LIVE 2026 Fantasy Football Q&A | Camp Reports, Standouts, and Situations To Monitor (Ep. 2098)
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0:00This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. Call 1-800-GRANGER, click Grainger.com, or stop by.
0:04Grainger, for the ones who get it done. Welcome in everybody, it's Fantasy Pros on Twitch.
0:09I'm your host Scott Bogman, joined by Tara Roberts.
0:12I love the R last name. I can give you that Raiders intro, Tara.
0:16We are here to answer your fantasy football questions today for the next hour, but I gotta ask you, how is the Houston summer treating you here, Tara?
0:25We haven't talked in a little bit, and it has been hot and muggy here in H-Town.
0:30It has. Luckily for me, I'm not having to go outside.
0:33I'm avoiding it as much as humanly possible. I would like a little bit of rain, but other than that, I just can't go outside.
0:41I can't even sit on my porch. Like, what is this?
0:44Yeah, it's not, it is not fun. It is the dog days of the heat right now, and it is the dog
0:51days of summer here, and all of our waiting to get, you know, any information here.
0:56What has stood out to you through the early days in camp?
1:00We're getting guys put on NFIs, on the pup, things of that nature.
1:04What has stood out to you so far? You know, the thing that stood out to me today is we're, as I
1:10noticed, we started to get those Carolina hype videos going that Jonathan Brooks news in terms of, hey, you know, he's looking good in training camp and whatnot.
1:19He's actually in training camp. That's the fantastic news because as, you know, as unappealing as Carolina can be, like from a
1:26greater perspective, the run game really does matter there in terms of what that outlook is going to be because they want to be run heavy.
1:34We have a good discount on both Chuba Hubbard and Jonathan Brooks, so someone is going to be good value for us there.
1:41So that's what I'm looking forward to here is seeing how long Jonathan Brooks can stay healthy, what kind of role he's
1:47going to have because it sounds like they want to get him involved right off the bat from a receiving perspective at the very least.
1:55So I'm excited to see how this plays out.
1:58Yeah, I mean, Jonathan Brooks has been a point of contention a little bit with myself and Fitzy, and I'm the Texas
2:05guy, and I've just not been as in on Jonathan Brooks as everybody else.
2:09And I think it's probably because I start from the dynasty perspective in my stuff, right?
2:14Like, is Jonathan Brooks going to be a long term option for the Panthers?
2:18I understand that Chuba Hubbard is not exciting this season.
2:21He's a guy that has carried the workload, and I think he was hurt very early last year and kind of drug
2:28that with him throughout the rest of the season.
2:31And, you know, in the offseason from 24 to 25, they extended him.
2:35They made him a team captain. So they obviously like him.
2:38So I feel like they're going to give him every opportunity first.
2:42But as Tony Romo taught us a long time ago, the NFL is a meritocracy.
2:46And if you can't make it work, it doesn't matter how popular you are and how great of a team leader you are.
2:53If you're that great of a team leader, then go into coaching if you can't play, you know.
2:59So it is going to be the cream that rises to the top, and that might be Jonathan Brooks here.
3:05I was interested to read that Isaiah Davis might have the inside track on the number two job with the Jets.
3:11Now, how do you sort through pandering beat writer nonsense this time of year?
3:16Because, look, they're trying to get clicks like everybody else is.
3:19Is this something that you take with a grain of salt?
3:22Do you give a lot of these reports credit?
3:25You know, because I feel like we can go back to any offseason, look at the reports and see that it's 80%
3:32nonsense, I feel like, most of the time. Yeah, I tried in general, I try to assess how reliable the team as a whole has been.
3:40Like if I look at like, let's look at a team like Jacksonville, right?
3:44Looking back to them and the experience that we had with the whole first team versus second team and Tank Bigsby and
3:51Basial Tootin and Travis Etienne for it to end up just being the expectation of, hey, it's still going to be Travis
3:58Etienne and Tank Bigsby getting shipped off. We have to be careful about looking at these who's getting first team reps and
4:04whatnot and really look at the actual usage of the guys, because a lot of times these teams are trying to work things out.
4:12So just because you see someone running with a certain team doesn't necessarily mean that they've secured a job.
4:17Now for the Jets, though, it is kind of interesting because for years now with Aaron Glenn and just in general, we've
4:24heard like they want to have this three headed monster, right?
4:28And we've always been trying to identify as they're going to be something that we can get on the side here.
4:34And at the end of the day, it's got the same vibes of Kyle Shanahan saying we got to get CMC off the field.
4:41Exactly. And it never happens. Right. So I don't take too much aggressive stock into it.
4:46Handcuffs matter at the end of the day. But really and truly speaking, probably no one else in terms of running backs
4:53outside of Brees Hall is going to offer us any kind of standalone value here.
4:58I'm just going to keep throwing questions out to you unless anyone out here has, you know, if anybody out here has
5:04got some questions for us, we will answer them, throw them in the chat.
5:09But I'm going to keep asking you questions as we go.
5:12Another situation that has vexed me is the Washington running backs.
5:15And I have been it's been tough for me to know what to do with these guys.
5:21And I got hammered a little bit on social media earlier this offseason for saying that I'm just not that into Bill Krosky merit.
5:28Right. Like, I feel like Rashad White is definitely taking the receiving downs away from anybody, any other running back on this team.
5:35I think that's pretty clear. Right. Right. They've spoken about maybe Katron Allen taking the Chris Rodriguez role of the goal line back.
5:42If that's the case, I think JCM could be a great receiving back, but not when you have Rashad White here.
5:48Right. Like and it's not really in his purview.
5:51You know, he didn't do it a lot in college, I guess I should say.
5:56So what are your thoughts on this backfield? Is it still Bill Krosky merit?
6:00I mean, I kind of still expect him to lead in carries.
6:04I just don't know if that means he'll lead in touches.
6:07And are you avoiding this? Is there one that you like?
6:10How do you flesh out the Washington situation here?
6:13Well, none of the ADPs are so bad that I that I think that any one of them is going to be
6:20the worst pick that you've ever made in your life.
6:23Right. Like if I get a question from someone saying I want to take Katron Allen at the end of drafts, I say, go for it, man.
6:31I mean, it's not good. It's not going to kill you.
6:35Right. Something's going to happen there. But the good thing I will say, at least with JCM, is that at the very
6:41least, we have had acknowledgement that one, he clearly knows that he has to make that improvement on pass protection and receiving
6:48to be more reliable in order to have a bigger role in this offense.
6:52And that is something that he's been working on.
6:55So, again, looking at training camp, we need to actually see it in person.
