I WANT YOUR FLEX - 2022 Fantasy Football PPR Mock Draft - The Top 72 Picks - The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

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This is the I Want Your Flex Podcast. He's Mike Carmen,
I'm Dan Buyer, and we have a bit of a
treat for you. In this podcast. We provide to you
a six round draft to get you set for the
fantasy football season. And what Mike and myself and our
executive producer, Ryan ber Shinger did was well, we had
a draft, a six round draft that's spread over six

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different podcasts at the end of the NFL's regular season.
Each different podcast we did a pick of twelve players.
And now, with the magic of audio, our executive producer
Ryan Burr Singer is putting those six rounds together in
one easy to listen to podcast. So here it is
Mike Harmon, myself, Dan Buyer, and our executive producer, Ryan

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Burr Singer providing you with a look ahead to the
two fantasy football season with a six round draft. Ryan
Burr Shinger, you are on the clock with the first
overall pick in the two fantasy draft. Who would you select? Well,
looking back on this season, there was a clear number

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one throughout the year. Obviously, Derrick Henry was heading towards that,
but then he got hurt. I'm going to go with
the guy who's probably going to be on the top
of most draft boards, and that will be Jonathan Taylor.
Number one. Jonathan Taylor is off the board at number one, Mike,
Does that surprise you with you sitting there at number two?
You and I throughout the season mentioned that Christian McCaffrey's

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reign is the top running back. Yeah, is has come
to an end, but Jonathan Taylor takes the top spot
for Bursting their no shock, They're fantastic offensive line, certainly
the mindset, uh, And look, Carson Wentz did the two
step well and his numbers were fine except what they
needed to win a game. Dan, but we're not talking
about winning games here. We're talking about fantasy titles, and

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that means Janithan Taylor goes to number one. Number two.
I mean Burst mentioned him, uh the ridiculous first half
of the season. I'll roll the dice that Derrick Henry.
I mean, if he's gonna be able to be cleared
in theory in these playoffs with the Titans having the
number one seed in a first round by I'll bank
on the fact that for two. He's ready to run

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a buck again. This is this is a a spot
that I don't envy myself being in. I like both
of your picks, and I can understand both of your picks.
I think that there's a name that I should obviously pick,
but there's actually a different name that I'm going to
go with. And I'll just tell you the name I'm
gonna pick at number three. I'm going to pick Alvin Camaro, okay,

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of the Saints, and and and the reason I am
doing this, And there are other names out there, and
I'm not gonna name them because I don't want to
say I was gonna pick this guy. I was gonna
pick that guy. I think that Sean Payton got an
idea of all right, this is what life is like
with Jamis Winston his quarterback, or this is how we
are going to proceed. I think the Saints are going
to be very active in the off season and trying

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to show up that quarterback position, and I actually think
that will only enhance Alvin Camara's snatcher. So I am
gonna ride the horse down to New Orleans and take
Alvin Camaro with the third overall pick. There are other
names that were there, but I'm going with Camara. I
dig that run the ball through him. So long as
he stays healthy, the touch count should be twenty or thereabouts,

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and with a little bit more of a lean perhaps
to the receiving side, a game of the game which
keeps him healthy. You theory? All right, Ryan Burshing? Are
you are up at number four? So we saw the
explosiveness of this player this season. Uh finished, I believe
is RB two on the year. I'll take Austin Necklare
here at number four. There you go, that's Mike's fantasy

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running back. Uh not m v P, but Fantasy Player
of the Year at the running back position. Even well,
you know, I like undrafted guys kind of like me, unheralded, unwanted,
and then you rise to great prominence something like that. Uh,
fantastic year and obviously, uh well the future is bright
for putting up points. Now, just figure out how to

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stop them. See the last night's still ringing in my ears, fellas,
I'm gonna go to the other side of town and
a guy, since we're talking PPR, Yeah, it's Cooper Cup.
No matter what you did, you can't stop him. And
you may not like Matt Stafford and game situations. Again,
I don't care about your damn game situations. Cooper Cup
is gonna catch ten balls and game and continue to

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do so. Cooper Cup is off the board number five
overall in our two fantasy draft. Burch Is, this has
gone on first five picks. Uh. Anything shocking to you,
anything that stands out as you see these five, I
wouldn't say shocking. I think me personally, I probably have
Eckler as number three on my board, behind Taylor and

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Henry but um, but I totally see the rational there.
With Camara, I still think he's going to be a
top half of the first round pick because, like you said,
I think he's going to put up more numbers than
he did this past season because that quarterback is going
to improve. Alright, guys, I'm going to take the guy
that actually led running backs and receptions this past year,
Nagy Harris of the Pittsburgh Steelers. With Big Ben ridding

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off into the sunset, Harris ended up with seventy four receptions. Uh.
Such a main part of that offense, and I think
that will continue in year number two. I will take
Nazy Harris at number six. Does it consern you at
all that the next quarterback will be able to throw
the ball five yards stri Uh, it does a little,

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but I think that could also open up some running
lanes for Nazi Harris as well. Alright, Ryan Burr Singer,
we are halfway through this fantasy draft, and again Jonathan
Taylor went one Derrick Henry to Alvin Camara three, Austin
Ecler for Cooper Cup five and Nagy Harris six. Bur Singer,
you are up at number seven. I'll go with the
guy who I still think is going to be a

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pretty safe pick in the first round next year, and
with a new head coach coming in, I think certainly
they're still going to give them the ball plenty. I
will take Dalvin Cook here at number seven. Dalvin Cook,
the first Viking off the board. Nicely done, nicely done.
I am going to go back to the well at
the wide receiver position like I grabbed Cooper Cup at

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the five slot. Now looking at the eighth slot and
looking at the best players available, and uh, I think
his quarterback stays uh, Myron in controversy, but you can't
stop Davante Adams. So you can't, especially when they you know,
continue to link up in that division and dominate for
years to come. I the we had a situation and

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I and I paused because I'm thinking back to my
personal fantasy league where we have holdovers, and there was
there was someone who was deciding on what they wanted
to do, and Aaron Rodgers situation was was up in
the air. At that point, the guy ended up. He says,
you know what, I Am going to keep Davante Adams.
Gonna end up rolling the dice and and obviously keeping

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him the way that the guy's team fair this year
wasn't wasn't great, But keeping him ended up being the
smart move. And when you are drafting, and if you
are having a late draft, you obviously will know where
Davante Adams will be. And if Aaron Rodgers is back
next year, to your point, yeah, makes him a no
brainer to go in the top ten considering how great

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he is, also just considering the question marks of the
other running back that are available. And that's where I
sit at at number nine, and and Christian McCaffrey is
is still there. Jill mixing at a great year with
the with the Cincinnati Bengals, as as being an as
being a player. I'm gonna actually stick with the wide
receivers though. I'm gonna go Justin Jefferson at number nine.
I just, from what we talked about a little bit earlier,

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expect things to kind of stay status quo. In Minnesota.
Maybe they try to show up that offensive a lot
a little bit more. I just expect a different sort
of Vikings team. But I think Jefferson continues to get
his numbers. So I'm gonna go Justin Jefferson with right now,
there are a lot of running backs that I just
have question marks about that. I don't know if one
guy would separate himself from the other. So I'm going

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Justin Jefferson. Yeah, and especially playing in the NFC North
and Chicago where they don't bother to cover him at
times out for you twice a year, you get that opportunity, alright.
So we've got three wide receivers, six running backs off
the board, no tight ends, no quarterbacks. Our final three

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picks of our first round of the Fantasy football Draft
with a PPR scoring system, Ryan Burr Shinger, you are up. Yeah,
I would have taken Jefferson here if he was still available. Um,
I'm going to pick by me. By the way, yes
ever talked about I'm going to go ahead and raise

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one of those questions because right now I'm sitting at
the back end of the first round, meaning that in
the Snake Draft in a ten team league, I get
another pick right after this. In a twelve teamer I've
still got that pick coming just a few picks after.
So I can afford to take a little bit of
a risk here, and I'm going to take the guy
with the highest ceiling, despite the fact that he's been
hurt for two years. I will go ahead and take

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Christian McCaffrey here at number ten, simply because that ceiling
is so high, and if he's healthy, he's he's in
contention to be the top player in fantasy and in
the four games he plays for you, he is going
to produce No I'm just kidding on a per game basis,
if we're gonna argue that he's the most prolific score
in the history of fantasy football. You want to talk
about change. They need to get guys that can block,

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and if they if they can do that, and if
they settle their quarterback position, then maybe will open up
for Carolina. Sam Donald is on the books for eight
teen point eight million dollars. Yum, alright, harmon, your last
pick of our first round of our fantasy draft, will
be ready to continue our theme of taking a lot
of guys out of the NFC North. DeAndre is gonna well,

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uh geez, the fighting Campbell's they I like the direction
and with no no no Anthony Lynn there uh too
well really bogged down things and he was a placeholder.
He was just collected a check towards the end there.
I'm excited to see what they are in year two.
It may be an absolute train wreck, but this guy's

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uh ceiling is very very high. If things break right,
and it's nice to say first round Detroit Lion Fantasy draft.
This is I will have the the final pick. And
I really wish DeAndre Swift was sticking around there for me.
I was hoping, and in the end it does does
not work out, so I am going to have to

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go another direction. And it's pretty crazy to think, but
the seventeen game schedule does kind of skew a few things. Uh.
Tyreek Hill is still out there, but honestly, after yard season,
it's kind of looked at as a down year for
for Tyreek Hill, considering the other seasons that that he's

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had to not break the double digit mark when it
comes to two touchdowns, there's a couple of Bengals there
that I'm looking at. I will go, man, well, because
even you mentioned it mentioning Tyreek Hill, right, you look
at the way his season progressed. You got a couple

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of h Like, the aggregate is there, but it's a
couple of games. We're not playing best ball for the season,
so that slot gets you that amount of points week
to week. He was a detriment in a lot of leagues. Yes, yes,
particularly given where he was drafted. You know, you know
I this is it's a it's a PPR league, so
that is going to to to end up somewhat altering it.

