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top tier QBs all seem to go in rounds four and five what's your preferred draft strategy there with the position so deep like are you trying to spend up in the rounds four and five for those top tier quarterbacks or are you okay with waiting so this has been a really weird one for me because I'm very Pro um this season especially um very Pro you don't have to grab one of the elite guys you can wait it's extremely deep you can take risk as well and maybe draft a guy that you're not sure about because when you hit the waiver wires especially in 10 team leagues like this one um there's going to be plenty of startable um streaming options every single week so you don't have to kind of panic and you can wait it out you don't have to jump it guys but ironically for me as I'm doing mock drafts as I'm doing my redraft leagues I've been oddly enough taking quarterbacks early it's not intentional um again it's just kind of how the boards are falling like um in this draft for instance I took Kyler Murray in the fifth round it was right after Anthony Richardson went off the board and right before CJ Stout I was kind of like smack dab in the middle of that end of the quarterback runs there in that fifth round and it's just been really for me kind of relaxing drafting quarterback because you don't really feel pressure I've been leaning into the early guys but you don't have to I don't feel like I'm panicked and like saying okay I don't like the value on this guy but I have to take him and um it's just it's been really interesting seeing how all of that is Flowing oddly enough I have been taking uh a qb1 I'm not going to lie uh I'm going against you know what I've been saying but it's really about how the board is falling and how you want to how you want to take it because these quarterbacks can go literally anywhere throughout the draft there's so much depth you're right I I think it's it's really about playing playing how the board comes to you um because I was uh I think I had the second pick in the draft and I drafted Jaylen Herz in this and it was right after Josh Allen and you'll see throughout round four all of those main players Josh Allen Jaylen Jaylen Herz Patrick Mahomes Lamar Jackson all those guys went in the fourth round so you could jump on the bandwagon and try to jump into that QB race QB arms race but in certain situations if you don't have a good draft position like if you're kind of sitting on the outskirts there kind of like how you were just describing like I'm okay with taking a Kyler Murray you know or potentially a Jaden Daniels someone that I I want to talk about a little bit more and that you touched on as one of your risers but I think think in this in this QB in a with the QB position so deep this year it's really a choice of whether you want a dual threat quarterback or whether you're okay with a pocket passer and more often than not I find myself drafting those dual threats with a pocket passing backup but that doesn't always unfold especially in the 10 Team league so I think you could just play the board if the value is there and you see a good dual threat quarterback available for you go ahead and grab them if they're flying off the board and you see a better valuable wide receiver running back I think you can go that way too because there's just going to be so many options available for you especially in a 10 Team league but um let's go back to Jaden Daniels for a second because what is your take on him and is he one of those guys that you're going to be definitely targeting if you miss out on say these top tier QBs or are you okay with like say a Dak Prescott so I still love Dak um it's and it's funny because Dak is one of the guys that's kind of like that borderline do I take a guy like Dak or do I do I reach and go for Jaden Daniels and the more and more we go through this preseason the more comfortable I get with reaching on Jaden Daniels because and we've talked about this um in the podcast a lot and I talked about it with Andy baren last week on our breakouts podcast where of course Jaden Daniels was on there I talked about him he's everywhere right you can't do a podcast at this point and not talk about Jaden Daniels um but he is right at the end of that qb1 for me you know around QB 11 qb2 and he's the last guy that I feel inclined to reach for and that I want to snag and then after that you know I'm uncomfortable with waiting for um some of the guys I don't mind like a Jared Goff and skipping over your Tua tug of aloa your Brock py if you want to wait just a little bit further and push it back there's guys like Trevor Lawrence but I mean Jaden Daniels has just sailed right past all these guys right in ADB and we saw it in this draft where um we had a nice little Gap there uh after that kind of Kyler Murray CJ stoud Anthony Richardson range we had a little bit of a two round Gap um and then we had Joe burrow then we had Jordan love and then in round nine remember 10 team League round nine we had Jaden Daniels go off the board um and I I feel like that was a beautiful spot to take him because um I mean if if I hadn't taken a quarterback um 100% And he was available I would have done it because other guys that you're looking at in that round there was Brian Robinson that went um Titans went that round Evan Ingram David and joku they're all fine options Tony Pard as well um so they're fine options but you kind of get out of that high-end wide receiver range and I feel like that's a great time to jump and take a risk on a guy like Jaden Daniels who again was um and the number one guy in my Riser column this week uh just sailing really he's been so impressive um again this preseason this last start that he had he had um two series uh 10 completions 12 attempts 78 yards had some rushing yards on the ground as as well he's just absolutely been just been thriving all off season and uh it's crazy he lost Johan doson in that trade we've got that big news that came through and now the primary target will be Terry mclen I'm sure we'll talk about that later when we go to receivers but um even with the loss of Jan Dodson I feel like this receiving core can step up for him and really help him Thrive I was waiting for you to mention it that was the big news the Hot Topic last late last week when Jan Dodson was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles um kind of a guy that you know unfortunately just didn't amass any of the production that he had his rookie season but you know he's got a new home perhaps Kell Moore can unlock something a little bit more out of him but yeah that was a give me a little bit of concern or maybe a little bit of hesitancy on jayen Daniels that he was losing um a pass catcher of his caliber um but I I think terara is telling you guys to get ahead of the curve because if you look at you know CIA 4 for four their ADP data right now jayen Jaden Daniels is going in the 10th round and she's she spent up round earlier for him so this could be the trend we see going into the holiday weekend of Jaden Daniels kind of climbing up uh draft boards so after the break we will get to the running backs the wide receivers and the tight ends from our latest mock draft