Rookie mock draft! On today’s dynasty fantasy football podcast, Borg, Betz, and Mike make picks in a dynasty rookie draft for superflex leagues! They discuss the pros and cons of drafting a QB early based on your Dynasty team needs. Plus, NFL combine reactions, including which players solidified their draft status. Rome Odunze, Caleb Williams, Brian Thomas Jr., Brock Bowers, and other players discussed! 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 March 6th, 2024.
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Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Dynasty Podcast with Borg Bets and a baller.
Welcome in. It's Wednesday, March fifth, man. We're back fantas Footballer's Dynasty Podcast on Kyborganoni and I'm joined by Matthew Betts and Mike Wright.
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Correct, Yeah, it's a little bit of like hey, boom boom, Yeah, it was Mike Greig.
I'm just gonna be duck in the same cadence forever in this uh in this episode. This episode, by the way, is a rookie mock draft. It's special because it's right after the combine.
What kind of mock draft is it? Kyle?
You know it's a super flex one. That's because there's Pepe.
Pike down all you super flex nerds. We're giving you what you need.
So Mike, I was talking with Kyle a few days ago and we were talking about just you know, for the show. He was like, Hey, you want to do one quarterback super flex?
What do you like?
And I was like, yeah, we can do super flex, that's fine. And I just realized that you don't play in any super flex dynasty leagues?
Is that right? That is correct? I am in. I'm in three dinos old school and they're all single quarterback Old Scott old School.
Yeah, but co manage some teams during the year super Flex with with Andy and Jason. I've dabbled yeah, and and I think when we get to this into the nitty gritty of when should you take this player, there aren't hard as rules of you have to do this. I mean, we have tons of articles out there on our site and I wrote one a couple of years ago about do we draft quarterbacks too early? And super Flex Yes?
Yes, Oh wait, I didn't even need your answer. I can just I can tan it. I can tell everyone that the answer is in fact yes, and my rankings reflect it, like if you have if you're in the UdK plus uh. You can see just a difference of philosophy between me and the two other guys, where I'll just I'll let the cat out the bag. Super Flex two quarterbacks. I have three players ranked above the first quarterback because that's how.
I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. When we get to the discussion of when you get to one O one, one O two, one O three, you know, I could see it go as far as one O four or five, depending on the landing spot. So it it matters when we look at these players and their longevity because you think, oh, I have a quarterback for the next ten years. Uh, the turnover is way more. And like Mike said, you didn't even have to read my article. Mike already knew. Also tell that to Trey Lance ten year pick.
Hey, oh new Vikings quarterback baby.
Oh yeah, we'll get into that. We're back. We are.
I mean I left the light on. I never left.
He's still on my roster.
It's not hard when you have like thirty people on your roster. You're like, well, it's a super flex league, so I'm staying in.
Oh no, I'm talking at a single quarterback league here, Kyle, Mike, that's justus.
Do you hit me. I'm down, Let's go, Let's keep going. Yeah, so we're gonna do a super flex rookie mock draft right after the combine. We'll give you some of our combine takeaways. And if you go to Uni clay plus dot com udik plus.
Do we need to pick up another domain here?
We have to get every single iteration, every like u dk plus dot com. We just updated the Dynasty pass the post Colm down update with the risers and followers a new one quarterback rookie mock draft, So we're gonna give you one quarterback and a superflex on this podcast. The rookie rankings were updated. We also have some new series in there with our Dynasty life cycles, and I just put out an article about wide receiver thresholds in Dynasty. So I mean, we keep adding to this and we don't increase the price. Mike, it's a terrible, terrible.
Pot Someday, someday I will.
I don't believe it. I don't believe it.
Mike. You are hr you are in charge of this.
Well, yeah, I also own part of the Fantasy Footballers.
It's a good running bit that, yes, you get all of that, and then we get to keep adding the Dynasty and then you get the Ultimate Draft Kit, which is the biggest part so udkplus dot com. Before we get into our mock draft, I wanted to get a couple of takeaways from the combine and from you guys, kind of give your perspective of what shifted the most, what confirmed your priors bets. I will let you go first.
Yeah, I don't have a specific player that I was just like wowed by at the combine, but I think it just solidified in this class. Like if you have early second round rookie picks to mid second round rookie picks, there's a lot of guys in that range that I would be very, very excited to have. And in that mock draft that you referenced that is in the Dynasty Pass, you know, I think I drew the one oh nine. I believe in it. It kind of felt like to me, like that's kind of where a tear brake happened, where I was like, I don't love anyone here. So my takeaway was, I think the depth of the class was only solidified by some of the testing we saw this past weekend. And so if I do have a late first and there's not a guy that I'm absolutely in love with, I might be trying to move back a few spots and maybe grab two seconds for the one ten or the one to eleven or something like that. That's kind of my takeaway. I didn't have anything major as far as I mean a specific player.
Ooh, someone's not a Lad mcconkee guy.
I like Lad, I mean the Gauntlet drill dude. He looks so natural and so smooth. Just well, I always think it's really really funny though when we look at the combine and like you see stuff that is being done on a field without pads, without defenders, and everyone's like, oh, he crushed the drill. It's like, just watch him play football. You saw the same stuff in an actual l game. So I'm not I'm not a guy that you know, reacts a lot to the combine. I will say a four three nine for lad McConkie. Very nice number for for a guy like that.
I wonder if for the coaches that there is something about uh kind of like just like the the overwhelming stress and pressure of the combine, because I'm in complete agreement of just like watch the film. You know, we've we've seen guys bomb the combine the forty time and it was like, you know, off the toime I hit Dalvin Cook bombed the forty and and it in the Dynasty community there was a really sharp reaction to it. He didn't like plummet out of the first round of rookie drafts or anything like that, but it was that was the Fournette year. Am I remembering that right where it was? Yeah, So both Fornette and Dalvin Cook, where it was like people are like, ah, you know, I like Dalvin more than Fornette, and then no, I like Fournette more. And then the forty happened and it was, oh, well give me Lendon Fournette. They'll give me this slow, lumbering, big fat guy. And it's like, no, it's Dalvin Cook. He's really good at football. And it turned out that he was so, and and teams knew that. I mean, Dalvin Cook still went in the second round of the NFL Draft. So I wonder if for like I'm just speaking for myself, I guess that's how I would look at it, because the combine, that's intense pressure. We're in a game. Once you're you know, once you're in the flow of a football game, you kind of you lose track of what's going on outside of you. And now it's all that matters is in the game. You're so locked in and focused and you have a team, you have eleven on eleven on the field in the combine drill, all eyes are on you, and you make one slight mistake and this thing is going to be magnified. It's going to be posted on social media, Troy Franklin, you weaving and running real slow in your Gauntlet draft, So I wonder if that's what that's kind of. It's a stress test of I know you can do this on the field. What about when pressure is real heavy? Can you can you rise to the occasion? Can you perform and show me your best stuff?
