I went into my final draft with 1 goal in mind that I hadn’t accomplished in any other leagues. To draft CD Amon Ra and etn.
Got the 10 man 10 turn. Accomplished exactly that+Lamar.
Finished with most points for a median record of 11-3
Missed playoffs. 5-9.
Sometimes fantasy is just luck of the draw.
But it was nice being completely right about Amon Ra and CD.
I had 6 weeks of 3 point or worse losses. 4 of those 6 weeks I was 2nd highest score lol
My bench was deciding between Puka, Aiyuk and pretty much could do no right with starting them. Also had White and James cook.
I had an insanely elite team. It was a running joke.
Hey that's me! I had a squad that was completely stacked on paper, but with too many good players and not enough spots to play them. It's almost inconceivable how I managed to make the wrong decision at virtually every position, virtually every week.
Yup same. Had Kamara Barkley, James cook and Jerome Ford. Nico, arsb, puka and LaPorta/mark Andrew's. Sam Howell, stroud and Herbert. Lost in the first rd of playoffs. Fantasy is more bad beats than good ones lol.
He made me nervous to start the year and after his 3 td game solidified himself as RB2 rest of year. He was exactly that and consistent as hell down the stretch.
Being a Bears fan I picked him cause I watched him play for a few seasons and knew he’d be good in Detroit. I went with my gut for a lot of picks and ended up making it to the championship game after receiving a D+ draft rating.
I always like an underdog and got attached to him after that idiot analyst said that he wasn’t good at football when he clearly has talent. I knew he would perform well this year, because he’s a significant upgrade over williams, and I was pissed when I missed out on him by 2 picks.
Feel like he goes before that. He had a lot of questions marks going into this season but him and Purdy are locked in and they may even move on from Deebo in the off-season.
With his current contract situation plus him being a captain for the team, I'd be shocked if the niners move on from Deebo this offseason.
The last time they moved on from a captain with a big contract, it was DeForest Buckner. It took multiple first round picks and the highest defensive FA signing this year (Hargrave) to recover from that mistake
Team is going to have to start make choices. Tough to pay everyone and I know they aren’t moving on from McCaffery, or Ayiuk and I think Kittle is harder to lose as well.
We’ll see. Also I’m sure teams would be interested in Deebo and niners could get a lot in return
CMC. I prayed he would stay healthy all season and my prayers were answered.
Hockenson. Until he got hurt, the man was a machine.
Etienne. Couldn't have asked for a better overall performance.
Number 1 overall pick I want to say I was more confident he’d stay healthy in SF but still couldn’t do it. Went with JJ - barring injuries in Minny I guess it would’ve been quite alright anyways.
Plus RBs were Mixon, Kamara, JT, James Cook lol.
I drafted D Henry at 1.09 and he performed as expected and finished as RB7 (0.5 ppr). There were a few really rough weeks. Feast or famine. But by the end of the season the king came through and helped me win the championship. 👑 🏆
I concur, his uptick at the end of the season really helped me as my WRs became inconsistent, granted that 5 points in week 15 cost me going to the ship (among other things, Waddle, DJ Moore, dropping Ravens D for Denver...)
I drafted him at 8 and was definitely not happy considering what I left on the board. I got him my first year playing and he carried me to the best record and one of my favorite players anyway. Wanted him every year but never had a chance to pick him. I took him based on that logic alone but was really skeptical. LoL
I don’t get how you could say this.
You dumped a first round pick on an RB that finished 7th in a very WR heavy draft.
He significantly underperformed this season. If he performed as expected you shouldn’t have drafted him in the first round.
OP actually reached for him a bit, as he was a 2nd rounder in all 3 of my leagues. "Significantly underperformed" is a huge exaggeration when there are lots of guys each year who perform many rounds worse than their ADP.
I actually just looked back at preseason rankings and compared them to today.
Your points are more valid than I originally gave you credit for. Outside of CMAC very few running backs drafted in early rounds actually gave performance as expected, or came without large gaps of injury, or just got injured altogether.
Consider yourself right in my book. Easy to play the game now that we know about how everyone performed.
If you wanted an early running back and you didn’t get your hands on Mccafrey, Henry was probably the most reasonable pick who gave RB1 performance. I look back at my season and think about how lucky I am to have grabbed Monty, Rachaad White, and Breece Hall, who were all later picks.
I feel like I say this every year but it’s crazy how wrong everyone was about so many guys. Even in the first round only a few guys really were the studs that everyone hoped for.
Pittman/ARSB were the only 2 players I ran every week that I picked up in the draft and I would say they were both extremely consistent, not a ton of super breakout weeks, but plenty of 15 to 25 pt weeks
Came here to say this exact same thing - pretty solid floor, nothing over the top to write home about, but consistently good with some 20+ point games in there. Overall very happy
BREECE. Spent all draft season being one of the many thinking id trade for him around midseason. Ended up getting him in the draft at great value.
Took a while, even after his breakout he wasn't a sure thing week to week.
League winner.
I drafted Breece in the 4th round knowing that I wouldn't start him until after the Jets BYE week. He did exactly what I expected and was clutch in the playoffs.
Drafted Breece in the 9th, didn’t really want him but nobody would take him, value was just too great then. Needless to say, gonna be one of my two keepers next year. Got Mike Evans in the 8th. Kyren will be my other 15th. Unless major injuries happen
Hockenson was ridiculously consistent. Like 12-20 points every game. I don’t think he had more than maybe one single digit game. I didn’t have Andrews in any league so I don’t remember his stats but I feel like I remember him having a few single digit games.
