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0:04drafting a team in the 2026 FFPC Pros versus Joe's. I'm Theo Greinger, lead fantasy analyst right here at Rotoire. We are in the seven spot here. Uh tricky
0:17spot, you know, it's it's not the end of the world here. And a reminder of what this contest is, this is baseball and
0:23this is closed 12 team league here where the winner of the league gets a FFPC main event entry. So $2,200 at stake here. Uh this is a very cool concept
0:35where you have a combination of pros, people in the industry, and in this draft tonight, it's uh JJ Zachares. He's drafting out of the five spot. You've
0:46got uh Jared Smola out of the 11. Mike Schop out of the one hole. Uh Stacy Perez is in this one. Uh Connor Allen,
0:54really sharp guy, he's in this one. But then you've got the Joe's. And the Joe's for the this is like high stakes FFPC
1:00managers who have main event entries. And I've competed in this as both. I've been a pro, I've been a Joe, I've done
1:08well as both. Um we won the whole thing. finished first overall uh with Dan Williamson back in 2022. Uh 2024 I was fifth overall in this. Won it. Um and
1:20then as a as a Joe when I first entered it I was like seventh. So we I've done pretty well in this. Last year fifth in my league I was like 30 something. So really looking to turn things around.
1:32This year was a good year for me last year but not in the FFPC pros versus Joe's. Out of the seven spot tonight,
1:38Mike Schop at the one. Um, he's gonna go, he went Jir Gibbs. And then you got Vince Stallofino at the two. Vince I go
1:46up against in Vegas. Really, really sharp FFPC manager. Uh, has won a ton of money in multiple formats. He's at the at the 102. Uh, Connor Allen goes Pukuna. So, at the seven here,
2:00I have a general idea who I'm going to take here at the seven. It's relatively chalky here in terms of like who I'm going to go with. I mean, obviously
2:11Brock Powers would have been nice. He went at the 105. And again, this is best ball, so I'm wide open in what I can do.
2:19There's been three of these, so I have a general idea of sort of like what way the drafts have gone, but it's not dead
2:25set ADP like in some formats. So, the 106 drafters OTC here.
2:32Okay, so they took Jackson, Smith, and Jigba, and I'm OTC here at the 107. And this could be Christian McCaffrey. This, but I'm I'm probably not feeling
2:44that one. I like some of the running backs that I think will be available to me in the second round. Uh I think I'm going to go wide receiver here. I've
2:50kind of had a plan that if it was Aman Ross Brown versus Christian McCaffrey at the 107 for me in this particular format, I was going to go with Aman Raw. So, I'm going to go with Aman Raw. I
3:02think he's a really, really fun uh pick. I obviously took him in my main event draft uh which I streamed right here on
3:08RotoWire uh YouTube and and on right here on the podcast as well. So let's lock in on Raw. He's been going at like
3:15the 110 um in these pros versus Joe's. So a little bit ahead of ADP, but I I like it here. It gives me the ability to correlate. Team8 snaps up Christian McCaffrey. Um you're going to see
3:28multiple tight ends start flying off the board, too. So we we'll see how this goes. Let us know in the comments here.
3:34Would you have gone on Raw St. Brown? Uh Henry Mudo, shout out in the chat. Chat is uh chat is looking great tonight.
3:41Really really appreciate everybody uh who's been supporting this show. We've had a really phenomenal July. Uh set the record for the most YouTube views ever at Rotoire this July. So looking to run it back. Three running backs go off the
3:54board. End of the first round here. Christian McAffrey, James Cook, Jonathan Taylor. Now, Jared Smola, who's been on with me uh many, many times, incredibly sharp guy. He's at the 11. He's OTC
4:06here. We'll see which way Jared goes. And uh shout out to Darren Armani, Fantasy Mojo. They set the the league.
4:13These leagues have uh odds. So, they've set uh me and Vince and Jared are all seven to one to win this one. So, we're we're at the top here. We'll we'll see how that goes. Um Ashton Genty goes to
4:26Jared Smola. We also saw Bag Batoba in his draft take Genty, I believe, at the 111 for Abib as well. So, it's going to be a few straight uh running backs. I expect we'll see Trey
4:38McBride pretty soon. The 205 for me or excuse me, the uh the 206 will be interesting.
4:50You've got a uh chance here that one of the tight ends will be there and it'll put me in sort of a dilemma. I there's also a chance that a wide receiver falls to me, an interesting one.
5:04And then of course there's going to be about three running backs that are in consideration. So CD Lamb goes to Jared
5:10at the 202. That was somewhat expected, but we saw CD Lamb fall in a couple of these ones.
5:18So, combining Aman Ross Stain Brown, it's interesting. I I I sort of was looking at some of these boards and trying to plan out which way I was going to go here. And at the second round, I'm
5:30sort of running back versus tight end was sort of my lean. Um, so that's sort of sort of where I'm going to go here.
5:36Leading into the running back position. Chase Brown goes off the board. He was in my queue. Would have been a solid
5:43value at the at the 206.
5:52So Stacy Perez takes Coloulston Loveland ahead of Trey McBride. Uh, a lot of people are on that one right now. I'm I have them close. I have Trey McBride still ahead. Uh, but he's very, very
6:05interesting. So, I'm one pick away here.
6:14And we're gonna see which way this goes.
6:23The suspense here.
6:29TNT Joe's at the 205 is is taking their sweet time.
6:35All right. So, they want to leave me Trey McBride at the 206. So, I'm going to take Trey McBride at the 206. Um, and
6:40I get it. There's people off of him, but I'll take it. I think this is the lowest he's gone in the pros versus Joe's so far. Again, you don't know which way this is going to go. Um, this is this is
6:53a a league in a format where ADP can sort of be thrown out the window sometimes because people want to get
7:00again, it's it's you're not playing for like a big major overall price here, a prize here. You essentially you are because there is an overall pros versus Joe's winner. like you'll be ranked
7:12versus every other uh player in this whole field. Um but it's really like moneywise it's just you versus these other 11 guys. So and other 11 people. Stacy's in this one too. So shout out to
7:25Stacy uh going Lovelin there. She goes James Cook and Coloulston Lovelin to start out. A couple other uh starts here. Jared Smola, Genty and CD Lamb. Uh we see uh JJ Zachares went Brock Bowers
7:38and Drake London. So, we sort of have similar builds here. Tight end, wide receiver. Um, but he took Bowowers in the first round. My tight end won. And I end up with McBride at at the uh again the 206.
7:50So, it's a nice start for me. I like it. I took this in the main, too. I took this in the main a little later in the first round. So, we'll sort I was at the
7:57108 for that one. So, very very similar. So, go Trey McBride. Let's silence all the haters. Uh, with a big performance this year. Devon Han and Saquon Barkley both went
8:09off the board. Uh, two guys that I would have considered. Now, you start talking about you start talking about structure in these formats and it's 20 rounds and again, you can go any way here. And if
8:23if I end up pushing running back, then you've got to sort of uh up the ante in terms of number of running backs. But in
8:29like an everything being equal uh build, if you like your running backs, you're probably at six running backs in this in
8:36this build. If you took a running back in the first round, you probably turn that into five. But you don't want to go too crazy. It could be could be
8:42potentially seven, but I don't want to go too crazy. Ideally, three quarterbacks, but if it's the two right quarterbacks, then I don't mind going two quarterbacks with the build. I want to have uh high access to a number of
8:56wide receivers. And now that I've taken Trey McBride, the pressure is off me at tight end in terms of like having to like throw a bunch of different tight ends at the board and try to like hit
9:07with a volume approach. I mean, Trey McBride, if you're making a bet on him, draft like you're right and and draft
9:14like Trey McBride is going to be the tight end one or the tight end two. So, uh we'll we'll see. It's uh we're going
9:20to see how this thing goes. Tyler Warren goes to Vince. So Vince Stallfino, really, really sharp FFPC manager who's won a lot of money. His start is Bejian Robinson, Rashi Rice, uh, and Tyler Warren. And what's interesting is Vince
9:35passed on AJ Brown. AJ Brown goes at the 301 to Mike Shopee. Malik Neighbors goes at the 303. Um, shout out to everybody in the chat. They're talking about
9:46Javier's lines. Yeah, fantasymojo.com does such a great job with this one. And if you want a chance to play in this
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10:08subscriber. You can use the code Theo25 and get 25 free. So basically $25 off an entry for $25 free is is really a nice way to play it. $100 gets you $125 entry uh with using
10:22my code Theo25. Go check out the FFPC. Bree Hall goes at the 305. He would have been a fun one. Is Jeremiah Love going to land here to me? Am I going to draft
10:33Jeremiah Love here? I understand that this is a little bit of uh you know, people dodging it, but I don't mind it
10:41and it would get me a running back that I think would be exciting. I don't love the idea of going with two Arizona Cardinals, but I don't mind it if it's
10:48and there you go. Jeremiah Love goes one pick ahead of me. So, I'm OTC here and I'm sort of deciding between several wide receivers here. I I don't love
11:00going running back over wide out here. I I think I'm looking at guys like Devonte Smith, Chris, Amecha Ibuka. I think are all super interesting here.
