Hi there. From sunny Buffalo.
How about that? April 7th, 2026.
I'm Mike Shope. Good evening.
Risers and fallers and bears and eagles and who knows what else
tonight. Are we through Sir Peter's new
contest? Brilliant.
About to welcome some new blood to the fantasy content space.
I mean, after last week, damn it.
I hope so. I mean me not, of course, our
heroes who are in position and ready to fire.
Davis Matic, Jacob Sanderson, Pat Korain.
Welcome to ADP chasing April 7th, 2026.
ADP chasing is for when you watch ship chasing you go these
guys are just football guys. I have my 4% exposure blanket to
stay poor actually. Back in, if it's Austin A, it's.
Tear into our crystal ball. close your eyes.
You know all your entries are going to lose anyway.
Yeah. That's fair.
You're. Not going to told me all this
way I was here. It's anti cabal, it's anti the
best ball thought leader. I'm obviously lying to some
degree 'cause like, I have a lot of both of these guys.
It's the most disgusting thing you can make, but.
Man. Everyone, what a great idea this
contest isn't. It I I think it's literally the
best idea of Peter's life. She had a lot of good ones, but
I like watching his seven minute video on the Deposit Kingdom
about it. I was like this man is a genius.
This is going to be the talk of the town in our corner of the
Internet for the next 8 months. Everyone's gonna love it.
Of course we would say that because we're definitely not
feeling threatened at. All I, I don't, I don't think
so. I, I think, I think the, I mean,
I think obviously the issue is as a lot of the people who might
even be have done a good 92nd video or their first iteration
is going to be good and they're going to realize it's a whole
different ball game doing it for half an hour or doing it for an
hour or doing it every day or doing.
It every week. That's the thing.
I mean, I've been doing sports talk radio for almost 30 years.
Sit down and do 23 minutes by yourself, then we'll talk.
I mean, it's not like it's not digging ditches.
It's not really work. But if you can do 2025 minutes
by yourself, you guys know like that, that's, that's pretty
impressive if you can do that so.
This conversation is proof that literally anyone will act like.
Their job is hard. Like, you know, like you get in
a conversation and it'd be like, it's like a lawyer's versus
doctor's party. And you get like the surgeons
being like, I've been in the emergency room for 18 hours and
then like some idiot lawyer, like I've been poring over these
briefs. And it's like, here we are like
being like, you don't understand what it takes in the life of a
podcaster. I sit here in my underwear and
talk. You've just got down here in the
content minds. Talk to me when you're a girl.
Talk to me. Hey.
Hey, Jacob. Talk to me this week in week 9.
Talk to me in Week 9 this year, buddy.
Talk to me after. Yeah.
With your waiver wire. True.
I'm sure. I'm sure.
It's gonna be so much harder doing this while not working 60
hours a week at a law firm. You're right, that will be a lot
harder. Honestly, Jacob, I think
something you will. Find by Burnout's gonna hit
another level this year. I truly believe this think that.
You will do less. You will do less work, you will
be more burnt out because you'll be like, I cannot write another
sentence about Emmanuel Wilson. If I write another sentence
about Emmanuel Wilson, I'm going to freak out.
But you're going to have to do it because you're going to get a
question. Someone's going to write in
thinking about thinking, be like, Hey, you're just.
Reading law briefs for fun just to have some new information in
your. Brain, I'm just going to go on
LexisNexis being like I dare. There's some updates to habeas
corpus. I got to go figure out what's
going on. There.
The tricky part is you're making your hobby your career, and you
have to make sure you still enjoy your hobby when you do
that. And that, you know, you guys
know that gets complicated, right?
Davis? I mean, you've probably
experienced that for sure. There are definitely times like
last night I was really tired, ready for bed and I looked at my
DraftKings app and I was like, I'm on the clock and 13.
Slows. And I'm honestly behind pace
anyway so I need to knock out a fast or two before bed.
It's like 8:00 and I'm like, I would rather read my book and go
to bed. But like, sacrifices have to be
made, you know? So it's got it's.
What I've learned, what I've learned is that the best choice
in that is to not sign up for those slows in the 1st place
because it's it's not yet the draft.
So I've had no slows this early policy.
Buddy, I'm going to be 500 drafts in before Fernando
Mendoza's. I'm not saying not to draft.
I'm just saying. And then the, the, the key
there, I think, you know, you can even read that book.
You're going to once it's back to your work hours, you're going
to want to take an hour to a side and multi table about 25 to
30 drafts. I'll be able to do that next
year, but my work hours per day is about 4 1/2 because most of
my day is childcare right now. So the, the work hours, the work
hours have to be like I'm at my desk working like I, I can't, I
can't be, can't be dicking around doing, you know, drafting
by shell to in the head of ADP. So I'm the one person here with
a different job other than talking about fantasy football,
and it's talking about the Bills.
It's talking about bills and. It's talking about other
football. Same job, it's a different job.
It's adjacent. It's a different employer, same
job. There's AW2.
There's AW2W. Two, yeah, that's there's a but,
yeah, I mean, if you were to like to go and explain, if you
were to party and you had to like explain, I know your two
jobs. I know.
So like someone who doesn't know sports, they'd be like, Mike, I
hate to tell you, you have one job you have.
One job I'm I'm imagining Chopin Hinge.
It's like his job is talks about football on podcasts and radio.
And then like someone gets to know me is like actually I have
a second job. I talk about fantasy football on
podcasts and radio. On the game RAM, it's not Well,
starting with Vrabel Rusini, Walton Kincaid, Washy let's.
Dive into it. Only the most relevant topic.
ADP. Mike, sorry, is that, is that
Mike Vrabel and Diana Rusini or is that like Sebastian Vrabel
and Victoria Rusini? Yeah.
OK, I have a theory. Please pull up the picture
because I have a theory. This is a deep deep cabal
related theory as it pertains to Diana Rosini and Mike Vrabel.
This is gonna go deep. Ball.
I would assume that I'm not the first person to bring this up,
but basically here's the deal. If in fact Mike Vrabel and Diana
Rosini as these pictures that Pat can pull up whenever.
Will I some view? I thought you're pulling them.
Up I pulled just put the one that I have shared.
Here we go, there we go. So this is the case.
Really funny angle on that stream by the way, just coming
right out. What if this is a Benet Jesuit
level thought manipulation on A.J.
Brown? What if A.J.
Brown was perfectly happy to be a Philadelph Eagle, but Mike
Vrabel is telling Daniel Rossini's interviewer saying I
need A.J. Brown when I coach A.J.
Brown, I was happy. This is what I need to win a
Super Bowl. What I need you to do is I need
you to be planting in AJ Brown's head, in Howie Roseman's head in
the in the Philadelphia Eagles organization that A.J.
Brown is unhappy. And maybe A.J.
Brown will wake up one day and say, you know what?
I am unhappy. I do want the ball.
More so, I do want. To play with Drake May.
I do think there might have been a conversation like that,
something like I used to be happy, here's what I need you to
do. I don't think it was followed by
plant stories about A.J. Brown.
That's where I think we have a different understanding of what
this trip was about. You know what, Davis?
This is why So you think you can tell it is not a threat because
no one is coming up with the shit that you're coming off with
and nobody can do what you can do.
I. Promise you no one more
frequently brings up Dune and fantasy football like there are
other things that people are going to do better than me,
yeah. Yeah, that's certainly true.
Yeah, I mean, I think, I think what's happening here is that
Mike Vrabel and Diana Rossini are fucking.
I think that's. What's going on?
Yeah, that's how I was saying that.
How many words as well? I think the most interesting
clue in this picture is her face in the pool.
Yeah, she she sees the camera. She's not afraid of it.
She's not running away from anything here.
Like what is she actually giving off here?
Does she see the camera? I don't think she's.
I think I'm with shop. I think she's like, yeah, this
is happening. And that means to me that it
isn't happening and the the pictures and the circles are not
that telling. Davis, bring up the bring up the
one, the final one I sent you. OK.
You can't. You can't be Diana Rusini and be
this brazen. Ever.
Why not? Well, counterpoint, and it and
it ties into Davis's theory because on a podcast about a
year ago, she talked about how her husband, who's an Eagles
fan, OK, there we go, is no longer sexually attracted to her
because of her negative Eagles reporting.
And So what, what if this all came full circle and her her
husband threatened her with a divorce over negative Eagles
reporting and then she falls into the arms of Mike Vrabel,
who gets her to continue more negative Eagles reporting.
Get AJ. Brown he actually sexually
attracted to her because of the negative Eagles reporting.
Is this all connected? It's all connected.
Well. Obviously I'm not there's any to
it. She's.
She's fired. Her career is over.
They're both married and so this hotel was.
I've read in some page 6 article that says this is they said
their friends were there but they just weren't in the
pictures which has real Nathan Fielder vibe.
Yeah, I got a girlfriend in Canada.
Because this one I find, like the friends are not just out of
frame, you know, the smiling and laughing too.
Like this is they have a this is a beautiful view.
My God, Yeah. Are we at?
Where are the friends? Where are the friends?
Friends. Where are we here, Colorado?
Yeah, Mcanally American, kind of Southwest.
Yeah, D'Angelo D'Angelo Vickers would love this place.
Yeah. And then we're all this.
Hotel is like. Romantic.
Specializes in like romantic getaway.
So you know, I don't know, it seems.
Is she the Olivia Nudesi of sports journalism?
Wow. I mean, I know who that is, but
I wonder how many? Other Help me out help me out.
That is the woman who. Had reporter who was reporting
on while fucking RFK. Oh.
Yeah, right, Right. Yeah, right, It says.
So was that the Ambient Ambiente, which prides itself on
being a romantic getaway, boasting on its website about
the 158 proposals that took place in the thousands of
anniversaries of 100 moons that have been celebrated at the
hotel. So I believe it.
I believe it's in Arizona. I.
Mean we're getting closer to Davis's theory.
I'm saying dude, this is literally this is this is all a
mind tive to get A.J. Brown to the New England
Patriots for a second round pick.
I think there might be some secondary or even primary
motivations other than that. OK, there we go.
We'll let's move on to the slides.
We did. We did the.
We did the hot topic. Are we going to Kansas City
Rice? I I don't, I don't, I've not,
I've not seen the slides. Play with Kincaid.
I don't know what the news isn't on Kincaid.
And I'm like right down the street.
The news is that they're putting, they're putting them on
a pitch count. That's the news on Kincaid,
yeah. That's what I mean.
Is that news? That's been known since the
season ended. That they were compared to what?
What's his usual pitch count? Right.
Well. I think the idea is you did they
extend them or they picked up the option?
They picked up the 5th year option.
The 5th year option happened. That's.
Right, I think, I think the idea.
But that's nothing. I guess that's true.
I mean, it's probably less than Dawson Knox is getting paid.
Way less. I mean, there are tight ends
that even you can't name, well that's not true that are going.
