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Speaker 1: I am Paul Charchy and I'm back. Oh you made
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Speaker 1: it's so bad. Yes, it's still draft time. Technically it
Speaker 1: feels like a million years ago. But now is the
Speaker 1: time when we've got DNA leagues already drafting. Rockie Draft
Speaker 1: already mad, and we're here with our own rookie draft,
Speaker 1: two rounds, twenty four players, the order we would take
Speaker 1: guys in, and you and I are pretty different from
Speaker 1: the the published a d P A lot of these players,
Speaker 1: which I think is healthy. You know, let's give people
Speaker 1: some different viewpoints from what they're hearing traditionally about where
Speaker 1: rookie should be going right now? Absolutely, what what places
Speaker 1: do you look for rookie A d P S when
Speaker 1: you when you are looking stuff up like this. Um see,
Speaker 1: you know I have friends in the industry. I'm good
Speaker 1: friends with the people that own football guys Rhoda Wire,
Speaker 1: so I tend to use I tend to use those
Speaker 1: as as some of my go to places. How about you?
Speaker 1: I I like to look at Fantasy Pros and and
Speaker 1: then the DLF guys Dynasty League Football. They do good
Speaker 1: work as well. So this is right there, wheel House,
Speaker 1: This is absolutely it. So yeah, we were looking at,
Speaker 1: you know, different things between the two of us, and
Speaker 1: and we came up with guys in totally different spots
Speaker 1: than a lot of the consensus we did. Of course,
Speaker 1: you sniped me a few times. I'd like to think
Speaker 1: I got a couple of your guys, Well, let's let's
Speaker 1: talk through the first round. Will begin with the first
Speaker 1: round and we'll get to the second round after the break.
Speaker 1: I gave you the first pick. Who did you take first? Overall?
Speaker 1: I got the odds, you got the evens. So I
Speaker 1: took Breece Hall of the Jets, number one, consensus, number
Speaker 1: one across the census, number one across the board. And
Speaker 1: for me, I think he's just the most talented runner
Speaker 1: in the draft class draft class. And I know that
Speaker 1: you're going to make the case that Kenneth Walker is
Speaker 1: because we've already had this argument three weeks ago. Um,
Speaker 1: the offense in New York looks like it's just improved
Speaker 1: immensely with the additions this offseason. And Michael Carter is
Speaker 1: kind of more of a change of pace guy to
Speaker 1: me than a full on first and second down runner,
Speaker 1: and I think that's where Bruce Hall fits in. UM
Speaker 1: with you, I wouldn't have spent the draft capital on
Speaker 1: Bruce Hall. Also, I don't I've been burned enough collecting
Speaker 1: lots of rookie drafts and rebuilds and stuff rookie draft picks.
Speaker 1: I've been burned enough in the past by really focusing
Speaker 1: on landing spot and making that be the tiebreaker the Jets.
Speaker 1: It does look like there's you know, other mouths to
Speaker 1: feed there, and he might not get as many touches
Speaker 1: as maybe Walker could in Seattle. But I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: default to the guy who I think is the best
Speaker 1: player on the board. So I'm I'm gonna go with that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to overthink it, don't want to make
Speaker 1: it Clyde Edwards Hilaire over a couple of other good
Speaker 1: runners or something like that, because he ended up in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, you know, and I think we talked ourselves
Speaker 1: into that that year. I was very excited about the spot,
Speaker 1: and I'm still still baffled that they haven't been able
Speaker 1: to ring more value out of Clyde Edwards Hilaire. Uh
Speaker 1: the number two pick. Traditionally here it's been it's going
Speaker 1: wide receiver, okay, But for me, I did not, and
Speaker 1: normally I lean wide receiver because when you draft a
Speaker 1: wide receiver position to you usually have like a you know,
Speaker 1: an eight year long starter. You know you've got a
Speaker 1: great wide receiver in a great spot. You are very
Speaker 1: good for a long time. Most of these regular listeners
Speaker 1: know how I I feel about do the opposite and
Speaker 1: infesting in non running backs because the length of their
Speaker 1: careers and everything else. But I just can't get one
Speaker 1: wide receiver that feels like the match that I want
Speaker 1: between talent, location, quarterback, long term viability, and nobody's hitting
Speaker 1: the sweet spot of all of those. That ven diagram
Speaker 1: doesn't come all the way together. No, it doesn't, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't like a Justin Jefferson or I don't know
Speaker 1: many others recently. Well, a great example from last year
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. You know that's you know, it felt like
Speaker 1: you know, both ended up with quarterbacks who were viable
Speaker 1: quarterback one fantasy starters in leagues, right ceedee lamb. Another example.
Speaker 1: So I decide I'm just gonna go running back. I
Speaker 1: thought Kenneth Walker was the best running back in this draft,
Speaker 1: the most explosive. And I like Breese Hall just fine.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be very, very good. I just
Speaker 1: love the explosiveness that Kenneth Walker brings. And I just
Speaker 1: don't see where Shad Penny is as any real He
Speaker 1: can't here and apparently Seattle doesn't either because they also
Speaker 1: Drean you know, they resigned Pennies the like. But you
Speaker 1: know they but they spent the draft capital on Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 1: You know, we have a long history with Shot Penny.
Speaker 1: He's been good for one month out of his entire career.
Speaker 1: I think Kenneth Walker is a special player, and I
Speaker 1: think Penny will be a little more than a change
Speaker 1: of pace back before long. Now, two things before we
Speaker 1: move on. When you're doing dynasty rookie drafts, in my mind,
Speaker 1: I tend to want to grab those running backs when
Speaker 1: I feel like it's the last piece I'm adding to
Speaker 1: my team. I want to trade up and get those
Speaker 1: running backs and and and see if I can put
Speaker 1: everything together. I got all my wide receivers, I got
Speaker 1: my tight ends, I got my quarterbacks, are ready to go.
