Eric Luttrell kicked himself for passing on rookie running back RJ Harvey at pick 70, calling the early-6th 'the sweet spot' to grab closing-line value. He expects positive beat-writer chatter about Harvey taking first-team reps and short-yardage snaps to shove the rookie’s ADP inside the top-80 within weeks. Luttrell likes that the current price captures upside without assuming Round-4 draft-capital risk later in the summer and advised sprinkling in shares any time Harvey lingers into the mid-80s.

Eric Luttrell said Marvin Harrison Jr. has no business hanging around the 3-4 turn in Best Ball Mania drafts. He noted that drafters keep letting Harrison slide because backs like Chase Brown and other positional priorities shove him down the queue, but Luttrell sees a clear tear break after the Wilson/Adams/Harrison cluster. In his view Harrison should be grouped with Davante Adams and Garrett Wilson—well ahead of the DeVonta Smith tier—so any time you land him at pick 32 or later you’re banking immediate closing-line value. The takeaway: if the rookie falls, smash the button and trust the market to correct once casual drafters catch up.

Eric Luttrell pointed out that elite tight ends are being pushed far down the board and highlighted T.J. Hockenson as the prime example. He landed Hawkinson at pick 106 in a Best Ball Mania draft and noted that "no one wants them." With drafters ignoring the onesie position, Hawkinson, Mark Andrews, Jake Ferguson, Kyle Pitts, Dallas Goddard and others are all coming in multiple rounds past last year’s prices. Eric advised scooping Hawkinson whenever he slips this far, arguing the market overreacts to his ACL rehab and that any positive camp news will erase the discount, giving early drafters huge closing-line value.

Eric Luttrell said MarShawn Lloyd is the easiest way to grab cheap asymmetric upside in the final two rounds of Best Ball Mania 6. Green Bay spent Day-2 capital on Lloyd last year, rode out a freak appendectomy and ankle sprain that wiped out his rookie season, then passed on adding any meaningful back behind new starter Josh Jacobs. Luttrell argued that tells us the Packers are optimistic about Lloyd’s health and plan on using a two-back rotation—something Matt LaFleur has preferred in every season he has coached. If Jacobs were to miss time, Lloyd would vault into a featured role with only UDFA Emanuel Wilson behind him. Even without an injury, Luttrell expects Lloyd to siphon 6-10 touches per game, giving him weekly spike-week potential at a completely free ADP. His target exposure: “at least eight percent of my portfolio before training-camp blurbs push him inside the top 150.”

Eric Luttrell explained why his early-summer “Hero RB” builds start with snagging James Cook whenever the Bills back slips into the mid-fourth round. Luttrell sees Cook, Breece Hall and Chase Brown as second-round caliber talents who are being mis-priced 15–20 picks later because drafters are chasing wide-receiver avalanches. By grabbing Cook at 4.06 or later, managers lock in a back with a 60-plus target ceiling, top-10 yards per touch efficiency last season, and no real depth-chart threat after Buffalo ignored the position in free agency and the draft. Starting with a discounted Cook lets him hammer wideouts in Rounds 1-3, stop at four or five total running backs, and still claim closing-line value once summer hype nudges Cook back toward pick 30.

Eric Luttrell could not believe Tyler Conklin is still going completely undrafted in most Puppy rooms. He reminded viewers that Conklin is a locked-in starter who ran routes on nearly every Aaron Rodgers drop-back prior to the quarterback’s Week-1 injury last year, yet drafters routinely ignore him while taking speculative rookies. Luttrell lumped Conklin together with Theo Johnson and Juwan Johnson as "starting tight ends the field refuses to click," making them perfect TE3s when you need a live body after loading up at other positions. His advice: when the room leaves Conklin on the board in Round 18, scoop the free weekly snaps and move on.

