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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchie and
Speaker 1: it's a Draft day edition. Brian Johnson, your excitement level
Speaker 1: very excited.
Speaker 3: How excited are you two after this podcast? You can
Speaker 3: you've been talking to a microphone for what forty eight
Speaker 3: straight hours? Feel that way about the draft?
Speaker 1: Yes, but it's excited to bring it all together. And
Speaker 1: this time I get to talk about this draft strictly
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, which is great. That's what we love.
Speaker 1: That's what we're here for. Ten players, fantasy players taken
Speaker 1: in the in the first round of the draft, and
Speaker 1: we will recap all of them, landing spots where we
Speaker 1: think they're gonna go good bad.
Speaker 4: They're not all good. Some some of these spots were
Speaker 4: not ideal.
Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigbod you know, just.
Speaker 3: Not to tip my hand to watch a couple couple
Speaker 3: head scratchers. Can I vent real quick. At this must
Speaker 3: be at least the fifth year they've been doing like
Speaker 3: the primetime thing. Round one is on Friday or Thursday.
Speaker 4: Round Yeah, at least that long.
Speaker 3: I with every year that passes, I miss the weekend
Speaker 3: draft on even more. Yeah, I love rolling out of
Speaker 3: bed right just turning on ESPN at like eleven and
Speaker 3: just leaving it on for for for two straight days,
Speaker 3: I know, and like like the pretty Internet days, like
Speaker 3: you could only rely on the ticker at the bottom.
Speaker 3: That was it. Like say you tune like round four,
Speaker 3: you missed a couple rounds, and like I know it
Speaker 3: always tune in and like right when like the Giants
Speaker 3: pick would go by and you're like, ah, you have
Speaker 3: to sit there and watch twenty minutes before it went
Speaker 3: all the way through and back with those those were
Speaker 3: the days. But of course watching every second of this,
Speaker 3: it's great that it's finally happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the drama. It's it's soap opera for sports fans,
Speaker 1: and it's yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: And it's a culminations cumulation, culmination, culmination. Thank you of problem.
Speaker 1: Several months of speculation by us and a year of
Speaker 1: work by these teams and you know, it's when you
Speaker 1: learn how much effort the teams put into this. One
Speaker 1: of our guests on my local radio show in kfa
Speaker 1: N was the longtime director of college scouting for the Vikings,
Speaker 1: Scott Studwell, and he was saying, you know, every one
Speaker 1: of these drafts, we had a we had profiles of
Speaker 1: one thousand players, Like, there's only going to be two
Speaker 1: hundred and whatever sixty drafted. We got a thousand, Like sure,
Speaker 1: was it overkill?
Speaker 4: Always?
Speaker 1: But you never wanted to be in a position where
Speaker 1: you know, your general manager would come up and say
Speaker 1: what about this guy, and that you have no answer.
Speaker 3: It may definitely drill in off the field stuff. And
Speaker 3: you know, like the movie Draft Day, everyone knows like
Speaker 3: the infamous, you know, like who went to Bo Callahan's
Speaker 3: birthday party. That's probably not that far off in terms
Speaker 3: of the research they do.
Speaker 1: Uh, the Will Levis slide, there was tons of drama.
Speaker 1: I I'm totally cool with that. It's obviously obviously work
Speaker 1: got out on Levis. There were plenty of teams that
Speaker 1: needed quarterbacks that passed, and you know there's there were
Speaker 1: there were concerns for sure, but we'll you'll.
Speaker 3: Go early early early second round. There are some teams
Speaker 3: that should be drafting him.
Speaker 1: Tennessee I believe as the eleventh pick in.
Speaker 3: The second the Rams have like the third or fourth
Speaker 3: MS makes sense. Yeah, Seattle I think is in the
Speaker 3: top ten.
Speaker 4: Seattle's thirty seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there are Tennessees in that range.
Speaker 1: Tennessee I mentioned, right, Yeah, there are other teams. And
Speaker 1: you know, if I were Atlanta, I'd be thinking about it.
Speaker 4: But that's just me.
Speaker 1: But other people think Atlanta's set at quarterback forever.
Speaker 3: The real knock on Levis is the mayo and the coffee,
Speaker 3: which I don't get that one.
Speaker 4: The banana peel, eating the banana.
Speaker 3: I did the research. Hold on, let me pull us up. Really,
Speaker 3: I'm going to start putting banana peels in my smoothies.
Speaker 3: I'm not straight up eating the banana peel, but I'll
Speaker 3: put it.
Speaker 1: You'll make it into a smooth it'll be all, it'll stringy, I'll.
Speaker 3: Chop it up good. So you're straight from Google, So
Speaker 3: it has to be true. Banana peels are packed with polypethanol,
Speaker 3: poly phenols.
Speaker 1: Oh that's what I need, some polyphenox carotin, carotenoids.
