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Jason Moore
Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.
Mike Wright
Welcome in.
Andy Holloway
Tuesday, April 21, the fantasy footballers Podcast. Jason Moore, Mike Wright. I'm Andy Holloway.
Jason Moore
Draft week.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, baby. We're here. And the Giants have extra picks. Oh, do you. Do you realize that was the first time? Is like getting way ahead of the news. But Dexter Lawrence was traded straight up for the number 10 overall pick in the draft. So the Bengals, I mean, we got to be honest, you look at the numbers behind what Dexter Lawrence brings to a defense devastating for Mike. Because we have a strict fantasy football policy on this show. We don't want the Bengals getting better on defense and we don't want the Cowboys getting better on defense. I mean, and they are going to be better with Dexter Lawrence.
Mike Wright
They will. But they lost Hendrickson.
Jason Moore
They did.
Mike Wright
So, I mean, can you imagine that defense without one of those?
Jason Moore
They didn't have Hendrickson for a lot of last year.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, yeah, it was. I mean, I.
Jason Moore
And it was great.
Andy Holloway
I saw the numbers. New York was just atrocious without Dexter Lawrence on the field last year. But this is like the first time in 21 years or something like that that a. That a top 10 pick was traded for a non quarterback.
Jason Moore
Yeah, I saw the post. I forget which one of the big insiders was saying, oh, there's. They posted it in a way where it was like, there's precedents for this. This has happened before in 1986. It was like, wait, this has been a minute. That's not. There's not a lot of precedents here.
Andy Holloway
And it was one of those deals where it's like there's not a bunch of other pieces moving around. No other picks later on.
Jason Moore
It was just pretty fantasy football. Yeah, it was. I love it because all I saw was how much each team fleeced the other and how. Yeah, good the trade was or bad the trade was. And honestly, when I look at. Seems really wise and smart for both parties. I get it from both of their situations. I don't think the Bengals were going to find at 10 in this draft a player that good at a position of need. Yeah, they have to pay him. But the contract they signed was not that bad.
Mike Wright
They added like one year of.
Jason Moore
Yeah, they did one year.
Andy Holloway
28 million.
Jason Moore
Gave somewhere around 12 million a year. It's like the number 10 pick was going to be 6 million a year for a rookie.
Andy Holloway
It might be great for both teams. It really might. And it, you know, now the Giants, for fantasy purposes, like, they've got two top 10 picks and one of them is going to be a impact offensive player, most likely, because I don't think they're going to spend both of them on the defensive side. They were already rumored around Jeremiah Love or Jordan Tyson or Carnell Tate or any of these guys. Now we get to find out what happens and it happens on Thursday. But first.
Jason Moore
Yes.
Andy Holloway
Big announcement. You hear that? There's an announcement, Al? I did.
Jason Moore
I'm anxiously awaiting.
Andy Holloway
Oh, it's draft week. It is draft week and we have a very special ultimate Draft week giveaway. It is the ultimate Draft week. We're giving away a spot in the coveted Fantasy Footballers Listener league. That is the grand prize. We are giving away a signed Jamar Chase jersey and a signed Bijan Robinson jersey. If you're watching on YouTube.com the fantasy footballers, you can see them on the back wall here. But all you got to do, and you do it every year anyways, is pick up the Ultimate Draft Kit. Atultimatedraftkit.com you're going to get instant access to a bunch of features when the full UDK releases on June 1st you'll get even more access to everything you need to win on draft day, including new features we're going to be bringing to you this year.
Jason Moore
And if you're an Ultimate Foot Clan member already, you are already in this. You will always be in all of our giveaways.
Andy Holloway
If you are not or if you have the udk.
Jason Moore
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're not an Ultimate Foot Clan member, people make mistakes. We forgive you. It's totally understandable. Maybe you didn't even know. Maybe you're new to the show. I don't know. But you can go to footclan.com and just, you know, rectify that and then you get in this, you can win a spot in our listener league. This is the first one we give away every year. It will go up through this weekend, through the draft. Awesome times, big giveaways, great products. And then because of the draft, our next release for the Dynasty Pass. All of our updated rookie rankings. All of our, I mean we get, we get so much information this week. This is like the beginning to me, the beginning of fantasy football season is right when the draft ends.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, it's super exciting. I mean we do our keeper lottery, like our league of records starts to take, take form after the draft. And those of you that are newer to the show, maybe you don't have experience with the ultimate draft Kit. That's where all of our tier based rankings are. All of our premium stat projections where we go through and we are, you know, we just did our early rankings, but this is going to be our player by player, actual stat projections for everybody. 100 plus video player profiles, custom cheat sheets. You can track your draft live on the app. The video profiles are always a hit. We've got the value scout tool in there now. All of our sleepers, breakouts, busts and values which evolve like it's a living, breathing tool to help you win on draft day and you know, risk and upside meters, just a lot of stuff you can learn about.
Mike Wright
It's what we use.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Ultimate Draft Kit.com for that. And it gets better every single year. Be a part of the Ultimate Draft week giveaway. Our quick question of the day was titled I think by Brooksie Draft Dreams. That sounds like a movie too. Like the next Costner flick For draft day. Draft Dreams name a rookie in a landing spot that you'd love to see happen for any reason.
Mike Wright
Well, you, both of you guys are.
Jason Moore
Yeah, I know we both went a little bit.
Andy Holloway
You want me to go first?
Jason Moore
Negative. I love your. I wanted to do yours, but yours is impossible.
Andy Holloway
I mean, there's rumors right now that the Cardinals and Chiefs are in discussions around the third pick in the draft. Now, yes, a reasonable person would be imagining the Chiefs come up and take an impact defensive player like Arvell Reese or David Bailey. But no, in my draft dream scenario.
Mike Wright
This is weird. I mean, this is just a personal attack. This is a.
Jason Moore
This is a draft fever dream.
Andy Holloway
It's not a personal attack.
Mike Wright
Yes, it is.
Andy Holloway
It's a personal.
Mike Wright
You're like, man, things really went way too well for Kenneth Walker. So how could we destroy it?
Andy Holloway
If it's a personal attack, so be it. Because you had a year of dominance, you won two leagues. It's Jeremiah Love to the Chiefs, everybody.
Mike Wright
Impossible.
Andy Holloway
If Jeremiah Love goes to the Chiefs, the people, best player available, they do not like. Ken Walker back where he belongs is kind of the two in an office.
Jason Moore
So you. You would. So this is.
Mike Wright
This would make you happy?
Jason Moore
Yeah. Look how happy he is.
Andy Holloway
It would make me. It's just for little moments and it would be just the moment when the pick happens and I get to turn away from the TV and look at Mike.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
Just for the moment. Because it would bring so much. It would bring the fun of watching Jeremiah Love on the Chiefs. It would bring weeks and weeks of Mike going, what are they doing? Which we got to do with Michael Pinnock's. That was fun.
Jason Moore
Yeah, it seems. No way. No way he made it.
Andy Holloway
Some people want to watch the world burn right there.
Jason Moore
But yeah, all right. Mine's a hater. Mine's a hater dream. Yeah. That being a dumb decision.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
And yes, I stand by it on the Prince. But if Penix had been good, it was a great decision. Right.
Jason Moore
But he's not.
Andy Holloway
Well, I'm just saying, like, just be. Just be clear. You were. We were wrong. We were right for the wrong reason. The reason we were right.
Jason Moore
I don't think so.
Mike Wright
Have you seen the. There's a clip.
