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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul
Speaker 1: Charchian my co host today Kent, Whyrock, Hey Kent, good
Speaker 1: to have you back.
Speaker 3: Ay Ball, how are we doing. Glad to be back,
Speaker 3: and you know, we wrapped up the divisions and now
Speaker 3: we get to explore some other fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna have a great time today. Really excited
Speaker 1: for this show because we're going to talk about the
Speaker 1: last pick of your draft. You know, we focus on
Speaker 1: the rest of your draft almost exclusively. We don't talk
Speaker 1: that much about the last pick now. And this is
Speaker 1: a little bit different than sleepers. Everybody does sleeper stuff.
Speaker 1: That's not frankly all that comment uncommon at all. But
Speaker 1: anything could be a sleeper. In my definition of sleeper, Kent,
Speaker 1: if a third rounder who can perform like a first rounder,
Speaker 1: to me, constitutes a sleeper, not a you know, not
Speaker 1: a big one. It doesn't have you know, it could
Speaker 1: be an eighth rounder performs like a third rounder. So
Speaker 1: for me, this is a little bit different. This is
Speaker 1: finding a guy who can help you on the last
Speaker 1: pick of the draft, and that to me is a
Speaker 1: is a little it's orders of magnitude harder than just sleepers.
Speaker 3: Absolutely and sleepers. It's you know, it's like people are
Speaker 3: asleep at the wheel about their value. That's kind of
Speaker 3: the way to think about it. It's not just late
Speaker 3: round guys. It mostly is just because that's kind of
Speaker 3: the nature of how people are sleeping on players. But
Speaker 3: this is so interesting because you know, when we're talking
Speaker 3: about you know, and I know we pulled a lot
Speaker 3: of this from you know, like best ball data, because
Speaker 3: that's what we got right now. But we're getting into
Speaker 3: redraft season and those last couple of picks, they can
Speaker 3: either be dynamite or you just cut them week one
Speaker 3: or week two, and that's fine. But if you find
Speaker 3: that late, it's a big turnaround in terms of value.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's talk philosophically. Ken, With the last
Speaker 1: pick of your draft, would you rather find somebody who
Speaker 1: has who could drop, who has a small percentage chance
Speaker 1: but could end up being explosively good, or you just
Speaker 1: looking with that last pick of your draft to find
Speaker 1: a guy you can keep on your bench and just
Speaker 1: like start them two times during the year, three times
Speaker 1: during the year, and somebody that can just like fill
Speaker 1: a void. Do you understand the distinction I'm trying to make.
Speaker 3: Here, Yeah. Absolutely, And I'm looking for upside. I'm looking
Speaker 3: for the bowl case on all these guys, because you know,
Speaker 3: on any given week, you can probably depending on your
Speaker 3: league settings, find a guy who can start on the
Speaker 3: waiver wire. It's not gonna be great, it'll be in
Speaker 3: a pinch, it'll be a you know, seven point outing
Speaker 3: or something like that, but you could find someone who
Speaker 3: can fill a gap pretty simply. It's it's that upside.
Speaker 3: It's that that crazy, like you win your league off
Speaker 3: of it type stuff that I think we're really shooting.
Speaker 1: For here, yep. And you're gonna see that in the
Speaker 1: six players you're gonna hear about. I think all have
Speaker 1: the possibility of turning into if the situation's break right.
Speaker 1: And obviously we're talking last pick your draft, so none
Speaker 1: of these none of these things are likely, but they were,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be the last picks. But if things break right,
Speaker 1: these could all be massive contributors. And in most formats,
Speaker 1: not Guillotine. Most formats, Kent, you have to shoot for
Speaker 1: tip of the spear. You have to be the best
Speaker 1: of ten teams or the best of twelve teams. You
Speaker 1: have to get a couple of these breaks to go
Speaker 1: your way. Guillotine's different where you're just looking to survive
Speaker 1: every week. That's a very different model. Here. You have
Speaker 1: to get in a traditional league, most leagues, best ball.
