2026 Fantasy Football Drafts (Rankings Update)

I sadly just had to update my rankings, which we'll be using in this draft. And the reason for this isn't super exciting for somebody like myself. And the reason is because Quinton Johnson had to go down. I, I'm sorry. Don't know any other way to say it.

The Chargers have agreed with the former Cleveland Brown, David Njoku, giving him a one-year deal worth up to $8 million. So, obviously, the number one player that got impacted in these rankings is Irv Smith Jr. If you're going to go through and look at where Smith Jr. was previously going in these drafts, he was previously going at pick 119. He has fallen down three spots over the past seven days in ADP because this David Njoku to Los Angeles stuff has already been rumored for a while now, but it's going to be a freefall. At least, I don't want to say the word nuked, but I moved Smith Jr. down dramatically in my rankings.

But I also think that this actually negatively impacts the wide receivers in Los Angeles, such as Quinton Johnston, such as Trey Harris, because in my mind, one, it's an additional person to just chip away at the target share for those receivers. And two, there's a chance that we have a decent amount of two tight end sets, and we have fewer snaps available for like a Trey Harris, fewer snaps available for like a Quinton Johnston. So, even though Quinton Johnston was my number one player that I've drafted in drafts so far this season, and I'm not nuking him the same way that we are nuking Smith Jr., I definitely have to move him down just a bit. But we'll obviously go over that more when those players are about to get selected.

We are about to be on the clock ourselves in this draft. Let me go ahead and pull this around. We are picking at 12 and 13 here. But Jefferson, Amon-Ra, St. Brown, both go. If you were looking at my rankings, I have Jalen Guyton and A.J. Brown as the two highest-ranked players. What I don't love is the fact that there are going to be a lot of teams that take Guyton and Brown here at the one-two turn together. If you look at the teams that I have drafted Ash and Guyton on, though, I did not take Devon Achane. I instead reached on Drake London for that unique combo, and I think we are just going to be boring in this one. We will take the guy that most people are taking with Brown and that I'm sorry, with Guyton, and that is going to be Devon Achane at 12, and we'll go with the running back, running back start.

But let's move this over, and yeah, thank you so much for everybody hanging out with us in this live stream. Of course, I know we're a little bit late today. I was having a look at Dynasty teams in the Dynasty live stream, but we probably are going to be doing four drafts tonight in this stream. I think that there's a chance I'm stretching this out for a while if we get a bunch of people here because I have to stay up late anyway to go pick up the fiance from the airport, and I don't want to just be sitting here on my phone playing Clash Royale because I have done enough of that today. But thank you, of course, everybody coming to hang out with us. Come in to draft with us. And if you do want those four drafts, just make sure you go down there, drop a like on this live stream. I genuinely would appreciate it.

And yeah, we have a massive run on running backs after we take Guyton and Achane. This is very typical. You are really seeing Walker, Hampton, Barkley, Henry go here a ton, but that's exactly what happens. Picks 12 through 18 all indeed end up being RBs. You can typically see this being a running back-heavy section in Underdog drafts. It will be interesting to see what the ADP for your regular redraft leagues are, but I'm honestly going to be expecting it's about similar to all these running backs going right here.

Now, um, let me remind y'all just to make sure everybody's on the same page of the Puppy tournament. We're in the Puppy tournament right now. This is a $5 buy-in, $1 million prize pool. Um, $100,000 for first, $50,000 for second, $25,000 for third, all the way down the line. If you want to know the advancement, how do you turn five bucks into $100,000? We are going to be drafting against the 11 other people in this stream right that you see right here. The top two highest-scoring teams in weeks 1 through 14 are going to make it to the Fantasy Football Playoff Tournament, where in week 15, you're going to be going up against nine other people. If you beat them, you go to week 16, where you're going to be going up against five other people. If you beat them, you go ahead and advance to week 17. And there you'll be going up against 600-something people. And if you beat them, you turn $5 into $100,000. I have never been able to win this tournament myself. I have won other tournaments myself and have profited $127,000 in these Underdog drafts over the past four seasons, but we have had a member of the flock win the Puppy before, and I want to be doing it myself this season.

Now, A.J. Brown off the board at 21. Data is in this draft with us at one. He is asking for our opinion on his start. Gibbs, McBride, George Pickens. I think it makes a lot of sense. It is interesting to see you go with McBride over Bowers, though, where I do see most people in most drafts at this point taking Bowers over McBride. Um, Trevor says, "Any news on Jinxy to the Flock League?" It's not happening, my friend. It'd be the dream of all dreams, but at this point, that dream is sadly dying a slow, painful death.

Now, we're about to be on the clock again, and let's see what we can do. If you look at my rankings, I just updated these today. Again, I have Jalen Guyton, Javonte Williams, Garrett Wilson as the top players. So, I'm not trying to make any dramatic stances with these players that are available here. What I may do that's a little unique in this is we're taking Guyton for sure because I genuinely do think that Guyton's the best player, but I think we have a pretty big tier after that. And if I can move over and take somebody that almost exclusively goes at the four, five turn. Oh my gosh. I feel like we have to at least make one unique pick in this range, or our team's just going to be duped. We're going to reach on Jamo. Don't get me wrong, you see my rankings on the screen. I mean, Jameson Williams isn't my highest-ranked player here, but there are going to be so many teams that have Guyton, Achane, Guyton, and then T. Higgins, if you're just clicking the top of ADP, specifically here at the turn where it's such a tight group of guys with where they go, that I do want to try to avoid that if we can, but oh, that is that is tough. Hoping that we had something interesting falling to us. Like if we would have had a Teddy Bridgewater, that would have been phenomenal. But of course, I'm going to be streaming doing these Underdog drafts every single day until the season starts. If you want to draft with us, the link to these drafts, always in the description, always in the comment section, always in the live chat. If you sign up to Underdog Fantasy and use promo code Flock, you are going to be able to get $50 added to your account after you play your first five. And you're going to be getting access to all the tools we make over there on flockfantasy.com for these basketball drafts. You'll be getting access to all of my best rankings, which we are keeping up to date with all the news as it happens. And again, you'll get to go up against me in these drafts. Links in the description, links in the comment section. And Underdog Fantasy is available in these states. You can see the map there. As long as you're not in Louisiana, Nevada, Washington, Underdog's probably in your state.

But Lo says, "Pick 12 is tough this year." Let me pull up flockfantasy.com real quick and I'll just see how many times I've had pick 12, but I feel like I haven't drafted from 12 really at all so far this season. So, this is not including today's draft, but I've only had one draft at pick 12 so far out of my 48 drafts. I've had three drafts at picks 11 and 12. So, I've really have no experience drafting on this side of the board over here. And as you can tell, we are struggling. Hayden says, "Are you wearing Taylor Swift's boyfriend's jersey?" I think that they are engaged at this point. I would say that's um fiance jersey, but no, I am not. I am rocking the Chiefs jersey, but instead it is the player that is responsible for us um wasting money in some drafts last season, and that is Xavier Worthy. So, but Loie says, "Wow, yeah, not only have I only had three picks in the last two selections, but I've had nine drafts with the first two picks. So, I have gotten incredibly lucky so far this year drafting at pick one, drafting at pick two a lot, and I have really almost no experience drafting at 11 or 12 so far."

Okay, now Roma off the board at 55. At this point, we know that we are probably going to go with a hyperfragile build. If you look at the historical numbers of what's worked in these Underdog drafts based on what we've done in the first four rounds, you can see that the most optimal build is three QBs, four running backs, eight receivers, three tight ends. Like four running back builds as opposed to five running back builds. Based off what we've done, have the highest advance rate, semi-finals rate, and finals rate. Of course, this will change if we decide to wait a while to draft our next running back. But if we draft our next running back here at 60 or 61, we are done taking them. Jarian Price was my highest-ranked player. He is off the board. I have Judkins, but then I have Carnell Tate over Christian Watson myself. Cardell Tate goes. I have Jordan Tyson over Christian Watson, too. I don't want to listen to my rankings and go with a couple running backs here. I want to play catchup at wide receiver. So, I'm just going to look at my wide receiver rankings where I do have Jordan Tyson and Brian Thomas as the two highest-ranked names. So, we will go ahead and take them.

