0:00Big show for you here today, Justin Boone joins me to recap our latest staff mock draft.
0:05We go through the first 10 rounds in depth.
0:07Most intriguing pick, Reaches. Who are we concerned about with some of these picks?
0:11Speaking of concern, we do have to start the show off with some injury news.
0:16Ricky Pearsall, oh man, Ricky Pearsall injured at 49ers camp.
0:18His season potentially looking in doubt, plus some news out of the Carolina receiving room.
0:23All that and more coming off on today's show.
0:25Let's get into it. What's going on, everyone? I'm Matt Harmon.
0:28Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast. And it is a hell of a day to talk ball and joining me to do just that.
0:35It's all I'm not too long ago at the Fantasy Football Expo.
0:39It is my good friend, my guy, Justin Boone.
0:41Boone, what's going on, man? How you doing? There's a little piece of me that's like sad that we're back to just
0:47the video version of this after getting to hang out a little bit last weekend.
0:52But so it is. It's fine. And we got plenty to talk about, man.
0:56This week, a lot of news coming in with everybody in training camp.
0:59Some things that I think we already can feel pretty good about from talking through them all offseason.
1:04Some things that, Harmon, we might have been a little misguided on and we're going to have to adjust here on the fly.
1:11But there's still a lot of time to do that.
1:14The main draft season is kind of in a couple weeks here.
1:17And we still have, what, six weeks before the actual season kicks off.
1:21So a lot of time to make adjustments to the rankings, the projections and to some of the articles that we've already written that will need some updating.
1:29Man, I was not ready for just the reality of training camps opening up, just smacking me in the face this week.
1:35Not just even the work part of it, but, you know, opening up your Twitter timeline and so many things are happening.
1:41And unfortunately, one of those things is also injuries.
1:44Boone and I are going to go through our round by round recap of our most recent mock draft.
1:49So we're going to hit on a ton of stuff today on the show.
1:53But before we get into that, unfortunately, we do have to start with a little fantasy fallout here with a couple of pretty significant wide receiver injuries.
2:01The first one of which is a situation that is still developing here.
2:05We don't quite know what's going on. But Ricky Pearsall had some knee swelling, essentially aggravate the PCL injury that he played
2:11with and tried to play through last year that was dogging him basically all of last year.
2:16And now Matt Mayocko, who's covered the San Francisco 49ers forever, says that the 49ers could be preparing for Ricky Pearsall to miss the entire season.
2:23He said, quote, I think it's reasonable, rational, logical for the 49ers to not expect Ricky Pearsall to make any contribution in 2026.
2:30So what essentially happened here, folks at home, is that Ricky Pearsall never had surgery on that PCL injury that was a big problem for him last year.
2:38Again, he tried to just kind of gut it through during the season.
2:41He was on and off, and he aggravated. He tried to not have surgery on it, and he experienced knee swelling at the start of training camp.
2:49It's kind of been bothering him all offseason. So now, essentially, he has to decide, if I get the surgery now, 2026,
2:55the season is over before it even starts here for Ricky Pearsall.
2:59So it is July 30th, Boone. And the Niners not only are also dealing with an injury to the serious one of
3:05Ricky Pearsall, Christian Kirk, who they signed as a free agent, is also hurt.
3:09Jordan James, their backup running back, is also dealing with an injury.
3:12So what's old is new again. The 49ers are dealing with injuries.
3:16Where are you at with Ricky Pearsall, Christian Kirk, and what's going on in the 49ers wide receiver room?
3:21I mean, I guess we shouldn't be surprised by this, like you're alluding to there, right?
3:26The 49ers just injuries every single year. But the Pearsall one, it's such a gut punch.
3:30You feel so bad for the guy. And again, we don't want to, you know, eulogize him here.
3:35His career still has a long way to go.
3:38He can still rebound from this and be a great NFL player and a great fantasy asset.
3:43But man, I was looking back at like last season and some of the things he was doing right.
3:48Starting with the back-to-back 100-yard games or two in the first three weeks there.
3:52Gets the injury, comes back, takes a little time to get going.
3:55But late in the season, puts up a couple really solid stat lines.
3:5996 yards in one game. 85 yards in another during the fantasy playoffs.
4:03And it just leaves you thinking like, what could be with this guy?
4:07Even entering this season, it was like, this could be a really great offense.
4:11It still could be. And playing across from Mike Evans, we could see a breakout from him.
4:15Like if you look at just what he did last year, the four times, or sorry, the six appearances that he had
4:22where he wasn't limited due to injury. Four of those games, he was a top 24 fantasy wide out in those weeks.
4:28Like he showed that ceiling. And now there's a really good chance that we're not going to get to see it this year.
4:34So it's awful for him. We wish him the best.
4:37It makes you wonder what we can expect from this offense.
4:40Like you said, Christian Kirk, I think it's a calf injury for him.
4:44So how will that impact him? Will he be able to get back out there and contribute to this offense?
4:50Could they look to the free agent market where I know Kyle Juszczyk, George Kittle, they've been lobbying a little bit to
4:56maybe get Debo Samuel back in the building. He's still out there.
4:59And even George Kittle himself. I've talked about him on the show as somebody that I kind of keep bumping up my
5:06rankings and we don't know exactly when he's going to be back, but it sounds like his recovery has been going really well.
5:12This just kind of puts him back in position to, once he's healthy, be a very strong fantasy contributor.
5:18So overall, I think the 49ers offense will be fine.
5:20But what an incredible asset that Pierce saw could have been for them this season.
5:25And now it looks like that's not going to happen.
5:28Absolutely brutal. I thought to myself, you know, today, does it get to a point where the Niners like send a you up text to Brandon Iuke?
5:35Probably not. I don't think they'll ever get that desperate.
5:38But he is theoretically on the roster. Not even theoretically.
5:41Like, he is on the roster. So it's a thing.
5:44But that's how bad the situation has gotten here from an injury standpoint.
5:47That the impossible, I thought for, you know, two and a half seconds might be possible.
5:52But yeah, for Ricky Pierce, it really stinks. Obviously, clearly a good player.
5:56Anybody with eyeballs can tell he's a good player.
5:58But it's the guy who did not miss a single game due to injury in his college career boon.
6:04And now it's just been like one thing after another in the NFL really stinks.
6:08I'm curious, have you considered or will you be or have you bumped Dazon Stribbling up the rankings here?
6:13Because I'll just say, man, he's a player I'm really intrigued by.
6:17Even before the NFL draft, like I think and it's weird how like much he gets posted about on social media.
6:23The aggregators are all there on Stribbling Island for sure.
6:25Funny enough, my Dazon Stribbling breakdown on my personal YouTube channel is my most viewed video of all time.
6:31So random. But there's real thirst about the Stribbling information because he was such a shocking pick.
6:36But I think he's I think he's a quality prospect was a day two guy.
6:40He goes on day two and reports have been positive on him so far.
6:44So where do you stand on Stribbling right now?
6:46So I'm working on a rankings update right now.
6:49It'll probably come out early next week. Maybe we'll see if we can get it done by the weekend.
6:54But a lot of changes. I normally wait until the first couple of days of camp go by because we find out
7:01about a lot of this news and then we have to update from there.
7:05But Stribbling right now, to me, you move him up into like the wide receiver for flex kind of range.
7:10And there is certainly some upside there. On top of the fact that Mike Evans has quite that extensive injury history, right?
7:17He's got to try to avoid another hamstring issue.
7:19I think it's been six straight seasons where he's had some sort of hamstring injury that he's dealt with.
7:25So it's not exactly like Mike Evans is going to be this Iron Man out there.
7:29George Kittle, we talked about the injury. There's so many guys hurt that we could see truly end up being the guy in this offense.
7:36I think Purdy's a great quarterback. I think he is really, really good.
7:40He's very good for fantasy. We've seen him produced as a QB one now on a per game basis for three straight seasons.
7:46But this is going to increase the degree of difficulty if we continue to deal with these injuries.
7:52And it makes that Stribbling pick look quite smart now because I think he is going to be a huge contributor for them.
7:58And I think he's somebody that we have to be targeting in fantasy.
8:02I'm curious to see how far, how fast the ADP rises because it's going to go up very quick.
8:07Like you said, the amount of hype that he was getting before this, let alone now after the Pearsall thing wouldn't shock
8:13me if he goes even higher than how I'm talking about him here.
8:17But for me in the rankings, I'm looking at him, you know, wide receiver for wide receiver flex range.
8:22How about you? Yeah. To me, it's dribbling is draftable in all formats.
8:26I think he was pretty close to being draftable in all formats before even before the Pearsall injury.
8:31Just because I really don't. And we'll see what happens with Christian Kirk.
8:35But I think there's a chance Kirk's just like not a meaningful contributor to this team.
8:40And like he was going to be the third receiver anyways, which is on dribbling.
8:44But he'll be fascinated track like with fantasy ADP and everything because he is a guy and you know, in fairness, Pearsall
8:50was one of these players too that doesn't check out in like the pure spreadsheet prospecting.
8:55Stribbling doesn't check those boxes. Then again, neither did Pearsall and he's turned into a quality player when healthy.
9:00But right now, like in my dynasty rankings, I have a tool on the site for this.
9:05I have 26 and a half spots ranked ahead of the market right now because I am a sellout Boone.
9:11I gave you all that fluff about the market last year and now I'm a sellout and I'm comparing my rankings to
9:17the market because that's what you do. Anyways, I'm pretty high on stribbling, specifically how he works on in-breaking routes, which are the key routes in this offense.
9:25I mean, when I saw Purdy connecting with Ayuk on those big like dig routes and out cuts, that was when I
9:31was like, oh yeah, he's going to the moon in 2023.
9:34And same with Pearsall. They had a really good connection on those routes.
9:38So I do think stribbling on the dig routes, the slants, the key routes in this offense, he's a verifiable and maybe
9:44just like an obvious sleeper now at this point to be a fantasy contributor.
9:48But let's, speaking of rookie receivers, go down to Carolina where we got some more unfortunate news for a guy that probably
9:54wasn't on the fantasy draftable radar, at least for now.
9:57But I do think this is a pretty big injury here.
