June 13, 2025 • 27 mins
Everyone's got sleepers, they're a dime a dozen. But what about mining the very bottom of the draft board? Charch and Kent unfurl some players you can nab with the last pick of your draft, including a couple Johnsons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and
whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now,
here's your host, Paul Chargian.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hey, everybody, welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul
Charchian my co host today Kent, Whyrock, Hey Kent, good
to have you back.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Ay Ball, how are we doing. Glad to be back,
and you know, we wrapped up the divisions and now
we get to explore some other fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, we're gonna have a great time today. Really excited
for this show because we're going to talk about the
last pick of your draft. You know, we focus on
the rest of your draft almost exclusively. We don't talk
that much about the last pick now. And this is
a little bit different than sleepers. Everybody does sleeper stuff.
That's not frankly all that comment uncommon at all. But
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anything could be a sleeper. In my definition of sleeper, Kent,
if a third rounder who can perform like a first rounder,
to me, constitutes a sleeper, not a you know, not
a big one. It doesn't have you know, it could
be an eighth rounder performs like a third rounder. So
for me, this is a little bit different. This is
finding a guy who can help you on the last
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pick of the draft, and that to me is a
is a little it's orders of magnitude harder than just sleepers.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Absolutely and sleepers. It's you know, it's like people are
asleep at the wheel about their value. That's kind of
the way to think about it. It's not just late
round guys. It mostly is just because that's kind of
the nature of how people are sleeping on players. But
this is so interesting because you know, when we're talking
about you know, and I know we pulled a lot
of this from you know, like best ball data, because
that's what we got right now. But we're getting into
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redraft season and those last couple of picks, they can
either be dynamite or you just cut them week one
or week two, and that's fine. But if you find
that late, it's a big turnaround in terms of value.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
All right, Well, let's talk philosophically. Ken, With the last
pick of your draft, would you rather find somebody who
has who could drop, who has a small percentage chance
but could end up being explosively good, or you just
looking with that last pick of your draft to find
a guy you can keep on your bench and just
like start them two times during the year, three times
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during the year, and somebody that can just like fill
a void. Do you understand the distinction I'm trying to make.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Here, Yeah. Absolutely, And I'm looking for upside. I'm looking
for the bowl case on all these guys, because you know,
on any given week, you can probably depending on your
league settings, find a guy who can start on the
waiver wire. It's not gonna be great, it'll be in
a pinch, it'll be a you know, seven point outing
or something like that, but you could find someone who
can fill a gap pretty simply. It's it's that upside.
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It's that that crazy, like you win your league off
of it type stuff that I think we're really shooting.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
For here, yep. And you're gonna see that in the
six players you're gonna hear about. I think all have
the possibility of turning into if the situation's break right.
And obviously we're talking last pick your draft, so none
of these none of these things are likely, but they were,
they wouldn't be the last picks. But if things break right,
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these could all be massive contributors. And in most formats,
not Guillotine. Most formats, Kent, you have to shoot for
tip of the spear. You have to be the best
of ten teams or the best of twelve teams. You
have to get a couple of these breaks to go
your way. Guillotine's different where you're just looking to survive
every week. That's a very different model. Here. You have
to get in a traditional league, most leagues, best ball.
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You just got to get some breaks, and these are
guys that could potentially help you. Now I know Kent
people are fascinated to learn the many travails of my
move and where am I geographically in my house. This
has been a roving discuss every week we talk about
where I am now. I've done shows from the closet,
I've done shows from u from my living room, I've
(04:02):
done shows from my kitchen. This I'm now office. I'm
I now have the Utah office going. But the movers
showed up with the second half of my stuff two
weeks late, and everything's in boxes. So I'm right now,
I've got You can't see all the stuff. It's all
just it's all pandemonium here, boxes and stuff's all on.
(04:24):
You know, nothing's out, I do anything set up, don't
have any of the sound dampening in my office that
I want to have yet. So there's your there's just
a quick update right now you get you can see it.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We need where in the world is Paul Chargion drop
for for what's going on right now?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, we really do. You're too young to remember Carmen
san Diego.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I saw glimpses. I won't say I was any kind
of a devout viewer, but it was around. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So now the fact that you even went to the
viewer before the video game shows you.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Right, Okay, that's a fair call out.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, the the karma. Where in the World Is Carmen
san Diego started its life as a edgeywear title. It
was a video game from the nineteenth like late eighties
or early nineties, I'm going to go early nineties, and
it spun off into a TV show and the TV
show did great. It was on for many, many years,
and you learned about the geography of all these different
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places as Carmen san Diego rent around the world and
you're trying to track her down. And although I think
Carmen could be a guy too. I think he didn't
know for sure if you were tracking a man or
a woman.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
But yeah, the old days, well today we're tracking down
some late round darts.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, nice transition right there. Do you want to go?
Let's have you go first. Who's the first last pick
of your draft? Kent?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
My first last pick is going to be Roshan Johnson,
running back for the Chicago Bears. And you know it's
not a sexy name. He hasn't really been a huge
producer over the last few years. In fact, he's somewhat
struggled at times, and so you know that's kind of
the reason why his ADP is where it is right now.
But there is a new head coach in town, Ben Johnson.
He was the latest and greatest in offensive coaches to
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pick up a head coaching gig. And you know he's
coming from the Detroit Lions, where he had DeAndre Swift
on his team back in twenty twenty two. Bench. Yeah,
he certainly did. But one thing to note is that
Ben Johnson's rush touchdown league ranks as an OC They're
gonna be third, first, and second in the league. He's
never been below third.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, and so now and wait, let me just let
me jump in right there. Ken, that's without Josh Allen
and Jalen Hurts on his team. I mean, those quarterbacks
have to be in. I mean, I gotta believe number
one and number two teams are probably Philadelphia and Buffalo
in those years because of the quarterbacks that are housing ten, twelve,
fourteen touchdowns each up close. Ben Johnson's not doing that
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with Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Nope, not too often. He doesn't sometimes, but he's certainly
not a guy known for his legs, So we could
go that route. But yeah, you might recall that back
in twenty twenty two was actually the Jamal Williams year.
