Tyreek News + Head to Head Mock Draft

area as a not a tier one maybe a tier three type of running back but the fact that i start with two elite wide receivers and still a great running back option my draft is up to off to a hot start so you're obviously maybe it makes the question moot but devante freeman will be your one yes on your roster you have adams and beckham which make leaning on freeman as your one a little bit easier to bear

But with Freeman specifically so that we can get into it on a player-by-player basis, are you going to be looking later in the draft to kind of protect yourself a running back? Like Edo? Well, not necessarily with Edo. Just maybe overemphasize the running back because of you starting at the third round. Yeah. And because of Freeman's injury history. Yes. It gives me great freedom. On the way back here in the fourth round, it wouldn't surprise me if I end up going with another wide receiver like Julian Edelman or somebody unless you end up taking him.

But that will afford me a tremendous luxury of just grabbing as many shots at starting running backs as I can and hoping that one or maybe two of them hit. All right. After you selected Devante Freeman as your third pick, Kerry on Johnson and Derek Henry went next. Patrick Mahomes at 310, first quarterback off the board. Here I am on the clock. Considerations for me, you know, I have Dalvin Cook and Todd Gurley, my running backs, my starters.

They're figured out. I'm going to have to think about Darrell Henderson later in this draft and what I want to do to protect my girly situation. But I think I'm going to address it right now. I get two picks within four. There are two wide receivers I love here. Really, there's more than two. There's three. I like Keenan Allen. I like A.J. Green. And I like Julian Edelman a lot. I know that most assuredly I'm going to get one of those three guys if I pass on a wide receiver here. I have the opportunity now.

to take Josh Jacobs in the third round. He would be my starting flex. He would also be protection against anything that went sideways on Gurley. I will have a triple stack of running backs. I think that's the right move. I want to try it out. I want to give that a go. I'm taking Josh Jacobs. Unfortunately for me. Unfortunately for me, because now Julian Edelman will not drop. Yeah, AJ Green and Keenan Allen went next. I was just, AJ Green in the fourth round. This team 12 can eat a butt. They're killing me.

Their team. I do not appreciate them. Yeah, and you insulted them in a really, really mean way. Well, I went as crude as I could. But AJ Green and Keenan Allen, the idea of getting AJ Green in the fourth round, which is happening in a lot of fantasy drafts, it just seems like stealing. Yeah, it's wild. People are dissuaded from AJ Green. You know, say what you will about that offense. I just think AJ Green is too darn good.

I mean, there are teams, there are defensive backs in this league that just can't cover a guy like that. It's just injury for AJ Green. No matter the ups and downs of the Cincinnati Bengal offense, AJ Green has always been great. So now I have to make a decision here. Am I comfortable in a league half point per reception of making Julian Edelman my wide receiver won? Because I went three running backs. We're very high on Julian Edelman. I think he's just going to be peppered with targets all year long. He's the guy. When he came back last season, he was absolutely...

You know, Tom Brady, Tom Brady lives in the intermediate routes. That's where he's going to be. He was the wide receiver eight across all the games that he played. So he's not going to drop to you, Mike. He will be my pick here. I'm going to take him over Diggs, take him over Cooks, and we'll see what wide receivers come back to me. But Montgomery, Lindsay, and Ertz off the board. Ertz is somebody that I think some people would have been like, well, are you thinking about Zach Ertz there? I wasn't. I'm of all the, of the top tier tight ends that could regress.

Zach Ertz is at the top of the list. That offense. That's interesting, given how much you love the Eagles and Carson wins. That's why. You shouldn't be, look, if Zach Ertz is guaranteed to repeat his, what did he beat? He beat his target total in his career by 40 plus. He also beat the most targets of all time to the tight-in position. Yeah, over 150 targets. Yeah, it's just not going to happen again. Look, Jason can like ring the bell for Dallas Goddard.