11:12uh really could go in a number of directions. And yeah, so many people saying Griffin saved you from disaster. It would have been tough putt having the
11:19uh tough having the the two Arizona Cardinals there. Um for me here, Josh Allen would also be really interesting.
11:3715 seconds left. I think we're going to go Chris Ave in this one. I like a lav and I think it gives me a
11:44chance to build up some correlation a little bit later. Uh potentially Tyler Shuck if I wait on quarterback would be a really fun one. So my start here is I'm on Ross St. Brown, Trey McBride, and
11:57Chris Ave. Uh fun start. No running back. Fourth round probably looking at potentially a running back here. Josh Allen in the fourth round though would be incredibly hard to pass up. I imagine
12:09he's going to go. But fourth round, we're probably looking at a running back. But never say never. There are going to be a number of running backs sort of going in that
12:21round five through 10 range that I think are interesting, especially in baseball. So, we're going to kind of stay dangerous here at the 406. Really tilting there to pass up on Josh
12:34Allen. I've used him in some of these uh FFPC best baseball contests. I think he's a really interesting one, especially in a closed baseball league um because of the edge kind of he gives
12:45you. At 406, I think I'd be considering him, but it didn't feel like necessary.
12:50A I like a lot. I feel like he's sort of just sitting there. There's not like a whole lot of buzz with a um and I get
12:58it. There's people saying sort of the this whole tier of wide receiver is similar. There's guys who could outscore a L, but I think what you're going to see is you're going to see a a a huge run of wide receivers here. And there
13:11Josh Josh Allen goes to the to the team picking 12th. So the 12th team, Troy Wells, has Justin Jefferson, Amarian Hampton, Josh Allen. But before that, we had five wide receivers in a row with Chris Ave for me, Amecha Eggbuka, Lad
13:25Man, Devonte Smith, and Z Flowers. So that was eight of the 12 picks in the third round were wide receivers. So it was like a wide receiver run there. But I'm pretty pleased with my Aman Raw Trey
13:40McBride Chris Ave start. I took a Mega Ebuka in like multiple drafts last week.
13:46Uh and and I took him in my main event draft that I streamed here. So like my bags are huge on Eggbuka, but for this
13:53particular draft I went Chris Alav. We see Kairen Williams go to the team at 12. We're we're kind of up against it here in the fourth round, but in terms of
14:04firepower, Trey McBride, Aman Ross St. Brown, Chris Ave, all really really fun start for me. I don't dislike this team.
14:12So, usually you like your team through three rounds. It would be kind of hard if you didn't. Um, but we'll see which
14:17way this goes for me. Let us know in the comments so sort of who you'd be looking at here in round
14:25four and we're doing a lot over at Rotoire. This weekend has just been sort of non-stop for me. I was in New York
14:31City yesterday for the flex leagues. That's uh Jake Cely running those ones. Saw a lot of guys who have come on this
14:38show. I saw, you know, John Dagel of Establish the Run, Rich Reebar was up there. Uh some some really great guys up
14:44there. Um Dro Derrick Brown of Fantasy Pros was up there. He was in my draft. I drafted a Superflex draft there. And it was also the uh it was also the the Fishbowl, Scott Fishbowl, New York City
14:56draft. So, I saw a lot of people there. A lot of really great um feedback I'm getting on these shows. Really
15:02appreciated all the people that I saw in New York City this week. And this is my fourth draft in in 4 days. So, I did the
15:08$350 NFC contest with Alan Syslowski and Nelson Susa right here on this channel a couple days ago. That went well. Um, then I did an FFPC one with Ian Harditz.
15:20Uh, and then of course I did the uh I did the draft yesterday in New York City Live and now I'm back at it in the Pros
15:26versus Joe's. So, no theoretical content. I am I am all about this life.
15:32One pick away here.
15:38And I think I'm on three guys here. Four guys really.
15:43So, we'll talk about it when we when we get to it.
15:53I have five guys in consideration here that I think are interesting.
16:01Okay, so Jacobs was one in the queue and I don't want to get like the, you know, I took Josh Jacobs in my main event, but
16:08I think in this one we're going to go with Cam Scataboo. Um, I have two w three wide receivers in the queue and if I wanted to stay super dangerous,
16:19I'd probably go wide receiver, but again, it's a closed team league here, closed 12 team league. And I want to get
16:26a running back that I think could pay off at ADP. And I understand Cam Scataboo uh has, you know, injury reagravation concerns. I understand there's some question marks about the offense. The fact that Malik Neighbors
16:39is back sort of makes this offense a little more well-rounded. I think Scataboo is a really good value here.
16:44I'm going to take him right at the 406 and lock him in as my RB1. So, Cam Scataboo off the board as my RB1. I I like it. I like the start. I get the
16:56firepower at the start with Aman Ross St. Brown and Trey McBride in round two was a kind of a a nice surprise. And then we end up getting Chris Ave and Cam
17:07Scataboo. So, that sort of came out pretty well for me getting Scataboo. I mean, Josh Jacobs would have been interesting. Um, and I'm seeing already in this in the chat, um, JLazarus, uh, better get Tracy later on. That's an
17:19interesting one because, you know, we talked about stack cuffing and I think there's some really sharp people out there. Um, Billy Musio, who I used to
17:27podcast with, Dave Hubard, great great FFPC manager. Um, Mike Leone, really smart guy over at ETR. There's been a lot of like uh research on this. There's certain players and certain teams stack
17:40cuffing works well um where you take two running backs in the same team on the same team in baseball. Uh there's been some it seems like it would be like a completely square move, but I don't
17:51think it's the worst move. Um you're not necessarily you're not necessarily buying like safety, you're also buying potential upside if the team uh like exceeds expectations out of the backfield. And there could be weeks
18:04where Tracy, I mean, has had a thousand yards in consecutive seasons, uh, combined, like he's going to have some usable weeks. So potentially in this baseball format, Tracy could be in play. But stack cuffing, a lot of people will
18:17dismiss it, but it's a viable strategy in baseball. We see Luther Burton and Garrett Wilson go off the board right after my pick with Cam Scataboo. DeAndre Swift goes
18:29one pick later. So, you're going to see the running backs start to uh go. Uh you see Bashel Tutin, who I had in my queue.
18:36He's going earlier and earlier these days. I I sent out a a tweet about this and I ended up getting in like a like a
18:43little bit of an ar like a funny argument with with my guy Scott Barrett over at Fantasy Points. Um where, you
18:48know, he's saying that I'm I'm way too high on Tuton. I think Tutin is really priced well to return some value. I
18:54considered him there over Scataboo, but I think the 410 for him is about where we're going to see him the next couple
19:00weeks in these FFPC streets. And again, you can join the FFPC if you are new to it and get $25 free at signup using the code Theo25. I'm drafting teams in the
19:13FFPC every single week. And a cool announcement for everybody watching this one, Jacob Gibbs, who everybody uh really enjoyed twice now on my podcast since I've got to Rotoire. The two of us
19:25are going to draft an FFPC 350 Big Gilla right here on on this on this uh show and this podcast. So, Jacob Gibbs and I running it. Jacob Gibbs has uh not drafted an FFPC yet, so he's new to the
19:39streets. So, we're going to we're going to start off right with a $350 contest, try to take down a million bucks. We'll
19:44do that this week. David Montgomery goes right after Bachel Tutin. So, Swift, Tuton, Montgomery, and now Trevor CTN. There's a running back run. So, sort of
19:55read the board correctly with Cam Scataboo there. Was he the correct running back to take? We'll find out by the end of the season, but I'm into Cam Scaboo. He led all rookie running backs. Uh, him and Omar and Hampton were right
20:08at the top for running back points per game averages last year. Um, we saw him average over 19 touches a game. So, he
20:15was getting really bellcow usage. And when we look at New York with Francis Maui Noah, who they drafted, uh, signing signing multiple players, including Pat Ricard, the fullback, drafting Malachi Fields, who's like an elite blocking
20:30wide receiver, and then signing Isaiah Likely, and probably going to be in heavy personnel a lot. Cam Scataboo is interesting. I think he could end up paying off well here. Um, and again, it's baseball, so I'm going to draft a
20:41few running backs. So, if Cam Scataboo misses a week or so, you know, that's all right. We just don't want Cam Scataboo to miss a lot of time.
20:53All right, so we see Terry McLaren go off the board. Mike Schop, fun start for Mike Schope. Mike's a really good drafter. The two of us are going to
21:00draft an FFPC main event team most likely on this channel. We haven't said it yet, but Mike uh joined me for a
21:06show. Uh, always love podcasting with Mike. Really, really smart guy. Does ADP chasing uh with the ship chasing guys.
21:13We're gonna draft a team, I think maybe the the 14th, a Friday night draft. Um, FFPC main event, I think, will be on this channel. We'll see. And also on this podcast.
21:25So, coming up in the fifth round here, Quinnshan Judkins goes, it's been a running back run.
