Rich Ryan believes Marquise “Hollywood” Brown is an ADP mistake at his current late-9th-round price. With Rashee Rice facing a 4-to-6-game suspension, Ryan projects Brown for an 8-to-9-target weekly diet in September, noting Brown’s career 24 % target share and 12.1 aDOT align perfectly with Patrick Mahomes’ deep-shot tendencies. He likened the situation to Tyreek Hill’s early Kansas City usage and sees Brown as the bridge that lets drafters take delayed-production bets on Rice, Jordan Addison, or Ohio State rookies. Ryan is scooping Hollywood any time he slips outside pick 100, calling the move “free early spike weeks” that can vault best-ball teams into Round 2 before the suspended players even return.

Rich Ryan said the Saints are his most-owned portfolio stack because Tyler Shuck and Rashid Shaheed are "practically free" on DraftKings. Shuck rarely cracks the top-200 picks, while Shaheed hovers in the late-14th, yet the electric wideout produced 2.36 yards per route on 20-plus-yard targets last season—seventh-best in the NFL. Ryan notes new OC Klint Kubiak historically calls play-action deep shots at a top-five rate, a perfect match for Shaheed’s 4.3 speed. Pairing Shuck with Shaheed and sprinkling in Juwan Johnson costs less than a single ninth-round wide receiver, freeing capital for early RBs while still capturing an NFC South Week-17 dome shootout. Ryan is already 20 % exposed to the mini stack.

Rich Ryan said the 49ers are his highest-exposure paid-up stack because Sharp Football grades their 2024 slate as the league’s easiest. Brock Purdy sits in the mid-9th round, yet every ancillary piece—rookie Ricky Pearsall, Jauan Jennings, speed back Isaiah Garendo, and goal-line banger Jordan James—comes after Round 14, allowing a full five-man stack without clogging premium wide-receiver slots. Ryan expects Kyle Shanahan to throw more than the market projects after last year’s rushing efficiency dip and has Purdy penciled in for 4,600 yards and 31 TDs. He calls San Francisco “the cheapest elite offense in the lobby” and happily drafts Purdy as his QB2 whenever the early-round studs fly off the board.

Rich Ryan called Jordan Love the "falling pocket passer" of DraftKings best-ball lobbies. Love routinely lasts a full round past ADP—sometimes even behind both Jayden Reed and Malik Nabers—despite closing 2023 with 32 touchdown passes and the league’s fourth-best EPA per dropback from Week 9 forward. Ryan’s preferred build is to grab Love at the 10/11 turn, then complete a dirt-cheap triple stack with Romeo Doubs in Round 12 and Dontayvion Wicks after pick 180. He projects Green Bay for 600 attempts and ranks Love as a top-10 weekly ceiling play in full-PPR playoff weeks, making him an every-draft QB2 when he misses on the Allen/Lamar tier.

Rich Ryan advised avoiding the entire Browns quarterback carousel—Joe Flacco, Shadour Sanders, Dillon Gabriel and Kenny Pickett—calling it a “gnarly parlay” that almost never pays off in best ball. Drafters must 1) pick the eventual Week 17 starter, 2) hope that same passer survives multiple rookie challengers, and 3) count on Kevin Stefanski to pivot from his preferred run-heavy scripts once winter hits the AFC North. Even with Jameis Winston last year, Ryan noted the Browns led the league in raw dropbacks yet still failed to generate usable fantasy weeks for ancillary receivers, let alone quarterbacks. Given the low ceiling and high replacement cost, he is clicking zero Cleveland signal-callers and instead uses late picks on stable QB3s like Jackson Dart who have clear paths to starting down the stretch.

Rich Ryan said he is hard-fading Jerry Jeudy at his current DraftKings ADP because the Browns’ quarterback situation makes stacking nearly impossible. Drafters have to thread a three-leg parlay: 1) correctly guess which of Joe Flacco, Shadour Sanders or Dillon Gabriel actually starts Week 17, 2) hope that quarterback is still starting when Best-Ball playoff weeks roll around, and 3) pray Kevin Stefanski lets the offense throw enough to support ceiling weeks. Ryan noted Jeudy ran plenty of routes last year yet did almost nothing with them, and Cleveland projects to be ground-heavy if one of the rookie passers wins the job. He also pointed out that Cedric Tillman’s emergence could siphon targets, making Jeudy an overpriced WR4 who offers no correlation upside and very limited spike-week potential.

Rich Ryan moved Rashee Rice from a late-second ADP all the way down to the 4/5 turn, grouping him with Courtland Sutton and Jameson Williams. He believes that range finally bakes in the uncertainty of a looming multi-game suspension and the possibility that Xavier Worthy cements himself as Patrick Mahomes’ preferred horizontal target during Rice’s absence. Ryan noted that a four-to-six-game ban would lop 25-35 % off Rice’s season-long snaps—material in best ball where every weekly score matters—and pointed to Kansas City’s 2023 "stuck-in-the-mud" passing efficiency as another reason to discount ceiling projections. Until the NFL announces the exact length, Ryan is capping his exposure and will only click Rice when he slips past pick 45, preferring to chase the cheaper upside offered by Worthy and late-round Elijah Mitchell shares.

Rich Ryan said Elijah Mitchell is a must-add flyer in the final rounds because beat reports now have him as a "really strong bet" to make Kansas City’s 53-man roster. Mitchell is being drafted in fewer than 15 % of DraftKings contests—essentially free—while 31-year-old Kareem Hunt carries an inexplicable 100 % draft rate despite no guaranteed role. Ryan emphasized that backing the correct Chiefs RB2 has historically produced spike-week touchdowns in Patrick Mahomes’ offense (Jerick McKinnon’s 10 TDs in 2022, Clyde Edwards-Helaire’s early 2023 burst). If Mitchell simply sticks through camp he becomes live for that same high-value goal-line and screen-game work, giving drafters asymmetrical upside without burning premium capital. He is loading up on Mitchell when he needs a RB6 and fading Hunt entirely.

Rich Ryan wants exposure to Shedeur Sanders as a final-round lottery ticket—but only after the Browns publicly crown him their QB2. Ryan expects Joe Flacco to open the year, yet believes Cleveland will hand the reins to Sanders once they fall out of contention, giving drafters a potential Week 17 starter for pennies. He praised Sanders’ college tape—70% completion despite constant pocket chaos behind Colorado’s awful line—and argued that kind of accuracy plus mobility is exactly what you hunt for at pick 230. The caveat: without clear depth-chart confirmation you risk burning a roster spot, so Ryan is waiting for camp reports before smashing the draft button.

Rich Ryan called Daniel Jones the perfect emergency quarterback when early plans implode. In a recent draft where he "had an absolute catastrophe at the quarterback position," Rich pulled the ripcord by scooping Jones in the final rounds and built a Bashaud Tooten–Daniel Jones–AD Mitchell game stack on the fly. The logic: Jones’ rushing equity creates weekly ceiling, his price tag is dirt-cheap after last year’s injury-marred season, and fringe Giants skill players (Mitchell, Tooten) are free correlation pieces that salvage otherwise unstacked builds. Ryan advised drafters who gamble on quarterback ADP slides to leave room for this late Jones contingency so the roster still carries correlated upside into the playoff weeks.