Speaker 1: People do the opposite that most people do the opposite
Speaker 1: there because your your window with a running back is
Speaker 1: probably four years. That's almost an ideal scenario to get
Speaker 1: four viable years out of a rookie running and and
Speaker 1: like you said, your your window for a wide receiver
Speaker 1: could be eight ten maybe, so I I think that
Speaker 1: that's important. But the second thing is this the end
Speaker 1: of a tier in the rookies this year, and we
Speaker 1: should rookie running back all the rookies. I don't think so,
Speaker 1: because there are good receivers here that have that. I
Speaker 1: think there are good There are pretty good receivers. To me,
Speaker 1: this is not the end of it. Tier do do
Speaker 1: believe it is? I kind of think it is. I
Speaker 1: think it's the first two picks. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be these two guys in whatever order they go.
Speaker 1: And if if you, if I would have taken Kenneth Walker,
Speaker 1: would you have taken Breece Hall number two? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: But again because I don't think again, I don't think
Speaker 1: the Venn diagram for all these receivers comes together. And
Speaker 1: now we're gonna go to number three. And I'm looking
Speaker 1: and going, okay, best receiver, best receiver available? Which one
Speaker 1: do I like the best? And so to me, it
Speaker 1: was a choice between two. It was Drake London or
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson. I went London for the same reason. I
Speaker 1: think the Falcons chose him over Wilson. He's just a
Speaker 1: massive physical mismatch on the field, and I like that
Speaker 1: he instantly slides in as the feature receiver in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: playing a similar role to that that A. J. Brown
Speaker 1: played in the Arthur Smith offense in Tennessee. So but
Speaker 1: the other thing I like is he's not the only
Speaker 1: target there. They have Kyle Pitts, they have Core Darrel Patterson,
Speaker 1: they have some other guys that are weapons on that team.
Speaker 1: And actually, if we could keep going down, I have
Speaker 1: a lot of Atlanta that I'm taking. So I'm kind
Speaker 1: of investing in the Atlanta way right now. And I
Speaker 1: kind of like it here. I just wish we had
Speaker 1: quarterbacks stability and maybe maybe, you know, maybe there will
Speaker 1: be long term but you know, right now, I can't
Speaker 1: tell you who the starter is going to be next year.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you who the starter is gonna be
Speaker 1: in week one. Oh that's good. You know that could
Speaker 1: be up for debate, although I think it'll be Marcus
Speaker 1: Mario probably, But I have a feeling Atlanta is gonna
Speaker 1: want to see a lot of Desmond Ritter. But we'll
Speaker 1: talk about him a little later. Yeah, But is it
Speaker 1: it is that at the end of a lost season,
Speaker 1: you know, is that it's going to be a lost
Speaker 1: season anyway, To be honest, I pick for Garrett Wilson
Speaker 1: was my selection. You said you were between London and
Speaker 1: and Wilson. I prefer will and because I loved what
Speaker 1: I saw from Zack Wilson in the second half of
Speaker 1: the season after he came back from injury and was
Speaker 1: a dramatically better quarterback. Reportedly worked out a lot in
Speaker 1: the offseason. He's lost some of the baby fat pictures
Speaker 1: where he looked like young Tom Brady. And well, I
Speaker 1: know some people are scared off by Elijah more Strong
Speaker 1: finished last year. You know they're there are dozens of
Speaker 1: teams that keep two good receivers Fantasy relevant. Are people
Speaker 1: talking themselves out of Jamaar Chase last time at this
Speaker 1: year because of Tee Higgins some and then all the drops? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but foolishly so Yeah, I went Garrett Wilson here. I
Speaker 1: love the deep speed, Uh, the opportunity immediately start and
Speaker 1: he will immediately start Week one. Starter for Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1: You had picked number five. Where did you go? Um?
Speaker 1: I this is where it got dicey for me. And
Speaker 1: I think that was the end of another tier for me. Um.
Speaker 1: Traylon Burks is the next guy. Uh, he's in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I think after London and Wilson, Uh, that it's probably
Speaker 1: the tier Burks Olav and sky More in the next
Speaker 1: tier for me, and I took Burke's here. He's good
Speaker 1: enough player to be a first round talent, as we've
Speaker 1: highlighted over the last few weeks on this show, and
Speaker 1: he landed in a spot where he's easily the flashiest
Speaker 1: name on the depth chart, but not in such a
Speaker 1: spot where he's going to be doubled on every play
Speaker 1: because Robert Woods is there in Tennessee well at some point.
Speaker 1: At some point, Austin Hooper is also there, and they're
Speaker 1: respectable enough names that NFL defenses aren't going to leave
Speaker 1: Robert Woods in Austin Hooper wide open on the field
Speaker 1: and just cover trayl On Burks. So I I I
Speaker 1: think that Burks will have the ability to have some space,
Speaker 1: and Tennessee really drafted him as the replacement to A. J. Brown,
Speaker 1: and I think that he kind of hops into to
Speaker 1: that role and let's see if he can roll with it.
Speaker 1: With pick number six, I went with Sky Moore for
Speaker 1: Kansas City. If I were to ask you who is
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver on Kansas City at this time
Speaker 1: next year, who's the probable answer to that question? Uh,
Speaker 1: I guess it's sky More. Schuster is on a one
Speaker 1: year deal, Marcus Valda Scantling is nothing special, and Nicole
Speaker 1: Hardman is nothing special. And we're looking at sky More.
