Money League 1 draft was tonight

[Beengay fudgepackers]

My league drafted a lot of the guys I thought would fall. Anyway, this is how it ended for me. I think I made a few reaches, but overall, I like my team...

Round 1 Pick 7: Calvin Johnson
Round 2 Pick 14: Demaryius Thomas
Round 3 Pick 27: Gio Bernard
Round 4 Pick 34: Antonio Brown
Round 5 Pick 47: Ray Rice
Round 6 Pick 54: Toby Gerhart
Round 7 Pick 67: Panthers D/ST (Reach)
Round 8 Pick 74: Tom Brady
Round 9 Pick 87: Jay Cutler
Round 10 Pick 94: Bernard Pierce
Round 11 Pick 107: Carlos Hyde
Round 12 Pick 114: Josh Gordon
Round 13 Pick 127: Kyle Rudolph
Round 14 Pick 134: Brandin Cooks
Round 15 Pick 147: Robbie Gould
Round 16 Pick 154: Markus Wheaton

This leaves me with this line up.

QB: Brady
RB: Bernard
RB: Rice
WR: Calvin
WR: Demaryius Thomas
TE: Rudolph
Flex: Antonio Brown
D/ST: Panthers
K: Gould

Bench
QB: Cutler
RB: Gerhart, Pierce, and Hyde
WR: Cooks, Wheaton, and Gordon

Im banking pretty heavily on Rice bouncing back and Bernard becoming the bell cow. I took Hyde late because I think hes going to take over for Gore. Gore HAS to break down sometime soon. I took Gordon relatively late in hopes that his appeal allows him to play this year. All in all, I think I have a great team. Thoughts?

 

[TREFF]

The glaring thing I see, other than the somewhat weak RB's which your already aware of, is that on your bench you loaded up on WR's that all are boom or bust type guys, yet WR is really the strongest part of your team. IF you hit in any of them, your not going to play them anyways, sure you can trade them, but then you've got to find someone has both what your looking for and a need or you lose out.
Would've been safer to see one or two of those spots filed with a similar RB like a Dunbar, White, West..etc, who if they hit can be inserted for Rice if he doesn't bounce back (Pierce is a good fall back, but he wasn't much better than Rice last year either).

If Rice returns to anything resembling his former self, you've got a really strong team, if not your scrambling to fill the RB2 spot every week

 

[TREFF]

Sorry didn't notice Gerhert.. nice insurance there. . Still would've liked to see one more high upside RB over one of those wide outs

 

[Beengay fudgepackers]

The glaring thing I see, other than the somewhat weak RB's which your already aware of, is that on your bench you loaded up on WR's that all are boom or bust type guys, yet WR is really the strongest part of your team. IF you hit in any of them, your not going to play them anyways, sure you can trade them, but then you've got to find someone has both what your looking for and a need or you lose out.
Would've been safer to see one or two of those spots filed with a similar RB like a Dunbar, White, West..etc, who if they hit can be inserted for Rice if he doesn't bounce back (Pierce is a good fall back, but he wasn't much better than Rice last year either).

If Rice returns to anything resembling his former self, you've got a really strong team, if not your scrambling to fill the RB2 spot every week

Yeah, I see that as well. I didn't see any rbs I liked after getting Hyde. I'm hoping I can find a trade partner for a solid running back. If Gordon does play this season he becomes instant trade bait. Just looking at my Wrs, I think I have 3 guys that can be considered wr1s (four if Gordon plays). I think I'll be able to find a trade partner easily.

The rest of the leagues starting rbs and Wrs are as follows, (Martin, Bell, Bush, Percy Harvin and Victor Cruz), (McCoy, Ball, Ellington, Jones, and Allen), (Peterson, Foster, Richardson, Nelson and Garçon), (Murray, Gore, Jeffery, Crabtree, and Edelman), (Tate, Jennings, Jackson, Decker, and a TE at flex), (Charles, Stacy, Spiller, Green, and VJax), (Lacy, Matthews, Stephen Jackson, Marshall, and Welker), (Lynch, MJD, Cobb, Fitzgerald, and Roddy White), and (Forte, Morris, Dez Bryant, Andre Johnson, and Michael Floyd).

I think the team with Martin, bell, and bush would be a great trade partner. The team with Peterson, Foster, and Richardson will probably be looking for Wrs as well. The team with Murray and Gore has pretty bad Wrs as well. The team with Lynch and Mjd would make a good trade partner. If Welker keeps getting concussions, that team will be a good trade partner. So, yeah, I think there are a lot of potential trade partners.

 

[TKOSpikes]

Panthers in the 7th ??? In a 10 team??? Undrafted last year, that should tell you how to draft DST. Oh well. Looks like you have a nice all around team with short comings you're aware of.

Good luck.

 

[Beengay fudgepackers]

Running backs on the waiver wire include Helu, Blount, and Michael. Think any of those are worth picking up?