February 27, 2021 • 30 mins
Last week, we focused on the first round of 2021 fantasy drafts. This week, we turn our attention to the (far more intriguing) second round. The obvious picks are gone, so the second round features more bounceback players, rookies, and hunches.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio,
your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice
and speculation and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop
into the show. Now, here's your host, Paul. Welcome to
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Fantasy Football Weekly, a late February edition. I am Paul
Charchy and my co host is Brian Johnson's up. Charch.
It's almost like late April in Minnesota here weatherwise. Wearing
a jacket. Well, that's just because we're used to being
around here now. Because our our January februite brutal forty
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degrees is sweltering, ridiculous, downright, ball me, We're gonna We're
gonna go do some nude sunbathing after this. Um it's
It is an exciting time for both both Minnesotan's and
for those that love fantasy football. Last week we did
had a first round mock draft to see how that
was shaking out. This week decided there's still so many
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good players to talk to, and actually the second round
far more interesting because the first rounds, I'll chalk the
second round is where you get so many such a
huge differential of players and guys that that have way
more upside downside. I'm gonna talk about some of my
picks in the second round that really, had things just
been a little bit different, could have been like top
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three scoring guys this year. And so just I think
the second round has got way way more just real
interest in it than the chalk in the first round. Yeah,
these first two rounds seem way more loaded than past years.
I know, it's really and even going into the third round.
There are guys that you know, got dog in the
second round where you're like they could have been in
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the second round, but there's just not enough draft picks
to go around. Too many good players. I'll just I'll
tip my hand on one of them right now. We
are not drafting in the first two rounds Zekiel Elliott now,
right now it's in his very the very early s
are the middle of the first round. We talked about
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it last week. You and I are off Zeke, and
I know we're not marching to the same tune as
most of the others. Most of the really like Zeke
and they're they're they're doubling down on him coming off
a bad year. We're not. But yeah, by the third round,
you know, at that point that's I'm starting to be
more interested. But still we're not going to take him here.
And it depends who you got on roster, of course,
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because the third round I had contemplated if I didn't
have a running back. They never Yeah, I think that
would be the scenario for me as well. But at
that point I still feel now compelled to go get
Pollard as well, and that blows up my eighth round pick.
So I hate I hate it when I spend an
early round pick that man dates a pick that's still
an important pick for me later. And he's a sexy
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pick for the non zikener to. That's why I gotta
take him in the eighth round. You gotta reach for him.
And because I'd much rather have Pollard in round eight
than Zeke and round two. So somebody like me is
gonna go take Pollard and eight create a problem for
that for that owner. So anyway, let's let's get back
to it. Now. You had the last pick of round one.
You did? Oh? I did? Oh? So I can show
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round Yeah, go ahead. Uh just went Derrick Henry first. Overall,
I started the drafts uh. And then Christian McCaffrey to
Dalvin Cook three, Davante Adams went forth, Travis Kelsey fifth,
Tyreek Kill, Sieguan Barkley at number seven, Alvin Kamar at eight,
Jonathan Taylor, DK Metcalf at ten, and then Nick Chubb
at eleven, and Stefon Diggs rounded out round one. I
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really I had really struggled on that Digs Diggs pick, Like,
what the you know, there are so many good players
still on the board at that point, and I really struggled.
But at the end of the day, I just wanted
to consistency that Stefon Diggs gives, so I went with
Stefon Diggs there, and then you know, in theory, I
have the rap round. I didn't try to potentially to
intentionally marry up any of my second round picks to
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the first round pick. But I don't even think you
have to know. I mean, at this point, you've whole
draft left you can you know, if you go running back,
running back, or wide receiver, wide receiver or tight end,
quarterback or anything you can, you always have time to
make up for you. I don't think we I didn't
really do that either, so but I don't think we
ended up with running back running back with the first
two picks anyway, even though we weren't trying to do that,
and I think none of us would want to do
that going into this season, at least right now. Right
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there's just so many good players in all the other positions. Okay,
So first pick of the second round, I went with
Aaron Jones. He finished his running back five last year
despite a sizeable time share. And so get a little
of this. Derrick Henry four hundred touches last year, Dalvin
Cook three hundred sixty touches, and that was your highest
scoring and second highest scoring running backs. Can I check
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a guess? Yeah? And catch catches and catches and rushes
to nice job to sixty to sixty for Jones, that
was it and he still finishes running back five. You know,
wherever he goes, you know, he's a free agent. He
wants to get paid, and if money is going to talk,
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he's only gonna go to a team that pays them well.
And the only teams that are gonna pay them all
the teams are gonna make him a workhorse. Aaron Jones
gonna land in a workhorse spot. What is you're getting there? Pittsburgh.
You know, Atlanta are two primo landing spots for him.
I'll give you another one, San Francisco. How about Seattle?
If they Chris Carson's a UFA, they decide that they're
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going to spend a running back and they like Aaron
Jones a lot more than Chris Carson, Seattle gets really interesting.
Would Arizona be a possibility? Probably not, right, they guy,
I don't think so. So I think I think they're
gonna just go with the cheap solution that's roster and
Chase Edmonds, who gets to be pretty interesting if they
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don't resign Drake, by the way, and I'm sure we'll
talk about him as the unseasoned. As a free agency
season unfolds, other possible spots for Aaron Jones that aren't
is favorable the Jets Miami a lot of money, I see.
I think Moss Gaskin is pretty good, but Aaron Jones
is better. So maybe in Miami as uh the defending
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champion in our Empire League trying to take down the
whole pot, I'm pretty thin it running back and with
Miles Gaskin as my basically ry one Lord David Johnson,
I do not want anyone going to Miami, but I
feel like they're gonna get it back, either in free
agency or in the draft. So if Jones can be
the fifth highest scoring fantasy back on two hundred sixty touches,
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what happens to me gets three twenty? You know, Now
he's a top three back and maybe the number one
back in Fantasy football, depending if he falls into the
right spot. So that's um, that's Aaron Jones my first
pick of the second round. Who's the second pick of
the second round? I went with Calvin Ridley, who will
be the third wide receiver. No, I'm sorry, the fourth
fifth wide receiver taken. I'm sorry Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill,
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DK Met Cath Stefon digs have gone. But then I
take Calvin Ridley as the fifth wide receiver off the
board in the as a second pick in the second round.
Finished fourth in total PPR points last year, third in
points per game and uh. When Julio went down, Lee
was a target hog. He could still he was still
able to produce without Julio on the field, but shockingly,
he was more productive with Julio on the field on
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a points regame basis. It doesn't. It doesn't matter. The
only thing that really matters might be Matt Ryan, who
were dogging on a couple of weeks ago, rightfully so.
