2026 Fantasy Football Draft

It is past my bedtime, but somehow someway, I'm about to be drafting a fantasy football team tonight. And I'm going to be honest with you, I'm probably going to draft more than one.

We're going to go through do what we do every single night, and that is hop in these underdog fantasy football drafts. We are going to be at pick five, my best pick in mind, because you are going to get one of Bejon, Gibbs, Chase, Puka, JSN. I think there's a big time tier drop after the first five picks down to six. I'm going to be fine taking whoever Kale leaves us. He takes Pukanua. So, we are going to get Jackson Smith and Jigba. And let's freaking go.

I appreciate everybody coming by and stopping with a very late night stream. Typically, we are going to be streaming at 8:00 p.m. Eastern every single day, but I had um a little special thing to do tonight, so we are a little late. Um I'm happy that you are here with us nonetheless. Shout out to everybody who decided to go down there and hit the bell next to the subscribe button so they get those notifications when they go we go live and they can come in this stream whenever they want.

But we got a bunch of people out here. We got PPR Tyler who did his hundth day of live streaming in a row yesterday. Big big day for him. And we got people saying the numbers, Mason, what what is wrong with the numbers? Um, did I change the title to 2025 fantasy football draft, not 2026? That's all I can think about. Why you say the numbers, mate? Let me pull this up on my phone to make sure we're gut.

But so far in the first round has been a very standard fantasy football draft. I mean no real big surprises. You have St. Brown at eight, Lamb at nine, Jefferson at 10. Typically these wide receivers are going after CMC and Jonathan Taylor. I am pushing those wide receivers ahead of the running backs, but I'm the first person to admit that I'm an idiot and I get things wrong all the time.

Um, Justice says, "Do you have a Discord?" Yes, there is a Flock Fantasy Discord. I think there are like 25,000 people in it. Something crazy. Um, I'm not going to open it right now because I don't want to dox. We also do our company messages in there. The devs that work on the tools for y'all, they are in the Discord and I don't want to open my messages and have anything bad.

Um, but anyway, I'm on the clock. If you sort by my highest rank options, I have them barring Hampton. So, we're going to take Hampton, pair him up with Jackson, Smith, and Jigba. We have a very wellbalanced start so far through the first two rounds. If you go ahead and look at what the optimizer is telling us that we should do, it's saying that at this point it most likely makes sense for us to go with three quarterbacks, five running backs, seven wide receivers, and three tight ends. But that is going to be updated as we go through the rest of this draft.

Um, you're on camera says, "Are you able to show your top earning team from last year?" I definitely can. I will do that in another live stream though. Or maybe I'll do that at the end of this one. Just remind me at the very end of this. But let me see. We have love off the board at 25. Jimbo stack says, "Mason, for the extension, should I go based off your rankings or the flock fantasy rankings as a whole? Also, the best ball view draft feature is really cool."

Well, I really appreciate you, my guy. Um, thank you for getting the extension. I hope that it is helpful for you so far. And what he's asking about is going to be the rankings. Um, so we'll even have more creators making rankings soon. Here real quick, like an example, if you're using my rankings, AJ Brown's the top guy. If you're using the expert average, it's Devont Smith. Um, I guess Devont Smith is a player I've own drafted 0% of. I'm going off my rankings. I'm going to be taking AJ Brown here personally. It really just comes up to what you value, right? If I I get things wrong all the time. So, you can cross reference my rankings with ADP, with the other creators that we have on flockfantasy.com. Um, yeah, I I wish I had a better answer for you, but it really is going to be up to you, my friend, and what you value.

So, we have JSN, AJ Brown at wide receiver, Amari Hampton at running back. I feel very good with this start so far and it doesn't change our optimal build. We are still approaching the three quarterback, five running back, seven wide receiver, three tight ends optimal, but let's move this down and let me actually throw the buyin on the screen. I'm sorry I didn't tell y'all what underdog draft this is. Um, we are in the puppy right now. This is the $5 buyin on underdog. Has $100,000 first place prize. I'll go through the advancement structure real quick. Let me just remember it.

Um, it is two one out of 10, one out of six, and 600. So, if you're wondering, Mason, how is it $5 uh to buy in, $100,000 to first, $5 to buy in, $75,000 the second? Um, the reason is is it's a massive tournament, right? We are drafting against these 11 other people. But if we want to get to the best ball tournament at the end of the season, weeks 15 through 17, we have to be a top two scoring team in this 12 team draft in the regular season. Then in week 15, we're going to go up against nine other people if we have the highest scoring team. Week 16, we'll go up against five other people if we have the highest scoring team. Week 17, we are going to be going up against 600 people. If we have the highest scoring team, we turn it into 100k.

Using my rankings, I have Jameson Williams as the highest ranked option. However, we drafted Amari and Hampton. So, I actually do like making the consolidated bet that um the Los Angeles Chargers have a better offense than the market's projecting this year. So, we will double down on that Amari Hampton selection and we will take Lad McConi. Um and also, let me just finish explaining underdog. It's best, so no time commitment at all during the year. That's how I draft hundreds of teams every offseason. That's how I've profited $120,000 in underdog drafts over the past four seasons. And if you want to get in a draft with us, they're available in almost every single state. You can see the map here where underdog is available unless you're in Louisiana, Nevada, Washington, Maine, it's probably in your states. And if you sign up with code flock, you're going to get $50 added to your account after you play your first five. And also, you're going to be at an advantage over the rest of the people drafting because you're going to be getting the flockfantasy.com best baseball tool for free. Just make sure you set up an account on flockfantasy.com with the email address you signed up to underdogfantasy with. That way we can go ahead and get you all set up.

But Cam Scaboo off the board, Trevian Henderson goes as well. If you are using my rankings, you'll see that I do have Terry McLaren as my highest ranked player. Um, I really like Lamar here as well, but I've already drafted 18% Lamar Jackson. I only have four and a half percent Terry McLaren. So, we will take Terry McLaren to bump up our exposures. Um, am I the biggest fan of Terry McLuren in general? No. But in terms of the situation that he has in Washington, it's really good where you have almost no competition and you have phenomenal quarterback play.

Okay. Now, Richard says, "Okay, I think I signed up to underdog properly. Now, how do I get to draft and all the perks?" So, you'll just draft directly on underdog. And how you get the flockfantasy.com best baseball extension for free is very simple. Set up your account on flockfantasy.com. And the following morning, underdog fantasy sends me a CSV of the email address of every person that signed up and made at least a $10 deposit with code flock. And then I go ahead upload that CSV to flockfantasy.com and we credit all those accounts with the best ball tool extension for free. Um, so if you just signed up, it will be um attached to your account on flockfantasy.com for free tomorrow morning after underdog sends me the email.

Okay, we got Spicy Hot says, "Damn Neighbors went early." Where did Neighbors go in this draft? Yeah, Neighbors win at 13, which honestly, I mean, you got to respect it from team 12. They're reaching to get their guy and also at the same time, they're making a pretty unique combo where not many teams are going to have Genty and Malik Neighbors together.

Okay, so let's move this over. Very clearly, y'all know what we are wanting to do. You can see the draft extension highlighting our stack here where we do have Jaden Daniels stacked up with Terry McLaren, Drake May off the board, that's not going to impact us. If you're using my rankings, Brian Thomas is the highest ranked available player, but it doesn't matter. We are going to ignore my rankings. We are going to be going with Jaden Daniels specifically to stack with Terry McLaren, and we are going to be getting our first QB.

Now, if you look at the updated roster construction optimizer for that flockfantasy.com tool, you will see that two quarterbacks is now going to be the play over three. Has a higher advance rate, a higher semi-finals rate, and a higher finals rate. Um, and now we're actually probably wanting to take six running backs. Six running backs has a higher finals rate than five running backs does while having a similar playoff rate. And we've only taken Hampton through the first six rounds. So, um, overall I I like the team. I mean, we have JSN, we have AJ Brown, we have Lad McConi, we have Terry McLaren at wide receiver, running back Hampton, we have Jaden Daniels stacked as well. But thank you everybody for coming out. I really do appreciate y'all.

