Your Biggest 2018 Draft Mistakes (1 Viewer)

[Neil Beaufort Zod]

Before the games start, I usually look back on a couple of errors I made on draft day that I wish I could take back. Of course, it might turn out they weren't errors at all, but good luck that seemed like an error (I "reached" for Devonta Freeman the year he broke out, and regretted it until the season started. Then I pretended to be really smart). So here's mine:

* Biggest mistake: J. Gordon over Smith-Schuster. I knew what I was doing at the time, but I can't seem to remember why it made sense. I wanted to take a few risks, but that one was silly. Smith-Schuster fell lower than he should have, and I didn't capitalize. Now that part of the roster bothers me. It doesn't have to define my season, but it's an advantage I threw away.

* Took Garoppolo when better QBs were available. Again, I didn't take advantage of value when I should have.  

* Too many high-upside backups. Sure, guys like Conner, Ekeler and Coleman are worth spots on rosters, but all three is a bit of overkill. I didn't do a good enough job of securing "boring" starters who can hold down the fort on bye weeks or in case of injury. Lottery tickets are fun to have, but you can't build a retirement plan on them. 

These are across different teams, but you get the idea. Overall the drafts weren't bad, but the mistakes tend to stick out for me. 

 

 

[VaTerp]

Bell, Le'Veon

 

[efactor]

Took Marvin Jones over Lamar Miller.  Sure wish I had a decent 3rd RB now.  Like Marvin but lot of good WRs later.  

Prepare and still make a rookie mistake

 

[lod001]

Ronald Jones at #3 in dynasty rookie draft

 

[Steeler]

I forget which round I was in but I was debating J. Conner (a week ago so speculation at the time was that Bell would sign on time), A. Jones and G. Bernard for my RB4.  In all my mock drafts I was able to get Conner and/or Jones much later so I reasoned that it was too early to take them.  I ended up selecting Giovani.  THE NEXT 2 PICKS where Conner and Jones!  

I've been doing this too long to make stupid decisions like this.  I wanted both Conner and Jones but thought it was "too early" 

The kick in the groin is that I play the J. Conner owner this week (and he doesn't have Bell) 

 

[BassNBrew]

Guice about 24 hours before his knee got a boo-boo.  Hopefully Thompson or Carson can pick up the slack.

 

[Nucker101]

Investing heavily in Jerick McKinnon in redraft leagues and not hearing about it soon enough to grab Morris/Breida in most of those leagues. 

 

[Truebluey]

We drafted last night and I made a post to myself, DRAFT CONNER in late rounds.

I forgot.

Noone drafted him. I am 9th on the waiver wire, so no chance next week. The Bell owner is 10th (ouch!).

 

[Neil Beaufort Zod]

I forget which round I was in but I was debating J. Conner (a week ago so speculation at the time was that Bell would sign on time), A. Jones and G. Bernard for my RB4.  In all my mock drafts I was able to get Conner and/or Jones much later so I reasoned that it was too early to take them.  I ended up selecting Giovani.  THE NEXT 2 PICKS where Conner and Jones!  

I've been doing this too long to make stupid decisions like this.  I wanted both Conner and Jones but thought it was "too early" 

The kick in the groin is that I play the J. Conner owner this week (and he doesn't have Bell) 

We all make decisions like this. Tough to explain. I'm pretty sure I took Conner a couple picks before the Bell owner would have taken him. He could have taken him a round or two before, when I wasn't even thinking about it. He probably considered it and thought "too early." I've done that, too. We all have. 

It's great when it works out, until it doesn't. 

 

[steeler6]

Ronald Jones as my #2 rb. Fortunately I got Lynch later in the draft and picked up Morris. Now that I'm looking at it, I can't believe I actually typed that out. 

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Taking Jerrick McKinnon with the 3.04 pick a few hours before he tore his ACL in practice. 

Other than that I grabbed Jordy Nelson at 9.04 and Corey Clement went with the next pick. I’m super high on Clement and shouldn’t have tried to get cute and just grabbed him there (where I was kind of targeting him anyway). Pretty upset with myself on that one as there was still a lot of WR options in later rounds.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

So far, none had I can tell.

i passed on Aaron Donald for Chandler Jones in my IDP - that might be it.

in my team D/ST league I waited one round too long on the QBFF & got stuck with Matt Ryan & Winston as my QB1-2, while people took their QB 2’s in the 10th, causing me to miss Stafford & Rivers by 3 and 1 picks respectively. Honestly think my league-mates did it to punish me because I always kill them with late round QBs. But it’s my own fault for being greedy, taking Burton/Barber in the 8/9 turn. But that team is so stacked because of it I’m ok with sub-par production - and really one of the QBs I have could be top 5-7, assuming Winston gets his job back. If not hopefully I can find one on the wire. 

Other than those moves i think this was my best draft in both my leagues in years. 

 

[Uncle Leo]

Taking Jerrick McKinnon with the 3.11 pick a few hours before he tore his ACL in practice. 

I wasn’t happy with this pick to begin with. He was my RB1 since I took AB and OBJ in R1 and R2. 

 

[Franknbeans]

taking DJ Moore over Burton

 

[Elevencents]

Post draft injuries/holdouts aren’t mistakes. 

 

[ponchsox]

Dion Lewis over Ajayi or Ertz in PPR

 

[BobbyLayne]

Alshon Jeffery as my WR4. Could have taken Kenyon Drake as my RB2.

Knew immediately I was gonna regret it.

Ended up with Hyde, Kerryon Johnson & Cohen as my RB2-3-4.

