First Pick Fantasy Logic: Analyzing a Mock Draft

Welcome to Smashville Fantasy Football Podcast welcome to the smashville fantasy football podcast I'm your trade adct host Andrew Bon joined by our analyst who swears he can predict the future will I get ready for armchair analysis friendly banter and a whole lot of fantasy fun all right welcome to smashville Fantasy Football we are about to start a Yahoo fantasy mock draft I've Starting the Yahoo Fantasy Mock Draft just chosen my room of 12 teams and I happen to be the first pick just by random selection there so we're going to just do a little practice run and see how the order of things goes and how that affects what I might pick I know that I'm not seeking actively to get a quarterback early depending how the draft goes I could change that plan if Josh Allen Patrick momes are available early but I don't think it's too likely they normally go pretty early and I'm not going to reach for him this year but First Pick Strategy: Christian McCaffrey having the first pick makes it super easy for me because I think everyone should pick Christian mcaffrey first there's just too much opportunity in upside there to ignore and looking at the wide receivers or even the other running backs who come next they just don't hold a candle to what mcaffrey can offer even if he does take a little step backwards I think he has a lot of buffer room so mcaffrey is off the board now I chose him with my first pick and now I have a long time to wait until I get picks two and three back to back since this is a snake draft style as for who might end up falling to me now I'm just looking at my rankings and sheat sheets to see I'm probably going to be looking Planning for Wide Receivers for a wide receiver here I feel like if I don't get a wide receiver by round two and just go heavy on running backs I'm going to be really suffering at wide receiver because it's harder to plug in a replacement level wide receiver and have them carry your team than it is a replacement level running back I feel very happy with mcaffrey but unless there's just a running back who's been totally looked over I don't know if I could get Derk Henry somehow which I don't think I will at that point more likely it'll be around Travis etan or lower I'm not going to be looking to do that I'll probably grab hopefully a nice solid tier 2 wide receiver or maybe High tier three if I could get Marvin Harrison Jr that'd be amazing in other mck drafts he hasn't been falling that far I might get someone like Devonte Adams I'd be perfectly happy with that and we'll see what happens my turn is in 12 picks off the board now are be John Robinson Navigating the Snake Draft Breece Hall jonthan Taylor jir Gibbs Squan Barkley no surprises there obviously CD lamb he was chosen third normally he's been going second but someone chose Tyreek Hill second this time I would have chosen CD lamb if I had been the second pick we got Jamar Chase off the board Alan Ross a brown Justin Jefferson AJ Browns was still available until just then now he was chosen Marvin Harrison Jr already went so it's falling pretty predictably now I'm just hoping I can get a Devonte Adams that would be nice I might have to go as low as Brandon auk that would be acceptable to me as well not looking to get a quarterback yet so I will hopefully get the best wide receiver available in eight picks let's see who else is going off the board puka naqua he just went off the board everything's gone pretty well in order of the rankings that I have available in front of me I use fantasy pros a lot for rankings there haven't really been any surprises other than just a debate of one pick one way or the other there goes Devonte Adams I hoped that people would wait on him but they didn't this time five picks until my turn now so still quite a ways to go I don't think he'll follow me but if Kiren Williams was still available I might be tempted and then I'd really need to load up on wide receivers later I'd pretty worried about my wide receiver core but gosh I had a good time with Kiren Williams last year but he just got taken so looks like he's not going to fall to me either three picks left and let's see here who else has gone Chris olve is gone I'm seeing Josh Allen as a possible suggestion I don't want to do it in round two but seeing as I do have the backto back pick I could could cuz then I wouldn't be completely shut out of gain a wide receiver okay I'm next a yuck was taken oh that just kills me he was taken right before I could go H so that really hurts liked him I can get Drake London and I think I probably will Devon Shane is there I'd feel good about him too let's get Drake London and I have the ability to get either Devon Shane here or Josh Allen I'm going to go against my usual move here I think and get Josh Allen Adjusting Strategy: Drafting Josh Allen having the first pick of the third round I know he's not going to be there later and neither will probably any of the top six running backs I'm going to pop the cork even though I hadn't planned on it but just given that all those top tier wide receivers and