Eric Luttrell could not believe rookie tight end Theo Johnson is slipping completely off the board in Underdog’s 18-round Puppy drafts. Luttrell reminded viewers that New York spent a second-round pick on Johnson after Darren Waller’s retirement, leaving only Daniel Bellinger (career 10% target rate) as token competition. Johnson ran a 4.57 forty at 259 pounds and posted a 93rd-percentile broad jump— measurables that Eric compared to Dallas Goedert’s pre-draft profile. With Brian Daboll historically featuring the tight end in the red zone (Giants TEs have averaged 21% of team end-zone targets under Daboll), Johnson has a clear path to day-one snaps and touchdown equity. Luttrell called him “a draft-day winner who somehow still costs zero capital” and urged drafters to tack him on as their TE3 any time they need a live late-round body instead of recycling dusty veterans.

Eric Luttrell called Cedric Tillman a full round underpriced at his current 140s ADP. He reminded listeners that in Tillman’s three-game healthy stretch last season the rookie actually out-targeted both Jerry Jeudy and David Njoku, flashing a 24-percent target share while running a route on 88 percent of dropbacks. At 6'3"/215 with a strong down-field profile, Tillman now enters Year 3 with only the aging Jeudy and a contract-year Njoku ahead of him, and Luttrell views Cleveland’s rookie TE selection as an organizational hint Njoku may walk in 2025—freeing even more targets. Concerns about the Browns’ muddled quarterback room don’t bother him; Luttrell noted the roster produced three separate top-24 WR weeks down the stretch with Joe Flacco under center and expects OC Ken Dorsey’s faster tempo to push pass attempts into the league’s top half. Bottom line: Tillman has a clear path to WR2 usage yet still costs an 18th-round pick in many rooms—grab the discount before inevitable August helium.

Eric Luttrell said Tank Bigsby is still worth clicking in the mid-150s—even after Jacksonville added rookie Dequon Allen—because there is, in his words, a “real 20-percent chance” Travis Etienne gets traded before Week 1. Luttrell argued that drafters are over–discounting Bigsby (current Underdog ADP ~170) even though he is clearly the best short-yardage option on the roster and Etienne has graded poorly near the goal line. If Etienne is moved, Bigsby would inherit the early-down and goal-line work in a Doug Pederson offense that ranked 10th in red-zone plays last season, giving managers instant 8- to 10-round closing-line value. Until the Jags’ backfield picture clarifies, Luttrell wants at least a modest portfolio share of Bigsby on every Best-Ball Mania draft to preserve that asymmetric upside.

Eric Luttrell was stunned to land Alvin Kamara in the middle of Round 6, calling it the “anti-fragile veteran build cheat code.” The Saints invested a first-rounder in left tackle Taliese Fuaga and brought back center Erik McCoy healthy, moves Eric believes push the unit into top-10 run-blocking territory. Despite a down 2023, Kamara still averaged 5.3 receptions and 16.4 half-PPR points per game— production normally priced two full rounds higher. New Orleans added zero backfield competition beyond UDFA depth, and OC Klint Kubiak has already told local media he wants more pre-snap motion and outside-zone looks, concepts that historically juice Kamara’s yards-before-contact. Luttrell’s take: grab the discount now, bank a locked 275-touch workload, and enjoy the roster-construction flexibility a sixth-round RB1 affords in Underdog’s WR-heavy rooms.

Eric Luttrell told viewers not to burn a mid-round pick on Tyler Lockett, insisting the 31-year-old will linger in Rounds 17-18 all summer. With Jaxon Smith-Njigba set to claim a bigger slot role and Seattle expected to lean run-heavy under new OC Ryan Grubb, Lockett is unlikely to regain his 22-percent target-share days. Eric’s advice: take the discount later for correlation or skip him entirely—reaching in Round 14 only forfeits upside shots at ascending rookies or last-minute handcuff backs.

Eric Luttrell warned drafters not to touch Nick Chubb until the 15th round or later. Coming off a multiligament knee reconstruction with no team yet willing to commit, Chubb’s best-case landing spot still would not lift him past Round 12 in Underdog ADP, according to Eric. Because the market refuses to bake in meaningful upside, you are simply paying for name value right now while absorbing suspension/PUP-list risk and zero receiving floor. His recommendation: let the room chase the nostalgia and wait until the mid-teens—if he is still there and finally signs somewhere, fine, otherwise spend the pick on a healthy back who actually has a roster spot.

