NFL: 2024 Fantasy Football

[CYdTracked]

Time for another year, we don't draft until 8/25 but trying to figure out my best keeper option in a 10 team full point PPR league. I have the 3rd pick in the 1st round but it is a snake draft so will be late 2nd round by the time it gets back to me. Here's the round pick it would cost me to keep if anyone has some thoughts

AJ Brown - 1st round. Not going to keep him when CMC and St Brown will be in the redraft pool since they were a keeper for someone last year. He's going late 1st round on average so chances are a better option will be there at pick 3 if someone doesn't user a keeper on some of the upper end WR and RB.
Puka Nacua - 2nd round
Deebo Samuel - 4th round
Rachaad White - 4th round
Tee Higgins - 6th round
Burrow - 7th round
Kittle - 7th round
Love - 8th round
Purdy - 9th round (yes I stashed 3 QB on my roster at the end of the year just in case there was keeper value)
Tyjae Spears - 11th round
Jerome Ford - 12th round


Right now I am probably not keeping a QB. can nab any of those 3 or a comparable QB in the rounds they are going in right now. Depending on who everyone keeps I could see Puka gone before I pick again in the 2nd round, my gut says keep Kittle as he was TE5 last year, LaPorta and Kelce are going 3rd round then everyone seems high on McBride and Kincaid going in the 5th round so 7th round almost seems like value for a guy that is currently being picked as the 8th TE. My other thoughts were Deebo or Higgins where WR is a premium in PPR and having a solid option to fall back on if I don't get one of the top guys I want earlier and can use a 3rd or 4th rounder on a RB or top TE instead. I'd like to go 2 WR in 1st and 2nd round then looks at RB or TE 3rd then back to stacking WR and another RB before looking at QB no earlier than round 7 hopefully. I just know that no way I am keeping Brown when I have the 3rd pick.

 

[xboxfever]

Time for another year, we don't draft until 8/25 but trying to figure out my best keeper option in a 10 team full point PPR league. I have the 3rd pick in the 1st round but it is a snake draft so will be late 2nd round by the time it gets back to me. Here's the round pick it would cost me to keep if anyone has some thoughts

AJ Brown - 1st round. Not going to keep him when CMC and St Brown will be in the redraft pool since they were a keeper for someone last year. He's going late 1st round on average so chances are a better option will be there at pick 3 if someone doesn't user a keeper on some of the upper end WR and RB.
Puka Nacua - 2nd round
Deebo Samuel - 4th round
Rachaad White - 4th round
Tee Higgins - 6th round
Burrow - 7th round
Kittle - 7th round
Love - 8th round
Purdy - 9th round (yes I stashed 3 QB on my roster at the end of the year just in case there was keeper value)
Tyjae Spears - 11th round
Jerome Ford - 12th round


Right now I am probably not keeping a QB. can nab any of those 3 or a comparable QB in the rounds they are going in right now. Depending on who everyone keeps I could see Puka gone before I pick again in the 2nd round, my gut says keep Kittle as he was TE5 last year, LaPorta and Kelce are going 3rd round then everyone seems high on McBride and Kincaid going in the 5th round so 7th round almost seems like value for a guy that is currently being picked as the 8th TE. My other thoughts were Deebo or Higgins where WR is a premium in PPR and having a solid option to fall back on if I don't get one of the top guys I want earlier and can use a 3rd or 4th rounder on a RB or top TE instead. I'd like to go 2 WR in 1st and 2nd round then looks at RB or TE 3rd then back to stacking WR and another RB before looking at QB no earlier than round 7 hopefully. I just know that no way I am keeping Brown when I have the 3rd pick.

FYI in the mock drafts I’ve seen, Puka is going late first/early second in non keeper leagues just after A.J. Brown.

 

[Gonzo]

I'd love to transition our league to a keeper, but we haven't over 20 years.

I will day I don't miss the snake draft. Much prefer auction.

 

[CYdTracked]

I'd love to transition our league to a keeper, but we haven't over 20 years.

I will day I don't miss the snake draft. Much prefer auction.

We only get 1 keeper and you can't keep the same player back to back years. Used to also do Individual Defensive Players for awhile so you could keep 1 offensive and 1 defensive player when we had that format. I personally did not like the IDP format, too many positions to keep track of and if you had more than 1 player on a bye week on your defense it was tough to decide if you would bench a IDP and cut an offensive player or risk putting an IDP on waivers and hope you could snag him back again after the bye week before someone else could.