He had two hundred and sixty two attempts, one thousand
plus rushing yards, and seventeen rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Which is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I think more than the rest of his career combined.
I don't have the number off the top of my head,
but it was a big chunk of his overall rushing
touchdown percentage. And DeAndre Swift missed three games and he
didn't even get to one hundred attempts on the ground,
five hundred and forty two rush yards and only five touchdowns,
So you know the fact that he Ben Johnson that
is leaned into the usage of Jamal Williams that year
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is pretty stark in terms of comparing to DeAndre Swift,
who we thought was kind of an up and coming
guy at the time, and that was his first I think,
like real down year and it's been kind of sketchy since. So,
you know, real quick size comparison, I think is an
important distinction here because we're talking about Roshan Johnson, who
is six foot two hundred and twenty five pounds. Wow,
Jamal Williams is six foot two hundred twenty four pounds,
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So if you'll allow me the one pound leeway, I
can say they're pretty much the exact same size. And
then Swift's a smaller guy. He's have five to nine
two and fifteen pounds, So if we're looking for a
one to one replacement of what he accomplished with Jamal Williams,
I would rather look Roshan Johnson's way for that touchdown
goal line potential. And you know last year his yards
per carry, which I think a lot of people look
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at that's a very common stat It was two point seven.
I say, we can just ignore it because he was
almost exclusively used in short yardage situations last year and
that's going to affect your yards per carry. And yeah,
I was thirty eight percent of his carries were in
one to three yard situations, right, and so in gold
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to gost situations, Roshan Johnson scored six out of excuse me,
all six of his touchdowns on just seven attempts. So
he scored on six out of seven gold to goes.
That's really good stuff. That's the type of scoring potential
that head coaches and offense coordinators love. They want the
guy who can get into the pay dirt and score
the points for the teams. So if they're looking to
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someone in the red zone at the one to five
yard line, Roshan Johnson I think is a better person
to look into than DeAndre Swift is who I think
we all thought were going to sign a free agent
running back didn't ever get one. So it's just Roshan
Johnson Jeandre Swift. There there is a little bit of
like camp height, and I know you've talked about Kyle Mnunguy,
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but he's a seventh rounder, a smaller So if he's
going to replace anyone I would wager he's going to
replace Swift and then they'll just have to figure out
something with the receiving work. But I think if you're
looking for that big bruiser goal line back, Roshan Johnson's
the guy, and at Ben Johnson, who Johnson and Johnson,
we got something going there can come to fruition. This
could be a ten plus touchdown season for Roshan.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I could see it. I think that's a defensible case.
The offensive line got way better between the guards and
Roshan Johnson. Ten touchdowns would not surprise me. I like it.
That makes a ton of sense. My guy is less
probable for ten touchdowns by a fair margin. I'm going
with my first last pick of the draft. I am
ta And by the way, I should note each of
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these players has to be from round fourteen or lower
to constitute last pick of the draft. I think most
leagues are at least fourteen players. Summer way bigger than fourteen.
I don't love that, but that's just me. So he
had to be at least pick one hundred and sixty
eight to qualify. My guy's quite a bit below that.
And it's New Orleans running back Devin Neil the rookie.
He was Thor's number six running back when we checked
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in with Thor on this show shortly before the draft
on the running back position. And I think the State
Saints got just a steal taken Devin Neil in the
sixth round. You know, Alvin Kamara last year absolutely played
gallantly in the face of zero quarterbacking, no healthy receivers,
and a absolutely beat up offensive line. You know, Kamara
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is sitting on two thousand, two hundred career touches. He
turns thirty next month. He has had a ton of work.
And if anything were to happen to Kamara, or if
they just don't want to use him as much, the
depth charts really thick in Kendrey Miller and Clyde Edwards Hilaire.
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Kendray Miller couldn't get on the field last year when
they needed to spell, they needed to spell Kamara a lot.
Kendrey Miller was a non factor for most of the
last year, although also hurt for much of the year.
Clyde Edwards Hilaire obviously cut by the Chiefs. Neil could
easily win the backup job, and stylistically he's the closest
player to Alvin Kamara the Saints have on the roster.
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He's slow where Kamara's really fast, but otherwise he's super shifty.
He's got amazing footwork. His vision is tremendous. If a
cutback lane opens up, Devin Neil's gonna find it and
he can catch fifty one receptions the last two years
at Kansas. So Devin Neils is that shot in the dark.
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We don't wish bad things on any player, especially injury,
including Alvin Kamara, but if anything were to happen there
or they just need to spell Camara more than they
have in the past, Devin Neil at thirty years old,
Devin Neil might be an interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, And I know we talked about this a little bit,
and I like Alvin Kamara at his value this year
because he is going later than he has in years past.
But certainly the reason that he's being drafted as late
as he is is because of the risk associated with,
you know, his health and what the direction is of
this team is going to be. I mean, they're still
working their way out of a lot of cap problems
that they're they're trying to fix, and this is Tyler
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Shuck's team for the foreseeable future. It's a very interesting
direction for the Saints right now. And so you know,
if they do want to find some juice and they're
going to look to the guys who can perform regardless
of where they got drafted, Devin Neils certainly in line
to make a jump later in the year.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All right, let's go to your second last pick of
the draft. Kent.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, so this this one technically abides by our ADP
rules ADP rules, But you know, Nick Chubb, the Houston
running back, very recently signed. He could climb up in
ADP in the in the coming weeks and certainly throughout
camp if we hear positive news. But it's a very
interesting situation. You know, last year he was turning from
a very gruesome knee injury and repair. He had an
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MCL and meniscus and then subsequently had his ACL repaired
on top of that, so it was a it was
a tough road to recovery for him in his running form.
