Fantasy Football - QB & RB Rookie Preview + Height Fight! - Podcast for 3/31

Summary

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Fantasy Footballers Podcast – Episode Summary

Episode: QB & RB Rookie Preview + Height Fight!
Date: March 31, 2026
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike “The Fantasy Hitman” Wright

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Overview of Episode Theme

This episode launches the Fantasy Footballers’ in-depth 2026 NFL rookie preview, with a focus on the upcoming quarterback (QB) and running back (RB) class. The hosts break down top prospects, discuss the nuances of evaluating rookies, assess real-life and fantasy impact, debate draft narratives, and provide practical advice on navigating rookie hype versus reality. Along the way, they dissect prospect metrics, production profiles, best ball ADP utility, and identify ideal landing spots for top prospects. The tone is humorous, critical, and data-driven, helping both redraft and dynasty players prepare for the NFL Draft and fantasy rookie drafts.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Navigating Rookie Hype and Draft Season (02:19–07:54)

• Draft Season Smoke: The hosts caution listeners against misinformation and agent/team-driven narratives leading up to the draft. Teams will intentionally leak misleading rumors to suit their interests, creating “smoke” for fans and fantasy managers to sift through.
  • Jason Moore (05:57): “There’s just a lot of misinformation or misdirection right now. … It’s all intentional.”
• Real vs. Fake Intel: Authentic information includes top-30 prospect visits and audition lists, but not all news is trustworthy. The need to “find the liars,” as Mike says, is critical.

2. Best Ball ADP in Offseason Analysis (08:46–10:34)

• Why Reference It? The only meaningful draft data in the offseason is from paid best ball tournaments, as these drafts have stakes and represent real market values. Standard platform ADP isn’t reliable until later.
  • Andy Holloway (08:46): “Best ball drafts… are being played with entry fees. People are spending actual money… so that’s like the most reliable data.”
  • Jason Moore (10:34): “It’s more of a sentiment check on a player than the specifics of where they’re going to end up.”
• Caveat: Best Ball favors WRs and explosive players due to format, so context matters.

3. Latest NFL News & Impact (11:12–16:51)

• QB Changes:
  • Geno Smith named Jets’ starting QB, but hosts are skeptical about long-term success. The Jets’ QB situation, while not ideal, could be worse (re: Ty Simpson prospects).
  • Aaron Rodgers likely returning to the Steelers, with humorous parallels to the Favre/Rodgers retirement saga.
• Injury Update:
  • George Kittle (Achilles) is “hopeful” for Week 1, but the crew is dubious about early-season availability and downgrades him for fantasy.
    • Mike Wright (15:05): “That’s a tough recovery… I am very skeptical for week one.”
• Other News: Chris Olave contract talks, Dalton Kincaid fifth-year option.

4. 2026 Rookie Quarterback Preview (19:29–29:38)

Main Prospects:

Fernando Mendoza (Raiders)

• Lock for 1.01 in NFL Draft: Led Indiana to a national title, strong stats (72% comp, 3,500 passing yards, 41 TDs, 276 rush yards, 7 rush TDs).
  • Andy Holloway (20:52): “If we’re going to get there for Mendoza, it’s going to be on the strength of being a pocket passer.”
  • Maturity, processing, and clutch play praised; athleticism is average.
  • Fantasy Outlook: Not projecting as a top-12 fantasy QB rookie year; more of a dynasty/superflex candidate.
  • Jason Moore (23:07): “He’s the best we have right now.”
• Supporting Cast Concerns: Raiders’ offensive weapons currently thin, Bowers is a rare standout.

Ty Simpson (Alabama)

• Limited Experience: Only 15 college starts after waiting out other NFL QBs. Low rushing upside.
  • Not likely a top-5 pick—projects late round one/early round two.
  • Mike Wright (25:45): “It is very difficult to imagine putting the future of a franchise… on 15 starts.”
  • Andy Holloway (27:37): “The rushing game will not… get you the superpower of those extra points.”
• Best Fit: Cardinals or Steelers due to better weaponry.
• Fantasy Outlook: At best, future NFL streamer—low rushing, uncertain upside.

Other Notables

• Diego Pavia (ground game, Heisman runner-up, likely Day 3, negligible fantasy value).
• Garrett Nussmeier (sleeper: 4,000 yard season pre-injury).
• Taylor Green (combine athlete), other “flyer” types—no projected immediate fantasy impact.

Quotes

• Jason Moore (29:20): “It’s just not a great quarterback class.”

5. 2026 Rookie Running Back Preview (29:43–61:14)

Class Overview

• Top-heavy class—one clear RB1, followed by ambiguous RB2-plus pecking order.
  • Mike Wright (30:00): “It feels similar to quarterback… extremely top heavy. There is a dude and [then] a weaker running back class.”

RB Landing Spot Fit—Key Teams (30:16–32:54)

• Titans (prime for Jeremiah Love; Tony Pollard is a placeholder)
• Giants, Washington, Bengals, Vikings, Seahawks—varying degrees of need

Top RB Prospects

Jeremiah Love – Notre Dame

• Consensus RB1: Elite size/speed combo (220 lbs, 4.36 40). Back-to-back 17/18 TD seasons, high receiving volume, workhorse metrics.
  • Andy Holloway (33:28): “He hits all of our thresholds in terms of percentage of production… and it’s green in the receiving game, which for fantasy is almost more important.”
• Draft Capital: Projected top-10 in NFL draft; wherever he lands (Titans, Commanders, etc.), he will be drafted for 3-down work.
  • Mike Wright (34:37): “He’s just the next tier one type… Bijan, Gibbs, the guys that come out and you’re just expecting to be superstars.”
• Preferred destination: Commanders (more exciting for fantasy), but Titans have franchise-altering potential.
• Redraft/Dynasty Value: Potential late first in redraft; 1.01 in rookie drafts, even in superflex.

Jadarian Price – Notre Dame

• Mock Draft RB2: Less production, but elite burst on tape. Played behind Love.
  • Mike Wright (38:58–40:52): “He is extremely explosive… But he is the guy who comes in when Jeremiah Love is off the field… I have a really hard time with him.”
• Concerns: Limited receiving work (career-high 6 catches), never a bell-cow, draft stock almost entirely combine/draft capital driven. Might get Seattle pick (32 or 64).
  • Andy Holloway (40:59): “Draft capital… is the foundational building block.”

Mike Washington Jr. – Arkansas

• Combine Explosive: 4.33 40 at 223 pounds pushed him up boards, but was a five-year college player (age nearly 23), with major fumble issues (11 last two years).
  • Andy Holloway (45:35): “The reason Mike Washington is here as the running back three is 100% because of his performance at the combine.”
• Production: Modest (1,000 yards/28 rec final year in SEC), poor pass blocker (lowest in class), middling on film per the hosts.
  • Andy Holloway (49:19): “This is not the player I was seeing when I was watching him actually play football.”

Jonah Coleman – Washington

• Hosts’ RB2: Physical (5’8, 220), bowling ball archetype with plus hands (over 20 rec/season), known for contact balance, receiving ability, and scoring (25 rush TD last two years).
  • Mike Wright (52:27): “He passes the eye test to me… His hands are made of glue… He can be in the middle of a pile… and it just sticks.”
  • Andy Holloway (55:51): “He has such high marks in that with the pass catching for me.”
• Ideal Fit: Scheme link to Seattle at pick 32 or 64.

