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Speaker 1: host today Brian Johnson. Hello, it's always fun to talk
Speaker 1: through the first round. We do it kind of on
Speaker 1: and off all off season, really, and maybe it's not
Speaker 1: fair to all the other players. Maybe you know, the
Speaker 1: second round is just as important as the first round.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's more important. Third round, maybe that's more important,
Speaker 1: But the reality is it's the first round and everybody,
Speaker 1: it's all the star players, and who doesn't love talking
Speaker 1: about all that stuff. Everybody everybody loves talking about those things.
Speaker 1: So we're going to do a too early PPR mock
Speaker 1: draft of the first round, twelve players order. We take
Speaker 1: them in. You and I basically alternated making making selections,
Speaker 1: so we don't have twelve different minds here, and so
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's that, But we're smarter than most
Speaker 1: of the other ten would have been anyway, and right,
Speaker 1: we're representing each of the twelve teams. So like if
Speaker 1: the first three picks I make are running backs, it's
Speaker 1: not like I'm gonna stop picking running backs because I'm
Speaker 1: building one team. I'm just correct. We're doing what as
Speaker 1: this as these players fall off the board. That's right,
Speaker 1: That's right, all right? So uh, in listeners, if you
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Speaker 1: we want to know, do you buy into our mock
Speaker 1: draft to our picks make sense. Let's begin with the
Speaker 1: first pick. We flipped the virtual coin. It was the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly Anniversary coin, and I lost that pick.
Speaker 1: You have the first selection in next year's draft. What
Speaker 1: you're doing at one oh one? Well, let's shake it up.
Speaker 1: This pick might draw some disagreement, but I'm going Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry first. Overall, I know it's a PPR league and
Speaker 1: it doesn't catch a lot of passes, but the age
Speaker 1: old adage is you can't win your league with your
Speaker 1: first round pick, but you can certainly lose it. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know you lose it when you take guys like
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey or U s Kwon Barkley to no fault
Speaker 1: of their own, get injured, stuff like that, and then
Speaker 1: you're really swimming up, swimming up stream for the remainder
Speaker 1: of the season if your first round pick, uh goes
Speaker 1: belly up like that. But Derrick Henry has not gone
Speaker 1: belly up over the last three seasons, really the only
Speaker 1: the three full seasons he has played. He turns twenty
Speaker 1: seven in July, basically entering the prime of his career.
Speaker 1: Uh star twenty seven the prime for running back. It
Speaker 1: seems like considering his first three years he still had
Speaker 1: a lot of tread on his tires. Just from twenties
Speaker 1: when he's really gotten the heavy volumes. Carriers have gone
Speaker 1: up from two fifteen to three oh three to three
Speaker 1: seventy eight. This sounds a lot. Uh you know what
Speaker 1: happens to to running backs that get over the whatever
Speaker 1: three or thirty carry threat. I don't know, but Henry
Speaker 1: Man he seems like he's cut seems different. The corresponding
Speaker 1: touchdowns have gone up each year to twelve, sixteen, seventeen
Speaker 1: this year. It's just he gets stronger as the season
Speaker 1: goes on. He's proven that year in and years right
Speaker 1: for fantasy playoffs. And he he doesn't catch a lot
Speaker 1: of passes, I know, but his targets have gone up
Speaker 1: year over years as well, and the catches have gone
Speaker 1: up with them, fifteen to eighteen to nine to not
Speaker 1: a ton. But it's not like he can't catch, just
Speaker 1: the opportunities really haven't been there. And there's nothing scarier
Speaker 1: than Derrick Henry with the ball in open space. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they don't try to throw them the
Speaker 1: ball more, but maybe they will coat coate right. Arthur
Speaker 1: Smith is gone, and but I gotta believe he's still
Speaker 1: going to be a Derrick Henry lad offense, absolutely and
Speaker 1: and and it's not like he's the only offense too.
Speaker 1: He's got a great pass game. Tennessee has a great
Speaker 1: pass a tack to balance things out. So Henry, Yes,
Speaker 1: McCaffrey Barkley have a higher ceiling probably, but Henry's ceiling
Speaker 1: is just about the same. And I'd like his chances
Speaker 1: of hitting it more than the other guys. He's just
Speaker 1: more more trust word. Well, it's a very safe selection.
