FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast - Top Fantasy Football Draft Picks | Targets for EVERY ROUND (Ep. 1642) - The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy pros. This is
the Fantasy Football Podcast. I'm Chris Welsh, and today we
are talking about a player to target in every single round.
That's right, we are going through the draft, not a
mock draft. It's gonna be the favorite picks with two
of my favorite people. We got Derek Brown, the King
of Bros in the House, and Mason Dodd from Block Fantasy.

(00:22):
We are gonna be hitting tons of players and we
are even going to figure out who's the one player
that both of these fine gentlemen have to leave their
draft with. That is what we got covered. But Mason,
what's the deal with upstaging us here? You look so
professionally good? Lord here, Well, I've.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Been planning on this for a month. I mean, as
y'all can tell, I've been growing the beer depends up
to debro. So if you all would have given me
one extra week, I think I could have surpassed.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I mean, if you guys had to flock over no
pun intended from the podcast to the video for the
Hot Ones episode to see, you're gonna have to see
just all dulled up. Mason's very dolled up here. So
it's a good look. We're going to be covering all
of these bad boys in every draft, target every player
to pick Debro, How did you come about? Like how
tough was this for you to identify one player per round?

(01:11):
We have some parameters, you know, we're using ECR. You
kind of have to pretend when we do stuff like
this where you are in a draft, you know, you
have to kind of pick a spot. We do articles
on this as well on Fantasy pros, like I did
it for the perfect draft scenario, Like, so, what was
your kind of process in picking where you are in
a draft that's going to dictate how you're leaving as

(01:31):
far as your target for every round.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Some of this came down to, like guys in these
rounds that I think can be differentiators or basically the
staples that determine some leagues. Other parts, man, this was
hard in certain parts of this, Like we get to
round five and round six, like there were so many
players where I'm like, I want to pick like two
or three players from round five. But again with the

(01:56):
parameters of this, so some of this comes down to
whether it's league winning upside players that can really define
this fantasy season as well as as we're going through
this kind of I went to an approach of some
of these picks, and I'll highlight this at certain points
how you would like if I would walk away like

(02:16):
this was the perfect draft that I could conduct throughout
the year and building a full roster and stuff. So
a lot of different ways, and we'll kind of get
through all of this as we go through, but a
lot of different ways to look at this and how
we're pulling out certain.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Players, Mason, is there a spot in any part you know?
So if you're picking like a KDS type of thing
and you're picking where you are, is there a good
spot in a round that you think perfectly enables you
to cherry pick some of these players? So, like, here's
an example. Obviously, if you were to say Jamar Chase
is the guy I have to leave every round with,

(02:48):
you'd have to be be like, I have the number
one overall pick. But you know, let's say five or
six kind of gives you a little bit of wiggle
room where you can start manifesting the draft exactly how
you want it. Is there like a really nice spot
in this year in the rounds that you want to target?

Speaker 4 (03:04):
So this is something you really have to think about.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Like next week, I actually have the way that we
are determining the draft order for the Flock League, and
I'm actually going to try to get like eleventh or
twelve because I think if you're looking at the tier
of players at the very top of the draft board,
they're like fourteen or fifteen guys in my mind, then
you can make an argument for being round one picks.
So if you can put yourself in like ten, eleven
or twelve and you can walk away with two of those,

(03:27):
in my opinion, round one profiles, it's just like hard
to beat a team if you have Elik Neighbors Nico
Collins in the first two rounds.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
You know exactly, Well, let's jump into it. Do you
want to remind you guys to check us out over
at fantasypros dot com slash kit to get the draft
kit today, because a lot of the advice that we're
talking about in here we have got placed out for
different personalities, Debro myself, Andrew ericson Pat Fitzmors. We got
a whole bunch of those where you can go and
see where we've put together. We actually have one where

(03:55):
it's like here are all the targets we like in
this round, and it might be multiple targets by position,
full breakdowns and what does the perfect draft look like?
Plus ranks and a ton more. Go over to fantasypros
dot com slash kit. There's some free offerings in there,
there's some premium stuff. But get prepped for your draft today.
Draft smarter, not harder. Let's jump into this bad boy,
and let's start with our round by round targets. We

(04:17):
are gonna go to round one, Mason, why don't you start.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Us off here?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Who is your perfect target in round one?

Speaker 4 (04:25):
I'm gonna go ahead and take CD Lamb.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
So the way that I priced like what player goes
in round one, round two, round three is on my side.
I have a consensus ADP list where we take the
average ADP from Yahoo, ESPN and sleeper drafts, and they're
actually see CD Lamb going behind Justin Jefferson in pick
six and a lot of these drafts. And if you
actually look at the points per game that we've had
from the top three wide receivers over the past two

(04:48):
seasons with Cede Lamb, Jamar Chase, and Justin Jefferson. I
went ahead and I looked at all the games in
which Dak Prescott played, all the games in which Joe
Burrow played, and then obviously we have no games with McCarthy.
But if we look get all the games with Dak
Prescott for Ceedde Lamb, he's actually averaged twenty two point
one points per game over the past two years. Chase
with Burrows averaged twenty two point zero and Justin Jefferson's

(05:09):
been at nineteen point two. And now that you have
the Justin Jefferson potential hamstring question mark. And while McCarthy
has a lot of upside, but we can't be one
hundred percent certain that.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
He's the guy.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think Ceedee Lamb's in a really good spot to
just potentially be the wide receiver one overall that you
can get a pick six.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, And there's a lot of argument about like what
Dak did in twenty twenty three as far as the
fantasy quarterback, what he does for Ceedee Lamb, And we
talked about this in a previous episode as well, of
like when you start to break into tears, like is
there an argument that Jamar Chase doesn't belong with anybody
because he is his own or can you really look
and see the scenarios where not only have Justin Jefferson,

(05:45):
but as Ceedee Lamb can be number one. Just a
quick reaction on Cedee Lamb for you, Debro, I.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Mean I love to pick a Lamb and the thing
that I want to highlight for both of our picks here,
you don't need that top three pick. So like when
I was approaching this, I didn't want to pick a
player or to your point, Welsh, where you needed a
top two or three pick like to get these guys.
So like I wanted to highlight somebody that I'm going
to target aggressively and that has, especially in round one,

(06:11):
has RB one wide receiver, one type of upside where
they can be the number one at their position this year.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
And you picked a really interesting name and I'm actually
surpres you went with the running back that we're going
to talk about, but you want to talk about upside.
He's got a lot of it. There's just some questions
on where is it going to end up being. So
your target in round one is who at running back?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Sash and gent Man and I got a player that
right now. If you're looking at ADP on fantasypros dot
com right now, he's eleventh overall, depending on the site
that you're drafting on, anywhere from eight to twelve. So
if you're drafting at the back end, and I love
how Mason brought up I want to be drafting at
the turn this year for the exact reasons that Mason
brought up here. But Genty's in that four to five

(06:54):
pack of players that have a first round a type
of profile, but sometimes you can get him in round
two or at the back end of round one. And
for Genty, I think he can have a rookie season
very akin or close to what Saquon Barkley did in
his rookie season. And everybody says, oh, the Raiders, it's
the Raiders. And you know we've heard like earlier and

(07:14):
the off season about Raheem Moster is going to be involved. Dude,
I don't believe any part of that. You don't draft
ash and Genty where he went, and you don't put
him in this offense to sit here and incorporate a
lot of other running backs. He's going to be their
bellcal running back. And I think we could talk about
tackle breaking, talent, all those parts with Genty, but specifically
what I think kind of gets lost in the entire conversation.