Speaker 3: That's probably not how you pronounce it, and other antioxidants
Speaker 3: that fight cancer causing free radicals in your body. Eating
Speaker 3: more banana peels, especially green unripe peels, can increase your
Speaker 3: antioxidant levels and help reduce your risk of cancer.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna roll the dice on the cancer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they can't taste good, and the little like stem
Speaker 3: that no stems out on the way out on the
Speaker 3: way out of that would not work out.
Speaker 1: Let's go through these picks in order the order they
Speaker 1: were selected. Uh, the least surprising selection of the entire
Speaker 1: night was Carolina going Bryce Young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, supposedly. I mean why would they announced. I feel
Speaker 3: like every draft the last ten years, if the quarterbacks
Speaker 3: going first, even if it's a non quarterback, the team
Speaker 3: will announce it. And they bled the clock too.
Speaker 4: But that's just the annoying part is why are they
Speaker 4: bleeding the clock? Why did they use the full ten minutes?
Speaker 3: Well, I think ESPN makes them do that for programming.
Speaker 3: Advertised very well be but yes, as expected Bryce Young.
Speaker 1: So from a fantasy perspective, I think there is great news.
Speaker 1: I'm a Bryce Young believer. I do believe that Carolina
Speaker 1: nailed the best quarterback in this draft, or the best
Speaker 1: prospect in this draft? Is he the best fantasy prospect? Well, no,
Speaker 1: because Anthony Richardson's upside is higher.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about him in a minute, of course.
Speaker 1: But what Bryce Young is going to do is deliver
Speaker 1: a very catchable ball to the weapons that he's got on.
Speaker 1: The weapons he's got right now are middling, but Bryce
Speaker 1: Young will in time have better weapons around him. And
Speaker 1: I think he's an extremely safe dynasty selection, fantasy use.
Speaker 1: Maybe a fringe starter this year, you know, once in
Speaker 1: a you know, super a super flex starter often, yeah,
Speaker 1: but a one quarterback starter rarely.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The only knock on him is this, he's a
Speaker 3: little undersized, but there have been a successful undersized quarterbacks
Speaker 3: in NFL history, and yeah, and redraft for redraft purposes
Speaker 3: in one quarterback league, he's been going as quarterback twenty
Speaker 3: two And that's not going to change a whole lot
Speaker 3: because people were basically expecting him to be drafted by Carolina.
Speaker 3: So not not the top backup fantasy quarterback I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be targeting, but uh, we'll see, We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3: I mean, Carolina, like you said, they had some decent
Speaker 3: options for him. To throw too. Uh So, yeah, a
Speaker 3: safe pick, not the sexiest, but the safest pick.
Speaker 1: Houston put their big boy pants on and went with
Speaker 1: picks two and three. We care about CJ. Stroud, so
Speaker 1: let's talk that through. Stroud is got a kind of
Speaker 1: a dearth of weapons. That part is going to be
Speaker 1: a complicating factor for him. Nico Collins, Robert Woods, Noah Brown.
Speaker 1: Maybe John Michi will step up and end up, you know,
Speaker 1: having the kind of career that we you know, we'd
Speaker 1: hope he'd have, minus the leukemia. So that might be,
Speaker 1: you know, that might be a factor. But I just
Speaker 1: you know, from a surroundings standpoint, I love what they're
Speaker 1: building in Houston. I don't know that that this is
Speaker 1: going to pay off in fantasy terms significantly in the
Speaker 1: short term.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when they made the Stroud pick, before they traded
Speaker 3: up to three, they held the twelfth pick, and it
Speaker 3: seems like, okay, they're going to take Jackson Smith and
Speaker 3: Jagway with a twelve. Yes, Stroud's teammate at Ohio State,
Speaker 3: but that didn't happen. So and by the way, we
Speaker 3: don't talk you're tired of talking reality football or those angles.
Speaker 3: But Houston gave up way too much.
Speaker 1: They did that to move, Yeah, to move from twelve
Speaker 1: to three. Yeah, the Cardinals could surrounder a first round
Speaker 1: or a second rounder and a third rounder.
Speaker 3: Come on, the Cardinals could have the top two picks
Speaker 3: next year because Houston is not going to be that good.
Speaker 3: But Stroud up amazing numbers in college. But he played
Speaker 3: on an amazing team at Ohio State. They're head and
Speaker 3: shoulders above every other team in college football. Good arm,
Speaker 3: not great, He's accurate, good pocket awareness, but again, his
Speaker 3: pockets aren't gonna be as clean in the NFL as
Speaker 3: they were at Ohio State. He's not really known for
Speaker 3: his mobility or his ability to improvise under pressure, but
Speaker 3: he can improve on that. But in terms of redraft
Speaker 3: and dynasty, he's a tick below Bryce Young to me,
Speaker 3: just because of the weapons around him. Yeah, primarily really,
Speaker 3: at least this year, Houston's got a Yeah, they got
Speaker 3: to bolster that arsenal a little bit for for Stroud
Speaker 3: to really succeed. So he's going a little bit after
Speaker 3: Bryce Young and redraft leagues around QB twenty four. But
Speaker 3: but yeah, again Young Stroud. The safer picks, the sexier
Speaker 3: pick is who we are going to talk about next.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the next going up is Anthony Richardson and this
Speaker 1: is this is my preferred fantasy quarterback because of the
Speaker 1: rushing upside that he gives you. And we all know
Speaker 1: that rushing quarterbacks are cheat code in fantasy and you
Speaker 1: can win leagues with the right rushing quarterback, and anthink Richardson.