running backs were taken in an expected order and no one went even earlier on quarterbacks to give me an opening on perhaps jumping a few levels on a wide receiver or running back I decided to alter my strategy and get Josh Allen and I think you need to always be willing to be flexible if things don't go the way you hoping so now that I have him that completely changes my strategy with quarterbacks I'm not going to look to roll with two tier three quarterbacks like I probably would have otherwise I'm just going to do Josh Allen or die and pick up a guy off the Waiver Wires if heaven forbid he got injured or when his bye comes up but Balancing Running Backs and Wide Receivers now I'm really going to need to get probably a wide receiver here cuz it is getting a little scarce on the top tier guys I still feel good about DJ Moore even though he is on the Bears and that can sometimes be a question mark for players because they don't have a very productive offense I'd be very happy with DK mataf as well uh Jaylen Waddles there Nico Collins Cooper cup people think he's going to have a down year but I'm not passing him up if he's available and and some of those guys I just mentioned are not because I'm gonna rely on skill and past performance I'm not counting him out he's just too good for me to think he'd fall off too much this has him as a tier four running back I would still put him tier three and maybe even mid to high tier three personally Devana Shane is still available I'm a little surprised I've seen him go a little earlier a lot of times I have 14 picks to go so a l lot is going to happen in this particular draft there are tight ends required in the starting lineup that's not how smashville fantasy football does it I'm going to mostly ignore them unless Sam La pora or Travis Kelce Mark Andrews fell really far cuz I'm practicing for our actual draft first and foremost so I don't care too much to get a tight end unless they were really being forgotten about which I don't think they will be for too long Sam leapor will probably be scooped up pretty soon I would imagine I see Rashad white still on the board even after guys like Joe Mixon Josh Jacobs James Cook have been taken that might be tempting to do I also like Kenneth Walker who's available I could get convinced to take them especially since I do get back-to-back picks I like that a lot about being the first pick in the draft not only do you get the best guy Mid-Draft Reflections and Adjustments on the board but you get the chance to get guys back to back the rest of the rounds and and even though you're waiting for what seems like an interminable amount of time you don't have to make gut-wrenching calls you can get both have your cake and get too if you are 50/50 on one guy versus another why not both I'll probably get myself a wide receiver and a running back here and not have to make such a difficult Choice DK metf is gone DJ Moore still available he probably won't be by the time it comes to me unfortunately I can see rad white will probably be gone too but I might get a guy like Malik neighbors Stefan Diggs who people are really counting out in the average draft position he's being drafted as the wide receiver 18 is Kenneth Walker still available I think I can get Kenneth Walker let's see here okay so I get two picks here I can get Kenneth Walker which I'm pretty happy about and then a wide receiver too so let's go ahead and do that I'll be looking later in the Securing Key Players and Handcuffs draft to get Kenneth Walker's handcuff as as well only have 5 seconds left Kenneth Walker and then for my wide receiver guys have gone pretty predictably in order of their tier list really without large exception I could get George Pickins T Higgins Z flowers has burned me before I'll probably skip over him tank Dell Christian Kirk Terry muren I'm going to go with George Pickin though perhaps a little bit early but that's just because there's really been no surprises in this smok draft and the wide receivers and running backs have been going in ADP order pretty quickly and no one's made any dumb decisions that I've noticed except possibly me drafting Josh Allen the first pick of the third round maybe that's the dumbest decision so far time would tell throughout the season let's see I've got 20 picks now to my next turn feeling pretty good about running back with Christian mcaffry Kenneth Walker I'll eventually try to get to back up Kenneth Walker Zack shanet sometimes he goes earlier than you'd think simply cuz he's decent in his own right if you're looking at the later rounds so I can't just feel safe waiting until round 13 14 to get him because someone often takes him then Elijah Mitchell I can usually get later though for Christian McCaffrey's handcuff I would probably do it in that order even though Christian mcaffry is my Bell cow and I want to play B if he does get injured but yeah I feel pretty good about running backs wide receivers don't feel that great but but you have to make tradeoffs I have a the top tier quarterback and the very top ranked running back so obviously wide receiver was