To make a bunch of money. In Year 5, I mean, it's just
like. So I guess, I guess honestly,
them turning them not doing the fifth year option and giving him
a contract extension would be a bigger story.
Here's my question to you, Mr. Schop.
Why will he not just get a surgery on this?
Why, why would why would he not have an like if this is gonna be
something that they are talking about in April, meaning that he
has to quote, simply play through the pain.
There's gotta be a procedure that you can have on that knee
to make it less painful. I think, well, in terms of the
news story development, it's really just like the season
ended, he was hurt again and we went to the combine.
We're going to talk about this guy again with the coach, the GM
at the combine, the owners meetings, the same thing.
Now the Bills have started their offseason stuff because they
have a new coach, so they get the two week jump and they're
not even show no no media access at all.
I don't think it's really about talking about it in April.
I think it's just like Kincaid is a story because, well,
especially the GM is in the crosshairs.
The coach got fired, They haven't been able to
breakthrough the AFC and he's a first round pick.
Kyre Elin was already dumped and Keon Coleman, who was picked 33,
feels like a bust. So especially the spotlight is
on Kincaid. I don't think the timing is
really that relevant, but it has been true since the offseason
started that they're in the same place they've been in for years,
which is like we don't really know what we've got physically.
Yeah, it is. It is kind of strange this early
on like this is, it's one of those things like this isn't
surprising to hear really because they did, they clearly
were managing him last year. But it's surprising because it's
April slash March whenever this Zach quote came out.
This is when you're supposed to be most optimistic.
Like wildly optimistic. Like insanely optimistic.
Like there's a, there's, you know, 150 snaps for every
player. You know every running back
you've ever seen is going to get 20 touches like it's catch.
Passes. And catch passes, they're going
to line up in the slot. Everyone's line up in the slot.
You know you have, you have 88 players going out for pass
routes every snap. They it doesn't fit with the
kind of the mood. So pessimism in March and April
is like, it's concerning. You know, it's notable at the
very least. That's a that's a great, a great
read. And last year after the season,
they were talking about how they wanted him to get stronger,
whatever that meant, and being tiptoed around that point
throughout the. Yeah.
So then, then and then they sent the the picture out of him
shoulder pressing 40 LB weights looked really strong.
Yeah, well I don't understand the the not getting three thing
either. It does seem strange I guess.
Did you guys see the the pictures that came out with him
and Cam Scataboo with the the ambiente in Arizona hanging out?
I was going to say it. Yeah, and I and I saw Trevion
Henderson tweet that this is wrong.
That's where apparently it showed, yeah, it showed them.
It showed them reading medical advice together.
I don't know. For me, Kincaid is the same as
he's always been. I mean, it's just the same as
it's always been. Same coordinator, same coach,
just sort of there as. AI mean Dalton Kincaid is
currently being drafted as a top 12 player at the position.
Now, I don't think that's going to last.
Very well. I haven't seen him on my ADP so
I would not. Yeah, I it's like I.
I haven't seen him in years. Well, I feel like the thing with
Kincaid by he was famously on our high stakes team that like
could have done very, very. Well, yeah, hopefully.
With Dalton, Kincaid was our tight end.
Yeah, yeah. I, I which, which, which one of
us? Davis, between the two of us,
which one do you think was more into that pick?
God, it's hard to say, honestly. Yeah, it is hard to say it was.
Too long ago. Two years ago, all the fuck I
know is that I was taking Xavier Worthy and every drive.
That's the only thing I remember.
Jacob, hey, listen, if you do need to go back into lawyering,
I think you still got it. I put Davis on the stand.
I I would say in general I just root for all young pass
catchers. Like Bill's hatred aside, I just
root for young pass catchers to be good and better because it's
more fun for fantasy when there's more good young players.
But like I I mean Kincaid is like beyond Pitts territory now.
He's also still a year older than Pitts.
Right. I didn't even know.
Yeah, I didn't even think about that that.
I mean, Kincaid, Kincaid was like easily the best he's ever
been as a receiver last year. He was super efficient, but it's
still like he's still barely mattered because he just didn't
play that much. And you can't really get more
efficient than he was last year. And they're already saying he's
not going to play more than he did last year.
So I don't I don't really know what the path to dub side is.
I mean, show up, you said it. I I saw David Byrne in concert
on Friday was fantastic and as as he once said, it's the same
as it ever was. Yes.
How was that? It was great.
I I guess. Unreal.
Yeah, fantastic. What I would say with this is
that like, this isn't really like anything.
Like it's, it's notable because we don't tend to get coaches
talking like this. So it's worth thinking through.
But I also don't think like this isn't really, this isn't new.
It's not like he's like he didn't see Kincaid recently.
This isn't like he got a procedure and it didn't go well.
Like he's basically like, yeah, Kincaid, like he's got that
fucked up knee. So we'll probably like, you know
what, manage him again. I'll just say this, we can.
We can move off Buffalo. Brady, for me, is somebody who
answers. He covers every base with every
question. So he's not going to pretend
like Kincaid's health is not an issue.
He'll reference it, but he's also going to tell you, like
what the upside is. Take Coleman.
We had the owner, you know, basically expose McDermott and
the coaching staff for drafting Coleman.
And, you know, then you had the GMF to backpedal and then Brady
came along and said, look, he's going to be a Buffalo Bill.
He says everything to everything, so I wouldn't.
You're you're talking about Tom Brady.
That's funny. Not this time.
But I don't think Kincaid is
really. There's no movement for me.
He's down 5 spots in ADP. OK.
Yeah, I think it's it shouldn't be.
It's like a reminder of reality, but it doesn't necessarily.
It shouldn't. It's not news, really.
Right? All right.
Speaking of news, Rashi Rice won't be suspended.
I don't know, man. Like, didn't we kind of know
this? It's pretty crazy.
Here we are again. I think that's unfair.
I think that's unfair to say we didn't.
It's just that the reality of the situation was that either
like, obviously the NFL did not want to suspend him.
I mean, imagine the nightmare of the, you know, the Chiefs are in
the Super Bowl, AFC conference championship and the announcers
are having to be like, sure, would be nice if this guy wasn't
in fucking jail and instead playing for the Chiefs.
Like, that's not a storyline that the Shield wants.
The NFL didn't want to suspend him.
They were going to look to try and find a way to get out of it.
So I agree with you in that sense.
But sometimes your hand gets forced, like when Rashi Rice
commits attempted vehicular manslaughter and and there's a
video of it. Sometimes your your hand gets
the NFL. Remember the NFL didn't want to
suspend Ray Rice. Then the video came out.
And if I didn't want to spend 3 months, then the video came out.
When there's yeah, when there is evidence when there and it was
photographic evidence of this happening, it changes the
context. So I I definitely do not think
it's fair to say that we knew for sure.
We didn't know for sure and. And only surprised that they
came out and said it like I, I assumed that if the more likely
scenario is is that they we. Didn't get any.
Not suspend him and continue to not suspend him, but I can't
think of that many examples of the.
NFL coming out. Of their own volition to say
we're not suspending this player like that, that seems like.
So there's two things. Some sort of.
I have no idea. I don't want to like blindly
speculate but you'd think if they didn't have some reason to
be conclusive that they would keep their options open cuz like
what? What pressure is them, is there
on them to come out? I, I think it's, I think it's
this Jacob, I, I think it's that it, they're looking at the
freaking TV schedule and they're like the chief star on national
TV 9 times. We want to talk about this all
the time. We want We want to show Taylor
Swift up in the We want to show Taylor Swift up in the box and
then have Al Michaels rant for three.
Minutes about. Their wide receivers suspended.
The thing is, we talked about this last year or the year
before or both. They really don't talk about
that subject more than like 1 obligatory drop in the course of
the broadcast. It's not a story.
It's not 60 minutes as the stream ever sounded older.
It's not 60 minutes covering these games.
It's an NFL property covering these games.
So they really don't talk about that much.
They'll do it the way they want to do it.
I'm not saying. That the other thing.
So you could be right, Mike, Here's the other thing.
I wonder if the Chiefs or the Chiefs lawyers or the Chiefs
people or Rashi's people were trying to put a lot of pressure
on the league to get that information before the draft
saying we need to know. We, we need a, we need
clarification on what you're doing with Rashi is Rashi,
because remember the Chiefs, Jesus Christ, this fucking team.
The Chiefs have been through this exact situation before
where there was a potential suspension, a potential sort of
Damocles hanging over their best pass catcher, which then
resulted in Nicole Hardman being selected in the National
Football League draft by the Kansas City Chiefs because they
were worried that Tyreke might be suspended for the entire
season. And given that this pick,
there's sort of a, you know, 22 roads to verge on a path
situation for the chiefs here where they get this number 9
pick correctly. They have a chance to like reset
the organization's timeline. They mess this pick up.
I I mean, I don't know how you ever are get users are having to
like get blue chip players later on in the draft.
This is kind of like when the Warriors got, you know, they
could have taken Wiseman, they could have taken Lamello, they
could have done a lot of things. They took James Wiseman, right?
And the Chiefs are trying to get as much information as possible
to not select James Wiseman. And so that would not surprise
me if that was the case as well. That that does make sense and
you're right. I mean, we had some suspension
risk in we, you know, we've lowered that they.
Hey, suspension Rick on suspension risk on Rushy Rice is
still not 0. By the way, everyone, let's just
be real clear. It's April 7th.
I know, I know, it's, I know this is Chief's Corner and we
don't have to do Chief's Corner. But another These guys are all
pissing me off that every single thing they're doing, the only
one who doesn't ever make me mad, is worthy.
Worthy seems to like understand his role in the whole thing.
I mean watch the games. Taekwon, well, he doesn't
understand that a lot of guys would not have played with that
injury, by the way. Just I, we should give him a
little bit of credit, like a lot of 170 LB wide receivers would
have been like, I'm good, I'm gonna have surgery, I'm good.
But maybe like a lot of wide receivers wouldn't have
sustained that injury. That's honestly, it's a good
question. I don't know.
I don't know that BMIBMI and and torn labrums.
You're you're probably right. So what about rice at 27?
Oh, he's like, he's like 15 overall.
You got to move him way up. One other thing about Rashid
though. I don't think he's that high.
We we did. Can we move him up?
But. I moved him ahead of London.
Yeah, no. Thanks, I don't have him.
Absolutely not. No, I think he's more like at
least. Wait until they don't draft
Carnell Tate or Jordan Tyson or Mackay Lemon at nine overall.
Until like London stuff, yeah, absolutely we can.
Yeah, like we can move him up from 27 if you want, but I think
they're, I don't know. I still think we're talking
serious limitations. We have a 24.
Experience last year. I'm finally 24, yeah.
