Friday, July 4, 2008

Jonathan Stewart needs to be taken early: The Mock part two



No table, sorry. I didn't get to eighty either. Maybe I'll finish this next week.


VF

#31 Steve Smith

I don’t like picking Brees here, not when I have to wait so long for my next picks to come around. I’m swinging for the fences here. If Delhomme can throw, Smith should have a big year. If he can’t, let someone else pick him.

DVPS

#32 Ernest Graham

I think Graham is going to be picked allot later in most drafts, but not here. Graham caught 49 passes last year and scored 10 td’s, and that was without a full year’s workload. I can’t believe Bush is going ahead of him. His three backfield rivals are all coming into the season battling career threatening injuries, Williams with his patellar tendon, Bennett with his heart, and Dunn with that severe back injury(from being repeatedly stabbed with that fork).

Very nice.

NTF

#33 Torry Holt

He’s consistent.

This is a tough pick. I need a RB, and my next pick is 12 choices away. Suffice to say taking Houshmandzadeh didn’t start a run, and now I’ve probably just given away my entry fee. Do I take Reggie Bush and hope I misunderstood the rules and this is in fact a PPR league, or do I hold off and try to pick up a sleeper (or three) later? Well, I think Bush is going to suck again, but...

DP

#34 Reggie Bush

I know, I know. This is what happens when you draft one RB in the first three rounds and other assholes take three. Just an ugly pick all around.

CHP

#35 Chad Johnson

Chad can fill the flex position, and while I can still draft a guy that’s comparable to Brees in the later rounds, Chad’s an elite receiver. I just have to keep telling myself this.

PAGAN

#36 Plaxico Burress

If I could trust his health and if Eli wasn’t a snake I would’ve taken him ahead of Johnson and Holt. He’s an enigma. In a PPR I’m taking Marshall and Welker over him.

BALI

#37 Brandon Marshall

Finally a team with two RB’s who can take Brees. I’d rather take Marshall, and hope he doesn’t get suspended by the league.

COLO

#38 Wes Welker

Now this is more like it. Take the best wide out available. See how much easier this is when you handle your RB’s in the early rounds?

(Is this too high for Welker in a non PPR league? Probably. Is he due for a drop in stats? Yeah..)

SE

#39 Drew Brees

This isn’t a bad spot for him.

LLUA

#40 Santonio Holmes

Somebody will pick him here and wait for him to break out. This is the year he blossoms into a WR1 right?

LLUA

#41 Roy Williams

He needs a big season. Boldin has question marks of Leinart, his contract, and he’s not the best WR on his team, so Williams edges him, barely.

SE

#42 Anquan Boldin

Pray for a keg stand related injury somewhere in Glendale this year…

COLO

#43 Greg Jennings

Last year he dropped because he played against a bunch of softy CB’s his rookie year…This year it’s going to be because Farve is gone. Farve is overrated.

BALI

#44 Derek Anderson

I don’t think he’s a fluke.

This is why picking a QB early sucks. Nobody was available in the 3rd or 4th and now I’m stuck at the 5th in the same situation. Roddy White is my favorite player left, so I can draft him as my flex and hope I can pick up two tier six guys in the next 2 rounds, or I can draft a back up QB hope he plays out of his mind early and I can trade him for a running back(I hate this strategy btw). Or I could

PAGAN

#45 Jonathan Stewart

I want him, and don’t want or need anyone else enough to risk waiting another round, so I’ll roll the dice. Maybe I should have taken him where I took Bush...

CHP

#46 Fred Taylor

Injuries earlier in his career, along with Mojo really seem to have kept him good past 30. He’s a viable starter, but I can’t shake the feeling that I’ll need to make a late round steal or a trade sometime mid season. Nobody wins with Fred Taylor as their number two back.

DP

#47 Antonio Gates

Early for a TE? Yes. Has anyone with Antonio Gates ever won a league of any kind? No. So what am I doing? The difference between Gates and the TE I draft around when I draft for my flex will be greater then the difference between Roddy White and the guy I draft for my flex.

NTF

#48 Roddy White

He’s the best WR left, this team needs a WR. I like Roddy White!

DVPS

#49 Jason Witten

Better to take Witten now and draft a WR when my pick comes back around. I had Witten in a league last year and allot of weeks he was the difference.

(Remember before taking a TE too early though that last year Witten was the last starting TE taken in my draft. Crumpler, Shockey, Lee and Owen Danials are all floating in the late rounds)

VF

#50 LenDale White

Does anyone have an up to date photo of him with his shirt off? Ugh, let’s move on.