Mock Draft Review! How Have Things Changed Since Free Agency? (03/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Summary

FANTASY FOOTBALL TODAY: MOCK DRAFT REVIEW – MAIN INSIGHTS & ANALYSIS
(Episode Air Date: March 18, 2026)

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CBS Sports’ Fantasy Football Today crew—Adam Azer (host), Jamie Eisenberg, and Dan Schneier—break down their first full PPR mock draft following the 2026 NFL Free Agency moves. The episode’s focus is analyzing how player values, draft strategies, and positional tiers have changed in reaction to major free agency/trade activity. They debate best and worst picks, spotlight how recent news may shift rankings, and provide actionable takeaways for fantasy drafters preparing in a volatile, post-free agency landscape.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Context: Post-Free Agency & Trades Impacting Draft Boards

• Many big names changed teams, leading to ripple effects for nearly half the league’s fantasy prospects — “It's probably half the league, I mean, or close to it. Talk about, you know, guys on teams that lost a player or added a player...” (Adam, 04:09)
• Players discussed include: Jalen Waddle (now in Denver), Ken Walker (to the Chiefs), Devon Achane, Commanders & Buccaneers RBs, Mike Evans (now a 49er).

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2. Best Value Picks: Who Benefited Most From Free Agency?

Romeo Doubs in Buffalo (7.11)

• Jamie: “If [Doubs] opens the season as the Stefon Diggs replacement... an opportunity for him to go over a thousand yards for the first time.” (06:06)
  • Envisions Doubs as a borderline WR2 and tremendous value as a team's WR4/flex.
  • Compares Wandale Robinson and Doubs in similar situational upside.

Chris Rodriguez in Jacksonville (10.03)

• Dan: “Since he’s entered the NFL, he's been one of the most efficient running backs per touch... joins his former college coach who loved him and used him as a workhorse.” (08:04)
  • Notes efficiency, familiarity with coaching staff, and opportunity.
  • Warns that the draft could bring RB competition, so monitor post-draft developments.

Bhayshul Tuten in Jacksonville (6.06)

• Adam: “Tuten obviously has a much bigger opportunity to be involved in the passing game... much more explosive than Chris Rodriguez. I want the guy who can make big plays...” (11:34)
  • Rodriguez is steady, Tuten offers big upside as an explosive dual-threat.

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3. Worst Value Picks: Overdrafts & Risky Projections

Darnell Mooney (Atlanta, 9.10)

• Adam: “A guy that really, I just don't think deserves to be drafted... as long as Malik Nabers is playing…” (18:16)
  • Points to age, poor 2025 production, and lack of ceiling.
• Dan defends: “He gets open, man. He beats man. He beats press man. If you give him one-on-ones, he wins.” (19:03)
  • Admits it "wasn't his best pick".

Rashad White (Washington, 7.01)

• Dan: “Feels like this team could be the team that drafts Jeremiah Love... might be the team that takes that early Day 2 running back.” (22:18)
  • Cites O-line downgrade, crowded backfield, and potential draft competition as risks.

Jalen Waddle (Denver, 3.09)

• Jamie: “For me, the earliest I would take Jalen Waddle is round 5... if this is where he's going, he's going to be a bust.” (23:51)
  • Argues Denver’s offense won’t support WR1 upside, cites target uncertainty and injury history.

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4. Free Agency’s Winners & Losers: Round-by-Round Value Check

Round 1:

• Devon Achane: 1.07, third RB off the board. Jamie is cautiously positive but says team WR moves could shift his value. (39:20)
• Justin Jefferson: 1.12, more optimistic than pre-free agency; Dan still concerned about Kyler Murray at QB, but sees upside. (40:09)

Round 2:

• Ken Walker (KC): 2.03, Dan’s pick: “Upside is through the roof... I like him more in the pass game, especially as Fields might play snaps.” (44:44)
• Drake London (MIA), Ashton Jeanty: Discussed for how new QBs/O-linemen impact projections.

Round 3:

• Garrett Wilson (NYG, with Geno): Taken before AJ Brown and Higgins; Jamie & Dan don’t love it, ranked as a risky WR2. (48:40)
• Other notable WRs for context: AJ Brown, T. Higgins, Devonta Adams, Mike Evans, Lad McConkey, Luther Burden, Emeka Egbuka.

Round 4:

• Luther Burden, Egbuka, Evans, Loveland, ETN, DJ Moore, Bucky Irving, Rome Odunze: All see some degree of debate over value; some view as fair, others warn of “meh” upside given team situations.
• Dan: “We just took three Bears receiving options in one round? It’s a massively run-first team.” (56:34)

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5. Team-Building & Draft Strategy Reflections

Early Pick vs. Late Pick Advantage (Classic Snake Draft)

• Dan: “Do you honestly feel like there’s ever been an advantage to... not getting the Chase and not getting, like, the really great [early stud]?” (42:17)
• The group agrees earlier picks seem optimal, but late drafters can plan for ADP-driven drops (e.g., Chase Brown).

Aging WRs vs. Young Upside – Evans & Adams Debate

• Adam: “I just wouldn’t pair those two. I. I like...You’ve got two of the oldest wide receivers in the NFL.” (29:25)
• Dan’s reply: “I’m just drafting the best guys I know...when it falls off, I’ll take the one year.” (29:51)

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6. Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Wandale Robinson vs. Doubs:
  • Jamie: “I don’t think there should be so much separation between Wandale Robinson and Romeo Doubs…Jake ironically enough took both.” (06:40)
• On drafting off rankings/ADP:
  • Dan: “It’s like one of the rare drafts we do where there’s no ADP data yet...just have to pick players based on your knowledge.” (13:53)
• On rookie QBs & potential breakout Bears:
  • Jamie: “I think we could be looking at a 4,300/4,400-yard season for Caleb Williams...” (59:46)
• On tight ends and role of offensive scheme:
  • Dan: “I love the LaPorta pairing with Drew Petzing...might have him ranked as my fourth tight end.” (66:44)
  • Jamie: “Arizona’s personnel so different than Detroit’s...I don’t think Laporta is as good as Trey McBride.” (68:46)

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7. Player Value Speed Round (54:09 – 56:26)

Jamie and Dan give quick verdicts on fourth-round skill position players affected by free agency:

• Luther Burden: “Fair value.”
• Emeka Egbuka: “Good value.”
• Mike Evans: Dan – “Good,” Jamie – “Fair.”
• Colston Loveland: “Fair.”
• Travis Etienne: Jamie – “Good,” Dan – “Meh.”
• DJ Moore: Jamie – “Fair,” Dan – “Fair/bordering lower.”
• Bucky Irving: Jamie – “Good,” Dan – “Good.”
• Rome Odunze: Jamie – “Fair,” Dan – “Meh.”

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Episode Timeline

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |------------|------------------------------------------| | 02:27 | Opening / Mock Draft Context | | 04:09 | Free Agency News & Impact Players | | 06:06 | Best Value Discussion (Doubs, Rodriguez, Tuten) | | 13:44 | Worst Value Discussion (Mooney, White, Waddle) | | 39:20 | Where Did The Top Players Go? | | 54:09 | Speed Round: 4th Round WR/RB Values | | 59:46 | Bears’ Young Passing Weapons | | 66:44 | TE Debate (LaPorta, Warren, Fanning) |

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Takeaways for Fantasy Drafters

• Monitor post-draft and late-summer ADP movement—especially for RB rooms with unsettled depth charts (Jacksonville, Washington, etc).
• Look for undervalued WRs stepping into vacated target roles (Romeo Doubs, possible Patriots acquisition of AJ Brown).
• Aging vets like Evans & Adams can still offer value, but it's risky to double up as Dan did. Youthful upside in round 4-5 is attractive.
• Don’t overreact to single-season stat lines; context matters (e.g., Garrett Wilson’s per-game vs. season-long value).
• Tight end value may follow schemes and usage history, but assess talent and competition. (Laporta vs. McBride debate).
• Run-first teams may cap upside for multiple receivers—be wary of stacking (e.g., Bears WR/TEs, as discussed in round 4).

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Links & Listener Notes

• CBS Bracket Challenge: cbsports.com/FFT | Mailbag: [e-mail]
• New channel: Beyond the Box Score on YouTube for deep analysis.
• Next up: Mailbag episode; send keeper/dynasty/redraft questions.

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This summary covers the main roster decisions, strategic debates, and immediate actionable insights for your fantasy draft prep following the 2026 NFL free agency period.

Transcript

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[Dan]

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Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and he.

[Adam Azer]

Our first mock draft post free agency is in the books. Where did Jalen Waddle go? Where did Ken Walker go? Where did Devon Achan go? How about the Commanders running backs? The Buccaneers running backs, The Buccaneers wide receivers. Mike Evans went pretty early in the fourth Round. There were some very interesting picks for sure. I'm Adam Azer here, although I see I haven't changed my name back from Adam achan on. On YouTube because everybody's name is HN. Apparently now. Jamie is here. Hey, Jamie.

[Jamie]

Good morning.

[Adam Azer]

Dan, is it?

[Dan]

Dan?

[Adam Azer]

Very weird. Was rooting for Venezuela last night, so congratulations.

[Jamie]

What?

[Dan]

You can't put that on me. At no point did I ever say that to you. Wasn't rooting for Venezuela. I was actually watching the World Baseball Classic. First time watching baseball and what feels like a while just because the end of the season. But I don't really watch too much regular season baseball in real mlb. I gotta say, World Baseball Classic a lot more fun than regular mlb and I'd argue a lot better than just watching a random NBA game.

