With about 10 weeks until most teams are getting ready to draft, anyone have any thoughts so far?
It seems like most leagues are going back to drafting bellcow backs with Bell, Elliott, Johnson, Gurley, Barkley, Hunt, Fournette all going pretty high. It seemed like for years WRs were making their names in the first round, but it is now switching back.
Any sleepers? Any strategy? I think the non drafting of QBs is even more important now. Wentz and Watson were/are highly ranked but coming off injuries. As is Rodgers. Lot of new faces around the league.
Guy I am really high on, and think he can get back to top 10 material at his position? Amari Cooper. He was flat out terrible last year but I think Chucky is going to revitalize the team and he is going to play a huge role with Nelson seeing a lot of targets his way.
I mean its way too early to know the exact spot. But I can see anywhere from 7-10 overall and probably 5-6 overall RB behind Bell, Elliott, Johnson, Gurley, and Kamara.
Quote:
I think the non drafting of QBs is even more important now. Wentz and Watson were/are highly ranked but coming off injuries. As is Rodgers. Lot of new faces around the league.
I may wait until round 8-10 to get a QB.
RB looks to be a lot deeper this year than prior years and the WR pool gets thin pretty quick.
Quote:
just wait and get a QB in the mid-to late-mid rounds?
Quote:
I think the non drafting of QBs is even more important now. Wentz and Watson were/are highly ranked but coming off injuries. As is Rodgers. Lot of new faces around the league.
I may wait until round 8-10 to get a QB.
Same here.
Watson
Wentz
Ben
Brees
Rivers
Mahommes
Wilson
Cousins
Cam
Rodgers
Ryan
Stafford
Goff
Why risk taking one early?
All that matters to me is that I have a good grasp of what I expect each player to do and how I value them.
The other 9 in no order
Gurley
Bell
Elliott
Barkely
Kamara
Johnson
Hunt
Fournette
as for comeback players look at Matt Ryan. 3 good wrs. Added to their o-line and I expect better play calling from the OC in his second year.
I'm normally a guy ready/willing to take a QB before round 5. Just not seeing one I would do that with this year.
Rodgers/Brady have less high caliber weapons than usual.
Wentz/Watson are coming back from injury
Cam/Russell have concerns with weapons, OL
Brees is on a run-first team now.
The next group (Grapes, Cousins, Goff, Ryan) is all close enough to these guys that there is no large gap anywhere.
I think no matter how late you take a QB this year, you may wish you waited longer.
It usually doesn't work out exactly that way, but I have some idea on who I'd take first few rounds.
Keeper leagues are obviously different and I have one keeper league and this year I'm keeping (as long as they're healthy on 8/1) Beckham with a 4th round pick and Michael Thomas with a 5th and I feel good about that. It seems like NO is building their team around Thomas and Kamara. Thomas hitting his 3rd year, I'm hoping for even bigger things from him should see a ton of targets.
The only thing with Watson is you will want a good backup QB. Perhaps Big Ben.
Staying on the QB discussion, I think many are going to be sleeping on Andrew Luck. It definitely is a risk, but he bears watching in preseason. If he's all the way back he could represent huge fantasy value.
The only thing with Watson is you will want a good backup QB. Perhaps Big Ben.
Staying on the QB discussion, I think many are going to be sleeping on Andrew Luck. It definitely is a risk, but he bears watching in preseason. If he's all the way back he could represent huge fantasy value.
So if you pick late 1st and assume Gurley, Bell, Elliott, DJ and Kamara are gone (maybe not 1 - 5, but they're gone), even add in Hunt you take Watson before Brown, Beckham, Jones, Hopkins, etc.?
QB - Matt Stafford, Patrick Mahomes, Eli Manning
RB - Melvin Gordon, Jerick McKinnon, Tarik Cohen, CJ Anderson, Matt Breida
WR - AJ Green, Davante Adams, Jordy Nelson, Michael Crabtree, Kelvin Benjamin, Cam Meredith, Donte Moncrief
TE - Jimmy Graham, Jack Doyle
K - Will Lutz
D - Broncos, Chiefs
Practice Squad - Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen, Devontae Booker, David Njoku
It's a PPR league and which also has the option to start a Run N Shoot (1 RB, 3 WR). Other teams can bid on our practice squad players but they would give up their first round rookie pick from the following season.
