Your Annual "Reach-A-Round!"

was not I was not going to say anything. Brian three bus that is Scott Fish, Brian Johnson. Uh, guys, we're getting into the We're getting into the heart of things. Most of us are in a bunch of drafts that are happening right now. People are getting all psyched for the drafts and they're coming shortly. We have preseason action.

There's so much to talk about. Over the course of the show, we're gonna bring you up to speed on the important things from all thirty two teams from around the league that have happened in the last week since our last show. We're gonna talk about what to do with this year's stink hole to hate that name, I still can we think of something else? You come up with a better name, we'll use it all right, And that is this year, what is the spot you don't

want to be in? Where's the spot where all the sure thing talent runs dry and you could go any direction after that? We'll we'll talk about where that is and what we think you should do with that pick. I will say the spot is fitting for the name stinkhole this year. The little that the baby, a little two on the notes, maybe a little two on the notes. Uh. And and without doubt, the most popular single topic that

we do every preseason, the reach around. Yes, this is where we give you a player for him every round of the draft that we would reach a round early to select the reach around coming up later in this show. The innuendos are a plenty today, they really are. It's all it's all over the place. Let's start. Let's go through our thirty two teams. So let's talk about what's happening around the league, beginning Scott with the Carolina Panthers.

Yeah not not, no whole lot to report here over the last week or so, but really, just that Baker Mayfield still has the inside check on that starting job. Looks like it's going to be his as as expected. I don't think there's any any big surprises there, uh, Bryant. Let's go over to the Las Vegas Raiders. In Las Vegas, DeMarcus Robinson was cut this week and he was projected to be the wide receiver three UH. As of right now, the front runners are now Mac Hollins, Keelan Cole Tyrann Johnson,

and UH sleeper Indica sleeper Dylan Stoner. Uh. These are some names just to keep in mind for deeper leagues or if you're gonna complete your Raiders stack in best Ball. But demark Robinson was supposed to be a starting wide receiver and you made it sounds all those are defensive backs that brings up. Only Patrick Mahomes could make to Marcus Robinson viable or get quasi viable or even noteworthy. Well,

he's certainly not viable now. In Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers says it's possible that both Aaron Jones and A J. Dillon could catch fifty plus passes season, and with the team's dearth of talent at wide receiver and tight end, it is possible. It is possible it would move A. J. Dillon into a safe flex role with RB one upside if anything happened to Jones for sure, um I will note that as a side note here, Robert Tonyan and

Elkin Jenkins returned to non contact practices. They're trying to rehab from a c l S from last year, so they're they're getting a little bit closer and hopefully a week one availability for them. But this a J Dillon, Uh, this, you know, skips further, the skips further life. D aj Dillon is somebody you can draft and actually start. Let's go to the Washington Commanders. Scott. Yes, a bunch of a bunch of news on where which team that which team?

You know, first string, third string, second string, that players are playing with Gibson practicing with a punt team and special teams, and third string offense, Sam Howell getting first string reps over Carson Wentz at the end of the week. It feels like watching they're trying to send a lot of messages, don't you think, or it's a whole lot of riverboat rod and smoke screening. But yes, but the drumbeat for Brian Robinson game worked with the first team

continues to grow. Yeah, I think at this point it's draft Antonio Gibson at your own peril, Buffalo Bills Brian The only player worth talking about, how to Bill's camp, remains to be Zach Moss, who is shining like a shooting star. Says he feels healthy, unlike last season when he was dealing with the after effects of ankle surgery he had he had following the season. Really, this backfield

has become a mess now in Buffalo. It kind of was before, but with singletary, James Cook, who they drafted in the second round, and Zack Moss looks to be a factor or will be a factor this season. So it's kind of a backfield on fading. But there's really not a ton of news out of there. But Zack Moss not a dead cat yet. I'm not that I'm not into James Cook. I'm I'm really nervous about him.

I'm seeing him going in dynasty raps very early. You don't like a guy that got seven point three touches per game in college, That's well, okay to that point. I will go to the Texans, where another underutilized college back, Damian Pierce, continues to look great getting forced team reps. He looks so good, and I'm sorry to have brought up his name now and I believe five straight Fantasy Football weeklies, but Damian Pierce just it continues to look great.

And then in the preseason game last week, averaging ten yards per carry, five carries, forty nine yards. Yeah, extrapolate that that's a good season. Would be very good season underutilized in UH in college, but hopefully will not be the case in Houston. Let's go to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Scott, Yeah, I think it's more continued good news on Chris Godwin that he's he's practicing with the full team now, went from seven seven on sevens and now prexing with the elevens.

It's looking more and more likely that he might actually be ready for the start of the season. The only concern is they're they're a potential super Bowl team. Maybe they don't rush him back, but he's looking like he could be a value in that sixth rounder. So where he's going now? So let's talk about the team now saying they don't know when Tom Brady is going to come back, or they won't commit to a date. Yeah, they don't know when he'll be done filming the mass singer.

So that's the theory. I was gonna say, can Godwin play quarterback? Because he might need to. I'm I'm we're seeing Bucks slide, all Bucks sliding in fantasy he drafts. Let let me give you another one from train cramp. There. Ji Bernard injured his ankle, so that just he was already a cut candidate. That's not gonna help. So are you buying on the dip for these Buccaneers? You know, in probability, tom Brady is going to come back. Improbability, tom Brady is going to be a good quarterback. So

are you buying on the dip? Mike Evans slide? You know every all Bucket years, So are you buying on the dip on the receivers? Yes, I'm still buying Evans. I'm buying Godwin slide. I'm even I'm even like in Julio Jones really late. I like I like Russell Gauge the most personally because he's become the cheapest. Both of them are really really late. Yeah, I'll do it. Brian Cleveland Browns if it was no, no, no, nothing to talk about the Cleveland Deshaun Watson suspended eleven games first

eligible to return in week thirteen at Houston. Oh what a coincidence. I we'll talk more about that later. What we'll talk about now is what do the Browns do at quarterback in the meantime and gonna stay with Jacoby Brissette. Did they signed Jimmy Garoppolo? I think would be a big mistake because what's he gonna do for you? He's like a lateral move from Brissette. So yeah, it's an expensive and an expensive move not worth it. So it looks like guess the Jacoby Brissette show. For the majority

of the season. For the Indianapolis Colt's Alert Dynasty and Empire Leaguers, rookie tight end Gelanni Woods has looked very good, especially as a receiver less so as a blocker. You kind of knew that was coming. You need to follow this guy. He is six foot seven, two hundred fifty pounds and he ran a four three nine dash at the combine. He is an athletic freak and he has now caught a touchdown in his first game. He's improved

his training camps performances which started pretty rocky. Man, if they can, if they can mold Gilanni Woods into the player that he could become. I mean, if he was, there were the parallel And I'm not saying he's this guy. This guy's going to Hall of Fame. He's not Antonio Gates. But that's the kind of upside that you get in Gilanni Woods. If everything works out perfectly. Did he play basketball? He did? I bet he did very good. Exactly, Let's

go to Detroit, Scott. Yeah. Over on the Detroit Lions. DJ Shark has been impressing. They're expecting good things from him. But I I like, I like the fact DeAndre Swift came outside. He wants to go for a thousand resting yards and thousand receiving yards, which works every time. I mean, David Johnson, Andre Ellington, C J. Spiller, Oh, everybody who says that they do it, that's it's a lock. Now. I remember clearly when Adrian Peterson said he wanted to

run for three thousand yards and he did it. Oh, yeah, that's the hunter. The failure rate on that is actually, let's go to the New York Jets. Brian Well, it sure looked like Zach Wilson blew out his knee in last week's preseason game, but he had a minor procedure this week. He he won't be ready for Week one, but he should only miss a game or two. So Joe Flacco will be your Week one harder against the Baltimore Ravens, which is now revenge game we're looking at

in Week one with Russell Wilson against the Seahawks. That's not really a revenge game though. But then Baker Mayfield hosting the Browns. They said he's looked on fire in camp, and I'm like, throw some gatorade on him, because it's not good to be on fire. Yeah, there's no way he's deposited. The only way he was on fire. Garrett Wilson, I'm paraphrasing, basically said he threw a better ball in Zach Wilson, So good luck getting some targets when Zach

Wilson comes back. Garrett Wilson, he kind of ruined that Wilson to Wilson connection. We should mention uh McKay Beckton out for the year, big big loss for that offensive. We did mention that last week. That's that's a lingering problem for the Jets for sure. In Kansas City, Let's stop talking about Isaiah Pacheco for just a few minutes. Here. Lots of Tamault with the Cheaps wide receivers over the past week. Juju Smith Schuster injured his knee. He's gonna

miss a week or two. Nicole Hardman had a groin injury. His timetable is pretty short. Uh. Sky More has turned head to heads in practice, but played merrily with the second team in the first preseason game, for whatever that may mean. And Mark has Valdes Scantling started with the first team in the first preseason game and nobody's drafting MVS at all, and he might be the best value chief that you can draft as potentially a week at least an early season starter, especially if sky Moore is

not quite ready to go yet. So something to consider for MVS. Let's go to the Seattle Seahawks. Scott Sure a couple of injuries and illnesses here. Drew Lock has COVID, which he's going to miss the next preseason game, which is bad news if he wants to unsee Gino Smith missed the Thursday night game. I thought Gino actually looked pretty has actually looked pretty goods Yeah. Uh. Ken Walker also a hernia issue that was originally called minor but

now is having surgery. Hope is for week one, but honestly, Pete Pets Sunshine, like they always they're always is overly optimistic, and the fact that they thought it was a minor injury initially tells me maybe he's not going to be ready for the start of the season. People are gonna laugh at this, but don't. Travis Homer has looked very good, good last year, very good in the two preseason games,

including a jaw dropping play on Thursday Night. That's Travis Homer may muck up the works here more than people realize. Rashad Penny is coming off a groin injury as well, So like the optimism around ken Walker, I take I'd take that with like a giant, dear lick sized brick of salt instead of a grain of salt. I don't think he's gonna be ready. I'm avoiding all of the backfie, the whole backfield. I think. I think Travis Homer is like a sixteenth round pick and I can see that.