It's tough because, and this is a term that's been thrown around a lot this week, is that we don't want to double count the combine. It matters, it matters to the NFL, and sometimes it matters too much to the NFL where you see players boosted beyond measure because of what they did at a combine, So you don't want to double count it. And for certain players you can go back to and say, hey, this kind of confirmed what I thought, Like this production looked really good, you know, so you may have already had a player boosted up and then the combine makes them look even better. You have other players who bomb the combine, like Troy Franklin, and then you go back like, wait, but I liked his production, and now does the NFL not like him as much? And you kind of go back and forth, and you remember that there's cases across the board of people that killed the combine, bad in the NFL, people that killed the combine, and good in the NFL. People that didn't run a fast forty like Antonio Brown ran on the four fives was ashamed of it was. I mean he interviews later said like, oh that was just so bad. And on an NFL football field, obviously he looks different. So we don't want to double count it. But we know that the NFL it does affect them, and so we have to pay attention because it goes along with draft capital. So I don't know, that's it's a tough thing to navigate through.
Yeah, it is.
I think one thing too, just thinking about when you were talking with the forty, Like it makes zero sense to me that we have these players that don't actually line up in the three point stance, line up in the three point stance and then run as fast as you can. Is like when you watch these guys do it, it's like a skill based thing. Like you can see the guys that actually ran tracks in high school. They know what they're doing out of the blocks. Like when I have these guys line up in like a wide receiver position, you stance at the line of scrimmage or running back, helmet and the like. It doesn't make any sense. So hey, Xavier Worthy, he has track speed and he ran it in high school. You could tell now I loved what I saw with the forty broke the broke.
The record you want? Are you kidding, Kyle? Kyle?
I love just guys, I am so like, I'm impressed. I hope you guys are as impressed as I was of him running that.
Kyle just learned that saver Worthy is actually fast. So this is this is good.
But in Kyle's defense, I mean, you slap of whatever you know, five pound helmet. I don't. I don't know what a helmet weighs, but I know that they're there. If you were not used to a helmet, they're really heavy and put some pads on to restrict your actual range of motion while you're while you're pumping your arms there, Maybe it makes a difference. Maybe Maybe Worthy in full palmp for full pads and a helmet is actually slow.
Maybe I okay, So last week when we were talking, no, two weeks ago we were talking about Worthy, bets brought up. I think he's lightning. I go man. You know, when I was watching the game film, I didn't think he was as fast.
Apparently I was really right, we're just grumpy.
Apparently I didn't like. Now I will say with Worthy because he's kind of the prime example of how high do you boost him. We'll talk about in the draft today. But it's like you should like Worthy because as a freshman he was freaking awesome. Yeah at Texas. He was awesome against Oklahoma that year, like he was, he was incredible, and he's been a pretty steady performer. Now one hundred and sixty five pounds if you want to use this weight adjusted speed score, it was actually the ninth best this year among wide receivers. So you just weigh all of those things. The combine's part of it. But I just want to say the running backs overall seem to impressed. I know we talked about Yees being a down yere, but I feel like there's a number of running backs that I would say, you know what, in the second round, like Bet said, like I'm willing to take a shot, and I think Trey Benson kind of solidified. We liked him as the one or two. Oh yeah, we did so in a one quarterback league. I think he makes sense as the first one off the board. Is just how early ahead of some of these other wide receivers does he go? So I'm assuming you really like that a lot more.
Oh.
I enjoyed Trey Benson's performance very much because it confirmed what I had already believed about Troy Benson. But we got you got the measurables, and it's like that two fifteen area like that, to me, that's primo running back weights. That's a weight where you can still be really fast, really shifty. So it's you know, like as incredible as Derrick Henry has been over the course of his career, that arc type of running back. If you get matched up with a team that just they can clip you in the backfield and you're not able to get the locomotive up to speed, they can shut you down. Uh now. But but then when you're real fast and shifty like Trey Benson, you know, it takes a little bit more and that and the weight is at a point where should he land in a with a coaching staff who believes in the three down running back or believes in you know, I need to give the most snaps possible to this player that weight and his frame can hold up to it, and then you add in the speed and his production profile. I'm very excited for Troy Benson. It reminds me of at least you know what I'm what I think is going to happen, which I believe that Troy Benson will be Yeah, trade what I was. Yeah, No, I'm correcting myself. I've been saying wrong the whole time. But Benson, if he's like a round two pick, it's going to be fascinating. Like just like how the Kenneth Walker year where you had he eventually wrote to be like this is the premiere running back for fantasy football, but he was then surrounded by a bunch of really talented first round wide receivers. So if you're in that middle of the first as long as Benson gets that round two capital, I think it'll be it'll be okay taking him over some of the first round wide receivers.
For sure. I also think there's some guys that were on the radar that we kind of talked about in passing Jalen Wright, and you kind of get to see like, okay, well, I think the NFL is going to take notice this looks like a player that can be Day two. So yeah, there's just more intriguing running back prospects. And I'll just I'll mention this too with tight ends, We're gonna cover them next week. We haven't talked about the rookie tight ends outside of brock Bauers very much, but I think there's some athletic guys that you can take a chance on at the end of round two and round three and your rookie drafts that tight ends the one position I do care about the combine. I actually do care about the athletic measurables, what they can do after the catch. So Johnson from Penn State, Ben Sennett from Kansas State, Devin Colp from Washington, a couple of names that seem to improve their draft stock. I mean, we're we're guessing, guys. We still got a month and a half to go.
So any last thoughts, bets, No, I think you guys touched on everything, but I agree with like the the Trey Benson take that my cad where yeah, he does, I think to me, at least after what we saw, if he does get Round two, I think he probably will be RB one for most of us, just a reference like his weight and his speed, comparable scores or like it is like the Kenneth Walker. Jonathan Taylor asked type of athletic profile, so he definitely checks that box, and I think he was one of the big winners this past weekend.
The thing I was most disappointed about was I wanted to see will Shipley go out there, and I was like in my notes, was I'm excited to see I want to see him run the forty What is his actual time clock out at? Because he is a He's a very interesting player running back out of Clemson. Because when Jason and I compared notes, I was like, I saw a fast, twitchy guy who, well, it's not elite top speed, but it was like to me, it was good top speed. Jason's like, well I saw a really slow guy. I'm like, that's that the you know, the the wildness that is film watching and comparing notes. So I was really excited to see him actually get some measurables out there, but we did not get it.
Yeah, his pass catching profile obviously is really really good. Yes, this past year was hurt a little bit, kind of shared the back field at Clemson. So yeah, there's there's so many names this year, Like I feel like we're getting a wealth of offensive players that we can take shots at, and then wide receivers guys like I mean, recent mock drops have twelve guys in the top fifty. I wonder if that's gonna be too many that were like plugging in too many names. But I don't know, Like I feel really good, Like BET's mentioned about my second round picks being worth something and there's gonna be draft capital where before it's like I kind of like this wide receiver he went in the fourth round. Yeah, and that's kind of it. So speaking of drafting, let's go for it.
The Fantasy Footballers mock draft.
