Fantasy Football - Oh Yeah!!!

Last night was our work group's fantasy football draft. We had 12 teams, went 16 rounds and had an absolute blast last night. Lots of smack talking and moans and groans surrounded by a ton of laughter and sloppy joes.

Being last year's champion, I have a reputation to keep and holding the last pick of the first round it is going to be an uphill climb. All the elite running backs, I knew, would be gone and so I decided to employ a "do the opposite" strategy. Meaning, insted of going running back, running back I would go for the top wide receivers and quarterbacks first and then use the middle rounds grabbing a slew of "sleeper" running backs. Eyeing up Peyton Manning and/or Steve Smith in the first round. However, they were both taken before my turn and so I missed out on them. Here is my roster (by draft order, 1st round, 2nd round, 3rd round, etc.) and then my projected lineup were the season to start today.

1st - Marvin Harrison (wr)
2nd - Torry Holt (wr)
3rd - Brian Westbrook (rb)
4th - Jamal Lewis (rb)
5th - Joseph Addai (rb)
6th - Marc Bulger (qb)
7th - Laurence Maroney (rb)
8th - Reggie Brown (wr)
9th - Tatum Bell (rb)
10th - Lavereus Coles (wr)
11th - Jon Kitna (qb)
12th - Chris Perry (rb)
13th - Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Defense
14th - Marcus Pollard (te)
15th - Tony Scheffler (te)
16th - Jason Elam (k)

As you can see, I went with 2 top tier wide receivers and then spent 5 of my next 7 and 6 of my next 10 all on running backs. My tight ends are very weak by getting Tampa and Elam in the last 4 rounds is an absolute steal.

So here is my starting lineup so far

QB - Bulger
WR - Harrison
WR - Holt
RB - Westbrook
RB - Lewis
Flex - Bell
TE - Pollard
K - Elam
Defense - Tampa Bay

I have a good team I believe, however I have some early injury concerns.

• Bulger has missed time to injury in each of the last 2 season, so he could miss time again
• Holt and Westbrook are probably out for the rest of the preseason and I hope this does not continue into the regular season. Westbrook has also been hurt each of the last 3 years and not finished a season
• Chris Perry may not play the first 6 weeks of the season, I did not know this last night when I drafted him. I found out this morning. GREAT

But, I am confident my team will perform well, I will defintely make a couple trades and see what happens.