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Speaker 1: Kyle Yates and I am joined as always by Trevor Sikama,
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Speaker 1: A hell of a year. I mean Tampa Bay back
Speaker 1: to back you had the Buccaneers when that, in my word,
Speaker 1: I just can't can't even imagine. Well, Trevor. Before we
Speaker 1: get into the content for today's show, I got to
Speaker 1: ask you a question, man, Name something that is slower
Speaker 1: than our Dynasty startup draft right now? Is agonizing? This
Speaker 1: is so bad? I would say the slowest, most low
Speaker 1: cooked brisket of all time would still absolutely shatter our
Speaker 1: dynasty pace right now, The most cooked through baked potato
Speaker 1: in a conventional oven is also up there for the running.
Speaker 1: But yeah, look, I love this Dynasty league that we're in.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about it, I know, on this
Speaker 1: podcast throughout the year because it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. They're gonna be a lot of heated words
Speaker 1: between the two of us. But I do have to
Speaker 1: say that this startup draft all weekend. We started on
Speaker 1: a Friday, and I was just like, pick pick pick pick,
Speaker 1: pick pick pick, come on egg because it's a startup
Speaker 1: and it's very exciting, but you know, we'll get there eventually. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we set I set eight hour timers, so
Speaker 1: like because we've got people, like, we've got people that
Speaker 1: are on TV and right like you know and doing podcasts.
Speaker 1: All of us are doing podcasts and like, so it's
Speaker 1: just we needed that time. But man, it's dragging. We're
Speaker 1: started this on Friday evening. We're now into the third round,
Speaker 1: and so it's just like we gotta pick we gotta
Speaker 1: pick up the pace. People. We're gonna be still doing
Speaker 1: this draft by the start of the twenty twenty two season.
Speaker 1: I feel like, so I'm a year and a half. Hey,
Speaker 1: it'll do. Hey, look, it'll just go right into rookie
Speaker 1: draft next year, so well, you know what, it'll it'll
Speaker 1: be at all smooth, it'll be good. It's all intentional.
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Speaker 1: Slash Fantasy Pros YouTube channel. All right, so Trevor, what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do here is this. We've got some players
Speaker 1: here that are in our ECR rankings, which stands for
Speaker 1: Expert Consensus Rankings or dynasty rankings here. So what we
Speaker 1: do is we take the rankings of every expert or
Speaker 1: not every expert experts across the industry. We bring those
Speaker 1: rankings together and we give you the average here. So
Speaker 1: I went through and I prepared a long list of
Speaker 1: names here, and what we are going to players that
Speaker 1: are grouped together. So what we're gonna do is, I'm
Speaker 1: going to highlight a few players here and you have
Speaker 1: to choose which one of these guys that you would
Speaker 1: be most willing to draft. Really, this is just a
Speaker 1: ploy on my part to see which players you are
Speaker 1: wanting to draft in our startup draft. That way I
Speaker 1: can get them on the turn before it comes back
Speaker 1: to you. So you pick right after me. Don't know,
Speaker 1: you're right after couple picks a couple out of twelve people,
Speaker 1: I pick seven, you're nine though. Yeah, So it's like
Speaker 1: if if you're we're coming back around the turn, you
Speaker 1: could snipe anybody who's fallen down the board. So this
Speaker 1: is actually very true for sure. I did not think
Speaker 1: about it when I was doing this, to be honest,
Speaker 1: but actually this is really smart on my phone. So
Speaker 1: looking at some players that are close together or right
Speaker 1: next to one another in RBCR rankings, let's dive right
Speaker 1: in here. So first players up here, it's a tough
Speaker 1: decision that you have to make right at the top
Speaker 1: of your drafts. That is sae Quon Barkley as the
Speaker 1: RB two in Dynasty rankings, and Dalvin Cook is the
Speaker 1: RB three. If you are on the clock here, which
Speaker 1: one of these players would you be taking? Would you
Speaker 1: be rolling the dice here with one arguably one of
Speaker 1: the most the talent, most talented running back in all
Speaker 1: of football, with Swon Barkley generational talent or Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: in the ridiculous workload that he gets plus the production. Yeah,
Speaker 1: i think I'm going with Dalvin Cook. Here, and you
Speaker 1: know you're splitting hairs between guys that could lead the
Speaker 1: league in fantasy points for running back every single year, right,
Speaker 1: And so anytime you're even in that conversation, I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's a wrong answer, unless, of course, one
Speaker 1: of these guys gets hurt, but then you don't know
Speaker 1: that's coming anyways. Obviously, say Quon Barkley as the injury
Speaker 1: where he missed most of last season. Dalvin Cook's been
Speaker 1: banged up over the last couple of years, hasn't played
Speaker 1: a full sixteen games. But I think that what you
Speaker 1: said there at the end of the question, how much volume,
Speaker 1: how much work Dalvin Cook gets with that Minnesota Vikings offense.
Speaker 1: Even looking forward, I think the offensive line is trending
Speaker 1: upwards with the Minnesota Vikings. And I think that as
Speaker 1: long as Kirk Cousins is the quarterback there, it's going
Speaker 1: to be heavy play action. They're going to run the
Speaker 1: ball a lot to set up the passing game. Even
Speaker 1: with Justin Jefferson coming into his long and along with
Speaker 1: Adam Thielan, I think that I would go Dalvin Cook here.
