Favorite Late-Round Players AFTER Pick 100! Fields, Warren, Prescott, Mason, & More! (05/22 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Fantasy Football Today – "Favorite Late-Round Players AFTER Pick 100! Fields, Warren, Prescott, Mason, & More!" (05/22 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Release Date: May 22, 2025
Hosts: Adam Aizer (Host 1), Dave Richard (Host 2), Jamey Eisenberg (Host 3)

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Introduction

In the May 22nd episode of Fantasy Football Today, hosted by Adam Aizer alongside analysts Dave Richard and Jamey Eisenberg, the panel delves into the strategies surrounding late-round picks in fantasy football drafts. Focusing specifically on players available after the 100th pick, the hosts explore high-potential quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends that can provide significant value to fantasy teams. Additionally, they address listener questions and share pertinent NFL news.

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Late-Round Quarterback Picks

Adam Aizer opens the discussion by highlighting the availability of quarterbacks like Darnell Mooney and Keon Coleman beyond the 100th pick. He emphasizes Mooney's impressive per-game performance last season despite limited red zone targets:

“Darnell Mooney is available after pick 100! He was a number 3 wide receiver on a per game basis last year and he did that with only six red zone, two green zone, and one end zone target in all of 2024. Come on, let's get a few more of those.”
[00:55]

Dave Richard shares his enthusiasm for tight ends but eventually transitions into the quarterback discussion, suggesting that selecting quarterbacks like Dak Prescott and J.J. McCarthy can be advantageous due to their upside:

“Dak Prescott has been a top fantasy quarterback in three of the last five years when healthy, and with his new weapons, he's poised for another strong season.”
[20:45]

Jamey Eisenberg adds depth to the quarterback analysis by discussing the potential of rookies and second-year players, mentioning Caleb Williams and Jordan Love as intriguing options:

“There's a lot of upside with guys like Caleb Williams and J.J. McCarthy, especially if their teams' offenses improve and their roles expand.”
[17:03]

Late-Round Running Back Picks

Transitioning to running backs, Jamey Eisenberg advocates for drafting under-the-radar players like Jordan Mason, especially if starting running backs like Aaron Jones face reduced workloads due to injuries:

“If what Jamie says becomes big time mainstream news, he will absolutely be in that range, if not higher.”
[04:00]

Adam Aizer concurs, highlighting J.K. Dobbins as a late-round gem, especially in leagues like Eliminator Leagues where late acquisitions can turn the tide:

“J.K. Dobbins, 13th round. Something like that.”
[06:33]

Dave Richard emphasizes the importance of drafting running backs who can serve as effective handcuffs or flex options, citing Isaac Garendo and Zach Charbonnet as key examples:

“Zach Charbonnet is at the top of the list because we've seen him thrive in tandem with Walker, and he could be a consistent flex option.”
[28:10]

Late-Round Wide Receiver Picks

Wide receivers after the 100th pick present both opportunities and challenges, as noted by the hosts:

Dave Richard mentions Ricky Pearsall and Keon Coleman as potential late-round targets, praising their roles in their respective offenses:

“If you're looking at the player pages, Ricky Pearsall is a first-round draft pick and a valuable asset in Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy’s offense.”
[43:50]

Adam Aizer expresses skepticism about Darnell Mooney's ceiling, reflecting on his historical performance:

“Darnell Mooney has been in the league for five years and never finished in the top 30 per game. I don't see him having a league-winning potential here.”
[46:35]

Jamey Eisenberg counters by highlighting the Falcons' lack of depth and the increased opportunities for receivers like Drake London and Matt Golden:

“Drake London should easily be north of 150 targets, and Matt Golden is going in this range as an easy player to click on.”
[44:08]

Late-Round Tight End Picks

Tight ends often present unique late-round opportunities, with Tyler Warren and Tucker Kraft standing out as reliable options:

Dave Richard emphasizes the potential of both Tyler Warren and Tucker Kraft, citing Warren’s talent and the Colts' offensive setup:

“With Tyler Warren, the opportunity will be there in Indianapolis. He's going to run a bunch of routes inside of 10 yards, expecting a lot of catches and big-time red zone threats.”
[02:10]

Jamey Eisenberg brings attention to Dalton Kincaid as another promising tight end in late rounds, noting his talent despite previous injuries:

“Dalton Kincaid pops when he gets targets. He's still a pretty talented player, and I hope he can secure a consistent target in his team's offense.”
[54:27]

Listener Questions: "How to Lose Your Fantasy League"

The hosts entertain a humorous segment where they address a listener's question about inversing strategies to guarantee a fantasy football loss. Dave Richard provides tongue-in-cheek "advice" that, if followed, would indeed sabotage a fantasy team:

“If you really want to lose your fantasy league, start by taking a quarterback in round one instead of building depth at other positions.”
[08:09]

Adam Aizer and Jamey Eisenberg add to the humorous advice by suggesting poor draft decisions, such as overreaching for injured players or panicking too early on potential starters.

News and Notes

The episode also touches on recent NFL news, including the passing of Jim Irsay, the owner of the Colts:

“Sad to see it. Did not ban the tush push. Does this change anything for you guys?”
[10:05]

Jamey Eisenberg discusses the implications of Bashel Tutin's performance and concerns about his ball security, referencing past fumbles:

“He had nine fumbles in college. So, watch his development and role in the Jaguars' offense closely.”
[11:04]

Dave Richard and the hosts also analyze reports from NFL Network’s Cameron Wolf regarding Devon H. Hand’s usage with the Dolphins, emphasizing the importance of his involvement in the offense for fantasy purposes.

Wide Receiver and Tight End Deep Dives

In the latter part of the episode, the hosts conduct an in-depth analysis of specific wide receivers and tight ends, assessing their potential impact in the upcoming season:

Adam Aizer reviews Ricky Pearsall, praising his integration into the Falcons' offense and potential for high target volumes:

“Ricky Pearsall is a first-round draft pick and offers excellent value in a pass-heavy offense.”
[44:08]

Jamey Eisenberg evaluates Keon Coleman, noting his high yards after the catch (ADOT) and the need for him to lower his ADOT to achieve consistent fantasy points:

“Keon Coleman has a 15-yard ADOT, which is exceptional. However, consistency is key, and lowering that ADOT could make him a reliable fantasy asset.”
[48:10]

Dave Richard highlights late-round rookies like Matthew Golden and Abuka, emphasizing their potential roles and opportunities within their teams:

“Matthew Golden is currently ranked 141st and offers great late-round value as a first-round receiver.”
[43:50]

Conclusion

Wrapping up the episode, Adam Aizer reiterates the importance of strategic late-round picks and encourages listeners to consider the upside and potential roles of these undervalued players. He also reminds the audience of the upcoming Memorial Day break and previews the next episode focusing on wide receivers and tight ends available after the 100th pick.

