Fantasy Football - Mock Draft! + Flashy & Trashy Picks - Podcast for 7/15

13:46Mike Wright:no not today parent i know that trick yeah there's a there's i don't know if you shared that on spitballers or on this show at one point in time but when you were a child your parents

13:56Jason Moore:pulled that on you and said oh yeah i was on the top bunk they came in yeah hands behind their back because there's something you want to you want to admit man oh man i admitted to something so much bigger than the little the little broken thing that i had thrown in the garbage that was behind their backs i'm like i did i broke the front window and they're like that was you

14:17Mike Wright:yeah i'm not falling for that trick anymore why don't you just tell me what you think i did Oh, man. Oh, that's too good. All right. It is. Plead the fifth.

14:26Andy Holloway:Yeah, seriously. I'd like to use my constitutional right, please. Mom, dad, invoke the fifth.

14:35Mike Wright:All right. We are done with the news, but we've got a mock draft, and it's on the way right now.

14:44Jason Moore:The Fantasy Footballers Mock Draft.

14:50Mike Wright:all right today 12 team half ppr mock draft one quarterback two running backs two wide receivers a tight end a flex and four bench we have uh the full crew here jason ended up with the two spot i've got the eight spot mike at the 10 spot in our randomly selected mock draft we've also got al borland in here we got jake josh papa josh himself the falcon julia one of our editorial staff uh kurt one of our writers we got brooksy here at pick nine and we got borgen bets wrapping up the 11 and 12 probably with just sole focus of ruining mike on the way uh on the way back that

15:28Andy Holloway:would be nice they can't take mccaffrey from me they can't no and the fact that i'm going to be

15:34Mike Wright:staring that stupid decision down potentially or having you draft mccaffrey for the thousandth time is great all right so we're going to kick this thing off right now number one pick off the board Al Borland took Jamar Chase that puts Jason on the clock.

15:50Jason Moore:Yeah Chase would have been the easy pick for me as well if I was at the first spot after him I feel like there's a tear break to those next great wide receivers. I'm going to take the best running back I'm going to take the only indestructible one

16:04Andy Holloway:17 game B. John Robinson

16:06Jason Moore:I will take the indestructible B. John Robinson he is my running back one as far as just statistical projection, but I also think he is on the safer side of most of the running backs, and so he would always be my number two pick.

16:22Mike Wright:I caught that. That was kind of like a little softening of the proclamation, the softer, the safer side. The safer side.

16:29Jason Moore:He has far fewer red and yellow flags than a lot of the other top running backs, but he is playing 17. Oh, we all agree.

16:36Mike Wright:We all agree

16:37Andy Holloway:in the grand scheme of risk, Christian McCaffrey, through his first three years, was an Ironman. heading into year four, you would have been like, he's the safest, most indestructible running back there is. Yeah. I wasn't. You are until you aren't.

16:53Mike Wright:Yeah, that's football. All right. Bijan goes 102, and look at that. CMC goes at 103. Jake takes him off the board, probably wants the attention. Well, you got it. Justin Jefferson at the 104. CeeDee Lamb at 105. So if you noticed, no Saquon. No Saquon off the board through the first five picks. Gibbs goes ahead of Saquon at 106 and Saquon off the board at 107, which would have made my life really easy at 108.

17:22Jason Moore:Yeah, I'll bet you were watching that whole way down thinking, no way Barkley's going to get to me here at the 108, and he didn't.

17:29Mike Wright:Yeah, so that puts me on the clock at 108 with, what, three wide receivers off the board, four running backs, and a decision to make. we were talking earlier today in the office uh about you know saquon about henry you had made some tweaks to henry's rankings i've got henry and a-chan right next to each other in the ranks jenty still on the board kind of a a slip i think in in the tiers at wide receiver with chase jefferson and lamb off the board and then i'd have to jump into amon raw or puka neighbors uh some of those guys maybe jump on in brother i think i'm gonna pull the trigger on derrick henry in this one i'm gonna i'm gonna give him a shot here i i like the upside of hn but he does upset brooks he still makes me nervous al brooks are you disappointed you upset okay he put some exclamation points in there he's upset so derrick's you foul mouth yes you dirty dog exclamation points yeah don't yell at us capital letters as well all right uh derrick henry i took him at 108 and i'm on rossst brown he pivoted away from running back altogether putting mike on the clock for the first time in the first round of the entire offseason where he can't

18:43Jason Moore:draft christian mccaffrey it's a beautiful day it's for the best guys it's truly for the best isaac garindo so yeah i've never believed in that christian mccaffrey guy is getting hurt

18:53Andy Holloway:uh so for me it's it would come down to uh puka who i think is still a like i think he is a strong strong wide receiver one not not jamar chase jefferson lamb tiered but if you want to call him in that next year i have no problem with that and then a running back uh so just to be clear he

19:16Mike Wright:He's a big step ahead of the Amonrod decision there where Amonrod's been number three the last two years.

19:24Andy Holloway:Yeah, and Amonrod's in the same tier as Puckett. I more just wanted to hear you talk through that. Okay, but I'm going to take the rookie superstar. I'm going to take Ashton Janty.