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I will go with Tyree Hill at number twelve. I
will just I will take a bit of a bounce
back that maybe the Chiefs straightened things up. Still don't
know if their running game is what it is. I
think that there are serious questions about about Travis Kelsey.
But this is the old guy, get off my lawn
guy who's not ready to pull the trigger on some

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of the young guns that are there. And and Honestly,
I still think that he is option number one in
Kansas City. So uh, with everything that has played out,
if Patrick Mahomes is your quarterback, I would at least
feel safe with having Tyree kill the this season huge
number of receptions yards just weren't necessarily their big plays

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weren't there. As Mike said, at times, he was an
absolute stinker for you. But I'll still take him over
what's uh, what is still there? There are a lot
of good guys that are still remaining. By the way,
well that's it not to you know, look ahead too
much to round two. I really thought you were going
to do all the Tyreek Hill and they just say, yeah,
I'll take Travis Kells. Yeah. Well, what I didn't want

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to do is this is this is what I hate guys,
And we can wrap it up with this is the
guy in the draft that tells you the nine guys
he was considering, and then so no matter what, no
matter what, this guy staked claimed to nine guys to
take credit for even though eight of them are not
on his team because they've gone to everybody else. So
I don't want to sit there and run down the

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names of all the guys that are there because guess what,
right will pick the one right after me. You'll pick
the one and there will be a couple of others
that are left for me. So I didn't want to
name names, but I also hate I was gonna take him? Well,
then what did it, Jack, because you're about to take
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Subscribe now. Before we get to Ryan's first pick of
the second round. Overall, this was like a real draft

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to me, guys, because I started to have remorse, literally
buyer's remorse over my pick, and actually a couple of picks.
There was the Alvin Kamara over Austin Ekeler, but really
it was the Tyreek Kill selection at number twelve, And
when I made the pick, I was I was wondering.
I'm like, do I go here? Do I go there?

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And in the end I just said Tyreek Hill. But
not even twenty four hours after, I was having some
remorse on picking Tyreek Hill at number twelve. So this
is no different than actually doing a fantasy draft. When
I look back and say, what the heck was I
doing there, I mean that I already had buyer's remorse

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from the first round of our fantasy draft. So there's
probably gonna be more to come in the next five rounds.
Ryan start building the image, uh image in sound for
buyer's remorse. Can absolutely do that on a weekly basis.
It writes itself. It's perfect buyer's remorse, by the way,
that or buyer sell are the puns that people always

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give me for like shows that or segments that I
should do with my last name. That's it's buyer's remorse.
And I had buyer's remorse for this one. But it's
better than I got us. Don't think anybody asked me,
are you related to the guy from n C I
s no. Oh, step up to the mike. There you go.

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There's all sorts of things with Mike that we can do. Yeah,
Mike's magic is Ninja's and then I'll be standing there
in a thong. I mean, I don't know, not bad
sounds hot. Hey man, there's there's some percentage of the
audience that would get fired up about that might be small,

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would get this podcast is nsf W. No, let's uh,
let's get it going alright, Round number two. By the way,
we're gonna be doing a round each week until the
final episode of the podcast, which is going to be
right after Super Bowl fifty six, so we'll have six
rounds to get you set for two. Ryan Burr Singer,

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you are on the clock at number thirteen. Overall, Well,
I'm curious to hear who you probably would have taken
instead of Tyreek Hill once you sort of analyze that decision.
If I was you, I would take this player here
at twelve. In fact, I could see this guy going
as high as seven. I will tell you this. I'll
say this not to interrupt. I will tell you when

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the guy is picked, okay, perfect, and if and if
he lasts to me and the next one, then I
would obviously take him that. I will tell you. Go ahead,
So I can see this guy going as high as
in the middle of the first round, as as high
as six or seven. I will take Joe Mixon here
at number thirteen. I think because of how incredibly powerful
the Bengals offense was in the back half of the season.

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Joe Mixon also was the third highest running back, but
at at the end at season's end, so I think
Joe Mixon is looking at just our back half of
the first round here, you could comfortably take him really
anywhere in there. So I'm going Joe Mixon here. Alright,
Joe Mixon is off the board at number thirteen. That
was not who I was debating over. H Mike Harmon

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Europe at number fourteen. Well, I celebrate his entire catalog
or more so, I celebrate his quarterback UH and he's
made him oh that much more accomplished. So Stefon Diggs
gets the nod for me here next, Stefen Diggs is
in at number fourteen. As UH the running back wide

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receiver combo has been UH a constant theme. I would
not have taken Stefon Diggs. So the guy that I
was debating on taking, I will take right here. It
was Jamaar Chase of the Cincinnati Bengals. That's again it's
it's youth. There's that factor of it. But I think

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that when you have the talent like a Justin Jefferson
that I took earlier in the draft, we saw what
he did in this second season, I think Jamar Chase
can continue to have that and that rapport with the
Bengals should continue. Now Cincinnati will have a tougher schedule
than they than they had this past season, but still
it didn't stop them from playing Green Baya over time

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and and beating the Vikings like they did in Week one.
So I take Jamar Chase at number fifteen overall, as
we have a run on Bengals early in the second round.
Ryan Burr Shinger, you are up with pick number sixteen.
There's a couple of interesting names here, but I think
just strictly going off of value. And also I've only

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taken running back, so why not keep that going. I
will take Nick Chubb here at fifteen because you're you're
still going to get at the workload there. You might
get an improvement at quarterback who knows, But with the
way that that offense works through their running backs, I
will take Nick Chubb? Who will who will give you
a strong production throughout the season. See, I like that
you brought up the quarterback. Who are you bringing in

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that's better? Even if you hate Baker? Who's better that's
going to be on the market. That's the question I
keep asking everybody right when we talk about coaches and quarterbacks,
who who's out there that's better. As much as I
may stand for Mitchell dra Biscuit, I don't think everybody's
gonna be on my side with that. Beyond that, Uh,
the shirtless Ryan Fitzpatrick. Does he get released from and

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go back to where it all began in Cincinnati or
in Ohio and go to Cleveland instead of Cincinnati. I
still think Aaron Rodgers is an option for Cleveland. I
really do. I know it's we don't know what's going
to happen, but I just I think he could be
the savior that ends up coming to town and saves

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things if no matter how it ends in Green Bay,
I still think Rogers to Cleveland as a possible. I
like that. I've got a bottle in champagne in my
fridge that will get popped if that happens, you know,
given my Chicago Ties and Bears fandom. But if I'm
Green Bay, I'm gonna tell him, you know what, you
can go hang out in Hawaii with Miles Teller. Again,

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we're not trading you, you're retiring. If you don't want
to play for us. Uh, well, we we shall see.
But I like Nick Chubb as well. Nick Chubb just
gives you points, and that's that's all that you can
ask for our does you know? PPR stuff sometimes clouds
it because he's not going to give you eight receptions
in a game, but he's gonna give you a hundred

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yards usually, and he's probably gonna get in the end
zone more often than not. All right, I'll go back
for my hybrid guy at number seventeen mentioned him that
he was going to come off, and while he's still
there for me, so Deebo Samuel as a running back
slash wide receiver. Uh, guy does a little bit of everything.

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Is only he starts throwing the ball too then look out.
But the way he's been used in the identity of
that squad, I think he's just set up to be
a special player for a while. There's a situation that
I'm sitting there trying to decide at number eighteen, and
it's more because we don't know who the coach is
going to be, but we do know the talent is there.

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I am going to go Javonte Williams of the Denver Broncos.
I actually think, you know, we made jokes throughout the season,
guys of how evenly split that backfield was for Denver,
and for as frustrating as it was for fantasy purposes,
I still think it probably did Javonte Williams some good

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and not taking the wear and tear and have him
run into the ground, and Melvin Gordon seemed fine with things,
and maybe they figure out a way where Melvin Gordon
comes back. But honestly, I I just don't see it.
I think that that Williams probably takes more of the
more of the workload, and whoever comes in is going
to have a bell cow of a running back in
Javante Williams. So I'm gonna go Javante Williams and eighteenth overall. Alright,

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Ryan Burshinger Europe at number nineteen. So here, I'm going
to go with a guy who probably could have gone
at any point in this second round. I'll take Travis
Kelsey here at number nineteen, the first tight end to
come off the board. He'll still give you probably tight
end one numbers. It just seems like it doesn't slow
down at all for Travis Kelsey. So I'll take him here,

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especially now that he throws touchdowns too. I man, how
insane is that? He's Okay, I'm gonna say this, Ryan,
I don't want to be too harsh on you. This
is gonna sound really ours. I think this is Ryan's
first bad pick of the draft. Okay, yeah, how about that? No,
do you guys are supposed to go like whoa, No, No,

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I love it. I'm just happy that every other has
been good. So it's fine. Yeah, I've I've loved all
of them. And I think they've been they've been really good.
I just questioned. I had Travis Kelsey this past season
and there was some you know, talk about maybe a
stinger slowing him down. Obviously after the wild card game,

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you're like, jeez, what you know, Like that's the Travis
Kelsey that we all know. But the Chiefs again are
in the long game, and there have been times where, um,
you know, we've seen some Blake Bell, we've seen some
other stuff. Not that they've taken a spot. You just
wonder what another year could do. And when you see
some of the emergence of other guys, I just wonder.
I just wonder about Travis Kelsey, who was getting up

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there in age a little bit. So I just I
wonder about that. But I I just I had to.
I had to bring it up because we can't just
all pat each other on the back. I mean, especially
with my awful pick so far. But but yeah, I'm curious,
curious about Travis. Yeah, I've just done huge gambles. Yeah,
it'll be year ten for him, and you know, one

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of the things that I think will be interesting to
watch with the extra game, and and obviously we keep
an eye out for when you know game may teens
shows up on the radar, guys, is that load management
may find its way to the Hegital Football League Here
when you look at the way attrition was and for
some teams again playing the long game, like you say

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here with Kelsey, I wonder how many teams that extends
to before it's all said and done. Yeah, I I think,
I actually I that's a great point because I think
that you could start to see it. It's a long
haul in the regular season, all right, Kelsey's off the board.
Harmon Euro up at number twenty. Now, I'm gonna go
with a little bit of the price shot and based

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on what I saw on Monday night, it was the
re emergence of the identity that I thought needed to
be there for the Rams and for Sean McVeigh. So
I'm gonna go with cam Akers and what I saw
as a base here is the jumping off point for
a huge twenty two. I was hope cam Akers would fall,

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but alas it does not happen because to see how
fresh he looked. He looked really good. I mean, and
and you know the Rams will want to run the
ball no matter what they do. Yeah, he was. He
looked really good. There was, by the way, talk about
like the most anti fantasy football season that you could have.

