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Speaker 1: It's a special Draft day edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I'm Paul Charchi and co host today Matt Harrison.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Chart. I woke up this morning, as many
Speaker 3: NFL fans did, feeling great. I'm guessing the Atlanta Falcons fans.
Speaker 1: Talk do not feel that way. No, I think you're
Speaker 1: right about that. It's a baffling one. And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about We're gonna talk about the fantasy landing spots for
Speaker 1: everybody in the first round. Ads, you and I are
Speaker 1: speaking right now the draft, the first round. We're about
Speaker 1: I don't know, eighteen hours from the end of the
Speaker 1: first round, something like that. Yeah, twenty hours from the
Speaker 1: end of the first round. Second round hasn't started yet
Speaker 1: as we're recording, but we're gonna go through every quarterback,
Speaker 1: wide receiver, and tight end taken in the first round.
Speaker 1: No running back to talk about. No, but hoping for
Speaker 1: Trey Benson.
Speaker 3: And you know what, you and Thor we'll get to
Speaker 3: talk about all the landing spots of those guys next week.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly right, Doornic.
Speaker 3: These are the big money guys right here, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, those are the big money guys. All right,
Speaker 1: let's start. I want to just let's just do this
Speaker 1: rookies in the order they were taken. How's it sound
Speaker 1: we can do that. Let's do that. So I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the spot they drop into the Dynasty
Speaker 1: value or and or Empire League value for each one,
Speaker 1: and then how this how their landing spot of fixed
Speaker 1: players around them, if at all?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: Sound good? Okay, So let's start with Caleb Williams. First
Speaker 1: player taken goes to the Bears, no surprise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the environment is fantastic. The Bears have certainly put
Speaker 3: offensive weapons around Caleb. The offensive line solid, not great,
Speaker 3: but solid. The Bears only have two draft picks left,
Speaker 3: a third and a fourth. I expect they grab a
Speaker 3: depth tackle at at least one of those spots to
Speaker 3: help shore up because the left tackle positions probably the
Speaker 3: weak spot on that offensive line.
Speaker 1: And that's an important one.
Speaker 3: And that's an important one and you know the dynasty value,
Speaker 3: he's He's the top rookie quarterback for me. I have
Speaker 3: him ranked as quarterback six in Dynasty right now, just
Speaker 3: above Anthony Richardson, Justin Airbear, and Jordan Love, which those
Speaker 3: are pretty high, some pretty big names. It shocking, but
Speaker 3: this is dynasty value, and people love their rookies, do
Speaker 3: They'll overpay for rookies. They'll overpay for the rookies, just
Speaker 3: like NFL gms will overpay for draft picks. Yes, as
Speaker 3: far as values for others, I think we've expected this
Speaker 3: pick for a pretty long time, so DJ Moore and
Speaker 3: Keenan Allen have already kind of got that adjustment as
Speaker 3: to where they are. But Roma Dunesa, we're going to
Speaker 3: get to him in a minute. I think I think
Speaker 3: he ticks up just to touch and value, but uh,
Speaker 3: we'll talk about that in a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that. Although we've thought this
Speaker 1: was the landing spot for Roma dunz A, you know
Speaker 1: all along, I think this was the probable spot, sure,
Speaker 1: I mean to just get it validated.
Speaker 3: He could ended up in a lot of different places though,
Speaker 3: and because has all the way down at nine, you
Speaker 3: never know.
Speaker 1: You never know, you know, but I don't think he
Speaker 1: was ever going to fall out of about the top.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Eleven Yeah, you know, it was a I think it
Speaker 1: was a pretty small margin.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, the second player taking Jayde Daniels goes to Washington again.
Speaker 1: No surprise here at all. Immediate starter Cliff Kingsbury's track record.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big Kingsbury fan, but look, he proved
Speaker 1: that he can make. You know, he made Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: into a pretty good, reliable fantasy asset. And the rushing
Speaker 1: upside of Jadeen Daniels is better than Murray's by a margin,
Speaker 1: so Terry McLaurin, that's a plus for sure. But the
Speaker 1: offensive line Washington remains awful. They allowed the most sacks
Speaker 1: last year, they obliterated my guy, Sam Howell, and no
Speaker 1: major offseason real improvements line. They've changed out some parts,
Speaker 1: but not real improvements. So we're gonna see daniels escapability
Speaker 1: on display regularly.
Speaker 3: Do you think there was a tiebreaker in the jade
Speaker 3: and Daniels Drake May thing where they were like, well,
Speaker 3: Drake May is gonna get killed because he's not fast enough.
Speaker 1: And he's pretty fast too, but he's not Jadan Daniels fast,
Speaker 1: so probably yes, I believe the value in Dynasty for
Speaker 1: Daniels very high. In superflex, he's arguably quarterback one among
Speaker 1: the entire draft class to me, even though I had
Speaker 1: a Caleb Williams because of the rushing in non superflex,
Speaker 1: I think he's still a top four rookie at this
Speaker 1: point with the other two receivers in that mix as well.
Speaker 3: On my trade value chart at Shock Fantasy, I have
Speaker 3: Jaden Daniels overall as QB twelve right now. He's right
Speaker 3: around Dak Prescott and Tua perfect.