Emmett Johnson – Nebraska

• Production Monster: 1,451 rush yards, 12 TD, 46 rec last year. Fun running style, hosts’ favorite runner on film after Love.
• Stock Down: Poor combine—questionable translation to NFL due to below-average burst and agility times.
  • Jason Moore (57:46): “He hurt himself a lot at the combine… If you do that, your opportunities are going to dwindle.”

Notables & Sleepers:

• Nick Singleton (Penn State): High career TDs (45), over 100 recepts, but labeled “boring” by the hosts. Projects as a committee back.
• Adam Randall (Clemson): Former WR now a 6’3”, 232 lb RB with hands, very raw and new to position but intriguing sleeper.

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Highlight Quotes and Memorable Moments

• Mike Wright (06:05): “Some of it is a straight lie on purpose. So, yeah, you got to take everything with a grain of salt and find the liars.”
• Andy Holloway (08:46): “People are spending actual money… so that’s like the most reliable data.”
• Jason Moore (15:05): “I am very skeptical for week one [on Kittle’s Achilles comeback].”
• Mike Wright (34:37): “There’s really no hole in [Love’s] game… expecting them to be superstars… that’s Jeremiah Love.”
• Andy Holloway (49:19): “[Washington’s combine] is not the player that I was seeing when I was watching him actually play football.”
• Mike Wright (52:27): “His hands are made of glue… I love that as a pass catcher.”
• Jason Moore (57:46): “[Emmett Johnson] hurt himself a lot at the combine… your opportunities are going to dwindle.”
• Mike Wright (61:14): “He is the current sleeper pick that I’m most excited about,” referring to Adam Randall.

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• 02:19–07:54: Rookie hype, draft misinformation, and smoke season
• 08:46–10:34: Offseason use of best ball ADP
• 11:12–16:51: League news, QB changes, injury updates (Geno Smith, Aaron Rodgers, George Kittle)
• 19:29–29:38: QB rookie class: Mendoza, Ty Simpson, and sleeper names
• 29:43–61:14: RB rookie class: Jeremiah Love, Price, Washington, Coleman, Johnson, Singleton, Randall

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Conclusion

This episode provides an engaging, critical, and practical lesson in evaluating rookie prospects—a must-listen for dynasty and redraft managers alike. It sets expectations for a top-heavy rookie class, shines a spotlight on key names every fantasy player must know, and arms listeners with the context needed to cut through pre-draft “noise.” The hosts seamlessly mix humor, robust analytics, and real-world draft dynamics, making this a highly valuable pre-draft primer.

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Next up: Thursday’s episode covers wide receivers and tight ends—arguably the most electrifying fantasy position group of the 2026 draft.

Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

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[Mike Wright]

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.

[Andy Holloway]

Welcome in.

[Jason Moore]

Tuesday, March 31st. Jason Moore, Mike Wright, I'm Andy Holloway. Welcome in one and all the fantasy footballers, back with you. Fresh episode. So fresh.

[Andy Holloway]

Fresh.

[Jason Moore]

That's it, Mike. Fresh episode.

[Andy Holloway]

We're talking rookies today.

[Mike Wright]

Man, that is pretty fresh.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, it's as fresh as you can.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, we have not really dug into these players on the main podcast yet. So I mean, we're talking fresh, as

[Jason Moore]

fresh as it gets. The NFL draft is. Well, it's almost April and the draft is in April, and then these players will have new homes and then there will be a lot of anticipation and expectation for them. And you as a fantasy player in a redraft league, in a dynasty league, you need familiarity with these names and the expectations and what we believe and what you know, these two guys have done a lot of episodes of the Dynasty podcast. You've talked through most of these names leading up to the combine. Through the combine weekend, we had our second release of the Dynasty Pass. So post combine release of the Dynasty Pass, and now it's time to finally dig in ahead of the draft and talk today. Quarterbacks and running backs and then we'll get into wide receivers and Tight ends on Thursday.

[Andy Holloway]

Man, we really could say quarterback.

[Jason Moore]

We could. Yeah, we could.

[Andy Holloway]

Of any year. You could say quarterback and running backs.

[Jason Moore]

Where's Christian Ponder when you need him?

[Mike Wright]

It's kind of. It's.

[Andy Holloway]

People are still going to get drafted.

[Mike Wright]

It's quarterbacks. You know what I mean? It's just like a quick on the. On the polarization.

[Jason Moore]

So is that like betraying some initial thoughts on Ty Simpson and anybody else?

[Mike Wright]

I think it's more highlighting them.

[Jason Moore]

It's weird. Sometimes it does feel like the NFL does this. They. They fill the gap that needs to be filled with a player no matter what.

[Mike Wright]

Well, there, there's needs. I mean teams need quarterbacks and so he's the. If you're the second best quarterback in this draft class, you're going to get that buzz, you're going to get that first round hype. And yeah, what if.

[Jason Moore]

What if. I mean he's the second best so he. What if he's. What if it's a boat.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, the number two pick.

[Jason Moore]

So we'll talk through quarterback today.

[Andy Holloway]

There was a lot of hullabaloo last week on the Twitter sphere of a particular personality with a large network and large following who was strong opinions alleging that Ty Simpson is better than Fernando Mendoza and he text many people who only two of them responded negatively.

[Jason Moore]

I don't know how much you want to get into that, but we'll leave it at that. Yeah, yeah, I won't get into it. But let's just say that this time of year, maybe this is a lesson for a newer fantasy player, not a seasoned fantasy player or maybe even a seasoned one. There are a lot of different motivations for news to come out right now all the way to the draft. There's a lot of different motivations, right? You have players, their agents and their people.

[Andy Holloway]

What are they going to talk about? Baseball. Get out of here.

[Jason Moore]

So you've got their agendas, right? Individual player agendas. You've got an agent agendas. You've got teams who have picks in certain spots that different information getting out benefits them on who falls where and what's going to happen Every year we are shocked in the draft when certain players are drafted at certain spots. That's because we have to literally sift through all the smoke and all the madness. Was it Wondale when he was drafted? That was a. Nobody expected him to go where he went.

[Andy Holloway]

But I mean it's just.

[Jason Moore]

The Giant comes to mind.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it's just a Giant. Giant or no, I think you're thinking of Kadarius, Tony.

[Andy Holloway]

No, no, no. You're thinking of Daniel Jones.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Might be the Giant.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I think it's.

[Andy Holloway]

It's kind of isolated to the Giant,

[Jason Moore]

but yeah, there's just a lot of misinformation or misdirection right now.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, intentional misinformation.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. So.

[Mike Wright]

And then there are the reporters who do have connections and say they are finding out some real stuff. There's also information that is real. Like top 30 visits you can. You could take a look at. Okay. These teams are constantly bringing in wide receivers or running backs. So there is so much information, but some of it is a straight lie on purpose. And so, yeah, you got to take everything with a grain of salt and find the liars.

[Jason Moore]

Get rid of the liars.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, I mean, it's all of them. But if you're. We'll give you the example because it's the Giants. The Giants have a running back room that you could go into the season with. Assuming health for Camp Scatter Boo. Camp Scatter Boo. But all reports are good so far. If the Giants go into the season with Scat, Tracy and Singletary, that's a. That's a perfectly fine.

[Mike Wright]

I would say that's an open. I would say that's an above average top half running back room in the league.

[Andy Holloway]

Now, no one on that roster, as much as we love Scatterboo, he's not as good as Jeremiah Love. So we aren't saying that it's not an upgrade for the room to take Jeremiah Love at 5, but it does the Giants more good for every team behind them to be. Oh, the Giants might take Jeremiah Love at 5.

[Jason Moore]

Correct.