21:31I I still sort of probably need to consider breaking some ties at running back, but it's really about it's really about staying dangerous here. It's about
21:41staying dangerous and doing the best I can with these picks more so than worrying about positions. I think I can make it up at running back as well. I'm never afraid in in these baseball
21:53streets to sort of, you know, go for it and push running back down. It gets a little scary at time because at times, but the one advantage of picking in sort
22:05of the middle of the of the of the uh board is you can sort of avoid the crazy runs and sort of dive into it. So, Trayvon Henderson goes off the board. He would have been a really really fun
22:16selection for me. Uh two picks away here.
22:26We'll see. This is an interesting one. Am I back to the wide receiver? Well, do I push up a running back?
22:39I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. I mean, I don't want to take Bucky Irving here. I probably should consider him. I just it I've been sort of fading him in this
22:51range and I think I'm going to continue to do so. Sixth round Bucky sounds a lot better. I think I'm going back to the
22:57wide receiver well here.
23:07But which one do I take here? This is an interesting one. Devonte Adams and Mike Evans both go off the board.
23:17Do I lean into quarterback here? You know what? I am going to lean into quarterback. We're going to go quarterback here. We're going to go
23:23Lamar Jackson right off the top and we're going to take a quarterback here. We're not messing around. I think we can
23:30force the board to take some quarterbacks. It's uncorrelated Lamar Jackson, but I think he's still interesting in in a best format because I think the quarterback runs going to start to come
23:41at least for the interesting quarterbacks. Let's see if we can't influence the rest of the board. But when Devonte Adams, Mike Evans, Tedo McMillan, Trayvon Henderson, Quinton
23:52Judkins, my whole my whole cue was basically decimated. So for me there, Lamar is not like necessary, but I feel like he was an interesting edge type
24:04selection that I can build some correlation from. Uh, so little bit tilting to go Lamar there, but I don't hate it. A little early for Lamar. But could he
24:18have made it to the sixth round? I get it. But Jameson was in my queue. Was really the only player that I would have
24:25I would have considered. But I had Lamar Jackson in my queue. I sort of thought about it because pretty easy to
24:30correlate Mark Andrews a little bit later as well sort of as a tight end too.
24:36Team five, JJ Zachares. People like his draft so far. Brock Bowers, Drake London, Breece Hall, Luther Burden, Mike Evans. It's a good start from JJ. Mike Evans, really, really good value there. Uh, sort of like a a slam dunk for him.
24:49And uh, Luther Burton is one of his flag plants.
24:56And yeah, a lot of a lot of love here for Mike Schop. Yeah, Mike Schop is like the man on the radio in Buffalo. Um, so
25:04if you're in Western New York, Mike Schop is like very well known. And if you are just in the fantasy streets, you
25:11know him from all the great work he's done on ADP chasing. So start to my draft here. I'm on Ross St. Brown, Trey McBride, Chris Alave, Cam Scataboo,
25:21Lamar Jackson, and we are going to see we're going to see which which way we should go here. There's going to be some interesting
25:33players. I think there's going to be some interesting tight ends if they're sitting there getting a second tight end in a baseball draft on FFPC um is not the worst move because again
25:48like getting one of these potentially high spike week tight ends, there's a couple of them still on the board here in my queue in round six. And then there's obviously multiple wide
26:00receivers. And we're going to have to play catch-up at running back as well. So, we're going to see which way we go here in the sixth round.
26:12Harold Fannon and Christian Watson to start out round six.
26:25And I'm going to start loading my queue a little bit more because I'm worried I'm going to get sniped completely. Kyle
26:32Pittz goes off the board.
26:45I think Carnell Tate would be an interesting player for me to consider here.
26:50Sam Leaporta, there's a few of them. Would I have taken Javvante over Cam if he was there? I think they're similar. Javvante
27:13probably a safer bet. Uh, and obviously in a better offense would sort of be the tiebreaker there. Jaylen Warren goes to
27:19Stacy in round six.
27:29So looking at this, looking at the available players, I think Carnell Tate's super interesting to me. I think Jadearian Price is interesting. Tate goes off the board. So
27:42I think taking a shot on Jadarian Price here makes some sense.
27:49And then there's Sam Leapora, who I've taken too many times. I I think Price is is an interesting one. I think I'm leaning into Jadarian Price as the player that I should take.
28:01It's the 606 here, so it's not like we're reaching for him. I don't think this is going to ruin my build whatsoever, and I'm going to get some potential high touchdown scoring out of
28:13him as my running back, too. I've sort of made this argument that he can get there with touchdowns. So, we're going
28:19to lock in Jadarian Price here.
28:25Yeah, I don't love it. I think wide receiver would have been a a more dangerous way to go. Uh but we're there.
28:32So, Carninal Tate went seven now sort of at the 707. We're we're a little bit more open. Price price makes sense. I mean, it's
28:43it's not the most exciting pick, but I do think it's an upside type swing on a rookie running back in a great offense.
28:50Not I'm not we're not going to call him great, but we're going to call him a good offense. And if we look at what
28:55Zack Charbanet was able to accomplish last year alongside Kenneth Walker, those two guys combined for 19 rushing touchdowns. I think Price could end up falling in the end zone 10 times this year. It wouldn't shock me. Um I think
29:09we're looking at probably 900 rushing yards for him. I think he he makes some sense. Uh the the team so far, Aman Ross
29:17St. Brown, Trey McBride, Chris Ave, Cam Scataboo, Lamar Jackson, and Jadarian Price. We see QB2 go off the board. So like playing a little bit of two for twos here. A little bit of two for twos
29:31here. Would I have liked my team more if I would have passed on Lamar Jackson knowing that I think maybe the seventh round would have had some quarterbacks?
29:37Sure. But I think Lamar Jackson could could end up putting up some spike weeks. I mean, we know in in historically that's what Lamar Jackson did. Even last year where the bottom line stats were poor, we saw some really
29:50high-scoring weeks to start out the year, gets banged up, and then returns. So, sort of a big bet on Lamar Jackson
29:57bouncing back this year for me. I know he's been a straightup fade for some people that I respect, but I think Lamar
30:03Jackson in this contest, it's going to end up looking like a pretty good pick. Parker Washington goes off the board to
30:08Vince at the 611. I had him in my queue there alongside Carnell Tate. Would have been a fun outcome for me to get him uh there in the seventh round, but I had to
30:19go with Jiren Price. I think Vince is Vince is really really sharp. Somebody's saying in the chat, I don't know who Vince is. So again, the pros versus Joe's contest. You've got guys like
30:30Jared Smalla, JJ Zachares, Mike Schopen, and myself who are making content. And then you've got FFPC pros who are uh FFPC main event entries and then there's
30:41a lottery to see who's in it. I have played in this as both a pro and a Joe.
30:47Uh the Joe's win it a lot. I mean it's not that's not a surprise. I mean if you're drafting an FFPC a ton and you're
30:54putting up a ton of money you you're going to have some receipts to prove it and you're also more used to drafting in
31:00this format. Some Joe's come in and are really new, haven't played FFPC. Some Joe's like Jared Smalla have actually done well in in FFPC. Conor Allen's been in this before. JJ does it every year.
31:12So, and obviously Mike Schop is drafting every single day. So, let's keep it going. Uh, I'm going to start loading the queue for round seven. Multiple ways to go here. Obviously, a
31:24ton of quarterbacks, but with Lamar, I'm going to be pushing QB2 down.
31:30I'm going to start loading up this queue though. Some some interesting players that I think can be in consideration.
31:42We're going to see a quarterback run soon.
31:55These quarterbacks just sort of staring at you in the face. It makes me reconsider the Lamar pick a little bit, but hindsight is 2020 in this contest
32:03and I think that'll pay off.
32:12So, we are five picks away and the queue is already getting a little bit beat up. This is This is tilting time. This is tilting time.
32:23I might lean into Yeah, I mean Nikki, he's in there. He's in there. Shout out to Nikki Banks in the chat for telling me who to put in there. I have
32:35four guys in in the queue. I'm thinking someone's going to take a quarterback and I'm not going to get wiped out of
32:41this queue. Connor Allen selects Tony Pard who was in the queue.
32:55And I have three guys in the queue and there's three picks ahead of me. So, this could get really, really choppy.
33:04Marvin Harrison goes off the board. I had him in the queue. Jordan Tyson went off the board. He was in the queue as well. Would have been really nice to combine a and Tyson. And now BTJ goes off the board as well. So,
33:19now we're tilting a little bit. Now we're tilting. I have one guy in the queue here and we're going to see if this this comes around. I not sure this is this is the right way
33:31to play it. Do I go with another tight end here? I think that might be the move to go tight end and and lock down a tight end here because wide receiver is just getting
33:46ripped up a little bit. So, Drake Drake May goes Drake May goes off the board. Drake May goes off the board. I I think
33:57I think we're looking at a tight end pick here. Not sure though. Um Dowel is interesting. [sighs] I actually don't hate Rico Dowel. I think Rico Dowel for a
34:12baseball type type league like this, he's had some some strong performances, especially last year. He was really good. It's a little bit early, but it's not like crazy early.