Speaker 1: And I feel free to chime in with that all,
Speaker 1: you know, throughout the rest of this because I've been
Speaker 1: on the radio basically the last twenty four hours straight,
Speaker 1: so I did not have a job, I've not have
Speaker 1: not been able to really do a lot of long
Speaker 1: term thinking on Dinasty value.
Speaker 3: You still have your energy up. You were so excited
Speaker 3: last night on the Vikings Draft show, and I still
Speaker 3: am excited.
Speaker 1: It's it's just the greatest twenty four hours of the year,
Speaker 1: right So let's talk about just briefly some other values
Speaker 1: that change here. Terry McLaurin, I don't you know, he's
Speaker 1: never been a big downfield guy. I don't know that
Speaker 1: he directly benefits from Jade and Daniel's big arm and
Speaker 1: maybe even mclaurin's value go or production goes down while
Speaker 1: Daniels learns on the job, which is probable. Now alternately,
Speaker 1: John Dotson to me, gets like one last breath of
Speaker 1: life here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe this.
Speaker 1: Is gonna put John Dotson into a spot who was
Speaker 1: more of a downfield threat where he can finally pull
Speaker 1: it all together and make good on that first round
Speaker 1: value that he was for the Washington Then I guess
Speaker 1: we'll just say commanders.
Speaker 3: I won't believe it.
Speaker 1: They're now the commander now the commanders, I don't think
Speaker 1: they were. Then all right, let's go to Drake May,
Speaker 1: the third pick of the draft.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is probably the worst possible environment for a
Speaker 3: rookie quarterback to land in. Kendrick Bourne and kJ Osborne
Speaker 3: are your top targets. The offensive line is ranked in
Speaker 3: the bottom five by just about everyone, and the offensive
Speaker 3: coordinator is Alex van Pelt, who held the same job
Speaker 3: in Cleveland with Kevin Stefanski, but Stefanski called the plays.
Speaker 3: There's also a decent chance that Jacoby Brissett could start
Speaker 3: for most of the early part of the season. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 3: if I'm a Dynasty Drake May owner, I almost want
Speaker 3: Jacoby Brissett to have this whole year and let the
Speaker 3: Patriots get you that, figure out the offensive line, all
Speaker 3: the other things before you for you shell shock, Drake May.
Speaker 1: I like that and very important as you think about
Speaker 1: whether or not you're playing to win this year.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Drake May is going to help
Speaker 1: you win this year.
Speaker 3: No, And you got to think that the Patriots are
Speaker 3: picking in the top five next year.
Speaker 1: Too, Yeah, you know, and maybe that's a receiver.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be dynasty value long term. I still
Speaker 3: really like the player. He's on the younger side of
Speaker 3: the quarterbacks in this draft, and if the Pats were smart,
Speaker 3: I think they just sit him for the whole year.
Speaker 3: Let perseet take those lumps. Right now, he's my fourth
Speaker 3: rookie quarterback off the board in a rookie draft. He's
Speaker 3: tied for QB fourteen on my Dynasty trade value chart.
Speaker 3: Similar value to JJ McCarthy, brock Purdy, just a bump
Speaker 3: ahead of Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: I've got him behind all those guys. I like him.
Speaker 1: I like Drake May Yeah, I think he's just I
Speaker 1: worry the ramp up time is going to be so slow.
Speaker 3: It could be really slow. But you know, even if
Speaker 3: he even if it's slow, even if he's I mean honestly,
Speaker 3: it's his value probably holds better if he doesn't play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm kind of with you, which is which is weird?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right, And a lot of the newness will wear off
Speaker 1: and people get bored of him a year from now,
Speaker 1: But his value is better in the.
Speaker 3: Future, Yeah, the values of others. The only player that
Speaker 3: you were probably considering rostering on the Patriots is Ramandre Stevenson.
Speaker 3: I don't think this changes his value all that much
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: Agreed. Marvin Harrison was the next player taken on Thursday.
Speaker 1: He goes to Arizona. Not the ideal landing spot, but
Speaker 1: not a terrible one. He'll be the focal point of
Speaker 1: the entire offense with zero meaningful competition for looks from
Speaker 1: anybody else. I'll tell you your tight end, right yep.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray hasn't provided has empowered any wide out to
Speaker 1: major fantasy production since DeAndre Hopkins back in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: and even then, you know, Hopkins had a lot of
Speaker 1: yards and not a lot of touchdowns that year. I
Speaker 1: think only six and none of Murray's receivers have ever
Speaker 1: topped eight touchdowns ever. Wow, So I think Murray is
Speaker 1: a bit of a cap here. It would have been,
Speaker 1: you know, and I even bet it would have been
Speaker 1: better for Harrison if he'd have dropped the spot and
Speaker 1: would have been teamed up with Marvin Harris or Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, but you know, it doesn't work out that way. Quietly,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals offense got a lot better down the stretch
Speaker 1: last year. From Week thirteen forward, they averaged twenty five
Speaker 1: points per game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kyler wasn't bad at the tail end of that year.
Speaker 1: It wasn't bad last year. I think the Dynasty value
Speaker 1: for Harrison is very high thanks to Harrison's rarely seen versatility,
Speaker 1: big play production. I think he goes first overall in
Speaker 1: most non superflex rookie drafts.
Speaker 3: I agree with that right now. I have Marvin Harrison
Speaker 3: as wide receiver four in Dynasty. Wow, up with aman
Speaker 3: ro Saint Brown and Tyreek hill Man's That is lofty.
