Your Fantasy Team

[BwareDWare94]

List your fantasy team roster, your draft strategy, why you picked some under the radar players, etc.
 
Starters:
QB: Aaron Rodgers
RBs: David Wilson and Darren McFadden
WRs: Brandon Marshall and Victor Cruz
TE: Scott Chandler
W/R/T: James Jones 
 
Bench:
QB: Tony Romo
RBs: Reshard Mendenhall and Mark Ingram
WR: Stevie Johnson
TE: Rob Gronkowski (and he'll obviously start as soon as he's healthy)
 
DSTs: Tampa Bay and Cincinatti
Kicker: Robbie Gould
 
I took a road less traveled in my draft process and selected my QB and WRs long ahead of RBs. I thought David Wilson would be a steal, but knew I didn't have to draft him until later on. With McFadden also available, I figured I might as well snag him just in case this is finally the season that he stays healthy. I snagged a third excellent receiver in Stevie Johnson and second excellent QB in Romo in later rounds, and selected Tampa as my first defense, hoping that they meet their potential. I took Cincy's defense later on, and intend to play each defense depending on matchup. Since Tampa has NYJ in their first game, I'll start them. I picked up two extra starting running backs just in case McFadden and Wilson don't pan out.
 
Is there anyone who'd be interested in a league with custom rules that force each player to find 4 different starters each week, and no starters for more than 2 weeks in a row? I think it'd be kind of fun, would force us to focus more on matchups and strategy. It'd take a lot of work, but would be fun, imo.

 

[Hurricane Season]

QB - Cam Newton
RB - Doug Martin
RB - David Wilson
WR - Antonio Brown
WR - Desean Jackson
WR - TY Hilton
TW - Vernon Davis
Flex - Rashard Mendenhall
49ers DST
K - Josh Brown
 
Bench
 
Jonathan Dwyer
Alshon Jeffery
Fred Davis
Aaron Dobson
EJ Manuel
Keenan Allen
Lance Dunbar
 
I went with Doug Martin at #2 overall.  Had a chance at Foster, but his YPC has steadily declined over the past few years, and he's had a pretty heavy workload throughout his career.  He's still young, but I'm relying on the fresher legs, and Martin has receiving potential that is just as good as Foster.  Took a shot in the dark with Cam over Peyton and Brady.  That very well may come back to haunt me, but I'm loving the dual-threat potential combined with the pass heavy offense Newton is in.  Took Wilson a little earlier than he was projected, but I, like many others, have fallen in love with what he's capable of doing as a #1 in New York.  I think 3rd round will be justified by the end of the year.
 
Just about all of the receivers I took have boom or bust potential.  DJax has reportedly had an amazing offseason.  Kelly's offense isn't exactly receiver friendly, but the potential is there for chunk plays, and he has speed to burn.  If preseason is any indication, Brown and Ben have great chemistry.  He's targeted Brown on just about every other play.  I expect him to have a big year without Wallace.  TY Hilton is going to be a stud, and the Colts won't have a reliable run game.  I expect them to be near the top of the league in pass attempts.
 
Mendenhall was the only starting RB left on the board, and I needed another RB.  Not too happy about that, and I may end up with Davis or Jeffery at flex.
 
Dwyer will probably end up starting for Pitt with Bell out for 2 months, and I've always loved Dwyer's game, even back at GT.  He's the most talented back on Pitt's roster regardless.
 
Took a shot with Manuel as my backup.  He's pretty much guaranteed the starting job once his knee is good to go now that Kolb is done.  He has a plethora of weapons at his disposal in Buffalo.
 
Dobson is a mystery.  I took him in the 15th round hoping that I could stash him away for a while and unleash him later in the season once he gets more comfortable in the Patriots offense.  (maybe he'll produce right away... who knows?  Rookie wideouts are never reliable early on, so I doubt it.)
 
Keenan Allen is a Chargers receiver that still has a pulse, so that has to count for something.  Rivers has to throw to somebody.
 
Dunbar could end up being a great value pick at #194.  Murray is made of glass, and Dunbar has been great in the preseason.  He'll likely end up the #2 back, and very well could end up with starter carries later in the season.

 

[bosoxlover12]

Yea I wouldnt count on Dobson a lot right now. He's our #3 WR, and we look to be running a lot of 2 TE sets, where he is the odd man out. Dobson is our bigplay threat guy, and is probably our #2 red zone target (but we seem to have a run first mentality going into this year in the red zone)
 
If Kembrell is an available option I'd go after him over Dobson, even tho AD17 might have more TDs by years end.

 

[Rios15]

 
My team's just stacked on WRs. I'm iffy about everything else.

 

[Hurricane Season]

I'd try to dangle Roddy White for a good #2 back.

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

2 QB starters league is retarded IMO.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

2 teams, both 10 teams per league. League 1 is my keeper league that started a few years ago. 
 
 
Team 1: Sniffing White Lines
 
QB: Eli Manning (K)
RB: Matt Forte (K)
RB: DeMarco Murray
WR: Julio Jones (K)
WR: Hakeem Nicks (K)
Flex: Danny Amendola (K)
TE: Brandon Myers
K: Dan Bailey
DEF: Chicago
BN: Daryl Richardson
BN: Greg Jennings
BN: Ben Tate
BN: Andy Dalton 
BN: Kenny Britt
BN: Scott Chandler
 
Strategy was to get RB early. We had a keeper league and my plan originally was get young, so last year I traded Mike Wallace for Julio Jones which is turning out to be great, and aside from Forte I had no other good RBs last year, so grabbing someone was key. Eli needs to have a good year. Also, defenses are heavily overrated in our league so Chicago was a must grab. When I got them, that same round everyone started grabbing defenses too so I lucked out.  I forgot to set my keepers so the commish ended up picking Amendola. if he's healthy it's a phenomenal pick because we're in a PPR league.  If he had injuries as usual, it's a bad selection.
 
