Fantasy values of first rounders

Football Weekly. We record on Fridays every week, and today we are well this hours removed from the end of the first round, and so we're really going to focus today on the first round. You don't know the second round, and we'll talk through all of the position players. Now. At some point in the future, I want to talk about some of the other some of the other elements that went into this draft, like offensive linemen who are gonna help some other players and some other stuff, Brian.

But for right now, let's let's keep this too. The the three or four quarterbacks that were taken, Let's talk about the six receivers that were taken in the one running back in the first round. Sound good? Definitely a lot more wide receivers than I thought. By the way to went in the first round. Yeah, I think the over under was five and a half, so hit the over not by a lot, but still I would have

went under glad I didn't. Well. The theory on under was there's so many good receivers you can wait to get one um. But I think at the end of the day, a lot of teams that had that had need. Like the Vikings are a good example in a lot of positions, just the best player there just was a receiver and it's just so much better than everybody else.

You just take justin Jefferson in that particular case. Let's start with you will do these in the order they were taken in and I think a bit of a surprise to have Oakland take the first wide receiver Henry Oh And by the way, before we get into the receivers, let me mention this, it's the first beautiful day in in Minnesota for this spring, and I'm outside. You're gonna hear random noises like crows chirping, chirp, they call a

crow cawing. You might hear a little road noise because I've got a road not too far from my house. You might hear somebody's like mowing their lawn already or something, so you may hear some stuff. But you know what, it's seventy degrees. It's the first beautiful day in Minnesota. I'm gonna be outside right now. I won't because I have a really annoying dog as the neighbor. Uh So, yeah, we'll mitigate that risk and I'll stay inside and stuff

for I'll be outside immediately afterwards, though, that could happen. Now. My dogs are the annoying dogs in the neighborhood. And our next door neighbor dog already came out and they had, you know, they had their dust up like they always do. That just happened. So I think we're in the clear with the dogs, but we'll find out. We begin at the wide receiver position. Henry Ruggs is the first guy taken. H he would have he wouldn't have been my choice.

Is the first one taken. But it's the Raiders, and they have the wrong history of coveting speed. Yeah, and and they got it in Ruggs Randy four to set than forty five eleven one nine. Uh. We compared him to Tyreek Hill that's probably the easiest comp and uh yeah, Oakland got themselfs a Tyreek killers now to Tyreek kills in that a f C West all of a sudden bunch of a bunch of awesome wide receivers in the NFCS.

We'll talk about more, but uh yeah, Ruggs. You know, he didn't post huge numbers at Alabama, but again he was competing with Jerry Judy for targets and one of the ween called the X factor, it's one of many X factors. We'll call it a Y factor. Huge hands on Henry Ruggs ten had one eight inches, that's seedee lamb for references nine and a quarter Jerry Judy nine and a half rugs huge hands, decent size, he's not afraid of contact based Like we said, fast as hell,

So I would have went ceedee lamb. I think we both agree that so at least didn't take Jerry Judy took Henry Ruggs about two d second. But uh, I don't r I I would have went lamb. But yeah, Ruggs, as he's gonna be an exciting player for I think I said Oakland, Las Vegas, Las Vegas us right, And you know, he walks into a just a miserable group of receivers. They brought in Nelson Aguilar, who will play

the slot. I believe probably and I'll have to battle Hunter Renfro But Tyroll Williams constantly hurt and did very little through the second half of the season. There's um

and Za Jones doesn't even count. You know, we'll find out if if Derek Car's get anything left in the tank, hopefully, does you know I think that I think I don't think he's valueless, and I think Henry Ruggs is pretty special and if you can find those spots where he's gonna hit the deep touchdown, which will happen, You'll have

to be smart about trying to pick your spots. Do you have a do you have an initial sense of where Henry Ruggs would would be ranked among wide receivers for you, I I want to say that he's going to be in the thirties. Yeah, we're talking. We're talking just from a redraft re draft standpoint. I do want to do want to do a whole future show on Dyning on the dynasty value of these kids, but that's that's later. Um. Yeah, definitely in the thirties. I mean,

he's a a wide receiver three at best. I feel like, at least for the first half of the season, he might you know, as he ramps up for the long end of the season, at least he's got Darren Waller to help keep defenses. Honest though, it's all I can say. There's that. I just think that whole passing offense just goes through him right away. You know, thirty might seem high to some people, but the other guys that you're going to find in the thirties are John Brown, Marquis Brown,