Speaker 3: That's who you're training to get him right now.
Speaker 1: Man, there's not a lot of impact here other than
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray gets a bump and quietly it's just deep,
Speaker 1: deep sleeper. Michael Wilson, who flashed some signs of competence
Speaker 1: on and off last year when he wasn't hurt, could
Speaker 1: be a NIK producer here.
Speaker 3: How about this though, Where do you have Trey McBride
Speaker 3: landing in your tight end rankings as we near draft
Speaker 3: season in July?
Speaker 1: And I think he's sitting at like tight end three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, he's going to be right there, but
Speaker 3: I think that solidifies him in that top three to
Speaker 3: five range.
Speaker 1: This helps McBride, Yeah, for sure. Having a wide receiver
Speaker 1: is going to take the top off of defenses with
Speaker 1: the middle open for McBride. Love it. Thelak Neighbors was
Speaker 1: the next player taken.
Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of wide receivers who can take the top off,
Speaker 3: he instantly walks into the wide receiver one role in
Speaker 3: New York, something they haven't had since Odell Beckham left
Speaker 3: after the twenty eighteen season. They've tried with a lot
Speaker 3: of second and third round picks and even a couple
Speaker 3: of first in there high Kadarius Tony, Yeah, the offensive
Speaker 3: line has potential. They have former first round picks Evan
Speaker 3: Neil and Andrew Thomas, and they have a veteran John
Speaker 3: Runy in it. Guard Brian Dable as a play caller
Speaker 3: has to be seen as a plus. But Daniel Jones
Speaker 3: is your quarterback and the jury's very much out on him.
Speaker 3: He's never had a receiver crack eight hundred yards in
Speaker 3: his NFL career. I gotta think that this changes this year.
Speaker 3: This is the best wide receiver he's ever had, the
Speaker 3: best one before this, like Sterling Shepherd or Darius Slayton.
Speaker 3: I mean, and those are guys who aren't on fantasy
Speaker 3: rosters at all, Dynasty or redraft or otherwise.
Speaker 1: Wendale Robinson showed some signs of life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's five to eight and just so tiny.
Speaker 3: He's like that Rondeale Moore style, Like get him the
Speaker 3: ball close to the line and hopefully he can you know,
Speaker 3: knife through defenses. But man, I just can't rely on that.
Speaker 3: No dynasty value. If all goes right for the Giants offense,
Speaker 3: it's probably due to neighbors this year. And if all
Speaker 3: goes wrong for the Giants offense, it's probably a new
Speaker 3: quarterback and possibly a new front office and coaching staff. Now,
Speaker 3: I think Neighbors is going to be force fed the
Speaker 3: ball a Ton. He's still behind Marvin Harrison and rookie drafts,
Speaker 3: but he probably goes in the top three or five
Speaker 3: four in in single quarterback leagues, in the top six
Speaker 3: in Super Flex league. He's my wide receiver eight right
Speaker 3: now in Dynasty, just behind AJ Brown and Puka Nikua,
Speaker 3: slightly ahead of Garrett Wilson and Chris o'labbe.
Speaker 1: I hate the landing spot with the yeah it's and
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. You know, we're talking about a guy who
Speaker 1: hasn't topped fifteen touchdown passes in four years. And if
Speaker 1: you go back to his rookie heear you, you're like
Speaker 1: twenty one. I think, yeah, that's it, you know, I justugh.
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you whose quarterback is going to
Speaker 1: be next year, so true. You know, the Malik Neighbors,
Speaker 1: I love him. I don't love this landing spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I guess for the values of others. I mean,
Speaker 3: Slayton's probably now wide receiver too. He gets a little
Speaker 3: bit of the coverage off of him, but not like
Speaker 3: people are double covering him. But Danny Dimes. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at this is if you are a Dynasty owner that
Speaker 3: has Daniel Jones on your roster, this might be your
Speaker 3: last chance to sell him. Or this might be, if
Speaker 3: you're a believer, the last chance to buy him at
Speaker 3: you know, a discounted price.
Speaker 1: In what is probably the most inexplicable top ten draft
Speaker 1: pick ever, which is not to say it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the worst ever, No, it's but just the most inexplicable
Speaker 1: thig ever. The next fantasy player drafted was Michael Pennix
Speaker 1: to the Falcons. That was an absolute jaw dropper.
Speaker 3: And as the biggest Kirk Cousins fan on the planet,
Speaker 3: how do you feel about this?
Speaker 1: I baffled.
Speaker 3: Baffled.
Speaker 1: I mean, like everybody else, you know it. You this
Speaker 1: absolutely torpedoes Pennis value. I mean this, it's it's horrific
Speaker 1: for him. He lands as Kirk Cousins backup. And I
Speaker 1: empathize with anybody who, by the way, already drafted Pennix
Speaker 1: like you were in a ridiculously early Dynasty draft year
Speaker 1: in Best Ball Leagues. You drafted Pennis figuring he's gonna
Speaker 1: find his way to a starting spot. Nope, And not
Speaker 1: only for you know, the immediate future potentially if you
Speaker 1: believe their general manager who says it could be four
Speaker 1: years out before Penick starts.
