Fantasy Football Draft: Expert Pick-by-Pick Strategy & Advice (2024)

Introduction it's the fantasy pros NFL show back again for another best ball special I'm Tom Sten I have written a lot of best ball content for fantasy pros over the last two years but today I'm here on screen with Andrew Ericson getting ready to do battle against each other in the drafter 15 M $15 million Championship contest Andrew we've drafted a bunch of teams together whether it's here on the fantasy pros Channel or on my channel the fantasy Sanctuary but tonight we're going head-to-head to see who can draft the best team and then let the viewers and listeners decide they can vote on it drop comments here on YouTube leave reviews over on podcast formats I've been warming up for this all offseason like I've done maybe 300 drafts already are you intimidated a little bit because now I know that you're going to tell me actually how you feel about all the picks I make because it's one thing when we're on a team and you're G to be like okay yeah Erikson that makes sense like I'll roll with that I need to get my exposure up with this particular player that I haven't drafted at all but because you're you know the analyst here I got to play host and I got to let you pick your picks well no now we're both host analysts we're both going at it head-to-head so I'm ready to go the one thing I love about draft is it's so different to all the other formats you go on these other formats and you're talking about playoff tournaments you're looking at advancement but with drafters it just comes out of really drafting the very best team you know this contest you are taking on everyone from day one it really is just an incredible opportunity to elevate your fantasy football experience you can join the drafter million3 best ball Championship where you can turn a $15 entry into a shot at5 00,000 the total price pool it's 2.5 million 28,800 paid spots in this tournament and there's a really strong chance for plus EV entries because this contest at the minute it's only 54% full it is tracking way below the kind of numbers it needs per day to fill so there's going to be less entries in this contest which makes it easier for you to get into the paid spots and here's how it works for contest it runs from weeks 1 to 17 both best ball PPR style weekly scoring a total points format with no playoffs your top performing QB two running backs three wide receivers Titan and flex automatically count towards your weekly score it's 12 team drafts 20 rounds fast and slow draft options available this close to the season I would stay away from the slow drafts because they're going to start speeding the clocks up and it is going to get chaotic don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to turn $15 into 500k and be crowned the 2024 drafters NFL base ball Championship take advantage of this partnership between drafters and fantasy prosos to elevate your fantasy Sports Experience by joining drafter million free contest use code fantasy pros for 100% deposit match so Andrew we are waiting for four more people to join I feel like whilst we get to this let's talk about CD lamb because he signed his brand new contract today and over the previous week I've Let's Talk CeeDee Lamb seen CD lamb dropping as far as the 105 in drafts I had questions from people saying is it safe to draft CD lamb is he going to be a to hit the ground running when he gets back out there how have you been treating him over these last week or two are You' still been drafting him aggressively yeah I mean I think I haven't really changed my stance on CD lamb since the contract negotiations have G going on since he's been holding out I know yesterday on Sunday was either Saturday or Sunday I tweeted out hey if CD Lam Jamar Chase Falls I'm gonna draft them like that's the way that you need to approach this and I think that this is the first Domino to fall looking back last week I was reading a report from the athletic that kind of outlined the situation in terms of once the lamb gets a deal done at least from my understanding from reading that article was very similar to what we saw back I don't even remember what year it was but it was when AJ Green was looking for an extension Julio Jones got a massive deal and then right after that AJ Green got his deal from the Bengals so I think that they're GNA follow suit here we see CD lamb get his massive deal we saw Jamar chase at least back at practice so that's a good sign so I think they're going to get this done for Jamar Chase as they start a game plan for week one who I mean they get to play the New England Patriots should be should be a fun game to watch yeah I mean for me it was always just he was going to sign a at some point CD lamb didn't start off insanely good last year you know it was after the byee for the Cowboys in week eight where CD lamb became a complete League winner so maybe it takes a little bit longer and maybe I'm waiting a few weeks for him to ramp up but in bestall we can kind of live with that in drafters it is a slight difference because we do want to make sure that you know we're not giving up points too much because we're playing against the whole field from day one you know potentially 180,000 people we don't want to be drafting players who could be unavailable for a long time unless we're well covered at other positions is for any other players who you view in that bucket of I just mark them down slightly in this format compared to other best ball sites it's interesting I think for me I am looking at probably those injured players that concern me a little bit more guys that I'm not really sure what the the shelf life is again the spike weeks still matter because that's ultimately how the points are accumulated it's not just okay you're just taking all these guys adding up all their points it is still based on their highest and best weekly performances but I think that too maybe it's not downgrading certain players but maybe upgrading players that hey I'm confident this guy is going to be a starter for the long term and he's going to be consistently hitting my lineup every single week so when those guys I don't want to view them as the downside players per se but players he's steady I think that he feels a role on his offense that I like so those are the players I tend to gravitate a little bit more towards in these types of formats as opposed to in the underdog scoring where it's really based more on the playoffs at the end of the year where you really need to hit 15 16 17 this case you can take a little bit more of that front loaded production because it does help you especially in the long run yeah so we've got the draft ready to Draft Start go 15 seconds left till we get underway Andrew you've got the three spot I'm slap bang in the middle kind of at the seventh spot how how do you feel about the three spot I love the three spot this is perfect for me it means I can essentially lock in Jamar Chase or Bree hall because it's going to be at least mcaffrey lamb Tyreek Hill a combination of those guys going in the top three which is what I assume that we're going to see so yeah mcaffrey CD lamb the first two guys to go off so uh the lamb fall has stopped it seems like since he's signed his contract so shocked shocked to tell you exactly so I'm gonna go with Breece uh I think Bree for me he is my M 101 overall this year I think that he can be the number one running back he can be the number one scoring player in fantasy football so even though it is PPR which does give a boost to receivers ree Hall showed last year that he is a more than competent passer or excuse me receiver in the passing game he almost had 100 targets it's funny you have to actually look up and D do a double take of who had more targets last year Brandon Iuka Bree Hall and it's pretty close love that one yeah so I take beam Robinson out of a seven after it went mcaffrey lamb re Hall Tyreek Hill and mon rasing Brown Jamal Chase who of course that's kind of the next pivot point is it Jamal Chase it feels like he's not getting a contract but he's back out there training and he's just going to have to accept that the Bengals got what they wanted on this one and he'll get paid next year but do you reckon we see a Brandon iuk contract extension perhaps I think we're going to see the auk