Grade this startup: (through 7th round)

[fantasydem]

Hello all! Just wanting some opinions’ on my new startup. Tried to keep it balanced. This is a 12 team PPR SF TE premium league. Start QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, TE, 2 flex, SF.

Draft:
1.8: Cook
2.5: Kamara
3.8: Juju
4.5: Baker
5.8: Ridley
6.5: Engram
7.8: Mack

Here’s the link to look at the entire draft:
http://www81.myfantasyleague.com/2020/o ... E&CMD=LIST

[Gator Sens]

Hopefully you can grab another couple decent QB options, but I like your build overall. QB is a bit concerning as of now.

[dynofun]

I'm with Gator Sens your QBs could be a little bit sketchy but overall it doesn't look too bad at all. I'd give you like a solid B-.

[Cowboysfan33]

I really like your RBs and also like JuJu and Ridley. As long as you can get another decent QB, you should be a contender, IMO.

[Packerland]

Solid B

[fantasydem]

Thanks guys. Will update you as draft continues on.

[mmass]

Major QB issues here.... going to be tough to plug those holes later in the draft.

[Packerland]

Apologize, didn't see the Superflex.

[abloom]

Not a fan of your draft so far. It will highly depend on how you fill out your team, but honestly I think its likely you are looking at a rebuild after this year.

[fantasydem]

Not a fan of your draft so far. It will highly depend on how you fill out your team, but honestly I think its likely you are looking at a rebuild after this year.

Update coming. Personally, I’m not pleased w my QBs. Ik I need to focus them coming up but I wanted to fill my skill positions before I worried about QB2. QB is in surplus right now in the league so I’m thinking I can get some value late

[Edgy68]

Not a fan of your draft so far. It will highly depend on how you fill out your team, but honestly I think its likely you are looking at a rebuild after this year.

Update coming. Personally, I’m not pleased w my QBs. Ik I need to focus them coming up but I wanted to fill my skill positions before I worried about QB2. QB is in surplus right now in the league so I’m thinking I can get some value late

That’s good, because QBs are usually never cheaper than during the startup. I hope there are some values left.

[Zacsby]

Hopefully you can grab some Stafford/Tannehill/Cousins types here soon, even then QB is gonna be an issue probably. Not feeling Baker as a QB1 yet, remains to be seen how much he's gonna be asked to do in Stefanskis system. I would just feel like I have to take so many QBs with that start. Get Brees. Get Brady. Get em all and play matchups. Lol

[FantasyFoosball]

The grade will depend on what QBs are still available. I’d give you a C as of now. Hopefully there’s still a couple of decent ones left.

[abloom]

Not a fan of your draft so far. It will highly depend on how you fill out your team, but honestly I think its likely you are looking at a rebuild after this year.

Update coming. Personally, I’m not pleased w my QBs. Ik I need to focus them coming up but I wanted to fill my skill positions before I worried about QB2. QB is in surplus right now in the league so I’m thinking I can get some value late

Now that I have a little more time, let me expand upon my answer.

The reason I don't like your team is because you invested significant draft capital in RBs but did not build your team like a win now team. Your first two picks were cook and kamara. Now I think bother players are good, though I avoid (now) rbs with acl injuries, as it just seems to shorten their careers. But the problem is when you look at it, most rbs drop off after 3-5 years. Are there exceptions? Sure, but more rbs only have 3-5 really productive years in them.

So cook and kamara have 1-3 good years left, meaning that you should build your team to win immediately. The biggest thing there is that you should be using your startup depth and your 2021 picks to improve your initial team (ie trade up and get that good core).

Not only didn't you do that, but you then proceeded to draft your first QB in Baker who did not have a good season last year and looks like he needs time to develop a bit (Josh Allen went 6 picks later and I think he's a better option). And you drafted juju who has yet to show he can be a teams #1, and is going to have a QB coming back from a significant elbow injury. Could Juju become a top wr? Sure, but it may take some time to figure that out.

Ridley at 5.08 is fine, but again this is a player who right now is sharing with Julio, Hurst, and a rb. While I think he can be a wr1, I don't think it's this year.

Engram at 6.05, I rather punt the te position, especially if youre going to spend early capital on a te with injury concerns. Would have preferred Goff, Gordon, or gurley here who went 3-5 picks later.

Mack at 7.08, well I don't like Mack. I think Indi brings in a rb through the draft and that with rivers in Indi Hines seems a huge uptick in work. Would have gone woods here (who went 3 picks later) to give you a vet wr who can put up wr1/2 numbers.

Now these are just my opinions, and by the end of the draft maybe you do assemble a great team, but in general, especially in superflex, I build around young talented wrs and QBs and usually punt the RB and TE positions to create a young team built for a prolonged run in the future.

I'm not going to look through the available players right now for you, but I would work on trading up if reasonable (though I'd avoid sending your 2021 1st out) and grabbing players like AJ Green, mark Ingram, Brees, Brady or pretty much whatever other starting QBs you can get.

ALSO,: I just took a look at the grid format, two thoughts:
1) No idea what Ballers is doing, but you should try to get his 2021 1st.
2) only 16 QBs have been taken, trade up and grab 2 here, if the price is good.
3) players to Target:
QB: Ryan, stafford, cousins, lock, brees,.Brady
RB: Ingram, David Johnson, Damien williams (wait on dj and d will)
Wr: theilen, green, Landry, cooks
Te: none you have your te.

I think given the players still available if you are able to make a bunch of trade ups and grab some of those players you'll round off your team and atleast be competitive for the next year or two.

Final edit: damn this covid19 lockdown has got me bored out of my mind lol