Andy Holloway
They were absolutely right to take another quarterback because Cousins was not going to be it.
Mike Wright
There's a guy. There's a baking show or like a guy doing a segment and a lady says something and the guest is very funny. He's like, if my grandma had tires, she'd be a bicycle.
Andy Holloway
I know the clip you're talking about.
Mike Wright
No, we won, they lost.
Andy Holloway
For whatever reason, we're taking Jackson Dart, though. Wasn't that the right pick at nine?
Jason Moore
Well, yeah.
Andy Holloway
Okay. That's true.
Jason Moore
All right, Mike, you. You kick us off. Give us something fun to root For. Because I would love this.
Andy Holloway
Mike was not entertained by mine. He didn't like mine at all.
Jason Moore
It was a personal attack.
Mike Wright
Yeah, it's a personal attack of an impossible action and situation.
Jason Moore
Oh, man. Now I want it even more.
Mike Wright
He will go. He's going three or four.
Andy Holloway
Yes, he is. To the Cardinals.
Mike Wright
He's going three or four or somebody
Jason Moore
that trades for three, four, five, seven. You'd have to get through to get to. The Chiefs aren't coming up for Love.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, they're trading up.
Mike Wright
It's mine's Adam Randall to Washington. I don't think Jeremiah Love makes it to Washington at 7 at that point with their pick situation. It's like you have players in your running back room. So maybe we use a third, I don't know, probably a fourth, probably a. Probably a day three pick. But Adam Randall is such a. A interesting running back prospect. A converted wide receiver. Like the type of player that if they hit, they turn into. They jump from a third round rookie pick into a top 15 type of a fantasy running back. So it would be really exciting if he went there.
Andy Holloway
Have we ever for one moment considered Jakori Krosky Merritt would be the starting running back for this team at all this offseason?
Mike Wright
I have, yeah.
Jason Moore
Yeah. I mean, a little bit. I think It'll be a 50, 50 timeshare there.
Andy Holloway
Do you remember when I made one of the worst trades I've ever made last year in Dynasty? I'm in the middle of a rebuild. Yeah, the Brock Purdy one.
Mike Wright
Oh, yeah.
Jason Moore
Think about it all the time.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, I think I got Jacoby Brissette and Jakori Krosky Merritt in that trade and Brissette now holding out in Arizona for starter money. Talk about a good toilet bowl of a team.
Mike Wright
Good work, Arizona.
Andy Holloway
But maybe talk they could both be starting. That's just funny to think about.
Jason Moore
They could be. Yeah. They did sign Rashad White. So what I'm looking forward to in this draft and I think this is realistic, I think this could very easily happen. I just put together like my official mock draft. Still have room to tweak it and he would have been available here. I did not give him here. But it would be Kenyan Sadiq falling to the jets at 16. I would love that so much. Because Sadiq is a Jets getting Sadiq. Yeah. The Sadiq is not my favorite prospect. He is obviously a superhuman athlete, best of the best, first percentile type of freak of nature. His production profile is not Superb. And when you watch film, this was not like watching Brock Bowers. You watch Brock Bowers and it's like, this guy is the offense. No one can ever take him down. He is on another level. He's just an. A super elite tight end for sure. That's not how I feel about Sadiq and I. And that.
Mike Wright
Right.
Jason Moore
It feels bad to feel that. And so if I'm not super into Sadiq and I don't want the jets to ruin one of the wide receivers I really like, how great would it be at 16 if they're like, I've got. We've got our receiving answer. It's Sadiq. Great, because then I'm out.
Mike Wright
We're gonna be rolling out Mason Taylor.
Jason Moore
Yes. And, well, I mean, look, he wants.
Andy Holloway
He already let Sadiq drop to 16 in this hypothetical because he doesn't like him. And now he's going to the jets to.
Jason Moore
In my real draft, he drops 19, but the jets bypassed him in my situation.
Andy Holloway
Is this a draft, Michael draft where you pretend you're the GM of every team?
Jason Moore
That. The latter. Where I pretend I'm the GM of every team. But Michael Meyer was a second round pick.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Jason Moore
And that did not stop the Raiders from saying, hey, we need a true stud. And they. They took Brock Bowers.
Andy Holloway
Is he a dog?
Jason Moore
Sadiq?
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Sadiq's got a little dog in him.
Andy Holloway
I mean, I'm just saying, like. Yeah, because dogs and cats, they don't. They don't.
Mike Wright
Oh, you're saying if they were both on the Jets.
Andy Holloway
I'm just asking.
Jason Moore
Yeah, that could be.
Mike Wright
They would just meet a double mesh route and they just run into each other and start fighting.
Andy Holloway
Well, no, they wouldn't fight because the cat would run away, I think. What was that? Meows. We don't need no cats.
Jason Moore
Be a dog.
Andy Holloway
I forgot about that.
Jason Moore
Those two would fight like cats and dogs.
Andy Holloway
All right, let's do some news.
Jason Moore
News and notes from around the league.
Andy Holloway
Adam Schefter reporting. The Eagles trading A.J. brown to the Patriots is now considered likely. I mean, we've been.
Mike Wright
The fact that we all have to wait until June 1st for this bull crap to go away.
Andy Holloway
I mean, we know what's happening.
Jason Moore
Just.
Mike Wright
Just do the trade and say, hey, NFL, do this on June 21st. Yes.
Andy Holloway
It will execute on June 1st.
Mike Wright
Get it over with.
Jason Moore
I mean, they do this with cuts. A post June 1 cut. Like, you can cut them beforehand and then designate them to be cut on June 1st. That's already like a thing. Just do that with trades yeah.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Mike Wright
That's manipulate the salary which is why they can't trade him right now because they want. They want the cap to get split between the two years.
Andy Holloway
But he will be a Patriot. It will be sad for Romeo Dobbs. It will be great for Drake. May. The fact of the matter is the Eagles will be in play on Thursday. They will add a little bit of extra confirmation. They'll draft a wide receiver at some point in time. Maybe early.
Jason Moore
Oh man.
Andy Holloway
I.
Mike Wright
Sorry. Philadelphia. I hope they. AJ Brown. This like as in the Tennessee Titans. This is like. This is the make good. You realize that like Mike Vrabel was the coach when they traded him and there's the legendary video of when the trade going through and there's someone in that room who's not happy about trading A.J. brown.
Jason Moore
And that was Mike.
Mike Wright
And that was Mike Vrabel if he can get him back. And in Philadelphia with their first round pick is like, hey, we're taking.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Whoever it is, Mike, Kai Lemon or Jordan Tyson, it doesn't work out.
Jason Moore
Yes. And then the next Traylon Burks.
Mike Wright
Exactly. It would just. It's just the. This is what the world needs for balance.
Andy Holloway
Look, A.J. brown's a very, very good player and I'm going to tell you this. Jalen Hurts is not a better player without him.
Jason Moore
Right.
Andy Holloway
But he's not a better quarterback.
Jason Moore
Devontae Smith stock would rise. It would definitely go 39% target share in games without A.J. brown.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, that won't. That won't happen.
Jason Moore
No, it won't stay that way.
Mike Wright
Cartoon chat.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, that did sound pretty.
Mike Wright
What is that? Oh, that Fievel. Was that Dom DeLuise?
Jason Moore
I don't know.