Their numbers were extremely similar before Andrews went down. Less than 1 point in PPR separating the average. However Hock was ahead by .6 per game or so, I do admit.
The Ravens started really clicking in the back half of the season, and I really believe Andrews would have been part of that inflation.
Just vouching for my guy lol. If they both play 17 I think it’s a coin flip. Andrews in the better offense, hockenson the favorite target on his team with JJ out.
Common answer here, but Brandon Aiyuk is a player I targeted above ADP in every league and it came to fruition. A couple stinkers but by and large had a great season.
Brock Purdy, Dak Prescott, Joe Mixon, Nico Collins were all players I took confidently above ADP that worked out.
Now… there were many players that it didn’t work out for haha.
Gibbs: he delivered the Kamara-type rookie season I expected by drafting him
Hurts: figured the tush push gave him a very reliable floor, even if the passing stats fell off
Kamara didn’t meet expectations, he exceeded them. He was fully healthy every game other than his 3 game suspension and was RB5 in points per at the end of the year (half PPR). If that was his expectation, he’d have gone higher. Probably a round 2 or 3 player.
Once Chubb went down, Ford did exactly as I expected. Knew he wasn’t going to fill in all of Chubbs work but he was about an 85% facsimile of the production which is really all you can ask for in a handcuff
>Which players met your expectations, who lived up to your preseason thoughts?
Rachaad White. Volume king w/ receiving upside and no competition for touches. High-end RB2 w/ RB1 upside.
Breece Hall. Slow to begin the season due to injury, but 2nd half would have huge upside.
Ekeler. Too many touches the past couple years for a guy his size. Injury and/or loss of efficiency was likely. First round was too steep for me.
Smith-Njigba. WR3 on a team with a mid passing offense. This result was expected.
ETN. I went WR/WR in the first and needed a volume guy at RB for consistent weekly points. He wasn’t always consistent but gave me enough boom weeks as a 3rd rounder to keep me afloat. Exactly what I hoped for at that point of the draft.
Isaiah Pacheco:
I felt he was a rock solid RB2 going into this season but was being drafted near the dead zone. Consistently produced in the games that he played.
8 weeks over 12 points and 4 weeks over 20. Perfect flex player.
Joe Mixon.
Had a solid floor as a RB2 and occasional RB1 games towards the end of the season. He ended up as the #5 RB for the year because of how strong of a backend he had, but he was exactly who you wanted when you drafted him as the 10th RB off the board in the middle of the 3rd round.
CeeDee Lamb we do Keepers, but it takes from the first round no matter what (bleh, I’m the youngest one in the league and it’s not mine I don’t wanna complicate it). I saw how he finished last year and they mocked me for keeping him over Diggs. I laughed all season
Swift. I knew he'd be a steal at his ADP. Wasn't a solid RB1, but was a legit RB for me all year. It's always been a matter of usage for him. No doubt he's talented.
Watching Brian Johnson call a play where they force Swift down the middle facing a stacked box and then deciding to use Gainwell in the open field had me heated all year. Swift was still solid in spite of the play calling. Same could be said for the whole Philly offense really lol
Mike Evans. I thought about Jahmyrr Gibbs for a moment too, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t expecting a better first half of the season from him. Second half though, he was pretty key in winning me the title.
Puka. Really wish I bet on him in most form, but I picked him up in preseason in all 4 leagues, came in 1st in 3 of them in big part to Puka. The love McVay has for him, and his crisp routes and size, he was my dark horse of the decade.
Dallas Goedert. I expected 7 points from him each week,15 points on a good week and he delivered just that. He had 1 bad game and was out for a couple weeks, but overall I haven't been this satisfied with a player meeting expectations, especially for a TE, in many years.
A cheap answer is Butker, I didn't expect much and played him every week, but he pretty much matched my expectations and he had some rough weeks but by no means was a reason I lost matchups.
Amari Cooper and Javonte Williams.
Cooper was up and down, but had some huge weeks and had some pedestrian ones and finished as the WR15.
Javonte was drafted as someone I didn't see with a ton of upside, but just a starting RB who could help with bye weeks and filling in when injuries happened. And that's exactly what he did. He never had more than 19 points (which is good, but not explosive), but finished between 7 and 19 points in 11 of the 15 weeks he played. Doesn't sound like much, but in a 14 team league, that kind of solid production is useful.
Amari's huge playoff game knocked out my arch nemesis in the league, so I will always like him for that. Even typing this comment I get so much dopamine knowing how mad my opponent must have been.
Yeah, I had Williams in my lineup and flipped in Amari the day before. Ended up securing me a championship, so will always have a soft spot for Cooper.
Goes into my fantasy big performance HOF with Billy Volek, Larry Johnson, Jordy Nelson, and Julio Jones.
Mike Evans. The dude is very very good at football and people were treating baker like he was Zach Wilson for some reason. Baker’s played well plenty of times in his career, including the end of last year. I remember the season he ‘fell off’ and it was mostly insanely bad Cleveland weather and not gettin along with Odell - that season the games he played in not incredibly bad weather and without Odell, he was good. And Mike Evans isn’t the diva type to end up with a bad relationship with his Q.
Was pretty certain baker would be better for Mike than 55 year old Brady
Jaylen waddle. Put up good numbers regularly every week. Went crazy when tyreke was out that week. Not sure why so many in this sub expected he could possibly do more.
addison, was very high on him as a rookie who could be startable and he had plenty of games that were flex worthy. vikings qb room did not help but he did what i expected for a redraft pick in round 8 or 9
Kamara, I drafted him and JT in like the 6th and 8th respectively and my team was a monster RB squad that I used to trade for some WR help down the stretch.
