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
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
mine was from an 8 person league that was pretty top heavy in talent. I was actually number 2, number one had fitz, deangelo, and turner. yikes
Posted by: Thomas G | May 15, 2009 02:35 PM
I agree last year i choose 3w.r.s as my first picks which were Moss S.Smith,Wayne then 2R.B.S T.Jones@ Turner. Will do the same this year.
Posted by: joe | May 15, 2009 02:36 PM
I've always stuck with my WR drafts. I hate taking a running back early unless I'm drafting top 4. I draft 11th out of 12 this year and plan on taking Calvin 1st (the kid drafting 12th is a lions fan) and coming back around to take Randy Moss or Andre Johnson. Why no running back? Because I took Matt Forte in the 8th round as they laughed at me because he was my 2nd running back taken (I took Chris Johnson in the 7th).
Posted by: Blake | May 15, 2009 02:44 PM
So, Bush would be the RB to trade and Fitz. for A.P. Thanks. This is an 8 person league with two $$$ rounds. RB's in this league count a lot since you get the most points out of them per TD (6) compared to WR (4). I can only start 3 RB and 4 WR.
Turner
Portis
Petersen (trade Bush)
R.Moss
T.O
S.Smith
W.Welker (is my next best WR) Will need to trade Fitzgerald to get Petersen.
Does this look like a good team?
Posted by: Kay | May 15, 2009 03:39 PM
i'm keeping a. johnson, a. boldin, and forte. trying to trade addai but not liking my chances. our 12 team league drafts reverse order of finish and 1st 2nd and/or 3rd round picks to teams that don't protect 3.
anyone else do it like that?
Posted by: mike simonds | May 15, 2009 03:42 PM
i'm keeping a. johnson, a. boldin, and forte. trying to trade addai but not liking my chances. our 12 team league drafts reverse order of finish and 1st 2nd and/or 3rd round picks to teams that don't protect 3.
anyone else do it like that?
Posted by: mike simonds | May 15, 2009 03:42 PM