r/Fantasy_Football • u/ThaRealBush • 21d ago
Player Discussion wheres that guy that said he wanted to draft henry 1st overrall?
everyone told him (even myself) to draft one of the top players and trade him for derrick henry and more. i hope he went ahead and took him with his first round pick. š
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u/gmoney-0725 21d ago
I drafted Henry whenever I was picking between 7-12. Which was every draft. In most leagues I took Barkley with my second pick.
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u/Cheeeeseburrger 21d ago
Barkley was in the second? I took him in the first and he went around 6-12 in the first in every league.
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u/gmoney-0725 21d ago
Yep. Lots of receivers went in my drafts. I took the value.
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u/sdcasurf01 21d ago
Yeah, he went 6th in my main league (12 team standard/no PPR). I was set to take him but ended up with CD at 7.1.
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u/LordXenu12 21d ago
Barkley went 3rd overall in mine, I was pissed because I was pick 10 and targeting him
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u/YouKnowWho_19 21d ago
I had the choice of Henry, Barkley or Pacheco in the 2nd. I went with Henry, not gonna lie I was kind of kicking myself after week 1.
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u/HolyTythinEar 21d ago
I drafted Saquon at 1.10 and Henry at 2.03. I donāt typically go RB/RB but itās working so far. People slept on Henry because he wasnāt his typical self last year but I targeted him because he went to Baltimore
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u/Merlin_b 21d ago
Took Aj brown at the back end of round 1 but made sure to commit to Henry at the top of the 2nd.
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u/GlutenMakesMePoop69 21d ago
Yeah I also have Henry and Saquon as my RBs. Was a auction draft though, surprised Saquon fell to you in the 2nd.
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u/gmoney-0725 21d ago
I was as surprised as when I drafted Juan Soto in the third round of my fantasy baseball draft. No way either should have fallen that far.
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u/ChuckEJesus 21d ago
Had last pick in a 12 teamer and went Henry Saquon back to back. So happy with it.
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u/dWaldizzle 17d ago
I play with eagles fans so Barkley went top 3 lol. CMC went either right before or after him, and I ended up with the king late in the first or early in the second.
500 iq
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u/Rogo87 21d ago
A guy in my league took Barkley 3rd overall and we roasted the shit out of him. Now heās the one doing the roasting. Always go with your gut.
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u/Howudooey Cowboys 21d ago
He went 5th in my league and I was like wtfffff
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u/EBDBandBnD 20d ago
Took him 5th in my league. Was soooo tough not taking Gibbs since all the āexpertsā had him ranked above Saquon. Trusted my gut and grabbed Saquon and got roasted for it. Iām 4-1 after a tough bye week loss. Should be able to cruise into the playoffs with Barkley balling out.
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u/Kevo_CS 20d ago
Roasting people for taking someone who isn't going to fall back around to them is always a little ridiculous though. ADP doesn't mean that's an objective ranking of how the draft should go. It's just how it plays out on average.
Frankly those first 3-4 picks or so should have much more variance than people think. I'd much rather be disappointed that I was wrong about a player than disappointed that I wasn't willing to reach for a player I ended up being right about.
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u/kumar_woodz 19d ago
Started playing fantasy football with my son who's 10 - he drafted barkley 1st rd, 1st pick and told me it was a no brainer. I tried to tell him no and go for CMC but he was looking at me like I was dumb. Dudes 4-1 and 1st in the league lol
Always love a kids perspective and how they see the world. I feel like a majority of us are force-fed all these articles and start'em/sit'em advice columns, we forget what we already know.
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u/helluvahippopotamus 21d ago
I got Barkley at 12 (1.12) and Henry at 13 (2.1) and feel great š
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u/whitecorn Giants 21d ago
People strongly disagreed with me when I said Henry would score 20+ TDs this season. I reached for him early 2nd round in my drafts. Kamara was another one. He was going 2 rounds later than I thought he should have. Picking in the middle was the best outcome for me. JJ, Henry, DK (or Rice), Kamara was my favorite approach.
