0:00What's going on, man? Welcome back to the basement. I'm Ron and the Hero RB draft strategy literally won millions of dollars last year and it's poised to win
0:08again in 2026. It is the most balanced draft strategy. It is withtood the test of time year after year after year. And
0:16today we are going to break down how to use it in 2026 to win your fantasy football league. We're going to go over
0:22how it worked last year, why it works, why it is set up to crush again in 2026, and then go over some mock drafts from
0:29different spots on the draft board, showcasing how you can use Hero RB this season. As always, if you enjoy, leave a
0:36like and subscribe if you're new. We put a ton of research into these videos, and doing that is the best way to show your
0:42appreciation. Now, when it comes to Hero RB, let's simply define it. Hero RB, this is how you do it in 2026. If you
0:49take your RB1 in the first two rounds, this running back, your hero RB should have RB1 overall upside. You are shooting for this year's Christian
0:57McCaffrey. You don't take your RB2 until round four or later. You should have no more than three to four running backs
1:03total through 10 rounds. You want to fill your wide receivers through the flex plus one or two for buys or injuries before the wide receiver clip.
1:11We'll cover that more later on, but essentially if you have a two wide receiver, one flex league, that is two wide receivers, one flex plus one or
1:18two, that is four to five wide receivers before the wide receiver cliff. That happens in around round 10 of most drafts. You ideally have an elite
1:26quarterback and or tight end. We want to have a stacked roster everywhere but your RB2 spot. And of course, it works
1:34in all formats. Superflex, 10 teamers, 12 teamers, 14 teamers, PPR, half PPR, standard across the board. Her RB is a breadandbut strategy that has worked for
1:44a long time now. Before we talk about why it's going to work in 2026, let's just give a brief breakdown of why it
1:50worked in 2025. Here are the top 12 running backs in points per game from 2025 sorted by their points per game.
1:57And then also the round they were drafted in on the rightmost column. And you could see Christian McCaffrey, Bejan, JT Gibbs, and Devon Achan, the
2:04top five running backs last year, all having 20 plus points per game were drafted inside of the top two rounds.
2:10Now, we've covered double hero RB. Could you have paired a Bejon with JT?
2:14Absolutely. But you could have also done Christian McCaffrey, hammered out some wide receivers like a JSN. Obviously, we're talking about best case scenario,
2:22but a JSN, you grab a Josh Allen or a Trey McBride, and then you wait on RB2 all the way until round seven or later,
2:28and you grab your Travis UT or your Devonte Williams, a running back who finished inside the top 12 in points per
2:34game, drafted in round nine. And what that lets you do is build a super team because you are waiting on RB2, but
2:40being strong everywhere else. Now, when I said this draft strategy literally won millions of dollars last year, that wasn't hyperbole. This is best ball
2:47mania over on underdog. Yes, it's a best ball platform. This is Sam Sherman, who won $2 million here. He goes Aman Ross
2:54St. Brown, then Derk Henry, then JSN, Tedro McMillan. He gets an elite tight end in George KD, Chris Olive, his RB2,
3:01Tony Pard in round seven, and so on.
