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And that's what I want. I'll get my mind out of the gun. Thank you. I appreciate that. Lots of great stuff. I'm speaking of the gutter. Lots of great stuff coming up in this show, and from the gutter, from the gutter, like the stinkhole. Oh no, the stinkhol What to do? Well, this is the gutters, this is the really is. We're gonna get there and stay there with the shock and the stinkhole is we believe Pick five,

We're going to tell you what to do. We think the first four picks are pretty obvious in most leagues, and the same four players are predominantly going in the first four picks. But what do you do with picks five through twelve. We'll tell you a little later in the show when we venture into the stinkhole and beyond. And you've been working on that radio voice. I was practiced on that a little bit. Well, identify the bell

cow runners around the league. We'll talk about the teams that have the most vacated targets, so there's some opportunities to find an up and coming player. And then perhaps the annual highlight of the preseason of Fantasy Football Weekly, the reach around. Yes, we will be providing a player upon whom you can reach a round on in every round of your draft. We used to do this at the live training Camp event, which unfortunately we're not doing

this year. But there's nothing better than doing reach arounds in front of That was absolutely true. Sometimes sometimes you gotta pay to see stuff like that. It was free. But first we do a quick zip around the NFL training camps preseason games and find out what you may have missed, what are the big stories for each team, Beginning with the Carolina Panthers. Matt practicing against the Ravens this week, and the offensive line is very messy for

the Panthers. Taylor Moten, who is the normal right tackle, getting reps at left tackle since Cameron Irving is out, and mixing and matching the old line is always just a really great sign for everybody. They also signed Markel Harrel, who was recently cut by the Raiders to the offensive line. There influx a little bit there. Bad offensive line anyway, and now reason to think, you know, it could potentially be the worst in the league. Let's go to the Raiders, right,

Let's go to Las Vegas. Sounds good to me, where Darren Waller has returned to practice. Hollylujah. That's that's pretty much the biggest news coming out of Las Vegas this past week. All right, I'll go to Green Bay, where I have several injury updates. After playing well last week, Jordan Loves shoulder injury is going to keep him out of this weekend's preseason game and maybe longer than that. Aaron Rodgers returned to practice after missing sometimes so good

news there. A j Dillon nursing a calf injury but should be back soon. And non injury news from the Packers. Robert Tounyon continuing to get rave reviews and he keeps inching up every week. I move him up as spot or two on my rankings. He could be sitting on a really nice season. Let's go to the Washington football team at UH seventh round. Rookie wide receiver Des Milne is drawing praise from Ron River and Camp, calling him

a great route runner with good size. Had a decent showing in the preseason opener, which included a nice punt return. You know, coaches love those guys who can chip in on special teams too. He's got a chance to be a third or fourth wide receiver there in Washington. All right, Brian, let's go to Buffalo. I am very excited about this, and you are as a well charged. I can only

imagine Zack Moss returned to practice. I'm glad and yes, and he's gonna be my RB one when I take down our Empire League this year fellas spanking Houston Texans. The Athletic reporters say that Philip Lindsay could lead the team and carries, and if you recall a couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that their first depth chart that they published had Philip Lindsay and mark ingram is co starters and were like, what, but that might actually be

the case. I noticed on Underdogs a DP this week that Lindsay is now one above David David Johnson, and I think that is appropriately so. And David David Johnson's looking like this is a real danger for him, and then Tyrod Taylor Peter should be headed for the team's Week one starter role. Let's head over to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Matt Antonio Brown got thrown out of practice after ripping off the helmet and punching Titans corner Chris

Jackson during joint practices. Fiery competitor, competitor or psycho, you be the judge. I think we already know Cleveland Browns Brian. We all know O b J in Cleveland, right, but we need to get to know d j P. Donovan People's Jones, who has been lighting up camp. He said, d j P d p J. I'll see if you guys, I knew I was gonna mess it up. D p J Donovan, Donovan Jones, People's People's Jones. Something j P and jelly donut donut donuts sounds. We'll work this out.

We'll work shop this off. D p J has looked great. Uh. Last year he was the twenty five wide receiver taken in one of the deepest rookie classes. Uh. He finished fourth in that class, though an average yards per route run showed some flashes late after oh b J went down. During weeks thirteen through fifteen, d p J posted the second most yard John throws twenty plus yards down field. He's gonna be the third wide receiver for the Browns.

Looking good. Indianapolis Star beat writer Jim I yellow after sniping me one pick before, I was going to take Paris Campbell, took Paris Campbell, and then after he took him told me that no receiver in camp has gotten more consistent separation then Paris Campbell. Good job, Jim. His speed has returned, as well as evidence by his long reception in the first preseason game. Uh. Remember in Campbell's one full game last year, he only got one because

that's how. That's how. Paris Campbell rolls six catches seventy one yards and he rushed for nine more yards. On top of that, He's a freakish athlete and a nice sleeper. That sounds like insider drafting from my yellow is that is that allowed to Uh? He just did it to me. The Detroit Lions matt uh Dan Campbell called himself an a hole after cutting long snapper Don Muhlbach on his

forty birthday. But in all serious Tyrrell Williams appears to be the top wide receiver on the depth chart as of now, and he's probably worth a late round flyer in most leagues. Let's go to the Jets. Zack Wilson and Corey Davis have been clicking as of late. Right now, Corey Davis is going off the board roughly around wide receiver fifty. Yeah, it seems a little late for a guy they just paid a lot of money too, and it's probably gonna get leaned on heavily by the rookie

quarterback in New Jersey. I keep talking about the Chief's offensive line partly because it was the team's biggest storyline in the off season, but also because it's constantly in flux. As it stands right now today, the five starters across the Chief's offensive line have combined zero NFL snaps as a member of the Chiefs. Three of them have zero snaps in their NFL careers. So there's Orlando Brown, who

was the left tackle. He was in Baltimore before. Left guard Joe Thuney was in New England before, but then after that, it's all disaster. Right now, You're starting center is Creed Humphrey, Your rookie, your right guardist Ray Smith. The rookie and sophomore right tackle Lucas Niang has never played an NFL snap. This bears watching. Much of our optimism for the Chiefs being better than last year has been built on that offensive line. Next up, the Seattle Seahawks.

Rookie wide receiver Dwyane Eskridge came off the pub earlier this week and Russell Wilson's helping him catch up. They've completed some early morning workouts and he's likely the third wide receiver on the depth chart behind metcalf Ande, Lockett, Okay, Brian Broncos, Melvin Gordon back in action uh. He has missed most of the preseason with a minor growing injury. UH. Javonte Williams kind of a little bit of a head start there. I think we all like him to win

that job in Denver. But Gordon is officially back in the mix, and that are running back competition. Xavier Jones has emerged as the second running back for the Rams, and he's likely to get work in the regular season as the second running back as well. He he got to start for the Rams in the first preseason game. He's known for his past catch and he caught three balls in that preseason game. And I think he's gonna

chip in through the air that way. And remember from a couple of shows ago, Sean McVeigh said that he wants to be careful about not over using Darryl Henderson, and so there's going to be some extra usage to be had here and right now it looks like it. Xavier Jones next up the Philadelphia Eagle. Yeah, Philly arrested almost everyone in their Thursday night preseason loss to the Patriots.

They lost thirty five nothing. So the lone bright spot was Davanta Smith getting constant, constant separation from the Pats defensive backs. Noted uh Jalen Hurts missed the game, went to the hospital with the stomach infection. He's gonna be out for a few days this week. Okay. Miami Dolphins Brian concerns that will be a running back by committee, concerns really for Miles gask and truths, like myself, a committee with Malcolm Brown and uh, sal sal Salvin, I

forgot it's for his name, Salvi. Um, I'm not to Malcolm Brown. Two carries inside the ten in the first preseason game, stuffed on both. I think they're more like goal line carries. I'm weathering the storm with Miles Gas. He will be the lead back for the Dolphins, but we might be looking at a committee. But Gaskin is still the favorite in my mind. And Malcolm Brown got a lot of usage that I didn't want to see. Yeah, but he did not do very well. Uh in those attempts.

Nobody ever wants to see Malcolm Brown. No, that's probably true, um Vikings. We've already detailed their offensive line woes and back to back shows, which should really be the big story here, and that you need to be tracking. But I'll also mention that Justin Jefferson returned to practice and there's basically no doubt he will be ready for the start of the season. Philadelphia Eagles Matt I already did Philly,

so I'm gonna do Dallas. Dallas Cowboys. Matt Zeke slimmed down this offseason in an effort to be more explosive than durable. And he was quoted earlier this week that he thinks that the Bell cow running back is dead and that the quality of his runs are more important than the quantity. So Zeke might just be reacting to Tony Pollard being a better back and saying, man, I gotta get these right ahead of the storyline a little bit.

