Fantasy First Round Mock, QB/TE Strategies and Late Round Fliers with Trevor Sikkema and The Fantasy Footballers

27:08Trevor Sikkema:They emphasize tight ends very heavily in that offense. I think they're going to continue to do so. And so Barner might be this sneaky player who if you don't get one of the top tight ends and you're kind of just taking a flyer on a guy, I'd stash him on your roster as long as you have a pretty deep bench. And if not, then I'd really keep an eye on him when it came to the waiver wire. Because again, I have a passion for trying to emphasize that tight end position in fantasy a lot. and Barner is somebody who could be a sneaky good one. Well, plus he's got the coolest touchdown celebration. If you ever see him in person, he is just such an imposing physical presence.

27:45You're like, this guy's got to be awesome. And I wouldn't be shocked if he's second on that team in receptions. Like Cup and Shahid are going to get their share, but Barner could be in the mix as kind of the number two. I'm totally with you. I think he's worth drafting as a tight end too. Chigakonkwo is another guy in that range I kind of like. and then Isaiah likely similar to Kincaid if you didn't get one early. Yeah. He's got a chance to be second in receptions if Malik Neighbors is healthy. And if Malik Neighbors is missing games for that particular game, Likely is probably your favorite to lead in targets.

28:20Let's go to a different position or just general late round flyers before we say goodbye to you. I had to throw out one name specifically. I promised my son Walker, who's just addicted to fantasy. and he wants RJ Harvey in every draft. What do you think of RJ Harvey? And then we'll talk other late round flyers.

28:40Trevor Sikkema:I love it. I love it. That's pulling on my heartstrings right there because I was a big RJ Harvey guy as a draft analyst. I felt as though - I thought it was because me and my son share something and we're bonding over this, but you're just more into RJ Harvey. No, it's selfishly because I need my draft takes to look good. So I need more public support for a lot of those. But I think the RJ Harvey obviously has the skill set to be able to contribute for you on all three downs. And he's got soft hands in the receiving game. He can make you miss in open field, which is a trait that is not always guaranteed with running backs.

29:13Trevor Sikkema:I think a lot of times people just go like, oh, yeah, like he could find all this open space. And then you go, OK, well, what does he do when he gets to open space? Then does he panic? Does he find the sideline? Does he run immediately to the nearest defender? Or does he actually know how to manipulate that space and make the most of an explosive run? I think Harvey approaches things with a true playmakers mentality. The consistency hasn't quite been there for him the way that it needs to, for him to, I think, really take the reins of that running back room. It's going to be more by committee, but I do.

29:40Trevor Sikkema:I do like RJ Harvey there. Well, okay. This is another one. You're similar to me, by the way, like family's important. All that's great, but it's the takes that you root for ultimately being, being right. Yes. Your own evaluation has to be Blake, Blake Corum's another guy who's very interesting. I talked about him on the fantasy show that we did earlier this week. And the reason why I like him is because very clearly the committee with him and Kyron Williams is a true like it's it's it's one and two. Now, it's one like Kyron is the one for sure. But then Blake Corum is absolutely the two. When you look at last year's snap counts, less than two percent of the total running back snap counts last year went to somebody that was not named Kyron Williams and Blake Corum.

30:25Trevor Sikkema:It was one of those two guys. That's it. So we know that Kyron Williams is going to be their RB one. But if Kyron goes down or misses time for whatever reason, it's just Blake Corum. They're going to stick Blake Corum in the game for basically every single situation because there's not a lot of experience with any of the other backs on the roster to really be able to execute and have that experience to be relied upon in a heavy snap count basis. So I think that he's another one where, again, if you've got a deeper bench, if you're on a deeper league, like make sure you're prioritizing Corum as a legit handcuff, not just for, OK, like he's kind of handcuffing Kyron Williams here game to game.

