Must-Haves for Draft Weekend Part 2! Injury Report Roundup, Best Offenses, High Upside, Late-Rounders & More! (09/05 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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One hundred trillion footballs. Snapple Real Fact 2064, the first college football game broadcast on TV, was on September 30th, 1939. Snapple Real Fact 1896, the tradition of playing football on Thanksgiving, originated with college football in 1876. So grab a Snapple, take a second, and enjoy the moment. Because let's be honest, this might be the most refreshing part of your day. Snapple. Make your break. More interesting. All right, now let's get back to the show. Five big things that you need to know going into your drafts this weekend with Jamie Eisenberg on FFT Express. All right, here we go. Let's start with the injuries. We had a little bit of a scare at Bears camp yesterday, but I think all is well. What are the biggest injuries we need to know before drafting? I think we have two running backs at the top of the draft, or relatively close to the top of the draft, with Ashton Genting and Jeremiah Lewis. I don't think so. So there's some minor ones like Carnell Tate, the Bengals wide receiver, Zay Flowers back at practice. I think it's, you know. Oh, I have two. I have two. Yeah, go ahead. That have helped, actually, players. Not that anybody was drafting Alvin Kamara to be starters, but his absence has allowed Travis Achan, I think, to be put in a spot that he probably belonged to begin with. But, you know, having Kamara stay on the roster was a little concerning for me. But Kamara's going to miss the start of the season, so that should be great for Travis Achan. You took him in the pick-by-pick series we just talked about. Early third round, I would take him probably late third round. But great opportunity for him. And same thing with DeAndre Swift, with Kyle Monongai dealing with his knee injury. He's week-to-week, so assuming that Swift was just dealing with cramps, that's great for him. And then one more, I guess, Bears note, is Luther Burden, you know, coming back from the groin injury. Sounds like he's going to be fine. Should be good to go. And I guess you should mention Brees Hall also coming back from a groin injury. Should also be good to go for week one. Okay, next topic here. Who are the top offenses that you want a piece of? I think most of them are relatively obvious. The Bengals, you know, you can draft their quarterback, running back, both wide receivers. Cowboys, same situation. Those are two of the more prominent ones. The Rams, you know, assuming everybody's good to go. With Sean McVay back, with Stafford back, and Puka on track to play in week one. Detroit's schedule is absolutely dreamy with 11 indoor games in the first 17 weeks of the season. And I think they're going to get off to a great start, especially with their defense. Their safety. These are banged up. Secondary and general is banged up. So that should be good for them. I think looking at some of the more underrated offenses, we talked about this with Dan. I think Minnesota bounces back with Kyler Murray. So that should be good for a lot of the pieces there. We know about, you know, the high-end guys of Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison. And I think Jordan Mason will be the lead running back there. But Kyler Murray should just help this team in general. The Saints, I think, will have a fun offense as well. I think the Eagles offense gets back to being a more productive group. The Patriots offense now should be a little bit more explosive with, with A.J. Brown there and Romeo Dobbs there. I'm actually excited about it. I know it sounds funny because they lose one of their key pieces in Josh Jacobs. But I'm excited about the Packers offense. I think that Jordan Love throws the ball more. And the track record is there when the run game struggles. And I think the defense is going to be a little bit suspect to start the season without Mike Parsons. If he's north of 30 pass attempts. Remember, 2023, 34 pass attempts per game is what he averaged. And he scored, he averaged 23 fantasy points per game. So we love the receivers, right? To whatever degree with Tucker Craft. Like Watson's a fifth round. I'm excited about Jaden Reed. Dave's excited about Matthew Golden. I think we're all excited that Craft is healthy and Christian Watson, same thing. Like there's a lot to love about the Packers offense. I think being one of the more fun units to follow. All right. I'm going to ask you for some high upside mid round picks. We're going to do that when we come back on Fantasy Football Today Express. If I got an alert every single time my teen used their debit card, it would be for $5 iced coffees before school every single morning. For all of the parents out there with teenagers, we know you're already thinking about a million different things and trying to keep things under control. 