[Andy Holloway]

We have to be prepared for that situation. So if Love makes a pass. The Titans at 4, we better have a package ready to go to the Giants to trade up and go get Jeremiah Love because they might take him.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Which you can't eliminate.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't know.

[Jason Moore]

Can't eliminate options. That's the number one thing for teams. You cannot take players off your board unless you want to lower your leverage. That's their perception.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Sometimes it's probably a little bit ludicrous. Like sometimes you've had the years where somebody has a franchise quarterback already and they're like, you know, and then they take like pinnocks. A couple of headlines here before.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, man, what a moment.

[Jason Moore]

Before we get into it, the community, you can find it jointhefoot.com it's where you can become a Foot Clan supporter. Bonus weekly episodes all year long. Including right now when we're down to two regular shows a week. Get a bonus episode. Learn more about [e-mail] if you're an Ultimate Foot Clan supporter, you also get access to the Ultimate Draft kit, which means you have access to the Dynasty Pass right now and the Post Combine release, while the post draft release of the Dynasty Pass as well. Quick question of the day. It's a good one from that guy. 66199. How come in the off season you guys reference Best ball adp, which is average draft position?

[Andy Holloway]

It is. That's a good and a very fair question. And the answer is honestly, because those are going on right now. They are happening Best ball drafts, best ball games. And those games are being played with entry fees. They are being played for money. So that this isn't just, you know, someone's oh, I got some time to kill. I'm going to go do a mock draft of see where what I can, what team I can build. People are spending actual money to compete in a fantasy football tournament. So that's like the most reliable data of how are players being. This is, this is how the, this is how the market is set right now for the value of these particular players. Once we get into now, the, the summer months when more and more and more people are filtering back into fantasy football and they're doing their mock drafts, then we switch it over because we want to see what people in Redraft are doing. But it's at this time it is our best example because there is, there is money behind it. It doesn't. We do always remind people that wide receivers go way earlier in Best Ball because that's how that tournament functions from

[Jason Moore]

a roster construction perspective. It's.

[Andy Holloway]

But it's still the order of when

[Mike Wright]

you're looking at wide receiver 17 versus 22. It's, it's the earliest example we have. And really there isn't even other ADP data like other ADP data for normal platforms for just free, you know, sleep or espn, Yahoo. It's, it's just garbage data right now.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm not mock drafting and no, my job is fantasy football.

[Jason Moore]

No, you just, you just can't right now before the draft. But there are players, they go out there and they draft and they play basketball. We've all played basketball and it is a fun format. It is important to recognize that it's not the same as a redraft league.

[Andy Holloway]

Right.

[Jason Moore]

The way that you win in basketball is different. The propensity towards maybe more explosive players, maybe changes the gauge a little bit. So I look at it as more of a sentiment check on a player. That's fair then. I do like the specifics of, like,

[Andy Holloway]

that's where they're going to end up.

[Jason Moore]

Basically where they're going to end up. But yeah, once we get into the summer, we'll have actual mock draft data and we'll be able to reference that. But that's why you hear us talk about it, because it's good to have information on what's happening right now.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Anything else there?

[Andy Holloway]

No talk.

[Jason Moore]

Some news.

[Mike Wright]

News and notes from around the league.

[Jason Moore]

The cartoon characters at the New York jets continue to give us a good episode every week. The jets head coach Aaron Glenn says, quote, there is no doubt about it, Geno Smith is the jets starting quarterback. If I were him, I would have said, there is a lot of doubt about this. But Geno Smith is my quarterback.

[Mike Wright]

It is just, what if he does it again? What if he gets. If he were to achieve the number one overall pick, does that legend, does that guarantee that the next year, someone that's looking to get, like, I know the way. We've got to sign Gino.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, your odds are very good.

[Andy Holloway]

Gino's. I can't believe teams keep believing in me.

[Jason Moore]

So Gino as the starting quarterback. Yeah, because a year ago, I will say, I'll say this, a year ago, we would have heard this news. It would have been an amazing full circle moment for the Jets. Geno was coming off a pretty competent good year. We were surprised they couldn't come to an agreement with him in Seattle. Obviously Seattle made an amazing choice. The Raiders, it didn't work out whatsoever. But a year ago we would have been like, wow, you know what? Garrett Wilson's got a quarterback.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I mean, I mean, two years ago, Geno Smith threw for 4,300 yards. Looked pretty good, 70% completion percentage. Changing teams wasn't the only reason that it got worse for him. He looked really bad. I mean, his interceptions were worst quarterback

[Jason Moore]

I saw last year other than Max

[Mike Wright]

Broser across the board. Just terrible.

[Andy Holloway]

I was going to throw out Justin Fields and Justin Fields, okay, so bottom

[Mike Wright]

five, quarterback Andy Saul.

[Andy Holloway]

But it's just having. Having said all these things, we can say the phrase, gar Wilson may have the best quarterback it is of his career. It could have been going into this.

[Jason Moore]

It could have been much worse for the Jets. Jason, wait, if the jets were starting Ty Simpson next year, I'd feel worse than Geno Smith. I don't have.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, you don't have the.

[Andy Holloway]

It's like Zach Wilson. Okay, Mike White.

[Mike Wright]

Mike White. Okay, there we go. So not the best Mike White. He had.

[Andy Holloway]

Mike White never got to be a real starter.

[Jason Moore]

Flacco, for a minute was the best he's had. Sure, that was the best run.

[Andy Holloway]

But, like, at that time, Flacco was.

[Jason Moore]

I'm not optimistic about anything with the Jets. I'm not. I just am not. Yeah, the Steelers, we get to watch this situation transpire. Our Rooney said he expects Aaron Rodgers to decide whether he wants to resign with Pittsburgh before the 2026 NFL Draft.

[Andy Holloway]

Cool.

[Mike Wright]

I would.

[Andy Holloway]

I would hope.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. I mean, you would hope that they know what's going on right now. Do you think Aaron Rodgers will be the starting quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2026? Yes, I do as well.

[Jason Moore]

There was a time in the off season I would have probably said maybe not, but right now it feels that way and they don't have a lot of good options. So he's there.

[Mike Wright]

Aaron Rodgers was so annoyed early in his career with the late game shenanigans of Brett Favre. Oh, is he going to retire? Is he going to walk away? Oh, at the last minute he's going to sign and hold his franchise hostage. And it's like, that's just what he learned. That's what dad did. You know, like, this isn't.

[Andy Holloway]

I learned it from you, dad.

[Mike Wright]

This isn't Aaron Rodgers. I learned it from you. This is, you know, the scars of upbring coming back full circle.

[Jason Moore]

That's what I can do now. Yeah, man.

[Andy Holloway]

You got to break the cycle 49ers.

[Jason Moore]

General Manager John lynch says he's quote hopeful. Tight end George Kittle with the Achilles injury, will play in week one.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

Wow.

[Jason Moore]

Hopeful. It feels like a wishful thing to say.

[Mike Wright]

I would agree with this specific injury. His age. Now, I saw some amazing workout videos. He's doing great stuff on the upper body, but the Achilles is quite the.

[Jason Moore]

That's a tough recovery, quite the injury

[Mike Wright]

to come back from. And I am very skeptical for week one. That'll. Man. If he's. If it looks like he's going to play in week one.

[Andy Holloway]

Get. Dude, you need to prepare your analysis as if all the buzz is going to be he's going to make it. George Kittle's going to be ready Week one.

[Jason Moore]

See, Jason's caught between a rock and a hard place because he's a big Kittle fan.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

But he's a big fan of not drafting injured players.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

And he's sitting there Going like, do I break.

