LIVE 2026 Fantasy Focus Show League Draft

0:00See you in the whole six, so one, oh, focus, Fancy, Fancy focus. What's up, friends? Welcome into fantasy focus football alongside field jates and my clay. My name is Daniel Topp. It is a mock draft Monday, except it's not going to be a mock today, my friends. It is a real real draft Monday fantasy focus showly draft happening today on the show. Are you guys ready? Dude, so ready pumped up for it. 12 teams. Yes, got a lot of the people that you have seen in this show league before. We are very excited for how this one is going to play out. We're going to get into that in just a few moments. As a matter of fact, we are going to probably start making picks before we start talking about the mock draft only because we had significant real drafts related news. Sorry, real draft, not mock draft that we'll discuss in just a moment here. But Mike, you are the busiest man in the world. Not named Adam Schaeftore. Yeah, I was going to say I see what you did here. Okay. So defending champion. Yes. You know, I myself on the back a little bit.

1:01None of us wanted to say it. And the draft is, and the, what I forgot, I don't. I think. I think and you guys chose to do this draft the day after cut day. Yes. So I was awake at 2 a.m. last night working through all the for you guys. Make sure your draft room is nice and pretty for you. Yeah, I want to. I want you guys to, you know, not be shorthanded because you need the players in order. Definitely. You don't know the guys. So I did all that work. And then you put me in the 12 hole by the way, pick it. Well, you've, uh, so you're trying to get me all the disadvantages. So I'm not, I'm not here to play a world black today. I'm coming in. Oh, I'm not around. I know, I know, you know, I'm short on, short on sleep and, and all that. But, uh, tough. I'm not, I'm not messing around today. Um, you got a big day ahead of you because all the players are now eligible to be claimed. Oh, yeah. We're not done yet. I'm calling it right now. Dean Conner's most claimed player. I love that. That's my prediction. Or several hours away from figuring it out. But let's dive into the news. Because we will. One quick before we get to the news, really quickly, uh, we're going to be doing a bunch

2:02of punishment. Uh, what's the word that I'm looking for here? A bunch of punishment, uh, polls in our chat on YouTube this week. So as a part of that, we have three punishments. We're going to throw up as a poll in our chat today. While we do the draft, please vote on them. We will find out which one is going to be one of the punishments that goes on to our punishment wheel. Right. The three punishments are wearing fields, bucky suit. For an entire show. It's kind of a win. Sour starts of the week doing extra super sour stuff. I watched David Presley research how sour these sour things are. I am not looking forward to that one. Or fantasy slam poetry. Those are the three that you're going to be voting on today as a part of it. So make sure you head into our chat chat or buddy, Eric Moody, Eric and Moody on social media. Let's dive into that news that we were talking about here. Unfortunately, guys, things got a little bit clearer with the Josh Jacob situation. But also quite a bit more muddy at the same time because we know that Josh Jacobs will be going on to the commissioner's exempt list, feel jade. Yeah, he will be. And this is not a total surprise given the allegations and the charges from this off season.

3:06It all stems from an incident took place in May, allegedly with a woman. And he has now placed on the commissioner's exempt list. So here's what we know. The commissioner's exemplest prevents a player from practicing with the team or playing games with a team. We also know that the commissioner's exempt list does not include a specific amount of time on the list. Josh Jacobs in theory could be removed from the commissioner's exempt list today. It is obviously not going to be today. It is generally reserved for legal situations that are not only serious enough in nature, but there seems to be enough clarity that this might be a real legal matter. And this player is going to likely be subject to discipline, both in the court of law and from the NFL. There have been recent examples of players that have been placed on the commissioner's exempt list. By the way, other players around the NFL, Jonathan Cooper from the Broncos also placed on the exemplest yesterday. At least five games have been missed. So generally speaking and based off what we know right now, I am anticipating at least

4:10a handful of games missed for Josh Jacobs. He is due in court November 17th as part of this legal matter. The NFL does not need to have a completed legal process to remove a player from the commissioner's exempt list. It simply must conclude its own investigation into the matter. So November 17th is important, but it is not. Hey, he's not going back to court until November 17th. He's probably going to be out until December. So now, sorry. No, so with how fluid this is then with what you're saying, feel like we don't have a definitive timeline. We're still drafting. Mike, have you changed projections given the fact that we don't really know? Yeah, definitely big adjustments last evening or when this news broke. I'm still trying to get more details obviously as we are to figure out where exactly we want, how we want to project these guys, where we want to rank them. I think the range of outcomes for for Jacobs at this point is anything from somewhere in the four to six game range he misses to being just cut by Green Bay. Like we just don't know right now. So we have to hedge a little bit on that.

5:11He's buried in my rankings way down in the mid 20s for now. I probably will go a little bit lower than that one when the dust truly settles here. As for March on Lloyd, I will say this, his ADP is really spiking now. We'll see where he goes and are draft here shortly. There is a lot of excitement around him. I will say that's just remember this is a former day three pick several years ago has played in one NFL game due to injury. We don't know how good he is and we don't know if he's going to stay healthy. They did trade for Caleb Johnson yesterday. They have Chris Brooks who's a passing down specialist. That's their core. You and I were talking before the show had they made a bolder move for running back. We might feel a little bit differently about this situation. I don't know if they expect Jacobs back at some point. So they feel like just bringing Caleb kind of can hold down the four or it means that they believe in March on Lloyd and think he could be their future. Leaback. So again, there's a lot of things we're trying to balance right now. At this point, it's a little bit of a lottery and hey, this is a fantasy football draft and you have to kind of shoot your shot when you're when you're ready. Here's how I treated them. I'm my end and obviously talking about fantasy football in this context of stuff.

6:12We're going to get to the draft in the matter of moments. Yeah. I moved Josh Jacobs all the way down to running back 25, right? And I got him behind the players that I think have sort of league winning potential if everything breaks right for that. That's why I came to get a move. Even Bucky Irving was some recent positive momentum. Yeah. And ahead of guys, you know what? I just don't really know that I see it. Sorry. David Montgomery. I think they say I'm full of that, right? Like David Montgomery for me probably can have a solid year. I don't think it's spectacular year for March on Lloyd. I moved him all the way up ahead of running backs that we are excited about. If things work out in their favor as an injury takes place ahead of them, Kyle Menungai, Blake Corum. Like those guys are now behind March on Lloyd for me because there's a very, very real chance that for at least a handful of games, March on Lloyd is the Packers lead back. He will be the highest ranked Packers back going into week one when they play Minnesota. Yeah. Sometimes it says simple as usable games, right? So you think about a guy like a Corum or even like a JK Dobbins or Menungai. Like they might be even one A's or starters and be like, I don't really want to put him in my flex. They're not that exciting. Whereas March on Lloyd, I was looking at the projections for the first few weeks.

7:14Again, with Chris Brooks and Caleb Johnson as his competition, probably going to rank him around 20 in that range. So that's a usable week. And we might get four or five usable weeks, maybe a little bit more than that, maybe a little bit less. But that's more than we could say about a lot of these running backs that are in that flex range. We will see whether Josh Jacobs gets drafted a handful of rounds lower than usual. Let's see if it's more than that because we can begin the draft. Yeah. Any last time I can quick note. I updated. So I changed our draft room. We just got this way that I can kind of pull our staff rankings and then built it in a way where our draft room reflects our staff rankings, which we haven't done a long time. Lloyd is ahead of Jacobs. If you use our staff rankings, it's if you notice in the draft room, right? It is ahead. One thing to mention is a part of that with our ESPN game. Josh Jacobs is not IR eligible. If you draft him right now, a lot of times players that are put on the out list, they are considered IR eligible. And then the other thing that I think is not given the fact that he's on the commissioner's exemplet. So when you're drafting, if you want to grab Josh Jacobs thinking, I'll just throw him on IR because you might get the O designation. That's how it's going to work. This is an odd one usually.

8:15Yeah. Usually it's a suspension. This is a usually the players are suspended. This is a kind of a unique situation. Missioners exemplet. Yeah. Let's let it rip. Picket things off. Trophy smack. Trophy smack. With the first pick here, like we said, we've got 12 different players in this league. Trophy smack. Our producers, Zach, me, Eric Moody, field geats, Liz Losa, producer Dave Tyler Fulgem, producer Q, producer Christina and producer Ryan with Mike Clay, bringing up the caboose at the 12 spot there. Those are the 12 teams for the league. Trophy smack. You can let it rip, baby. Anytime you want. We're a, hey, we did sort of go for a few minutes there on Joe. We did. It's not aware of the fact that we are getting rolling here, but Trophy smack may auto draft into, to me, our gifts. Trophy smack. First of all, great company. Been very supportive of the cause here at fantasy focus. They have awesome gear. Go check it out. Come on top of that, he always builds a good team. Like a frustratingly good team because then he talks smack and is like, I'm going to take this belt that I own until you buy it for me. There you go. And rub it in your face.

