Fantasy Football - SUPER Mock Draft Episode! - Podcast for 8/22

22 Aug 2025 · 1 h 3 min · 26 chapters

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In short

A “super flex” fantasy football SUPER mock draft (12-team, half-PPR) on Aug 22, with the hosts drafting against the Fantasy Footballers staff. They also cover news/notes affecting player values and early-season strategy (especially quarterback scarcity in super flex).

Guests

No guest hosts are named; the episode features host Andy Holloway with Mike Wright and Jason Moore, plus “the footballer staff” as opponents in the mock.

Guest backgrounds (hosts/opponents)

Andy Holloway is the Fantasy Footballers host; Mike Wright is “the Fantasy Hitman”; Jason Moore is a co-host. The “footballer staff” are internal team members participating in the mock.

Key claims

  • Super flex increases QB importance: most QBs matter weekly; waivers become mostly injury-driven.
  • Romeo Doubs trade rumors dismissed by Matt LaFleur (“will not happen”); Dobbs likely not a “needle mover.”
  • Lamar Jackson is treated as elite but with minor injury/availability concerns.
  • Early TE/WR/RB value tiers matter; “fifth-round TE” is often not worth it, while certain RBs/WRs are targeted for opportunity/goal-line roles.

Notable examples

  • Draft picks: Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Jaden Daniels, Jalen Hurts, Christian McCaffrey, A.J. Brown, A-chan (Devon Achane), Baker Mayfield, Drake London, Marv (Marvin Harrison Jr.), DK Metcalf, Mike Evans, Brock Bowers, Isaiah Pacheco, Trevor Lawrence, Tyler Warren, and Rashee Rice.

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Chapters

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Draft Strategies and Preparations

0:00 to 0:23

Hosts discuss their upcoming fantasy drafts and strategies for super flex leagues.

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Draft Strategies and Preparations

2:25 to 4:19

Hosts discuss their upcoming fantasy drafts and strategies for super flex leagues.

“For all those two QB people out there, which there are a lot of you.”

News and Notes from the League

4:28 to 14:04

Discussion on player news, trades, and updates on various teams.

“news and notes from around the league presented by progressive insurance All right.”

News and Notes on Player Performances

14:04 to 14:28

Discussion on recent player performances and their implications.

Entering the Superflex Mock Draft

14:40 to 16:48

Overview of the mock draft format and positional strategies.

“we have a 12-team half PPR super flex mock draft.”

Drafting Strategies and Quarterback Picks

16:49 to 19:15

Analysis of quarterback picks and drafting strategies in Superflex.

“Well, if I had been staring down Lamar, Jaden, I actually would have gone Jaden in this draft.”

Impact of Brian Robinson Trade on Fantasy Value

19:16 to 20:35

Discussion on the trade's implications for player values.

“and have 350 touches through the course of the year, you could have some of that go away.”

Draft Picks and Best Ball Considerations

20:36 to 22:21

Insights into drafting strategies and best ball leagues.

“It certainly takes Garendo out of the must draft if you grab pitchers.”

Player Rankings and Late-Round Picks

22:22 to 24:55

Exploration of player rankings and late-round strategies.

“In a best ball, I mean, you're drafting how many rounds?”

Player Rankings and Late-Round Picks

25:40 to 26:41

Exploration of player rankings and late-round strategies.

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Player Rankings and Late-Round Picks

26:52 to 27:47

Exploration of player rankings and late-round strategies.

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Drafting Strategies and Player Rankings

28:00 to 29:10

The hosts discuss player rankings and draft strategies during a mock draft.

“Mike, you're back on the clock, Lamar and A.J.”

Analyzing Running Back Choices

29:10 to 30:55

A deep dive into the running backs available and their potential impact.

“I know that there are five teams actually six after me that will pick twice.”

Quarterback Drafting Decisions

30:55 to 33:15

Discussion on the timing and strategy behind selecting quarterbacks.

“I just don't think he's going to get that pass catching work this year.”

Player Picks and Team Strategies

33:15 to 35:05

Hosts share insights on their picks and team strategies during the draft.

“running backs that are you know a little bit further down the list and I scroll and I look at some of the wide receivers a little bit further down the list.”

Finalizing Picks and Player Value

35:05 to 36:50

Final discussions on available players and their projected value in the draft.

“You know, we're thinning out there pretty fast.”

Wrap-Up of Mock Draft Decisions

36:50 to 42:03

Completion of the mock draft with reflections on decisions and strategies used.

“That was the gamble was does Justin Fields make it back?”

Quarterback Selection and Draft Strategy

42:03 to 45:07

The hosts discuss their quarterback picks and strategies during the draft.

“I am staring down just like these high ADP question marks.”

Quarterback Selection and Draft Strategy

45:11 to 46:14

The hosts discuss their quarterback picks and strategies during the draft.

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Quarterback Selection and Draft Strategy

46:18 to 47:27

The hosts discuss their quarterback picks and strategies during the draft.

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Draft Analysis and Player Discussions

47:27 to 56:01

The hosts analyze recent picks and discuss player values in the draft.

“If Bryan Robinson goes to the Bears what does that room look like?”

Draft Picks Overview

56:01 to 56:44

Discussion of recent player selections during the draft.

“he can play the violin on a piano I think it's with a piano no, he does it on a piano Jacoby Myers, Cooper Cup off the board at 912 J.K.”

Player Selection Strategies

56:44 to 59:20

Analyzing strategies and player preferences during the draft.

“It always happens if you've ever done a live one.”

Evaluating Team Composition

59:20 to 1:02:10

Reviewing current team builds and discussing potential risks.

“Not something that – we're so close to our League of Record draft, there's stuff I almost don't want to say now.”

Upcoming Episodes and Draft Strategies

1:02:10 to 1:09:11

Previewing future episodes and sharing draft preparation tips.

“Stafford, Mayfield, and Daniels with Tyler Warren as my tight end.”

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1:10:01 to 1:10:16

A humorous anecdote about putting on deodorant and its effect.

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Transcript

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1:27Jason Moore:The Fantasy Footballers Studio is sponsored by Walmart.

1:36Jason Moore:Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway. way, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.

1:52Mike Wright:Oh, welcome in.

2:03Mike Wright:Friday, August 22nd, on the precipice of one of the largest draft weekends of the year.

2:13Mike Wright:Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers. Mike, the Fantasy Hitman. Jason Moore. I'm Andy Holloway. Gentlemen, we are here. It's Friday. We've got a mock draft episode today. A super mock. Super flex.

2:30Jason Moore:Super mock. For all those two QB people out there, which there are a lot of you. I play in. There are a lot. We all play in a few super flex leagues. It is not necessarily our preferred format, but it's fun. and you can say it changes a little bit of strategy. I think people think it changes way more strategy than it does.

2:48Mike Wright:I know Mike would agree with that, and I think it'll be a chance for us to revisit player values today on the show. We'll be drafting against the footballer staff, and that'll be a good time. We're drafting back to back to back. That'll be kicking off here in a few minutes, so looking forward to seeing how these teams shape up. and I was in the UDK app yesterday, marking a few players for later in the draft. Yeah. Starting to get...

3:17Jason Moore:Getting ready for the real thing.

3:18Mike Wright:Yeah, we've got our draft on Labor Day for our League of Record, and then we're in the midst of some other drafts right now. You know what other drafts are coming up?

3:27Jason Moore:Oh! The Megalobowl is open for signing up, so go to Megalobowl.com, play in leagues with us. There will be 20 ,000 people playing. Whoever wins the entire Megalobowl will get an ultimate draft kit forever for the rest of their life, as well as they will be in next year's Listener League. Speaking of all the Listener League submissions, we have made our way through them. We shall be selecting people today and contacting them in short order.

