Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio,
Speaker 1: your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice
Speaker 1: and speculation and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop
Speaker 1: into the show. Now, here's your host, Paul. Welcome to
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, a late February edition. I am Paul
Speaker 1: Charchy and my co host is Brian Johnson's up. Charch.
Speaker 1: It's almost like late April in Minnesota here weatherwise. Wearing
Speaker 1: a jacket. Well, that's just because we're used to being
Speaker 1: around here now. Because our our January februite brutal forty
Speaker 1: degrees is sweltering, ridiculous, downright, ball me, We're gonna We're
Speaker 1: gonna go do some nude sunbathing after this. Um it's
Speaker 1: It is an exciting time for both both Minnesotan's and
Speaker 1: for those that love fantasy football. Last week we did
Speaker 1: had a first round mock draft to see how that
Speaker 1: was shaking out. This week decided there's still so many
Speaker 1: good players to talk to, and actually the second round
Speaker 1: far more interesting because the first rounds, I'll chalk the
Speaker 1: second round is where you get so many such a
Speaker 1: huge differential of players and guys that that have way
Speaker 1: more upside downside. I'm gonna talk about some of my
Speaker 1: picks in the second round that really, had things just
Speaker 1: been a little bit different, could have been like top
Speaker 1: three scoring guys this year. And so just I think
Speaker 1: the second round has got way way more just real
Speaker 1: interest in it than the chalk in the first round. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these first two rounds seem way more loaded than past years.
Speaker 1: I know, it's really and even going into the third round.
Speaker 1: There are guys that you know, got dog in the
Speaker 1: second round where you're like they could have been in
Speaker 1: the second round, but there's just not enough draft picks
Speaker 1: to go around. Too many good players. I'll just I'll
Speaker 1: tip my hand on one of them right now. We
Speaker 1: are not drafting in the first two rounds Zekiel Elliott now,
Speaker 1: right now it's in his very the very early s
Speaker 1: are the middle of the first round. We talked about
Speaker 1: it last week. You and I are off Zeke, and
Speaker 1: I know we're not marching to the same tune as
Speaker 1: most of the others. Most of the really like Zeke
Speaker 1: and they're they're they're doubling down on him coming off
Speaker 1: a bad year. We're not. But yeah, by the third round,
Speaker 1: you know, at that point that's I'm starting to be
Speaker 1: more interested. But still we're not going to take him here.
Speaker 1: And it depends who you got on roster, of course,
Speaker 1: because the third round I had contemplated if I didn't
Speaker 1: have a running back. They never Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: would be the scenario for me as well. But at
Speaker 1: that point I still feel now compelled to go get
Speaker 1: Pollard as well, and that blows up my eighth round pick.
Speaker 1: So I hate I hate it when I spend an
Speaker 1: early round pick that man dates a pick that's still
Speaker 1: an important pick for me later. And he's a sexy
Speaker 1: pick for the non zikener to. That's why I gotta
Speaker 1: take him in the eighth round. You gotta reach for him.
Speaker 1: And because I'd much rather have Pollard in round eight
Speaker 1: than Zeke and round two. So somebody like me is
Speaker 1: gonna go take Pollard and eight create a problem for
Speaker 1: that for that owner. So anyway, let's let's get back
Speaker 1: to it. Now. You had the last pick of round one.