3:04Now, of course, did he just hit a lot of really good players that popped off down the stretch? Absolutely. Right. But this
3:09is a really well-built hero RB team. He took his running back early. He waited until later. He filled out the rest of
3:15his team before then. But this is, of course, baseball. It's not absolutely apples to apples. But we can show you the big gorilla, which we draft on this
3:25channel all the time. Make sure, of course, you're tuning in to our live streams. We are live streaming every night, drafting on underdog, high stakes
3:32platforms, all of that throughout the rest of the summer. And this is the winner in the big gorilla last year, winning a million dollars. This is a
3:39full PPR, two wide receiver, two flex league, tight end premium, meaning tight ends get 1.5 PPR. That's why you see Trey McBride and Brock Bowers in the
3:46first round. He goes Christian McAffrey, then he goes Puka JSN. Obviously, that's the nuts last year. To win a million dollars, you need to draft the best
3:53players, of course. But he built this structurally sound. And that is the important takeaway from these strategy videos, he goes McAffrey, two wide
4:01receivers, James Cook at RB2, and then because he paid up for that RB2 instead of round seven like we just saw with the
4:07Baseball Mania team, he goes IA, Ricky Pieraw, Evan Ingram, then he takes his RB3, then his quarterback, then a tight end, then another running back. So, this
4:16is a good showcase of if you're going to kind of pay up for that RB2 and a hero RB build, you can wait a little bit on
4:23your RB3 depth. But either way, these are two really strong hero RB examples that you can look at and apply to your
4:30own drafts. So, let's talk about using hero RB in 2026. Of course, we have to talk about Pat Karine and his don't
4:36draft an early round RB without legendary upside article all the way back in 2021 because it is very important when we are picking our hero
4:43RB to shoot for maximum upside. We want to hit on this year's Christian McCaffrey, this year's Bejon, this year's Jir Gibbs, Jonathan Taylor, one
4:52of these 20 plus pointame scorers at the position. The whole idea of legendary upside is you have to swing for the
4:56fences because running back floors don't exist. This is looking at wins above replacement over expectation based on where you were drafted. Now, I will link
5:05my overall draft strategy video where we break down exactly how I came about this wins above replacement metric, but it shows here the best pick in the first
5:12two rounds over the last five seasons has been Christian McAffrey all the way on the left over here with 1.7 wins
5:20above replacement over his draft position, blowing everybody else out of the water. But then also in 2024, he was by far the worst pick over here, giving
5:30you minus 1.6 wins above replacement over expectation, meaning where you drafted him, he literally sunk your season. The five biggest busts on this
5:39list are all running backs. Wide receivers crowd this line over here.
5:43Wide receivers, of course, will have some busts for sure. They'll have some ceiling as well, but by and large, wide receivers are the more floor-based pick
5:52and running backs are so boom bust that you aren't shooting for, oh, I'll draft this running back, you know, give me 16
5:57points per game. No, you need to have one of those top five 20 plus point per game scores for this strategy to work.
6:02You need to have a locked and loaded 20 plus point per game hero RB so that you can focus your efforts on the rest of
6:09your team. Now, I do want to make it clear, these are the hero RB candidates in the first two rounds. essentially
6:15just the consensus first and second round running backs. Why I want to show this list is what I'm not telling you to
6:21do is draft Jamar Chase 103. You come back around at the 210. All of these running backs are gone and you pull up
6:27Jeremiah Love as your hero RB. That is not how this works. Your hero RB has to actually be a round one or two running
6:34back by consensus that is projected to put up the amount of points you need at that spot. If your hero RB is Jeremiah
6:40Love or Bree Hall or Javvante or Kairen Williams, he's not really a hero RB.
6:45He's more of just a fine high-end RB2.
6:48That is not the point of the hero RB draft strategy. Now, what I will say is my favorite targets here in round one is
6:54Gibbs, Bejians, McAffrey, JT, James Cook, pretty much all of the first round running backs. And then in round two, I also like Chase Brown, Kenneth Walker,
7:01Saquon Barkley, and Derk Henry. But you really can't go wrong with any of these names. It just comes down to how you
7:07feel about them when it comes to floor versus ceiling. Now, of course, I'll link that as well. I covered the legendary running backs this season and
7:14who I think can finish as a 20 plus point per game scorer in 2026, which then takes us to the dead zone. We take
7:20our one hero RB in the first two rounds.
7:22And then, in a perfect world, we are avoiding the RB dead zone and winning the flex. The RB dead zone is back, as
7:28outlined by Ryan Heath here, showing that running backs are as expensive as they've been since 2022, a 5-year high at the position in terms of how many
7:36running backs are getting drafted inside the top 40 picks and then also the top 60 picks, pushing up the RB1 18, 19, and
7:4220 into this range where you are taking them over stud producers at wide receiver, quarterback, and tight end.
7:49That's illustrated here where I took the consensus ADP from ESPN Sleeper and Yahoo and we charted the point per game PPR projections from Mike Clay, Rich
7:57Reebar, and Dwayne McFarland. And we see that running backs pull ahead early.