9:16Yeah. What's wrong, Mike? Mike computer is not working. Oh no. Great. Wow. It's all locked up. I'm not worried. Are you joking right now? Trophy smack. That's all right. Trophy smack right now. I think these first two picks are the same every single draft that I have ever done. It's not in the order, but it's always Jameera and Bajan. I haven't seen anyone other than Jameera or Bajan go. Norvai and Mike has a grand opportunity coming up in five picks as Mike's arch nemesis. Tyler Fuljim is currently on auto draft. Oh, which they're ain't nothing we're going to do about that. All right. Like we have had many messages telling us when this draft is taking place. It's not a mystery. Tyler's a busy man. He's got a young son hosting sports center doing flying on jets by him. I was lonely during the fantasy marathon. This could be my fault. I did say to leave him in space. So maybe it's not true. Wow. Could still be up there. I haven't seen Tyler since that marathon. I did something that I haven't done so far this year and it's a real draft. Okay. I moved Pukinuku up in my rankings and took him now ahead of Jamar Chase.

10:18I have been worried this entire off season that I've been waiting for that shoot a drop on Pukin potentially having some sort of discipline happen. Hasn't happened yet. It's August 31st. I mean, we're right there on the doorstep of the season. I feel like at this point if we're waiting for Puka to have discipline happen and it hasn't yet, there's a shot that maybe it doesn't. I'm starting to move Puka back up my rankings a little bit because of the reason why I had him down. It doesn't feel as serious as it did a few weeks ago. I would agree. I think you're right. By the way, we just know major surprises in the first four picks. It was Jumir Giebs, Beigeon Robinson, Puka, Nukuah, Jamar Chase. I don't think we're out of the woods with Puka yet because the NFL will always reserve the right that if they get more information or they conclude the rest of investigation, they can suspend a player at any time. I had mentioned last week that the NFL often tries to conclude its player suspensions prior to roster cut downs. That was yesterday, nothing on Puka. So not out of the woods, we are trending closer to, I believe, either no suspension or a short suspension. And we have talked about how if it's a one game suspension for Puka, Nukuah, you could

11:20move them down from third overall to fifth overall, but he's not going from third overall to 23rd overall. Correct. Fifth pick for me was I had the fifth pick. I've been drafting Christian McAfry a lot to this year and I got to be honest with you guys. You guys can tell me this is bad analysis, bad ways to do things. I have, like, I haven't done that many drafts yet. I have many of them over the next 10 days, right? I have a lot of Christian McAfry exposure that I pivoted to Jonathan Taylor, diversification of the portfolio. I had a little bit of it. That may be bad strategy. I would say probably just in our seat, in our job, it's kind of reassuring to have shares of all the notable players. Mike is such a can be so emotionless and a good way that it may not matter as much to you. But I know that sometimes when I'm doing my analysis, it's easier for me to be like, someone's yelling at me about how bad Ash and Jentie's been this year. I'm right there with you. I feel like I took him in the first round as well. So I don't mind my overall rankings remain Christian McAfry ahead of Jonathan Taylor. I took JT only because I've got a lot of CMC. First of all, poor Tyler, time's out and gets CMC.

12:23Oh, man. That's be nice. That's not fair. Go down or something. That's not cool at all. Second, we talk about this too. It's not as simple as the guys are in exact order. There's a range of outcomes. We eat and there's tears and that's why we build tears. Jonathan Taylor was, let the NFL and Carries last year. The best players in the NFL, his numbers would have been even better had Daniel Jones not got hurt. He very well could lead the position to fantasy points. It's not like you're like, I'm not going to take CMC. I'll settle for a record out all right. You're taking another lead option. Right now. That's right. And to the first here's what we've had so far since field took Jonathan Taylor, Mike's on the clock here. We had Ammon Ross and Brown Jackson Smith and Jigba CMC, Justin Jefferson, Devon H. Chan and then James Cook come off the board. Only question for you guys. I'm Mike's going to make his two picks right now on a scale of like one being not crazy at all and 10 being like, that's the craziest thing I've ever seen. Thoughts on Ammon raw ahead of Jason. Ammon raw. No, it's not. It's totally fine. Okay. Yeah.

13:23All right. You were putting Ammon raw and JSN in the same tier because Liz did do that as Mike has drafted Rico Dattel 12th over smart. I like that. I, this is a tough spot to pick. I like that Rico Dattel and CD lamb. That's who you went with, Mike. That's a good start. I won't miss CD lamb. Good start for you. You know, I, I hate picking at this spot because I'm, I'm starting to run here. You know, I'm just starting to run. Uh, I'm going to, I'm going to take my chance. I'm going to take it. Yeah. Brock Bowers. Do the quarterback. Oh, wait, that's a tight end. That's a tight end. Yeah. But also that will be. Brock in a minute. No, I love. Wow. You know, it's funny, Mike is I've, uh, you know, I was, I was kind of a skeptic on Jeremiah love at the beginning of the free season. Other than CMC, he's probably my highest roster player so far. Mm hmm. And there's a very specific reason for that, which is I have not picked higher than I think fourth so far. Maybe fifth. Yeah. And he just, he sort of falls into that ring right in that right? So yeah, if you're picking at 15, he does not fall into the range where I just picked at 13. But the problem is this. I don't pick for a long time, which means he's going in the third round.

14:27I'm not going to get him. So I have him ranked ahead of all these other running backs and the run is starting off. Clearly, you could see it here. We've had five consecutive running backs now. I knew that was going to happen, but my thought was all of these guys are going to be gone by the time I come, come back. If I want love over this group, I have to take him here. It's a bold move, but I believe he's going to pay off. It's slow start, maybe, but I believe he's going to pay this off. I agreed there. Good luck for you. Good luck for you on that. All right. I'm running a certain picture, Daniel. Yeah. Jim, my love comes off the board with the first pick of the second round, then Chase Brown, then Omari and Hampton, then Sequan Barclay, then Derek Henry, then Kyron Williams, and then Ken Walker, the third, the running back run is on my friends. Myron Williams. That's earlier than he's been going for years. All right. I'm on the clock here. I took Jonathan Taylor with my first pick. It's 12 teams. The running back run has begun and I think an action, Jenty. I think this is about 12 years ago. There you go. Is that Jenty now goes, that was picked 20 for me. The early reporting suggests that if Ash and Jenty does miss time, it might be like a

15:29game or two. Right? And I talked about him as a bonus potential bust in the last show that we did, right? The idea being the schedule is the most difficult in terms of Mike's projections right now, but still too darn good. I actually was choosing between, well, I'm not going to tell you that. Yeah, don't tell us. Because I pick at 29 and the player that I was also considering might get back to me. The only part of my draft that I don't, I mean, I guess obviously if Jenty misses early time, that would be not as fun. But I think I can withstand a game absence for him is I just drafted two running backs with a week 13 by. Ooh, that's all right. That's okay. By the time you get to the 13, you're going to be 12 and one. You won't even need to win or 11 and one. You'll need to win a week. Nailed it. Yeah. I'm not worried about that too, especially that lay in the year. One may be out with an injury anyway or there's so many things that change. Someone on your bench can pan out. It's just so not worth worrying about. I'm going to be right now on the running back. Check this out. All right. So Mike to Jeremiah Love with the first pick of the second round. Chase Brown, Martin Hampton, sake one Barclay, Derek Kenry, Kyron Williams, Kenneth Walker, the third, Ashton Jenty, Javante Williams, the first nine picks of the second round.

16:32What have we been saying? What have we been saying? You know, get your running backs or get over the gun and they're about gone. So I got to a spot here. I ended up breaking that mold. I went with AJ Brown because I didn't want to just reach for a running back that I felt like I could maybe get here with this pick. And also, it's going to say, well, did you get the running back that you want to? Well, we'll find out. It's Axe about to take somebody here and then we'll see if I'm able to get a guy that I like. I ended up going with AJ Brown, then Brock Bowers, then Drake London. And we got Trophy Smack on auto as well here. So he quickly picked Drake London and Tramick Bride. Good players, obviously, but I'm going to go with a run back. This is the area that's the best area to draft right now. You're landing one of the top tight. You're going to get a great player at the beginning. You're going to probably get one of, I have a shot at Bowers and McBride. Malik neighbors just fallen in this range. Like, generally, usually Jeremiah loves in this range as well. It's such a good spot. I don't, I've found that I don't love picking toward the end of the draft, like the end of the draft, where I like being a little earlier. Literally, I mean, just the board falls a little bit better. I feel like where the tears drop off late in the first.