contract and it's weird because auk really opened up the season really high on after how excellent he was last year and with each coming day each passing day where he hasn't been the stud at training camp like he was last year know the way that they're raving about Debo Samuel in training camp and now he's Brock P's guy because there's no mcaffry there's no auk well that makes me feel like auk's not going to be as good as he was last year because he's been missing all this time with the offense and kind of being more of a distraction than someone that's kinding to raise the the offense and raise the ceiling of what we can see from the 49ers after they lost the Super Bowl last year so I've been kind of cooling on a you can it's not because I'm not sure what team he's going to play for feel pretty confident he's going to be on the 49ers and specifically in this format where okay by the time week 16 17 18 come around I think auk will be back in the offense a stal worth part of the offense but I think especially in redraft too auk someone I'm not touch him because I'm very afraid and concerned about a cold cold start for brand nuk yeah definitely we've touched on it before but Trent Williams still holding out as well and that feels like potentially even more impactful for the ners than Brandon IU uh since I I picked Justin jeffson AJ Brown PUK and nura taking at the 10 spot back at training today and it seems like the days of getting PUK and AA into the second round might be over then Garrett Wilson Marvin Harrison Drake London Debo Samuel and Jonathan Taylor so for me as we come round to this second pick after starting with bejan Robinson I just I I'm frightened to do these double running back builds because you get locked out of the wide receiver position so quickly and there's situations where I will do it and I have done it more on other platforms of late than I have been doing this season I'm not in on Devante Adams at his cost particularly with G mshu there but I do like Nico Collins so I'm more than happy to take him and make him my wide receiver one I think Nico Collins is absolutely just going to come on Leaps and Bounds this year Andrew you've got a couple of picks to go until yours what who's the player who you'd love to get there I am looking at aan uh so I'm not going I'm going to embrace the running back life potentially so we'll see how that goes it depends on what receiver Falls to me again you mentioned Devonte Adams Adams is a very weird player to look at this year because there are scenarios where in a draft I was in last night I got him again it was a two quarterback league but he ended up being my wide receiver four Devonte Adams is a wide receiver four so there are certain times when he falls and it's just too far because in full PPR we still think he's going to get 150 targets even if they're not great targets 150 targets 150 targets and Adams is seeing that he's going to at least pay off a round three ADP so again so again speaking of the devil Devonte Adams is there on the top of the board um I think for me it's just I'm gonna go with my guy he's been my guy all year and I don't I think that he's worth a round to pick and in redraft leagues you don't have to usually even reach him this far but I feel comfortable doing it so I'm going with uh Jaylen wad I had my home League draft yesterday and we're kind of in uh probably year 10 now and we use a platform for whose name I'd rather not mention here but the ADP is all over the place on it and I was sure that I would end up with one of jayen wadle or Malik neighbors falling to me in like the fourth round and neither of them did and that's that's the cont content creator curse but you put out all this content banging on about how wildly underpriced some of these players are and in this draft of course you see Malik neighbors and Jaylen WD going in the second round but yeah so Bree Hall and Jaylen W start for Andrew Robinson and Nico Collins start for myself so both starting with a running back and wide receiver back to you Andrew in round three for your third pick yeah so I definitely was looking at ove as an option talked about auk not super super pumped about him in particular I could go with a rece G probably gonna go with a receiver so I'm gonna go with I think I'm gonna take DJ Moore actually so DJ Moore to me was somebody that I wasn't really sure I think but I initially posted one of my wide receiver bust articles DJ Moore was someone that I was kind of shying away from a little bit and the more I kind of thought about it was I think that he's a good pick at his ADP because we've seen DJ Moore with all different types of quarterbacks still be very productive and last year we saw him be a wide receiver one with Justin Fields so again is that going to carry over with a different quarterback I'm not so sure especially with the target competition where it is but I do also feel that DJ Moore has a the requisite skill set to potentially rise above any Target concerns we've seen him win after the catch we've seen him win down field so I think that worst case scenario I think he meets his ADP best case scenario is if Caleb Williams is that guy we could see really see him take off because I'm more concerned honestly about Keenan Allen than DJ Moore yeah definitely and I I was quite aggressive on Keenan Allen for a large part of draft season but I've shied away a bit from him I'm taking him probably half as much of a time as I was pre previously I'll take Mike Evans he's a player I probably don't draft as much as I should because as you and me have talked about all offseason we're in on Chris Godwin at his cost and Mike Evans I find difficult to take the two three turn where he goes a lot of the time but slipping down to this point in the third I would have taken auk there I would have taken kyen Williams there rashy rice I don't mind but the thing with rashy rice is we've seen his price fluctuate so much during this offseason there was a point where you could get him maybe 30 40 picks later than this and now he's absolutely rocketed back up the board because the threat of a suspension seemingly was non-existent and the Chiefs weren't expecting it I know today when or Monday when the chief signed Juju Smith Shuster back to the roster that some people took that as a sign that maybe Hollywood Brown's injury is worse than it is or maybe rashy rice could end up getting suspended this year personally I kind of see that more of a just micole Hardman Sky Moore and Kadarius Tony are all completely dust but it does raise an interesting question and I think for me rashy rice was always a player I could take up to about pick 36 but now I'm just kind of showing away a little are you would you still draft him into the third round at that cost I think that right now he's probably overpriced because it's interesting because rice again I think I tweeted this out probably a month ago saying he was the easiest click in all fantasy football and then basically everything went my way it seemed like he wasn't get suspended Maris Brown suffered his the shoulder injury so again the uh cold takes didn't come after me quite yet but rice still has to hit right he still needs to be worth a round three pick and now I'm looking more at the concerns about him in this offense well they added a bunch of different Playmakers like how locked and loaded is he as the number one guy in this offense after they added a player in the first round and something that it reminds me of this is something that I had to learn the hard way was I loved Elijah Moore his rookie year thought he was so good and it was I was almost blinded by that despite the fact that I loved Garrett Wilson who the Jets then drafted the following year as a first round pick and I look the other way at the draft Capital what that tells you about how they view their roster and if you ask the Chiefs who they view as their best receiver it may not be rice it may be worthy that they think is their number one guy so again they play different roles so we'll see how things shake out but if it's rice at round three versus Worthy's ADP and I was picking one I would definitely pick worthy but again this is a very aggressive price on rice and in most redraft leagues he's still buried in their ADP so round four or five is really more my style when it