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Speaker 1: of the draft. Yeah, as we're recording, it's Friday. We've
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Speaker 1: first round. Joining me, Scott Fish, Matt Harrison, Thorneistro Brian Johnson,
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Speaker 1: Brought with that, we're gonna break down all the players
Speaker 1: who went in the first round their fantasy relevant will
Speaker 1: tell you what we think about the landing spots, and
Speaker 1: now that we know the actual landing spots, what we
Speaker 1: think about these landing spots the fantasy value for these players.
Speaker 1: And the guy that we probably need to spend the
Speaker 1: least amount of time with is cam Ward, who ended
Speaker 1: up going first thought. He goes to Tennessee as expected,
Speaker 1: but we're kind of luke on his fantasy value.
Speaker 3: Don't love it, don't love the landing spot. And I
Speaker 3: think cam Ord's a little bit further away than public
Speaker 3: discourse around him suggests it's a guy that turns the
Speaker 3: ball over. There's some issues there seeing in the field,
Speaker 3: some decision making things, and they're obviously intending to throw
Speaker 3: him out right away. That he has been a volked
Speaker 3: to Pat Mahomes by some during this pre draft process.
Speaker 3: Not as good as Pat Mahomes Norris talented, but also
Speaker 3: keep in mind Pat Mahomes a guy who had a
Speaker 3: bunch of throws in air raid offenses in college, just
Speaker 3: like cam ward did. Was afforded the opportunity to sit
Speaker 3: for a year. Well he worked on some of the
Speaker 3: things that he got nitpicked for at Texas Tech. Cam
Speaker 3: Warden will be throwing out there right away, So that's
Speaker 3: going to be interesting to see if hopefully he doesn't
Speaker 3: pick up any bad habits. But yeah, not interested in him.
Speaker 3: Fantasy year one, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Real quick redraft take going before cam Ordon is guys
Speaker 6: like Sam Darnold, Gino Smith, Matthew Stafford. It seems like
Speaker 6: a drafter before sovating cam Warden in that because Thori
Speaker 6: said Ward's mobility, He's not elite, he's good and we
Speaker 6: need we need elite mobility.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll go to the pocket every now and again.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's you know, kind of like Pat Mahomes,
Speaker 3: but it's it's no, but he's not tucking and running
Speaker 3: a whole bunch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not a lot of design runs coming for Camp.
Speaker 6: Right, So, and Tyler Lockett, the signing of Tyler Lockett
Speaker 6: does not.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think it does. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be go off the board quarterback twenty eight,
Speaker 1: twenty nine for me. Yeah, I'll have him ranked somewhere
Speaker 1: somewhere in that ballpark probably. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: let's go to the second pick. That's the Colorado wide receiver,
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter, slash corner back. He ends up going to Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: not the landing spot that I think most of us expected,
Speaker 1: but Jacksonville helping fantasy owners, Liam Cohen says they're going
Speaker 1: to play him as a wide receiver.
Speaker 3: First. Yeah, Liam Cohen was looking for a toy and
Speaker 3: he got one that we couldn't have expected in advance.
Speaker 3: Just shocking that Andrew Berry and the Browns bailed out
Speaker 3: of that slot and allowed Jacksonville to move up here.
Speaker 3: They're a new administration, the new coaching staff. Obviously they
Speaker 3: made a big up here for Travis Hunter. I love
Speaker 3: that move by them and Travis Hunter. Great fit there.
Speaker 3: Lee one he said after the first round on Thursday
Speaker 3: night that they see Travis Hunter as a wide receiver first.
Speaker 3: So that's what sort of is going to be led
Speaker 3: by the foot. And on a previous episode of Fantasy
Speaker 3: Football Weekly, I had mentioned my situational assumption that Travis
Speaker 3: Hunting play eighty eighty five percent defense as a rookie
Speaker 3: forty to forty five at wide receiver. I think maybe
Speaker 3: now you flip that after what you heard Lee and
Speaker 3: Cohen say. Travis Hunter has been getting criminally slept on
Speaker 3: Dynasty Community, Fantasy Community over the offseason. To this point,
Speaker 3: you guys need to elevate where he is going into
Speaker 3: your draft. That guy is going to make an impact
Speaker 3: playing next to Brian Thomas, and he's going to put
Speaker 3: up stats immediately.
Speaker 1: When you hear that that Travis Hunter is going to
Speaker 1: play eighty percent of the snaps, remember that twenty percent
Speaker 1: are largely run plays. Yeah, that wouldn't matter anyway.
Speaker 3: He does not need to be on the fiel when
Speaker 3: the ball is on the ground, but when it is
Speaker 3: in the air on either side of the ball, Travis
Speaker 3: Hunter needs to be out there.
Speaker 5: I got a text from Colin mccochney.
Speaker 3: It was exciting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet Travis Hunter play over in London Town.
Speaker 5: Hunter and Cockney rhyming slang is a bit.
Speaker 1: Of a lady. That's what hunters are there.