10:00The Panthers, who have had just rotten luck with injuries to start their training camp, they found out that Chris Brazel, according
10:06to Joe Person, who's covered the team forever, he reported that the Panthers are going to lose Chris Brazel, their rookie receiver for the season.
10:14He's undergoing season-ending LCL surgery after receiving a second opinion after he aggravated that injury in training camp.
10:19So no Brazel here, Boone, which again, Brazel was a guy that we weren't drafting in fantasy, but loses a little bit of potential potency to the offense.
10:27And critically, I think this decreases the odds that they are able to pull off the slot work that they wanted to get with Teddero McMillan this year.
10:35I think his slot rate will go up because he ranked 101st out of 117 receivers who ran 200 or more routes in slot rate last year.
10:42I still think they'll get more than the 15%.
10:45But I think Brazel being out as the kind of sacrificial X decreases the odds that McMillan can get into the 25% range.
10:51Maybe they can still get there. I'm a little skeptical of that.
10:55But that is definitely an impediment to McMillan's upside.
10:57Because if he could have been like a 30 plus percent slot player, even with Bryce Young and quarterback, that's enough for
11:04him as talented as he is to get into kind of the, not the Drake London range maybe, but like the poor man's Drake London range in fantasy.
11:12I'm not willing to completely write that possibility off.
11:14Like, I think the efficiency of the offense might go down because now we're going to have to have someone else out
11:20there instead of getting Brazel, who again, I wasn't that high on as a prospect.
11:25And like you're saying, it's not really moving the needle too much for fantasy.
11:29Still looking at McMillan, very similar to how I had him still looking at Jalen Coker about the same, if not maybe
11:35even getting a slight bump up, very slight, but maybe a little bump up in terms of his projection.
11:40But yeah, this one is to me just more unfortunate for Dynasty.
11:44I know a lot of people like Brazel as a late second, third round pick and rookie drafts.
11:49I wasn't really taking him much this year. I don't normally go after receivers once we get to like the third round
11:55because it's very difficult to hit on those guys.
11:58We remember the ones that do it, but a lot of those receivers just kind of become depth pieces in the NFL
12:04and don't really make a difference on your Dynasty roster.
12:07So this one, I don't have that much to add on it.
12:10It's too bad a young player going to have to delay his launch for his career.
12:15Doesn't really, in my mind, change much for fantasy.
12:17But yes, does take a little excitement away from this Panthers offense because Bryce Young, I think at this point, needs every
12:23potential pass catching weapon that he can get in order to maximize what he can do in the NFL.
12:29And this takes away kind of the ideal way that they were planning to deploy that offense.
12:34Right. And yeah, I mean, for Brazel himself, you really hit on it.
12:37This is this was a raw player coming into the NFL needed a year of development that he is now going to lose.
12:44And that's a bummer. So hopefully Xavier Leggett can be the best version of himself because he's now clearly going to be the wide receiver three.
12:51But even that, like I've had people reach out, well, can't they just use Xavier Leggett as the sacrificial X?
12:57Xavier Leggett was he was he was promoted into the extra receiver role after they traded Deontay Johnson in 20 in 2024.
13:03Yes, that is a thing that happened. Deontay Johnson did once play for the Panthers.
13:07I know we've all forgotten that. I try to.
13:10Anyways, they traded Deontay Johnson. They made Xavier Leggett the X and it did not go well in the back half his
13:16rookie year, which is why they've kind of continued to change and alter his role.
13:20So Coker, obviously, yeah, he's the biggest thing like to make the McMillan 25 to 30 percent slot rate happen.
13:26And he's still great and he's still going to be a stud this year.
13:30But I do think this dampens the true upside case of McMillan getting really high in the slot percentage.
13:36I do think that dampens it a little bit because this was their plan for Brazel.
13:40But we'll move on here. We'll get into our mock draft.
13:43And man, this was a fun one to go through.
13:46I will just say right now, hated this team, did not like the way this draft came out for me.
13:52So that's fine. But we'll get into it anyways.
13:54We're going to go round by round and offer our general takes.
13:58Just kind of look at the most intriguing picks in each round as well.
14:02So let's start off with the first round of this one.
14:05We're going to show the results on the screen here.
14:08Number one overall, no surprise, Jameer Gibbs, Bijon Robinson goes second, Jamar Chase, Puka Nakua, Jackson Smith and Jigba, Christian McCaffrey, James Cook.
14:14At seventh overall, Amon Ross St. Brown, Jonathan Taylor, Ashton Gentia, 10, CeeDee Lamb and Justin Jefferson to round out the first round.
14:21Any thoughts? What sticks out with you in the first round here?
14:24Normally, you know, I wrote up the mock draft takeaways for this one.
14:28I often do that for Yahoo. I quite enjoy it.
14:31And normally the first round, you don't have that much to say.
14:34We have to. And I heard the inflection of your voice change a little.
14:38The James Cook pick is maybe a couple spots earlier than usual here, right?
14:42Um, I just, I don't see it. I don't see the path to him really delivering as the 107 as a late first.
14:49That's fine. We saw what he did last year, right?
14:51Over 1900 scrimmage yards, 14 touchdowns. He has a good ceiling in this Bill's offense, but can he actually have a path
14:58to get up into the range where he's going to be like worthy of a top five pick, which I think you want somebody like that.
15:05If you're picking them in the middle of the first round, I don't see it.
15:09If anything, I could see him backslide a little bit this year.
15:13Right. And one of the biggest reasons and surprise, surprise.
15:16I'm going to talk about schedule for me is the fact that they have the second hardest fantasy schedule for running backs this year.
15:22But man, Harmon, the way they start the year at Houston, we know how good that defense is versus the lions.
15:28Okay. Versus the chargers and versus the Patriots. Like that is a pretty tough start talking about going to get up against
15:35some of the best run defenses out there. And if anybody wants to point to the fact that he had a pretty
15:41good game last year against new England in the second half of the season at over a hundred scrimmage yards, he scored three touchdowns.
15:48That was when Milton Williams was not out there in the game where Milton Williams played early in the season.
15:53Cook only had 49 yards in that one. So it's a much different defense as we saw in the second half of
16:00the year last year for the Patriots when they have their best run defender out there.
16:04So for me, Cook's not somebody that I'm willing to take ahead of his ADP.
16:08And that was the only one I think in the first round that was really pretty surprising to me.
16:14Yeah. Interesting. You kind of share the sentiments that Hayden had on the show earlier this week about this being a little early for James Cook.
16:21Where do you have him ranked overall right now?
16:24Don't have it in front of me. It would be like I said, it's late first.
16:28Let me pull it up here. Yeah, I do have it.
16:31I will just say like guys like Jonathan Taylor for sure.
16:34I have ahead of him a Munra St. Brown.
16:37Like I think those guys are better bets in terms of consistency and better bets in terms of just delivering a higher
16:43end outcome than Cook this year with the fact that DJ Moore is there now.
16:48Right. We're going to see DJ Moore potentially get used a little bit out of the backfield.
16:52Josh Allen always capable of putting up like a spiked season where he's stealing a lot of goal line work.
16:58So it's hard to view Cook doing better than what he did last year.
17:02And last year, he was the RV six in terms of fantasy points per game among running backs.
17:07Right. So that's the reason to me that do you think he's going to do better than last season?
17:13You think he's going to top 1900 scrimmage yards and 14 touchdowns?
17:16That is a pretty lofty total to get ahead of here.
17:19I have him at the 110. I have him 10th overall.
17:22So like I said, a few spots behind and near the end of the end of the first round.
17:28But these things really matter in the first round to like get these picks right.
17:32You obviously want to get your team off on a strong start here.
17:36And yeah, again, I don't have him dramatically. We're talking about that.
17:39He goes seventh here. I have him as the ninth pick, and I just wouldn't have taken him ahead of Jonathan Taylor or Amon Ross St.
17:46Brown, and I actually have Jackson Smith and Jigba ranked eighth behind both Taylor and St.
17:51Brown as well. Not that I'm out on JSN.
17:53I just think like, man, St. Brown has a chance to just go.
17:57I think the Lions offense has a chance to go completely nuclear, which is why Gibbs is my number one overall player.
18:03He goes number one overall here. Ultimately, I just really want to be attached to that offense.
18:08So I'm very, very high on St. Brown this year.
18:11I would have gone with him ahead of James Cook.
18:14But I do think Cook's pass catching upside, which we talked about that with Zane.
18:18A couple of weeks ago on the show here and some of the reports from training camp about him being used more in the past.
18:25Again, we'll see if that's true. It could be nothing.
18:28But I at least want to acknowledge that. Anything else that stands out here to you in the first round before we go to round two?
18:35Well, I will say to tease it out a little bit that the Cook team actually, to me, ends up being one
18:42of the more interesting teams in this draft. And we'll talk about it a little later when we get deeper into the
18:48draft to see how that build goes. But even though that first pick might have been a bit of a reach, it's
18:54a very interesting roster that gets put together on that Cook team there.
18:58Other than that, nothing really crazy. Like I said, I think Justin Jefferson is somebody that kind of stands out in the
19:04late first round because we know the upside. And last year seems to be the outlier, the poor quarterback play, the offensive
19:10line injuries, just that offense kind of falling apart as the year went along.
19:14But if you go back to the years before that, he was an outstanding fantasy receiver.
19:19And could we see him just bounce back this year?
19:22If Kyler Murray can come in, potentially give them a little better quarterback play.
19:26Justin Jefferson's the kind of pick late in the first round that we could easily see him deliver top five value.
19:32We could easily see him finish as the number one fantasy receiver this year.
19:36So I would rather chase someone like that where I can see that ceiling.
19:40I can see the huge season from him where Cook, I think it's going to be difficult for him to build on what he did last year.
19:47I think that makes a lot of sense to me.
19:50I'm definitely going to be kind of in this same range with Justin Jefferson as well.
19:55Okay, let's get to the second round here. Starts off with Saquon Barkley, who Hayden Winks takes Saquon Barkley, the first pick
20:01in the second round after he and Josh were talking about Saquon on our last episode.
20:06Then it goes Chase Brown, Omarian Hampton, Drake London, Devon A.
20:09Chan, Derek Henry, Kenneth Walker, Nico Collins, George Pickens, Brock Bowers, A.J.
20:12Brown, Devontae Smith. A lot of good picks here, Boone.
