Mock Drafts

Running a fantasy football site, one of the best things about the job is participating in drafts. Our owners participate in several each off season - sometimes the only drawback is that we must do these drafts very early in the summer as they are often part of print publications in which we provide our comments and insight to the draft. But still, during August we stay busy with drafts as well. We've posted a few mock drafts at the site for your review. A lot of the drafts we're in our fantasy football expert leagues. Other website owners, magazine publishers, and writers participate. So theoretically these drafts are very good barometers of player rankings and draft expectations. But......no offense to my colleagues, I am consistently amazed how often I see things that surprise me. This is not entirely unexpected when you're playing with your buddies in a casual league, but when it is people in the industry I can't help but scratch my head sometimes. Just today for example in an 8 team league both a defense and kicker were gone before the 8th round....I was stunned. This is early in a 10 or 12 team league, but in an 8 team league there is a lot of talent left on the board to be taking defenses and kickers. I've said it many times, if your fantasy football team is counting on a defense or kicker for success - you don't have a very good fantasy football team. Sure, there are times when a kicker has a crazy good game or a defense goes nuts with a shutdown and 2 TDs and you think you're a genius. But with a kicker it's rather random where it's going to happen and nearly any D in the top half of rankings can have that kind of game. But I promise you that in the long run depth at RB or WR - even QB will payoff week after week much more so than getting that #1 kicker or defense.....