Rookie Draft Complete Need to Cut Players

[ThatGuyBrian]

Over the weekend my IDP league held its rookie draft. All in all I was really happy with how it went, but now need to start cutting players to get down to 48. Below is my roster of 52 and thanks for the advice!
Offense: 1-2 Qb, 2-4 RB, 2-4 WR, 1-3 TE
IDP: 1-2 DT, 1-2 DE, 2-3 LB, 1-2 CB, 1-2 S

QB
Alex Smith

RB
Marshawn Lynch
Adrian Peterson

WR
Corey Coleman
Tajae Sharpe
Josh Doctson
Andre Ellington
Robert Woods
Travis Benjamin

TE
Dennis Pitta
Crockett Gilmore
Tyler Higbee

DT
Alan Branch
Star Lotuleie
Danny Shelton

DE
Chris Baker
Robert Ayers
Kony Ealy
Yannick NGakoue
Robert Nkemdiche

LB
Emmanuel Ogbah
Derrick Johnson
Whitney Mercilus

CB
Dre Kirkpatrick
Darelle Revis
Richard Sherman

S
DeAngelo Hall
Tyrann Mathieu
Eric Reid
Daniel Sorenson
Earl Thomas
Kenny Vaccaro
Shawn Williams

Rookies that I drafted and devy player
DeShaun Watson
Joe Mixon
Wayne Gallman
Nick Chubb (devy player can be sent to taxi squad)
Chris Godwin
Zay Jones
Josh Reynolds
OJ Howard
Evan Engram
Jonathan Allen
Derek Barnett
Taco Charlton
Solomon Thomas
Jarrad Davis
Hasson Reddick
Jamal Adams

[Defender]

Unless you plan to cut your rookies, I suggest you repost without them listed. Also, bold the players that are starters.

[ThatGuyBrian]

Unless you plan to cut your rookies, I suggest you repost without them listed. Also, bold the players that are starters.

Well if I were to not post my rookies you wouldn't really know how to judge who the best players are. Obviously the rookies wouldn't be cut. Plus there are rookies who I think will probably be starters.

[lukkynumber13]

Ellington, Revis, Lotuleli, A. Branch

[Dyno_7]

Ellington, Revis, Lotuleli, A. Branch

Anyone of those 4 or Crockett Gillmore. You got 2 of the 3 best TE rookies, so I'm not sure you need Gillmore either.

[Coogan Football]

Ellington, Pitta, Revis, Hall, Earl Thomas would all be easy cuts for me

[Oslo Oildrillers]

Given that it's s-flex, start 2RB, 2-3 LB and 1-2 S, with a roster of 48...I would cut all CBs (except Mathieu if he's a CB), roster max 3-4 safeties, and pick up QB, RB and ILB fliers. There's just not much potential reward by stashing that many safeties and those CBs are totally replaceable through waivers in August.

[Mjvb5]

I'd cut branch, gillmore, revis, and hall
But I'd try to trade marshawn, AP, smith, pitta, baker, Johnson and all your other older guys as I don't think you'd be competing, maybe a fringe playoff if things break right which is a very bad spot to be. Sell those older guys for what you can get as I think they could all drop off a cliff by next year.

[ThatGuyBrian]

Given that it's s-flex, start 2RB, 2-3 LB and 1-2 S, with a roster of 48...I would cut all CBs (except Mathieu if he's a CB), roster max 3-4 safeties, and pick up QB, RB and ILB fliers. There's just not much potential reward by stashing that many safeties and those CBs are totally replaceable through waivers in August.

Tyrann Mathieu is listed as a Safety and I currently only have 3 CB on my roster. I have to start at least one CB.

I currently have this offer of a 2018 1st round pick for Marshawn Lynch. The problem is that this is a Devy league and many of the top tier players will be picked in the devy draft.

[ckburton.coach]

I would cut the following:

Crockett Gilmore
Darelle Revis
Richard Sherman
DeAngelo Hall
Daniel Sorenson
Shawn Williams

[ThatGuyBrian]

Given that it's s-flex, start 2RB, 2-3 LB and 1-2 S, with a roster of 48...I would cut all CBs (except Mathieu if he's a CB), roster max 3-4 safeties, and pick up QB, RB and ILB fliers. There's just not much potential reward by stashing that many safeties and those CBs are totally replaceable through waivers in August.