Speaker 1: He's probably the next guy up. He could be Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes go to receiver for four years, five years, six years,
Speaker 1: especially with Travis Kelsey, you know, looming towards the end
Speaker 1: of his career, lumbering, lumbering. Um. I like. I like
Speaker 1: sky Moore as a player anyway. You get the quickness,
Speaker 1: the footwork, the balance, the fact that he was productive
Speaker 1: at all levels of the field. There's a lot to
Speaker 1: like about him there. And I'm just not scared off
Speaker 1: by Juju Smith, Schuster and me Cole Hardman together, those
Speaker 1: two guys who they both feel like they're young, but
Speaker 1: they've combined for eight seasons and have managed one one
Speaker 1: thousand yards season between them. I'm just they don't scare me.
Speaker 1: Sky More. This they put eight They put real draft
Speaker 1: equity into sky More, and I think I want Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes first, best first and best receiver. Yeah, Juju is
Speaker 1: surprisingly young still, I think he's only or twenty six.
Speaker 1: He got into the league at an incredibly young age.
Speaker 1: But I see your point there, and if Juju works out,
Speaker 1: they'll probably resign him in Kansas City. But other than that,
Speaker 1: sky Moreri's probably the guy for maybe the best quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league. So I agreed, Yeah, what would you
Speaker 1: do with pick number seven? I have Chris Olave of
Speaker 1: the Saints. Um. Some people are like, can Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: support a wide receiver one? Well, yes, he's done so
Speaker 1: with Mike Evans. Uh. And if Michael Thomas is there,
Speaker 1: can Jamis Winston support two wide receiver ones? Well he
Speaker 1: did it with Evans and Chris Godwin a few years ago. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Saints need Olave to work out so badly to
Speaker 1: unlock this offense. They need it more than just about anything.
Speaker 1: A single good wide receiver just makes that offense functional.
Speaker 1: But two good wide receivers of Michael Thomas comes back
Speaker 1: and he's actually healthy, Why that opens up everything for
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, and all of a sudden this team is
Speaker 1: a completely different team and maybe one in playoff talks.
Speaker 1: So what I like about Alave was all the deep,
Speaker 1: big plays that he made for Ohio State, and now
Speaker 1: he pairs up with the Yolo stylings. Maybe he wasn't
Speaker 1: super yolo last year. He was pretty conservative last year
Speaker 1: before the injury. You know, I thought that too, But
Speaker 1: then I looked up his His average throw was nine
Speaker 1: point two yards, was his It was his average. His
Speaker 1: average pass when he was with the Bucks, he was
Speaker 1: nine point five. Okay, So you know, they really didn't
Speaker 1: dial in back as much as I thought that maybe
Speaker 1: he just got better. Maybe that could be. The interceptions
Speaker 1: are way down, that's true. So you know, I'm we'll
Speaker 1: find out whether or not Jameis Winston is ultimately the
Speaker 1: answer here or not. But I at least I like
Speaker 1: the short term pairing. With pick number eight, I chose
Speaker 1: Christian Watson. Obviously he's steps right in as the Packers
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver, and it's not close. It it's not,
Speaker 1: I mean, it isn't Alan Lazard kind of like the
Speaker 1: de facto number one, just because Aaron Rodgers is such
Speaker 1: a weirdo and so fickle about who he throws the
Speaker 1: ball to that you have to pass the Rogers test
Speaker 1: and you know, be in his inner circle in order
Speaker 1: to have a pass thrown at you. He'll take anything
Speaker 1: he can get at this point. And the Packers liked
Speaker 1: Christian Watson so much they gave a division rival two
Speaker 1: second round picks to get him in the second round. Um,
Speaker 1: that's that tells you a lot about how their esteem
Speaker 1: for Watson. And Watson's got some special traits, great deep
Speaker 1: ball receiver, He's tall, lanky, he's a leaper, he's a finisher,
Speaker 1: tons of scoring prowess after the catch, and obviously pairs
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. Now it feels like Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: at the bitter end of his career. He's under contract
Speaker 1: for five years and it's not like the last three
Speaker 1: of them are are phony avoidable years or do you
Speaker 1: think you know? Rogers? And apparently the Packers feel like
Speaker 1: he's got plenty left in the tank. And I will
Speaker 1: take even if Rogers gets ten worse even each of
Speaker 1: the next five years, he's still gonna be better than
Speaker 1: most of the quarterbacks in the league. For what did
Speaker 1: you decide to do with pick number nine? So this
Speaker 1: was kind of my first reach out of the zone
Speaker 1: of what the rookie a DP is and I went
Speaker 1: with James Cook out of Buffalo. Um, I think that
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary is just a guy. Pretty good last year,
Speaker 1: I know, but we've seen three years of Devin Centitary
Speaker 1: in the first year, he basically had that backfield all
Speaker 1: to himself, so much so that the Bills were like,
Speaker 1: let's get Zack Moss and give him a year and
Speaker 1: a half worth of work in the backfield. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Bills think he's special. So I think that
Speaker 1: James Cook, if he is indeed special, has a real
Speaker 1: shot of maybe not taking over this role, but being
Speaker 1: the sixty on the sixty split in this role. And
Speaker 1: if you look at what they have in that backfield,
Speaker 1: they haven't had a really good runner in that backfield
Speaker 1: since Fred Jackson left and that was a long time
Speaker 1: mar Sean Lynch, I think was after mar Um. But
Speaker 1: the way the Bill's offense runs, Josh Allen is going
Speaker 1: to do crazy stuff with the ball, which means design runs, rollouts,
Speaker 1: read option plays. That's set up for a guy who
Speaker 1: can get out in the flat and runner out and
Speaker 1: catch passes. I think that's set up for James Cook
Speaker 1: to be a really good runner in in many systems.
Speaker 1: And and you know, a flex starter in in fantasy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna challenge you on this because I don't like
Speaker 1: Cook very much in this offense. And and here's why.
