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
its funny to see the fantasy world catching up to this draft trend (especially in PPR). i've always drafted rb, wr, qb/wr, with my first three picks since 2005. the one year i decided to go rb,rb had terrible results. PPR caries even more weight to draft stud wr's. they usually equal out to the same points of rb's over the long haul, except the stud rb's of course. i find it very questionable if someone could really win a PPR with rb, rb, rb/qb drafting. makes no sense to me.
Posted by: scott c | May 15, 2009 03:46 PM
Paul, shake your head. Unless your league has ppg as a stat you have to keep the two RBs and Megatron! MJD lost Fred Taylor as his running mate and Chris Johnson is a complete back who can, and will, get a ton of touches this year. AJ doesn't score much and is the weakest of your options.
Posted by: Kurt | May 15, 2009 04:28 PM
Greg (in the Paul league), Depending on your scoring system again, I'd keep S-Jax, Q and Witten. Ther are tons of QBs to grab!
Posted by: Kurt | May 15, 2009 04:35 PM
We have a PPR league that is friendly but highly competitive since it is exclusive to family and relatives (everyone wants to own bragging rights for the year!) With a PPR league, it just makes sense to grab the top-notch WR's early - especially when there is also a WR/RB flex position on the roster. They went early last year in our draft and they'll go early again this year.
Another benefit to drafting the receivers high is they tend to (not always, just typically) stay healthier throughout the season. I couldn't believe how many RB's went down in 2008! It was depressing... especially when I kept trying to pick up the next fresh Bronco back off the waiver wire (*sigh*).
Posted by: arbee | May 15, 2009 07:40 PM
I can't believe rotoworld took jones-drew with the number 1 pick in the fantasy guru magazine draft. What a joke!
Posted by: Cat | May 15, 2009 08:39 PM
well it obvious that in ppr leagues it makes sense to value wrs above rb2s, thats not what they are saying. im pretty sure this is about how its possibly even true in regular leagues now too
Posted by: Thomas G | May 15, 2009 09:15 PM
I am drafting in a 8 team league this year. I finished 7th last year. I will be taking either Fitz or Boldin in the second round. 3rd round i will try and get Roddy White or B. Marshall. or Calvin whoever of them will be there.
Posted by: Misfit | May 15, 2009 09:26 PM