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Reacting to Jynxzi's Fantasy Football Draft

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Aug 22, 2026
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Sat, August 22, 2026
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Amon-Ra St. BrownBraelon AllenBreece HallBrevin JordanChristian McCaffreyDallas GoedertDavante AdamsDerrick HenryEvan EngramGeorge PickensJames ConnerJavonte WilliamsJonathan TaylorJonathon Brooks
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Amon-Ra St. Brown

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Amon-Ra St. Brown is noted as a top-tier draft consideration at the fifth slot, though the source suggests his ceiling is lower than that of Jackson Smith-Njigba.

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Braelon Allen

PositiveSleeper24:05

Braylon Allen is a high-upside handcuff for Breece Hall; the pick looks particularly worthwhile given Breece Hall's current groin injury.

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Breece Hall

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Breece Hall was available as a running back option in the second round, though he was ultimately passed over in favor of wide receiver depth.

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Brevin Jordan

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Brevin Jordan is considered the clear guy in Jacksonville under offensive coordinator Liam Coen, who is described as an offensive mastermind.

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Christian McCaffrey

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Christian McCaffrey is considered a viable option at the fifth draft slot, though the source argues he has a lower floor and ceiling than Jackson Smith-Njigba.

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Dallas Goedert

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Dallas Goedert was a great late-round tight end pick with significant touchdown upside, representing better value than Kyle Pitts in that range.

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Davante Adams

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Davante Adams is identified as a superior fifth-round draft target compared to the selection of Lamar Jackson, providing better roster construction at the wide receiver position in deep, double-flex formats.

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Derrick Henry

NegativeDepth Chart3:18

Derrick Henry was unavailable by the second round of the draft, contributing to a thinning running back pool.

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Evan Engram

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Evan Engram was selected by the subject in the fourth round of the draft.

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George Pickens

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George Pickens is identified as a superior third-round draft value compared to Javonte Williams, with the speaker suggesting a best-player-available strategy should have been prioritized over positional need.

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James Conner

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James Conner is a smart final-round flier; if he is not traded to a team needing running back touches, he can be cut for a kicker, but he provides immediate waiver wire priority.

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Javonte Williams

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Javonte Williams was selected in the third round as the best available running back, but the speaker argues that taking George Pickens would have been a better strategy in a four-wide-receiver format.

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Jonathan Taylor

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Jonathan Taylor is identified as a top-tier draft consideration at the fifth slot, though the source argues he lacks the floor and ceiling combination of Jackson Smith-Njigba.

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Jonathon Brooks

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While initially viewed as a questionable pick, the selection of Jonathan Brooks is justified by his current high-stakes ADP and the context of the Chuba Hubbard injury, which has pushed his draft stock up in many leagues.

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Josh Downs

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Josh Downs is a fade in the seventh round; he averaged only eight fantasy points per game last season, and the Colts are expected to be a rush-first offense leaning on Jonathan Taylor. The speaker explicitly noted they were not a fan of the selection.

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Kenneth Walker III

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Kenneth Walker was unavailable by the second round of the draft, contributing to a thinning running back pool.

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Kyle Pitts

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Kyle Pitts is highlighted as a preferred alternative to other tight end options in the draft, with the speaker noting they were excited to draft Pitts themselves in that same round.

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Kyren Williams

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Kyren Williams was available as a running back option in the second round, though he was ultimately passed over in favor of wide receiver depth.

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Lamar Jackson

PositiveProjection6:22

Lamar Jackson is viewed as a high-upside asset who could break fantasy football if he hits his top-end range of outcomes, citing his history of 40+ passing touchdowns and elite rushing production. While some consider his fifth-round selection a mistake compared to taking a receiver like Davante Adams, he is generally considered a great value pick in the fifth round.

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Rhamondre Stevenson

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Rhamondre Stevenson is identified as a much better seventh-round draft option than the actual selection of Josh Downs, representing a missed opportunity for the drafter.

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Tank Bigsby

PositiveSleeper21:53

Tank Bigsby is a high-upside handcuff; while he has no standalone value, he would likely become a top 15 to 18 running back if Saquon Barkley were to suffer an injury.