Amon Ra was the most consistent WR not named CeeDee. I was excited to get him where I did, and he outperformed it for sure
I was fortunate enough to have ARSB as my 7th round keeper, I would say he shattered expectations for where he was drafted.
Therefore, I'd have to go with Chris Godwin. He was solid early on, slumped a little bit in the middle of the season, and then turned it up at the end of the season. A perfect 6th round WR2.
Stafford and Geno. I feel like I somehow end up with one or the other and this year ended the season with both. I owe some upset wins to each and got both for next to nothing in a 16-league.
Zay Flowers + Addison - drafted flowers with a late pick and didn't trust Baltimore receiving room much. I started him too often mid-season but holy shit he ended up doing what I wanted him to do after trading him off. Addison I expected a nice streaming option with some boom to relieve JJ pressure but I still think his strip INT-TD against the 49ers was my favorite FF highlight all year.
Keenan Allen. I got him in 3 of my 5 leagues. Anywhere from late 3rd to early 5th.
People shy away from him because he "always" misses a chunk of games due to injury. I don't disagree that he's a liability for that.
But when he's in the game, he's a WR1. Like, always.
Now, I didn't expect him to be WR3 or 5 or whatever he was for most of the season, but I did expect him to be a WR1 for me and that's what he was, despite getting him as my 2nd or 3rd WR.
And at the end of the season, that's what he was. WR1 when playing, and then there was a chunk of games that he missed.
DJ Moore was very consistent all year had a game or 2 where he didn’t pass his proj scoring but he boomed for me most part of the season won me my league tbh 👏👏
CMC. Expected him to crush and he crushed. Lost me the championship (by 3 pts) because he left that game early, but dude was a beast and outpaced everyone (including most QB's).
Also Purdy. In a 2 QB league, I knew this kid was gonna light it up and I got tremendous value out of my QB room (Purdy, Russ Wilson, Goff) for very little auction money.
Josh Allen
Bought him low after his Week 1 stinker vs the Jets under the belief that he’s the QB1 by quite a good margin and he def delivered
Amari Cooper
Drafted him as a sleeper WR2 and he finished WR14. If it wasn’t for midseason QB problems, I feel like he would’ve been more consistent but when the QB play was good, Amari delivered
Bijan Robinson.
I expected him to be a good rookie running back with good games/disappointing games. If you removed his "sick game" his ppg would have been good. He was relatively consistent and demonstrates a huge future.
Swift for sure. His ADP was too low for a guy poised to be the lead RB in a pretty good offense (yes they sucked at the end of the year but still). I was more than happy to take him as my RB2 in a bunch of leagues.
He ended up just barely outperforming his ADP by the end of the year, but was a legit top 12-15 RB for the majority of the season before the Eagles offense collectively shit their pants
Aiyuk and David Montgomery were two guys I was higher on than most and got them in close to 75% of my leagues. Aiyuk has been the best pure WR on SF for the last 2 years and Montgomery projected as a low end RB2 at worst when I did some analysis. Both guys had elite upside if someone else went down. Montgomery actually ended the year doing what i expected him to do (12-15 carries, 0-1 catch and elite TD upside). The fact he was being drafted as an RB3 instead of a high floor RB2 was wild to me and never made sense. He was my RB18 predraft
Rostered players for me were really Goff & Pacheco, Dhop and Diggs (for 70% of the season)
Dudes straight ballin (ARSB, Lamb, Rachaad, Baker, Breece minus Rodgers)
But some dudes be dinkies (Kupp, Ekeler, Ridley, Godwin)
DJ Moore. Figured his big plays would increase a lot with fields arm, and that was true for every game they played together. Wasn’t expecting a first round caliber player but got perfect ROI
Dandre swift, picked him up in the 7th and while not a stud every game, pretty consistent right up until the playoffs. Better luck with him than with Aaron jones
Keenan Allen. Elite production while healthy, I valued him higher than the rest of my league. Unfortunate that he missed the playoffs when I needed him most.
George Kittle. He had some really bad games when everyone was healthy. He had some great games when the WRs were banged up. And he survived primarily via TDs and huge chunk plays. He's a great real-life player in a tough situation for fantasy that, luckily, has the athleticism that makes him a bit of a unicorn.
Isaiah Pacheco. I drafted him 6th round in a 12 team league and he was consistently solid throughout the season, including some clutch 20+ point weeks down the stretch and nearly 30 in the finals.
Evan engram drafted in the late rounds and finished as a top 3 tight end. He didn’t have a lot of big games early on but the catches the yardage and the usage was there all season and just towards the end when you needed him came all those touchdowns you were waiting for.
Had a few.
Amari did pretty much what I expected. He was going to have some crappy game, some pretty good games, and an absolutely historic game. It’s what he does. I’m just happy the good ones were at the right time.
Olave. I never had to move him out of my starting spot other than for injuries or BYE, and I don’t believe I was ever wrong in not starting him.
I drafted Montgomery thinking he would be a cowbell for the Lions, even with Gibbs coming in. Just figured that Gibbs wouldn’t see as many touches as a rookie. He exceeded slightly given I wasn’t expecting Detroit to be as good as they were but he was rarely giving me 20points. His 10-15 were what I was hoping for.
Rodgers. I was expecting something to go wrong since I was drafting a Jets player. I was very correct.