Used to play in a 12 team auction league where you had to start 2 QB every week and the price for QBs got ridiculous sometimes. I mean you basically had pay crazy prices on about the top 10 QB then it was a mad rush to try and get a decent 2nd QB and stash a 3rd if you could to cover bye weeks or injury. Do they math, 24 starting QB each week in fantasy and only 32 actual NFL teams so even rookies or fringe guys that were in a situation where they could possibly take over for the starter like Tebow for example were rostered. And if a starting QB got hurt the waiver bids got crazy because the guy that lost his QB obviously needs another guy and someone probably was looking for a bye week QB or just wanted to block or make that guy more expensive for the team that obviously needed him more. Kind of glad that league eventually broke up because the draft took like 3 hours with the auction format and I would spend way too much time the night before waivers trying to prioritize waiver claims and guess how much I needed to bid to have a good shot of picking up a player that might be a hot pick up. You'd wake up the next morning to check waiver claims and either be pissed you way overbid for a guy or fell short by a buck or few for someone. I always made sure my bids ended with an odd number and never put in just a $1 bid for a defense or kicker because someone else usually did and if they had higher waiver priority they win the tie bid so $2 or $3 was necessary if you wanted to get your preferred bye week kicker or defense. Man just typing out some of the crazy scenarios that don't even include all of the strange strategy involved in that league just reminds me how time consuming and complicated that league was!

 

[drmwevr08]

Currently debating AJ @3.10 vs Evans @10.1 and ZWhite @15.10 vs J Taylor @3.10.
If for some reason I kept both 3rds one would move up to 3.4.

 

[CYdTracked]

FYI in the mock drafts I’ve seen, Puka is going late first/early second in non keeper leagues just after A.J. Brown.

Yeah and with the redraft format with the keeper in play I could see him going in that range in our draft too which makes me think he may make sense to use my keeper on which makes him the 18th overall pick in our draft then. His ADP right now in 10 team 1PPR format is 15 on Draft Sharks so either way I'd be drafting him pretty close to where he would go anyways. I'll have overall pick 23 when it comes back around in the 3rd and that is the range LaPorta Achane Mike Evans and Aiyuk are going.

I got burned keeping Ekeler last year which cost me my 6th overall pick so while I don't expect CMC to last till 3 and my guess is whoever has Lamb and Hill probably keep them so at 3 I may be faced with either taking the best WR available if Chase Jefferson or St Brown are there or a RB if Hall or Bijan are on the board. I really don't want to gamble on a high end RB in the 1st round again after last year but would you take Hall or Bijan over someone like Jefferson or AJ Brown? I really want to stay clear of Jefferson because of the QB situation in MN. My draft last year I missed bad on some picks with Ekeler in the 1st with my keeper then Higgins was pretty much a bust as a 3rd rounder, Burrow got hurt as my 6th rounder so really out of my top 10 picks I only hit on AJ Brown in the 2nd, Deebo in the 4th, Kittle in the 5th, Rachaad White in the 8th then I just had some terrible picks other than Purdy in the 14th really and ended up with a .500 team that did score the 3rd most points in the league but obviously did not score consistently from week to week because of my boom or bust roster makeup.

 

[Gonzo]

We only get 1 keeper and you can't keep the same player back to back years. Used to also do Individual Defensive Players for awhile so you could keep 1 offensive and 1 defensive player when we had that format. I personally did not like the IDP format, too many positions to keep track of and if you had more than 1 player on a bye week on your defense it was tough to decide if you would bench a IDP and cut an offensive player or risk putting an IDP on waivers and hope you could snag him back again after the bye week before someone else could.

