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FantasyPros - Jake Ciely’s Top Targets In The First 10 Rounds (Ep. 1625)
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Ryan
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Ryan
Hello everybody. Welcome into Fantasy Pros. I am Ryan, warmly joined by Jake Seeley from the Athletic. Today we are talking about Jake's top targets in every round. Why shouldn't say every round? We're talking about his top targets in the top 10 rounds of fantasy drafts. Feels like every round but obviously we'll there will be going, you know, a few rounds longer in most drafts there, but we'll be talking about his top targets in the first 10 rounds of every draft and, and we're gonna go through. There's no real like position here. It's just who you like in every round. This is not to be clear, building a team. You're not saying like this is my perfect draft. It's in a vacuum. Irrespective of who I've gotten in previous rounds, these are the names I am targeting in these rounds. Fantasypros.com rankings everybody can check out ECR, you know, kind of those half PPR rankings. See roughly where those guys are going. We'll move quickly here. Jake, let's start at the very top. Who's your top target around one everybody.
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Jake Seeley
And I almost put Christian McCaffrey again. I know we've talked about him a few times, but I'm going to say Amon Ross St. Brown only because it seems that he's getting a little bit of pushback lately. And I know a lot of the concerns are the Ben Johnson leaving and what is the Morton going to do. And I know they said they're doing a little bit of changes but I just think it's strange if one of the most consistent wide receivers wide receiver three in points per game and overall two years ago, wide receiver seven in points per game and top five again last year. And maybe people want to say, well wide receiver 7 shouldn't be going in the first round. But I feel like it's the floor I saw. I think you've seen a little bit different with St. Brown last year with some of the stuff being shorter and you know, Jared Goff had this huge passing season and the touchdowns might not be there. Again, like, it seems like a lot of ifs for somebody who is clearly the number one focal point in this passing game, even with the emergence of Jameson Williams last year, that I'm taking those targets. I'm taking that consistency. And even if he finishes between last year and the year before, that would still put him inside the top five with what I think is one of the safest floors. You tell me who's more risky and I love Puka Nukua, but who's more risky between Nuku and St. Brown? There's more risk with Nua Nua could. Would you be shocked if he was the number two alongside Adams this year just because of how good Adams still is?
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Ryan
No, I would not be shocked. And let let alone the injury history with a guy like Puka. I, I think when you look at the other guys in this, because I am somebody who has kind of been fading him, like not all the way out of the first round, but there's just other names in the first round that I've been kind of drawn to and every single one of them. It's the upside case. It's not the floor case. Puka is the upside case. Malik neighbors ups. Nico Collins upside case. Ashton Genti upside like Christian McCaffrey upside case. None of them is the, the safety case. So I think it's a, it's a really fair point and it's one of those things where, like, I feel like the way I draft and I try to aim for upside, I won't be taking. There will be somebody else who will take Amon Ra ahead of me. But at the end of the season, I think when we look at the rankings and who has outperformed whom, like, I, I am pretty confident Amon Ross St. Brown will be very near the top of that list. So I think it's, it's one of the, It's. It feels weird to call him a boring play because he's not old and he's been good for a while, but it almost kind of feels like that A less boring pick and a guy who is also a big upside guy is who you have in round two.
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Jake Seeley
Yeah. And I wouldn't be afraid of taking him at the end of round one. That's Drake London. And we've done another show. It was including Debra on that one. And I said, a lot of people are like, well, we hope Penix can be blank. And my pushback was like, I don't even need Pennix to be blank. If Penix is just the bad version of Kirk Cousins from last year and plays the entire season as such, that's basically about a 4,000 yard, 23, 24 touchdown season. That volume, even if it's not the 40% we saw at the end of the year and it's just 30% which it should be. He's Drake London and this offense centers around him and as the number one option with fewer threats than St. Brown has. Honestly, if you want to go down that road too, Drake London should be a lock for the top 10. So I am hammering every time I see him in the second round and I think you can make a case for him at the end of the first. Taking them in the names of St. Brown, Brian Thomas, Malik, Neighbors. Like I think his name deserves to be there. Not in the next group with like the A.J. browns and Jackson Smith and Jigba's of the world.
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Ryan
And you did say on that show with Debra which everybody should go check out if they want to hear kind of a deeper dive on London. I said, are you taking him in kind of that second round or more of the third? And you were like, neither, I'm taking him in the first. He is not getting past the top 10 picks in drafts with Jake Seeley. So yeah, definitely somebody that you are very excited about if you can get him in the second round, which I think you can in most leagues. Like you wouldn't want to.