Speaker 3: Who knew, Yeah, Colin, he actually rhymes with something you
Speaker 3: guys didn't know. But Colin McCartney, he did call me
Speaker 3: last night and yeah, and in his SCOUTI report, basically
Speaker 3: I can sum it up. He called him a hunter,
Speaker 3: a contested catch virtuo, so do the voice. He called
Speaker 3: him a downfield assassin. And he told me you went
Speaker 3: eleven for eighteen and contested situations last year. And then
Speaker 3: also he had a perfect ninety nine point nine pff
Speaker 3: great on balls, throwing twenty plus yards downfield. Absolute killer downfield.
Speaker 3: That's what Colin love most about it.
Speaker 5: Your translation of Colin mccochney is much better than both
Speaker 5: Brian Johnson and.
Speaker 3: I've gotten much better over the years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've learned to translate. Hunter's going to be electrifying.
Speaker 1: He'll be a downfield threat and Brian Thomas is just
Speaker 1: going to roam in the middle of the field. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Travis Hunter's gonna help out Brian Thomas, right. I mean,
Speaker 3: now you can't shade the coverage over there comfortably and
Speaker 3: then leave Travis Hunter alone. He will beat you at
Speaker 3: any sector of the field.
Speaker 6: The last wide receiver to get drafted as high as
Speaker 6: second overall as Calvin Johnson. Not saying Travis Hunter is
Speaker 6: going to be the next Calvin Johnson, but Travis Hunter
Speaker 6: been going in the sixth seventh rounds of redrafts, should
Speaker 6: be going. He'll be moving up in the second round.
Speaker 3: I bet Calvin Johnson is not the cornerback that Travis
Speaker 3: Hunter he could have been.
Speaker 6: I probably, I bet he.
Speaker 1: Could have been too yead Lions held him back, as
Speaker 1: it turned out.
Speaker 6: That's why he retired. He wanted to play corner Yeah,
Speaker 6: so tired of being the best wide receiver in the world.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is going to be an interesting sleeper too.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the third fantasy player take
Speaker 1: In sixth overall, Las Vegas ended up getting the guy
Speaker 1: that we had primarily pegged them to get, and that's
Speaker 1: Aston Genty, who is going to go in the first
Speaker 1: round of fantasy redrafts. Break him down a little bit
Speaker 1: and tell me if you like this landing spot for him.
Speaker 3: This is a generational running back prospect who has now
Speaker 3: gone to an ideal spot, right, a head coach who
Speaker 3: has a history keeping the ball on the ground. Marshawn
Speaker 3: Lencher voked with Pete Carroll going back to his USC days. Obviously,
Speaker 3: the ground game been very important there. Chip Kelly likes
Speaker 3: to keep the ball on the ground. Last year at
Speaker 3: Ohio State, obviously he had the two stud running backs
Speaker 3: that we're going to see taken on Friday night, So
Speaker 3: very good landing spot. He will be the bellcou They
Speaker 3: didn't have anything else there. If you're going to see
Speaker 3: all kinds of carries for him, you're also going to
Speaker 3: see him utilized as a wide receiver a lot more
Speaker 3: than he did last year. That's when Boise State funneled
Speaker 3: his touches into the rushing. Yeah, you're going to see
Speaker 3: the receiving stuff again. That Ashton Genty, as a junior
Speaker 3: in high school was a starting slot receiver. Took over
Speaker 3: for Marvin Mims at Frisco High before amazing. Yeah, before
Speaker 3: then Genty switched back to running back, But we saw
Speaker 3: a lot of slot receiver stuff with him at twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three at Boise State. Very very good receiver. You're
Speaker 3: going to see a lot more of that this coming season.
Speaker 3: But Ashton Genty, he cannot last too long in your
Speaker 3: read draft leagues before you gotta pop them.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's let's go around the room. Since
Speaker 1: we got everybody here, tell me which pick I presume
Speaker 1: in the first round you would use on Ashon Genty
Speaker 1: as of today redraft, so not dynasty. Where's he's clearly
Speaker 1: going to go first overall redraft? Where are you taking
Speaker 1: him in the first round? Let's start with Scott Fish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were talking earlier and I thought it'd be
Speaker 4: later in the first round. But apparently my where I
Speaker 4: think the market is is dead wrong. And being a
Speaker 4: guy who almost went to Boise State loves Boise State,
Speaker 4: loves his love Genty for a long time, I guess,
Speaker 4: I'm yep, I guess, I'm I guess. I got to
Speaker 4: reach into the upper half of the first round.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're you're somewhere like five on one. One
Speaker 1: on one is the very upper that would be the
Speaker 1: very upper part of the first round. So you laughed,
Speaker 1: But would you take him first? Because he's going to
Speaker 1: be in the conversation for first overall.
Speaker 4: If he's in that conversation, which by the time I'm
Speaker 4: drafting in our redraft leagues, which mostly later in the year,
Speaker 4: I am a team, go get your guys and have
Speaker 4: fun playing fantasy. So I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Speaker 1: I guess, okay, man.
Speaker 4: That's what I got to do. That's what I gotta do.
Speaker 4: Gentalize he was that high in people's minds.
Speaker 1: Ash and Genty, Where would you take him?
Speaker 5: I mean consider hearing what we were looking at with
Speaker 5: like last year's ADP where it was McCaffrey, it was Hill,
Speaker 5: it was Lamb, it was Jefferson, it was Bijon. None
Speaker 5: of those guys are going to be in the conversation
Speaker 5: for top five this year. I don't think. I think
Speaker 5: that there's a pretty good chance that he's a top
Speaker 5: three pick in any given league.