“Thank you, guys, and we will talk to you on Tuesday with a new edition of Fantasy Football Today. Have a wonderful three-day weekend!”
[53:39]

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Key Takeaways

• Late-round quarterbacks like Dak Prescott and J.J. McCarthy offer high upside and can be strategic picks after the 100th round.
• Running backs such as Jordan Mason and J.K. Dobbins serve as valuable handcuffs and flex options, especially in injury-prone backfields.
• Wide receivers like Ricky Pearsall and Keon Coleman provide potential late-round steals, but consistency and role within the offense are critical considerations.
• Tight ends such as Tyler Warren and Tucker Kraft can outperform their draft position, offering significant value in later rounds.
• Engaging with listener questions and addressing common drafting pitfalls can enhance strategic decision-making for fantasy managers.
• Staying updated with NFL news and player developments is essential for making informed draft and waiver wire decisions.

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This episode serves as a comprehensive guide for fantasy football enthusiasts aiming to maximize the value of their late-round picks, offering insights, player evaluations, and strategic advice to dominate their leagues.

Transcript

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[Host 1]

Thursday, May 22nd yesterday we told you about our favorite mid round picks. Now we're looking at picks 100 and later. Who are our favorite late round picks? Did you know that Darnell Mooney is available after pick 100? He was a number 3 wide receiver on a per game basis last year and he did that with only six red zone, two green zone and one end zone target in all of 2024. Come on, let's get a few more of those. Darnell Mooney, did you know that Keon Coleman, another guy available late in drafts, averaged 7.4 yards after the catch per reception with a 15.2 yard a dot. That combination of ADOT and Yak is. It's like he's in a world of his own there now it was only there not a lot of catches, but we haven't seen something like that since Marquez Valdez scantling folks. So Keon Coleman, I thought that was pretty interesting. He had a high a dot. Did a lot after the catch, but unfortunately small sample probably doesn't mean much. Anyway, welcome to the show guys. What is your your favorite late round pick? Dave, if you had to pick one right now, give me. Give me a favorite late round pick.

[Host 2]

I I love I've talked about this duo of tight ends quite a bit. The TE's Tucker craft, Tyler Warren, both of them are going after 100th overall. I'm not sure if they're going after 100th overall in our drafts, but I I remember hearing Matt LaFleur talk about Tucker Craft as soon as the season ended saying we got to get this guy more involved. His efficiency was Outstanding. I. I think with more target volume, he could be a top 10 fantasy tight end, if not a top five. And with Tyler Warren, it's just. I'm in love with the talent. I think the opportunity will be there in Indianapolis as well. I know the quarterbacks stink. They still can get the ball to this guy who's 66250 and is going to run a bunch of routes inside of 10 yards. So a lot of catches on deck and hopefully a big time red zone threat for the Colts too. Not necessarily at the goal line, but let's stay between the 20 and the 5. That's where I would expect to see a lot of Tyler Warren make some big numbers this year.

[Host 1]

Okay, so that's a couple of tight ends to. To keep in mind. Tyler Warren and Tucker Kraft. And in the draft that we did yesterday, Tyler. Tyler Warren went with the second to last pick of round 12, Tucker Kraft. Dave took him with the second to last pick of Round 13. How about that, Jamie? Who is your favorite late round pick?

[Host 3]

I'll go with Jordan Mason. If we're getting him in this range, he may end up being the best running back for the Vikings. If Aaron Jones at his age misses anytime. Last year he played through three separate injuries and Kevin o' Connell is already talking about reducing his workload from a year ago. So I'm going to let a lot of people draft Aaron Jones and I'm going to draft a lot of Jordan Mason. So especially where I've seen Jones go and in some cases seen him ranked. Yeah, I'm out on Aaron Jones and Mason's value to me is incredible.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

So you think he'll be a top one after 100th overall in drafts come August.

[Host 3]

They'll be close. Unless Jones gets hurt around seven, eight.

[Host 2]

Lay them straight.

[Host 1]

I don't think he's going to be around 78 pick Jordan Mason. That's.

[Host 2]

Dude. If it gets out that if what Jamie says becomes like big time mainstream news, he will absolutely be in that range, if not higher.

[Host 1]

Go through this again. If what Jamie says that he could be the best running back, what specifically would have to happen?

[Host 2]

We're gonna lower the workload for Aaron Jones so that Jordan Mason can get his hands on the ball more. And by the way, they've got a pretty inexperienced quarterback now, so getting the run game going is going to be pretty important for Minnesota this year, I would think.

[Host 1]

I will bet you a one gazillion dollars and I have it. Dave, you can check gazillion. He will not be. Jordan Mason will not be picked in the first seven rounds or eight. I don't see it.

[Host 3]

Not. Not if Aaron Jones is healthy. If he suffers.

[Host 1]

Yeah, I know they're right. If Aaron Jones is.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Host 3]

I would venture to guess that Aaron Jones may be around seven pick.

[Host 1]

I mean, looking at who went in round eight in our draft yesterday, I guess I could see it. But this won't be reflective of ADP because there'll be more quarterbacks taken in adp. But where did Mace go yesterday? Mation went in round 11, but other guy. But I was going to say, like, what's his best case scenario? Preseason? That people look at him the way they look at Taij Spears. But Spears went in round eight. So did.

[Host 2]

How did he go. How did he go after Elijah Mitchell and Braylon Allen and Jaylen McMillan and Tank Bigsby? No. Well, he's going to go ahead of all those guys. He's probably moving up. He'll be moving on up.

[Host 1]

Yeah. Okay. Well, those are a couple later on picks we like. My favorite late round pick right now. And this is definitely someone who. Who will move up. But if you're drafting now, J.K. dobbins, I took him in the 13th round yesterday. What a team. What a squad. Let's play it out. I crushed it, but J.K. dobbins, 13th round. I also took him in the Eliminator League, that one of the Eliminator Leagues that I'm doing so super late. But all it's going to take is for him to sign with the Chicago Bears and then J.K. dobbins could be a top eight round pick. Something like that.

[Host 2]

But what if he doesn't sign with anybody and he reverts back to the Chargers roster?

[Host 1]

Yeah. Then I'm going to drop my 13th round pick out of 14 rounds. You.

[Host 2]

That's fine. Will it make you think any differently of Amari and Hampton or Naji Harris? Not that you think highly of Najee Harris.

[Host 1]

Oh, if Dobbins is. Oh, that. Yeah. I don't know. That's interesting. I would not love that. Yeah. What about you?

[Host 2]

I think I'd have to be a little bit more concerned about Hampton. And I mean, I'm already kind of treating Naji like he's toxic. So it'll be double toxic if. If Dobbins is still there.