8:02Then they kind of cross up. Then you get wide receivers pull away a little bit, but still pretty close here. But then
8:07once you get to this round four area, pick 37, this is what I'm calling the RB dead zone, this yellow square below, you
8:14can see that wide receivers really pull ahead. They are out projecting the running backs in this area. Yes, they out project this entire range here,
8:22which I'm calling the flex zone, which is just essentially, okay, the first three rounds you're taking, let's say in a hero RB build, a stud running back,
8:28two stud receivers, or a wide receiver, tight end, and then once you get to round four or later, this is when you
8:35can start to fill your flex. Now, it doesn't mean you have to start filling your flex, right? If you go wide
8:39receiver, tight end, running back, then you can go wide receiver in your wide receiver spot and then a flex. But you
8:44could also go running back, two wide receivers. Your next wide receiver is in your flex. It's just roughly this area is where you start to fill out your
8:50flex. And then where you are finishing up your flex work happens around this wide receiver Cliff. This is Jaylen Coker. Essentially, once he's gone,
8:59there are no more wide receivers who project for 10 plus points per game. And there's no reason to draft any of these
9:04guys in this like eight point per game area because you should just be drafting the upside handcuffs, quarterbacks, tight end stashes, all of those
9:11archetypes. And then here, yes, while the wide receivers are still outscoring the running backs, a lot of the league winners at wide receiver are gone and in
9:19this range are ambiguous backfields like we saw with Travis ETN last year, Javvante Williams last year. You want to be drafting enough wide receivers in
9:25this range so that they can start in your flex right away. You want to be drafting running backs in this range so
9:29that they can sit on your bench and emerge as a season goes on. And then, oh, all of a sudden, Javvante Williams
9:34goes in your RB2 spot or Travis Tien goes in your RB2 spot. And this is a range we want to be targeting the
9:39running backs, not so much in the RB dead zone. Now, in the dead zone, that round four to six area, this is that gap
9:46visualized here. You can see the average wide receiver in rounds four through six projects for 12.9 points per game. The average running back, 12 points per
9:53game. Six of the bottom eight point per game projections here are running backs.
9:5710 of the top 12 are wide receivers. So, in a perfect world, we're passing on the running backs here. We're grabbing the
10:02receivers. We're grabbing a tight end or a quarterback. And again, we are building out the rest of our team. and neglecting the RB2 spot. And when I say
10:09building out the rest of the team, we are winning the flex. This is an old school Roto Viz concept. Breaking down
10:14that the flex is the key to winning fantasy football championships. On the bottom, whatever strategy fits your particular league format, the strategy
10:22should be based on putting an elite player in the flex position. At the top there, you can see usually hear referred
10:28to in the context of, oh, he's a low-end RB2 or flex, referring to guys who aren't any good as flex players is a
10:33kind of shortand. Essentially, what they're saying is when you look here again, drafting Bucky Irving, 11.7 projected points per game as a low-end
10:40RB2/flex and drafting him over the wide receivers and Terry McClure and Luther Bird and Devonte Adams to put in your flex spot is silly. So, to guard against
10:49that, to win the flex, we are drafting wide receivers through the flex plus one or two before the wide receiver cliff.
10:55That is that Jaylen Coker part of the graphic around wide receiver 50. And it's why I added the flex check tool to
11:01the basement draft guide. You can see here we did a hero RB build. We took Derrick Henry, Jamar Chase, Nico Collins, Amecha Ibuka in the flex. That
11:07is three wide receivers through the flex with four flex spots. That is wide receiver, wide receiver, wide receiver in the flex. Wide receiver in the flex
11:14plus one or two. Meaning we want five to six wide receivers before the cliff. You can see here we have three wide
11:19receivers before the cliff. And there are 24 wide receivers before that cliff happens. as you clock off the wide receivers on the list, it will tell you
11:26how many more wide receivers until that Jaylen Coker Cliff is happening so that you can kind of gauge as you get going
11:32in your draft. Oh, I need two more wide receivers with the flex plus one before we get to the cliff. Now is the time,
11:38right? Like the thing says there's only eight more wide receivers before the cliff. Let's get that figured out. Of course, you can find that in the
11:44basementdraftguide.com in the description and the comment section down below. And in half PPR, there is an adjustment. There isn't really a running
11:51back dead zone and half PPR. So, if you draft a running back inside the first six rounds, they project about evenly
11:57with the wide receivers and the running backs drafted in rounds one through six will go towards the flex check tool. If,
12:03let's say, you draft two running backs and then you have a running back in your flex spot. He now goes towards the flex
12:08check tool. So, it is perfect. It works for superflex, half PPR, and full PPR.