Let's go to the Denver Broncos. In a recent press conference, Melvin Gordon was quoted as saying they want Vante to be the guy speaking of Javonte Williams, of course, But the moral of this story is Janti Williams won't be the guy. He will be the six pcent guy. It's still going you be a split backfield in Denver for the most part. So I don't read into that quote too much from Melvin Gordon. He's not going anywhere and

he's gonna be. Melvin Gordon does not get to decide these things, um, but it is you know, we want, we want all the positive reinforcement we can possibly get. That Javonte Williams might be the seventy percent guy. Does anything changes if you can get like, let's reafform that as confirmation bias. It really is confirmation bias for sure. Uh. Next up, Rams, Both Cam Akers and Darryl Henderson are

resting soft tissue injuries and they're missing time. Their timetables a return are unclear since the team is not divulge any information about the injuries whatsoever. But you want to keep an eye on Akers and Henderson, So right now running with the first team or Kiren Williams and Jake Funk, those are your first team starters right now for the Rams. You know, Williams. Just don't don't forget a J. Rose. A J. Rose running with the second and third team.

It's uh, there's another backfield I'm not touching. Maybe they're gonna if I got some Jersey's line around somewhere. When we come back, we'll go through the remainder of the thirty two teams as we give you training camp news. It's Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly on Paul Archie and Guillotine leagues dot com. Scott Fish and

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no head to head. Instead, every week the low scoring team gets chopped and all their play years go to the waiver wire, where pandemonium ensues as you try to figure out the bidding strategies for all of these amazing free agents. What do you do when guy? A whole draft of players end up hitting free agency and you're looking at guys you know it might be a scenario something like Jonathan Taylor it's not available to be added in Week two of it could be Joe Mixon, Davante Adams,

uh Ezekiel Elliott, Keenan Allen, Aaron Rodgers, you could. Yeah, I'm giving I'm trying to give you a quasi pausible roster. Okay, maybe we'll see basically, guys you've never seen on the waiver wire will be available. Yes, as you can build your superstar team. Just don't finish last. Okay, let's get back to our reports from training camps preseasons from around the league. I believe we left off on Scott and

you were on the Philadelphia Eagles. Sure, just a couple of injuries to be aware of, but I don't think they're gonna affect week one. Mile Sanders dealing with a hamstring issue that they're being cautious with, Tavonta Smith missing some practices with a growing issue, Boston Scott dealing with a concussion once again, I don't think any of them are gonna drift into Week one for you though. Alright, Miami Dolphins, Bryant Um, no major news at a Dolphins

camp recently, but I've made an observation. So Tyreek Hill is a consensus top ten wide receiver, right, yeah, roughly ten, right on that edge, Jalen Waddle top twenty wide receiver. So why is to hovering around quarterback seventeen eighteen that that doesn't add up today? Bridgewater from two years ago, you guys discussed, Yeah, go from there. Well, I mean

you can. You can make that case for Kirk Cousins, right, justin Jefferson going off the board at one or two at wide receiver and Adam Finland's going off the board at like eighteen. And the only other team that has two wide wide receivers in that top twenty is the Banks. But Burrow is So just think about that on draft day out there everyone, there's value to be had at quarterback later in your draft. In Minnesota, Alexander Madison has

lost the automatic handcuff assumption. That is gone. And if you don't realize that that's gone now, then it's at your own your own peril. He was outplayed in the preseason game by both can Ai Wang Woo and rookie fifth rounder Thy Chandler. And you really need to watch

that kid. You know. Madison played the first two series and you know, presumably granted against better competition, but he got dramatically outplayed in the first preseason game by wog Woo and Chandler, who both jumped off the screen, especially Chandler who looked incredibly fast and elusive. This tie Chandler

kid looks pretty legit. He was at North Carolina last year, so he followed the footsteps of Javonte Williams, Michael Carter and that I'm telling you that kid looks It's only one preseason game, nobody's having a bust of Canton, but he looks really promising and he Both of those players are a threat to Alexander Madison. You know, the rumors going back to Madison, he was in the finally of his rookie deal. We had already heard a lot of rumors in Minnesota that he would not get re upped,

that that whole timeline could be accelerating right now. He could be on the roster bubble right and they're not gonna ki four running backs. They're not gonna they probably don't keep four, and he doesn't special. I think they may try to trade Alexander Madison, which ultimately, you know, maybe maybe finds himself in a better spot than he is right now. But don't automatically if you're looking for

that handcuffed, don't automatically handcuffed Madison. In fact, if your draft cook, I would I would not take any handcuff right now. By the way, I like that, you've used the word peril twice in this show. Now we are imperiling our listeners with such great information. Dallas Cowboys, Scott, the Cowboys claimed to be completely good with their wide receivers despite Gallop, you know, still hurting. He is practicing some out but he may still start the season on pup.

Uh James Washington now two to three months. Doesn't seem like they want to add anyone, any veterans anything. They think they're good to go. I think you're probably right. Uh. Total targets, Scott, just quick to it. Total targets for let's start with Ceedee Lamp one hundred and thirty one. Okay, total targets for Dalton Schultz hundred twelve. I think that's a lot. I think you're way light on Lamb. That's what I think too. That's why they play the game though.

We'll see doing the Patriots Brian chart your pants are about to come flying off because we're gonna talk about your boy, Johnny Smith. According to Patriots beat writer Evan Lazar, the Pats are going to put Smith in as many situations as they can to feature his skills as a ball carrier. They're feeding him the ball in these practices. So are you back in on? Well, okay, technically I was never off John Hu Smith, but I had to be quiet because the team was under utilizing his many divers.

Dalton Schultz had a hundred and four targets last year and Cooper's gone hundred and twelve. Isn't that ridiculous? No, we think you're light. Oh no, we think you're Light's gonna say, yeah, No, I have him in the same range as last Yeah, I think he goes Okay, he goes up from last year. Okay, yeah, I had him up just a little so John Wu I mean, he brings a ridiculous skill set to the field and they

never utilized it last year. And we've heard all these reports like from training camp, we're gonna use Johnny Smith's more. They're paying him a ton of money. At this point, I think everybody just needs to see it before we can believe it. I'm with you. Uh. He virtually goes undrafted in every draft I've done, but he might be worth a last round pick. Well, we'll find out. Steelers.

Arguably the biggest story the entire preseason is the emergence of rookie receiver George Pickens making head turning catches in mini camp, training camp, priest season games. He's um, He's looked great, and he's getting extra run. With Deante Johnson and Chase Claypool dealing with some minor injuries here, this is very likely. I think he's he's one of the three starting receivers at the start of the season. I don't think he's. I think he's a week one, full

rotation guy. Once again, Chase Claypool was dead on way it was said he was one of the top three wide receivers. He didn't mean the NFL. He met on his team, the third wide receiver on that team. He is the third wide receiver on that team. Yes, I believe that's correct. Let's go to the New York Giants, Scott. The Giants keep talking up a huge Barkley workload, which is interesting and really of note considering he becomes an

unrestricted free agent after the year. Maybe we're looking at a DeMarco Murray type situation for this final year with the Giants. Wouldn't that be nice? You know, people can will remember from what about now six seven years ago, where the where the Dallas Cowboys just ground up DeMarco Murray in the last year of his rookie deal, let him go in free agency after that and he was never the same back could be the same thing. I've been taking Barkley in the first round. Now. One of

my peacock offs was he'll be RB one. So one of the many reasons. Yeah, I think they give him easily fifty opportunity. Alright, we're happy, We're happy Barkley on this show. All Right, let's go to the Tennessee Titans. Brian, all Right. Last week with Tennessee it was Traylon Brooks bad. This week it's Traylon Brooks good again. I guess he's been making some nice plays and joint practices with the Bucks. Is ADP has fallen recently? Maybe a good opportunity to

buy the dip on Traylon Brooks. Everyone was out on him last week, but people slowly getting backing on him. Keep an eye on rookie Kyle Phillips. Yeah, I mean he's been he's been running. He's been running with the ones, and not just that, I mean watching his plays. He is dusting people. Yea. His route running is good, It's really good. And Kyle Phillips, the pathway to playing time is there, right um. Traylon Burk's has been slow to

start the season. Nick Westbrook at is not exactly a show stopper, and Robert Woods is trying to come back from an a c L. So Kyle Phillips where Scott, You're more plugged into dynasty leagues than I am. You know, Kyle Phillips was easily fourth round pick, like in fourth round dart throw, in a lot of dynasty leagues. I just see it moving up. I'm with you on that, basically what we've seen so far. Al right back to me.