31:06Trevor Sikkema:But again, if Kyron ever misses time, I mean, you might have a surefire RB2 on your team that you get to then just put in your lineup with him. He could have standalone value. It's a great shout out. I am surprised now to see how ladies going. Right. It will stick with me. I think for Coram's career that ultimately in the NFC championship game and they played great offense. I mean, they were the one team that made Seattle's defense look ordinary over and over and over again. You know who was on the field? It was Blake Coram, like in the biggest of spots. Blake Coram, I think, played as much or more than Kyron Williams snap count in the NFC championship game.

31:42have great production big plays and yeah they trust him all right I'll throw out some of my late round flyers if you you have one or two you just want to hit rapid fire go for it I do like Josh Downs who's going like in round 10 or 11 just think he'll have a lot of high volume I was so thin at running back in our draft that I loaded up on these types of guys I think are the best bets Kalen Black I think is a good late round pick with the 49ers with all the concern about Christian McCaffrey. Mike Washington's going to be starting out the season having a role for the Raiders. I think it could last.

32:15I kind of like Woody Marks to have a better season than people expect for Houston. And then I'll even throw out Marshawn Lloyd, a player where I'm going against what I normally say. I'm not sure I really believe in the player, but I think people are sleeping on how crazy this opportunity is unless they add some veteran. He is going to get a lot of run this year. I think Josh Jacobs is going to get suspended. And I think Josh Jacobs is an injury risk too. So those are some of my late round guys that are my favorites. I don't know if you agree, disagree on any of those and have any favorites you want to throw out.

32:45Trevor Sikkema:One other one that I'll just shout out is Jalen Warren. I feel like in some drafts that I've done, Jalen Warren's lasted a really long time. Yes. Like 9th, 10th, 11th round. And I go, okay, yeah, obviously they have Rico Dowdow now and he's going to be a factor for sure. and and i get that it's a new offense but it's still aaron rogers aaron rogers still doesn't want to get hit guess what he's going to want on the field to not get hit a running back to dump the ball off to so if you are in a ppr league i think jalen warren's going way too late for how much he was used as a receiver last year pretty sure the steelers led the nfl and targets and receptions to the running back position through the regular season.

33:34Trevor Sikkema:Either they finished first or second. I can't remember because they were back and forth towards the end of the season, but I think Jalen Warren's going to get plenty of work still as a receiver. So if you're in a PPR league, I think he's going way too late. I totally agree. He is falling into that bucket of players. It's no longer a cool young player and he's not declining in reality, but people are just bored of taking him. He is lasting too long and he wakes up making people miss. I mean, he does every year. He leads the NFL in broken tackle rate, missed tackle rate. Every day, Sykema wakes up, and he's just slinging takes all day long.

34:09That's what he does on a variety now of NFL media programs. We're definitely going to try to have you on NFL Daily here and there. You're going to be busy during the season, but good luck with everything with the fantasy show. And then everyone check out, subscribe to NFL Pro. It's already got its own YouTube channel. Trevor and Brett Coleman, two of the best to do it. Appreciate you.

34:32Trevor Sikkema:I appreciate you having me, man. Excited to be both teammates and competitors here this upcoming season. I will be taking you down. And that's fine. You know, we can do that as new friends. Let's take a quick break. We'll talk to some other new friends after the break. It's the Fantasy Footballers. See you then.

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38:08Back on NFL Daily Wrapping up Our second fantasy football Preview One thing I realized As I bring in the fantasy footballers We had them on a couple years ago We got two out of the three here Jason and Mike We're missing Andy You got the best ones Yeah, yeah, yeah We did They have one of the biggest podcasts in the world Not even fantasy football podcasts But just podcasts Period And I looked through kind of what we did last week with Josh Norris. And we just talked with our friend Trevor Sykema about strategy and wide receivers in the middle of the draft and late round flyers and tight end quarterback strategy.