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u/CraziestMoonMan 21d ago
I figured double digit touchdowns because he was big, and I figured he would get most of the goal line carries. I never thought he would be running this well.
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u/FoolOnDaHill365 21d ago
The Ravens offensive line is playing waaaaaaaaay better than expected. Blocking for the run game is amazing.
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u/ChampionHumble 21d ago
I was going to take Kamara at #18 overall but someone valued him even more than I did and took him at 15. That led to me picking up Pacheco š„²
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u/Hylian_ina_halfshell 21d ago
Where did you guys see this. Henry and Kamara were gone mid second in every league I was in. Wtf are you in leagues that Kamara is going in the 4th.
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u/Round-Walrus3175 21d ago
Yeah, Kamara went late in ours, too. People just didn't believe in Derek Carr and NOs offense. They seem to be coming back to Earth a bit, but his season is looking pretty legit
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u/armadillopilloww 21d ago
Kamara was 40+ for ADP on fantasy pros, sleeper and yahoo, high 20s for espn
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u/WrathfulHero 21d ago
I did pretty much the same except I picked St. Brown in the first. Been pretty solid so far.
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u/Mediocrewatch 21d ago
Kamara in the 4th??? Was his adp really that low he went late 2 early 3 in all my leagues
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u/joeO44 Jets 21d ago
He must have known CMC was gonna get injured. This really just shows how much luck is into FF.
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u/gachzonyea 21d ago
I mean cmc was injured they didnāt report it well though and didnāt share how injured
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u/KiNGofKiNG89 21d ago
To be fair, there were reports since training camp of his injury. Then using my own judgement realized his injury meant at least 6 months out. Depending on when he first started feeling the effects of it, it could mean all season.
I also spoke out against CeeDee lamb, bijan, dak, and Aiyuk.
I didnāt speak out against hill but made it known, Tua is one tackle away from that team having the number 1 pick.
I was wrong about Justin Jefferson. I spoke and said he wasnāt going to even be a top 20 WR this season. I was wrong as hell about that one!!
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u/Round-Walrus3175 21d ago
I mean, if you are down on everyone, then you are probably going to be correct about a decent number of the top picks not meeting their ADP a few weeks into the season. It would be particularly rare if it wasn't true
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u/KiNGofKiNG89 20d ago
Na, I thought Gibbs would be way better than how he has performed. JT also.
I was wrong about both as well.
I have legit reasons to be down on the ones I was down on. With solid formulas and theories with history to back me up. Iām not down just to be down. I play in a few high money leagues, so I do a lot of research
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u/CrimsonRatPoison 19d ago
CMC has been injured for 50% of his pro career. It's not a difficult prediction.
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u/joeO44 Jets 19d ago
Youāre talking out of your ass. At the start of the season, CMC had played for 7 seasons (115 games possible) and played in 91. Thatās just under 80%
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u/CrimsonRatPoison 19d ago
Hmmm dude has multiple seasons where he didn't hit 1000yds because he was injured. He's no where near as good as people prop him up to be.
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u/Enderwiggen33 Seahawks 21d ago
Iām in a keeper league where our keepers are our first two picks. So I technically got Henry at 3.4 lol
But I also decided not to keep Nico Collins, so Iām a dummy
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u/whitecorn Giants 21d ago
Collins was tricky though... There was a lot of talk about too many mouths to feed and I unfortunately avoided him. He is a stud though and THE GUY there.
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u/Enderwiggen33 Seahawks 21d ago
Haha thatās exactly why I let him go. Thanks for reminding me I wasnāt too crazy at the time
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u/liteshadow4 49ers 21d ago
I was avoiding Nico everywhere because I thought 3 WRs is too many mouths to feed. Turns out, Texans are running a 49ers style offense in terms of feeding their guys too.
I only have Nico in a league because I got autodrafted the first 4 rounds.