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Jake Seeley
Yes.
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Ryan
Too late. Depends on where you're picking. But I think that'll be the case in most leagues. So that's a, that's a good call here and this is one that like we have a lot of consensus on here at Fantasy pros like D. Rogers. Erickson agrees. I agree we are very heavy on Drake London this year. Let's go to a running back here in round three.
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Jake Seeley
Yeah, it's funny, like similar to St. Brown, this running back's getting a lot of pushback and we've, you and I, we've been on episodes where people are like touchdown regression. Everything worked perfectly last year but it's gone so far that we went from course correcting of like late. Let's not get too crazy on James Cook last year. Let's not call him top five, top six running back. There should be like touchdown regression. Anyway, just from any running back in general, to repeat what he did is kind of tough to, you know, put into a guarantee. And I know people will say, well it's the Bills offense and he should be able to do it again. But there's risk like the contract and they use other but anyway, I'm bringing all that up to say is like there's been so much of, well, James Cook can't do it again. James Cook's got this risk, this risk, this risk, this risk. And now all of a sudden James Cook is in the third round like, well thank you, you baked in all the risk. I can now just take him in the third round and potentially still get that round one value that we just saw last year. Even if you chop off four or five touchdowns, he's still going to be producing as a top six seven running back. So I get it. The yards aren't enormous and it is a lot of touchdown reliance and Josh Allen's going to take his but he took his last year and he was fine. So I'm not saying he's going to repeat and have mid teen touchdowns. But you've now baked in so much risk that I'm willing to say I'm in on James Cook in the third round.
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Ryan
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Jake Seeley
Yeah, and I wanted to echo this one. I don't want to repeat too many players from that show, but I wanted to echo because I have come around on this. This is coming from somebody that just a month ago wasn't so sure about. Kenneth Walker. Because I was wondering if we were going to see like a Steelers type backfield with Charbonnet being involved in the Jalen Warren situation. And then Michael Shawn Duger covers the Seahawks for the Athletic. I was about to call us the athletes, the Athletic. I hit him up and I was like, hey, you're close to the team. Answer the question. Is it the timeshare or is he the clear lead? And he said KW9 is a bell cow. I'm like, oh, okay, I'm moving him up. I'm giving him that workload I'm giving him near 18 plus touches a game. And that puts Kenneth Walker as. It shocked me even, because even as, like, hey, I'll buy in. I was not expecting him to jump all the way to RB12 overall for me. So to get him in the fourth, do it while you can, because I have a feeling he's going to climb into the third. And I think his name should be to go back to James Cook. I would take Walker before Cook, despite the fact you can get him later.
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Ryan
Yeah, he is in the late 30s right now. So, like, like, overall, so definitely a fourth round pick in terms of the ECR ranking. I don't think that'll last either. Like, you should be very comfortable. Don't. Don't see this and go, oh, I have to wait till the 4th to take him. See this go. If I'm picking the back half of the third or maybe even earlier than that, like, be very willing to take him. We like Kenneth Walker a lot, and if he's healthy, there's just no way he's not outperforming this spot in rankings. There's just no way. So to me, it's the only question. There is health. And I'm, you know, everybody has health questions, right. It's football. Everybody can get hurt. So I want to take the swing on the guy that is going to be a bell cow and could be a league winner from the fourth round. I'll take that every time. So, uh, it's, it's, it's funny because looking at rounds three and four, and then you also have a running back around five, people often think of this as kind of like the RB dead zone, but.
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Jake Seeley
Dead zone.
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Ryan
There's a lot of running backs that look pretty enticing here. And I agree with you with the guy you're about to talk about for round five, too.