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Travis Etienne

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Travis Etienne is preferred over other running back options in his tier as a proven producer, and the speaker notes they would have preferred drafting him over other middle-round selections.

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Woody Marks

PositiveSleeper22:10

Woody Marks is a smart late-round handcuff target who could become an every-week starter if David Montgomery were to miss time.

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0:00The Flockey Draft is officially live.
0:02I'll be covering mine in tomorrow's video, but in this one I want to cover Jynxzi's. If y'all don't know who Jynxzi
0:08is, he also goes by Junko. He is the number one live streamer in the world on Twitch, and somehow we convinced him to
0:15join a fantasy football league with a ton of sickos and play with us all year.
0:20>> [screaming] >> Now, he ended up drafting from the five slot. I think he made some really smart picks, but also some pretty big mistakes
0:29that I want to cover here. Let's go pick-by-pick with his selections and his strategy. Starting off with the first round and he was on the clock at pick
0:36five.
0:37>> Bro, I thought we were going to get the sixth, which I did not want. We have to go We have to go JSN here.
0:42>> The top three to four names that he could have considered at this pick would have been Jackson Smith-Njigba, Christian McCaffrey, Amon-Ra St. Brown,
0:49as well as Jonathan Taylor. So, a lot of things should be going through your mind at the fifth slot. One, you should be
0:56asking yourself, "Who do you want the building block of your team to be?" And two, you should be asking, "What will be
1:02on the board for you in the rounds two, three, and four at wide receiver versus running back?" Because for me, if I was
1:09trying to figure out who I want the building block of my team to be, it'd be very simple. I want it to be Jackson
1:15Smith-Njigba because the floor and ceiling combination that he has is way better than what you have with players like McCaffrey and Jonathan Taylor at
1:23the running back position. He just has so much higher of a floor, and his ceiling is much higher than like at wide
1:29receiver with Amon-Ra St. Brown. Now, the hold up that you would have with taking JSN at pick five is I gave him a
1:36warning before this draft started. I was giving him a scouting report of everybody. I was saying they were probably going to be all the good
1:43running backs off the board by the time we get to the middle of round two. So, I'm sure that was in his mind. I'm sure
1:48he was worried he wasn't going to get a running back in the second round, but that didn't stop him from drafting
1:53Jackson Smith-Njigba with the first pick, which honestly I think was a good call. I think that was the pick to make.
1:58Now, going to round two, all of those running backs were already gone. You had no Henry, Kenneth Walker to choose from.
2:05And your best running backs available would have been like Jeremiah Love, Breece Hall, Kyren Williams. So, for me, I think that he did the correct thing.
2:14He didn't panic. He didn't draft one of those running backs. And instead, he looked over at the wide receiver position, which the best players
2:22available there would have been Drake London, Nico Collins, maybe you throw in Malik Nabers, Rashee Rice, or you could take your elite tight end with Brock
2:30Bowers. So, my scouting report for him coming into this draft was quarterbacks are going to go incredibly late. Tight ends are going to go incredibly late, so
2:38make sure you adjust.
2:39>> I I want to take best player on board. I like Nico's a little questionable, Nabers is questionable, Brock's questionable, Drake is the safest pick.
2:47I think we go Drake.
2:48>> I think he made the right call by taking Drake London, starting his draft off with double wide receivers in a full PPR
2:54format, where you can start up to four wide receivers weekly. He went JSN and Drake London through the first two rounds. Now, round three is where I
3:03honestly probably disagree with his first selection. Obviously, I can tell he's maybe worried about getting running back points, right? He's taking two wide
3:12receivers with his first two picks, and running back has gotten incredibly thin.
3:17You already have guys like Jeremiah Love, Breece Hall, Kyren Williams all off the board. So, you've seen that tier drop where the next best running back is
3:25Javonte Williams, and you have to ask yourself, how important is a running back in this slot?
3:32>> Cuz I think the running back drop off is coming, so we got to get him. We got to get him. Yeah.
