Dear Ms. Fantasy - Last-Minute Fantasy Football Draft Prep + Week 1 Q&A

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1:12Welcome into the Deer Miss Fantasy show with me, your host, Tara Roberts. This is the official mail bag show for a player profiler. It is Wednesday, September. We are in September. September 2nd. When we are officially one week away from week one, and exactly to the day, because we've got Wednesday night football. I will have a show, a pre-game show. On a fantasy pros on the Wednesday night, actually, betting pros for Wednesday night betting. On Wednesday, that's crazy. But yes, thank you to the NFL. We will have single games on Wednesday and Thursday. So we are officially one week out, which is insane to say. I just wanted to do a catch all episode for you guys where we can talk about last minute draft tips in prep and any week one Q&A. If you guys, some of you have wrapped up your drafts and you're already jumping into week one, I've already gotten week one questions crazy. But I know a lot of us are still drafting. I've still got one draft left. The one draft left that I have is my family league.

2:16My family league, I need to redeem myself because that went sideways due to injuries. And I've got a family member that is a, that is a savant ringer. Does not listen to any fantasy stuff, but it plays, that's what he says. But I don't know if that's true, because to do that well consistently, you've got to be listening to something mad. But apparently, he is a savant. And so it's time to step up and redeem. So I'm ready for my family league draft. I hope you guys are ready. Let me know what kind of drafts y'all got going on. I already see the comments here in the chat. So we'll go ahead and get started. First one into the chat was C-mass. Says hi, Tara. Thank you in advance for my two questions tonight. PPR. First round pick. How would you rank JSN, Amin Raus St. Brown and Chase Brown? So in that exact order is how I have them in the first round. But I love them all. So I have no negatives about any of them. But my preference is JSN first, because I know a lot of people have fears around regression. Which yeah, regression always

3:16exists. But you know, sometimes we throw out regression for the sake of regression and we need a valid reason. Now your valid reason could be that they are changing offensive coordinator. So perhaps they, you know, adjust a little bit to target more, because I've got talent on roster. I mean, Cooper Cups a little old, but she, she, she is there. So they could switch things up and push targets out in other directions. But at the end of the day, we're still looking at an aggressive usage of JSN. I have Amin Raus rank right after JSN. So if you're looking to go wide receiver and you obviously don't get Puka or Jamar Chase, those are my two clear preferences. There's a tear drop for me right after Amin Raus St. Brown to where there's a gap with him and CD Lam, because CD Lam with the addition of George Pickens just does not have the same ceiling as Puka, Chase, JSN or Amin Raus. Amin Raus has finished as the wide receiver three over and over and over again. He is literally the mode. If you're looking for genuine consistency that is not a risk

4:18in any way, shape or form, it is Amin Raus St. Brown. So I endorse him 100% if you're picking in mid rounds that I love him as a pick. And then Chase Brown, I think, is a fine end of round one pick if you have a back half because there's guys that I would like, let's look at my actual rankings for running back. You guys know that I am very, very pro, Devon H&N. You can feel a certain type of way about it. That's just my preferences that after we have the top four of Gives, Bjohn, JT and Chris McCaffrey, I then have H&N. If you don't want to take that risk, I totally understand and I'm not going to force you to do it. But I have H&N, Barkley, James Cook and then Chase Brown. Those are just my preferences. But after that, after cook, that is a clear Chase Brown for me. He comes before the guys that are a little bit riskier like Ash and JT, dealing with the injury, Kenneth Walker going to a new system. Amarie and Hampton, I think is safe, right? But at the end of the day, you just got to be careful because we haven't seen consistent high-end

5:20production out of him because he's so young. So he's only got a season under him. So it just gaps between him and those other backs because Chase Brown has been so incredibly reliable. So if you're picking at the end of the first round, I love using Chase Brown and doubling up with any of the other massive high-upside running backs because Chase Brown is just such a very, very safe guarantee to finish it minimum, a low-end RB1 because of the extreme volume he gets from a PPR and again, I think I've mentioned this before, but you don't have to be afraid of what happens if Joe Flero gets injured in any ways. Joe Flero is an every other year kind of guy. It's an off-year. So perhaps he makes it through the season, but regardless, not concerned about anyone in Cincinnati in the event that Joe Flero gets injured because they have Joe Flerco retained. And Joe Flerco is about as solid as you can get to push volume as a backup quarterback and they all did excellent with him last year. So no problem there, but that's how I ranked them. They're all fine. Rowan one

6:24picks for me. No issues. Moving on to the next question. From also from Seamast, the second question that you had there was in PPR, there are nine White receivers that are hard to separate. Thoughts on Olaves, Smith, Higgins, Maconkie, McMillan, Ibuka, Flowers, Waddle and Wilson. I was actually just updating my White receiver rankings. And I hope that because I stopped updating them that all of my changes were not lost. But I do have this tier separation between some of those guys. For me, Olave and Smith, and I also have, you didn't put Zay Flowers, but oh wait, yeah, you did towards the back of the end. Olave, Smith, Zay Flowers, they, and if you can put T Higgins, but I just don't like that T Higgins is technically a White receiver too and does have always the consistent injury bugs. But really for me, Olave, Smith and Flowers, I trust him as my White receiver one. I do separate them a little bit because when I'm looking at Olave, I've pushed him

7:26up about as high as I can to White receiver 10. That's one spot above George Pickens who I love, so it's no negative towards George Pickens. But I am very excited to see what Olave brings the table particularly early in the season and beyond without Jordan Tyson. And the thing about Jordan Tyson guys, just remember that being on IR does not guarantee that it's only four weeks. This is a recurring habitual issue with him, these hamstrings, it's something that we were worried pre-draft, hoping that it wasn't going to be an issue. So when it gets to the point where you've got recurring issues that you have to see as specialist, that is concerning to me. So Olave for me such a fine pick as a White receiver one and you are still able to get him in the third round at this point. So it's a smash pick for me. That's my clear preference. I also like Devon Tessmith. I know that people are just like a little bit skeptical of what the past volume is going to look like for Philadelphia. A lot of distrust of Jalen Hertz. We've got the offensive coordinator change,

8:28which is an upgrade in my opinion. I know that maybe you don't, you know, shot man you coming over from Green Bay. Look, whether or not you believe in Sean Minion, he's coming from an excellent system. A system that does lean heavy on the run, but can utilize the past very efficiently and effectively. And so we should still see enough volume to make Devon Tessmith, who was the clear White receiver one at this point. I don't trust Mackay Lemon because of the injuries that he's been going through. We know that he's playing in the slot. At the end of the day, he might not even play in two wide receiver sets. That preference might be given to Don Tavian Wix on the outside. I know that it feels crazy, but the lack of work that he had because of these consistent issues, he still has to develop and push forward in the softens. And I was actually doing a show earlier. And I can't remember if it was, if it was, I think it was Derek Brown. He made a really good point that we were doing bold predictions. And his bold prediction was that Mackay Lemon's season looks a lot like

9:29Luther Burton. And that makes a lot of sense in terms of at first as they're making all these changes in the offense. They want to lean on the wide receivers. Sean Manion has worked with Don Tavian Wix in the past in Green Bay. We know that Devon Tessmith will step up as the Wide receiver one. Dallas Goddard has been incredibly reliable at a very strong red zone target. I think that repeats. I've become very comfortable with him is my key late round target at tight end. So there might not be a lot that is left over. And obviously, you know, leaning aggressively on the ground with Sequan Barkley, there might not be a lot that's left over from a consistency standpoint with Lemon. So I do like Devon Tessmith. Higgins, he's always one of those guys where if I'm in the range and I need a wide receiver and the guys that are my preference have gone off the board, I will take him. It's not my favorite pick in the world, but you know that there's a level of upside that he has on a week to week basis. It's just a matter of accepting the fact that you're going to lose some games in the middle of it. Maconkey, I'm fine with him at his ADP. The last