3:58Mike Wright:Okay, yeah, we're ready to get the Listener League going again for 2025. That's exciting. I perused several entries yesterday. a lot of good stuff out there so thank you it's hard we only get to choose a handful of people to join us but it doesn't mean we don't appreciate all of the entries and the time put into them they are awesome and your passion for fantasy is awesome and we we love you all very much ultimate draft kit.com if you want to pick that up before the big weekend let's talk some news

4:28Jason Moore:news and notes from around the league presented by progressive insurance

4:36Mike Wright:All right. It's funny because I think Jason a couple days ago mentioned Romeo Dobbs as one of those potential trade targets for teams. Matt LaFleur addressed trade rumors, said, quote, that will not happen. Okay. So at least that's what Matt LaFleur is saying.

4:51Jason Moore:That's fine. I think it should have. It just makes sense for all parties. Does it? I think so because I don't think that Romeo Dobbs is a needle mover for this version of the Packers with their receiving core. you know craft is going to be able to step up if Dobbs was gone you've got the first round rookie obviously Jaden Reed's health maybe I don't know whether he's but also healthy or not if you take

5:14Andy Holloway:Dobbs off the team look at least historically Jaden Reed just plays the slot you go to two wide who's the number two wide receiver then I mean this is where Jaden Reed needs to be on the

5:26Mike Wright:field more we're all hoping yeah it would be Wicks who is hurt and can't catch yeah but you know one One of the top things I like in my wide receivers.

5:35Andy Holloway:I think where Romeo Dobbs is, I can agree that maybe he's not like a needle mover, you know, on the extreme positive side. But I think he might be a needle mover for the Packers if you take him off. Sure. If you know what I mean.

5:50Mike Wright:Yeah, no, I actually agree with that. By the way, the Vikings, apparently, according to Adam Schefter, I actually first saw this from Kay Adams. Did you? She was interviewing their head coach, Kevin O 'Connell, and talked about how she would love to see a reunion between the Vikings and wide receiver Adam Thielen. Makes so much sense. I'm back, baby.

6:12Jason Moore:You draft Ted Rolla-McMillan. You've got Leggett. This is like let's build for the future. You've got Coker. You've got Renfro. Yeah, build for the future. I mean, you're not Super Bowl bound or challenging really for anything of note other than camaraderie and a good meshing young core for the future. Get something for Adam Thielen, who right now the Vikings, they are banged up. Justin Jefferson is back to practice, but he's not doing much.

6:40Andy Holloway:The first place I saw it, Andy, and we're going to give the shout-out, Charch. Oh, yeah. Paul Charchian was tweeting about this weeks ago. Minnesota man.

6:49Mike Wright:Yeah, that would be quite the reunion. He could really help them. He really could. move the needle and right now rondell moore's already out for the entire year jalen ayler's hurt addison suspended i've been in a couple drafts recently

7:03Jason Moore:where you know i i've i've talked about this a lot on my ice it was basically don't draft fifth round tight end there's good players there and the difference between fifth round tight ends and nine round ninth round tight ends they they aren't worth what you sacrifice however i've seen hawkinson starting to get hot about hawk i've seen hawkinson drop in plenty of leagues where he's you know he's in the seventh eighth round and he should get off to a hawk start because okay there it was you know thank you if you've got jordan you know for a fact addison's not playing the first three weeks we don't know exactly how healthy justin jefferson is right now he's coming off of the hamstring issue um and then uh who nailer is is definitely injured so the first couple weeks hawkinson's going to be

7:48Mike Wright:extremely utilized all right uh jim harbaugh chargers updates here declined to address whether naji could begin the regular season on the reserve

7:57Jason Moore:nfi list oh it so we don't have inside information here at all but just speculating it seems from what he is currently doing in practice to say let's go get tackled at you know have some helmet smash into your helmet by NFL players in real games in a couple weeks I don't know I lean towards him not being active

8:25Mike Wright:it's a really weird situation we got some information from like talking to an eye surgeon like of the potential outcomes from an incident like there's only so many things that can happen into an eyeball legitimately and it's like it there's either the great severity of like needing surgery for something which he did not get or there is that a mac jones though uh i don't think like other dudes everybody else would have got surgery but i don't think he mac jones with the eye yeah um but the but otherwise it's like because of the timing right this was what july 4th yeah so because of the timing the fourth of july yeah the math checks out on that one

9:05Jason Moore:wait what do you mean i mean it was a fourth of july accident it was right right right no

9:10Andy Holloway:what was that date again to to be fair if you check out my neighborhood it could have been

9:16Mike Wright:july 8th i don't know left on fireworks keep going all right well thank you uh yes july 4th the incident should have like it could have been healed by now right so then there's only a certain amount of things that could happen uh it very well could be related to vision just vision and pain and pain tolerance and like both of those things obviously that's going to affect you on the field if you're trying to run the football so we we don't know what i don't think there's a shot for

9:45Andy Holloway:eye pain you know how like if you're back you get drops though okay they have drops that numb your eyes yeah quentin johnston or an eye surgery is gonna be that's bad that's a bad time there's

9:59Mike Wright:stuff if you get um if you get stuff in your eye a lot of times it cannot do anything they cannot go in and surgically remove it you just have to live with it and deal with it and the amount of

10:09Andy Holloway:things that we have to learn about for a fantasy football show make this more simple here yeah

10:16Mike Wright:uh individual drills for quentin johnston in practice so he is on his way back commander's Head coach talked about Chris Rodriguez Jr. handling the short yardage goal line opportunities. Austin Eckler is obviously there. We have Jeremy McNichols. And then we've got, go ahead.

10:37Mike Wright:Bill Krasinski can pick an orange from an apple tree.

10:44Mike Wright:Perfection. So it's one of the handful of muddy backfields. that you have a great quarterback and an offense you might believe in. But right now, if it does break down into two or three running backs, it's going to be a hard week-to-week start situation. You'd think that Austin Eckler would be the leader in the clubhouse in terms of who you draft.

11:07Jason Moore:He certainly will be who I draft first.

11:09Mike Wright:But it will be disappointing when we talk about the three things that you want for a great fantasy running back. Opportunity, we don't know exactly what that breaks down to. Good team, we got that. But then goal line opportunity. like Eckler might not have that right so Dan was pretty like they were like is it fair to say that you know Chris Rodriguez is going to be that guy he's like yeah I mean that was a pretty good

11:30Andy Holloway:answer we I'm not going to hit the breaking news button on this one uh but Adam Levitan is doing some uh snooping okay on the internets and Adam Thielen's wife on Instagram posted a just a story that says big news all caps heart heart heart heart but not just a heart jason heart exclamation point which i have never seen uh apparently that's one of them well let me uh

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11:59Mike Wright:let me add some to that we got more i know i'm just reinterpreting this this looks like i mean is that a black background or a purple background i see a little purple that's definitely purple if

12:07Jason Moore:it's a purple background i'm looking at it purple next to black it is purple that's not minnesota purple though yeah but i mean purple yeah you know you got to be vague what are you talking about it's not you're not going to come out with a vikings logo yeah man this is purple that's purple for sure i mean basically we're reporting out i'm feeling traded to the vikings yeah all

12:27Mike Wright:right i'm updating my udk immediately uh we had some football last night we had cam scadaboo back out there on the field we love to see that we had the trifecta of dub eaters um oh man james winston jackson dart you want to uh tommy devito yeah you want people to fall in love with your