comes to going after rice where round three I think is pushing the envelope a little bit Yeah I take Z flowers ver as my wide receiver three it feels like this format you want to make sure you're marrying a nice floor with a high ceiling and Z flowers is going to be an integral part of this Ravens offense and it feels like there's another leap for him to be a to take good leap for this whole Ravens offense to take under Todd monin for the second year running Lamar Jackson as long as he's healthy can be a League winner so yeah I'm happy to pair Z flowers there with Mike Evans and Nico Collins one pick away Andrew Michael Pitman goes off the board right before you let us know who you're going to take and then let's Circle back to Michael Pitman yeah I wanted Michael Pitman of course but I get sniped by Harkon one I think is his name Harkon 11 God all right so let's see what I'm doing here 14 seconds okay so I want to go with a receiver so I'm going to go with take T Higgins T Higgins is a nice value there yeah I think I've been drafting quite a bit of T Higgins I think all reports out a training camper that he's healthy the Bengals seem in a good place and if Jamar Chase starts the season slow then tan should surely benefit but we've talked a lot gone back and forth about Michael Pitman I was less warm on him him and yourself but as Josh DS got injured I found myself drafting Michael Pitman more coincidentally at a time where he's sliping because there seemed to be a few concerns about Anthony Richardson out there have you just been taking all the dip that you can on Michael Pitman or are you a little bit concerned I'm not because I thought the concern was the passing volume but when I'm watching these preseason games all they're doing is drop backing to throw with Hony Richardson so yeah I'm not thrilled that he's not the most Uber accurate quarterback ever but we kind of knew that going in so for me as long as the passing volume is still up and up I feel I feel great about it so I'm going to keep drafting Michael Pitman especially when he falls into round four I think that's just a great price for him so uh I'm going to take my Elite tight end here and so you can't have him so I'm taking Mark Andrews yeah I mean I'm definitely well covered on the Mark Andrews front but I like that build I think having an elite tight end I put out a video on my Channel about how much of a difference make of it can be and you see it in formats wherever it's playoff best ball on other SES or wherever it's cumulative scoring like here on draft is so I'm going to take Dalton King Kade he's not a player that I draft huge amounts of because I end up drafting more Mark Andrews I end up drafting more Kyle pittz who goes a little bit later than Dalton King Kade often but I like having that Elite tight end having three wide receivers already and the running back it feels pretty good so through five rounds I've got bejan Robinson Nico Collins Mike Evans Z flowers and Dalton King Kade Andrew has be Bree Hall jayen WD DJ Moore T Higgins and Mark Andrews how you feeling we've got identical types of builds so far Andrew clearly we've drafted a couple teams together clearly you clearly could see that so I love the build so far hero RB start smashing receivers with a lot of upsid especially a lot of weekly upside waddle DJ Moore T Higgins I guess to me I'm also looking at embracing some of that chaos guys go down guys get injured you could see games where Wadd DJ Moore T Higgins are they always going to be the highest scoring player on their team every single week probably not but there are going to be weeks where they do have those spikes in production and in the best ball format I'm going to capture every single one of them and one thing I want to point out too when it comes to the elite tight end Elite tight end is specifically something I like to do a lot in redraft but even more in bestas ball because you don't have access to the waiver wire so I was in a draft last night where I punted tight end it wasn't my strategy going in but it just kind of worked out that way so I end up drafting Dallas SCD with one of my last picks because everybody had their tight end so I just took tight end 12 on the board Dallas got probably finish tight end 12 so he's fine but what I have the ability to do in a redraft league is I can use Dallas scard or I can use another tight end that breaks out on the waiver wire so I can move and mix and match tight ends on the waiver wire in addition to having Dallas GD as the guy if I can't find find anything else better I'll just roll with GD but in beste ball you don't have that option you pick your guys that you think might hit those three late round guys maybe four and you just cross your fingers and hope that you didn't draft chelani Woods like that's what you're looking for so that is a bit of a difference you can get away with without Elite tight end a little bit more in a standard redraft League than you can in a best ball at least in my opinion yeah I definitely agree with you there I just think like the ceiling that the elite tit ends have it's so hard to overcome when it hits and it doesn't always hit you know last year we saw Sam leapor Trey McBride these kind of late Round Guys absolutely smash but yeah I would stack less than normal on drafters compared to the best ball platforms because we're not looking for about one week massive Spike week so much but if I'm not going to ignore it all together because we're still betting on an outcome of an offense if I'm saying Mike Evans is going to be great and take him in the third round then I still want to take Chris Godwin so hopefully now that allows bacer Mayfield to fall to me and I can set up a bit of a buck stack this draft room is quite interesting you can see below everyone's username the amount of drafts they've done in this contest you can see I've got a bunch of slows going up the top but I have been mainly in the super Flex contest and one of the other contests that drafters has done this offseason but there's a lot of people who haven't entered an awful lot of contests in here a few people this is their first one few people like us under five and this is a time of year where people are going to be getting in here there'll be a lot of people who haven't drafted on the for the platform before don't understand the nuances of format and that's why it's just a really good time to sign up like use the code fantasy pros for 100% deposit match up to $100 that's going to get you over six free entries I mean you free rolling six free entries against for $100 you deposit use the link in the description redeem this offer join the contest today it really is going to be a very fun 10 days or so as drafters there's going to be a lot of drafts happening constantly you took James Connor as your second running back here is he somebody that he feels quite undervalued or is he just somebody that you felt you wanted to get before the running back TI has changed I think he's one of the last guys I feel good about in that rb2 slot for me whether it's in best ball Reed draft because when he's playing healthy he's going to be productive I have no concerns of a workload split at all I know he's not big on third downs but that we saw that happen last year and he was still very very productive so I'm very high on this Cardinals offense overall I think it can be really productive especially in the Run game so James Conor to me I think that he's going to easily pay off where you're end up drafting him even if he doesn't last the whole season again think if he gives me good 10 weeks I can back fill the second half of my year with some other running back production but for now back on the clock and I got to go I mean of course I have to pick this guy if not just for the bid itself so I'm going to go with uh Jack Smith and jiga who I I retweeted the rashy rice tweet said no longer more Rashi rice is no longer the easiest click in fantasy football because now he's going to round three so that doesn't work it's now Jackson Smith and jiga and maybe I was coarsed a little bit with the Highlight that he made in the preseason game hey I'm only human man I like when football players make good plays so I like good plays too Andrew it's okay but I was just thinking more about jsn his profile how his rookie year really