[Andy Holloway]

I know.

[Mike Wright]

Do I break up my rules? I think I will be out. On George Kittle.

[Jason Moore]

He's also older.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, he's older. And even if George Kittle ends up getting healthy at some point this season, I do think drafting him, I mean, if he's in the 10th round. Okay, sure. Yeah. What about a. I'll take two tight ends to just see if he can come out and surprise. But if he ends up being a, you know, fifth, sixth, seventh rounder. He won't.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

No way.

[Jason Moore]

Mike Evans has an impact in the red zone.

[Andy Holloway]

Sure.

[Jason Moore]

In a way that they haven't had a receiver in that department since probably IU two years ago. That would factor into my thoughts too. Cameron Wolf saying the Falcons think Michael Penix will be healthy at some point in training camp. That's, that's good. There you go.

[Andy Holloway]

At some point in 2026, Dalton Kincaid's

[Jason Moore]

fifth year option has been picked up by the Bills.

[Andy Holloway]

Makes sense.

[Jason Moore]

And Kellenmore says the team and Chris Olave have had discussions about an extension. He's in the final year of his rookie contract. Boy, why does Olave feels simultaneously like he's in the final year of his rookie contract and also that he's a 16 year veteran? It feels like, I mean, he certainly had the concussions of a 16 year old veteran.

[Mike Wright]

He came in playing like a veteran. You know, he was like just the perfect, he was ready to go. Veteran wide receiver. And then the amount of injuries he's had, you feel like he's been close to retirement multiple years in a row. So you feel like he's older than he is. But you put his numbers up against Garrett Wilson and they're better.

[Jason Moore]

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[Jason Moore]

anytime visit t mobile.com all right, it's time. Hey rookie.

[Mike Wright]

Welcome to the NFL.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, we're jumping in the 2026 rookie class quarterbacks and running backs on today's show. If you can't get enough we have lots of resources out there. The dynasty pass. It's where so much time effort all of our rankings. You can go check that out @ultimate draft kit.com we have the Dynasty podcast. All of these prospects have had very in depth overviews over there on that show but we want to give we want to give all the redraft players all the players just coming back to fantasy a general overview about the names you need to pay attention to. Now you you alluded to might just be quarterback Fernando Mendoza is going to be the first pick in this draft. Now the Raiders are not the only team that needs a quarterback. The jets, yes. Geno Smith is the answer now, I guess. But not the Future. The Browns. DeSean Watson, probably not the future. The Cardinals desperately need a quarterback for the future. The Steelers, we just talked about what they're figuring out with Aaron Rodgers and many other teams would love to pick up a talented quarterback now. Are there talented quarterbacks available? You know, Mendoza is going to the Raiders. That's going to be a foregone conclusion.

[Andy Holloway]

Mendoza had a very strong year. I mean, you know, takes Indiana and wins the national championship.

[Jason Moore]

Unbelievable.

[Andy Holloway]

72% of his passes, 3,500 yards, 41 touchdowns, you know, not a nothing burger on the ground. We got, you know, 276 yards in seven rushing touchdowns. But that is definitely not his superpower. He, you know, if we're going to get there for Mendoza, it's going to be. It'll be on the strength of being a pocket passer and can he have enough weapons around him with the Raiders? I don't think they are. They're not there yet. Like Mendoza would be. It would be a very surprising top 12 quarterback.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, for fantasy.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. For this first year. Yeah, I think that would be. I think if he can do a good job learning the game, starting early, his strengths in college, processing defenses. They've said he's not an overwhelming athlete.

[Andy Holloway]

Right.

[Jason Moore]

He's. He's a good. He's really good in the clutch which you know, throughout the entire season. But I think.

[Mike Wright]

Clutch? What clutch has he ever even done?

[Andy Holloway]

What big games?

[Mike Wright]

What big game?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, it's the biggest game of the year.

[Mike Wright]

He.

[Andy Holloway]

The Raiders have said they want to start someone else over Mendoza for a while. Well, they're not saying Mendoza because they don't give it up. Don't. Don't say who the first pick is going to be. So that, that is built into it.

[Jason Moore]

Of.

[Andy Holloway]

Do the Raiders want to play someone else? What did I. Or Chuck? What did I say?

[Mike Wright]

Andy and I were real synced up in our.

[Andy Holloway]

We both took a mug name.

[Jason Moore]

Just it was a little weird.

[Andy Holloway]

So it Mendoza, he's interesting because he's the guy. He's the number one quarterback for Redraft. I don't think people should be expecting much. And then dynasty, it comes down to like, you know, super flex leagues is. Do you have to take Mendoza 101 because of the value of the quarterback when a prospect like Jeremiah Love will be there. I am on the side of, you know, I'm probably going to take Jeremiah Love over Mendoza, even a super flex. But he. I don't know, it's weird.

[Jason Moore]

He's.

[Andy Holloway]

He's the best that we have right now.

[Jason Moore]

Kubiak is coming in to deal with that does that was dead last in yards per game and points for game.

[Andy Holloway]

The fact that it's coops is a very strong check mark for some development of Mendoza.

[Mike Wright]

Mendoza appears to be a really solid NFL prototypical quarterback. He could be very good for the Raiders and not really great for fantasy. He's not a super mobile, you know player that's going to go up out there and rush for 500, 800 yards. That breaks fantasy. And just because a player is drafted with the first overall pick in the NFL draft at quarterback, that does not guarantee success. We don't know about Cam Ward, but you look back at who you know Bryce Young was that the best. You know Baker Mayfield flamed out from you know his first team. You've got Jameis Winston like as many far more mid picks at the 101 than the Andrew Lux and you know Cam Newton's and the successes at least 50, 50 if you look back at the like the last 20 years.

[Jason Moore]

Well even if you take the Trevor Lawrence path, that's a long wait to fantasy relevance.

[Andy Holloway]

He was Mendoza over the last two seasons has been perfect in the red zone. 39 touchdowns, no interceptions. We do love that. It's amazing the it's just the Raiders

[Jason Moore]

team that's Rogers Brady stuff.

[Andy Holloway]

The and the Raiders can change this in the draft certainly. But it's like the team the depth chart as it stands right now. Brock Bowers elite stud. Right now the slotted starting wide receivers are the new addition of Jalen Naylor, Trey Tucker and Jack Besh.

[Jason Moore]

No, it would fall in line. If there's a big wide receiver name that goes there, it would certainly make things look a lot better. But maybe that's a year away too, right? Ty Simpson is the other name that will profile today. Really? I mean he's got one year.

[Andy Holloway]

He's got at Alabama 15 starts. That is

[Mike Wright]

for loyalty.

[Andy Holloway]

Right.

[Mike Wright]

He didn't in the nil era where you're not getting to start you transfer. I mean he's been playing behind other NFL drafted quarterbacks and he.

[Jason Moore]

Bryce Young, Jaylen Melro.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, exactly. And so he waited his turn which is not usually the smart thing to do in today's modern NFL. But my goodness, it is very difficult to imagine putting the future of a franchise in the NFL based on 15 starts. We've seen.

[Jason Moore]

What about that one tweet though? We've seen this happen about him being the best.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, you know, tweets got a lot of authority. Mitchell Trubisky didn't have a ton of starts. Anthony Richardson didn't have a ton of starts.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't think Ty's going in the top five, though. Like, people will start spreading the stories of will the Cardinals take him at 3? I don't think that happens. I think he is a second round. No, I think he'll go in the first, but it's going to be like dart where maybe the Steelers where they're picking. They do slot at a point in the draft where it might be worth it, but I don't know if they want to.