Used to play in a 12 team auction league where you had to start 2 QB every week and the price for QBs got ridiculous sometimes. I mean you basically had pay crazy prices on about the top 10 QB then it was a mad rush to try and get a decent 2nd QB and stash a 3rd if you could to cover bye weeks or injury. Do they math, 24 starting QB each week in fantasy and only 32 actual NFL teams so even rookies or fringe guys that were in a situation where they could possibly take over for the starter like Tebow for example were rostered. And if a starting QB got hurt the waiver bids got crazy because the guy that lost his QB obviously needs another guy and someone probably was looking for a bye week QB or just wanted to block or make that guy more expensive for the team that obviously needed him more. Kind of glad that league eventually broke up because the draft took like 3 hours with the auction format and I would spend way too much time the night before waivers trying to prioritize waiver claims and guess how much I needed to bid to have a good shot of picking up a player that might be a hot pick up. You'd wake up the next morning to check waiver claims and either be pissed you way overbid for a guy or fell short by a buck or few for someone. I always made sure my bids ended with an odd number and never put in just a $1 bid for a defense or kicker because someone else usually did and if they had higher waiver priority they win the tie bid so $2 or $3 was necessary if you wanted to get your preferred bye week kicker or defense. Man just typing out some of the crazy scenarios that don't even include all of the strange strategy involved in that league just reminds me how time consuming and complicated that league was!

I just like the strategy involved with an auction draft and the fact that you can get the exact team you want, or at least very close to it. Lot of fun figuring out pricing strategies and anticipating what other guys are doing. We're a 12-team league and our auction draft never took more than 2 hours. And yeah I'd hate a 2 QB starting roster, just one of the really dumb things to have emerged in fantasy IMO.

 

[CYdTracked]

I just like the strategy involved with an auction draft and the fact that you can get the exact team you want, or at least very close to it. Lot of fun figuring out pricing strategies and anticipating what other guys are doing. We're a 12-team league and our auction draft never took more than 2 hours. And yeah I'd hate a 2 QB starting roster, just one of the really dumb things to have emerged in fantasy IMO.

There were things I liked about auction but you gotta have a good plan in place going in and know when to stop bidding on a guy you would really like to have when the price gets too high and find the next best guy you can get at the right price point. If you go into a draft thinking you are going to get a top 3 guy each at QB WR and RB you probably will blow 75% of your budget trying to accomplish that and then have crap for the rest of your roster as teams pluck every guy you hoped to get after that after the rest of the big names come off the board.

That 12 team 2 QB league the first year I played in it I stayed away from the big name QBs and thought if I could find some buys later on I would be fine but guys would spend $50 or more of their $200 budget to get the top end QBs then if you passed on them and waited for guys more in the 10-20 rank range you better have some money sitting around to probably overpay for at least 1 and hope you get the 2nd guy at a reasonable price else it would not matter who you had at RB and WR if you are starting 2 QB that are in the bottom 3rd of the league. The 2nd year I was one of those guys that went all in and spent over $50 on one of those top 3-5 QB I really wanted because I did not want to get caught with my pants down again like I did the 1st year I played. A top 5 QB would be worth because if you could pair him with another top 20 QB his point total alone made you come out far ahead than what you would with 2 top 10-20 type QB in your lineup. We did try to tweek the scoring for QB a bit where a TD was not worth as much as a RB or WR TD and INT were a hurt for negative points but even then if you had an elite QB even with that scoring if he had a 4 TD 300+ yard no INT day it would still be a big number for you.

 

[cstrunk]

Just started prepping for my fantasy leagues recently. I didn't realize how much hype there was around Breece Hall this year. He's many people's RB #2 overall. Top 5 player on many lists too.

 

[CRcyclone6]

I just like the strategy involved with an auction draft and the fact that you can get the exact team you want, or at least very close to it. Lot of fun figuring out pricing strategies and anticipating what other guys are doing. We're a 12-team league and our auction draft never took more than 2 hours. And yeah I'd hate a 2 QB starting roster, just one of the really dumb things to have emerged in fantasy IMO.

Our baseball draft is an auction. It's fun.

 

[Gonzo]

There were things I liked about auction but you gotta have a good plan in place going in and know when to stop bidding on a guy you would really like to have when the price gets too high and find the next best guy you can get at the right price point. If you go into a draft thinking you are going to get a top 3 guy each at QB WR and RB you probably will blow 75% of your budget trying to accomplish that and then have crap for the rest of your roster as teams pluck every guy you hoped to get after that after the rest of the big names come off the board.