3:38>> Now, for me, I think if you are playing in a two wide receiver, one flex format, it would be incredibly reckless to go
3:45with three wide receivers straight. So, I would have gone ahead and I would have done exactly what he did, and I I have
3:50taken Javonte Williams with my third rounder. But, because we are playing in that league in which you can start up to
3:56four wide receivers weekly, what I would have done, and I've done in the past in this league, is I would have pulled the
4:02trigger on best player available still, and I would have taken George Pickens over Javonte Williams and banked on us getting running backs with our next few
4:11picks. Now, of course, if you don't know how to make adjustments to your exact league settings that you were playing in
4:16this year, don't worry, we have custom draft sheets that are available to you that are tailored to your exact league settings and the exact draft platform
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4:46can ask me in the live streams. And I'm live streaming every single night until Christmas. You can find that link in the
4:51description and comment section. But now he has started his draft off with JSN, Drake London, and Javonte Williams. So, if I were him, I would be going right
5:00back to best player available, which is what I think he should have done in round three. I think he should have
5:05taken Pickens in round three, and then really started to stress about positional need in the fourth. But here, he decided to go with Brevin Jordan and
5:13Evan Engram in the fourth round.
5:14>> So, are you thinking the same thing that I'm thinking? Cuz I'm thinking I'm thinking Brevin Jordan for sure because he's the clear guy in
5:21Jacksonville. Liam Coen's an offensive mastermind. If you're in line with that, I think Brevin Jordan's a great pick.
5:27>> Hindsight being 20/20, this probably was the right call. There are a lot of running backs in this tier that you
5:33could look at, right? Whether it's Brevin Jordan, Montgomery, Swift, Etienne, Henderson, Judkins, all up to you on the running back that you would
5:40want in this situation.
5:42But for me specifically, Brevin Jordan's not exactly my guy. I would rather go with a proven producer with Travis Etienne, but Jinx he mentioned that I
5:51mean he really wanted the running back in the Liam Cohen offense. Right, Travis Etienne's on the New Orleans Saints. I understand that the Jacksonville Jaguars
5:58are much better than the Saints, but now so far through the first four rounds, he has two wide receivers, he has two
6:04running backs, he is sitting with a well-balanced start. And again, going back to what I talked to him about before this draft ever kicked off. I
6:11called him, gave him a quick scouting report of all the other guys, and I was saying quarterbacks, they're going to go
6:17incredibly late. Tight ends, they're going to go incredibly late. Like really tank these positions. He saw Lamar Jackson here in the fifth, couldn't help
6:24himself. He ended up drafting Lamar Jackson.
6:27>> Dude, I don't know. This is hard. I I think we go I think we go Lamar Jackson, yeah.
6:31>> I don't mind this pick at all. The Flock League this year has a $200,000 prize pool. It's $100,000 to first. It's
6:3920,000 to second, 10,000 to third, $5,000 to the highest score every single week. And of course, during the season we're making daily videos on this
6:48channel every single day updating you with how this league is going, who's winning the $5,000 every week. So, um just make sure you subscribe to that
6:56channel if you haven't already. But regardless, I understand the idea of swinging for the fences. Lamar Jackson, where we have seen him have over 40
7:05passing touchdowns in the past, we have seen Lamar Jackson also be at the very top of the NFL with rushing. Lamar
7:12Jackson, if he hits his top end range of outcomes, really could be like just a complete smash, could break fantasy football in a league like this. So, I
7:22understand him going with Lamar, but again, because I knew that quarterbacks were going to fall very late in this draft specifically, I think it would
7:30have been better for him to take another wide receiver here because it is a double flex league. You have to fill out
7:35a deep starting lineup. I think I would have preferred him to take Davante Adams. Now, full transparency, if you're using my draft sheets, my draft sheets
7:44probably would have agreed with him in taking Lamar Jackson. I just think that this is something you have to learn about drafting in the flock league that
7:50all these other quote unquote experts, they're going to wait a very long time to take QB. Now, round six is the no
7:58man's land. I I don't want to give too many spoilers away in this video. Again, go watch the draft if you haven't
