It’s mock draft time! On today’s dynasty fantasy football podcast, Borg, Betz, and Jason jump in a dynasty rookie mock draft while introducing some mayhem and alternate draft scenarios! Plus, a few prospects the guys are afraid of being wrong on. Players discussed: Jonathan Brooks, Brock Bowers, Troy Franklin, and others! Join Borg, Betz, and a Baller each week to take your Dynasty fantasy football game to the next level and dominate your league -- Fantasy Football Podcast for April 10th, 2024.
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It's Wednesday, April tenth, and we're back fantas Footballer's Dynasty Podcast. I'm your host, Can Organoni, and I'm enjoying my Matthew Bets and Jason.
Moore mock draft today. Boys, we got a big how many weeks in the NFL draft? Three weeks? Two and a half weeks. I don't even know at this point.
I'm already I'm already coming in hot with the may Him. I just wanted to interrupt you with Bets. Yeah, we're doing a mock draft a couple of weeks away from the NFL Draft, where after the first round of the NFL Draft, the fantasy footballers will be on NFL Plus doing a cool live show following the NFL Draft. It's going to be a great collab with the NFL and today mock draft. But not just a mock draft. Mock draft Mayhem, why don't you explain that, Kyle I.
Will and Jason you you are someone who you go beyond the teas. You want to just go yes, right, that's right, Hit, It's trade on.
I don't tell you that, just please, you.
Know what, You're excited and I'm excited too for when we get to do live show right after NFL Draft, really like in a round one towards the in a round one, but the mock draft. Mayhem. Addition, we've never done this for a rookie draft. You guys started this last year on the main show to throw in some weird stuff because in the summer things get weird in the draft. But I think at this point in April, it's easy to kind of look at this is where I'm slotted in. This is what's gonna happen in rookie draft when weird things are going to happen because there's so much we don't know with draft capital, and your league makes who they might be idiots, you know, if you're listening to show clearly smart persons an idiot.
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Yes, just just the cream of the crop. That's who we have here. And so you might you know, slot someone and say, hey, they're gonna they need a tight end. They're gonna take brock Bowers at the one oh six, And yet you might be sitting there at the one oh seven go. I did not see brock Bowers getting to me, do what should I draft him? What should I do? And so we're gonna kind of give some scenarios today if things change in the NFL draft, if things change in your draft, and how we react. So we have a couple of mayhem specific things mayhem that will throw out there. Now, there's some things that shouldn't change, right, We're not gonna debate about Kayleb Williams going to the Bears, but once you get past the first couple of picks, there will be things that change. So let's get into some craziness in just a second. I did want to get your thoughts on a couple of prospects because right now our Dynasty Pass is about to have one more update, you know, one more update where we get the final comb through up the rookie rankings. Jason, I know that behind the scenes there's been little things changing here and there, always well, but I wanted to ask this question because at this point in the process, I'm pretty I feel pretty set in my convictions. But guys, is there a prospect you are most afraid that you'll be wrong on? Meaning like I could be dead wrong and maybe just I'm giving you a chance to leave the door open to greatness, or this player just really really sucks and I was really wrong. So Jason, I'll let you start first and then bets can follow up.
Yeah, I definitely have a player that I'm most afraid of, and it's ad Ani Mitchell. And the reason I'm most afraid of being wrong is because I'm so out on ad Ni Mitchell. There are plenty of people who like him. There are many, many, many, especially post Combine mock drafts where ada Ni Mitchell is a first round pick at the end of the first round, so he's going to a good team, you know. Oh, he's the thirty second pick to the Chiefs. He's going to the Bills, you know. Great landing spot where I went back and I watched him because i've I've the numbers aren't aren't great, his touchdowns are outstanding, and everything else basically sucks statistically analytically, the film people talk about is great. I did not think that. Like I watched film before looking at the analytics. I try to I try to have some kind of opinion, and then I go in and dig a little deeper, and then I go back to the film, and my process was like, ah, I thought he quit on routes. He wasn't. I don't think he had the best hands. I don't think he tracked the ball super great. I mean there's a play here or there where he did. So I didn't love him. Then I go look at the analytics and he's bad. And then I start seeing like and this is, you know, a months ago. And then I'm like, wait, he's supposed to be a first rounder. Like this guy doesn't have a first round grade to me. Then he runs, you know, the so fast of the combine. What was he like four three six or something as a big boy, and that's gonna run your way into the first round of the NFL draft. And so I went back. I watched more film today because I'm because of this question, because it's like, who are you afraid of being wrong on? And if it hits, it could hit really really well for Adnight Mitchell. If you want to be in on him, and he is a back of the first round draft pick, you can see the path being a touchdown machine in college. Maybe he is used around the goal line as a big, quick guy. He's obviously got the long bomb touchdowns over the top profile as well, So there's ways it could work out. I'm afraid of being wrong, but I won't like I won't have any shares of him just because of where he is in most average draft positions versus where I value him. He'll always be gone by the time I'm willing to take him. And so I hope I'm not wrong because that would suck. And I don't mean that my opinion was wrong. It just personally in my fancy leaks, you know, I want the points. I want to make good picks, and so it is purely selfish.
Is it tough? Because Andy's on the opposite end of the spectrum, where like even when we were doing you guys are doing the prospect previews last week on the main show, it was like Andy was seeing different things on film. You know, he was seeing like, oh, I see this guy being like a true alpha, and you're like, I.
Just yeah, it was like a yards after catch a tackle breaker. I'm like, I don't remember him breaking a tackle like aff, Like, you know he runs away from you know, if he's if he gets yards after catch and he's open, he's very fast, you're not gonna catch him. But I don't remember him being like a. I mean, that's what's funny about film. You can have two people watch, like, for instance, Mike and I same day, we're watching will Shipley and you know, we're watching some of the same games, and we just we just saw things differently because film is very subjective and it's it's worth noting like. That's why we try to be both film and analytics, because people can watch the exact same thing and come away with different takeaways. When you look at the analytics and you say, well, he hit this miles per hour, that's not it's not a subjective opinion. It's like this, this is how fast he was on this play, not oh I think he was slow there, or I think he was fast. So we try to have both. But film film's wild like that. You, I mean, what's your mood? You know what I mean? Like I'm in a bad mood when I'm watching at night Mitchell, It's like, well, you know, maybe I'm just negative. That That's why I try to go back and rewatch guys sometimes, but I'm still out.
I mean, it's gonna be tough when he goes to Buffalo, right, That's the thing that everyone everyone mocks right now, So thank you very much Buffalo for that and the Steph Diggs trade. And I will say a film is pretty subjective except for Xavier Worthy being Fast, which Kyle thinks it's subjective, is not subjective. The guy that I'm a little bit worried about being wrong on, and I will say my answer came in. I was like, Oh, it's gonna be Xabriel the Gap. But we've talked about that at length on this show. So I think we're all kind of like we don't know what to think, and I'm scared to be right or wrong one way or the other. But the raally answer for me, and maybe this just goes back to like recency bias is Drake may And on the episode where we did the quarterback preview, which was just Kyle and I on that one, So Jason, if you want to figure your thoughts, Kyle and I, we're both in on Drake Mayle. Like I think he's a pretty good prospect. He runs around the goal lines, the touchdown rushing equity is there, he throws deep, which we like for fantasy, and as soon as the college she's an ended. A lot of people like Drake may but now as the weeks go by, we have nothing to talk about. All I hear and see on social media is people nitpicking Drake May's game. And I can't help but get c J. Stroud two point zero vibes here where it's like you look back at ear Fro now and you're like, oh, that guy was actually really good. But that's how I see it. The NFL maybe is not feeling the same way. And so if he does fall a little bit in the draft, and I don't think anyone's projecting that, but just I have this kind of oapp in the back in my mind of like what does everyone else see that I'm missing because I just don't think he's a really good prospect.