My team can be solid if Forte isn't banged up a lot, and if Amendola and Nicks stay healthy. Even right now Nicks healthy hasn't looked good in pre-season. looks out of place and not jumping up for catches he should easily pick out of the sky, and that's going to worry me in the red-zone. Once Cruz is healthy that should open up the secondary a bit for Nicks, but he still has to make those 1-handed grabs in the endzone. I also liked taking Jennings; who knows what he'll do after missing most of last year and considering it's Ponder throwing to him, but if he gets 1k yards and 5 TDs I'll be ecstatic. Scott Chandler was simply a pick to have a backup TE that didn't conflict with most of my BYE weeks. 
 
 
Team 2: Louisiana Cougars
 
QB: Cam Newton
RB: Marshawn Lynch
RB: Alfred Morris
WR: Brandon Marshall
WR: Vincent Jackson
WR: Steve Smith
TE: Jermichael Finley
K: Justin Tucker
DEF: San Francisco
BN: Mike Williams
BN: David Wilson
BN: Tavon Austin
BN: Andy Dalton
BN: Daryl Richardson
BN: Dwayne Allen
 
Richardson was a waiver pick after the draft and I realized he was still available. Dalton is in both leagues of mine but that just happened to be a coincidence based on who was available when I decided to grab a backup. My strategy here was purely rushing yards. I squeeked in to the playoffs last season but won and it was all because of Calvin & Peterson grabbing yards. So I went after Cam Newton in the first round, only because I was eyeing Brees & Manning but both of them plus Brady went before my first pick, so I grabbed him before it was too late. I think he's due for a monster year. Then I focused on RB for two rounds, got lucky Marshawn was available, and then lucky Morris was also available. I feel like that league doesn't draft well and most of them are family, some of which don't follow football as much as I do. And I'm probably going to try and trade Williams because it makes no sense having a backup WR who is on the same team as my #2 WR. 

 

[Giantmetfan07]

2 QB starters league is retarded IMO.

 
I was in a league that used to do that. We had 12 teams and each team wanted a bench QB for backup as well, made free agency impossible when your starter got hurt and your backup sucked. 

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

The more players in FA, the better...it makes it harder to figure out who you want to drop and add.
 
The point of FF...

 

[BwareDWare94]

I named my team "Romo(h,no)!" 

 

[Bengals1Fan]

My First Team, I wasn't there for the draft so I sent in lists. Not bad, but If I were there I could've done way better. I'm happy with my QB position, and Lacy at the flex is nice imo. WR and RB I'm shaky on though, Dez and Lynch are injury prone and not the most consistent. Thoughts?
 
QB: Russell Wilson
WR 1: Dez Bryant
WR 2: Marques Colston
RB 1: Marshawn Lynch
RB 2:  Darren Sproles
TE: Brandon Myers 
Flex: Eddie Lacy (RB - Packers)
K: Blair Walsh 
Def: Arizona Cardinals
 
BE: Rob Gronkowski (TE)
BE: Andrew Luck (QB)
BE: Cecil Shorts (WR)
BE: Rashard Mendenhall (RB)
BE: Mohamed Sanu (WR)
BE: Phil Dawson (K)
BE: San Fransisco (DEF)
 
I'll post my second team later.

 

[Hurricane Season]

Named my team Bacarri and Cola.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

 
My team's just stacked on WRs. I'm iffy about everything else.

 
why does your league have so many flex options? 

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

That league definitely has like 6-8 teams.

 

[Rios15]

That league definitely has like 6-8 teams.

10 lol and I don't know this is like my first time with fantasy football so I don't know how it's usually formatted. And yeah I'm looking into getting better at QB.

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

10 lol and I don't know this is like my first time with fantasy football so I don't know how it's usually formatted. And yeah I'm looking into getting better at QB.

 
You did pretty nice with 10 teams damn

 

[Rios15]

 
You did pretty nice with 10 teams damn

I keep hearing I did pretty good lol (still trying to get into football) but Yahoo gave me a D+ draft grade lol.

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

I keep hearing I did pretty good lol (still trying to get into football) but Yahoo gave me a D+ draft grade lol.

 
 
Eh, I wouldn't even pay attention to that. Mine was shitty, they gave me a D+ too lol

 

[Giantmetfan07]

a friend of mine got an A+ draft grade in one of our leagues. Problem is it takes your keeper picks in to account, so because he had keeper picks of CJ Spiller (most teams didnt even draft him last year), Doug Martin (same thing), Peyton Manning (low draft stock last year), and Marques Colston, he looks like a goddamn draft genius. 

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I've done two drafts thus far:
QB: Tom Brady
RB: Ray Rice
RB: Doug Martin
WR: Brandon Marshall
WR: Jordy Nelson
TE: Jermichael Finley
FLEX: Darren McFadden
D/ST: Cincinnatti Bengals
K: Matt Bryant
BN: Desean Jackson
BN: Tony Romo
BN: DeAngelo Williams
BN: Justin Blackmon
BN: Arizona Cardinals


and


QB: Aaron Rodgers
RB: Ray Rice
RB: Eddie Lacy
WR: Larry Fitzgerald
WR: James Jones
TE: Jermichael Finley
FLEX: Mike Williams
FLEX: Ryan Broyles
D/ST: Seattle Seahawks
K: Matt Prater
BN: Justin Blackmon
BN: Kenny Britt
BN: Jermaine Gresham
BN: Alshon Jeffery
BN: Phillip Rivers
BN: Danny Woodhead
BN: Dujuan Harris
BN: Toby Gerhart
BN: Tavon Austin