Early DO NOT DRAFT nominations (1 Viewer)

[RaidersAreOne]

DO NOT DRAFT player X.

Mine:

• Pitts - Can't believe I feel for this idiot again. Shame on me.
• Reed - I fell for this fool too before the TDL and he easily could have cost me a title.
• Deebo seems like an enormous boom/bust.
• Any Jets player. Arod is poison and the Jets are doomed unless they get rid of him, can their entire O staff and start over. Breece, Wilson and Co. will rot with him at the helm again.
• Kupp seems like a shell of his former self

 

[RaidersAreOne]

Olave also burned me. Of course the multiple concussions sucked but even when he was on the field, he definitely did not produce like a WR1. He and Carr had horrendous chemistry for whatever reason.

 

[FarFromHome]

Pretty sure the Dalton Kincaid pain will never leave my soul.

 

[Ilov80s]

I still believe in Jayden Reed. He’s maybe not going to be consistent enough to be a WR1 but at a WR3/flex he’s got big game potential. Obviously the issue is Green Bay doesn’t seem to trust him, won’t target him much. Not sure if that ever changes but I think he will fall in drafts next year and I’ll bite.

 

[Ilov80s]

Waddle. Perpetually overrated, always seems dinged up. Doesn’t seem to have a that something special.

 

[Gally]

I still believe in Jayden Reed. He’s maybe not going to be consistent enough to be a WR1 but at a WR3/flex he’s got big game potential. Obviously the issue is Green Bay doesn’t seem to trust him, won’t target him much. Not sure if that ever changes but I think he will fall in drafts next year and I’ll bite.

He definitely has a price point. He seems to be more like Jamo (can explode at any time but the consistency may have issues) so if he can fall to that range where he is your boom/bust WR3/flex option he has a lot of value.

 

[kyoun1e]

Going to be hard to hit the draft button on C. Kupp after the last few games. Will have to content with Puka and a constant buzz of is he washed or not.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Anybody over age 26

 

[RaidersAreOne]

Anybody over age 26

Really? You wouldn't touch Barkley even in the mid-late 1st? Nah to Burrow?

 

[TartanLion]

Very hard to answer this without values attached. Almost everyone becomes good value at some point, no ? This is more like the list of players in the other thread which was biggest draft busts.

I suppose you can take a guess at where value will lie but the likes of Deebo are going to fall like a stone in next years drafts

 

[jm192]

I'm also a big believer that cost matters. Once we see ADP's, I can tell you who I'm not touching.

I wasn't touching Anthony Richardson as a top 5 QB this year. I think he's a huge bust. Would I take him in the 10th-12th round in 2025 due to upside? Sure.

Olave's repeated concussions scare me to death. He's 1 hit away from being forced to retire. As a top 15 Receiver--I'm SO out. If he's going as a Wide receiver 3 come August, he suddenly look s alot prettier.

Reed didn't love up to expectations. But he's currently got 969 total yards and 7 TD's. He'll be a lot loss expensive in drafts next year.

I really don't want any part of

Kelce
Kupp
Diggs

There's a point I'd take all 3, but I can't imagine any of them being available at my point.

 

[zamboni]

Anybody over age 26

aka The Logan’s Run strategy

 

[zamboni]

No one is completely off limits if the price is cheap enough, but guys I’ll wait and wait on (some of which were mentioned):

Pitts
Kincaid
Cooper
Javonte
Etienne
Ridley

 

[BobbyLayne]

Anybody over age 26

Really? You wouldn't touch Barkley even in the mid-late 1st? Nah to Burrow?

W-R-T yeah only draft young uns

plenty to go around

QB IDC

 

[IHEARTFF]

No one is completely off limits if the price is cheap enough, but guys I’ll wait and wait on (some of which were mentioned):

Pitts
Kincaid
Cooper
Javonte
Etienne
Ridley

Agree mostly but why Ridley? Feel like he was decent this year and might get a qb upgrade.

 

[zamboni]

No one is completely off limits if the price is cheap enough, but guys I’ll wait and wait on (some of which were mentioned):

Pitts
Kincaid
Cooper
Javonte
Etienne
Ridley

Agree mostly but why Ridley? Feel like he was decent this year and might get a qb upgrade.

Just feel that Ridley is a roster tease. Aging and will put up a few big games, will draw you in to start him, and will put up a bunch of clunkers. Have to think they’ll bring in considerable target competition and would rather have someone else draft him earlier on past performance/name recognition.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Pretty sure the Dalton Kincaid pain will never leave my soul.

I'm waiting on TE next year unless Bowers is BPA.

 

[-OZ-]

Pretty sure the Dalton Kincaid pain will never leave my soul.

