League Sleepers NOBODY Is Talking About | Fantasy Focus
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In this fantasy football podcast episode, the hosts, including field Jates and Mike Clay, dive into a comprehensive sleeper episode, selecting one under-the-radar player from each of the 32 NFL teams. The discussion is structured around three key criteria: success doesn't require a full 18-game season, many picks rely on draft capital or pedigree, and most sleepers need an injury to a starter to gain meaningful opportunity. The hosts acknowledge that hitting even five of 32 picks would be a success. Across the divisions, they highlight a mix of rookies, second-year players, and veterans with suppressed ADPs, such as Dalton Kincaid, Brian Thomas Jr., Xavier Worthy, and Marshaan Lloyd. They also emphasize the importance of cost, noting that many picks are available at wide receiver or tight end rankings well beyond the top 100, making them low-risk flyers. Throughout the show, they inject humor, including roasting Mike Clay's sleep attire, and discuss draft strategies, such as targeting Josh Allen early. The episode concludes with a preview of the next day's "bust" episode, where they'll identify overhyped players, and they encourage viewers to review previous breakout and sleeper content.
♪ Fantasy, you and the old sick, so one old ♪ ♪ Focus, fantasy, fantasy, focus ♪ - What's up, friends? Welcome into fantasy folk. - Yes. - What's up, friends? You and so focused football, staying with that. On the side, feel jaded, nightly. Where you're talking sleepers. - How you guys doing today? - I'm doing great. - Yeah? - Great music here. You guys, who's sleeping? - You guys look interesting right now. - Yeah, you know, I wore my regular sleep attire. I got my sleep braid in. I don't know if you can tell. Rosie puts my hair in a sleep braid sometime. - It's really cool. - I got a big sleep braid in, my sleep mask, which obviously has the speakers in the side. So that way I can listen to Bluetooth stuff and it goes on. - Let's check out. - You like listen to white noise all night? - Yeah, white noise, or I listen to hot tapes sometimes. Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah. - What about you, Mike? - Why are you sleepers? - Dressed like an 1830s child. - Because that's how you sleep a night sleep. - You sleep, walk around my estate with my candles. - That's terrifying. If I woke up in that, was outside of my bedroom, I would be so, so so much. - What happens when your daughter see you walking around and checking on the children? - No, Mike, you have no lenses in those glasses. - They had them, but they're so bad. So I just popped them out. - You popped them out. (laughing) - You look amazing. - I do this. I do this so I look cool. - You definitely look cool. Make sure to accomplish, too. - What do you sleep in pants and a t-shirt? - I do sleep in usually just a t-shirt and athletic shorts, but I have one special exception. - Oh, you need my yield. - This is my handy dandy unicorn mask, which is pretty. - Is that yours? - No, it's not. It's my four-year-olds, but you don't have to lie. - You don't have to lie to us. - No, I'm well, that's true. It's mine. It's definitely not my four-year-olds. But she's away with my wife for a night to go visit her parents, so she does not know that I'm wearing this right now. - Love that. - I don't want to trouble. - Love that. - All right, well today we got a very fun show, a sleeper's episode, our very own field jates, brought a sleeper from all 31 professional NFL teams, plus the Cleveland Browns, which was very nice. - Oh. - So we're gonna dive in deep on every single one of these, in case you didn't watch yesterday, we did breakouts yesterday, we were actually sleepy yesterday, coming off of the fantasy and it has been a ton of fun this week, but fields were not done yet. A sleeper from every NFL team, 32 names, kick us. - Excuse me. - Wait, hold on, the sleeper episode presented by Alan Lazard. - Oh, wow. - She were a call, that was her. - And then didn't even have a guy that you could see. - He had a decent sleeper. - He'd kept scoring like touchdowns, I didn't know where. - It was great. - I know, too. It was great. - I know. - So we're doing 32 players. - Yes. - We're gonna sort of leave these. And by the way, some of these are gonna be just basically mentions. - Yeah. - 32 names, three criteria, and then sort of one note before we get started. Criteria A, I am not defining success on these picks as from week one to week 18, these guys are good enough, to be in your fantasy line. - Okay. - Think about Michael Wilson last year. He would have been a great name as like a sleeper because he ended up having a longer stretch as a dominant wide receiver. But it wasn't start to finish. It was maybe you drafted him late. You were patient enough to stash him. He ends up bawling out when Marvin Harrison Jr. is off the field. So that's one. One criteria is success is not defined by 18 games. It might be four games, this guy is useful for you. That to me would be successful. Two, a lot of this is gonna be capital-based. Like you're gonna see here a lot of other rookies, second-year players, or guys that went high in the draft. The idea being they haven't yet reached their full potential. If they do, they could have a decent role or decent production. Three, a lot of these guys probably need an injury to somebody ahead of them to have any chance to make a real impact. And then the declaration at the end is, I don't expect to go 32 for 32. If I got five out of 32 right, I would consider it a decent level of success. - Love that. - Wow, why don't you just pick the right one for every time? - Wow, wow, wow, Mike. I was too sleepy. - That's what I would have done personally, but hey, it's your journey. - I was too sleepy here, yeah. - Let's do the AFC East first field minister Yates. Here we go. We are gonna go to the AFC East, and we're talking about the Buffalo Bills, and Dulleson Kincaid. Is this finally the year that all Dulleson Kincaid finally get the breakout? - Get's to put it together for a more prolonged stretch of time again. I'm not looking for 18 weeks of Dulleson Kincaid, but this is a former first round pick. He has some good per target metrics. When the ball is thrown, Dulleson Kincaid's way, generally speaking, good things happen, but this is a very crowded Buffalo offense. He has not stayed healthy, nor has he been that consistent. If he does, maybe things change. - Yeah, how about a higher than 37% snap share? - That'd be nice. - You know, he didn't see the field very much. It's hard to produce when you're on the field a third of the time. So yeah, as far as where he's going, he could certainly outperform his ADP. - We'll say right now, so I hear you. - You could throw the cold water on literally everyone. - No, because that's a good spot. - That's a good spot, right? Is that like, these guys don't have strong cases for why they're going to be great, hence why they're being ranked the case of Kincaid, no higher than Titan 16. - I've got a little bit of Eric, I'm sorry, scar tissue on my Dalton Kincaid take. - Ayo, I see, we did there. - Last year I was in, I know him wanting to take that step, and it feels like, okay, this is just another year where I'm still waiting. But if there's anyone that would be a sleeper, the kid still has the skill set, obviously. It's just if he can get the opportunity. - Before the Patriots traded for AJ Brown, they gave Romeo Dobbs $17 million a year. And last year, obviously, Stefan Digs was kind of the only Patriots fantasy relevant wide receiver. There were moments of Mac Hollins and kind of Williams had some cool touchdowns. But really it was a one wide receiver offense. - Yeah. - Maybe it's a two wide receiver offense this year. And he's a good player. Now he was inconsistent in Green Bay. Not sure that's going to change in New England, but we have seen him produce in the past. - I'm excited for him to be on a team where he actually has a legitimate wide receiver one opposite him. 