Bree's Badass Boys Went Kicker Shopping Twice
Round seven, with the board still stocked, Bree took Eddy Pineiro. That is a kicker in the seventh, in a format where the OP slot eats a second quarterback every week. Then, in the eleventh, Bree went back and took Harrison Butker. Two kickers, one kicker slot, five bench spots total, and now one of them is permanently occupied by a man who will never appear in the lineup unless the other one gets hurt on a Saturday.
The rest of the roster tells the same story. A.J. Brown and Davante Adams and George Kittle are real players, and then the back half turns into a scratch-off card: Mike Washington Jr., Camden Brown, and Kirk Cousins in the fifteenth, a quarterback whose last full act as a starter was being benched for a rookie in Atlanta. Bree built a starting nine and then spent the bench on hobbies.
Justin Stacked Tight Ends In A One-TE League
Substation Superstars took Brock Bowers in the fourth, and that is fine, that is a real player. Then Sam LaPorta in the ninth. Then Mark Andrews in the eleventh. That is three tight ends for one tight end slot, so every Sunday two of them sit on a bench that only holds five and is now sixty percent tight end. The roster cap says three. Justin found the cap and shook its hand.
The finish was the flourish. Deshaun Watson, taken in the fifteenth, a quarterback who has thrown for a full season's worth of nothing since arriving in Cleveland and who has spent more time on the injury report than the depth chart. Justin already had Trevor Lawrence. He needed a second starter. He took the one that comes with the longest paper trail in the league.
Tyler Collected Quarterbacks Like Baseball Cards
Tyler's Talented Team opened with Bijan Robinson and Amon-Ra St. Brown and then, apparently overcome, took five quarterbacks. Jared Goff, Sam Darnold, Bryce Young, Aaron Rodgers, and the roster cap is four, so somebody in there is a trade chip or a coat rack. Superflex starts two. Tyler drafted a quarterback room, a quarterback waiting room, and a quarterback overflow area.
Darnold in the fifth is the one that hurts, a player whose career has been a series of teams deciding he was the answer and then quietly deciding he wasn't. Rodgers in the tenth is forty-one years old and on his third organization. Then Travis Kelce in the eleventh, which is genuinely the best available tight end on the board, sandwiched between quarterbacks nobody can start. Tyler found the value and buried it.
Jesse Went All-In On Injury Reports
Mr. Anderson took Josh Allen first overall and then spent the middle rounds assembling the most fragile receiver corps in the league. George Pickens, Chris Olave, Christian Watson, DK Metcalf. Olave has been through the concussion protocol enough times that the protocol knows his name. Watson tore his ACL in the last game of last season. That is a wide receiver group that requires a group chat with a physical therapist.
The backfield went the same direction, four deep with Chase Brown, David Montgomery, Blake Corum, Chuba Hubbard, and Zach Charbonnet, none of whom get the ball alone. Then Caleb Williams in the second as the OP starter, a quarterback whose rookie year was mostly running for his life. Jesse built a roster that will be exciting for about nine weeks.
Nobody Told Chenell About The Second Quarterback
Da Reigning Champ actually did the superflex math early, Lamar Jackson in the first and Dak Prescott in the third, and then went back to the well in the thirteenth for Tua Tagovailoa. That is a quarterback whose availability has been the central question of his career and who is more discussed than played. Three quarterbacks is defensible. That third one is a decision.
The larger issue is Harrison Mevis in the ninth. A kicker, in the ninth round, with Jordan Addison and Kyle Monangai and a hundred other useful bodies still sitting there. The bench math in this league is brutal, five spots, and Chenell spent one of the good rounds on the man who kicks the extra points. The Chargers D/ST at the very end at least came in the round where defenses belong.
Colin Bet The Season On Rookie Quarterbacks
4th and Inshes went Bo Nix in the third and Tyler Shough in the sixth, which is a superflex starting pair built entirely out of quarterbacks with fewer than two full seasons of NFL starts between them. Shough is a rookie who spent seven years in college football, which isn't a joke, that is the actual biography. Then Jacoby Brissett in the eleventh as the emergency parachute, a man whose entire career has been being the emergency parachute.
The rest is sturdy. Puka Nacua, James Cook III, Nico Collins, Zay Flowers, TreVeyon Henderson. Travis Hunter in the twelfth is the fun swing, a two-way player whose usage plan changes depending on which coach is being interviewed. Colin built a very good non-quarterback team in a league where two quarterbacks start every week.
Jay Doubled Up On Defenses Instead
Jay's Team took Jahmyr Gibbs first, which was correct, and Breece Hall and Kyren Williams after that, which built the deepest backfield in the room. Then, in rounds eleven and twelve, Jay took the Broncos D/ST and the Rams D/ST back to back. Two defenses. One D/ST slot. Two of the five bench spots gone before a single bye week arrives.
The quarterback plan is Justin Herbert and Malik Willis, and Willis is a backup who exists to hand the ball off when Jordan Love isn't available. That is the OP slot. Fernando Mendoza went in the fourteenth as the deep swing. Jay assembled a running back factory and then staffed the most important position in the format with a fire extinguisher.