Speaker 1: I think he is a pedestrian runner who's a very
Speaker 1: gifted receiver, and Devin Singletary is a decent receiver, and
Speaker 1: I think a better runner based on the guy we
Speaker 1: saw in the second half of last year, which was
Speaker 1: shocking because usually dies don't get better in your three,
Speaker 1: running backs don't get better in your three, but Singletary did,
Speaker 1: so it feels to me like it best. It's a
Speaker 1: blended backfield. And then we always have Josh Allen housing
Speaker 1: touchdown and I feel like James Cook is gonna be
Speaker 1: like a three four touchdown a year guy. We're getting
Speaker 1: down to the point in this rookie draft where I'm
Speaker 1: starting to look at guys like, where's where's the upside,
Speaker 1: Where's the guy who can be a starter, And well,
Speaker 1: there's the guy who's the guy that you did not take?
Speaker 1: And then I'm not gonna take but every listener is going,
Speaker 1: where is Jamis Williams? Why hasn't somebody taken to me yet?
Speaker 1: And here's the bad part. I'm not taking him either,
Speaker 1: because I got a big take on Rashad White. I
Speaker 1: really like this guy, and I think he's gonna he's
Speaker 1: going to bypass Leo four Nette for the Bucks sooner
Speaker 1: than later, and I just I didn't want to let
Speaker 1: him slide any farther down the Did you hear his
Speaker 1: comments about coming into Tampa Bay? Tell me he said
Speaker 1: he was coming into Tampa Bay to win the job,
Speaker 1: not to compete for the job. He's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: win the job good. I got attitude, and and he
Speaker 1: he has the attitude that he's going to take this
Speaker 1: job from Leonard Fournette and run with it. I would
Speaker 1: have otherwise taken Jamis Williams here, just Jamison Williams. Just
Speaker 1: to be clear, Um, you'll need to decide for yourself.
Speaker 1: If you think is Leo four Neette like a special talent?
Speaker 1: Is Leo Fournette super durable? It? Does he still have
Speaker 1: long term viability? I think the answer is no, no,
Speaker 1: and no. Leo Fournet's none of those things. He is
Speaker 1: a capable running back who Tom Brady trusts. He's not.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's got so it does, and he's
Speaker 1: been good, don't get me wrong. What's more, I think
Speaker 1: I think White can earn the starting job at some
Speaker 1: point this year if Tom Brady trusts him enough to
Speaker 1: take over the starting the starting wall. I think it
Speaker 1: can happen here. White to do everything back, elite pass
Speaker 1: catching ability, he can run inside, he can run out.
Speaker 1: I get this. Forty of Rashad whites touches last year
Speaker 1: resulted in first downs or touchdowns. That is some heavy productivity,
Speaker 1: and a touchdown is a first down according to Live Scoring.
Speaker 1: If you use first downs as a as a point metric.
Speaker 1: There you go. Alright, So now let's pick eleven. Yeah, finally, Um,
Speaker 1: he did fall too far. Um. The talent is unquestioned.
Speaker 1: He's fast, he's elusive, he can catch all this stuff.
Speaker 1: I think he gets major ly dinged for a couple
Speaker 1: of reasons. Um, we don't know for sure if he'll
Speaker 1: be healthy enough to start the era. You know he
Speaker 1: will not be healthy enough to start the year. And
Speaker 1: he landed on the Lions. And while aman Ra st
Speaker 1: Brown had a really good stretch at the end of
Speaker 1: last year, you got to remember that was when t. J.
Speaker 1: Hockenson was out and for the Lions, like four otherwide,
Speaker 1: they had nobody else to throw too. And the goofball
Speaker 1: is still the quarterback there. So suddenly there's a few
Speaker 1: mouths defeat in Detroit, and we might not get Jamison
Speaker 1: Williams still halfway through the year, maybe I think that
Speaker 1: this is a three play and you're looking at the
Speaker 1: Lions having a new quarterback and Williams fully healthy in
Speaker 1: all right, so let me let me just posture this
Speaker 1: for you, Matt if Williams, if you're not playing to
Speaker 1: win in if you're not playing to win this year,
Speaker 1: where would you have taken Williams? How far up does
Speaker 1: he move? That's I mean, in my mind, if I'm
Speaker 1: a good trader, and I kind of believe that I am.
Speaker 1: If I'm looking at a draft and I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna fall the way I do, and I think he
Speaker 1: might fall to nine eleven, I'm not going to take
Speaker 1: him with the high picks. I'm gonna try to trade
Speaker 1: down and gain some extra draft capital. That's no answer
Speaker 1: to this question. I mean, he's probably He's probably worth
Speaker 1: a fifth, sixth, seventh pick right in there. I think
Speaker 1: you're right. The final pick of the first round, and
Speaker 1: we're not really doing the you know, the snake draft
Speaker 1: and thing. I'm not trying to match pair up people.
Speaker 1: But the twelve pick, last pick of a typical first round, um,
Speaker 1: I took John Dodson and he goes ended up at Washington.
Speaker 1: You mean Josh Dockson. Josh Dockson, remember Josh do the
Speaker 1: Washington Football Commander games they are right. Um, I think
Speaker 1: Eddie landed in a different spot. I think he'd have
Speaker 1: been he'd already been drafted. But this is not the
Speaker 1: greatest spot in the world. Yes, I'm nervous about Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: but we're time. I got through twenty seven touchdowns last year.
Speaker 1: That's not that bad, and that's a number he's hit.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz has hit twenty seven touchdowns in half of
Speaker 1: his NFL seasons. If he can get to twenty seven again,
Speaker 1: we already know Terry McLaren's just not a touchdown score.
