The Mid-Round Cheat Code for 2026 Fantasy Football Drafts | 6 Must-Have Targets For Your Squad (Ep. 2089)
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28 min
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Jul 15, 2026
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Wed, July 15, 2026
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Chris RodriguezBlake CorumBrian Thomas Jr.Chase BrownKyren WilliamsParker Washington
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Blake Corum
PositiveProjection0:23
Blake Corum has the best red-zone success rate among 35 qualifying running backs, ahead of Tootin and Chris Rodriguez.
Insight pageBrian Thomas Jr.
NegativeRole0:20
Brian Thomas Jr. is being overvalued due to hype, but Trevor Lawrence's quick decision-making and first-read tendencies mean Thomas often doesn't finish his routes before the ball is thrown, limiting his involvement in the offense.
Insight pageChase Brown
PositiveProjection0:23
Chase Brown has the third-best red-zone success rate among 35 qualifying running backs, ahead of Tootin and Chris Rodriguez.
Insight pageChris Rodriguez
PositiveRole0:21
Chris Rodriguez is a reliable short-yardage back who will get you exactly what you need (typically 3 yards) but offers limited upside; he poses minimal threat to Tootin's passing-game work.
Insight pagePositiveRole0:25
Chris Rodriguez is going in round 11 and may cut into Tootin's red-zone work, but worst-case scenario still leaves Tootin with passing-game volume and potential RB3 upside.
Insight pageKyren Williams
PositiveProjection0:23
Kyron Williams has the second-best red-zone success rate among 35 qualifying running backs, ahead of Tootin and Chris Rodriguez.
Insight pageParker Washington
PositiveValue0:19
Parker Washington is being undervalued in ADP and ECR despite being capable of producing as a top-15 wide receiver when drafted as a WR3, with upside even if he only achieves 75% of his potential.
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Episode Transcript
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0:14I am Ryan Warmly, joined by Derek Brown and by Jake Seeley from The Athletic.
0:18Today we are giving you six players going to the mid-rounds of drafts that we see as must-haves.
0:23These are players that are kind of aiming for like that 50 to 100 range in overall rankings and half PPR.
0:30You can check out the consensus rankings and tiers at FantasyPros.com slash rankings for those expert consensus rankings.
0:35But again, kind of aiming for that 50 to 100 range.
0:38If we go a little bit on the other side, that's fine too.
0:42But our mid-round must-haves in 2026 drafts. D-Bro, starting with you.
0:45First guy I got to talk about here, man.
0:48Mike Evans. Wide receiver 26, 53rd overall. And this is only because people are worried about injuries and they're worried about downside and all that kind of stuff.
0:56They're not shooting for the upside with Mike Evans, man.
0:59He, he is not washed. He is not old.
1:02All this kind of stuff. I'm not worried about any of that.
1:06We're talking about a wide receiver that was second in separation score and route win rate last year.
1:11He goes to an offense that had the eighth most red zone scoring attempts per game.
1:16Why is he languishing in the middle rounds? Because people are worried about hamstring issues and all this other kind of stuff.
1:22The broken collarbone is what left him out last year.
1:25It wasn't the hamstring stuff. And if you go back before the 2025 season, you know, with the broken collarbone, he had
1:32never played less than 13 games in any season.
1:34You go back to 2020, never less than 14 games in any season.
1:38And Mike Evans going back again to the, he is not washed when he was on the field last year, guys.
1:4424.4% target share 30.6% first read share. He was crushing it at first downs per route run.
1:49The problem was he wasn't getting any catchable targets from Baker Mayfield.
1:53He had a 70.9% catchable target rate out of 109 qualifying wide receivers.
1:57That was 84th. So unless Mike Evans magically decided to be able to throw the ball to himself, that's the only way
2:03he was getting catchable targets last year. So you need to be investing in Mike Evans this year.
2:09It's bounce back here. He is 56th overall wide receiver 26.
2:12Crazy. Jake to you, is that too high, too low or just right?
2:16Besides Stanis yelling at Hebrew for not saying fewer instead of less.
2:19Take that joke. Every time it comes to mind.
2:22I look, I I'm not quite as high, but I still have him higher than the consensus and higher than ADP.
2:28I'm right alongside, but it's a giant tier. We've talked about on other shows.
2:32I have Evans at 23. I actually think there's room for him to push past that.