bound to suffer at that point so all I can do is try to shore it up make sure I have enough of them so that if some guys really don't pan out the other guys have a chance too so I'm probably going to end up by the end of the draft having stacked more wide receivers than running backs whereas other times I might end up with even one more running back than I have wide receivers or more 50/50 but given the weakness of my wide receiver core I'm going to have to do it a little differently here I was really open to having one position being stronger to than the other I didn't know if it was going to be Ry back or wide receiver until I got really to my second round pick and saw how things had gone obviously getting the first pick being able to get Christian mcaffrey that's leaning towards your running back side a little more heavily because the next best wide receiver on the board was either Drake London or I think Mike Evans was available that's not really top tier guys anymore it's already a tier three guy which is tough especially when there's less likely to be just a breakthrough wide receiver that no one was expecting compared to running backs where a guy on waivers May suddenly make a name for himself eight picks to my turn now off the board we've started to get the next tier down running run backs gone which makes me very happy about getting Kenneth Walker loged in Alvin com is gone David Montgomery Aaron Jones fandre Stevenson James Connor all gone uh nii Harris still available zamir white rahee moer DeAndre Swift but I'm probably not going to get any of those guys because I'm pretty good right now I'll pass them over coming up in what's listed as tier five on fantasy pros we got a lot of very solid guys that I'd feel happy with having Terry mclen Chris Calvin Ridley DeAndre Hopkins Christian Watson is a little further down but all of those guys I'd feel really good about having so I have a lot of options and I can hopefully get two from that list I'm pretty sure I will unless the next five picks just go completely against me and all five of those guys are taking Raheem moer has been drafted off the board so he's no longer there to tempt me even though he's from Purdue and I love him I don't think he'd fit my team right now with the way the draft's gone he'd be in my Flex spot but I think there's better options when I've already gotten pretty good running backs in there four picks to go let's see who was just taken George KD so as far as tight ends I haven't even paid much attention to them because they're not my interest but all the top tight ends have been taken leaport Kelsey McBride Andrews KD pits they're all gone my turn I can get Terry mclen and I'm very happy happy to do so I will definitely get him with my next pick and now backtack picks again hooray I could jump up for another pretty solid running back into G Harris but I think I need to shore up my wide receivers because I'm not feeling so great about that yet so let's get Chris Godwin he's still available now the formulas and suggestions disagree with me on that they strongly suggested another running back like Harris Swift or Pard or even Brian Robinson but I just think I needed more wide receivers that's my fourth wide receiver and all of them are going to end up with significant playing time once you factor in injuries and by weeks sometimes you have to be willing to go against what it's telling you to do and just have your own criteria and your own team balance n g Harris is now gone I have a very long 18 picks till my next one so we'll just see who's going now I think probably now you're going to start to see those other wide receivers I mentioned get taken off the board and that's why I took two back toback because I don't think if I waited I'd have a chance at a Calvin Ridley or DeAndre Hopkins I think I'd be left with really guys that I don't want to end up starting like Tyler Lockett maybe courand s suton Xavier worthy I don't want it to fall that far I've really got my starting lineup locked in at this point and I'm just looking for guys with upside or guys to replace with injuries I'm not quite ready to jump on handcuff for Kenneth Walker yet Zach shanet I'm going to try to wait but we'll see at this point I don't have it really locked in my mind if I'm going to get a wide receiver now or another running back because I did get those two wide receivers back to back I'm pretty good at both I think it'll be who I consider the next best available player Calvin Ridley's available I'm almost positive he won't be when it's my turn in 12 picks Tony PA's available Devon single ter javante Williams all available I don't expect any of them to be available for long Jaden Reed was just taken he wasn't really on my watch list really nothing against him he's just not a guy I've researched as much someone just took lad mccon he is quite farther down the list so that's a little bit out of order DeAndre Hopkins still available could it be possible could I get him could I get Tony Pard I just don't see how it could happen at some point for this draft I will need to get a tight end no one Great's