[Jamie]

Yeah, I thought our. Our esteemed guest who by the way showed up on time on Monday. Joe pspo said what I think is a great idea, that if there is a lockout, we just have the World Baseball Classic and a bunch of best of seven series.

[Dan]

Yeah, sure, sure. I also like the World Baseball Classic. To me, we won't spend too much time on this, but I always, I just find it so interesting. Like how do we go four innings with a guy who's. Is he even in a rotation this year? Eduardo Rodriguez against the All Stars of all All Stars and he doesn't get hit. Like that's baseball for you.

[Jamie]

That can't happen in any other sport.

[Dan]

Yeah, I don't even think this guy's in a rotation this year. Is he?

[Adam Azer]

I have no idea, honestly.

[Jamie]

I mean, we made him look like Cy Young.

[Dan]

Yeah, he's crazy.

[Adam Azer]

If he wasn't yesterday, he might be after that. All right, so we'll go through the draft and. And mostly just talk about where the players affected by free agency ended up. And that is so many players. It's probably half the league, I mean, or close to it. Talk about, you know, guys on teams that lost a player or added a player, whatever it is. So many players. But yeah, we'll give you the best and the worst picks. Just some news and notes while we were on the air on Monday. The Chiefs acquired Justin Fields from the Jets. Jamie and I did a bonus pot on Jalen Waddle, who was drafted in the third round, which Jamie and Dan think it's too early. Late third round in the draft we did yesterday, so he's with Denver. The Eagles signed Marquis Brown to a one year, $10 million deal. James Boyd was writing about projecting the Colts Athletics beat athletic beat writer for the Colts and he thinks that the Colts will have to add someone at wide receiver. But no matter what they do at wide receiver, Tyler Warren will be the number two pass catcher for the Colts. That's what James Boyd of the Athletic thinks. ESPN reporting that Devon Achan is not on the trade market and the 49ers signed Christian Kirk to a one year deal as he looks to bounce back from kind of a disappointing season for Christian Kirk. All right, let's get to our mock draft review and the best and the worst values. And if you're watching on YouTube you can see the mock draft, you can see all the results. I encourage everyone to go to YouTube.com fantasy football today. You can see our videos there. If you click the Live tab, you'll see everything you need of all the live shows that we do. Okay, so Jamie, let's start with what you thought was the best value of any player affected by free agency or trades. And you said it was Romeo Dobbs who went with the 11th pick of round seven. That was just before DK Metcalf, Jackson Dart, Jalen Warren and Jordan Addison. So your best value based just players affected by free agency or trades was Romeo Dobbs as of now.

[Jamie]

Because we could still see a AJ Brown trade, which I think a lot of people are speculating that if he does get traded, the Patriots are probably the leader in the clubhouse. I don't know what the odds are, but that's what you seem to see a lot of. So that would change things. But if Dobbs opens the season as the Stefan Diggs replacement, just from a one to one, one guy leaving one guy coming, I think Dobbs has an opportunity to have the best year of his career. I think he'll be in an offense that will feature him. I think it'll be an opportunity for him to go over a thousand yards for the first time, hopefully be in that seven touchdown range and maybe be over 14 PPR points per game. So that would put him as a borderline number two receiver. You're getting him on Jake's roster here with the 11th pick as his fourth receiver, which is awesome. So that could be his flex. But I really like the opportunity for Romeo Dobbs as of now and where he was drafted. I I know when we had the free agency podcast or when we were doing the free agency podcast, I remember what Dave and he said. I know how I feel about it. Like I don't think there should be so much separation between Wandell Robinson and Romeo Dobbs. Jake, ironically Enough. Took both. He got Dobbs two rounds later. I think those guys are in a similar range in similar situation for what their outcome could be. Not how they get it done, but how their outcome could be just based on where they ended up and their roles on their respective teams.

[Adam Azer]

Now, I, look, I could be wrong about Wanda Robinson, but I think he was one of the worst picks in my opinion at 5:11, the 11th pick of round five, Dobbs two pick. Two rounds later, the 11th pick of

[Jamie]

round seven even went before his height, which is incredible.

[Adam Azer]

I don't think so. His height's 59 if I believe so.

[Dan]

No, there's no way. He's a touch over five eight.

[Adam Azer]

Right. So five eleven for Ronda Robinson.

[Jamie]

But that's what I meant. I didn't say it through.

[Adam Azer]

Oh, okay. No, if he had gone, if he had been lower than his height. Right. That would have been really something. But yeah, yeah, okay. So Dobbs there. Dan, your favorite pick was. Was this your pick? Chris Rodriguez?

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

In, in.

[Dan]

In a shade of narcissism that you can only grow and to expect from me on a show like this, I chose my own selection for my favorite value pick from the free agents and the players that moved. It was Chris Rodriguez. Look, if anyone had taken Chris Rodriguez before me, I would have taken that as well. I think I could go up to at least around before where he was taken and feel like that was value. Chris Rodriguez. First of all, you look into the metrics since he's entered the NFL, he's been one of the most efficient running backs in the NFL on a per touch basis. Somehow, some way that's the case. Then you take the. Do you actually take the time to watch the tape? And it's like, yeah, this guy just gets it. He understands how to process behind the line of scrimmage. He sets up the blocks well. He runs low with a great center of gravity. Center of gravity and great contact balance. And in addition to all of that, he joins the best possible situation. He joins his former college coach who loved him and used him as a workhorse. And he joins a Jacksonville team that generated so much yards before contact and so much in the run game, mostly with what I thought was design, not really great blocking up front. Individually, I think they might add to the offensive line in the draft. Like, I don't really see any reason why they wouldn't given the rest of the roster and what they've done to add there.

[Jamie]

They could.

[Dan]

They need to replace Devin Lloyd at linebacker, but outside of that. So I Like Tutin and Chris Rodriguez. I'm gonna be drafting both of those players this year.

[Jamie]

I don't think they're done though. That's the problem.

[Dan]

That would be a big problem.

[Adam Azer]

Yes.

[Jamie]

It just, it just feels like, you know, they, they were, they were in on J.K. dobbins from, you know, things you hear, they were in on. There was another player. Oh, Algeria, they're in on Algeria and Dobbins were two guys that they were looking at. I think whatever they do in the draft will clearly be telling, you know, whenever they address the position because right now, unless I'm mistaken, I'm missing somebody. The three guys on the roster are Toon Rodriguez and Laquin Allen. They still need a fourth. So is the fourth coming in as hey depth. We'll see what this player does or is this guy coming in as you have a chance to actually win the job. And so if it's a high end rookie, meaning, you know, day two, because I don't think it's going to be day one, then we'll see what that player is, who that player is and, and what the pedigree, you know, suggests. If it's oh, sixth round pick, seventh round pick, guy for depth, you know, developmental type player, then I think both these guys are in great spots. Because to your point, Rodriguez was a guy that, you know, has been with the coaching staff, head coach William Cohen for you know, time in Kentucky. And then this is obviously the regime that drafted Tootin, you know, with ideas of maybe him being a featured guy. So it's, it's a good spot for both those guys right now.

[Dan]

They don't as long and if I'm not mistaken, they don't have a first round pick that wasn't traded for Travis Hunt.

[Jamie]

That was. Yeah, you're right.

[Dan]

If they, I mean it just, it's possible but it's so hard for me to imagine a franchise without a first round pick. Just says, you know what, I'll use my second book on a running back.

[Jamie]

Oh, I don't, I don't, I don't necessarily think it has to be. And, and clearly, you know, teams could be creative. They could trade back into. Right could, you know, certainly do on as a third round pick. I'm waiting to see Camaro, for example. Does he get right cut or traded? I think that'd be a good fit, you know, for, for Jacksonville, which I think would still be good for both of those running backs too in the Rodriguez because of, you know, where he is at, where Camara's At. With his age. But it's just, again, just waiting to see what happens. But I think, yeah, where you got Rodriguez was fantastic. And I think where Tooton went also, I think that's Adam's favorite pick.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, right. It's interesting because my favorite pick, which I. But neither of us knew the other one was picking a Jacksonville running back for this exercise here. So Dan says Chris Rodriguez, who, by the way, went with the third pick of round 10, probably. Where did you go? Where'd he go? Third pick of round 10 for Chris Rodriguez. I said Basil Tutin with the sixth pick of round six in between Chuba Hubbard and Jakori Crosby. Merritt was the better value here. I do like Chris Rodriguez. I mean, he's been underrated. Just makes me wonder, you know, I don't know, is he really that good? He's not like he had a pedigree or anything like that. He doesn't have that many carries in his career. He has 198 carries in his career. He's averaged 4.6 yards per carry. He has six catches in his career. So Tutin obviously has a much bigger opportunity to be involved in the passing game. And Tutin is much more explosive than Chris Rodriguez. Rodriguez is just not that fast. He gets it done in other ways, but I want the guy who can make big plays, and I think Tutin, if he gets the opportunity, I think he could kind of get a bigger grip on the job. Obviously, Dan's gonna draft Tootin ahead of Rodriguez, I assume, but what's better value to you? Dan tootin in round six or Rodriguez around 10?

[Dan]

I've been high on Tootin all off season, but I think I'll go with Rodriguez a few four rounds later. I just think. I think they're both set for very similar production. Tootin obviously is the. The league winning type. Upside, though, as you mentioned, with the explosiveness, the speed, and the ability in the passing game, which we haven't actually seen a lot of, we've seen it more at Virginia Tech, so we'll see if they actually feel like they can use them in that regard. It just.

