I agree with buschman, in a 10-team league I’d be perfectly fine being the last to draft a QB.
The TE position, in my opinion, is one to hit on. He mentioned Travis Kelce, who routinely scores as well or better than most WR’s. Think about that, if you have a few good WR’s plus you get all those points from the TE position, you’d be sitting great. There’s such a drop-off at that position that if you can get one of the top 2-3 you’ll be sitting good.
Most of the time I couldn’t care less who my defense is, I usually end up streaming them anyway based on matchups. I’ve spent almost entire seasons just playing whatever defense is playing teams like the Giants or Jets.
Take a kicker with one of your last 2 picks, but that can be streamed as well. If possible I’ve always tried to get one on a decently high-scoring offense. It’s such a crapshoot with that position though because I’ve had the Chiefs kicker before and they’ll score 35 points and he’ll just be kicking extra points all day.
RB Handcuffs can be pretty valuable. For example, I’ve always tried to get Alexander Mattison. Dalvin seems to miss a few games every year. If there’s a stud RB it can pay off to draft their backup later in drafts because their offense may continue to run the same even if they’re out, meaning their backup (handcuff) can be huge.
Lastly, I would say print out some mock drafts to reference, and when the laptop (or your phone) is moving along with the draft, you really can’t go wrong with drafting best available based on what you need. You’ll likely, and I’ve seen it plenty, have a guy or two or more on auto-draft, and those teams seem to do pretty well. When in doubt just look at who’s available based on rankings.
I think you might’ve just put the bug in me….it’s been about 3 years now that I’ve said I won’t play fantasy football, I’ll only join a league if asked, and I’ve never been able to get away from it…it can be a lot of fun.
