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want to draft two quarterbacks, six running backs, seven or
eight wide receivers, and two or three tight ends. And
we are going to be drafting this team live on air. Colin,
are we are we pumped. Yeah, we're pumps. Uh, not
as pumped as we would have been if we got
the first pick, but we got we got the turn.
We've got the twelve overall pick in this draft, and
we'll be competing against that good friend a Meeksta from
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the five spots, so it should be a fun draft. Well,
we're probably not gonna win this one. The the the
math that has been done on win rates essentially says
that you really want to get the first pick. Right
having the first pick, uh since well you know, since
bet since draft best Ball Championships were originated, right, which
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you know is not going back a decade or anything,
but the the years that we have had, uh the
best ball championships, We've seen the amazing CMC season, We've
seen crazy Ezekiel Elliott seasons, and of course Sae Kwon
Barkley is amazing rookie year as well. Yeah. Yeah, I
think one of the biggest things for us in the
first round. You know, running backs are flying off the
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board early in drafts. Across the board, like the adp
s have shot up a bunch there, and you can
make a case to go with like a robust RB
where you kind of start RB r B and then
just build out wide receiver depth later, or you can
try to go to zero r B route. So we're
gonna have to make that decision coming up here. UM,
for our projections, the Sports Grade Fantasy projections half PPR,
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Michael Thomas is still on the board, Travis Kelsey, Davante Adams,
Chris Godwin, Terry Hill. So we potentially could try to
set up like a chief stack if Kelsey and Hill
are both there, or we could play you know, the
projections and go with like a top value like Davante Adams.
So I gotta say I really hate leaving my first
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two p X without a running back, which is not
something that I would say in a weekly management format,
you know, like when we're drafting in the main event
or whatever. But I even if it's Derrick Henry, it's
half point PPR. Those guys are a little bit more
palatable anyway. Yeah, it's pretty tough right now. It's like
Aaron Jones, Nick Chubb, Austin Ekeler, and Josh Jacobs are
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the guys who are kind of left there. So definitely
not the best spot to go running back. UM. I
generally lean that way as well. But I think for
this one, I know we can talk a little bit
about stacking strategy, but it looks like we have a
pretty unique opportunity to grab both Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Hill,
which could potentially set us up with like a Mahomes
stack if we're able to get him coming back in
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the third round, which I think is definitely something a
lot of people aren't gonna be able to accomplish. Uh yeah,
I mean so, I think the issue with starting Kelsey
Hill is that if you don't get Mahomes, you're like
basically chunking this team in the discard pile, right Like
You're just like, well, that team probably is not winning,
So you're really leaving yourself open to your draft mates
be and kind to you. And I like this better
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from like the nine or the ten where you can
reach a little bit from Homes as opposed to you know,
the turn where you're the last pick in the third round. Yeah,
I think I think that's fair. And uh yeah, there's
you know, one of the things that I was getting
back into this this season. There's definitely a lot of
errors that you can make is you're going through the process,
whether or not it's trying to stack and not realizing
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you're not gonna get the QB or you know, overlapping
five weeks on guys, So it'll be interesting kind of
what's left here? Um yeah, I think probably on the turn,
Like generally I would I would say, you do probably
want to get Kelsey your kiddle there and just lock
that up and take advantage of the one nice thing
about picking on the turn and then you know, realistically,
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you know, I don't have a preference between Tyreek Hill
or Nick Chubb. I think that you know, the chances
of them ending up on the tournament winning team are
are pretty equivalent. Yeah. Yeah, I think Chubb especially is
pretty interesting one because you're you're worried a little bit
about the role of cream Hunt had there. But it's
almost like the inverse of like the zero r B appeal,
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Like Chubb's a good value anyways, and then if anything
happens to Hunt and then he has this massive contingent
value yeah Hunt, I mean Hunt gets traded, Hunt gets suspended, anything,
We're like, oh, well, Chub is the fourth best running
back in Fantasy or whatever. So with this team as
the you know, as we eventually will approach the third
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round pick, I think, um, you know, the hope would
be we get Mahomes there, But if not, I think
we're hoping that, um, there's still like a decent RB
value left there, whether that's Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, James Conner,
maybe even like reaching on someone like Todd Gurley. So, um,
those are some of the guys that I'm thinking about
right now. I have no doubt that there's gonna be
really good wide receivers available. Um, it's just a question
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of if we get RB value that falls too. Yeah,
I mean that's so that's again. The other thing about
picking on the turn is you know, when you go
to three four, you can take d J. Moore, Smith Schuster,
A J. Brown, like it just any any like, so
many guys you like are there at the three four turn. Yeah. Yeah,
And I think especially earlier in the drafting season, I
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think the ADPs on wide receivers are maybe a little
bit less efficient. A lot of people still are drafting
off of the ADPs and the default rankings I uploaded
sports Grade Fantasy Football rankings. So I feel like you're
always kind of finding value in like that, you know,
fifth through eight friends to whether it's like will Fullers
of the world or you know, upside wide receiver targets. Yeah,
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and you know there is the added benefit in obviously
in the best ball format where one we're gonna end
up loading up on wide receivers, right like, we're gonna
still be taking wide receivers in the sixteen seventeen in
eighteenth round, and we don't have the pressure of optimizing them,
right Like, we don't have to decide to start will Fuller,
We don't have to decide to start, um, Michael Hardman basically, Yeah, Yeah,
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I definitely think that's true. Um, we're now five picks away,
so we've got Adam Feeling on the board, d J. Moore,
Mark Andrews. But we wouldn't go with two tight ends
this early. You've got a J. Brown, Calvin Ridley, Tyler Lockett,
Todd Gurley, and Mahomes is still on the board with
five picks left. So a little bit of a sweat
for us here. Yeah, we have a little bit of
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a sweat they're waiting for Patrick Mahomes. We are going
to go ahead and head into our first break here
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break Here on the daily Road to Hour, Colin and
I are drafting an underdog Best Ball Championship team live
on the air right now. We started from the twelve
thirteen turn with Travis Kelsey, Entyreek Hille Colin, we are
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sweating getting Patrick Mahomes here at the three four turn.
How's it looking. Yeah, we're two picks away right now.
He's still on the board, but Todd Gurley went back off.
He was one of the contingent plans that r B
best Available. Rbs are pretty dicey right now. I'd say
Chris Carson is one of the guys that would consider
taking here. You've got David Johnson, Jonathan Taylor, Melvin Gordon
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as the other guys. UM, But you know it's like
you said it kind of gets pretty thin at running
back quickly, and you don't want to feel like you're
reaching guy guys in like the fourth or fifth round. Um,
so I don't know. Hopefully Mahomes will stay here and
then we've got a choice to make as far as
whether or not we go with like a Chris Carson
type or d J Moore at the wide received your position,
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I have to say, I'm I'm starting to get kind
of into Chris Carson just sort of being like they
just want to give him the ball. And yeah, he's
got tons of competition, but a lot of his competition
is not of the past catching variety, so you know
he could still kind of back into forty ish receptions
or so, which is meaningful when especially because he has
that goal line role. Yeah, definitely, And you know the
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injury to Penny, who's not expected to be ready for
the start of the season. Um, they did add some depth.
They're going to bring in some guys. They got like
bodies with Carlos Hide, but um, yeah, we we got
Mahomes and we got Chris Carson. So right now we've
got a chief's double stack, which feels really good for
upside if we make it kind of out of the
group stage, because obviously the upside of the Chiefs passing
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game is as good as anything. And then Chris Carson,
so we've got our first running back as well. So
now are class Davis. This is this is this is Honestly,
this is a very good start because you know, my
my assumption is that many of the people who many
many of the teams in the Underdog Fantasy Football Championship,
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they're like, if they are Mahomes stacks, they're gonna have
paid and absurd, like they're gonna have drafted Mahomes in
early in the third round, so that would leave their
fourth round pick, you know, pretty substantially worse than Chris Carson.
My guess is that there are not a ton of
Tyreek Kelsey Mahomes stacks. You know, sometimes I think that
people would start with Travis Kelsey and then take Patrick Mahomes.
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So I like this start. So really, we gotta be
on our game and not mess up the rest of
this draft because I I really would like this team
to uh to to do well. So we gotta we
gotta be on our games here. Yeah, yeah, it's funny,
you know, as you get back into the some of
the rest, like I, you know, took quarterbacks with overlapping
bye weeks. There are teams where I drafted Earth's and
Dallas got there, which is not like the worst thing
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in the world, given the Eagles lack of you know,
talent at the wide receiver position, but still, you know,
then you have to for sure at a third tight
end and um, the quarterbacks with bye weeks two, you
definitely can't be taking zeros in general with quarterbacks and
with you know, the COVID stuff definitely adds a wrinkle
to fantasy football as well, because you know, positions that
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usually are safe as far as playing sixteen games or
you know, safer, you know, they're definitely not as far
as you know COVID. And we've seen some of the
outbreaks with MLB. Hopefully the NFL can learn from that.
But it does feel like we're going to be dealing
with a lot of kind of chaos and depth that's
gonna be really important this year. Death is going to
be important. In some of these other best ball drafts
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that I've been doing, I've been opting to take three
tight ends and three quarterbacks, which is from like a
win right perspective, historically not super great, but I actually
do think that that stuff is really going to come
into play this year with like you know that right
now there's the proposed three week COVID. I are basically
so that it's not great. Yeah, Um, you know, we've
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we've still got like a dozen or so picks until
we're up at the tail end of the fifth round.
But you know, the tail end of the fifth round,
you're basically looking at picks sixty from an eight P perspective. Um,
you get into running backs where they might have upside
but don't necessarily have a secure role, or their role
is a timeshare. So some of the guys that would
be up at the running back position, I'm interested in
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your opinions on where he most there who just had,
you know, the contract agreement with San Francisco a little
bit less risk to him, will probably see his ADP
slide up. I don't know if it'll slide up in
this draft or not. David Montgomery would be another guy
that feels a little cringe e drafting this early, but um,
if somehow the Bears were turned around, you know that
he's gonna get the volcal goal line work and then
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mark Ingram with the Ravens offense. Definitely an aging running back,
not the profile player that we necessarily like to take,
but the touchdown upside was definitely something that he realized
last year. Um Acres is a guy I like here, though.