12:49Jason Moore:team i'm falling in love with the giants right now i don't think they're gonna be good but like they the vibes they're they're having fun and this is i think really good news for jackson dart for his future like he's he's set up where he doesn't have to go right into the the wolves den oh he

13:05Mike Wright:he may be he may be there soon well he might play his way there for sure i just mean like the way their schedule is they they have a brutal schedule like how long can winston last with the way jackson dars played this preseason i don't know uh and but but scataboo being out there that's

13:21Andy Holloway:who gets who gets the the boot i mean probably devito oh yeah well you mean doesn't make the

13:28Jason Moore:roster yeah oh for sure david i mean you're not you're gonna have james and you're gonna have russell and and then you're gonna have dart those three saying like oh right i'm like are they gonna

13:36Mike Wright:cleveland browns this and carry four no they won't they wouldn't do that i guess yeah you're right math math's out but who knows so uh yeah we had somebody sorry cutler your cutlets

13:49Jason Moore:you're gone we did have uh we're gonna cutlets you jalen warren was out there I can't even say the word I can't

14:04Mike Wright:Jalen Warren was out there playing Kenneth Gainwell came in after him Caleb Johnson got some time Got darn Blowed up He got blown up on a kick return Yeah

14:17Jason Moore:Let's not have him returning kicks He's a vision patience guy And he's like jogging down the field waiting for something to happen. That's not his forte. Just put him behind the line.

14:27Mike Wright:All right. That was today's news and notes sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at Progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. We're not going to wait any longer. We're going to jump right in.

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

14:51Mike Wright:All righty. we have a 12-team half PPR super flex mock draft. So one quarterback, two running back, two wide receiver, one tight end, one flex, one super flex. And so a lot of quarterbacks going to be off the board, the big differential there. Obviously we talk so much about onesie positions being quarterbacks and tight ends. And the fact that, look, you don't have to compete. There are a lot of quarterbacks out there that are going to make an impact on a yearly basis and only 12 of them get started in your league normally. In a super flex, you're talking about 75 % of quarterbacks in the league being played and mattering.

15:30Jason Moore:There's also a supply and demand issue. When you talk about tight ends versus quarterbacks at the onesie position, or even if you go running backs or wide receivers and you need two, so there's 24 starting running backs. Well, there's far more than that. At quarterback, when you're starting 24, there are 32 total every week that start. I mean, obviously, that start the game, there are 32, and that's if there's no bye week. So every single quarterback will be drafted in a Superflex league, and then the waiver wire will only be injuries in the future because you're usually – we won't do it on this mock.

16:04Jason Moore:We won't go deep enough, but you're usually in a true Superflex. You're drafting the promising backups as well.

16:10Mike Wright:Yep. So our draft spots in this draft, Mike at 2, I'm at 3, Jason at 4. first pick off the board julia went with josh allen not a surprise mike you are on the clock

16:22Andy Holloway:as we get this first round underway yep so with the second pick there are still elite quarterbacks on the board when i'm when i'm in superflex my strategy is generally when i'm up at the top if an elite difference maker is there i will go with them but once that tier melts down then i'm gonna i want an elite player in the first round i don't want you know the the qb6 in the first round over a top-tier running back or wide receiver, but I'm at the top, so I'm going to make it easy and take Lamar.

16:53Mike Wright:Well, if I had been staring down Lamar, Jaden, I actually would have gone Jaden in this draft. Jaden is who I'll take at the 103, only because of –

17:02Andy Holloway:Because you don't like 4 ,040. I got it.

17:04Mike Wright:No, no, because of the Lamar Jackson – Oh, the foot? Foot injury right now. No, he's fine. I've seen some people more concerned about the Ravens maybe not being as open with that injury. We have been told he's fine. But if it's that tight, I would maybe go that direction.

17:23Andy Holloway:The only concern you need to have about Lamar is how forthright are they with the information about his diarrhea. He does miss games. That's the only thing. That's what's taking him off the field. Not that foot.

17:34Jason Moore:He's fine. I will say, you know, when you're talking about the big, you know, the best quarterbacks, the top four or five, if you throw Burrow in there, I see Lamar as the clear pick outside of the injury. Like I would have taken Lamar over Lamar Jackson, but injury does matter.

17:49Mike Wright:Lamar over Lamar Jackson?

17:51Jason Moore:Yeah, Lamar over Josh Allen. I would have taken him as the first quarterback off the board. but I will say that when there is this injury concern and it's hopefully nothing, probably nothing, but when you're splitting hairs over elite, elite, or elite options, I don't blame you, Andy, for going, well, I'm just going to take the healthy elite one. That's a question for Jaden Daniels. Do we really think he can get there? I think he can absolutely get there. Now, he has his own risk because he has to level up. He can't just do what he did last year and be worthy of that. But based on what he did, I definitely think he could get there.

18:28Jason Moore:You saw Kyler take that second-year leap forward with Cliff Kingsbury, and this will be the second year with Cliff Kingsbury. Oh, baby. Breaking news.

18:37Mike Wright:Oh, my goodness. The Commanders have traded Brian Robinson Jr. to the 49ers

18:44Jason Moore:for a six-round pick. Oh, the check-in. Oh, my gosh. This is great. So, Mike, where are you drafting Christian McCaffrey? 101. Wow.

18:57Andy Holloway:Brian Rob – are you serious? You think Brian Robinson matters to Christian McCaffrey? Would Jordan Mason have mattered to you? No. And Jordan Mason's a much better running back.

19:09Jason Moore:I think that they – this is a player who could take the – instead of having Christian McCaffrey play 90 % of the snaps and have 350 touches through the course of the year, you could have some of that go away. It's not going to nerf McCaffrey. They're not going to be in a timeshare.

19:28Mike Wright:But I'm saying 101 versus the 109.

19:33Jason Moore:I'm saying 101 as in this changes nothing for me. Well, let's check in with Kyle. Kyle, you just drafted Christian McCaffrey moments ago. How do you feel about that pick? Anything change with your opinion?

19:47Andy Holloway:I ain't scared, no. Brian Robinson lost his spot to a seventh-round rookie. Brian Robinson is meh.

19:55Jason Moore:That is not fair. Saying a seventh-round rookie when it's Bill Krosky.

20:01Andy Holloway:Oh, I'm so sorry.

20:03Jason Moore:Bill Krosky can kill two stones with one bird. I mean, how dare you? The 49ers.

20:12Mike Wright:It matters to have some players that can take snaps, though. I mean, that's fine. You need bodies to take snaps. And look, he'll be hurt soon.

20:21Andy Holloway:That was the other point we needed to get to is Brian Robinson is definitely getting injured now.

20:26Mike Wright:Yeah, that's been the story. But it also does have implications. I mean, McCaffrey has been hurt three of the last five years. Brian Robinson is now the higher value insurance back on the 49ers that will run the football and need running backs. It certainly takes Garendo out of the must draft if you grab pitchers. I mean, it puts them in a position where, look, historically speaking, your odds are much greater that Brian Robinson is starting games for the 49ers this year than he isn't. That's the truth. It has increased today.

20:58Andy Holloway:It did increase.

20:59Mike Wright:Even pre-Christian McCaffrey, we saw this all the time. Players get hurt. 49ers get hurt. We've got to get back to the draft. I went Jaden Daniels. Jason went Jalen Hurts. So the first four off the board, all quarterbacks. This is where you start to see a little bit of – This is where it slows down. Yeah, Burrow ends up kind of in his own tier. I was on with JJ Zacharyson yesterday talking about this exact thing. Burrow's kind of in the top five for some. He's also kind of in his own tier because of a pocket passer. But Jamar Chase went 105, so that's where he went in the super flex. Bijan, not Brian Robinson, but Bijan Robinson at the 106.