Speaker 4: Gives you that upside.
Speaker 1: Now, obviously ultra ultra raw product who may not see
Speaker 1: the field for a long time this year. You know,
Speaker 1: not that Gardner Minshew's great, but he's If you ask
Speaker 1: me who's starting Week one, I think there's at least
Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty chance it's Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 3: I think it's got to be Gardner Minshew. I mean,
Speaker 3: Richardson has started thirteen college games. That's it. I mean,
Speaker 3: you it doesn't matter how good of an athlete you
Speaker 3: are going into the NFL. I can't say from experience,
Speaker 3: but it's not easy to play quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 3: especially when you only play thirteen started thirteen games in
Speaker 3: college right as a quarterback. So yeah, Richardson really more.
Speaker 3: You know, he's the top dynasty target if you're not
Speaker 3: drafting Bijon Robinson, whether you're in a one quarterback or
Speaker 3: super flex leagues, or I think Bijon is really going
Speaker 3: to go first in both formats. I think Richardson is
Speaker 3: the second pick over over Stroud and Young.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big arm he could you know in time, if
Speaker 1: it turns out Richardson can pass, you know, his upside
Speaker 1: is the highest scoring fantasy quarterback in the league. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of upside Richardson could potentially give you. Nobody
Speaker 1: else in this draft class has that kind of upside.
Speaker 3: He's almost quite literally the most freakish athlete prospects. Yeah,
Speaker 3: at any position in NFL history.
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman is a legitimate target. Alec Pierce had some
Speaker 1: promising moments last year. After that, the receiver talent dries up.
Speaker 1: But I like the tight ends, you know, you know
Speaker 1: I feel about Johnny Woods.
Speaker 3: He's a monster. He's bigger than the offensive lineman we've
Speaker 3: seen him six eight.
Speaker 4: I love my tight ends like that.
Speaker 3: And yeah, like you said, Jonathan Taylor to hopefully keep
Speaker 3: defensive defenses honest, So but again, I'll be the Colts
Speaker 3: have to be out of it, mathematically eliminated for him
Speaker 3: to see the field. In my opinion. Granted that might
Speaker 3: only take seven or eight weeks. I think odds are
Speaker 3: will see Richardson on the field. But I'm with you,
Speaker 3: I think they got to roll with Minshew at least
Speaker 3: the first month two months of the season.
Speaker 1: The next player up Atlanta drafted Bejon Robinson. There had
Speaker 1: been a lot of talk that this was a possibility.
Speaker 1: This was the highest realistic landing spot for Bijon, and
Speaker 1: he goes here and for all the people like running
Speaker 1: backs can never go in the first you know, shouldn't
Speaker 1: ever go in the first round, Well, you know, we
Speaker 1: had guys go at eight and twelve, So this is
Speaker 1: the first And from a landing spot, it's fascinating because
Speaker 1: we know the Falcons want to run a lot, but
Speaker 1: everything they've ever shown us suggests they want to do
Speaker 1: it in a committee.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And Tyler l Gier over a thousand yards last
Speaker 3: year as a fourth round rookie did great. But he's
Speaker 3: he's done essentially. From a fantasy perspective, I mean, he's
Speaker 3: a handcuff if you happen to have Bijon. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Arthur Smith loves to run the ball. But man, if
Speaker 3: you're drafting Bjon Robinson, eighth overall, he'd better be getting
Speaker 3: seventy seventy five percent of the touches and and that
Speaker 3: that's carries and receiving. He's an elite receiver, runs a
Speaker 3: full route tree and that NFC South is wide open.
Speaker 1: So it is Yeah, Falcons could win it as easily
Speaker 1: as anybody else.
Speaker 3: Yep, they have a good chance of getting in the tournament.
Speaker 3: The playoff set is so they better really use Bijon
Speaker 3: and a bell cow roller the closest thing you can
Speaker 3: to it. And again number one pick in most formats,
Speaker 3: dynasty leagues, and right now, even before the draft, he
Speaker 3: was going as RB four. Yeah, on underdog and there's
Speaker 3: a good landing spot and we I think now he's
Speaker 3: going to get up in that RB two range right
Speaker 3: after McCaffrey. He's gonna challenge Jonathan Taylor and Austin Eckler.
Speaker 3: People are sort of falling out of favor with him.
Speaker 3: But Robinson was a threat to go to the Chargers.
Speaker 3: That didn't happen, So I think Eckler is a little
Speaker 3: safer than he was pre draft. But yeah, Bijon easily
Speaker 3: top three running back in redraft.
Speaker 1: Right Atlanta had the second highest rushing play percentage behind
Speaker 1: only Chicago. But Chicago did it based on running their quarterback.
