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May 14, 2022 • 44 mins

It's already dynasty drafting season!  Mat and Charch provide a two round rookie draft that's notably different than most others. Will quarterbacks fall? Will anyone take a tight end? Find out! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.
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and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now,
here's your host. It's another edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.

(00:24):
I am Paul Charchy and I'm back. Oh you made
it through your horrible, horrible malady. God, it was so bad.
The jiggers, jiggers, that's what I had. Oh it was
Coatards Coatard's malady or whatever it was. That too. Then
there was the Africanized killer be Sting got that that

(00:48):
was bad. Oh, you never wanted on your elbow just
see you know, yeah, I see that. It's the swelling down.
That's good. I mean before but it looked you know
what they looked like at softball. In my elbow. It
was terrible, very repeatedly, repeatedly. Just yeah, and when you lanced,

(01:10):
it just sprays hidden. Start the podcast over. Oh my god,
it's so bad. Yes, it's still draft time. Technically it
feels like a million years ago. But now is the
time when we've got DNA leagues already drafting. Rockie Draft
already mad, and we're here with our own rookie draft,

(01:33):
two rounds, twenty four players, the order we would take
guys in, and you and I are pretty different from
the the published a d P A lot of these players,
which I think is healthy. You know, let's give people
some different viewpoints from what they're hearing traditionally about where

(01:53):
rookie should be going right now? Absolutely, what what places
do you look for rookie A d P S when
you when you are looking stuff up like this. Um see,
you know I have friends in the industry. I'm good
friends with the people that own football guys Rhoda Wire,
so I tend to use I tend to use those
as as some of my go to places. How about you?

(02:14):
I I like to look at Fantasy Pros and and
then the DLF guys Dynasty League Football. They do good
work as well. So this is right there, wheel House,
This is absolutely it. So yeah, we were looking at,
you know, different things between the two of us, and
and we came up with guys in totally different spots
than a lot of the consensus we did. Of course,
you sniped me a few times. I'd like to think

(02:34):
I got a couple of your guys, Well, let's let's
talk through the first round. Will begin with the first
round and we'll get to the second round after the break.
I gave you the first pick. Who did you take first? Overall?
I got the odds, you got the evens. So I
took Breece Hall of the Jets, number one, consensus, number
one across the census, number one across the board. And
for me, I think he's just the most talented runner

(02:56):
in the draft class draft class. And I know that
you're going to make the case that Kenneth Walker is
because we've already had this argument three weeks ago. Um,
the offense in New York looks like it's just improved
immensely with the additions this offseason. And Michael Carter is
kind of more of a change of pace guy to

(03:16):
me than a full on first and second down runner,
and I think that's where Bruce Hall fits in. UM
with you, I wouldn't have spent the draft capital on
Bruce Hall. Also, I don't I've been burned enough collecting
lots of rookie drafts and rebuilds and stuff rookie draft picks.
I've been burned enough in the past by really focusing

(03:38):
on landing spot and making that be the tiebreaker the Jets.
It does look like there's you know, other mouths to
feed there, and he might not get as many touches
as maybe Walker could in Seattle. But I'm gonna just
default to the guy who I think is the best
player on the board. So I'm I'm gonna go with that.
I don't want to overthink it, don't want to make

(03:59):
it Clyde Edwards Hilaire over a couple of other good
runners or something like that, because he ended up in
Kansas City, you know, and I think we talked ourselves
into that that year. I was very excited about the spot,
and I'm still still baffled that they haven't been able
to ring more value out of Clyde Edwards Hilaire. Uh

(04:22):
the number two pick. Traditionally here it's been it's going
wide receiver, okay, But for me, I did not, and
normally I lean wide receiver because when you draft a
wide receiver position to you usually have like a you know,
an eight year long starter. You know you've got a
great wide receiver in a great spot. You are very
good for a long time. Most of these regular listeners

(04:42):
know how I I feel about do the opposite and
infesting in non running backs because the length of their
careers and everything else. But I just can't get one
wide receiver that feels like the match that I want
between talent, location, quarterback, long term viability, and nobody's hitting

(05:04):
the sweet spot of all of those. That ven diagram
doesn't come all the way together. No, it doesn't, and
it doesn't like a Justin Jefferson or I don't know
many others recently. Well, a great example from last year
in Cincinnati. You know that's you know, it felt like
you know, both ended up with quarterbacks who were viable

(05:25):
quarterback one fantasy starters in leagues, right ceedee lamb. Another example.
So I decide I'm just gonna go running back. I
thought Kenneth Walker was the best running back in this draft,
the most explosive. And I like Breese Hall just fine.
I think he's gonna be very, very good. I just
love the explosiveness that Kenneth Walker brings. And I just
don't see where Shad Penny is as any real He