Did I make a mistake by selecting the IDP players in the draft? I still think that the DT position is in horrible shape but the DE position now at least has some pretty solid talent. Plus I am pretty happy with Jarrad Daivs and Hasson Reddick at the LB position. How would you rate my draft??

Devy players
DeShaun Watson (attained prior to the draft)
Nick Chubb (2016 devy player can be sent to taxi squad)

Rookie Draft
1.01 Joe Mixon RB
1.03 OJ Howard TE
1.08 Evan Engram TE
1.09 Zay Jones WR
2.11 Chris Godwin WR
2.12 Jarrad Davis LB
3.01 Jamal Adams S
3.04 Derek Bennent DE
3.05 Josh Reynolds WR
3.06 Hasson Reddick LB
3.07 Jonathan Allen DE
3.08 Solomon Thomas DE
3.10 Wayne Gallman RB
3.11 Taco Charlton DE

[Mjvb5]

Given that it's s-flex, start 2RB, 2-3 LB and 1-2 S, with a roster of 48...I would cut all CBs (except Mathieu if he's a CB), roster max 3-4 safeties, and pick up QB, RB and ILB fliers. There's just not much potential reward by stashing that many safeties and those CBs are totally replaceable through waivers in August.

Did I make a mistake by selecting the IDP players in the draft? I still think that the DT position is in horrible shape but the DE position now at least has some pretty solid talent. Plus I am pretty happy with Jarrad Daivs and Hasson Reddick at the LB position. How would you rate my draft??

Devy players
DeShaun Watson (attained prior to the draft)
Nick Chubb (2016 devy player can be sent to taxi squad)

Rookie Draft
1.01 Joe Mixon RB
1.03 OJ Howard TE
1.08 Evan Engram TE
1.09 Zay Jones WR
2.11 Chris Godwin WR
2.12 Jarrad Davis LB
3.01 Jamal Adams S
3.04 Derek Bennent DE
3.05 Josh Reynolds WR
3.06 Hasson Reddick LB
3.07 Jonathan Allen DE
3.08 Solomon Thomas DE
3.10 Wayne Gallman RB
3.11 Taco Charlton DE

Given the devy picks
1.1not flashy but easily the BPA right choice
1.3 Same as above most teams would've had him 1.2 IMO
1.8 good value, probs BPA
1.9 good value, probs BPA
2.11 good value, probs BPA
2.12 this one IMO really depends on who was there, could be good but if an OPA fell I wouldve taken him
3.1 Bit of a reach considering Reddick was here, a bit early for me to take a safety
3.4 Bit of a reach again, got lucky that thomas fell to you later
3.5 I don't get the love for him personally, probably would've gone another route
3.6 Really good value, first IRL LB off the board in the third take that all day
3.7 I like him good pick
3.8 #2 DE really good pick
3.10 Nice value at this point
3.11 Depends on who was there

To me your obviously gonna have a nice haul do to your sheer number of picks, but I feel you did a nice job taking BPA early and then again at the very end. IMO you went kinda early on a few of those IDP players in the middle of the draft namely Adams, Reynolds and Barnet. I'd still say it was a pretty nice draft and you got a bunch of nice values. Love the Godwin@2.11.

[ThatGuyBrian]

Given that it's s-flex, start 2RB, 2-3 LB and 1-2 S, with a roster of 48...I would cut all CBs (except Mathieu if he's a CB), roster max 3-4 safeties, and pick up QB, RB and ILB fliers. There's just not much potential reward by stashing that many safeties and those CBs are totally replaceable through waivers in August.

Did I make a mistake by selecting the IDP players in the draft? I still think that the DT position is in horrible shape but the DE position now at least has some pretty solid talent. Plus I am pretty happy with Jarrad Daivs and Hasson Reddick at the LB position. How would you rate my draft??