Speaker 1: You just got to get some breaks, and these are
Speaker 1: guys that could potentially help you. Now I know Kent
Speaker 1: people are fascinated to learn the many travails of my
Speaker 1: move and where am I geographically in my house. This
Speaker 1: has been a roving discuss every week we talk about
Speaker 1: where I am now. I've done shows from the closet,
Speaker 1: I've done shows from u from my living room, I've
Speaker 1: done shows from my kitchen. This I'm now office. I'm
Speaker 1: I now have the Utah office going. But the movers
Speaker 1: showed up with the second half of my stuff two
Speaker 1: weeks late, and everything's in boxes. So I'm right now,
Speaker 1: I've got You can't see all the stuff. It's all
Speaker 1: just it's all pandemonium here, boxes and stuff's all on.
Speaker 1: You know, nothing's out, I do anything set up, don't
Speaker 1: have any of the sound dampening in my office that
Speaker 1: I want to have yet. So there's your there's just
Speaker 1: a quick update right now you get you can see it.
Speaker 3: We need where in the world is Paul Chargion drop
Speaker 3: for for what's going on right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we really do. You're too young to remember Carmen
Speaker 1: san Diego.
Speaker 3: I saw glimpses. I won't say I was any kind
Speaker 3: of a devout viewer, but it was around. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So now the fact that you even went to the
Speaker 1: viewer before the video game shows you.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, that's a fair call out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the the karma. Where in the World Is Carmen
Speaker 1: san Diego started its life as a edgeywear title. It
Speaker 1: was a video game from the nineteenth like late eighties
Speaker 1: or early nineties, I'm going to go early nineties, and
Speaker 1: it spun off into a TV show and the TV
Speaker 1: show did great. It was on for many, many years,
Speaker 1: and you learned about the geography of all these different
Speaker 1: places as Carmen san Diego rent around the world and
Speaker 1: you're trying to track her down. And although I think
Speaker 1: Carmen could be a guy too. I think he didn't
Speaker 1: know for sure if you were tracking a man or
Speaker 1: a woman.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the old days, well today we're tracking down
Speaker 3: some late round darts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nice transition right there. Do you want to go?
Speaker 1: Let's have you go first. Who's the first last pick
Speaker 1: of your draft? Kent?
Speaker 3: My first last pick is going to be Roshan Johnson,
Speaker 3: running back for the Chicago Bears. And you know it's
Speaker 3: not a sexy name. He hasn't really been a huge
Speaker 3: producer over the last few years. In fact, he's somewhat
Speaker 3: struggled at times, and so you know that's kind of
Speaker 3: the reason why his ADP is where it is right now.
Speaker 3: But there is a new head coach in town, Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3: He was the latest and greatest in offensive coaches to
Speaker 3: pick up a head coaching gig. And you know he's
Speaker 3: coming from the Detroit Lions, where he had DeAndre Swift
Speaker 3: on his team back in twenty twenty two. Bench. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he certainly did. But one thing to note is that
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson's rush touchdown league ranks as an OC They're
Speaker 3: gonna be third, first, and second in the league. He's
Speaker 3: never been below third.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so now and wait, let me just let
Speaker 1: me jump in right there. Ken, that's without Josh Allen
Speaker 1: and Jalen Hurts on his team. I mean, those quarterbacks
Speaker 1: have to be in. I mean, I gotta believe number
Speaker 1: one and number two teams are probably Philadelphia and Buffalo
Speaker 1: in those years because of the quarterbacks that are housing ten, twelve,
Speaker 1: fourteen touchdowns each up close. Ben Johnson's not doing that
Speaker 1: with Jared Goff.
Speaker 3: Nope, not too often. He doesn't sometimes, but he's certainly
Speaker 3: not a guy known for his legs, So we could
Speaker 3: go that route. But yeah, you might recall that back
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two was actually the Jamal Williams year.
Speaker 3: He had two hundred and sixty two attempts, one thousand
Speaker 3: plus rushing yards, and seventeen rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Which is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I think more than the rest of his career combined.