34:26Man, I This is This is one of those tilting ones where you don't really love anything on the board here, but I do
34:33kind of catch up a little bit at running back with Rico. I think I just got to fall on on on it
34:40and take Rico D as my running back three. I lose a lot of edge here by taking D. I feel like it's a really it's it's a structural pick rather than like a swing for the fences, but man, that
34:54was a a super super tilting one for me to take Dowel there. I didn't have Price and Dowel in the sixth and seventh round is sort of the the way it's going to shake out. But when you get Trey McBride
35:05in in round two, it sort of cleared me from access to some of the running backs I really liked. So that that tilted me a lot. So my start Aman Ross St. Brown, Trey McBride, Chris Salave, Cam
35:17Scataboo, Lamar Jackson felt like a very dangerous start through the first five rounds and then I've had leaned into structure in round six and round seven a
35:29lot with Jadarian Price and Rico Dowel. So, tilting, tilting, tilting. Isaiah Likely was in my queue as well. Uh, they would have been interesting to sort of correlate with Cam Scataboo. I have
35:41talked up Isaiah likely a lot, a lot this off season. So, yeah. And a reminder, this is tight end premium. This is 1.5 points for a tight end reception. So, Isaiah likely in round
35:54seven, that's normal. We see that all the time. That's not like a like a huge huge reach. Uh Kenny Gainwell goes to to
36:01Stacy a few picks after me. Gainwell was also in my queue. Would have been awesome to have him come back around. I
36:07took Kenny Gainwell in New York City yesterday. I've taken him in a ton of these drafts. I took him with Ian Hardit
36:13and R350 the other day. Uh so I I'm into to Kenneth Gainwell. Dowel and Warren are interesting. Uh that's another backfield that you can't really stack cuff because they're going side by side.
36:25But I think making bets on both of these players in baseball to return some value makes sense. I think they're going to be
36:31a lot better to use in baseball than they would be in sort of a regular uh standard format where it's going to be hard to predict the weekly usage, but I I think there'll be some scoring there.
36:43So, we have a lot of the the queue is basically just getting decimated again.
36:48Um, and there's multiple players that I've I've loaded in. We are, it feels like a long, long way away, but I'm seven picks away from the 806.
37:01So, we're loaded in. We have three running backs in the first seven rounds, which is pretty good pace here. Just a
37:07little bit a little bit different in terms of how I thought this would get structured. When I uh sort of draft
37:12planned, I thought this was going to end up being wide receiver and then a running back in round two, but then Trey
37:18McBride fell to me there. Uh, and I if Hey, everybody wants to pass on him. I I'll I guess I'll fall on that grenade
37:24right there and take the guy who set the record for the most receptions in tight end history last year and the most
37:30receptions at the tight end position in two years combined. I think we're kind of beating him beating it up a little bit when it comes to McBride. I think
37:37he's fine. Um, we've got Jellale Robinson go off the board there at the 712. Actually, I think this is going to
37:44be this this drafter definitely definitely autopicked here because Nicholas Singleton went uh right after.
37:50So, I wonder if they're going to pause the draft here.
38:02Nikki is just reading my mind here. You already know it, Nikki. I take him in every Pros versus Joe's, so it wouldn't be like a shocking one.
38:18So, I'm loading up the queue here. Uh, multiple strong options here. And quarterback is extremely strong here.
38:25Still in the eighth round. I No need for me to take a QB2 here. Uh, there's going to be a multiple QBs in round nine that I think are interesting. Round 10. And again, I made the big bet
38:37on Lamar Jackson. So, that's sort of where we're at. Courtland Sutton goes off the board.
38:43I have three players in my queue. Josh DS goes off the board. I like that pick.
38:59I have a number actually. I have a a pretty interesting queue right here.
39:04And I'm one pick away.
39:12Nick Singleton. That's a little That's a little something at the 812 to get to get logged out. Poor guy autoed. So, I
39:18don't know what's going on there, but FFPC did not pause it. So, they're not going to run it back here. They're just going to Nick Singleton a new uh a
39:30new high. So, we know Troy Wells was on Nick Singleton. That's the big takeaway from tonight. He goes at the the 801.
39:37Okay. Okay, so Justin Herbert goes off the board. So, this is an interesting one for me because I I took I took Lamar
39:46Jackson, but I have Dallas Gddard ahead of Mark Andrews. And I think I'm going to lean into Dallas Goddard and take my tight end two here. Uh
39:59Mark Andrews potentially could be there when I'm picking later, too. He he can fall, but I I don't mind taking my tight
40:06end too here and taking Dallas and leaning into it. 20% target share last year, 11 touchdown catches. I think he's super super interesting at this range in
40:17the draft. So, I I take my tight end, too. And again, this is baseball, so uh these guys are are very very interesting um because you can play tight ends in the flex here. So we are an interesting
40:31build here through now eight rounds. My team is Aman Ross St. Brown, Trey McBride, Chris Alb, Cam Scataboo, Lamar Jackson, Jadarian Price, Rico Dattle,
40:42and now Dallas Goddard. RJ Harvey goes off the board one pick uh next to me. I had him in the queue and Harvey is an
40:49interesting one in like this eighth round range because we think Denver is going to score some points this year.
40:55Sounds like he's going to have the passcatching role in this backfield. Uh could end up having some some strong weeks. I again not advocating for R.J. Harvey to be a massive target in
41:06reddraft leagues, but I think when we get into the best ball streets here, he's a he's a fun one. And how many wide receivers do I start? You start two wide
41:13receivers and then you can start uh two more in the flex. So, we're going to catch up at wide receiver. there's going
41:19to be a lot of wide receivers available when we get like past basically the the deeper you get the wide receivers sort of be they become sort of the the the kind of obvious guys here um where
41:32running back is going to dry up there's going to be some um wide receivers that are super interesting when we get a
41:37little bit later. So I don't like how thin I am at wide out but I was able to recover at at running back and then I
41:44was able to get two tight ends. So, Dallas Goddard as a tight end, too. I think it's a really, really fun one.
41:51And the queue is loaded up for round nine here. I have six guys in the queue and I'm like seven picks away. So, we will we will see which way this goes.
42:05There. There are some very very interesting ways I could build this out.
42:11I'm starting to see some of the quarterbacks go off the board.
42:17potentially loading up a couple of more running backs as well. Again, I talked about it in the pre-show which way I'd want to go with in terms of structure. How many total uh running
42:30backs would you end up with in this format? I think in a format like this, you're you're looking at somewhere in
42:37that six running back range for an ideal r ideal number. I've seen guys who have taken eight or nine and the teams never look as good. You're making a bet on the
42:49running backs you've taken. Uh so you don't want to like overdo things.
42:54I'm going to add in a few more players. So round nine here there's going to be access to multiple players. Do I consider Blake Cororm
43:05would would have been one that I would have considered there. I took him with Ian Hardit the other day. Um, I think we
43:10took him at the very end of the eighth round, something like that. So, Cororum I think to Mike Schop that's a nice
43:16value that landed well for him. Vince gets his QB1 Trevor Lawrence at the 901.
43:22Jackson Dart goes at the 903. 902 for Vince Delfino getting uh Trevor Lawrence and then Jackson Dart goes at the 903. So, we're going to start seeing a quarterback run. You saw five
43:34quarterbacks go off the board in round eight in Jaden Daniels, Justin Herbert, Caleb Williams, Jaylen Herz, Dak Prescott, and then two more here in round nine. So, it's going to start to they're going to start to go, but we
43:47have sort of an anchor uh QB in Lamar Jackson.
43:55Mark Andrews goes off the board, so I didn't have to make that decision on whether to go with a third tight end through nine rounds. That would have
44:01been uh not really that would have been that would have been a tough way to do it. Let's put it like that. Would have been a tough way to do it. So, we see JJ
44:09takes Brock Perie. We're seeing a quarterback run here. And I'm leaning into a wide receiver selection here. I have two running backs in the queue, but I am going to lean into wide
44:24receiver. So, I think for me here, this is a great time to make an upside swing and make a double bet on Dallas Goddard.
44:36And I think I'm going to go with uh I'm actually going to go with Mai Lemon here. I like Mai Lemon. I think there's
44:43going to be another wide receiver come back to me in round 10 as well, but I'm going to take Mai Lemon as sort of an upside swing. I like him and I think it
44:51makes sense a little correlation with Goddard here. a double tap on this Philadelphia Eagles offense. So, we're going to go Mai Lemon a little bit earlier than ADP.
45:03And now we've caught up at wide receiver a little bit. Upside swing. There's going to be plenty of veteran wide receivers I can lean into. But I just think it's interesting. There's some some great vibes out of Philly right now
45:14about the Eagles doing what they can to get the ball in Mai Lemon's hands.