20:15Any thoughts on the round two and how this played out?
20:18I think barring injury, you really can't go wrong this round.
20:21Look at the names here, right? The running backs are solid.
20:24The receivers are solid. Brock Bowers, such a cool pick in the second round this year.
20:29I was on with Ian Harditz last week and Harditz was joking that maybe Brock Bowers is this year's JSN.
20:35I think he was joking, but it might not even have been a joke because he actually could be that kind of player.
20:41He could be the rare tight end where he's giving you top five fantasy receiver numbers by the end of this year.
20:47So that's a great pick. And I don't know if we're naming everyone here who made the picks, but I believe producer
20:54Colin is the one who took Brock Bowers there.
20:56So we'll shout it out to producer Colin for taking Brock Bowers there.
21:00If we must. I made a pick here. My second pick, it was a weird.
21:04I know it's a mock. You and I joke about that.
21:07It shouldn't matter. But I did kind of weigh this one a little bit before I made it between Chase Brown and O'Meara and Hampton.
21:14I've had to make this decision quite a bit.
21:17I've had to kind of flip it, even though I have it ranked Chase Brown and O'Meara and Hampton.
21:22I've had to take Hampton in some drafts just to kind of keep it a little more even.
21:27So I'm not ending up with all the Chase Brown shares because to me, Chase Brown, absolute slam dunk.
21:33I really feel great about Hampton as well. I think the both these guys are going to return round one value.
21:39We've talked about Brown a few times on the show last like last year.
21:43I think we could put that early season stretch aside, right?
21:46We had the Joe Burrow injury. We had a tough schedule for him.
21:50Once we got Joe Flacco in there, kind of stabilizing things.
21:53Once we got Joe Burrow back, you look at the final 10 games of the season, right?
21:57This guy was producing like he was one of the top backs in the league.
22:02He can be a top five fantasy back. He has very little competition in that backfield.
22:06We have Joe Burrow recently talking him up, right?
22:09That he's a focal point of this offense. He's going to get a ton of volume and he was top five in terms of targets among running backs.
22:17He was top five in terms of receptions among running backs.
22:20He has that in his bag as well. And that's the kind of thing where if they have to go through another
22:26tough stretch and I think the start of this season, the schedule is a little bit difficult in the opening month for him.
22:33He has that pass catching ability. So he is going to be out there a ton.
22:37He is going to put up great stats and I think we're going to see him over the course of the full
22:43season as long as he stays healthy, be a very, very valuable fantasy piece this year.
22:48And I think one of the best second round picks, but I could see the exact same thing happen for Hampton.
22:54Yeah, I have these guys back to back in the rankings.
22:57I have Chase Brown one spot ahead. So I would have gone the way that you did there.
23:02I think it's just a little bit more of a proven commodity, right?
23:06When you're looking at Chase Brown, I think the pass catching everything that you mentioned there.
23:10So yeah, again, I really like a lot of the picks in this round.
23:14Derek Henry stands out to me as like still in a great spot.
23:18I mean, unbelievable. Like I don't really see any reason for him to decline.
23:22He was better last year on a yards after contact basis than he was the year prior.
23:27I think he's an amazing second round pick. I think almost all the receivers that go in this range, I'm probably not
23:33going to be the guy to take AJ Brown in the late second round.
23:37I think you should be a third rounder, but you know, you're, you're kind of splitting hairs there.
23:42I think it's probably fine. I will just cop to the fact, uh, Boone that you and I had this whole debate
23:49on the pod a couple of weeks ago about, about Drake.
23:52I didn't know if you were going to mention it.
23:54I didn't know if we're going to bring it up.
23:57I'm glad you are. We're going to, we're going to bring it up.
24:01You and I had this whole big debate about Drake London versus Nico Collins, uh, on the pod.
24:06And we both admitted it was very close and I have them, we've had them back and back around.
24:12He's blah, blah, blah, blah. You went with Drake London.
24:14I went with Nico Collins. I realized that in this draft, I took Drake London ahead of Nico Collins.
24:20I took Drake London with the fourth pick in the second round.
24:23Nico goes eighth. Um, you know, honestly, maybe just wasn't fully paying attention.
24:27I think honestly, what happened is that I really want to, I actually really wanted to take Kenneth Walker there.
24:33I was very tempted to take Kenneth Walker at that fourth pick in the second round.
24:37And I talked myself out of it like a coward at the last minute, which I ultimately ended up living to regret this picks.
24:44I got behind it running back. This is where I, I made my first mistake.
24:48I, I think this was an issue for my team later on.
24:52I should have just taken Walker. And then I was like, ah, crap.
24:55I'll just take London. I feel really secure about London to second round pick.
24:59And then realize I had gone against what I said on the show and gone against my own rankings, by the way,
25:06cause I do have Nico ranked higher than Drake London.
25:08And, and now Drake London's current quarterback might be Matt Ryan.
25:11Matt Ryan, the, the, the team president, because the quarterbacks in Atlanta are so injured right now.
25:16They signed Cooper rush this week in free agency.
25:19And yeah, there are videos from Falcons training camp of Matt Ryan throwing the looking pretty good, by the way, throwing the football.
25:25So, um, yeah, I just wanted to cop to the fact that, uh, I went against what I said on the show.
25:32I mean, well done by you to say that.
25:34And I'll just assume that it was because my argument was so persuasive that you changed your mind, but it sounds like maybe it was other reasons.
25:42I will also say too, because I think sometimes people call us on this, but sometimes we do pick against our rankings.
25:48And I mentioned a scenario where it happens just a second ago, right?
25:52Where I've taken so much chase Brown that now I'm in a draft and it's like, you know what?
25:57I probably shouldn't take chase Brown again. I don't need another share of him.
26:01I'm going to flip and I'm going to grab somebody else like an O'Marion Hampton.
26:05Those are just things that happen when you have guys in similar tiers and they have similar projections.
26:11So the people out there that sometimes we're in drafts and they're like, you took this guy.
26:15That wasn't what your ranking said it was going to be.
26:19Well, that's not how it works necessarily. Right. That's why we look at tears and things like that, because we're drafting off more than just our rankings.
26:26It's not that simple. Well, I know Boone's like a competitive psycho too.
26:30He probably wants to win every mock draft that he's in.
26:33A July mock draft is the perfect time to, you know, maybe test some theories, try some different things, you know, see how it plays out.
26:40Or, you know, you're, you're kind of doing multiple things at once and you're like, oh yeah, I got to make this pick here.
26:47I'll just take Drake London. You know, sometimes, sometimes there's that too, but we're going to take our first quick break.
26:53We come back, we're going to continue our mock draft recap.
26:56We're going to get into the third, fourth and fifth round.
26:59We'll get into those picks right after this. All right, we're back.
27:03Justin Boone and I are continuing to recap our latest staff mock draft here at Yahoo Fantasy.
27:08Let's get into the third round. Justin Boone, this is where things get a little bit interesting.
27:12Things start off with Chris Olave, first pick of the third round, Kyron Williams, Lad McConkie, Josh Jacobs, Jeremiah Love, Rasheed Rice, Brees Hall, Teddero McMillan, T Higgins.
27:20I don't know who made the T Higgins pick, but that guy's smart.
27:24Zay Flowers, Josh Allen and Malik Neighbors to finish out round three.
27:28What stands out with you here on this team?
27:30I mean, for me, it's the upside picks that have just so much risk, right?
27:34A lot of good guys in this round. But I look at Rasheed Rice.
27:38I look at Josh Jacobs and I don't see third round picks.
27:42I see guys that should be going in the second.
27:45And Rice, I mean, I think he's somebody that would flirt with the one to turn if he had absolutely no off
27:51field issues, no injury situations or anything like that.
27:53But we're getting them right now in the third round.
27:56And if you look at what Rice has done over the last couple of years, this guy can be a top 10 fantasy receiver when he stays healthy.
28:04He is now out of jail. He is back at camp.
28:07He's catching passes. But in the last few seasons, right, he has top five potential even.
28:12Top three fantasy receiver on a per game basis last year.
28:15Top six before getting hurt in 2024. Even if you go all the way back to his rookie season, he was top
28:2115 at the position over his final 10 games.
28:24Like he has just shown that we know he might not be doing it all on his own.
28:29Some of it is scheme. Some of it is Mahomes.
28:32But all those things are still going to be in play.
28:35And they didn't bring in really any other competition there that's going to take away from him.
28:40So as long as he is on the field, as long as Mahomes is on the field, and it looks like that's
28:46going to be the case, he is a massive value in my mind right now.
28:50And the risk just being that when we see a guy have a lot of off-field issues and we see injuries pop up, those things can occur again.
28:58But normally I'm willing to take the risk. A little less likely to take the risk in the first or second.
29:04But once we start getting to the third and later, I will take on that risk if I think the guy has
29:10that kind of ceiling at the position. So really like him.
29:13And then Josh Jacobs, another one where it still has an open investigation on him.
29:18We don't know what's going to happen there. There could be punishment coming down, but he's a player who has been a
29:24very solid top 10 fantasy running back the last two seasons.
29:27And to get him in the third round, if he's able to play this year for the full year, is just an absolute steal.
29:34Are you worried when it comes to Rasheed Rice, the fact that the overwhelming drumbeat, the massive drumbeat from training camp is that fifth round pick Cyrus Allen.
29:42Is about to take Rasheed Rice's lunch money. Are you worried about that?
29:46Can I just say before you answer that question, I try not to go on the for you page on Twitter sometimes because it can be a mess.
29:54The algorithm has been perfect this week. It's rage baiting me about something else that I know we're going to get to later in the show.
30:01But every time I pop on that for you page, the first like seven tweets, it's like, hey, this is for you, big boy.
30:08Cyrus Allen tearing it up in training camp. Not but like 24 hours after I joked that he was going to become
30:14the greatest receiver of all time with Josh and Hayden on the show earlier this week.
30:19So any reaction from you that Rasheed Rice, the era of him scamming targets is over because they got a real deal
30:25receiver there now in fifth round pick Cyrus Allen.
30:27Again, I think barring injury, barring another off field situation this year.
30:31No, I don't think it's much of a worry.
30:33But in terms of dynasty, I got a ton of shares of Allen now as well.
