Get ready for another epic episode of "Island of Misfit Mocks" where Sweet T, King, and Bombo take you through a wild first-round mock draft you won't want to miss. Sweet T kicks things off with a controversial pick, choosing Jamar Chase over Justin Jefferson. Spoiler: it gets crazier from there. 😜

King argues that Tyreek Hill could reach 2,000 yards if Tua can remember it's not "Taco Tuesday" during games. Bombo gets sentimental with a Raiders pick and our panel questions if Matt Stafford might swap his Lions jersey for a cowboy hat in Dallas.

Find out why Christian McCaffrey might just be the Super Bowl golden ticket for the Niners and why Detroit's Amon-Ra St. Brown is the breakout star you didn't see coming. Oh, and somebody finally gives tight end Travis Kelce the love he deserves.

Will these fantasy hot takes make you a legend in your league or the laughing stock? There’s only one way to find out. Tune in and let's get this mock draft party started! 🎉🏈

Warning: This episode contains explicit content and might just be too hot for the faint of heart. Listener discretion is advised. 🔥

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Island of Misfit mocks: First round mock draft

Sweet T: All right. Welcome back Islanders to another one. We got a real special one for you today. Today we're going to go ahead and get at a first round mock draft between King Bombo and yours. Truly sweet tea. This one's gonna be a lot of fun because we've already predetermined where our draft order is going to be.

The three of us are going to. Try to, to fill in the gaps for a full first round. So I got the first overall pick. We got King with the second and Bombo with the third. Then it goes into the fourth, fifth, and it just loops. We're gonna go and we're gonna mock draft our first round and give everybody a good reason why we picked who we picked at what order.

So, guys, I hope you guys are up for this one. This one's gonna be a lot of fun. We've done some actual drafts together, so this is gonna be kind of interesting because we haven't really done anything like this on the show before. Hopefully you guys are up for this one. So I'm gonna go ahead and get us started. I'm gonna go with my number one pick overall, and that is going to be off the board, the number two wide receiver Jamar Chase from the Cincinnati Bengals. Now I could have went with Justin Jefferson, but I do think that there's gonna be a little bit of regression there.

I don't know about Kirkland Cousins and I'm more comfortable with the fact that I think Jamar Chase is gonna have another ball out season that team has just set up for a lot of success. So for me, I gotta go. Jamar Chase, number one, overall king, you are number two. What do you got on the clock?

King: I mean that's a good number one pick. I think that's okay. But I think the guy I would take number two, I'd take him any spot in the first round if he was there, is Tyreek Hill. I think people don't realize the number he put up last year without Tua in a lot of those games. You know, once Tua got that real bad concussion and.

They asked him what day it was and he, you know, he was like, taco Tuesday or whatever he said, you know what I mean? He was just, it was bad after that. So, I mean, that quarterback and he still put up numbers that were almost breaking records for the season. So imagine if Tua can stay upright and Tua was put on about 10 pounds of, we'll just call it mass, you know, but I don't, I'm keeping my name out of his mouth.

I'm hoping the Cheetah gets a lot more this year than, than Jaylen Waddle. But Cheeto would be my number two pick.

Sweet T: Solid, solid number two pick. I really like that. And you know, I like that little feisty Tua. It's good that you keep his name outta your mouth like that because you never know what he's gonna do. All right, Bombo, who do you got at number three? Overall? I.

Bombo: Picking from the third spot you. On any draft that you guys are in, you would probably be picking without a Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase or or Tyreek Hill. Any combination of those, any two of those would probably be gone at the three spot, maybe buck the trend. And I'm gonna go with a running back and it was between McCaffrey and Eckler, but I'm gonna go with the guy that didn't request a trade a couple months ago and just gimme Christian McCaffrey.

I think that, that he's a cog in the offense that's gonna, that's primed to do all that he can to Niners. He's primed to do all that he can to get to the Super Bowl. That's what the Niners wanna do. They know the recipe. They were a Brock Purdy injury away for, I think from getting there. So gimme Christian McCaffrey as being the trusted running back in a high powered offense that's, Playing to win it all.

I think that their, their window is closing with the talent that they have. Everybody's getting a little bit older and you know that it's becoming the same old song in dance in San Francisco. The one constant though, is what we saw outta that offense as soon as Christian McCaffrey got at it. I think Christian McCaffrey still has the value that he's had the past couple years, as long as he's healthy.

Knock on wood, and I'm gonna go into this assuming that he is healthy and give me Ki McCaffrey.

Sweet T: It's a nice pick. I like that. And you never know. Sometimes he can throw for a touchdown. Down too. He has that little quarterback in him. All right, well, okay guys. You guys left this guy number one overall on on the A D P, and he's still on the board at the fourth pick. I gotta take him off the board.