2:37And that's really why I like the target is that because he's in a group of Garrett Wilson and Devante Adams touchdown maker, similar conversation.
2:45Jalen Waddell hoping that he could be the number one for the Broncos and you would think he could be.
2:51But Lad McConkie, like all these names are in the group where the biggest takeaway is kind of ties into our draft tip show that we did together.
2:59Is that if all those other names are going a full round ahead of Mike Evans, which it is as of today,
3:05and I can get Mike Evans at the discount, then I'm going to do that as the leading what we assume pass
3:12catcher for the 49ers when I know it sounds positive about kill for week one, but still a little hesitant on that one.
3:19By the way, I know I don't get a lot of references.
3:22I did get the Stannis one. I also bring that up constantly when I hear people say less or fewer.
3:28I say less at times too. Anyway, I just I just always love it because that was one of my favorite.
3:34He was the grammar king. That's my dad's an English teacher, too.
3:38So like I already kind of grew up hearing that a lot.
3:42And then with Stannis on Thrones, I always felt very relatable to me.
3:45So if you have everybody out there, I don't hate the fact they said less.
3:50I just like making the Game of Thrones reference.
3:53Yes. All right, Jake, who's your first mid round must have?
3:56So for this running back, he's going right in lockstep with another one, which I thought he'd be going much further behind because one's getting the attention.
4:04He's not everybody's paying attention to Blake Corham back to back.
4:07Common on guys going there right with him, which he should be.
4:11And that's where I want to say with column and on guy similar Blake Corham.
4:15We have the opportunities for more touches this year.
4:18He actually finished higher than him overall and in fancy points per game, higher than Corham last year playing for the Bears.
4:24And we assume their offense can take another step forward.
4:27But the bigger part about it is like if everything just stays the same, he's already been better than Blake Corham and he's an RB three.
4:35If things potentially get better, you could get high in RB three value.
4:39Or the one difference I'll say than Blake Corham is I'm not calling it.
4:43I would be surprised if it did happen, but I'm not going to say it's a non zero chance where I think
4:50there's my guy takes the lead from Deandre Swift.
4:52Like Deandre Swift is under value. Let's be clear about that.
4:55But he's a consistent under value. Like he's never going to say, we're not gonna be like, oh my God, Deandre Swift
5:02is a top 10 running back this year. And I'm not saying a non guy is, but what if Ben Johnson and
5:09this office and they're like, you know what? We saw enough from him in those games where he ran 20 times for a hundred something yards.
5:16I know one time was against the bangles. And the other time is when they beat the brakes off the Eagles.
5:22But at the same end, Swift had a good game in that one too.
5:27But we saw flashes of the upside and talent that men on guy 50, 50 split, or maybe I know it's not
5:33the most appealing thing, but it was at the time.
5:36The peak Najee Harris, Jalen Warren situation from the Steelers where he is Najee Harris and Swift falls into the Warren role.
5:43Again, not saying it, but my point difference is that Corum's not taking the lead.
5:47He could take more of the share, but he's not taking the lead from Kyron Williams.
5:52There's a world, slim chance, but where men on guy could take the lead from Swift.
5:57I adore men on guy as the 91st overall player, RB 33.
6:00I just think it's, it's a value I'm really on board with.
6:04And I want to be very heavily invested in men on guy this season.
6:08Um, deeper. I don't know where you have him ranked.
6:11Um, I was going to ask cause a guy who's close to him in the overall rankings is RJ Harvey.
6:17And I know you liked Harvey a lot last year.
6:20Do you have a preference between the two? Yeah.
6:22Oh, it's been on guy. I'm worried about Harvey this year with Jonah Coleman there.
6:27And plus like Jalen waddle. I think Harvey could see a dip in his targets, even if he is the passing down
6:33back with waddle, taking a lot of the screens and the underneath stuff.
6:37So yeah, it's my non guy easily for me.
6:40And I think there's another world where like to Jake's point, man, I got like if Chicago is another, like if they're
6:46a high sky high scoring offense last year, this team was sixth in 10 zone and red zone rushing rate last year.
6:53What if the touchdowns just work out or common on guy gets enough touchdowns to where I know we're, we're threading a
7:00needle here, but if he gets enough touchdowns, do the Chicago bears support to top 24 running backs?
7:05If that is the case that the bears are like, look, every time we get in close, we're running the freaking ball.