Devy players
DeShaun Watson (attained prior to the draft)
Nick Chubb (2016 devy player can be sent to taxi squad)

Rookie Draft
1.01 Joe Mixon RB
1.03 OJ Howard TE
1.08 Evan Engram TE
1.09 Zay Jones WR
2.11 Chris Godwin WR
2.12 Jarrad Davis LB
3.01 Jamal Adams S
3.04 Derek Bennent DE
3.05 Josh Reynolds WR
3.06 Hasson Reddick LB
3.07 Jonathan Allen DE
3.08 Solomon Thomas DE
3.10 Wayne Gallman RB
3.11 Taco Charlton DE

Given the devy picks
1.1not flashy but easily the BPA right choice
1.3 Same as above most teams would've had him 1.2 IMO
1.8 good value, probs BPA
1.9 good value, probs BPA
2.11 good value, probs BPA
2.12 this one IMO really depends on who was there, could be good but if an OPA fell I wouldve taken him
3.1 Bit of a reach considering Reddick was here, a bit early for me to take a safety
3.4 Bit of a reach again, got lucky that thomas fell to you later
3.5 I don't get the love for him personally, probably would've gone another route
3.6 Really good value, first IRL LB off the board in the third take that all day
3.7 I like him good pick
3.8 #2 DE really good pick
3.10 Nice value at this point
3.11 Depends on who was there

To me your obviously gonna have a nice haul do to your sheer number of picks, but I feel you did a nice job taking BPA early and then again at the very end. IMO you went kinda early on a few of those IDP players in the middle of the draft namely Adams, Reynolds and Barnet. I'd still say it was a pretty nice draft and you got a bunch of nice values. Love the Godwin@2.11.

I didn't have any fourth round picks and some of those reach players were ones that I needed to get a little early due to not having a pick in the fourth. Then some of the picks were made because I had a pretty good idea who the owners were targeting. Two players I was really happy to get were Godwin and Reynolds. I like Reynolds because he is just a solid player. He isn't flashy but he catches everything and is a nice deep threat on a team that desperately needed receiver help.

There were some offensive players available, mainly TE and a couple of receivers that I kind of liked. I just wanted to really solidify that position and Charlton was the highest rated DE at that point. It was between him and Takkarist McKinely. Just a snap shot of who was available, and let me know if I should have gone another route at 3.11

RB
James Conner
Aaron Jones
TJ Logan

WR
Cooper Kupp
Carlos Henderson
Chad Williams
Taywan Taylor

TE
Gerald Evertt
Jake Butt
Adam Sheehan
Jeremy Sprinkle
Jonnu Smith

DE
Takarist McKinley

LB
Zach Cunningham (tried to trade up for him after the Taco pick)
TJ Watt

[ThatGuyBrian]

Does this trade make sense? One is old buy one is only 24 and four 3rd picks in 2019 seems like a good deal:

he gives up
Dansby, Karlos ARI LB
Floyd, Leonard CHI LB

i give up
Year 2019 Round 3 Draft Pick
Year 2019 Round 4 Draft Pick

[Oslo Oildrillers]

Given that it's s-flex, start 2RB, 2-3 LB and 1-2 S, with a roster of 48...I would cut all CBs (except Mathieu if he's a CB), roster max 3-4 safeties, and pick up QB, RB and ILB fliers. There's just not much potential reward by stashing that many safeties and those CBs are totally replaceable through waivers in August.

Tyrann Mathieu is listed as a Safety and I currently only have 3 CB on my roster. I have to start at least one CB.

I currently have this offer of a 2018 1st round pick for Marshawn Lynch. The problem is that this is a Devy league and many of the top tier players will be picked in the devy draft.

I don't know your scoring system, but those CBs aren't typically top IDP options. While you have to start at least one CB you don't have to start any CBs in the offseason, and I'm sure there are plenty of startable CBs that can be found on waivers in August, a week or two before the season starts. It's such a deep position with huge changes in the top 24 from year to year which makes it a very streamable position. The ideal target for a good IDP CB is someone who plays a lot of snaps on a team that opposing teams tend to attack through the air. A strong team that win a lot of games and have an established shutdown corner would be a nice target to grab the second best outside CB on the team as that is who typically gets targeted the most. Another good target is rookies that are forced into full time action early. They tend to be great IDP players since opposing offences will test them early and often.

An '18 first for Lynch, even in a devy league, sounds like a great deal for you. He was worthless just a few months ago.