10:29year's ADP was absolutely egregious, right? Now we don't have to pay, but was at a late round two price yikes. We don't have to pay that anymore. My preference, I think if you guys have, you know, heard me talk before, I do, I am very fond. I was going to say I love. I'm very fond of Quentin Johnston and I think he is incredibly undervalued at his ADP, but Maconkey is still a fine pick in both of them can eat both Maconkey and Quentin Johnston can eat and a more in Hampton can eat in this offense and maybe try Harris to a little bit can eat in this offense with the upgraded system. Wender Mike McDaniel. So I'm feeling very good about that. So I'm okay with Maconkey. Maconkey, Macmillan, I push back further in rankings. I've talked about it a lot. Unfortunately, I'm not taping Macmillan unfortunately a lot in drafts. It's not happening. I feel very confident that he will have a thousand yards again. He was a thousand year overseas for last year. No reason he shouldn't have a thousand yards again. You know, Aydish touchdowns, right? But I don't know if the amount of receptions that we need, particularly in PPR, are going to be

11:33there to the level that we need because of the inconsistent pass volume from Bryshank. That's the issue. I love Tedoroma McMillan. It's not slander if he was paired up with Joe Burrow. If he was paired up with Drake May, this would be another story, but he's not. He's paired up with Bryshank and the pass volume is just so inconsistent. You're happy if he throws for over 200 yards. And that's not a good recipe unfortunately. So looking at it from that perspective, I just don't trust him to have the ceiling as these other guys. Like I see the ceiling with a lava. I see the ceiling with Smith. I know the ceiling with Egynes. I see the ceiling with Maconkey. I don't see it with McMillan, so he's a skipover for me. And then, Abuka, I talked about Flowers a little bit and how he's in the higher grouping for me in terms of rankings. But Abuka, Toe injury, look, he's out there. He's practicing. I hope this is not something that plagues him rest of season in terms of, you know, turf toe can, it can go either way. Sometimes it doesn't have a massive effect. And then there are other times where we saw last year, where it's consistently an issue that you struggle with and you have to miss games. So we'll have to see

12:35you're taking a risk. But I think the ADP has gone down enough and his upside is extremely high. So I'm willing to take the risk. But I won't lie, I was drafting more of him before the injury. And then Waddle, not my favorite in the world is because there's so many mouths to feed in Denver. But I'm definitely okay with tapping him at his ADP. And then Wilson, I'm very per Wilson from a volume perspective to defend Wilson. And I don't think you need to defend Wilson whatsoever. Because we know his, he's a volume receiver. And if the targets are there, he will prosper. Like looking at him last year with Justin Fields of all people who I've tried to defend in the past, but good God, it was an awful nasty. And his terrible is Justin Fields was, Garrett Wilson played six weeks with Justin Fields. In those six weeks, four of those weeks, he was a wide top 12 wide receiver. Like if, if, if Justin Fields can give us multiple top 12 performances from Garrett Wilson, quite literally any can. So anyone can. So I have

13:35zero fear of Geno Smith being able to deliver volume to Garrett Wilson. And there's no competition because Ken Yonsady has been dealing with injuries often on Omar Cooper's looking like he might be a wee bit of a bust. The wide receiver two is AD Mitchell, who's cool, has upside, but he does not Garrett Wilson competition. Wilson is the target hog in that offense. 140 plus targets. Easy. We apply that he stays healthy, but injuries have not been an issue prior to last year. So I don't think this is something we should be massively concerned with. I have Wilson ranked a little bit higher than the order here, but I'm very good with Wilson. So yeah, that is my long drawn out explanation, but I like that range, really, which is why I'm okay with double tapping, running back in the first couple of rounds because I am okay with leaning into this range of receivers. I don't think you have to. And I don't have a major issue with Justin Jefferson. I haven't taken a lot of him, but I do believe that Kyler Murray can give him enough volume. Nico Collins with the injury to Jaden Higgins, you know, helps him clear by the receiver one and

14:36whatnot. There's a certain floor that he has maybe that the same upside as Jamar Chase, but a certain floor that he has that we've seen year after year. So I don't dislike those guys. You can draft them, but taking advantage of the depth that we have at RB1, drafting there, and then tapping into this range, I like it a lot. So they're all very bunched up together. Those are my preferences, but it is really a good range to invest in a couple of wide receivers for sure. We got a super chat here from oh wow, we got super chats from Dan Graham. Thank you and from Mike Jank. Thank you. And then from Slim Reaper says, hey, I have an offer to trade away Lloyd for a late oh, trade away Lloyd for a late 2027 second and an early 2028 second. What do you think? I am top two contender and Lloyd is my far before ish. You know, it's tough with you being a contender because you could utilize him, but with him being your RB4, I might go ahead and take advantage of

15:40that because it's always, you know, when you're getting this value out of and you know, we don't ultimately don't know long term what Josh Jacobs NFL career will be let alone if it will continue in Green Bay. But regardless, we're talking about an early second and a late one and what I, you know, draft class has changed on a year to a year basis. What happens at what we think of a draft class at the beginning of the season is not always how it ends up at the end of the season. But I do feel the 2027 class is very strong and at least I feel now granite the NCAA is always changing rules and whatnot. But I do think that a lot of those quarterbacks are going to be forced out in the year. So we're not going to have any extended stays. And so it should be a pretty bystraft class for us. So go ahead and grabbing that that value on the late 2027 second should be off. I would I would make that trade for sure. I know it might hurt if Lloyd does end up being the RB one for the full season and pays off value. But from a dynasty perspective, I mean

16:45more than likely you're not going to get that level of value out of him. We don't know for sure if this guy is even capable of being an RB one. He could be, but we don't know. And I don't, I'm not a Caleb Johnson truth or by any means. I think he might categorize me as a Caleb Johnson hater. But he could step up and be the RB one too. There is anything within the is in within the realm of possibility. The floor could just run a committee if he doesn't trust all of them. So yeah, I would take advantage of it. And I would go ahead and make that trade. I think it's a very fair offer. Stephen King says finished my draft Sunday. PPR one flex spot. I got let's see. I got Aminraw ETN Herbert Hampton Warren. But my flex is either Parker Washington or Tony Pollard. How do I get rid of Pollard? I don't think you need to because his trade value is not as good as the actual value he has on your bench. And you should flex Parker Washington and quite frankly, like Parker Washington could eat, eat, eat, eat, particularly in the beginning of the

17:49season. Because when you look at the Jack's schedule, it is a whole bunch of lockdown corners. Like it's a nasty schedule for Brian Thomas Jr. specifically. And and Jacobi Myers a little bit too. So I fear that Jacobi, I said everybody's name, but Brian Thomas Jr. Brian Thomas Jr. is going to be getting a lot of very difficult shadow coverage by the top corners. And what is actually I think I have it pulled up because we were talking about this. I was talking about this earlier on a podcast or psych. Maybe no, I don't know. Yeah, I do. It's Cleveland week one, which not necessarily the most lockdown-ish nor, but that's a solid secondary. That's a top 12 secondary Denver lockdown, New England locked out since the 90 Philadelphia. Very strong receiving core Houston lockdown after then they have the by week and week seven after that Indianapolis. Perhaps sauce is back to his normal self and can be locked down. So this is not this is not ideal schedule for Brian Thomas Jr. Which means that it's a great schedule for Parker Washington.

18:54So right off the bat, I would 100% flex Parker Washington. No question. And Tony Pollard can sit on your bench. It's he's one of those guys who is not a he's not a sexy pick. But he's a reliable pick for the fact that he is the RB one in that offense. We've seen him and Tony Pollard together. He we've seen him and Tajay Spears together. Spears gets a little bit of burn, but not enough to take away from a decent little floor from Pollard. Hopefully this offense improves. We can have a low end RB two production out of Pollard was be what we were asking for. But I don't think you have to get rid of him. Especially and you also commented that you had Garrett Wilson as well. So you're a solid man. I is your which is your wide receiver to you, which is I'm in wrong and Garrett Wilson is an excellent combination. Not going to lie there in the ETN and a marine hampton solid combination. So you're good. Pollard on your bench and live with it.