7:11Well, unless the Andre Swift is scoring 20 touchdowns this year, man, guys getting part of that.
7:16Yeah. I think it's possible that both are totally viable.
7:19Good starters for you. Um, Debra, who's your next must have.
7:23Uh, dude, my guy is Christian Watson. And I know people are like, you just keep talking about this guy every single freaking year.
7:30Like I like talented players and I liked them when they're undervalued versus the market.
7:34I mean, last year when he was on the field, he was the wide receiver 21 and fantasy points per game.
7:40So why is he the wide receiver 28 in ADP right now in an ECR?
7:45He's languishing a lot of different spots as a wide receiver three.
7:48It doesn't make any sense to me. Like the green Bay Packers.
7:52First of all, he operated as their clear wide receiver one last year with Romeo Dobbs and Don Tavian Wicks this year.
7:59Both of those guys are gone and Watson did all of this while only having a 68% route share.
8:04That was 56 out of 109 qualifying wide receivers.
8:07That number is going up this year. We can all quibble about how much, but it is going up.
8:12So Watson produced last year as a wide receiver two and fantasy points per game.
8:17He gets a bump, uh, with the contract. The other guy is gone.
8:21He's proven that he can be ultra efficient. Jordan love in this offense.
8:25Like at certain points, you just start writing off like the regression touchdown regression of certain quarterbacks because the efficiency of the play caller and the quarterback.
8:33We just need to understand like that is the realm that they are going to live in until any of these factors change.
8:39Jordan loves a guy like that. Brock Purdy, Russell Wilson was like that for most of his career.
8:45So the touchdowns are going to be there. The talents there, the contracts there.
8:49Everybody should be buying into Christian Watson. Sorry. Did you say, where do you have him ranked?
8:54I have Christian Watson. He's wide receiver 27, by the way, in ECR.
8:58I have Christian Watson at wide receiver 19. So again, well, people could say that's insane, but I'm just saying, okay, small
9:04step above what he did last year. And there is a ton of ceiling for a lot more from Watson this year.
9:11Jake, I saw the eyebrows raised when you heard wide receiver 19.
9:14I think part of it is he will come closer to the 19th ranked.
9:19I have him in the mid twenties, but mostly because I initially had him closer to the 19th, but I've been seeing
9:25the positive news on Tucker craft, which again, we're, you know, three weeks that could swing back the other direction.
9:31But it sounds like craft being a hundred percent for week.
9:34One is in play again. That would make my rise, raise my eyebrows again, too.
9:39But I just don't think there's enough to go around where I think he's a solid wide receiver, too.
9:44I agree with Debro, but being the difference between 19 and 25 or wherever I have him isn't like, this is an
9:51argument where I think the bigger takeaway should be where I argue with Debro is Watson feels like one of those.
9:57I do an article at the athletic every year.
10:00It's this last year's trash, but I feel like Watson got out of last year's trash last year and people still are
10:06hesitant to come back around on it. And I don't know because it's happened two plus years.
10:11And so many people got burned that the sample of people that being burned by Watson that don't want to come back
10:18are bigger than just maybe a one year thing.
10:21And that's why. But we finally got what we wanted, a healthy Christian Watson, what he can do as the number one option, the big plays, the touchdowns.
10:29And we got all of it. And now we're right back to where we started two years ago, which is just stay healthy.
10:36And if he stays healthy and he's like, put it this way, if you told me stays healthy, 17 games, he continues
10:42to be the number one, which I definitely think is in play.
10:46Debro is going to be right. And I'm wrong at 26, 25 or wherever I have him.
10:51I think Debro is going to be wrong. He's going to be too low if all he's healthy the whole year.
10:57And the number one, I think he'll be higher than 19.
11:00The reason he's ranked lower is the lack of certainty there.
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11:38All right. Three more names, Jake, you've got two of them.
11:41Who's the first? First is Jordan Tyson. I've been talking to rookies decently over the couple of these shows, but Jordan Tyson,
11:48I kind of feel like this offseason went like we were up on the roller coaster.
11:53And all of a sudden, I don't know what happened with the past couple of weeks, but it seems to be going
11:59down, which is weird because at the same time, it looks like Tyler Shook's roller coaster is going up.
12:05Like you can't have one without the other. And that's my biggest takeaway here is Jordan Tyson, whether you thought he was
12:11the number one, two or three wide receiver in this draft class.