We are gonna get into it two rounds for a super flex rookie mock draft. We're gonna give Betts the first pick, Mike the second, myself the third, and we'll go in order that way. So we're not really thinking in terms of I've already drafted this player and here's what I need to do. We're just gonna go in order of what we think things should be. And I'm mostly interested in where you think a tear break is and if you think okay, so I could see myself taking a quarterback here based on team need, but I don't feel forced into take one. I think that's kind of where people feel lost sometimes, Like somebody told me I was supposed to. It's a super flex league, and at the end of the day, you're passing up a lot of players. So if you want to look at that article on the website, it's do we draft quarterbacks too early and superflex? And the answer is yes, so bets, why don't you start us off.
Well after that? How can I even take a quarterback here?
Right?
I mean you just doing that?
So it's interesting at the one one in super flex because I think a lot of people will say, you just take Caleb Williams here and you move on, And I get it, And this is actually a spot where I do think you could draft for team need, Like if you did need a quarterback, Yeah, take Caleb Williams for this exercise. I'm gonna do what I would actually do in a draft, and I would take Marvin Harrison Junior because I believe he is the best player for fantasy in this draft, and a lot of NFL draft evaluators have said he's the best prospect in this class. Regardless of position. Now he's not going to go one point oh one because you know, a positional value in the NFL and all that sort of thing. But we talked about him at length. There's really nothing you can say negative about him. Didn't test this past weekend, but he has nothing else to prove. He is the best player in this class. And so I think about two when I take this pick a guy that's gonna hold his value, I don't wanna say no matter what almost no matter what after happens this year, there's gonna be believers in Marvin Harrison Junior next year. And even if, like Caleb Williams, has a down year, we have questions like is he the guy?
Right?
It happened with Bryce Young. Now, no one wants Bryce Young, But if he took him at the one O two or one O three because you quote unquote had to in super Flex, now you're holding the bag. So I'm taking the best player in the class to me, and that is Marvin Harrison Junior.
And right now in bastball, he's basically going as a wide receiver one for this year.
It's crazy, It's yeah.
It to me like I have a one on one in a couple of leagues, in both super flex and in one quarterback, and I would take him there, and I just would I I you know, I understand people have needs, but Marvin Harrison feels like a player that two or three years from now you're gonna be holding value and maybe even as sending in value. It's rare to be able to say somebody like, Okay, he can join a Jefferson and you know there's still a percentage chance can he get up into that tier of Lamb Jefferson Chase. But I think we could say, hey, he has the highest percentage chance, and it's rare if you're getting that pick to be able to do it. So one on one, Marvin Harrison, I mean, just just blew my mind. Bets, I had no idea.
Nice I'll take all right, I'm going to cause we're in super flex. So I'm just going to read a list of the recent first round quarterbacks of you know, just so we can get our heads wrapped around these players who we now we have information on them, and like, would you be thrilled that in a draft in a super flex you bypassed the really high end positional players because it's super flex, so you got to have the two quarterbacks. So this past year, Bryce Young, c J. Stroud, Anthony Richardson, Stroud feels like a hit, But there's I still have the questions of even though he's the hit of the NFL quarterback, what is it like? What is really the fantasy ceiling for CJ. Stroud? They could add another big time wide receiver in this draft. That could happen and then we'll get really really excited. But the point being, for as great as SEJ. Stroud was this year fantasy wise, it was like it was really good for a couple of games and then the rest were just me. Anthony Richardson, that's TBD, feels like a hit, Kenny Pickett, that's a total miss. Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, Mac Jones. Do we have a difference and actual difference maker in that list?
Field had some points per game moments.
But yeah, it's right, but now the team wants to trade him, where's he gonna end up? But the point being, Trevor Lawrence was Caleb Williams before it was cool of I'm a generational easy one oh one pick. As soon as the as soon as the NFL season ends, the team can just handle their draft card because they know who they're taking. Then we have Joe Burrow to Justin Herbert, Jordan Love, and I'll even throw all Jalen Hurts. We got to include him. That's a pretty good hit. That's a pretty good hit rate. There's some difference makers Kyler, Daniel Jones, Dwayne Haskins, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, Josh Rosen, Lamar Jackson, like far more misses, and the point being just just actually stop and think about the quarterback position for a moment. If Caleb Williams hits as an NFL quarterback, what does that mean? Like statistically, is he gonna be in a situation where he can be the player who's really he's actually throwing for forty five hundred yards and thirty plus touchdowns on the redge? I mean, I don't know. So I just wanted to preface that and set everything up because if I have the one o two, I'm assuming that Marv is gonna go at the one oh one. If if the one oh one was ahead of me and they took Caleb Williams, I'll take Marvin Harrison. But if it goes Marvi at one on one at the one o two in a superflex, I'm taking Maleak Neighbors. I think that he is truly a special player. I think that there are situations in the NFL draft that could even flip the order that I prefer Milik Neighbors in a rookie draft over Marvin Harrison. The route score that I broughed I brought up a couple of weeks ago. His is the highest of anyone we're measuring this year. My like, my only concern on him is is like his he was in the slot, if I'm as long as I'm seeing it right, was about fifty three percent of the time. And Kyle correct me if I'm wrong on that one, if with the numbers that you have, But but then you go, well, justin Jefferson was in the slot of Ton for LSU and he turned into a superstar. So maybe that's bad analysis of just saying, well, the the same school. But I'm Molik Neighbors is easily my one or two even in a super flex.
Yep, exactly fifty five okay, fifty five percent of his targets were there, so it's I have him there too, and I just you know, that's and I message all the time when we watch film, We'll give each other just little comments. It's like I was doing Jaden Daniel's evaluation and then I just ended up saying, can I just watch Malik Neighbors for a while because he just bailed them out so many times on third downs, so many times where it's just just too good now landing spot. Like the other day, I was like, what if he goes to like I don't know, Tennessee or something. Yeah, Mike, I hate any landing spot for a player that goes to Tennessee, especially like in the second round or something.
You know, the top of the draft is rough because it's really you know, it's really the Cardinals makes sense to me because look, Kyler Murray opinions are all over the place, but Kyler Murray has produced for fantasy football. He has given us high level wide receiver production with DeAndre Hopkins and you know, we even had some moments with with Hollywood Brown. But so after the Cardinals, which it's probably Marvin Harrison Junior right there to the Cardinals at four. But there is a world where it's it ends up being Molik Neighbors. And then after four, if your wide receiver of choice is not drafted there, you're hoping that they kind of tumble a little bit more than the mock drafters are saying because it after like pretty much four through eight is ooh gosh, I hope the talent can overcome.
Yeah, I'm yeah, I'm worried about a couple of landing spots that we have. All these wide receivers we're trying to bunch in and then we're gonna look up and go two or three of those.
I don't love it.