19:54It's fine. You'll be glad when injuries start hitting and by weeks that you can go and look for those nine points for Tony Pollard to fill in. From playmakers, I pick 12 in my league thinking about going RB for my first two picks 100%. Should I grab or should I grab running back and then wide receiver? You can if you want to, but my preference at pick 12 is to go RB RB. And it depends on how your league mates value running backs. But realistically, you can get a combination. I mean, James more than likely James Cook will be gone by that point. But the most likely scenario of who you're able to get at that point would be a combination of like, I say, Quon could be there if someone decides to go wide receivers early, but he might go. But for sure, Chase Brown, I talked about Chase Brown earlier as being one of those very solid back in the end, double tap guys, Chase Brown, Devon HN. HN and Chase Brown is a lovely combination in PPR. Nice safe with a massive upside play option. You could go Kenneth Walker as well. And I don't hate, you know, Ashen Gentie

21:00is falling in drafts, but originally he was before the injury. People viewed him as a solid round one pick. So keep that in mind as well. So double tapping RB is definitely my preference. Next question here from easy E, which is perfect. Because I can tag it along with some mailbag questions as well. Easy E says, Hey, Tara, my superflex to draft starts this Sunday. So I'm here like a sponge. Perfect. Because I had a mailbag question of how are you approaching superflex this year with your quarterback strategy? You know those pieces in your closet, you find yourself wearing on repeat. Those are the pieces that make getting dressed easy. And that's what quince does best. Because you know, I love t-shirts. And then I went to quince and I found truly sturdy, truly comfortable t-shirts that look great. Quince focuses on high quality wardrobe staples made with premium materials like 100% Mongolian cashmere and marino wool. The styles are timeless, versatile and designed to become the dependable pieces you reach for day after day. Everything at

22:02quince is priced at 50 to 80% less than similar brands. They work directly with ethical factories to cut out the middlemen so you pay for high quality, not brand markup. So find your next fall favorite at quince. Download the quince app for app exclusive offers or go to quince.com slash player. Get free shipping on your order in 365 day returns now available in Canada and the UK too. That's q-u-i-n-c-e.com slash player. And I think this is an important question to answer because when we talk about one QB leagues, we often talk about fading quarterback, you know, punch, fade, push quarterback back, quarterback depth is so strong. But you can't necessarily take that same approach with superflex because of the advantage of having such a high end, reliable option at quarterback. But it really depends on where you're picking in my opinion because we're seeing a lot of actually I was doing a superflex mock draft on Monday. You can find that on,

23:06we talked a lot about this. We talked a lot about quarterbacks and that if you want to check it out. On a Monday, it's saved in my on my channel in my playlist that says my fantasy pro show, she will find it in there. But the premise is is that look, you are always tapping Josh Alan number one. After that is where things get questionable because a lot of people I'm seeing in superflex drafts are pivoting from going with Lamar Jackson or Drake May and they are immediately leaning into Gibbs, Bijan Robinson and sometimes even Jamar Chase. So when it gets to those middle picks, you might have the option like I was mocking and picking pick four. I had the option to go with wide receiver or Lamar Jackson. He fell to you pick four. I took Lamar Jackson because I wanted to lock that in. So you could have Lamar Jackson there, Drake May. So realistically, if you're picking within the first six picks, you might be able to get and you could include Joe Burrow in that,

24:06not my favorite in the world, right? But he's still in that tier of elite quarterbacks that you could realistically take in the first half of the second round. So if you're picking in that first six picks of superflex, I do advise you grabbing an elite quarterback or obviously one of the elite running backs for sure. You'll have your pick there. And the back half is where things get interesting because you don't necessarily have to go that direction. It depends on what falls to you, who's there, you can find yourself and you have the ability to flip around in the second and grab your quarterback there. So let's say that you're picking in the back half and you want to solidify running back and you say, okay, I want to take JT or CMC. And then in the second round, I'm going to swing around because I'm picking in the back half the second round. I'm going to swing around and I'm going to get what would probably be like, you would have guys like a Trevor Lawrence available. Let me see. Superflex ADP is actually, yeah, may look at Superflex ADP. It varies because it depends on the league. But who is there? No, this is definitely not.

25:11Accurate. Oh, yeah, no. This Superflex ADP is not accurate. I'm not even going to read it to you guys. This is blatantly not Superflex ADP. Accurate, right? But realistically, like in my mind, if I'm imagining most likely scenario, most likely scenario when you're coming around there, you might have a Justin Herbert, a Trevor Lawrence that you could go with a bonix, I think, is an appropriate round two, QB. Deck Press Scott is one that would be there as well. And it would probably tail end of round two, come to like a Brock party, right? Those would be your appropriate, you know, you take a running back or a wide receiver high in option in the first and you have to swing around in the second and grab one of the low end QB ones, which is very appropriate for round two. So that is that's my preference. Now after you grab your QB one, here's where I think you can be flexible. You don't have to immediately,

26:13immediately get that QB two. Like if you're looking at the board and your QB two that you're staring down is Patrick Mahomes and you're worried about like, it's not an ideal target for me, just because of the mobility questions that we will have, the increased usage perhaps of Kenneth Walker, particularly at the goal line, maybe limiting some of that touchdown upside and definitely seeing less rushing from him, especially because Patrick Mahomes himself said, and this is not speculation, Patrick Mahomes himself specifically said he ran more than he ideally should have last season. And a lot of that was predicated on the time frame earlier in the season when Richie Rice was out. So he was compensating because he didn't have very good receivers. Unfortunately, the backups just weren't doing, the backups were doing backup things, right? So in a perfect world, they can lean more on Kenneth Walker and not have to overload using Patrick Mahomes on the ground coming off of that injury. So he would not be my ideal target. So if there

27:15was a QB run and you're looking at the third round and you're staring down Patrick Mahomes, I wouldn't necessarily go that direction because you could push it back around. And again, it depends on how, superflex depends a lot on how your league personally values quarterbacks. But you start looking, once you start seeing guys like Jared Goff coming off the board, you look and say, okay, do I grab a Kyler Murray here? Do I grab a, I'm back on Jordan Love people. I was anti-Jordan Love this off season, but the injury, or not the injury, the removal of Josh Jacobs could force. Now we could see, hey, they could shifts, they could keep the run volume, the exact same. And just decide that they want to push it towards the running backs, March on Lloyd, or just maybe make a committee. But what they could do is go back to the way that they were before Josh Jacobs. And that was when Jordan Love was incredible, fantastic for my fantasy perspective and had high upside because he had more past volume. So, and a little bit more upside

28:19on the ground too. So with this Josh Jacobs thing, we could get a better version of Jordan Love, the version that originally made us feel comfortable with him as a QB1. So I'm pro, I'm back on the Jordan Love train. I think that he's a fine target, Malik Baker, if you need to, Malik Willis, Tyler Shuck are all fine targets as well. So those are things that I could do in terms of saying I'm going to go great with Josh Allen through Jalen Hertz. I think it's still a safe option, right, because of the touch push. So I'm going to go great all the way up through Jalen Hertz. And then I'm going to push back and go with one of these low end options. Or again, I come around in the second and grab me my tribal Lawrence or whatnot. And then I push back a little bit more as well. So I think super flex is really interesting this season because you don't have to go QB back to back in the first couple of rounds. You can invest in those high end options at other positions and really differentiate yourself like that. Take a little bit of risk, push back to that range because I'm Malik Willis,

