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

Yes. I actually have Bryant higher in a PPR than Alan Robinson. You know, I personally feel like I would rather have Marty McBride than Alan Robinson. I'm really curious your rankings. You've done the stats. I have Bryant at 21 in PPR. And you have Alan Robinson at 15. And I feel spectacular about it. I think the consensus right now is Martavis Bryant. It is. It is.

Sorry. Sorry, buddy. We shot the monster. He is still on the board because we draft like three picks later. So Matthew Stafford and Brandon Lafell went off between our Maitavis Bryant pick. We're sitting here. You still have only four tight ends off the board, Gronkowski, Graham, Kelsey, and Olson. So Martellus Bennett, Antonio Gates. Gross. No, none of those guys. Okay, so we're waiting on tight end. Alan Robinson's on the board. Latavius Murray's on the board. So we're drafting our bench now. Wait a minute.

Did the train leave the station yet? No, the train? So you take, let me just get this straight. You take Amir Abdullah in a PPR league over Latavus Murray, over Tavin Coleman, over Joseph Randall, over Rashad Jennings. No problem? Correct. You want him here? Yes, I do. I think in a PPR league, he's... Yeah, that's where it really sets the difference to me. He's definitely worth getting. But the question that I really have is...

Do you like him more than your target monster who you were just, because we can still have Alan Robinson here. But to me right here, we're full. Like our positional players are full. We're drafting for the bench now. For sure. But we've got three running backs and two wide receivers. So we've, you know, that flex spot can go either way. I think it's insane not to draft Latavius Maria. I think it's insane. It's the seventh round. He's in RB1. We already have a guy in Spiller who we don't know. RB1 is debatable.

We don't know what it is. I'm not talking about, he's the starter for that franchise. And Spiller, we don't know exactly what his role is. We're still projecting that roll out. Jonathan Stewart is known to die. Yeah, exactly. I mean, Latavius Murray is the depth pick here, not Amir Abdullah, a rookie.

For me, that's crazy to me. I love Amir Abdul and a PPR, but I am in agreement. I would take Latavius Murray over. This is happening again? Yes, it's happening again. Oh, no. Latavis Murray's off the board. Mike, you get the next pick. Amir Abdullah versus Latavius Murray. We'll give the next one. By the way, my shirt, my own shirt would have said, in PPR. My shirt would have said dirty. Yeah, you, you guys did be dirty. Did you just say Latvius Murray? I have to make another. Yes. In PPR. Yes.

Waterbed. I got no problem with that, dude. Yeah, I don't either. I'm on the train and I am on Latavis Murray over. Oh, my goodness. You're talking all year? You know what that is? You got a crazy train. That's what you got going on. Hey, me and Ozzy Osbourne. We're hanging out. Runaway train. All right. We draft a Latavis Murray. No, no, no. That's just a thing. A runaway train. I wasn't being musical on you. My shirt would have said dirty had I had Amir Abdul on my team there instead of. Jurassic Park.

Oh, no, that's what's on my sure right now. All right, so, all right, we're sitting here in the eighth round. We saw a huge tight-in run happen in the seventh. Most of the guys I mentioned before are off the board. Also saw Josh Hill go off the board in the seventh round. All running backs almost in the eighth round. Guys like Kevin Coleman, Ryan Matthews, Joseph Randall, went in the eighth, which is just not going to happen in most leagues. I don't think. The only wide receiver that went off the board in the eighth round is... Target Monster.

That's all right. Say some words. It wouldn't matter if I wanted him anyways because you guys would have taken Latavia's stupid face. Alan Robinson was followed by Amir Abdullah. Yeah, of course. Reggie Bush, I think a really good value at the back of the eighth round. Devante Freeman off the board at how far away did he go from Kevin Coleman? Is Coleman still on the board here? You know, Reggie Pullman is not. Reggie Bush is a guy that every time I've been doing a PPR mock,

I have not yet taken him. And every time I look at his name on the list, I think, ooh, that's a good pick. Like, I need to start really looking for Reggie Bush because I really like the value he presents in a PPR. You get him late. He is the starting third down back. And I think that he's going to creep on the field more and more over Carlos Hyde. So.