Let's take a quick break and then I'll get back to my pick. So we started off Marvin Harrison Junior Molik Neighbors the first two picks of our Superflex Mock Rookie draft, and I think this is where I would take a quarterback. I'm not one hundred percent convinced that Caleb Williams will be the best fantasy quarterback, but I do think that it's worse swinging away with somebody that who's the one on one and we've seen have some monster seasons. I would take Cayleb Williams here, but I don't feel like one hundred percent, Like I'm going to look up five years from now and he is the number one fantasy producing quarterback of his class. But I'd rather take someone taken there with his you know, pedigree, won the Heisman everything else. So Caleb Williams at one O three I would take there.
Yeah, makes a lot of sense to me. I was gonna take him if you didn't. I think I'm also gonna take quarterback. And this is kind of where I think it gets a little interesting, because an NFL draft circles. It seems to be fifty to fifty. Like some people love Daniels, some people love May. I think Drake May projects as a much better NFL quarterback. But in fantasy we care about rushing. So I'm gonna take Jayane Daniels, who dude can run. Now, he needs to learn how to not get killed when he gets hit. Ye, and maybe sliding out of bounds every once in a while, but you can see it he has that in his game. And we just saw Anthony Richardson did last year in a small sample size difference maker for fantasy potential. With Jaydan and Daniels, it.
He's gonna be so hard because I kept going back. If he goes to the Patriots and he goes to a team that wants to run the ball, they're out there, OC's Alex van Pelt. It's like, is that gonna work there? With play action? He never really did play action in college, and that's like what the Browns offense was predicated on when he was there. So I'm just I don't know. I just look at that landing spot. I'm like, if that's it, I'm just not super excited. But I'm also not super excited about Washington, so who really knows.
I'm excited about the player.
I think Washington would be okay, though Washington's got Terry, I mean Dotson, we'll see, but and Cliff got some good fantasy seasons out of Kylage, so I don't think. I don't think it's terrible if he goes to Washington.
All right, where are you guys at with the rumor mill of Washington moving up to number one? Are you giving it any.
I think they would, they would love it. I think the Bears are taking Caleb Okay.
Yeah, I think that too, and I think they're shit be happy if they take May at two, like I would be. I would be happy as a franchise.
All right, And so the two primo quarterbacks are off the board. You know, it's hard to know, especially at this point, because there is so much smoke with JJ McCarthy out of Michigan rising up draft boards, people saying that I'm hearing, you know, from anonymous sources, of course, but hearing that people may like JJ McCarthy more than they like Drake may he JJ McCarthy's in play for a top three overall pick. All of this stuff. And we know that the NFL draft surprises us frequently, like Daniel Jones going very very high, six going sixth overall, and we all go, huh, but you know, it is what it is. And both of those quarterbacks we'll see. But Romo Dunesa is a special talent, so I am going to stick with him. He is the one where it feels like if anyone's gonna slide and then just be scooped up by the Chicago Bears for the pairing of the first, you know, the franchise quarterback, another incredible wide receiver talent. So I'm gonna take Rome here.
I tried to find reasons to not like a Doonza and it's it's just really hard, like the mounting you know, data in front of you that just says, hey, he crushing all these areas. He was on an awesome team, his production profile, his size, the way that it seems like the scouts like him, it seems like the way he tested, well, it's like you don't have to find reasons for certain players to like poke holes. It's like he really just doesn't have very many. So and if he gets top ten, he belongs.
To did you guys see the thing? Look, this is small, this is this is just another like layer of pro romadonday stuff. But like the that he was doing the three cone drill at the combine and he kept he had a certain threshold that he wanted to hit, so he basically just kept at it like they you know, and so it was just he doesn't need to keep doing it, but he wants he wanted to try and hit a certain time. So that's just I don't know. It's it's a small thing, but it's it's a it's a character piece where when we're on the outside of we can't do any of the interviews, we we don't get access to any of those things. You're just trying to piece together does someone have the character and the mental makeup to make it in the NFL. So this is just a it's another little, you know, green flag for Rome for what he was doing.
So if I have a checkbox that says does he have the dog in him?
He may? He may. We'll see.
Could just a little note could have the dog in him? Uh, just like headline breaking news. Romans could have the dog one of six. I'm sitting here and I would take Drake May here.
This is where I would do it.
I think that the top six picks here. I'm okay if you change the order of you know, Daniels or May or Doom, say at four. But I kind of see a little bit of a tear break here after this pick. In superflex now, like if you don't have a quarterback need, I could see you want to go somewhere else. But if he's taken second overall and he runs like he did in college, like this isn't just like hey, here's like five yards here and there. Like he could be a player that gets twenty five plus yards per game in the NFL, which is just such an awesome floor. Sometimes he's reckless, but sometimes we want that for NFL quarterback souh, Drake May, I like a lot some days I want him to be my number one quarterback and I just want just want to say it interesting. But so Drake May at one of six.
You got to love the The twenty five yards sounds so inconsequential, But dude, that's that's turnal insurance, you know of If you're getting minus two for interceptions, those things do add up. But if you know that I'm gonna get at least two points every week from rushing, and then I can just kind of anticipate that the interception is built in, it's it. It does matter over the course of a season.
Yeah, one thing too with May, real quick before we move on comparing him to Daniels, Like Daniels is the more prolific runner just when he takes off and goes but with May, like he kind of played a little bit of hero ball in college, like around the goal line specifically, like and I'm not making the comparison that he's going to be Josh Allen, but like Josh Allen vibes like inside the tent of like okay, I can't find now one like I'm just gonna do it, and for fantasy, those Russian touchdowns mean a lot, So I like that point with Drake May. This does feel like a tear break in super Flex where you get to the spot and you're like, Okay, do I go Bowers? Do I go Brian Thomas? We love Troy Franklin. That's kind of where I'm thinking. I don't think JJ McCarthy for me, for fantasy would be in contention here at the one point of seven right now with the information we have, So I'm going to look elsewhere as far as not to interrupt.
You real quick, Bets, how did you react to Troy Franklin's combine where the I already mentioned the gauntlet was not his strongest drill, but also the measurables, the like the the size and the weight or height and weight. I should say, we're lied about which why are we doing this? Like why why do colleges do this? Like we aren't going to find out what they actually weigh or how tall they actually are. This is such a bizarre thing to me that that people lie about how tall or how heavy you you are? What you are, man, just embrace it.
It's almost more surprising when they do come in. Yes, it was like, oh, you're actually six to two. That's amazing, Like that's we should just auto deduct from now on in our charts. Like behind the scenes, just like we know for a fact you are not going to be this Blake Korm. I'm sorry, you're not even five eight. You're five to seven, dude. That's just that's how And that's what he measured as.
Yeah, and corn was what like two five?
Yes, I mean that's it's a big gap. Jason was running the numbers of like, who are the day two running backs that are this short? Five seven? And it's a very small group. It's basically you know mj D. Devin Singletary.
MJD was two hundred and five pounds in each thigh.
Dude, he was bowling ball.
Yes, if you go by height, it's very few. If you go by weight, there's more. And there's also a ton of misses, but like it matters a ton, and so yeah, with Troy Franklin not six three, he's uh, he's you know, even shorter. I mean he's not Taekwon Thornton's size. He's even shorter than that. But I I didn't didn't set well with me.
