FFT Express - Players Dave Richard Can’t Stop Drafting in Mock Drafts! (06/29 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Who are the players that Dave Richard just can’t stop drafting in 2026 fantasy football mock drafts? We break down the biggest targets Dave keeps landing on his teams, including exciting rookies and breakout candidates like Tetairoa McMillan, Emeka Egbuka, Jadarian Price, Tyler Warren, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Players, Dave Richard can't stop drafting in mock drafts right now on Fantasy Football Today Express. |
| 0:13.3 | All right. You got a lot of these guys? A lot of guys to keep drafting? |
| 0:16.8 | I kind of have groups of players. Small groups, not a bunch of names. |
| 0:21.0 | It's going to be easy to follow along. |
| 0:22.8 | But let's say like the first group, a group of three wide receivers, |
| 0:27.2 | Devante Smith, Ted Aurora McMillan, a mecca, Buka, would love to have all three on my fantasy teams. |
| 0:33.5 | And maybe when I do some auction drafts, my plan will be to load up on running backs and then spend for specifically those three wide receivers and not get any from the elite tier. |
| 0:43.5 | But I think these are all three wide receivers that could get fed nicely and turn into top 12 wide receivers. |
| 0:50.1 | There are wide receivers 12 through 15 in that range for me. |
| 0:53.7 | Round three is the time to go after them. I think that I'll have a chance to take a step forward and play. In the case of a Bucca and McMillan, better than they did overall last year in the case of Devante Smith as the number one wide out in Philadelphia, assuming A.J. Brown's gone. Fully expect him to see eight targets per game and be very, very good. And how do you rank those three? I've got a Bucca at the top of the list, and I'd have to double check my rankings to be sure. Why don't I do that in Fillebuster for about 15 seconds? A Bucca is definitely at the top of the list. Did you see the highlight of him, by the way? Did he catch catches a pass. Literally, the ball is way behind him. It's a terrible throw. But he catches it, one hand, runs to the end zone. Like everything that you could want to see from a healthy Emeka Bucca is right there. He's first, McMillan second, Devante Smith is third. T. Higgins is in that group as well. I do like a Bucca as the head of the class there. I can't stop drafting at least one of those three receivers in every draft I'm in. And CBS AP right now, early ADP, they're all going. They're going back to back to back to back. They have almost the same exact ADP. All right around 36 overall at the three-four turn. Devante Smith, Tetero McMillan, and a mecca, a Buka. And then T. Higgins right after that. So, yeah, you could, you could in theory start your team with two running backs and maybe get two of those guys at the three-four turn. Yeah. All right, Dave, what's our next group? So this isn't me saying that I'm going to wait a little bit on tight end. I will obviously get one of McBride, Bowers, and Loveland if they're available at a fair price on draft day. Certainly don't want to retry any of those three, at least not at this point. But I love the idea of waiting a little bit longer and getting Tyler Warren, |
| 2:35.8 | Harold Fanon, and honestly, Sam Leporta should be in this group as well. So I know we always |
| 2:41.2 | say greater late for tight ends, and this is me going against that. These are still really good |
| 2:46.0 | tight ends. I still think that, especially in the case of Warren and Fanon, a lot more for them to do after what they did as rookies. Leporta, just the fit in what Detroit's offense should be this year. I think he's going to end up playing a lot. I think that'll help improve his target volume. I think all three of these guys are good. I don't even want to call them fallback options. I think they're worth targeting if you don't get one of those first three |
| 3:07.8 | tight ends at a fair value. So if you miss out on McBride, you miss out on Bowers, don't panic, |
| 3:13.1 | miss out on Loveland, don't panic either because you've got one of these three tight ends waiting |
| 3:16.8 | for you in that round four or five range. |
| 3:20.9 | Okay. You think it's better to take a tight end one of those three in rounds four or five rather than, you know, waiting for a Kelsey or likely or something like that. |
| 3:33.1 | I think they're more fun than Kelsey or likely. And there's things to, listen, it could come to pass that there are two PPR points per game better |
| 3:43.1 | than Isaiah likely on average over the course of the year. |
| 3:45.7 | And that's not that big of a difference, especially compared to the four-round gap that you |
| 3:51.2 | might see between those types of tight ends and Isaiah likely. |
| 3:54.8 | But I just think that they've got a lot more upside than likely who very, very, very few games in his career where he's had a lot of targets. He's done well with them. No guarantee that he's actually going to come through and do that, which makes him actually somebody that I don't mind drafting if I miss on all those first six tight ends. Likely, and I'm just thinking this out loud, he's somebody that I'm targeting. |
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