And then last year he was looking rough and then
started looking a little better and then got a foot
fracture in week fifteen, so knocked out once again. Now,
luckily foot fractures you can heal from pretty quickly. They're
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not too bad in terms of altering your running form
or anything like that. So hopefully with one more offseason
separated from that terrible knee injury, we can see a
little bit more of the Nick Chubb of old. And honestly,
last year between the tackles, he was better in advanced
metrics than Joe Mixon was, and it's not much, and
both of them were technically below expectation. But you know,
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we've talked about how one of the greatest attributes of
Joe Mixon this year is that there's no competition. Well,
if you can get Nick Chubb coming back to seventy
five eighty percent of what he has been in the past,
it might not be what you'd love out of Nick job,
but it's certainly competition. It's certainly more than dari Ogumwallee
and certainly more than Damian Pierce. So hey, careful, it's careful, Faul. Yeah,
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you know, I understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I am I'm a Damien Pierce apologist. I always feel
like he's been under used, but the rest of it
I certainly agree with. Here, let me give you one
more thing on mixing that worries me about him ran
out of gas last year you could see, yeah, totally.
And you know, over his final six games he drooped
down to twenty ninth in rushing yards, thirty first in
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average yards per carry, and twenty fifth in avoided tackle rate.
That's mixin final six games the last year. So now
add another year onto the you know, onto his age.
He's now twenty nine. He's had twenty three hundred career
touches Joe Mixon has and I you know, it might
not be Week one when he you know, he falls apart,
but at some point you wonder if this coming sea
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and he's going to have another scenario where he just
runs out of gas and they got to go to
Nick Chubb.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yeah, And so you know, this is a team that
I think still has pretty good aspirations for the playoffs. Yeah,
they might do some load balancing and stuff like that too.
So if Nick Jubb is a guy who can end
up getting up to like maybe ten touches a game,
you know, limited compared to what we've seen in the
year's past, that's still enough. If he can bounce back
in terms of his efficiency in his running style. You know,
last year the Texans were dead last and rushing success
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rate second worst, and run block win rate from ESPN.
They didn't really fix their offensive line. They've made some changes,
but I think one thing they didn't fix it. They
made changes, but one thing I do want to call
out is that they promoted a new offensive line coach,
Cole Popovich just really distantly related to Greg Actually did
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not know that. Yeah, fun fact I found it out
by doing the research, so that was fun. But that
could be a catalyst for some improvement in maybe cohesiveness,
if not just talent or ability.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I really want to believe Houston's going to bounce back
to the promise that they showed two years ago. They can.
Their offensive coordinator, Bobby slok It looked like a genius
in the first year. When you know, we're all like,
oh my god, c J. Stroud is this is he
had one of the best rookie seasons of any quarterback
in memory. And to have it all fall apart so quickly,
I don't think. I think most of that was on
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the offensive line, much more than Bobby Sloan. But we've
given you three different running backs. This is not just
a running back show we are doing. Last pick of
the draft doesn't have to be a running back, although
I think running backs it's it's a little frankly, it's
it's a little bit easier to make cases for running
backs and other position.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
They're the tickets.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
If you're looking for a guy to have a quick
influx of value, it's almost always running backs. Midway through
the year, let.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Me give you a tight end. That's New Orleans tight
end Juwan Johnson, who on the surface sounds ultra boring
because he has never distinguished himself in the Saints offense,
particularly although he's coming off career highs in targets, catches,
and receiving yards last year, pretty good numbers. In March,
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they signed him to a three year, thirty million dollar extension.
Ked I'm like Jwan Johnson, but you know what they knew.
Taysom Hill's not coming back. He's tore his ACL in December,
it's unclear, and he's thirty four years old. Taysom Hills
sneaky old and backup Foster Moreau knee injury in January.
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He's he was not able to participate in any of
the OTAs. His status for training camp is not clear,
and he's the backup anyway. Johnson is going to be
the number one tight end on a Saints team where
they're going to be starting a rookie quarterback, a green quarterback,
no matter what, probably a rookie quarterback. And you know,
we love we know rookie quarterbacks love their dump off
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tight ends, right they own, they get in the pocket,
they make their one read, and then they panic and
they dump the ball off to their safety valve tight end.
It's easy to see Johnson getting a bunch of easy
catches in this new Saints offense, and the depth chart,
a wide receiver gets real thin, real fast. Yea Chris
olave Rashidchi He's gonna try to come back from injury.
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And then last thing I'll mention on Juwan Johnson. Kellen
Moore's your new head coach and he will be the
play caller. He's the one in Stalling's offense. Last year
Kellen Moore as Philadelphia's offensive coordinator, Dallas Goddard was tight
end eleven in PPR points per game. The previous year
he was with the Chargers as their offensive coordinator, they
only had Gerald Everard. He was tight end twenty two.
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But the year before that he was the Cowboys offensive
coordinator and Kellen Moore got Dalton Schultz to tight end
seven and got him paid. And so there's some real
opportunity in a Kellen Moore offense for Juwan Johnson to
make good. As the last pick in your draft.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'm just wondering who your third Saints player is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I know, right, I think I've run out of meaningful
Saints right now. There's that we may have app that
that as far as it can go.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, I mean it goes by how the quarterback situation goes.
If if we see an emergence of Shuck, then you
know this could be absolutely a breakout candidate and someone
who that I know a lot of people have had
their eyes on Juwan Johnson.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So yeah, I don't think Shuck's gonna break out. Honestly,
I think they'll be drafting another quarterback later but next year.
But I still think he can catch a bunch of
dump off stuff. We'll find out Juan Johnson. All right, Ken,
who is your third and final last pick of the draft.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Well, see one play one. I have a tight end
as well. No wide receivers now, now that I'm realizing
that unless you have one in your up your sleeve here,
but my tight end is going to be New York
Giants tight end Theo Johnson, and Theo Johnson's an interesting case.
He's definitely under the radar. I think he might be
one of the lowest ones in terms of ADP right now,
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and so he's very much like the mister irrelevant of
your fantasy football draft. He came out of college playing
behind Brenton Strange, who had a nice little, you know,
kind of semi breakout after Evan Ingram got injured last year,
and a guy named Tyler Warren maybe you've heard of him.
He got wrapped it this year in the first round.
