5 Toughest Decisions in Rookie Drafts
theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone
Score Media and Gaming
4.9 • 520 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Boone is joined by Jordan McNamara of Analytics of Dynasty to go over the biggest questions facing fantasy managers in this year's dynasty rookie drafts.
- Which rookie's value changed the most after the draft? (2:50)
- Which rookies should you target at the end of the first round? (5:45)
- Is the second-tier of running backs worth the investment? (9:55)
- Which Day 2 rookie wide receiver has the best chance at success? (12:50)
- Are the top-three rookie tight ends safe picks? (14:00)
- What's the toughest decision to make in this year's rookie drafts? (16:55)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to the score fantasy football podcast. I'm your host, Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at the score. |
| 0:22.0 | I appreciate you spending some time with us today. We got the NFL draft. That's in the rearview mirror now. You know, |
| 0:26.7 | Dynasty rookie drafts, they're popping off at the moment. And I'm in a handful of them. I'm sure |
| 0:31.5 | that our guest today is too. So I went over my updated rookie rankings on last week's show. |
| 0:36.8 | And all those rankings are available for free over at the score. But I always tell people, you shouldn't just base your decisions on one person's opinion. You know, I think that's something to important to remember for fantasy. I think it's also something to important to remember for the rest of your life too, right? Get a bunch of different opinions. Do some of your own research and then make the best |
| 0:54.6 | possible choice for you. So today we got our buddy Jordan McNamara joining me. He's going to give |
| 0:59.4 | his thoughts on rookie drafts and you know him from his great work at Analytics at Dynasty. That's |
| 1:04.7 | his site. He also does work for football guys. Recently, he just started a new podcast with his longtime podcast pal, Chad Parsons. |
| 1:13.3 | It's called the Dynasty Think Tank. |
| 1:15.2 | You can find him on Twitter, too, at McNamara Dynasty, and we're excited to have him joining us today. |
| 1:20.6 | We're going to talk through some of the real tough decisions that fantasy managers are having to make in these rookie drafts. |
| 1:26.5 | And even if you aren't a dynasty player, |
| 1:28.6 | you still need to have a good grasp on what the rookies have to offer. Jordan can help with that. |
| 1:33.4 | So Jordan, welcome to the show, man. We just spent about an hour recording an episode of your show. |
| 1:39.5 | So we're going back to back here. Hopefully we don't get a little loopy. Hopefully we don't go off |
| 1:44.1 | the rails. But how have you been, man? We got to let the people know. You and I talked before your show and then spent an hour talking about 10 big offseason questions heading into the 20, 23 season. And you said that episode's going to come out over the weekend. So people should take a look at that but let everybody know how you doing man i'm doing |
| 2:00.8 | good i'm doing good it's busy uh like you mentioned chad and i launched a new podcast dynasty think |
| 2:06.9 | tank we've been recording podcasts for six years we started and actually even longer than that six |
| 2:12.3 | and a half we started uh fall of 2016 so every tuesday night uh you know this is a new this is a new project right but i couldn't |
| 2:20.5 | i couldn't let it end and not do something with chad so here here we are doing a new podcast so busy |
| 2:26.7 | with that and you know it's just it's uh it's good summertime's in bloom right things are looking up |
| 2:31.6 | from the weather right getting a little reproof from the schedule of the whole line. So, uh, so fun time of year. And, uh, I love talking dynasty this time year because this is a good preview of what's going to happen. Yeah, we have a, and we talked a bit about this on your show, but now we have a pretty good idea of what the rosters are going to look like. There's still a few veterans hanging out there, maybe a couple trade possibilities that'll shake things up a little bit. |
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