[Host 1]

All right, folks. All right. We had an interesting question. Thomas. Oh, wait. Do we have a screenshot or just want me to read the question? Sorry. So I'll just read the question? Yeah, you can just Read the question. All right, now I have to find the question. Okay, so we had a screenshot from a comment that Thomas sent to me via text comment from Brian from yesterday's show. And it says, hey, Thomas, when I have problems, I try to invert to eliminate things that I know will not work. So my problem is, how do I win my league? Could you do an inversion episode? Like a surefire way to lose my league? So Brian wants us to. It's almost like the Costanza thing. Just do the opposite of what he would normally do and things would work. But that's Dave. Let's give him some terrible advice. How to guarantee to lose your fantasy league. You had some good ones. What'd you come up with?

[Host 2]

All right, so here's the list that I have because I thought that this idea was fun. First and foremost, if you really want to lose your fantasy league, you can start out by taking a quarterback in round one. And I mean, listen, you can still win your league if you actually do this, but why take great talent at a different position when you can take a quarterback in round one while the difference between that quarterback and the guys that'll go later on is negligible by comparison? And I've seen people take two quarterbacks with their first four picks. Now in a 2QB league, it's a great move. In a 1 QB league, I still see it. I don't get it. That'll help you lose your league. As a player coming back from a torn acl, Reach for him. It's a player holding out from training camp. Reach for him, too. Who cares if a guy is on a team that won't score a lot of touchdowns, Draft them anyway. And the last thing I wrote was, targets don't matter. Overlook targets. Focus on touchdowns, because that's certain to repeat year over year for everybody. Well, it kind of does for Mike Evans, but everybody else, I don't think so.

[Host 1]

It is kind of an interesting exercise to just put out there into words bad ideas to make sure you don't do them. What did I say? I said, now we're gonna get comments.

[Host 2]

From people, by the way, who are like, I take a quarterback in round one every year and I win my league every year. You guys are jokers. So I'm open to arguments about some of this stuff.

[Host 3]

Don't we usually have these conversations about, like, auction strategies?

[Host 1]

Yeah, sure. I said, you should drop rookie wide receivers after two bad weeks. That's a little throwback to Justin Jefferson for Peyton Barber. And Schaefer reminded me Yesterday during the show privately that I also dropped lad McConkey last year. I think that was a little more reasonable. But that one did not work out for me. So I think. Yeah, but that's a good one about one more.

[Host 2]

One more one more panic on a player after one week.

[Host 1]

Yeah. Or spend big on Isaiah likely on on in Fab. That's actually a good one. Right. Spend big on on the if it's like a backup running back that's replacing someone who just got hurt, you know, then I get it. But people spent man, I remember some crazy bids 80% on on Isaiah likely. Right. So yep, it's fun. It was a fun question and actually I think kind of can be helpful to just talk about the the mistakes that people make so you can avoid doing them in the future. All right, news and notes Start with a sad note here and our thoughts to the family and friends of Jim Irsay, Colts owner who passed away yesterday at the age of 65. Sad to see it the N did not ban the tush push. Does this change anything for you guys? Were you ranking anyone as if tush push would be banned or is this just full, you know, status quo now?

[Host 3]

Again, I'll go back to what I said. I don't think they were going to change their quarterback sneak philosophy if the tush push was banned. So no, did not change anything.

[Host 1]

Liam Cohen was was talking about Bashel Tutin fumbling rookie running back for the Jaguars fourth round pick. He fumbled in practice and he kind of called that out. Also said some good things about Tootin. But this is a guy that I think Schneier was talking about it last week. Had ball security issues. Right. Jamie, Didn't Dan bring that up?

[Host 3]

Yes, he said he had nine fumbles in college.

[Host 1]

Yeah, nine times. Nine times. So yeah, I was actually Bigsby Bigsby yesterday went in round 11 in our draft and in the consensus rankings that we were looking at for the purposes of this show, tank Bigsby is 100/01 123rd overall. So that would again be round 11. Where did Tootin go in this draft? He went. He went two picks later. So I don't know, maybe Tootin is not going to have that big of a role this year, especially if he handled on the football. We'll keep an eye on the development. Dave, what'd you make of the the report from NFL Network's Cameron Wolf that the Dolphins. I don't know if it's running back coach or offensive coordinator. I'm sorry. Saying that Devon H. Hand needs to get more work this year.

[Host 2]

I like that. But I also read a story that said that Mike McDaniel talked about Achan and and Jalen Wright working together a lot more often and getting right more involved in the offense. HN's still going to be the main guy, but I, I think the same durability concerns that they had for HN at this time last year still exist and there's nothing wrong with them taking them off the field in low value situations, second and eight from midfield, something like that. I do wonder a little bit about why they signed Alexander Madison, why they drafted Ali Gordon. Is it possible that one or both of those guys could end up taking short yardage work away from HN or from Wright if Wright ends up playing a little bit more than he did last year? Still love A Chan, still taking him with an early round pick. Just I, I, I hope that that report, the one you're referencing is what comes to fruition, that they just, they put more on his plate, they're comfortable with it and and he ends up being, you know, close to, you know, 300, 310 touches with the majority of them coming through the air.

[Host 1]

13 carries, five touchdowns in in his career from the three yard line or closer for Devon HN. Maybe something to keep in mind? Probably not. I mean small sample but not great numbers from near the goal line. And Garrett Wilson was singing Kumbaya with the jets and there've been some talk about maybe he wants a trade, but he says he wants to be with the jets for his career, wants the contract and head coach Aaron Glenn said he wants to get Garrett Wilson the ball as much as possible. All right, we're going to take a break and when we come back we will talk about our favorite late round picks. We've already given you Tucker Kraft, J.K. dobbins and Jordan Mason. So we'll talk about more players that we like, including basically every quarterback. We'll be back after this on Fantasy Football Today.

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And malt, 15% alcohol by volume. Buzzballs LLC Carrollton, Texas all right, so I want to start out with the quarterback discussion here. And basically the. The premise of today's show is our favorite late round picks. What we're using to define a late round pick is the consensus PPR rankings that are on fantasy pros and anyone picked 1 or ranked. Ranked, excuse me, 100th or later. We do not have ADP, reliable ADP to use at the moment, but anyone ranked 100th or later. So in this case, picks or players 99 and 100 in the rankings are Brock Purdy and Caleb Williams. And then Jordan Love is 100, and then Dak Prescott is 107th. And then Justin Fields, 1, 09, C.J. stroud, 110. So that is six quarterbacks in 12 picks. But that's when they're going to start flying off the board. My question for both of you, because Dave has Dak Prescott, J.J. mcCarthy and Jalen Milroe, which I'm assuming will be a super Flex thing. Jamie has Justin Fields, Drake May, and Trevor Lawrence. I mean, I, if it were me, I would say Justin Fields, Dak Prescott, Trevor Lawrence, Drake May. Who did I drive even to? I guess the question like, who don't we like? Which late round quarterbacks don't we like? How do you even choose? I think Justin Herbert, Jordan Love. You know, I don't even know what order it's going to be in, but I remember yesterday in the draft we did, I'm going to take, oh, Anthony Richardson, Anthony Richards, another one I definitely want to take. It's like, all right, I'm going to take any one of these seven guys. So I'm just going to keep waiting and waiting. So Jamie, as you make that decision, are there guys that you zero in on? Are there guys that you just cross off the list? Because I know there are going to be a lot of late round quarterbacks that we like.