Um Biden says, "What if we already have an underdog account and use code flock? Can we still get that free extension?" Um no, this is going to be for new people on underdog fantasy. If you're already on underdog fantasy, you can purchase the extension on flock fantasy.com.

Um Chewbard goes at 69. Sammy Stax was shouting out Chubbert in his live stream earlier. I was planning on going that direction. Um, at this point I actually kind of want to be going with our running back. I think we are going to take Remadre Stevenson just so we don't fall too far behind because there does appear to be a team going crazy in this draft. At pick two, they've only gone with one wide receiver through the first seven rounds and that one guy was Alec Pierce. So, let's go ahead and get another running back that has projectable volume and what's a pretty good offense.

But yeah, if you are an annual [ __ ] on flockfantasy.com, maybe you use flockfantasy.com for your reddraft leagues, dynasty leagues, whatever it may be, then the extension's only $49 as an add-on to get everything with the best ball portfolio um analyzer plus the in draft helper, plus all the rankings, plus the unique player combos. Um, if you aren't an annual mother flocker yet, you can sign up and get the best extension at the same time, which will come with everything on flockfantasy.com for your dynasty leagues, for your reddraft leagues, and for your um, best teams now as well. Um, and that will only be $146 for everything for all year access. And, um, if you look across the industry, typically these best extensions are anywhere from like $500 to $800 a year. So, my opinion, I think we've managed to build out the best basketball tools for people to use and we've been able to price them at the cheapest. It's very easy when you get views on YouTube and you don't have to pay for marketing. You can instead pay web developers and you can price things lower than the competition. So, that is our strategy.

Okay. Leewley says, "Where do we make suggestions for the extension? It's so great to have some thoughts though. So, very easy. If you're in the Discord, just there's a site suggestions tab where you can submit a ticket and the developers, everybody in the community and myself, we look at that constantly. And if y'all noticed, the draft extension has been updated close to every single day since it launched. So, we'll 100% get working on something that's a popular request from a lot of people.

Okay. Now Patrick Mahomes at picked 90. Kyle Manungai goes at 91. So we are on the clock again. Um Tony Pard big time follower and at the same time he's the highest ranked player for me. Justin Herbert does stack with Amarian Hampton and Lad Mananki, but honestly I think we're going to take Tony Pard. It gives us projectable volume at a super cheap cost at pick 92 and I think we were falling behind some at um a running back for those points. So we'll take Pard. All these teams also have a quarterback, but the team at one and we don't really have to worry about any of them seeing Herbert as a natural stacking option as they don't have any of the Los Angeles Chargers. They didn't take Vlad Makoni, they didn't take Amari Hampton. So, while I think it's unlikely that Justin Herbert makes it back to us at pick 101, I know it's never going to happen. Pard will never make it back to us at 101. And Justin Herbert does have a chance. So, um, Herbert does indeed go at pick 94. Not going to fault the team for taking him there. I think Justin Herbert's a completely fine pick in this range, but I know again we would have had no shot at getting Pard. And I think we maybe would have had that shot at getting Herbert. And I'm not stressing too much because we have Jaden Daniels.

Dave says, "Sup Mason. Love the basketball tool. What ideas do you have coming to it for the future?" So, in short order, what should hopefully be released this weekend is um you should be able to pull up the player card images of these names. Like there'll be a button next to Quinton Johnston, which you can go ahead and pull up his flockfantasy.com profile um in the view of the underdog draft room. So, it should help you do research while you're on the clock. And at the same time, we are going to have the tournament toggles where you can go ahead and you can toggle based on tournament where if you want to only see your exposures in a certain tournament or if you want to only see your specific player combos in a certain tournament, that will be out as well.

And then I think we maybe go our highest ranked players, Quinton Johnston. I don't think we're going to take him though. Reason being is we already have him in 27% of our drafts and at the same time we drafted Hampton, we drafted Lad and we did not get Justin Herbert. So, if we were to take Lad Hampton, and Quinton Johnson all in the same team, the only way this team turns $5 into a h 100,000 is if you end up getting um a complete Chargers smash as a top five offense in the league. And if that's going to be the case, you probably also need Justin Herbert. We're going to pass on Quinton Johnston even though he's the highest ranked player for me in this range. Even though I've drafted more Quinton Johnston than any other um player in drafts this year. Even though I drafted more Quinton Johnson than any other player in drafts last year and he helped us profit $20,000 or $21,000. Um, I don't know if we can take him given the roster construction we've had now because we've gone running back with three straight picks. We'll be interested to see if the tool is updated and maybe we can be with only five RBs. No, six RBs is still actually optimal, which is surprising here. Um, has a higher finals rates and at the same time has a higher advancement rate. Seven running backs is very clearly a bad build. Looking over to receivers based off what we've done, um, six wide receivers are in play, seven wide receivers are in play, eight wide receivers are in play. It looks like seven's going to be the optimal. Obviously, we want to only take three tight ends, and we are still leaning towards two QBs.

Okay, Liam says, "Do you think Kenneth Walker going early second round is too high?" I have not drafted Kenneth Walker at that price. I'm not going to tell you that you shouldn't, but I'm not like I have Abar and Hampton ranked ahead of Kenneth Walker. I have Drake Lennon ranked ahead of Kenneth Walker.

Okay, we're going to pull this back around. Um, my highest ranked names. I'm not going to show y'all yet. You can see I've drafted 0% JK Dobbins. So far, if Dobbins were to make it to us at pick 116, that would represent a 17 pick ADP fall. Um, wide receivers, I've drafted like an average amount of Matthew Golden, an average amount of Wondell Robinson. Dobbins goes Jared Goff. We don't have any stacks unless we want to force freaking Isaac Tesla, which I'm not super excited about. I think we will take Matthew Golden here. I have Jordan Mason ranked ahead of Matthew Golden if you're looking at my rankings, but we've already drafted four running backs and the optimizer is telling us that we want to take six. So, probably not compelled to take a running back in this round. I think we deviate over to wide receiver. Matthew Golden, you have no Dantavian Wixs and at the same time, you have no Romeo Dobs. I do think he is a quiet winner of the off season. It's not like the Packers go out there, make a big time move in the NFL draft either. So, we'll take the wide receiver that went in round one of the NFL draft last season that absolutely face planted.

Okay, now Jordan Mason off the board at 121. Jaylen Coker goes 122. Aronda Gadston making it back to us. I don't think I would take him personally just because again I don't have Herbert. Not only do I not have Herbert, but we've already drafted Hampton and Lad. Aaron Jones goes 123. Jake Ferguson off the board. We are going to take Rashad White. Um Rashad White's my second highest ranked player, only behind Aronda Gadston at the moment. Um I've drafted a lot of Rashad White, as you can tell. I have him in 14% of these drafts. We have Jaden Daniels and Rashad White should be the receiving down back. So, I feel comfortable going ahead and taking them. And I'm surprised to see that um five running backs is still not the optimal. Like in the past before we had this tool, I think if I would have taken Hampton, Raandre, Pard, Blake Corman, Rashad White, I probably would have leaned with a five running back build, but I would have had fewer teams get to the playoffs and I would have had fewer teams get to the finals. So, I don't know. Um, we'll play it by year. I'm definitely not take if I do take a six running back, I'm not doing so anytime soon. But so far, I really like our team as long as we can get another quarterback. But we have a couple consolidated bets. We made the bet on the Washington Commanders offense with Jaden Daniels, Terry McLaren, Rashad Whites. We've gone in on the Los Angeles Chargers offense with Amari and Hampton as well as Lad McConi. And then as well the New England Patriots with accommodation of AJ Brown and Raandre Stevenson.

