The 16 Fantasy Picks To Avoid Before the 10th Round

**Josh Norris** (0:00)
On today's episode, the 16 players you need to avoid in your drafts before round 10 This is not my doing. This is all from the mind of Hayden Winks. He goes through reason by reason, name by name of some landmines he believes that too many people are falling on right now if they are drafting for their fantasy season. Stick around for this episode of Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh and Hayden. I want all of you to take a moment, close your eyes and think of the best sporting event that you have ever attended. That instead of just sitting on your couch, watching on television, you actually went to the game. For me, I was in college, Steph Curry-Davidson was playing the NCAA tournament against Georgetown in Raleigh. It was like Patrick Ewing Jr., all these like 6'11 guys versus Steph Curry and these 6'7 dudes and I was like, I have to go see this. I have to go see the guy that is launching shots from half court even if they have no chance to win. And guess what? They won. And it was so much better because I was actually there versus sitting at home and you can be there in the action by using Game Time. College football is coming up, NFL preseason to watch your favorite rookies. It's all available here on Game Time. It's not just that. Like I am scrolling to see what is available this weekend in my area.
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The one thing you love about the show, positivity. You know, we always bring the optimism, right? Not today. Really not these next two shows over the next five days.
We're bringing the heat, we're bringing the pessimism, we're bringing the negativity here. And Hayden is on the hot seat with the, what is it? 16 names you need to avoid before round 10?

**Hayden Winks** (2:07)
Yeah, I was writing this and one name per round wasn't enough. I decided to throw in multiple fades for each round. And here's what I'll say. I looked at my exposures. I'm going to do 200 drafts this year. These are the guys I'm taking either literally 0% of the time or under 3%, 4% of the time out there. So we'll talk about this in the lens of Yahoo ADP, how I'm building teams.
But just know, if I'm wrong here, I'm paying for it.

**Josh Norris** (2:31)
The hater rate is flowing over today. As you said, our two shows will be slightly different since they come out so close together. Yours is all in relation to Yahoo's ADP. Mine will be in relation to all Home League ADPs trying to be aggregated together, combined together. So you get a different flavor from each of us. And in fact, I think we might only cross over about two or three names in our entire list. So this is going to be a very, very good exercise. All right. We also have the inverse of this, by the way, where our favorite picks in every single round. So, you know, go watch that video after this.
Round one, give us both names, but start with one of who you have the most hesitation of in the first 12 picks, even though we know the opening 12 picks, they're all pretty damn good at football.

**Hayden Winks** (3:14)
These guys are good. James Cook, I've not been drafting all that much. He was the RB six per game last year. He led the NFL in rush yards and carries per game. His 16 half PPR points per game were two to five points behind the top five running back. So even though he was the RB six, there was a pretty substantial back. There are difference between CMC, Taylor, Bijon, Gibbs and Devon Aitchin, just because he didn't catch the ball enough. That could change. That seems like asking a lot to change when Duncan Cade is actually healthy and you just add DJ Morik. Are you really going to throw the ball to your running back more?
In that scenario, he was the RB 39 receptions per game. So I just don't see that crazy ceiling to compete with the top five, top six picks in the draft. So I've been doing some funky things at the end of round one. I'll do Devon Aitchin with Kenneth Walker, Derek Henry with Chase Brown. I'll get you unique at the end of the round. I think James Cook will be a very strong RB one. I just don't see the pathway for him to really be the guy that you needed this year. Yeah.