Yeah, It’s a great sign when I took a guy off waivers to start over the alleged top 4(ish) pre season TE who isn’t hurt and whose QB is the top MVP candidate, and needed receivers.
That TE was Zach Ertz, so it worked out, but still I expected so much more from Kincaid.

 

[Snotbubbles]

Anybody over age 26

Really? You wouldn't touch Barkley even in the mid-late 1st? Nah to Burrow?

I'm a Barkley fanboy, but he had 378 touches this year. He's had 350+ touches twice before in his career, both times, the following season he didn't get to 300 touches. Maybe not having to play on turf will reverse those trends going forward, and I wouldn't put him on a "do not draft" list, but I'd be concerned for next fantasy season.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Anybody over age 26

aka The Logan’s Run strategy

more or less

Although the cutoff in the novel & film was a riff on the 60s peaceniks saying “never trust anyone over 30”

I make exceptions but generally I focus on players on their first contract

 

[Desert_Power]

Any skill position player if Rodgers lands on another team

 

[Gatorade]

No one is completely off limits if the price is cheap enough, but guys I’ll wait and wait on (some of which were mentioned):

Pitts
Kincaid
Cooper
Javonte
Etienne
Ridley

Etienne for sure. I drafted him as my RB2 in two leagues. Getting Bigsby late helped, but both of their ADP next year will be closer to RB4 for me.
Cooper has really confused me this year. Not too bad in Cleveland, but really awful in Buffalo. Diontae Johnson was similar to Cooper. Not sure I would trust either next year.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Any skill position player if Rodgers lands on another team

Except for any former Packers that are also on that team.

 

[Rubi]

On the first page of the Fantasy Football Bible it says..."And all players shall have fantasy value"
No one is a do not draft for me
Some are do not draft until later
But twist my arm
My do not draft list would be any player who's first and last name start with the letter Z
Right now

 

[menobrown]

Just can't list anyone as I will join the refrain that says everyone has value at some point and right now we don't know much about ADP to say.

But I like to say there are reasons and there are excuses for players poor performance and one of my more common strategies in fantasy strategies in fantasy football is to identify those players I think have valid reasons or excuses I think led to their poor performance that I think can change and buy them up on discounts.

Juedy was a guy like that last year for me. I think back to fact that in early drafts in 2023 he was going in round 4 of FFPC drafts coming off a breakout season. He hurts his hammy, drops to round 7 range, then proceeds to have a poor season. Now fast forward a year later and I think a lot of his reasons/excuses for poor performance were valid and could change and now he's like a 12th round pick. So he's someone who likely would have made a lot of people's list last year that was my most drafted player this season.

Deebo is on a lot of people's list here and he might very well be toast. But I'm not so sure. If he is toast it's literally the steepest and most abrupt cliff fall I've ever seen. If true it's almost like he went south in a week or two. Which to me makes me dubious that's the case. Read a Q&A last week from a 49'ers beat writer when someone asked him something about what were all those pre-season training camp reports about how great Deebo looked about? The beat writer replied they were legit reports and he did start the season very strong. Got dinged up, got pneumonia. I'm not sure I buy the beat writers excuse that Deebo is a momentum player that fell out of momentum but his fall from what he was the first few weeks of the season to what he ended up being is one of the more curious cases I've seen. I went all long winded on this to say if I got reason to think he can return to form, that I buy excuses/reasons for his drop, I'll be buying him at a discount all over the place.

 

[zamboni]

On the first page of the Fantasy Football Bible it says..."And all players shall have fantasy value"
No one is a do not draft for me
Some are do not draft until later
But twist my arm
My do not draft list would be any player who's first and last name start with the letter Z
Right now

So no chance of drafting Zach Zenner - your loss.

 

[MAC_32]

Most players that suffered a serious injury during the season

 

[Chaka]

1. Anyone over 32 years old
2. Anyone under 22 years
3. Anyone at their ADP
4. Anyone coming off major surgery
5. Anyone who had cosmetic surgery in the off-season
6. Ambidextrous players because they're indecisive
7. Geminis for the same reason
8. Anyone who says they don't like Country Music but haven't actually listened to Country Music
9. Anyone who enjoys listening to Country Music
10. Anyone who prefers artificial turf over grass
11. Anyone who pretends to "get" Lars van Trier's films
12. Anyone who says vinyl sounds "warmer"
13. Cat people People who settled for cats.
14. Beer snobs (I like a nice hazy IPA, or double bock as much as the next guy but drink a damn Coors Light and get over yourself)
15. Anyone who still says "NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!"
16. Anyone who doesn't get a little misty when Billy Dee Williams says "I love Brian Piccolo."
17. Anyone who doesn't get that last reference
18. Anyone who doesn't eat fish
19. Anyone who says they have "shares" of players
20. Anyone who drives a Cybertruck
21. Anyone who isn't a little envious of the people who were able to get the Boring Flamethrower
22. People who get really passionate about the difference between iOS & Android
23. Anyone who doesn't love The Bear
24. You know who you are
25. Aaron Rodgers

Unchanged.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

I still own Pitts. The change to Pennix has been a positive for him, and TE are notoriously slow to develop.