We got Marge says reports are saying injoku is visiting the Chargers. I guess that would explain the Aronda Gadston fall. Obviously, I didn't take Gadson for my own reasons but um he fell considerably past ADP in this one. Okay, we have a run on tight ends. I've yet to take a tight end in this draft. Obviously, they are in play for us. Okay, let's move this back. Sam Darnold goes, Darnold would have been great for us having JSN. Um, the team that takes Darnold doesn't have any Seattle stacks, but it is what it is. I'm not going to cry about it. It's the quarterbacks are running out. I'm not going to complain for about anybody taking a quarterback at this point.

Okay. So, you can see who I've drafted a lot of in this range. I've taken a lot of Tyrone Tracy. I'm at 23% Tracy. I've taken 18% Kenyan Sadi. And then looking at the other options, I've taken No, I haven't drafted Zack Charbanet in a single draft. I haven't drafted Cam Ward in a single draft. We may end up taking Cam Ward here, though. We have Pard. And y'all can clearly see that we need help at QB. This team very much is relying on Jayen Daniels to get back to what he did in his rookie season. Like, if that doesn't happen, if Jaden Daniels doesn't absolutely crush, we're cooked. But we still need at least another QB.

Okay. Fay says, "Isn't Charbanet running back one?" No. Charbanet to his ACL in the NFL playoffs and most likely not going to be coming back until after Thanksgiving. And the Seattle Seahawks drafted a running back in the first round of the NFL draft. So, Zack Trebane is not the running back one in Seattle.

Okay. Isaac Tesla. Uh, this Kyle says RB one leg. Groovy says, "Chick and Gunner will be top-notch tight ends on this team." You read my mind, my friend. You read my mind. Yeah. Again, you can see I have 0% Zack Charbanet. I've taken Jaylen McMillan in 14% of these drafts. Denzel Boston in 0%. Katon Mitchell in 0%. Britain Strange goes, do we grab a receiver? Do we just take McMillan? In comparison to the guys that are going later, it doesn't it doesn't feel horrible. We'll take them. I mean, Mike Evans leaves. Godwin's another year older. They grab a wide receiver on day three of the NFL draft, but I think McMillan should be playing over him.

Brown man says, "How big is Jaylen Naylor on your board?" I mean, he's in a really good situation and they paid him a decent amount of money, so maybe I need to give him a little bit more respect. But typically the wide receivers that don't have pedigree coming into the NFL don't do much on their rookie deals. I'm not super excited about going ahead and buying into them on their second team.

Fuji says, "Dang, notifications aren't working." I'm sorry, my friend. That's why I'm going to try my best to live stream at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. We'll start the stream most days then. It's just again today was a little bit tougher.

Okay, looking at We'll pull up the tool in a second. I know what we want to be doing here. We want to be We'll take Jaylen Naylor. Y'all talked me into it. Taking Jaylen Naylor also gives us the optionality of taking Fernando Mendoza if he makes it to us in the next round. I haven't drafted Fernando Mendoza yet this year, but maybe it'd be fun going backto back number one overall draft picks at quarterback with Cam Ward and Mendoza. But what's the optimizer for us at this point? Z Millie just gave the 100 like. Happy to see you back. Happy to see you in the chat, my friend. Hope you are doing well this Saturday night. Um, but we are still being pointed towards a two QB, six running backs, seven wide receiver, and three tight end build. The math just points to two quarterbacks being the optimal based off what we've done. Yes, six running backs is a much higher finals rate and a much higher advance rate than five running backs based on what we've done. Quarterback two QB builds and seven I'm sorry, two QB builds have a higher advance rate, semi-finals rate, and finals rate in comparison to three QB builds. So, we're going to take TJ Hawinson instead. We're not going to go Fernando Mendoza again. Like this is what we'll look at this and we'll grade it out after the draft with the portfolio analyzer. But this is a big reason why we've invested a lot into building out these tools is well, I mean, I've drafted over a thousand. I mean, I've drafted thousands of teams on underdog over the past four years. I've gotten very lucky and I've made a lot of money doing it, but it doesn't mean that I haven't made massive mistakes at the same time. So, I just because I would go ahead and take the third quarterback historically. If the math tells us no, the better decision is taking the sixth RB, we should probably take the sixth running back.

Gaseki goes 182. And looking at the optimal build, we're supposed to take one more running back and two more tight ends. Judy goes 185. Tank Dell goes 186. Slim says, "Can't rely 100% on the tool. You got to lean gut sometimes. I agree. I think if the data is murky, I'll say I know ball. I'll ignore the tool. I'll do whatever the hell I want to do. But if the data is very clear that no, the six running backs going to result in a higher advance rate, a higher semi-finals rate, and a higher finals rate for this team. I probably got to listen to it. Um, and here tight end, stupid simple, we're going to take Gunner Helm. We only have TJ Hawinson. Regardless of if the tool told me it or not, I would have known we only take three tight ends with this team. The tool also does say that. Um, and we have Cam Ward. So, Gunner Helm, top of ADP stacks, we need him. We need the tight end. So, pretty much an auto pick.

Okay. Kadarius Tony says, "You don't need third quarterback when you take QB in round six." I think you're right, my friend.

Okay. Kamani Vidal off the board 193. Antonio Williams goes, "I'm surprised to see how much he's been rising. Obviously, decent landing spot." You can tell who I've been taking a lot of in this range. We have Jeremy Bernard in 18% of these drafts, but we are running back and tight ends. If you look at my running backs, I've taken a lot of Ray Davis. I don't feel bad about it either. Maybe we should go more so for Do I just run it back with Justice Hill this year? Taking a lot of Justice Hill in back-to-back seasons.

Fuji Apple says, "If we take Jayen Daniels, we're already betting on him being elite anyway, and we saw that the back of his half of his rookie year." I'd agree with you.

Okay. Let's move this over. And our last pick is going to have to be a tight end. If Fry Me was there, I would have taken Fry Meth and waited at running back in the next round. But Devin Neil honestly is probably a pretty good pick here. Ben says, "Hey Mason, just got the tool and I'm loving it so far." Um, I have a quick question on how it does the mat. Does it focus on draft position or positional ranking for that specific pick? It focuses on draft position. It doesn't focus in on, oh, this was the QB5. It focuses on, no, I took I mean, oh, I took this quarterback at pick 54. That's what it focuses in on. Um, yes, we're going to be getting in more drafts after this. We never just do one draft.

Okay, Jason, happy to see you, my friend. Um, yeah, Ben, I hope that was the answer you're looking for, but that's the answer I got for you. Um, and we're going to move this over to tight ends. Somebody we haven't drafted much of yet, but he looks to be the starter on his own team. in a situation in which there are a ton of targets available, we may just take Greg Dol here. And if we don't get him, Jake Tongis may actually be a viable pick. Okay, we will take him as our third tight end. I'm going to analyze that draft at the very end of this live stream, but I just want to go ahead and hop in another draft right now. I don't want to waste any time.

Okay, we are in the puppy draft if anybody wants to get in here with us. Jason says, "What is your favorite spot to draft on from early this year?" Top five pick. Okay, I'm not going to tell y'all what the we're and we're pick 11 here. Obviously, I'm going to practice from everywhere across the board. So, no matter what happens, I'll be ready. And I'm not going to tell you what we are going to do to determine the Flock League draft order because I'm not going to tell the other guys yet. But let's just say that I think it's so important to have a top five pick this season in drafts from what I've seen so far. Maybe I end up changing my mind. But so far from what I've seen, I think it's so important to have that top five pick that I'm going to be practicing the hell out of what is determining our draft order in the Flock League this year. I'm going to be practicing for a month before the video.

Jeff says, "Great drafting in between Vinnie and Mason." So, we got Jeff in here at 10, Vinnie in here at nine. Dave is in this draft with us at pick six. Um Ross Cred says, "How many drafts have you done? Cook and Genty at 0%'s kind of wild." Yeah, I don't know if I've drafted at a pick 11 or 12 yet. Um Tony says, "Do you have to be 21 to draft?" I know at the very minimum you have to be 18 to draft on underdog. Let me pull up their map and where they're eligible. Let's see. Okay, if I look in must be 18 in all these states. You have to be 21 in Arizona, Massachusetts, and I think that says Virginia. I could be wrong. If you look at like the little fine print underneath where the MA drafts are available, it said I think it's you have to be 18 in most states and a couple states you have to be 21. But an underdog is like 100% above board everything. Like you have to be in one of those states to enter a draft. You can finish a draft from anywhere, but to enter the drafts, you have to be in one of the states that they are truly eligible or you will straight up get blocked.

