It's a Coup! - Rookies Outside Round 1

doing really well. It's it's weird not having charged on the show. Well, where is Charch today? I know you podcasted with him last week and something something happens. Something he came down with something. It's a medical issue. He has spontaneous dental hydroplosion. Oh no, it's a disease that makes your teeth turn into liquid and then dripped down your throat. That I think he should probably take the week off and get checked out, especially as a radio guy. Yeah,

I mean, toothless Charch. Not not quite what we want. Wondering how many fans will will get that reference. Last week on the show, you and Chart went over the

first round. Uh. Skill position players fantasy players picked. We did, we broke it down, and now we've had we've had a week to kind of settle down and take a look at everything that happened, and we're gonna we're gonna take a look at everybody who was drafted in rounds two through seven of the NFL Draft, maybe mix in a few of the undrafted free agents that we're we're interesting, but we're gonna go position by position. We're gonna start

with a quarterback position. Uh, the next quarterback after Kenny Pickett off the board was kind of a surprise. Desmond Ritter goes to Atlanta at pick seventy four in the third round. Only a surprise to me because Malik Willis is the whole town guy and was still on the board. So what do you think of Ritter in Atlanta? I do I like Ritter? Big six eleven guy, strong arm quarterback, really cool, calm, collected type guy. He's cool, No, just just in the pocket, outside the pocket. Arguably one of

the most NFL ready coming in. Yeah, um so I really like that landing spot. I don't know that Mariotta is their long term answer. I think that we could even see ridd Or find find his way into that lineup sooner than later, just just because he's not coming in as a complete project where other quarterbacks are. He's coming in as as a guy who might be able

to take the reins. And one of the things I heard kind of as a theme throughout the draft is most of these teams that were quarterback needy didn't feel like they wanted to take one in the first round because that speeds up your rebuild clock. As a coaching staff, you're like, oh, now we gotta go now, we gotta now, we gotta put a good product on the field and a team that you know he isn't in a rebuild processes.

Tennessee took Mallek Willis later in the third round. Yeah, and teams don't seem to care as much as that about that fifth year option anymore. We're seeing those not be picked up at a very high rate. Nowadays. It's coming to a hefty price tag those fifth year options. So yeah, yeah, Malik Willis, Yeah, out of Liberty, which they routinely said was a very basic, simple offense that he ran. And maybe that's why that's why he dropped a little bit, a little bit more of a project.

But you know, big arm, good runner um a few question marks, but he lands in a Tennessee landing spot where he's going to be behind Tannehill, probably for a year, maybe too. I don't know, he's got two years left on that contract. Yeah, Maliko have a spot to uh you know, hopefully learned from Tannehill if he's willing. It doesn't sound like it, although it did sound like the Tennessee coaching staff was willing to kind of use Malik

Willis as kind of a gadget quarterback. They're going to get him on the field for plays and use him for it wouldn't be tas Hill, which any any If anything, it kind of torpedoes some of the value of Ryan Tannehill if if we know that Malik Willis might be on the field. Were a few snaps here and there. Ryan Dannah had seven rushing touchdowns last year, right, the best rushing quarterback. He is a good rushing quarterback, like he's He's good at least good at the goal line

running the ball. So I don't know how much it torpedoes it. I I don't know that either of these guys are guys who want to be looking at in re draft leagues. Maybe maybe super flex as you're like third fourth quarterback, or if you're going that deep uh dynasty. You know, there's there's something I like about both it. I think you could make the case that you should have rid or above Willis. At this point, the third of the third round quarterbacks that was drafted probably has

the best chance of starting right out of camp. That's Matt Corral, quarterback out of Mississippi, who goes to the Carolina Panthers pick. Yeah, Matt Coral is a Coral. Yeah, Okay, so I thought it was okay Corral, but you know, let's let's just go with it either way. But I've always said Coral um Yeah, Yeah, it is most likely spot that he could beat out Donald. Like Donald looked pretty bad a lot the times he was healthy and playing last year. It's it's a depth chart. He can

ascend on um Man. He does have weapons too, He's got some weapons. Yeah, there's definitely weapons there with McCaffrey more Robby Anderson still believe being this year's Davis Mills, even though Davis Mills got in, you know, because Deshaun Watson didn't play, But being this year's Davis Mills the third rounder. They can ascend um and take a starting job and and do decently be a you know, take a chance on me type quarterback on occasions. I could

