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The NEW Best Strategy In Dynasty Startup Drafts (Build Like This)
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We have completely changed the way that
we draft in Dynasty startup drafts. Like
I'm telling you, like it's it's changed
completely this offseason. We're going
to highlight exactly what we changed,
why we did that, why we think it's way
better for you to draft this way in your
Dynasty drafts and how it could help you
in the future. Not that if you drafted
our other way that you were in a bad
shape cuz we have plenty of teams we're
in fine shape in, but we have really
like Dynasty, we look at it a lot
differently this offseason. We have just
because of the market. So make sure if
you play Dynasty, drop a like, make sure
you subscribe. Let's get into this. I
want to help you guys with your dynasty
startups today. In terms of this year,
like this is going to be very, very
specific. 2025 advice. Sometimes we'll
get on here and we'll do Dynasty startup
videos and we'll be like, "Okay, here
are general rules that apply to every
Dynasty startup till the end of the
time. Like, take the value, don't trade
up, all that stuff." Yes, all of that
still applies. You can find that in any
of our other startup videos from before.
This is specific to right now because
right now it is very easy to screw this
up. And we know it is because we've had
what 14 live dynasty community leagues
on our channel. Real money leagues
hosted by people in our community that
we've live streamed. So we've not only
looked at those, but we Nathan and I
have also both done two startups this
offseason. That's really all we can do,
including this one that we're going to
talk about here a little bit, the Krusty
Krab too uh right next to the original
because money as Mr. Krab said. But um
we're going to talk about the specific
drafts. Let's talk about draft position
this year. A lot of people we get this
question all the time. Hey, what's the
best place to draft from in a Dynasty
startup? Here's how I broke it down. One
through three are our least favorite
spots, and you're going to get the full
rundown on why I hate drafting up top.
And every time I draft in the top three,
I hate my team. I hate it. Four through
nine are better, but it's a mixed bag
based on who you actually get falling to
you in the middle rounds. It can be
good. We've seen very good teams at
four. We've seen very good teams at
nine. We've seen very good teams in
between. But if you end up on the wrong
side of tier drops, depending on
positionally how players end up going in
the draft, you could it just it's kind
of a wild card.
But then this is the important part. 10
through 12, and we're going to tell you
exactly why positionally 10 through 12
are the cream of the crop in these
drafts, especially third round reversal
leagues. Uh 10 through 12 is a cheat
code, like imbalanced to a point. And
we're going to again, I'll tell you
exactly why in third round versus less,
but different than previous seasons.
Let's look at our early round strategy
for 2025 and kind of how Nathan and I
have approached this so far as we've
done some of these drafts. Yeah. So,
we've got early round strategy. Um
there's this is really where you kind of
make or break uh really your three-year
outlook. Um and uh starting out your
dynasty league, I I think that it's
really important to
understand that um with the value of
wide receivers going up so much and them
being a dime a
dozen, it still is worth taking wide
receivers in the early rounds. Um in
fact, I think it's worth prioritizing
them in in the early rounds. Uh if you
can go wide receiver, wide receiver
start. I'm totally cool with that. If
you go wide receiver, QB start, QB wide
receiver start, I'm totally cool with
that because you basically leave the
first couple of rounds with one of those
top 12 cornerstone wide receivers. What
we've found when we review a lot of
teams and blueprints is um if a team
that is contending does not have a top
12 top 12 to 15 cornerstone uh wide
receiver, the number one thing that
we're telling them to do and the number
one moves that we're recommending they
make are all for the purpose of them
getting a top 15 cornerstone wide
receiver. If you don't have one of those
guys and you're trying to get through um
your your season with uh DJ Moore, Chris
Godwin, and Tyreek Hill, and DK Metaf,
like that's a fine wide receiver room
production-wise, uh you are big time,
you're big- time risk um of of really
not maintaining your overall value at
your roster. And when you lock down one
of those cornerstone guys up top, these
guys are just as insulated as a
quarterback's going there. Um so, I I
think that's really going to be one of
the top recommendations we have here. We
don't love seeing people take tight end.
I love Bowers. I love Trey McBride as
individual fantasy talents and dynasty
assets. The the uh the the team's
outlook um when when they go with
Bowowers or Trey McBride fresh out of a
startup is
just it's it's just less than ideal.