Speaker 1: Obviously the ceiling is really high for both of these guys,
Speaker 1: but I just feel like workload wise and situation wise,
Speaker 1: how they're just going to continually feed him. I think
Speaker 1: that Dalvin the guy I don't have as much faith
Speaker 1: in that Giant's offense to get it done. I was
Speaker 1: faced through this situation in our startup draft and I
Speaker 1: chose Dalvin Cook at the one nine over sae Quon Barkley.
Speaker 1: So I'm right in that same camp as you because
Speaker 1: I think, yes, we know that Dalvin Cook has a
Speaker 1: length of injury history. You mentioned he's never played a
Speaker 1: sixteen game season, but the production when he is on
Speaker 1: the field, from his volume, his guaranteed volume, plus his
Speaker 1: work in the receiving game too. It's not like he's
Speaker 1: out here with just a Nick Chubb workload as far
Speaker 1: as the receiving back, like he gets plenty of targets
Speaker 1: to be able to sustain volume as well. The production
Speaker 1: is just I think it's unparalleled in the NFL. Like,
Speaker 1: you do have the injury risk, but you have that
Speaker 1: now with say Quon Barkley, which I hope that we didn't,
Speaker 1: but the past two seasons he hasn't played a full
Speaker 1: sixteen games, so it's not we might be seeing something
Speaker 1: here where there's a little bit more risk with sa
Speaker 1: Quon Barkley here at the top of year draft. I
Speaker 1: wanted a little bit more of a sure thing, so
Speaker 1: I went Dalvin Cook, I'm right there with you. Let's
Speaker 1: go with the next one here. A J. Brown is
Speaker 1: the wide receiver two all of Dynasty rankings versus DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf at wide receiver. Three former teammates at Ole miss
Speaker 1: now one with the Tennessee Titans, one with the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: This was really tough for me, Man, I want to
Speaker 1: hear where you're at. I think that people believe that A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown is just naturally going to get more receptions than
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf is because when you look at A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown's game, I'll say that it's more all around. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't say that in any way trying to take
Speaker 1: away with DK Metcalf does. He was my wide receiver one,
Speaker 1: far and away when he was coming out in the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft. Because of the things that DK Metcalf does,
Speaker 1: he does them at a fully eliate level. He is
Speaker 1: an unbelievable vertical threat and a receiver who can run
Speaker 1: any kind of stem towards the sideline. He's almost unstoppable
Speaker 1: in that way. AJ Brown, He's a guy that you
Speaker 1: move around a little bit more, and I can see
Speaker 1: why people in fantasy would naturally gravitate towards that, because
Speaker 1: when you have more versatility in that area, when you
Speaker 1: create a little bit more separation, say in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field more than the sidelines, then it's almost
Speaker 1: just easier for you to vince yourself that the throws
Speaker 1: that are going his way are going to be caught
Speaker 1: and are going to go well. So I understand why
Speaker 1: people would be drafting AJ Brown above Dk Metcalf, But
Speaker 1: I'd still be going with DK Metcalf, especially because Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson's his quarterback. If it was a different situation in Seattle,
Speaker 1: Say if Russell Wilson had really pitched a fit and
Speaker 1: wanted as Seattle and he's no longer there, then I
Speaker 1: think things might be a little bit different. But Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is such an unbelievable deep ball passer. A DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf is such an unbelievable deep ball it's a perfect
Speaker 1: repairing its right, And I think that that's just what
Speaker 1: it all boils down to. There's two extremely talented wide receivers,
Speaker 1: but I'm still taking DK Metcalf. Does the concern of
Speaker 1: there's been some buzz about Russ potentially moving on next
Speaker 1: year because I think the end of his contract is
Speaker 1: this year, there's something there where he can get out.
Speaker 1: So does that come into play at all for you?
Speaker 1: Because we know that Tannehill is cemented as the starter
Speaker 1: for the Titans, you know, for the next I think
Speaker 1: three or four years, does that come into play at
Speaker 1: all for you? Or are you saying that'll work itself out.
Speaker 1: I'm really not that concerned. It's still DK Metcalf for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his contracts and up are not up, but they do
Speaker 1: have an out after this year. Like his dead cap
Speaker 1: is fifty eight million dollars this year. It's been seventy
Speaker 1: million dollars before that, So it's like you can't get
Speaker 1: rid of them, but next year it goes down to
Speaker 1: twenty six. Okay, if you really wanted to get rid
Speaker 1: of them, you can. But I don't think that they're
Speaker 1: going to the thing that really holds me back from
Speaker 1: fully believing in Tannehill not that I think that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a terrible quarterback. I just don't know what
Speaker 1: that offense is going to be like without Arthur Smith.
Speaker 1: He was truly the offensive coordinator that revived what Tannehill
Speaker 1: was able to do. We saw Tannehill and put him
Speaker 1: in the best position to succeed. I still think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be good, but it ain't gonna be Russ good.
Speaker 1: You know, we've seen what Russ has been able to do,
Speaker 1: and Russ Rout his entire career has been better than Tannehill,
Speaker 1: even over the last couple of years. So I still
Speaker 1: gotta go with Russell Wilson and DK Metcalf here. You
Speaker 1: said the phrase earlier of splitting hairs, and I feel
Speaker 1: like that's what it's going to be for all these
Speaker 1: players that we talk about. Yeah, that's the same here
Speaker 1: for me. So I'm gonna go with AJ Brown here.