Speaker 1: The Falcons didn't. From a pure running back standpoint, Atlanta
Speaker 1: was number one. And that's why Bijon Scott so is
Speaker 1: such a tantalizing opportunity. We know Arthur Smith wants to
Speaker 1: run the ball, and we also know that Bejon Robinson's
Speaker 1: a special back. What will be fascinating to find out
Speaker 1: is does Arthur Smith, when given the talent that Bejon
Speaker 1: Robinson have, has go Derrick Henry on the situation and
Speaker 1: really have and really crystallized on one player like Arthur
Speaker 1: Smith used to in Tennessee. Or does he like to
Speaker 1: play around with a bunch of different running backs in
Speaker 1: a committee like he.
Speaker 4: Did the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Or was that just a product of the fact that
Speaker 1: nobody deserved all the carries.
Speaker 3: Only time will tell. But I don't love this from
Speaker 3: a Kyle Pitts perspective.
Speaker 1: You don't love this from a Kyle Pitts perspective. And
Speaker 1: this is my ongoing concern with Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 4: And you didn't hear this. Uh.
Speaker 1: We did a Fantasy Football Weekly micro Tyler and I
Speaker 1: Tyler took your side of this, and my my main
Speaker 1: thing is it's not about whether Kyle Pitts is good
Speaker 1: or bad. He's in an offense that's never going to
Speaker 1: feature him, and this cements that storyline.
Speaker 3: I believe this would This should, uh, you know, take
Speaker 3: some pressure off Pits though, as long as he's not
Speaker 3: blocking for Bjohn Robinson. But hopefully that's uh John new
Speaker 3: Smith's job. Now.
Speaker 4: Tyler L.
Speaker 1: Geer pennies on the dollar in Dynasty.
Speaker 3: Formats pretty much. Uh, Matt, Matt Harrison, you are a
Speaker 3: co host. He offered me Tyler L. Geer for the
Speaker 3: tenth pick in our Empire League draft, and I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna see because if you recall when we did
Speaker 3: running Back a couple of weeks ago, DraftKings sports Book
Speaker 3: nailed it. They had the Falcons had the best odds.
Speaker 3: They were like plus five hundred draft bijon. So I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not traded in the tenth overall pick
Speaker 3: for be John Robinson's likely backup.
Speaker 1: Let's go to pick number twelve in a very surprising spot,
Speaker 1: Jamiir Gibbs, who we love, ends up with Detroit. Now Detroit,
Speaker 1: we just did a fantasy football micro on David Montgomery,
Speaker 1: and I picked that because I with DeAndre Swift there,
Speaker 1: I didn't think they were likely to put an early
Speaker 1: pick into running back, so I thought we could pretty
Speaker 1: safely talk about Montgomery as the probable lead back and
Speaker 1: the probable goal line back, which he still is because
Speaker 1: Jamior Gibbs is not that kind of player, but fascinating
Speaker 1: landing spot on an ascending offense, and man, jam Gibbs
Speaker 1: is exciting, he.
Speaker 3: Is, and supposedly if the Lions weren't able to trade
Speaker 3: down because they had the sixth, sixth pick, they were
Speaker 3: gonna still take Gibbs.
Speaker 4: It says a lot.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and they could have traded down again, by
Speaker 3: the way, Yeah, they loved and no one was taking
Speaker 3: him anywhere. No, no, maybe not even the first round.
Speaker 3: I mean, no other running backs got taken in the
Speaker 3: first round, so.
Speaker 1: I think so Cincinnati would have taken him, got all
Speaker 1: the way, you know, had he slid all the way
Speaker 1: to wherever they were thirty, I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably the biggest head scratcher from round one, at
Speaker 3: least from a you know, a fantasy perspective, until they
Speaker 3: trade DeAndre Swift, which seems inevitable at this point Detroit
Speaker 3: and Gibbs will slide into that role an elite receiver
Speaker 3: and it's a great spot for him. Jared Goff was
Speaker 3: thirtieth in average depth of target last year. But yeah,
Speaker 3: David Montgomery probably gonna still get the goal line work.
Speaker 3: But Gibbs was going around running back seventeen before the draft,
Speaker 3: and I you know, people might be scared until Swift
Speaker 3: gets traded. But again, that's that's gonna happen at some point,
Speaker 3: one would think. And I could see Gibbs getting up
Speaker 3: in that top twelve range for running backs in PPR formats.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can too. I can too.
Speaker 3: We're talkingpr eighty catches.
Speaker 1: I feel like for he could have eighty catches and
Speaker 1: he's so dynamic after the catch and so fast he
Speaker 1: could score.
Speaker 4: You know, he's gonna be go on to this guy.
Speaker 4: He's going to.
Speaker 1: Score some thirty forty fifth yard touchdowns. My worry end
Speaker 1: Gibbs is just inside the five. It's gonna be Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams all over again with David Montgomery now, and that
Speaker 1: Gibbs is going to need to score those longer touchdowns
Speaker 1: in order to get to the end.
Speaker 4: Zone.
Speaker 1: So we could have a very nice season, but said
Speaker 1: at six touchdowns on the year for Jamier Gibbs as possible.