Speaker 1: It would not have been my selection at with the
Speaker 1: first overall pick, but that's okay. It's totally defense. I
Speaker 1: don't think it would be most people, but that's where
Speaker 1: I'm going. Okay. With the second pick of the first round,
Speaker 1: I A'm taking Christian McCaffrey, um, which it was a
Speaker 1: very tough call over what's going to be the next
Speaker 1: three guys that are going to go in our draft?
Speaker 1: And you hear about the others in a moment, who
Speaker 1: I considered all of them? Here he's um. Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: was the consensus first pick last year by a mile.
Speaker 1: Like drafts, Christian McAffrey was number one last year and
Speaker 1: lost of course, as you'd already know, the seasoned injury.
Speaker 1: But none of those injuries last year the type that
Speaker 1: are gonna linger into this year. If they needed Christian
Speaker 1: McAffrey to play a game right now, he'll be fine.
Speaker 1: He's fine now, So I do believe that he's You
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about last year's injury. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's one fewer year of wear and tear on Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: and whether it's Teddy or somebody else at quarterback for
Speaker 1: the Panthers, Christian McCaffrey likely remains the focus of this offense.
Speaker 1: I can it will be if it's Teddy, I could
Speaker 1: throw screen passes the Christian. Yes you can? Yes? If
Speaker 1: um now in you get this. In Christian McCaffrey's two
Speaker 1: and a half games that he played this year, he
Speaker 1: averaged thirty fantasy points per game, which is more than
Speaker 1: any other runner two and a half games and a
Speaker 1: half games. But yeah, I guess because he seemed like
Speaker 1: he was coming back every week. But so in his
Speaker 1: two and a half games, he averaged thirty fantasy points
Speaker 1: per game, most of anywhere on there. The modestly skilled
Speaker 1: like Davis ended up being an every week starter for
Speaker 1: you in this same offense. And he's fractionally as talented Caroline.
Speaker 1: His offense is capable of creating fantasy production. We already
Speaker 1: know that for Christian McCaffrey that will seduce. So again,
Speaker 1: what are you doing to pick one oh three third
Speaker 1: pick the first round? Yeah, it's uh, like you said,
Speaker 1: these are the first five picks are first? Yeah, four
Speaker 1: or five picks very tough, I should say, I don't
Speaker 1: think Derrick Henry was with a bullet pick at one,
Speaker 1: but that's where you could go of Anyways, McCaffrey is
Speaker 1: certainly a viable option, and so is uh Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: Who's is who I would take if McCaffrey and Henry
Speaker 1: had fallen off the board. Uh, it's kind of really
Speaker 1: the same concerns with McCaffrey. It's injury, right, um, and
Speaker 1: now that you should be so concerned with him getting
Speaker 1: injured in one. But Cook has never played a full season.
Speaker 1: Tore his a c L four games into his rookie
Speaker 1: year and his games played in the three years following eleven, fourteen,
Speaker 1: and fourteen, so he's never played a full year. Gary
Speaker 1: Kubiak is retiring. I think that things Cook's value a little.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't click Kubiak's gonna it takes
Speaker 1: over and really Zimmer, well, this is the beauty of
Speaker 1: cook is Zimmer insists that is runners get a ton
Speaker 1: of work. Well, you have your finger on the pulse
Speaker 1: with the Vikings way way better than I do. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. So I don't know. Is Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: incredibly high ceiling just like McCaffrey could easily finish RB
Speaker 1: one fantasy player number one overall, so I would go
Speaker 1: cook here for the moon and uh hopefully stays healthy.
Speaker 1: Vikings offensive line as it is currently constructed in February
Speaker 1: right now is about the worst pass blocking line in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And they're just like a below average run
Speaker 1: black blocking line. So they run. They need to run
Speaker 1: a lot anyway because that's what their line allows them
Speaker 1: to do. Sure to address that in the draft, yet again,
Speaker 1: one would hold I think so at pick four of
Speaker 1: the first round, I am taking Davante Adams dominated his
Speaker 1: position last year, leading all wide receivers and fantasy points.
Speaker 1: Despite missing two and a half games, he still let
Speaker 1: all receivers and fantasy points. He had the second most
Speaker 1: fantasy points per game, uh, and it was not even close.