21:34Burrow at the 107, so the top five off the board.

21:39Mike Wright:Jefferson, Barkley, Lamb, Gibbs, and Kyle, that pick that Jason just mentioned, at the 112. Amon Ross St. Brown starts off our second round. Puka, Gentty, Nico, Neighbors. So the last five people in the draft, no QBs with the first two picks. I did that last year in a super flex. Did not work out well for me. It is viable for sure. But you do eventually, what happens is you do back yourself into taking quarterbacks when maybe some other values on the board. It's just the gamble.

22:13Andy Holloway:For that league, Andy, was that a best ball league? It was. So best ball is certainly a bit different because you can't manage your roster. You can't go if there is a backup that isn't picked up and you can stash. In a best ball, I mean, you're drafting how many rounds? 22. Yeah. So in a super flex best ball, I would say it is less viable to go with a later round quarterback.

22:40Mike Wright:Yeah, I mean, I was going to say, in a super flex best ball, I think I took four. I think I took four or five late, and it literally was a nightmare. It was terrible. It was like Daniel Jones and Bryce Young and Derek Carr. I had nobody. I basically ended up with nobody. So just throwing that out there. We had neighbors, Brian Thomas, Derek Henry. Interestingly, the next quarterback off the board, not Baker, not Kyler, not Patrick Mahomes, it's Bo Nix at 208.

23:08Jason Moore:All right. I don't mind it. He was the quarterback seven last year, and he basically did nothing for the first month. With me being back on the clock now, I look at the tiers of different positions. Obviously, I could take the number one tight end. Or at running back and wide receiver, I want studs there. And so at running back, there's a lot of guys I like. I look at the list. H.N., Bucky Irving, Jonathan Taylor, Josh Jacobs, Kyron, Chase Brown. Love all of them. Omarion Hampton. So I'll probably get one of those guys back to me. at wide receiver there's only two guys that I really like like the top 10 wide receivers to me are clear cut and there's only two left Drake London and AJ Brown and AJ Brown's a little hurt right now so I'll I'll easily pull the trigger to get one of those top 10 wide receivers and then I'll take the leftovers of that tier of running backs that I like yeah I you know Ladd McConkie's

23:56Mike Wright:on the board obviously Marv's still there JSN who I who I like I probably am okay swinging back around to the wide receivers here especially with AJ Brown's injury I'll go ahead and pull the trigger on a-chan i know that the injury risk is out there but i want to be clear about this like there's one single injury analyst that has made the comment that he's going to miss three games i have went out there and done the research and looked that's an ambitious prediction when somebody doesn't know the ins and outs of the specific injury it's also not coming from the dolphins that's not what they're saying maybe he misses one but look there's a big difference between one and three to start the year.

24:34Mike Wright:A-chan, Jalen Wright's hurt, right? Madison's gone. Like, A-chan, if he's healthy, and getting him this late in the draft, it feels like this is the time to pull the trigger going way behind some other names.

24:47Jason Moore:Another name to say that isn't there for the Dolphins when we're talking about A-chan is Jonu Smith because the targets that Jonu had in that area, I mean, Devon A-chan's going to be near 100 targets.

24:56Mike Wright:So I'm going to go with the confidence play on A-chan being okay even if it takes a game or two mike with lamar in the first round i have daniels and h and jason with hurts in london you've got lamar you've got a pick here yep uh i agree with jason's

25:13Andy Holloway:assessment of the wide receivers um i get that the injury is a concern but i'm a little surprised you didn't go with the jalen hurts aj brown stack but that's all right because i'll take aj brown

25:22Mike Wright:all right aj brown off the board as we get towards the back of the second round chase brown after aj Brown finishing out the second. We'll take a break and we'll jump into the third.

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27:55Mike Wright:All right, Julia, starting with Josh Allen goes Chase Brown, Omari, and Hampton to start the third round. Mike, you're back on the clock, Lamar and A.J. Brown?

28:04Andy Holloway:I am. I made a calculated move going with the wide receiver. Like, does Chase Brown come back to me? No, he did not. But it was going to put me in quite the pickle because I love Chase Brown. Chase Brown is a my guy. But the news in Indianapolis shifted around my rankings. You fart face. You stupid fart face. Jonathan Taylor is higher in my rankings now than Chase Brown because I think that Daniel Jones will – the passing work is more secure for Taylor. Is Jones the quarterback the whole season? I don't know. But Jonathan Taylor, he was already a good pick. But if we're going to get those receptions in there, he is an elite pick.

28:50Jason Moore:He's my number six running back right now. That's where he is for me too. When you talk about you're outside of the big five of B. John Barkley, McCaffrey, Henry, and Gibbs, then he is that next guy up. of the next tier. For me, he's my number one. So I was wanting him when I was looking at London or Jonathan Taylor and I knew you were going to be the one to take him. That's right.

29:09Mike Wright:I have Jaden and A-Chan. It's a mock draft. I'm going to toy around here. I know that there are five teams actually six after me that will pick twice. Six that don't have quarterbacks. So I'm actually going to pull the trigger on a second quarterback right here and I'm going to take a player that I have a great deal of confidence in this year uh not the highest quarterback by adp but i'm gonna go baker mayfield here in the third and i want to just see what happens with the rest of the quarterbacks on the way back through laser and uh i like the depth of wide receiver a little bit more so jason you're back

29:45Jason Moore:on the clock jalen hurts drake london uh i've got jalen hurts drake london i'm looking for a running back here i could take the tight end but with real stud running backs to still have as my running back one i'm not going to take them over the the tight end position they'll score more points it would be between three players i really like uh kyron williams josh jacobs and bucky irving i have no shares of bucky irving he is highest in my half ppr rankings i think it's a fun pick um i didn't like when he was being picked as like the running back six running back seven early in the off season but at this point i'm not sure what running back number he is but it definitely feels

30:20Mike Wright:appropriate for him kyron goes next uh jason taking bucky over kyron very uh 11 running back 11 very interesting but Brock Bowers off the board Josh Jacobs off the board Papa Josh uh refusing to draft a quarterback so far Jefferson neighbors Ken Walker and uh that's where we're at in the third round where are you right now Mike temperature check on Ken Walker uh so the temperature check

30:46Andy Holloway:is I haven't moved him uh let me go he is my running back 17 uh I do believe that charms will get more play time than he has and it will be closer to a timeshare but the honestly he's like ken walker probably could use that and someone else to come in here and and take some snaps take some some hits i think when the but the the real high value touches like when it comes to the receiving game um i can't remember who i think it was maybe pff tweeted it out but i've just like ken walker in the last two years is one of the highest rated pass catching running backs for them.

31:27Mike Wright:I just don't think he's going to get that pass catching work this year. I think he, because we've got a new quarterback and then Sharpe's very capable there. So I'm a little worried about it.

31:35Andy Holloway:It's a different system, but I'm saying, I think that I project that Ken Walker will still get that goal line. I still think it's Ken Walker. There's probably going to be a few here and there where it'll be Sharpe's, but overall I haven't moved him with the, the, the smoke starting to rise of the timeshare.

31:53Mike Wright:Well, and you do, if you don't draft them, you do not have to worry about the injury risk. That is the one piece of Ken Walker. JSN goes next. Trey McBride, Chuba Hubbard, and Ladd McConkie drops all the way to 312. I thought that was interesting. He was the one that I would have taken at 303 had I not taken a quarterback. The quarterback run begins. Herbert goes ahead of Mahomes, who goes ahead of Kyler, who goes ahead of Goff. Four in a row here in the fourth round. Travion Henderson to Papa Josh at the 405. Drake May off the board as the second quarterback for the Falcon, who has Burrow already.