Speaker 3: I don't have the number off the top of my head,
Speaker 3: but it was a big chunk of his overall rushing
Speaker 3: touchdown percentage. And DeAndre Swift missed three games and he
Speaker 3: didn't even get to one hundred attempts on the ground,
Speaker 3: five hundred and forty two rush yards and only five touchdowns,
Speaker 3: So you know the fact that he Ben Johnson that
Speaker 3: is leaned into the usage of Jamal Williams that year
Speaker 3: is pretty stark in terms of comparing to DeAndre Swift,
Speaker 3: who we thought was kind of an up and coming
Speaker 3: guy at the time, and that was his first I think,
Speaker 3: like real down year and it's been kind of sketchy since. So,
Speaker 3: you know, real quick size comparison, I think is an
Speaker 3: important distinction here because we're talking about Roshan Johnson, who
Speaker 3: is six foot two hundred and twenty five pounds. Wow,
Speaker 3: Jamal Williams is six foot two hundred twenty four pounds,
Speaker 3: So if you'll allow me the one pound leeway, I
Speaker 3: can say they're pretty much the exact same size. And
Speaker 3: then Swift's a smaller guy. He's have five to nine
Speaker 3: two and fifteen pounds, So if we're looking for a
Speaker 3: one to one replacement of what he accomplished with Jamal Williams,
Speaker 3: I would rather look Roshan Johnson's way for that touchdown
Speaker 3: goal line potential. And you know last year his yards
Speaker 3: per carry, which I think a lot of people look
Speaker 3: at that's a very common stat It was two point seven.
Speaker 3: I say, we can just ignore it because he was
Speaker 3: almost exclusively used in short yardage situations last year and
Speaker 3: that's going to affect your yards per carry. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I was thirty eight percent of his carries were in
Speaker 3: one to three yard situations, right, and so in gold
Speaker 3: to gost situations, Roshan Johnson scored six out of excuse me,
Speaker 3: all six of his touchdowns on just seven attempts. So
Speaker 3: he scored on six out of seven gold to goes.
Speaker 3: That's really good stuff. That's the type of scoring potential
Speaker 3: that head coaches and offense coordinators love. They want the
Speaker 3: guy who can get into the pay dirt and score
Speaker 3: the points for the teams. So if they're looking to
Speaker 3: someone in the red zone at the one to five
Speaker 3: yard line, Roshan Johnson I think is a better person
Speaker 3: to look into than DeAndre Swift is who I think
Speaker 3: we all thought were going to sign a free agent
Speaker 3: running back didn't ever get one. So it's just Roshan
Speaker 3: Johnson Jeandre Swift. There there is a little bit of
Speaker 3: like camp height, and I know you've talked about Kyle Mnunguy,
Speaker 3: but he's a seventh rounder, a smaller So if he's
Speaker 3: going to replace anyone I would wager he's going to
Speaker 3: replace Swift and then they'll just have to figure out
Speaker 3: something with the receiving work. But I think if you're
Speaker 3: looking for that big bruiser goal line back, Roshan Johnson's
Speaker 3: the guy, and at Ben Johnson, who Johnson and Johnson,
Speaker 3: we got something going there can come to fruition. This
Speaker 3: could be a ten plus touchdown season for Roshan.
Speaker 1: I could see it. I think that's a defensible case.
Speaker 1: The offensive line got way better between the guards and
Speaker 1: Roshan Johnson. Ten touchdowns would not surprise me. I like it.
Speaker 1: That makes a ton of sense. My guy is less
Speaker 1: probable for ten touchdowns by a fair margin. I'm going
Speaker 1: with my first last pick of the draft. I am
Speaker 1: ta And by the way, I should note each of
Speaker 1: these players has to be from round fourteen or lower
Speaker 1: to constitute last pick of the draft. I think most
Speaker 1: leagues are at least fourteen players. Summer way bigger than fourteen.
Speaker 1: I don't love that, but that's just me. So he
Speaker 1: had to be at least pick one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: eight to qualify. My guy's quite a bit below that.
Speaker 1: And it's New Orleans running back Devin Neil the rookie.