(05:47):
can't here and apparently Seattle doesn't either because they also
Drean you know, they resigned Pennies the like. But you
know they but they spent the draft capital on Kenneth Walker.
You know, we have a long history with Shot Penny.
He's been good for one month out of his entire career.
I think Kenneth Walker is a special player, and I

(06:08):
think Penny will be a little more than a change
of pace back before long. Now, two things before we
move on. When you're doing dynasty rookie drafts, in my mind,
I tend to want to grab those running backs when
I feel like it's the last piece I'm adding to
my team. I want to trade up and get those
running backs and and and see if I can put

(06:29):
everything together. I got all my wide receivers, I got
my tight ends, I got my quarterbacks, are ready to go.
People do the opposite that most people do the opposite
there because your your window with a running back is
probably four years. That's almost an ideal scenario to get
four viable years out of a rookie running and and
like you said, your your window for a wide receiver

(06:50):
could be eight ten maybe, so I I think that
that's important. But the second thing is this the end
of a tier in the rookies this year, and we
should rookie running back all the rookies. I don't think so,
because there are good receivers here that have that. I
think there are good There are pretty good receivers. To me,
this is not the end of it. Tier do do

(07:11):
believe it is? I kind of think it is. I
think it's the first two picks. I think it's going
to be these two guys in whatever order they go.
And if if you, if I would have taken Kenneth Walker,
would you have taken Breece Hall number two? Yes? Okay,
But again because I don't think again, I don't think
the Venn diagram for all these receivers comes together. And
now we're gonna go to number three. And I'm looking
and going, okay, best receiver, best receiver available? Which one

(07:35):
do I like the best? And so to me, it
was a choice between two. It was Drake London or
Garrett Wilson. I went London for the same reason. I
think the Falcons chose him over Wilson. He's just a
massive physical mismatch on the field, and I like that
he instantly slides in as the feature receiver in Atlanta,
playing a similar role to that that A. J. Brown

(07:56):
played in the Arthur Smith offense in Tennessee. So but
the other thing I like is he's not the only
target there. They have Kyle Pitts, they have Core Darrel Patterson,
they have some other guys that are weapons on that team.
And actually, if we could keep going down, I have
a lot of Atlanta that I'm taking. So I'm kind

(08:16):
of investing in the Atlanta way right now. And I
kind of like it here. I just wish we had
quarterbacks stability and maybe maybe, you know, maybe there will
be long term but you know, right now, I can't
tell you who the starter is going to be next year.
I can't tell you who the starter is gonna be
in week one. Oh that's good. You know that could
be up for debate, although I think it'll be Marcus

(08:37):
Mario probably, But I have a feeling Atlanta is gonna
want to see a lot of Desmond Ritter. But we'll
talk about him a little later. Yeah, But is it
it is that at the end of a lost season,
you know, is that it's going to be a lost
season anyway, To be honest, I pick for Garrett Wilson
was my selection. You said you were between London and

(08:57):
and Wilson. I prefer will and because I loved what
I saw from Zack Wilson in the second half of
the season after he came back from injury and was
a dramatically better quarterback. Reportedly worked out a lot in
the offseason. He's lost some of the baby fat pictures
where he looked like young Tom Brady. And well, I

(09:17):
know some people are scared off by Elijah more Strong
finished last year. You know they're there are dozens of
teams that keep two good receivers Fantasy relevant. Are people
talking themselves out of Jamaar Chase last time at this
year because of Tee Higgins some and then all the drops? Yeah,
but foolishly so Yeah, I went Garrett Wilson here. I

(09:39):
love the deep speed, Uh, the opportunity immediately start and
he will immediately start Week one. Starter for Garrett Wilson.
You had picked number five. Where did you go? Um?
I this is where it got dicey for me. And
I think that was the end of another tier for me. Um.
Traylon Burks is the next guy. Uh, he's in Tennessee.
I think after London and Wilson, Uh, that it's probably

(10:00):
the tier Burks Olav and sky More in the next
tier for me, and I took Burke's here. He's good
enough player to be a first round talent, as we've
highlighted over the last few weeks on this show, and
he landed in a spot where he's easily the flashiest
name on the depth chart, but not in such a
spot where he's going to be doubled on every play
because Robert Woods is there in Tennessee well at some point.