There is this interesting thing with Underdog ADP because it's
it's newer and it's recently launched. It is not nearly
as sharp, you know, it is not it is not
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been hardened by fire the way that you know, the
f FPC ADP is the way that Drafters a DP is.
So like you know, Kareem Hunt goes a lot later
in these you were able to get running backs, you know,
kind of just like around later. And so in a normal,
you know, high stakes competitive draft, I would be thinking
about like Damian Williams and Cam Akers here, but it
sounds like we would be able to get David Montgomery here,
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who is definitely a guy that like five at the
five six turn. I mean, you can just project him
for three touches very easily. I would say Montgomery just
went to pick before us Acres went Hunt went. So
a lot of those guys are off the board. It's
kind of between Ingram and most they're at the running
back position. As we approached the clocke, Devon's Dingletary another
guy there. Then we have Keenan Allen Marquis Brown. Um
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Marketing went to pick before us too, So I would go,
I would go most dirt here and then I would
think about running back because I think probably realistically we
are looking at a will Fuller McCole Hardman selection at
the seven eight turn, so I think we probably want
to hammer one run back here at least. So we
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got we got Rahey mostert Um, Devin Singletary, j K. Dobbins,
DeAndre Swift, some of the other guys that are still
on the board a running back. So for me, I
think it's like Enan Alan Marquis Brown. So no one
agrees with me on this. Everyone is pushing back on
me against his I I like j K. Dobbins. I
think he has I think he has insane upside this
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year in this offense. I am. I am big on
j K. Dobbins relative to a lot of my other
sharp fantasy buddies. Alright, alright, so I'll slide this one
in for you. This is feeling like a matic like
build anyways, because we got the cheap stacks. So if
we're gonna shoot for the two, I want you to
feel like you're bought into this with me. And so
we got most are in Dobbins at that turn, um,
which means it's a running back heavy start for us,
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and we would probably um, you know, we've already got
quarterback and tight end. Obviously, we can't be picking death
that does for a while, so we're gonna have to
try to stockpile on wide receivers at the some point. Yeah,
I think that now our plan is we complete the
optimist prime chief stack would get McCole Hardman, and then
at wide receiver, we're looking at guys like Will Fuller.
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We're looking at guys like Anthony Miller, um Sterling Shepherds. Uh.
You know, sometimes Davante Parker will last that long, though
I'm not I'm not sure about how that impacts or
how that plays out in Underdog ADP. But kind of
the guys that go around this range that I would
like in high stake stuff would be, uh, Landry Cooks,
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Dante Johnson, Marvin Jones, Christian Kirk. Like, you know, I
think if Fuller is gone, I think probably we go
Kirk and Hardman. It's probably the move there. Yeah, it's
pretty interesting. I think the Fuller I've seen go as
late as like eight or ninth rounds, and in this draft,
he actually went in the fifth round, which was probably
the earliest that I've seen him go. So I would
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imagine that that team now is going to take to
Shaun Watson in the sixth of the seventh round. Yeah, yeah,
I don't I don't know if it's the same team,
but Watson definitely just went off the board. Um, and
he it goes kind of this middle of the six range.
I think that's a fair range for him. I mean,
he has all the upset in the world. Um, But yeah, um,
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I think so one of the things be there. And yeah,
I think the other guys like like I'm always finding
Anthony Miller available whenever I want to draft him. It's
just a question of how long you can wait, because
he can go and like the tenth round as well. Yeah,
I mean I think I think Hardman and then you know,
just our favorite of the guys who are available there.
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One of the things that we also need to start
thinking about is we have to build in the back
door stack now because we're not taking a quarterback, you know,
in the first ten rounds because we took him home.
So with our wide receiver picks, we need to think about, Okay,
you know, is this a quarterback we can take in
the twelfth round. So you know, there's gonna be less
equity for us taking Christian Kirk as opposed to you know,
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Sterling Shepherd or whoever, because their quarterback has already gone.
So we need to start thinking about, you know, do
we like Staff or do we like Minshew, do we
like Daniel Jones? Because it's it's very important to get
that double stack built in there. Yeah, yeah, I think
that makes sense, especially for the tail end of this round.
The way that thinks structure, you kind of have the
first you know, twelve or thirteen weeks is the league play,
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and then it turns into more of a DFS g
PP where that stack matters. I think on a week
to week basis, you know, Mahomes is probably gonna fill
some like of the QB weeks and so you are
looking for that stack more for like the tremendous upside
game that could potentially you know, put you into that
like two kp out if you have to make it
to the league championships. Yeah, and because it is the
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back door stack, you know, we don't really care, like
we we are trying. We are looking to keep that
price as low as possible. But we are going to
go ahead and head into break here real quick on
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seven eight turn in a live Best Ball Fantasy Football
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and more want the edge than get on the grid
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Break here on the Daily Road to Hour on Sports
Grade TV. So now we are getting ready to pick
here at the seven eight turn, calling what's the what's
the board looking like? We got sniped mcole Hardman. Brandon
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Coach just went off the board. So the illustrious triple
stack is in there at the wide receiver position, which
I think is a position of need for us. Deante Johnson,
Christian Kirk, Anthony Miller, Golden Tape, Big Mike Williams are
kind of the top targets that we have here. Um,
you know, there is some tight end value, but I
think it's too early for us to go to another
tight end. Yeah, I think I think we just grabbed
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Kirk and uh, you know, Layton or Tape and then
we get we have Daniel Jones as ore. Was Evan
Ingram there at tight end or is he gone? That's
a good question, would because I would prefer to take
Ingram then those guys, I think he's off the board.
So it's it's Deante Johnson and Anthony Miller, Golden Tate,
Mike Williams. Well, let's go, let's go. Let's go Johnson Actually,
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because I like the I like the Roethlisberger um backdoor stack,
and we can also take Eric Ebron as our second
tight end as well. Okay, I'm fine with that. Deantha
Johnson a guy I don't find myself drafting a ton neither.
I feel like we expect Juju to have a big
bounce back. Yere and and that we're high on him
relative to ADP. But I think Johnson is an interest
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in play one of the other things that I like
to do, and um, I think it works, especially when
the ADPs let it work and being able to grab
like two secondary players from the same offense if you
have like faith in the passing offense. But no, it
could be volatile week to week. And so I think
like Johnson and James Washington as far as like a
late round wide receiver target is also pretty interesting because
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you could hit a home run and one of those guys.
Obviously they're both not gonna hit, but um, if one
of them the home run, that's obviously a big win.
And then if they each have decent seasons but it's
just rotating on and off, that's also a decent win
for best ball. Yeah. So the thing with Johnson is
I agree with he was just not a guy that
I find myself drafting very often because I mean, look
where he goes around, right, he goes around Will Fuller,
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he goes around Jarvis Landry, he goes around Christian Kirk,
he goes around Nicole Hardman, like all of those guys
are I mean, like universally, I prefer all of those guys. Damn.
Even if it's slight, the that preference is still very
much there. Yeah. So our buddy Anthonymko has got something
in this draft as well. Um I noticed he took
Kyler earlier. He's got Dalvin Cook on his roster, Chris Godwin,
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Jujuice Smith, Schuster, Um DeVante Parker, Michael Gallup, and Mark
Andrews right now. So a wide receiver heavy approach for him.
He did just add Vaughan from Tampa Bay Um with
the eight overall pick, but wide receiver heavy start for him.
How do you like that team? Uh? Well, he's definitely
sitting there tilting the fact that we just took Christian Kirk.
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I think he probably thought that Kirk would come back
to him where he just selected Keyshawn Vaughan. We we
did take Kirk a little bit ahead of ADP there,
and um, I mean that Kyler Murray Christian Kirk Stack.
It's like the perfect symbiotic ADP because if Kyler is
beating his ADP, Christian Kirk is like stone Lock to
have done better than wide receiver thirty six or whatever.
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And if Christian Kirk does better than wide receiver thirty six.
You know, Kyler is a stone lock to have beaten
his ADP, so it's like that's probably I think my
most drafted stack. And and there's another one there that fits,
which is Dac and Gallup, and you can pretty much
alternate those between whichever draft you're doing. Deebo Samuel just
went off the board. I was interested to see where
he would go, just with some of the injury news
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around his foot, un certainty if you'll be available to
start the season. He went at eight dot ten, So
that's definitely slipped back around gross to me. I I
my my philosophy on injured players is, you know, enough
guys are going to get injured in season, and that's
without the threat of COVID that, like, I just I
really don't mess around with taking injured players in UM,
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especially in Best Ball, where an injured player the worst
thing that can happen to your roster in Best Ball
is to have a player injured and giving you zero
after zero. Yeah, yeah, I definitely see that, UM, especially
you've seen the foot injuries be something that just always linger.
So it kind of depends on obviously the type of injury,
how clear the news is I think they're Yeah. So
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let's let's recap the team for everyone. We are through
eight selections. Let's let's read out the roster. Yeah, so
we got Patrick Mahomes at quarterback, drafted him in the
third round. Are running backs right now, Chris Carson, Raheem
most there, J K. Dobbins, So we're not super very
high tea start running back wide receiver. We got Tyreek Hill,
Christian Kirk, Deante Johnson, and then we've Kelsey Lockdown in
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the tight end position. So I think the our plan
for the next ten picks of this draft, it is,
obviously we need to try and get a couple more
high upside wide receivers to to build in with that mix. Um.
You know, obviously I think we want to get you know,
Tony Pollard, Boston Scott, um A, J. Dillon, Darrenson, Evans
that group of guys, and then probably Ben Roethlisberger and
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Eric Ebron as our backup quarterback and backup tight end.
So we were coming up in four picks here some
of the guy's topic values on our board, Anthony Miller.
Hopefully it's stepping into a big role for Chicago, regardless
of who plays quarterback. Got treat Cohen there, Mike just sicky.
Then you've started to get like Daniel Jones, Golden Tate types,
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Austin Hooper's on the board there, Brashod Perriman, so some
interesting picks. No, guys, really Shepherd there or is he gone?
Because I think I think I would Uh, I think
I would just I would maybe just get it to
get it out of the way, right, get the backdoor
stack of the way and go Daniel Jones, Sterling Shepherd
or or Golden Tate. Not that I have a huge
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preference between those two guys. Yeah, yeah, Shepherd is here.