Speaker 1: And all season long he only had two Dudd games
Speaker 1: all year, and even those two Dudd games was like
Speaker 1: a six catch sixty yard game and a seven catch
Speaker 1: like fifty yard game. That's not bad. I mean you've
Speaker 1: got six and seven catches, you know, you end up
Speaker 1: in double digit fantasy points in the PPR leagues anyway,
Speaker 1: and if you include the playoffs, Adams scored in fourteen
Speaker 1: of his sixteen full games, which is crazy for a
Speaker 1: wide receiver or really anybody. I mean, they're treating like
Speaker 1: a goal line running back. Essentially, it's like one yard
Speaker 1: line right. His average game this year eleven targets, nine catches,
Speaker 1: eight yards, and one point three touchdowns. Staggering production for
Speaker 1: Davante Adams. Now, there are reasons to think Adams could
Speaker 1: regress in almost that level of production is almost unsustainable.
Speaker 1: Sod just natural regression would be number one, number two.
Speaker 1: Two years ago, Aaron Rodgers was quarterback twenty by fantasy points.
Speaker 1: Everything really fell off the table. And will he remain
Speaker 1: at m v P levels at age eight? Maybe not?
Speaker 1: You know, maybe that's not Maybe it doesn't all come
Speaker 1: together Faron Rodgers. And then lastly, do the Packers bring
Speaker 1: in a good receiver and there's a bunch of good
Speaker 1: receivers in free agency? They bring in a good receiver
Speaker 1: who's gonna siphon off targets and siphon off some of
Speaker 1: the necessity that the Packers had to go to Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: And I think that's a real threat. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they definitely bring in another wide receiver. And and Robert
Speaker 1: Tony in too, don't he's a he's a threat to Adams.
Speaker 1: He wasn't like fully utilized all year. You could say,
Speaker 1: and if they really take the let the take the
Speaker 1: reins off at him, then uh, that could step Adams
Speaker 1: production for sure. But Adams could still go. You know,
Speaker 1: he could still regrets and he absolutely belongs to pick
Speaker 1: for the first round. What are you doing do with
Speaker 1: pick five? Yeah, I was. I was expecting to take
Speaker 1: Adams here because I thought you would have selected Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey at four. But it was between those two. It's
Speaker 1: almost so close, it's a virtual coin flip. But I
Speaker 1: would take Travis Kelsey here if you're still available. Would
Speaker 1: have finished as wide receiver three in twenty on a
Speaker 1: total points and a points per game basis in PPR
Speaker 1: fourteen PPR points per game. UM. Now, Darren Waller, if
Speaker 1: he didn't exist, Kelsey might be the clear cut one
Speaker 1: oh one, because Waller at eleven points per game can
Speaker 1: almost cancel out the Kelsey advantage. But that's about it.
Speaker 1: The next three tight ends with the most points per
Speaker 1: game that played a full season, after Kelsey at fourteen
Speaker 1: Waller to eleven, where Robert touny in, Mark Andrews and
Speaker 1: t J. Hockenson, who combined to average around seven and
Speaker 1: a half points per game, combined to like with the average.
Speaker 1: So Kelsey's essentially two of those guys and you're tight
Speaker 1: in spots. Such a huge positional advantage. Positional advantage is massive. Now,
Speaker 1: could Darren Waller or a fully healthy George Kittle finished
Speaker 1: the year is tight end one maybe, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Travis Kelsey can and I don't trust Kittle to
Speaker 1: stay healthy because it's such a violent blocker too, and
Speaker 1: that's such a big part of his game. So Wallers,
Speaker 1: you want to threat, yeah, Kelsey wide receiver three as
Speaker 1: your tight end, and then it's such a huge advantage.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with people going Kelsey at the
Speaker 1: first pick, as you mentioned earlier, and I may end
Speaker 1: up swaying myself to to do that over the course
Speaker 1: of the off season. Right now, I agree with what
Speaker 1: I agree with that you're where you've got him at five.
Speaker 1: If you're doing multiple drafts, I think this is the
Speaker 1: year you have to diversify not only among players but positions.
Speaker 1: Running back, wide receiver. You can take Davanta Adams roost
Speaker 1: overall this year, that's certainly a viable strategy at pick
Speaker 1: six in the first round. I've got Tyreek Hill. I
Speaker 1: don't think I need to defend selecting Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 1: go to wide receiver in any way here, uh. In
Speaker 1: Fantasy points per game, he his rank since Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: wide receiver to wide receiver eleven and wide receiver five.
