Draft These Players in These Exact Rounds and You Will Win
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0:00Good morning, friends and enemies. In today's video, we are going round by round, starting in round nine, ending in round one with the best pick and or
0:09picks to make in every round of your 2026 fantasy football draft. We did the opposite of this video in the last
0:16video. So, if you missed that, want to go check it out, see who your idiot league mates should be taking in fantasy
0:21drafts, go ahead and watch that video.
0:23In round nine, which is where we are starting, there is a man I am very fond of. Pause. resume and that is Josh DS,
0:30the Indianapolis Colts mini receiver.
0:33I'm such a fan of Josh DS. I think we've been waiting for this perfect storm to happen and it's finally here. Each year
0:41we hope that he progresses through the wide receiver depth chart in Indianapolis and it doesn't really happen. However, here's what's changed
0:48going into 2026. Michael Pitman no longer there. Alec Pierce, and I think this is the biggest turning point here, is his injury and and whether or not
0:57he's going to be ready to go for the start of the season. He's returning from this ankle surgery. And listen, I don't
1:02want to get like overly pessimistic and unrealistically pessimistic about his return from the ankle injury. I think there's a good chance he plays in week
1:09one, maybe week two or three at the latest. However, what this is going to do is open the door for Josh Downs to be
1:15playing on the outside. That's been the real uh deter as far as Josh Downs's role has been in this offense. they only
1:21allow him to play pretty much in three wide receiver sets playing those slot snaps. But since Michael Pitman is gone and since Adai Mitchell has pretty much
1:28been a pure outside receiver is gone and has been since last year, I think that opens the door to force Josh DS onto the
1:36field. And once he's out of the bottle, you can't put the top back on it. They have almost nothing on their depth chart
1:42behind Alec Pierce. So you have your number one outside guy returning from a pretty serious ankle rehab with an unclear return timeline right now and
1:51it's like Nick Westbrook Aini behind him. Of course Josh is going to be a near every down player and we've seen
1:57you know stints and we've seen flashes of what Josh DS can do and when you look at any of the underlying metrics he's
2:03one of the better separators at the wide receiver position and because he has so much experience in the slot like you can
2:09move him around all over the formation.
2:10I think he's good enough to play outside. Is he built to play outside?
2:14Probably not. But I think if you put him out there and allow him to run 80 90% of the routes, he's going to be pretty damn
2:18good. You have Daniel Jones coming back from the Achilles tear. I think he's going to be ready to go for week one.
2:23Ready to go. Does not mean fully healthy. Obviously, I think he's going to struggle a little bit to connect on the deep ball. And that's another reason
2:28why I'm kind of fading these guys that run these outside downfield routes on the Indianapolis Colts. I think it's just more difficult to push off and be
2:35accurate downfield. And the other thing I'll say about Josh DS, just an overall team thing for the Indianapolis Colts, their playoff schedule is phenomenal.
2:44You have Tennessee week 15, you have Cincinnati week 16, and then you have Cleveland in week seven. Cleveland's a, you know, a good defense, but without
2:49Miles Garrett, they're probably not the top 10ish defense that they've been in previous years. So, pretty soft schedule in the fantasy playoffs. So, to me, when
2:57I look at Josh DS, I look at a guy who's very talented and is likely going to be forced into an everyown situation this
3:05year, which it shouldn't take this long to get a guy like that on the field for all three downs. No pun intended, but I
3:11think I think we've gotten to the point there. So, at this price where there's so little opportunity cost, love Josh Downs in the ninth round. Full PPR, you
3:20really like it. A guy that you probably like a little bit less in full PPR, but I still think is going as a value. And I
3:26I haven't heard a lot of uh JK Dobbins hype going into the season. And I get it, he's always injured, but if you look
3:31back at last year, like he had one of the safest floors in terms of workload of any running back in the NFL. He
3:38played up until week 10, he had one single game with fewer than 14 carries.
