Blind Auction Draft | 'NFL Fantasy Live'

TV. All right, so we all have our guys, the ones that we really like in drafts that we are going out of our way to try and target, but we're doing something a little bit different. This is not your typical snake draft. We're doing more of an auction look. So we're going to use just some average auction values. We're going to do some projected finishes. We're going to do some adp's, and we're going to try to figure out blindly what kind of teams we can put together. So let's get started with a wide receiver a wide receiver, one here. And we have two average value $6,567 wide receiver for projected rank. Wide receiver three. You can see it all there. Wide receiver five. And for the ADP I'm going to go first because that's what it says in the rundown. So of those two I just feel like everything's so close. If I can save two bucks I'm going to take a player A over here for $65. I feel like this is a trap. This is what I'm going to reveal it. All right, so Justin Jefferson, Justin Jefferson. All right. So that's that's player A here I'm not look of the I know we were worried about the Vikings because of the Sam Darnold issue and the quarterback situation Justin Jefferson doesn't worry me because he's still going to get a ton of targets in this offense. He's still incredibly talented. He's sort of the one guy in this offense I think remains sort of status quo. So I'm okay with taking him right there. No, I'm pretty good with that. How about player B unveiled player B ending up with and it's Jamaar Chase, which is going to be amazing if you're not playing the first three weeks of the season. I don't know. I don't know what the what the situation is going to be with Jamaar Chase. We saw earlier this week, Zach Taylor had to walk back some comments about his his availability. This is just one of those situations. And again like I would not go at the price. I think because Justin Jefferson and Jamaar Chase were going at a very similar price. I think I would feel better about Justin Jefferson. I don't know, I mean, I it's one of those things too, like week eight, it's probably not going to matter. And Jamaar Chase is going to be back. But whenever you whenever you start off the season with a bunch of holdouts like it just kind of permeates through the entirety of the year. One I didn't expect we'd have LSU on LSU crime that would start this thing. Also, I the way I tend to operate in auctions is like guys like Jefferson and Chase. I will nominate them to somebody else. I wouldn't even bet on them. I wouldn't bet I just nominate them and let somebody else spend all their money. So next up, we got an RB one here, one player, eight for $47, player B for 51 projected eight player A to be the RB 11 and the ADP of RB eight. Player B the projected rank of RB seven and ADP of RB six. So you get the first crack at this rank. Oh god, I feel like this is going to end up being Kyren Williams, but I'll go with player B. All right. Hit me with player B. Player B let's see who it is going to be. And it's you know it's Jahmyr Gibbs I feel I feel really good about this one. I think that last year he established himself at the end of the season, obviously there was a little bit of, David Montgomery was not playing as much, but I think Jahmyr Gibbs for this price, I'm pretty fair with it. I almost got him in a in a traditional draft the other day. I'm in this player. Let's see who player A is. Derrick Henry. Ooh, you know what I think? But I think for the price, I think the prices are, are right on those because I don't know that I would pay quite as much for Henry just because, yes, he doesn't catch the football, but he does so many other things. Well, I have probably chosen to draft Henry over Gibbs a little bit more just because there's less competition in the backfield. There is no, you know, there's not going to be a David Montgomery type in Baltimore to take those opportunities away from him. And he's going to get more touchdown upside. I think I'm worried about Mark Andrews. Yeah. Taking away a lot of touchdowns. All right. So next up we need a good flex option here. So like this this is sort of Joker's wild right. Because it could be a wide receiver. It could be a running back maybe even a tight end. Player A is at $49. Whereas player B is at 57. The ranks and the ADP sort of flip flop for each. So I'm going to go I did not go with player. I don't know I don't know how you don't go with player. I'm going to go with player A here because it's player A I want value. So let's see who it is Garrett Wilson wow. Very nice. That's a pretty great flex option actually pretty good if you're rolling Garrett Wilson in the flex right now. But look we saw last year what he was able to do with poor quarterback play. They get Aaron Rodgers back. And even if he's not the Aaron Rodgers of his prime he's still going to be better than anything the Jets had at quarterback last year. And if Aaron Rodgers gets hurt again I feel a lot better with Tyrod Taylor coming in at the quarterback spot than anybody else. The Jets rolled out last year. That was an anti Zach Wilson comment from you player B oh baby. Oh I love Saquon Barkley this year I think Saquon Barkley is such a great option last season. If you think back to Jalen Hurts and he had a wonderful year 15 rushing touchdowns. But we have to remember the DeAndre Swift got tackled on the one yard line six times last year. And every time they went to the brotherly shove. So if you have Saquon Barkley rushing for 1000 yards. And if he gets half of those touchdown opportunities he's going to have a monster year. I think people have slept on him, but I think everybody is now been awakened to the greatness of Saquon Barkley. It was only six