19:36Mike Wright:Janty off the board at 110. So we're at 12-team league. Borgen Betts on the clock. HN goes 111. puka at 112 and um oh yeah almanrah went right before you so my discussion with you was completely

19:51Andy Holloway:yeah you guys just brushed that off huh i thought you were just asking if i would have just called me an idiot i sometimes things don't need to be said you know all right well since since almanrah

20:05Mike Wright:was gone you went with jenty correct puka ended the round nico collins so the puka nico stack at the end of the first round beginning of the second for betsy bets is a zero rb fiend it's all he wants look those two on the board there i would be that's an awesome start yeah it's the place to do if genti was still sitting there on hn i probably wouldn't but it does seem like that's pretty perfect drake london goes at 202 to pair with h and putting mike back on the clock Jinty was the first round selection.

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23:02Andy Holloway:Was that good?

23:04Mike Wright:You psyched me out, man. Get enough time? I don't feel like I really put the ball in the tee at all for the sponsors.

23:11Andy Holloway:But the producers were telling you. Oh, okay. I'm paying attention.

23:15Mike Wright:Look, I work it in when I want it.

23:18Andy Holloway:Okay. All right. That's fair. so let's I'm gonna look at the running backs you got Bucky Jacobs Kyron that that type of a tier your boy Chase Brown Chase Brown is there I do love Chase Brown but Malik neighbors and Brian Thomas are there one of the true budding superstars at the wide receiver position I have Brian Thomas one spot ahead of Malik that doesn't mean I'm like oh my gosh Brian Thomas is such a better pick. They're very close, but for this build, I'm just going to follow the rankings and I will take Brian Thomas.

23:54Mike Wright:Gentey and Brian Thomas Jr. that puts Brooks back on the clock. Took Amon Ra in the first round of this mock draft and goes Brock Bowers. Goes Brock Bowers with the second round selection. Interesting. Grabbing a positional advantage. I have Derek Henry.

24:11Andy Holloway:See how that works out for Brooks.

24:12Mike Wright:This seems like a really good time to announce an adjustment to my rankings.

24:17Andy Holloway:because is this an announcement for being jason too well yeah i don't think you guys know that

24:23Mike Wright:i've moved this guy to where i've moved him and he's going to be my pick and it's wide receiver aj brown oh you're going aj brown is now my wide receiver six that was my dream to get at the 211

24:35Jason Moore:because i've seen him fall to to near that spot aj brown is a wonderful pick there so i went brown

24:40Mike Wright:and in having one running back one wide receiver with a long wait after my pick gives me more flexibility in the next round i could have gone jacobs jacobs would have been a nice pairing with henry but when aj brown with henry neighbors goes next chase brown off the board along with bucky irving they're in the middle of the second round if you take gibbs and chase brown is that a

25:00Andy Holloway:high t team no okay no no no i didn't think it was that's like a double lightning team just saying

25:07Mike Wright:right it's you are not that's not sonic and knuckles that's knuckles and knuckles right no it's Sonic and Sonic yeah um Bucky Irving Ladd McConkie Jackson Smith and Jigba Jason you've got Bijan so you know you won't need any depth at running back because he'll be there all 17 that is true so I'll need one more we're gonna start two running backs oh that's fair um I don't

25:30Jason Moore:mind playing hero RB where you take a stud like that and then don't get running backs for a while I think that's a good strategy if you can get your hands on Bijan. The issue I have with that is that right now when I look at the wide receivers that are available, Tyreek Hill, I'm more out on him. I have a lot of worries about what he put on film last year than some people do. T. Higgins, I absolutely love. I like Marvin Harrison to have a big growth year. But those guys aren't set apart. They're not that different to me. When I look at the running back position, I see three guys there in Josh Jacobs, Jonathan Taylor, and Kyron Williams that I think are better.

26:13Jason Moore:I think they are just better options and going to score more points. So I will go by my personal rankings, and I'm going to take Jonathan Taylor, who I adore. I think he is one of the five best real-life running backs, and what we saw at the end of last season was just a demolishing of NFL fields by his feet, and so I will continue to believe in him.

26:37Mike Wright:So the defenses were fine, but the fields got beat up. The fields were wrecked, man. I actually moved Taylor up a little bit today as well, so he was one of the guys that moved up. I like the pick. Jacobs goes next to Green Bay fan Al Borland, probably pleased to find Josh Jacobs sitting at 212, and then goes Trey McBride in honor of both the trophy that Trey McBride won him last year and also who doesn't want Trey McBride I would have liked him on my team that's delightful Chase, Jacobs, McBride Jason back on the clock Bijan and Jonathan Taylor

27:11Jason Moore:by the same logic I do still have Kyron ahead however I don't want to start near a turn with three running backs have no wide receivers just because of no courage or uh it's like weak weak need i guess wisdom is kind of what i'm going for so i'm gonna you're gonna i'm gonna take t higgins who is very very high in my own rankings i i see him as a wide receiver one this year alongside chase obviously he needs to stay on the field that is his issue um so i i think i've got the yin and yang here with bijon and t higgins you know i mean i am sure bijon plays the season i have no idea i have no belief in t higgins it's funny because you like

27:51Mike Wright:you put Bijan with a couple of guys that are always hurt. So totally different guys. Garrett Wilson goes next. Kyron off the board at 304. You like that value? Papa Josh, Kyron Williams, 304. Marvin Harrison, Devante Adams, and Tyreek Hill. So we've got five wideouts here in the, or six pass catchers, five wideouts here in the third round. Puts me back on the clock. I had a really long, beautiful queue of players that I wanted. It is down to two names. after the beginning of this round, so nobody really doing anything too wild. But I have Henry and Brown. And look, I'm going to do something that you guys also won't see coming.