3:42He had 11 carries in that game. So double digit touches in every single game he played last year. They went out
3:47and despite the injury that he suffered at the end of the season, ressigned him to, you know, a a not nothing contract
3:54here, which tells me he's returning as a starting running back here. Yes, they drafted Jonah Coleman, and I think that's a depth piece because Shawn
3:59Payeyton doesn't want to deal with JK Dobbins if he does end up getting hurt.
4:02Again, very much within the range of outcomes, but this feels a little bit to me like one of those situations where
4:08you have probably the best offensive line in the NFL, and you're kind of getting to just draft the starting running back here. like it it reminds me
4:15of probably a slightly worse situation than what Javvante Williams had last year. Another reason I I think people don't love JK Dobbins is because he was
4:23so boring last year. He scored four rushing touchdowns in their first five games and people are like, "Shit, why didn't I just draft this guy?" And then
4:31over the next five games that he played, he scored zero rushing touchdowns. So, it was continuously like 14 carries for 75 yards. To me, that's much more of a
4:39product of just like bad touchdown luck.
4:40The team is still good. The team is scoring points. The offensive line is still great. He's still getting the workload. He just didn't happen to be
4:46the one that got in on the one or two yard line. RJ Harvey is there. He'll take passing down work, but I think all
4:51the signs pretty clearly point to the fact that they don't want him playing on early downs for the most part. I also
4:57think one untapped part of JK Dobbins's game is that he is a relatively good pass catcher. He didn't do it at high
5:02volume last year, but I do think there's some variance that could be baked into the fact that this is a Shawn Payeyton
5:07offense. And Shawn Peyton offenses target the running back at such a high rate. annually they're within the top three to five in terms of target share
5:14to the running back position and it's not just on third downs or obvious passing situations. They do it a lot on
5:19early downs. It just didn't really happen often for JK Dobbin. So I could see this being a random, you know, variance problem where next year he's
5:26seeing two to three targets per game because he's playing so many of the snaps. So overall, I think this is obviously massive injury risk with a guy
5:34JK Dobbins. like he can never finish the season, but he is also objectively the starting running back in a very good
5:40offense, in a very good scheme behind one of the league's best offensive lines. So again, do I think it's likely he's this year's Javvante Williams?
5:47Like, of course not. That's a very long shot bet. But if there is a guy who's going to do it, like he has an extremely
5:53similar situation with a little bit more competition in the backfield, of course, between R.J. Harvey and Jonah Coleman.
5:58But like if he ends up running for 8 to 10 touchdowns because he's just in a good offense, right place, right time,
6:04getting the workload of 12 to 15 carries a game, you could do a lot worse in the ninth round. Moving down to round eight,
6:09this is a pretty quarterback heavy round. So it's kind of tough to like pick and choose who you want to go for
6:15here. And there are a lot of like boring high floor players like uh Michael Pitman in Pittsburgh, you have Rico Dael, you have Chris Godwin. guys that
6:23are like, you know, fine if you kind of need to throw them into your flex or second flex or something like that. But
6:29ultimately, I think this is a really good spot to grab quarterbacks. And we do have another quarterback on this list. So, I don't want to go like super
6:34heavy, but I think this is a great spot to grab quarterbacks. You have Trevor Lawrence, who I think has a great
6:38combination of upside with his arm right now with the weapons and Liam Cohen's offense and obviously showed a ton of athleticism last year. So, I I think
6:45five or six rushing touchdowns again could definitely be within the range of outcomes there. Then you have a couple, you know, underrated dual threat
6:51quarterbacks in Jackson Dart and Brock Pury and then Matt Safford obviously coming off the MVP season. So if you don't grab a quarterback up to this
6:57point, this seems like the perfect round to grab one. The other name I'll throw out here is Quentyn Johnson. I'm not
7:02like a huge fan of Quinton Johnson by any means. This is like a really good opportunity to get kind of like the
7:08cheapest part of the Los Angeles Chargers offense where I think most people are super excited about, right?
7:13You have Mike McDaniel coming over as the OC. You'll have a healthy offensive line which is also doubled down on and
7:19more invested into. You'll have Joe Alt back. You'll have Rashan Slater back.
