1096: Analyzing Front Office Decision Making
The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The NFL Draft is in the books, and JJ is breaking it all down. Instead of just throwing rookie rankings your way — you can find those in the prospect guide — he digs into what front offices may have been thinking with each pick. Because those decisions don’t just shape NFL rosters — they shape fantasy football.
Make sure to check out LateRound.com to preorder the 2026 Late-Round Prospect Guide. Want to get dynasty rankings while accessing the amazing Late-Round community on Discord? Become a Late-Round member today.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.3 | This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharisa. |
| 0:15.9 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:17.2 | It's J.J. Zacharisen. |
| 0:18.5 | In this episode 1096 of the Late Round Fantasy Football |
| 0:21.9 | podcast, thanks for tuning in. I know a lot of you have rookie drafts going on, so I wanted to get |
| 0:27.8 | this episode out as soon as I possibly could. My focus has been on the late round prospect |
| 0:31.8 | guide, which is available right now on late round.com. It's all finished up. It has updated player |
| 0:37.1 | write-ups and Zapp scores. But now that it's all finished up, it has updated player writeups and Zapp scores. |
| 0:39.5 | But now that it's out the door, my focus has shifted to this episode, and I wanted |
| 0:43.4 | to get it out ASAP. |
| 0:45.8 | I don't remember a draft where I was this excited to dig into the post-draft analysis. |
| 0:50.7 | And that might seem backwards because post-draft, rookie drafts look probably the worst |
| 0:54.6 | they've ever looked in my time of being a fantasy football analyst. |
| 0:58.5 | But because this draft wasn't filled with obvious talent, it means there's more to break down. |
| 1:03.9 | It's not as simple as, this guy's really good, so draft this player. |
| 1:08.7 | We have to think more deeply about the player that we're analyzing, we have to think more deeply about the player that we're analyzing. |
| 1:11.6 | We have to think more deeply about the role that he might play. |
| 1:14.9 | And that can give an edge to the people who are putting in the work. |
| 1:18.1 | So let's put in that work. |
| 1:20.3 | I do this episode after the draft each year where instead of immediately going over my rookie |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