12:12Which now brings us to round seven through nine, which is ideally where you want to be drafting your RB2 in a hero
12:18RB build. Of course, we just talked about the RB dead zone where in rounds five and six, yes, the running backs
12:23have a higher league winner rate than the wide receivers, but still pretty close. The wide receivers have a much lower bust rate compared to the running
12:29backs. And then around 7 through nine, the wide receivers fall off a cliff. You are no longer getting league winners in
12:36round seven plus at wide receiver. You are getting strong picks, high floor picks to put in your flex spot right away, but you can start hammering out
12:43your RB2s assuming that you filled out your wide receiver to the flex through the first six rounds. maybe take another stab in like round nine or round eight.
12:50But if you can have one to two picks at running back in this round 7 to9 area, it is perfect because you have the same
12:56league winner rate as rounds five through six, but the wide receivers are no longer an opportunity cost conversation. And then also on the draft
13:04guide, you can see the ADP edge tool where you can compare my rankings to the consensus ADP. And in this round 7
13:10through9 area or even round 7 through 10 area, there are a lot of running backs I am higher than consensus on. Consensus
13:17being the average of Sleeper ESPN and Yahoo. We have Jaylen Warren seven spots ahead of Consensus. Rico Dattle eight spots ahead. Dobbins two spots ahead.
13:25Jonathan Brooks 23 spots ahead. Bill Crosky 13 spots. R.J. Harvey were big on. Blake Cororm, Kenneth Gainwell, Jordan Mason, Rashad White. So you can
13:33stack up on those wide receivers early.
13:35Maybe you get again maybe before the wide receiver cliff like between round seven and round 10 or 11, you get one or
13:41two more wide receivers. But this is the area you load up on the RB2s in a hero RB build. And it's also worth mentioning
13:48that RB2 production, you can hammer out some flyers here. You can also find some guys late in your draft or off of
13:54waivers. I'm not saying that you're going to 100% do so, but it's much easier to find RB2 production off of waiverss or off your bench than it is
14:02wide receivers. There's not many handcuffs at the wide receiver position.
14:06I've used this before, but if Justin Jefferson goes down, Jordan Addison isn't a top six play in the same way that if Kairen Williams went down, Blake
14:12Corm is a top six running back. Every week that Kairen Williams is out, there were stretches last year where Rico Dattle over a 10-game stretch had 17
14:20plus points per game. Kenneth Gel had a 10-ame stretch of 13 plus when DeAndre Swift went down. Manungai gave you 22.8
14:26PPR points. Tyrone Tracy was startable when Scatabo went down. Kareem Hunt had a six-game stretch of 12 plus points per game. You had Woody Marks sprinkling
14:34throughout. You had some Kamani Vidal games you could have started last year.
14:37Again, I know that the heavy running back teams will be going to the waiverss to get these players as well. I'm just
14:42saying you can thread this needle if you get your hero RB and then if you can just get a couple of these guys in the
14:47later rounds in round seven through nine, can you get a waiver producer for a few weeks in there and all of a sudden
14:53you can kind of patchwork your RB2 to match the RBs getting drafted in the dead zone. Now, of course, you might
14:58find yourself in a spot where one of the dead zone running backs rounds four through six fall. And if a round four
15:03dead zone back falls to the end of round five and all of a sudden he's out projecting the wide receivers, you can
15:08take a stab in the dead zone if needed.
15:10I would even say in a two wide receiver one flex format, you should be taking your RB2 in the dead zone because you
15:16don't need to be as stacked at wide receiver as a two wide receiver two flex league. We actually just did a dead zone
15:21running back video yesterday where you can see I really like Scatabo and then I like ETN Swift toot and Bucky Irving.