Speaker 3: Well, it's at least two until they can potentially get
Speaker 3: out of the Cousin's money, right, and at most four
Speaker 3: And honestly, I can't believe that Terry Fontinau is going
Speaker 3: to make draft picks today, Like Arthur Blank probably should
Speaker 3: have fired him. The video that's been surfacing a font
Speaker 3: No trying to define it, and Arthur Blank's just looking
Speaker 3: at him like are you kidding me? Like you just
Speaker 3: you just had me spend one hundred and fifty million
Speaker 3: dollars on a quarterback and a month later you take
Speaker 3: his replacement. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: It's it, It is so baffling, and it may it
Speaker 1: almost makes you wonder, is yours are trying to grapple with? Why?
Speaker 3: M hm? Is there?
Speaker 1: Is there any part of it was because Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: inadvertently outed their tampering, you know, when he went on
Speaker 1: podium and started talking about how they you know, they
Speaker 1: had previously contacted him and they and the whole thing
Speaker 1: wrapped like ninety minutes into free agency, and you know,
Speaker 1: like was that. I almost wonder if there if that
Speaker 1: wasn't part of it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're upset with cousins already. But
Speaker 3: to that end, the Falcons are probably going to lose
Speaker 3: their first round pick for tampering next year.
Speaker 1: You wonder that.
Speaker 3: That's my guess, that's I mean, the Dolphins lost their
Speaker 3: first round pick last year for tampering. I think that's
Speaker 3: probably what's going to happen. So not only are they
Speaker 3: not going to have a first next year in all likelihood,
Speaker 3: what are they doing? I just can't believe it.
Speaker 1: So the dynasty value for Penis it is very low.
Speaker 1: He may not see the field for two or three years,
Speaker 1: so I and then and him dropping to Atlanta changes No,
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't affect anybody, so he won't be
Speaker 1: a starter. You know, this is only to me. The
Speaker 1: only people that should be drafting Penis are people that
Speaker 1: have the luxury of waiting that long.
Speaker 3: I dropped him so significantly in my dynasty trade value chart,
Speaker 3: I think he's down in like the range of like
Speaker 3: Won Dale Robinson, Tank Bigsby Trey Lance, like like way
Speaker 3: down there, like he just plummeted. You're not gonna see
Speaker 3: him for two years.
Speaker 1: And all probably. I mean, you need Kirk. You need
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins to get hurt, and as a reminder prior
Speaker 1: to to blowing out his achilles, which nobody can you know,
Speaker 1: you know is sort of an odd ball injury. He
Speaker 1: never got hurt. I mean, Kirk was an absolute iron man.
Speaker 3: But to that point too, if Kirk Cousins gets hurt,
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins is not a scrambling quarterback. He's a right
Speaker 3: handed player. Pennix is a left handed player and a scrambler.
Speaker 3: It's it's different types of offenses altogether. They'd have to
Speaker 3: almost like fold in like a new part of the
Speaker 3: offense to continue going forward, and it just doesn't make
Speaker 3: sense at all.
Speaker 1: Romadonese was the next player taken. We've already alluded to
Speaker 1: his spot in Chicago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a great landing spot here. He
Speaker 3: doesn't have to walk in and be wide receiver one
Speaker 3: or even a wide receiver two right away. He can
Speaker 3: learn some things from veterans DJ Moore and Keenan Allen.
Speaker 3: Plus I think he's forever tied to Caleb Williams, and
Speaker 3: if the Caleb Williams thing works out, Romo Donze is
Speaker 3: probably gonna work out. Keenan Allen. He's a free agent
Speaker 3: after this season. DJ Moore is this year and twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five under contract, so by twenty twenty six he's
Speaker 3: the number one that Romo Dunsa is the wide receiver
Speaker 3: one in an offense with a top five or top
Speaker 3: ten quarterback. Probably offensive coordinator Shane Waldron ran the offense
Speaker 3: in Seattle the last few years with Pete Carroll. He
Speaker 3: was able to feature three wide receivers, although it's worth
Speaker 3: noting Jackson Smith and Jigba, who a lot of people
Speaker 3: liked last year, didn't really put up the numbers that
Speaker 3: we kind of hoped he would in Seattle.
Speaker 1: But he had two there were two other great receivers
Speaker 1: that he had to try to steal balls away from
Speaker 1: in his rookie year, which is hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think here you just need to take
Speaker 3: balls away from Dj Moore and Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1: Oh, great point, Keenan Allen.
Speaker 3: There's also two great wide receivers there. Yeah, so dynasty value,
Speaker 3: I think it might be a little bit slower start
Speaker 3: than some of the other receivers. With the rookie QB
Speaker 3: and a lot of veteran playmakers, touches might be hard
Speaker 3: to find long term. The upside is significant, though I
Speaker 3: still have him ranked as a third rookie receiver off
Speaker 3: the board. He's currently my wide receiver twelve in Dynasty,
Speaker 3: similar value to Jalen Waddle and Michael Pittman. And then
Speaker 3: as far as the values of others, there are suddenly
Speaker 3: so many weapons in Chicago. I guess I'd find it
Speaker 3: hard to believe that he takes a giant dent out
Speaker 3: of the would be production of Allen or more. But
Speaker 3: it might take away some of the value to the
Speaker 3: tight end position. And they already have two that are
Speaker 3: pretty good in Cole Comet and Gerald Everett.
Speaker 1: Cherld Everett's just okay, can we get I want to
Speaker 1: just move on from that.