28:37Mike Wright:Much like A.J. Brown, I'm going to take Rashi Rice. Taking Rashi Rice. You are correct.

28:42Andy Holloway:I thought that was my easy pick.

28:45Mike Wright:Yes, yes, I thought you thought that. Have you been changing? I'm more open-minded. a little bit to kind of a higher ceiling season for Rashi Rice. It was a small and beautiful sample size last year. But I do think 100 % healthy Rashi Rice, it's time to get on board. So I'll go Rashi Rice with A.J. Brown and Derrick Henry. Brooks went with Brees Hall next. Brees Hall, let me just put this out here. He's the pick I never want to have to make. I realize this now. He's the pick that I don't want to ever slip to where I think he's a value because I don't want to take him. And maybe he'll be good. But I'm so terrified of him falling to me and me feeling a pressure to take him.

29:27Jason Moore:He's got a glorious name. I mean, you know, Brees Hall, what he did in his sophomore season was, you know, one for the Heralds.

29:41Andy Holloway:Breaking news. Adam Schefter reporting, boys. Oh, no. No, this one's good. The Jets have reached an extension agreement with wide receiver Garrett Wilson, a four-year,$130 million extension,$90 million guaranteed. It marks the first time in NFL history a receiver has received an average of over$31 million after only playing for three years.

30:08Jason Moore:Wow. That's some caveats right there.

30:11Andy Holloway:Yeah, yeah.

30:12Jason Moore:Makes him sound like he's got the most money of all wide receivers.

30:15Andy Holloway:If I had time to read it in my head before I was reading, I would have just left that part out. I was like, oh, we're getting something cool about how much money he's making. No.

30:25Jason Moore:Just four players who have only played three years.

30:29Mike Wright:Wow, that's big news, though.

30:31Jason Moore:I Ron Burgundy'd that.

30:32Mike Wright:Yeah, that is. All you got to do is get Aaron out of town, and the dude wants to stay. Yep. And money does that, too. I was really afraid when you said the Jets that you were going to say something about Brees. Oh, that would have been amazing. the timing all right you're on the clock mike no rashi rice available for you which that that is a

30:49Andy Holloway:bummer because then when you look at the wide receiver positions mclaurin evans dj moore sutton metcalf not those guys are not as exciting to me just speaking of trying to find what their ceiling is the running back room yeah i think it's still got enough in enough interesting names for me to take Georgie Borgie, George Kittle here at the back of the third round. I mean, if Juwan Jennings wants to skip any time in camp, okay. It doesn't bother me if I got George Kittle on my team.

31:23Mike Wright:So Kittle was the other name that I had to decide between Rice and Kittle. So I had some dreams that maybe he would fall through, but not even close. Mike ends up Gentie, Brian Thomas Jr., and George Kittle. Kyle goes with Evans next. then Josh Allen off the board as the first quarterback, Omari and Hampton as the first running back for Betsy's team, and Lamar Jackson off the board to Kyle doesn't want to get caught at the back end of a quarterback run it looks like because he's got a long wait ahead of him. Mike, you are back on the clock with your fourth-round pick.

31:56Andy Holloway:I am, and I was hoping that I would get one of the running backs who I fancied at this point. You're talking James Cook, Kenneth Walker, Alvin Kamara, Joe Mixon. I think all those guys as a running back two in the fourth that's some good value I believe I have James Cook technically a couple spots higher but come on guys the heart wants what the heart wants Ken Bone Walker will be on my team and for the love of God man just come on do some yoga take some peptides whatever you gotta do man just stay healthy please

32:36Mike Wright:wow um drink some milk yeah ken walker ken walker is look he's uh he's got all the talent in the

32:46Jason Moore:world he's so good he's the t higgins of running back yes and yeah i think that's i've got a type of player i really like yeah yeah you do really good on the field not always there yeah not always

32:58Mike Wright:on the field yeah it's tough i i'm looking at the board right now it's my pick henry aj brown and Rasheed Rice on my team. Kittle's gone. I figured you'd take Ken Walker over Joe Mixon. So Joe Mixon is on the short list right here. I could go quarterback, but I don't think I'm going to do that. I think I want to build this team, 12-team league, stay with the positions. I need more depth. It's a little Harry going Henry-Mixon as a combo. A little bit aged.

33:29Andy Holloway:Are you Mixon over Kamara for you?

33:31Mike Wright:Well, yeah, that's what I'm looking. I see Kamara there. and I see James Cook still there. And I'm checking my rankings here to verify anything from this morning, and James Cook is still back behind Joe Mixon. So it feels like that's the pick, but the button click is slower than I thought it'd be. Joe Mixon at 4.05. Oh, no. Starting to cool your jets on. No, I'm not cooling my – it's the Henry Mixon combo, really. It's the like – Just the age? Yeah, because both players have the potential. Both players, it's come into an end. and it shouldn't be this year. But I like Mixon over a guy like Ken Walker because I like the situation for the team.