All right, give me a rundown. We're going to hand this pick off to Mike to make up for the Latavis Murray and Martavis Bryant picks from earlier. This does not make me feel that much better. A little bit, though. A little bit. So you want the wide receivers, yeah. Okay, the wide receivers, Larry Fitzgerald, Mike Wallace, Steve Smith, Kevin White, Nelson, Aguilar, Anquam Bolden, Charles Johnson, Tori Smith. You really could have stopped after the first one. I just wanted you to keep reading. Larry Fitzgerald will be my pick. Okay. Okay, so we'll draft Larry. What are your thoughts on Larry this year?

I don't have these numbers right in front of me, but the numbers of Larry Fitzgerald playing with Carson Palmer in the lineup last year are fantastic. We're talking wide receiver two numbers where that whole team was a symptom of the quarterback virus where Michael Floyd, Larry Fitzgerald, and even John Brown to a point were severely affected by the quarterback play. And I believe that Fitzgerald has...

His skills are still there. Maybe he's lost a bit in the speed department, but his hands are still as sure as, more sure than him than nearly anyone in the NFL. And I think he's going to get a huge amount of targets with Carson Palmer healthy. All right. Steve Smith and Mike Wallace followed our pick of Larry Fitzgerald, so we're rolling into the ninth round. Julius Thomas is the highest rated tight end available. I don't think you guys, I could convince you to draft him here.

especially with guys that we like Tyler Eiffert on the board. I was just going to suggest waiting on Eifert. Yeah, Larry Dinell, some other guys are still on the board that we like. So let's talk a little bit about other options we have here. Doug Martin, Chris Ivory, Duke Johnson. Let's do a quick rundown over our roster. I was going to say the exact same thing. You're right. Let's do that. Aaron Rogers is our quarterback. At running back right now on the roster, we have Eddie Lacey, C.J. Spiller, Jonathan Stewart.

and Latavius Murray. At wide receiver, we have what I think people would view as a thinner group, especially in a PPR, so at least in name, DeAndre Hopkins, Martavis, Bryant, and Larry Fitzgerald. So I think wide receiver is a point of need right now on our roster. I can agree. I can agree. Do you think that we paid the price on that a little bit by taking Roger sorely? Because we started this draft with two running backs. Yeah, correct. So at that point, where we would have taken our first wide receiver,

we end up with Aaron Rogers. And so now we have a little bit of a thinner wide receiver core, but we have to just hit on guys. I don't think that's true. Didn't we take DeAndre Hopkins? No, we passed. He came back. Oh, okay. And we took him in the fourth. No, he's right. It was Lacey Hopkins Rogers. Yeah. So that. Oh, oh, yes, yes. So I don't think it was.

Now, we made a choice then of spiller over. Right. I don't think that it was taking Rogers that thinned our wide receivers. I think there were just too many valuable running backs, and I prefer having that. Because through the year, even in a PPR, and perhaps even especially in a PPR, you're going to be able to find wide receivers that can plug in. After the draft, you might not be happy with your wide receiver core, but you're going to be fine. One name that I was curious whether it was out there, Zach Ertz. Is he?

Zach Earth has been drafted. I will give you some names that I'm kind of surprised. You guys can tell them if you like any of them. Marcus Colston in the ninth now versus Cooks and the third. Pierre Garcin's out there. Brashad Perryman is still out there. Okay. I don't know if we're in the position where we'd rather take a Bolden or a Colston than we would a Perryman because of the way our roster is constructed. Any other, you know, other names? What round is this? We're in the ninth round. And this name?

May shock some people, but I've talked about them all offseason. Eric Decker would be in high consideration for me right here. I would look between Eric Decker, Bolden, and Ruben Randall. I think he's going to see a lot of targets this year. I actually kind of am feeling the Ruben Randall pick. He's not necessarily... He might go later, though. Yeah, he's not the ADP.

guy to take here so we can bet on him coming later. But as far as value of the wide receivers left on the board, I actually think that he has a chance of finishing as high as other guys. Anquam Bolden to me, again, with the Larry Fitzgerald thing, it's a little hard to get yourself to draft the crew of the old wide receivers. But value-wise, I like him. Antoine Bolton's been a beast since he got to San Francisco. A beast.