Speaker 1: He's been great, obviously, And you know what, just intangibly,
Speaker 1: I love having guys in my fantasy team who can
Speaker 1: score on every single play in which the ball is
Speaker 1: in their hands, you know, like Barry Sanders in his prime,
Speaker 1: and you could They're just there are only a couple
Speaker 1: of guys like that in the NFL. Entyreek Kill, every
Speaker 1: single play is a potential touchdown no matter where they
Speaker 1: are in the field. And those guys are just fun
Speaker 1: to have. When we come back, we'll go through pick
Speaker 1: seven and beyond in our all too early PPR mock Draft.
Speaker 1: Please stay tuned, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charging
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson with you going through the are what
Speaker 1: we believe is a inappropriate first round PPR mock draft,
Speaker 1: especially for February. For February for what, Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: way too early. But February, UM already taken Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: then Christian McCaffrey, than Dalvin Cook soon running back, running back,
Speaker 1: running back. Then we've gone off running back, Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, and Tyree Hill. Let's go to pick seven
Speaker 1: of the first round. Brian. Now, when we were doing
Speaker 1: this draft together, we were was going swimming lee for
Speaker 1: six picks, and I think we can agree those are
Speaker 1: the six in whatever order you prefer. And once we
Speaker 1: hit seven, then I was like, Okay, I need a
Speaker 1: few minutes to think about this. I'll let you know
Speaker 1: when you're back on the client. And Uh, it's a
Speaker 1: tough choice with these six guys off the board. Um,
Speaker 1: and this is the first one of your picks that
Speaker 1: I don't agree with. Really, Okay, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I agree with this. Will be honest with you the
Speaker 1: more I looked into it, But I said, I shot
Speaker 1: for the moon with Dalvin Cook with the third pick,
Speaker 1: But you're really shooting for the moon with se Kwon
Speaker 1: Barkley the seventh overall pick in your draft. Let's start
Speaker 1: with some good Uh, Barkley should be full go by
Speaker 1: the time trading camp start. It's probably he blew out
Speaker 1: the a c L in Week one, plenty of time
Speaker 1: to recover. Very young, and his talent is undeniable. Passes
Speaker 1: the eye test, the metrics were all there um since
Speaker 1: the start of here. The most rushing touchdowns of twenty
Speaker 1: plus yards, Derrick Henry has seven s. Kwan Barkley and
Speaker 1: Nick Chob both have seven excuse Barkley's missed two seasons.
Speaker 1: Barkley's played thirty one games, chob has played forty four,
Speaker 1: and Henrys played forty seven. So Barkley arguably the most
Speaker 1: talented running back in all of the NFL. The problem
Speaker 1: is this is on the Giants and that's where the
Speaker 1: where the bad comes in, especially the rest of the team.
Speaker 1: The old line ended the season ranked second to last
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus. New York drafted Andrew Thomas fourth
Speaker 1: overall last year. The first tackle selected in the draft,
Speaker 1: Thomas allowed fifty seven pressures pressures tackle, fourteen more than
Speaker 1: any other player at the position. He was the only
Speaker 1: player at left tackle to be charged with ten sacks
Speaker 1: allowed as well. So and you know Daniel Jones for
Speaker 1: Nick still out on him, and I might be the
Speaker 1: best thing you can say, although I'll mention this there.
Speaker 1: I saw a bunch of metrics at the end of
Speaker 1: the year that showed that Daniel Jones played the hardest
Speaker 1: schedule against the past of any quarterback by a mile,
Speaker 1: and I think that's I think there's some truth to that.
Speaker 1: So there is some opportunity for him to get better there, Yes,
Speaker 1: And so back to the line. Giants sure to address
Speaker 1: it in the draft again, one would hope, and they'll
Speaker 1: get Nate Solder back, the right tackle that locked it
Speaker 1: out because of COVID concerns. I think his wife has
Speaker 1: had cancer or something like that. So we didn't play,
Speaker 1: so that should help. But uh yeah, again, you're kind
Speaker 1: of fearing re injury, even though you necessarily shouldn't. It's
Speaker 1: not that Barkley is injury prone or as a history
Speaker 1: of injury, but you're worried about the a c L.