That 12 team 2 QB league the first year I played in it I stayed away from the big name QBs and thought if I could find some buys later on I would be fine but guys would spend $50 or more of their $200 budget to get the top end QBs then if you passed on them and waited for guys more in the 10-20 rank range you better have some money sitting around to probably overpay for at least 1 and hope you get the 2nd guy at a reasonable price else it would not matter who you had at RB and WR if you are starting 2 QB that are in the bottom 3rd of the league. The 2nd year I was one of those guys that went all in and spent over $50 on one of those top 3-5 QB I really wanted because I did not want to get caught with my pants down again like I did the 1st year I played. A top 5 QB would be worth because if you could pair him with another top 20 QB his point total alone made you come out far ahead than what you would with 2 top 10-20 type QB in your lineup. We did try to tweek the scoring for QB a bit where a TD was not worth as much as a RB or WR TD and INT were a hurt for negative points but even then if you had an elite QB even with that scoring if he had a 4 TD 300+ yard no INT day it would still be a big number for you.

We lost 1 longtime member of the league when we switched. He was the only one out of 12 against it. Just didn't want to put in the work of coming up with pricing strategies, which definitely can get complicated. Snake draft he knew who the guys were who would be there for him at those first few picks and he liked that.

 

[Cyclonepride]

He was ranked 3rd overall in our league, and pretty sure he went around there

 

[CYdTracked]

Just started prepping for my fantasy leagues recently. I didn't realize how much hype there was around Breece Hall this year. He's many people's RB #2 overall. Top 5 player on many lists too.

Yeah. I listen to fantasy sports on XM and they've said several times over the years that something like 7 or 8 of the 12 players taken in the first round usually underperform or bust for where they were taken. Gotten to a point where if I am going to miss on a 1st rounder would rather be a WR than a RB as especially in a PPR league the WR spot you want to nab as many of the top guys you can get your hands on. That being said i may consider a RB in the 1st but it's gotta be someone too good to pass on a top end WR still on the board. Ideally i don't want to pick a RB until round 4 this year, maybe round 3 if i don't like whatever TE or WR are on the board.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Here's my draft. Pretty happy with it, even though ESPN's recap has me at 6th in my 8 team league. They had me at last at the beginning of last season and I won it, so not too concerned.

QB: Josh Allen, Brock Purdy
RB: Johnathan Tayler, Kenneth Walker III, Austin Ekeler
WR: Chris Olave, Marvin Harrison Jr, Christian Watson, Xavier Worthy
TE: Evan Engram, Jake Ferguson, David Njoku
D/ST: Ravens, Bengals
K: Harrison Butker

I feel like my WR group (and probably the FLEX position) is the glaring weakness, though very young so some potential. I had the last pick in my snake draft, so I had to do a bit of scrambling.

 

[CYdTracked]

Here's my draft. Pretty happy with it, even though ESPN's recap has me at 6th in my 8 team league. They had me at last at the beginning of last season and I won it, so not too concerned.

QB: Josh Allen, Brock Purdy
RB: Johnathan Tayler, Kenneth Walker III, Austin Ekeler
WR: Chris Olave, Marvin Harrison Jr, Christian Watson, Xavier Worthy
TE: Evan Engram, Jake Ferguson, David Njoku
D/ST: Ravens, Bengals
K: Harrison Butker

I feel like my WR group (and probably the FLEX position) is the glaring weakness, though very young so some potential. I had the last pick in my snake draft, so I had to do a bit of scrambling.

Outside of Taylor not a big fan of your other 2 RB. I think Ekeler is washed up and is in a share with Robinson and Walker is ok, not sure what round you got him in but he's probably 15-20 RB guy

Your WR is not terrible but a bit of a gamble taking 2 rookies. Olave and Watson will be volume guys at least but looks like you missed out on the elite guys. Curious where you picked all your guys and who was on the board at the time. Why 3 TE too, do you have to start 2? In my 10 team league I wait until the last 2 picks to pick a kicker or defense and I will just stream a defense or kicker on a bye week if needed. Would rather roster extra position players especially early in the season hoping I hit on a sleeper than have a defense sitting on my bench. With an 8 team league there is always going to be a decent option at defense or kicker I would think. Tight ends those 3 are all basically ranked about the same spot in most rankings at the back end of the top 10. I guess hope 1 out performs their projections but unless you got one of the top 4 or 5 TE it's a pretty big gap these days at that position outside of the top guys.

 

[BACyclone]

Just started prepping for my fantasy leagues recently. I didn't realize how much hype there was around Breece Hall this year. He's many people's RB #2 overall. Top 5 player on many lists too.