Now, just real quick with this Brian Thomas profile, let's pull this up with the extension. Obviously, you can tell Brian Thomas was a bum this past season. We had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, nine games with fewer than 10 fantasy points and one game with more than 20. You go back to 2024, Brian Thomas was the freaking man. Let me see if we can go ahead and move this over. Brian Thomas in 2024 was the wide receiver 12 in points per game, was 16.7, 2.55 yards per route run, a 25% team target share. There is a reason this dude was going at the end of the first round, the beginning of the second round of drafts last season. Now, don't get me wrong, um, him absolutely face-planting last season, whether he was injured or not, does make it a much scarier projection. But let me go ahead and use the Brian Thomas, or let's use the range of outcomes tool on flockfantasy.com and let's look at what his range of outcomes were in the historical seasons that we have compared to him with 22-year-old wide receivers. So, looking at his age 22 season in comparison to other wide receivers, you have comparable years to DeAndre Hopkins, CeeDee Lamb, Julio Jones, Brandin Cooks, Chris Olave, DJ Moore, T. Higgins, Amari Cooper, Sammy Watkins. So, I'd say Sammy Watkins is like the last example that we really have of a wide receiver absolutely smashing at 22, falling off the face of the planet at 23. And then obviously with Sammy Watkins specifically, he didn't get a hell of a lot better the following season. So, you're hoping he's not going down that Sammy Watkins path, and that's very much a possibility. But, I don't know. I think the cost at pick 61 isn't the worst thing in the world.

Okay, now we have the run on quarterbacks happening. So, if y'all were looking at my rankings, y'all would have seen that we had Jaden Daniels ranked very much as a viable option at 61. But if I go with a hyperfragile build specifically, like we opt to pass on wide receiver with our first three picks, I very much feel like we need to be catching up at wide receiver before the tier drop happens. While I really do like the elite quarterbacks in rounds six and seven, I feel like if you want to take advantage of those QB prices, you need to have a well-balanced start early in your draft of running backs and receivers so you're not going to fall too far behind at either one of those positions. So, I wanted to make sure we caught up at wide receiver. And wide receiver. The optimal still does look like it's going to be an eight wide receiver build even after we take Tyson and Brian Thomas there. But Courtland Sutton goes 80. Let me pull my rankings back up. And Lawrence will be in play for us to stack with Brian Thomas. Really, the only reason Lawrence goes in this range is because there are so many guys that are stacking with him. My rankings, I have R.J. Harvey ahead of Jalin Hyatt. I have Quinton Johnston up here as well, even though I do think that Quinton Johnston negatively gets impacted by David Njoku signing. Chris Godwin goes. "Here's what we can do. If we really want, which I don't know if we want this, we can take Lawrence. I am underweight Trevor Lawrence." Let me pull up his flockfantasy.com player card. You can see phenomenal season this past year. And maybe he just finally needed Liam Coen. Quarterback five in points per game at 19.89. That was his first time being a top 10 quarterback in his NFL career, though. But because we are making this a Jacksonville Jaguars team, where if this team has any shot to win $100,000 when we have the Lawrence, Brian Thomas stack, we really need the Jags to exceed expectations. We're going to go ahead and reach on Jacobe Meyers. As you saw, Jacobe Meyers wasn't anywhere close to my highest-ranked name. As you also saw, I have drafted 0% Jacobe Meyers before this draft. And I am not super excited to take him here, but I don't know if I want to have 0% Trevor Lawrence, Jacobe Meyers going into this season.

Megan Muffin says, "Can someone explain why stacking is so efficient?" It's very simple. I already took Brian Thomas, so effectively, if we are trying to turn $5 into $100,000, I need to hit on the majority of my picks. I don't need to hit on every single one, but I need to hit on the majority of them. So, if I'm trying to turn $5 into $100,000 or $5 into $50,000, I'm going to draft the rest of this team as if I already hit on that Brian Thomas pick. Because if that Brian Thomas pick turns out to be an absolute flop, my odds of turning $5 into $100,000 are slim to none. So, if I've already made that bet on Brian Thomas, what would have to happen for Brian Thomas to exceed expectations to be a good pick here at 61? He'd have to stay healthy. Trevor Lawrence would have to stay healthy, and the Jags would have to be a respectable passing offense. So, for that reason, instead of taking Dak Prescott, where you would essentially be making a completely separate bet of the Dallas Cowboys offense being really good and the Jacksonville Jaguars offense being really good, I can just make the one concentrated bet on Jacksonville.

Okay. John says, "Mason, can we see your best team that you won the most money with last year? Out of curiosity." Yes, I will pull that up for you if I can find it. Give me one second. And let me actually, hey, can I show, can you remind me at the end of this live stream? It's just going to be very difficult for me to filter through those Underdog teams right now. If you remind me at the end of the live stream, I'll show you the team that we won the most money on last year. And let me check my updated optimal roster construction. Yeah, it's still the same after what we just did. We still probably leaning with a hyperfragile build, going three running backs out the gate. We still probably want three quarterbacks, taking Lawrence as our first QB at 84. We definitely still want three tight ends, and we probably still want eight wide receivers.

Okay, now Jordan Love off the board at 103. Hypothetically, if LaPorta and Goff were to both make it, do we stop at taking two QBs, taking Lawrence at 84 and Goff at 108? Probably not. I probably still grab the third. LaPorta goes 106. My rankings, I do have Goff and Pitman as the highest-ranked players. Um, we have Jamo for the Goff stack, so we're going to take him. Looking at Jared Goff, you do get the consistency, and obviously he doesn't have a ton of rushing upside, but he still does have spike week potential. Like last season, we saw three games, or sorry, four games with 25 points or better. We saw a game with 34 points from Jared Goff. Going back to 2024, he scored 41 points in week 15, 35 points in week 11, 31 points in 2023. And then we will take Pitman. I move Pitman up my rankings once we got word that it does seem like Rodgers is indeed going to be the quarterback in Pittsburgh. And we still probably want to be going with three QBs, but I don't know if we want to take Tyler Shough there when we have Lawrence double-stacked with Brian Thomas and Meyers, and we have Goff paired up with Jamo. My sense is while we probably want a third quarterback, we'll see what the tool says exactly, we probably don't want to take that quarterback till the end of the draft. But yeah, let me refresh, just make sure we're looking at the most accurate data. So, running back, we are still incentivized to go with the four running back build over a five. Quarterback, still three QBs have the highest advance rates in my finals rate and finals rate based off what we've done. And tight end builds, still the three tight end approach is what we want.

Okay, let's pull this over. RC Story says, "Beat Mason in the Big Dog in the Big Dog season quarterfinals, semi-finals, then got smoked in the finals." I'm confused. Did you draft a bunch of Big Dog teams and beat some of mine then, and then I had a Big Dog team smoke you in the finals? Is that what you're saying? We advanced a ton of teams last year, so I'm sure that you probably beat us a bunch in the playoffs. 4C says, "Mason looking like Carson Teemu Carson Schwarzenegger." Let me pull this up. Swarzenegger. Carson Swarzenegger. I look like Teemu. Teemu. This guy. That's this guy looking like Teemu Mason. What are you talking about? U Chevbo says, "Will you be doing all Puppies? Just signed up. Waiting on the tool, but I'll jump in in a while." Okay. So, if you just signed up to Underdog Fantasy with Code Flock, my guy, Underdog is going to send me a CSV with all the email addresses that signed up today with Code Flock. I'll get that tomorrow morning, and then I'll upload that CSV to flocky.com tomorrow morning, where you should get free access to my rankings and the tools. But appreciate you, my friend.

Now, Ty Gib says, "What makes you go with three QBs?" Just the historical math telling us that three quarterbacks has been the most profitable move based on what we have done up until this point and cross-referencing what's happened in Basketball Mania history. Okay.

Now, Tyler Shough does indeed go 125. If Shough would have made it to us at 132, that would have been phenomenal with us having Jordan Tyson. So, pulling this up, Irv Smith Jr. obviously the big follower at this point. Looking at my updated rankings, I still do not have Smith Jr. anywhere close to like the best available player. So, if you were using my rankings, you would not be touching Smith Jr. for quite some time. But we'll see where he ends up going because obviously a lot of people aren't using rankings. Jordan Mason goes. Sam Darnold off the board. I've yet to draft Jonathan Brooks, and Brooks has been a massive riser so far in these drafts. My rankings actually have Travis Hunter as the best pick on the board. I have Tyrone Tracy over Jonathan Brooks as well. If I didn't take Jacobe Meyers where we did, we'd probably reach on Travis Hunter, but it's just such a reach on Hunter. And I've already drafted him in 20% of drafts. I know we have Lawrence, but there's a chance even that he makes it back around. So, we're going to take Tracy. That will be our last running back we draft. And then I think we're going to take Mark Andrews as our first tight end. Which, let's be honest, Mark Andrews obviously was horrendous last season. Horrendous, horrendous, horrendous. But before then, he had been a top 10 tight end in fantasy since 2019 from points per game. Now, don't get me wrong, he was unbelievably bad last year. 1.3 yards per route run. He had never been under two in his entire NFL career. And he's going to be 31 this next year. So, there is a high probability that Andrews is straight up cooked, has no juice whatsoever anymore, but he's playing in what we want to believe will be a good offense, and we have seen the success from him in the past. And to be fair, this is the cheapest that he's probably been since 2019.