[Jamie]

The.

[Dan]

The one thing that scares me is, like, they do like lequin Allen. He's a great blocker, and he did get snaps that we didn't expect him to get last year. So if it turned into that type of situation, then I'm worried. But right now I feel like I could draft both and be happy with either of those values. Sixth round or tenth round, I don't.

[Jamie]

I don't see Allen's role changing dramatically. He'll probably get a few more passing opportunities, but, I mean, he's basically an offensive lineman. I mean, that's, that's what they use it for. The past.

[Adam Azer]

All right, folks, so we're gonna get to the worst values here based on players who were affected by free agency one way or another. Dan had just an absolute stinker of a pick.

[Jamie]

Wow.

[Dan]

Wait, my pick or the player I picked to be the worst value?

[Adam Azer]

No, you're the player. Your pick, your pick in the draft.

[Dan]

Just let me say one thing about this draft, and I do appreciate this, and I like this. It's like one of the rare drafts we do during the year where there's no ADP data yet. I kind of, kind of wish, like, one once a year. All of us did this in our real draft where, like, you go into a draft, you don't get, like, you know, the ADP data to start to sort through or the rankings. You just have to pick players based on your knowledge and no sorting. And that's what this draft is.

[Jamie]

Well, I mean, if you, if you draft at the beginning of training camp, you know, so there, there are leagues that, because they want to do it in person, you know, end of summer, for whatever reason. I know. I do, I do a couple of analyst drafts that we play out, you know, magazine purposes and whatnot. There is no, there's the exact scenario you're talking about, but we don't have

[Adam Azer]

rankings for this draft.

[Dan]

We don't even have rankings for this ranking.

[Jamie]

True.

[Dan]

So it's really just the Wild west out there, and you're going to make some mistakes when it comes to wild.

[Adam Azer]

Oh, you did. You certainly did. And we're talking.

[Dan]

I'm not surprised to hear it. But we will, we will observe your mistakes as well.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, I made one, I think. Really bad pick, but overall, I, I, I like the team, but, okay, other,

[Jamie]

More importantly, somebody, somebody called me in the middle of a draft, okay, in a panic, saying, can you make a pick for me, please? I have to pick up my children from the bus stop. Who do you think that was?

[Adam Azer]

A good dad.

[Dan]

I mean, one might, one might say a good dad. One might say an unprepared dad. I'll go with the latter. Adam Mazer.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Just kidding, buddy.

[Jamie]

You're not, like, like, out of breath?

[Adam Azer]

I was late.

[Dan]

You're late to the bus stop, kind of.

[Jamie]

Can you pick, please? Corland, son of Ricky Pearsall. And then I'm assuming it was his son saying something like, dad, did you poop your pants?

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Adam Azer]

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[Adam Azer]

Worst values here now. All right, I'll start. Dan.

[Dan]

Dan.

[Jamie]

Dan froze before the commercial and somebody just wrote, dan doesn't freeze, he waits.

[Dan]

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[Adam Azer]

Dan's worst pick, and I think one of the worst picks of the draft, a guy that really, I just don't think deserves to be drafted is Darnell mooney with the 10th pick of the ninth round.

[Jamie]

It's just.

[Adam Azer]

No, no, he doesn't know. Come on.

[Dan]

Why?

[Adam Azer]

Well, first of all, do I need

[Dan]

to tell you some stats on Darnell Mooney? Was that something you'd like to hear?

[Adam Azer]

I know you say a thousand yards with Justin Fields. He's had two good years in his career.

[Dan]

I've given you a thousand parts with Justin Fields. You want stats? I'm going to give you real stats. I'm going to give you Azer esque Azer stats. But even better than what the Azer status. Do you want them or.

[Adam Azer]

No, not really. Sure. Sure. I mean, yes, obviously you have to defend this horrible pick, but I just, I don't think that, I don't think he's worth rostering. He's not going to do much if as long as Malik Neighbors is playing. Which Neighbors should be ready for week one. Go ahead.

[Dan]

In 2024 for the Achilles injury before he had to deal with just what I would describe as bottom barrel level quarterback play. In 2025, Penck had an arm talent but locked onto his first read, couldn't handle pressure, didn't see Mooney a lot. Cousins, Mooney was open and Moon and he's just waiting. Cousins would eventually get it there, but in 2024 when the quarterback play was a little bit better. According to fantasy points data on all passes that were charted catchable, it was not Justin Jefferson, it was not Nico Collins. It was Darnell Mooney with the number one yards per target versus man coverage. Uncharted passes in 2024 and the eighth best separation rate on outbreaking routes. And you go, you watch the tape, Adam. Something I've obviously done as a Giants fan. He gets open man. He beats man. He beats press man. If you give him one on ones, he wins. He's a very good route runner. He's very good at getting in and out of his break. He's very good at the top of his route at sinking his hips and creating that separation. Took a while for the ball to get there in Atlanta. Maybe that'll be the case with Dart, we'll see. He has to get on time. He has to be, you know, obviously take that next step from a processing standpoint, but he's going to get a lot of, of one on one opportunities in this offense with neighbors on the other side with all the 21 and 12 personnel they're going to run. It's just going to be one on one for Mooney the entire year. I don't mind that setup if Dart can take that next step.

[Adam Azer]

All right. I, I hope you're right. He's I think 29 years old coming off an absolutely terrible season. Darnell Mooney and he's just terrible.

[Dan]

Knees in the eye of the beholder.

[Adam Azer]

Well, his statistics were.

[Dan]

Yeah, they were bad. That's what happens when you have panics and cousins.

[Adam Azer]

But 443 yards in 15 games and one touchdown. I mean there's not really much like pits had a fine season. London.

[Dan]

I know, that's what I'm saying. Bennett's is a lock in first read guy and he was just going to London and occasional pits.

[Adam Azer]

All right. They've got, they've got neighbors and they've got likely. Now I.

[Jamie]

Is Mooney Gooding drafted at all after the NFL draft? Well, I'm just asking like do they draft, do they draft a receiver?

[Dan]

Listen, this wasn't my best pick. I want to make that clear. Oh, oh, the Giants draft the receiver.

[Adam Azer]

They will. I don't, I don't, I don't think they'll do it around.

[Dan]

No, they're not driving the receiver. I actually don't think they will have a third round pick.

[Jamie]

Well, I'm just curious because I mean obviously you guys follow this. Dan, you know, does the Giants podcast so like does this move and the likely move speak to this is how we're addressing our receiving core and our pass catchers more so than. Because I know Adam, you were the end of the season last year. They're drafting receiver. Drafting receiver. Fifth pick in the draft. No.

[Adam Azer]

Well, no, I, maybe the fifth pick in the draft.

[Dan]

I think you wanted them to use five at receiver.

[Adam Azer]

Oh, I said maybe the first round of the second.

[Jamie]

I'm not saying you were, you were like it's gonna. Saying that was something you respect.

[Adam Azer]

Yes, I do think they will. Well, yeah, right. They. But they added likely. But Mooney and Austin are one year deals so I don't think that's going to preclude them from drafting a wide receiver. If they want to do that at some point they will draft a wide receiver. Not necessarily one that will affect Darnell Mooney this year. All right, let's move on, though. Let's talk about Jamie. No, Dan. Dan, your pick for. For worst value was Rashad White with the set with the first pick of round seven. Rashad White in round seven.

[Dan]

Yeah. Rashad White not trying to come to come down too hard on Rashad White. Actually like the evolution he's made as a runner in his game. But ultimately speaking, it feels like this team could be the team that drafts Jeremiah Love. That's how I see it. I know some people think he'll go at four to the Titans. I don't. Some people think about five, the Giants. I don't. But I think Washington will do that potentially. Even if they don't, I think they might be the team that takes what Jamie was talking about earlier that early Day two, running back. And then it just comes a really tricky situation there with Jakarta, with Bill Crosky, Merritt, and with Rashad White on an offense that's offensive line declined. Clearly last year they fired their offensive line coach. They have a new system in a new offensive line coach. They get rid of Cliff Kingsbury, which some might think is like a good thing overall, and it very well might be. It is not a good thing for their run game. Cliff Kingsbury can design a really good run game. The proof is over and over and over again over a very large sample size of him coaching a lot of different teams. So I think the run game takes a major step back in and just hard to find where the points are coming for. From for Rashad Wright.

[Adam Azer]

All right. Yeah. First pick around seven seemed a little early for him. You know, might. Might be a third down back. We'll see. Maybe gets in the mix there or really competes for the starting job. And then this is an interesting one, Jamie and Dan. But Jamie, you did not like Jalen Waddle. He went with the ninth pick of round three. Dave took him and he went after Garrett Wilson, A.J. brown and T. Higgins ahead of Devonte Adams, Kyron Williams and Lad McConkey. This is Jalen Waddle, round three, pick nine. And you thought that was bad value?

