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Fantasy Football Picks 2016: 2-Round Mock Draft and Strategy Breakdown

August 27, 2016   ·     ·   Jump to comments

Fantasy football draft strategy is unlike anything else, and the emphasis should land on one word—fantasy.
In a real NFL draft, front offices around the league strategize for more than a year before grabbing the best player available at a position of need while thinking about upside more than anything else.
Even in some weird realm where actual NFL teams had to redraft the entire league, quarterbacks would take precedence over everyone else in the opening rounds, with front offices waiting to fill out the rest of the roster later.
That doesn't apply to fantasy football draft strategy, however. To visualize this, here's a look at a two-round sample mock draft for a 12-team standard league:
Quarterback is by far the easiest position to draft in fantasy football.

This year it's perhaps easier than ever—Cam Newton and Aaron Rodgers should be the first players off the board at the spot. This would likely start in the third round because the posi...

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