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Cam Akers didn't play in any weeks but week eighteen
and now the playoffs like that. You know, when you
play fantasy, like just be there weeks one through seventeen,
everything else. Who cares about when you're talking about fantasy guys.
But cam Akers was the exact opposite of that, very
very frustrating. All Right, cam Akers is the pick for

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Mike Harmon that puts me on the clock once again.
You know, when you look at the wide receiver position,
there isn't there's a lot of young names. I mentioned
Ceedee Lamb would be earlier. If this was yere ago,
I probably jump on Ceedee Lamb because I would just think, like, man,
I can you know, can't imagine what he's gonna do
in his second year. There just seemed to be something

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a little off there. And there's also something a little
off somewhere else. Um not in Dallas but in Seattle.
But based on pure talent and size, you'd have to
think that dk metcalf would get on the right track.
I'm gonna go dk metcalfet number twenty one, and uh,
just hope that Seattle figures out the quarterback situation, whether

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it's Russell Wilson staying or of Russell Wilson leaves. But
just based on pure talent, on where we are right now,
I would bet on them figuring something out. Even though
he was a huge disappointment. Just the size and speed
is something that I couldn't turn down. So I'm gonna
go DK metcalfet number twenty one. Okay, So we had
a Manning cast related to the wild Card Super wild

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Card weekend. Uh, Larry Fitzgerald was on and the Cardinals
got blown out. Now, while he's not active, that he
will always be associated with the Cardinals. So the Manning
curse continues. That means the next movie or product the
Rock puts out is gonna suck. Even though he had
that cool t rex head behind him that I researched
it guys. Uh, it was bought anonymously for thirty two

(29:16):
million dollars. So there you go, uh stand behind him there. Uh,
And then you had Russell Wilson was guest number three.
So what does that mean with no games being played
right now? For Russell Wilson, He's He's already started his
looking at other options, which is, uh, you really shouldn't

(29:38):
have it? He does. He Yeah, it's there. I mean,
I know they're firing a bunch of the defensive staff man. Well,
you've got a lot of yes guys there, you know
Ken Norton Jr. And Uh, there's their defensive coordinator. Anyway,
I I am gonna put DK Metcalfe. I love that conversation, uh,

(30:01):
just because of what a freak athlete he is. So
he goes at number twenty one. Al Right here at
twenty two. I'm thinking of a couple of different things,
but I think I'm going to go with what I
feel is the safer pick um. I want a piece
of the Chargers offense in year three with Justin Herbert
behind the behind the helm again, So I'll take Keenan

(30:24):
Allen here at twenty two. Stats for days, Baby, stats
for days. You'd have to think that he would continue
his uh producing ways when you have yeah, Justin Herbert
and who knows what Mike Williams situation is going to be. Uh,
there could be a lot more targets for Keenan all
Out of Mike Williams plays elsewhere next year. Alright, So

(30:48):
from pick number twenty three, number of options on the board,
and a number of them that I just categorically dismissed, going,
I don't like you, and I don't like you. I
need to pick right now. You know the options, and
you know, running back usually the king in these draft points.
So there's a couple that I look at, and then

(31:10):
I look at a guy who's essentially a wide receiver
and he had a bunch of injury issues this year,
but I'm gonna take Darren Waller. Upset the apple cart
a little bit here. I wondered if Mark Andrews was
going to be second, and he is not. I mean
when it comes to tight ends. Yeah, he was almost

(31:31):
my pick, you know, because he's now got the all
time mark uh for receiving yards in a season by
a Ravens receiver. It's it's it's a strong history there
that you've got there with Oh gosh, why am I?
Why am I? Who is who is number eighty four?
It was Louis? Who am I forgetting? What wasn't it? Um?

(31:56):
I am gonna have to look this up because now
I'm trying to think of old Ravens receivers, and I
gotta go Baltimore Ravens. Clayton was there. You had who
am I thinking of? Why it's gonna I'm gonna bring
it up, right, Travis Taylor, you had, Steve Smith, you

(32:18):
had and Derek Mason's the all time Yeah, yeah, why
am Jermaine Lewis, That's who it was. Jermaine Lewis. I
know you're listening on the podcast screaming Jermaine Lewis, You
idiot to Lewis, h yes, Uh, Jermaine Lewis, just put it,

(32:38):
put it in. I mean to put their history as
the Ravens in perspective. Dennis Pitta is the sixth leading
receiver and with two twenty four career receptions. Uh it's uh,
it's Mason, Todd Heap and Tory Smith. Then you can
get to Mark Andrews. Heck Ray Rice is up there

(33:00):
on a bunch of categories. All right, Darren Waller goes
off the board. So the final pick and this will
leave you guys salivating because there are probably a bunch
of guys that you're looking at and you're saying, man,
I hope I can get them in round three. When
we do this next week, Mike, you mentioned the running
back position. I don't want to name guys that I

(33:21):
am passing on because I just I'd rather just name
the guy I'm gonna take, And I think he actually
had a pretty decent end to the season, which didn't
and wasn't a great healthy campaign, was dinged up, kind
of hampered by it. But game against the Bears. The

(33:43):
the guy that I am going to take is Antonio
Gibson of the Washington soon to be Commanders or whatever
their nickname is going to be. We think it's going
to be Commanders. But I will take Antonio Gibson, who
ended up scoring having a hundred and forty six rds
in the final game of the year against the uh
The New York Giants also had a nice game against

(34:06):
the Seahawks, had a good game against Tampa, getting in
the end zone a couple of times, even against that
tough run defense. But Antonio Gibson will be my pick
at number twenty four. Is he still learning the running
back position in d C. Not too shabby for a
guy who was supposed to be out with a shin
injury as a week eight Yeah, he and he you know,

(34:27):
played through pretty much most of everything, and uh maybe
didn't give everybody that drafted him, including myself, the production. However,
I do think his usage at the end of the
year in spots uh shows that there is some promise
there for Antonio Gibson. So that is wrapping up our

(34:49):
second round of our fantasy draft. So to recap, Ryan
took Joe Mix and Mike went Stefon Diggs, I took
Jamar Chase, then it went Jubb, Diebel, Samuel Javonte, Williams,
Travis Kelsey, Cam Akers, Dk Metcalf, Keenan Allen, Darren Waller,
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are just on the verge of starting our third round,
there are some interesting names out there. Anything stand out
to you as we enter the third round and what
we could see in our next twelve picks that we

(35:52):
make in our two fantasy draft, well, I one thing,
it shows the three of us have decided we're not
jumping on quarter backs immediately, right, which has been a
trend the last couple of years. Go up and get
your guy, even though you know that muddled mess behind
and what five through twelve don't have much variance to
them at all, So that that certainly is the case.

(36:14):
We've got two tight ends that have already come off
the board. I would suspect they'll be joined again. Top
heavy kind of list there, But you know, patients when
it comes to guys in the in the unknowns, right,
Christian McCaffrey goes ten. I see in a number of
industry things, uh popping off for the next year. He's

(36:35):
still a top four or five guy on most sites.
And all right, not only are you worried about his injuries,
But who the hell is slinging the rock there and
what does it look like? And if they're bringing in
dudes that ran the Giants offense, Like if McAdoo shows
up there, really suddenly that's going to be the thing
that catapults them to greatness. Come on, it's either going

(36:57):
to all works in a spectacular fashion or fail miserably.
And I I just I am on the side of
not trusting Christian McCaffrey. Plus, I just think there are
a lot of other names that are more reliable that
you can get ahead of him. You mentioned injuries. That's
what I think this third round is going to be about,
because now you're starting to see guys some that may

(37:18):
have missed a good part of the season or all
of the season that could be in the conversation and
in coming back from injuries. There are certain names who
had cam Akers, as Ryan mentioned, did go in the
second round twenty overall in our draft, but there are
other names that pop up. I also think that there
are injury prone players that are in this third round.
So let's uh, let's see what we have to offer

(37:39):
Ryan bur String or you are on the clock. It
goes Ryan Mike and then myself and then we just
continue in that order, all right, versus you look at
these players that are ahead of you, with twenty four
players in the rear view mirror, what are you focusing
on and pick number twenty five? Well, as Mike mentioned,
tight end is is super top heavy, and I think
over the last few years especially, I've started to more

(38:01):
subscribe to the strategy of getting a very strong tight
end to not have a hole in your roster. It's
very easily, very easy to get stuck with a hole
at tight end. And you look at last year at
tight end, like Dawson Knox was tight end four on
the season, and in terms of total points, sure, yeah,
he he ended up there, but he had weeks where
he was downright terrible, including a zero in week seventeen.

