Preseason is over. Fantasy football drafts have started. Cut day is tomorrow. The NFL continuing down the pay-per-view path. Figured I'd open another thread. Who are your fantasy must own or sleepers?
Don't know about must own, but I got first round pick in my FFL but couldn't join until a few minutes in. Auto-draft got me Justin Jefferson Jefferson (yay) and Jonathan Taylor (boo, but maybe not? we'll see after tomorrow.)
This is the first draft I'm doing without knowing what position I'll be drafting until right before the draft. Pretty excited for that. I'm not sure who to draft if it ends up top 3 or so. Tempted to take Kelce in the middle of the first. All my mocks are running wr's before rb's. I think it will be top 4-5 rb's, top 3-4 wr's and Kelce in mine. Should be fun!
Not specifically NFL related, but anyone watch the show "Ballers" with the Rock? I just started it up last week. It's a lot of fun so far - kind of like the show Entourage except for pro football. I am about half-way through the first season. Check it out if you like sports, it's a fun dramatized look at a lot of off the field stuff players deal with.
It's going to look better than it is due to being an 8 team league, but here's my first team (No ppr):
QB Herbert Wr Diggs Rb Mixon Te Kelce Wr/Te D Adams Wr/Rb Mattison K Mia D Phi Bench B-Rob J Taylor D Cook A Cooper M Evans Tua
If Taylor can come back to 90% of what he was after week 4 this team is going to make a run. If he Leveon's should still be competitive. Cook, Evans and Tua are my drop candidates, and possibly B-Rob depending on what Bienemy does. I badly want to pick up Justyn Ross, and maybe even Rashee Rice of the Chiefs. By years end I think one of them will be KC's wr1 (besides Kelce). I don't trust their staff enough to get them enough reps early in the year to justify a spot though.
Lions at Chiefs in about 3 hours on NBC. Chris Jones still absent. Kelce a legitimate game time decision. Take a shot for every dropped pass by a KC receiver.
Yahoo fantasy says he's out in an update, but they still have him listed as questionable. Need him switched to out so I can put him on IR and pick up another TE.
Tempted to pick up LaPorta, but KC's LB core is legit. If he were to go off, would be good trade bait.
Edit: They initially put him NA (like he got benched not for injury) making him ineligible for IR. Thankfully it got corrected. Rolling with the unknown in LaPorta.
> I was very happy with the Niner's performance. The Steeler's didn't really put up
> much of a fight. I expected more out of them.
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9rs looked great. Kenny Pickett not so much. Rooting for Purdy. Wished the Chiefs took Pickens over Moore. He looks great with a crapty below average qb.
I really hate DB's always trying to lower the boom rather than make sound tackles. That was a cheap shot on Chubb already going to the ground imo. Put your helmet offset to the midsection, drive the shoulder through the midsection, corral the ball carrier's legs and drive through.
Dolphins...I don't really know what to say. They had the #1 offense but even blew that out of the water. Yikes. Tua is pretty good when not being concussed every game.
Yeah, they will go as Tua goes. What's crazy is they are rumored to be one of the ones trying to trade for Jonathan Taylor. Don't think they really need to.
Something needs to happen to Taylor. He's just taking up space on my bench right now. At least the rest of my team is doing pretty well. I'm going up against a monster of an opponent next week though, where none of his players on or off the bench scored in the single digits this week. Do I trust Alvin Kamara to boom on his first week back against TB?
I own a few shares of Jonathan Taylor in Dynasty. Not doing me any good on the bench. Hopefully the situation works out in Indy but I'm not sure cause Irsay seems like a dick. I agree Miami would be awesome but I can't see it.
> I own a few shares of Jonathan Taylor in Dynasty. Not doing me any good on the bench.
> Hopefully the situation works out in Indy but I'm not sure cause Irsay seems like
> a dick. I agree Miami would be awesome but I can't see it.
Yeah, why mess with a good thing in Miami.. they seem to be clicking on all cylinders, why add a problem. I can see Baltimore going after him, or Cleveland, or possibly Panthers.
I watched the Niners crush the Cowboys last night at a bar and grill in Nashville with felllow Niner fans. The two cowboy fans in the bar were friends with one of the Niners fans, so we had a lot of fun giving him crap all night. It was a blast!
image I'm on the right-hand side of the guy in the back with the little Niner Empire sign.
49ers look unreal.. Purdy is so poised in the pocket and they just have so many damn weapons of offense.. And their defense is stifling. Ordered my Purdy jersey last month so I hope it comes in soon.. :)
He is an excellent 'game manager', but that might get perceived as an insult. Near 4 year starter at Iowa State, he knows his crap. That team is loaded, making runs. Rooting for them if KC can't repeat.