38:46We haven't really hit the top. So I'm going to keep this simple. This is all my 11 year old son wants to talk about anyways, is the first two rounds of the draft. and we're just going to pretend like we're drafting, basically go down our big boards and hit as many of the top 20, 25 players or so in some sort of order, just so we can kind of look at what the first two rounds are going to look like. So why don't we, I'll start with Jason. In this mock draft that's not a mock draft because we're not really building a team, who is your number one overall? It is clearly... Where, what? Why is Jason getting the easiest one?

39:20That's right. I get the number one. It's Gibbs. Jameer Gibbs is... I think he's capable of breaking fantasy this year. You know, every couple of years, someone goes nuclear and pretty much is on half of championship rosters. This year, you know, people ask us all the time. One of the most common questions we get is, where do you want to draft? If you could pick your draft spot, where do you want to draft? Most years, it's somewhere like pick four, pick five. There's like a couple of elites, and I want the last one of them so I can get the highest second-round pick. This year, I want the 101. Jameer Gibbs without David Montgomery with, you know, the quotes from Dan Campbell talking about, we haven't scratched the surface with him.

39:58We're going to push him. We're going to see more. It's like you can't see much more. But also, if you look at the games that Jameer Gibbs has played without David Montgomery in his career, he outscores LaDainian Tomlinson. He outscores Christian McCaffrey's best years. Like he has the potential to truly by himself kind of win a championship this year. if he stays healthy and does what his potential would allow. I like that Mike jumped in quickly and said, oh, that's the easiest pick. So you think there's a big, I'll give you the second. Do you think there's a big drop between whoever you have at two is?

40:32I don't know that it's necessarily at the end of the year we'll have a huge drop in points. It's just risk. You know, I have like, Demir Gibbs is the bell cow and he's on a high-powered offense. The number two pick, am I up? Am I taking him? Yeah, go for it. It's Bijan. it's not you're not going to mess around with it i kind of spent the early the beginning of the offseason of more on the side of of bijon over gibbs just a little bit but oh man the uh the news out of atlanta isn't it's i know it's tough it's not the best you have uh when you have a quarterback competition where one of them isn't playing and they're winning the job by not playing yeah it's like that's not good but but bijon is a he's a special talent like jameer gibbs and we know that he could like he can hold up to all the touches and he will get all the touches similar to gibbs his nemesis actually not his it was probably his buddy our nemesis in terms of tyler algier stealing away a whole bunch of goal line opportunities over the years from bijon that threat is gone i'm not as worried about brian robinson uh make sure you're drafting the right B.

41:43Robinson, everyone from Atlanta. Double check. It happened to a friend of mine, not this year. A couple years ago. It's harder now because they're both on the same roster. It's like, no, I check. This is the Falcons. He retells that story all the time. I'm like, you don't need to retell that story. You don't have to tell people embarrassing stuff about yourself. It just makes you look like an idiot. But B. John will be a three-down workhorse and And, you know, we finally we saw some long touchdowns finally last year. So, yeah, I'm pretty confident in him as my second pick. All time great. And they do have Bill Callahan as their offensive line coach there and a bunch of guys who have started a long time.

42:25So that that would be one note of of optimism. The other is just that he's a freak. Now, this came up in the in the draft. I did. I'm going to go nuts here. I'm so panicked about the the wide receiver turn. I already made, I don't want to repeat my takes because I, I made a big Saquon over CMC, you know, stand on, on our previous show. I don't think it's that crazy to go Saquon third, third overall. I, I honestly think there's such a crazy, I don't want, I want a real running back. You don't have to do this. You don't have to do this. You don't have to say this out loud. You don't have to say embarrassing things.

42:59I know. We just got, went over this. If I don't want to get like made fun of and like, cause I know in this particular quote unquote draft, like I'll get him six or eight or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. But I like Chase Brown was my cutoff of running backs. And I don't have, you know, I don't have gente in that group. And it's like, I want one of these eight or nine running backs. And I don't want to get stuck at the turn with none of the running backs. And I actually feel good enough about the receivers that I don't think it's that crazy to take Saquon here. But I know I know I don't have to. Yeah, I mean, if you if we always say, you know, on the shows, like, if you believe in a guy, take him.

