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Expert 2026 Fantasy Football Draft ($500 Buy In)

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45 min
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Sep 3, 2026
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Thu, September 3, 2026
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D'Andre SwiftLadd McConkeyAmon-Ra St. BrownAshton JeantyBrian RobinsonCaleb DouglasCarnell TateChris OlaveChristian McCaffreyChristian WatsonColston LovelandD.J. MooreDallas GoedertDalton Kincaid
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Amon-Ra St. Brown

PositiveValue2:07

One of the three highest-ranked players on the speaker's draft sheet, alongside Jalen Sanett and Christian McCaffrey. Selected at pick 8 in this draft as the primary target at that position when the other two elite options are unavailable. Also part of a well-constructed team composition (St. Brown, Devonta Smith, Davante Adams, Ashton Jeanty, D'Andre Swift) that the speaker views as having a very high floor and a decent ceiling.

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Ashton Jeanty

PositiveProjection4:00

Highest-ranked player on the speaker's draft sheet once Kenneth Walker is off the board. Selected at pick 8 in this draft. Speaker received confirmation that Jeanty is expected to be healthy and available for week one, supporting the selection. Also part of a well-constructed team composition (St. Brown, Devonta Smith, Davante Adams, Ashton Jeanty, D'Andre Swift) that the speaker views as having a very high floor and a decent ceiling.

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Brian Robinson

NegativeRole36:29

Drafted at 12.01. The source typically likes taking handcuff running backs in the final few rounds, but explicitly avoids Robinson because the team has already taken five running backs by the eighth round and cannot take another running back at this stage.

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Caleb Douglas

NegativeValue36:09

Drafted at 11.10 in this draft, indicating his ADP in this particular league context.

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Carnell Tate

NegativeValue18:45

Drafted at pick 510 in this expert draft.

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Chris Olave

PositiveValue5:50

Falling behind running backs in draft order, which speaker finds surprising. Olave was passed over by the Jonathan Taylor team in favor of Javonte Williams, suggesting elite WR tier is undervalued relative to mid-tier RB options and Olave represents value at his ADP. Also drafted as part of team six's strategy of exclusively drafting wide receivers from Ohio State (Jalen Sanett, Olave, and Egbuka).

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Christian McCaffrey

PositiveValue2:07

One of the three highest-ranked players on the speaker's draft sheet, alongside Jalen Sanett and Amon-Ra St. Brown, making him a primary target if available at pick 8. McCaffrey goes off the board before pick 8 in this draft. Additionally, in a separate snake draft context, McCaffrey was drafted in the eighth round paired with Hampton on the same squad, which the source describes as 'insane' value.

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Christian Watson

NegativeValue18:45

Drafted at pick 509 in this expert draft.

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Colston Loveland

NegativeValue10:04

Selected at 4.02 in this draft; positioned as part of the TE/flex tier in round 4. Drafted at pick 402 in this expert $500 buy-in draft.

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D.J. Moore

NegativeProjection12:29

Drafted at pick 406. The speaker has DJ Moore a tier below Garrett Wilson and expresses concern about Moore as an aging wide receiver pushing 30 who changed teams. The speaker is low on Moore's outlook relative to Wilson's talent and situation.

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D'Andre Swift

PositiveRole10:18

Positioned as the last viable premium RB in the tier before a significant fall-off in round five; speaker views Swift in a 'completely different tier' due to the Kalen Ballage hyperextended knee injury, which 'unlocks' the backfield for Swift early in the season. Swift is projected to receive 'frankly every single touch early in the season.' Even when Ballage returns, Swift is less likely to lose the job outright because Ballage missed significant time during camp and preseason, reducing his ability to establish a role immediately. This injury context makes Swift a standout value at his draft position.

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PositiveValue28:27

Drafted in the eighth round as part of a successful snake draft strategy, contributing to a strong early-round running back haul.

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Dallas Goedert

NegativeValue38:48

Dallas Goedert was drafted at 12.08 in this draft, indicating his ADP in this particular league context.

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Dalton Kincaid

NegativeValue35:43

Ranked ahead of Romeo Doubs by the source but drafted at 11.07 due to forced circumstances: every team after the draft pick had already taken a tight end, forcing the selection. Kincaid was drafted in round 12 in the Flockly draft but went in round 9 in this draft, indicating earlier-than-expected ADP inflation. The source regrets the earlier pick and calls it potentially a mistake, noting 'I thought we were going to be able to get Kincaid there on the way back around in the 12th. Maybe that was a bad call by my part.'

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Davante Adams

PositiveValue17:18

Drafted at pick 508; the speaker's custom sheets have Davante Adams as the best pick available, and with a need for a wide receiver, the speaker considers Adams at 508 a no-brainer selection.

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DeVonta Smith

NegativeValue6:58

Selected at 3.08 in this expert $500 buy-in draft; speaker's highest-ranked player available at that pick. Speaker acknowledges the pick 'doesn't feel great' because many similar-tier WRs remain available (Higgins, Waddle, McConkey, Atwell, Egbuka) and a comparable WR will likely be available in round 4, but the team is forced to act due to WR scarcity after Olave and Rashee Rice come off the board. In double-flex full PPR format, WRs receive a slight bump over RBs in this range. Later in the draft, Smith is part of a well-constructed team (St. Brown, Devonta Smith, Davante Adams, Ashton Jeanty, D'Andre Swift) that the speaker views as having a very high floor and a decent ceiling. In a 4-point passing touchdown format, the Jalen Hurts-DeVonta Smith stack is described as the optimal play and 'it's not even remotely close.'

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DK Metcalf

NegativeValue20:16

Drafted at pick 701 in this $500 buy-in expert draft.

