WEBVTT - Too-early Second Round 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.120 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.880 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.160 and speculation and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:22.520 into the show. Now, here's your host, Paul. Welcome to 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:27.280 Fantasy Football Weekly, a late February edition. I am Paul 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.080 Charchy and my co host is Brian Johnson's up. Charch. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.680 It's almost like late April in Minnesota here weatherwise. Wearing 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.720 a jacket. Well, that's just because we're used to being 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:43.000 around here now. Because our our January februite brutal forty 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:48.120 degrees is sweltering, ridiculous, downright, ball me, We're gonna We're 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.600 gonna go do some nude sunbathing after this. Um it's 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.000 It is an exciting time for both both Minnesotan's and 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:00.000 for those that love fantasy football. Last week we did 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.680 had a first round mock draft to see how that 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.360 was shaking out. This week decided there's still so many 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.440 good players to talk to, and actually the second round 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.680 far more interesting because the first rounds, I'll chalk the 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.720 second round is where you get so many such a 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:18.119 huge differential of players and guys that that have way 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.720 more upside downside. I'm gonna talk about some of my 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.520 picks in the second round that really, had things just 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.120 been a little bit different, could have been like top 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.200 three scoring guys this year. And so just I think 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.679 the second round has got way way more just real 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.360 interest in it than the chalk in the first round. Yeah, 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.000 these first two rounds seem way more loaded than past years. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.800 I know, it's really and even going into the third round. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.760 There are guys that you know, got dog in the 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.160 second round where you're like they could have been in 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.360 the second round, but there's just not enough draft picks 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.720 to go around. Too many good players. I'll just I'll 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.880 tip my hand on one of them right now. We 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:01.960 are not drafting in the first two rounds Zekiel Elliott now, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.600 right now it's in his very the very early s 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.360 are the middle of the first round. We talked about 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.600 it last week. You and I are off Zeke, and 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.680 I know we're not marching to the same tune as 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.040 most of the others. Most of the really like Zeke 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.520 and they're they're they're doubling down on him coming off 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.359 a bad year. We're not. But yeah, by the third round, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.840 you know, at that point that's I'm starting to be 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.480 more interested. But still we're not going to take him here. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.720 And it depends who you got on roster, of course, 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.560 because the third round I had contemplated if I didn't 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.200 have a running back. They never Yeah, I think that 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.560 would be the scenario for me as well. But at 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.440 that point I still feel now compelled to go get 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.399 Pollard as well, and that blows up my eighth round pick. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.080 So I hate I hate it when I spend an 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.880 early round pick that man dates a pick that's still 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.280 an important pick for me later. And he's a sexy 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.120 pick for the non zikener to. That's why I gotta 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:54.799 take him in the eighth round. You gotta reach for him. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.120 And because I'd much rather have Pollard in round eight 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.440 than Zeke and round two. So somebody like me is 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.920 gonna go take Pollard and eight create a problem for 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.880 that for that owner. So anyway, let's let's get back 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.880 to it. Now. You had the last pick of round one. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:11.959 You did? Oh? I did? Oh? So I can show 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.680 round Yeah, go ahead. Uh just went Derrick Henry first. Overall, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.519 I started the drafts uh. And then Christian McCaffrey to 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.520 Dalvin Cook three, Davante Adams went forth, Travis Kelsey fifth, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.720 Tyreek Kill, Sieguan Barkley at number seven, Alvin Kamar at eight, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.360 Jonathan Taylor, DK Metcalf at ten, and then Nick Chubb 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.640 at eleven, and Stefon Diggs rounded out round one. I 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.760 really I had really struggled on that Digs Diggs pick, Like, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.560 what the you know, there are so many good players 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.120 still on the board at that point, and I really struggled. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.280 But at the end of the day, I just wanted 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.520 to consistency that Stefon Diggs gives, so I went with 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.200 Stefon Diggs there, and then you know, in theory, I 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.400 have the rap round. I didn't try to potentially to 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.440 intentionally marry up any of my second round picks to 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.080 the first round pick. But I don't even think you 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.200 have to know. I mean, at this point, you've whole 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:01.840 draft left you can you know, if you go running back, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.240 running back, or wide receiver, wide receiver or tight end, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.240 quarterback or anything you can, you always have time to 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.480 make up for you. I don't think we I didn't 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.400 really do that either, so but I don't think we 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.160 ended up with running back running back with the first 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.200 