Another name that I want to mention here, we haven't talked about him all off-season, but he was a PPR monster two years ago was Kendall Wright out of Tennessee. Obviously, we have a turnover in the quarterback position, but a guy that's underneath that catches 90 to 100 balls, which he did. Is that a consideration at all for either of you guys? Not at this point for me. I would still lean with the veterans of Bolden. Yeah, I don't feel great about Bolden here.

So Kendall Wright only had Charles Johnson or Garsohn here. Kendall Wright had only 57 receptions last year. Yeah, what was the year before, though? Pulling it up. Because he was injured last year. So it looks like we're going to have a... Yeah, 94 receptions. Yeah. We're going to have a hard time finding a complete consensus here. Yeah, this is the tough part of the draft. Jason, I'm going to give you the opportunity to make the pick on our behalf. All right. I am taking the Carolina defense. Put it in.

Okay, can I undo what I just said? It's too late. You can undo what I said. All right. If I have to draft somebody right now, I think I... You do. Yep. I'm going to go for Rashad Perriman. I think that the makeup of the team, the upside potential is there. I got no problem with that at all. All right, so our bench now has Latavus Murray, Larry Fitzgerald, and Rashad Perryman on it. And all the running backs. Yeah, we're running through...

through to the 10th round. Is this the point where we want to jump on a tight end? Because Eifford's still on the board, but there's not many guys up ahead of him. That being said, most other teams have already drafted. Yeah, how many have been drafted? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Thirteen tight ends have come off the board. Actually, fifteen. Sixteen. Sixteen tight ends. I don't mind. I don't mind waiting. I don't know.

Push it to the limit. I guess at this point we are. Who all? So Eiffert's left. Larry Dinell is left. Yeah. If we wanted running back depth, we'd have to bet on guys like David Johnson, J. Ajai, Terrence West, you know, Monte Ball. There's not a whole lot out there, but I wouldn't mind taking a flyer on David Johnson. That's who I would take. I would either take Eifert, get that locked up, because he's by far the best guy I have left. But I would.

go David Johnson and hope that Eifford makes it back. If that was my pick, I would have gone Cameron Artist Payne. Just throwing that out. That's way too early. It's early now, but I think come draft season. Here's a Kevin White's on the board. Because he's not really a PPR guy. And honestly, you know, when I saw Kevin White, the first thought that came to my mind was huge potential. The second thought that came to my mind was Eddie Royal. You know, in a PPR league, I think Royals.

possibly higher, so. All right, so we went with David Johnson in the 10th, Tyler Eiffert in the beginning of the 11th round, and we've got one spot left on our bench. It better be Cameron Artis Payne. Is he there? I don't know. Let's see who's available. Yeah. Who is? I'm sure he's there because he's not going to be drafted by anybody. Jason, you realize that. He is there. He's definitely there. He's very, very there. Some other guys still... So you're telling me right now.

Hold on a second. You take Cameron Artists Payne over Kevin White, Nelson Aguilar, Charles Johnson. I mean, that's just, that's wild, my friend. That's wild. If this was a real draft that I was in, that I wanted to make sure that I had the best players I would draft Cameron Artist Payne before leaving my draft right now in every draft I have. Is Ruben Randall still there? Ruben Randall still there. Is Eric Decker still there? Eric Decker.

is gone. Ruben Randall would be my pick. I'm fine, buddy. No, I like Ruben Randall. All right, that is it for our PPR mock draft. Let me give you a quick rundown of our team. It was a little different for us. It was dicey. Quarterback in the third round, so I think we were a little... Little...

less comfortable than normal. But that's good because that happens in drafts. Because if you're in your draft and you go in thinking, I'm going to wait for a quarterback late and Aaron Rogers is sitting there in the third round, you're going to have to make the same decision. So Aaron Rogers, Eddie Lacey, C.J. Spiller, DeAndre Hopkins, Martavis Bryant, Tyler Eifert, Jonathan Stewart, Latavius Murray, Larry Fitzgerald, Bradshaw, Perryman, David Johnson, and Rubin Randall. What are your thoughts? If I took this team and I swapped Latavius Murray for Abdullah,