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Drake Maye

NegativeValue20:25

Drafted in this expert draft; the speaker begins to discuss May but the transcript cuts off mid-thought.

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Garrett Wilson

PositiveProjection12:29

Drafted at pick 406. The speaker has Garrett Wilson a tier ahead of DJ Moore, viewing Wilson as a significantly better wide receiver than Moore at this point in their respective careers. The speaker prefers Wilson's talent and situation over Moore's despite Moore's team (Buffalo Bills) being considered phenomenal compared to the Jets.

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Jake Ferguson

PositiveValue37:10

Jake Ferguson is the speaker's highest-ranked tight end and matches Sleeper ADP; the speaker is confident the team will secure him because no other team is likely to take a third tight end, making him a high-probability target.

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Jalen Nailor

NegativeValue18:35

Drafted at pick 509; part of team six's strategy of exclusively drafting wide receivers from Ohio State (JSN, Olave, and Egbuka).

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Javonte Williams

NegativeValue5:50

Selected by the Jonathan Taylor team in the 3rd round instead of Chris Olave. Speaker expresses surprise at this pick, indicating that Olave falling behind running backs is unexpected and suggesting Javonte Williams may be overvalued relative to elite WR options in this draft context.

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Joe Burrow

PositiveProjection16:46

Joe Burrow is more likely than other available quarterbacks to lead the NFL in passing touchdowns. However, in a six-point passing touchdown league, the speaker opts to take a backup running back instead because quarterbacks like Justin Herbert, Dak Prescott, and Matthew Stafford can be acquired in the 10th round and still potentially lead the league in passing touchdowns. Burrow is described as an incredible pick but not the preferred choice at this draft position.

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Jonathan Taylor

NegativeValue1:45

Drafted at pick 5 in this expert $500 buy-in draft. Speaker notes this as the only notable ADP movement, describing it as 'nothing crazy has happened outside of maybe Jonathan Taylor going at five,' suggesting the pick aligns with or slightly exceeds typical expectations. Speaker was rooting for Taylor but will not be able to acquire him at pick 8.

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Jonathon Brooks

NegativeInjury21:11

Selected in this expert $500 buy-in draft with a noted health concern; the drafter hopes that tightness is fine, indicating a minor injury risk at the time of selection.

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Justin Herbert

PositiveValue30:18

Selected at 10.05 over Jalen Hurts in a 6-point passing touchdown format. Both Herbert and Hurts scored approximately 300 points in the format last season in 16 games, but Herbert is preferred because he has the ceiling to lead the NFL in passing touchdowns, which Hurts lacks. The speaker prefers the Herbert-Trevion Henderson pairing over Mike Washington-Joe Burrow.

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Kalen Ballage

NegativeInjury10:35

Ballage's hyperextended knee injury significantly impacts the Eagles backfield. The injury 'unlocks' the backfield for D'Andre Swift early in the season, positioning Swift to receive 'frankly every single touch early in the season.' Even when Ballage returns, he will split the backfield with Swift, but because Ballage missed significant time during camp and preseason, Swift is positioned to retain a strong role and is less likely to lose the job outright.

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Kenneth Walker III

NegativeValue4:00

Goes off the board before pick 8. Once Walker is unavailable, Ashton Jeanty becomes the highest-ranked remaining player on the speaker's draft sheet. Walker was used as a pairing option with Amon-Ra St. Brown in a previous draft, indicating he is a valued early-round target.

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Kyle Pitts

PositiveValue38:29

Pitts went in round 9 in the Flockly draft but round 6 in this $500 buy-in draft, showing significant ADP inflation and earlier-than-expected draft capital across leagues.

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Ladd McConkey

PositiveValue6:58

Part of the tier of similar WRs available at 3.08 alongside Smith, Higgins, Waddle, Atwell, and Egbuka; speaker includes McConkey in the personal-preference tier. McConkey is selected in round 4, after which D'Andre Swift becomes the last viable RB in the tier, indicating McConkey's pick signals the end of the WR scarcity window.

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NegativeValue10:18

Drafted in the fourth round; positioned as a wide receiver in a tier with running backs, marking the transition point before a significant drop-off in running back value.

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Lamar Jackson

NegativeValue16:50

Drafted at pick 506. The speaker notes that Lamar Jackson is probably someone he would not have considered at this pick in a six-point passing touchdown double flex format, though he acknowledges not everyone needs to share that opinion.

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Michael Wilson

NegativeValue28:02

Selected at 9.05 by another team in this draft.

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Mike Washington Jr.

NegativeValue32:13

Drafted at 10.08. The speaker compares the Mike Washington-Joe Burrow pairing unfavorably to the Justin Herbert-Trevion Henderson pairing, indicating a preference for the latter combination in draft strategy.

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Parker Washington

PositiveValue18:54

Drafted at pick 511; the speaker notes that Parker Washington has been getting steamed up and goes two rounds ahead of Bryan Thomas in high-stakes drafts (e.g., $2,000 buy-in drafts where he's often a fifth-round pick). The speaker personally would not take him at that ADP, though he understands why others do.

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RJ Harvey

PositiveValue23:43

Selected at 8.05 as the fifth running back in double-flex format; drafter prioritizes upside and sees more upside in the Denver Broncos offense with a year-two RB compared to the Tennessee Titans offense with a 30-year-old RB; positioned as an alternative to Jalen Hurts in 4-point passing TD leagues.

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Romeo Doubs

NegativeValue35:10

The source's highest-ranked wide receiver is Romeo Doubs, but explicitly states 'Do I think you should be taking Romeo Doubs here? No, I don't,' indicating Doubs is overvalued or not a recommended pick at this draft stage despite the ranking.

