Auction Brief with Drew Davenport

Your host and auction draft expert Drew Davenport is back on the mic solo to talk about his 6 Things Nobody Tells You About Auctions. The episode begins with a wandering journey through a couple stories that help you begin to think about all the ways we can stay on track in the auction room with a surprising conclusion. After this journey, your host leads you into the topic of the day by breaking...

The Auction Brief invites Editor in Chief of Fantasy Points, Joe Dolan, to the show for Discussions with Drew and a special All Auction deep dive with one of the best auction minds in the business. Dolan and Drew take a fun 45 minute meandering trip through all things auction: QB strategy, TE strategy, and how hard we should chase RBs with the rest of the community. The duo also ponders the future...

After spending last week building your auction game mindset, this week your host Drew Davenport hits the mic with his favorite guys for 2026 auctions. Your host walks you through four categories of players that you should start to think about for 2026 drafts: Floor Guys, Close Your Eyes Guys, Guys I Don't Want, and Boring Roster Finishers. On this episode you'll run through almost 30 players and w...

The Auction Brief invites Brian Drake from Fantasy Points and Sirius XM onto the show for Discussions with Drew this week and the two pick up where they left off last time on the mic - common sense fantasy talk with plenty of context and wisecracks. The pair play a game of 'This or That' as they explore muddy fantasy backfields like the one in Tampa Bay, plus the situations in Pittsburgh, Carolina...

The Auction Brief wades back into auction theory for this episode of the show. With redraft season slowly gaining steam, your host dives into the foundations of how we prepare our mind to dominate once our auctions get underway this summer. Drew reaches back to Taoist philosophy to teach you how to have Adaptability without Force, how to Practice Humility, and how to Embrace Simplicity as bedrock...

The Auction Brief brings another heavy-hitter analyst on for Discussions with Drew to give you what you need for your fantasy drafts. NFL media personality Marcas Grant joins the show to talk about mining value from offenses like the Titans and Jets, what to do with the Saints offense, and who are his over and under valued players at this point in the summer. Don't miss another information packed...

Your host Drew Davenport comes back on the mic this week to leave 2025 behind and talk about the trends and values he's seeing early in the summer. Follow Drew as he talks about some of the things he's thinking right now about how the fantasy football landscape is shaping up and how we can follow these storylines through the summer to dominate our 2026 fantasy drafts. Don't miss this meandering wa...

The Auction Brief drops another episode of Discussions with Drew, and this time it's Rich Hribar from Sharp Football Analysis giving you an in-depth look at some difficult wide receiver rooms around the NFL. Rich starts the discussion with some thoughts on things he nailed from the 2025 season involving the use of more 12- and 13-personnel in the league and what it's doing to fantasy production. T...

The Auction Brief returns with some more conversation about what we can fix from our 2025 fantasy football mistakes. Your host, Drew Davenport, gets into four mistakes from last fantasy football season that, upon further review, reveal a hole in the pre-draft analysis that we can use to help our 2026 drafts. What did we learn about Sean McVay and the Rams offense? The Lions without Ben Johnson? Th...

The Auction Brief transitions to a new model this week as the show splits into two parts for your listening pleasure. Discussions with Drew now drops on Tuesday morning featuring interviews with the top names in the fantasy business to focus on player evalutations and how you should be attacking your drafts. This week the show welcomes Jim Coventry from Rotowire and Sirius XM to discuss some of th...

The Auction Brief and Drew Davenport are back for another summer of fantasy football talk to focus on getting you ready to dominate your fantasy drafts. The beginning of the show starts like any other draft season, by examining the lessons we can take from the 2025 fantasy football season. Your host takes a look at what made him successful and what made him fail in last year's campaign and condens...

Are you looking for a quick primer before you head into your auction? The Auction Brief is here for you. The show finishes up draft season with a tight, sleek 40 minutes that crystallizes the entire summer into five key ways to dominate your auction. Your host not only gives you five mantras to repeat in your auction room, but he also drops his six favorite players that are being consistently unde...