[Jamie]

Yeah, we literally just had gotten done right before the draft. Our emergency podcast and for me, the earliest I would take Jalen Waddle's round five. I think if you're going to start to be in on Jalen Waddle around four makes some sense. I don't see him as a top 20 receiver in Denver. And. And look there. There are certainly. There certainly is a path for him to have a very good, if not great season. But Cortland Sutton is still there. We saw last year Denver fourth in the NFL and pass attempt 613 pass attempts. Yeah. So where, where does the target distribution go? So I think if you look at it in the two years with Bo Nix, the second guy in target, so in 2024, it was 135 targets, I believe for Cortland Sutton, number two was Javante Williams at 70. Throw that out. Now we have year two of Bo Nicks. We have fourth in the NFL and past attempts. The second guy in targets, Sutton was at 124. The second guy, or 125, whatever it was, the second guy was Troy Franklin at 104. So if you're taking the 70 from Ingram, if you're taking the 70 or whatever it was from Mims, the, the targets that went to Pat Bryant and you're just consolidating all of them and saying this is where it goes to Jalen Waddle. And they're both around 120. Okay, maybe I could see it. But his best seasons were his first three years. He was getting over 140 targets per game. Over no, 100 and right around 100, 120. Some odd targets per game were the average in those three years. He's been banged up each of the last two seasons. Even though he's only officially missed three games, it just feels like it's a, it's a huge ask for him to go be that guy. Unless Sutton gets hurt. Because we have, we have a situation where, you know, they're, they're both going to still get opportunities. He's never been a big touchdown guy. I just don't know if Waddle is a number one wide receiver and this is essentially where he got drafted. Like, when you start to look at those guys in round three, like that's the tail end of, of the number one receivers, certainly the top 15 guys, I can't do it. So if, if Dave, you know, has that kind of, you know, feeling that Jalen Waddle has potentially career season, then you're going to draft him there. For me, if this is where he's going, he's going to be a bust.

[Dan]

I feel very similar. Jamie outlined a great case. And then, you know, on top of all that, it's the injury history of Waddle too. And that's not something like we're not. We're drafting some foolproof players played just as the long, extensive history of never being nagging, banged up with injuries, never having in those in game injuries that kill you in fantasy, where you start the player and he plays a few snapshots. So he's almost being drafted as that hasn't happened because there's all those other question marks in addition to the injury history on top of that, as Jamie outlined. So that all that together for me makes it so hard to like, invest anything really near this type of asset. I know he'll be ranked ultimately around this area because that's just the state of fantasy right now. There's not a lot of good receivers in fantasy and it dries up quick in that three round. You know that round three, four range.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, yeah, it's a tough ball, especially get it when, when A.J. brown and T. Higgins are off the board in round three. That's where I, yeah, it gets tough. I start struggling.

[Dan]

You know, you don't like my Evans pick. You probably don't like my Adams or Evans pick there in round three four, which I. Which I can fully understand.

[Adam Azer]

I just. Okay, so you went Adams in round three, one pick after Waddle. Then we had Kyron Williams, lad McConkey, and then that's the end of round three. Dan was picking 10th, so he goes Adams at three nine. Then Kyron Williams, lab McConkey, Luther Burden, a Mecca buka. That is a pick I really like.

[Jamie]

Personally, I was, I was. So the way that I picked Higgins right before Waddle went, I was like, man, I really want to get a book on the way back. If I don't get a book, I'm going to jump in and take Loveland if he's still there. So, like, to me, a book is better than Waddle. I like Adams and Evans better than Waddle. I like McConkey better than Waddle. I like Burden better than Waddle.

[Dan]

Like, I. Yeah, we're not, we're not going to be in on Waddle this year because he's gonna end up going in this range.

[Jamie]

So I, I was reading, I think it was the Fantasy Life newsletter, and they had one of their analysts said wide receiver 25 and one said wide receiver 20. So that's basically the range. Like, I. I don't know if he's like, this is suggesting top 15 at receiver.

[Dan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jamie]

I don't. I mean, I guess Dave is really excited now. Obviously Dave is on vacation and, you know, maybe he just, you know, it had. Again, it just happened a few hours before we drafted. So I don't know if he was just being aggressive.

[Adam Azer]

Well, this is. He. He took him at the 18th receiver off the board, there were 17 picks before Waddle.

[Jamie]

Right. I. I think like, if, if you're really looking at that round, you can argue if you want to. I was. I would take these guys over Waddle, but you could argue McMillan versus Waddle. You can argue Flowers versus Waddle, you can argue Wilson versus Waddle. Now, I think Rice, if there's no issues, A.J. brown, even on the Eagles. I think there's a huge gap between those guys, what they can do and what Waddle will do. And for me, Higgins as well, you know, I took Higgins on, you know.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jamie]

But you know, Wilson with his quarterback situation, Flowers, we know, has just never really ascended to those heights yet. And Tet, you know, is. Is he going to do that again? I can argue for Waddle in that case. I would still take all those guys over Waddle personally. But, you know, if that's where you want to sort of have some of those conversations, I get it.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah.

[Dan]

It's like with Waddle, it's almost like. Sorry, go ahead.

[Adam Azer]

No, I was gonna. With your picks. Adams at three, nine and then Mike Evans in round two. In round four.

[Dan]

Four, four.

[Adam Azer]

I just wouldn't pair those two. I. I like.

[Dan]

It's a lot of injuries.

[Adam Azer]

Well, let's just say they're old. You've got two of the oldest wide receivers in the NFL.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

That might be 20 to 25 touchdowns though.

[Dan]

Maybe. Yeah.

[Adam Azer]

But both of them are coming off like pretty inefficient seasons, which I don't necessarily buy. I thought the tape I watched of Mike Evans was really good.

[Dan]

Adams as well.

[Adam Azer]

Adams. Yeah. I don't really understand why.

[Dan]

That's the thing. Like I'm just drafting the best guys I know they keep getting every year. We're going to do this with Adams until it falls off. And I'll. I'll take it. I'll keep getting the wins and then when it falls off, I'll take the one year where it doesn't happen. I feel the same with Evans.

[Adam Azer]

I just don't know if I would have gone back to back Adams and Evans in rounds three and four. It's just three receivers who went in between McConkey, Burden and Abuka. That's first and second year guys or third.

[Dan]

I would have taken Igbuka over. Over, obviously Evans, not Adams. But. And honestly thinking back, I might have rather paired. But like you said, Ibuka and Evans or something like that.

[Jamie]

But Dan's roster, like if you, if you just look at the first four picks that say I'm Gonna win or I'm gonna finish last place.

[Dan]

Yeah, that's how I play fantasy. So it checks out.

[Adam Azer]

Honestly, gotta say the roster guys, because McCaffrey, Walker, Adams, Evans, that's how like

[Jamie]

if they all hit. You're talking about borderline number one running back. Borderline top ten running back.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

Two top 15 caliber receivers.

[Dan]

Right.

[Jamie]

You know, it's still a touchdown game.

[Dan]

I always say this on air because I stand by it. It's still a touchdown game. It's hard to predict them. I understand. We don't like to talk about them because they regress and there's some variants and luck involved in touchdown scoring. But it is still a touchdown game fantasy. You need guys on teams that are going to score points. There's a lot of guys on teams that don't score points, points that get drafted high. Like Waddle, for example. To me, the path for Waddle to outscore Evans and Adams, I don't see it unless the Broncos traded for him to be a focal point of the offense. And that's not something we've seen from Sean Payton with the exception of the Michael Thomas years. But that was between Thomas and Breeze where Thomas was Breeze's ex. And it's very, it's not unique, but it was a very specific scenario. Bo Nix has not proven to be that guy. Even last year was Sutton. He wasn't that guy when Sutton was playing the X a lot. So I don't.

[Jamie]

Sorry. I'm also so surprised that Dave is the one that went in on Waddle on the team that's still going to be very run heavy.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, they were fourth and pass attempts.

[Jamie]

Huh?

[Adam Azer]

They were fourth and pass attempts last year.

[Jamie]

But that, but I think that also speaks to Dobbins getting hurt in week 10 and you know, sort of figuring things out as they. As they went along a little bit. I don't think that like if you were to ask Sean Payton and granted they were, you know, the, the one seed. Do. Do they want to be a run heavy team, a balanced team or a past heavy team? I don't think he wants to be a past heavy team. I think he wants to be balanced. And the reason I say, Dave, they've had great research on Waddle with the run game good in Miami versus the nut.

[Adam Azer]

I no, I think it was more like it was with a chan and it was HN as a receiver.

[Jamie]

I thought it was all the above. I thought when the run game slash HN was working maybe.

[Adam Azer]

Denver was 10th in pass attempts in the first 10 weeks. Of the season. By the way. I don't know when Dobbins got hurt. I completely agree. Like, they're not going to be fourth and past attempts per game. I, I just, I was really surprised. I didn't even realize that until yesterday

[Dan]

because a lot of those are like, those like quick around the line of scrimmage that Aiden runs.

[Adam Azer]

That's true.

[Dan]

But even counts as a fast attempt. But it's really like an extension of his run game. But. And those might go to Waddle, but like. Like, I don't know for sure if that's how they're going to use him.

[Adam Azer]

All right, let's talk about Evans here, because him going in the fourth round, I feel like when, when the news broke that he was going to the 49ers. Jamie, I don't. I don't think you guys were saying fourth round.

[Jamie]

I was around five guy.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. All right, so this was a little earlier than I anticipated.

[Dan]

I may be around three guy with Evans, like early round, it's all done.

[Adam Azer]

It doesn't feel wrong to me. I mean, you know.

[Jamie]

No, I think this is fair.

[Adam Azer]

4.3 here. So why did you take Evans there?

[Jamie]

Why?

[Adam Azer]

What do you think?