30:38Right. I was out there even after drafts where in shorter, you know, rookie drafts, he wasn't getting taken.
30:43And then it goes to the waiver wire and you have this like crazy bidding process where we're trying to get the remaining rookies.
30:50I was spending quite a bit of fab to try to get him on my rosters in some of those deeper leagues.
30:56And I'm happy to say that I did it.
30:59I think he's going to position himself now if he hasn't already to be the backup who's ready to go.
31:05If we see, you know, Rice do something again where he's going to miss time.
31:09But no, I think that's more of a dynasty scenario where Rice's long term outlook with the Chiefs is certainly in question in my mind.
31:16And I think that's where we start to consider Allen being the guy who could take over for him.
31:21Yeah, I mean, I think I'm like kidding sort of.
31:24I'm kind of kidding about what I about the way I framed that question to you.
31:29But yeah, I mentioned my dynasty rankings earlier. Cyrus Allen is the guy and I tweeted about this a few weeks ago before camp.
31:36He is the guy that I am most ahead of market on right now is Cyrus Allen, like 58 spots ahead of
31:42market on Cyrus Allen from a dynasty perspective, which sub six foot, 180 pound route running specialist.
31:47People are saying Matt Harmon may have fallen for it again.
31:50But, you know, also he's having a nice start to training camp.
31:53So it's at least worth filing it away. Well, we're talking about backups, too, with these guys.
31:58We should probably mention the Marshawn Lloyd of it all right.
32:01Marshawn Lloyd, a guy who hasn't been able to do much in his career so far due to injury.
32:06He's actually healthy at the moment. He's flashing a little bit in training camp, making some plays out there.
32:12If he can stay healthy, he's somebody that could potentially factor into that backfield as an intriguing change of pace guy.
32:18I don't think it would completely rob Jacobs of the ceiling that he would have, but it still would be something that
32:24we'd have to consider when looking at the projections and then knowing that if Lloyd were healthy, Jacobs is a guy that
32:30if he were to miss time, Lloyd potentially could be the one to step in because I think Chris Brooks is a
32:37nice player, but he's not someone that's going to get in there and get 20 touches in a game.
32:42He's just going to be part of what they do if the starter goes down.
32:46So Lloyd is the guy that if he can stay healthy, he could actually make some noise if he gets an opportunity.
32:52No, Lloyd is someone I took late in the Kings Classic draft at the Fantasy Football Expo, which that's a draft for sickos, a draft for lunatics.
33:00It's not a real league. I mean, it's a great league.
33:03I love playing in it, but yeah, you're going to pretty much draft anybody with a pulse.
33:08Cyrus Allen's going to go for $100 off the waiver wire after week one because he's got a pulse.
33:14So that's that league. Marshawn Lloyd, I'm invested in the Marshawn Lloyd situation.
33:17Something I actually truly unironically am invested in is the fact that Malik neighbor has got it.
33:22He's probably the most intriguing pick of this round.
33:25He goes with the final pick in round three.
33:27Look, he's avoided training camp PUP. Talked about that with Josh and Hayden on their show earlier this week as well.
33:33And ever since then, like we actually are getting some, you know, real deal routes that he's out there running a camp like he looks pretty good.
33:41I wouldn't say he looks like 100% Malik neighbors Boone just because 100% Malik neighbors looks even freakier than what you're seeing
33:47in some of these, you know, training camp videos.
33:50But have you reevaluated maybe some of the hesitancy that I know you and I both shared on neighbors prior to training camp?
33:56Yeah, I think we have to like based on what we heard all offseason based on the way he spoke earlier in the offseason.
34:03It seemed a little more negative. It seemed a little more like I'm going to have to be exactly 100% before I'm
34:09putting myself back out on that field. And again, is he 100%?
34:13We don't know that yet, right? He's trying to work his way back.
34:16Even he's trying to throw a little cold water on it, right?
34:20And say he doesn't have an exact return date set.
34:23And he's just trying to stack days here. But yes, we absolutely.
34:26He was going in like the fourth round. We're going to bump him up now.
34:30He is certainly a third round pick and somebody that could get to the two, three turn pretty quickly.
34:36There's a lot of other factors, a lot of other variables that have changed, though, in New York, right?
34:41In terms of a new coaching staff, new offense there, a bunch of new pass catchers that he's going to share the
34:47field with guys like Isaiah Likely and Darnell Mooney and some of these other players.
34:52So there's a lot of things that we're going to have to figure out over the next month.
34:57But yes, a healthy Malik neighbors has a chance to be a top five receiver in the league in real life and in fantasy.
35:03Can he get back there? We're probably not early in the season, even if he starts in week one.
35:09I don't know that we're going to see him at 100 percent health.
35:13But hey, the second half of the year, you got to feel really good about the fact that he could get back
35:19somewhere pretty close to that 100 percent version of him.
35:22And if you have that the second half of the season while having 80 percent of him in the first half of
35:28the season, that's an absolute win here, even at the end of the third round.
35:32So that is a great pick. And we will say that this mock happened before we got some of that news coming
35:38out that he was out at practice and some of these clips that we're seeing now.
35:43So it's worth mentioning that. But yeah, an absolute smash pick in the third round.
35:47Yeah, I'm 30th overall wide receiver 15. You know, and there's definitely ways to go up from there for sure.
35:53Yeah, look, I like the way you painted this, that when he says these things, this team says these things leading into
35:59they don't know like it's this is an inexact science here.
36:02So he might be feeling great now. He might be feeling even better in a couple of weeks, which he's feeling better
36:08now than he did probably a couple of weeks ago at the same time, though, you know, just because you see a
36:15guy running routes on social media does not mean they're like 100 percent in football shape and everything like that.
36:20I am the example I always come back to, unfortunately, is Tank Dell in his second season.
36:25I remember, you know, just constantly seeing great Instagram videos of him running routes and stuff.
36:30He gets on the field and he was not himself for quite some time before he then got hurt again.
36:35So ultimately we will see like neighbors still might miss, you know, week one.
36:39He still might miss a few games, but nothing but positive news right now.
36:43And I would totally green light him where he goes here at the end of the third round.
36:49But let's move this into the fourth round now where things continue to get pretty interesting.
36:53Starts off with Javante Williams, Jalen Waddle. We've got Trey McBride, Quinshon Judkins.
36:57That was my pick. I hated that one. That was that was the pick I hated so much.
37:02Travis Etienne, Colson Loveland, Emeka Ibuka, Cam Scadaboo, DeAndre Swift, Travion Henderson, Garrett Wilson and Terry McLaurin.
37:07I'll just say this here. After Javante Williams, I felt like there was a massive drop off at running back in this round.
37:13And I can I contributed to the pick of Quinshon Judkins, which, you know, looking back on it, even looking at my rankings, like, I don't know.
37:21Like, why did I take why did I take Judkins?
37:24Not that Judkins is a bad pick or anything like that.
37:27I just think he's more of a fifth rounder than a fourth rounder.
37:31I probably would have taken DeAndre. I should have taken maybe DeAndre Swift ahead of him.
37:35But all these backs, I think they're more almost all of them, except Williams, I think are more fifth rounders than fourth rounders.
37:42But at the same time, because I went receiver receiver in rounds two and three, I know personally, Boone, I felt like
37:48I had to get ahead of the like I had to get a running back here in round four.
37:53And I just didn't love feeling like that when I was on the board.
37:57Yeah. And that's why we've talked a lot this year about how you got to get running backs early, right?
38:03You want to get at least one of those guys in the first couple rounds, because if you don't, the build ends up looking pretty tough.
38:10Now, I like Judkins. I mean, I'm in a charity league this week where I just took Judkins.
38:15I did take him closer to the end of the fifth round, but I like the potential there.
38:21I'm with you, though, after Javante Williams, just so many of these guys have red flags attached to them, right?
38:26When we're looking at Judkins coming back from the injury, Scadaboo coming back from the injury and, you know, the new offenses
38:33that those guys are going to be in HN, right?
38:35Having to deal with Alvin Kamara there, like all of these guys in this round, it's they can all come through.
38:41They can all end up having fantastic fantasy seasons.
38:44That's why they're going here. DeAndre Swift, obviously coming off a very good year in that Bears offense.
38:49Travion Henderson. We've talked at length about him and what could happen there one way or the other in that Patriots backfield.
38:55But yes, you're taking on a lot more risk.
38:58And when you compare it to some of the receivers that are available or the really interesting thing that happened here with the tight ends, right?
39:05Your guy Colston Loveland, who we talked about when we did one of our first mocks this year and you grabbed him
39:11in the third round and his ADP has kind of fluctuated from like late third, fourth round or so.
39:17So we see him fall to the fourth here.
39:19It's not even him going in the mid fourth.
39:22It's Trey McBride falling to the fourth and only going a few spots ahead of Loveland.
39:26And I wonder if that's telling at all, if we're starting to see the Loveland hype actually catch up to Trey McBride,
39:33who people in general, I think might just be a little bit down on that Cardinals offense.
39:38Could we see those two guys flip in terms of their ADP, which at the end of last year, you never would
39:44have expected that that would have happened with the season that McBride had, but it seems like we might be getting closer
39:50to something like that potentially happening in redraft. Oh, I think that's very possible that those guys flip.
39:55It probably takes like a lot more buzz out of training camp.
39:59Sounds like, by the way, the Bears offense is cooking in training camp.
40:02Like I was reading reports that it's like all their receivers are going off.
40:06Caleb Williams is is ripping it all over the place.
40:09And part of me thinks like, man, maybe the maybe the Bears defense is not going to be very good this year.
40:15It's it doesn't it looks like it has some holes on paper.
40:19But you do love to see that because I am excited on the record about everybody in this Bears offense.
40:24Obviously, Colson Loveland included. So definitely someone to monitor there and just kind of I think that ADP could end up flipping.
40:31But yeah, this was definitely one of the rounds to me where I think all the receivers again after Javante Williams, so
40:37I think is a rock solid fourth round pick.
40:39All the receivers here, I think are much more palatable fourth round picks.
40:43Even, you know, Garrett. I can't get hurt again.
40:46Wilson is a better fourth round pick than some of these running backs.
40:49Maybe maybe DeAndre Swift like is the is the exception here.
40:53He's the guy that I feel best about after after Javante Williams.