I get the erratic moments that he has on film, and sometimes he holds on the ball tries to make a play, and he kind of had to do that based on the game plan. He changed offensive coordinators. We talked about that that was a big deal in terms of difference of scheme. But yeah, you and I were very high on Drake May on that episode. I yeah, I really want him to I think he should go number two. Now that's different than saying this should happen or will happen. But if I were picking, I would pick him number two, behind Caleb Williams.
Yeah. I like Drake May. I think he's got a lot Like if I was a general manager. I think that's what you mean, right, Kyle, Like, if you are actually putting together an NFL franchise, Drake May checks so many of the boxes. I do think his decision making is a little bit sporadic, but he's got the prototypical size and strength which you want, and sometimes that becomes overinflated to general managers in the NFL and you end up with just like, well, this is a big, tall, strong guy, so I'm gonna take him in the top five when he's really like a second round grade of a. You know, he's not accurate. He wasn't he didn't have great production. But this guy's like he checks all the boxes in the sense that he is big, strong, athletic. He is very young. That's one of the things I love about. You know, you see some of the mistakes, some of the erratic play, and you go, well, it's a kid. You know, these other guys took many more years to get to the point. You know, Jayden Daniels, Bo Nicks, Michael Pennix. These are They're several years older and it took them more time to figure it out. So I do like Drake May. I don't think he's a flawless prospect. I see how he could flame out. But if I was an NFL GM, I'm with you, Kyle. I would want a guy who can make every throw easily, who is young, who was prolific with production, who comes from you know. I like guys that are from a lineage of athletes, you know, this sports athleticism, competition, the way they take care of their bodies, the way they train their work habits like that. I like that, and he's from that, So I would take Drake many number two as well.
I'm gonna throw out a name that I just don't know what to do with this player, and it's Brayleen Allen, running back from Wisconsin. There's metrics all over the board that you could argue with him, like his rush access rate second best in his class, and yet when you look at the explosive plays they didn't happen that much is right under three percent. I've always kind of had a bias against certain Big ten running backs who just get a ton of volume and a ton of carries where his rush are actually went down over the years. He did catch twenty eight passes his past year, but he's not like a fluid like that's gonna be his calling card to the next level if there's a team that falls in love with him. I think Jason made this argument that just like, this guy's different, he's young, he's massive, and we can use him. That's awesome. But he could go somewhere and be like the RB four or five off the board, and then I'm like, okay, well, let's say he goes somewhere in is like the backup AJ Dillon style and you're like, ah, this isn't really what I want. So everything is there from age size production that should say I love brayln Allen, and yet I don't know. You'd just be a middling pick at RB that we kind of see like if he goes round three, or let's say he goes round four, we're gonna be like, oh man, this is this is not good territory. He lands somewhere like like Roshawn last year, we were like, oh, I could see it. I could see it work. He's a bigger back, and yet he's kind of stuck and now the team doesn't care about him as much. So I don't know. I'm interested where he ends up in our mock draft because I think he belongs in the first two rounds of a one quarterback draft. But I don't know, bets, what do you think? Like, I could see him a team falling in love. He could be the number one running back, or he could be the fifth or six off the board.
I think you could say that about almost every running back in this class, truthfully. I mean, I think we all agree like Benson's probably one of the top two or three off the board. I'd be shocked if he falls quite a bit. But the running back class is not strong period, right for the NFL draft purposes. And so yeah, if two or three of these guys fall to like the fourth and fifth round, no one should be surprised by that. Who is it gonna be? I have no idea. And that's the tricky part with this running back class is that there is no locked in stud that's going to definitely get top fifty draft capital. Well, we might get one in round two, we might get two, But like I would be shocked if there's three right, so a lot of these prospects will have holes in their profile. I will say on Breyllen Allen though, a lot of people that do like prospect modeling love this guy, and it's because he produced early and he was so young when he did it. So like if you bet on those kind of profiles, generally it works out. This could be different. Of course, if he falls to you know, fourth or fifth round, then you have a lot more concerned about how long he is given a chance to even be in RB one in this league.
I have to believe that. You know, I'm not a deVie player. I'm not playing college fantasy football. I didn't know who Braylan Allen was three years ago. I just don't care. That's uh. You know, I've got a different occupation football related three years ago. If you were in on college fantasy football and you're playing Debbie, I can't imagine what a perfect prospect Raylen Allen looks like as a seventeen year old boy man to come out and rush for over a thousand yards and dominate when he was brought in to play defense and they're like, let's run you a running back, and then oh, my goodness, this little boys just destroying everybody. It seems like that's that's as good a prospect as you could ever have when you've got a two hundred and thirty five plus pound newborn baby dominating. But then he just really never you expected, like most college players like him, to elevate his game and take a step forward the next year and the next year. He never really did. It's just more of the same, and it wasn't bad. And he's still obviously very young. He's gonna play his entire rookie season at twenty years old, which I don't think we've ever seen before. I think he graduated high school year early, so he did. He's a very interesting prospect, and I agree with you Kyle, like if he goes into fourth round or later, which right now I would say, it's just a complete fifty to fifty shot as to whether he's a third round pick or a fourth round pick, And to me, it makes all the difference in the world. That's like the split whether you know it's the days of the draft. If he's a Day two pick, I'm in. If he's a Day three pick, I'm pretty much out because I'm gonna let the NFL. Tell me what the NFL thinks about this prospect.
And if you're saying to yourself like, oh man, no, Braylen Allen's gonna be there, Like at this point last year, just to give you some numbers, Isaiah Spiller or two years ago, Isaiah Spiller was seen as a first round pick in rookie drafts because everything like, oh, this will be you know, second or third running back. Like he was a fourth round pick and he dropped. But at this point in the process, we were all seeing these kind of players. Same thing last year was Chase Brown, Sean Tucker and Seawan Tucker falls you know, for medical reasons. But like out of the draft, there is a wide range of outcomes for certain players. And when you're drafting right now, everything feels so set.
You know what it is.
We've been drafting for a couple of months. Guys, Zach Evans was a top eighteen pick in rookie drafts at this point last year.
Yeah, I mean he was a five star recruit, number one running back out of high school. And sometimes people latch onto those things too much. You have to let the NFL inform you after the draft. You can't hold onto your pre NFL draft locks. You know you can't get takelock like.
That for sure. So if you want to get our post draft picks, which those will be updated very soon. Like we said, we'll do a live show on NFL Plus, and then the post draft update will happen with the twenty twenty four Dynasty Pass. If you want to go to udkplus dot com, all of those rankings, everything will be updated for your rookie drafts. But if you're here, you're here to mock draft.
The Fantasy Footballers mock draft.