Speaker 1: You did? Oh? I did? Oh? So I can show
Speaker 1: round Yeah, go ahead. Uh just went Derrick Henry first. Overall,
Speaker 1: I started the drafts uh. And then Christian McCaffrey to
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook three, Davante Adams went forth, Travis Kelsey fifth,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Kill, Sieguan Barkley at number seven, Alvin Kamar at eight,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, DK Metcalf at ten, and then Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: at eleven, and Stefon Diggs rounded out round one. I
Speaker 1: really I had really struggled on that Digs Diggs pick, Like,
Speaker 1: what the you know, there are so many good players
Speaker 1: still on the board at that point, and I really struggled.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to consistency that Stefon Diggs gives, so I went with
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs there, and then you know, in theory, I
Speaker 1: have the rap round. I didn't try to potentially to
Speaker 1: intentionally marry up any of my second round picks to
Speaker 1: the first round pick. But I don't even think you
Speaker 1: have to know. I mean, at this point, you've whole
Speaker 1: draft left you can you know, if you go running back,
Speaker 1: running back, or wide receiver, wide receiver or tight end,
Speaker 1: quarterback or anything you can, you always have time to
Speaker 1: make up for you. I don't think we I didn't
Speaker 1: really do that either, so but I don't think we
Speaker 1: ended up with running back running back with the first
Speaker 1: two picks anyway, even though we weren't trying to do that,
Speaker 1: and I think none of us would want to do
Speaker 1: that going into this season, at least right now. Right
Speaker 1: there's just so many good players in all the other positions. Okay,
Speaker 1: So first pick of the second round, I went with
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. He finished his running back five last year
Speaker 1: despite a sizeable time share. And so get a little
Speaker 1: of this. Derrick Henry four hundred touches last year, Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook three hundred sixty touches, and that was your highest
Speaker 1: scoring and second highest scoring running backs. Can I check
Speaker 1: a guess? Yeah? And catch catches and catches and rushes
Speaker 1: to nice job to sixty to sixty for Jones, that
Speaker 1: was it and he still finishes running back five. You know,
Speaker 1: wherever he goes, you know, he's a free agent. He
Speaker 1: wants to get paid, and if money is going to talk,
Speaker 1: he's only gonna go to a team that pays them well.
Speaker 1: And the only teams that are gonna pay them all
Speaker 1: the teams are gonna make him a workhorse. Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: gonna land in a workhorse spot. What is you're getting there? Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: You know, Atlanta are two primo landing spots for him.
Speaker 1: I'll give you another one, San Francisco. How about Seattle?
Speaker 1: If they Chris Carson's a UFA, they decide that they're
Speaker 1: going to spend a running back and they like Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones a lot more than Chris Carson, Seattle gets really interesting.
Speaker 1: Would Arizona be a possibility? Probably not, right, they guy,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. So I think I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna just go with the cheap solution that's roster and
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds, who gets to be pretty interesting if they
Speaker 1: don't resign Drake, by the way, and I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: talk about him as the unseasoned. As a free agency
Speaker 1: season unfolds, other possible spots for Aaron Jones that aren't
Speaker 1: is favorable the Jets Miami a lot of money, I see.
Speaker 1: I think Moss Gaskin is pretty good, but Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: is better. So maybe in Miami as uh the defending
Speaker 1: champion in our Empire League trying to take down the
Speaker 1: whole pot, I'm pretty thin it running back and with
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin as my basically ry one Lord David Johnson,
Speaker 1: I do not want anyone going to Miami, but I
Speaker 1: feel like they're gonna get it back, either in free
Speaker 1: agency or in the draft. So if Jones can be
Speaker 1: the fifth highest scoring fantasy back on two hundred sixty touches,
Speaker 1: what happens to me gets three twenty? You know, Now
Speaker 1: he's a top three back and maybe the number one
Speaker 1: back in Fantasy football, depending if he falls into the
Speaker 1: right spot. So that's um, that's Aaron Jones my first
Speaker 1: pick of the second round. Who's the second pick of
Speaker 1: the second round? I went with Calvin Ridley, who will
Speaker 1: be the third wide receiver. No, I'm sorry, the fourth
Speaker 1: fifth wide receiver taken. I'm sorry Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: DK Met Cath Stefon digs have gone. But then I
Speaker 1: take Calvin Ridley as the fifth wide receiver off the
Speaker 1: board in the as a second pick in the second round.
Speaker 1: Finished fourth in total PPR points last year, third in
Speaker 1: points per game and uh. When Julio went down, Lee
Speaker 1: was a target hog. He could still he was still
Speaker 1: able to produce without Julio on the field, but shockingly,
Speaker 1: he was more productive with Julio on the field on
Speaker 1: a points regame basis. It doesn't. It doesn't matter. The
Speaker 1: only thing that really matters might be Matt Ryan, who
Speaker 1: were dogging on a couple of weeks ago, rightfully so.
Speaker 1: But Calvin Ridley an absolute stuff. He finished with the
Speaker 1: most completed air yards in with one thousand. Stefan Diggs
Speaker 1: was the only of the receiver with more completed air yards.
Speaker 1: So Calvin Ridley Atlanta is always thrown, always needing to
Speaker 1: put up points. I love Calvin Ridley this year and beyond. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: you know there's a scenario here where Matt Ryan gets moved,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be at the top of the draft,
Speaker 1: they'll take a good quarterback and they don't. That might be,
Speaker 1: you know, that might not be the end of the world.