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Jake Seeley
Yeah. And this one, I would almost guarantee is not going to stay in round five. And this was before the eye injury to Najah Harris, which, hey, can we stop playing with fireworks football players? Did JPP teach us nothing? Just leave them alone. Let somebody else do it. But a Marion Hampton, and this is like, I do believe, similar to the Bijan Jameer Gibbs draft, that Amaran Hampton should have been thought closer to Ashton Genti than a lot of people gave him credit for. Like, everybody put a clear gap. And I'm not saying I wouldn't take jinty over Hampton 10 times out of 10, but I think that gap should have been a lot more narrow. Like the Bijan Gibbs situation where to say that given the teams and if they saw. I think this is the risk, if they saw similar workloads, the risk being that Hampton doesn't see Genti's workload, that Hampton could have the better season, especially on the Chargers. And so that kind of upside and the fact that Najee Harris already had that it was a one year deal. I kind of, I think most people including myself assume that we would see kind of a split to see the season. It would kind of grow to Hampton's role as the season progressed. But now you're opening the door for him to show what he can do in the preseason and everything. And then Najee Harris doesn't necessarily get on the field that much and all of a sudden you are talking about Hampton getting 17, 18, 20 touches a game. This is not going to last. Get it while you can. And I would even put him in round four. I would still take them. I wouldn't be afraid of him taking. Taking them. Possibly even if you. You said this earlier. I wanted to reference it. If you were like pick 311, you're like, well I have to wait around four. No you don't because you want to make sure you get them. I wouldn't be even afraid of Hampton as like the 311 pick.
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Ryan
Do you get worried at all with Hampton? And like I think you're right that like he is going to go higher than this. The helium will be there. But do you think there is any cause for concern? Just that Greg Groman, as much as he likes running, doesn't typically have the bell cow we just talked about Dennis Walker, I think Mark Ingram, that first year in Baltimore is like the most carries that any running backs gotten under Roman. And even that was like a somewhat split backfield. Like obviously the quarterback was part of that running game too. So it was a little bit different. But maybe he hasn't had a running back on the level of a Marian Hampton. I really like him as a prospect but is that in the back of your mind at all?
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Jake Seeley
100%. And especially because it's a rookie and he hasn't had a prospect like him but also the Roman like hey, let's just keep. And that's why I thought Najee Harris would be more involved. But I think like I said, this is opening the door from the split starting to go back to the steelers like a 55,45 where I think the split will be more like 6040 and Hampton similar to Travy and Henderson who I keep bringing up. I don't think Hampton needs 20 touches a game to put up top 20 running back value.
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Ryan
Let's go to your number six. Well not your number six, your round six.
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Jake Seeley
Round six.
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Ryan
Yeah.
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Jake Seeley
Yeah, this is Jalen. This is similar to James Cook. I wasn't in on Jalen Waddle a little while ago, but now that the the hesitancies and other names kind of getting pushed in front of him at ADP like Waddle in the sixth I'm okay with and I get frustrated with these kind of leg injuries that are recurring, especially tissue injuries and the same leg and it's getting risky with Jalen Waddle at this point, including the risk with Tua Hell, the risk with this entire offense honestly up and down the line. But if Waddle is healthy, we still are talking about somebody who was considered and should still be considered in the conversation with the Devontae Smith and Jameson Williams as these twos who can put up top 20 value. So now that he's been kind of discounted a little bit to the sixth round, I'm going to buy Jaylen Waddle on the six where I wasn't probably about two months ago.
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Ryan
I I feel like I have been getting a lot of Waddle and I haven't been ag. This isn't like the running backs we just talked about where it's like take him around early to make sure you get him. It's just where he's been going. I've been very comfortable with the I'll buy low on it. I liked him a lot going into the last couple of seasons just because it didn't pan out for a variety of reasons. You know, I think there's a chance Tyree Kill takes a step back this year and there's real opportunity here. Like obviously Johnny Smith gone. So it is everything you talk about with the Dolphins offense. There is risk associated with it, but you can paint a fun picture of the upside and I think that cost Waddle is a perfectly reasonable pick here. I do want to let everybody know before we move on with the rest of the rounds about the Draft Simulator. After the show you can go run Jake's picks in a practice draft of your own using the Draft Simulator if you'd like. Simulator allows you to practice quick and fun, realistic mock drafts based on your league settings in minutes. Sync your league for free and try it today@fantasypros.com Mock or download the Fantasy Football Draft wizard app. If you're an inventory specialist in a warehouse, Grainger knows you've probably faced a situation like this before your forklift. Your facility's workhorse is leaking hydraulic fluid, and with the full schedule of shipments on the docket, this has the potential to cause a major delay of game. But you're not worried. You've prepared for this type of situation and you have an ace in the hole. Grainger Grainger offers professional grade products for every industry, from hydraulic oils and hoses to so much more, plus next day delivery. So you can be confident that you'll have the product you need on hand to fix that forklift and get it back in the game. Call 1-800-GRAINGER click granger.com or just stop by Granger for the ones who get it done.