34:10Mike Wright:I like the fact they're going to win more games, be in the red zone. Mixon was so effective last year. He was the number one running back through the first 11 weeks. It's just wear down. Like the second half of the year for a Henry-Mixon combo could be tough. And then you got A.J. Brown. He's also not as young. So I don't have as much. And then Rashi Rice coming off an injury. I've got a little bit of a scary team here. courtland sutton off the board next alvin kamara goes at 407 jaden daniels off the board at 408 papa josh finally pulls the trigger on james cook and jalen hurts goes next to jake so jason you are back on the clock with the uh impervious bijon and then jonathan taylor and t higgins

34:50Jason Moore:there's two players here that i want so i gotta look i'm near the turn look and see who i think uh owl borland might or might not take um but when it comes down to that it's more about which player I would rather not lose the most and that would be DK Metcalf uh so I will draft DK Metcalf I've got B. John and Jonathan Taylor so T. Higgins and DK Metcalf in the third and fourth round I think balanced my team out nicely Joe Burrow was that other player I I know Al had the chase stack I had the T. Higgins stack and I was like but the thing is is if I so what happened so Al took Joe Burrow after I took DK Metcalf and he grabbed James Conner as well so he completed the stack with Jamar Chase I was tempted to take him there to complete the stack with Tee Higgins but I like a lot of the later quarterbacks so I'm just gonna at this point now that the big three tight ends are gone and the big five quarterbacks that's to me where I'm like I'm focused on running backs and wide receivers for a while so I'm just gonna take whoever I think has the highest upside of that group left.

35:54Jason Moore:And this might surprise, in fact, I know this will surprise you guys because we haven't talked about him a lot. He's very high in my rankings. I still see a really, really solid, a big improved season coming this year. I think he is the clear one for the team, even though there's a lot of debate, is DJ Moore. DJ Moore is a good wide receiver to have as my third wide receiver in the fifth round. I believe he's my wide receiver 20 right now

36:22Mike Wright:It's funny because Higgins, Metcalf and DJ Moore are three players who we already, there's no question about the talent and yet all three have lived in different places in fantasy players like, you know, do they like them? Do they not like them?

36:36Jason Moore:Does it feel good? Does it not feel good? I think they're all three super talented players who have had success in fantasy that people are burned out with and so they're all three kind of truly undervalued right now in fantasy drafts R.J.

36:49Mike Wright:Harvey goes after D.J. Moore here. R.J. Harvey, Isaiah Pacheco, Terry McLaurin, who would have been my pick here in the fifth had he made it that far, Ted Aroa McMillan, and Jaden Waddell in the middle of the fifth round here. I have Henry Mixon at running back. Kurt's building the super dolphin stick. Someone's got to put an end to that. He does have Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddell.

37:15Jason Moore:Well, Andy, you are the pick before him, So if you want to take Tua.

37:20Mike Wright:Yeah, cool, man.

37:23Andy Holloway:I mean, speaking of that, Jason allowing the Burrow-Jamar Chase stack to actually connect, if you see that happen on your draft board, that is going to be terrifying.

37:40Mike Wright:There's no way he takes DK Metcalf with those two picks. Would you have taken DK Metcalf? If he had taken Burrow? Yeah. yeah i had three players queued up oh you did okay i still would rather have him have dk man

37:52Jason Moore:i i will say this might you ruined the league letting that unleash on the league if this was not a mock draft if this was a real league where i'm gonna have to play these teams and i worry about the every team in the league i probably would have avoided that just to stop him from completing that stack because i know how devastating that stack can be but i wanted my team to just look the best that my team could look and i didn't care about other teams that's fair let me tell you

38:16Mike Wright:something i'm going to say this because i think it is only to my benefit to say it out loud as the league of record manager with jamar chase it has gone through my mind to take joe burrow in the first round of our of our draft yeah that's how much i want the stack and i feel like i can say it because if if that scares anybody take burrow go do it i dare you making a bad choice either way take burrow early like it doesn't hurt me at all but i i'm going to tell you right now i'm going to try real hard to do it because that combo will be it is devastating i mean that's so much fun i don't care about the other players yeah it's too fun all right i'm on the clock and uh you know what time it is it's jamo time jamison williams he would not i thought that was two rounds ago i know thank goodness it wasn't right my goodness uh jamison williams with the eighth pick of the fifth round mike you said he would have been your pick yeah i would have taken him all right well uh Zay Flowers goes right after him and Mike you're back on the clock Jinty and Ken Walker are your running backs you got Brian Thomas Jr.

39:17Mike Wright:holding down your wide outs right now with Kittle at tight end

39:21Andy Holloway:so man I'm looking at I'm just going to peek at the running backs you're talking Montgomery Aaron Jones I don't love Aaron Jones Montgomery wouldn't be that's a nice consolation pick if I end up going running back here what about Quinshawn Judkins I think that he's going to be missing some time for being a bonehead. Looking at the wide receivers, you've got delightful wide receiver twos for their team in Devontae Smith and George Pickens, and then you've got Chris Olave. Goodness gracious. He's the hardest player in every draft. The Breesall decision I think is really difficult. The Chris Olave one is at the wide receiver position.

40:05Andy Holloway:He's good.

40:05Mike Wright:been there a bunch of good player where we don't want to take him but then you do want to take him but then because you can talk yourself in and out of a lobby oh yeah with ease yeah i mean he's an

40:13Jason Moore:a in consistency in the last 17 games when he's out on the field he's always good he's the clear number one for this team even with bad quarterback play he's going to get it but any concussion at any time could end everything you know in our uh he's low and he's lower in my rankings it was just if i want him i would have to take him here yeah um in our scott fishbowl league we did draft chris Olave, obviously a risky pick, but when you're trying to beat a thousand people in a league.