went again not the best rookie season but not horrible not oh my God this guy had a Quinton Johnston leveles season again an Ohio State product coming in with very very very high expectations after he missed a lot of his final year basically the entire final year at the col at the college level and then he was dealing with a wrist injury to start his rookie season so I think jsn look Tyler Lockett seems like is he he's a declining set in that passing game in that receiving game I think Json is clearly going to be the number two guy here I've written about targeting number two receivers on offenses I mean that's entirely what my team is right now it's got jsn number two we've got uh T Higgins number two DJ Moore he's number one but crowded and Jaylen WD another number two guys so I like taking the discounts on these number two receivers in offenses where maybe it's not just a number one number two it's more of a 1A 1B and what we've seen from metf at least at the NFL level he's never really established himself as the clear-cut number one it's always been a 1A 1B with Tyler locket so if jsn can kind of take on that production in Ryan Grub's offense I've just loved what I've heard out of camp this year with jsn I think he's just a good person to bet on seconde breakout especially where his price is which is even cheaper in most home in most home League drafts yeah I love J got a healthy amount of him across best ball platforms I was looking at taking Anthony Richardson there he'd Fallen 12 picks past ADP I would not have minded that I didn't have him with Michael Pitman but the Michael Pitman draft out of the four spot does take him so instead when it falls to me I took CJ stra stacking him with Nico Collins who I took in round two 78 79 that's a fair range to be taking CJ Stroud when drafts opened and you were talking about like a fourth fifth round pick for CJ Stroud I just couldn't get on board with it I think you know then you're automatically talking about a guy who has to throw for 250 passing yards on average and three touchdowns per game to be able to compete with the top guys but at this cost it's fine and also the team out of the 12 spot has Stefan Diggs and tank Dell so I wasn't going to push CJ stra try to get him to come back at a bit of a value instead lock of that quarterback and so now I have bean Robinson Nico Collins Mike Evans Z flowers Dalton King Cade Chris Godwin and CJ stad whilst Andrew has Bree Hall Jaylen Wadd DJ Moore T Higgins markk Andrews James Connor and Jackson Smith and jigar this is the area of the draft where I love the running backs like with four wide receivers and Elite tight end a really good quarterback and a hero running back it feels like a nice time to turn to the running back position and one player who I've been drafting a little bit more lately than I would have done through most of the offseason it's gavonte Williams when the season opened I really found it a difficult click to click on gavonte but everything we've seen he sounds to be healthy everything the team talks about it seems like he's going to be vb1 there and maybe he is mixing in with guys like J mcclaflin orri EST maybe even Blake Watson maybe some ajp Ryan if he doesn't get cut but there's going to be other backs back there at times but we know Bo Knicks is a checkdown machine we know last year the Broncos well Russell Wilson led the league in check down rate when kept clean without pressure and that's that's a Shawn Payton thing Shawn Payton running backs always see a lot of receptions so I'm fine taking gavonte Williams in this PPR heavy format Andrew you take our guy Jaylen Warren any concerns about him and his hamstring injury going into the season I know he said he could have played this weekend if he needed to and that he'll be ready for week one but players always tend to say I'd be ready to play yeah I mean it's definitely not great to have a lower soft tissue injury with a running back you got to use your legs so that is somewhat concerning but I want to buy the dip on Jaylen waren because I think that hamstring aside I think that he's teed up to smash this season in this run heavy attack I think that he's better than Naji Harris he showed that and something I wanted to bring up when you drafted javante javante is an undrafted free agent at the end of the year and so was Jaylen Warren these teams have an incentive to ride these guys into the ground That's What teams do and I think Jaylen Warren's gonna show hey I should be the running back you pay and not Naji Harris next year so I I think Jaylen if he's healthy especially in the full PPR where he showed last year how often he was used as a receiver in the passing game you know we saw Arthur Smith not do a lot of things that we liked last year but he did Target the running back in the passing game a ton so I think that's going to be Jaylen Warren's role so um I do like Jaylen Warren um a lot especially and when you said I love the running backs in this range I immediately shifted the queue to all running backs and like follow Tom and you did not let me down so another guy I'm going to take here I'm actually torn between there's two running backs I really both like here but I am going to go with one over the other because he's someone that I've I've risen up the rankings throughout the preseason because I just and it's not because of usage per se it's because he's just looked really good and that's Tony par to me he's just looked like his old explosive self and I think that maybe we're just I think it's maybe some it's recency bias with pony par everybody was so high on Tony par last year we were all super excited in this full-time role and then he had essentially the worst run out you could possibly ask for any running back again he had the second most Red Zone touches behind only Chris mcaffry and barely scored any touchdowns my fun fact again ezek Elliott on the Patriots scored more Red Zone touchdowns than Tony par did last year that just makes me want to cry so for me Tony par yes they paid him yes he's in a 50-50 split essentially with Taj Spears but I still think he is the onea to Spears is 1B and let's say he is the preferred guy at the goal line in the Red Zone well I think that that makes a big difference if he's the one scoring the touchdowns then I think Tony par can be infer a bounceback season I think he can definitely beat or meet his ADP where this is a guy we were taking inside the top 24 not thinking twice about it now he goes almost outside the top 100 picks and that's not just in best that's in all formats Tony Pard goes extremely late so I think he still has some League winning upside and I'm gonna go back to the well with Pard yeah and it seems like his usage he is going to be just slightly ahead of tari Spears it seems like the running back scheme is going to be integral to what they're try to do in Tennessee to support will Lis so I like that I drafted Brian Robinson as my third running back he's somebody I've been incredibly high on all off season I'm not particularly high on Austin Eckler don't think that the ways Austin neckace scores points particularly conducive to this offense perhaps I'm wrong on that maybe he comes back from the high ankle sprain he has last year and just looks incredible but it's not like we've been getting those reports out of Camp instead it's all been like Brian Robinson looks great the team views Brian Robinson as an rb1 and everything along those lines so Brian Robinson could very well end up as my most drafted running back through several hundred drafts by the time that things close in 10 days time after him we see Jerome Ford go Jerome Ford's somebody who is an excellent beste ball Target every the minute if you want to go heavy on the rookie running backs later guys like Jonathan Brooks Marshon Lloyd paing him with Jerome Ford who we know is going to see early season production whilst Nick chub is injured and out and not playing games that's a great baseball tactic that's a way which particularly on a platform like drafters you can negate the issues of taking zeros for one player if you're locking in that early season production it will be very interesting to see where Nick chub goes in this one uh around the turn we saw David and jok who go and then Rico dowle who I know you like if he'd come back to me I