Speaker 1: All right, thor Redraft top traction three, Yeah, I'm top
Speaker 1: three as well. I think only Saquon and Jamar Chase
Speaker 1: Yeah are to me? Are the are they?
Speaker 3: Even if the first pick? I would definitely consider genty, Yeah, Brian.
Speaker 6: It's between Jamar Chase er Gent I would even I
Speaker 6: would take him over Barkley. I think we saw Barkley
Speaker 6: top healing last year. Yeah, and you gotta pay the
Speaker 6: premium now on Barkley. Barkley was at a discount last year,
Speaker 6: so I'll take the unknown in gent but it seems
Speaker 6: like we all know he's going to be a baller.
Speaker 5: Well, we have two Las Vegas Raiders going in the
Speaker 5: first round of drafts with brock.
Speaker 1: Bauer DPR absolutely, yeah, yeah, Bowers or tight end premium. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm taking Bowers over BTJ now now that they drafted
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter in PPR.
Speaker 6: All right, yeah, yeah, that's going a few picks ahead
Speaker 6: of BOWERSTJ is but give me Bowers now.
Speaker 1: The earliest I think anybody expected Teed McMillan to be
Speaker 1: drafted is where he landed, which is the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 1: who needed to fortify the wide receiver position. They had
Speaker 1: Adam Field, who was great when he played, but obviously
Speaker 1: at the very end of his career. They've put a
Speaker 1: lot of draft equity into wide receiver lately, but they
Speaker 1: haven't gotten a return on that. For how do you
Speaker 1: like this landing spot for Tet McMillan.
Speaker 3: I really like it, just Now they finally have an
Speaker 3: NFL caliber receiving core because McMillan becomes your wide receiver
Speaker 3: one and everyone gets knocked down to the slot that
Speaker 3: they were destined for. Right, Xavier Legat should be a
Speaker 3: secondary receiver, Jalenkolker should be a sort of a tertiary guy,
Speaker 3: and Adam Thielen can do his grizzled veteran mentor kind
Speaker 3: of a thing. Yeah, Tep McMillan, this is what the
Speaker 3: doctor ordered for Bryce Young, Right, Tep McMillan. His his
Speaker 3: profile early reminiscent of Drake London from a couple classes ago.
Speaker 3: You have that big boundary receiver who can get downtown,
Speaker 3: go up and get the ball killer downfield. He's also
Speaker 3: better after the catch, and he gets credit for no
Speaker 3: waste of motion converting from receiver to runner, very quick
Speaker 3: acceleration as well when he turns up field. He's not
Speaker 3: a berserker. He's not gonna make anyone miss. So that's
Speaker 3: why he doesn't get the credit for that area of
Speaker 3: his game. But between that, that quick conversion, that acceleration
Speaker 3: upfield he gets, he gets says, Yeah, let.
Speaker 6: Me pose a question to all you guys real quick,
Speaker 6: Ted's gonna find himself right in this range of Jordan Addison,
Speaker 6: DK Metcalf, Chris Godwin, Chris Olave and Ted. Who do
Speaker 6: you want in that range? I'm feeling tet right now.
Speaker 6: Out of those five Jordan Adison. Oh, I know I'm
Speaker 6: talking much of Vikings Bobos, but come on.
Speaker 5: No, no, JJ McCarthy is gonna be a top five
Speaker 5: quarterback this year, right?
Speaker 6: What was I think?
Speaker 5: Jordan Adison's been quarterback proof the last few years. He
Speaker 5: had to endure Sam Darnold last time, even.
Speaker 6: With Sam dar Pro Bowl, Sam On Litle Bowler, Sam
Speaker 6: donoald Toy quarterback in Laking Sistory.
Speaker 1: Come back layer of the Year. Yeah, teed McMillan's body style.
Speaker 1: If they choose to use him near the stripe, he
Speaker 1: could be double digit touchdown guy.
Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, may style his weapons weapon in the red zone. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's what his special sauce is. Those contested catches
Speaker 3: this class last season number one in that the year
Speaker 3: before was number two. And he gets Nippick for not
Speaker 3: creating separation against man coverage and not trying to write
Speaker 3: like downtown. He wants to feel the guy around him
Speaker 3: very again. Early reminiscent to t Higgins. But the point
Speaker 3: that I make about it, even though his separation rate
Speaker 3: was exceeded, it was thirty thirty high thirty percentile against man.
Speaker 3: He had one of the better separation rates against zone
Speaker 3: or throws to him. The open rate on those ones
Speaker 3: was near ninety five percent. Very very clever guy. The
Speaker 3: cognitive tests that gave the wide receivers in the pre
Speaker 3: draft process, Tech McMillan finished the highest. He didn't know
Speaker 3: what's the coverage? Look, he's getting really really quick, finds
Speaker 3: the open grass, makes himself available of the quarterback.
Speaker 6: Underrated aspect of the entire Panthers passing game is that
Speaker 6: their defense suck and they as.
Speaker 4: The highest corollarious defense to success is target targets, target percentage.