Rashi Rice averages for his career 16 fantasy points per
game, and if you do after the bye week of his rookie year, he
averages the same amount of career fantasy points per game
as Shamar Chase. And this is a player you can
take in the second round. Yeah, but the thing with Roshi
Rice is that he doesn't bring the same level of real life
value. There is.
It's all fake stats. We all like Mark.
Chase and Justin Jefferson and C Lamp.
So like, it's just it's not the same, especially before the
draft, after the draft, then we can kind of talk about like,
well, like, who really cares? Because is Xavier worthy going
to step up? No.
Travis Kelsey is gonna step up. Who else is possibly gonna He
performs a critical role for the offense.
Keep the chains moving. The Travis Kelsey role,
basically. The correct comparison to Rice
for fantasy has always been Michael Thomas.
No one ever thought Michael Thomas was, well, this elite,
elite, elite wide receiver. I'm not saying Michael Thomas
isn't. I'm not saying he's not better.
I'm not saying Michael Thomas was certainly better than Rushy
Rice. But you're talking about a guy
who who famously is nicknamed Slant Boy, who averaged over 21
fantasy points per game for three seasons.
He's he's for me, he's comparison.
He's just he's young. He's like Kelsey but but wide
receiver does it, not tight end. Well, he's yeah, like his yak is
pretty good. Yeah, it's just that.
Like, but yeah, the Rice thing, it was easier to be optimistic
last year to me because we'd never seen the Rice thing not
work before. And in the second-half of last
year, it just didn't work. Their their offense, which was
built around these Rashi Rice drag routes, was completely
broken. And so it just, I just think we
have to have some level of uncertainty about whether or not
they desire to run back an offense built around Rashi Rice
drag routes. And that that plays into my my
serious questions of whether they address wide receiver in
the draft or in any other way. And then if they don't and we
get closer to the season like I it's, we can at least be more
sure that they're going to rely on this.
But yeah, I just, he's just a way, way, way, way worse player
in real life than all of the other wide receivers around him.
And and I think that that injects a level of fragility to
his. Base projection.
That these other receivers don't quite have.
I agree with you. At the same time I.
Agree with that, I agree Here's where I disagree and maybe I'll
I'll prove I will be proven wrong.
I'm making two pretty big assumptions that you guys might
disagree with. So the first one is that I think
Eric B enemy coming back into the fold is like sort of I, I
think it's almost impossible to overstate to me how different
that is going to be because it was so clear the demarcation of
when Naggy came in versus when the enemy was there.
Like you could show it to an innumerant toddler and they
could probably point out the differences in the numbers when
Naggy got there. Hey, great hire giants.
You, you know that? Mm Hmm.
The first report from Conor Rogers was if it doesn't work
out the fire him, it's fine. So that's how you know it was a
good. Hotter Hughes, I believe right
not. Conor Rogers And then the other
thing I would like to point out on top of that is that the
Chiefs offensive line last year was like, it was like guys were
injured, it was out. Josh Simmons is with his family
in California, only plays nine games.
But this actually is like a pretty good offensive line.
And also, if you are generating explosive run plays, this is
the. This is the big thing.
Yeah. And explosive run plays, the
offense is just gonna be better. You're gonna have long.
You're gonna have more red zone possessions.
You're gonna have like, everyone agrees running backs don't
matter, blah, blah, blah. Like I I do not care about any
of that. Their running game is going to
be two times better, three times better, five times better.
Having a real NFL running back versus Kareem Hunt and Isaiah
Pacheco. If it if it gives them like 5
snaps a game where Mahomes gets to pass against different looks
than he normally does, like that, like that's great.
You know, like it's not even necessarily about like the
specific explosive runs that Walker has or doesn't have.
Like if he just gives a threat of the explosive run because I
mean, the Chiefs were yeah, it's just like, look, we're going to
make you do the most boring shit ever.
That's it. And we know you're going to do
like you're going to, yeah, all this kind of design screeny
stuff, and but you have no threat of the deep ball anymore.
What's going on there, by the way, is Mahomes ever gonna throw
deep well again? I'm pretty bummed out he.
Has a wide receiver who's taller than 5 foot one as his deep
threat God. It would be really, really fun
if they got a deep threat in this.
Class I I believe everything you're saying about the Chiefs
and the Walker effect. I'm a little leery of the
Mahomes health. Everybody else on this panel
seems to be confident in that. But I'm just not convinced that
that Rice. No, I'm just not convinced that
what's best for the Chiefs and what's best for Rice is
correlated. I agree.
I. Agree with you as well.
I agree I. Agree, if you're telling me like
Walker's going to be super explosive and it's going to open
up the field more like is that good for rice or Or does Rice
work best when everything is dog shit?
Matt Nagy is is calling terrible plays and all they can do is is
run 6 yard over the ball hooks to.
With the current personnel, more explosive, higher scoring Chiefs
is good for Rice like just straight up because like he is
their best option by far. Where it diverges is they have a
chance to draft a real wide receiver one in this class.
And I think you can argue about like I prefer Carnell Tate of
the three receivers, but I like the other two.
If they were to take Jordan Tyson, I think he could be a
real wide receiver one in a way that Rashid Rice isn't.
I think Mackay Lemon could as well.
Mackay Lemon's deep stuff is actually pretty interesting.
So like the three, the three guys, they could sit there 9 and
take any of them. And I think it would be a a big
problem for Rashi Rice. And I think they should.
That's what I think they really. Should I think they should too?
I mean, they should do that, yeah.
Trade down and do it even. I mean, I don't think takes even
be there at 9 like the the buzz on him is.
I think it was Matt Miller said today that he put the over under
on Carnell Tates draft position at 6.5.
So I don't even know if he lasts to 9.
I I just wrote up my wide receiver article today.
Came out way too long, but I I settled on Tyson as my wide
receiver one Schrager had him to the chiefs in the mock draft
today. That would really excite me.
It's it's definitely it's a situation where like if the
Giants drafted now neighbors has injury issues, but in a vacuum,
you know, if the Giants drafted Carnell Tate at 5, I'd be like,
well, it's not good for neighbors, but like I don't
really care that much, frankly. Like it's it's neighbors world
and like everybody else who goes there is going to have to live
in it. With Rice, you do have the
situation where he does produce like an elite receiver and his
price should reflect that. And it and it generally been in
on Rice because I feel like people are too bearish, but
that's not the case. Like it's, it's, it's really
easy for me to envision a world where Tate or Tyson or Lemon
could come in and just steal his lunch and just be better than
him, you know, almost immediately.
The, the one thing I'd say on Rice is that part of this is
really about price and about where you know you're going to
have to take him now versus where he'll go later.
But like, I don't think if they were, if they were to draft
Carnell Tate at 9, like, you know, or Tyson or I mean, Lemon
would probably hurt. This is a little tougher
argument to make with Lemon specifically because of his
skill set. But it's like this offense has
supported 2 guys typically. And if one of those guys is
going to be more of a downfield type of guy.
So, so specifically I think with Tate really, because like he he
really draws targets primarily intermediate and downfield.
And you know, he's going to play outside.
He's not going to like interact with with Rice's role as much.
Will it hurt Rice? Yeah, it'll hurt Rice.
But I think Rice would still have like a pretty big role in
the offense. And so it's like, yeah, you're
getting a guy who's like kind of wish I got him in the 4th
instead of the the, you know, 2-3 turn after the suspension
stuff. But I don't he was like, Rice
has been going mostly in like the late 3rd.
I've got plenty of teams with Rice in the late 3rd because of
the suspension risk. I'm not sure like they can draft
Tate and I think I'll feel like generally OK, like I wish I had
more Devante Smith there or, you know, whoever else.
But it's not, I don't think a crushing blow.
If you're drafting him over Drake London, then yeah, I think
like you're kind of put, you're setting yourself up for maybe
kind of a crushing blow relative to that price.
But the suspension risk, I think priced in some of this, you
know, Tate risk quite nicely. I I.
Don't think they're gonna take a wide receiver.
I think you let every good cornerback you have go and your
pass rushers are the most overpaid defensive end in the
league and a 32 year old I. I think you got it.
My my vibe the whole time is someone who weighs 300 lbs on on
either side of the ball has been.
They should trade down, but everybody will want to.
It's such a bad draft. It's such.
A not a great interesting at all.
Like. Just I I from a fantasy
standpoint, of course, but otherwise also just like kind of
kind of stale. I I'd be pro them getting
offensive line. I just to me like I don't really
understand with with like team building stuff like if you have
Patrick Mahomes, like that's such an advantage that like your
best bet of winning games is like to turbocharge the thing
that no one else can like match you on.
Like I, I really don't like the like, well, we have Mahomes, so
offense is going to be fine. So let's like build up our
defense. Like, don't you want to lap
people on offense, the like more predictable of the two sides of
the ball when you have the like, maybe not the best quarterback
of the league anymore, but but damn close so.
They never, they never had, you know what, what are the Chiefs
in 2025 versus the Chiefs in 2024?
How are they different? I mean Mahomes ended up getting
hurt but it's the close game stat worked against them after
working perfectly for them the year before.
That's why they should draft a receiver, I think.
I really think they should draft a receiver.
I'm I'm, I'm if they draft a wide receiver, I'm totally good
to cut bait on Rashi. And they should be like, OK,
well, I'm not gonna win the big board, whatever.
You just don't think they will. I I think it's unlikely.
I'm happy for them to do it. Cool, cool with me.
I I want the. Third round receiver in like
offensive line round one and defense round two.
I think that'd be totally acceptable too, but.
Yeah, this. I don't know if the Chiefs would
agree with me on this. That's probably beside the
point. But just now that you're
bringing up the idea of the Round 3 receiver, I keep
hearing, I've heard all offseason this wide receiver
class is deep. And I didn't really agree.
And then after, like, finalizing my article and like, really
trying to dive in and squint, I just don't think that it is like
it's going to be deep in the sense that the NFL is going to
keep picking guys. You're going to.
Take, I think that most of the round two and round three guys
are just terrible. You like?
Jokes to the most right Jacob you like.
Yeah, I, I like, I mean, I don't even know if I really like
Boston that much, but yeah, I, I think that the top six are
totally reasonable. And then there's like a couple
of guys that I think are kind of interesting, but like, I think
most of these day two guys are, are boss profiles to me.
Like we're getting into. It's like Zach Branch is has an
8 out of three and Bernard's never really produced and
Billions never really produced secondary.
Branch would be. There, it's like a bunch of guys
haven't produced. Then it's like Serrata's nice
production, but like a lot of red flags.
And yeah, I don't know if she's going to sell myself on any of
these day-to-day, like round two, round three guys.
I've had no problem selling myself on them because they've
been completely free in. Basketball.
Sure. Basketball like they're just,
it's OK. Would you like, what would you
like a receiver who's going to get drafted like 40th overall in
the 19th round? Like Yep, I'm not sure exactly
which. 1 He is. I love the idea of I love the
idea of Chris Brazil, Jeremy Bernard, Zachariah Branch, 18th
round basketball pick. I'm all in on that.