Speaker 1: He was Thor's number six running back when we checked
Speaker 1: in with Thor on this show shortly before the draft
Speaker 1: on the running back position. And I think the State
Speaker 1: Saints got just a steal taken Devin Neil in the
Speaker 1: sixth round. You know, Alvin Kamara last year absolutely played
Speaker 1: gallantly in the face of zero quarterbacking, no healthy receivers,
Speaker 1: and a absolutely beat up offensive line. You know, Kamara
Speaker 1: is sitting on two thousand, two hundred career touches. He
Speaker 1: turns thirty next month. He has had a ton of work.
Speaker 1: And if anything were to happen to Kamara, or if
Speaker 1: they just don't want to use him as much, the
Speaker 1: depth charts really thick in Kendrey Miller and Clyde Edwards Hilaire.
Speaker 1: Kendray Miller couldn't get on the field last year when
Speaker 1: they needed to spell, they needed to spell Kamara a lot.
Speaker 1: Kendrey Miller was a non factor for most of the
Speaker 1: last year, although also hurt for much of the year.
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire obviously cut by the Chiefs. Neil could
Speaker 1: easily win the backup job, and stylistically he's the closest
Speaker 1: player to Alvin Kamara the Saints have on the roster.
Speaker 1: He's slow where Kamara's really fast, but otherwise he's super shifty.
Speaker 1: He's got amazing footwork. His vision is tremendous. If a
Speaker 1: cutback lane opens up, Devin Neil's gonna find it and
Speaker 1: he can catch fifty one receptions the last two years
Speaker 1: at Kansas. So Devin Neils is that shot in the dark.
Speaker 1: We don't wish bad things on any player, especially injury,
Speaker 1: including Alvin Kamara, but if anything were to happen there
Speaker 1: or they just need to spell Camara more than they
Speaker 1: have in the past, Devin Neil at thirty years old,
Speaker 1: Devin Neil might be an interesting guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I know we talked about this a little bit,
Speaker 3: and I like Alvin Kamara at his value this year
Speaker 3: because he is going later than he has in years past.
Speaker 3: But certainly the reason that he's being drafted as late
Speaker 3: as he is is because of the risk associated with,
Speaker 3: you know, his health and what the direction is of
Speaker 3: this team is going to be. I mean, they're still
Speaker 3: working their way out of a lot of cap problems
Speaker 3: that they're they're trying to fix, and this is Tyler
Speaker 3: Shuck's team for the foreseeable future. It's a very interesting
Speaker 3: direction for the Saints right now. And so you know,
Speaker 3: if they do want to find some juice and they're
Speaker 3: going to look to the guys who can perform regardless
Speaker 3: of where they got drafted, Devin Neils certainly in line
Speaker 3: to make a jump later in the year.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to your second last pick of
Speaker 1: the draft. Kent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this this one technically abides by our ADP
Speaker 3: rules ADP rules, But you know, Nick Chubb, the Houston
Speaker 3: running back, very recently signed. He could climb up in
Speaker 3: ADP in the in the coming weeks and certainly throughout
Speaker 3: camp if we hear positive news. But it's a very
Speaker 3: interesting situation. You know, last year he was turning from
Speaker 3: a very gruesome knee injury and repair. He had an
Speaker 3: MCL and meniscus and then subsequently had his ACL repaired
Speaker 3: on top of that, so it was a it was
Speaker 3: a tough road to recovery for him in his running form.