6:59Right. Because you're right. At the end of the day, we factually know that Rashad White is definitely the best blocker and the best receiver on that team.
7:08The question is, is how much can we get the progress forward from a guy like JCM in order to see if
7:15he can actually bridge the gap and become a three down back there?
7:19I kind of think it's going to work out as a committee.
7:22But when I go back and look at Jaden Daniels' rookie season, just kind of disregard last season.
7:28Right. Because he didn't play enough for us to really evaluate.
7:31When I go back and look at Jaden Daniels' rookie season.
7:35Right. I kind of do think at the end of the day, we might want to lean towards the early down back
7:41there because I know the appeal of Rashad White is, hey, the limited pass catchers, right?
7:46All we've got is Terry McClure. We can't trust anybody else.
7:50So, naturally, we're just going to see more volume to Rashad White.
7:53I don't know if that'll necessarily happen. Right. He would have to kind of line up as a receiver to see that
8:00natural increase beyond the checkdowns that we saw in Jaden Daniels' rookie season.
8:04I think I want the goal line back there.
8:07So maybe that's the kind of thing. Like, we acknowledge Rashad White is the best receiving option there.
8:12But let's use training camp to kind of nail down, is JCM going to for sure have this goal line back?
8:19I think that's the argument there. We've got to figure out what's going on between him and Katron Allen.
8:25If you had to pick the player with the second most targets behind Terry McClure right now, would you pick Rashad?
8:31Or would it be maybe Chica Conquo or Antonio Williams or maybe a Mr.
8:35Outside Hire like they would say in the office?
8:38Is it maybe Stefan Diggs coming into town or someone else that they might sign?
8:43Yeah, I think if one's coming, I've got zero faith that the Brandon Ayoub thing is going to be like, that doesn't seem like a mess.
8:51Oh, yeah. No, like, no. I was thinking Diggs.
8:53Yeah. Right, yeah. I agree with you. I think if anyone's brought in, it would be Stefan Diggs, and that would be a nice fit.
9:01So I hope they do that, but he's got his own things that he has to figure out in terms of legal issues as well.
9:09So maybe they're waiting on that one, too, because I would think that would be the best fit for them.
9:15But other than that, it is Chig that I want.
9:18I think he's a fine late-round target for anyone that wants to, you know, bypass, save up on value and kind of try the streaming option there.
9:26Chig obviously was not a massive target hog by any means in Tennessee, but that was more so the function of, one,
9:33the offense situation and obviously pass volume being down.
9:36I do think that he would have the opportunity to step in and have relevance here.
9:40And looking back at previous seasons, Jane Daniels did rely on Zacherts a lot.
9:45It doesn't feel like it, right, because it wasn't as if he was breaking off any runs because he's a little bit – Right.
9:52He was a little bit older, right? Close to my age.
9:55It's not very good in the NFL. Right, same.
9:58It was like catch a ball or fall. But with Chig, I know that he could take that pass volume, those 60-plus
10:05receptions, and turn that into something after the catch.
10:08So I think that's the area that I would go to is Chig.
10:12Maybe, obviously, I would love Antonio Williams, right? Yes, that'd be great.
10:15Maybe that pans out. Hard to depend on a rookie.
10:18Yeah, like we'll push that one further back in a late round stab.
10:22I would lean towards Chig being the second look.
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10:44We got a question from J-Mac here. Tara, where are you on Kyle Pitts?
10:48For years we held on to hope because of him being a generationally gifted athlete at tight end and kept drafting him
10:55as a top five tight end, even though he kept letting us down.
10:59Now he's coming off a year where we finally saw it and he was the tight end two, and yet he is now tight end seven in ECR.
11:08So where do you stand currently on Kyle Pitts?
11:10I love that you asked this question, Jay, because this is one of my oddly enough favorite things to talk about.
11:17I have not invested a ton in the past in Kyle Pitts, so I missed all that drama because I always thought he was overpriced.
11:25Now we get the ADP a little bit back further, and he's actually my tight end six, which is not a big discrepancy there.
11:32But oddly enough, for all the hate in the world that I have for Kevin Stefanski and the debacles in Cleveland, I
11:39trust him very much so to target tight ends.
11:41Like all throughout his tenure in Cleveland, it wasn't just with Harold Fannin Jr.
11:46It was with anyone and everyone. You were seeing targets go to tight ends at a 30% clip there.
11:52So I have the utmost confidence that he will have 100 plus targets this year.
11:56Like that's a very strong baseline. We have no strong secondary wide receiver.
12:00The pass catchers are London, Bajon and Kyle Pitts from that perspective.
12:04So I think we're going to see good volume, right?
12:07And, you know, honestly, to a tug of a low, potentially we'll see, you know, right here at quarterback probably benefits Kyle
12:14Pitts a little bit more there because we kind of saw that transition from Kyle Pitts later in the season.
12:20Once we saw Kirk Cousins come in as a more tight end friendly option.
12:24So I think Tua might actually fit a little bit better for Kyle Pitts compared to Drake London.
12:29So I like him a lot. It gets pushed further back because when we're looking at tight ends as a whole, basically
12:36everyone with the exception of Tucker Craft, who I do like, right?
12:40But it's just the lower pass volume offense and they like to spread the ball around.
12:45Every one of those guys has 100 plus target upside.
12:48So that's why I push back because we're kind of deep at those higher end level tight ends now.
12:54Yeah. Yeah. Let me ask you, how do you tier your tight ends?
12:58Because I'm looking currently and we have the first tier is Bowers McBride, Loveland Warren.
13:02And the next tier is Craft, Fannin, Pitts, Laporta.
13:05Do you break your tiers up differently? Because I do.
13:08But I would like to hear yours first. Yeah.
13:11And then I want to hear yours because mine's slightly different.
13:14Not dramatic, right? But I do think that Brock Bowers and Trey McBride are in a 1A tier of their own.
13:21I like to separate them out just because we know that there is a locked in guaranteed volume that those guys are getting.
13:28We're simpatico on that. There we go. I know we have our offensive concerns for Arizona in general and how long Jacoby Brissette will be allowed to start.
13:36Is they're going to be at a tailspin downward?
13:39Thank you. Like, thank you, Jacoby. Come out there and do the right thing for us from a fantasy perspective.
13:45But after those two, then for me, you know, Colson Loveland and Tyler Warren are the other guys that I trust in that little mini tier after that.
13:54And then my tier two cuts off at – I have it flipped, Harold Fannin Jr.
13:59and Kyle Pitts. But my tier two would cut off theoretically there at the combination of Harold Fannin Jr.