17:34And then by the time it comes all the way back at the end of the third round, it's not as good. I agree on that. I agree with you. Travis H and Junior there at the top of the third as my RB one, just because I have big the running back run went. I went with two wide receivers first, Pukin, Nukuah and AJ Brown. I went with the field strategy because both my wide receivers have a buy in week 11. It's okay. It's all right. I don't need to be 10 or no. That's right. I will feel we've already enough by talk for the next week. So that's enough of that. All right. Boom, Vartier. So I took George Pickens. I think that what that second round taught us, this is important, I believe, is again, we are always, we are trying our best to give you as much information that applies to all leagues that we can, right? I think the reality we were reminded of is that so much of draft strategy is not what you plan to do before the draft begins. Yep. Rather what you do once the draft has started because I wouldn't have guessed, and I'm not saying these are terrible picks by any stretch, I wouldn't have guessed that Cairn Williams is going 18th overall. Agreed.

18:35Wouldn't have guessed that Javante Williams is going 21st overall, right? I would have guessed those guys are going to go maybe about around later. But because those guys have gone early, it's created two dynamics, one where players like Chris O'Lava are falling to the middle portion of the third round, which is a good pick there. Rashi Rice goes late in the third round. You're getting good value on wide receivers. You're also feeling the need, but the other, but the tug is, hey, if I didn't go with a running back early, if I don't draft Quinn, Sean Judkins or Breeze Hall right now, I'm going to be starting, I don't even know who I might be starting Tony Pollard. It's not going to feel great. My second running back. That's going to be tough right there. That's not great. All right, we're moving along here already onto the four, sorry, last pick of the third mic, you're up. All right, last pick is I'm going to recap all of my looks looking at this really quickly. Third, just as a reminder, Tramock bride, Malik neighbors, Malik neighbors hasn't moved ahead of the third round yet in our fantasy. I understand that though, like just there's legitimate concerns. Yep. Still could be a top five wide receiver if things turn out healthy there. I took Travis H and then Chris Olave George Pickens came scatiboo to Lizlosa, Rashi Rice,

19:40Nico Collins, Lad Maconkey ahead of Garrett Wilson, then Zay flowers and Mike, you went back to back here. What did you do with your picks at the turn? So Breeze Hall fell a lot further than I thought he would. I know he's going in that three, four range, but I didn't think he'd get all the way to the end of the third round to considering that run on running backs. But there was a wide receiver run and he made it to me. So I will gladly take that discount on Hall. And then I had a tough call here. I could have went, I could have went running back receiver or tight end. There were so many good options, but I really want to get one of the top four tight ends. I know Tyler Warren's not coming back to me next round. So I went Colson Loveland, I went a little bit of an edge at tight end. And I think I get that from him. Like that when you say top four, you're talking Tramock bride, Brock Boer is Colson Loveland and Tarns Ferguson, right? Those are the four that you're talking about. Presumably. That's what I was thinking. First quarterback is off the board. It is Josh Allen every time a little bit different than some of the other leagues that were in quarterbacks coming off the board a little later than some other leagues. But we'll see how this one works out. And then after that, a mecca, a bokeh goes to Tyler as well. Tyler Stolenado is I don't need Tyler getting good picks on auto pay.

20:42Yeah, I must work guys. I'll the guys I was considering there with that second pick were Loveland or McMillan Smith or a bokeh and they were three or four. All the guys are gone. Yeah, that works out, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. After that Deandre Swift went to produce surprisingly jail and waddle over to Liz Loza and field year on the clock. I got on your squad right now with fire right there, but instead I'm going to do something. I'm going to follow Mike Lee son of a gun Tyler Warren because I wasn't confident that Tyler Warren would get back to me and he wouldn't have. He wouldn't have to know. So Tyler Warren, after Mike made the move for Colston Loveland again, there's a trickle down effect, right? If Mike had bypassed Loveland and he had gone, I must say air quotes closer to expected range. Yeah. And it might be that Tyler Warren goes closer to expected range. Sure. But I think we all sort of feel that whether you like Loveland more than one, I think one Warren or Warren more than Loveland that the fifth tight end, well, you think that's Kyle Pits, Harold Fanon Jr. Maybe you're a big George Kiddell optimist, Harold Fanon optimist, that there is a gap,

21:43right? Like as you just said, that that four man tier, that gap that if you, so when Loveland comes off the board, if you're thinking about tight end, you better get worn in a hurry. I'll be curious to see if the player that I was going to take ends up making back to me eight selections later because at this point, the running backs and the wide receivers blur the lines a little bit more, right? Like the difference. I'll be at some of the best available wide receivers. This is at least how they are ranked. T Higgins, Devonthay Adams, Terry McClaren, DJ Moore, Jameson Williams, Roma Dunesay. Not saying that we don't have those guys in a particular hierarchy, but if I told you at the end of the season that Roma Dunesay outscored Terry McClaren, you would be surprised. And McClaren's three wide receiver spots ahead of him. Same goes at running back, right? Basel Tutten just got drafted with Bucky Irving right behind him. David Montgomery, Judari and Price. They're all in that. They're all in the range, right? Similar range. Yep. So I did not feel like Tyler Warren to looks like the next highest ranked tight end would

22:44be Harold Finn. I felt like that was a bigger gap. And also the wide receivers. So much more interesting than the running backs at this point. Oh boy, are they ever. Who are a point? I want you to get your running backs early. Viable potential like running back to flexes, but not many guys that you're like, it could be an RB1 this year. Like the receivers, that's not the case. Like Devonte Adams was top 10 last year. Roma Dunesay or excuse me, James and William's finished 12 last year. Like a lot of these guys have a lot of upside. Yep, they do. Lamar is the second quarterback taken. Lamar is off the board about seven picks. Make that one, two, three, four, five. I can't do math fast. Nine picks between Lamar and Josh Allen. Third bird. Sorry to bring this up, but Lamar Jackson was auto drafted. So perhaps in a different simulation without trophy smack on auto, he wouldn't have gone that high, but comes off the board at the first pick of the fifth round. I've got Travis H on the H and Basel Tutton, Pukin, Akua and AJ Brown. And I'm thinking about going with the third running back here just because of how weak my running back situation is.

23:44Did I see you cringe when Judkins went, by the way? Because you don't like him. I don't. I don't, but if all the people that was left, that was the guy I was going to target. Yeah, because I was, you know, this isn't the way I normally draft. Normally, I mean, I don't like picking at the very beginning of a draft to be honest. So maybe we should have trade like, yeah. I would have been like, I just, I just, this, so you almost a quench on, Jack, and if we'd gotten there, he might have Mike. Do you ever go against your own analysis with drafts? Like do you ever hedge against yourself? Uh, Tyler's here. Wow. Thanks Tyler for showing up. Time 25. Give me an example. I will give you an example. Okay. Go for it. Of course. Just this is your question. I think I do sometimes differ from my rankings because my rankings are sort of in a vacuum and my team isn't built that way. Sometimes when I draft a team, it's like, ooh, based on how I've constructed this team. Oh, I know I've got this guy as wide receiver, whatever, but I need to go with this safer play or I need more upside. So like I will ignore my rankings based on how the fluidity of the draft plays out. Like I've got to kind of change and, and vibe with, with the way that the board plays.

24:47So I definitely will, will draft against my rankings at times. Okay. I should have said this if we didn't much earlier in the process, but just of note, three wider receivers in this, in these roster. All right. Three wider receivers plus a flex on these rosters. I just took Bucky Irving. I know that I now have three running backs. Me too. But with action genty, uncertain for week one and just the fact that we're playing with a 12 team league, it could get dicey. Last thing is, and surprise you guys haven't brought this up yet. Yes. I am playing through maybe the world's worst paper cut. I saw it. I didn't see that. Wow. I didn't see that. That's tough. I know not all heroes were capes. Sometimes they were band-aids though. How to happen. My, I was opening up a box of ego waffles, which what a great, great. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I, yes, sliced it right in the box. I'm too bad. Yeah. That's too bad feel Jates. The L.D. It's questionable. Egos. That's, I'm going to, I'm going to rip through the fourth round just to catch everybody up on the picks that have been made. Colson Loveland came through the first pick.