Next team up is the forty Niners for those looking long term, speaking of like fourth round rookies in a dynasty league. Niners rookie wide receiver Danny Gray, it's look great in practice. Vikings coaches used the term uncoverable in joint practices. This week. He caught a bomb from Trey Lance in last week's preseason game, and another one down the right sideline against the Minnesota in the joint practices this week. He's a third rounder from s m U

Danny Gray. And since you probably don't know very much about Danny Gray, here's a little bit. Here's a blackground background. Right. He's he's very fast, he's a playmaker, he tracks the ball, instinctive runner after the catch, and known for his big,

big plays in college. He needs polish, he needs ball skills, and starting his career behind Deebo and I, he'll learned from the bench, and maybe he learns that polishing those ball skills and he might be somebody that um that starts demanding a certain amount of playing time at some point, and if anything were to happen to a starter, I might find his way in. It's it's got to be that it feels like just there's not enough targets to go around there in a Trey Lance led offense with

that many weapons already. That's why I think it is a name to keep in Danny Gray. It's you know, I, like I said, fourth round Dynasty League kind of level. Danny Gray. The Atlanta Falcon Scott Drake London's knee injury not considered serious. Both Mariota, Mariotta and Ritter have looked good, but given what the team might do this year, I would expect Ritter, who does look pro ready, to get some shots later in the season, but mostly Uh. Tyler l Gear, who I play in a fantasy league with

you love dropping those in. I think it's funny for the listeners. I don't know, maybe it's not. Um. He drafted himself as his RB two in that league inside Info right there. I don't get that anywhere else, Yes, So I'd keep it eye on that situation. He's got big faith in himself to be a fantasy producer. Sincinnati Bengals Brian Joe Burrow has resumed practicing following his appen Deck to Me. Came back a little sooner than expected, but we all expected him ready for Week one, but

he is good to go. Bengals fans are happy, as are his fantasy managers. In New Orleans, Jameis Winston's dealing with a foot injury on top of his recovery from last year's a c L, which is not an ideal way to get reacclimated to your offense. Uh, Michael Thomas is on track to start Week one, so that's some good news there. Adam Schefter tweeted this week that Alvin Kamara may not miss any time following his Super Bowl altercation.

Not this here anyway, and that's another guy by the dep He's falling into the late second round, early third round for Alvin Kamara. Okay, I'm I'm in. I mean, if there weren't for this suspension issue, he'd be going what top of the second round? Yeah, yeah, probably probably so yeah, second round. I got a more before right now. Okay overall overall, Wow, he's not I'm assuming I'm under the assumption he's not gonna miss any games unless he

gets injured. But yeah, that's where I'm at. Yeah. Arizona Cardinals, Scott by the way, on the Lgar thing, I just feel like he's close to the situation and he knows the player really well. That's all it is. Uh, you get me a Kyle Pitts game Warne Jockstrap, you guys close. I will shoot that in the comments trade off. That's right. Also, I would appreciate that. Okay, Arizona Cardinals, not much here, Zach Ertz has been out with a cafe injury for

a couple of weeks now, and he's still sitting. But he's expected to be fine, and they want to make Rondel Moore a big part of that offense, which is I still find interesting. He'll be he'll be fine for the six weeks, and I'm skeptic. I am too. I am too. Once Hopkins gets back, I don't feel like there's gonna be enough for him. Do players wear jockstraps anymore? I mean, isn't this like from left over from I will ask where's a jockstrap? Right? Well? Definitely not cups?

If you even wanted to buy one, where would you go? Can you get one at Shields? I mean, where did it go for a jockstrap these days? I don't even know. I don't. I've never seen one for sale my entire life. Dick Sporting Goods, Maybe I don't. I don't know. You would think. Jacksonville Jaguars, no one expected James Robinson to be ready by week one coming off the Achilles here, but he's been ramping up his activity in practice and now coach head coach Doug Peterson expects him to be

ready for a week one. So pump the brakes a little bit on Travis E. T N and even Snoop Connor because if Robinson comes back, he's going to be involved. I not gonna dominate the touches, but just another backfield that could just be a mess this season. Um, all right, I'm gonna take the other side of that. I'm sure you can come. You can be healthy enough to play. That doesn't mean you're effective, and that is what gets players coming off the achilles. You know, Marlon Mack as

a recent example. It's you know, it's just just because you can play, doesn't mean you're very good off the Achilles. I don't trust James Robinson. Nothing to do with him. I have zero percent ownership across all my leagues over here, all right, Baltimore. J K. Dobbins came off the publist trending in the right direction to start the season, but he's still only doing individual non contact drills at this time.

Dobbins is not going to play in any preseason games, and John Harbaugh has refused to say if he will or will not be ready for Week one, and maybe he still doesn't know at this stage if he will or not be ready for week one. Um, so drafters are gonna have to take a certain leap of faith on Dobbins that will be ready for you know, close or close to ready at the beginning of the year, Tyler Batty in your later rounds. Maybe well, that and that could be your handcuff right there, it doesn't appear

to be. It looks like Gus Edwards is far enough behind that he's not the handcuff that you want to have at this time. I mean his his injury and injury was like a week later and surgery was later too. So let's go to the Chicago Bears, your final team, Scott. The Bears whole line has looked absolutely read full so bad in the first two games against the Chiefs and the Seahawks. Uh, let's hope Fields can get out of the pocket and grab some rushing yards if you're gonna

start him. Um. Interesting fact, the Daniel Hunter and Zadarius Smith's sack totals went sack total overs for Vegas went up to each after No, I'm just kidding, but it feels like it could have. That line has like detrocious. Be aware, seriously, all offensive players a little bit. Should people draft bears at their own peril. Oh boy, oh boy, yes, I think I think that's the case. The blinds look

horrible like mine, you know, like historically bad. So far. Alright, final team for you and the final team for this segment is the Sandy Goo sorry, Los Angeles Chargers. Another slow uh news camp, if you want to put it that way. But I found this funny. Keenan Allen, when asked about Justin Herbert, said, you see him, he stays like an hour and a half after practice, just throwing balls.

It's crazy. Then Keenan Allen laughs, and when asked why he laughed, Alan said, with a smile, Philip never stayed after practice to throw the ball, all right, Uh, Isaiah's philler. Really the stuff I've seen has looked pretty nondescript to this point, and he's not running with the second team. I'm a little I've got it. I'm just I'm I've got a little bit of concern there. Just just keep, you know, just keep watching that developing situation. Who is

who is is it? Larry Roundtree? Jon's gone right, Joshua Joshua josh slash Joshua Kelly is your is? How it's looking? Right? Now is the number two? Uh what? Speaking of number two, what to do with the worst pick in the first round? Tell you what that's going to be in just a moment. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson

and Scott Fish with you. Every year, the draft has got this one spot in it where all the shut thing guys that everybody wants are gone, and then you're the next one up. We call that the Scott hates that you got. Until you come up with a better name, we're gonna call it the stink Come on, listeners, you got one right, all right? Yeah? Give it to us about the rock slot. That's really not better. I don't

know that that is any better. In fact, so the question us year now Traditionally, having we've had this segment on the show for years and years. Traditionally it's sitting somewhere at like pick five, pick six, pick eight. This year, the stinkhole is picked two because there is an obvious pick at one in most league formats. We're gonna talk.

We're gonna talk through different formats in a minute, Jonathan Taylor, and after that you can make a case for about six or seven different players and the player you would have picked it two may very well be available at pick six or pick seven or pick eight. So there's a ton of variation that comes in beginning immediately start a draft at pick number two. Let's talk about what to do if you've got picked two in a variety of different formats. I want to start a most common format,

which is point per reception. So let's talk that through first. Then we'll talk about non PPR, and then we'll talk about super flex Some people may not even know what's super flexes. Will explain that too, But so in a p PR draft, point per reception Scott Fish, Yep, what are you doing at pick number two? Yeah, I'm still a super injury agnostic guy. My lean is to go Christian McCaffrey, just because even if he took away like all his touchdowns from twenty nineteen, he still scored more

points than Jonathan Taylor did last year. Um, when he's fully healthy. Uh, he's a complete stud. However, I'm going to go a slightly different route. I'm going to Austin Ekeler. The guy scored twenty touchdowns last year. He stayed me mostly healthy. Um, and as we've just mentioned, no one is really stepping up to take that role. He wants someone to take that RB two role from him, and

nobody is. And what we have as a team that's going to be in a lot of shootouts in that division and they're playing on turf endomes a lot this season. I think Austin. I think Austin Ekeler is the guy I wanted number two. I worry a little bit about last year being the big breakout of touches and usage and if that continues in year two. But the big problem is goal line. He had never gotten goal line carries in his career basically unless year he exploded with them.