Andy Holloway
I think Philadelphia's. There'll be an interesting story. Nothing we say. I mean everything we say right now we got a little Jalen Hurts in the middle of the. In the middle of the table. You know, Philly fans, I feel like that franchise right now is hanging on. They've got a lot of money committed. Right. Their defense is going to be great. But I'm curious about the offense without A.J. brown. That'll be very, very interesting. I said it. Jacoby Brissette's not attending phase one of the off season. Program wants to be paid like a starter.
Jason Moore
It's great, great news.
Mike Wright
So funny because if you recall at least the way it was laid out on social media that the, you know, like everything was okay. They're going to get rid of Kyler. The Cardinals bring in Gardner Minshew. You're like, what they're going to have Jacoby and Gardner Minshew. And then there was the tweet. The Cardinals are moving forward. Like, Jacoby is the starter. He doesn't know about it yet, right?
Jason Moore
Yeah, they're bringing.
Mike Wright
This is why he didn't know about it, because they're trying to sneak it through so they didn't have to pay
Andy Holloway
Garden on him being your starter. You got to pay him like a starter.
Mike Wright
Yes.
Jason Moore
Gardner Minshew was brought in not to compete, but to be the backup for Jacoby Brissette. But Jacoby Brissette is not necessarily aware of this and certainly, certainly not financially. But it's great because the pictures came out early. This is months ago of the Cardinals, like, locker room area, their new wall graphics. And like the primary, you walk into the players area and the biggest, most primary, you know, the entire wall is a picture of Jacoby Brissette.
Mike Wright
It's like, I'm not getting paid.
Jason Moore
Like that guy, he walks in and looks at that and goes, all right, I'll be right back. I got to go talk to my agent.
Mike Wright
That guy probably makes a lot, that guy.
Jason Moore
Probably $50 million for that picture up there.
Andy Holloway
Daniel, Jeremiah said Ty Simpson to Arizona. Feels inevitable when we'll find out on maybe late first round trade up.
Mike Wright
Okay.
Jason Moore
So much.
Andy Holloway
If it's inevitable, they should wait till the last round to get him. That's what I think.
Jason Moore
Grab them in the second.
Mike Wright
They've got no Jeremiah. Love Ty Simpson. Let's. Let's do it. Cardinals. That's really good work.
Andy Holloway
I'd rather be entertained.
Mike Wright
I would rather be a good football team. About four years.
Andy Holloway
We take that off the table as an option. Mike, where else do you want to go?
Mike Wright
Okay, if that's out.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, that's, that's obviously.
Mike Wright
If that's out, fine.
Andy Holloway
If good is out, entertaining is Next up. The 49ers signed Trent Williams to a two year, $50 million extension. Oh, he's only made $218 million.
Mike Wright
Yes.
Andy Holloway
That's a Christian recap.
Jason Moore
Oh, okay.
Mike Wright
Yes.
Jason Moore
All right. Jason, I forgot your.
Mike Wright
And Purdy.
Jason Moore
Yeah, Trent Williams is.
Mike Wright
He's great.
Jason Moore
He is an all timer. And this is. This was great. I just thought. At first I forgot that you. I thought you were a Cardinals fan because we were talking.
Mike Wright
Oh, no, I have left them.
Jason Moore
Yes, I remember now.
Andy Holloway
We talked about the trade already. Brandon Aubrey, an agreement with the Cowboys. Highest paid kicker in NFL history. Four year extension, 7 million a year, 20 million guaranteed.
Jason Moore
Which 7 million a year most ever for a kicker. 20 guaranteed. Most ever For a kicker, those are not big numbers. No, that's like. And it's so worth it. Brandon Aubrey changes your offense.
Mike Wright
Trent Williams 2. Trent old man. Trent Williams 2 year, $50 million extension, 218 made.
Andy Holloway
And then Brandon Aubrey, best kicker in football, 20 million guaranteed.
Mike Wright
I mean, it's tough when the positions get bracketed into this is the amount of money that this position makes. Even though someone like Brandon Aubrey is just so incredibly valuable, when you know that your kicker is going to make a 50 plus yard kick, he just, he will. You're like, we're in the 60s. He probably is going to make this kick.
Andy Holloway
When Justin Tucker was right at the peak of his career, he was so incredibly valuable for that team on a regular basis. It's a superpower.
Mike Wright
So congratulations, Aubrey.
Andy Holloway
Alec Pierce was absent from otas. Underwent ankle surgery. Looking at a three month recovery. This is after he signed the big deal. He was being impacted by pain in that ankle, I guess during last season.
Mike Wright
All right.
Andy Holloway
Then proved he was super tough. And everybody else would have gotten surgery but him. But now he's getting the surgery.
Mike Wright
Mac Jones would not have gotten the surgery.
Jason Moore
He couldn't afford it until he signed that contract. Now he's like, dude, you know what? I get first thing, I'm getting surgery.
Andy Holloway
All right, we will take a break. We've got some ADP price checks. Should be pretty fun.
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Andy Holloway
All right, we are going to walk through some names. The only ADP average drive average draft position that we have right now is going to be the underdog 12 team best ball drafts. But people are doing those every single day for money and so that is the best gauge we have until people start mock drafting in redraft leagues. So it's just a bit of bring up some names, talk about where we think they might be going where and then I think we follow up and talk about where we think they might go on redraft and whether they look like values or not. So the first player to talk about is Jaden Daniels of the Washington Commanders who just got a little uniform refresh. Teams are now doing the barely changing.
Mike Wright
Seriously, what is this the jersey thing
Andy Holloway
so that we can get you to buy slightly new jerseys.
Jason Moore
But do you do people really?
Mike Wright
Yes.
Jason Moore
Buy a new like oh man, there's a little extra yellow there. I got to have it.
Mike Wright
The jersey people do. I mean we do like I buy the I don't like football jersey. I buy the New Sons jersey every
Andy Holloway
year yeah, and if you don't, you're dumb.
Jason Moore
Yeah, I'm dumb.
Mike Wright
I mean, imagine wearing an old jersey.
Jason Moore
Now, that's. What a loser. That's my secret. When I go to, like a Sun's game, I be a loser. And you don't have to worry about it. No, you get the throwback. So, like, from now on, Cardinals should always be Larry Fitzgerald or Kurt Warner. They can't.
Andy Holloway
No, throwbacks are great. Throwbacks are great. The slightly older version. Like, if anybody's wearing a Atlanta Falcons jersey this year of last year's jersey, that's not a throwback. That's lame.
Mike Wright
Yeah, we don't make a throwback.
Jason Moore
I'm starting to understand throwback would be
Andy Holloway
like one of them Deion Sanders, you know, red jerseys.
Mike Wright
It has to be Doug Glanville. Like, it can't be sort of old. That has to be old.
Andy Holloway
Yes.
Jason Moore
Okay, I'm taking that.
Andy Holloway
Write this down.
Jason Moore
I grabbed my pen.
Andy Holloway
Jaden Daniels, I look at last year as a deleted year for Washington in general. Right? I mean, it was. Yes, he played seven games, but did he. You know, it just didn't feel like he ever got it going.
Mike Wright
Well, because in the seven games you were like, Mr. Daniels, what the heck? I spent a very high pick on you.
Andy Holloway
Well, I mean, and you look at these matchups. Like, he started the year against the Giants in Green Bay, got hurt for a couple games, came back against the Chargers on the road, had a nice game against Chicago, a let down against Dallas, missed another game, came back against Seattle, missed the rest of the. I mean, almost the rest of the season.
Mike Wright
Him and Terry. Yeah, this were like two chips passing in the night. Passing in the night.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Weeks.