25:48Then Tederobic Millen, Devonta Smith, Josh Allen, Ameca Abouka, Deandre Swiff, Jalen Waddle, Tyler Warren, Quinshot Judkins, Basel Tutin, Devonta Adams, and T Higgins. That was the end of the fourth of fifth round so far has been Lamar Jackson. Luther Burton III, Jadari and Price, Terry McClure and Bucky Irving to feel Jates. Liz Lose got her guy in Dave and Montgomery. Tony Pollard to Titans fan at producer Presley, Jameson Williams to Tyler, DJ Moore to Q squad. And now we are on the clock with our Roma Dunes A to our producer, Christina Mike. You're only a pick draft away. I hate. Egos and when people that you do a show with every day, you're going to get a decimated neighborhood lead. I had a neighborhood lead last night and the same thing happened to me. Really? I guess one of my good friends in the league, those kids and Cheshire Ruthless, he won the hits tough. He won last year. I won the year before we, he beat me to the championship last year and he was picking like four, we had a couple of keepers too. I was toward the end of the round and he just kept getting, he chased fell to him at

26:48like whatever four or five came back around got in neighbors at some point. He got, I think he got a booka and I'm at the end of the round like tears just kept drying up right before I would pick. So you're talking about the third grader that you were that one last year. Tommy. That's the guy who won the league that you're still frustrated with. I'm on the clock realtor that you play in in your hometown. Yeah, it's tough. You and Tommy just go ahead and head back. No, I'm mad. I don't want anybody here. Can I pass? Is that okay? Well, Mike's looking at this. I'm going to comment so about how much Mike and I don't like each other. I want to say it one more time. Mike and I actually really are friends. I feel like people think we don't like each other this year. I shouldn't have said we actually are friends. We really are friends in real life. We've been, we've been going at it a little bit. He's so locked in. Yeah, I think that it's, I think I'm just, when we argue, I'm nicer to you than you are to me. So because people aren't like you're mean to Daniel, but I'm like, guess I am. No, I mean, I, I have definitely, how would my friends, I mean to you. Like that's the way that we're just talking about man, we're arguing. That's the way it works. All right. Yeah, we got a lot of, a lot of people enjoy our Nico Collins to be in that people are on both sides.

27:49A lot of sides. A lot of sides is really interesting. Yeah, great. I'm with you on that one. All right. Closing out the fifth round here. We had some good value here. DJ Moore was the ninth pick of the fifth round. Then Roma Dunes, a Travian Henderson comes off the board. Mike goes with Fields guy, Carnell Tate. Like that. And then Marvin Hedges Jr. Yeah, here's an example of what I probably to answer your question. Yeah. Just asked me before, which is like in a situation like that where I feel like, you know what, all the top tiers just dried up at me. And I'm looking at my board and thinking, I don't want to just take a safe guy here, like a floor plate guy that's sort of at a ceiling. It's just guy like a Portland Sutton Michael Pittman. Like these kind of guys can, yeah, can kind of just a hold down the for fee. And they're going to be solid starters this year. But I feel like I need a little more juice. I need guys that can exceed the ceiling at this spot, especially because no one just stands out. If Roma Dunes, he was there easy, I would have hit that button immediately. So I'm going to aim for a little higher with carnal T Marvin Harrison guy, stick and exceed where I have them rank. So yeah, I'm always maneuvering my game plan within tiers for the most part, depending

28:51on what's happening in the draft fair. I like that. I like that. All right. Moving along here. What do we got? Sixth round Marvin Harrison Jr. Then Michael Pittman Jr. Drake May comes off the board's Christina Rico Doudel, then Kyle Pits, then George Kittle to produce a Presley. Yes. Indeed. George Kittle. I thought it'd be interesting. And I feel bad for Chefti in this regard. There's so many fake accounts now on the internet that I think one of the imposter accounts or one of the aggregator accounts had a tweet that was like something to the effect of like there's concern that George Kittle suffered to set back according to Adam Schefter. And the thing is that like no one bothers to check if Adam Schefter ever said that. Actually did. He did it. Chefti does TV. He does a podcast. He goes on radio stations. He could have there are any number of places where Adam Schefter could have talked and someone could have taken that quote. But doesn't mean that's a real quote. Right. And so yesterday he had a tweet that I think may have been in response to some of the fake reporting that like nothing has happened to George Kittle and he remains. He has a real chance of playing next Friday, by the way, in Australia, unreal.

29:54Next Friday. I was going to take him here with the 70th overall pick. In spite of the fact that he is right now still has ADP is in the high 80s, low 90s. It has been creeping up as it seems like we've been getting better and better information on him. And so I have to have him ahead of Harold Fanon because I like the idea of George Kittle more than Harold Fanon in that Browns offense right now. I have moved George Kittle up to my tight end five this season thing. That means absolutely nothing, but just sort of caught my interest. Did you guys see when the Rams are showing up to their. Yeah, the day before. The day before the game 24 hours before the game starts and the game is at 10 a.m. locally. So they are basically hanging on until the bitter end in Los Angeles. Maybe it's the good weather. Good food. Good weather in the good food. I think maybe as what it is. Yeah, but be exact. Our producer, one of our producers, Zach takes March on Lloyd. Second pick of the seventh round. Josh Jacobs remains on the board. As Mike mentioned, he is lower than March on Lloyd. When you go into the tool right now, I don't think anybody.

30:55And I think Mike says something that I think is worth noting is he said, you know, the Packers didn't give us any indication that like you know, they expect this to be like, we don't exactly know what the Packers are expecting. I think the Packers don't know what they're expecting. It's a legal matter. It's great of their hands. Yeah. I mean, John's and doesn't it's not going out and saying, hey, we need a guy that's going to hold down the four-doll season. I mean, he couldn't get on the field for the Steelers. Right. But he had to weakly help the scratch by the way. But kill or the third record turn. It depends who they may be someone from the practice squad or something, but because usually you're going to have three active tail backs on game day. It's pretty rare to have less than that. But yeah, it's hard to tell. It's either we believe in Marshawn Lloyd or we don't think this is going to be a long term and we just don't know that answer right now. Seventh round so far we had Ramondra Stevenson come off the board. Then Marshawn Lloyd. I went with Mondale Robinson. I wanted Mondale right there. You sure. Sorry about that. Can you gain? Well went to team Moody Field. Do you want to go with the quarterback though? I did Joe burrow and it's not that Joe burrow. This is not like dramatically later than Joe burrow is going. But you guys know that in these leagues, we do tend to see a lot of patients at quarterback.

31:58We do. Another guy. I'm sort of under exposed to so far this year. Joe burrow amongst probably the AFC's best bet to lead the NFL and passing arts and passing touchdowns this season. So Joe burrow. Welcome to squad. Welcome to swag on this Josh shake. There we go. Josh shake is finally comes off the board to cue. It is worth noting. Q is a Packers fan. Yeah. So that is a part of the maybe calculus there. Yeah. Ninth pick of the seventh round in our 12th teamer finally comes off the board. It's tough to even be able to say if I think that was good value because I just don't know enough about the situation. It is kind of a wait and see kind of a thing. And frankly, it feels a little bit unsavory when it doesn't. Yeah, that could be a great value if he only misses two games because of the thing. Man, again, you know, obviously, it doesn't feel great. Unique circumstances to say the least. I thought about Sutton last round. So what was that? Yeah, the bus 20 picks. You know, or we're almost any just went two spots before I picked. We actually see the nine. This has been my draft today, which means this will be my best team because I'm going to be a great team.

32:58That's right. That's right. That's terrible. So which means it's going to turn out great. Ryan goes with Michael Wilson. If we have your team, Mike, maybe we throw it up here on the screen. We look at what you could possibly need here. Where are we at right now? In the eighth seventh round going into the evening. Everything. Him boil is your quarterback. That was an interesting choice. Yikes. Oh, he actually doesn't have a quarterback. Okay. I kind of like the squad. You know, my love, Breeze Hall, CD Lam, Carnell Tate, Marvin Harrison, Jr. Colston, Loveland. That's not a bad squad. You don't like it? That's not a bad squad. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. All right. I'm going to get some running back. Mike's in here. He doesn't want to. I'm on the clock. I'm going to take Jaylen Warren. I need a third running back. He stands out as a value at this point. And then I'm going to go back to the wide receiver. Still so strong right now. I'm going to go back to the wide receiver. Well here. And I have a few options. Yeah, you do. Take your guy. I think so. I think I'm going to do it. I'm going to take a chance at an Alec Pierce. You knew it. I got paid. And we're shooting for the first pick of the eighth round.