Goddard is a really, really good player. Yes, he is. And then you get to say names like Alshan Jeffrey, Deshaun Jackson, Jordan Howard, Miles Sanders, Nelson Aguilar, our Sega Whiteside. There's just a lot of names in the fold there. So I think Ertz is great, but you're just not going to have a season like that from him again. So I didn't want to go tight end and be looking for wide receivers in the fifth and sixth round to start my draft. So your team looks great, Mike. Montgomery, Lindsay, Ertz, your pick.

right now here at 406. So the wide receiver that you passed on, he is still up there near my wide receiver one area. In fact, he is my wide receiver 11. So to start a draft, who did I pass on? You passed on Stefan Diggs. Okay. I would have taken Edelman over Diggs personally, and that might be kind of a hot take out there, which you did it too. But the fact that I have.

Devante Adams and Beckham, I can kind of deal with the streakiness of Diggs, especially considering he is my, he will be my flex play, but a very, very high upside flex play on a weekly basis. And the running backs are into the situation now where it's one of those, one of these guys in this bucket perfectly fine. Would you have taken David Montgomery here if he was on the board over Stefan Dix? I.

It would have been a lot harder decision. I'd already mentally moved past him because he wasn't there, so he's not in the thought process. But yeah, it would have been a much, a more difficult decision if the opportunity man was available. All right. You took Stefan Diggs. So I went three running backs out of my first four. You went three wide outs out of your first four, half point per reception league. Your team right now is it stands as Adams, Beckham, Freeman, and Diggs. My team is Cook, Gurley, Jacobs, and Edelman.

After your selection of Stefan Diggs went Sonny Michelle, Drake, Ingram, Gallaudet Woods, Calvin Ridley, Brandon Cooks, Andrew Luck, the second quarterback off the board in this draft. Chris Godwin, Chris Carson, Mike Williams, Tyler Lockett, and here we are, Mike, you're on the clock again. And holy crap, the running backs are disgusting. I think I realize I really don't like drafting at 1-11. The weight is so long. It's just, it's fun for a second, but every time I took the chance, like I took Cook,

hoping maybe Julio would flip back. I took Jacobs hoping maybe Green or Allen would come back. It hasn't worked out. Mike, what are your, you've got to get a running back here. Yeah, I'm going to go with a running back. I've considered. I was thinking about do I go with the tight end, but we still have O.J. Howard, Hunter Henry, Evan Engram, which Engram is my favorite of those three. But they're all in a very, very similar tier. So there is a chance that one of those guys.

comes back to me if I'm looking to pull the trigger on the early tight end. But like you said, the running back position is thinning out rapidly. It's already pretty disgusting. So the top of there of sleepers remaining ADP, Tevin Coleman, Tareke Cohen, Lamar Miller, James White. I'm assuming that you and Jason would be looking strongly at James White here. I think he is, for me, he's a massive regression candidate.

It's a jagged little pill that you got to swallow every time you draft this player, but he's the starting running back for a very high power to offense. And thankfully, I don't have Hopkins. So that makes the decision a little bit easier because then I don't have to go all in on the Texans offense. You're reminding me of the last time I drafted against Jason. Right. So I'm going to take Lamar Miller as my running back too. But with Adams Beckham, Stefan Diggs, as my.

three horsemen of destruction and makes that jagged little pill go down a little bit easier. They're my spoonful of sugar, so to speak. On your rankings, where do you have Deshawn Watson? What number is he at your quarterback? Deshaun Watson is my QB5. Okay. So he wasn't in a tier here where you would have said 507. He wasn't your number one guy. I think he's number one on Jason's board at the quarterback position or number two. He would be number two.

No, and just the way that this team is built, I would prefer to go in on an early tight end than an early quarterback. I'm more than like who are going to be waiting until the absolute very back of the draft to get a QB. Okay, so who are you taking here? I took Lamar Miller. Did you select him? I did. Okay. Well, there we go. All right. So you took Lamar Miller, Tyler Boy, Deshawn Watson, DJ Moore.