The Auction Brief is bringing you near the end of draft season with some of the most actionable information yet. Your host starts off the show with an FFLegalUpdate containing critical information about Jordan Addison, Rashee Rice, and Quinshon Judkins. After helping you navigate that minefield, Drew takes you inside a live, expert auction to break down some lessons he learned from the King's Clas...

The Auction Brief continues on this summer trying to get you prepared for your drafts and auctions this draft season. This episode is no different as your host takes you through The 5 Pillars of Auction Drafting. But, the pillars aren't the same for everyone, so Drew takes you into how to see each of the Pillars if you are a beginner, someone who has some experience, or someone who is advanced at...

The Auction Brief wades into uncharted waters this week with the show's first ever Mailbag. Your host tackles 8 questions from auction aficionados that will help you think about how to make your par sheet, how to think about keeper decisions, and many more auction issues you want to know about before you draft. After the Mailbag, Drew welcomes Auction Brief favorite Brian Drake from FantayPoints a...

The Auction Brief is back with more information to help you dominate your fantasy drafts. No other show can bring you legal insight, auction expertise, and player expertise from the industry's best like this show. This time, your host Drew Davenport leads off with a huge legal update covering the Rashee Rice and Jordan Addison criminal cases and their resolutions. After that, your auction guide ta...

The Auction Brief cruises into the weeks before training camp with some massive legal updates, a chock-full auction slate, and guest J.J. Zachariason. Don't miss this episode as your legal analyst discusses the current situation for Jordan Addison and Quinshon Judkins and what he expects to happen in their pending criminal cases. Then Drew turns to the auction world as he hits 7 Auction Habits you...

The Auction Brief enters uncharted waters this week as your host discusses his 3 Unpopular Yet Unwavering Auction Beliefs. These 3 opinions are some of Drew's strongest opinions about auctions that are nevertheless controversial takes on how to approach the format. Come check out your host's reasons for swimming upstream on these massively important auction concepts. After Drew takes you through t...

The Auction Brief is coming in hot this summer as your host Drew Davenport begins the month of July by blasting you with his entire, player-specific, auction strategy. Your host holds nothing back as he rolls through every position on the board with his general auction approach to each position, his targets, fades, favorite nominations, and most importantly, his favorite budget-wasters in any auct...

The Auction Brief has another big episode for you as the show turns the page on 2024 and starts to focus on 2025 to help you win your fantasy football leagues. Your host Drew Davenport starts the show talking about how you can win your auctions by paying attention to five things he noticed in his own auctions last year. After going over 5 Ways to Win Your Auction, Drew then welcomes in guest Rich...

Episode number two of the Auction Brief is here to dive back into some topics that will define your 2025 drafts. Drew does a quick FFLegalUpdate on Vikings WR Jordan Addison amidst the news that his Jury Trial is set in July. After that your host gives you all the numbers on how rookies finished for fantasy football in 2024 and what that means for how you should treat them going forward. After Dre...

The Auction Brief is back for fantasy draft season to help you crush your fantasy footbal drafts. Drew starts off the year by giving you an in-depth legal update on Chiefs WR Rashee Rice and Vikings WR Jordan Addison. He then goes into his Three Big Fantasy Lessons from 2024 and how he's applying those to his 2025 drafts. After breaking down the major lessons from last year, Drew has guest Scott P...

The summer is drawing to a close for the Auction Brief, but not before your Fantasy Football Lawyer Drew Davenport provides one final call to action in the episode everyone has been waiting for: The Auction Manifesto. Your host weaves a 70 minute tale of every concept and idea that has been discussed this summer into a coherent, chronological walkthrough of auction theory and the skills that make...

In the second-to-last episode of the draft season the Auction Brief gets into the weeds about how the auction draft room shifts as the draft goes on. Your host dives into how to spot the Inflection Points that tell you when and how to act so that you aren't caught unaware during your auction. After Drew breaks down Inflection Points he welcomes guest Bob Harris to Discussions with Drew for a thoro...

The Auction Brief is barrelling towards the end of draft season with a foot on the gas. This week Drew Davenport starts the show with all the information you need on Vikings WR Jordan Addison and why you should be paying attention to the latest developments. Then your host drops his 7 Winning Auction Moves that he's pulled together from his 25 years of auction experience to help you dominate your...