Fantasy Football - Breakout Picks + Injury Anger, Mike Returns! - Podcast for 8/17
episodePreviously titled “Breakout Picks + Injury Anger, Mike Returns! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/17” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 24, 2026
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What are the hosts’ opening thoughts on preparing for the 2026 fantasy draft?
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How do the hosts evaluate the latest NFL news and injury updates?
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Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright.
Oh Welcome in.
Monday, August 17th, the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Jason Moore is here. I'm Andy Holloway, and guess what? What? He's back. The Mucus King returns. Mike, the Fantasy Hitman returns to the studio. No bear. Extraordinaire in my chair. No.
Which players do Andy, Mike, and Jason each believe will be breakout stars in 2026?
We have uh the full crew back and it is a huge week.
Why does Andy think Isaiah Likely is a late‑round tight‑end steal?
Breakouts, busts, values, sleepers, ten tips and tricks episode, mock draft mayhem, and um too many injuries to talk about. Yeah.
I'm I'm so uh This was like listen. This was a this is a a regular week in season amount of injuries to our guys.
What makes Mike confident that Isaiah Likely can become a top‑5 TE?
Every year we I've lived in Arizona my whole life and every year The summer surprises me. Fresh. Sure. And how in how much of an inferno it is, how hot it is, how horrible it is. I every year I'm like, oh my gosh.
Why does Jason pick Trevion Henderson as his breakout running back?
Yeah. And the same thing happens with injuries in fantasy football because we have an off season of anticipation and excitement and joy. And uh the worst part is it we have like Done work to try to decide on how something's going to happen. And we never
get to see for some players. It's unbelievable. We have a board that has our my guys or maybe our MVPs or our, you know, we've got breakouts today. And it's like we've got all these players we're looking for and waiting. And then all of a sudden, behind the scenes, we're excited to talk to you about so I got my groin. Go up my offensive lineman. I don't have a knee anymore. This this game is brutal.
What listener questions are answered in the mailbag segment?
I don't know if you guys know this. Football is a rough and it's a tough sport. Is a rough and tumble physical. It's a tough
sport. Um but we must go on without knowing how some of these situations will turn out.
When is it a bad idea to reach for a player and how do you identify the RB dead zone?
And this is why you like we've had a hard time. People have been asking us for our my guy picks, and we kind of have to thread the needle a little bit. Like on the timeline. On the timeline. Like I I I'll say this now. Like I really wanted to make. Make Alec Pierce a my guy for most of the offseason. I did can't really do that right now. Yeah. I can't go say invest on the draft pick and start him. I don't know when he's gonna play. Maybe it'll be week one. I I don't know. But um those are coming next week as well, the my guy picks. Uh your drafts will get started. Ours is on Labor Day, so hopefully you've pushed yours back as far as you can because you this is why we say draft as close to kickoff as possible.
I I think that's important because maybe people don't realize that kickoff is a week later this year than it usually is. So instead of doing it like if your if your league always does the second weekend in August, I guess you would be done. But you know, whatever. If if you time it that way, you should push it later. And we always say every year, like push your draft as late as possible towards kickoff. I would recommend having it be after the third and final week of preseason because there's no there's no fun in like You leave a draft, you're excited, and then before the first week, before the first pant fantasy point is scored A guy you got in the second round is like done for the year in the week three of the preseason.
That that stinks. So push him light.
Yeah, push him as far back as you can. The exception being if you can get people together for in person drafting, do that whenever you can. It's the best. Um, but what else do we got going on? We got one week left
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the hosts’ opening thoughts on preparing for the 2026 fantasy draft?
0:04–0:44
2
How do the hosts evaluate the latest NFL news and injury updates?
0:44–1:44
3
Which players do Andy, Mike, and Jason each believe will be breakout stars in 2026?
1:44–1:47
4
Why does Andy think Isaiah Likely is a late‑round tight‑end steal?
1:47–2:09
5
What makes Mike confident that Isaiah Likely can become a top‑5 TE?
2:09–2:23
6
Why does Jason pick Trevion Henderson as his breakout running back?
2:23–3:04
7
What listener questions are answered in the mailbag segment?
3:04–3:17
8
When is it a bad idea to reach for a player and how do you identify the RB dead zone?
3:17–56:06
Speakers
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