Let's look at the example here. And
yeah, when we're looking at teams here
um in in the Krusty Krab 2 uh that that
we did, uh you're seeing the guy Basher
1011 shout out goes with Bowowers at the
17, which again value-wise is not a bad
pick. It's like, you know, you can take
Bowowers there. It's totally fine. He's
going to maintain his value. But look at
the rest of the team here. You've got
Herbert and Love as your QBs. Your
running back one is Barkley. You don't
go running back for the rest of the
draft until Swift, Naji, Warren, etc.
And then this is your wide receiver
room. Exactly what I'm talking about.
Devonte Smith, Terry McLaren, Jerry
Judy, and Jaylen Wadd. The number one
recommendation for this team if we were
to do a blueprint for this team is move
off of Bowers down tier to literally
like Leaporta at the the highest would
the highest tight ending you want to
down tier to or you just move off of
Bowers entirely for what a cornerstone
wide receiver because that's I mean
that's where your biggest shortcoming is
going to be your best wide receiver in
this room as a wide receiver too. It's
Dvonte Smith. So, uh keep that in mind
with tight ends. you definitely
sacrifice a lot of uh value upside
opportunity and just overall insulation
at the wide receiver position
specifically when you're going tight end
in those early rounds. Um and then if
you take a running back in the first
three rounds, you really needed to take
two other wide receivers. When you take
a running back, when you take uh Genty,
Gibbs, or Bejon in the first or second
round, which we've seen plenty of drafts
where that happens, and we're totally
cool with it, uh you just have to make
sure that the other two picks are going
to be wide receivers. you are
sacrificing high-end quarterback uh
production upside. You're sacrificing
uh Lamar Jackson when you take an Omar
and Hampton at the tail end of the
second or early third. You're
sacrificing a Drake May when you're
taking Bejon um in in the first round.
You don't want to be taking Drake May.
You want to be locking down probably a
BTJ there and then getting a another
wide receiver on the wrap in the third
round. So just make sure again I think
the star of the show at this point which
has definitely switched from previous
years from quarterback to now wide
receiver in the early rounds. Wide
receiver is the star of the show. This
is quite literally the golden age of
wide receivers not just in dynasty and
fantasy but the NFL. I mean you're
you're seeing these contracts come
through as well. They're they're
becoming the second highest paid
position in the NFL. This is the
modern-day NFL. It is built with wide
receivers. It it's built with an elite
passing game. And if you don't have an
elite passing game with elite options,
you're not making a deep run and you're
not winning a Super Bowl. And that's
just that that's just the fact of the
matter. Which makes what? It makes wide
receivers wildly insulated. Insanely
insulated. Which is also why just a
little strategy note outside of this too
with startups. This is why we're also um
this is this is why we're not
recommending that you down tier from
some of those top wide receiver assets
as much as we have in the past as well
because you just it's so hard to get
back up to that level when you let go of
one of those guys. So, Nathan kind of
led into it there, but the new domain
draft strategy, while it used to be we
really like dual elite QB builds, now we
like wide receiver factory builds all
the way, our strategy now is centered,
and your strategy in startup draft
should be centered around the wide
receiver position for these reasons. And
he kind of alluded to this. Wide
receivers are far and away the easiest
position to trade away. And liquidity
matters when you're drafting in a
startup. Liquidity matters because
everybody is starting from this point,
right? When you look at the my teams
analyzers on flock, we can get a
screenshot up of somebody who just came
out of a startup. We always know which
reviews when we're doing blueprints, we
always know which ones are straight out
of a startup because it's very even all
the way across the board. Just a tiny
little stairst step all the way down.
Everybody is starting from pretty much
the same point from a value perspective.
And so liquidity is important because
it's the only way you're going to build
a dynasty team that is head and
shoulders value-wise above your league
mates. And so getting a position, a
drafting position that's easy to trade
away is super important. They hold their
value as well as any position. They hold
their value better than quarterbacks.
They do. I mean, you you CJ Shroud, for
example, CJ Shroud was as insulated
quarterback, top three quarterback, and
you he goes from the top three down to,
you know, the third round. Justin Fields
was being drafted in the first round.
They went for the 11th next year.