Okay. Um yeah, so we have yet to take James Cook or Ash and Genty, but that's also because we have been yet to select from this side of the board. I actually think I may make a change in my rankings here. I may take Ash and Genty ahead of James Cut. Ross Cred says, "Did you see the Celtics game? I saw the third quarter." Um, my highest ranked player. Do I go I don't want to know if I want to go Barkley. I'm going to mix it up. We're going to go London. So, one thing we're going to add to the um tool is the ability to look up unique player combos because in my mind, I think that's an underrated strategy in these underdog tournaments is going after some unique builds. And if Ginty goes at pick 12 in most drafts and Drake London goes in the mid to late second round, just based off the way that most ADP draft boards are constructed, they're going to be very, very few teams that have the Ashton Genty and Drake London start because you're never getting Drake London in round three. So, you would have to reach on both of these players essentially. Um, I don't have the data for it yet. hopefully next week on the flockfantasy.com best baseball portfolio analyzer. We're going to go ahead and add it there. Um, but if I were to look it up, I would imagine that the this would be an extremely low own combination in comparison to the rest of the tournament.

Okay, W Nick says, "Cook over Genty all day." Not going to fault you for saying that. Fuji says, "I remember that story of the guy who drove 45 minutes to be able to draft on underdog." Well, we had Sammy Staxs who lives in Ontario where underdog is not. I think underdog's in every Canadian province outside of Ontario, but he lives in Ontario and he drives to whatever the province is next to it, which is like 15 minutes. He gets in a bunch of slow drafts, which are the eight hour timers. He enters them and then he drives back to Ontario and he like will complete them over the week and then he goes back to the state and then I actually went to the Dog Bowl which is like a big underdog draft like party event thing earlier this year that they did for like the NBA drafters that they have which I don't draft any NBA teams but it was interesting talking to a lot of people there because they're like the absolute sickos that are drafting like weekly NBA contests during the season, right? Um, and I talked to as many people as I could just seeing like, hey, what's your what's your story? You know, what what do you do? What what's your day-to-day life? Um, what what do you how do you draft? And I met multiple people that will like during their lunch break drive across like if they live live in like Louisiana will drive across the border to Texas, hop in some drafts during lunch and then go back.

Tedo McMillan goes 33 off using my rankings. Kairen's the highest ranked player. Let me look at the unique player combos that I have with London. I have not drafted Kairen Williams on any of my London teams yet. So, we'll go ahead and we will take Kairen. I only have him in 4.5% of my drafts. So, we are underweight Kairen Williams. And yeah, again, I've drafted Drake London with Javvante and Garrett Wilson in other drafts. I've drafted him with Bucky in other drafts. Let me see if and I've also drafted Kairen with Garrett Wilson. So, maybe we don't look at Garrett Wilson here. And honestly, we get very lucky. I think we get T. Higgins following. He is the highest ranked player in my rankings. So, we're going to go ahead. We'll just keep it simple. We'll take T. Higgins as our wide receiver, too.

Okay. Now, let's smooth this over. Jada says, "First picks team looking nasty. Not going to lie. In my opinion, the advantage that you get this year drafting inside one of the first five picks is just insane because like let's look at Drake London verse Nico Collins. I don't think there's that big of a difference between these two names. But the difference between Ashton Genty and Jamir Gibbs is insane. The difference between James Cook and Bejian Robinson is insane. So, I think you get just a massive advantage if you get one of the first five picks this year because even like I think the difference between JSN and Justin Jefferson's pretty big.

Okay. Luther Burden goes 46. Fuji Apple says 100% agree. Too much value in the top five. Jack says the 34 turn versus the four five turn is horrible though. I don't know. I mean, just the exponential boost that you get with Gibbs Bejon are insane. Coolman says, "Do you have any hot takes with rookies?" If y'all remember the first like two days of this contest, Jeremiah Love was my number one player drafted. He had like an ADP of 30. I thought Jeremiah Love was going to be my most drafted player. Now he's going in round two, so it's much tougher. But I mean, I have Jeremiah Love ranked ahead of Kenneth Walker, so I mean that's not that hot of a take. They go two picks apart in this draft, but it was going to be a very hot take back. Um, do you think Mai Lemon will be a top 24 five pick? There is a 0% chance Mai Lemon's going to be a top 25 pick in fantasy drafts this year. Even if AJ Brown got dealt, then Devont Smith tore his ACL before the season started. We wouldn't have Mai Lemon going ahead of Rashid Rice.

Okay. DJ Morgo's 54. Okay, let's pull this around. So, in terms of how we want to be constructing this team, this is what I figured we want. I mean, we've had a very balanced start so far this draft. So, right now, we are looking at a 3573 build being optimal. And the math is pretty concrete here as well. Um, looking at my rankings, we do have DeAndre Swift as the highest ranked name. So, let's go ahead and let's take him. If you're looking at my rankings, this is one of those instances where it's like tough. I have Jaden Daniels, Jaylen Herz ranked ahead of Joe Burrow, but at the same time, like we do have T. Higgins and we're not really going to want to stack Drake London with Michael Penn. So, our quarterback stacking options so far are pretty limited. So, we may end up going with Brian Thomas is my highest ranked player. Jaylen Herz goes. We'll take Brian Thomas. We're going to mix it up. Maybe I end up regretting it, but we'll play around here. We got BTJ is a W pick. Heck no BTJ. So, mixed opinions. That goes 64 to the CD Lamb team. That's Vinnie there. He has a very well balanced start so far. The team at seven has thrown any balance out the window. They have McCaffrey, Henry, ETN, Judkins at running back. They take Burrow unstacked and they have Jameson Williams as their only QB. Super interesting. Jada says, "Dack gonna average 20 plus. I like the pick. Not going to lie. I know why he does it. It's just hard for me when I have Jaden Daniels ring so much uh further ahead. Fuji says BTJ is a lot like Ibuka this year. Could be a massive hit or bust.

Let me pull up flockfantasy.com real quick. This is why I want to have the player cards on the draft extension itself so I don't have to do this research like on another screen. I just want to be able to click these players and bring it up which hopefully we can do so soon. Um, but Brian Thomas obviously this past season absolutely horrendous. You go to 2024 though, he was the wide receiver 12 in points per game as a rookie. He averaged 16.71 points per game, 2.56 yards per route run. I refuse to believe that this dude just lost it. I I can't remember like can some I've asked this question a bunch and nobody's been able to give me like a really good example. Can somebody please point out an example of a wide receiver that was a top 12 guy as a rookie for in 17 games points per game. Incredible efficient volume everything you'd want to see. and then face planet to being nothing the following season.

Um, Mai Lemon goes 78, Addison goes 79. We got Lad. Um, Lad wasn't nearly as good as Brian Thomas. Like, I'll pull this up for y'all. I guess they weren't that far off. Um, we're going to take Tucker Craft as our first tight end and then we'll take Lawrence on the way back around to stack with Brian Thomas. Team after us only has two receivers and they have no um Jags, so I would be surprised if they took Lawrence from us, but we'll take Lawrence. We'll stack him up. And we hadn't drafted Tucker Craft in a single draft yet this year, and we hadn't taken Trevor Lawrence in a single draft. though. Um, picks that I'm fine with.