Speaker 1: His average, Terry McLaren averages five touchdowns a year. So
Speaker 1: I've got twenty two unaccounted for Carson Wentz touchdowns. McLaurin
Speaker 1: also heading into the final year of his rookie deal,
Speaker 1: and he's kind of been rumored to be on the
Speaker 1: block like a J Brown was Deebo Samuel that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. So there's a chance here the dots and
Speaker 1: ends up in a and being a bigger part of
Speaker 1: this offense and I think a lot of people think,
Speaker 1: and I don't hate Carson Wentz as much as most
Speaker 1: people do. And he's he's been able to ring productivity
Speaker 1: out of his receivers. You know, Pittman was pretty good
Speaker 1: last year and his tight ends were pretty good in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: So hopefully he's gonna get he's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: use some of the speed and separation that he showed
Speaker 1: in college. And you know that's you know, that's why
Speaker 1: I tip dots in here at twelve. Let's uh, let's
Speaker 1: put a let's put a boat into the first round. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tie it up with the boat. Here I go. We'll
Speaker 1: come back and we will go through the next twelve
Speaker 1: rookies in our Rookie Dynasty Draft Welcome Back Segment number
Speaker 1: two Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchie and Matt Harrison with you.
Speaker 1: I didn't properly introduce you at the beginning. It's okay.
Speaker 1: They know me by now lancing my elbow and next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, we're just chatting. Sorry about that. I think
Speaker 1: they've figured out who I am after this is now
Speaker 1: my tenth year on the show. Gosh, I've made it
Speaker 1: a decade decade. Wow, we've got hold together. It's kind
Speaker 1: of scary. You're a young man when this started. I know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's gray hair and the sideburns now only the Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still okay, let's go to the round number two.
Speaker 1: We've we've already talked through our twelve players that are
Speaker 1: off the board so far. Let's go to pick you
Speaker 1: are up. I took George Pickens out of Pittsburgh because
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh wide receiver factory has proven success. Kevin Colbert,
Speaker 1: the GM there has drafted a wide receiver almost every
Speaker 1: year since he took office. And here's the names. A
Speaker 1: few names that he's had success with. Santonio Holmes, Mike Wallace,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, Emmanuel Sanders, Martavis Bryant, Juju Smith, Schuster, James Washington,
Speaker 1: Deonte Johnson, Chase Claypool. Only one of those guys turned
Speaker 1: out to be a relative bust. All the rest pretty
Speaker 1: much hit. Which one is the relative bus James Washington Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's still in the league. That it's not even on
Speaker 1: the team though. Yeah, but all have been viable Fantasy
Speaker 1: starters at one point or another. He did he did
Speaker 1: miss on Marcus Wheaton in the third round and Limas Swede.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember that guy. Two thousand eight second
Speaker 1: round picks miss Swede, So he missed on two out
Speaker 1: of the last twenty years. Jeez um. Also, we didn't
Speaker 1: draft him here. But I will give an honorable mention
Speaker 1: to Calvin Austin, who I think was drafted in the
Speaker 1: fourth round by the Steelers, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who really like him as well. He had gone
Speaker 1: two more picks in our draft I would have taken. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think Pickens and Calvin Austin are both very
Speaker 1: interesting guys. Deonte Johnson probably not on the Steelers in
Speaker 1: a year or two, do you think so? Pittsburgh is
Speaker 1: giving up on every one of their wide receivers. They
Speaker 1: just keep going through the factory. The only one one
Speaker 1: of those guys that they signed long term was Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: Look how that worked out. It did work out for
Speaker 1: a couple of years for a while. I mean he
Speaker 1: was he was the top wide receiver in Fantasy for
Speaker 1: four years straight. But other than that, unless you're gonna
Speaker 1: be the top wide receiver for four years straight, Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: is gonna let you walk with Pickens. You get the
Speaker 1: big body, you get a guy who you know, he's
Speaker 1: not Chase Claypool big, but he's a bigger range year
Speaker 1: receiver you can bring in downfield, contested catches, everything that
Speaker 1: Calvin Austin isn't. Who will be their little water bug guy. Um.
Speaker 1: And I think there's touchdown upside in George Pickens and
Speaker 1: touchdown upside that Deante Johnson doesn't usually have. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and the touchdown upside that we all want Chase Claypool
Speaker 1: to maintain from his rookie year. He didn't really show
Speaker 1: it last year. Maybe Pickens steps in and just kind
Speaker 1: of steals that from Chase Claypool. And picked fourteen, I
Speaker 1: took Damian Pierce from Houston. I got an NFL probable
Speaker 1: starting running back at pick fourteen. Yeah. I was considering
Speaker 1: him a pick or two above, but I just couldn't
Speaker 1: get past the last two receivers. If nothing else, Pierce
Speaker 1: is going to be a rotational back and the definite
Speaker 1: goal line back because man is he built for it.
Speaker 1: Just a wrecking ball. The thick build, the powerful running,
Speaker 1: the punishing finishes. He's got shocking burst and footwork for
Speaker 1: a man his size, good balance, There's so much I
Speaker 1: like about him. It was just weird that they didn't
Speaker 1: use him that much at Florida. I think when we
Speaker 1: talked about that when we're highlighting the runners coming in
Speaker 1: one game with more than fifteen touches, and that was
Speaker 1: the thing we were worried about, is Florida didn't seem
Speaker 1: to figure out how to scheme him enough touches. So
Speaker 1: is weird? Is it something that you know, just college
Speaker 1: coaches didn't figure out in the NFL? Will who knows?
Speaker 1: I don't know. But Pierce has built for goal line use.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be goal line uptunities in any offense. Even
Speaker 1: Houston not a pass catcher, so he's not gonna help
Speaker 1: me PPR wise, But I do believe that Pierce in
Speaker 1: year one will be a fantasy flex opportunity most weeks.
Speaker 1: Let's go to pick number fifteen. Who did you take?
Speaker 1: I took Isaiah Spiller of the Los Angeles Chargers of Anaheim.
Speaker 1: I think we all like the talent and the profile
Speaker 1: of Spiller coming into the draft, but we don't like
Speaker 1: the landing spot because we love Austin Ekeler. Everybody loves
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler. Now he turns twenty seven years old next week.