(10:22):
At some point, Austin Hooper is also there, and they're
respectable enough names that NFL defenses aren't going to leave
Robert Woods in Austin Hooper wide open on the field
and just cover trayl On Burks. So I I I
think that Burks will have the ability to have some space,
and Tennessee really drafted him as the replacement to A. J. Brown,

(10:43):
and I think that he kind of hops into to
that role and let's see if he can roll with it.
With pick number six, I went with Sky Moore for
Kansas City. If I were to ask you who is
the best wide receiver on Kansas City at this time
next year, who's the probable answer to that question? Uh,

(11:05):
I guess it's sky More. Schuster is on a one
year deal, Marcus Valda Scantling is nothing special, and Nicole
Hardman is nothing special. And we're looking at sky More.
He's probably the next guy up. He could be Patrick
Mahomes go to receiver for four years, five years, six years,
especially with Travis Kelsey, you know, looming towards the end

(11:28):
of his career, lumbering, lumbering. Um. I like. I like
sky Moore as a player anyway. You get the quickness,
the footwork, the balance, the fact that he was productive
at all levels of the field. There's a lot to
like about him there. And I'm just not scared off
by Juju Smith, Schuster and me Cole Hardman together, those
two guys who they both feel like they're young, but

(11:48):
they've combined for eight seasons and have managed one one
thousand yards season between them. I'm just they don't scare me.
Sky More. This they put eight They put real draft
equity into sky More, and I think I want Patrick
Mahomes first, best first and best receiver. Yeah, Juju is
surprisingly young still, I think he's only or twenty six.

(12:09):
He got into the league at an incredibly young age.
But I see your point there, and if Juju works out,
they'll probably resign him in Kansas City. But other than that,
sky Moreri's probably the guy for maybe the best quarterback
in the league. So I agreed, Yeah, what would you
do with pick number seven? I have Chris Olave of
the Saints. Um. Some people are like, can Jamis Winston

(12:33):
support a wide receiver one? Well, yes, he's done so
with Mike Evans. Uh. And if Michael Thomas is there,
can Jamis Winston support two wide receiver ones? Well he
did it with Evans and Chris Godwin a few years ago. Uh.
The Saints need Olave to work out so badly to
unlock this offense. They need it more than just about anything.

(12:53):
A single good wide receiver just makes that offense functional.
But two good wide receivers of Michael Thomas comes back
and he's actually healthy, Why that opens up everything for
Alvin Kamara, and all of a sudden this team is
a completely different team and maybe one in playoff talks.
So what I like about Alave was all the deep,

(13:14):
big plays that he made for Ohio State, and now
he pairs up with the Yolo stylings. Maybe he wasn't
super yolo last year. He was pretty conservative last year
before the injury. You know, I thought that too, But
then I looked up his His average throw was nine
point two yards, was his It was his average. His

(13:34):
average pass when he was with the Bucks, he was
nine point five. Okay, So you know, they really didn't
dial in back as much as I thought that maybe
he just got better. Maybe that could be. The interceptions
are way down, that's true. So you know, I'm we'll
find out whether or not Jameis Winston is ultimately the
answer here or not. But I at least I like
the short term pairing. With pick number eight, I chose

(13:57):
Christian Watson. Obviously he's steps right in as the Packers
number one wide receiver, and it's not close. It it's not,
I mean, it isn't Alan Lazard kind of like the
de facto number one, just because Aaron Rodgers is such
a weirdo and so fickle about who he throws the
ball to that you have to pass the Rogers test

(14:18):
and you know, be in his inner circle in order
to have a pass thrown at you. He'll take anything
he can get at this point. And the Packers liked
Christian Watson so much they gave a division rival two
second round picks to get him in the second round. Um,
that's that tells you a lot about how their esteem

(14:39):
for Watson. And Watson's got some special traits, great deep
ball receiver, He's tall, lanky, he's a leaper, he's a finisher,
tons of scoring prowess after the catch, and obviously pairs
with Aaron Rodgers. Now it feels like Aaron Rodgers is
at the bitter end of his career. He's under contract
for five years and it's not like the last three
of them are are phony avoidable years or do you

(15:00):
think you know? Rogers? And apparently the Packers feel like
he's got plenty left in the tank. And I will
take even if Rogers gets ten worse even each of
the next five years, he's still gonna be better than
most of the quarterbacks in the league. For what did
you decide to do with pick number nine? So this
was kind of my first reach out of the zone

(15:20):
of what the rookie a DP is and I went
with James Cook out of Buffalo. Um, I think that
Devin Singletary is just a guy. Pretty good last year,
I know, but we've seen three years of Devin Centitary
in the first year, he basically had that backfield all
to himself, so much so that the Bills were like,

(15:42):
let's get Zack Moss and give him a year and
a half worth of work in the backfield. I don't
think the Bills think he's special. So I think that
James Cook, if he is indeed special, has a real
shot of maybe not taking over this role, but being
the sixty on the sixty split in this role. And

(16:05):
if you look at what they have in that backfield,
they haven't had a really good runner in that backfield
since Fred Jackson left and that was a long time
mar Sean Lynch, I think was after mar Um. But
the way the Bill's offense runs, Josh Allen is going
to do crazy stuff with the ball, which means design runs, rollouts,

(16:25):
read option plays. That's set up for a guy who
can get out in the flat and runner out and
catch passes. I think that's set up for James Cook
to be a really good runner in in many systems.
And and you know, a flex starter in in fantasy.
I'm gonna challenge you on this because I don't like
Cook very much in this offense. And and here's why.