Speaker 1: It would be Rull Wilson or that Prescott or DeShawn
Speaker 1: Watson who knows that the carousel is not even close
Speaker 1: to being over recorded. No it's not. And you know
Speaker 1: those Atlanta might be a reasonable destination for some of
Speaker 1: those guys that have that can control their own destincy
Speaker 1: with their no trade clauses, like DeShawn Watson and like
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson who have no trade clauses, So maybe that
Speaker 1: makes more sense then alright, the third pick of the
Speaker 1: second round, I took cam Acres. I believe cam Akers
Speaker 1: will be soundly in the first round in most drafts.
Speaker 1: As people start to realize what's coming here. On Thursday,
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh called cam Acres quote and every down back
Speaker 1: and quote, a very special player. You sure looked like one.
Speaker 1: We're talking about that in a second. What's more, Rams
Speaker 1: beat writers do not expect Malcolm Brown back. They're already
Speaker 1: projecting that he will not be on the team. Now
Speaker 1: some people are gonna say, yeah, but Sean McVeigh, you know,
Speaker 1: he uses a carousel backs running back by committee. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: Let's remember Todd Gurley. Todd Gurley in t seventeen and
Speaker 1: eighteen averaged eighteen carries per game. In seventeen, Gurley was
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football's top scoring running back. In eighteen, he was
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football's top scoring running back. Todd Gurley was a
Speaker 1: workhorse back for Sean McVeigh because he was good enough
Speaker 1: to earn it. Cam Acres, who Sean McVeigh just called
Speaker 1: a very special player, is good enough to earn it
Speaker 1: as well. In the final six RAMS games, Acres averaged
Speaker 1: twenty two rushes per game for ninety four yards. He
Speaker 1: scored five times in those six games. Now, he didn't
Speaker 1: catch much, but he can catch. He's not He's just
Speaker 1: not brick handed. He's not Adrian Peterson. Now, if you
Speaker 1: extrapolate his six final games of the year to a
Speaker 1: full sixteen games, Brian Acres is looking at fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: rushing yards another couple hundred receiving yards in thirteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That would have made cam Acres RB three last year.
Speaker 1: And they have Matt Stafford now, a clear upgrade at
Speaker 1: quarterback bodes well for everyone in that offense totally. He
Speaker 1: could certainly he's worthy of a first round pick, and
Speaker 1: let's probably see it move up and I think I
Speaker 1: think he'll be a first round pick before everything is
Speaker 1: said and done, Let's go to the fourth pick of
Speaker 1: the second round. Receivers are gonna continue to fall off
Speaker 1: the board in round two. Uh, but this might not
Speaker 1: be the one you're expecting. I think A. J. Brown
Speaker 1: deserves to go with the fourth pick second round. Uh
Speaker 1: finished tenth among wide receivers in total PPR, points, fifth
Speaker 1: and points per game because he only had a hundred
Speaker 1: and six targets. Last year. That is not a lot
Speaker 1: that is like thirty most or like he's tied with
Speaker 1: people like top twenty, bottom twenty. I should say he
Speaker 1: was fourth in yards per route run. Essentially, when given
Speaker 1: the ball, he made things happen, especially in the red zone,
Speaker 1: where with fewer targets in the red zone, he had
Speaker 1: the same amount of red zone touchdowns seven as Calvin
Speaker 1: Ridley and Keenan Allen and more red zone touchdowns and
Speaker 1: Darren Waller, Tyree Hill, DK Metcalf, Stephen Diggs and Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson who had significantly more targets in the red zone.
Speaker 1: So A J. Brown just the beast, he's he's going
Speaker 1: into his third year leave and that he's so good
Speaker 1: the magic year for wide receivers, and uh, Corey Davis
Speaker 1: and John U. Smith, those twodents combined for twenty four
Speaker 1: red zone targets and twelve red zone touchdowns. A new
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator in Todd Downing, was a little more past friendly.
Speaker 1: And then uh, the previous o c A J. Brown.
Speaker 1: If he gets in that hundred and fifty target range
Speaker 1: wide receiver one upside without a doubt, Yeah, there's uh.
Speaker 1: And I talked to Todd Downing today on the radio. Yes,
Speaker 1: I had as a coincidentally, and we talked about John U.