But Calvin Ridley an absolute stuff. He finished with the
most completed air yards in with one thousand. Stefan Diggs
was the only of the receiver with more completed air yards.
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So Calvin Ridley Atlanta is always thrown, always needing to
put up points. I love Calvin Ridley this year and beyond. Yeah, um,
you know there's a scenario here where Matt Ryan gets moved,
but they're gonna be at the top of the draft,
they'll take a good quarterback and they don't. That might be,
you know, that might not be the end of the world.
It would be Rull Wilson or that Prescott or DeShawn
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Watson who knows that the carousel is not even close
to being over recorded. No it's not. And you know
those Atlanta might be a reasonable destination for some of
those guys that have that can control their own destincy
with their no trade clauses, like DeShawn Watson and like
Russell Wilson who have no trade clauses, So maybe that
makes more sense then alright, the third pick of the
second round, I took cam Acres. I believe cam Akers
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will be soundly in the first round in most drafts.
As people start to realize what's coming here. On Thursday,
Sean McVeigh called cam Acres quote and every down back
and quote, a very special player. You sure looked like one.
We're talking about that in a second. What's more, Rams
beat writers do not expect Malcolm Brown back. They're already
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projecting that he will not be on the team. Now
some people are gonna say, yeah, but Sean McVeigh, you know,
he uses a carousel backs running back by committee. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let's remember Todd Gurley. Todd Gurley in t seventeen and
eighteen averaged eighteen carries per game. In seventeen, Gurley was
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Fantasy Football's top scoring running back. In eighteen, he was
Fantasy Football's top scoring running back. Todd Gurley was a
workhorse back for Sean McVeigh because he was good enough
to earn it. Cam Acres, who Sean McVeigh just called
a very special player, is good enough to earn it
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as well. In the final six RAMS games, Acres averaged
twenty two rushes per game for ninety four yards. He
scored five times in those six games. Now, he didn't
catch much, but he can catch. He's not He's just
not brick handed. He's not Adrian Peterson. Now, if you
extrapolate his six final games of the year to a
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full sixteen games, Brian Acres is looking at fifteen hundred
rushing yards another couple hundred receiving yards in thirteen touchdowns.
That would have made cam Acres RB three last year.
And they have Matt Stafford now, a clear upgrade at
quarterback bodes well for everyone in that offense totally. He
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could certainly he's worthy of a first round pick, and
let's probably see it move up and I think I
think he'll be a first round pick before everything is
said and done, Let's go to the fourth pick of
the second round. Receivers are gonna continue to fall off
the board in round two. Uh, but this might not
be the one you're expecting. I think A. J. Brown
deserves to go with the fourth pick second round. Uh
finished tenth among wide receivers in total PPR, points, fifth
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and points per game because he only had a hundred
and six targets. Last year. That is not a lot
that is like thirty most or like he's tied with
people like top twenty, bottom twenty. I should say he
was fourth in yards per route run. Essentially, when given
the ball, he made things happen, especially in the red zone,
where with fewer targets in the red zone, he had
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the same amount of red zone touchdowns seven as Calvin
Ridley and Keenan Allen and more red zone touchdowns and
Darren Waller, Tyree Hill, DK Metcalf, Stephen Diggs and Allen
Robinson who had significantly more targets in the red zone.
So A J. Brown just the beast, he's he's going
into his third year leave and that he's so good
the magic year for wide receivers, and uh, Corey Davis
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and John U. Smith, those twodents combined for twenty four
red zone targets and twelve red zone touchdowns. A new
offensive coordinator in Todd Downing, was a little more past friendly.
And then uh, the previous o c A J. Brown.
If he gets in that hundred and fifty target range
wide receiver one upside without a doubt, Yeah, there's uh.
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And I talked to Todd Downing today on the radio. Yes,
I had as a coincidentally, and we talked about John U.
Johnno as you can imagine, uh and Corey Davis, both
free agents. He um, he loves both guys. You know,
they never coaches never say bad things about their players,
and I you know, I don't expect him to say
anything that was gonna get him in trouble, but um,
I'm sure he'd love to have both guys back if
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he could. I'm excited for John U John Wu because
as the as his former position coach now turned offensive coordinator,
Todd Downing could do a lot for John, so he
could stay John, and John you you could stay, hopefully,
see I hope. So I'm so too. All right, let's
go to and buy the A. J. Brown is great,
and he's good. He's so physical he could easily be
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a goal line receiving target instead. You know, of course,
Derrick Henry is always going to be your number one
goal line option in that offense, but I could I
could see him getting a ton of goal line looks
a J. Brown. A J. Brown might be my number
one wide receiver in dynasty. And if you're in a startup, startup, y, yeah,
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I think I would still I'd still Tyreek Hill. Well,
he said wide receiver, right, h Metcalf. Sorry, I heard
I hired McCaffrey. Um, yeah, DK Metcalf as long as
Russell Wilson's their DK Metcalf might be next. But it's
it's right there, He's right in that conversation, all right.
So the fifth pick of the second round, I took
Austin Ekeler. Now, this is about the same ADP that
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he had last year and obviously lost his season to
a brutal hamstring injury that cost him half of the year.
But remember he's one season moved from fourteen hundred yards,
ninety two receptions and eleven touchdowns, and last year Austin
Ekeler actually improved his yards per carry by half a yard.
The charges offense is gonna hit one in many ways
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in stride because Justin Herbert will have been on the team.
He'll come in as the as the lock starter. They'll
likely have an improved offensive line because it's been bad
for a decade and they gotta they gotta put more
effort into that offensive line. I think they will. Their
new offensive coordinator, though, is what I'm really excited about.
Joe Lombardi. He spent four seasons in New Orleans, making
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Alvin Camara a center piece of this offense. And who's
probably your closest comparable the NFL to Alvin Camara Austin.
And he's built like a house too, right. I mean
it's physically shorter, but more physical. And you know that's
why I still remain very high in Ekeler. I think
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you're gonna be You could probably get him lower than
the fifth pick of the second round, but I think
you'll be glad you took him. Here, let's go to
the sixth pick of the second round receiver again, and uh,
it's time for DeAndre Hopkins to get picked. Pretty much
a first round pick last year, kind of a down
year last year, was still a top ten wide receiver.
There were only ten wide receivers who post five or
more wide receiver one weeks. That's the top twelve receiver.