Okay. Yeah, you got M. Jones magic with Brian Thomas in that rookie season. Kelvin Benjamin is the best example that you could have. Kelvin Benjamin also a first round NFL pick as well. But let me pull this up. Actually, we don't even have Calvin Benjamin on flockfantasy.com. Um, we don't we don't have a player card for him. I hate that Pro Football reference does like the bot verification now. It's like, I promise you, I'm not a bot. Why do I have to do this every time I come in? Um, Kelvin Benjamin 2014 drafted receiver exactly 1,000 receiving yards, but he had nine receiving touchdowns. 63 receiving yards per game. In comparison, Brian Thomas is a rookie, 75 receiving yards per game, and just a much more efficient player as well. Kenny Goliday exploded and then went to nothing, but I don't think he did so as a rookie. No, I could be mistaken, but I don't know if Kenny Gall is a great example because I don't think it was his rookie season. I think it was year two. Let me pull this up. Yeah, year two Kenny Go took that step up and then year three he really exploded. But in terms of rookies that year one were like legit top 12 guys and then fell off to being nothing. Kelvin Benjamin's like the only example I can think of and that was over 10 years ago. Somebody asked Dante Pettis. Dante Pettis was never good. Let me pull it up to make sure I'm not mistaken. Yeah, Dant Dante Pettis never had 500 receiving yards in a year. His rookie season was the best season of his career, but he had 467 yards.

Cool man says, "Look at Michael Clayton, who was This is what Davis told me, but Michael Clayton was before my time. That was 2004." Yeah. a Michael Clayton almost 1,200 receiving yards as a rookie, seven touchdowns, falls off to nothing through the rest of his career. Um, again, that's before I was alive in 2004. I was what, six, seven years old. But, um, if we got to go that far back, here's what we're going to do. It's going to be simple. We're going to build this out as a Jordan Love team. We're going to take Jordan Love at this pick who we have in 0% of these drafts. We're going to stack him with Tucker Craft and we're going to take um Matthew Golden here as well.

Okay. Michael Pitman goes 108s, but yeah, Golden here. I mean, Bo Knicks is the value. Can we justify Bo Knicks? Are there any Broncos that we can take later on? I guess we can go with the Bronco in round 18. Do we feel like we need Honestly, f it. We're going to go bow next. We'll see if that was the move at the end of this. Right now, the optimizer we maybe have done messed up. We only have three receivers and those guys are London Higgins, Brian Thomas. We have three running backs with Genty, Kairen, and Swift. As of right now, four running backs are in play. Four running backs is the highest advance rate, semifinals rate, and finals rate, which in the past, I would have never even considered four running backs here. I would have just locked in five, which five is still definitely in play, don't get me wrong. wide receivers all over the place. And then tight end, we know we want three. So, running back, we're either taking four or five. We're taking seven or eight receivers. I'm probably leaning towards five running backs and seven wide receivers, but that's under the assumption we can get wide receivers soon.

Okay, let's move this. Jada says, "Mason, what if I told you that you just drafted the MVP of the league this year at 110?" Would it be the most surprising thing in the world that Bo Nicks won MVP? Probably not. Do I think it's likely? No. Andrews goes 125. If we were to take a running back in this round, we're done at RB. This round is god awful. Oh my gosh. There were multiple players I was excited about. Um there in the last turn there were multiple players I was interested in here. It's nothing. It's nobody. Ski says Mason. Who's the Patriots wide receiver? One. It's a It's Ag Brown. If for whatever reason they don't get AG Brown. Oh, dear God. I think we may go Omar Cooper. Construction-wise, I want to go wide receiver, wide receiver. Omar Cooper, good prospect. Round one, NFL draft capital. Garbage situation, garbage offense. But it's Romeo Dobs if for whatever reason they don't get AJ Brown. But the most likely outcome is they have AJ Brown and he's the wide receiver one.

Luke says, "Is Jonathan Brooks viable?" The Sammy Stacks in his live stream earlier I was listening to made a compelling point of probably not wanting to take Jonathan Brooks here. And you can see I've drafted 0% Jonathan Brooks. And Hookham Horns, I'm rooting for him. And we may have a reach after this. We're going to reach on Shahed. perfect example of a baseball pick. Never would be interested in a regular reddraft league, but if we're just looking for usable wide receiver weeks, I think he'll give us some. So, wide receiver, we have London Higgins, Brian Thomas, Omar Shahed. Quarterback, we have Lauren stacked Brian Thomas. loved stacked to Tucker Craft, Boon Knicks unstacked. And then running back, we have Genty, Kairen, DeAndre Swift.

Coolman says, "Medical doctor that I follow says Brooks is a maybe next year kind of guy. Don't see how the hell that would be the case. He tore his ACL in 2024. It's kind of now or never for Jonathan Brooks. is going into year three and he has had nine carries in his NFL career and he's going into his third season. I don't think it's a next year kind of deal. It's a you get it done this year or it ain't happening.

Okay, Cle Shakir goes 141. Brown man says, "How many leagues do you expect to be a part of this year?" I expect to draft most likely about 500 teams on underdog. I expect to be in the dynasty leagues I'm already in and then I expect to draft in the flock league and mainly focus in on the flock league during the season.

Um, Tanner Wise says, "Bro is only like 22 though, so that's the bullc case." Yeah, that's actually surprising. He's turning 23 in a couple months, so still pretty young.

Skiid says, "Hey, Mason, for running backs, do you factor in vulture chancer?" No, of course. Um, let's move this back down. All right. Uh, thank God we went wide receiver, wide receiver in the last range, but because we went wide receiver, wide receiver, now we are very much pointed towards five running backs and seven receivers and three tight ends still. So, we need two more running backs, two more receivers, two more tight ends, no more quarterbacks. Okay. Teslaos will take Jonah Coleman, pair him up with Bo Nicks. And then we'll get whoever falls between Britain Strange or Travis Hunter to pair up with Lawrence. Most likely going to be Britain Strange given the fact that this team here has three tight ends. But God, Travis Hunter could easily be the pick. I This team I hate this team. This team is horrible. Thank god this was a five dollar draft.

Quarterback, we have Lawrence double stacked with Brian Thomas and Britain Strange. Jordan Love stacked with Tucker Craft. Bo Nicks quote unquote stacked or I'd more so say paired with Jonah Coleman. Running back Genty, Kiran, DeAndre Swift, Jonah Coleman, tight end Tucker Craft, Britain Strange.

Kadarius Tony says, "I really like my team at the 104." Let's check it out. And it's Green says, "I've taken zero Hunter. Does he have any hope this year?" Yes, I would say he has some, but it's like the same question of like, "Oh, I've taken zero." Somebody says, "Oh, I've taken zero Trey Harris this year. Does he have some hope?" I'd go, "Yeah, he has some hope." I'm not going to say, "Yeah, zero." But that's like the range of the draft that he's going in. And we'll get in another draft after this for everyone, ladies and gentlemen. So, if you haven't already, please make sure you go down there, drop a like on this live stream and send up a prayer that I learn how to draft a team in 2026 sometime soon because it ain't looking good.

But we have Cadarius Tony in a pick four. He goes Puka, Kenneth Walker, McBride. This is an incredible trio out the gate. Something we'll have on flockfantasy.com hopefully with the tool by next week is the ability for you to be able to go through and look up how many teams on underdog have been able to draft Puganua, Kenneth Walker, and Trey McBride together. Once we have the ability to look that up, I'm going to assume fewer than 1%. Then you have Lad Mani, Mike Evans, Christian Watson. really like those. You crush this. Party stacked with Evans, Baker with Godwin. Yeah, your team's incredible. Significantly better than mine. It's not even really close either.

Okay, Gunner Helm off. I've taken a decent amount of Daltton Schultz here. We need one more tight end and three more receivers. So, let's take Calvin Ridley. We need Actually, no. I'm take I'm only taking I'm taking five running backs. I know the math here. The math is very clear on taking four. What's the math on eight receivers? Eight verse seven wide receivers is murky. No, we're taking five running backs. This is a 3573 build. I'm not getting away from that. and we will take Dalton Schultz here. So, we're done at tight end now.