UM's it still feels a little early to get I
get think to get a second quarterback, just given the
capital we've invested already at quarterback and white receivers. True. Yeah,
um still add Shepherd though, and hope that Jones stays
on the board for a little bit longer. Yeah, So
do we want to go? Um? Do we want to
go like ja like Jalen Reagor and Sterling Shepherd here?
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Or does Reagor not go early in these? I think
he typically stays on the board a little bit longer.
I'm actually gonna go with Anthony Miller, which is the
top guy that I have in our protect I like him.
It's not um, I mean, you don't feel great about
it right drafting into Chicago, but that's the bad offense
is already kind of priced in there. Um, So I
think you're getting a guy that should be a clear
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wide receiver too for them this year, was a wide
receiver too for them last year. And there's not really
any increased competition that they brought in, so the targets
will be there at least, So we just went Miller
Shepherd there. Yeah, okay, so plenty of ways to build
in that back door snack. Now, even if we get
absolutely robbed, um, we can take we can take Trabisky
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if it really does come to that. Hopefully, Uh it
doesn't come to that. We have built out our wide
receiver room a little bit more now so we don't
have to feel super panicky there. And there's a good
group of running backs left for us obviously to select
from at the UH it's what it's the eleven twelve
turn now, so theoretically two of Pollard, Edmunds, Evans, Boston Scott, Uh,
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you know, just that group of high upside uh, you know,
continued value running backs should be there for us as well.
In uh, in those picks, I mean shockingly, Pollard is
already off board. Um, there's all I mean. It only
takes one, right, it only takes one guy to be like, look,
I'm taking Tony Pollard in the ninth round and that's
I mean, that's where his ADP is going to settle
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in August. Anyways, it's just right now. You can get
him a little bit later. Yeah, it's pretty interesting the
picks here. If you were looking for just like the
guys that are still on the board, if you're looking
for just production, I think you've got three co in there.
Who feels like a floor play, but not a guy
that's ever going to step into some massive ceiling. Um.
Alexander Madison would be the guy that I would pray
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somehow falls because he does feel like the type that
could step into a massive ceiling if it shakes out
the right way. Uh. Yeah, I like, I mean, I
think I include so Madison for me was not in
that group of super high end handcuffs because he was
being priced out of that group earlier on in the
off season, after the reports that uh, Dalvin Cooke may
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or may not be holding out, but now that his vice,
now that his price is falling back with Edmunds and
Evans and those guys, I think he is now in
that group again. Yeah, yeah, what I would expected to
continue to slip at least a little bit, just because
Cook actually did report um this week, which you know,
once you had the concrete news there, it'll kind of
shake off the speculation that was hurting things before. And
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Cook is obviously being drowned after. It's like a top
five back, so people are comfortable with that pick. Well, well,
I mean what's interesting is Cook really never fell further
than like I I never did a draft where I
saw Cook go outside of the first round, even when
Madison was being drafted crazy early. Yeah. Um, what is
your stance on guys like three Cohen and James White?
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If you're getting them pretty late? You're kind of guys
that have been producing week to week, but they're never
going to have like a monster ceiling. Are you typically
fine with that and you're you're happy taking some production?
Are you trying to swing for like a home run
with every pick here? So? I like those dudes. I
I like those guys way better in weekly management. Zero
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RB teams were like, sometimes you just really need those
nine points. Cohen I'm cool with in this format because
he does offer spiked week potential in a way that
James White won't. They They actually do target him a
little bit deeper down the field, So like Cohen, I
I actually think it's fine and and is a legit
zero RB target for me. Yeah. Yeah, Boston Scott just
went to Amiko. It's always fun when you're drafting with
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one of your buddies who likes the same guys. But
Boston Scott doesn't feel like he has too much more
upside than Cohen, like, at least in my opinion, better
offense for sure. I mean, he was getting five and
a half targets a game while while being the backup
to Miles Sanders. So if he has standalone value similar
to Cohen, but I think his like Boston Scott's contingent value.
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If they don't sign DeVonta Freeman or someone is as
high as Tony Pollard's I think probably, So we're a pickaway.
We've got Cohen, Justin Jackson, Darrell Henderson, Darrenton Evans, Chase
Edmonds on the board. There I would think that my
preference here would be to go with like Edmunds and Cohen,
assuming one of them doesn't get sniped. The other options
would be going at tight end with just Sicky or
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going at wide receiver with like a Pairman Robbie Anderson type.
So yeah, I mean I think we just double tap.
I agree with you. I agree with you Cohen. Um.
I actually do really like Darryl Henderson, but Edmunds Edmonds
is way better contingent value because I think Henderson is
going to be in a split of some regards no
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matter what. Yeah, let's go Edmunds. Yeah, I mean that's
definitely a really tough one for me. Henderson specifically just
because look, I mean, he was drafted in fantasy leagues
really highly last year expecting some type of all obviously
didn't come together. Malcolm Brown played ahead of them, it
they added Acres. It wouldn't shock me if Acres played
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like passing Snaps and Malcolm Brown still played, you know,
Snaps is like the starting running back and Henderson played
like or something like that. Like that type of mix
wouldn't totally shock me, which is why I find myself
like pretty hesitant to draft Henderson unless it's really late.
So I mean I I like both of them, right,
like like I like I like Acres because I actually
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kind of think you have to like. I think if
you like one of them, you necessarily have to like
the other one. Um at their costs, I think is
sort of the way that that ends up working out,
because theoretically you're you're saying one, this role exists, and
one I expect this offense to be a little bit better.
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go back to Acres and Henderson there for a second,
I guess kind of what I feel is it's more
likely than not that Acres just does win the job
out and kind of plays that Todd Gurley role. But also,
you know, we really haven't seen them play a two
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back system, and I think that as long as it's
a two back system and not a three back system
with with Malcolm Brown playing, I think both of them
could out earn their ADP because, like I, I do
think Sean McVeigh is kind of a donkey with the roster,
but I do think he is a good play caller. Ye, yeah,
it's interesting. I mean, it wouldn't shock me if Malcolm
Brown ends up starting at them for running back, But
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the upside is probably calf there. Um one of the
things we have to try to figure out and sort
through right now. Or build has left us a couple
of different options right now. We've got Mahomes at quarterback,
We've got five running backs, five wide receivers in one
tight end. We're obviously gonna want to add at least
one tight end one quarterback before we exit the draft.
Need to manage the bye weeks they're hopefully complete A
snack but then we need to decide if we're gonna
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go with like a deeper wide receiver corps or go
with like a two seven seven two types set up
as we can approached this turn. Brashad Perriman, Noah Fan,
Robbie Anderson Um, Blake Jarwin are some of the guys
that are kind of popping up in the projections. And
then you still have Darnton Evans, Justin Jackson as far
as like zero RB late round you know targets. Well,
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do we want to take Sammy Watkins? Right? We we
probably do at at this pick right, We we would
like to So we didn't get McCole Hardman, but we
would probably like to get He's off the board. No way, man.
The people, the market, the markets too sharp, bro, you know,
so it's like what do we It's like what do
we even do? How can we how can we even survive?
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So I like Perraman a little bit with this pick
Um as one of the guys. I don't know, there's
just so many, you know, targets to go around there,
and I guess it's just a question of whether or
not you feel like they're gonna be able to have
a rookie wide receiver. Step In is gonna eat those
are Repairman is gonna be locked into like of snap roll. Uh. Yeah,
I mean I I like Perryman a bit. You know,
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my my reservations are you know, do like do I
like him in the same way that some people like Crowder,
where I'm just like, well, they gotta throw the ball
to somebody, And I mean maybe that is true a
little like Perryman is a guy that I just find
myself being like whatever whenever I take him. I think
the other thing I'm gonna do right now is I'm
going to take Ben Roethlisberger. A lot of the corkbacks
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are going off the board. We want to complete that stack.
And we had talked about the right time to draft
James Washington. I feel like it's still too early to
draft James Washington. I'd still probably rather take Perriman. Um. Well,
if we're gonna take James Washington and we like Isabella
and Boykin later on in the draft too, we should
take Evan Darnton Evans here, Okay, So I'm fine taking
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Darrenton Evans. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on him. Um,
I think obviously you're you're hoping for an injury at
that point, right, just because unlikely that he plays a
substantial role if that doesn't happen. I mean, we are
only we are only a year removed from Dion Lewis
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having more touches and snaps straight up than Derrick Henry.
And Evans is that sort of guy. He caught twenty
one passes his final year at Appalachian State. Like, I
think it would not surprise me. Now, obviously I don't
think he will get more touches than Derrick Henry, but
it wouldn't surprise me to see him have a little
bit of standalone value and massive contingent value because if
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Derrick Henry gets injured, if Derrick Henry has to take
a COVID time out, you know, we don't think that
the Titans are going to become this big pass heavy
team or anything like that. Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair. Um,
you know, Evans and that guy was super familiar with
felt a little richie. But I think one of the
things when you're at the turn, especially, you have that
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because you're not picking for another well, So I think
there are a couple of different ways to approach the turn.
One is you basically are like the auto draft. After
we're like guys who fall ten spots too far, they
just all end up on your team. Or the other
way to go is I have this very specific roster
construction in mind and very specific stacks in mind, and
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I would like to build those out that way. And
I think that's Um. I think that probably the first
approach is going to be better. And like the cash
games on Underdog, you know, like the twelve man top
three get paid, I think that the you know, stack
uh specific roster construction is better for the championship. Yeah. Yeah,
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I'm fine with that approach. Um. You know, we're still
you know about full round away. We've got six running
backs on the roster, five wide receivers, one tight end,
two quarterbacks. Probably stick with two quarterbacks. We're definitely gonna
be adding the tight end at some point. It might
be super late at this point, unless we're able to
get Ibron, who's kind of one of the next five
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guys on our board. Of guy. Probably we could have
grabbed at the turn last round, um if we wanted
to try to play the ADP waiting game with Evans.