Andy Holloway
It was a lost season.
Jason Moore
Weeks four through seven, Terry McClory. Terry McLaurin didn't play. Week nine, Terry McLaurin didn't play. So this is. You really only had two games where you saw Jaden Daniels and Tara McLaurin on the field. It was.
Mike Wright
And Terry got training camped, right?
Jason Moore
Yeah, he came. Came out slow.
Mike Wright
Looked like a guy who needed training.
Jason Moore
Like, he should have practiced a little bit longer. So I agree with you. You throw out last year completely. Speaking of last year, Jaden Daniels was the third quarterback being drafted last year. He was. The race to get Jaden Daniels was happening in all your drafts. So this year, after a completely lost year where when he was playing, he wasn't putting up big fantasy numbers, however, he was rushing just the same. His scramble rate was higher. His total rushing attempts per game was higher.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, there's and then other guys kind of. There's excitement around players like Drake May. You know, Joe Burrow's healthy. I think a year removed from the hype. I think it's going to be lower. Let's. Let's look in. Let's guess the. What quarterback. Off the board. He is.
Mike Wright
Okay.
Andy Holloway
And then the round. Let's guess it that way. I think Jaden Daniels is probably the quarterback. I'm thinking eight or nine.
Jason Moore
Oh. Oh, yeah. I think it's higher than that.
Mike Wright
I was going.
Andy Holloway
I'm going eight.
Mike Wright
I'm in four or five.
Jason Moore
I'll be in the. I'll be in my water.
Andy Holloway
Six.
Jason Moore
Seven.
Andy Holloway
Six, seven.
Mike Wright
I don't have my.
Jason Moore
It doesn't matter.
Mike Wright
Jeremy, where's the water bottle?
Jason Moore
It's right by your left foot.
Andy Holloway
When you have a chance to spray. Spray Jason with water for being stupid, you got to do it.
Mike Wright
You should leave that on the table fast enough.
Andy Holloway
I'm going to say quarterback. 8. Mike, you're saying quarterback.
Mike Wright
I'll go.
Andy Holloway
Just pick a. Pick a number. That's the whole guessing point.
Mike Wright
Five.
Jason Moore
I'll go five and I'll go six and five.
Andy Holloway
Six and eight. And then round wise, I mean, that's. That probably ends up being.
Mike Wright
Can't put it by you.
Andy Holloway
You're going to what, maybe the fifth round for us?
Jason Moore
Yeah, for you guys.
Andy Holloway
Six round. For me, maybe.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Somewhere around there.
Andy Holloway
All right, let's go. Do we have this on the board?
Mike Wright
Reveal yourself. Oh, six. Oh, two.
Andy Holloway
So what quarterback is that? That is the quarterback.
Mike Wright
Yes. We're going to have to look that up.
Andy Holloway
That's the quarterback. Three.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Jason Moore
In the sixth.
Andy Holloway
What?
Jason Moore
People are on underdog. Wow.
Mike Wright
Yep.
Jason Moore
He.
Mike Wright
Right now. He is. So go.
Andy Holloway
So this basketball. Yeah.
Mike Wright
It's Josh, Allen, Lamar, and there's Jaden. To be fair, Jaden and Joe Burrow are very close to each other.
Andy Holloway
Could you see yourself taking Jaden over Joe Burrow?
Mike Wright
Yes, I can see it. I will let the NFL draft go because at 7, I'm not 100% convinced that Washington will take a wide out. They really do need one. But if they take someone like Tate at pick number seven, that will be very, very exciting. The fact that it's not just Terry McLaurin versus the world. So I can see it.
Andy Holloway
I can see it. Blows my mind that he is vaulted right back up there after a year off. And because people are like.
Mike Wright
You're saying. They're like, I'm deleting it.
Andy Holloway
I think it's. It's got to be the rushing, the rushing consistency and the fact that that's a superpower in fantasy and you just want to get the next one of those. But that's a little bit surprising to me. We were all wrong. I mean in terms of the quarterback number off the board round wise we were about right. But yeah, they need to add a weapon that gives you confidence, not just Chiga conquo you know, to the offense. Debo is going to be. I mean Debo's gone. Right. So it's funny these names like they're going to start popping up. Debo, Samuel, Keenan Allen, some of these other names that don't have teams are going to pop up on some franchise. Keenan did not mean good things for lad McConkey last year.
Jason Moore
No.
Mike Wright
Right.
Andy Holloway
So Jaden Daniels, QB3, 602 in the draft. Is there a fit wide receiver wise, you know, the Denzel Boston Omar Coopers that you think works best alongside?
Mike Wright
They have to drop to the third though. They do not have a second rounder right now.
Jason Moore
Yeah, basically at seven. They're either going to take one of these top three guys and that's really the difference maker for Jaden Daniels. He needs one of that level of player. That's what the commanders need in general, you know. However, if a great defensive guy slips to them, they could very well like you know, I had Sonny Stiles dropping to them in my mock and so they didn't take a wide receiver in the first and if they don't, like Mike said, they don't have a lot of picks, a lot of capital to really move the needle. Personally, I'm not sure that like next year when, when I'm looking at quarterbacks I'm targeting. Depending on where Drake May is going, depending on where Jalen Hurts is going, people aren't going to be hot and bothered with Jalen Hertz anymore. Burrow, there's. There's a handful of names if he's really the quarterback. Three off the board. I went into this episode thinking he was going to be quite a value. Seems like he is not.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I was kind of guessing the same. Let's jump into another name. Travion Henderson of the New England Patriots. First eight weeks of the season, you didn't get to see much of him. Week 9 through the end of the year, you saw a lot of him. He was the RB9 in that stretch. 16.7 fantasy points per game, 5.3 yards per touch. I would imagine in the majority of those games Mike still felt like he was being underutilized in all of them.
Mike Wright
Yeah, accurately so.
Andy Holloway
But you know, there's not. Ramon Dre is not going anywhere.
Mike Wright
No.
Andy Holloway
Drake May will continue to take a step forward. You add A.J. brown to the offense. You add Romeo Dobbs to the offense. I think the passing game will get a lot of attention in the off season. So where do you think players are going to put Trevo? I would. I'll say I think he's probably running back 19.
Mike Wright
I think that's a very good guess.
Jason Moore
Yeah, I was going to say he's in the 20s, which is surprising with his breakout as a rookie. As not only just a rookie, but one that people were all excited about. You know you're my guy, right? He was a my guy last year. Had that breakout look like he was going to be the next Jameer Gibbs superstar. To have him not in the top 20 at running back, but this is. I got to remember this.
Andy Holloway
And we haven't revealed it.
Jason Moore
No, I know, I know, I know. I'm thinking of normal rankings, but I'm not considering, you know, an underdog. A lot of times you're, you're swinging for the fences, trying to hit the home run. Trevo is a home run. So, yeah, I'll just say running back 20.
Andy Holloway
So I'm at 19. You're at 20. Mike, where do you want to go?
Mike Wright
I'll go running back. Oh, he finishes running back 18. I bet he's drafted around there.
Andy Holloway
19, 20.
Mike Wright
I'm worried about Ramondre.
Andy Holloway
You should worry that he's good.
Mike Wright
Oh, no, he's worried about the utilization. I'm worried that he's going to Charbonne him, that teams are just like, well, go, go on Ramondre, running back 20.
Jason Moore
I'm going to say that would be the fifth round.