Speaker 1: Johnno as you can imagine, uh and Corey Davis, both
Speaker 1: free agents. He um, he loves both guys. You know,
Speaker 1: they never coaches never say bad things about their players,
Speaker 1: and I you know, I don't expect him to say
Speaker 1: anything that was gonna get him in trouble, but um,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'd love to have both guys back if
Speaker 1: he could. I'm excited for John U John Wu because
Speaker 1: as the as his former position coach now turned offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: Todd Downing could do a lot for John, so he
Speaker 1: could stay John, and John you you could stay, hopefully,
Speaker 1: see I hope. So I'm so too. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to and buy the A. J. Brown is great,
Speaker 1: and he's good. He's so physical he could easily be
Speaker 1: a goal line receiving target instead. You know, of course,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is always going to be your number one
Speaker 1: goal line option in that offense, but I could I
Speaker 1: could see him getting a ton of goal line looks
Speaker 1: a J. Brown. A J. Brown might be my number
Speaker 1: one wide receiver in dynasty. And if you're in a startup, startup, y, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I would still I'd still Tyreek Hill. Well,
Speaker 1: he said wide receiver, right, h Metcalf. Sorry, I heard
Speaker 1: I hired McCaffrey. Um, yeah, DK Metcalf as long as
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's their DK Metcalf might be next. But it's
Speaker 1: it's right there, He's right in that conversation, all right.
Speaker 1: So the fifth pick of the second round, I took
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler. Now, this is about the same ADP that
Speaker 1: he had last year and obviously lost his season to
Speaker 1: a brutal hamstring injury that cost him half of the year.
Speaker 1: But remember he's one season moved from fourteen hundred yards,
Speaker 1: ninety two receptions and eleven touchdowns, and last year Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler actually improved his yards per carry by half a yard.
Speaker 1: The charges offense is gonna hit one in many ways
Speaker 1: in stride because Justin Herbert will have been on the team.
Speaker 1: He'll come in as the as the lock starter. They'll
Speaker 1: likely have an improved offensive line because it's been bad
Speaker 1: for a decade and they gotta they gotta put more
Speaker 1: effort into that offensive line. I think they will. Their
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator, though, is what I'm really excited about.
Speaker 1: Joe Lombardi. He spent four seasons in New Orleans, making
Speaker 1: Alvin Camara a center piece of this offense. And who's
Speaker 1: probably your closest comparable the NFL to Alvin Camara Austin.
Speaker 1: And he's built like a house too, right. I mean
Speaker 1: it's physically shorter, but more physical. And you know that's
Speaker 1: why I still remain very high in Ekeler. I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna be You could probably get him lower than
Speaker 1: the fifth pick of the second round, but I think
Speaker 1: you'll be glad you took him. Here, let's go to
Speaker 1: the sixth pick of the second round receiver again, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's time for DeAndre Hopkins to get picked. Pretty much
Speaker 1: a first round pick last year, kind of a down
Speaker 1: year last year, was still a top ten wide receiver.
Speaker 1: There were only ten wide receivers who post five or
Speaker 1: more wide receiver one weeks. That's the top twelve receiver.
Speaker 1: And this doesn't include Week seventeen, which you shouldn't be
Speaker 1: using if you're playing fantasy football, of course. And uh,
Speaker 1: those ten and wide receivers only, uh, Davante Adams had
Speaker 1: more wide receiver one weeks than DeAndre Hopkins, who had
Speaker 1: eight and Adams had nine, and I was kind of
Speaker 1: surprised by that. I didn't think he was that consistent.
Speaker 1: So um, Christian Kirk likely gone, not like he was
Speaker 1: much of a threat. I think he's a free agent
Speaker 1: this year, but I don't really care. But I'm just
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is pretty sound safe war with still a
Speaker 1: ton of upside. How many people have ever regretted drafting
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins and not Manning? Like nobody ever? So middle
Speaker 1: the second round makes a lot of sense, like see
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray take another step in his progression as a
Speaker 1: pro quarterback. So yeah, Hopkins uh probably be better off
Speaker 1: than last year. What would hope? We're halfway through the
Speaker 1: second round. Let's take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: let's go through picks seven through twelve. I know that
Speaker 1: you're probably listening thinking where is this particular guy. Well,
Speaker 1: he could be coming up next, along with the first
Speaker 1: appearance of some rookies coming up. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul Charchie and Brian Johnson with you. We're working away
Speaker 1: through the second round of our mock draft. If you
Speaker 1: missed the first round that was last week, obviously you
Speaker 1: can podcast that. Go get the first round. The players
Speaker 1: we took in there in the first round way more chalk.