7:22They go out and grab Tyler Bottish from Washington which is a great signing for them. They they draft Jake Slaughter in
7:27the second round. So they should they should go from the offensive line being a massive liability last year obviously to one of the better units in the NFL.
7:34So you give Herbert that. You give Mike McDaniel this to work with. And I also think the fact that they bring in
7:39Charlie Kar and David and Jooku on top of already having Aronda Gadston tells me that they're probably going to go heavy personnel often. And what that
7:46typically means is less wide receivers on the field. So typical two wide receiver sets, meaning more targets for the wide receivers. And everything out
7:53of out of training camp is like Mike McDaniel loves Quinton Johnson. So he's probably more boom bust on a weekly basis because that's just the type of
7:59player he is. But I do think if you're investing in the Chargers offense, like you have to spend a really early pick on
8:04Omarian Hampton. You also have to spend a pretty early pick on Lad Mani. So, if you want to get parts of this passing
8:10offense that will be a player who's probably on the field for 80 plus% of the snaps, Quinton Johnson feels like a
8:16pretty good gamble at this point in your draft. Moving into round seven, this will be for me an exclusive tight end
8:24draft pick. All right, this is where two guys that I absolutely love, Tucker Craft and Sam Laaporta, are sitting.
8:30Last year when I made this video, we exclusively reserved the fourth round for Trey McBride. That turned out well.
8:35One of my few good calls. We're going to double down and exclusively remove every other player from this round except for
8:42tight ends. So, you have these veteran tight ends that have kind of fallen out of favor because we have that elite
8:48group of second-year guys, you know, jumping up the ranks in in Fannon and Lovelin and Tyler Warren and obviously the recent breakouts of Brock Bowers and
8:56Trey McBride and deservedly so. My thing with tight ends is this. Like, if I don't end up spending up for an elite
9:02tight end, which I don't really hate with Bowers this year, and I don't hate with Lovelin this year either. If I
9:06don't do that, I'm not one of those people that's like, I'll just draft one in round 10 or 11 and like grab two of
9:11them and hope one of them breaks out. I want a set and forget guy. I don't care if he's boring. Give me those 10 points
9:16per game with, you know, a touchdown outlook every other week or something like that. And I think you get that with
9:21Leaporta and Tucker Craft being attached to Green Bay's offense and Detroit's offense. So, we'll start with Leaporta.
9:27And obviously a lot of things to touch on here, but in the three years since he's entered the NFL in terms of fantasy
9:33points per game at the tight end position, he's been tight end three his rookie year, tight end eight, and then tight end seven last year. And I think
9:39what gives me the most confidence is the consistency we've continued to see across the Detroit passing offense. I think a lot of people were off them last
9:45year because they lose Ben Johnson and we're like, "Oh, they're going to fall off." And then Jared Goff just has his
9:50normal statistical 4,500 yards, 30 plus passing touchdowns and nothing fell off.
9:55And that gives me a ton of confidence for a dude like Sam Laaporta knowing that even without Ben Johnson, we could
10:00still write the ship. And now we have Drew Pson coming in who I'm not like a huge fan of from, you know, creativity
10:06play caller standpoint, but he did just come out of Arizona where Trey McBride eight and then eight and then eight and
10:10then eight. So at least we know he can feature a tight end in his passing offense. I think Sam Leaport is his
10:15second most important passing piece of this offense outside of Gibbs. But Aman Rah and then Leaporta. Like I do think Leaporta is more important to this
10:22offense than Jameson Williams is. and Jameson Williams tends to eat when Leaporta is not playing. So, he's coming off the back injury and I think that's
10:28another reason you're kind of getting like an injury discount on Sam Leaporta.
10:31But all signs point to him being fully clear for training camp and and and no issues in terms of his injuries heading
10:37into 2026. On the other side, Tucker Craft, the major concern here, of course, is his ACL. Suffers a torn ACL midway through 2025. Through those eight
10:46games, though, when he was healthy, 14.7 PPR fantasy points per game, tied for second most in the NFL. only McBride would have finished higher than him.
