Dynasty Mailbag With the NERDHERD! Dynasty Fantasy Football Podcast EP. 789

Dynasty Nerds Podcast | Dynasty Fantasy Football

Rich Dotson

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Rich, Matt, and Garret bring their first regular mailbag episode to the main podcast feed, and the Nerd Herd questions deliver spicy debates on every dynasty topic imaginable. The crew kicks off with underrated music recommendations before diving into whether aging veterans like AJ Brown, Jaylen Waddle, and Dak Prescott are worth a late 2027 first-round pick for rebuilding teams. Rich drops the hammer: anyone 27 years or older right now should be moved for future draft capital before the 2027 class becomes completely untouchable. The most controversial take surfaces when Garret reveals he ranks both Sam Darnold and Daniel Jones ahead of C.J. Stroud in dynasty, citing Daniel Jones's 18.0 points per game versus Stroud's 15.5 this past season. The crew debates whether Jones's Achilles recovery and the Colts trading two first-round picks for him creates a buying opportunity at depressed prices. Meanwhile, the quarterback rankings segment produces fireworks as all three hosts agree Drake Maye sits alone at the top, but Garret and Matt lean toward Caleb Williams over Jayden Daniels due to injury concerns despite Daniels finishing as fantasy's QB7 on a points per game basis. Rich emphasizes the 2028 draft class as the pivot target for rebuilders unable to acquire 2027 picks. Start Using the Film Room Today! FastDraft: Download and deposit $10 using code NERDS on the FastDraft app and join your first draft to be eligible for a free one-year full bundle membership at Dynasty Nerds (new members only). FastDraft will match your deposit up to $50. Draft best ball teams in under 5 minutes! FFPC: New Users: Use promo code NERDS for $25 off your first FFPC Orphan Team! 00:00:00 Start 00:03:00 Random Fun Question 00:10:29 Players to Trade Away for a 1st 00:20:51 Sell Low on CJ Stroud? 00:29:21 Mendoza at 1.02 in a 10 Team League? 00:34:35 FFPC 00:37:20 FastDraft 00:39:21 Dealing With Reluctant Trading Partners 00:45:56 AJ Brown or the 1.05? 00:48:12 Ranking Sophmore QBs 00:56:01 Mendoza or WRs in Rookie Draft? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ready, set.
0:01.5	Hot, hood.
0:02.3	Welcome to the Dynasty Nerds Fantasy Football Podcast, where we discuss Dynasty Strategy,
0:09.0	rankings, and all things NFL.
0:11.7	So get ready to geek out on fantasy football with your host, Rich Dotson.
0:16.8	And welcome to the Dynasty Nerd and Ridge Fantasy Football podcast.
0:22.7	I'm Rich Dotson.
0:23.7	He's Matt O'Hara.
0:25.5	Hey, he's Garrett Price.
0:27.5	How's going?
0:28.5	And it's going good because I'm super stoked, dude.
0:30.8	We're doing a mailbag episode.
0:33.6	We had another show lined up for this.
0:35.9	We ended up scrapping it because we're doing it
0:37.9	for a different show and garr it was like wow dude how do i fill this show in and i'm like
0:42.0	this is perfect time i said this like last week um dude let's do a mail bag show so like if you're a
0:47.6	nerd herd member we do a mail bag show uh once a month where we let the nerd herd ask us any
0:53.8	questions they want at all and we do them
0:56.3	and they're my favorite shows because they turn out to be some of the best shows we do
1:00.9	their nerd heard shows they bring up these random talk to start talking dynasty and so many
1:06.2	different aspects of dynasty and some of the conversations lead into I know I go ranty on some of
1:12.6	them but like at the end I'm like wow that was like some really solid like dynasty
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