see that. For for Matt you think that he's definitely going to get some starts this year one way or another, whether or not he's the starter in Week one, I believe that he's going to get some starts as this season. Yeah, if you don't have a franchise quarterback or a quarterback plane at an m VP level like Alex Smith was when they drafted Patrick Mahomes, if you don't have one of those, it's hard to imagine a team floundering not getting there. You know, their rookie quarterback in there to

at least see what they got. There were a couple other quarterbacks drafted. They're not all super fantasy relevant. But Sam Howell in the fifth round or is it ho Well, no, it's how out of North Carolina. He goes to the Washington Commanders, which I'm having trouble like remembering. Yeah, he's a guy that can do a lot of deep throwing. He's he's not not huge, he is athletic, brings some

scrambling ability. Um, I think this that we're only talking about this one because we both don't really think there's much in Carson Wentz. I know, I know that you feel very burned by Carson's actually didn't have statistically as bad of a season, but the mistakes he made were big mistakes at at opportune times. For the defense. I just felt going back to Frank Rich who we had that great year with and having the best stuffensive line

he's ever had. I thought he would be I thought most of his problems were being sacked and shell shocks so much in Philly, and now I think he might just be broken. That could very well be. And uh, Sam Howell and believe Taylor Heineke is still on that depth chart in Washington's going through these lightning speed match Well, that's what we do. We want to get all of the information to the listeners of Fantasy Football Weekly as quickly as possible, and by the way, join the Fantasy

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thirty six and forty one. We'll start with Bruce Hall, who goes to the New York Jets. Who I mean the first four picks of the New York Jets four picks in in the first thirty six and they all look like absolute steals. Bruce Hall suddenly become super interesting. Does this spell death for Michael Carter? I don't think complete death. I think the NFL has gotten to this point and we saw it last year with the seventeen game schedule where multiple they want most teams want multiple

backs involved. There's I think the bell cow back is really going by the wayside. Like we we used to do a bell call bell cow segment in August, and I feel like that's gonna be like four backs. It's it's really getting down there. Uh Breese Hall is a guy who can be like a three down foundational type, you know, bell cow back. But they got Michael Carter who can play, and they have they have you know,

pass catching backs in that rotation. Uh. I feel like eventually Bruce Hall is going to take over the role. We're talking about like a five eleven two d seventeen pound like sub four or four guy who can catch passes like everything. And and you look at his production. Uh At Iowa stayed it just he screams a guy that can take a full workload. But they've talked they want to one to punch and that's that's got to

be scary unless there's an injury. I think I think he's still a viable candidate in that late third, around the corner into the fourth round. He could be your RB one. He's he's if he's the RB two, that's that's a wonderful spot. Do you think that Bruce Hall follows a similar trajectory to what Jonathan Taylor did in his rookie year, where he wasn't quite featured. He wasn't quite featured, and then by the end of the year it kind of showed and and and he became the

feature back in the Colts offense. The problem is, I like, I think Michael Carter is a better and more complete back that you saw you saw him, not that Bruce Hall, than than Marlon Macron Hines, you know. So I think it's gonna be a little tougher to fight that office, especially if Nick Sierrano wants wants to have that one to punch. Yeah. Another guy who has a legitimate shot

of carving out a huge role is Kenneth Walker. He goes to the Seattle Seahawks, who are sorry Robert se I was thinking, yeah, yeah, But Walker goes to the Seahawks where he's only got Rashad Penny in front of him. Um. I think that this is a very interesting landing spot for Walker because Penny's obviously had that injury history. He's only flashed those like four or five weeks in his entire career, and Seattle is a spot where they do bell cow their backs. They do when it's when they

have one that they feel confident in. I love the I love this spot because there's so much talk pretty draft about Kenneth Walker. Can he catch passes? He caught like nineteen balls in his three years at Michigan State or whatever, seventeen or nineteen something like that, nine under

twenty passes. Anyway, Uh, he went to a spot where they throw to their ruddy backs like thirteen percent of the time, like Drew lock in his full season, through to the running backs like thirteen, like forty nine completions to running backs for the full year, like not much. He went to the spot where he's not going to have to catch passes. So, um, we're not We're not sure if that with that Nick and Drake Carson is ever going to play again. I mean he might, but

we he he might not play again. I've kind of written off Chris Carson. I have a little bit too. Penny did look really good at that end of the year. But this is this is about as perfect a landing spot as you can get for Kenneth Walker or ken Walker apologies, he wants to be called Ken ken Walker sounds like my lawyer, Ken Walker. Nice to meet. Uh. Let's talk about Dalvin Cook's little brother. That's James Cook who ends up in Buffalo, and this is an interesting