[Dan]

We actually did an episode. Just one more shameless plug. You might hear that one. This is another shameless plug. I'll call it. It's not a guarantee this will be my last, but on the beyond the Box score new channel we did do, we are doing deep dive videos as we always do, the long ones. We're also doing shorter form content. So we're doing 10, 15, 20 minute like episodes on certain players or situations. We did one on Evans and it allowed me to watch a lot of tape and I think you said this a little earlier, Adam. His tape was really freaking good last year, man. Like, he's still one of the best receivers in the NFL. All the separation rates check out with this, by the way. Like, if you look at the advanced metrics, they tell you that Evans is still getting open specifically on the vertical plane. And that's just something the 49ers have not had since IUK. And I even think from watching the tape, he does it a lot better than Ayuk does it when it comes to separating vertically stacking the defensive back and getting open outside the numbers on the vertical plane. IUK could do it on those in breakers that Shanahan loves to run those deep in cuts, which Evans can do as well by the way. He still separates on slants and deep in cuts at a very high level. But he's going to add a verticality to the 49ers passing game. That's going to be something we haven't seen in a while. And just looking at the schematics of the 49ers offense with Christian McCaffrey in there, eventually Kittle gets back in there. Now Christian Kirk, there's just going to be, this is how they're set up. There's going to be a lot of eyes on McCaffrey every single play. So that means there's going to be a lot of one on one situations for Evans. And I think Brock Purdy is better at processing than Baker Mayfield. I think he's more accurate and I think he's going to be better on the vertical plane than Mayfield was. Mayfield was. When we watched Mayfield tape last year, that was a big problem with Igbuka in the second half. Buka was open on double moves and Baker didn't get him the ball on time or he didn't get him the ball accurately. I think that changes. I think that's a huge jump for his value. And then it's the red zone stuff for me. Like, I think he's going to be a total weapon for Shanahan in the red zone. So I think for me, Evans, I don't know where I'll come down. I just know it'll be a lot higher than this pick and he's going to be ranked aggressively for me this year in fantasy.

[Jamie]

I think just when you, when you look at it, the thing you got to justify is, and everything you said about how they'll use him is, is I'm sure, very accurate. He's an aging receiver, changing teams, coming off two years in a row where he's missed time due to injuries. And does that help going to a team however it happens, Forget about the stupid thing.

[Dan]

Oh, the substation, the electric substation.

[Jamie]

But guys get hurt there a lot.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

You know, to your point about McCaffrey, like we're also counting on a 30 year old running back to stay healthy the entire season. That hasn't done in back to back years in a while. So if McCaffrey does get hurt, does the setup for Evans, based on how, you know, you, you described it, does that still remain the same? I wouldn't worry too much about that because I think if Evans health, he's going to get his numbers. But it's, you know, I think forget about Adams and then hoping Abuka comes back. Like, I think the question is like do you take Abuka ahead of both do you take Makaki, who could easily bounce back in, in Mike McDaniel's offense with the Chargers? I'm not saying you like one or the other. I'm just opposing the theory. Luther Burden, who I'm sure Jacob would argue take him over all these guys, probably, you know, Burden and his role and even comparing Evans to DJ Moore, you know, similar situation. You know, guy going to a new team, getting featured, maybe a quarterback upgrade, you know, in, in the case like you made, you know, purdy over Mayfield. I think is, is accurate. I would obviously argue that Josh Allen's an upgrade for, for DJ Moore as well. Like, is DJ Moore in a better spot? You know, so I think when you start to just lump all these guys together, you know, you got to rate the way the pros and cons and I think, you know, obviously you're very high on Evan, so you take the guy that you want.

[Dan]

Yeah, yeah. And if the injury was lower body last year, I gotta get a break in Dan.

[Adam Azer]

I'm sorry.

[Dan]

Sorry.

[Adam Azer]

That's okay. DJ Moore, by the way, I think he went one pick before I was about to pick in round four and it was one of those, ah, damn it situation. Two picks before me. Okay, anywho, let's take a break and come back and we'll just, I'll tell you where, where Devon Hn went. Justin Jefferson, Ken Walker, Garrett Wilson, Colson Loveland, Roma Dunze, Wandell Robinson, Tyler Warren. All these guys affected by free agency when we come back on fantasy football

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[Adam Azer]

Cbsports.com FFT go there right now. Join our bracket challenge. Okay. Relevant Picks. These players in some way or some form were affected by trades or free agency. Maybe they got a new quarterback, maybe they had a teammate leave and there are more targets available. Devon HN went seventh overall. We're gonna fire through these here. You just tell me good or bad value. He was the third running back off the board. Bijan and Gibbs were the first two picks. Then you had four receivers with Malik Neighbors going fifth, which is wild, fifth overall. So it was Bijan, Gibbs, Chase Puka, Neighbors, JSN and then Jamie. Devon hn, you were on deck. So I think you, you had to consider HN there. But he goes seventh overall.

[Jamie]

I think it's fine for now. You know, it's going to be tough to, you know, believe in the Dolphins offense at the same time in ppr. This could be the guy who leads the running back position in receptions based on how this receiving core looks right now, which is ugly. So this is one of those where I think you got to see what they do in the NFL draft. You know, if they go heavy at wide receiver, there's still a couple big name receivers out there in free agency that they might be able to get cheap. Juwan Jennings, Stefan Diggs for example, if that's a route they decide to go. But I think HN is still a first round pick. I would probably bump him down a couple of spots, but you know, if you're going to get him, this is a spot where you start, where he should start to come into consideration.

[Adam Azer]

Justin Jefferson went 12th overall, which is higher than what we had seen when we had been doing these drafts in February. Dan, what do you think about Jefferson? 12th?

[Dan]

I want to believe that anyone could produce more fantasy points for Justin Jefferson than J.J. mcCarthy and Carson Wentz combination last year and that anyone being Kyler Murray. But I have my reservations with Kyler Murray as well. So I'm not so sold on this one. It. I have to see where I'm going to be at with Jefferson. He's such a good player and he should bounce back with some level of upgrade at quarterback play. I just, I want to see a little bit of how it's going in camp and in the preseason and the connection they have if he's even starting.

[Adam Azer]

By the way, are there any players who went after Jefferson? James Cook, Saquon Barkley, Ken Walker that I would take?

[Dan]

Yep, I would take James Cook for sure. I would take Drake London and I would take Kent. No, I wouldn't take in Walker.

[Adam Azer]

Just go to the best pick in the draft. 22nd overall.

[Dan]

This is what you consider to be the best pick.

[Adam Azer]

10th pick of round two should have taken Chase Brown.

[Dan]

Yeah, that is a great pick. I actually don't know why he's still on the board.

[Adam Azer]

Amazing pick.

[Dan]

So, yeah, underrated.

[Adam Azer]

A quick detour from the free agency thing. I took Jamar Chase with the third overall pick pick, and then I got Chase Brown, who, if you guys have been listening, I would take him with, I don't know, maybe the eighth or ninth pick. I love Chase Brown. I got him with the 22nd pick, and I go, you know what? I could take T. Higgins in round three and Joe Burrow in round four. Try it. But it was only a mock draft, so. And Josh Jacobs fell to me in round three. I was like, there's no way I can take Higgins over Josh Jacobs.

[Dan]

It's full. It was a ppr.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, it's full. Pbr. And then Burrow actually went with the pick before me in round. In round four, but I was like, this might be the time to do it.

[Dan]

You know, as I look through this board, it just. I. I don't know if it'll stay this way, but right now I feel like you're of a major advantage picking earlier in the Snake draft than. Than the end because Jacobs, Henry, like that versus Walker, Barkley, Hampton. Like, I don't really see much edge to getting Walker Barkley. Your choice of Walker, Barkley, Hampton. I. And then not getting that early first round guy like Chase.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, maybe. All right, so now we go to Ken Walker and you can talk about that, Dan, because you took him with the third.

[Dan]

Jamie, do you feel like there's any year. I'm sorry, I have to ask. And Adam, you too. I feel like there's any year it's been an advantage to not pick at the top early in the Snake.

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[Dan]

Really? And honestly, do you honestly feel like there's ever been an advantage to it, to not being. To not getting the Chase and not getting, like, the really great. To being at the back end of the Snake? Isn't it always a disadvantage?

[Jamie]

I mean, I think there's probably always the sentiment that it's a disadvantage going into it, you know, but, I mean, you think about, like two years ago,

[Dan]

fantasy is unpredictable, but going into it, would you have ever. Would you. Did you remember one year where you'd rather have the back end picks of a Snake instead of the early picks?

[Jamie]

Where I want to, yeah. I mean, I don't think anybody wants to have their. Their fate dictated to them as opposed to, you know, being able to decide the players that you want. Yeah, but you're supposed to get the

[Dan]

extra pick in the second round. The better picking. This is supposed to be some advantage to it. So do you ever think that there,

[Jamie]

I mean, I again, like, you know, to the people last year who drafted Barkley early in the first round versus the people that took, let's say Devon Hn early in the second round, like the, the advantage that you got if you took, let's say McCaffrey who fell to the back end of round one, if you had McCaffrey like I had one league like that you can work out.

[Dan]

I get it.

[Adam Azer]

But I'm trying to look at if

[Dan]

you've ever felt that way. I, I don't think it's gonna come

[Jamie]

out of the player you don't, you don't ever want to be in a situation in life where people are saying you have to wait for what you want as opposed what you want.

[Dan]

Do you think fantasy. A lot of the years we have like three or four really different players on a different tier and then a lot of time you're supposed to get the edge back in the Snake in the second round. But then we see stuff like this where it's like, I don't know, man, Jacobs, Henry.