29:22if he plays the entire season with his rushing upside, he's going to give you QB1 numbers. He just is. It's just a risk of, you know, hey, does things do things go sideways? And they pull him. But technically speaking, they just got rid of all their backup quarterbacks and had to trade for another one. So they clearly did not like what was behind him. So I don't know if that's really a massive risk. I'm going to do a little more rapid fire to catch up because they realize those were all the beginning of the show questions. So jumping back here into the chat, how to draft from B Stewart, how to draft Sunday night. And just before I saw the news, oh no, just before you saw the news on Josh Jacobs, good, good, good, and drafted March on Lloyd, hope he's a league winner. Perfect. I actually had a team that I drafted back in July. I just looked at the roster. I hadn't looked at it because waivers will run next week. So I wasn't like looking at it at all. I opened up the app and I saw I have, I have March on the way. I was like, girl, what were you, what were you thinking? You were really in your bag on that one. That was, it was after the, the Josh Jacobs first news. But at that point, there were no charges and we weren't thinking there was going to be

30:26anything. So I drafted him well above ADP on that one. I guess I just had an inkling like, hey, maybe from Chabie. It says Chabie says good evening all. Oh, we got the Hayes there from Chabie. Graham Reaper in the chat. Jay Slay says got one more draft Monday night, homely, nice. Let me know how it goes. John says, which dealer running back should I be targeting Rico or Warren? I have Warren by a smidge, but I do genuinely think that it might be a very annoying split between the two. But at least between the two, Warren should have the edge in terms of receiving work out of the backfield. Aaron Rogers check downs will not be as egregious as they were last year. In the reason for that is Rogers checked down a lot to a stupid level last year because he hated his receivers that were not named decay Metcalf. The receiving core is much better with Michael Pitman added in there. Jeremy Bernard has been had a lot of positive reviews. So I don't think it's going

31:26to be the same. We got to check down 5 million times to the running backs, but I still want the one that would have the edge in terms of past catching upside. Rico can catch, but Warren is the better option for a past catcher that I think it'll play out that way. Jay Slay, FF says I got the 11th pick. I'm definitely starting RB RB. There we go. Casey Coleman says, what's up Tara? I am in a pickle. I got the third pick and standard league, 10 man league. Am I crazy to take Taylor over chase because the RB falloff is really. Yeah. And go Clemson, we need to win this weekend. Please. And if we can't get a win, can we just at least not embarrass ourselves? Can we just like keep it close? Can we can we make it competitive? Yeah. Like at the very least, give me that. Let's keep it respectable people. This is a really good question, Casey. It really is because the third pick in a perfect world is definitely chase, but you're right in a standard league, the risk of running back

32:30over running back run, even in 10 man, would be extreme. I would not hate it if you went Taylor over chase. I don't think you're crazy for it. I could probably find thought long and hard about it. I might get to the same place in terms of wanting to secure my high end touchdown heavy running back. And then knowing that I've got I don't have Jamar chases in round two, but I've got some solid options that I could double up on. So yeah, I don't think you're crazy for that. I could get there. For sure. J. Slay says, what's up? Linda Blitz says, I'm in a 10 T lots of super flex questions. I don't know. Awesome. I'm in a 10 team or at least super flex leagues. I love to see more people playing in super flex leagues, especially when it's 10 team anytime. I'm in a 10 team league just to make it a little bit more fun because people say, oh, it's not real unless it's 12 team and this is not. No, any league is real. You just adjust the settings to make it competitive. So whatever on that one, 10 teams, super flex, PPR league, picked Emmett Johnson. Should I drop him and pick

33:33up Jaden Reed, Golden or Trey Tucker? Oh, very good question. So with the releases that we had at running back, I do feel very confident that Emmett Johnson would be the direct handcuff to Kenneth Walker. So it's just a matter of whether or not you want to release the handcuff. Do you need? Do you need? Like how deep is the roster? Do you need to start read Golden or Tucker? If those are just guys on the bench, I might still opt to hold on to Emmett Johnson just because if he is the direct handcuff. And again, we do know that this offense wants to try to alleviate some of that rushing work that Patrick Mahomes had last season. I think I might lean towards keeping Emmett Johnson knowing that we do always get some questionable situations there from Walker from a injury perspective. And I know I don't call him injury pro. I'm not that because he doesn't miss. He has not consistently missed a bunch of games, but it is always little nicking stuff.

34:35So just to be safe. Thank you for the super chat from JPT R2A. Thank you. I appreciate that. That a way to support the channel. You're awesome. Thank you so much. That was very generous of you. From Mike Jank, had the 105 and 12 men and started Amin Raus St. Brown, K9, Devonte Smith, Breeze. I love it. You did great on that one. I think that's a good spot to take Amin Raus. If you want to start off wide receiver to get Kenneth Walker and it's what do your people in your league hate Kenneth Walker? What happened there? Because I mean, I see a lot of people taking him at the turn. Am I one that would take him at the turn? No, but I'm shocked that he made it to you. So that was a steal. You made out like I'm banded on that when Angie were able to grab Devonte Smith. And Breeze Hall is a solid RB2. You killed that. That was amazing. I love that start. That's excellent. Love seeing it work out. Thank you so much. And thank you for the, and thank you for the

35:37Superchats from you as well. Thank you to Mike Jank. From Henry Odom. Hey Tara, how do you feel about Kittle moving forward? I have Kinkade as a backup, but I'm wondering if I should try to trade for a higher end tight end. Thank you. I don't know how much he will play in week one, but the fact that he's not on the pop, he traveled to the international game and it's within the realm of possibility that he could start. I think you're okay because at the end of the day, if Kittle is on the field playing a full snap count, he will produce the same numbers as the high end guys. So I don't think in, excuse me. And I don't think that anyone that drafted Bowers or Tramick Bride would give him up. So you're still looking at putting in going in probably not even Colson Lovelin. So you're still looking at that. The Warren craft fan interior, if you were trading. And that's really not that different from a healthy Kittle to be honest. I would like a healthy Kittle will potentially outproduce them. It's just a matter of whether or not he can stay healthy. So that's the key there.

36:40I think you stay Pat on this one because you need a backup option. Kinkade's a fine backup option. I don't want to start him, but if you need a backup, that's a solid backup option. Keep a backup option just in case, but just because Kittle starts the season healthy, know that coming off of that injury, that is a recipe for increased risk for additional salt for soft tissue injuries. Unfortunately, I'm no doctor, but that's what the doctors that I listen to be saying. So from that perspective, just remember that Kittle always does Kittle things. Unfortunately, and Mrs. like four-ish games here and there, that can really still happen. So just keep your backup, roll with Kittle. And you might need to roll out Kinkade week one, because I just don't trust Kyle Shanahan on any level. Yeah, I would roll out Kinkade week one. Not trust Kyle Shanahan in terms of what the snap count would be. See it first. And then hopefully we can roll Kittle out in week two. From Kyle Hamilton says, hi Tara, only have three wide

37:42receivers. Jason, neighbors and a mecca. Well, you got, you got great ones. A lot of running HN, ETN, Bucky, Harvey, Doudal, Lloyd, you're stacked. And then you have pits and craft at Titan. Any packages to upgrade my ready, Beth, 100%. And I always say that the one that I prefer to package up, when anyone drops a list like this, the one that I prefer to package up is Bucky Irving because nine times out of 10, there is still one or two Bucky truthers in your league. I am not a massive fan, but there are people out there that are more than willing to be in the market on a bounce back on Bucky Irving. So I think that you could pair up a Bucky in, depends on how risky you want to get. Tucker craft sounds like he's going to be. We were worried about Tucker craft getting that reduced workload, ramp up workload at the beginning of the season. Sounds like that's not going to happen. So perhaps he just was so far a schedule or just ahead of schedule or just they changed the plan there. So considering the way that Tucker craft had upside last year,