[Jason Moore]

Can he pick it?

[Andy Holloway]

Can he pick it 2.0, but. Or the Cardinals trading back into the first if they actually believe in Ty Simpson, that wouldn't be a shocking thing for me. But 15 starts is.

[Jason Moore]

Joe Burrow didn't have a lot of starts.

[Andy Holloway]

He had

[Jason Moore]

very much the exception and not the.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

And he just. Ty Simpson is not Burrow as a prospect. If for fantasy football specifically last year, what, 93 rushing yards. Now in college is different. Like, you lose. You can lose yards for sacks and things like that. So. But that's the rushing game will not. You will not get the superpower of the extra points.

[Jason Moore]

Let me, let me put it this way. If there was a team out of those five, we know Mendoza is going to go to the Raiders. So out of the four Jets, Cardinals, Browns and Steelers, it seems like the Cardinals and Steelers would be at the top of the list of teams that you'd want to have the opportunity if you were Ty Simpson. From a weapon standpoint.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, Pittsburgh, Pittman, Metcalfe, that's good enough. Cardinals with Marv, Trey McBride, Michael Wilson, those seem like better cores than the other two teams.

[Andy Holloway]

So far, the only known top 30 visits for Ty Simpson are the Cleveland

[Jason Moore]

Browns, two that I didn't want and

[Andy Holloway]

the New York Jets.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. Well, we hope not. Actually. Maybe we hope so because if there's a player you're not very excited about, which I. Both of these quarterbacks, I think are. They show enough skill to be successful at the NFL level. But from a fantasy football perspective, you know, we talk about. Mendoza is not this prolific runner on the ground, but he's significantly better than Ty Simpson. So Ty Simpson to me, is not that important for fantasy. He will be a streaming option at best in his career. Even if he's good. If he's good and has a good NFL career, there's plenty of Guys like that, you know, Derek Carr had a very long NFL career. He was a streaming option that, you know, this is not a guy you're going to go out and win a fantasy football championship with. I think the only, you know, you've got little bitty baby Diego Pavia, who was a. Is probably going to be a day three pick, so he'll be irrelevant.

[Andy Holloway]

But he's second in Heisman voting.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, second and Heisman voting. Prolific on the ground. 800 rushing yards, good through the air.

[Jason Moore]

I think Nussmeier is probably the most slept on prospect because this was a 4,000 yard passer who I think the expectations were very high this year. And then he got hurt and played through the injury and missed some games. Probably the next on the list of who's going to get drafted in terms of more. You know, he's worked out, I think for the Jets, I think he's worked out for the Rams, the Colts. So that would be the other name worth mentioning. But these are all flyers in the dark that'll probably emerge never. And it's just not a weak side of quarterback.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, and, and Taylor Green was. He broke the combine. Right. Am I thinking of the right guy? Yes. Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, they fixed it though.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, yeah, you have to put it back together. It just takes all the king's horses and all the king's men out of Arkansas. Taylor Green. What are you. What are you groaning about?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, the grandpa joke over here.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, you're one to speak.

[Mike Wright]

I didn't.

[Jason Moore]

You're one.

[Mike Wright]

I didn't hit my boo button. I just felt it in my soul.

[Jason Moore]

You should feel more of them in your soul. Let's talk running backs. Let's turn the page. All right. We have teams that are running back.

[Mike Wright]

Sorry. No, no, no. There are, there are a handful of people we like. But. But it feels similar to the quarterback where it's like this is extremely top heavy. There is a dude and this is a weaker running back class. Especially coming off of last year where we had some high end talent.

[Jason Moore]

I mean I feel like it's quarterback. Quarterback is like maybe some impact and then no impact is how it feels. Running back is like big impact. Probably a lot of impact behind him. Even though it's top heavy, which we're talking about Jeremiah Love, who's going to go very, very high in this draft. But let's, let's start. Let's back off of that for a second and just talk about teams that have desperate needs at the running back position that we've identified that we know about and how we feel about landing spots right now because, you know, at the top of the draft, the Titans, they stick out as a team that like could definitely take. Jeremiah Love could be the next team to, you know, rework the backfield. Tony Pollard. It's a temporary plan there. You talked about the Giants at 5. They want to be in the conversation but they're. That's one that's going to get messy. Right. Like if you don't necessarily want a running back to go. They're not named Jeremiah Love because they're lost in a sea of committee backfield

[Mike Wright]

situations and they don't have a third round pick either. So if you, if you spend.

[Jason Moore]

Oh my gosh.

[Mike Wright]

You can't do it. You can't do it.

[Jason Moore]

We're declaring. Yes. You're not going to New York.

[Andy Holloway]

The Titans will be drafting Jeremiah.

[Jason Moore]

That's what you believe. I do the then I think the predominant leader in the clubhouse for a lot of people right now is Washington at 7 Wash for Jeremiah Love. Washington desperately needs a fix at the position. We worked through a lot of different names last year. Some of them are gone now. I mean he's still there, but Eckler's gone. Who played for them and then Chris Rodriguez, who crawd getting a lot of opportunity is gone. The Bengals would throw a wrench in the Chase Brown situation if I feel like they would be forced to take Love if he dropped there. That's all I'm saying.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Because that would be a draw.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Oh yeah. If he gets the 10, that will be pressure to.

[Andy Holloway]

There's no way.

[Jason Moore]

And then kind of going beyond Jeremiah Love, you'd be starting to look at like Minnesota for the future with Aaron Jones. You'd be looking at Seattle with the absence of Ken Walker.

[Mike Wright]

Seattle is the landing spot of the NFL right now. Like that's. That's the bell of the ball for running backs. Not Jeremiah Love. Jeremiah Love won't go there. But you look at when. When you've got a Super bowl champion team that really, really has a great defense and wants to run the ball, who just lost Kenneth Walker and then Charbonnet is going to be coming off of a ACL injury. It is the number one landing spot. Like some one of these relevant running max is going to go there and it might be at pick 32, which is a first round pick and if not pick 64 to the second rounder. That's perfect spot for high draft capital to a running back. And whichever running back they Take I think will end up, I really believe

[Jason Moore]

a name ahead of it.

[Mike Wright]

I think that'll be the number two drafted running back. They'll probably take someone at 32 or 64 and that will be the number two running back after the NFL draft in fantasy rankings.

[Jason Moore]

It's very, very possible. So let's start with the number one running back in the class, bar none. Jeremiah Love out of Notre Dame, a Junior. Unbelievable player. 18 touchdowns following a 17 touchdown sophomore season. One fumble across his collegiate career. Prolific numbers can catch the football.

[Andy Holloway]

He hits all of our thresholds in terms of percentage of production for the team. Like it's green everywhere and especially. And it's green in the receiving game, which is like for fantasy almost more important for like can you, can this player become a superstar for our purposes in fantasy football? Jeremy Love is. He's really, really, really good.

[Mike Wright]

The draft one. Yes, the draft capital, you know, is going to be good. You know we were just talking about if he gets to 10, it'll be a surprise and then the pressure to take him. So whatever team drafts him will be giving him three down workloads. He's 220 pounds, ran a 4, 3, 6, 40 yard Dutch. There's, it's, it's just the next tier one type of, you know, Bijan, Jameer Gibbs, you know the guys that come out and you're just expecting them to be superstars. That's Jeremiah Love. The film backs up the metrics. There's really no hole in the game. And I don't look at him and say like I would have, I would have personally put him behind Bijon as a, as a prospect.