But like those guys, 48th overall pick for an NFL team,
like, I don't know. Oh, for sure, for sure.
Yeah, yeah, I, I think a large portion of this draft class at
wide receiver you are betting on the draft capital, but I don't
know there's some interesting enough profiles like Bryce
Lance, I've kind of I've I've started to warm on.
Train. I mean, the dude is a freak
athlete and and now he's like, he's gonna go Day 2.
So I'm like, OK. Sure, it's all proceeding as I
have foreseen. But like, you know, I like Ted
Hurst a lot for by the, you know, that same idea like he's.
Ted Ted Hurst, round three to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Who says no? I I don't, I say yes, I think
he's my highest drafted receiver at this point now sounds right.
It's. Not just rookies.
All players, all receivers. I think all receivers cuz he's
interesting, he's free and he's going to go third round of the
Chiefs. Love it.
They're taking back branches. There's nothing you can do about
it. He's stayed free and he keeps
moving up. Like, I've been just been
watching the mock draft database stuff.
You know, every every couple days he'd poke around and he's
like, oh, Ted Hurst up three more spots.
He started in like the one 20s. I think he's up to 76 now.
Wow. Yeah.
Like he he's very live to go round two.
I would not be surprised if Ted Hurst goes round two.
He's he's pretty big. He's over 200 lbs.
Love it. He's he's fast.
He's like a deep threat like you.
You know why you're drafting Ted Hurst?
No, there's not like you're not explaining Ted Hurst to the
coaches like, you know, so you know, there's there's several
guys like this. I, I mean, Jacob, I think one
reason like one counter argument to what you're saying is like
receivers are so expensive now that if you do hit on like a
free version, like if you get the Romeo Dobbs who starts for
you on a rookie contract and then you don't even resign him
like. Great.
That saves you, like a lot of money.
So I think you are getting like a little bit of that effect
where it's like, hey, what if we could find an OK starter in the
third round? That's like a pretty valuable
thing to add now the way these wide receivers are getting paid.
So, you know, but hey, if you're gonna like, have this guy start
for you for a couple years and I'm gonna get him for free, then
yeah, Yeah, I am into that. But so I I see what you're
saying about the depth, but you know, no, there's.
There's definitely a world where like, I mean, I think I even
wrote this like, you know, you keep hearing like the NF LS
gonna like Jeremy Bernard a lot more than you do.
And it's like, yeah, probably like as a wide receiver three
who we like draft and wide receive like around 15 of best
ball drafts the next four years. It's like, yeah, I guess like if
he, if you get that guy and he he's like a.
Slightly above replacement level starter.
Like he's Jalen McMillan on your NFL team?
Yeah, that's probably a pretty good use of around 3 pick, but
like it doesn't really matter to us outside of best ball.
I agree with you. Yeah, a lot of these guys are
really best ball. Like a a big portion of this
draft comes in as like late second round rookie picks for
me. Like that's where I have them
tiered. And yeah, those guys, you do see
hits from that group like I think Rossi Rice was in that
tier for me. So you they're sometimes like
we're just really wrong. And these guys like the draft
capital was the correct signal. And they're actually like
awesome starter level receivers who are worth a bunch.
But also those guys bust a lot. And then a lot of times they're
like maybe good for a few spike weeks here and there.
So it's not like this class. I do think what I will say with
about this class is. I.
Keep warming to Casey Concepcion like I I finished up his I.
Think his right. Oh, so he's got some weird stuff
going on. OK, where he is, he's he looks
gadgety in certain ways, OK. And especially at NC State, he
looks, he looks pretty gadgety. You also have him like he's,
he's like in this low volume passing offense.
This is one of the things I, I worries me a little bit about
Tyson actually. Is that like per route, you
know, market share of yards, receiving yards, great, you
know, per team attempt, great. But like per team play, meh,
fine. You know, not so, but like not,
not not otherworldly at all. And it's like, Oh yeah, 'cause
he's like, he was on the Cam scataboo team.
Like he was on the team with an NFL guy and they're like, yeah,
we're gonna use scataboo, not you, you know?
Like they were, he wasn't Like, are you the heartbeat of your
offense, you know? And are and are you saying,
sorry, is this per when you say per team play, is this per team
play per game or raw per team Blake, the other thing was.
With Tyson per team play per game.
No, no, I'm not. I'm not penalizing for the for
the injuries per games played, per team play, games played.
He's not necessarily bad there. He's just like he has this
unbelievable junior season or Spreadshirt sophomore.
I'm not sure which technically is, but that third year is like
unbelievable with like, yeah, if you just factor in the size of
his passing game and what he did within it.
But if you factor in like the what the offense was about, it
wasn't really about Jordan Tyson.
And it that like to me, yeah, I I mentioned trailing Burke's
name in the right, like a little bit like, what was the offense
trying to do here? Was it trying to, was it trying
to run through Jordan Tyson or was it not?
But like Concepcion, I think you have a little bit of that in his
freshman year, except he was a runner.
So you know, you're you're getting like he was, he was a
core part of what they were trying to do, but in kind of a
gadgety hybrid way. But then in his junior year,
he's in the SEC, his A dot rises significantly.
It's I think it was like 12 point something.
And he's Harmon's write up was glowing as like an actual like
route runner. Like this dude's a straight up
receiver. Like he's not, he's not a gadget
player. So I think what might have
happened with Concepcion is like he made the leap, but he did it
while in college. Like he, he wasn't a real
receiver, but then he like became a real receiver and, but
he did it before actually coming to the NFL.
And so in a sense, I think, I think Concepcion, where I kind
of came around on him is his profile is somewhat similar to
Tates and Lemons where he's a early to clear wide receiver who
basically has like 1 season. We really care about that, that
junior season, the, the breakout final season.
And then there's some icing on the cake from NC State where
it's like if the team wants to use him in some gadgety ways,
like he, he looks very capable of that.
But primarily you're betting on kind of a a single season, but
that still gives you the upside as an early declare prospect
like this is a high upside profile, maybe not the most
well-rounded safe profile in the world.
I feel like I'm, I feel like when this offseason started, I
was like as high as anyone was on Concepcion.
I was like, he's my wider Super 4.
He's in his own tier. Like this is going to be one of
my guys. And now it almost feels like I'm
not high on him anymore. Like I'm starting to see people
put him on wide receiver 2, wide receiver 3.
And I've, I've stayed with it. Like he, he started wide
receiver 4 own tier. That's that's where I finished
with him. But like, are you gonna have
him? Are you gonna have him in?
I mean you don't have to give away your article but like is he
gonna be higher than four for you or or in A tier?
With no, he's 4. He's I'm gonna have him in his
tier, his own tier at 4:00. OK, that's, that's the same.
I I mean, because the only pushback I'd give you on the
Texas A&M years, it's really good.
It's still a worse both per route and per team pass attempt
year than than any of the other top fours peak years.
And he also got mogged pretty bad by Mario Craver, who they
had like very similar rossats. Craver went way less routes and
he had like .75 higher yards per out.
And I think he's a stud. Like, I think he's a massive
stud, but he's probably not a Jeremiah Smith level stud.
And but, but yeah, I, I, I like Concepcion a lot.
I mean, I think you should go in round one clearly.
And I think he's clearly the 4th.
Best like round the the thing for me is that like round two
Concepcion is gonna be like pretty easy for me to rank ahead
of round one of Omar Cooper, you know like that's that's really
more what it is. It's like this dude I.
Can't envision a world where I'm ranking Cooper or Boston ahead
of Concepcion that I don't really envision.
That Boston, I mean, I think Concepcion probably goes ahead
of Boston in the draft. So that one, that one should be
pretty easy for us. Boston's like what?
He didn't, he didn't like this guy didn't even do the broad
jump like the whole thing for him.
I was like, OK, like get ready for Denzel Boston.
This year's like the, you know, size speed freak.
Well, he didn't run, so the speed part of that took a hit
and then he didn't even like do the broad like if you're not
gonna run cuz. You're all I hear with Denzel
Boston is not as good as Adonai Mitchell.
Let's see how every time, every time Denzel Boston's name comes
up, I go fake Adonai I. Mean, hey, he just we just we
just get this guy every there's every single year there's a guy
who goes, there's always this guy at the end of the first or
the beginning of the second who did like a whole lot of nothing
the first couple years. And then they have like a
productive year three-year 4, but it's not really that
productive. I do think it was an early
declare to to give him credit. I do think that Boston is less
of like a total joke of a prospect than some recent
examples. Like he's like, he's better than
like Jonathan Mingo. He's better than Xavier Legets
I. Think I also don't know that he
is. I just think he's more of a real
wide receiver than those guys. But it's like it's not.
There's nothing. There's nothing in the profile
that screams inspiring to me like the I think I've actually a
pretty good track record of picking out the late declare
wide receivers that I like. And it's been Ladd Mccocky
because he had a really good Pro Rote profile, and Save Flowers
because he just had really good early production.
Yeah, I came around with Zay Flowers.
I'm proud of myself on Zay Flowers for not doing what I
wanted to do, which was like, now I was like, actually, I
think this guy's probably going to hit.
Chance to look at a fun picture of Kirk Cousins on the next
slide if you want to. Jump his real quick.
Boston's comps for me and these articles are coming out this
week. The first one will be out
tomorrow morning, but the Boston comps are who you'd think Xavier
Lee get Mike Williams, the Clemson version, Denzel Mims and
Jonathan Mingo. Denzel Mims.
No doubt. Denzel Mims.
Denzel Mims Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who starts week one for the
Raiders? Got to be cousins.
They gave him like $20 million. It's it's kind of like they gave
him. 11 and Atlanta gave him 9, but they they gave him an extra
$10 million that they didn't really need to give him unless
he was holding out for that. You know who?
You know who's good about getting the bag?
Cousins is the bag man This. Guy, Yeah.
I I think, I think cousins will probably start like 3 games and
it'll be a disaster cuz he's not good anymore.
It'll be. Years ago, it looked over.
Yeah, I hope he's totally because I I feel way better.
Like, maybe it's a hot take, but as a person who tends to be very
invested in Gentian Bowers this year, give me 17 games of Kirk
Cousins, please, over rookie Fernando Mendoza, I'd have.
At the end of that. I don't think we're getting it,
but I want as much cousins as possible.
You guys ready for me to just do a fucking blistering take?
Like even for me this is a bit out of line.
No, no, we definitely. Don't want?
Mendoza Mendoza is the is the first quarterback.
I can remember that. The first thing that I thought
of him when I was like, is this guy going to be good in the NFL
is I was just like, he's a fucking gamer dude.
Like I just, I kind of, I just kind of feel like he's just
going to figure it out. That's like, like I have nothing
more sophisticated to say than that.