Speaker 4: But special back.
Speaker 1: Special talent would have been first running back taken in
Speaker 1: most drafts, just not this one because Bjohn Robinson is
Speaker 1: a bonkers All right, let's take a break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, let's dig into the remaining first round fantasy players.
Speaker 1: We'll start up with Jackson Smith and Jigba who finds
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Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: If you were following me, I tweeted last week I
Speaker 3: was in Atlantic City making some future bets and one
Speaker 3: of my favorite value bets was Seattle to win the
Speaker 3: NFC West. They were practically four to one. Oh and
Speaker 3: after this draft, and especially this pick we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about. I even checked the odds, but I'm sure
Speaker 3: they've gone how would you say, gone? Down? Up? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Probably round two to one at this point.
Speaker 1: That might be the two good too interesting, well good
Speaker 1: I think good picks in this draft.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the top wide receiver in the top cornerback right
Speaker 3: on paper.
Speaker 1: That's that certainly helps Jackson Smith and Jigba is somebody
Speaker 1: that we expected to go a lot earlier than pick twenty,
Speaker 1: but he finds himself now in a crowded set of
Speaker 1: receivers in which it may be difficult for him to
Speaker 1: distinguish himself. What are your thoughts on the fantasy prospects
Speaker 1: for him here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's certainly going to have competition for targets with
Speaker 3: David David Why am I was gonna say dj d
Speaker 3: at Calf.
Speaker 4: And Tyler Lockett for sure?
Speaker 3: Big boon for Gino. Smith really targets quarterback sixteen, which
Speaker 3: was still late in my mind because he was a
Speaker 3: borderline top five fantasy quarterback last year, So huge for him.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we expected JSN to go to the Texans
Speaker 3: or somewhere where he was a lock for one hundred
Speaker 3: plus targets. He might not hit that threshold unless something
Speaker 3: would happen to Metcalf or Locket. But still have to
Speaker 3: like him in this offense, which i've I've dubbed the
Speaker 3: Legion of Zoom. No, I don't know if anyone has
Speaker 3: beat me today.
Speaker 4: A zoom just because they're fast. Yeah, yeah, there's something.
Speaker 3: To zoom me off. I kind of like that. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Jigbit not the fastest guy, but neither were Cooper Cup,
Speaker 3: DeVante Adams, Mike Evans, Brandon Ayuk, CD lamb A. J. Brown,
Speaker 3: who all ran four or five forty. So that doesn't
Speaker 3: matter until it's so overrated. For receivers, Yeah, size, and
Speaker 3: it's how well you run your routes and how well
Speaker 3: you catch the ball, and that's what.
Speaker 4: Can you get open?
Speaker 1: Yeah, first and foremost, that's all that matters.
Speaker 3: So but again it's he's gonna be competing for targets.
Speaker 3: So it's not an ideal spot for him from a
Speaker 3: fantasy perspective. But I'm bumping up Gino. He's now in
Speaker 3: top twelve quarterback range to me getting him at quarterback
Speaker 3: sixteen seventeen, And if you're drafting before the draft, huge
Speaker 3: value pick right now.
Speaker 1: And that's a Geno finished probably top ten at ten
Speaker 1: round ten of last year, so you know, now he
Speaker 1: just gains another good weapon at pick twenty one. The
Speaker 1: Los Angeles charges to Quinton Johnston. And this this is
Speaker 1: a player that at one point people thought might be
Speaker 1: the first receiver off the board, then a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of people came in and didn't necessarily like him.
Speaker 1: He finds a landing spot in the Chargers in which
Speaker 1: he will probably have opportunities to produce right away. But
Speaker 1: in those rare scenarios where Keenan Allen and Mike Williams
Speaker 1: are both healthy at the same time, Quinton Johnson could be.
Speaker 3: In the backseat definitely. And who's basically getting you know,
Speaker 3: he's riding in the bed of the truck now, is
Speaker 3: Josh Palmer. His value totally daggered. If you're Dad, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's no longer really a late round option unless you're
Speaker 3: you're stacking Chargers in big best ball tournaments. But uh yeah,
Speaker 3: Quentin Johnson. We just said size doesn't matter as much anymore.
Speaker 3: But he's the one that has the that prototypical X
Speaker 3: receiver size six four two fifteen. Got a little bit
Speaker 3: of like a body catch stigma surrounding him. Something they'll
Speaker 3: need to work on, but it's not something that he
Speaker 3: can't improve on. But kind of like with Jackson, Smith
Speaker 3: and Jig but from a fantasy perspective, not ideal for him.
Speaker 3: He's going to be competing for targets, like you said,
Speaker 3: with Keenan Allien, Keenan Allen and Mike Williams when healthy.
Speaker 3: But just like with Gino Smith, not that justin Herbert needed,
Speaker 3: you know, our love and adoration anymore. But it's great
Speaker 3: for him to be Okay, yeah, he's this is a
Speaker 3: boon for him as well. But yeah, we'll see. But
Speaker 3: if something were to happen to Mike Williams end or uh,
Speaker 3: Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1: Which something always does for those guys, right, they're never healthy.