Speaker 1: You know, Derrick Henry When and Christian McCaffrey and Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook and you know all the you know, all the
Speaker 1: usual names. Second round is just so much more intriguing,
Speaker 1: so many more different ways to approach players. In the
Speaker 1: second round. We gave you the first six picks in
Speaker 1: the first segment. Let's talk about picks seven through twelve.
Speaker 1: I am going with Michael Thomas at pick seven. I
Speaker 1: remember him, remember him right? This is last season's ADP.
Speaker 1: He was pick five of the first round, pick five overall. Obviously,
Speaker 1: everything pretty much went wrong for him, and from an
Speaker 1: injury standpoint last season, um came back towards the end
Speaker 1: of the year. And it goes without saying that Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas is really, really good. He's one year removed from
Speaker 1: being by far the highest scoring fantasy receiver in the league,
Speaker 1: just one year removed, like targets a game basically guarante
Speaker 1: I think it was seventeen hundred receiving yards and yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so the quarterback though, is a lot of why he's
Speaker 1: where he is right now. Although Drew Brees has not
Speaker 1: filed his retirement papers, yet for whatever reason, he hasn't
Speaker 1: done it yet. So, uh, let's say the worst case
Speaker 1: scenario is Taysom Hill, that they just got to go Worth,
Speaker 1: go to Worth Taysom Hill. So let's look at the
Speaker 1: four games Michael Thomas played with Taysom Hill. If that's
Speaker 1: our worst case scenario and not either right, he was
Speaker 1: dragging one leg along. His average game under Taysom Hill
Speaker 1: was eight receptions eighties six yards. Now, he didn't score
Speaker 1: because Taysom Hills just wasn't that politive a passer, but
Speaker 1: still eight receptions for eighty six yards. Extrapolate that to
Speaker 1: six team games and Michael Thomas's Taysom Hill games would
Speaker 1: have stretched out into making him wide receiver two in
Speaker 1: receptions and wide receiver five yards and the touchdowns would
Speaker 1: come at least to some degree. So he would have
Speaker 1: been sitting on last year and when everything went wrong
Speaker 1: in Taysom Hills quarterback, he still would have been a
Speaker 1: fantasy producer. The Saints are desirable landing spot for a
Speaker 1: lot of elite quarterbacks like Russell Williams, Wilson and Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: These these are landing places they'll they will go because
Speaker 1: this is a Super Bowl ready team. Shawn Watson goes. God,
Speaker 1: think of it that that's got a Bault Thomas into
Speaker 1: the first round. Yeah, he's the third wide receiver after
Speaker 1: Adams and Hill. At that point, you could you could
Speaker 1: definitely get there. I'm tall king Thomas at pick seven
Speaker 1: of the second round. All right, it's pick eight of
Speaker 1: the second round. Who are you taking? All right, it's
Speaker 1: a rookie. Time a signed for the first rookie to
Speaker 1: get drafted. And uh, this isn't a This isn't a
Speaker 1: clear cut decision. If I thought it would be a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. And that's Naji Harris. Are a
Speaker 1: couple of the running backs. Will probably talk about at
Speaker 1: least one of them and the remainder of this podcast.
Speaker 1: But I'm still gonna go with Naji Harris. Uh, six
Speaker 1: to two thirty. Just an absolute monster. But he is.
Speaker 1: But he's not just a North South bruiser. But he
Speaker 1: can juke, he can hurdle, he can do it all
Speaker 1: like like a Marshall falk Ladanian Thomason's skill set in
Speaker 1: that regard, I think the better comparable Sae Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 1: who's like bigger back with unbelievable flexibility and balance. One
Speaker 1: Compy light two. Is Matt Forte a bigger Matt Forte
Speaker 1: in his prime. Because Naji Harris is a very good
Speaker 1: pass catcher, he is a very good past so he's
Speaker 1: got bell cow potential written all all over him. Of course,
Speaker 1: landing spot matters. We don't know where that is until
Speaker 1: the draft occurs in a couple of months. But Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: is also in listed in him. They've visited with him,
Speaker 1: and uh, it makes sense that they're like in the
Speaker 1: mid twenties. That would be a good time to take Nagy.