available Late Round Decisions and Tight End Dilemma Evan Ingram has had good years has had terrible years David and joku Dallas goair brck Bowers maybe I'll get rock Bowers much much later in the double digit rounds but not really jumping at the bits of get any of those guys I could just get whoever from the tight ends and be okay not even looking at defenses or kickers until the the last two rounds I could get tempted into a defense in the 13th round if a great one was available but it normally doesn't work out that way I'm happy not doing a second quarterback so really I have the freedom to just fill up with wide receivers and running backs for a little while and especially get those handcuffs I don't want to wait too long on them but I think I can still wait a tiny bit my next turns in three picks who else has been taken here people jumped on the defenses we have the 49ers and jets off the board good for them I don't want them now so that's great every pick that goes to a defense or heaven forbid a kicker this early is a better wide receiver running back that's available for me so that is awesome as far as the quarterbacks the top 11 have been taken yeah I'm perfectly happy having Josh Allen there all right we have Ezekiel Elliott gone Tony still available I might have to do it I have not seen him fall this far is he still available he's still available his adp's 82 I've seen him drafted higher than that I'm just going to have to get him now and figure out how to make it all work later now I'll definitely want another wide receiver let's see who we can get oh my gosh I can get deontre Hopkins wow things are really breaking well for me now guys that I did not think I had a chance of getting have fallen to me I mean yeah DeAndre Hopkins ADP is only 93 and it's picked 97 but I have not had him available at this time other mckd drafts so that's great I'm feeling really good about my running backs and wide receivers now running back just to run through it again we got Christian mcaffrey Kenneth Walker Tony Pard wide receivers Drake London George Pickins Terry McClaren Chris Godwin DeAndre Hopkins while I'm sure London and George Pickins will outperform some of the others I almost love more that I have Chris Godwin and DeAndre Hopkins just cuz they've fallen so far down the board and maybe I'm stuck in the past and looking at them through rose-colored glasses but I have just such great memories of them on my teams in past years that I still want them and I'm happy to have them on my team I don't know if productional follow but some of it is also just having a team that you love and are excited about that's got to be a part of it it's more fun if they're people whose play you know and you recognize than guys that you don't follow as much through the years as far as other running backs I'm not looking for another Standalone running back at this point javante Williams is still available Austin Eckler great guys but for my team I'm not likely to need the fourth and fifth running backs in my lineup except if Christian mcaffrey or Kenneth Walker get injured so really it makes more sense to get their handcuffed because those projections for uh shanet and Elijah Mitchell are going to Skyrocket if those uh top guys do get injured so I'm drafting for upside at this point and there's not really any other wide receivers I'm targeting I have five sometimes I get six no one is really jumping out at me uh Xavier worthy was one who I thought maybe that he was just taken with the 10th pick of the ninth round I think Tyler locks available but not too interested in him anymore even though years ago he was amazing Jackson Smith and jiga Jordan nison are available I could see getting them but I think I might want to get Zack shanet next even in the 10th round for me still got a ways to go ninth Round Guys where are we I took Hopkins Tua at QB was taken we had Chase Brown taken Keon bman defenses and kickers have started to be taken Ravens taken Justin Tucker taken Aubrey taken buter taken for kickers I'm glad people are taking them that gives me better options later and less chance that someone's going to take Zack shanet who I'm targeting it would definitely be early to take shanet if I did not have Kenneth Walker but since I do that changes things because I'm only going to play whoever I draft in this spot if Walker gets injured I think at this point I could draft him above his ADP let's see what his ADP is anyway his ADP is 127 where at pick 116 yeah I'd be reaching a little if I didn't have a different makeup my of my team but since I do have to consider what my team's makeup is I feel pretty good taking him here javante Williams at rying back was just taken he's one of the last guys that could really tempt me to take a guy that doesn't fit my team makeup as much and frankly at that point he'd probably be trade fodder I could trade him or Pard I wouldn't want to keep them both because I'd be too stacked with good to Mid tier guys when I really just need my top two guys and their handcuffs at this point and maybe one other guy I like it sometimes when Temptations