I don't know, as it was my first full-blown rebuild. I took over two orphan dynasty teams right before the season began paying only the entry fee for 22 to join the leagues. Not paying for the 21 season made me more willing to do a rebuild. And then I decided to try to win now in one league (I did, turning previously winless team into champion) and rebuild in this league. Also, I thought in this league there are a few dominant teams, so I could get this team into the playoffs but it's going to need a rebuild to truly be competitive. Once I decided to go for a rebuild, I looked to gather picks and/or players I wanted to rebuild around. And I made the decision to rebuild around two running QBs given the league's passing settings. So I got Chase, Fields, Mac Jones, Claypool and five extra 1st rounders over the next two seasons. I think I have a lot of assets now to accelerate my rebuild.
I think this is a good approach. And it always sucks to lose young assets - take it from me, I dealt Mahomes to kick off my full rebuild in my SF Dynasty.
Many said the same: how could you deal the best young QB in football as part of a rebuild? That's who you build around! (paraphrasing / combining the most common responses)
I get it - I wish I could have kept him. I'd made the playoffs 3 straight years, finishing 3rd ($), 3rd ($) and 4th ($0). The teams that beat me were all stacked and the margin of defeat averaged 30+ points.
My stable of 27-30 y/o WR & RB wasn't going to give me a very long window, and I felt I was going to lose in the playoffs every year until my old dudes washed out.
So I blew it up & got as many 2023 draft picks as possible. Incidentally the players I dealt almost all got hurt / had sub-par seasons except Mike Evans. ARob, Carson, Samuels, Chase Edmonds, Hopkins, etc, etc. So had I not done this my team would have completed disintegrated.
Now I have a core of youth (Tee Higgins, Zach Wilson, Gabe Davis, Michael Pittman, Kyle Pitts), a few ok/upside prospects (Pringle, RoJo, KJ Osborn, Daniel Jones, D. Carr Rountree,),a couple guys I might still be able to deal in 2022 (Ced Wilson, Cole, Bourne, Fuller, Evan Engram) a top 6 pick in 2022, and a whole mess of draft picks in 2023:
5x 1sts
3x 2nds
3x 3rds
1x 4th
5x 5ths
So 2023 I have 17 picks, 5 of them in the top 12 (with potentially the 1.01 since I don't plan on winning much in 2022), and 6 of the top 13-14. One of the other 2nds could be top 4 as well.
Hopefully I make good picks & get lucky with their results. If so I should be set up for success for a few years at least. But I'd rather have this than have Mahomes & an empty cupboard.
And who knows what 2022 or 2023 will bring. Maybe someone will get hot for one of my picks & deal me a nice piece or two. Anything's possible at this point. But I do feel far more optimistic about my future chances than I did with Mahomes.
So yeah - it was probably difficult to deal Burrow. He's a dude I'd love to have in dynasty. But you need more than a couple studs to win, so I completely get it.