(38:24):
So I want to get a steady tight end, and
you have a guy available right now who was tight
end one on the season. So I'm going to take
Mark Andrews here at so burst does not subscribe to
the I'll just take Evan Ingram late in the in
the draft and watch him surprise everyone like everybody has
wished for the last five years. So Mark Andrews tight

(38:46):
end number three now off the board. After Waller and
Kelsey went Mike Harmon, you're up at number twenty six
back in Well, I mean, look, if we're gonna do,
why don't we do a veritable tight end run then
and give me my my Iowa boy. All right, no fans, No,
I'm just kidding. No fan probably is a top six guy.

(39:09):
It said, yeah again Marv Cook, who always made it
into those Iowa end graphics. We're at like seven guys
just like that. That is that is good Iowa's tight
end knowledge. That's what they would do. They didn't even
get a Hackinson. They they had this great run with
Fans Hockinson, Kittle and then Dallas Clark obviously, but to

(39:31):
like fill out the graphic, they would throw Marv Cook
in there from the eaties and nineties and the New
England Patriots back when we didn't mind the Patriots. George
Kittle goes number twenty six overall in tight end number four,
Kittle is off the board. That brings me up to
the plate. And I had actually been debating this and

(39:54):
I'm not going to I I I think that there
will be a bounce back and that there could be
a change don't know if there will be a change
though after what we saw a little over a week
and a half ago. The first Dallas Cowboy off the
board will be Ceedee Lamb. I am going to take
Ceedee Lamb at number twenty seven. I know that there
there are other Dallas Cowboys that could be available, including
Ezekiel Elliott, but I trust Ceedee Lamb more of the

(40:16):
breakout uh year that we expected his sophomore season to
maybe come next season. Give me Ceedee Lamb at number
twenty seven. I like that not to be labor the
Dallas point. We have plenty of off season to bandy
this about. But how different does that squad look? Right?
Are they able to get someone to take Elliott's contract?
Is Amari Cooper back because obviously Jerry Jones hates him

(40:40):
and he was mad at him because he was unvaccinated
and not available to them from stretch and then the
disappearing act at times, and then you finished terribly. Uh
So someone's got to go, especially after you've said all
the right things and brought them in and paid them
a lot of money. And we know that Jerry Jones
doesn't want to be hanging with Mr Cooper We'll see

(41:01):
if that happens in two. Alright, Ryan bur shing Er,
you are back up at pick number twenty eight overall. Yeah,
this is an interesting spot because I'm looking at guys
who have kind of battled with injuries. As you mentioned, Dan,
We're gonna be seeing a lot of that in this round. Here.
I'm going to go ahead and take A. J. Brown
and I'm going to bet on his ceiling, bet on
his talent. We saw what he could do in uh

(41:22):
In in weeks sixteen closing out the season there had
a huge game when he came back after being injured
for a few weeks. The talent is there. He's just
got to stay healthy. So I'm gonna take J. J.
Brown here. Let's also be real, if A. J. Brown
doesn't have the game that he has on Saturday, maybe
we are moving him down a little bit in the
rankings to see where the tight and wide receiver goes.

(41:43):
But in looking at the other names out there, I
think that yeah, A. J. Brown is is definitely worthy
of a pick at this point. But I do think
that this past weekend helped his helped his draft spot
top of mind, no question about it. I had him
as a w R five for this past year. So
clearly I liked him. I want to like him, even

(42:03):
three awesome games and then the rest and well not
four with the loss to to cincident in the playoffs.
But that's what you got from. But even looking at
Ryan Tannehill, there were a number of balls that Heat threw,
including the touchdown to to Brown where you're like, see
this guy can sling it, and then he does things
like after yeah, now we're going back to the playoffs,
how do you have Dante form and give you a

(42:24):
forty five yard run? Uh then throw that interception? And
how does form and only have four carries in the game,
Dan Fire, I was surprised about that. I I thought
it would be more of a split workload than it
was actually, And uh, yeah, they just gave Henry Henry
every not that it was the difference, but to your
point of, yeah, if you're gonna do that and that's
what got you to the playoffs, why would you change. Yeah,

(42:47):
he was able to carry it for half a year
to the number one seat as part of your offense.
But what do I know, I'm just a dope on
the radio. All right, let's get back into it so Edwards, Kittle,
Lamb Brown gone thus far. Uh, this seems like a
spot to try to figure out and read the tea
leaves of a guy with a big workload left at

(43:08):
the running back position. Uh. And while I will be
called a homer, I'll take David Montgomery. Hey, Matt Naggie's
not there to screw it up anymore. It's true that
I I was curious because I think that there is
another name out there on if you were to go
this name or go David Montgomery. I will be honest.
When I took Antonio Gibson number twenty four, I had

(43:30):
considered David Montgomery in that spot, which then just completely
doesn't explain why it took Ceedee Lamb at seven. But
I ended up taking CD and and and pick number
thirty since you took Montgomery, who was going to be
my pick if you didn't take him. I know this
is a bit of a reach, but I still think
that you talk about workload, it will be there if

(43:54):
he is healthy. And I will take se Kwon Barkley
at number thirty with having no idea what's going to
happen with the Giants coaching situation. He is still say
Kwon Barkley and if you can straighten some stuff up
in the off season when we did our pot a
few weeks ago, when we're talking about coaching changes, I
think with his contract, you're gonna want to figure out

(44:14):
and the uh, the future of se Kwon Barkley in
New York. This is the time to find out. This
is what you want to find out what you've got,
so put him to work. So I'm gonna take se
Kwon Barkley at number thirty RB fifteen in our rankings.
As we moved to pick number thirty one with Ryan
Burr Singer, I like that se Kwon pick. Actually, I
was about to do that, so I I endorse it,

(44:35):
and I think that the the other running backs available
right now, it's weird because you have steady guys and
strong offenses. You have guys who were first round picks
this last season and might be having too much of
a workload at the moment um or not enough of
a workload at the moment. I'm going to take Deonte
Johnson here because I think his his his workload is

(44:56):
very high. He gets targeted like crazy, and you know
they've they've got to have a better quarterback, maybe than
than than than no arm he I already had my
analysis written for this one, following to me, someone will
be able to get the ball five yards beyond the
line of scrimmage, it opens up. I I appreciate Ryan

(45:17):
Berginger having a pick ready after I took Barkley, because
if it was like a guy in our league, he
would jump right back into his magazine because he only
had Plan A, like there was no Plan B. And
once Plan A went off the board, he started from
scratch and started back at zero and started over again.
So I appreciate you having a backup plan with that.

(45:38):
Always have a backup alright. Deante Johnson is a wide receiver.
Twelve Mike Harmon up with five more picks in our
third round of our fantasy draft. Well, i'll assume he's
back and healthy, um, and I'm going back through the
board making sure he hasn't been picked. But give me
DeAndre Hopkins. Yes, he is available. One of the names

(46:01):
as well. When we talked about injury wise, on where
you want to take a guy that he was, he
was he was foremost on my mind. Him and another
guy that hasn't been picked yet were actually the two
names that really popped out, and see Kwon Barkley. When
we talked about guys who were injured or deal with injuries,
DeAndre Hopkins was one of those guys. I have one
more guy, and maybe we're kindred spirits and thinking the

(46:24):
same way. Uh One thing I would want to know,
I mean, Kingsbury, show me your plan for playing in
the second half of a season. I'll sit back and wait,
so will I so will uh so? Will Steve Kim?
But that's a whole other thing. All right, job, all right.

(46:46):
There are a lot of good names on the board,
and this is a decision that I actually have to
face in one of my leagues when it comes to
two keepers. I have to do it either or, and
usually isn't wise. And Ryan Burr Singer started out as
we started this draft kind of talking about this. I'm

(47:06):
gonna take the first quarterback off the board, and it
maybe recency bias, but Josh Allen goes off the board
at number thirty three. When you just saw what he
did in the these two playoff games that they had,
it makes you think like, oh, my goodness, could you
imagine having that for sixteen or seventeen weeks of a
fantasy season. So Josh Allen is going to be QB

(47:28):
one off of our board, number thirty three overall. So
it took thirty two picks until a thirty three picks
until a quarterback was finally taken. Alright, final three picks
of our third round of our fantasy draft. Make these count, guys,
because this is what's you're gonna be kicking yourself for
over the next week until we get to round number four.

(47:49):
Make these picks count. Ryan bur Shinger euro up at
number thirty four. Um, I'm gonna go in and take
Mike Evans here because if Chris Godwin doesn't come back,
he's then the clear number one in this offense. And
you know Tom Brady, I don't know, he may retire,
he probably won't. I still think that they're going to
find a way to get Mike Evans the ball a
ton in that offense. So I'll take Evans here. I

(48:11):
have no idea how Tom Brady would walk away from
this after the season he just had. I didn't. Yeah,
I was gonna say that story like it's just it's
it's so NFL insiders do this because they wanted for
that Sunday. That wasn't like a story, Mike that popped
up at ten o'clock Saturday night and then was needed
to be broken at that point or early the next morning.