So that helps Brian. It's pick number two. Jonathan Taylor's gone, what are you doing? I'm gonna go McCaffrey. I have the same concerns as everyone will Lea stay healthy. Nobody knows, but you can say that about any player really. I know he's had like the soft tissue issues, but going on the assumption he stays healthy. Uh. No one compares to Christian McCaffrey's a combined rusher and pass catcher. Over his last one healthy games, he has finished as a

top two running back and nearly half of them. A top ridiculous, top six back in nearly nine um since he has averaged eight point one targets per game. If you put that over a single season, that's the best mark of any running back since Matt Forte. So he's past catching floor, is incredibly safe, gives him massive upside. A pretty good old line in Carolina. I know that there's it's not it's a at offense. It's it's bad, mediocre, it's fine. I'm still going McAffrey. I do not put

risk into my the top of my draft. I put my risk into the middle and bottom parts of my draft, not the top. I want sure things. And that's why with pick number two Jonathan Taylor off the board, I'm taking Justin Jefferson, the safest pick in this draft. He is the all time leading receiver through the first two years of his career. He is verifiably awesome. We don't even have to talk about how good he is. And his quarterback never misses a game and has a thirty

one game touchdown streak, longest in the NFL. The Vikings stone age offense is getting a breath of fresh air with Kevin O'Connell who may very well do for Justin Jefferson what he did for Cooper Cup last year and beyond what he did for Cup. And I'm not saying he's gonna have a better season than Cooper Cup at last week, cause it's almost impossible. But you know, Cup plays almost entirely from the slot. Jefferson can play from all over the field. He's gonna Kevin O'Connell can scheme

him from the entire field. I love Justin Jefferson and I believe he is the right pick at the second selection overall. Yeah, I changed my answer. If not only that, but I thought to myself, I've done about four drafts in last two weeks, and twice I had four real, real drafts, and twice had the number two, and I did take just I'm thinking of myself. I talked myself into Eckler, and I'm like, but that's not what I did.

So we'll go with your actions, not your words. Right, If we say all the time with NFL teams don't believe what they say, believe what they do, I think it's a bit of homerism that came in play, all right, So now let's do the same exercise. But in a non PPR league, so no points per reception, which tills the field towards touchdowns scoring running backs mostly so but that, but do you say whoever you want? All right, Scott in a non PPR league, what are you doing at

pick two overall? And again it's Jonathan Taylor is going. So I really really was. I was thinking, you know, we're probably gonna see double digit touchdowns out of mcaffree. We're probably gonna see it again. Najie Harris is his touchdowns were low last year, but he got a lot of total yards and he's gonnaet three hundred plus touches. I still shifted back to Derrick Henry. I don't care. They're gonna they're gonna work him. Tell the reels fall

off him. He even came back from that ankle injury, which is a little flukey, and he came back from it and still, you know, put up a tony yards, a decent amount of yards. I'm going back to Derrick Henry. I'm going back to the well. Can I tell you the hesitation I've got on Henry right now? I've hesitation on everyone past one. I actually have a hesitation on John than a little bit sometimes. Tennessee's got the twenty seventh ranked offensive line by profoo Ball Focus for this season.

You know, we remember that the heyday when this offensive line was awesome and it was opening up these massive holes for Derrick Henry to rumble through. And when he gets that head of speed, he's so good. But what Derrick Henry can't do is run laterally, and he can't make his own holes like some runners can, you know, find their own yards. He can't. And I worry this offensive line is just not going to deliver the lanes Derrick Henry needs, and they're gonna get pushed around and

people are gonna bounce Derrick Henry out laterally. And that's not where That's not where his speed is. I don't know. That's my worry on Derrick Henry has still get so many touches. He will get a lot of touches just that. And that's actually what Derrick Henry has been a ton of touch, has a bunch, don't do a lot, but then he breaks them. Brian, it's picked number two and a non PPR league, no points per reception. Who are you taking now? I wanted to use this as my

answer for the PPR league. But I didn't want to use the same guy twice. That's not That's so it's at kwant Barkley, who last week I predicted will finish as the RB one this year, which he did in his rookie year. So I'm basically saying he's even returned to his form in his rookie year in eighteen. He's still very young, turned twenty five years old in February out two years. Removed from the torny a c L he suffered in Week one, by the way, so well

removed from that. Um, he's not injury prone that people A lot of people say he is. The ankle injury suffered last year was very flukey, stepped on a teammates foot while he was running down field. Uh. He has no setbacks with the knee so far in camp. He looks great in shape. I know where everyone does, but Barkley especially does. The Giants invested heavily in their old

line in the draft. They have a new head coach, former offensive coordinator from the Bills, Brian Dable, and as Scott mentioned in the previous segment or one of the previous segments, Barkley is in his final year of his contract, and there's no guarantee he gets resigned, and the Giants might give him that DeMarco Murray treatment, run him into the ground and then move on afterwards. So I see a big year for se Kwon Barkley, So I would

take him second in a non PPR league. Alright for me, non PPR, which, by the way, not the same as t D. Only people hear that you say non PPR and like, I'm gonna give an unpopular answer. But again this shows where I just my philosophy. We're splitting hairs with so many of these things. Um, my philosophy tends towards safety in these early rounds. I like Joe Mixon at pick two in a non PPR league. You know, he doesn't catch the ball like Austin Ekeler and Naji

Harris or Christian McCaffrey or Sae Kwon Barkley. Um, he doesn't have the injury history that Christian McCaffrey has and Derrick Henry. He's been mostly healthy each of the last two years. And Mixon's got a lot of really nice advantages. Defenses have to defend the and that's the other thing they added. Alex Carris, Alex Cappa, sorry, Ted Carriss, Alex Cappa, L. L. Collins Profo Ball Focus ranks, the Cincinnati offensive line is the eighth best for the upcoming season. And get this.

In the I believe it was fifteen games that Joe Mixon played last year. He got every single running back carry inside the five yard line, all of them. And there was only one running back carry the entire rest of the year, including the games he missed. So you get all of those touchdowns that we you know, this is a we're looking for touchdowns primarily out of pickto in an on PPR league. Okay, last, what to do with pick number two if you are in a super flex Now, so the way super flex works, and we

love super flex around here. We think this is the preferred way to play if you're in a ten or twelve team league, um, and maybe even a fourteen team league. You can flex a quarterback a second quarterback in super flex and puts a big priority on the quarterback position. And in this scenario, Josh Allen has gone first overall, not Jonathan Taylor. Now who you take in Scott, it's justin Herbert given given his division and the amount of dome slash canopy games because so far as a canopy,

but they're they're you know, protected from the weather. I feel the Chargers are not just primed to be in several shootouts, but the offense is loaded her it has you know, Alum Williams, Palmer's coming on Eckler out of the backfield. Even Everett and Parham are very athletically freakish tight ends. Yeah, exactly exactly, So Um. With thirteen games on turf and domes, I'm like, that's a lot of

potential shootout for for the Chargers, all right. So justin Herbert in a Super FLEXI pick two, Brian, You've got the second pick. Josh Allen's gone. Who are you taking? It's got to be a quarterback obviously in my mind of mobile ones. So everyone's saying, oh, Lamar Jackson wrong, I'm going Jalen Hurts second overall in a Super Flex league. Rushing floor makes him so incredibly safe, gives him massive upside. You gotta love the trade for a j Brown outside

of Davante Smith last year, who was a rookie. These or his wide receivers Jalen reagor, greg Ward Quez Watkins Travis Fulgum, John Hyower, j j Arthago Whiteside, and Deante Burnett, who combined to drop eight touchdown passes for Jalen Hurts, who, by the way, according to Fantasy Pros, has the third ediest, third easiest strength of schedule for quarterback, arguably the top offensive line in the game. He's gonna have a monster here.