I'm pretty sure that this show might set a record for the most number of drops used on the Dynasty Podcast, just between you know, mayhem drop every once in a while, I'm gonna say something.
Like maka lakdingdong.
Just whatever it is. I'm feeling feeling good about it. But we want to introduce a little bit of mayhem, a little bit of anarchy here when we're doing the draft, because you've probably done some practice ones. If you want to look in the Dynasty Pass, we have a post combine rookie draft. But just a reminder things can change. A couple of years ago, we gave this example for Mike post Combine, c H was the RB four. Then he gets drafted by the Chiefs and he gets boosted all the way to the one oh one or the one or two. So things can change. I looked back Jason and I message bets about this. But Malik Willis at this point of the year, in early April, was seen as a top three super flex pick.
Yeah, I mean he was supposed to be certainly like a top fifteen NFL draft pick. He was a mobile athlete. And through this process about this these next couple of weeks, it started to be like, I just don't think he's a good quarterback and that matters, and the NFL thought he's not a good quarterback, and then they didn't draft him high, and then it turns out not a good quarterback.
It there's so much that can change within two to three weeks, and we don't just throw out everything.
You know.
Part of the process was actually what do I see on film? What do I see? You know when I look at the analytics numbers and we compare the historical numbers. We talked about all those things. So if you want to go back, we have a Rookie Draft Tips and Tricks episode A couple episodes ago. That would be helpful just for you to stay water and not just completely throw everything out the door. But things change. I mean, Kaisham Bote for a long time was kind of seen as a first round rookie pick until we got to post combine and then you know NFL Draft, it's like, does this guy even is he gonna be in the league two years from now? No, No, he's gonna be gone. So let's explain some mayhem rules and then we'll jump in to this draft. But after one of us makes a pick, we're gonna give our rationale. We're gonna give the upside case. Right when you do a mock draft, you're trying to give the here's what's gonna go. Right, Well, if one of one of us, one of the other drafters says, you know what, I I don't like that, or I could see things change a little bit, they can introduce a little bit of mayhem. Mayem, but I need us to give either a landing spot that's less than ideal, or maybe there's another player at this position that gets drafted before them. So you know, if if somebody got drafted, god forbid, you know, brock Bowers is gonna be the first tid end, but if somebody went before him, you'd be like, oh, what do I do here? So we're gonna give wide receivers and running backs that might be drafted before, and maybe we'll see if you guys can stick to your guns or change the pick. So the order will be myself.
Oh how nice giving yourself.
The first pick randomly generated?
Yeah, just I just randomly put this together just to see what would what would go on, And so you know, if you guys want to put some mayhem in, it's fine, It's really really fine.
Uh.
I personally have the one oh one in a one quarterback draft, which is what this is. Last time we did Superflex, it's times first quarterback. But at this point I will be taking Marvin Harrison Junior with the one oh one, and I'm not sure if there's really.
Anything you guys can do it. There's no mayhem that would that would affect this. I mean, you could you could push mayhem and say, because this has been talked about before, I don't think we'll we'll use up our mayhem at the first pick. But if he goes to the Patriots, which sometimes is mocked and won't happen, but could technically happen. That's not completely unrealistic. Would that switch it up? You know, like like if Neighbors went to the Cardinals at four ahead of him, No, and but Harrison went ahead to the Patriots at that point, where are you sticking to your guns? You know what I'm doing. I don't care. We get to make the rules. That's what happened. That's what happened. Marvin Harrison, Oh my god, goes to the Patriots and Malik Neighbors goes to the Cardinals, which is not completely unrealistic. Want to remind people, just like you talked about this time last year, quarterbacks, there's there's usually some quarterbacks that end up falling in the draft. I guess that was two years ago. Well, last year was Banana Rama. Banana Arama was talked about as a top five pick and then he falls out. Will Levis, Yes, Will Levis aka Banana Rama was at this point last year was like a top five pick. Is he gonna go to the Seahawks and then he falls out of the first round. So like if Jaden Daniels or Drake may end up falling and Marvin Harrison goes to the Patriots. Things go this way. So Marvin Harrison is a Patriot, Leak Neighbors is a Cardinal? Which one are you drafting?
It is a worthy question, Jason, and I am gonna ponder it because we're gonna take short break and I've thought about it. It took a long time to think about this, Jason, and on the Rookie Draft Tips and Tricks episode, I talked about how landing spot for wide receiver should not matter nearly as much. We kind of double count it sometimes, and so I think, to me, I'm just gonna take a player that I think is it's hard to poke holes in this player being a you know, eight ten year pro where it just doesn't work out apart from injury. So yeah, I would still take Marvin Harrison there at the one oh one, I could see the argument, though I'm not saying it's like out of the question. I do have a team with Kyler on it, so I would be interested in getting a stack. But I've kind of this is this.
Isn't a vacuum. I will say, like we you know, this isn't just some random wonky FM radio you know style gimmick. I offered in in our dinoh junior league or no, our main dynasty league. I apologize. I offered Brice Hall for your guys as one on one, and I've done that twice in the past, and I was worried at one point of this exact scenario. This was my biggest fear was if Marvin Harrison went to the Patriots, what I really want him above Brice Hall, And so we kind of hemmed and hawed, but it was it's a scary prospect. Just don't let it happen. Come on, Patriots, don't do that.
Yeah, all right, Betsy, Yeah, I'm gonna keep it going going here. Hopefully no one throws mayhem my way, because I'm gonna take milite neighbors and just take the chalk pick. I mean, it seems very unluckily he falls out of the top ten. A lot of mocks have him going to like the Giants or you know, the Chargers or something like that. If they stan Patton, don't trade down. But either way, like Kyle said, not too concerned with landing spot. You bet on talent. His prospect profile is awesome, all.
Right, and I'm gonna keep us rolling through these top three picks, then Roma Dunez should be the third pick. Here. In a single quarterback league, you've got the wide receivers are the most valuable position. You've got a big three, and in the NFL draft, these three will be the first three drafted. You know, Like I said, maybe the order of the landing spots change, but this is how most drafts will start. Will be Marvin Harrison, Malik neighbors, Roma Dunze. If it's a single quarterback.
League, yes, and Bets and I have talked about this and we'll be talking about in the DFS and Betting podcast. Of For a while, it was it's Chicago, we know it is, and now it's it's like no, no, no, like that that can be exposed as he's not a guaranteed to go to that team. There's other teams around there that are kind of interesting, Like if you went to the Jets at ten or he went to Denver, uh, if they wanted to go that route, like it would be a maybe a worst landing spot. But I don't think I can poke holes and saying is he deserving of being the third guy off the board. But at the fourth spot, I think there is some scary things.
It gets wild now.
So at the fourth spot, I'm really only debating between two guys, and I wanted to make that known, and it's Brian Thomas Junior or Caleb Williams. And I would take Caleb Williams as high as i'd take him at five. That's what I did on my little, this little exercise behind the scenes, where it's like I would take Caleb Williams there and I'd feel good on it, and I've kind of grown from I don't know if it's gonna work too. He's just in a really good spot, and it's hard to say for a number one pick like he's he's just blessed with the best weapons, possibly the best wide receiver of a generation, you know. So sure I didn't say it, but I'm gonna take Brian Thomas Junior here because I think he will be the fourth wide receiver drafted off the board that could go as early as like top fifteen. I could see him going to New Orleans, or I could see him go later. I think Buffalo feels really really far to drop that far down, So anybody want to poke holes in him or give some other thoughts before I pencil in.