I was sad, all right, Yeah, I mean it definitely, it definitely wasn't what I was expecting slash hoping for. That said everything about what I've seen with his production profile and on tape, He's been playing at that weight for forever, right, and I know it's even worthy. Kind of got some uh you know, pushback on Twitter when he weighed in like one sixty five and he was like, guys, I've been playing a one sixty five all year, like this is is who I am. So again, I'm not going to overreact to the combine. I will say one guy that really did surprise me at the combine, and I'm going to take him with this pick is Brian Thomas, who, Okay, just from a pure you know, watch the game, watch the tape standpoint, I think I like Troy Franklin a little bit better. But the buzz around the NFL is that Brian Thomas is a lock to go Round one, almost a lock to go in the top fifty twenty ish picks is kind of what it seems top twenty five, whereas, like you know, Troy Franklin, Adie Mitchell's ever worthy like these guys are all kind of fringe Round one guys. Brian Thomas is definitely going around one, and we mentioned at the top of the show with his forty when you adjust for weight, his was actually more impressive things ever worthy. So I'm going to give a slight nod here to Brian Thomas. I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan in the world, but again, this is kind of where I see a tear break, and so I will go ahead and make the pick with Brian Thomas.
I like it. I had him here too.
No, it's excellent. You saved me a monologue and you saved me a excruciating thought process of do I take Trey Benson here or do I take the guy who I think is going to be a really highly drafted wide receiver who could land and because he's in the middle rounds, could land on a better team, and he did test out at the Combine. But I can't take Brian Thomas. So it's a I guess if I knew where JJ McCarthy's draft capital actually was, he would be in strong consideration here for me as well. But we were also told that Will Levis was going to be what a top three pick once upon a time, and then he went in the second round. So I don't have a read. I don't know where JJ McCarthy's going to go, but I do know I love Trey Benson, and everything got confirmed and improved or improved upon from the combine. So I'm going to take him right here at the one to wait.
I like it. Mike and I were messaging yesterday and I was like, I feel like in a one quarterback drip like league, he can go high as one oh six, and I think he belongs somewhere between the one oh six to one oh nine one ten and super flex like it. It just makes sense, especially if we get, you know, top forty pick in the NFL draft. So I don't mind this at all. Like I I feel like I could be looking back at this and go look at all these wide receivers and then a year from now, like man, the number one running back was sitting there for me, and we're always desperate for running back help, and I just passed for you know whoever else at one o nine, I'm gonna take Brock Bowers here. I agree. If I knew that JJ McCarthy was, you know, an early first round pick. I would take him. But Brock Bauers seems to be a top ten guy. He is not normal, doesn't you know, doesn't move like a tight end. And we'll talk more. We're gonna have a whole episode talking about the Titans next week. So I would take Brock Bowers at the one or nine.
Okay, bets, I like that pick. Kyle's gonna take him. I actually almost took Troy Franklin my last pick, so this is kind of easy for me. I'm gonna take Troy Franklin here. Again, not over react to the combine. It is a data point, it obviously matters a little bit, but this was a guy that was productive in college, had everything that I like to see. I looked the tape. So still a guy, and he's not gonna get like buried in the NFL draft. He's still gonna go maybe back unto round one, but almost certainly a top fifty pick in the NFL draft if he seeks in round two. So Troy Franklin out of Oregon a guy we've all been high on the whole process. So I'll take him here at the one ten, Okay.
So that it would have been another decision of do I go, do I keep skipping on the quarterback of JJ McCarthy, or do I take Troy Franklin. But you went with him, so I will stop the slide. I will take JJ McCarthy. Here we keep harping on it, but again, the first round draft capital matters so much because it gives him time to acclimate. It gives him time to actually to really fail. Like look at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Kenny Pickett was taken in the toy was he twenty overall? Came remember twentieth. I think the the most NFL watchers are know that we have the we we know what we need to know about Kenny Pickett, and yet they are still talking about Kenny Pickett might get another year to show that he could be the future of the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's what these guys can get with the first round draft capital. Sometimes that you draft Josh Rosen and he gets one year and everyone finds out that it's not going to work and then it's done. But for most guys, they at least get multiple years to to try to show that they are that they can grow and become a true franchise player. So I'll take JJ McCarthy here.
And JJ was pounding some cheeseburgers, man, because he came in, Yeah, fifteen pounds heavy, thick boy. I mean, what a great thing, hey, for you to get paid millions of dollars. Here's what I need you to do for the next two months afterwards, an a chip. Just eat, dude, just eat that milkshake.
Have five of them, go for it.
That is actually a good point, Kyle. I was pleasantly surprised with where he came in, because, I mean, all off season last year we were like, is Bryce Young even big enough to play quarterback in the NFL? And obviously different size, but you know, and on Michigan's profile and stuff like, he was listed at like two o two and we were like, is this dude even two hundred pounds?
Right?
And then he comes in and he did go on the milkshake and cheese riggered diet and certainly put any of those concerns to bed.
So very good.
It's a funny little spectrum because you know, we're we're joking about whatever the posted college weights are and we're like, oh, that's not real, and then we're like, okay, but I'm really paying attention to what they are, and certain players if they come in fatter, we're like, oh, hate that guy. J. J. McCarthy like love Betty's fat, Love that guy.
Well, we don't know. I mean, I didn't get any tummy picks. I just saw the weight.
Oh man, it's not it's not Brady. When Brady came in from miss you know, with his shirt off, it didn't look so good. But H McCarthy look like, you know, good and thick. So I'm going to take the last pick of the first round, my guy, Xavier Worthy, who I've just always believed in. He's fast, said he is he they some say that he is fast enough. But I will draft him as the combine is the cherry on top of an already awesome production profile. And he also won all, you know, four levels of the field, so be interesting where he goes. I see a lot of people right now saying, oh, the Chiefs thirty two. Well, if he goes to the Chiefs at thirty two, he's not lasting this long in a draft. He's shooting up two or three picks.
Eas the the teams at the end of the first with some of these wide receivers that will be available, Buffalo, it's going to be brutal to make your decisions of the use. I mean Harrison and Malik. That's to me, that's locked in. But it's like, Okay, you know Roma Dunze, who's who some like is a favorite among the draft community. If he goes at whatever to the Bears, but then one of these other guys goes to the the Bills or the Chiefs, that is that will be a really fun exercise in in opportunity versus how you view talent.
I'm I'm stressing about some of these picks Bets you mentioned, like one oh nine, one ten, one eleven, in a draft where it's like I feel like I'm only gonna guess wrong. I feel like it's only setting me up just to feel But hey, these teams, if you have that pick, that means you did well right or you traded.
It away exactly.
Can't feel that bad.
Uh.
Let's take quick break and we'll get to the second round. All right, we're into the second round of our super flex rookie mock draft, and I'll I wanted to start this off. Bets has the first pick. Just to ask a question, we got a couple of these on discord, and I think it's worthy of the discussion before we get in the second round because you only had one running back draft in the first round of was Trey Benson. Mike took him. But is there a spot where the running back run starts? So bets do you have that in mind at all? Because this is where teams everybody has needs it running back in Dynasty. I don't care who you are, like, you need depth, and I feel like you can find three to four backs in the second round that could be the answer for your team.