Mahomes, who was supposed to be the
safest quarter, safest asset in dynasty,
drops to the middle of the second round
because he has not produced as a
high-end quarterback one. So, and the
other thing the other thing with wide
receivers and why our strategy has
shifted more towards that is because now
you have a large percentage of people
playing dynasty playing in full point
PPR leagues which means from a
production standpoint there's also an
advantage to having high target options
like a Malik Neighbors like a Jamar
Chase right but even going down like an
Aman St. round like a Jackson Smith, a
jig or lad maki, there's a huge
advantage from a scoring standpoint and
so when you're looking all across the
board, every facet of dynasty is
pointing towards the wide receiver
position being the most valuable. Now,
one thing with that too, uh just
thinking realistically here, like with
normal standard uh league formats and
starting lineups, how many of each
position do you have to start? Two
quarterbacks, two running backs, one
tight end, and three wide receivers. And
that's before you get to your flex
spots. And there's more wide receivers.
Exactly. And that's why they're always
going to be in demand is because
everyone just they constantly want wide
receivers because they're the easiest.
They're they're the most achievable
because people can they're they're able
to move off of them more than they are
the high-end running backs. And then it
gives you a lot more flexibility. So
going off of that, really the number one
key in my opinion, the number one
strategy point to having a successful
Dynasty startup draft right now in
Dynasty is working around the drop offs
in wide receiver value. And there are
multiple drops offs here that we need to
talk about. Let's talk about the the
wide receiver tiers. There is a big drop
off after Alman Ross St. Brown, right?
Obviously, there are tiers that
separate, you know, Jamar Jen Jefferson
from Aman St. Brown and BTJ. But in
terms of getting an elite wide receiver,
you know, you're talking about both of
all those guys, all those top seven guys
are gone before the 24 typically. And so
you're typically only going to get one
of those guys if if you're drafting at
the turn, you're not going to get a
Jefferson chase. So you're going to have
to get an ammonra. But again, there is a
huge drop off in the early second round
and afterwards in elite wide receiver
value cuz then you go from the like
bonafide elite guys to your really
really good really high upside guys. But
there it's not, you know, like you need
to worry because you've got Drake
London, you've got Nico Collins, you've
got JSN, Lad, Travis Hunter all going
there in the like midsecond to uh mid
third range. There's a whole another
round of wide receiver values that you
feel good about that you can build your
dynasty team around. But then there is
another pretty big tier drop off after
JSN, Lad, Hunter. Then you kind of get
into that next tier guys where you
there's some uncertainty or maybe they
have some some lower production issues
or things like that, injury issues. But
you get into the tier of guys Tat
McMillan and then you get into like T.
Higgins, Rashi Rice, Romo Dun, and this
is it. This is how you win. You want to
win a dynasty startup, you need to know
where the Higgins, Rice, Odun drop off
is because it is the number one. It's so
simple, but it will absolutely make or
break your dynasty draft. Make or break.
Mark my words because here's something
like very practical for you. You can
take any of your startups when you're
doing them before the teardrop in the
early fourth round, which is again that
Higgins rice odun. They typically odun
is the last guy to go and he goes
somewhere early to mid- fourth.
Sometimes Odun will creep into the fifth
like late fourth, early fifth, but
rarely do we see that. Yep. Before that
tier drop, you need at least two wide
receivers, if not three of them, to have
a very, very good dynasty startup draft
to have enough liquidity to have enough
value insulation, production upside,
flex spot upside. So, you're talking
about of your top four picks, at least
two of them should be receiver, if not
three. The best Bills I have seen,
including in this draft, are the ones
with three. Nathan probably had the best
draft of anybody, him and Blue. Nathan
drafted Chase London JSN and then went
Baker Penn. And yes, everybody's gonna
say, and we'll get to quarterbacks. I
know the issue with not going elite QB
up top, which is why I went Neighbors,
Caleb Williams, Garrett Wilson, and then
T. Higgins. So, mine's a little bit more
of a balanced approach, whereas, you
know, Blue went CD Lamar AJ Brown, which
is an elite start, by the way, and then
went quarterback. I drafted quarterback
in the second. I wanted an elite
quarterback and Caleb Williams, but I've
got as my starting wide receivers
neighbors Garrett Wilson and T. Higgins.
