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Guaranteed Human. Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. It's me, Joey P. Joe Pee, Zapia. And today we're going to have a fun exercise. We'll probably do, I don't know, about 1,000 to 1 times between now and Labor Day. My friends, Jake Sealy from the Athletic and Andrew Erickson for Fantasy Pros here, we're going to try our best to throw out what our first round might look like in 2026. We just had a great show with Jake and Pat Fitzmore, Moore, as we were talking about kind of the post-mortem from 2025, what we can learn about in 2026. So if you miss that, go watching on our YouTube

channel. Subscribe to our YouTube channel right now, Fantasy Pros, and wherever we get your

podcast. But we're going to try to take some of that discussion here and put it into the first

round and see if we can make that knowledge work for us. Jake, since that conversation, I actually

changed my first round because this is what it is, right? It's constantly

moving. It's constantly taking shape. And I think these kind of conversations here were a couple

of us who, you know, do this day in, day out all year round. Having these conversations talking

it out is how you get the best product at the end of the day. I would 100% agree because also you know this

as well as anybody who's been around me. Our drafts in July don't look like our drafts at the end

of August. And it's not just because of ADP and other people shifting. It's we learn more things.

People get hurt. Things adjust and we have to adjust to the drafts and what we expected.

So yeah, drafting today should look nothing like your drafts come August, but the exercise, because then you can pivot on the spot because you know these names, you know the information. Yeah. And look, it's tough because you got guys like Malik neighbors, right, big time talents coming off injuries. Do we want to put him in the first round? I got to say, Erickson, after last night catching that IHop commercial that he was in, that was hilarious. It made me almost want to push it. I hadn't seen it. I don't know why. I hadn't seen it. I can watch a ton of red zone, so I never see that. And then like the standalone games, I tend to DVR stuff. So I'm blowing through commercials.

But last night was watching it live on a Monday night.

And laugh my ass off.

hilarious.

Brilliant.

Take a little joke at yourself.

Andrew Erickson, we were talking about Stefan Diggs returning from the ACL and he hit

the ground running.

Like maybe it's not such a bad thing for him, uh, in terms of like potentially returning and

being a first round pick by the time we get to August.

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