Vinnie says, "Whoa, just notice Bush's Travis Hunter ranking at 93." Let me see. Yeah, Bush has Travis Hunter at 93. I have him at 124. Davis has him at 153. And then he has an Underdog ADP of 151. So, Bush and I are both well ahead of the market on Travis Hunter, but again, I completely understand that some people are just scratching Hunter off their board entirely. Torson says, "Your draft tool is like poker tracker software, which makes online poker very hard for people without tracking software. Takes away the skill a bit." My end goal, to be honest, is the tools that we are offering y'all on flockfantasy.com for Dynasty, for redraft, for best ball across the board. Make every single one of your drafts better. So, for me personally, I believe what we've built out across almost every platform does make me a better Dynasty fantasy football player, does make me a better redraft fantasy football player. And I'm so confident what we've already built out and what we're continuing to build out with the flock basketball tools that I'm not even drafting teams on my phone anymore. I want to be drafting almost every single team on the computer so I can be using them. But that's kind of the goal. Whether it's draft, but no matter what the platform is, I want the people that are members of flockfantasy.com to have an advantage over the rest of the field, to be honest.

Okay, Travis Hunter goes off at 152. Travis Hunter was my highest-ranked player with 20 picks ago, so obviously I'm not going to cry about it.

Okay, Stephen says, "What is your portfolio grade at the moment?" I think it's a B+. I can go ahead and pull that up, though. Isaiah Pacheco goes 153. Kenyan Drake off the board. So, we are no longer drafting running back, right? The math is very clear. We only want four running backs based on what we've done. We want three quarterbacks. We want three tight ends. And we want the rest of the spots to be receivers. We could go Jaylen Naylor and Rashid Shaheed if we wanted. What's this team doing? Antonio Williams. We will go with the full-blown Jacksonville Jaguars onslaught, and then after that, I actually may take Trey Tucker over Jaylen Naylor. This may be something I need to update with my ranks, but actually, I mean, he's had one good week all year. How exciting is that, truly? Do we mix in Denzel Boston? He is my highest-ranked player. I've only taken him in 2% of drafts. I've taken Jaylen Naylor and Trey Tucker both in 8%. I don't want to take him here. So, we'll mix it in. We will take Denzel Boston as our wide receiver six. And something that I was wrong about in the past is I thought having too many names from an individual offense would almost cap your weekly ceiling where it's like, "Hey, I don't want to have six Jacksonville Jaguars if I'm trying to have the highest week 17 ceiling and win $100,000 in this tournament, right?" But two years back, I believe the team that won Basketball Mania, six out of their 18 picks were Cincinnati Bengals. So, I changed my mind on that two years ago once we were proven wrong.

Mabora says, "Does your trade calculator factor in your team you've imported to the website?" Yes, you can actually also go through and if you put in a trade like say JSN for Josh Allen, right? You could hit explain trade and it will tell you exactly how it would impact your team at the bottom as well. That will work for your dynasty leagues as well as your redraft leagues. Jason says, "I still don't get why we have a free version that does the exact same thing as paid to someone trying to make money off of it." My friend, I would very much encourage you to use both the free and paid alternatives, or you don't even have to use the paid alternatives. Try using the free alternatives that I have found, they frankly don't work. So, if anybody can find free alternatives that consistently work, by all means, 100% go for it. Mabar says, "Awesome. That's so sick." Well, yeah, we're going to, yeah, we've worked on flockfantasy.com for like three seasons now, making sure that it's the best that it can be to help you win like your redraft leagues and your dynasty leagues. So, a bunch of that stuff for Dynasty is already built out. Jason says, "I come here for my Derrick Henry discount." I don't blame you, my friend. I do not blame you.

Matthew says, "Hey, Mason, I'm sure you've said this, but curious who's your favorite NFL team?" So, I've said the story a bunch. I'm sorry for anybody hearing it again. I am very weird. I got into watching NFL games and watching football games because I started playing fantasy football, not the other way around. I feel like most people it's like, "Oh, they start watching the Cowboys because their dad watches the Cowboys." I started playing fantasy football when I was like 10 or 11. I hadn't watched any games until that point. So, from the very beginning of me watching NFL games, it was me rooting on my fantasy football players and not rooting for an NFL team. I grew up in the suburbs of San Antonio where we don't have an NFL team. So, I am not a fan of a team. I lived in Tampa for a year and I tried rooting for the Bucs while I was there, but I would just be watching the game and be like going like, "Oh, how many points has Chris Godwin scored?" Like, my brain very much is broken.

Okay, now Mike Washington off at 174. Let's pull this down. So, we still want a 3-4-8-3 build. That has not changed. Let's see. Schultz is my highest-ranked player. Then I have Judy. You could go Brousette here, but you don't we don't have any Brousette stacking options. I would almost rather reach on Rodgers and I'm fine having like massive reaches once we get to this point of the draft because they're all about the same. We already have Michael Pitman Jr. We could go Jeremy Bernard and Aaron Rodgers if we wanted the Steelers double stack. We could go Judy, pair up with Denzel Boston, and go, "What if Casey Conception's nothing?" Or what if the Cleveland Browns offense is actually respectable? We're for sure going to take Aaron Rodgers as our third QB here. And then afterwards, I don't exactly know what the right call is between Judy and Bernard. I've drafted Bernard in 12% of drafts. I've taken Judy in 6%. So, I am underweight there. We'll probably go ahead and take Jerry Judy.

Okay, now let's pull this over. Lee says, "I was a Charger fan, then they left and I stopped watching football, then fantasy brought me back." Yeah, generally I just like become a fan of whoever I have the most exposure to. Like I'm a fan of players. I'm not so much a fan of teams. Jason says, "It's crazy to think Tyreek's going around the same pick as CeeDee." It is. But um, we'll get into another draft right after this one. We just have two more picks to make, and then we will hop into probably another Puppy. Like I said, there's a chance we get in four drafts tonight. So, go down there, drop a like on this live stream, and of course, if you want to come out to when we are streaming, hit the bell next to the subscribe button. I'm going to aim for about 8:00 p.m. Eastern every single day. Some days will be a little earlier, some days will be a little bit later. Um, but I'm going to be streaming every single day until Christmas, right? So, I can't tell you exactly the same time I'm doing it every day because we got life. Um, Trojer says, "Can I get a shout out to all the Jets fans here?" Natty's a fan of Avery. Yeah. Spam the chat. Let me know what team you root for. Like what team you are a fan of versus if you're just a fan of fantasy football is I do think I think it would almost be like I get so much enjoyment out of the NFL and obviously as y'all can tell I love like if I didn't genuinely love this stuff I would not do it I would not stream every single day for 200 days straight. Nobody does that. I freaking love this stuff. I'm a psycho. But I think I would like it even more if I had a team that I rooted for. But we got Steelers, Saints, Steelers, Packers, fantasy football, Raiders, Buffalo, Browns, Lions. Oh, that's brutal. Giants, Ravens, Niners, Eagles, Lions, Raiders, Rams, Seahawks, Eagles, Commanders, baseball, Redskins, Eagles, Lions. Ste says, "Started with fantasy, became a Green Bay fan after my first year. Jets, Falcons, Cowboys, Jets, Steelers." Now, as Zerius, I made championship rankings both on the site and I live-streamed them. This was something that I thought was really funny because obviously the comments can come at you all type of ways, even if you put out a thousand videos in a season and stream for a thousand hours. But instead of making our week 17 rankings as a video, instead I live-streamed them with the tier list, and people lost their minds because I gave my editor Christmas Eve off to enjoy with his family. We're going to take Greg Dulcich here relatively easily. He's going to run a ton of routes this year. And then wide receiver, I've been mixing in Josh Downs, but it probably feels it just probably really bad. It's a really bad move. We'll take Troy Franklin.