Let's go to the Patriots. Yeah, the Patriots who just played the Eagles on Thursday night, and everyone looked great for New England getting Damien Harrison, Stevenson looked great again and now J J. Taylor running back that has also garnered some attention in the fantasy community. So maybe there's some there's some assets on the New England Patriots. But everyone's gonna look good against the Eagles this year. It's

a team that you'll be circling. Uh, Damien Harris should be going higher than he is just getting, you know, consistently, in back to back games, he has gotten the basically all of the meaningful rushing work with the first team offense. Rare Stevenson does not concern you though he looks. He does not concern me beating up third string defenses yet. But he does look very good, and I like that they brought him in and what was it maybe the

late second quarter for that touchdown run on Thursday night. Well, Harris was beating second string. Well, the Eagles are just eternally third string, but anyway the same, Okay. The Sades have a constantly influx set of receivers and let's just detail where they are in some updates Michael Thomas ahead of schedule per Sean Payton. Trey Kwon Smith returned to practice after missing time with an unspecified injury. He should

be the team's top receiver in the preseason opener. Marcus Callaway shined in last week's preseason game and he's drawn positive reviews in camp. He will be the other starter in week one. And just a quick quarterback updates as Taysom Hill and Jamis Winston battle here. Taysom Hill started last week's preseason game, looked inconsistent through three series. Jamis Winston came in for five series. I thought he looked

a little better and he had two touchdown drives. We do expect Winston to run the first team offense on Monday night and we'll know more. Then. Let's go to the New York Giants. Man, there's not a lot in Giants Land, but Austrian running back Sandral platz Gumer. Oh God, I love that name. Yeah. I had a forty eight yard run in the preseason game against the Jets last week, and I just wanted an opportunity to say Sandro platz Gumer twice in a show. And let's go to the Titans.

I meant to tell you before we started recording that the Titans have no important news coming in their camp right now, so nothing to talk about their The Steelers Chase Claypool suffered to minor ankle sprain and will miss some time. He is expected, though, to be available for Week one. Let's go to the Falcons. When Dolphins safety Eric Rowe keeps praise on Kyle Pitts, it's time to listen a little bit. He said of Pitts, he's long, he's strong, and he's about to get the friction on. No,

that's not really it. That was uh somebody else. Well that's partially true, though. Roe did say that he believed Pitts would cause problems for defenses this year. All right, and Cincinnati Bryan not a lot of news coming out of since he either, But that's kind of what you want right now. We don't want to hear anything bad about Joe Burrow or Joe Mixon, probably the most boomer bust offense and fantasy football from Burrow to mix in the Cincinnati Bengals. Our goal it set to see what happens.

Ever it as of right now, all is quiet on the Midwestern front. In San Francisco, Trey Lance looked inconsistent in his first NFL preseason game last week. He had that beautiful deep bomb that you probably saw the Trent SuField, but he also badly misfired and several other passes and got sacked four times. Meanwhile, Jimmy Garoppolo went three for three in his loan drive. Several starters did not play in that game, including Raheem Mostard, who, by the way,

being badly overlooked. I think in Fantasy League he's You're starting running back on a very good offense. Um, we'll get another look at the Niners on Sunday night and we'll learn a little bit more about Trey Lance into Jimmy Garoppolo. At the time Arizona Cardinals. Matt, did you say Austria Cardinals, Because I learned that Arizona has an Austrian player named Bernards I like it, whose nickname is

obviously Psycho. He's Dan Arnold's replacement at tight end, by the way, and uh, he'll probably be a practice squad player, but maybe he'll be better than Dan Arnold in Arizona. Maybe it's Psycho that they let Arnold walk next up to Jacksonville Aguars Bryan Jacksonville kind of reaffirming that James Robinson is their lead running back. And uh, I fear, and I know you like this comp charge. I told

you earlier in the offseason. Reggie Bush the Reggie Bush roll for Travis Etna Travis like we stick with the generally approved pronunciation of generally that's it, Okay, I wasn't

sure you were done. Baltimore Ravens have injuries on their offensive line Ben Cleveland and Kevin Zeitler, and injuries to their wide receiver Sammy Watkins or shod Bateman, Marquis Brown Um, all guys that are severe, severe enough that the Ravens may choose to actually sit Lamar Jackson in Saturday Nights preseason game and just not playing because of the offensive lining. He's got no receivers to throw too anyway, and honestly

that might actually make some sense. Let's go to the Chicago Bears, Matt Andy Dalton will get they start in Saturday Nights preseason game and get at least a quarter of a half. But that means when the second team's come of a half a quarter and a half. Got it. But when the second team's come in, it'll be justin fields going against Bill's quarterback, Sad Trombone Ski, or maybe it'll be Happy Trombone Ski because he's in a revenge game against the Bears in your CFS preseason. You have

a preseason revenge game. I think Mitchell true Whisky might have one. Maybe I saw Tarik Cohen had Um had tweeted anybody any any Bears fan who booze Sad Trombone Ski, you are weird and sad, which I thought was was pretty nice, Trombones. Our final team is the San Diego Chargers. Brian Donald Parham Stock is on the rise six ft eight pound tight end from short lived XFL fame. Seen a lot of time and two tight end sets with the Chargers lining up a lot in the slot on

the outside. You know, Mike Williams always gets hurt Keenan Allen doesn't have the cleanest injury history. Donald Parham, keep your eye on him. I would stash it if you got a empty spot in Dynasty leagues right now as well, it's fantasy draft season. If you've got a draft coming up, you can get my personal cheat sheet available for free at Guillotine leagues dot com. When we come back, we'll identify the bell cow running backs around the NFL, which guys are sure to get a lot of touches find

out when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. It's Fantasy Football Weekly. Thank you for listening. A bull Charchie and Guillotine Leagues dot com. Matt Harrison with me, Brian Johnson as well. Everybody wants to have bell cow backs because at the end of the day in fantasy opportunity is more important than talent. And Matt, I've asked you challenged, you always challenge me. I always challenge to identify the bell cow running back. Summer obvious, Alvin Cook and Derrick

Henry are bell cow running backs. But as you get deeper into this, there's some non obvious bell cows. And let's let's hear what you've come up with, Well, we're gonna cover all thirty two teams in this segment. Um, we're gonna divide them into four categories. There's the three bells category. That's a lot of it. That's actually like eight bells right there. About how that kind of hurt does hurt? Uh? They're projected for over three hundred touches

and there's little to no competition. That's thus the three bells three touches are the two bellsches. Two bells I have projected for over two d fifty touches with some competition. Okay, we call it two two because of the two bells whatever and one bell. They're still gonna get around two hundred touches. But there's lots of variants and there's competition. And then there's workhorses, which is a split backfield. But we think that they're going to get a little bit

more of the share. All right, I think I got it. So let's start with three bells. Charge. Oh gosh, it's almost knocked me over. I have six of them. We're not going to discuss them in great detail though, um, but it might be worth handcuffing their backups. That's Christian McCaffrey. His uh handcuff would be Cuba Hubbard, Dalvin Cook with Alexander Madison, Derrick Henry with Darrenton Evans, Alvin Kamara with

Latavious Murray. Then it gets a little interesting. My other two bell cows are Joe Mixon with Chris Evans or Soma J. P. Ryan as the backup, and Naji Harris. Yeah, I think that's probably gonna be accurate with Benny Snell I guess as the backup. The Steelers have generally gone with a bell cow running back mentality under Mike Tomlin. Now let's get to the two bell running backs. So there's more interesting stuff happening here. Okay, do you want

to give me two bells? Uh? Let's start with Ezekiel Elliott and then I'm going to talk about the red flags of each of these guys, whether or not three bells. Um. Ezekiel Elliott's got some diminishing touches in each of his last three years. Tony Pollard is good, the offensive line has gotten worse, and Dack's injury history is questionable at best. Although even Zeke doesn't quite believe in a thing called bell cows anymore. Uh, next guy Aaron Jones his red flags.

What if A J. Dillon is really that good and they can't keep him off the field anymore. Uh, Dylan showed flashes last year late in the season. He's kind of an interesting play. Yeah. The reason I'll differ with you here from a carry's standpoint, I agree with that, but I think those Jamal Williams receptions will go to Aaron Jones and that will keep his total touch total high. It could. Um, let's talk about Nick Chubb next from

Cleveland red Flags. Missed a month last season with an injury, and Kareem Hunt got paid and is a very capable one to punch. Uh. Jonathan Taylor is next his red flags. Frank Wright comes from a no bell cow philosophy. Correct, Marlon Mack returns and has been looking good, and Nihim Hines is all right last year too. Plus Carson Wentz and Quentin Nelson are both going to miss the start of the season. Next Austin Ekeler Red Flags. It starts

with his health. Uh. He's a pass catching machine, but he's never averaged more than eleven carries per game in a season. That's not yes. Uh, no backups though to scare you, although, well, you know, we really don't know what this new offense is going to look look like.