32:29Mike Wright:So Burrow-Drake May combination. T. Higgins off the board at 4.07. So we've got two teams through four rounds with no quarterbacks playing the later-round quarterback gamble situation. Producer Borland went with George Kittle in the fourth round. Jason back on the clock. Hurts, London, Irving. Nice and balanced. You can go where you want.

32:48Jason Moore:I would have stayed equally balanced and probably taken George Kittle there. but producer Borland grabbed him so now I think there's a handful of running backs and wide receivers that I like the quarterbacks to me they're in a tier where since I've already got Jalen Hurts I'm fine playing the hero quarterback having later guys with a stud so I'm really just looking at running backs and wide receivers and when I like a couple at both spots what I do is I say well who do I like further down in which position and I if I scroll and I look at the running backs that are you know a little bit further down the list and I scroll and I look at some of the wide receivers a little bit further down the list.

33:23Jason Moore:Honestly, I prefer the running backs further down the list, which is surprising to me. I feel like at this point I'm tempted because it's a mock to take Brees Hall, but I'm not going to do that. I'm going to go a little bit higher upside here, a little bit riskier, a little bit more fun. I'm going to pull the trigger early on an R.J. Harvey. I don't know if that's surprising to you guys, but the utilization in that offense, I think he could very well be, you know, you look at where Gentile went and Omari and Hampton all take the risky rookie.

33:56Mike Wright:All right, I'm going to go James Cook here in the fourth round. Mike, I guess you were looking at James Cook. I was. I'm going to stay at running back. Daniels, A. Chan, Mayfield, James Cook. There is, you know, we had conversations yesterday about Travion Henderson, James Cook, right, that comparison in a draft. And to me it just comes down to do you have a running back already? Like, James Cook is going to be so solid. He's not scoring 16 times. But solid is definitely going to be part of the equation for one of the best offenses in football. I went Cook, Mike, you're back on the clock, Lamar, A.J.

34:29Mike Wright:Brown, Jonathan Taylor.

34:31Andy Holloway:So this is the interesting point of the Superflex where do you – I still have some top ten guys for my projections who are left. Do you play the game of chicken?

34:44Mike Wright:Are you talking about quarterbacks? Yeah, yeah.

34:46Andy Holloway:Yeah, I still have some top 10 quarterbacks left. Played the game of chicken there. I wanted James Cook. Some, but not many, probably, right?

34:53Mike Wright:Oh, yeah, yeah.

34:54Andy Holloway:Just a handful of names. Uh-huh. So running back, ADP-wise on the list, we got Brees. We got Kamara, Connor, Mixon, Montgomery. You know, we're thinning out there pretty fast. the wide receivers though man they're still upside of marv garrett tyreek my guy you got the quick turn here yeah yeah so it's man uh i'm gonna take i'm gonna take my highest rated

35:26Mike Wright:wide receiver i'm thinking about i'm gonna go with marv yeah i uh i when i took cook i was kind of hoping marv might slip through somehow he doesn't and probably should have known with julia not having any whiteouts mike yeah with marv tedaroa mcmillan and then caleb williams off the board as the second quarterback for julia you're back mike i i know you're gonna have a long wait here there's a lot of good talent at non-quarterback positions available but i'm curious where you're

35:50Andy Holloway:gonna go so it's still the same running backs i don't love them uh and i'm gonna yeah brice hall alvin camara for the mock connor mixon for the mock i'm gonna i'm gonna let it ride with the quarterbacks and and we'll find out if i'm happy about that decision and not everyone is in on garrett as much as i am but i was that you wanting to draft garrett well yeah it was wow it was i

36:18Mike Wright:just at this point if i'm in the fifth round and i can get 170 000 targets i'm gonna take that and i i really going cook i gambled that i'd get one of harrison mcmillan and garrett wilson I thought one of those three would come around. I'm going to go with a guy that I think is worthy of a wide receiver one spot. I've got a long wait. I'm not letting him get by me. I think he's going to be the best pick in fantasy or close to it. I'm taking DK Metcalf.

36:45Jason Moore:My value pick from the value episode a couple days ago. Metcalf was on my short list. However, I have a wide receiver who is still in my top 12 wide receivers above DK Metcalf. Fancy. Personally left on the board. so this this is what i was talking about when i took the rj harvey pick i loved metcalf i loved garrett wilson i loved marv and above all of them i loved mike evans yes he's older yeah you you are you're you're you're on that train i am i and and that's not to take anything away from egbuka one of my my guys but a lot of the reasons i like egbuka were you can't forget they also apply to mike evans like chris godwin's not there to start the year mcmillan's not there so do you do you

37:28Andy Holloway:feel like though taking Evans I don't know Ibuka probably doesn't make it back to you I don't think I would take

37:34Jason Moore:both that's usually where Ibuka is there are other guys I like as well right so I would choose one or the other

37:41Mike Wright:some interesting names dropping right now and I know everyone's listening but that's how it goes Tyreek Hill still on the board now he's off the board at 510

37:52Jason Moore:man that is he'll be such an interesting chasing he'll be he'll be nice mike and he didn't like that he was a little sour for andy oh man

38:06Mike Wright:yeah i mean you guys i don't like fun no i like fun you guys just you've had like a few duds in

38:11Jason Moore:a row oh he's dying on this hill oh i did it again bank shot so bad all right here here go the

38:21Mike Wright:quarterbacks mike i don't think you're going to get any of your top tier guys back no dak brock camara jordan love james connor tyreek cam ward off the board uh that's that's an interesting pick um ahead of some of these other guys travis hunter at 512 cj stroud travis kelsey dj moore breeze hall caleb johnson jameson williams is gone that was the the dream have him all the way Betts got me. Come all the way back. Justin Fields now off the board. I mean, we got that. Was that part of that?

38:55Andy Holloway:That was Gary Wilson. That was the gamble was does Justin Fields make it back? And I would say in a home league, I bet he does. But Matthew Betts threw my plan into the furnace.

39:09Mike Wright:So Al Borland on the clock. He has Jamar Chase, Bo Nix, Kyron Kittle and Dak. He goes with Terry McLaurin, who's still unsigned. but obviously upside in the sixth round here behind Jamison Williams. Puts Jason on the clock. Jason and Mike still one quarterback deep. We saw, what is that, six go off the board in that run. You had some teams at the back of the draft that had not taken them in the first three rounds. So you saw a lot off the board now sitting at the quarterback position, McCarthy, Trevor Lawrence, Michael Penix, Bryce Young, Tua, Stafford, Geno, the starters left Darnold. Jason you're on the clock?

39:50Jason Moore:Yeah so it had some of the better quarterbacks slipped down to me here I would have taken a quarterback at this point when I look at there's there's three teams on the turn two of them have two quarterbacks there are at least two quarterbacks I like here so I don't care about taking a quarterback here therefore I'm going to go with a running back or wide receiver I was close I wouldn't have taken him over Mike Evans so I didn't take him last round but I almost wanted to for that stack Devontae Smith is awesome He's always been a guy I love. He's great for fantasy, and I've got Jalen Hurts, so I'm going to complete the stack and add him.

40:22Mike Wright:Well, I'm completing a stack as well. Mecca Egbuka is off the board. I'm taking him to go with Baker. I could have gone Evans the round before, but I went Metcalf, and I come back with Egbuka. I feel better about that combo. It's funny.