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Ryan
All right Jake, Round seven.
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Jake Seeley
This is going to be your gut on this one. If you want to Play this risk because this is coming out. The worst timing news wise is that Chris Godwin had a second procedure and now the positive spin is just a cleanup. And not to say like my wife is anything like an NFL player, but she had a cleanup on her ankle and she was fine a few weeks later and she had the tendon repaired and the scar tissue taken out. Like, I'm just saying, if she's not even an athlete and she was fine, it's my point. So, like, I'm not too scared by this, but if people want to avoid it, understand. But you're getting Chris Godwin in the seventh round. You're getting Chris Godwin, who was a top three wide receiver before he got hurt. You're getting Chris Godwin, who showed last year with that performance that he. He was a little bit better stylistically with Baker Mayfield. And Mike Evans is still the touchdown guy, but Mike Evans, we've been waiting for him to drop off for how long now, but it's still being the point. Even if he doesn't. This duo is still Godwin slightly ahead, inconsistency wise. And what Baker does, then Mike Evans, obviously the touchdown upside with Evans. But in the seventh round, I'm willing to gamble because I still think and I still would take a healthy. 100% healthy is the question. Chris Godwin over Mike Evans. And I know people point to the Abuka thing. I think that was more looking to next year that Mike Evans might finally be done. The contract and whether you want to go either way with it. My positive spin on it, you could go negative to Debro brought it up. You and I were talking about after a show and Debro was like, well, maybe that was the way they got him to stay is guaranteeing money and other teams didn't want to. But I go to the contract and the fact there's zero injury clause in there, which makes me just kind of say, if they were at all concerned, wouldn't you put something in there? Again, you're not taking them in the fourth, you're not taking them in the fifth, you're not taking them in THE6. You're getting Chris Godwin in the seventh round who could start on your bench, depending on your roster. And then you just get the upside what he is 100%. And that's why I'm going to do it.
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Ryan
The cost is a really important factor here. Godwin is the type of player I tend to avoid. I'd rather get the guy the year after the year after the injury. I mean, just Injuries will find you. All right, this is football. Your team is going to get hit with injuries at some point. So why start off with a guy that has the injury question marks already? But round seven, for a guy that was the best receiver in fantasy before he got hurt last year, you're getting a discount. Maybe it's not a massive discount, but it is a, it is a legitimate discount. Enough so that I do think it's a good pick. Even if I went into draft season expecting to not be interested in Chris Godwin, if he's in round seven, I'll be a lot more interested than where I really kind of expected him to be. With some of the off season talk. Let's go to round eight. Who do you have here?
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Jake Seeley
Yeah, gonna go quarterback finally. Justin Fields.
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Ryan
Let's actually. Sorry to cut you off. Let's. Let's loop rounds eight and nine together because you have quarterbacks back to back.
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Jake Seeley
Yes, I do. I do. Yeah. So obviously to what you said earlier, this is not my perfect draft because I would not be going quarterback.
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Ryan
Quarterback.
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Jake Seeley
Round eight, nine. Go do it. But Justin Fields and Dak Prescott for different reasons obviously I do not think Justin Fields is going to be on the bench unless he's hurt. The jets did not bring him in. This isn't like, oh my God, he might lose the job if he has three roug. But you know I've said this to you before. I said it on Pat Mayo show. I don't know how many times I have to say it. I don't need Justin Fields to be a good passer. Like I don't. But the thing is he's better than Anthony Richardson. He's better than some other quarterbacks because I just need him to be okay as a passer which is what he was when he was QB6 overall and in points per game because he ran for 1100 yards. But I also don't even need to run for 1100, just 900 and Justin Fields being Justin Fields and throwing for 2,500 yards and 18 touchdowns. Guess what? You're going to be a top 10 quarterback. Daniel Jones did it with 700 yards and seven rushing touchdowns. Throwing 15 touchdowns in 16 games. I pull that up all the time because that's actually when I somewhat still cared about the Giants. But Justin Fields I'm going to hammer in the 8th. I would even take him in the 7th of actually cost wise I could take Fields in the seventh and still get Godwin in the eighth. I just don't know if he'll fall that far I would do that. That's how willing I am to go in on fields and then if you don't get fields, if you don't get a top tier quarterback. I think Dak Prescott's a great one to chase late. Similar to Jared Goff last year where all we do is need him to be healthy. Now Dak looked the worst. He's looked probably his entire career last year on top of it. But was that the injury factoring in? Was that it was CD Lamb and nobody else to throw to. He now has George Pickens, he has a serious threat as a second option. Finally again like Brandon Cooks when he was actually playing well and I think a healthy CD Lamb, a healthy George Picken, a healthy Dak Prescott and you could be talking about it has to do most of it with his arm. But we've already seen Dak Prescott total 5,000 yards passing and rushing and well approaching 40 total touchdowns between those two aspects. Even a Jared Goff like season and he's going to be a top six seven quarterback.