Luton says, "Hope I can finally get in one of these." I hope that you can get in with us as well, my friend. We're going to be getting in basketball mania after this. And I really want to analyze this draft at the end because I think we got absolutely cooked. And I think the lesson to be learned is do not be an idiot and take quarterbacks in rounds 8, nine, and 10. That's the lesson to be learned. We should have taken Matthew Golden instead of Bo Nicks. And then in the following round, we could have had like actually I don't know. I don't know if that two for two swaps that interesting. We'll see. Maybe we're surprised with the analyzer, but I'm expecting it tells us it's garbage.

Okay, Jeremy Bernard goes 190. I'm at Johnson 192. Fuji says, "$5 for learning how to draft seems to be a good return on investment. Plus, this team can still win. So, to be honest, this is how I view it early in the year. And one, I'm sponsored by Underdog Fantasy. So, obviously, part of my sponsorship is I do get some site credits for Underdog Drafts, which again, thank you for everybody using Code Flock allowing me to do this for y'all. Um, so that obviously makes things a lot easier, but on top of it too, it's like if I can do a bunch of these $5 drafts, spend 15 bucks a night in May, improve dramatically at drafting, and do so on stream. So, if y'all are watching, hopefully you see the mistakes that I make and y'all get better yourself. By the time drafts really matter and we're in those $500 drafts in August, we should hopefully know what we're doing. Um, we're God dang, we're taking Cooper Cup, I guess. And then what are there any interesting running backs? Why don't we take Jaden Blue? Let's make this a Jaden Blue team.

The great Nate Scott says, "How dependent is Jeremy Bernard's stock on Rogers coming back to the Steelers?" It's not like Rogers provided a ton of passing volume last season. So, if I was drafting Jeremy Bernard, which you see my exposure, I have drafted a lot of them. Um, yeah, we're taking Jaden Blue here as our fifth running back. And let's go ahead and let's hop in underdog basketball mania draft. This is the largest underdog tournament. This is higher stakes. It's a $25 buyin. $2 million to first. I think a million dollars to second. Um, this is the one where it's true lifechanging money and we get a good pick. Thank God. Thank God. Um, but I don't know if we were talking about Jeremy Bernard. Yeah. So, for somebody like me who I've drafted a lot of Jeremy Bernard, I'm hoping Rogers comes back, but is it the end? Like, it's not like you're asking, oh, how dependent is Rashi Rice's value on Mahomes coming back from the torn ACL. It's like, if you told me Mahomes didn't play next season, Rasheed Rice would fall, his value would get cut in half. you'd be going from a top three quarterback in the NFL to a bottom three option. If instead of Aaron Rodgers, it's Drew Aller or just some random crap option. You go from below average to horrible, it's about the same situation.

Okay, we have drafted only four and a half% Jamar Chase. Let's take Jamar Chase and let's see who we have taken with Jamar Chase teams the most. We've drafted Kenneth Walker with Jamar Chase, Josh Jacobs with Jamar Chase, Bucky, and Jaylen Wadd. So, let's keep that in mind when we're going to be up on the clock again. But we may not be um I mean, if Kenneth Walker makes it to us, we may not even have to worry about it because Kenneth Walker's probably not going to make it. That's what I'm trying to say.

It's Green says, "Don't call Rogers below average." I mean, I as somebody who freaking had DK Metaf in the Flock League last year, um, Ro God, Rogers was awful. Okay. Nothing out of the ordinary at all. Literally, round one in this draft looks like ADP. Looks like everybody picked at the top of ADP. People here are drafting scared. Now, am I going to come out here and say, "Oh, I'm better than y'all because of No, I I also drafted from the top of ADP."

Benny says, "Don't think you're going to like your grade from the last draft, Mason. I just looked at it." All right. Yeah, let's pull this up. I that last draft we did was straight up busted. I will pull up our let me sync real quick on the other site. So if you have the underdog best baseball extension blah blah blah just go hit the extension. You can hit sync. It's going to sync everything for you. It just imported the two new drafts that we've done. I'm going to go over to our basketball portfolio. Refresh. Our two new drafts are in here. I'm not going to look at the pre-draft stuff. I'm just going to look at the post-draft stuff. And we can look at our most recent draft. Yeah, we had one of the worst teams in it. Our first team was phenomenal. We'll go over that again. But that last team we just drafted, we get a C minus on for the advancement. the team before that we got an A+. Um here, let's think we may want McBride. We're going to take McBride over Bowers. I think they're about equivalent. We've drafted Bowowers in 14% of our draft so far, and we've only taken McBride in um 4%. So, let's take McBride here. Bowers goes 23. Nico at 124. We're going to get Jeremiah Love. Jeremiah Love, you can tell live in 23% of these drafts. If you can get him in the third round, I think it's an auto pick. Absolute auto pick. And god, I like this team. This This is what I am talking about when I'm saying how damn good these picks are in the top five. What did we do in the last draft? What were our three first picks in the last Let me freaking pull that up right now. Our first three picks in the last draft were Ashton Genty, Kairen Williams, and Drake London versus this one. You get Chase McBride and Jeremiah Love. God, I'm telling you right now, I'm going to do everything I can to get a top five pick in the Flock League. Everything I can.

Cadarius Tony says, "Two Cardinals in your first three rounds, bro. Uh yeah, may maybe when you put it that way, it doesn't look too good. But to shout out everybody in the draft that was right here before us, the only people I had maybe a better draft then Keith from the 107 that only had Jameson Williams as his only wide receiver through the first six rounds. I got a better advancement grade than him. And then the team that took four quarterbacks, I got a better advancement grade than them. But if the only teams I drafted better in than in the last draft were the teams that drafted four quarterbacks and waited to take their second wide receiver, I mean, first wide receiver in round five and second wide receiver in round seven. Not ideal. I'm literally going to rig the Flock League. signed up with the top five pick.

Sanka says, "Damn, I'm putting Keith out there." I'm sorry, Keith. Abuka goes 42. Lovelin goes 43. So, the team at six hasn't taken a wide receiver yet. And the best Palmania drafts are really high stakes in my mind because I know obviously 99% of people here are not going to max it out. But for me, I'm gonna draft all 150 teams and I need to make sure that every single one of those picks I or teams I draft have a chance to win. So Jameson Williams is my highest ranked player, but I have Trevian Henderson in 0% of my drafts and I don't know if I want to go into the season with 0% Trevian Henderson and like 25% Jameson Williams. So we'll mix in Trevon Henderson. Let me see again. Jamar Chase I have taken with Wadd before, but um did I take Jeremiah Love and Jamar Chase on that same team? No, I didn't. Okay, so all four of my first all four of my picks before this were unique, so I'm not too worried about the combos now. And I do think we want to be taking a wide receiver after only having one wide receiver through the first four picks. And Jaylen Wadd is my highest ranked player at this point. So we are going to go ahead and take Jaylen Wadd at 51. And I I really freaking like this team. Do I think we like we're next level genius by drafting this? No. I think we just Hey, you get a top five pick, you have a pretty good start. It's up to you to make sure you don't ruin it. Um here looking at the math, five running back builds are incredible with what we have done so far. Like this is a super high percentage. Wide receiver, we're looking at seven or eights. Technically, seven's the best, but because we don't need the six running back, we can get away with eights. QBs, we want to be drafting three of them. We haven't taken any of them through the first five rounds. And then tight end, the math screams, you want to take only two tight ends when you go with the tight end in the second round.