So, I got three wide receivers before
the drop off. Nathan got three wide
receivers before the drop off. Blue got
three wide receivers before the drop
off. Um I mean, I think those are the
only three of us that did that. And
honestly, I think I think those were
probably the three best drafts. I I just
looking at this, I really do. Yeah. And
I and you know, yes, I'm partial because
Nathan and I know our strategy and we
played to our strategy and so we're
obviously that's a biased take and I
know that and it's not like we're out
here dominating every league, but I am
saying this is it's an example of what
we're looking for, right? This is
example of what we think and honestly if
you want to take the bias out of it, I
think Blue had a really good draft here
and he did he played to this strategy
like our strategy that we're going to
outline here almost exactly. But
anyways, the wide receivers that
teardrop is crucial. Two if not three
wide receivers before that. Higgins,
Rice, Odun, teardrop, it could make or
break your draft. And I want to talk
about the flip side of this too and we
can kind of have a discussion about this
because we move pretty sharply away from
dual QB. Yeah. And I we we can
absolutely break this down. Um I because
I'm sure a lot of you have plenty of
questions about this because we I mean
we've been the QB guys for a very long
time. And I will
say just because we're telling you not
to go dual elite QB up top doesn't mean
we're anti-quarterback in Dynasty
Fantasy Football and Superflex one.
Right now we still very much like
quarterbacks. The difference is the
quarterbacks that you're getting in the
third, fourth, fifth, even sixth round
is way better than a couple of years ago
because what happened to the value of
quarterbacks from last year to this off
season. There was a ton of dispersement.
There were a ton of guys. I I mean, you
remember those startup drafts and
superflex leagues last year. 10 of the
12 picks in the first round were
quarterbacks. Now there's only four. So
where did those guys go? They all had to
go down. they all had to fall and settle
at some point. So, look, with dual elite
QB, the the the uh production upside
fall off from the guys that you're
getting up top with the exception of the
rushing upside guys, with the exception
of Lamar Daniels and Herbert or Lamar
Daniels and uh Allen, Herbert. Um, look,
with the exception of those guys, the
production upside difference between
Patrick Mahomes, who we love in the
second round versus Baker Mayfield in
the fourth round is not that
significant. Uh, Justin Herbert going in
the second round versus Dak Prescott
going in the fifth
round is uh there's not that much of a
difference. In fact, you're getting some
guys at a cheaper price just because of
their uh more volatile situations who
have high production higher production
upside than some of the people that are
going in the in the second round. And
people will make this point and they're
correct in saying that the difference
there between a you know a Baker
Mayfield and Michael Penn versus a Caleb
Williams number is their value
insulation. And to that I would say I
agree with that. However, you sure about
that? Because last time I checked Trevor
Lawrence was once a second round pick
and he's a fifth round pick. Last time I
checked Dak Prescott was once a second
round pick. He's now a fifth round pick.
Last time I checked, Kyler Murray was in
the second round. He dropped to the
fourth. Last time I checked, Justin
Fields was in the first. Where's he at
right now? Last time I checked, where's
CJ Strad at compared to where he was
last year? They're definitely not like
foolproof, staying up top. Quarterbacks
will fluctuate. Young quarterbacks in
their value once they've reached that
elite dynasty status fluctuate more than
elite wide receivers do. They do. Three
years ago, the cream of the crop, the
the top top guys that were getting all
of these massive contracts, it was the
first time we'd ever seen it. Half of
the league has that
contract. Half of the league. And then
the other guys have a step down and
they're still getting paid $45 million a
year. Guys, contract insulation does not
matter anymore for quarterbacks. who's
producing and who's not. Because at this
point, the insulation that you're
looking for in quarterbacks, twothirds
of the league has it. Kyler Murray is
not producing the way that we wanted him
to and he's locked in in Arizona for the
next three
years. It doesn't matter anymore. It
really doesn't. So I you can make the
rookies are guys that are on rookie
deals are a different conversation, a
different situation because like Anthony
Richardson, the reason he drastically
fell. Yes, I understand that. Not as
insulated. Kale Williams technically I
mean Caleb Williams, we like him a lot.