landing spot. Buffalo does cycle their backs a lot, but I think this pushes Zack Moss maybe off the roster possibly. And it's Devin Singletary and James Cook who are the two headed monster in Buffalo. And James Cook comes in as like very clearly we're talking a Grand Canyon size gap,

the best pass catcher, better pass catcher than his brother Dalvin. Um. This is a really really good landing spot for James Cook because they kept they kept trying to make things like Matt Brea happen, you know, as a pass catching option trying to happen. Yeah, they were looking for something, and I think that they decided at the end of the year Devin Singletary was just their best option. And he was and he was decently put up some good

fantasy days. But James James Cook is just a little more I guess I would say versatile, just because of the pass catching and he's a guy that you know, makes you man when he gets the ball in his hands. I can see them being a rotation though they're probably going to be a rotation. And Buffalo is a team that I think down the stretch last year figured out that their bread was buttered by having the ball in

Josh Allen's hands on every play. Um, he was running the ball a lot more, he was passing the ball significantly more. I think that that bodes well for James Cook. Is the past catching back, somebody who gets just a high and go out on the flat. He's He's going to be an interesting play. Where do you think James

Cook is drafted in in in July August? Boy, So, I I just did my first I did a mock draft with the CBS guys like first like on Tuesday are the CBS is first draft past uh, the NFL draft, first mock draft, and I believe he went somewhere in the ninth to tenth round right now, right around where you're grabbing your r V three's and fours. I can see a little hype moving him up if if there's any you know, positive and people, people love those pass catching backs PPR leagues. So I can I can see

a slight bump, but I feel like that's a fair spot. Ok. Once once you've got your starting running backs and wide receivers and you're looking for those high upside bench guys, a pass catching running back in a high volume offenses range kind of in there. I have no problems with people, you know, reaching around for one. That's right. We are big fans of the reach around here on Fantasy Football Weekly. Uh. Let's move on to the third round where Chad Rashad White,

another pass catcher. He was taken by Tampa. Uh. Interesting landing spot here though, since Geo Bernard is still on the roster, he's kind of a pass catching back. Leon been one of the better pass catching backs in the last two years. Yeah, And the thing is, Leonard Fournette signed a three year deal like it's it wasn't just a one year like he signed a one year deal when he came over to the box to be with Brady, but he signed three year deal this like a three year,

twenty one million dollar deal. That that's a little rougher for me with UH. With as far as loving Rashad White as an option here, and Tom Brady is a guy who seems to need to trust his pass catchers, Like we've seen it a lot, and I think he's going to have more trust in what he passed with for net last. This is a depth player. This is I don't even know that it's a great redraft play, but it's it's a dynasty play for the for the long term. I see. Tyrian Davis Price is another third

round back drafted by the San Francisco forty Niners. They do this every year. I love the ego tiing and just Tie Davis Price. Yes, I want to talk to talk about Game of Thrones. Yeah, I like it. Uh. Oh and it is written out on this like he was drafted, okay, Tie Davis Price, Yes, Uh, he went to San Francisco. He's in that rotation, you know, like they use a lot of backs. They lost Mos Dirt to Miami to go be with Mike McGregor down there. Um,

Mike McDaniel, excuse me. That's the second time I've gotten a coach name wrong on this show. We should take a breakout for the running backs. We probably when he said Mike Mike, Mike McDaniel, I'm glad you didn't say Mike mcgruber or something like that. Your hope is that, you know, he gets to be part of that rotation. Like, the only problem is Shanahan. When Elijah Mitchell was healthy,

he was getting touches. You know, if he continues with that, there's not much room for Tie Davis Price, the Trey Sermon truthers are Are they dead? I don't think so. I mean I can see people taking guys like Ti Davis Price and and Tray's Sermon and guys like that at the very very Jeff Wilson's coming back, so a foreheaded beast shannahanigans again in San Francisco. Elijah Mitchell is the only one I really want to invest any true capital in. Brian Robinson out of Alabama went to Washington.