(48:33):
You know, this has been sitting there, and it just
tells me that it's not really a story. Like if
you're waiting to unveil that, you know, six hours before
kickoff of you know, the Tampa game, to make it
a conversation for your pregame show, that to me just
then tells me maybe it's not as much of a
story as we thought it was. No, I just kind
of shrugged, Like I looked at during the Morning Show

(48:55):
with Bucky Brooks. We've gone through a ton of stuff, right,
obviously a lot of breakdown on a lot of Rogers
podcast up, I Heart Radio app and anywhere you get
your podcast, go grab it, give it five stars, will
love you forever, and evangelize your friends. Uh Like, look,
I took Rogers apart, uh nine thousand different ways. But
at some point I looked at Bucky and a break

(49:16):
I go, do you care to talk about this the Left?
Because it's a big deal now. So I think we
made a similar joke on their and just went in
to analyze the game. It's like, really, let's start talking
about the history of Kyle Trask everybody. It's like, no, alright,
Mike Evans though, um yeah, wing it up and Brady

(49:39):
still had the arm strength to get it to him
downfield as Jalen Jalen Ramsey kind of disappeared on that
converage now, didn't he But we moved forward. Now there's
a number of guys that I like in the next spot,
but they don't really just spread apart. I wanted Josh Allen,
but you stole them from me. J uh and uh,

(49:59):
you may you're a guy for me because I have
someone targeted at thirty six. So I'm gonna take a
wide receiver that we haven't seen in a very very
long time, Okay, and I am going to roll the
dice that this works. Now there's another guy I like,
and I'm curious to see what the quarterback position is
and what the new regime is. Uh, lots of money
to spend, you know, all that fun stuff. But I'm

(50:22):
gonna go out and roll the dice that Calvin Ridley
finds himself. Oh wow, Calvin Ridley off the board. I've
heard some new England connections with Calvin Ridley, we don't
think he's gonna be back in Atlanta. The curiosity, you know,
there's a bunch of guys that are kind of the same,

(50:42):
and I'm looking at all, right, where's my upside, where's
my potential push at this point in the draft? And
so there I'll roll the dice there why because it's
spicy and Bursch can put it in there, going what
do you think of this? There you go, burs This
is by the way, I think that we like with

(51:03):
with Ridley, there is a line at the wide receiver position,
and I think that we have now crossed it there there,
there's there's a name that I think I you know,
I'm not going to pick him here. I will tell
you who it is in the fourth round, but I
think that we've crossed that line of being now we're
into the next group of wide receivers. Like I think

(51:27):
that that is that is where we are in this draft.
So I am avoiding the wide receiver position. If he
stays healthy, I would be very very happy to have
Elijah Mitchell at number thirty six. So I'm gonna go
the forty Niners running back and I think he keeps
the job no matter what they've they've done. Considering the
way that he runs and how he has run this

(51:47):
season and the how much San Francisco likes to run.
I would take Elijah Mitchell thirty six. There there there
was a wide receiver that I really liked, and I'll
write it down and then we'll talk about it in
the fourth round. I think when once Ridley went off
the board, now you just kind of started not to
see just guys, not jags as we like to say,
but they're just there wasn't as much separation as I

(52:10):
thought with the with the other guys that were taken. Yeah,
I mean I like the Mitchell pick wide receiver position. Right,
They're all kind of the same, and it's trying to
figure out where where's the upside again one guy on
my brain where I'm like, all right, we saw some
good but there's potential for this to be unlocked if
everything breaks right. But it's a question of well does

(52:31):
it But well, I'm sure to tackle that in the
next twelve picks. Uh, no question. But Elijah Mitchell. I mean, look,
the forty Niners are still playing and a lot of
it is his emergence right when most it went down
and it was gonna be a committee situation, and it
is to a degree because right Deebo Samuels RB wanted times.

(52:52):
I mean, but you look at mitchell tough yardage and
trust that that staff has in him. I think there's
also there could also be the counter end answer, if
Trey Lance ends up getting the job, how much does
Elijah Mitchell's maybe go line work be effected or just
even running the football. I don't think it would change
that much, but something to look at in the off season.
So for the Elijah Mitchell detractors, that would be something

(53:15):
that they would point to. All Right, that wraps up
our third round. So we are halfway through, means we
have three more podcasts left in the season. They will
come out every Tuesday's. We're now doing them weekly. Big
thanks to Ryan Burr Singer UH and my Carmen. I'm
Dan Buyer. This has been a lot of fun. Any
final thoughts burst from what you saw in the draft.
I'll let you go get him on Twitter at Ryan
Burr Singer at these twelve picks. Any final thoughts, Yeah,

(53:37):
As Harmon mentioned, I think Elijah Mitchell, I think that's
a great spot for him, and I could see that
stock rising even higher as we get closer to the
season where there's more certainty in terms of his role.
As you were talking about with receivers, Dan, there's a
couple of receivers that I wasn't crazy about taking in
the third round, but I would absolutely love as fourth
round picks. And Uh, I think it's one more thing.

(53:59):
It's interest thing the kind of elephants in the room
at the moment. You've got Ezekiel Elliott and Aaron Jones,
guys who were taken in the first round of this
last season, and you watch their their stock continue to
kind of fall. As you saw, there are other counterparts
that've been running back. Uh excel in the way the
guys in the tandem outplayed them. Yeah, it's so it's

(54:20):
it's so interesting where the name feels like you should
be taking him around this time, but you look at
it logically and you're like, no, I just it doesn't
feel right. So be interesting to see where those guys
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(54:40):
Radio app. Search f s R to listen live. So
we continue with the draft, not changing up our order
at all. Ryan Burschinger picks, then Mike picks, and then
I pick. So, Ryan bur Shinger, you have the first
pick in the fourth round. You've been on the clock
for a week, so this better be a good selection.
There's better be a good election. Who are you taking

(55:01):
with the first pick in the fourth round of the
Fantasy Football Draft? Oh? By the way, PPR Scoring League,
that's how we are. We are doing this. Who do
you take in the top of the fourth round. It's
funny because I actually have been thinking about this over
the past week, a big deal because I'm looking at
the way that our draft has gone, and I'm looking

(55:23):
at kind of a handful of rankings online that are
early rankings for next season, and there are a handful
of guys that are ranked in the twenties to thirties
that we haven't taken yet, and a couple of guys
that we have kind of debated over into into how
we should approach them this season. Um, I'm going to
take one of those guys right now, and that's Aaron
Jones here at thirty seven. The reasoning here I have

(55:43):
Uh is one. Obviously, yes, A J. Dillon's presence in
the Packers offense does make a difference to age in
to Aaron Jones workload. We saw that in the back
half of the season. But the talent is there, the
investment into Aaron Jones is there. Uh, He's still going
to get a ton of touches. He's still going to
get a ton of opportunities in an offense that could
possibly still retain Aaron Rodgers and still be a very

(56:05):
strong offense. And my reasoning too is I'm also I'm
also understanding the reason why we've seen Aaron Jones and
Ezekiel Elliott and and some of these guys fall in
our draft is we're not only approaching this as overall
rankings for next season, but we are three guys who
are going to be drafting in fantasy football leagues next season.
And I think that that's something that people should take

(56:26):
into account when they listen to this, because our hesitancy
to take Aaron Jones or Zeke in that top thirty
six is going to translate to your leagues, and people
are going to be hesitant to taking to taking these
guys even if the rankings have them higher. So I
think that that's an approach that that people who need
to understand as they listen to this is it's not
only about the rankings that we're we're kind of assembling.

(56:46):
It's also the fact that we're three guys drafting and
we're showing you what sort of mindsets guys are going
to have in your drafts. Alright, so Aaron Jones off
the board, that's RB seventeen at number thirty seven. Mike Carmen,
you pick at number thirty. I am on the board.
You know, I almost drafted him in our last round.

(57:07):
And here I'm gonna take Jalen Waddle. And the reason
and rationale is that there will be a change at quarterback,
and while the opportunities may go down, Right, he had
a ridiculous target account, uh target account, like I'm buying
some uh target count. I swallowed the word count, so

(57:31):
it sounded like a count. And at least how it
played in my hand, um is that I think the
quality goes up and the offense is more prolific. Again,
owing to what Ryan just said of trying to read
t leaves of who's going where and how things fit, together, right,
it's a snapshot in time as the three of us congregate. Here.

(57:52):
The Jail and Waddle pick is actually when I considered
when I took Elijah Mitchell at thirty six. Just even
if it's if to is the quarterback, then the volume
is going to be there. But yeah, but Mike looking
at more of the upside. We talked about this the
end of the third round, specifically at the wide receiver position,
at a point where you kind of I think you

(58:12):
draw a line like I. I do think that there's
a difference between Jalen Waddle and Calvin Ridley and Mike Evans,
who we you know, just ended up taking Tom Brady's
likely retirement effects how I would look at Chris Godwin,
especially coming off that knee injury. Looks like the Bucks
do want him back, but who knows. So I'm gonna
stay away kind of from the wide receiver position. But
I'll go to a different question mark. You want to

(58:34):
talk about season ending injuries. This season ending injury happened
at the start of the season. I'm going j K. Dobbins,
Ravens running back and number thirty nine. I still think
they're gonna run the ball. He will have basically a
full year to recover. So that's that's another portion of
it that that hopefully Yeah Bowl cam Akers you know,

(58:55):
ended up being an RB twelve for us, going twentieth overall,
so we aren't we aren't ski heard about that. So
I'm going J. K. Dobbins at number thirty nine as
a running back eighteen, just because I think the workload
will be there and I am not concerned about the
the knee injury that he suffered in the preseason. So
Dobbins off the board number forty. Bur Singer, you are
back up. I absolutely agree on Dobbins. I was about

(59:17):
to take him there as well, so he too. We
there we go. Nice job, great pick by Dan. Once
again we said that throughout this drafting your whole cattle. Yea,
I will go with a wide receiver here. I'm going
to take Tea Higgins here at forty overall. He would

(59:39):
be a wide receiver seventeen. And yeah, I think we
saw his explosion in the end of the season, and
I think that obviously that Bengal's offense is going to
roll like crazy next year. So I'll take Tea Higgins here.
Te Higgins off the board. Alright, because I like price
shots an opportunity. Right, we have the guy who missed
a year in Dobbins Higgins. Right, everybody looks at Jamaar Chase,