[Host 3]

I think it comes down to, you know, if you're taking one of these guys as your starter and the only quarterback you're drafting or if you're planning to take them as your second quarterback with the hope that they Hit it big and you can either pivot to that quarterback or you're trying to trade that quarterback. And so in the, in the case of who's got the safer floor of some of the guys that you mentioned, you know, obviously I think you look at Dak and what he's done and I think it's three of the last five years before the last five years when he's been healthy, he's been very good fantasy quarterback and now he just got a new weapon. If you're talking about, you know, shooting for the stars with, you know, one of these guys that's going to use their legs, you know, you mentioned Richardson, obviously, Fields. I think Drake Mays deserves to be in that conversation based on what he showed last year. But there's a lot of questions, you know, so those aren't exactly the ones I want to go into the season with as my only quarterback. But it again depends on what your league is and how you draft. So I did a draft and I think did I take Fields in the half PPR draft yesterday? I did two drafts back to back. So I'm a little.

[Host 1]

You did.

[Host 3]

I did a draft with the fantasy pros guys. I know in the fantasy pros draft I drafted Caleb Williams and it was interesting because using their mock draft product and it was four of us drafting and then auto draft using their draft simulator. It's pretty cool product. The, the idea was I took Caleb Williams. Even though I have Dak Prescott ranked higher, it's four points for passing touchdowns in that mock draft. So I took Caleb Williams and then all the, all the safe guys like went. Dak went, Purdy went. I forget who else Herbert might have went. Also golf went. And then I just took Drake May and so just went with, you know, two questionable guys, you know, if you, if you want to, you know, categorize them. But so much upside as we're, you know, you know, expecting to see, you know, with better receiving cores and better coaching and all those things that go along with them. So I think it comes down to again, what you're, what you're looking at. And we, I think there were three of, three of the four of us took two quarterbacks in that draft. And I went back and looked at like the free agents, like Tool was a free agent. There's somebody else that stood out to me that was maybe Jordan Love or C.J. job, one of those guys. If you know there's going to be those caliber of quarterback. Stafford was free agent. If you know it's going to Be those caliber of quarterbacks on the waiver wire like you don't necessarily have to draft to, you know, so you can still get a good number two option or safer option if you're shooting for, you know, one of these high upside type of guys. So know your league, you know, if you want to go back to the, you know, drafting rules or whatever you framed it as, know your league, know, know the type of, you know, player or fantasy managers you're drafting with. And if everybody's going to take two, it's in your best interest to probably, you know, pair up, you know, one of these risky quarterbacks with somebody that has a little bit safer floor. But you know, if you draft a Burrow or Hertz, I don't know if it's necessarily a priority to even try and waste a draft pick on another quarterback where you can try and maybe get something that can, you know, be more of a home run in at another position.

[Host 1]

Yeah, I did draft Burrow and then I drafted Trevor Lawrence, I believe with my 14th, my last pick. And then Jamie took Drake May after. I just think that this is so. I mean, these quarterbacks are so good that even if I have Burrow, I don't necessarily feel like I have to take it back up. But I'm fine doing it if there's nobody on the board I really like. So Dave, you had dak Prescott and J.J. mcCarthy and Jalen Milroe on here, but that obviously needs some, some explaining here because they're not telling people to take J.J. mcCarthy over Trevor Lawrence or anything like that.

[Host 2]

Not yet. But we know the track record of Vikings quarterbacks with Kevin O' Connell, 51 games, 27 times a quarterback has had at least 22 fantasy points. That's in six point per passing leagues, at least eight games per year. And if O' Connell can work magic with Kirk Cousins, turning him from a mid QB into a quality fantasy starter, did the exact same thing with Sam Darnold, then I think there's a chance that it could happen with JJ McCarthy and you could get them. After a lot of the names that we just reeled off for this big gold group of quarterbacks that have high upside, Dak, to me just makes a ton of sense as a great sleeper. We've seen it. Jamie mentioned was 2024, 3, 2, 2021. He had 24 fantasy points per game, 23.9 in his final nine games. The year after that in 2023, 29 fantasy points per game in 11 games after the buy. That's when he was hyper targeting CD Lamb. And then last year was really a bad year. He only had 20.7 in his first five games. All of Dax games with at least 20 plus involve Ferguson having at least 11. Well now he's got Pickens on top of Ferguson and in addition to CD Lamb. And I've got questions about how good that Dallas defense is going to be. They've got a lot of injured players on that side of the ball. Could be a lot of high scoring games. It just, it makes all the sense in the world to go after anybody with a late round picket quarterback who's got huge upside. It helps when said quarterback has demonstrated the upside and Dak Prescott's done that. And the worst case scenario is that Dak is over the hill and I cut him and there's a quarterback like Jamie mentioned, it could be Tua, could be McCarthy that's sitting on the waiver wire. After a couple weeks of Dak, you say, I've had enough, I can't win with him. And you go and you make a change and you hope that the guy that you make a change with catches on.

[Host 1]

Here's where Dak Prescott has finished on a per game basis in his last six seasons. In six point per passing touchdown leagues per game, Dak Prescott has been number four, number four, number seven, number nine, number two and number 21.

[Host 3]

Right.

[Host 1]

It's amazing. And pretty similar in four point for passing touchdown leagues too. Two concerns, I would say for Dak it's all kind of related. One would be it's all the same. He's 32 or he will be in July. He barely ran last year, 1.6 rush attempts per game and he took a lot of sacks last year. So I guess I just wonder if he's at the stage in the career where he's lost his mobility. But you figure he offset that by gaining George Pickens. So I have a follow up question with Dak Prescott. If you drafted, let's say Baker Mayfield or someone that you feel good about, but not. But maybe you still feel like I want a backup, you take Dak Prescott or do you take Fields or Richardson? One of the, one of the mobile, one of the guys who can run for a lot of yards or Drake May, Fields or Richards.

[Host 3]

I mean I, I think you're like Dak is, is the guy you want to pair with Fields or Richardson. You know, that's the, the type of player that you're looking at.

[Host 1]

But didn't I just illustrate that Dak Prescott has huge upside When I just read he's been like a top four finisher per game in three of the last six seasons.

