But, a guy who finishes as WR40 every week doesn’t help you, unless you need someone to finish as WR40. Guys like Kendrick Bourne or Jamaal Williams are unlikely to help you on a week-to-week basis, despite having a relatively high floor on a weekly basis. Do you know when you take those? DURING YOUR BYE WEEKS. There are plenty of players that we end up drafting because we think that they will be solid Bye week fill-ins.
Get multiple rookie wide receivers, and you will profit in your fantasy football drafts this season. They’re incredible value that we are leaving on the side of the road so that we can draft Russell Gage and Tyler Boyd. You’re leaving value on the table if you don’t walk away with at least two of these guys on your bench after the draft. As of writing this, one rookie wide receiver has an ADP inside the top-100, zero have an ADP inside the top-36 at the position, and the 12 wide receivers who were drafted in the first two rounds of the NFL draft have an ADP of WR63. Twelve rookie wide receivers went in the first two rounds of the NFL Draft, and since 2010, 33 wide receivers have finished inside the top-36 at the position in full-PPR, peaking with nine such wide receivers in the past two seasons. If you start with Travis Kelce or Mark Andrews, then you can get away with having Trevor Lawrence and Derek Carr.īut, trying to punt more than that leaves you in a pickle where you’re making suboptimal moves that fill up your bench with WR4 and RB3 while leaving you picking over the carcass of starting positions that you need to fill. If you start with Josh Allen, you get a chance to punt tight end. If you decide to punt one of these “onesie” (start one) positions, then you better have a rock top-five guy at the other spot.
Punting is supposed to create roster strengths in other areas, it’s why you don’t hear about someone punting a position mid-season: that’s just giving up on finding a replacement. If you end up punting one of these positions, you better have a rock-solid player in the other one. And the upside there is what, a backend QB1 and backend TE1? That’s a lot of draft capital and roster space spent on marginal returns.
All of a sudden, you’re working with four bench spots because you had to get Kirk Cousins, Justin Fields, Irv Smith and Albert Okwuegbunam all onto the same roster. If you’re punting tight end and quarterback, you have to get two of each to make sure you get two bites at that upside apple. First and foremost, it creates a roster construction issue: in most leagues, you have six bench spots. But, for the love of God, don’t do it to both positions at the same time on the same roster. It’s trendy to punt quarterback, and it’s also trendy to punt tight end. With that in mind, here are the things I’ve resolved to not do this draft season, gleaned from doing upwards of 1-2 mock drafts in the last 9 months. But, much like Goofus and Gallant, or the Second Law of Motion, everything you should do has a countervailing force: something you shouldn’t do. Yesterday, we took a look at the things you SHOULD DO in your fantasy football drafts.
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