Dude is 24, and the Falcons have a lot of young offensive talent.

I’m probably gonna take a late round flier on him in redraft, assuming everyone has him as a DnD. Probably BB gold.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

On the first page of the Fantasy Football Bible it says..."And all players shall have fantasy value"
No one is a do not draft for me
Some are do not draft until later
But twist my arm
My do not draft list would be any player who's first and last name start with the letter Z
Right now

So no chance of drafting Zach Zenner - your loss.

I would not draft him or Zarley Zalapski

 

[eighsse2]

Don't really understand the concept of do not draft. Not even with the last pick of the draft?

 

[Uncle Leo]

Pickens is hard to trust. He was my flag for WR1 in 2024. Boy was I wrong. Took him over Nabors and Rice.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

Pickens is hard to trust. He was my flag for WR1 in 2024. Boy was I wrong. Took him over Nabors and Rice.

He’s had some incredible catches this year. Shown flashes for sure.

He just might be on the wrong team for elite FF WR production.

I think your process was correct - the talent is there. Just hard to get the results with Fields/Russ out there. Could see improvement with year 2 Wilson potentially.

 

[Rubi]

On the first page of the Fantasy Football Bible it says..."And all players shall have fantasy value"
No one is a do not draft for me
Some are do not draft until later
But twist my arm
My do not draft list would be any player who's first and last name start with the letter Z
Right now

So no chance of drafting Zach Zenner - your loss.

I would not draft him or Zarley Zalapski

Neither one of them would sign an autograph for me,so no,I would not draft them

 

[The General]

CMC is dead to me.

 

[Desert_Power]

I still own Pitts. The change to Pennix has been a positive for him, and TE are notoriously slow to develop.

Dude is 24, and the Falcons have a lot of young offensive talent.

I’m probably gonna take a late round flier on him in redraft, assuming everyone has him as a DnD. Probably BB gold.

I was thinking earlier he might finally be a sleeper next year.

 

[Uncle Leo]

I still own Pitts. The change to Pennix has been a positive for him, and TE are notoriously slow to develop.

Dude is 24, and the Falcons have a lot of young offensive talent.

I’m probably gonna take a late round flier on him in redraft, assuming everyone has him as a DnD. Probably BB gold.

That pass from Penix that Pitts turned into an INT against the Giants is all I can think of at the moment. It was a TD pass if he just caught the perfect pass, but Pitts found a way to make it into an INT.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

I still own Pitts. The change to Pennix has been a positive for him, and TE are notoriously slow to develop.

Dude is 24, and the Falcons have a lot of young offensive talent.

I’m probably gonna take a late round flier on him in redraft, assuming everyone has him as a DnD. Probably BB gold.

That pass from Penix that Pitts turned into an INT against the Giants is all I can think of at the moment. It was a TD pass if he just caught the perfect pass, but Pitts found a way to make it into an INT.

I mean, all receivers do that from time to time. You can’t let 1 play influence you that much, especially when we’re talking about a 24 year old elite athletic profile.

That 1st year wasn’t an aberration. He is that guy. Takes a QB & OC to bring it out of him.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

I still own Pitts. The change to Pennix has been a positive for him, and TE are notoriously slow to develop.

Dude is 24, and the Falcons have a lot of young offensive talent.

I’m probably gonna take a late round flier on him in redraft, assuming everyone has him as a DnD. Probably BB gold.

I was thinking earlier he might finally be a sleeper next year.

Probably will be - right up until some national FF guy like Berry starts yapping about him being ZOMG THE BIGGEST ZLEEPER EVAH! and *poof* you’ll have to take him in the 7th.

Happens every damn year.

 

[BigTex]

CMC is dead to me.

Damn!

Tex

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

CMC is dead to me.

Damn!

Tex

Ditto.