Speaker 3: I mean everybody wants to move on, but Cherald Everett,
Speaker 3: like you know, steals touchdowns every year and just keeps producing.
Speaker 3: So it's probably going to take away from those two guys,
Speaker 3: and I think that's the risk there. I think Comet
Speaker 3: and Everett probably down a little.
Speaker 1: Bit more when we come back. JJ McCarthy finds himself
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. You can't ask for a better landing spot
Speaker 1: for really any quarterback, let alone JJ McCarthy then in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So this I can't even remember a highly drafted rookie
Speaker 1: who falls into such a good spot in recent memory,
Speaker 1: because typically the good rookies find themselves on bad team.
Speaker 1: Right I mean, Caleb Williams is in a pretty good
Speaker 1: spot right now, but not like this. You get Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, t J. Hockinson will be back off the
Speaker 1: ACL at some point. You get bookend tackles that are
Speaker 1: in place to protect the pocket. The Vikings finished last
Speaker 1: year ranked third and past blocking by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell runs a quarterback friendly system that powered Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins to the best years of his career. You know,
Speaker 1: I think the only hesitation about this landing spot for
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy is O'Connell has no track record of utilizing
Speaker 1: the mobility of quarterbacks when he's got him, and we've
Speaker 1: only seen a handful of games. But when Josh Dobbs,
Speaker 1: he didn't design do any designed runs for Josh Dobbs,
Speaker 1: who was whose only real viable asset was his running.
Speaker 1: So hopefully I hope that Kevin O'Connell will provide some
Speaker 1: running opportunities for the unique athleticism that McCarthy does bring.
Speaker 3: Well, you think about the last two quarterbacks Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 3: has had serious time with, and that's Kirk Cousins and
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford. Not the most mobile guy guy, so his
Speaker 3: offense maybe just hasn't had that running option because of
Speaker 3: the personnel.
Speaker 1: He had very possible Dynasty value here for JJ McCarthy
Speaker 1: fairly high. I don't think it's the elite high end
Speaker 1: that we had with Jayden Daniels Caleb Williams, but it's
Speaker 1: not far off of that. He's my third ranked rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback and roughly I would i'd him at running like
Speaker 1: quarterback thirteen among all Dynasty Empire quarterbacks. Where do you have?
Speaker 3: You got it right there? I have him tied with
Speaker 3: Drake May in the value. So okay, it's your choice
Speaker 3: of which one you want.
Speaker 1: Well, I want the guy who's throwing to Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: That's what I want. Jordan Edison, that's what I want.
Speaker 1: So in terms of value of others, you know, this
Speaker 1: move salvages the value of Jefferson, Addison Hockinson, who would
Speaker 1: have just been torpedoed if they if the Vikings would
Speaker 1: have had to go like bow Nix or something, although
Speaker 1: they're you know, I think all three of those guys
Speaker 1: are in danger of diminished stats in the immediate future
Speaker 1: because JJ McCarthy's not going to be Kirk Cousins in
Speaker 1: your one, maybe not even your two. You know, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a learning process here, and you know he
Speaker 1: might be sitting on a twenty one touchdown season.
Speaker 3: Rain on my parade charge he's gonna throw forty touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the aforementioned bo Nicks. Denver making a
Speaker 1: I feel desperation move a quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this one was Michael Pennox going at
Speaker 3: eight made Denver go, oh clue yea.
Speaker 1: It blew it up.
Speaker 3: It blew up the draft for that, it's probably the
Speaker 3: worst kept secret in the draft two that the Broncos
Speaker 3: wanted Nix. He comes into a situation with Sean Payton
Speaker 3: hand picking him to be his guide. Despite the fact
Speaker 3: that the QB room as Jarrett Stidham and Zach Wilson
Speaker 3: and Ben Denucci. Everyone thinks that Russell Wilson's career as
Speaker 3: an afterthought now, but last year he was the fourteenth
Speaker 3: ranked quarterback in Fantasy, which isn't bad. And if Peyton
Speaker 3: identified him to run the type identified Nicks to run
Speaker 3: the type of offense that he wants, he could actually
Speaker 3: flourish here Dynasty value. He moved up because I think
Speaker 3: he's the Day one starter in.
Speaker 1: Denver for sure. He is given wells is on roster.
Speaker 3: He's still the fifth quarterback off the board in a
Speaker 3: rookie draft. Right now. I have him in a tie
Speaker 3: for quarterback twenty one in Dynasty right now, tied with
Speaker 3: Bryce Young and just above QB. Brown's and Baker Mayfield
Speaker 3: values of others. So Nix was known for his high
Speaker 3: completion percentage in relatively short A dots. Very yeah. So
Speaker 3: Javonte Williams, samaj p Ran, and Julia McLoughlin, they're all
Speaker 3: under contract next year. They were targeted a combined one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty times last year.
Speaker 1: It's a lot for running back group.
Speaker 3: The Broncos running backs led the league with one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty one total receptions last year, fifteen more than
Speaker 3: the next highest team. The problem is there's three of them. Now,
Speaker 3: if we can, you know, suddenly make one disappear, both
Speaker 3: of those remaining running backs are really interesting, especially for
Speaker 3: best ball formats where you could just have fantastic days.