10:54We've just seen craft develop into this, he was another guy that I loved last year, too, and it looked really good
11:00obviously until halfway through the season, but he's someone who's just improved and developed into this like all-around playmaker in each of his
11:08three seasons so far. He's gotten better and better and better, and he's one of the few tight ends in the NFL that I
11:13think you can actually like build a passing game around because he's so explosive with the ball in his hands. He has been top three in yards after catch
11:21per reception, yards per reception. You could target him downfield. You can give him a ton of line of scrimmage targets as well and let him kind of eat with
11:27that afterwards. And now you have guys like Romeo Dobs and Dontavon Wix gone.
11:31So the target tree is going to get more condensed. Now the ACL is the problem here. The things I think are working for
11:36him is that he's 25 years old. So he's very young and he can rehab. You could also just kind of search Twitter and
11:41look at any of the reports out of camp are that Craft is like way ahead of schedule and fully expected to be good
11:46to go by week one. How much weight do you want to put on that? Up to you, but I'm buying the reports. The other thing
11:51too is the Green Bay medical staff is like notoriously cautious with allowing players to return from injuries. So I do think if he gets the clearance to go for
11:59week one. Yeah, maybe he's a little bit rusty for the first 3, four weeks of the season, but if they let him go, I'm
12:05going to believe with like 95% certainty that he is fully healed. And again, maybe Russy the first month of the season, but Craft, unlike Leaporta where
12:14like sure, he had the good rookie season, but I think that was when he finished as the tight end one, that was
12:18more of like a lack of high upside other options in the NFL. I don't know that I believe Leaporta has overall one upside
12:24in him outside of like maybe a random like 12 or 13 touchdown season. Tucker Craft's a dude who could finish as the
12:30tight end one overall. And you know what, it might be uh the tight end five overall at the end of the season, but
12:35like he could be the tight end one in fantasy from weeks 6 through 18, and that's going to be a league winning type
12:40of player. He has that type of upside, and I'm super willing to take that shot on Tucker Craft in the seventh round.
12:45The other player that I will point out here, non-tightend if you want to go elsewhere, is uh Jordan Tyson. I want to
12:50take a shot on Jordan Tyson somewhere in my fantasy drafts this year. Love the setup, love the player. I think he could
12:56legitimately battle Chris Alve for the team lead in receiving yards this year.
13:02Maybe over the second half of the year.
13:03Maybe not the full outlook of it, but I am a huge fan of Jordan Tyson. I'm a huge fan of the situation, the strength
13:08of schedule, playing in the dome, the environment, Kell Moore, tons of plays.
13:12It's fast-paced. Like me some Jordan Tyson. Round six is where I think all hell kind of just breaks loose here. And
13:19you have all types of upside and downside and risk and first round rookies and high upside. Christian Watson's of the world and you've got
13:27multiple Jaguars wide receivers. There's a lot of guys I like in this round, but I think I'm going to narrow this round
13:32down specifically to one player and that is Jaden Daniels, the quarterback for Washington. All right, we are one year removed from him putting up a a 4500
13:43yard season total yards, 900 rushing yards, 31 total touchdowns as a rookie.
13:48and a lot of people going out on a limb last year, you know, touting him as the possible overall quarterback one in
13:54fantasy football. I wasn't there, but like if you're getting him now at QB6, at QB7 in drafts, wherever he's going in
14:01the sixth round, that rushing upside is so enticing. Last year, he obviously dealt with like 95 different injuries.
14:08Can he stay healthy for the full season?
14:10Listen, one thing I've learned is I'm not trying to predict injuries in season. I think if a guy is going into a
14:15year and he's not fully cleared or an injury happens at the end of August or something like that, you know, you're
14:20playing with fire in that case. But I'm not going to try to predict fluky injuries to a guy like Jaden Daniels.
14:25Could happen, whatever. That's just not how I'm drafting. Now, the Washington receiver group is is it's gross. Like the weapons group out there is gross.