He's really not that insulated because
he doesn't have a contract like these
other guys do. He has a draft capital in
investment, the situation, all that. You
get what I'm saying? But look, I I mean,
when when you're looking at a guy like
Herbert who has $250 million in the
bank, so does Dak and they're going
they're going three rounds apart. So
that that argument has kind of that ship
has sailed with with that argument. I
mean, we're really getting to a point
where if all of these guys have all the
same deals or roughly the same amount of
uh investment, then you're you really do
care the most. You should be caring the
most about production. And I think that
really is the disconnect right now in
Dynasty. And we haven't quite gotten
there yet because if we had, Baker
Mayfield and Brock Party would be
drafting would be drafted higher right
now. Baker Mayfield would be a second
round dynasty pick right now if we
really had accepted that fact. Well, and
the the fact of the matter is people are
going to say, "Well, Nathan, the
difference between Justin Herbert and
TAC is Justin Herbert's x amount of
years younger." And this is where our
theory all kind of ties together out
because because people are still trying
if we're playing in in in eightyear
windows here. You're correct. Then yeah,
then Herbert is absolutely way ahead of
Dak. But if you're playing in three-year
windows, um Dak and Herbert in terms of
from a production standpoint in Dynasty
for the next three years,
they're pretty close actually. If you I
don't know about you guys, I think
that's pretty close. And so from from a
value standpoint, we talked about
liquidity with quarterbacks. Elite
quarterbacks are far and away, in my
opinion, the hardest assets to move in
dynasty because you are rarely getting
what they're actually worth, period,
anymore. I I rarely see like getting
people to pay from a startup draft
standpoint what an elite QB is worth. I
don't see it happening in domain
leagues. It doesn't happen anymore. This
is this isn't us just talking out of our
butts, too. Like I I'm practicing what
I'm preaching with this move and I'm in
a hard rebuild where I have three
quarterbacks. I have Burrow, Herbert,
and Party, which seemed like a good idea
at the time. It seemed like a good idea
because I was like, worst case scenario,
I could move one of those guys no
problem. I couldn't. I had to make a
lateral move. I moved Burrow for CD plus
a very minimal premium on top just to
have the flexibility as a hard rebuild
of moving CD Lamb as a wide receiver
than Burrow because no one was
interested in Burrow. People don't buy
Elite, but they'll pay up for CD. So,
because that is true, this is where like
what I was saying earlier is going to
tie in because that's true and you're
not getting what they're worth anymore
anymore and their their going prices
decreased pretty rapidly. The elite QBs
at the top of these
drafts because wide receivers, elite
wide receivers are going for almost the
same price and they're way easier to
sell. I think there is very little value
gap between the top of the drafts in
Jackson Herz and Allen and the late
first and guys like Neighbors, Puka,
Aman Ross St. Brock Bowers. I think all
of those guys are going for about the
same price right now, which is why as I
tie it in, which is
why the guys at the end are at such an
advantage because you get two of those
guys whereas before when quarterbacks
were actually like way way way valued
higher. Those guys at the front got a
pretty big advantage in the value of a
quarterback. But because the value gap
is gone now in a lot of leagues, and
every league is different, by the way,
but this is the majority of leagues we
see. because that value gap is gone. The
people at the end are getting two guys
and then there's a huge drop off before
it gets back to the guys at the
beginning. Which is why third round
reversal I think is less practical than
it was because those guys at the end
right now in my opinion are at a huge
advantage. But the reason they're at a
huge advantage is because people haven't
adjusted. And I'm telling you guys, look
at me in the camera. This advantage is
not going to last for another year. We
are one more year of extreme quarterback
volatility away from Jamar Chase, Justin
Jefferson, and CD Lamb being three of
the top five picks in Dynasty drafts.
And that your advantage, your advantage
on the turn, your advantage on the
one-two turn heading into next off
season will be gone. And and we did that
with running backs, by the way. Back in
the day, I mean, back in the ice age,
running backs were drafted at the top of
Dynasty and then people realized the
volatility. You don't really have that
volatility as much with wide
receivers. It's going to go to wide
receiver. community is going to adjust
and it's it was not this offseason, it
will be next offseason.
Wow. We just made a very groundbreaking
prediction. Yeah, that it's going to
happen though. He's absolutely right.
And so that's that's the reason we've
seen a huge difference with third round
reversal is the market has not adjusted.