But um, if not Ibron, I think we're probably gonna
be waiting pretty late on tight end, and I think
we need to decide whether or not we're going to
go with a seventh running back or we're just gonna
try to load up on more wide receivers. No, I
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think with I think with Carson and Dobbins and most,
I think six is should be our max. And we
got we got three content well, we got to contingent
value guys we like in Chase Edmunds and Darrenton Evans
and then one uh contingent slash standalone guy in Tarry
Cohen that we like a little bit as well. So
I think I think our plan at this next turn
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should be Ebron and you know, our our favorite wide
receiver value if if in fact Ebron is there. Do
you like herbs Smith Jr. He's a guy. He's a
guy that I found myself drafting more and more. Um,
I think that's an okay play. I mean, you do
expect the Vikings to lean heavily on the two tight
end offense, running the gameplay action that type of stuff. Um,
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So I think he's okay from that perspective, A guy
I would expect to do it than last year. But
he's still going to be competing with like Rudolph Um
and Rudolph should progress or I should move up. But
I guess between the two of them, I would still
prefer to draft O. J. Howard because it wouldn't surprise
me at all of Howard has a decent year if
both him and Gronk are involved, and you know, Gronk
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can be used as a really strong blocker, and the
Patriots obviously we're successful to tight end offenses, something that
Brady's used to. So I feel like Howard is a
pretty good upside tight end too. Uh yeah, I mean
I like Howard. I prefer to take Howard when I
have Brady because then I'm just telling myself the story
that they're all these successful guys in Tampa Bay, right
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that there's just so much success that the Cup runneth
over all the way down to all the way down
to O. J. Howard. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty dicey
right here. As we're coming up a few picks away,
Corey Davis Tyrrell Williams are some of the best wide
receivers left. James Washington is a guy I think we've
made up our decision. We're gonna try to take him.
Complete that stack with big Ben, and then we would
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be able to decide between like Howard and Earth Smiths
just went off the board as well. So I guess
for me right here, my gut would say to pick
James Washington and then either to take Howard or to
go with another wide receiver. Just don't love these other
wide receivers. What's uh so? Yeah, I think Washington we take,
and then what is the tight end board look like?
Hold on Pennan bird Is Sternberger, O j Howard um
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and take Washington with this pick and then and then
it's like Gerald, Everett, Dawson, Knox, Howard, Rudolph Sternberger, Culch
Met Dawson, Knox, Gerald Ever. Yeah, I'd like to here. Yeah,
that's fine. Yeah, I think I think Howard is. I
have no objections. So we have our Mahomes Mega stack
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with Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Tyreek Hill. We have the
cheap uh Steelers stack where we are essentially fading Smith,
Schuster and Ebron actually because you know, if Ebron, well,
if Ebron doesn't develop into a red zone role or
gets injured or something, I actually think that's pretty big
for James Washington. I kind of feel like Johnson has
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his role, Smith Schuster has his role, and I kind
of feel like Washington and Ebron are competing for uh,
you know, like like third in the passing game hierarchy there. Yeah. Yeah,
we're obviously banking on Big Ben like being able to
stay healthy, you know, being able to chuck the ball
at the same level that he was before um and
keep firing. So I think that's the other thing there.
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But Big Ben doesn't really matter for for this team specifically,
just because Mahomes is going to carry the quarterback loads.
So you're really hoping that he's just able to piece
together like good seasons for the wide receivers. Yeah. So
we are now probably hoping to close the draft with uh,
you know, sleeper guys. For me, Andy Isabella Miles Boyken
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are two of the big ones that I that I
really like. Leavisca Chenolt he probably is off the board
by now, but maybe not. Uh, it very much depends
on the draft for channel. Yeah. So if if this
was like solely my draft, one thing I often do
if it's this late is I would add someone like
Rashade Penny, who basically has costing nothing at this point
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and provides some like back end Seahawks stability if something
happening Carson and I actually do think that stacking or
handcuffing is viable, especially given the injury risk and COVID
risk this year. That would be one thing I would consider.
But I'd like some of the sleepers you mentioned. I
definitely like boy Can as an upside guy, guy that
can put up some big weeks. I like Stephen Sims
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for some of the same reasons in Washington. UM. But yeah,
I think if it was me, I would probably go
Penny boy Can, assuming they're still on the board. UM.
But I'm still open to adding just two wide receivers
if we wanna, you know, build a roster that way.
I mean, I prefer Carlos Hide too, uh Rashad Penny
for Chris Carson contingent value because uh one, I actually
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think it's possible that with how much Seattle runs the ball,
they both might have like top thirty running back seasons,
which is disgusting but is something that that could happen.
And if Carson were to get injured, I think that
Penny might still play that satellite back role, assuming that
his knee is okay, and then I just takes the
Carson roll straight up. Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair.
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Some of the other I guess guys you consider at
this point in the draft at the running back position
would be someone like Anthony McFarland, who you'd be kind
of banking on something happening to Connor Um, you know,
hoping that maybe Snell doesn't take too big of a role.
And then some of the other wide receivers I think
have upside if they happen to fall into the right situation.
Josh Reynolds is one of those. We know that the
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Rams defense or offense will look a little bit different
at wide receiver with Cook Scot this year. We don't
know for sure if that means that Reynolds will have
a pretty big role, or if couple play more on
the outside and they'll use two tight ends. But I
feel like Reynolds could end up as like a pretty
viable wide receiver three if things break the right way,
and then Boykin Stems Isabelle unfortunately is off the board.
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Uh yeah, I mean I I prefer to just pound
the wide receivers probably at this point, but yeah, I
don't I don't. I don't have a super strong preference.
I actually like, I cusually like Josh Reynolds quite a bit.
So I think our our plan A, you know, we
were three picks where your plan A is gonna hopefully
we'll be able to take Reynolds and Boykin if we
get snipes, hopefully it's not a both of them. Uh yeah,
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I mean getting getting sniped in these is the is
the stone cold worst. It just getting getting sniped in
the later rounds because you're like, why do you like
the same guys? Everyone likes different late round guys. Why
do you like my late round guys? Yeah, the late
round snipe is only worse. The only thing worse is
the stack snipe when you're like jazz up to complete
your stack with a quarterback and someone snaps him, or
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or like the double stack right where like oh I
have Smith Schuster and and Dante Johnson and someone else
takes Roethlisberger. Then you're just like, what was what are
we even doing here? What's it all for? So snow
and Sim's just went off the board. So I feel
pretty good as far as late round Waite re Steve
targets going with Josh Reynolds as one of them, and
then going with Miles Boykin is the other guy. Yeah,
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chalk chalk that one up. Miles Boykin is uh really
really strong light round pick. I think. So that's it.
Eighteen rounds in the books, we've got a formation two
six eight two. As far as two quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes,
Ben Roethlisberger, got six running backs Chris Carson, Raheem most there,
J K. Dobbins, three Cohen, and then Sleepers and Chase
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Edmunds and Darrington Evans. The wide receiver position pretty robust
there as far as depth, Terry Hill, Christian Kirk, Deante Johnson,
Sterling Shepherd, Anthony Miller, James Washington, Josh Reynolds, and Miles Boykin.
And then at the tight end position it's Kelsey and O. J.
Howard for us. So I feel like this team's got
some decent upside, maybe a pretty low floor, but it's
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definitely a fun team to draft, especially with the ability
to double stack Mahomes. I mean, if you're if you're
drafting for floor in something where all of the value
is basically in getting I mean like not even top ten,
like top five, you're getting some serious return on your
get you're getting a good hourly so uh yeah, I
mean I think that thinking about floor, I think that
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thinking about safety, I think that thinking about like you know,
fragility in these is mostly a misguided exercise. I think
that the whole exercise should be how can I end
up scoring the most points in the regular season? And
then weeks thirteen through sixteen. But we are going to
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I'm Davis Mattock joined by Colin Drew. Just drafted our
Underdog Fantasy bestball championship team. We'll hopefully gonna be doing
this every weekend with you guys. So Colin, we we
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just did a live draft on air where we had
to think and talk about all of our picks out loud.
You know. One of the things I think that I
have noticed is because there are so many people drafting
in this who are using the same resources, using similar projections.
Guys like mcole Hardman, guys like Christian Kirk, the trendy
sort of sleeper upside guys, they're gonna go even earlier
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in this than you think they should go. Yeah, I
think so, and I think you know, we reached on
maybe a couple of picks, but we sort of had
to because we were at the turn. Obviously, if you
guys want to draft off the same projections that we're using,
over at sports grade dot com, we've got fantasy football
ranking projections all free, so there's no paywall there. You
can draft off the same projections that we used to
put together this roster. Um. Yeah, other than reaching on
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a couple of picks, I felt like things came together
pretty well for us. We didn't overlap by weeks with
any of the quarterbacks, or tight end positions, which was
really good. We've kind of got upside picks that could
break into big roles as well as some safe production
at the running back position, and then we're loaded up
with a lot of upside depth at the wide receiver position. Um.
We managed to complete two stacks, which is another thing
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that is one of the foundations of how we like
to approach best Ball, especially for this underdog fantasy the
Bestball tournament. So UM, I wouldn't give this draft an A,
but I think it's like a solid B B plus. Yeah.
I think we probably have taken Eric Ebron instead of
Darrenton Evans and then just accepted, um, you know, Anthony McFarland,
Josh Kelly, uh, Jerick McKinnon, someone like that as our
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final running back. I think that I I tend to
do that with Darrenson Evans, where I just get because
he is, like, he is one of those guys that
I find to be one, you know, just one of
the best overall sleepers in fantasy football. Uh. And I
think that there is obviously a ton of value and
for those who for those of you are new to
best Ball, just if you're taking anything away from this podcast.
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Definitely make sure that you are creating stacks right so
that you are matching your quarterback up with wide receivers,
tight ends, and even running backs. You know, obviously running
backs in the NFL they catch passes too and are
going to be part of those big explosion weeks on offense.
So yeah, I feel pretty good about this draft. I
think that we did a fairly solid jobs. A few
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things that I maybe would have done differently, but everyone,
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Get on the gred. Hello everyone, and welcome to the
daily road to hour here on sports Gride TV. You
also might be listening to this on the Sports Grade
Fantasy Football podcast. My name is Davis Madock. I am
joined today by Colin Drew and today on the show,
we are going to be doing a live Underdog Fantasy
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Draft Best Ball Championship show with you. For those of
you guys who don't know, Underdog Fantasy is a new
best ball app. You can download that on your Android
or your iOS. It is a million dollar guaranteed tournament,
two hundred thousand dollars to first place. Uh it is
half point PPR. You have eighteen roster spots. You generally
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want to draft two quarterbacks, six running backs, seven or
eight wide receivers, and two or three tight ends. And
we are going to be drafting this team live on air. Colin,
are we are we pumped. Yeah, we're pumps. Uh, not
as pumped as we would have been if we got
the first pick, but we got we got the turn.