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So he played behind those two guys in college, and
then prior to that, he actually played Canadian football in
high school. So we're talking twelve man per side, larger field,
different game, and well not entirely, but certainly the scheme
is different. Stuff like that. So there's been a bit
of a learning curve. But can I interest you in
a nine point nine to nine raz which is the
second highest tight end since nineteen eighty seven?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, you know who number one was?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No? Yeah, it's uh, oh, oh, who do you think
it was?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Actually, I believe I know because I'm the only person
potentially on the planet, and in fact, I'm gonna go
likely on the planet, including his own team that thinks
that there's still a possible of Jelanie Woods turning into
a meaningful NFL player.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
He was number three years all. The first one is
you may recall, I honestly had to look him up
to remind myself its Zach Kuntz. H he was, I
believe on the Eagles for a short period of time.
If if I'm not mistaken, did not amount to anything.
That's you forgot.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
That's a guy you have to enunciate very very carefully.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yep, and I did my best. So let's let's work
past that. But yeah, super athletic, and you know, tight
end is a position on offense that correlates to production
the best out of any other position. So if you
got a guy who you know, even though he has
a learning curve because he came out of Canadian football
and he played behind two, uh you know, other really
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good tight ends, let's keep an eye on him. You know,
last year he suffered a list frank injury in week thirteen.
He missed the rest of the year, but the final
five games leading up to that injury, he was starting
to break out as a rookie. And you know, it
wasn't like world ending numbers or anything like that. It
was five point four targets, forty three yards and point
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two touchdowns per game, just modest numbers. But let me
remind you he was playing with Daniel Jones, Drew Locke,
and Tommy Cutletz Divito, so he had a real mixed
bag of quarterback play during that period. And you know,
given the situation and the experience and his background, it's
their modest but respectable numbers, I think. So this year
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we're gonna have Russell Wilson stepping into the fold. Who
you know, people have their opinions of him, but certainly
better than that situation. And he was fine last year.
He was eleventh in PFFS passing grade. He set up
Pat Fryarmuth for his best fantasy season to date, and
if you extrapolate the season when Russell Wilson took over,
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Friarmuth was on an eighty target, seven hundred yard, eight
or nine touchdown season, which would if we got something
similar to that out of THEO Johnson, it would be
a great situation. You know, Friar Ruth quietly was twelfth
in red zone targets last year. I don't think I
would have thought that if I didn't look.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It up, which is not exactly If that's the most
compelling stat you can come up with on Pat Fryarmouth,
that he was twelfth in red zone targets, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, it's more about Russell Wilson, more about he's willing
to target the tight end, and frankly, there's virtually no
tight end competition on this team right now. Daniel Bellinger
is just a guy. Chris Manherds is a veteran blocker,
and then they have Greg Dultcha on the roster. But
that experiment's over. I'm done with it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
That will not allow Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, so, uh. Looking over to their receivers, which I
think is an important kind of distinction when talking about
tight ends, is they really don't have a solid number two.
They have, you know, Malik Neighbors is obviously there one,
and he's awesome. They have Darius Slayton, who's a deep
threat kind of guy, doesn't really do too much else
and then they have Wandale Robinson, who's kind of a
short at gadgety type player, and I don't think he's
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gonna amount to anything significant in terms of a full
route tree. So you have this opportunity for someone to
work some crossers, work up the scene, and I think
THEO Johnson could potentially be that guy to take up
those targets.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
All right, THEO john IIY. I if it came down
to Juwan Johnson or THEO Johnson, which Johnson are you picking?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Oh Man, Juan Johnson. I believe it has the better
case right now, and I think he's hiring ADP Yeah,
so I would probably just have to go him for
that reason. But I know that in my best ball
drafts that I'm doing right now and stuff where I
have a little bit deeper of a roster, I am
grabbing THEO Johnson absolutely everywhere I can.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All Right, you're grabbing Johnson everywhere you can? All right, Well,
welcome to the show now. Now it's officially a Fantasy
Football Weekly. Last pick for me on my last pick
of the draft, My last pick, last pick is a
guy that we alluded to, well let me allude to.
We talked about him last week, But I'm just I
liked him last week and I like him this week,
so I'm mentioning him again. Baltimore running back Justice Hill.
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I used to be moan Hill's insertion into the Ravens
offense back when it was when JK. Dobbins was still
young and good and Gus Edwards was young, healthy and good,
and no it's not even a matter of young. They
were just healthy and good, and I'd be like, oh,
just pound those guys, and I never wanted to see
Justice Hill in the field. Then last year he looked
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just like a different back PFF grading way way up
and turned into a really good pass catching back. I
just feel like Justice Hill is a high priority handcuff
behind Derrick Henry, and I don't even want to get
into like, you know, if Henry goes down, then you know,
Hill obviously would be you know, turned into roughly a
top ten fantasy running back. But even what I like
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about Justice Hill is I don't need that injury because
the pass catching has been so good. He finished his
Pro Football Focus is number three ranked receiving running back.
Last year, he had forty two catches and zero drops,
so I think he can be a PPR helper. Any
week that you have to you got when you've got
to turn to your bench, it's a bye week, an
injury or something, you could start Justice Hill keep your
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fingers crossed. You get to ten PPR points and then
you know, if God forbid something happens to Derek Henry,
you're sitting on a gold mine. So I feel like
he helps you both ways.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, I think we've talked about before that. I like
Keith Mitchell here as well if there's an injury. But
if let's say Derek Henry stays healthy, Justice Hill is
definitely a better selection of the team. He's got that
PPR floor. Like you said, he's very a dynamic. They
gave him the contract last year, so they're gonna be
using him as much as they can. You know, whenever
you see a running Mack get extended, it's it's a
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sign that the offense values him and so you're going
to keep him in the fold. And Derek Henry's obviously
the lead dog here, but yeah, it's always nice to
have a flex player that you can get for pretty
pretty cheap.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah. I like that part too, Kent, You've done a
lot of shows you finally get to take a break
for over a month. Yeah, how about that. Next week
we're going to turn our attention to do the opposite.