8:03already. But, the two picks right before Jynxzi's pick in this round were Quinton Johnston and Parker Washington. The pick right after this was Michael Pittman Jr.
8:14So, that gives you a really good sense of exactly how bad these round six selections were. You had like a massive,
8:21massive teardrop after the player that I took in round six. I think I got pretty lucky to get a good player. And here,
8:27Jynxzi ended up selecting Jonathan Brooks. Now, I'm going to be honest, my gut reaction wasn't great.
8:34>> With Jonathan >> Yeah! [screaming] >> That's the worst team I have ever seen.
8:43>> I thought Jonathan Brooks was a bad pick here. I was shocked, obviously. I am rocking the Jonathan Brooks jersey for
8:49this video. But, after having some time to let this sink in, I understand why he made the pick. Like, with the Chuba Hubbard injury, if you
8:57were looking at high-stakes fantasy football drafts at the moment, this is where Jonathan Brooks is getting drafted. In some drafts, Jonathan Brooks
9:05is going even earlier than this one. And because round six was so damn gross, and round seven wasn't any better, I
9:14understand his thought process in taking Jonathan Brooks here. I think the mistake that he probably made, again, was taking Lamar Jackson in the fifth. I
9:22think there's a chance that he could have instead got like Davante Adams in the fifth, and possibly still have Lamar Jackson fall down to him in the sixth
9:30round since our league is so crazy. But, yeah, the Brooks pick, it's whatever. It was a flat tier. It's not my favorite,
9:36but it's not as bad as I initially thought. Now, moving over to our next selection. Now, this is where things get
9:43off the rails and this was probably my least favorite pick of his entire draft.
9:47And that is going to be Josh Downs in the seventh. Now, with Downs, he did make this pick before the Keenan Allen
9:53signing, so maybe you say, "Hey, without Keenan, this was a great selection, right? He's going right before Mecole Hardman, Alec Pierce, Jordan Addison,
10:02Jordan Tyson." Just for me, Josh Downs averaged like eight fantasy points per game last season and that was when the Indianapolis Colts were a straight-up
10:10elite offense, right? The Colts were one of the best offenses in the entire NFL halfway through last season. And while Michael Pittman Jr. is gone, you did
10:21have the Alec Pierce breakout at the end of the year. Tyler Boyd is going into year two. They are going to lean on the
10:27run with Jonathan Taylor and be a rush-first offense. So, I didn't like the Josh Downs selection. If I were I maybe would have instead gone with a
10:39running back here. I know he mentioned to Davis in the draft room, "Oh, do I take Ramondre Stevenson or Josh Downs?"
10:45Davis pushed him towards Downs. I think it was the wrong call. I think Ramondre Stevenson in this round would have been
10:51much, much better. But maybe you make an argument he needed a wide receiver, but that goes back to the round five Lamar
10:57Jackson pick where I think that pick should have been Davante Adams and you're set and good to go at receiver kind of regardless. Now, going over to
11:03the eighth, Jinxie ended up taking Stefon Diggs. I like the pick. Let me be very clear. But one of the funniest
11:10moments in the entire draft to me, and I I have to give Junko some crap for this, is he did think that Stefon Diggs was
11:16still a New England Patriot. Davis had to inform him that Diggs is with the Commanders.
11:21>> The issue with Diggs is just like A.J.
11:23Brown. We don't even know what that looks like this year. I mean, maybe it'll make him better cuz he just on the
11:28Commanders now.
11:31Wait, Stefon Diggs is on the Commanders?
11:33>> Jungo didn't blink. He went through and he said, "Okay, well, I like the setup with Jayden Daniels." And I think it was
11:39the right call. The other wide receivers in this range would have been Romeo Dobbs, Jayden Reed, Khalil Shakir, DeSean Stribling. So, I think that the
11:46Diggs selection was probably the right pick to make. And yeah, he needed it.
11:52It's a double flex format, so the depth's going to matter here a considerable amount. Now, going over to his next round, he decided to go with
11:58Matthew Golden. He did consider taking his first tight end here with Kyle Pitts. I actually think the Kyle Pitts selection probably would have been my
12:06call. Actually, again, I ended up drafting Kyle Pitts myself in this round, which I was very excited about.
12:12But, Matthew Golden, high-upside wide receiver, you're taking him in the fifth round. It's a good situation with the Green Bay Packers with no Dontayvion