two picks anyway, even though we weren't trying to do that, 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.240 and I think none of us would want to do 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.600 that going into this season, at least right now. Right 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.080 there's just so many good players in all the other positions. Okay, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.240 So first pick of the second round, I went with 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.240 Aaron Jones. He finished his running back five last year 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.000 despite a sizeable time share. And so get a little 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.640 of this. Derrick Henry four hundred touches last year, Dalvin 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.719 Cook three hundred sixty touches, and that was your highest 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.599 scoring and second highest scoring running backs. Can I check 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:45.679 a guess? Yeah? And catch catches and catches and rushes 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.800 to nice job to sixty to sixty for Jones, that 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.880 was it and he still finishes running back five. You know, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.920 wherever he goes, you know, he's a free agent. He 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.159 wants to get paid, and if money is going to talk, 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.480 he's only gonna go to a team that pays them well. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:02.719 And the only teams that are gonna pay them all 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.840 the teams are gonna make him a workhorse. Aaron Jones 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:09.520 gonna land in a workhorse spot. What is you're getting there? Pittsburgh. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.640 You know, Atlanta are two primo landing spots for him. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.720 I'll give you another one, San Francisco. How about Seattle? 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.240 If they Chris Carson's a UFA, they decide that they're 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.160 going to spend a running back and they like Aaron 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.279 Jones a lot more than Chris Carson, Seattle gets really interesting. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.640 Would Arizona be a possibility? Probably not, right, they guy, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:36.920 I don't think so. So I think I think they're 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.880 gonna just go with the cheap solution that's roster and 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.320 Chase Edmonds, who gets to be pretty interesting if they 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.160 don't resign Drake, by the way, and I'm sure we'll 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.720 talk about him as the unseasoned. As a free agency 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.760 season unfolds, other possible spots for Aaron Jones that aren't 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:55.719 is favorable the Jets Miami a lot of money, I see. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.400 I think Moss Gaskin is pretty good, but Aaron Jones 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.360 is better. So maybe in Miami as uh the defending 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.000 champion in our Empire League trying to take down the 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.960 whole pot, I'm pretty thin it running back and with 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.599 Miles Gaskin as my basically ry one Lord David Johnson, 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.160 I do not want anyone going to Miami, but I 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:15.800 feel like they're gonna get it back, either in free 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.200 agency or in the draft. So if Jones can be 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.200 the fifth highest scoring fantasy back on two hundred sixty touches, 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.360 what happens to me gets three twenty? You know, Now 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.560 he's a top three back and maybe the number one 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.040 back in Fantasy football, depending if he falls into the 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.719 right spot. So that's um, that's Aaron Jones my first 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.720 pick of the second round. Who's the second pick of 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.120 the second round? I went with Calvin Ridley, who will 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.400 be the third wide receiver. No, I'm sorry, the fourth 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.280 fifth wide receiver taken. I'm sorry Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill, 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.280 DK Met Cath Stefon digs have gone. But then I 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.800 take Calvin Ridley as the fifth wide receiver off the 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.320 board in the as a second pick in the second round. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.000 Finished fourth in total PPR points last year, third in 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.200 points per game and uh. When Julio went down, Lee 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.039 was a target hog. He could still he was still 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.280 able to produce without Julio on the field, but shockingly, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.200 he was more productive with Julio on the field on 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:12.600 a points regame basis. It doesn't. It doesn't matter. The 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.600 only thing that really matters might be Matt Ryan, who 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.800 were dogging on a couple of weeks ago, rightfully so. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.320 But Calvin Ridley an absolute stuff. He finished with the 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:25.840 most completed air yards in with one thousand. Stefan Diggs 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.320 was the only of the receiver with more completed air yards. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.440 So Calvin Ridley Atlanta is always thrown, always needing to 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.640 put up points. I love Calvin Ridley this year and beyond. Yeah, um, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.600 you know there's a scenario here where Matt Ryan gets moved, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.120 but they're gonna be at the top of the draft, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.600 they'll take a good quarterback and they don't. That might be, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.440 you know, that might not be the end of the world. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.880 It would be Rull Wilson or that Prescott or DeShawn 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.560 Watson who knows that the carousel is not even close 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.360 to being over recorded. No it's not. And you know 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.280 those Atlanta might be a reasonable destination for some of 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.560 those guys that have that can control their own destincy 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.160 with their no trade clauses, like DeShawn Watson and like 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.840 Russell Wilson who have no trade clauses, So maybe that 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.120 makes more sense then alright, the third pick of the 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.080 second round, I took cam Acres. I believe cam Akers 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.600 will be soundly in the first round in most drafts. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.600 As people start to realize what's coming here. On Thursday, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.720 Sean McVeigh called cam Acres quote and every down back 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.720 and quote, a very special player. You sure looked like one. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.840 We're talking about that in a second. What's more, Rams 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.440 beat writers do not expect Malcolm Brown back. They're already 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.000 projecting that he will not be on the team. Now 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.760 some people are gonna say, yeah, but Sean McVeigh, you know, 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:42.280 he uses a carousel backs running back by committee. Whoa, whoa, whoa. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:48.480 Let's remember Todd Gurley. Todd Gurley in t seventeen and 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:55.400 eighteen averaged eighteen carries per game. In seventeen, Gurley was 0:08:55.520 --> 0:09:00.400 Fantasy Football's top scoring running back. In eighteen, he was 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:05.719 Fantasy Football's top scoring running back. Todd Gurley was a 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.480 workhorse back for Sean McVeigh because he was good enough 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.679 to earn it. Cam Acres, who Sean McVeigh just called 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.520 a very special player, is good enough to earn it 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.360 as well. In the final six RAMS games, Acres averaged 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:24.319 twenty two rushes per game for ninety four yards. He 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.439 scored five times in those six games. Now, he didn't 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.199 catch much, but he can catch. He's not He's just 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.439 not brick handed. He's not Adrian Peterson. Now, if you 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.559 extrapolate his six final games of the year to a 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:43.680 full sixteen games, Brian Acres is looking at fifteen hundred 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.679 rushing yards another couple hundred receiving yards in thirteen touchdowns. 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:52.440 That would have made cam Acres RB three last year. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.240 And they have Matt Stafford now, a clear upgrade at 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.760 quarterback bodes well for everyone in that offense totally. He 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.839 could certainly he's worthy of a first round pick, and 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.480 let's probably see it move up and I think I 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.319 think he'll be a first round pick before everything is 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.559 said and done, Let's go to the fourth pick of 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.800 the second round. Receivers are gonna continue to fall off 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.280 the board in round two. Uh, but this might not 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.480 be the one you're expecting. I think A. J. Brown 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.600 deserves to go with the fourth pick second round. Uh 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.640 finished tenth among wide receivers in total PPR, points, fifth 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.800 and points per game because he only had a hundred 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.719 and six targets. Last year. That is not a lot 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.800 that is like thirty most or like he's tied with 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.040 people like top twenty, bottom twenty. I should say he 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.040 was fourth in yards per route run. Essentially, when given 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.960 the ball, he made things happen, especially in the red zone, 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.920 where with fewer targets in the red zone, he had 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.120 the same amount of red zone touchdowns seven as Calvin 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.959 Ridley and Keenan Allen and more red zone touchdowns and 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:53.040 Darren Waller, Tyree Hill, DK Metcalf, Stephen Diggs and Allen 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.760 Robinson who had significantly more targets in the red zone. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.320 So A J. Brown just the beast, he's he's going 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.240 into his third year leave and that he's so good 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.400 the magic year for wide receivers, and uh, Corey Davis 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.839 and John U. Smith, those twodents combined for twenty four 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.160 red zone targets and twelve red zone touchdowns. A new 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:17.160 offensive coordinator in Todd Downing, was a little more past friendly. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.839 And then uh, the previous o c A J. Brown. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.280 If he gets in that hundred and fifty target range 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.120 wide receiver one upside without a doubt, Yeah, there's uh. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.640 And I talked to Todd Downing today on the radio. Yes, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.000 I had as a coincidentally, and we talked about John U. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.560 Johnno as you can imagine, uh and Corey Davis, both 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.319 free agents. He um, he loves both guys. You know, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.960 they never coaches never say bad things about their players, 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:44.480 and I you know, I don't expect him to say 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.679 anything that was gonna get him in trouble, but um, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:48.800 I'm sure he'd love to have both guys back if 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.600 he could. I'm excited for John U John Wu because 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:56.280 as the as his former position coach now turned offensive coordinator, 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.839 Todd Downing could do a lot for John, so he 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.520 could stay John, and John you you could stay, hopefully, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.800 see I hope. So I'm so too. All right, let's 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:06.320 go to and buy the A. J. Brown is great, 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.079 and he's good. He's so physical he could easily be 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:15.880 a goal line receiving target instead. You know, of course, 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.920 Derrick Henry is always going to be your number one 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.439 goal line option in that offense, but I could I 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.320 could see him getting a ton of goal line looks 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.280 a J. Brown. A J. Brown might be my number 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.920 one wide receiver in dynasty. And if you're in a startup, startup, y, yeah, 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.440 I think I would still I'd still Tyreek Hill. Well, 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.000 he said wide receiver, right, h Metcalf. Sorry, I heard 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.960 I hired McCaffrey. Um, yeah, DK Metcalf as long as 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.240 Russell Wilson's their DK Metcalf might be next. But it's 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.480 it's right there, He's right in that conversation, all right. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.880 So the fifth pick of the second round, I took 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.160 Austin Ekeler. Now, this is about the same ADP that 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.800 he had last year and obviously lost his season to 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.959 a brutal hamstring injury that cost him half of the year. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.720 But remember he's one season moved from fourteen hundred yards, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.400 ninety two receptions and eleven touchdowns, and last year Austin 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.480 Ekeler actually improved his yards per carry by half a yard. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.000 The charges offense is gonna hit one in many ways 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.200 in stride because Justin Herbert will have been on the team. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.880 He'll come in as the as the lock starter. They'll 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.720 likely have an improved offensive line because it's been bad 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.920 for a decade and they gotta they gotta put more 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.400 effort into that offensive line. I think they will. Their 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.640 new offensive coordinator, though, is what I'm really excited about. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.960 Joe Lombardi. He spent four seasons in New Orleans, making 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.400 Alvin Camara a center piece of this offense. And who's 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:43.960 probably your closest comparable the NFL to Alvin Camara Austin. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.240 And he's built like a house too, right. I mean 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.120 it's physically shorter, but more physical. And you know that's 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.160 why I still remain very high in Ekeler. I think 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.200 you're gonna be You could probably get him lower than 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.880 the fifth pick of the second round, but I think 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.040 you'll be glad you took him. Here, let's go to 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.360 the sixth pick of the second round receiver again, and uh, 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.480 it's time for DeAndre Hopkins to get picked. Pretty much 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.199 a first round pick last year, kind of a down 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.240 year last year, was still a top ten wide receiver. 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.959 There were only ten wide receivers who post five or 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.720 more wide receiver one weeks. That's the top twelve receiver. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.400 And this doesn't include Week seventeen, which you shouldn't be 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.800 using if you're playing fantasy football, of course. And uh, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.400 those ten and wide receivers only, uh, Davante Adams had 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.080 more wide receiver one weeks than DeAndre Hopkins, who had 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.600 eight and Adams had nine, and I was kind of 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.480 surprised by that. I didn't think he was that consistent. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.560 So um, Christian Kirk likely gone, not like he was 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.200 much of a threat. I think he's a free agent 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.760 this year, but I don't really care. But I'm just 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.600 DeAndre Hopkins is pretty sound safe war with still a 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.480 ton of upside. How many people have ever regretted drafting 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.960 DeAndre Hopkins and not Manning? Like nobody ever? So middle 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.680 the second round makes a lot of sense, like see 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.960 Kyler Murray take another step in his progression as a 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.640 pro quarterback. So yeah, Hopkins uh probably be better off 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.680 than last year. What would hope? We're halfway through the 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.680 second round. Let's take a break. When we come back, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.400 let's go through picks seven through twelve. I know that 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:14.440 you're probably listening thinking where is this particular guy. Well, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.080 he could be coming up next, along with the first 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:21.960 appearance of some rookies coming up. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.280 Paul Charchie and Brian Johnson with you. We're working away 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.800 through the second round of our mock draft. If you 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.560 missed the first round that was last week, obviously you 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.800 can podcast that. Go get the first round. The players 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.960 we took in there in the first round way more chalk. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.760 You know, Derrick Henry When and Christian McCaffrey and Dalvin 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.520 Cook and you know all the you know, all the 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.720 usual names. Second round is just so much more intriguing, 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.720 so many more different ways to approach players. In the 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.240 second round. We gave you the first six picks in 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.480 the first segment. Let's talk about picks seven through twelve. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.880 I am going with Michael Thomas at pick seven. I 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.160 remember him, remember him right? This is last season's ADP. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.320 He was pick five of the first round, pick five overall. Obviously, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.360 everything pretty much went wrong for him, and from an 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.960 injury standpoint last season, um came back towards the end 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:14.240 of the year. And it goes without saying that Michael 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.240 Thomas is really, really good. He's one year removed from 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:22.160 being by far the highest scoring fantasy receiver in the league, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.000 just one year removed, like targets a game basically guarante 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:30.240 I think it was seventeen hundred receiving yards and yes, okay, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.400 so the quarterback though, is a lot of why he's 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.360 where he is right now. Although Drew Brees has not 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.640 filed his retirement papers, yet for whatever reason, he hasn't 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.240 done it yet. So, uh, let's say the worst case 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.120 scenario is Taysom Hill, that they just got to go Worth, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.240 go to Worth Taysom Hill. So let's look at the 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.160 four games Michael Thomas played with Taysom Hill. If that's 