Mike Wright
I'm going late. Fourth.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I'll go with the fourth. Fourth round. Go ahead and show me the ADP. Oh, yeah. Four hundred and eleven. That is the RB20.
Mike Wright
Oh, he is playing on the dot.
Andy Holloway
RB20 on the dot. In the back of the 11th round.
Mike Wright
You win this time.
Andy Holloway
I don't know. It's weird because, like the prototype of Trayvon Henderson is to say he's a home run. Like there's this home run possibility. I don't see it in this offense. Like, even if Ramon Dre is hurt, I think they'll utilize other guys. I don't think they look at Trayvon Henderson as a, like, I don't look at him like Jameer Gibbs from a three down perspective. I don't think he has that. I don't think he's.
Mike Wright
I think he does. It's, it's. It's like the, the AJ Brown. I think it is happening. So then you're like, okay, more touchdowns. But do they give goal line work to, to Henderson or do they go back to Ramondre? It was the fact that he broke. Talking about Henderson, the way he broke out in the middle of the season and towards the end it was like. It was a true breakout. It was awesome. He was changing the game. And then they're like, yeah, but we still got Ramondre. We like him. And so I don't know if heading into the sophomore year if that will get totally flipped. If it gets flipped then, then he's a steal at running back 20, which. That's the decision you got to make when you're building your teams.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, he's going to be a really interesting player this year because we know they're going to win a lot of football games and you want young talent on really good football teams and running backs get injured.
Jason Moore
I mean this is one of those situations where when you are getting a really talented back in a timeshare, there is always the opportunity of an injury to the other party. You know, just like what happened in his rookie year when Ramon Dre got injured. He was forced to be the guy. And we know, here's what we know. I know you say you don't see him as a three down bell cow. That is probably correct. When, when we look at how are they going to utilize him, they're not going to force that. They have no reason to. But I do believe he can do it and will excel at it when given that opportunity. So an injury can always make that happen. That's the type of player I would want at running back.
Andy Holloway
I think a couple interesting things about him. For him to be a top 10 guy, we were looking at those target totals. Those would have to come up, I think. I mean that nine game stretch where he was really good, he only had. He was only on 45 target pace during those nine games. He's averaging about 16 opportunities a game. I don't know if he's a guy that would stay as efficient with as much work but he, he's explosive. He can, he can break a long touchdown, he can catch the football. They just didn't do it as much. In fact, Ramondre caught the ball a lot. So he's an interesting name for this upcoming year. Jalen Warren,
Jason Moore
the ever disrespected.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. And I just. My face says I know it's like,
Jason Moore
it's how I feel too. This is.
Andy Holloway
He feels like Tony Pollard.
Jason Moore
He was the running back 16. He was the running back 16 while sharing time with Kenneth Gainwell who led the team in receptions and is no longer there. And I'm very confident he's after Hindo. No one's drafting him ahead of Travion Henderson.
Andy Holloway
No, I think. I think Jaylen Warren, you know, we've had 20 years with Mike Tomlin, right, where we've got to like see that grimace on his face and know what he's doing at running back and it's a little.
Mike Wright
We won't see it anymore.
Andy Holloway
No, I know. I'm saying it makes it different. It makes it more a variable. Like Mike McCarthy. Does he use. Do we get another one of his little Ezekiel Elliott committee years?
Mike Wright
Well, that's.
Andy Holloway
Warren's the best player.
Mike Wright
He.
Andy Holloway
On their running back room. In their running back room, right?
Mike Wright
Well, I don't know.
Andy Holloway
Well, they got Rico.
Mike Wright
They got Rico. It's the.
Andy Holloway
They got Caleb.
Mike Wright
He's not factoring into the equation. It's Jale Warren versus Rico. It's. It's the reunion of Mike McCarthy and Rico. Which Rico dowdles breakout year. If you are newer or you don't remember, it was the second half of the year with the Dallas Cowboys with Mike McCarthy, but then they dumped him. I know that's saying it's all good
Andy Holloway
to come back to McCarthy or bad.
Mike Wright
I think it's good for Rico.
Andy Holloway
All right. Jaylen Warren, running back 25.
Jason Moore
I'll go after that, man. I'm going to say 27.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
When he said after, did you say
Jason Moore
I almost went 26.
Andy Holloway
When he said after that, I thought, whoa, whoa. I thought he was like. I thought he meant it like in a significant way.
Mike Wright
Not like, whoa, I'll go one cent.
Jason Moore
It's the Price is Right rules, man.
Andy Holloway
Well, I just sounded more like you were going to say 30 or something.
Jason Moore
Take 26, man.
Mike Wright
I wonder if he are going right near each other's.
Andy Holloway
I bet they are.
Mike Wright
I'm going to go running back 29.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. So you're talking like a seventh, eighth round pick.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
All right. Right now he is going as.
Jason Moore
Oh, the running back 29.
Andy Holloway
Running back 29. That's where Jason would have picked if he had more courage. 7, 25.
Mike Wright
I'm going way after that.
Jason Moore
I was two spots away from being.
Mike Wright
You said he's 40 years old.
Andy Holloway
He looks way older than that. 41. Jay Warren at RB 29 does that.
Mike Wright
Enrico's at 31.
Andy Holloway
Enrico's at 31. If I had to choose between the two, I feel like I'd want to
Mike Wright
go Rico, Eileen, Rico as well.
Andy Holloway
Because I feel like, like Warren is kind of.
Jason Moore
I will stick with Jalen.
Andy Holloway
Warren usurpable.
Jason Moore
I mean, but so is Rico. Every team that he's been on, no matter how well he plays, he's never. Whatever is happening in the locker room, we've seen it. It's kind of like when you talk about Kenneth Walker, you're like, I'm not sure how it's going to fail, but it just always does some way. Whether it's you're healthy and you get Charbonne, whether it's you're great, but you can't stay healthy. Just we've had year after year after year after year where we see flashes, just doesn't work out. That's Rico.
Andy Holloway
Always a bridesmaid.
Jason Moore
Yeah. I mean, it's like no matter. He's had these unbelievable stretches where you're like, this is a top tier running back. He had a thousand yards. And yet teams just are like, he does not matter to us at all.
Mike Wright
What 2 year 12 and a half million dollars for Rico.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Jason Moore
Are you asking.
Mike Wright
I'm saying that that's what it was. But this. So this will be a good example. So we. We talk about ambiguous backfields as a. For a strategy because they. You don't know what to do here. Like Jaylen Warren, Rico, do I really want anyone on the Pittsburgh Steelers and the answer is based off of their cost? Yes, you 100% do. You will track this. You know, stick with the show. We'll track this over training camp where the drumbeat.
Andy Holloway
Who.
Mike Wright
Who's getting the buzz of like they're the more likely.
Andy Holloway
Neither will move up enough in the draft to make them too expensive.
Mike Wright
Right.
Andy Holloway
And you brought up in the. Just the tips that we did last off season, eight and a half teams on average per year have lacked a top 24 drafted running back in fantasy.
Mike Wright
Totally makes sense. Those numbers make sense.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Eight to nine teams have nobody that's being drafted in the top 24 at the position. Yeah, it makes sense from a math perspective. I'm just saying, like from an opportunity perspective. You know, I think losing Tomlin gives me a little bit less confidence that they will be, you know, consistent the way they've always been. But Mike McCarthy's kind of the other example of that type of guy where like McCarthy shows up and people play pretty hard.
Mike Wright
The follow up to that is five players from those teams on average per year, jump into the top 24 and
Jason Moore
the follow up of that.