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Visit cash.app slash legal slash podcast for all full disclosures. So far, Jamie's given you the injury report. The offenses that we want pieces of. How about the high upside mid-round picks, players who could outperform their ADP? I'm going to skip quarterback because I think they're all good of the mid-round guys. If you want to go late-round guys, a quarterback, Brock Purdy, Jared Goff, Stafford still, Jordan Love, Kyler Murray. There's just a lot of good late-round. Everyone. Yeah, everyone. Malik Wells. The mid-round picks. So running backs, I think Jadarian Price, Marshawn Lloyd, now Ramondre, especially of Trevion. Who's another guy that's dealing with an injury, you know, ankle problem. Those running backs, I think, could be great if you're getting them at the right price. Same thing with potentially Jonathan Brooks. If he's the guy for the Panthers, but Chuba Hubbard, another guy dealing with an injury concern in camp with the hamstring problem, now he's back. Wide receiver, there's a lot. You know, you start round five. You got Christian Watson, Chris Godwin, Romo Dunze, Parker Washington, Marvin Harrison, Jamison Williams. Like, there's so many guys. If you go a little bit further, you know, I think, again, Jaden Reed, Jordan Addison, Matthew Golden, Jalen Coker. I'm probably going a little bit too far there. But, like, the potential of some of those wide receivers, I still think Cardinal Tate, Deshaun Stripling, Casey Concepcion, a lot of good rookie wide receivers there. And then the tight ends are fantastic in this range. You know, Sam Laporta, Tucker Craft, Kyle Pitts. They're all amazing. They're all amazing at just mid-round cost. That could be great. Yeah. But the thing about some of the wide receivers you named, specifically Parker Washington and Chris Godwin, you said round five. That's when you'd consider taking them. In ADP, Parker Washington's going at the 6-7 turn. Chris Godwin's going 88th. So, those guys are two that we'd highlight that could really outperform their ADP. How about the late-round quarterback strategy? When to wait? Who to target? How late? you can comfortably go at quarterback i did a draft on thursday night where 12 team league i took two quarterbacks because i waited and it was kyler murray and jordan love and i'm perfectly fine with that so if you're comfortable waiting uh jared goff i think is the first one you want to target because again early season schedule or sorry season schedule is great and you know production should be solid you know he's never been below 20 fantasy points as the full-time starter for the lions taking out the year that he was traded um and you know weapons are awesome brock purdy is another one that you know consistently above 20 fantasy points last year was you know pushing to be the number one quarterback at times just dealt with some injuries in terms of points per game i think jordan love again is going to have a big season i think you're going to get great production from the running quarterbacks like malik willis like kyler murray tyler shuck was over 20 fantasy points per game as the starter for the saints so depending on how deep you want to go with it i think once you get past kind of the stafford golf purdy group then you probably want to consider taking two mahomes bo nicks are both in that conversation as well so it's it's just a great scenario to wait baker mayfield we never talk enough about baker mayfield just like the bounce back potential is huge for him all right and that's late round quarterbacks what if you wait at tight end what's your late round tight end strategy so it's usually once you get to the harold fannin spot where when i see fannin get drafted for the most part i have to be ranked differently but for the most part once fannin goes is when i start looking for isaiah likely george kittle and travis kelsey now kittle has kind of gone all over the place the last week or so since he's come off the pop list you know and then you had the report from kyle shannon about will you be ready and then he makes the flight to australia so i should be good so if you're jacking this weekend i would take kittle ahead of fannin um i also again like likely ahead of fannin but usually when fannin goes because his adp suggests he goes first then i look for those two three guys in particular with kelsey being the third one if i'm on almost all those guys the first option now adp says otherwise goddard goes ahead of these guys because his projections are higher but dallas goddard should be great without aj brown there i think dalton kincaid bounces back uh not bouncing back but plays you know hopefully a full season because his knee seems to be okay uh mark andrews should bounce back that was one that struggled last year and then you have the two veteran guys that i don't think anybody wants to consider as starters but they could be good in dalton schultz and joan johnson both were fantastic last year career highs for both of them in targets and catches uh second best season yardage wise for dalton schultz everything was a career high for for joan johnson except the touchdowns but you have significant injuries jordan tyson another injury concern he's on ir and then jayden hagen's out for the season for the texans so that opens up the opportunity for both those tight ends to be successful all right there you have it from jamie eisenberg five awesome tips for you must-haves for your draft this weekend and we wish you the best of luck but remember your season isn't over after you draft there is a lot to be done throughout the season trades ads drops starts and sits and we'll help you out along the way on fft and fft express have a great weekend talk to you soon paramount podcasts