40:56But, you know, maybe I'll stand alone on that one.
40:59Anything else from this round before you before we get to round five?
41:02Yeah, just to track it, because I mentioned it off the top that the James Cook team there was going to be on an interesting build.
41:10It's a total robust RB build. Ended up going with three running backs off the start.
41:14Cook, Derrick Henry and Brees Hall. And then that's the team that actually got Colson Loveland here.
41:19So the only squad that has no receivers through the first four rounds.
41:23And I think it's pretty interesting that the receiving core he ends up putting together in the next three rounds.
41:29We'll talk about it once we get to round seven.
41:31The receiving core is still pretty good. And that just speaks to the level of receiver talent when we get to these rounds.
41:38And it was similar to what we discussed and recommended last year.
41:41Try to hit receiver very hard in this area drafts.
41:44I think you're going to want to do that again this year because there are a lot of good receivers on the
41:51board to contrast that with what we're saying about the running backs that are just getting riskier and riskier and having more
41:57and more red flags as we go here. All right.
42:00So yeah, on that note, let's get into the fifth round here.
42:03A lot of interesting receiver picks. You're right. It starts out though, however, with Basial Tootin to begin round five.
42:09Then Luther Burton, Jadarian Price, Tyler Warren, Christian Watson, Lamar Jackson, Devontae Adams, Mike Evans, Jaden Daniels, David Montgomery, Jamison Williams, and
42:15then DJ Moore to finish it off with the final pick of the fifth round.
42:19What do you like here in round five, Boone?
42:22Just look at the receivers. I mean, again, we're going to just absolutely hammer this point home, but Luther Burton, Christian Watson,
42:28obvious breakout candidates, guys that performed when they got opportunities last year, probably going to get even bigger opportunities this season.
42:34As long as Watson can stay healthy, I feel really good about him as one of my favorite picks this year in drafts.
42:40Devontae Adams, 33, going to be 34 in December, but it's like people are forgetting that he was the wide receiver seven
42:47in fantasy points per game last year. I know that's going to be tough to do again, and it did really revolve
42:53around the touchdown scoring, but they didn't end up bringing in anyone that's going to threaten him in terms of the passing game.
43:00So it's going to be an opportunity to put up another big touchdown total.
43:04Jamison Williams, quietly the wide receiver 18 last year.
43:06I know some of that had to do with Sam Laporta being hurt in the second half of the season, but we've
43:12really started to see him come into his own in a Lions offense that you said it in the first round.
43:18We just want pieces of this offense. The schedule is great for them.
43:22They're going to score a ton of points this year.
43:25You're going to be happy that you have Lions on your roster.
43:28And then Mike Evans, DJ Moore, quality receivers, new offenses.
43:31They're going to be the clear number one in their offenses.
43:34And the Mike Evans of it all goes back to the Ricky Pearsall situation that we discussed off the top.
43:40Mike Evans, as long as he stays healthy, but whenever he's on the field, he can give you a top 24 receiver
43:46numbers and has that wide receiver one kind of ceiling in any given week with the touchdown scoring.
43:51And you're telling me that he couldn't be this year's Devontae Adams and have that massive touchdown total.
43:56Absolutely. He could. So excited about all the receivers in this round.
44:00I couldn't agree with you more, man. And the more I've looked at this receiver tier, which for me is the is tier four.
44:07I do have both Bears guys, both Bears receivers at the top of the tier.
44:11A Dunze who goes in the next round and then Luther Burton who went in this round.
44:16I have them at the top of this tier to me just because I think that's a rocket ship offense that I want pieces of.
44:23But the rest of these guys are in my tier here of receivers Adams, Williams, Evans, Watts, like all the names we just mentioned.
44:30And then a couple that go a little bit later.
44:32I really I'm warming up to this group an awful lot.
44:36Even DJ Moore, who at one point I was like, I don't know if I have a lot of conviction about DJ
44:42Moore from a fantasy standpoint this year. And I don't know that I'm going to like massively bump him up the rankings,
44:48but you can see a lot of paths where DJ Moore is a great fifth round pick this year just because I
44:54think it's tough with just the drop off and efficiency for him.
44:58And even I think the drop off in his own individual individual play, I do think a little bit from his best
45:04years in Carolina, but he's just so set up well to moonwalk into like 130 plus targets right now.
45:09And I don't know where you're going to end up ranking him, but yeah, I've got him around like receiver 29 or 30 ish, like in that range.
45:17I just think he really fits this Joe Brady offense better than the Ben Johnson offense.
45:22So he is someone that I could see being like a really, really attractive fifth round pick in this range.
45:28And they need it. Like even if DJ Moore is not that top 10, top 12 receiver that we saw at times in Chicago, the bills needed someone.
45:35And he is very clearly the best receiver on that roster.
45:39Khalil Shakir is a nice piece, but he is not a number one.
45:42We know what's happened with the key on Coleman.
45:45I like Skylar Bell as a contributor here, but I don't think he's going to come in and take over the true number one slot.
45:52I think Dalton Kincaid could be pretty good in this offense this year.
45:56Didn't think I was going to say that after the way last year ended with the injuries, but I'm back on board.
46:02We will talk about him a little later. I may have taken him in this draft, Harmon, but yeah, I think DJ
46:08Moore is set up very well here and we're already seeing it, right?
46:12Some highlights coming out of camp where they're going to get the ball in his hands.
46:16They invested in him. They obviously believe that he can come in and make a big impact.
46:21And I think he can too. I just think fantasy managers need to keep their expectations in check.
46:26I don't think he's going to give you a top 12, top 15 kind of season, but low end wide receiver, two numbers definitely in reach.
46:34And if you're getting them in this range, you're happy to get that kind of return.
46:38I could see a top 15 season. He just, things just have to obviously break really right for him.
46:44Like again, I, if I'm wasn't a hundred percent sure, just like how convicted I was on him in fantasy, even though
46:50I really liked the trade contract, you know, and compensation aside, I really liked the trade to get DJ more.
46:56And I just thought they'd add someone else. They didn't.
46:58So he's in position to really dominate targets here.
47:01But yeah, I do think the theme of round five and round six are some of these receiver picks certainly out start
47:07to outweigh the running backs on the board. And speaking of round six, we are going to take another quick break.
47:13When we come back, we're going to quickly talk through our sixth round picks.
47:17We will get into that right after this. All right, we're back.
47:21We're talking through round six. Now, uh, boom, these are some interesting picks here.
47:25Starts off with a quarterback, Joe Burrow, Bucky Irving, Roma Dunze, Brian Thomas, Jr., Jalen Warren, Parker Washington, Sam Laporta, Tucker Craft,
47:31Drake May, Carnell Tate, Tony Pollard, and Chuba Hubbard.
47:33Uh, all different mixing stuff here. We've got a couple of tight ends.
47:37We've got a quarterback, got some running backs receivers.
47:40Where do your eyes take you here in this round?
47:42Well, I think the first thing I have to address is that I took Bucky Irving in this round straight out of the coping corner.
47:50I put Bucky Irving in the coping corner in what, like February?
47:53Okay, let's, let's talk through it, right? I mentioned before, normally this year, I'm trying to get at least a couple running
47:59backs in the first few rounds because it drops off so badly.
48:03The way that this draft unfolded, I wasn't able to do that.
48:06I didn't like the value that got to me every round.
48:09I went in different directions because of it. And normally when I do just one running back builds early, you end up getting somebody.
48:16There's a David Montgomery, for example. I thought I was going to get him in the last round.
48:21I got sniped one pick before me. He goes off the board.
48:24There's normally a few guys like that, that you can take a chance on in this instance, it didn't happen.
48:30So then I had to pivot and we get to the sixth round now.
48:34And I have to take Bucky Irving. Who's really in my mind, like the absolute end of that tier, the last running
48:40back that you maybe could see have a pretty solid fantasy season.
48:44I just think the problem with him and the reason that we had him in the coping corner going all the way
48:50back to whenever that was February, March, whatever is because I don't think the ceiling's there anymore.
48:55I don't think we could look at Bucky Irving and say, okay, we're getting a top 10 season out of Bucky.
49:01He's going to be an RB one for fantasy with gain.
49:04Well, there with Sean Tucker back. I don't think that's going to happen.
49:08It's going to be something similar to what we saw last year.
49:11Now, could it be a top 24 running back?
49:14Yes, I think so. And is that fine in the sixth round?
49:17Absolutely. With the build that I have going right now, I just need him to give me RV two numbers.
49:23So in the sixth round, as that like stop gap fail safe.
49:26Yes. I'm going to have to keep investing in running back the rest of the way.
49:31Bucky Irving ended up being the pick there. And I figured it might get a laugh or two out of people that
49:37saw it based on I've talked about him all off season.
49:40There's a palatable ADP for everybody here, Boone. And you found it for Bucky Irving.
49:44Yeah. Round six, I actually, I think is totally fine for Bucky Irving.
49:48At that point, you're baking in a lot of the risk and you're getting still look still plenty of reward because even
49:54if he does, you know, get the passing game work zapped by Kenny Gainwell, this is still an offense in Tampa that
50:01I think is going to be really good. So ultimately, I really like the way this Bucs offense sets up.
50:06Their offensive line is going to be so much better than it was last year.
50:10And Bucky Irving is still the RB one here.
50:13So I'm with you that this is a fine spot for Bucky Irving.
50:17We definitely start to get more quarterbacks and tight ends in the mix here.
50:21Tucker Craft, as mentioned, was taken in this round.
50:23Sam Laporta taken in this round. I like the four receiver picks as well.
50:27These are all guys, again, in that sort of tier of players that I mentioned earlier, where it's Brian Thomas Jr., it's Roma, Dunze, Parker, Washington, Carnell Tate.
50:35I think they're in the same tier. And I have a Dunze ranked ahead of a lot of the guys that went in the last round.
50:43By the way, clarified his new normal comments today.
50:45Like to see that. People can just, they can search that on their own.
50:49Anyways, I like to see that from Rome, who again, I have ranked around higher than this.
50:54But ultimately, all these receiver picks here are pretty nice.
50:57So good range to be shopping for receivers. Because yeah, ultimately, I think when you get to the, these guys make sense
51:03in certain builds, Boone, Jalen Warren, Chuba Hubbard, Tony Pollard.