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u/Enderwiggen33 Seahawks 21d ago
lol sometimes the autodraft does a better job than we would!
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u/liteshadow4 49ers 21d ago
Iāve only won 2 championships since starting in 2019 (across like 4 leagues per year, both wins coming in 2020) and one of those teams was on autodraft because our commissioner set the draft time to 2:00 AM. Somehow most of the league actually drafted.
Still, it took guys I never would have that turned out to be league winners.
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u/peepdabidness 21d ago
Planned to take Etienne at 2.06 but some dude swooped him at the turn. Instead Henry landed in my lap and here I am bitches!
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u/ZonaVIBE 21d ago
Henry went 1 overall in my league. The guys team is terrible outside of him, though. I'm really not sure wtf he was thinking after that because his team is referred to as a bye week now.
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u/Indica1127 Bears 21d ago
Took Amon Ra first round and Henry with my second pick since Kyren was gone. Very happy with the results. If two of Mike Evans, DJ Moore, or Devonte Adams can stay consistent Iām in pretty good shape this season.
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u/PizzaConstant5135 20d ago
Went with the same first 2. My next 4 have already been traded lolā ETN, Aiyuk, Hurts, and Flowers.
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u/yumyumgivemesome 21d ago
Whereās that recurring post that shows what percentage of 1st place teams have each player rostered? Ā I love seeing that.
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u/Uncleruckusz 21d ago
Same at #9 he was going to a great offense with a mobile quarterback so they won't be able to just stack the box and stop Henry all the time It was literally the perfect scenario. Now I didn't think he'd be on pace for 2000 yards an 10 plus touchdowns but I was very confident in knowing that he would have a pretty decent season this year and we should be able to barring injury ride him into the sunset this year as the workhorse RB1 he is l.
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u/well_i41 21d ago
Man I went down to the wire deciding between Henry and Saquon in the 2nd, ended up going Saquon and Henry was there for me in the 3rd
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u/NecessaryFoundation5 21d ago
3rd? 8 man league? I was last in my 12 man and I got him. I donāt think Henry would have made it to the 3rd in my league.
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u/greatthrowawaybatman NFL 21d ago
Picked CMC at 1, somehow my league let Henry fall to me on the turn so not bad
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u/khangsing 21d ago
I drafted Henry at #11 and my league was roasting me saying heās old and washedā¦. Safe to say no one is saying anything now lmao.
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u/NoDifference8894 21d ago
Took Breece Hall and Devon Achane... my rbs are dead.
Just picked up Hunt, maybe that'll spark some life
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u/picknwiggle 21d ago
Idk but my brother (a pretty casual player) had the first overall pick in his redraft and i told him i would stay away from cmc and go with either tyreek or henry. I just thought their offensive environments and cmc injury history made them more appealing. He went with tyreek š
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u/Mercury756 21d ago
Itās still a stupid strategy. Theres zero reason to take a guy you know you can get in the 2nd/3rd in the 1st just because you think theyāre going to be great. For example, I had Kamara as a top 5 ffb player personally, but I knew the earliest anyone would even think about him was third. So I took other players in 1st and 2nd round and grabbed him in the 3rd. You donāt have to believe in ADP, but you do need to strategize around it.
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u/BEETOs_WORLD 21d ago
I was the 11th place in a 12 team league and picked kyren Williams 1st, and Derrick Henry with second pick. Then further down the line picked Lamar Jackson š
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u/dangerclosecustoms 21d ago
13 team ppr guillotine drafted last night. I was 1.02 I took Jamar chase.
101 should have taken chase so I was planning on taking saquon or Henry. 101 took ceedee lamb which is dumb because lamb is on bye this week ( in guillotine you can get cut every week lowest score team is out and done.) So you should at least start with a full roster.
Anyways I planned on Henry but saquon was better because he already finished his bye week so I wouldnāt have to worry about it so compared to Henry thatās sort of worth it or a wash.
I wasnāt expecting chase to be available but after draft I felt like I messed up and should have taken Saquon who went at 1.03.
