Fantasy football is back and we want to know which rookies we want to consider for drafting for fantasy football 2026.

Rookie gold should be the question mark.

We're talking about the top rookies, Mendoza, Tyson, Love, we're going to cover them.

We're going to say, are you going to draft them or not?

And we're going to break down, are they going to be fantasy relevant and a little bit about them? I've got the great and powerful. Guess who's back? Walter from Walter Football.com. Walter, how you've been, man? Football's back, dude, and you're back. I've been great and powerful, apparently. I forgot I was great and powerful from your show. You used to say that last summer. And, you know, it's been a while. But now I'm

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And, uh, did I even spell his name right? Oh, no, I didn't. Renanco. I was looking at the last night, yeah. Yeah, exactly. I mean, let me correct that here. Sorry, Fernando. Fernando Mendoza. And we're just going to talk about these top players. I know a lot of people are curious about Jeremiah Love, his fantasy outlook, and how these players looked in college and who better to break it down than you, because you study this more than anybody else. But Fernando Mendoza, I have really like low expectations. By the way, you want to stay to the end because we're saving Jeremiah Love and some other big names to the end. But Fernando Mendoza, I don't really put a lot of heavy fantasy stock into these quarterbacks, but his entry situation where, I don't know, his receiver corps is a suspect. He's got Bowers to throw to. He's got Tucker there. Dante Thornton could he step up? They drafted Jack Beck last year. He didn't really do anything. Obviously, I do like their running back, which we're going to talk about. I want to get your feedback on Mike Washington, because I think he's going to be a pest to, you know, Gentie. But what do you think of Mendoza? Is he in a good situation with the, with the Raiders? How good is his talent? What kind of caliber player are we talking about here for Mendoza overall?

So the comp that we heard from Charlie Campbell's sources, Charlie's the most accurate mock draft in the world.

He's described as Joe Flacco with mobility. So Joe Flacco had a very good career, not like Hall of Fame.

But if you add mobility to it, suddenly that makes him better in fantasy because Flacco didn't really move around. So on one hand, it seems great. Like I think when Mendoza takes the field and gets good weapons around him, you said, I mean, the weapons there suck outside of Bowers. Like Jalen Naylor and Trey Tucker, the top receivers, like, what are we doing here? So when he takes the field and has good weapons, I think he's going to be good in fantasy. The problem is he's not going to play this year, you know, at least in the first half of the season. They brought in Kirk Cousins, which, you know, like Kirk Cousins has is pretty much done. But he knows the system. He's healthier. He's two years now removed from the torn Achilles that he had. And Clint Kubiak, the new head coach, said that he does not like starting

rookies. So I think it's going to be a while until Mendoza takes the field. I think it might be

kind of like way back back in 99 when the Eagles drafted Donovan McNabb. They had Doug Peterson,

who was awful.

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