[Andy Holloway]

And what about, what about Genty though?

[Mike Wright]

So I would put Love ahead of Genti.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Because Genti still had the problem of being a Boise State guy. Yeah, that was my, that was my only big worry at the time. But as a prospect, there's no holes. So you're, you're talking about a guy who's probably going to sneak into like the back of the first round in startup drafts or in redraft.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Is there a higher likelihood of that with the Titans or with the Commanders?

[Mike Wright]

Commanders.

[Andy Holloway]

I think Commanders is far more exciting.

[Jason Moore]

Well, I am so. I'm so in on the Titans becoming a great team. Really. I believe in Cam Ward already. You know this.

[Mike Wright]

I think it's because you have all of their wide receivers on your dynasty.

[Jason Moore]

No, no, no, I don't think. The funny thing is I don't think any of those guys will be relevant for the future. I think they got to fix that position through, you know, the draft with additional wide receivers. No, but I believe in Cam Ord and then Brian Dabel being there. I like Robert Sala. Like, there's reasons. Maybe I like the new uniforms too much. I don't know what it is.

[Andy Holloway]

I just think how.

[Jason Moore]

Think how exciting that dream is when you put. If it's Kim or Jeremiah Love for the future.

[Mike Wright]

That's new. There's a lot of hope there.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, if Jeremiah Love goes there, the opium will be off the charts.

[Jason Moore]

I'm worried about Washington. I'm worried about.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, give me Jaden Daniels over Cam Ward.

[Jason Moore]

Sure. If he's on the field. That's true. But what I'm worried about is the head coach, because Dan Quinn is like a Doug Peterson. It is just. It wears. It goes worse. Worse. Worse is how I feel. And you get rid of Cliff Kingsbury. So now the offense is in the hands of the blobfish. I just feel like the direction of that team, like, it's make or break to me this year. If Washington goes down again after the high of the first Jade and Daniels year, which was a really nice schedule.

[Andy Holloway]

Wait, did you just call Blau? Is that the Blau fish?

[Jason Moore]

Oh, Dave Blauw. David the Blaufish. Yes, that's what that is. That's exactly what I said.

[Mike Wright]

Don't do that to David.

[Andy Holloway]

David Blau.

[Mike Wright]

Blaufish.

[Jason Moore]

It's something we always say here on the show.

[Andy Holloway]

We're making a vampire joke about David Blau the Blobfish.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Like I've always said. I apologize. Detroit has the Blob fish. Washington has the Blau fish.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. The thing is, is Dan Quinn. Part of the reason that Cliff left is they wanted to run less of a college high passing off. It's. Get under center, run the ball more, which you bring Jeremiah Love into a team that wants to run the ball more with a better quarterback. Jaden Daniels is better than Cam Ward. I would. I'm really hoping he makes it to Washington.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Consider me a secret Titans fan. All right.

[Mike Wright]

And not so secret because hundreds of thousands of people.

[Jason Moore]

So shall we. Shall we move on from the. From the best running back into a

[Mike Wright]

Now into the question mark.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. A murky group of more players.

[Mike Wright]

We are going. The order that we're talking about them is not necessarily our order right now. What?

[Andy Holloway]

We don't even say not necessarily.

[Mike Wright]

This is not definitely not our order. We are going based on current mock draft database order of expected draft Capital. So currently the most mocked running back to go second and very well could be the guy taken first after Jeremiah Love is his own teammate, Jadarian Price.

[Jason Moore]

Notre Dame played alongside Jeremiah Love. I'm curious, you guys, when you went through the film, were there ups and downs to Price his game? Was this a. You know, whenever there's a committee of backs that are both highly, highly.

[Andy Holloway]

This was not a committee, though. It was. There was a starter and there was a backup.

[Jason Moore]

Right. But same backfield, yes. Teammates, it can mitigate, obviously, production. Right. I mean, that's the number one thing. If he's a backup to the number four pick in the draft or the number seven pick in the draft. He certainly wasn't going to get the kind of workload if he had been the bell cow on another team. So the question is, can he be that bell cow for an NFL franchise and is there parts of his game because we didn't get all the production you would have wanted that we haven't seen yet.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. I am more skeptical on Jardians as I refer to, as I refer to him.

[Jason Moore]

You call him Jardian?

[Mike Wright]

Yes, from day one, every time I saw his name, I'm just like Jardians. But Jadarian Price, AKA Jardians, I'm, I have, I have a really hard time with him. When you watch the film, he is extremely explosive. I mean, he's, he can run away from guys, has a big play potential and big plays on the film all the time. If you just watch the highlights, you're like, oh, this guy is, you know, a missile. However, he is the guy who comes in when Jeremiah Love is off the field. The defense is taking a breath and they're going, okay, Jeremiah Loves off the field. They're not stacking the box and trying to stop the run quite the same. And so I feel like you come in, you get a little bit of easier pickings. It's kind of similar to what we've seen in the NFL and fantasy football where a guy could be really, really efficient as a backup. But if he then turns around and says, okay, now you're a three down guy that the defense is focused on, oh, lo and behold, you don't just stay that efficient and that good. You add that with the fact that this is a guy who doesn't have like a little bit of pass catching in his production profile. He's got borderline none. I mean, his receptions by year were five, four and six total receptions. So there's no receiving profile. He was a backup who came in did well, was really efficient on the ground and he might be the second guy drafted. This would be a perfect guy who could go to the Seattle Seahawks at pick 32, sneak into the first round. We saw that with one of.

[Jason Moore]

And then you fall in love with the opportunity. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

And then, you know, I reserve the right to change my opinion. But currently he is very, he is much lower than to me on my personal rankings than a lot of the other running backs that have more of a production profile. Had to be the dude and kind of proved more.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he's, he is propped up in my rankings right now with the anticipation of draft capital.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Because in draft capital, you know, you don't want to say when you're evaluating these rookies, you can't just put everything at the feet of draft capital, but it is, it's the foundational building block.

[Mike Wright]

If you did put everything at the feet of draft capital, you would do better than. You do better than, Than just pick a lot of guys. Yes, exactly.

[Andy Holloway]

It matters because that's, that's the investment, that's the coaches. When you have a running back who is drafted in the second round, you're going to want to get that guy in. There's going to be heat from, from ownership. Get the, get our new kid in. So I'm with Jason of the film. Like maybe he is the second best running back but. And this is, this is not his fault at all. It's just, you know, it's the, the Bijan Roshan Johnson. Roshan Johnson had his fans of Back at Texas and like, hey, no, I think Roshan Johnson can come into his own just because he was Bijan. But watch this film. He's good. He's good. Then he ends up being a day three pick and he's gone. Like Roshan Johnson's career is already done.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. It's funny because another situation that he ended up having one year to prove himself was when Saquon left Penn State and Miles Sanders took over. And Miles Sanders hadn't gotten almost any work, got one season to prove it, put up big numbers. Didn't really work out in the NFL either, really to the degree that people expected. For Miles Sanders, Sonny Michelle and Nick Chubb were another combo that played together. It's really hard. I mean, I think whenever a player has limited production, these teams, they don't have a choice, right? They don't, they don't get to see another season at the college level. And they could be the smart ones or the dumb ones, but they could see you know, they have to evaluate on a smaller sample.

[Mike Wright]

And if I was Jardians, I would be coming out for sure. Yeah, you don't. Yo. Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

You don't want to go back and be the dude.

[Mike Wright]

No, no. Right. It's hard to go in a weak draft class. You might be the second running back.