33:59So that would be what? Seven times 12 is 84. The 85th pick overall is Alec Pierce to Mike. It's about where I expected him to go. Yeah. All right. There's my lineup on the screen here. My question, my mean concern right now is love and haul are technically both questionable for week one. So I do have Jaylen Warren that can hold down one of those spots. And I'll go shopping later for some depth. I would imagine both. They're going to play though. At least one of them should be good. So I think I'll be fine. Lam Tate Harrison Pierce. I feel like I drafted none of them, frankly, at their ceiling. You know, I've been drafted. Lam a lot. I think he's a pretty good value at the end of the first round. There's been some chatter lately. I've just about how good pick is is. But man, just don't forget about how good a healthy CD lamb is. That guy is an absolute difference maker superstar. I don't believe he's better or I don't believe he's worse than George Pickens by any means. So no, definitely. I'm, yeah, definitely. I definitely took some risk here. Just think it could go down quickly if guys like Tate and Harrison and Pierce, frankly, don't work out or love start slow. But you know, there's a lot of upside here, which is the key.

35:01So CD lamb, the only pick mic doesn't regret field with your team. I'm kidding, Michael. You are waiting at the quarterback spot, which we have seen you do. By the way, just in case you're wondering what quarterbacks are still available on the board. Jaylen Hertz, Jackson Dart, Justin Herbert, Caleb Williams, Trevor Lawrence, Brock Purdy, tons of names. That's why I didn't bother as much as I like some of these guys. I just can wait. I, you know, again, I did the same thing on my draft yesterday. I just wait and wait and wait that there's my next tier of quarterbacks. You know, after Hertz goes massive. Like I just, there's no reason to force it. I mean, everyone that doesn't have a quarterback should start taking quarterbacks. It's right. Yes. That's right. That's right. Taking Justin. So important. They're trying up guys. Yeah. Right here with Loza on the clock, Justin Herbert, one of the producers takes him. Good pick right there. I am on the clock here in the eighth round. And I'll just, I'm choosing between several wide receivers because right now I only have two on my roster with an early tight end and three running backs taken.

36:05So we didn't get Herbert. I'm going to start throwing darts here. I took Joe Barrow already. Oh, you're right. I'm going to start throwing darts here. And I'm going to begin with Chris Goblin, Eric Moody's guy, right? Eric Moody likes Chris Goblin. Yes. Yes. Yes. And that's what I like. I like that. I like that. I like that. That's another one with a guy that can easily outperform this ADP is a high ceiling. Liz Lose, I'm sorry. Dejan Striblin is one of those guys that if you try to wait and get him, whereas ADP number says there's a high likelihood he won't make it to you. Not anymore. And the dress is about where he's on him. He also feels like one of those guys, at least in my opinion, that like where he's going is the median of his outcomes. It's not like reflective of where he's not going to, I don't think he's going to be like wide receiver 33. It either feels like he'll be a top 20 wide receiver as the Niners go to guy. Or this would be another like sort of like, I don't know, just overdoing it in the pre season, sort of like Trevion Henderson last year, where he has some moments, but it's Mike Evans and it's Debo Samuel and George Kiddell and it's Christian McCaffrey.

37:08If Christian Kirk comes back from this calf injury that landed him on short term IR, it'll be those guys that kind of actually are the complexion of this offense weekend and week out. Yep. Let's look at week around eight. Excuse me, a quick recap here. Mike had Alec Pierce, like we talked about off the top. Back press got came off the board. Next, then Matthew Golden and Tucker Kraft back to back a couple of packers. Josh Downs to Tyler, Justin Herbert to producer Christina. We talked about Dejon Stribling, Chris Godwin, Jacobi Myers, and then I took Sam LaPorta. Caleb Williams comes off the board to producer Zach's team and then Chuba Hubbard and Jalen Hertz back to back. So a couple of quarterbacks are coming off the board, Mike. Are you starting to shake in your boots a little bit? No, not at all. Still a bazillion left. Still a bazillion. All right. I also am. I'm going to be very popular in Pennsylvania, which is where Penn State is because I have three nitty-lions on my roster is our guy, the great house op. He just looked related to me. Parker Washington, Chris Godwin and Tyler Warren, hashtag we are by new name for this team. Love that. All right.

38:08I got a... Can I walk you guys through what I'm trying to do here? Yeah, of course. I got three running backs. Travis H and Basel Tutten and Jadari in price. Obviously it's a little bit of a weak spot on my squad. I love my wide receivers in Pukinuku, AJ Brown, Wandel Robinson. Sam LaPorta is a serviceable tight end. I do have to worry a little bit. Probably have to grab a second one because of the injury issues that he's been dealing with. On the board right now, though, I don't love any of the running backs that I'm looking at. I don't love any of the wide receivers. And I think I'm just going to have to take a shot on a guy that I think is going to play a lot. And that's Jordan Addison hoping that this Vikings offense starts to do a little bit more. I just need depth at the wide receiver spot. And all of these guys I'm looking at, they're all just kind of feel like dart throws. The Travis Hunter, which I'm not drafting this year. Leave him bother with that one. No, I'm not sure why he is being drafted as highly as he is right now. I think there's a little bit of, you know, it's... They took him too overall. Like... He's super talented. He is. If they ever turn him into a full-time wide receiver, it's just looking at the circumstances right now. Unless Brian Thomas Jr. got traded, do we really think that's going to happen?

39:11I don't. Yeah. I don't. And that's points. Yeah. Plus, there's... I know it's not a huge chunk of leagues, but also IDP leagues. He's in elite defensive back option because he's going to play on offense and probably... I think it's going to be like 70, 30 defense offense, maybe a little higher in defense, but the reports lately are that the last couple of weeks has been pretty much exclusively on defense, but they're going to find ways to get him some plays on offense. And that's going to add, you know, that's going to add up. So that's really makes it more valuable overall in fantasy. Amongst the things... So yesterday during roster cut down, I feel like I should have said this when we were talking about Christian Kirk. The NFL has amended its rules previously. So now you can put a player at the roster cut down right onto injured reserve designated to return. Reminder, you're going to have to miss four games. But amongst the guys that are either on the fantasy radar or somewhat on the fantasy radar, Christian Kirk. Tank Dell, anybody else that I'm missing that's like particularly fantasy relevant that is automatically out for four weeks.

40:12Not that stands out. Okay. So those are two guys that come to mind. Not that other one of them is being drafted super high, but just names to know that even if they aren't fantasy relevant, their absence might create a little bit more fantasy relevance for somebody else. My... This doesn't have anything to do with fantasy, but my guy Kirby Joseph going to be on that list for four weeks and Brian Branch. And by the way, we don't have Terry Arnold, who is no longer a part of that team. I just want to say that the teams playing the Detroit Lions, the beginning of the season with all of those guys out for four weeks, you could have some major passing games against the Lions at the start of the season. Just saying that right now. All right, Mike, you're on the clock right here in the ninth round. Quick recap of what we had in the ninth. Jalen Hertz, JK Dobbins, Jordan Addison, Jackson Dart, RJ Harvey, Trevor Lawrence, Blake Korum, Quentin Johnston, McCoy Lemmon, Jake Ferguson, and Rashad White, Mike has 30 seconds on the clock. No, he went with Brock Purdy. Burdy good pick right there, Mike. Not bad. You're gonna go with the second view.