It just ruins everything for me there because j D mckissic didn't leave. Antonio Gibson still there. What are we doing? Happened? River Boat Ron? You're like, I think Antonio Gibson, in his range of outcomes, could be the Christian McCaffrey of our offense. And they get they go steal j D McKissick back from Buffalo after he was about to sign with Buffalo, so they got their pass catcher. And we saw j D take a lot of pass catching work when healthy and then they get grab a bulldozing running

back like Brian Robinson. Is he gonna he's he gonna take that ten plus touchdowns each year? That Antonio Gibson his ad is he gonna be the goal line back? Yeah, did we lose Antonio Gibson's touchdowns and his pass catching too, you know the second and third back. That's awful. It's rob Antonio Gibson could see a major drop in drafts. And and if Brian Robinson doesn't take those goal line the goal line carries and whatnot, he could be Gibson

a cold should be a pretty decent value. Absolutely. In the fourth round, Damian Pierce was selected by the Houston Texans. And this is one of those guys. It's kind of under the radar right now because he was like the seventh running back off the board. This guy might have the chance to get the most carries and touches from the running back position in year one because he's really only going against Rex burkehead in Houston. Yeah that this

is a depth chart thing. Um, you know, he he went about where people you know thought he would go forthfit you know, early day three. Um, it's yeah, he's people like him. He's good, but it's really a depth chart thing, as you mentioned. Yeah, Um, another couple of depth chart guys that are kind of interesting. Zamir White goes to the Las Vegas Raiders who declined the fifth year option on Josh Jacobs. So maybe if Zamir White flashes a little bit, he might be the starting back

in Las Vegas in a year. Yeah. I think the thing was it's exactly with that that they did not pick up Josh Jacob's fifth year options. So Zamir White could you know, take over that role in a year. He's he's like a big bruisine downhill type runner, tough to bring down. Um. I could see that working well with an offense that's already spreading you out with Waller and Davante Adams and Hunter Renfrell and Derek Carr passing for four thousand yards thirty plus touchdowns. Um, Zamir White,

it's a decent fit there. I I really like that spot form a guy who but again in Redraft, I don't know, like they got Jacobs, they got Kenyan Drake that he's gonna have to work for it. He's gonna have to work for it. But you know, everybody likes the new guy, right, uh. Isaiah Spiller was drafted by the Los Angeles Chargers, and he was a guy that I was a little bit excited about going into draft season, maybe maybe finding a good landing spot and taking over

a bell cow role. But he's certainly behind Austin eck in the pack, the pecking order. I think that he does to get that Justin Jackson role though, yes, I think he I think this is one of those situations where they drafted back to soak up the Justin Jackson, Josh Kelly, like um, Larry Rountree, Larry Round treat like, suck up all of that, you know, and be this.

My only concern here is that like he's a bigger, you know back, He's got that three down skill set, so he can take over for Eckler as as a backup. But my worry is, once again, do they pull Eckler from goal lines. I hope they don't. Has been a beast down by the he was he never was before last year, but last year he was great. So I just hope that they don't do that. But Spiller is a nice is a nice complimentary back for that. Absolutely, we're only going to mention a couple more running backs

before we take a break. One of them is, uh Tyler, I think it's is it Algier? Okay, that one's that one's tough. I'm still learning all the pronunciations. It's gonna be new, you know. Now, this is a big boy. He's a big boy. He goes to Atlanta, that's the big deal. And and he offsets the the shift nous and craftiness of Cordarrel Patterson in Atlanta. He's definitely the thunder to c P eighty four is lightning. Yeah, that's

that's exactly what it is. And it's also we saw at times Cordell Patterson move away from that starting running back role and and they would uh they have Mike Davis who did that. Falcons have now released take over that role. Um. I think it's a spot where Algier could win the starting job at some point this season. And they moved Patterson to like a Deebo Samuel like weapon. Absolutely, they they'll move him around. I will say they did

pick up Damian Williams. Um So that's that's probably the only cog in that you know that possible, you know, lying for Algier to just take it over. I'm not worried about like Allison, we know what we had that But Damian Williams is gonna be an interesting cog in that. So I think it would be those two fighting for for the main role. But Algier you can get at the end of year draft and he might he might be one of those league winner types that he takes

the role by the end of the year. Kiren Williams joins the Rams running back depth chart, taking over for our Sony Michelle, who has has been jettisoned off. Yeah, which is crazy. Can It's not crazy, but he was really good. Sony Michelle was really good last year for a lot of parts, Like he was a very fantasy viable guy UM, a lot of RB two typed He had RB one games at the end of last year.