That's true Joe Lombardi offense. But you know, the hope is that it's going to be like Alvin Kamara, where there there's plenty of there's Latavius Murray's always always sprinkled in, right, but Calvin Kumara was still the focal point of that of the running backs, and we're gonna hope that that is the case here with absolutely um a guy that a lot of people probably consider a bell cow Kwon Barkley. Yeah, his red flags are he hasn't been healthy in two years.

His offensive line is one of the worst in the league. Jason Garrett, I mean, excuse me. Coach Garrett is his offensive coordinator and Daniel Jones doesn't seem good. Yeah, there's a lot of red flags there. There are a lot of red play and you think that could affect his total number of touches. They might be three and out all here. By the way, he has that Texas Twang Coach Garrett, he grew up like in New Jersey, you know, you know, eventually though he's acting very poorly, all right,

let's are there any other two bell cow runners? I get it looks like six more. Yeah. Antonio Gibson, his red flags not utilized very heavily in the passing game last year in favor of J. D. Mckissic Washington was strangely past heavy last year and should be a end with Stu Beard at the helm. But will it include a huge uptick for Gibby, We're not really sure. Uh. Clyde Edwards Hilaire red flags hasn't proven to be a consistent short yardage back and could get spelled in that

since uh and it his size. I just don't think it ever that part of his game ever comes together well, and his offense just might be too efficient. Patrick Mahomes is stealing his touches and touchdowns. H J K. Dobbins red flags Gus Edwards like Lamar Jackson, and he wasn't utilized enough in the passing game last year. David Montgomery he was kind of a bell Cow last year, but his red flags he was a product of having no

other runners on the depth chart last season. And Damian Williams is more than capable of handling the pass catching role and some possible goal line duties. Chris Carson red flags. Injury issues have caused him to miss time in each of the last three years, although not he hasn't had like the A c L. You know he has four a week at the injuries kind of a thing. Yeah, Darryl Henderson, he's the last one in the two bell

scenario here. I don't think the coaching staff trusts him to be a bell cow, or they probably wouldn't have used their top pick in on cam Akers. Xavier Jones has been turning heads in the passing game, and Sean McVeigh has been a hot hand guy since Todd Gurley left. So those are the red flags on Darryl Henderson. Let's move on to the one bell guys. These are guys who things that need to break exactly right for them to be a bell cow. Uh, there's seven of them.

DeAndre Swift is the first one his red flags. Jamal Williams might split carries or take at least a share. Jared Goff's not a great quarterback in the passing game, has very little that scares defenses, and Swift did miss three games with injury last year. Josh Jacobs red flag, Kenyan Drake stealing touches, especially near the goal line, and

the offensive line took a significant step backwards. Miles Sanders red flags that he missed four games last year with injury and was replaced in the passing game a lot by Boston Scott last year. Jordan Howard might be the goal line guy, and Kenneth Gainwell as a guy they seemed to really like in camp. Mike Davis his red flags. Are we sure that he's actually good? Yeah, I'm not with you on this. Well, you know, it's just I can't imagine he's not. Mike Davids is not a great runner.

He but he's an okay runner and there's nobody else on the team to carry a ball, so I think he will do better than one bell. Atlanta's line did take an off a step backwards with the loss of Alex mac but he doesn't really have stiff competition. Miles Gaskin red flags. As much as no one wants to hear it, Malcolm Brown will get work, so will Salvin Ahmed and head coach Brian Flores is from the Bill Belichick tree and has already hinted at the running back

by committee. Damien Harris red flags Bill Belichick, Sony Michelle, James White, Romandre Stevenson, and Cam Newton. That's five animes that are in his way of being a bell cow runner. And j J. Taylor. Now people love j J. Taylor. I'm still optimistic. I'm optimistic too. I got a lot of Damien Harris shares, but I'm still a little nervous.

Michael Carter, his red flag is he's a rookie. Their defense is putrid and got worse this week with injuries that should leave the negative game scripts and the Jets have been bad for a really long time since. But still he's the best runner they've had, maybe since Ladanian Tomlinson. Once again, I disagree. I just think there's nobody else to carry a ball there. They get an offensive line with back to back first round picks on it. I think I think he's going to be better than you do,

Michael Carter. I think Tevin Coleman is going to get a lot more touches than everybody wants if he stays healthy. Why not, he was good. I think we all agree that Tevin Coleman is not good. But their head coach came from San Francisco and Tevin Coleman came along the way with him like he's going to be there. Zack Moss last one Red Flags needs to stay healthy, but he's a better blocker, goal line back and receiver than

Devin Singletary. Finally, we go to the workhorses. We got you're already, Uh, there's six of these a split backfield, but we think they're gonna get slightly more than half and we need to zip through these six. They're gonna

be quick. Javonte Williams over Melvin Gordon, Raheem Mostart, and the Shannahannigans in San Francisco, which could include Trey Sermon and Wayne Gallman, maybe even Jeff Wilson, Travis e t n the rookie and Jacksonville should take over for James Robinson, but it might take him a month or so to get there. Chase Edmonds will split carries with James Conner unless Connor gets hurt. Ronald Jones and Leonard Fournett and Geo Bernard it will be possible to peg who the

Bucks top runner is in any given week. That's the worst scenario in the league. And last but not least, Houston stay away probably a good idea that might be the worst in the league. When we come back the Stinkhole. We know what the first four picks are like in most leagues, Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, Derrick Henry, Alvin Kamara.

But then what the stinkholes? Pick five? What to do with the stinkhole and beyond in the first round When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul charge In, Matt Harrison, Brian Johnson with you. If you haven't tried a guillotine league yet, we encourage you to give it a shot. Eighteen teams start the season, one for every week, no head to head, and at the end of every week, the low scoring team gets cut from the league and their entire roster goes to

the waiver wire, where pandemonium ensues. Even guys like Alvin Camara a whole draft worth of players, So it might go Alvin Kamara, and then maybe the second round was Patrick Mahomes, and the third round was I don't know, Keenan Allen, and the fourth round was Darryl Henderson, and they're all the waiver wire. It's tremendous strategies. You figure out how much to bid on those players as opposed to saving for later. And the best part is you don't have to be the best team. Just don't be

the worst team. If you cannot finish last, you can win your guillotine league. Last team standing wins at all last. That's right. That could be our motto for this. We believe pick five is this year's stink hole. If you will um where the first four picks are pretty universally Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, Derrick Henry, Alvin Kamara, and then after that all the remaining players feel like they have some blemish to them, one of which being thrown out

a running back. And a lot of our listeners just cannot conceptualize is the notion of not taking a running back. Have they never heard of? Do the opposite? They've never heard of the opposite. So we're here to give you advice on what to do with the stinkhole, the fifth pick. All the way through the rest of the first round. We think this is the order in which to take players, and we begin at pick number five, the stinkhole pick. You've got picked five, Those four runners are off the board.

What do you do you take? Travis Kelsey, you know who has regretted drafting Travis Kelsey. Nobody ever. You know what, though, I think that you said the exact same thing about Michael Thomas last year. Hey can happen? He has been tight in one for three straight years. In the past six years, Travis Kelsey has missed two games and they were both in week seventeens. And last year's tight end

one was also wide receiver three, yes, four at worst. Yeah, He's an elite player in every meaningful metric, depth of target, catch rate, drop rate, yards after catch, yards per game, any metric you want. Travis Kelsey is phenomenal. He's a beast in the red zone, garnering an average of of all of Kansas City's red zone targets over the last five years. That's amazing. And Patrick Mahomes is the most

talented quarterback to ever play the game. Last week, you guys may remember, in our pea cock off segment, I said Patrick Mahomes is going to set the league's all time passing record, single season passing record for both touchdowns and yardage in one season. And it's coming here, and nobody is going to get help more than Travis Kelsey At pick five of your first round, fir sting Cole. So let's go to the next spot. You've got picked six in the first round, Matt, who is the appropriate

person to take care? I think you'd take Davante Adams because what's not to like about Davanta Adams. If he's not your wide receiver one on your board, he's maybe number two. He's got the m v P of the league at quarterback, who's frankly piste off and playing for a chance to get away from Green Bay. And oh, by the way, Adams is also in a contract here, so he's motivated to get his big final pay day. Double digit touchdowns and four of his last five seasons,

including eighteen touchdowns in fourteen games last year. He him, along with Robert Tonyan are the red zone runners. They're the infrared zone runners. They get the ball through the air. It's it's it's absolutely amazing. And Davante Adams is a perfect pick at six. All right, at pick seven, Brian, who is the appropriate person to take the perfect person

to take it? Pick some it? It is another wide receiver in his name is Tyreek Hill and uh charge, I'm going to take this opportunity to recommend your premium cheat sheet on D eighteen leagues dot com, because it's going to give me all the information I need to make this pick at one oh seven. Uh, Tyreek Hill, who is wide receiver to last year wide receiver five the first half of the season wide receiver to the second half of the season, very consistent percent of his games.