Speaker 1: But this is I mean the slightest of margins here
Speaker 1: with AJ Brown versus DK Metcalf. I am letting that
Speaker 1: potential there with Russ leaving Seattle, because I mean, who
Speaker 1: knows what that quarterback situation is going to be like
Speaker 1: after this year if it isn't Russ. Because again you
Speaker 1: mentioned the perfect pairing there with Russ and his deep
Speaker 1: ball accuracy time and time again. That's talked about how
Speaker 1: we can just drop it in a bucket forty yards
Speaker 1: down field, and Metcalfe fits that role perfectly. I just
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. Are they going to turn
Speaker 1: to more of a run heavy offense without Russ if
Speaker 1: it is a you know, a Derek car type quarterback
Speaker 1: someone like that. I just don't know. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let that be the deciding factor there. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with aj Brown there as that as the wide receiver
Speaker 1: I would favor. All right, Let's go to some guys
Speaker 1: that one is twenty seven years old, one is twenty six,
Speaker 1: so age is really not factoring in here. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the next names on our list. That is Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs as the wide receiver six in our ACR Dynasty rankings,
Speaker 1: and Calvin Ridley as the wide receiver seven. Stefon Diggs
Speaker 1: ridiculous volume last years, Allen still, I mean, still plenty
Speaker 1: of room only twenty seven years old, plenty of room
Speaker 1: for him to still continue to ascend. And then Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 1: now with this, I mean he's the wide receiver one,
Speaker 1: and this offense, unquestioned, could be looking in could be
Speaker 1: looking at a similar volume to what Stefan Diggs had
Speaker 1: last year in Buffalo. So which one of these guys
Speaker 1: are you selecting? If you're up on the clock, I'm
Speaker 1: going with Stefan Diggs, and I know that this is
Speaker 1: this is somewhat close. I don't think this is like
Speaker 1: a blowout. I'd take Stefan Diggs, but I really wouldn't
Speaker 1: have very many second pots. I mean, Stefan Diggs is
Speaker 1: one of, if not the best route runner in the game.
Speaker 1: He is so incredible at separation. Josh Allen and him
Speaker 1: have a have an incredible connection. As we saw last year.
Speaker 1: His catch percentage is consistently above seventy percent. Okay, his
Speaker 1: touchdowns might be down when it comes to fantasy points,
Speaker 1: but Brian day Bole still there is the offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: things You're clearly looking up for the Buffalo Bills that
Speaker 1: I don't think that that regime's going to slow down.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think that last year was just the
Speaker 1: beginning of what's going to open up as their winning window.
Speaker 1: And with that being in the case, it's all going
Speaker 1: to run through Stefan Digs. That entire passing offense is
Speaker 1: going to go through Diggs, and that's the way there
Speaker 1: is to be. I know that Calvin Ridley's going to
Speaker 1: be ten. Thing is Julio Jones now isn't there. But
Speaker 1: I've got a lot more faith in where that offense
Speaker 1: is going, both with the quarterback and Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator and Brian Dable than I do with
Speaker 1: whatever is going on currently in Atlanta. Now. I just
Speaker 1: gave praise to Arthur Smith, and Arthur Smith's now the
Speaker 1: head coach in Atlanta, so it all could maybe work out.
Speaker 1: I think that Ridley's gonna put up a ton of stats,
Speaker 1: but I still got to take step on Dicks. He is.
Speaker 1: He is the solidified guy that I gotta take care.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going that way too, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let the offense be the deciding factor there for me.
Speaker 1: Where this Buffalo offense was just unstoppable last year Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I think is going to take a year or two
Speaker 1: before we see them start to, you know, find their
Speaker 1: stride if you will. So I will go with Stefan
Speaker 1: Dicks here as well as the wide receiver. I would
Speaker 1: prefer let's go to the running back and two players
Speaker 1: that I think you like, very very different trajectories coming
Speaker 1: into the NFL. One is a rookie, one is a
Speaker 1: second year player. It's Nag Harris is running back eleven,
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson as RB twelve. Gibson with thirty three career
Speaker 1: carries in college, Naji Harris a lot more than that.
Speaker 1: And yes, Gibson had a phenomenal rookie season as he
Speaker 1: adjusted to the running back position in a full time role.
Speaker 1: I think the sky's the limit for what he can
Speaker 1: be in year two and moving forward. But this is
Speaker 1: a tough decision going from Naji Harris and his what
Speaker 1: he put on tape at Alabama now in the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Steelers offense to Antonio Gibson. Which one are you going
Speaker 1: with here? Yeah, I'm gonna go with Naji Harris here.
Speaker 1: And it's a point that I'm gonna make here that
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna circle back to for a matchup
Speaker 1: later in this list that I took a peek at,
Speaker 1: and it really is the fact that they've got to
Speaker 1: run the football. I mean, the Pittsburgh Steelers have to.