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.920 our worst case scenario and not either right, he was 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.440 dragging one leg along. His average game under Taysom Hill 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.879 was eight receptions eighties six yards. Now, he didn't score 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.879 because Taysom Hills just wasn't that politive a passer, but 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.200 still eight receptions for eighty six yards. Extrapolate that to 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.960 six team games and Michael Thomas's Taysom Hill games would 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.800 have stretched out into making him wide receiver two in 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.920 receptions and wide receiver five yards and the touchdowns would 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.800 come at least to some degree. So he would have 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.760 been sitting on last year and when everything went wrong 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.560 in Taysom Hills quarterback, he still would have been a 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:36.920 fantasy producer. The Saints are desirable landing spot for a 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.760 lot of elite quarterbacks like Russell Williams, Wilson and Deshaun Watson. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.320 These these are landing places they'll they will go because 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:49.120 this is a Super Bowl ready team. Shawn Watson goes. God, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.920 think of it that that's got a Bault Thomas into 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.920 the first round. Yeah, he's the third wide receiver after 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.560 Adams and Hill. At that point, you could you could 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.800 definitely get there. I'm tall king Thomas at pick seven 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.240 of the second round. All right, it's pick eight of 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:05.959 the second round. Who are you taking? All right, it's 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.680 a rookie. Time a signed for the first rookie to 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.600 get drafted. And uh, this isn't a This isn't a 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:13.399 clear cut decision. If I thought it would be a 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.480 couple of weeks ago. And that's Naji Harris. Are a 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.199 couple of the running backs. Will probably talk about at 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.199 least one of them and the remainder of this podcast. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.600 But I'm still gonna go with Naji Harris. Uh, six 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.560 to two thirty. Just an absolute monster. But he is. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.320 But he's not just a North South bruiser. But he 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.720 can juke, he can hurdle, he can do it all 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.119 like like a Marshall falk Ladanian Thomason's skill set in 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.000 that regard, I think the better comparable Sae Kwon Barkley, 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:42.199 who's like bigger back with unbelievable flexibility and balance. One 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.399 Compy light two. Is Matt Forte a bigger Matt Forte 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.640 in his prime. Because Naji Harris is a very good 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.840 pass catcher, he is a very good past so he's 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.920 got bell cow potential written all all over him. Of course, 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.720 landing spot matters. We don't know where that is until 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.320 the draft occurs in a couple of months. But Pittsburgh 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.520 is also in listed in him. They've visited with him, 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.600 and uh, it makes sense that they're like in the 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.960 mid twenties. That would be a good time to take Nagy. 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.400 But uh, the most rushing touchdowns in college football as 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.879 you're just rushing twenty six and thirteen games. If he 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:17.920 gets touches a game, he'll live up to this a 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.720 DP and maybe even around one a DP. You cracked 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.320 the seal at rookie running backs, and pick eight of 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.000 the second round, I went with the other the you 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.159 know it's there's a one A and one B in 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.440 college running backs, rocky running backs. Pick nine, I took 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:37.199 Travis E. T N from Clemson. He's the leading rusher 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:42.240 at a CC history five thousand rushing yards. Uh, he 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.080 is I think Harris. I think you took the right guy. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.879 From a fantasy football standpoint, I think Harris is a 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.879 better prospect than E. T N. But year one in 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.080 year one and not knowing where they're gonna land. Um, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.320 but I love Harris is a goal line back. I 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.400 think E. T N can be a goal line back, 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.280 but I don't know for sure because he's got that 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.359 leaner build. He's very muscular on that build, but it 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.560 is a leaner build. He's so fast, he is your 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.080 he is a he's in North South especially. E t 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.800 N is a freaking track star. The amazing acceleration. He's 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.800 got good balance, so you know, a lot of times 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:20.919 to find track stars that just they can't take a hit, 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.080 they can't bounce off anybody, they can't navigate traffic. He 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:28.399 can do all of that stuff. Surprising strength despite the 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:30.720 lean build that I mentioned before. He can break some 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.600 tackles and he has good hands, not great hands, good hands. 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.800 I think Harris has better hands too. So I've got 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.080 him next at as the ninth pick. We'll find out 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.560 where he goes and if that gets validated. I think 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.440 Harris is a better chance of going in the first 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:46.960 round than E. T N does, but E t N 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:52.639 should go early to mid second round. I believe. Now 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.119 I'm not there yet. We're not gonna He's gonna get 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.680 mentioned in our round to mock here. But Javonte Williams 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.440 at A North Carolina is getting some steam as the 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.760 should be the RB one among rookies. But we'll see 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.960