'Cause in Green Bay, they're like, oh, other than when Christian Watson was healthy. It was just a bunch of wide receiver two who was all share in the field. Now that AJ Brown is going to command double teams, I wonder if that can make Romeo Dobbs be even more efficient in this offense. - Yeah, my hesitation with him is he's averaged exactly 10.2 or 10.3 fantasy points bringing three seasons in a row. And often he was the number one receiver for pretty good Packers offense. So with AJ Brown there, and like they sort of, I think want to spread it around a little bit to pop Douglas and Kyle Williams is eager to. So I don't know if he is going to see consistent production. - He's going to see. - He's two players in field. - I'm just, Mike's hesitation is shared by drafters. I know that we have the ADP of all four of the players in the AFC East, and nobody has confidence in these guys. I think we can pull this up as I go through to my last two in the AFC East. Dolphins wide receiver Caleb Douglas made one of the coolest catches in the three season. - Wow. - Wow. - That goes to show. - Stop the presses. I could have gone Caleb Douglas or Chris Bell. I think Chris Bell is a more talented player. He's coming off of the NAACL tear suffered in last November. His team isn't going to be that good. So I aired on the side of a healthy guy. Caleb Douglas, a third round pick. I had a fifth or sixth round grade on him. So he was overdrafted relative to my own evaluation, but there is a grand opportunity for somebody in Miami. - Clear of pass. - See some number of target. When a rookie is listed on the depth chart as a starter right away, that's usually a pretty good indicator 'cause oftentimes they're buried on purpose. That was not the case with him, which is, I know it's a bad depth chart, but still a point in the right direction. So I like, by the way, for the record, I was on board with King Cade. - Okay. - Wow, it's funny the way that Mike's on board. So that's so negative. - But field, I've been wondering which one of the jets you were going to decide, which one of the two rookies is going to be the sleeper? - Yeah, yeah. - It's got to either be the tight end of the wide receiver. - That's right. It's not King in Cadeek because Mason Taylor is still there, like, and I just, Cadeek banged up. And just less confidence there than Omar Cooper Jr. And Omar Cooper Jr. should not be on this list based off what we've read and heard so far this preseason. Former lion Isaiah Williams seems to be legitimately competing for number three slash slot wide receiver duties. I hear that and it's probably accurate. I'm not discounting it. Maybe Isaiah Williams plays more early, but if things go as I expect them to go for the jets this year, at some point you got to play the kids, right? And this is a guy who was talented enough to go 30th overall on the draft. The jets move back up into the first round. So here's my pedigree play for Omar Cooper Jr. - I feel like whenever people move back up into the first round to make sure they get a player with that fifth year option, that tells me they really wanted that kid. So I'm with you on that one. - Looks like in the second preseason game, he kind of maybe leaped past Isaiah Williams again, so that's at least a point in the right direction. I thought you might go 80 Mitchell here too, 'cause he's the guy generating a lot of hype, but I think at some point you would expect Cooper to, he better push him. He doesn't start pushing 80 Mitchell this year. It's probably not a good sign. All right, so let's take a look at the four players we have mentioned so far. And this is their current ADP, all right? Tied in 15 for Dalton King Gade. That's pretty high. - Yeah. - Wide receiver 55 for Romeo Doz. Wide receiver 69 for Caleb Douglas. - Wow. - Is no more Cooper Jr's ADP really wide receiver 367? - I mean, he's got to be tied with everyone else, right? - Yeah, I just be a big conglomerate of players. - Might be, it's probably 67, yeah. - Okay, by the way, or other way, it is a low ADP for Omar Cooper Jr. Wide receiver 367. - Who is Wide receiver 367? - That's probably great for just a player. - Probably one of the guys who's undrafted, right? Not even that. Probably a player who is not even in league anymore. - I don't even know if my list goes this way. - Does your list go that far? - Probably does, actually from Mike. There's probably one. - It does, I go to 400 because of kickers and punters. - Who is it? - Reynolds defense. - It's 360. - Player 360. - Did you rather have the Cardinals defense? Omar Cooper Jr. - I'm gonna go. - I go with Omar Cooper Jr, I think. - Yeah. Give me some AFC North players field. - AFC North, let's begin in Baltimore. - Yep. - And another guy that's been generating-- - You've been talking about Darek Henry too much field. - Jacobi Lane is my pick, he just--
barely edges out Derek Henry. We've already expressed our reservations about a second wider fever, having a role in Baltimore. But if you have a better option, like it's, I can't go to Justice Hale or somebody in the back field. I know that Adam Randall would be an interesting name. Yeah, but I think it would be a committee rather than a one man band. I think this team had one name as a sleeper for you to honest. That was pretty much it. And again, the buzz has been overwhelmingly positive. Or Jacobi Lane. It's a new offense. Perhaps things trend in a different direction. Yeah. That's a Jacobi, uh, young right there. I met you. No, you said Jacobi Lane. Okay. Jacobi Lane. By the way, I think my, I, people watching, I don't want them to think I'm disrespecting Jacobi Lane. I haven't projected for three touchdowns. Not zero. So. Okay. I think I get in the end zone a few times. That would be there. I just, I have to, uh, defend like I don't, you're never going to see a projection for me. That's just so like, like that. You're not going to have 30 catches and zero touchdowns or a pretty level headed. So that would be very deontage. There's no. Yeah. Jacobi Lane. Although a fee score zero touchdowns and I say I'm by it. That's right. I'm by what's on the nailed it. Um, the next one here is the rate, uh, the bangles and I think probably people would say it should be Andre Yoshibas, who is maybe the wide receiver three for this team. Maybe I feel like we've seen Yoshie fill in for T Higgins and word jamar chase enough and seen it kind of yield middling at best results that I don't know. Not really going to go down that path and go dead. I'm going for a pedigree play in a player that I liked better than where he went. I had him like late third or early fourth. He ends up going in the fourth round as Colby Young, wide receiver from Georgia, very talented, big, fast, strong athletic, uh, good hands. That was some injuries in college. There's some questions at one point about some off field concerns for Colby Young, but he is a, uh, I think good enough to if something happens to one of Jamar chase or T Higgins. And again, many of these names need an injury to help their cause. I think Colby Young could be an intriguing name. Yeah. It sounds like he's pushing Yoshibas already like immediately. He was so no doubt he could be a guy where he's like the perfect of chase or Higgins are out. You're going to add him to the end of your bench. We'll start him that first week. We'll add him and see what kind of, you want to see what he does. Exactly. Joe Burrow. Yeah. I'm with you on that one. Uh, let's see. And then we have, uh, this one's a tough one for me field. But yeah, the player is actually kind of an entry. One case, he concepts, you know, only because like so far naming some of the pedigree plays or some of the guys that are the rookies like Caleb Douglas, the third round rookie to Colby Lane, a fourth round rookie, maybe late third round rookie Colby Young, fourth round rookie, like case, he concepts, you know, what 24th overall, right? Like he is very talented. He's extremely explosive. Uh, he's dynamic with the football in his hands. The Browns will be wise to create some opportunities for him as a runner on top of as a receiver. It's just hard to have faith in any Browns pass catcher based off how the offense has looked this preseason and what we expect the quarterback played a little. That's true. But much like Harold Fanon last year, this is a guy where you can make new facts or short area touches for him. So a PPR that could work out. He might carry the football or get a little flip the ball to him. Get the ball in his hands. And that's going to generate fantasy production. I'd be a little more concerned about Jerry Judy and Denzel Boston being more consistent. At least I feel like he may be as a path to a decent foreign fantasy. But by the way, I do like Boston. I've talked about Judy as a lay around flyer as well. Just because when you could guys of this pedigree and talent available so lay in drafts, that's where that's it's just think about your other options in that area, right? That's why you take flyers and guys like that. So honestly, I've no issue taking a shot in any of these Browns receive. We're like 50% hit just while far with that's not bad. That's not bad. I agree with you had to pick somebody from the Browns. I don't want to draft a single player from this team this year. I think the dysfunction is so bad. I don't think if there was one running back inside the top 20, there's probably two of them in my mind that I think could like just be a bust given the situation around him. We have busts coming up soon, by the way. I think Quince on Judkins could be one of those guys given how bad that offense could be. I know the defense is good, but like I have no faith in not only that that offense right now, but this feels like one of those organizations where when like things are just bad, they just bleed into a little bit of everything. So I never feel good about hitting draft on a Cleveland Browns player. Unfortunately, right now in 2020, I would not be surprised. By the way, I don't think their defense is as good as it's been in years past. I agree with