43:31Like, it doesn't matter what we say or anybody else says. If you are confident and I think you're right strategically. like the running backs in the middle rounds are they're pushed up where they shouldn't be they're terrible picks they're trash so you really do need to leave the first couple of rounds with a running back or three um and there's there's tear break so if you believe saquon over some of those other running backs i mean personally saquon to me is there's there's probably eight or nine more running backs that i would prefer to have over saquon now obviously lane johnson if he's healthy and the offensive line is better and you know there's a bounce back but it's rare to see you know coming up to near age 30 off of a large workload the efficiency numbers get better after it dips for a year and that's that's my fear with Saquon I'm trusting the offense I'm trusting the camp reports I mean come on Jason haven't you heard about the the camp practice under the lights that they just had the team scrimmage where he's going like maybe I'm getting carried away.

44:32I mean, Saquon is a great player, and if that's the next running back you want, you don't want to get stuck at the turn without one, draft him. This is great news for me, though. Right. The crazy thing is taking him over the best receivers. Maybe that's too far. It's maybe I just have him RB3, but maybe he deserves to be more like 7th or 8th overall. So where would you go with the next pick? To me, it's Gibbs and Bijon at the top and followed by four wide receivers. The next group of running backs after those two are behind my elite wide receivers. Jamar Chase is my number one this year. I think in most years he would be, I think, you know, so you can make an argument for a handful of these wide receivers to be the best, but athletically he's so special and I think he's got the best quarterback of the bunch.

45:18So if they're healthy, I mean, we've seen it before the wide receiver one overall where he laps the field. I'll, I'll pull the trigger on Jamar Chase. Do you, do you have chase number one overall as well at receiver rather i do yeah i'm i'm uh i'm very uh optimistic for the the cincinnati bangles this year very very i think i think they're the team that you want pieces of mike is unhealthy levels of optimistic about the bangles i tend to agree it's it's a tough call between him and jsn and what we'll get to the other options but yeah who are you going to take then who's your second receiver if that's how you go well i wouldn't take a second receiver if If we're doing a draft, I would take McCaffrey here.

46:02I would take on the risk of, I mean, you want to talk wide receivers, McCaffrey's receiving numbers would have put him as a top 12 wide receiver last year, except he's not. He's a running back and he gets a bunch of carries on the ground. He, the, you know, we're like stripling, Dejan stripling the rookie, the second rounder. It's like there's, you're trying to figure out what is, what's the answer for San Francisco? Kittle, is he going to be ready off of the Achilles? The answer is McCaffrey until the wheels fall off. He's going to catch 100 passes or so. He's going to carry the ball, or like the plan.

46:37He'll carry the ball 250, 300 times or so. He will do it again. The McCaffrey argument, it kind of just, it's boring. It's old. It's tired because the entire argument is if McCaffrey stays healthy, he's the RB1 at the end of the, I believe he will be the RB one over Jameer Gibbs. If he stays healthy, that's that's the question because there's previous years where he's led the league in touches. He has not stayed healthy the next year. It did freak me out. He was out of camp for a minute, but I should point out. It was a little tight. It's part of the plan, right? Part of the plan, just tightness.