[Host 3]

You did. But you also just mentioned the potential pitfalls of the most recent season that he's coming off of when he missed half the season with a hamstring injury that I believe did require surgery or yes, was, it was a pretty brutal one. So I, I, I like the upside of Dak. He's a top 10 quarterback to me. I said that when they made the Pickens deal. You know, I just thought that based again, what his track record has been and now he has, you know, two pretty strong, you know, pass catchers, three if you want to throw Ferguson in there. You know, Dave mentioned the defense. The bigger concern for me is the run game and lack thereof. So, you know, I should have mentioned that. I think the, the scenario for Dak Prescott is right in front of him to be in a lot of games where he has to throw the ball and leaning on the strength of this offense, which is the receiving core at this point. So there's, there's a lot to like about it. That being said, if I'm, if I'm looking at, I drafted Baker May, you know, I'm thinking of the quarterbacks I have ranked after Mahomes. So it's, it's Baker, it's Bo Nix, it's Prescott, it's Caleb Williams. You know, I'm, I'm looking at it specifically with, with Baker, Nicks and, and Dak. Like I want to pair them with the more mobile quarterbacks that if they hit and we've talked about this with the, what, what we, you know, what we hope could happen. I forget the name of the show he's had the, the category had in the category, you know, Richardson and, and Fields, you know, again, I put May in that scenario also, like if these guys hit because they'll be close to 700 plus rushing yards and hopefully over 4, 000 passing yards, like that's hard to find. And so Fields has done that, you know, with his legs. Richardson has, you know, shown us glimpses of doing that with his legs if he can, you know, win the job. And even maybe Daniel Jones deserves that because he did that with his legs that one season too when he was 3,700. Obviously May, you know, was on pace to be the third best rushing quarterback last year, you know, had he played a full season. So there's a lot to like about what those guys can be. But if you're looking for the safe quarterback and another Safe quarterback. I just don't think that's the right way to draft, as good as that can be with his upside, there's just not, I think, the same ceiling that those other guys can get to if they hit.

[Host 1]

All right, so let's talk about running backs now. It's kind of a similar conversation with running backs and that there's a theme. The running backs that you've listed are, in a lot of cases, handcuffs. You're not finding starting running backs for the most part after pick 100. Maybe there are some guys that could take the job, but a lot of them really require an injury.

[Host 3]

Well, can I ask one question? Because I know you said you had the rookies when you sent us your list, so. I didn't list the rookies. I wasn't really looking for them. Where was Tracy in relation to Scatterboo? Because I know Dave puts Scatterboo on the list.

[Host 1]

Sure. So we're looking at fantasy pros, consensus rankings. TYRONE Tracy is 86th. He is RB28. Cam Scatter Boo is 131st. He's RB43.

[Host 3]

Yeah. That's so much of a disparity that it's, I think, laughable right now.

[Host 1]

You have to take Scatter Boo there.

[Host 3]

You're saying, of course, let somebody else take Tracy and you just take the guy who end up. Might end up being the better of the two.

[Host 1]

Yeah, right. I think, you know, you look at like, Jalen Wright is not going to just take the job from Devon Hin, right?

[Host 3]

Mason's not gonna. As much as I like him, he's not taking the job from Aaron Jones. It's going to be Aaron Jones probably getting hurt.

[Host 1]

So Dave's got this list. Scatter Boo, Garendo, Jalen Wright, Bashel Tutin, Jaden Blue for Dallas. Sean Tucker in Tampa Bay, Jarquez Hunter for the Rams. Phil Mafa in Dallas. Jamie has Zach Charbonnet for Seattle, Jordan Mason for Minnesota. He also has Isaac Garendo in San Francisco. That's one that we really like. And Ray Davis for Buffalo. So, yeah, I think for the most part, Dave, we're just talking handcuffs here. But. But what. What else are we looking for in late round running backs?

[Host 2]

Obviously, players that are going to play. And it's. It's one thing to draft a handcuff, it's another thing to draft a handcuff that can still get 10 touches a game. And that's something that, like, Jordan Mason might do if Aaron Jones is fine. Okay. And what Jamie said doesn't happen. And Aaron Jones is still going to be in the role that he had last year. But Jordan Mason is not only going to be useful as a backup in fantasy, but if you're in a pinch, you need a flex. You could start him and you hope that he breaks a couple of long runs on the 10 touches per game that he would get. And I think that there's a handful, not that many, but a handful of running backs on both of our lists that qualify. I think Charbonnet is at the top of the list. I love that call because we've seen it. We've seen him work in tandem with Walker and then we know that Walker isn't reliable to play 17 games. And when Charbonnet's gotten in there, he's been awesome for Seattle. And I might be able to make the argument that he's the more consistent option for what that offense is going to call for moving forward. So he's somebody that I love a lot. Mason's going to play, I think, around 10 touches per game. I think Scatterboo could end up starting the year playing around 10 touches per game. Might have the short yardage role too because he's such a bruiser. And then the second that Tyrone Tracy coughs up the football, Scatter Boo could just take off. So I like him a lot as someone that could be a good late round steal at running back, but anything that a running back can do to not only be the guy behind the guy, but also play in tandem with the guy adds value for fantasy.

[Host 1]

I agree and that's why I like Tajie Spears. But let me just play devil's advocate.

[Host 2]

That's a good one.

[Host 1]

Let me just play devil's advocate because Tajie Spears really wasn't nearly as good as I as I wanted him to be last year. And if I look at, I was doing this math this morning, right? I looked at there were eight games that Spears played. He only played 12 games all year. One of them was without Tony Pollard. One of them, Tony Pollard left with an injury. And by the way, the one game without Tony Pollard was a great game for Tajie Spears. Well, he only scored 13.3 points, but he had 23 touches and over 100 total yards. Just didn't score a touchdown. But anyway, like there were eight games that, that Tajie Spears played with Pollard and with Spears not leaving with an injury. And in those games he really wasn't very good. I mean, I don't have the fantasy points per game, but it was just it was nothing to write home about. It was, you know, 51 catch pace. So a guy that you could maybe throw in there as a flex if you need it. But I guess my devil's advocate would be like, do I really care about a player who might score me 7, 8 points in PPR if I need it in a pinch? Or should I just focus on a guy who has the most upside if the, if the starter gets hurt? Maybe it's the same guy. Right, because you could definitely make that case for Spears. But that's the point.

[Host 2]

To go after a running back that's the same guy.

[Host 1]

Yeah, that would be great. But for example, Ray Davis might give me pretty much nothing on a weekly basis, but man, if James Cook gets hurt, you know. Garendo.