14:04and Kyle Pitts. So you'd have Laporta in the next one.
14:08Yeah. That's pretty close to what I have to.
14:11I've got Bowers and McBride by themselves. I have Loveland in a tier of his own, right?
14:16I just have quarterback concerns for Tyler Warren. Then four, five, six, seven.
14:20I go Tucker Craft. I just – I think he'll be back for week one and good.
14:25We'll see. You know, that's a little wish casting on my part.
14:29I understand that. Then I have Tyler Warren, Harold Fannin, and then Kyle Pitts.
14:33So I do have Fannin and Pitts in the same order.
14:36But I also push Laporta down. You know, he's – we played nine games last year.
14:41We saw Jamison take off a little bit. So it's a little bit of injury stuff.
14:46Not really that. The back injury is not one that you particularly like for any player in the NFL.
14:52So that's a little scary. But I don't – it's not that.
14:56It's more about Jamison Williams and Amonra St. Brown is going to get his.
15:00Gibbs is going to get his, right? It's just where is he in the pecking order?
15:05Is he still at that elite level? Exactly. So I'm – yeah, that's interesting that we're pretty close there.
15:11I like that. Let's see. Enrico. Enrico, what up?
15:13What is your very early rookie of the year prediction?
15:16So if you had to pick a rookie of the year, Tara, where are you going there?
15:22Yeah, I've done that recently, actually. I think I'm taking Colonel Tate there.
15:26I like the value on him. He's third in odds.
15:29And basically, when we're looking at Jeremiah Love, he's in the Ashton Gentile situation, right?
15:33In terms of uphill battle from a team perspective, volume might be a little bit inconsistent.
15:38So he kind of has that same similar knock that could happen with him that Love got.
15:43Then Fernando Mendoza is at the whim of whether or not he will get the opportunity to start early enough to be
15:50able to be in contention for that. And then Colonel Tate, for me, is interesting because while it's not the ideal team
15:57situation, I think it's very similar to Ted Arroa McMillan, and he can have the exact same path too, the same way McMillan did.
16:04So you come in, your wide receiver one, and yeah, there's talent on the team, obviously.
16:09Wondell Robinson there garnering targets. I love the young guys.
16:12Hopefully they get more opportunities than Calvin Ridley, and we just push that one out of the way.
16:18Right. Let our young boys take over there. But yeah, Kim Ward at the end of last season in the back half looked very impressive, in my opinion.
16:26I'm going to see. I want more volume, but what I saw out of him in terms of command of the offense,
16:33there's not going to be a massive leap, but enough to get Colonel Tate into the same kind of category as Ted Arroa McMillan.
16:40Yeah, that's my prediction there for him. Looking at Hard Rock, Colonel Tate is plus 600.
16:45So that's paying you six to one. So I like that pick.
16:49He's the third shortest odds. Jeremiah Love is first at plus 350.
16:52I mean, just a guy that you're going to have to give volume to.
16:57By the way, poor Tyler Elge here. Yeah. Poor, poor Tyler Elge here.
17:01I mean, you sign a contract to go to the Cardinals thinking you're going to take this job over.
17:07Like James Conner's old. He's probably getting cut. And then Trey Benson hasn't worked out.
17:11It's going to be my job. And then they draft Jeremiah Love.
17:15And they restructure James Conner to bring him back.
17:18And Trey Benson is on this. How does one of these guys not get traded or cut?
17:23Yeah. I think Conner might get cut before the year.
17:26But I think Carnell Tate's such a good pick.
17:29That's probably the right one. I also like Jadarian Price at plus 800.
17:33You know, Charbonnet tearing his knees so late into the season.
17:36And this is writing notes for a Dynasty show I'm going to do with Worm.
17:41It's so funny because I have so many players that I have a lower rank for in 2026.
17:46So I'm lower than ECR is on them in 2026.
17:49But in Dynasty, I have a higher ECR than a lot of people.
17:53And Charbonnet is one of those guys. I don't think he comes back until Thanksgiving.
17:58I think the earliest he could make it back is probably Halloween.
18:01So if he is coming back between, let's just call it the middle of November, right?
18:06So more than halfway through the season. I think they're also, if they're in a position for the playoffs at all, they're probably going to baby him, right?
18:15Yeah. I think Jadarian Price is a way better running back than Emmanuel Wilson.
18:19I think he's a way better running back than George Helani.
18:22And I think those guys are better than advertised for most cases.
18:26But Jadarian Price at plus 800 and then a long, long shot.
18:30Carson Beck might start a bunch of things for the Cardinals.
18:33And they do have... I kind of hope he does.
18:36Plus 3,000. Carson, I mean, that's 30 to 1.
18:39But look at... It's not so much about Carson Beck.
18:42But look at what Carson Beck did with talent at Miami, right?
18:46Like he took them all the way to the national title game.
18:49And it was just, don't throw interceptions. Don't make mistakes.
18:52Don't make those big boneheaded moves you're making at Georgia at Miami.
18:56And that's what he did. And he got them all the way to the natty.
19:01Now, of course, it ended on a pick that he threw.
19:04But they were in desperate mode at that point.
19:07So I don't necessarily blame him for that. But with Brissette holding out and not being really happy, a little floating bet
19:14on Carson Beck at 30 to 1 is not bad.
19:17The rest of these down here, Makai Lemon is plus 1,000.
19:20Jordan Tyson is plus 650. Makai Lemon's plus 1,000.
19:23And then there's a bunch more 3,000. Denzel Boston, Casey Concepcion, and Omar Cooper all in the plus 3,000.
19:29And in the 5,000s, we have Coleman, Singleton, Brazel, Surratt, guys that aren't.
19:33Yeah. You know, that's almost lighting your money on fire, betting on those guys down there.
19:37So let me ask you about the Browns wide receiver situation here.
19:41With the Browns, you know, obviously, and this is what I think this is probably why you have Pitts ahead of Fannin, correct?
19:48It's because they drafted Concepcion. They drafted Denzel Boston.
19:51And we don't know who the quarterback is going to be as of right now.
19:56I assume it's going to be Watson to start.
19:58But I also think Watson sucks at this point.
20:01So I think it's going to be Shador Sanders for probably 12, 10 games, somewhere in that neighborhood.
20:07How are you? Are you drafting any of these targets?
20:10Like, obviously not Fannin since you have Pitts ahead of him.
20:13You'd rather take Pitts. But what about Boston or Concepcion?
20:16Are you taking a shot on those guys? Are you leaving the Cleveland situation alone because it's the bad quarterback situation, bad offense situation?
20:23Yeah, I'm taking more Browns than I would like.