would have also drafted Rico dowle there as it is the wide receivers it doesn't feel too pretty I only have four and I would rather have five by this point but there's nobody I really want so I'm going to take Jonathan Brooks I need a running back without a week 14 buy and this will give me four through this point and I can probably finish with five running backs in total if you love catching live sports as much as I do you're going to want to 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in a contract year and I think they drafted Trey Benson to be the running back of the future so we've seen this before where XR running back rookie running back here had last four weeks of the Season gets the starting we saw it last year with zamir white he was an absolute monster down the stretch so I don't know when that's going to come for Trey Benson and that's why it's tough for me to sometimes click him and rrop because I'm have to hold him on my roster the entire year waiting for James Conor to get hurt don't know when that will happen but I am confident that when Connor misses time they're going to call Trey Benson because this is his role it's going to be his role in 2025 at least and I think they're definitely want to at least see what they have with him towards the end of the year so I'm kind of again balancing out my roster I believe in James Conor to kind of be someone to start my team off really well and hopefully Trey Benson can be that late season Hammer that I need to kind of push me over the edge yeah I think I'm more open to handcuffing in best ball than I used to be I think there's definitely value in it I'm going to take Brandon Cooks I think it's quite clear that he is the wide receiver too in Dallas and as much as I enjoyed drafting Jaylen tolber when he was in the 20th round it feels like Brandon Cook's role is quite secure and he also gives me another wide receiver on a different bye I currently have Nico Collins Z flowers CJ stra gavonte Williams and Brian Robinson on week 14 Buys so I'm trying not to overload those week 14 buys too much going forward but yeah otherwise through my draft with four running backs five wide receivers a tight end and a quarterback I feel like I've got quite a lot of flexibility Andrew you've got five running backs at this point you've got four wide receivers quarterback and a tight end is there anything that you feel is an immediate need or you going to be quite open to just playing the board for a little while want to play the board but definitely putting the emphasis on trying to get a couple more wide receivers in there I just again you you you s you signal the bat signal basically for those running backs and and it's it's basically all I can see now I did draft Tua so I got a nice little stack there with jayen wall I think Tua is another one of these really undervalued quarterbacks again he's not a rusher so he's not a top five guy in any capacity but we saw him lead the NFL in passing yards last year because he has elite weapons he's an elite pocket passer from a fantasy perspective from a statistics perspective and his schedule to open the year just shootout after shootout after shootout basically the first eight weeks for the Miami Dolphins are just all shootout so I expect big numbers from this Dolphins passing game and running game and I'm glad I I was able to get a little stack going yeah I mean for me it's pick 72 through to 110 it's an area where I've done a bunch of research into the kind of running backs that come out of it and you go back to 2021 60% of the running backs in that range outplayed their ADP or positional ADP 58% in 2022 and 56% in 2023 it's an area where we've seen guys like James Connor Lenard Devon single Terry uh AJ Dylan even going back a few years these guys who there's ambiguity to them and you're not sure exactly what you're going to get out of them but they end up absolutely smashing their value if they fall into a defined role within their offense so if I can leave every draft having taken at least two running backs between pick 72 and 110 I always feel fairly good back on the clock for myself it feels like this might be the range where I'm going to have to start keeping an eyee on Baker Mayfield but I'm not going to take him just yet cuz it's good 15 picks away I'm not in on Pat fry move we talk about him in a minute so y this doesn't feel great let's uh let's take Blake corm who's Fallen 20 spots past ADP I think that betting on the Rams in general feels like a really strong choice I now have what one two three four five running backs so that should be an easy position for me to on but yeah I'm not sure why Blake corum's fall in that many spots he feels like a fine pick to me at his ADP at the moment uh Andrew you're one pick away what are you looking to do here after you lock down T to your jayen Waddles stack before yeah I'm going to go with a wide receiver that I believe I have in so fantasy pros has sleeper rankings like they did last year and we're allowed to pick certain players I think four receivers four running backs two tight ends two quarterbacks that are without or outside a certain ECR range and one of the receivers I have in my top four sleepers is Michael Wilson second year wide receiver from the Arizona Cardinals I know we're all just assuming projecting Marvin Harrison is gonna just step in day one command 30% Target share you're not going to see any other receiver on the Cardinals get a single Target maybe that happens but I'm a little bit suspect of that happening and I think that Michael Wilson flashed a lot as a rookie he showed some chemistry with KY Murray during the LA the last four weeks of that season and I've already already drafted a bunch of cardinals anyway so I'm kind of hitching my wagon out there in the west to Arizona so if this Cardinal offense performs above average like top 10 offense then we're going to see some of these number two player roles have big big spikes in production I think Michael Wilson can kind of fit that mold yeah he played 12 games of his rookie year and was averaging like 79% of snaps but in the four games he played with Kyler Murray he saw 19 targets and run route on 91% of dropbacks like he was a player they just seemed to really like I think that he's going to be very clearly within a good role on that offense and he's just got the bill for it you know this is a 6'2 213 pound wide receiver who came out in a draft class which wasn't full of good siiz wide receivers there was a lot of undersized players there last year so it feels like maybe he kind of went under the radar a little bit and now with Kyler Murray healthy second off season in this offense the defense is still going to be bad it's going to push them into shootouts yeah I like taking my Wilson plenty you took Gabe Davis with your next pick at 147th overall are you finding him a harder click now we're getting reports that Brian Thomas is performing really round really well at training camp this is definitely just a better and best ball pick I would never touch Gabe Davis in in a redraft where I had to project what week he was going to start this is a bet on this offense just being high flying passing attack Gabe Davis should have a full-time role in this off offense I am all in on Brian Thomas that's the Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver that I want the most but Gabe Davis still has shown that hey this guy can post spite weeks he's a big play threat so yeah they're going to be games where he gets zero points and you're gonna be really frustrated that you draft him and redraft but in bball I don't need to worry about which weeks he's going to go off and the weeks he's going to go off are usually going to be the games where it's a high-scoring affair between Jacksonville and whoever they're playing that particular week so I do think it is the Brian Thomas show but Gabe Davis again the one positive thing about him from training camp has been he's been one of Trevor Lawrence's guys in the red zone so unless this Evan Ingram preseason Red Zone us should carries over I think Evan Ingram had more Red Zone Targets in that one preseason game than he might have had all last season yeah and the thing with EV Ingram is we know that his production completely spikes when Christian Kirk's out like uh even the pron yeah you