We've got the twelve overall pick in this draft, and
we'll be competing against that good friend a Meeksta from
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the five spots, so it should be a fun draft. Well,
we're probably not gonna win this one. The the the
math that has been done on win rates essentially says
that you really want to get the first pick. Right
having the first pick, uh since well you know, since
bet since draft best Ball Championships were originated, right, which
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you know is not going back a decade or anything,
but the the years that we have had, uh the
best ball championships, We've seen the amazing CMC season, We've
seen crazy Ezekiel Elliott seasons, and of course Sae Kwon
Barkley is amazing rookie year as well. Yeah. Yeah, I
think one of the biggest things for us in the
first round. You know, running backs are flying off the
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board early in drafts. Across the board, like the adp
s have shot up a bunch there, and you can
make a case to go with like a robust RB
where you kind of start RB r B and then
just build out wide receiver depth later, or you can
try to go to zero r B route. So we're
gonna have to make that decision coming up here. UM,
for our projections, the Sports Grade Fantasy projections half PPR,
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Michael Thomas is still on the board, Travis Kelsey, Davante Adams,
Chris Godwin, Terry Hill. So we potentially could try to
set up like a chief stack if Kelsey and Hill
are both there, or we could play you know, the
projections and go with like a top value like Davante Adams.
So I gotta say I really hate leaving my first
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two p X without a running back, which is not
something that I would say in a weekly management format,
you know, like when we're drafting in the main event
or whatever. But I even if it's Derrick Henry, it's
half point PPR. Those guys are a little bit more
palatable anyway. Yeah, it's pretty tough right now. It's like
Aaron Jones, Nick Chubb, Austin Ekeler, and Josh Jacobs are
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the guys who are kind of left there. So definitely
not the best spot to go running back. UM. I
generally lean that way as well. But I think for
this one, I know we can talk a little bit
about stacking strategy, but it looks like we have a
pretty unique opportunity to grab both Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Hill,
which could potentially set us up with like a Mahomes
stack if we're able to get him coming back in
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the third round, which I think is definitely something a
lot of people aren't gonna be able to accomplish. Uh yeah,
I mean so, I think the issue with starting Kelsey
Hill is that if you don't get Mahomes, you're like
basically chunking this team in the discard pile, right Like
You're just like, well, that team probably is not winning,
So you're really leaving yourself open to your draft mates
be and kind to you. And I like this better
(04:02):
from like the nine or the ten where you can
reach a little bit from Homes as opposed to you know,
the turn where you're the last pick in the third round. Yeah,
I think I think that's fair. And uh yeah, there's
you know, one of the things that I was getting
back into this this season. There's definitely a lot of
errors that you can make is you're going through the process,
whether or not it's trying to stack and not realizing
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you're not gonna get the QB or you know, overlapping
five weeks on guys, So it'll be interesting kind of
what's left here? Um yeah, I think probably on the turn,
Like generally I would I would say, you do probably
want to get Kelsey your kiddle there and just lock
that up and take advantage of the one nice thing
about picking on the turn and then you know, realistically,
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you know, I don't have a preference between Tyreek Hill
or Nick Chubb. I think that you know, the chances
of them ending up on the tournament winning team are
are pretty equivalent. Yeah. Yeah, I think Chubb especially is
pretty interesting one because you're you're worried a little bit
about the role of cream Hunt had there. But it's
almost like the inverse of like the zero r B appeal,
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Like Chubb's a good value anyways, and then if anything
happens to Hunt and then he has this massive contingent
value yeah Hunt, I mean Hunt gets traded, Hunt gets suspended, anything,
We're like, oh, well, Chub is the fourth best running
back in Fantasy or whatever. So with this team as
the you know, as we eventually will approach the third
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round pick, I think, um, you know, the hope would
be we get Mahomes there, But if not, I think
we're hoping that, um, there's still like a decent RB
value left there, whether that's Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, James Conner,
maybe even like reaching on someone like Todd Gurley. So, um,
those are some of the guys that I'm thinking about
right now. I have no doubt that there's gonna be
really good wide receivers available. Um, it's just a question
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of if we get RB value that falls too. Yeah,
I mean that's so that's again. The other thing about
picking on the turn is you know, when you go
to three four, you can take d J. Moore, Smith Schuster,
A J. Brown, like it just any any like, so
many guys you like are there at the three four turn. Yeah. Yeah,
And I think especially earlier in the drafting season, I
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think the ADPs on wide receivers are maybe a little
bit less efficient. A lot of people still are drafting
off of the ADPs and the default rankings I uploaded
sports Grade Fantasy Football rankings. So I feel like you're
always kind of finding value in like that, you know,
fifth through eight friends to whether it's like will Fullers
of the world or you know, upside wide receiver targets. Yeah,
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and you know there is the added benefit in obviously
in the best ball format where one we're gonna end
up loading up on wide receivers, right like, we're gonna
still be taking wide receivers in the sixteen seventeen in
eighteenth round, and we don't have the pressure of optimizing them,
right Like, we don't have to decide to start will Fuller,
We don't have to decide to start, um, Michael Hardman basically, Yeah, Yeah,
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I definitely think that's true. Um, we're now five picks away,
so we've got Adam Feeling on the board, d J. Moore,
Mark Andrews. But we wouldn't go with two tight ends
this early. You've got a J. Brown, Calvin Ridley, Tyler Lockett,
Todd Gurley, and Mahomes is still on the board with
five picks left. So a little bit of a sweat
for us here. Yeah, we have a little bit of
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I are drafting an underdog Best Ball Championship team live
on the air right now. We started from the twelve
thirteen turn with Travis Kelsey, Entyreek Hille Colin, we are
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sweating getting Patrick Mahomes here at the three four turn.
How's it looking. Yeah, we're two picks away right now.
He's still on the board, but Todd Gurley went back off.
He was one of the contingent plans that r B
best Available. Rbs are pretty dicey right now. I'd say
Chris Carson is one of the guys that would consider
taking here. You've got David Johnson, Jonathan Taylor, Melvin Gordon
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as the other guys. UM, But you know it's like
you said it kind of gets pretty thin at running
back quickly, and you don't want to feel like you're
reaching guy guys in like the fourth or fifth round. Um,
so I don't know. Hopefully Mahomes will stay here and
then we've got a choice to make as far as
whether or not we go with like a Chris Carson
type or d J Moore at the wide received your position,
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I have to say, I'm I'm starting to get kind
of into Chris Carson just sort of being like they
just want to give him the ball. And yeah, he's
got tons of competition, but a lot of his competition
is not of the past catching variety, so you know
he could still kind of back into forty ish receptions
or so, which is meaningful when especially because he has
that goal line role. Yeah, definitely, And you know the
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injury to Penny, who's not expected to be ready for
the start of the season. Um, they did add some depth.
They're going to bring in some guys. They got like
bodies with Carlos Hide, but um, yeah, we we got
Mahomes and we got Chris Carson. So right now we've
got a chief's double stack, which feels really good for
upside if we make it kind of out of the
group stage, because obviously the upside of the Chiefs passing
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game is as good as anything. And then Chris Carson,
so we've got our first running back as well. So
now are class Davis. This is this is this is Honestly,
this is a very good start because you know, my
my assumption is that many of the people who many
many of the teams in the Underdog Fantasy Football Championship,
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they're like, if they are Mahomes stacks, they're gonna have
paid and absurd, like they're gonna have drafted Mahomes in
early in the third round, so that would leave their
fourth round pick, you know, pretty substantially worse than Chris Carson.
My guess is that there are not a ton of
Tyreek Kelsey Mahomes stacks. You know, sometimes I think that
people would start with Travis Kelsey and then take Patrick Mahomes.
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So I like this start. So really, we gotta be
on our game and not mess up the rest of
this draft because I I really would like this team
to uh to to do well. So we gotta we
gotta be on our games here. Yeah, yeah, it's funny,
you know, as you get back into the some of
the rest, like I, you know, took quarterbacks with overlapping
bye weeks. There are teams where I drafted Earth's and
Dallas got there, which is not like the worst thing
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in the world, given the Eagles lack of you know,
talent at the wide receiver position, but still, you know,
then you have to for sure at a third tight
end and um, the quarterbacks with bye weeks two, you
definitely can't be taking zeros in general with quarterbacks and
with you know, the COVID stuff definitely adds a wrinkle
to fantasy football as well, because you know, positions that
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usually are safe as far as playing sixteen games or
you know, safer, you know, they're definitely not as far
as you know COVID. And we've seen some of the
outbreaks with MLB. Hopefully the NFL can learn from that.
But it does feel like we're going to be dealing
with a lot of kind of chaos and depth that's
gonna be really important this year. Death is going to
be important. In some of these other best ball drafts
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that I've been doing, I've been opting to take three
tight ends and three quarterbacks, which is from like a
win right perspective, historically not super great, but I actually
do think that that stuff is really going to come
into play this year with like you know that right
now there's the proposed three week COVID. I are basically
so that it's not great. Yeah, Um, you know, we've
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we've still got like a dozen or so picks until
we're up at the tail end of the fifth round.
But you know, the tail end of the fifth round,
you're basically looking at picks sixty from an eight P perspective. Um,
you get into running backs where they might have upside
but don't necessarily have a secure role, or their role
is a timeshare. So some of the guys that would
be up at the running back position, I'm interested in
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your opinions on where he most there who just had,
you know, the contract agreement with San Francisco a little
bit less risk to him, will probably see his ADP
slide up. I don't know if it'll slide up in
this draft or not. David Montgomery would be another guy
that feels a little cringe e drafting this early, but um,
if somehow the Bears were turned around, you know that
he's gonna get the volcal goal line work and then
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mark Ingram with the Ravens offense. Definitely an aging running back,
not the profile player that we necessarily like to take,
but the touchdown upside was definitely something that he realized
last year. Um Acres is a guy I like here, though.