Speaker 1: But if he stays healthy all year, he should live
Speaker 1: up to the seventh pick, if not higher. So cross
Speaker 1: her fingers healthy. You know, he was picked two on
Speaker 1: average last year, and because he's an extraordinary talent, and
Speaker 1: you just hope that these the the a c L
Speaker 1: doesn't say some of that from him and but nowadays
Speaker 1: you look at Dalvin Cook came off the a sail
Speaker 1: and look as good as he ever did. So it
Speaker 1: just it just doesn't mean as much as it used to. Um.
Speaker 1: I think you can get Barkley later than that, but
Speaker 1: not a lot later. I think I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be going into first round more often than not. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: a player that I'm gonna take with pick eight is
Speaker 1: somebody who I think some of you would have taken
Speaker 1: as earliest pick two. Alvin Kmara. His average draft position
Speaker 1: is pick three right now. In the in the early ADPs,
Speaker 1: it was it was a Kimara Barkley quin fla. So
Speaker 1: why did you pass on Kimara four times? I just
Speaker 1: still don't view him as a true running back. I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know what I mean. He just it's
Speaker 1: not like the no, I don't know carry guy. He's
Speaker 1: never going to see that kind of volume of carries.
Speaker 1: I mean he has periodically, but you know, and losing
Speaker 1: breeze hurts. I don't like that offense. I don't like
Speaker 1: him as much with if Taysom Hills a quarterback, that's
Speaker 1: your damn sure, So unmitigating that risk unless you're gonna
Speaker 1: prove me wrong here. Well, well, let's talk it through.
Speaker 1: He scored Alvin Kamara scored the most fantasy points of
Speaker 1: any running back. But it's harder to evaluate his season
Speaker 1: because the six touchdown explosion against Minnesota skews all his
Speaker 1: status just a little bit. You know, if we remove
Speaker 1: the Minnesota game altogether, just wipe that off the books
Speaker 1: as though it never even happened. He's still RB three though,
Speaker 1: behind only Cooking Henry for Alvin Kamara. So you know,
Speaker 1: as even without those six touchdowns, he was still awfully good.
Speaker 1: He only had nine hundred rushing yards and he only
Speaker 1: hit one hundred rushing yards one time that Viking game,
Speaker 1: but he chipped in seven hundred fifty receiving yards. That
Speaker 1: puts him at almost seventeen hundred total yards, which is fantastic.
Speaker 1: He caught eighty three passes after catching one and eighty
Speaker 1: two passes the previous three years. He can bank on
Speaker 1: him hitting between eighty one and eighty three receptions every year.
Speaker 1: And that's that is PPR gold we love at now
Speaker 1: as you meant to the offense loses Drew Brees and
Speaker 1: his games under Taysom Hill were the worst of his season,
Speaker 1: Hill started four games. Camara's PPR points per game dropped
Speaker 1: in half half. Three of Camara's four worst games the
Speaker 1: entire year, including the playoffs, were under Taysom Hill and
Speaker 1: Hill starts. I told you I mentioned before Camara finished
Speaker 1: the season as RB one and Hill starts. He was
Speaker 1: RB twenty in Fantasy points per game, Alvin Camara, And
Speaker 1: that's your worry. Remember before Breeze went down, Camaro was
Speaker 1: on pace to break McCaffrey's reception record. But for running
Speaker 1: backs that just last year. But yeah, that all went
Speaker 1: out the windows. It did. There was a game it
Speaker 1: wasn't even targeted. I recall, which was we're like, why
Speaker 1: would you ever do that? So you gotta call the
Speaker 1: police and Camara drops to eight. That explains why he
Speaker 1: drops to eight, is that's the concern. But the upside
Speaker 1: is RB one by scoring back in the league last
Speaker 1: year and he's and I got him at pick eight.
Speaker 1: You're up on for pick number nine. Who are you selecting?
Speaker 1: It didn't seem like you would have RB one potential,
Speaker 1: uh watching his first eight games in the league. But
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor came on strong. Yeah, from Week eleven through
Speaker 1: the wild card game. I'll include that seven games he
Speaker 1: averaged twenty carries, a hundred and seventeen yards and more
Speaker 1: than one rushing touchdown per game, caught around two balls
Speaker 1: fifteen yards. We know that's more of Nahem Hines is
Speaker 1: a bit, but uh, Taylor just gangbusters in the second
Speaker 1: half of the year and he looks just great going
Speaker 1: into one, as do the Colts. Uh in terms of
Speaker 1: the offensive line, at least for next seventh last year
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus, they'll all be in place going
Speaker 1: to one. Yes, Indian needs a quarterback, but I'm not
Speaker 1: too worried about that from Taylor's perspective. And I should
Speaker 1: have mentioned this for Derrick Henry h at the first
Speaker 1: overall pick, because this is a major boon for he
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Taylor. Two games against the Texans and Jaguars
Speaker 1: next year, right, that helps, That's the quarter of your season.