Speaker 3: And then last year he was looking rough and then
Speaker 3: started looking a little better and then got a foot
Speaker 3: fracture in week fifteen, so knocked out once again. Now,
Speaker 3: luckily foot fractures you can heal from pretty quickly. They're
Speaker 3: not too bad in terms of altering your running form
Speaker 3: or anything like that. So hopefully with one more offseason
Speaker 3: separated from that terrible knee injury, we can see a
Speaker 3: little bit more of the Nick Chubb of old. And honestly,
Speaker 3: last year between the tackles, he was better in advanced
Speaker 3: metrics than Joe Mixon was, and it's not much, and
Speaker 3: both of them were technically below expectation. But you know,
Speaker 3: we've talked about how one of the greatest attributes of
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon this year is that there's no competition. Well,
Speaker 3: if you can get Nick Chubb coming back to seventy
Speaker 3: five eighty percent of what he has been in the past,
Speaker 3: it might not be what you'd love out of Nick job,
Speaker 3: but it's certainly competition. It's certainly more than dari Ogumwallee
Speaker 3: and certainly more than Damian Pierce. So hey, careful, it's careful, Faul. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 1: I am I'm a Damien Pierce apologist. I always feel
Speaker 1: like he's been under used, but the rest of it
Speaker 1: I certainly agree with. Here, let me give you one
Speaker 1: more thing on mixing that worries me about him ran
Speaker 1: out of gas last year you could see, yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: And you know, over his final six games he drooped
Speaker 1: down to twenty ninth in rushing yards, thirty first in
Speaker 1: average yards per carry, and twenty fifth in avoided tackle rate.
Speaker 1: That's mixin final six games the last year. So now
Speaker 1: add another year onto the you know, onto his age.
Speaker 1: He's now twenty nine. He's had twenty three hundred career
Speaker 1: touches Joe Mixon has and I you know, it might
Speaker 1: not be Week one when he you know, he falls apart,
Speaker 1: but at some point you wonder if this coming sea
Speaker 1: and he's going to have another scenario where he just
Speaker 1: runs out of gas and they got to go to
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so you know, this is a team that
Speaker 3: I think still has pretty good aspirations for the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they might do some load balancing and stuff like that too.
Speaker 3: So if Nick Jubb is a guy who can end
Speaker 3: up getting up to like maybe ten touches a game,
Speaker 3: you know, limited compared to what we've seen in the
Speaker 3: year's past, that's still enough. If he can bounce back
Speaker 3: in terms of his efficiency in his running style. You know,
Speaker 3: last year the Texans were dead last and rushing success
Speaker 3: rate second worst, and run block win rate from ESPN.
Speaker 3: They didn't really fix their offensive line. They've made some changes,
Speaker 3: but I think one thing they didn't fix it. They
Speaker 3: made changes, but one thing I do want to call
Speaker 3: out is that they promoted a new offensive line coach,
Speaker 3: Cole Popovich just really distantly related to Greg Actually did
Speaker 3: not know that. Yeah, fun fact I found it out
Speaker 3: by doing the research, so that was fun. But that
Speaker 3: could be a catalyst for some improvement in maybe cohesiveness,
Speaker 3: if not just talent or ability.
Speaker 1: I really want to believe Houston's going to bounce back
Speaker 1: to the promise that they showed two years ago. They can.
Speaker 1: Their offensive coordinator, Bobby slok It looked like a genius
Speaker 1: in the first year. When you know, we're all like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, c J. Stroud is this is he
Speaker 1: had one of the best rookie seasons of any quarterback
Speaker 1: in memory. And to have it all fall apart so quickly,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think most of that was on
Speaker 1: the offensive line, much more than Bobby Sloan. But we've
Speaker 1: given you three different running backs. This is not just
Speaker 1: a running back show we are doing. Last pick of
Speaker 1: the draft doesn't have to be a running back, although
Speaker 1: I think running backs it's it's a little frankly, it's
Speaker 1: it's a little bit easier to make cases for running
Speaker 1: backs and other position.
Speaker 3: They're the tickets.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for a guy to have a quick
Speaker 3: influx of value, it's almost always running backs. Midway through
Speaker 3: the year, let.
Speaker 1: Me give you a tight end. That's New Orleans tight
Speaker 1: end Juwan Johnson, who on the surface sounds ultra boring
Speaker 1: because he has never distinguished himself in the Saints offense,
Speaker 1: particularly although he's coming off career highs in targets, catches,
Speaker 1: and receiving yards last year, pretty good numbers. In March,
Speaker 1: they signed him to a three year, thirty million dollar extension.
Speaker 1: Ked I'm like Jwan Johnson, but you know what they knew.
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill's not coming back. He's tore his ACL in December,
Speaker 1: it's unclear, and he's thirty four years old. Taysom Hills
Speaker 1: sneaky old and backup Foster Moreau knee injury in January.