12:15There was a clear collection of top three talent.
12:18I'm not saying it's guaranteed. They're going to be the top three in five years, but there was a consensus.
12:23These are the top three. There's an argument that a healthy Tyson is the number one pure talent, but let's just make
12:30the comparison of a player that he reminds me a lot of.
12:34That's Garrett Wilson and Garrett Wilson. I think the biggest thing, if you want to talk about the negatives is they kind of, they have so much ability.
12:42They kind of get squirrely in their routes sometimes and kind of almost lose track of themselves.
12:47I think people understand what I'm trying to say with that, but that's fixable.
12:51And it's, as you've seen, it's not the end of the career for Garrett Wilson.
12:56Like we know there's more for Wilson to unlock.
12:58I think there's a lot for Tyson to step in as he's going to be the number two.
13:04It's not Devon V. Lee and all the rest.
13:06And we tried to cobble that. I say, we, the saints tried to cobble together this collection of talent to be the number two.
13:13That's why they traded for V. Lee trying to find something to work alongside Chris Olave's breakout that now you're looking at this team.
13:20It's like, okay, well, who's the two it's Tyson.
13:23Well, you're sure he's that? Yes. There's, there's nobody else in this realm.
13:27The 15 tight ends they have, nobody's touching Tyson.
13:30And if Shook is going to take a step forward and play similar to what he did in the second half last season, but even better.
13:37And you're telling me Tyson can't get a hundred, 110 targets as the number two in this offense.
13:43And if everybody's excited for Shook, well, guess what?
13:45110 targets in this offense, an average offense is going to mean a top 30 wide receiver.
13:50So to go in this range, I just think Tyson, as much as I love lemon, the talent, as much as I think Tate is great.
13:58I don't even mean to do that. I think as I think there's legit questions of being the number one, actually feel it might be crazy to say.
14:06I feel like Tyson's actually the safest of the three rookie wide receivers.
14:10What do you think about that D bro? No, I agree with a ton of what Jake just, Jake, where do you have Tyson ranked right now?
14:18Cause I'm curious where. I actually go all, it's so funny as I have the three rookies back to back to back.
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15:36Okay. So he's wide receiver 37 and ECR. I've got him at wide receiver 32.
15:40So I'm, I'm with you. Like, I think that his floor and ceiling, like his floor is kind of like wide receiver three.
15:47If Shuck can support these different guys, I think that he is the clear wide receiver two in that offense.
15:53And the second guy in the passing attack. And the other thing is we're not even talking about the contingent upside that he has.
16:00If a lobby misses any time, cause it's not like a lobby has been, you know, like the paradigm of health over his career.
16:07But also I'll, I'll agree with Jake here too.
16:10My comp for Tyson coming out with Stevie Johnson, another guy that was very freelancing in his routes, but turned out to be a really freaking good player.
16:18And I think a lot of that's how we're going to see Tyson utilized in the saints offense, where he's going to
16:25get a, probably a lot of screens, a lot of underneath stuff.
16:28We're not going to ask him, at least I'm hoping Kellen Moore.
16:32And we were kind of like threading the needle and saying, okay, Kellen Moore seems like a really sharp coach over multiple, multiple different places.
16:39And being OC and stuff like that. Then we think that he's going to put him into a position to succeed.
16:45If that's the case, then yeah, I think Tyson can definitely hit in year one.
16:50And I agree with him having, you know, a higher floor than a lot of the other guys there.
16:56Like I'll push back. Like I have Cardinal Tate above him.
16:59That's the only guy, but like versus Makai Lemon and some of these other guys, like, I love Casey Concepcion and Denzel Boston.
17:06But the quarterback play for Cleveland could be, you know, the iceberg that, you know, sinks the Titanic there.
17:11The tiebreaker for me is if everything was equal to, I do believe Tate is the one for the Titans.
17:17And I am a fan of Kellen Moore. I, the difference is, is I actually think his Tyson's target share is safer than Tate's.
17:24I think Tate has more threat in my opinion, especially when you consider that Dable essentially for all intents and purposes brought over Wondell Robinson.
17:32Ridley seems dead, but he's back again. And then you go down the list of two rookies.
17:37I mean, they were day three rookies, but there's just a lot of options for Ward where I feel if you look
17:43at the Saints, it's backfield and then two wide receivers.