20:26No, I'm just, I'm okay with it. Look, I'm all right with it.
20:30And for what it's worth, I don't mind taking Harold Fannin Jr.
20:34I think he's in that tier. He's just, you know, Kyle Pitts before him for me.
20:39But the ADPs, because we are fully aware that this is a sketchy situation, are perfectly fine for both Casey Concepcion and Denzel Boston.
20:46So I have, at the end of drafts, I am snatching one.
20:50Because there tends to be a little gap, even though it doesn't really show, right, in terms of ADP.
20:56There's not a giant gap between Concepcion and Boston.
20:58But for some reason, like, people are, you know, willing to draft a little bit higher to get Concepcion because of the potential.
21:05Like, because when you look at it realistically here, you want the one that would potentially have the most volume.
21:11And just in terms of where he would play on the field, probably more consistency in general volume compared to a Boston
21:18in terms of where he would line up on the field.
21:22So I get that for sure. So I've been taking more Boston just because you can do it a little bit later.
21:28But I think both are perfectly fine. Because at the end of the day, 100%, we know that we have Harold Fannin Jr.
21:35And then from a receiver's perspective, I do think we're going to end up seeing both of these guys push Jerry Judy out of the way.
21:43And he's still there. He's not going anywhere. He physically can't go anywhere because of that contract.
21:49There's zero point, right? But both of them can outplay him, right?
21:52And yes, they're rookies. But at the end of the day, both of them can outplay them.
21:57I'm hoping that we get some kind of more competent quarterback play here because of the fact that Todd Monken is a quarterback's guy.
22:05So at the very least, I know compared to Kevin Stefanski that he can get the most out of these guys in general.
22:12Now, what the most is from either Deshaun Watson or Shadar, that is the mystery here.
22:17But theoretically, we should be fine here. And again, this is still going to be a situation where I do think they're
22:23going to lean on the run because the defense, even without Myles Garrett, is still going to be Jared versus perfectly.
22:30He's great, right? So this defense is still going to be strong and keep games relatively close here.
22:35So there won't be giant runaways playing massively from behind situations is what I'm kind of thinking there.
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25:11That is FantasyPros.com slash intel. Intel. Are you, with this Brown situation, Tara, are you in or out on Shador?
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25:25I think they're probably going to be drafting. I'm trying to hold faith in him, right?
25:30But at the end of the day, we did know that generational wasn't probably in the realm of outcomes here.
25:36So when that's the case and you've got a team that is trying to move forward and make a dramatic shift and
25:43they know that that's the key position, yeah, they're probably going to take a stab at somebody else in the draft.
25:49So Travis Hunter kind of brought up Shador's value, you think, a little bit?
25:54Yeah, possibly there. And I still think that the draft capital was, it should have been more than what it was, right?
26:00Agree. You know, shout out to Tyler Shuck for proving us all wrong.
26:04Well, for now, right? Everybody, it felt like, yeah, yeah.
26:08But for proving us all wrong on that. But it should have been higher.
26:12But at the end of the day, I mean, just because you are a high-end pick, I mean, look at J.J.
26:18McCarthy, right? Just because you are a high-end pick, you could be a top 10 pick, a top 15 pick, doesn't really matter.
26:25If the team feels they have a better opportunity to move on to literally anybody else and even a retread veteran quarterback, you know, they will do so.
26:34Loyalty is not that deep. Let's talk about Travis Hunter for a second here.
26:38And let's just talk about the Jaguars offense overall.
26:41Now, I have been avoiding the Jaguars like the plague, unless your name is Trevor Lawrence, right?
26:46Like, in a super flex league, I'll take Trevor Lawrence.
26:49But I don't like the running back situation, Tara.
26:52Tootin is not my guy. I don't know that he is a long-term option as a primary ball carrier.
26:58I think he's a nice secondary guy. And he'll be given the chances here.
27:02And I expect him – I have more confidence in him than Bill Krosky-Meritt, right?
27:07Like, I have way more confidence in Tootin in that situation.
27:10But also the wide receiver situation is weird because we watched them draft two major tight ends with their very few picks in this draft.
27:18They went out and got the blocker in Borkutcher, and they got a goal line guy in Tanner Kozial, who, you know,
27:24could be playing basketball at 6'8 or 9 or whatever he is.
27:28He's an enormous H-Town product. Right. So, I love Tanner Kozial.
27:31I love watching him play. He's a lot of fun.
27:34Slow, but – like, slow compared to other tight ends.
27:38Yeah. Not slow for his size and frame. Yeah.
27:40He is fast. Kind of like Darnell Washington. Yeah.
27:43My guy, Mount Washington. But – so it looks like they're going to run 13 personnel more.
27:48Copycat league. The Rams ran at about 33% last season.
27:51Scored a ton of touchdowns out of 13 personnel.
27:54So I think we're going to see that. Brian Thomas Jr.
27:57is expected to be the wide receiver in that 13 personnel, which hurts Jacoby Myers, which hurts Parker Washington, who is a
28:04darling in the fantasy community and should be. But is there going to be enough opportunity for Washington, for Myers, and even maybe BTJ?
28:12And if so, what is going on with Travis Hunter at all?
28:15He might be the best receiver on this team.
28:18Honestly. Like, he might be. But we wouldn't know because he's going to play primary corner.
28:23So what are your thoughts on Jacksonville's offense overall?
28:26Are you drafting them? Are you avoiding them? Is there anybody you like here?
28:30Yeah. Let's tackle the wide receivers first and then the running backs.
28:34Yes. Wide receivers. Now, the tight ends things is very interesting, right?
28:37But to what degree they will make that shift when I don't feel like it was super broken last year in terms
28:44of, like, when we saw the back half of the season.
28:47Now, granted, there were some easier games in the back half of the season for the Jags, right?
28:53But there were still some tougher matchups where they showed extremely well, like against Denver.
28:57Looking at the back half of the season and the alignment that they had of Myers and Brian Thomas Jr.
29:04on the outside with Parker Washington in the slot was really effective.
29:07Like, over that time period, and granted, we had an uptick in rushing volume from Trevor Lawrence.
29:12He was QB1 in the back half of the season overall.
29:16So he was fantastic. So I don't know that there's so much broken that they need to make major adjustments.
29:22But I feel like the alignment is very straightforward when it comes to those three receivers, right?
29:27And then perhaps we do see a decrease in snap count in general if they're trying to bring those tight ends along more.
29:34But when I look at it, I don't mind all of them, right?
29:38In terms of, at the very least, we're all on the same page as the fact that these are all flex options, right?