15:27Everybody else are more of your dead zone profiles. I wouldn't be targeting in those middle rounds. Now in terms of quarterback and tight end strategy
15:35because we do want to have an early round quarterback or tight end. You can go both. You can go one or the other,
15:40but I would want to have one or the other at the very least. This is the league winner versus bust rates by round
15:46when it comes to position. And we can see with tight ends round three and four they usually crush. I love Coulson
15:52Lovelin this year. I'm fine with Bowowers or McBride on hero RB teams as well. But then you can also take stabs
15:57in the middle rounds if you want to get your Harold Fannon in Tucker Craft Kyle Pittz type of player. And then at
16:02quarterback you of course have Josh Allen. He is always super steady as a third round pick. I'm not doing the Lamar Jackson thing. You can see their
16:10bust rates at round three and four quarterbacks on this list. 22.2% is really tough. But then outside of that, you can take a quarterback wherever. I
16:19still do want to prioritize wide receiver in rounds five through six. So, I'm much more likely to do Josh Allen or
16:24punt on quarterback until round seven plus. We can get a Justin Herbert, a Brock Pury, Trevor Lawrence, one of those, you know, Dak Prescott, Jaylen
16:34Herz, one of those type of quarterbacks.
16:36I'm not paying up inside the top six rounds, but if there was ever a time to do it, it would be a Hero RB build. Now,
16:41before we get into these mock drafts, I do want to give you a couple of disclaimers. First, don't force it. Do
16:46not go to your draft and say, "Ron told me to do hero RB, so we're doing Hero RB." Watch the Hero RB video. Watch the
16:52double Hero RB video. Watch my overall draft strategy video. The idea is that you have a bunch of tools in your
16:57toolbox so that when you get to the draft, you can take the best player in every round through three rounds. And
17:03then in round four and later, you can start to mold your draft around the strategies we've talked about. You want the board to fall to you, not the other
17:11way around. And then you can decide, okay, this is actually going to be a hero RB team. Let's build it out this
17:16way. Or this is going to be a double her RB type of team. So just a disclaimer, don't force anything. Stay water, be
17:22fluid on draft day. That is the best way to draft these teams. I do these strategy videos so that you have
17:26different options to fall back on as your draft unfolds. Which then takes us here. We are going to do a two wide
17:33receiver, two flex, full PPR mock draft from the two spot, which means we're going to get Jamir Gibbs or Bejian Robinson to me the two clear hero RB
17:41candidates. You take them in your first or second pick here and then by the time you get back all the running backs will
17:47be wiped out. We're going to of course show off the basement draft guide. You are going to take your URL from your
17:51mock draft. You're going to come over to sync your league here and then we are going to sync this draft. Bang. Put it
17:59right on in. This is of course uh you're already league mates. We are drafting that in two days here. Uh it knows we
18:04are in the two spot. It is a two wide receiver, two flags full PPR league.
18:08Everything is locked in. With that being said, we're going to start this mock and see what we can do. Now, we did just say
18:15we're not going to force anything, but for the sake of this video, we're going to do a hero RB build, no matter what
18:21running back value falls back to us. I have long said that really the way you should be viewing your draft is it's a
18:29sprint to get these hero RBs ripped off the board. So, Derrick Henry, Walker, Chase Brown, and Hampton are still available. They should all get ripped
18:36off before our pick here. I don't think they're going. This should be Kenneth Walker. God damn [laughter] it. Now, if this was a real draft, you sprint to
18:45take Kenneth Walker, fellas. You sprint to take Kenneth Walker and you take that pick all day long. This should now refresh for us.
18:55Yeah, Kenneth Walker, my 13th ranked player, falls to us. This is why again you stay water. If this is you on the
19:01clock, maybe you go into this draft. All right. Uh Ron has said to hero RB from the two spot, it makes sense. No. Ken,
19:07if Kenneth Walker is there, you take Kenneth Walker, you audible, and oh my god, this is now a double hero RB build.