Like normally I would try and think a lot more deeply about
quarterback prospects and that range of outcomes, but I'm just
like, I don't know, man. He's really big.
That's helpful. Like he just, he's kind of the
Will Levis archetype, but with way more collegiate success.
I, I think he's just kind of gonna figure it out.
I think he's, I don't think he's gonna be great.
I do not like I, I think even like a Sam Bradford career.
Yeah, it was my top comp. Top.
Yeah, physical comp was Bradford.
Yeah. Like, like and even Bradford
without Bradford, without all the injuries.
Those were the four. Comps Oh, I if if this is if
this guy's bortles buy more Bowers, buy more jet.
People forget how fun like that three years of just like
exhilarating. It was really just one.
Garbage time. It was really one.
It was really one, yeah. Alan Robinson against New
Orleans in Week 17. That year 2, year one was
Robinson and Hearns. Yeah, his year 1, he was one of
the worst quarterbacks ever. Year 2 was the really fun year
when he threw a ton of interceptions, also a lot of
yards. And then Year 3 is when they had
the team success because they went to the conference
championship game, but he was terrible and their defense was
so good that he wasn't even productive because they they
just handed the ball to Leonard Fournette all the time.
Fourth quarter lead in New England.
Doug Marrone, Blake Bortles. We were.
Really. Doug Marrone.
To that Super Bowl that almost
happened. Here's what I know.
This is how I feel about Mendoza.
I'm not sure like he'll figure everything out, but I feel
confident that he will figure out how to get Kirk Cousins to
mentor him. Like like this is a perfect.
Yeah, it's a perfect match. Like, like if you like, you have
veteran quarterback coming in who like has, I mean, Cousins is
not the most physically gifted quarterback.
Like this guy's had to, had to like work for what he's gotten
here. I think he's probably got some
knowledge to pass along. You know, this is Davis.
You're you're the, you're the quarterback development guy.
Isn't this good? This is good like.
Well, except Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins famously said.
I don't want to mentor anyone. Yeah, he doesn't want to mentor
anyone, but you know what? Fernando Mendoza is going to
figure out how to get Kirk Cousins to to open up and share
like these guys are the same guy.
The rookie is the mentor, yeah. This is perfect.
This is literally like Kirk Cousins is like dorky nephew.
Yeah, perfect. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I, I just like, I, I, I absolutely don't, I absolutely
don't think that like, OK. Predict Mendoza's year 1
adjusted yards per attempt. 7.2. Dude, I'm biting your fucking
arm off for 7.2. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Does does Bo Nicks have a single season at 7.2?
I think like 6.4. Yeah, 7.27 point 2 is above
league average now. OK.
Is it really? Yeah.
Oh yeah. I I.
Believe Aya, you must not be adjusting properly.
Your your priors are not adjusted happens Bo Nicks.
Bo Nicks career adjusted yards per attempt is 6.6.
OK, so I'm going to say 6.5. I mean 66.5 I'm still taking.
I'm hoping his number doesn't start with A5.
I'm open actually. You know what?
It's the Clint Kubiak scam. My my issue was less about the
efficiency, it's more about I just think Kubiak's going to run
the ball like just a nauseating amount.
They should. It might.
It might be a -11% PROE. They're going to run the ball a
bunch. Yeah, buddy, get your Genti.
Get get your genti bag. Oh I'm I'm getting my genti.
Bag this. Is good, I think is good.
Like you. You guys are saying, you know, I
want 16 games, like 17 games of cousins, sort of.
I don't care. Put whoever in.
This, this is definitely good for Powers and Genti. 100%,
yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't mind whoever can
play the better football, and I think we'll get that to begin
the year. We're seeing Mendoza, you know,
Mendoza's going to play a big, big jump in the season.
Like that's not like it's just a lock.
But you know, if he's not ready by Week 5, maybe we don't have
to see him. We'll see him by Week 8I.
Think. But, you know, we'll, we'll
maybe get a little bit nicer start to the season for the for
the other people in this offense.
Let's get you the Riders rundown here.
Cousins is on the list, so it was Davis.
Hi, Davis. There you are in the top left
with your Chiefs Rice and Kenneth Walker, Jordan James,
Chris Rodriguez, Omar Cooper, Junior.
Interesting bump for him. JK Dobbins, Brian Robinson,
Atlanta I. Mean we have talked so much
about the fucking names on this list.
It's. Actually insane.
Because people continue to agree with me on JK Dobbins.
We could just sort. Of I'm I'm leading.
Where's Davis's face is up here by the Chiefs.
I want my face next. To I know I need, I need like.
My. Like dragging behind the JK
Dobbins bandwagon. Because it is.
Yeah, Jacob's driving it. I'm yeah, I'm hanging off the.
Bat, I mean, we talked about Jordan James Last week.
We've talked about Kenneth Walker.
There's like hours. Rodriguez.
We've done every aspect of the Chris Rodriguez thing.
Omar Cooper Junior might lead this show in a rookie
discussion. Like, seriously, Dick, we've
talked about these guys. So it's just like Cooper.
Cooper Junior he's got to be and maybe I'm probably stealing this
from you, Jacob, but like is he's he's this year's Matthew
Golden, right? This is Matthew Golden.
He. Is, but I think he's better.
I'm I'm way more interested in Cooper than Golden as a dynasty.
I think they're pretty and I mean.
Best ball bet? He's way cheaper which is
awesome, I just think. Well, that's but he's not that
much cheaper than golden started last year.
There was a period of time by this point he was more
expensive, but there was a period of time where you could
get golden at this price. You know, it was like a month
long period of time last year. Golden in his final season,
Golden's targets per outrun was like outside the top 200 in
college and he never he never he didn't even average 2 yards per
outrun or particularly close to it for his career and he played
part of his college career at Houston.
He's unfathomably awful and I will I don't think he even would
have been a good pick on day three and Omar Cooper had above
a 2 yards per run every year of his career was one of the best
force missed tackle receivers in college football.
I think he's an interesting player.
I don't know that he is complete enough or like has the the
target dominance to be a guy pick in round one, but I think
there's interesting things to his profile.
I don't think he's that bad. I I like him more than.
I I think he's pretty bad. I'm like, I'm interested with
Omar Cooper. I can, I can envision a ceiling.
I've never been less afraid of a player beating me in my life
than Matthew Golden. I mean fair.
Like, yeah. He almost beat, he almost beat
the he almost beat the Bears in the postseason, by the way.
That's true. The to me, the Cooper thing is
like it's sort of the reverse Concepcion thing where I was
like, I'm like looking at the profile, I'm like, OK, you know,
but hey, like, at least he's like he plays outside.
He you know, he can earn intermediate targets pretty
well. And then it's like, no, actually
what happens was that in his final season, his fourth season,
he played in the slot and got targeted, you know, a lot like a
ton of his yak was on shallow stuff.
And then all the cops like Schrager comped him to Debo in
his the mock draft, which I assume is coming from people in
the NFL. And then Harmon mentioned Debo
as as well in his right up a lot of Debo.
This dude's not Debo. Like I if, if the bet is that
he's Debo, like I'm out now, I'm not out because he goes way
cheaper than he should for a first round pick.
But like post him getting drafted first round and him
moving up significantly to like, let's say the seventh round,
like I'm out, like I, I, I do not think this guy is good.
I do. I like he to me is the, you
know, like the NF LS really doing the heavy lifting on these
profiles, like giving him first round draft capital.
Can't ignore it. And I want to I don't want to
benefit from it from being from being early on it.
I'd love to benefit from being early on it, but I don't get it.
I really don't get it. I mean, I don't get it at that
high, but I I just I don't think he's the worst.
I think he's like like Xavier League had just went in round
one the other year, like Ricky Pierce, Like I think he's better
than those guys. I'm trying to think, I don't
think. He's not Ricky Pierce.
He is Ricky Pierce. He's similar to Ricky Pierce had
it was even like 2 years older I think as a rookie than Omar.
Cooper I think Ricky Pierce was one year further in school.
He was a fifth year. Guy when you're further in
school, but I think he might have been a year and a half or
two years older. I don't know.
I, I think Cooper junior is, is like a, a very bad prospect for
an average Round 1 prospect, but he has like some interesting
things. I don't think he's Debo and I
think he's worse. Kedarius, Tony, Ricky, Gus is
top comp. Kedarius, Tony, are you kidding?
Me Tony is one of his other comps you can see.
Why? Well Kedarius Tony makes sense
actually cuz Kedarius Tony also was like a a guy that didn't run
a lot of routes until his final year and broke a lot of tackles.
John Ross, he's another. Comp almost out produced Kyle
Pitts. Yeah.
So I can, I can see that one. I think that.
Crystal Labe was the last time. Look, Kedarius Tony with a good
head on his shoulders would have been a good NFL player.
I I've maintained that like I think I think Kedarius Tony
actually was talented and he could have been not a all round
wide receiver, but he should have been like a a long term NFL
player if he wasn't a total dolt.
Sure. And the the the guy that.
Pierce was a starter, you know. Yeah, Ricky Pierce was a
starter. Cooper, he's not as good as this
guy, but I think there's similarities to Brandon Ayuk,
where Ayuk was a JUCO guy and he also had a really strong yak
profile, but was like a thinner, like Debo's like a bowling ball
and Cooper's not that he's built way more similar to Ayuk.
Ayuk is does heavier than I. He wasn't.
He was like 2:10-ish. Wasn't he?
Yeah. Cooper Cooper's, What is he,
196? Yeah, OK, 196.
Yeah. It's just it's a bit of a
different Yak profile, but like the force of his tackles is
really fun. And like we do have target.
Right. Yuk was really good at yeah. 5%
targets per route run guy last year, but I I yeah, I, I saw
that too. He didn't play in the slot and
I'll note he he played in the slot a ton last year yeah, he
didn't play in the slot. He was 83% I think slot rate
last year but he'd never been. Over 20% in either of his
previous years now He also did do shit in his previous.
Years he didn't do shit. Yeah, that's like, so that's
like this like, but do all this stuff, it's like, but he.
Didn't do all this stuff. But he did do it actually on a
per route basis. For whatever reason.
They didn't. They didn't play him much but
like he was over 2 yards per run every year of his college career
for what it's worth. Sure.
No, he was. Yeah, Yeah.
But the thing that his profile, like, the more you're like, oh,
look, he can do all these things.
It's like, well, he didn't really do.
Like he wasn't productive as an underclassman in this other
role. And then as a senior, he gets
put into a much trickier role to project to the NFL.
And that's what's going to get him.
That's what's going to get him drafted in the first round.
And I'm like, that's scary as hell.
Like I really find that to be like an extremely low floor type
of profile, even with the first round draft capital and one that
I don't want to pay for. I just don't want to pay for it.
Part of the reason I'm drafted with.
That I agree, I don't want to pay for it.
Because you're not paying for it now, you're still getting, I
mean, first a first round wide receiver going at 135, like
you're not really paying for it. And I that's free.