He certainly seems to be the consensus fourth wide receiver taken. The expectation is he will be the fourth guy off the board on the twenty fifth of April, so whether that is, you know, if he goes to Buffalo, it will be a trade up to get him. So I think people will be all in on Brian Thomas because he's not. I don't think he gets too Buffalo's pick. So I don't think there's an easy way to poke a hole in that. You could poke a hole simply in the yellow flags you see in him as a prospect, being a one year hit, being a guy that got the advantage of playing across from Malik Neighbors, being a basket catch guy when you know not the style of catching that you want. And then you compare that to Caleb Williams and say, Caleb Williams a much much to me safer draft pick than Brian Thomas Junior. But if they both hit, I'd rather have a wide receiver for sure.
And we mentioned the targets per out run is really low for a final year and only when you're a production So there are some poles, but I think the NFL views him as a as a you know, top twenty type player. So bets you're up.
Right at this pick. I'm not considering Kleb Williams, which is wow. I don't know if that's not you know, off consensus or what. But one O five in a one QB league, there's still difference makers on this on this board to me, and I think Brock Bowers is one of those guys. We've talked a lot about rookie tight ends and yeah, sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes it does. I don't think we should react to last years class one lay or the other. I just think people have been talking about Brock Powers for years. Is like, this is the prospect and he's great, and a lot of people say he's a top ten prospect in this class, top fifteen at worst. So I think he's gonna.
Get to play with he gets played with Brock or with Caleb Williams, so that that'll be really fun, you think.
So, is that is that the mayhem you're throwing at me?
No, it's not mayhem. It's just you know, the the chalk of odoons. They're at nine, that's like what every mock draft has. Yeah, they brought in Keenan Allen if they want to get him a pass catcher. Brock Bowers. I know that he's usually going in most mocks I've seen lately going to the Jets at ten. I don't see how the Bears I think they could. They could grab him there at nine.
I mean, hey, if he gets top ten, draft capital even better for his profile, which already is awesome. So give me brock powers.
I can't argue against top ten. Let's say that he drops further. I'm not gonna use my mayhem because I got some more up my sleep. But let's say he drops like sixteen below, like twenty or twentieth, Like does that? Does that lower him in your mind from being this like locked in top five guy?
I don't think it does. I mean, obviously I didn't draft him top five, and I wouldn't personally draft them drafted the top five because I don't like drafting rookie tight ends. But as far as his value, whatever you think about him as a prospect going to you know, it's kind of like what you see with wide receiver. Sometimes it's it's good to go in the back half of the of the first round, because you just end up on a better team, a better franchise, usually with a better quarterback. So he's a lock for a first round pick. I mean, if he gets to pick twenty, people will be shocked. He's not falling out of the first round. So I don't think there's anything that happens on the draft day that changes whatever anyone's outlook is of Brock Powers. I can't see a landing spot that's realistic that makes you love him more or love him less.
What if he went to I saw he met with his team, So that's why I'm putting up there the Colts.
That's fantastic. I would I would go that's a great landing spot. They utilize the Titan.
So yeah, any of those spots.
All right, Jay, all.
Right, I'm up to me. This is actually a pretty easy pick at this point in the draft. I'm I'm happy that. Uh, I'm happy that Brock Bowers has taken. I don't like drafting Titans. I've talked about that a lot on the main show and probably here. Uh. The the overall hit rate of really being a true difference maker is just so low that I want a higher percentage odds, even if the the you know, ceiling case might be better for brock powers. Caleb Williams, to me, is a great prospect. He's gonna have the number one draft pick capital, which means he can fail and still have a job for a long time. He's also coming into maybe the best position that any one oh one NFL draft pick has ever come into on a winning franchise. I mean they weren't over five hundred, but they were certainly they have a better winning record than anyone that's been drafting. Get to one on one because it was the Panthers pick, They've got weapons to throw the ball to, so here I will I will take Caleb Williams.
Yep, that would have been my pick at one oh seven. I'm deciding between two guys not knowing the information that I really need, which is NFL draft capital. H So, I think it's team dependent, it's need. But if I was shooting for upside, I think I would take Jaden Daniels right here because I just want somebody who could break the league and break things with rushing. I do have concerns about if he goes to New England, how they're gonna use him in this Alex Van Pelt play action passing game. It might be a little different if he goes to Washington. I just have concerns because it's Cliff Kingsbury. But regardless of the offensive coordinator, if I'm shooting for upset here, I think you could get a difference maker at one oh seven, and I'm fine with that in a one quarterback league. I get people wanting to wait, but I would take him here.
I don't blame you there all the love we shared for Drake May, there is something broken in fantasy football. It's one of my pet peeves. I wish we could freaking fix it. And I can't believe I'm still in the minority here. I can't believe that, Like I mean, I'm on an island. Everyone disagrees with this take, but the fact that that quarterback rushing is the stupid cheat code that it is is just nonsense. Like quarterbacks should they I am a firm believer that all yards to a quarterback should be the same. Not rushing ten yards gets you a point, but it takes twenty five passing years to get a point. That's I mean, I mean, justin Fields is the perfect example of this. Justin Fields was so good for fantasy football, and the NFL doesn't want him. They he is a backup quarterback now because he's just not that good, and the guys that aren't that good probably shouldn't be the best players in fantasy or you know, up there. So but that is how fantasy has scored. So I don't blame you at all for Jaden Daniels over you know, you know all these wide receivers. I think when it comes time for real drafts, you'll be taking a wide receiver here. You'll be taking the one that went to the Chiefs, the one that went to the Bills, whatever great landing spot happens to hit first round draft capital at wide receiver, You'll take them over Jadon Daniels. Also, I don't worry about Cliff Kingsbury. Obviously, Cliff Kingsbury had Kyler, and you could be disappointed that maybe he could have gotten more out of Kyler, but Kayler was great for fantasy when he's on the field. He's been good with Cliff Kingsbury.
All right, Bets, this is the worst because there's so many guys that like I don't actually want. But you can't consume NFL draft content without seeing the names zaber Worthy, who I like him as a prospect and Aidie Mitchell in round one, and I'm probably gonna follow the NFL draft capital if those both go there. If they both go around one, I lean Worthy. If Adie Mitchell goes in round one and the Bills move up for him, which the Bills when they want a guy they are willing to love them, I will keep.
My mind open.
As Jason said, but I'm gonna assume both guys go round one in this exercise, and I'm gonna take Xavier Worthy.
Interesting, Okay, I already.
Used I've already used my my mayhem on Kyle left, So I'm I'm gonna hold off. I'm just giving Kyle a pause a minute.
No, no, no, no, no, I I definitely I just know that what Bets is gonna use is if I'd use him mayhem here, he's just gonna switch to Adie Mitchell. He's just gonna pick the Texas.
And that would be awful. We don't and we don't want Adie Mitchell high. Yeah, okay, so then I'm on the clock.
So let me ask this question about Worthy. This is the highest you would take him, what's the lowest you could see him go? In a rookie draft. Uh, gets like second round draft cap.