He finished top twelve at wide receiver. That is very good. Of his games were outside of the top thirty. That's also a very good metric in that category. Very few dud games, and outside of Travis Kelsey, there's no one catching passes from Patrick Mahomes. I'm not worried about me Cole Hardman, or Byron Pringle or even Clyde Clyde Edwards a layer for that matter. It's it's all Kelsey and it's all Hill in the most dynamic offense in the NFL. So take Tyreek Killy won't be upset. Can I tell

you why I love having Tyreek Kill on my teams? No, Because when Patrick Mahomes takes that extra two steps on his drop back and he's launching a rocket deep down field and that ball is at its midway apex, you know who he's throwing too, and I'm already off the couch because it may be sixty yard bombed to Tyreek Hill and Randy Moss back in the day. It does, doesn't it. And it's fun. Tyreek Hill is so fun to have on your team. And that's why I love

to have him. And that's why, actually that's why he is my my top ranked wide receiver is because fantasy football is supposed to be fun. I want to have a bunch of players. I have fun with him. Next, Aaron Jones with the eight spot in the first round. Last year, he was running back five. Jamal Williams is gone now and we're taking him his running back five in the first round. A couple of shows ago, I explained out Jamal williams departure was gonna vault Aaron Jones

into elite fantasy territory through receptions. Already talked about that a little bit earlier in this show. Williams was good for forty ish targets per year that they got to go somewhere in a j Dillon can't catch so well, or at least they didn't target him. They cared targeted

three times all of last year. So I think Jones has the opportunity to get even better here, and the Packers have been almost perfectly judicious in their use of Aaron Jones, with enough touches to be an excellent fantasy producer, but not so many that he's an injury risk. Um. Yeah, Jones may lose some goal line carries to a J. Dillon, but not necessarily. Jones got ten carries inside the five yard line last year and he scored five times at

conversion rates very good inside the five yard line. So austome Aaron Jones very safe and he's got literally RB one upside to him. If a J. Dillon doesn't pan out, and they really need to lean on Aaron Jones, he could be the highest scoring running back in football. And we're gonna take him at pick number eight. Let's go to pick nine. Who's the perfect player to take matt Um Austin Ekeler? But I feel like Brian should be presenting the case here, but let's just go over it again.

Chargers offensive line, much improved, coaching, much improved justin air bear in year two. Eckler is healthy as far as we know, and as far as fantasy points per much, he's pretty much the top dog in the league. He has league winning upside if he gets the requisite workload. Yes, but as you elucidated earlier in the show, he's averaged eleven carries per game and that in his top season. Yes,

it is top season, right, eleven carries per game. Now he is work He does work a lot in the passing game, which he was the backup in those years. So though essentially though he was fast year. So you're saying eleven carries his best year. Melvin Gordon was there for twelve of the game. So that's what I'm saying. He wasn't the league guy like he is now he's the lead guy. Now, here's the league guy last year. Still what average? He played half the season? Still then

average better than eleven carries? All right, So that's the we believe that's the perfect, huge, huge upside. Yes, I just I just want parts of the Chargers offense that was picked nine. We're going through the stinkhole and beyond picks five through twelve in the first round, let's go to the perfect player for pick number ten. Ryan, Uh, this is the time to take Ezekiel Elliott who Uh, there's no sugarcoating. It has been a pretty bad player to have on your fantasy team the last couple of years.

But he looks primed for a bounce back. He's he's in shape. UH. Dak Prescott will be back. We think now he'll be back. Uh. And and most importantly, because it all starts in the trenches, the Cowboys offensive line should return to elite status after getting obliterated by injuries last season. Left tackle Tyrone Smith only played a hundred and fifty four snaps. He will be back right tackle, while Collins missed the entire season due to hip surgery. He will be back. Zack Martin still one of the

best right guards in the game. Left guard Connor Williams finished seventeenth overall in Pro Football Focus is grading. UH. The only real questions that is at center. But they do have a healthy competition there. So as long as Zeke stays healthy, the line stays healthy, Dak stays healthy. Uh, he'll pay off this one UH ten pick. Yes, when he Pollard is a concern, but h Zeke shouldn't fall any further than this. This is the perfect time to take him, all right. I like it at pick that

was picked number ten. At pick eleven, We've got Nick Chubb. Now, we can't get Chubb higher than this because he's not a workhorse back. You can't. I can't. Sorry, But on a different team, like team without Kareem Hunt, Chubb could be the first player taken right different universe, like if you had dropped into the Vikings right instead of Dalvin Cook and you have to run first. You know, workhorse mentality like Mike Zimmer has, Nick Chubb would be the

first player taken. Chubb's Pro Football Focus ranking over the last two years was running back nine and running back one. He's very good. Kevin Stefanski will always run the ball. Last year, Stefanski had the fourth highest run rate. The year before, as Minnesota's offensive coordinator, Kevin Stefanski had the fourth highest run rate, So we can safely say they're going to run the ball a lot. Chubb led all backs in broken tackle rate last year and finished with

a gaudy five point six yards per carry. We already know that Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt's presence doesn't really take a lot away from Chubb, but he can be very fantasy successful regardless of whether Hunt is in or not, and even when Hunt played Chubbs still touched the ball seventeen times per game. That's great, that's great, that's all you need. Profo Ball Focus ranks the Browns offensive line number one in the league and that provides some safety

for Nick Chubb as well. Some of those yards that you want him to get are going to come easily behind that offensive line. All right, let's go to our final player from the stink hole and beyond. You've got the last pick in round one? Who you got? But I hope I have the first pick in round two to well, yeah, it usually works that way. Um, I'm

gonna start with Jonathan Taylor. He was the best running back in the league in the month of December, and I happened to believe that the last full calendar month of the year that we've seen all players play was December. So was that a sign of things to come? Was it desperation on the Colts part trying to make the playoffs?

Either way, If Wentz and Quentin Nelson returned earlier than advertised, and all things are kind of pointing that they're kind of ahead of schedule, possibly maybe week two or week three, which would be really good. Jonathan Taylor is absolutely a steel because he was getting drafted at the one five in April, May and June in those super early drafts. So uh, he has that upside. Can he get the

bell cow touches though, that's the big question. We reviewed that a little bit in the last segment with Marlon Mack there and Niam Hins there. I I just had this conversation again referring to a friend of the show, Jim I Yellow from the Indianapolis Star, and asked him this very question about Jonathan Taylor earlier today, and he said Taylor is the clear number one, but he expected

a rotation of backs. He thought it would be less like December of last year and more like are less like December and more like September, October November where they had they mixed and matched some backs. Although Taylor clearly as more confidence from the coaching staff now than he did last September, but it took a while to get there, and he thinks you're gonna, you know, fantasy, nor was prepared to have some frustration there. It was a slow

start for Taylor displayed. Marlon Mack went down in week one to and we all thought Taylor was going to rock it. At that point, and it it didn't now among the players who were not chosen yet for our first round, as we went through the stinkhole and beyond the player that I would have had next, Antonio Gibson would have been the next guy up for me, because I love that whole offense to ascend in a significant

way with Ryan Fitzpatrick. I love the addition of Curtis Samuel, and in the second year of ever playing running back, Antonio Gibson's going to get better and he was already good. Not only was Gibson good at the stuff you figured he would have been good at last year as a re converted wide receiver. We knew he could sprint to the outside. We knew that he was gonna be good catching the ball after the catchule they didn't throw to him enough. But he turned into a good inside runner

as well. He was a tackle breaker. Things that he didn't know for sure Antonio Gibson could do, he did, and he was doing it against defenses that we're all playing right by the line of scrimmage because they couldn't pass more than ten yards downfield. Stu Beard's gonna open up that whole field for the Washington offense, and that's gonna make things a little bit easier for Antonio Gibson as well, So he would have been my next guy up.