Speaker 1: He missed six games in twenty with injury, and he
Speaker 1: really wasn't right that whole year. Um saw a handful
Speaker 1: of games where he just wasn't as efficient as he
Speaker 1: was back in nineteen. He was okay last year, he
Speaker 1: could have been better seeing him go as like early
Speaker 1: ADPs pick number three in fantasy drafts. I was one
Speaker 1: of the guys who was on Austin Ekeler mountain. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of getting ready to jump off of that mountain.
Speaker 1: I don't think that he's going to have a full
Speaker 1: workload this year. I think Isaiah Spiller is going to
Speaker 1: cut into it. Because when Melvin Gordon was there and
Speaker 1: taking regular touches, totally different coaching staff, totally different coaching staff.
Speaker 1: But that's when Austin Ekeler's efficiency was through the roof.
Speaker 1: And then Gordon left and we're all like, look at
Speaker 1: the efficiency. He's Christian McCaffrey. If he gets to just
Speaker 1: like double the touches as he did last year, he
Speaker 1: kind of was, though he kind of was, but so
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a little nervous that the end could be
Speaker 1: closer for Eckler than we're all letting on end. Like
Speaker 1: career end, dude, running backs just disappear. They all off
Speaker 1: the face of the earth. That's percent true, But there
Speaker 1: was no indication last year that that was coming. And
Speaker 1: I agree that Spiller is going to have a role
Speaker 1: in this office and they'll use it to extend Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler's career. If I'm starting a dynasty league right now,
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler is a guy that I'm not going to
Speaker 1: have on my roster, I think again, I think I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're you're thinking of you and I have been
Speaker 1: on I have been as heavier proponents of Austin Ekelers
Speaker 1: over the last two years. Is anybody, so I'm a
Speaker 1: little surprised you say it. But I do think Spiller
Speaker 1: will will take ten ish total touches a game out
Speaker 1: of that offense, and that will that will hurt Austin Ekeler.
Speaker 1: But Ekeler is still a special back that Spiller is.
Speaker 1: I'm not doubting the talent. I think that there is
Speaker 1: another runner there that can take touches. I think that
Speaker 1: he's going to still be very efficient, but he also
Speaker 1: does turn twenty seven and the end comes quicker than
Speaker 1: you think for running backs and by by their birthday.
Speaker 1: There's not very many running backs who are really good
Speaker 1: in the league anymore. At pick sixteen, I took John
Speaker 1: Mechi for for Houston, So I went Houston. Houston, good
Speaker 1: for you really want to double down on that Houston
Speaker 1: off that awesome Texans offense. The Texans liked him so
Speaker 1: much they spent pick forty four on a wide receiver
Speaker 1: coming off a December a c L. So he's not
Speaker 1: going to play for a while, but he was highly
Speaker 1: productive with even with all the competition at Alabama, he
Speaker 1: was highly productive. Here's what Nick Saban had to say
Speaker 1: about John Manchi. The guy's the epitome of what you
Speaker 1: look for at a wide receiver. He is tough, he
Speaker 1: plays hurt, he plays physical, he gets open, he makes catches,
Speaker 1: he makes plays, he never complains. I'll take that perfect now.
Speaker 1: Part of my rationale is that I am a believer
Speaker 1: in Davis Mills. I was talking about Davis Mills at
Speaker 1: this time last year that I liked him for Houston
Speaker 1: and thought he would be a factor for Houston. He
Speaker 1: was better than I had even hoped Lettie would be.
Speaker 1: And I think Davis Mills is a legitimate NFL quarterback
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be a top five quarterback,
Speaker 1: but I think he's gonna. I think he will be
Speaker 1: better this year and will emerge out of this season
Speaker 1: as a middle of the pack NFL starter, and those
Speaker 1: guys get those guys can feed fantasy points. Well, I
Speaker 1: think it's in portant to note that the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: also think that, because you know, they passed on Desmond
Speaker 1: Ritter and Malik Willis five times, but they didn't think
Speaker 1: there was a need to change. If Davis Mills, if
Speaker 1: everything we knew about Davis Mills today was a parent
Speaker 1: and Davis Mills was in this draft, he'd go in
Speaker 1: the first round. He'd have been the first quarterback taken. Probably,
Speaker 1: let's go to pick number seventeen. I took Tyler l.
Speaker 1: Gier my second Falcon. If you believe that Cordineral Patterson
Speaker 1: will be the quote unquote running back we saw in
Speaker 1: the first half of last season, Algiers probably not your guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Cordell Patterson fell off the face of the heath
Speaker 1: basically from Thanksgiving forward absolutely, and and Atlanta re signed him.
Speaker 1: So they think that there's value in having CP eighty
Speaker 1: four on the team. But if you watch how big
Speaker 1: and physical Tyler Algier was in his highlight packages from
Speaker 1: b y U, you know he's got a shot to
Speaker 1: be a legit fifteen touch of guy touch guy in
Speaker 1: this offense. And yes, it's the same Arthur Smith offense
Speaker 1: that used a big, physical, bruising running back and had
Speaker 1: him run downhill. That's totally it. Drop Austin Ackler, pick
Speaker 1: up Tyler Alger. It'll all work out, no, um but
Speaker 1: I but honestly, there's a path for Tyler al Geer
Speaker 1: to be the thunder to the CP eight four lightning
Speaker 1: and the Falcons are gonna maybe use Patterson more in
Speaker 1: a Deebo Samuel style role, which I think, uh gives
Speaker 1: him more upside than he is if he's you know,
Speaker 1: lining up in the backfield for twin carries a game.
Speaker 1: So um, I think that Algiers kind of a really
Speaker 1: interesting guy. I I believe he's going to be one
Speaker 1: of those rookies that's going up the adp UH. In
Speaker 1: July and August for US, Zamir White found himself in
Speaker 1: a lousy spot Las Vegas for running backs. I would
Speaker 1: like to live there, and it's not a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'd be nice. You're talking to guy who just survived
Speaker 1: six months of Minnesota winter. I mean, Vegas sounds great.