Speaker 3: But I think that those running backs are the biggest
Speaker 3: winners with bo Nix as the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Which is weird. It is really weird. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to the next player taken. It's Brock Bauers, who
Speaker 1: drops into a weird spot, the second strangest pick of
Speaker 1: the first round. Not that Rock Bowers wasn't requisite value
Speaker 1: at pick fourteen, because he was, I mean, in fact,
Speaker 1: he was overdue to be taken, sorry pick thirteen, but
Speaker 1: that he dropped at Las Vegas, who had just put
Speaker 1: enormous draft capital into Michael Mayer the year before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, second round pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Bauer is clearly the best available player, but
Speaker 1: the landing spot baffling. And now this adds all kinds
Speaker 1: of turmoil into what to think about Bowers, and especially Mayor,
Speaker 1: who just gets daggered for any value that he had.
Speaker 3: I have him in our Empire League right now.
Speaker 1: Well, and you should not have seen this coming.
Speaker 3: I'm about to drop him too, just the outright draft anything.
Speaker 1: He's not, I mean, Bowers is so much better as
Speaker 1: a receiver. I'm not that worried about long term. Let's
Speaker 1: just say, like next year, this thing's all Boers, and
Speaker 1: it'll be mostly Bowers this year. But Mayor's can you know,
Speaker 1: because Mayor's in second year and he is a he
Speaker 1: is a decent receiver, He's a good all around tight end.
Speaker 1: He's going to take reps away from Bowers.
Speaker 3: Well, and as Thor put it on several of these shows,
Speaker 3: Bowers is more of a big slot than he is
Speaker 3: a tight end. They don't do Mayor. Mayor might still
Speaker 3: be in more in a blocking tight end sort of capacity,
Speaker 3: and Bowers just might be you know, weapon X moving
Speaker 3: all around. And you know, I kind of like this
Speaker 3: for DeVante Adams a little bit here and Jacoby Myers too.
Speaker 1: Even with all these questions, Marks Bowers is clearly tight
Speaker 1: end one among the rookie tight end. Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not even close. It's not any conversation and among
Speaker 1: all tight ends sometimes. So I would have Laport ahead
Speaker 1: of him, I'd have McBride ahead of him, maybe Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews and Hockinson, maybe Kincaid. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be in that five ish range overall. For me, Rock Bowers,
Speaker 1: Where do you.
Speaker 3: Have on the dynasty chart. I have him tied for
Speaker 3: two with two Travis Kelsey. Oh jeez wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, okay, and I think Kelsey is still
Speaker 1: in this conversation too, Bobby.
Speaker 3: All right, let's just ahead a Dalton kincaid and Trey
Speaker 3: McBride barely ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the proven guys first.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, the tantalizing upside of Brock Bauers is there, though.
Speaker 1: You definitely factor in rookie hype and definitely absolutely because
Speaker 1: it's a for me, this is a trade value chart.
Speaker 3: It's what do you have to give up to get
Speaker 3: these guys, and really that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Available at Shock Fantasy. Yeah, let's go to the next
Speaker 1: player taking. Brian Thomas goes to the Jaguars pick number
Speaker 1: twenty three.
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Junior. Thomas likely slides into the Calvin Ridley
Speaker 3: role from last season. There's Christian Kirk to man the slot,
Speaker 3: Gabe Davis and Zay Jones as wild cards all around
Speaker 3: the field. Trevor Lawrence is an above average quarterback, we think,
Speaker 3: and you think that he is, yeah, and you think
Speaker 3: that it's a decent offense under Doug Peterson. So the
Speaker 3: landing spot's pretty good. But the problem is is what
Speaker 3: Calvin Ridley did last year in games. Ridley only managed
Speaker 3: to get double digit PPR points in six of seventeen games,
Speaker 3: and one of them was in Week eighteen, so it
Speaker 3: didn't count for fantasy. So Ridley sunk your lineup last
Speaker 3: year more than he helped, and I just way more.
Speaker 3: I just kind of wonder is Trevor Lawrence the kind
Speaker 3: of quarterback who can vault a guy into, you know,
Speaker 3: a top twenty four wide receiver. I'm unsure that he is.
Speaker 1: I think he is, okay, yeah, and I think Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk hasn't been that far off of that actually wide
Speaker 1: receiver twenty four. And these guys have I think, well,
Speaker 1: this guy in particularly Brian Johnson, Brian Thomas Johnson has more.
Speaker 3: He did move down south from Minnesota, just straight to Jackson.
Speaker 1: I've got like four hours of sleep last night. It's
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to forgive that.
Speaker 3: As far as dynasty value, I didn't move him based
Speaker 3: on the landing spot. He's wide receiver four off the
Speaker 3: board in a rookie draft, which is about the seventh
Speaker 3: pick in a single quarterback league, eleventh pick in a
Speaker 3: Super Flex League. He's wide receiver thirty currently on my
Speaker 3: trade value chart, comped right around Jordan Addison, George Pickens,
Speaker 3: Tank Dell. Does that sound about right to you?
Speaker 1: I really like Tank Dell, so you're maybe asking the
Speaker 1: wrong guy I would take. I'd take Addison and Dell
Speaker 1: over him, but sure that's okay.
Speaker 3: Values of others. This probably helps take some of the
Speaker 3: pressure off of Christian Kirk, and I think it does
Speaker 3: help Trevor Lawrence a bit too, But I'm not going
Speaker 3: to move them up my ranks very much, if at all.