Speaker 1: But uh, the most rushing touchdowns in college football as
Speaker 1: you're just rushing twenty six and thirteen games. If he
Speaker 1: gets touches a game, he'll live up to this a
Speaker 1: DP and maybe even around one a DP. You cracked
Speaker 1: the seal at rookie running backs, and pick eight of
Speaker 1: the second round, I went with the other the you
Speaker 1: know it's there's a one A and one B in
Speaker 1: college running backs, rocky running backs. Pick nine, I took
Speaker 1: Travis E. T N from Clemson. He's the leading rusher
Speaker 1: at a CC history five thousand rushing yards. Uh, he
Speaker 1: is I think Harris. I think you took the right guy.
Speaker 1: From a fantasy football standpoint, I think Harris is a
Speaker 1: better prospect than E. T N. But year one in
Speaker 1: year one and not knowing where they're gonna land. Um,
Speaker 1: but I love Harris is a goal line back. I
Speaker 1: think E. T N can be a goal line back,
Speaker 1: but I don't know for sure because he's got that
Speaker 1: leaner build. He's very muscular on that build, but it
Speaker 1: is a leaner build. He's so fast, he is your
Speaker 1: he is a he's in North South especially. E t
Speaker 1: N is a freaking track star. The amazing acceleration. He's
Speaker 1: got good balance, so you know, a lot of times
Speaker 1: to find track stars that just they can't take a hit,
Speaker 1: they can't bounce off anybody, they can't navigate traffic. He
Speaker 1: can do all of that stuff. Surprising strength despite the
Speaker 1: lean build that I mentioned before. He can break some
Speaker 1: tackles and he has good hands, not great hands, good hands.
Speaker 1: I think Harris has better hands too. So I've got
Speaker 1: him next at as the ninth pick. We'll find out
Speaker 1: where he goes and if that gets validated. I think
Speaker 1: Harris is a better chance of going in the first
Speaker 1: round than E. T N does, but E t N
Speaker 1: should go early to mid second round. I believe. Now
Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. We're not gonna He's gonna get
Speaker 1: mentioned in our round to mock here. But Javonte Williams
Speaker 1: at A North Carolina is getting some steam as the
Speaker 1: should be the RB one among rookies. But we'll see
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, I like, I like the Harris et
Speaker 1: N one A one B. Like you said, alright, no
Speaker 1: more rookies for me. We were at the tenth pick.
Speaker 1: I believe right for second pick and uh more, wide
Speaker 1: receiver is gonna fall off. There's about only a couple
Speaker 1: very elite ones left, and in his second year, Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson is one of those wide receivers. I mentioned the
Speaker 1: completed air yards earlier when talking about Calvin Ridley. Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson as a rookie was fourth in that regard, only
Speaker 1: behind Ridley, Digs and Allen Robinson. Just the absolute home
Speaker 1: run pick by the Vikings. Probably one of my favorite
Speaker 1: clips of twenty two is Draft night. They weren't in
Speaker 1: the war room together because that was peak quarantine, of course,
Speaker 1: but when you had Zimmer and Spielman and whatever else
Speaker 1: you know, in the zoom call and when the Eagles
Speaker 1: took Jalen Reagor and their eyes and the Vikings started cheering.
Speaker 1: That was just like total fantasy football, the anti snife.
