I went into it determined to take RBs early, and thinking I'd wait hard on QBs.. and somehow I ended up with 3 quarterbacks and taking WR in the first two rounds. 😮
They gave me the 12th pick, which (probably more than most years) I really didn't want.
As I see it, there are 4 really elite RBs (Gurley, Bell, Elliot, Johnson) and 2 more kind of elite (Kamara and Barkley). And with Antonio Brown in the mix, hopefully someone bites on him instead. So somewhere in the top 7 is nice.
Then you have Melvin Gordon and Fournette. And again maybe someone takes Hopkins or who knows what and they fall. So anywhere in the top 10 I figure I have a shot to get a good RB.
After that you're kind of in the "do I really want to mess around with Kareem Hunt" type of purgatory.
I hated passing on a RB with my first two picks, but taking Hunt just felt wrong and the dropoff to the next guy was too big. I decided to just let loose and take Julio Jones and Odell Beckham, and hope finding RBs later just worked out.
I'm pretty happy with how it shaped up
When the snake came back to me I was able to take Jordan Howard and Jerick McKinnon. Not really familiar with or particularly high on them or anything, but they seem like solid enough RBs before the dropoff got really big.
And then adding Mark Ingram in round 5 I liked a lot.
He seems to usually find a way to be good. And I like suspended guys. (Keep your legs fresh for the playoffs, feller.)
Round 6 was earlier than I expected to take a QB. There are soo many solid QBs, I feel like you should basically not think about it, and just try to get one who isn't awful before there's a run.
But a combination of (1) not having a great pick in my mind and (2) being on the end of the snake and not knowing when a run can occur and (3) Brees available and on the same team as Ingram (so, high upside with the combo) made me feel like picking him can't be that bad.
I basically felt like my team was at least okay so far and that I probably wasn't gonna ruin it by drafting Drew Brees.
How I ended up with three quarterbacks.. I don't know. Phillip Rivers was probably early. Matt Ryan just seemed better than whatever dime-a-dozen W/R/T I could find.
Between bye weeks, injuries, tough matchups, and trade potential.. I don't mind being deep at QB.
I was happy to snag Edelman late, although maybe Cobb would have been better.
Was happy to get James White too. I'm not sure it's gonna be much of a year for him, but the Patriots are weird with RBs and he seems like a decent emergency/flyer option, like in a pinch maybe you can play him and hope for the best.
Draft was great!
It's always so hectic to me, trying to keep up with who I want to pick and then all the chatter on top of that.
The Yahoo! software seems conflicted over who had the best draft.
All I can really conclude from this is that
Most teams got a 'C'. Yahoo! doesn't really know what they're doing. And regardless, games aren't played on paper-- they're played inside television sets, iPhones, tablets, and laptop computers.
So we'll just have to wait until the season begins to see who are the teams to beat!!