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Ryan
The last two fully healthy seasons Dak Prescott has had he has been QB7 and QB3. Like they're even without the rushing being a significant part of his game. There is real passing driven upside here. So like right now he's QB13. I've seen him going like well below that honestly because somebody wants the upside of like a May or Stroud or whoever. Like I he's consensus ranked QB 13. He goes lower than that often. I think he is a great target if you are waiting on quarterback or if you're in a league where it makes sense to have a high end backup. He is, he's a great call in that regard. Field also I agree with you that case I think is a little more obvious because everybody knows the running and like he should be going in the top 10 quarterbacks like like the running is a cheap code and and unlike past years with Fields we are really confident assuming health he's going to be the starter for for the year. So I yeah these are two great picks like you said for very different reasons between the two but I'm totally on board with both of them. Last player here in the top 10 round 10. Who do you have?
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Jake Seeley
Yeah the the round 10 is the thing. Cooper cup has not looked good the past year and a half. I mean let's be honest last year just focus on it. It didn't look good. Wasn't separating well anymore. Wasn't the co he's been battling injuries. Guess what you can Put Cobra Kup on your bench and if he looks like trash the first two weeks, you can move on because you're not drafting him as a starter anymore. You're not even drafting him as a top 40, 45 wide receiver anymore. You're getting Cooper cup going to the Seahawks with a revitalized, hopefully offense with Kubiak opening things up. We also went deeper into that on that other show with Debro when I talked about jsn. But he's going to open things up. And even if I'm wrong, which was Dubro was saying, what if JSN is the short one and cup ends up being better outside at stage of his career like he was last year, well, that's even better for cup because go back to Olave and Shahid and Kubiak's offense and breaking open downfield. I think cup is basically a free top 25 upside pick. Do I think he get like. If you told me 10 times out of 10, how many times does he hit it this year? At this point of Cup's career, I'd say three or four. I don't think this is a definite Smash and you need to get him all your teams. But at this point of drafts round 10, I'm not drafting somebody who I think can be wide receiver. 44. I want you to either have top 20 upside or you're not on my bench, because that's the league winners at this point. These are guys on your bench who have the top 20, 25 upside. And if Cooper cup is even a hair of what he was two years ago, you're going to get that in this offense.
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Ryan
I was kind of grossed out by this pick when I saw you put it in the sheet, but I was going to say I went and looked at who is. Well, who else is available at round 10. There's some names around 11 that I like, but in. Or, excuse me, in round nine that I like like just before this stretch. But once you get to around 10, like, it is pretty gross. So there's not like, what am I gonna take Brandon Ayuk instead, like coming off the injury or Rashad White. These are some of the names that are near Cooper cup. So. So I. It's a five. I. I withdraw my initial disgust.
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Jake Seeley
Yeah, Rashad White or Cooper Cup. I'm taking Cooper Cup.
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Ryan
Yeah, that's. That's very fair. Give me two. Just bonus players anywhere outside the top 10 rounds that you're interested in.
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Jake Seeley
Ooh, top 10. We briefly touched on his name, so I'll go A little bit more Jaden Blue. I think that this is you and I have talked about being in on Javante Williams but I think at cost for both you can get Williams and Blue and then hopefully you get whoever ends up being the lead. If Williams doesn't look anything like he was before, that injury is still taking its toll. Blue in a Warren Type of 14 to 15 touches a game kind of range can have RB2 value. I don't think he'll be an RB1 just because he's not built for it but I think that's a great value there. And then this is, it's interesting. I say, you know the Kenneth Walker. I've changed my tunes and stuff like that. I've. I've been in on saying like let's not just toss away Travis Etienne is like never being able to do anything again. But post draft the excitement and the hype that people were going, I mean diving off the hills to go get Bashaw Tootin, like you have to get him the most explosive player ever. He's going to be, you know, Bucky Irving in this offense and I'm like dude like, like chill out. Could be a full blown committee. Well as you and I are sitting here looking he's going in the 1 30s like I was out on toot and saying like oh I don't want to take Tootin in like the eighth round because everybody's going nuts but if you're going to tell me I can still get double digit rounds and get bay shot too and I would consider him in round 10 with Cooper Cup. It was the problem was that post draft excitement was just getting out of hand but it's a warranted cost now.