that. Obviously, not having miles here. It's a big part of that because it Alex Wright went down for the season as well. Yeah. So it's not as strong as it's been. And that could lead to more, you know, less conservative games for them, maybe a little more throwing in the second half, which would be great. Because I think we agree. Should Earl throw it around like even even Watson, maybe, but like he's going to turn over. You might both turn it over a lot, but give us like a Jamest Winston sort of season. We'll take that baby. Give us that just fling the ball or a very jamest to the Browns. That would be cool. I've got me thinking you trying to think of who your other top 20 running back that you're concerned about being a bus would be when we do our bus episode, we should talk before we actually do it about like thresholds. Yeah. What that means, top 10 quarterback, top 20 running back, wide receiver. Yeah. We know you're running back already. It's one of them. He's on Robinson. We get to stealers for the last one of the AFC North Jeremy Bernhard hard to find a stealer to pick here. We've talked enough about both of the running backs. Yeah, the tight end room is just crowded. Wide receiver room is very veteran laden. So Jeremy Bernhard, their second round pick out of Alabama, going to play in the slot when he gets his role, which might not be great because Michael Pittman Jr. is going to play from the slot at decent amount as well, but a very reliable player overall hardly ever dropped the football during his time in college, but he also had zero 50 yard catches in his college career. So he's going to need volume. He's not going to be one of those guys that gets you a four for 87 and a touchdown. It's going to need to be more like seven targets in a game to really pay off. Steelers fans are going to be furious with you if I know anything from social because how dare you disrespect Roman Wilson. This is apparently his year. I don't know what, but he's he's at a better camp, but he's fast. I'm with you. I like Bernhard. It's a preferred late round flyer. It's going to say what a disappointment though for the Steelers that they drafted are running back in the second round in Caleb Johnson. And he doesn't even make the list as a potential sleeper because it feels like that's just not the one that got away. Yeah, man. Now look, we'll take a look at the AFC North full screen. One more time with the ADP's next to him, Jacobi Lane, wide receiver 63 Colby Young, wide receiver 95, Kasey Concepts, the own inside the top 55 of wide receivers and Jibby Bernard also wide receiver 69. Who is the other wide receiver that was 69 kid. Caleb Douglas Omar Cooper, Jr. was wide receiver three and 67. Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. AFC South. We move forward more familiar names here in the AFC. And this one's a little bit more fun. So let's begin with the Houston Texans. And it's Woody Marx. I like this one a lot. Woody Marx, who was playing with some of the starters during preseason and fur from that, what you will. Woody Marx is a good player. He's a capable player, I should say. If the Texans felt completely confident that Woody Marx should handle this job unto himself, it wouldn't have traded for David Montgomery. Given Montgomery, Austin, draft capital, an offensive lineman, and he's got a real contract. He's not making two million bucks here. I think he's making eight or nine million dollars. So real money they pay, they are paying to David Montgomery. But Woody Marx has more juice in David Montgomery right now, probably adds as much if not more in the passing game. Maybe he overtakes Monti at some point. Yeah. I would. He got a lot of volume. The efficiency and fantasy production was not there though. So you need him. The key, I think, for him is to play better this year would be important. But yeah, I think he's a good target if you're fading David Montgomery. Just play better this year. I mean, you know what? If I could give you one piece of advice would he just play better? Okay, funny, but also like you need volume in the pro. So I'm saying if even if he gets a volume, what you had last year, he's asked to play better if he's going to deliver in fantasy at one top 10 and 9.4 fantasy points per game. But again, I agree with you. I like this one because I'm not really a big David Montgomery guy. Older running back is like, so if you're going to fade him or be lower on him, naturally make sense to bump up the Texans, not added cash on booty. Was there a chance that Dalton Schultz would have made this list as a tie then. I actually have a decent ranking on Dalton Schultz. Okay. He could have been mentioned here. Schultz is like one of them. Guys where it's just like end of the year. He'll finish 13. Yes. Whatever. But he's never going to be startable. Yeah. It is never going to start. Gunner Helm. Like it. Second year player, fourth round pick last year at a Texas. Very, very reliable pass catcher. Like great hands, Gunner Helm. The problem is I fear I've just said too many nice things about too many Titans pass catchers. Right. Like you guys know my stance on on carnal tape. Yeah. Optimistic about Wando Robins and being a volume guy. So I want to make sure that I don't overdo it here. But these are deep sleepers. That's right. Gunner Helm. Potential late room last round tight end. Probably not even being drafted right now. Could be a safety valve for Kim. We're going to hear a wild stat. No, he had 40. I'm telling you anyway. Helm had 44 catches last season. And remember, he was behind Chico Conqual. Yeah. Right. That's 11th most among rookie Titans over the past decade. Is that right? Yeah. Is that wild? That's kind of shocking. First of all, it seems like a low number, but also like for him to be a situational player and have the 11th most catches, it might be a signal that there could be something there. He could definitely get stepped forward here. Let's go big game hunting here. Yes. Jacksonville. Brian Thomas. Yeah, baby. This one's a cost thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. None of us really know what to make a Brian Thomas Jr. But the good news is based off where he's being drafted right now. We'll have the full screen in the second. The risk is so far out weighed by the reward. If Brian Thomas Jr. becomes a top 25 wide receiver, it's a massive value based off of ADP right now. Yep. If Brian Thomas Jr. is just in a regular factor in this offense, he's third or fourth in targets. He has a couple of decent games in the first half dozen games of the season, but also has a couple of non factor games. And you want to drop him? That's fine too. Because he's ranked around wide receiver 40 on ESPN. Yes. He was wide receiver. What three or four is a rookie? He's wide receiver 40 going into his third year. It's crazy. I think this is the only wide receiver at this point of the draft that we've seen be so good in this game that we have ranked this low just because of
Honestly, we just need the dolphins to trade for both Mac Jones and Brian Thomas. I could be done as a thing. Yeah, he's only 23, but my hesitation with him and the reason we're not higher on him is like, it doesn't seem like his role is going to change from last year, where he was a situational deep threat, not to mention that he's yet to be really good with Trevor Lawrence center. It's only to your point. It's only been with Mac Jones. So yeah, I'm with you, but he certainly fits the belt. I think people are probably going to be surprised you didn't mention a couple other names, including Bishal Tutton, but I don't know if he really counts as a sleeper because he's going in the fifth round. So, you know, say our B 21 or 22 overall is more of a two far up. Yeah, exactly. Candidate than a sleeper. Yep. Cool. Josh Downs, a guy whose stock was higher at the beginning of training camp with no Alec Pierce and no Kenan Allen. It's now suppressed back downwards, given that he is not healthy and they have Kenan Allen and Alec Pierce may start practicing soon. We've seen some video of him walking around. He definitely seems to be favoring that ankle, but perhaps he's on the practice field soon. One of the things that Josh Downs probably needs to be fantasy relevance, one of the several things is he got to play from elsewhere besides the slot slot versus, I mean, he's going to be behind Kenan Allen. If he only plays from the slot, there's some talk that he could play a more expanded role in different alignments. If that happens, he has a chance. If he's just going to be a slot guy with Tyler Warren and Kenan Allen, it's going to be hard for me to imagine having a legitimate role. Yeah, this feels a little Dalton Schulzzy, like we just talked about because it's funny. You're outside your top 15, you're ranking, field, you're 46, I'm 47. He's finished between 35th and 45th, all three seasons so far, and now Michael Pittman's gone. So I feel like he could finish in that range again for the fourth year in a row and still be kind of boring, like boring fantasy, I mean, the guy has