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And this doesn't include Week seventeen, which you shouldn't be
using if you're playing fantasy football, of course. And uh,
those ten and wide receivers only, uh, Davante Adams had
more wide receiver one weeks than DeAndre Hopkins, who had
eight and Adams had nine, and I was kind of
surprised by that. I didn't think he was that consistent.
So um, Christian Kirk likely gone, not like he was
much of a threat. I think he's a free agent
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this year, but I don't really care. But I'm just
DeAndre Hopkins is pretty sound safe war with still a
ton of upside. How many people have ever regretted drafting
DeAndre Hopkins and not Manning? Like nobody ever? So middle
the second round makes a lot of sense, like see
Kyler Murray take another step in his progression as a
pro quarterback. So yeah, Hopkins uh probably be better off
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than last year. What would hope? We're halfway through the
second round. Let's take a break. When we come back,
let's go through picks seven through twelve. I know that
you're probably listening thinking where is this particular guy. Well,
he could be coming up next, along with the first
appearance of some rookies coming up. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Paul Charchie and Brian Johnson with you. We're working away
through the second round of our mock draft. If you
missed the first round that was last week, obviously you
can podcast that. Go get the first round. The players
we took in there in the first round way more chalk.
You know, Derrick Henry When and Christian McCaffrey and Dalvin
Cook and you know all the you know, all the
usual names. Second round is just so much more intriguing,
so many more different ways to approach players. In the
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second round. We gave you the first six picks in
the first segment. Let's talk about picks seven through twelve.
I am going with Michael Thomas at pick seven. I
remember him, remember him right? This is last season's ADP.
He was pick five of the first round, pick five overall. Obviously,
everything pretty much went wrong for him, and from an
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injury standpoint last season, um came back towards the end
of the year. And it goes without saying that Michael
Thomas is really, really good. He's one year removed from
being by far the highest scoring fantasy receiver in the league,
just one year removed, like targets a game basically guarante
I think it was seventeen hundred receiving yards and yes, okay,
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so the quarterback though, is a lot of why he's
where he is right now. Although Drew Brees has not
filed his retirement papers, yet for whatever reason, he hasn't
done it yet. So, uh, let's say the worst case
scenario is Taysom Hill, that they just got to go Worth,
go to Worth Taysom Hill. So let's look at the
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four games Michael Thomas played with Taysom Hill. If that's
our worst case scenario and not either right, he was
dragging one leg along. His average game under Taysom Hill
was eight receptions eighties six yards. Now, he didn't score
because Taysom Hills just wasn't that politive a passer, but
still eight receptions for eighty six yards. Extrapolate that to
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six team games and Michael Thomas's Taysom Hill games would
have stretched out into making him wide receiver two in
receptions and wide receiver five yards and the touchdowns would
come at least to some degree. So he would have
been sitting on last year and when everything went wrong
in Taysom Hills quarterback, he still would have been a
fantasy producer. The Saints are desirable landing spot for a
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lot of elite quarterbacks like Russell Williams, Wilson and Deshaun Watson.
These these are landing places they'll they will go because
this is a Super Bowl ready team. Shawn Watson goes. God,
think of it that that's got a Bault Thomas into
the first round. Yeah, he's the third wide receiver after
Adams and Hill. At that point, you could you could
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definitely get there. I'm tall king Thomas at pick seven
of the second round. All right, it's pick eight of
the second round. Who are you taking? All right, it's
a rookie. Time a signed for the first rookie to
get drafted. And uh, this isn't a This isn't a
clear cut decision. If I thought it would be a
couple of weeks ago. And that's Naji Harris. Are a
couple of the running backs. Will probably talk about at
least one of them and the remainder of this podcast.
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But I'm still gonna go with Naji Harris. Uh, six
to two thirty. Just an absolute monster. But he is.
But he's not just a North South bruiser. But he
can juke, he can hurdle, he can do it all
like like a Marshall falk Ladanian Thomason's skill set in
that regard, I think the better comparable Sae Kwon Barkley,
who's like bigger back with unbelievable flexibility and balance. One
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Compy light two. Is Matt Forte a bigger Matt Forte
in his prime. Because Naji Harris is a very good
pass catcher, he is a very good past so he's
got bell cow potential written all all over him. Of course,
landing spot matters. We don't know where that is until
the draft occurs in a couple of months. But Pittsburgh
is also in listed in him. They've visited with him,
and uh, it makes sense that they're like in the
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mid twenties. That would be a good time to take Nagy.
But uh, the most rushing touchdowns in college football as
you're just rushing twenty six and thirteen games. If he
gets touches a game, he'll live up to this a
DP and maybe even around one a DP. You cracked
the seal at rookie running backs, and pick eight of
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the second round, I went with the other the you
know it's there's a one A and one B in
college running backs, rocky running backs. Pick nine, I took
Travis E. T N from Clemson. He's the leading rusher
at a CC history five thousand rushing yards. Uh, he
is I think Harris. I think you took the right guy.
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From a fantasy football standpoint, I think Harris is a
better prospect than E. T N. But year one in
year one and not knowing where they're gonna land. Um,
but I love Harris is a goal line back. I
think E. T N can be a goal line back,
but I don't know for sure because he's got that
leaner build. He's very muscular on that build, but it
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is a leaner build. He's so fast, he is your
he is a he's in North South especially. E t
N is a freaking track star. The amazing acceleration. He's
got good balance, so you know, a lot of times
to find track stars that just they can't take a hit,
they can't bounce off anybody, they can't navigate traffic. He
can do all of that stuff. Surprising strength despite the
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lean build that I mentioned before. He can break some
tackles and he has good hands, not great hands, good hands.
I think Harris has better hands too. So I've got
him next at as the ninth pick. We'll find out
where he goes and if that gets validated. I think
Harris is a better chance of going in the first
round than E. T N does, but E t N
should go early to mid second round. I believe. Now
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I'm not there yet. We're not gonna He's gonna get
mentioned in our round to mock here. But Javonte Williams
at A North Carolina is getting some steam as the
should be the RB one among rookies. But we'll see
about that. Yeah, I like, I like the Harris et
N one A one B. Like you said, alright, no
more rookies for me. We were at the tenth pick.
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I believe right for second pick and uh more, wide
receiver is gonna fall off. There's about only a couple
very elite ones left, and in his second year, Justin
Jefferson is one of those wide receivers. I mentioned the
completed air yards earlier when talking about Calvin Ridley. Justin
Jefferson as a rookie was fourth in that regard, only
behind Ridley, Digs and Allen Robinson. Just the absolute home
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run pick by the Vikings. Probably one of my favorite
clips of twenty two is Draft night. They weren't in
the war room together because that was peak quarantine, of course,
but when you had Zimmer and Spielman and whatever else
you know, in the zoom call and when the Eagles
took Jalen Reagor and their eyes and the Vikings started cheering.