Obviously I'm biased but I think Hall is going to be the league RB1 soon. CMac is aging out and many believe the usage from their SB run last season will catch up this season. Bijan...so many have forecast how awesome he is, and he is, but I still think Hall is better.

If NYJ can have a functioning offense (Rodgers stays on the field) and a passable OL, Hall is going to EAT.

 

[CYdTracked]

I draft Sunday night, decided to use my keeper on Puka which I think was my best option and he'll likely be gone by the time it comes back around to me late in the 2nd round which is the round pick he will cost me. Now at #4 I am hoping one of the top receivers is still there. CMC Chase and St. Brown have to be in the redraft this year as they were keepers last year so will be interesting to see if anyone uses their 1st round keeper on Lamb and Hill. My hope is St. Brown is still there at 4, I'd take Lamb or Hill if they were there too but my guess is either they are a keeper pick or if they are in the draft pool will go in the top 3 with CMC. I am pretty sure I will not take a RB at #4 unless for some reason CMC is there otherwise I probably would pass on Breece and Bijan and hope maybe I snag my 1st RB in the 3rd or 4th round depending who is there. Eyeballing either top end TE in the 3rd round or a RB that is too good to pass on. There should be some value at RB still in the 4-6 rounds I hope, may not be top end but guys that should see some volume still available.

We start 2 WR 2RB 1 TE and 2 Flex spots that can be any WR/RB/TE so in that format in a PPR league I value WR much more than I do RB because I want volume receivers at those 2 flex spots if I can get them. Also gives you that option of nabbing a 2nd top end TE too if it makes sense not only as injury insurance and a bye week fill in but some of those top 5 guys will be just as good as some of your mid round WR too.

 

[BACyclone]

Currently debating AJ @3.10 vs Evans @10.1 and ZWhite @15.10 vs J Taylor @3.10.
If for some reason I kept both 3rds one would move up to 3.4.

Taylor is a pretty amazing value in any format. AJ is too, but if you didn't want to burn 2x 3rds Mike Evans in the 10th is a steal for what would effectively be your WR3. His ADP is currently around 31 in PPR. AJ Brown and JT are about the same at 10 overall.

 

[CYdTracked]

Obviously I'm biased but I think Hall is going to be the league RB1 soon. CMac is aging out and many believe the usage from their SB run last season will catch up this season. Bijan...so many have forecast how awesome he is, and he is, but I still think Hall is better.

If NYJ can have a functioning offense (Rodgers stays on the field) and a passable OL, Hall is going to EAT.

I don't argue with you a bit on that thinking. There is obvious risk and upside with both so it's probably a coin flip who you take. Just glad I don't have a top 2 pick this year as I have been shifting away from drafting RB in the 1st round lately. Broke that rule last year keeping Ekeler as I had a late 1st round pick I think and he was going top 5 in drafts so I thought I was getting a steal but that one busted on me big time.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Outside of Taylor not a big fan of your other 2 RB. I think Ekeler is washed up and is in a share with Robinson and Walker is ok, not sure what round you got him in but he's probably 15-20 RB guy

Your WR is not terrible but a bit of a gamble taking 2 rookies. Olave and Watson will be volume guys at least but looks like you missed out on the elite guys. Curious where you picked all your guys and who was on the board at the time. Why 3 TE too, do you have to start 2? In my 10 team league I wait until the last 2 picks to pick a kicker or defense and I will just stream a defense or kicker on a bye week if needed. Would rather roster extra position players especially early in the season hoping I hit on a sleeper than have a defense sitting on my bench. With an 8 team league there is always going to be a decent option at defense or kicker I would think. Tight ends those 3 are all basically ranked about the same spot in most rankings at the back end of the top 10. I guess hope 1 out performs their projections but unless you got one of the top 4 or 5 TE it's a pretty big gap these days at that position outside of the top guys.

First two picks of my snake draft were Josh Allen & Taylor and then picked up Olave & Harrison at the end of round 3, start of round 4. Picked up Walker at the end of round 5 and then jumped on Purdy to start round 6. Everyone else went really heavy into RB/WR in the first few rounds, so I felt decent getting Walker at the end of round 5. Ekeler was a late round afterthought. Njoku was one of my last picks (which seemed like a decent value at that point).

Our league does a lot of trading, so I'm hoping to pick up a better WR and 3rd RB option, but I might have to sacrifice Purdy to do it (though I love having two top shelf QB's for matchups and byes).