40:39Mike Wright:Yeah, you play for upside. Yeah. So depending on your team formation, like in this situation, and Mike, you do what you want, obviously, but you're going to have to lean on him more because you took George Kittle in the third round. So from the wide receiver position, an Olave bet is your wide receiver two versus three. It's a different bet.

40:58Andy Holloway:Yeah, it really is. I'm going to go, I'm going to take the guy who's higher in my rankings, and I know it will make K-Borg upset. Yes, no, that's the pick, man. I will take the ADP chalk right there, and I will take Devontae Smith.

41:09Jason Moore:Devontae Smith is a perfect combination. What Andy was just saying, where this is your wide receiver two, I do not want Olave to be my relied upon wide receiver two. The upside when you grab him as your third or fourth, fantastic. But if I need to rely on someone week in and week out, Devontae Smith is much better.

41:28Mike Wright:So big run of wide receivers here. McLaurin, McMillan, Waddell, Williams. Zay Flowers, Devontae Smith to Mike, and then George Pickens and Xavier Worthy round out the fifth. We've got Travion Henderson. Yeah, I was really hoping Henderson would make it back. So, just to be clear, Mr. Betts has Omari and Hampton and Travion Henderson starting the year. There is a very high percentage chance in week one when both those teams run out on the field. Those guys are sitting on the bench. There is a chance. So, it's different. Like you take the, you know, two wide receivers early.

42:02Andy Holloway:You are curious about what kind of work you, you know, the, the ADP of you find guys that you can like Jerome Ford that, you know, you can survive with over the, the first couple of weeks, at least in terms of, of volume.

42:15Mike Wright:So, uh, Henderson and then David Montgomery, a good value at six Oh two there to Kyle, uh, Mike, you are back on the clock. You get the same choice. You get to decide if you want to do it.

42:25Andy Holloway:I'm going to do it. I'm going to take Chris Olave and I'm going to figure out at the end of the draft, if I'm happy about that,

42:32Mike Wright:I will be after the season.

42:35Andy Holloway:It's a mock draft. So I want to, let's just, let's experiment here. Cause he's nowhere near that in my rankings.

42:42Mike Wright:Well, in, in light of the experimentation here, I'm going to, I'm going to make a pick that I don't think any of the three of us have done at all this off season, but it actually makes sense on my team. I have Derek Henry and mixing it running back. A.J. Brown, Jamison Williams, and Rashi Rice at wide receiver. Aaron Jones went right before me. Probably would have been the pick. But I'm actually going to take Patrick Mahomes. Oh. I'm going to Mahomes. Oh, you got the Kansas City stack. And Rashi Rice stack here is not chasing Burrow. No. But it is something I'm going to do here with a long wait ahead of me.

43:18Mike Wright:I want to put Mahomes with Rashi Rice and see if I can catch a little bit of Mahomes magic this year. DeAndre Swift goes next, Jacoby Myers, Caleb Johnson, and then Travis Hunter, Roma Dunze in the sixth round. Jason's on the clock. We'll grab his pick on the way when we get back.

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45:14Mike Wright:All right, Jason, who's been vigorously writing like a studious, what is it, like a clerk in a courtroom, writing down some notes.

45:26Jason Moore:I was doing it mostly to distract myself from the picks because I wanted Caleb Johnson so, so bad that I knew I needed. Oh, you didn't want to cry on air. Exactly. I knew I needed to have other options. No, I didn't. The Falcon is a toilet and grabbed Caleb Johnson, unfortunately. so um that leaves me at a place where your math didn't nothing in your your notes over there got you what you needed with Caleb they didn't I thought if I just kept writing right you know somehow he'd slip to me but it doesn't you know it turns out that makes no sense um so I'm here if if I look now that we're into the you know I'm at the six seven turn could peek at the tight end see if there's any I love there's not I mean Hawkinson would definitely be in consideration situation but if I were to grab him uh Al already has McBride I would do that with my next pick at the quarterback position I love Bo Nix but I like Kyler I like Brock Purdy I like a lot of these guys Baker Mayfield I'm not too worried about either of those so I just want to keep building depth um whether that's at running back or at a wide receiver and right now I'm going to take the guy that I think is best for my team I've got two running backs three wide receivers so I'm going to look to the running back position and I'm going to take a very sad consolation prize from Caleb I really wish it was Caleb I'm going to take Tony Pollard I still believe that he will get the majority of work and I think Cam Ward changes that offense to not be putrid uh it they are one of the teams like when you look at the teams who are going to turn things around in a drastic way it's it's almost always the quarterback and so this year who's it going to be maybe maybe it's the Bears and Caleb Williams gets it together, but maybe it's the number one pick overall in the draft.

47:11Mike Wright:That's a nice way to spin it. You know that if somebody came running out of the locker room and you thought it was going to be Caleb Johnson and Tony Pollard came running out in this place, you wouldn't feel very good.

47:21Jason Moore:No, I wouldn't.

