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The Show: Veteran NFL Draft Losers, Mike McDaniel's Offense, and More

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

May 14, 2026

JJ and Kitchen talk through the latest NFL headlines, including Jauan Jennings and David Njoku’s situations with their respective new teams, Patrick Mahomes’ recent “bull” signal, and Ted Hurst potentially emerging as Tampa Bay’s X receiver.
Speakers: JJ Zachariason, David Kitchen
**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 offseason, 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, David Kitchen, alongside CEO, JJ Zachariason.

**JJ Zachariason** (0:39)
You went back to it, huh?

**David Kitchen** (0:41)
Yeah, I felt like it was just for the moment.

**JJ Zachariason** (0:44)
Yeah, how's it going?

**David Kitchen** (0:46)
It's, I mean, it's going. We got a lot of stuff happening.

**JJ Zachariason** (0:51)
We do.

**David Kitchen** (0:52)
And-

**JJ Zachariason** (0:52)
At Late-Round Fantasy Football, yes, we do.

**David Kitchen** (0:55)
Fantasy Football World, we got some news and notes we gotta talk about. Uh, so, you know, we, we've got a schedule release happening tomorrow night, but we've had some leakages.
And so-

**JJ Zachariason** (1:13)
That's how we're referring to it?

**David Kitchen** (1:14)
Yeah.
Leakages. Uh, so, um, we've got some leakages as far as the, uh, the schedule goes, international games. It's one interesting note. I think we can, um, kind of take away from a schedule leak. And, uh, also, obviously we got the prospect guide out. A few things. Sign up for the newsletter.
I mean, that's the big important step that you need to take today. If you're listening.

**JJ Zachariason** (1:45)
Yeah, we can see how the numbers change with the newsletter, guys. We know that not all of you are signing up right now for the newsletter.

**David Kitchen** (1:53)
Yeah. So, uh, so sign up for the newsletter because, um, JJ, you had a banger episode yesterday with the NIL and you wrote an email that hit people's inboxes this morning.
And you just, you don't want to miss anything that we have coming out with a newsletter and take that for whatever, you know, however you may, uh, as far as like anything that that could be happening.

**JJ Zachariason** (2:20)
Yes, agreed. And Brandon Gidula has done an awesome job with the newsletter. He's been, he's been the baseline of the newsletter, you know, throughout the off season so far.
But you're going to want to also sign up because in season we send stuff. And in season, you typically get the 15 transactions newsletter and you get the data dump newsletter. But this year we're going to have even more because Brandon's around. So you'll definitely want to be subscribed at the very least for the in season stuff. It's also a really easy way to, like I know we sound like a PBS or something like that right now, where I'm just trying to get some some funding or something. That you don't even have to give me a dollar. I'm just saying go sign up for the newsletter. It's free, but it helps us as a business. It helps us and open it whenever you get it to you can do that as well.

**David Kitchen** (3:07)
Yeah. Yeah, no, we're not, you know, it's not like Wikipedia, like LateRound is going to shut down if you don't donate.

**JJ Zachariason** (3:14)
Look, you guys know how I am with the pricing of stuff.
It's probably bad business to act the way that I do about some of this stuff. But when it comes to, people are like, hey, I want to support a creator that I've used the advice, or I listen to the podcast, whatever the case may be. The easiest way to do that is to obviously subscribe to the channel and to podcasts and stuff. But just do anything that you can for free, like the newsletter. There's no transaction that has to happen, just go that direction.

**David Kitchen** (3:46)
Vinegar and Salt and Fry says, the JJ campaign contribution.

**JJ Zachariason** (3:50)
Yes. Yes.

**David Kitchen** (3:51)
Not tax-deductible. But speaking of comments, again, for those that are here on Wednesdays at noon, we appreciate you.
We've got Ferg. Ferg4139, first live show. Love the football sports theme backgrounds that you both have. I think that's actual backgrounds. Yeah.

**JJ Zachariason** (4:12)
Actual backgrounds.

**David Kitchen** (4:13)
I got my fantasy football trophy in the background.

**JJ Zachariason** (4:19)
Ever since I changed my camera, it's a way better camera, obviously. But ever since I changed the camera, it blurs out the background a little bit. I used to get way more questions about the Funko Pops behind me, about the stuff that was behind me, and I don't anymore, which is probably a good thing in the end, probably better than not. But you can see I have back here, Kitchen, two little bobble heads.

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