Speaker 1: I think gonna get sniped and you don't, and you're
Speaker 1: just so excited and uh, man did the Vikings have
Speaker 1: that one figured out? Holy cow? Uh? Jeff com historic
Speaker 1: season for rookie receivers, breaking uh breaking the modern day
Speaker 1: yardage record for rookie receivers in a season, just the
Speaker 1: complete package. I don't really think I need to justify
Speaker 1: the pick anymore than that Justin Jefferson should be a
Speaker 1: luck you took him before Adam Feeling, and Feeling was
Speaker 1: more of the touchdown guy this year. But I think
Speaker 1: you're making the assumption that jeff Justin Jefferson's on a
Speaker 1: early trajectory that makes him better than Feeling. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: feeling is really good. Yeah, alright. My final pick of
Speaker 1: the second round was Miles Sanders, and I had George
Speaker 1: Kettle here, and I had planned on taking Kittle, and
Speaker 1: then in the back of my mind and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me just dig a little more
Speaker 1: into Sanders season and refresh my memory on Sanders season,
Speaker 1: and I ended up I ended up changing it back
Speaker 1: to Sanders. Um, here's why he finished. He's finished so
Speaker 1: far as running back twenty and running twenty two the
Speaker 1: last two years. That puts him right about where I'm
Speaker 1: picking him here anyway. Um, but he's so many things
Speaker 1: have gone wrong for him and he's still finished his
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty two. He is at injuries, running back
Speaker 1: by committee issues, offensive line injuries and injuries to himself,
Speaker 1: and met early inconsistent quarterbacking. Many of those things should
Speaker 1: get solved this offseason for Miles Sanders. He averaged five
Speaker 1: point three yards per carry last year running behind a
Speaker 1: battered backup late in offensive line. Now, how did he
Speaker 1: fair in Jalen Hurts games? And this was where I
Speaker 1: really got myself on board with Miles Sanders in this spot.
Speaker 1: His average game in Jalen Hurts starts was eighty rushing yards,
Speaker 1: five yards per carry, one touchdown per game, three catches,
Speaker 1: twenty five receiving yards. Those are good numbers. If I
Speaker 1: extrapolate Sanders Jalen Hurts games to a full season, he
Speaker 1: comes out to seventeen hundred total yards in six team touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That would have put him behind only Derrick Henry and
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. That's just I'm like, oh man, all I
Speaker 1: gotta do is get him to be healthy. So now,
Speaker 1: if you look forward to they have a new head coach,
Speaker 1: Nick Serrani, who came from Indianapolis where he was the
Speaker 1: offensive for Ordinary Sirani helped unlock the big season from
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, and you know, downside, Saronni used a running
Speaker 1: back by committee approach and Andy that will probably be
Speaker 1: the case here. I don't think Sanders is gonna turn
Speaker 1: to a three sixty carry guy, but I could see
Speaker 1: an uptick happening here. Jonathan Taylor did get workhorse style
Speaker 1: numbers at the end of the year, and maybe we're
Speaker 1: going to see more of that from Isles Sanders. And
Speaker 1: I was rebably nobody else on on that roster that
Speaker 1: deserves more than like three to five touches a game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with you and they had. The hate for Sanders has
Speaker 1: gone on too long. He's a way better player than
Speaker 1: his numbers showed. You know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I might regret not going Kittle here, but I think
Speaker 1: you're the there's You're in the second to last pick
Speaker 1: in the second round. You still could get Kittles later
Speaker 1: if you don't take Darren Waller, and that that was
Speaker 1: the other thing that in my mind is I can
Speaker 1: I'm just as happy with Darren Waller Zama George Kettle.
Speaker 1: So I'm not taking Kettle here, and I'm not so
Speaker 1: convinced I would take Kiddle over Waller right now, because
Speaker 1: when parks in with the San Francisco quarterback is gonna
Speaker 1: be if there's if there's a team that's gonna make
Speaker 1: a big move at quarterback. Still, it feels like that's
Speaker 1: the one, alright, last pick of the second round, last
Speaker 1: wee pick of the second round. I went DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 1: Of course there he could have been the first pick
Speaker 1: of the third round. But I would still take Swift
Speaker 1: just if I wanted to rank the ADPs of these guys.
Speaker 1: Ten total touchdowns in his rookie year, despite only playing
Speaker 1: thirteen games, only touched the ball a hundred and sixty times.
Speaker 1: That's rushes end receptions. Again, Uh, you'd like he's gonna
Speaker 1: see at least a hundred more touches, one would think,
Speaker 1: you would hope. So, Uh, he's a great receiving back.
Speaker 1: He was top ten in receptions among running acts. UH.
Speaker 1: New head coach Dan Campbell looks to be a very
Speaker 1: run friendly type of guy, who knows. I know Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson wants to play forever, but I'm not too concerned
Speaker 1: about him. I don't like to change a quarterback for Detroit,
Speaker 1: but when DeAndre Swift average over four and a half
Speaker 1: yards per carry when he was getting the ball, he
Speaker 1: was making things happen. And I hope to god he
Speaker 1: gets two fifty touches in his second year because he
Speaker 1: will he will live up to this a DP. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: The Lions defense has been so bad for so long.