41:14He does. He doubles up with two cornerbacks. Wow. You are nothing if not predictable. Am I? No, that's not. I did not. I was actually totally... I didn't think he was going to do it. My draft board article, I had Dart and then either Nick Sir Purdy. So you just did both of them. Nick, I didn't get Dart, so I took Nixon Purdy. Good job on this draft. I'm moving along right now. Well done. Probably helps to have an auto drafter in there. But moving along right now. I want to hear about the strategy of drafting two quarterbacks back to back, Mike, because I think some people might be like, am I really getting good value if I take two quarterbacks within one pick of each other? This is a little bit more. Yes, I mean, at nine and ten, yes. I would never do that earlier in the draft, but yeah, I think that there's a tier that ends up at about 15 right around Caleb Herbert, Mahomes, Stafford, Purdy, Nick, those kind of guys. So I never want really anyone after that. Maybe Kyle Murray after that, but everyone else is not a guy. I'm going to feel super comfortable starting most weeks. So to get two of those guys and let it kind of ride out and if one doesn't pan out, but the other one does, I'm going to be in a great spot. Remember, Brock Purdy, I feel like those are two of maybe the most disrespected and undervalued

42:18quarterbacks. And the reason they're, I say disrespected, but also like you get it because there's so much depth of quarterback. But again, Nixon's finished QB seven, two years in a row. There's two seasons of his NFL. He runs the ball well and they had Jalen Waddle. And then Purdy has finished top ten points. Bring him three straight seasons and sells a pretty good supporting cast. It doesn't help. I think a lot of people, well, I'm laughing because feel took brain and Aubrey in the 10th round. How dare you? Every time I do it, Mike reacts less than the time. I know. I just want him to get pissed one time and rip me and be like, you are the dumbest person. I mean, everybody on a family is terrible. I mean, it's terrible. For Spencer Schrader got her last year, he was outscoring him and then what? So this is what we wanted. Why didn't you just say is like this is a completely irrescuited. He's a better pick this. He's a Myers ended up outscoring him. Do you know the guy you just picked is kicker one has never led kickers and fantasy points? He got his career. Same with Jeremiah Love. He's never been adopted. I think one of the reasons why that makes that argument makes zero sense. One of the reasons why Brock Purdy doesn't get any of the love that I think he should get is because he does sort of look like the rookie of the year.

43:21Like he still looks like a 13 year old playing football. Like Henry Rowan Gardiner. He does. He just looks like a kid playing football still. So there's a shot that like maybe that's why people don't give him as much respect as he deserves. I ended up going with we had Travis Kelsey came off the board after that brand and Aubrey pick. I went with Xavier worthy a little post hype sleeper. Is it post post hype? Post hype. He's a very yes. Yeah. Because the hype last year. The hype was last year. You stole that out of my that's what I've been saying the last two weeks post hype sleeper. Oh, it's weird. I mean, you've been listening to what you've been saying. So that's cool. That's a thing. Is that. No, I'm not saying anything anymore. I don't know anymore. I don't know. There was Travis Hunter. There we go. And then Casey Concepcion also Travis Hunter gets auto draft auto draft. That's why good. That's what you get. This is why you don't auto draft my friends. He's too busy putting merch into the mail because they are doing serious. Now couple guys are looking at going here JCM. I thought about it that last turn. He goes here with the second last pick in round 10 and then coming around the other side. Same person's act takes Casey Concepcion.

44:21Another guy was looking at so a new Daniel do that. Daniel puts his money where his mouth is and takes Jalen McMillan. Oh my God. I love Jalen McMillan. I don't. Here's the thing. If Jalen McMillan pans out, I will actually feel bad because I think it will come at the expense of Chris. Yes. Oh, Chris got it. Oh, or a mecca book. But like ideally in my mind, it's it's him becoming the number two wide receiver because Chris Godwin just doesn't have what he did before. Yes. And sometimes it's like, yeah, if you're fading Godwin, you naturally would be in on McMillan or maybe you're Ted Hersky, whatever, whatever it might be. Very much like you're out on CMC. So you should be thinking, okay, well, if I'm out in him, that probably means he got hurt, which means Caleb Lyle and Black guy that I need to draft. Yep. It all is part of the puzzle. Mike's looking at my cue for later on in the draft. No big deal. We had a hair of current or former packers go after Jalen McMillan. Jalen read first to Jaden read, excuse me, to Eric Moody. And then Romeo Dobbs, I took at pick five of the 11th round. Um, I think that I'll probably draft Romeo Dobbs forever more meaning like until he's not

45:28playing in the NFL. And I think on every single location, it'll be on my bench. You think so? I just feel like he's the like, he is a classic fantasy bench wide receiver. Like we're never going to be hyping him up enough. Nope. You're like, oh, yeah, Romeo Dobbs should be a top 30 wide receiver. But he's good enough that you're like, did like, you know, like week 12, like all those buys are heading like Romeo Dobbs, like number two, patch wide receiver got $17 million per year. Like he might go for like seven for 68 that week, right? Mm hmm. That sounds great. Yeah. He's like fantasy points on in like wide receiver 54. And then like, let's say AJ Brown just out for the season. You'll be like, all right, we'll move him up to like wide receiver 47. Like, it's just, you feel like he's just in this like perfect bench player. Yeah. I do. But there's no ceiling there. I don't. He is a, the better is seem to think there is one. I was going to say he's the best wide receiver to the Drake May will have played with in his short career. I would say that's fair. Because I mean, Stefan Diggs was the one last year, right? So starting a formula, we're doing how it takes later on this week and I was starting to formulate some thoughts over the weekend. I tell you what, Drake Bay is an interesting one because his week one matchup is obviously

46:29very tough against the Seahawks who he struggled. And he did struggle like during the playoffs against real defenses. But depending on how you feel about some of the defenses there after, there's a kind of tasty stretch there for Drake May, which is, all right, at Seattle, home to Pittsburgh, at Jacksonville, at Buffalo. I think Pittsburgh and Jacksonville will be pretty good defensively. But then at Buffalo, home to the Raiders, home to the Jets, at the Bears, at the Dolphins, all those pretty good. That's four nice matchups. If my comparisons is back, that home to Green Bay, a little bit tougher, but then home to the Lions, like there's some opportunities there for Drake May to really feast. Yeah. Not excited about that. I was supposed to go to a Lions game in New England really a couple of years ago. Oh, and then you got sick and I hosted fantasy football now. Oh, you're placed right. And then the Lions lost like 27 to three. And I'm so glad I did not go to that football game. Wait, hold on. Wasn't that Dan Campbell's first years ahead? Yes. It was like, you got me tickets as a gift. You were a really nice friend.

47:29And then you asked, I think you got sick. I think I got, I think this was in the pandemic. That's, yeah, you do. That's what I'm saying. And next thing you know, it's like the team gets humiliated. Yes. And then they go on this run to end his first season. And it's like, all right, all right. They needed that that way that loss right there was the humiliation they needed to push them into the Lions. They became today. I remember talking to some buddies around the organization at the end of that year. And they were like, dude, like, just watch out. Like our our coach is unbelievable. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, yeah, they finished strong, but like still the Lions. Well, also like they like they finished strong, but they were what is like 07 and 1. Yeah, they weren't. But the laws wasn't good. And they're just wait because Dan Campbell is the truth. And Dan Campbell is the truth. It seems like it seems like it. All right, quick recap of what we had. Sorry about that little trip down memory lane there. Rest of the 11th round, I took Jalen McMillan, Jaden Reed, Romeo Dobbs, Rashid Shahi to our girl Liz Lose. He's been getting some steam as that number two wide receiver there in Seattle, Zach

48:31Sharbinate to produce a Presley. Tank Bigsby, Debo Samuel, Woody Marks and Mark Andrews come off the board and Jordan Tyson last pick. Yeah, I think that was me. I was at the turn here and again, I'm shooting for some ceiling at this point in the draft. And I took two guys that I usually don't pick because they go earlier. Jordan Tyson obviously was placed on I.R. He's going to miss at least four games, but might not be much longer than that. I feel like this is good value, especially in the 12 team league where we're starting three receivers and a flex. So I'll gladly throw them in. I arm pick up, pick up someone off waivers. And then Chris Rodriguez, again, I've been kind of anti, but going into 12th round for a guy that could be the leader in terms of carries and goal line work for a very good Jags offense was too, too good to pass up, frankly, at this point in the draft. By the way, still no Stafford, still no my homes. And Tyler Schuck just went. So this guys are plummeting. I was going to say that. Say that. The idea that Tyler Schuck came off the board in the 12th before either of those two

49:33quarterbacks. Obviously, we know that Matthew Stafford finished his QB two last year as a non-Russian quarterback for him to actually repeat that is going to be unbelievably difficult. Well, we've seen that he has that ceiling and the offensive circumstances are very similar. Defense is a lot better. So he might not have to throw quite as much. But you know, and then Patrick, my home's still there as well. We know he doesn't have any upside, right? So that's a good. Yeah. I just let him feel no. He was on the clock. That was all. I'm taking a bad Matthew Stafford by the way. Oh, no upside. Garbit. No, that's, I mean, that's great value. Right. I took Joe Bro early, but just like, you know, I could have in hindsight taken Nick's or Purdy and waited even longer, but honestly with what's available at all the other positions, we're now at the point where it's the ADP. It doesn't matter. No, ADP doesn't. A huge cluster of players. I'm not, I don't regret anything at this point. This is the, this is the part of the draft. I'm glad you said that Mike, where ADP shouldn't matter. You should have identified. Not should, I don't want to make it sound aggressive, but you should identify going into