That's free. Yeah, yeah.
And, and I think he's so much stronger to go in the first
round than Denzel Boston at this point, you know, and Boston
you're. Seeing him and Boston, Boston is
not a He's not a bucket of Laughs profile either.
So no, no, I, I, I prefer. Well, here's where I don't even
know. Cuz like draft capital, like
actually they're probably about the same if you give them the
same draft. Probably about the same.
Yeah. But it's like, I don't care.
You told me NFL, Like if you want to take Cooper in the first
round, like I'll be ahead of that and I'll read the tea
leaves and draft them so I don't have to pay seventh round Cooper
later or whatever he might be fifth or sixth round Golden was.
Yeah. Oh, I mean, if he goes because
especially if he goes late 1st, I mean all of those like he
might go somewhere like the Browns at 24 or whatever.
And I mean, he keeps hitting mock The Jets at 16, which like,
Oh my gosh. I'll tell you what I would do.
I'd start drafting more Garrett Wilson.
I would actually. Don't do that, Jess.
I start more Mitchell overall. Jess, can you add my Mitchell
sending higher? But like there, there are fun
spots in the late 1st where he could go to a price that I have
no interest in paying. I mean, it's similar to how I, I
feel like I'm a little higher on Cooper and you're a little
higher than me on Jarian price. But it's similar to how I feel
about price where I'm like, I don't really like this guy at
all and I don't want to pay anything high.
So like if I'm, if Seattle takes him at 32, I know I'm not in on
where the price settles. So I better get some now because
I'm not going up. To have Jarian Price, he goes 32
to the Seahawks. I won't, I won't.
It's like it's going to be so high, but I will be happy.
You know, I took him at pick one O 2 or whatever.
I mean, yeah, I think that's that's probably fair.
It's just like being ahead on the draft capital and you're
you're kind of inoculating yourself from like panic later,
you know, right. This is you don't have to.
Go. I wish I did this with Matthew
Golden last year because I panicked.
I got Davis Matic induced panic on like August 24th where I was
like, Oh my God, do I really want zero?
And then I started clicking them and then it was like.
I know. I'd rather I'd rather click
Cooper now. Luckily, there's the really the
only guy you're aggressive of of happening here is.
Zachariah Branch. That, like branch, is really the
only one that you're at risk of. Getting but his he's trending
down. I look today and he's outside of
the. Yeah, he's trending down.
Too Now in in mock drafted well, everybody's been they're
separating like you're marked safe clear 6 and then you're
you're marked. So anyways, I was in a rookie
draft, by the way, the other day.
I'm in a pre draft rookie draft where I had the one O 8 and I
was like desperately trying to trade up because Sadiq actually
went at the one O 3. So I'm really trying to trade up
to the one O 6 to the one O 7 to get Tyson or Concepcion.
I'm like, please. And no one would no one would
take anything. I was offering big deals.
It's just like the easiest year to trade up in, like the history
of dynasty. That's got to be, I know,
incredibly frustrating. I'm trying so hard.
I offered like, I think I didn't offer like a future of one, but
I offered like I think it was like my 208, my 308 and Kyle
Manung guy to move up one spot and they're like.
No, your issue is that you are offering other picks in this.
Draft class, right? That's true.
And so then I got to the 108 and
Tyson and Concepcion were gone and I thought maybe Concepcion
would fall to me. I'm like, maybe the 107 guy will
take Omar Cooper or Jerry Price something.
He didn't. He took Concepcion and then I'm
like, what do I do? Like it felt like, it's like it
felt like getting shot. I took Omar Cooper.
I just think with price you have the chance.
You could take price like 3 weeks from now and go get
Concepcion. Yep, right now maybe you can't
do that at all. Yeah, what if it goes to the
Ravens in the middle of the second?
Round then it's I mean, it's OK, but like it's it's already over.
Like to me, I'm like, I don't know, like Cooper, what what are
we doing? It's like, just take the thing
that might become a thing later that you can go trade for a
player I care about, you know? What if he goes to the bills?
That right? MMM, Cooper Bills.
Auto so we can back up DJ, Sorry.
Who are we talking about? Concepts.
We love it. Mark Cooper?
That'd be fine too. It's just going to be Denzel
Boston, though. We'll see.
I think they go defense. They don't have a second round
pick. Yeah, what they should do is
trade out of that first round and then get a second and a
third for it or something. But it's.
Not really good stuff. Have you guys, have you guys
heard anything reliable on tank Dell?
Because all all that that's. What I want to talk about from
this list is Tank Dell, Yeah. All all I've got on him is might
not be ready for OTAs. That really wouldn't be a shock.
So it wouldn't be a shock. But you, I, I, he's been out of
football so long at this point, you're like really hoping, like,
that's not great, right? That was December of 24 in
Kansas City. Was it the playoffs?
What I would say on gel is that it hasn't been because with some
of these guys, you're like, I don't know, like, if this dude's
like what he's up to, like, what is, where is his head at, you
know, and like, are we going to see this guy again?
We all, maybe not all of us if you're new to the community,
lots of us have been deep, deep scars from drafting Will Fuller
in the year that he did not play any football.
They drafted him yesterday. Yeah.
So yeah, I mean he might return. You don't know man, just leave
the light on. I I stacked him with Tannehill,
thinking maybe there's going to be a chance of a return there.
There's no. You should add Tony to that
stack. Tony.
Yeah, Tony. Dixon.
I heard he's, he's figured it out.
He's got his head on straight now.
There's a bunch of videos of Tank Dell doing the stuff that
players do when they plan to play football after a major
injury. Like he's, you know, he's
running around, he's he's turning, he's, you know,
chopping his feet, he's pivoting, he's running the other
way again, you know, he's doing all of it.
So sometimes I'm like, not sure if you guys are paying
attention. So I just kind of keep tacking
on stuff to see if I can get anything that's good.
I, I mean, his ADP is fine. I, I haven't taken him much, but
I, I guess it's fine. I like him man that he plays in,
he plays in three wide receiver sets over normal.
That seems pretty possible. Yeah, it's that he's their slot
receiver again, and he's. Pretty good, actually.
He's good, right I? Mean he was good.
We don't know if he is good. We like.
We have basically no clue what. We have no, yeah, we don't know
that he was good again. He was, but he was like really
good. So I I think.
Stroud was good. To me, like he's, he's in the
same range that we've taken these.
Rookies because of Tank though. Maybe.
We know we know his landing spot.
We know his quarterback loves him.
Like if he's for him, it's like, is he good because he recovered
from the injury? Not like, you know, will he was
he ever going to be good? You know, it's a little less.
There's a lot I don't know. Maybe it's more of a leap of
faith or less of a leap of faith, depending on on how you
feel about the injury. But I do like that we know he
was quite good in the NFL at one point.
Pat, are you slurping the proverbial Di Perino on Pat
Bryant? Not really.
I do take him. Sometimes I'll take him, like
sometimes I'll have like 3 of the rookies already and I go,
oh, let's put, let's mix in Pat Bryant here.
But I, you know, I like him more than Troy Franklin at this
point. I think you can see them maybe,
you know, replacing Sutton down the stretch with Bryant I think
a lot more easily. It's easy for me to envision
that than than Franklin. I think they kind of already
tried to do it with Franklin. They didn't love it.
So, you know, Bryant probably has that opportunity if if
Sutton gets phased out a little bit more at the end of the year
or whatever. But, you know, I, I think he's
fine. And I think Bryant is a starter.
I mean, like they'll they'll rotate things around, but I
think like he's their nominal wide receiver three.
He was playing ahead of Franklin at the end of last year.
And, and so I, I think Franklin's pretty much dead.
And I think it's going to be Sutton and Waddle are the main 2
and Bryant's the wide receiver 3.
And Mims has like his Marvin Mims role.
Yeah. And I think Franklin is mostly
playing, you know, for the 16 snaps per game that Waddle sends
in the of the medical tent. But yeah, I don't know.
I'm trying to think who I on this list.
I mean, I'm, I'm, I continue to be happier that Bucky Irving's
ADP keeps falling. And I think I'm officially to
the point where I'm in now. Yeah, I'm taking 39.
Sure. He pops up on the sidekick for
for me sometimes in the fourth. You know, it's it's in the
range, He's in the range. We're behind on the rank, but he
will pop up. You know, if you start like with
a couple receivers, 1 running back, 2 receivers and you go
around into the 4th, he seems to be pretty much right there with
like Javante and Kyron and stuff.
I think it's fine. OK, He can get past if you can
just fall a little more, and I think he will because that's
just tends to be the direction these things go.
If he can get past like, well, if he can get past Javante
especially, that'd be nice. If he can get past like the
Waddle. I prefer Javante to Area.
That would be nice. I mean, I would just the closer
he gets to the group of like Hendo Sadibu tootin would be
really nice because I, I think that there are legitimate volume
concerns about him. But like once you're in that
range, then everybody has significant volume concerns and
I think his base case is better than those guys.
So I'm, I'm, I was out on him very early in the draft season,
but I, I think I'm a little higher than Pat.
I'm I'm pretty, I'm pretty right on his current ADPI.
Think I'm about to be ahead of his ADP by the time we get back
here next week. Bucky Irving.
Well, the good news for Irving is that Kenneth Gainwell signed
with Carolina. And that's just me making sure
that Pat is paying. Attention.
It's Jacob. You need to make sure it's
paying attention to the worst pick on the board.
Current according to No. Remember this last week?
Last week, Schopp was asking. If I got that wrong last week,
just want to make. Sure, just want to be a part of
the team. I forgot that.
Take us to where you want slide wise.
We've got 0RB targets. We've got news and notes.
We've got charts. We did the zero RB stuff last
week. Kinda, yeah.
If you go to inside baseball, you go to 9.
We can run down these names. Just a couple of quick hits.
Quorum Gainwell, Tracy Marks, by the way, this is This is why
like this. This is why 0 running backs
harder to do. Yeah, we're dead.
So who? Who fucking wants these guys?
I like quorum, fine, but like Quorum?
Sure, yeah. Ninth round.
No thanks. Yeah.
It's not. It's not cheap.
It's not like, Oh my God. Yeah, I see.
I see leg up as 18 picks behind ADP after Pat's spirited defense
of Kenny. Game I told you that I told you
I had 8% gamewell we. Capitulated.
And we were behind. No, I didn't capitulate.
I was like. 8%, eighteen picks behind that especially have like
1%. Well, I take them sometimes
because I, I build, you know, these, these received like in a
vacuum, I don't think you want your builds to be dependent on
Kenny Gamewell, but if you need Kenny Gamewell, you kind of,
there's not like a ton of other options.
So that's how you get to 8%. I think my favorite he's not on
the slide. I'm sorry, Zach, but I think my
favorite of the like of the handcuffs he's on this slide
would would be Dylan Sampson. I'm a pretty big fan of Sampson.
