I’m in two fantasy football leagues this year. The second of the two has an autodraft, so I’ll just have to make due with the players I get. Team #1 just had our yearly draft. I’m feeling pretty good about how it came together.
QB: Aaron Rodgers
WR: Larry Fitzgerald
WR: Santana Moss
WR: Lance Moore
RB: Steve Slaton
RB: Marion Barber
TE: Greg Olsen
K: Ryan Longwell
DEF: Dallas
Bench QB: Matt Cassel
Bench WR: Donnie Avery
Bench WR: Michael Crabtree
Bench RB: LenDale White
Bench RB: Jamal Lewis
Bench RB: T.J. Duckett
Aaron Rodgers of Green Bay should be a pretty solid quarterback. With all the Favre controversy swirling around it’s hard to remember that Green Bay has an up-and-coming QB that might be just as good. For the bye weeks or if he doesn’t cut it I have Matt Cassel, Tom Brady’s understudy-turn-damn-good-backup. A few years ago he was the lowest rated player in fantasy football. This year he’ll be on the starting lineup for plenty of teams.
My starting WRs are all kind of meh. Larry Fitzgerald is obviously top-notch. (He was my #1 pick. I was the 8th team in the queue), but I’m not massively thrilled. The other WRs are all solid, if uninspiring. The sole exception is possible Michael Crabtree. He’s a rookie and almost went to Seattle (Go Hawks!) this year. He’s likely to be a starter and if he does well than he will have a definite shot at my 3rd WR spot.
I have 5 RBs. That’s probably too many, but I want to see how everyone performs the first few weeks. T.J. Duckett is a seahawk and they run a platoon system. If he overperforms or turns into their red zone guy he could be useful, but I have fairly low expectations. The only current benefit is that I’ll hopefully be immune to injuries.
TE: Greg Olson. I had him last year and he was exceptional. There happen be a handful of very good TEs out there, so it wasn’t as impressive a pick as in previous years, but I was happy to have him return.
K: Ryan Longwell. He’s as good as anyone out there. I tend to mix and match kickers based on who they’re facing each week, but he’s a solid starting kicker.
Def: Dallas. Like kickers I’ll trade Defenses in and out. I could do much worse than Dallas.
By and large I’m happy with my team. I have less big names than last year, but I have less really awful players as well. I could see the year being either pretty good or rather atrocious, but I’m confident I’ll be in the top half of the bunch. Throughout the season I’ll be posting my progress.
Go Hawks!