Okay, now let's hop into another Puppy draft. We're in this one. And then once that other one ends, I will show you the grade that we ended up getting on it. But I will. Obviously, everybody in their mom hates me at the moment, but I'll make y'all even hate me more than you currently do. Here is a hot take that I have for NFL fandom, and this goes for all sports across the board. It's something that I would have never said back in like 2014, like 10 years ago or 12, 13 years ago at this point, where back then like I started playing Dynasty my first year in 2014. That's when I was in 20-plus leagues a year. Absolute die-hard, all in it. Only thing I thought about every single day for the rest of my life's fantasy football. But back then, if you would have asked me, I would have gone, it's the only thing that matters. Players on the field and the coaches calling the plays. Nothing else matters. But now that I'm older, one thing I've changed my mind on is I do think that ownership matters so much, and the way that these organizations are structured from the top down here. I just typically want to have a flat exposure to Bijan and Gibbs. I want a lot of them. I have 8% Bijan, 10% Gibbs right now. So, we'll take Bijan in this one. But I have changed my mind to a great degree on that, where I think now front offices matter, ownership matters from the very top down. And I think you'll see organizations like the New York Jets that get a horrible owner. The Cincinnati Bengals is another example. The Cleveland Browns that will be garbage organizations for a 30-year period. Inept from the top down. Doesn't matter what coach they bring in. Doesn't matter what quarterback they bring in. That's not going to work out. And I almost think like if you really wanted the Jets to succeed, you shouldn't be a Jets fan anymore. You should bandwagon onto another team that's having success. Like it's if you wanted to incentivize NFL teams to actually really have to try, and they lose money or they just don't make nearly as much money if they are very bad, and it forces the ownership of the Browns, the ownership of the Jets to change, like I think you should abandon them. Like I don't know why there would be a Jets fan right now. I don't know why anybody would be a Browns fan. Like the basic and example that everybody uses, which is a tiresome thing at this point. I know you don't want to hear it. It's like going to a restaurant in your local town that gives you garbage food every single time you go or garbage service. It's like you've done it for 20 years straight, but maybe it's going to change this year. So, I like, again, I'm the worst example of that. Like I'm a long, the only real football team I root for is the Texas Longhorns. I went to University of Texas. But if we don't have a shot to do anything, I'm out. If we're bounced from the College Football Playoffs, deuces. I'm I'm not going to waste my Saturday caring about this. So, I'm the most fair-weather fan you could imagine, which I know people absolutely hate, but in my mind, it's logical to be that. It's like, if you want me to be a customer of you, give me a good product.

All right, we're going to move this around. Looking at what I've done in other drafts that I took Bijan in. I've drafted Bijan in four other drafts, and half of them I've taken Love. Half of them I've taken Jacobs. I've taken Trey McBride with zero of those. Jeremiah Love goes. So, because we've taken Trey McBride with no Josh Jacobs teams, and I am underweight Trey McBride, we are going to snag him here. And I've taken George Pickens with no Josh Jacobs teams either. So, um, let's keep it simple. Let's just go ahead. I I took Nico Collins with one of our Bijan Robinson teams. So, it'll make this a very unique build for us where we don't have any combination of these players.

Peter says, "We support them because we are always loyal." Which I know that's like the commendable thing to do. The commendable thing to do for everybody is it doesn't matter what the team's done, but I'm going to root for them regardless. Then he says, "Sorry, you got a B+ advancement and a C+ ADP." Oh, that is sad, my friend. What did you end up getting, Vinnie? Let me pull that up. Yeah, but the commendable thing is I'm going to be a Browns fan. My dad was a Browns fan. I'll be stand by this team through thick and thin, through Deshaun Watson, through Johnny Manziel, it doesn't matter. I'll be there. And I'm like, if you're a Browns fan or your dad was a Browns fan, honestly, I wouldn't fault you if you wanted to change over to be a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs. I wouldn't fault you for it. Yeah. Our last draft we did not do great in. Last draft we got a B+ for the advancement. So, not horrible. Um, obviously we reached dramatically to grab Jacobe Meyers. We reached to grab Jameson Williams in a big-time way. So, we had a lot of reaches. Didn't have a phenomenal construction. I don't think the team's dead by any means.

Okay, now Matthew coming in with the dono. I appreciate you, my friend. Thank you for sticking with us. Matt says, "How does strategy change when going from a BBM to a Puppy?" In general, my strategy doesn't change much. Maybe you can make an argument that it should. The biggest area in which it would change is in Basketball Mania, you have to beat a decent amount of teams in week 15 to advance to week 16, and you have to beat a decent amount of teams in week 16 to advance to week 17. Whereas in the Puppy, you only have to beat nine teams in week 15. You only have to beat five teams in week 16. But I don't know how I would be changing my specific draft strategy for that. I still want to be going after stacks. I still want to have a sound construction. I still want to try to get the players I like and avoid the guys I view as landmines. And I still want to get ADP value.

Okay. Torson says, "I wanted to use the explain trade function. Could not find it on my iPhone. Can you only find the explain trade by using a computer or is it behind a paywall?" I'm going to be honest with you, my friend. I do not know. If you're a [ __ ] on flockfantasy.com, you should be good to have it for sure. My highest two ranked players are going to be Jaylen Wadd and Lavel Davis, but there's no world in which I'm taking Lavel Davis and McBride together. So, I'm going to take my highest-ranked name with Wadd. And then I'm going to reach for my next highest-ranked name, which is actually DeAndre Swift. So, let's snag him. DeAndre Swift. Let me pull up his flockfantasy.com player card. I think that this is very interesting. Swift has never not been a top 24 running back in points per game. Rookie season, running back 10, then running back nine, running back 14, running back 24, running back 21, running back 27, I mean, sorry, 17. If you look at his total fantasy points every season, he's never finished lower than RB21. I think the Chicago Bears are a really good football team. I think DeAndre Swift doesn't have much competition this season. Does he have a crazy high ceiling? I don't know about that. Like again, I would have Lavel Davis ranked ahead of DeAndre Swift for most teams because I think Lavel Davis does have a much higher ceiling than DeAndre Swift. But with that in mind, like we already have Trey McBride, and when you take McBride, when you take Bowers here at the two-three turn, you do so with the thought, I'm not going to be able to get Lavel Davis even if I like Lavel Davis with our next picks. You can, I mean, if you really wanted to take Bowers and Lavel Davis together, take McBride and Lavel Davis together. I have wasted plenty of dollars trying to go with the bully tight end strategy, and it hasn't worked in the past. Maybe it works now. Who knows? But it hasn't before. Jack says, "Bears offense only getting better." But yeah, that's a great answer. Thank you. Thank you, my friend. Jojo says, "No BBMs today." We'll get in some Basketball Mania drafts as well. Typically, I like to do the Puppy drafts first just so we can get a little bit of a warm-up before the BBMs, but maybe the next draft we do will be a Basketball Mania. Cloudy says, "Swift over Judkins is outrageous." Well, the difference between these two running backs, one will play in a bottom three offense in the league this year. The other will play in a top 10 offense. One catches the ball, one doesn't. One's coming off a devastating injury. The other isn't. Now, don't get me wrong, Judkins is a better rusher between the two backs. 100% agree there. But if we're trying to score fantasy football points, I think I prefer DeAndre Swift over Quinshawn Judkins. I don't think that's how ADP has it. I think most people would go Judkins over Swift. So, most people are going to agree with you. But I have made a point this year to myself that I trust myself enough with my rankings based on the results I've had for the past few seasons. And I'm going to rank Swift over Judkins for four or five different reasons. Natty says, "Bottom five." Correct. I'm sorry. Maybe not bottom three, bottom five. We'll play it safe.

Okay, now Tyler Warren off. And I'll throw these guys into the player comparison on flockfantasy.com and we can just see exactly what they look like next to each other. This was Quinshawn Judkins versus DeAndre Swift last season for anybody wanting to know. Swift beats them in every category outside of rushing attempts per game. Jack says, "Team 10 might have won $100,000 already." Team 10 is Jefferson, Walker, ETN, LaPorta, Lamar, Carnell. Team 10's fine. Not going to talk down on Team 10, don't get me wrong.

Okay, I think Drake May is an incredible pick here. I think he's the value. Obviously, Dak gives us the stack. But here's the thing with May. Last season, he was the QB2 in points per game at 23 years old. And now we're getting him at pick 72. The pick that I would want to go along with this, I have it as Alec Pierce then Mai Lemon. And honestly, I think we do just that. I'm not going to reach on Dak Prescott here to pair up with George Pickens. Somebody else can have Dak.

Nightmare says, "Judkins would win championships if he was in Chicago." Yeah, at this point of their respective careers, DeAndre Swift being 27, Judkins being 22. I definitely agree that I think Judkins at this point has a lot more juice and if both running backs were healthy and both running backs were Chicago Bears, not Cleveland Browns, I would 100% prefer Judkins as the rusher over Swift. Full agreement there.

Okay. Now, Vinnie was upset that we took Drake May. I'm sorry, my friend. If we would have had Daniels, we would have taken Daniels. If we would have had Jalen Hurts, I would have taken Hurts and Mai Lemon. Maybe I would have looked at taking Caleb and Swift on the same team for whatever reason. But again, just stupid simple Neanderthal-level thinking. Drake May was the quarterback two last year in points per game at 23 years old. And I'm getting to draft time. Here is the QB 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. That's the QB7.