I mean, yeah, if he goes in a round two, which I think is still possible for sure, and it's someone like the Panthers or you know, someone like that, because the Panthers are taking a wide receiver and lab McConkey sneaks into round one, which there's a little buzz on, or Ady Mitchell does go to the Bills like or the Chiefs, you know, like you really do have to kind of consider that. So I'd probably drop him down to like one ten, one eleven, somewhere in that range.
Okay, I had him at one twelve in mine. So I have four other players I like more than more do Oh wow, I'm apparently I've apparently I've hated him.
Well, you don't like speed a couple of months?
Yep, A right, Jason.
Kyle doesn't even see the speed.
Kyle says, no, he couldn't see it, all right.
Uh, For this is an easy pick for me pre NFL draft. I'm gonna go with the heart wants what the heart wants. This was almost my answer for who are you afraid of being wrong on? And it's Troy Franklin because I love Troy Franklin, and I see ways that it goes wrong for sure, because he's a skinny little bean pole who could drop in draft capital and and fall out of the first round and maybe be a lower in second round pick. I don't know, but I think something is gonna happen here after I select Troy Franklin. Yeah, ma'am, that's my guy. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta do me. Like, let's talk about it, all right.
If he falls out a round one, there's two teams picking at the very start of the second round. This is assuming the Patriots tick quarterback, don't do it. BET's the Carolina Panthers, oh god, and the Patriots. And I'm gonna say, in this exercise, Troy Franklin falls to the Panthers at thirty three.
You think he can?
He can, Like, I quit this show. Wait, so he's going to the Panthers? Is that what he said?
Thirty third overall to the panthersh.
It's good draft capital, it's a landing spot that is good depth chart wise, you're competing with old man theeln I'm not a believer in Bryce Young. Uh So let me look here at my rankings. Let's see where else I would go because I don't like that. I really don't like that landing spot. I want him to have low end round one capitol where he's got a good quarterback, versus high end round two capitol, which is just worse generically and he's got a back.
There's no way you could take him at one o nine if you went there.
No, I agree, which means I am going to end up taking a guy that I think is more and more a lock for the first round. I think Lad McConkie is going in the first round. There's a lot of yellow flags in his production profile, in the analy there are also very easy understandable reasons why those analytics are the way they are, and if you have the context for it, you know people are like, oh, he never broke out, because a breakout is an arbitrary number of twenty percent, and he got nineteen point nine. It's like, okay, yeah he did. Oh his production is not that good. Well, he was sitting in the fourth quarter because they were blowing everybody out. He's a wide receiver and he dealt with injuries. But when you watch the film, he's outstanding. I think he does go in the back half of the first round, so I will be drafting ladimaconkie.
Interesting.
What's wateresting is that like one pick in the NFL draft, right the Chiefs or the Panthers lessen me, no teams trade out or trade in whatever is going to decide so much value in rookie drafts for sure.
I so and just talking about mconkee here, because we're at the end of the first round, like he could go at the end of the second, yes, and that would scare me for a player that fantasy like, I like him better in the NFL than I do for fantasy. That's that's kind of my underlying feeling the whole time, Like watching the film, you know, the advanced analytics against zone great, I need more routes, all this stuff. And then I'm like, is this still gonna be monster fantasy production or is he just gonna be a really good NFL player that helps teams. At the end of the day, You're just like, maybe I got some wide receiver, you know, three type seasons. Maybe I don't know. I'm just I'm scared of Lad McConkie. I I could see him just being a okay NFL player.
He could end up being you know, a Tyler Boyd type where he's just he's a solid guy, he's just not great for fantasy. And this is you know, this isn't who's gonna be a good eight year NFL veteran wide receiver. This is who's gonna score me the most fantasy points. So there are a lot of ways that Lad can disappoint. If the Bills don't trade up, this is who I projected they actually draft. And if the Bills draft Lad mcconky where they're sitting at the end of round one, I think people will be thirsty to drink of Lad McConkie.
As everyone does say yeah with Lack, that's the first So I would just normally just take Troy Franklin here because I definitely drinking the Troy Franklin kool aid. I'm a fan, but I do worry that he's going to get some like mid second round draft capal. If I was on the board and this was the first player drafted at this position in the second round, I would take Trey Benson here. Now I understand that he we don't know that he could be the third draft or whatever, but if he went I don't know top forty five. I think he has a case that he needs to be at the end of the first round. And I think you'd be excited if he was a Charger. I think you'd be excited if he was a Cowboy. I know you guys would want to take him here.
So Ever, those are the two spots, the Chargers and the second round at thirty seven and the Cowboys at fifty six. Where if those if thirty seven or fifty six equals RB, then that that's the that pick is going to be, probably maybe even above where we are right now. Like I would have taken him over Ladd McConkey if I knew that at thirty seven Trey Benson went to the Chargers or fifty six he went to the Cowboys, I would take him over, Lad.
Yes, I have him. I put him the range as high as one oh seven. If I knew he was one of those scenarios, you could definitely say that that makes sense if he's going to the Cowboys. So it's kind of a pick like a placeholder for now where I think we can all see these scenarios where he's not the first but uh, yeah, Trey Benson at one ten, he's gonna land somewhere around here. But if he ends up the third running back, he's somewhere in the mid second round of this draft. So who knows what I'm worried about.
What this running back class in general is, Like, they still go to a pretty good landing spot, but it's like the third or fourth round, and you're like, do we chase it?
Do we not?
Like the draft capitol might up either that kind of thing. So that's running back lasting me while. But the Cowboys are a meeting with like literally every right back in this class, So I do think they're taking one.
I see, I don't see. I do not see a world where they don't draft a running back by fifty six. They Cowboys, the Cowboys, the Dallas is drafting a running back at fifty six or trading up from fifty six to get a running back or I will be just blown away. And whoever that is, Like, I feel like you could pencil this pick in or even my previous pick where lad was as Cowboys rookie running back, Like whoever that is, I don't like Blake Koram, Blake Booram. You know, he's like he's met to me. But if Blake korm went to the Cowboys. Here was second round draft capital. I would be taking him.
Yep, all right, Betsy before we get to this pick. Just on a side note, if you can trade away Rico Daddo right now before the NFL Draft for anything meaningful late second, early third, I mean I'd be doing.
That already did three weeks ago. Brother.
Yeah, it's the it's a ticking time bomb. At one eleven, I am going to take Jason's boy, I'll take Eddie Mitchell. Oh who did you think I was taking Troy Franklin. Oh, I'm on the Panther's No way, dude, not when Adie Mitchell's right there all the chiefs.
That was my mayhem. That does That's not like a guarantee for the rest of is the rest of this draft? Now? Is is Troy Franklin officially a Panther? We need clarity here, Kyle, what are you thinking?
No?
No, no, no.
He doesn't have to be a Panther. I mean, Jason, after this pick, you can take Troy Franklin.
Yeah, And honestly, Eddie and Mitchell again, I'm with Jason. I don't see it. But at the late first that's a spot hrolell embrace a little risk with a guy like this if he is going to go in round one, which it's hard. I mean, at this point, all the signs are there that he probably will, so I will take the shot at one eleven.