never had more than three end zone targets in a season. He's just not going to get work in that area. So I agree that maybe we're a hair low on him, but he just doesn't feel like a guy I'm going to be pumped to start every week in fantasy, like, eat nine targets, something like that to be useful. I don't know if he's getting that. My biggest concern with the Colts outside of Tyler Warren, because I think regardless of who the quarterback is, although we saw him fall off without Daniel Jones last year, I still think Tyler Warren will eat even if it's not Daniel Jones. No doubt. I'm just worried about everybody else. If it isn't Daniel Jones, based on the quarterbacks that the Colts have, I'm not sure I want to invest in anybody, but if you're picking someone here, field, like Josh Downs has to be the guy. Yeah. Warren feels like such a good floor play. Yeah. That's the guaranteed usage near the goal line feels huge to me, even with Jonathan Taylor. Totally. Take a look at the ADFC South ADPs. And again, these guys are being drafted. I think what he marks is higher than RB. These are a little bit jacked up here. I agree. I would be 92. Titan 200 for Gunner helm. Not higher than that. Higher than that. He is higher than that. BTJ Y7 38. Oh, man, what a set. Titan 249. Yeah. The point is these guys are all like, we've yet to see somebody in the top 30 of running backs or wide receivers and you probably won't on this list. You know what? I gotta give you credit. You've had some real deep sleeper. Yeah. That's right. It was a sleep. That's it. I built these graphics. Let's go to the AFC West. And I love this one. Can't say I'm excited about this player. Is that for on that one? I just want to see. I have. Okay. This is what fantasy is about. Okay. It's not all the sleepers and breakout candidates. Everyone's talking about. Guys like this, who are like like post type guys. Yeah. Okay. Super hyped up last year. Now they fall. Now is when you can. Now is when you could strike. Wow. Gunner Helm is going 200th overall. It would appear right now. So his ADP is amongst Titans like. No, he's the true. No, he actually is tied in 200. Oh my God. 170.6. This is ADP. Here's to just a quick thing. Here's the truth. Like if I had to guess what happens is like when when players are drafted so infrequently, like they kind of have big ties right where it's like, you know, his ADP is 170.6 is Gunner Helms, which means he's not being drafted in 10 team leagues. Maybe he's being drafted on occasion in like deep relays with super big benches. He's like tied in 24 like we're real. Yes. That's what we have rank. Yes. Agreed. By the way, hey, here you go. A little notification matter after the colds are activating out here. Let's go. There we go. So ADP about to go. His ADP was like, oh, he got that big contract. It went up and then it started to plummet with flying back up now, right? And to hit a hit a hit a floor recently. And now it's going to go back up. I got so lucky drafting him last night because I was able to put him into my IR slot. But what I won't be able to make any more moves this off season, because I'll have to move him if I want to make it. Did that with a lot of George Kittle. Yeah. Yeah. How things have changed? All right. Let's go to the chiefs and Xavier word. Mike was. Refusing right there. I like this happen. Um, again, I don't know that I have great confidence in this player. I have some scar tissue based off of things that happened last year, right? Sure. Early in the war room. Um, but Xavier worthy was at least going into last season, being talked up as a focal point of the chiefs offense, fastest player in combine history. Patrick Holmes, obviously strong arm. The chiefs need more explosive plays. Yep. Yeah, I mean, and we know how Travis Kelsey's target sure is not going to be what he used to be. They clearly made told us they're committed to him. This off season. So I'm with you. Remember this case, we're 12 touchdowns in 20 games, including the playoffs as a rookie. So we've seen it before from him. So this feels like maybe the post type target, and maybe it can put Brian Thomas on that. Sure. But to a good name where he's going and drafts right now in the double digit rounds. It feels like an easy pick to me for those that don't watch fantasy focus countdown. First of all, hopefully you will this year. That's right. But every week, Adam Schefter and I pull a long shot, which is a player that is rostered and under 20% of leagues on ESPN.com. And whichever player scores more points than that week. That's a win for either me or Chefty, we go for 17 weeks, head to head style. We also have a season long tiebreaker that we announce during the marathon. My pick was Pat Bryant of the Denver Broncos. Maybe a bad idea because they have so many guys there, but Pat Bryant third round pick last year had some moments last year and had some off season hype at some point this year as well. Yeah. Isn't this the guy who could have been a trendy one? I just don't really like, Joe and Coleman's really going to command, take command of a backfield after they gave JK Dobbins 10 million dollars in a day. And RJ Harvey. Yes. RJ was a second round pick last year. Now the fourth round rookie is just going to take the backfield over. I don't think that, but I do think that with injuries, let's say Jalen Waddle or Corlan Sutton, one of them gets her and also JK Dobbins gets her, right? They're just eliminated from the situation. I think Jonah Coleman's way more interesting to me than Pat Bryant. That's fine. That's just. That's what I mean. Actually, I like Pat Bryant as a player. He's walking it back. Sorry. I just think he's kind of, yeah, kind of buried. He needs an injury. Then Sean Peyton last year say that Pat Bryant had like some of the Michael Thomas in him. Now, Sean Peyton is sometimes very effusive with his praise and comps to players. But wait, I'm going to decide if I don't like for a second here because this comes up a lot in draft coverage is sometimes when you're discussing a player, it's not exciting when you're talking about, I've used this in first draft recently. There's a wide receiver from Indiana named Charlie Becker. He's going to have a much bigger role this year with no Omar Cooper Jr. and no, my goodness, I'm liking on his name right now. That's embarrassing. Fourth round pick for the Ravens. He was. Yes. Jacobi Lane. No. No. I'm very tired. That's why I'm here. Very tired right now. Anyways. I feel slacking. That's right. He doesn't really know college guys. So Charlie Becker, who had an awesome year when he got a fortune these last year, I've talked about him. And I'm like, Hey, he should be the kind of guy that should be modeling his game after Mike Evans. He's his big long physical downfield player who can make these great contests to catch us. Doesn't mean that he's going to become Mike Evans, right? It's like, but if I told you I'm like, yeah, this guy, he should really be modeling his game after like, you know, Dante Thornton, like that would not be very exciting. Correct. The guy who's like, you know, maybe going to be an active, maybe going to be a healthy scratch for the Raiders. Yeah. You asked the player to be like, yeah, my goals to be Mike Evans. Right. Yes. So sometimes we use comps and Sean Payton uses comps to give you a night. It's also just way more relatable. Like much more people know what you mean when you're like, yeah, this guy reminds me a little bit of Alvin Camera. Sure. First, it's like, yeah, this guy reminds me a whole lot of like, you know, Pierre Thomas, who's a great player back in the day, but like today's kids, by the way, I can confirm little Jordan Humphrey still on the Broncos rosters. Yes. I want to say it. All your Broncos wide receivers. All right. There we go. Raiders, Jalen Nailer. Yep. Here's the comp that I'm going to make for Jalen Nailer. And it's not again, this player wasn't dominant in fantasy by any stretch, but do you guys remember the year the Patriots signed Kendrick born amidst all those reagent additions? Of course. And it was like, wow, like that's like pretty good money for Kendrick Warren, who was a relative unknown at that point outside of San Francisco, at least. I think there's a little bit of that with the Raiders. I know Mike recently mentioned how few like Jalen Nailers never had more than six targets in the game. Yep. Right. This contract was 100% of reflection of the Raiders think he can be not what he has been up to this. So Brock Bowers to the moon, but Jalen Nailer, perhaps useful. I'm surprised. I'm not, I'm not surprised. No, Jack. I might get it. Yes. I thought about Jack Bash. But you liked him last year. I did. I still like him. Yeah. Yeah. I hope he makes a year too late. I mean, there's a connection there with Fernando Mendoza, but not, not looking great so far. He's definitely in that. There's like this dead zone of rookie receivers. They're outside of certain threshold as a rookie. It's very rare that they will pan out. It's usually like outside the top 90 scores. They almost never.