Yeah, it kind of feels like right around this range in a super FLEXI you like two to one to two oh three. Somewhere in there is where the running back run I think we'll start. And I would even actually consider Jonathan Brooks with this pick. I love the tape with him. Obviously, the ACL is a concern for year one and does that affect his draft position stock? That certainly is a concern for me. But Blake Koram has his believers, right, I think you could justify him with this pick if you really needed running back. The wide receivers here I do like, but I don't love and so if someone was like, Hey, I really need running back, and I love Jonathan Brooks. I would not fault anyone for going with that spot right around this range.
So you're gonna pass, That's what I'm hearing. You're just gonna say, Hey, you know what, I'm good.
I'm not gonna take a running back here. Do you want me to make the pick?
Go for it?
Okay, I don't know if you want to talk about that concept anymore, but with this pick, I'm gonna take Adie Mitchell. Now, when we talked about him with Jason last week, there's a lot of negative on this show about him, and I still feel a lot of concerns. Career best one point sevent two yards throughout running college is terrible. Never had a season above two yards per team pass attempt, red flag after red flag after red flag. But again, the combine really helped us. But the combine really helped his stock and a lot of buzz out of Indy now is this guy seems like he could go round one. Whereas you know, entering last week, I think a lot of people were like, Okay, maybe we could see him as like a mid to early round two pick. But again, if he is one of the candidates to go to the Chiefs or the Bills or any of those in that range. You have to keep your mind open to the idea that he could be better than you think. So I'm not a huge Adie Mitchell guy, but I totally see the case for it. And in the second round, I'm shooting for upside anyway, So I will take a shot with Adie Mitchell.
His his comps before the combine were, Oh, he's kind of like T Higgins, just a lighter. I mean, he's not six ' four like T Higgins. He came in at six ' two, so you have to change a little bit of perspective, but pretty quick. And yeah, I mean the combine did wonders for him, because yeah, I was ready to kind of be like Jason, be like, ah, this is just another fringe player. Did it really work out for those other people? You know, it never really does, you know, but it might some people delude themselves. So Mike, uh, two to two.
So this is a this is tough right here. For me. It would be between two players. It would be Lad McConkie out of Georgia or my number two running back, Braylen Allen out of Wisconsin, who is just that is an absolute unit. He is a tank in not knowing the landing spots or the draft capital, I think, I think this is the place, or I would I would uh, I'd go with the Lad. I'm gonna go Lad. I'll take Lad McConkey, who again a very mysterious man, A very mysterious man because of the just on the when on the field, elite production, real fast has the build that we need, uh, you know, metrics or measurables and athleticism comps to essentially Garrett Wilson, and but Georgie didn't use it, which is so weird. It is so weird. Like, Kyle, have you in this time have you come up with any idea what the heck your team is doing with a player who, when he's on the field, it gives you such a leade production. But they're like, we're not gonna put him on the field very much.
Maybe they used the Arthur Smith you know you think that.
We'll yeah, okay, okay, to focus on Earth. We want tertiary players because they'll never see held rotate.
Yeah, they rotate players way more than you think for a team that just won two national championships. But the craziest thing about lat is you think, oh, this is a slot only ride receiver. Like no, they used him outside as mostly a dude that could just win there and some of the deep stuff didn't work as well, but just so nuanced. And what we saw on film was what we saw the combine of oh the gaulet drill. He looked like he was made for that.
Yeah, so so smooth. And I think in the right with the right team, in the right system, like in the that middle level, I think he will just destroy it. I mean he is his his zone versus man numbers are outrageous. He his own yards per route run is is what four point twenty seven? I mean, it's wild. Those are wild numbers.
I need to go back because that that was a really good discussion we had last week on lad and just saying, okay, how do you know, how do you swort through these small sample sizes? And you know, I wish we would have seen more. I need to go back and just see, like how often do we have a player drafted round two or you know, even higher that has that low of a sample size, Because it's it's it's wild where you look back and like, Okay, well there's players that like were fringed dudes like Rager or Henry Ruggs that weren't like full time players, but you know they were taking the first round, so you can't argue. But he's going to be probably in the second round, maybe into first. Uh right here at the two of three, I'm going to take Jonathan Brooks, who is the running back I prefer for fantasy. I can see the route for Braylen Allen just mustling in eight to ten touchdowns for a couple of years. But if I knew Jonathan Brooks was healthy, like he was fully healthy, I think he'd be my number one running back. And so there's a reason he dipped here. But yeah, I like him.
Well, Jonathan Brooks will be It'll be very difficult to invest in a running back who will give you close to nothing. I mean, that's what I'm expecting, and he like, I'm sure he's ahead of schedule right now, but imagine not being exactly His was a November tear, Am I remembering? That? Corrects? So what's the timeline on that?
Bets he had a late November surgical date, so he should be back on the field at some point in training camp most likely, but not really one hundred percent until I don't know, halfway through the year.
Right, so you and man, it's so rough to go on and guys like him and Jamison Williams, I mean different position obviously, but Jamison Williams right now is the like the red flag of yeah, the draft capital was there, but we lost essentially his entire rookie season because of the ACL And now there's other stuff with his profile of got in trouble for gambling. But like, if you took Jamison Williams right now in rookie drafts, I'm sure everyone who's done that has gone back and looked and been like, well, there's chrys Olave who I could have drafted, or it just Garrett, Well, there are just so many players that you took Jamison Williams over who are now successful and it feels bad.
Let me put this to the test, because this is a spot where I've tried to trade some rookie picks, you know, early seconds for players that I know are known commodities and I could have earlier in the offseas maybe gotten something better. But like you know, I've looked at players like Kendrey Miller. We talked about in this podcast ty J Spears that I don't think I can get any more for these picks. So would you rather have Jonathan Brooks or Kendrey Miller in Dynasty?
That's a tough one. Over Spears, I would. I would take Jonathan Brooks of because because right like Tajy Spears is at peak value right now, it will be there. There's a world where the Titans go into the season and say this is a complete rebuild year. Let's not invest in the running back position, and and Spears has he's the dude, and he has a good statistical season. Right there's a chance that that happens. More than likely they're going to bring someone else in who will then eat up more of the value of ToJ. Spears than you want. So between those two guys, I'll go Brooks. With Kendre Miller, I think I think I'll go Kendre.
That's I think I would take Brooks over both. I think it's it's very tough, But you know with Brooks, like you already talked about these guys that miss year one, and we all love Kendra Miller's tape, but let's be honest, Like, if it doesn't happen in the first month of the season to two months of the season this year for Kendrick Miller, like probably not sure, right, So and that could be what happens with Jonathan Brooks too, So I would just like reset the clock if that makes sense, and kind of it does. Get the younger guy and go with that. And then yeah, Tajy Spears. He's so interesting because I see the path right where it is, like, oh, it's for shab White. No one really wanted him on what we thought was going to be a bad team, and he just got all the work and he's great for fantasy and he can catch the ball. So I think I lean Taja Spears just barely over Brooks, but the more talented player, in my opinion is Brooks over all three of those guys.