(16:46):
I think he is a pedestrian runner who's a very
gifted receiver, and Devin Singletary is a decent receiver, and
I think a better runner based on the guy we
saw in the second half of last year, which was
shocking because usually dies don't get better in your three,
running backs don't get better in your three, but Singletary did,
so it feels to me like it best. It's a

(17:07):
blended backfield. And then we always have Josh Allen housing
touchdown and I feel like James Cook is gonna be
like a three four touchdown a year guy. We're getting
down to the point in this rookie draft where I'm
starting to look at guys like, where's where's the upside,
Where's the guy who can be a starter, And well,

(17:28):
there's the guy who's the guy that you did not take?
And then I'm not gonna take but every listener is going,
where is Jamis Williams? Why hasn't somebody taken to me yet?
And here's the bad part. I'm not taking him either,
because I got a big take on Rashad White. I
really like this guy, and I think he's gonna he's

(17:48):
going to bypass Leo four Nette for the Bucks sooner
than later, and I just I didn't want to let
him slide any farther down the Did you hear his
comments about coming into Tampa Bay? Tell me he said
he was coming into Tampa Bay to win the job,
not to compete for the job. He's like, I'm gonna
win the job good. I got attitude, and and he
he has the attitude that he's going to take this

(18:10):
job from Leonard Fournette and run with it. I would
have otherwise taken Jamis Williams here, just Jamison Williams. Just
to be clear, Um, you'll need to decide for yourself.
If you think is Leo four Neette like a special talent?
Is Leo Fournette super durable? It? Does he still have
long term viability? I think the answer is no, no,
and no. Leo Fournet's none of those things. He is

(18:32):
a capable running back who Tom Brady trusts. He's not.
I don't think he's got so it does, and he's
been good, don't get me wrong. What's more, I think
I think White can earn the starting job at some
point this year if Tom Brady trusts him enough to
take over the starting the starting wall. I think it

(18:54):
can happen here. White to do everything back, elite pass
catching ability, he can run inside, he can run out.
I get this. Forty of Rashad whites touches last year
resulted in first downs or touchdowns. That is some heavy productivity,
and a touchdown is a first down according to Live Scoring.

(19:15):
If you use first downs as a as a point metric.
There you go. Alright, So now let's pick eleven. Yeah, finally, Um,
he did fall too far. Um. The talent is unquestioned.
He's fast, he's elusive, he can catch all this stuff.
I think he gets major ly dinged for a couple
of reasons. Um, we don't know for sure if he'll

(19:37):
be healthy enough to start the era. You know he
will not be healthy enough to start the year. And
he landed on the Lions. And while aman Ra st
Brown had a really good stretch at the end of
last year, you got to remember that was when t. J.
Hockenson was out and for the Lions, like four otherwide,
they had nobody else to throw too. And the goofball
is still the quarterback there. So suddenly there's a few

(19:59):
mouths defeat in Detroit, and we might not get Jamison
Williams still halfway through the year, maybe I think that
this is a three play and you're looking at the
Lions having a new quarterback and Williams fully healthy in
all right, so let me let me just posture this
for you, Matt if Williams, if you're not playing to

(20:21):
win in if you're not playing to win this year,
where would you have taken Williams? How far up does
he move? That's I mean, in my mind, if I'm
a good trader, and I kind of believe that I am.
If I'm looking at a draft and I think it's
gonna fall the way I do, and I think he
might fall to nine eleven, I'm not going to take

(20:43):
him with the high picks. I'm gonna try to trade
down and gain some extra draft capital. That's no answer
to this question. I mean, he's probably He's probably worth
a fifth, sixth, seventh pick right in there. I think
you're right. The final pick of the first round, and
we're not really doing the you know, the snake draft
and thing. I'm not trying to match pair up people.
But the twelve pick, last pick of a typical first round, um,

(21:05):
I took John Dodson and he goes ended up at Washington.
You mean Josh Dockson. Josh Dockson, remember Josh do the
Washington Football Commander games they are right. Um, I think
Eddie landed in a different spot. I think he'd have
been he'd already been drafted. But this is not the
greatest spot in the world. Yes, I'm nervous about Carson Wentz,

(21:27):
but we're time. I got through twenty seven touchdowns last year.
That's not that bad, and that's a number he's hit.
Carson Wentz has hit twenty seven touchdowns in half of
his NFL seasons. If he can get to twenty seven again,
we already know Terry McLaren's just not a touchdown score.
His average, Terry McLaren averages five touchdowns a year. So

(21:48):
I've got twenty two unaccounted for Carson Wentz touchdowns. McLaurin
also heading into the final year of his rookie deal,
and he's kind of been rumored to be on the
block like a J Brown was Deebo Samuel that kind
of thing. So there's a chance here the dots and
ends up in a and being a bigger part of
this offense and I think a lot of people think,
and I don't hate Carson Wentz as much as most

