Monday, December 11, 2006

A Look Back at the Draft

First Round: 10 Players still on rosters
Best Pick- LaDainian Tomlinson (Erin and Eric), good thing for Derek Larry Johnson isn’t exactly Sam Bowie.
Worst Pick- Cadillac Williams (Kevin), while trading out of the 3 spot has left a hole on Bill’s roster for 2007 and Scott chose to ignore all prophecies of a dropoff in Edge’s production. Kevin picking the hapless Williams on the hapless Bucs over Steven Jackson was a difference maker for his squad making Cadillac the biggest first round bust.

Second Round: 10 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Brian Westbrook (Jeff), kind of a surprise that the best pick in the Most Important Round of any draft was by a non-playoff team, and there are a lot of candidates for this slot, but as of this writing, Westbrook was #3 among Running Backs in FFL points.
Worst Pick- Domanick Davis (Derek), a complete waste was put on IR a week after his selection.

Third Round: 10 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Willie Parker (Scott), more of a falling to than a foresight pick. We all should’ve seen Parker having a big year, given the situation in Pittsburgh.
Worst Pick- Randy Moss (Mike), apparently neither his Head Coach, his position coach or anyone that used to be called “Coach” could motivate Moss this season.

Fourth Round: 10 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Reggie Wayne (Josh), especially if he is Peyton Manning’s Angelina Jolie and Marvin Harrison was his Jennifer Aniston.
Worst Pick- Santana Moss (Bill), had one big game, and for that he was on Bill’s bench.

Fifth Round: 9 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Joseph Addai (Derek), the rest of the league fell just short of chanting “REACH!” in unison for this Combine Champion but he has outproduced all other rookie RBs including Reggie Bush taken four rounds ahead.
Worst Pick- Daunte Culpepper (Dan), was clearly uncomfortable in Week 1, was hurt and dropped by Week 5. He is the reason Donovan McNabb will be available in next year’s late rounds.

Sixth Round: 10 players still on rosters
Best Pick- T.J. Houshmydada (Beers), traded to Scott for the unpredictable Willis McGahee, Housh was the only standout of the four receivers taken in this round.
Worst Pick- Deion Branch (Derek), taken with the belief that he would settle with the Patriots and be Tom Brady’s go-to guy giving Derek several 10 point plays, he ended up forcing a trade to Seattle and trying to build a relationship with Matt Hasselbeck and Seneca Wallace. He has somewhat in his first year but not enough to produce fantasy-wise.

Seventh Round: 8 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Frank Gore (Josh), the best pick of the draft made better by the fact he actually “gored” Jeff while making it.
Worst Pick- Nate Burleson (Dan), a victim of both Branch’s arrival and Hasselbeck’s injury. He actually had two touchdowns on Sunday to showcase his funny bathroom endzone celebrations.

Eighth Round: 7 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Deangelo Williams (Dan), in a ho-hum round Williams is at least a prospect that Dan can start to build his team around.
Worst Pick- Rod Smith (Erin and Eric), usually a “sure-thing” for 1,000 yards, he fell off the face of the Fantasy Earth this year.

Ninth Round: 8 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Laurence Maroney (Derek), no one went wrong with a rookie running back this year. Maroney actually had a couple of 25 point games for Derek and is valued prospect in the 4th and Lynches organization.
Worst Pick- Drew Bledsoe (Dan), no explanation necessary

Tenth Round: 8 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Vince Young (Scott), a lot of rookies contributed this year, but "VY" (God, I hate that) may be a fantasy star for Scott for four years.
Worst Pick- Michael Clayton (Dan), at least got a touchdown this year.

Eleventh Round: 7 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Terry Glenn (Jeff), lit up scoreboards as Drew Bledsoe's go-to guy, his numbers didn't drop all that much when Tony Romo took over.
Worst Pick- Mike Vanderjagt (Scott), at the #2 Kicker a complete reach for as botch as he was, combine that with Bill Parcells infamous lack of patience with kickers and it really shouldn't surprise anyone that he isn't on an NFL roster, much less a fantasy one.

Twelfth Round: 7 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Drew Brees (Bill), the #2 quarterback in the Twelfth Round. I'd say that's a pretty good pick.
Worst Pick- Ben Roethlisberger (Josh), given the motorcycle accident and appendectomy and Super Bowl hangover off a season in which he didn't produce fantasy-wise anyway. Hey, they can't all be Frank Gore selections.

Thirteenth Round: 6 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Ravens D (Josh), a surefire fantasy defense in the last four rounds he couldn't pass that up.
Worst Pick- Roddy White (Derek), Roddy White 2nd year player from UAB who I thought was going to be thrown to a lot by Vick in the red zone. That's who.

Fourteenth Round: 4 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Jaguars D (Erin and Eric), I must be honest none of you should be that proud of your picks in this round.
Worst Pick- Curtis Martin (Scott), he vows to come back next year so Scott, you can draft him again in August.

Fifteenth Round: 4 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Phillip Rivers (Derek), some much needed cap room for 4th and Lynches going into next season.
Worst Pick- Mewelde Moore (Kevin and Tony Kornheiser), I'm hoping Tony K was full of shit when he said during the Minnesota-New England game that Moore was on his fantasy team.

Sixteenth Round: 6 players still on rosters
Best Pick- Greg Jennings (Josh) traded to Erin and Eric and maybe a keeper if they hope to keep LT, Ocho Cinco, and Carson Palmer.
Worst Pick- Koren Robinson (Scott) because he got arrested for DWI the week before the draft and was destined for a year suspension for twice violating the league's substance abuse policy.

3 comments:

Dan said...

Jeff drafted Nate Burrelson in round #7

Mike said...

I think my Travis Henry pick may be one of the steals of the waiver wire.

Anonymous said...

you will all regret passing on jerious "south" norwood