Speaker 1: He's like guaranteed scream of Jars at least. So Yeah,
Speaker 1: Taylor looked like he was a borderline bust first half
Speaker 1: of the year, but uh, that changed drastically in the
Speaker 1: second half. And uh, I think he's got bell cow
Speaker 1: written all over him going into well, I see, I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody Bell cows in that offense. I don't
Speaker 1: think Frank Raich is built that way, and he's proven
Speaker 1: it in in Philisolphia late in the year, he was
Speaker 1: getting over twenty carries. Twenty seven carries, you have to
Speaker 1: get thirty carries in the game. I that's the part
Speaker 1: that worries me about Taylor is just is that what's
Speaker 1: the usage gonna be like? And is he gonna have
Speaker 1: these games where he just disappears still he s the
Speaker 1: carries in the bag. I hope you're right for Taylor
Speaker 1: pick ten. I struggled with this selection and ultimately decided
Speaker 1: on dk Metcalf, who is the fourth highest scoring receiver
Speaker 1: from weeks one through twelve, And then the wheels came
Speaker 1: off for that whole Seattle offense and he felled the
Speaker 1: wide receiver thirty seven after that, including being outscored by
Speaker 1: guys like Isaiah mackenzie and Darnell Mooney. Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Those guys more better than dk Metcalf. But really it
Speaker 1: wasn't just him. The whole Seattle offense came to a
Speaker 1: halt in December. There's an offense that generated seventeen points
Speaker 1: three points, fifteen points nine points and then twenty three
Speaker 1: points in the playoff game. That's it. So it was bad.
Speaker 1: But also he faced some really good cornerbacks during that stretch.
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, James Bradberry, Richard Sherman, Kendall Fuller, those are good,
Speaker 1: good cornerbacks, and he just went up. It was just
Speaker 1: a gauntlet. Every week we're doing fantasy football weekly, Brian,
Speaker 1: We're like, well, it's a brutal matchup, but it's d
Speaker 1: came at Cass. You kind of have to start him
Speaker 1: when it turned out you probably shouldn't have start to
Speaker 1: him when I I think he should continue to be great,
Speaker 1: and he should continue to improve, and he should be
Speaker 1: much more like the guy we saw in the first
Speaker 1: twelve weeks. This is just his third year. He's got
Speaker 1: room to get better. Russell Wilson urging for an improved
Speaker 1: offensive line, and I think he's gonna get it. Seattle's
Speaker 1: schedule looks far easier this year, including some bottom dwelling
Speaker 1: secondaries in non divisional games like the Vikings, the Texans,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, and the Titans. Those those are that's four
Speaker 1: of the worst secondaries of football last year. These big
Speaker 1: bodied end zone targets like DK Metcalf are more predictable
Speaker 1: fantasy producers than the little guys who have to score
Speaker 1: from distance. And I like that about him too, And
Speaker 1: they guess gonna let rus cook, right, So that simple
Speaker 1: let us coach according to him. Your new offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: for Seattle is Shane Waldron, who was the passing game
Speaker 1: coordinator for the Rams, so you think he would emphasize
Speaker 1: the pass with the Seahawks. So I roll all that together.
Speaker 1: I love DK Metcalf. He's the kind of guy one
Speaker 1: on your team. He's got three touchdown upside in any game,
Speaker 1: most any other wide receiver outside of Duvante Adams does not.