Spent a ton of resources and made a lot of trades but overall happy with the end product.
He still has a lot to prove.
Most early PPR Drafts I've seen, Barkley has gone anywhere from 4th overall to 7th. Haven't seen him drop further unless it was a Standard Scoring League.
He still has a lot to prove.
I agree, so much talent at QB this year, it might be worth it to wait a bit to select a QB.
Plus all this Watson hype is reminding me a lot of 2013 when RG3 was getting selected very high based on his excellent rookie season.
While I think Watson is light years better than RG3, I want to see him do it again this year before I start investing premium draft positions on him.
Watson
Wentz
Ben
Brees
Rivers
Mahommes
Wilson
Cousins
Cam
Rodgers
Ryan
Stafford
Goff
Why risk taking one early?
Add Eli to that list cmon dep!!
Seriously, add Eli to that list. He’s a lock for 25 plus if the offense is at least professional and it will be more than that in 2018.
Although, last year, we made fun of one team in our league who drafted three QB's, two of them early. Rodgers and Brady. He got Watson late. He came in Second overall. I will never doubt him again. Although, I still won't draft a QB early.
Only if you promise to use that awful, torturous draft method again.
Quote:
.
Only if you promise to use that awful, torturous draft method again.
LOL.
I'm in again this year if you guys want to run it back. Hopefully there won't be any Super Bowl hangover for me.
In my life, I’ve played a solid amount of FF. I’ve always been pretty decent at it. Bunch of league wins, almost always competitive, rarely very bad.
And then last year I was complete dogshit. In all 3 of my leagues. Think I was either dead last or second to last in all of them. I could cry about my luck in a couple of spots, but I clearly just had an awful read on things.
Need to bounce back.
RB looks to be a lot deeper this year than prior years and the WR pool gets thin pretty quick.
I’m with you on this Will. I am drafting 9 in a 10 team league. I have Beckham as a 14th round keeper going back to his rookie year. If all of those top backs are gone I am going to try to grab Hopkins at 9 and Julio at 12 and wait until rounds 3 and 4 to take RB’s (you can start 3 WR’s in our league). There are so many rookie RB’s this year that I think it is worth the risk. My sleeper pick, sort of since I am in Michigan, is Evan Engram in the fifth because all of these Lions fans around me will probably underestimate him.
In my life, I’ve played a solid amount of FF. I’ve always been pretty decent at it. Bunch of league wins, almost always competitive, rarely very bad.
And then last year I was complete dogshit. In all 3 of my leagues. Think I was either dead last or second to last in all of them. I could cry about my luck in a couple of spots, but I clearly just had an awful read on things.
Need to bounce back.
I wonder this past year how draft spot correlated to league success. In one league I picked 3rd, got Antonio Brown in the 1st and Gurley in the 2nd, and won the league.
In the BBI league I picked 9th and took CJ Anderson and Jordy Nelson and I forget where I finished, out of the playoffs though.
My keeper league I lost in the finals, but that's different.
Of course draft isn't all of it, luck and waiver wire contribute, and I could easily have taken different players in those spots, but at the time, they were rated right where I took them.
You ruined the draft because of some slow pitch, mix-couple, softball league where Arc's sister was the MVP of the league.
Thats enough out of you.
Quote:
Is on the back end I’d consider doubling up on WR with Julio/Beckham. Seems like both are projected to go late first/early second and I think both are poised for big years.
RB looks to be a lot deeper this year than prior years and the WR pool gets thin pretty quick.
I’m with you on this Will. I am drafting 9 in a 10 team league. I have Beckham as a 14th round keeper going back to his rookie year. If all of those top backs are gone I am going to try to grab Hopkins at 9 and Julio at 12 and wait until rounds 3 and 4 to take RB’s (you can start 3 WR’s in our league). There are so many rookie RB’s this year that I think it is worth the risk. My sleeper pick, sort of since I am in Michigan, is Evan Engram in the fifth because all of these Lions fans around me will probably underestimate him.