47:22Mike Wright:Godwin and Ridley go next to Al Borland goes back-to-back wideouts. Those guys will run alongside Jamar Chase for him. Jason, you're back on the clock, though. You can take Tajay Spears if you want to go tight and tight. Ooh, that sucks. up man fun um i'll let you play them both in one spot you will yeah i'll allow it um i'm going to

47:44Jason Moore:go ahead and and grab hawkinson i i think of the tight ends that are left i i don't want to play the travis kelsey experience um johnny smith is dead as a stealer um evan ingram i don't believe

47:58Mike Wright:mark andrews is toast so you've been really anti-ingram and that's uh i probably a good balance here on the show so that no one over invests there you didn't know laporta there no

48:08Jason Moore:doubt that um i have no doubt that he is involved and it gets a lot of targets but i have doubt that he gets eight yards of reception he just has been such a worthless efficiency guy this you know the last recent memory that um i don't i think the broncos can do better than evan ingram yeah it's

48:29Mike Wright:a different prototype of tight end for your team it is it can be very nice to have the ppr numbers but you're not getting the big games and the touchdowns as often hawkinson laporta do go back to back laporta would have been my target here in the seventh round judy pearsall addison

48:46Jason Moore:pearsall pick pretty sneaky there i was between hawkinson and pearsall those that was my decision

48:51Mike Wright:sneaky pick addison and then bo nicks off the board to kurt putting me back on the clock i'm to go jayden reed i'm gonna take jayden reed here in the seventh round who i still think has some uh undiscovered upside in green bay he he should like he really should it's a it's a maddening

49:11Andy Holloway:you go watch the film of jayden reed and it blows you away he is a he's a very talented wide receiver who they just don't want to play all the time well mike you are back on the clock uh

49:24Mike Wright:But Chris Olave, your most recent selection. Man. You're here in the seventh round.

49:30Andy Holloway:And so, like quarterback, there's no one really exciting there. My tight end position is held down by George Kittle. So just, you know, looking at guys, ADP certainly starting to matter less and less, especially that we're drafting with all live people here. So I'm just going to take a player I want to get on my team. I'm going to take Josh Downs. I know he's my wide receiver four, but you've got to build up some depth, and I think he has a chance to have a really special year.

50:00Mike Wright:Oh, come on, Kyle. All right, Kyle took Travis Kelsey at 7-11.

50:05Jason Moore:Oh, you wanted the Mahomes super-duper stack?

50:06Mike Wright:I actually passed on Kelsey at the Jaden Reed pick, figuring I could get him in the eighth and do the Mahomes-Kelsey-Rasci stack. But no, Kyle had to fight for Kelsey. Good pick, Mike, with Downs. I like that one there in the seventh. I think you're right. at this point you got to throw adp more out the window and take the guys you like jalen warren finishes the seventh round brian robinson see so he got his flashy hampton and henderson and then he went his trashy brian robinson and jalen warren who will get the job done in those first few weeks like that's sure play those guys and then flip over to the other guys halfway through i like it flashy and trashy all right digs goes at 802 mike you're back on the clock three wide receivers in a row yeah you and i both sitting with just two running backs right now yeah so that is exactly

50:54Andy Holloway:where i'm looking i just deciding how much don't look too long it's not nice out there no i know we're at the point now do you want to take the projected starter for week one and who even knows if they will hold on to the job who knows even as when they're a starter if they'll do anything good you're talking you know tyron tracy naji etn ramondre javante is it still is interesting to me having the dallas cowboys situation i'd love you to have him i i am i don't think i'm gonna do that uh i'm gonna man i'm gonna jump scroll way down here uh and i'm looking at scadaboo and J.K. Dobbins right now of who do I think is in actuality, will Scadaboo take the job from Tracy?

51:45Andy Holloway:The draft capital says maybe, but it's not for sure. And then J.K. Dobbins with all the reports of is he actually going to be the starter. And this is your third running back. This is my third running back. But assuming health, I have two higher profile guys, so I'm not worried about that. Yeah, you've got to presume health with Ken Walker. Yes, you do. Yes, you do, Jason. So I'm going to buy the Denver report a little bit more at this point. I'm going to take Dobbins.

52:11Mike Wright:Mike didn't like one bit of that pick right there.

52:13Jason Moore:I think it was the right pick for your team versus him versus Cam Scadaboo. Scadaboo could just be absolutely nothing this season. Yeah, he could.

52:21Andy Holloway:So Mike went Dobbins. Keon Coleman went next. I think he's good, man. I think Cam Scadaboo is good. I think he does take the job.

52:28Jason Moore:I wouldn't take J.K. Dobbins over Cam Scadaboo in every situation. I was saying with you having two running backs, one of which is Kenneth Walker,

52:37Mike Wright:that's where yeah that's where i worry about well i took jerome ford at the 805 um i get it so i don't like what's going on there with uh judkins one bit i get it so i took ford nanji goes next either of those would have been fine there uh baker travis etn johnny smith and cooper cup jason back on the clock eighth round pick you have you will need to get a quarterback in the

53:02Jason Moore:next four picks but otherwise you're all set to go yeah i've got uh three running backs three wide receivers a tight end so i'm very balanced i'm just going to try to take whoever i think can make the most impact and i believe that that is a rookie wide receiver who should be starting day

53:19Mike Wright:one on the outside for cj stroud i'm going to take jayden higgins that's unfortunate um big guy who

53:26Jason Moore:has perfect opportunity this is a second round draft pick um so yeah no that that's a great pick

53:32Mike Wright:It was him or Ford. I took Ford, and I regret it now that I don't have Higgins. So good pick. Tracy and Scadaboo. Wow.

53:41Jason Moore:What are you doing? Oh, that's super interesting.

53:45Mike Wright:That's the only way to get two running backs that equal zero in New York.

53:49Andy Holloway:The best thing to do with a team that projects to be a horrifically bad offense is just get all their players. Scoop them up. What a great pick.