Speaker 1: They cannot lean on Big Ben's arm the way that
Speaker 1: they have in the past. They saw that last year,
Speaker 1: and so they're gonna be going to Naji Harris as
Speaker 1: much as they possibly can, both in the run game
Speaker 1: and I think of the past game too. I think
Speaker 1: that he's got decent hands. I think mckinzick is the
Speaker 1: better receiver of the two, and so if you're in
Speaker 1: like heavy PPR formats, you might want to lean Gibson
Speaker 1: just because you're hoping that he can become kind of
Speaker 1: this Alvin Kamara archetype where he's running the ball and
Speaker 1: he's also a big time threat getting a lot of
Speaker 1: targets out of the backfield. That could certainly be the case,
Speaker 1: but I just see Nagy Harris being a workhorse for them.
Speaker 1: They didn't draft him in the first round to have
Speaker 1: him split time, or that he wouldn't be the guy
Speaker 1: to eventually be the bell cow of this team. I
Speaker 1: think that he is going to far and away have
Speaker 1: the carry load for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They're also going
Speaker 1: to get him involved in the past the game as
Speaker 1: much as they possibly can, and then when Big Ben
Speaker 1: hangs it up, whether it's at the end of this
Speaker 1: year or maybe the end of next year, it's going
Speaker 1: to be one of the two that's only going to
Speaker 1: make his value even higher. He's only going to get
Speaker 1: the ball even more. And so with the team that
Speaker 1: loves to run the football anyways, they're going to certainly
Speaker 1: need it, and I think they're going to lean on
Speaker 1: Nagy a lot. So I'm gonna go with Nagy Harris.
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Speaker 1: want Antonio Gibson on my Dynasty rosters because I, like
Speaker 1: I mentioned at the top, I think the sky is
Speaker 1: the limit for what he can be. But the safer
Speaker 1: bet is to go with Nagy Harris. Right just the
Speaker 1: the previous history with his workload in college, we know
Speaker 1: what he is. Antonio Gibson was ridiculous with a limited
Speaker 1: workload last year, like four point seven yards per carry,
Speaker 1: eleven touchdowns on the ground. That's fantastic. I think he can,
Speaker 1: you know, hit eleven rushing touchdowns again this year. But
Speaker 1: that's that's ridiculous efficiency and I just haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with Naji Harris here as that
Speaker 1: running back that I would prefer as well. Let's go
Speaker 1: let's stay with the running back position here, one that
Speaker 1: I'm actually kind of shocked about. And I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: want to hear your thoughts here Clyde Edward Hilaire at
Speaker 1: RB fifteen. Now, you know, the potential here and the
Speaker 1: hype for Cechs coming into the NFL last season was
Speaker 1: just ridiculous. Everyone wanted cech on the Dynasty rosters, and
Speaker 1: it's crazy now that he's down at RB fifteen. I
Speaker 1: think it's just based on what we've seen. And then
Speaker 1: you've got Joe Mixon here at RB sixteen, only twenty
Speaker 1: four years old, still has the contract, the huge contract
Speaker 1: under him. The injury history maybe plays a little role here,
Speaker 1: but I think he is a tremendous value in Dynasty's
Speaker 1: startup ADPs. So let's go ce RB fifteen Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: RB sixteen. Which one are you going with? I think
Speaker 1: these guys are both really great values, actually, you know
Speaker 1: when you look at him as RB fifteen and RB sixteen.
Speaker 1: But if I had to choose between the two, I
Speaker 1: would take the one whose offense I have more faith in,
Speaker 1: and that is the Kansas City Chiefs. They're gonna put
Speaker 1: up points, right, and anytime you're in an offense that
Speaker 1: gets in the red zone and scores as much as
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs do. If you're the RB one
Speaker 1: on that team, you're gonna have the chance to score
Speaker 1: a lot of points. And I think that that's what's
Speaker 1: going to be the case for Clyde edwardsy Lair. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he had a little bit of a quiet
Speaker 1: year as a rookie, especially relative to expectations. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest, I thought the expectations were pretty unfair
Speaker 1: of him. You know, he had an incredible year with
Speaker 1: that LSU when they won that national championship and people
Speaker 1: just thought, oh, plug and play, Boom, there it is. There,
Speaker 1: you go, he's gonna be a thousand yeard rusher and
Speaker 1: it just doesn't work like that. And so him having
Speaker 1: a full year now as a pro under his belt,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna bounce back and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: the top back on that team. He's got the soft hands,
Speaker 1: he's smart and pass protection, he knows how to run
Speaker 1: the football well. I just think that he wasn't as
Speaker 1: confident last year with the first year is the Chiefs
Speaker 1: as he was in his final year with the LSU.
Speaker 1: I think that that changes a little bit this year.
Speaker 1: And man, when it comes to Joe Mixon, love his talent.
Speaker 1: I really think that Joe Mixon is one of the
Speaker 1: most talented backs in the league. You mentioned how young
Speaker 1: he is, but I don't have faith in where the
Speaker 1: Bengals are going. I just don't. That offensive line is
Speaker 1: still awful. I think Zach Taylor's probably going to be
Speaker 1: on his way out. Anytime you're changing head coaches, you
Speaker 1: never know what the future is gonna hold. And so
Speaker 1: I've got more faith in the Kansas City Chiefs team
Speaker 1: around Edwards E Layer, especially when you saw how much
Speaker 1: they upgraded their offensive line this year. I got more
Speaker 1: faith in that regime with Andy Reid at the top,
Speaker 1: and so I gotta go with the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: Kyd Edwards E Layer. That's the savor pick here for me.
Speaker 1: This comes down to what I was just talking about
Speaker 1: with Ceh and I'm sorry with Nashi Harrison and Antonio Gibson.