Mike Wright
Oh, there's not. This is my stat.
Jason Moore
No, this was your stat was that you tried to pick the ones on the best offense. That's how we've had a lot of success the last couple years. Like Javante last year, last year it was disgusting.
Mike Wright
But we, it was disgusting.
Jason Moore
It was like, okay, but you, you know, the Cowboys are probably going to have a good offense. So you take maybe, maybe someone wanted, whoever the rookie was blue last year or you choose Javante but you want to take one of those ambiguous backfields from a good offense. The question now for Jalen Warren, for Rico Dowdle is, I mean first of all, who's the quarterback is right now? Aaron Rodgers is non Will Howard right now reporting that he's now I love that it was reported before. There's like they expect to know by the draft and now it's just being reported like, oh, they're not going to know by the draft. It's like, yeah, because we're a week from the draft. You don't know.
Mike Wright
It's so wild.
Jason Moore
I don't. Even if Aaron Rodgers comes back, I would not put this as a, like, as a really good offense, as a top half offense. So tbd.
Andy Holloway
We'll take a break and then we'll talk about Jaylen Warren of the wide receiver position.
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Andy Holloway
Christopher Godwin, the Goblin. Where are we with this guy at this point in time? He's, you know, most of the year was deleted. He missed a lot of time with an ankle and a fibula injury that it didn't seem like he'd recover from and he did. And he had one or two games that were kind of all right. And it was in a year where Mike Evans was banged up and a BUCA took off and you got Jalen McMillan back and Tess Johnson had games and Kate Otten was relevant at times. Like there are a lot of pass catching options. He is not a spring chicken anymore. And yet Chris Godwin has value for fantasy, doesn't he?
Jason Moore
I mean, he should, but he's, he's 30 years old and he missed so much of last year coming off of that injury.
Mike Wright
Yeah, but he played at the end of it.
Jason Moore
He did play at the end. So, you know, you know, he also
Andy Holloway
missed almost all of the previous year.
Jason Moore
Yeah, but the, you know, that injury that took him out for, you know, the second half of last year and the first half of this year, right before that injury, he was averaging over 16 fantasy points a game. Now Mike Evans is gone. The opportunity for him to come in and maybe even be the one still exists on this team.
Andy Holloway
Man, he feels like, he feels like an 86 reception for 870 yard guy this year to me like I at
Jason Moore
age 30, I tend to agree with you. I don't want him.
Andy Holloway
I'm going to put my ADP guess at wide receiver 36.
Jason Moore
I'll go wide receiver 41. And I'm going to say that's the ninth round.
Andy Holloway
Mike.
Mike Wright
I'm going to the middle.
Andy Holloway
Surprise.
Mike Wright
I was trying to remember what you said. You said 34 all 38.
Andy Holloway
All right. He is the wide receiver 43.
Mike Wright
Okay.
Andy Holloway
In the eighth of the eighth round. I feel like this is not a ceiling draft selection. So this is where it gets tough. You this is where you'll be picking Chris Godwin or a rookie that you don't know how they might emerge. Like I don't know if I'm going to draft him.
Mike Wright
He's to me Godwin still feels like depending on how many fantasy football leagues I'm in, let's say I'm in five leagues. I'm going to make sure I have Godwin out on at least one or two of those teams of like a Buka is going to be the hotness and it chasing youth, especially youth like that. A young NFL player who already had a breakout, which I do. We could. Did Abu could break out.
Jason Moore
Yes.
Mike Wright
Okay, so you follow him.
Andy Holloway
He broke right back in, let me in. He broke into the jail cell and pulled the door closed.
Mike Wright
Okay, so Ibuka is going as a wide receiver 17. That makes complete sense for the situation that they are in. But I was like I said, if I have multiple, multiple teams there, I think there is a chance that Godwin is easy. Easily the best wide receiver for fans.
Jason Moore
It's what I said a minute ago. He still has the opportunity with Evans out of the way to be the wide receiver one for Baker Mayfield for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Mike Wright
If a buka like Baker couldn't find over the second half, Baker just couldn't connect.
Jason Moore
No.
Mike Wright
With Abuka. Baker can connect with Chris Godwin.
Andy Holloway
They know switch New England, right?
Jason Moore
Yeah. That's what it feels like for Godwin. I think that's a good comp. A quality wide receiver who's going to be in the right spot and do the right thing for a veteran quarterback in Baker. And that's not always great for fantasy.
Andy Holloway
I'm shaking my head. Move into this next name because you know on our website we have, you know we have the game log for these players and you know, you see the games that are top 24 finishes, top 12 finishes, they're green. Anything in that middle tier wide receiver 3 range, they're yellow. And then the Red games are these bust games for our consistency charts. Just looking at this, red means stop.
Mike Wright
We want you to stop doing that.
Andy Holloway
Stop. Stop it. Brian Thomas Jr. For Jacksonville. This is a game log that is horrific and terrifying for where he was drafted and what you saw from him.
Jason Moore
There's a lot more green on Parker Washington's game log.
Mike Wright
The Jags are hilarious. I don't know if you, if you tuned into last week's Footcast, we were talking about Travis Hunter. You know, the reports come out he's going to be a full time db, part time wide receiver. And right now in Dynasty people are trying to flip Travis Hunter and Andy got an offer. I got an offer for Travis Hunter. I mad did you get an offer?
Jason Moore
I did not.
Mike Wright
Okay, you weren't enough, I guess but these were like, it's like how, how do you not want Travis Hunter the number two overall pick? And at the end of everything, Andy didn't trade for him. I didn't trade, no.
Andy Holloway
And I got more offers over the weekend and we just didn't quite get.
Mike Wright
And then you got Brian Thomas Jr. Like do I want Brian Thomas? But the Jags are going to be a top tier offense.
Andy Holloway
They're going to be really good.
Mike Wright
They're going to be fantastic. And we're looking at the wide receivers like ooh, I don't. Here's what's so I don't know who I want.
Andy Holloway
What's so weird about weird? Like you said certifiably that a Buka broke out, right?
Jason Moore
Yes.
Andy Holloway
Which then of course Brian Thomas Jr.
Mike Wright
Broke out.
Jason Moore
Oh for sure.
Andy Holloway
He had a.
Jason Moore
Didn't he finish as the wide receiver
Andy Holloway
7 his rookie year, his final six games of the season. And I know it was Mac Jones and some Trevor Lawrence, but to be
Mike Wright
clear, are you talking about the rookie?
Andy Holloway
What we were drafting on. Here's what we were drafting on a pace of 127 for 17, 1414 touchdowns. So 200 targets, 127 receptions, 1700 yards, 14 touchdowns. That was his final six weeks. And then we're like now figure out where to draft him in the draft. And he went super high.
Jason Moore
He was in the conversation with Malik neighbors as far as like after, after that rookie year was like he is. Was he just as good as his college teammate? And it's almost. You can't even think like that anymore after this bust of a sophomore season. You can't remember how good Brian Thomas Jr. Was as a rookie. But he did that. He did that in the NFL.
Andy Holloway
He did it without Jacoby Myers Or Travis Hunter or Parker Washington surrounding him with a different quarterback. And I. It's really hard to look at Brian Thomas and be like, I think he's just going to settle into mediocrity as for his career. But that's how it feels right now. I don't feel like there's margin for anything remarkably close to those numbers in this offense when you have those other names they just gave a huge contract to Jacoby Myers. Parker Washington has emerged. I think Travis Hunter plays offense to me. Brian Thomas Jr. Again, this is not a discussion about what he's going to do. This is where he's being drafted. And I think it's. I think he's being drafted as the wide receiver in the 20s. 20. No, maybe not. Golly. Yeah. 26. I'll go 26. I'm gonna go 26.