Yeah, I am, I am not. I am not happy here because I know Kyle and I know he wants me to take Troy Franklin to mayhem me here and get him out of the top twelve. I'm I'm tempted to Troy Franklin. I'm tempted to mayhem bets just to make sure he takes Troy Franklin. All right, I'm on the clock, finished round one. I'm gonna take Troy Franklin. I believe in the talent. You know, at this point, after some of these other wide receivers and the number one running backs off the board. Even if he was a panther the very top of the second round, he deserves to be a first round pick. Troy Franklin has speed and has that dog in him. I really like, I really really like Troy Franklin for today's NFL. He you know, his yards per route, run against zone against man, He's just he's He's just a good wide receiver so long as organ isn't tricking us, which they often do.
I yeah, I'm not gonna mayhim. You. I love Troy Franklin. I want him to be good. I also know my heart wants it more than I think the NFL does. That's what That's what I'm scared for you.
It feels like that, right, It feels like the NFL is not nearly as hot and bothered about Troy Franklin as we are.
We can you go right, That's yeah, that's that's the worst part of this whole process. So let's take a quick break and then we will be back for round two. We're back round two. Gonna start it off just to recapt round one. It was a MAIM edition. But Marvin Harrison, Malik Neighbors, Romadonsay, Brian Thomas, Junior Brock Bauers, Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels, Xavier Worthy, Lad McConkie, Trey Benson added, I Mitchell and Troy Franklin were the first twelve picks, and I have the first pick of the second round. I'm going back and forth here. I don't have a wide receiver sitting here. That I'm chomping at the bit to get at the two oh one. Maybe you do, Maybe Jason wants to talk about his boy Laget in a second, But for me, it's between a running back that is actually my favorite running back in the class. Don't know how teams will respond. I would take Jonathan Brooks here, and I don't know. Let's just say he goes to the Cowboys.
I'd he could. I mean, he really could. The Cowboys surgeon is the guy that did Jonathan Brooks a surgery. So if they if they draft them, then they're confident in the the house.
Going higher than this, right, he's going, like you said, in the one oh seven to eight range, if he.
Goes to the Cowboys, absolutely, yeah.
So my worry is the downside case is Jonathan Brooks goes to a team where we don't see the path right away. He's a committee back and he's more of like a Okay, I could see year two, year three. But I think he's really really good. I love I love his feet. Am I allowed to say that?
Yeah, you're allowed to say that. You can love this. I love this guy. Yeah, he's like yeah, yeah, just like Wrecked Ryan with my feet thing.
Me, we're the same some me and Rex Ryan totally yeah.
Right now, Trade Benson and Jonathan Brooks are tied in the Draft Kings sportsbook, or at least last I saw, it's shifted around, but they were both kind of the same favorite to be the first running back selected. There are plenty of two round mock drafts that do not have a running back going in the second. I would be surprised if that actually happens. And the only way a running back is being selected in the second is not to be a committee back. You know, it's a team that has a need. So if I think Jonathan Brooks and Trade Benson, I think they come out of the NFL Draft both with like they're gonna be probably first round single quarterback draft picks.
We usually don't get running backs and rookie drafts, at least in one quarterback leagues where you get a perceived value back of the first early second like usually, like everyone they get pushed up, and these guys probably will, but it's like there is some value this year. I know the classes down, but I would be very excited if I was a competing team with the end of the first round pick and I could get a starting running back for Dynasty. That's a wild thing that doesn't happen that often. So Bets, you're at the two two.
Man, there's some tough decisions to make here. I see the ceiling case for someone like Legette or Kean Coleman. But sometimes I think we overrate, like chasing that ceiling. But like, I think I'm gonna get a starter in the NFL for years in Roman Wilson. So I'm gonna take Roman Wilson here with this pick at the two oh two, which I feel like might be early in consensus, but I really like the player.
I I can't.
Oh, if you didn't, I'm curious.
The problem with Roman Wilson you don't know this, but I do, is that he didn't he didn't get picked in the second round. Bets like, he didn't he didn't make it. Yeah, No, he's he was a good college player. I actually think he'll be a good, fine NFL player. I think we use the like Tyler Boydian phrase of like this guy's going to be, you know, in the league for a while, competitor. But it's just the NFL didn't see that, Bets. They thought he's more of a third round guy, So who would you be taking here instead?
Well, the issue is that the NFL knows he's got that dog, and so he's going in the second round. I would if that actually happened. If he did fall round three, it definitely gives you less confidence because the production truthfully isn't great. But it's like a Michigan offense issue too. So if that happened, I probably would pivot and I would consider Drake May at the two h two. So I'll take Drake May, who seemingly is going to go in the top five of the NFL draft, And as I talked about at the top of the show, I still really like despite the fact that people seem to be kind of souring on him a little in the NFL draft community, but I like Drake May the prospect, good pick.
He was next to my boy.
Yeah, I'm upset. I'm upset at you, Kyle, because I had a plan there. I was ready. I was looking for where I was gonna slot him in. I was ready to hit that Mayhem button for bets. Now, I was gonna do it a little different. I was going to say, Xavier Leget goes thirty seven to the Chargers super high second round draft pick to Justin Herbert in a position in a place where they have needs. So I'm curious if so Roman Wilson's still in the second I didn't, I wouldn't have made him drop. I would have had Xavier Wilson just have really good draft capital, or and get have good draft capital and quarterback play, and then I was hoping you would pivot. But either way, I get Drake May here, and unfortunately, now you've taken Drake May So I'll take Xavier Loguet. I'll do what I am advising most people to avoid, which is picking Xavier Logett. We have no examples and history of a fifth year breakout ever working. Honestly, I don't know if we've ever got do we have any examples of a fifth year break it. It's not like, oh, with your breakout that's drafted never works. It's like, I don't think there's been a fifth year breakout in the history of humanity.
I think we have to add a new tab to the spreadsheet because it's like with COVID and everything else, like, we just don't have players that are like this. So I would have thought about Mayheming but the Mayhem is already built into this player like he could he is mad.
No idea. Yeah, so I'll take Exavier Logett. Hope he uh has a good you know, second round draft capital and ends up with a good quarterback and a bad depth chart.
Oh man, Okay, so I'm at the two O four here. If there's a I've been talking about running backs. They usually don't, but my last couple of picks have been Trey Benson, Jonathan Brooks, and then the third running back whoever is drafted, is on my radar here. Okay, there's another wide receiver that I think has a high range of outcomes too, that I'm pretty sure these guys don't like. So it's kind of team dependent for me. Right now, I'm gonna say I'm gonna take Jalen Wright here. It's between him or Brayleen Allen that I think are going to be the third running back. So I will take Jalen Wright. And I don't know if you guys know this, he went to the Chargers in uh in this draft, so I'm really excited. Tang it.
Mayhem.
Jalen Wright was actually taken in the NFL draft after both Brayleen Allen and Blake Korum. He fell into the fourth round.
Kyle so oh a fourth round Day three?
