Halfway thru the fantasy season! Open mic thoughts...

[lukkynumber13]

Zach Orr is real. I wonder if it's even fluky that he's been the superior fantasy play to Mosley? Regardless if he regresses in that regard, he's here to stay. LB2+ for the next couple years

I want no part of the Denver ILBs. Neither one is a 3-down backer right now. TJ Ward is benefitting.

Keanu Neal is a stud! Landon Collins of this class?

Landon Collins, be still my heart. I love owning this guy. Tons of tackles, plus making splash plays. He's playing the Reshad Jones role quite well

Sean Lee has never, in his career, played all 16 games. Will be break that trend this season? If not, who will take over? No other LB is playing even close to every down, Hitchens is closest at like 45%...

Elandon Roberts will be a 3-down LB for the Pats next season.

The Colts will probably have TWO new starting ILBs next season. Maybe both will be from the upcoming draft, which is chock full of stud LB prospects. DQwell is done, and no other guy is even close to full time

Which brings me to Geathers. Get him now, he's not under the radar but he'll be more expensive as the season goes on

Yannick Ngakoue is playing more snaps than any other Jags DL. He is doing exactly what we thought Fowler would do

Timmy Jernigan is having quite a nice little breakout year. Hopefully his tackle floor increases a bit

Yet again, the Chiefs have an ILB spot open! Ramik Wilson time?

WTF is going on with Corey James? Or Jatavis Brown, yesterday?

Tyrann Mathieu is a JAG, for FANTASY purposes.

Christian Kirksey & Bernardrick McKinney are impressive. Especially McKinney. I love how Houston uses him

Look for Darron Lee to take over the spot next to David Harris, once Lee gets healthy

Preston Brown is a bum. I wonder if the Bills will employ Zach Brown plus Ragland next season?

Jerrell Freeman is all over the field, and gets lots of tackle opp's on that team! Trevathan is not the guy to own there, even tho he's younger.

I haven't seen Tahir Whitehead play much, and I've heard bad things about his talent, but he's definitely a low ceiling, very high floor, LB2 this year at least.

I still like him, but Everson Griffen has been super quiet other than one great game. That should change

I sincerely wonder what's wrong with Stephone Anthony? Mental issues? Not making fun of him, that's a real query.

I wonder if Sean Spence will every grow into an every down LB? For now, he's a super low ceiling LB4, at best

Panthers DL... Just yuck. Are Ealy and Short buy-lows? Or sell now on name cache, before their value plummets completely?

[Eagles4life]

lukky, love the insight you bring to the forums, especially from someone that's just digging his heels into the IDP world.. I'm curious what your thoughts are on Jaran.Reed, Chris Jones, Vernon Butler and Sheldon Rankins, especially from a DT premium perspective. I know Jones is a DE, but do you see him getting moved back to DT like he was in college in the future or is he here to stay as a DE?

[lukkynumber13]

lukky, love the insight you bring to the forums, especially from someone that's just digging his heels into the IDP world.. I'm curious what your thoughts are on Jaran.Reed, Chris Jones, Vernon Butler and Sheldon Rankins, especially from a DT premium perspective. I know Jones is a DE, but do you see him getting moved back to DT like he was in college in the future or is he here to stay as a DE?

Vernon Butler and Sheldon Rankins excite me a lot. I'll be honest, I don't know much about Jones and Reed doesn't excite me for IDP. I believe he profiles as more of a run stopper, maybe never a full time player anyway. Great for an NFL team to be part of a rotation but not so much for IDP.

[FiremanEd]

lukky, love the insight you bring to the forums

I'll second this. Love what you've brought to the forum. Also, enjoyed reading the post.

Will respond in more depth later, but wanted to comment the above now.

[bruiser]

Nice, lukky. I'll add my open mic rant here:

Ndamukong Suh: Beast. I don't care what the narrative says. He is pulling his weight. The market says he's worth $20M, but for realz he's uber-valuable in DT premium leagues.

Robert Quinn: OMG. WTF? Are you never going to heal? It's been too long.

Leo Williams: Time to sell. Decent production, but he looks average to the eye.

Michael Bennett: Time to sell. Great production, horrible attitude. Not a guy I want past this year. Always complaining about his paycheck.