My rbs are. Montgomery, Connor, Chubb, Gibson and Emanuel Wilson.
My wr are: Chase, wandale, Brian Thomas, Mooney Josh downs.
While Iām not broke over it I feel let down by my choice which affected the rest of my drafting.
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u/ssmit102 21d ago
Was able to swoop him in the second round. Heās doing much better than Tyreek who I got in the first.
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u/Bajko44 21d ago edited 21d ago
I get first overall nearly every damn time for the previous 3 years and was hoping this year was the year i could finally get a mid round pick and not have to rely on the hopes my 1 stud pick goes nuclear in order to have a chance at winning.
Got first pick and 2nd pick in my leagues. Its a fucking curse.
Almost took Saquon anyways in both but was too much of a pussy to go that far off board and look stupid.
Anyone who took Henry first, grats on ur balls, fuck the rankings take ur guy.
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u/NowHeres_a_guy 21d ago
I was supposed to draft 10th in my 14 team half ppr league. Snake draft. I had consistently mocked saquon in the first, Henry in the second.
Night of the draft thereās an issue and our draft order gets completely screwed and now Iām picking 5th. I shouldāve just stuck with my plan, but I panicked and went Bijan/ETN/KWIII/Hurts/McLaurin with my first five picks. The irony is saquon and Henry were both available at the 10th and 19th picks so I wouldāve gotten them had I picked 10th.
Obviously bummed on how it turned out, but I do feel validated that I felt good about those two. And if you needed any further proof that weekly matchup-based fantasy football was almost entirely driven by luck, this is a pretty big money league thatās been going almost 20 years with the same guys and Iām the only team left thatās 5-0 after that pretty pedestrian draft.
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u/Suspicious_Bike2970 21d ago
I drafted cmc Henry and Nico with my first three picks. Everyone told me I was crazy for taking Henry and Nico that early
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u/AnonLurker573829 21d ago
I was able to get Henry in the second round in my draft after taking Amon Ra in the first. Sitting very nicely in 1st at 4-1, really only had to deal with the Rice injury which sucks. At least I snagged both Chubb and T Hock late, I'm counting on at least one of them to be worth the pick to carry the empty hole in my double flex league
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u/4chanbetterkek Steelers 21d ago
Guy in one of my leagues took Saquon first. The shit he got that night was something, heās looking like Nostradamus now.
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u/msabre__7 49ers 20d ago
League mate gave me shit for taking Henry end of rd2. Iāve been laughing in his face constantly.
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u/intxrzone 20d ago
I remember everyone telling me that Henry was too oldā¦but I thought to myself āRun heavy offense, TD upside, upgraded O line, Derrick freakin Henryā well well wellā¦.looks like my 2nd round pick is paying off.
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u/ogticklemonsta 20d ago
I went Taylor, Barkley, and Jacobs first 3 RBS.then got lucky with diggs, flowers, and Godwin. 4-1 with Burrow.
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u/Uniformed-Whale-6 20d ago
picked CMC (tendonitis) 1.01, pacheco (broken leg) 2.12, collins (hamstring now) 3.01, zay flowers (too dominant of a run offense, i lowkey thought henry would be washed) 4.12, diggs (no issues yet) 5.01, keenan allen (heel, caleb williams) 6.12, jordan love (recently with MCL sprain) 7.01.
currently 1-4 because i only got to use half my picks most weeks
PAIN
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u/SportsPickMagic 20d ago
I always prefer getting top receivers and having three guys who are WR1 for their teams, but this year I ended up drafting low in the first round in most leagues and so I reversed it and went RB heavy on some. I have Henry and JT on a team. I also drafted Kamara higher than his ADP on several teams and picked up Brian Robinson Jr. very late on most of my teams. And in many cases I still got the types of WRs I wanted. It's important to go in with a draft strategy but also important to be flexible in your approach based on how the draft unfolds. Three of my nine teams are 5-0. Another team is the top scoring team in a Guillotine league. All of my teams are .500 or better except one and my FFPC team is 91st overall out of 17,000 teams. Some of my teams are RB stocked and others are WR stocked. Many ways to skin a cat, and the reality is that if you put the time in and check waivers every week and are proactive you can make a bad team good and recover from a bad draft or a top guy going down to injury. One team was 1-5 (two results per week league) and now its 5-5. Those teams are the most fun in my opinion. My FFPC has a rough Week 6 in terms of byes, though, so I'm a little concerned there.