There is this interesting thing with Underdog ADP because it's
it's newer and it's recently launched. It is not nearly
as sharp, you know, it is not it is not
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been hardened by fire the way that you know, the
f FPC ADP is the way that Drafters a DP is.
So like you know, Kareem Hunt goes a lot later
in these you were able to get running backs, you know,
kind of just like around later. And so in a normal,
you know, high stakes competitive draft, I would be thinking
about like Damian Williams and Cam Akers here, but it
sounds like we would be able to get David Montgomery here,
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who is definitely a guy that like five at the
five six turn. I mean, you can just project him
for three touches very easily. I would say Montgomery just
went to pick before us Acres went Hunt went. So
a lot of those guys are off the board. It's
kind of between Ingram and most they're at the running
back position. As we approached the clocke, Devon's Dingletary another
guy there. Then we have Keenan Allen Marquis Brown. Um
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Marketing went to pick before us too, So I would go,
I would go most dirt here and then I would
think about running back because I think probably realistically we
are looking at a will Fuller McCole Hardman selection at
the seven eight turn, so I think we probably want
to hammer one run back here at least. So we
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got we got Rahey mostert Um, Devin Singletary, j K. Dobbins,
DeAndre Swift, some of the other guys that are still
on the board a running back. So for me, I
think it's like Enan Alan Marquis Brown. So no one
agrees with me on this. Everyone is pushing back on
me against his I I like j K. Dobbins. I
think he has I think he has insane upside this
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year in this offense. I am. I am big on
j K. Dobbins relative to a lot of my other
sharp fantasy buddies. Alright, alright, so I'll slide this one
in for you. This is feeling like a matic like
build anyways, because we got the cheap stacks. So if
we're gonna shoot for the two, I want you to
feel like you're bought into this with me. And so
we got most are in Dobbins at that turn, um,
which means it's a running back heavy start for us,
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and we would probably um, you know, we've already got
quarterback and tight end. Obviously, we can't be picking death
that does for a while, so we're gonna have to
try to stockpile on wide receivers at the some point. Yeah,
I think that now our plan is we complete the
optimist prime chief stack would get McCole Hardman, and then
at wide receiver, we're looking at guys like Will Fuller.
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We're looking at guys like Anthony Miller, um Sterling Shepherds. Uh.
You know, sometimes Davante Parker will last that long, though
I'm not I'm not sure about how that impacts or
how that plays out in Underdog ADP. But kind of
the guys that go around this range that I would
like in high stake stuff would be, uh, Landry Cooks,
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Dante Johnson, Marvin Jones, Christian Kirk. Like, you know, I
think if Fuller is gone, I think probably we go
Kirk and Hardman. It's probably the move there. Yeah, it's
pretty interesting. I think the Fuller I've seen go as
late as like eight or ninth rounds, and in this draft,
he actually went in the fifth round, which was probably
the earliest that I've seen him go. So I would
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imagine that that team now is going to take to
Shaun Watson in the sixth of the seventh round. Yeah, yeah,
I don't I don't know if it's the same team,
but Watson definitely just went off the board. Um, and
he it goes kind of this middle of the six range.
I think that's a fair range for him. I mean,
he has all the upset in the world. Um, But yeah, um,
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I think so one of the things be there. And yeah,
I think the other guys like like I'm always finding
Anthony Miller available whenever I want to draft him. It's
just a question of how long you can wait, because
he can go and like the tenth round as well. Yeah,
I mean I think I think Hardman and then you know,
just our favorite of the guys who are available there.
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One of the things that we also need to start
thinking about is we have to build in the back
door stack now because we're not taking a quarterback, you know,
in the first ten rounds because we took him home.
So with our wide receiver picks, we need to think about, Okay,
you know, is this a quarterback we can take in
the twelfth round. So you know, there's gonna be less
equity for us taking Christian Kirk as opposed to you know,
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Sterling Shepherd or whoever, because their quarterback has already gone.
So we need to start thinking about, you know, do
we like Staff or do we like Minshew, do we
like Daniel Jones? Because it's it's very important to get
that double stack built in there. Yeah, yeah, I think
that makes sense, especially for the tail end of this round.
The way that thinks structure, you kind of have the
first you know, twelve or thirteen weeks is the league play,
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and then it turns into more of a DFS g
PP where that stack matters. I think on a week
to week basis, you know, Mahomes is probably gonna fill
some like of the QB weeks and so you are
looking for that stack more for like the tremendous upside
game that could potentially you know, put you into that
like two kp out if you have to make it
to the league championships. Yeah, and because it is the
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back door stack, you know, we don't really care, like
we we are trying. We are looking to keep that
price as low as possible. But we are going to
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Break here on the Daily Road to Hour on Sports
Grade TV. So now we are getting ready to pick
here at the seven eight turn, calling what's the what's
the board looking like? We got sniped mcole Hardman. Brandon
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Coach just went off the board. So the illustrious triple
stack is in there at the wide receiver position, which
I think is a position of need for us. Deante Johnson,
Christian Kirk, Anthony Miller, Golden Tape, Big Mike Williams are
kind of the top targets that we have here. Um,
you know, there is some tight end value, but I
think it's too early for us to go to another
tight end. Yeah, I think I think we just grabbed
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Kirk and uh, you know, Layton or Tape and then
we get we have Daniel Jones as ore. Was Evan
Ingram there at tight end or is he gone? That's
a good question, would because I would prefer to take
Ingram then those guys, I think he's off the board.
So it's it's Deante Johnson and Anthony Miller, Golden Tate,
Mike Williams. Well, let's go, let's go. Let's go Johnson Actually,
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because I like the I like the Roethlisberger um backdoor stack,
and we can also take Eric Ebron as our second
tight end as well. Okay, I'm fine with that. Deantha
Johnson a guy I don't find myself drafting a ton neither.
I feel like we expect Juju to have a big
bounce back. Yere and and that we're high on him
relative to ADP. But I think Johnson is an interest
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in play one of the other things that I like
to do, and um, I think it works, especially when
the ADPs let it work and being able to grab
like two secondary players from the same offense if you
have like faith in the passing offense. But no, it
could be volatile week to week. And so I think
like Johnson and James Washington as far as like a
late round wide receiver target is also pretty interesting because
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you could hit a home run and one of those guys.
Obviously they're both not gonna hit, but um, if one
of them the home run, that's obviously a big win.
And then if they each have decent seasons but it's
just rotating on and off, that's also a decent win
for best ball. Yeah. So the thing with Johnson is
I agree with he was just not a guy that
I find myself drafting very often because I mean, look
where he goes around, right, he goes around Will Fuller,
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he goes around Jarvis Landry, he goes around Christian Kirk,
he goes around Nicole Hardman, like all of those guys
are I mean, like universally, I prefer all of those guys. Damn.
Even if it's slight, the that preference is still very
much there. Yeah. So our buddy Anthonymko has got something
in this draft as well. Um I noticed he took
Kyler earlier. He's got Dalvin Cook on his roster, Chris Godwin,
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Jujuice Smith, Schuster, Um DeVante Parker, Michael Gallup, and Mark
Andrews right now. So a wide receiver heavy approach for him.
He did just add Vaughan from Tampa Bay Um with
the eight overall pick, but wide receiver heavy start for him.
How do you like that team? Uh? Well, he's definitely
sitting there tilting the fact that we just took Christian Kirk.
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I think he probably thought that Kirk would come back
to him where he just selected Keyshawn Vaughan. We we
did take Kirk a little bit ahead of ADP there,
and um, I mean that Kyler Murray Christian Kirk Stack.
It's like the perfect symbiotic ADP because if Kyler is
beating his ADP, Christian Kirk is like stone Lock to
have done better than wide receiver thirty six or whatever.
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And if Christian Kirk does better than wide receiver thirty six.
You know, Kyler is a stone lock to have beaten
his ADP, so it's like that's probably I think my
most drafted stack. And and there's another one there that fits,
which is Dac and Gallup, and you can pretty much
alternate those between whichever draft you're doing. Deebo Samuel just
went off the board. I was interested to see where
he would go, just with some of the injury news
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around his foot, un certainty if you'll be available to
start the season. He went at eight dot ten, So
that's definitely slipped back around gross to me. I I
my my philosophy on injured players is, you know, enough
guys are going to get injured in season, and that's
without the threat of COVID that, like, I just I
really don't mess around with taking injured players in UM,
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especially in Best Ball, where an injured player the worst
thing that can happen to your roster in Best Ball
is to have a player injured and giving you zero
after zero. Yeah, yeah, I definitely see that, UM, especially
you've seen the foot injuries be something that just always linger.
So it kind of depends on obviously the type of injury,
how clear the news is I think they're Yeah. So
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let's let's recap the team for everyone. We are through
eight selections. Let's let's read out the roster. Yeah, so
we got Patrick Mahomes at quarterback, drafted him in the
third round. Are running backs right now, Chris Carson, Raheem
most there, J K. Dobbins, So we're not super very
high tea start running back wide receiver. We got Tyreek Hill,
Christian Kirk, Deante Johnson, and then we've Kelsey Lockdown in
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the tight end position. So I think the our plan
for the next ten picks of this draft, it is,
obviously we need to try and get a couple more
high upside wide receivers to to build in with that mix. Um.
You know, obviously I think we want to get you know,
Tony Pollard, Boston Scott, um A, J. Dillon, Darrenson, Evans
that group of guys, and then probably Ben Roethlisberger and
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Eric Ebron as our backup quarterback and backup tight end.
So we were coming up in four picks here some
of the guy's topic values on our board, Anthony Miller.
Hopefully it's stepping into a big role for Chicago, regardless
of who plays quarterback. Got treat Cohen there, Mike just sicky.
Then you've started to get like Daniel Jones, Golden Tate types,
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Austin Hooper's on the board there, Brashod Perriman, so some
interesting picks. No, guys, really Shepherd there or is he gone?
Because I think I think I would Uh, I think
I would just I would maybe just get it to
get it out of the way, right, get the backdoor
stack of the way and go Daniel Jones, Sterling Shepherd
or or Golden Tate. Not that I have a huge
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preference between those two guys. Yeah, yeah, Shepherd is here.