work. All right. You're James and Williams and Mike Williams are like, apparently your last name has to be Williams. DJ Chark. I think the other one there might be like one more that's ever had a top 30 season. It's really one heard of. So not a good omen for Besh, but, you know, different circumstances to share in Las Vegas. So we'll see. All right. Last one here. Chargers. Charlie Kohlar. Got real money. Now, maybe the answer is that you just say Charlie Kohlar as your sleeper feel, Jates. Yeah. Wow. The tight end. Charlie Kohlar walks into right end. So many ways. Maybe I was just you guys to cut me off before I could say maybe the reason they got that money was to go be a blocker. But I think he's athletic enough to make an impact here. Okay. You could have gone Brandon Thompson. There are a lot of ways you could have gone here. I need more tight ends in this list. Yeah. You guys universally hate that pick holder. I do because I don't think there's a pathway to fantasy relevance at all for him. They have David and Joker there. Ronda Gatson's going to have some sort of pass catching role. So that's my hesitation. I do agree with you though that he's an underrated player. These elite blocking tight ends or stand out blocking tight ends are just no one really, you know, no one really knows their name, but he's very good and he probably can't catch the ball. And you know what? He might surprise us and add an over score six touchdowns to your point. Thank you. But I just think that consists. He might have zero target games too, which is the problem that they are. They're going to be using an allocation gold and all these tight ends. It's just going to be tough. We're halfway through and I think I went like five and 11 there. Yeah. That's not bad though. I would have I think I would have said Tre Harris in this. Just in case like some happen. You're talking about. Yeah. All right. We'll recap the AFC West here really quickly with the ADP Xavier Worthy wide receiver 44 Pat Bryant and Jalen Nailer also weighed down that list. Charlie Kohler tight ends 64 as well. This is based on ESPN live draft friends wide receiver 367 from our Cooper, Jr was correct. Maybe it was figured that out. Probably on the fly here. We got a couple. Yeah. We got a couple of questions from our chat here. Big shout out to Eric Moody as well. Make sure you follow him at Eric and Moody always holding on the chat. Scott McClory says Mike Clay is late for a shift in the Amish village to turn the butter. Sure. What it looks like. I need your butter. Scott McClory also says Clay looks like he is late for the local production of a Christmas Carol. That is accurate. That one's less clever because that's the exact costume. I'm way the Carter 901. Mike Clay looks like a fantasy wizard wizard or father time. Yes. Accurate. That's also what you heard me. Yeah. Which one would you want to be? Stressing says Mike Clay looking like a tall glass of milk. I do not want to try. That's amazing. Tyler would spill me if I was so tired. Jay Remington says Mike Clay found an old baseball sock to use for his hat today. Well, not time hat. I don't know what the purpose of it is, but your nighttime hat. Yeah. Riley Nagle. Clay looks like he's about to wake up and tell everyone the British are coming. The British are coming. What do you think the candles for? Oh, ball knowledge, pros says Mike Clay looks like the Sandman. I don't know what that is. That's the same man saying me to sleep. Yeah. Okay. That's amazing. All right. Good stuff. Good. I mean, if nothing else, the people appreciate it. You're like that. I'm a little offended. It's just what I said. I don't to chat. That's exactly why you are here. Send in more roasts for Mike Clay. That's why we want you guys in our chat every single day. Please bring it. Okay. So got it. I have some clarity here. Okay. Well, help things and this comes from Keith. Keith Lipscomb. So a player who isn't drafted at all gets an ADP value of 170. So that's how those numbers get weird. So like in the case of Omar Cooper Jr. There are leagues that go beyond 160 or 170. Maybe they go maybe it's a 20 team league. He's being drafted late enough where if you get drafted five times at 200th overall, your ADP registers lower than somebody who's not drafted in any leagues whatsoever. Okay. I that's a conversation for another time. We're working on it. That's right. I love it. Yeah, we are working on it. Let's dive into the NFC East here. There's a lot of giants that we've been talking about that we are pumped this year. Give me a sleeper on this squad though. I'm mostly trying to make Mike mad here with you here. I'm furious about this. Again, I hear you and on cam scataboo. I am a cam scataboo believer as well. Just like if something happens to scataboo who is an injury prone player who takes over as the giants lead back. I think the answer is not she hears lead back. Yes. Probably committee. I'm also curious to see what they do with Tracy or Singletary. Like what's they're not all foreign sticking. I don't I don't depend on the role that's so much that would be what especially like a polished veteran like Singletary or I mean Tracy's younger, but he's he's been so busy the last two years. I will be surprised because none of them played special teams last year. Right. So I probably could as a return man, but how much can I do? I need to just say that maybe three million for Najee. That's so much wanting to just he'll be on the roster. Yeah. So like who's the which one is not you know what I mean? Like who do you I would I think Singletary is the least likely, but if they really are if they went out and got Najee because Tracy is not acceptable in the past blocking role. Like that's what happened in the first preseason game. Maybe it's maybe they can get better, maybe like no one will trade for Singletary, but Tracy can that a conditional seventh or something. I don't know. We'll see. Not all the surprise of all for me, not to bore people with like roster management minutia, but Devon Singletary is a vested veteran, which means you can cut him and not haven't go to waivers. He could be an easy like we're going to cut you with the roster cut down. Sign you to the practice squad. He's already got a million plus and guaranteed money this year. So he's making no less cash and he would have made and the Giants still get to keep him around. Maybe he's brought up from the practice squad. He feels like he's still probably is running back to and is, you know, he's still capable of being a two motor. He was a really underrated effective lead back for the bills for all. And that wasn't that long ago. He always was right. It seems need death. I'd be I would like to see him elsewhere. I can actually get some reps because he goes, this one's obvious to me. Look how lemon. You know, 21st overall pick, right? And these are kind of the perfect ones where it's like he's largely sliding into the radar. We have hardly talked about him because he's been hurt. A lot of the attention has been paid to just the new look offense in general. Devante Smith and the potential for a gigantic leap here. What kind of lemon? I thought you would do wicks. You've been talking up. I have to sleep. And he's still wix is cheaper, I believe. So I'm a little surprised by that. I think you're going to see wicks early on make some splash plays and then lemons rolls going to expand. And then they're going to both be unusable and fantasy. I maybe later in the year, lemon kind of breaks out. But we've talked about this. I don't know if they're going to support a second wide receiver, especially Dallas Goddard's healthy. If Dallas Goddard misses time, which he often does, maybe it changes a little bit because I don't think Eli Stauers is ready. Stauers. Stauers. Stauers. Stauers. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think he's ready for prime time just yet. Man, it does feel like he's had one of the more ignominious training camps for a second round player, right? Yeah. Not good. Yeah. Long, long ways ahead. Of course. You don't need him this year. Yes, he is. He's also been playing tight end for like two and a half season. He is a new to the position player. For the Cowboys, I'm actually following Adam Schefter's lead. His season long pick for FF C's. Long shots. Ryan Flanoi, wide receiver, who many people used the stat already. He had more touchdowns last year than CD Lam. Hey, Pat. Lanoi. For the commanders, fun one here for me. Antonio Williams. Yeah. At the beginning of the summer before they added us to fun digs. This guy felt like one of the trendier late round sleepers. Yep. Because of the fun digs edition, Antonio Williams goes down the board, but still a talented guy, third round pick, great route runner. He's going to play mostly from the slot, but I have a little bit more to that in his game, in my opinion, about largely a reliable player. Antonio Williams is my pick there. Yeah. He's kind of buried right now, but maybe at some point this year he gets some run totally hear you. I would have loved this year for it to be Ben Senate, but love just loved him as like a eventual replacement for Zachards, but it didn't happen. Obviously they don't trust him. Yet he's more in an each back role. It's just not going to happen. But that one, that one's things and dynasty. Yeah. Well, at the end of a lot of dynasty benches or at least they did until this offseason. Let's take a look at the ADP of those four players in the AF's NFC East. Excuse me. And low is the answer. Low, low, low. None of them even inside the top 100 for ADP at their respective positions. Wow. Yeah. Mekai lemon and wide receiver 101 right now. Lemon and flanoid and 12 team are, all right. The lemon's going most drafts. Flanoid 12 teamers, maybe at the very end Williams, probably pretty much unfraffed at this point. And Harris, I mean, he fits in that late round flyer sort of territory now. Yeah. Let's go to the NFC North and a familiar phase to multiple teams within this vision is my pick for the bears. We've talked about so many bears players. Nobody in really the sleeper category, but Cleef Raymond. Yeah. Think about last year, Alameda Zikias who had this role that was real for the bears. Now part of that was the youth of Luther Burton III and some of the health things it took place for the bears last year. And Zikias did not capitalize on that role nearly enough. Cleef Raymond was a very, he's a Ben Johnson guy, right? He knows him from his time in Detroit. And Raymond, very good punter turner. That was probably the most important thing for the bears. But I could see him taking slot roles for Chicago going as a high powered offense. Yeah, maybe if somebody's out like a Luther Burton, let's just say is a setback and he misses week one. Raymond probably gets those routes, but I think the guy that's going to jump him in ADP in the late round to be Xavier and Tom Berrounder. So, uh, yeah, I don't know. This is this feels Alon was already like, maybe if they do score a wide hill steal occasional touchdowns, but man, I don't, I don't, I don't like this. So I'm not draft to go leave Raymond our group chat. The three of us have a group chat. It's called Alan Lazarna NFL MVP. It's true. It's been that way for like two years. We're a minute now. It's great. Yeah. I love it. I love that. Um, lions. Yeah. Didn't quite know where to go here because some of the rhetoric is not great surrounding guys like Tesla. Yeah. Like he's making awesome catches. But Dan Campbell had a quote that was something to the effect of. We need to see
more than just one heyday catches. You did say that. Who would you have done with Daniel? I would have gone with Isaiah Pacheco. Okay, that's fair because I think Isaiah Pacheco not only as an insurance backroll, I don't think you would have standalone value, but the RB2 in Detroit for four consecutive seasons has scored at least eight touchdowns. Isaiah Pacheco, I think we'll have touchdown equity because of how much this lion's offense scores and even if they're gonna give Jumir Gibbs, it's gonna be tough for him to hit almost 20 touchdowns again in another season. I mean, it could happen with this offense, but I just think Isaiah Pacheco would be the guy because of the unfortunate negative rhetoric we've heard around. I said, if I remember my stack correctly, there's only been three instances in NFL history of a running backscoring 20 plus touchdowns more than once. Wow, yeah, it's pretty rare. I mean, to get to that number. That's huge. Yes. Well, Danny and Tomlinson, probably I think he might have been one, maybe Marshall. Oh, Marshall Marshall Marshall. Jonathan Taylor's one of them. Oh, JT. Yeah. So he's part of the case I made that whole score fewer touchdowns is it's never happened before where it's a running backscored 20 plus touchdowns three times. So we will see. But on your Tesla point, he was 11th in the NFL, the entire NFL and end zone targets last year. Wow. It's kind of wild considering how little he played last year. That's why scored six touchdowns. So he could be, it could be like a, you know, a good comp I feel like for him is two years ago where shot Bateman, like if he doesn't catch a ton of passes, he plays an expanded role in scores like nine touchdowns. And this offense, maybe like he's one of the guys that could kind of break the mold of the touchdowns. Based on our, excuse me, speaking of targets, I just got a text from an actually it's an email to an iMessage. Hi, this is I'll eliminate the name with your target. Based off your background, we'd love to invite you to a hassle free remote role. That's exciting. Jim Mokes is doing that to me right now. I wish I could tell you all of the span that I was getting. Daniel, I'm trying to get him off the pot, right? That's what it is. It's just a nonstop. Oh, man, find him something, but let's go to the Vikings here. Yeah, I'm going to stick here over target. Vikings keep talking about Klee for amen. You're going to have to take a new job. Wow. Demand Clayborne rookie running back out of Wake Forest. Yep. Keep it a little pass catching back. And they have an older back in Aaron Jones, plus a one dimensional back in Jordan Mason. So give me Demand Clayborne here. Yeah, this is one of those guys. You can see the projection on the screen. 14 carries and five catches the season. This is a projection versus rankings discussion where, you know, we know they're going to run the offense through two players during the season. But if something were to happen to one of them, or they're struggling or Jones shows his age, or Mason still can't do anything in passing situations, they can expand his role on a dime. And there'll be an immediate waiver claim. So, yep, totally get this one just because they don't really have anyone else's there. Number three. He's speedy, right? Fast. Yep. Pretty good athlete overall. Good pass catcher at Wake Forest didn't have a great final season, but two years ago, it was pretty impressive. Let's go to the Packers. And this is one of the more known names on this list. Marshaan Lloyd. Yeah, sure. We are waiting, makes a lot of sense. We are waiting right now. It's 1043 and Thursday, August 27th. We are still awaiting more information that I think we could get on Josh Jacobs. And the moment that happens, we have a better feel for what Marshaan Lloyd's potential value might be. But he is an essential ad right now. If you're drafting prior to the Josh Jacobs news. And obviously, and he's an essential ad. If we get Josh Jacobs news one way or the other, he's an important ad, even if the Josh Jacobs news is no punishment, he's still the guy, the next man up for the Packers in that backfield. Yeah. Like it. As you were saying that, I saw it a bunch of push notifications from Adam Shafter. So, sort of make sure we didn't get any news. But one piece of news, he did drop a Cedric Tillman released by the Browns. So, if you want to change your, I guess that only helps your case. He can just be owned a little, goes from wide with a little over three sixty seven to wide receiver, three sixty six, moving up the ranking. Yes. He had a cup of tea. There is a good. He sure is. For a few weeks. We'll see if he goes somewhere else now. It's been a tough run for Tennessee wide receivers recently in the NFL. Not all of them, but a decent number of them. Quick look back at the NFC North here with their ADPs just for fun because we've been having a good time with this one. Oh, nine for Khalifa. Amen. Three. Two twenty four for Dimon Claiborne. So, it's definitely field you're definitely in the sleeper territory with these guys. I love it with that one. Let's talk about the NFC South. Couple names and here. Actually, there's a few names in the NFC South that are legitimately worth Yeah, we've been in mind. Devon Vale, Saints. The Saints, obviously, are going to have Jordan Tyson out for some period of time. Yep. Um, into recent days as well, bass, pace, offense, a lot of snaps, yeah, baby, potentially a lot of passing volume. Give me Devon Vale. I like it. Yeah. Week four, he might be. We're going to be like, why is he? Why is this guy like 26 and fantasy points? Like, where did that come from? Like, it's just. Yeah. And it feels like one of those things and then I'll disappear after that. Once Jordan Tyson comes back and they kind of make a shift, but yeah, this next one is one of my favorites. So, this is you. This is Jalen McMillan. Daniel's guy for the Buccaneers. That's right. Down to player. Missed a lot of last year. Much. All of last year. Most of it. Most all of it. Yeah. But really talented guy. You flash as a rookie. Yeah. Flash as a rookie. Final five games of his rookie season averaged over 