(01:00:02):
but Tee Higgins with a very very very nice year
as well. I'm gonna go to a guy who either
they fix everything, oh and he comes back, or he
gets dealt somewhere else, and that's Michael Thomas. Uh. They're
in salary cap hell as of right now. They have
to shed what seventy one million dollars or something like

(01:00:25):
that um to make it all work. And who knows
what the coaching staff looks like or anything as we
sit down to record this. But a guy who was
still an all world talent um when he last was
seen on a field. Uh So let's let's see if
we can get him back in the mix, and maybe

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not in a New Orleans Saints uniform to do so,
Michael Thomas off the board, Sean Payton out, Could Michael
Thomas be out as well? Mike want you guys watch
Home Team this weekend? By the way, I did not.
I did not. I got through about half of it.
It is a an Adams Handler production from Happy Madison
and it's predictable. Okay, get to know, well, I mean

(01:01:06):
the jokes, I mean you can see him a mile away. Sure,
all right, Well, I am going to go with a
player who I think could he was either the best
worst fantasy player, uh, the worst best fantasy player, the
biggest disappointment, Uh that was good, or the best Uh

(01:01:28):
maybe I don't know. I'm going down a road where
I hope you understand I'm taking Kyle Pitts at number
forty two the Falcons tin end because so much was
made about pits this season hunter a thousand yards season
that he had for the Falcons, sixty eight catches, head
over a hundred targets. But for those of us that
did have Kyle Pitts on our fantasy teams, we also

(01:01:50):
know that he had one touchdown. And I just don't
say how many times. You just started like after like
week four in all serious, this is this was the
problem is I I had Kyle Pitts on my team,
and then they go and they have success and he
has that that great game in London. You're like back
to back weeks. Now it starts rolling, so that like
locks you in for like five more weeks of starting

(01:02:11):
him because you're like, jeez, I have to start him.
He had a hundred sixty three yards in a game.
He also had a touchdown and he's obviously gonna get
a touchdown again. Well that never happened. And and yet
so we look at Kyle Pitts and being like man
thousand yards season in his rookie year. I still think
for their opportunities. I don't believe in Matt Ryan at all.
And I know that the Falcons maybe tied up at

(01:02:31):
that position, but still, if we think Calvin Ridley could
be on his way out, I think it could help
Kyle Pitts to be there another season. So I'll take
Kyle Pitts at number forty two. Matt Ryan's gonna be
the best quarterback in the division, man, And he stinks
he's not good. I don't. I don't know why people
still think Matt Ryan's good, but they do. Unless Tom
Brady comes back for spite, that could be what you

(01:02:53):
would be amazing, that would be for spite. Alright, why
did you come back? Tom? All these reports? But you
know what, I didn't want any of those bleeping to
break it before I did. I had a whole whole
things planned. Alright, halfway through our fourth round, Ryan Burrshing
or you are up at number forty three, I'm going
to take a guy here. I think just gotten to

(01:03:15):
a rather interesting position. I'll take Josh Jacobs from the Raiders.
Given the new head coach there and maybe a new
investment in the running game. We've we've seen his talent
come through before, and I like that opportunity, so I'll
take Josh Jacobs here. Alright, nice company coming in. Were
you thinking about Josh Jacobs from my comment? Do you
have someone else on your mind at number forty four? Well,

(01:03:38):
you know, Jacobs was was on on a list, right,
the short list of all right, what do I do
with him? Because every time I've decided I liked him
and pasted investments, he would miss a game or two,
and then a half of a game and whatever says
like you know, and then I'd end up having to
scramble for whomever might be in the backfield for them
to find some some touches along the way. And I'm

(01:04:03):
going through our our list, and I'm trying, you know,
because you never want to be the guy that could.
Uh he was already picked. I don't I don't see
Terry mclauren is having been picked there. I was hoping
that I could say, like, how I thought maybe mclauren
should have been in that, maybe that borderline and the
separation contradicting completely what I said four minutes ago. I

(01:04:26):
think that's a good pick. Mike. I was like, I'm
looking at the list, like, all right, because I had
him off on the side, right, you just scribble a
couple of names, and I'm looking, I'm like, yet, did
did I type this wrong? Did I did I do
something to screw this up? So I threw it out there,
fully expecting you're an idiot harm and he was gone
and pick fortunately did not so good picked by me.

(01:04:50):
As they try to figure out again what they are
in two right questions at the quarterback is it? Is
it Taylor Henekey? Is it someone as yet to be named?
As we've talked about quite a bit here and certainly
on on the radio on on Fox Sports Radio, all
three of us, I mean, we have no idea, like
there's not a lot of free agents that makes sense.
So are you swinging big to go draft somebody? Are

(01:05:13):
you bringing back? Noted Bill's fan Ryan Fitzpatrick. I mean,
what are you doing? Uh? All I know is this
is I think that we're going to have Terry mclauren
of the Washington Commanders. We should officially find out that's
that seems to be the that seems to be the lan.
So if you if you listen to this after February second,

(01:05:33):
when the when Washington is unveiled, and it's completely wrong,
please forgive me. But I think everything is Washington Commander
wide receiver Terry McLaurin. He ends up being a wide
receiver number nineteen. That puts me on the clock for
the ninth pick in this fourth round. I think, I actually,

(01:05:53):
I am fairly confident that the quarterback situation will change
and change for the better. Not talking about in Washington,
but I'm talking about in Carolina. I'm gonna take Dj
Moore at number forty five. Where the talent is there,
it's just is there someone there to give him the football.
I don't think it's gonna be Cam. I don't think
it's gonna be p J. Walker, and I really don't

(01:06:14):
think it's gonna be Sam Donald. I think that the
Panthers do make a move, I'm gonna go Dj Moore
just based on pure talent at this spot at number
forty five, he is a wide receiver twenty Matt Rule
likes his job. Guys, I think he's gonna find another quarterback. Yeah, yeah,
you have to. It's I don't know how much change
is gonna be made this offseason with quarterbacks, but that

(01:06:35):
is one place that I think you can guarantee the
see a change. Alright, first, you we got three picks
to go in this fourth round. What is your final
pick of today's episode? Alright, fine, I'll take Ezekiel Elliott here.
I think he's I think he's been available for too long,
purgatory for long enough. Yeah, because given other running backs

(01:06:56):
at this spot you have, you have guys who also
had huge numbers this season but don't have teams right now.
Um and unless you are a firm believer in Michael Carter,
which I think there's a lot of promise there, but
it is also the Jets, I'm gonna take Ezekiel Elliott here,
and uh, he he should still put up strong numbers.
I think this is r B two territory. Uh, this

(01:07:18):
is back half r B two territory, and I think
that expecting at least that from Ezekiel Elliott is not
a stretch, So I'll take zek I'll just say this.
It reminds me of one of my buddy we had
a fantasy draft. This is like, yeah, three years ago.
This has been twenty nineteen. He's like, I got a J.
Green is my wide receiver number five. I u's my
fifth wide receiver. Like, yeah, good luck with that. I

(01:07:42):
don't know. I think a lot of people would be like,
I've got Ezekiel Elliott as my fourth running back. I
hope for versus case that it works out, but I
just I just don't know if it will. But we
shall see. You could you could come back and you
can mark this episode and rub it in my face
if Zeke as A has a rate season next year.
But I think it looks good on paper to your point,

(01:08:03):
and I know there was hesitancy in your voice, but yeah,
you gotta take him here. I just don't know how
excited people will be with the results. We'll see, we
shall see, because you already talked about Michael Carter. I'm
not taking Michael Carter now. He's got to wait for
another episode. No, legitimately, he's on the shortlist. But I
will go with a team that will run the ball,

(01:08:23):
and obviously you went and took the running back with
his new coach, McDaniels leaves, but fully expect Damien Harris
to continue to have a big role in New England.
Damian Harris is one of the few Patriot running Mexic
you could actually trust. Very rare commodity on twenty years,

(01:08:43):
isn't it. Yes, yes, when Corey Dillon was running around,
But even then, that's the back end of the nineties.
So in my in my final pick, and I'm just
gonna say this to wrap it up, I always think
you guys made great picks and that my picks are awful.
So I always feel like, like, man, you know like
these that's a good guy, and that I'm sitting there
taking guys that you know, uh, there's so that that
That's how I feel. I think everybody understands. Everybody understands

(01:09:10):
that sort of uh, the sort of scenario that you're in.
I mentioned this guy earlier. Actually you know what, No,
I'm going to move off of him. I was, I was,
I was going to I was going to take I
was going to take Chris Godwin, And that is not
going to happen. I just I don't know what's going
to happen in Tampa, and I hope that he's fully healthy. Jeez,

(01:09:35):
do I do it? Do I not do it? You
know what, I'm gonna take a J. Dillon at n Okay.
I know this is crazy, this may be absurd, but
if Aaron Rodgers doesn't return, I think that they are
going to be running the football a lot. And I
like a J. Dillon. I that we have Aaron Jones
and a J. Dillon going in the same round. You

(01:09:56):
want to talk about bad picks, Uh, there's one by me,
But I gonna take a J. Dillon to wrap up
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Ryan Burr Singer, you're up at pick number forty nine.

(01:10:18):
Are our fantasy draft for two perfect? Perfect. I am
going to take a bit of a risk on this
one only because we don't know what team he's gonna
be on. But this guy finished. I believe RB seven,
RB eight around there this season. I will take Leonard
for Nett with the thought that he probably will return
to Tampa Bay or he does find a starting job elsewhere.