Speaker 3: HJ could vault into top fifteen overall wide receiver status.
Speaker 4: If those guys missed a lot of time, I could.
Speaker 1: I could see that as a possibility as a high
Speaker 1: end output. But I think you know, Keenan Allen is
Speaker 1: clearly at the end of what's going to be a
Speaker 1: borderline Hall of Fame career, and I feel like Quentin
Speaker 1: Johnson's ideally suited for those that have the patients for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 3: Agreed.
Speaker 1: At pick twenty two, we had four straight wide receiver selections,
Speaker 1: which is unheard of. I don't think it's ever happened
Speaker 1: in the history of the draft. We had none until
Speaker 1: pick twenty and then we had four straight. The Vikings
Speaker 1: will tell you that as the fourth they this was
Speaker 1: not They were not the Jordan Addison was not. The
Speaker 1: fourth guy on their list. Who went third was Zay Flowers,
Speaker 1: the wide receiver from Boston College to Baltimore. This was
Speaker 1: probably the most easy to identify wide receiver landing spot
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 3: Yeah, again, size doesn't he doesn't have size, but that's
Speaker 3: not as as big a deal as it was in
Speaker 3: the past. A great route runner, great hands, he's very fast.
Speaker 3: People are calling him the next Steve Smith, including Steve Smith.
Speaker 4: Himself, which says a lot.
Speaker 3: Steve Smith loves him, and now Steve's.
Speaker 1: The original Steve Smith, not the Zay Flowers version. At
Speaker 1: one point, punched a team might teammates face in the
Speaker 1: teammate had to get total facial reconstruction. I would like
Speaker 1: to think Zay Flowers won't do that.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, probably not. And what a twenty
Speaker 3: four hours really for the Ravens and Lamar Jackson, who
Speaker 3: you were still weren't sure if he's going to be
Speaker 3: a Raven but he signs and you know they got
Speaker 3: Odell Beckham not within the last twenty four hours. But
Speaker 3: a week or two ago, draft say Flowers, you know,
Speaker 3: Rashad Babman comes back healthy. They got Mark Andrews. We
Speaker 3: love JK. Dobbins uoc Art Mounkin, you know, loves to
Speaker 3: air it out the Ravens, just like that. One of
Speaker 3: they get.
Speaker 1: They get Art Monkin, Art Monk, Art Art Todd Monk, Mounkin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that you called them Art Monk.
Speaker 3: I know, I knew I was gonna get it wrong.
Speaker 3: I don't have any notes on this.
Speaker 1: I'm going fantastic that you you pulled the ghost of
Speaker 1: Art Monk out of out of your subconscious.
Speaker 3: I want to know why. Yeah, I've sort of told
Speaker 3: this story how I used to go to Jets games,
Speaker 3: like in elementary school. Stepfather was friends with Pat Kerwin,
Speaker 3: who we talked about. He used to be in the
Speaker 3: front of Love.
Speaker 4: We love Pat.
Speaker 3: But blah blah blah. Art Monk was on the Jets.
Speaker 3: I was at the game where at the time he
Speaker 3: set the record for most consecutive games with a catch.
Speaker 3: Just okay, yeah, I'm sure that's been birth. This is
Speaker 3: like nineteen ninety three when this happened. So I've kind
Speaker 3: of always remembered Art Monk for that. I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go. I was I'm not sure the same,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go for it, and I failed, miserable.
Speaker 3: Thanks for Thanks for Todd.
Speaker 4: I was gonna I I was gonna let it go.
Speaker 1: Art had a long, long careers in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: But he he had one of those.
Speaker 1: Careers where it was more about how long the career
Speaker 1: was than necessarily just like how good the career was,
Speaker 1: because he was always a good receiver.
Speaker 4: Dude played sixteen years at why now, Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3: It was like the least crazy, least exciting record that
Speaker 3: he broke at the times, like most games.
Speaker 1: With uh catch catch, Yeah, I had catch like every game, right,
Speaker 1: you know, most years Art Monk was getting you like
Speaker 1: eight hundred yards five touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he just he was.
Speaker 1: He was never a reliable fantasy producer. And I know
Speaker 1: this because I was playing fantasy at the near at
Speaker 1: the end parts of his career, and I had even
Speaker 1: started Fantasy Football Weekly magazine when he was still you know,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three as our first was our very first issue.
Speaker 1: We were ranking Art Monk back then when he was
Speaker 1: still a member of the Washington then Redskins. So yeah,
Speaker 1: going way back with Art Monk. But I'm glad you
Speaker 1: did that because that was a fun, fun journey back
Speaker 1: through uh back through Art Monk. Anyway, where we're we
Speaker 1: were talking about the Ravens, we were talking about Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: Rashad be beck Bateman, and now Zay Flowers here. I
Speaker 1: believe Zay Flowers has the is going to emerge as
Speaker 1: as a very big part of this offense. He's he
Speaker 1: is a true slot receiver, and I don't know that
Speaker 1: he's ever going to be one hundred catch style slot receiver.