I think he has a better year than Lamar Jackson did in all Right, Um, if I in a super flex and Josh Allen is gone and I've got picked two, I'm going to Jonathan Taylor. And here's why. Positional differentiator. He's way way ahead of anybody else at his position. And when I look even through super flex drafts on my way back at pick number two, I'm looking at Derek Carr, Kirk Cousins. Maybe Russell Wilson falls and can go Jonathan Taylor, Russell Wilson, Jonathan Taylor, Kirk Cousins. I'm

cool with that. I'm I'm ready to go. I've got a massive positional differentiator, um as opposed to going say Justin Herbert or Mahomes or Borough or whoever you might have taken and pick number two with the running back that's left there. That's that's how I would go it. That's just me. That is you guys are when we come back, three Tough Questions, I will pepper my co host, with three tough questions. You can play along, try to

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Scott Fish Brian Johnson back for three Tough Questions. Right after this our number two Fantasy Football Weekly Paul Charchie and Guillotine Leagues dot Com, Brian Johnson Guillotine Leagues dot Com and Scott Fish of the Scott Fish Bowl, among other things. And this show Fantasy Football Weekly, there's a game we call three Tough Questions. I will pepper my co host, with the previously mentioned three tough questions. Tough question number one. We now know that Deshaun Watson can

return as early as week thirteen. Is he a top twenty fantasy quarterback in redraft leagues? Scott No, uh, he finished multiple times as a top six quarterback, like on the season when he when he was playing fall seasons, etcetera. But you're you're missing out on twelve weeks of your fourteen week fantasy season. And when when he comes back, he gets you know, a top top five D, bottom D five D and then three middle of the pack but rising defenses. Um, I just don't see it. You're

you're missing out almost the entire season. And the Best Ball data bros, like the people doing data work on Best Ball, say he is undraftable because that and though in that type of style you get his best weeks. You don't even have to worry about when to start him with the defenses. You get his best weeks. And they even they say he's undraftable in one quarterback leagues, I wouldn't put him in my top twenty at this point, all right, Brian, Is Deshaun Watson a top twenty fantasy

quarterback in redraft leagues? Yeah? I'm with Scott. And that's a big, big note for me um and for those who don't aware. While he's suspended, he's not practicing with the team, he's sitting at home, he's practicing on his own so when he comes back, he's going to be I think, and I could be wrong with somebody correct me. I believe now they've updated the suspension rules that you can come back like halfway through your suspension. Yeah, there's

there's there's a there's a little gap. Yeah. And I think the thinking was, and it's actually pretty sound, is you know, these kids get in trouble when they're away from the team, so they you suspend them and they're you're away from the team, and the safest best place for them to not get into trouble again is when they're with the team. So I think that's why they've they've changed the rules. But that may not change my mistake there. It's not changing my answer. And Scott mentioned

he's got a couple of decent matchups. He's the week thirteen one against the Texans looks good on paper. Then in week seventeen he has the Commanders, another good matchup. But in between those from weeks fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen a's Cincinnati, Baltimore and New Orleans. Those are all like bottom five past defenses that you want to face as an opposing quarterback. So bottom five that I want to face, you want to face. I do not want fantasy projections, nonant,

don't want to don't want to face them. Okay, alright, good secondaries should be is DeShawn Watson the top twenty fantasy quarterback and redraft leagues? Absolutely not? You are you've you you guys gave the right answer, but I think not the same rationale that I've got. How good is he going to be two years removed from play? I know how long is it going to take him to knock that rustoff? And and what about this? By the way, this Brown's roster outside of the quarterback position is really

really good, and the defense is very good. They've got stars all over this defense. They've got stars on the offense, Marie Cooper, Nick Chubb maybe or maybe not, Kareem Hunt, one of the great offensive lines in football. What if they roll into Week thirteen and they're like, you know, they're they're nine win team. You know what if they're nine and three, are they gonna automatically upset the apple cart? I've never an automatic What if Jacobe Prisette just isn't

losing games for a team that's winning other ways? Do they automatically try to work into Shaun Watson. Maybe not, and nobody's talking about that possibility, but I think that I think there's a chance that that ends up being the case. Tough question number two, What is the appropriate level of concern over Matthew Stafford's elbow injury? None? Some? Or a bowl loosening level of eggsistential dread. We're overdue for one of those, Brian. Uh, there's no way the

answer can be none here, But I'm not. I'm not poving my pants over Stafford's elbow just yet. It's just some for me. He hasn't been shut down in preseason. He's been throwing uh a lot in scrimmages this week. He's looked good. The Rams will monitor his work with throughout throughout the season and the pain, but there's certainly some concern. You don't want a kind of a rare injury for a quarterback to be happening to your quarterback, Matt Stafford. Okay, Scott is the appropriate What is the

appropriate level of concern for Matthew Stafford's elbow injury? None? Some? Or blowed? Okay, So for those who don't know this, at the elbow injuries started around Week ten or so, last year. He played through it week eleven on last year, and he averaged two eight yards and two point four

touchdowns per game with this injury. Um, however, his interceptions and fumbles he had, he had twelve picks and six fumbles in that stretch compared to one just one fumble and only uh looks like four picks before that, so barely holding out of the ball became an issue for him. But uh, as far as just outside of that, it is a little bit concerning that it's still an issue now. They they've been cautious and easy with him. I think

he's just going to have to play through it. But so it's just some because he's got more turnovers with it, it's a full year, he's getting older and he's still dealing with it. But I'm not just because he played so well with it last year. It can't be blowed. So it's some. It's the correct answer for the appropriate level of concern over Matthew Stafford's elbow injury is some. I don't like rolling into a season with last year's injury still and is it going to get better in

October November when we're games into this season. Here is the more concerning part of that. He shut it down himself for like months on end after the season, until you know, otis and stuff came up. He shut him down self. It's still not good. It's still not good. So many times and players choose a non surgical route for these things, it doesn't end up fixing the problem. And if he's going to have a reduced practice load to mitigate this elbow injury, well, I mean at some

point practice counselor why are we doing it? I mean it can't help to not have practice. So there is some level of concern here for the Matthew Stafford elbow injury. That is crazy though. Six turnovers before the injury and eight after the injury. Yeah, if you come playoffs, I suppose. Tough question number three, what's the appropriate level of concern for Antonio Gibson None? Some or a bowel loosening level

of existential dread? Scott, I am convinced you put this one in just so we would have a blowed player finally, our first blowed of the year, because this this is full out bobble loosening level of extended dread. In fact, I made a trade this week with the Gibson owner just because he was so you know, bobble Lucien, I guess so you brought on Gibson, you took him. I traded a running back to him because he was so

afraid of Gibson. Alright, which y'all should do out there, because the drumbeat for Brian Robinson has become really hard to ignore. And we know what mckissic is in this offense. He takes all the passing work, and they went out and stole him back from Buffalo when he was gonna go to Buffalo because they must have told him we got a role for you in this offense to bring him back. Um. We we've mentioned how he's Gibson. Antonio Gibson is practicing with a punt team and special teams

and third stringers. I feel like he's still going to have a role in this offense, but he is not going to be the ten plus touchdown guy we've seen for two years with a ton of touches. Brian, what is the appropriate level of concern Fantonio Gibson, Are you in full blown blowed? This is the most blowed I've ever in my entire life. Antonio Gibson you gotta be big time. He's been fumbling all preseason in practice. In the first preseason game, he led running backs and lost fumbles.

Last year in the regular season, as Scott said, he's running with the reserves. He's returning kicks. I heard he might even be parking cars a training camp. Yeah. I haven't seen an ADP like this tumble over a month over month in the long long time. He's gone from like a third round pick. Now he's going. I've seen him go to the ninth rounds. I've been seen him six and seventh, this last later recently because people everyone's blowed wheret what did you mount? Blowed more? I mean

the the Washington blowed you meant? I mean, you know, there's a lot of there's a lot of national parks and you know monuments that we can go with here. Right, you're a video game guy who remember load Runner, load Runner Runner? How do you know the load Runner? Yeah? I was born. I wish I was I wish I didn't know what load runs. Trust We'll just throw all these players and blowed Canyon. But the answer is blowed. About Antonio Gibson's appropriate level of concern, he did not

get better as expected. Last year, we all, you know, we we had a really nice rookie season. We thought he'd expand on that last season. Didn't happen. He was already yielding receptions to j D McKissick. Now it looks like he's going to yield at least goal lines to Brian Robinson and maybe more. And then there's the big clincher. And this's what you really have to look for. It's the fumbling. The six lost fumbles last year. Lost a fumble in the preseason game, the first preseason game. Listen,

the fumbling will put him on the bench. That's you have to keep an eye out for more fumbling in even practices in the preseason games, because that could be the thing that pounds Nay into Antonio Gibson's proverbial coffin. And none of us mentioned this is gonna be a bad team, especially offensively. I mean, we were talking about Sam Howell might serve cars. This is the starting quarterback. It's it's not gonna be a very run friend, is this gonna be? Is watching going to be the team

that scores the fewest points in the NFL? One of They'll be right there, am I not go. Yes, I mean I think it's the Bears. It's the Bears in the command this one. Yeah, it's not gonna be the Texans because we love the Texans on Davis like the Falcons too. Loves a little strong on the fact I didn't say love, he might have said, I like the When we come back, it's time for the favorite segment that we do all preseason. It's the Reach Around. Ten rounds of players we would reach a full round ahead

to get. Who is the player in the second round we would take in the first round, the player in the tenth round we played take the ninth round. Stay tuned for the Reach Around when we returned Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and Scott Fish, Brian Johnson with you. This is a segment we call the reach Around. We're gonna give you ten rounds of players that we would reach a round early to select.