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Tank Bigsby

NegativeValue40:26

Tank Bigsby was drafted at 13.03 in this draft, indicating his ADP in this particular league context.

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Terry McLaurin

NegativeValue17:13

Drafted at pick 507 in this $500 buy-in expert draft.

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Tony Pollard

NegativeValue24:04

Goes immediately after RJ Harvey at 8.06 in this draft; one of two primary RBs selected in middle rounds.

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Travis Etienne

PositiveValue10:09

Selected at 4.03 in this draft; speaker expresses strong personal preference for Etienne over the TE selections at 4.01 (Tedarrell McMillan) and 4.02 (Colson Loveland), stating 'I would have taken Etienne if you would have made it pretty easily as well.' This indicates Etienne represents value at this ADP relative to the tight end run.

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Travis Kelce

PositiveValue38:03

Kelce demonstrated significant ADP variance across drafts: he went in round 14 in the Flockly draft but round 9 in this $500 buy-in draft, illustrating how much better value he represented in the earlier league.

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TreVeyon Henderson

PositiveValue32:06

Preferred pairing over Mike Washington and Joe Burrow; the source explicitly states 'I'd probably rather have Justin Herbert and Trevion Henderson' when comparing backfield-QB combinations, indicating Henderson offers better value in this draft range and supports taking Herbert at 10.05 rather than waiting for Burrow.

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Tyjae Spears

PositiveRole34:26

At 11.06, the source explicitly states 'we're not really considering running back in this range,' indicating Spears is not a target for this draft strategy despite being available at this pick.

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Tyler Warren

NegativeValue16:25

Drafted at pick 603 in this $500 buy-in expert draft.

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Wan'Dale Robinson

PositiveValue28:05

Goes at 9.06 in this draft; drafter notes Wan'Dale would have been a target pick at this spot, but running backs are off the board and the drafter is pivoting to other positions.

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Xavier Worthy

PositiveValue35:03

Selected at 11.06 by a team member who 'saves me from myself.' The source had intended to go wide receiver but was steered toward Worthy, indicating confidence in the pick as a value selection at this draft position.

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Zach Charbonnet

NegativeValue36:19

Drafted at 11.11 in this draft, indicating his ADP in this particular league context.