Justin Jefferson. I did say that, yeah. I do expect some regression and. I'm still kind of iffy on, what that offense is gonna do. They got some good solid weapons around him, so he's not going to be just a pure focal point that he was last year, but he is still gonna get some solid number.

He's still gonna get his, even though he got kind of stopped on a couple games, but I gotta go with Justin Jefferson. I don't understand how he could still be on the board with the number four pick, but I gotta take him off the board guys.

King: Oh, nice pick.

Sweet T: Which, yeah, thanks. Which leads to you, king Europe.

King: You know, I was thinking about it at this fifth pick, and you know, I mean, right. It's not like you can sit there and say, okay, I'm building a team and my fifth pick is gonna be with the first guy I picked. You're sort of building a whole new team, and I. I think at this point now with the receivers that are left, you know, and obviously there's still some good receivers out there, top tier guys.

But at this point, man, just get, you know, I think the running backs there was basically two top tier guys, one A and one B. I'm might take one B, Austin Eckler. I think that's the guy who just basically, you know, he fills in all the voids for you. If he's playing and he's suiting up for you, you know he is gonna get you five to seven catches minimum.

That's his, his floor. He can go out for you a hundred yards both ways. Who knows about the touchdowns? So with their offense now, and a new offensive coordinator, who knows what it is, but in the fifth pick, I'm taking Austin ler.

Sweet T: Solid pick. I really like that pick, especially at that fifth spot. Guy has ball out years for the last couple years. Love it. Bombo number six. Pick who you going with.

Bombo: From the sixth position in a 12 Team League draft, you can go a lot of different ways. And I know that we've had pre-show meetings and we've went through this before, and you know, just talking to King and listening to him with some of the picks that he had to convince me, there's no way I can pass up on a Raider in the first round, and I'm gonna go with Devonte Adams.

So this is going into it thinking that at some point O'Connell takes over as quarterback of the Raiders, and if they do, he's, he throws dots and. Devonte showed that he could do it with anybody. I mean, he had car throwing to him. He had Jared Stidham throwing to him last year, and he was able to put up some pretty big fantasy games.

I think we throw around the term quarterback proof. I think Devonte's such a crisp route runner. He gets separation and he gets, he has such great hands. I think if you have a competent quarterback out there, he can produce. Raiders are not probably going for the Super Bowl this year, but you know, they wanna highlight their best player and as a, and as a fan in a really bad codependent relationship with the Raiders.

I have, I can't pass him up. So at the six pick, I would take Devonte Adams.

Sweet T: Hey, it's a good pick. To use what King's said in the past. You know, he's very disrespected this year in fantasy just because of his quarterback situation and also what happened last year over there. So I, I think he's a solid pick. All right. That leads me into my next pick.

I'm gonna go ahead. I, I gotta go with this guy. He's listed as the number one tight end. He's a defacto wide receiver, and that's Travis Kel. This guy, he's freaking ancient right now in football years. He's got a lot of miles on him, but talent's still there. There's nobody that challenges him that much for number one.

Every time we think that somebody's gonna step up and challenge him for that number one tight end in the league, he just kind of blows them out of the water again. And that offense just rolls when you got a guy throwing the ball like Patrick Mahomes at you. I, I just, I love me some Travis Kel. All right, king, so you're up next at the number eight pick. Who's your eighth?

King: Well, I think, you know, one of the guys, again, you're talking about being disrespected and now falling all the way to eight. I'm gonna take me some Cooper Cup. You know, this guy, two years ago, he was, you know, he broke every record in the N F L. You know, and I really think I, I don't know what's going on over there.

I know it's, what have you done for me lately? But there's some bad blood going on with Matt Stafford. I think this might be his final hurrah there. I'm just feeling that. And I think he might be throwing in somewhere else. Hey, maybe mark my words a little bit. Maybe Matt Stafford's gonna be playing in Dallas to close out his career, not Dak, but anyway.

I, I just think they're gonna have a big year. I think they're gonna try to prove everybody wrong. They're gonna be playing from behind 'cause their defense sucks and he's gonna have, you know, anywhere from seven to fucking 12, 13 catches a game. You know, he gets those little short to intermediate routes where he's just ad-libbing and they just feel it and no one can cover it.

'cause they don't even know what they're really gonna run. So I get it, you know why they're so successful and if those guys can stay healthy. And even 80, 90% of what they were two years ago. I'm good with that at the, the pick that I'm taking 'em at Cooper Cup.