[Jason Moore]

You might go in the first round

[Mike Wright]

and you don't have to prove nothing.

[Jason Moore]

That would be your style.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah. Jordans. Easy.

[Jason Moore]

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[Jason Moore]

Okay, the next name we're going to bring up again, we are not talking about them in our specific order but in the order like you said. Mock draft database is going into Mike Washington, Jr. Combine extraordinaire, a senior at Arkansas.

[Andy Holloway]

Don't do not say the combine doesn't matter. Yes, because the reason Mike Washington is here as the running back three is 100% because of his performance at the combine because he was not here in

[Jason Moore]

mock Are you talking about his 43340 yard dash and 99th percentile speed score?

[Andy Holloway]

It is extremely impressive.

[Jason Moore]

96 percentile explosive.

[Andy Holloway]

What he ran a what a 43 3. He's 223 pounds.

[Mike Wright]

He ran what Jameer Gibbs ran with another little person on him like the combine measurables. He is an athletic free. Yes, his production profile producer Matt was

[Jason Moore]

actually on his shoulders while he ran.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, the production profile is pretty good. I mean you had his final year over 1,000 yards on the ground. This is in the SEC. He had 28 receptions.

[Jason Moore]

That's a great number for college.

[Mike Wright]

I mean those are all very good. The issue is that came after five years. You know sometimes when these older running backs and older.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. 10 years worth of fumbles.

[Mike Wright]

Yes. Yeah, definitely a fumbling problem. 11 fumbles in the last two seasons. This is a player who sometimes you, you just go well when you are older and a super athlete like this and that's when you start beating up on these young you better.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, you better crap out of them.

[Mike Wright]

Beat these 18 year olds out there. The thing is, is now because of that combine it looks like he is going to have decent draft capital. And if he's a day two pick that matters. You've also got the ability to catch the ability to be a larger body. He's five. Yeah, he's basically six feet. Six foot.

[Jason Moore]

Basically like you're basically six feet or basically like actually six feet?

[Mike Wright]

I don't ever say I'm six. I am exactly five eleven and everybody that's five eleven says they're six feet.

[Jason Moore]

I don' you take pride in not saying that.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, because it, it ruins us 5 11ers because you all think we're faking.

[Jason Moore]

Nobody pays attention to you guys.

[Andy Holloway]

5 11.

[Mike Wright]

I am 5 11.

[Jason Moore]

Oh my gosh. If it was 5 11, 5 10. I love it.

[Mike Wright]

Another decade. Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

That's what I'm. That's what I'm saying. The ultimate Jason.

[Jason Moore]

5:10. And I took that line. That would be an amazing.

[Andy Holloway]

Just soapboxing. I don't ever round up to six feet.

[Mike Wright]

I'm.

[Jason Moore]

No one would ever doubt you being 5 11.

[Mike Wright]

And you shouldn't because I'm 5 11.

[Andy Holloway]

Don't check.

[Jason Moore]

He will never check again. Listen, there's a couple of things here with Mike Washington and I guess any of these running backs at this point in the draft that are. It gets more and more complicated. Right. Where if there's not a like in our minds, there's not a clear cut number two. Right.

[Mike Wright]

Well, there is in mind.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. And we haven't talked about him yet. Let's just say who yours is.

[Mike Wright]

Jonah Coleman.

[Andy Holloway]

I really, really like Jonah Coleman is my number two as well.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. So you guys both have in there.

[Andy Holloway]

And that was independently got Jonah Coleman. Like we. When our process starts, we say, hey, did you watch this player? And I say, no, I haven't watched him. That's the end of the conversation.

[Mike Wright]

We don't share notes because I don't

[Andy Holloway]

want to influence at all. I'll be like, hey, look for this, look for this. It's just so. So we both ended up on Jonah.

[Jason Moore]

Cool number two.

[Andy Holloway]

And watch like my notes on Mike Washington are. They're not good of when I my film evaluation, I thought this is. He's a fine player. When I got his combine numbers, it blew me away that I'm like, really?

[Jason Moore]

How?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I'm like, this is not the player that I was seeing when I was watching him actually play football.

[Mike Wright]

1,000 yards and 28 receptions is really good, but at 220 pounds running 43 3. You should be having this.

[Jason Moore]

What's his age?

[Mike Wright]

He's got to be older.

[Andy Holloway]

He'll be 23 pretty soon.

[Mike Wright]

Five years.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. He had five years in college Arkansas this year before it was New Mexico State. It's tough because all of these guys depending on the draft capital. You also have to now look at the team and say will they give this guy I might believe in or who was a combine breakout an opportunity sufficient for fantasy. That's the discussion and the evaluation we have to make and not to pick on one player. But like Caleb Johnson's a good example of like it wasn't bad draft capital. But then you have to win the lottery twice. Right. You got to get through the draft capital lottery. Then you got to get through the backfield ensemble. And will a team give you an opportunity or will you be part of a committee? And that's where a lot of our rankings are going to change. You guys have Jonah Coleman in right now. Number two. We're all ahead of the draft. If a team you mentioned Seattle takes Jadarian Price at 32 and Coleman goes at the back of the front of the third round. You're probably changing your rankings.

[Mike Wright]

Absolutely. The rankings will this year more than most years because you kind of have this nebulous RB2. No one knows who the second running back is going to be drafted after Jeremiah Love. And it could really be one of like five different players and it wouldn't shock anyone.

[Jason Moore]

Isn't Price pretty much been there, though?

[Mike Wright]

He has been there from the beginning.

[Jason Moore]

I think that other than him, I don't know who's going next.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

But I feel like Price is probably two or three at worst.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I mean, he'll, he'll. I mean, probably.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, maybe we'll get surprised. Maybe Mike Washington will go out there with his Darius Hayward bay impression and get himself a top spot.

[Andy Holloway]

And so back to Mike Washington of just reviewing the film. He was in the 40th percent.

[Jason Moore]

I did hear it too.

[Mike Wright]

Whatever he's done with us, I'm trying

[Andy Holloway]

to give numbers, guys. He was in the 40th percentile for forced missed tackle rate. As in, this is not good. This is a big, strong, athletic player who's not making defenders miss. He graded out as the low. He's the lowest graded pass blocker per pro football focus of this running back class.

[Mike Wright]

And fumbles a lot.

[Andy Holloway]

And he fumbles a lot. Like, yeah, I don't want my running back pass blocking. I want him out there catching passes. But I want my running back to be able to get on the field. And part of that is you got to be able to do all these other things. So I, when the combine numbers hit, I got, I got real pumped. I was real excited. I was like, okay, we got it. We have a standout here. So I moved him up the ranks and then went back into everything. And I said, no, I'm not going to, I'm not going to extra count this athleticism when all the other metrics that I care about and my film evaluation are not matching up.

[Jason Moore]

What do you guys want to talk about? Your number two?

[Mike Wright]

Yes, sir.

[Jason Moore]

Jonah Coleman. Jonah Coleman is both of your number two. He's Four on my rankings right now. Tell me why you love him.