38:46I think I still lean towards Tucker craft over Kyle Pits. So perhaps you can pair up Bucky Irving and Kyle Pits to get a, but you know what actually, I don't even know if you need to package to be honest, you might want to do one for one trades because you've got legitimately three top 20 receivers. One guarantee in JSN, one if he comes out fine from the injury in Jackson Dart isn't a complete mess. We should have neighbors with his same potential top five upside, right? In God, you know, God forbid anything happens to Jackson Dart, but if it does, it's James Winston and backup quarterback. Can you imagine that it would feed generations of families to see James Winston? I need to see it. I need to see it. I just like, and I don't want injury for Jackson Dart, but I really on a personal level need to see games with James Winston and Malik neighbors just for the lore that it would create. And then with

39:46the mecca, Ibuka, again, you know, injury risk there with him dealing with the toe turf, but or turf toe, but at the end of the day, he's a high upside option. So really, I don't know if you should package, but maybe try to do one for one trades, try to see what kind of low mid flex option, a type of wide receivers that you could target for Bucky Irving and maybe paddle out of Martian Lloyd as well. Now that he's hot, get rid of him before, yeah, we were talking, I was talking about this on a show. You could shoot high and target trading a Martian Lloyd for as high as a Christian Watson. I think that would be like a, like a comp in terms of value. I think some people could theoretically go for that. So you could individually try to trade a Bucky or a Martian Lloyd. I don't know how much value you can get out of Kyle Pits, but I think the approach for you would

40:47be try to rather than packaging up, do individual trades for those guys and aim for that range of low end wide receiver two to high end wide receiver three and go out there and look for those good depth pieces that would give you upside. Yeah, I think you've, yeah, I think that'll be the move for you for sure. Big Noggin in the chat, what's up? And then Kyle, oh, you were saying it was full PPR. Yeah, I think you need volume for sure, for sure. Big Noggin says, now I got to run, I got to run back out to the store because I forgot one thing that happens to me all the time. I hate that at my core, especially because I use HB curbside. And so I'll place an order, go get it and then realize I got to go inside because I forgot one thing. Oops, forgot the milk for the children. Not joking. They drink a lot of milk. Leaving, struggling for a fourth rounder this weekend. No, we can't go that high, especially if this is like a homely draft, like, like, you know, maybe you've got some guys that are thinking they're super sharp and they're going to like push them up. But

41:47man, I can't, I can't go that high. I mean, he's up to last time I checked. We were, where are we at? Kitto on stripling. Stripling. Round, it's holding at round nine. It's dropped a couple of places. So it's not teetering up. Yay, thank God. We did not get it. We're not getting enough news out of my heavens to cause a ramp up there. So stripling still is a guy. I could, I could reach to round eight. I think that's perfectly fine because in round eight, the wide receivers going there are, can I take him over Alec Pierce? I think I could. Alec Pierce, Michael Wilson. I would not take him over Quentin Johnson. Johnson, my boy, Cortland Sutton. I would take him over Cortland Sutton. Then they get to Stefan Diggs and whatnot. Josh Downs, Jaden Reed. So round nine is where he's going. I think reaching to round eight is appropriate. Reaching to seven might be pushing it a little. There, it is a shaky wide receiver range, but I still don't think I would push it that aggressively.

42:48No, follow. I'm not in. Follow Rob Thomas says, hi, Rob Thomas. No, I'm not in any guillotine leagues this year. So I don't have any particular strategy. Sadly, I'm sorry. No guillotine leagues for me this season. Loving life says everybody focused on Jefferson, but Kyla, but Kyla Murray can make TJ Hawkinson a fantasy relevant Titan again. Can he do that? Possibly. My worry is that Hawkinson just might look he'd be a little, but you know, it's some of that is not his. He went through. He had injury. No, granted. I haven't looked at Hawkinsons like in detail, but I feel like it was injury then followed up like quarterback situation. So theoretically, he could still be the older version. We just haven't had the right opportunity to see that. We know that Kyla Murray can hyper target a Titan from a volume perspective. No, touchdowns. Unfortunately, the touchdown drought that he had with poor Tremick bride there. But he could give us a little bounce back. It's not, you know,

43:53Titan premium, a little deeper option. I'm not mad at it. Shout out to Still Building the chat says who that? Hopefully the Saints are cooking. Earlier this season, I've got a Scott Fishbowl O'Lava Tyler Schuckstack that would really like that. From Jeffrey Moore says, Hi, Tara, I'm iffy about my draft. I have HN and Kyron Williams. I also have Ramondra, Brooks and Korum. Do I have a shot with these backs? Thanks. Yes, you're good. So one, I don't hate the strategy of Kyron and Korum. From a draft perspective, I would not because Korum is what? Like a round eight. It's not so bad, but it still feels like a high investment for two running backs on the same team. But it is a very unique situation where I was talking about this with someone earlier, I think last week. The thing about the Ram situation is that as long as, not granted, you know, there's there are caveats, but there are caveats to every team. As long as the Rams offense operates

44:55theoretically with the same efficiency that they had last season, it factually can support two RB ones. Period. Like a KKK or two not not RB ones, but two fantasy relevant, RB one, RB two, Aitor changing on a weekly basis, who you can start on a weekly basis. So I don't hate having both of them on the same team. And if one of them were to go down from injury, for injury, the other would be a straight up league winner, advantageous on another level. Right? So and I love HAN. It's not risky. I know some people feel a certain type of way about it. They do intend to put volume on him and you may feel that's stupid, but that you, in particular, but people kind of question when they came out talking about we're going to put so much workload on HAN that we're going to have to carry him to the locker room. Okay, that's crazy. But I think it was just a little bit of an exaggeration, but just to make it very clear, they intend to use him. He is their lead back. This is not a, oh, we're just going to kind of, you know,

45:58have him run 10 carries and catch some pat. No. And they have designed, like they utilize him as a receiver. He lines up in the slot and out wide. He lines up as a receiver. We're not, we don't need check downs. Okay. This man is a receiver. It's different. So when you're looking at pass volatility and you're worried about, I've talked about a little bit before, when you're worried about Malik Willis being a running quarterback and checking, not checking down, it's not the same thing because we're not looking for check downs from HAN. We are looking for actual receptions as a receiving option because of where he is lining up. So from that perspective, I do think he can be the wide receiver one with the most receptions on the team, although I have hopes for some other options, particularly Chris Bell. But upside is there for HAN. And I always tell people that if you're worried about the Miami offense being bad, rest assured, it was bad last year. That two of that we've seen in preseason and we are terrified to start worried about, oh my god, poor Drake London if two of us start, that's the same two of what that was in Miami last year.

46:59There's no difference. That's two of. So HAN has been in bad offenses. We'll be okay. Follow Rob Thomas says, ooh, can we get a yes we can? Can we get a SFB 16 temperature check heading into the start of the season? First thing I will say, the first thing that you need to do next week when waiver wires open is double check and see if Marcian Lloyd, oh, you know what, my league mates watch this shoot. I showed us so that. Check and see if Marcian Lloyd is on waivers because he's on waivers in my league. So I plan to put in a hefty bid. So any of my league mates watching the show right now, just know you're going to have to pay up to get that sucker. I am trying to get him 100%. But great, but it is, you know, we do have the passing bonus. It's more receiver friendly, the settings this year. So perhaps people not want to put that aggressive of a bid in for him. So we'll see. But yeah, I'm excited for SFB heading into

48:04the season. I'm ready to see these scores boosted up by the bonuses. I'm ready to see how all of this works out. I was looking at, I look at my team. I'd look at that team quite a bit because I do love it. It was different for me because typically with Scott Fishbowl, I am always, I'm like, I pick a spot where I can just grab Lamar Jackson. That's my favorite. My tried and true. Even though he let me down last season, I still made the playoffs, but I prefer to target a quarterback first round. But obviously things changed this year. And I decided to go heavy tight and take advantage of the tight end premium setting. So I doubled up at tight end in the first two rounds, which is very unlike me. I typically have been more of a late round tight end streaming option, make it work. And I drafted both Tremac bride and Kostin Lovelin. So this is going to be a very new scary season for me relying on tight ends. But I'm so ready to see what these new scoring settings are looking like.