That was just like total fantasy football, the anti snife.
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I think gonna get sniped and you don't, and you're
just so excited and uh, man did the Vikings have
that one figured out? Holy cow? Uh? Jeff com historic
season for rookie receivers, breaking uh breaking the modern day
yardage record for rookie receivers in a season, just the
complete package. I don't really think I need to justify
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the pick anymore than that Justin Jefferson should be a
luck you took him before Adam Feeling, and Feeling was
more of the touchdown guy this year. But I think
you're making the assumption that jeff Justin Jefferson's on a
early trajectory that makes him better than Feeling. Yeah, and
feeling is really good. Yeah, alright. My final pick of
the second round was Miles Sanders, and I had George
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Kettle here, and I had planned on taking Kittle, and
then in the back of my mind and I'm like,
you know what, let me just dig a little more
into Sanders season and refresh my memory on Sanders season,
and I ended up I ended up changing it back
to Sanders. Um, here's why he finished. He's finished so
far as running back twenty and running twenty two the
last two years. That puts him right about where I'm
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picking him here anyway. Um, but he's so many things
have gone wrong for him and he's still finished his
twenty and twenty two. He is at injuries, running back
by committee issues, offensive line injuries and injuries to himself,
and met early inconsistent quarterbacking. Many of those things should
get solved this offseason for Miles Sanders. He averaged five
point three yards per carry last year running behind a
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battered backup late in offensive line. Now, how did he
fair in Jalen Hurts games? And this was where I
really got myself on board with Miles Sanders in this spot.
His average game in Jalen Hurts starts was eighty rushing yards,
five yards per carry, one touchdown per game, three catches,
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twenty five receiving yards. Those are good numbers. If I
extrapolate Sanders Jalen Hurts games to a full season, he
comes out to seventeen hundred total yards in six team touchdowns.
That would have put him behind only Derrick Henry and
Dalvin Cook. That's just I'm like, oh man, all I
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gotta do is get him to be healthy. So now,
if you look forward to they have a new head coach,
Nick Serrani, who came from Indianapolis where he was the
offensive for Ordinary Sirani helped unlock the big season from
Jonathan Taylor, and you know, downside, Saronni used a running
back by committee approach and Andy that will probably be
the case here. I don't think Sanders is gonna turn
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to a three sixty carry guy, but I could see
an uptick happening here. Jonathan Taylor did get workhorse style
numbers at the end of the year, and maybe we're
going to see more of that from Isles Sanders. And
I was rebably nobody else on on that roster that
deserves more than like three to five touches a game. Yeah,
with you and they had. The hate for Sanders has
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gone on too long. He's a way better player than
his numbers showed. You know, at the end of the day,
I might regret not going Kittle here, but I think
you're the there's You're in the second to last pick
in the second round. You still could get Kittles later
if you don't take Darren Waller, and that that was
the other thing that in my mind is I can
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I'm just as happy with Darren Waller Zama George Kettle.
So I'm not taking Kettle here, and I'm not so
convinced I would take Kiddle over Waller right now, because
when parks in with the San Francisco quarterback is gonna
be if there's if there's a team that's gonna make
a big move at quarterback. Still, it feels like that's
the one, alright, last pick of the second round, last
wee pick of the second round. I went DeAndre Swift.
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Of course there he could have been the first pick
of the third round. But I would still take Swift
just if I wanted to rank the ADPs of these guys.
Ten total touchdowns in his rookie year, despite only playing
thirteen games, only touched the ball a hundred and sixty times.
That's rushes end receptions. Again, Uh, you'd like he's gonna
see at least a hundred more touches, one would think,
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you would hope. So, Uh, he's a great receiving back.
He was top ten in receptions among running acts. UH.
New head coach Dan Campbell looks to be a very
run friendly type of guy, who knows. I know Adrian
Peterson wants to play forever, but I'm not too concerned
about him. I don't like to change a quarterback for Detroit,
but when DeAndre Swift average over four and a half
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yards per carry when he was getting the ball, he
was making things happen. And I hope to god he
gets two fifty touches in his second year because he
will he will live up to this a DP. Yeah. Um,
The Lions defense has been so bad for so long.
I worried that much of their offseason priority is going
to be on the defensive side of the ball because
they need help everywhere. All the playmakers too, not like
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Kenny Golladay was playing. But I think they well, but
will they We'll find out. Franchise tag for Golliday is
in play. They can afford it, so I know there
is a scenario here where I where you know they
keep Golliday and you know they need to get I
want the off have as many good playmakers they can.
Losing Golladay would not help losing losing Barbon Jones would
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not help. What's the Marvin Jones stat I heard? I
think it was this the only player in the NFL.
This is a bar bet right here. The only player
in the NFL with nine receiving touchdowns in four straight
years the last four years. I believe it. I remember
I pulled a somewhat obscure stat where he was on
the list of just then other elite guys, like guys
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we've talked about in the first two rounds and this
this draft. Yeah, he's right up there. If you'd asked
me cold, if I didn't know this name, the only
receiver with nine or more touchdowns the last four years,
I'd have been there a long time before he came
up with Marvin Jones, A long time. It's a it
is a tricky one, all right. There you go our
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not wait Sanders. I think he did right. It was
it was really close. He'll be going in the third
round in one quarterback weeks and remember I agree with it,
but he will be. No. I kind of do agree
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with it. The I think people are gonna have that
Super Bowl is going to hunt some people, and that's
such an anomaly, such an anomaly for entered no offensive
line yet don't even I don't want to remember anything
about that Super Bowl. I'm not like I'm a Chiefe fan.
I was. Yeah, the you that from your memory, you know,
one of the big takeaways from last year. So oftentimes
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guys like you and me, Brian and many of our
listeners especially are offseason listeners. People that are listening to
this podcasts in February. We think we're a lot smarter
than the rest of the world, and we're gonna find
quarterbacks late that didn't happen this year. I mean, for
the most part, those late mid to late round quarterbacks
didn't fare particularly well, and the big name guys did
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what they were supposed to do. So it was last
year at least was a good year to just take
your bankable quarterback in the early mid rounds and not
assume that your you know, your prize, the late round
quarterback is going to end up being as good as
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Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio,
your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice
and speculation and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop
into the show. Now, here's your host, Paul. Welcome to
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Fantasy Football Weekly, a late February edition. I am Paul
Charchy and my co host is Brian Johnson's up. Charch.