51:06But there are pretty obvious red flags for all of those guys.
51:09Even, you know, Bucky Irving kind of aside. I mean, let's face it.
51:13I got lucky that Bucky Irving fell to the sixth round, right?
51:16Because you don't want to end up picking a running back in this range.
51:20You just don't. You don't want to have to pick a guy who's going to have to be a starter on your
51:27offense and redraft from this group of Jalen Warren or Tony Pollard, Chuba Hubbard.
51:31I think there's guys that we'll target as we go here.
51:34There's some interesting values. But to spend your sixth round pick on those guys versus all the names that you brought up
51:40at the other positions here, it's just a much better build if you're grabbing a guy at quarterback at tight end or
51:46at receiver here versus having to dip into the running back pool.
51:50And again, I think that's why I got pretty lucky with the Bucky Irving pick.
51:54And this is kind of a big group. I would almost say it's like two tiers the last two rounds from the
52:00fifth and the sixth in terms of the quarterbacks and tight ends that have gone off the board.
52:05And normally I don't dip into this range, but I think this year, like with Josh Allen going in the third and
52:11you're waiting a couple rounds and then you have a shot at a Lamar Jackson, at a Jaden Daniels who could be,
52:18you know, top two, top three, or even the top quarterback overall by the end of the season or in this round,
52:24Burrow may these guys that we feel really, really strongly about.
52:27It's not a bad way to invest in part of it is because when we get to this area, the draft running
52:33back is just such a waste of time versus past years.
52:36So you want to be using those picks at the other positions.
52:40And if you don't like what's there, not worried at all about pivoting and grabbing a quarterback or a tight end in that range.
52:47Yeah, it's I think the quarterback and probably probably quarterback or tight end though.
52:51I have found Boone. I don't know if you agree with this.
52:54I have found my least favorite team builds are the ones where I go double up on the kind of onesie positions, which was old is new again.
53:02That was something we were probably all talking about like eight years ago, bold strategy, all that type of stuff.
53:08Now it's just I do feel like we're kind of back there with just the opportunity cost, specifically at running back, but
53:14even to still get these premium receivers like the guys we know are going to be on the field every single down.
53:20I don't really like the teams where I grab both onesie positions in the first six rounds or so.
53:26Yeah, no, I totally agree. And it's also because there's at the onesie positions.
53:30There are so many good options later in drafts, especially at quarterback.
53:33And we're going to get to it like some some of the quarterback values that are available in the very late rounds of this draft.
53:40It just informs how you should be drafting this year.
53:43And I know in this draft, I ended up taking Josh Allen in the third.
53:47And that was in part because I didn't really love the other options in that range.
53:52So I decided to burn a pick on quarterback and can't really argue with taking the best fantasy quarterback over the last how many seasons.
53:59But still, normally this year, I've leaned towards the late round QB build again.
54:03And I think we're going to see why coming up here.
54:06There's just so many great players available in the deep rounds.
54:09Absolutely. And we're going to get to that here.
54:12We're going to take our final break of the show, and that is going to do it for us on the Yahoo Sports Network.
54:18However, for all of you watching with us on YouTube, we're going to come right back after this break and finish up our recap of this mock draft.
54:26We will get into that right after this. All right, we're back.
54:30Let's start off round seven here, Boone, as we get into the late rounds of this draft.
54:35This begins with Marvin Harrison Jr., Harold Fannin, Ramondre Stevenson, Rico Dowdle, Jalen Hurts, Jordan Tyson, Josh Downs, Jonathan Brooks, George Kittle,
54:41Justin Herbert, Makai Lemon, and Alec Pierce. Some very intriguing picks all throughout this range.
54:45I was the one who made the George Kittle pick.
54:48You know, it's fine. It's fine. I just never was on the clock in this draft, Boone, and liked anything that I was looking at, honestly.
54:55It's like all the guys I wanted would go right before me.
54:59It happens. You know, dust yourself off. Live to fight another day.
55:02But anything from this round really stand out to you?
55:05Kittle in the seventh feels a little bit early, but I've been taking him in the eighth, man, so it's not that crazy.
55:12And I think there's a good chance, especially with this Pearsall news, that as long as we see Kittle get back out
55:18there in timely fashion, his value is going to go way up.
55:21Because once you get to this range and you're looking for a starting tight end, how many guys have like pretty obvious and clear top five potential?
55:29Kittle is like the guarantee as long as he is healthy enough out there.
55:33So I wouldn't beat yourself up too much about that one.
55:36But yeah, I think we're going to see his ADP potentially end up in this range eventually.
55:41The thing that really stands out to me, we can get back to it, that James Cook team, right?
55:46That we talked about before that went James Cook, Derrick Henry, Brees Hall, Colston Loveland, no receivers through four rounds, follows that
55:52up with Devontae Adams, Parker Washington, and Josh Downs.
55:55Now, I don't know if they're just kind of playing to us knowing we're going to talk about this and be like,
56:01you know, all right, we obviously like these guys.
56:04We're never going to say bad things about Parker Washington.
56:07Josh Downs, of course, we think is going to have a big year.
56:10But that's not a bad receiving core to put together when you have pretty rock solid options at running back and tight end now.
56:17And now all you have to do is come back and find yourself a quarterback in the late rounds that we just
56:23discussed before the break, how many great QB values there are the rest of the way.
56:28So it is not a terrible way to build your team.
56:31I know sometimes it might feel strange. You don't have a receiver yet.
56:35You're watching these big name receivers go off the board.
56:38But that build to me is fine. And you can keep loading up on some later receivers as well and try to find some values that way.
56:45Be aggressive on the waiver wire at receiver. I think that's a pretty solid team that's been put together there.
56:51I think it's I think this is Dan Titus's team, by the way, is the one that we're referencing here.
56:57Um, it's a little it's a little thinner than I want to be at receiver as much as I like.
57:02Obviously, Parker Washington, especially Josh Downs. Good note from Colts camp this week, as Shane Syken said, like, yeah, we're going to
57:09be playing Josh Downs all over the place. 12 personnel in a slot and 11 personnel, which like I know that I
57:15know that's like something we need to hear. And obviously, it's just something he's saying.
57:19We'll have to see what it looks like on game day.
57:22But like, of course, they're going to this is team brought in Chase Claypool for tryouts today.
57:27That's how desperate the Colts are at wide receiver.
57:30They're not going to be playing some of these guys ahead of Josh Downs, who's obviously a good player and one of their top pass catchers.
57:37So he'll be out there. He goes ahead of Alec Pierce on this one.
57:41But it's just a little risky, like with Damonte Adams being your wide receiver one.
57:45If he's the guy that he was last year, you know, he hasn't taken a step back or anything like that.
57:51That is going to look good. Just a little thin at receiver.
57:55But you obviously make for make up for it with the robust running back build.
57:59So the build is coming together here for Dan Titus.
58:02There's no question about that. One thing I wanted to know from this round is, you know, Jonathan Brooks, seventh round pick
58:08like the hype train has left the station here, I suppose, for Jonathan Brooks for a Panthers team that, as we mentioned,
58:14not off to a great start injury wise going to be missing their starting right tackle Taylor Moton.
58:19Obviously, the brazzle thing is a space clear. You know, maybe that takes away from the run game a little bit.
58:25But I still like Jonathan Brooks and I'm open to Jonathan Brooks having a breakout season.
58:30But now we're talking seventh round Jonathan Brooks. That's very different from when he was like the hundredth overall player when I
58:36was first like, oh, Brooks is in a nice position so far this year.
58:40Yeah, that happened very quickly. Not a bad pick.
58:43But in terms of value, it's tough to make that click in my mind at the seventh round.
58:48It's very hard. And I think this just tells us like we're going to see him go ahead at Chuba Hubbard very soon.
58:54It's already happening in some drafts. People are that excited.
58:57People want to hit on that next running back.
59:00And we're seeing some highlights. And it's a great story, right?
59:03It's just a great story. And people want to be a part of that.
59:07And fantasy should be fun. So if you want to have that guy on your team and hope that magical story comes
59:13through while he's on your roster, all the power to you.
59:16I think he's somebody in terms of guys in this range who could blow up, who have very high ceilings and could
59:22take over their backfield without an injury, he's the most exciting.
59:25Absolutely. I wanted to ask you, I don't know if you had anything else to add on Brooks there, because I wanted
59:32to ask you any concerns about, and I know it is practice, but any worries about the Marvin Harrison Jr.
59:37Oh. Situation. I mean, we're getting mixed reports out of camp.
59:41We're seeing highlights where he's dropping passes. We're getting reports from some of the beat writers that, hey, he looks fine.
59:47He's out there. Don't worry about it kind of thing.
59:49But if you put together these montages like we're seeing of all these drop passes in practice, it just seems like he
59:56kind of has like the yips a little bit at the moment, right?
59:59And that's not something that necessarily is going to stick around and plague him all year.
60:04But it's not nothing. But I don't think it's something where I'm moving the ranks because of it.
60:09Oh, I actually think it's nothing. I actually truly think it's nothing.
60:12I mean, by the way, can we talk about the quality of some of these passes too?
60:17Like none of these are good anyways. Like the ones going to Marv are the ones that are inaccurate and like just a little bit off.
60:25Like the one that he put like Brissette, I think it was Brissette.
60:28It might not have been though that he puts it like a little bit behind Marv and like it hits his hands and he doesn't catch it.
60:36Like that probably doesn't even honestly get charted as a drop.
60:39So this was the thing I said early in the show is like, yeah, my for you page is like Cyrus Allen, Cyrus Allen, Cyrus Allen.
60:46Would you like to get rage baited by people talking about like the social media aggregators with the Marvin Harrison Jr.
60:52Drops? And like, guess what? I am getting rage baited by it because when you actually, by the way, my, I have to stop.
60:59I have to stop tweeting about the 2026 Cardinals because I've done it quite a lot because now the algo is starting
61:05to feed me like all Cardinals content. And when you actually follow like the videos that the beat writers that are there
61:12are putting out, it's like Marv is wide open.
61:14Marv makes a great catch and Michael Wilson too.
61:17And that's why I am a little bit, Boone, I really, I gotta, I gotta stop.