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Full transcript

Episode Transcript

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0:00I've already spent $500 buying into this draft. Now, all we need to do is find the 11 other owners. Now, to do this
0:08quickly, we have the link on the screen right now. The first 11 people that come into this live stream, that type this
0:15link, um y'all are going to get the 11 spots. Again, how this works, we do this every single night. I put my $500 into
0:22the pot, the live chat comes in and they join, and they spend a total of $0 buying into this league. And just
0:31whoever ends up winning the league at the very end of the season, they win all 500. Now, I will be honest, Berg the
0:39Berg, I know you have been in one of these drafts before, so I do apologize, but we are trying our absolute best to
0:48make sure it's only a um a one-for-one. I want as many people in these leagues with us as possible.
0:55So, I am very, very sorry that I am going to remove you, my friend. And we are going to need to get a new person
1:02in, and that new person will just randomly choose Idiot Box. But, I think we are good to go. We got 11 people in
1:10this draft. Let's go ahead, let's set this time, and let's randomize the draft order, and we get pick eight. Literally
1:20every single time we do one of these drafts, we get eight or seven.
1:24It's eight or seven every single time.
1:26Let's go ahead and let's start this thing. But, it is ridiculous how many times we are going to be in this area of the room. Now, I'm not
1:37complaining. I think it's a completely fine pick. Again, we are rocking the JT jersey. I think maybe we wore this yesterday. I'm going to be honest with
1:44y'all. Um I'm going to be wearing the jerseys of the player that I have on my fantasy team all the time this year.
1:52Those are the guys that I'm rocking.
1:53Those are the guys that I'm rooting for.
1:55I'm rooting for JT, and yeah, he actually goes to pick five in this one.
2:00So sadly, we are not going to get him.
2:02Instead, we are going to be using our draft sheets, of course, as we always do. And our draft sheets, I know the
2:07three players that it will have highest.
2:09It's going to be the combination of JSN, McCaffrey, and Amon-Ra St. Brown. So, we'll get whichever one of those players makes it to us at eight. Now, I think
2:19yesterday's draft we took the eight spot and we actually started with Amon-Ra St.
2:24Brown in that one. So, we will see what's we are getting. Yes, McCaffrey goes.
2:33Now, this is a good question that I owe y'all a good answer to as well. So, we got a question in the chat says, "How
2:41can you afford to do this? Are you banking on a winning the Flock League?"
2:45One, winning the Flock League would obviously help finances. There's $200,000 in the prize pool for the Flock League this year. But if I'm going to be
2:52completely honest on how we can afford to put $500 into a league every single night, have y'all join, and put $0 in,
3:02again, um obviously it cost me 500 bucks a night.
3:07Y'all can tell we're not sponsored here.
3:09I'm not putting any promo code saying, "Oh, this is the platform y'all need to be on, blah blah blah." It's literally
3:14my own money that I'm putting in.
3:16I am extremely fortunate that so many of y'all got the season pass this year that it allows me to do stuff like this.
3:25Like, I'll pull back the curtain. Of course, without y'all, this wouldn't be possible. Without y'all, it wouldn't have been possible for me to be able to
3:32go through and do the big hat giveaway where we ordered the 2,000 hats and I'm going to be shipping the hats out to
3:39y'all for free, as we've said a thousand times over and over again. But y'all are the reason that this is possible. Y'all
3:46are the reason I can afford this. And again, I appreciate y'all so damn much for it, which is why I am going through
3:53and trying to do absolutely everything I can to give back to y'all. Now, once Kenneth Walker's off the board, the highest ranked player for me is going to
4:00be Ashton Jeanty in my draft sheets. So, we're going to go ahead and take him. We did get word that it seems like Jeanty
4:06is going to be good to go for week one.
4:09So, let's run with the St. Brown Jeanty start.
4:14Yesterday, we had the St. Brown Kenneth Walker start. Structurally, very similar. We're going to have a lot of flexibility that we can rock with
4:22through the future routes.
4:25But, Dark Skull says, "W Mason, I got a hat from last season." Hell yes, my friend. I'm happy to hear you got one of
4:30the free hats from last year. I will be honest, the hats this year are much better than the ones last year. They
4:35were a little more expensive, but again, um shout out to y'all for allowing me to be able to do that.
4:43So, um if the people that gets the hats, we're starting shipping them out already. So, hopefully you all get them in your hands
4:50soon. Hopefully you love them. I absolutely wear mine all the time.
4:55Now, let's see. London, Nico both off the board. Um JT says, "Is the season pass giveaway set up?" Let me double-check to see if
5:06the season pass giveaway is set up here.
5:09Um I will go through and look at that for you right now.
5:14But, not a super weird draft. Like, nothing crazy has happened outside of maybe Jonathan Taylor going at five. I know I just set up the season pass
5:23giveaway. So, if y'all want to enter in to win a free flockfantasy.com season pass, all you got to do is one, drop a
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5:44And there's anything else that I got to say.
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6:29$34 gets you access to all of that the entire season. So, link's in the description. It is in the comment section.
6:37Okay.
6:38Now, E3 says, "Do we find out if we're getting a hat beforehand or just a surprise in the mail?" It will just be a
6:44surprise in the mail, my friend. And to be honest with you, it can come anytime in the next 2 months.
6:50Again, if we were selling the hats, then we would have to be much more official about it. But since it's just a free
6:56giveaway, I'm trying to keep it as cheap as possible so I can spend as much money ordering the hats as possible.
7:02So, it is Last year, it was just me and my fiance shipping them all out. But with all the live streams I have to do
7:09during the season, I ran out of time where it wasn't possible.
7:12So, this year instead, I am actually paying my little brother to do it. So, he is handling everything there.
7:21Okay.
7:22Now, So, yeah, he's handling it. I'm not making him go like, "Oh, okay. You need to email this person once you ship him a hat." He's trying to
7:32get 50 to 100 hats out a day. So, my goal to him is just, "Hey, I got you this list. These 250 people need this