[Jamie]

But like Adam, for example, just taking what he just said, he has a strong feeling about Chase Brown. Chase Brown is probably going to go ADP wise. My guess would be anywhere from 13 because I don't think he's going to be drafted as a first round pick. Adam said he would take him date. So 13 through 24. Right. So if Adam knows he's picking at the back end of round one, he knows he can, let's say, start his team with Amara Saint Brown and Chase Brown and be thrilled about that.

[Dan]

Right, Adam?

[Adam Azer]

Of course, yeah, I'm trying. Sorry, I'm looking up. I'm doing a little experiment here to test this theory. But yes, I'm on Ross St. Brown and Chase Brown would find.

[Jamie]

Right. So you, you know, based on where Chase Brown's going to go, that's a player you're targeting that's going to have an ADP early in round two, most likely. So you know you're going to get if you're picking at the back end versus picking at the top of the draft and you're like, man, I don't know if I want Puka or Chase, if I want Bijan or Gibbs. If I screw this up, my team's going to suck. If they one Guy gets hurt like, you know you can. You could certainly play it out that way.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, guys, I'm gonna tell you this. I'm looking at about six of my leagues. And who won fantasy football today? Jack Capatoro won. He had the 12th pick, beat Chad Smith league. I won. I had the first pick. That was a super flex league, 10 team league. No, I'm not doing any Super Flex.

[Dan]

You're not doing the super league that we both played in that I won because.

[Adam Azer]

No, because this completely irrelevant. This argument is irrelevant in super flex leagues in terms of where you're drafting. This is a friends league that I'm in. Greg won. He had the third pick. This is our. My FFT open league. The guy who won my division had the 10th pick. The Joey Wright who's actually in the chat right now listening to the show, he won our IDP league. He had the third pick. So I took five leagues. Three of the five winners had picks.

[Jamie]

One IDP league, but you won't count the sewer Flex league.

[Adam Azer]

Super. This argument about when to draft, we've

[Dan]

never seen a sample size as big as this one.

[Adam Azer]

I'm just saying that when. When did. What is it better to have an early pick or a late pick is completely different in Super Flex than it is in a one quarterback league. So that's why I was just looking at the one quarterback.

[Jamie]

It's not different in IDP league.

[Adam Azer]

Not really. Because the IDPs, they don't start going off the board until pretty late.

[Dan]

Kind of with Adam on this one. But I, I'm definitely not without him on. Let's take a poll of.

[Adam Azer]

Oh yeah, I'm just saying three of the five leagues that the top three picks one and then the other two was 10th and 12th. So I, I think there's. There's been some studies that show that picking early is better, but it's not like I get a late pick and I'm like, oh, I can't win this league.

[Dan]

Now. The fact that it's not that you can't win this league now, I just feel like you're just at a little bit of a disadvantage.

[Adam Azer]

Can we talk about why you took Ken Walker so early?

[Dan]

Yeah. So Ken Walker obviously joins the Chiefs. The upside is through the roof for me in my mind with that fit. Just from a schematic standpoint, I like him in the run game. I think they're going to be using him more in the passing game as we move forward. And that's something we saw flashes of in Seattle. We actually saw It a little bit early last season. I got excited about it and then it fizzled out. So did his role. But you know, Pacheco leaves, goes to Detroit. I don't. Or did they resign Cream hunt yet? Are they going to resign Kremlin? Not yet. Right. He's still free agent, I'm pretty sure. So I just think he's in a really good spot and I believe in that team. And even like the weeks where they're gonna have to start Justin Fields, that's like a good thing, I think for Walker. I don't think that's a bad thing at all. Maybe the scoring will go down, but the opportunities will go up. He'll get more lighter boxes with Fields taking a defender that, that lead defender has to, you know, account for him on any kind of zone read. So I like the fit, I like the talent. And I'm. I've never really bought Walker. This will be the first draft I probably ever drafted Walker, even mock draft that I've ever drafted him. This is gonna be the first year I'm going to consider getting in on Walker.

[Adam Azer]

Okay. Now after Ken Walker, Drake London, who is gonna potentially have a new quarterback, he went 16th, which is, you know, pretty normal. Right. Just ahead of Nico Collins. Ashton Genti. I put him. Oh, nothing really happened.

[Dan]

Not just a new quarterback for London Tua. Yeah,

[Adam Azer]

well, what do you mean?

[Dan]

It's just not a good thing. Like, it's like it's a new quarterback and it might be worse.

[Adam Azer]

Might be? I'm not sure. Yeah. Ashton Genti at 2.8, 8th pick of round two. Why'd I put him in here? Well, they. They got the best, arguably the best free agent. They got Tyler Vanderbaum at center, so hopefully that helps. Ashton Genti. Okay, then we get to round three, which had Garrett Wilson, he. Jamie, he went ahead of AJ Brown. Garrett Wilson with a new quarterback, Geno Smith, he went ahead of A.J. brown and T. Higgins. Was that the right pick there?

[Jamie]

I don't love it. Ahead of some of the other wide receivers. We spoke about this, I believe with Joe PCP about where Garrett Wilson should go. Like Geno Smith I think will be fine for him. It's not the ideal quarterback upgrade that we were hoping for. I just think if, if Garrett Wilson stays healthy, there's an opportunity for him to be a borderline top 12 receiver. So he's in this range. I just prefer the upside of Brown and Higgins more so than I do Wilson right now. I wonder if Wilson did not get selected there, could he Potentially gone back to Johnny in the fourth round. Like it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility.

[Dan]

Wilson, to me, is like the best example of what we were talking about earlier, which is like, there's such a dearth of talent or. Dearth is maybe not the right word. I think I'm looking for the other word, the opposite of it. Or maybe I am at wide receiver in fantasy. That's like earth. Yeah. Okay. That a player like Wilson, who's literally never lived up to his adp. Every year we have his ADP too high.

[Adam Azer]

Well, he did last year.

[Dan]

Oh, his AB was so low last year.

[Adam Azer]

It wasn't that low. He had a great year last year.

[Jamie]

I don't think you could say he had a great year.

[Dan]

He played five great year last year. Is that what you're saying?

[Adam Azer]

He was a top 10 wide receiver in the first six weeks of the year.

[Dan]

Then he came 395 total yards he played. I know.

[Adam Azer]

He played seven games. He left two of them early.

[Dan]

Right. That's not good.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, but he performed.

[Dan]

You drafted Garrett Wilson. You weren't happy.

[Adam Azer]

You were when he was healthy.

[Dan]

But that's not the game.

[Adam Azer]

Like, well, he doesn't have a history of injury.

[Jamie]

You can't say great year when a guy plays five games.

[Dan]

Yeah,

[Adam Azer]

he. While he played, he was a great. He was a great value.

[Jamie]

Yes, but you can't say great.

[Dan]

He didn't play a lot, though. This is a wild take from me. That's like.

[Jamie]

That's like you're azer. Static,

[Adam Azer]

my ass. He had 71 or more yards in four of his first five games.

[Jamie]

Games. But you're saying great year so hard. Like, in real life, you'd be azer. Stating a calendar and saying, wow, can't wait to celebrate New Year's. July 31st.

[Adam Azer]

The first five. Five weeks of the season. It was insane.

[Dan]

You can't call it. I don't think anyone besides you would call Garrett Wilson a great value last year.

[Adam Azer]

I'm just saying. No, fine.

[Dan]

Like, Gary Wilson has a lot of talent. You can watch the tape and you can see it. But he just really has disappointed fantasy every single year. Maybe not bad value. Maybe not the word right word for me to use, but just disappointment at where you pick him.

[Jamie]

Expectations for the five games that he played, but you cannot say he had a great year.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, first he played seven games. The first five games were amazing. The sixth game, he got certain.

[Jamie]

And then he didn't play in the seventh game.

[Adam Azer]

And then he. He played 19 snaps in the second in the seventh game was over.

[Dan]

And that's a great season.

[Adam Azer]

No, it's not a great season, but what he did did is re. What he did last year is enough to justify him going in the third round. For example. For example, Rasheed Rice played three healthy games in 2024. What he did was so good in those three games that combined with the last six games of his rookie season, it justified him going very.

[Jamie]

I don't know if that justified him or that. That and the combination of, I don't know, he had a quarterback that maybe is pretty good.

[Dan]

Yeah. And a role that was so defined.

[Adam Azer]

But I'm just saying, if you look at what Garrett Wilson did last year was pretty similar to what Rasheed Rice did.

[Jamie]

Okay, but, but to justify where they were drafted last year for Rice, this

[Adam Azer]

year for Wilson, Rice was drafted later because he was facing a suspension. I'm just.

[Jamie]

No, no, what I'm saying is the justification is that one had a quarterback too. Like, yeah,

[Dan]

offense is the power slide.

[Jamie]

If Wilson got Kyler Murray right, Garrett Wilson, Kyler Murray's decided to go to the jets instead of going to the Vikings. We might be talking about Garrett Wilson around 2.

[Adam Azer]

It makes me frustrated when I think in my opinion, I am making a very clear, normal, wonderful point. And it's like you guys are hearing it in a different language, like I'm using Google Translate.

[Jamie]

Well, you can be so frustrating phrase in regards to Garrett Wilson that he had a great year.

[Dan]

Well, he did say that the year.

[Adam Azer]

If you just look at the six healthy games he played, he was a top 10 wide receiver and he did that with.

[Jamie]

But you used the phrase great year.

[Adam Azer]

Well, okay, obviously I meant on a per game basis, which is more important than overall, because in the first three years of his career, Garrett Wilson stayed healthy and wasn't. He ended up with like, yeah, he was top 24 wide receiver, but he wasn't even close to that per game. That is when he.