Mike Wright
What do you mean?
Andy Holloway
Dang it.
Jason Moore
That was the number of my. Yeah, that was the number of my money. I'm with you. I think he's wide receiver 26.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
You've still got a lot of hope, a lot of youth, a lot of extreme athleticism. And we've talked about this in the past as well. It is often a good bet when you can get a discount and you're looking at the guys that are going, falling in drafts. There's always a reason, right? Oh, the quarterback play, the talent, the age, the whatever. And then you've got to write the path forward. But the paths, when we look back at the players who dropped and then went outstanding, just rebounded and won fantasy leagues, a lot of times they have done it before. Chris Godwin was one of these people once before in his career. Cooper cup was one of those players where it was like, we have seen them be great before they got injured or they struggled or whatever and they were done with them. And then Cooper cup was the number one wide receiver in all of fantasy. So I think Brian Thomas Jr. Can get back. And so 26 for me and Jason.
Andy Holloway
What do you got, Mike?
Mike Wright
I'll go 24.
Andy Holloway
The answer is the wide receiver. 31.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Mike Wright
Oh, my gosh.
Andy Holloway
He is still being drafted. Parker Washington, who's wide receiver 35. Jacoby Myers, who's wide receiver 41. I'm assuming Travis Hunter is nowhere to be found. Oh, wide receiver 64. So that is.
Jason Moore
I mean, if I take a shot, he shot one of those guys.
Andy Holloway
Package of the group.
Jason Moore
I definitely take the shot on Brian Thomas Jr. How can you have an
Andy Holloway
offense that good and no one being drafted in the top 30?
Mike Wright
Wide receiver there is gold in the heels, boy.
Andy Holloway
No, that. I mean that's like somewhere. That's like my guy calling your name, Jay. Brian Thomas.
Jason Moore
Nice Try it for me.
Andy Holloway
But it's more you.
Jason Moore
I know what you're saying. We're talking about these ambiguous. It works both in the wide receiver core and in the running back room. You want a good offense and you don't know where it's going to come from. This is a wide receiver group that you're like, well, there's too many mouths to feed here. I'm not sure who could break out. So we're going to draft none of them. Except if you say one of these guys, Brian Thomas Jr. Parker Washington, Jacoby Myers was going to be a top 15 wide receiver in fantasy.
Andy Holloway
BTJ.
Jason Moore
Of course it's going to be Brian
Mike Wright
Thomas Jr. What if I told you that after the bye week. So we're talking weeks nine through 18. This is for a football season. That's a decent sample. There's no Travis Sunser because he got. He was already hurt. The target share, Jacoby 21% Parker Washington 21% Brenton Strange, 16% Brian Thomas Jr. I don't know if you're doing the math. We're running out of targets.
Jason Moore
We're running out of percents. We're running out of time.
Mike Wright
15.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
And he moved. I mean he was not running. It was a different offense, different head coach, different coordinator.
Mike Wright
Well, I was saying than the year before to have they have the bye week and they go we're. And because weeks one through seven, Brian Thomas was the dominant.
Jason Moore
Here's why I think this, this happened mid season. I don't blame them at all for making this decision.
Mike Wright
Stinky.
Jason Moore
Because the first seven weeks up to the bye week, he was on target for 133 targets. Great. He was like you said the market share was great. He was everything we wanted in fantasy. Except he. He caught less than half of those balls. He was 49% catch rate. It was ruining drives.
Mike Wright
Okay, now let me also add.
Jason Moore
And so they go into the bye week and they're like, we got to fix this.
Mike Wright
Right? And then they're like, hey, this is the new plan moving forward. And then they go 8 and 1.
Jason Moore
So now they go to the off season and they get to do anything they want. I am.
Andy Holloway
Because there is a non zero chance that he's traded on Thursday.
Jason Moore
Ooh, that's.
Mike Wright
I think he stays on the team.
Andy Holloway
I mean. Oh. Again, I'm not saying the odds are that that happens. I'm just saying there's been enough smoke for your game.
Mike Wright
You can't be the insider. Those, like, don't be shocked if this happens.
Andy Holloway
You're like, I'm not an insider.
Mike Wright
Is it going to happen? No, but don't be shocked. But.
Jason Moore
And remember I said.
Mike Wright
Remember I told you not to be shocked.
Andy Holloway
I think that there's a. There's room for this team. You just made the case why they can succeed without him. That's what you just did.
Mike Wright
It's like it.
Andy Holloway
Because they. They can use Travis Hunter, who they didn't have.
Mike Wright
That will be a very wild mystery to solve this off season.
Andy Holloway
All right, real quick here. Let's do one more name. Just guess the ADP of where Colston Loveland is going right now.
Mike Wright
Oh, Colston Loveland. I'll tell you that much. Am I right? Jay
Jason Moore
maybe
Andy Holloway
pointed it at Jay, huh?
Mike Wright
I don't know.
Andy Holloway
Mr. Love Land himself. I'm going to say he's the tight end. Three.
Mike Wright
Three, three. Yeah. As much as we all love Colston Loveland, you can't draft him over McBride or Bower.
Andy Holloway
No, but I think he's the next man up.
Mike Wright
And let's put him.
Jason Moore
Depending on Daniel Jones. I still think I might go Tyler Warren over him, but, yeah, I'd probably draft him.
Mike Wright
Stop this nonsense.
Jason Moore
It's not nonsense, man. He was. He was great. They were both great. They could both be great.
Mike Wright
No, they can't. There could be only one. What round Colson 11 is going? I'll say third round.
Jason Moore
I think it'll be. I think it'll be lower. I still think tight end three, but. Yeah, late, late fourth.
Andy Holloway
All right, where are we with Colson Lovin right now? He is the tight end three going in the late fourth.
Jason Moore
Too low.
Mike Wright
I told you.
Jason Moore
Fourth round, but still the tight end three. I think that's appropriate. I think that's. If you really look at inappropriate.
Andy Holloway
That's like Mr. Lakeland. Yeah, that's not good enough.
Mike Wright
Get on board, people.
Jason Moore
At the fourth round, there's a dog
Mike Wright
in the back of the fourth waiting for you.
Jason Moore
With a lot of. With a lot of good stuff.
Andy Holloway
I'm with you, Mike.
Jason Moore
Let's grind. I'll be going elsewhere. I'll be grabbing a running back or a wide receiver.
Andy Holloway
It's funny because I have. For those of you that follow along with our league of record and what we do in that league, we have a keeper lottery. You have one franchise player and then you have three players that go into a keeper lottery. They can't match the position group of the franchise player. And then on draft, like, when the draft's over, we're going to find out what players going back. My three keepers are Omari and Hampton.
Mike Wright
This is your lottery.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, my lottery. Amari and Hampton, Kenneth Walker and Colson Loveland. And so by all measures, I want to lose Loveland in that draft.
Mike Wright
Yeah, that makes sense.
Jason Moore
Except what about the measure of your heart?
Andy Holloway
The measure of my heart wants that dog on my team. I want that dog.
Jason Moore
Well, the good news is you just draft him, though. You won't be too disappointed then.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I think that puts me in a better spot if I'm, you know, having to give back a running back. But, oh, gosh, I got to lock in my keepers. Do you have any?