For example, coming up first is players who on average go in the second round, but we would select in the first round. So these are all players we would select one round early. It's the second round. Who would you would second round or would you take in the first round? Scott, Yeah, I'm going with ste Kwon Barkley, and but by the time this, by the time you listen to this, or if you're listening to right now, he might already be in the first round at this point.

Up he is moving up. I'm still seeing him in the second round though, end of the second. All the drafts that did are beginning of the second All the drafts I did this week. His ankle injury last year a little flukey, as we've mentioned, had him in the sixty yards per week range. But he's going to get all the volume in the world being fullthy, fully healthy and in his final year of his contract. We've talked about Barkley is your first reach around player, Brian, I

presume you have the same guy. For the sake of the show, I went to him. But I'm certainly on board with Barkley in the first I've mentioned this earlier. I'm also on board with taking Alvin Kamara in the first round. Now, it's not definitive that he's not going to miss any time this season, but it sure looks like he won't face any sort of suspension until possibly

next year. Very slim chances that happens this year, and Kamara just an absolute beast since his rookie year in seen has the most total total touchdowns in the NFL and he's fully healthy. H he could easily lead the league in total touchdowns this season. So I said it before RB four for me right now, So that's a first round pick, my reach round player that it's from the second round I would take in the first round

I have in several drafts. Dallas wide receiver C D Lamb Marii Cooper has gone, Michael Gallops recovering from an a c L Jalen Tolbert's a rookie, James Washington's out for two months of the fractured foot. There's basically nobody left to catch a pass outside of him and Dalton Sheltz. Lamb can lead the league in targets. We alluded to this earlier in the show. Well, Brian and I think he could get a hundred sixty targets. I mean, it's it's giant numbers, quality passer and Dak Prescott, who I

think it's even better this year. You know, you're removed from the ankle injury, and also this ceedee Lamb is really good. At some point that counts for a lot too. I want my first rounder to be a really good player. Ceedee Lamb counts there couldn't help, but didn't. But you didn't mention seem for Hoko. I did not as a matter of fact, and I'm not going to Okay, okay, let's let's now go to the third round. Which third

rounder would you take in the second rounder? And to mix up the order a little bit, let's start with Brian. It's my boy Kyle Pitts, who last week Matt said he hated he loved the player, but hated the third round. A DP on Kyle Pitts, he as statement I've ever heard in my entire life. Second, I apologize to anyone who listened to that because it was just beyond words. So I'm gonna move on. I'm taking Kyle Pits in the second round, and I'll be happy to do so.

One of three tight ends the top one thousand yards last season. By the way, he's a tight end, but he plays wide receiver. He is an elite wide receiver who is eligible at tight end in absolute cheap code. Travis Kelsey Mark Andrews the only the two tight ends the top a thousand yards Pitts average more than fifteen yards per reception last year. That was more two yards more than both Kelsey and andrews Uh. He had thirty three contested catches last year, first among all tight ends.

Virtually unstoppable if you use him correctly, which he was not used correctly last year. Saw pissport targets from Matt Ryan. That's the only reason he had one touchdown. It was totally flukey. I don't want to hear about the one touchdown anymore. That does not matter. Sure it does. I'm not talking. I'm not drafting. Drafting this year and last year.

He still paid off at his ADP. By the way, even if you reach around on him and Delaney, Walker had great success with Marcus Mariotta when Mariotta was starting for the Tennessee Titans in six leaned on his tight end slash wide receiver hybrid, which Kyle Pitts is. Kyle Pitts in the second round. I'm fine with it, all right, Scott. I'm going to it's your third round player you would take in the second round. I am going with Travis E.

T n running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I'm chalking up last year's offense to Irvin Meyer, and I'm walking away from it, not at Honestly, it has to be better. I watched every game we've talked about on this show, me and you charged. We watched a lot. Lawrence was not accurate. But I gotta convince myself that that was bad preparation due to a bad coaching staff. All that

stuff was in his head. Um this year, he's got his safety valve from college back in Etn who has looked mostly great in camp Um Travis at N I think has tough ten running back in his range of outcomes in PPR. That that's not the only time we're gonna drag urban Meyer. That's gonna be recurrent theme I think for a while here. My reach round player in the third round that I would take in the second round is Indianapolis wide receiver Michael Pittman. There are many

workhorse wide receivers, but this is one of them. Pittman's competition for targets are Paris Campbell, rookie Alec Pierce, and tight end mo Ali Cox. The Colts didn't make a move at wide receiver and free agency because they believe they've got their future star wide receiver Michael Pittman. Defenses have to respect the run. That's gonna open up some downfield opportunities for Pittman. And Pittman post an eleven yards season under Carson Wentz, Matt Iron prevents represents significant upside

for Michael Pittman. And as a reminder, by the way and Pittman, Pittman was on pace for phenomenal year last year until Wentz caught up with him. Through Week nine of last year. Here was Michael Pittman's average game eight targets, six catches, seventy three yards, and point six touchdowns per game. He would have finished as a top twelve wide receiver had that continued without before he got winced into the

ground into the second half of last year. Michael Pittman, alright, let's go to round number four, Scott, who is the fourth rounder you had taken the third rounder of the reach round. Yeah, this is gonna be Allen Robinson. I've talked about this on the other show. I feel like we've gone over this a lot. Robert Woods was wide receiver thirteen went healthy. O b j was wide receiver twelve when he got there. Through the end of the season, I feel like Robinson just didn't want to play in Chicago.

It sounds like he's renewed. He's looking good. I want the I want the wide receiver too in that offense, and Alan Robinson going in the fourth with top twelve or you know, upside to be the twelfth wide receiver, the thirteenth wide receiver like those guys were. Man, I'm taking that all the eight at that point. All right, Brian, who is your fourth round receiver you would take in the third round. Yeah, I love a rob but I'll give a different answer, and I'm gonna go Ezekiel elliott

Um who people have forgotten this. He looked very good early on last year. In Week one, it was a rough outing. He finished his RB forty five, but he was facing the Bucks, who had the best grand defense in the NFL. Then in Week two through Week six he was RB seven, RB one, RB six, RB seven, and RB fifteen. In week six when he when he got hurt and he played through these injuries lingering knee and ankle issues. Uh, he's still averaging five point one

yards per carry. And it went beyond Zeke to the old line had a ton of issues, whether it was suspension or injury. Those should all be short up right now and offseason reports have been positive for Zeke, and again that are positive for everybody. But uh, I think Zeke does bounce back big time and I think we'll see him. We'll see Tony Pollard on the field a ton but as Eke will be active in the passing game as well. With their their lack of ask catching

options in Dallas, so I'd reach for Zeke. Third, my reach around player in the fourth that I would take in the third is Pittsburgh wide receiver Deonte Johnson. All about consistency, uh, And he had the NFL second most targets last year, ten per game. And even if that drops some, George Pickens looks really good waiting with that drops some, He's still sitting on a big, big usage season in ESPN scoring. Johnson had no games under ten Fantasy points last year. None. Can I make an argument

that doesn't get thrown out a lot there? Yeah? Please? Maybe his a dot and he did so much short stuff is because Ben couldn't throw it that far. Maybe that goes up. Yeah, that could be given the same volume with with a larger a dote. Oh boy, we'd like to see a little more downfield passing. Um. Yeah, the Steelers quarterback situation is not great, but Sad Trombone Sky can in fact throw the ball a few more than what we were getting out of the undead court.

Happy Trump, because we're happy right now about the prospects of Deonte Johnson. All right, let's go to the fifth round. Who is the fifth rounder you would take in the fourth round of our reach around, Brian. I like Houston's Brandon Cooks here, who had more top twenty four wide receiver finishes last year than Jamar Chase and t Higgins,

not combined, but as standalone players. UH. Cook's finished fourth teenth among wide receivers and targets per game at eight point four and that was with Torod Taylor and rookie Davis Mills. And we loved Davis Mills here to think he takes a big leap in his second year. And speaking of games with Davis Mills, Cooke's only played in nine full games with Mills last year, but he averaged sixteen plus PPR points per game in those UH nine games, and that had made him wide receiver twelve across the

full season. So I think there's a lot of safety with Brandon Cooks. He offers a lot of upside too, and what should be a much improved offense. Davis Mills believer right here, I'm one me too. Yep, yeah, we got three in this from three General Mills believers, matching tattoos after the show. Wait, you didn't get we were going to do that? Lest running out of space on my back. I get a lot of back tattoos, but I can find some room for David All tramps stamp

for you everything in that area. All right, let's Scott, what is your who is your fifth round player? And you would take in the fourth round? You know, this one had a couple of guys I liked and talking with you in the break like I gotta go back to my boy. I gotta go back to my boy Brown. I'm sorry, I just have to. I love that guy. I know that his big his big breakout came with you know, Swift and Hockinson injured at points. But just last year he was one of my sleepers in the

preseason because he would stay go early practice. He'd come late to stay late to practice, catching hundreds of balls from the drug machine. Two is ridiculously focused. I think that that that outbreak became what happened because of the natural progression of his rookie year and the trust and golf he Golf has set that he is his guy. I think he's gonna do it again this year. I want him on my team again. At this time last year, j K Dobbins was going in the second round of drafts. Yeah,

he really shut up. He was coming off of a six yard per carry rookie season in which he shared time with Mark Ingram and Gus Edwards and still finished as a top fifteen fantasy running back in the second half of his rookie year. And as a quick reminder on j K dobbins rookie year, the final game of his rookie season, which is also, by the way, his

most recent game. Hundred sixty yards and two touchdowns for j K Dobbins now prior to his uh like, like I mentioned before, prior to the injury last year, second round draft equity RB ten um. Since Greg Roman took over as Baltimore's offensive coordinator, Baltimore ranks number one in rushing plays and yes, Lamar Jackson accounts for some of that,

but this is still a deeply run heavy team. Dobbins's trending towards being available in week one, but you figure, you know, we're not talking about a guillotine league where I got a sweat getting knocked out of the league in week one, and for most regular most regular leagues, Okay, maybe it takes him. Maybe he's eight touches in week one, maybe he's twelve touches in week two, maybe he's fourteen touches in week three. And now I got J K.