get taken away like that cuz I think he was taken below his ADP off have to double check because I am on the clock I'm going to go ahead and take shanet and now the question is should I wait on Elijah Mitchell or just go ahead and take care of business and get him now I don't really see any other wide receivers or running backs that I need I could get a tight end no one two tempting is available let's go ahead and get Elijah Mitchell and just take care of business oh shoot and I just made a mistake there I could not get to the draft button fast enough while talking so it made the decision for me it took Dallas goair at tight end I did need a tight end and he was the next one I would have taken so it doesn't ruin things with me Mitchell will probably be available so it probably doesn't really change anything for me but I need to work on my familiarity with the platform so I can make my way around the navigation better especially when I'm switching screens I'm looking at rankings and research and stuff I need to make sure come actual draft day that I'm more comfortable with that so that I don't do any dumb errors like I just did so let's look at the tight ends yeah I got godair he's ranked the 11th tight end tier three guy but he was the next guy on the board normally I pass him up just CU I wait even longer at tight end I wouldn't advise that for everyone it's just that I'm in a league that tight end is a flex you can have wide receiver or tight ends I really don't value the tight ends much in our format defens available Steelers are available bills Available Defenses and Draft Strategy Texans I feel okay about any of those I'm not going to get them quite yet at around 12 though I don't think I need to get a second quarterback yet because they're probably only going to play one week if everything goes well I'll definitely get Mitchell next round that'll take completely care of my running backs I got five wide receivers Wide Receiver Dilemmas I could add Brandon Cooks I could add Mike Williams recovering from an ACL tear guys that could have upside but don't need to play right away Brandon Cooks has burned me before been hard to rely on certain times Jerry Judy he really burned me last year I draft him way too early and he's fallen so far but I think it just left a bad taste in my mouth I'm not very interested in him Adam Thelen is available he's fallen so far and it's hard to just not respect him anymore he started the wide receiver 11 overall through 11 weeks oh here we go okay time to make some decisions Drafting Mitchell and Steelers Defense let's get Mitchell in where do I search Okay Mitchell take care of that we got Mitchell now who do I want next don't really want another tight end I could get a backup quarterback my defenses I could do Steelers here at pick 13 that's about the earliest I said I do yeah why not let's do the Steelers that was just a matter of I didn't have anyone else really jumping out at me on my wish list I'm not really looking for any more running backs we're back it looks like I got disconnected there I'm not sure when that happened but we finished up the draft my last pick was Baker Mayfield So to run through my team Final Draft Picks and Team Recap one more time we got Josh Allen at QB Drake London first wide receiver George Pickins next this isn't in draft order this is just looking at my lineup running backs I feel much better about than the wide receivers obviously because that was my focus the way the players were falling we got Christian mcaffrey and Kenneth Walker I got there handcuffs Zack shanet Elijah Mitchell really Ironclad Planet running back this time around tight end we got Dallas godair solid Terry mclen is my Flex guy wide receiver I think that's a great option could do much worse Jason Sanders my Kicker Pittsburgh's my defense solid nothing to write home about then bench I feel really good about some of these guys on the bench we have wide receiver Chris Godwin we got Tony Pard we got DeAndre Hopkins the a mentioned shonet and Mitchell and then finally Baker Mayfield has a backup QB should something happen I think I could make do with him for the whole season I think this draft went really well so let's look at what the analysis says for me FantasyPros Analysis and Insights fantasy pros gives me a consensus grade and it has said you get an A+ 97 out of 100 so it's liked what I did go click analyze here position ranks I like looking at overall said I was first starters first bench second that's pretty rare to see both ranked first Andor second so that's great normally if I load up my bench it's because I really neglected a position like quarterback normally my starters are much lower if my bench is high which is okay because I know guys are going to get injured and some of those bench players are going to end up starters after a few weeks of the season but to have both be ranked High just feels awesome QB first running back first wide receiver here's where I made a sacrifice I'm the 10th ranked team for wide receivers 10th ranked for tight end no big loss at tight end feel bad at wide receiver but had