[Jamie]

I, I understand what you're saying. I, I just think think to, to say when you're looking at the totality of Garrett Wilson, like the injury plagued year that he had in 2025 has to be taken into account.

[Adam Azer]

Why?

[Jamie]

Because we have not seen him do that over a full season. I agree. He had done that, let's say five more games, right. Then I think you could say, wow, this guy's awesome. And now.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, I agree with that. That's why I think he should not have gone. She should not have gone ahead of A.J. brown and T. Higgins. But when you start talking about risky wide receivers like Lad McConkey coming off a bad year and Devonte Adams being 33, I believe Jalen Waddle, who we just talked about. I think Garrett Wilson belongs in that group.

[Jamie]

Yes.

[Adam Azer]

All right, so we all agree with everything, just not my evaluation of his season. All right, next up was round four. Was almost exclusively players who were affected in some way by free agency or trades.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Adam Azer]

And you tell me, good or bad value. Luther Bird and first pick of round four, good.

[Jamie]

Fair value.

[Adam Azer]

Ameca Buka, second pick.

[Dan]

Good value.

[Adam Azer]

Evans, third pick.

[Dan]

That's what you ask. I say good.

[Adam Azer]

Good for. For Dan. Fair. For Jamie Colson. Loveland. Since you guys.

[Dan]

That's an interesting one.

[Adam Azer]

Was he affected by free agency?

[Dan]

Fourth round pick. Sorry. Well, he was. The Giants didn't sign anybody, and they were rumored to sign.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, I know. I just. I couldn't.

[Dan]

One.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, so fair value. Colston, Loveland, you go Jamie, then dan colson, loveland, 4.5.

[Dan]

Fair.

[Jamie]

Fair value.

[Adam Azer]

So jamie, then dan travis, etn. For seventh pick of round four for etn.

[Jamie]

Good value.

[Dan]

Meh.

[Adam Azer]

Oh, interesting. Go ahead.

[Dan]

On this etn saints thing.

[Adam Azer]

Hn. But why?

[Dan]

Oh, hn. I'm so. I have to call him a Chan now.

[Adam Azer]

I don't care. I don't even know what.

[Dan]

Is that what he asked?

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, that's what he said. He said.

[Dan]

He said, I. I was always supposed to be called a Chan.

[Adam Azer]

That's his name. He said people. He was always a Chan. People. Once he got to Clemson, had a hard time pronouncing it.

[Dan]

So he said, why are so many of these athletes just accepting wrong names? It's crazy. I'd never. This could. Never could fly with me. People were just calling me Schneer. My whole life, I'd be like, no, it's Schneier. Like, this is not. It's gonna sit there and take it

[Jamie]

like it makes no sense. Like, hn.

[Dan]

ETN doesn't even sound like Hn.

[Adam Azer]

I. I don't know why people are so chain.

[Jamie]

Or is it a Chan?

[Dan]

It's got to be a chain, right?

[Adam Azer]

He said a Chan.

[Dan]

Wow. All right, well, Travis Hn. No, I. I don't. I'm not. I don't hate it, but I'm not in love with that value at all.

[Adam Azer]

All right, way to move on. DJ Moore, eighth pick of round four.

[Jamie]

Fair value.

[Dan]

For me, it's border. It's fair. Bordering lower. I'm not as high on that as you guys are.

[Adam Azer]

How about Bucky Irving, 10th pick of round four.

[Jamie]

Ooh, good value.

[Dan]

I just like the talent enough so I'll say good value. And the O line's great but a little tricky that situation.

[Adam Azer]

My running back, Romo Dunze, last pick of round four, 48th overall. Roma Dunes.

[Jamie]

Fair value.

[Dan]

Meh value. I don't see it happening.

[Adam Azer]

So Odunze went 48th and then 49, 50 and 51 were also wide receivers.

[Dan]

Can we talk about the fact that we just took three Bears receiving options in one round? Yeah, it's a massively run first team.

[Adam Azer]

It's a great point. But after Odunze was Jameson Williams, Terry McLaurin and Devonte Smith. But yes, Dan, we can, we can talk about that. It's. It's putting a lot of faith into the Bears offense for sure. And when did DeAndre putting faith in

[Dan]

their passing game because their offense is great but they're a run first team.

[Adam Azer]

Where didn't Swift go? Jamie, why am I. Oh, he went

[Jamie]

to RJ at the end of round five.

[Dan]

I think the best value of all these players is McLaurin. Take McLaurin over like every one of these guys. I think so.

[Adam Azer]

Swift was the first pick, first pick around six. Yeah. Well, you think it's too rich for, for these picks, Dan? All three Bears.

[Dan]

I just think that if it's not, I don't know individually if it's too rich. I just know they're a run first team. The Bears that run the ball really well and we're taking three of their receiving options in the fourth round. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't even think Caleb Williams got to because I think we would have heard the story on he didn't get to 4, 000 passing yards last year, right?

[Jamie]

No, no, he fell just short. I, I think the thing when you're looking at these guys is you're, it's almost we're back in a similar boat to where we were last year of who is going to ascend to the top of the. I don't say depth chart, but who's going to send to the top of the mountain from a, a leader of, of this group. And I think if you, if you look at it just in the totality of it, you're probably gonna look at the upside of, of what burden can do or the upside of what Loveland can do and maybe just sort of settle for Odunze as, as the third option. I don't think anybody's going to put Odunze above The other two, because of what their potential could be, then you sort of separate, okay, the two receivers versus the tight end. So like to me, Loveland right now is, is the third tight end off the board. Should be the third tight end off the board. And then when do you want to sort of jump in on him knowing that McBride and Bowers are going to be somewhere between probably 11 and 24. They went, you know, middle around two for McBride, end of round two for Bowers. Like I told you before, if a book was there, I would have taken a book over Loveland. But Loveland to me in round four is, is a good spot to take a chance on him. Burden has not shown the, the consistency yet of being a guy that's going to take a leap forward. Obviously this move to get rid of DJ Moore opens the door for both these guys to, you know, showcase their skill set. At least in the case of Odunze. You saw at the beginning of last season in Ben Johnson's offense a great stretch of production. Now, Burn didn't get that opportunity. We saw it a little bit toward the end of the year when, when Odunze had the foot injury and Loveland was still sort of battling through whatever shoulder, you know, just not being ready yet to take that leap of, of being featured. I don't mind it for, for these guys where they went, you know, burden in that range of wide receivers, you know, Adams, McConkey, Burden, Abuka Evans. I would probably have burden behind. Like, I like a book of better, I like McConkey better. But I, you know, you make an argument for burden just, you know, of what he can be. But again, where Odunze went, like, yes, you can make arguments for Jameson Williams, Terry McLaurin, Devonte Smith, even Marvin Harrison, in my mind that maybe they're better than Odunze because, you know, you're talking about what Jameson has shown. McLaren bouncing back, Devonte Smith, you know, whatever. All these guys have have, you know, similar sort of chances to ascend to being, you know, top 20 caliber wide receivers. I just think now you take D.J. moore off the field, it's not like we're talking about a guy that had 140 targets. It was 85 targets last year. It wasn't like it was a big number. But now you're just opening the door for all three of these guys to get opportunities. And if you buy into Ben Johnson, which I'm sure everybody does this point, if you buy into Caleb Williams, which I think a lot of people are starting to, and you Hear what Ben Johnson said at the combine. Like we're just getting started. Like hopefully Caleb Williams, you know, 4, 000 should be an afterthought this year if he continues to play like he's capable of playing. I know Dan, you, you were his rookie season saying he was, you know, that was one of your bold predictions. He's going to be, you know, the first Bears quarterback to go 4, 000 yards and it made a lot of sense and, and even more so to double down on that last year. You know he was, he was close to it. I think we could be looking at a 43,4400 yard season for Caleb Williams and hopefully we're talking about, you know, 35 passing touchdowns.

[Adam Azer]

That's awesome. That's an ins. That's a crazy projection because Dan is right. They are very run heavy. Even they, I think they ran the second most plays in football last year. So it was kind of hard to see how run heavy they were because there were a lot of pass attempts because they ran so many plays. Yeah, if they ran a normal amount of plays I think we would have been frustrated by the pass volume if the, if the rates, you know, the pass rate had been the same. I think if you look, if it's too rich for you, just draft Caleb Williams. You want to get a piece of the Bears passing game, draft Caleb Williams later.

[Dan]

Reminds me but the Jamie's point of Caleb takes that step forward that we believe is possible then I think they become a more pass heavy team. I think part of why they were so run heavy a because they're successful within and Ben Johnson's great at designing the run game but also because there were limitations. When you watch Caleb Williams on film

[Adam Azer]

from a processing standpoint it reminds me a little bit of the Chiefs last year who had three pass catchers going kind of in the round five to six range which is a little bit different because Rice was facing the six game suspension. But worthy Kelsey and Rice and honestly Mahomes and Pacheco were all going in the same probably two round range. Right.

[Jamie]

I think though did not work out in the case of the Bears. Again you're swinging for the fences here. You know Loveland, what he showed at the end of the season, four straight games of 10 plus targets. You don't get that at that position with his upside burden in the 23 game sample size that we saw look like he could be really special. Especially what he does from you know, a secondary metrics perspective and odunze, you know to what Dan said at the start of the show about Adams and Evans, oh, dudes, they could be their touchdown leader. You know, we're talking about a guy that could be A plus touchdowns. So it's not like you're saying I'm getting these guys to guarantee me this production. I'm taking chances on these three young wide receivers. Two second year guys, one third year guy that if one of them hits. Okay, I like the, the scenario of where I drafted him. If all three of them hits and nobody took, you know, doubled up on these guys. But if all three of them hit. To your point, Adam, Caleb Williams has a big year. You got great value where you drafted him as a starter. But I got maybe the top, you know, the number three tight end or a top three tight end and I got, you know, one of the top 20 wide receivers because I think that's their range of outcome. It could be pretty special for these guys if they hit.