49:05But again, check your waivers to see because waivers are opening up, what like Monday, Tuesday, and then I think they run Wednesday. So make sure that you are getting those claims in. Make sure you get them in on Monday. Derek Lincoln in the chat. Oh my god, I'm behind. I'm so sorry. Okay, we're going to catch up here real quick because we got 10 minutes left of the show and I'm super behind to the chat. I'm so sorry people. Jordan Pippin says I'm about to draft a or do a draft this day. Oh, 14 team. Let me know how it goes. Roth, Bert, Roth, Bert came says you want wicks, not lemon. I agree on that one. I think wicks could be a very high upside option. Why it, my man, Reca says hello. My RV room is Gibbs. Ramandre Brooks. Manangai, you know, Wheat Manangai week to week, little frustrating, right. Widersever room is AJ, Lad, Abuka, DK, Michael Wilson, QJ, Burton, and we'll be see other and the burden, burden, just burden. Since I am looking for RB Depth, how about Lad and Abuka for

50:15Javan, oh, Aladdin Abuka for Javante and Watson. I think that's very reasonable. Yeah, I think that is very reasonable trade. I would, I would, I would make that. It does make me a little nervous. You've got just, it would just be AJ and then it would be Christian Watson as your wide receiver to DK's upside is a little limited. Watson, good, good depth piece, maybe flex week one, QJ, I trust, Burton. Well, you got Burton. I never mind. You got Burton. It was just listed at the end. Yeah, I would make that trade. You've got Burton. Yes. Leaving says Clipper is going to clip. God, I saw that punishment. That with five first round picks. That is absolutely insane. From Carr, our Cordell Blair, Cordell Blair, my son's name is where, Cordell Blair, Brown slash May or pick and slash DAC stack. It's the, it's the Brown May stack for me. I don't mind the pick and stack. It is more cost effective, but the Brown May stack, I have that in dynasty. I'm looking forward

51:20to it 100%. Let's see. Leaving says cocker late, though. Yes. So I was, that was, as I was talking about Teterone McMillan and my issues with him. And again, those issues are around the fact that, yeah, I think you saw it for a thousand yards. But if you look at everyone being drafted around and granted his ADP has fallen, I'd like to take responsibility for that. So, you know, good that we've pushed it back a little bit. But when I look at the players being drafted around him, they just have higher ceilings, right? Because they're better passive volume offenses. But cocker's value is stupid. It's around 12 pick. And he is going to be a lot closer to Teterone McMillan in production than you would think. And you're getting a massive discount on him. So he is a great late round target for sure. I mean, just the value, double digit route, that's like, that's a crazy gap. We're taking Teterone McMillan top 20. And then the next pass catcher, they don't use a tight end. The next pass catcher is at like, wide receiver 50 something that gap is too egregious. He should be going higher for sure. Roth says that Tete will be playing

52:25out of the slot. Could be huge. He won't, though. I don't think the problem is is that when we were told that he'll be playing out of the slot more, that was because of Chris Brazl being on the outside. Unfortunately, with Brazl's injury, that now throws it into a wrench where the offense is going to look exactly like it was last season. So maybe in 2027, when we can get Brazl back, we can feel more comfortable with Brazl on the outside and get that more versatility of giving more opportunities to Tete and the slot. But with them having to rely on Xavier look at, I don't think they can afford to do it sadly. So the Tete slot stuff was real cool, but it was very reliant on them feeling super good about Chris Brazl. I hate that's like one of my, that's one of my angry injuries. That one really made me sad for the Panthers offense as a whole. The Panthers offense, the poor Panthers offense. And another thing is that again, which is also why Jalen Coker can benefit because he will be playing more out of the slot is that the offensive line is dealt with so many injuries. So with the offensive line dealing

53:27with an excessive amount of injuries, might be difficult to get the ball down field to Tete, more volume to the slot, which again will favor more than 50% of the time Jalen Coker. So the offensive line injuries sadly, probably gonna force Brazl's passes to be a little bit shorter anyway. Hate that. You know those pieces in your closet you find yourself wearing on repeat. Those are the pieces that make getting dressed easy and that's what Quince does best. Because you know I love T-shirts and then I went to Quince and I found truly sturdy, truly comfortable T-shirts that look great. Quince focuses on high quality wardrobe staples made with premium materials like 100% Mongolian cashmere and marino wool. The styles are timeless, versatile and designed to become the dependable pieces you reach for a day after day. Everything at Quince is priced at 50 to 80% less than similar brands. They work directly with ethical factories to cut out the middlemen so you pay for high quality, not brand markup. So find your next fall favorite at Quince.

54:30Download the Quince app for app exclusive offers or go to quince.com slash player. Get free shipping on your order and 365 day returns now available in Canada and the UK too. That's q-u-i-n-c-e.com slash player. Now go to quince.com slash player. fellow Rob Thomas says favorite late round QB and why should it be Tyler Schuck with a weak one mashup against the Lions. I am so excited like first of all the match anytime I see we'll be looking at Lions matchups all season long because those games are hitting the over because we have first of all these are this it's a really good schedule for Jared Goff so he's going to be throwing for extreme volume with god jameer Gibbs teams are going to be chasing points against a extremely depleted and subpar secondary and they can't run so like that's there that's the strength is the run defense that they're just going to be throwing on them so yes yes I'm looking forward to all those Lions games and the volume we're

55:32going to be getting out of them it's going to be so much fun and yes Tyler Schuck is one of my favorite late round options for sure got that stack in SFB and looking forward to seeing it in week one against the Lions it's going to be beautiful Marvin tobert says Algier or Samson I do have Judkins or Sharb or Denver's Coleman or Green Bay's Brooks last spot what do I do Algier is my preference there Algier is the one that I have ranked the highest because again we had now great it it sounds like the Jeremiah love injury he's progressing fine so perhaps he is ready to go week one and it's not an issue but even then so seeing is how they got spooked on the Jeremiah love injury I still think that we are going to see a decent amount of Tyler Algier and we know that Algier is the direct handcuff like we're not seeing James Cook at this point we haven't seen him on the field he's still struggling to get back from that injury so hopefully he progresses along but

56:37Algier is the clear handcuff there and offense is going to be Arizona's running backs we're destitute last season unfortunately after the injuries because they were all practice squad guys but at the end of the day their yards per carry and like the offensive line wasn't bad at run blocking they put out and Jacobi were set is fine at checking down so in the you know with the offense moves so it provides goal line opportunities and they're playing a bunch of teams are going after chase points so I do think there's value there which is why ultimately I'm not super scared of drafting Jeremiah love but Algier is my preference Adam Ruggles says would you trade Parker Washington for Matthew golden carnal tape I would not wouldn't do it nope I'm much higher on Parker Washington the combination of those can't do it for me I do have Parker Washington ranked higher than carnal tape and Matthew golden is not enough who I do like Matthew golden is not enough for me you could also do Parker Washington for golden tape golden tape Lloyd in love I assume

57:38hmm wait love is in Jeremiah love or you're talking about like Jordan love if that was Jeremiah love that's a lopsided trade I would make that trade for sure if it's just a quarterback and that's Jordan love then essentially that's a wash for me and it would be golden tape and Lloyd which is still a fine haul right um so I could I could do that if you're adding in Lloyd I can make that trade um but yeah I would have Lloyd would have to be in it for sure for me to make that trade from to being sorry if you hear my dog barking clearly someone is writing home from to being do you think the Rams will run more because of their devious yes good good point here sorry to the podcast people I cut it off because I started agreeing with it before I finished the question do you think the Rams will run more because their defense is excellent do you think Taylor and uh Kyron Williams is a solid one two RB and should I move Lloyd