Speaker 1: I like to visit Vegas, though I think it would
Speaker 1: be ruined if you lived in Vegas. Like the allure
Speaker 1: and the magic of Vegas, which is I mean, what
Speaker 1: if I live in St. George, Utah, which is about
Speaker 1: uh seventy eight minute drive? Perfect? There you go. There,
Speaker 1: we'll do that. Zamir White needs probably a year before
Speaker 1: you're gonna really get good dividends out of him, because
Speaker 1: there's already Josh Jacobs and Kenyan Drake. But the team
Speaker 1: just denied Josh Jacobs the fifth year rookie tag. That happened.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake is just a guy and he's on a
Speaker 1: one year deal. Next year's starting running back right now
Speaker 1: looks like Zamir White. Dudes, ripped, super muscular, physical, known
Speaker 1: for his burst. He punishes tacklers, which I love. He's um.
Speaker 1: He looks like a fantasy touchdown guy. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be a scorer in this league, and it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of whether or not it comes through
Speaker 1: this season. So you know, I'm gonna sit on to
Speaker 1: your White for a year and then see what I
Speaker 1: got next season. Okay, I took Jalen Tilbert with the
Speaker 1: pick in our draft. Um, he's in Dallas, and we
Speaker 1: all know that Ceedee Lamb is the wide receiver one,
Speaker 1: and Michael Gallup is coming off late season knee surgery
Speaker 1: and he's the wide receiver number two. But Mary Cooper
Speaker 1: he's gone, Cedric Wilson he's gone. After that, it's the
Speaker 1: aforementioned James Washington and Jalen Tilbert. And Talbert's a small
Speaker 1: school guy who fought his way into the third round
Speaker 1: of the draft, and my guests, he fights his way
Speaker 1: into the starting lineup if Gallup is gonna miss some time,
Speaker 1: and who knows after that. If he's really good, this
Speaker 1: could be a guy who's maybe the wide receiver too
Speaker 1: in a Dak Prescott offense. And that's a guy that
Speaker 1: I'm interested in. Do you think he can get past
Speaker 1: Lamb and Gallop to be wide receiver too? I mean,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to get past Lamb to be the
Speaker 1: second wide receiver on that team. Lamb is wide receiver
Speaker 1: one team. Okay, just got past Gallop. As what you're saying,
Speaker 1: just gotta get past Gallop. It's just gotta gallop past gallop.
Speaker 1: At pick number twenty, I took Malik Willis much like
Speaker 1: the real NFL draft and ignominious fall for Malik Willis
Speaker 1: here at this point and this is our first quarterback
Speaker 1: off the board. Were not super flex? Is not super flex?
Speaker 1: But how about where would you take Malik Willis if
Speaker 1: this was a super flex draft? Since he's still off
Speaker 1: the board, I still think I wouldn't have taken him
Speaker 1: in the first round. I think he'd have been the
Speaker 1: top of the second round super flex. Alright, too much
Speaker 1: risk here, but your upside is significant. Everybody knows everything.
Speaker 1: There's no about Malik Willis. There's I'm not telling you.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about his style anything else.
Speaker 1: I'm here for the running and may in the hope
Speaker 1: that Malik Willis can find himself in a position to
Speaker 1: be a starting quarterback and go run me for a
Speaker 1: bunch of touchdowns in a bunch of yards. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's picked twenty. What'd you do? I took the next
Speaker 1: quarterback off the floor started quarterback round. Yeah, hey, and
Speaker 1: it's uh Desmond Ritter not Kenny Pickett. Um. I was
Speaker 1: going to take picket here for a second and actually
Speaker 1: wrote him in the document and then I contacted you
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm gonna change my pick since
Speaker 1: you're you haven't gone yet, and I changed it to
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter. Why I think the Falcons are in clear
Speaker 1: yolo mode. They traded Matt Ryan, they added weapons to
Speaker 1: the offense, probably not enough to challenge for the division,
Speaker 1: but they're in a spot where they have to see
Speaker 1: what they got with Ritter and Mariota. And Ritter was
Speaker 1: only a third round draft capital, so that doesn't prevent
Speaker 1: Atlanta from drafting a wide receiver a quarterback in the
Speaker 1: first round next year. I think that they're going to
Speaker 1: see everything that they can out of both of these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks this year, use it as the proving ground for
Speaker 1: and that means Ritter is going to get a shot to,
Speaker 1: you know, be the quarterback of this team. So I'm
Speaker 1: flipping a coin and I'm going for it. I think
Speaker 1: you just told me you're you're drafting Desmond Ritter even
Speaker 1: though they're going to spend a first round pick on
Speaker 1: quarterback next year if he doesn't work out, Atlanta has
Speaker 1: no reason that they wouldn't spend a quarter spend that
Speaker 1: first round. So we're in high risk hyro territory, So
Speaker 1: there's that. I guess at pick number twenty two, I'm
Speaker 1: with wide receiver David Bello finds himself in Cleveland. Now,
Speaker 1: of course Cleveland brought in Amari Cooper, but after that
Speaker 1: there's there's really nobody to threaten David bell from walking
Speaker 1: in and being a starter as early as week one.
Speaker 1: He's not a flashy player. He is a productive chain
Speaker 1: mover who's got just a very good overall game. But
Speaker 1: he's not explosive. He's not hyper athletic. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: rip off seventy yard runs, but he can move chains.