I can make a case for Naji Harris as the next guy up to um Uh mentioned it in the Bell Cohouse segment last last segment. He's got the opportunity to get three touches this year, and does the wide receivers are good. The line and is a little scary, and Big Ben probably doesn't scare people nearly as much anymore. But we've seen Pittsburgh Steeler running backs be top twelve running backs consistently as long as they have talent. And I don't think anybody's disputing the talent of Naji Harris

right now. I'll dispute the talent on offensive line all day. But still, and I think it's important we always harp on people replaying last year. Well, Naji Harris doesn't have a last year for most fantasy fans, and that's where rookies are depressed a lot. If you look at all of the second year runners that we're talking about, and second year receivers and we're talking about in the first

two rounds. Get on that now, identify these rookies and replaying last year, Stefon Diggs could how about given bigger he certainly is in the conversation in the late first round that I think Diggs would have made sense. If you are in a bigger league, especially, Darren Waller could go as you know, it's you know the different when

you're in a bigger league. The differential between the you know the well, if they're fourteenth or sixteenth or eighteenth, if you're in a guille team league tight end is really significant. Well, and if you're in a league with Brian, you'd better take him before Brian's second round picks. He's not getting You're gonna have to reach around on Waller. He's not getting past the early second When we come back,

three tough questions for our panel of experts. You can play along is Fantasy Football Weekly continues in moments our number two Fantasy Football Weekly. Thank you for joining us. If your draft is coming up, you'd like to get some player rankings that don't feel like everybody else's. That's what I do with my line at Guillotine leagues dot Com.

Try really hard not to fall into the group think of the fantasy experts out there, which happens a lot, and so I pride myself on having some really different rankings that is available for free Guillotine leagues dot com. I am Paul Charchie and my co host are Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson. This is a game we like to call three tough questions we encourage you to play along.

Tough question number one. Now that there are seventeen regular season games, how much more important is handcuffing than in past years? No more important, a little more important, or a lot more important? Matt, oh no, there's five point eight percent more games. What are we gonna do now? If you didn't think handcuffing was important before, it's not

more important now. If I have Dalvin Cook, instead of taking Aulex Madison and locking up one backfield, I'd rather take Jamal Williams in the same round and potentially get to backfields. If DeAndre Swift gets hurt, sure there's more risk and reward than that. But if you play fantasy to be safe all the time, have fun getting fourth place.

Plus I highlighted it last week. There's only been five running backs in the last six years that have been handcuffy guys that have finished in the top fifteen only five and six years, less than one per year. It's not more important at all. Okay, Brian, Is it no more important, a little more important, or a lot more important to handcuff this year given the extra game? Yeah, basically the same answers, Matt. You have to start with how important is handcuffing to you in general? And to me,

it's not that important. I prefer to steal the handcuffs of other players, like in our Empire League. I'm kind of we get running back, but I've got Uhuba Hubbard, CMCs handcuff, I got Madison, I'm gonna go after Darrington, Evans all those three, and one of them are gonna hit, but I wouldn't, So it's not any likely none of them are gonna hit because five guys and six years

have done it well, further proving the point. Don't handcuff really if you better you handcuffed, You're better off trying to at least steal a handcuff than handcuffing your actual player. But it's no more important just because of one extra game. Come on, that's crazy. The correct answer is no more important. We couldn't predict injuries when there were sixteen games, right, and so you know we're not gonna it's not only to change because they're seventeen now. Uh. Handcuffing for the reasons,

Matt said, very saliently. I believe um is a very dicey proposition. You should just say stupid. Well, it is, it's it is. It's kind of stupid. And you've, you've, you've. The way you set up is perfect. I can get Jamal Williams, who I could start in a pinch every week of the season. Or I can have a backup running back who only gets the ball like four times of games, five times a game, and I can't start unless there's an injury to the starter and he's eating

a roster spot. And right I'm killing a roster spot, a valuable roster spot. So don't handcuff and don't let don't let the worry wards of the seventeen game schedule phase you the purse clutchers. Tough question number two, Which quarterback has Fantasy Football's biggest risk reward ratio? Bryant? For me, it's Dak Prescott. Uh, I know that the offensive line. In the last segment, we said it's gonna return to elite status. His trio of receivers might be the best

in the NFL. He should be making his return to full health, but I'm not convinced of that that that the ankle is gonna hold the ball season. He has the shoulder issue and that quarterbacks six, there's just way too much risk for me there. Uh. I'd rather just wait another round or two and grabbing Aaron Rodgers or just an air bear. Uh. Dak Prescott the biggest high risk, high reward quarterbacks from me this season? All Right, Matt who is the quarterback with the highest risk reward ratio?

I have the same answer, Dak Prescott. The injury history us uh. The upside, but you are taking him in the fourth or fifth round, and that's a scary proposition for a guy who hasn't been fully healthy in a year. Um. Although last year, through his four and a half weeks, he was on pace to be the best fantasy quarterback in the league. Would probably have hit passing yards and he was on pace for a nine rushing touchdowns. So the upside is number one QB in the league. But

the downside is what you got last year. He might not play, or he might not be as effective. The there were two possible correct answers to this, I will not accept another one. Neither one was neither one as Dak Prescott. The the quasi acceptable answer is Trey Lance because he may literally not play a game this year. It's a very real scenario. He has zero Fantasy points

for the year. But because he's a Round twelve selection, that is not That is not the correct answer, definitely not the correct answer for the player with the highest risk reward ratio is Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts Round six a DP and he didn't We didn't get to see him on Thursday night, which is unfortunate because it adds to the sense of mystery or on whether or not he can pass, and that is the real question here.

If we look at his his four passing totals in his four starts last year, he had to three yard games, that's great. The other two games one hundred sixty seven yards and seventy two yards. Now in the seventy two yard or he got pulled out in the fourth quarter. He got injured the fourth quarter, So I'll grant him a little bit of the way on that, but it was still a not a good look for him, and his defenses saw him more. His passing seemed to get

worse than words. As mentioned last week, Jalen Hurts had the lowest completion percentage of any quarterback with at least four starts last year. His passing volativity volatility puts a lot of pressure on his running game for you, fantasy owner. Even elite runners like Lamar Jackson last year don't always run well, and they're they're better runners in this league than Jalen Hurts of the quarterback position. So eventually, in the NFL, if you can't pass, you can't play quarterback.

You can only do so much, and there is a scenario here that involves at some point Jalen Hurts getting benched. Now the upside, however, is massive on Jalen Hurts if it turns out he can pass well. Now you've now what you've done is you've taken Josh Allen as a quasi functional passer and always a good runner and turned him into what he was last year when you could

do both. When you can do both at the quarterback position, pass and run, that's fantasy magic right there, and that's why you've got the upside of an elite top five fantasy quarterback and the downside of a quarterback who gets benched for Joe freaking Flacco. At least you can physically pass and run right now, as far as we know Dak Prescott, I'm not so sure Dax passes his whole life. He's gonna be fine. Doc is going to be fine. I'm convinced Dax is gonna be fine. He's my number

seven ranked quarterback right now. Tough question number three. There's an opening in a new excuse me, there's an opening for a new team in your friends league. Somebody fills that opening with their thirteen year old kid. Are you cool with that? Matt? I spent the last year teaching and coaching middle school kids, and mostly I don't tell them about the fantasy football aspect of my life because it's,

you know, nerdy, But occasionally they find out. And when they find out, I got some really super intelligent questions from twelve fourteen year olds. They follow the sport like never before, and it's because they've watched their parents play fantasy since birth, and they they're cheering for players, they're watching the Monday night games. If the kid gets it and the kids involved. Let them play. Unless you do your draft at a strip club. All right, it's an

opening for a new team in your buddies league. Somebody fills the opening with their thirteen year old kid. Are you cool with that? Yeah, as long as I'm convinced the kid is going to be is into it and managing the team, that my buddy is not using his kid as a vessel for a collusion. Collusion. But overall, yes, bring on the kids, they are a future. Teach them. Well, are we cool with that? Hell? No? What? Yeah? I want kids to play fantasy football, of course I do.

They can play with each other, or they can play the family league. Keep your kid out of my friends league with a bunch of grown men. First off, the party atmosphere of your draft just got torpedoed. Right. You've got a bunch of guys gals who have a long history together. They tell war stories, they drop f bombs, they're drinking feer. You didn't say we're having a live party.

But I donerally lame drafts you go to. They're smoking, they're doing whatever, and all that's scuttled because somebody doesn't see their kid enough at home. They gotta add the kid into your fantasy league. What about my message board? My message board filled smack talk obscenities. That's what I want my message board to be with my friends. I don't need to have the self censor because you decided to bring your seventh grader into the conversation. I've been

meaning to talk to you about our message board. We don't like the full frontal nudity picks that you keep posting. Charge because they're mine, I know. And lastly, everybody, and this is the Brian's point, everybody's gonna wonder about any transaction that involves the father and the kid as the as the dad is the dad pressuring the kid all day long at home, talking him into it, helping his allowance whatever. I mean, it's a huge problem just from

the integrity of the league. Look, we want kids to play, play with each other, have a cafeteria draft, play with the rest of your family, have aunt's, uncle's nephews, strange cousins. Get get that going spring your seventh grader into my grown up league. That's the correct answer. Charge is not about no angry. You know we are man, you know what we do. Love though the reach Around coming up now.