Speaker 1: He's he was not able to participate in any of
Speaker 1: the OTAs. His status for training camp is not clear,
Speaker 1: and he's the backup anyway. Johnson is going to be
Speaker 1: the number one tight end on a Saints team where
Speaker 1: they're going to be starting a rookie quarterback, a green quarterback,
Speaker 1: no matter what, probably a rookie quarterback. And you know,
Speaker 1: we love we know rookie quarterbacks love their dump off
Speaker 1: tight ends, right they own, they get in the pocket,
Speaker 1: they make their one read, and then they panic and
Speaker 1: they dump the ball off to their safety valve tight end.
Speaker 1: It's easy to see Johnson getting a bunch of easy
Speaker 1: catches in this new Saints offense, and the depth chart,
Speaker 1: a wide receiver gets real thin, real fast. Yea Chris
Speaker 1: olave Rashidchi He's gonna try to come back from injury.
Speaker 1: And then last thing I'll mention on Juwan Johnson. Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore's your new head coach and he will be the
Speaker 1: play caller. He's the one in Stalling's offense. Last year
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore as Philadelphia's offensive coordinator, Dallas Goddard was tight
Speaker 1: end eleven in PPR points per game. The previous year
Speaker 1: he was with the Chargers as their offensive coordinator, they
Speaker 1: only had Gerald Everard. He was tight end twenty two.
Speaker 1: But the year before that he was the Cowboys offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator and Kellen Moore got Dalton Schultz to tight end
Speaker 1: seven and got him paid. And so there's some real
Speaker 1: opportunity in a Kellen Moore offense for Juwan Johnson to
Speaker 1: make good. As the last pick in your draft.
Speaker 3: I'm just wondering who your third Saints player is gonna be.
Speaker 1: I know, right, I think I've run out of meaningful
Speaker 1: Saints right now. There's that we may have app that
Speaker 1: that as far as it can go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it goes by how the quarterback situation goes.
Speaker 3: If if we see an emergence of Shuck, then you
Speaker 3: know this could be absolutely a breakout candidate and someone
Speaker 3: who that I know a lot of people have had
Speaker 3: their eyes on Juwan Johnson.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't think Shuck's gonna break out. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think they'll be drafting another quarterback later but next year.
Speaker 1: But I still think he can catch a bunch of
Speaker 1: dump off stuff. We'll find out Juan Johnson. All right, Ken,
Speaker 1: who is your third and final last pick of the draft.
Speaker 3: Well, see one play one. I have a tight end
Speaker 3: as well. No wide receivers now, now that I'm realizing
Speaker 3: that unless you have one in your up your sleeve here,
Speaker 3: but my tight end is going to be New York
Speaker 3: Giants tight end Theo Johnson, and Theo Johnson's an interesting case.
Speaker 3: He's definitely under the radar. I think he might be
Speaker 3: one of the lowest ones in terms of ADP right now,
Speaker 3: and so he's very much like the mister irrelevant of
Speaker 3: your fantasy football draft. He came out of college playing
Speaker 3: behind Brenton Strange, who had a nice little, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of semi breakout after Evan Ingram got injured last year,
Speaker 3: and a guy named Tyler Warren maybe you've heard of him.
Speaker 3: He got wrapped it this year in the first round.
Speaker 3: So he played behind those two guys in college, and
Speaker 3: then prior to that, he actually played Canadian football in
Speaker 3: high school. So we're talking twelve man per side, larger field,
Speaker 3: different game, and well not entirely, but certainly the scheme
Speaker 3: is different. Stuff like that. So there's been a bit
Speaker 3: of a learning curve. But can I interest you in
Speaker 3: a nine point nine to nine raz which is the
Speaker 3: second highest tight end since nineteen eighty seven?
Speaker 1: Okay, you know who number one was?
Speaker 3: No? Yeah, it's uh, oh, oh, who do you think
Speaker 3: it was?