45:19Sounds like they're going to try to heavily feature him. Uh he's interesting because I think a lot of people are sort
45:24of fading the fit with Mai Lemon, but we've seen a number of beat reporters saying that what they're seeing early on
45:31from this Shaun Manny and offense is Jaylen Herz throwing a lot of passes over the middle of the field and Mai
45:37Lemon being ramped up. Those two things sort of go well together and again I get the correlation between Lemon and Goddard. So that's that's a fun way to play it. Michael Wilson goes one pick behind Mai Lemon. Uh that was a player
45:50that I had in my queue. Uh and again, the quarterback run has already happened. So, we're going to take a look
45:57and start loading more more players in this queue here. But running back, wide receiver, tight end, I feel zero pressure whatsoever with the way things are shaking out. Uh with Dallas Goddard
46:10and Trey McBride, I mean, I think I I have maybe the best two uh in the in the whole format here in terms of combination of tight ends. I do have one tight end that I would
46:22consider uh just based on the value that he presents at the 1006. He So I have one tight end in the queue, but it really would be sort of an unnecessary selection for me. I'm going to have to
46:34catch up at wide receiver a little bit more. And then we want to keep an eye on quarterback. It's not necessary, but there are going to be some interesting
46:47values that if they're just sitting there potentially taking them. So, let us know in the comments if you're watching on YouTube, what you think about the build so far. What would be some of the things you would have changed? Should I have passed on
46:59quarterback with Lamar Jackson? I feel like it was an interesting way to play it. So, we're here uh coming up with the
47:051006. I am six picks away and my queue is full. So, I'm feeling pretty good about things. I have multiple wide receivers, two
47:18running backs, one tight end in the queue. We see Jawan Johnson go probably not where I would have taken him. I wonder if that was another. It was not Brentton Strange and Jawan Johnson at
47:30the 912 uh and the 1001. Then we see JK Dobbins go off the board. I had him as a consideration in my queue. And then Chicka Conquo goes.
47:42So, I'm considering a few wide receivers, considering a few running backs, but there's also a quarterback that makes some sense
47:55and lean in and get my QB2. And I think if I took this quarterback, I might be done. I mean, I'd be done. So, this is a tough one. This is a
48:12really tough one. Okay. So, we we don't have to make that decision here. Quarterback, there's a there's a number of them that are still
48:23good. Do I lean into the correlation here and make a quarterback selection? Can I recover at wide receiver?
48:36I think I can recover at wide receiver. I think we're going to end things at the quarterback position here. Let me double check my Okay, this
48:47actually works very well. All right, so we're going to lock in Jared Goff. And some people might not like this pick, but to go two quarterbacks in the first 10 rounds, I've seen some smart people
49:00sort of pushing QB2, but I get the correlation with Aman Ross St. Brown and I've made this argument to some people um where I'm I'm planning out a this year's version of podcast
49:13where it's and and I hope I don't see other people sort of uh copying that one cuz we're see sometimes we have a good
49:19show concept here at Rotoire and I I see friends of mine you know might consider not maybe some people that aren't
49:24friends of mine that are uh sort of doing similar subjects because we we do fun shows that help you win in fantasy and people see those and they say maybe we want to do the same thing, but this
49:35year's version of is always a really fun conversation. And this year's version of I think we always sort of gravitate towards guys from last season. Uh Matthew Stafford went nuts last year.
49:47Could we see Jared Goff ever put together a 40 touchdown pass season? I mean, he's 30 plus every year. Could he
49:53get to 40 this year? Um he's got the weapons. Isaac Tesla in year two to go along with Jame Williams, a healthy Sam Laaporta, and then obviously Aman Ross St. Brown and then Jir Gibbs in a more
50:06of a true Bellcow role without the threat of David Montgomery. Uh they could be a little more pass this year and I I I think they'll be very efficient running the ball, don't get me wrong, but really really fun stuff there
50:19to get Jared Goff. So got to play catch-up a little bit the running back position. We've caught up a little bit
50:24at wide receiver with Mai Lemon. We have seen a wide receiver run go after him, but there's still some really fun wide receivers on the board.
50:38Quarterback, we're essentially done. We're essentially done at quarterback.
50:45We do need to catch up at running back a little bit more.
50:52Kyle Manangi missing practice and the board is beating him up for it. Manongi is in available in the 11th round here. Usually he's gone a little bit earlier. We're starting to see him fall because
51:05he's missed a couple practices. Little bit scary there. So, we're really in good shape at tight end and we're really in good shape at quarterback.
51:21Okay, we see Katon Mitchell go off the board. That hurts a little bit. I took him in New York um at the Flex Leagues
51:26yesterday. Shout out to Jake Cely of the Athletic for for running those leagues, but I took Katon Mitchell. That was really good. Really felt good to take him. We see Malik Willis go in the 11th round ahead of Kyler Murray. So, we're
51:39going to start seeing quarterbacks fly off the board here. real flag plant on Malik Willis there from uh Vince Stallfino. Really, really strong drafter. That's uh JJ Zachares's flag plant. He came on my show uh and named
51:54him one of his five flag plant players. So, I wonder if JJ would have taken him here.
52:02And I don't want to do it here, but we talked about it earlier with the the the stack cuffing.
52:13Tyrone Tracy makes some sense here. It's not where we wanted to be, but Tyrone Tracy makes a little bit of sense here. It's a double bet on this New York backfield. We catch up a little bit
52:26here. I think Tyrone Tracy makes a lot of sense. Um, there's a couple of wide receivers I like. Obviously, I like the idea of JaKory Kroski Merritt in the 11th round, but I've been making Rashad
52:37White bets and Aaron Jones. The age scares me a lot. I think this is a betting on this backfield a little bit
52:50or can I push it? I think we're just going to lean into it. We're gonna take Tyrone Tracy and we're going to lock down our fourth running back. And interesting enough,
53:01we're going two New York Giants. So, a lot of people won't like that pick, but I like it. And I feel a little less pressure when it comes to playing
53:12catchup at the running back position because we we've locked that down. Um, we're betting on New York to be able to run the ball efficiently. I think they've got the running quarterback and can we see the run game and can we see
53:24those guys catch some passes as well? There's been some positivity with that backfield. So, that's sort of where we're at. Going to continue loading the queue with players.
53:37We're coming up on the 12th round here. We are in great shape at tight end. We are in great shape at quarterback. And now we've got to sort of make things happen at wide receiver and we've got to
53:50catch up at the running back position. So looking at my team right now, we talked about the ideal number of running
53:58backs for a build like this and I'm at four running backs. I think this is probably a six running back team. Uh
54:06that doesn't mean I'm going to take one in the 12th and 13th round, but I think this is definitely not a five running
54:11back build. It's pretty. It's not fragile, but it's not strong. Um, I'm at four total running backs. We're gonna see. We're gonna see which way this goes. And we're seeing the
54:23massive quarterback runs. So, we've seen a cleanup on quarterbacks with Malik Willis, Kyler Murray, Baker Mayfield, Jordan Love, Tyler Shuck, and Daniel Jones all go off the board here in round 11.
54:36Aronda Gatson, Terrence Ferguson. So, the tight ends and the quarterbacks are getting cleaned up, and that helps us out a lot because it's going to give us access to a number of players at
54:48positions that we need. The queue is still pretty strong here.
54:57I have in the queue right now three running backs and the rest are wide receivers.
55:05There's not a tight end that I'm looking to push into here. Again, we we don't feel the heat whatsoever at the tight end position based on having Dallas Goddard to go along with
55:16Trey McBride. I think that's really strong stuff right there. And in terms of the correlation that we have uh with Mai Lemon and Goddard, I think that could be really really plus. We have zero correlation with Lamar Jackson, but
55:32there's some late shot guys I think we can we could throw in there and get access to some correlation. The pass
55:38catchers are super super cheap. A number of wide receivers I have queued up and again a number of running backs and we are five picks away here. We are
55:50drafting in the FFPC pros versus Joe's. Shout out to Fantasy Mojo and the FFPC for putting this thing together. If you
55:57want to compete in the exact same format that I am playing in right now, use the code Theo25 if you're new to the FFPC
56:05and get 25 free dollars in FFPC entries. Matthew Golden and Jakori Crosky Merritt go off the board. Two guys that I had in my queue
56:17and I am one pick away here. We're going to see which way this goes. Again, quarterback has just gotten completely completely wiped out. But we don't need it. We are set.
56:37And I have multiple players queued up, including one that I think is super interesting that I think I would push up a little bit ahead of ADP.
56:55The team in front of me is taking their time.
57:04I think I'm going to lean into it. One player that I wanted to walk away from in this format was Casey Conpsion of the
57:12Cleveland Browns. And I don't think he's going to be there for me at the 1307.
57:18And we still need more wide receiver firepower. We're only at three wide receivers. So, I'm going to lean into these rookie wide receivers and I'm going to take Casey Conpsi on here and I'm going to lock him in. I think
57:31there's safer ways I could have played this. There's obviously a lot of guys on the board here that I think would have
57:37been safer type options, but I think KCC could end up putting up some spike weeks, especially when it matters a lot when we get into the second half of the season.