I guess leg up is not looking at the ranking, but I like him and
I like Jonathan Brooks. Those are probably the two.
I'm I'm going out on my way and I really.
This is the most fun I would say but.
Brooks is fun. The thing with Brooks is like
he, we don't know if he's good. It's the Tank Dell thing.
But like, is he good? We don't actually know.
Yeah. But if he is good, then the
ceiling I think is a lot higher because even if Dell is good,
he's not better than Collins. And I don't know if he's going
to get routes over Higgins. He could play in two Widers.
No, it was like a fourth round. Probably a two years ago.
A lot of Acls and a lot of Stroud being good to go.
I I don't know. I don't know.
I don't. I don't possible.
It's not fair to me to say that upside's way higher on this guy.
We've never really seen play football who like it's, it's
quite a parlay for Brooks. Again, it's.
Not that much of A parlay. It's it's just, are you better
than Chuba Hubbard, who is like one of the worst starters in the
NFL? Yeah, I think that combined with
he's coming off like a repeated knee tear is is a pretty big
parlay. Well, but that's it's not a
part, it's just are you coming off of two straight knee tears
better than Chuba Hubbard? And it's like, probably not, but
like. But he might.
Be. Maybe.
And like, it's not the highest part to clear.
Like Chuba Hubbard just lost his job last year to Rico Dowdle.
Like. He had a viral.
Job he better than well famously I I think Rico Dowdle can play
keep keep having to be the market hates this guy every
year. Oh I'm sorry every year he just
pays off easily. Why can't we try for Rico
Dowdle? He's only in his third year in
the NFL. He's like Rina Donald's like the
butt of every joke, and then he's just like in a great pick
at ADP. It's the name I can't.
Be allowed to just take him. It's the name.
It's always. Never forget good face, good
names. Jonathan Brooks had a good
cryptic tweet today where he was like can't like like he had like
an enemy speaks kindly but carries a knife tweet like
apparently he's like complaining about Panthers fans, which just
seems weird. If I don't know why you got to
be mean to Jonathan Brooks, bro. Right.
I was on a podcast that I won't name, but I was one of the
discussion points was what would you trade in dynasty for
Jonathan Brooks and. I trade a second in this class.
I was like I think I might do a late 2nd.
That was what I was prepared to say cuz it was on the show
sheet. And then the host was like would
you do a late 1st? And I was like, no, no I
wouldn't do that. He was like I would.
I was like, I'm not sure about that.
And then you're like, yeah, dude, I just really, I just
really needed Jonah Coleman. I just really had to have Jonah
Coleman. Yeah, but then I started
thinking about it and like somehow it did kind of get me to
be. So I've been, I've been clicking
a lot of him in in the late round.
He's just, he's the only one of these of this group who like,
it's not really that hard to just envision him winning the RB
one job late in the year like that.
The upside there is pretty fun. I think he's, yeah, he's fine.
I think it's just like, if you're in position where you
need Jonathan Brooks, then you should take Jonathan Brooks
because he's like really one of the only guys in that range,
like you said, who can actually just take a job.
However, when we look at the entire picture of the board and
we're like, which players should we like build our teams around?
I don't think Jonathan Brooks is a very great play from that lens
where it's like, well, we've never seen him play football and
he's torn his knee repeatedly and his team's not great.
I don't love investing in. It's not like the Panthers are
team I'm dying to invest in. I don't really take Tedoro
McMillan, who I think is awesome, right?
You know, like, so you know, there, that's where you look at
like roster construction stuff. And you know, Brooks does not do
anything to like shake my, my interest in, in some of these
like hyperfragile builds. Because I, I don't think he
doesn't, he doesn't rise to the level of like, well, there's one
amazing 0 running back candidate back now.
It's, you already did 0 running back and now you need to figure
out a way out, you know, to make it work.
And he helps that. Yes.
Anybody interested in what Baltimore might do for Plan B
behind Henry? And they really, I do not think
they can go into the season with Frickin Rasheen Ali and Justice
Hill knowing that they're starting running back as 32
years old. They either.
Need to be. Maybe they're the Joe Mixon
team. Maybe they are the Naji Harris
team. I think they're taking a running
back earlier than we think. Yeah, I think.
They're, I think they're going to be a.
Jadarian Price or Mike Washington team on day.
Two right? They did Raven.
Sobbins, they had Mark Ingram, who was still playing at a high
level at the time, and they kind of jumped the gun to get ad Now
maybe they just think this class stinks.
We'll we'll deal with it next year, but I got a.
Feeling that Nicholas Singleton swing.
On a running back, Nicholas. Singleton is going to do he.
Would be so sexy on the Ravens. He's going to do that.
He's going to do like drills like 4 days before the NFL draft
and Kent Platt is going to tweet out that he had a 9.99 Ras and.
Eric. Pointing up, yeah, this class is
so dog shit that I've like talked myself into Nicholas
Singleton being someone he's not.
Yeah, I know, I know that he's like not good.
And I know that he's specifically the kind of running
back that I hate. Like I'm, I'm like, not really
your target audience for Nick Singleton type player Davis is.
Well, you went on pro size. Did you like pro size?
I loved, well, I did back then, but I I wasn't the refined and
and knowledgeable wise man that I am now.
Back then I was like this guy's cool, but but Singleton like I
just I'm so desperate for anything resembling upside like
after like the one O 7 that I'm like, yeah, I mean like 5 star
recruit big fast. Catches.
Catches fast. Doesn't have a.
Clue how to play the running back position but fuck it.
Like like there's something here maybe?
I mean, he could be Rashad White.
Yeah, you just described Rashad White, which is, look, the
longer you do this, the, the more you'll become open to
extremely gross sounding comps. Actually being bullish, that's
really bullish for this class. If we had a Rashad White level
hit starter in his. Second season, it's Jonah
Coleman. Rashad White is the Jonah
Coleman is the Rashad White. Jonah Coleman, We might be
hoping for that Zach Moss season in Year 5.
And I'm a Jonah Coleman guy, to be honest.
Like I actually like Coleman, but.
Big Bucky Irving for Jonah Coleman.
Well, that. 'D be fun.
I mean, I think Coleman is just, my honest feeling is that
there's not that much of a difference between how good
David Montgomery is and how good Royce Freeman is.
And it's like 20% a difference in skill and it's like 80% luck.
And I think it's just does the NFL decide early enough in your
career that you're one of the touch getters or you're one of
the bench riders? And, you know, the big NFL media
that loves to talk about how underrated Josh Jacobs is won't
won't want to hear it. But I really think a lot of this
is just kind of who falls into the circle of trust.
And Jonah Coleman just needs to get lucky enough to fall into
the circle of trust. And then he might be able to be,
you know, David Montgomery. But if not, then he's probably
right. I think he.
Did something to it like these guys like Kyron Williams, I
think is kind of earned some of that trust.
I mean he's probably one of your examples of of exactly that
there is it all is just luck. But I mean this guy's a day
three back who busted his ass, you know, and is extremely well
trusted by one of the best coaches in the league.
So I think there there's an element to it.
If we don't know when we're looking at all the stats and
stuff we don't know like what these guys are like off the
field, how much they study, you know, work ethic and all that
stuff. What I frankly, I think
production does give us a little bit of signal to that because
it's hard to produce a ton of. Stuff on the field in college if
you are absolutely abysmal at that, but we still don't have a
clear picture of it. So you know.
But Coleman's not. But Coleman is like a a
reasonably productive back. Yeah, he was very like, super.
Productive back, but like he said, he's pretty he's a pretty
productive back and his his like he's he's does it on all three
downs. He can like he's not a great
pass catcher, but like he has functioning hands and it's like,
OK, like if, if this is a guy that the NFL deems to be a
starter, I'm in. I I just don't think that he's
like so dynamic that I would say it's like a great tragedy if he
doesn't become a, a long term starting running back.
But it's, it's a fun. I mean, I'd be I'd be way less
surprised if he's a multi time 260 touch NFL running back than
if Generian Price becomes that like Price, Price's path is much
more narrow to me and even more narrow after he was like not
actually that fast and not actually that big.
Well, he's faster than Jonah Coleman.
That's that's for sure. That's for sure.
Yeah, I think Coleman, I Coleman I was into then he didn't work
out and then he didn't work out again and then his his stock
seems to have taken a pretty big hit and he looks like a day, day
three guy, probably round four guy at this point.
And so I fooled. Off hype recently, though, he
like, like big Shay has been like, nobody's talking enough
about Jonah Coleman. He's going to go higher than
people think. Nate Tice is a big Jonah Coleman
guy like some of the big he is. I I, I heard, I have a feeling
that like the big NFL draft. Well, he is slow.
Yeah, he's slow. He thinks he's gonna go.
Day four or sorry, round four. Day Four.
Day 4. Not David Four, Yeah.
They pick one player on the Sunday and he could be that.
Player. He could be the guy.
For marketing purposes, they used to have Mr. Irrelevant.
Now we have Day 4. It's a whole big thing.
Day 2, Round 2 for Coleman. Day 4, it's just like, who's
gonna who's gonna sign Eric McAllister as a UDFA with his
multiple felony? Where's #4 it's a whole.
The NFL is actually they're gonna, they're gonna host Day 4
on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
That's right, it's gonna be every Wednesday for the rest of
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slide 14 for one more 0RB target.
You guys, we can't have the show without this one on the left
I've seen. Loved one every guest, that
guy's. I know Jamal Charles on the left
who is on the. Right, OK, it's gonna.
Be Keaton Mitchell. We know it's Keaton Mitchell.
We. Know who it is?
Keaton Mitchell. You mean you mean you mean the
missile? You mean Keaton missile?
Worst pick on the board? Keaton.
Jacqueline ours for an incredible.
Short Mickey and for these. Slides.
I will say that if you're going to do stats like this, you have
to include times cut by Davis in 2026 here.
Yeah. Also, we, we simply cannot have
Jamal Charles headshot in the Jaguars uniform That that is so
rancid. So I've never seen anything more
upsetting. Like it's fair in, in my mind.
Jamal Charles retired as a member of the Kansas City
Chiefs. I I despise seeing Jamal
Charles. What about Jamal Charles in the
Denver Broncos? Era Jags.
That's also gross. I don't I don't think about I've
blocked that completely out. Like to me he only ever suited
up for the Kansas City Chiefs. I agree, but the that Jaguars
jersey is also just so aesthetically displeasing.
Like that's that's like the Marquis Lee era when they had
like the gradient gold to black helmets, terrible uniforms and
Jamal Charles never deserves. Here's here's the deal guys.
I will welcome you to Keaton Mitchell Island.
When you come, you will get there and when you get there,
I'll have a drink. Ready on my island.
When you, you are you, you. The good word of Keaton is open
to all. I'm happy to share his love.
His Jesus, you died for our sins.