Don't let your kids listen to this next segment that's right coming up next, the reach around we will give you. We will give you one player in every round to take a round earlier than his average draft round. Who is the seventh rounder you need to take in the sixth round because you want him on your team and you do not want to risk not getting him to

reach a round. Coming up next, it's Fantasy Football Weekly Paul Charchy and Guillotine Leagues dot com, Brian Johnson Guillantine Leagues dot Com, and Matt Harrison's got a bunch of great stuff at shock Fantasy dot com, including your dynasty cheat sheets, your trade value calculator, keeper league calculator. If you're like, oh, I need to get Christian McCaffrey in the second round or Mike Evans in the fourth round. Which one is a better value? Oh, there's a calculation

for that. There is promo code radio if you want fifteen dollars off a membership. This is a segment we call the reach Around. We do it one time each year right here in this show. The premise, we give you a player that you should take one round earlier than his average draft round. For example, we will go through now and give you players that are going in the second round we believe you should take in the

first round. We begin with Matt Harrison. Um, I don't I don't know where we got this a DP from exactly, but Austin Ekeler was listed as a second round pick, so I think that we covered that we'd picked him at pick nine in the last segment. So I think Eckler is the play. Yeah, Ryan, you're obviously going to assume that it is my answer as well. We already assumed that I would take it. I just want to remind everyone that in two catches for Austin Ekeler, uh

and that was really is like the primary third down back. Again, he is the lead back. The question is how many touches will he get. I think he gets enough to easily clear two thousand combo yards if he can stay healthy. But that's the concern with everyone in the NFL, if they can stay healthy. All Right, We're all on Austin Ekeler as a second round player that you should take

in the first round. But I'll also mentioned Antonio Gibson, who I mentioned as well in this who I think would have been a fine selection at the end of the first round as well. So Eckler, Eckler, Gibson, Let's go to the third round player you believe people should reach for in the second round. Matt A. J. Brown is listed as a third round pick. I'd take him in the second because before Julio was traded the Titans, many were considering Brown as the top wide receiver on

their cheat sheets. And I don't understand why Jones coming in and drawing attention from the defense is a bad thing. He's not gonna get any double teams all year with eight in the box on Henry and Julio on the other side. Okay, Brian, who is your third round player you would reach for in the second round? I was gonna go a J. Brown, but I thought I'd mix it up good. But for the sake of the show, I went with Allen Robinson, who who might be safer

than a J. Brown. They might be the ceiling not as high, but Allen Robinson one of three wide receivers last season with a hundred and fifty plus targets. Uh. Can you guess the other two guys by the way? Real quick? Other two Julio Jones, No, he's missed too much time. Target hogs Diggs, Diggs Hopkins got it, and Alan Robinson now Dvote Adams and Keenan Allen would have

cleared that threshold, but they they little injured. But uh, Alan Robinson, whether or not it's Andy Dalton or justin Field, it'll probably be both a significant upgraded quarterback either way, and uh he'll be a target hog again and a very safe pick with a pretty pretty pretty sexy ceiling still either deeps. The round three player I am reaching

four in round two is Terry McLaurin mccarden. He is the best receiver on an ascending offense led by a quarterback who can press the ball downfield, something Terry has never had before. He is going to get the best quarterbacking of his life, and he was already a wide receiver one producer. He has the opportunity to be a top five fantasy receiver and by talent, he might even already be there by talent, but it's been suppressed by the likes of Alex Smith. So I take Terry McLaurin

as might reach a round player in round three. Let's go to round four. Matt who's the player you're reaching for, the fourth round player reaching four and round three, that's Chris Godwin. The upside is the top wide receiver in the game, because in twenty nineteen, with Jamis Winston at the Helm, he finished as the second overall wide receiver behind Michael Thomas. And it was that Michael Thomas yere where he caught fifty more passes than anyone else in

the league. Godwin was also dinged up last year, so a healthy Godwin can probably win you your league. Okay, Brian, who's the fourth round player you'd take in the third round? Oh? You know it's Kyle Pitts. And the Falcons were not drafting a tight end in Kyle Pits. They were drafting Julio Jones replacement who they knew they were gonna lose a couple of months later. Uh, a guy they did

not utilize in the red zone, Julio Jones. But they're gonna utilize Kyle Pits in the red zone, the infrared zone, the end zone. You've decided he's gonna be catching passes in the auto zone. Oh, I've decided this. Hayden Hurst, Russell Gauge Brandon Powell in the quantre red Well combined to score eleven touchdowns inside the ten yard line last year.

Those are all going to Kyle Pitts, every last one of them, every last one of them, and then some who I prognosticated last week will score more touchdowns and teammate Calvin Ridley this year. Kyle Pitts in the third round. I've done it plenty. I'm not. I'm not. I'm going by what I say. The fourth round player I'm taking in the third round, Lamar Jackson. You know you talked

two years ago, Matt about Chris Godwin. How about two years ago Lamar Jackson one league single handedly he was one of the best fantasy players ever, and that was just we're just one year removed from that. It could easily snap right back. He's he was not that that non functional last year. He was actually a pretty solid contributor most of the time. He just didn't have the gaudy passing numbers. And I know the receiver's hurt right now, but by the time the season gets here, his receiver

group will be back in shape. Sammy Watkins will be there, Marki's Brown will be healthy. Everybody of a bateman will be ready. To Roll. I think Lamar Jackson still got freaky upside and I want a piece of that as we continue our reach around Matt. Which fifth round player will you take in the fourth round? I've done this several times in my underdog drafts. It's Adam Theelan, who has emerged as Kirk Cousin's favorite red zone threat even

before Kyle Rudolph left the team, which is interesting. If healthy, his downside is probably a thousand yards and seven touchdowns, but his upside is plus and double digit scores. So I like Adam Thelan right there. All right, Bryant, who is your fifth round player you take in the fourth round? I'm going with Cooper Cup, who was wide receiver five.

That was with Jared Goff at quarterback who went off the rails last year for the Rams goth That is clear upgrade at quarterback this year for Cup with Matt Stafford coming into town. And you know, as long as Cup stays healthy, even when we're reaching around for him in the fourth round, this is a Steel with a healthy Cooper Cup. Alright. I also had Cooper Cup for many of the same reasons. That offense is going to be so much better and Cups gonna bounce back nicely.

Let's go to round number six of our reach around. Matt who is the player the sixth round player you would take in the fifth round? Uh, it's justin air, bear, Come on, Yeah. I said he'd finish only behind Patrick Mahomes on last week's Peacock Off, and you can listen to that on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including iHeart Radio. So I better put my money where my mouth is and I better draft him in the fifth round. Okay, Brian, who is the sixth round player you are reaching four?

And round five? I'm going with Denver's rookie running back Javonte Williams, who I just think flat out beats out Melvin Gordon at some point this year, sort of has a head start already in training camp, Gordon has been a little dinged up, and uh, I kind of like this Denver offense. They have the pass catchers to keep defenses honest. The quarterback a little bit of a question mark, but maybe that means they just lean on the run game a little more. And I just really like what

I've seen at Javonte Williams. Of course, he hasn't played in the pros yet, but I've seen enough of Melvin Gordon, so I'll take a chance on Javant in the fifth. I'm feeling better. I'm I'm starting to really vibe on the Denver offense, in part because starting to think Drew Lock might just be okay, and all I need is

just like adequate quarterbacking yourself well a little bit. You know, he's looked he looked very good against the Vikings second and third stringers, and you know, granted that's not a great it's not a great way to judge, but um, the training camp reports have been largely positive, and it's not like quarterbacks never get better. We mentioned Josh Allen recently earlier in the show as a as an inaccurate

passer who got a lot better. Drew Locks got room to get better if he doesn't like that offense a lot. But that's not my answer. The sixth round player I'm taking in the fifth round t J Hockenson. I'm thinkingna tear by himself after the big three tight ends. Then you've got Hockinson and then you've got everybody else. I know you you got pits significantly lower than I like Hockinson a lot I think he's way way safer than Pitts, who comes in with all the unknowns of a rookie player.

Hockinson in his third year. That's blow up year for tight ends on a team that's gonna be trailing most of the time, needs to pass and has no functional receivers. Our reach around continues into the seventh round. Who is the player, who's the seventh round player, Matt you would take in the sixth round? I've got Courtland Sutton and last year he was being drafted in the third or fourth round. Yeah, he missed the whole season due to injury, but he's certainly a guy with that pedigree of a

guy that you can take three rounds earlier. So I like Courtland Sutton and you guys just mentioned how you're starting to believe in the Denver Broncos offense a little bit, a little bit, all right, Brian, who's the seventh round player you'd take in the sixth round? I love me some Tyler Boyd, who is the cheapest of Cincinnati's three wide receivers when it comes to eight p right now.