14:32They got Terry McLaren who he was another one like all of last year. He went in with a contract hold out and
14:37then he got hurt pretty early and that just hampered his entire season. They do go out and sign Chiggy at tight end
14:42which I like. They draft Antonio Williams to be a slot guy who I like. I still think they're very likely or
14:48they're probably the favorite to sign one of, you know, Keenan Allen andor Stefon Diggs, which I think will then solidify their group as being like not
14:55great but not the worst. I've also never been a fan of Cliff Kingsberry's offenses. So getting David Blau in there, I'm I'm actually excited for. I
15:03think their scheme will help Jaden Daniels much more than what Cliff Kingsberry's was. So I don't know. I'm I'm just looking around and I'm seeing
15:09Jaden Daniels who rushed for 900 yards as a rookie. Like you're getting a dude that could easily rush for 1,000 yards
15:16right now in the sixth round and that feels free. Like you know he's putting up 30point games throughout the season.
15:21So yeah, all this to say there's nothing new here. I think you just need to drop the recency bias. The rookie of year
15:28amazing for Jaden. Sophomore year terrible. Lot of injuries, lot of just going on in Washington. New year, wipe the slate clean. you know how
15:37explosive of a player Jaden Daniels is.
15:39Just let that be your pick. Moving into round five, let's show some love to the here. I'm going Mike Evans at the 509.
15:48Mike Evans moves from Tampa Bay for the first time in his career. He will be playing elsewhere. San Francisco 49ers signed him to be their wide receiver
15:56one. I I I believe that he will be the dude running routes on every single snap. I think behind him totally up for
16:02grabs. Do I like Ricky Pierol? Yeah, I'm I'm willing to take shots on him later in the draft, but I think Mike Evans is
16:07going to contend for leading the league in touchdowns this year. I think you have George KD, who's been a good red
16:13zone target obviously for Brock Perie.
16:15They've had great chemistry. He's returning from an Achilles tear. It's a very serious injury. It happened very late in the season and he's old. That's
16:21going to be tough to come back from. So outside of Evans, you have no real like proven downfield threats. You have CMAC
16:27who's obviously going to see, you know, 23 25% target share, but then it's just Mike Evans, man. And the thing about
16:33Evans is like maybe you think he's lost a step that sure he got hurt last year, but when he's on the field, I've seen
16:39nothing out of him that makes me feel as if he's too old to play at a high level anymore. And I think being part of the
16:45Kyle Shanahan scheme is also one of those things that takes pressure off of top guys. It takes pressure off of dudes
16:51who are aging a little bit where I think like even if Mike Evans has lost a step, Kyle Shanahan is so creative at getting
16:56his best playmakers open and scheming them to the right parts of the field that I don't think it's really going to
17:01matter. So, moving from round five down to round four. Just want to remind you before we do so, all of my rankings and
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18:04you'll get that. Let's move to round four. And I think round four might be the round to take your shot. Round four
18:08is going to be the one that you want to get a little bit risky on because I think a lot of the players in this round
18:13are risky where when we move to round three, I think you have more sure things. I think you have like high floor
18:18boring picks that will cement a really good roster. But round four has a lot of players if you're like a Luther Burden
18:23guy or a Coulson Lovelin guy, you want to shoot on some upside for Chicago. I like that. For me in particular, I have
18:29one boring pick who we've seen do it a million times. I have one risky pick who we've seen do it once and then flat it
18:35out. And then I have one very high upside but high-risisk pick. So we'll start with Lad Makanki. A lot of what I
18:41said for Quinton Johnson I think is echoed to Lad except he's a lot more expensive because he's already shown the upside in his rookie season where he
18:48blasted off for over a thousand yards. I love his fit in the Mike McDaniel offense. I could see him easily using
18:53him in the way that he's used Jaylen Wadd or Tyreek Hill over these recent years. Of course, it's a little bit
18:57scary coming off like the absolute disaster of his sophomore season last year, but I'm willing to chalk up most of the Chargers tendencies 2025 to the
19:05fact that the offensive line getting hurt just kind of ruined everything in LA. With Lad, I again it's I want the
19:12highest upside piece of this passing offense that I think could legitimately contend for one of the best in the NFL.