7:40hat design. These 250 people need this hat design, etc. etc. etc. And we're trying to rapid-fire these out, but it's going to take a while.
7:48Okay.
7:50Now, we have Breece, Javonte Olave going here in the middle round. I'm surprised to see Olave fall behind these running backs. Like, I maybe understand the
7:59running back there going at the 3.04 cuz that team from the four hole went wide receiver wide receiver. So, at point you
8:04kind of need a running back, but I'm surprised the Jonathan Taylor team decided not to take Chris Olave and instead went Javonte Williams.
8:13Okay, Kyren goes to the 3.07. I am on the clock here.
8:18Why the hell does Allen have a rank of 21 in these drafts?
8:23My highest ranked player is going to be Devonta Smith. We will go ahead and we will pull the trigger here at the 3.08.
8:31I'm going to be honest with you.
8:32The Smith pick doesn't feel great.
8:35I mean, if you just look at my draft assistant, you'll see that there are a lot of players that are in this tier.
8:39We're probably going to get somebody else in the fourth round that's very similar to Devonta Smith, but we kind of get boxed out once Olave
8:50pick ends and Rashee Rice are off the board. It's not like any of these wide receivers here are super super compelling. Like, I think it's kind of
8:57your personal preference on Smith, Higgins, Waddle, um Ladd McConkey, Tutu Atwell McMillan, Emeka Egbuka, really whoever you want at wide receiver.
9:07And for me, like, if I'm looking at my draft sheets here, there's really no running back I guess there there are two running
9:14backs I would consider at the 3-4 turn.
9:17This draft here is a double flex full PPR. So, double flex full PPR, I need to give a slight bump to the wide receivers
9:25as opposed to the RBs in this range.
9:27Now, Waddle, Higgins, Flowers all go immediately after. Again, I actually think that those wide receivers are very similar to
9:38DeVonta Smith. If anybody wanted to come through and anybody wanted to make an argument that we should have taken Tee Higgins instead of Smith, I'm not going
9:45to argue against you. I think it is a personal preference type deal there.
9:49Okay.
9:53Tedarrell McMillian goes to the 401.
10:04Colson Loveland goes 402.
10:09Travis Etienne 403. I would have taken Etienne if you would have made it pretty easily as well.
10:18Lad McConkey goes, so that is going to give us the last running back in this tier, which is D'Andre Swift. There are
10:24a couple other wide receivers in this tier, but I think this is kind of the last running back that you can get until
10:28there'll be a pretty big fall off by the time we're in the fifth round. Again, the reason why I personally view D'Andre
10:35Swift in a completely different tier is going to be that with the Kalen Ballage injury, he just has the backfield unlocked.
10:43He's going to get frankly every single touch early in the season, and even when Kalen Ballage comes back, well, yes, Ballage is going to split the backfield.
10:52I think because he missed so much time during camp, the preseason, whole nine yards, I think D'Andre Swift is less likely to straight up lose the job
11:03in comparison to where he was before we had the hyperextended knee for Ballage.
11:09Okay, so after we take Swift, you have Bucky and Ebuka both go. Again, at the 405, I actually decided to take Ebuka
11:16over D'Andre Swift in the Flock league, but that was before the Kalen Ballage injury. Not only was that before the Kalen Ballage injury, but that was also
11:25before we had the injury to Ebuka himself as well. Now, Ebuka was at practice running around, which as somebody who has him on their team. Um I
11:33am freaking pumped to see that and I think in the fourth he's an incredible value and once De'Andre Swift's off the
11:39board, yeah, personally, I'd be looking at Egboeka with that pick, but um I can't really take him over De'Andre Swift given the injury
11:49situation that we have to with Monangai and Egboeka himself. But after Egboeka goes, DJ Moore then Garrett Wilson. For me, I have Garrett Wilson a tier ahead
12:00of Moore. I'm just concerned about the aging wide receiver pushing 30, changing team. Again, I'm pretty low on Mike Evans as well. I understand that it's a
12:08phenomenal offense, of course, with the Buffalo Bills in comparison to what we have with the New York Jets. I also just
12:16think Garrett Wilson is a significantly better wide receiver than DJ Moore at this point of his respective career.
12:22And we got Bitter Horder in the chat. I hope you're doing well, my guy. Um drafting from the 12 tomorrow. If you're
12:28drafting from the 12, if it's a two wide receiver one flex format, I really like the idea of you just double tapping the running back position
12:37there.
12:39But if it is maybe a league with two flex spots, then I don't mind mixing in one of the wide
12:51receivers and being a little bit more balanced, maybe going with like an Amari and Hampton and a Jefferson or a Chase
12:55Brown and a Lamb.
12:57But if it's two wide receivers, one flex, I think you probably want to go running back running back. And then there at the end of the third, the
13:05beginning of the fourth, if it's a two receiver one flex, I don't mind at all you going through and snagging Josh
13:13Allen there like that team did at the very end. Double flex, I'm a little bit less interested in Allen because then I
13:19think you probably need to go through and probably need to start hammering in wide receivers.
13:26>> Okay.
13:29Now, we have Montgomery Tuten, Judkins as the running backs that go here at the turn. So, Scat Abu actually is falling a considerable
13:39bit, at least in this draft. And yeah, for me, um again, I lowered Scat Abu down my stuff ever since we had the
13:49Najee Harris signing. I think the Najee Harris signing does matter just cuz it signals what the coaching staff maybe thinks with Scott. But, at the 504, this
13:57is exactly where I would have Scat Abu.
13:59Like, I think he's a very, very strong pick here. Like, I actually really like that team at the four slot. Going with
14:05Puka Nacua, Drake London, Breece Hall, Garrett Wilson, and Cam Akers, Scat Abu I think makes a ton of sense.
14:10Now, Lamar Jackson goes at the 506.
14:16Lamar is probably somebody I would not have considered here in a six-point passing touchdown double flex, but again, that's just me. Not saying that
14:24everybody needs to have that same opinion.
14:31Okay.
14:33Terry McLaurin off at the 507. We are on the clock again.
14:38My custom sheets have Davante Adams as the best pick. And at the same time, we need a wide receiver. So, I think
14:45Davante Adams at the 508 is kind of a no-brainer for us here.
14:49Now, we can start our draft off with St.
14:51Brown, Devonta Smith, Davante Adams, Ashton Jeanty, and Swift, RB1, RB2, St. Brown, Smith, Adams, wide receiver one, two, and