29:45These are not guys that you were drafting to be your definitely not wide receiver one, not even your wide receiver two.
29:52These are flex options that you're hoping will have high upside with the potential bounce back there of Brian Thomas Jr., which, you know, is very possible.
30:00But at the end of the day, the way that Liam Cohen was operating last season, you know that there's not going
30:07to be one giant massive target hog in the offense because he's shifting targets according to the defenses that he's facing.
30:13So they're all viable at any given point in time.
30:16I think it's worth it to take a stab.
30:19I do personally like Parker Washington. The only caveat there is that, again, we do have to.
30:24Jacksonville is being like so evasive in terms of confirming where this man is going to play here.
30:30They were refusing to say that it is going to be exclusively defense, right?
30:34And that we will continue to see him on offense because they made the investment for him to play both ways.
30:41We'll see on that one. And obviously his presence would specifically affect, you know, Parker Washington the most there.
30:46So that's kind of the one that I'm kind of keying in on is that hopefully we see this shift to more on defense.
30:54But I still think he's going to be involved in a gimmicky way.
30:58But my gut tells me that, again, we're going to see more Parker Washington than him on offense.
31:03Now we should. I mean, you know, four wide.
31:06You get Travis Hunter out there. That's probably what it is for now.
31:10Maybe injuries if the corners are good and some of the wide receivers go down.
31:15Maybe he gets more involved that way. I just always thought of, you know, Khan as the ECW guy, right?
31:21Like the guy that wants to sell jerseys. He wants a big name.
31:25So I figured they would put him on offense.
31:27But Liam Cohen has kind of made it be a defensive guy.
31:31And he is probably he he he has the chops to be one of the premier corners in the league.
31:37Right. So it's that's hard to find. It's hard to draft.
31:41It's hard to know. So I would I would probably do the same if I was him.
31:46But I thought with their owner that maybe he would be selling jerseys.
31:50What about the running backs here? Do you like any of them?
31:54Or are we avoiding these like the plague? I am a basial tootin girl.
31:58But I look at it from this perspective is that I feel like the running back room is not super confusing as to what everybody can do.
32:06Right. We know Chris Rodriguez is an early down and goal line guy.
32:10He does not have the capabilities to be a three down back.
32:14We know that LaQuint Allen Jr. was definitely utilized from a third down perspective.
32:18Good blocker. If he could potentially be the third down back for sure.
32:22But three down back in that offense when we know that, you know, last year basial tootin had the preference on the ground over him.
32:30We know that for sure. Right. So the question we have is that are we going to get basial tootin bridging the gap here?
32:37Is he trusted enough on third downs and from a receiving perspective to be able to handle that?
32:42I kind of feel like the connection in general of Chris Rodriguez to Liam Cohen in college is kind of overblown a little bit.
32:50I feel like sometimes we overblow these previous connections, right?
32:53As if basial tootin wasn't the guy that he drafted last year.
32:57Somehow. It's not his cousin. Right. Yeah, yeah. Somehow, somehow that college, arguably, we don't even know if the man recruited him
33:03for that single play, for that one single year that we were together.
33:07Somehow that takes preference over the guy that he drafted last year and showed an odd amount of trust in.
33:13Because when you look at the overall numbers, like Travis Etienne was the lead back, but we had a lot of usage
33:20of basial tootin in the red zone specifically and at the goal line.
33:24The man had four touchdowns inside the five and two on the ground and then two receiving touchdowns inside the five.
33:31That's a lot of usage for a backup running back rookie.
33:34So to say that, yeah, for sure, Chris Rodriguez was excellent at the goal line last year.
33:39But to say that there is this automatic situation of he's just, there's no way that basial tootin could take preference at the goal line over him.
33:47I don't think that's the case here. So there's a lot of ambiguity in it.
33:52But the only one that could actually have three down back opportunity in this offense would be basial tootin.
33:58So if you're going to pick one, hedge your bets on that, right?
34:02But recognize that you are taking a risk that he could be irrelevant, which is fine, right?
34:07You're drafting him as a RB3 flex option. Don't invest in him until we know for sure that he would be the starter.
34:14Don't invest that like, I want him in my starting lineup as my RB2 or even my RB1.
34:20Don't go zero RB with that until we get a guarantee, right?
34:23Amen. Yeah, don't. Yeah, yeah. Tootin is your flex option or your first running back off the bench.
34:29He is not a top two back. So I think that is just important to state here.
34:34We got a question from our friend Ovanrod. Hey, Vanrod.
34:37Vanrod wants to know, rank these RBs in order of which you draft them.
34:41Hampton, Scadaboo, Love, and Travion Henderson. Do you have your order on those backs quickly?
34:46I do. Quickly. It is Hampton, Love, Scadaboo, and Henderson with the caveat that nine times out of ten, I am going
34:53to skip over Love and just draft Scadaboo on that one.
34:56I was just saying quickly because I had my ready to go.
35:00Henderson, or excuse me, Henderson. Hampton for me. I have Hampton at ten.
35:04I have Love at 14. Then I have Henderson at 20.
35:07And I have Scadaboo at 23. So that is where I have them all.
35:11You know, I mean, Hampton's an RB1 and the other are RB2s.
35:15So I think that is the important distinction to make from Vanrod's question here.
35:19How high are you on Hampton? Is he an RB1 to you, borderline?
35:23How confident are you in him after, you know, as a rookie missing a handful of games here?
35:29Yeah, I feel good about it. I won't hold the injury against them.
35:33You need to give me repeated seasons of injury issues for me to say, hold up, wait.
35:38I think there's a problem. We need to discount here.
35:41With early round running backs, the, I mean, obviously Gibbs and Bijon are their, you know, own separate little tier there.
35:47But everyone between JT and Christian McCaffrey and Derrick Henry with Hampton being towards the end of that, I think they're all
35:54viable options for you to grab as your RB1 and feel good about it, right?
35:59You know, last year there was obviously a little more Kamadi Vidal than we would have liked to see, right?
36:05But at the end of the day, the transformation that this offense is going to have in terms of being healthier with
36:12the offensive line, they made adjustments, not just the healthy ones they're getting back.
36:16They made additions and adjustments as well. So we're going to see a much different, much more competent original offensive line that
36:23we thought we were getting at the beginning of last season.
36:26And the change in offensive scheme here going to probably provide more goal line opportunities as well.
36:31The only concern I would have that kind of pushes him back a little bit further is how much passing work do
36:38we get shifted over to Keaton Mitchell. But at the end of the day, like I consider Hampton a general three down
36:45back there with obviously some change of pace working in.
36:48So I do trust him as a clear RB1.