 

[Jayded]

Ronald Jones this year. Even if someday he does something, it’ll likely be long after I care. 

I like my WR overall, but I’ll be debating on which WR2 to stream or flex and 3 of my 5 WR have the same bye week 

 

[pinequick]

So far, none had I can tell.

i passed on Aaron Donald for Chandler Jones in my IDP - that might be it.

in my team D/ST league I waited one round too long on the QBFF & got stuck with Matt Ryan & Winston as my QB1-2, while people took their QB 2’s in the 10th, causing me to miss Stafford & Rivers by 3 and 1 picks respectively. Honestly think my league-mates did it to punish me because I always kill them with late round QBs. But it’s my own fault for being greedy, taking Burton/Barber in the 8/9 turn. But that team is so stacked because of it I’m ok with sub-par production - and really one of the QBs I have could be top 5-7, assuming Winston gets his job back. If not hopefully I can find one on the wire. 

Other than those moves i think this was my best draft in both my leagues in years. 

I hate that feeling.  Seriously--felt that way in my dynasty league.  I own LeVeon.

 

[pinequick]

BTW, :IBTL: this thread.  We're FBGs... we don't make mistakes.  Period.

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

I don't think I made any terrible mistakes. I was picking near last in a 14-teamer in my main money league, so knew that I had to secure some solid starting RBs at the expense of an elite WR. In mocks I liked the chances of landing guys like Marvin Jones and and Brandin Cooks who aren't fantastic starters but have good upside -- and was generally pleased with actually landing Baldwin and Cooper at the 3-4 turn after getting Fournette and McCaffery in 1st and 2nd. And was able to back up the downside in WRs (Baldwin injured and Cooper generally untrustworthy) with guys like Goodwin, Golladay, and Gallup.

There were two guys that were snaked right before my picks that would have made my team much stronger -- Barber was falling but got snagged the pick before mine so went with Tarik Cohen, who I don't love as an RB3/flex (I believe this is Howard's year) but was way better in PPR IMHO than the large drop off in the crop behind him (Chubb, Booker, CJA, Ronald Jones).

I don't like drafting QB or TE early but given my draft slot, needed to avoid runs -- so I created them by snagging the last quality upper tier guys in Brees and Rudolph and watched QBs and TEs fall like dominos afterwards, making other quality players drop in mid rounds to me.

I think the only mistake was selecting LAC D over BAL D -- I generally thought BAL would fare better but LAC was both higher in consensus draft ADP and VBD at that point in the draft...but we'll see. May be a wash, and that both are inferior to someone on the wire right now. 

 

[Mongidig]

All players to my left had a QB and I still took Cam Newton.

 

[IheartGuinness]

More of a post-draft mistake...

Week 1  I'm playing the guy who drafted McKinnon. 

Thought I was being crafty by grabbing Alfred Morris off the WW to block.

Except I dropped Conner to get him.

And it's a keeper league.

 

[sho nuff]

We drafted last night and I made a post to myself, DRAFT CONNER in late rounds.

I forgot.

Noone drafted him. I am 9th on the waiver wire, so no chance next week. The Bell owner is 10th (ouch!).

Same but I’m 7th.

We even cut the draft short a round and said we would just pick up whoever for our last pick.  Site wouldn’t let me put it in blank...so I chose a bunch of goofy people for everyone’s last pick (in titans country so people got some old Titans like Kenny Britt).  I figured once I put it in I’d be able to just pick up Conner not realizing that it would run the regular waiver process already.  Oops.  I’m pretty well stocked at RB...but that’s a lottery ticket right now.

Other oops is I waited on a TE for a reason and had targeted Burton.  Right before I’m about to take him someone grabs him as a backup TE (which nobody ever does in this league).  Now I’m back and forth between Njoku, Doyle, Kittle, Howard...

 

[Man In The Box]

I really liked my drafts overall, but one pick has bothered me since this draft on Monday. RB is a super premium position in this league, and I took Sony Michel in the 5th round. It's a 12 team, keep 2 league, so it may turn out OK, but it was definitely a reach and a bad pick at the time. I was able to grab Dion Lewis in the 6th which helped a bit.

 

[candian fantasy guy]

I regret not grabbing Conner in every single league I play in. 

 

[steelers1080]

It might not turn out to be a mistake, but in many leagues I ended up with Ingram, Edelman, Aaron Jones, and sometimes Jameis Winston. That's a lot of players who won't be available at the start of the season. I could easily lose the first 4 games and be out of it by the time they would have helped in  the playoffs. I'm hoping I can outlast their suspensions. 

 

[steelers1080]

I regret not grabbing Conner in every single league I play in. 

I got him in all 8 leagues with my last pick, and I have Bell in 0 of those leagues. Feeling pretty awesome. Helps being a Steelers fan with a fair bit of worry. 

 

[NeverEnough]

I regret not grabbing Conner in every single league I play in. 

This. I grabbed Samuels, though. Maybe it pays off anyway.

I might regret trading Goff if I can't make another trade for a backup QB at some point. Tyrod is my only backup QB option as of now.

 

[candian fantasy guy]

This. I grabbed Samuels, though. Maybe it pays off anyway.

I might regret trading Goff if I can't make another trade for a backup QB at some point. Tyrod is my only backup QB option as of now.

I have T Taylor as my back up on a few teams, his ability to run makes him fairly safe to play with some upside. 

 

[Ray Barboni]

Drafted Jordon Reed with Greg Olsen still available 

I like the upside, but I’ll probably regret that move.