17:46Very funneled. Yeah. To your point too, it's like, who else is really commanding target?
17:51Like I like, I like Bryce Lance, but I don't think he's getting on the field and he's only probably going to be their field stretcher.
17:58And it's like Devon Bailey is not a target earner.
18:01Juwan Johnson is only. Yeah. Delt next year. But the Juwan Johnson has only been like that type of guy whenever like everybody else gets hurt.
18:09We saw that again last year. D bro. Let me loop in the last name on your list.
18:14Parker Washington. He's back to back with Tyson in the overall rankings and in the receiver rankings in ECR.
18:2088th and 89th overall, respectively. Obviously, Parker Washington was your pick.
18:23So I'm assuming you like him better than Tyson.
18:26I do. Only because I think the ceiling is higher for Parker Washington.
18:30If he can be the guy that he was last year.
18:33And that's what I'm projecting. Like I have Parker Washington at wide receiver 27.
18:37Again, I'm not going over the moon. Like if I was just going to go full ham on this, I'd have him as a top 24 wide receiver.
18:46But I think that like there is going to be some volatility in the Jags passing attack.
18:51I think he's going to have his weeks. But again, like if he can be the guy at least 75% of the
18:57guy that we saw in week six through 19 last year, then he is going to win people leagues.
19:03Because in that stretch, he had 22.3 fantasy points per game, PPR fantasy points per game, which is absolutely freaking insane.
19:09In those four games, he had six reds on targets.
19:12And that's where I want to bring up. But it's not just that he was operating as like this underneath screen weapon or whatever.
19:19He was basically Jacksonville's Amon Ross St. Brown. And that's what he was producing as.
19:24He had six red zone targets in those four games and 13 deep targets.
19:28That's the point that people missed. They're like, I must have been all just like underneath low a dot crap.
19:34It was definitely not. And during that stretch, he had a 28.9% target share.
19:38He averaged 113.5 receiving yards per game, 3.78 yards per route run, a 33.3% first read share.
19:43And again, I'm not projecting that he does all of that this year.
19:47If he does, he legit will be like on the Mount Rushmore of league winners this year.
19:52But even if he does 75% of that, we're discussing a top 15 wide receiver that you can get as a wide receiver three.
19:59And because of the BTJ hype, he has hopped him in ADP and ECR.
20:03And I think it's wrong. Jake, we can just keep talking about the Jags offense because you also have a Jaguar as your last name on this list.
20:11Yeah. And to echo what he said about Parker Washington, let's talk the first read share.
20:16That's the thing. And so it's the makeup of these three wide receivers.
20:20It's tough because in my heart, I'm like, I hope I'm wrong.
20:24And Brian Thomas comes back around and they treat Brian Thomas like the one.
20:28But the problem is, is that Trevor Lawrence and this offense looks to the first read often already makes his decision by the second.
20:35And that's game over for actually his options. And a lot of times that it doesn't involve Brian Thomas because he's still
20:41running his route and hasn't finished because they started sending him downfield.
20:45And again, hopefully maybe that changes. But to talk about the other Jaguar, and this is going to sound crazy to a
20:51lot of people because last year, I didn't think Tootin was going to be a threat in this backfield.
20:57And he really wasn't. Like saying that to like victory lap, ha ha, I told you not to draft Tootin.
21:03I'm saying that as in somebody that wasn't enamored with Tootin coming out of the draft that I think he is a timeshare.
21:10And now he can lead a backfield, but I don't think he'll ever be 65, 70% of the workload.
21:15I just don't think he's equipped to be that kind of running back.
21:19That being said, he's in a scenario to be what we know about Cohen and go back to Rashad White and Bucky
21:26Irving and last year and everything like that. And everybody talks about Tootin and they're like, oh my gosh, well, they bring in Chris Rodriguez.
21:33There's two factors there. Do I think Chris Rodriguez can be an issue?
21:37Yes. Would I bet on it? Actually, no, because the commanders turned to Rodriguez after everything else.
21:42Like they tried everything, including Krosky Merritt, who did not look good last year.
21:46They were trying all these pieces and it's like, oh, look, somebody is capable.
21:50I forget who did it on this network. Somebody said you asked Rodriguez to get you three yards.
21:56He's going to get you three yards. That's it.
21:58Like that's just what Chris Rodriguez does. So he's a nice, reliable piece.