(07:36):
Is his passing game upside? Like, yes, I like Jacoby Myers,
a little foreshadowing, could be talking about him later. I
like Brock Bowers. But if either one of those guys
goes down, they miss any time. Like this is a
very consolidated passing offense. The offensive line is really good,
if not, like at bare minimum, gonna be league average,
So I'm not worried about the blocking upfront. But the

(07:58):
point that I've loved about here is that his pass
game utility is not getting talked about enough to where
he could be a guy that catches eighty balls this
year and nobody should be surprised. As well as having
to where you know, we're split hairs between a Chan
and other players, genty could roll up the freaking volume,
Like this is a guy they're probably not worried about

(08:20):
giving twenty carries to every single week. He could have
a Christian McCaffrey type of workload for the Raiders. And
then we're just talking about touchdowns, so like if he
is their main touchdown guy when they get inside the
fire or the ten, and this offense outperforms expectation Genty
has the receiving upside and the volume upside to be

(08:40):
a top three back in his rookie season.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
One of the things that does stand out is he
is definitely a what could be versus what has been
and what has been consistently. He just moved down in
Fantasy Pro's ECR to thirteen. Actually he just got both,
like probably just happened, and it looks like McCaffrey is
one that moved up. So I kind of think there's
a very interesting dynamic mason between Christian McCaffrey and Ashton

(09:05):
Genty because there is World's your oyster with Gent. We
know who McCaffrey can be, but there's a massive injury
concern in there. If you had to pick between the two,
is a Gent or McCaffrey for you?

Speaker 4 (09:14):
I love Gent.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Actually just got them in round two of a Yahoo
mock draft that did on my channel, But I still
would go McCaffrey over Ashton Gent. Personally, I one hundred
percent agree with everything that Deebro said, Like if you
look at Gent, he led college football and receiving two
years ago at the running back position. I haven't heard
anybody talk about that, like it's wild For me, the
reason I would prefer McCaffrey that was just the offensive environment.

(09:37):
I think sports books have the Niners projected out to
be a top five scoring offense this year. Schedule's too good,
whereas the Raiders the thing they have projected to be
the sixth lowes scoring offense. So I one hundred percent
I think that Gent is a phenomenal pick of the
one two turn based off volume.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
But I would probably go McCaffrey if I had to
choose between the two.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yep, me too, Christian McCaffrey, me too.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
There, let's a shocker forty nine ers.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Homer says, what yeah, it says Christian McCaffrey. Let's move
to round two. We're going to round two here for
the targets. Mason, We're gonna come back to you. We're
not gonna like snake it or anything. Mason. He's our
esteemed guest, so he gets to go first every time
to you. Bro So, Mason, your targeting Round two is who.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Right back to like targeting players of the one two
turn you want to lay pick, you have to have
an early second to get to von a Chan, But
if you can get it, Devon Achan last year. In
games that two played average twenty two point six points
per game. He was number one in the NFL among
all running backs with six point six four targets per
game and number one in the NFL and all running

(10:39):
backs with forty eight receiving guards per game in the
games that to have played in. So, if you're in
a full PPR format, I think you can make a
strong argument that evon a Chan should be going in
the middle to the end of round one. And right now,
if you're looking at Yahoo drafts, he goes at pick sixteen.
Sleeper drafts he goes at pick sixteen, and then ESPN
he's going to pick twelve or thirteen. So I think

(11:00):
it's a round two pick that should be a round
one pick.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Most years, I'm pretty hardcore about like I really would
love to get some combo in the second round, and
McCaffrey's moving out of that. But it's like McCaffrey, h
Chan genty, like even Derek Henry just even though he's
not like the PPR thing, but just the massive volume.
It's like, give me one of those guys in the
second round. To have paired with a great wide receiver
is a perfect scenario for myself. But mister Derek Brown,

(11:25):
what do you think about h Chan? Real quick quick
thoughts on hn is a second round target. Obviously with
Johnny Smith out of there, we're kind of speculating on
where all those other targets are going to go. Maybe
some dawaddle. I think we all want to pretend it's
all going to go to a Chan, regardless of what
Tyreek Hill tells us in the goal line or anything.
H Chan. We want him to get the ball all
the time. But what say you, Derek Brown?

Speaker 3 (11:45):
I love everything Mason laid out here, emphatically agree with him.
He's my twelfth overall player. I want to stay ahead
of consensus on a Chan. I think he's worth a
first round pick or like if you could start running
back or wide receiver. A Chan is a great target
at the beginning of the second And the thing from
a Chan is we've seen the mishmash of two very
different seasons where he did it on extreme efficiency in

(12:08):
his rookie year last year, got the pass game. What
if we get the season this year where he meshes
those two together. We get the high end efficiency and
we get the pass game upside like that's that's the
type of player that could put up a Jamiir Gibbs
in Christian McCaffrey gent that type of season where he's
a league defining player.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
That's funny you say that too, because like it does
feel like he's just a notch away from being like
everything we're kind of projecting Jamier Gibbs to be. You know,
he's just a player too. I think the offense is
what makes us less comfortable about it, especially with what
they were doing with it last year. But full PPR
moves even further half PPR h N still a great target, Debro,
I am not shocked by this one. This guy has

(12:49):
some pretty wide variants on where he goes as far
as the wide receiver. But there's a little crew here.
There's a little pocket of fantasy pros that feels that
maybe Drake London could be the number one wide receiver
and that is your target in the second.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Round, And that's exactly what I think people need to
be going for. Again, harping on this, like Mason and
I have talked about this multiple times, but taking guys
in the round two that could have that honestly have
Round one type of profiles and could lead their position.
I mean, it's wheels up, man, Like I went back
and forth and I hit you up this morning about it,
Like I actually picked Brian Thomas Junior just shout out

(13:22):
like originally for this because it's so tough for me.
But I think, looking at both of these guys, Drake
London is the guy that I go with here. It's
it's the fact that he is going to be the
unquestioned number one in this passing attack. What we saw
last year the splits between Cousins and Pennix going from
a twenty five percent target chair basically to a thirty
nine percent target chair. I don't think that holds up
there the entire season. But now Darneld Moody being banged up,

(13:45):
like Drake London's probably going to be sniffing a thirty
to thirty five percent target chair every single week of
Moody missus time much less, he's going to be around
that thirty percent mark this year just regardless, Like this
is a player that could lead the NFL in targets
and if that happens, nobody should be surprised because he
was third in targets last year. So one hundred and
fifty seven. Can he get up into that one seventy

(14:08):
one eighty range. It definitively can happen in the one
part of his game that we haven't seen a ton
of because of bad quarterback play even last year with
Kirk Cousins. The down field usage with Michael Pennix, that
is going to give Drake London the ability for more
ceiling weeks than we saw last year. And you combine

(14:28):
all of that with the red zone utility, Drake London
could lead the NFL on targets and if he spikes
twelve to fifteen touchdowns this year, which is definitively possible
with how consolidated this offense, Like we know the ball
was going to London and it's going to Beijon in Atlanta,
London could be the wide receiver one overall this year.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
He's also in the top twenty five overall players. He
is tied for the highest differential between his ECR, his
Expert Consensus Rank, and his EIGHTYP so he's going four
spots lower than where he's been ranked at Mason. Are
you a Drake London Truther?

