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Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 2019 FanSided pick 2 breakdown

By Dan Palyo

Fantasy Football: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JANUARY 20: Alvin Kamara #41 and Drew Brees #9 of the New Orleans Saints look on against the Los Angeles Rams during the fourth quarter in the NFC Championship game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on January 20, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
Fantasy Football: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JANUARY 20: Alvin Kamara #41 and Drew Brees #9 of the New Orleans Saints look on against the Los Angeles Rams during the fourth quarter in the NFC Championship game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on January 20, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /
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Fantasy Football Mock Draft Pick 2

Some of the staff at Fantasy CPR recently participated in a Fantasy Football Mock Draft and here’s what we learned to use for the season, from the second overall pick! I’m Thunder Dan and I will be writing a weekly column on GPP Pivots for NFL DFS this season.

Fantasy Football Mock Drafts are valuable if you can get a group of trustworthy people to do it with you (I guess the FanSided Fantasy NFL staff qualifies). Doing it with some random people who tune out after round five doesn’t exactly help. Fortunately, the staff of writers gave a very realistic feel for the draft.

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 RB’s 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 2nd overall pick in the draft. I honestly like picking closer to the middle of the round because I hate having to reach for picks in snake drafts when you know it’s going to be a long time before you pick again.

I’ll run you through my strategy and what factors I took into account while building my roster and hopefully there is something from my process that you can take away for your own draft strategy.

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