The Worst Fantasy Pick In Each Round (Episode 1017 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

**Adam Levitan** (0:15)
Hello, and welcome to episode 1017 of the official establishtherun.com podcast. My name is Adam Levitan. I am one of the co-founders here at ETR, as always joined by Evan Silva.
And you guys know me.
I am a glass half full kind of guy. I am Mr. Positivity. I am a ray of sunshine. So I didn't even really want to do this show on the worst picks in each round. But we got so much good feedback on our best picks in each round show that I agreed to do this here.
So we are here today. Evan, how's it going?

**Evan Silva** (0:53)
It's going great. We're doing this on Thursday, September 3rd, mere days, not even a week, days away from the start of the NFL season. Also the start in college football of the perfect season on beginning Sunday night at Lambeau Field. The perfect season.

**Adam Levitan** (1:13)
Yes. Rudy Rüdiger, I'm sure, and Evan will be joined hands watching together.
On today's show, we are going to identify and discuss the worst pick in each round. We'll go through the first eight rounds of fantasy football drafts. This is aimed at half PPR formats. Obviously, it's difficult to know where players will go in each round. We are doing our best here to estimate how your drafts will go.
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All right, Evan, let's get into it here with worst picks in each round. We will start with round one, Evan. Go ahead.

**Evan Silva** (3:14)
So it's not that I think that Bijon Robinson is a bad pick. Obviously, I have Bijon Robinson as my number two overall player. But I think that when you're on the board and you're about to find out your draft fills, you're about to find out where you're going to draft, what your draft slot is going to be.
It's just a blow. Like I would so much rather have the 1.01 pick than the 1.02 this year because I really want Jameer Gibbs. Talking about the offensive environment, no Dave in Montgomery, better offensive line. Just the quarterback situations are diametrically opposed going from looking at Detroit and Atlanta. I would just so much rather have Jameer Gibbs this year than Bijan Robinson at the top of the drafts.
I think Bijan Robinson is going to have a really nice season. He's going to be a usage machine. You can use him in all different facets of the game. He's going to be really good. I think that Jameer Gibbs has a chance to be great, truly great, like in an historic kind of season. And when my draft fills and I see that I got the 1.02 instead of the 1.01, it's just like, ah, I just wish I would have been one spot closer so I could take Jameer Gibbs one spot higher to take Jameer Gibbs instead of Bijan Robinson.

**Adam Levitan** (4:29)
Yeah, to me, obviously, the only concern on Bijan Robinson is the systemic risk. And he's overcome this in the past. They have not been a great team. He's been a very, very, very good fantasy player. I actually think the way Tua likes to play is good for Bijan. You know, like, don't take hits, don't take sacks. You don't have a strong arm. Get the ball out quickly and let Bijan catch 70, 80, 90 balls. I do not think we're going to see Tua for the full season. We're also going to see Penix. I don't know if you have a preference, Evan, if you do draft Bijan, would you rather have Tua or Penix as your quarterback there?