Okay. Now, Justin Herbert off at 82, R.J. Harvey at 83. We'll be interested to see if that team at 11 decides to only draft four running backs because this is very similar to the team that we just drafted structurally. And obviously, um, when we were using the tool, we decided to opt at only four. But I will be interested to know what they do. Cloudy says, "Manungai is going to cut into Swift next year. That's why Judkins is better." Um, yeah, I think that Kyle Manungai definitely will have a role and could expand that role this next season. Not going to argue against that.

Okay. Kanti says, "What are your thoughts on Flowers considering the Ravens have, I'm assuming he meant no other big receiving threats?" I think Zay Flowers is the same exact pick that he was last year, the same exact pick that he was the year prior. Like, I agree with you. Zay Flowers doesn't really have any other big receiving threats, but did he last season? Did he the year before that? When's the, has Zay Flowers ever seen serious competition? I guess maybe when Mark Andrews wasn't completely washed, but that was a couple years ago now. So, even though we moved Quinton Johnston down our rankings with the David Njoku signing, I still do have Quinton Johnston as my highest-ranked player here. As y'all can tell, I've taken him in 27% of drafts. Bo Nix, Jaylen Wadd is my most-owned stack. Harold Fannin goes, but honestly, even though Bo Nix and Jaylen Wadd are my most-owned stack, we're running it with it regardless. We will take Bo Nix here. And let me check in our on our optimal construction. At this point, I'm going to assume that we should only take two QBs. Yep, that is exactly what it's telling us. It's telling us that a six running back build could be viable. I am probably, I guess, like, we're not too far behind a receiver. I don't know if we need the ninth receiver, but two quarterbacks has a higher advance.

rate, semi-finals rate, and finals rate. Running back, it does look like five running back builds have the higher finals rate, and the higher semi-finals rate. Six running back builds have the higher advance rate, but it's about the same across the board based off what we've done.

Going over to wide receiver. Eight wide receivers have the highest advance rate, but the highest finals rate and semifinals rate goes to nine receivers. And then two tight ends looks to be the optimal kind of regardless. So, at this point, taking six running backs and eight wide receivers could be possible.

I am probably going to be leaning on trying to optimize for those final three weeks though and I am probably going to plan on going with only five running backs because I truly do believe that Bejon could just be such an anchor that we don't need to attack the position with quantity. We can just go straight quality.

Okay, Matthew, appreciate you my friend and thank you so much for everything. Okay. And Jack says, "Jacob Lane's coming for Z Flowers's TDs." Yeah, obviously the Ravens drafted multiple wide receivers in this draft. If they put any real type of capital into them, maybe I'd be a little more concerned, but I almost think it's just backfilling depth of the wide receiver position, which the Ravens needed to do anyway.

Okay. And our next draft we'll get in will be a BBM and we'll probably get in a fourth. That will be a basketball mania as well. Now we'll pull this down. Casey Conception off the board. Um Romeo Dobs obviously is the clear stack for us. Vinnie does indeed take him as a big FU for us taking Drake May from him. So, if y'all are looking at my rankings, we updated it. Gadston's nowhere to be seen. I also don't have KD this high either.

Okay, Rashad White off at 118. George KD goes, you know what I may want to do here? Actually, let's take Ferg having George Pickins. I have Ferg is the highest ranked player for me. Obviously, Ferguson's big weeks just came when CD Lamb was injured. But same time that Pickins had his big weeks, what if Lamb were to see an injury again this season? In that scenario, do we indeed turn $5 into a h 100,000?

And between Aaron Jones, Jordan Mason, I think you can go one way or another. I think I'm going to update my rankings to put Aaron Jones ahead of Jordan Mason. I was streaming with Davis earlier today and he pointed out one of the biggest red flags for Jordan Mason being just he has never shown us any type of receiving upside whatsoever. So, we'll take Aaron Jones here, but we're going to take a lot of both. Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones. Pray to God their rookie doesn't do anything. Hmason, appreciate you, my friend.

Eli says, "What website are you using right now?" This is underdog fantasy where we are drafting. Again, these are best drafts. No time commitment at all during the year. So, I draft hundreds of teams every season. So, I have profited 127,000 in these underdog drafts over the past four years. Um, and we'll be drafting her every single night until the season starts. So, really hope that you can join us, my friend. Links in the description. It is in the comment section. And also, if you sign up with code flock, you will get access to all the free Flock Fantasy best baseball tools, including my rankings as well. Just make sure you set up an account on flockfantasy.com with the same email address after you sign up to underdog fantasy so we know who to credit that with that free access with.

Now Ronda Gadston does indeed go 130. I do not have Gadston ranked this high. So if this is the updated price for Gadston, I probably will not be taking much of them. And yeah, I don't feel bad about taking Quinton Johnson here. I really don't. I do. Like I was thinking about this earlier today on my run, but I think one of the funniest bits we had last year, do y'all remember me calling the underdog helpline? Y'all are making fun of me so much for taking Quinton Johnston and I wanted to keep doing it that I would queue up Quinton Johnson, pretend like I tried to take somebody else, then call the underdog helpline, tell them that the website was glitching. They kept on giving me the big cue. Like that may be the situation we're in again this year. I may just be taking this dude over and over and over again.

Jack says he had more targets than lad last year. I think he's straight up a better pick. Yeah, I'll throw them into the player comparison on the site. But keep in mind, Quinton Johnson is older than Lad Mani by two months. These were these guys last season. Quinton Johnson the more efficient player, yards per target, yards per route run, receiving yards per game, and he scored more points per game.

Now, I personally am ranking Oh, we're done at quarterback. We are done at tight end. We're only running back and receiver. We'll take Diggs. Diggs has his charges dropped. And y'all know, I mean, we just showed this in the last draft. My highest ranked player is Travis Hunter. And honestly, especially in these $5 drafts, it's a $5 buy in $100,000 to first place. I'm shooting for the ceiling. We could very easily be drafting a corner here at pick 145. But Keaton Mitchell also has shown absolutely nothing at any point of his NFL career, right? Almost you could be making an argument that any player in this range is going to be garbage. So we will take Travis Hunter at 145. Quinton Johnson at this point's my most drafted guy. Travis Hunter is my second most drafted guy and we are adding more of them. Jaylen Wadd and Bo Nicks is my most common stack and we are adding more of them as well.

And I'll show you. One thing that's cool is you can see if you have the flock fantasy.com best baseball tools, the average pick that you've selected your players at. So Quinton Johnson, my average pick has been 100.5 of him and he does now have an ADP of 95.3. So that looks good. And then Travis Hunter, my average pick's been 158 and he now has an ADP of 151. So, we have gotten value on both of those guys.

Okay, now Tyler Alier off the board at 154. My god, I like this team. I'll be interested to see how this thing grades out. I mean, it actually may not grade out well. The reason being is we did go pretty heavy in on quarterback and tight ends. Like we went tight end at pick 24 and 120, quarterback at 72 and 97, which honestly doesn't feel too too bad. We'll probably be fine.

Okay. Terius is Mason. Is your man LeBron's getting the brooms out tonight? It's sad, but I don't think LeBron has if LeBron somehow beat the Thunder, there'd be no arguments left from anybody on this planet. He came back from 3-0, but the Lakers would be lucky to win a game at this point. They'd be very lucky. We have Brandon Aayuk, Trey Tucker, both off the board. which I wonder what's going to be the optimal at this point between running back and receiver. God, the advance rates are horrible based off what we've done so far. Um, I think maybe Elite Tight end's better this year than it has been in the past, but God, this does not look good. We're still anywhere between five to six running backs, seven to eight receivers, but we are not looking good right now.

Let's go running back and wide receiver. So, running back, we have Bejon Swift, Aaron Jones, wide receiver, Pickkins, Wadd, Alec Pierce, Quinton Johnson, Diggs, Travis Hunter. I don't feel great about either one of those positions. Yeah, I think we maybe just put too much into quarterback and tight end. I think when we take McBride there at 24, we should pass on Ferg at 120. And then we can look at tight ends in this range. I'm never wanting to take Isaac Tesla. The only way I'll ever take him is if he falls a considerable amount past ADP. And at the same time I have Jared Goff. We'll take Pacheco 80 ADP 153. We're on the clock at 168. And we'll go Debo as well and hope that Debo finds himself a good landing spot. I mean, is there a 0% chance that Debo finds himself in New England with May? That he finds himself in Denver with Knicks?