61:21I can't, I can't stop, but I gotta stop.
61:24I am like admittedly a little Cardinals curious. Okay.
61:27Like I just, I do think that LaFleur is going to, and he already had, I mean, clearly already has been again,
61:33the reports about how just open guys are getting at practice and the difference between what the previous offense looked like in
61:39this offense just really fits these receivers so well.
61:42And like, this is where then I'm going to start gaslighting myself and be like, is Jacoby Brissett really that bad?
61:48Like, is it, I mean, it not really like, I think he's a functional starting quarterback.
61:52They did make some additions on the offensive line.
61:55Like Jeremiah loves their stuff. Like I can, I can feel myself being gaslit maybe by myself because I'm Cardinals curious and
62:01I do like Harrison and I really like Michael Wilson.
62:04So anyways, long story short to answer your question.
62:06I, I don't really care. I don't care about the Marv drops.
62:10I actually, what I care about is that like all the other, these other clips where he's like running by guys and
62:16the offense is scheming guys open, which is why I admittedly if we're doing the safe space here, I am a little, I am a little Cardinals curious.
62:24Well, I look forward to continuously asking you about this to try to get reactions like that throughout August.
62:29Get you all fired up. Once a show, I have to try to knock Harmon off his chair here.
62:35That was the one for this episode. Yeah. You're on a good, you're on a good streak here.
62:40So I'll be seeing you every week on the show here.
62:43So I'll load up the material. So yeah, the algorithm is, is, is, is kicking my ass right now.
62:48Okay. Round eight. We'll get into the next one here.
62:51Some interesting picks here as well. Begins with Kyle Pitts, Chris Godwin, RJ Harvey, Kyle Manungai, Jaden Higgins, Dak Prescott, Jaden Reed,
62:57Blake Corum, Cortland Sutton, Caleb Williams, DK Metcalf, Michael Pittman.
63:00We're getting into kind of the boring veteran zone here for sure, but some intriguing picks from this round as well.
63:06Boone, what stands out to you here in round eight?
63:09I think at this point we've gotten to like the, get your guys territory, right?
63:13Just pick the players who you want on your team.
63:16You start to not worry as much about ADP.
63:19And I also think we're seeing as much as I do like the running backs in these, these ranges, they're guys who
63:25probably are going to need an injury ahead of them in order to get a bigger workload.
63:30I think in RJ Harvey's case, I don't even know that the injury is going to matter.
63:35So I think there's a bit of a cap ceiling.
63:37There's a bit of, you're just grabbing these guys and throwing them on your bench versus some of these receivers who I
63:44could see turn into starters on fantasy teams this year, right?
63:47The quarterback value again here, getting guys like Dak Prescott, Caleb Williams, who could certainly be top 10 fantasy quarterbacks, solid starters,
63:53and you're getting them in this range. I like that so much better for my rosters this year than having to chase running backs in this area.
64:01And I say that because in past years, we're normally already filling up on running backs right now.
64:06And yet I just feel like this year, some of the guys going in this range, I would rather wait and chase
64:12other backups, other one injury away guys that are a little bit cheaper and spend these picks on quarterback.
64:18If I haven't taken one already or tight ends or some of these veteran receivers who I think still have a chance to produce this year.
64:25Yeah, I will admit just as we're talking about chasing running backs here, like I took common guy in the eighth round
64:31and I was like, oh, thank God he's still on the board because I was I am chasing running back in this draft.
64:38And I do. By the way, I like I like common guy.
64:41I actually think he's a good eighth round pick.
64:44I think there's ways where it works out for him.
64:46And again, I just want to be attached to this Bears offense.
64:50I totally agree with you. The quarterbacks are better picks in this range, but I actually do have to give Joel a shout out here.
64:57I said that I was getting smoked in this draft like guys were going off the board right before I wanted to take them.
65:04Joel must have done that to me like. I don't know.
65:07Every other round basically was he was he was just crushing me taking the guy that I wanted to take and put me on tilt.
65:14So when he did not take my nun guy, he took RJ.
65:17I was like, oh, thank God. Like I really want to come and I got there, which is a disgusting position to be in.
65:24By the way, when you're just like, thank God I got common guy.
65:28Fine. Fine. Fantasy pick whatever. But to Boone's point here.
65:31This is like not the range to be targeting, you know, your your RB three like you met.
65:36You might want to be a little bit more locked in than that because but when I do think I'm not all
65:42that into kind of the they're fine. Eighth round picks, you know, the Sutton's the Steelers receivers, the Chris Godwin's and any
65:48I do like Jaden Reed who goes in the eighth round here.
65:52I couldn't afford another receiver pick, but I did consider Jaden Reed a good value here in the eighth round.
65:57But all these guys do project pretty well. And I think Higgins, Jaden Higgins is a really intriguing pick in this round.
66:04I know you wanted to highlight here. Yeah, I think he's somebody that it just seems like people aren't talking about maybe as much as they should be.
66:12People have latched on to some of the other names, but we're seeing what's going on in that receiving core.
66:17Of course, Nico Collins. Great. We know Nico's awesome.
66:20Some would say that he's better picked than Drake London.
66:23Some would pick Drake London over him regardless. Some would not act on it.
66:27Yeah. What a clown. Look at what else is happening in that receiver depth chart.
66:31And I think we were all stunned at the fact that Tank Dell not placed on Pup.
66:36Now, I think he's still a bit of a ways from potentially getting back to anything close to what he was before
66:42and no guarantees that he's even going to be out there week one and just a crazy injury that he's trying to come back from.
66:49So all the power to him, but the bigger surprise that Jalen Noel, who is another exciting young receiver in this office,
66:55he's the one that's on Pup now. So that just kind of helps clear the deck even more in my mind for
67:02Higgins, who we saw produce pretty well last year.
67:04Like his role was growing later in the year, at least 50 yards and or a touchdown in six of his last nine games.
67:11Like there's something here. I think he showed us last year.
67:14He certainly belongs. And from week 10 on last season, he was the wide receiver 35 in fantasy points per game.
67:20So if you're getting them in this range, even if you just get wide receiver three value, which he put up down
67:26the stretch, that's a win in my mind. And I think there's a ceiling for a lot more on top of the potential.
67:33If a guy like Nico Collins gets hurt and thrust Higgins into a bigger role.
67:37So he's somebody that I really like. And maybe I'm missing it, Harmon.
67:41Maybe it's just not on my for you page, but I feel like he's somebody that should be getting talked about more.
67:47There's no there's like no hype on on Higgins right now.
67:50I'm with you. By the way, Higgins was actually excuse me.
67:53Jalen Noel was actually placed on the NFI, the non football injury list.
67:57Yeah, because I and then GM Nick Casario said, quote, honestly happened three or four days ago issue with this finger was
68:03catching passes must have caught it the wrong way.
68:06Short term. He's not real concerned, but then said might be a few weeks.
68:10Kind of like finger injury for a receiver. Not good.
68:13Not ideal. Yeah, not ideal. So definitely not good for Jalen Noel, who needs the time to kind of continue to learn the offense and everything like that.
68:21And, you know, this is just room for Higgins to really cement himself as kind of a standalone wide receiver, too, because
68:27when I've looked at this Texans room, if like if Tank Dell gets out there and is even like a part time
68:33player, he's going to get on the field and Jalen Noel like is going to get on the field.
68:39And I thought like there's a chance that Nico is just out there and he's the center of the universe.
68:44Honestly, kind of like what we're talking about with DJ Moore, where like he gets out there and he's just the one and he soaks up everything.
68:52And then these other guys kind of rotate behind him.
68:55But there is a real chance that like Higgins, if he has a strong camp can just like he's the wide receiver
69:01to these other dudes don't really make much of an impact.
69:04And I think that's I think that's very possible.
69:07I'm looking at his comps, Jalen Jaden Higgins in the reception perception player comparison tool.
69:11They're like kind of all over the place because he played a lot of X receiver in his in his first season.
69:17Like he draws like a Kenny Galladay rookie comp.
69:20But at the same time, then and by the way, like Kenny Galladay was a good player with the line.
69:25So that's actually not a mean comp. But then he also gets some like Adam Thielen, Jawan Jennings, Tim Patrick.
69:31And I do feel like that's kind of the player I see him more as is like a supersized like bigger Z receiver.
69:38And I thought his film was a lot better when he played in that position as opposed to when he had to
69:44kind of fill in for Nico as the X.
69:46So, yeah, I'm with you. I think there needs to be a lot more hype on Jaden Higgins, who's like a ranks in like the 50s across platforms.
69:54So good, good shout out on Jaden Higgins. But let's move to round nine and kind of get through these last two rounds here.
70:01Round nine begins with Jordan Mason, J.K. Dobbins, Ricky Pearsall.
70:04Sad. Michael Wilson, Kenny Gainwell, Ja'Cory Kroski, Merritt, Rashad White, Aaron Jones, Quinton Johnson, Jordan Addison, Dalton Kincaid and Chris Rodriguez Jr.
70:10Yeah, we're getting to the late rounds here. Any picks stand out to you from this one, Boone?
70:15Yeah, I think I'm a little more interested in the running backs in this range, right?
70:20Because we're talking about some guys that you're getting extremely cheap and someone's going to be a starting back in their offense, right?
70:26We have some some teammates here, Jordan Mason, Aaron Jones, JCM and Rashad White.
70:30Like you can invest in these guys. Even if you take one of them around earlier, you can invest in these guys
70:37and you're getting a backfield fairly cheap. A guy like J.K.
70:40Dobbins going in this range. He's almost certainly going to start the season as long as he's healthy as the number one back in that offense.
70:47Now, how long will he hold that job? You know, that's the concerning part.
70:51The durability issues every single year that have popped up.
70:54Maybe this is the year. Don't know about that.
70:57I don't know that I'm willing to make that bet.
70:59That's why I make a pick of Jonah Coleman a little bit later in the deeper rounds here.
71:05But you look at the backs here and there's value, whether it's Chris Rodriguez, Kenny Gainwell, guys who I think are number
71:11two backs but are going to get work in their offenses.
71:14It's just a range where I'm more than willing to invest in these running backs versus some of the running backs who
71:20were going a couple rounds earlier here. I don't see that much difference in the value with these guys.