Speaker 4: But I think he's gonna. I think he's gonna be
Speaker 4: a reliable.
Speaker 1: Fantasy producer who you're going to be flexing from from
Speaker 1: time to time, and in the right spots, he'll absolutely
Speaker 1: be startable. I don't know that he'll overtake Forshad Bateman
Speaker 1: as sort of the go to alpha, and I don't
Speaker 1: think Odell Beckham Beckham is even in this conversation, especially
Speaker 1: not long term.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he could very well be washed. We gotta
Speaker 3: wait and s I think he's washed.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to pick twenty three. The Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison. Uh, fascinating landing spot. Did not expect the
Speaker 1: Vikings to go offense here, but it puts him in
Speaker 1: a spot where he goes to a very strong offense
Speaker 1: but always be second fiddle to Justin Jefferson. And you
Speaker 1: know he'll never carry this offense. But the other side
Speaker 1: of that is Jordan Addison for as long as he
Speaker 1: and Justin Jefferson are together, and Jefferson's gonna get a
Speaker 1: new deal, He's gonna be here through all of Jordan
Speaker 1: Addison's rookie deal with the Vikings and all probability, Jordan
Speaker 1: Addison will never see double coverage a snap of his career.
Speaker 3: No, definitely not. And you've you've talked about the real
Speaker 3: life implications of this pick extensively, so we won't. We
Speaker 3: won't go there. From a fantasy perspective, I love it
Speaker 3: for Addison. It's a great offense. Like you said, you'll
Speaker 3: see a ton of single coverage and a high octane offense.
Speaker 3: So I'm in on him there and it's gonna help
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins of course. Uh, pretty pretty similar to Zay Flowers.
Speaker 3: You know, not a huge guy, but he's fast. Yeah. Great,
Speaker 3: route runner, and yeah, he's gonna he's gonna start. He
Speaker 3: can line up outside in the slot and he'll start
Speaker 3: from day one you would expect. So h Yeah, fantasy wise,
Speaker 3: great landing spot for him. I'll break it down from reality.
Speaker 3: I don't think he was the right pick for the Vikings.
Speaker 3: I think they should have went Levis or defense if
Speaker 3: they're trying to win now, but that's not what this
Speaker 3: show is about. But yeah, for fantasy purposes, a great
Speaker 3: spot for Addison.
Speaker 1: You hit on a couple of key things with Addison.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna amplify a couple of those. Number one
Speaker 1: I talked to I talked to the Vikings head coach
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell this morning about Jordan Addison in the usage,
Speaker 1: and he confirmed that he's not just a slot receiver.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot of you know, because he
Speaker 1: is on the thinner side and a little shorter side,
Speaker 1: and because he did play a lot of slot at
Speaker 1: USC and Pitt. There's you know, there's some people of
Speaker 1: pigeoningholing him as a slot receiver. He will not be
Speaker 1: a slot receiver only he will be lined up all
Speaker 1: over the field. That is how the Vikings always have
Speaker 1: used a lot of their players, and that's the belief
Speaker 1: that that's going to be the case with Addison. Here
Speaker 1: what Kevin O'Connell kept coming back to, and general manager
Speaker 1: Quac Dolpho Mensa also said, what they love about Addison
Speaker 1: is he gets himself open the rate route, running in
Speaker 1: the separation ability and he doesn't have blazing speed. But
Speaker 1: if you can get open, you don't need the blazing
Speaker 1: speed because they're open. They threw to them at in
Speaker 1: near the line of scrimmage a lot, and I think
Speaker 1: in PPR you're going to get a lot of cheap
Speaker 1: easy points on shorter bubble screens, shorter slant passes and
Speaker 1: then just let him run and see what happens. I
Speaker 1: don't believe, you know, with Justin Jefferson there he caps
Speaker 1: his upside, fantasy upside for Jordan Addison.
Speaker 3: So you don't think it was a a a because
Speaker 3: it was the end of the wide receiver run you reference.
Speaker 3: They almost feel like a fantasy football picker. It's like
Speaker 3: everyone's taking receivers.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: Uh, the way Kevin O'Connell explained it, it didn't sound
Speaker 1: like it sounded like Jordan Addison was way higher up
Speaker 1: their list.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they also bled the clock to the very end.
Speaker 4: If he was the guy.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the final pick of the first round
Speaker 1: that has Fantasy Direct Fantasy relevance, and that was the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills moving up to get tight ended adult in Kincaid,
Speaker 1: which I found to be a little bit interesting in
Speaker 1: part because you know, the Bills had managed a pretty
Speaker 1: solid year out of the tight end position anyway, and
Speaker 1: so I, you know, I didn't necessarily see that as
Speaker 1: a as.
Speaker 4: A tight end landing spot. I don't know, I mean.
Speaker 1: I and I'm a little bit worried that. You know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see plenty of Dawson Knox, at least in
Speaker 1: the short term.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know Kinkaid, though, is he's really a slot wide receiver.