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, what's actually really interesting is on our site, we
have like a range of Outcomes tool where you can
go back to two thousand and eight and look at
the most comparable seasons at that certain age. Drake London's
age twenty three year, the best comps are Jamar Chase
in twenty twenty three, Julio Jones in twenty twelve, Amon
Rosst Brown twenty twenty two, Michael Thomas in twenty sixteen,
Deshaun Jackson two thousand and nine, Jarvis Landry twenty fifteen,

(15:25):
A J. Brown in twenty twenty, Brandon Cooks in twenty sixteen,
and Jakeem Nicks in twenty eleven. And every single one
of these guys other than Nicks completely smashed their age
twenty four season, where Jamar Chase averaged twenty three point
seven one points per game. So it is in the
range of outcomes, like Debro saying, for London to have
that top tier, top three wide receiver finish this season.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
All right, time to go to round three.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
We are going to have a.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Running back and a tight end represented here. So Mason
kick us off with your round three target.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Hopefully he stays in round three, Hopefully it doesn't creep
up to round two. But had to call out Chase
Brown here. Chase Brown from weeks nine through seventeen average
twenty point six Fantasy points per game when he was
starting running back for the Bengals. He have eighty six
percent of the Bengals snaps, which was third in the NFL,
five and a half targets per game, which is third
in the NFL, thirty seven and a half receiving yards

(16:16):
per game, which was third in the NFL during that time,
third in the NFL in total yards per game during
that stretch, and still on his rookie contract. Zach Moss released,
so the only competition is gonna be TODJ. Brooks should
be an offensive projects out to be one of the
top scoring units in the league this year, and we're
already getting reports that Chase Brown's actually gonna get more
involved as a receiver this season.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, the only thing working against you, like you said,
might be that he's creeping up on ECR ranks. He's
actually twenty four, so that's like the last pick in
the second round versus ADP's the same thing. But there
are plenty of scenarios and drafts that I have played
him where he does get into the third round. So
this is a nice perfect scenario. The only problem you
hype him up too much. He might be going a
little bit too higher, Mason, and then you're gonna have

(16:58):
to exactly.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
So I'm looking at his ADP across platforms ESPN, it's
thirty two, Sleeper, it's twenty nine.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yahoo, it's twenty four.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
What's actually funny is the average expert rank on our
site has Chase Brown like seventeen, like way way higher
than the two three turn.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's a big that's an absolute big difference deeper. Any
quick thoughts on Chase Brown as a third round target.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
A volume play man, I mean, if he reprises and again,
going back to the pass game utility, so many of
these guys, like, we're seeing less and less running back
targets every single year. So the guys that have the
high end upside in the passing games, I mean, this
is what gives you ceiling and floor every single week.
Where Chase Brown might go go out and run for
forty yards, but if he's catching five balls and getting

(17:41):
thirty through the air and he scores, it doesn't freaking matter.
So you want to see that pass game receiving utility,
and Chase Brown has it in this offense.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Someone had to do this. There's a lot of conversation
around tight ends. Tight Ends are being put higher. We're
seeing instances where people want to look at brock Bauers
in the first round. We're just we're in our tight
end era everybody, and there are three tight ends. I
think that a lot of people are looking at I
think we're pushing the envelope of tiny bit here. But
I like that we are having this conversation because it's
very prevalent and Debro you are making a commitment to

(18:11):
a third round tight end target. So let's hear which
one of them it is.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Trey McBride could be one of those guys again talking
about drafting players early that could define leagues. If trade McBride,
if the touchdown regression all hits this year, with the
volume that he is likely to see in the talent
that he has, he could be a guy that Yes,
we flip over the cards and we're sitting there a
week seventeen or after Fantasy Championships and people are saying, dude,

(18:37):
why didn't I take trade McBride in the first round,
Like why didn't I do it? And I know, like
in this fictitious world. Yes, like Brought Bowers probably has
to disappoint a little bit, and George Kittle has to
disappoint a little bit because you need that differentation. But dude,
Trade McBride could do it. I mean, last year he
was top three in everything you pull up first in
target here second and receiving yards per game, thirty yards

(18:58):
per route run first, and per route run, so we
know the guy is elite. He didn't score already freaking
touchdowns last year, Like fifteen point six PPR points per
game made him the tight end two expected Fantasy points
per game. He was over nineteen per game, so just
with the volume, and I don't think the Cardinals are
gonna run much different than what they did last year.

(19:19):
It's why I'm not high on Marvin Rrison Junior. He's
not making this list for me because I think Trammy
Bride is going to be their unquestioned wide receiver one
in this offense. And if the touchdowns all hit and
we said this about again George Kittle, everybody talked about, oh,
he can't score touchdowns until he did. So if Tramming
Bride scores the touchdowns this year, he could be the
guy where you're looking at cross positionally, nineteen fantasy points

(19:43):
per game is putting you in that rarefied air where
comparatively he's scoring close to being a top five wide
receiver a top five running back on a weekly basis.
And if that happens, yes, at a onesie position, that's
putting you over the top.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
And you kind of have to make the call that
it's like second, third or fourth round. Second for Boers,
third for McBride, fourth for Kittle, Mason, you do not
make that dictation here. But are there scenarios where a
tight end becomes a must target per round or are you,
you know, playing in a different pool of tight ends.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I am one hundred percent in agreement with this. I
think Trey McBride outscores every wide receiver going in round three.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh I love that takes so much.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Now take some hot sauce, Now take the play, Mason.
I'm just gonna love it.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
If you look at the range of Outcomes tool and
you want to hear the five closest comps to Trey
McBride at twenty five years.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Old since two thousand, hit me, Maybe hit me.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Jimmy Graham twenty eleven, Rob Gronkowski twenty fourteen, Jayden Reid
twenty fifteen, George Kittle twenty eighteen, then Verdon Davis two
thousand and nine. Like this dude has all the volume
in the world. If you had that kind of target
share at wide receiver in round three, every buddy would
be finding to draft that player, and you get it
at tight end.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Love it, de Bro, make me feel some thanks Mason,
I'm loving it, man.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
You guys are both making the people happy. All right,
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Speaker 1 (22:44):
Gentlemen, we are moving to round four and quarterbacks have
entered the chat. So Mason, kick us off with your
quarterback pick that you say you have to have in
round four.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
So if we look over the past four years when
Jalen Hurts, Alan and Lamar have all been starting quarterbacks,
Jalen Hurts his average twenty two points per game, Lamar
is at twenty one point seven, Josh Allen's at.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Twenty three point four.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
But I'm assuming that you can't get Josh Allen or
Lamar Jackson in the fourth round, or you can consistently
get Jalen Hurts in the middle to possibly the end
of the fourth round in drafts up points. So I
think Jalen Hurts for four point passing touchdown formats is
a lot closer to Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson than he
is the quarterbacks that are going to be going round
five and round six. So if you wanted to get
an elite quarterback, which I think would be a great