[Host 3]

Yeah, I, I think you're, you know, again, I don't want to speak for anybody else, but that's kind of the way like I rank these guys. Like, you know, Jalen Warren's in a much better spot than Isaac Arundel, for example, because, you know, Jalen Warren is going to play. Tyson Spears is kind of similar to that. Like, if you're talking about just the handcuffs, like, you have to be patient with them. And these are going to be guys that unfortunately, when it gets to injuries on your own roster or bye weeks, you have to make some tough calls on. Do you give up on that player knowing like, okay, Isaac Garendo is the one player on my team that's not doing anything. But my gosh, if something happens to McCaffrey, he could be a top 20 running back, a top 15 running back, you know, so there's lots of scenarios that you have to play out when you draft these, these kind of guys, you know, Braylon Allen and Ray Davis and Jalen Wright and these kind of guys that aren't going to do very much but unfortunately may have league winning upside. You know, it's not best ball, it's redraft. And that's why you have to make some of these decisions. When you have a five person benchmark and you suffer these injuries at wide receiver or quarterback and you can't play these guys because they're not doing anything. So the, the seven points, I think that was the number you gave for Tyza Spears, you know, PPR points, like, you may need that.

[Host 1]

I'm sorry, I was, I, that wasn't anything. I don't know what he averaged. I was just throwing out a number.

[Host 3]

The numbers you're attaching to those guys. You know, if you're just looking at like, okay, I need a flex for this week because I don't want to cut these guys, then that's something just might have to do as opposed to maybe dropping him for a, a Jack Best who has a good matchup, you know, for the Raiders and has gotten a couple targets recently or Keon Coleman or something like that, you know, so it's a matter of just, you know, your roster construction. But I think again, you know, if you're playing this out from a draft perspective, you're drafting these guys with, okay, McCaffrey played four games last year. Isaac Arundel is going to be somebody that I'm heavily invested in. Dave, you know, mentioned Charbonnet, what he did last year when, you know, really his entire career when Walker's missed time, like you want to hold on to those type of guys. Same thing, I think, for Jordan Mason, again, looking at the, the situation, you know, so it's a matter of again, the sliding scale on your bench, the sliding scale of what those guys are, are doing in relation to the starter on their own NFL team. And just some of the decisions that you have to make throughout the course of the fantasy season.

[Host 2]

And you always might want to veer toward running backs on teams that are going to score a lot of points. Just one of those simple factors that just makes sense. Would you rather have Tajie Spears on the Titans? It's a team that's not going to put up a lot of points or, you know, Minnesota should put up some points. So Mason would be the comparison there, I think.

[Host 3]

I'll give you again, you know, just, just the strategy that I had with this fantasy pros draft. It was a two receiver, two running back to receiver league with two flexes and it was half PPR. But I drafted four receivers with my first seven picks and the, the receivers were Puka Puka, Terry McLaurin, Cortland Sutton and Jerry Judy. So I plan to play those four guys and my running backs were Christian McCaffrey and Joe Mixon. And then so looking at the, the backfield, it was okay. Who can maybe step in if I need it. So my running backs on the bench right now are Jalen Warren, Jordan Mason, Isaac Garendo. And I think I may have taken a flyer on somebody else, but you see the way that I built this team, it was okay. Two high end starters with making sure that I handcuffed and I said this When I drafted McAffrey, you know, Joe PCP, one of the guests we have on, he's the host that show and he said, you know, how do you feel about McCaffrey? I said, I'm going to make it a point to reach for, quote, unquote, reach for Isaac Arando, which I did. You know, it took him probably around or two before I, I needed to or, or would have gone otherwise. Because I'm the McCaffrey manager. I want to lock up that backfield. You could say Jordan James may be the backup there. But again, the, the strategy was have the ability to use running backs as fx.

[Host 1]

Sure.

[Host 3]

But more so don't need that. I don't need them if I don't have to play them, you know, because that's the way I built that roster.

[Host 1]

All right, so then within this discussion, who are some of the guys that you think could just become the starter for their team? I think Jaden Blue for Dallas is.

[Host 2]

A kind of scatter boo.

[Host 1]

You think? Yes, scatter boo.

[Host 2]

I think he's got a shot.

[Host 3]

I still think too, despite the fumble and the situation there. I mean, you know, you have a new regime coming in with two guys. That one in particular has struggled or coming off season restaurant at the end. And I don't know if Bigsby's the type of running back that Liam Cohen's going to want to feature.

[Host 1]

And maybe dark horse would be Charbonnet.

[Host 2]

Yeah, it's a serious dark horse, I think. I think the dark horse is Ray Davis if James Cook holds out.

[Host 1]

Oh, yeah, well, that's. That could be okay. All right, let's take a break and we'll talk about wide receivers and tight ends going after pick 100 that we.

[Host 3]

Got to get your Knicks reaction too.

[Host 1]

We don't. I don't really think we have to do that, to be quite honest with you. We will be right back on fantasy football today.

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[Host 1]

All right, so I thought, Dave, you had an interesting comment about.

[Host 3]

No, no, no. Next. Let's go.

[Host 1]

Dave, you had an interesting. I really don't want to do this. I really. I just. I don't want to do it. I just. I don't want to do it. So, anyway, let's go, Panthers.

[Host 3]

I need to know, like. I need to know the moments. Like, you know.

[Host 1]

No, there were no moments. I was completely stoic, basically.

[Host 2]

So, Dave, now, it's been 25 years since they've done anything.

[Host 1]

Yeah, The Pacers, I swear, man, made a deal with the devil. They've got to have, and I'm not joking when I say this, they've got to have three of the most improbable wins in NBA history.

[Host 3]

Well, you saw the stat, right?

[Host 1]

I didn't see the updated stat because I didn't want to read it. But I know the first two games in Cleveland, down by seven or more with a minute left, they've won both games. And that's only happened three times in like, 30 years or something like that.

[Host 3]

Three of the four with whatever the number is, and the other one I saw Yesterday was since 1997, teams with whatever the lead was with two and a half minutes left were 994 and.

[Host 1]

Oh, I mean, that's just unbelievable. Yeah, it's just pathetic. And I was reminded, though, by several people that the Reggie Miller series, where he did the choke sign, the Knicks actually won that series.

[Host 3]

So you see, there were Knicks fans chanting Knicks and four outside the game, outside the stadium.

[Host 1]

The Knicks fans outside the stadium make me so embarrassed to be a Knicks fan throwing, like, throwing garbage at people. This dude, during the celebration last week, or whenever they beat the Celtics through, like, a metal pipe or something into a crowd. Just, what was with. Why does everybody become such an idiot? You know, you look at in Philadelphia, when they win the super bowl, they're tearing down posts and things like, what's wrong with people? Oh, man. All right. Anyway, wide receivers. Dave, you had an interesting realization doing this exercise of looking for your favorite wide receivers. After pick 100, I struggled.