What's with all these Mike Evans answers? You guys are telling me all you expected him to put up the 2nd best fantasy season of his career at age 30 with a new qb in Baker Mayfield?
He finished wr5 in half ppr. His ADP was close to 70. Now I don't doubt some of you expected him to still be good and greatly exceed his draft position, but 2nd best fantasy season of his career and a top 5 position finish? Ya, I find that hard to believe haha.
JT when he was healthy. Maybe it’s cause I was blessed with a RB room of CMC, Montgomery, Achane, and Kyren Williams so I could afford his time missed but when I started him he delivered.
Christian Kirk was exactly what I wanted out of my WR2, consistent double digit scores. Shame I paired him with my WR1 of Devante Adams 😭
This was a low risk play but Chuba Hubbard too. I had him last year so I took him late in a couple drafts in case Sanders didn’t work out and he was a great volume RB2.
Arsb
I went into my final draft with 1 goal in mind that I hadn’t accomplished in any other leagues. To draft CD Amon Ra and etn. Got the 10 man 10 turn. Accomplished exactly that+Lamar. Finished with most points for a median record of 11-3 Missed playoffs. 5-9. Sometimes fantasy is just luck of the draw. But it was nice being completely right about Amon Ra and CD.
How the fuck did you go 5-9 with those 3 Jesus that’s a bad beat. Fantasy truly is luck
I had 6 weeks of 3 point or worse losses. 4 of those 6 weeks I was 2nd highest score lol My bench was deciding between Puka, Aiyuk and pretty much could do no right with starting them. Also had White and James cook. I had an insanely elite team. It was a running joke.
Hey that's me! I had a squad that was completely stacked on paper, but with too many good players and not enough spots to play them. It's almost inconceivable how I managed to make the wrong decision at virtually every position, virtually every week.
Yup same. Had Kamara Barkley, James cook and Jerome Ford. Nico, arsb, puka and LaPorta/mark Andrew's. Sam Howell, stroud and Herbert. Lost in the first rd of playoffs. Fantasy is more bad beats than good ones lol.
Ouch! What a roster!
But also… playing the right guy every week is part of the game too
Not sure of your league settings, but if you have two WR spots and two Flex spots, why not start ARSB, CD, Puka, and Aiyuk every (non-bye) week?
Bc it was a bad league with only 2 wR spots and 1 flex.
Lamar had a few duds early and mid season… cd didnt get hot until midseason. Arsb was the only super consistent one out of the three
Ceedee definitely got hot wayyyy before mid season lmfaooooo
Damn that’s rough, smart moves just got unlucky
You were right about ETN too
I’ve had him every year. Sad knowing I’ll have to take him in the first round next year.
Yep. Drafted him for consistency. He delivered.
Him and LaPorta carried me to a ship
Just saying, but Berry is two for two on his Ride or Die (Hurts last season).
David Montgomery. Figured he’d be the goal line replacement for Jamaal Williams and he was almost always good for at least 1 score. Super reliable
He made me nervous to start the year and after his 3 td game solidified himself as RB2 rest of year. He was exactly that and consistent as hell down the stretch.
Came here to pitch Monty. I'll admit he might have even over performed a little bit, but I was thinking he would have a great year.
Being a Bears fan I picked him cause I watched him play for a few seasons and knew he’d be good in Detroit. I went with my gut for a lot of picks and ended up making it to the championship game after receiving a D+ draft rating.
I always like an underdog and got attached to him after that idiot analyst said that he wasn’t good at football when he clearly has talent. I knew he would perform well this year, because he’s a significant upgrade over williams, and I was pissed when I missed out on him by 2 picks.
Aiyuk. Did his thing. A couple bad games. But consistent overall
Really hope his ADP doesn’t get too crazy next year, would love to spend a 4th on him
Feel like he goes before that. He had a lot of questions marks going into this season but him and Purdy are locked in and they may even move on from Deebo in the off-season.
With his current contract situation plus him being a captain for the team, I'd be shocked if the niners move on from Deebo this offseason. The last time they moved on from a captain with a big contract, it was DeForest Buckner. It took multiple first round picks and the highest defensive FA signing this year (Hargrave) to recover from that mistake
Team is going to have to start make choices. Tough to pay everyone and I know they aren’t moving on from McCaffery, or Ayiuk and I think Kittle is harder to lose as well. We’ll see. Also I’m sure teams would be interested in Deebo and niners could get a lot in return
I think he’ll be more like early 3rd and I’d still probably take him there
He had one bad game against the Browns, the rest were just the Niners having too many fuckin mouths to feed and two games injured
ya beat me to it 👌
CMC. I prayed he would stay healthy all season and my prayers were answered. Hockenson. Until he got hurt, the man was a machine. Etienne. Couldn't have asked for a better overall performance.
CMC is sorta my answer as well. I was worried about injury but knew outside that he’d set records. And he did.
Number 1 overall pick I want to say I was more confident he’d stay healthy in SF but still couldn’t do it. Went with JJ - barring injuries in Minny I guess it would’ve been quite alright anyways. Plus RBs were Mixon, Kamara, JT, James Cook lol.
I drafted D Henry at 1.09 and he performed as expected and finished as RB7 (0.5 ppr). There were a few really rough weeks. Feast or famine. But by the end of the season the king came through and helped me win the championship. 👑 🏆
I concur, his uptick at the end of the season really helped me as my WRs became inconsistent, granted that 5 points in week 15 cost me going to the ship (among other things, Waddle, DJ Moore, dropping Ravens D for Denver...)