15:01three. I think that this is a team that has a very high floor and a decent ceiling as well.
15:11I really like this.
15:13And yeah, Nots says team six with the Ohio State receivers. Yeah. Team six rocking with JSN, Olave, and Egbuka exclusively drafting wide receivers from
15:23Ohio State.
15:25Christian Watson, Cornell Tate go at the 509, 510. For us, I'm not particularly stressing wide receivers that make it back to us
15:34at the 605, but it is something I prefer. Parker Washington goes at the 511 here.
15:42Okay.
15:46Parker Washington has been getting steamed up. I know I said this in the video today, but Parker Washington, like nine times out of 10, goes like two
15:56rounds ahead of Bryan Thomas in high-stakes drafts.
16:01Like if you're in a $2,000 draft, there's a damn good chance Parker Washington's a fifth-round pick.
16:08Which for me, am I going through am I taking him there? Uh personally, I'm not.
16:15But I understand why people are. It's just not for me.
16:23Okay.
16:25Tyler Warren goes 603. We are about to be back up on the clock.
16:36Drake May goes. So, here's the question.
16:39Six-point passing touchdown format, do we go ahead and take our quarterback here with Burrow? Or do we take the backup running back for the New England
16:46Patriots?
16:47I think I am going to take the backup running back for the New England Patriots.
16:53Big reason why is in a six-point passing touchdown league, there are a lot of guys that we can maybe get in
17:03the 10th round, like Justin Herbert, like Dak Prescott, like Matthew Stafford, that could potentially lead the NFL in passing
17:14touchdowns and be a okay. Now, Joe Burrow's more likely to lead the NFL in passing touchdowns. Don't get me wrong, Burrow's an incredible pick here.
17:26But, we'll take Henderson and we'll be fine doing so.
17:35All right.
17:38That kid named Nick says, "Mason, I start sophomore year tomorrow. Any tips?"
17:42Um this is actually a really good question for somebody else that's in the chat. So, I graduated a really long time
17:49ago. If you're going to be a sophomore, I don't know, college or high school soon, um I am honestly maybe a little
17:55bit of out of out of touch at this point, right? I That was my life a long time ago. However, I
18:02think Zufah was a sophomore last year or 2 years ago. So, Zufah's in college right now.
18:08So, if you message him on Instagram, any advice, I'm sure he would actually probably be happy to hop on a call with
18:17you. And that maybe goes to anybody in this stream right now. Like, um Zufah, again, all A student. Like, I'm pretty sure
18:27he's the head of the lacrosse um team in his college right now. I don't want to say what his exact college is. I'm not
18:33trying to dox him. But, if you have any college advice, whether it's with classes, extracurriculars, or anything, again, I'm a little bit too old. I'm too
18:41far removed from it. But, Zufah is probably the guy that you want to go to with that type of advice.
18:48Yeah, and again, if you don't want to DM him on Instagram or DM him on Twitter, uh showing up to his house maybe okay, but I would
18:58try to run it by him first. And if you do go, make sure you bring a clipboard with some paper because he's probably
19:06going to have a lot that he wants to tell you. And I'd make sure you write it all down.
19:12Okay.
19:16But, we have DK Metcalf here at the 701.
19:22Some Marine says, "Number one advice is go to class. Don't skip class. Trust me." Yeah, I will.
19:28Um Yeah, his bedroom door should be unlocked. I I unlocked his window but the windows to his bedroom doors and just crawl in. Whisper him to
19:39to him while he's sleeping. Do you have any advice?
19:44Um all jokes aside in terms of the college advice.
19:51I will be fully transparent and fully honest here.
19:57I went to college, graduated with a couple degrees from the University of Texas.
20:02Only took me 4 years. Did I get the best of grades with it? No. I was pre-med until YouTube took off and I realized,
20:10"Oh crap, I can do this."
20:12Um again, I still finished school, blah blah blah.
20:15But, I did not do well in my classes and this sounds like I'm making it up and it sounds like I am I I don't know why I would make
20:26this up but I swear to God I could have done much better in my classes if when I was on my laptop
20:34instead of being on my fantasyleague.com and bouncing back and forth between my 20 dynasty leagues non-stop and spamming
20:44trade offers out, if I would have just paid attention in class and focused up and locked in, it would have been a lot better for me.
20:53So, I think I would imagine some people watching this are probably similar to how I was in school.
21:02The big thing that I would say is when you are in class, try to lock in, pay attention.
21:11Don't be We're going to take Jonathan Brooks.
21:15We're going to hope that the tightness is fine.
21:18But don't be um looking at your fantasy football team.
21:26Don't be on Twitter.
21:28Don't be watching a fantasy football video, listening to a fantasy football podcast. Like I am so lucky that it worked out for me. Like I am
21:37maybe the only person on the planet that playing fantasy football during class, it turned out to be the right decision.
21:45But if we live in like a million different parallel universes and I did that in a million of them, 999,999, um it would have been a disaster. I
21:58would have gotten worse grades than I should have, worse medical school than I should have. Who knows what would have happened?
22:04Um this is just the one universe that somehow I ended up in that blowing off classes while I was there to
22:14play around with fantasy football teams turned out to probably be the better decision. But again, I think for 99.99%
22:23of people, if you're in college, for the love of God, show up to class and try to lock in while you're there. Don't be
22:29scrolling Twitter.
22:31Don't be looking at your fantasy football team.
22:33Try to focus.
22:37Okay.
22:39That be Q says, "Also make connections and network with everyone." Yes, I think that's another big thing that again, almost everything, whenever I look back
22:51at college, I can come through and say like Oh, I this should have screwed me, but it didn't. Again, I'm the luckiest person
22:59on the planet. I somehow, someway turned out to live the luckiest life that anybody's ever lived.
23:06But, that's another thing that should have screwed me, is I didn't network nearly enough. I didn't attempt to do it.
23:15And there were definitely people like my friends that did it, and I could watch them, and I'd be envious of them for
23:21doing it.
23:23But, for whatever reason, I was too lazy or too nervous to myself.
23:27And again, it should have screwed me. I kind of got lucky that it didn't.
23:36Do we take another running back here?
23:39It's a double flex format. Y'all can make fun of me.