I know it will adjust last next
offseason and then it'll be fair. Maybe
we should maybe we should do our next
offseason startups this offseason
instead and then we'll get the number
one pick. Um, you know, again, I think,
you know, when talking about
quarterbacks, I don't want to diminish
the value and the value insulation of
quarterbacks. By the way, they are very
valuable. If you have a team with plenty
of wide receiver depth and you can have
two elite QBs, by all freaking means,
have the two elite QBs because from a
value standpoint and a production
standpoint, they do give you an
advantage. But out of a startup,
straight out of an even startup,
typically not nobody has an elite team.
And that's why we need to be careful of
that. Let's talk about running backs.
Oh, so in running backs, this is the
golden age of running back value right
now, dude. because you're getting all of
these running backs right now in the
like fourth to seventh round. And so
when you look, let's look at the guys
going in that range. And this is where I
took running back. So my two running
backs on this team that I took um to be
my starting running backs, Kron Williams
and Caleb Johnson. Both guys I think
that have running back on one upside or
or high-end running back, two upside,
one of the two. Um I I both of them I
got in the fifth and sixth round. I was
able to again start with those wide
receivers and then get my running backs
later. Nathan did the same thing. Nathan
only grabbed one running back because he
had to take Coulson Loveven because he
was such good value in the seventh
round, but he took R.J. Harvey at the
69, which is a nice That's nice. Let's
look at some of the other teams. I
talked about Blues team. He he got Lamb
Aman Ra and AJ Brown. He got two
quarterbacks and Kyler and JJ McCarthy.
And then he got Josh Jacobs and Chuba
Hubard, two running back ones last year
in the sixth and seventh round. And then
James Connor, another running back one
in the 10th. That's how you build a
dynasty team. That's how you That's how
you draft right there. Ekko did this
well too. Ekko was another one of those
guys that actually did pretty well up
top because he got Nico Collins, Travis
Hunter, but he also got Strad Mahomes.
But then in the middle rounds here,
sixth and seventh round, he went Chase
Brown and Kenneth Walker. I mean, that's
that's awesome. You're taking advantage
of these middle rounds because these
middle rounds are absolute freaking gold
mines for running back value because the
wide receiver market, like I said, when
the wide receiver market dries up, where
does the value shift? The value goes to
running backs. And people, including
you, should be clamoring to take those
wide receivers in the first three or
four rounds. After that, it's it's
running back time, baby. running backs
in this range. Ky again, Kyron Williams,
Trayvon Henderson, Quinton Judkins are
both going in the fourth right now. JT
Bree Josh Jacobs, Caleb Johnson, they
all have running back one upside or have
producers running back ones and you're
getting them significantly cheaper. It's
all about where you place your value,
right? you can grab you can grab plenty
of running backs in this later range and
have plenty of scoring upside from a
production standpoint but you know from
a value standpoint you don't have to in
you don't have to sacrifice because the
opportunity cost of picking a top running
running
back is monumental and I have it listed
here if you want to go through these
teams the top the teams that picked
Bejon Genty and Gibbs look at their wide
receiver rooms and tell me that the
opportunity cost was not ginormous for
these teams I mean there there is there
is no wide receiver rooms here there's
not yeah so with the guy who took E- Rob
um Tanner or No, this is this is David.
Um he he got Lad um Mike Evans and Josh
DS as a wide receiver. Loom. Lad lad's
great. Evans and DS is a little shaky.
Tanner, my bad. It's it is Tanner. Uh
Tanner went very very heavy um at
running back in this draft. Not only did
he go with Bejon, but he just went JT
James Cook. And so definitely a lot of
risk here. And then he took Warren in
the six. So he went tight end. Wide
receiver took a big hit here. Then
you've got the team that went with uh
Gibbs, which was David. Um he got Gibbs
and CMC. His wide receiver room is DJ
Moore, Tyreek Hill, and Jawan Jennings.
This is this is an RB heavy team. Gibbs,
Henry, CMC, Kamara. I mean, if you're
not a top contender this year, um then
you're going to be looking at a hard
rebuild. If if you're not going for a
run, uh then that means your guys didn't
work out and then you're kind of in a
world of hurt um heading into next off
season. Uh the guy that went with Jensy
um in this draft was was uh it was
Sunreker actually and he had Jensy,
Judkins, Mixon. His wide receiver room
is DK, Iayuk, Reed, Debo, Ridley, Cooper
Cup, which again all of those receivers
as individual assets are are solid. You
can make good arguments for all of them.
