Players You NEED to Draft this Season | Fantasy Focus

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**Daniel Dopp** (0:31)
First and foremost, check it in at an even six foot from Wesleyan University, Field Minister Yates.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:40)
Good evening.

**Daniel Dopp** (0:41)
At five foot seven and a hundred and sixty-four pounds, Michael Lester Clay, Pugner. Wow. And last but certainly not least, the one, the only, the incomparable, Elizabeth Loza. Give it up for Liz Loza.
Super excited to be here, my friends. What are you guys doing tonight at this live show here at The Racket in New York City?

**Liz Loza** (1:13)
I was good.

**Mike Clay** (1:14)
I was good until that.

**Stephania Bell** (1:16)
I was nervous. I was like, is he gonna tell everyone how much I weigh?

**Liz Loza** (1:18)
Stop. Don't do that. What is going on?

**Daniel Dopp** (1:21)
I would never. Sir. Super excited to be here with you guys. We got a very fun show planned for everybody. Guys, we cannot stop drafting. We've been doing so many mock drafts. We got a bunch of people. We just keep coming back to you, going back to the well. We're talking some bounce backs and regressions, as well as some facts and feelings and taking your guys' questions. A jam-packed show, it is going to be a ton of fun. But really quickly, before I get started, I do want to say on a serious note, this is one of the most important things that we do. V Foundation, I just want to give a quick shout out to this.
v.org/espn. Right now, the Disney company, ESPN, and the V Foundation are trying to be able to raise $10 million towards pediatric cancer research. So we have QR codes set up around the venue. If you want to be able to use those, you can donate money and go to v.org/espn to be able to help donate, to be able to defeat pediatric cancer. That would be unbelievable. I'll probably mention it a couple of times because of how important the V Foundation is, but wanted to let you guys know about that. And with that being said, let's talk about some of the guys we just can't stop drafting. How many mock drafts do you think that we've done, Field Yates?

**Field Yates** (2:26)
Not going to admit that one publicly, Daniel, although you know what? You guys paid your harder money to come watch a fantasy podcast, so you probably are in line with us. I'd say mock drafts. I've got to be approaching 50 this afternoon.

**Mike Clay** (2:36)
At least.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:37)
We've been doing tons of mock drafts, basically from May, as soon as the draft happened, up until this last week even, and a lot has changed.

**Field Yates** (2:45)
Yeah, I didn't see any looks out there, like, what's wrong with this guy? That was actually pretty well received by you both, so thank you for not judging.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:52)
Yeah, no problem with that.

**Mike Clay** (2:53)
Only 50? Only 50

**Daniel Dopp** (2:56)
See, that's the real fan. Only 50, are you kidding me? Well, there's a lot of guys that we just keep coming back to, guys that we keep finding ourselves drafting over and over. Field, I want to start with you. Give me a guy that you just keep drafting right now in this season.

**Field Yates** (3:08)
I hope Mike doesn't jump on me for this because this is an old running back, but he is a unicorn. We've been saying this on our show, which of course is back every single day. Pumped to be back. Derek Henry, who I have as the 11th overall player in my rankings, which is six spots ahead of his ESPN average draft position. And when we're talking about the 110th versus the 116th player, I'm not sure there's really a difference between those two guys, but the difference between 11 and 17 is pretty legitimate. Derek Henry, who has finished second in the NFL for four straight seasons in rushing yards, he just feels like one of the few things in fantasy football that you can count on. You're gonna have to deal with a couple of hiccups, speed bumps along the way. He's gonna have those games where he either doesn't rush for 100 yards or doesn't score a touchdown because he's not catching that many passes, where he might be prone to a seven and a half fantasy point game every once in a while. But over the past two seasons, he also has the third most 20 or more point games amongst running backs. So plenty of upside for Derrick Henry. Maybe he's boring because he's been doing it for about a decade now. But I keep drafting Derrick Henry.