UM's it still feels a little early to get I
get think to get a second quarterback, just given the
capital we've invested already at quarterback and white receivers. True. Yeah,
um still add Shepherd though, and hope that Jones stays
on the board for a little bit longer. Yeah, So
do we want to go? Um? Do we want to
go like ja like Jalen Reagor and Sterling Shepherd here?
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Or does Reagor not go early in these? I think
he typically stays on the board a little bit longer.
I'm actually gonna go with Anthony Miller, which is the
top guy that I have in our protect I like him.
It's not um, I mean, you don't feel great about
it right drafting into Chicago, but that's the bad offense
is already kind of priced in there. Um, So I
think you're getting a guy that should be a clear
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wide receiver too for them this year, was a wide
receiver too for them last year. And there's not really
any increased competition that they brought in, so the targets
will be there at least, So we just went Miller
Shepherd there. Yeah, okay, so plenty of ways to build
in that back door snack. Now, even if we get
absolutely robbed, um, we can take we can take Trabisky
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if it really does come to that. Hopefully, Uh it
doesn't come to that. We have built out our wide
receiver room a little bit more now so we don't
have to feel super panicky there. And there's a good
group of running backs left for us obviously to select
from at the UH it's what it's the eleven twelve
turn now, so theoretically two of Pollard, Edmunds, Evans, Boston Scott, Uh,
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you know, just that group of high upside uh, you know,
continued value running backs should be there for us as well.
In uh, in those picks, I mean shockingly, Pollard is
already off board. Um, there's all I mean. It only
takes one, right, it only takes one guy to be like, look,
I'm taking Tony Pollard in the ninth round and that's
I mean, that's where his ADP is going to settle
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in August. Anyways, it's just right now. You can get
him a little bit later. Yeah, it's pretty interesting the
picks here. If you were looking for just like the
guys that are still on the board, if you're looking
for just production, I think you've got three co in there.
Who feels like a floor play, but not a guy
that's ever going to step into some massive ceiling. Um.
Alexander Madison would be the guy that I would pray
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somehow falls because he does feel like the type that
could step into a massive ceiling if it shakes out
the right way. Uh. Yeah, I like, I mean, I
think I include so Madison for me was not in
that group of super high end handcuffs because he was
being priced out of that group earlier on in the
off season, after the reports that uh, Dalvin Cooke may
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or may not be holding out, but now that his vice,
now that his price is falling back with Edmunds and
Evans and those guys, I think he is now in
that group again. Yeah, yeah, what I would expected to
continue to slip at least a little bit, just because
Cook actually did report um this week, which you know,
once you had the concrete news there, it'll kind of
shake off the speculation that was hurting things before. And
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Cook is obviously being drowned after. It's like a top
five back, so people are comfortable with that pick. Well, well,
I mean what's interesting is Cook really never fell further
than like I I never did a draft where I
saw Cook go outside of the first round, even when
Madison was being drafted crazy early. Yeah. Um, what is
your stance on guys like three Cohen and James White?
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If you're getting them pretty late? You're kind of guys
that have been producing week to week, but they're never
going to have like a monster ceiling. Are you typically
fine with that and you're you're happy taking some production?
Are you trying to swing for like a home run
with every pick here? So? I like those dudes. I
I like those guys way better in weekly management. Zero
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RB teams were like, sometimes you just really need those
nine points. Cohen I'm cool with in this format because
he does offer spiked week potential in a way that
James White won't. They They actually do target him a
little bit deeper down the field, So like Cohen, I
I actually think it's fine and and is a legit
zero RB target for me. Yeah. Yeah, Boston Scott just
went to Amiko. It's always fun when you're drafting with
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one of your buddies who likes the same guys. But
Boston Scott doesn't feel like he has too much more
upside than Cohen, like, at least in my opinion, better
offense for sure. I mean, he was getting five and
a half targets a game while while being the backup
to Miles Sanders. So if he has standalone value similar
to Cohen, but I think his like Boston Scott's contingent value.
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If they don't sign DeVonta Freeman or someone is as
high as Tony Pollard's I think probably, So we're a pickaway.
We've got Cohen, Justin Jackson, Darrell Henderson, Darrenton Evans, Chase
Edmonds on the board. There I would think that my
preference here would be to go with like Edmunds and Cohen,
assuming one of them doesn't get sniped. The other options
would be going at tight end with just Sicky or
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going at wide receiver with like a Pairman Robbie Anderson type.
So yeah, I mean I think we just double tap.
I agree with you. I agree with you Cohen. Um.
I actually do really like Darryl Henderson, but Edmunds Edmonds
is way better contingent value because I think Henderson is
going to be in a split of some regards no
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matter what. Yeah, let's go Edmunds. Yeah, I mean that's
definitely a really tough one for me. Henderson specifically just
because look, I mean, he was drafted in fantasy leagues
really highly last year expecting some type of all obviously
didn't come together. Malcolm Brown played ahead of them, it
they added Acres. It wouldn't shock me if Acres played
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like passing Snaps and Malcolm Brown still played, you know,
Snaps is like the starting running back and Henderson played
like or something like that. Like that type of mix
wouldn't totally shock me, which is why I find myself
like pretty hesitant to draft Henderson unless it's really late.
So I mean I I like both of them, right,
like like I like I like Acres because I actually
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kind of think you have to like. I think if
you like one of them, you necessarily have to like
the other one. Um at their costs, I think is
sort of the way that that ends up working out,
because theoretically you're you're saying one, this role exists, and
one I expect this offense to be a little bit better.
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go back to Acres and Henderson there for a second,
I guess kind of what I feel is it's more
likely than not that Acres just does win the job
out and kind of plays that Todd Gurley role. But also,
you know, we really haven't seen them play a two
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back system, and I think that as long as it's
a two back system and not a three back system
with with Malcolm Brown playing, I think both of them
could out earn their ADP because, like I, I do
think Sean McVeigh is kind of a donkey with the roster,
but I do think he is a good play caller. Ye, yeah,
it's interesting. I mean, it wouldn't shock me if Malcolm
Brown ends up starting at them for running back, But
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the upside is probably calf there. Um one of the
things we have to try to figure out and sort
through right now. Or build has left us a couple
of different options right now. We've got Mahomes at quarterback,
We've got five running backs, five wide receivers in one
tight end. We're obviously gonna want to add at least
one tight end one quarterback before we exit the draft.
Need to manage the bye weeks they're hopefully complete A
snack but then we need to decide if we're gonna
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go with like a deeper wide receiver corps or go
with like a two seven seven two types set up
as we can approached this turn. Brashad Perriman, Noah Fan,
Robbie Anderson Um, Blake Jarwin are some of the guys
that are kind of popping up in the projections. And
then you still have Darnton Evans, Justin Jackson as far
as like zero RB late round you know targets. Well,
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do we want to take Sammy Watkins? Right? We we
probably do at at this pick right, We we would
like to So we didn't get McCole Hardman, but we
would probably like to get He's off the board. No way, man.
The people, the market, the markets too sharp, bro, you know,
so it's like what do we It's like what do
we even do? How can we how can we even survive?
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So I like Perraman a little bit with this pick
Um as one of the guys. I don't know, there's
just so many, you know, targets to go around there,
and I guess it's just a question of whether or
not you feel like they're gonna be able to have
a rookie wide receiver. Step In is gonna eat those
are Repairman is gonna be locked into like of snap roll. Uh. Yeah,
I mean I I like Perryman a bit. You know,
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my my reservations are you know, do like do I
like him in the same way that some people like Crowder,
where I'm just like, well, they gotta throw the ball
to somebody, And I mean maybe that is true a
little like Perryman is a guy that I just find
myself being like whatever whenever I take him. I think
the other thing I'm gonna do right now is I'm
going to take Ben Roethlisberger. A lot of the corkbacks
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are going off the board. We want to complete that stack.
And we had talked about the right time to draft
James Washington. I feel like it's still too early to
draft James Washington. I'd still probably rather take Perriman. Um. Well,
if we're gonna take James Washington and we like Isabella
and Boykin later on in the draft too, we should
take Evan Darnton Evans here, Okay, So I'm fine taking
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Darrenton Evans. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on him. Um,
I think obviously you're you're hoping for an injury at
that point, right, just because unlikely that he plays a
substantial role if that doesn't happen. I mean, we are
only we are only a year removed from Dion Lewis
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having more touches and snaps straight up than Derrick Henry.
And Evans is that sort of guy. He caught twenty
one passes his final year at Appalachian State. Like, I
think it would not surprise me. Now, obviously I don't
think he will get more touches than Derrick Henry, but
it wouldn't surprise me to see him have a little
bit of standalone value and massive contingent value because if
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Derrick Henry gets injured, if Derrick Henry has to take
a COVID time out, you know, we don't think that
the Titans are going to become this big pass heavy
team or anything like that. Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair. Um,
you know, Evans and that guy was super familiar with
felt a little richie. But I think one of the
things when you're at the turn, especially, you have that
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because you're not picking for another well, So I think
there are a couple of different ways to approach the turn.
One is you basically are like the auto draft. After
we're like guys who fall ten spots too far, they
just all end up on your team. Or the other
way to go is I have this very specific roster
construction in mind and very specific stacks in mind, and
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I would like to build those out that way. And
I think that's Um. I think that probably the first
approach is going to be better. And like the cash
games on Underdog, you know, like the twelve man top
three get paid, I think that the you know, stack
uh specific roster construction is better for the championship. Yeah. Yeah,
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I'm fine with that approach. Um. You know, we're still
you know about full round away. We've got six running
backs on the roster, five wide receivers, one tight end,
two quarterbacks. Probably stick with two quarterbacks. We're definitely gonna
be adding the tight end at some point. It might
be super late at this point, unless we're able to
get Ibron, who's kind of one of the next five
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guys on our board. Of guy. Probably we could have
grabbed at the turn last round, um if we wanted
to try to play the ADP waiting game with Evans.
But um, if not Ibron, I think we're probably gonna
be waiting pretty late on tight end, and I think
we need to decide whether or not we're going to
go with a seventh running back or we're just gonna
try to load up on more wide receivers. No, I
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think with I think with Carson and Dobbins and most,
I think six is should be our max. And we
got we got three content well, we got to contingent
value guys we like in Chase Edmunds and Darrenton Evans
and then one uh contingent slash standalone guy in Tarry
Cohen that we like a little bit as well. So
I think I think our plan at this next turn
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should be Ebron and you know, our our favorite wide
receiver value if if in fact Ebron is there. Do
you like herbs Smith Jr. He's a guy. He's a
guy that I found myself drafting more and more. Um,
I think that's an okay play. I mean, you do
expect the Vikings to lean heavily on the two tight
end offense, running the gameplay action that type of stuff. Um,
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So I think he's okay from that perspective, A guy
I would expect to do it than last year. But
he's still going to be competing with like Rudolph Um
and Rudolph should progress or I should move up. But
I guess between the two of them, I would still
prefer to draft O. J. Howard because it wouldn't surprise
me at all of Howard has a decent year if
both him and Gronk are involved, and you know, Gronk
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can be used as a really strong blocker, and the
Patriots obviously we're successful to tight end offenses, something that
Brady's used to. So I feel like Howard is a
pretty good upside tight end too. Uh yeah, I mean
I like Howard. I prefer to take Howard when I
have Brady because then I'm just telling myself the story
that they're all these successful guys in Tampa Bay, right
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that there's just so much success that the Cup runneth
over all the way down to all the way down
to O. J. Howard. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty dicey
right here. As we're coming up a few picks away,
Corey Davis Tyrrell Williams are some of the best wide
receivers left. James Washington is a guy I think we've
made up our decision. We're gonna try to take him.
Complete that stack with big Ben, and then we would
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be able to decide between like Howard and Earth Smiths
just went off the board as well. So I guess
for me right here, my gut would say to pick
James Washington and then either to take Howard or to
go with another wide receiver. Just don't love these other
wide receivers. What's uh so? Yeah, I think Washington we take,
and then what is the tight end board look like?
Hold on Pennan bird Is Sternberger, O j Howard um
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and take Washington with this pick and then and then
it's like Gerald, Everett, Dawson, Knox, Howard, Rudolph Sternberger, Culch
Met Dawson, Knox, Gerald Ever. Yeah, I'd like to here. Yeah,
that's fine. Yeah, I think I think Howard is. I
have no objections. So we have our Mahomes Mega stack
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with Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Tyreek Hill. We have the
cheap uh Steelers stack where we are essentially fading Smith,
Schuster and Ebron actually because you know, if Ebron, well,
if Ebron doesn't develop into a red zone role or
gets injured or something, I actually think that's pretty big
for James Washington. I kind of feel like Johnson has
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his role, Smith Schuster has his role, and I kind
of feel like Washington and Ebron are competing for uh,
you know, like like third in the passing game hierarchy there. Yeah. Yeah,
we're obviously banking on Big Ben like being able to
stay healthy, you know, being able to chuck the ball
at the same level that he was before um and
keep firing. So I think that's the other thing there.
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But Big Ben doesn't really matter for for this team specifically,
just because Mahomes is going to carry the quarterback loads.
So you're really hoping that he's just able to piece
together like good seasons for the wide receivers. Yeah. So
we are now probably hoping to close the draft with uh,
you know, sleeper guys. For me, Andy Isabella Miles Boyken
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are two of the big ones that I that I
really like. Leavisca Chenolt he probably is off the board
by now, but maybe not. Uh, it very much depends
on the draft for channel. Yeah. So if if this
was like solely my draft, one thing I often do
if it's this late is I would add someone like
Rashade Penny, who basically has costing nothing at this point
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and provides some like back end Seahawks stability if something
happening Carson and I actually do think that stacking or
handcuffing is viable, especially given the injury risk and COVID
risk this year. That would be one thing I would consider.
But I'd like some of the sleepers you mentioned. I
definitely like boy Can as an upside guy, guy that
can put up some big weeks. I like Stephen Sims
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for some of the same reasons in Washington. UM. But yeah,
I think if it was me, I would probably go
Penny boy Can, assuming they're still on the board. UM.
But I'm still open to adding just two wide receivers
if we wanna, you know, build a roster that way.
I mean, I prefer Carlos Hide too, uh Rashad Penny
for Chris Carson contingent value because uh one, I actually
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think it's possible that with how much Seattle runs the ball,
they both might have like top thirty running back seasons,
which is disgusting but is something that that could happen.
And if Carson were to get injured, I think that
Penny might still play that satellite back role, assuming that
his knee is okay, and then I just takes the
Carson roll straight up. Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair.
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Some of the other I guess guys you consider at
this point in the draft at the running back position
would be someone like Anthony McFarland, who you'd be kind
of banking on something happening to Connor Um, you know,
hoping that maybe Snell doesn't take too big of a role.
And then some of the other wide receivers I think
have upside if they happen to fall into the right situation.
Josh Reynolds is one of those. We know that the
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Rams defense or offense will look a little bit different
at wide receiver with Cook Scot this year. We don't
know for sure if that means that Reynolds will have
a pretty big role, or if couple play more on
the outside and they'll use two tight ends. But I
feel like Reynolds could end up as like a pretty
viable wide receiver three if things break the right way,
and then Boykin Stems Isabelle unfortunately is off the board.
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Uh yeah, I mean I I prefer to just pound
the wide receivers probably at this point, but yeah, I
don't I don't. I don't have a super strong preference.
I actually like, I cusually like Josh Reynolds quite a bit.
So I think our our plan A, you know, we
were three picks where your plan A is gonna hopefully
we'll be able to take Reynolds and Boykin if we
get snipes, hopefully it's not a both of them. Uh yeah,
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I mean getting getting sniped in these is the is
the stone cold worst. It just getting getting sniped in
the later rounds because you're like, why do you like
the same guys? Everyone likes different late round guys. Why
do you like my late round guys? Yeah, the late
round snipe is only worse. The only thing worse is
the stack snipe when you're like jazz up to complete
your stack with a quarterback and someone snaps him, or
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or like the double stack right where like oh I
have Smith Schuster and and Dante Johnson and someone else
takes Roethlisberger. Then you're just like, what was what are
we even doing here? What's it all for? So snow
and Sim's just went off the board. So I feel
pretty good as far as late round Waite re Steve
targets going with Josh Reynolds as one of them, and
then going with Miles Boykin is the other guy. Yeah,
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chalk chalk that one up. Miles Boykin is uh really
really strong light round pick. I think. So that's it.
Eighteen rounds in the books, we've got a formation two
six eight two. As far as two quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes,
Ben Roethlisberger, got six running backs Chris Carson, Raheem most there,
J K. Dobbins, three Cohen, and then Sleepers and Chase
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Edmunds and Darrington Evans. The wide receiver position pretty robust
there as far as depth, Terry Hill, Christian Kirk, Deante Johnson,
Sterling Shepherd, Anthony Miller, James Washington, Josh Reynolds, and Miles Boykin.
And then at the tight end position it's Kelsey and O. J.
Howard for us. So I feel like this team's got
some decent upside, maybe a pretty low floor, but it's
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definitely a fun team to draft, especially with the ability
to double stack Mahomes. I mean, if you're if you're
drafting for floor in something where all of the value
is basically in getting I mean like not even top ten,
like top five, you're getting some serious return on your
get you're getting a good hourly so uh yeah, I
mean I think that thinking about floor, I think that
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thinking about safety, I think that thinking about like you know,
fragility in these is mostly a misguided exercise. I think
that the whole exercise should be how can I end
up scoring the most points in the regular season? And
then weeks thirteen through sixteen. But we are going to
head into our final break here on the Daily Road
(44:36):
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the Grade all right, everyone, welcoming into our final segment
here on the Daily Road To Hour on Sports Screen TV.
I'm Davis Mattock joined by Colin Drew. Just drafted our
Underdog Fantasy bestball championship team. We'll hopefully gonna be doing
this every weekend with you guys. So Colin, we we
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just did a live draft on air where we had
to think and talk about all of our picks out loud.
You know. One of the things I think that I
have noticed is because there are so many people drafting
in this who are using the same resources, using similar projections.
Guys like mcole Hardman, guys like Christian Kirk, the trendy
sort of sleeper upside guys, they're gonna go even earlier
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in this than you think they should go. Yeah, I
think so, and I think you know, we reached on
maybe a couple of picks, but we sort of had
to because we were at the turn. Obviously, if you
guys want to draft off the same projections that we're using,
over at sports grade dot com, we've got fantasy football
ranking projections all free, so there's no paywall there. You
can draft off the same projections that we used to
put together this roster. Um. Yeah, other than reaching on
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a couple of picks, I felt like things came together
pretty well for us. We didn't overlap by weeks with
any of the quarterbacks, or tight end positions, which was
really good. We've kind of got upside picks that could
break into big roles as well as some safe production
at the running back position, and then we're loaded up
with a lot of upside depth at the wide receiver position. Um.
We managed to complete two stacks, which is another thing
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that is one of the foundations of how we like
to approach best Ball, especially for this underdog fantasy the
Bestball tournament. So UM, I wouldn't give this draft an A,
but I think it's like a solid B B plus. Yeah.
I think we probably have taken Eric Ebron instead of
Darrenton Evans and then just accepted, um, you know, Anthony McFarland,
Josh Kelly, uh, Jerick McKinnon, someone like that as our
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final running back. I think that I I tend to
do that with Darrenson Evans, where I just get because
he is, like, he is one of those guys that
I find to be one, you know, just one of
the best overall sleepers in fantasy football. Uh. And I
think that there is obviously a ton of value and
for those who for those of you are new to
best Ball, just if you're taking anything away from this podcast.
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Definitely make sure that you are creating stacks right so
that you are matching your quarterback up with wide receivers,
tight ends, and even running backs. You know, obviously running
backs in the NFL they catch passes too and are
going to be part of those big explosion weeks on offense.
So yeah, I feel pretty good about this draft. I
think that we did a fairly solid jobs. A few
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things that I maybe would have done differently, but everyone,
thank you very much for listening and watching to the
Daily Rodo Hour on sports Grade TV, the Sports Gride
Fantasy Football podcast. This has been Davis Maddick and Colin Droop.
You guys like the show, of course, give us some
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these teams, getting more into strategy, player values and how
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