The fantasy football league I'm in completed its draft(yeah, we're a bunch of dinosaurs) tonight and here are the results:
- QB-Tom Brady
- QB-Cam Newton
- RB-Justin Forsett
- RB-Joique Bell
- RB-Joseph Randle
- RB-Alfred Blue
- WR-Antonio Brown
- WR-Odell Beckham
- WR-Marcus Colston
- WR-Jeremy Maclin
- TE-Martellus Bennett(Note: We play 3 WR/TE)
- DST-Denver
- K-Steven Hauschka
- K-Blair Walsh
I drafted 6/15 and so on for each set of rounds. To me this is almost perfect as I was drafting every 9/11 picks. I had the number 1 pick last year, and besides the major blow from AP sitting out most of the season, I hate sitting for 19 picks between getting two. So far here's how I think I did.
I was quite uncharacteristic this year. With the #6 pick overall I took a WR, Antonio Brown. By the time it came back to me at #15, Odell Beckham was still sitting there and I decided to grab him up as well. That left me with no RBs going into the third round, and it has been a long time, if ever, that I've done that.
Round #3 saw me draft down a little according to the cheat sheets, but I like Justin Forsett even if he is a bit of a gamble. Just like Joique Bell, who I picked up in the following round.
Round #5 saw Tom Brady still sitting there, so that's my prime QB this year. On the return side I grabbed Steven Hauschka to round out the core of my lineup(long term, hopefully).
I don't remember the sequence after that, but I was essentially filling out #3's and backups. I'm pleased to have Maclin, Colston, and Bennett rounding out my WR/TE options. Randle and Blue will either turn out to be brilliant or busts. Both have a chance to win starting spots behind pretty good offensive lines, but both didn't exactly overperform in the preseason. Cam Newton is being talked down due to his injured receiving corps, but I think he was a reasonable choice as a backup to Brady in round #10.
Blair Walsh has had a dismal preseason, but he shown the ability for booming field goals in the past. If the regular season starts poorly for him I can always cut him and later find another fill-in for Hauschka in week 9.
So there you go. I gambled at RB and I'm nervous about that, but we'll just have to see how it plays out. Of course, that's true with the rest of my roster as well no matter how good I feel about it. One year ago I was pleased to be sitting pretty with Adrian Peterson and a soon to be off suspension Ray Rice, and we all know how well that worked out.
More: ESPN, which we use to manage our league, seems to have made a number of annoying changes since the end of the last season. I'm also hearing a fair amount of grumbling that they've decided to become political, and to the left. On the first count, I realize that my right to complain about a free service is somewhat limited. However, there is fierce competition for the eyeballs and clicks that free FFL service brings in, so it's not just a one-way street. Other than the overreaction to the Curt Schilling tweet, I haven't seen enough to make a judgement on the political side, but I am watching now. For the moment it's enough to see this gobsmacking disinformation tonight:
Since I had just drafted him as my #1 RB you can imagine my dismay at seeing a report of an MCL sprain when I got home. Except, it's apparently a load of crap. Hey, ESPN, how bad have you guys become? Seriously, if you want to do major damage to your credibility then keep letting garbage like this get posted on your website.
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