Speaker 1: And it'll be high. It'll be high, for sure. In
Speaker 1: a mild surprise, maybe even moderate surprise, not so much.
Speaker 1: The Chicago went tight end, which a number of people
Speaker 1: suggested they would, but they didn't take Tyler Warren, who
Speaker 1: was very widely viewed as the best available tight end.
Speaker 1: But it was kind of a one two race and
Speaker 1: they ended up going with Colston Loveland. What do you
Speaker 1: think about that landing? Spot for Loveland.
Speaker 3: Pretty interesting decision from Chicago. What they're they're tipping off
Speaker 3: to you is that they're going to go to a
Speaker 3: twelve personnel offense, and that's how they're going to replace
Speaker 3: their starting wide receiver. Who love Yeah, Keenan Allongn. So
Speaker 3: that vacates the slot. Colton Loveland is your new slot
Speaker 3: receiver there. That's he's a huge receiver, is essentially what
Speaker 3: it is. Wins at all three levels of the field.
Speaker 3: Runs a full wide receiver route tree, so you're going
Speaker 3: to get that. He does win on town, but he
Speaker 3: also creates separation intermediate area and he has that huge
Speaker 3: catch radius. He catches balls outside of his frame. Very
Speaker 3: good hands. Colson lovelan very good player. I might have
Speaker 3: been sleeping on a little bit pre draft. I talked
Speaker 3: to one of his coaches in college recently, and that
Speaker 3: guy told me that Colson Loveland is the best player
Speaker 3: that I ever coached.
Speaker 1: And that's a Michigan coacht.
Speaker 3: That's a Mischigan that's saying a lot. Yeah that twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, I mean, there was four of the top
Speaker 3: thirteen picks on Thursday night where Michigan Wolverines. That team
Speaker 3: was absolutely nasty in twenty twenty three, and a guy
Speaker 3: who was up there close thinks that Colston Loveland was
Speaker 3: the best of the bunch.
Speaker 1: That's as plenty. Then the next fantasy player off the
Speaker 1: board another ten end. So then we get Tyler Warren.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us, almost everybody, he'd expect
Speaker 1: an Indianapolis would go tight end, but we didn't know
Speaker 1: for sure if Warren would still be there. Many of
Speaker 1: us had projected Warren to end up here anyway, and
Speaker 1: that's that's where he goes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Indianapolis thinking they're lucky Stars, a team that had
Speaker 3: telegraphed to us all pre draft process that they would
Speaker 3: be targeting a in that slot, and Warren fortunately fortuitously
Speaker 3: falls to them. They had to be sweating after Chicago
Speaker 3: took level in at ten. Will Warren get down here?
Speaker 3: But he did. Warren is going to be of great
Speaker 3: use and great help to Anthony Richardson. If there is
Speaker 3: anything to salvage there. Tyler Warren is being brought in
Speaker 3: to help salvage it. Anthony Richmond obviously great struggles with efficiency.
Speaker 3: Then that's what Tyler Warren will help you with. You
Speaker 3: get the ball to him within five yards of the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. He does his berserker thing, breaking tackles.
Speaker 3: He wears forty four because he grew up idolizing John
Speaker 3: Riggins very much runs like him the game. There are
Speaker 3: similar aspects to brock Bauers coming in terms of the
Speaker 3: touches that you manufacture for him, the different ways that
Speaker 3: you can use him. It's just that he's bigger. He's
Speaker 3: a couple of inches taller, he's thirty pounds heavier. But yeah,
Speaker 3: and the other thing with the other point about Warren
Speaker 3: is the thing of the wildcat quarterback stuff which will
Speaker 3: manifest in the NFL in fantasy value because in short
Speaker 3: yard situations or around the goal line, you just put
Speaker 3: him out, snapped the ball to him, He's going to
Speaker 3: break the tackle and get past the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: So this is the guy that I'm very interested in
Speaker 3: fantasy right away, I don't quish Fish has a quick question.
Speaker 4: No, sure, yeah, yeah, I just wondered you're any question.
Speaker 4: I wanted to know how does this affect Joloannie Woods?
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, hey, hey, he's yeah my guy.
Speaker 3: He is on milk cartons around the Greater Indianapolis area.
Speaker 1: I think thirty one teams should trade for Johnny Woods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now see what it takes, free Jelowny Woods, free Jolannie. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: just now he just needs a better landing spot.
Speaker 5: There's always room for Jiln the genre.
Speaker 1: I like that, The John Riggins thing, John Riggans thing,
Speaker 1: I've heard that.
Speaker 3: What kind of show is that?
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you're talking about right now?
Speaker 6: They Loveland, Idol or Warren John Riggs. Yeah, John Riggins
Speaker 6: retired before he was even born, like I heard, get
Speaker 6: it's true. It was like his dad like forced him
Speaker 6: to watch John Riggins highlights.
Speaker 3: That's like, rugs, Are you suggesting this was a Moronovich
Speaker 3: situation and he's never had a Yeah, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: something rubbed.
Speaker 1: Off dynasty drafts. Which tight end would you take first?
Speaker 1: Do you want new Bear Colston Loveland or do you
Speaker 1: want new Colt Tyler Warren? Let's start with Scott again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I think I'm going with Loveland in that
Speaker 4: Ben Johnson offense with all those weapons and an ascending
Speaker 4: offense over over Warren. Who I'm not sure Anthony Richardson
Speaker 4: can can hit as big as.