47:15I I'm, I'm a little bit more freaked out as well. I'm less bullish, but obviously you can't really argue against Christian McCaffrey. He's, he's either been the running back number one or number two overall or injured and that's that's his range of outcomes i mean three of three of four years with san francisco as the number two or number one running back in fantasy and not just like the number one in fancy football they the number one where if he was on your team you you made the playoffs and you what gibbs is going to do this year yeah yeah yeah so i'm not uh i'm not rooting against you but i did draft caitlin black just as a like without insurance i have no problem with with people wanting to hedge or take the other side of the bet it's just a does he stay healthy where you know like bijon things could go really bad for the falcons we just talked about the quarterback situation things outside of bijon's control could go bad and they mcafree will be fine look injuries and things could go bad i guess you know we've done fantasy long enough every player yeah for literally every player but the the kind of the line for me and it's weird maybe Saquon shouldn't be quite above it is just those two running backs and then I just feel so good about the next receivers that I'm just gonna play it safer and go with Jackson Smith and Jigba over McCaffrey and really over any other running back there's like a slight worry about total volume and maybe the pie is split up a little more this year how could it not be with aj barner and shaheed's there the whole year but the the low end of outcomes and watching hard knocks is definitely contributing to this that this guy's just like you know like a future hall of famer when you see him he just is so sick to watch he is definitely it i i don't blame anyone for making him your wide receiver one i think you can make arguments like i said for for four different guys at that position and and obviously what he did last year leading the league and receiving having double digit touchdowns winning a super bowl you can't really ask much more from from him but it was such a perfect year everything went right when you have that many receptions and you're over 15 yards or a reception that just doesn't happen back-to-back years so i i think there will be a little bit of regression but i'd still love to have them if i'm now on the clock i'm gonna i'm gonna live dangerously uh you know there's there's some risk out there uh maybe off the field but I'd pull the trigger here on on Puka Nakua you've got a guy who could easily lead the league in receptions in yardage he's finally used around the goal line just a dominant player and my favorite part is the consistency you know it's like he's not one of these boom bust wide receivers that you know at the end of the year he looks great but that's because half his games were great and half his games were bad he's just every single week gonna put up tons of points catch a million balls plays through injury so i puka is really just the only worry is like uh you know he's more between the ears he's doing some dumb stuff yeah but yeah being a knucklehead is not that depends what kind of knucklehead yeah you can't cross off all the knuckleheads well what if you knew he suspended week one which i think is a realistic possibility if i knew so right right now puka is my wide receiver two um ahead of jason and if he was if he was suspended week one i would take the other two guys in my top four over puka for sure i agree that you wouldn't knock him down though too far to me no not it's one game you're playing the long game and to me he'd still be a top eight pick where do you go then mike so it's between the there's two players i would narrow it down too and you know are the what you're saying about the running backs i tend to agree so i would just i'm going to take james cook here of james cook is i hear that he's elite and i don't people don't think of james cook as elite but you really should the guy has he gets he seems to just get better each and every year he is a perfect fit for the offense Yeah, Josh Allen's going to take some rushing touchdowns away.

51:30That hasn't stopped James Cook from piling up rushing touchdowns in recent memory. And maybe we get a little bit more pass. There's whispers in the bushes of maybe a little bit more passing work this year. If you added that, then James Cook is someone who can actually go for that RB1 overall position. But I would feel very confident with him as a running back one here. And he's just great at football in a way that people don't seem to recognize. I'm not really sure why Josh Norris and I talked about that too, about just like, you know, first you want to like know who are the best players. I like, my theory is maybe it's just a boring name.

52:06And he was Dalvin's brother, you know, who we, like he was supposed to be Dalvin's lesser brother, but he's turned into Dalvin's equal or better brother. Like, or he's just lost in the Josh Allen sauce. I don't know. I think it was expectations coming in. You know, he wasn't a first overall, you know, first round pick, a highly drafted superstar running back. He wasn't supposed to be that. And then he got off to a slow start in his rookie season. So by the time you got to year two, it was like the priors were confirmed. But it's just it's dumb and wrong. And obviously, he's on a great team. When you're drafting running backs, you're going to very soon.

52:41You know, you just talked about Gentry not being in the top. There's a lot of these great running backs. It's like, man, how does it work for the Raiders and the Dolphins to score enough points? But, you know, if you're on the bills, you're OK. I totally agree. If listeners out there aren't really feeling my Saquon Barkley or Di flag plant, I think James Cook could slide right in there. I think he fits with all these top wide receivers. You probably couldn't take him too high for me to think it's a reach, even if he went third or fourth overall. That seems fine to me. I'll go Justin Jefferson here.