Speaker 1: Actually, I believe I know because I'm the only person
Speaker 1: potentially on the planet, and in fact, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: likely on the planet, including his own team that thinks
Speaker 1: that there's still a possible of Jelanie Woods turning into
Speaker 1: a meaningful NFL player.
Speaker 3: He was number three years all. The first one is
Speaker 3: you may recall, I honestly had to look him up
Speaker 3: to remind myself its Zach Kuntz. H he was, I
Speaker 3: believe on the Eagles for a short period of time.
Speaker 3: If if I'm not mistaken, did not amount to anything.
Speaker 3: That's you forgot.
Speaker 1: That's a guy you have to enunciate very very carefully.
Speaker 3: Yep, and I did my best. So let's let's work
Speaker 3: past that. But yeah, super athletic, and you know, tight
Speaker 3: end is a position on offense that correlates to production
Speaker 3: the best out of any other position. So if you
Speaker 3: got a guy who you know, even though he has
Speaker 3: a learning curve because he came out of Canadian football
Speaker 3: and he played behind two, uh you know, other really
Speaker 3: good tight ends, let's keep an eye on him. You know,
Speaker 3: last year he suffered a list frank injury in week thirteen.
Speaker 3: He missed the rest of the year, but the final
Speaker 3: five games leading up to that injury, he was starting
Speaker 3: to break out as a rookie. And you know, it
Speaker 3: wasn't like world ending numbers or anything like that. It
Speaker 3: was five point four targets, forty three yards and point
Speaker 3: two touchdowns per game, just modest numbers. But let me
Speaker 3: remind you he was playing with Daniel Jones, Drew Locke,
Speaker 3: and Tommy Cutletz Divito, so he had a real mixed
Speaker 3: bag of quarterback play during that period. And you know,
Speaker 3: given the situation and the experience and his background, it's
Speaker 3: their modest but respectable numbers, I think. So this year
Speaker 3: we're gonna have Russell Wilson stepping into the fold. Who
Speaker 3: you know, people have their opinions of him, but certainly
Speaker 3: better than that situation. And he was fine last year.
Speaker 3: He was eleventh in PFFS passing grade. He set up
Speaker 3: Pat Fryarmuth for his best fantasy season to date, and
Speaker 3: if you extrapolate the season when Russell Wilson took over,
Speaker 3: Friarmuth was on an eighty target, seven hundred yard, eight
Speaker 3: or nine touchdown season, which would if we got something
Speaker 3: similar to that out of THEO Johnson, it would be
Speaker 3: a great situation. You know, Friar Ruth quietly was twelfth
Speaker 3: in red zone targets last year. I don't think I
Speaker 3: would have thought that if I didn't look.
Speaker 1: It up, which is not exactly If that's the most
Speaker 1: compelling stat you can come up with on Pat Fryarmouth,
Speaker 1: that he was twelfth in red zone targets, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more about Russell Wilson, more about he's willing
Speaker 3: to target the tight end, and frankly, there's virtually no
Speaker 3: tight end competition on this team right now. Daniel Bellinger
Speaker 3: is just a guy. Chris Manherds is a veteran blocker,
Speaker 3: and then they have Greg Dultcha on the roster. But
Speaker 3: that experiment's over. I'm done with it.
Speaker 1: That will not allow Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, uh. Looking over to their receivers, which I
Speaker 3: think is an important kind of distinction when talking about
Speaker 3: tight ends, is they really don't have a solid number two.
Speaker 3: They have, you know, Malik Neighbors is obviously there one,
Speaker 3: and he's awesome. They have Darius Slayton, who's a deep
Speaker 3: threat kind of guy, doesn't really do too much else
Speaker 3: and then they have Wandale Robinson, who's kind of a
Speaker 3: short at gadgety type player, and I don't think he's
Speaker 3: gonna amount to anything significant in terms of a full
Speaker 3: route tree. So you have this opportunity for someone to
Speaker 3: work some crossers, work up the scene, and I think
Speaker 3: THEO Johnson could potentially be that guy to take up
Speaker 3: those targets.
Speaker 1: All right, THEO john IIY. I if it came down
Speaker 1: to Juwan Johnson or THEO Johnson, which Johnson are you picking?