Speaker 1: He is, all Right, Matt Loveland or Warren yes, Dynasty.
Speaker 5: Yes, I will take them.
Speaker 1: Yes, both there.
Speaker 6: At the same time.
Speaker 3: I like them both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you copde Come on, we need an answer.
Speaker 5: You can't just say yes.
Speaker 4: He's making us choose.
Speaker 5: I chose Yes, Okay, I'll choose Loveland because better offense
Speaker 5: equals better stats.
Speaker 4: More even in Dynasty, I play in a two three
Speaker 4: year window. Two year window really, so yeah right right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who's to say you're gonna be holding that guy three
Speaker 1: four years from now? Anyone anybody on your roster today?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: Thor for you Loveland or Warren Dynasty drafts.
Speaker 3: I also live like a quarter mile at a time.
Speaker 3: Warren for sure, because Warren the manufacturer touch thing. It's
Speaker 3: just like brock Bowers last year. You're going to a
Speaker 3: crappy offense, but a crappy offense that intends to drive
Speaker 3: offense by generating your touches immediately. And again I think
Speaker 3: he's being brought in as the SOS for mister Anthony Richson.
Speaker 3: So they're gonna get Warren the ball and he's gonna
Speaker 3: be the goal line guy around.
Speaker 5: Is it a crappy offense though? Like they have Jonathan Taylor, Yeah,
Speaker 5: they have Michael Pittman. They have a couple of wide
Speaker 5: receivers that are okay. The only problem is the quarterback, right.
Speaker 3: I hope Jonathan Taylor enjoyed the air of his career
Speaker 3: where he got carries inside the three yard line. That
Speaker 3: might be over. Wow.
Speaker 6: I'm Tim Warren too. My only disagreement is Daniel Jones
Speaker 6: is the quarterback you're going to want on the Colts.
Speaker 6: Grab him in the last round and let the fish
Speaker 6: go Chase. This is this is this year.
Speaker 3: You don't know, you don't have to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Was reading that's why, let's go to the next fantasy
Speaker 1: relevant player who got drafted. Tampa Bay surprised me anyway
Speaker 1: by taking Ohio state wide receiver Amika Agbuka. I it
Speaker 1: wasn't that he didn't deserve to go nineteen for but
Speaker 1: just for me, it was it was more that I
Speaker 1: just didn't expect that Tampa would end up taking him.
Speaker 3: Super surprising pick. Yeah, they had the good wide receiver
Speaker 3: corps obviously. I thought. I thought three across, I liked
Speaker 3: all three of their starters and and going forward, Jayleen McMillan,
Speaker 3: I thought he was the guy that they would view
Speaker 3: as the long term slot there obviously that's the position
Speaker 3: that Igbuka plays. Tampa Bay was the team in on Buka.
Speaker 3: Appears that they liked him more than any other team.
Speaker 3: I was surprised that they bypassed the defensive help they
Speaker 3: need in the front seven that was on the board
Speaker 3: at the time, but they obviously like Ibuka as a rookie.
Speaker 3: This is a difficult spot for him. This guy is
Speaker 3: a target hound, so traditionally you would think of him
Speaker 3: as a PPR fit. I don't know year one though,
Speaker 3: if I am interested there because I don't know how
Speaker 3: that thing shakes out, trying to get McMillan on the field.
Speaker 3: If you have itg Buka there, you have the other
Speaker 3: most to feed. Not the best landing spot forag Buka.
Speaker 1: McMillan was one of my favorite sleepers for this year,
Speaker 1: not anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just killed it right there.
Speaker 1: I'm really nervous by the way.
Speaker 3: Free free McMillan form. Yeah, yeah, you know, let's send
Speaker 3: him do it the Patriots.
Speaker 4: Him and Ji Woods to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: That's a team that could use them.
Speaker 3: Kevon Thibodau, you got to get traded now to af
Speaker 3: Duel Carter just soak his job. Maybe he just send
Speaker 3: him home.
Speaker 6: I like it.
Speaker 3: Patriots like it all right.
Speaker 1: The next Fantasy relevant player to go it was running
Speaker 1: back Omarion Hampton. Now, many people thought that he would
Speaker 1: go to Denver. They surprised us by deciding they basically
Speaker 1: wanted to try to put together the best pair of
Speaker 1: corners in the league.
Speaker 4: It's a deep class at running back too, And.
Speaker 1: It's a deep class at running back still, and I
Speaker 1: suspect that day two that might be a solution for Denver.
Speaker 1: But let's go to Omarion Hampton, who finds himself with
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and now Greg Roman and Jim Harbaugh have
Speaker 1: got their power back.
Speaker 3: Did Sean Payton and his post draft presser on Thursday
Speaker 3: insinuate that he manipulated Jim Harbaugh into this peck? I'm curious.