(22:11):
people do. And he's he's been able to ring productivity
out of his receivers. You know, Pittman was pretty good
last year and his tight ends were pretty good in Philadelphia.
So hopefully he's gonna get he's gonna be able to
use some of the speed and separation that he showed
in college. And you know that's you know, that's why
I tip dots in here at twelve. Let's uh, let's

(22:32):
put a let's put a boat into the first round. Yeah,
tie it up with the boat. Here I go. We'll
come back and we will go through the next twelve
rookies in our Rookie Dynasty Draft Welcome Back Segment number

(22:57):
two Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchie and Matt Harrison with you.
I didn't properly introduce you at the beginning. It's okay.
They know me by now lancing my elbow and next thing,
you know, we're just chatting. Sorry about that. I think
they've figured out who I am after this is now
my tenth year on the show. Gosh, I've made it
a decade decade. Wow, we've got hold together. It's kind

(23:19):
of scary. You're a young man when this started. I know. Yeah,
there's gray hair and the sideburns now only the Yeah,
I'm still okay, let's go to the round number two.
We've we've already talked through our twelve players that are
off the board so far. Let's go to pick you
are up. I took George Pickens out of Pittsburgh because

(23:42):
the Pittsburgh wide receiver factory has proven success. Kevin Colbert,
the GM there has drafted a wide receiver almost every
year since he took office. And here's the names. A
few names that he's had success with. Santonio Holmes, Mike Wallace,
Antonio Brown, Emmanuel Sanders, Martavis Bryant, Juju Smith, Schuster, James Washington,

(24:04):
Deonte Johnson, Chase Claypool. Only one of those guys turned
out to be a relative bust. All the rest pretty
much hit. Which one is the relative bus James Washington Okay, yeah,
he's still in the league. That it's not even on
the team though. Yeah, but all have been viable Fantasy
starters at one point or another. He did he did
miss on Marcus Wheaton in the third round and Limas Swede.

(24:29):
I don't even remember that guy. Two thousand eight second
round picks miss Swede, So he missed on two out
of the last twenty years. Jeez um. Also, we didn't
draft him here. But I will give an honorable mention
to Calvin Austin, who I think was drafted in the
fourth round by the Steelers, and there's a lot of
people who really like him as well. He had gone

(24:51):
two more picks in our draft I would have taken. Yeah.
So I think Pickens and Calvin Austin are both very
interesting guys. Deonte Johnson probably not on the Steelers in
a year or two, do you think so? Pittsburgh is
giving up on every one of their wide receivers. They
just keep going through the factory. The only one one
of those guys that they signed long term was Antonio Brown.

(25:13):
Look how that worked out. It did work out for
a couple of years for a while. I mean he
was he was the top wide receiver in Fantasy for
four years straight. But other than that, unless you're gonna
be the top wide receiver for four years straight, Pittsburgh
is gonna let you walk with Pickens. You get the
big body, you get a guy who you know, he's
not Chase Claypool big, but he's a bigger range year
receiver you can bring in downfield, contested catches, everything that

(25:37):
Calvin Austin isn't. Who will be their little water bug guy. Um.
And I think there's touchdown upside in George Pickens and
touchdown upside that Deante Johnson doesn't usually have. Yeah, and
and the touchdown upside that we all want Chase Claypool
to maintain from his rookie year. He didn't really show
it last year. Maybe Pickens steps in and just kind
of steals that from Chase Claypool. And picked fourteen, I

(26:00):
took Damian Pierce from Houston. I got an NFL probable
starting running back at pick fourteen. Yeah. I was considering
him a pick or two above, but I just couldn't
get past the last two receivers. If nothing else, Pierce
is going to be a rotational back and the definite
goal line back because man is he built for it.

(26:21):
Just a wrecking ball. The thick build, the powerful running,
the punishing finishes. He's got shocking burst and footwork for
a man his size, good balance, There's so much I
like about him. It was just weird that they didn't
use him that much at Florida. I think when we
talked about that when we're highlighting the runners coming in

(26:42):
one game with more than fifteen touches, and that was
the thing we were worried about, is Florida didn't seem
to figure out how to scheme him enough touches. So
is weird? Is it something that you know, just college
coaches didn't figure out in the NFL? Will who knows?
I don't know. But Pierce has built for goal line use.
There's gonna be goal line uptunities in any offense. Even
Houston not a pass catcher, so he's not gonna help

(27:04):
me PPR wise, But I do believe that Pierce in
year one will be a fantasy flex opportunity most weeks.
Let's go to pick number fifteen. Who did you take?
I took Isaiah Spiller of the Los Angeles Chargers of Anaheim.
I think we all like the talent and the profile
of Spiller coming into the draft, but we don't like