Speaker 1: The next fantasy player taken in a trade up, which
Speaker 1: we love.
Speaker 3: I love with Buffalo with Buffalo always Kansas City, trading
Speaker 3: with Buffalo to get my homes if Xavier Worthy and.
Speaker 1: Buffalo's gonna just kill him a disaster. So reminder on
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy, and especially if you're confusing him with Xavier
Speaker 1: like legit, I think it's like, thank you. This is
Speaker 1: the fast one, not the thick one, not the big
Speaker 1: slow one. So he's the guy who set the record
Speaker 1: for the fastest combined time ever recorded in the forty
Speaker 1: four point two one and most track star receivers end
Speaker 1: up being great A busts. But here's where's Xavier Worthy's promising.
Speaker 1: The productivity that he had at Texas with Steve Sarkisian
Speaker 1: was amazing, and you get rare toughness for a kid
Speaker 1: with his very slight frame. This and obviously the landing
Speaker 1: spot in Kansas City is.
Speaker 3: You couldn't ask for a better landing spot maybe Miami.
Speaker 1: So uh, the question is, are you gonna have to
Speaker 1: wait a year for reliable production because the Chiefs likely
Speaker 1: start Marquise Brown ahead of him. Brown is on a
Speaker 1: one year proven deal, which I think they're gonna I
Speaker 1: think I think Brown's gonna be the starter, you know,
Speaker 1: and Xavier Worthy does have some raw components to his game.
Speaker 1: So I see Worthy as an inconsistent, not never, but
Speaker 1: inconsistent producer this year and a regular starter next year
Speaker 1: when Markuis Brown is off to his fourth team and
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy as a starter in twenty twenty five. Dynasty
Speaker 1: value to me pretty high because the landing spot, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind shelving him for a season, you may
Speaker 1: have Patrick Mahomes best receiver in twenty twenty five, you could,
Speaker 1: and for she Rice has turned into a sizable wildcard.
Speaker 3: Right now yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: For value of others. I just think this. I think
Speaker 1: this pick ensures that the stylistically similar Marquise Brown is
Speaker 1: gone at the end of this coming season. And so
Speaker 1: to me, that's the biggest that's the biggest effect he
Speaker 1: has on others.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a Xavier Worthy right in the same
Speaker 3: tier as Brian Thomas right now. So the Addison Pickens
Speaker 3: Tank Dell kind of tier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I might. I might go Worthy just for the
Speaker 1: freaky upside that he brings it in. If it does click,
Speaker 1: you've got a top ten fantasy receiver on your hands.
Speaker 3: I think I think the really intriguing way to play
Speaker 3: Xavier Worthy is best.
Speaker 1: Ball, Yeah, for sure, because he's going to give you
Speaker 1: some big you know what he pulls in the eighty yarders.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and Mahomes hasn't had, you know, the burner
Speaker 3: since Hill left two years ago. So I think that
Speaker 3: Mahomes having a field stretcher guy that's not Marquez Valdez scantling.
Speaker 3: I think that, you know, that's a pretty intriguing notion,
Speaker 3: but that.
Speaker 1: Is your downside. Yeah, I mean, you know.
Speaker 3: Mark has Valdez.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's Marcus Valdez scanting, you know, you know that's
Speaker 1: that would be the concern. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Ricky Pearsall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, becoming a weapon and a Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 3: offense is never a bad thing, especially with the swirling
Speaker 3: Brandon Ayuk trade rumors. But speaking of Ayuk, Piersoll and
Speaker 3: Ayuk both were wide receivers at Arizona State in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 3: and Ayuk even sent a text to John Lynch last night,
Speaker 3: according to Adam Schefter, that said it was a great pick.
Speaker 3: So all right, the like it. The problem for for
Speaker 3: Pearsall is there's just a lot of mouths defeed, McCaffrey, Ayuk,
Speaker 3: Deebo Kittle, Juwan Jennings is a good wide receiver too.
Speaker 3: By the way, Kyle Yustchek, he's on the field about
Speaker 3: fifty five percent of snaps last year. That's too many
Speaker 3: players to have on the field. Ye, Piercell's the odd
Speaker 3: man out unless there's a trade coming soon.
Speaker 1: Which many people believe that's gonna happen. Could happen, by
Speaker 1: the way, including maybe Deebo. Maybe if you believe, if
Speaker 1: you believe some of the media.
Speaker 3: Reports out there, maybe they just remake that wide receiver
Speaker 3: room altogether. If that happens, I think he gets he
Speaker 3: gets rocketed up the Dynasty trade value chart.
Speaker 1: But doesn't it almost have to happen to validate this selection.
Speaker 3: Not a pick thirty one still first, just just weapons.
Speaker 1: I mean, Deebo has.
Speaker 3: Been injured off and on the last few years, and
Speaker 3: Kittle gets injured, and just you know, at pick thirty one,
Speaker 3: I think it's fine if they if they thought he
Speaker 3: was the best weapon available, go get him.
Speaker 1: Was he though?
Speaker 3: I don't know, he might not.
Speaker 1: You know, it just didn't smack of best available player,
Speaker 1: like the way brock Bauers did. Like sure brock Bauers
Speaker 1: falls to the Raiders and like he's you know, he's
Speaker 1: number six on our overall board and we're at fourteen.