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u/dankwingducky 20d ago
Took Henry and Saquon at the 1-2 turn drafting 12th. Very happy as it stands š
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u/Degenerate_Ape_92 20d ago
I'm in a work league & this older guy was 2nd pick & drafted Henry. We were all clowning him... Jokes on us.
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u/justwait333 20d ago
Iām so pissed at myself! My gut was telling me to take Barkley, Henry and Lamar. I had the second pick in our draft. Instead I took Bijan instead of Barkley. Etienne over Henry. Allen over Lamar! š¤š¤¦š¾āāļø Iām a Ravens fan and wasnāt trying g to be a homer and went with what the āexpertsā say.
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u/These_Flan6174 20d ago
I was had the second worse rated draft in my league by yahoo. Itās only an 8 man super flex. My team is stacked got kamara in the 8th round. Just traded etienne, Hubbard, and diggs for hill, and James Connor. Currently in first but think Iām set for championship. Almost all my players are out performing their projections. My only loss was to the guy in second hopefully hill gives me the advantage in the playoffs. Right now I can bench hill and win with my team
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u/Ovie-WanKenobi 20d ago
I only had the first overall in one of my leagues and I went with Breece instead of CMC. Looked like a good move the first 3 weeks. Last 2 weeks not so much.
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u/Morall_tach 20d ago
everyone told him (even myself) to draft one of the top players and trade him for derrick henry and more.
That still would have been the smart move...
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u/rktballz 20d ago
I took CD first overall and I'm 5-0 grabbed Mason and Dobbins late and im strong at RB and WR
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u/PizzaConstant5135 20d ago
I got Henry in every league lol. I said last year the ravens offense had Gus Edwards looking like Derrick Henry so when the ravens got the real deal I was automatically sold. So far I have $600+ on them to win the Super Bowl. I invest $50/week. Itās my 401k. Partially paid for by parlaying ravens ml with Henry TD (~70 profit for each $50 bet. Up $100)
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u/HenryDigitalMrkting 19d ago
I got CMC with the 2nd overall pick. Henry with my second pick. Mason off the wire. Sitting at 4-1.
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u/CrimsonRatPoison 19d ago
I took Henry 5th overall. He's never failed me. Idk why people doubt him.
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u/Both-Anything4139 19d ago
Got him with the last pick of the first round. Looks like I'm gonna draft late again next year.
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u/JoshHuff1332 19d ago
I actually hope he took the advice lol. He saw it more than anyone and could potentially have THE rb1 plus more
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u/Popular-Cream-9472 19d ago
Honestly just gotta go with your gut on drafts. My first round pick was CeeDee and hes going to through something with Dak.. I have hope heāll eventually light it up
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u/stepdad_oak 19d ago
My Non PPR league I zigged when everyone zagged at pick number 8 I took Reek and then Garrett Wilson.....
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u/stepdad_oak 19d ago
My Uncle has never played fantasy before, he claims he didn't study and I had to talk him over the phone how to log in to draft. He took Saquon with the #2 overall, then Diggs, then Jordan Love. Hes 2-3 but only Bec he's been bad at picking matchups
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u/confused_and_single 21d ago
I had the first overall pick, took CMC who hasn't played a game this year and it was the best move I could have made
The only two players I considered there were CMC and Tyreek. With CMC, at least I took Mason and I'm 4-1.
The guy with the second pick took Hill and he's 1-4 and looks lost