[Host 2]

I had a hard time coming up with names. It made me realize that I need to focus more on wide receivers. With my first Eight or nine picks because I don't like, I don't necessarily. I don't know how many guys I'm really going to be into drafting at wide receiver from Pick 100 On. Especially compared to how I feel about the running backs, the quarterbacks and the tight ends. We've literally talked about those three positions already and I'm excited about a lot of those running backs. I've got a strategy for late round tight ends. Everybody has a strategy for late round quarterbacks and it's deep this year. You can cherry pick those guys. Receiver like I, I just have a hard time seeing a name and going, yes, I love that guy, I want to have him on my team. But that being said, you can still make the case for a number of receivers after pick 100. It just happens to be on my list that the majority of them are either rookie or second year wide receivers, all of whom I might pull an azer and cut off my team after the first few weeks if they're doing nothing to start the year. And I don't want to pull an acer. I want to have guys that I want to be patient with and carry on my bench all year as long as I can until injuries rack up and then I got to remove them. But you know, it just made me want to focus a lot more on wide receivers earlier in drafts.

[Host 1]

All right, so I, I am just looking at ADP last year and let me just read you some of the names who from fantasy pros, ppr, adp, some of the names of wide receivers who were drafted after pick 100 or. Yeah, no, this was drafted. This was ADP. Lad McConkey, Jordan Addison, Cortland Sutton, Brian Thomas Jr. Jameson Williams, Khalil Shakir, Jerry Judy I believe is on this. Yep. Jerry Judy, Jacoby Myers.

[Host 3]

Wow.

[Host 1]

Right? Isn't that crazy? Amazing. All right, Jamie. All right, let's get some names. So. So Dave has Matthew Golden. A lot of rookies. Matthew Golden, A Mecca Buka, Kyle Williams. Matthew golden, currently 141st in the rankings.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I just, I like that value for a first round receiver.

[Host 1]

You have some really deep picks too that we'll talk about. Jamie has Ricky Piersoll, who's pretty close to a hundredth, but he meets the criteria. Darnell Mooney. I. You put Coleman when you wrote the email. I put Tevin Coleman in my notes, but that is Keon Coleman.

[Host 2]

How to lose your league.

[Host 1]

Cedric Tillman. So Coleman and Tillman. Let's talk about Jamie.

[Host 3]

And there's a lot of rookies that I like in this range. Again, I, I saw what you said, so I didn't want to.

[Host 1]

Right. The rookie value is just if, if there's a rookie wide receiver that you like, that's not Travis Hunter, Tedroa, McMillan, I'm pretty sure they're all going after pick 100. Right. I'm not missing. Yeah.

[Host 3]

I mean, you know, you made the case for Harris. You know, Dave mentioned Abuka, probably needs an injury, but certainly worth, you know, drafting her and seeing what happens the first couple weeks of the season. Luther Burden, Jack Bash. For me, I, I draft him a lot. I think, you know, Jaden Higgins, you know, we were fighting to see who's going to be the best Texans receiver last year. Remember when they, when they had Stefan Diggs and Tank Dell coming up season? I think we all settled on Nico being that guy, but there was a lot of debate and now they have, you know, Christian Kirk and, and two young guys. And I think Higgins is certainly in this range worth taking a flyer on. Even Chris Kirk, you know, same thing.

[Host 1]

So I had him on my, I had on my list.

[Host 3]

Yeah, you know, there's a lot of guys, you know, I, I think Dave's point is valid, especially as we've seen these drafts unfold. Like, taking receivers early is a good strategy because of where these running backs are, are ending up, but you should still have the, the intent of one or two receivers in this range to be targets. And so seeing how they're going to, you know, sort of play out throughout the early part of the season before you make a decision on cutting them. So again, I'll reference that same draft I did. I drafted those four receivers early on. I drafted a fifth one, which was mesh, and it was, you know, one of my last picks, if not my last one, because I think there is a path to targets for him. Not necessarily first or second on the team, but can be the second wide receiver on his roster. So Harris is a guy I know you like. Again, Higgins is another one that has a chance. Burden's going to be fun. Abuca might be fun. You know, there's just a lot of these guys. Obviously Matthew golden, you know, going in this range is an easy one. So there are a lot of these rookie wide receivers, you know, like, you just, you know, listed McConkey and Brian Thomas in this range. Like, I don't think they're going to be that good, clearly, but there's, there's opportunities for some of these rookies to be prominent on their rosters.

[Host 1]

Well, let's Focus on the four guys that you provided. Ricky Pearsall, Darnell Mooney, Keon Coleman, Cedric Tillman and let's go one by one and tell me what you think the the best case scenario is. It's a tough exercise. I hate to put you it's so hard to predict that but what do you think the best case scenario is for Ricky Pierce?

[Host 3]

All I mean you saw the last two games that you know finally comfortable I'm assuming with his health, you know having to fight through what happened in the beginning part of the season after getting shot and you know being out the beginning part of the year. What he did was not with Brock Purdy entirely. So keep that in mind. But look this is a receiving core that we've been talking about. Juwan Jennings could be the best guy there. Well what if it's Ricky Piersoll who's a first round draft pick and you know Brandon Ayuk is not there. There's just so much to love about the scenario here of what he could be for Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy and you're getting him. Not right now. At a big discount compared to Jennings. I think you will get him at a discount compared to Jennings and it's just an easy draft pick to easy player to target based on his draft fight.

[Host 1]

Darnell Mooney, what's the best case scenario for him?

[Host 3]

So he played really one and a half games with Michael Penix and the first one he had a 13 point PPR game. I don't know if he's going to be as consistent as he was with Kirk Cousins but you look at this team so we're doing our outlooks right now. You know so if you're looking at the player pages on our on our site we we used to do these for our magazine. We're not doing our magazine anymore that I got the A the AFC south and NFC South. Dave, how many years have we been doing outlooks? Oh gosh, since we started 15 plus seasons. I've never done a team as Easy as the 2025 Atlanta Falcons. There is zero, zero depth to this team. Right and it's bleeping fantastic A to do the the outlooks player outlooks for them and B they're going to get so many opportunities. Drake London and Darnell Mooney. Look Ray, Ray McLeod is a good player but he's not a featured guy for this offense. Kyle Pitts has an opportunity here but you look at the two receivers. I mean Drake London should easily be north of 150 targets and Darnold Mooney had what, 106 last year? I'm not mistaken. It's it, it should be 120 plus. And so for a number two receiver that you're getting this late, it's just such an easy player to click on. So the draft that we did on our site, I drafted Drake London and I really was struggling with do I want to take Darnold Mooney as well? And I should have. He went I think around later. Thomas, I'm not mistaken. They're just going to get so many chances. And if Penix is anywhere close to being as good as he was in college and in what he showed in week 18, like they're going to have monster seasons.

[Host 1]

Well, see, that's the thing. I, because originally I had Darnell Mooney as a guy. That and I do think where's he coming in on this consensus rankings? Darnell Mooney's pretty low.

[Host 3]

He's free.