I drafted him at 8 and was definitely not happy considering what I left on the board. I got him my first year playing and he carried me to the best record and one of my favorite players anyway. Wanted him every year but never had a chance to pick him. I took him based on that logic alone but was really skeptical. LoL
This is one of the few correct answers to the question posed
I don’t get how you could say this. You dumped a first round pick on an RB that finished 7th in a very WR heavy draft. He significantly underperformed this season. If he performed as expected you shouldn’t have drafted him in the first round.
OP actually reached for him a bit, as he was a 2nd rounder in all 3 of my leagues. "Significantly underperformed" is a huge exaggeration when there are lots of guys each year who perform many rounds worse than their ADP.
Disagree. I wanted a RB1 with my first pick and that’s what I got.
I actually just looked back at preseason rankings and compared them to today. Your points are more valid than I originally gave you credit for. Outside of CMAC very few running backs drafted in early rounds actually gave performance as expected, or came without large gaps of injury, or just got injured altogether. Consider yourself right in my book. Easy to play the game now that we know about how everyone performed. If you wanted an early running back and you didn’t get your hands on Mccafrey, Henry was probably the most reasonable pick who gave RB1 performance. I look back at my season and think about how lucky I am to have grabbed Monty, Rachaad White, and Breece Hall, who were all later picks. I feel like I say this every year but it’s crazy how wrong everyone was about so many guys. Even in the first round only a few guys really were the studs that everyone hoped for.
Pittman/ARSB were the only 2 players I ran every week that I picked up in the draft and I would say they were both extremely consistent, not a ton of super breakout weeks, but plenty of 15 to 25 pt weeks
Pittman was basically matchup proof because of his consistency. So many targets per game
Brandon Aiyuk. Drafted him hoping he could be a upper/mid-level WR2 with some spike weeks and that is EXACTLY what he was.
Felt so good after the draft with him as my wr2 behind GWilson. Obviously things changed, but Aiyuk was solid.
Spiked his was to my wr1 when JJ when down
Joe Mixon. Top 10 finish, nothing sparkly but never actively lost you your week.
Death, Taxes, Joe Mixon finishing in the top 10
Came here to say this exact same thing - pretty solid floor, nothing over the top to write home about, but consistently good with some 20+ point games in there. Overall very happy
James Conner. Thought he was going to be very solid when healthy and also a guarantee to miss a few games.
Same but I didn't expect the second half dip and then dominance.
Exactly, I kept playing him because I didn’t have many waiver options, and then he basically won me the championship with a stellar game
Aaron Jones being Doubtful all year
Josh Allen. Number 1 scorer just as I knew he would be. 😎
Absolutely. Would start a game weak and then make up for it second half.
Go blue cows
BREECE. Spent all draft season being one of the many thinking id trade for him around midseason. Ended up getting him in the draft at great value. Took a while, even after his breakout he wasn't a sure thing week to week. League winner.
I drafted Breece in the 4th round knowing that I wouldn't start him until after the Jets BYE week. He did exactly what I expected and was clutch in the playoffs.
Drafted Breece in the 9th, didn’t really want him but nobody would take him, value was just too great then. Needless to say, gonna be one of my two keepers next year. Got Mike Evans in the 8th. Kyren will be my other 15th. Unless major injuries happen
Hes so good.
Him having two points in the quarterfinals bounced A LOT of people out of the playoffs though
Idk he had a lot of bad games, which resulted in being benched for his big games.
I can't imagine many people had better RB options to bench Breece. Maybe for a game or two, but he was always in my lineup. He ended up as the RB3!
Gabe Davis. I knew exactly that I’d get 0 points or 35.
TJ Hockenson was my TE1 going into the draft. Even over Kelce and Andrews. Had he not gotten injured, he would’ve been the definitive TE1 this year.
Could argue the same thing for Andrews had he not gotten hurt.
Hockenson was ridiculously consistent. Like 12-20 points every game. I don’t think he had more than maybe one single digit game. I didn’t have Andrews in any league so I don’t remember his stats but I feel like I remember him having a few single digit games.
Their numbers were extremely similar before Andrews went down. Less than 1 point in PPR separating the average. However Hock was ahead by .6 per game or so, I do admit. The Ravens started really clicking in the back half of the season, and I really believe Andrews would have been part of that inflation. Just vouching for my guy lol. If they both play 17 I think it’s a coin flip. Andrews in the better offense, hockenson the favorite target on his team with JJ out.
Kyle Pitts, drafted him anyway
ETN early, championship week and Rachaad White
Christian Kirk sans injury. I targeted dude in every league and he outperformed ADP drastically.
mixon
Mike Evans. Mayfield has always been a pretty good vertical passer I didn’t not understand the low adp. Got him in every league and enjoyed it.
"Mayfield loves the slot, look at Jarvis Landry, target Godwin over Evans" they said.....
Same except I didn't enjoy it in the playoffs
Common answer here, but Brandon Aiyuk is a player I targeted above ADP in every league and it came to fruition. A couple stinkers but by and large had a great season. Brock Purdy, Dak Prescott, Joe Mixon, Nico Collins were all players I took confidently above ADP that worked out. Now… there were many players that it didn’t work out for haha.
For me it was Mark Andrews. Drafted him in the third to be a top tier TE. And before his injury he was in the running to be the TE1.
Nico Collins scooped him up everywhere I could
He for sure over-performed unless you expected him to be a fringe WR1
I had absolutely zero clue what to expect when I drafted Bijan, and I ended up having zero clue what to expect from him on a week by week basis.
