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[Dynasty] 2020 NFL Draft Class (6 Viewers)
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To an extent, yes. I try not to hold injury history against a player unless it's an ongoing or chronic issue but the guys after 1.4 are kind of bunched up for me, so I could see using his durability as a tie-breaker depending on landing spots and draft capital.
Faust
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kittenmittens
Footballguy
According to this, almost half of the 1st round of the NFL draft will be fantasy superflex relevant skill positions.
That's insane. I don't think we have ever seen a draft with 13 projected 1st round QB, RB, WR prospects.
Travis Etienne massively insulted. If he is anything like Lamar Miller, he's on my do not draft list.
Interseptopus
Footballguy
He is almost on my do not draft list as it is. I don't understand the appeal. Maybe that changes but right now I'm not sure I want to take the gamble
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brewer
Footballguy
I understand where you are going with this comment, but you do realize that Lamar Miller is in the top 100 NFL career rushing yards right?
Most teams would sign up right now for a guaranteed 6k rushing yards in 7 years. The draft is not an exact science.
metoo
Footballguy
metoo
Footballguy
In my ppr league where guys are obsessed with WRs and I think RBs will drop. I could win it all because of this.
We start 2-4 wr/rb. I sucked at this league but I turned it around by finding a QB and TE and only drafting RBs early. I have 3 first round picks to continue this RB formation.
Drafted Jackson, McCaffery, Hunt and picked up Waller, Carson, Lindsay(thank you) off the ww.
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I haven’t seen any IDP setups where the top defenders crack the draft ahead of the top offensive talent, simply due to positional scarcity. Finding a bellcow back or elite WR is simply harder than finding a LB that can get you a 6-8 tackle floor, or a DE that will get 6-8 sacks in a season.
Young should be the top idp off the board though, and I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t crack the lower first round in that scoring system even with (maybe in part because of) the wealth of offensive talent in this draft. Sharks could well decide that Young early and a second round receiver is a better total gain than taking the 4th WR and getting a second round defender.
I expect 6th to be Young’s draft ceiling in most leagues, with an adp probably around 8-9.
BigTex
Don't mess with Texas
Which RBs are the best in 2020?
We polled a few personnel people over the past few weeks, and there appears to be no clear-cut RB1 in this class.
The leading candidates for that mantle appear to be Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor, Georgia’s D’Andre Swift and perhaps Clemson’s Travis Etienne. But bounce-back seasons for Ohio State’s J.K. Dobbins and Utah’s Zack Moss and breakout seasons from Alabama’s Najee Harris, Oklahoma State’s Chuba Hubbard and LSU’s Clyde Edwards-Helaire make this a difficult class to stack, rank and project for landing spots.
In April, only one running back was selected before the 53rd overall pick — Josh Jacobs, who went 24th overall to the Oakland Raiders. Between picks No. 53 and 87, a run at the position unfolded with five more backs going off the board. Another mini-RB run arrived with five backs drafted between picks 102 and 128.
“That’ll start earlier this year, I suspect, but it’ll last longer,” the national scout said.
That’s because this class also should include Florida State’s Cam Akers, Mississippi State’s Kylin Hill and others who could end up top-100 picks. In the past decade, the average number of backs drafted in the first 100 picks (roughly Rounds 1 through 3) has been 6.8, with a high-water mark of eight selected four different years in that span.
“I could see that number hitting 10, depending on who comes out,” the national scout said. “That is, if there are enough teams needing one.”
For the fantasy folks out there, help is on the way. And for the draft fans of teams who need immediate help in the run game — such as the Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Atlanta Falcons and others — the talent is incredibly appealing, especially outside of Round 1.
“There are some teams that took running backs last year who might be regretting that a bit now,” the scout said. “This class is just flat-out better all around. You need the smaller, quicker back, he’s there; the bigger, more powerful ones [and] the pass-catching backs, some who can be returners, it’s just a fun class to evaluate.”
Added an NFC scouting director we spoke with: “You watch ... someone in what I call that top group [Swift, Taylor, Etienne, Dobbins and perhaps Moss] will go a lot later than you’d expect. There are more backs than teams really needing backs, I think.”
Don’t forget about the wide receivers
We posed a question to the two evaluators: Is this also the deepest, most talented receiver class they’ve seen?
“I wasn’t in the league yet for that 1996 group,” the scouting director said of the group that included Hall of Famers Marvin Harrison and Terrell Owens, along with Muhsin Muhammad, Keyshawn Johnson, Eric Moulds and others. “But most recently, I think you look at 2014 and stack it against that one. It might be right there.”
The 2014 WR class was indeed loaded: Odell Beckham Jr., Mike Evans, Davante Adams, Allen Robinson, Brandin Cooks, Jarvis Landry, Sammy Watkins and John Brown were among the headliners that year. Could 2020 surpass that impressive lot?
“I’m not sure yet,” the director said, “but it could be close.”
Said the national scout, “I love this group of receivers. Like we talked about with the running backs, you have all shapes and sizes. We still don’t know all the [underclassmen], but I think it has a chance.
Our most recent mock draft reflects this class’ depth: Only one running back made our top 32, but six receivers went off the board. We haven’t had that many in Round 1 since 2015, with only 11 first-round receivers the past four years combined.
Alabama alone has a chance to land at least two and possibly three wideouts in Round 1 — Jerry Jeudy, Henry Ruggs III and DeVonta Smith, who has been the breakout production-wise for the Crimson Tide this season.
Oklahoma’s CeeDee Lamb and Clemson’s Tee Higgins will be in the running for our personal WR1 rankings this season. Both could end up top-20 picks.
Colorado’s Laviska Shenault Jr. and TCU’s Jalen Reagor had disappointing seasons, production-wise, but are well-liked among scouts who have not forgotten how explosive they were in 2018.
Breakout stars such as Arizona State’s Brandon Aiyuk, Penn State’s KJ Hamler, LSU’s Justin Jefferson, USC’s Michael Pittman Jr., Boise State’s John Hightower, Minnesota’s Tyler Johnson and many more could add layers upon layers of depth, depending on who declares.
Like Bama, Michigan has three draftable receivers (Donovan Peoples-Jones, Tarik Blackand Nico Collins) as well. Texas, Florida and Ohio State also could have multiple wideouts picks in April. And on and on ...
“I think there will be teams that double dip,” the director said, “because you have so many different flavors: speed, size, shiftier guys. There might not be that Calvin Johnson type of physical freak ... but there’s just about everything else here.”
Call it a fantasy footballer’s dream if you want, but the 2020 class might end up the best collection of backs and receivers we’ve had in the same draft in some time.
I really love this class! L.O.V.E IT!
Theres ONE team who I’m convinced will draft a RB that we and the entire Fantasy Community are completely missing. One that may be just as appealing as KC and that team is Pittsburgh. I just don’t believe they will go next year with the current backs they have now. They at one point were attempting to trade for Bell but it fell through. They will draft a stud RB and he maybe 1.1b to KC who will be 1.1a or flip it however you wish but Pittsburgh is being overlooked in drafting a RB.
Tex
nirad3
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Faust
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2020 Dynasty Rookie Mock Draft
I really like CeeDee Lamb and Jerry Jeudy; however, if Jonathan Taylor was to be drafted by Kansas City, I would have a hard time passing on him with the 1.01 pick.
I really like CeeDee Lamb and Jerry Jeudy; however, if Jonathan Taylor was to be drafted by Kansas City, I would have a hard time passing on him with the 1.01 pick.