Okay, we got Giovani in this draft with us at nine. Happy to have you, my friend. Abraham says, "Who's your biggest target this year in drafts?" My most drafted player so far is Quinton Johnston, but I don't think we're surprising anybody there. Carell Tate 56, Lamar 57, Swift 58. Okay, some interesting teams here. That team at 11 also only has Garrett Wilson as their wide receiver. Jarian Price goes 61. I really like the Jarian Price pick. Jordan Tyson goes 62. I like the Tyson pick as well. In general, I like the price of all five of the rookies, the big time rookies. I'm not going to speak on the deeper names, guys like Mike Washington, I'm sure you're going to have a couple random hits there, but in my mind, the top five guys with Carnell Tate, Jordan Tyson, Jadarian Price, Jeremiah Love, they're I don't say easy projections, but I feel confident with them. Chubigo 68s. Do we do it? We're going to. Here is this draft. It's simple. Let me pitch it this way. If the Arizona Cardinals turn in to a top three offense in the NFL, we turn $25 into two million. If the Arizona Cardinals are the Arizona Cardinals, we light $25 on fire. But again, if the Cardinals are that top three offense, y'all can stand on the shore. What do we want? Do we want Michael? Obviously, we're not taking Michael Wilson. Michael Wilson has to be dust for this team to be any good. Um, we'll take DK Medaf. First draft of Metaf. This is the let's make sure we don't only have um we have 0% of everybody or don't have anybody with 0% ownership after this draft. But again, y'all can stand on the side of the shore, right? Y'all can stand on the riverbed while I drive my yacht right by y'all. I'll wave. Y'all will see me in my Jacobe Brassette jersey. Hell, Jacobe Brassette may even be on the boat. We'll see. This is a good question. Why is DK Medaf drafting Mason Dodd confused? Good question there, my friend. Sammy Stack says, "You mean Carson Beck?" Possibly. Possibly. Beck. Here's what this team needs. This team needs Carson Beck to be Tom Brady. Am I asking for too much there? I don't think so. There's the Tom Brady once. Can there not be a Tom Brady again? Now, this is funny. Mason getting a license plate for his Porsche. Thanks, Jacobe. We win BBM. I honestly Here's the thing. I have such a And I've talked to my fiance about this. Like I have such a tiny house like like a tiny driveway and a tiny garage. It would be ridiculous to get like an extra car as a fun car. But hypothetically, we win BBM new house. Getting a fun car may not be the worst idea. May not be the worst idea. Abraham said um he thought we were going to say something else regarding what we have that's tiny. Well, my friend, that's tiny as well, but that goes without being said.

All right, let's move this over to our next pick. We have Harold Fannon in 18% of these drafts. obviously a quote unquote loser of the NFL draft given the additional competition that comes in, but we are not gonna overthink it. We are just going to take Bicks and make sure we don't mess anything up. I'm going to let you all in on a little secret. It doesn't matter to draft a wide receiver in round eight because there is a wide receiver that goes in round nine that's better than all these guys anyway. So, we'll take Bo Knicks as our first quarterback to pair with Jaylen Wadd. I believe this is actually our most common stack so far in underdog drafts. We'll look at that at the end here. And then we are going to go over to my rankings and we're going to sort by my little head and see, oh, who's the top ranked player? Quinton Johnston. Easy money, easy game. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. See you next year.

Okay, so now running back, we have Jeremiah Love, Trevian Henderson. Tight end, we have Trey McBride. Quarterback, we have Bodnick stacked with Waddle. Wide receiver, we have Chase, Wadd, Harrison, Mad Cap, Quinton Johnson. It really is that easy. Um DJ says, "I'm owning you in this drafted pick, too." We'll see, my friend. What you got going on? Gibbs Bowers Allen. I like it. J Mo DJ Moore. I like it. I like it. Herz at 71 is great value. It's just tough to get away with the bully quarterback when you also went with an elite tight end. Like I will look at your team. I don't know if you have the roster construction tool. We'll look at your team after this. My guess is you're going to have a very hard time making noise with this construction because in your first six picks you went with three combined quarterbacks and tight ends. Like I think you could get away with bully quarterback, but if you're going to take two QBs this early, I don't think you can be doing so on a team where you also take Brock Bowers. Because if you go with like a quarterback in round three and a quarterback in round six, just the the straight up math behind it, you're going to be behind at running back and wide receiver points. So, what I would have probably done here is once you went Bowowers at 23, I think I would have gone running back or wide receiver in round three, which allows you to take the value of Jaylen Herz at 71 because I don't want to tell you like, oh, don't take Jaylen Herz at 71 because it's a phenomenal pick. Taking Herz and Mai Lemon there looks perfect. like Herz and Mai Lemon look 10 times better than me taking Marvin Harrison and DK Mechaf. So, um it's interesting, don't get me wrong, but at the end of this, we'll go ahead and we'll run the numbers and see what it looks like.

Okay, Gadston goes 115. Let's pull this around. And what is our advancement looking like? So, we need two more quarterbacks, three more running backs, three more receivers, and a tight end. There are no quarterbacks to be seen anywhere close to us. Um, y'all know I like Xavier Worthy. I think he's the last wide receiver in this tier. So, we're going to keep it stupid simple. We'll take Xavier Worthy. And afterwards, do we Yeah, we are only going to take one more wide receiver. We need four more RBs now. Yeah, it looks like six running back builds are the optimal at this point for us. NRG, happy to see you, my guy. Long time no see. Okay, Khil Shakir off the board. Our rankings have Jordan Mason and Rashad White as the highest names. I've drafted a lot of both of these players already. We will take Jordan Mason here. I just think there's close to no competition in Minnesota. And hell, we got the Justin Jefferson jersey on. Why don't we take Minnesota Viking?

Long as Shoreman says, "Uses the flock tools each of the past two years and finished 11th and dead last in my league, resulting in me having to get an ass tattoo, but we still out here grinding." My friend, this tool was released what, a week ago. So, sorry about the ass tattoo, but whatever tools you were using beforehand, they were bootleg. Okay, now let's go ahead close this out and let me know in the chat real quick. What do you do? You like the green screen? Do you like me just kind of floating around her here? Or do you like the actual square where you can see the background? I like the green screen. I like seeing as much of the draft board as possible. Okay. So, anyway, wide receiver, we have Chase, Wadd, Marv, Metaf, Quinton Johnston, Xavier Worthy. We have the elite tight end with McBride. Running back, we have Love, Henderson, Jordan Mason, and then quarterback, we have stacked with Wadd. This team's going to come down to one thing and one thing only. Can we get enough quarterback points? Jacobe Brassette, I'm looking at you, buddy. I'm looking at you. Green. Okay, looks like we got people saying that this is the green green screen is Ben Jensen says, "No face cam's the best." I don't blame you for thinking that. Okay. Fuji says, "I have four eyes and still can barely see through the green screen." Okay, good to know. Okay, Jack says, "Like your boy Jinxy would be sick if you brought fantasy into the mainstream this season." He literally can bring anything into the mainstream. He could take up underwater basket weaving and make it a mainstream thing where everybody's doing it. Imagine If Jinxy was in the Flock League, fantasy football would be the biggest thing in 2027. It'd be the biggest trend of 2027. It would be insane. He's part of the flock. He's halfway there. Now we just got to get him in the league, which I have no idea how to do, but uh He Jones says you have to try to recruit him. I've been try I've been trying, my friend. Much easier said than done. Trust me. Much easier said than done.

Um, all right, we're about to be on the clock again. I haven't drafted Zack Charminade a single time. We need a tight end. Do we take Isaiah likely? If we take Isaiah likely, we're not taking another tight end in the rest of this. Let's take him. We only have 8% of drafts. Who cares? We'll scoop a little bit of ADP value. And now we're done at tight end. We're only quarterback, running back, and wide receiver. Okay. Charbanet goes 143. Hunter Henry 145. Okay, let's see. We are sitting with Woody Marks is our highest ranked player. Let's just take him. I don't know what else to do. Like Jacobe Brassette, we're going to be able to get with the next pick. Do we take Bryce Young here? Is that the move? Possibly. I Here's the thing. I just literally didn't know what to do with those last two picks. So, we just default highest players in ADP that fit our roster construction. Now, tight end, we have McBride and likely. Running back, we have Love Henderson, Jordan Mason, Woody Marx. Quarterback, we have B Nick stacked with Wadd. Wide receiver, we have Chase, Wadd, Marv, Metcap, Quinton Johnson, Xavier Worthy. So, we have a couple tight ends going after we take Woody Marks, which is good for us. Obviously, we aren't taking another tight end, so we want to see him off.

