My draft was on Saturday and it
turned out to be very interesting. We are a very competitive league, but there
were a couple things that surprised me. We did have one rookie drafter who
actually had a great draft and didn't even have the worst draft. The first
round was especially surprising as well. I’m going to tell you what I thought
of the first round, what I thought were the biggest steals of the draft, and
what I thought were the worst picks.
Here is what our first round looked
like and what I thought of each pick:
Pick 1: Adrian Peterson – This was a given and I have nothing to say about
it really. He was the best player in the draft by far.
Pick 2: Peyton Manning – What?!?!? This threw off the whole draft. Yes he
is a quarterback who will put up a ton of points. Who am I kidding; this is the
worst pick in fantasy history. Manning wasn’t even the best quarterback in the
draft! He would have fallen at least to the third or fourth round! Tom Brady,
in our league, fell to the 3rd round and I would rank them about the
same. This pick actually hurt me as well (I had the 10th pick) too.
Pick 3: Arian Foster – Well this guy was too obvious. If you can get Arian
Foster with the third pick it’s a steal.
Pick 4: Ray Rice – Rice was a good
pick. We know he’ll get a lot of touches, will be consistent and will catch a
lot of passes and is on a winning team which means he’ll score touchdowns. Everyone
can find a reason not to draft Rice or to draft him here so I won’t argue much
about it, but I like this pick.
Pick 5: Jamaal Charles – yeah Charles is hurt right now, but I’m sure he’ll
be ready for the season. Charles is an interesting pick this early. He will
probably improve from last season because he’s definitely healed from his knee
injury and he actually has a quarterback now. I find Charles to be a hit and
miss kind of guy because he relies on the big play a lot even though he will
still put up consistent numbers regardless. In my opinion I think this pick is
fine. Charles will be a top ten running back this season so there’s really not
much to say.
Pick 6: CJ Spiller – Spiller is going to get a ton of carries. He is the
focal point of his offense and there are really not many more weapons on the
Bills. I love this pick. Spiller has top three running back potential this
season.
Pick 7: Trent Richardson – Richardson probably isn’t the best pick here.
Lynch was still on the board as well as Doug Martin. Honestly I don’t love
Martin, but he isn’t as injury prone as Richardson. Lynch was the best pick
here but it isn’t a huge deal. Richardson could have a great season.
Pick 8: Marshawn Lynch – Had to grab Lynch here. Really the only other
option is Doug Martin who isn’t as consistent as Lynch.
Pick 9: Doug Martin – Another given. He was the best running back on the
board and he has huge potential. He was top three last year so he had to be
grabbed here. The other options were only Aaron Rodgers and if there’s a good
left you have to get him.
Pick 10: Aaron Rodgers – This was my pick. I didn’t like any of the rest of
the running backs much. McCoy was there but I had him last season and he didn’t
do great for me. Here I figured that Rodgers would score as much as the average
quarter back, plus the difference between the average running back compared to
a first round worthy running back. I’m obviously biased but I love the pick.
Pick 11: Calvin Johnson Jr. – Personally I would never draft Megatron in the
first round, but I can’t really argue with the pick. He’s by far the best wide
receiver in the draft and puts up tons of points even when he doesn’t score TD’s.
Pick 12: LeSean McCoy – I’m not a huge fan of McCoy but I think he’ll improve
a lot this season with Chip Kelly. Also, the first pick of the second round is
right there so there’s no risk. All you have to do here and all you have to do
is pick your two top players in the draft.
So there’s my take on our first round.
If Peyton Manning didn’t go first round and the guy picking second had just
went with Foster I could have gotten Doug Martin, but I’m happy with Rodgers
anyway. Later in the draft there were a
couple steals I loved and some picks that just baffled me.
I’ll start the rest of this piece by saying which picks I thought
were the top five steals and why.
Cam Newton fell to 6th
pick in the 5th round. I love this pick. Newton isn’t really that
impressive on the field, but in fantasy he is amazing and often overlooked.
Newton really should have gone in the late third round in my opinion maybe
early to mid-fourth round at the latest.
Rashard Mendenhall fell to the 10th
in the 9th round. Mendenhall is a starting running back at the moment.
Any guy that is starting should not fall to the 9th round no matter
what team he is on and if he has rookies behind him. Mendenhall is proven and
will get a lot of touches this season.
DeSean Jackson fell to the 10th
pick in the 7th round. He is the number one receiver on a team that
is going to improve a lot this season. Jackson has huge potential with big
plays and touchdowns (as long as he doesn’t drop the ball before he crosses the
plane of course!).
Matthew Stafford fell to the 10th
pick in the 8th round. Stafford finally has a running back and he
has Calvin Johnson Jr. to throw to. That’s pretty much all I have to say about
him. Stafford will put up solid numbers every game because of Johnson alone and
with a running back he can only improve.
Finally, Ryan Matthews went 11th
pick in the 9th round. I’m not even sure I consider this a steal
because it’s not like he was overlooked. We all knew what we would get if we
drafted him. At this point in the draft he had to go. Any later and I would
consider it more of a steal but it was just him being drafted after he was projected
at because he is injury prone.
The worst picks of the draft were
pretty obvious and I really could only think of a few of them. I hated Peyton
Manning going in the first round. The fact that Jeremy Maclin got picked at all
was ridiculous. Vernon Davis got picked in the fourth round was a terrible
pick. Also two defenses, the Seahawks and the 49’ers, both went in the 6th
round. Finally, Stephen Gostowski went in the 8th round which was
baffling.
Alright, that’s all I’ve got to say
on our draft. I’ll post again soon before the season starts about preseason
injuries and waivers.
Here is what my team ended up
looking like with the 10th pick. The round I got them in is in parentheses:
QB: Aaron Rodgers (1)
RB: Darren Sproles (2)
RB: Chris Johnson (3)
WR: Marques Colston (4)
WR: Pierre Garcon (5)
TE: Fred Davis (10)
Flex: DeSean Jackson (7)
K: Garret Hartley (13)
D/ST: Cowboys (12)
Bench: Eddie Lacy (6)
Bench: Sidney Rice (8)
Bench: Rashard Mendenhall (9)
Bench: Jacoby Jones (10)
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