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Hello, everybody.

Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast.

I'm Ryan Warmly.

joined today by Pat Fitzmorest, Scott Bogman, and by a special guest, Scott Pianowski

from Yahoo Sports.

We are doing a mock draft.

And guys, I am very excited.

We have done so many rookie mock drafts and dynasty startup mocks in the last few months that

this is my first real foray into redraft mock season.

It'll be, I'm sure, dominating the next few months here at Fantasy Pros and everywhere

else.

But I'm excited to kind of have my first foray into it for the 2026 season. I'm sure I'm going

to make a lot of mistakes that I will hear about from both you guys and the audience, and I can't wait to learn what I should be doing differently here throughout the season. I've got the first pick. I believe we're spread out through the draft. Scott, I think, is the fourth pick. I think Fitz 10th and Bogman maybe 12th, if I'm remembering correctly. So we'll dive in and have some fun, see how we do drafting here. Scott, I did want to ask before we dive in, just kind of with you guys at Yahoo and just you individually, three months out from really the heart of fantasy draft season. Where do you feel like you're at in your kind of preparation process right now? Is it still very just like research and preparing as much as you can? Do you feel confident going into a mock draft this early? Where are you kind of at in that stage? It's certainly early in the process for me. I mean, I'm doing a lot of baseball too at Yahoo. So I am not somebody who's doing a fantasy draft before the NFL draft. For me, the new fantasy season kind of starts at the NFL draft and then moves forward. So so excited to be with you guys today to get the reps in, right? This is what mock drafts are. The reps, it's the driving range. It's let me, you know, change my grip. Let me change my takeaway. Let me see what if I try this strategy, what if I try that strategy,

you know, what positions look deep, what positions are more shallow, where are the pockets

of talent clustered, stuff like that. So I'm looking to get reps in. I don't feel anywhere near

my peak sharpness. You know, I know it's the PJ championship this week. We're supposed to be

sharp for the majors. But in the fantasy season, you season, this is like just one of those forgettable tournaments that, you know, we're at the Bob Hope Desert Classic or something right now. You know, it's not important to peak right now. It's important to be ready to peak when, you know, we're drafting Fishbow. We're drafting at the Fantasy Football Expo, stuff like that.

That's when we really want to be in our top form. Yeah, I'm sure I'm not a golf guy. I'm sure that metaphor landed a lot better with Fitz. You guys are talking a bit about some of the stuff before the show. Fitz, it does feel like it gets earlier and earlier every year that you kind of, like, I've seen a lot of content just on social media, you know, early rankings and some really

informative and insights. like it gets earlier and earlier every year that you kind of like I've seen a lot of content just on

social media you know early rankings and some some really informative and insightful shows and

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