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Hello, everybody.

Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast.

I'm Ryan Warmly.

Joined, as always, by Derek Brown.

Well, not as always, I guess.

But joined as sometimes by Derek Brown and by Jake Sealy from the athletic.

Guys, we were talking some breakout candidates here.

We'll be focusing, of course, on guys in the middle and late rounds. We're going to do this countdown style, five to one from each

of you ending with our number one breakout candidates. Debrough, how are you feeling the day

after Fantasy Fest? I was like, we do one or two segments on Fest. I haven't podcasted with you forever. And I already feel like I hear the hints in your voice of, oh, God, another show with this dude. I'm doing good, Worm. Love you. I love you too. Also, you might notice the two hours of the fest that I was hosting. I did the first two hours yesterday, which probably everybody should go check out. It is available. You can rewatch it on YouTube. You can pick and choose your favorite segments with favorite guests if you want. We had JJ Zacharison, Andy Barron's, Tara Roberts, Dave Richard, Jamie Eisenberg, Justin Boone, Jake Seeley, tons of people on there. It was a super fun time. I was going to say, bury the lead there, dude. Come on. Yeah on yeah well i was kind of going in order of when folks appeared on this show but it was you know six hours if you include the hour on twitch at the end the after party of a fantasy coverage so everybody should go chuck that out there's a best of the fest available audio version on like spotify and wherever you listen to your also so we we had a ton of fun i will

point out d bro that in the two hours that i was hosting i don't think we discussed a single

ravens player so you can uh you know back off of this stance finally it's fine contractually i know

that you're you're obligated to mention the ravens at least once every show even if it's's not a player, seeing as we've done here. So I get it. So that counts. Check. I will say if you do want to watch the mock draft, probably that was fun because Debrough and I were taking shots at each other the entire time, including I almost cursed live on your stream. It was a lot of fun, dude. Well, Jake, besides, you know, hopping on to the fest, what do you have going on these days, especially over at the athletic? I mean, the full draft kit is basically almost done at this point, but I will say I actually did one that by the suggestion of one of the heads of all the New York Times said the draft mistakes that people make because I brought it up at a meeting

that we were doing. Somebody asked me that in a Q&A. And so it's the biggest draft mistake everybody

makes every single year. Well, not everybody, but you guys know this, wasting your bench. So if you

want to go see how you stop wasting your bench, you can check that out. That sounds good. I know

that's been a talking point for you a lot this summer as we've done, you know, more shows together is the not wasting your bench. I know that's a big, you know, point of your. So definitely like great piece of advice. Everybody should go check out everything that Jake is working on over at the athletic. Which ties in today's piece. I mean, what we're doing today, these are 10 pieces that

should be on your bench instead of those replaceable players. Yeah, I forget some of the names. Are any of this? Yeah, these guys are mostly not starters. So, I mean, some of them might be. But yeah, a lot of bench spots, guys, that can that can break out that we're going to be looking at. A reminder for everybody that all of our 2025 consensus rankings and tiers can be found at fantasy pros.com slash rankings.

Guys, let's dive right in.

Like I said, we're going to go five to one here, so we'll be ending with consensus rankings and tiers can be found at fantasy pros.com slash rankings.

Guys, let's dive right in. So we're going to go five to one here. So we'll be ending with kind of the biggest breakout candidate. But obviously these are guys that, you know, we believe in to some degree, all 10 of these names. Jake, we'll start with you. Who's your number five? My number five, I'm going to quarterback first. I'm going to go to Bryce Young. I know a lot of people saw the end of last year and talked about his passing upside. And let's be real, he looked better than he had at any point in his NFL career. But I think the more interesting part for me was the rushing. And it's not like he's running for 700 yards over the course of the season. It's just that he started calling his own number down the stretch, which partly hurt, you know, dinged Hubbard a little bit. But I never thought that Bryce Young was going to step into the NFL and be like, ah, six, seven, eight hundred yards. But can he be in that realm of three to four hundred where he chips in five, six, seven on the ground just because he has that size and ability to take his own number.

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