Fantasy Football 2019: FanSided Mock Draft – Pick 1.06 Breakdown
By Joe Metz
With the 2019 Fantasy Football season quickly approaching, we gathered our 12 best NFL contributors from FanSided Fantasy to participate in a mock draft with the goal of providing 12 comprehensive breakdowns of our draft strategy from each respective pick.
Welcome to my first Fantasy Football article of the 2019 season! While I have a handful of pieces lined up to release over the course of the next few weeks, I also participated in a mock draft with the rest of the Fantasy Football team over at FanSided Fantasy.
While a lot of sites will provide a mock draft outlining each and every pick of the draft, we wanted to give you a separate breakdown from each respective draft position to help guide you through your draft, no matter what pick you wind up with.
We used Yahoo! Fantasy Football as our site of choice and used a 0.5-PPR scoring system, giving receivers and receiving RBs a bit of a boost, but not so much that it overvalues players who rely on dump-offs for short yardage more than they should be valued.
We did a 15-round draft, constructing rosters of one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, a tight end, two flex spots, a defense, and six bench spots.
On top of that, we excluded kickers to induce a bit more excitement by replacing them with a second flex spot.
I was given the 6th overall pick in the draft. While I would typically prefer picks 1-3, or 10-12, I actually ended up liking the roster that I was able to put together, and I’ll run you through my strategy and how it can work for you.
I will provide 5 separate slides, each containing 3 rounds worth of picks/analysis. On top of that, I will have a small section called “priority players that were sniped”. This will refer to players that I will be targeting heavily at that point in the draft but was unable to snag them here and will note where they were selected.