It's almost like late April in Minnesota here weatherwise. Wearing
a jacket. Well, that's just because we're used to being
around here now. Because our our January februite brutal forty
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degrees is sweltering, ridiculous, downright, ball me, We're gonna We're
gonna go do some nude sunbathing after this. Um it's
It is an exciting time for both both Minnesotan's and
for those that love fantasy football. Last week we did
had a first round mock draft to see how that
was shaking out. This week decided there's still so many
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good players to talk to, and actually the second round
far more interesting because the first rounds, I'll chalk the
second round is where you get so many such a
huge differential of players and guys that that have way
more upside downside. I'm gonna talk about some of my
picks in the second round that really, had things just
been a little bit different, could have been like top
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three scoring guys this year. And so just I think
the second round has got way way more just real
interest in it than the chalk in the first round. Yeah,
these first two rounds seem way more loaded than past years.
I know, it's really and even going into the third round.
There are guys that you know, got dog in the
second round where you're like they could have been in
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the second round, but there's just not enough draft picks
to go around. Too many good players. I'll just I'll
tip my hand on one of them right now. We
are not drafting in the first two rounds Zekiel Elliott now,
right now it's in his very the very early s
are the middle of the first round. We talked about
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it last week. You and I are off Zeke, and
I know we're not marching to the same tune as
most of the others. Most of the really like Zeke
and they're they're they're doubling down on him coming off
a bad year. We're not. But yeah, by the third round,
you know, at that point that's I'm starting to be
more interested. But still we're not going to take him here.
And it depends who you got on roster, of course,
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because the third round I had contemplated if I didn't
have a running back. They never Yeah, I think that
would be the scenario for me as well. But at
that point I still feel now compelled to go get
Pollard as well, and that blows up my eighth round pick.
So I hate I hate it when I spend an
early round pick that man dates a pick that's still
an important pick for me later. And he's a sexy
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pick for the non zikener to. That's why I gotta
take him in the eighth round. You gotta reach for him.
And because I'd much rather have Pollard in round eight
than Zeke and round two. So somebody like me is
gonna go take Pollard and eight create a problem for
that for that owner. So anyway, let's let's get back
to it. Now. You had the last pick of round one.
You did? Oh? I did? Oh? So I can show
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round Yeah, go ahead. Uh just went Derrick Henry first. Overall,
I started the drafts uh. And then Christian McCaffrey to
Dalvin Cook three, Davante Adams went forth, Travis Kelsey fifth,
Tyreek Kill, Sieguan Barkley at number seven, Alvin Kamar at eight,
Jonathan Taylor, DK Metcalf at ten, and then Nick Chubb
at eleven, and Stefon Diggs rounded out round one. I
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really I had really struggled on that Digs Diggs pick, Like,
what the you know, there are so many good players
still on the board at that point, and I really struggled.
But at the end of the day, I just wanted
to consistency that Stefon Diggs gives, so I went with
Stefon Diggs there, and then you know, in theory, I
have the rap round. I didn't try to potentially to
intentionally marry up any of my second round picks to
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the first round pick. But I don't even think you
have to know. I mean, at this point, you've whole
draft left you can you know, if you go running back,
running back, or wide receiver, wide receiver or tight end,
quarterback or anything you can, you always have time to
make up for you. I don't think we I didn't
really do that either, so but I don't think we
ended up with running back running back with the first
two picks anyway, even though we weren't trying to do that,
and I think none of us would want to do
that going into this season, at least right now. Right
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there's just so many good players in all the other positions. Okay,
So first pick of the second round, I went with
Aaron Jones. He finished his running back five last year
despite a sizeable time share. And so get a little
of this. Derrick Henry four hundred touches last year, Dalvin
Cook three hundred sixty touches, and that was your highest
scoring and second highest scoring running backs. Can I check
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a guess? Yeah? And catch catches and catches and rushes
to nice job to sixty to sixty for Jones, that
was it and he still finishes running back five. You know,
wherever he goes, you know, he's a free agent. He
wants to get paid, and if money is going to talk,
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he's only gonna go to a team that pays them well.
And the only teams that are gonna pay them all
the teams are gonna make him a workhorse. Aaron Jones
gonna land in a workhorse spot. What is you're getting there? Pittsburgh.
You know, Atlanta are two primo landing spots for him.
I'll give you another one, San Francisco. How about Seattle?
If they Chris Carson's a UFA, they decide that they're
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going to spend a running back and they like Aaron
Jones a lot more than Chris Carson, Seattle gets really interesting.
Would Arizona be a possibility? Probably not, right, they guy,
I don't think so. So I think I think they're
gonna just go with the cheap solution that's roster and
Chase Edmonds, who gets to be pretty interesting if they
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don't resign Drake, by the way, and I'm sure we'll
talk about him as the unseasoned. As a free agency
season unfolds, other possible spots for Aaron Jones that aren't
is favorable the Jets Miami a lot of money, I see.
I think Moss Gaskin is pretty good, but Aaron Jones
is better. So maybe in Miami as uh the defending
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champion in our Empire League trying to take down the
whole pot, I'm pretty thin it running back and with
Miles Gaskin as my basically ry one Lord David Johnson,
I do not want anyone going to Miami, but I
feel like they're gonna get it back, either in free
agency or in the draft. So if Jones can be
the fifth highest scoring fantasy back on two hundred sixty touches,
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what happens to me gets three twenty? You know, Now
he's a top three back and maybe the number one
back in Fantasy football, depending if he falls into the
right spot. So that's um, that's Aaron Jones my first
pick of the second round. Who's the second pick of
the second round? I went with Calvin Ridley, who will
be the third wide receiver. No, I'm sorry, the fourth
fifth wide receiver taken. I'm sorry Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill,
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DK Met Cath Stefon digs have gone. But then I
take Calvin Ridley as the fifth wide receiver off the
board in the as a second pick in the second round.
Finished fourth in total PPR points last year, third in
points per game and uh. When Julio went down, Lee
was a target hog. He could still he was still
able to produce without Julio on the field, but shockingly,
he was more productive with Julio on the field on
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a points regame basis. It doesn't. It doesn't matter. The
only thing that really matters might be Matt Ryan, who
were dogging on a couple of weeks ago, rightfully so.
But Calvin Ridley an absolute stuff. He finished with the
most completed air yards in with one thousand. Stefan Diggs
was the only of the receiver with more completed air yards.
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So Calvin Ridley Atlanta is always thrown, always needing to
put up points. I love Calvin Ridley this year and beyond. Yeah, um,
you know there's a scenario here where Matt Ryan gets moved,
but they're gonna be at the top of the draft,
they'll take a good quarterback and they don't. That might be,
you know, that might not be the end of the world.