19 fantasy points per game week 17 last year. Had seven for one 14, like when he gets an opportunity and he's healthy, the kid has been really good. I like him just in case anything happens to Chris Godwin or that role opens up because Baker Mayfield, as we've talked about, I do think is going to be on one this season wanting to be able to get. This is one of the funny ones where it's like at the end of the year, where either you're going to be like, man, Chris Godwin is so good. We should have had him higher or man, like we knew Chris Godwin was cooked. We should have. We should have a way higher. Right. Like it's going to be one of those. Totally. It's just a matter of figuring out which one it is. Yep. From Jalen McMillan to Jalen Cooker. Also another good one, man. And there's these are pretty well known deep sleeper by now. But he did have four top 25 weeks in his final seven games of 2025. So there was some proven production there, got paid nicely this off season. For the Falcons. Hmm. Where do you turn here for Atlanta? Cut and dry offense, right? Bijan Kyle Pitz Drake London. How about you? Hans Dodson who actually got a decent contract from them this off season. Not huge, but decent to be their wider see for two hard to find an option here in Atlanta if I'm being entirely candid. Yeah. I'm just hoping at some points. Akari a branch like makes a leap and takes on that number two role alongside Drake London and maybe gets like enough of a target share to flirt with fantasy relevance. But I think I think you're right when they walk out in the field to open the season. Dodson's going to be the guy out there with London and branches maybe someday. But yeah. This is a boring one. I can't not hear this name and think of our dynasty league, even though it's the Josh Dodson. I feel like we changed it to the Johan Dodson. Yes. I think it used to be at least once, right? It was Josh Dodson. No wait. Then it was. And then it was John Dodson now. Yeah. Now it's back to the Dodson. Yeah. Yeah. Two former commanders, right? That's right. Exactly. Exactly. All right. Yeah. And some decent numbers here. Right. I mean, jail in the middle and Jalen coca are both top 66 wide receivers and that brings us to our last division. Again, these are super, super deep. We're talking about guys with wide receiver, 367. They're ADP is solo. We first thought we had a graphical error on the Omar Cooper Jr. Full screen. So tired. He's going early. Yeah. There's three names. I like in the NFC West here. Yeah. There are good names here. Go to the sea ox. Sorry, Daniel. That's all right. I like this one. Uh-huh. By all accounts, it's been a really solid training camp for Cooper Cup, but we're shooting heat can absolutely fly. I think he's one of those guys that the more opportunities he gets, the better an offense with him in it is. Put Seattle may have also felt like he's being reinvested into for one season from now, right? It's Cooper Cup next year. May or may not be a part of the team. Just keep a young enough, fast enough, explosive enough player and special teams to be a useful player is a third wide out this year. But I like him. Yeah. He's going after. Like he's somewhat of a name now, but he's still going after a lot of the names. You just talked about, uh, including cocker and, uh, dobs, conception, like obviously he's the first round pick, but he's going after all those guys. So like, um, the biggest name on this list, the most fantasy relevant name on this list. If it were career accolades, the most annual for the 49ers, Dijon Stribling, I think he has moved. He's graduated from deep sleep or category, right? And if it's not Dijon Stribling, it's who is it amongst these veteran wider severs? Because while Stribling could have a role, we'd all love to see that. Maybe the Niners go into the year and they're like, we're old, but if we line up in week one or maybe even week two or three, depending on where George Kiddell's progress continues over the next two weeks. With a rock party, Christian McCaffrey, Kyle Hughes, check backfield, George Kiddell, Christian Kirk, Mike Evans, Debo Samuel, wide receiver room. Things might be okay. They might break down, but they might be okay. It wasn't crazy money for Debo to go to back to San Francisco, but he's obviously very familiar with this offense, Kyle Shanahan, as good as there is and crafting up run after catch opportunities for players, he may not be as fast as he once was, but Debo is still a really good contact strength, elusive enough to do some things after the catch. Debo Samuel's my pick. Yeah. Not a big touchdown guy, but at least 85 touches and 800 scrimmage yards and five consecutive seasons now. He just continues to dominate in the short areas, great with the ball in his hands. And yeah, he's tricky because I kind of flipped. I have him like involved as a rusher, which he does, like he's going to do. He's back in San Francisco. He did it less in Washington, but he's always done it with Kyle Shanahan, but I moved his target share behind struggling. I think just when they're throwing the ball, I feel a little more confident in striplings rolling the passing game. But I can be wrong about that. If they feature Samuel like they did before he went to Washington, he's going to be in a good spot. Shribbling was the obvious pick until the preseason.
that happened then he just got to be a sleeper anymore. Just too many, yeah, I'm pricey for the Cardinals. Just because you make the case for a player, it doesn't mean you're making the anti case for the player that is a good hedge serious stuff. Like tell or I'll cheer right? Like there is a world, a world, I'm not this not a world that I would endorse, but there's a world in which Arizona has a more egalitarian approach in the backfield. And they're like, Hey, tell or I'll gears going to be on the field for the first drive of the game. And tell or I'll gears going to be on the field when we have the ball at the three yard line going in. He's going to have 180 carries this up this upcoming season. And Jeremiah love this is going to maybe their approach is going to be like it what it was for Atlanta during B. John Robertson's first season as well with Tyler out year on the field. It was his second year in the NFL. B. John was amazing when he got the ball, but Arthur Smith, just for whatever reason, didn't give him the football enough. Not pumped about it. If that happens, but it's at least possible. Yeah. No, I see it. I think Al Gier's presence and his contract and his involvement so far with the first team is why Jeremiah loves not going in the end of the first round like other like B. John and like genty and all these guys did in years past. So, you know, keep, yeah, you can like Al Gier and still be taking the discount on Jeremiah love. You know how I know you went to Wesleyan? Because I have Wesleyan boxers. Because you just use that is all that's part two field. Because you use the word egalitarian, which I had never heard before. I had to look it up on the internet. I love the word. Yeah. Meaning all people are equal and should have the same rights freedom and opportunities. That's what we want in that backfield. No, we don't. Well, it's like Sean Peyton is distribution of. Yes, that's what it is. We don't want it in that backfield. But yes, maybe that's just the most egalitarian offenses to avoid or that's a classic SEO guys for producers. Let's do that again. Google out word all the time. Yes, totally 100%. Yeah, we'll make sure that one happens. One of the most rake some ground here. Last but not least, nice guy, Terrence Ferguson, welcome, tied in for the Rams. We talked about this a lot yesterday. But you sniped me on him in the draft yesterday. Yeah, I had to put my money where my mouth where my mouth was. And I took Brock Bowers early too. You did. I was just like whatever. Sometimes you just no risk. No biscuit last night was a fun draft last night was a fun draft for field deny because it's more of a home league. And so I felt like I got to target guys when I draft with you people, you we all know what everyone's doing. So it's fun to draft with everyone that's like a little bit different. And I was the only person this league to get an A grade from my. That's true. Well, sounds like you're you're catching up on some of these guys love Ferguson. And yeah, I mean, this checks out. I had my first two picks were Pukanakua and Jeremiah Love. Oh, that'll help. So that was part of my projected higher than them on. No, no real surprises than that draft. No, that that's so pretty good. Chucky territory in the first 10 or so picks. I also keep talking about I'm not going to take Josh Allen and he fell of the fourth round last night. And I was like, you know what? I can't have no Josh Allen, which has up right now. I have no Josh Allen shares and I am tumbling towards