Yeah, okay, So the NFL apparently didn't love it, didn't love the tape. I felt so good. When I've been prospecting Jalen Wright, it's been a slow burn. I've liked what I've seen, and then I was like, I think I've got a really good fit that no one else is talking about. Felt really good about it. Who's that fine? No, I went I think he would fit with the Chargers. He's a different back than Gus Edwards. He has a lot of the same Greg Roman gap stuff that he was good at in Tennessee. So I'm trying to find some Greg Roman dudes. So obviously it's not Jalen right here. Then I'm gonna, you know what, I'm gonna swing for the fences here and you're gonna hate it. But I'm gonna take Keon Coleman here because because so there's a lot that we've kind of poked holes. When we did Keon Coleman's profile that week on the podcast, I feel like we weren't very nice no, and it well, because there's a lot of red flags when you look at targets per out run, yards per out run, what he did against zone and that he just vanishes sometimes. But Keon Coleman actually has pretty good hands for a guy that seems more boombust. I like his hands. He's a big dude. And I got to give some props to Matt Harmon. He kind of talked recently about if he's used as a big slot player, it could work. And Matt Harmon's une reception perception. For a long time, he used to do it for our site. I used to edit all of his articles, and I remember he started talking about this with Juju that like, I don't see how Juju could work in the NFL unless he's used as a big slot And it worked in the NFL where he kind of transitioned as the big slot wide receiver for a year. If key On for a couple of years, two years, I'm just kidding, then yeah.
To the degree where he was the one oh one startup dynasty pick for a year. Yep.
Uh So, if Keon Coleman gets early second round draft capital on a creative team, I think there's routes where he can work. Now I see the downside case, but among the wide receivers. I would take him ahead of Lagette, and I think i'd take him ahead of Roman Wilson. So whatever, guys eat.
That, So whatever, you're up here, so you're a funny man. I'm gonna take the guy was gonna take with my last pick, and I'm gonna take Roman Wilson.
No, not con I mean you might, you might take him, but I don't know if you know. This pretty big deal. On draft Day, the Cincinnati Bengals trade T Higgins to the Buffalo Bills and they end up drafting Ricky Pearson to be the wide receiver two with Joe Burrow.
You love Ricky Pearsong.
I do love Ricky Pearsol. You know who else does?
The Cincinnati Bengals scenario would be so fun. Te Higgins in Buffalo, oh my goodness. But I would take Ricky pearsow And that's a situation because I think he's pretty close to Roman as a prospect now normally super old prospect wide receivers like I'm not a huge fan of, but like you look at any like top fifty big board, he's on there, like in the NFL draft circles. So I think he does go round two. That's hard to pass up if that is the landing spot with Joe Burrow.
Yeah, okay, I have some buys against Ricky Pearsong.
Okay, talk about him, because I don't think I don't remember us talking about pearsall that much.
He'senty four, Jason, you brought him up as as somebody. We talked at the end of the show and just said, Hey, I kind of like the overall tape what I'm seeing. I think he can work in the NFL. Okay, I'm gonna say it, and I have been wrong on this. This is nothing to do with football, so.
Just just just yeah, oh boy, here we go.
He thinks he's the coolest guy in the room.
I don't like those kind of guys, So that's fine. There. There are definitely some like Cadarius Tony vibes, not not even a film thing, but just like a yeah, like a dude thing. I get it. I totally get what you're saying. But his tape is good, his route running is good, his athleticism is good, and his hands are great. His hands are outstanding. He has probably the best catch I've ever seen in my life for a single catch. So yeah, congrats on getting your Cincinnati Bengal.
Ricky Piersoll just an interesting career because what he was. He was there at Arizona State with Jane Daniels and Brandon Ayuk and all these.
Other and they all sucked together, you know, all.
Right, So who would you take their bets?
Yeah? I would take it that he took Pearsaw, So you act.
I was so shocked he didn't even make my top twenty four.
Yeah, well there you are. Well, but if he was a let me ask you, Uh, Kyle, you're on the clock here, and if that situation happened where you have a second round pick used on Pearsall to go to the Bengals with Burrow as the two because T Higgins is gone off, it's very specific. I don't know, it's not an unrealistic outcome that T Higgins has traded on draft day and if that is done, they will replace him with ah wide.
Receiver, good wide receiver.
A good wide receiver. So maybe it'll be Roman Wilson, maybe it'll be Ricky Pearson, maybe it'll be uh whoever. But if it was Ricky Pearsall and you were on the clock with who's available here, he wasn't in your top twenty four before. Would that landing spot completely shift a player that you don't like for Yeah?
No, I mean part of me just wants to log out because I could. My brain would break if that happened. But no, he he deserves to be in this range if that's the team he's with this situation all right.
I'm on the clock. I'm looking at a running back. I think the wide receivers here are there's still a handful of really good ones left, but tons of question marks and flags. I like Jalen Wright. I like Blake Korum, but I've got him both right now behind and these guys will be dictated by the NFL draft. I'm gonna go Braylen Allen. I'm gonna go with the little bitty baby boy twenty point two years old only right now. A pile pusher, a goal line guy, and he's got pretty good hands. It's he's so funny to me in the receiving game because he has really, really good hands. But he's not a but he's not a fluid pass catcher, you know what I mean. It's like they used him a lot this last year in the passing game and he'd roll out, they'd throw him the ball, he'd get it every time, and then he'd be tackled right there were he caught the ball. It's like, it's just a little funny to me. But unless there's mayhem, I'll take Braylen Allen.
Yeah, he's gonna be somewhere in this range. Like I mentioned earlier, who knows, you know, with Dallas, he'd obviously go higher. I would take Jalen right next. I tried to take him earlier. Apparently the Chargers don't want him. But you know, if he's if he's getting day three draft capital or not Day three, day two draft capital, round two, round three kind of guy, then he's probably in this range. He's super interesting, Like I think he can be an actual like lead back in the NFL. So I will take him here, and I believe I know I still have a Mayhem left. I will definitely be Okay, is your.
May who's your mayhem left for I don't I haven't tracked it.
I'm pretty sure I did it on bets.
Yeah, okay, so you still have mayhem? One mayhem left for me?
Someone listen to the show. Like, you guys are idiots. You don't even know what's going on your own show. Yes, that's your works, all right, So yes, I will take dealing right here, and bets are yeah, bets, you're up, and I stab him ahim.
For the third time in a row. I'm going to take Roman Wilson.
You got him, you got your guy, can dude. I love I love Roman Wilson. I think his his toughness, his speed in his hands. I I think he's got the second best hands in this draft. And he's fast, and he's just he's he's unafraid. I like. I like his story as a person, which I I do care about. Like there are things that are outside of film and outside of analytics that sometimes can move the needle when you learn things about a guy, either good or bad off the field stuff, and I just really I just really like Roman Wilson. Plus I like the guy who who is the talk of town at the Senior Bowl every year there is a guy who just like everyone leaving the Senior boll says, oh Man, Deebo Samuel was so good, oh Man, Cooper Cup was so good this year. There's no question there's a couple of guys that stood out, but it was Roman Wilson. He was the guy that dominated the Senior Bowl talk. Every day. Everyone you saw on Twitter was just like, well, another great day for Roman Wilson. So yeah, I'm I'm I'm personally way in on Roman Wilson. Yeah.
And with Senior Bowl stuff, I think we talked about this right after it happens. Like with wide receivers, it matters with other positions. Eh, you know, there's a lot of stuff they just have to write, especially about running backs. So Jason two on nine, you were up.
Two o nine. I like this guy better than Aden I Mitchell, who was drafted way too high, probably both in the NFL Draft and in our draft. I'm gonna take devontees Walker, wide receiver, North Carolina.