Speaker 3: We'll have to watch back. But o'mari and Hampton. It's
Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh, right, I mean, he couldn't help himself. They
Speaker 3: needed to taste him and get him out of the
Speaker 3: room just from being the pick. Once he got by
Speaker 3: the Broncos, yeah, you know so like and obviously he's
Speaker 3: going to get the touch. The guy who valued this
Speaker 3: kills is Nase Harris. And you know that's sort of
Speaker 3: interesting because you have superfluous aspects of their skill sets. Right,
Speaker 3: Like with Nause, if you were trying to get a
Speaker 3: complimentary guy from this class, you would think it'd be
Speaker 3: more like a Trevion Henderson kind.
Speaker 6: Of a guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think this totally wipes out Nase Harris
Speaker 3: like a ssunami. So sorry to anyone out there who
Speaker 3: had him on the Dynasty team excited in advance of this.
Speaker 3: Omar and Hampton he's your bell cow. Immediately, I think
Speaker 3: he's a bit overrated. I have to be honest. I
Speaker 3: saw him as a high second round pick. There's some
Speaker 3: teams in the NFL that obviously liked him more than me.
Speaker 3: But ideal landing spot, right, perfect spot. This is what
Speaker 3: they love. They love to be physical, They love to
Speaker 3: grind the ball. Harbaugh had talked about building up the
Speaker 3: offensive line. Boy have they to this point?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Last year Joe Alt the free agent addition, you bring
Speaker 3: him back to the hammer this year. They will continue
Speaker 3: to keep the ball on the ground. That's now Omari
Speaker 3: and Hampton. And it's a guy too after the catch.
Speaker 3: He doesn't do a lot of interesting stuff as a receiver.
Speaker 3: Prior to the ball being thrown. It's Chuck Down's dumb
Speaker 3: boss screen swings. You're not seeing him run routes beyond
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage. However, you get him an envoy
Speaker 3: in front of him, get him the ball in space.
Speaker 3: That's where you get the yards after the cat stuff
Speaker 3: with him.
Speaker 4: Since I'm the only one that's asking the hard hitting question,
Speaker 4: how does this affect.
Speaker 3: I want to the New England page. Why are we
Speaker 3: sending you ever into the Patriots at.
Speaker 1: Need help everywhere?
Speaker 3: It actually wouldn't be bad for Kamani, Yeah, and actually
Speaker 3: it might not. Yeah, free Kamani.
Speaker 1: As it turns out, Hampton's gonna go second round of redrafts.
Speaker 6: Oh, that would be a mistake in my mind. I
Speaker 6: know Thorn called him a bell cow. The bell cow
Speaker 6: is the dode over these days. You got three bell
Speaker 6: cows maybe in the NFL these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But Harvon Rolman are the kinds of guys that
Speaker 1: can make a bell cow? Why did they sign Nasie
Speaker 1: Hair so she was cheap and available? She was I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm second round seems rich to me, That's all. I'll say.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get goal line working for sure, I would
Speaker 1: take him second. Yeah, Harbors sus that's all I see
Speaker 1: it too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you're taking them second, you're taking them over
Speaker 6: Brits Hall, Chase Brown.
Speaker 3: I do that fair enough.
Speaker 1: The next player taking was Matthew Golden. The it looks
Speaker 1: like the Packers have finally finally decided the group of
Speaker 1: receivers they have now is no number one is not
Speaker 1: going to merge from that group. They needed to do
Speaker 1: yet something different, and even though they've invested some mid
Speaker 1: round picks into the into the position, they decide to
Speaker 1: put the first first round pick into a wide receiver
Speaker 1: in over twenty years in Matthew.
Speaker 5: Golden, Javon Walker.
Speaker 1: Javon Walker. Yeah, moments, it was.
Speaker 3: It was a cool moment. You know, this organization that
Speaker 3: over and over again, with these these awesome receiver classes
Speaker 3: that we've had in recent years, would bypass the stud
Speaker 3: receiver prospects to go for infrastructure positions. And then they're
Speaker 3: hosting the draft this year and they decide to grab
Speaker 3: a receiver in one of the worst receiver classes we've
Speaker 3: seen in the last decade, even though players of their
Speaker 3: defensive positions have needed fallen into their range so that
Speaker 3: that certainly illustrated a change of thinking there. I don't
Speaker 3: know if I would have picked this year to be
Speaker 3: the year that we're going to take the first round receiver.
Speaker 6: I would have loved to see Aaron Rodgers reaction to
Speaker 6: the Packers taking finally taking a wide receiver in the
Speaker 6: first round his class. But he's not there.
Speaker 3: What about me? Yeah? And is this the wide receiver
Speaker 3: one that Josh Jacobs says that they're lacking. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. Golden to me, he profiles as
Speaker 3: a really good number two receiver.
Speaker 1: I liked him in Dallas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, And he's He's a guy Golden
Speaker 3: that can play both on the boundary and in the slot.