Speaker 1: It's Gibson has the talent. Cech absolutely has the talent,
Speaker 1: but the issue is volume, Like, do we have that
Speaker 1: guarantee that Cech is going to be able to get
Speaker 1: enough of the work to be able to maximize that talent.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't know. Whereas with Joe Mixon,
Speaker 1: we know what type of workload he's gonna get when
Speaker 1: he's healthy. Sure, everyone talk wants to talk about the
Speaker 1: injury history with Mixon, and I think that's why he's
Speaker 1: down here at RB sixteen. But he's also like he's
Speaker 1: played more games than Dalvin Cook in their NFL career.
Speaker 1: They both came in in twenty seventeen. Mixon's played more
Speaker 1: games than Dalvin Cook and we don't even know blink
Speaker 1: twice about about Cook and his price tag all the
Speaker 1: way up at You know why I mentioned RB three.
Speaker 1: So I think with mixing their incredible value, I am
Speaker 1: going to let that be the deciding factor. I think
Speaker 1: it's close. I think that cech absolutely can hit and
Speaker 1: can return top five value, and again the offense is phenomenal,
Speaker 1: but I just don't have faith that he's going to
Speaker 1: get the type of workload that's necessary to return that.
Speaker 1: So I'll go Mixing here. Let's go back to the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position. Here, Let's go with Alan Robinson at
Speaker 1: wide receiver thirteen. Praise God, he finally has a quarterback
Speaker 1: for the first time in his NFL career. And then
Speaker 1: DJ Moore wide receiver fourteen. Here, Expectations for Dj Moore
Speaker 1: have been sky high over the past couple of years.
Speaker 1: I really like him this year with the addition of
Speaker 1: Terror Marcel on the outside, you got Robbie Anderson on
Speaker 1: the other. On the other side there on the perimeter,
Speaker 1: he kicked DJ Moore into the slot. We know that
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold loves his slot receivers. So DJ Moore at
Speaker 1: wide receiver fourteen, Alan Robinson at wide receiver thirteen. Who
Speaker 1: are you choosing? Oh man? These are two incredible wife
Speaker 1: for context, really quick. DJ Moore is twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson twenty seven. I don't know how Alan robinsons
Speaker 1: still twenty seven. That blow right, mind. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with DJ Moore. I think I like both of these options.
Speaker 1: You mentioned how Alan Robinson has the most talented quarterback
Speaker 1: that he's had a long time there in Chicago, and
Speaker 1: you think justin fields and not Andy Goldon. I think
Speaker 1: that there's going to be better quarterback play there. And
Speaker 1: you know, Alan Robinson he just another thousand yards last
Speaker 1: year with terrible quarterback play. She's unbelievable what he is
Speaker 1: able to do, and so it feels weird betting against him.
Speaker 1: But when I look at DJ Moore's stats. He got
Speaker 1: a lot of workload last year. He averaged a ton
Speaker 1: of yards per reception, he had over a thousand yards receiving,
Speaker 1: and he also had a catch percentage of fifty five percent.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen again. So you see,
Speaker 1: I think we're going to see more aggressive work from
Speaker 1: Joe Brady in the offense there in Carolina. I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see even more emphasis on DJ more and
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see more consistency. I think the
Speaker 1: yards perception might go down a little bit, but I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna haul in more passes and I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna do plenty with them still. So I'm a
Speaker 1: big DJ Moore guy, and I'll go with DJ Moore here,
Speaker 1: even though these are two players that I think you
Speaker 1: can have a lot of faith in no matter where
Speaker 1: you're drafted him. Very similar narratives with both of these guys,
Speaker 1: Like DJ Moore's history of quarterback play is not fantastic either,
Speaker 1: So now you're hoping that Sam Donald can become that guy,
Speaker 1: and if he does, then we could absolutely be talking
Speaker 1: about DJ Moore as a top eight Dynasty wide receiver
Speaker 1: you know Alan Robinson, yes, still only twenty seven years old.
Speaker 1: I think that you can take a massive step forward,
Speaker 1: which is crazy to say, with Justin Fields as his quarterback,
Speaker 1: But you want to bet on the youth there. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna fault you for that at all. I think
Speaker 1: I'll go with Alan Robinson here just because of I
Speaker 1: think that it's going to be so exciting to see
Speaker 1: what he can do now with Justin Fields. We've seen
Speaker 1: what he's done with Blake Bortles, Mike Glenn and I
Speaker 1: think Mitchell Trubisk Like, it's just a terrible list of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that I played with, right. I want to see
Speaker 1: I want to see what he does with Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for that. Let's go wide receiver here. Let's
Speaker 1: go Brandon I Yuke at wide receiver twenty versus Deontay
Speaker 1: Johnson at wide receiver twenty one. Deontay Johnson. I he's
Speaker 1: got Big Ben in his pocket. I mean when they are,
Speaker 1: when he Johnson is on the field and Big Ben's playing,
Speaker 1: he's seeing ten plus targets like lock it in Brandon
Speaker 1: and I. You're probably not going to see that same
Speaker 1: target volume. But this offense could take a massive step
Speaker 1: forward moving forward with Trey Lance at quarterbacks. So where
Speaker 1: are you going here, Brandon I, Yuke or Deonta Johnson.
