Of course on this initial night of the 2011 NFL season, it is most appropriate that I regale you with the results of my fantasy football draft. At this point in time (1:53 left in the Green Bay vs New Orleans game) it’s sort of hard to complain about the results. I got Aaron Rodgers (Cal product!) with my second pick and he’s currently racked up 25.77 fantasy points.
Still with the 6th position in a snake draft I was actually disappointed with my selections quite quickly. The problem is that I was really indecisive with my strategy. Conventional wisdom is that you focus on getting two top running backs, but that strategy never really works for me. I thought I was going to follow that strategy, then waffled, then didn’t do a good job with my wide receivers. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t get great receives, it’s that they both have the same bye week! And did I mention both of my running backs have the same bye week. Yup you guessed it. The same week as my receivers. Stupid. Now I’ve got a big roster scramble coming up in week 5.
Draft details after the break.
Overall selection #’s in parens:
- (6) Rashard Mendenhall (Pit - RB)
- (11) Aaron Rodgers (GB - QB)
- (22) Steven Jackson (StL - RB)
- (27) Miles Austin (Dal - WR)
- (38) Jason Witten (Dal - TE)
- (43) Santana Moss (Was - WR)
- (54) Mark Ingram (NO - RB)
- (59) Ahmad Bradshaw (NYG - RB)
- (70) Julio Jones (Atl - WR)
- (75) Ben Roethlisberger (Pit - QB)
- (86) Rob Bironas (Ten - K)
- (91) Chicago (Chi - DEF)
According to the Yahoo! average draft, I might have overreached on Jason Witten, Santana Moss, Julio Jones, and Mark Ingram. Then again I got a little bit of a steal on Ahmad Bradshaw and Ben Roethlisberger. With an eight team league, there’s not much of a premium on QBs after Rodgers, Brady, and maybe Brees. But I’m hoping to parlay Big Ben into some talent with a trade later in the season. Somebody’s QB has to go down this year!
I’m guessing my team will go as Aaron Rodgers does. Running back might be a strength, might be a bust. If Tony Romo comes back big, Miles Austin could be a solid number one receiver, but my number two is going to be a pain all year.
And I can’t stress enough how stupid not managing the byes was. Lesson learned.