a reality here. We're all going to face it to a degree is I play in two dinosaur leagues and one keeper league. So it's a modified keeper league too. So you can keep it's a salary cap. So you don't keep. If you have seven keepers from one year the next. That's a huge number. I do not have jimmy or Gibbs on any of those three teams. I did take beach on Robinson and the Scotch fish bowl. But if I don't get to top two pick and my lottery is going forward, I'm not going to have any jimmy or Gibbs. Yeah. You had a situation like that a couple years ago didn't you? No Justin Jefferson. That's what it was. And last year I remember Chase. Yeah. Yeah. So last night that's where you have my first top three pick. And so is my first opportunity to just select either Jamar chase or Puka Nukua. I don't have a good read. I thought that maybe if this Jamar chase news is worse than we that we first heard, he could drop to like seven or something. Doesn't seem like it seems like it's fine. I just yeah, I was like what's more I didn't know it was more likely. I guess maybe what's more likely is Puka gets to spend than he drops to like seven. But truthfully, no risk. It no biscuit. I know we just came out of the fantasy marathon. Like this is where my life every night, I feel like for the next week and a half to two weeks is like I've got a draft plan somewhere baby. Yes. It's a ton of fun. Hey, we actually have a question really quickly and chat about Josh Allen. Since you brought him up feel Jates, let's head over to our YouTube chat. This one comes from Sheldon Lee Roy. I feel like if I go Josh Allen early, I can force the QB run and get players to fall to me. How does that sound? Is it too dangerous? That hasn't been my experience so far. I feel like Allen goes and then everyone's so weight yeah. But then once like Lamar goes and Jaden goes, then it starts and it's like I got to get Drake May or Joe Burrow. They start jailing her. They start going. But I feel like Allen is kind of in his own own tier this year and everyone kind of knows it. Yes. Just especially with Jaden Daniels coming off of an injury plague season. Same deal with the Lamar Jackson season. So yeah, Josh is going to be a standalone QB one. Quickly ADP on those four guys is low. No surprise there. I have C West. And if C West players. Yeah. Excuse me. Low. They meant the quarterbacks. Like Josh Allen is going to be seven hundred and twenty two. Why does this probably the strongest division? Oh, here we go. Excuse me. Why do see for 56 for Rashid Jihad? Why do see for 48 for Tibo? Samuel RB 46 for Tyler Algier and Titan 20 for Terrence Ferguson. Well, we have busts coming tomorrow. Yeah, we do. We should decide right now amongst us like. It's not fun. If it's like, yeah, camwards my quarterback bus. No, I'm sorry. Quarterback 21. All right. All right. I'll hear you out. But also I think we are we've some comments. We'll apply some common sense here. But okay. What's your thought? Do we go top 10 QBs? Consensus rank top 10 QBs. Okay. Antidense. All right. So top 10 for quarterback and tight end. We have to pick someone in top 10. Yes. Consensus ranks in 2020 and 20 and 20 running back 20 running. Okay. And I will say I will suggest that they're loose. It's just in case there's someone, you know, if it's wide receiver 21, you think let's loose. I'll give you an example. Let me give you an example. I feel like Mike Evans fits the bill based on where he's going address. I think he's fading a little bit. But I feel like do you think Mike Evans going in the fifth round? Like just being I you lock into obviously industry wide ADP better than I do. Mike I focus on the ESPN live draft data because I don't have to do it. I don't have to do it. I'm just I feel like there's here's an item. There might be a couple. I want to slip in there. But I think we can apply some common sense. But I'll I'll basically we don't need Jerry Judy as your wide receiver. No, right. Exactly. Let's apply some common sense. And by the way, just prepare for this accordingly. Like we are going to have players that we individually have ranked very high. Like my wide receiver bus is not going to be a guy that I have at wide receiver 32 and you guys all have his wide receiver. It might be a player that I have is wide receiver 17. There's a case four and a case against. We'll go through all this again tomorrow. And a bus that also doesn't have to mean that they finish 80th. You know what I mean? Like Tremac Bride, it just like is tight end five this year. That's kind of a bus based on where you're drafting him. Even if he's tied in two or tied in one and there's no difference between tied in one and tied in five overall. That would be a bus. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Some of us has already turned in all the names and it feels like you guys just keep talking about all the players we're going to talk about tomorrow. Oh, wow. So I'm excited to dive into that. Very fun bus episode coming up tomorrow. Make sure you go back. Check out the rest of the things that we've done. Breakouts yesterday. Sleepers today bus tomorrow. We love you guys. Don't forget to love each other. Be kind to yourself and make sure you come back hanging out with us tomorrow. I bet you guys.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The show is a fantasy football sleeper episode, presenting one sleeper pick from each of the 32 NFL teams.
Key criteria for sleepers
Notable AFC East picks include Dalton Kincaid (Bills), Romeo Doubs (Patriots), Caleb Douglas (Dolphins), and Omar Cooper Jr. (Jets), with low ADPs for the latter two.
AFC North picks feature Jacobi Lane (Ravens), Colby Young (Bengals), Kasey Concepts (Browns), and Jeremy Bernhard (Steelers), with concerns about Cleveland's offense.
AFC South includes Woody Marx (Texans), Gunner Helm (Titans), Brian Thomas Jr. (Jaguars), and Josh Downs (Colts), highlighting value based on ADP.
AFC West picks include Xavier Worthy (Chiefs), Pat Bryant (Broncos), Jalen Nailer (Raiders), and Charlie Kohlar (Chargers), with mixed enthusiasm.
NFC East features Cam Scataboo's backup (Giants), Makai Lemon (Cowboys), Ryan Flanoi (Commanders), and Antonio Williams (Eagles), all drafted very late.
NFC North picks include Cleef Raymond (Bears), Isaiah Pacheco (Lions), Demand Clayborne (Vikings), and Marshaan Lloyd (Packers), with Lloyd's value tied to Josh Jacobs news.
NFC South has Devon Vale (Saints), Jalen McMillan (Buccaneers), Jalen Coker (Panthers), and Josh Dodson (Falcons).
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NFC West includes Cooper Cup (Seahawks), Debo Samuel (49ers), Jeremiah Love (Cardinals), and Terrence Ferguson (Rams), with a preview of tomorrow's bust episode.
Summary:
In this fantasy football podcast episode, the hosts, including field Jates and Mike Clay, dive into a comprehensive sleeper episode, selecting one under-the-radar player from each of the 32 NFL teams. The discussion is structured around three key criteria: success doesn't require a full 18-game season, many picks rely on draft capital or pedigree, and most sleepers need an injury to a starter to gain meaningful opportunity. The hosts acknowledge that hitting even five of 32 picks would be a success.
, Xavier Worthy, and Marshaan Lloyd. They also emphasize the importance of cost, noting that many picks are available at wide receiver or tight end rankings well beyond the top 100, making them low-risk flyers. Throughout the show, they inject humor, including roasting Mike Clay's sleep attire, and discuss draft strategies, such as targeting Josh Allen early.
The episode concludes with a preview of the next day's "bust" episode, where they'll identify overhyped players, and they encourage viewers to review previous breakout and sleeper content.
FAQs
The episode features field jates bringing a sleeper player from all 31 NFL teams plus the Cleveland Browns, totaling 32 players, to discuss as potential fantasy football sleepers.
Success isn't defined by 18 games but might be a useful stretch of four games; picks are often capital-based, like rookies or second-year players with unrealized potential; many need an injury to a player ahead of them to make an impact.
Dalton Kincaid is the pick, a former first-round pick with good per-target metrics, but he needs to improve his snap share and consistency to break out.
He's a cost-based pick because his ADP is low (wide receiver 40), so if he becomes a top-25 wide receiver, he's a massive value, even if he has inconsistent games early.
Tyrone Tracy is the pick, as he could take over as the lead back if Devin Singletary or others falter, though his role isn't guaranteed.
Marshawn Lloyd is the pick, as he's an essential add before Josh Jacobs news, and he's the next man up in the Packers backfield if Jacobs misses time.
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