Good Team?

• jpake1

  

  I had the 8th pick in a 12 team PPR league. TD passes are 5pts as well instead of 4pts.
  
  QB: Brady (2nd), Sanchez (16th)
  RB: Foster (1st), Grant (7th), LT (9th), Stephens-Howling (12th), Cadillac (13th)
  WR: Austin (3rd), Lloyd (5th), Manningham (6th), Mike Thomas (8th), Jordy Nelson (10th), Earl Bennett (15)
  TE: Clark (4th)
  DEF: Falcons (11th)
  K: Bironas (14th)
  
  I like my team, but I need a better #2 RB and could use a little depth there as well. I love my WR depth (I think Earl ends up the #1 man in Chicago). I want to hold onto Thomas until he plays to see his ceiling. I'm trying to package Grant/Jordy for a better #2. Overall, maybe a playoff team, but I don't see 1st. I need Lloyd to play close to his last year stats then I might have a chance; I just don't see it with John Fox.
• GOONx19

  

  I think you reached on Dallas Clark.
• jmog

  You reached for a te and qb. Should have gone rb or wr in rd 2 and 3 and then qb rd 4 or 5. If you had done that I think you would like you rb and wr situation a lot better.
• jpake1

  

  Based on our scoring format (1pt per rec), I think I did great with those guys. Clark's projected stats are within 2 pts of this company: Miles Austin, Dwayne Bowe, Mendenhall, and better than Dez, Bradshaw, DeAngelo W, and Vincent Jackson. I think you'd be happy drafting any of those guys in the 4th rd. All of those mentioned guys were long gone. I took Brady in the 2nd because of the extra point per td, which in his case will probably net me an extra 30+pts which raises his stock.
• lhslep134

  

  I will never reach on a TE, and accordingly I don't think you did yourself a service by doing so. I think you'll find by the end of the season Clark won't average more than 2 pts per week more than someone you could have gotten a lot later (ie a Brandon Pettigrew).
  
  You only have 1 legitimate starting running back, which is rather weak considering you definitely could have gotten one in the 4th. The Packers won the Super Bowl without Grant, so I don't see the Packers using him as an every down back.
  
  JMO.
  
  Last year, in my PPR league, the #2 TE averaged 2.5 more ppw than the #10 ranked TE. The draft positions? 4th round versus undrafted.
• Laley23

  

  Clark has a tendency to injure himself. Plus, with Collins throwing him the ball for who knows how long (not sure if you knew the Peyton stuff before the draft) its a reach. Brady in the second wont be bad, but I think its a reach as others would be there in 4th that would have allowed your RB/WR to be way better off and the drop off at QB wouldnt be as drastic as it is for the RB/WR.
• jpake1

  

  The next 5 running backs after my Clark pick-- Beanie, Mathews, Green-Ellis, Hightower, and Ingram. The highest projected pts based on our settings is 185. Clark is projected at 243. I ended up getting Grant projected at 174. There wasn't much value left at RB. I'd rather have a strong #2 and Vernon Davis than what I have. Guys went heavy on rb's even tho the pts are so much deeper at wr because of the PPR league.
• jmog

  Even being a PPR and higher passing TD league, you will hate yourself for not drafting your 2nd RB until the 7th round and for being a PPR league you are loaded with big play WRs. My league rewards long TDs so I would like your set of WRs, but in a straight PPR I would hate everything past Austin.
  
  Lloyd will fall this year, new coordinator/HC loves to run the ball, Lloyd will be a good #3 WR in fantasy, but not a #2.
  
  There is so much depth at QB, and you can only start one, that is why it makes no sense to draft a QB in the first 2 rounds. When you picked 5th in the 2nd round there should have either been a top tier WR or a good #2 RB right there, both of those are harder to come by than a good/great starting QB.
• Laley23

  

  jpake1;884319 wrote:The next 5 running backs after my Clark pick-- Beanie, Mathews, Green-Ellis, Hightower, and Ingram. The highest projected pts based on our settings is 185. Clark is projected at 243. I ended up getting Grant projected at 174. There wasn't much value left at RB. I'd rather have a strong #2 and Vernon Davis than what I have. Guys went heavy on rb's even tho the pts are so much deeper at wr because of the PPR league.

  With no injuries; Wells, Hightower, and Ingram are all better picks that Clark.