Marvin Jones. Yeah, I think Chark will be higher than that. So yeah, it could be um So that's you know, that's that to me, is is why I think Rugs will fit into that that sort of spot. All right, let's go to our next wide receiver, Denver. Next up? Uh,

I was Denver. I think was sweating that all three of those receivers could have been gone before their pick, because the Jets, the Raiders, and the Niners went thirteen and many people me had had them going receiver receiver receiver, and that would have left Denver, left Denver with the fourth best receiver, you know, and I had Justin Jefferson penciled in for Denver. Instead, Jerry Judy drops to them, what do you think of the Jerry Judy fit for Denver?

Immediate face palm. I was like, oh my god, Ceedee Lamb is there. He's silver platter for Denver. Who asked Courtland Sutton, who's like a Batman receiver? Right? So I guess they wanted a robin because that's what Jerry Judy is. They didn't want to Batman's. They could have had two bad I mean, we could be talking about the two best wide receiver, you know, the best wide receiver duo in the NFL, and Courtland Sutton and Ceedee Lamb next season possibly, But I don't know that. Jerry Judy, Jerry

Juice not bad. I mean, you know, you know you're making it sounds like dude was incredibly productive and he's, you know, arguably the most pro ready of any of the receivers in this class. Yes, but we had we, You and I and a lot of people had Lamb just basically in his own tier as the top receiver, and Ruggs was right there and Judy was right there

behind Rugs. Uh So I don't know, we should mention really quick when we said the Jets didn't take a receiver, big win for Brashott Perriman if you very true, very true, and even Jamison Cratter. They might take a Day two guy, Day three probably, but it's still they didn't take one of the elite guys. So that's a that's a big boon for Brashott Berriman. Uh shares out there. But back

to Judy Um again. You know, at Alabama with Henry Ruggs, he was, he was the one a option there, twenty four touchdowns across his last two seasons, but you know, six it just doesn't have standout size speed. He's just like he seems like a nice, complimentary receiver, which is what will be for Sutton. But they should have they should have swung for the fences and went with Lamb. But I don't know, but Judy will be a fine player. And Denver also was very exciting office. Yeah I think

so too. Yeah. The problem, I think the problem from a fantasy standpoint for Jerry Judy Courtland Sutton is is already an accomplished go to number one receiver on that team, and I don't know that Jerry gets up to being a one B. I think he remains the number two guy. And you've you've hint you've just hinted at this. I think he stays. I think he's robbin to Courtland Sutton's Batman. He might be who's the third in the Batman group? Right,

because no A Fantom might be robbin for all. Yeah, I think it is probably Deshaun Hamilton's flashed for a little bit, but it's you know, Kim Patrick. I mean, those guys aren't gonna threat. It's probably no A Fan who and and these guys a lot unlock some some real downfield speed in Courtland Sutton and Jerry Judy. So I think the underneath will open up for no Ah Fant a little bit as well. Um. I suspect right now Jerry Judy would be roughly in the fifties for me.

I think he's gonna be in the Emmanuel Sanders, Um, Anthony Miller, Sterling, Shepherd, Preston Muslims handcuffs For Courtland Sutton, it's like you kind of you kind of It's like the rare one of the rare wide receiver handcuffs scenarios. If you you draft Courtland Sutton. But what is this too for Drew Drew lock He's like borderline no quarterback one now and you know, top twelve quarterback, not the top overall quarterback. But yeah, it's it's exciting offense now

because it is still a nice compliment. It is like it's not a bad pick by any stretch. Now let's go to Seed Lamb, who was the next youever taken. I was stunned when Dallas took him. In fact, as I was doing the I was I was working with the Vikings and could have taken I'm sorry to cut you off before we go there, right, Atlanta, they should have taken Lamb. Well, they had two good receivers too.

You know, they have gaping need a cornerback. Still, he had the best players sitting there to take the best player. But anyway, I'm sorry, go ahead. So Dallas is on the clock and I'm I'm doing radio in the Twin Cities, and I say, man, look at you. Look at the needs that Dallas has, and they need cornerback, they need safety, they need defensive tackle, defensive end. The only thing I know for sure about this Dallas pick is it's not gonna be offense Bam, Seedee Lamb and I look like

an ass. So well, it didn't fully make up for the Randy Moss Gas many years ago and Dallas and a drafted Randy Moss passed on because of the character issue with character issues. But I think Jerry Jones is just like, you know what, this will make up for it somewhat, I guess. But they took the best player. That's Jerry Jerry Jones played fantasy football. Yeah he did. I mean he just went fantasy football on his team and he said, you know what, good luck stop score fifty.

You know, figure out a way to stop us. You know this is Ceedee Lamb is in time going to be the best receiver on this team. And they already had really good receivers Amari Cooper obviously, and then Michael Gallup just emerged in a huge way last year. And now with Ceedee Lamb, I think see Lamb's the best of the bunch. The problem is the problem is the good thing is how do you how do you double cover any of those guys? You can't, So they mean they're gonna be guys open all the time, ready for

big plays. The downside is there's just one ball to go. But Weena, how do you feel about Ceedee Lamb's fantasy prospects, especially in the short term, Probably the worst, worst landing spot for the short term when we think he'll still be a factor. But he's a man. I would be hard pressed to have to pick between he and Rugs

and Redraft. I might have to go with Rugs just because I feel will get more targets than my opportunity in Dallas is I've always you know, they've always wanted to kill the clock, run the ball, and they're they're in a soft division, so they might be able to do that more so than not. So yeah, I don't know. Lamb is he's in the mid to late thirties when he could have been a top twenty four option, you know, if he landed on the Jets perhaps or something like that.

But now he's on Dallas and uh, but what There's a lot of eye popping stats for Lamb, but again, never dropped a pass of twenty plus yards in his three seasons at Oklahoma, and we caught a lot of them. Yeah, second, a lot of second most broken tackles last year twenty six absolutely electric after he's the best receiver after the catch in this draft, the instinctiveness number one across college

football and yards run per route. Um, he wins all these contested catches, and just after after he catches the ball, you think, you think he's dead, that the defense has got him cornered. There's three men between him and the end zone. And the next thing you know, he's put some crazy freaking move on these dudes and he's running down the sideline untouched. What happened? How did you do this? An immediate impact player? UM? Just a very tricky landing spot, unfortunately.

And I think what that's going to mean for him and Cooper and Gallup is they're gonna have some down games where they're gonna have to catch games while the other guys are blowing up. And it's gonna add a lot of altility and for Gilly Kamari Cooper, who was already that way, you know, Cooper was already you know, big box score, little box score, big box score, little box score. I think it adds just that much more. UM, I guess variability to their potential output. Oh yeah, I

absolutely agree. But it's gotta I mean, Dac is already uh top five option for the most part of quarterback. But man, I think I like Dac more than Deshaun Watson now, even though I might have like Dak one of Deshaun Watson ever since they practically jettisoned DeAndre Hopkins from Houston. But a big boon for Dak little. Yeah, it's gonna be hard to peg which receiver is gonna go off on any Givens some day this year unfortunately won't be this year where the NFC East where the

Cowboys play, are playing the a f C West. We're not doing that this year. But when they do play the f C West, the NFC East, that is, think of Ceedee Lamb gets to face Oakland and Denver in the same season, and I'll show him what a huge mistake they made. They made not draft picking. Now, that's how we feel like this year, Ceedee Lamb, I believe I will have ranked in the forties. UM in the

same kind of ballpark with Jerry Judy and um. You know if his dynasty values is different than that, and we'll talk about that in a different show, but from a redraft standpoint, I believe he'll be in the forties as sort of a fourth tier guy who I expect to have again big games in small games. Uh, perhaps

roughly alternating this year. Let's let's take what Let's take a break, and then I want to turn my attention to the next wide receiver taken Jalen Reagor, and we'll also talk about Justin Jefferson and Brandon Ayuk as the remaining first round receivers. Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson with you. You're listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul charchi in and Brian Johnson. You can

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some advice things that he needs to know. There you go, very important. Let's get back to Quite the Ride for those guys. Quite the Ride. It's it really is. It's a story I've I've told Jason this several times. It really is. It's gonna be a movie someday. It's it's destined to be a movie. Just HB like a mini series I think would be better. HBO thing would be great. HBO generally does it, right. Um, all right, let's go to Philadelphia. They took the fourth receiver off the board,

Jalen Reagor. Most people had justin Jefferson going to Philadelphia. I did. Um, they end up with Reagor instead, And I think the reason they did it, Brian, was because they wanted to get a receiver who they felt more comfortable running outside. Jefferson primarily running from the slot last year, and I think Regor gives you the opportunity to get somebody that can play inside but also has proven to be a a solid producing receiver on the outside as well.

What are your thoughts about the fit for the Eagles? And Lord knows they needed help with the position, Holy cow, Yeah, they're probably not done drafting receivers, but yeah, we pegged Regor as a possible Day one guy, and he obviously turned out to be one h A little bit of a head scratching pick, though I din't think Philly would take Justin Jefferson as well. Reagor didn't have a lot of great numbers uh last year. Um, but that seems play with quack true freshman as well. So I don't know.

From a redraft standpoint, I I don't a bit of the drop sees I've heard in a case of the drop seas, But when it comes to opportunity and quarterback in prolific offense, I think he stands to had the best season of any one rookie wide receiver this year. If it's not Henry Ruggs, Yeah, it is it is possible. It's just because you have so much. A fantasy football

is about opportunity. This whole passing offense may end up going through Jalen Reagor sooner than later, and as soon as potentially this year, just because who else you gonna trust me? Look at look at they were making do with the likes of Greg Ward last year. They couldn't. They didn't have a healthy body to throw at that position. And God only knows what the status of all Sean Jeffrey is going to be going forward. And you know

you can't, You can't really trust him at all. So you just you get the feeling that you're marrying Jalen Reagor all the productivity you despite the terrible quarterbacking at TCU, the lead level of athleticism, his double move is ridiculous. He battles for every contested ball, And now we're gonna hook him up with potentially some pretty darn good quarterbacking and Carson Wentz and the upside here seems to be

awfully high. Yeah, I think, and right now I think the sharp play, I mean, people aren't sharp on Ragor yet. I think if you're if you're drafting right now in Best Ball or even just seasonal, people are still going to gravitate towards Cede, Ceedee, Lamb, Jerry Judy, Henry Ruggs. When you probably get Ragor one to three rounds later than those guys. And again he probably will outproduce all those all those guys in his rookie year based on

the expected volume he's gonna get. So yeah, ragor Uh sneaky play, you know, a sleeper as of right now in my mind, yeah, I think so too. I'm really interested in him. I think for redraft for this year, he'll be in the thirties. For me, again, I like him. I like him just the opportunity to me is just so good. So I think he's in the conver station with some of the guys who mentioned in the thirties before the Marvin Jones and Marquis Brown and John Brown

and Christian Kirk. I think he's in that. I think he's in that level of conversation for re draft of this coming season. Let's let's go to the next player taken. That's Justin Jefferson in Minnesota. Vikings Uh end up replacing Stefan Digs, a player who's pretty different than Diggs. Jefferson ran eighty percent of his place from the slot last year, but the year before that played much more outside. What was fascinating about Jefferson in the slot. So many of

the slot receivers are Cole Beasley. You're running eight yards slants and here comes the ball and let's see what you do after the catch. That's not the way l s you use jeff jeff Justin Jefferson at all. They'd be they were running full route trees out of the slot for him. Bombs forty yards downfield out of out of the slot repeatedly, and he's he's getting separation, and

when he's not, he's winning contested catches. He's got He's one of the best contested catch receivers in this league and insanely productive, top three in college football in receptions, yards, and touchdowns. That's Justin Jefferson. Yeah, and and not built like a stereotypical slot receiver either. It's six tous pounds. He's got sized, and he can win on the outside if they if his route tree gets extended to the outside and the pros. But again, he has no real weaknesses.

But we went over this couple of weeks ago with Jefferson. He might have the safest floor of all these day one wide receivers, but not the highest ceiling. He doesn't have that superstar potential, it seems. But he's going to be a very solid proro and he should contribute right away now that Stefon Diggs no longer a Viking. But I don't know. They kind of got to slot guys in Feeling and justin Jefferson now, so some the just

student adjustments are not to be made by somebody. But I think both these guys are good enough that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Yeah, they'll find ways to use both. In your right, Adam thelands is his best productivity does come from the slot, but he plays a lot outside as well. And I think they I think they will use they will use both in and outside, and sometimes I think they both. They'll both be inside. They'll they'll four receiver sets. Will they'll use Theeling and

Jefferson inside. I think there's another guy that feels like he's he's the thirties are getting are getting crowded here. He feels like he could be in the thirties For me, maybe he's a little closer to forty. But Justin Jefferson is going to be somebody that ends up getting a lot of playing time beginning Week one. And he's got a strong armed quarterback in Kirk Cousins that can get him the ball. Yeah. Yeah, He's gonna definitely be a

viable wide receiver three option. I would think this season, I'm gonna call him high forties. Uh, in the Darius Slayton level conversation right now for Justin Jefferson. In a different year, Justin Jefferson could have been the first wide receiver taken. The final receiver taken in the draft this year was San Francisco taking Brandon Ayuk, a Juco transfer who end it up being incredibly productive and and it's somebody that I think the steam on him just kept

growing and growing. He's explosive, he's got deep speed. He's also a return guy. For those in leagues that that give give extra points for returns, you'll get return yardage and potentially touchdowns. Is both a kick returner and a punder returner. What are your thoughts on Brandon Ayuku probably slots in as a day day one, game one starter. Yeah. I was a little surprised to see San Francisco move

up to draft him. But then I read today that Kyle Shannon Shanahan had him ranked as his number one wide receiver on his on his big board, with ceed Ceedee Lamb closely behind. So I'm like, wow, wow. And Kyle Shanahan is bread some pretty nice receivers over over his career, starting with you know, Josh Gordon, Julio Jones. The list goes on and on. Pierre Look, Deebo Samuel as a Brookie Davo Samuels. But but yeah, built similarly to Henry Ruggs, he's abou five eleven pounds, but he's

got the wingspan of Megatron. His wingspan is one. He's a freak of nature in that sense. So his catch radius is much bigger than it seems. So yeah, you hyeah, you know he's gonna arguably be the top wide receiver. Deebo Samuel's a mighty fine player, of course, George Kittles in tow in San Francisco, he's the top receiving option. But you because, uh, again, we're running out of numbers in the thirties, I think, but he's, uh, you can't argue if you put him, put him in that kind

of range. I know. It's just so many good receivers this year, Brian, It's crazy. There was only one running back taken in the first round, which was one more than many people expected. But I had mocked running back to the Chiefs. I had it as DeAndre Swift because I thought they might want a little more muscle at the position. But Clyde Edwards Hilaire is so much fun and he's so good. He is going to be Brian Westbrook for Andy Reid, just like Westbrook was with the Eagles.

He's if you if you think Maurice Jones Drew, you've got the right idea on Clyde Edwards. Hi layer and what a fascinating development this is for fantasy players. Yeah, I mean he's he's a top ten running back right now. I would have to say, uh in redraft, you know quick reaction. Um. I think he built like a house. He's got speed, he's got moves, he can catch the ball. He's obviously on the most prolific offense in the NFL.

Damian Williams is still going to factor in. But I know that's the flying, that's the fly in the ointment, isn't it it is? Man? Yeah, Andy Reid, he already said that, uh ce H is better than Brian Westbrook is most productive running back of all time. I don't know how he can really make that call. I think Brian Westbrook is number two in total yards all time. Oh yeah, because he was a return guy, got in the return yards and stuff. Yeah. Um, I top ten

might be aggressive. Let me throw some Clyde Edwards Hilaire based on what we right no, right now, which in my mind is that I think he's a sixty forty timeshare winner. I think he's on the sixty side of sixty, and maybe it's more like seventy. But in that offense, that's like seventy thirty at least on an average team. Right,

just get that piece of that juicy pie. So if it came down to him or let's say Kenyan Drake, Clyde Edwards Hilaire or Kenyan Drake, oh man, uh the offense is exciting enough, the prospects of it in Arizona. I'm probably lean Drake. Who's gonna be the Bell Cow situation? I think it's that that close. I'm giving you guys in that ten to twelve range Austin Ekeler I probably had on the heels of last season, and now that Gordon's I'd have to lean Ekeler. But these are they're

not easy decisions. They're definitely it's not a ten out of tend scenario. Right, take Eler every time, that's for sure. No Um, Josh Jacobs or Clyde Edwards, Hilaire Ppr, I gotta I might have to go Edwards Layer there. I don't I know Jacob's Uh. I was down on Jacob's last year. I was wrong, but I just now now the offense is outweighing the player when and Edwards A layer might be a better player than Johsh Jacobs there.

He probably is actually, so yeah, I love him. Let's just touch on Let's touch on him for just second, a little bit more for people that maybe I don't know how you couldn't have seen his game at at some point because LSU was so high profile. But the low center of gravity, powerful compact runner um, excellent short space footwork, and that ends up giving defenders a lot of bad angles on tackles that don't end up connecting very well, and he breaks a ton of them. He's

got amazing balance in a spin move that's devastating. He's a good, good receiver, maybe the best receiving back among the elite backs here in the in this draft. So there's just a ton to like for him altogether, and um, yeah a lot. I just I just think the only the only real knock on on Clyde Edwards Hilaire is at the combine run of four six, and people really expected that to be more like a four five, and so the slower combined time for some people was a

bit of a red flag. But obviously not Frandy Reid. You know, he seems like a guy though, who's not going to be weighed down by paths at all. I feel like he might run faster and paths, whereas other running backs, by the way, they should we wear helmets and paths in the combines when they running these drills. I don't understand. Yeah, I'm kind of with you. They never you know, they're they're never gonna track track shorts the play the game. So I'm kind of with you.

They're never playing in the speedos. But uh, but anyway, Yeah, Edwards Hilaire, Uh, he's the top rookie running back off the board's regardless where these other guys fall, though, I would have to say I think at all. I think it's too earlate to say that there's too many running backs. You know, Jonathan Taylor falls into the perfect spot, DeAndre Swift in the perfect spot, or j K. Dobbins in the perfect spot. We're gonna have another conversation and that'll

be by the way. That will be the next podcast. Next week's podcast will be the rest of the draft after week, after the first round, we'll touch on the key players who went afterwards. UH and speaking of coming up next after this break, we will talk about the quarterbacks, the four quarterbacks, what their prospects look like in the short term and long term. For Joe Burrow to Justin Herbert Jordan's Love. We'll talk through those guys in just moments.

It is Fantasy Football Weekly with Paul Charchying and Brian Johnson. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul charchy and Brian Johnson with you. We're breaking down the first round rookies. As we're recording, I'm in my backyard. It is the first beautiful day of spring in Minnesota. UH. We have one round to work with. Next week we'll break down rounds two and beyond. This week we're focusing on the players

and went on round one. We've already done the running backs, We've done the well running back singular, We've done six of the all six of the wide receivers. Now we turn our attention to the quarterbacks taken in this draft,

in the first round, beginning with Joe Burrow. I it's the obvious pick, as Joe Burrow comes off arguably the greatest passing season in the history of college football, and he has a lot of advantages that a lot of quarterbacks don't have, Brian in that he gains a pretty complete set of offensive players around him to help support him in a way that a lot of players that

go first overall don't have. And you know, for example, if Miami had had the first pick, which I think was the plan all along, they would they did not have all the weapons around Joe Burrow that the Bengals have got. You know, a j Green, John Ross, Tyler Boyd, Joe Mixon. These are these are quality players that can take a lot of heat off of him and really unlocked some playmaking ability. Yeah, it's definitely underrated. Arsenal in Cincinnati that that never got to play together last year.