times for DeAndre Swift because I had him and it felt like way more than that I don't know. Let's look at a second running back though right. We're gonna go back to the running back well and see what there is here. I know there's a big disparity in value here between $32 and $16, but their ADP and projected ranks are the same. This feels like this feels like an easy call, right? Player. Be like, I'm not even gonna mess around. It's gonna be a trap or a trap. What is this, half the price? Who's it going to be? Isaiah Pacheco, Josh Jacobs, you got me, you got me. I knew I was being set up every time. I'm not taking Josh Jacobs. You can't make me do it. Let me tell you. Like you guys, you think you want. You think Matt LaFleur is some great coach? He was the guy that looked at Derrick Henry and Deion Lewis and said, you know what? These guys should split carries. That's what I'm going to do when Marshawn Lloyd ends up running for more yards than Josh Jacobs. Remember what I said? So is Rashad White. This was worse I know like that's that's a steep price. I don't know that I would I would bid $32 for Rashad White. There's just so much change there in Tampa. Dave Canales is gone. They've got Liam Cohen, they got a new running scheme. There's just so much that I'm not sure about in this offense. I think I'd rather have Josh Jacobs and certainly if that's the value, if it's, you know, $16 versus $32, I think Josh Jacobs is the winner there. Well, if you're sitting there, you know, considering Oasis is getting back together, any team that has a Liam probably going to do pretty good this year. There you go. I've now changed my prediction. There we go. Let's go to a wide receiver two here. And the value is pretty much the same. The ADP is the same. You know what I think I'm going to spend up here I'm going to go player B I'm going to spend the extra $2 and get player B here. Let's see who it is. And oh I love this I am I am all in on this because I think Drake London is going to have a fantastic year. I think he's going to be a top ten receiver unless something goes really sideways there in Atlanta, you know, we've already said that we love Kyle Pitts, we love Drake London. We love that Kirk Cousins is there. So I'm cool with it. So let's see who player A is. We're going to have some words about Drake London later on in the show okay Chris Olave though man I love the change that the offensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints I'm in on Chris Olave. There's going to be a guy on the hype train who's going to be coming in. I don't know if you can roll that hype train coming up next animation. If not, don't worry. It's week one for a lot of us, but here's the thing. Chris Olave is a great option. There it is. All right. So we're looking a quarterback right now. We have not done the quarterback position. So the value is going to be the same. The projected ranks. So everything's pretty much the same. So have fun same price I'll take the QB five instead of the QB. Like what are we. I don't know I don't know what you want. I'm being set up again. I'm sure of it. All right. Oh, I get to talk about Anthony Richardson again. Yeah. This is one of the things that if there was a I don't believe you're going to get him for $6, I feel like he's going to get beat up at some point, just make sure that if you draft Anthony Richardson, I'm not predicting injuries or anything like that. Make sure you have a solid backup. Somebody like Kirk Cousins or Jared Goff that will give you some consistency. All right. So who is a C.J. Stroud again. Oh my gosh. Try not getting these guys for six bucks if you do I'm glad we get to see the names when we're picking. If you do that's an absolute steal because both these guys are going to go for way over that. But look I missed out on Richardson. I get C.J. Stroud. I'm cool with that too. All right. So let's go to the tight end position. And again the value is $5 for each of them. One's projected at five. One's at seven. I'm going to I'm going to take the tight end five. If they're both the same who's seven. Got it. So I'm going to take I'm going to take player A here. And let's see. It's going to be it's going to be Sam Laporta right. No it's George Kittle George Kittle you know what. That's fine. You know what. Especially early in the season if Brandon Aiyuk is not around maybe there's more for George Kittle. The issue with Kittle for me is just that there are spike weeks. And then there are some weeks where they just don't need to use him at all. But on the whole, he's going to be fine. He's like, so good. As an all around player. I knew this was going to be Kyle Pitts. I knew because I knew he was projected as the tight end, seven I've said it a lot of times on this show, especially this week. Kyle Pitts does not scare me. It's a new offensive coordinator, a new coach, a new quarterback. Everything that you know about Kyle Pitts, throw it away. It's a brand new season. All right. Here are our teams. All right that we put together. Let's see. All right so oh right here oh my gosh. They did this on the fly. This is very quick. You know what I I'm okay I would have picked Josh Jacobs probably over Rashad White given the two options I got a guy in the hype train that I would have picked over both of these. I'd rather have, and I might have. I might have taken Pitts over Kittle, but other than that, I'm cool with my team. If I had Gibbs and Saquon Barkley on a team with Anthony Richardson, I'd feel really good about it. I would try if we were in an auction, I don't know if I would be able to pull it off where I would try to get Jonathan Taylor, because I don't really like combining the quarterback and the running back, but I think Anthony Richardson and Jonathan