(23:29):
thing to do in a league if you only have
one flex spot, round four is a very reasonable price.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
And you know it's a pretty amazing too with just
kind of the lack of efficiency as far as the
passing game of what that team does and how he scores.
So there is like further dreaming, like what if they
open it up a little bit more and we know
the tush push exists and will always be out there?
Is Jalen Hurts a target for you? Though deeper or
maybe the deeper question is like in the top four rounds,
do you want to have one of the like Daniels.

(23:57):
Obviously if like Lamar Fell Burrow is Jalen Hurts the
end of that, like could you see yourself drafting round
four quarterbacks?

Speaker 3 (24:04):
I can see it definitively happen. And I love that
Mason brings up Jalen Hurts here, because if you're gonna
go with the elite guy, I want the elite guy
at the end of that tier, and that's Jalen Hurts,
And some drafts Joe Burrow will go ahead of him.
He'll be the QB five and not the QB four
off the board. I've seen it happen in best balls
and early redrafts, and I'm not there. I understand if
people want to do that. But Hurts is fantastic man.

(24:26):
And the thing that I want to highlight here is
the Eagles are going to throw the ball more this year.
We can all kind of quibble about how much more
they were legendarily run heavy last year. They had times
where aj Brown missed time. They had times where the
offense looked terrible. They had times where DeVonta Smith was
banged if Dallas Goddor was in and out of the lineup.
He gets his guys healthy this year. And I know

(24:48):
AJ Brown's dealing with a hamstring, but if he's healthy
this season, Jalen Hurts to have a bounce back like this.
This offense is gonna throw more and that's gonna lead
hopefully to more passing touchdowns for Jalen Hurts, and the
rushing touchdowns are going anywhere Toush push or not, doesn't matter.
He's going to run for ten plus.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well, dro you did not go with a quarterback, but
you are planting a flag on a running back, so
you're round four. I've already given it away. It is
a running back, but who is it.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
It's one of the greatest reasons why you don't have
to draft a running back, and I'm not saying that
you can't in the top three rounds. It's Kenneth Walker, Dude.
When you can get a guy that was an RB
one last year in the fourth round at RB two
price tags, you do it all day and you just
say thank you to the rest of the draft room
for allowing this to happen. Kenneth Walker RB twelve and
Fantasy points per game the Seattlesy Hawks, and I know

(25:34):
he's dealing with the foot issue right now, but it
doesn't sound like it's big and I'm not worried about it.
We're sitting and recording this in the first week of August,
so nobody should be worried about those unless you get
more in depth news about it being worse. So you
need to be following Fantasy pros news and stuff and
everything with the app and have alerts on right now.
But like with Walker, it gets lost so much that
he was an RB one last year. The pass game

(25:56):
utility like this, dude, amongst forty five qualifying running backs
last year was top six and first downs per route
run target, per route run rate, and receiving arts per game.
And the Seattle Seahawks had told us all off season.
They're gonna run the ball more this year. He's gonna
be centric to what they do on offense on numerous levels.
And people can have concerns about the injuries, that's why

(26:19):
you get Kenneth Walker here. You can have concerns about
the offensive line, that's why you get Kenneth Walker here.
But the dude's gonna catch passes. He's still one of
the best per touch running backs and tackle breaking guys
in the NFL. This is like if you could draft
Jonathan Taylor of yesteryear or Nick Chubb in his prime,
but they have pass catching upside in the fourth round.

(26:41):
Sign me up all day.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Man, you're hyping up. You would think we're talking gonna
be talking about the next guy here, wait till you
get all jacked up. And interesting thing you can do
if you're ever looking at the Fantasy pros Ranks page
and you're looking at the overall and ECR and everything
is there's like a section on the corner that says
ECRV versus ADP. And if you want to just have
like a quick understanding of like values, you can go
and look and see when you see plus. So I

(27:06):
mentioned that before with Drake London. So Drake London, you
see like a value for rankers loving this player versus
how they're being drafted. The same thing is happening here
with ken Walker. There's a five, there's a plus five,
so he's been ranked right at the top of this round,
but he's going more mid round. So there's a value
at least versus like what drafts are giving us to

(27:29):
what the overall valuation is. Mason, do you have any
thoughts on Ken Walker here?

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
One point that Deebro made that I really like is
the receiving usage kind of went under the radar last
year because if you look at the college profiles of
Sharbonay versus Kenneth Walker, it's like, oh, sharbon A was
probably gonna be the receiving back in the NFL, but
last season that didn't play out.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
Kenneth Walker was the guy that got targeted.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
All right, So we are now jumping two round five.
Round five is in here. These are some slick names.
I very very much like this group that we're going
to do. So Mason, you're going to kick it off.
We're going to jump into wide receiver, which I think
there's some varying degrees of where people sit, and it
has to do with another wide receiver who is suspension
could be coming, but where people are at on him.

(28:12):
So round five, you've got a wide receiver and who's
that player?

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I'm going to take Xavier Worthy now, full transparency, I
may or may not have graduated from the University of Texas,
so I could be alluded bias here.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
But would you obligated to hook him?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
After you say that?

Speaker 4 (28:27):
By the way, ookomore, we'll throw it out.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
He's got the calendar behind him. I mean it's he's
got the promos everywhere for Texas.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
But I don't know what else we want to see.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
This was a wide receiver that goes in Round one
of the NFL Draft twenty one year old rookie season.
The final six weeks, he averages fifteen point six Fantasy
points per game, finishing as the wide receiver twenty four.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
You have a full blown.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Breakout once you get to the actual NFL playoffs, and
the Kansas City Chiefs were at an all time low
with their passing volume last year, so I think it's
almost impossible to project the Chiefs to be as low
scoring this year as they were last. I think the
passing volume is only going to go in the positive direction.
We can look at the player comparison tool and see, okay,
most wide receivers that in age twenty one year, like

(29:10):
Zavier Worthy did aka, maybe Jackson Smith and Jigba did
improve going into their age twenty two season. So I'm
completely fine drafting Zavier Worthy is like my wide receiver three.
Possibly ranking was a top twenty four name when Rashi
Rice is suspended at the beginning of the year, But obviously,
if we were to be surprised and if Rice doesn't
get suspended, Worthy is probably a little less exciting.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
I'm one of the higher rankers Unworthy right now too
on our site. I think I have them around like twenty.
I'm not the highest, but I have them over consensus.
I've got him like twenty two. But that is also
because I'm just taking a hard line stance that like Rashie,
Rice is going to be suspended for a significant amount
of time, and even if he's not, I don't know
that right now, and that's looming. I was one of