It would be Rull Wilson or that Prescott or DeShawn
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Watson who knows that the carousel is not even close
to being over recorded. No it's not. And you know
those Atlanta might be a reasonable destination for some of
those guys that have that can control their own destincy
with their no trade clauses, like DeShawn Watson and like
Russell Wilson who have no trade clauses, So maybe that
makes more sense then alright, the third pick of the
second round, I took cam Acres. I believe cam Akers
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will be soundly in the first round in most drafts.
As people start to realize what's coming here. On Thursday,
Sean McVeigh called cam Acres quote and every down back
and quote, a very special player. You sure looked like one.
We're talking about that in a second. What's more, Rams
beat writers do not expect Malcolm Brown back. They're already
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projecting that he will not be on the team. Now
some people are gonna say, yeah, but Sean McVeigh, you know,
he uses a carousel backs running back by committee. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let's remember Todd Gurley. Todd Gurley in t seventeen and
eighteen averaged eighteen carries per game. In seventeen, Gurley was
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Fantasy Football's top scoring running back. In eighteen, he was
Fantasy Football's top scoring running back. Todd Gurley was a
workhorse back for Sean McVeigh because he was good enough
to earn it. Cam Acres, who Sean McVeigh just called
a very special player, is good enough to earn it
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as well. In the final six RAMS games, Acres averaged
twenty two rushes per game for ninety four yards. He
scored five times in those six games. Now, he didn't
catch much, but he can catch. He's not He's just
not brick handed. He's not Adrian Peterson. Now, if you
extrapolate his six final games of the year to a
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full sixteen games, Brian Acres is looking at fifteen hundred
rushing yards another couple hundred receiving yards in thirteen touchdowns.
That would have made cam Acres RB three last year.
And they have Matt Stafford now, a clear upgrade at
quarterback bodes well for everyone in that offense totally. He
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could certainly he's worthy of a first round pick, and
let's probably see it move up and I think I
think he'll be a first round pick before everything is
said and done, Let's go to the fourth pick of
the second round. Receivers are gonna continue to fall off
the board in round two. Uh, but this might not
be the one you're expecting. I think A. J. Brown
deserves to go with the fourth pick second round. Uh
finished tenth among wide receivers in total PPR, points, fifth
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and points per game because he only had a hundred
and six targets. Last year. That is not a lot
that is like thirty most or like he's tied with
people like top twenty, bottom twenty. I should say he
was fourth in yards per route run. Essentially, when given
the ball, he made things happen, especially in the red zone,
where with fewer targets in the red zone, he had
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the same amount of red zone touchdowns seven as Calvin
Ridley and Keenan Allen and more red zone touchdowns and
Darren Waller, Tyree Hill, DK Metcalf, Stephen Diggs and Allen
Robinson who had significantly more targets in the red zone.
So A J. Brown just the beast, he's he's going
into his third year leave and that he's so good
the magic year for wide receivers, and uh, Corey Davis
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and John U. Smith, those twodents combined for twenty four
red zone targets and twelve red zone touchdowns. A new
offensive coordinator in Todd Downing, was a little more past friendly.
And then uh, the previous o c A J. Brown.
If he gets in that hundred and fifty target range
wide receiver one upside without a doubt, Yeah, there's uh.
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And I talked to Todd Downing today on the radio. Yes,
I had as a coincidentally, and we talked about John U.
Johnno as you can imagine, uh and Corey Davis, both
free agents. He um, he loves both guys. You know,
they never coaches never say bad things about their players,
and I you know, I don't expect him to say
anything that was gonna get him in trouble, but um,
I'm sure he'd love to have both guys back if
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he could. I'm excited for John U John Wu because
as the as his former position coach now turned offensive coordinator,
Todd Downing could do a lot for John, so he
could stay John, and John you you could stay, hopefully,
see I hope. So I'm so too. All right, let's
go to and buy the A. J. Brown is great,
and he's good. He's so physical he could easily be
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a goal line receiving target instead. You know, of course,
Derrick Henry is always going to be your number one
goal line option in that offense, but I could I
could see him getting a ton of goal line looks
a J. Brown. A J. Brown might be my number
one wide receiver in dynasty. And if you're in a startup, startup, y, yeah,
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I think I would still I'd still Tyreek Hill. Well,
he said wide receiver, right, h Metcalf. Sorry, I heard
I hired McCaffrey. Um, yeah, DK Metcalf as long as
Russell Wilson's their DK Metcalf might be next. But it's
it's right there, He's right in that conversation, all right.
So the fifth pick of the second round, I took
Austin Ekeler. Now, this is about the same ADP that
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he had last year and obviously lost his season to
a brutal hamstring injury that cost him half of the year.
But remember he's one season moved from fourteen hundred yards,
ninety two receptions and eleven touchdowns, and last year Austin
Ekeler actually improved his yards per carry by half a yard.
The charges offense is gonna hit one in many ways
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in stride because Justin Herbert will have been on the team.
He'll come in as the as the lock starter. They'll
likely have an improved offensive line because it's been bad
for a decade and they gotta they gotta put more
effort into that offensive line. I think they will. Their
new offensive coordinator, though, is what I'm really excited about.
Joe Lombardi. He spent four seasons in New Orleans, making
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Alvin Camara a center piece of this offense. And who's
probably your closest comparable the NFL to Alvin Camara Austin.
And he's built like a house too, right. I mean
it's physically shorter, but more physical. And you know that's
why I still remain very high in Ekeler. I think
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you're gonna be You could probably get him lower than
the fifth pick of the second round, but I think
you'll be glad you took him. Here, let's go to
the sixth pick of the second round receiver again, and uh,
it's time for DeAndre Hopkins to get picked. Pretty much
a first round pick last year, kind of a down
year last year, was still a top ten wide receiver.
There were only ten wide receivers who post five or
more wide receiver one weeks. That's the top twelve receiver.
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And this doesn't include Week seventeen, which you shouldn't be
using if you're playing fantasy football, of course. And uh,
those ten and wide receivers only, uh, Davante Adams had
more wide receiver one weeks than DeAndre Hopkins, who had
eight and Adams had nine, and I was kind of
surprised by that. I didn't think he was that consistent.