Darryl Henderson should be healthy. Cam Akers should be healthy, um, although neither looked that great at the end of last year. I'm not as worried about cam Akers as some people. But uh, it's it's a spot where you know, if there's another injury or if McVeigh wants to give either of those two guys rests, he could he could have a spot. It's more of a Dynasty player. I don't see it, but it's it's a guy to have on

your mind if injuries come up. McVeigh used to be a bell cow coach with Todd Gurley at the Helm, but since then he's he's spelled his running backs a lot. More injuries that have little into that. Uh, last guy, Will Mention goes to Kansas City Isaiah Pacheco, Pacheco learning learning the pronunciation. He's out of Rutgers, but he goes in the in the seventh round to Kansas City. Yeah. Just this is one of those things where he's going

to a really good spot. And if you hate c H and you hate Ronald Ronald Jones, um, this is a guy with absurd athletic metrics like a ridiculous speed burst score. Like he's a very athletic, top of the line guy in those respects and and fairly productive. Um. That's that's just one of those that he landed in just the right spot that you can you can pasibly make justify on a dynasty roster stashing him at Yeah,

you should definitely be stashing him at the end. Probably not redraft, You're not looking at grabbing him in re draft another one. Keep the name in mind if something happens. Yeah, well, I mean we'll be talking about him if something happens for sure. All right, let's take a quick break, Scott Um, Let's get a word from some of your favorite sponsors that are about to advertise with Fantasy Football Weekly, and we'll be back in just a second. Welcome back to

Fantasy Football Weekly. This is Matt Harrison at Explosive Output on Twitter along with Scott Fish at Scott Fish. Because he loves Ken Griffey Jr. So much is why it is, why I know it is why let's talk about um some of the guys. I just want to quickly brush over some of the tight ends because this was probably a the worst tight end draft we've seen in a

long time. No tight ends in the first round, only one in the second round, and it's Trey McBride, who ends up in Arizona where he's gonna be backing up Zach Ertz in Arizona. I don't first see a lot of huge production from any of these tight ends, but he was the first one taken. So do you think a Trey McBride, Yeah, it's I think I like Trey McBride a little bit more now that DeAndre Hopkins is suspended for six times the normally a backup to zach Ertz.

You're you're probably not gonna not feeling like you're gonna see much, but uh, there's a chance he gets some play. And I don't really like any of these tight ends, that the four tight ends that we might talk about here quickly for redraft. But Tray McBride just in a spot behind zach Ertz, who's getting older, not much left on the you know, probably not much left on the contract and whatnot. It might be a good spot down the line. They could put in decent draft capital on him.

Gelanni Woods joins the Colts opposite mo Ali Cox because Jack Doyle is no longer with the Colts. Woods could probably fill that second tight end roll, I think, but uh, if it's me, I probably would. If I'm going to draft a Colts tight end, which is not very likely, mo ali Cox is my guy. Uh, yeah, I agree,

moy Ali Cox should be your guy. But Jelaney Woods is a he's he's a little bit of a project, so you're not like this is more of a deep thing, but he is a hyper athletic like you saw him at the combine, just very fast, six ft seven, two fifty three pounds, Like he's a giant, fast, big target, big physical mismatch. Yeah, exactly, Um, it's it's it's definitely a deeper target. But I I love his athletic profile

and and that could you know pay off. Denver gets Greg dulcin in the third round, replacing Noah Fant, but Albert Oh, yes is probably the top tight end in Denver. Albert took a hit with this pick. Um. Greg Delcitch is Uh, Greg del Sitch is like a guy who can split coverages, he can go deep. Um, he's a He's a fast, big plane machine that can line up anywhere. Um. This is this was a spot that I loved Albert oh sitting there, and now you basically have two guys

that can do a lot of that stuff. You know. We we always say in Fantasy Football Weekly, rookie tight ends rarely ever do squat. So I think you give give the advantage to Albert Oh. Absolutely, absolutely, dul Sitch is a hitch in the Gidda up. Jeremy Ruckert from Ohio State goes to the Jets on the third round, Jets reloading at the tight end position. Yeah, and he and he stayed and he goes back home to New York where he you know, grew up on high school, etcetera.

So's he's staying in town. And mostly it's ay who else is the tight ends on the Jets? Like he has a line to c JA yea and Tyler comic, so lots lots lots of mouse defeat in front of him. Yeah, it's it's a spot where he could like he might be the most I was gonna I was gonna say he might be the most athletic, but cjo is almost pretty athletic. Yeah, it might take a little while for record, but he's a he's a guy to dynasty grab. All right,

let's move on to the wide receiver position. We're not going to talk about the top six wide receivers who went in the draft because you guys covered that last week and if you missed that show, go to your favorite podcast platform find the show from last week and talk about the first round picks. But the first wide receiver off the board in the second round was with the second pick in the second round. Uh, Green Bay trades with Minnesota moves up and gets North Dakota State's

