WEBVTT - February 2025 Mock Draft 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.240 Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, February eighteenth, twenty twenty five. Welcome 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.119 to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. We're not quite ready 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.520 for hand size season yet. To me your man MG 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.520 Marcus Grand joined by Michael F. Florio. Lakwan Jones at 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.760 this moment is still on an airplane. He is on 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.680 his way to New Orleans. He's going to be there 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.519 for an HBCU showcase, the HBCU Legacy Bowl coming up 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.560 this weekend, so he will be enjoying lots of good 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.400 food and lots of fun in New Orleans while Floria, 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.839 you and I are just grinding here doing mock drafts 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:44.400 and stuff. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.879 Look, I'll give let's give LQ credit. He was like, 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.720 I Land, I want to run to the hotel, like 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.400 can I Like, it wouldn't work out schedule wise, but 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:54.920 he wanted to be here right now. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.960 That is true. That is true. All credit to Tilakwan 0:00:58.040 --> 0:00:59.880 because he was going to try and hustle up and 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.880 set up from the hotel and do the show. Is 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.920 just timing wise with the rest of us, it was 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.240 gonna be difficult. We expect though. He will be back 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.840 for Thursday show so we can ask him questions about 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.720 some of his mock draft stuff. Then the one headlines 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.160 we get to by the way, we are doing a show. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.039 We did a mock draft yesterday. We're gonna talk about 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.520 the mock draft. We got some some other running back 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.000 rankings things, and then maybe some fun in fravolity at 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.520 the end, depending on how long we are babbling about 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.720 the other stuff here. But yeah, we did a mock 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:34.440 draft the first of what several this year, I would assume, right. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.520 Yeah, I mean I like doing them, like we were 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.319 talking about doing them maybe like once a month or 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.480 something like that, just to kind of keep compare. And 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.920 it's really cool because, like you, you posted this on 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.280 Blue you skeeded it. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.720 I guess, uh yeah, I Patrick CLAYBN has convinced me 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.600 that we're just we're just calling him tweets regardless. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.520 Okay, so you tweeted it on Blue Sky, oh right, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:02:00.520 and it filled within like twenty minutes. So it's a 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.320 lot of people who live in breath fantasy like we do, 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:04.880 which which is really cool. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.000 Yeah. Absolutely, we actually got some really cool folks in here. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.840 Nate poll Vote joined us. Kevin Tompkins. I think you 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.560 could read him with some of his stuff over at 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.360 at Fantasy pros. Nate Yankie from Pro Football Focus was 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.799 in with us Pete Davidson him at Rotobond. There's a 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.680 whole lot of folks who jumped in, so we are 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.480 grateful for them for feeling this thing up. And I 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.079 think we just had some civilians out there as well 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:31.320 who just said jumped in. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.480 Do you think Pete gets it as much as I do? 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.440 Like tweets thinking he's someone else, Yeah, except that his 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.840 are probably more fun than yours, oh easily. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.280 I mean he probably got a lot of tweets about 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:49.080 the SNL fiftieth anniversary or something like that. Yours. You 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.040 just get angry angry. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:56.000 People whenever like a supermodel or like a singer breaks 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.880 up with their significant other. They probably slide into Pete's 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.919 DMS like yeah, I mean I would think so right. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.360 So yeah, it's probably a different, different level, for sure 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.600 than than what you get when when people make you mad, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.880 you make whatever when the other florio tweets things, writes things, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.200 and people get upset about it. So yeah, I want 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.840 to go through this mock draft. It was a twelve 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.760 team PPR Snake draft. I will also try to post 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.440 the actual board, so folks can check that out too, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.320 because I know, just sort of listening to this thing 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.280 is gonna be a little bit difficult to follow. So 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.520 we'll post the board. You can take a look at that. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.840 You can make your own determinations of who you thought 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.120 had a good draft or not a good draft. So 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.000 I mean, like your overall impressions, your feelings on the 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.680 team that you came away with. You chose the twelfth 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:52.680 spot in the order, so talk to me about why 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.240 you chose that and how you felt like it turned out. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.680 I took twelve because it's a little bit easier because 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.920 you could just double pick and you're good to go. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.320 I also like being on the turn. It makes you, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.280 at least with me, it forces me to kind of 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.560 get my guys a little bit more. Whereas if Sam, 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.920 I'm in the middle of a draft, I'll be like, 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.680 maybe I could wait and get this guy around later. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.200 You don't have that option when you're at twelve, so 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.800 it kind of forces you to go get the guys 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.000 that you like. And to me, the most interesting part 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:30.400 of this mock was rookies. And obviously ADP isn't fully 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.280 up to like par yet we with the So the 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.480 rookies are still a little bit pushed down on ADP, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.039 but you wouldn't know that by looking at this board 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:43.360 because everyone was pulling rookies up very high. I kind 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.680 of went in being like, I'm gonna draft a lot 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.120 of rookies. I don't think I drafted a single one, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.680 because I should have expected this with who we were 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.840 drafting for such a sharp room that they went appropriate. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.920 There was no discount on any of the top rookies. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.080 No, there was, And like I was sort of with you, 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:02.960 was like, I'm gonna draft some rookies, and they kept going, 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.800 and they kept going. Eventually I did draft one late. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.480 I just I chose the second spot, you know. I 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.320 wanted to see who would go first and sort of 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.560 make my decision. Accordingly, I'm just curious as to how 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:16.920 things are gonna shake out. And I was with you, 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.359 I was trying to get rookies. It never really happened. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.719 Then finally late I just I felt left out. So 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.479 I drafted a rookie in the late rounds of this thing, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.680 just to kind of see how, you know, how it 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.880 would feel a little bit. Did you have a particular strategy, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.279 were you you know, I always feel like you never 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.160 really know until you kind of get into it a 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.360 round or two. But did you go into it, you know, 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.440 planning to do certain things? 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.960 I kind of felt like you, like, especially with this 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.000 being my first real mock for twenty twenty five and 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.880 it being February, and like I said, ADPs still kind 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.400 of skewed off of what it was last year. These 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.800 early drafts are always very interesting, and I kind of 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.840 went into like, I'm gonna find all the guys who's 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.360 ADP are suppressed and I'm gonna take them, and we're 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.359 in such a sharp room that everyone had that same thought. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.320 My plan was to I wanted to leave the first 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.880 couple of rounds with running backs because at least one 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.360 like I know, me and like Lakwan talk about a 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:18.400 lot like we want wide receivers early on. But the 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.039 more we were talking, especially Marcus when we did our 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.520 rankings last week and we talked about running back, I 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.240 was like, there's such a like I think there's a 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.000 bigger fall off at running back after the top like 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.239 five than at any other position outside of maybe quarterback. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.080 But that's a very different position. So I left the 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.480 first two rounds. I made sure to grab Devan hen 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.040 who was my highest ranked running back, and then through 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.480 four rounds I ended up doubling down and taking Isaiah Pacheco, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.960 who I loved last year as well. So after four rounds, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.240 I had two running backs, and that was something I 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.680 wanted to emphasize, Like, I was confident I could find 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.120 receivers I would feel good about in the middle portions 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.560 of the draft, not so much with running backs, which 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.800 is why after I had those two guys, I took 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.080 one more running back until my last pick, the very 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.880 last pick of the draft. So wanted to emphasize it 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.800 early and then kind of because I also feel like 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.840 right now, Marcus, obviously things will change by August, but 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.640 out of all the positions, running backs are the one 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.480 that could change the most because it's so volume dependent. Yeah. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.160 So I felt in some way, maybe a little bit 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.160 opposite of you in the sense that I didn't love 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.240 the receivers that were available when it got to even 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.080 like late round two. I mean, they're good players, but 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.840 I didn't feel comfortable taking them in that spot. So 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.960 I felt good getting you know, a big wide receiver early. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.480 I came back and got a big running back early 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.480 we'll start talking about some of these guys individually in 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.240 a bit. But it was sort of like after a while, 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.640 like I don't love any of the receivers available. They 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.000 all come with big question marks attached to them. And 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:55.960 then sort of in the mid rounds I hit a 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.680 few receivers that I think could potentially either make a 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.720 leap or maybe have a bounce back year. Then later 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.240 I kind of took some, I guess, for lack of 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.960 a better screw, kind of more zero RB type guys 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.800 or guys that have upside potentially, and then you know, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.880 the end of the draft is always sort of those 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.680 upside kind of dart throw guys that you think could 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.920 really maybe turn into something, but you're sort of, you know, 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.520 on the fence about them a little bit. So this 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:26.040 sort of dive into it. Justin Jefferson is the one 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.160 dot one your feelings on that I. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:33.800 Wouldn't do it. I can get the thinking like he's 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.440 Justin Jefferson. He probably is the best real life wide 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:43.280 receiver walking the planet right now. He's been so productive 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.079 regardless of who the quarterback has been. Last year we 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.000 were doing this with Sam Darnold, where we were like, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.960 might not live up to expectations, and he was fine. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.640 He produced with Nick Mullens for a stretch the year before. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:58.079 But when you were picking first, you were splitting hairs, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.600 and Justin Jefferson's quarterback is a much bigger question than 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.000 the guy that you got it too, in Jamar Chase, 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.160 who is, as Joe Burrow, one of the four best 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:12.280 quarterbacks in the NFL, is guy since college, all of that, 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.240 so I know we've talked about it already on the 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.440 show before. For me, one dot oh one is Jamar Chase, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.800 and you just keep it moving. But you got a gift. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.800 You got him at two. I get the thicking with Jefferson. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.559 I just would never be the one to do. 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.680 That, which made me feel great that I was able 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.439 to like cause I see Jefferson go off the board 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.319 in one and I couldn't click Jamar Chase's name fast enough, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.040 Like I was all in on Jamar Chase at the 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.360 one dot two. That was an easy one for me. 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.200 I assumed he was going to go one. I still 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.760 believe in most drafts that he's going to go number one, 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.200 but I was glad to get the very slight discounted too. 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.800 If he went one. Would you have taken Jefferson at two? 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.719 Probably? Yeah, So Jefferson was coming off the board the 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.280 first two picks. I was probably gonna go Jefferson there, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.360 but it got us number three with Bijon Robinson. Kevin 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.080 Tompkins takes Bijon Robinson at the number three overall spot. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.280 Maybe the big headline though in the first round, and 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.640 we're gonna have to ask him about this. On Thursday, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.839 Lakwan was at the number four spot. He has been 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.600 talking up Poka Nakua all off season and he had 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.720 a chance to take Pooka and he takes aman Ross 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:26.440 Saint Brown. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:30.640 Instead, which literally last week we did our rankings, both 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.160 me and Lakuan had Hookah as wide receiver. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:38.480 Two. He takes a Monro instead, So again he is 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.559 en route to New Orleans. When we talked to him 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.520 on Thursday, this is going to be the first question 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.720 we ask is well, probably the second questions. I'll proably 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.079 ask him what's the best thing he ate? But the 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.559 second question was like, why did you take Amanrau over 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.080 Puka at the number four spot? He didn't text us 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:54.920 where he was like I want to see where he goes. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.360 But I was sitting there at twelve, Like, yo, if 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.720 he got by Laqwan, there's an actual hands he makes 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.280 it to me. Now he went ninth overall, But yeah, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.320 I think that's a great value for Puca right there. 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.800 Yeah, no, absolutely, So I'm on Rago's four. Sa Quon 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:15.400 Barkley goes five, Ceed Lamb at six, Jamiir Gibbs is seven. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.200 AJ Brown at eight. Now, AJ Brown is one that 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.000 I'm not I'm not sure about. I mean, it's not 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.280 a talent issue, it's just that last year the passing 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:30.240 volume was diminished significantly in Philadelphia, and it feels like 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.040 that is a risk at eight for me. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.280 I am in AJ Brown Stan. I love him, and 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.160 I'm I don't know if I was the highest of 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.960 the three of us when we ranked him, but even so, 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.160 I had the three wide receivers that went after him 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.440 ahead of AJ Brown, So I like him a lot 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.520 more like if he was there for me at twelve 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.400 rather than the guy I took, which was Nico Collins. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.920 I probably like if you flip those two, I probably 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:01.120 still take Aj at twelve, but I I like him 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.120 a lot more as like a late first early second 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.119 round pick than I do middle of the first. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.240 So there he goes. He goes at one dot eight. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.679 You mentioned Puka is at nine, Malik Neighbors goes number 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.480 ten overall, bres Hall at eleven, and then you finished 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.560 out round one with Nico Collins. For running backs in 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.640 the first round, is that a surprise to you a bit? 