So um, Christian Kirk likely gone, not like he was
much of a threat. I think he's a free agent
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this year, but I don't really care. But I'm just
DeAndre Hopkins is pretty sound safe war with still a
ton of upside. How many people have ever regretted drafting
DeAndre Hopkins and not Manning? Like nobody ever? So middle
the second round makes a lot of sense, like see
Kyler Murray take another step in his progression as a
pro quarterback. So yeah, Hopkins uh probably be better off
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than last year. What would hope? We're halfway through the
second round. Let's take a break. When we come back,
let's go through picks seven through twelve. I know that
you're probably listening thinking where is this particular guy. Well,
he could be coming up next, along with the first
appearance of some rookies coming up. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Paul Charchie and Brian Johnson with you. We're working away
through the second round of our mock draft. If you
missed the first round that was last week, obviously you
can podcast that. Go get the first round. The players
we took in there in the first round way more chalk.
You know, Derrick Henry When and Christian McCaffrey and Dalvin
Cook and you know all the you know, all the
usual names. Second round is just so much more intriguing,
so many more different ways to approach players. In the
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second round. We gave you the first six picks in
the first segment. Let's talk about picks seven through twelve.
I am going with Michael Thomas at pick seven. I
remember him, remember him right? This is last season's ADP.
He was pick five of the first round, pick five overall. Obviously,
everything pretty much went wrong for him, and from an
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injury standpoint last season, um came back towards the end
of the year. And it goes without saying that Michael
Thomas is really, really good. He's one year removed from
being by far the highest scoring fantasy receiver in the league,
just one year removed, like targets a game basically guarante
I think it was seventeen hundred receiving yards and yes, okay,
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so the quarterback though, is a lot of why he's
where he is right now. Although Drew Brees has not
filed his retirement papers, yet for whatever reason, he hasn't
done it yet. So, uh, let's say the worst case
scenario is Taysom Hill, that they just got to go Worth,
go to Worth Taysom Hill. So let's look at the
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four games Michael Thomas played with Taysom Hill. If that's
our worst case scenario and not either right, he was
dragging one leg along. His average game under Taysom Hill
was eight receptions eighties six yards. Now, he didn't score
because Taysom Hills just wasn't that politive a passer, but
still eight receptions for eighty six yards. Extrapolate that to
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six team games and Michael Thomas's Taysom Hill games would
have stretched out into making him wide receiver two in
receptions and wide receiver five yards and the touchdowns would
come at least to some degree. So he would have
been sitting on last year and when everything went wrong
in Taysom Hills quarterback, he still would have been a
fantasy producer. The Saints are desirable landing spot for a
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lot of elite quarterbacks like Russell Williams, Wilson and Deshaun Watson.
These these are landing places they'll they will go because
this is a Super Bowl ready team. Shawn Watson goes. God,
think of it that that's got a Bault Thomas into
the first round. Yeah, he's the third wide receiver after
Adams and Hill. At that point, you could you could
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definitely get there. I'm tall king Thomas at pick seven
of the second round. All right, it's pick eight of
the second round. Who are you taking? All right, it's
a rookie. Time a signed for the first rookie to
get drafted. And uh, this isn't a This isn't a
clear cut decision. If I thought it would be a
couple of weeks ago. And that's Naji Harris. Are a
couple of the running backs. Will probably talk about at
least one of them and the remainder of this podcast.
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But I'm still gonna go with Naji Harris. Uh, six
to two thirty. Just an absolute monster. But he is.
But he's not just a North South bruiser. But he
can juke, he can hurdle, he can do it all
like like a Marshall falk Ladanian Thomason's skill set in
that regard, I think the better comparable Sae Kwon Barkley,
who's like bigger back with unbelievable flexibility and balance. One
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Compy light two. Is Matt Forte a bigger Matt Forte
in his prime. Because Naji Harris is a very good
pass catcher, he is a very good past so he's
got bell cow potential written all all over him. Of course,
landing spot matters. We don't know where that is until
the draft occurs in a couple of months. But Pittsburgh
is also in listed in him. They've visited with him,
and uh, it makes sense that they're like in the
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mid twenties. That would be a good time to take Nagy.
But uh, the most rushing touchdowns in college football as
you're just rushing twenty six and thirteen games. If he
gets touches a game, he'll live up to this a
DP and maybe even around one a DP. You cracked
the seal at rookie running backs, and pick eight of
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the second round, I went with the other the you
know it's there's a one A and one B in
college running backs, rocky running backs. Pick nine, I took
Travis E. T N from Clemson. He's the leading rusher
at a CC history five thousand rushing yards. Uh, he
is I think Harris. I think you took the right guy.
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From a fantasy football standpoint, I think Harris is a
better prospect than E. T N. But year one in
year one and not knowing where they're gonna land. Um,
but I love Harris is a goal line back. I
think E. T N can be a goal line back,
but I don't know for sure because he's got that
leaner build. He's very muscular on that build, but it
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is a leaner build. He's so fast, he is your
he is a he's in North South especially. E t
N is a freaking track star. The amazing acceleration. He's
got good balance, so you know, a lot of times
to find track stars that just they can't take a hit,
they can't bounce off anybody, they can't navigate traffic. He
can do all of that stuff. Surprising strength despite the
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lean build that I mentioned before. He can break some
tackles and he has good hands, not great hands, good hands.
I think Harris has better hands too. So I've got
him next at as the ninth pick. We'll find out
where he goes and if that gets validated. I think
Harris is a better chance of going in the first
round than E. T N does, but E t N
should go early to mid second round. I believe. Now
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I'm not there yet. We're not gonna He's gonna get
mentioned in our round to mock here. But Javonte Williams
at A North Carolina is getting some steam as the
should be the RB one among rookies. But we'll see
about that. Yeah, I like, I like the Harris et
N one A one B. Like you said, alright, no
more rookies for me. We were at the tenth pick.
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I believe right for second pick and uh more, wide
receiver is gonna fall off. There's about only a couple
very elite ones left, and in his second year, Justin
Jefferson is one of those wide receivers. I mentioned the
completed air yards earlier when talking about Calvin Ridley. Justin
Jefferson as a rookie was fourth in that regard, only
behind Ridley, Digs and Allen Robinson. Just the absolute home
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run pick by the Vikings. Probably one of my favorite
clips of twenty two is Draft night. They weren't in
the war room together because that was peak quarantine, of course,
but when you had Zimmer and Spielman and whatever else
you know, in the zoom call and when the Eagles
took Jalen Reagor and their eyes and the Vikings started cheering.
That was just like total fantasy football, the anti snife.