Speaker 1: We gotta take him. It doesn't I don't get that
Speaker 1: off of Rooky Piersall.
Speaker 3: I got Pearsall landing in the Christian Kirk, Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 3: Gabe Davis, Johan Dotson, Neck of the Woods. In other words,
Speaker 3: those are bench flex guys right now. He is probably
Speaker 3: a few wide receivers who are about to go off
Speaker 3: in round two that will have a higher value going
Speaker 3: forward in rookie drafts. I think that there's three or
Speaker 3: four guys who instantly are drafted in round two today
Speaker 3: that we'll go ahead of him in a rookie draft
Speaker 3: and instantly become wide receiver one on their team values
Speaker 3: of others, Does this move make Brandon Ayuk more expendable? Maybe? Yes, O,
Speaker 3: yes it does. Other than that, the only one dinged
Speaker 3: here might be the low low value of Juwan Jennings.
Speaker 1: Who I actually like Juwan Jay I do too.
Speaker 3: I think he's like legit wide receiver two kind of guy.
Speaker 3: He only saw about thirty five percent of snaps last year.
Speaker 3: I mean, is that the upside we're looking at for Piersoll?
Speaker 1: Only if Juwon Jennings, you know, like drives off a
Speaker 1: bridge or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I don't see a lot of immediate impact happening.
Speaker 3: No I don't either.
Speaker 1: Yeah. All right, let's get to our final player taken
Speaker 1: and the last selection of round number one Xavior Legate
Speaker 1: goes to Carolina, who trades up just one spot to
Speaker 1: go get him. You get the fifth year option on him,
Speaker 1: but you know, hopefully, you know he's so good you're
Speaker 1: resigning him before he gets the fifth year.
Speaker 3: The Panthers are insane.
Speaker 1: You know who hates this pick is Dane Brugler. I
Speaker 1: had to dig down through the beast to get to
Speaker 1: leg it at wide receiver fourteen in his rankings.
Speaker 3: Sikes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is a thick bodied receiver. Think poor man's
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf and you've got the idea here for him.
Speaker 1: He was catching passes from Spencer Rattler at South Carolina
Speaker 1: and look, the Panthers just aren't an ideal landing spot
Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons. And I think the dynasty
Speaker 1: value here is medium low. Just one year of production
Speaker 1: in college, so he's super raw. He really did nothing
Speaker 1: through college until last year. He's gonna need a lot
Speaker 1: of coaching and probably a few seasons before he's going
Speaker 1: to be a consistent fantasy producer. If ever, and for
Speaker 1: the immediate time being, he's logjam behind granted an aging
Speaker 1: Adam Thielen also Deontay Johnson, just some pecking orders with
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 3: Think both of those guys contracts are up after this year.
Speaker 1: It's so if for the like I said, for the
Speaker 1: immedia time being, it's he's those guys are both target magnets. Sure,
Speaker 1: you know so, I just I can't.
Speaker 3: Should receive over one hundred targets.
Speaker 1: This year, So I think the bigger impact here might
Speaker 1: be to the same of the other depth receivers Terras.
Speaker 1: Marshall's officially dead, and if he wasn't already, I mean,
Speaker 1: in my mind, he was already dead. But it also
Speaker 1: throws a lot of concern at Jonathan Mingo, last year's
Speaker 1: second round pick, only total of four hundred yards last
Speaker 1: year and reached the end zone zero times, so that
Speaker 1: that doesn't you know, I think Mingo here could be
Speaker 1: a casualty as well. But like it, I don't, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like the landing spot. I don't
Speaker 1: like how long it's going to take him to get
Speaker 1: up to speed, and I don't like that he wasn't
Speaker 1: already productive in college. This feels like a long term payoff.
Speaker 3: If ever, Yeah, I I didn't really move him all
Speaker 3: that much in my rankings. He's right in the area
Speaker 3: of you know, kind of the Gabe Davis, Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 3: Josh Downs, Jamison Williams.
Speaker 1: I take all of those guys before him. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you're you're you might be more optimistic.
Speaker 3: I'm probably more optimistic. And and I mean, if we
Speaker 3: look down to the next tier. Is he in the
Speaker 3: Quentin Johnston, Rashad Bateman, Rashid Shaheed kind of you're talking.
Speaker 1: To me, sorry, y the Rashi Shied fan clubs so well,
Speaker 1: not king, I am the I'm technically the sergeant at arms.
Speaker 3: Okay, the Shed fan club.
Speaker 1: Next episode, Yeah, Thor nice from will join and we
Speaker 1: will talk about some of the major impact guys that
Speaker 1: went later in the draft after round one.
Speaker 3: Sure this should be pretty running back and wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be some of the fun of it, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: pick if I could. The guy I'm targeting the most
Speaker 1: already alluded to this one, Trey Benson, just drop it
Speaker 1: like Dallas or Cincinnati. I mean, just you know, if
Speaker 1: I can get him into a spot where he can
Speaker 1: get a lot of use on a functional offense, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be really excited about Trey Benson.
Speaker 3: Oh but what if the Cowboys bring back Zeke Elliott
Speaker 3: who they're talking to. Not worried.
Speaker 1: If he's the same Zeke we saw last year or
Speaker 1: the year before. He offers no threat, Not too worried
Speaker 1: about that. Thank you, Matt Harrison, Thank you for listening, everybody.
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