19:17I would say if I have concerns about Lad, they would be do we ever get to the point where Lad can see 140 150 targets
19:24and be a true true alpha number one in an offense. You know, remains to be seen. Also, touchdown up size is a
19:31little bit tough given his size. Like when they're down inside the 10 or five, they're likely drawing up plays for the
19:35tight ends. They're likely drawing up plays for Marin Hampton. Justin Herbert, you know, we know can scramble a little bit too. So wouldn't be surprised if he
19:41puts together like a Trevor Lawrence light type of year last year where when they're inside the 10, he kind of just
19:45dips out and runs for four, five, six rushing touchdowns in that area of the field. So there are definitely concerns with Lakoni, but I do think as just a
19:53separator and as a player attached to an offense and this type of scheme is one that I I want to attach myself to going
20:00into 2026. If I don't get lad, I love me some Cam Scatabo, man. This is without a doubt the scariest pick to make here.
20:07But Cam Scatter, what he showed as a fourth round rookie last year through the first eight weeks of the season before he got hurt was legitimately like
20:13elite stuff. Third, third among running backs in expected fantasy points per game. What that just tells you is his role was as good as pretty much anyone
20:22outside of a Christian McCaffrey or a Bean Robinson or a Jir Gibbs type. It he's not that explosive obviously and he's not as good of an NFL running back.
20:30And the biggest elephant in the room here is the ankle injury that he suffered. But I mean the videos coming out are just insane. He's doing back
20:36flips everywhere. The guy cannot stop doing back flips. He lands some of them, he doesn't land some of them. But to me,
20:42I think he's fine. Everything out of camp says that he's a full go to be that guy. I think there's a lot of people
20:47that are just pointing to two injuries over and over and over again that are similar injuries, but from what I've heard are actually worst case scenarios
20:54for these injuries as opposed to Cam Scatabos. And that's Tony Pard and that's Mark Andrews. One, Mark Andrews was old by the time it happened to him.
21:01And that's a tight end. I don't I don't care about that one. Tony Pard I think is more relevant because he was a young
21:06explosive running back. Tony Pard's injury, his fractured ankle that hurt him in the early portion of the following year happened late late
21:15January. You're talking about January 20, I think it was 22nd, 23rd, 24th, somewhere in that range, very late into the NFL offseason. Cam Scatterballs
21:22happened at the end of October, early November. So you're talking about a pretty massive gap in between the recovery timeline that Cam has relative
21:30to Tony Pard. So Tony Pard was one worse and also happened much later in the season. I just cannot emphasize how big
21:37of a role Cam Scatabo had in this Giants offense last year. It was every single goal line carry, nine of nine goal line
21:44carries through the first eight weeks of the season, 100% of them. He had 23 of 26 red zone carries and he had 65% of
21:50the running back targets despite remember last summer he was dealing with I think it was a hamstring injury for most of camp. So he actually missed a
21:57lot of summer camp and then still dominated the touches. Now, they do have a new coaching staff, so obviously that could skew things, but Cam Scabbo is a
22:04workhorse, man, and I think they're going to use him accordingly. This offense could be really exciting if Malik Neighbors is actually back and is
22:09playing week one or two. Jackson Dart excites me. They also use the top 10 pick on an offensive lineman, so that
22:14will be a little bit better. I don't think they're going to be a top tier offensive line by any means, but good to
22:18see them invest in that as opposed to not. So, yeah, I I love taking shots on Cam Scato if he's your if he's your
22:24running back, too. I think the workload is going to be super super high and he gets all the valuable touches as well.