Speaker 1: I think I view him as a poor man's mm hmm, well,
Speaker 1: I view him as somebody that in a typical week
Speaker 1: you could flex start, a guy that you want to
Speaker 1: get six catches sixty yards. And do you look at
Speaker 1: him as a Cold Beasley type? No, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's that slippery. To be honest, I
Speaker 1: really it's not as slippery as Cold Beasley. Let's pick
Speaker 1: him up. No, I don't think he has so you know,
Speaker 1: there's more about opportunity, I think than like massive upside
Speaker 1: town in in David belt. But I just think he's
Speaker 1: going to be a consistent guy. You know, we don't
Speaker 1: know yet when, at what point he'll have stability at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Well, that's all other questions. We'll worry
Speaker 1: about that down the road. Find out more about that. Alright,
Speaker 1: your last pick of the draft is up. I was
Speaker 1: gonna go take Picket again here, but go take him
Speaker 1: last that then I didn't. I thought would be more
Speaker 1: fun to talk about the best tight end project in
Speaker 1: the draft. That's except you didn't get the push over there. Uh.
Speaker 1: Trey McBride is backing up Zach Ertz in Arizona. Earts.
Speaker 1: Will turn thirty two this season. This is a future
Speaker 1: play though, as we always say on Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: rookie tight ends do nothing and Brian's gonna chirt back
Speaker 1: and say, oh, Kyle Pitts made the Pro Bowl pictures,
Speaker 1: the fifth player taken in the draft. Kyle Pitts scored
Speaker 1: one touchdown and it wasn't in the United States of America. Um,
Speaker 1: So this is a future play. Art is probably the
Speaker 1: main guy this year, but we're probably looking at McBride
Speaker 1: to be the main contributor in his second year. It's
Speaker 1: just got that new deal. I'm nervous about her. It's
Speaker 1: sticking around a while. I'm not nervous because he's old,
Speaker 1: so old. Yeah he's nine years younger than me, but
Speaker 1: he's so old. Uh. The tight end I like and
Speaker 1: the why and the guy that I took with the
Speaker 1: last pick of the draft was tight end Gilani Woods.
Speaker 1: He's gigantic. I love this. I love his kid man. He's,
Speaker 1: by the way, funny. The last two picks are tight ends. Um.
Speaker 1: And I'd rather have Wood Stean McBride because he's a
Speaker 1: freaking beast. He is the tallest heaviest wide receiver in
Speaker 1: the entire draft class. He's six ft seven, two hundred
Speaker 1: fifty three pounds. He has built for end zone use.
Speaker 1: He's uh is that, by the way, scored eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year. Um. And here's the thing. When I say
Speaker 1: six ft seven, biggest, heaviest, you might think of this
Speaker 1: lumbering guy who can't get open. But from the Adams fans,
Speaker 1: very um, especially in the haircut it four he ran
Speaker 1: a four six forty And the way that they used
Speaker 1: him at Virginia, he would they just run him down
Speaker 1: the seam and he's wide open. He's humongous target and
Speaker 1: here come these passes into the end zone. And we
Speaker 1: know the Colts love their tight ends. We know Frank
Speaker 1: Reich loves his tight ends. And he's just got a
Speaker 1: battle mo Ali Cox for time at least this year.
Speaker 1: Cox is just a guy. He's also really big. You
Speaker 1: know Matt Ryan through the Levine toil Lolo, who was
Speaker 1: also a super giant man. So yeah, Gelanni Woods, last
Speaker 1: pick of our of our draft. Okay, I even in
Speaker 1: super flex, I don't think I don't think many of
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks. You can make a compelling case for many
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks. Yeah, Kenny Pickett, I don't think we'll
Speaker 1: start at the beginning of the year. But with the
Speaker 1: NFL schedule released coming out, the early season schedule for
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was incredibly hard. So it might be a good
Speaker 1: thing that Kenny Pickett's not starting, and they're gonna maybe
Speaker 1: throw Mitch True whisky to the Wolves and it'll be
Speaker 1: sad Trombone Ski for a while. Do you want to
Speaker 1: find the button uma, hold on? Hold on there it is,
Speaker 1: so it might be sad Trombones Ski for the New Father.
Speaker 1: By the way, Oh congratulations, Now a little corner. I
Speaker 1: like it. I like it, um I If I had
Speaker 1: had one more pick in the draft, I would have
Speaker 1: gone quarterback. Okay, I would have taken Matt Correll, okay,
Speaker 1: because I'm intrigued by him. He's he's wiry guy, but
Speaker 1: I like the arms strength I think he's got. He's
Speaker 1: a really good athlete. He's got some running ability to him.
Speaker 1: I'd have thrown a draft a pick on him if
Speaker 1: we had gone just even one more selection. And he's
Speaker 1: in Carolina where he's opportunity, opportunity is there. I mean
Speaker 1: he could win the job from Sam Donald, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: How about Sam Howell who has never had a steak
Speaker 1: in his life, Well, he's never had none. Chicken the
Speaker 1: only meat. He's Corey Cove. He is the Corey Cove
Speaker 1: of the NFL. That remember was who was at Marinovich
Speaker 1: that had never had pop? Wasn't that his dad? His
Speaker 1: dad wouldn't let him, I think him. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's hey, Look it worked. You got to the NFL.
Speaker 1: He did on a chicken diet, full chicken diet. That
Speaker 1: guy is waiting for a raising kines uh sponsorship there.
Speaker 1: You think they'd be in contact with him already or
Speaker 1: KFC or Popeye's or whoever you know, Chick fil A.
Speaker 1: There we go. Yeah, although if it's the see here's
Speaker 1: the problem with the Chick fil A. If you get
Speaker 1: the Chick fil A sponsorship as an NFL player, get
Speaker 1: ready for the Yeah that guy, that guy never performs
Speaker 1: on Sunday's. There you go. That's the problem. That's the
Speaker 1: Sunday thing. It's like, I don't eat Chick fil A
Speaker 1: on Sundays because I'm playing all you can do that
Speaker 1: you know, that might be the positive spin on it.
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