A J Green the whole season and John John Ross got off that amazing start and then he practically missed the whole season. So yeah, all those guys can stay healthy. Burrow, it's got something to work with him. You know, he's got the he's got the size you want, six three two twenty. Underrated as a runner as well, he had almost four into at rushing yards at five rushing touchdowns. Yes year at l s U. So not the biggest arm, but it's incredibly accurate. Uh So, Yeah, Burrow will be

a spot starter in one quarterback leagues this year. In redraft leagues for sure. Yeah, he's not a top twelve option by by any means, but I think he'd be inside the top twenty almost just based on the fact that since he's going to be Remember it's fantasy football, it's not reality football, so the Bengals are usually chasing points in a fall in the air, so you gotta let so you know. And at this point of that

most for listeners already very familiar with Joe Burrow. Um, but need us to say the NFL game is not going to be too big for him. You look at you know, you look at what he did in big games, and he's just you know, there's nothing to suggest that he hasn't headed on a path of superstardom. So we love Joe Burrow. Just again, Redraft, and we'll have a dynasty, the whole separate dynasty. Show later, Redraft, where are you

looking at Joe Burrow? As and you mentioned you think he could be a cube, a spot start QB one as a rookie, right, yeah, definitely the right. So what are we talking about talking about? Quarterback? Is he in the Matthew Stafford, Tannehill, Drew Lock range. He's a little

behind those guys in my mind, definitely behind Lock. Now that they drafted Jerry Judy Burrows like the perfect quarterback to draft if you if you invest early in a Mahomes uh you know, or Lamar Jackson or a Doc Prescott even uh weight on Burrow, He's he's gonna go probably you know, around the twenty quarterback off the board, woman imagine, So I'll put him right around there, all right.

Next up, Miami was picked five. They held tight to pick five and sweating bullets, I believe, hoping that to a Tonguo Vio Lowa would fall to them, and he did, and so it all worked out for Miami. You know, the whole premise all last year was tanked for tah. They end up winning some games that they probably didn't intend to win, but they ended up winning games and they still got to us, So it turned out okay

for them. Um, I don't know, you know, I think the big question for fantasy owners is going to be is he a week one starter? Is he a Week nine starter? Or does he sit the whole season. That's gonna be one of the really difficult things, at least now as we're you know, several months away from the start of the start of the season. That's gonna be one of the big questions. On TOA is you know, how how long of a runway did they give Ryan

Fitzpatrick before they ease TWA into play. Yeah, well, to A probably wouldn't have been there if not for the hip injury for Miami for five, you have probably got the number one overall. He would or he would he could have been arguing the number one quarterback taken if he was you know, a full healthy season at Alabama. But that didn't happen, so we won't discuss that. But you know, I think two as sits for the majority of the season, because Fitzpatrick looked pretty good towards the

end of last year in Miami. Has got something cooking down in South Beach. And let's not forget that the Patriots are not really the Patriots anymore. And right it's wide open now, and Ryan Fitzpatrick could lead the Dolphins to an ANFC East Division title, even though I think Buffalo takes at home. But yeah, to Uh, this is I know we're not talking too many dynasty implications, but I'm not drafting to Uh in redraft. You're obviously taking

Burrow before two and redraft. But if I'm taking a quarterback in dynasty, I'll probably taken two over Burrow because I think long term injuries not a concern, at least the hip. You know, an injury like anyone else's, it's possible for any player. So I'm going to along to him over bur Oh, but definitely Burrow in the short term. Okay, that's yeah. Two. Back to your Patriots Dolphins as it is today, the Friday after Round one, in which the Patriots traded out of Round one and the Dolphins had

three first round picks. I would rather have the Dolphins roster than the Patriots, and I don't think it's very close. Yeah, I can't argue that I'd rather have the Patriots coach. I don't have to deal with them. I'd rather have that coach. Let's go to the third quarterback taken pick number six, the Chargers taking Justin Herbert. Um this despite offseason repeatedly saying Tyrod Taylor, we love Tyrod Taylor, We're ready to go to war with Tyrod Taylor all the time.