go and look at the splits and it's just so pronounced but I find Evan Ingram a difficult click but if Christian Kirk's going to this time then yeah maybe it is Evan Ingram Gabe Davis Brian Thomas season I took Jaylen McMillan who he's definitely rising up draft boards I took him slightly ahead of ADP I was trying to decide whether to take bakeer Mayfield there and push jayen McMillan or take Jaylen McMillan and push bake Mayfield this could be one that absolutely backfires on me because now I've got three players from the Tampa Bay offense and if Baker Mayfield doesn't come back around to me I'm I'm going to look awfully stupid Andrew this is your chance to outright win this draft and the comments they'll be coming for me they'll be saying oh the stupid English guy doesn't know how to draft I'm ready for it you think I haven't heard that before uh but look bacon Mayfield and Jaylen McMillan both had an ADP around 162 to 164 so they were the two players who were hands down my Target in this range I didn't necessarily want a massive Buccaneers stack in this in this draft but it's just kind of lying up perfectly for me it's worked out all right and there's currently Matthew Stafford and Aaron roders both still on the clock I am one pick away the team ahead of me has Lamar Jackson they don't have any Buccaneers they take Matthew Stafford to stack with Cooper cup I breathe a sigh of relief and B May comes back to me so I do have I do have the bcks mega stack of McMillan Mike Evans and Chris Godwin I don't know if McMillan is going to pay off his ADP if both Godwin and Evan still have good seasons are you drafting a lot of McMillan so McMillan I think him and pulk are so interesting to me because if they had played in any other offense where it wasn't them and Odun kind of eating into each other's production we probably would have been talking about them much differently when it comes to their final box score so I think that they all getting very strong draft Capital overall I think was just a clear indication that hey these guys are pretty good so don't underrate them so I think that one of pulk or McMillan is definitely going to outplay where they're being drafted so I think that it's definitely worth it to just take shots on on both guys yep uh so you're back on the clock with Andre yosvi in the 14th round Andrew when you joined my channel earlier this offseason and we were drafting on another platform I think we took yosvi in the 20th round there price days is there a price which is getting too expensive for the Bengals f third wide receiver or are you just happy to keep going for now I mean he just fits my build really well I already have t Higgins so again I don't want to bet against Jamar Chase but in the range of world where Jamar Chase maybe isn't as prolific as I project him to be well this is the roster that's going to benefit the most so call it a hedge call it what you want but look I'm looking at the receiver board that's who I liked I I am eyeing a particular quarterback to get on my way back and I know that I didn't need to take the quarterback there um because I was confident that he would fall back to me so I would have waited for yitz if I had one more pick but I'm here now and I get to pick the guy I wanted and that was Gino Smith so I'm stacking him with Jackson Smith and jiga uh Tom do you look to stack I mean obviously you were trying to stack B so maybe that was a dumb question how how aggressively are you stacking should I say so this year I've eased back on the big Stacks as much I mean you know and obviously that seems a bit stupid when I'm sitting here with a Tampa Bay Mega stack so what I kind of found particularly looking into DraftKings drafts was that teams in the finals they didn't have as many mega Stacks as I expected so I've been TR EAS back and it's a priority for me I don't want a quarterback without at least one pass catcher you can slightly expand that to include running backs as well but for me if I draft a quarterback without a pass catcher it just feels like a wasted opportunity I've been saying that this person is worth that pick and all of a sudden then I have um I have them without any of the rest of their offense so yeah definitely bounce back and forth on it but over here on drafters I would say it's not it's not as much of a priority because you aren't looking for a single week where the ceiling outcomes of one team is going to propel you up the leaderboard in the way that it does in DFS but if there's a week where the books go nuclear and Mike Evans has a 30o game Chris Godwin has a 20o game bacer Mayfield's having like a 30o game there's potential there still for me to climb up the leaderboard in a meaningful way still because I'm putting up huge points so it's it's a tricky one there's definitely Nuance to it I would say that ultimately if you can try and stack your quarterback with at least one pass catcher or at least one running back then as long as that offense is doing well then you were still getting more from that kind of os of round stacking um and it's definitely some I'm always mindful of when I'm taking my quarterbacks I don't know how many times this offseason I've taken a quarterback unstacked maybe in playoff formats there's occasionally the situation where you look to like week 17 bring backs and go okay I'm locked out a quarterback here who does that quarterback play against in week 17 can I bet on that game being nuclear and grab some pass catches from the opposing side but here on drafter week 17 you know we don't need to worry about remembering all those fixtures because by week 17 we're hoping that there's going to be an absolute gap between ourselves at the one and two position at the top of the leaderboard and then we can just sit back and see who scores the most points week 17 and which one of us walks away with 500 Grand I hope I I hope I either know like by week 10 whether okay I'm coting I'm going to make it or I'm like well this team is totally dead does not have a single shot in the world to get there so you got went with Demarcus Robinson while you were talking about stacks and now you're up again on the clock you can't take Rashad baitman because he got taken before you so they clearly know that you're a Ravens fan yeah um this one might hurt Andrew but I'm GNA take I'm going to take Noah fan He Slipped slightly past ADP I know that might have heard your Seahawks hopes but I was looking for a tight end and I didn't want anybody who had the same by week as dton king Cade who has a week 12 byy I didn't want anyone with a week 14 by because I want to maximize the amount of players who could potentially fill out my Flex spot because the Titans can still fill out the flex spot and I do have a few of those week 14 buys already I also have a bunch of week 11 buys thanks to my buck stack so having Noah fan on week 10 it made plenty of sense I would have been open to taking Tyler K Clin but he had a week 12 by the same as dton king Kade so yeah really for me it was even no a fan K Dot and and here I'm just making the BET wide receivers for the books had taken all the P catching so I had to I had to lean into that so I got Noah fan you took K do and so we swapped tight ends for us Stacks how you feeling I don't even like K I just took him because you took my tight end so I'm taking K in and technically he doesn't have the same bye as Mark Andrews so I I think this is probably the first I've ever drafted Kate Aon this year and I'm betting against you Tom there you go see I bet Kate aon's going to be the number one Target on the Buccaneers and you're gonna be like man why' I take no fan he's injured man he's not even gonna be ready big big L Tom Big L excellent I love it let's get some more smack talk in this room uh Ben sonar kind of coming up in ADP he was a player I wasn't in on and he started draft season going to like pick 140 and then he completely plummeted and then he's kind of raised back up but then then this week we saw some reports that he's done okay in training camp but he fails to separate I'll let you make your pick Andrew and then give me your thoughts on where Ben s's out at the minute Ben sonot is interesting because he definitely he looks more like a fullback than a traditional tight end and the less and less we've seen of Zack her in the preseason