Speaker 1: Let's go to pick eleven in the first round, Brian,
Speaker 1: who you got? I I certainly contemplated wide receiver here
Speaker 1: as the representative for team eleven, but there there will
Speaker 1: be some elite options after the turn I could take
Speaker 1: in the second round from the spot. So I went
Speaker 1: with Nick Chubb, who's kind of like the last of
Speaker 1: that there's really like a one A and a one
Speaker 1: beat here a running back. I kind of view him
Speaker 1: as the last guy on that list. Um only played
Speaker 1: twelve games in UH finished ninth among running backs in
Speaker 1: total points that are very impressive. Was sixth in points
Speaker 1: per game. The Browns finished with the number one ranked
Speaker 1: offensive line by Pro Football Focus, so they'll be rock
Speaker 1: solid going into Yes, Kareem Hunt is kind of a
Speaker 1: thorn in your side and slow him down much last
Speaker 1: year and we may not see the two carries Chubb
Speaker 1: got in because that's because Hunt was suspended the first
Speaker 1: four weeks, I believe eight weeks, first half of the
Speaker 1: eight weeks. You're right, But if if, if Chubby can
Speaker 1: get to that two fifty range, he only had a
Speaker 1: hundred again, only played twelve games, but to fifty is
Speaker 1: attainable based on his career numbers. We're looking at plus
Speaker 1: yards and ten plus touchdowns and that's just running, that's
Speaker 1: just rushing. And uh, he doesn't do a lot through
Speaker 1: the air. But his his receiving numbers actually didn't take
Speaker 1: a hit. They kind of stayed Stagnant's not a great word,
Speaker 1: but they they plateaued where Hunts fell off entirely. So
Speaker 1: it's not like Hunt is stealing all the receiving work either.
Speaker 1: So Nick Chubb and you know, if something happens to
Speaker 1: Hunt and then they just got a ride Chub entirely.
Speaker 1: That's RB one potential right there. He's proven that on
Speaker 1: a per touch basis. And Cleveland loves to run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's the big part of it. I was
Speaker 1: just gonna mention if you didn't Kevin Stefanski, who grew
Speaker 1: up in the Zimmer mindset. Man, he loves to run
Speaker 1: the ball, and they got a good defense. It was
Speaker 1: not healthy. The whole unit was like not healthy. So
Speaker 1: they can stay healthy. It's gonna be, uh, clock control,
Speaker 1: ground control kind of season for Cleveland. That is the
Speaker 1: goal for the Cleveland Browns. I am convinced that that's true.
Speaker 1: Final pick of the of the first round of our
Speaker 1: mock first round is Stefon Diggs. That would be the
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Would if there was another receiver to go here,
Speaker 1: that was it. I think definitely at the end of this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna touch on a few guys we didn't take
Speaker 1: in the first round, and there are some receivers in
Speaker 1: this conversation, but uh, he finished his wide receiver three
Speaker 1: this year. The best thing about Diggs was his consistency.
Speaker 1: Only two dud games all year, including the playoffs. He
Speaker 1: topped one yards nine times. Wait a minute, how many?
Speaker 1: How many? Yes? Nine times? Um? He had at least
Speaker 1: six six catches in eighteen of nineteen games. Six catches
Speaker 1: in eighteen of nineteen games. He scored in eight different games. Digs,
Speaker 1: did Josh sound looks like he's only gonna get better
Speaker 1: as a passer. I mean, you can't say that he's
Speaker 1: a lock to repeat last year's crazy production because he's
Speaker 1: only done it the one year. Um. But there's no
Speaker 1: reason think you that Alan's gonna suddenly rest room Matti
Speaker 1: just be injury to one or the other or something
Speaker 1: like that. UM. I like guys on my team who
Speaker 1: are the go to player on their offense. That's Diggs.
Speaker 1: This team has no interest in running the ball the
Speaker 1: whole that often to go to player is Stefon Diggs
Speaker 1: for a very good offense for Buffalo. He is my
Speaker 1: last first selection, as the last pick in the first round.
Speaker 1: I like it, Um, listeners, what would you do differently?
Speaker 1: You can at Paul Chargie at bt X J. Let
Speaker 1: us know a couple of players that I want to
Speaker 1: touch on, a couple of players that that fell outside
Speaker 1: of the first round. I never took Aaron Jones because
Speaker 1: I don't know where he's gonna land and I don't
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a packer, And I don't know
Speaker 1: what the situation it's gonna be. How about you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as of right now, you cannot take Jones in the
Speaker 1: first round. But where where would you have to end
Speaker 1: up where you would consider a realistic landing spot, Say
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh goes to Pittsburgh, I'm interested. I'm interested in round one,
Speaker 1: not so much New England. No, that would be bad.