53:17Whoa, man. I have the benefit that I kind of ignore all fantasy until like second week of August, like a lot, like a lot of fans out there. But I used to do it for a living like you guys. And there are these ADPs out there that I'm just like, what really? And to me, I'm just I'm not worried to me. It's like this is one of the greatest receivers I've ever seen play football to me. Absolutely. Right there. I don't mind that he's in my pecking order behind the three receivers that were taken already. But to me, they're kind of one A, B, C and D. I think they're going to produce offense. Kyler Kyler can produce offense, whether he's like a great NFL quarterback.

53:58I don't know, but they'll have plenty of yardage in Justin Jefferson's Justin Jefferson. So I just feel like there's I maybe you guys disagree. I feel like there's very little downside in Justin. There's well, there's definitely a downside. There's all the upside in the world. I mean, if you want to say he's the best wide receiver in the league, neither one of us would ever argue against that. The downside is just if Kyler can't get it done. I mean, we saw last year, Justin Jefferson played 17 games. You know, he wasn't injured at all. And you can't even believe that because I don't know. Do you know where he finished?

54:30Wide receiver 22 at 9.4 points. Yeah, it was brutal. I choose not to accept that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Throw that out. I don't think that's going to happen again either. there we've seen down years from like deandre hopkins where he was bad one year and then he came back he was the wide receiver one the next year if you want to call your shot and say the vikings are fixed without jj mccarthy and the problems of nine that's totally fine we're from arizona we had to deal with kyler here for a long time and i i think we're we're we're not skeptical that it could work but we can definitely see how it doesn't and then so like my pick next if i'm on the clock now is Amon Ra St.

55:08Brown. And so maybe Justin Jefferson could be number one and Amon Ra might not be number one, but Amon Ra has been number three, three years in a row. And so I'm getting him here as the fifth wide receiver off the board. Nothing has changed for him. His team is the same. His coaching staff is the same. His quarterback is the same. Their schedule is much easier this year since they've got the fourth place schedule. So Amon Ra St. St. Brown to me is, is I think he is not given. I mean, obviously he's a first round pick. Everyone knows like James Cook where it's like, yeah, he's very similar. He should be thought of with the elites of the elite.

55:46Yes. And he's just, he's not, cause he's not that archetype of player. Another guy who will play through any injury imaginable. It's true. And you're right about the schedule and all the indoors games. Although, you know, Justin Jefferson gets, gets him to at home, at least. I'm with you like that. that is like the the less sexy pick if sam laporta is actually back you know maybe maybe that cuts into to him a little because you know they're both over the middle i think that helped amanra but you're right it's been in three you know a bunch of straight years so it's hard to argue there all right let's make this like a first round mock so this will be your last pick here mike and we'll end with my pick here at 12 so choose wisely all right so this is where uh this is where I throw the ADP out a little bit and I'm just going with my rankings.

56:35I will take Kenneth Walker of the Kansas City Chiefs, who he is just a man I love so much. He's loving. I've been a Kenneth Walker truther since the very beginning. And there's been some highs and there's been a lot of lows here. It's been mostly lows. And you're buying high. You're buying high right now. You're buying the peak. But I'm 100 % in of the Andy Reid's offense has been, for what we know of Andy Reid, has been broken, truly broken for a couple years now. And their decision this year to fix it was to throw a whole bunch of money at Kenneth Walker and immediately. Like I, when people are looking at free agency, who went where.

57:27I love the day one, you know, with whatever, the tampering, it's like the deal's not even done, but it's agreed upon and free agency isn't even open. They went and got Kenneth Walker and I'm sure Walker had tons and tons of suitors, but he gets to go play with Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, running backs, not in the last five years when they've just been bad. They've been bell cow players who are getting, you know, 25 plus opportunities a game. Andy Reid was our running back guru for a long time. He was a wizard. When Kareem Hunt went there and he's a third round pick, he went, don't care. Give me Kareem Hunt.