At the quarterback position, Aaron Rogers is the last remaining tier two guy. It's kind of like Luck Watson Rogers back behind Patrick Mahomes. I'm sitting here at 511. My team right now is Cook, Gurley, Jacobs, and Edelman. At 511, I was looking at the wide receiver position, and there was one player that I said if he got back to me at 511, I would look at taking him here.

Otherwise, I was going to think about Aaron Rogers. I was going to think about a tight end because I've got the quick turn and I didn't feel like there were any wide receivers in the same tier. But that player was Cooper Cup. Now, I'm in a tough position with Cooper Cup because he's coming off an ACL injury and I have Tad Gurley on this roster. And I don't know how I feel about drafting both injured players on the Rams. Cup was the one that I would hope would...

make it through. I could also choose Landry at the wide receiver position or take a shot on some of these later round guys that I love with Robbie Anderson, Dante Pettis, and company. Man. Howard, Henry Ingram at tight-in still available. Aaron Rogers on the board at 5-11. This is, this is tough. This is rubber meets the road for late round quarterback philosophy here. Aaron Rogers at 5-11. That seems like a value. It's not the worst, but I don't.

I think the only guy I would consider in the fifth would be Patrick Mahomes, for me personally. Where is... Rogers is my number two guy. Where is Rogers going in half-point leagues right now? Well, you... Rogers is going... His ADP on Sleeper is 5'0.50. So about the same type of spot. I don't know if I can take a second shot at an injury situation here. Ooh. So I'm actually going to shoot my shot with Dante Pettis at 511. Wow! Yeah.

And then I was hoping Cooper Cup would come back around and I'd grab him. He didn't. You were hoping Cup would come back? You should have taken Cup then because Pettis certainly would have come back. That's true. Fopaw. Fopaw. Cook, Gurley, Jacobs, Edelman, Pettis. Tight in. O.J. Howard just went off the board. I'm a big believer in Evan Engram in the passing game, having an advantage at that position in a PPR league.

So I think I'm going to take Ingram here and let it roll. Is that who you wanted to get to you? Yes. Yeah. So when I listed off all those three tight ends as there was a probability that was decent, that one of them would come back. In fact, all three went in a row. So O.J. Howard, Ingram, Hunter, Henry were selected. That puts me a little bit on. Rogers went right before your pick here. Yeah, I'm happy about that. I just couldn't take the chance on.

If I draft Cooper Cup to be my two, Cup is in a position where, like, he's not powerful enough at the front of this season to go alongside Edelman, in my opinion. Sure. It's tough. I mean, I feel like. Would you have taken Cup there if you were me over Pettis? Yeah, especially if I wanted both. But I think that you could have gotten to the point where you take Cup there and you can get a Pettis or Robbie Anderson or Alshan, like guys that can fill in.

well enough that you can hold off until Cooper Cup is at full strength. So, man, so let me look at the running back position to see if I just want to start jamming that onto my bench here because I have Devonta Freeman and Lamar Miller. The top options by ADP are Kevin Coleman, James White, Darius Geis, who, despite the videos of Darius Geis running straight lines and not wearing pads.

Geis is essentially off my draft board currently until I see him in training camp and they're not even talking about hamstring. Even that is still going to take a pretty giant leap of faith to select Darius Geis in the sixth round. So it's tough because there are similar reports on Miles Sanders where he's...

He's hurt. We don't know what things are going to be. We don't know what the split is going to be between him and Jordan Howard. Miles Sanders has a hamstring injury. What happens with him in camp goes a long way. Like I know for a fact that Miles Sanders ADP has been dropping in both regular and dynasty leagues. People are apprehensive. And people are really focused on the fact that like Doug Peterson has been this committee guy. Yeah. But, you know, my contention about that backfield in Philadelphia has always been that.

He's a committee guy by necessity, not a committee guy by design. He has Wendell Smallwood, Josh Adams, Corey Clement. I mean, these are fair points. These are players you have to mix and match to put yourself in a position to win. They drafted Miles Sanders very highly in the draft.