We're gonna talk about when you should do the opposite,
when you should and do the opposite. If you don't know,
is the it's the origin. It's the original no running back,
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zero RB approach that we were talking about on the show,
ten full years before anybody knew the term zero running back. Kent,
and we'll be talking about where to do the opposite,
where to undo the opposite? Next week. That'll be with
Matt And there's been a ton of fun, love talking
about the bottom of the draft as opposed to where
we usually focus our attention. Kent, great job, thank you,
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glad to be here and it was a good chet Yep.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
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here's your host, Paul Chargian.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hey, everybody, welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul
Charchian my co host today Kent, Whyrock, Hey Kent, good
to have you back.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Ay Ball, how are we doing. Glad to be back,
and you know, we wrapped up the divisions and now
we get to explore some other fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, we're gonna have a great time today. Really excited
for this show because we're going to talk about the
last pick of your draft. You know, we focus on
the rest of your draft almost exclusively. We don't talk
that much about the last pick now. And this is
a little bit different than sleepers. Everybody does sleeper stuff.
That's not frankly all that comment uncommon at all. But
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anything could be a sleeper. In my definition of sleeper, Kent,
if a third rounder who can perform like a first rounder,
to me, constitutes a sleeper, not a you know, not
a big one. It doesn't have you know, it could
be an eighth rounder performs like a third rounder. So
for me, this is a little bit different. This is
finding a guy who can help you on the last
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pick of the draft, and that to me is a
is a little it's orders of magnitude harder than just sleepers.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Absolutely and sleepers. It's you know, it's like people are
asleep at the wheel about their value. That's kind of
the way to think about it. It's not just late
round guys. It mostly is just because that's kind of
the nature of how people are sleeping on players. But
this is so interesting because you know, when we're talking
about you know, and I know we pulled a lot
of this from you know, like best ball data, because
that's what we got right now. But we're getting into
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redraft season and those last couple of picks, they can
either be dynamite or you just cut them week one
or week two, and that's fine. But if you find
that late, it's a big turnaround in terms of value.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
All right, Well, let's talk philosophically. Ken, With the last
pick of your draft, would you rather find somebody who
has who could drop, who has a small percentage chance
but could end up being explosively good, or you just
looking with that last pick of your draft to find
a guy you can keep on your bench and just
like start them two times during the year, three times
(02:24):
during the year, and somebody that can just like fill
a void. Do you understand the distinction I'm trying to make.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Here, Yeah. Absolutely, And I'm looking for upside. I'm looking
for the bowl case on all these guys, because you know,
on any given week, you can probably depending on your
league settings, find a guy who can start on the
waiver wire. It's not gonna be great, it'll be in
a pinch, it'll be a you know, seven point outing
or something like that, but you could find someone who
can fill a gap pretty simply. It's it's that upside.
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It's that that crazy, like you win your league off
of it type stuff that I think we're really shooting.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
For here, yep. And you're gonna see that in the
six players you're gonna hear about. I think all have
the possibility of turning into if the situation's break right.
And obviously we're talking last pick your draft, so none
of these none of these things are likely, but they were,
they wouldn't be the last picks. But if things break right,
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these could all be massive contributors. And in most formats,
not Guillotine. Most formats, Kent, you have to shoot for
tip of the spear. You have to be the best
of ten teams or the best of twelve teams. You
have to get a couple of these breaks to go
your way. Guillotine's different where you're just looking to survive
every week. That's a very different model. Here. You have
to get in a traditional league, most leagues, best ball.
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You just got to get some breaks, and these are
guys that could potentially help you. Now I know Kent
people are fascinated to learn the many travails of my
move and where am I geographically in my house. This
has been a roving discuss every week we talk about
where I am now. I've done shows from the closet,
I've done shows from u from my living room, I've
(04:02):
done shows from my kitchen. This I'm now office. I'm
I now have the Utah office going. But the movers
showed up with the second half of my stuff two
weeks late, and everything's in boxes. So I'm right now,
I've got You can't see all the stuff. It's all
just it's all pandemonium here, boxes and stuff's all on.
(04:24):
You know, nothing's out, I do anything set up, don't
have any of the sound dampening in my office that
I want to have yet. So there's your there's just
a quick update right now you get you can see it.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We need where in the world is Paul Chargion drop
for for what's going on right now?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, we really do. You're too young to remember Carmen
san Diego.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I saw glimpses. I won't say I was any kind
of a devout viewer, but it was around. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So now the fact that you even went to the
viewer before the video game shows you.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Right, Okay, that's a fair call out.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, the the karma. Where in the World Is Carmen
san Diego started its life as a edgeywear title. It
was a video game from the nineteenth like late eighties
or early nineties, I'm going to go early nineties, and
it spun off into a TV show and the TV
show did great. It was on for many, many years,
and you learned about the geography of all these different
(05:15):
places as Carmen san Diego rent around the world and
you're trying to track her down. And although I think
Carmen could be a guy too. I think he didn't
know for sure if you were tracking a man or
a woman.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
But yeah, the old days, well today we're tracking down
some late round darts.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, nice transition right there. Do you want to go?
Let's have you go first. Who's the first last pick
of your draft? Kent?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
My first last pick is going to be Roshan Johnson,
running back for the Chicago Bears. And you know it's
not a sexy name. He hasn't really been a huge
producer over the last few years. In fact, he's somewhat
struggled at times, and so you know that's kind of
the reason why his ADP is where it is right now.
But there is a new head coach in town, Ben Johnson.
He was the latest and greatest in offensive coaches to
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pick up a head coaching gig. And you know he's
coming from the Detroit Lions, where he had DeAndre Swift
on his team back in twenty twenty two. Bench. Yeah,
he certainly did. But one thing to note is that
Ben Johnson's rush touchdown league ranks as an OC They're
gonna be third, first, and second in the league. He's
never been below third.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, and so now and wait, let me just let
me jump in right there. Ken, that's without Josh Allen
and Jalen Hurts on his team. I mean, those quarterbacks
have to be in. I mean, I gotta believe number
one and number two teams are probably Philadelphia and Buffalo
in those years because of the quarterbacks that are housing ten, twelve,
fourteen touchdowns each up close. Ben Johnson's not doing that
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with Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Nope, not too often. He doesn't sometimes, but he's certainly
not a guy known for his legs, So we could
go that route. But yeah, you might recall that back
in twenty twenty two was actually the Jamal Williams year.
He had two hundred and sixty two attempts, one thousand
plus rushing yards, and seventeen rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Which is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I think more than the rest of his career combined.