23:43I'm going to take another running back.
23:44Pollard and RJ Harvey are my two RBs at this point. In terms of like who I would take in the middle of the eighth round,
23:50but if we're taking our fifth running back on this team, I am only shooting for upside, and I see more upside in the
23:55Denver Broncos offense with a year two running back in comparison to a Tennessee Titans offense with a 30-year-old running back, so.
24:02We're going to go ahead, and we will take RJ Harvey here at the 8.05.
24:06But, if you were playing in a four-point passing touchdown format, Jalen Hurts is the pick. Four-point passing touchdown league, you want to
24:15take Jalen Hurts here in the middle of the eighth instead of RJ Harvey.
24:21Okay.
24:27Now, Pollard does immediately go after at the 8.06. Now, when we are sitting here with five running backs in the first eight
24:37rounds, we're fine at wide receiver.
24:39Don't get me wrong. We have Amon-Ra St.
24:41Brown, DeVonta Smith, Davante Adams.
24:44We're still not wanting to take any more running backs after this. We are completely done at RB.
24:51Let me go ahead and look at this. Yeah, the draft assistant's saying we're set at running back. It's not saying that
24:56we're struggling at wide receiver by any means, but um we do need to start pivoting over to quarterback and tight end. Again, if it
25:07was a six-point passing touchdown format, I think Jalen Hurts would have been the pick really in the seventh round, not even in the eighth.
25:16Um but back-to-back picks we would have made would have been Hurts if it was a six-point passing touchdown league, but little bit of a different scenario here.
25:28Okay.
25:30D&B says college is not worth it anymore, overpriced, and you still start off low paid or intern even with a degree. So
25:37of course, this is just me being an my opinion doesn't matter at all here.
25:43Me being an idiot on the internet, I shouldn't even really say anything, but my
25:52unsolicited opinion is I think college is like almost anything.
25:59I think you get out of it what you put into it.
26:04If you go to college and you're there to learn, network, and you try while you're there,
26:12I think it can very much be worth it.
26:16If you go, get a useless degree, don't do anything, don't learn cuz it is possible to go, get a useless degree,
26:24just hang out and party all day, and then graduate. Yeah, of course the degree's not going to get you a job, but
26:30so But if you go and it's like, "Hey, I'm here for a purpose. I'm going to learn.
26:36I'm going to meet some people.
26:38Yada yada yada."
26:41It definitely can be um worth it.
26:46But I would say it's like almost anything.
26:51It's worth what you put into it. If you go there and do what I did where I messed around when I shouldn't have
26:59been, my degree's probably not worth anything cuz hell, I'm on YouTube.
27:05But sure there are millions of people that went, took it very seriously, and um yeah, and got a ton from it.
27:19Now, Zuzu says, "Can you give us advice on how to find a 5'2" Latina?"
27:23Zufa, um I don't know if you're old enough to start dating yet.
27:33And if you need to learn about the birds and the bees, I think that's something to ask your parents and not me.
27:41I appreciate you, my guy, of course, but I don't want to tell anybody your age to go and like try to get a girlfriend, blah blah blah, and
27:51then your parents get mad at me. So, I think that's maybe more so a question for them, not me.
27:59Okay.
28:02Now, Michael Wilson goes at the 905.
28:05Wan'Dale Robinson, 906.
28:10And Wan'Dale would have been one of those names we would have actually taken here. Again, running backs are pretty much off my board.
28:20Do we just say eff it and take Hurts? I You know what? We're not going to. Every team after us has a quarterback.
28:27We are going to probably reach dramatically here.
28:31We're going to take De'Sean Shrubling in the ninth. Maybe he's a little bit less appealing now that Mike Evans is back at
28:37practice, but again, we're just shooting for upside at this point. It's the ninth round.
28:45Okay.
28:48Mr. Johnson says, "Thanks to your guide to snake CMC, Hampton, Devonta Smith, and DeAndre Swift in the eighth." But, that is unbelievable.
28:56Getting CMC and Hampton on the same squad is insane, my guy.
29:04Okay. [snorts] Justice says, "Mason, you even married?"
29:10Sadly, no, I am not married.
29:17Sadly, no.
29:19Sefa says, "Little does Mason know I'm actually pregnant."
29:22Well, that's concerning. I hope the baby's not mine, but that's for another That's for another day.
29:30Rodriguez off of the 909, Kyle Manangay goes 910. For us, selfishly, it's good to see as many running backs off the
29:36board as possible. Now, once we get on the clock in the 10th, here's the deal.
29:41We probably take a quarterback because by the time we're on the clock again in the 11th, there'll be 1 2 3 4 teams that
29:49pick before we're up again that don't have QBs.
29:55So, I would expect both Justin Herbert and Jalen Hurts to have gotten drafted by the time we're on the clock again.
30:02For us, I know you can make an argument we have Jalen Hurts the Devonta Smith stack, and if it's a 4-point passing touchdown
30:13format, Jalen Hurts is the play, and it's not even remotely close.
30:18But, I we could go Justin Herbert.
30:37300 points scored in this format from Hurts last season in 16 games.
30:44About 300 points scored from Herbert in this format last season in 16 games.
30:52I think I'm going to take Justin Herbert at the 10.05. Again, four-point passing touchdown format, it's Jalen Hurts. It's not even remotely close.
30:58I just don't think Jalen Hurts can lead the NFL in passing touchdowns. And whatever quarterback I take in a six-point passing touchdown league, I
31:06want to be able to have that option.
31:11Okay.
31:23Okay.
31:26Golden goes 10.06 after we take Herbert.
31:46Coker goes 10.07.
32:02Mike Washington 10.08.
32:06Yeah, I think this is the range in which we want to be taking our quarterback.
32:11Cuz here's the deal.
32:13Like, would I rather have Trevion Henderson and Justin Herbert?
32:17Or would I rather have Mike Washington and Joe Burrow?
32:22I'd probably rather have Justin Herbert and Trevion Henderson, so I actually think we might made the right call here taking Herbert instead of
32:35Burrow.
32:36I think we made the right call on waiting.
32:42Okay.
32:46Angel says, "How many leagues are you in, Mason?" I'm in 33 and planning to be in 35 by the time the season starts.
32:51I don't know how many of these leagues we've done, probably about 40 of them.
32:55Now, again, I've said this before, but I am not going to be submitting the starting lineups in these leagues, and I
33:01am not going to be doing the waiver wire, either. That is going to be handled by Sammy. The reason for it is