58:06And then up until he was a knucklehead, he was a fantasy superstar in Kansas City. And I think that's what's going to happen with Kenneth Walker, not just on the ground, but through the air. And I think that Walker really, really helps this offense in terms of the wide receivers aren't top-tier guys. But you didn't have to worry about the running back at all. You didn't have to worry about Pacheco or the husk of Kareem Hunt. But now you really, really have to worry about it, and I think they're going to feed him tons. This dude is going to be barfing on the sidelines. I like that you guys disagree so much on this because I don't think.

58:47I like Kenneth Walker a lot. this year. I don't disagree with the premise. I wouldn't take him here. I love where he's going in most drafts at the back of the second. I think that's I think that's thievery. And I want to personally keep him there so that I can draft him there in these drafts. But I know if I'm in a draft with Mike, he will never make it there. It's tricky because you guys are now have a big enough platform that you can impact the ADP. Like if you if you all agreed Kenneth Walker is like a first round pick that'll just move things a little bit yeah we had our my guys episode yesterday and i saw guess who was a my guy yeah kenneth walker and i saw a bunch of adp today of some of these guys that like they're around they're around up now and that's that's tough that's amazing the power that you have yeah kenneth walker is on my list of guys like i would accept it's it's a like as my second round running back and so i i don't disagree with the overall point chase brown's definitely on that list yeah love chase jonathan taylor is someone i'm considering here but he certainly would be on that list and that's that's about it for me i feel a little anxious about hn and then after that i think i would actually rather have the receivers and even the brock bowers is of the world and just play it safe and just hope for the best later at wide receiver which means i got the last pick and i'll go cd lamb here it yeah like who would have you guys been thinking heavily.

1:00:12CeeDee Lamb would have been my pick. Yeah, it would have been between CeeDee Lamb and Jonathan Taylor, and I would have gone CeeDee Lamb. Same. Just bankable. I think George Pickens is a little more bankable than I've seen in drafts. So if he's there on the 2-3 turn, I'm feeling good about that too. I think there's enough for them both to eat, and I do love all the reports of Pickens kind of coming in hungry and ready for this season. But he's still not CeeDee Lamb, just like as a consistent overall talent. So Lamb is my pick. That's our first round. We did it. I gave you the easy stuff, kind of like the low-hanging fruit.

1:00:48We hadn't hit that yet, but I wanted to hit the top of the draft. That's the most exciting part. I mean, the top of the draft is what people care about the most. They leave their draft and they go, who did I get in the first? That's what they care about. Appreciate you both. We'll have to give Andy some grief, but that's Jason Moore and Mike Wright, of course, of the Fantasy Footballers. Thanks, guys. Hey, thank you, man. Always a pleasure, man. Thanks again to the fantasy footballers. Thank you to Trevor Sykema. Man, I got a lot of fantasy takes out in the last couple of weeks. Just guys I don't want, like Ashton Gentry.

1:01:23I think we've gone over it at this point. Those receivers, and especially the tight ends, are going to be bankable. A couple items of news before we finish up for the week. Leonard Williams signed a big contract. Congratulations to him for the Seahawks. I noticed the Texans tackle Braden Smith got injured. That's not a good sign for their offensive line. Trent Brown probably at right tackle. But most importantly, so many people have reached out in the last 24 hours about the NFL canceling the Pro Bowl and the Pro Bowl games. And if you've been with me going back to around the NFL and especially JRVP, you know how much the Pro Bowl has meant to me and Anthony over the years.

1:02:04and I appreciate all the well wishes and just ask for a little bit of privacy at this time. It's tough. It's tough for everyone here at the NFL. Sorry to end the show on such a down note. Let's put the music on, Eric. But yeah, it's gonna take a little while to recover from this. We'll do it by Sunday. Sunday evening, big show, live on YouTube and in your ears a few hours later. Jordan Rodrigue and I will break down all the cuts, all the trades, all the teams getting ready for week one. It is happening on Sunday. We will see you then.

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