 

[TheWinz]

No one is on a DND list, but a guy I think will be too highly ranked for my liking (based on the FBG 2025 Fantasy Football Draft Rankings (Way Too Early) list):

TE - Brock Bowers (1.12) - To be a full round (or more) ahead of all others at the position, you would have to distance yourself from the field by alot more than what he did this year. In full-PPR, Kittle & McBride kept pace, and in non-PPR, Kittle outscored him, even in 2 less games. The last time a TE was worth a 1st round pick was 2022 Kelce, when he finished 102.9 PPR FP ahead of the next best TE. That's the kind of VBD you need to to justify a TE in the 1st round. Stick to RB's and WR's in the first 2 rounds.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

No one is on a DND list, but a guy I think will be too highly ranked for my liking (based on the FBG 2025 Fantasy Football Draft Rankings (Way Too Early) list):

TE - Brock Bowers (1.12) - To be a full round (or more) ahead of all others at the position, you would have to distance yourself from the field by alot more than what he did this year. In full-PPR, Kittle & McBride kept pace, and in non-PPR, Kittle outscored him, even in 2 less games. The last time a TE was worth a 1st round pick was 2022 Kelce, when he finished 102.9 PPR FP ahead of the next best TE. That's the kind of VBD you need to to justify a TE in the 1st round. Stick to RB's and WR's in the first 2 rounds.

TEs, man.

I wanna play in a no TE format. Never mind premium, I want all WR positions to be WR/TE and just never roster any.

After kickers they’re the bane of my FF existence.

 

[joey]

No one is on a DND list, but a guy I think will be too highly ranked for my liking (based on the FBG 2025 Fantasy Football Draft Rankings (Way Too Early) list):

TE - Brock Bowers (1.12) - To be a full round (or more) ahead of all others at the position, you would have to distance yourself from the field by alot more than what he did this year. In full-PPR, Kittle & McBride kept pace, and in non-PPR, Kittle outscored him, even in 2 less games. The last time a TE was worth a 1st round pick was 2022 Kelce, when he finished 102.9 PPR FP ahead of the next best TE. That's the kind of VBD you need to to justify a TE in the 1st round. Stick to RB's and WR's in the first 2 rounds.

TEs, man.

I wanna play in a no TE format. Never mind premium, I want all WR positions to be WR/TE and just never roster any.

After kickers they’re the bane of my FF existence.

My 29 year work redraft league is still a no-TE format. Very old school league that just went to 1/2 ppr 3 years ago (can’t change too fast )


As for this thread’s subject….i just put this in the Pickens thread as well, but Pickens. He’s a WR3 at best imo but someone else will (hopefully) draft him as a WR2.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

Probably early to make a definitive statement on all things NY Jets, but if I can avoid drafting any Jets, I will not be drafting Jets.

I may see what I can get for Hall this offseason, though it pains me to sell low.

 

[irish eyes]

Going to be hard to hit the draft button on C. Kupp after the last few games. Will have to content with Puka and a constant buzz of is he washed or not.

He's done. 23 targets last 5 games, 12 catches. Tried trading him but no one was dumb enough.

 

[irish eyes]

Probably early to make a definitive statement on all things NY Jets, but if I can avoid drafting any Jets, I will not be drafting Jets.

I may see what I can get for Hall this offseason, though it pains me to sell low.

Will try to sucker someone into taking him & Wilson if the douche Rodgers is there.

 

[TheWinz]

I wanna play in a no TE format. Never mind premium, I want all WR positions to be WR/TE and just never roster any.

You'd be missing out on about 15% of the WR1-WR3's then...
- In the last 10 seasons, there have been 13 TE's to finish as a WR1
- In the last 10 seasons, there have been 20 TE's to finish as a WR2
- In the last 10 seasons, there have been 22 TE's to finish as a WR3

This year, Bowers is currently WR8, with Kittle at WR12 and McBride at WR13, in full PPR. Every single year there are quality TE's that should be drafted as WR's. I know this seems to go against my Bowers stance above, but it really doesn't. Kittle 2 rounds later is way better value, and even McBride a round later is much better.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

I wanna play in a no TE format. Never mind premium, I want all WR positions to be WR/TE and just never roster any.

You'd be missing out on about 15% of the WR1-WR3's then...
- In the last 10 seasons, there have been 13 TE's to finish as a WR1
- In the last 10 seasons, there have been 20 TE's to finish as a WR2
- In the last 10 seasons, there have been 22 TE's to finish as a WR3

This year, Bowers is currently WR8, with Kittle at WR12 and McBride at WR13, in full PPR. Every single year there are quality TE's that should be drafted as WR's. I know this seems to go against my Bowers stance above, but it really doesn't. Kittle 2 rounds later is way better value, and even McBride a round later is much better.

This is overreaction season. Stop harshing my mellow.


lol

 

[QuizGuy66]

For me it will be London. It because he isn't worth having but I am keeping Bijan and this year I screwed up and also drafted London (as like the last WR left before the drop) and never wanted to start both at the same time.

-QG