(01:10:38):
He had such a strong season and established himself as
in every down back, put up great numbers throughout the year,
and I think, especially in this range, I'm willing to
take that risk at the moment, given the fact that
his stock will probably rise once we know where he falls.
All right, So Leonard Fordett is off the board ends
up being RB twenty three. Mike Harmon, you go up
number fifty. You know Leonard might show up during Super

(01:11:00):
Bowl Week, so you you should stalk him and see
if you can find out. You know what, I'm gonna
go to a guy that's probably a former teammate and
health is it concerned? But if my records are correct,
Chris Godwin is still next where where he goes? How
this ends up, there's so much chaos and potential intrigue
in Tampa Bay as talking about for Net, is he there?

(01:11:23):
Is he? Not? Uh? You've got a lot of defensive
players that are aging but are up so that you
try to steal one more year. I keep wondering if
you have Bruce Arians as your head coach when you
get to the fall. That's a whole other things still
swirling in the background. Now that Byron Leftwich didn't get
and didn't go to Jacksonville for myriad reasons. But for
Chris Godwin, whether he's in Tampa with Kyle Trask, or

(01:11:45):
if they bring in Jimmy g or somebody else, or
he moves on to greener pastures, a giant bed of cash, uh,
he'll come back and perform. That is Chris Godwin. Now,
i'd receiver number twenty one going at fifty guys, I'm
gonna go QB two. Yes, take Patrick Mahomes at number

(01:12:06):
fifty one, And I know it's difficult, uh quarterbacks, especially
as we're doing best available. You can always say, well,
it gets someone later. However, I don't think that the
Chiefs are that well oiled of a machine right now
as an overall unit meaning this, they still can't run
the football like there are a variety of guys, and
I still think that they will rely on Patrick Mahomes.

(01:12:26):
I also think they're gonna at some point try to
upgrade that wide receiving corps just a little bit. Ravis
Kelsey is getting a little bit older. There's gonna be
some new blood in there, I think offensively, maybe you
see the Kansas City Chief shutter straighten things out. So
I'm gonna put Patrick Mahomes is the QB two at
number fifty one. All right, Ryan Bursinger, you are up
at two. So for this pick, this might be a

(01:12:46):
little high, but I'm very high on him for this season,
given the way he especially ended the last year and
because of recent developments where now his new head coach
was a guy who worked with an offense that through
to the slot constantly. So I'm going to take Hunter Rental.
Can I just say, just like Dan ahead of me,
I hate you. That was that was the next pick.

(01:13:09):
But you know what that we're at that point in
the draft. Do that. You hear it and everybody listening,
you know, the fifth round is generally whether you scooped me,
you screwed me, all of those talk. But yeah, Renfroze
a potential monster if this offense clicks. This is this
is the point that I think is is interesting and
that's the reason. And I had considered Hunter renfro as

(01:13:29):
a possibility along with a few other guys, but I
tried to put myself in the situation of if I'm drafting,
and let's say Renfroll I think would be your w
R to UH, maybe a flex play depending on what
you've drafted, But would I take Hunter Renfro above Patrick Mahomes.
That's what went through my mind. So in that's a
scenario and I'm like, you know what I'm I know,

(01:13:52):
quarterbacks or whatever. But I also feel like we get
to this point, like at wide receiver number two, there
are some other names that we're gonna get to, and
right now we're only doing a three person draft, but
those are the decisions that I think you get in
this time of the selection process that alright, Harmon, you're
up at goes so up at number fifty three again?

(01:14:12):
Head coach change UH literally announced to start Super Bowl Week,
So this ought to be interesting to see the fallout
Houston and whether it's Davis Mills or somebody else. Brianon
Cooks still available. Had a really nice season despite the
obvious efforts UH to really screw that roster and all

(01:14:33):
the remnants of what Bill O'Brien did to that roster.
Good old trader Bill still lives on if if he
would have had to d Taylor the entire season, I
think it would have been a different story for Brandon Cooks.
I mean, I think you would even yeah, just to
continue to be higher. All right, here's the name that
I thought. I didn't think I was gonna do it,
and I know it's gonna come back to haunt me.

(01:14:54):
You know, we don't even know what team he's gonna
play for. You guys are saying we don't know about
head coaching situations and how they're going to play out,
or at least these guys are gonna play out. I
would take Rashot Penny at number fifty four if he
goes back. I mean you want to talk about value.
I know he would get hurt in in uh in
week number four. But if you can get Rashod Penny
at that point of the draft, and considering what he

(01:15:16):
did in the later part of the season, those numbers
in this value, I think would be uh, it would
be great if you were able to land him. Dan,
look into my eyes. Do you see eyebrows? No, I've
been side by Rashad Penny before. No, my eyebrows are
really blond. For those that obviously can't see us, as

(01:15:37):
this is a an audio pot, you go to my
brow guy, I'll tell you you can. Well, you know what.
I used to have to color him in back when
I did td TV work. They spent a lot of
money on mac makeup, which was eventually stolen when I moved.
But that's a whole other thing, all right, Harmon. Harmon
took Brandon Cooks at fifty three. That was wide receiver
twenty three. I just took Rashot Penny at number twenty four,

(01:15:59):
r r B twenty four, number fifty four, number fifty five.
Halfway through this fifth round, Ryan bursting in Europe. So
here I'm going to take speaking of being burned before,
I'm going to take a running back that I've used
high picks on for the last two years, and we've
all been waiting for his touchdown numbers to finally increase,
especially given that he's a featured guy in one of
the best offenses in the league. I'm going to take Clyde.

(01:16:21):
That was the biggest trample. Like this is what if
you were out of the game show, we would have
been holding up cards predicting what Ryan was gonna say.
You want to talk about burnt eyebrows. C e h
has been my, uh my fire starter over the last
two years. So Clyde Edwards Laire is off the board
at number fifty five. RB over to Mike Harmon. Alright,

(01:16:43):
as we continue on, this is where maybe maybe I'm
thinking a little bit too outside the box. We've got
two quarterbacks going. I'll take number three and and I'll
take Joe Chill, Joe Cool, whatever the hell we're calling
him right now, assuming that we now get one or
two offensive lineman into a lot of money to spend

(01:17:04):
in free agency plus the draft, all those skill position
guys are under contracts. So here we go. Joe Burrow
is off the board, so that puts me up at
number fifty seven. By the way, guys, it's been like
out of our drafts that we've left and doing the
four rounds prior to this, three out of the four
times I've regretted who my last pick is. We're not

(01:17:25):
to that point yet, but then I've I've made myself
feel better about it throughout the week. I am going
to take a man in this scenario. There's there are
a lot of names out there, and I'd rather sometimes
go younger as opposed to older, but I will go
not to make it back to back Seahawks. But I'll
take Tyler Lockett Lord Russell Well Wilson possibly staying in Seattle. Uh,

(01:17:47):
Tyler Lockett again, he'll give you three games where he
has two touchdowns in a hundred and eighty five yards. Uh.
The other ones are gonna have to navigate, but still
as an overall overall value wide receiver. Twenty four, I'll
take Tyler Lockett at number fifty seven. Alright, so that
leaves three more picks for us in this fifth round
of this fantasy draft. First, make this one counts so

(01:18:09):
you don't regret it for a week. Well, Uh, you
guys have both taken a quarterback in this round. I
will go ahead and take a quarterback here, and there
are a couple of strong options for quarterback. Four. I'm
going to take Justin Herbert. Are you impressed off that
Pro Bowl effort? Like? What? By the way? That? Um?
That was fun. I'm gonna leave it at that. Go ahead,

(01:18:30):
and Aliceair's first um. He just continues to get better
and better, and those numbers are just going to keep
skyrocketing even without if potentially Mike Williams doesn't return. I'm
not terribly concerned with that. I think they'll probably address
receiver in the draft if if Williams does not return.
Uh yeah, just give me Justin Herbert all day. Alright,
Mike Carmen, your last pick of this round, don't regret it.

(01:18:51):
Who's going to be. I'm already shaking in my boots,
you know, um based on and I guess that's the
theme guy that I've loved for her, right, running back
has been the guy well ends the year hurt was inconsistent,
was in the doghouse. So what his role is I
don't know, but I'm not taking James Robinson. I'm gonna
take travist Okay. Interesting like this, see what Doug Peterson

(01:19:17):
can do with the running back position, right, I mean,
that's the best friend of a young quarterback. And you're
trying to unlearned take the men in black flashy thing
approach to whatever Trevor Lawrence experienced in his rookie year.
You can keep that win over Indianapolis, that was good,
but outside of that, you want to forget the rest
of the year. Right, You're getting a couple of guys

(01:19:38):
back healthy. Hopefully Robinson is one of them. I think
he's got contracts stuff that needs to be resolved. But
you get at n back off injury, and you know
the focal point will be to make Lawrence comfortable, which
means a lot of work from the running backs, tight
ends and the running back out of the backfield as
a receiver. So at ten fits the bill for me. Here, alright,

(01:19:59):
Travis d n is off the board, and that is
running back RB twenty six. Now we don't know how
this is all going to play out, but wherever he goes,
I think that he will put up numbers wherever he goes.
Final pick this round, and I won't be regarding it.
Mike Williams. Mike Williams going off the board. What was

(01:20:22):
the CE do you guys talking about Mike Williams are saying?
I wouldn't touch Mike Williams in the first sixty picks,
and I just picked him at six. No no, no, no,
no no, because Mike Williams. That's all. It was just
a very recent callback to the Mike Williams conversation we
just had. Whether he's with Justin Herbert or somebody else,
And if he's with somebody else, that means you're probably
bringing in as your number one, which means Keenan Allen

(01:20:44):
is not there like a damn siphon to take all
those targets. Now, if Mike Williams can stay healthy, which
he did this year, finally, yeah, you got big numbers
and certainly red zone monster potential. Yes, I think that
there's the ability there. I was also debating between two Jets.
We know, it's funny I had I had one of

(01:21:05):
them on my shot. That is what we call a tease.
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search f s R to listen live. Ryan Burshing, are
you are on the clock with pick number sixty one
in the sixth round of our fantasy draft? Well, Dan,

(01:21:29):
it was very nice of you to compliment my picks, because, uh,
you might want to take it back though, with what
I'm about to do, because I hate what I'm about
to do, because I'm about to break one of my
big rules and fantasy, which is don't draft a New
York Jet. But I'm gonna do it um because quite frankly,
Michael Carter is a very talented running back and he's

(01:21:50):
going to have a ton of opportunities, and so I
think in this range, Uh, this is a very solid
pick here. Looking at the scope of running backs there,
there are still a handful of running backs are going
to have a great workload and a ton of opportunities.
I'm betting on the talent here, and I'm betting on
the fact that the Jets offense might not be terrible

(01:22:11):
next season. Hey, Harmon was gonna look at a Jet
and I was deciding to on our last year. Carter
was the pick. So never in in a million years
do you say someone uh picks a guy from the Jets.
You say you stole my pick. That's what we're doing
right here. Michael Carter is off the board at running back.