71:26And I think some of these players could return value without an injury happening ahead of them on the depth chart.
71:32So that to me is kind of interesting. And we can say with the Pearsall injury, I'm pretty sure producer Colin took him as well.
71:39So you take the good and Brock Bowers in round two and you take the bad and Pearsall here who we didn't
71:45know that was the situation when Colin picked him, obviously.
71:48Of course. I think you're right, though, about these running backs.
71:51These are strong picks here. You're going to need a break here or a break there for them to really come through for you.
71:58But that's what you're doing when you're taking running backs in the ninth round.
72:02I think these are all solid bets. Although the receivers are fine bets as well, including like, again, I will just say
72:08as a Cardinals curious man, Michael Wilson is just like way too good of a player to be a ninth round pick.
72:14Like, I get it. He might be the third pass catcher, but he might not be like, should there really be this
72:20two round gap between him and Marvin Harrison Jr.?
72:23I don't know. Like, I think these guys are really, really good players.
72:27So we'll find out. But yeah, anyways, no more Cardinals talk for me.
72:30I need to be on like a limit. Let me mention one other thing here.
72:35I said that I took Dalton Kincaid. I've made my Dalton Kincaid case that, you know, early in the season last year,
72:41he was producing like a top five fantasy tight end.
72:44Then he gets hurt. Season gets derailed. If we can keep him healthy for a year, which we're getting to like JK
72:50Dobbins levels here where he's getting hurt every season and he plays through it later in the year and he's just not the same player.
72:57But still, he's a guy that has a pretty good ceiling.
73:00But I want to bring him up here because I just want to bring up the strategy of me taking him.
73:06I looked at it and I considered who else didn't have a tight end.
73:10There were two other teams that didn't have a tight end yet.
73:14And then I weighed who was left on the board.
73:16And then I decided Kincaid was kind of that last name that I really felt strongly about.
73:21So I decided to take him here as opposed to waiting and ending up with somebody else a little deeper down or
73:27having to grab multiple tight ends because I knew I wanted to mostly fill my bench up with running backs based on
73:34the build that I'd taken so far. So I think that's something that people might not do enough of during your draft.
73:40Take a look at what other teams, especially with the one-off positions.
73:43It's easier to do at those positions. Take a look at which teams do or don't have quarterbacks.
73:48Try to use that to your advantage, especially if you're picking sort of near the turn, but not on the turn.
73:54You can look at the teams that are going around the turn.
73:58If you need a tight end, you take a look.
74:01Do those teams already have tight ends? Great. I could probably wait another round then before I pick my guy because they're
74:07not going to take a second tight end normally at that turn.
74:10Those are just like little strategy things. It's a lot harder to do with receivers and running backs, but I bring it
74:17up because I think that's just another way people can get an edge and reach athletes, especially.
74:21A hundred percent. Yeah. Especially those onesie positions. Like you said, like be keeping track of what your league mates are doing
74:28when they're right around you in the draft. That just makes so much sense.
74:32Okay. Round 10 final round. We will recap in full here.
74:35Xavier worthy, Jonah Coleman, Romeo Dobbs, Tyron Tracy, Casey Concepcion, Wandale Robinson, Jacoby Myers, Jalen Coker, Travis Kelsey, Bo Nix, Trevor Lawrence, and Isaiah likely.
74:42What are your standout picks here from this one?
74:44I mean, just look at the quarterback values. Like again, when you're talking about how you're building your team, if you waited
74:51on quarterback, if you load it up at every single other position, you can get Trevor Lawrence here.
74:56You can get Bo Nix here. Both those guys top eight fantasy quarterbacks on a per game basis last year.
75:01I think there's reason to think that both guys are going to have really strong seasons this year.
75:07There's some more depth around them in terms of if an injury happens in the receiving core.
75:11They have some better players around them this year that could insulate them.
75:15So I think that's just a great way to build this season.
75:19Late round quarterback is nothing new, of course, but there were a few years there where we started to get a little
75:25more enticed by the elite quarterbacks because of the numbers they were putting up.
75:29There's so many good quarterbacks this year. You can get these guys.
75:32They have, you know, top eight potential or more, and you're getting them in this round versus having to take shots on
75:38some of these other guys, which is just like some of them are a bit more like Hail Mary type picks that you're hoping come through for you.
75:46Not nearly as guaranteed as the value that you're getting that quarterback.
75:50So for me, that's what really stands out that I think these teams got just great value by waiting on quarterback.
75:56Yeah, obviously I hate my team in this league.
75:58Again, I'm very glad this is the last time I'll ever think about it.
76:02But yeah, my two biggest concerns are that I did get behind at running back and then also took Jaden Daniels a
76:09little too early to the point that like, yeah, I was looking at Trevor Lawrence going off the board here in round
76:1510 and shoot in round 11, you know, like Jackson Dart goes off the board here for us, I believe in the
76:21next round or yeah, like there's just there's so many good quarterback picks all over the place.
76:26Just doesn't make sense to rip it early, especially when you get behind it at running back as well.
76:31Look at the quarterback room that Scott ended up with, right?
76:34Scott Pianowski. He got Trevor Lawrence here. He gets Brock Purdy in round 12.
76:38Both those guys finished his top six fantasy quarterbacks last year, right?
76:42They were two of the hottest guys down the stretch.
76:45Some of that was schedule related, but still guys that have produced over multiple seasons, guys that are looking really good for this year.
76:51And he's totally hedging his bet there by grabbing two of them in the late rounds.
76:56Essentially, in my mind, like just securing high end quarterback play for his team.
77:00So it's a great way to build your team this year.
77:03And just these receiver picks to real quick, like it's a it's a very fascinating blend here in round 10 where there's
77:09Casey Concepcion and Jalen Coker to, in my opinion, you know, and I'm not the only one that holds his opinion, but
77:16like two stone cold ballers at the receiver position.
77:18We just have questions about their offensive ecosystem, obviously.
77:21And yet you can also get kind of the boring.
77:23This guy is probably going to out kick his ADP, even if he's not the league winner upside guy like Romeo Dobbs.
77:30I'm really warming to Romeo Dobbs being a nice late round pick.
77:33If you need help at receiver, Jacoby Myers probably is just going to play and produce more than anybody thinks in Jacksonville
77:39while everyone's getting gassed up on Parker, Washington, BTJ and the whole deal like Myers is not going anywhere.
77:45There Wondale Robinson, like Boone, I one of my bold predictions might be that like Wondale Robinson catches more passes than Carnell Tate this year.
77:52I just think he's in a pretty good position there in Tennessee as well.
77:56So, yeah, there's some, you know, you get into the boring tight ends as well.
78:00Kelsey likely whatever, but there's some interesting receiver picks in this round as well.
78:04Yeah, because of the build that I was on now, the rest of the way I'm taking running backs and it's kind
78:10of like you were saying with the Kalmanunga pick, right?
78:13You feel compelled to do it because the build you're solid at the other positions and you got a backfill at running back.
78:20So for me, it's Jonah Coleman here. Who's one of those guys that the Dobbins injury at this point almost seems like an inevitability.
78:27It's just a matter of like, when is it going to occur?
78:30And right now, the way a lot of the people around the team are talking is if Dobbins goes down, Coleman's the
78:36one that might just step into his role. Harvey maintaining a similar role to what he has.
78:41So that could be a way where Coleman, unlike some of these other guys where they needed injury, but some of the
78:47starters ahead of them are younger guys, guys that don't have durability concerns.
78:51Coleman's somebody that seems like the path is set up where if that Dobbins injury just happens one more time, he's stepping
78:57into the starting role or at least a meaningful role in one of the better offenses in the league.
79:03So he's a guy that I've been trying to grab on as many teams as possible and just toss him on my bench for a later date.
79:10Absolutely love the Jonah Coleman pick very high on the Broncos offense.
79:14And I think Coleman is the perfect like, hey, he's the smart back who kind of does the little things well.
79:20So a really good breakdown from you there. Any other thoughts just on rounds 11 to 15 real quick rapid fire stuff before we get out of here?
79:28I thought it was interesting. I don't normally recommend people taking a running defense or a kicker taking them earlier than the last couple rounds.
79:35And often in drafts for redraft, I don't even take a defense or a kicker.
79:39I grab a couple more players who maybe could get their situation improved by an injury during the preseason or something like that.
79:46And then before we get to the season, I make decisions.
79:49You know, if somebody gets thrown on IR, if I have to drop a couple guys and fill those positions.
79:54However, I will say if you are going to take a defense or a kicker, make sure you're the first.
80:00Don't go too early. But I think we see here Hayden in what the 11th and 12th round around there ends up
80:06taking a Brandon Aubrey and the Texans defense. Be the first if you're going to do it and take the best ones
80:13because he secured that around the turn one of those rounds.
80:16And it seems like a smart move. Normally, again, I want to stream at those spots.
80:20I don't want to get locked down. But when he made that move, I was like, man, that kind of does look
80:26good in this range compared to what else we're dealing with and who we're picking from.
80:31I mean, yeah, I'm never taking especially a draft this early.
80:34Obviously, I'm never taking a kicker in defense. I'm just going to keep upside flyers on the bench.
80:39So out of protest, because our fearless leader, Jason Klobacca, makes us take a kicker and a defense in these mock drafts.
80:45I will just take them with my last two picks.
80:48So that is actual in that situation, smart strategy.
80:51By the way, final pick in this draft round 15, 12th pick in the 15th round.
80:55Hayden took Kyler Murray. Interesting. I think that could obviously go down as a very good value for the Winks team there.
81:02And yet another quarterback in the late rounds that if he finished as the top 12 QB, would you be shocked in the slightest?
81:08I don't think any of us would. So why not?
81:11Round 15 pick. Also, Tyler Shuck was the only other non kicker taken there.
81:15Who's going to get to throw to Chris Olave, who shout out to Chris Olave secured himself a nice bag as we were talking here.
81:22His contract extension is finalized, so he'll get into camp.
81:25And man, I've just been watching the Saints offense because I'm working on Olave's profile.
81:29That offense is so fun, man. Just Jordan Tyson, especially being dropped in here.
81:33I'm really excited about that Saints team. And Boone, I'm also very excited that next time you and I speak, next time
81:40the people hear us on this show, it's going to be August, baby.
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