Fantasy Football Strategy: A WR With The 8th Pick

by faketeams on Aug 21, 2008 11:52 AM EDT in Football Comment 6 comments

Last week, I heard a suggestion on The Rotowire Fantasy Sports Hour With Chris Liss that one can draft a good team at #8 by selecting WRs with your fist two picks. Given I have the 8th overall selection in an upcoming draft, I wanted to test that suggestion.

At Mock Draft Central, I did a mock draft and here are the results. I don't think it works, do you agree?

Pos	Name	Bye	Team	Pick	OA
WR	Reggie Wayne	4	IND	R1	8
WR	Larry Fitzgerald	7	ARI	R2	17
QB	Drew Brees	9	NO	R3	32
RB	Ronnie Brown	4	MIA	R4	41
RB	Kevin Smith	4	DET	R5	56
WR	Roddy White	7	ATL	R6	65
RB	Chris Johnson	6	TEN	R7	80
RB	Chris Perry	8	CIN	R8	89
QB	David Garrard	7	JAX	R9	104
TE	Alge Crumpler	6	TEN	R10	113
WR	Kevin Walter	8	HOU	R11	128
RB	Andre Hall	8	DEN	R12	137
RB	Steve Slaton	8	HOU	R13	152
WR	DeSean Jackson	7	PHI	R14	161
DEF	New York Giants	4	NYG	R15	176
K	Stephen Gostkowski	4	NE	R16	185

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Interesting.

I guess I had in mind a very specific WR in Randy Mos that I would take at #8. Otherwise, I would defer to a RB and grab a Wayne-type on the short ride back. I recently did a mocj as well, and I had the 7th pick, where I grabbed Moss and Terrell in R1 and R2. Conseqently, I ended up with Eli Manning at QB, Laurence Maroney at RB1 with Michael Turner as my RB2. Additionally, I also nabbed Marvin Harrison in the 7th round, with Jason Witten as my starter at TE. That makes my offense pretty solid, imo.
QB- Manning
RB1 – Maroney
RB2 – Michael Turner
WR1-Randy Moss
WR2-Terrell Owens
RB/WR- Marvin Harrison
TE – Jason Witten
D/ST – SD Chargers

I also grabbed Deuce McCallister in the late rounds, so all in all, I think it is something that is worth investigating….

by thomasps3 on Aug 21, 2008 2:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

How many teams in the mock?

Glad to see a second example. Maroney and Turner would have made me feel much better.

Given it was a 12-team mock, I passed on Frank Gore at that spot and tooke Wayne to see how the cards fell. I could have passed on Brees in the 3rd, though.

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by faketeams on Aug 21, 2008 3:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think using this strategy you would HAVE to take a RB with your 3rd round pick. Taking a QB here leaves the RB too thin by the time you get around to it. I agree that a 2 WR strategy can be used if you have a late 1st round pick but you’ve got to grab the best available RB at the end of round 3. There are plenty of ok QB’s later on (Favre, Schaub, Eli, etc.).

by havok49 on Aug 21, 2008 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not so sure ...

I think if Brees is there (and you score 6 pts per passing TD) you can’t pass him up (depeinding, of course, on whether a very good RB remains on the board, which I doubt in round 3, 8th pick). To me, drafting top WRs is good for one thing – trading. Last season I traded TO for an injured Andre Johnson and Wes Welker, which worked out pretty well for me. I think you can change a top-5 “name” WR into two very nice WRs a couple weeks into the season. It’s much easier getting average to above-average WR talent during the season (again, via trade, or on the ’wire’) than it is prying average RB talent away from teams after the gun. Just my $.02.

by Cased on Aug 22, 2008 7:47 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

True

Dealign for a starting RB once the season starts is near impossible. A team appears to need four starting Rbs to feel they could deal one, and, the, it is like pulling teeth.

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by faketeams on Aug 22, 2008 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs