, not a dog. He is, but, yeah, Matt Forte, there's a bunch of warning signs that he's, he's,

Quiet, Paddington. Yeah, chill. Chill, dog. There you go. But, yeah, there's a bunch of warning sign that he's toast. And he's the next guy in line. He was really, he looked really, really good at Arizona. He was, I mean, he had more total yards than Bishop Sanky did who was higher drafted than he was. And I think that Forte Craters this year and Kerry's there to pick up the pieces, at least in the second half the season. All right. So we will finish with.

This, we'll talk about some busts. Are there any guys who are, we're talking, ADP, top two rounds. Are there any guys who you have blacklisted because you see them not returning anywhere near the value? Because I, I never blacklist anyway. I'd never taken anybody off the board. All right, well, throw major shade. Throw major shade. Major shade's going towards Matt Forte. I mean, that's the biggest. There are so many, like the bells are.

are going off. Everything is going wrong. People are jumping ship. And I mean, it's pretty much split in half at this point. The Forte Titanic is going down. He's 30. He has nearly the most touches of any active running back. The line wasn't bad in Chicago. I mean, they were pretty middle of the pack in terms of run blocking grades from pro football focus. That that wasn't the problem.

He also is losing Mark Trussman that, I mean, his receptions are going to go from 70 to 100 back down to the 50 or 60 that he was receiving earlier in his career. And I mean, he's not even averaging 40 yards to carry anymore. And yet people are still happily taking him in the middle of the first round. That, I mean, I can kind of see it. Like if you really, he's probably going to be a feature back that there is a good chance that he rebounds towards the lower four.

in yards per carry, but I'm not taking Matt Forte until he slips into the middle of the second round, at least, which isn't going to happen. Not really going to happen. So, yeah, that's my major guy that I'm throwing shade towards this year. Well, thank you so much, Brian, for joining us. Why don't you tell everyone where they can find you in your hilarious antics? Oh, well, thank you, Michael.

That you can. You can just check for the fantasy pros updates, do some long form stuff for them. I'm in the pipe at Numberfire. Check them out. They're another good site. I haven't written anything for them yet, but I will as I time freeze up during the summer. And yeah, I just plan on doing more articles for them. You can find me on Twitter at the Real Tesh or just type in Brian Tesh Twitter on the Google, whatever you. That's T-E-S-C-H.

Yes, not John. Not John. No round ball rock there. All right. Thanks, Brian. Anytime. Pleasure to have on. We want to thank Brian Tesh again for joining us. A lot of good information. You can find him on Twitter at the Real Tesh. That's T-E-S-C-H. We're going to go ahead and move on now to our mock draft. The fantasy footballers mock draft. Somebody's excited. I'm so excited. I love me some mock drafts. All right.

Just to lay out what we're doing here, it is a 12-team PPR mock draft. We're drafting out of the two spot, and we're going to go ahead and kick it off right now. Who goes number one, guys? I think number one goes. Matt Forte. What? That's sweat off my chest. All right. I don't know if I've seen that since about three months ago. Never seen that happen. You know what it is? It's the Lev Bell.

expert adjustment going on right now on some of these rankings. So Matt Forte goes number one. So we get the number one pick. So really the pressure is on us. I think the hardest spot to draft, honestly, is the number one. Because, you know, when I've been doing mock drafts, there's guys there. And it's like, I don't want to pull the trigger on any of these guys. I want to trade back to the three. Oh, I did not expect to see Matt Forte's name come off the board. I know exactly who I want.

I just, I agree that I don't like to me in the front and have to wait so long for the next pick. But my pick here, not even, not even thinking about it, is Eddie Lacey. PPR, standard, half point PPR, uh, Eddie Lacey, whatever. I did, I did a mock draft last night in the number one spot. And when I had to make that decision, I chose Eddie Lacey. In a PBR? Yep.

Okay, for me, I'd rather go with Adrian Peterson, but if you guys are set on Lacey. We love Adrian Peterson, but I think we've got a consensus. Adrian Peterson would have been my choice if Eddie Lacey went number one. No thoughts on Lev Bell? The master of PPR. Yeah, it's just so tough. If we haven't heard on the suspension, if it stays at three games to...