to be done flax six eighth at defense fourth at kicker this is one of the better drafts i' had I think the best I had at least as far as fantasy pros analysis goes is 98 so 97 pretty close and I think maybe this team even feels a little better to me some insights you drafted two players ranked in the top three at their position obviously ranked first Christian McCaffrey Josh Allen I love to have two guys ranked number one I don't have to really second guess if I'm starting them any week doesn't matter the matchup they're matchup proof it thinks that maybe I could have drafted Austin Eckler and drafted a tight end later I think I'd commented on looking at Austin Eckler as a Temptation thing but really it just came to the makeup of my team I just didn't need another running back at all it says I could finish 20 points higher but it's hard to predict how things are going to shake out when you have injuries and by- weeks and everything else so many things are going to change you never know week nine I have a lot of players on by there's always going to be some by we that's tougher than the others so I don't worry about that until the time comes and I'll figure it out I really don't factor in by- weeks at all I'd be okay to just bite the bullet if every single player had the same bye it would kind of be amazing honestly if I could just take a loss one week and not worry about buys anymore it says Baker May Baker Mayfield was a steal in the final round he had been going two rounds earlier here I expected it would say this about Mitchell sharan or both but it says I reached for him I'm not going to cry about it though because he fits my strategy he fits my team I don't think fantasy pros takes handcuffs into account really and even though he'd probably still be there later there wasn't anyone I was sacrificing to take him so here we have overall projected rankings number one starters number one awesome in a rare situation bench number two looks like for some reason it didn't bring in the names of the teams but that's okay team eight went really heavy on their wide receivers and running backs which is what I typically do as experts says who likes my draft and which players they really are a fan of it's funny you normally get the exact opposite in the thumbs down the thumbs up it's oh we loved Drake London and George pson Tony Pard and then on the other side you'll get oh I hate Drake London George Pinson Tony Pard so you just don't know I don't worry too much about the thumbs down ones this is probably the least valuable page to me actually Steals and reaches usually I like to try to get two steals in there obviously you're not going to get a steel in the first six rounds things are too predictable at that point no one's going to forget about a player like Kenneth Walker and let you get him two rounds later I would have liked to get another Steel in here but I think cuz I went heavy on handcuffs it really kneecapped some of my ability to do that but yeah Baker Mayfield I'll take it we can do a value pick okay here in the mid rounds you can have a chance at Value picks I'm almost surprised I didn't get Tony Pard two rounds late it felt like he was falling so far and he is not a guy that I was looking to get especially with that makeup on my team especially compared to the mock drafts i' had been doing Pard was going earlier and to see him still on the board there I couldn't resist he was a value pick for me DeAndre Hopkins I think I said the the same thing at the time I was surprised he was still on the board and Dallas goodair I can't take credit for that one that was the one pick the computer picked for me because I was slow on the button but I was going to get Elijah Mitchell there so maybe it's for the best that I didn't because godair probably wouldn't have been available in round 12 Pick 12 let's see if I made any bonee head reaches I know reach is going to tell me Elijah Mitchell yep but no one else so you got to ignore it sometimes when it's saying don't draft a guy cuz it makesense for my team no slight reaches not even sharpen a yeah he'd been going around there that's why I was a little worried about leaving him for later obviously I had the next pick but yeah if I had left him for round 13 I don't think I would have got him pick analysis here's where it says who I could have done instead it would have suggested I picked Austin Eckler instead of Dallas goair I just didn't need Ry backs at that point and then instead in round 12 done Pat Fri Muth wouldn't have had Dallas goere available at that point but I guess it considers frith close enough it says don't do Elijah Mitchell I respectfully disagree for my team makeup let's see some of the others all the issues it has Center largely around Elijah Mitchell Aaron Rogers I only missed by I think one spot I really had no idea how he's going to be this year so it's hard to feel one way or the other about him at this point but yeah I think that draft Draft Strategy Reflections went really well team strengths whoa this is great I normally have a team much more unbalanced than this I'll have if you look