But these are threes and fours out of 10
at all of them. Every single one of them
is not good enough. How often DK DK as a
number one is not ideal. DK as a number
three or four is very ideal. Exactly.
Right. So just you're sacrificing that.
Um and he went with Lamar and Jentzy as
his top two picks. And talk about our
tight end strategy. We were we you and I
both typically unless there's crazy
value podcast. Yeah. So like for me in
my situation, I was kind of in a pickle
in this draft. Like I went with Leland
in the seventh round. Uh Love was a top
10 pick in the NFL draft. You cannot let
him fall past the sixth round guys at
the 74. That's just stupid. It's just
stupid. Um there there's there's too
much. I I know in the past there have
been guys that didn't work out with that
draft capital. I'm not even saying that
Lovelin's going to work out. Top 10
draft capital. Geez Louise. I I mean if
this guy ends up being the number two
target in that offense, that's the
biggest value one in the draft. Mark
Andrews, I had to take him in the 11th
round. I ended up with two tight ends.
Not an ideal strategy that I recommend
for a lot of people, but again, take the
value that falls. Maybe have a little
flexibility later on in the draft. In
normal circumstances, guys, we're just
recommending that you punt tight end in
startup drafts. I understand that you
need a serviceable tight end. You can
fade tight end, but you still need a
serviceable tight end heading into the
season when you're a contender. I get
it. I I really, really do. You can get
better value through trades than you can
in a startup draft at the tight end
position. Bowowers, McBride are awesome
picks, especially in the second and
third round, respectively. You're not
getting them in the second and third
right now. Bowowers and McBride are
going in the first and second round
respectively and that's just too high
right now. Major tight end premium bo
bonuses do need to be taken into
account. So keep that in mind. If you're
in a full point tight end premium league
or 1.5 two point tight end premium
league, I take those guys up top. I'm
totally okay with it. Um the number of
starting tight ends, I've seen a number
of two tight end starters. uh you really
would like to have McBride Powers on one
of those on in in those formats because
that's a massive advantage over your
league. Um most of the time though these
tight ends are really going too early
the top options. Our favorite tight ends
to target right now are Leaporta, Hawk,
and KD. Leaporta because he's going at a
fraction of the price that he was last
season, Leland who I got in the seventh
round. Hawinson also going in that
range. And then KD, who's just one of
the most productive tight ends at a
ridiculously low price right now, just
because he's 30 years old. Um, tight
end, remember, keep this in mind, guys,
we say this all the time. The reason we
do not recommend that you go heavily
invest in a tight end up top is because
it's a luxury item. How many tight ends
are you required to start every single
week? One. In a superflex league, guys,
that is the only position where you only
have to start one every single week.
Every single week. I guess QB you only
have to start one, but like you really
want to be starting two in a Superlex
league. Our favorite tight ends to draft
in startups. Uh keep keep those guys in
mind. Uh KD, Lovelin, Hawinson, book
them. Make a note if you're going into a
startup. Those are going to be the best
values that you're going to get in a
startup draft if you are going to get an
elite tight end. Otherwise, fade the
position entirely. And then real quick,
past round 10, here's kind of our
strategy once we get to like the no
man's land of dynasty. Like grab
rookies, especially rookie running backs
because they're going to have good shots
being in committees. Grab veterans, the
ones people hate for no reason. Like
grab a Michael Pitman there. Grab a
Jacobe Myers down there. Those type of
guys could help you and could be a flex,
but grabban Jennings. He's a great pick
past the 10th round. Grab any backup
running back that could end up seeing
the field or is one injury away. Wide
receivers, there's always three or four
wide receivers ready to go with running
backs. Typically, that backup running
back is going to be the guy there. And
then grab tight end. If you punt tight
end, you can still get I punted tight
end in this draft and I ended up later
in this draft getting uh Tucker Craft in
the 12th, Mason Taylor in the 13th, and
Travis Kelce in the 15th. And honestly,
I'll start one of those guys this year.
not I don't really even care. But guys
like Kelsey Craft and Mark Andrews are
all getable past the 10th round. And if
you do punt tight end, you can get one
of those guys. And so again, our our
strategy has changed, but uh the two
boys behind the camera have only done
one thing and that's gotten older and
one of us has gotten slightly fatter. I
eventually I don't think Nathan will
ever get fat. So, but hopefully that
makes sense. If you if you you know have
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