58:39I would still keep Lloyd unless you have clear roster spots um and holes that you have to fill but Taylor and Kyron is an excellent combination for sure and I do think that that's the possible that's another reason why I'm not highly concerned about um Kyron and Coram because this is an offense that could easily tilt towards more volume on the ground because of the defense being excellent and the offense being excellent the back half of those games um like second half of those games we could definitely see the Rams leaning aggressively on the ground game so I'm I'm pro that combination for sure you nailed it there in terms of concept uh from DJ Stevens already drafted ppr league two running backs two wetter severs one flex picked up Lawrence Gibbs hampton o'lave neighbors Warren and Waddle have brees on my bench um only is the only RB on the bench mmm got a trade offer hall for Garrett Wilson I would make that trade yeah I'm okay with making

59:43that trade for you with hall on the bench you don't need him your solid at running back uh Garrett Wilson is someone he goes in that same range as hall and I I'm very positive around Garrett Wilson for sure uh leaving says more of a geno issue geno health issue for Wilson honestly I like you know maybe I'm a little bias but I liked what I saw out of Cade Club Nick um in preseason I think he solidified really earning that uh QB two spot I actually actually actually a dynasty tame where I have Garrett Wilson and I drafted um Cade Club Nick late I was like hey some's got it you know some's got to give here maybe maybe I've got the future so I was very encouraged by the way that he looked so I'm not super concerned if geno goes down because Cade looked very competent as a backup and on preseason obviously is just preseason but I liked what I saw and I love him as a prospect and I think that it's entirely possible that what we saw in terms of subpar performances

1:00:47from him last season was maybe a coaching issue overall at Clemson we'll see very soon here as we play LSU tootsie Bob says hey hey Rachel how you doing um says do you have a bunch of drafts remaining just one just my family league that is it on Sunday just lift D1 W says trade or was answering the question there for someone else uh from killer matrix says Bucky Irving or Malik neighbors week one good question I surprise we can get more week one questions here um Bucky is we'll say Bucky Bucky Bucky at Cincinnati hmm yeah I could lean toward I don't it's tough to sit Malik in in any matchup but the giants would have to 100% confirm that he would be on a full snap count for safety purposes I would just go ahead and start Bucky and not deal with the headache

1:01:52uh jumping ahead here sorry I'm catching up on comments um commits me I made the right one convinced me follow Rob Thomas said convinced me I made the right decision to take Puka as the first wide receiver off the board I was pro Puka all off season and then I got spooked but I might be unspooked considering that we had all of the multiple players go on the commissioner exempt list so it's possible that there is no suspension or it's just a two game situation this close and you would think they made the commissioner exempt decisions you would think they would want to make go ahead and make a suspension choice so I don't know I'm just still not entirely sure on that one but it does seem like it's leaning more towards the lower end so I think it's still okay to take that risk I don't I don't mind it at all I don't mind it at all

1:02:53Holly or Holy Inspiration says Lloyd is a RB2 while Jacobs is out yes and he could be more than that he could honestly be we just haven't seen him and we don't have the only reason why if if this was any southern situation like like if this was let's say Kyrie Williams and Blake Korum Blake Korum would immediately shoot up to being a top 12 back 100% but because we have not physically seen Lloyd for an extended period of time during the regular season we can't have the confidence to be drafting him that high so and because we technically don't mean and we don't know if they'll go committee we don't there's a lot of factors here so that's why his draft spot is more appropriate for in like round six but he is a strong candidate to play as an RB2 while Jacobs is out for sure Tert Ferguson says rate my team 10 team draft CD Lam Barkley Chase Brown Garrett Wilson Bucky neighbors Godwin ETN Birdon Harrison Jr. Lawrence Strange Boswell and Niners I love

1:03:59your little stack there of oh wait wait did I my tripping or it's not no no no I thought for a second I thought that you had a stack with Trevor Lawrence but regardless I love Trevor Lawrence as I actually love Trevor Lawrence specifically in general right but especially when it comes to 10 team leagues because that's where you can play chicken with where Lawrence is going with those back you know those back in QB ones where you can play chicken and push it back further just because a lot of your league mates might not be taken in immediate QB2 push it back far enough and you can still get really good value on a guy like Trevor Lawrence so yeah that combination of early round of CD Barkley Chase Brown Garrett Wilson I love that neighbors as well I mean yeah in ETN I love this draft for you I would rate it a nine out of 10 I would give you an A I would give you an A follow row Thomas says pick from pick five and a 12 team league three wide receiver you went oh you went with pick five 12 team three wide receiver super flex I went with

1:05:01Puka in oh you want a Puka in Daniel so three wide receiver there pushed was it my wonder if it was it was it a people not believing in Daniels or was it that the three wide receivers pushed it back a little bit further see were able to grab Daniels in the second that's really good I like that a lot Dion Polk says hey Tara do you feel Keel Kaelan Black is a good handcuff I do think it's Jordan James now Kaelan Black got the opportunity while Jordan James was dealing with the injury but ultimately I do think it should theoretically go back to Jordan James I'm not aggressively prioritizing it as a handcuff because at the end of the day it could be committee and quite frankly and we've had this little nasty streak of like when CMC went down before every single running back back up option started to go down as well so I don't push it like aggressively up in terms of ADP but Jordan James is my preference my was Logan says what do you think about Bonaix is QB1 I'm 100%

1:06:02okay with pushing quarterback back a little bit and targeting Bonaix as your QB1 I feel very safe with that very safe 100% leaving says confident with CJ Stroud as my QB2 and super flex you know the one thing that I will say is that job security is a luxury and while I know sometimes people get a little funny and say hey you know CJ Stroud could suck and then Davis Mills comes in reality is is that once you get to like the those back in guys you get into a lot of job security issues we're like on a weekly basis Jacobi has higher upside Jacobi resett has higher upside than CJ Stroud because of pure volume but he doesn't have job security because at some point we got to see Carson back we don't have the same thing with Stroud so at least you have a guaranteed QB2 is he a high upside play no but he's a play big noggin says hey quick question does your content always upload to the player profiler network yes specifically to the player profiler plus one

1:07:06in theory it should go on the player be uploaded onto the player profiler network main channel but I low key forget I high low key forget to do that unfortunately but if you yeah contact me after and we can work it out because I definitely forget to do that 100% not gonna lie I should be doing it but because it's not automatic it doesn't happen unfortunately from Mike jank ideal start from the 110 and 12 team league in that location I'm still going running back that's still a location like you could get Jefferson there theoretically but I think that's a perfectly fine spot to still go RB RB and get a solid two top 12 running backs from that location from chubbing hey chat do you think this trade is a low ball Jacob's owner has Gibbs in no solid RB two I was thinking of sending Taylor and Lloyd for his Taylor and Lloyd for his backup RB wait Taylor or take but which Taylor

1:08:14which Taylor specify that on that one because I'm a wee bit confused here shout out to JP T are to a and the chat says I'm returning champ and thanks again for your advice I have the eighth pick looking to go robust RB and can't decide on Herbert or Lawrence thoughts they're interchangeable I love them both I do have a preference towards if you're going like the highest what most paying for your buck get you Lawrence because people will reach on Herbert but Lawrence has the higher upside for me because I think he retains the rushing upside but they're like they're back to back for me I love them both as a target but theoretically I prefer Trevor Lawrence leaving says Walker gets hurt the only answer is Karim Haunt they could know I think I think that Detroit is going to sign Karim Haunt I think they have to I don't understand who else they trust on roster right now we'll see leaving also makes a comment that's a really good one to point out that you can also just pick up

