7/25/26 - 14-Team PPR Mock Draft Strategy | Master the 3rd Round Reversal

**Ryan Weiss** (0:01)
What is up? Good morning, and welcome to Mock It Like It's Hot, Club Fantasy's Weekly Mock Draft Show. After a excellent eight-team mock last week, I thought it was time to double it. Not quite, but we're gonna go with 14 teams. And 14 teams is very special to me, because 14 teams is my home league settings. And not only does that make this a very special episode, I also bring in my main rival from my home league as the guest for this show every year. And every year, this is our most viewed show. So apparently, there's a bunch of you sick of fans out there who are down for 14 team leagues. So the rest of you need to pull yourself away from all the Jimothy videos. It's time to mock draft. Let's get into it.
Welcome to Mock It Like It's Hot Club Fantasy's Weekly Mock Draft Show. Ryan Weiss in the host seat. So Austin this week, but Joel is with me. Joel, you skipped the Expo to make the show. I appreciate it, buddy.

**Joel** (1:16)
Well, I didn't skip it. I'm just taking the afternoon off.

**Ryan Weiss** (1:21)
The Expo? No, I'm joking. Yeah, you were saying you got a pretty busy Saturday. I'm sure you'll be there.

**Joel** (1:25)
Yeah, yeah. I got a birthday party for the Nabers kids. But yeah, I was at the Friday night party last night and talked to a few people who said they would check out the show. We'll see if they're coherent enough to actually do that.
There we go.

**Ryan Weiss** (1:39)
I want to see those viewership numbers jump up. And as mentioned in the intro, every year I pencil in this 14 team mock, every year you guys make it our most viewed episode. And every year I bring on a guest that not many of you familiar with, but he's actually done this show every year that I've been doing this show.
Dan Metzger, welcome, my friend.

**Dan Metzger** (1:57)
Thanks for having me, buddy.

**Ryan Weiss** (1:59)
Yeah, glad to have you back. Dan is a Bengals fan. Dan has been in my home league for as long as I have. So we have both been playing fantasy football for 20 plus years at this point. Dan has been far more successful than I have in the home league. So he tends to like to bring that up more times than not.

**Dan Metzger** (2:17)
In the home league, in other leagues, in life.

**Ryan Weiss** (2:20)
In life?
I don't go to work.
I don't know if that makes either one of us more or less successful. All right, we started a little bit late. We will let's get this draft started and then we can chat. So let me get this going. So as mentioned, it is a 14-team league. I'm going to go ahead and hit start draft right now.
And then we are going to first, I want to... Oh, did I forget to turn sound off? Rookie move. I want to first shout out the drafters because I was very concerned that we were not going to be able to fill a 14-team league. And these folks came through. So as every week, we are not going to judge every single team that gets drafted. We will talk about interesting picks as they happen. But I want to start by thanking Beats By Dre, picking from the one spot. Our good friend Kevin Coleman, picking from the two spot. And he gave us a retweet, which I think helped fill this thing up. So thank you, Kevin, as always. Axe is picking from the three spot. Jay Schmitz is picking from the four. Ain't done yet from the five. Frito Bandito from the six. Our good buddy Vince Mapstone down in Australia from the seven. Duarte at the eight. Dan took the nine spot. Stephen George at the ten. Shia LaBeouf at the eleven. Just Bob at the twelve. Joel took the thirteen. And Bro Cal at the fourteen. Lot of familiar names, lot of new names. If you guys have not, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. We appreciate each and every one of you for drafting with us. It's a very boring draft if this thing isn't full. And I'm frankly shocked that we were able to fill this thing up. So thank you to everybody. I wanted to get started with something that is not like my home league, but I added it to this draft because in big leagues like this, I think it's the most important thing. So Dan, I don't even know how familiar you are with third round reversal. I'm going to start with Joel here, but I'm going to be interested to hear your take, Dan, because I know none of the leagues we're in are third round reversal. Believe it or not, an article written by Michael Socoli, I think two years ago, describing what third round reversal is, is the most popular article ever on Club Fantasy's website. It is viewed every year more than any other article. So I think there's a lot of curiosity about third round reversal, Jill. I'll let you go ahead and just kind of explain third round reversal and then give me your opinion on it, Jill.