(27:25):
the landing spot because we love Austin Ekeler. Everybody loves
Austin Ekeler. Now he turns twenty seven years old next week.
He missed six games in twenty with injury, and he
really wasn't right that whole year. Um saw a handful
of games where he just wasn't as efficient as he
was back in nineteen. He was okay last year, he

(27:45):
could have been better seeing him go as like early
ADPs pick number three in fantasy drafts. I was one
of the guys who was on Austin Ekeler mountain. I'm
kind of getting ready to jump off of that mountain.
I don't think that he's going to have a full
workload this year. I think Isaiah Spiller is going to

(28:06):
cut into it. Because when Melvin Gordon was there and
taking regular touches, totally different coaching staff, totally different coaching staff.
But that's when Austin Ekeler's efficiency was through the roof.
And then Gordon left and we're all like, look at
the efficiency. He's Christian McCaffrey. If he gets to just
like double the touches as he did last year, he

(28:27):
kind of was, though he kind of was, but so
I'm I'm a little nervous that the end could be
closer for Eckler than we're all letting on end. Like
career end, dude, running backs just disappear. They all off
the face of the earth. That's percent true, But there
was no indication last year that that was coming. And

(28:48):
I agree that Spiller is going to have a role
in this office and they'll use it to extend Austin
Ekeler's career. If I'm starting a dynasty league right now,
Austin Ekeler is a guy that I'm not going to
have on my roster, I think again, I think I'm
sure you're you're thinking of you and I have been

(29:10):
on I have been as heavier proponents of Austin Ekelers
over the last two years. Is anybody, so I'm a
little surprised you say it. But I do think Spiller
will will take ten ish total touches a game out
of that offense, and that will that will hurt Austin Ekeler.
But Ekeler is still a special back that Spiller is.
I'm not doubting the talent. I think that there is

(29:32):
another runner there that can take touches. I think that
he's going to still be very efficient, but he also
does turn twenty seven and the end comes quicker than
you think for running backs and by by their birthday.
There's not very many running backs who are really good
in the league anymore. At pick sixteen, I took John
Mechi for for Houston, So I went Houston. Houston, good

(29:53):
for you really want to double down on that Houston
off that awesome Texans offense. The Texans liked him so
much they spent pick forty four on a wide receiver
coming off a December a c L. So he's not
going to play for a while, but he was highly
productive with even with all the competition at Alabama, he
was highly productive. Here's what Nick Saban had to say

(30:15):
about John Manchi. The guy's the epitome of what you
look for at a wide receiver. He is tough, he
plays hurt, he plays physical, he gets open, he makes catches,
he makes plays, he never complains. I'll take that perfect now.
Part of my rationale is that I am a believer
in Davis Mills. I was talking about Davis Mills at
this time last year that I liked him for Houston

(30:38):
and thought he would be a factor for Houston. He
was better than I had even hoped Lettie would be.
And I think Davis Mills is a legitimate NFL quarterback
I don't think he's gonna be a top five quarterback,
but I think he's gonna. I think he will be
better this year and will emerge out of this season
as a middle of the pack NFL starter, and those
guys get those guys can feed fantasy points. Well, I

(30:59):
think it's in portant to note that the Houston Texans
also think that, because you know, they passed on Desmond
Ritter and Malik Willis five times, but they didn't think
there was a need to change. If Davis Mills, if
everything we knew about Davis Mills today was a parent
and Davis Mills was in this draft, he'd go in
the first round. He'd have been the first quarterback taken. Probably,

(31:22):
let's go to pick number seventeen. I took Tyler l.
Gier my second Falcon. If you believe that Cordineral Patterson
will be the quote unquote running back we saw in
the first half of last season, Algiers probably not your guy. Yeah,
but Cordell Patterson fell off the face of the heath
basically from Thanksgiving forward absolutely, and and Atlanta re signed him.

(31:45):
So they think that there's value in having CP eighty
four on the team. But if you watch how big
and physical Tyler Algier was in his highlight packages from
b y U, you know he's got a shot to
be a legit fifteen touch of guy touch guy in
this offense. And yes, it's the same Arthur Smith offense
that used a big, physical, bruising running back and had

(32:08):
him run downhill. That's totally it. Drop Austin Ackler, pick
up Tyler Alger. It'll all work out, no, um but
I but honestly, there's a path for Tyler al Geer
to be the thunder to the CP eight four lightning

(32:29):
and the Falcons are gonna maybe use Patterson more in
a Deebo Samuel style role, which I think, uh gives
him more upside than he is if he's you know,
lining up in the backfield for twin carries a game.
So um, I think that Algiers kind of a really
interesting guy. I I believe he's going to be one
of those rookies that's going up the adp UH. In

(32:51):
July and August for US, Zamir White found himself in
a lousy spot Las Vegas for running backs. I would
like to live there, and it's not a lot of Yeah,
it'd be nice. You're talking to guy who just survived
six months of Minnesota winter. I mean, Vegas sounds great.