Speaker 1: That would be bad. Um. Yeah, there are there are
Speaker 1: places he could go where I'd be I'd be very
Speaker 1: interested in him, depending on offensive line and will he
Speaker 1: be a workhorse. You know, he was a great fantasy
Speaker 1: producer despite the fact that he was getting sniped by
Speaker 1: his own team all the time. If he goes to
Speaker 1: I don't know, Miami, you know, and they don't go
Speaker 1: with Miles Gaskin, you know, there could be places for
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones where he's going to get twenty plus touches
Speaker 1: every week. Atlanta might be a spot. Oh that'd be great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that better. DeAndre Hopkins did not get picked
Speaker 1: the ex The The average draft position among people that
Speaker 1: are drafting now for DeAndre Hopkins is the middle of
Speaker 1: the first round. I didn't even consider him here, to
Speaker 1: be honest, he if he had to replace one of
Speaker 1: the receivers we took in round one, he'd be the
Speaker 1: first guy up, I would think, and I think I
Speaker 1: think Ridley is probably the one. So but I can
Speaker 1: live with Hopkins outside a Round one I wouldn't take
Speaker 1: him there. I just think Hopkins not flash the way
Speaker 1: I wanted him to with the with big, big games
Speaker 1: and even consistent games he had a he had a
Speaker 1: lot of just sort of middling games that worked in there.
Speaker 1: And obviously he's a really good receiver. I just think
Speaker 1: this offense didn't cater to him like Houston's did, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't have Deshaun Watson, who was awesome. And the
Speaker 1: ascension of Dan Arnold clearly a concern for me that
Speaker 1: that's a huge concern for him. Touchdown well, dan Arnold's
Speaker 1: gonna eat up double digit touchdowns next year, so that's
Speaker 1: probably um we didn't take Zeke. We kind of that
Speaker 1: last week. Last week we talked about Zeke and and
Speaker 1: our concerns for Zeke. You and I don't but his
Speaker 1: Zeke's average draft position is the middle of the first round.
Speaker 1: That's I don't know who's doing that. I'm not taking
Speaker 1: Zeke in the no matter where I picked in the
Speaker 1: first round, I'm not taking z second round. To me,
Speaker 1: it was about four. He's like a round four guy
Speaker 1: for me. Totally agree. How about this name, Austin Ekeler mhm.
Speaker 1: We talked about him a couple of weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: like Austin Neckler, and you know, I thought was sitting
Speaker 1: on a very good year this year. Obviously, I did
Speaker 1: not expect him to blow out his hamstring for ten weeks. Um,
Speaker 1: but the worst sorry, the worst rated offensive line by
Speaker 1: prof Pro Football Focus to the l A. Chargers, it's
Speaker 1: always terrible. When are they going to get that Straights
Speaker 1: any kind of improvement? It would be hu And you know,
Speaker 1: I love the fact that they've got the quarterback of
Speaker 1: the future there and they're gonna have teams defenses are
Speaker 1: gonna have to respect the passing game. So I think
Speaker 1: that CLER could be sitting on a really nice bounce
Speaker 1: back season. Um. We obviously didn't pick any rookies in
Speaker 1: the first round. I think Nase Harris is the one guy,
Speaker 1: depending on if he looks like he's the guy and
Speaker 1: the only guy around so but but there, I know
Speaker 1: C e H was a rookie picked last year Barkley
Speaker 1: we went in the first round, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago was a rookie. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it could have, could have. But I think he's the
Speaker 1: only one. Clyde Edwards Hilaire um ended up, you know,
Speaker 1: once Damian Williams opted out. Clyde Edwards Laire went in
Speaker 1: the first round. Straps. He's gonna be a fascinating guy.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking about trying to pry him out of
Speaker 1: in my Dynasty and Empire leagues, pry him out of
Speaker 1: the owner, because that is a frustrated owner who just
Speaker 1: saw him have a bad season at which he did
Speaker 1: very little, including the playoffs. This is if you're ever
Speaker 1: gonna buy on C. E H. This is it. And
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of running backs get way
Speaker 1: better in year two. Well, there is probably if you
Speaker 1: could go back, especially in the super flex leagues where
Speaker 1: h was the number one pick, there's like five six
Speaker 1: guys you take over him in the heartbeat, Yeah, for sure. Jefferson,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, Justin Herbert based on so even Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: in an ideal world. I can move Zeke for Clyde Edwards.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the trade I wanted right there. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody fall for that. You have to pad
Speaker 1: that pad that a little bit of business. UM. Thank
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