Drafted last night. I'm a new coach in a league of mostly Gnts and Patsies fans. 10 teams, PPR. Aside from PPR pretty standard scoring except QB gets 4 pts for TD, 1 pt for completion, -1 for incompletion. Small money and I joined to help the commish fill an empty spot. With that in mind, I figured I could be a bit more experimental than I would in my big money league (12 team, no ppr, standard scoring.) I had the #6 overall pick. All of the stud RBs had gone. Turner and SJax were available. I'm not keen on either, but more so on SJax since he racks up yardage and 4 td's last year was an abarration. Both were ranked below any WRs and well below the top remaining player on my board. So I took Aaron Rodgers in the 1st, 6th overall. I've never taken a quarterback that high. I figured the guy after me would take Turner or SJax then the guy after him would take the other. I was 1/2 right: the guy after me took Turner, then no one touched SJax so he fell back to the Turner guy. In hindsight I think I should've taken one of those guys, if anything to break up that potentially monster RB core. Here's my team: QB -Aaron Rodgers WR -DeSean Jackson WR -Miles Austin WR -Pierre Garcon RB -LeSean McCoy RB -Arian Foster w/r -CJ Spiller TE -Chris Cooley K -Bironas DEF -CIN BN -Forsett BN -Aromashodu BN -Jacoby Jones BN -Britt BN -Massaquoi BN -Neon Leon (last player I drafted)
With three receivers starting, I would have gone with Andre Johnson. Consistent beast every year, gets a ton of receptions and a ton of TDs. Then I would have hoped Rodgers, Brees, or Manning fell to me in round 2 or maybe gone with an RB. It's not bad at all though. You have 2 nice receivers, though Jackson in PPR isn't as good. The runningbacks are good, too, I really like Foster and McCoy in PPR is good. Spiller and Forsett are worthy backups, I like that you grabbed 2 of them.
Yeah, that's a good point. Had a hard time with taking a WR in the 1st though. I can see a WR, even of AJ's caliber, getting shut down in a game more than I see that happening to a QB of Rodgers' caliber. I think on balance Rodgers will net me more points in every game than Johnson. Dude is a beast though. And you're right, as it turned out, one of those QBs would've fallen to me in the 2nd.
I was in the same spot in my money league and all three QB's (Rodgers, Brees, or Manning) were gone when it got back to me. I had the 6th pick and got Andre Johnson, the boobie prize for me was Shonn Greene. 6th and 7th were the toughest spots this year. In hind sight I wish I took Rodgers in the first.
Drop Kenny Britt and pickup Mike Williams (seattle) Drop one of those other fools and pickup Steve Slayton if he's available. I scooped up foster, and I got Slayton off wavers just in case.
I was just going to make this point. With 5 stud RBs off the board (I assume CJ, AP, Rice, MJD, and Gore) I might have picked Andre Johnson at 6. 1500 yards in back to back years, and in a PPR he gets a TON of catches. However, you can't complain too much about Rodgers. He's my #1 ranked QB this year. Also, Spiller, McCoy and Foster should be solid PPR guys.
Avoid anyone on Seattle... your better off with rookie Mike Williams instead of draft bust Mike Williams.