Jack says, "Bro B for real, who has the higher weekly ceiling, Katon Mitchell or Woody Marks?" Want to play a fun game? Let's play a fun game. I don't know if I'll drive Ke Mitchell at all this year, and be honest with you. Let's play this game together. Katon Mitchell is now on his second NFL team. Would y'all like to do me a guess? I mean, do me a favor and take a guess on how many career carries he has? It's played in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Got guesses like seven. You got guesses in the 70s. Mr. Debbie Dragon said 121. I think that's the answer. Yeah. Uh, Mr. Devin Dragon, maybe he looked it up. He got it right. Woody Marks in a singular season last year handled 196 carries and 36 targets. Keane Mitchell's gone 475 and 59. Woody Marks looked very bad in his rookie season. Bad enough where they went out and they traded for Dave McGomery, but I don't think we can discredit Woody Marks by trying to prop up Katon Mitchell. Katon Mitchell hasn't done anything in the NFL. And here's what we're going to do. We're gonna take Jacobe Brassette because knowing y'all, if I don't take him here, I'm not getting him. Somebody behind us is going to freaking snipe us. Take him for God knows what reason. And we're going to be steaming. So, we'll go ahead. We'll snag him as our QB2. We know we need three QBs based off our construction. And so, we need And it looks like five running backs are back on the table now that we take Woody Marks. I don't know why it would say five. I'm going to go with six running backs and seven receivers based off looking at the math there. Um I was going to take Mendoza. Do we take Gino Smith? He's the last quarterback that projects to start a bunch of games. So we're going to take Gino.

Okay, my guy says, "Did Woody really look bad?" Yeah, Woody Marks did not look good. I'm not going to sit here and say that Woody Marks is some great NFL running back by any stretch of the imagination. But Woody Marks last season as a rookie RB was the running back 34 in points per game. The running back 29 in total fantasy points. And we just drafted him at pick 147 going into year two. And I don't know if we can confidently say that Dave McGomery is the same player that he once was. Uten says he tried though. What? He tried. That is true. Was a good way to put it. Okay. Tyreek Antonio Williams off the board. And I I like this d I like this draft way more than the draft before this. I'll say that. I don't know if it was as good as our first draft where we got an A+ for the advancement and an A+ for the ADP value, which obviously we'll see how the ADP value ages over time, but is a hell of a lot better than the second draft we did tonight.

And then we know we're going to take for me, I look at the math here and I go, I want six RBs. I want seven wide receivers. So, we're going to take two more running backs and one more receiver. Kamar off 187. Kahan Booty off the board. I'm worried about somebody like Kron Allen where I just think when we get to August, I don't know if this is somebody we're drafting. Where'd he go? Emanuel Wilson. And we still need one more running back and one more receiver. Christian Kirk goes. We're gonna just take Adai Mitchell. Get at least one stacking option here with Gino. We'll have a stacking option for every single one of our quarterbacks. Do I think Adani Mitchell is going to crush? Not at all. But it is what it is. And we'll take whatever random running back that we get in the last round. But typically, we would end the live stream here in the past when we only have like one pick to make. I'd go, we're gonna take this guy, let me bounce. But I do want to show y'all how this grades out historically. So, we're going to wait and I'll actually show you who I take in round 18 and we'll throw it into the portfolio after this. And I'll remind y'all, of course, if y'all wanted to be able to use my rankings while you draft, if you wanted to use the roster optimizer for your construction, if you wanted to see the ADP trends over time, your ownership percentages, if you wanted to see your unique combination of players, the whole nine yards, it's all with the flockfantasy.com best baseball extension. If you're already an annual motherflocker, it's legit a $49 add-on, and you get it for the entire year. Um, typically these best ball extensions are anywhere from like 500 to 800 bucks, but we don't have to pay for marketing, so I can instead spend that money on developers and price it cheaper than anybody else can. So, um, in my opinion, I think it is the number one thing that will help you in drafts this year. Price cheaper than anywhere else. And lastly, um, uh, I will say that's flockfantasy.com, links in the live chat, links in the description. Use code flock when you sign up and I'll review your basketball portfolio for you for free. And you can see the link right here. Um, and also, if you are new to underdog fantasy, you will get the basketball extension for free and you will get $50 added to your account after you play your first five. Just make sure you sign up with code flock. You can see the QR code on your screen now. And also when you use code flock as well for underdog fantasy, um, make sure you set up an account on flockfantasy.com with that same promo code flock. That way the following morning when Underdog sends me the CSV with all the email addresses on it, I'm going to go ahead take that CSV, upload it on the site, and then we'll be able to credit those counts with free access to all the best ball tools and the best ball portfolio analyzer. And let's take our last player with this pick. And Cadarius says, "Don't forget to grade that one guy's team you said earlier, too." Yeah, that was the Josh Allen Jaylen Herz team we'll look at. But here, I want to look at running backs for this pick. Did we We took Jaden Blue in the last one. Take black. Running back. I went in round three of the draft. Do we take Justice Hill? I think we may take Justice Hill. Taj Brooks may not be a horrible pick. Let's say black looks I know. I'm going to take Justice Hill. Take him as our sixth RB mixing some points. Okay. And we're going to have to wait until this ends so we can sync it with the site. It's not going to sink until the very last pick is made. But yeah, I think we want to look at this team with the Josh Allen Jaylen Herz pairing and see how that grades out historically for the advancement. Giovanni says he's at pick nine. Pleasure drafting with you. How did I do? We will look at your team as well when we sync this in and view it with the draft analyzer and the portfolio analyzer on the site. So, let's go ahead hit this. Hit this. Let's sync again. Um, it should pull in one draft here. Yep. Just got one draft. We'll go over to flockfantasy.com. Pull up the best ball tab. Um, perfect. Here we go. Let me get rid of the pre-draft best slates. Our portfolio grade currently sits as an A minus. I'll take it. Our most drafted player is Quinton Johnson. Second most drafted player is Jeremiah Love. Our most drafted stack is Bo Nicks, Jaylen Wadd. We've actually taken a lot of them. We've taken them in four drafts so far. Our latest draft here was a B+ for advancement and value. Not the worst, but yes, looking at that team I said we were going to look at previously, they have a D advancement uh composite 7.36%. That's for their general advancement, their semi-finals, and their finals taken all into account. And yeah, it's just you take Allen and Jay Allen, Jaylen Herdz, and Brock Bars all in the same team. It's hard to get enough points at running back and receiver. Going through and looking at the team at nine that asked us for team at four looks like they had the best draft in general, both with ADP value as well as advancement structure. tight end they have um Fannon, Jawan Johnson, Gunnar Helm, quarterback Daniels and Stafford. Great running back points, great receiver points. That team at nine looks really good as well. Team at nine, ADP value, A+ advancement, A. Yeah, great team across the board. Interesting to see the Cousins pick, especially unstacked, actually. No, let me Yeah. Yeah, the Rogers Cousins selections are interesting. But yeah, looks like maybe the worst team drafted in that one was team 12 who took seven running backs. And they had also taken Genty and Amari and Hampton with their first two picks. So when that's the case, you almost never want to take six, let alone take seven. So in that last draft, the math says that team 12 was probably the worst. Um, we weren't incredible by any means, but we have a team that's very much live, which is all I really want to ask for. Don't want to I want to make sure we're not wasting any entries. So our first draft was the best tonight. Then second draft we were horrible and then we bounced back a bit with the last. But I think that's all I got for you. I really appreciate you and it's super late tonight. So I'm going to go ahead hit the hey and I will be live tomorrow. I really hope I get to see you there. I want to remind you of course that all you got to do is hit the bell next to the subscribe button. That way YouTube will tell you when we go live. But I'm going to try to go live at 8:00 p.m. Eastern every day. But some days like today, life's just going to get in the way. And I'm committed to streaming every single day for y'all. So, we just got to roll with the punches. But love everyone here. Thank you. Add.