Eric Luttrell told drafters to pull Travis Hunter up into the late-4th or early-5th round because the market is moving fast. Hunter’s Underdog ADP has already jumped from the low-70s to pick 51 and Eric has watched him go as early as the mid-3rd. Luttrell credited the surge to Hunter’s unique two-way ceiling and the importance of Weeks 15-17 in Best Ball Mania, noting that Hunter routinely produced 100-yard, multiple-score college games in that exact window last season. His advice: you are “not getting him at 70 anymore,” so click him 10-15 spots ahead of listed ADP before summer highlight clips shove him into the 40s.

Eric Luttrell flagged Michael Wilson as the better pick than Jalen Tolbert when both are on the board, noting Wilson routinely slips to Rounds 17-18 despite having almost no target competition beyond Marvin Harrison Jr. and Trey McBride. Wilson turned 56 targets into 565 yards (10.1 yards per target) as a rookie while running a route on 78 % of Kyler Murray dropbacks post-injury. Eric emphasized that Arizona didn’t add a veteran WR2 in free agency and projects to finish top-10 in pass attempts under OC Drew Petzing’s uptempo system. He thinks the combination of a full Murray offseason and Wilson’s jump to Year-3 health gives him multiple spike-week paths and urged drafters to scoop him any time they need an 18th-round “chaperone” receiver.

Eric Luttrell flagged rookie Ray Davis as the best late-round handcuff on the board. With chatter that James Cook could stage a mini-holdout over his rookie-scale contract and the Bills opting not to draft another back, Eric sees Buffalo boxed into extending Cook or elevating someone from within. At 215 pounds Davis profiles as the goal-line complement Cook never was, and Cook’s 195-pound frame plus a heavy 246-touch workload last season leaves legitimate injury risk. Eric wants at least 15 percent exposure before Davis’ price spikes once beat writers start noting a two-back committee in early-July practices.

Eric Luttrell could not believe Dallas Goedert lasted to pick 159 as the 14th tight end off the board. He emphasized that Philadelphia added zero target competition in free agency or the draft and that the rumor mill around a possible trade has cooled. At his current cost you are paying a late-Round-14 price for a player who has averaged a 19 percent target share and 1.8 yards per route over the last three seasons—numbers that normally sit in the Round-9/10 tier. Eric reminded drafters that the new 20-round format rewards grabbing a single bankable TE early and then punting the position, calling Goedert “the perfect one-and-done anchor” when he slips past the 12-turn.

Eric Luttrell called Chase Brown his "horse" for the mid-double-digit rounds after Cincinnati passed on every big-name rookie back. He admitted fading Brown in early spring when mock drafts had the Bengals linked to multiple Day-2 runners, but now views the sophomore as a massive winner. Brown posted 4.9 yards per touch and a 14% target share in limited rookie action, and Eric expects Lou Anarumo’s improved defense to create more positive game scripts—and thus more neutral-to-run plays—for the backfield. With hand-wringers focused on Zack Moss, Eric sees Brown’s ADP rebounding quickly once beat writers confirm he is opening camp atop the depth chart.

Eric Luttrell said he is still drafting Kyle Pitts every time the former fourth-overall pick lasts to Round 14. He pointed out that best-ball drafters regularly give young tight ends long leashes—referencing the three-year breakout arc for Mark Andrews and David Njoku—and believes Pitts can follow the same path now that Atlanta is pivoting from Arthur Smith’s run-heavy attack. Eric also likes the cheap double-stack potential with Michael Penix Jr. and Drake London later in drafts, which lets you build a low-owned Falcon stack at minimal cost. Pitts’ 27% career target-per-route rate and 1,000-yard rookie season remain "bankable ceiling signals" at a mid-teen ADP.