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 am in a 10 team keeper league that is expanding to 12 this season and can only keep 2. Once the expansion teams pick players off of our team we are allowed to protect a 3rd. The following are my options:
Peyton Manning
Steve Slaton
Marion Barber
Terrell Owens
Calvin Johnson
Pierre Thomas
Right now I am leaning toward keeping Manning and Johnson. I'm hoping to have Slaton as my 3rd, but I feel he may get stolen from me.
What do you guys think?
Posted by: Mike | May 15, 2009 01:59 PM
If you have a chance to get a stud WR go for it especially if the only option at RB is a #2 quality RB. I have a keeper league and I have R.Moss, L.Fitzgerald,S.Smith (Panthers) and T.O.
My RB's consists of M.Turner, Portis and R.Bush.
I'm trying to get RB A.P, but I need to give up Fitzgerald and another RB. Which RB should I give up?
Posted by: Kay | May 15, 2009 01:59 PM
If you have a chance to get a stud WR go for it especially if the only option at RB is a #2 quality RB. I have a keeper league and I have R.Moss, L.Fitzgerald,S.Smith (Panthers) and T.O.
My RB's consists of M.Turner, Portis and R.Bush.
I'm trying to get RB A.P, but I need to give up Fitzgerald and another RB. Which RB should I give up?
Posted by: Kay | May 15, 2009 01:59 PM
If you have a chance to get a stud WR go for it especially if the only option at RB is a #2 quality RB. I have a keeper league and I have R.Moss, L.Fitzgerald,S.Smith (Panthers) and T.O.
My RB's consists of M.Turner, Portis and R.Bush.
I'm trying to get RB A.P, but I need to give up Fitzgerald and another RB. Which RB should I give up?
Posted by: Kay | May 15, 2009 02:00 PM
Thanks for all the advice! its obviously early so i have a while to make a decision, but im pretty set on johnson and johnson (the combo makes me drool) and since this should be a keeper league for years to come i may be leaning toward slaton, he was one of my favorite pick ups last year. anyway thanks
Posted by: Thomas G | May 15, 2009 02:01 PM
definitely Bush.
Posted by: Mike | May 15, 2009 02:02 PM
First off, more great advice from Gregg. Keep it coming so I can win another championship. I was reviewing ADPs and rankings (it's never too early!), and was feeling the same way about WR's being top-heavy.
Second, how do you all have those keepers to choose from? You all had to have won huge last year. Did the other league owners only have the likes of Kyle Orton, Brandon Stokely, or DeShaun Foster as starters? I want in some of those leagues!
Posted by: Dworf | May 15, 2009 02:25 PM