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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

Late-Round Perspectives: Matt Waldman Returns Again

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Matt Waldman — staff writer at Footballguys and creator of the Rookie Scouting Portfolio — joins JJ for their annual marathon episode breaking down this year’s draft class. The two dive into the challenges of evaluating tight ends, the depth of the wide receiver group, and much more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

Matt Waldman is a football guy's senior staff writer

0:07.1

who's best known for his intensely detailed prospect work with his rookie scouting portfolio.

0:12.0

He's been around the fantasy football industry for over two decades.

0:14.8

He's a musician, and he's now a late-round perspective staple.

0:18.7

These are his late-round perspectives.

0:32.5

Music round perspective staple. These are his late round perspectives. We just sent a bunch of humans the furthest spot away from earth that any human has been,

0:39.0

right, out to the moon. And yet, it might still be less impressive than the rookie scouting

0:45.8

portfolio length that you have each year. Well, if they just, if they just needed a ladder,

0:50.9

they could have told me. I mean, how, how many pages is the portfolio this year?

0:57.5

1,267. And that's not even the longest one I've ever done. I was going to ask that next. Yeah.

1:03.2

Well, it was really funny because this year was the first year that we built. So I hired on Brandon Godula,

1:08.3

who I worked with at Number Fire and Fandul, and we built out a new

1:11.8

tight end model this year. And as a result of him helping me out now and me having more help in

1:17.9

general, he wrote the tight end profiles for the prospect guide this year. And we always do,

1:25.5

you know, whatever, whoever gets invited to combine is who we, who we end

1:28.4

up writing up. And of course, this year, more tight end invites than we've had since like 2004,

1:34.3

I think it was. So, so of course, this is the year that we are introducing this new model and this

1:39.5

new idea of the tight ends. And then we have, you know, 27 pages worth of guys that that we're

1:43.7

writing up. But I mean, the rookie scouting portfolio, I mean, I'm assuming you're just in a cave

1:48.9

for like months and then you just emerge and you're now, you know, you know, it released yesterday,

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