Dobbins at full speed for the rest of you. Sure, all right, let's do one more round then we'll we'll take our fur I'll take a break from our reach around. Who is the round six player you would take? In round number five? Scott? I hate doing this, but I just wanted to talk about him, and actually Brian stole the thunder. I was going to talk about him earlier. Jalen Hurts. I hate taking quarterbacks necessarily. I love getting guys like Cousins and car and stuff in the double

digit rounds. But Jalen Hurts has every possible shot at being the overall number one quarterback this year. His rushing already makes him a top QB in twenty career fall games, he's finished as a top twelve quarterbacks seventeen times. That's ridiculous. That's what. Now he adds a J. Brown, he gets DeVonta Smith on a second year. Now that he knows the off he's got one of the better old one of the best off top probably a top five old line in the NFL. And my stat said the second

easiest schedule against quarterbacks. Your second you're said, thirties a top three easiest schedule against quarterbacks. He could easily be QB one And you're getting him in the fifth or sixth round, fifth round for the reach round for the gambling crowd, great bet for m v P. I loved hearing you drop that earlier, and I'm like, oh man, that's what I was going to talk about. Yeah, all right, Brian, who is your sixth round or you would take in

the fifth round? I should just kick this to you when I say Adam Feeling because this is right up your alley. But I would reach for Adam Feeling in the fifth Yes, he's thirty two, that's pretty old and football terms, but he's healthy now. He should have enough gas in the tank for at least one more season. At an elite level. Long story short, twenty four touchdowns over his last twenty eight games. If he's playing, he's likely going to score and those touchdowns game and Mike

Zimmer's archaic run first scheme. Now he's in this past happy past first offense under Kevin O'Connell. So i'd reach for adamland. I'm with you on Adam Feeland. I think he's the right pick here. Feeland has doesn't touchdown sitting in him if he plays the full season. I think he does play the full season this year. Well, I

hope he plays a full season. You can't know. No player has a higher conversion rate into touchdowns on passes that started inside the ten yard line plays that started inside the ten yard line over the last two years than Adam Feeling Kirk Cousins trust him implicitly with these money throws into the end zone. Cousins, by the way, sneaky player too. But Adam thelan is a fantastic reach around. We reach around in round six to round five. When we come back, we'll give you the rest of our

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This is where we identify a player that we would pay, we'd take around before they normally go. I believe we left off on I think Brian goes first, but I could be wrong. Let's go with Brian alright, it was round seven, who would you take in around seven players you had taken round six? Um, I'm going with another Jaguar. Scott had one earlier, and no it's not Dan Arnold Donald, it's Christian Kirk though. Um. Last season, Jacksonville wide receivers as as a unit, we're top twelve and catches in

the league. And that was with a rookie quarterback, UH, Trevor Lawrence, who was getting coached by the aforementioned biggest nim rod in NFL history, Urban Meyer. So things are only looking up for Jacksonville. And Kirk is the queer cut wide receiver one there. They paid him that kind of money. They're in a with the ball in his hands as much as possible. Um, I'll gladly take the team's top target at this stage of the draft, even if I'm reaching around at Christian Kirk. Okay, Christian kirk

Um Scott your round seven, reach around into round six. Yeah, I'm going with Ellena's Ard Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. Aaron Rodgers has anointed him the wide receiver one on the team. Uh. Future Hall of famer is what I hear has. The Rodgers has a real history of trusting the guys he's played with for years, and he's got a couple of new incomers

and rookies that'll be playing in that starting lineup. He's gonna trust Ellena's ard more than people think and less. Art has look good in the spots that he's had as a part time starter. Uh full complimented targets. I like him here. I also uplay Alanis Art. And let

me pose this. If Aaron Rodgers is gonna throw thirty thirty two thirty four touchdowns, which seems probable for Aaron Rodgers given his track record, regardless of who he's had over the course of his career, this would be These are low word, These are for sure lower numbers for him. How does Almos are not hit eight? I was just gonna say, it's not even possible to sounds is almost an eight minimum for Liza? It is, It's an eight

minimum for almost Art. And here you can go get him in the We would take him sixth round, one round ahead of his normal draft spot. All right, let's go to round eight. Who would you take? What eighth round? Or would you take in the seventh round? Back to Scott? Oh wow, switching up the order? Yeah, little back and forth. I know it's fun. This one is very clear for me because I'm taking him in the fifth and sixth

round because I don't care Ramandre Stevenson. The Patriots constantly run the ball near the stripe and they're run blocking his top notch with twenty eight runs last year of fifteen plus yards. He's every bit the bruiser Harris is. But now he's getting lots of like he's basically taking on the James White pass catching role in camp, and everybody is saying, everybody there says his pass blocking is improved.

I think that's kind an overrated thing because running backs past block like percent at the time at most, but those factors everything, every drum bread is good for Stevenson going forward forward and one injury and he's RB one a RB one Brian, who is the eighth round? Are you take in the seventh round? I think it's worth reaching a round on Dallas Goddard here. I only saw seventies six targets in one, but Zach Eartz was on Philly for half the season. Goddard was banged up, played

injured and missed a couple of games. I think there's a major uptick in volume for Goddard in a in an offense. We've spoke very highly of in Philadelphia right now, and all the metrics are there for a breakout for Goddard. Last year, he averaged two point two targets per I'm sorry, two point two points per target in PPR League's second in yards per reception among tight ends at fifteen yards, first in yards per route run let all tight ends,

and completed air yards per target. Love Dallas Goddard this year. I also have Remondre Stevenson as my reach around player from round eight to round seven. You know, the one thing you didn't in Scott you covered most of the bases here. There's a lot of rumors that Damien Harris could be traded off the team entirely. Now. Moving running backs isn't easy because most teams don't value them very highly. You don't get much return. So I don't know that

that's going to happen. But if this team is willing to trade Damien Harris, maybe Romandri Stevenson already is the number one running back there and they just haven't made you know, Bill Belichickson, We're gonna tell you until you know you find out on Week one there's a chance that that's already happened and it's just not reflected on the unofficial depth chart. We now go to round nine. Who is the Round nine player you would take in

Round eight? Brian, I'm reading for Robert Woods here. I know he's coming off the knee injury, but he looks great in camp. From what I've seen, he looks fully healthy to me, and I am an internet doctor just like the rest of us on Twitter and whatnot. But uh clear chemistry with Ryan Tannehill. We've already mentioned Treylon Brookes struggling big time, So who's his prime competitor for targets? The other rookie Kyle Phillips. H Woods was getting drafted

before Cooper Cup last year. I know he was on the Rams and a lot has changed since then. He's now on the Titans, a different quarterback, but uh Woods one of the best route runners in the game still, and I think he's the clear cut top target for the Titans, and I think he'll be ready to go week one. He said he's watching the game tape already for his matchup against the Giants. Could turn out to be a great value, just like his old teammate Cooper

Couple was last year. All right, Scott, who is the round nine player you had taken Round eight? I would like to take Damian Pierce running back for the Houston Texas. But I will I will yield. Yeah, yeah, Well, we've already talked about Damian Pierce once in this show, which actually to be at this late stage of the show,

and have only mentioned Damien Pierce one other time. It really is a measure of my personal Really, hearkens back to the Zach Moss here you shot about at because I'm gonna be way more right about well if you want to go back to the Monty ball here, but remember just the thing I was piercing, Well, good, I'm glad to have I'm glad to have you on team Pierce.

No chance that Pierce's ADP stays as low as he has now moved to right, And that's what you're gonna have to You're gonna have to move wave and beyond round eight, I think at this point, because he's surging up draft boards, Damian Pierce, you're starting running back, getting first team reps on an improving Houston offense that is going to, at a bare minimum give him goal line looks. But I think he's gonna get a lot more than that. And what people don't realize about beers he can catch.