53:58Jason Moore:You know what's funny is – I'll let you start them both in the same spot, Jeremy.

54:01Mike Wright:What's funny is you're about to take Tajay Spears?

54:04Jason Moore:I'm not. No, gross. No, I was going to take Cam Scadaboo. And when I saw him take Tyrone Tracy, I was like, oh, heck yeah. So I get Scadaboo. And then he took Scadaboo too. Like an idiot. I'll let it shake out and drop one. Which actually ended up helping me because I was looking at the two running backs I was between. And the heart wants what the heart wants. And that was Cam Scadaboo. But I knew it wasn't the better pick at running back. I think the better pick is Jordan Mason Oh you dirty dog Jordan Mason will get work If Aaron Jones The elder statesman goes down I think Jordan Mason will be awesome for fantasy And in the meantime He will be a usable depth piece He's not just one of these guys that are A pure insurance option like Trey Benson

54:50Andy Holloway:I think I think it is not an impossible situation That Jordan Mason Will be the Even if they both play the whole season that Mason ends up with more fantasy points. I think it's possible. And that's like Aaron Jones is like this weird – because his value seems like it should be good. He's on the Minnesota Vikings, high-powered offense. I just don't want to draft him.

55:12Mike Wright:Garando goes next, and Javante, Mike, you don't have to think about that anymore. Ramondre Stevenson, Evan Ingram, and Tyler Warren, back-to-back tight ends here in the ninth round. I'm on the clock. I'm going to pull the trigger on a rookie wide receiver myself, Amika Egbuka of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the ninth round. I would have rather Higgins found his way back to me, but he didn't. So, Mike, you're back on the clock. Trey Harris goes directly after Egbuka.

55:38Andy Holloway:Good pick. All right, so three picks. One of them, I do need to take a quarterback. So let's take a Gander over there. So we got, I mean, ADP-wise, Goff, Kyler, Herbert, Jordan Love, Brock Purdy. There are still so many quarterbacks. Yeah. And the Killer Bs here on the end, they both took their quarterbacks, so I would be pretty surprised if they double-dipped with the talent that is on the board. Oh, man. With three spots left, I'm wanting to build some running back depth. And, yeah, it's Spears, Charbonnet, Rico. It's not a whole bunch of situations I like. So I'm going to go after. I'm going to target a high-powered offense.

56:22Andy Holloway:I'm going to take their presumed pass catcher. I'm going to take Austin Eckler.

56:26Mike Wright:All right. Eckler goes to Mike in the ninth round. Charbonnet goes next to Kyle. Khalil Shakir falls all the way to 9-12, which is a great value.

56:36Andy Holloway:Do you guys, in teams which, heaven forbid, you be forced into it, but were you to Ken Walker, would you have preferred to ensure Ken Walker there with Charbonnet in the ninth?

56:46Mike Wright:I think on your team I would have.

56:49Andy Holloway:But I don't mind if you. Just wondering, are you going to prioritize that situation? He's one of them.

56:55Mike Wright:He is at least one of the very few people that you know for sure.

57:01Jason Moore:He is the next man up without a doubt. It's not a question of him or someone else.

57:10Mike Wright:But Charbonnet goes right after your pick, Mike. Shakir, Mark Andrews at 10-01. Debo at 10-02. Mike back on the clock. You do need that quarterback.

57:21Andy Holloway:Yeah, that's where I'm going to look. So I'm going to take a look at the draft board real quick. And we got one, two. So we got three teams. So there are going to be six picks of that will – at least three of them will be quarterbacks. So I'm going to take the guy. Let me go – let me just double check on my rankings here. Yep. Jay, we were – you talked about the Scotty Fish Bowl. Did I convince us to take Dak? I think I did. I don't remember if I did. We'll have to go look. But I brought it up because I know recently I mentioned, I think Dak could just end up right back in the top five, and we're really overlooking it.

58:03Andy Holloway:We want to get the running back right. But meanwhile, C.D. Lamb and George Pickens are on this team. We did draft Dak. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

58:12Mike Wright:There are a handful of quarterbacks that have been there before that are available. Kyler's the same boat as Dak.

58:19Andy Holloway:They can both end up in the top five. But, like, Dak is, I think every healthy season of Dak, he's produced for a top-level fantasy quarterback.

58:28Mike Wright:I'm going to take David Njoku in the 10th round here and grab what I think is a tear break at tight end. I have Njoku at five, at tight end five in my rankings.

58:39Andy Holloway:Dude, if it's Joe Flacco, which that is, have you guys seen anything recently?

58:45Mike Wright:I've seen Pickett with a rapport with Jerry Judy.