40:33Jason Moore:Your decision probably just flip-flopped those exact picks. Like, you would have ended up – If I had taken – I would have had Devontae Smith and DK Metcalf, and you would have had – You would have taken Devontae Smith in the fifth?

40:45Andy Holloway:No, I think he's saying he would have had Metcalf and Ibuka. Yes. Oh, had I gone Evans.

40:49Mike Wright:I got you. Yeah, okay. So, yeah, that's interesting with us going back to back. Mike took care of Wilson last round. Shaping up nicely, you have a quick turn here.

41:00Andy Holloway:Yeah, I wish Fields had dropped Fields or Dak. I didn't figure Dak would make it back, but Fields was my sneaky guy that I was hoping we'd get through. He did not. I'm going to go with a running back who I'm growing more and more comfortable by the day because I'm not hearing anything about the other players on the team. And I'm taking Isaiah Pacheco. Yeah. The Kansas City running back. The fact that no one is really talking about the other players. Oh, I guess we heard negativity about like – For sure? No, no. There was some buzz about him, but Mitchell, Elijah Mitchell, they're saying, has not necessarily played himself onto the roster yet.

41:45Andy Holloway:Kareem Hunt is old, dealing with that stuff.

41:51Andy Holloway:Pacheco looked so bad when he came back, and he came back probably too early from his injury and has had enough time that I think that Pacheco is ready to go. So now I'm looking at quarterback. um Matthew Betts is trying to confuse me in the in the chat by saying it's Hunt's job to lose and he said oh sorry I meant Pacheco Betts you're very confusing uh I'm gonna take an upside pick because it's my QB2 I'm gonna take Trevor Lawrence I like that pick a lot all right Trevor Lawrence with Liam Cohen this year let's say I don't love Lawrence like I I have Geno Smith ranked above Trevor Lawrence but he's my QB2 and I'm going for ceiling Trevor Lawrence is at over 4 ,000 yards

42:31Mike Wright:both of the seasons he's been healthy and you've got Liam Cohen so you you definitely have and you got players you love right Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas Jr. um maybe even Brenton Strange gets involved all right I'm back on the clock I actually feel like I have a tough choice here I was hoping Devontae Adams would swing back around and I would just make that easy call

42:50Jason Moore:dude it was a good value at the 612 Devontae yeah yeah he ended up going after Pacheco Sutton and

42:55Mike Wright:then Mike went with Lawrence. I am staring down just like these high ADP question marks. Rashi Rice, how long is the suspension? Joe Mixon, does he play week one or not at all? Both of those are outcomes. The next highest ADP is somebody like Quinshon Judkins, right? Or Worthy, who's dependent on Rashi Rice. So believe it or not, with a long wait ahead of me, I'm just going to take my guy i'm going to take tyler warren i'm going to okie dokie it's a seventh round tyler warren selection after kelsey mcbride bowers and kittle uh i took him over laporta i am going upside with tyler warren because i feel just uh i feel really cozy with that and i don't think he comes back to me and sometimes when you're at the first or at the beginning or the end of the draft um you have to wait a really really long time now i what is the i hate you message from Kyle you took Tyler Warren oh so you wanted Tyler Warren so I was exactly right that

43:53Jason Moore:you would have taken know your league yep know your league um so this is where I'm one of the few teams left with one quarterback thankfully it's Jalen Hurts I'm fine doing that with a stud when I look at the quarterbacks left JJ McCarthy Michael Penix Bryce Young Tua Stafford Geno Darnold like I don't want any of them so much over the other I mean I certainly have an order to those guys but I'm fine if it if the chips fall there's still other talented players here I could take David Montgomery. I could take my tight end four, which I think I'm going to do right here, is TJ Hawkinson. We talked about him getting off to a Hawk start.

44:28Jason Moore:And, you know, when you're talking about the seventh round. Somehow that one was not even one of your misses. That one was a hit. Yeah.

44:36Mike Wright:They're all hits, Andy. They're all hits. I think you literally said brick after one of them. Well, okay. Well, you know. And then you had to bank another one in. I'm just saying, there's not a lot of switches.

44:46Andy Holloway:The bank was open. When you hit a brick, you hit something.

44:51Jason Moore:They are all hits, Mike. Thank you. All right, we'll take a break. We're all back, baby. I didn't say air ball.

44:55Mike Wright:Jason goes with Hawkinson. I said air ball in my head. All right, Hawkinson at 7.04. We'll take a break and come back with the rest of this Super Draft.

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47:26Mike Wright:Okay, after Hawkinson in the seventh round here, Montgomery, Pickens, Worthy, adunze flowers deandre swift waddle olave uh the interesting names here swift aaron jones and tony pollard all three of them very interesting names this late in the draft all three of them starters as of now you know there is a high value in targets to the running back position and the and swift aaron jones and then pollard's gonna have all the work to start the year swift

48:00Andy Holloway:was one of the sorry, the Bears they were one of the places I thought that Bryan Robinson could have gone and really thrown an issue into the backfield. If Bryan Robinson goes to the Bears what does that room look like? You can say, hey, he's going to take some snaps from Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey is still the clear cut number one. So the fact that that problem has gone away, at least a potential problem. Swift still stays a good value in the seven.

48:33Mike Wright:Jason has Drake, London, Mike Evans, Devante Smith at wide receiver, Bucky Irving and RJ Harvey as a starting two running backs. Jalen Hurts, TJ Hawkinson in the onesies, or I guess not the onesies. The one and twosies. The ones and twosies in a super flex. So you're back on the clock, Jay.

48:52Jason Moore:Yeah. So I was really hoping Mixon would fall. It's so funny. In real drafts right now, Now we're seeing Mixon fall through the basement into the earth. So I didn't know if he'd get back to me. I would have taken him as my running back three. I need a running back three, but I don't like the rest of the guys there. So I'll pull the trigger on a quarterback. And even though I think there are safer, maybe even higher upside combinations, like Geno Smith to me is very safe. He's not going anywhere. He's thrown for 30 touchdowns before. I want the double stack. I love in a super flex league when you can do a double stack.

49:30Jason Moore:So I'm going to get Michael Pinnock. All right. And I hope he takes that leap forward. Pinnock and Drake London with Jalen Hurts and Devontae Smith. You can have massive outpourings of points when the wide receivers go off.

49:41Mike Wright:I'll take Rashi Rice here in the late eighth round. It's worth the risk to me. Yeah, I definitely would have taken him. Would you? Yeah. I mean, my starters.

49:49Andy Holloway:That's my wide receiver four.

49:51Mike Wright:Yeah. They've kind of been figured out. And so Rashi Rice is worth the gamble. it's not like rashi rice won't play football he may not play at the beginning he may not play at the end but he will be playing a bunch of football and uh he's gonna be productive so i'll take rashi

50:05Andy Holloway:rice here in the eighth round at the value so the going with trevor lawrence i can say i'm okay with the decision but what played out with only two quarterbacks going after that I would have much rather gone George Pickens there. But again, this is why you mock. Yeah, you're doing the mocks, and it's the hardest thing to for sure know is when will that – the sprinkling. The runs are done, but when those couple sprinklings are quarterbacks.

50:40Andy Holloway:So Superflex, you do need a third. Let me just take a little peek. Bryce is there, Tua, Stafford, Geno. Not overly excited. I only have two running backs at this point. The starter tier has kind of thinned out. Has almost fully thinned out, except for the Jacksonville, who is the starter? Javante. Javante's a starter. Javante. Dude.