I don't have the number off the top of my head,
but it was a big chunk of his overall rushing
touchdown percentage. And DeAndre Swift missed three games and he
didn't even get to one hundred attempts on the ground,
five hundred and forty two rush yards and only five touchdowns,
So you know the fact that he Ben Johnson that
is leaned into the usage of Jamal Williams that year
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is pretty stark in terms of comparing to DeAndre Swift,
who we thought was kind of an up and coming
guy at the time, and that was his first I think,
like real down year and it's been kind of sketchy since. So,
you know, real quick size comparison, I think is an
important distinction here because we're talking about Roshan Johnson, who
is six foot two hundred and twenty five pounds. Wow,
Jamal Williams is six foot two hundred twenty four pounds,
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So if you'll allow me the one pound leeway, I
can say they're pretty much the exact same size. And
then Swift's a smaller guy. He's have five to nine
two and fifteen pounds, So if we're looking for a
one to one replacement of what he accomplished with Jamal Williams,
I would rather look Roshan Johnson's way for that touchdown
goal line potential. And you know last year his yards
per carry, which I think a lot of people look
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at that's a very common stat It was two point seven.
I say, we can just ignore it because he was
almost exclusively used in short yardage situations last year and
that's going to affect your yards per carry. And yeah,
I was thirty eight percent of his carries were in
one to three yard situations, right, and so in gold
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to gost situations, Roshan Johnson scored six out of excuse me,
all six of his touchdowns on just seven attempts. So
he scored on six out of seven gold to goes.
That's really good stuff. That's the type of scoring potential
that head coaches and offense coordinators love. They want the
guy who can get into the pay dirt and score
the points for the teams. So if they're looking to
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someone in the red zone at the one to five
yard line, Roshan Johnson I think is a better person
to look into than DeAndre Swift is who I think
we all thought were going to sign a free agent
running back didn't ever get one. So it's just Roshan
Johnson Jeandre Swift. There there is a little bit of
like camp height, and I know you've talked about Kyle Mnunguy,
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but he's a seventh rounder, a smaller So if he's
going to replace anyone I would wager he's going to
replace Swift and then they'll just have to figure out
something with the receiving work. But I think if you're
looking for that big bruiser goal line back, Roshan Johnson's
the guy, and at Ben Johnson, who Johnson and Johnson,
we got something going there can come to fruition. This
could be a ten plus touchdown season for Roshan.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I could see it. I think that's a defensible case.
The offensive line got way better between the guards and
Roshan Johnson. Ten touchdowns would not surprise me. I like it.
That makes a ton of sense. My guy is less
probable for ten touchdowns by a fair margin. I'm going
with my first last pick of the draft. I am
ta And by the way, I should note each of
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these players has to be from round fourteen or lower
to constitute last pick of the draft. I think most
leagues are at least fourteen players. Summer way bigger than fourteen.
I don't love that, but that's just me. So he
had to be at least pick one hundred and sixty
eight to qualify. My guy's quite a bit below that.
And it's New Orleans running back Devin Neil the rookie.
He was Thor's number six running back when we checked
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in with Thor on this show shortly before the draft
on the running back position. And I think the State
Saints got just a steal taken Devin Neil in the
sixth round. You know, Alvin Kamara last year absolutely played
gallantly in the face of zero quarterbacking, no healthy receivers,
and a absolutely beat up offensive line. You know, Kamara
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is sitting on two thousand, two hundred career touches. He
turns thirty next month. He has had a ton of work.
And if anything were to happen to Kamara, or if
they just don't want to use him as much, the
depth charts really thick in Kendrey Miller and Clyde Edwards Hilaire.
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Kendray Miller couldn't get on the field last year when
they needed to spell, they needed to spell Kamara a lot.
Kendrey Miller was a non factor for most of the
last year, although also hurt for much of the year.
Clyde Edwards Hilaire obviously cut by the Chiefs. Neil could
easily win the backup job, and stylistically he's the closest
player to Alvin Kamara the Saints have on the roster.
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He's slow where Kamara's really fast, but otherwise he's super shifty.
He's got amazing footwork. His vision is tremendous. If a
cutback lane opens up, Devin Neil's gonna find it and
he can catch fifty one receptions the last two years
at Kansas. So Devin Neils is that shot in the dark.
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We don't wish bad things on any player, especially injury,
including Alvin Kamara, but if anything were to happen there
or they just need to spell Camara more than they
have in the past, Devin Neil at thirty years old,
Devin Neil might be an interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, And I know we talked about this a little bit,
and I like Alvin Kamara at his value this year
because he is going later than he has in years past.
But certainly the reason that he's being drafted as late
as he is is because of the risk associated with,
you know, his health and what the direction is of
this team is going to be. I mean, they're still
working their way out of a lot of cap problems
that they're they're trying to fix, and this is Tyler
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Shuck's team for the foreseeable future. It's a very interesting
direction for the Saints right now. And so you know,
if they do want to find some juice and they're
going to look to the guys who can perform regardless
of where they got drafted, Devin Neils certainly in line
to make a jump later in the year.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All right, let's go to your second last pick of
the draft. Kent.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, so this this one technically abides by our ADP
rules ADP rules, But you know, Nick Chubb, the Houston
running back, very recently signed. He could climb up in
ADP in the in the coming weeks and certainly throughout
camp if we hear positive news. But it's a very
interesting situation. You know, last year he was turning from
a very gruesome knee injury and repair. He had an
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MCL and meniscus and then subsequently had his ACL repaired
on top of that, so it was a it was
a tough road to recovery for him in his running form.
And then last year he was looking rough and then
started looking a little better and then got a foot
fracture in week fifteen, so knocked out once again. Now,
luckily foot fractures you can heal from pretty quickly. They're
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not too bad in terms of altering your running form
or anything like that. So hopefully with one more offseason
separated from that terrible knee injury, we can see a
little bit more of the Nick Chubb of old. And honestly,
last year between the tackles, he was better in advanced
metrics than Joe Mixon was, and it's not much, and
both of them were technically below expectation. But you know,
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we've talked about how one of the greatest attributes of
Joe Mixon this year is that there's no competition. Well,
if you can get Nick Chubb coming back to seventy
five eighty percent of what he has been in the past,
it might not be what you'd love out of Nick job,
but it's certainly competition. It's certainly more than dari Ogumwallee
and certainly more than Damian Pierce. So hey, careful, it's careful, Faul. Yeah,
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you know, I understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I am I'm a Damien Pierce apologist. I always feel
like he's been under used, but the rest of it
I certainly agree with. Here, let me give you one
more thing on mixing that worries me about him ran
out of gas last year you could see, yeah, totally.