Speaker 3: You can switch him around interchangeably if you want. He
Speaker 3: can win at all three sections of the field. And
Speaker 3: you can play him on the boundary despite his size
Speaker 3: because he has a really good release package. Even in
Speaker 3: the NFL, you're not getting him off the line. He
Speaker 3: ran the four two nine. He also toggles his speed
Speaker 3: up and down. Really good people nipick him a little
Speaker 3: bit for the statistical profile. The thing that I always
Speaker 3: bring up as a true freshman. He goes to Houston
Speaker 3: he had offers from all around the country. In fact,
Speaker 3: he is a four star recruiter. Decommitted from TCU to
Speaker 3: stay home and go to Houston. That's why he ended
Speaker 3: up there. But as a true freshman he was in
Speaker 3: a really good offense. But unfortunately for him, Tank Dell
Speaker 3: was there. That was tank Dell's last season, so all
Speaker 3: the all the touches went there. And then as a sophomore,
Speaker 3: Golden gets injured. That was his big breakout opportunity the
Speaker 3: whole season breck by an injury. Then he goes to
Speaker 3: Texas this past year, he was not brought in as
Speaker 3: the wide receiver one. That was Isaiah Bond who was
Speaker 3: brought in for the zaver Worthy role. Isja Bond was
Speaker 3: a bust, as was their quarterback Quinn Viewers, who couldn't
Speaker 3: throw down the field most this season, so you didn't
Speaker 3: get to see golden skill set flower out. You did
Speaker 3: at the very end of the season though, right when
Speaker 3: the schedule was leveraged the money spots their march to
Speaker 3: the SEC title game and then the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: That is when Matthew Golden the merge as their l
Speaker 3: FU wide receiver one and he killed some future NFL
Speaker 3: defenders put up some big stats there. I do think
Speaker 3: this guy profiles is a really good number two in
Speaker 3: the NFL. I just don't see a wide receiver one here, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So we're a caution to dynasty owners who might
Speaker 1: be you know, you might see the landing spot, a
Speaker 1: good quarterback, you might see some hope, but maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe not in anybody that's going to power your fantasy team.
Speaker 3: Especially in that kwaig Meyer of a situation. It feels
Speaker 3: like Matthew Golden's not a complainer, but it feels like
Speaker 3: we get some grumbling, you know of like you know,
Speaker 3: we've seen him with some of them Packer receivers where
Speaker 3: it's like one game they have the big game, yes,
Speaker 3: and then it's a couple with two catches, three catches. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's still a deep receiver room and
Speaker 1: this doesn't change that for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, last year we said, don't draft a Packer receiver,
Speaker 5: just draft Jordan Love if you want. Like the past
Speaker 5: the game, think we're at the same spot.
Speaker 3: We probably agreed, probably are agreed.
Speaker 1: All right, it's final guy to talk about in the
Speaker 1: last fantasy relevant player to be taken in uh In
Speaker 1: in the first round. The Giants move up into the
Speaker 1: first round to get Jackson Dart. Uh This is a
Speaker 1: controversial move. They had to pay at real equity to
Speaker 1: to make the move. Although I think it was just
Speaker 1: a third and a third Dart last year or something
Speaker 1: like that. Nice it was, Yeah, yeah, I know I
Speaker 1: need that.
Speaker 6: I don't have that.
Speaker 1: I don't have that button available me right now.
Speaker 6: That's just sad. His arm isn't that strong to throw.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he can't get there. Does he have that kind
Speaker 1: of cannon thor Yeah, talk to us about Jackson Dart.
Speaker 3: His arm tones decent. Yeah, yeah, And and he's got
Speaker 3: the athletic profile too. He's he ran a little bit
Speaker 3: too much for my liking that. I was a part
Speaker 3: of his evaluation and an offense where you get the
Speaker 3: read given to you in advance, the decisions made for
Speaker 3: you in advance, and a lot of times he was
Speaker 3: going to that first read. He saw a little bit
Speaker 3: more second read last year, but most of the times
Speaker 3: he was going to his first read. Very very rarely
Speaker 3: did you see him get to a third because typically
Speaker 3: a second or his third read was tucking and running.
Speaker 3: That's something that was very similar to Sam Hall last
Speaker 3: year at UNC, very similar to Matt Carroll when he
Speaker 3: was coming out of Ole miss Those are similar offensive
Speaker 3: systems those guys played in. Jackson Dart the overall tree
Speaker 3: top evaluation with him. You look at that stuff. He
Speaker 3: checked all seven boxes on the Bill Parcells quarterback criterion.
Speaker 3: He was a high high recruit. He played in multiple offenses.
Speaker 3: Statistical profile all speaks for itself. A lot of that stuff.
Speaker 3: It suggests a guy who should have gone even higher
Speaker 3: than this. However, you have a black box in the
Speaker 3: evaluation of a guy who we have not seen make
Speaker 3: decisions after the snap yet. That's something we're going to
Speaker 3: see for the first time in the NFL where the
Speaker 3: decision has not been made for him. Total black box.
Speaker 3: So if New York is right here, they're guessing right,
Speaker 3: they're making a leader. If they're right, they got a
Speaker 3: guy at a steal of a price. Otherwise they just
Speaker 3: burned all that draft equity, right, I mean, it's gonna
Speaker 3: go one way or the other. It was a little
Speaker 3: rich for my blood, especially the equity they gave up
Speaker 3: when those quarterbacks are going down the board. I don't
Speaker 3: know who they thought was going to hop them. That's
Speaker 3: obviously who Dable wants here. And I will say, in
Speaker 3: Dart's defense, the system that he ran for Kiff and
Speaker 3: he ran it awesome, right. This is the you know,
Speaker 3: similar to Boenick's last year who as you guys know,
Speaker 3: I slept on him and I was wrong and et cetera,
Speaker 3: et cetera. Boenix ran that system in Oregon really really well.