36:50Yeah, I have been talking about how I like Vidal more than I like Keaton Mitchell.
36:55But who cares? Hampton is the guy. Hampton is a three down back.
36:59He is going to end up being one of those guys where, you know, just like Christian McCaffrey and Gibbs and A-Chan
37:06and these dudes where you hear the coach say, yeah, we probably need to take some carries away from him.
37:12And then nothing happens because most NFL games are close, right?
37:16Most NFL games going into the fourth quarter within one score.
37:19So, you know, you have to play your best players in those scenarios.
37:23And O'Murray and Hampton is way better than Mitchell or Vidal.
37:26Way more complete back. We did have another question.
37:29And by the way, we've got some new followers.
37:32J-Mac. Thank you, J-Mac. And KJ. Also, thank you, KJ.
37:35But J-Mac asked, how many RBs are there this year that you would be comfortable with as your number one in a hero RB strategy?
37:43What is your thought there, Tara? Um, theoretically 13.
37:45I say that with the caveat that I am struggling to really trust taking Christian McCaffrey just because I do think that
37:52the odds are favoring him not making it through the season.
37:55But at the end of the day, he's a clear RB1.
37:59But for me, it's, you know, the jump down for me is obviously the top guys.
38:04And then, you know, it's Saquon, Hampton, Henry. And then I include Josh Jacobs in someone that I am trusting as my
38:10RB1 in a hero strategy just because obviously the legal issues and whatnot.
38:14But we've seen enough times that this close to the season, if there is a legal issue, nine times out of 10,
38:21any potential suspension is going to get pushed to the next season.
38:25So for 2026, because we haven't had any, you know, specific charges or anything like that, like operate as though more than
38:32likely the man is going to play the season here.
38:35And if there were no legal issues, he would be a top 12 back for me.
38:39So I'm comfortable with all of those as my hero RB strategy.
38:43And I prefer a hero RB. And quite frankly, I mean, this year, the level of depth that we have at high
38:50end elite options, the fact that you can turn around in like an early third round and potentially get a Derrick Henry is kind of crazy there.
38:58So we're, I think we're blessed in terms of operating with a hero strategy this season.
39:03So I'm very comfortable down 13 guys, really. Yeah, it is.
39:06You know, there is more depth to running back than there traditionally has been.
39:11And I feel like next year we may hit a really nice glut of it too, with some of the incoming RBs potentially from the draft.
39:19So we are in a good spot. There's going to be a lot of moving and shaking in the free agent market as well.
39:26Next year, it looks like unless, you know, there, I think they're Chase Brown and JT both haven't gotten extensions yet.
39:32I think they're the two that we're waiting on.
39:35But yeah, there's going to be, there's, there's some nice RB depth this year.
39:39So I, I, I like it as well. Uh, we got another question from, uh, J Bo, which round should I be,
39:46uh, picking a QB and a tight end? Do you have a strong feeling on where you would like to select your QB and tight end this year?
39:55You know, if I'm, if I'm picking a preference in terms of, you know, cause I, I don't like to go both
40:02early on because I feel like that hamstrings you, especially because again, we have a lot of question marks.
40:07Once we get past like RB 20 or so, we start looking a little shaky in terms of guys that we can
40:14trust and, you know, wide receivers, obviously we've got some, you know, a good depth, but there again are some question marks.
40:21I don't like to hamstring myself in terms of taking two quarter, uh, quarterback and a tight end.
40:26I want to pick and choose one versus the other.
40:29Um, so if I'm going to take an early round option or a mid round option, my choice is going to be tight end.
40:37We talked about the tight end tiers, like, uh, you know, cutting off and saying like, Hey, Kyle pits and on up right there with those seven.
40:45Um, we feel good about them and just taking whichever one ends up being the best value for you.
40:51Maybe you try and push it back a little and get a little bit risky pushing towards the back of the tier.
40:58But really for me, um, that is kind of more of my comfort area in terms of saying, okay, like a by
41:04round seven or so, maybe taking a tight end makes a lot of sense there.
41:09And then I'm pushing quarterback back to be honest, um, because I don't think it's 100% necessary with the, um, level of depth.
41:16And, and also that's another one in particular, just in general, which strategy, um, with quarterback, I do tend to play it
41:23more according to the way that my league is drafting, right?
41:26If you have your, uh, your league mates are all leaning in and taking quarterbacks pretty quickly and you see a quarterback running going on pretty quickly.
41:34And you're like, there goes Lamar. There was a Drake may there goes Jaden Daniels, right?
41:39You're seeing that, um, rapid. Maybe you play like a little ying to the yang there, and you don't jump on the
41:46end of a quarterback run and you push it back a little bit to try and invest in those other positions and get the edge there.
41:54So I'm okay with pushing quarterback back to the double digit rounds this year, because we've got the ability, right?
42:00To, um, make it push back a little bit further with saying like, Hey, there are guys like, um, Patrick Mahomes.
42:06If you're okay with risking the injuries, Matt Stafford, right.
42:09That pushes it back a little bit further. If you want to go back together, yeah, take them together, right.
42:16You can pair them up. Jared Goff has a lot of nice dome games towards the back half of the season as well.
42:23So, um, there's a lot of flexibility in terms of a lot of high upside, stable quarterback options.
42:28So invest in a lot of the elite talent earlier.
42:31And then I'm, I'm pushing quarterback back to double digit rounds.
42:35Now, if everyone is pushing it back and you see an opportunity to jump in and grab that Justin Herbert at value, right.
42:42No, by all means, go ahead and do it.
42:44Um, just offer yourself that flexibility. Yeah. I mean, I couldn't agree more.
42:48You know, it is tight end with a bullet for me if it's a one QB league, obviously, but, uh, you know,
42:55I, I love getting a high end quarterback. If I can, they're very dependable.
42:59They give you a nice, uh, bump from week to week, but like Dak Prescott, Jackson dart, there's so much upside.
43:06We talked about Trevor Lawrence. You know what I mean?
43:09These are guys going nine, 10, 11, uh, you know, at quarterback and tight end, like you said, uh, we were talking
43:16about the, the positions, the drop off is real at tight end probably after Sam Laporta.
43:21Right. Like, and we don't re we don't particularly trust Sam Laporta as much as other people do.
43:26So for us, it's like seven tight ends, which is still, you can get a good one kind of cheap, but, uh,
43:33that back end, the bottom falls out cause we like Sam Laporta, but there's questions.
43:37Mark Andrews had a down year, but no likely also likely going to the giants.
43:42Who's the number two in New York, right? Like there, there's a big question there.
43:47There's upside there and then the old guys kills coming off a major injury in his Achilles.