And you know, over his final six games he drooped
down to twenty ninth in rushing yards, thirty first in
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average yards per carry, and twenty fifth in avoided tackle rate.
That's mixin final six games the last year. So now
add another year onto the you know, onto his age.
He's now twenty nine. He's had twenty three hundred career
touches Joe Mixon has and I you know, it might
not be Week one when he you know, he falls apart,
but at some point you wonder if this coming sea
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and he's going to have another scenario where he just
runs out of gas and they got to go to
Nick Chubb.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yeah, And so you know, this is a team that
I think still has pretty good aspirations for the playoffs. Yeah,
they might do some load balancing and stuff like that too.
So if Nick Jubb is a guy who can end
up getting up to like maybe ten touches a game,
you know, limited compared to what we've seen in the
year's past, that's still enough. If he can bounce back
in terms of his efficiency in his running style. You know,
last year the Texans were dead last and rushing success
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rate second worst, and run block win rate from ESPN.
They didn't really fix their offensive line. They've made some changes,
but I think one thing they didn't fix it. They
made changes, but one thing I do want to call
out is that they promoted a new offensive line coach,
Cole Popovich just really distantly related to Greg Actually did
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not know that. Yeah, fun fact I found it out
by doing the research, so that was fun. But that
could be a catalyst for some improvement in maybe cohesiveness,
if not just talent or ability.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I really want to believe Houston's going to bounce back
to the promise that they showed two years ago. They can.
Their offensive coordinator, Bobby slok It looked like a genius
in the first year. When you know, we're all like,
oh my god, c J. Stroud is this is he
had one of the best rookie seasons of any quarterback
in memory. And to have it all fall apart so quickly,
I don't think. I think most of that was on
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the offensive line, much more than Bobby Sloan. But we've
given you three different running backs. This is not just
a running back show we are doing. Last pick of
the draft doesn't have to be a running back, although
I think running backs it's it's a little frankly, it's
it's a little bit easier to make cases for running
backs and other position.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
They're the tickets.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
If you're looking for a guy to have a quick
influx of value, it's almost always running backs. Midway through
the year, let.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Me give you a tight end. That's New Orleans tight
end Juwan Johnson, who on the surface sounds ultra boring
because he has never distinguished himself in the Saints offense,
particularly although he's coming off career highs in targets, catches,
and receiving yards last year, pretty good numbers. In March,
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they signed him to a three year, thirty million dollar extension.
Ked I'm like Jwan Johnson, but you know what they knew.
Taysom Hill's not coming back. He's tore his ACL in December,
it's unclear, and he's thirty four years old. Taysom Hills
sneaky old and backup Foster Moreau knee injury in January.
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He's he was not able to participate in any of
the OTAs. His status for training camp is not clear,
and he's the backup anyway. Johnson is going to be
the number one tight end on a Saints team where
they're going to be starting a rookie quarterback, a green quarterback,
no matter what, probably a rookie quarterback. And you know,
we love we know rookie quarterbacks love their dump off
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tight ends, right they own, they get in the pocket,
they make their one read, and then they panic and
they dump the ball off to their safety valve tight end.
It's easy to see Johnson getting a bunch of easy
catches in this new Saints offense, and the depth chart,
a wide receiver gets real thin, real fast. Yea Chris
olave Rashidchi He's gonna try to come back from injury.
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And then last thing I'll mention on Juwan Johnson. Kellen
Moore's your new head coach and he will be the
play caller. He's the one in Stalling's offense. Last year
Kellen Moore as Philadelphia's offensive coordinator, Dallas Goddard was tight
end eleven in PPR points per game. The previous year
he was with the Chargers as their offensive coordinator, they
only had Gerald Everard. He was tight end twenty two.
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But the year before that he was the Cowboys offensive
coordinator and Kellen Moore got Dalton Schultz to tight end
seven and got him paid. And so there's some real
opportunity in a Kellen Moore offense for Juwan Johnson to
make good. As the last pick in your draft.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'm just wondering who your third Saints player is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I know, right, I think I've run out of meaningful
Saints right now. There's that we may have app that
that as far as it can go.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, I mean it goes by how the quarterback situation goes.
If if we see an emergence of Shuck, then you
know this could be absolutely a breakout candidate and someone
who that I know a lot of people have had
their eyes on Juwan Johnson.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So yeah, I don't think Shuck's gonna break out. Honestly,
I think they'll be drafting another quarterback later but next year.
But I still think he can catch a bunch of
dump off stuff. We'll find out Juan Johnson. All right, Ken,
who is your third and final last pick of the draft.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Well, see one play one. I have a tight end
as well. No wide receivers now, now that I'm realizing
that unless you have one in your up your sleeve here,
but my tight end is going to be New York
Giants tight end Theo Johnson, and Theo Johnson's an interesting case.
He's definitely under the radar. I think he might be
one of the lowest ones in terms of ADP right now,
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and so he's very much like the mister irrelevant of
your fantasy football draft. He came out of college playing
behind Brenton Strange, who had a nice little, you know,
kind of semi breakout after Evan Ingram got injured last year,
and a guy named Tyler Warren maybe you've heard of him.
He got wrapped it this year in the first round.
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So he played behind those two guys in college, and
then prior to that, he actually played Canadian football in
high school. So we're talking twelve man per side, larger field,
different game, and well not entirely, but certainly the scheme
is different. Stuff like that. So there's been a bit
of a learning curve. But can I interest you in
a nine point nine to nine raz which is the
second highest tight end since nineteen eighty seven?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, you know who number one was?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No? Yeah, it's uh, oh, oh, who do you think
it was?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Actually, I believe I know because I'm the only person
potentially on the planet, and in fact, I'm gonna go
likely on the planet, including his own team that thinks
that there's still a possible of Jelanie Woods turning into
a meaningful NFL player.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
He was number three years all. The first one is
you may recall, I honestly had to look him up
to remind myself its Zach Kuntz. H he was, I
believe on the Eagles for a short period of time.