12:19Wicks and no Romeo Doubs. And he's an athletic wide receiver with a good quarterback. So, I think it's a completely fine pick for Jingxi to make.
12:26Now, if you were drafting in a two-wide receiver, one-flex league, it would have been a horrible pick. You definitely should have taken a tight end there.
12:32But, considering the fact there's the double flex and you need to build out depth, in that instance, it's just fine.
12:37We get to a range of drafts, like once you're into the later rounds, that ADP completely goes out the window, right?
12:44None of that matters. And really, most of these guys you're just going to end up cutting anyway. So, what I like to
12:50do, if you've seen me both in the Flock League drafts over the past three years now, and the drafts I'm doing every
12:57single night on the live stream, is I like spamming backup running backs.
13:02Because if you spam backup running backs, if you get an injury before the season starts, you could have your ninth-round pick shoot up all the way to
13:11being like a top 50 player in fantasy.
13:13And that's exactly what Jungo did with his next two picks. He goes Tank Bigsby here. Obviously, Bigsby is nothing for the time being, but if you were to get
13:21an injury to Saquon Barkley, um Tank Bigsby is presumably a top 15 to 18 running back in fantasy. So, I think it
13:28was a great call for him to take Bigsby.
13:30He follows it up with Woody Marks, same exact thought process, right? He's never going to start Bigsby, he's never going to start Marks outside of the instance
13:39in which the other running back in their backfield goes down, but I thought the Woody Marks pick was incredibly smart.
13:45Again, if Montgomery goes down, I think he can turn into an every week starter.
13:49He ends up grabbing his first tight end with Dallas Goedert. Now, I actually almost took Dallas Goedert myself over Dalton Kincaid. So, I think that this
13:58was a great pick. I mean, Sal actually said it was the best pick in this round.
14:01And it honestly ended up working out for him, the fact that he passed on Kyle Pitts previously and got a tight end
14:07with this kind of touchdown upside so late. Then, he grabs one of the first defenses with the Denver Broncos. I actually think this was also an
14:14incredibly smart move. So, most people are going to wait until the final two rounds to grab their defenses and kickers, but again, if you think through
14:22the lens of the last four guys you draft, they're all going to get cut anyway. If you just grab your defense
14:29instead of the second to last round, the third to last round, you get your choice of potentially the best defense in the
14:35league, which is exactly what he did. He went ahead, took the Denver Broncos here. I thought it was a very sharp
14:40play. I mean, I kind of followed suit and I took the Los Angeles Rams two picks later. So, I think this was the
14:45perfect spot for him to go through and do just that. And then, he followed it up with a Braylon Allen pick. Again, I'm
14:51sure he's not sitting here thinking that Breece Hall is going to go down after we draft this team, but he is taking as
14:57many shots at the running back position as he possibly can. And I think it worked out swimmingly because now Breece Hall is dealing with a groin injury, and
15:05that Braylon Allen pick looks like it may be worthwhile. And then, his last round selection, which I think is very, very smart, instead of taking a kicker,
15:14he decided to grab James Conner. And again, my expectation for his team is if James Conner doesn't get traded to a
15:21team that needs running back touches right before the season. He's probably going to cut James Conner and pick up a kicker anyway, but it's better to at
15:28least be like the first one in line to the waiver wire for that James Conner pick up by taking him with the last
15:34round. So, overall, I was actually pretty impressed by Jynxzi's draft. I really liked what he did in the first couple rounds. I loved what he did at
15:42the very end of the draft. Some of the picks in the middle rounds, I didn't love personally, like Bashaud Breeland wouldn't have been my guy there. I
15:50probably would have instead gone Travis Etienne. Lamar Jackson in most fantasy leagues, great pick in the fifth round, just ours again, quarterbacks going to
15:59fall so late. And then Josh Downs, I wasn't a fan of. Jonathan Brooks, I wasn't a fan of that pick either, but
16:05honestly, hindsight being 20/20, I think Junko probably got a good value at that slot. But mainly, I am just so happy to
16:12get to play in a fantasy football league with Junko this season. He's already working the waiver wire. I'm interested to see what he can do in a fantasy
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