That’s what I would do too if I were you. Then you just hammer a bunch of mid/late round picks on RBs and hope two pan out. There’s plenty of young RBs projected to get a lot of volume that are ranked lower than they should be. Plus since everyone else will load up on RBs early, they’ll be looking to fill out their roster with other positions pushing undervalued backs to you.
2. No women play.
3. Arc has a sister??!! Sign me up!
4. I offered to auto draft, but my good bbi friends didn't want that. I certainly did not force this email draft, however I was very appreciative that certain people were willing to inconvenience themselves for my benefit. I will never forget those people.
5. I've already forgotten you!
2. No women play.
3. Arc has a sister??!! Sign me up!
4. I offered to auto draft, but my good bbi friends didn't want that. I certainly did not force this email draft, however I was very appreciative that certain people were willing to inconvenience themselves for my benefit. I will never forget those people.
5. I've already forgotten you!
1. It only looks fast cause you are drunk.
2. They dont play because they are better.
3. I dont know, but she doesnt even play softball.
4. We like you, I still dont know why.
5. You could never forget me, now dont be ridiculous.
Quote:
.
Are you serious? Not challenging you, just honestly curious why you feel that way? If you feel that way
There was one participant who failed to pay the league winner. Based on his history here, it should be no shock as to who that was. I know I wasn't surprised in the least.
Quote:
Before a WR1. If you pair him with a top RB, you are going to give yourself a big chance to win.
The only thing with Watson is you will want a good backup QB. Perhaps Big Ben.
Staying on the QB discussion, I think many are going to be sleeping on Andrew Luck. It definitely is a risk, but he bears watching in preseason. If he's all the way back he could represent huge fantasy value.
So if you pick late 1st and assume Gurley, Bell, Elliott, DJ and Kamara are gone (maybe not 1 - 5, but they're gone), even add in Hunt you take Watson before Brown, Beckham, Jones, Hopkins, etc.?
I would take Saquon Barkley in that spot. I would take Antonio Brown before Watson. That's it.
There was one participant who failed to pay the league winner. Based on his history here, it should be no shock as to who that was. I know I wasn't surprised in the least.
He used to be in my keeper league, but he dropped out due to being in too many other leagues. Also, he never won anything, so I imagine that bugged him. Ha.
I love Engram but fantasy wise, he was our top receiver last year with 115 targets. The next closest were Sterling Shepard with 84 targets (in only 11 games) and Roger Lewis with 72 targets.
Odell Beckham when healthy averages over 10+ targets per game and should see between 150-160 range he's gotten the last couple of years.
Shepard played only 11 games last year and saw 84 targets and saw over 100+ targets as a rookie starter.
Now factor in a healthy Odell, Shepard and the addition of Barkley who will see his share of targets, I doubt Engram will see the same 115 targets he saw last year as the #1 option in the passing game. He should be closer to the 80-90+ range and how will that effect his overall numbers in fantasy? We'll find out this year.
It was such a small entry fee too. Really shitty.
Anyway, I don't have a sister - just because I'm so handsome doesn't mean y'all gotta make up an imaginary female version of me to prey on. Jeez.
11 people appeased Keith. And he didn’t even buy or give rounds to anyone.
For me, your first round pick needs to be a lock to have first round production. I just cannot see risking taking him in the top 10.
I really hope he produces like a top 5 pick because then that is good for the Giants.
I feel like both could be in for breakout campaigns.It seems like its been a decade since Gordon put up 1600+ yds but he's still just 27 and flashed at the end of last season. The Brown actually seem to be building a decent offense, too. Mixon is going to get a ton of touches, but how productive will he be with them and is the receiving for real?
I feel like both could be in for breakout campaigns.It seems like its been a decade since Gordon put up 1600+ yds but he's still just 27 and flashed at the end of last season. The Brown actually seem to be building a decent offense, too. Mixon is going to get a ton of touches, but how productive will he be with them and is the receiving for real?
Does this mean Josh Gordon came into the league at age 17?
Mixon is going to be the lead back. Gordon is going to be suspended.