(29:50):
the bigger on Rashi Rice the health I thought was
a really solid space we were in. But because of this,
I'm flipping, and I think Worthy's getting opportunit to really go.
So I'm just taking dramatic stances until i'm told otherwise. Debro,
where are you at on that same thing. Are you
a little hesitant to be anywhere with Worthy because Rice
is looming in the suspension or are you taking any

(30:11):
hardline stances.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I'm taking more of the stands on that. I think
rice Is suspension could be more in the two to
three game area, and if it's if it's more on
the low end of that, then I have more worries
about Worthy, and I'm more in on Rice. So right now,
the way I'm approaching it again, we're all just it's
a guessing game with this, because yeah, it could be
two games, it could be six games. I'm playing the other,
the contrarian side of this, where I think it's two

(30:33):
to three games, and if that's the case, then it's
basically a nothing burger for Rice. So I'm more in
on Rice, and I'm kind of like, move Worthy down.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, And if for Us was not getting suspended at all,
I had them at like I think thirteen or something
like that would be dramatic. Dramatic.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Agreed, Agreed, But it's not.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Worth it right now. Everybody and their mother who knows
debro knew this name was coming. It was just what
round would you say? You have to get at him? So,
without further ado, it's our J. Harvey time, everybody, because
it's round five. So let's hear it.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
De bro It's because I like talented backs and again
that have massive pass catching upside. At this point of
his career, we know JK. Dobbins is not going to
catch a lot of passes. He didn't do it in college.
He at one point zero yards per route run in
the NFL, zero point seven. Like, it's just not part
of his game. I always projected somebody in this Denver

(31:28):
offense to siphon off one hundred and twenty five hundred
and forty carries away from RJ. Harvey. So the fact
that that's Dobbins and it's not estimate doesn't move the
needle at all. We know what Sean Payton is gonna do,
like go back all the way to like freaking like
forever twenty ten, twenty eleven. They're gonna throw the ball
to the running backs. That has happened in New Orleans,

(31:49):
It's happened in Denver. They've been top five and target
shair to the running back position in each of the
last two years. So enters r. J. Harvey, who they
drafted in the second round. It's not my fault that
people were lower on him as a prospect than everybody else, Like,
it's that's not my fault. So I feel like a
lot of people are like, oh, but he's an RB
two dude. If he is the lead back in the

(32:10):
Denver Broncos offense, and we know Sean Payton is going
to feed a top five target share to this backfield
and Dobbinson isn't catching passes estimate has never caught passes.
Julia McLoughlin couldn't keep a role in this backfield last
year with Sean Payton at all on a consistent basis,
Who the heck else is catching the freaking passes for

(32:32):
the running backs outside of RJ. Harvey. You want to
talk about talent, opportunity, all the different parts of pieces,
and he's going to live inside of what is going
to be a top ten scoring offense this year. Yes, RJ.
Harvey fifth round every single time, auto lock on pick
every single time. I'll take him in the fourth. But
the fact that I can get him in the fifth

(32:53):
round again, another opportunity to just smile at the rest
of the draft room and say thank you.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
And also you missed your opportunity where if we had
the glove George Kittle's glove. Igo, why so serious? And
then you just do because joker, Because the joker roll.
Everybody is putting Evan Ingram in there, but you could
have Harvey into that. So your very serious business about
r J. Harvey, Mason, what about you? This is the
first introduction of one of these rookies, especially at the
RB spot. Do you think round five is the right

(33:22):
territory to be taking RJ.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Harvey?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
I like RJ Harvey in the situation, don't get me wrong,
But the only reason I want to be taking him
here around five is I think my rookie running back
in round six is a better value.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Well see, all right.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Well what a perfect transition. All right, we got six
through ten. We're gonna go a little bit quicker on
these because we still got a lot more show. So
we are unfortunately not going to get the pickups on
what you guys think about each picture. You just have
to bury it deep inside of you and maybe put
it in the comments or something like that. So let's
go to round six, perfect transition. Mason's a pro. Let's
hear the running back that you would rather have than RJ.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Harvey.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Everything Debro just said about RGIE Harvey, I think remains
true for Trevion Henderson. I think remadre versus Dobbins about equivalent.
I think the offenses are both very good. I think
they're both gonna have to target the running back heavily
because the receivers in New England very thin beyond step
On Diggs. I just personally think Trevion Hitderson's the better
running back between the two, and if he goes like

(34:19):
around later, I'm fine taking Trevon Henderson.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
It's not an anti RJ. Harvey thing.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
It's more like, I just am in love with Trevion
Henderson the prospect.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
There's a lot of takes in there too, of you
guys building around the receiving side of both of these players.
So I think you know that that could be the
big differentiating factor, whether it's you know, Remindre in New England,
has you know, his role still on the ground, if
there's a rotation in Denver, and then who's the guy
that steps up on the receiving side. It's a very
very interesting argument, and it's kind of fascinating because it's
like all those rookie running backs go around the same time.

(34:49):
It's around this five or six, whether it's Hampton a
little bit earlier, and then it's Harvey, and then it's Henderson,
and then Mike guy. Caleb Johnson's just sitting out there
going last, and I'm swooping him up whenever I can.
But you, debro also a rookie. So rookies have officially
entered the chat now, but you're going on the wide
receiver side. I am locked up with you on this player.
I had to get this guy's my wide receiver three

(35:09):
in every place that I can, and we are doing
it here in round six.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Dude, this is a guy you could draft as your
wide receiver three for your teams. And I'm even comfortable
get him as your wide receiver two because I think
he is going to be a locked in wide receiver two.
And I have to give Worm a shout out here
because he brought this up and I think it's a
perfect comparison. This player is basically in what we were
doing last year with elite neighbors, but I could tell

(35:35):
you that the surrounding cast, quarterback play, all those things
are better. And that's Tedo McMillan for what people talked
about this being a down wide receiver class. Dude like,
I was never there and we're going to talk about
it some other rookie wide receivers later. Tedero McMillan never
deserved any of the shade that he got during the
draft process. He went high in the draft. He goes
to Carolina and everybody's like, oh, snubbing their noses at it,

(35:56):
And I'm telling you, this guy is going to be
a wide receiver. Two. He has a side for even more.
Whether you want to talk about talent, we talk about
he can be the alpha in that wide receiver room.
Dave Knells has already come out and talked about they
are going to feed a ton of ball into Tedro
McMillan and push him, and that that tells me everything
I need to know. He's probably gonna get sniff in

(36:16):
that one forty one fifty target range at this spot
in a draft. That is free money. And the spot
that I think people were are missing the boat on
here is his receiving touchdown upside in an offense that
quietly because they didn't throw a ton last year or
as much, and the offense wasn't good for half the

