Mr. Landry

Here's a link to the 2025 website if you want to follow along. Double check your rosters to make sure they're correct (and maybe double check the scoring). WhiteWonder is short a player, because Keenan Allen isn't available (yet). Assuming he signs with someone, I'll add him. 2025 FFToday July Mock

I was surprised too. So I took a second look and dug around. Apparently the default setting on MFL is to not show free agents in the player pool. I set it to allow free agents and he popped right up. Your roster is complete!

16.11 - TE Brenton Strange, JAC

Mostert and Wilson are out in Miami, which leaves the RB2 spot pretty much in Jaylon Wright's hands (I'm not too nervous about Mattison). Achane hit right around 200 carries last year and Mostert and Wilson's 100+ carries are up for grabs. That should open up enough touches for Wright to be an adequate bye-week fill in. However, if Achane goes down (which he did often his rookie season) Wright would be a steal at this point. For the fifteenth, I grabbed the Vikings. They were the #2 scoring D last year and are bringing the band back again this year. I would think a top five finish is doable.

I've done it the last few years. I'll get that done this year as well...

15.02 - D/ST Vikings, MIN

14.11 - RB Jaylen Wright, MIA

At the beginning of the 11th, I knew I had to go RB or there would be a wasteland when it got back to me. I debated White and Ekeler (although if I would have had the news about Mixon I would have definitely gone with Chubb...nice grab worm). White had a fantastic rookie season which shows, given the chance, he can do the job if something were to happen to Bucky. Even though he lost the job to Irving last year, he still posted 51 catches and had over 1,000 yards which is serviceable as my fourth RB. I, clearly, miscalculated the back up QB drafting this year (although I swear to you that three - six back up QB's generally come off the board in the tenth round). To do it again, I would have passed on Purdy and taken Dak in the 11th or 12th. In any case, I'm happy with Herbert as my #2. His numbers have come down since his first few years in the league, but he's been hovering around a low end QB1/high end QB2 the last few years. Investing in Tre Harris with their first pick should give Herbert more options and, hopefully, improve his numbers a bit. Speaking of Tre Harris, with the retirement of Mike Williams he'll start in three WR sets. He won't overtake McConkey, but he has a real shot at stepping into the WR2 role. At this stage in the draft, I'm looking for upside and I think Harris has it.

13.02 - WR Tre Harris, LAC

You should have taken Davis, as McCarthy was at the top of my list.

12.11 - QB Justin Herbert, LAC

Did you email him about being on the clock today?

Homerism aside, I think that's a really good pick. I think Dak will look a lot more like 2023 Dak than 2024 Dak this year and will finish as a QB1. I'd have taken him with my pick, but the RB's I like were thinning and I didn't think there would be anything left for me if I waited.

Auto pick might have been better for me than whatever it is that I'm doing...

11.02 - RB Rachaad White, TB

Grabbing Egbuka right around his ADP seems like the right move here. With Godwin currently out, he gives me some insurance and will almost certainly start in the slot position (the Bucs used a first round pick on him and Mayfield really sang his praises today). When Godwin returns, he should have "stand alone" value as what most likely will be the WR3. I generally don't handcuff my WR, but it seemed a prudent move at this point.

10.11 - Emeka Egbuka, TB

The Bills gave Khalil Shakir a fat contract this Spring and he is all but locked in as Allen's #1 WR. While that amounted to a WR3 finish last year, I suspect that that is closer to his floor than his ceiling. Any improvement will push him toward WR2 territory and that's all I need from my fourth WR. For my ninth round pick I wanted to go in a different direction. There were three QB's left that I would be comfortable with as my starter. With two other teams QB-less I almost passed on QB. But in looking back at past drafts, the 10th round is generally where back up QB's start to come off the board. I couldn't take the chance that the two teams without QB's wouldn't take a QB (they did) and no one else would pick a back up. So of the three QB's I targeted, I felt Purdy was the most consistent (he's finished as QB8 and QB9 the last two years on a per game basis). The 49er defense also lost six starters this year and, I suspect, with a weakened defense Purdy will be called upon to throw more.

9.02 - QB Brock Purdy, SF

8.11 - WR Khalil Shakir, BUF

The ankle injury/second surgery worries me, but prior to the injury last year Godwin was the number 2 WR in points per game in PPR formats (behind only Chase). His week one status is up in the air, but when he returns he should be a WR1/2. I'm, obviously, betting on an earlier return.

I usually shy away from rookies, but I think Kaleb Johnson is in a great position. Najee Harris' departure vacates almost 300 touches and Johnson found a lot of college success coming out of a system that runs the same scheme as the Steelers. Obviously, Warren isn't going away but I think once Johnson finds his footing he can easily replicate the numbers Harris put up the last three years. That would put him as a low end RB2/solid RB3.

7.02 - WR - Chris Godwin, TB

6.11 - RB Kaleb Johnson, PIT

I almost took the Rice gamble with my last pick. But felt having my WR2 looking at a suspension would be putting me behind the 8-ball. I would have grabbed him at the next turn. Grabbing a 2/3 round WR in the sixth round is excellent value.