50:35the tail end of drafts, guys that you are in on. I want to take dark throws at these handful of people because I like the situation. You've built a narrative. Hey, if this happens, this guy could be, you know, massively outperformer he's being drafted. I'm with you, Mike. I try not to get caught up on ADP in the 12th round of a 12 team draft. Really agree. Yep. Just, just grab the guys. You want K-Shon Booty comes off the board here to Eric Moody. I'm going to go with my backup running back, both in real life and now in fantasy football. I say, Patechekko, if anything happens to you, Jimmy Gibbs. What was the, who's the guy they sell the sailors? Jacob sailors looked sick in that third preseason game. Dan Campbell had a question, had a comment that was like, yeah, we're comfortable with him as RB two because I do believe that Patechekko is still compromised with that knee injury, right? Yes, he is. But you're built, this is your backup. So it's probably not that big. Yeah, they kept a lot of running backs too. That felt like I read that quote. I was kind of just like, he wasn't going to be like, no, we don't like our guy. Like, you know, it was supporting your players. Yes, but they did keep him on the 53 and Valky as well. Yep.

51:35They also brought in Karim Hunt for a little bit of a tryout. I don't think he signed with the team, but like they were clearly kicking the tires on a couple of guys here. No, not fully healthy. Yes, exactly. Sure. So yeah. All right. I'm back on the flag after I took Patechekko, Brian Robinson, Jr. the Texans, Cameron Dicker and Mike Washington off the board. I like that booty pick. Just almost like K-Shahn booty pick. That was just me. I was, I was talking about your team, but then I switched to talking about my job. ude there Hey, mom's off the board. Tank-del I don't know if we're going to see them for quite awhile. Yes. He was trending the right way, but he's at least out for four games. I don't know if we're going to see him. They keep saying, Я give one thing that they have been very consistent with is like, we are not rushing. Tank-del back. Yeah. And they have some options there. You know, horse they do. Yeah. They they're Hutchinson. I mean, he played a lot last year and he might be even there for if they win around with Jalen Noel booty and and nick gold collaboration, so they've allodized me if Hutchinson's the to the beginning. Yeah. thinking maybe yeah, I think I did this and I made it bad for everyone. I called him

52:36great pick there by Kaelin Black by team Moody. I called him Jalen Noel. I think it I'm pretty sure field you told me it's Jalen Noel. I said Noel because of the Christmas thing in my head. I just cannot see the word. And I think yes, exactly. I do think it is Jalen Noel. I they have a lot of wide receivers now. Jalen Neychan. Sorry, I'll do that a hundred times. That was good. That was a good joke. Field it. Field one with a defense field grabbed the sea hawks here in the third. Get my to bite. I'm trying and trying and trying again. I'm typing Jalen Noel pronunciation. So let's look at your lineup. It is. Yeah. My line. Okay, here we go. What do you got so far in your squad? All right. So keep in mind that I had the fifth overall pick. Yep. Jonathan Taylor, Ashton Gentie, my two starting running backs. No, my three wide receivers. George Pickens, Parker Washington, Chris Godwin. My quarterback is Joe Burrow. My tight end is Tyler Warren. Lucky Irving, my current flex obviously subject to change right now. My bench has RJ Harvey. So I've got four. I think

53:40at three and a half usable running backs. Romeo dobs, Matthew Stafford with the sea hawks defense and Brandon Aubrey as my kicker. I'm going to spoil it right now. I'll be drafting three wide receivers with my final three bench spots. I just think that at this point, like the, the potential dark throws at wide receiver far outshine any of the running backs are far, far outshine agreed. Is J K Dobbins the half a running back just because he's five seven? Mine was RJ Harvies. I know you said you have three and a half of running back. Right. Yes. Half is in like I'm not actually confident that I can't even got it. That's the half. We have three running backs. You don't really have one, right? You know, it's interesting. The Browns have three quarterbacks and one on injured reserves right now. Does that mean they don't have any quarterbacks? The Browns did put Dylan Gabriel on injured reserves that I miss something that you guys seem get hurt during the last game. I think the rapport was he had a back injury. He was battling through and he's been getting the team that whole time. That's why then they decided that he had a roster gymnastics injury. That's what it was. That's what it was. That's what it was. It's really interesting. I did not know

54:40that. I was there. That one caught me by surprise yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I think that's what it was. Wow. 13th round other than when I took Patrick Mahomes is Dart throw alley because I started Cameron Dicker and Mike Washington Jr. I took patty Mahomes. Yeah. Super star quarterback. You got a first name basis. Yeah. You and I are. Well, you know, we work on it. Then Kaelin Black, C Hawke's defense, Jacobi Lane, Chris Bell, Adden I Mitchell. This is Denzel Boston, Keaton Mitchell. This is a big time. I mean, and then Mike goes and then we have Jalen Nailer. And now Mike is on the clock for back to back picks. This is part of being in a 12 team draft as we do, especially here at ESPN with the way our game is set up. Yep. We do a lot of 10 team drafts. Yeah. Adding those extra two teams. That means that's 24 more players from the player pool that comes off the board. Yep. And you definitely see it here in these rounds before you get to your kicker and defense unless you feel jades in which you've already drafted your kicker. No big deal. But then again, I'm not competing with anybody. That's true. That's true. Mike's still on the clock. Mike can't multitask when he drafts. He drafts. So he's locked in right now.

55:43He took Dallas go there. Yeah. He felt really far. And I wanted to go maybe more upside there. But at the same time, I just I can't pass on a guy that's probably going to be a mid to back end tight in one and a 12 team league with one of my last picks of the draft. I can't believe how far you fell. There's a little bit of concern where there was at least an April when this team drafted a potential tight end to take over knowing that this last year of Dallas Goddard's contract doesn't feel like they were in that same situation where were that worried about it right now for 2026. He is no one is a bust at this point for sure. But he's away. I know you're going. Yes. He's he's always I would guess healthy scratch week one Johnny month is there to right Craig Alcatera's on IR as well. So they're a little beat up a tight and I wouldn't be surprised if they look at some depth options there. We're in a lot of that today on waivers. But I don't think stowers is anywhere close to being an impact player. By the way, I did look this up the most recent post on X from Jalen know is for people who don't know yet. My last name is pronounced like know had

56:44this question a lot lately. Jalen know I love that. I mean, no, no, yeah. But Mike didn't trust us. So he had to go to Twitter. That's where all of the accurate information. I was just I was just well. There was still some uncertainty there. So I was just I love that. How about we recap 13th. I mean, the 14th round here right now. My God. Braille and Allen first pick of the 14th round. Then Brenton Strange, Trey Tucker, Keenan Allen, Keenan Allen, unfortunately, dealing with an off the field issue right now as well. Something to keep an eye on. Yeah, Keenan Allen was being just that he was arrested on on Sunday morning. Yes, for driving charges. Yeah, that's under the influence of good. Yeah, nope. Yeah, that might take a while to sort that out. I don't even know if it'll happen this year. He might be retired by the time this sorts itself out. But certainly he'll be you would imagine would be suspended. But again, that may not happen this season. Other players were still waiting on Keenan Allen would be one Rashad Bateman, Pukinakua, amongst the players that have had off field charges that are still being vetted by the league for potential punishment. Yep. I'm going to go with my favorite tight end left on the board right now here. Hey, it's Ferguson. That's my brain on that last pick was do I go got

57:49dirt or Ferguson. But I think my hope is that Ferguson will be as good as Goddard. So I'm like, why don't I just find out at that point. Maybe Ferguson ceiling is a little higher. But I don't know if that's true. Goddard was I know the touchdowns are going to come back to earth, but he's still going to handle 20% of the targets in a good equals offense. So what is with like what is with the Goddard? He like I feel like it's gone too far at this point. I think it's probably I can't believe how exciting. Right. Yeah, that's it. He's just one of them playing picks. But I feel like at some point this year, I'll either start him or trade him to a team that's struggling at tight end when he's like sitting there at tight end seven or seven. That's fine. I don't think the hate is about Dallas Goddard himself. I think there is concern that Jalen hurts passing passing efficiency not great loses AJ Brown. You now have six guys. You're going to replace AJ Brown with with all the people they added in that offense. I think more it's the idea of a passing game, a passing attack that is led by hurts more than it is like Dallas Goddard isn't good. We've seen Dallas Goddard. I guess a really good tight end.