19:12But we're gonna take our second best player in a tier of his own here, Brock Bowers to have a fun little running back
19:19tight end start. We'll see what comes back. And of course, he doesn't take Kenneth Walker. He goes three straight RBs here on the turn. This sleeper mock
19:27again isn't really for accuracy. It's more just an example of how I would be playing this. Let's scroll down a little
19:35bit. We will take our highest ranked wide receiver in Chris Olive at this spot. And now all of a sudden, we feel
19:42good about our wide receiver one. We feel good about our tight end one. And we feel good about our RB one. And now
19:47we have a lot of flexibility at this 45 turn. Uh it's going to be very interesting to see what wide receivers
19:52come back to us because this technically rounds four through six is that RB dead zone. You can take a splurge in the RB
19:59dead zone and grab your RB2 here in a hero RB build or you can fully punt it off. Uh, and because we took Bowowers
20:06and we we only have Olive, I am definitely tempted to just start spamming receivers in this spot. Let's get this to refresh. Bang. Oh yeah,
20:14Jaylen Waddle in this spot is beautiful.
20:17He's our highest ranked player. We'll take him here. We'll see what comes back. We already have Bower, so I don't really feel a lot of pressure to take a
20:23quarterback early or anything. I assume that we're going to take Luther Burden at this pick. Yeah, he is our highest ranked player in a tier of his own. Of
20:31course, you can see target round. It's round five in this draft. That's where we want to be taking Luther Burden. You
20:36can see as well, we are two of five to six wide receivers through the flex spot before the wide receiver Cliff here. Uh
20:44you can see I'm five spots higher than Consensus. You can click on Luther Burton and see his notes here as well.
20:48Just showing off the draft guide. I'm telling you guys, uh we put a lot of work into this and I am very happy with
20:53how it turned out. We will take Luther the Burden there. So now we have our hero RB. We have two wide receivers. We
21:00have a wide receiver in the flex spot.
21:01We still need our second flex spot and then plus one or two before the cliff.
21:05We of course need to think about quarterback here. We need to think about our RB2 here eventually. Let's see what makes it back to us. Parker. Wow. Parker
21:13Washington in a tier of his own. And we have three running backs we like to potentially get back to us on this wrap
21:19here. And that's always the way to play this is you want to be playing within the tiers, right? So, of course, I have
21:24Marvin Harrison and Brian Thomas ranked ahead uh of these running backs, but knowing, okay, I have three running backs in the same tier. We just have to
21:31wait for two picks to happen at the turn. We have a wide receiver way ahead of everybody else. We will take Parker
21:35Washington here and then take whatever running back comes back as our RB2. Wow. We're going to take Jonathan Brooks, I think. Yeah,
21:46we're going to take Jonathan Brooks, a target of mine. Uh my highest ranked running back here. If you want to take
21:51Jaylen Warner or Aandre, you absolutely can. And this isn't a video for player takes, just a video for uh and you know,
21:56we're going to do the honorable thing in Sleeper. He's buried still Jonathan Brooks, which is just absolutely ridiculous. But this isn't a let's abuse
22:03the Sleeper ADP bots video. This is a let's just show you a realistic uh hero RB build. Here you can
22:13also see we now have four wide receivers. We need five to six before the cliff. Uh 14 before the cliff. We
22:20are in great shape here. Let's see what comes back. So, we can start thinking about quarterback here. Dak or Trevor Lawrence are some of my higher ranked
22:29players. Trevor Lawrence is actually the highest ranked player for me. So, let's do that. Let's do that. If we want to be
22:34strong everywhere but RB2, we can take Trevor Lawrence. Technically, a stack to Parker Washington here. And then we can definitely think about another running
22:43back because I I do feel pretty good about the Cliff. We're still how many wide receivers away from the Cliff? 11.