51:04Jason Moore:You're a guy, man. You'd be a coward. My guy? You love Javante. What are you doing? Javante Williams. Don't you do this to me? Mike Wright is Javante Williams' biggest fan.

51:14Andy Holloway:How dare you? looking at the running backs like Charbs or Jordan Mason they're very appealing right here looking at the tight end position which I have not looked at the whole draft Laporta Laporta is very interesting right here Laporta and David Njoku trying to look at the turn Julia only has two running backs so maybe I will go that direction I'm going to take Charbs

51:41Mike Wright:all right zach charbonne off the board to mike in the eighth round so pacheco lawrence charbs the last three picks hole eckler off the board at a 12 approve that pick stefan diggs at 901 i like that pick as well there is value at wide receiver right now on the board uh there really is there there's quite a bit of it so you know i i think real quick

52:07Jason Moore:to speak to the Eckler thing while you look at your guys' picks. Eckler is a name that you have to highlight. I was hoping he came back because his ADP – I think everyone in the draft was hoping – someone's going to take him way above the ADP because it doesn't make sense for – the ADP can't catch up in time. Right. And so you don't want to forget about him and have him too low in your range. If you've got the UDK, you can actually highlight players where on your sheet it'll be like, oh, I know they're lower, but I want to target them.

52:38Mike Wright:All right, Mike, you get to pull the trigger here. Ninth round pick, four picks left. You are still in a position to grab a tight end. I'm wondering if that's where you're going to go. You've got two quarterbacks, three wide, three running backs.

52:51Andy Holloway:What the player I really, really want to take is Josh Downs. But the hamstring is concerning at this point. But this late in the draft, so I mean, as my wide receiver four, taking a look at who's taking tight ends. I'm just going to do it anyways. I'm going to take Josh Downs. He can recover on my bench.

53:14Mike Wright:I'm taking Jordan Mason. Jordan Mason, my third running back off the board. I was hoping he'd slip through. He did. He'll pair with A. Chan and James Cook. Jason back on the clock. Has his second quarterback, Michael Penix. The double stack. Has Hawkinson. You're free to roam, Jason.

53:30Jason Moore:Free to go wherever I want, but with only Bucky Irving and R.J. Harvey, I do feel a little bit obligated with three good wide receivers to go running back here. Would you have gone Jordan Mason? He was in consideration. I don't know that I would have gone. I want to know if I should go crazy, which to me is Quenchon Junkins. There's a chance that he plays the vast majority of the year, doesn't get suspended. There's a chance he misses a ton of the season. Your guy's there, Jay. Are you talking about?

53:56Andy Holloway:Javante Williams is there, Jason's guy. Don't put that on me. We all know that Jason Moore is synonymous with Javante Wood. I am actually going to take a guy who is – Javante Jason.

54:06Jason Moore:Javante. Yeah, see? That makes sense. I'm going to take a guy who might even be more disgusting to you, Mike, and it is one of my guys in the sense that I know you two disagree. You guys do not have Travis Etienne as the primary – I do not. First running back to have from the Jacksonville Jaguars. I definitely do still. Okay, you do. But Jacksonville doesn't. TBD. okay TBD I do think Travis Etienne will be their starter he will definitely be their pass catching back that will not be Tank Bigsby I know he caught a screen pass that must have infuriated you

54:43Mike Wright:when he caught that ball you must have hated it so much

54:47Jason Moore:it's unfair because I love Tank Bigsby no no it doesn't sound like it Javante you're thinking of Javante I think you guys believe that Travis Etienne oh you went off the board yeah sorry bill krosky 909 sorry yeah i think you guys have the the you know good coaching fallacy where you believe tank should be the guy and so you refuse to believe that it will be no i don't the guy they've used in in the passing game for years who's they uh trevor lawrence the jacksville jaguars last year well he was still involved in the passing game he He was very inefficient on the ground. I just mean that the they has changed.

55:29Jason Moore:The coaching staff has changed, yeah. So TBD.

55:33Mike Wright:39 for 254 last year.

55:35Jason Moore:I do think that the Jacksonville running backs, while disgusting right now, will be a value to someone.

55:41Mike Wright:Yeah, I agree with that. It's just I don't think we believe Tank Biggs should be given the job. I think we believe that he's going to score the most fancy points of a group of committee backs that maybe none of them are startable and exciting. Judkins, Ridley, Samuel Laporta finally goes Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill at 909 Bionkowski he can play the violin on a piano

56:07Jason Moore:I think it's with a piano no, he does it on a piano

56:11Mike Wright:Jacoby Myers, Cooper Cup off the board at 912 J.K. Dobbins, Njoku, Tracy we got some more quarterbacks off the board Tua the second quarterback off the board for the Kyler manager. Darnold, the second quarterback off the board for the golf manager. And then Javante Williams, Juwan Jennings, Bryce Young. It turns out we were saying all that stuff about Javante, how much Mike liked him, how much Jason liked him. Turns out it's Papa Josh. Oh, it was Papa Josh. Oh, the old one. Papa Josh likes him the most. Okay. Bryce Young off the board. Khalil Shakir off the board. Jason, you're back. you have a chance to you know go Travis Etienne tank Bigsby combo I could in fact do that there's

56:55Jason Moore:a lot of players here that I still like there's wide receivers with upside like Jaden Reed Jaden Higgins any of the Jadens at running back since I since Etienne is not a guarantee Harvey is not a guarantee I'm going to take one more running back I'm going to take another shot at a high upside guy a player that i adore i think he is an amazing player whether he will get the opportunity or not for a bad offense it's usually a bad bet that's why he's in the 10th round here cam scadaboo

57:27Mike Wright:rookie for the giants yeah he did he played last night that was great to see him out there i am depressed a lot of players i wanted they they all went calvin ridley debo samuel jacoby myers all great values at this stage in the draft kill Shakir yeah I don't know why he's going so late that's probably a wild one um but let me see if this guy's still around that's that's how nope he's not oh man who are you wondering um I was wondering about Keon Coleman I must have missed him I probably read his name and literally missed him going in every end up going in every

58:03Andy Holloway:live draft a player gets drafted a second time. It always happens if you've ever done a live one.

58:11Mike Wright:I do not see Keon Coleman anywhere.

58:13Jason Moore:Yeah, you can draft Keon Coleman. That's why you don't see him. You're searching for him under the running back tab or something?

58:19Mike Wright:Yeah, that's what I was doing. I'm going to take Keon Coleman.

58:23Jason Moore:The cue is the paper icon.

58:25Mike Wright:No, no, perfect. Listen up, everybody. I don't know if you can bounce back to my camera for a second. I don't. Okay, well, go ahead. The draft, if you are using Sleeper on your phone, it says draft. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I don't need this. I'm an idiot. The spotlight is on. I'm the idiot. Don't forget that part. It says draft. On the desktop, it's a plus. It says draft. All right, give me the spotlight.

58:51Jason Moore:Give me the spotlight because I know. Sleeper. Sleeper. We love you guys. We've worked with you forever. Unweb. Just change that plus to a draft button. You got the button already. I've seen it. Oh, so do you agree? You're in full agreement. It should say draft.

59:04Mike Wright:Yeah. Just make it easy. Because the Q button does have a plus on it. There's double plus.

59:10Andy Holloway:We don't need a double plus. I like that Andy is strawmanning over here to make us forget that he tried to search for Keon Coleman in the running backs. Oh, he's taken.