I think is a major red flag for Ben sonat and what we could see his role be early on in the year look is it similar bet to you know James Conor is not going to last the entire year so you're at benon not in a second half surge yeah you could see that or you could see it's the tryc bride route and we're gonna see Ben sonat break out in year two where he's just s he's buried behind Zack Herz the entire season so that's annoying I think that Zack hers actually again he's in my queue because I think Zack Herz especially in full PPR they just traded Johan Dodson who is the next receiver behind Terry McClaren on the Washington commanders I'm not sure they want it to necessarily be benon not even though we saw him flash that big play ability yards after the catch something that Zack Herz only wishes and dreams he could do is break a tackle still can't do it benenson I think broke more tackles in that one play in the preseason than S has done in his entire NFL career at least according to the uh the Twitter profile of Zack her didn't break a tackles so that's kind of how I'm viewing the commander room and Zack Herz to me look I I was strongly consider drafting him in that League I was talking about earlier where I ended up getting Dallas SCD because I think we're going to look up after week one and oh wow Zack hers 10 targets against the Buccaneers in week one who who would have thought that but in that Cliff Kingsbury offense that he's the most familiar with I think that he's going to get targets is it GNA be great no it's going to be catch and fall down but hey that that works especially in a full PPR setting yeah so we are heading into the last three rounds now I have ban Robinson niik Collins Mike Evans Z flowers Dalton King Kade Chris Godwin CJ stad gavonte Williams Brian Robinson Jonathan Brooks Brandon Cooks Blake Cory Jaylen McMillan bacon Mayfield Demarcus Robinson Noah fan and then Tim Patrick which maybe I'm just buying the camp pipe a little bit but I would love to see Tim Patrick succeed and taking him at this range of a draft round 17 onwards I don't worry about ADP too much it's more just about getting players with roles Andrew Bree Hall Jaylen W DJ Moore T Higgins Mark Andrews James Connor jackon Smith and jig Jaylen Warren Tony POA Trey Benson two Michael Wilson Gabe Davis Andre yosvi Gino Smith K doton and Drake May how you feeling about your team I like the team overall I wasn't sure if I loved picking Drake May there but kind of based on where he was going the other quarterbacks in his range look I think Drake May has shown through the preseason that he's got the the fantasy football tool toolkit that that we're looking for he's a guy that's looking to extend plays use his legs throw the ball aggressively down field yeah that's what we want is he going to last entire season probably not because jacobe Bret may not even start week one because he's injured because the offensive line can't block so that is a big concern but getting as my third quarterback I think that when Drake May hits my lineup it's because he had a big spike leek that's gonna be the reason why I'm not drafting him for the longevity I think I got that from Tua and Gino those guys I feel good about in their roles as my qb1 and qb2 but qb3 I I want to kind of throw the dice or roll the dice a little bit especially with I haven't drafted a lot of teams in this particular tournament so like you said if you're not volume drafting than it really more is about getting your guys and I think after at least what we've seen in the preseason I think that I view Drake May in a higher reg a higher regard and what he could potentially do this year because the injury especially to jacobe if he's really banged up then that may Force the Patriots hand and you already heard D Mayo come out and say after the preseason week three game that Drake May has outplayed Jobe brette and he just he just started so it's just a matter of time before they name May the starter or becomes a starter after week one week two when they find out that jacobe is just this isn't going to work with chobe in this offense and that may just might be the better version of of someone that can actually lead this offense just based on the restraints that Brett is working with yeah and I've been team play your rookie quarterbacks all the way and sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't but you know Drake May played behind a bad offensive line last year at North Carolina he played with poor weapons ever since you know particularly over the last year so I just don't feel like the down there's much of a downgrade to what he's got around him in New England and it would be nice to see him have a chance to develop perhaps he gets banged up but I just don't see the advantage to playing jacobe brette for a long period at this point in his career you take Tucker craft who we have talked about plenty this offseason plenty of reports that Luke Musgrave isn't looking particularly not he's not looking unimpressive but he's not blowing the doors off anything at training camp meanwhile tuer Craft's apparently doing well are you you ready for Tucker craft to take over this Titan room I think so I I've been ready since I saw Tucker craft play last year and we saw the again I can't say it was because Tucker craft was a starting tight end in the second half of the year that the Packers offense really took took off but that did happen it did happen when he was the starting tight end and it wasn't Luke Musgrave so I viewed them very close in proximity when they were prospects coming out obviously mus gra got drafted first so that gives him the nod he gets to earn the starting role and I mean how did he not have this starting role locked down Tucker craft missed the entire off season and yet oh craft shows back up and they're like wow look at this guy so for me I think that's just such a tell and look you remember what happened with the Ravens they drafted Hayden Hurst first who ended up being the better tight end Mark Andrews so I'm not going to just be a slave to the draft Capital when I think that craft is the better player so that's the Titan I think is going to be the Green Bay Packers Titan W this year and and I'm gonna draft him accordingly yep uh so you've got your Round 19 pick here see who you going with Andrew Alexander Matson I mean I don't mind taking Alexander Matson at this point in the draft I think that there's definitely a world where zamir white does not pay off his ADP Damen Pi went a few picks beforehand and I tweeted over the weekend I have no idea how it approached Damen Pierce there were conflicting reports about whether he was having a good training camp he hasn't really put up any numbers in the preseason games and cam ACR has been nuclear in those games is pulling like three spin moves in a row at the weekend are you are you back in on cam ACR or do you think that that Damen Pierce even if he ends up getting traded somewhere has enough upside that he can be the kind of player that we should be taking I mean Dam Pier showed his rookie year that he can be a really productive running back in the right scheme so I feel like that can't be going unnoticed by the NFL the NFL can't look at Pierce and think oh my God this guy almost had a thousand rushing yards as a rookie and then just turn into total dust in year two again the offensive line was injured for the Houston Texans at the beginning of last year so that did not help Damen Pierce but the scheme just does not fit his style so again hiso with Pierce at college level the NFL level he's never really been a guy that can assert himself in a backfield if the Back Field is easy and there's no one there's no competition when it was Rex Burkhead and darag in year one yeah it was easy for Pierce to just slide in and be like I'm the rb1 but once dein sleary started to push him I mean we just saw things kind of flame out so look I think that if I was thinking more clearly and not emotionally damaged by cam Acres I would say oh yeah like I'm way back in on cam Acres but this guy is oh God he's he's emotionally damaged me to the point where I feel like I can't come to cam Maker's aid but at the same time he does look like the rb2 why why wouldn't he I mean he's looked great Ian hardit had tweeted out that again all he needed was the both Achilles