22:4811 wide receivers can pro we can probably last one more round. We're certainly pushing it there, but I think we can last one more round. It comes
22:55down to do we take a running back here or do we take one of Reader downs? I think we take a running back. Uh I have
23:00Corm ranked the highest. I like Bill. I like Gainwell. I think Oh, Corm went at the turn, of course. So, I think it's
23:07actually going to be Bill. I think we're going to kind of reach on Bill. He's a round nine target for me. Uh and we're
23:11in round nine. Perfect. Let's take Bill here as another RB2 option next to Jonathan Brooks. two upside swings at RB2. That's kind of how we're thinking
23:20through this. But because we have Lawrence, because we have Bowers, now we just want to get one to two more wide
23:25receivers before the cliff. Yeah. Now we just have a ton of receivers here. We have Golden, Xavier Worthy, Dean Stribbling, uh Denzel Boston. We like We
23:32have four wide receivers before the Cliff here. We have a ton of running backs here that I like. So, this isn't
23:36easy. I guess we'll take Matthew Golden, our highest ranked receiver, cuz what what are the running? Yeah, I have I mean this is just it kind of sucks when
23:42you're at a tier break like this where you know we have three running backs to pick from, three wide receivers to pick
23:47from, but Matthew Golden in the 10th round is just such a steal. We'll take him. That now satisfies wide receiver to
23:52the flex plus one before the cliff. This is a team where I would probably prefer two before the cliff. Yeah, let's let's
23:57take our our last receiver before the cliff here because we didn't take a a receiver until round three. We want to
24:01have that plus two. We could go worthy dribbling. I have all these guys back to back. Let's do round 11 dribbling. Let's
24:08get a a rookie with upside on this team.
24:11That's something else to think through.
24:12Like, yes, I I have worthy just ahead of stribbling, but let's get like some rookie upside on this team. So, you
24:18definitely want to be thinking through archetypes when you're drafting. Now, we have our six of five or six. We are all
24:22done at the wide receiver flex check tool. We are back on the board. Probably just going to take two more running
24:28backs here. Just our our two highest ranked RBs. If Kian Mitchell is still there, that's just a travesty. Yeah, we'll take Kian Mitchell. We'll see what
24:34comes back. should just be I think we're going to take Marshon Lloyd. Marshon Lloyd's a great pick as well. These sleeper if you have a draft on sleeper
24:42by the way I know a lot of drafts are happening this weekend. My god this is this is a bloodbath. Um absolute blood
24:49bath. But we'll take Marshon Lloyd here.
24:51That is the final team. We we hammered out some RB2 options. This is what I believe to be pure hero RB. We wait
24:59until round seven plus on this RB2. We have Bejon. I feel good about Trevor Lawrence. Olve, Wadd, Luther Burden, Parker Washington with Matthew Golden
25:07and dribbling off the bench. Our RB2 is a rotation of Brooks, Bill Crosky, Merritt, Keenan Mitchell, and Marshon Lloyd. We have an elite tight end on
25:14this team as well. This is to me as good as it gets in a hero RB build when it comes to the real extreme definition.
25:22Now, for the second mock, we did a half PPR, two wide receiver, one flex draft.
25:28Here I did just go off of the consensus ADP board instead of abusing the sleeper ADP values here just to make again a
25:35sample team in this format. Now when we shrink the roster right two wide receiver one flex all of a sudden what
25:41that's going to do is it's going to take value away from the wide receiver. It's going to push up the quarterbacks. It's
25:46going to push up the tight ends. It's going to push up the running backs a little bit even more so in a half PPR.
25:51So we really pushed it at wide receiver.
25:55Usually I am very wide receiver hungry.