57:48Yeah. And I think there's a there's a lot of there's a lot of people um that I'm I'm seeing some of your your
57:55uh comments in the chat. Uh there was some great suggestions and really really appreciate the chat that I've had and and uh the podcast listeners come check us out on YouTube as well cuz we're doing a ton over at YouTube here at
58:08Rotoire. We had a record-breaking month, most views ever um on this channel which is was awesome to hear. It was my first month here and we're getting a lot of like really really sharp people in the
58:19chats. I I always appreciate uh the the level of intelligence of the the listeners and viewers of my shows. Um and it's just been awesome since I got here to RotoWire. Um but a lot of people
58:31making great suggestions in the chat. But Casey Conpsion, that's sort of a my guy here. And I love getting access to
58:38these first round rookies in baseball in at this level of the draft where it's small bets to make really on Mai Lemon in round nine, Casey Conpsion in round
58:4912 and really just sort of swinging for it the upside with these guys. With Casey Conpsion, I get the the bad team discount. No one wants Cleveland Browns, but there's some very talented players
59:00there. If they can get a little bit of quarterback production, I think it's interesting. So, there we go. And a big
59:08shout out to everybody in the comments. I would be way more active with the comments, but I'm doing this solo. I'm going to be drafting with Jacob Gibbs of
59:14CBS this week. I believe that's a Wednesday draft um right here on the podcast and also on the YouTube channel. Jacob has joined me twice, so this is three times for Jacob since I've joined
59:25Roawire. But Jacob's awesome. Really sharp guy. It' be the first time we've ever drafted together. And we see some of the wide receivers go off the board here. Romeo Dubs, Stefan Diggs, Xavier Worthy, Debo Samuel.
59:40Shout out to Index of Suspicion in the chat.
59:46Here we go. Now we're seeing a wide receiver run. So, Khalil Shakir goes off the board to Mike Schop. Uh Mike Schop of course a my noted Buffalo Bills expert. Um,
59:59structure-wise, we are at four running backs. We are at four wide receivers. We are essentially done at quarterback. We could take a
60:10third quarterback. We don't need to take a third quarterback. And at tight end, we have two tight ends that are, you
60:17know, players we're really, really kind of depending on with Dallas Goddard and Trey McBride. Uh, Rasheed Shahed goes off the board. We're going to see start seeing wide receivers flying and we're going to need to draft more of
60:30them. We want also want to keep an eye out at running back. There's going to be some interesting running backs as well.
60:44I like the Rasheed Shahid P pick a lot. I've been taking him. I talked about this with Ian Hardit over on his
60:50channel. And make sure you're also subscribed to Ian's channel. Ian's doing some awesome stuff over there. But we drafted Rasheed Shahed. We also took Stefan Diggs in that draft to catch up at wide receiver. And we talked about
61:02the value of Shahed. I think he's a really interesting pick. We see Dejon Stribbling go off the board. So Debo Samuel goes ahead of Dejon Stribbling. I think that's what we're going to we're going to see um in most of these drafts.
61:14Uh Debo's got a lot of positive vibes. Aaron Jones falls all the way there to 13th round. Lot of bets being made on
61:20Jordan Mason there. a lot of sharp people sort of on Jordan Mason and I am OTC here and I think for me uh my my bet
61:34with this team it's really comes down to running back versus wide receiver. There's sort of one wide receiver. So we'll crowdsource
61:45this one. We're going to crowdsource this one with the people watching the the show. We we are on Jaden Higgins and
61:55Tai Spears. I think both of those players are interesting. I also think Jaylen Coker is interesting here.
62:06I think we're going to go with Tai Spears and get another running back that I think is an interesting value. We've seen him have a bunch of spike weeks when we got to the end of
62:19the of last season. And I should have gone Higgins there, guys. I see a lot of people saying Higgins. Um, but Tai
62:26Spears is interesting to me. Tai Spears, if we look at the way that the season ended in 2024 when Tony Pard missed a little bit of time and then even when Tony Pard came back, Spears
62:40was really good. And I've made the the argument for Spears a lot this off season because he'll be a free agent. I
62:47think we could see a situation where Spears benefits from this offense. And I think if the offense gets a little bit better, I think Spears could end up uh paying off in a major way. So, we see
62:59Jaden Higgins go off the board there end of the 13th round. That hurts. Higgins has been a player that I've been drafting a ton of. Have him on a team
63:06with uh Scott Barrett. I have him on two teams with Scott Barrett that we share.
63:13We're going to have to play catch-up a little bit at wide receiver, but I think we did a good job of adding another
63:19running back that I think will help us.
63:24We're really going to have to add maybe three more wide receivers, maybe four as we get into the tail end of this draft.
63:37a little light at wide receiver. Only four selected so far.
63:42I think that Tai Spears is going to have some value and these and again when we we're drafting best baseball the passcatching backs it's easier to
63:52use them than in manage because you don't have to predict their week. So, if Tai has a sort of a non-week and then
63:59catches six passes the next week because the game flow sort of benefits them, then I I don't really have to worry about it. So, we see Jaylen Coker go off the board. We see Jayen Higgins go see
64:10Trey Tucker. We are looking at potentially a wide receiver. We're also could use maybe one more running back with this build.
64:34And I think for me sort of breaking ties to wide receiver with this selection. And I think there's an interesting one
64:47coming up. I I think and again we'll we'll crowdsource this one because the chat was all over this one. So I'm leaning into Jaylen McMillan of Tampa Bay. I
65:00think there's a sort of a nonzero chance he'd come back around. There's also guys like Dylan Samson and Woody Marks. Uh
65:08and then just a general solid value sitting there with uh AJ Barner who I think will be have some usable weeks. So we'll crowdsource this one. I'm I'm going to go McMillan,
65:19though. I think it's McMillan. McMillan's been a player I've been continually drafting in baseballs. I have so much exposure to him on underdog. Uh but I think it's right and it's a little bit of a bet. You're
65:31betting against a few things. You're betting against Chris Godwin coming back and being Chris Godwin. You're betting like it's sort of a Chris Godwin being a usable piece rather than a featured
65:42weapon. And that's sort of where I'm at. But I think end of the year we look back I think Godwin's numbers in terms of
65:48points per game will look kind of like Debo's last year 11 points per game. I think McMillan is the spike week guy. I
65:54think Acha Eggbuka is the consistent target. I think he's 150 targets. I think he catches 100 passes. But I think Jaylen McMillan is the spike week guy. I think McMillan has showed us in previous seasons that he can put up a big number
66:07and he can he can really deliver you a potential high-scoring week. We saw how he how his rookie season ended. Um I
66:14think he's a really really fun pick here in this range. So we catch up a little bit at wide receiver. I think we still
66:21need a running back and then there's also a chance to sort of build in a little bit of correlation here uh with our two quarterbacks.
66:33And we see AJ Barner, we see Gunner Helm go off the board. Two more tight ends go off the board. I have sort of some late
66:41late options um that I've you know when I'm doing these sort of builds and I think it's a great way to sort of prepare for all of your drafts when when I look at sort of preparing for these I
66:53prepare for the early rounds but I also sort of have like some endgame candidates. So, there's a couple guys that I like when we get to the 20th, 19th round, so we're not like completely
67:04scrambling. Fernando Mendoza goes off the board. So, Mike Schop um and again, this is this is the problem with doing these solo. It's not completely talking about other
67:16people's builds, really concentrating on my own and talking about the thought process. But Mike Schop goes, Dak Prescott, Matthew Stafford, Fernando Mendoza, and then of course we saw Gino Smith go
67:27one pick after me. So team six with a three quarterback build. Uh JJ Zachares and I both have two quarterbacks, which I think is interesting. And Jared Smalla has two quarterbacks. Wonder if JJ and
67:40Jared cram in another QB. We see Travis Hunter go to Mike Schop. Um 1501 for Travis Hunter. 1501.
67:54Um, and for me coming up, I think there's some interesting wide receiver values.
68:06There's also a few running backs. I'm going to have to wait a little bit here. Oh, and this is Mike Schop with Davis
68:13Madak. I should have shouted out Davis Madak. I actually have a show with Davis Matic dropping tomorrow. So, that was real shade by me not calling him out. Uh, we we uh have a show coming out tomorrow, possibly Tuesday, but if
68:26you're listening this on the podcast feed, you'll get it as well.
68:35There are a few run wide receivers I like, really some fun wide receiver options as we get late into it.
68:42We also have a couple of running backs here. And I think I'm going to draft one more running back. So, it's really a a matter of pushing it here, continuing to
68:54lead into wide receiver or do I take a running back? And I'm going to fix the board here to the people watching YouTube who can't even
69:06see where what I'm looking at. But we are in the 15th round. And I'm OTC and I am looking at either Woody Marks, Jonah Coleman, Marshon
69:26Lloyd or a wide receiver and Woody Marks went off the board so I had a delay there. So, it's really leaning into
69:34Jonah Coleman, Marshon Lloyd, which are really in non-clear handoff handcuff positions, or leaning into a wide receiver. And I think I'm going to take Denzel
69:46Boston here, which is a double bet on Cleveland, which is kind of weird for me to make, but I think Denzel Boston is a
69:53really interesting pick for me. I'm going to lean into the rookie wide receivers and take another one. take an upside swing.
70:00And I think some of the running backs that we're talking about, one could come back in round 16 as well.