Speaker 1: I worried that much of their offseason priority is going
Speaker 1: to be on the defensive side of the ball because
Speaker 1: they need help everywhere. All the playmakers too, not like
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay was playing. But I think they well, but
Speaker 1: will they We'll find out. Franchise tag for Golliday is
Speaker 1: in play. They can afford it, so I know there
Speaker 1: is a scenario here where I where you know they
Speaker 1: keep Golliday and you know they need to get I
Speaker 1: want the off have as many good playmakers they can.
Speaker 1: Losing Golladay would not help losing losing Barbon Jones would
Speaker 1: not help. What's the Marvin Jones stat I heard? I
Speaker 1: think it was this the only player in the NFL.
Speaker 1: This is a bar bet right here. The only player
Speaker 1: in the NFL with nine receiving touchdowns in four straight
Speaker 1: years the last four years. I believe it. I remember
Speaker 1: I pulled a somewhat obscure stat where he was on
Speaker 1: the list of just then other elite guys, like guys
Speaker 1: we've talked about in the first two rounds and this
Speaker 1: this draft. Yeah, he's right up there. If you'd asked
Speaker 1: me cold, if I didn't know this name, the only
Speaker 1: receiver with nine or more touchdowns the last four years,
Speaker 1: I'd have been there a long time before he came
Speaker 1: up with Marvin Jones, A long time. It's a it
Speaker 1: is a tricky one, all right. There you go our
Speaker 1: first two rounds in the books, we started touching on rookies.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a lot more rookies as the draft
Speaker 1: gets closer and closer. We encourage you to continue listening
Speaker 1: to Fantasy Football Weekly. We hope you love the show.
Speaker 1: We hope you'll subscribe um and like us, and if
Speaker 1: you have any commentary for the show, we're happy to
Speaker 1: chat with you via Twitter more of this, you know,
Speaker 1: more in the off season and where in season when
Speaker 1: we're running a thousand miles an hour. So if here
Speaker 1: are things that you like, you agree with, disagree with.
Speaker 1: Who did we miss? We talked about Kittle, We talked
Speaker 1: about Ezekiel Elliott. Guys we did not take through two rounds.
Speaker 1: Darren Waller didn't go through two rounds. Um, we'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from you on those things as well. Guy
Speaker 1: named Patrick Mahomes. I had my homes, I had my
Speaker 1: homes listed you and I did the straft via via
Speaker 1: shared spreadsheet. I had his name in one of these
Speaker 1: picks ones I went, you know, I typed in Mahomes No, no, Kiddle,
Speaker 1: not wait Sanders. I think he did right. It was
Speaker 1: it was really close. He'll be going in the third
Speaker 1: round in one quarterback weeks and remember I agree with it,
Speaker 1: but he will be. No. I kind of do agree
Speaker 1: with it. The I think people are gonna have that
Speaker 1: Super Bowl is going to hunt some people, and that's
Speaker 1: such an anomaly, such an anomaly for entered no offensive
Speaker 1: line yet don't even I don't want to remember anything
Speaker 1: about that Super Bowl. I'm not like I'm a Chiefe fan.
Speaker 1: I was. Yeah, the you that from your memory, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the big takeaways from last year. So oftentimes
Speaker 1: guys like you and me, Brian and many of our
Speaker 1: listeners especially are offseason listeners. People that are listening to
Speaker 1: this podcasts in February. We think we're a lot smarter
Speaker 1: than the rest of the world, and we're gonna find
Speaker 1: quarterbacks late that didn't happen this year. I mean, for
Speaker 1: the most part, those late mid to late round quarterbacks
Speaker 1: didn't fare particularly well, and the big name guys did
Speaker 1: what they were supposed to do. So it was last
Speaker 1: year at least was a good year to just take
Speaker 1: your bankable quarterback in the early mid rounds and not
Speaker 1: assume that your you know, your prize, the late round
Speaker 1: quarterback is going to end up being as good as
Speaker 1: you think. Thanks for listening. Everybody made it through half
Speaker 1: hour of the show. We appreciate that. We'll be back
Speaker 1: next week for more Fantasy Football Weekly. Fantasy Football Weekly
Speaker 1: is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts
Speaker 1: from my Heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app,
Speaker 1: Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.