Christian Watson. Uh. This one's very interesting as the depth chart seems very wide open for Watson to come in and maybe become Aaron rodgers favorite target if he's ready to deliver. I think I still think Lazard's going to be that guy for Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers has trust issues with this with everybody. If it really feels like he really needs to trust the guys he's throwing too, and you see it on his face when when players

that he doesn't make mistakes. Um, I I feel like this is this is going to be Aaron Rodgers trusted Robert Tannian, especially down near the goal line. He trusts Randall cop he trusts Alan Lazar did he uh? And he trusts Aaron Jones in the passing game. I think I think Kristin Watson has a line because he's like a six ft four pound good wide receiver that they grabbed. It could have been a first round pick, but really

they grabbed him a couple of picks into the second round. Um. But man, I think people are going to be a little higher on him just because of his placing on that wide receiver depth chart than they probably should. I will mention that Green Bay did draft to other wide receivers in this one. Romeo Dubes Dubs Dubbs. I actually

like him. Uh. He's out of Nevada and he went in the fourth round and then some more a toure in the seventh round near the end of the draft, so the Packers are trying to reload wide receiver us for a second. He used a big, contested catch, strong striding guy that can get deep. Um Actually, you know, like neither, I'm not. I wouldn't take him over Christian Watson because because he's not going to get that kind

of playtime and volume. But he's a really interesting stash, especially in Dynasty or the very last round of your um of of your redraft league, depending on how deep your rosters are. But I can see him making making some plays. A sneaky best ball guy maybe. Yeah. Yeah. The second wide receiver off the board in the second round was a little bit of a surprise for me. East uh, because there's a lot of guys later in this list that I like quite a bit better. Wan

Dale Robinson out of Kentucky. He goes to the Giants find stacked wide receiver room, find yourself someone who loves you as much as the Giants love drafting and getting in free agency smaller slot guys like, yeah, their entire team is for for so long. They're like, let's bring in Golden Tale, Let's bring U Sterling Shepherd, let's bring like everybody's got to be a you know, slock Eye. Um, yeah, yeah, that's what you're getting here. He's I I do like

wan Dale Robinson. He he is flashy, can get, he can make things happen. He's elusive. Um he's very small though, he's like five a one seventy something. I I'm struggling to remember his exact size. But this move says to me, though, they're really going to get rid of Cadarius Tony off this roster if they're spending wide receiver. And I don't think that they had any suitors for a trade here so many. I think Darius Tony's probably gone from New

York before the season begins. That'd be interesting. John Mechi goes to the Houston Texans. Um, I mean he's got Brandon Cooks and Nico Collins ahead of him, but he's usually she could be a guy who comes in and starts. Yeah, he's a guy that kind of fell behind, routinely fell behind the guys at Alabama because there's so much talent on Alabama and uh, coming out of high school, like he was one of the best high school Proscott prospects out there. Um before he changed his name. But yeah,

he changed his name to to John Matchi. It wasn't before I forgot was this still John? It's been It's been about four years. Uh uh since I've had I've flicked into that. Okay, an interesting play for for sure for Matchi in Houston because they're probably gonna be behind in a lot of games. They're probably gonna have to pass Brandon Cooks and Nico Collins. No no strangers to the injury report, So Metchie could be a guy that

we could be taking a chance on in October or November. Yeah, it's uh, where was I going with before I got off topic on his name? His name? Sorry I did that to you. The wheels are spinning still, You're like, I I can't handle it anymore. I need to know what John Matchi's name was. I think I was just gonna I think it was just gonna say that. Uh you know. It's it's a limited depth chart that he could he could he can get up to that second or third wide receiver roll there. Yeah. Um. At the

fiftie pick. In round two, the New England Patriots select Tai Kwon Thornton wide receiver out of Baylor. Because he was selected by the Patriots. Are you immediately writing him off? Yeah? I might just be wrong on his name change. I looked it up and I'm I am not finding it. And I thought I remembered he had a name change, but maybe not. Okay, maybe he's in the Witness Protection program or something along those. It's been scrubbed from the internet.