Sweet T: I like that pick. I like it. A lot. I don't know what, but what about Trey Lance over there in Dallas, you know, fighting against Stafford for that Dallas quarterback position in a couple years. All right, Bumbo, so you got the ninth pick Overall, who do you gonna go

Bombo: this is where I would use the strategy as a team. Picking from the nine spot in a 12 team draft, I would think I got about six, five or six. I don't know. The math picks coming back to me so I could kind of knock out two positions at one time from a. Basket of some pretty good talent, and I'm gonna go with the upside here and go Almond Ross St.

Brown at that position. I think that he's primed to have a big year, a breakout year. This is maybe the last year that you'd be able to probably get Almond Raw in the second round. I'm gonna on this, on this pick. It's a reach because I think he probably would be there in the second round for some leagues, depending, unless there's somebody out there that's been paying attention and seeing that this guy gets better and better.

Pretty much every game he plays, he looks unguardable, crisp route running. He has the hands and he is in an offense that throws it a ton and. They don't have a really good defense, so they're always gonna be in shootouts. A lot of is expected of the Detroit Lions this year. They get KC in the first game of the year, so they're obviously, they expect some offense to generate ra ra.

They expect offense to generate ratings. He's a big chunk of that offense, a huge target share has the trust of golf. I think he's a superstar waiting to happen. Gimme Aman Ross. Name Brown.

Sweet T: Detroit's got a lot of weapons and he's their number one weapon and I think that's a really smart pick. I don't even know if that's gonna be a reach. 'cause I think to your point, Bombo, there's a lot of guys that are gonna, are starting to wake up to this guy. You know, you've done a lot of mocks, King's done a lot of mocks, and you guys are seeing that this guy's starting to go a lot quicker than you guys expected.

It's because guys are waking up to him. So I love me that. So that goes into me still a lot of talent on the board. You know, I'm going in this first round, I gotta take this guy. I think he's. He's the number one receiver. I understand that they got a really solid number two over there, but this guy still gets the bulk of the, the targets.

And that's AJ Brown over there in Philadelphia. Big body wide receiver. Love what he did over there. They're building a great program, top offense, and I think he's still gonna get the bulk of the targets and yeah, I love me some AJ Brown. All right, king, who do you got

King: I think at the back end of the first round, you know, if you can get either one of the, the two guys I'm thinking about, you should be happy to start your team 'cause you're gonna come back around and take the opposite. But you know, I think I have my pick between Kimberly, I. You know, top three or four running back and a top five or six receiver here.

Probably just 'cause of its P P R and I'm worried about the running backs, injury history. I'm gonna go and go Stefan Diggs here at the 11th pick. You know, obviously there's running backs on the board. You know, you got King Henry out there, you got Saquon out there and you know, I think at this point now, just knowing that both those guys probably won't be taken. On the, come around on the snake, you know your strategy at 11 is take the best receiver you can. So I'll take Stefon Diggs and one of those two guys should be there waiting for me, and I'm good with a runner up if they're gonna take Saquon and 12.

Sweet T: Solid pick. They have a great offense over. There and you know, the guy's in the top 10 and very disrespected when it comes to drafting in the first round. A lot of guys are passing him up, so that's a good one. And Bombo, with the last pick in the first round, what's gonna be your strategy going into that pick and who do you get?

Bombo: I mean, not to regurgitate what King just said, but I would be drafting in that 12th round knowing that I got the snake coming. If I had the snake coming back around, it would be a toss up between getting my running back between Nick Chubb and Saquon Broley. I would cross that bridge when I come to it.

First thing I would do is get CD lamb off the board at number 12. Just like we were talking about with Ahman Ross, same brown cd. Lamb's ready to become a superstar receiver. I'm not saying he's gonna be the best receiver in the league, but I'm saying he can be one of these stars.

It's a, it's a receiver driven league down cd. Lamb plays for America's team. He's the star of that team. He's the constant on the offense with so many different things shifting around, there's no more Dalton Schultz. The Zeke era is over officially handed over the keys to Tony Pollard. I. I got a brand new guy on the other side in Brandon Cooks. Michael Gallup is still a question mark. I don't know if we've seen him at his best yet. With the injury history, the one constant in the offense is CD lamb.

He gets all the targets, he gets the high percentage touches, and he's what they're looking for in the end zone all the time. Also, CD Lamb is really creative. Once he gets the ball in his hands, he could take it to the house at any time. And then of course on the back end of coming back from the snake, I'd grab one of those two remaining running backs and be in a really good spot.

Gimme CD Lamb.

Sweet T: Nice. Bombo. Nice. You know, guys, I, I think this is a really solid first round. I love the analysis you guys were giving on why you're picking and, and what you're, you're thinking when you're taking at that position and why.

So good stuff. We're gonna go ahead and wrap that up. Hopefully some of the listeners got some key insights on if they haven't drafted yet, who they can draft and in what position. So for that, we'll see everybody on the next one.

We're out.