Boyd was wide receiver eight in the first half of the season last year with a healthy, Joe Burrow and Yester Mark Chase wasn't there, but Boyd and Burrow quicking last year together, I've been clicking in camp so far. I think he leaves uh the Cincinnati wide receivers in non production this year. The seventh round player I'm taking in the sixth round is Damien Harris, the Patriots running

back who is getting all the run with the first team. Um. He is coming off the field for third some third downs, and that's just who he is. I don't think he's gonna be a PPR helper James White's territory, largely James White's territory and maybe others. But Harris has running hard and has looked good. And let's remember, as frustrating as running backs can be for the Patriots, they're only like two seasons removed from like Garrett Blunt having the most

rushing touchdowns in the NFL. And Harris was the Patriots best player last year, like overall best offensive player for sure. You know that's that you can certainly make a case for that. Now, obviously this year it's of Smith. Maybe we'll talk more about him later. Let's move to the eighth round of our reach around. We're gonna go through ten rounds and let's pick up Matt with the eighth round player you would take in the seventh round. I

got Robert tons of fun you in. Uh. He's been the standout in Packers camp so far, caught eleven touchdowns last season. Packers don't run the ball near the stripe nearly as much as they probably should, thus making Davante Adams and Robert tony In super valuable as you get closer and closer to the end zone. Makes sense, Brian, This the eighth round player you would take in the seventh round. The one Houston Texan I'm willing to roster this year is Brandon Cooks, and I take him in

the seventh round. Uh. Really don't know what's gonna happen at quarterback in Houston. Looking like a Torod Taylor a week one start. All I know is for Shawn Watson when the Feds are involved, I'm not looking too good for his prospects uh this year and beyond. But regardless of quarterback, Cooks will see a ton of volume in positive game scripts for wide receivers, that's for sure. I think eight catches twelve hundred yards is in the cards and he'll get you four or five six touchdowns as well.

I'll take that in the seventh round. My reach around player that I'm taking in the seventh round with an eighth round average draft position, Deebo Samuel. Why I don't understand why he would go this low. This is a very very promising offense and Deebo Samuels a special talent, so good after the catch and one of the one of the Deebo Samuel stats that we have talked about

on previous shows. He had the shortest average throw last year when it was Nick Mullins and c J. Bout third, and however his average depth of target average depth of target was like three yards. It's going to stretch out this one way or another. It's going to be longer downfield. And Deebo Samuel is so strong and so special after the catch that I believe he is sitting on a vastly superior season than the one he had last year.

His value being suppressed a great deal, I think just because of the injury and the bad quarterback play from last season. All right, let's go to the ninth round of our reach around. Give me a ninth round player, you would take in the eighth round, Matt. Another guy I've done a lot of reaching on is Zack Moss. We've outlined it a few times. Moss is the best pure runner, pass blocker, and pass catcher on the Bill's roster,

but he's getting that injury prone prone label. If healthy though, if healthy, maybe yeah, Zack Moss, let's go okay, yeah, I mean, for all the reasons Matt said and Josh allen Kin succeeded the goal line, but they don't want him to consistently take those hits. Zack Moss wasn't available to them to take this goal. He will be this year. He's gonna stay healthy, We're gonna be positive. Yeah, let's let's hope that's the case. And you guys know, I'm

I'm I'm camp Moss. I I want Zach to be great, but I'm taking a J. Dillon here because I feel I had to feel safer about a J. Dillon. And and here's why I know that this is a this is I know he's going to get carries because I know Aaron Jones isn't going to be a touchback. That's just not how they ever use him. So I know there is a sizeable role for a J. Dillon. I want there to be a sizeable role for Zack Moss, and there should be, but I can't tell you for

certain there will be. A J. Dillon is the ninth round player I would take in the tenth round. You're going for safety with that pick instead of the upside. Yeah, that's what I like. When I'm reaching, I'm always going for the upside. Let's move our reach around to the tenth round. Give me a tenth round player you would take in the ninth round, Matt Jalen Waddle, Let's see who to His favorite wide receiver is probably his college

teammate in the first round pick. It's not often you see rookie wide receiver slide right into the top of the depth chart, especially with capable players surrounding him. So Jalen Waddle, he's impressed in camp, all right. Brian mentioned earlier in the show how Corey Davis has really been clicking with Zach Wilson. So I would take him here in the ninth round. Right now, going as all the board at wide receiver wide receiver fifty, that's way too late for a guy who's going to command the most

targets on the team. I think, especially in the red zone. They just paid the guy a ton of money. I still like Corey Davis. The reach around player I'm gonna take in the ninth round with the tenth round average draft position is Tyler Higbee tight end for the Rams. Last year, if you combine to Gerald Everett and Tyler Higbee into one tight end, you had tight end five. Gerald Everett is now in Seattle. Higby is basically running alone with tight ends and he'll be on the field way,

way more than he ever has been before. I'm gonna try Tyler Higbee as that player that tight end. If you slept that tight end position, I feel pretty confident about going to war with Tyler Higbee. Our final reach around round is the eleventh round player you had taken the tenth round, Matt. I'm looking for that upside play again, and I think the biggest upside in this round was

justin fields. Once he starts, his accuracy and elusiveness should make him one of the most dangerous players in the league and could be just a Fantasy All Star for the second half of the season. Brian, who is your eleventh round player you would take in the tenth round. I'm going with Jamal Williams on now with the Detroit Lions. Uh. We talked about t J. Hockenson earlier. We're gonna talk

about the Detroit passing game later. But outside of Hackinson, Jamal Williams might be the best receiver on that team. And he certainly can handle running back duties, especially if DeAndre Swift goes down. He's already been a little banged up in camp already. I'm not convinced he can stay healthy whole season or be a workhorse for that matter. I also at Justin Fields league winning upside if everything breaks right for Justin Fields, if he can pass and throw. Yeah,

that's really really tempting, isn't That would be great? Well, there you go. This year's reach around is in the books. When we come back our final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, including our sleepers for this week and the key teams with vacated targets an opportunity to fill in with a new player. Stay tuned. Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly coming up next Final segment, Fantasy Football Weekly. If you've always wanted to try and guillotine league, this is the time.

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you'll redraft after the first one is over. If you could go back to back in that, I mean pretty impressive. Feat Yeah, game of skill, So yeah, you could do that. Uh, let's talk about vacated targets. Brian, I asked you to come give me the teams that have the most vacated targets, so we can try to identify some players who maybe

haven't really performed at the level that we want. But because there's so many now, there's so many available receptions that we think there's room, there's a vacuum for these police new players to come in. Yeah, definitely, uh, And we're gonna start with Detroit who has the most vacated targets more because yeah, like history of the game, and I'm not sure if they had a prior knowledge of

Jared Goff coming to town. So they all feed, right, But those guys are Kenny Golladay, Marvin Jones, Danny Ammondola, all on new teams. They accounted for three hundred and sixty two of the lions five hundred and sixty two pass attempts last year. They have all left town. That was also almost seventy three of Detroit's air yards gone, so a lot of opportunity for some new faces in Detroit. I want to mention of the targets from inside the

ten yard line for Detroit also gone. That's now the question then, is all right, so other than t J. Hawkins love and we think he's gonna he's sitting on a big year. Who are the players that could potentially fill that void? Now? Earlier in the show, we made passing reference the fact that Tyroll Williams appears to be the leading receiver there. Um, we know what Brishod Perraman is all about, and that's you know, the occasional deep bombs. So you know we're gonna you watch when we're doing

our um or take a chance of me receivers. We're gonna be sprinkling in some Brashot Perriman from time to time. I think, um, and maybe a little Tyroll Williams. Some people think I'm on ras St Brown is going to be a number one receiver for that team before long. He's got fish is one of them, man ross St. Brown has the highest a d P among the wide receivers right now at wide receiver seventy two. Tyrell Williams, who you said, as of late, looks like the number

one wide receiver in camp. Again, Hockinson, we expect to be leading just receiver overall. And then Brashod Perriman, who definitely showed flashes late with the Bucks in ten at a Monster got him a big contract one year with the Jets, and he had some decent games for the Jets last year. So, like you said, I don't know who to reckon, and out of these guys, would almost go with the cheapest one. Tyroll Williams has looked great at times, but there haven't been a lot of those times.