22:30Like he gets the goal line carries cuz he's a [ __ ] battering ram and he's also unbelievably skilled in the passing
22:36game. He is such a smooth athlete and pass catcher and and that's where the upside comes in with a dude like Cam
22:42Scatabo. So I love him. The other dude in this round that I mentioned that I would touch on quickly is just Dvonte
22:46Adams. I know people are kind of off on him. And I think he's, you know, past the the twilight years of his career,
22:51which very well might be true. But I still think Devonte Adams as the only other passcatching weapon in an offense that just saw Matt Stafford throw for a
22:58billion yards and 45 plus touchdowns and win the MVP and you're attached to Shawn McVey is still a part of an offense that
23:05I want. Like even if Dvonte Adams is not as good as he once was, his targets per route run, like he's still getting
23:10targeted at an insane level and he's still going to be a top red zone option and he's still going to lead the NFL in
23:16endzone targets most likely. So, did he lose a step? Possibly. But I just love the situation here. As we move into
23:22round three, I mentioned that this to me is a high floor round. I'm looking at guys like Javvante Williams, Josh Jacobs, and Devonte Smith. Those to me,
23:30you have Devonte Smith coming in and stepping in as the wide receiver one in Philadelphia with AJ Brown leaving.
23:36Anytime AJ Brown didn't play, Dvonte Smith just absolutely balled out. He is such a good route runner and separator that I I just don't see a world where
23:43he's not fed 140 targets this year and kind of just provides you an extremely high floor, you know, borderline wide receiver one season. I'd be surprised if
23:52he doesn't finish somewhere within the wide receiver 9 to like 13 range and as a third round pick like happy to just
23:58kind of throw that into my PPR lineup and enjoy the fruits of that. They're going to be a healthy offensive line
24:03again and be much better than they were last year. Obviously Kevin Patula is out of there. So that is my, you know, and
24:08AJ Brown being out of there. Talent being gone sucks obviously, but there's a lot less toxicity now in Philly, which could mean a better overall, you know,
24:16environment for the rest of the playmakers there. So Devonte Smith, I have every confidence level that he can be the wide receiver one on that team.
24:23Javant Williams again showed us last year that he is the RB1 in Dallas is an extremely high-scoring offense, extremely productive offense where they
24:30add no competition to that backfield.
24:32And I'm not even sure Jaydon Blue is going to carve out a role. Like it might just be Javante Williams once again
24:36playing 75 to 80% of the snaps. And because he's on Dallas's offense, like he's going to get a billion goal line
24:43carries just by being in the right place at the right time. So Javvante smash pick at the end of the third round. Same
24:47thing with Josh Jacobs. Obviously there's the uncertainty off the field, but when the Green Bay Packers are playing and Josh Jacobs is playing, he
24:55is the workhorse. Like he's a boring pick. I think I think people think of him as a boring pick, but when the
25:00season actually happens, you are super happy to have him on your team cuz the dude just scores a touchdown every single game. When they are inside
25:06the 5 yard line, all they do is give the ball to Josh Jacobs. The biggest concern I would have with Jacobs and I don't
25:12think it like it didn't really deter him last year. He got hurt and I would even say that he was great up until when he
25:17got hurt and then almost the entire, you know, last quarter or half of the season was playing with a completely bum lower
25:24leg. But up until that point, he was great. Their offensive line is actually kind of problematic. They do not have a
25:28good offensive line. I think we saw that last year. They got very little push and it felt like Josh Jacobs was getting 18
25:33carries a game that just went for two or three yards. We're going to see that again. He's going to get a lot of work,
25:37but I think he's good enough out of the back field as a pass catcher. And of course, he's just got so much touchdown
25:42equity in that offense. The last one I will throw out is the opposite of a high floor guy, but that's Jeremiah Love.