(36:37):
season until Bryce Shung really hit his stride down the stretch.
This offense was fourth in red zone passing rate twelfth
and passing rate inside of the ten yard line. They
repeat that this year with Tedroe may Millen at the top.
He's spiking ten plus touchdowns. And that's the difference of
being a wide receiver three versus being a wide receiver
two or maybe closer to fringe wide receiver one this year.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
All right, moving to round seven, and I really like
this name Jordan Addison and Mason that is where you're going.
There's huge offensive upside here. He can be drafted as
a wide receiver three to instances of a wide receiver four.
I've got a higher rank on him, and I'm gonna
guess you are as well, because he is your target
for round seven.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
A lot of times you take a player in round
seven you may not even need to start them week
one anyway. I mean, he's going pick seventy eight on
Yahoo's seventy one in sleeper seventy nine on ESPN. And
if we're looking at Addison round one innfol draft pick,
Blittankough winner, great rookie season, even better year two. From
a talent perspective, what could you possibly want that this
guy does not have in comparison to the players that

(37:39):
he's going around. And honestly, again, like you said, if
he gets suspended one game, two games, I don't really
care because those first two games we have anybody on
by shouldn't be really dealing with many injuries. You probably
don't want to stack like Jordan Addison, Brains and I,
you and Chris Godwin all on the same team together,
But as long as you don't take all of them,
should be fine.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Debrow in round seven, you are sticking with a wide
receiver as well.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, man, it's Calvin Ridley time. And it's just it's easy,
free volume and upside. Like if cam Ward is legitimately good,
what's to stop Calvin Ridley from being this year's Terry McLaurin.
There's nothing man like. So this is bet on offense,
bet on volume, bet on like there's no other high
end target earners like there's they don't have another receiving
option on Tennessee's depth chart that probably sniffs above an

(38:22):
eighteen percent target chare even in the best of circumstances
this year. So Calvin Ridley one hundred and twenty targets
was eighteenth amongst wide receivers last year. Dude, you could
bump him up into that one forty range. And this
is how you make up Like if you start running
back heavy earlier, you go with the tight end premium,
or you go with a quarterback early and stuff, and
you're like, Okay, now I need a wide receiver three
that maybe in a lot of weeks can produce as

(38:44):
a wide receiver two. But I'm comfortable in them as
my three because of the volume I'm getting every single week.
If cam Ward's good, Calvin Ridley is gonna be very
good too.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Let's move into round eight and oh yes, I'm walking
with Mason again. This is another wrote this bad boy
up Homer City. But Mason, let's hear which wide receiver
you're targeting in round eight.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
So again going back to the Niners projecting out to
be close to like a top five offense this year, ayuk,
we have no idea what he's playing. Juwan Jennings currently
banged up. This leaves Ricky Pierce Hall is the only
dude in this offense goes pick ninety one Yahoo one
oh three sleeper and pick one hundred on ESPN.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
You got the flashes at the very end of the year.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Obviously, rookie season derailed by the fact that the dude
got shot.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
What do you want from him?

Speaker 3 (39:30):
You know?

Speaker 2 (39:30):
But he still does give you the absolute blow up
at the end of his rookie season with the Round
one NFL Draft capital.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
So I'm fine, just continue to him. Or wide receiver
depth here.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
De bro, your guy here is someone I was just
talking with Scott Bogman about that, Like, I don't I
got to get higher.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
You got to get higher.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
And I think he is the like number one wide
receiver that you take when you've taken any theoretical risk
you take a rookie, maybe you take an addison like
this Dray draft for she Rice. Yeah, this guy balances
out your team and he's just like a must have.
This might be the most must have player of all
these round targets. So hit us with this wide out

(40:07):
who is who?

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Yeah, if you're embracing risk and upside with some of
these guys that can miss time and what have you.
Like Jacoby Myers again, like I know that I'm higher
on the Raiders offense than a lot of other people.
I think they're going to be better than people are
projecting right now. And Myers again, it is free volume, man,
Like this is where you make up the volume, or
you insulate your rosters from the risk of earlier rounds

(40:31):
where you're shooting on upside and stuff like that. Myers
had the departure of DeVante Adams last year was wide
receiver eighteen and fantasy points per game. This dude was
commanding almost a twenty four percent target chair And I'm
not telling you that he's going to produce as a
wide receiver two on a weekly basis, but as a
wide receiver three as a guy in PPR leagues where
you were you were consistently comfortable plugging him into your

(40:52):
wide receiver three in your flex spot or him covering
one of those starting spots. Like if you draft or
she Rice, this is the player that you pair him
with because you know you're going to get the consistent
role in production out of Myers. And when Rice comes back,
you're plugging him maybe a top fifteen wide receiver into
that spot. So yes, draft all the Jacobe Myers.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I'm an agreement. Round nine, we got a wide receiver
and a quarterback, Mason. You are building up that wide
receiver corps. Who's a wide receiver that you have to
have in round nine?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Yeah, this may be a little bit of a cheap
call because he goes earlier than this on Yahoo and sleeper,
but he goes pick one forty eight on ESPN, which
is crazy.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Josh Downs, I don't know what you want.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
This is another young wide receiver that is flash talents,
continuing to get better. And the only thing that I
would be hesitant with is if Anthony Werson is the
starting quarterback here, Downs probably isn't usable. But if it's
Daniel Jones, the passing goffins should definitely be a lot
better in Indianapolis, where obviously with Richardson, you're more so
going to be looking at the running game.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
You know.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
The one thing I throw out though, is if Richardson
does make some of those strides they're talking about, we
know he's just a big, huge arm make those big plays,
but part of that progression would have to be about
more high efficiency throws, which to me would speak to
Josh Downs, would be them forcing him to be more
efficient by throwing down the middle and having a guy
like Josh Downs out of the slot. So I don't
disagree with what you're saying that, Like, yeah, if Anthony

(42:09):
Richardson there, it could could make him unusable. But also
if Anthony Richardson is going to be a thing like
Bugman has said he's going to be, then that might
be because Josh Downs has that big step up and
it's a focal point to make him more efficient in
that offense. Just as a little aside, and it's some
with you on Downs Deepro, you are stamping in your
quarterback here and we've actually kind of already been talking
about him. So let's hear this quarterback in round nine

(42:30):
that you need to have.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Yeah, if you're waiting on quarterback, this is the guy
that you ticked the upside shot on because we've seen
it year after year after year. Man, it's Dak Prescott.
I mean we're only one season removed from this guy
being the QB four and fantasy points per game. He
was seventh in yards per attempt, He was eighth in
CPOE Like in last year with Dallas, their offense just
was broken at the beginning of the season, like every

(42:52):
defense knew what was coming. It was ceedee lamb. If I
stop Ceede Lamb, what else she got? But weeks one
through eight, Dallas was still eighth the neutral passing rate.
This team is going to be top ten and passing attempts,
and if anything happens to Michael Parsons, like, are they
gonna be like this year's version of like NFC Cincinnati,
where it's like, dude, they're passing every freaking week, It's
gonna be a ton of Ceede Lamb. It's gonna be

(43:13):
George Pickens and the winner is Dak Prescott and a
couple of seasons like if he is fully healthy this year,
I'm not ruling out that we see him run Like
I'm not telling you he's gonna run for five hundred yards,
But if he runs for say three hundred plus on
the ground, gets a handful of rushing touchdowns, that's adding
to the floor and ceiling. But Dak Prescott is the
guy you can get at a low end QB one

(43:33):
price tag some spots high end QB two, and he
legitimately could revisit and put up top five numbers this year.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Yeah, and I was gonna say, like you're talking. I mean,
I guess he has moved up to twelve, but I've
seen spots where he hasn't gone in the top fifteen quarterbacks.
So they're definitely drop.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
To like fourteen to fifteen in some drafts.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
And if Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens are gonna live
up to the values of where they are as far
as ECR and everything, then it's gonna be because Dak
Prescott has been a dude.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
All right.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Round ten running back, Mason, who do you got for
your round ten target?