[Mike Wright]

So Jonah Coleman, he passes the eye test to me. Breaks a lot of tackles, had breakaway plays over and over and over. For a player who is not a. I mean, he didn't run, he didn't do any testing even at the pro day, like, wasn't going to run a 40, which I think will hurt his draft capital. That's why he's been falling a little bit in mock drafts and. But he's got enough active burst and speed to make plays happen. His pass catching to me is an incredible gift. It's what I love to see. His hands are made of glue. He can be in the middle of a pile of players and the quarterback can rifle the ball to him five feet away and it just sticks and it's, it's unconscious. So I love that as a pass catcher, he's not doing the thing where he's got to think about catching the ball. It's just second nature to him. So I love him as a pass catcher. He's also kind of a bowling ball type of player. And even though he's got a ton of touchdowns in his profile, which is one of the stickiest stats to translate to fantasy football success, is running backs having rushing touchdowns. In College, he had 25 rushing touchdowns the last two years. So you've got someone that can score around the goal line and catch the ball. He is a very, very intelligent player. His pass blocking grade is great. He talks about how he wants to be on the field all three downs. It's just that he checks the boxes that matter for fantasy football to me.

[Jason Moore]

What about the rushing production? Because, I mean, you look at like, you compare what Price did as a backup, certifiable backup to Jeremiah love. Price had 11 touchdowns. Price had almost 700 rushing yards. Jonah Coleman did have a dip in his efficiency in the last three years on the ground.

[Andy Holloway]

And other players on the team were taking work 6, 8 as well to

[Jason Moore]

5, 5 to 4, 9. Though if you're dipping in work. Just to go back to the argument about efficiency, it doesn't quite add up for Jonah Coleman on the ground there where like we like to see overwhelming effectiveness and efficiency in that final year. I mean, he played, yeah, two years,

[Mike Wright]

two years ago, it was better for him. Over a thousand rushing yards, 23 recept involved in the passing game. This year, less so on the ground. There was, I went game by game like through the hit the game log. And it was kind of a situation where there were some games he really Took over and then some games where I don't know if he got injured in the game or whatnot, but a little bit disappeared. But on the film and most of the metrics, he's good enough to me to at least have a shot. Now if he ends up being a day three pick, poof, vanished.

[Jason Moore]

I feel like you're. The reception profile is something that's really drawing you to him.

[Mike Wright]

Yes. The receptions, the rushing touchdowns and the film. Those three things. I really liked what I saw in film. And his scheme fit is perfect for Seattle. He is playing in Washington. So they. That franchise is very familiar with Jonah Coleman over the last couple of years. And the 32 or 64 pick. If they take Jonah Coleman, I will be freaking excited.

[Jason Moore]

He's 5, 8, 2, 20, by the way, if we didn't say it.

[Andy Holloway]

And he has.

[Jason Moore]

That is a bowling ball.

[Mike Wright]

That's a bowling ball.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. A thing I really look for is a player's contact balance. And he has it. I mean, there's guys who are 5, 8, 2, 20 who get knocked over. Guys bounce off of him and he really remains, you know, just grounded. And so the fact that he has such high marks in that with the past catching for me, it keeps him at number two until further noticed.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Last name I'll mention at running back is Emmett Johnson. He's a player that I really liked on film production.

[Andy Holloway]

Monster.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. I mean, he was 14. 51 rushing yards last year, 12 touchdowns, 46. 46 reception receptions. He was my, you know, outside of love on film, he was my favorite running back.

[Mike Wright]

He has the most fun running style. Like. Like his. My notes on him are just how every. He's got one move. He could do it in both directions, but it's like this little herky jerky little jump cut to the left or to the right. And it works every single time.

[Andy Holloway]

He has a weird. Like, it reminds me a little bit of the Adrian Peterson run of. He's really using that upper body to make himself go faster. He's like, I run with my arms.

[Jason Moore]

And I'll be honest, he's at three for me on my rankings. Right. Right now my rankings are love price, Emmett. Okay, now, so he's ahead. Now he's four because you said that. Now he's at three for me because of the combined performance to me. And it betrayed the things you saw in film. You just talked about the herky jerky, the move that always works. And here he comes out at the combine. Not only is he slower than he expected to be, on at the combine. 28th percentile speed score 4.56. But he was 6 percentage in quickness and 3 cone drill and 20 yard shuttle. So I don't know if this was a bad day.

[Andy Holloway]

That's got to be a bad day.

[Jason Moore]

I mean it just feels like he hurt himself a lot at the combine which look, if you do that, your opportunities are going to dwindle in terms of draft capital opportunities and teams that are going to count on you to be the dude. That's my biggest worry right now. I feel like the arrows pointing down despite on film alone me being the most impressed with him at Johnson at Nebraska, like you said, the production was out of control and he can catch the football. I love that. I don't know what happened at the combine.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I liked it. It's ironic because had time my notes on him. I really, really liked watching him play. It was fun. But I, I wasn't sure if his athleticism was good enough to allow like this move that he has that gets these college guys every time. I didn't know if that was going to translate and be successful in the NFL. So then you combine that with the poor combine performance and that was some of my fear. He's a guy that basically.

[Jason Moore]

How far down is he for you guys?

[Mike Wright]

He's my number four.

[Jason Moore]

Four.

[Mike Wright]

I still like him. And I've got Jardians currently at eight, which is low. And he will have him at eight. Yeah, he will without a doubt go up. There's a couple other guys that maybe we won't get into specifically.

[Jason Moore]

Just throw a couple names.

[Mike Wright]

I really like Nick Singleton. You did for fantasy football.

[Jason Moore]

Boy, he's boring to me.

[Mike Wright]

Sure. Mike doesn't like him at all either.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't love.

[Jason Moore]

He would love to grow up and become Charbonnet.

[Andy Holloway]

I didn't love either of the Penn State guys, but I preferred Allen over Singleton when I watched.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, for me this is a matter. Yeah, yeah, for me this is a matter of. If you're telling me that there's a guy out there who, I mean 45 rushing touchdowns and over 100 receptions in college who is 220 pounds, like okay, a big body back who gets touchdowns and catches passes. I'm just a sucker for fantasy football things.

[Jason Moore]

He doesn't. Yeah, it's not flashy but his product,

[Mike Wright]

his production and that's Nick Singleton. Nicholas.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. And the being a sucker is Adam Randall for me.

[Mike Wright]

Oh yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Out of Clemson. He, I mean he, he had a good breakout age or well, an okay breakout age. But he's like he's listening. No, he is a. Well, he's a.

[Mike Wright]

He's a weird.

[Andy Holloway]

He's a unique prospect because for three years at Clemson he was a wide receiver who did nothing and he could not really get anything sustained on the field. And then they move him to running back for his last year. So he's brand new to the position.

[Jason Moore]

What's the size?

[Andy Holloway]

He's gigantic.

[Mike Wright]

He's 6 3-232.

[Jason Moore]

What was he doing out there at wide receiver?

[Mike Wright]

What's he doing at running back? You know, a lot of 6, 3,

[Jason Moore]

233 part is the tight end. It is.

[Andy Holloway]

And his, his. He ran a 4, 5 but because of his size that puts him in the 91st percentile for speed score. And he's. Just because he's a converted wide receiver, you know that he at least has solid hands for a running back. Got 36 passes, 36 passes the last year, 168 carries, 814 yards on the ground. He. I don't know if he'll make any type of noise in the NFL draft, but when a player makes the move to running back from the wide receiver position and they get drafted and he's gigantic, you, you almost always get at least a couple years of something pretty good for fans.

[Mike Wright]

I'm completely with you on him. He's. He is the current sleeper pick that I'm most excited about.

[Jason Moore]

That'll do it for today's episode of the show. On Thursday we'll jump into the most exciting position, I think in the draft, top to bottom, the wide receivers and we'll talk some tight ends as well. Looking forward to it. This was fun. It's nice to have these names out there. They're gonna be household names before you know it. Very soon and we'll have to decide where we pick them and what we believe. Thanks for joining us everybody. Check out ultimate draftkit.com goodbye.

[Mike Wright]

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