WEBVTT - Last pick of the draft 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:11.080 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.120 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.560 whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.320 here's your host, Paul Chargion. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.160 Hey everybody, it's another edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:31.760 am Paul Charchian. Guest today Brian Johnson, Hey, buddy. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.800 What's going on? Charge? Brian Johnson aka Sam Darnold the. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.159 Believer Sam A preview of coming attractions. Today, we're talking 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:46.880 about last picks of your draft, whether it's Best Ball drafts, redrafts. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.000 What is the last pick of the draft and who 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:52.920 should you take. We're going to give you suggestions at 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.360 each of the four key positions we're not doing tight 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.080 end to defense. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.640 And these are guys too, who we think we'll start 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.440 upwards in terms of adp as we draw nearer to 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.240 quote unquote the real draft season right now. It's always 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.560 the draft season these days, but it kind of your 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.160 eye on these guys now. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:15.280 Especially Sam Donald, as America starts to realize that he's 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.479 going to be the starting, starting quarterback for a guy 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.240 throwing to Justin Jefferson. His his ADP is going to 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.760 go way, way up. I believe we'll find out. We'll 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.199 talk more about it in a few minutes. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.640 I can't tell if that's satirical or no, that's not 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.640 at all genuine. All right, good, No, not at all. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:36.880 This Sam Donald right now is one of my five 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:42.360 to ten favorite sleepers across all positions because I believe 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:48.240 he will start more most of the season, and he's 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.200 got a really nice opportunity with the talent around him 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.320 Jordan Addison, a pass catching running back, and Aaron Jones. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.720 While I'm stealing your your bullet points, so I won't 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:57.000 do that. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.320 Okay. I love hearing someone else brace Sam Donald for once. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.240 I feel like I'm a one, one man army on Twitter. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.440 That's not true. There is a nice The Sam Donald 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.600 Hive is growing by the day. People are starting to believe. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.760 So well, okay all day with Sam Donald, stef charge. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.040 That's fine. So let me just set up well, let's 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:17.880 jump right into Sam Darnald. But let me just set 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.360 this up as we talk through our favorite last picks 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.200 of your draft. First, you got your guy has to 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.480 be going in the fifteenth rounder. Later, that's an ADP 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.680 of one hundred and seventy five or beyond. And I 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.680 think critical to this discussion is at this stage, all 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.480 of these players have wards. I mean, we're gonna make 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.679 a case for these guys, and you might be listening going, well, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.600 what about this and what about this and what about this? 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.000 And sometimes we'll acknowledge that stuff, but we're talking about 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.400 round fifteen guys. So you know, none of these players 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.760 do not have question marks. They all do. To me, Brian, 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.200 I'm looking at one of two angles. Can this guy 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.760 just be like a consistent, if not splashy performer who 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.519 can help me in a bye week or a short 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.959 term injury replacement situation, or does he have some special 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.919 traits that could allow him to really emerge this year? 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.760 Is this guy really you know, there is there something 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.720 about this guy where he hasn't performed at this point, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.400 but then these traits are gonna kick in and the 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.040 opportunity is gonna kick in and he could he could 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.800 emerge and have a great year. And I've got a 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.280 couple of both category guys, but let's start with Let's 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:30.200 start with Sam Darnold, your choice at quarterback for Round fifteenth. 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.160 Or later is adp last I saw he was going 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.600 off to board it like his quarterback, like thirty three 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.440 deeper than there are teams in the NFL. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.760 Yeah, you'd be thirty four to be exact. Now, let 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.240 me preface this again. What I'm about to say is 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:50.080 no knock on JJ McCarthy. Whatsoever weve JJ McCarthy. He's 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.800 got a lot of potential, probably very bright future in 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.280 the league. But we're talking solely the twenty twenty four 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.040 season on this podcast, and right now JJ McCarthy is 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:03.200 going is you be twenty five in underdog draft, which is. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:08.120 That he may not start a game this year, So yeah. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.680 And if he does, it's what they're gonna start. Nick Mullens, 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.480 excuse me over JJ McCarthy earlier in the season if 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.280 they have to. Sam Donald is hurt. So anyway, love 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.479 Sam Donald in the last round. Right now. First, let's 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.720 talk about the situation in Minnesota. You kind of touched 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.159 on this very past friendly system. Kevin O'Connell runs the 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.200 Vikings ranked third and passing play percentage last year. As 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.400 you said, they have the best wide receiver in football 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.039 under a fresh new contract in Justin Jefferson alongside him, 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.640 alongside him as Jordan Addison one of just six wide 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.080 receivers to record double digit touchdowns last year, it should 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.920 take a big step in his second season. Of course, 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.760 t J. Hockinson gonna miss some time, maybe all season. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.479 That stings a little bit, but an exciting arsenal for 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.920 Sam Donald, who will be the quarterback oneen heading into 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.839 camp and into the season. Ye, Kevin O'Connell's still sort 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.559 of using some kind of you know, quarterback competition between 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.680 JJ McCarthy, but that's all smoke screen. You can look 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.840 at DraftKings sportsbook. Donald's now minus two seventy to take 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.279 the first snap for the Vikings. So that's gonna happen, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.240 whether some Vikings fans like it or not. But they're 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.000 just gonna have to accept it. And really, those who 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.720 have accepted it are a lot of them. I'm gonna say, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.839 they're just like, Oh, Donald's gonna start, and he's gonna suck, 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.040 and then he's gonna, you know, give way to JJ 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.480 McCarthy after they're bye in week six. I don't think 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:31.480 it's gonna be the case. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.360 It's possible. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:33.520 I believe that. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.560 Would be the earliest to me that would be the 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.920 earliest scenario where JJ McCarthy makes a start. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.360 Now we all know it's easy to say Sam Donald sucks, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.800 he sucked in his career, But to me, that's a lazy, 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.400 ignorant take. You just have to go back and look 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.400 at the history of this poor kid's career, who, by 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.159 the way, he entered the league as the startest young 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.800 the youngest starting quarterback in NFL history at the time. Yeah, 0:05:58.800 --> 0:05:59.920 still might hold that record. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.839 I thought a great I think he might. And let 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.000 me mention this about that he made a big mistake 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.560 coming out when he did. He came out after his 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:12.359 sophomore year, after two years of starting at USC and 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.760 they were good years. They weren't even great years, they 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.240 were just good years. And that was on darnold he 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.320 came out. I think, you know, granted, he he got 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.159 selected with the third overall pick in the draft, so 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.360 you know, he made a ton of money and he 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.720 read the tea leaves correctly that there would be a 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.400 lot of interest in him. But he wasn't ready yet, Brian, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.360 and he came out too soon. And I think part 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.800 of your case is that his last couple of years 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.839 sitting out as a backup effectively has probably given him 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:41.920 time to mature into the role. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.800 Oh yeah, he's been through hell and back and it started. Yes, 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.360 he came out to early and he didn't have any 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.160 control about getting drafted by the Jets, but unfortunately he did. 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.360 In his tenure there, he was primarily coached by Adam Gase, 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.839 one of the worst head coaches in NFL history, at 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.840 least this century, no longer in the league. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.160 That can. Can I expand on that for a second. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.279 I did a lot. I did a big thing on 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.479 Sam Donald on the radio about a week ago, and 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.320 so I'm all prepped up on this. Here. Let me 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:13.960 tell you about the coaches he's worked with, head coaches 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.360 and offensive coordinators in the games that he in the 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.360 times he's had to start, so not counting San Francisco 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.280 last year when we only played a meeting this week 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:25.480 eighteen game, Todd Bowles, his head coaches, Todd Bowles, Adam Gase, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:31.520 Matt Ruhle, Steve Wilkes. His offensive coordinators Brian name these guys, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:37.040 where are they now? Jeremy Bates, Dowell Loggins, Joe Brady, 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:42.040 Jeff Nixon, Ben McAdoo. As a group, those offensive coordinators 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.840 and head coaches. One of them is in the league today. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.040 All the rest of them are out out of the league. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.760 That's right, Todd Bowles. He's the only one that has 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.960 a job in the NFL today, isn't He doesn't That 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:56.679 say a lot? 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.160 It does. And he was Donald's Bulls was Donald's which 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.960 is a rookie year, a defensive guy. You and he 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.280 got fired after Donald's rookie season. So he did the 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.800 one you know, one head coach that at any legitimacy 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.560 to his name anyway, head coach's coaching situation the nightmare 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.160 his receiving options throughout his career. These are the top 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:24.040 receivers he's dealt with, Robbie Anderson, now Robbie chosen, Jameson Crowder, 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.720 Chris Herndon, Quincy Unna. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.000 Yeah, DJ Mooreman DJ Moore in Carolina. He's a legit receiver. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:32.920 But that's number one. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.200 But that's it. But that's it. I mean, you know, 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:36.880 the rest of the receivers he's had to throw to 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.600 have been Sam for Sam Donald have been bad. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:45.200 And lastly, I'll say the pass blocking, how his offensive 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.760 lines graded starting his rookie year. But with the Jets, 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.640 then with the Panthers, this is my pro football focus 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.880 U pass blocking. Again, they're ranked twenty second, twenty eighth, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:09:00.000 thirty first, twenty eighth his first four years in the league. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.280 So again I think he's got and he's got some 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.800 mobility too. He's an athlete a little bit. People don't 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.800 know that. No, he has some wheels. Could have played 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.679 college basketball if you dig deep enough into his past. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.920 So he's that much of an athlete. So anyway, Sam 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.679 Donald a freebie in the last round. If he doesn't 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.760 work out for him, you cut him, you drop him, 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.960 pick up someone else. But I think he's an ideal 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.360 backup candidate and fantasy football, especially if you pay up, 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.160 you know, payout for quarterback with one of the premium 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.360 guys like Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, someone along those lines. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.480 Love Sam Donald in the last round has a ton 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.360 of potential in this offense. I'll shut up. I like 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:38.800 hibout him for at least today. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.400 But here's I'm gonna make my case against Donald and 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.920 again because I've I've done all this research on him 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.080 and I'm and I'm still saying draft him in round 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.800 round whatever, seventeen, that he's going in so I'm not 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.920 even I would absolutely take him there. But here's your 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.160 case against Donald Way. Too many picks, even for a 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.920 young quarterback with bad blocking and lous and receivers good 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.680 not great, but just like good quarterbacks throw about half 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.640 a pickup per game, Sam has basically double that. He's 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.880 fifty six picks in fifty six starts. Too many interceptions 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.880 have plagued him in college, plagued him in the pros. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.440 That's something that's got to get better, and that could 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.720 shorten his timeline as a starter. You know, you throw 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.400 a bunch of picks in the NFL, and you know 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.079 the least gets real short not nearly enough touchdown production. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.560 And this is very siline for fantasy. Again, good not 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.360 elite quarterbacks, just good quarterbacks average about to a game. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:35.040 Sam has just sixty three touchdowns in fifty six starts. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:40.120 He's barely one touchdown per game. So that part's not 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:41.120 numbers aren't great. 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:42.400 And is deep. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.160 Passing particularly bad? Here is this? Here are his PFF 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.240 ranks as a deep passer for Sam Darnold in his 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.800 five years getting starts thirty fourth. Again, there's thirty two 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.600 teams in the NFL, thirty fourth, thirty first, thirty sixth, 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.720 twenty ninth, and twenty eighth. He has just fifteen career 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.720 touchdowns of more than twenty yards and again, fifty six 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.760 NFL starts, just fifteen touchdowns of more than twenty yards 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.600 struggles under pressure. Here's his completion percentage ranks under pressure, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.640 Thank you Pro Football Focus thirty fifth, twenty eight, thirty second, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.640 twenty fourth, and thirty first. He's played. I mean, what 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.240 you can't what you can't, well, you can't get around. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.160 Donald's played some bad football. You just don't know if 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.439 it's because of the surroundings, the position he's been in, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.840 or if it's because he's not a very good quarterback. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.880 And this is gonna be the first time to find out. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.200 Yeah, he deserves some blame, for sure, but I do 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.480 give him the benefit of the doubt for a lot 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.400 of bad a lot of bad play around him, and 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.160 a lot of bad tutelage coaching that he's had. But 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.520 I again, he's been through hell and back, so I'm 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.160 excited to see what he can do with the vikings. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.679 I'm gonna close with this angle or more angle? All right, Well, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.880 i'd won more on Sam darld Okay all right, real quick, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:03.480 Kevin O'Connell's cut by the New York Jets on hard 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.400 knocks in front of the whole world. Do you not 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.080 think that Kevin O'Connell wants to take Sam Donald as 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.400 a reclamation project, turn him into the all pro quarterback 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.640 he was meant to be blue chip prospect and just 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.000 shove it right back in the Jets face and say 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.200 look at us. Now. I know it was a whole 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.600 different regime at the time Rex Ryan was licking feet 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.079 and all that, but still, Kevin O'Connell has so much 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:30.120 spite in his heart. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.400 He might be licking feet now. We don't know that. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.640 You probably could be a lot of right this minut 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:35.240 he might be. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.760 He's probably got diamond these days. This there's a bunch 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.200 of foot liquors. But anyway, all right, I'm done with Donald. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.360 There was like the whole podcast we could probably no kidding, 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.960 Holy cow, Sam Donald, baby, all right, my last pick 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.920 of the drafted quarterback. And I considered Russell Wilson here 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.760 going off the board as QB thirty I believe, or 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.640 thirty one. And because you know, Russell Wilson, he finished 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.920 from weeks eight to from weeks eight to sixteen. Last year, 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:05.240 Russell Wilson was QB eight eight in a bad situation 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.480 which his team was trying to actively bench him. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.120 So I liked him. But the problem is he goes 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.560 to Pittsburgh and it's the Arthur Smith problem, right, and 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.440 I don't the wide receiver group in Pittsburgh looks really unappealing. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.959 So I decided not to go to with Russell Wilson. Here, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.959 I'm going Bryce Young pick one ninety five in Best 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:29.200 Ball Round seventeen. Brutal last year. But as we broke 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.240 down when we did the Panthers full we did the 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.880 offseason recap for the Panthers a couple of weeks ago. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:41.839 Remember another first overall pick, Trevor Lawrence, looked unfathomably bad 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.400 with a bad coaching staff in his rookie year. The 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.160 team Nukes's coaching staff brings in receiving help, brings in 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:52.040 better coaching, and then Trevor Lawrence rebounded really nicely. Maybe 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.560 Bryce Young's got that in him. Look at all the 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.160 help Bryce Young is getting. The Panthers spent their entire 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.960 offseason putting tools around Young to succeed, starting with new 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.160 head coach Dave Canalis, who has that history of reviving 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:11.800 the careers of underperforming quarterbacks Gino Smith, Baker Mayfield and 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.480 both those guys, you know, they turned around so well 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.920 that they got new sizeable contracts. You know, they came 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.400 into their teams on like one year prove it deals 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.960 and they walked away with sizeable new contracts. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.760 Dave Cannils, you remind me of someone too, by the way. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:29.920 Sam Donald, by chance, and we get just who are 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.840 we going? Back to Sam Donald? Back to Donald. The 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:38.480 Panthers traded for Deontay Johnson, so they've added a solid receiver. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.360 Adam thelem remains fine, if non explosive at this stage 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.200 of his career. They're both solid hands, guys who are 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.360 going to catch what's thrown to him them. The Panthers 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.360 poured first, second round, and fourth round picks into this offense, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:58.520 including the marble mouthed Xavier Lagette, bringing vertical speed to 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.680 the table, something Thelan and john and don't have. He's 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:06.960 the guy who is got the big, enormous upper body, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.160 the thick build and then runs a four to three 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.040 nine forty. I mean that guy is bringing He is 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.840 bringing a totally different skill set to that receiver group 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.240 and maybe Xavier Laget's gonna be very good. And they 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.520 improved the interior offensive line. They've got a new left guard, 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.960 right guard, and center, and last year they were the 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.920 twenty seventh best pass blocking unit, so they needed to 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.280 get better there too. And the Panthers ad drafts to 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:35.280 all that stuff. And then lastly, for Bryce Young, Fantasy 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.880 Pros has Carolina tied for the easiest strength of schedule 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:45.400 in the entire league for quarterbacks? Bryce Young? Round seventeen, 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.400 your backup quarterback. It was brutal last year. Doesn't have 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:49.360 to be brutal this year. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.720 What do you think, Brian, Yeah, I like it, actually 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.840 not lying. I ran into Bryce Young yesterday. I walk 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.160 around the Panthers stadium all the time, walk my dog 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.200 and I saw him in a said what's up, Bryce? 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.080 And he said, I can't sign for you? And I said, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.240 I didn't ask that. God, I'm glad you said that. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.160 But what does it say that he feels like he's 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.800 he's gotta cut that off. That's too bad. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.280 Yeah, it is a little too bad. But I'll tell 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.240 you what. In person, he look smaller than he doesn't. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.760 But I'm pulling for him, and you know Jonathan Mingo too, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.640 who knows, maybe he could. He's a second year wide 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.080 receiver too. But like you said, it can only they 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.120 bolstered the talent around him. It can only get better 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.800 for Bryce Young definitely worth a last round flyer. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.800 I like to pick all right, who is your last 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.360 round of your draft? Running back? Brian. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.440 I've I only recently discovered this guy a couple of 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.200 weeks ago, and I'm I'm really excited about his prospects, 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.000 and I'm I'm pretty much addicted to drafting him in 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.960 Best Ball right now. And that's Rashene Alie, who was 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.960 RB seventy one right now on Underdog Wow. Pick two 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.800 fifteen is his ADP. And uh, if you don't know 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.480 who Rashien Ali, he's a ali Is. He's a backup 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.400 running back for the Baltimore Raven is now a rookie 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.399 out of Marshall, selected in the fifth round in this 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.199 pass draft. Likely would have been selected sooner, but he 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.160 tore his bicep at the Senior Bowl, so he didn't 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.119 play in that game. He wasn't able to test at 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.240 the Combine. His his stock certainly took a hit as 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.560 a result, but he was he was participating in OTAs 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.640 recently somewhat limited, but he will be full go when 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.120 training camp starts in late July. And when he does 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.920 or when, sorry, when it does, I think Rashin A 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.800 Lee has a great shot of winning the backup running 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.240 back job behind Derrick Henry. He's really just competing with 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.040 Justice Hill right now. Everyone probably remembers Keaton Mitchell from 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.760 last year, but he's all but guaranteed to start going to. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:43.760 Miss at least sometime. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.840 Yeah, yeah, probably at least half the season. So I'm 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:51.440 excited for the prospects for Rashin. Ali has three down potential, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.840 great initial speed and a second burst, so he's capable 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.879 of a lot of explosive plays, as evidenced by his 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.000 seventh play fifty plus yards last year that led all 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.920 of the FBS. He has good power in the gaps again, 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.399 three down potential. He can catch, he can pass protect. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.520 I know Baltimore is saying they expect a huge workload 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.679 for Derrick Henry, but I'm not buying it. You know, 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.399 the Ravens, they have Super Bowl aspirations. They're not going 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.320 to get there by running Derrick Henry into the ground 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.879 throughout the regular season in the playoffs, and he is 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.160 north of thirty years old, thirty one, thirty two years old. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.119 So right now I'm putting all my bets on Rashein 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.960 Ali and carve out some standalone value. But if something 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.600 were to happen to Derick Henry, rashin A Lee could 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.440 be your starting running back in one of the most 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.960 electric offenses in the NFL, and your your casual fantasy 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.160 football player has no idea who he is right now, 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.280 so a name to keep your eye on. I'm very 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.840 bullish on Rashein Ali right now at very low cost. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.679 Yeah, he's got some some nice athleticism to him. He 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.240 was in Bruce Feldman's Freaks list right which is always 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:02.320 a good sign. Five foot eleven, two hundred pounds, so 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:06.480 he's got the physicality where, you know, if if he 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.879 needed to take over some of Derrick Henry's typical reps, 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.640 maybe even at the goal line, Rashin Ali interesting. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.040 I meant to bounce him off Thor really quick, see 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.239 what he thought. But I'm just gonna pretend Thor likes 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:18.600 him tall. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.000 Oh I heard that? Oh yeah, Thor loves Thor loves 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.560 him absolutely for sure. Oh good, Yeah, we'll just assume 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.840 I'm on Broncos running back Julia McLoughlin currently go after 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.159 board ADP one's seventy five running back fifty three in 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.359 round fifteen. He plays for the Denver Broncos. You may 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.280 remember him from last year. At this stage of the draft, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.159 I'm looking for guys who can show some kind of differentiator, Brian, 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.080 something special that can put them on the field frequently, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.040 even if even if it's not like super consistent, but 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.840 enough where they're like demand. The skill set is there, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.560 they just have to get playing time. And McLaughlin can 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.679 be a thrilling runner. He's dynamic, he's elusive, he's fast. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.640 Let me give you some stats from last year rookie year. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:06.440 McLaughlin finished third among all running backs in PFF's elusiveness ratings, 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.840 and he would have graded out as the number one 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.040 player the year prior just based on his grade, which 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.359 was I think one hundred by their rating system. His 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:22.800 breakaway run percentage was twenty eight percent, fifteenth best in 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:28.440 the entire league, and Jalil McLoughlin finished as Pro Football 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.959 Focuses thirteenth ranked running back thirteenth. We're getting him off 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.640 the board at running back fifty three and by the way, 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.600 he can catch eighty six percent catch rate last year, 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:39.120 zero drops last year. 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:41.280 McLoughlin's the closest. 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.520 Thing Sean Payton has to Alan Kamara if he wants 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.840 to put if you honest to get Alvin Kamara back, 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:48.919 McLoughlin's his guy, and I'll tell you who it's not. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.080 Let's talk about Javonte Williams for a minute. Man, did 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:56.160 he looked mundane last year coming off the knee injury. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:58.920 Maybe he's never maybe gets better second year off the 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.800 injury and that happens sometimes, or maybe this is just 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:06.120 who he is now. I mean some guys never come 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.160 back from it. I mean look at Gus Edwards for example, 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.320 never really the same guy. JK. Dobbins, never really the 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:17.120 same guy. You know Williams last year I mentioned McLoughlin 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:21.120 finished Pro Football Focuses running Back thirteen. Brian, you want 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:29.040 to guess for Javonte Williams finished RB forty one, fifty six, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.760