43:52Uh, Kelsey is going to, you know, have gimpy my homes for a little bit, at least probably.
43:57And then it's, is chicken Conkwell good enough to be a number two?
44:01Uh, is Dalton Kincaid going to get more than 50% of the snaps in any damn games this year?
44:07You know, uh, Jake Ferguson is now way buried in the pecking order because Javante was good because Pickens surged and CD
44:14lamb is going to be healthy this year. So to me, it's easy tight end over a quarterback.
44:19Uh, J Bo also asked, I want two wide receivers, two running backs by four rounds.
44:24What should I aim for round five and six?
44:27What are your thoughts there, Tara? It depends because round five or six, you could still have, um, one of those top 20 backs in there.
44:35It's possible at round five or so, um, you could get around the, uh, tight end 20 to 22 range.
44:41So you could possibly go ahead and take a third.
44:44I don't, I'm not opposed to that. Um, but I would also be okay with, again, like we were saying, going tight end, seeing what you have there.
44:53If you can get one of those top seven options or seeing what value you have at wide receiver wide receiver is
44:59really the one that's a little bit flexible there because it just depends on if you have a guy in that range
45:06that gives you a high end option and also your league settings, right?
45:10You know, how many, um, starting wide receivers are there?
45:13How many flex options there are? If you're in one of those leagues where you have two flex options, maybe you go
45:20wide receiver there and try and stack up on that.
45:23Especially if it's PPR. Yeah. Uh, I I'm with you and you know, you just see, see if one of those quarterbacks
45:30fell, see if one of those tight ends felt it's just a deal.
45:34You know what I mean? If that's the case, then maybe I pivot there, but yeah, it's, it's adding depth, uh, for the most part.
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46:25I want to pick your brain on a couple other scenarios here, Tara.
46:29Uh, the running back in Pittsburgh, do you have a preference?
46:32Are you avoiding which way you go in there?
46:35Oh, um, the way that I think it's going to work out theoretically is that I think we're going to one thing.
46:42So one caveat here is that we do need to recognize that the receptions to the running back are probably going to come down.
46:49That was the result of Aaron Rogers checking down because he hated every receiver not named DK Metcalf, right?
46:55Cause they weren't reliable. If you, if you burn him, he's not going to throw to you.
47:00Um, with Michael Pittman added there, we're hearing so many positive things about Jeremy Bernard as well.
47:05I think we're going to see more of those perceptions go to, um, those guys over the middle, right?
47:11So just keep that in mind that, um, if we're thinking that the way that this is going to work out would
47:18be Rico Dowdle with the early down and goal line work, and then Jalen Warren with a third down and receptions, just
47:25recognize those receptions are probably going to come down a little bit.
47:28So as of right now, if we, I think it'll work out with Rico being the early down back.
47:34And so that would be my lead on that one.
47:37But again, we just got to double check on that one.
47:40So as of right now, I do think it'll end up being Rico, but training camp is going to be the whole flexible situation.
47:48Right? Sounds like you're not drafting either. No, I haven't taken a single one.
47:52You know what? If you can't, if you don't know, I don't hate that as a strategy though.
47:58Just let it be somebody else's issue. I'm a Steelers fan.
48:01I'm in on Jalen Warren. I feel like every time we doubt Jalen Warren, he wins this job, right?
48:07He pushed Najee out. Uh, they're bringing Caleb Johnson to push him out.
48:11Nope. Kenneth Gainwell had more traction than Caleb Johnson.
48:14So I just, um, I think it is probably Jalen Warren and just all the efficiency metrics.
48:19I don't know whether you consider the Steelers offense from 2025 better than the Panthers from 2025.
48:24They're probably Spider-Man meme pointing at each other a little bit, you know, but, uh, so everything except for rushes inside the
48:31five, uh, I, I think Jalen had Rico slightly.
48:33They were both pretty good though, but it's like the really good stuff in the past catching that Rico had Warren was better.
48:40Uh, it was, so I don't know. I think you're right.
48:44It's probably best to leave it to somebody else, but if I have to pick one, I probably go in Jalen Warren,
48:51which means, you know, it'll be Caleb Johnson this year out of nowhere from the top rope.
48:56But I do agree with you. This offense is going to be way more vertical, way more down the field with these
49:03better options in the receiving game here. And Rico's got another one for us here in a half PPR super flex league.
49:09How much weight should one put into a quarterback wide receiver stack and how far would you reach to draft AJ if may is your QB?
49:17Don't force it. Um, don't, don't force it to happen, but I do like a stack.
49:22I enjoy it, especially like, especially in a tournament setting.
49:25Like I just like, I cannot ignore that, but if you have the ability to do it and there are certain ones
49:32that you can, cause I think I've, um, had someone, um, I answered this in another situation that AJ Brown and Drake may stack is it's doable.
49:40Right. And I think we're getting a good discount on AJ Brown and we should see an increase in pass volume as well.
49:47Cause there's a, there's a better ceiling there for Drake may in terms of volume, they were operating off efficiency, pass attempts, we're an extremely high.
49:55So more difficult schedule, more pass attempts. Yeah. I can see where this can work out.
50:00So, um, and super flex, if you have the ability to do it, um, I do think it gives you just a
50:07little baked in advantage of, if it goes your right way, little, little cheat code there, but don't, don't force it in overdraft.
50:14Right. I agree. I think that the stack is a little bit overrated unless it's, you know, like you said, uh, a DFS thing.
50:21Like, I feel like one offense exploding and somebody picking all those offensive players is like the mill, the millie makers is
50:28how a lot of those are made, but it doesn't work over a season.
50:32And you're adding two of your best players to one by week as well.
50:36So I do think it's a little overrated, but I think it's super flex.
50:41It's a nice strategy, you know, to get, but it has to be top tier.
50:45Right. And they have to be both really good.
50:48Like if you're getting Dak and Pickens or lamb or may and AJ Brown, you know, you know what I mean?
50:55Something like that. I will say though, um, the, the cheap stacks are interesting as well.
50:59Like your QB two, if you're pushing that one back and you can nail a QB two with a cheaper wide receiver and that ends up working out.
51:08It's very interesting. So I don't mind. Cause those aren't hard to do like Stroud Higgins.
51:13Yeah. Like that. Yeah. Like it's not a difficult thing to do, um, in terms of pairing easier to replace on by
51:20week two, because that, that wide receiver is usually a maybe start, you know, maybe I flex this guy if it's a good, uh, option.
51:27So yeah, I, I agree with you there. Absolutely.
51:30Absolutely. Uh, we've got another one from a J bow as well.