1:09:15Kittle if uh to yeah I'm sorry pick up Tondas if Kittle doesn't play got a super chat here from sin Cynthia says I will be in a 10 team PPR which wide receiver should I target depends on where you're picking if you are picking in the first half you do need to prioritize getting now after you get the running backs first right but if you're picking in the first half you can prioritize getting Jamar Chase Pukinakua J.S. in Amman Ra after that I don't think you have to take a wide receiver in the first round in a 10 team league we talked a little earlier about how there's a very nice pocket in my opinion that I really like in let's see where does it start hi Zafla Olave is at there's a really nice pocket this is 12 team 80p but I guess I could theoretically do the math and 10 team that would still be it would be late round three yeah um Crystal mid to late round three crystal lobby is starts off this really nice pocket of wide receivers that you can get in round three

1:10:20four range and maybe five and 10 team PPR of guys like crystal lobby devantine a smith zay flowers tea higgins there's jalen waddle garrit wilson is one of my preferred options so my my guys are uh crystal lobby devantine smith zay flowers garrit wilson um glad mcconkey is a fine pick so I think you can you know if you can get your arby locked in your arby one locked in early unless you have the option to get one of those top four wide receivers push it back and invest in that range of wide receivers hit it hit it hard get a couple of them and that'll work out perfectly for you for sure thank you for the super chat Cynthia appreciate it jumping back to the chat here oh uncle Ted says Emmanuel Wilson is this year's javante Williams I think this year's javante Williams for me is jacory crosskey merit it's raining outside I just realized that it's raining I can now hear it in the background which is interesting because I'm in Houston we're supposed to get that

1:11:22little tropical store but it didn't happen so why is it raining now I should have paid attention to the weather uncle Ted says jury duty with Watson back wider saber one upside like 2024 now I just from a talent perspective so first of all I do think for for because de shan Watson is him and jerry judy has been hyping him up endlessly his quarterback his quarterback I do think that Watson will potentially hyper target judy a little more than he should with the talent of kacy concepcion and dincelle boston being far better receivers than jerry judy but perhaps he goes back to what is you know he leans on but I don't think de shan Watson will start for that long I don't I don't think that he will start the entire season so I would not lean on that connection ultimately I would by far target casing concepcion and dincelle boston with concepcion being the preference because of the fact that he'll play in the slot and have more volume potential so that

1:12:25is my preference for sure let's see here jumping back to the chat make it let's yeah we're almost caught up we're almost no we're not oh my gosh okay I'm sorry guys I do have to wrap up I'll try and pick and rapid fire a few of these but I'm 100% think again on those uncle Ted the rookies the rookies with the rookies for sure target them in Cleveland from mannex picked you between Brooks mason and golden Brooks and mason Brooks for the upside of potentially taking over the rb1 and mason even with Aaron Jones being there again I think we're at the falloff point unfortunately so mason is my preference although I do like Matthew golden the lot but I do have it ranked in that order Linda well says I know you're a green bay fan sorry for your loss but I'm glad your love your loving love again yes he can be a late round our waiver wire depth piece for sure 100% full can or Voltron comedy we don't know on genty yet not not I lean toward it seems like

1:13:32his lean is more of a yes but we don't know 100% yet jump into the chat here again how's how's it feel says ppr h and are hamptons it's h and for me I like hampton a lot but I'm very very pro h and I've done I can if you look at my youtube channel for general like running back videos I think I do have a lot of h and propaganda for you in terms of the explanation um b steward says reached on stripling round seven didn't see him go didn't want him see him go to someone else in 14 team it's 14 teams so round seven super appropriate that's fine I don't have wrong with that in 14 team especially because you have to read like I I posted a pic in 14 team and someone was like that's a reage I'm like no it's not because once you start getting getting to that and if you're picking on the turn your guy will not make it back for you you have to reach that is 100% okay so I I'm cool with that in 14 team not not a big issue for sure Kilamex Kilometrics says

1:14:36Debo Samuel is higher than stripling perty has no chemistry with stripling yet I you know I don't think perty is a player that has to have chemistry with someone I think that for the system he can spread it around to whoever and he has had an ample of ample situations of having to deal with targeting a wide variety of different options because of the injuries they've had to deal with Debo I think is a fairly safe pick but ultimately the higher upside option I do if there's one that could be the higher upside option it really should be stripling for sure Debo can get volume but I would still lean towards the younger guy back in the chat Kilamex trick says how often will the dolphins be in the red zone though it doesn't matter and I wish I got to tell you which exactly video it was but there is one video where I talked about the red zone usage for HN and the red zone usage for HN is not where his fantasy points come from like we're not looking for goal line

1:15:38touches from him we're not looking for we're not even looking for red zone carries for him his points come off of pure volume red zone it's not an issue whatsoever like I was one of the videos I wish I could remember off top of my head but I give you the exact specific red zone stats and compare it but you can also go and look at red zone stats yourself and see that he was not making his money off of red zone looks less seasoned unfortunately so I don't think it's gonna matter because that's not where it was coming from to begin with Miles Logan says is James and Williams a good pick-up at wide receiver I love him at wide receiver three I know people are uncomfortable and even with wide receiver two yes I know people are uncomfortable with it but I promise you go look at the lion's schedule in general it is fantastic every single game in the back after their by-week it is just a plethora of domes and warm weather games it's beautiful the only issue that you will have is championship week in Chicago that is that is what it is but it's not that deep right so take

1:16:42advantage of all of the upside that you will have to offer this could be a stupid high volume year for Jared Goff let's see here we have any more thank you for all the positive comments guys I do have to get out here you hear this dog barking I'm now wondering if there's something that I need to address but there's rain so it could look like he gets spooked when there's like oh he hates the rain that's right he gets very scared of the rain so he might be panicking right now so I probably should go for sure I appreciate it so so much I will say Brian I see your comment let's do that when real quick and then we'll close things out Brian when says love your show watch your oh watch your videos every couple of days you're the best analyst I appreciate that so much so we all know JT will go crazy this season but how do you feel about Daniel Jones Josh Downs and Alec Pierce I felt a lot better before the king and Alan signing even though he was seen stumbling around in his drunken

1:17:42state but and it's not to say that you should not fall back on the past catchers because of the king and Alan signing they needed depth when you're staring down the possibility of Nick with Nick Westbrook a Keeney being your wide receiver two in week one you need to rethink things so I know I understand that was a good move for them 100% I feel good about Daniel Jones as a last resort if something goes sideways last resort a QB3 in super flex is my ideal but last resort something goes wrong there was a quarterback run you don't know what to do then you can look at Daniel Jones I wouldn't do it as an outright target just because of the risk of him coming off the Achilles but general I don't mind taking advantage of that ADP for sure because we know that again now he makes a lot of money from a fantasy perspective off of that little rushing upside so that's the only issue right if this was if he gets back to 100% being himself and he can add in that rushing value I would feel a lot more better about it but I still appreciate what he does and think he will

1:18:44provide plenty of volume through the air towards the wide receivers it's whittled down towards you know Tyler Warren Joshdowns and Alec Pierce with a little bit of Michael Pipman on the side I am pro taking advantage of the ADP slips for Joshdowns and Alec Pierce I don't would not love to target them as options that I have to start as a wider seer 2 a low-end flex option ideally guys that you would have you're drafting to have on your bench and you're typically great and deeper leagues flex option so I'm I'm pro I'm just a little bit apprehensive because the injury concerns with Alec Pierce like just makes me a little bit nervous so again bench option don't target as a starter because I'm surprised he didn't even go on the pop like I was very very concerned that this man would not be available because his injury recovery was going so much slower than everyone else and I do really like Joshdowns still again the keen and Alan thing is a bummer but it made the ADP come down so that's okay but he should benefit significantly from the exit of Michael Pipman

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