70:06So, we are at five running backs. We've caught up at wide receiver a little bit. I've gone youth upside with Mai Lemon,
70:14Casey Conpsion, Jaylen McMillan, and Denzel Boston. We got all those guys between rounds nine and rounds 15.
70:21Pretty good value there. I think we see Marshon Lloyd go off the board and then we see Pat Frymouth go off the board. Really interesting one.
70:34Loading up the queue. I I have a ton of wide receivers in the queue here.
70:40There are also some interesting running backs.
70:50We see Evan Ingram go off the board. We're going to see tight end cleanup here.
70:55You're going to see a bunch of tight ends go here in the last five rounds.
71:05I am se six picks away and I have five guys in the queue. Well, actually no, one of these guys was a mistake in the queue. So, I want to get that one out of there.
71:19But I am not disliking. So the way this is sort of shook out for me, there's a few wide receivers here that I'm going to probably break ties with,
71:34but there are two running backs that I think are very interesting that could have usable weeks and are available in round 16. And I could sort
71:44of end things at the running back position here with them.
71:56Omar Cooper and Isaac Tesla, but go both go off the board. Justice Hill, who I had in the queue. Hill would have been interesting to combine with Lamar
72:07Jackson. This is now going to be a wide receiver pick for me.
72:13This is a wide receiver selection. I'm convinced that running back is I mean there's there's like two running backs that I think are interesting here, but for me it's
72:30leaning into the the wide receiver position and just getting really dangerous in the back here. Jaden Blue, Justice Hill, and Marshon Lloyd all went off the board. So,
72:42there's really one running back for me and somebody in the comments is saying Jaylen Coker. Coker is gone. Coker went.
72:54So, David and Joker goes off the board. So, for me here, I have multiple multiple wide receiver options here.
73:02I have really a bunch of guys I like. I have I think Ryan Florenoi, Adani Mitchell, Antonio Williams, and Jerry Judy are all
73:14interesting. Three Cleveland Brown wide wide receivers would be kind of gross.
73:22I don't think I need to make that one. I see a comment in the chat. I think he'll be their next pick.
73:28You know, I've taken Florenoi and I've taken Mitchell in a ton of baseball drafts, but I keep taking Adenai Mitchell. I think I'm going to lean into it kind of for the
73:40brand. To me, it's Adai Mitchell. I think Adenai Mitchell is just really good. And I and I know that he could be completely inconsistent this year, but he was had
73:52some good weeks last year. And there's been a lot of positivity coming out of Jets camp about how Adai Mitchell has has looked. I think he's I think he's super
74:03interesting. Uh Adai Mitchell, I keep taking them. I mean, if you you don't really get burned on your 15th and 16th round picks, but I take Adai Mitchell in like every single
74:1616th round. I took him in the NFC draft the other day with Alan Slowowski. Um I think you're getting a a bad team
74:22discount with the Jets. I think you're getting a Omar Cooper Jr. scaring people a little bit discount. Um, and Cooper goes a few picks ahead of Adai Mitchell, but can Adai Mitchell be like this year's version of Alec Pierce? Um, I
74:37don't know. We'll see. We'll see. And I think when we look at usable weeks, I'm going to get usable weeks out of a number of these wide receivers that I've gotten late. So, I am very, very fragile
74:49at the running back position. 100% fragile. tight end. I only have two tight ends. I only have two quarterbacks. There's going to be a few other players sort of that are enticing. And now I
75:03have the Do you consider adding in a Cleveland Browns quarterback? I don't really need to. Not with the combination of not with the combination of these
75:15these two quarterbacks in Goff and Jackson, especially where I took Lamar Jackson. I think it's probably not the right move. But yeah, I mean round 17 sort of anything can happen.
75:28Jerry Judy, interesting.
75:34He's still in the queue. No one wants Jerry Judy. I have three running backs in the queue.
75:43I have one tight end in the queue. And when you get down to this point in the draft, sort of people are just sort of making their conviction plays.
76:00Yeah, I've got a bunch of guys I like here.
76:08Jerry Judy goes off the board to Mike Schop and Davis Madak. I didn't have to make that decision.
76:15It could look comical at some point this year if Judy is traded and I it would have been a potential blackjack split
76:21for me where I would have had three usable wide receivers. I think that's sort of the dream for drafting Casey Conpsion and Denzel Boston is Judy just sort of clears out. Um but I think even if Judy's there I I want to bet on these
76:34rookies to be the spike week ones. 17th round FFPC main event. If you want to compete against me in the FFPC, go to ffpc.com, use the code theo25 and
76:47get $25 off of any deposit. I am four away here. We are reaching the tail end.
76:56And my queue looks good. I've got a bunch of interesting players in my queue right now.
77:0617th round. So, I have four more picks to go. Charlie Kolar goes off the board to Mike Schop in round 17. Uncorrelated Charlie Kolar. We're starting to see Charlie Kolar move up a
77:18little bit. Brillin Allen goes, I had him in the queue and I am up next. Jonah Coleman goes, Brilan Allen goes. So Jonah Coleman would have been I think a smash value
77:38for me. in round 17. I almost took him two rounds ago. He sort of just sat there in my queue and that was JJ Zachares who is a huge Jonah Coleman guy. Got him in the 17th
77:55round. So, I'm sure he's going to be very excited about that one. So, I am between Antonio Williams, Colobby Parkinson, and then I have a few
78:06other guys, but I think it's Antonio Williams or Colobby Parkinson. And I only have two tight ends. Antonio Williams gives me another wide
78:18receiver. That's interesting. But I think we could see another tight end run after Charlie Kohler goes and then Darnell Washington goes who I thought I would take in like the 19th round. I said I have my endgame guys.
78:33So let's take a tight end here. Let's go Kobe Parkinson. And Parkinson was terrific last year. Was really uh usable piece down the stretch. Really really a fun one for people.
78:45Um and now he's sort of getting brushed aside. I probably could use three more picks here and I could probably use one running back, but I've sort of got my third tight end. It's a little little
78:58less pressure on me at the tight end position. There's one more interesting tight end, two more interesting tight ends that I'm seeing still available. And again, we are in the late 17th round
79:12of the FFPC pros versus Joe's contest. Cyrus Allen goes off the board in round 17. He's starting to move up a little bit. We're starting to see a lot of like the buzz guys from camp. Those guys
79:24start flying up, especially in baseball drafts. So, interesting one right there.
79:29Cyrus Allen goes, and that is not to a team with Patrick Mahomes. It's just to a team that likes Cyrus Allen. Cyrus Allen, I saw a couple people sort of comparing him to. Could he be a Jaori
79:41Kroski merit this year? guy that just sort of moves up in August. Darnell Washington is interesting, too.
79:48He's gone in like the 18th, the 20th and 19th round in this contest to a few smart smart drafters. I know a bee baga
79:55selected him. Sigman Bloom selected him. We see Tory Horton go off the board here in round 17. I had him as a round 19 target. So again, you sort of throw ADP out the window when you get like this
80:07late into drafts. Tory Horton would have been a fun one though in round 18. So when we look at the structure of this team and sort of
80:19where we're at in terms of numbers of each position, we're kind of where we thought we'd be uh after that golf selection.
80:32And we see Rashad Baitman go. He would have been interesting in round 18. Tua Tunga Ailoa goes off the board.
80:40So, it's a completely uncorrelated Lamar Jackson build right now, but you don't necessarily take Lamar Jackson so you can stack them. You take Lamar Jackson so he can put up some big
80:54numbers in any given week. I have one or two more running backs that I think are I actually have three running backs in my queue. The rest are wide receivers. I have one
81:07I actually have two tight ends in my queue. one I think will go very very late and we are going to do our best not to click on Ricky Persol who's at the top of the board who was announced out but
81:20he's still in the ADP streets for uh for FFPC so if somebody um you know gets autoed out or something and didn't load their queue they would get Ricky Persol right now would be a tough run out
81:33we see Kron Allen go off the So I am coming up around here. We are five picks away.
81:44We are deep into round 18 here. I said be beginning of round 18. Round 17 is in the books. We s see Kan Bouty who I had in the queue. Zachariah Branch who I had in the
81:55queue. We are at seven wide receivers.
82:02So we don't necessarily need another wide receiver. We see James Connor go off the board.
82:12This might be This might be a running back pick.
82:19I have an interesting running back for this build that's just sort of staring at me in the face.
82:33We're tilting. We're tilting here in in round 18. I'm gonna be drafting a bunch more teams. I'm I'm drafting a FFPC main event team with Scott Barrett on Thursday night. He's going to draft one
82:45on this channel and he's going to draft and I'm going to draft one over at Fantasy Points on Thursday night with
82:51him. We don't know our our selection, but if you want to draft against Scott and I this Thursday, come get some.
82:57Antonio Williams goes off the board. I I think I think this is this is this is George Helani. I think this is George Helani and just lean into this Seattle backfield. Um I think it's Helani.
83:12I'm debating this pick. I think Helani would make some sense.