51:34Should I be trying to draft depth, uh, for tight ends and QBs or strictly wide receiver in RB?
51:40Uh, I mean, personally, I'll, I'll, I'll throw this out Tara.
51:43I don't want, unless I take a quarterback like my home.
51:46So I don't know if he's going to play early or be effective.
51:50If he does play early, if it's something like that, I'll take a backup quarterback in a one QB league.
51:56Uh, I'm almost never taking a secondary tight end.
51:59The only way is again, if I take Kittle, right.
52:02And my bench needs to be deeper for me to want a backup tight end.
52:07Cause I really hate carrying two tight ends. I'd rather take, give me a handcuff, right?
52:12If I have Ashton Gentty, would I rather have a backup tight end or what would I rather have Mike Washington?
52:18I would every time rather have Mike Washington in case something happens to Gentty.
52:22And I know they're going to give a Mike Washington the ball.
52:26So the tight ends on the wire in a 12 man league are usually fairly interchangeable with each other.
52:32So with your guy on the bench that is not starting.
52:35So I think in most cases, I just want to stick to the wide receiver and RBs, but there are some scenarios
52:42where you want to add depth, but that's if you take a risk at those positions.
52:47Do you agree with me, Tara? Yeah. The bench has to be deep for me to carry backups at those.
52:53Otherwise I am foregoing it just in general, because you also got to think like, even if your league is everybody's drafting
53:00two quarterbacks, odds of them holding on to both of those quarterbacks through like week five, someone's going to get dropped, right?
53:07So at the end of the day, you probably, if you need to start prepping for your bi-week, there's going to end
53:13up being someone on waivers for you. So I try my hardest not to, especially if I have an elite option.
53:20If for some reason I'm drafting a Brock Bowers, I'm not going to back it up with a secondary option at tight end.
53:27So before we go here, Tara, are there any other situations that you are like really micro-focusing on in training camp or
53:33anything that you want to see how the dust settles on in particular?
53:37San Francisco backup running backs. Yeah. I like Jordan James more than I like Kalen Black.
53:42I'll say that. Because I, you know, at the end, because again, I just like guys, I, and if you want to
53:49draft Chris McCaffrey, you know, 100%, go ahead and do it.
53:52The upside is stupid high, right? But we've seen him play, you know, we've seen him have two overall RB1 seasons where
53:59he had an uptick and egregious amount of touches.
54:02Each one, he came back and didn't even make it a quarter the way through the season.
54:07So historical odds are not favoring him on this one.
54:10So if you're drafting him, you want to grab the handcuff here and we need to have training camp to identify it
54:17because it's looking like Jordan James, but they just spent that draft capital on Kalen Black.
54:22So figuring out which one it's going to be, if you're drafting him, is going to give you a little bit advantage of that.
54:29And also as a late round dart throw as well, if you're not drafting Chris McCaffrey, because if something does happen and
54:36one of those guys stumbles into the situation, it'll be good.
54:39I think if CMC gets hurt, it's going to be an ugly split between those two and probably somebody else that they sign.
54:46Yeah. But it would be nice to have a handcuff to know.
54:50I'm watching Denver real close there. Do you have any opinion on the Denver backfield at all?
54:55Yeah. I, you know, I've come as, as I've heard more arguments from a lot of my fellow analysts here in terms
55:02of, you know, saying that the discount is good enough to draft RJ Harvey.
55:06And I can see that, but I wouldn't rely on him to be a starter because I, that's my preference there because
55:13the issue that I have is that we know that JK Dobbins is going to get the early down and goal line work.
55:20We know the role in terms of receiving and a little bit on the ground that RJ Harvey is going to have.
55:27And then the red zone usage was good for him as well.
55:30Last year. My problem here is that last year I was okay with Harvey because, Hey, we're inevitably waiting for this injury
55:37that we know is going to happen. And then he's going to take over as a three down back.
55:43But Jonah Coleman being there is a wee bit of an issue if he can step in and just be the JK
55:50Dobbins or possibly better than the JK Dobbins. So I do have fear.
55:54I know a, you know, uh, later ish round rookie being drafted into a situation should not make you panic about a
56:00guy that you saw be successful last year. But at the end of the day, Harvey was very inefficient on the ground.
56:07Um, and JK Dobbins was factually better on the ground apples to apples, like direct comparison there.
56:12So it's tough to ignore that. Yeah. And that is, um, I feel like that is going to be an ever changing landscape.
56:19I feel like it's, it should start with Dobbins.
56:22I think Harvey is better than Dobbins. So he'll take over.
56:26And then is Harvey good enough to hold off Coleman?
56:29Is Coleman good enough to push Harvey? Those are the questions I think we'll get some answered in camp.
56:34Not all the way. Of course, we got one more from Jbo before we leave.
56:39Um, is there any importance to trying to get a good kicker or defense?
56:43Uh, I would say a set it and forget it.
56:46Um, defense can be very relaxing in terms of you focusing your waiver priorities on the higher ticket items.
56:52I don't mind streaming either. Um, it's not an issue.
56:55Right. But, um, I would not forego, um, if you've got certain, like make your list of late round targets, right.
57:02Um, of offensive positions that you would, you know, really like to have that you believe in.
57:07These are guys that could have league winning upside if I make the right pick at the end of the draft.
57:13Right. And prioritize, you know, getting those ahead of time and then go ahead and say, all right, let me go ahead
57:20and get my defense and my kicker and whatnot.
57:23But I don't know that there's a massive advantage.
57:26It does make things easier when you have a set it and forget it, but I don't think it's worth, um, going
57:32up several rounds early in order to get that.
57:35Yeah. I like, uh, J max says, just get your lead to drop kickers in defense and add an extra flex.
57:41Right. Um, I, I'm okay with that. I'm also the IDP guy.
57:45I hate team defense because your team defense is only as good as the weakest link there.
57:50So, uh, I'm with you there. And Van Rod dropped one more for us.
57:55HN or Chase Brown? Where, uh, who are you more in on there?
57:59Depends on your risk tolerance. I, my preference is Chase, sorry, my preference is HN.
58:03I'm drafting HN over Chase Brown, but if you want the safer pick and you don't want to, um, stomach it, then,
58:10you know, say Chase Brown is extremely safe, but HN has that legitimate top five upside that Brown doesn't have because he
58:17plays with, with Jamar Chase and T Higgins. Agreed.
58:19100%. I have HN at six. I have Brown at eight.
58:23So I have Gentie wedged in between them. So yes, I I'm, I'm an HN guy as well.
58:28So, uh, thanks for hanging out with us today.
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