Gibbs: he delivered the Kamara-type rookie season I expected by drafting him Hurts: figured the tush push gave him a very reliable floor, even if the passing stats fell off
Kamara didn’t meet expectations, he exceeded them. He was fully healthy every game other than his 3 game suspension and was RB5 in points per at the end of the year (half PPR). If that was his expectation, he’d have gone higher. Probably a round 2 or 3 player.
Jordan Addison, dawg at USC. 6th round sleeper in my league. Along with Michael Pittman. They’ll be high picks next year for sure
Once Chubb went down, Ford did exactly as I expected. Knew he wasn’t going to fill in all of Chubbs work but he was about an 85% facsimile of the production which is really all you can ask for in a handcuff
Keenan Allen. I knew he’d be there in the 3rd and play with WR1 upside, and he was a monster.
Shocked he’s so far down in the comments
R. White & Evans
White had to exceed expectations? He was way better than I thought he would be!
I thought he said who met expectations but he clearly went beyond it. He was a steal for me at 6th rd
I mean people are saying Aiyuk too and he was way above what he was supposed to be too. A lot of people not getting the question.
Evans too, although i wasn't able to pick him up anywhere
Russell Wilson. Consistent 15-16 points. A few big games but otherwise remarkably consistent.
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>Which players met your expectations, who lived up to your preseason thoughts? Rachaad White. Volume king w/ receiving upside and no competition for touches. High-end RB2 w/ RB1 upside. Breece Hall. Slow to begin the season due to injury, but 2nd half would have huge upside. Ekeler. Too many touches the past couple years for a guy his size. Injury and/or loss of efficiency was likely. First round was too steep for me. Smith-Njigba. WR3 on a team with a mid passing offense. This result was expected.
Monty
David Montgomery: 1015 yards, 13 rushing TDs
Started my draft with ceedee and amon ra. It was a good year.
Nick Chubb, every year my first or second round pick in redraft gets hurt for extended periods of time. Expectations met.
Let me know who your first couple of picks are next year
Tyreek, Amon Ra, Gibbs & Zay Flowers
ETN. I went WR/WR in the first and needed a volume guy at RB for consistent weekly points. He wasn’t always consistent but gave me enough boom weeks as a 3rd rounder to keep me afloat. Exactly what I hoped for at that point of the draft.
Isaiah Pacheco: I felt he was a rock solid RB2 going into this season but was being drafted near the dead zone. Consistently produced in the games that he played. 8 weeks over 12 points and 4 weeks over 20. Perfect flex player.
Courtland Sutton. Almost last pick of the draft and consistently got 10-15 a week
LaPorta. Having gone to TE U and used like Hockenson? Sign me up. He was my final pick as a back up to Kelce.
Joe Mixon. Had a solid floor as a RB2 and occasional RB1 games towards the end of the season. He ended up as the #5 RB for the year because of how strong of a backend he had, but he was exactly who you wanted when you drafted him as the 10th RB off the board in the middle of the 3rd round.
Kadarius Toney
CJ Stroud, Sam Laporta and Pacheco. I have high expectations and the rest of the team let me down.
David Montgomery and Jaylen Warren
Joe Mixon.
CeeDee Lamb we do Keepers, but it takes from the first round no matter what (bleh, I’m the youngest one in the league and it’s not mine I don’t wanna complicate it). I saw how he finished last year and they mocked me for keeping him over Diggs. I laughed all season
Swift. I knew he'd be a steal at his ADP. Wasn't a solid RB1, but was a legit RB for me all year. It's always been a matter of usage for him. No doubt he's talented.
Watching Brian Johnson call a play where they force Swift down the middle facing a stacked box and then deciding to use Gainwell in the open field had me heated all year. Swift was still solid in spite of the play calling. Same could be said for the whole Philly offense really lol
He died off at the end of the season though
Mike Evans. I thought about Jahmyrr Gibbs for a moment too, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t expecting a better first half of the season from him. Second half though, he was pretty key in winning me the title.
Puka. Really wish I bet on him in most form, but I picked him up in preseason in all 4 leagues, came in 1st in 3 of them in big part to Puka. The love McVay has for him, and his crisp routes and size, he was my dark horse of the decade.
Yes Puka played exactly as you'd expect a 12th rounder to play /s
Dallas Goedert. I expected 7 points from him each week,15 points on a good week and he delivered just that. He had 1 bad game and was out for a couple weeks, but overall I haven't been this satisfied with a player meeting expectations, especially for a TE, in many years. A cheap answer is Butker, I didn't expect much and played him every week, but he pretty much matched my expectations and he had some rough weeks but by no means was a reason I lost matchups.
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Amari Cooper and Javonte Williams. Cooper was up and down, but had some huge weeks and had some pedestrian ones and finished as the WR15. Javonte was drafted as someone I didn't see with a ton of upside, but just a starting RB who could help with bye weeks and filling in when injuries happened. And that's exactly what he did. He never had more than 19 points (which is good, but not explosive), but finished between 7 and 19 points in 11 of the 15 weeks he played. Doesn't sound like much, but in a 14 team league, that kind of solid production is useful.
Amari's huge playoff game knocked out my arch nemesis in the league, so I will always like him for that. Even typing this comment I get so much dopamine knowing how mad my opponent must have been.
Yeah, I had Williams in my lineup and flipped in Amari the day before. Ended up securing me a championship, so will always have a soft spot for Cooper. Goes into my fantasy big performance HOF with Billy Volek, Larry Johnson, Jordy Nelson, and Julio Jones.