Speaker 3: Sean Payton was looking for a guy run my system.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want Sean Payton would hate Caleb Williams. Sean
Speaker 3: Payton wants man cherry and candidate quarterbacks. I tell you
Speaker 3: what to do and then you go out there and
Speaker 3: you do it right. And that is what And I
Speaker 3: think Jackson Dart that's what he is as well. He
Speaker 3: is gonna run that system. Brian Dable wants a guy
Speaker 3: to run the system. Brian Dabele's gonna have to teach
Speaker 3: him some of the other stuff. But the last point
Speaker 3: I'll make on this, I think the modern NFL has
Speaker 3: gotten better at developing this skill set with quarterbacks because
Speaker 3: of the institution of VR systems. Jaydon Daniels his game
Speaker 3: shot up at LSU was the reason that you know,
Speaker 3: he was the number two overall pick when he was
Speaker 3: coming out of Arizona State. After his third season, we
Speaker 3: thought that guy's football career was going to be done
Speaker 3: when his collegiate eligibility expired. He got the VR system
Speaker 3: at LSU, and by the time he was done at LSU,
Speaker 3: they were running plays on double speed for him, fast forward,
Speaker 3: and he was making the correct decision. It was like
Speaker 3: freaking Neo and the matrix, and then the game slowed
Speaker 3: down for him. You got to see his physical ability
Speaker 3: jump up. JJ McCarthy here in Minnesota obviously last year
Speaker 3: he had the knee injury. He was in the VR
Speaker 3: system every day, right like after practice. He would see
Speaker 3: they had the camera on Donald's helmet and then he
Speaker 3: would do the VR system through Donald's point of view.
Speaker 3: I wonder if New York they have a plan to
Speaker 3: get Jackson Dart in the VR as well. Jackson Dart
Speaker 3: will get the the He's going to get the thing
Speaker 3: that cam Ward's not where cam Wward's got to get
Speaker 3: thrown in right away. Jackson Dart will get his season
Speaker 3: to sit there and learn behind Russell Wilson, Jamis Winston,
Speaker 3: et cetera. And we can find but they do have
Speaker 3: tools to potentially try to develop that trait.
Speaker 6: I was about to say, I would prefer that Jackson
Speaker 6: Dart be mentored by a video game rather than the
Speaker 6: combination of Russell Wilson and James.
Speaker 3: What about.
Speaker 6: With the New York media breathing down your next too,
Speaker 6: It's gonna be.
Speaker 5: A good time for jack Also, how long of a
Speaker 5: runway does dayball in that crew in New York have
Speaker 5: before they have to get Dart.
Speaker 3: In the game. It might be one month, but you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, if they start out horribly, they are
Speaker 3: on the hottest seats, of course, but yeah, that will
Speaker 3: be interesting when you get into there if they're like,
Speaker 3: oh man, we got to do something to save our jobs.
Speaker 3: But then you're tossing them all prematurely because we don't
Speaker 3: want to get Dart out there before some of these
Speaker 3: skills have developed. You might break them, right, So I mean,
Speaker 3: if you had your druthers, you would wait until the
Speaker 3: very end of the season. If nothing else, I would
Speaker 3: like him on the bench the entire first year.
Speaker 5: Where do I get druthers?
Speaker 3: That was a calm mc cockney word. Yeah, I got
Speaker 3: that from Ny.
Speaker 1: You're not wearing any others. Right now, this has been great.
Speaker 1: I love the breakdown of all the players in the
Speaker 1: first round. Uh, this is going to be an unusual
Speaker 1: year in that there's gonna be some amazing running backs
Speaker 1: still to come in this draft.
Speaker 3: Yes, and we won't be a line.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Next week we'll start breaking down the players, the most
Speaker 1: interesting players who went through the rest of the draft.
Speaker 1: Can't do them all because there's going to be I
Speaker 1: don't know, like sixty or seventy.
Speaker 3: We can do them all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the un the challenge right yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you would.
Speaker 3: Folks out there demand from church and we have a
Speaker 3: UDFA episode at.
Speaker 1: Oh man, if anybody could do its youth, let's get
Speaker 1: into we got allays for a little he uh, he
Speaker 1: pegged Cocer is the top one of the top udfa's last.
Speaker 6: Year original right, Yes, I would uh walk my dog
Speaker 6: around the panther ceaty and I live in Charlotte now,
Speaker 6: and I would tell the security guards and some of
Speaker 6: the guys that work for the team because they're always around.
Speaker 6: I'm like Jalen Cocher, Jalen cochery looking me out and
Speaker 6: crazy makes a team like what's up? Now? They're like
Speaker 6: this is Jalen Cocher and I only don't know about
Speaker 6: there already scroll of your.
Speaker 5: You take it thunder.
Speaker 1: Great to have everybody in one room, one place, this
Speaker 1: this very rarely happens for all of us even and
Speaker 1: this is uh, it's it's super special being with all
Speaker 1: you guys, no doubt uh. And for you listeners, thank
Speaker 1: you for coming back to Fantasy Football Weekly and we'll
Speaker 1: we'll break down the rest of the draft next week.
Speaker 6: Bye bye, everybody.