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
Oh, that's good.
Mike Wright
You got good.
Jason Moore
That's good.
Andy Holloway
You got good ones.
Jason Moore
I got some good. Why don't you share? You got some good. I got some good.
Andy Holloway
Good. By the way, I think my. My franchise is going to be Malik Neighbors. I think.
Mike Wright
Oh, man. Dance. Dance with the.
Andy Holloway
But if I get shaky, you know, shaky legs by the end of this draft, maybe I mix it up. Maybe I.
Mike Wright
You don't have very long.
Andy Holloway
I know.
Mike Wright
That's.
Andy Holloway
Well, here. Saturday, here's what shaky legs would be. They draft a. They draft Jordan Tyson.
Mike Wright
They will draft one of the three. I know, and I think it's. I think it's Tyson.
Andy Holloway
Well, maybe Hampton becomes unfranchised. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe this is. This is why the draft. This is why we do this after the draft is because we. We don't want to force somebody to make those picks.
Mike Wright
Give Tyler Schuck and Jackson Dart. One of them. One of them.
Jason Moore
I think I've got a. I think I've got to risk Jonathan Taylor.
Andy Holloway
Oh, break it down. What do you think? What do you think your setup's going
Jason Moore
to be my team right now.
Andy Holloway
You got a couple minutes?
Jason Moore
Okay, so this is work. Work out some personal problems. My two best players are CD Lamb and Jonathan Taylor.
Mike Wright
Okay, right.
Andy Holloway
So only one of those could be a franchise.
Jason Moore
Right. Then my other players, I've got Josh Jacobs, Travis Etn.
Andy Holloway
What's that?
Jason Moore
Oh, Travis Hn. Hn Jr. Travis Hn Jr. And I guess David Montgomery, or as I call it, AKA Run Belaya. Rumbalaya.
Andy Holloway
Does that make you want to keep him more?
Jason Moore
It does make you want to keep him more. I would much rather have rumbalaya.
Mike Wright
At lunch the other day, and I was like, this is fantastic.
Andy Holloway
Rumbalaya. Is better than learning his name.
Jason Moore
And then. And then I've got
Mike Wright
so dumb.
Jason Moore
I've got Chris Olave and Roma Dunes A. So it feels like my strength is at the running back.
Andy Holloway
You got to try to get a run. I mean, a pair of running backs, you're not going to be that unhappy in any.
Jason Moore
I'll be pretty unhappy if I lose Jonathan Taylor.
Andy Holloway
Okay. Mike's got CMC.
Mike Wright
I will. My three. For those that have Bijan McCaffrey and Chase Brown are my three lottos.
Jason Moore
So one of those is. I like. The other.
Mike Wright
The draft could be.
Andy Holloway
What are your three?
Mike Wright
Bijan, Christian McCaffrey, Chase Brown. So our draft could have Bijan and Johnny Taylor in there.
Jason Moore
Please have. You cannot lose Chase Brown. I will be so upset.
Andy Holloway
What do you got, Al? What do you got, Al? What's your situation?
Jason Moore
Who's my franchise? Oh, Jamar Chase.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Jason Moore
My franchise.
Andy Holloway
More than likely It'll be Trey McBride, franchised Drake London, Garrett Wilson, and Quinch on Judkins.
Jason Moore
Okay.
Mike Wright
Okay.
Andy Holloway
It's a good franchise. Do we got one more dude in the office? Papa Josh. Let's hear it. It's tbd Still.
Jason Moore
Wow.
Andy Holloway
You don't have a clue on your franchise player.
Jason Moore
No, we're waffling big time because.
Andy Holloway
Give me the players who waffle in between.
Jason Moore
We can help you out here.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, we got you. We do this full time.
Jason Moore
We're friends. I'm good.
Andy Holloway
I don't trust you guys.
Jason Moore
I don't trust you guys.
Andy Holloway
No, no, no, no, no. You're good. I want to know. Okay, fine. I'm gonna have to pull this up.
Jason Moore
All right.
Mike Wright
We manipulate your system.
Jason Moore
Why don't you pull it up? We legit. Haven't decided yet. Okay.
Andy Holloway
No, we're gonna. Because you didn't want to tell us.
Jason Moore
Don't you?
Andy Holloway
All right, so he's got. Here he is. So he's probably going to franchise now. He's. Yeah.
Jason Moore
You see what I'm talking about?
Andy Holloway
So he has Pukinakua and he has Amon Ra.
Mike Wright
Okay?
Jason Moore
Which means if you franchise one of those guys, you cannot keep the other in your lottery because they have to be different positions. So then if he were to.
Andy Holloway
And then his running backs are his best running backs, like Kyron. Kyron and Javante. And Bucky. He could franchise Tyler Warren. He could franchise Tyler Warren.
Jason Moore
Flexibility.
Andy Holloway
He also Hasiron.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Or Rushy Rice.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
You've got some decisions. That's why I wasn't joking, man. I don't know what I'm doing yet. I think I would franchise Kyron. Put puka almond, raw and rushy rice. That's probably what we're leaning for.
Andy Holloway
Franchise one of the I think I franchise Puka, my number one wide receiver.
Jason Moore
Really? And throw.
Andy Holloway
And then I'd throw Warren. Warren, Kyron, Bucky for my three.
Jason Moore
I would do that too if I were you.
Andy Holloway
No, what would you do? Mike?
Mike Wright
Eileen.
Jason Moore
Eileen.
Mike Wright
What Jason said.
Andy Holloway
Okay. Don't you guys make out.
Mike Wright
It's the players.
Andy Holloway
Go to that Sedona resort.
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Episode Title: Ultimate Draft Week + ADP Price Check!
Date: April 21, 2026
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike “The Fantasy Hitman” Wright
This episode kicks off with ultimate excitement for Draft Week 2026. Andy, Jason, and Mike take listeners through the major pre-draft NFL storylines, their personal draft “dreams,” and deliver a unique “ADP Price Check” segment, breaking down early average draft positions and whether certain popular fantasy footballers are values or overvalued for the upcoming season.
The hosts employ their trademark blend of astute analysis, humor, and insight into both NFL reality and fantasy landscapes. Listeners also get a peek into the hosts’ league-of-record keeper dilemmas and dynasty strategy, helping to synthesize practical fantasy decisions amidst all the pre-draft hype.
Each host pitches their fantasy dream draft pick—often tongue-in-cheek or “hater” fueled:
Hosts review current Best Ball ADPs (mainly from Underdog drafts), guessing where players are being picked and debating their fantasy value versus cost.
Jaden Daniels (QB, Commanders)
Treyveon Henderson (RB, Patriots)
Jaylen Warren & Rico Dowdle (RBs, Steelers/Cowboys)
Chris Godwin (WR, Buccaneers)
Brian Thomas Jr. (WR, Jaguars)
Colston Loveland (TE)
On the cusp of the NFL Draft, the Footballers deliver the mix of deep fantasy insight and entertainment that fans crave. From breaking down blockbuster trades to tracking real-time ADP overcorrections, the hosts equip listeners to think about draft capital, opportunity, and risk-reward in both dynasty and redraft settings. The “ADP Price Check” is a key segment, as is their discussion of ambiguous backfields and receiver corps with breakout potential. High-stakes league keeper talk wraps up the show, giving a practical peek at how true experts think through their fantasy priorities and attachments.
For anyone ready to draft (or dynasty die-hards), this episode is a must-listen!