I wonder how many people have done what I did? I only started dynasty last summer but I immediately began working during the draft on trading down in the inaugural draft, and trading out of the '16 draft as well. I just hated this group compared to the '17 class, and the '17 group was only improved by developments during '15 (including injuries and some non-declares). At this point I feel quite happy with what I did, dealing down out of the first round, and down in the 2nd round in package deals that also got me '17 first rounders, and I ended up moving my 2016 and 2017 first and second rounders in package deals to add another extra two '17 first rounders and at this point I have 5.
In the final analysis I just flat out don't like the crop beyond Treadwell and Zeke. There are some interesting 3rd round and later flyers I'd take (in my trading I acquired multiple 3rd's and 4th's which will either be dealt for '17 or '18 picks, or used on some of those sleepers that might be available), and I did kind of like Doctson, but I didn't like any of the players in the '16 class better than the big 6 in the '17 group w/the possible exceptions of Zeke and Treadwell (I'd probably put Zeke at around 4th or 5th in a combined draft and Treadwell probably around 4th-6th, but I need to think about it). Unless I was able to land a top 2 pick, which I wasn't, I just wasn't interested in holding onto my top 24 picks from the '16 class and spent basically the preseason, and this past month or so working deals to move completely out of my original picks, as well as picks I added as ammo for this very purpose last August. At this point I have the two third rounders, the two fourths, and my 6th-9th's in that one league. I'll probably keep working on deals as I mentioned to move out of several of those picks as well.
Is anyone else just not terribly impressed with the '16 class?
For right now my '16 and '17 combined top 10 would probably be:
1. Fournette
2. Smith-Schuster
3. Elliot
4. Chubb (w/o knee injury Chubb would be #2)
5. Cook
6. Treadwell
7. Dupree
8. Williams
9. C. Davis
10. Probably a tie between A. Scott, Lazard, and Doctson.