(33:11):
I like to visit Vegas, though I think it would
be ruined if you lived in Vegas. Like the allure
and the magic of Vegas, which is I mean, what
if I live in St. George, Utah, which is about
uh seventy eight minute drive? Perfect? There you go. There,
we'll do that. Zamir White needs probably a year before
you're gonna really get good dividends out of him, because

(33:33):
there's already Josh Jacobs and Kenyan Drake. But the team
just denied Josh Jacobs the fifth year rookie tag. That happened.
Kenyan Drake is just a guy and he's on a
one year deal. Next year's starting running back right now
looks like Zamir White. Dudes, ripped, super muscular, physical, known

(33:54):
for his burst. He punishes tacklers, which I love. He's um.
He looks like a fantasy touchdown guy. I think he's
going to be a scorer in this league, and it's
just a matter of whether or not it comes through
this season. So you know, I'm gonna sit on to
your White for a year and then see what I
got next season. Okay, I took Jalen Tilbert with the

(34:18):
pick in our draft. Um, he's in Dallas, and we
all know that Ceedee Lamb is the wide receiver one,
and Michael Gallup is coming off late season knee surgery
and he's the wide receiver number two. But Mary Cooper
he's gone, Cedric Wilson he's gone. After that, it's the
aforementioned James Washington and Jalen Tilbert. And Talbert's a small

(34:38):
school guy who fought his way into the third round
of the draft, and my guests, he fights his way
into the starting lineup if Gallup is gonna miss some time,
and who knows after that. If he's really good, this
could be a guy who's maybe the wide receiver too
in a Dak Prescott offense. And that's a guy that
I'm interested in. Do you think he can get past

(34:58):
Lamb and Gallop to be wide receiver too? I mean,
he doesn't have to get past Lamb to be the
second wide receiver on that team. Lamb is wide receiver
one team. Okay, just got past Gallop. As what you're saying,
just gotta get past Gallop. It's just gotta gallop past gallop.
At pick number twenty, I took Malik Willis much like
the real NFL draft and ignominious fall for Malik Willis

(35:21):
here at this point and this is our first quarterback
off the board. Were not super flex? Is not super flex?
But how about where would you take Malik Willis if
this was a super flex draft? Since he's still off
the board, I still think I wouldn't have taken him
in the first round. I think he'd have been the
top of the second round super flex. Alright, too much

(35:42):
risk here, but your upside is significant. Everybody knows everything.
There's no about Malik Willis. There's I'm not telling you.
I'm not going to talk about his style anything else.
I'm here for the running and may in the hope
that Malik Willis can find himself in a position to
be a starting quarterback and go run me for a
bunch of touchdowns in a bunch of yards. That's it.
That's picked twenty. What'd you do? I took the next
quarterback off the floor started quarterback round. Yeah, hey, and

(36:04):
it's uh Desmond Ritter not Kenny Pickett. Um. I was
going to take picket here for a second and actually
wrote him in the document and then I contacted you
and I was like, I'm gonna change my pick since
you're you haven't gone yet, and I changed it to
Desmond Ritter. Why I think the Falcons are in clear
yolo mode. They traded Matt Ryan, they added weapons to

(36:27):
the offense, probably not enough to challenge for the division,
but they're in a spot where they have to see
what they got with Ritter and Mariota. And Ritter was
only a third round draft capital, so that doesn't prevent
Atlanta from drafting a wide receiver a quarterback in the
first round next year. I think that they're going to
see everything that they can out of both of these

(36:49):
quarterbacks this year, use it as the proving ground for
and that means Ritter is going to get a shot to,
you know, be the quarterback of this team. So I'm
flipping a coin and I'm going for it. I think
you just told me you're you're drafting Desmond Ritter even
though they're going to spend a first round pick on
quarterback next year if he doesn't work out, Atlanta has

(37:12):
no reason that they wouldn't spend a quarter spend that
first round. So we're in high risk hyro territory, So
there's that. I guess at pick number twenty two, I'm
with wide receiver David Bello finds himself in Cleveland. Now,
of course Cleveland brought in Amari Cooper, but after that
there's there's really nobody to threaten David bell from walking

(37:32):
in and being a starter as early as week one.
He's not a flashy player. He is a productive chain
mover who's got just a very good overall game. But
he's not explosive. He's not hyper athletic. He's not gonna
rip off seventy yard runs, but he can move chains.
I think I view him as a poor man's mm hmm, well,

(37:56):
I view him as somebody that in a typical week
you could flex start, a guy that you want to
get six catches sixty yards. And do you look at
him as a Cold Beasley type? No, I don't think.
I don't think he's that slippery. To be honest, I
really it's not as slippery as Cold Beasley. Let's pick
him up. No, I don't think he has so you know,