Jack says, "I need some running backs, brother. I just took Isaiah Pacheco. Is that not doing enough for you?" Okay. Crumb says, "Think Tesla could feast at the top two receivers have an injury." Here's my thing with Isaac Tesla. He was very bad last year. He had some highlight grabs and some touchdowns, but he averaged 14 receiving yards per game. He didn't even have a reception per game and he averaged 0.87 yards per route run. Wasn't a super young rookie either. He's already 24. So, I would say I have no real interest in taking him, especially knowing that I mean he wasn't a compelling prospect coming into the NFL draft.

B. Harris says, "How good is Pickkins if Lamb doesn't get hurt?" Probably not as good as he was last year, but that is going to be priced in in my opinion with Pickkins going in round three. If Piggins repeats the season that he had from last year and he's a round three pick, he's the best pick on the board right now or pretty damn close to it.

Okay, now we have Tangell 182. David and Jooku goes 183. Stephen says, "I think Diggs, Debo, and Iayuk are all smashes right now." We got two of them on this squad, my friend. The more I think about it, the more I almost think that the rookies with round one capital that are going extremely late in drafts at the moment because nobody likes these rookies and everybody hates the landing spots. Like Omar Cooper at 143 and Kenyan Sadi at 150, they do seem pretty damn appealing. Like I would have just naturally assumed that those guys would have been getting a little more steam.

Okay, we are just running back and receiver. I've drafted 0% Chris Bell. I've taken some Kahan Booty because I'm trying to target Drake May. I think we need to maybe throw Kahan Booty onto this team as well with May currently unstacked. And then we'll mix in Katron Allen just in case we are wrong and he has something. And then let's pull this back around. So now quarterback we have Drake May stacked with Kahan Booty who may not even be on the team this next season. We have Bo Nicks stacked up with Jaylen Wadd. Tight end, we have the elite option with McBride. We also have Jake Ferguson. Running back, we have Bejon Robinson, DeAndre Swift, Aaron Jones, Isaiah Pacheco, Katron Allen. Wide receiver, we have Pickkins, Wadd, Alec Pierce, Quinton Johnson, wide receiver four, Diggs, wide receiver five, Hunter, wide receiver six, Debo, wide receiver seven, Kahan Booty, wide receiver eight. And then in terms of our last pick here, I think we'll throw Troy Franklin here for the Bick stack. Pat Bryant for that Bick stack. And then we should maybe be mixing in James Connor a little. And we'll just throw some additional running backs here. We'll get one of these running backs. We'll get one of these receivers. Probably end up getting a Denver receiver to pair up with Bo Knicks. But let's hop into a Bible Mania draft. We in. And let me update this buying amounts. We're at pick four. Thank god. Underdog punished us by giving us the 112 to open up this stream. But we are back in their good graces. Pick one in the last draft. Pick four in this one. But this does look like it's going to be a pretty tough draft if we're going to be honest with each other. We got Vinnie in here at 10. We got Kale in here at nine. We got Jewish McCaffrey in here at seven. And let me know else who else made it into this.

Justin says, "How does my team look at six?" I'm sorry, my guy. I did. We already moved over to the next one. Whenever I pull up the draft with the portfolio review on flockfantasy.com, just remind me to take a look at it there. Now, Pack It Up is in here at pick three. Well, happy to go up against you, my friend. And Peter says, "There are no bad slots, only bad drafters." Well, I beg to get differ. I think they're both bad slots and bad drafters.

Okay, let's move this back and we will be getting a pretty compelling wide receiver at pick four. Jamar goes, so inside the top five, I'm just going to take whatever the ADP is because I don't want to be underweight a single one of those names. So if Puka goes at four, I'll take Puka. If JSN is the guy going at four, I'll take JSN. But we're gonna balance this out. We will go Puka Nikua in this one. I think that they are very, very comparable profiles. Um, Puka was the wide receiver one in points per game this past season.

Okay, JSN off at five. Let's see what Juish McCaffrey does at seven. Is he taking CMC? Is he doing it? Is he staying on brand? Taylor goes six. Yeah, he goes McAffrey at seven. Stays on brand. Rox's streamer luck. Honestly, we have been so freaking lucky this year with the picks that we've had. I'll pull up again our now updated portfolio on flockfantasy.com. But we have drafted 51 teams and top three picks we've had 14 drafts. Bottom three picks we've had nine. Bottom two picks we've only had five. Top two picks we've had 10. So we've had double the amount of picks one and two than we've had 11 and 12. We've been very lucky.

Now also with this we are almost exclusively at this point drafting in the $5 and $25 draft. though once we get into the $500 ones, one $500 draft is worth a hundred of the puppies. It's hard to comprehend, but they can give us a hundred puppy drafts where we get Bejon and Gibbs and then the next $500 draft they give us, they throw us at 11. It's going to be painful. Easy money goes James Cook and Josh Allen there at 11 and 14. You're never really gonna see James Cook and Josh Allen pair together. Very rarely. Sometimes you will have Josh Allen going in the third. Here's what I would rather do if you wanted this combo. I think I'd rather reach on James Cook a bit at like pick eight or nine and then see if you could get Allen at 32 and 33 is then I think you could have that same combo but have like a Saquon Barkley instead of like a Travis CTN.

Okay, Drake London goes at pick 18. Okay, now we are about to be on the clock again. We'll see if we get any followers. My highest ranked name is going to be Chase Brown here. Malik Neighbors does go. Oh, dear God. Could we take Derrick Henry ahead of Chase Brown? Chase Brown 16 and a half fantasy points per game last season. Dererick Henry's 16 and a half I guess, but Derrick Henry going to be 33. So many of those points just came from that one week 17 game where Chase Brown was spaced out. Derrick Henry Puganua is probably a more unique combo based off Derrick Henry's ADP, but I'm just going to listen to my rankings. I'm going to take Jace Brown ahead of him. Okay, we'll see. Rashi Rice goes at 22. Bower is off at 23. So, we have both the elite tight ends going to the teams at two and one. A team at one starts with the same build we had with Bejon Pick McBride. We're on the clock again. My highest ranked player is Josh Jacobs. I have Jacobs in 16% of these drafts. If you look at Josh Jacobs from this past season, these games here in the final four or five weeks of the year, I think are very difficult to count into his actual perame statistics because he was very clearly injured playing through something he shouldn't have been. As somebody that had him in the Flock League, starting him, knowing that he was injured, having Emanuel Wilson on the team and praying that Jacobs was going to sit so he could just play Emanuel Wilson instead, it sucked. But if we look at weeks one through 10 for Josh Jacobs, he only had one game with fewer than like 13 and a half points and he had two games with over 30. So I'm in on Jacobs as y'all can tell with my rankings and my exposure so far, but I like it.

Scarecrow says, "Appreciate the grind. says your tool will factor in ownership from previous drafts. For example, would it dock a player you're already high on even if he's ranked higher? These rankings are just my straight up rankings in terms of like them adjusting based off your ownership and stuff. They don't automatically do that. That's up to you to figure out. That's why you'll see like me in these live streams go like, "Oh, this is who I have ranked higher." But looking at my exposures, I have say Ibuka and only 4% of drafts and I have Garrett Wilson in 10%. So maybe I take Ibuka here instead. So uh no, these are not automatically updating based on any factors. That's we are trying to display all the data for you to make the best decision you possibly can yourself including optimal roster construction including your unique player combos which I actually do have two teams where we've started Puka and Chase Brown zero teams where we started Puka Chase Brown and Jacobs but and then also we highlight your stacks we show your ownership we show the change with ADP we have a couple exciting things coming soon as well but as of now it's all about trying to give you the most information possible to make the best call that you can make yourself.

All right, we are going to be on the clock again. I have J Mo in 20% of these drafts already, but he is my highest ranked name here. I think we're going to go with him. We'll take Jameson Williams at 45. John says, "Take Luther Burden, bro." I mean, I understand that Luther Burton looked super exciting in week 17 this past year and in the playoffs. And from an efficiency perspective, 2.78 yards per route run, absolutely incredible. He had a 12 and 12.8% team target share as a rookie. Like I don't know if I I know people are very excited about Luther Burden, but I don't know if I can just straight up ignore the lack of efficiency or I'm sorry, not the lack of efficiency, the lack of volume and the ability to get on the field his rookie season.