Speaker 4 (44:05):
I'm going to go JK. Dobbins. I think you have
the premium handcuff appeal if R. J.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Harvey were to get injured, and I think if you
go with the zero RB build. There's a chance that
Dobbins has used bull at the beginning of the season,
but it's mainly just this Denver Broncos backfield. It's going
to be so valuable that if anything were to occur
to RJ. Harvey, I think Dobbins crushes Debro.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
You got a little bit more on the rookie side.
We got a rookie wide receiver. This is a nice,
sneaky one. You could have even maybe snuck this one
into our rapid fire round we're going to do here
for eight rounds, but let's hear it.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
I could have. But I want to take this guy
a little bit ahead of ADP, depending on where you're
looking at ADP, because as I'm all enough to remember
last year and we were all in on Nico Collins,
Stephon Diggs, and Tank Dell and it's just like, oh,
who do you want to draft? And now nobody wants
to draft anybody out of the Houston's passing attack outside
of Nico Collins. And I've been pounding the table the
entire offseason. I'm going to continue to do it here
on Jayden Higgins consolidated passing attack. This guy was really

(44:56):
really good throughout the entire pre draft process. Final two
years of college, twenty seven sixteenth and yards per route run.
We know the athleticism is there and he's going to
be the starter in two wide receiver sets opposite Nico Collins.
So Jayde Higgins, Yes, as a guy you're drafting as
your wide receiver five on a lot of different teams.
We could be mid season he's producing as a borderline
two three for your lineups. Yeah, this is where you

(45:20):
get to where you're taking the shots on talent, upside
and opportunity.

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Com slash Premium. That's fantasypros dot Com slash Premium. Mason also,
just to throw out before we get into our rapid round,
we were joking before and you were being like, oh,
I don't have a podcast, and that's because Mason literally

(46:28):
lives on YouTube on the flock Fantasy YouTube channel, which incredible.
Following incredible stuff you're doing, why don't you tell people
because you've also cited some of your guys' tools, Wy
don't you tell us a little bit about flock Fantasy
if people are not familiar.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Yeah, just sarch flock Fantasy on YouTube. WHI livestream drafts
every single night, videos every single day. Try to put
a lot of work into it and hopefully you like it.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
And thank you for taking literal time out from you
just living on the YouTube to come over to our
YouTube for a second. It's nice to have been able
to steal you for just a second. Guys, we're going
to go into a rapid fire. So this is like
rounds eleven through fifteen. ADPs are kind of out the
window a little bit, so you guys have a lot
more freedom. We're gonna go rapid style fire, So you
guys have about thirty seconds to break down your pick.

(47:12):
We're gonna go boom boom boom. Rounds eleven through fifteen.
Let's start Mason your round eleven, rapid fire target.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Tyler Warren, great collusion, production, great draft capital, I end,
great athleticism, and he's gonna play almost eighty percent of
the snaps Week one.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
This one is Chef's kiss to me. Love the Tyler
Warren pick there, especially if you get more efficiency on
the Anthony richardson side Debro Round eleven.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Who do you got waiting? No quarterbacks? Baby, it's JJ
McCarthy Tom, a guy that I think is gonna be
a locked in QB one. We're talking about talent, We're
talking about upside, We're talking about situation. We know Kaos
he's gonna pass the ball a ton. We just saw
Sam Donald. Yes, that Sam Donald produces the QB nine
at Fantasy points per game. You cannot tell me Jj
McCarthy can't equal that or best it in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
As a quick follow up, is important for you to
get Dak and McCarthy as a caring do you like?

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
So this is a.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Ceiling a floor both those guys. This is how I'm
approaching drafts man double taping late quarterback.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Yeah, I want to make sure this was a calculated
decision that it's like you want JJ McCarthy and you
have the floor of a guy like Dak Prescott.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
I like that a lot.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Round twelve, A lot of buzz about this guy Mason
that you're picking for your round twelfth target.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
Yeah, Trey Benson.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Think he's a premium hand cut back, great prospect coming
out last year. Sadly we didn't get to see him
much as rookie year, but he was efficient when he
did touch the ball, and hopefully he does have an
expanded role. But you're probably just looking at a handcuff.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
But if not, if you're talking about James Connor talking
about him being an RV one in that offense. So
there's a lot of buzzs there, Dee bro, what do
you think? What do you think for your round twelve target?

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Staying in the tray streets? Baby, it's Trey Harris And
I will caveat this with if Keenan Allen does sign there,
then I'm going to drop him. He's still worth a
late round pickup. But Trey Harris, it's talent, it's opportunity.
It's upside. This guy was first and ninth and yards
per route run. If you'd have stayed healthy as final
collegiate season, he probably would have gone first round to
the NFL draft. And quietly if the Chargers throw more

(49:05):
this year, and I'm not telling you, theyre gonna be
top ten, top twelve and passing rate, but more weapons
around Justin Herbert, a fully healthy version of Justin Herbert.
For the entirety of this season, we could see the
Bolts really surprised with a lot of his pass catchers.
And Trey Harris is the guy that I want to
take from this offense.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Mason round three. You and I feel like our rank
we're kind of locks up a little bit here because
you got a lot of the same targets that I'm
going with. And I feel like a lot of people
are kind of negative in that Cleveland situation, just being like,
I'll wash my hands of it. But the guy you
picked a round thirteen to me, I think is one
of those sneaks. It doesn't matter what it is. Zero
running back, you go high upside rookie running backs, whatever

(49:41):
it is. I'm really comfortable walking out of drafts with
Jerome Ford late and that was your pick for Round
thirteen targets.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Yeah, over all the last three rounds.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
I want players that I can cut after week one
if I don't like their roles.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Love Jerome Ford. He could be a starting running back
week one. If he's not.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
If it's still in Samson, if Judkins ends up being okay,
then we'll go ahead and we'll cut Jerome Ford and
we'll let the wab wire because they'll be interesting pickups.
But also he could be a starting running back week one.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Yeah, and and could stick around. I mean the Judkins
stuff is messy and gross, and I that's another one.
I want no part of it. Like it's not even signs.
So no, thank you. Dylan Sampson obviously a dude. But
you know Ford's going to be out there some and
it's kind of just a late round filler pick that
I like the idea that you could easily cut him,
and if he just starts rolling out early in the season,
it might provide you a little bit more balance to

(50:26):
your offense.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Debro.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
You're going with a Green Bay wide receiver. Who could
it be? It could be any of them. They're all
around this range. None of them are really that's super high.
I guess if you like Jayden Reid, so it will
spin the wheel. And where does it stop in the
Green Bay wide receiver corps for you?