This kid's probably sitting on thirty forty receptions that it's gonna chip in and give him, gonna negate some of some of the bad Houston Texans games that I think he's I think he's going to ultimately be very safe. And I'm going to work Damien Pierce as right now a flex style running back, but I'm starting to talk myself into making him like an RB two that I can feel comfortable taking. Uh, starting most weeks. Let's go

to round number ten. Who are you taking? What round ten player are you taking that you could take in round nine? I think Round Scott for this one. Sure. I was a little surprised to see Kirk Cousins on this list as a possible option because I try to get him everywhere. I My bold call earlier in this offseason was that he would have a top five quarterback season. He's routinely around ten, but he's going five instead. I'm gonna give you someone else, all right that you kind

of just gave us Kirk Cousins. Okay, I'll give you Kirk Cousins and I was gonna say Jalen Tilburt. We've talked about how there's a lot of injuries and stuff going on with the Dallas Cowboys jail in your Ceedee Lamb talk about him getting a ton of work. Jalen Tilbert is a beast, a big, strong, fast beast that also has looked good in camp, and he's probably going to be the de factor number two to start the season. I'm not sure he's going to relinquish it, all right, Brian,

who is the tenth rounder you're taking and not round nine? Yeah? I got I got Tilbert two, And it's really all about opportunity. He looks like the clear cut wide receiver too. Of course, Ceedee Lamb is the top wide receiver Dallas Goddard. I'm not Dallas Gotter Dalton Schultz gonna command a lot of targets in that offense. But Tolbert looks really good. He's very well polished, and he's kind of got that small school stigma out of South Alabama. Um. I think

that's why he kind of fell. He didn't fall far in the draft. He was a third round pick by Dallas, went before guys like David Bell, Danny Gray we were talking about, but it's really about opportunity. I think you'll see a hundred targets if you stays healthy. I love Kirk Cousins in in round Uh, this would be round nine for some reasons. You already touched down. If we think he's got two top twenty wide receivers and maybe

the number one wide receiver. UM, I don't see how what's not to like about having Kirk Cousins with you know, Plus you know it feels like high thirties for a touch of He was thirty three last year in a stone age offense. You feel like Kirk Cousins could be closer to forty touchdowns this year. But let me mention one of the another guy, since we're apparently we're mentioning too in that we're how about Hurtz? Right, you've slept

that tight end position. Zach Ertz to me by a DPS, this is the last safe, reliable tight end you can get. Last year, from the point of his trade to Arizona forward, he was tight end five five and here we are round nine. I can go get a reliable tight end in round nine. That's a gift because everybody after this has got major question marks. Let's move to round eleven of our reach around. Who's the eleventh rounder you would take in the tenth round? Brian, You know I love

tight end talk. So if I missed out on Kyle Pitts in the second round, if I get sniped there Dallas Goddard in the seventh, everybody said, but I like Cole Commet a lot. We don't. We don't like the Bears a ton overall as a team. But I think he should be the top or the second target behind Darnell Mooney in that offense. Zero touchdowns for Commit last year, that doesn't matter to me. Like I said, like one touchdown for Kyle Pitts, I do not care about last year.

You get him at a better value. Get him at a better value. Last year he was still one of only nine tight ends with at least sixty catches and end six hundred yards. The corpse of Jimmy Graham was stealing opportunities from Commit last year as well. Graham he gone, So I like cool Commit at this point. I think he has top ten tight end potential potential. Excuse me, Scott, who is the eleventh round player you would take in the tenth round of our reach around. I love comment

that's a great pick um. This one feels very chalkish actually. In George pickens uh I mentioned a couple of weeks ago he's getting reps on the outside with Clay Pool playing big slot. We saw his touchdown from the outside in in the preseason game. He's just making highlight catch after highlight catch, which he did before his injury in

college as well. Um, even though he's going right right at the right at the start of the double digit rounds, I think he's got every opportunity to be an eight hundred plus six to touch down six to ten touch on guy. In fact, eight hundred and six feels like his floor to me as a starting wide receiver in that offense. Um. The only reason he dropped is because off the few old into issues, maturity concerns, previous injury. Otherwise he should be right up there with all the

other stud rookie wide receivers in this class. My eleventh round player I would take in the tenth round is Chargers wide receiver Josh Palmer, and he was my sleeper last week in our episode. But I just I have I feel compelled to talk about him. Again. Not everybody was listening last week, although you should, and we encourage you to go back to the podcast and and re listen. Josh Palmer getting first team reps in all all off

season and now into training camp. Um. He is clearly outpaced any contenders for the Chargers third receiver job, which will put him on the field a lot. As a rookie last year, Josh Palmer was pretty quiet until December and then he exploded. The snap count effectively tripled and all of his output effectively tripled. Now is a sophomore, Josh Palmer is gonna be better. He's gonna get regular playing time, and he's got a great quarterback throwing to

him in a high powered offense. I love Jo Palmer as one of my favorite sleepers overall, and he's a player I would take in the tenth round instead of the eleventh round. All right, let's move to our Sleepers of the week. We always do that final segment of every show. Brian, I'm gonna begin with you for your sleeper for this week. I like uh Indies Alec Pierce rookie wide receiver. U looks to be the wide receiver

too as of right now alongside Michael Pittman. Paris Campbell a threat to uh take that role, but Paris Campbell has had a little trouble staying on the field throughout his career and rave reviews coming from Pierce out of camp. Matt Ryan loves him and he's a beast too, six three huge wingspan forty plus inch vertical. And uh, it's not like he's been shredding second string third string cornerbacks in practice. He's been beating on the regular Stefan Gilmour,

who's an All Pro cornerback. I mean, there's a ton of potential here for Alec Pierce and what should be a improved offense. He's gonna see single coverage all day every day and uh yeah, he's gonna set a run And I like Alic just thinking about the Colts have a type man between Moli Cox and Gelanni Woods and Alec Pierce. Michael Pittman like that there are stretched together could go the whole football field. Almost a lot of

wigs span. I just drafted Alec Pierce in a in a Dynasty League second round and um Empire League, and I I went back and just watched through his college tape again and just make you know, get really comfortable with Alec Pierce. Man. That's a pretty compelling tape. Let me tell you contested catches running from the slot, running outside, good good vision and angles after the catch, big bodied guy, Alec Pierce very very tempting. Um. I don't know how

long it's gonna take him to emerge. But here's what I do know is as much as we love Michael Pittman and to talk about him being a workhorse wide receiver, he can't catch every pass and the most I think, the second most likely target to end up with any with passes his pro Paris Campbell. Oh, I love how I feel about Paris. Can I know that's why in there? All right? Uh? Scott? Who is your sleeper this week? So?

I wanted to go with George Pickens, but I feel like we've talked about him in a bunch and people are starting to catch on, starting to I think he's biggest stories of the office. Yes, And so I'm gonna go way way deeper back to my deeper roots, in deeper deeper leagues. Dynasty League's last pick of your draft, I'm going with Jalen Warren five ft eight two fifteen pound kind of bowling polish, but he can't catch you. Had twenty five catches in his senior in his UH

junior season was his final season college. He has completely supplanted. According to multiple reports, Benny Snell and Anthony McFarland as the primary backup behind Naji Harris, who does take everything, so he's probably not gonna get you like any kind of flex play. But if Nagi goes down, here's here's

the other. Yes, Brian, you want to say, Okay, so I was I was gonna say, nag you know, never came off the field, and I'm sorry if you're gonna say this, but they want him to not be on the field this much this year, so the backup running back guaranteed to get touches that. You're probably gonna say that, and I'm sorry, no, no, no, I actually wasn't gonna

bring that up. But the last thing I was going to mention is not only is he supplanted and made the second he got worked with the ones this last week, that's how much they're starting to believe in there. Wow, that says a lot. So if you want that last rosters handcuff, there you go Jlen Warren. Um, My sleeper this week is Buffalo wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie. It's not I haven't made it official, but Mackenzie's won the slot

receiving for the Bills. It's it's over, and that means that they haven't notarized it, but right exactly, they don't have. They don't officially sealed yet. Um. He's always been a special team's nightmare for opposing teams and now he's going to get his first crack at regular offensive usage. And we saw a glimpse of special Outputaiah mackenzie very last year. Cole Beasley missed Week sixteen of last year. That was

the one game Beasley missed. Mackenzie took sixties seven snaps, eleven catches a hundred twenty five yards in a score. And despite all the drama around Cole Beasley last year, I say, Mackenzie, you know he or brother Colbsy was a spot starter with double digit fantasy points in half his games. And I think Isaiah McKenzie's got way more upside than Cole Beasley did, so I think he can be a spot starter for your fantasy team. Too. Freakish

speed in athleticism. I think Mackenzie could be sitting on a very nice year. The player I almost mentioned here Baltimore tight end Isaiah like me like here the week I talked to him. But I'm keeping I'm telling keep liking this guy. He's gonna be a wide receiver in name only. They're gonna get some receiver roofs uh. Please check out gaiety leaks dot com, my cheche available for free, and the freshest, funnest new way to play fantasy football.

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