59:19Mike Wright:Look, very, very positive Keon Coleman news. Not something that – we're so close to our League of Record draft, there's stuff I almost don't want to say now. Oh, my God. I hate that. Like, obviously I say it, but it's like we're so close to it. But you hate to say it. But you hate to say it, and this is one of the things. Keon Coleman, if you listen to the players at that organization, they basically – I mean, I think one of them literally said his DNA changed. Like, he got it, like, modified. Like, he's a different human. Like, he got the ooze? Like, something – He got mutated? Like, there's Keon Coleman last year, busted.

59:52Mike Wright:Then there's Keon Coleman this offseason. What animal? At every meeting, at every practice. Bird? All over everything. like the dude so like and jason's been vocal about that's the guy you take the shot on

1:00:02Andy Holloway:but keon coleman um i think is very interesting sure all right i am i am up i am looking at my opponent who is on the turn uh julia does not have a tight end while there there's a couple who i am okay with i will not take the chance on losing tucker craft tucker craft off the board you did

1:00:24Mike Wright:pass on Laporta a couple times and came back with Kraft. Not bad. Loveland, Colston Loveland off the board now at the last pick of the 10th round. Addison. Addison is gone.

1:00:38Andy Holloway:Mike, you're back. I am back. Colston Loveland would have been the pick, but I really, really believe in Tucker Kraft as a top five, maybe even a little bit more upside. i want to leave with a third quarterback for to have on my bench and if i don't go here i will not get a starter for that so we got stafford you got geno rogers those are the if i'm looking right those are the three that you can feel yeah daniel jones will there what i'm saying you can feel confident they will start the year okay unless injury where it's like daniel jones can get benched at some point russ you're gonna make my picks for me mike because i was i was gonna take a third quarterback and so uh whoever i'm gonna get i'm gonna take the guy who has a fully functional vertebrae and spine and back so i'm gonna go with gino yeah i'm i'm actually i don't care about

1:01:33Mike Wright:vertebrae uh let me see if i can find the right button to click yeah matthew stafford on the

1:01:39Jason Moore:roster jason you are back on the clock we are in lockstep here the the third quarterback in a super flex league is is pretty valuable there won't be a waiver wire there will be bye weeks there will be injuries so you want to take some and i agree with you guys in the order you would have gone i would have gone geno smith matthew stafford followed by aaron rogers so since i've only got michael pennix i i want a third quarterback on the roster uh all right uh we are nearing the

1:02:05Mike Wright:end of this super flex i don't know how you guys feel about your teams right now i've got Achan, Cook, and Mason at running back, Metcalf, Egbuka, Rice, and Coleman at my wide receiver spots, Stafford, Mayfield, and Daniels with Tyler Warren as my tight end. I feel okay about this. Mayfield was a little bit of a gamble in the third, and I look at would I have been just as comfortable taking Bucky there and then coming back with a Drake May? Probably not as comfortable, no um but oh i guess i i guess i probably would not have gotten any of that run yeah i preceded that run so herbert mahomes murray goff and may all went and i would not have got them so i would have had to turn to caleb or dac yeah i'm cool yeah no i i think i think you did it right i'm

1:02:56Jason Moore:pretty happy with how my team is so good at this is turning out as well uh bucky irving rj harvey etn and scataboot running back london evans devante smith with jalen hurts pennix and aaron rogers with hawkinson at the onesie um i'm gonna look at the wide receiver positions have only got

1:03:14Mike Wright:three grab the uh the last handful of guys off the board just some highlights here braylon allen went off the board uh in the 11th round we saw jaden higgins go um daniel jones did go so did anthony richardson and then evan ingram would have been my final pick if he had made it back through i would have been willing to take a second side in if ingram the ppr guy because of the uh the melee trade yeah exactly so just take the shot on him but he just went so jason final

1:03:40Jason Moore:pick yeah i'm gonna take cedric tillman with joe flacco there um we saw tillman do some special things in his sophomore year in a short stretch and then he uh had the concussion but he appears

1:03:52Mike Wright:locked in to me as a starter for the browns i'll take godwin i'll take godwin with the final pick

1:03:56Jason Moore:I would have taken Godwin if I wasn't the Evans manager. I didn't want to deal with both of that. So, yeah, that makes sense.

1:04:02Mike Wright:I am the Buka manager, and I did want to deal with it. Okay.

1:04:07Andy Holloway:With my last pick, I'm going to take a running back. ADP-wise, it's Najee, Ramondre, Spears, Trey Benson. I'll throw a name out for you. Oh, please. Nick Chubb. Nick Chubb is who I actually am going to draft. Oh, okay. You were setting up to Nick Chubb. My bad. I was letting people know ADP-wise who is there. and Nick Chubb feels like a pretty boring floor pick. But what if? What if Joe Mixon is that hurt?

1:04:36Mike Wright:It's definitely possible. I was just looking at this. If I go to the deucer camp, they just show up right there in the three boxes. Yeah, it looks great. Look at that. Wow. Good looking. Not as good looking. Good looking.

1:04:49Andy Holloway:I do appreciate that Jeremy placed his on the top.

1:04:54Mike Wright:hmm yes of course i'm sure that was intentional all right you can weigh in on all of our mistakes

1:05:01Andy Holloway:in the youtube comments or oh the the team on the twitter read the teams well uh yeah we we went

1:05:08Mike Wright:did you not go through years i didn't okay why don't you go ahead so my team at quarterback i

1:05:12Andy Holloway:got lamar trevor lawrence and gino got gino on the 11th i think that's fabulous my wide receivers are A.J. Brown, Marv, Garrett Wilson, and Josh Downs. I like that a lot. Johnny Taylor, Pacheco, Charbonnet, and Nick Chubb. And then Tucker Craft is my tight end.

1:05:28Mike Wright:Matt Caffick, Buka, Rice, Coleman, and Godwin at wide out. A. Chan, Cook, and Mason. Lil Thin at running back. Daniels, Mayfield, Stafford at quarterback in a super flex. And Tyler Warren is my tight end.

1:05:40Jason Moore:Jalen Hurts, Michael Penix, Aaron Rodgers at quarterback. Drake London, Mike Evans, Devontae Smith, and Cedric Tillman. wide receiver a running back i've got bucky irving rj harvey travis etn and cam scadaboo with uh hawkinson as tight end what was that name again hawkinson hawkinson what where am i saying

1:06:04Mike Wright:uh so let me uh let me set the set the stage for next week's shows as we head into the weekend we want to wish you a lot of luck in your drafts. Hopefully you are well equipped to get the ultimate draft kit. We'd love to see you in the Megalobowl, Megalobowl.com. That would be awesome. But next week we have busts. So a busts episode. We have a bold prediction show. We got a fantasy time machine episode. That's one of my favorites. We've got fantasy MVP picks with a bunch of special guests on that episode. And we'll have another mock draft, our final mock draft of the entire year all that happening next week and after next week we don't have any more weeks without football cool regular season football so that is going to be super exciting also wanted to let people know a couple of things one is obviously you can go and watch the full episodes on youtube youtube.com slash the fantasy footballers we also just released a brand new clips channel so we have a separate YouTube channel where we'll be breaking up the highlights of different episodes into smaller bites and clips.

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1:07:40Mike Wright:So could I get traded? Adam Thielen, is he still? I don't know. Go ask your wife. Okay. I mean, it's a purple background. It's a purple background with big news coming. Oh, we do have updates on that. The Athletics' Diana Rossini reports, quote, financial hurdles remain before any potential Adam Thielen Vikings reunion can occur. Mm-hmm. But I still think it's going to happen. So all right. That'll do it for today's episode of the show. Shout out to the Doosters and the entire team that took part in today's Supermock. We appreciate all of you, except the ones that took the players I wanted. Catch you next week.

1:08:16Mike Wright:Goodbye.

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