Yeah, I mean fifty receptions for a running back as a rookie, which what Spears had, which what Rashad White has. That's why we're using that comp is is a really good indicator moving forward, especially on a depth chart that is barren. But it's a really bad team. So I like all those running backs, though, I will say like man, I'd love to have those guys on my team. Bets, You're at two to four and we're getting the point where I can see I can hear people saying, what about the other quarterbacks? Where did they fit in? So do you guys, are you guys even thinking about bo Nix or Michael Pennock Junior at all?
Not at this point, I'm not.
I'm not either.
You know.
It's with Pennix, like if he's kind of the guy that bucks the trend and is what is this?
He is?
What is a six year player, five year player that comes out still playing right now, still still in college actually going on at that point.
He just loves the game. Guys, guys just wants to play.
As Kylos pointed out many times, these like twenty four plus year old guys that are just in college for forever don't hit and he's not gonna run, right. So I'm kind of out on Penix And then b Nick's same story for me where I get it that he could get a shot to be a starter. But I'm still at a point in this part of the draft where like, I like these couple of running backs we're going to talk about, you could shoot for the moon with Keon Coleman.
With this pick.
Guys like that Roman Wilson we like, So I'm not considering them yet.
Mike you I'm mostly out on Pinnicks and then Bonix. I mean, he'd need the draft capital, and I kind of see him just slowly sliding from everyone's like, oh, this guy could go twentieth overall to like this is gonna go second round or third.
We're getting into the range where I'm cool taking a shot with Pinnis. We're close, okay, but Betts has a pick first. That's true.
Let's keep the running back of train going here and again, I don't know why I keep doing this in this draft, but I keep taking guys that I'm not super high on. But but for this exercise that makes sense to where they're going, what could go wrong. I'll take Blake Korham, who you know I'll take on the show his last just just put it in his last year with Michigan, so inefficient. But if you go back two years, this guy looked awesome, And you know, this is a guy that I think the NFL might like a lot more than us fantasy nerds. When you look at like these guys that just can harry, you know, carry a full workload might get back round too early. Round three draft capital could be a starter somewhere like in Dynasty. Obviously that's super valuable. So I will take Blake Korm with this pick, even though I'm not the biggest believer in his talent.
The thing for Blake Koram is, uh, the Chargers do they have their second round pick?
I believe so.
Okay, because when that pick rolls around, and if the Chargers have not made a splash in free agency at the running back position, which financially it seems like they're not going to be able to do, I think we will learn a lot about how much does Harbough actually like Blake Koram, Because if he loves him, and Blake Korm goes to the Chargers in the second round, to a to a team that is going to be the highest of tea, the most capitalized tea you've ever seen, and they take and he takes his guy, then I mean then that you have to push the chips all in. You've got to take that chance that he becomes, you know, like basically the new Frank Gore type of a player where he's just going to get the ball so many times. But maybe that doesn't happen, But there's a world where it does.
What if so they have the thirty seventh pick in the second round. What if they took him with the sixty ninth pick.
And it would be nice?
Okay work.
I mean that the bottom line is is he just needs to be a Charger.
Okay. If if he gets Day two capitol and he ends up on the Chargers, I will be I'll be in.
He's gonna end up going to some team that we're like, ah, dang it, I don't know what to do with him.
More often than this is what happened. Because we all when we're making our projections and our predictions of what what team is gonna draft, what player, we're all drafting with our personal bias. You know, we're looking at the teams of well, it makes sense they need this position. They also need defensive players, like we kind of try to. We don't care about that, don't worry about the defense. Just just load up on these offensive players for my fantasy football team. Also, I'm gonna take Braylen Allen, who is a take.
I was looking at landing spots for him because I feel like he is so dependent on what coordinator says I can use this guy. And there's a couple of landing spots in the second round, Like there could be a team that just says, like, this is a different body frame than anybody else in the draft. I mean, he's just different than the other running backs. The Giants have two picks in the second round, which is kind of an interesting landing spot considering sure they don't have a running back on the roster. You know it's Eric Gray, it's currently Gary, Gary Brightwell your boys, classic Gary. So I like that pick Mike. I would have taken him over Korum. Definitely would have done that over Bets. For me, I hate myself if I take key On Coleman.
It's impact in a second though, Man, just take him?
Come on, what could go possibly wrong with taking him? I feel like I can't take Bonix here. So yeah, I'm gonna go Keon Coleman and hopefully not regret it.
Okay, Uh, do anything else you want to say about that, or just you hit yourself and let's move on.
Keon Coleman. We thought he would test out way better at the combine, and he didn't, so I kind of hold that against him, which is probably terrible considering I don't hold it against others. But you know, Coleman has some of the lowest numbers against zone, lowest numbers yards per out run, and I just don't like boom bus players. But he makes sense in the second round where it's like, it's not costing you what. You know, a month ago people were taking him at the one oh eight one oh nine, so two oh six is fine.
Yeah, and in this range, if if the upside case hits, you're thrilled with this pick. And if it doesn't happen, who cares kind of thing, right, So I'm with you. That's where I would take him as well. I'm gonna go back to I'm gonna go back to the running back. Well, I'm gonna take Jayalen right here, who is a big time winner from the combine, A guy that just destroyed as far as his speed score and specifically his ten yards split, I was alf the charts. This is the guy though, that I really want to go back and watch more of. I don't have a firm opinion on him, just wanted to highlight him on the show and say he is rising in terms of kind of how he's viewed, I think in not just the Dynasty community, but also the NFL draft circles. After his performance at Tennessee, there was like no defenders in the box. I don't know if you guys watched any of his tape and stuff, but you know, we gave jialn Hyat a pretty hard time about that last year of like this offense is kind of you know, Mickey Mouse kind of fluky stuff. And because of the they run that scheme, this dude's running against like five defenders in the box sometimes and he's just ripping off huge plays. So I'm not sure where he's at from a top perspective, but he's a three year player, early declared from the SEC. He was just altra athletic at the combine. So I'm going to keep the light on for Jillen Right. I will keep the light on as well.
There's enough smart people who's opinion and I respect who are talking up Jalen Wright. But who was the who was? I thought he was Tennessee. There was a running back that draft Twitter thought was the Be's knees and no, no, no, what was Betts? John Kelly John Kelly draft in the fifth round. It was it was Day three for sure, because it was this guy before the NFL Draft happened. If you're new to Dynasty, these things happened the US nerds in our mom's basement, we get worked up on players. But he and I thought his table was great, Like I thought he could have been a good player, and we were all very excited for him. You know, I think he was firmly at a like a top five running back before the NFL Draft happens. Then the draft happens, and Day two happens, and you go, oh, well, I didn't I didn't hear his name, and the NFL does not care for this player.
