
Cooper was drafted as the WR 7, yet he finished as the WR 35 overall and if you take out his wild game in Week 7 he drops to WR 54 on the season. I wouldn’t argue with you if you think Ajayi was the biggest bust of round two, but I was low on him in the preseason so I’m going with Cooper. The RB pair were drafted as RBs 7 and 8 and finished as RBs 20 and 36 respectively. Round two included two of the top RB scorers, but was wrought with disappointment as Murray, Ajayi, Cooper, Bryant, and Hilton were all big time busts. He was drafted as the RB 2 and finished as the RB 2.Īdditional round 1 notes: Julio Jones finished the season as the WR 7 and 14th among all flex players, but if you take week 12 out, he drops down 6 spots to the WR 13. After a slow Week 1, he did not produce a single game of less than 13 PPR points for the remainder of the fantasy season. The best pick of this round was Le’Veon Bell. Through the first six weeks he was the WR 6 overall, but then Aaron Rodgers went down he finished the season at WR 46. My biggest first round bust goes to Jordy Nelson because he started the season so hot to get your hopes up, and then he “played” in every single game with Brett Hundley so you had to just stare at his name sitting on your bench. Right off the bat we have our 1.01 go down with a season ending injury in week 1 (for the purpose of this article I will be putting “busts” due to injury in a different category if they were playing well before the injury occured). ** A couple of the rounds include 13 players as some ADPs were tied Round 1: *My 2017 ADP and finishes are based on a PPR draft and PPR scoring. In this article I will go round by round and analyze the best value picks and biggest busts per round, while trying to pick up on any trends that may exist in the draft overall. It doesn’t always workout that way, however, and no early round is safe from producing total busts.


Meaning, you’d like your second round pick to finish the season inside the top 24 players in fantasy scoring. When you draft a player, you expect (pray for) him to at least return the value of the round you drafted him in. We all look at experts, ADPs, and our numerous mock drafts before the season starts to get a feel for how we value players, but once the NFL season kicks off our copious amounts of research can all turn into coach speak, hype trains, horrible sleeper picks, and trusting the wrong back in a committee. If your first round pick is a bust and none of your mid or late round gambles pay off, you’ve got an uphill battle the entire season. You can’t often win your fantasy league through your draft, but you can definitely lose it.