33:08during the season, like Sunday morning live streams, I'm live for like 6 mornings before the games kick off, answering your fantasy football
33:16questions, right, for everybody who got the season pass.
33:19So, I don't have the ability to like sit there and cycle through and submit 60 starting lineups once we get official actives and
33:28inactives 90 minutes before kickoff. So, Mr. Sammy Stax is handling that for the teams that we draft here.
33:36We are collaborating with the trades on the teams, though. And then, the only team that I am handling the start sets
33:44and the waivers for is my team in the Flock League. That is the main team that I have.
33:49The Gaming Bros says, "Is there a place to buy the Flock Fantasy hats?" I'm sorry, my friend, no. We're only giving
33:54away for free.
33:56It's be too difficult for us to figure out to set up a store on buying, selling, distribution, blah blah blah, which is
34:06why we only do like one hat thing a year, and we just ship them for free, cuz then all we have to handle is an
34:13address.
34:17Okay, Sports Ball says, "Just got done drafting in my league and use your rankings. Team is absolutely incredible and it was ranked number two out of 12
34:24on the site." Hell yes, my guy.
34:26Absolutely love hearing that.
34:33Tastic says, "When are the full frontals uploading so I can delete my Twitter?"
34:38Sadly, Mr. I mean, Mrs. Huffman told us no to that bet.
34:48Mrs. Flock said yes, Mrs. Huffman said no.
34:56Tajae Spears off of the 11.06. For us, we're not really considering running back in this range.
35:03We're on the clock again.
35:05For me, wide receiver is the direction that I want to go in.
35:10We also have tight ends that we can consider.
35:14I am stupid. Never mind.
35:17This person saves me from myself. They go ahead and they take Xavier Worthy.
35:22My highest ranked wide receiver is garbage. I'm going to be honest with y'all. It is Romeo Doubs. Do I think you
35:28should be taking Romeo Doubs here? No, I don't. I actually have Dalton Kincaid ranked ahead of Doubs, but here's the deal.
35:36Every single team after our draft pick has already taken a tight end.
35:43So, with every single team taking a tight end behind us, Never mind, this team takes Dalton
35:54Kincaid. I thought we were going to be able to get Kincaid there on the way back around in the 12th. Maybe that was
35:59a bad call by my part. I think that's where we took Dalton Kincaid in the Flockly draft, was round 12.
36:09Okay.
36:19Now, Caleb Douglas goes to the 11.10, Zach Charbonnet goes 11-11.
36:41Brian Robinson goes 12-01.
36:45For us, like typically again, y'all know I like taking the handcuff running backs here in the final few rounds. But, we've
36:51taken freaking five running backs by the eighth round. We can't take another running back here.
36:56But, let me give a shout. This will be the last time we do this. Uh remember, if you wanted to enter in to win a free
37:03flockfantasy.com season pass, all you got to do is one, drop a like on the stream, and then two, type the word
37:11season pass into the live stream. You do those two things, and you'll be entered in to win a free one.
37:20Okay, the Rams go at the 12-02. For us here, we're ripping back-to-back tight ends.
37:30So, my highest-ranked tight ends is Jake Ferguson. It's the same as Sleeper ADP.
37:36There's no way that this team takes a third tight end, either. So, we're highly likely to get Ferg.
37:42Yep, Kellen Mond goes. Okay, so we have Jake Ferguson in here.
37:49Okay.
38:00No.
38:03I see Fuji says this shows how good of a value Kelce was in the Flock league. He went in the 14th round there, and the
38:09ninth round here.
38:11I will say, if you just look at all of the tight ends across the board, they all went much later in the Flock league than in
38:20this draft.
38:21Like, I got Kyle Pitts in the ninth round in the Flock league and he went at the 608 here. So.
38:31The only tight ends that did not go earlier were the big three with Bowers, McBride, and Loveland.
38:43Okay.
38:48Dallas Goedert goes at the 1208.
39:08Okay.
39:13Seattle's defense goes here. Again, the Seattle DST, I guess week two they have a really good match up.
39:21But, week one it's tough against New England. Week two, Arizona, they may be the best defense in the league that week.
39:27Washington's whatever, they have a bad offensive line. Chargers, tough match up. Chargers, I mean, sorry, Niners, tough match up. Denver, tough match up.
39:35KC, tough match up. Chicago, tough match up.
39:38So, again, elite defense, but they won the Super Bowl last year, so their schedule this year is pretty damn difficult.
39:50Okay.
39:56Now, Jackson Dart goes at the 1301. I am A-OK with any team that waits till the 11th round to take their first
40:03quarterback to go ahead and draft two.
40:05Again, if you draft Josh Allen, there's no reason to take a second quarterback, but if Trevor Lawrence was your first guy at
40:12the beginning of the 11th, if you want to take Jackson Dart in the 13th, by all means, go for it.
40:18Okay.
40:26Tank Bigsby 1303.
40:40Mendoza, what? This is a $500 league and we see Mendoza go.
40:47Wild.
40:59Okay, Bowden next 1307.
41:05Okay, what do we do here?
41:11Wide receiver is disgusting.
41:14Quarterback is as well.
41:17We'll take our second tight end with Mark Andrews. Andrews is probably bad, Ferg's probably bad.
41:24There's a damn good chance that we are just going to go ahead and we're going to stream the waiver wire at tight ends.
41:30But also there's also I mean but there's also a chance that we can go through and we could try to leverage some running
41:35back value and trade for one.
41:37We'll see.
41:39Okay.
42:23>> Chargers goes, I would have taken the Chargers DST. I just picked him up for my league. But I actually we're close
42:30enough to the season that the probability that we get any big injuries, it's much lower. So we may just go ahead and rip some kickers and
42:37defenses here.
42:39Philly's schedule, I guess they get Tennessee in week two, but then after that it's pretty damn tough. Baltimore goes Indy, New Orleans, not the worst.
42:46Patriots, Seattle, Pittsburgh, uh God dang.
42:54What's Philly's again? Washington, Tennessee is not horrendous. We'll take the Philadelphia Eagles defense.
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43:19If it's Zufall, we know it's rigged.
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44:20But J Frizzle says Sleepless is actually Azufa. That is true. That is true.
44:30Lee says, "I can be Sleepless if you need him need to be." That is true.
44:35Briman says, "It's only $2 per week, basically free."
44:40Maybe I should start spending it that way. Season pass, only two bucks a week.
44:44But then I don't want people to think their credit card's going to be getting charged every week.
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