tears to even out and now he's out there doing all the spin moves and it's just absolutely perfect so yeah I I I think that pierce we talked about this before we started recording but his preseason usage the up and down just the weirdness of it it just reminds me a lot of Dodson and what happened to doson doson got traded so I think Pierce is probably there's just too much smoke I think and too much running back need where teams are searching maybe goes to Dallas maybe goes to some other team that I think someone's going to be interested in Damen Pierce based on just what he did as a rookie and it's probably going to cost a sixth round draft pick because he was a fourth round draft pick so it's going to cost nothing to try to get him I think some team's going to pull the trigger yeah I think there's just there's too many teams it would make sense for like you telling me that he couldn't go with the Cowboys of the charges and immediately be useful on those rosters like Damen Pierce maybe he is more scheme dependent than some running backs out there but yeah I mean and also let's just take a moment to appreciate cam Aces like incredible to see a player coming off two Achilles t and making it back to the point where he looks like he's going to have a job in the NFL even the Texans beat reporters didn't expect him to actually be on the team and he's impressed such a level it seems very hard for them to cut him uh I am one pick away from making my final pick and then I will recap my team as this gets around to Andrew's team the one player I wanted V Roman Wilson did go at you know getting sniped in the 20 round this is the world we live in we're going to miss these moments when drafting season is over sadly there's not too many players I like but I'm going to take Cedric Tillman better on that kind of uh wide receiver emerging in Cleveland maybe it's with Shawn Watson maybe it's not so my draft finished with bejan Robinson Draft Recap and Analysis Nico Collins Mike Evans Z flowers dalon King Cade Chris Godwin CJ stoud pure hero RB build for me there with my second RB coming in round eight where then I hammered that position and went gavonte Williams Brian Robinson Jonathan Brooks then I went Brandon Cooks Blake corm Jaylen McMillan Baker Mayfield Demarcus Robinson Noah fan Tim Patrick will Shipley Theo Johnson and then Cedric Tillman to round out so for me there was a clear point in this draft where I had to decide if I was going with two quarterbacks or three CJ stad is kind of on the cusp of that Elite quarterback tier and if I'm saying that he can make a jump into the elite quarterback tier and pay off and do what I need him to do go nuclear but I'm kind of already saying that I could probably get by with two once i' started stacking the Buccaneers it was pretty clear that I'm making a big bet on their offense so I'm also saying okay the Texans are going to be very good the books are going to be very good and I wouldn't have minded adding a third quarterback but it needed to come later on when we were past your Gino Smith pick in the kind of Aaron roders darnold Derek C Drake May Daniel Jones B Knicks territory and there was enough of a run on those guys but by the time it got back to me I didn't like them I didn't want to go Bryce young and then try and scramble about to stack him with someone I didn't want gam mchu for all the reasons talked about with Devon Devonte Adams earlier and then Roman Wilson um Russell Wilson I didn't want him either because who knows how many games he's actually going to play before sitting on your bench for the rest of the time so instead I just bulked out the wide receiver room a lot you know went with guys like Tim Patrick Demarcus Robinson who might be floor plays rather than ceiling plays but I've got my ceiling plays in guys like Jaylen McMillan Cedric Tilman and then towards the top of the draft guys like Nik Collins and Z flowers three tight ends in fio Johnson Noah Fant and Dalton King Cade so yeah for me this feels like a fun team maybe the two quarterbacks versus three is the one that possibly lets me down here but I feel well covered at the wide receiver running back and tight end position Andrew you were drafting out of a three slot and you came away with Bree Hall Jaylen Wadd DJ Moore T Higgins Mark Andrews James Connor Jackson Smith and jig but jayen Warren Tony po Trey Benson two at stack with Jaylen WD Michael Wilson Gabe Davis Andre yosvi Gino stacked with jsn K dton Drake May took a craft Alexander Madison and of course the man that Dennis Allen hates kendre Miller in the 20th round how you feeling about it somebody had to say somebody had to throw kendre Miller a bone okay look I I think that he's actually a better pick in the playoff format best ball because look what happens when Dennis Allen gets fired okay you know who's not gonna be the dogghouse anymore KJ Miller because he won't be able to be the dogh house because the doghouse will be removed from the facility so there'll be no more dogghouse for him to be in so kendre Miller to me look this is all just related on the coach relationship that's what it all is based on yes he's injured and he hasn't been able to practice or basically do anything but kendri Miller was someone before all this injuries before Dennis Allen talked about how he again he doesn't says he doesn't like him but it's pretty clear like how he feels about kendre Miller look is Kendry Miller gonna get cut we're talking about Damen Pierce oh what if he gets cut what if Kendry Miller gets cut and someone else Picks Them Up someone that knows what they're doing I I could see kendri Miller I mean he's free he's 20th round I I think that he's too good of a player what if he was an injured rookie Jonathan Brooks is an injured rookie that we're really excited about okay I'm just gonna view kendri Miller in the exact same way an injured rookie right because he basically barely played as a rookie his first his first year in the league so that's defending my 20th round pick again I don't need to go too insane defending uh my pick in round 20 but again probably drafted too many running backs but hey you know I it's 2024 like to draft running backs it's okay and I just I thought about Javon Baker stacking him with Drake May that would have been probably my only alternative to do um another receiver instead of a running back but I just decided hey you know K if it wasn't Kendry Miller probably would have gone in that direction but I just think look man if Dennis Allen's not in the picture then I think Kendry Miller is going to see a role and he is going to have a role on offense so um overall I do like my running back room this is kind of my my Andrew Ericson dour of late round Zero running back targets Warren Tony Pard Trey Benson haven't been drafting a lot of Alexander Madison in particular but I just I just don't believe in zamir white for long term and I just think it'd be so ironic for this year's Alexander Madison to be the guy that Alexander Madison takes over for that just that just to me seems like it's too poetic to not happen so that's the the pick on Madison and the receivers I feel good about again probably would have wanted more of them but I do feel good about all of them it's probably not my strongest receiver or skill group and I probably need some injuries to kind of go my way with some of these Alphas because I drafted basically essentially all number two and three receivers outside of DJ Moore but hey injuries happen so you could see these guys having bigger roles and again if I can just capture those Spike weeks I should be good and of course I got my two favorite tight ends plus K Aon so can't complain yeah when I one point I'll just go back to on my team when I made the decision to not go three quarterback the reason I piled up on wide receivers and went up to nine wide receivers is because in this format you start three wide receivers two running backs and one Flex so the most running backs you're ever going to start is three but the most wide receivers you can ever start is four and look I I'm a bit of a zero RB Zealot when it comes to it and I'm always going to lean towards the wide receivers so yeah do leave us a comment and tell us which of these teams you preferred if you were going to 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