Chris Welsh · Aug 30, 2025
Welsh drafted Christian McCaffrey, Breece Hall, RJ Harvey, Tetairoa McMillan, Travis Hunter, the Rams and Saints receivers, Justin Fields (a top-10 QB), Drake Maye (QB10-14), Travis Kelce and Tyler Warren, while passing on Joe Mixon, the Commanders backfield, Tyreek Hill, Rashee Rice and Xavier Worthy.
“The rushing upside makes him a top ten quarterback draft.”
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- Positional FinishesAug 30, 2025
“The rushing upside makes him a top ten quarterback draft.”
Scored 0a naive guess scored 75-150 skillHow this was scored
- skill:
- -150
- player:
- Justin Fields
- season:
- 2025
- zero at:
- 12
- accuracy:
- 0
- baseline:
- 75
- position:
- QB
- ranked by:
- fantasy points
- difficulty:
- 2
- naive basis:
- where he finished last season
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- naive finish:
- 31
- actual finish:
- 28
- weeks left when called:
- 18
- predicted finish:
- 10
- Fantasy Bust CallsAug 30, 2025
“This is a hard pass. I have absolutely no interest... So I have no interest in Joe Mixon.”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“Those wide receivers are way way too talented. I am going to draft Puka... But I'm going to say draft.”
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- Fantasy Bust CallsAug 30, 2025
“I'm a pretty firm pass on Tyreek Hill... he's a pass for me. I don't want a lot of shares.”
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- Fantasy Bust CallsAug 30, 2025
“I don't love this for Worthy, and I think he's too expensive right now with these question marks.”
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- Fantasy Bust CallsAug 30, 2025
“We've seen Bill Krofsky Merrit going to like the seventh rounds, some people posting around the fifth round. I think it's gone too crazy”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“So I'm going to take some risk here when the running backs fall off. And I'm going to say Christian McCaffrey... is a draft”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“You're not drafting him for his passing acumen, you want him for the rushing... The rushing upside makes him a top ten quarterback draft.”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“the first wide receiver O Lave checks in at like wide receiver thirty four... this is really built around a Lave being too much of a value. So I'm gonna say, draft.”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“Tougherdante Adams keeps kind of sliding in drafts. Way too talented. There's gonna be tons of volume regardless of who that quarterback is”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“his value is too good. He's QB sixteen on a ADP... I think he got a draft him because that value”
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- Positional FinishesAug 30, 2025
“I kind of think he's going to stick around like QB between QB ten and fourteen this year.”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“I'll put a ring on it... you have Rice out. He's gonna be a red zone option. He got all the targets in the world. So I will put a ring on it”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“I am a draft of Breece Hall. I actually don't hate the ADP... I actually think in the fourth round, especially full PPR, it's a big check”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“So for a wide receiver of that talent to be going outside the top thirty... I think Travis Hunter is still a smash draft.”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“if you miss on the top three, you should be targeting Craft or Tyler Warren on the back end of the tight end. So that is a draft.”
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- Fantasy Bust CallsAug 30, 2025
“You see Eckler going high into the thirties... I think it's gone too crazy, and I think there is too much of a committee here... So as a whole I'm gonna pass.”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“I'm a Wattle guy. I think Jayleen Wattle is going to be the guy that's gonna beig have the big bounce.”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“We are drafting. Give me tetroh A McMillan one hundred percent... I think he could live up to what we wanted Marvin to be last year”
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- Sleeper CallsAug 30, 2025
“So I am a draft on RJ. Harvey... I think the ceiling continues to jump up and up”
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- Fantasy Bust CallsAug 30, 2025
“I think Rice at the current value still doesn't make sense. So that's why they're both going to be passes.”
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