Someone is gonna tweet me and be like you're thinking of X, and I'm gonna be like, oh, yeah, it was that guy out Yeah nothing, Yeah, I mean it's it's a it's an okay landing spot because he he lands, he's gonna be fighting with Jacoby Myers and I guess DeVante Parker went healthy. Um, But no, I'm I'm not. I'm not thinking much about it except for long term. I'm more interested in the next guy the wide receiver factory, that is, the Pittsburgh Steeler selects George Pickens in the

middle of the second round. Yeah, Tekwon Thornton is a guy that I didn't even have in my like top fifteen wide receivers pre draft Scott. Every time I introduced the new guy, you go backwards. It just reminds me that in the first round the Patriots took a guy that most people thought would go on the third and this wider Seever, I'm like, man, all right, George Pickens. I do love though, so Pickens. He was a guy who, you know, had the personal red flags kind of a thing,

a little immature, gotten fights that kind of thing. But heck of a wide receiver for the George Bulldogs. And uh, Pickens figures to slot into the you know Juju Smith Schuster role behind Claypool and Deonte Johnson and maybe he could be more. Yeah. And before the before the a c L he was awesome, made crazy good plays. In after the a c L. Uh, he came back and he showed he still could do it. I love this

landing spot. Um, this is such a typical Pittsburgh thing all uh, you know Juju Smith Schuster and Mike Wallace and all these guys like like Deonte Johnson. This is the final year of his contract. Just keep drafting wider and let him go. Just keep bringing these talented wide receivers and just let not pay and let let them walk. I think they you know, they paid Antonio Brown, but that like or exception. It seems like, um no, I really like this spot because I'm big George Pickens fan.

He's he's like a four or four or five or four four four seven guys, a big six three one nine They can that dives at balls, makes contested catches, can like he can do a lot on the field. This was the middle of the wide receiver run in the second round, where Thornton went fifty Pickens went fifty two. At fifty three, Alec Pierce out of Cincinnati goes to the Indianapolis Colts, and he could slide into the wide receiver to spot behind Michael Pittman. A lot of people

are yeah, a lot of people are really interesting. He's another big body guy, that big, big six ft three guy that uh um, it's a good spot. You know you got Matt Ryan there, you got. You don't have a lot on the on the wide receiver depth chart, so like it is a spot where he could he could find his way to squeak. He is the second rounder. That's enough draft capital to get him, you know, a decent amount of you know, targets early on. Yeah, absolutely,

one of the more interesting picks. And the last wide receiver taken went just the next pick and round two. That was sky More going into Kansas City. There was some steam that sky More might might have been a late first round guy, and and some had mocked him to Kansas City already with picks twenty nine or thirty. But Kansas City gets him in fifty four. What do you think a sky More in this giant Kansas City,

weird depth chart of death. Yeah. So then mock I did on on Tuesday with the CBS guys and some industry guys. He was the first wide receiver off the board, which kind of shocked me. The first rookie wids, first rookie water I took. I took Burk's tray Lin Burks a few picks later, and then like Drake Lennon, like it was, it was in a row, but sky Moore went first, which I was really high on sky Moore going into into the draft. He slipped further than and

below wide receivers I didn't think he should. I believe I had sky More six or seventh on my wide receiver ranks going in the draft. He's a he's a good route runner. He's a slippery slippery a lot last week, but playmaking wide receiver quick feed. He's he's only like five nine or so, but he's like two pounds, you know, and he's he's like a four or four guy, so um fast. He's got to build to him even though

he's shorter. Yeah, the depth chart there though, We got me Cole Hardman returning, we have Juju Smith Schuster, they're presumably to play the slot. We have Marques Velde's scantling. That's there. They also took a flyer on Justin Ross and undrafted free agency. Uh so sky More is gonna have to really approve himself. But uh definitely, like you said with the last guy, the draft capital to get him on the field for something. All right, let's move

on to the third round. Chicago, you know, gets that help that they so richly deserve for Justin Field, and it's Villas Jones out of Tennessee. Villas Jones is twenty five years old. Yeah, that's that's old, like We're barely going to spend time on this. It's all me worth mentioning because they reached so far for him. Um, I I honestly did not know much about VELAs Jones before, but we we will mention him being taken here. Do

you wonder if he'll be more special teams? Like? It could be, But they don't have very many pass catchers on that Chicago offense right now. That's that's part of part of what it is is that, um, they don't have many pass catchers. And there's already been reports that he's, you know, like locked in with Justin Fields at camp like apparently they're they're they're really developing chemistry. And that's what we mentioned him because it's Darneld Mooney and like

it's probably gonna be him. Yeah, it could be. Um, although man, there's something about Justin Fields. I don't know if I trust him as a passer still, I just don't know if I trust him as a passer. Uh. Jalen Tolbert, he goes to the Dallas Cowboys in the middle of the third round. He's from South Alabama. He's kind of a gadgety guy. It looks like that maybe