[Host 1]

He is. Yeah. That's the thing. Well, it's 118th, so that's round 10. He's not exactly free. Like Christian Kirk goes right after him. And I would take Kirk ahead of him, not me. I think I got a little bit cold on, on Mooney doing some research because you know, you mentioned 120 targets. It's very possible that they are more pass heavy. But I would point out that remember Bijan got off to kind of a slow start, then they became one of the most run heavy teams in football. I think they had the third lowest pass rate from week seven on. And just for the season they were 24th in pass rate. So they were a run heavy team last year. Bijan is the engine for them. Mooney, like I said, one end zone target, two green zone, six red zone. So it'll be a little bit more balanced. But Drake London is the guy in that area. And I think it's just this simple fact. Darnell Mooney's been in the league for five years. He's never finished in the top 30 per game. So I just don't see him having like a huge upside season. I think the best case scenario would be like wide receiver 24 per game, which would be great if you're getting him in the 10th round. But I don't see big, I don't see league winner potential here.

[Host 3]

You see that with Kirk?

[Host 1]

No, I don't see that with Kirk. I see, I see, I see a better path to wide receiver 24 for Kirk than I do for Mooney. Do I see it with anyone? I guess I Could see it with golden, like league winning potential. I could see it with a guy like Golden.

[Host 2]

You see it with Pierce all?

[Host 1]

For sure, I could see it with Pierce all. Yeah, I guess I could see it with Keon Coleman, but I could also see him being dropped in three weeks.

[Host 3]

So Coleman is, is an interesting one for me because they didn't do very much to, I think, overhaul the receiving core. They did some tweaks. You know, you lose Cooper, you lose Mac Collins. And I think it's, it's really funny to see how much of an impact Matt Collins made at the end of the season for Josh Allen and the Bills, but they did really nothing of huge significance. I mean, Josh Palmer and Elijah Moore could be nice players for them and can easily outproduce Keon Coleman based on what we saw. But I really want to see what Coleman can become. And you look at the two games before he suffered the wrist injury against Miami, I believe that was week nine. He was really starting to get going. That's right. When they traded for Amari Cooper, he had two very solid games. And you say this all the time, it's 100% accurate. Second half of the season for rookie wide receivers is when they start to show, I think, what they're really made of because they're finally comfortable and they're starting to understand, I think, the game, the speed of the game, what their quarterbacks want to do, game plans, etc. And then he suffers that wrist injury and he was never the same guy. Yeah, playing time wasn't the same everything. And it again, it wasn't like there were guys that were just okay, dominating, you know, Khalil Shakir was solid. Matt Collins was making plays. It wasn't anybody else, really. So I think there's a huge opportunity here for a guy who's got immense draft capital, big play potential, great quarterback, great system. Like, he's somebody that I, you know, again, we talk about drafting receivers early. This is a guy that I circle all the time. I want to draft Keon Coleman as much as I can. If he stinks, oh, well, right, I'll cut him. But if he's what he could be in a loaded receiver class from a year ago when he was drafted, had a lot of these guys, like, there's still a lot to love about what Keon Coleman can become.

[Host 1]

Okay, yeah, 15 yard ADOT, I'd like to see that go down. That's always a number. I look at 15 specifically. You just do not find consistent wide receivers with a 15 yard ADOT. Or higher. With very few exceptions, a guy like Mike Evans has had a couple of seasons where he's had that kind of a dot and been very good. I think Tyreek Hill had one, but you've got to be a special player because it's just tough to catch. He had, he had a 50 catch rate last year, 87th out of 89 wide receivers with 50 or more targets. So I think if Keon Coleman's going to take the next step, he's going to have to lower that eight. And we see that a lot. Year two, it could be a lot lower, it could be a lot higher. Wide receivers really develop more of a game. So I guess he like a poor.

[Host 3]

Man'S Jameson Williams clearly not as explosive.

[Host 1]

You know what, I went back and I watched some tape today and I think there they used him in those two games. I watched every route he ran in those two games. You mentioned before the wrist injury, he had seven targets in both games. He was very good in both games and he had a touchdown overturned and he, they gave him three targets that were sort of back shoulder throws or jump balls either in the end zone or at the one or two yard line and he caught one of them. He had one overturn and it was incomplete on one. I think that's where they're going to go to Keon Coleman. I think he's going to be their, their back shoulder, their jump ball, their contested catch guy in the end zone. And I think he's their best bet friend zone targets. So that I was, you know, and that was like he had a lot of contested catches in college, but he also I think was pretty bad on contested catches. Just that like doesn't separate. So they're all contested. But I do think you're going to see that from Coleman. You're going to see a lot of touchdown opportunities. He's a big body guy and it makes sense to use them in the end zone. And guys, I'm very sorry that I've been talking too much. I have to leave unfortunately for an appointment. Cedric Tillman's also on the list. Dave, why don't you finish with your wide receivers which were Golden Abuka and Kyle Williams as rookies and Kyle Williams going 183rd and then Deontay Johnson, Roman Wilson and then just Pat Bryant who's just kind of like a random name right now.

[Host 2]

All those guys are like 250th and later the last. This is for like the deepest of leagues.

[Host 1]

That would be Deontay Johnson, Roman Wilson And Pat Bryant.

[Host 3]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 2]

And Brian might end up going ahead. I don't know if Deontay or Roman are going to even get drafted in many leagues, but Pat Bryant is someone that could have a good opportunity in, in Denver to play right away. I'm not sure how much they love their receivers other than Cortland Sutton. Marvin Mims obviously is somebody that could play half the snaps like he did last year and have some huge boom weeks, but a lot of bus weeks. I wonder if they view him like Marcus Colston, just kind of like a tall, cool character who just does a lot of things solidly. Kyle Williams in New England could be their number one target getter this year. We don't know how healthy Stefan Diggs is going to be, when he'll be himself, if he'll be himself. And early returns on Kyle Williams have been good. And we, we always, there's a player every year that gets drafted and we go, well why did they take this guy? And that's a mecca. Abuca is that guy this year. And those players always find a way to end up mattering either because of an injury or something else. And I just wonder if a book is going to end up being a factor a hell of a lot sooner than, than we expect. For reasons that I can't justify, mainly because I don't want to justify him. I want Evans and Godwin to be themselves and to play 17 games. But we know they're older. We know Godwin is coming back from a big injury. A booker can end up mattering and being a reliable number three receiver in PPR. And where are we getting him? 152nd? It's around 13. Man, that's, that's pretty good.

[Host 1]

All right. Again, I apologize for cutting the show a little bit short today. The tight ends that Dave and Jamie were looking at after pick 100, both of them had Tucker Kraft on their list. Dave had Tyler Warren and Jamie had Dalton Kincaid and another guy. As I was watching the Keon Coleman tape this morning, when Kincaid gets targets, he pops. He's still pretty talented player. You know, I just, I hope he can get target. And Jamie of course you always bring up that he was playing quite injured last year. So anyway, thanks guys and we will talk to you all on Tuesday. Actually, we don't have a show on Monday. It is Memorial Day. Hope everybody has a wonderful three day weekend and we will talk to you on Tuesday with a new, new edition of Fantasy football today. See ya.

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