at this little I don't know what you call it like spider web graph or whatever I'll normally have ones that go into number 12 and then you have something that spikes at number one it's obviously further towards the outside of the circle is a one rank at the very center is the 12th rank blue is your starters and yellow is your bench I rarely get one that actually looks somewhat like a circle in any way it's almost like usually a starfish of trade offs of one position versus another but I think I managed to be relatively well balanced wide receiver was my trade-off but even that wasn't a total disaster it's not like I have the 12th ranked wide receiver one wide receiver two in Flex spot I'm just bulletproof at QB and RB and really good at kicker even and my Flex spot so yeah wide receivers being ranked ninth that's fine by me feels good here's a draft board I can kind of look through it and this is a snake draft so it shows you the flow of guys I drafted down there then I had to wait all the way down to here to get Drake London and Josh Allen back to back i' like to see what might have happened if I didn't jump on the QB that early that is the earliest I would jump on a QB I think I'll refuse to do it in round one or round two so round three pick one that's the earliest I might have taken him because that's pushing it a little bit but I think Josh Allen is pretty near unanimously considered to be the top QB Prospect this year and he would have been gone for sure by round four when I would have had my pick here at the end once you pop the cork on them you start getting the other guys pretty quickly and I knew that Jaylen Herz would be gone Lamar Jackson would be gone Patrick Mahomes would be gone Anthony Richardson I would love to get if I could get him in round seven it's just not going to happen and I think it's a big question mark he could be the qb1 this year I don't know or he could be the 20th I just have no idea if he gets injured which is a very high possibility as we saw last year I'm not wasting a top four round pick on him I'm not wasting a top five round pick I could be tempted in round six but so far I've not even had the opportunity to consider it there a lot of the QBs are just going early and if I don't get one of those top three I guess top four since momes went fourth usually he's been going third if I don't get them I'm content to wait all the way down to the two is Justin Herbert is normally available round 13 he went a little earlier this time I'd be happy with Caleb Williams Jaden Daniels Trevor Lawrence he's normally been going a little before Herbert so they switched this time I'm fine waiting if I don't get the top guys there's just too many question marks around Anthony M Richardson CJ Str probably be amazing honestly I might rank strout a little higher than Richardson but we don't know if he's going to have a little regression to the mean this year I might be tempted in round six but not since I got Josh Allen Dak Prescott I think round six is too early I've got him other years and been happy with him but I'd be looking for him at Round 10 maybe round nine but probably round 10 let's see if there's anything else where I feel like I made a horrible mistake Marvin Harris never Falls I'm not willing to take him in round one and he just seems to go immediately round two gosh thought Kiren Williams was going to fall to me for a minute that would have been interesting that would have been awesome though I got Kiren Williams last year off the waiver wire and yeah he was pretty untested but he got a shot and he was a League winner for me Kenneth Walker felt great about George Pickins here's just a gap in my knowledge where I don't know much about him I just trusted the rankings at that point and threw him in there knowing that I need a wide receiver there I was wasn't ready yet to take a guy like Terry mclen or definitely not Chris Godwin yet even Keenan Allen just I wasn't that comfortable with him in round five fell back on the software where I'm not sure this section of rounds 6 through n was great even if it's not telling me I got steals here I felt like I got steals here Terry mclen was not normally falling to me let's see he's 31st wide receiver feel good about him I can't believe I got Godwin and Hopkins I thought I might get one or neither of them and then Pard fell so far then I just shored up my backup plans there with shanet and Mitchell I was able to take defense and kickers around early each let's see who I would have wound up with at defense if I didn't wait because I was a little unsure about that I could have taken Aaron roders that would have been who I would have done if I didn't do a defense there I could have done Aaron Rogers here in round 13 then I wouldn't have got the Steelers most likely I wouldn't have got the Texans wouldn't have got Dolphins wouldn't have got bills if I thought I could get the bills I would have waited I didn't think I would get them wouldn't have got Vikings wouldn't have got Packers I'd have to wait for Eagles or bears who or Saints yeah I I feel like Steelers are A step above them