feels that Cedric Wilson role. Yeah, but he's also a tall you know, a taller guy, bigger guy, and he played primarily outside even though he can do that, like he does go over the middle and whatnot. Um, I keep trying to talk to myself more and more into him because a lot of people are really respect are talking to themselves into him. So I guess I I feel like I want to go. If you have to

be talked into it, it's probably not a good sign. No, it's it's okay, Landy spot in that he's not good, Like he's not going to see the Seedee Lamber Michael Gallup coverage right, like absolutely Cedric Wilson is gone. So um, it's a double charts kind of clear. Yeah. And they do throw three wide receivers out there a lot, so like, there are lots of things to like about this. All right, very good. I think the last guy will mention in

this podcast that's gone quite long. Actually. Uh, David Bell of Perdue ends up in Cleveland in the middle of the third round. Uh. The interesting part about David Bell is Donovan People's jones has not flashed really at all. And Mark I disagree with you right there, Okay, I feel like he's been it's been few and far between. I think, yeah, I think it's the reverse. He hasn't been consistent. He MARII Cooper is really the main wide receiver on the roster. David Bell could work his way

into maybe being the second wide receiver on the Browns. Ye, he absolutely could, and you know he I I feel fairly if Deshaun Watson does does play, that's a pretty good situation to have a good pass it like that. Even and if Baker and Mayfield gets out of his own head, I don't think. I don't think Baker Mayfield plays another snap for the Browns ever again, even if Watson suspended. Even if Watson suspended, I think that he's like, you can trade me, or I'm going to hand the

ball off to the defense. I think I think they burned him so bad that I think that he will never play for Cleveland again, no matter what the pros on David Bell is he can line up everywhere and he's he's good after the catch. Yeah, um, which which is good for the Browns there. Um. I was going to mention. I was going to mention something on Jalen Tilbert and I'm doing it again. You're doing it again.

I was thinking about the Dallas depth chart and they they've had you know, injuries there and then there their receivers in this time. To be a top two option

in that offense is really really productive. Yeah, And Michael Gallup's coming back from a significant injury, so so that that that's another really nice line for Jalen Tuler to be drafted, you know, double digit rounds off your redraft leagues, Scott, is there any guy who went in the fourth round or later that You're like, Hey, I wanna I want to throw a dart on this guy. I want to make sure that I roster him on my deep dynasty league roster, maybe even throw a dart as a twentieth

round pick in a best ball. Well, I think I think a lot of these guys, um, I think a lot of these guys are going to be drafted in most dynasy leagues, depending on the depth of the dynasty leagues. But the one guy I would I would probably cape to a little bit is Khalil Shakier, who out of Boise State went to Buffalo. Um, it's it's pairing him with Josh Allen for the long term. Um, he's he's a guy that you know, he's probably gonna be behind Gabriel Davis and Stefon Diggs. But every once in while

of those third receivers have gotten in there. They they've they've you know, paired down that. Gabriel was the prime example because he was the fourth wide receiver and he scored four touchdowns against the Chiefs in in the playoffs. So, uh yeah, if if if a player gets hot and Buffalo they continue to feed him, Yeah, that's that's that's the one that's that's drafted you know, down that down the list a little further than that's. That's an interesting

spot for for a decent wide receiver. Alright, Scott, I think we did a good job covering uh, everything that Charge didn't do today because he's, uh, he's uh. I just got a text from him. It says he's still suffering from Cotard's delusion, which is a medical condition where you're convinced that you're dead or rotting or at least losing body parts. So I think Charge thinks his arm is about to fall off, might be might be from that that tooth ailment that he's he's working with I

get Better, Get Better Charge. I hope you're back next week to podcast with us on Fantasy Football Weekly. And you know, everybody should probably tweet at Paul Charchy and you know, just get well soon. Wishes for his his ailments. Make sure that he's he's cared for for for all these specific ailments that he's had. This. Yeah, absolutely, all right, Scott, anything you need to plug Scott fish Bowl. Uh, invites are going out mine. Yeah, I know. I think you had to put me in because I won one of

the qualified. I won my way and you weren't gonna put me in this year for sure. But Scott Fishbowl dot com if you want to apply for the Scott fish Bowl, there's still you know, a couple hundred maybe a thousand invites, but you haven't thrown out yet. Uh. And it's a blast. It's an absolute blast. Everybody goes nuts about it. It's usually the first week of July when the drafts are going on. Yeah, so absolutely awesome. Thanks for doing this, Scott, Yes, thank you. It's a

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