(01:22:33):
Mike Harmon, you are now up. Oh the insanity of
it all. I am gonna go, and I'm miss making
sure because you know I love this guy. Um, I'm
gonna go to Indianapolis because Carson Wentz won't be there
to screw things up, which means I'm taking Michael Pittman Jr. Okay,
Michael Pittman Jr. Comes off the board and wide receiver

(01:22:54):
number twenty six. I you talked about picking uh taking
a jet and having some getting the other one. No, no,
I I actually I really really was thinking and you
know who I'm thinking about, and I'm thinking in the
same area. But you know I'm gonna take I'm gonna

(01:23:19):
take a wide receiver who flashed at the end of
the season, and I know that this team needs to
add players and they plan to add him at that position.
But amanra St Brown is going to go off the
board at number I'm gonna go a manra St Brown
of the Detroit Lions. You can't deny his numbers. You
can deny Jared Goff, but you can't deny his numbers.

(01:23:40):
So I'm going a manra St Brown at number uh
sixty three. Overall, I like that. I think he's a
good player, and I like what they're building there alright,
first year up at number sixty four. I don't think
there's another USC receiver for me to take to continue
this uh this here, unless we want to go with

(01:24:02):
a different Mike Williams. I guess, um, let's go with
he always got screwed by the legal system, still got
paid as a top ten guy by Detroit later. But
you know, hey, um, I'm gonna take Amari Cooper because
uh yeah, he did have a down season, but the
Cowboys offense should still be throwing a ton I'm gonna

(01:24:23):
bet on him bouncing back a bit, and I think
at this point, I think that's a strong bet here.
So I will take a good value, yeah, fair value.
They're absolutely good value. Just when we look at that offense,
because I'll assume that Jerry Jones will come to love
him again. I know he pushed him off a little
bit and he talked about him out of school. I

(01:24:43):
you know, whenever Jerry opens his mouth when he's disappointed,
someone's got to pay the piper. And it can't all
be the head coach. I certainly won't be Deck or
anybody else. Um, I am gonna go as I'm looking
at this and again owing to the end of the
season and what this team became. Devin Singletary of your

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all right Buffalo Bills, curious to see how Ken Dorsey's
offense now looks in Buffalo with Brian Dable gone. Yeah,
maybe the curiosity, but Singletary down the stretch suddenly took
the realm. You had some healthy scratches for Zack Moss
and other members of that running back situation, so it
looks like it's his job to try to push going forward.

(01:25:27):
I'm gonna take Elijah More here. I'll take the jets
he had to come. If you wouldn't getting them here,
I was gonna have to do it. Yeah, and you
know I will take that. I'll I'd rather do upside
than than do downside of the career. So I'm gonna
go Elijah More at number sixty six. Overall, I know
that was a quick pick, Ryan bur Singer, but you
are back on the clock, you know that's okay. I

(01:25:49):
was just thinking about how actually there is a USC
receiver here that wouldn't be a terrible pick um, And
I'll be the judge of that exactly. I think there's
value in Robert Woods at this point, but um, I
also don't know if he's even a better pick than
another Ramps receiver. But I'm not gonna go with either
of them here. I'm going to take a guy who

(01:26:10):
was I believe running back seven or eight on this
past season. It is because he had a very high
touchdown total, but uh, I think that's still at this
point they're strong value in him, and I'm gonna go
with James Connor here. Of course, it does depend on
where he ends up. I wouldn't be surprised if he
does come back to Arizona. And like I said, his
his numbers were definitely heavily bullied by his touchdown total,

(01:26:35):
which is very hard to repeat. But um, I think
he's a strong back and he'll find another situation where
he should get a good amount of opportunities. Again. Alright,
James Connor is off the board at number sixty seven
RB nine. Back over to Mike Harmon. Edie got the
word buoyed in, so bonus to you. All right, I'm
gonna go back to the tight end. Well, you took

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one of the Detroit receivers. Give me the man out
of Iowa. T J. Hawkins, all right, T E six
comes in number sixty nine. Is we have four picks
left in our draft. We all have to do the
requisite giggle. That's what you do on podcasts when that note. Ye, yes,

(01:27:16):
it's it's true. I'm laughing more about the idea of
forcing a laugh. Any any sixty nine jersey you see
at a game, I just end up rolling my eyes
and saying, I go okay, all all right, we get it.
We got it. I I I don't know what the

(01:27:38):
future necessarily holds, but I just said I pick a
go I'd rather take a guy with upside than a
guy with downside. I will completely contradict myself in that fashion.
Why not take cor Darryl Patterson? Why now I wrote
his name off to the side. I was just like, yeah,
just like my buddy when he told me that A. J.

(01:27:58):
Green is his fifth wide receipt eiver. You like I,
I like that would be me. Like I got Cordarol
Patterson in the sixth round. I'm good with that. I'll
take Cordarol Patterson at number sixty nine, RB thirty or
w R thirty. Uh. By the way, I should go
done Dune done, not Dong dong dong. That was well,

(01:28:21):
I mean, yeah, there it is there, it is, alright
our final three picks. Make them count, guys for the
I Want Your Flex podcast? Um, alright there there, Yeah,
you can't. You can't go back on this. There's not
another podcast to be like. Guys, I've made a mistake,
so you are stuck in cement on this one. Uh,

(01:28:42):
there's a couple of players I like here I will
take I'm gonna go with who I think should have
a better season this He showed a lot of promise
in the first half of the season and then he
really faded off, but that was, of course because of injuries,
a quarterback and everything. I'll take Marquise Hollywood Brown here
because I will have been on the Ravens offense to

(01:29:04):
be better this season with the healthy JK. Dobbins in
the backfield, that that offense should move better than they did.
Even though Tyler Huntley played well in his UH in
Lamar Jackson's absence, I still expect that offense to UH
overall be stronger, and we've seen flashes with Hollywood, so
I will take him here. Hollywood Brown is off the

(01:29:26):
board at number seventy. Ryan Burr Singer's final pick alright
to Mike Carmen Europe at well. There are two quarterbacks
that that I'm looking at. One is in the news
for all sorts of madness. Really just seems more like
a contract play more than anything else. The other is

(01:29:47):
well the quarterback for the receiver. You just picked Ryan
Burr Shinger and you know me, I I believe and
this is part of the analysis we did right Dan
with with the Bangles and their road back is everything
broke just right. The Party of the Red Sea as
it were in the a f C. North, Well, that
will not be the case as Lamar Jackson returns to form.

(01:30:08):
So give me Lamar Jackson in this spot to get
healthy and for that offense to pop, particularly if he
ends up bringing in Antonio Brown, even if he only
comes in for half a year. The I was I
really honestly, guys, and I'll name a pick here that
I really was thinking quarterback, and I'm like trying to
think Dak likes Dak with that offense and what what

(01:30:29):
Dallas does, And I really was thinking about taking Dak
with the the last pick, but I just I can't
do it. I am going to take where it could
be value. I still think they're gonna be running the
ball and better. I don't believe we've taken Kareem Hunt
Cleveland Browns. So Kareem Hunt will be my final pick.

(01:30:50):
Dinged up this past season, so maybe kind of got
lost in the shuffle with some of this stuff. But
I'll take Kareem Hunt with the final pick as an
RB thirty one in our I Want Your Flex podcast.
There it is seventy two picks to get you set
for two. And here's the good news. Ryan Burr Singer
is actually gonna take these picks and make an entirely

(01:31:11):
new podcast out of them. So if you want to
go back and reference them, if you want to listen
to the off season, feel free to check out this podcast,
not only this special podcast, but the final one that
we just did. Now, thank you very much, Ryan Burrshinger
for all your help this season. Uh, your picks have
been great, your insight has been great. Uh job well done. Oh,
thank you guys. This is a ton of fun. I

(01:31:32):
love doing this, so thank you guys. It's been a
lot of fun. But I got a couple of months
to prepare for season three. All right there, it is. Honestly,
I already regret some of my picks, but that's going
to happen now. Things are gonna change this soft season,
and things are gonna change in the summer. So you
will want to tune in for season three of the
I Want Your Flex Podcast coming in August, where we

(01:31:54):
will get you set for your draft. But we hope
this podcast provided you with a little off season relaxation
and maybe wet that appetite for Fantasy Football Info. We
love having you listen to all season long and can't
wait for it to happen next year. So for Ryan Bursinger,
our executive producer, and for Mike Harmon, I'm Dan buyer.

(01:32:14):
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