Quarterback is the most important position in all of sports, and I’m here to help you learn how to draft it with my Quarterback Draft Strategy. You’ve heard it all before, wait on the quarterback position when drafting. It’s a smart strategy in one QB leagues, and helps you maximize value across your whole roster. Why pay up for Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady when you can wait until rounds nine or ten to draft Kirk Cousins, Dak Prescott, or Derek Carr and only lose 20 fantasy points on the season? This position is incredibly deep every year to the…
Author: John Leinweber
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After doing many mock drafts, a rough spot is knowing which early round receivers to target. All major sites like ESPN and Yahoo have had mock and live drafts up for a while, which has helped me get lots of practice in. A lot of experts have published their own rankings (FlurrySports Rankings), sleepers, busts, and breakouts, which along with mock drafts have helped us already perfect our drafting strategies. However, after a lot of mock drafts, I’ve noticed that rounds three, four, and five have been tough for me. It’s important to understand what players you’ll be looking for…
Running Back Draft Strategies To continue here with our draft strategy analysis, here is my strategy for addressing the running back position. Contrary to the quarterback position, all fantasy experts have differing opinions on drafting running backs. Everyone has different strategies such as drafting backs early, ignoring running backs until the later rounds, and targeting only pass-catching backs in PPR. The best part about the differing strategies is that they all can work. If you drafted either Le’Veon Bell, David Johnson, or Ezekiel Elliott in the first round last season, I’ll bet it paid dividends. However, if you waited on players…
Even though it’s only mid-August, fantasy football season is in a very busy state with drafts. Because of various news reports, injuries, and changing opinions based on players and their situations, the ADP of players has been looking like a rollercoaster at times. When your targeted players’ ADP changes, your draft strategy changes as well. For example, Jeremy Maclin has been one of the high ADP risers, and for good reason. However, Maclin used to be going in the tenth round of mock drafts, and now he’s going in the seventh. This makes it a much tougher decision to take…