(38:17):
there's more about opportunity, I think than like massive upside
town in in David belt. But I just think he's
going to be a consistent guy. You know, we don't
know yet when, at what point he'll have stability at
the quarterback position. Well, that's all other questions. We'll worry
about that down the road. Find out more about that. Alright,
your last pick of the draft is up. I was
gonna go take Picket again here, but go take him

(38:40):
last that then I didn't. I thought would be more
fun to talk about the best tight end project in
the draft. That's except you didn't get the push over there. Uh.
Trey McBride is backing up Zach Ertz in Arizona. Earts.
Will turn thirty two this season. This is a future
play though, as we always say on Fantasy Football Weekly,

(39:02):
rookie tight ends do nothing and Brian's gonna chirt back
and say, oh, Kyle Pitts made the Pro Bowl pictures,
the fifth player taken in the draft. Kyle Pitts scored
one touchdown and it wasn't in the United States of America. Um,
So this is a future play. Art is probably the
main guy this year, but we're probably looking at McBride

(39:24):
to be the main contributor in his second year. It's
just got that new deal. I'm nervous about her. It's
sticking around a while. I'm not nervous because he's old,
so old. Yeah he's nine years younger than me, but
he's so old. Uh. The tight end I like and

(39:46):
the why and the guy that I took with the
last pick of the draft was tight end Gilani Woods.
He's gigantic. I love this. I love his kid man. He's,
by the way, funny. The last two picks are tight ends. Um.
And I'd rather have Wood Stean McBride because he's a
freaking beast. He is the tallest heaviest wide receiver in

(40:07):
the entire draft class. He's six ft seven, two hundred
fifty three pounds. He has built for end zone use.
He's uh is that, by the way, scored eight touchdowns
last year. Um. And here's the thing. When I say
six ft seven, biggest, heaviest, you might think of this
lumbering guy who can't get open. But from the Adams fans,

(40:30):
very um, especially in the haircut it four he ran
a four six forty And the way that they used
him at Virginia, he would they just run him down
the seam and he's wide open. He's humongous target and
here come these passes into the end zone. And we
know the Colts love their tight ends. We know Frank
Reich loves his tight ends. And he's just got a

(40:53):
battle mo Ali Cox for time at least this year.
Cox is just a guy. He's also really big. You
know Matt Ryan through the Levine toil Lolo, who was
also a super giant man. So yeah, Gelanni Woods, last
pick of our of our draft. Okay, I even in

(41:15):
super flex, I don't think I don't think many of
these quarterbacks. You can make a compelling case for many
of these quarterbacks. Yeah, Kenny Pickett, I don't think we'll
start at the beginning of the year. But with the
NFL schedule released coming out, the early season schedule for
Pittsburgh was incredibly hard. So it might be a good
thing that Kenny Pickett's not starting, and they're gonna maybe
throw Mitch True whisky to the Wolves and it'll be

(41:37):
sad Trombone Ski for a while. Do you want to
find the button uma, hold on? Hold on there it is,
so it might be sad Trombones Ski for the New Father.
By the way, Oh congratulations, Now a little corner. I
like it. I like it, um I If I had

(42:00):
had one more pick in the draft, I would have
gone quarterback. Okay, I would have taken Matt Correll, okay,
because I'm intrigued by him. He's he's wiry guy, but
I like the arms strength I think he's got. He's
a really good athlete. He's got some running ability to him.
I'd have thrown a draft a pick on him if
we had gone just even one more selection. And he's

(42:20):
in Carolina where he's opportunity, opportunity is there. I mean
he could win the job from Sam Donald, that's for sure.
How about Sam Howell who has never had a steak
in his life, Well, he's never had none. Chicken the
only meat. He's Corey Cove. He is the Corey Cove
of the NFL. That remember was who was at Marinovich
that had never had pop? Wasn't that his dad? His

(42:45):
dad wouldn't let him, I think him. Yeah, I don't know.
It's hey, Look it worked. You got to the NFL.
He did on a chicken diet, full chicken diet. That
guy is waiting for a raising kines uh sponsorship there.
You think they'd be in contact with him already or
KFC or Popeye's or whoever you know, Chick fil A.
There we go. Yeah, although if it's the see here's

(43:07):
the problem with the Chick fil A. If you get
the Chick fil A sponsorship as an NFL player, get
ready for the Yeah that guy, that guy never performs
on Sunday's. There you go. That's the problem. That's the
Sunday thing. It's like, I don't eat Chick fil A
on Sundays because I'm playing all you can do that
you know, that might be the positive spin on it.

(43:27):
Thank you for listening, everybody. End of a rather lengthy
edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. We'll be back next week.
I don't remember what's on tap for next week's show,
but we may go look at that document that all right,
so I just haven't looked at it lately. We'll get
to the bottom of get to the bottom of that.
Thanks for listening to the to the full podcast, and
we'll talk to you in one week. Fantasy Football Weekly

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