The 2026 Fantasy Points Podcast Listener League Draft!

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John Hansen (1:26)

Hey, what's up? Happy Labor Day weekend. Brian Drake and I are back. It's John Hansen, The Fantasy Points Podcast. We have completed a draft from Sunday evening, September 6th, in which we drafted against a bunch of Twitter followers. I drafted out of the 8-hole, 12-teamer, and Brian out of the 10-hole. So we drafted our teams, we commented on our teams, we commented on some of the picks, and at the end of the draft, we isolated some players who went undrafted, who will likely be undrafted in your league, but could be hot waiver wire pickups as soon as week number two. Thanks for subscribing. As always, throw us a bone with a good review and you're welcome.

Brian Drake (2:22)

All across the Fantasy Universe, welcome to a very fun special edition of the Fantasy Points Podcast, Brian Drake, alongside the guru John Hansen. And John, today we are going to have our Listener League draft. That's right, we threw it out there to all the great listeners of this podcast and said, come draft with the guru and Drake. But we're going to have a 12 team draft, 13 rounds, no kickers or defense, full PPR, pretty standard setup. John, quarterback, two running backs, three receivers, a flex, and then the bench. So it should be a good representation of what people want to do out there. And I shortened it down to 30 seconds of pick. We don't got time for all this jibber jabber. I mean, we got things to do. How are you doing, my friend?

John Hansen (3:03)

I'm doing well. Do you have the ability to stop it if like it's you or me? Because we're doing this podcast live, doing the draft. Now it'll be fine. Ironically, I got the eighth pick here randomly, I'm sure. And I just happened to do an FFPC main event draft this afternoon, Sunday, September 6th at 1 o'clock.

And at 8, spoiler alert, I took a Mon-Ra St. Brown. I thought the team came out really well. We could talk about that. But also, at the end of... Now, we are only doing 13 rounds.

But at the end of the podcast and the draft, I thought it would be a good exercise because we did promise this to where we kind of predict your week two waiver wire guys.

Brian Drake (3:47)

I like it.

John Hansen (3:48)

So after we're done, I'll take a look at the available players and I'll isolate the best guys I think that are going to be hot waiver wire guys. Maybe not week two, but very early in the season.

Brian Drake (4:00)

Well, let's fire this baby up here. John is at the 108, I'm at the 110, and our friend Tanner Russell on the clock.

John Hansen (4:09)

So we're starting two running backs and three wide outs?

Brian Drake (4:12)

Two running backs, three wide outs and a flex.

John Hansen (4:14)

And one flex.

Brian Drake (4:15)

And a tight end. No surprise, Gibbs, Bijon, standard start.

John Hansen (4:20)

Not tight end premium, of course.

Brian Drake (4:22)

No, but it is full PPR. Did you see in the Home League draft I posted, John, over the weekend that my friend Greg took Josh Allen at the 105, and the Internet just shit on him unmercifully?

John Hansen (4:33)

Yeah, yeah. I think we're about as locked in with the top five as we've been in quite some time here with Bijon. And Chase goes off at three.