You can't give up. Yeah, because when you're drafting in that one or two spot, you wait so long, so many guys before you're back at the turn. You've got to have somebody there. I think it's really tough, and I think some people are making a mistake by, I still love Levian Bell, but I just think. I actually do agree with you. At the top of the draft, you need that guy starting from week one because you're waiting so much, so long. I think I'm almost guaranteeing myself if I take Lev Bell that high, that my third round pick.

My second and my third are going to be running backs. All right. Let's give you a lay at the land here. We drafted Eddie Lacey with the second pick in this PPR mock draft. After Lacey went Lev Bell and Adrian Peterson, as you might expect. Jamal Charles went fifth. Rob Grankowski went sixth. Antonio Brown, the first wide receiver off the board at seven. Probably a good value there.

Yeah, that's tremendous selling for PPR. Absolutely, and that started a wide receiver run. Yeah, the back half of the first round went, Antonio Brown, and again, O'Dell Beckham went ahead of the rest. O'Dell Beckham went eight, Julio Jones went nine, Demarius Thomas 10, Calvin Johnson at 11, and Des Bryant rounded out the first round. So a big run on wide receivers there. In the second round, we saw Foster, A.J. Green, C.J. Anderson.

LaShawn McCoy, Jordie Nelson, Marshawn Lynch, Alshan Jeffrey, DeMarco Murray, Emmanuel Sanders, and Randall Cobb. Any thoughts on what's off the board right now? Any surprises to you? I think Lynch was a surprise to me that he went that late, and DeMarco Murray is...

upsetting that he almost dropped to us because that would have been an instant click for me if Murray was there. Yeah, one thing we're talking about here is you see C.J. Anderson went off the board as the third pick of the second round. Now, on a PPR league, he has a lot of potential if he has that role. He's a guy we haven't talked too much about because of some of our hesitation that he will see enough of the backfield. But if he does, are we pretty excited about him?

Yeah, extremely. Extremely. Extremely. Coobes zone blocking with...

Yeah, no, if C.J. Anderson has the role, he's going to finish as a top 10 back guaranteed. And I actually statted him out as having the role. And in my stats, he finished number two. So definitely excited about him, but there are giant question marks. There's no guarantee he gets that role. And before we make our next pick, I also want to talk a little bit about Alshan Jeffrey, who went as the seventh pick of the second round here. When I finished my wide receiver rankings this week, Alshan actually ended up as the number three receiver in my PPR rankings. That's fine with me.

Yeah, I think I've got him seven or eight, but I really, really like his opportunity and his talent. Yeah, for me, it was a matter of obviously Marshall's gone, so I think the touchdowns are going to be there for him. And then he's stepping into that role of Demarius Thomas in the Adam Gay's offense. So I think the quantity of passes in a PPR league, he's just a surefire top 10 guys. Yeah, it's like Antonio Brown, Demarius Thomas, where they just get these cheap catches on...

on screens at least a couple times a game, and they usually bust off a good amount of yards, but you get a free catch right there. All right, guys, tell me what you're thinking about here with our second pick. Well, we really, I mean, I guess I'm kind of thinking about both of these picks because they're so close together, right? Exactly. So I'm thinking about the next two picks. We've...

Got a lot of running backs on the board I still like. Obviously, Jeremy Hill's still there. Justin Forset is available. Exactly. Yeah, those guys I love. Grabbing two of those guys would give us, you know, a beastly running back. I'm not thrilled with the wide receivers left on the board right now to take a number one, which, you know, what's the thought process here when you go and you say, okay.

I don't love the number ones on the board here. So do you then bypass and have a worse number one? Or take a lesser talent because of that? What do you guys say? Well, I think there's a number one on the board right now. There is a number one left for me. And his name is DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah, me too. I'm just saying. So the question then is who do we believe is going to come back around to us? And who's the most likely to get drafted? Right here. Oh, sorry, go ahead. I was going to say, I think we need to take four set here.

Well, I was the opposite. I think we need to take Hopkins and Fawcett will make it back. Exactly. Because if Fawcett doesn't make it back, there's three running backs on the board right now that I love. I love Jeremy Hill, I love Justin Fawcett, and I love Frank Gore. And there's one wide receiver on the board that I love, which is D'Andre Hopkins. It's pretty good reason to draft him first. Yeah. And we didn't even check who's the team behind us, who's in the one pick. So he had Forte. So he already took a running back.