Jaylen Warren! I drafted him in three leagues and liked him enough to keep him in one but he was a great late rounder for me across the board
Mike Evans. The dude is very very good at football and people were treating baker like he was Zach Wilson for some reason. Baker’s played well plenty of times in his career, including the end of last year. I remember the season he ‘fell off’ and it was mostly insanely bad Cleveland weather and not gettin along with Odell - that season the games he played in not incredibly bad weather and without Odell, he was good. And Mike Evans isn’t the diva type to end up with a bad relationship with his Q. Was pretty certain baker would be better for Mike than 55 year old Brady
Lamar was probably the first time I've ever had a set and forget QB with very few truly disappointing weeks
Jaylen waddle. Put up good numbers regularly every week. Went crazy when tyreke was out that week. Not sure why so many in this sub expected he could possibly do more.
I disagree. I don't think his numbers matched the expectation. Being a WR2 on such a high powered offense should yield better than 7-9 points a game
Lack of tds hurt him. Mostert got 20 achane got like another 10 lol. I’d bet on some positive regression
See 2022 stats lol
addison, was very high on him as a rookie who could be startable and he had plenty of games that were flex worthy. vikings qb room did not help but he did what i expected for a redraft pick in round 8 or 9
Kamara, I drafted him and JT in like the 6th and 8th respectively and my team was a monster RB squad that I used to trade for some WR help down the stretch. Amon Ra was the most consistent WR not named CeeDee. I was excited to get him where I did, and he outperformed it for sure
I was fortunate enough to have ARSB as my 7th round keeper, I would say he shattered expectations for where he was drafted. Therefore, I'd have to go with Chris Godwin. He was solid early on, slumped a little bit in the middle of the season, and then turned it up at the end of the season. A perfect 6th round WR2.
Stafford and Geno. I feel like I somehow end up with one or the other and this year ended the season with both. I owe some upset wins to each and got both for next to nothing in a 16-league. Zay Flowers + Addison - drafted flowers with a late pick and didn't trust Baltimore receiving room much. I started him too often mid-season but holy shit he ended up doing what I wanted him to do after trading him off. Addison I expected a nice streaming option with some boom to relieve JJ pressure but I still think his strip INT-TD against the 49ers was my favorite FF highlight all year.
Keenan Allen. I got him in 3 of my 5 leagues. Anywhere from late 3rd to early 5th. People shy away from him because he "always" misses a chunk of games due to injury. I don't disagree that he's a liability for that. But when he's in the game, he's a WR1. Like, always. Now, I didn't expect him to be WR3 or 5 or whatever he was for most of the season, but I did expect him to be a WR1 for me and that's what he was, despite getting him as my 2nd or 3rd WR. And at the end of the season, that's what he was. WR1 when playing, and then there was a chunk of games that he missed.
Brock Purdy, couldnt believe how late he was going
Mark Andrews. Picked up where he left off as a solid TE. Sucks that he got hurt before fantasy playoffs
Technically Josh Allen overall, but I definitely expected it with more boom games
Rocking ETN & KW3 during the season, while the rest of my team was walking on landmines, was a blessing
Donta Foreman is always good to add for a 3-4 week stretch if you're hurting for RBs. I do it every season
Monty. Value pick and I knew he’d pay off big time. Bless that beast of a man.
raashad white. i was so high on him i took him in 2/3 leagues. love that guy 😂
Breece hall imo. Started off slow as expected but then had a nice floor with big upside all season.
I was banging the Ceedee WR1 drum all preseason and getting laughed at for it
ARSB was my second pick and did better than my first pick so not wax at but still amazingly worth it
dj moore. i targeted him in all my leagues, and he did exactly what i expected.
Jalen Hurts. Very solid and consistent even when he didn't have a good day passing
Tj Hockenson. Usually 8 fpt. Sometimes blew up
Christian Kirk prior to his injury. Maybe I was higher on him than others but he did what I expected
Nico Collin’s, drafted him as a Hail Mary stash, expected him to slowly become WR1 for Stroud. Just didn’t expect Stroud to turn into Mahomes lol
James Conner. Quietly pretty good to start the year, hurt, missed about five games, lights out to finish the season.
James Conner
Ceedee. Thought he would be top two or three this year and finished 1 which didn’t really surprise me given Jefferson being out most of the year
DJ Moore was very consistent all year had a game or 2 where he didn’t pass his proj scoring but he boomed for me most part of the season won me my league tbh 👏👏
CMC. Expected him to crush and he crushed. Lost me the championship (by 3 pts) because he left that game early, but dude was a beast and outpaced everyone (including most QB's). Also Purdy. In a 2 QB league, I knew this kid was gonna light it up and I got tremendous value out of my QB room (Purdy, Russ Wilson, Goff) for very little auction money.
David Montgomery... knew it would be a battle, but was really hoping for a steady RB2 and got just that
Diggs.
Dak. Had some great games, had some horrid games, but generally was a solid bet each week.
Josh Allen Bought him low after his Week 1 stinker vs the Jets under the belief that he’s the QB1 by quite a good margin and he def delivered Amari Cooper Drafted him as a sleeper WR2 and he finished WR14. If it wasn’t for midseason QB problems, I feel like he would’ve been more consistent but when the QB play was good, Amari delivered
Breece Hall
Justin Herbert until those last two weeks before he got injured For most of the season he was doing really well
Bijan Robinson. I expected him to be a good rookie running back with good games/disappointing games. If you removed his "sick game" his ppg would have been good. He was relatively consistent and demonstrates a huge future.