Speaker 3: Oh Man, Juan Johnson. I believe it has the better
Speaker 3: case right now, and I think he's hiring ADP Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I would probably just have to go him for
Speaker 3: that reason. But I know that in my best ball
Speaker 3: drafts that I'm doing right now and stuff where I
Speaker 3: have a little bit deeper of a roster, I am
Speaker 3: grabbing THEO Johnson absolutely everywhere I can.
Speaker 1: All Right, you're grabbing Johnson everywhere you can? All right, Well,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show now. Now it's officially a Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Last pick for me on my last pick
Speaker 1: of the draft, My last pick, last pick is a
Speaker 1: guy that we alluded to, well let me allude to.
Speaker 1: We talked about him last week, But I'm just I
Speaker 1: liked him last week and I like him this week,
Speaker 1: so I'm mentioning him again. Baltimore running back Justice Hill.
Speaker 1: I used to be moan Hill's insertion into the Ravens
Speaker 1: offense back when it was when JK. Dobbins was still
Speaker 1: young and good and Gus Edwards was young, healthy and good,
Speaker 1: and no it's not even a matter of young. They
Speaker 1: were just healthy and good, and I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: just pound those guys, and I never wanted to see
Speaker 1: Justice Hill in the field. Then last year he looked
Speaker 1: just like a different back PFF grading way way up
Speaker 1: and turned into a really good pass catching back. I
Speaker 1: just feel like Justice Hill is a high priority handcuff
Speaker 1: behind Derrick Henry, and I don't even want to get
Speaker 1: into like, you know, if Henry goes down, then you know,
Speaker 1: Hill obviously would be you know, turned into roughly a
Speaker 1: top ten fantasy running back. But even what I like
Speaker 1: about Justice Hill is I don't need that injury because
Speaker 1: the pass catching has been so good. He finished his
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus is number three ranked receiving running back.
Speaker 1: Last year, he had forty two catches and zero drops,
Speaker 1: so I think he can be a PPR helper. Any
Speaker 1: week that you have to you got when you've got
Speaker 1: to turn to your bench, it's a bye week, an
Speaker 1: injury or something, you could start Justice Hill keep your
Speaker 1: fingers crossed. You get to ten PPR points and then
Speaker 1: you know, if God forbid something happens to Derek Henry,
Speaker 1: you're sitting on a gold mine. So I feel like
Speaker 1: he helps you both ways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we've talked about before that. I like
Speaker 3: Keith Mitchell here as well if there's an injury. But
Speaker 3: if let's say Derek Henry stays healthy, Justice Hill is
Speaker 3: definitely a better selection of the team. He's got that
Speaker 3: PPR floor. Like you said, he's very a dynamic. They
Speaker 3: gave him the contract last year, so they're gonna be
Speaker 3: using him as much as they can. You know, whenever
Speaker 3: you see a running Mack get extended, it's it's a
Speaker 3: sign that the offense values him and so you're going
Speaker 3: to keep him in the fold. And Derek Henry's obviously
Speaker 3: the lead dog here, but yeah, it's always nice to
Speaker 3: have a flex player that you can get for pretty
Speaker 3: pretty cheap.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like that part too, Kent, You've done a
Speaker 1: lot of shows you finally get to take a break
Speaker 1: for over a month. Yeah, how about that. Next week
Speaker 1: we're going to turn our attention to do the opposite.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about when you should do the opposite,
Speaker 1: when you should and do the opposite. If you don't know,
Speaker 1: is the it's the origin. It's the original no running back,
Speaker 1: zero RB approach that we were talking about on the show,
Speaker 1: ten full years before anybody knew the term zero running back. Kent,
Speaker 1: and we'll be talking about where to do the opposite,
Speaker 1: where to undo the opposite? Next week. That'll be with
Speaker 1: Matt And there's been a ton of fun, love talking
Speaker 1: about the bottom of the draft as opposed to where
Speaker 1: we usually focus our attention. Kent, great job, thank you,
Speaker 1: glad to be here and it was a good chet Yep.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to everybody next week. Thanks everybody. Fantasy Football
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