His fantasy points per touch is for everyone who wants.
It's from. The good word.
It's from the book. Of Keaton 5. 13 I believe and
I'm sure I know you guys say we're not big fantasy football
media, but I've got 2 trade offers offering me Mitchell.
I wasn't even the one doing the talking last week, but
eventually. You were just associated.
I I was adjacent. You got tired and eventually
Davis went like Mike, what do you think?
Like, oh, I love Keaton Mitchell.
Like I'd be happy to have him and then I'd be correct that too
offered so correct. You might be bigger than you
think. The thing is, is that Devin a
chain is our generation's Chris Johnson, right?
Like we all agree like that's like probably the best comp like
our generation CJ2K. What I'm presupposing is that
Mike McDaniel understands that Keed Mitchell is better than
that and wanted to and wanted to bring him in to I'm so.
Upset right now? Awesome.
That's tremendous. That was the most rage baiting
thing anyone? Does yeah, I I wish you hadn't
peaked on April 7th before the NFL draft, but you just did.
But. Better.
That was it. Better if you're.
Not going to. Top that like this is.
If Sean Siegel said that exact same thing, I would take it
seriously because he has like a an air of of like a philosopher
to. His comments you.
Want to see about rages? But when you say it, you sound
like a rage baiting troll. This is this is downstream from
Sean. Sean called Keaton the best
running back in the NFL last year.
Yep, and he was right. Sean's allowed to do that, like
Sean. Sean is Socrates.
Hey, I don't you are. The thing with Sean though, are
like. I'm not sure the Scarecrow, like
Sean likes these guys and then he's like, he sees them.
He's like, Oh no, this guy's not.
Good, right? Is Keaton Mitchell the new Ty
Chandler or Sean's? Like, actually, actually, never
mind. You're really.
Jacob, do you want me? Do you want me to to bait you?
Do you want me to bait you even harder?
Please, like, keep baiting me, yeah.
OK, well, if Sean is Socrates, then I'm Alexander the Great.
I'm the one who misinterprets his lesson and then uses it to
'cause you know, chaos in Persia is I sat.
I sat and learned at. I sat and learned at Sean's knee
to take his lesson and then go twist it to commit violence out
to the masses. Didn't he die alone in the Zach,
Zach. Like we we have never had a
better opportunity unity for a clip than Davis loudly
proclaiming I am Alexander the Great.
He died in the desert, right? This is not a good cop.
He is a rested. No, it's a pretty good cop.
I mean he became the king of Persia exactly like the rest is
history shout out. I guess which season are we in
now? How far into the career are we
in? Short run, right?
Pretty short run for. I would say I would say this is
some of his like. I would say this is some of his
early conquering. I would say this would be some
of Alexander's early conquering. OK, Alexander the Great.
He Alexander the Great died at about 32, but he But he also got
started pretty soon. When?
Yeah.
Because Philip and Macedon died when he was 18.
Right, so he basically had a 4R in your run.
It's a longer than that's you. You know what?
You're right, it's a longer run than I.
Thought I I would say this is I'm in the, I'm in like
Alexander conquering Syria right now.
Right. It's a longer run that I thought
is great. This is before the.
This is before the alcoholism. Interesting, I guess I didn't
know that it lasted that. Long young breakout age for
Alexander. Alexander, Alexander Alexander's
Dominator rating breakout. Oh my God, dude, he's like
Rondelle Moore. At 13.
Yeah, it's pretty. Good.
His breakout age is incredible. Alexander the Great.
That's a declaration for, essentially.
Yeah, and I mean, and and a really high teammate score like
learning under Aristotle, like he had a lot of good prospects
lined up in that program. And Alexander OSHA on the mall.
It's true. It's true.
You can't deny it. You can't say no to.
That, well, all his classmates were kings too, basically.
Yeah. And he was the king of kings.
Aristotle is is like the Ohio State of philosophers.
Yes, and Warriors. Yeah, yes.
It was like the the 2019 family game that had eight first
rounders on offense. Apparently, he downed a large
bowl of unmixed wine in honor of Hercules, followed by 11 days of
weakness. He did not develop a fever,
instead dying after some agony. Tough.
It's a final year. Anyway, it's all a long way
today. Better to quit a year too early
than a year too, yeah? Would you say Davis?
How does not a? Year too late.
How does Keaton Mitchell is better than Devon HN compared to
the Battle of Gagamella? So I will admit that I've never
read like the true big tome of Alexander the.
Great. That was the battle in which he
defeated King Darius the Third of Persia.
You're going to admit that? So I, I'll tell you guys, I'm
listening to the kind of get it by 9 hour Hardcore History.
I literally just listened to like a six hour podcast about
the Battle of Granicus. So I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna
pretend to know something. That.
Oh, sure. I'm with show up.
I'm a restless history guy. I'm with, Baby said they did.
They did a lovely episode on on Alexander.
Well, the Hardcore History, someone told me, because there's
the the World War One episode. It's literally the greatest
podcast of all time. But someone told me that the
anecdote he does with a guy like kind of bumping into the
Archduke and it was just like made-up.
It's like, it's like a thing that's been like completely
debunked. Oh no, it's like opens up the
episode. So So what happened is they
turned the wrong way. They turned down the wrong.
Street. Yeah, apparently that's been
debunked. No, that's real.
If it's debunked, it's. I looked into it but it made me
pretty like, I'm going to be pretty upset if that's true
because I really enjoyed that. The absolute perfect panel to
get to the bottom of that will be seen tomorrow on ship chasing
at 2:00 Eastern. It's.
So true. I hope, I do hope, I do hope
we're able to get Pete. Baited, we might be able.
To we might be able to I mean. It's early ish, but it's
possible last call. Put this up dreaming of Sundays
Alexander the Great Dodd because he didn't take a third
quarterback he didn't have that. Should have had the side kick up
Alexander you needed to draft 2 you.
Didn't understand the the new meta man.
Glad passing by. We do have one more slide here.
Last call or one more the deuce and notes.
Yeah. I know we have one more slide
here that Zach put together for us.
Here we go. Just any thoughts on this final
slide? Davis, can you please give us a
slide profile? No other way.
You got to go the other way. So you, Matt?
This is me holding. A There it is.
Nice. There we go.
That's your last two seconds. We couldn't be looking for an
open receiver on this one. Is that Keaton Mitchell on his
press? There is that.
It is. It's Keaton, it's from the
future. It's this is got to bring it
back to Dune. He has the Gift of Future site
and he knows that in 3500 years what's going to happen is that
his name is going to be used to invoke Keaton Mitchell as the
best 0 running back target in 2026.
What a legacy. What a legacy.
All right, last call we. We will never beat that.
No, we're never beat that. Great.
Oh my God. OK, all right.
Last call. I do have some thoughts.
Go, I left here him. I well, I'm just realizing I
really freaking need a wide receiver.
Yes, like real like this is I, I played, I think I played the
game properly with the quarterbacks.
I'm, I'm absolutely frame mugging you as a quarterback.
Most most CLV here is Jacob, right?
Yeah, but my QB one is Chador Sanders, so.
Well, wrist up. I need a wide receiver.
I'm I'm literally scrolling my list right now of guys I have
ranked after 200. I mean, it is quite dark.
You know what? I'll go, I'll go.
OK, go ahead. You go ahead.
I don't want to snipe. I might snipe you.
Do you have someone? You know what?
He's not taken already. I'm taking Ted Hurst third round
of the Kansas City Chiefs. I.
Was actually going to take Bryce Lance.
Oh, that's like a really good $10 dynasty team pick.
Maybe not as good in this specific game, but either way
still really good. All Look, I spent, I spent all
of last week's episode trolling the comments section about this,
and now I'm going to swerve. I'm taking Jordan James.
Wow, wow. See this?
This is a different game than best ball.
The zeros don't really matter. You just need guys.
You need to find these points however you can get them, you
know. Look at you with that red badge
doing all the talking. I.
Know. Hey, I mean, I just just
speaking from experience here, you know?
Right, you're the one to comment.
I am going to leave the light on for Jalen Wright.
OK. I I I've been alternating, I
take him sometimes. Hitman, Ollie Gordon just
operating under the philosophy. There's no way Devon Asian's
still playing in Week 17 like they're they're.
Season fours A great pick at the 1-2 turn.
Yeah. 4 1/2 is their total. Yikes.
That is a really, really low. Idle I like the under I.
Mean you, you should all right, ship chasing tomorrow.
Wednesday, The Jets twice. So that might that might get you
halfway home. No, I think they're much better
than the dolphins. We'll see.
On that note, dogs have been let.
Out dogs are activated. The dogs are activated.
Any quick plugs anybody? Ship ship chasing tomorrow.
Ship chasing tomorrow at 11, at 11 AM Davis, are we doing?
Are we? Doing a video on We offer ship
chasing too. Yes.
It's not gonna be live though. We're we're recording it.
Jake, Jacob and I are on my new dynasty channel.
We are gonna do a thorough breakdown.
I think probably what we'll do is we'll just rank them.
We'll just rank the second year running backs on their dynasty
value going forward. I mean, probably won't spend a
ton of time on Genti, but probably some interesting stuff
with Scataboo and Tootin and Caleb Johnson might come up.
With me. Yeah, I'll, I'll plug.
Please I'll. I'll, I'll just, I was gonna say
I'm just gonna plug basic. Almost all my rookie content is
now done, or at least pre draft version of it.
I have my two-part running back column was up last week and then
just today, a few hours ago, I dropped my full wide receiver
column. I got all the way up to 20 in
declining detail, but a lot of detail at the top three,
especially in, in through the 1st 8 to 13 guys.
So check that out, please. Definitely my favorite part of
the year. I'll, I'll finish up the
quarterbacks and tight ends probably within the next week or
so and then we'll, we'll revisit them all after the draft.
Right on for me on free Odyssey app coming up in future days,
Chris Trapasso tomorrow, Sam, Penny Otovich every Friday, Pete
Metzlars now with summer sports, Sigmund Bloom all ahead as we
get closer to the draft and lots of hockey.
Those sabers Thanks everybody. My yeah, my wide receiver stuff
will start coming out tomorrow. And yeah, check out the running
backs, the quarterbacks got that already up, and I'll be getting
the tight ends out probably early next week as well.
Matt Irby's also been doing a cool piece for the site, doing
some dynasty buys and sells. He's got two pieces up right now
on wide receivers, so you can check those out.
And yeah, legendaryupside.com rankings sidekick.
Check it all out over there. Davis, you're at a new site.
I am, yeah. If you're interested in my
dynasty rankings, my best ball rankings, I'm in the process of
getting the slot model updated to fit their code over at Flop
Fantasy, but you can sign up over there code Davis, $97.00
for the year. We'd we'd love to have you.
That's it. Let's look.
Out there. Thanks guys, see you next week.
Thanks for watching and listening.