25:47Number three pick. I'm surprised that he's dropping this far. I think in a lot of drafts he'll go at the end of the
25:52second round. If he drops into the bottom of the third round, this was not a player that I thought I'd be taking
25:56any sort of shares of. But if he does drop into the third round, I'm very very interested in Jeremiah Love just because
26:01of his pass catching profile. The fact that Arizona is expected to win about four games per Vegas this year. They will once again be in a lot of catchup
26:08mode type of situations here. I think Algier will definitely have a role there. maybe even the goal line role, unfortunately. But I think Love between
26:15his like breakaway plays, between his pass catching ability, and between just like the overall workload floor he's going to have from being the number
26:22three overall pick in the draft is something that I'm like super on board with in round three. Moving to round two, uh we just have like a grabag of
26:30just workhorse running backs here. And my two favorite are Chase Brown and Kenneth Walker. Love Chase Brown. Have him for the last couple years. He was
26:38one of these guys on this list last year. started off slow but then was as good as any fantasy running back over
26:43the second half of the year when Joe Burrow came back and was healthy.
26:46Similar to Javant Williams, they had zero competition in that backfield. And I should also, you know, kind of rewind and say that for Josh Jacobs, like they
26:53just let Emanuel Wilson walk. They didn't add anything to the backfield.
26:56Yes, Marshon Lloyd is now healthy, but that's not an addition to the backfield.
27:01If anything, he's just the same as Emanuel Wilson pretty much. Anyways, you look at guys who were in situations last year that performed great in very very
27:09plus+ plus offenses where no competition was added. So expecting different results feels idiotic. All right, so that's really my pitcher Chase Brown. He
27:18is the number three target in this offense. It's Jamar and it's D. Higgins and then it's Chase Brown. Is there a
27:23world where touchdown variance goes towards Chase Brown? This is an offense that's probably going to average, you know, 27, 28, 29 points per game, be
27:30very, very high scoring. What if Chase Brown ends up scoring 12 rushing touchdowns this year? I don't think that should surprise anybody. So, he'll get
27:37another 65 to 70 targets. He'll catch a bunch of passes. He'll get the majority of rushing workload and all they have
27:42behind him is like a 31-year-old Samaja Perine. So, yeah, I'm I'm all in on Chase Brown again. I think this is like
27:48a no-brainer pick in the second. And I just love the upside of of Kenneth Walker. Like you you clearly need something else there in the Kansas City
27:54offense to take a little bit off the uh the weight of Patrick Mahomes's shoulders. I think, you know, the the biggest thing for KC over the last few
28:03years has been one, the defense has gone defenses in the NFL have gone so heavy into the cover two shell, so you can't
28:08take shots downfield. And of course, they get rid of Tyreek Hill a bunch of years ago, and that completely like cratered the offensive success that this
28:15team has had via the passing game. And I think they've really, really struggled because they haven't had a running game.
28:20And when you add a dude like Kenneth Walker for the contract that they gave him, they're doing that with workhorse workload in mind. We've seen times where
28:29Kenneth Walker has looked like one of the best running backs in the NFL. And you know, we saw it at the end of last
28:33year into the Super Bowl. And that's why he grabs his contract. And again, I'm not going to go into the year scared
28:38drafting Kenneth Walker because he's been hurt before. If he has an ankle sprain at the end of August, yeah, he'll probably be off my board. But for right
28:45now, the situation is fantastic. The offense is fantastic. He's got Patrick Mahomes, who's coming back from the ACL tear, so they'll no doubt need to be
28:53leaning on the running back more. You got Andy Reid there. Like Kenneth Walker I think is a smash pick in the second.
28:58And then we moved to round one and I I don't know. There's nothing I could really say that you guys don't know
29:02about the round one players. Jir Gibbs is my clear 101 there. So if that's a question for you guys love Gibbs. I was
29:08off CMAC last year stupidly for just being like a he's probably going to get hurt kind of thing. Not making that
29:13mistake again. Same situation. Should get a bajillion targets again. Happily drafting CMAC in the first round. Love Aman Ross St. Brown again if you're in
29:21like the mid to later part of the first round. And I really like James Cook.
29:24He's my RB4. So [ __ ] is just sweet all over the the first round of uh of fantasy drafts. It just feels like kind
29:30of like a waste of time being like, "Yo, I really like Jir Gibbs, bro. It's like who amongst us." So I will wrap up
29:37there. I hope you guys enjoy this video.
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