Pick-by-Pick Series: How to Build Your Team from Each Draft Slot (08/20 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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12-teams, 3-WRs, PPR. We've got four analysts to draft three teams apiece and give their thought process with each pick. We explore a number of different ways to build your team. Let's start with Round 1 and see how early Travis Kelce goes and when to take a WR. Then it's on to Round 2 (5:00) as we debate RB vs. WR throughout the round and see if the other top TEs come off the board ... Is Round 3 (12:30) the time for Patrick Mahomes? Which Chicago Bear will get drafted first? Which teams are leaning towards Zero-RB? And into Round 4 (20:30) we have tough WR decisions and a possible reach for Miles Sanders ... Round 5 (29:40) brings us a QB run and a couple of TEs too. Does Myles Gaskin finally get drafted??? And after we pause to recap our squads through five rounds (44:00), we move to Round 6 (58:30) which some of us find exciting and others are less enthused about ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:34.7 | This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports. |
| 0:42.5 | It's time to dominate your fantasy league. |
| 0:44.8 | One play, congratulations, touchdown, always done again. Now here's some combination of Adam |
| 0:51.9 | Dave Jamie Heath and Ben. Okay, it is time for our pick by pick series. What we are going to do |
| 0:58.8 | is start a draft right now and give you our philosophies and kind of our decision thought process. |
| 1:04.3 | Probably a better way to say that with each pick. Adam is here with Jamie Isber, Heath Cummings |
| 1:09.6 | and Chris Towers. We each are going to have three picks in a 12 team draft and it is PPR |
| 1:16.1 | starting three receivers and a flex. Okay, it looks like I'll go ahead and start with Christian |
| 1:21.6 | McCaffrey. Jamie, you can have the second pick. Heath, the third, Chris, the fourth. |
| 1:27.2 | What's the thought process behind Christian McCaffrey? Well, he's pretty good. I'm not really sure. |
| 1:33.5 | I just see a lot of rankings at 5-1. Jamie took the Daven Cook. |
| 1:37.0 | Is this a full PPR league? Yeah, full PPR and three receivers and a flex. |
| 1:42.6 | Start two running backs, one quarterback. We're not drafting kickers or defenses here. |
| 1:47.2 | We're going to go through the first round pretty quickly. Heath, you're on the clock with the third |
| 1:50.0 | pick. Chris, I have to see. Go ahead. This is the first submission that I have to make. |
| 2:00.3 | I will go with Travis Kelsey. Go ahead. Give me your thought process there. I'll make the fifth pick. |
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