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I think gonna get sniped and you don't, and you're
just so excited and uh, man did the Vikings have
that one figured out? Holy cow? Uh? Jeff com historic
season for rookie receivers, breaking uh breaking the modern day
yardage record for rookie receivers in a season, just the
complete package. I don't really think I need to justify
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the pick anymore than that Justin Jefferson should be a
luck you took him before Adam Feeling, and Feeling was
more of the touchdown guy this year. But I think
you're making the assumption that jeff Justin Jefferson's on a
early trajectory that makes him better than Feeling. Yeah, and
feeling is really good. Yeah, alright. My final pick of
the second round was Miles Sanders, and I had George
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Kettle here, and I had planned on taking Kittle, and
then in the back of my mind and I'm like,
you know what, let me just dig a little more
into Sanders season and refresh my memory on Sanders season,
and I ended up I ended up changing it back
to Sanders. Um, here's why he finished. He's finished so
far as running back twenty and running twenty two the
last two years. That puts him right about where I'm
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picking him here anyway. Um, but he's so many things
have gone wrong for him and he's still finished his
twenty and twenty two. He is at injuries, running back
by committee issues, offensive line injuries and injuries to himself,
and met early inconsistent quarterbacking. Many of those things should
get solved this offseason for Miles Sanders. He averaged five
point three yards per carry last year running behind a
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battered backup late in offensive line. Now, how did he
fair in Jalen Hurts games? And this was where I
really got myself on board with Miles Sanders in this spot.
His average game in Jalen Hurts starts was eighty rushing yards,
five yards per carry, one touchdown per game, three catches,
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twenty five receiving yards. Those are good numbers. If I
extrapolate Sanders Jalen Hurts games to a full season, he
comes out to seventeen hundred total yards in six team touchdowns.
That would have put him behind only Derrick Henry and
Dalvin Cook. That's just I'm like, oh man, all I
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gotta do is get him to be healthy. So now,
if you look forward to they have a new head coach,
Nick Serrani, who came from Indianapolis where he was the
offensive for Ordinary Sirani helped unlock the big season from
Jonathan Taylor, and you know, downside, Saronni used a running
back by committee approach and Andy that will probably be
the case here. I don't think Sanders is gonna turn
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to a three sixty carry guy, but I could see
an uptick happening here. Jonathan Taylor did get workhorse style
numbers at the end of the year, and maybe we're
going to see more of that from Isles Sanders. And
I was rebably nobody else on on that roster that
deserves more than like three to five touches a game. Yeah,
with you and they had. The hate for Sanders has
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gone on too long. He's a way better player than
his numbers showed. You know, at the end of the day,
I might regret not going Kittle here, but I think
you're the there's You're in the second to last pick
in the second round. You still could get Kittles later
if you don't take Darren Waller, and that that was
the other thing that in my mind is I can
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I'm just as happy with Darren Waller Zama George Kettle.
So I'm not taking Kettle here, and I'm not so
convinced I would take Kiddle over Waller right now, because
when parks in with the San Francisco quarterback is gonna
be if there's if there's a team that's gonna make
a big move at quarterback. Still, it feels like that's
the one, alright, last pick of the second round, last
wee pick of the second round. I went DeAndre Swift.
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Of course there he could have been the first pick
of the third round. But I would still take Swift
just if I wanted to rank the ADPs of these guys.
Ten total touchdowns in his rookie year, despite only playing
thirteen games, only touched the ball a hundred and sixty times.
That's rushes end receptions. Again, Uh, you'd like he's gonna
see at least a hundred more touches, one would think,
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you would hope. So, Uh, he's a great receiving back.
He was top ten in receptions among running acts. UH.
New head coach Dan Campbell looks to be a very
run friendly type of guy, who knows. I know Adrian
Peterson wants to play forever, but I'm not too concerned
about him. I don't like to change a quarterback for Detroit,
but when DeAndre Swift average over four and a half
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yards per carry when he was getting the ball, he
was making things happen. And I hope to god he
gets two fifty touches in his second year because he
will he will live up to this a DP. Yeah. Um,
The Lions defense has been so bad for so long.
I worried that much of their offseason priority is going
to be on the defensive side of the ball because
they need help everywhere. All the playmakers too, not like
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Kenny Golladay was playing. But I think they well, but
will they We'll find out. Franchise tag for Golliday is
in play. They can afford it, so I know there
is a scenario here where I where you know they
keep Golliday and you know they need to get I
want the off have as many good playmakers they can.
Losing Golladay would not help losing losing Barbon Jones would
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not help. What's the Marvin Jones stat I heard? I
think it was this the only player in the NFL.
This is a bar bet right here. The only player
in the NFL with nine receiving touchdowns in four straight
years the last four years. I believe it. I remember
I pulled a somewhat obscure stat where he was on
the list of just then other elite guys, like guys
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we've talked about in the first two rounds and this
this draft. Yeah, he's right up there. If you'd asked
me cold, if I didn't know this name, the only
receiver with nine or more touchdowns the last four years,
I'd have been there a long time before he came
up with Marvin Jones, A long time. It's a it
is a tricky one, all right. There you go our
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first two rounds in the books, we started touching on rookies.
We're gonna talk a lot more rookies as the draft
gets closer and closer. We encourage you to continue listening
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chat with you via Twitter more of this, you know,
more in the off season and where in season when
(28:00):
we're running a thousand miles an hour. So if here
are things that you like, you agree with, disagree with.
Who did we miss? We talked about Kittle, We talked
about Ezekiel Elliott. Guys we did not take through two rounds.
Darren Waller didn't go through two rounds. Um, we'd love
to hear from you on those things as well. Guy
named Patrick Mahomes. I had my homes, I had my
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homes listed you and I did the straft via via
shared spreadsheet. I had his name in one of these
picks ones I went, you know, I typed in Mahomes No, no, Kiddle,
not wait Sanders. I think he did right. It was
it was really close. He'll be going in the third
round in one quarterback weeks and remember I agree with it,
but he will be. No. I kind of do agree
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with it. The I think people are gonna have that
Super Bowl is going to hunt some people, and that's
such an anomaly, such an anomaly for entered no offensive
line yet don't even I don't want to remember anything
about that Super Bowl. I'm not like I'm a Chiefe fan.
I was. Yeah, the you that from your memory, you know,
one of the big takeaways from last year. So oftentimes
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guys like you and me, Brian and many of our
listeners especially are offseason listeners. People that are listening to
this podcasts in February. We think we're a lot smarter
than the rest of the world, and we're gonna find
quarterbacks late that didn't happen this year. I mean, for
the most part, those late mid to late round quarterbacks
didn't fare particularly well, and the big name guys did
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what they were supposed to do. So it was last
year at least was a good year to just take
your bankable quarterback in the early mid rounds and not
assume that your you know, your prize, the late round
quarterback is going to end up being as good as
you think. Thanks for listening. Everybody made it through half
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hour of the show. We appreciate that. We'll be back
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