You are you're taking him?
I am okay, yea, he is.
I've taken him in a couple of our mock drafts, and every single time I'm like, okay, I could see it. He ran fast enough at the combine, and yet I also could see him being a Day three guy. So I'm not gonna make him you but man like Devonta's, Walker is one of those players that we might not even be talking about in three or four years. We were like, I spent a second round pick, so I see the upside case, I see the downside case.
I just I just see him. It's it's ironic because I see him very very similar to me too. At an eye Mitchell, they both have the same yellowish flags, and they both have the same kind of uh where they win and.
Walmart Walmart at any Mitchell, I.
Think he's at least the Sam's Club at and I think he's just.
Like Sam's Club.
Yeah, exactly, that's my point. I think Mitchell might be the Walmart, but he's you know, in the same family, owned a business tree. The problem is one of these guys is going to cost you so much both in the NFL draft and in your rookie drafts, and the other guy could be a value.
Okay, I'm at a two ten, it's my last pick in this exercise, and I'm deciding between two guys. It is either JJ McCarthy or if I had to take the next tight end off the board, I would take Ben Sennett. The Senator.
Oh, the Senator. He's getting some love now do you see that NFL draft? He might be T two.
Trust me, the Senator has been there all along. Everyone's just finding out now. Love the Cenator. But I think if JJ McCarthy gets top ten draft capital he belongs in this range. If he goes to the Vikings, I would be pretty excited, So I think I would take Team Dependent. But JJ McCarthy feels like a safe pick, especially if he goes there. I think fantasy wise, this ceiling might be hard to envision. Like I said, he's like Alex Smith, which some people might not like. But Alex Smith went one oh one in that draft and had some serviceable years. I think McCarthy has a potential for, you know, better systems than the one Alex Smith was in. So JJ McCarthy two ten.
This pick is not fun. There's not really anyone that I'm excited to tell you that this is who you should target and this is what you should take. But I will follow what I think the NFL draft will do, and I will take Blake Korum with this pick, which you can tell him by voice I'm not excited about in the event he goes to a good situation. I am with Jason, and I think with Kyle too that I'm not a huge fan of the prospect. Generally, he's a little undersized, which is concerning and coming off of you know that an EE issue from two years ago, people are questioning was last year like just the result of that is that now who he is? So I don't know, but when I watched him last year, I wasn't a huge fan. So I'll take him at the back of the second feels like that risk is kind of baked in.
We're all pretty down on him. But Jason, what's the Hyatt Like, let's say he goes to Dallas. Yeah, how high would he go.
If he was If he goes to Dallas as the first running back off the board, which means that no one went to the Chargers at thirty seven, then you're talking about Blake Koram being I would be willing to look at him at Man. If he was a second round pick by the Cowboys, I think he'd be in the con as the as the first running back. He'd be in the conversation at one o four, which is is really really high. I don't think I hate I would hate that, but you know, whoever goes there, like I love Trey Benson. If Trey Benson went there, I would take him one oh four. Jonathan Brooks goes there, he's in the conversation at one O four. If Blake Koram goes there, he's in the conversation. But I'm pretty much gonna take Brian Thomas. That's kind of how I see that. But he's right in the middle of the first round. If Cowboys take one of these running backs and the Chargers don't, that's going to really push someone up. Now I'm up with the final pick here. There's a handful of running backs that like. There's things I like in a lot of them and things I don't like in a lot of them, and the NFL Draft capital is going to dictate it. Like Ray Davis, I like the tape. I like the production. He's forty five years old. He's he would be the He's literally twenty four right now before the NFL Draft.
You played for three colleges.
That's just insanely old to me, Like to that is a red flag. But I like just about everything else. I don't have knocks on him other than this one thing of just he's really old, and so that feels like, well, then I should just draft him. Will Shipley has a lot to like. He's twenty one, he was the number one recruit in the nation according to some scouting profiles going into college. Played well for Clemson. You got no problems there. Some people really love Audric as to me, and he he could surprise being a bigger, strong young back. He could end up with more draft capital than we think. I didn't love his tape. He seemed so slow to me, but he could really explode. Maybe a good pass catching running back and Bucky Irvin lands at the perfect spot. There's a lot of different ways you could go there. So and then a wide receiver. You got Jaylen Polk and Jermaine Burton and a couple of guys I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the running backs. And this is really just a question of which name do I want to get into our draft and which name do I think Kyle does or does not want in. So I know what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna see if he uses his mayhem or if we leave a mayhem on the board. I'm gonna take Will Shipley.
Okay, so Jason's playing the game here. He thinks he knows what he what I'm thinking. Yes, that's right, and I will have taken Will Shipley here. Yeah, I know, okay, I know, but the problem is none of the running backs remaining are are taken, all right, none of them are taken on day three. I was gonna go.
Run the day two.
No, I mean sorry, none of them are taking on day three rounds four. Oh wow, they don't even make it to the draft. Yeah, no, none of them are taken on day two. So Jason, there's no running back available on the board.
Yeah, that's definitely, that's this is a good practice. I So here's what I wanted. I wanted to take Ray Davis, and I thought, you don't want me to take Ray Davis because you hate old players. Yeah, and I thought, I'll take Will Shipley. You'll tell me something bad about Will Shipley, and then I'll take Ray Davis. I but you've actually done a really good and valuable thing as a practice, because it's very realistic that all the remaining running backs, I mean, it's not just realistic, it's probable that none of those running backs go on day two, the ones that are remaining, in which case, if they're the fourth round pick and they landed a good spot and maybe get a little excited about ship.
Is Zach Evans in the seventh.
Yeah, but those guys are pushed up in drafts because running backs are so valuable for fantasy to a place that is not appropriate, usually not valuable for the pick. So at this point I would switch to wide receiver, and I'm just gonna go off my current rankings even though I don't I'm gonna change my ranking and take the guy I want. I'm gonna take Jalen Polk. I think he is the next best wide receiver here. He's got some things I don't like, but I do love his production profile. He's been a valuable wide receiver and I think he'll be I think he'll work in the NFL. I do worry about his upside for fantasy. Seems kind of like a proballiant, a slot guy in the NFL that you know is again kind of calm to Tyler Boyd, where you're gonna have some games throughout the career where you can plug him in and you can get something for him. But I don't think he's gonna be a superstar. But we're at the back of the second and most of these picks probably aren't gonna work out anyways, So I I will finish with Jalen Polk.
That's where he's landed in a lot of our mock drafts we've done before. It is kind of this fringe second round. Maybe he drops in the third round. Bets. Would you have taken Jermaine Burton?
I think I'd still probably take Jalen Polk. I do like Burton as a sleeper in this class. Him and Jayleen McMillan actually are like two guys that continue like they continually get Round three NFL Draft buzz, which means they should be on your radar as a sleeper. But I think I would still take Jalen Polk.
Yeah, yeah, So I will post these on the website, our first and second round picks, and once again, all of the rookie rankings are there in the Dynasty Pass part of the UdK Plus. You can go to udkplus dot com and be a part of that. Next week, we'll be talking more NFL Draft. Can't wait to hang out and check us out on NFL Plus on NFL Draft Day. We'll see you again later.
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