My squad with 2 picks left:
1.05 Saquon Barkley
2.08 Puka Nacua
3.08 James Cook
4.05 Omarion Hampton
5.08 Aaron Jones
6.05 Kaleb Johnson
7.08 Tetairoa McMillan
8.05 Calvin Ridley
9.08 JJ McCarthy QB
10.05 Stefon Diggs
11.08 Anthony Richardson QB
12.05 Matthew Golden
13.08 Jonnu Smith
14.05 Jaxson Dart QB
15.08 Luther Burden
16.05 Marquise Brown
17.08 Terrance Ferguson
18.05 Joe Flacco QB
19.08 Kirk Cousins QB
20.05 Woody Marks
Wanted to get a mid-round QB group like
@Lehigh98 's, but they went off the board faster in my league and I wound up with this group of 5. Could turn out great, especially if Richardson starts, but I could have to superflex a non-QB if I go 0/4 on these QBs with a shot at a starting job. I'm trying to decide whether to add one more.
Went very rookie-heavy for the upside. I was especially excited to land NFL 2nd rounders Burden & Ferguson late; wish I'd gotten Arroyo too.
Late-round picks are interesting in this format. I think of them as basically reserving a player for the first waiver run, which happens just before week 1. A round 21 pick whose preseason goes as expected is probably someone you cut to make a waiver add; I want to use that pick on someone who has a plausible shot at increasing in value over the next month and a half and becoming someone who is clearly worth rostering.
With that in mind, these guys look like the best available for my round 22 pick (after adding Elijah Mitchell in rd21). These are limited to players who haven't been drafted yet in my league, and sorted within position by how many leagues they've been drafted in.
QB: Spencer Rattler, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel
RB: Kyle Monangai, Jacory Croskey-Merritt, AJ Dillon, Samaje Perine, Alexander Mattison
TE/WR: TE Ben Sinnott, TE Harold Fannin, WR Adonai Mitchell, TE Oronde Gadsden
QB: Any QB who is a week 1 NFL starter should & will be on a SFB roster for week 1. Rattler & Pickett have a plausible shot at being week 1 starters, and so should be drafted. You can cut them if they don't win the job. The Cleveland rookies are both worth drafting too, even if you don't think they have a shot at the week 1 starting job, because they do at least both have a shot at being named the week 1 backup QB (especially if Cleveland decides to move on from whichever one of its vets loses the competition to start), and that would give them a good shot at getting some starts this year. Every team in a superflex league like this one should want to roster at least 3 NFL starting QBs, at least to be able to handle byes and injuries, and there are less than 36 NFL teams, so guys like these are worth rostering (at least for 6 weeks as we see how the preseason competitions play out).
RB: Handcuff backs who appear to be 1 injury away from a big role all got drafted several rounds ago, but RBs who are competing for a handcuff role are still around, and by the beginning of September some of them could clearly emerge from what currently looks like a muddy depth chart. My round 20 & 21 picks (Woody Marks in HOU and Elijah Mitchell in KC) fit this mold, as do AJ Dillon in PHI, Samaje Perine in CIN, and Alexander Mattison in MIA. They're not the most popular or exciting names from those depth charts, but I think they're contenders for the guy who would lead the backfield if Mixon/Pacheco/Barkley/Brown/Achane missed time, and they could look like the favorite for that role by the time waivers run on September 2nd. 7th rounders Monangai & Croskey-Merritt currently look like clear 3rd stringers, but they have the advantage that neither of the guys in front of them are that good so they could move up the depth chart based on performance rather than injuries.
TE/WR: Rookies & second year players are the main guys to look at here as potential breakouts (though it's also worth considering veteran bounceback candidates). Sinnott & Mitchell disappointed last year as 2nd round rookies but still have some hope of breaking out in year 2. History has shown that 2nd round tight ends sometimes need a year to adjust to the NFL before they can leapfrog Zach Ertz on the depth chart and become their team's top receiving option. Fannin & Gadsden are rookies with receiving TE profiles - Fannin was a better prospect & went earlier in the draft, Gadsden has a weaker TE depth chart in front of him and has gotten some early offseason buzz.