I'll draft the Eagles or Saints for sure other drafts but not at the expense of getting the Steelers there and then as far as kicker goes if I hadn't done kicker there I would have missed out on Sanders probably Matt gay he went a little earlier it's round 15 I think most times he was going undrafted actually I can't remember who I was getting instead right now but Matt gay was normally there still at the end of the draft because sometimes I've got him just being an Indianapolis Colts fan I could have got him but Sanders is generally ranked higher Tyler bass Dustin Hopkins Evan mcferson carison would be all right but I don't know it probably won't make too large of a difference there but I think Baker Mayfield's a bigger certainty this year than Aaron Rogers Rogers ceiling is higher but his floor is lower who knows so I feel really good about this draft I am very happy with how things worked out I didn't feel like guys were getting stolen from me a few picks before I was about to get them that's great things will not go the same in the smashfield fantasy football real draft that's just a reality it's not going to happen like that QBs are going to go much earlier in our draft there's not a focus on tight ends but some people will still take tight ends early they'll just value them like wide receivers even though I don't value them as high as wide receivers of equivalent stature some of the defenses and even kickers are going to go earlier so if anything I expect my team makeup to be better in the smashville fantasy football draft I'm not going to get a Josh Allen though that's the trade-off but I'll probably have guys even a little bit better at wide receiver and running back and I'm okay with that trade-off but I just couldn't pass up Josh Allen this time I had the opportunity to get the top guy so I took it so sometimes I'm practicing specifically for the real draft other Final Thoughts and Conclusion times I just try and make the best team I can and this time I made the best team I can even though it's not going to look like our real draft almost certainly the important takeaways are to have a plan going in have guys that you're looking to get if they're being skipped over even a little bit but be willing to change your plan I'm okay going heavier on Ryan backs or heavier on wide receivers I don't come in saying I'm doing a zero RB or zero wide receiver strategy or I'm definitely drafting a late round quarterback I think I'm going to draft a late round quarterback but if I get a top running back and an okay wide receiver and then I can get the first quarterback off the board I'll do it and then and not worry about it anymore it'll help me sleep at night not having to draft Q two QBs otherwise of roughly equal value and then think every week are they going to have the better game are they playing indoors what's the matchup like Josh Allen I'm playing them regardless of matchup that's going to be a little less mental load and I can really focus on other positions that I'm going to play I think in the standard week not counting for buys or injuries there's not going to be too many questions about who I play let me pull up my team one more time every week I'm playing Josh Allen Christian mcaffrey Kenneth Walker Drake London George Pickins Terry McLaren without fail the only one that could maybe change is Terry McLaren based on how Games been going maybe matchups I might sub Tony Pard to Chris Godwin in there for him but I don't really see DeAndre halkins jumping over him many times then obviously Steelers and Sanders so there are really no question marks on my roster week one which is more than I can say some years when I draft some years I'm like I don't know who's going to be my Flex spot because I was really reaching for one obviously mcaffrey or Walker get injured I have guys ready to go wide receivers if they get injured handcuffs don't really work for wide receivers so that's why I didn't look for any it doesn't always translate into more value for the next wide receiver on the depth chart so really I just not look to replace him off waivers with a handcuff I'd be just looking at Godwin Hopkins Pard in the flex spot otherwise just plugging in the guys for the by weeks I think I have pretty obvious Subs here injury subs and bye Subs we'll see what changes during the season because there's always things you can't predict but I don't think there's anyone from this list that I'm dropping and switching out before week one in most years there are one or even two players or uh special teams like defense that I end up Hing to just switch out because I made a dumb draft decision and second guess myself so I think this was a success and it's good practice thanks for tuning in and uh we'll see you next time that's it for this episode of the smash bille fantasy football podcast as always we have aspirations of adequacy so come back and we'll try to do a bit better next time who knows we may even reveal that one sneaky trick guaranteed to win your fantasy league but until then keep those trades rolling and get your lineup set before kickoff see you next week