He's always hurt. But then again, he has left the Chargers who are kind of cursed at wide receiver. It seems like with injuries almost I want to put more bad juju on them with Keenan Allen and Mike Williams already hurt. But I don't know. But like you said, it's really all about T G. T J. Hockenson. But someone's gonna have to step up at wide receiver, and I don't know if it's gonna be rookie. I'm on Russ st Brown and one other guy is Quintez cifis a long shot receiver. But we just have to see

how this plays out. But again, nearly six of the targets vacated for Detroit and a new quarterback in Jared Goff. It'll it'll be interesting to see how that shakes out. Give me the second the team, the number two team, with the most vacated targets. The Tennessee Tightens with nearly thirty four percent of their targets vacated. Corey Davis gone, Adam Humphreys gone, and your boy, of course, John hu John Hu Smith gone. That those guys accounted for over

twenty one air yards from the Titans last year. That was nearly of their air yards. And the guys who came in at first, he was just Josh Reynolds, and we're like, okay, it's Anthony ferlks or season and Josh Reynolds is something and a Brown is my number one at that moment, were like two hundred targets for a j Brown in the bank. Uh. Of course the Titans traded for Julio Jones, who comes in, who I do not hate, by the way, if you listen to last week's show, I hate his red zone usage or lack

thereof throughout his career with the Falcons. But the Titans, Uh, with those players I mentioned, Uh, four d eighty five targets gone, fifteen vacated targets inside the ten yard line. Um, I'm just not excited about Josh Reynolds. Now that the it's really a matter of how much is Julio going to take from A. J. Brown's supposed leap into superstardom this year? And I still love a J. Brown. He's

still like my number five wide receiver. Um. But and and I think Julio Jones may actually make A J. Brown more consistent than he might have been otherwise, because when he was all alone, I figured there were gonna be some teams that would just like triple Team A J. Brown. They're gonna brown and right and just somebody else's game

make Anthony Firkser beat us right. Well, I can't wait just to see if it was an Atlanta thing with the Julio red zone end zone usage, because again up for grabs for Tennessee this year, and Wholi has the size, he has the skill, so I hope they utilize him a lot more. In the what's the number three team with the most vacated targets? The New Orleans Saints Emmanuel Sanders and Jared Cook have left town. That opens up nearly eleven targets per game for the Saints, and you're

not even counting Michael Thomas's got that. Of course, Eddie targets intended from Michael Thomas are essentially vacated for at least the first four to six weeks of the red other seasons, so a lot of opportunity in New Orleans. We're looking at guys and they haven't brought in anybody yet. They're they're looking at Trey Kwon Smith, Marquez Callaway, Will Jordan, Humphrey best name in the NFL by the Will Jordan

loved that. Some think Adam Troutman is a sleeper tight end, but uh again, right now, let's talk about Michael Thomas. Let's go back there, wide receiver forty four right now, And I mean, are you yeah, that's like round eight, round nine? Are you You're gonna have to sit on them for a while, But it all depends all depends on the size of your bench, and it could be all year. I mean, you know, we don't even know

are they even speaking terms at that point? And the Saints might be bad this year, they might be really really bad. There was no TI. I feel like there's no team that is that is more safe to bet. The underwind total on the wind total on them is still nine. Yeah, there, that is the most safe under wind total in the NFL. I agree let's get negative some money. I saw Terrell Owens and he was adamant about it, says he can still play. Of course he's

seven years old. Let's go Saints. It's no better place for Terrell Owens, who attended to come back the New Orleans or right now Mark has Callaway. Uh, it looks like the favorite to be the You know that I'm more on the tray Kwan Smith, especially in best Ball he has those spike weeks, So I'm more on board with the tray Kuwans with Smith. But a lot of vacated targets in New Orleans. Will see how those get

spread around. And Uh. Lastly, the Atlanta Falcons lost Julio, of course, uh, and a fair amount of targets lost from Todd Gurley, Brian Hill, and Edo Smith nearly eighty targets there. Uh so after Jones was shipped to the Titans. UH, two d and thirteen total vacated targets for Atlanta nearly twelve hundred are yards. Uh, more than a quarter of Atlanta's targets inside the ten, even though none of those went to Julio. Those were all really the running backs

that I had mentioned. Uh. But this is all going to act to Kyle Pitts. That's all that matters. The only player coming in is Kyle Pitts. Last year, Atlanta was fourth in past attempts, fifth in passing yards. Earlier in the show, I mentioned the targets from inside the ten yard line where guys like Russell Gauge, Hayden Hurst, Lakwan Treadwell we're having success. Pitts is going to command those targets all over the place. Predicts a minimum of

twenty targets for Pitts. You can laugh now, Church. He's going to have a splash flat factor of a Randy Moss or a Megatron. He's that much of a freak athlete. So I hope you're right, brian On. In all of your leagues this year in the flex position, what percentage will be tight ends this year? Um, because I feel like it's about percent for you. And I mean, you know, Dan will just starter Darren wall Darren Waller and then he's going to flex in a third tight end and

it'll be over two thirds of my team. Arnold is the third tight end draft, but we'll utilize him. But no, I've got Waller and Pitts. I've been going second round waller pits in the third all day long like those It's insane. I'm all in. But let's let's get to our sleepers. Are you done? Are you done with this? Think we're going to be a ten? Just mentioned a couple of lone players who left. That might open up

some opportunities on some teams. Will Fuller leaving Houston, so some people like Nico Collins the draft and Nelson Agile are leaving Las Vegas. He saw a decent amount targets had seven eight touchdowns. A lot of people excited about Brian Edwards for the Raiders this year, but Hunter Renfro was supposedly flaming Jalen Ramsey and joined Ramsey did not agree with that assessment. Sure you getting interested to know? Yeah, So we'll we'll leave that up to you know, maybe

a third party. Jalen Ramsey might be falling off that Josh Norman Cliff remember when that happened him on Quick It does come fast for for cornerbacks. Let's get to our three sleepers of the week, beginning with Matt Harrison,

who is yours this week? Terrorists Marshall a junior UH six pounds, the biggest of the rookie wide receiver Blue Chippers played for offensive coordinator Joe Brady at L s U, the same school that produced Justin Jefferson last season, and by the way, Terris Marshall did not drop a single pass in the red zone at L s U. Has had some highlight reel catches in joint practices with the Colts and Ravens already especially looking good with the high

pointing and contested catches. He's also the only rookie wide receiver with two catches of twenty plus yards so far in the preseason, including a fifty nine yard or on his first drive. Robby Anderson already dealing with a hamstring injury, and those are Naggy and Curtis Samuel's vacated targets. Uh. That makes Terris Marshall one of my favorite plays. It was one year ago today when I unveiled John U Johnu as my sleeper of the year, and for five

weeks I looked brilliant. He was five touchdowns in five weeks. He was the highest scoring tight end in many formats, right, it was all it all was brilliant for five weeks, and then he sprained his ankle, and they treated him like a blocking tight end for the rest of the year. Now he goes to the Patriots and for about five hours, John U John Wu looked like he was going to go right back to the same level of love that I had for him, maybe even more then they put in.

Then they signed Hunter Henry, and the people just basically wrote off John U Johnu. His average draft position right now is round fourteen. That is too low for the best receiver on the team and the best athlete on the Patriots. Josh McDaniels is lining him, lining him up all over the field, including it running back, which I love UM. And I think I mentioned this in a

previous show. Here's Bill Belichick one year before signing John U Smith when they were they were meeting for a playoff game, and Belichick said this about John Nu Smith, then he's probably the best in the league. After the catch, Bill Belichick is gonna use Johnu big time. Are you afraid of all your Damien Harris Sharrees losing out running back? I wouldn't mind if he gives up a couple of games, a couple of each game to John U john U Um. He played not in the Thursday night game. He rested

for the Thursday night game. Week before that, he had a crossing reception he broke. He broke two tackles on the play and look fantastic. It's only one play. But I don't care. John john my sleeper the week, Brian, who was yours. I'm going a little deeper with Tyron Johnson wide receiver for the Chargers right now. It looks like he'll win the third wide receiver job. But Williams always hurt for l A, it seems, and under performing. Are they converting him to a tight end though, Brian,

not yet. No. They got Donald Paramatta and we talked about him. But Tyron Johnson, undrafted free agent, has scored a touchdown on his first touch for every team he's played for US since twelve years old, and that includes that the Chargers last year. His first catch? Are you serious? The first That's weird. That's what the Internet tells me. I did some fact checking on that, but uh, John

got his peewee football stats. Not a ton of opportunity last year, only at twenty catches, but four hundred yards and three touchdowns on those twenty catches. We played the extrapolation game, he gets the opportunity. We're talking big time. Numbers are a definite dynasty status right now. If you got spot on your oster or no, if someone you want to keep an eye on Mike Williams doesn't pan out, Tyron Johnson is sitting. He's sitting to take that spot

either through injury or incompetence on Williams park. That's that people love Williams right now, and he's getting He's getting drafted aggressively by people who just want a piece of that Chargers offensive, justin Herbert, which I can understand know's not being drafted aggressively or maybe too aggressively for us our taste. Se Kwon Barkley, where give me the spot you take se Kwon Barkley quickly in a guillotine league, not at all. Okay. In a regular league, probably mid

second round, okay. I Darren Waller will be available in the second one if Barkley is there, I'm taking Waller over Barkley. So I'm just not taking Barkley. Someone else's gonna take them before I do. Third, probably the third round for me in most league. Thank you for listening to the show. If you miss any part of it.

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