Speaker 1: What you just mentioned there with the Niners, especially with
Speaker 1: this being a Dynasty podcast, is why I have a
Speaker 1: lot of faith in him getting the nod over Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 1: I like Deontay clearly, Like you said, him and Big
Speaker 1: Ben have a great connection, But I think the Big
Speaker 1: Ben's arm is only getting worse. I really do. I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure what the future holds for him, even
Speaker 1: in this twenty twenty one season and after Big Bang
Speaker 1: hangs it up. I don't know which direction they're gonna
Speaker 1: go with wide receiver. I don't know which quarterback is
Speaker 1: going to step in. I don't know how reliable it's
Speaker 1: going to be that you can expect all these targets
Speaker 1: of Deyonta Johnson, and so there's just so much unknown
Speaker 1: beyond this year with Johnson. Whereas Ayuk, I really do
Speaker 1: think that last year was the beginning of a great
Speaker 1: career Forum. I think that the arrow is pointing up.
Speaker 1: They have Jimmy Garoppolo to start, They've got trailance in
Speaker 1: the back pocket. Kyle Shanahan ain't going anywhere. That offensive
Speaker 1: line is great, They've got a good run game that
Speaker 1: Brandon Aiyuk doesn't get all the attention to the defense
Speaker 1: because they have other wide receivers around him. And so
Speaker 1: I think that you can sometimes look at situations in
Speaker 1: the exact same way, just as a positive and a negative.
Speaker 1: Some people might look at San Francisco and like say,
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan and afraid to spread around like they've got
Speaker 1: George Kittle, they have Deepo Samuel, they have a great
Speaker 1: running game. So where is Brandon aiyuk Stat's going to
Speaker 1: come from? And I say, Okay, that's fine. I agree
Speaker 1: with that. But I also feel like an efficient offense
Speaker 1: produces big stats for a lot of guys, and I
Speaker 1: think that Ayuk is going to be in the game
Speaker 1: and in the game plan plenty to really be able
Speaker 1: to reap those rewards. And so I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk here. I think that his outlook, his future
Speaker 1: even beyond this season really goes up as Deantay Johnson's
Speaker 1: gets a lot more cloudy. YEP, I'm gonna agree with
Speaker 1: you here. I'm gonna go I and IUK with someone
Speaker 1: who I was completely torn on going back to when
Speaker 1: he was coming out, and for me it was I
Speaker 1: watched a couple of games to tape and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't get the hype here.
Speaker 1: I didn't love you in the first round at all,
Speaker 1: and then watched a couple other games. I came back
Speaker 1: to him like three months after I had watched him. Originally,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this feels like a completely different player.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if I just watched the wrong
Speaker 1: games to begin with. But I still was just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what to think about
Speaker 1: this player. You mentioned you didn't love him. I was
Speaker 1: kind of in that same boat where I had him
Speaker 1: down in my rankings. I thought that he was raw.
Speaker 1: I thought that he needed to develop quite a bit here,
Speaker 1: and I think that a year under his belt, we
Speaker 1: saw a lot of flashes in year one. And I
Speaker 1: think that you know, with this offense you mentioned, efficiency
Speaker 1: hasn't scared us off a drafting a J. Brown and
Speaker 1: as wide receiver too. Right in this Tennessee offense, you
Speaker 1: know has just been insanely efficient. I think San Francisco
Speaker 1: can do the same thing. And I think Deontay Johnson
Speaker 1: with Big Ben the overall passing volume taking a step
Speaker 1: back this offense, I think we could be talking about
Speaker 1: Deonta Johnson as a little bit lower than this in
Speaker 1: dynasty rankings. Come next year, I'll go a UK as well.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go with two running backs who actually
Speaker 1: I compared Javonte Williams, who was at running back twenty
Speaker 1: to David Montgomery in this pre draft process as RB
Speaker 1: twenty one. So Javonte Williams in Denver, David Montgomery in Chicago.
Speaker 1: A little bit of a crowded backfield with both of
Speaker 1: these guys. You've got some things to sift through here.
Speaker 1: Which one are you going with? Javonte Williams or David Montgomery?
Speaker 1: This one was tough for me. This one was probably
Speaker 1: the really toppest one of the ones that you sent,
Speaker 1: because I think that right off the bat, right when
Speaker 1: I saw is hey, Javanta, you're David Montgomery, immediately went
Speaker 1: Juvante Williams, like that's who I would want. And then
Speaker 1: you know, I looked some stats up from last year,
Speaker 1: and you know, stats from year to year, it's subjective,
Speaker 1: and it's certainly kind of like in its own little world.
Speaker 1: It's not that they translate too far, especially when you
Speaker 1: get into the rankings of like, oh, this guy was
Speaker 1: fifth in rushing this year. Sometimes those numbers would be
Speaker 1: I don't know, eleventh in a different season. So I
Speaker 1: think the stats can be a little bit misleading. But
Speaker 1: didn't Montgomery. Chicago has shown that they're not afraid to
Speaker 1: give this guy the football and if you want volume,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna be able to give it to you.
Speaker 1: He was fourth in attempts, fifth in total rushing yards.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, am I gonna sit here and say
Speaker 1: that a rookie who is still in a backfield with
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon? And Okay, so maybe he'll be the starter
Speaker 1: and he could be the guy moving forward, But those
Speaker 1: were I just named that David Montgomery was in the
Speaker 1: top five in the NFL and the NFL in those categories.