58:51I see the Nico Collins of tight ends. Maybe it'll hop 12 and fantasy points bringing a tight end. Seven consecutive seasons has Dallas Goddard. He always misses a couple of games like Nico Collins. Just when he's active, he's super useful in fantasy. So we're down to the ninja. Yeah, here we are. Nady Gritty Field. You're going with a couple of wide receivers. They'll you told us. Yeah. So I've really around targets. Devon Valey, Jawan Jennings, and then my last one will see Jawan Jennings who he's going to be the wide receiver three at worst in Minnesota. That's you will want to eat again. There, obviously, Kyle Murray. We're trying to get him back. We're trying to get Justin Jefferson back on track. That's our primary focus. Like I will. If that's what it takes, if Jawan Jennings has zero catches this year, but Justin Jefferson has 500, I'll be a happy man. Me too. 500 catches. It might be a little bit. That would be a good one, my friends. All right. Yeah. This round is basically defenses and kickers for what it's worth. Not a lot to be able to go through. Daniel Jones came off at the first pick of the 15th round. Rams Broncos Ravens, Jawan Jennings, Steelers, Eagles, Jags, Jason Myers, and the Patriots come off the board,

59:54almost wrapping up the 15th round here. We got Ryan and Mike Clay still left on the clock. Mike, do you just need to kick her in a defense? Is that what you're at? Sure do. Okay. Yeah. It's going to make this nice and nice and simple here. Yeah. You don't have to worry about who fell. Who do I think I'm maybe still getting good value on? It's just the best kicker, best defense available on the board. Yeah. Final round. Should we start at the here's going to go through our teams while we're getting through the final round? Oh, this is not a bad idea. Actually, if Mike picks both of his here, we can just start with his team because he'll do that. Yeah. I'm going to be a good week one matchup against Arizona. And then I will take a kicker. Oh, man. Look, the highest kicker is Fair Baron. So I have to take him, but Harrison Mevis sitting there as well. So I got I'm going to have to use up all the time, guys. There you. I need to think this. No, I picked I picked Fair Baron. So I'm set. My team is done. All right. Let's start at the top then Michael Leicester Clay Jr. Your squad for this year's fantasy folk chili. It is not the top of it is now on the screen. Okay. So I'm going by

1:00:56committee. A quarterback will play the matchups Brock. Pertie and Bo Nix are my option. So what Pertie's playing the Rams and week one. Right? Yeah. So I might go against him and go with Nick's. I was the chiefs. And then I'd probably go next and we won. See kind of play the matchups. Kind of stream running back. Stair My Love and Breeze Hall. Why do you see her? Seedy Lam and then we get some upside youngsters here. Carnal Tate. Marvin Harrison. Got Colson Loveland at tight end. Jalen Warren is in the flex. And then on the bench, Alec Pierce, Jordan Tyson. He's going right to I. R. It's a free up bench. Take somebody up. Yep. Chris Rod. Regas. Dallas. Go there. Braille and Alan. Braille and Alan. Usually I will take a different insurance back from who I have. I thought this was a unique situation where I have Breeze Hall. And if there's a setback and he needs a week or two, then I have Braille and Alan ready to go. I don't want to take a chance there. So I did take Braille and Alan. I don't know if I'll keep him on the roster long term. But for now, he's going to help me and he'll be starter. If hall is out week one, there you go. Moving along here. How about you, Felix? My team. As

1:02:00follows, we'll go quarterback to the last spot on the bench. Joe Burrows, my QB with Jonathan Taylor and Ashren Gentie to work courses as my RB one and two George Paykins Parker Washington and Chris Godwin, my three starting wide receivers need Parker Washington to meet the hype need Chris Godwin to find the fountain of youth. Tyler Warren and then my flex currently is Bucky Irving that could be adjusted with my bench being consisting of being made up of RJ Harvey, Romeo Dobbs, Matthew Stafford as my quarterback lottery ticket. I've got Joe Burrow to really need him. DeWon Bailey, Jawan Jennings, Caleb Douglas. Those are kind of my dart throws at wide receiver. Would love if one of those panned out Douglas was my final pick with the Seahawks in Brandon Aubrey. So I've got defense one and kicker one. Love that. Wow. Wow. Okay. Thank you. Or you know, I look at your attention to that. What's that? Oh, take your one defense. I know. I don't care. I'm looking at I'm looking at the actual. I got to be in my show grade. I'm not going to go. All right. Oh, yeah. There it is. Let's see. I got to I got to be as well. You know what it's interesting. I have to find this out now that we're using like, I don't

1:03:02know how these are formulated if it's using the ranks or the projection. So I need to look at that. But I look at Daniel's lineup. I will say this so. The auto draft team got an A because it just followed the board and didn't get to get to get to the first pick. I just want to say this is about your team really quick. Your wide receiver two and three are two guys that feel like they're on the opposite side of the spectrum in terms of like Parker Washington is the exciting guy you want to reach for the breakout player. There's a journey. But everyone's once a piece of him and then Chris Godwin's a guy. It's like I he's older now and fading and all in what's anything. So totally. I love this. This is ordered though in teams of like the highest strength B to the lowest strength B, right? That's the way that it's done. So I had the highest strength B squad on the on our draft, which is not normally thing that Mike Clay does for me. Normally I'm a seed draft. So I'm excited about this. I'm going to tell you guys my copy. The more you copy my work, the more your teams are going to be better. I hear you. I hear you, Michael. Here's my squad. I want to start at the top. Jaden Daniels as my QB one. I actually also ended up taking

1:04:03Patrick Mahomes as my QB two just because he was on the board. Let's see if we can capture lightning in a bottle a second time. Travis H. Ann, Basel Tutten and Jadari and Price are my top three running backs. My wide receivers are Pukinakua, AJ Brown, Wondale Robinson. My tight end is Sal and LaPorta, my bench. It's full of some upside dart throws. Jordan Addison. We've seen him do some things, although I'm kind of with field. I just want to see him get Justin Jefferson involved. Yeah. But I would, you know, I would like Jordan Addison. We've seen him do as a former number one pick in this league. Xavier Worthy, another dart throw. Hoping that Patrick Mahomes can reestablish a connection with him. Jalen McMillan, you guys have heard me talk about him all off season long. Isaiah Pacheco as an insurance back in case anything happens to Jameer Gibbs and Terrence Ferguson as my second tight end because Sam LaPorta has been dealing with some injury issues. The last little bit, last couple of seasons of his career. So I just wanted to have a guy already on my bench. I did get Broncos and Chase McLaughlin. Cool. All right. Last all these. Let's look at Eric Moody's. Why not shout out to everybody. Eric Moody follow him in chat. Always at Eric and Moody. We love all

1:05:08already. Man. He does. He does. Eric Moody Jackson Dart, Javante Williams, Quinshaw Judkins with Jamar Chase, Chris Olave, Terry McCluren, Travis Kelsey at the tight end spot, took Jonathan Brooks as the flex. Another really good running back here on his bench. Kenny Gainwell, which is Kobe Myers, Jayne Reed, K-Shon Booty, Kaelin Black, Baker Mayfield as his QB2. The idea that Baker Mayfield is his QB2 at the end of drafts. Another reason why you can wait in the quarterback spot. Plus the Ravens defense and Eddie Piniero. Like him. So Eric Moody is projected to finish second in the leagues. This is actually great for content here. The projected standings are Eric Moody. I'm sorry. Trophy smack away the first pick. Then Moody. Then me, then Daniel, Christina, Mike, Quintin, Zach, Losa, Tenthous Tyler. You love that. Ryan one of our producers and producer Dave are Dave. Dave is ready for your punishment. Those things always finish exactly exactly how they play out.

1:06:09I'm already settled. That's right. Oh, man. Hey, very exciting to be able to do this. We are so much closer to draft season being here. And this wasn't a mock. This was a real draft. We do, in fact, have a mock here at ESPN as well later today. One o'clock. If you were a sicko, we just want more drafts. We got it coming your way. We'll be back tomorrow with even more fun stuff here on fantasy focus for Mike Clay. You got to feel jates. My name is Daniel Dobb. Don't forget to love each other. Be kind to yourself and be careful with your pinkies. They're very small. Top this. We love you guys. We'll see you later. It's Tyson right. I are. I'm gonna get that weight from the legs that are going to forget.