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FFT Express - Heath's All-In List! 7 Must-Draft Players for 2025! (08/14 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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Heath Cummings
He you know I can't imagine.
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Host
Yeah well I also you know my mind's obviously on tennis so what do you think? Four and a half games you're going over under.
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Heath Cummings
Well I like I said on the breakouts show earlier, I am incentivizing dan to beat you 6060 and so that's that tells you my pick.
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Host
You really you're gonna bid, gonna donate 500 bucks.
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Heath Cummings
If that happens I texted Dan 500 to St. Jude. If he loves children he will give his max efforts and go 6060.
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Host
That just makes me look so evil. All right. Anyway, who are some of your favorite players that you you consider must drafts this year?
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Heath Cummings
Your first win tomorrow I will be on a live broadcast and I'm going to say that you hate children. So yes, listen I one of the we'll start with round one because there's one guy who I would take in the top five who go has an around 280p on a lot of sites so everybody gets a chance to pick him. It's Devon H.N. he's it is my number two running back behind only Bijon Robinson. He is my number one running back in my projections but he's not as safe as Robinson. But last year with tuatanga loa healthy 22.6 ppr fantasy points per game. The year before 9 healthy games over 20 fantasy points per game. This is looking and John O Smith's gone. They're still trying to get the ball out fast. Nobody's happy with Tyree Kill. There is a chance. I've talked about a hundred targets and that's pretty much what I have a projected for HN. There's a chance for 100 catches for this guy.
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Host
I don't even think Tyreek Hill would make a difference. Tyreek Hill could have a great year and a chain could also have a great year. Right. I mean it's. I love the call and I actually think the Dolphins people are so down on them when they're healthy, when two is healthy, when they got their guys on the field, they're really good offense. Okay, who's next?
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Heath Cummings
I'll go with round two pick who sometimes falls. I think it's CBS ADP currently has an ADP of 25. I would take him at 13 and that is Brock Bowers. 153 targets as a rookie. 112 catches, 1194 yards, five touchdowns. They upgrade his quarterback, they upgrade his offensive coordinator and they don't add anyone who's going to take targets away from Brock Bowers. He has a chance to turn into the Rob Gronkowski, Travis Kelsey 20 fantasy points per game guy. I'm not projecting him that high. I am projecting to be a breakout but not that high. But that upside exists. He could absolutely destroy the tight end position this year.
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Host
Okay, I'm not going to ask you a follow up because we're going to talk about him on the tight end breakouts and there's an angle of it that I want to take on that Tight Ends breakouts episode that I don't know that we've spoken too much about, just as it relates to the position. All right, give me another name.
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Heath Cummings
I mean, I don't know how many times I can say this guy's name this off season, and it's always worrisome when you talk about the same guy over and over. But DeAndre Swift is available in round five of a lot of drafts. I would take him in round four. Had 70 targets in 14 games the last time he was paired up with Ben Johnson. Only scored five rushing touchdowns, only had 99 rush attempts that season was still RB15. He's being drafted as RB21. He's never finished worse than RB24. You are drafting this guy almost at his floor. Any notion that Ben Johnson doesn't like DeAndre Swift was dispelled by the fact that Ben Johnson brought in nobody to compete with DeAndre Swift. He's the guy.
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Host
And if you saw Kyle Menangai in preseason week one, not that he was bad, actually six carries for 30 yards, had a couple of good looking runs. Really struggled in pass protection though. Basically just got run over a couple of times. So that's just something to keep in mind if you're looking at him as competition. All right, let's take a quick break on FFT Express and get some more names on Heath Cummings list.
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Host
We're back, Heath. Who else are you drafting a lot of?
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Heath Cummings
Why not keep it going? Jerry Judy the breakout season of 202490 catches, 1229 yards and most of that came in the second half playing with Jameis Winston. I know Jameis Winston's gone old Jameis Winston better. Jameis Winston is here. Joe Flacco looking very likely to start week one for the Browns. I think as long as they can even pretend to be competitive. And that might be longer than you think looking at their schedule. Joe Flacco will be the starting quarterback for this offense. He's thrown for 4, 700 yards and 32 touchdowns in his last 17 games. Judy has a good quarterback for fantasy production. He is the number one wide receiver on the team. He's had great stretches before and he falls to round six of fantasy dress. This is a guy I rank as a wide receiver too. You can draft him as a wide receiver three and then you'll have two wide receiver twos.
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Host
I'll tell you something, I, I was getting to the point where I was like, I'm not taking Jerry Judy because I had been in the CBS bubble and we had been pretty high on him and all these drafts. He's going in round five. Well, I look at Jerry Judy's ADP on cbs. I look at it on football guys. I look at it on fantasy pros. He's into round seven. I mean, more like close to the six, seven turn, but about 75th or later. And now I'm absolutely drafting Jerry Judy there. I did a 10 team league where I think I just a mock draft. I think I got him close to a hundredth overall or something like that. So it's, I'm glad to see that I don't have to draft him in round five because I was getting a little nervous about that. All right, any other names?
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Heath Cummings
Can I give you one of his teammates? I mean, David Ajoku is like our, the CBS must draft guy, but there's another Brown that I want to draft. Yeah. The team that has the lowest projected total touchdown this year. You do Jerome Ford. Dylan Sampson.
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Host
Oh, okay.
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Heath Cummings
I don't believe that Jerome Ford is actually a feature back in the NFL. I don't really believe that Quin Sean Judkins is going to make much of an impact as a rookie. That could change drastically in the next two weeks. But as things stand right now, Judkins is unsigned. Judkins has criminal charges pending. I am not factoring him into the equation very much. And we loved Dylan Sampson on FFT Dynasty, the month of April, when we were getting ready for draft season, Jacob Gibbs gushed about Dylan Sampson. He is good as a pass catcher. He is better than Ford as a rusher. And I would expect at some point this season, maybe week one, he's going to be the leading rusher for this team. And I just drafted them today in round 11. This is a guy you don't find that's, that's the handcuff range. He's not necessarily a handcuff Dylan Sampson.
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Host
Absolutely. Great opportunity to get someone late in that Browns backfield for sure. All right, we got time for one more. If you have one more Justin Fields.
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Heath Cummings
I, I think where you can draft him right now is right around QB. 11 or 12 has been his floor as a starter in the NFL. I don't believe to Rod Taylor is going to take his job. I don't worry about his injury risk because for most of you playing in one quarterback leagues, there's going to be somebody who can produce 18, 19, 20 fantasy points per game on the waiver wire most weeks. Why not shoot for the moon with the guy that could run for a thousand yards and have his best season as a passer?
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Host
Okay, we've got Devon HN, Brock Bowers, Jerry, Judy. Who did I miss? DeAndre Swift. Was there someone in between Bowers and Judy Swift?
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Heath Cummings
Oh, the one I just told you.
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Host
Justin Fields. So that was it. That was the team.
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Heath Cummings
There was also Dylan Sampson.
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Host
I knew it.
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Heath Cummings
And I said David Najoku.
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Host
I'm not counting that one. We didn't really talk about David and Joker, but fine. David. Three Browns. Three Cleveland Browns.
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Heath Cummings
The worst offense. No, they're not gonna be that bad.
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Host
That's Joe Flacco. At least eight games. That's what we're hoping for. Thank you very much. He's coming saying so I you for watching listening. We'll talk to you tomorrow on FFT Express.
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