Speaker 1: Do I just think that Javonte Williams is gonna be
Speaker 1: a top five back in those categories. It's it's hard
Speaker 1: for me to fully predict that. And so, like I
Speaker 1: said right off the top, I thought Javonte Williams. I
Speaker 1: think that Javontay Williams is more talented than David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: Don't mean that to be a big slight, but look,
Speaker 1: if you just need a you know, if you if
Speaker 1: you're drafted a running back around RB twenty anyways, hopefully
Speaker 1: have another running back on your roster one and so
Speaker 1: like maybe he's your RB two in your RB three
Speaker 1: and you just want a lot of volume there. Like
Speaker 1: if you say, like, hey, I just want consistent points
Speaker 1: from this next running back, then I'd tell you to
Speaker 1: take David Montgomery, because over the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: they've shown they're gonna give this dude the ball, even
Speaker 1: though it's not flashy. Yeah, I think it goes into
Speaker 1: a philosophy of how the first few rounds of your
Speaker 1: startup draft went right care you have, if you have
Speaker 1: a young roster, if you took some shots on guys
Speaker 1: that you know are eventually going to develop, then I
Speaker 1: think I might go with the youth here with Javontay
Speaker 1: Williams at twenty one years old versus Montgomery at twenty four.
Speaker 1: So Montgomery, though, if you are a contending roster, if
Speaker 1: you've got you know you're pushing all your chips in
Speaker 1: throughout the first three rounds, you're going with a little
Speaker 1: bit of an older roster, you're ready to compete this year.
Speaker 1: I think Montgomery offers you that because with Williams, we
Speaker 1: also don't have clarity on if he's even going to
Speaker 1: be the lead back on this roster. You might have
Speaker 1: to wait a year before we get Williams as the
Speaker 1: clear lead running back option over Melvin Gordon. So I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of the way that I'll phrase that.
Speaker 1: I personally, I kind of want Javontay Williams regardless over
Speaker 1: David Montgomery, just because it's a sexier pick. It is
Speaker 1: a sexier pick, it really is. You know, we know
Speaker 1: what David Montgomery is. We don't know what Javonte Williams is.
Speaker 1: Just yet could end up being that these guys are
Speaker 1: very very similar. That's why they're priced here around the
Speaker 1: same range. But I think I'll go Williams there just
Speaker 1: as that tiebreaker. All right, let's go to the quarterback
Speaker 1: position here, Let's go Dak Prescott as the QB four
Speaker 1: or Lamar Jackson at QB five. This one incredibly difficult
Speaker 1: for me. I don't know where I land even still, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because Lamar, I mean, Lamar obviously gives you so much
Speaker 1: on the ground, but so does Dak. Like Dak gives
Speaker 1: you the ability to be a goal line touchdown guy.
Speaker 1: And because of that, I'm taking Dak Prescott here. Before
Speaker 1: he got hurt, Dak was on a legendary pace when
Speaker 1: it came to passing last season. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know the exact number in my head, but I think
Speaker 1: at one point it was either when he got hurt
Speaker 1: or the week before he got hurt, he was on
Speaker 1: pace for like six thousand passing yards. Like he was
Speaker 1: on he was on pace to break the single season
Speaker 1: passing record by over a thousand yards. It was it
Speaker 1: was just un believable. And that just I think shows
Speaker 1: you one that Dallas offense when he's back there clicking,
Speaker 1: and just to how talented this guy is as a passer.
Speaker 1: And so I've got a lot of faith in where
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's going what I saw it last year. If
Speaker 1: he comes back and he's one hundred percent, we're hitting
Speaker 1: the ground running even Okay, maybe a little bit of
Speaker 1: a step back, maybe it takes him a little bit
Speaker 1: more time to get back into it. But if we
Speaker 1: get the Dak Prescott that we saw last year, I
Speaker 1: guarantee that his Arrow is again only going to go
Speaker 1: up and because he also gives you that goal line
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown threat, I'm taking him over Lamar Jackson. Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott twenty seven years old, Lamar Jackson twenty four. That
Speaker 1: doesn't play into it for me at all. Especially at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. We've got these guys you know, they're
Speaker 1: playing until they're forty now and even beyond with Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: So I think with Dak, I am going to go
Speaker 1: with the safer play and that is just the offense
Speaker 1: that he's got around him. He does also bring some
Speaker 1: touchdown upside like you mentioned, at the running back as
Speaker 1: a rusher around the goal line like you mentioned, but
Speaker 1: we've got the safety net of the passing volume, the
Speaker 1: passing yardage, the receipt eaving weapons around him. Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: for as great as he is as a runner, we
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet as a passer. Now. They brought
Speaker 1: in Rashad Bateman, They've got Simmy Watkins. I think Devin
Speaker 1: Duvernet is going to take a step up as that
Speaker 1: slot receiver. Like They've got some options here now around
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to help him as a passer, which I
Speaker 1: think can help him take a step forward, but that's
Speaker 1: just not a guarantee, and so I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott here, who I feel a little bit safer with.
Speaker 1: But again splitting hairs here, let's go tight end position here.