Waddle goes. Waddle is my highest ranked receiver. So we are going to take Loveland. We passed on Loveland in the previous round with the thought that the two teams behind us already had Bowers and McBride. So, there's a good chance we'd get Lovelin at 52. Now, Scarecrow coming out showing some support. Appreciate you, my friend. P. Smina says, "Do a World Cup pup or a free kick." So, if y'all don't know, underdog has drafts for the World Cup right now. And if I were to get in there and embarrass myself that I only know the names of two real football players, I would I would have to never go live again. If I try to get in one of those drafts and tried to or read the names of the players that were getting drafted, be brutal. Now, Peacem says, "The chat's got you. Don't worry. I'm not going to trust you all to draft one of those for me." TA says Lovelin will finish as the number one for tight end Stampin. Yeah, I think Lovelin honestly is a good shot to outscore Luther Burton, but I think you can say that about tight ends across the board with where some of them go. McCaffry says, "Mason, drafting the World Cup would be like me doing a triathlon." I think you would be I think you'd be a lot better at a triathlon than I would be at a trying to draft a World Cup team.

Okay, Joe Burrow goes 61 for the Tigan stack. Again, I think one thing that'll be interesting is because so many of the Burrow teams are stacked with Higgins based off where the board lines up is if you are the chase team, making sure you reach on Burrow some, so you do have some Chase Burrow stacks, especially if the rest of the field is underweight. Okay, Toutin goes at 64. Daniel's off 65. So, we are probably going to ruin the day of the team at one that drafted Luther Burton and Roma. And we'll probably end up taking Caleb Williams to stack up with Loveland. We'll see if we get any other super compelling picks making it to us, but I think our plan as of now is to grab Caleb here. Y'all know I've said it a bunch that I genu generally really do like the quarterback prices in this range except if Brian Thomas makes it to us at pick 69 then we'll go ahead and take Brian Thomas. So we will give that team at one a gift of Caleb. They can stack up Caleb with Luther Burton and Rome Adun. Okay. Yeah. says, "What do you think of the roast of Kevin Hart?" Pretty much all day today, no matter what social media I went on, if I went on Instagram reels, if I went on Twitter, every single clip that I was showed was the Kevin Hart roast. Obviously, not people just roasting Kevin Hart, but people roasting everybody there. And I saw 15 clips that I thought were hilarious. There were so many funny ones. Metaf go 74. Yeah, Caleb does indeed go to the Luther Burden and Roma Dunce team. That was kind of the expectations once we passed on them. And let's see, my highest ranked names. Um, I have Mai Lemon ranked as my highest player. So, we will just simply take Mai Lemon. And oh, our quarterback room not looking too hot, ladies and gentlemen. Not looking too too hot. Let me see. Our optimal construction at this point. It does seem like So, here's the thing that's weird is like the way that the tools built out is more so of what you've invested into the players historically versus how you would personally feel projecting that name. Because I see that we take Coulson Leland at pick 52 and I go, "Oh my gosh, I love Lovelin. I think that he could very easily be the anchor of a two tight end build, but because we waited to take him at 52, a three tight end build could still be in play. Two tight end builds have a slightly higher semi-finals and finals rate, but three tight end builds have a much higher advance rate." Wide receiver, we can almost do whatever we want there. Running back, it looks like five RB builds will be the standard. And then obviously we want three QBs.

So John says, "Quinton Johnson is expected to get the Julio Jones role per Mike McDaniel. There is no way that is true." No. Did that really come out? If so, oh, it's going to be a good year for your boy. Good year for your boy. Okay, we have that felt good. Nothing better than a good sneeze. Let me pull Let me search Julio Jones on Twitter and see if there was anything that came with this. Oh. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, how did I miss this? Why was Twitter showing me clips of the Kevin Hart roast when he clearly doesn't know what the algorithm wants? Chargers OC Mike McDaniel on Quinton Johnston. I think he's a guy that has some traits in his game that are similar to some very powerful, explosive, productive receivers I've had in the past, namely Julio Jones and Andre Johnson. So, we're pushing them. Do you all have any idea what it would do to my bank account if Quinton Johnston had the career path of Devonte Adams where he was garbage the first two years and then put it together had drop problems solved them. Quinton Johnson goes 91. Sadly, we are unable to get him here. We will take RJ Harvey relatively easily. I don't even have to look at my rankings. I know he will be the highest ranked player there. And then afterwards, Mahomes was the highest ranked guy over Godwin, but we get sniped.

Okay. Brandon says, "Mason, you mentioned earlier how Isaac Tesla wasn't a compelling draft pick, and I don't think he was, but neither was Puka." Great point, my friend. Why don't we go ahead and put Puka's rookie season next to Tesla's just to make sure we're on the same page, we are on the clock again. My highest ranked name is now Chris Godwin. However, we may end up having to reach on one of these quarterbacks. We have no quarterback yet. If we pass on Stafford, we ain't getting them back. If we pass on Goff, we ain't getting them back. So, we'll take one of them here. But, let me show you quickly the rookie season for Isaac Tesla verse the rookie season for Puka Nikua. So, points per game relatively close, right? Um, and this is these advanced advanced analytics are brought to you by the player comparison on flockfantasy.com. So, points per game pretty close between the two guys. Puganua 17.6 as a rookie. Isaac Tesla as a rookie 4.5. Targets per game neck andneck 9.41 per game verse 1.59. The target shares in their offense, this was a nailbiter. I didn't know which one was going to win here. 28 1.5% versus four and a half%. The receptions per game, again, tickytac, you can maybe say they're about the same. 6.18 versus 0.94. The receiving yards per game, 87 verse 14. I really thought Tesla was going to get him there. The receiving touchdowns per game, they tied. They were right there. That was actually neck andneck. Yards per target, 9.18 versus 7.46. yards per route run 2.676 verse 0.94 and routes 32-6.

Kyle knows Ball says, "Yeah, but they both had 0.35 touchdowns per game, so your opinion is invalid." Tesla clears. You're right. You're right. I will take the L here. I will take the L. I apologize. Now, what Isaac Tesla needs if he wants to get his career on track is he needs a Mason Dodd Pukanua tweet. Let me see if I can find this. Okay, I can't figure out how to Oh crap. We are on the clock. We're on the clock. We're on the clock. What are we doing? We're not taking KD. I'm not doing that. Um, we'll take Wandale. Uh, just because I'm caught off guard here. We will take Juan Delale Robinson because I was not paying attention. I was trying to find my Puka tweet where there was literally no worse take that it ever happened in the history of fantasy football. Like you know the clip of the guy on ESPN or I sorry his name's drawing a blank but the viral clip where he goes after seeing Ben Simmons all I got to say is LeBron we're good here. Ben Simmons can take over like take over the face of the league. That take was better than me going out of my way when people were asking me if they should draft Puknu in round 18 his rookie season and me going I hate to be the only grown-up in the room but a day three NFL pick in a bad offense doesn't have any upside and Pukanua proceeded to be a top five wide receiver in fantasy and without him you had no shot to win anything. Out of all the worst sports takes or fantasy football takes that have ever been said on the internet, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, whatever it is. I quite possibly do have the worst one that's ever been mentioned. Yeah, I'll take Iguadala. I'll take Iguadal is not as ridiculous as me going out of my way to crap on a rookie wide receiver that was going in round 18 for no apparent reason. Me crapping on him and him proceeding to be a top five wide receiver in fantasy. It's the worst, possibly the worst thing ever.

Grant says, "Does the superflex in baseball include quarterbacks?" Yes, sir. If you are drafting in the Superflex draft contest on underdog, which I actually just put out rankings for, you can have two quarterbacks in your starting lineup.

Okay, T-Mo says, "Did you lose that money that Puka rookie year break even?" I definitely lost money that because not only did I fade Puka, I wasn't drafting Puka at all in round 18, but it was the same year that Kairen was a round 18 pick and ended up being like a top five running back in fantasy. And I didn't take any Karen Williams either. I'll pull that was 2023. I have my underdog profit and loss sheet which I haven't revealed the exact every little detail of because I am saving that for a video. But 2023 I had $16,000 in buyins and I had about 12,500 in winnings. So, I lost about 3,500 bucks in 2023, which the year prior we profited 125,000. So, it took us from 125,000 in profits down to 122, which was just brutal. But um I I'm gonna be honest. I'm surprised I didn't lose way more money knowing I didn't draft any Kairen or Puka that year. I would have assumed that my results were a lot worse before we actually did the numbers.