22:02But if you're looking for the upside, it's with Tootin.
22:05It's with his explosive play. And with the often point that people overlook.
22:09And this is from somebody who said, yeah, Chris Rodriguez could steal some touchdowns.
22:13Some, not all. Tootin was actually pretty good inside the 10 and inside the five.
22:18It's not like he's just never going to get, he's not going to get Matt Forte'd by the Jaguars and never get a goal line carry.
22:25So I think Tootin in this range is, I was surprised to see him not only here to start the off season, but still here.
22:33Cause I figured the height was going to go through the roof after last season.
22:37And the fact that they really, for all intents and purposes, only brought in Chris Rodriguez as a threat.
22:43I expect him to be a top 20 running back and I was going to be out on him.
22:49But in this range, I'm going to buy all the Tootin shares I can.
22:53So you're saying that Chris Rodriguez is the old Leroy Horde quote of, if you need one yard, I'll get you three.
22:59And if you need five yards, I'll get you three.
23:02I'll get you three. Yeah, exactly. That's Chris Rodriguez.
23:05Do you, what do you think about Tootin? Are you surprised with where he's ranked right now?
23:10Did you expect more hype? Where's he at right now?
23:13Cause honestly, I haven't looked at the ECR for him.
23:1664th overall RB 25 on the current. That's great.
23:19Dude, I'm drinking. No, I'm all in on Tootin at that.
23:22Like I have him as a top 24 running back.
23:25I think to, to Jake's point, like I've got him at RB 23 right now, and I'm probably going to move him
23:31up a few more spots, like closer to RB 21 or 20, uh, when it's all said and done.
23:37And then to Jake's point, like, dude, like Tootin was really freaking good.
23:41I was pulling this up as Jake was kind of talking about everything inside the red zone amongst 35 qualifying running backs.
23:47Basial Tootin had the fourth best success rate behind only Blake Corum, Kyron Williams, Chase Brown.
23:52And that is ahead of Chris Rodriguez, who was sixth on this list, but still Tootin was better.
23:57So again, it's like the worst case scenario for Tootin this year as an out, uh, as the run out, like within
24:04reasonable parameters is that he's Kenneth Walker and Chris Rodriguez is crushing him in the red zone and getting all the touchdowns.
24:10And it crushes Basial Tootin where he's a volume to pick like he's Woody Marks this year.
24:16He gets a lot of volume. He gets no touchdowns.
24:18And you're just kind of like, what could have been, but this sucks, but I don't think that's how it's going to run out, man.
24:26Like again, Jacksonville has talked about, they look at a lot of the same metrics as a lot of us fantasy nerds.
24:32And this matters to them. And Basial Tootin being really freaking good again matters.
24:37So I'm going to bet on the talent. And the other part about all of this, if Chris Rodriguez eats into his touchdown equity, okay.
24:44I can see a path for that. I see zero path, zero, none, zilch, nada for Chris Rodriguez to eat into Basial
24:51Tootin on passing downs because he's never done that throughout his entire career.
24:54And I don't think that's going to change. Go back to college.
24:58He's never been a stellar receiver. He's not going to be counted on that.
25:02So I want to talk about the Basial Tootin run out.
25:05Okay, fine. We're worried about touchdowns. It's a red zone usage and stuff, even though he's better with Chris Rodriguez last year.
25:12He's not touching him in the freaking passing game at all.
25:15I think I like Rodriguez a little better than you guys, but you're totally right.
25:20There's no chance he's going to cut into the passing game stuff.
25:23And it's not even certain that he'll cut into red zone work too.
25:27But like we know he's not going to cut into the passing game.
25:31So even though I like Rodriguez, I think a little more.
25:34Yeah. I don't have zero shares of Rodriguez to be clear, because again, this is one where like, I'm not going to guarantee the situation.
25:42And worst case scenario is this is a 50-50 split and Rodriguez is the first second down short yardage.
25:47But as Debro said, the worst case scenario still involves a potential RB3 getting the passing game work.
25:53Well, Rodriguez is also going in like round 11.
25:55So it's not like it's not the same cost either, too.
25:58So it's fine. Oh, my God. I lost my draft in round 11.
26:02Yeah. All right. I'll go ahead and wrap up there.
26:05Those were our mid-round must-haves for 2026 drafts. For Jake and Debro, I'm Ryan Warmly.
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