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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

988: NFL Draft - Utilizing Front Office Decision-Making

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

Football, Fantasy Sports, Fantasyfootball, Sports

4.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The NFL Draft is one of the rare events of the year where we get to witness every team make some sort of decision. And we can use that to our advantage in fantasy football. On Episode 988, JJ digs into some of the more interesting front-office moments of the draft that can help us in our rookie drafts.

 

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0:00.0

This is the late round podcast with your host, JJ Zacharisa.

0:10.1

What's up, everyone?

0:12.8

It's JJ Zacharisen.

0:14.4

In this episode 98 of the Late Round Fantasy Football podcast, thanks for tuning in.

0:23.0

The Late Round Prospect Guide went out on Saturday night to anyone who pre-ordered, and it's obviously still available for anyone who

0:27.3

wants to order. There's now 165 pages of information on prospects from this year's class. There's

0:33.1

rankings, there's information on what goes into my models, and so much more. And now you get takes on all these players with landing spots in mind.

0:41.3

So make sure to check it out over on late round.com.

0:44.3

Now with the draft over, rather than immediately doing a show on my post-draft rankings, I like to take a second and just sort of analyze what we just watched.

0:53.3

Doing the prospect guides each year now, I'm essentially in my office for three straight days

0:57.8

as the draft is going on.

0:59.8

I'm inputting draft capital into the Zapp model, I'm rewriting tons and tons of blurbs

1:04.4

in the guide, but I'm also just taking notes.

1:07.5

I'm jotting down some things that I find interesting as the draft unfolds.

1:12.2

Because I always find the draft very telling.

1:15.3

We don't get many instances during the year where teams are just openly taking action

1:19.6

to show us as fans who weren't part of their front office what they're thinking.

1:24.2

We can sit here all day and say that some team doesn't have good running back depth.

1:28.9

But if that team does nothing to address the position in the draft, it tells us that they

1:32.9

generally don't agree with that assessment.

1:35.6

And that matters when we're projecting fantasy football.

1:39.2

So again, rather than talking about my rankings today, which you can get in the prospect

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