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Ryan
Are you, do you feel the same way? I do which is that frankly I'd be willing to take anybody in the Jaguars back that even Tank Bigsby like if they're going late enough. If we're talking like outside the top 10 rounds like I, I want to take a swing on this backfield. We know what Liam Cohen can do with, with a running game. We don't know that BAE Shaltin is going to going to be the Bucky Irving right. Like he had the fumble stuff early on in, in OTAs and like clearly is a somewhat limited player. Everybody in this backfield has red flags of course that's why they're all going as late as they are but I just want to take the late swing and typically ETN is going to go ahead to the other two at least at this point in the rankings. So I'm willing to take Tank or Tutin if they're outside the top 10 rounds. Just take a shot on this backfield 100%.
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Jake Seeley
Like this is why. Like I go back to that. I want to take the shots. Like, I don't want Michael Wilson on my team. Like, and Michael Wilson's like, okay, cool, maybe he breaks out twice. Derek Slayton, maybe he has one good game. You can go down the list. Like all these kind of wide receivers that people just end up drafting. It's like, why, what's the, like Antonio Gibson, like, what are you going to draft a third running back on a team for? Hell, Ramondre Stevenson, like, what we just saw the best case scenario for him last year.
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Ryan
Cool.
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Jake Seeley
You got an RB3 and that he's going way earlier. I'm just saying, once you hit your bench, those first two players, we did it on the advice show. One of those first two players probably need to get your lineup. But those last four spots should essentially be lottery tickets. And what's a lottery ticket? Somebody with top 20, 25 upside, not somebody who's going to finish wide receiver 43. Like they no. Never going to be on my team.
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Ryan
Want to let everybody know that we'll be tackling your fantasy questions all week. Every week on Twitch. We're at Twitch TV. FantasyPros. Erickson and Tom Strachan are talking Best ball Mondays at 4 Eastern. Seth Wilcock and Debro answer your questions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 2 Eastern. We also have more Q&As on Thursdays and Fridays at 5 Eastern. Give us a follow and ask questions live on Twitch at Twitch tv. Fantasy Pros I'll be doing my first Twitch livestream later this week. That's on Friday at 5 Eastern.
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Jake Seeley
I'll be on August 7th.
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Ryan
Check says that yeah, Jake will be on there. Well, I got a bunch of people on there so we'll have a lot of fun on Twitch this season. Hope everybody checks it out. Jake, thanks for giving us your top targets throughout the top 10 rounds of drafts. For Jake, I'm Ryan. We'll see you next time. Thanks for listening to the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast. If you love the show, the best free way to support us is by leaving a positive review on Apple podcasts@fantasy fantasypros.com review or on Spotify. Follow us on X Instagram and TikTok at Fantasy Pros and subscribe to our YouTube channel at YouTube.com fantasypros.
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Unknown
Check out behind the Flow, a podcast documentary series following the launch of San Diego Football Club.
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Ryan
San Diego coming to MLS is going to be a game changer because this region has been hungry for a men's professional soccer team.
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Jake Seeley
We need to embrace this community.
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Unknown
Listen to San Diego FC behind the Flow on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Get fired up, y'.
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Ryan
All.
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Unknown
Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people, an incomparable soccer icon Megan Rapinoe, to the show and we had a blast. Take a listen. Sue and I were like riding the lime bikes the other day and we're.
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Jake Seeley
Like, wee.
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Unknown
People ride bikes because it's fun.
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We got more incredible guests like Megan in store, plus news of the day and more. So make sure you listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Brought to you by Novartis, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports Network.
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When I became a journalist, I was the first Latina in the newsrooms where I worked. I'm Maria Hinojosa. I spent my career creating journalism that centers voices who have been historically sidelined. From the most pressing news stories to deep cultural explorations, Latino USA is journalism with heart. Listen to Latino usa, the longest running Latino news and culture show in the United States. Hear it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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This is an iHeart podcast.