25:56I'm very wide receiver heavy. But I do want to show you guys what I would do in a league like this. We go McCaffrey from
26:01the 106. This is going to be a very classic hero RB build. We come back around. All of those round one and two
26:06running backs get wiped. I take AJ Brown. This could have been Brock Bowers, though. Then in the middle of the third round in a league like this,
26:13again, the shallower that lineup is, the higher percentage of points scored goes towards quarterback and tight end, making those positions a lot more
26:23valuable. So in a two-eyed receiver one flex I'll push up Josh Allen into the middle of the third round. We come back
26:28around in the middle of the fourth and take Ibuka. This and a half EPR running back hungry league I think could be one
26:33of Ibuka Wadd lad mcconi Tedo McMillan Garrett Wilson at this 407 spot. We come back around to the fifth. I like the
26:40Andre Swift here. If he goes earlier you can of course take a Basil Tutin or a Bucky Irving. We come back around and we
26:47reach a little bit on Harold Fannon, but again in a shallower lineup like this in a hero RB build where we're punting off
26:53RB2, not even punting off, but we don't have the double hero that some of those guys at the one two turn have like a
26:59James Cook, Chase Brown. So, we do want to make sure that at tight end and quarterback, we're good to go. We take
27:04Harold Fannon. We come back around, we take Jaylen Warren, and then we stack up on receivers, right? Because through seven rounds, we have two wide
27:11receivers. We still need wide receivers through the flex. So that's wide receiver, wide receiver, a wide receiver in the flex plus one or two before the
27:18cliff. The cliff happening somewhere around wide receiver 50 or round 10. And here we go Jaden Reed in our flex which
27:24we can kind of choose between him and Jaylen Warren in our flex spot and then also Chris Godwin and then also Casey
27:31Conpsion on. So we have two strong RB2 options. One of them and DeAndre Swift technically being in the RB dead zone.
27:38So, I feel even better about his projection, meaning that we could just go three straight wide receivers to end out the top 10 rounds here to make sure
27:45we have wide receivers to the flex. That would be Jaden Reed. And then plus two before the cliff in Chris Godwin and
27:51Casey Conpsion. This team is good everywhere. Even RB2 isn't a full weakness like it was in our two wide receiver, two flex league I just showed
27:59you. Then my final team I'm going to show you guys is a real money draft. We did $350 on this channel. We stream
28:05these every single night between underdog, between a high stakes reddraft managed team like this. This is third round reversal. It's full PPR. It is
28:13three wide receiver one flex. It is six-point passing touchdowns. We go Justin Jefferson. Our hero RB is Saquon Barkley. We get Nico Collins, Jameson
28:20Williams through our wide receiver spots. We get a semi- elite tight end in Coloulston Leland. We get a running back technically in the dead zone, but we're
28:28talking late sixth round. If the dead zone is around 4 through six, you know, he's not no longer magically not a dead
28:34zone RB if we were to take him at 702.
28:36But we take Jaren Price as our RB2. Then we get Metaf and Jaden Reed. That gives us an full PPR wide receiver through the
28:42flex in DK Metaf plus one with Jaden Reed. Because we went Jefferson and three wide receivers through four rounds, I don't feel the need for the
28:49plus two. So, we start hammering out running backs. We go Tony Pard, Chris Rodriguez, we get a falling Jaylen Herz in this league. Then we get Jonah
28:56Coleman, a Jordan Love pick here. Then we get some rookies with upside and Omar Cooper and Sadique and Zachariah Branch and Kron Allen. But this to me is a very
29:06soundly built three wide receiver, one flex full PPR hero RB squad. This is what the starting lineup looks like. And I feel strong everywhere but my RB2 with
29:16Tony Pard there. And that is of course the goal. Now, that is going to do it for us today. If you've been watching
29:22along all summer, this now gives you my overall strategy so that you can adapt to every room. My double hero RB
29:27strategy, and then today, my hero RB strategy so that you can go into any draft room, take the best possible players early, and then adjust on the
29:35fly to create an absolute super team.
29:37And what else will help you create an absolute super team and win your league is the basement draft guide. I showed it
29:43off earlier with that first mock draft.
29:45It will cross off players as you go in any sleeper draft out there. has my tiered top 200 for full PPR, half PPR,
29:52superflex, my player notes for all my players, targets, fades, sleepers, everything you could possibly imagine.
29:57The flex check tool, the ADP edge tool to look at what values are representing themselves on whatever site you are drafting across the board. It is
30:06amazing. And then of course that is my draft day product in season. If you want my weekly rankings, my rest of season
30:10rankings, my waiverwire article, start sit streams every Sunday, that can be found on the Patreon, patreon.com/ronstewart.
30:16If you sign up there, you get the draft guide for half off. If you sign up annually on the Patreon, you get the
30:21draft guide for free. All of that will be down below in the description and the comment section below. As always, leave
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30:3485,000 subscribers by week one. Let's do it. As always, thank you for watching and I'll see y'all in the next one.
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