Last weekend I did my second of three fantasy football drafts. And I've noticed a couple things:
Tight end and quarterback are super deep. I kept Aaron Rodgers in my PPR league, but otherwise I'd probably wait a pretty long time to grab a QB. In my other league, I grabbed Joe Flacco in the 6th. Saturday I waited until the 11th round to get Visanthe Shiacoe, which is a steal. He was the last TE I'd be happy with as a starter, and I feel good with where I got him. It allowed to to stock up on RBs and WRs.
I've found elite RBs and WRs almost impossible to come by. When I had the third pick in my PPR keeper league (so basically a 3rd round for non-keeper leagues) I was faced with a bunch of question marks: Pierre Thomas, Jamaal Charles, Rashard Mendenhall, Marques Colston, and Steve Smith (CAR) were available. None are great picks I feel, and all have big question marks. Needing an RB I went with Thomas. Don't love it. But I made up for it with depth at RB, getting Matt Forte, Jerome Harrison, Ricky Williams, and Montario Hardesty. While I definitely don't love any of them, I feel I'll be solid there.
I kept Randy Moss and got Ochocinco after taking Thomas. I thought he was the last of the upper tier of the receivers and figured I'd rather have him than say, Dwayne Bowe (who I do like) or Donald Driver.
People are all over Ryan Matthews and Jahvid Best, but I generally like to avoid rookies. Sure, there's huge upside, but I don't like where they're going. Give me something more proven with high picks. It's all about risk aversion (which is why I don't love the Thomas pick) at the beginning of the draft.
Also, people take kickers and defenses way too early. They're crapshoots. If you take either before the last three picks you are wasting picks. Also, someone will always take a backup tight end or a suspended player (Vincent Jackson, Santonio Holmes, Ben Rothelisberger) way too high because they are just looking at names. Come on people.
Also, some good team names this year. For some reason, people in my league decided to make puns on musicians their team name, with Kanye Wes Welker, Clay Matthews Band, and Knowshon Paul (Sean Paul, that's hilarious). So I decided to go with Radiofred Jackson. I love fantasy team names.
Here is my 12-team PPR keeper league snake draft recap. I don't like my team as much as I did when I drafted them. Shouldn't be too bad though.
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