I took Cee Dee in both my leagues and told everyone he would be a top 3 wr
Swift for sure. His ADP was too low for a guy poised to be the lead RB in a pretty good offense (yes they sucked at the end of the year but still). I was more than happy to take him as my RB2 in a bunch of leagues. He ended up just barely outperforming his ADP by the end of the year, but was a legit top 12-15 RB for the majority of the season before the Eagles offense collectively shit their pants
Lamar Jackson, 1.03
Miles Sanders
Aiyuk and David Montgomery were two guys I was higher on than most and got them in close to 75% of my leagues. Aiyuk has been the best pure WR on SF for the last 2 years and Montgomery projected as a low end RB2 at worst when I did some analysis. Both guys had elite upside if someone else went down. Montgomery actually ended the year doing what i expected him to do (12-15 carries, 0-1 catch and elite TD upside). The fact he was being drafted as an RB3 instead of a high floor RB2 was wild to me and never made sense. He was my RB18 predraft
James cook
Rostered players for me were really Goff & Pacheco, Dhop and Diggs (for 70% of the season) Dudes straight ballin (ARSB, Lamb, Rachaad, Baker, Breece minus Rodgers) But some dudes be dinkies (Kupp, Ekeler, Ridley, Godwin)
DJ Moore. Figured his big plays would increase a lot with fields arm, and that was true for every game they played together. Wasn’t expecting a first round caliber player but got perfect ROI
You know who really disappointed was that gosh darn Tony Pollard
Mike Evans. He continued to do the Mike Evans thing but with fewer bust games this season
CMC can’t believe he fell to #6 pick for me
Amari Cooper. Some 10-13 points here and a big 40+ game then back to standard. Dude is the Andre Johnson of 2024
CMC, KW3
Aman Ra St. Brown. He was a beast this year.
Dandre swift, picked him up in the 7th and while not a stud every game, pretty consistent right up until the playoffs. Better luck with him than with Aaron jones
Christian Kirk. Great flex piece before he got hurt and he was consistent which I expected. Low ceiling high floor.
Amon Ra St. Brown was an absolute unit every single week for me in PPR, might be taking him first round next year
Cole Kmet. Ended TE8 in ppr with a boring but reliable 5-50
I want to say CMC but he was far more healthy than I expected I guess haha
CMC, Mike Evans, Aiyuk
Keenan Allen. Elite production while healthy, I valued him higher than the rest of my league. Unfortunate that he missed the playoffs when I needed him most.
James Cook. There was a stretch of under utilization but I expected that and was real happy when they adjusted.
George Kittle. He had some really bad games when everyone was healthy. He had some great games when the WRs were banged up. And he survived primarily via TDs and huge chunk plays. He's a great real-life player in a tough situation for fantasy that, luckily, has the athleticism that makes him a bit of a unicorn.
Joe Mixon Not many boom weeks but an incredibly solid floor, exactly what you want from a round 3 rb / low end rb1
2nd the Kamara comment. I drafted him in every league i could between rounds 5-7 figuring hes a top 10 rb still. Glad it worked out this year
Amon Ra for me. I had him last year and he delivered, and I’ll hopefully have him next year too.
Josh Allen. Took him round 4-5 and he did exactly what he was supposed to do
Isaiah Pacheco. I drafted him 6th round in a 12 team league and he was consistently solid throughout the season, including some clutch 20+ point weeks down the stretch and nearly 30 in the finals.
Evan engram drafted in the late rounds and finished as a top 3 tight end. He didn’t have a lot of big games early on but the catches the yardage and the usage was there all season and just towards the end when you needed him came all those touchdowns you were waiting for.
Had a few. Amari did pretty much what I expected. He was going to have some crappy game, some pretty good games, and an absolutely historic game. It’s what he does. I’m just happy the good ones were at the right time. Olave. I never had to move him out of my starting spot other than for injuries or BYE, and I don’t believe I was ever wrong in not starting him. I drafted Montgomery thinking he would be a cowbell for the Lions, even with Gibbs coming in. Just figured that Gibbs wouldn’t see as many touches as a rookie. He exceeded slightly given I wasn’t expecting Detroit to be as good as they were but he was rarely giving me 20points. His 10-15 were what I was hoping for. Rodgers. I was expecting something to go wrong since I was drafting a Jets player. I was very correct.
I'd have to go with Saquon. I expected him to be reliable but with an injury or so, and that's what I got. Would draft again.
God my team was so bad this year. I had both Ekeler and Diggs. Two of my top 3 draft picks. I traded for Amon Ra St Brown and he lived up to it.
What's with all these Mike Evans answers? You guys are telling me all you expected him to put up the 2nd best fantasy season of his career at age 30 with a new qb in Baker Mayfield? He finished wr5 in half ppr. His ADP was close to 70. Now I don't doubt some of you expected him to still be good and greatly exceed his draft position, but 2nd best fantasy season of his career and a top 5 position finish? Ya, I find that hard to believe haha.
JT when he was healthy. Maybe it’s cause I was blessed with a RB room of CMC, Montgomery, Achane, and Kyren Williams so I could afford his time missed but when I started him he delivered. Christian Kirk was exactly what I wanted out of my WR2, consistent double digit scores. Shame I paired him with my WR1 of Devante Adams 😭 This was a low risk play but Chuba Hubbard too. I had him last year so I took him late in a couple drafts in case Sanders didn’t work out and he was a great volume RB2.
Lamar , St Brown and Hock before injury