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LIVE 2026 Fantasy Focus Show League Draft

Fantasy Focus Football

August 31, 2026

Welcome back to ESPN's Fantasy Focus! On todays show, Field Yates, Daniel Dopp, and Mike Clay draft their teams for the annual fantasy focus show league. Who will go #1 overall in a 12-team PPR draft? All that and more on Fantasy Focus! 00:00 Welcome to Fantasy Focus!
Speakers: Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, Mike Clay, Eric Moody

Topics: Sports

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Welcome into Fantasy Focus Football alongside Field Yates and Mike Clay. My name is Daniel Dopp. It is a mock draft Monday, except it's not going to be a mock today, my friends. It is a real draft Monday. Fantasy Focus Show League draft happening today on the show. Are you guys ready?

**Field Yates** (1:25)
Dude, so ready. Pumped up for it. 12 teams.

**Daniel Dopp** (1:27)
Yes.

**Field Yates** (1:28)
We've got a lot of the people that you have seen in this show league before. We are very excited for how this one is going to play out. We're going to get into that in just a few moments. As a matter of fact, we are going to probably start making picks before we start talking about the mock draft, only because we had significant fantasy related news. Sorry, real draft, not mock draft, that we'll discuss in just a moment here. But Mike, you are the busiest man in the world, not named Adam Schefterer.

**Mike Clay** (1:50)
Yeah, I was going to say, I see what you did here. Okay, so defending champion. Yes. You know, pat myself on the back a little bit. None of us wanted to say it.

**Field Yates** (1:58)
And the draft is... I forgot, I don't count your champion.

**Mike Clay** (2:04)
And you guys chose to do this draft the day after cut day. So I was awake at 2 a.m. last night, working through all the... For you guys, make sure your draft room is nice and pretty for you.

**Field Yates** (2:15)
Yeah, that's so great.

**Mike Clay** (2:16)
I want you guys to not be shorthanded, because you need the players in order. Definitely. You don't know the guys, so you have to pick them in order. So I did all that work, and then you put me in the 12 hole, by the way, picking 12
So you're trying to give me all the disadvantages, but I'm not here to play. We're all black today. I'm coming in... I'm not messing around. I know. I'm short on sleep and all that, but I'm not messing around today.

**Field Yates** (2:41)
You got a big day ahead of you, because all the players are now eligible to be claimed, which includes my guy, Dean Connors. I'm calling it right now, Dean Connors' most claimed player on the field.

**Mike Clay** (2:49)
I love that.

**Field Yates** (2:50)
That's my prediction. We're several hours away from figuring it out, but let's dive into the news, Dean.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:54)
Because we have big news. One quick, before we get to the news really quickly, we're going to be doing a bunch of punishment...
What's the word that I'm looking for here? A bunch of punishment polls in our chat on YouTube this week. So as a part of that, we have three punishments. We're going to throw up as a poll in our chat today. While we do the draft, please vote on them. We will find out which one is going to be one of the punishments that goes on to our punishment wheel. The three punishments are wearing Fields Bucky suit for an entire show.

**Field Yates** (3:22)
That's kind of a win.

**Daniel Dopp** (3:23)
Sour starts of the week doing extra super sour stuff. I watched David Presley research how sour these sour things are. I am not looking forward to that one. Or Fantasy Slam Poetry. Those are the three that you're going to be voting on today as a part of it. So make sure you head into our chat. Shout out to our buddy Eric Moody, Eric and Moody on social media.
Let's dive into that news that we were talking about here. Unfortunately, guys, things got a little bit clearer with the Josh Jacobs situation and also quite a bit more muddy at the same time, because we know that Josh Jacobs will be going on to the commissioners exempt list, Field Yates.

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