Speaker 3 (50:41):
On a guy that I have not been super high
on in previous years, but everything is screaming that we
need to be and it's Romeo Dobbs. Man like I
was lower as a prospect on Matthew Golden. This is
an anti This is not an anti Matthew Golden take.
But we've already seen like in the camp usage right now,
Jane Reid is going to play the same role that
he's played. So when they go to wide, he's not
going to be out there. They're going to have Dobbs

(51:03):
and Golden and everything Dobbs did below the surface last year. One,
at his ADP, he's a fantastic value like that. He
produces a wide receiver four last year and you're getting
it way after that. Two. If you look at just
his separation metrics on a per route basis, this guy
screams like big breakout season coming. Amongst one hundred and
twelve qualifying wide receivers last year, Romeo Dobbs eleventh and

(51:24):
separation second in route win rate. You're following these metrics,
this is what kind of leads you to these undercover
gyms in these late rounds.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
I think it's interesting, Jo. I don't think a lot
of people would have expected that too. We were spinning
the Green Bay wheel that you would go there. Round
fourteen were really in this space where, like Mason said,
you're kind of looking for interchangeable players. You're looking for
players that are going to be able to hit.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
You.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Guys both pick some running backs. So Mason wy shot,
you kick it off round fourteen. Who you got.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah, we'll see what the rolls like week one. But
they're telling us that Braylen Allen's going to be involved
in this offense. And if that's true, we'll see if
he needs any good and if anything were to cur
to breesall it could be a league winner. And if
it's not true, again, super easy cut after week one.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Super super easy cut, Deebro, you're going with a very
hot buzz camp guy. The question marks of like where
will he be because they got a lot of guys,
but I think a lot of people are saying he'll
be somewhere. So this Kansas City running back is.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Who dude, I've been talk about Burshard Smith. People can
go check the receipts since the pre draft process, and
the upside is massive here. He could be the Jack
McKinnon in this offense. And for everybody that says, oh,
but a seventh round pick can't do that, Oh but
y'all believe in Isaiah Pachecko. You do remember he was
drafted in the seventh round as well. If Pachecko goes down,
Brashard Smith is going He can play in the passing

(52:37):
attack and he can get it done in early downs
like this could be the guy where you pick him
up anything happens to Pacheco and he's the lead back
for Casey's offense. And it's not Kareem Hunt for a
player that is a converted wide receiver. His final year
he was second receiving grade and twenty second in yards
per route run. He's got juice, man. This is if
you're talking about the guys that I can pick up,
and it's all upside, and if I cut them after

(52:59):
week one, Week two, week three, it doesn't matter. Forshard Smith.
It needs to be drafted a ton of spots.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
I think that's the theory too, because I do think
that you can build out the scenario where you're like, yeah,
Kareem hunts a goal line guy, and then they also
have Elijah Mitchell, Like, there are some problems that exist
in there.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
But if you take that.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Theory, he's the perfect pick because you can just cut
bait if it is absolutely nothing in week one, And
wouldn't you hate to be the person that said I'm
going to pass on him. Then all of a sudden
he gets volume and now you're playing the waiver wires
streets after week one. Nothing worse than overspending in week
one off of a big high performance or something like that.
All right, this is our final round. This is Round fifteen, Mason,

(53:40):
who is your final pick in this draft? Obviously you've
laid the groundwork where you're wanting that playable upside, but
someone you're really easily willing to cut. So who is that?

Speaker 4 (53:48):
It's gonna be?

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Miles Sanders not trending well. Jaden Blue is getting all
the buzz out of Dallas right now. I think you'd
rather have Jaden Blue over Sanders. He's currently dealing with
the injury himself. But I would expect that you actually
have to spend a reasonable draft on Blue where Miles
Sanders could be your last pick.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
Yeah, a lot of those like Miles Sanders looks better
than Javonte Williams and you can already feel like something
is brewing there and from negative to positive on Blue,
I totally get the vibe on this one, Debro, Where
are you going?

Speaker 3 (54:15):
I'm going with Jarquest Hunter and I know Kien Williams
just got the extension. I still think that this is
going to be a split backfield. I don't think the
Rams gonna run every single thing through Kien Williams like
they've done every other year. Blake Horn proved I wasn't
up to that task last year. Jark West Hunter could
be as a player that you look at you stack

(54:35):
up these skill sets side by side with all these
guys in this RAMS backfield. Hunter is the guy that
is built different than Kyrien Williams and Blake korm. He
offers the explosive ability and the explosive upside for the
RAMS rushing attack for a player that look inside the
top twenty four and yards are to contact forer attempt.
In each of the last three seasons in college, they
was there and top twenty two and breakaway a percentage

(54:57):
in two of those three years. So Jark West Hunter
again a player that if he doesn't have any role
when I'm wrong about this, you're cutting him. But if
he has a standalone role from week one and that grows,
and if Williams misses any time, this is the guy
we're ranking as a top twenty four running back, probably
on a weekly basis.

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(56:09):
guys must have across drafts. But who is the one
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switch it up. We're gonna end with Mason Debro. Who
is the one player that we talked about that you
cannot leave your draft without.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
It's easily Tedtoro McMillan, the wide receiver three that is
going to produce as a wide receiver two. And if
he's this year's elite neighbors, he's going to win leagues
for people.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
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dying to know of all the players, who is the
one that you cannot leave your draft without.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
I gotta keep it where Debro's going Round six rookie,
We're gonna go Trevion Henderson and you have an elite
prospect profile. Perfect situation if it wasn't for Amadre being there,
I think this would be a Round three pick. But
Ramadre gives you the discount, and I don't think MD
is relevant halfway through the.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Year, and you guys both picked rookies, So I throw
back out, you know, outside of Gent because he's not
a value. There's a lot of value in the rookie
market with a whole lot of upside. And I would
say based on a lot of what you guys have built,
from Jacoby Myers to even what Mason was doing on
the back half of running backs, there's a lot of
like chalk that's sitting out there. There's some safety plays

(57:23):
that you can protect yourself with the high upside plays. Now,
there's plenty of people that don't care about that, that
don't need Like you know, I don't care about being safe.
I'm gonna take my shots if you're not first, your last.
But I think in proper roster construction, like you should
walk out of drafts with some of those really high
upside plays, but find spots to protect them in. And
you guys made the dictation that you have to have

(57:44):
these high, high upside rookies, and you've backed it up
with some of your draft picks in here that were
some safety plays that protect you Jacoby Myers protects you
Debro As you built through the draft, Mason, you put
running backs in there that have got some serious like
floor plays if it takes Henderson a little bit of time.
So I really like that. But we want to hear
from you guys. What do you guys think?

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Below?

Speaker 1 (58:05):
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