Speaker 1: To wrap it up, let's go t J. Hawkinson as
Speaker 1: the tight end five or Mark Andrews as the tight
Speaker 1: end six. T J. Hawkinson highly drafted as the number
Speaker 1: eight overall pick. Mark Andrews has just exploded onto the
Speaker 1: scene even from his rookie season, So this is a
Speaker 1: really tough one man, t J. Hawkinson or Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going Mark Andrews because you know, when
Speaker 1: you look at what the Ravens were able to do
Speaker 1: in this past draft, they draft guys like Rashad Bateman.
Speaker 1: They have Tyland Wallace as well, and like, I love
Speaker 1: who those wide receivers are for this team and what
Speaker 1: they could be, but it's still in order for them
Speaker 1: to maximize like what Thailand Wallace is, what Rashod Bateman is,
Speaker 1: they would still have to change up what they're currently doing,
Speaker 1: which is a lot of deep routes to the sideline,
Speaker 1: a lot of deep stuff and then over the middle
Speaker 1: stuff with their tight ends, and unless there is this
Speaker 1: big change in how they do their offense, Lamar's gonna
Speaker 1: feed Mark Andrews. I mean, like it's just you're going
Speaker 1: to get so many touchdowns from him every single year
Speaker 1: because he's just going to be a consistent target for
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson because it's clearly what he's the most comfortable with.
Speaker 1: And so I think I'm going with Mark Andrews because
Speaker 1: I know I have that right now. I know I
Speaker 1: have that, and I get bet on that connection with
Speaker 1: those two guys. T J. Hawkinson, for as talented as
Speaker 1: he is, and how all right, nobody in Detroit targets
Speaker 1: away from DJ Hockinson. Right now, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the future is with Jared Goff. I don't know exactly
Speaker 1: how they're going to run this offense. Jared Goff has
Speaker 1: had some success throwing the ball at the tight ends,
Speaker 1: but when you go back to his time with the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams, but I don't know how long's golf
Speaker 1: is gonna be there, and then what guy is coming
Speaker 1: in after golf. There's just more uncertainty with what's going
Speaker 1: on in Detroit right now. I think that they're going
Speaker 1: to upgrade at receiver next year and the year after.
Speaker 1: So it's not like Hawkinson's going to be the only
Speaker 1: show in town for years and years to come. So
Speaker 1: all that being said, give me the red zone threat
Speaker 1: of Mark Andrews. I think that's gonna be the bigger
Speaker 1: payoff for you. I think that I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go Mark Andrews here too, And I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be the state of the offense that's going to
Speaker 1: be the tiebreaker there because I think that from t J. Hawkinson, yes,
Speaker 1: he could see volume, but Jared Goff's coming off of
Speaker 1: twenty passing touchdowns last year with Sean McVeagh as his
Speaker 1: coach and Robert Woods and Cooper Cup and Tyler Like
Speaker 1: a loaded receiving corps. Now he's going to Tyroll Williams Bros.
Speaker 1: I'm on ros like and t J. Hawkinson DeAndre Swift like,
Speaker 1: how is he gonna surpass twenty passing touchdowns like he
Speaker 1: did that with the loaded receiving corps that he had.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he hits even that mark this
Speaker 1: year with this offense. So I think that if you
Speaker 1: do draft t J. Hawkinson, I think you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be prepared to watch Mark Andrews outperform him this year,
Speaker 1: and from a dynasty standpoint, with Mark Andrews, if he
Speaker 1: does hit and return immediate value, I'm able to sell
Speaker 1: him like I'm able to sell him for peak value
Speaker 1: versus waiting for t J. Hawkinson. For the situation around
Speaker 1: it for them to draft a quarterback with the first
Speaker 1: or second overall pick in the twenty twenty two NFL Draft,
Speaker 1: you know, like I might have to wait for that
Speaker 1: to then for him to well, then I gotta wait
Speaker 1: for a rookie quarterback to come up to speed, and
Speaker 1: like there's a ton there that if I do draft
Speaker 1: t J. Hawkinson over Mark Andrews, I'm having to play
Speaker 1: the waiting game. And that's gonna be tough for me
Speaker 1: to watch Mark Andrews, who I had to make that
Speaker 1: decision over to watch Andrews return value right away versus
Speaker 1: waiting for it for Hawkinson. So that's going to be
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker there for me. Yep, I agree, I agree,
Speaker 1: all right, that is gonna do it. We had eighteen
Speaker 1: names or eighteen lists you know, numbers here to be
Speaker 1: able to go through, and we got through ten of them.
Speaker 1: So we talk. We talk like, yeah, we talk a
Speaker 1: lot more than well we probably should, but hey, this
Speaker 1: is our podcast. We can do what we Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, people want the context, Kyle. Thank you so
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Speaker 1: about what they've got going on, Trevor. Next week we
Speaker 1: kick into our look at the twenty twenty two class,
Speaker 1: so we are going to be taking a deep dive
Speaker 1: into the quarterbacks, the running backs, the wide receivers, the
Speaker 1: tight ends in this upcoming class, giving you our overall
Speaker 1: thoughts on the strengths the weaknesses of the classes so
Speaker 1: you can be prepared to potentially trade some of those
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two draft picks. I know I've gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of questions about that already, like can I send
Speaker 1: away at twenty twenty two first, what's the strength of it?
Speaker 1: And I've just said wait, we're going to get to
Speaker 1: it on the podcast. You guys want to be here
Speaker 1: to be able to find out what we think about
Speaker 1: these upcoming prospects. Gonna be a ton of fun for
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