Speaker 3: He's not your blocking tight end. He's he's kind of
Speaker 3: like you're I'm not gonna say he's the next Travis Kelcey,
Speaker 3: but he's kind of like Travis Kelcey. Kyle Pitt's tight player, fast, athletic,
Speaker 3: great hands, can win fifty to fifty balls. He could
Speaker 3: really he could very well be the second leading receiver
Speaker 3: beyond Stefan Diggs in Buffalo this year. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: he's gonna he's gonna play the slot essentially.
Speaker 1: I think I think there's some truth he's so he
Speaker 1: is so slender of build for a tight end. The
Speaker 1: guy he reminds me of is Isa. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you look at ASAA likely you're like, is that a
Speaker 1: big wide receiver or is that a little tight end?
Speaker 1: And I said, Dalton Kincaid's got that kind of build
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 3: It certainly doesn't bode well for Dawson Knox, but it
Speaker 3: doesn't hurt him as much as I think you're still
Speaker 3: gonna get what you're really going to get from Dawson Knox,
Speaker 3: which he's kind of a red zone touchdown. But there's
Speaker 3: certainly another threat now in Dalton kind in the red zone,
Speaker 3: at least from Dawson Knox's perspective. But I am so
Speaker 3: appreciative that Buffalo jumped Dallas because Dallas was most likely
Speaker 3: going to take kin Kid at least people thought so. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because I've been going there, I've been drafting Jake Ferguson
Speaker 3: all winter in the last round.
Speaker 4: Now looks good.
Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson season is alive, and well, Darnell Washington ends
Speaker 1: up there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Darnell Washing, Yeah, but he's much more raw than
Speaker 3: Kinkaid or Michael Michael Meyer. Ye. But there's still some
Speaker 3: tight ends that need to be drafted in round two
Speaker 3: and three. But that was that was the first big,
Speaker 3: you know, land mine that uh, Jake Ferguson avoided.
Speaker 1: I got to talk to Lewis scene the Vikings first
Speaker 1: round draft pick. He's doing great. Ready, yeah he is,
Speaker 1: He's he's already ready. I'm basically ready to go now.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I asked him about actually he brought up Darnell
Speaker 1: watching the meat and then I'm like.
Speaker 4: I'll take the ball and run with it here. Uh.
Speaker 1: And man, he loves him. They called him the big
Speaker 1: o at Georgia because I think he was.
Speaker 4: I think he played.
Speaker 1: I think his number was zero, so I think that
Speaker 1: was why they called him a big o.
Speaker 4: But he's just gigantic.
Speaker 3: Woods type is Johnny Woods.
Speaker 4: Rob Grin might be a little faster.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: You'd like how I shifted the conversation to my guy,
Speaker 1: Darnel Washington.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Dalton Kinkaid though buffalo long term. I love the landing
Speaker 1: spot for him because he's coupled with a great young
Speaker 1: quarterback who's got a relatively young quarterback who's got a
Speaker 1: cannon arm, and Kincaid can get downfield. They you taped
Speaker 1: through to him downfield all the time. He's going to
Speaker 1: have some big downfield scene catches as early as this year.
Speaker 1: And I think Kinkaid's got an extremely promising long term
Speaker 1: UH career ahead of him, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: a significant fantasy contributor here in Buffalo.
Speaker 3: This matter is not now, and Kincaid in a better
Speaker 3: spot than Kyle Pitts in terms of the offense he
Speaker 3: plays or will play for. But I saw randomly, I
Speaker 3: forget who tweeted it, so I can't attribute him. But
Speaker 3: Kyle Pitts is eleven months younger than Dalton.
Speaker 1: Kid's a fifty year senior. Yeah, yep, so that that
Speaker 1: does not necessarily surprise me here. And you talked to
Speaker 1: him being a stand up tight end. It's a great
Speaker 1: point because he's not a good blocker. But I just
Speaker 1: think they're not going to ask him to block. No,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't draft you don't draft Dalton Kincaid
Speaker 1: and go say, well, great, you're an inline blocker now,
Speaker 1: because that's just not what he's good at so big slot.
Speaker 3: That's what they're calling it. He's going to play the
Speaker 3: big sig spot. Yeah, I like it.
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Speaker 3: So many left, so many Yeah, and Will Levis.
Speaker 1: And Will Levis wherever he ends up to give me
Speaker 1: your one, give me your pick where he goes, what team?
Speaker 1: I don't need the spot, Just tell me the team
Speaker 1: team that he goes to do.
Speaker 3: The Vikings have the AMO to move up and take him, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I'll just even if he was there in the third round,
Speaker 1: the Vikings have too many other needs.
Speaker 3: I'll go Rams, so I believe have. And we're recording
Speaker 3: this on Friday, so the second round hasn't happened. Of course,
Speaker 3: as of right now, have the fifth pick in the
Speaker 3: second round or fourth or fifth pick, I'll go with
Speaker 3: the Rams who need a quarterback.
Speaker 4: I'll go Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, thanks, I can see both happening.
Speaker 4: I could do.
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