Zach Brown: Hallelujah! One of my offseason buy-lows has hit! Keep enjoying the benefits. I'd love to see him next to Ragland next year.

Brandon Marshall: Beeeewwwwwwwwwwww.... big let-down. Still playing close to 90% of snaps, just not getting nearly what we expected. I'll keep him rostered, but WTF?

Benard McKinney: Sooooo glad that my #1 prospect in last year's draft is propping me up. I had Shaq Thompson at #2 (wrong) and Dawson as my #3 (wronger in Trump voice). I was one of one hundred people that projected McKinney as an every-down LB. He looks to be exactly that with 6-7 sack potential this year. AMEN!

Craig Robertson: see Malcolm Smith 2016, then see Malcolm Smith 2017. Enjoy the spoils, then sell in January.

S: bad year for me

CB: see safety

DB: it could change at a moment's notice... never spend more than minimum.

[lukkynumber13]

Surprised to see your take on Leo Williams, Bruiser! I own Wilkerson & Richardson in my salary cap league, both for the next 3 years. How would you rank those 3?

[ckrumm24]

Surprised to see your take on Leo Williams, Bruiser! I own Wilkerson & Richardson in my salary cap league, both for the next 3 years. How would you rank those 3?

I'm not sure people notice this as much as they should, but Richardson is being moved around everywhere. He was playing some LB too (although I know some of it was because Harris was hurt). Just this opportunity alone makes him the guy to own IMO. Sure, the situation may change but he's likely still floating around the other two's production.

[lukkynumber13]

Surprised to see your take on Leo Williams, Bruiser! I own Wilkerson & Richardson in my salary cap league, both for the next 3 years. How would you rank those 3?

I'm not sure people notice this as much as they should, but Richardson is being moved around everywhere. He was playing some LB too (although I know some of it was because Harris was hurt). Just this opportunity alone makes him the guy to own IMO. Sure, the situation may change but he's likely still floating around the other two's production.

Oh yeah, Wilkerson has had the worst production and it's not even close. I love the guy, but he's getting schemed out of plays every game.

[dlf_tomk]

Nice thoughts gents. I agree with 90% of it all so far.

And add my voice to the support for Lukky. It's always great to see more people in here with a curious mind and opinions.

[bruiser]

I don't know what's going on with the Jets D, but they are a major disappointment. Leo Williams looks barely above average anymore. Wilkerson might be the guy to own going forward (I don't really know). Richardson is a risk to be suspended at any time. I just don't know....

Tentatively :

1. Leo Williams
2. Wlikerson
3. Richardson (personal reasons)

[brewster]

lukky... I agree, was great reading this and the input you bring! I also appreciate the others input too since I'm new to IDP.

With some of the comments said, would you guys drop Ansah for Suh? Or maybe drop JCameron for Suh and start Ansah this week regardless of him not being back 100%? I'm not sure what the best play is here. Thoughts?

@lukkynumber13 @bruiser @firemanEd ...and anyone else of course!!

[lukkynumber13]

When you say drop, are you in a redraft league? In a dynasty league no way you drop Ansah. If it's redraft and you're only starting 1 or 2 DL, then maybe different story

[FiremanEd]

I wouldn't drop Ansah in dynasty. He's a must hold. I realistically like CJordan more than Suh too, unless there is a DT premium or positional requirement to differentiate him from DE.

[brewster]

When you say drop, are you in a redraft league? In a dynasty league no way you drop Ansah. If it's redraft and you're only starting 1 or 2 DL, then maybe different story

I mean drop to the WW. It's a Dynasty IDP league with big play scoring. Your mention of no way dropping Ansah confirms my initial thought. I didn't think that would be the right move. I ended up dropping CJordan for Wilkerson (DE-NYJ) for this week and I dropped Clinton-Dix and picked up Suh. My other S's are Church and KJoseph. I'll worry about Joseph's bye week when it gets here. I'm sure I'll be back asking for more advice since I'm new at IDP. I will say though that my roster suffers mostly from my RBs (Gio, JHill, Ingram, McK, AP, Gillisee, Powell) and not starting the correct WRs some weeks(I have Beckham, Jeffrey, ACooper, Parker, MThomas, Maclin -- start 3).

[lukkynumber13]

What's the settings for your league, as far as roster size, lineup settings, etc? Seems like a pretty shallow league if Mo W was on waivers??