With six round, one hundred and seventy six overall.
Was he Tennessee Wolf?
Yeah, he went to Tennessee. He was drafted by the Ring.
Yeah.
So I just, you know, just like a newer not a name emerging, kind of just feeling like they there at least the buzz. I'm not saying people didn't know who he was. I'm saying the social media buzz around this player. So that that's my that's my concern on him. But you know, it's the tape is okay, and the measurables are there, so we'll see, all right. I am back on the clock. I too don't want to draft Keon Coleman.
So he's already gone.
Oh oh that's right. Oh cole took him. That's right, Thank goodness, Thank goodness. I so, speaking on falling on the sword, I will draft Xavier Legette out of South Carolina because I want to feel pain of watching a player on tape going disc is electric. His athleticism is ridiculous. Then it was measured at the combine. I'm like this guy in his highlights, not just high points, like he tippy top points the ball with strong hands, making really like the production of last year was incredible, and I'm like, man, what did this guy do? But with this kind of a campaign, he has to have something prior to this And the answer is no. And I don't know that anyone has any idea. I tweeted out make Leaguett's first years in college makes sense, And there's some interesting ideas, but all of them are like, even if that it's the truth of what happened to the player, why he couldn't get on the field, it still doesn't make sense. It still doesn't make sense that this guy that coaches could see this player in practice daily and see what the what this kid's doing athletically and go, nope, we got we got to keep him off the field. It's not time yet he's not it. He's not it, and in last year he was, in fact it. So it's it's very, very scary. But this we're at the back of the second So I think that the upside case is there and I'll take the.
Get Jason talked himself in out and in again last episode, Oh man, I will take devontees Walker or tes Walker like him, you and c it's shooting for the moon. I think right here, I'm between Walker and I feels like Roman Wilson would be a safer pick. But Walker actually tested really fine in terms of a lot of his combine metrics, as tall as we thought he was going to be, as fast as we thought he was going to be. It's still hard because there's a lot of go or hitch route stuff, and I don't know if that fully works in the NFL, but it seems like he's moved into being a firm day two wide receiver and that's where he belongs. Kind of in this late second round. So Demontes Walker to you and ce Betts finishes off.
Love your analysis there, Kyle. He tested very fine at the comment. Not great, just very fine. I'm gonna take Ruman Wilson guy you just mentioned. We've talked a lot about him, just I think he's just a really, really good player. Will he be an alpha wide receiver one for your Dynasty team, I would be shocked. But could he turn into you know, wide receiver three flex guy for you in Dynasty. I think that is very much in the range of outcomes. So I like Ruman Wilson quite a bit here in the back of the second.
Well, I will do it. Michael Pennix Junior. This is he probably doesn't make it to this point in your your home super flex drafts. I'm guessing maybe the NFL draft happens and it's just an absolute catastrophe and no one wants the wants him on the team. But I mean, big time production takes a team. You know, as far as he did, it's worth the shot. In the back of the second. Like, now that we're talking about this level of running back and wide receivery, we're into the late day two, maybe Day three type of guys. So I'll take a quarterback who should should see second round draft capital.
Maybe yeah, he should him him or Nicks. We'll see who does. I think you can take either of those guys. It's the last pick. I'm sorting between Jalen Polk, Malachi Corley, who I like. I want to like Bucky Irving Moore, but my Combine people tell me that he's now worthless. Uh, he's still gonna catch passes in the NFL. Just kind of looks like, Okay, is this, you know, day two or is he turn into day three? So no other running back? I really really like here.
You're no, You're no no estime for you. No. I know he detested poorly. But then there was that report of asking, you know, anonymous people at the combine, what the teams, who is currently your favorite running back? And it was all over the place. You know, it was like Benson got two votes, Korum got one or two votes, but Estimate still got two votes at least in this very intellectual and rock solid survey of anonymous.
People, which is the perfect the perfect plant. We really like this guy. Yeah he's our favorite running back.
I thought that too, please don't draft it.
Has that ever gone wrong?
Yeah?
Everyone really Look, there's this other team that really likes him too. Just two teams conspire together. I'll take Jalen Polk, who when we talked about his film, we said, it's all over the map, I mean highlight reel stuff. I thought his hands were actually really good, but there's also really low moments and drops and things that I was just like, their team had some of the highest highs, and then when you look at just how many opportunities they had, like their their production stuff, you kind of have to contextualize because these guys are running six hundred plus routes compared to lad who's running what like one hundred and fifty or whatever. Like, it was just such a it's so different when you look at that. But I think Polk think where we landed Bets. You said he's kind of like a Tyler Boyd. I use Josh Reynolds as this guy's probably gonna stick in the NFL. Maybe you'll get some flexworthy stuff out of him. But it's hard for me to see a ceiling. But you know, the two twelve give me some guy that I can flex in my lineup. So any other names at the very end that you guys just want to briefly mention, like, hey, I thought about this guy.
Uh, let's see, polk would have been the last wide receiver I would have taken there? Uh again would I don't have any read on what the NFL thinks of Will Shipley. I I liked him. He looked like a capable player to me. Who could be that you know, a take some work on the ground, but also be a pass catching specialist, which if you're an any type of PPR scoring. But again, I don't know. He could be anywhere from a round three to like a round seven pick. I just I don't have a read and he will.
I think he'll run and test at the pro Dames since PROTA I believe coming up in the next couple of weeks, so hopefully get more information on him. Then the name author out. Not that I was necessarily considering him, but he was like the talk of you know, Dynasty, Twitter and whatever for the last couple of weeks was Malachai Corley. And now no one's talking about Malachai Corley, right, he didn't tested the combine we talked about him last week's episode. If you want a more detailed breakdown, but basically it's like, this guy's awesome when he has the ball in his hands, but they just didn't ask him to run NFL routes, so we have no idea if he can even be an NFL wide receivers in the traditional sense. So he's interesting because his target throat run type stuff and his yak is obviously very good, but a lot of that was just manufactured touches at the line of scrimmage. So he's interesting in round three. I think if you're looking for an upside i'd play.
I'll just throw out Jatavian Sanders tight end for Texas, who we will detail more next week when we get to talk about the tight ends, talk about some of these guys that late second round, third round is where we feel more comfortable usually talk taking tight ends. Like last year in the second round, you would have got Laporta and you would have said, like, Okay, you know, it's fine, let's see and then obviously it worked out as the tight end one in fantasy.
Not his.
I'm saying Laporta of tricking us back into drafting tight ends and rookie drafts as.
Long as he doesn't cost me anything, which we'll talk about next week. I mean, the hit rate is do doo. So we'll even weigh with brock Bowers, like, okay, if you if you think, okay, I need to take this guy at the one oh five or one oh six. It hasn't been good the Hawkinson's, the Eric Ebrons, Evan Ingram turned it around though.
Right Mike, he did. I would say so.
As long as he held on to him. Yeah, held hope for this long. So all right, we will talk to you again next week. Go to unik plus dot com and get in on that dynasty pass.
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