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.560 Not the first three, because I think Bijon, Saquon and 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.400 Gibbs are going to firmly be like first even like 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.080 probably middle first round picks. Earlier, I was not only 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.199 to see a fourth one go, but who the fourth 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.680 one was in Breze Hall. Like I I think Brits 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.680 Hall is more of a second round pick in drafts 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.040 next year than a first. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.960 Breese Hall is one that's curious to me because I 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:51.680 think he's a borderline first round guy. Again, it's based 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.920 on ability, and it's based on a belief that whatever 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.360 happens with the Jets, whoever their quarterback is going to be, however, 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.760 this offense is going to be set up that they 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.200 are going to feature one of the more talented backs 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.520 in the league. And I that is sort of my 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.720 argument for him in the first round. My argument for 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.840 him out of the first round is it's the Jets. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.840 It's chaos. You just don't really know what's going to 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.120 happen because there's so many unanswered questions in this offense. Again, 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.040 I get it, it's mid February, but there's just so 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.319 many unanswered questions that it's hard to plant the flag. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:29.880 Like you want your first round pick to be a 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.840 guy that you know with certainty is going to produce, 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.319 and there's just a lot of questions around around Breeze 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.679 Hall at this point into the second a little bit 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.240 more running back heavy. We had six running backs off 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.440 the board. You started it with von Hian. You mentioned 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.720 he was your He's not your highest ranked overall, right, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.400 he was just the highest ranked running back still available. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.720 You have him as my so the big the top three, 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.760 and then I have Hn after that. Okay, so you 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.640 take to start the round. We did get our first 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:07.520 rookie in the second round, Ashton Genty. Nate Yankee takes 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:12.040 him from at the two dot eight spot, so we 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.960 actually started Nate starts with Saquon Barkley and Ashton Johnty, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.000 which again in February, I'm not gonna lie to you, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.000 that looks pretty awesome. Yeah, and I feel like this 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:28.240 is probably like the lowest portion of that. Like, I 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.400 don't see Jens falling much further than this unless he 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.160 goes to like an awful landing spot. But I think 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.240 there's only room for growth. Because we were talking about 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.840 it last week, Like, if he goes to a team 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.960 where they just hand him the keys in year one 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.400 and let him run wild, he is going to be, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.240 in my opinion, a late first or early second round pick. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.640 US fantasy guys love rookies, so not only is this 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.520 a pick that makes you look smart now, a month 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.280 from now, we might be like, wow, that was a 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:57.920 great value. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.960 Yeah. I mean that's the thing, right, Depending on what 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.800 he goes, it's not inconceivable that he slides into the 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.600 first round. I mean I've seen mock drafts with John 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:12.600 c getting drafted fairly early in the in the first round. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.240 I mean, I've seen mox with the Raiders taking him 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.200 at six. You know, I don't know if that really happens, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.160 but that's where we are sort of in mock draft season, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.960 like real NFL draft mock season at this point. There 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.560 was a run on wide receivers early in the second round. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.120 Bryan Thomas Junior, followed by Drake London, followed by Marvin 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.040 Harrison that I was just saying, hey, how are we 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.160 feeling about Marvin Harris because year one was a major disappointment. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.960 Yeah, I it was a It was a disappointment because 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.560 of the expectations that we put on him and if 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.360 he this is where he's going to go in drafts, 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:51.320 we're not lowering those expectations at all. I don't like 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.040 him going there. Like I would have took Tyreek over him. 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.200 I would have took Eric Wilson over him. This might 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.560 sound crazy we're getting into round three here, but like 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:04.320 I would take Lad McConkey over him JSN. So at 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.520 least as of now, things could change again, we're still 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.080 in early February or mid February. But as of right now, 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.360 that to me is my least favorite pick in the 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.440 second round. I was gonna say though, last week Lakwan 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.840 was like, I'm the low guy on Kyrien Williams. He 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:23.000 took him in the second round, he passed. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:27.160 So he passed on Puka, he takes Kyron. I'm I 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:28.680 don't know if he was hacked or what was going 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:29.600 on with Lakwan. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.800 The Cooper Cup. Later on, like dude, there's a lot 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.600 of rams going on with this, uh, this draft of his. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.200 There's a whole Yeah, there's a whole lot happening with 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.360 Lawan's team. Yeah. I am sad he's not here because 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.120 he has some things he has to answer for. Uh 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.760 for sure, I'm Christian McCaffrey at two six. I don't 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.880 hate it. I just I think I'm hesitant to draft 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.600 McCaffrey at all this year. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.040 I get it, if you're gonna take him, I think 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.480 the second round is where you have to. And ye, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.960 there's obviously like he could be the RB one again, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.320 Like there's an obvious upside there. But I also feel 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.480 like he's riskier now than because in past years when 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.960 he missed time, I was always like, it's fine, like 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.480 draft him, Like especially that one year where he it 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.119 was like a shoulder injury and a hamstring injury. I'm like, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.240 those two things aren't connected at all. It was just 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:21.199 bad luck. But he's older now, there's more wear and 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.840 tear on the tires and the Achilles thing that that 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.040 I hear Achilles, and I immediately am like I don't 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.360 want to touch that at all. And and you as 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.520 a forty nine Ers fan know how how big of 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.560 a story it was and how hard it was to 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.640 trust him last year. So if you're out on him, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.040 that only makes me want to be even more so 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:42.720 out on him. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.280 Well, it's well, it was hard to trust McCaffrey. It's 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.200 even harder to trust the forty nine er organization when 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.919 it comes to information about you know, their injury. And 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.880 I get it, like it's not advantageous to just blab 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.919 to the world like what a guy's situation is. But 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.399 the fact that the organization kind of kept stringing this 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.760 along during the season only to basically, you know, we 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:08.960 didn't get much right. It was forever before he got 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.080 on the field, and it didn't last very long before 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.479 he aggravated the injury, and we just didn't see him 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:16.479 again for the rest of the year. So I, you know, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.960 I just have a little bit of nervousness. You know, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.520 maybe if he falls a little farther, we can talk 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.480 about it. First sight end off the board, brock Bouers 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.040 at the two ten spots, You feel okay with that? 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.560 Yeah, I, And I didn't even have to what I 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.439 saw the next tight end go off the board. I 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.919 didn't even need to look at who it was that 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:36.600 selected him. 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.199 That's right, because Buyers goes two ten. I come around 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:43.960 the second pick of the third round and I took 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:48.080 Trey McBride. Yeah, I just I don't want to be 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.800 the person streaming tight end. I can't. You know, I've 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.080 planted my flag that McBride's going to finish the year 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.679 as the tight end one. So this was sort of 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.440 me reaffirming that belief by making him the same and tied 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.920 in off the board, taking him with the second pick 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:07.280 in the third round. First quarterback off the board happens 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.040 in the third round. You know, I know you're okay 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.160 with Josh Allen being the first quarterback off the board? 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:13.760 Are you okay with him at three seven? 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.919 I'm okay with him there, But I'm never going to 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.959 be the person doing it because likely you know, I 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.360 love Alan, that's my guy. But like, what's the difference 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.200 between him and al and Lamar? Like a lot of 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.360 people are gonna have Lamars QB one coming into next year, 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.320 and Lamar went what was it? 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:35.480 Nine spots later? 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.680 Nine spots later, and then you get Jaden Daniels over 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.040 a round later. You, I thought, came away with the 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.920 best quarterback value, Marcus, because you got Jalen Hurts in 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.520 the fifth round, and I keep saying I think there's 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.359 like a clear cut top five, but I want the 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.280 fifth one. And it does appear that Hurts is going 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.480 to be the fifth one off the board. And you 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.040 get him over two rounds after Josh Allen and over 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.880 a round later or close to a round later than 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.639 like Lamar and those other guys. I think that's just 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:06.080 a great value. Yeah. 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.280 I felt good about it again because it was it 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.000 was right at the cutoff where look, if I didn't 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.280 get Hurts, then I was definitely gonna wait on a quarterback. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:17.600 But the fact that he was still there second pick 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:19.240 of the fifth round, I said, Okay, I can pull 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.359 the trigger on this, and I can feel okay, and 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:23.960 I can continue sort of roster buildings. So by the 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.800 fifth round I've got I got two wide receivers and 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:29.080 Jamar Chase in the first. I took Brandon Ayuk in 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.879