If if I'm not mistaken, did not amount to anything.
That's you forgot.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
That's a guy you have to enunciate very very carefully.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yep, and I did my best. So let's let's work
past that. But yeah, super athletic, and you know, tight
end is a position on offense that correlates to production
the best out of any other position. So if you
got a guy who you know, even though he has
a learning curve because he came out of Canadian football
and he played behind two, uh you know, other really
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good tight ends, let's keep an eye on him. You know,
last year he suffered a list frank injury in week thirteen.
He missed the rest of the year, but the final
five games leading up to that injury, he was starting
to break out as a rookie. And you know, it
wasn't like world ending numbers or anything like that. It
was five point four targets, forty three yards and point
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two touchdowns per game, just modest numbers. But let me
remind you he was playing with Daniel Jones, Drew Locke,
and Tommy Cutletz Divito, so he had a real mixed
bag of quarterback play during that period. And you know,
given the situation and the experience and his background, it's
their modest but respectable numbers, I think. So this year
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we're gonna have Russell Wilson stepping into the fold. Who
you know, people have their opinions of him, but certainly
better than that situation. And he was fine last year.
He was eleventh in PFFS passing grade. He set up
Pat Fryarmuth for his best fantasy season to date, and
if you extrapolate the season when Russell Wilson took over,
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Friarmuth was on an eighty target, seven hundred yard, eight
or nine touchdown season, which would if we got something
similar to that out of THEO Johnson, it would be
a great situation. You know, Friar Ruth quietly was twelfth
in red zone targets last year. I don't think I
would have thought that if I didn't look.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It up, which is not exactly If that's the most
compelling stat you can come up with on Pat Fryarmouth,
that he was twelfth in red zone targets, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, it's more about Russell Wilson, more about he's willing
to target the tight end, and frankly, there's virtually no
tight end competition on this team right now. Daniel Bellinger
is just a guy. Chris Manherds is a veteran blocker,
and then they have Greg Dultcha on the roster. But
that experiment's over. I'm done with it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
That will not allow Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, so, uh. Looking over to their receivers, which I
think is an important kind of distinction when talking about
tight ends, is they really don't have a solid number two.
They have, you know, Malik Neighbors is obviously there one,
and he's awesome. They have Darius Slayton, who's a deep
threat kind of guy, doesn't really do too much else
and then they have Wandale Robinson, who's kind of a
short at gadgety type player, and I don't think he's
(23:57):
gonna amount to anything significant in terms of a full
route tree. So you have this opportunity for someone to
work some crossers, work up the scene, and I think
THEO Johnson could potentially be that guy to take up
those targets.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
All right, THEO john IIY. I if it came down
to Juwan Johnson or THEO Johnson, which Johnson are you picking?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Oh Man, Juan Johnson. I believe it has the better
case right now, and I think he's hiring ADP Yeah,
so I would probably just have to go him for
that reason. But I know that in my best ball
drafts that I'm doing right now and stuff where I
have a little bit deeper of a roster, I am
grabbing THEO Johnson absolutely everywhere I can.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All Right, you're grabbing Johnson everywhere you can? All right, Well,
welcome to the show now. Now it's officially a Fantasy
Football Weekly. Last pick for me on my last pick
of the draft, My last pick, last pick is a
guy that we alluded to, well let me allude to.
We talked about him last week, But I'm just I
liked him last week and I like him this week,
so I'm mentioning him again. Baltimore running back Justice Hill.
(24:58):
I used to be moan Hill's insertion into the Ravens
offense back when it was when JK. Dobbins was still
young and good and Gus Edwards was young, healthy and good,
and no it's not even a matter of young. They
were just healthy and good, and I'd be like, oh,
just pound those guys, and I never wanted to see
Justice Hill in the field. Then last year he looked
(25:19):
just like a different back PFF grading way way up
and turned into a really good pass catching back. I
just feel like Justice Hill is a high priority handcuff
behind Derrick Henry, and I don't even want to get
into like, you know, if Henry goes down, then you know,
Hill obviously would be you know, turned into roughly a
top ten fantasy running back. But even what I like
(25:40):
about Justice Hill is I don't need that injury because
the pass catching has been so good. He finished his
Pro Football Focus is number three ranked receiving running back.
Last year, he had forty two catches and zero drops,
so I think he can be a PPR helper. Any
week that you have to you got when you've got
to turn to your bench, it's a bye week, an
injury or something, you could start Justice Hill keep your
(26:02):
fingers crossed. You get to ten PPR points and then
you know, if God forbid something happens to Derek Henry,
you're sitting on a gold mine. So I feel like
he helps you both ways.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, I think we've talked about before that. I like
Keith Mitchell here as well if there's an injury. But
if let's say Derek Henry stays healthy, Justice Hill is
definitely a better selection of the team. He's got that
PPR floor. Like you said, he's very a dynamic. They
gave him the contract last year, so they're gonna be
using him as much as they can. You know, whenever
you see a running Mack get extended, it's it's a
(26:32):
sign that the offense values him and so you're going
to keep him in the fold. And Derek Henry's obviously
the lead dog here, but yeah, it's always nice to
have a flex player that you can get for pretty
pretty cheap.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah. I like that part too, Kent, You've done a
lot of shows you finally get to take a break
for over a month. Yeah, how about that. Next week
we're going to turn our attention to do the opposite.
We're gonna talk about when you should do the opposite,
when you should and do the opposite. If you don't know,
is the it's the origin. It's the original no running back,
(27:04):
zero RB approach that we were talking about on the show,
ten full years before anybody knew the term zero running back. Kent,
and we'll be talking about where to do the opposite,
where to undo the opposite? Next week. That'll be with
Matt And there's been a ton of fun, love talking
about the bottom of the draft as opposed to where
we usually focus our attention. Kent, great job, thank you,
(27:25):
glad to be here and it was a good chet Yep.
We'll talk to everybody next week. Thanks everybody. Fantasy Football
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