The Show: Rookie Values, Draft Reaches, and More

**JJ Zachariason** (0:00)
You're about to listen to The Late-Round Fantasy Football Show, which originally aired on YouTube. If you'd like to catch the show live this off-season, you can head to The Late-Round Fantasy Football YouTube channel, youtube.com/atlateroundff.
We'll be live each Wednesday at noon Eastern. Without further ado, here's this week's episode.

**David Kitchen** (0:31)
Welcome in, welcome in. It's The Late-Round Fantasy Football Show. David Kitchen, joined by the face of Late-Round. JJ Zachariason, JJ, how's it going, buddy?

**JJ Zachariason** (0:42)
It's going, it's going. I just told you, I was, so I rushed to get the rankings out. Okay, so the dynasty rankings are all updated. It's been a whirlwind five days.

**David Kitchen** (0:53)
Yes, right.

**JJ Zachariason** (0:56)
Prospect Guide was out on Saturday evening as we wanted to aim for. Depending on the time zone that you're in, could have been even Saturday afternoon for some people.
But then we got that done, had a day with the family on Saturday, and then Monday, or sorry, on Sunday. And then on Monday, I did the podcast. I mean, I did notes and stuff on Sunday, but on Monday, I did the podcast, 33-minute solo show. And then today, I was able to finish up the updated dynasty rankings. And then I got a quick little peloton.

**David Kitchen** (1:34)
The peloton ride in, yeah.

**JJ Zachariason** (1:35)
Right. So if I look a certain way, it's because I literally got out of the shower about 10 minutes ago.

**David Kitchen** (1:41)
JJ, I'm not saying this because you signed my checks, but you look awesome.

**JJ Zachariason** (1:47)
Thank you.

**David Kitchen** (1:48)
I may be saying a little bit because you signed my checks. All right. This is an interactive show. So again, if you are watching live, feel free to comment. We've got lots of people talking about their dynasty drafts. It is dynasty draft season. And speaking of that, we've got the prospect guide out and it is updated. Like JJ said, it's got rookie rankings. We also have, if you're like in a startup, dynasty draft. Like I am, we actually talked about another startup draft where Gadula and I could do one with some late-round members since there's already one started.

**JJ Zachariason** (2:23)
We started one a while ago. It's like a $10, you know, fun little league that we, I even think it might be, it might not be charity. It might be charity. I'm not even sure. I'm always the last one to pick because I'm terrible at paying dues, as you know, with the, with the Insiders League.
For whatever reason, like I'm usually on top of things and I'm never on top of that. It's not that I don't want to pay. I just, I'm just not on top of it enough. But yeah, we started that draft. That, that league, it's a, it's a late round league. We started it via Discord the first year that late round fantasy football existed. And the first two years, I had the most brutal losses in the playoffs imaginable.
Should have won, I mean, just the best team the first two years. And then I'm like, you know what? I'm done. I'm blowing this up. So I've been blowing it up ever since.

**David Kitchen** (3:11)
I guess it was the fact that I just had to find out that there was this league by happenstance. I felt left out for a little bit. So it's okay. Brandon Gidula and I are going to have our own. But with that, you can join the Patreon, lateround.com and get the overall Dynasties rankings. Like you talked about JJ.
It's also for best ball season, it's important because you figure out the matchups there.

**JJ Zachariason** (4:08)
Week 17 Yeah.

**David Kitchen** (4:10)
Some say it's all that matters, but sometimes you just got to get lucky. Let's just call it what it is. You got to get lucky to advance there. But it always brings around those conversations.
Like in the grand scheme of things, week 17 is in the NFL. It's just another week. It's the week before. But in fantasy football, it's a huge week. It's a big week.

**JJ Zachariason** (4:36)
Yeah. It's everything.

**David Kitchen** (4:37)
All right. That being said, JJ, let's get on to it. It's today's news.
Today's fantasy news. All right. Let's just recap the draft a little bit. A little bit because I know you've already had a 33-minute solo. We got the draft guide out, lots of talk about big boards and everything else. But just give me your overall overview of how the draft went in Pittsburgh.

**JJ Zachariason** (5:05)
Yeah. Well, first off, I thought the draft itself was really cool in Pittsburgh as a Yenzer, born and raised. I lived there until I was 22 years old, grew up there, and then went to Pitt.