Get your wideouts early
Roddy White is a second rounder
I'm back from our publishers (which you would have known if you were getting your Twitter on), although we are going overtime wrapping up the magazine today. Damn those Dallas lightning storms!
It appears I haven't missed much this week. You know things are slow when John Elway's opinion on his son and the Ochocinco jersey story are lead items.
While everything is fresh on my mind, I'm going to drop a few big picture thoughts on this year's draft season in the blog over the next few days. Let's start with the wideouts.
Wide receiver is heavy at the top, shallow at the bottom this year. There are better first and second-round options than ever. A ton of wideouts worth taking ahead of most RB2s, (I have eleven), but there is a quick fall to the WR3 level, and then it falls off a cliff somewhere around the sixth round.
Things quickly change from Donald Driver, Laveranues Coles, and Hines Ward to Nate Washington and Steve Smith of the Giants. This is much more dramatic than usual.
I'm going to try to get three wideouts in the early portions. But even if I don't, I think you can wait until very deep in the draft to build your depth. There appears to be very little difference between the WR35 and the WR55, and everyone is going to disagree on them a ton. So you may as well wait to grab them.
Comments
I disagree. Plenty of WR will break out. They do every year. I guess it might be wise to grab one or two stud WRs early in a shallow draft, but in a deep league such as a 20-teamer, I'm taking RB's in the first three rounds like usual.
Posted by: Seth | May 15, 2009 12:32 PM
ThomasG - You're keepers should be Calvin Johnson, Steve Slaton, and Andre Johnson, without a doubt. I am a huge Eagles fan, but by drafting a Westbrook clone in McCoy, we're not counting on him to be the lead dog too much longer. I love Bowe for a breakout year, but without Gonzalez there with him, he will see constant doubles. I still think he performs, but he won't out-do CJ or AJ. Slaton is a must, you need an RB to build around and he doesn't have anyone behind him that poses a threat to his playing time. I love Brandon Marshall, but he always has the suspension risk, and he doesn't have a rocket armed QB hitting him in stride anymore either. Hope this helps!
Posted by: Ryan | May 15, 2009 12:41 PM
20 team league? wow that would be a huge league. My league is 12 and I think I'm going to keep Calvin, Andre, MJDrew can't throw back 2 proven stud WR possibly 1 and 2 WR this year.
Posted by: Paul | May 15, 2009 12:42 PM
I'm in the same league as Paul and I don't have the luxury of keepers to choose from.
We have to keep 3 and my "possibles" are limited to:
Kurt Warner
Steven Jackson
Tim Hightower
Anquan Boldin
Santonio Holmes
Vincent Jackson
Jason Witten
Who feels for me?
Posted by: Greg | May 15, 2009 12:56 PM
i have johnson and johnson as well, but i also have Forte and i can only keep 2. S i'm not sure which 2 to keep, i also draft 11th and i lose my first to picks because im keeping 2 of these guys.
Posted by: jon j | May 15, 2009 12:56 PM
So you say to get wide receivers early and then say you may as well wait to grab them.
Posted by: lol | May 15, 2009 01:19 PM
He means to grab GOOD receivers early. Then, you may as well wait to grab the others. You gotta read the whole post.
Posted by: Greg | May 15, 2009 01:24 PM