58:47Andy Holloway:Okay, well, I don't. like actual any drum beat growing louder for someone besides joe i just start for this team

58:55Mike Wright:yeah i mean i just think njoku is too important and now even more important maybe if your running game has been nerfed so i'll take njoku golden goes next roshan tootin thank you herbert mooney and jason your final two picks you'll need a quarterback one or the other yeah maybe you

59:15Jason Moore:don't tell me what i have to do but yeah i'm gonna take a quarterback i'm gonna take you need to take a quarterback yeah i'm gonna do that although it makes no sense to take this here because uh owl has joe burrow you can by all means take kyler if you want to have two quarterbacks so i feel like my team could use a wide receiver and i don't know why it feels so gross to take this guy it it shouldn't he is not bad he is good and i think he is thank you for saying the opposite of

59:43Andy Holloway:bad these are the best picks these are oh it's just like i feel like it's you're not even talking to our audience you're looking at your reflection this is not good i'm talking i am talking to two

59:54Jason Moore:humans one to my left and one to my right who have i don't know michael pittman is the yes you know my primary wide receiver michael pittman is a good you don't have to defend a 10th round

1:00:07Mike Wright:michael pittman pick okay good you're good just move on all right i made it uh producer borland himself is on the clock he's trying to find devin singletary in the rankings to be able to select him to go with tracy and scataboo but instead goes luther burden i like that pick too could be a sneaky pick there in the 10th round and uh follows it up with jack bash couple of couple of dart throws come on jack a couple of rookies i am a little disappointed that you didn't take

1:00:33Jason Moore:kyler just to screw with me i was like he's gonna do it he's gonna do it it crossed my mind you

1:00:38Mike Wright:didn't and uh so i will take kyler yep kyler in the 11th round your final pick jason that is um well that's as good a value as you can get you have to draft him that's where if i look back i

1:00:48Jason Moore:mean i know i gave joe burrow to owl and he completed that stack but having dk metcalf there and then getting kyler in you know as the in the 11th round i would prefer the path i took

1:01:04Mike Wright:well Tajay Spears goes next then Dowdle Kincaid Ray Davis Dylan Sampson and I took Quinch on Judkins with my final pick I have Jerome Ford if he comes back that's just the smarter thing to do there Jared Goff off the board next Mike oh it's time for you to select we in we are getting nasty

1:01:26Andy Holloway:Boys, I don't know if you just saw the latest report. It doesn't deserve a breaking news. But at least for training camp, new addition to the Chargers, Mike Williams has been placed on the pop list. Has he ever been healthy, for goodness sakes? So that is step one of my process. Step two, we talked about Trey Harris has not even signed, and he's not at camp. And there was a guy who we all made fun of and who quietly had a couple of good games. and I will take Quinton

1:01:57Mike Wright:Johnston he has to be paid attention to

1:02:01Andy Holloway:he really really does me and Jason we want it to be Trey Harris I want it to be him so badly because I think Harris is a good prospect but he's not there Mike Williams can't practice I know we're early in the process Josh Palmer is gone yes Quig has to step up which he started to do last year who knows

1:02:23Mike Wright:who knows he will score like quentin johnson is going to score six to eight touchdowns like that's happening yeah i don't care how many snaps he plays he's going to good yeah he's going to score

1:02:32Jason Moore:that many touchdowns so john then the last two picks of the draft one great one ridiculous okay

1:02:38Mike Wright:share those trey benson uh nice connor can get hurt connor can get hurt and then tyler algier

1:02:44Jason Moore:oh why would you even there's no point when you know the starters playing 17 games oh my goodness

1:02:52Andy Holloway:sure he's an incredibly valuable insurance oh absolutely should be john missed time but that's

1:02:59Jason Moore:impossible right unless he missed a flight or maybe there's a like a a family event oh maybe like a fraternity break yeah and he's got to take some time off it won't be for injury

1:03:12Mike Wright:this just in be john hamstring strain in training camp impossible no uh that's not true anybody All right, my team, Derek Henry, Joe Mixon, Jerome Ford, and Quinshawn Judkins at running back. Ew. A.J. Brown, Rashi Rice, Jamison Williams, Jaden Reed, and Igbuka at wide receiver. I feel better about that. Mahomes at the quarterback spot. Najoku, late round, tight end.

1:03:34Jason Moore:My running backs are B. John Robinson, Jonathan Taylor, Tony Pollard, and Jordan Mason. My wide receivers are T. Higgins, D.K. Metcalf, D.J. Moore, Jaden Higgins, and Michael Pittman. and then I have the onesies with TJ Hawkinson and Kyler Murray.

1:03:52Andy Holloway:I got Ashton, Gentey, Kenneth Walker, J.K. Dobbins, Austin Eckler, Brian Thomas, Devontae Smith, Chris Olave, Josh Downs, Quinton Johnston, George Kittle, and Dak are at my onesies. And so looking back of like do I like Chris Olave, I don't know. My running back depth is pretty shallow. That's how I feel about my team too. So there is a chance. Let me just quickly look like Aaron Jones, DeAndre Swift. Yeah, I think if you put Caleb Johnson or DeAndre Swift on my team instead of Olave, I probably feel a bit better.

1:04:30Mike Wright:As enticing as it was to just do the Mahomes-Rice experiment, I, in hindsight, would have definitely passed on Mahomes. All right. Just for the value in that round and grabbing. You guys ended up with Dak and Kyler late. I'm fine with those guys. fine with Baker, fine with Nix. Mahomes has not been good for fantasy. And I might feel more locked in in that situation putting the stack together than I want to with the way Mahomes has played. But at least I can try it out in the top of the season. So if you want to see the draft board in its entirety, you can go to the website. Go to YouTube, actually, and check it out on there.

1:05:06Mike Wright:Either way, youtube.com slash the fantasy footballers. It's somewhere. You can go to the internet, type it in, type draft board ballers show. Just listen to.

1:05:17Andy Holloway:Just type ultimatedraftkit.com.

1:05:19Mike Wright:There you go. That's a great URL. Alright, we'll be back. On Thursday we'll start up the NFC Divisional Breakdown episodes. Do not miss them. We'll talk to you soon. Goodbye.

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