So we are about to be on the clock. We are hoping we are going to get Cam Ward to pair up with Wandell Robinson. One of the reasons we took Wandelle. Um, I am underweight Malik Willis because I think he is set up to fail in Miami, but he is gonna run the ball some. He has fallen nine picks in ADP over the past seven days and now we are getting um eight picks past his current ADP. So, it will make sense for us to go ahead and mix them in here. Drew said, "Would you stop at two tight ends with my team or draft three?" I would draft a third. Like Fannon's a compelling name, but if it's pick 90 and 127. If you think the wide receivers project to have so much more spike week upside in the later rounds than tight ends, by all means take the receiver. But like is the difference between the spike week upside of Jawan Jennings and Kenyan Sadi that much? T- mode says, "Yeah, down 3500 fading both of them as a W. Like going to the casino and walking out with money still in your pocket." Yeah, it's like I was gonna use a pretty bad analogy that I'll hold on to. We'll take Dallas Gddard. We have Mai Lemon. What if we go What happens if the passing volume in Philadelphia surprises to the upside? So now at quarterback, we have Stafford stacked with Puka. We have Malik Willis unstacked. We know we're going to want a third QB. Running back we have Chase Brown, Josh Jacobs, RJ Harvey, Kenneth Gainwell. Wide receiver, Puganua, Jameson Williams, Brian Thomas, Mai Lemon, Wel Robinson. And tight end, we have Coulson Loveland, and Dallas Goddard. Overall, I like this team. I do.

Okay, Now, let me pull this over. What is the optimal for us at this point? Um, we actually have a possibility of only taking two QBs if we No, we're I'm taking a third, especially before the schedule's out. We have five running backs as being the lock of what we want to do. That is undebatable. Wide receiver, I think there are merits for going seven or eights. In tight ends, finals rates best with two, semifinals and advance rates best with three. Dylan says, "Who would you pick if you only did one draft and had the first pick?" Probably Gibbs. But I could go back and forth on that 10 times. The guest man says, "Did homie ever do his punishment for losing?" Danny is going to be doing it as punishment live in a stream when we're all together in Austin, Texas.

Okay. What do we want to do here? I've drafted no Zack Charbanet. We'll take We've only drafted Charminade in one draft so far. We'll take him at 165. He was going like 40 picks before this when drafts first opened up. The pawn god says, "How do they prevent like 12 guys colluding in a draft to make one super team?" They'll ban people doing it. Like they have a bunch of things that are set in. I'm sure most people here in this have been in a draft where somebody decides to take like Rashad White in round two and then what will end up happening is it doesn't get banned immediately. It's honestly kind of annoying is you have to finish the draft and then um later on Underdog will email you and you'll get an email saying, "Hey, we found collusion in draft X, Y, and Z. You've been refunded and that draft is getting tossed out. Dean says, "They throw out any drafts that look odd. At least five of my entire drafts are thrown out per year." Which maybe because I draft on stream, it happens way less to me, but I feel like I have very few teams in comparison to what y'all say actually get thrown out.

on the clock again. I have no idea where we should go. We'll just take the foul falling value with Hawinson. We'll take Hawk 172 and then we are going to be done at running back and we're going to be done at tight end. We're going to take two more receivers and one more quarterback. Okay. Dean says, "I do a lot of 3:00 a.m. drafts so it's easier for people to get in the draft, the same draft, and try to collude." That makes sense. But yeah, essentially like we get that question almost once a live stream. Obviously, Underdog has thought about that. So, they have like safety measures to go in. Punin says, "Why not go Tyreek?" Because I think the most likely outcome with a Tyreek Hill injury is he is not playing this season. Don't get me wrong, I'm still on Tyreek Kell's Instagram watching hype videos making me think that he could come back, but it is not super likely.

Okay. Now, let's pull this back. Tyreek Hill goes 179. Yeah. So, I'm fine with people drafting Tyreek. Again, don't get me wrong, but it is very much reasonable to pass on him. Gunner Helm 181. Rogers goes 183 to Vinnie. Yeah, Vinnie and I are both going to be fighting over these garbage leftover quarterbacks for a potential third name. Like I am for sure taking a third quarterback even if it is straight up garbage and even if we don't have any stacking options with it. Like we could go Tua and Zachariah Branch if we really need to.

Okay. What is the plan? What is the plan here? Kotton goes 186. Floroi off 187. I guess we could go Chris Bell. We'll take him. Ah, no, I'm not going to take him. No, we're going to do it. I'll say why in a second. I don't like taking him and Charbanet on the same team because they're both effectively zeros at the beginning of the year. But we have Malik Willis. We know we're going to need another receiver. And here's the thing, like if we take Zachariah Branch to get the Atlanta stack and then in this next like in round 18 we don't have the opportunity to take Tua. We can take Michael Penn anyway, which Vinnie says he was going to do PennX and Branch. Well, you can get one of Tua. I'll get one of PennX or vice versa. But I think I'm getting branch here, my friend. Okay. What's this team doing? But yeah, we I think we need a third quarterback. Branch goes, "Well, f me." Oh. Oh, God. Here's what we're going to do. We're gonna say, "What if." This is a big big big big big big what if. What if Malik Willis is great? Not just what if Malik Willis is usable, but what if Malik Willis is truly great? Now, how likely is that? Not very, but crazier things have happened. And the real lesson to be learned is I don't even know what where do we go with a quarterback here that we didn't. Do we take Mahomes over Harvey? Is that I think that's probably what we should have done. Hindsight being 2020. Jay Harris says then draft Caleb Douglas. We'll do it, my friend. We will do it. It's telling us we want the third quarterback. I get that. I understand we want the third quarterback. We're not getting that though. And eight receiver builds. The sample size are so small here, but they do have better finals and semi-finals rates. Okay. So honestly, like if this team's going to be at anything at all, yeah, the Dolphins have to somehow be a good squad, which I think is highly unlikely, but we'll have a Malik Willis double stack. We haven't drafted Caleb Douglas before. We hadn't drafted Chris Bell before. We are underweight Malik Willis, but we're going to do it. Okay.

And then I want to pull up our draft grades in the last draft that we just did. The draft that we did before this one gets an F, which I knew that's exactly. I mean, I didn't know it was going to give us an app, but if you remember, I was like, it's probably going to be bad because we went with two quarterbacks and two tight ends, and we took them both early. Like this draft that we did right before where we went Drake May, Bick's at quarterback, McBride, Ferg tight ends. Then running back, we had Bejon Swift, Aaron Jones, Pacheco, Katron Allen. receiver, we had Pickkins, Wadd, Alec Pierce, Quinton Johnson, Diggs, Hunter, Debo, Booty, Franklin. It's giving us an F. And we reached on a decent amount of these picks as well. Okay, let me sync this draft to the tools and we'll see how we done this one. I don't think we did well on this one. I think today was a flop with our drafts. I'm being honest with y'all. A reminder, if you have the flockfantasy.com baseball tools, all you got to do is hit this little puzzle up here, hit that, hit sync again. I do this pretty much after every draft, so it pulls it in. Sync. Um, that news draft just got done syncing. We will refresh this now. And looking here, it actually gave us a good score, which I probably disagree with. We got a lot of value when it came to the running backs that we took. We do have our stacks. I guess we did get some really strong ADP value. I just for me, I look at Stafford and Malik Willis as a quarterback room. I know we spent a decent amount on them, taking them in rounds nine and 12. I just don't think that's going to be enough. I think we'll have a lot of points at running back, a lot of points at tight ends, a lot of points at receiver. I think we're just going to be too far behind at quarterback. That'd be my guess. But let me see. We are actually now so far we've drafted more twoQB builds than we've drafted three QB builds. Wide receivers, we've drafted more eight wide, we've drafted primarily seven and eight wide receiver builds with the majority being eight. Running back, we've mainly drafted five RB builds, but then our next most common six. And then we're almost always drafting three tight ends. Our most common draft types, two quarterback, five running backs, eight receivers, three tight ends. Um JMO is now tied with Travis Hunter as my second most drafted player. Quinton Johnson still number one. And yeah, but Jacob says, "Is there a way to access last year's player data on the Flock site?" Are you talking about like the stats for like Quinton Johnson and stuff? You just click any player, pull up their career rankings. If you go to the rankings page, you can see all the stats for any player that you want. Like if we say hit 2026 ranks, you can hit running backs. You can sort running backs by their highest points per game, right? You can sort running backs by their highest rushing attempts per game. You can go ahead and filter all these stats on flockfantasy.com. I don't know if that's what you're asking though.

And I was thinking about doing another draft, but I think we are probably going to call it here because this took longer than I was expecting. I thought we were going to be able to get done with it in about an hour and a half. But I really appreciate y'all hanging out with us. As always, ladies and gentlemen, I will be live tomorrow drafting more teams as I always am. If y'all want to draft with us on Underdog Fantasy, links always in the description. It's always in the comment section. It's always in the live chat. Code Flock will get you $50 added to your account after you play your first five. And on top of that, you will get access to all the Flock Fantasy basketball tools as well, so you get an edge in these drafts. And I think that's it. I will point out that Underdog Fantasy is available in these states. If you are uncertain it's in your state, it most likely is. Unless you're in Louisiana, Nevada, Washington, you probably got it. But much love, ladies and gentlemen.