And then Tyrod Taylor same thing as Baker Mayfield when he was with the Browns, right Baker, They were doing the same thing with the Browns talking about Tyler Taylor could be their starter, and you know, they don't need to take a quarterback, and then they take a quarterback who presumably will end up starting sooner than later over

Tyrod Taylor. Do you think I think until they fall out of contention, which they probably will the Los Angeles Charterers, but I think Tyrod starts the season uh as the starter, basically rendering Herbert useless and redraft drafts. I'm not going to be target name and drafts by any means, I think he's a more of a project than to and definitely Burrow. So I'm not too excited about herbert prospects this season, and I don't know. I'm not sold on him long term either. I know we're not really going

there now, so I don't know. I have a ton of exciting things to say about Herbert. He's not really gonna factor in. You know, it'll be he'll be a much more interesting conversation when in our Dynasty podcast because long term, when he can work out some of the some of the issues that he's got, accuracy, you know, the fumbling, you know, it's all different conversation. I could see Herbert, just the arm is so good. I could see long term, we're Herbert's got a lot of value.

I just I'm not sure, um that it's gonna materialize this season. I think he starts sooner than you do. But that's you know, that's neither here nor there, because he's not he's probably not draftable. Last guy and he's totally undraftable and redraft is Jordan's love to the Green Bay Packers in a shocking and frankly baffling move. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, I don't know what to say.

There's nothing to say when it comes to redraft, right, He's not gonna play this year, He's not gonna play next He's not gonna play until Rogers gets hurt or just gets so piste off that he quits football. How about I was saying, traded to the Patriots. This is the only team that needs a quarterback that's left is

are the Patriots. And so that makes you know, that makes I've already seen a bunch of tweets from people talking about how the Patriots, the Patriots, with all the draft capital that they've got as we head into Friday's draft, could end up moving for Aaron Rodgers. It's not gonna happen, but it's still fun to talk about. It's not a huge window. It's it's a very small window. But there is a window open right now for the Packers to win the Super Bowl. But they pretty much just slammed

it shut. I mean, if they're gonna trade up, they trade up and you draft ceedee lamb Rogers. We're kidding right outside of Davante Adams and you know, yeah, perplexing move. Uh the Packard Look the Packers may have somebody like Tee Higgins or Laviska Chenald or Denzel Mims or Michael Pittman fall to them at the bottom of the second round. That's that's a real possibility for them. You can't fault the long term play. But I mean, but when you have no you can't the best the best you can

you can In this instance, I think you can. I mean, you know, Love has got a lot of work to do a lot now. Fortunately, I'll have a lot of time to get it straightened out. He'll have He's a matter of years to learn behind Aaron Rodgers. And if Aaron Rodgers gets bitchy about this, I'm gonna lose it because he was this guy to Brett Are. He can't that, he can't have an attitude about this at all. And

if he does, shame on him. I'll ever forget how piste Off Jordan loves girlfriend looked when she got the news they're going to Green Bay one. Yeah, she was so upset, exactly. She was like, Oh, I'm going to Los Angeles and Mike you you know, my boyfriend is gonna be a big star in l A and he's gonna be the Chargers quarterback or whatever. Now you're going to Green Bay to sit on the bench. I hope you enjoy Country Kitchen. For the tallest buildings are water towers.

Got it, Brian spent a lot of fun. The rest of the draft will be a ton of fun. Next week's show will break down the rest of the draft, not every single player like we did this time. She can't too many players, but the notable players that came out of rounds two through seven will be the next show. I believe it will be Matt Harrison's turn up to bat right. Sounds about it right. I think that sounds about right. We'll probably have Matt Harrison on the show

for that. Thanks Brian, great job, Thank you for listening. Fantasy Football Weekly. Back with you next week. Bye bye. Fantasy Football Weekly is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.