83:21Helani combined with Helani combined with Price is sort of a hedge against Charbanet and I need a running back and I think
83:32this sort of ends it for me at running back. I like Kamani Vidal. I like Deon Claybornne but I think George Helani
83:39makes sense for this build. I'm going George Helani. So, we have stackcuffed two two guys and this is sort of the the game flow bet with George Helani potentially having
83:53usable weeks as the pass catching back with Jadarian Price. And do I think this is a zero? I don't think it's a zero. I think that there the vibes are good there and I think that there's some
84:05positivity there. Um, so I'm with it. I'm with it. And now I'm done at running back. I really don't need another running back. I think if one of those two running backs I mentioned there at
84:16the 1907, they would be interesting.
84:22And I think that we're looking at the next pick might be a tight end. I have three tight ends in my queue. One of them just went and that would have been an interesting one
84:34if we were looking at sort of the doubletapping the two tight ends. um and going with Eli Sters and Dallas Goddard. And apparently Eli Sters is there the
84:47vibes are not great right now um coming out of Philly just in terms of his early season involvement. And I think that
84:54speaks volumes to just how locked in uh Dallas Goddard's role is. Like even though they draft Eli Sters in the second round, it doesn't mean anything. I mean, long term it absolutely does,
85:07but this is a Dallas Goddard team and I'm I'm glad where we got god Dallas Goddard. I think that's going to turn
85:13out to be a really nice pick for me.
85:18We have a few players in the queue here, running backs, tight ends, and wide receivers. If you want to stump for your preferred
85:29late round target here, be my guest.
85:37But I think there's a couple of interesting ones. I think there's a few tight ends that are actually interesting here.
85:45And a lot of times we see these late tight ends actually become sort of viable in FFPC. There's always like the early waiverwire run guys. We see uh Eli Raren go off the board in the
85:5819th round. He's been selected in this contest a few times. Raren getting a lot of positivity out of Patriots camp. [snorts]
86:12Yeah, and I see everybody's got their favorite late round tight end target. If you're an FFPC drafter, let me know in
86:17the comments. If you're not an FFPC drafter, there is a $35 contest as well.
86:23Great way to sort of get your feet wet in these uh FFPC best contests.
86:31Amomari Demarcado goes at the 1902. Deont Claybornne, who I had in the queue, uh, he goes as well.
86:38So, I am four picks out. And we [snorts] are looking at usable pieces here. I think I know what I'm going to do in
86:49the 20th round. So, Michael Mayer goes, and that hurts a little I had him in the queue, but I think George Hani was still the correct decision for me. Keenan Allen, people
87:03are betting on the Keenan Allen signing with somebody. He goes at the 1905. That's to JJ Zachares. JJ did a nice
87:10job. I think it fell kind of nicely to him in the second half of this draft. JJ drafts a ton of baseball.
87:19I am one pick away here and I think that that this could be I really don't need another running
87:33back, but there's one running back that I like here that I think could be interesting.
87:46And then of course I have the correlation options here where do I want to lean into the correlation here and cram in a Baltimore Raven? I feel
88:00like that's sort of throwing darts here.
88:06I think for me, I had this player listed as a 20th rounder, but I think I'm just going to take him here in the 19th.
88:20George KD coming off of an Achilles. Jake Tanis was good last year.
88:27I think it's Jake Tanis here. Or do I lean into one more running back?
88:36I think it's Jake Tanis for me. I do have the Elijah Serat option.
88:46And I do have the Kamani Vidala option. I think we're going to go we're going to roll the dice that Tanis comes to TW round 20. Let's get one correlation bet. And I
88:58took Elijah Surat ahead of Pat Bryant. And I think Pat Bryant is sort of the the the the wide receiver I've been
89:05drafting in this range in these baseball drafts. Pat Bryant, of course, the third round pick for the Denver Broncos in the
89:122025 draft. And we see Jake Ton just go one pick later. So I have one tight end um that I would consider in round 20 still available. Then I have the option of drafting
89:26a quarterback and taking a QB3 here based on the correlation that I have.
89:33There's a few other interesting players here, but I think we played it right because we need to have one little bet. And Elijah Surat was fantastic in Indiana.
89:50And really all he's got to do is beat out Rashad Baitman for some targets here. Tez Walker obviously is going to
89:57be involved as well. But Sirat they took on day three, but I think SRAT could end up being a thing and have some touchdown equity. So I think we want to lean into just a little bit of correlation there.
90:11Justice Hill would have been a fun way to build correlation as well. I never like taking Justice Hill, but he's going
90:17to have some usable weeks as a passcatching back. We see Deshawn Watson go at the end of the 19th round here. Uh, so Kirk Cousins, Tua Tong of Aloa, and Deshun Watson sort of the endgame QB
90:30targets. We see Tua in round 17, Kirk Cousins round 18, Deshun Watson in round 19. I have one more pick.
90:40So structure is interesting for me here, but really you could throw it out the window because round 20, I want to get usable weeks here.
90:53And we see Taesm Hill go off the board. So Taesm Hill, there's some rumors he's going to end up being a Denver Bronco.
91:00Uh would be very tilting if he ends up sort of that running back room becomes even harder to predict if Taesm Hill has
91:07a few touchdowns this year. uh sort of in a Wildcat quarterback.
91:12Taesm Hill, I mean, just unbelievable how tilting some of those Taesm Hill weeks can be when he puts up a spike week. Does he have any spike weeks left? He's older. Um but they believe he's got
91:23some gas in the tank. I think if they're going to bring him into a team that's competing to get to a Super Bowl. Cooper
91:29Cup goes in round 20. Calvin Ridley. It's a throwback round here. My final pick coming up.
91:37I mean, I've had this player queued up in in in in like my queue for a million rounds and I think he's good.
91:48Okay, so to all the people in the chat still watching, we're going to we're going to crowdsource this pick. We're going to crowdsource when we get on the on the board here. I think it's
92:00well, we'll see which way this this manager goes the pick ahead of us.
92:11Last pick here in the pros versus Joe's draft.
92:18Troy Franklin goes off the board. Okay, so we're crowd sourcing this one and I appreciate everybody still live in the chat. Really appreciate all the support tonight. We are going with Kamani Videll,
92:30Shadur Sanders or Theo Johnson. Let us know which way you would go.
92:37Kamani Videll, Shadur Sanders, Theo Johnson.
92:42I think it's Kamani Videll. I think the I don't necessarily need him, but Kamani Videll was really good last year and it's a fantastic offense.
92:54I think getting Kamani Videll here is probably the move.
93:00It's It's Kamani Videll. But Shadur Sanders as a as a third quarterback with the double bet. I'm gonna hate this, but we're going Shadur Sanders here, guys. I I totally tilted
93:13out on this one. But I have two Cleveland Browns receivers.
93:20I have now built correlation with three quarterbacks, even if it's passing up on a player I love here in Kamani Vidal. And I've been drafting him a ton. Um, but taking the
93:32third quarterback, it's it's tilting. But the year that we won it all, we had three quarterbacks. And Shadur Sanders, if he ends up I
93:43think Shadur Sanders ends up starting more games than Watson. It just I know that there's a I know that there is a sort of a segment of people making the bet on Watson, but
93:55I just don't see it. It's It's been too long. and Shadur Sanders again third quarterback but I take him in round 20. Um I think it's the way to go and crazy
94:08I think Davis Madak and Mike Schop will take Kamani Vidal. Nope. Vidal goes undrafted throughout this whole thing. So that's an interesting one. Theo Johnson goes two picks later. So going
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95:14you are a FFPC dynasty manager, especially, it's really going to help you out. So my team, I took Aman Ross St. Brown in round one at the seven spot. Trey McBride in round two. Chris
95:25Alav in round three. Cam Scatteraboo in round four as my first running back.
95:30Tilted and took Lamar Jackson as the QB2 in round five. Then Jadarian Price and Rico Dael in the sixth and seventh round. Dallas in round eight as my tight
95:43end too. Mai Lemon in round nine, which was another sort of flag plant uh pick here where I took Lemon ahead of Michael Wilson, ahead of Michael Pitman, ahead of Chris Godwin. Made a bet on Goddard
95:56and Lemon together. Then Jared Goff in the 10th round. I have the Jared Goff Aman Ross St. Brown correlation which I think is going to be really positive. Then we went with Tyrone Tracy as the
96:10running back four. So I have Cam Scataboo and Tyrone Tracy combination.
96:16Casey Conpsion in round 12. I took him ahead of a number of sort of wide receivers that we know and understand,
96:23but Casey Conpsion really a big upside swing for me. Tai Spears in round 13, Jaylen McMillan in round 14, Denzel Boston in round 15, Adai Mitchell in
96:35round 16. So I went four wide receivers in five rounds. We really caught up I think though with some of these upside wide outs. Then Kobby Parkinson as the tight end three. Only three tight ends
96:47in a tight end premium build, but Kobby Parkinson in round 17 I think was pretty good. George Hani in round 18 as our
96:55running back six combining Jadarian Price and George Hani. Round 19 took Elijah Serat. A round 19 correlation with Lamar Jackson. And then round 20
97:08went Shadur Sanders as QB3. So I have the double bet on Boston and Casey Conpsion. Let's make a bet that Shadur Sanders wins the job. Uh really really a
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