Where will you draft your QB in 2012? (1 Viewer)

[koreansteve]

I'm curious, where do you plan on drafting your QB in 2012? (Let's assume -- 12 team redraft league. 25 yds = 1 point, 4 points per TD).

Draft a QB early:

The elite QBs separated themselves last year. Rodgers almost single handedly got a lot of teams into the playoffs last year. 3 QBs with over 5000 yds passing. With the NFL as a new pass happy league, seems like a top QB will get you 4-10 pts over your opponent on a weekly basis.

Draft a QB in the middle rounds:

Guys like Romo, Eli, Rivers, and Peyton are all going in the middle rounds. Romo (4200/31/10), Eli (4900/26/16), Rivers (4600/27/20) put up impressive stats in 2011, but were obviously overshadowed by the elite. For guys in the middle rounds, that's pretty good production.

Draft a QB late:

Schaub, Ben, Cutler - All respectable QBs and all being drafted as the 12-15 QBs off the board. You can load up on talent at RB/WR/TE and still snag 1 or 2 of these guys late in the draft. Dodds' 'Perfect Draft' article always champions this approach (I wonder if this year will be different with the elite QBs now).

I see the advantages of each strategy. I understand that much depends on where you draft and how players fall, but I think most guys have an idea of where they'd like to get their QB (if they're comfortable with 1 of the top guys or prefer to wait back). Love to hear your input.

 

[mr roboto]

rds 4-5. Unless someone falls in rd. 3 or 4. I want to grab solid with upside. Nab 2 great WR's and RB depth early.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

ive been a QB early guy, and will remain so.

 

[gandalas]

If I can wait and still get a Rivers, Romo, Eli, or Matty Ice in rounds 4-5, then I will feel I have done well. Peyton I would not touch before the 6th due to injury concerns, and I doubt he would wait that long.

But Rivers or Romo can hang with anyone week-to-week, and getting either in the 4th would be ideal.

 

[Shane Falco]

I haven't even started redraft rankings but I usually go late and go back to back. I try and grab 2 just at the bottom of end of good starters with upside. Quickly looking my list, those guys go about 12 or 13 long so it will be pretty late this year.

 

[David Yudkin]

All I can add is that given the influx of QB scoring in the past few years at the top tier level, it is pretty much imperative that you end up with someone in the top scoring QBs. (I don't care who it is and where they were drafted). In many scoring systems, having one of the top guys was pretty much like having an extra fantasy player in your weekly lineup. The days of waiting and waiting on QBs and hoping to get a borderline QB or work some sort of QBBC may not be as viable an option as in days past. It is still possible to remain competitive without one of those guys, but A LOT has to break your way for that to happen.

 

[MAC_32]

Recently I have been one to take a QB in the round 3-5 range (Romo and Rivers last year) then come in with a backup in round 8-10 (Stafford last year) and use one or the other as trade bait in season if I hit on both. I hope to do the same this year, but given how the top of the pack at QB has separated itself I'm not sure what the value will look like in the 8-10 range. If I see a couple of gems like I did with Stafford last year (RG3 sticks out - waiting on his ADP) then I'll probably stick with the tried and true strategy, if not then I'll probably take a QB earlier than I usually do.