[Adam Azer]

I think it's also a statement about the wide receivers and just there aren't that many appealing options, especially once you get to the 50s in the draft.

[Jamie]

But also just, just looking at it like burden for where RJ drafted him. That's his third receiver. Love that. Yeah, Odunze, second receiver. But where Alfredo drafted it was, you know, McMillan and Odunze. No, no, I'm sorry, it was Odunze and Jameson Williams back to back. So that was essentially his two and his three.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, let's move on guys. David Montgomery, round five in between Travion Henderson and Javante Williams middle of round five. David Montgomery with the Texans.

[Jamie]

Rather have Javante or both.

[Dan]

Yeah, Javante very undervalued in this draft.

[Adam Azer]

Mondale Robinson, 11th pick of round five and then Tyler Warren. It's like back to back picks. I, I really didn't like the Wandale pick and I love the Tyler Warren pick.

[Dan]

It's funny, I'm like almost the opposite. I don't love the Wando pick but I like it. I think that the role is clear. I just. You watch any Cam Ward last year, you see they had no outlet in the passing game and that was a huge issue for them, which is what Dave Wol was going to give them with his slots. That's how it always works. So I just think it's force fed targets Warren. Like I don't want to hop, I don't want to put my Hawkinson stamp on him. You know, my Hawkinson stamp. I said last year Hawkinson was undraftable before the year. I think I was probably Pretty much proven right on that, I think. Was Hawkinson ever worth starting last year? I'm not going to put that on Warren. Yeah, Warren's way too talented. But I don't see it the way you guys do with Warren. If you look toward the end of that season, once that, you know, version of the Colts offense that really thrived for the first five, six weeks of the season was figured out on tape and adjusted to what? They went away from Warren and there weren't as many of those manufactured targets.

[Adam Azer]

Not get away from Warren.

[Jamie]

Oh, I, I think you're looking at this the wrong way, Dan. I mean, okay, Jones broke his leg. That's what things felt.

[Dan]

Okay, maybe it is just the Jones

[Adam Azer]

injury, but he's, but he's coming off a torn Achilles, so it is worth

[Jamie]

mentioning, coming off a torn Achilles, pretty big piece of the puzzle.

[Dan]

Yeah. What'd you say?

[Jamie]

They removed a very big piece of

[Dan]

the puzzle in Pittman, which could help Warren from a target standpoint. The same time, coming off the Achilles, they lost Braden Smith, their right tackle to the Texans, didn't replace him yet. I, I'm just, I was wrong, you know, obviously I was wrong with Jones. I guess we're calling him a great quarterback in the NFL at this point. I don't know.

[Jamie]

No, nobody's saying that.

[Dan]

I don't know what to say on that front, but I don't think I'll be buying on the Colts this next year. I know that.

[Jamie]

I mean, that's certainly a fair sentiment. I just think like what, what Tyler Warren showed when Daniel Jones was healthy. Forget about what you think about.

[Dan]

Okay, that's fair.

[Jamie]

When they had their starting quarterback healthy, when Shane Steichen's offense was working and you could say figured out. And that's fair because you know, again, you get a, you get a nine game sample size of what a team's starting to do by that point in the season, you're starting to get ideas of how to slow them down. But you went from Daniel Jones operating this offense being very successful, I think. Adam, you said at that point they were number one off in the NFL, right? Yep. Yeah. Then he breaks his leg, plays three and a half games essentially with a broken leg, and Tyler Warren stats go in the tank and then he tears his Achilles and now we're talking about 58 year old Philip Rivers coming in and Tyler Warren was never the same.

[Dan]

That's fair. That's.

[Jamie]

I, I find it fascinating that you take LaPorta.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

And, and factor in Warren, where he went two picks later and then around later Harold fanning goes why LaPorta over the two young Titan? Now you obviously made your case for Warren, but why we're fan.

[Dan]

Oh, I love the laporta pairing with Drew Petzing. The Drew Bretzing thing is just. I think Laporta is the easiest breakout tight end this year because of Drew Petzing. Just look at the work he's done with Trey McBride. Just from a developmental standpoint with McBride, but then mostly just how the targets were manufactured for McBride through multiple different quarterbacks, Kyler and obviously Jacobi Brissette. The touchdowns weren't there with Kyler because Kyler is that kind of quarterback.

[Jamie]

Do you think that happens with the other weapons that Detroit has?

[Dan]

Detroit has. Well, I mean they are outside receivers. Monroe is an inside guy. So that could complicate things because. And a run game for sure that maybe Arizona definitely didn't have. Don't think the volume is going to be like it was for McBride. Let me make that clear. I don't think Laporte is going to return first round value or second round value. I think in round five though, with the Drew Petsing bunk and a bump. Sorry. And just. I like laporta as a prospect and a player. I'm okay taking him there. I. I would take him over. Obviously I took him over Warren, but Warren Fanning looking down the board crafts interesting. I might consider that. But I'm very high on Laporta. I think I'll probably have him ranked as my fourth tight end.

[Adam Azer]

I don't think Laporta's getting 100 targets. I mean, let's see, that's.

[Dan]

I think that's what McBride get.

[Jamie]

I think that's. That's the bride got like 100 stealing, but that's close to it.

[Adam Azer]

100 ish. I don't know.

[Jamie]

Well, you can't compare McBride and Laporta.

[Dan]

He had a. I don't know.

[Adam Azer]

He had 169 targets in 17 games.

[Dan]

McBride. And what about the year before he had. If you have that.

[Adam Azer]

If it's easy to find 147 targets in 16.

[Dan]

Yeah, I mean this is just, just. This is the num. I think this is the premier offense from a target volume standpoint for a tight end to be in a Drew Petzing offense. And I don't think there's really anything.

[Adam Azer]

I just struggle with that whole philosophy.

[Jamie]

Who was his boss?

[Adam Azer]

I. Yeah, I don't know. I just. I struggle with that philosophy. It's. Did they throw to Trey McBride because he's a tight end or do they throw Trey McBride because he's the best pass catcher on the team? He's not playing with Aman Ross, St. Brown and Jameson Williams.

[Dan]

That, that's a question everybody's gonna have to ask themselves. I believe the answer is because of the scheme.

[Jamie]

Listen, it's definitely a, a benefit for Laporta to get Petsing. I think it's also two things. We gotta see what happens. Dan Campbell last year took over play calling duty. How much of that is still going to be a factor? You know, does he still want to do that and just have somebody design different plays for him or, you know, he just wants a figurehead in that role, you know, somebody in, in, in the meetings to, you know, help out. Arizona's personnel so different than Detroit's personnel, you know, looking at what they have certainly in the backfield, obviously at wide receiver. And I don't think Laporta is as good as Jay McBride. I don't think he's as good an athlete or a talent. So I agree. The, the, the touchdowns could certainly be there for Laporta. We've seen that we saw in his rookie season. He could be a 10 touchdown guy. I don't know if he's going to be more than a hundred target guy. And that's where the, the, the problem comes in. So Petsing comes from that Stefanski tree, which when he was in Cleveland with Stefanski, the tight ends were great. Stefanski's tight ends were still great after Petsing left. Petsing's tight ends were great in Arizona or tight end was great in Arizona, you know, so I think you get elite level player, you feature him. I don't know if Laporta is elite level player. I think he's above average level player. He's shown that. So what I would probably suggest to you, Dan, next time, if you have that feeling and you know you're on an edge and they're still worn and fanning on the board.

[Dan]

True.

[Jamie]

Probably. You probably wait around.

[Dan]

Yeah, you're right about that for sure.

[Adam Azer]

Well, we're out of time, so yeah, we'll have to get to. I mean there was so much more. We could always pick this up next week. We'll do the mailbag though, on Thursday. And please send your questions to fantasy football cbsi.com you didn't think my first

[Dan]

show back since the season was going to be a short one, did you?

[Adam Azer]

No, I mean it was interesting stuff. Just.

[Dan]

Okay, good.

[Adam Azer]

There's so many things that, you know, one thing I haven't brought up, but I just would love to at some point is how I actually think that the Mike Evans signing could be good for Ricky Pierce. I have not talked about that at all.

[Dan]

Interesting.

[Adam Azer]

I just don't think he was playing the role.

[Dan]

I don't disagree.

[Adam Azer]

Well, he was running deep routes last year in the beginning of the season, the preseason. Kyle Shanahan talked about how Ricky Pearsall has such good hands and he really fits in well with the Yak concepts that they like and he's going to catch the ball and he's going to do a lot after the catch. Then he became this very high route depth guy running clear out routes all the time for getting other guys involved. And now Mike Evans is going to be running the downfield routes and I think it's going to really help Ricky Pearsall and put him in a role that he can thrive in. He went with the ninth pick of Round seven. So just a lot of a lot of free agency that we haven't talked about and I look forward to getting into that. But tomorrow, mailbag bracket challenge cbsports.com FFT thanks a lot to Dan, Thanks a lot to Jamie and to all of you for watching and listening. I'm Adam. We'll talk to you tomorrow on Fantasy Football Today,

[Jamie]

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