Got away from this Thread unintentionally, due to having to a spur-of-the-moment decision to head north from DC area for a culinary conference from 07/10-13. Brought my other half with me, and we took the long way home, via my old stomping grounds (State College, Pa), arriving home late Monday 07/15. My other half was half-dead ( I can be a challenge to keep up with when I get on a tear), and a visit to an Urgent Care center on Tuesday AM revealed she'd picked up Bronchitis and Strep, which I avoided, but picked up a nasty viral cold that knocked me out for the better part of the week.
All the while, kept on drafting, which wrapped up in the afternoon Saturday 07/20.
When last updated, I had made the questionable decision to pass on low-hanging fruit Burrow in the 5th (as my QB1 and QB13 overall), for Mixon as my RB3, but set me up for predation as the last Team to not have a QB1, and, as expected, the vultures had immediately started digging in.
After 5.06:
Bijan/Jacobs/Mixon
LaPorta/Kincaid
Burrow was immediately selected after I passed, of course, by my neighbor who had just taken Dak in the 4th as his QB1/QB11overall. This was followed by the Daniels, Mahomes and Allen owners all taking their 2nd QB's, removing Lawrence, Goff and Tua from the Board. Goff had been my planned target to lead my QB platoon. Unfortunate, but I'd left myself open to it, and the secondary objective of passing on Burrow was seeing what might fall my way if other Managers got vindictive. Well, I did get something for my trouble, as Devonta Smith fell back to me at 6.07. I passed on DWatson and Justin Herbert to take Smith as my WR1/22overall, and counted myself lucky. Those 2 went of course, but no other QB, until it came back to me at 7.06, where I selected Matt Stafford as my QB1/QB19overall. My original plan had been to platoon Goff/Stafford and 1 other young upside QB, so I'm sort of still working from framework to some degree.
Hit WR hard, 4 of the next 5 Rounds, along with the young upside guy I'd originally planned as my QB3, now my QB2, and drafted maybe a few rounds early so as not to lose him.
After 12.07:
Stafford/Levis
Bijan/Jacobs/Mixon
DvSmith/Godwin/Hollywood/DHopkins/BCooks
LaPorta/Kincaid
Two moves I probably should have made, in retrospect: could have had Amari Cooper over Godwin, and Diontae Johnson where I took Hopkins, and maybe still landed Hopkins, Levis and Cooks.
Here's my 22:
Stafford/Levis
Bijan/Jacobs/Mixon/Gibson/Vidal/Dobbins/DPierce
DvSmith/Godwin/Hollywood/DHopkins/BCooks/Wicks/DmRobinson/JBurton/Turpin
LaPorta/Kincaid/Musgrave
Fairbairn
QB: Wasn't able to execute Goff/Stafford/Levis, which was my original cheap QB platoon plan, but I'll find a way around that.
RB: Would have liked to land Allgeier, but Gibson may make for a nice consolation prize. Will see what happens with Vidal/Dobbins, and move accordingly. DPierce a priority flyer, if I'd picked Herbert where I took Vidal, I'm pretty sure I could have landed Vidal in the next round. Really would like to have had Herbert going into preseason.
WR: Already went over what could have been, like Wicks as the cheapest piece of GB/Love, Robinson for Stafford, upside Burton and Turpin's returner potential
TE: Musgrave gives me another upside piece of Packers pass offense, which I wanted.
PK: Fairbairn was the cheapest of what I consider 'premium' kickers.
Ultimately landed pieces of Mahomes (Hollywood), Hurts (DvSmith), Allen (Kincaid), Dak (Cooks), Burrow (Burton), and Love (Wicks, Musgrave) along with some toys for Stafford/Levis (DmRobinson/Hopkins). Pieces of Stroud too expensive. LaPorta, while being of standalone premium TE value, was also tied into my original QB plan (Goff), which I wasn't able to pull off.
Looking forward to hearing from others, how your drafts played out, squads going into the Season, and discussing things in this Thread, as the Season progresses.
Good luck, fellas!
