In the late 90s, fantasy football wasn’t a thing the hordes were into, it was a snooze, the thing of your uncles with drafts in the dingy basement. Like selling insurance, or accounting. Getting those newspapers on Tuesday and adding up points by hand. BORING.

Until the RedZone came onto the scene. RedZone changed the game with one simple idea. The $400 auction draft amongst friends with way too much time on their hands (in ever decreasing amounts as more hands were born).

You got the snake draft for the plebs. Boring, safe, low risk, low payoffs.

The auction draft? Where everyone gets money to buy the players of their choice? Suddenly the risk goes up, the draft is way too stressful, and the payoffs are exactly the same! Who the hell doesn’t wanna spend over a third of their capital on one QB?

For the first time, the fantasy football drafter went from the country club (#highlife) to the Wild Onion. Money flowed, people married, and a new generation of RedZone players were born!

Fantasy Football barely noticed as the auction draft became the hottest new thing. Excess, travails, horrific decisions and people on tilt. It had it all.

Until one day, many years later, in 2025, it all came crashing down.

…the Tree Cats draft Josh Allen for $150…

In the end, the $400 Auction Draft was too much and the RedZone suffered. None of the experts, the ADPs, the people who know better saw it coming…

But a few saw it coming. The weirdos, the planners, those who have four screens open during the draft and only use one. Not me, I’m not a weirdo. I’m pretty fucking cool. But we’ll meet again later.

But these weirdos saw it coming. They looked.

Let’s hear it from them on what they saw and experienced. Including their thoughts on other drafters.

Outlaw Nation

I had four goals for this specific draft, and overall, I’m happy with the execution of the plan.

Goal #1: Draft both of the high-profile suspended WRs (Rice and Addison) at a steep discount, and hope that my team is in contention when they eventually occupy the WR1 and WR2 slots (6 weeks for Rice, 3 for Addison). Rice cost $21; Addison cost $12.

Goal #2: Hero-RB instead of Zero-RB. I was specifically targeting Henry (overlooked due to age), CMC (take a gamble on the glass cannon and hope he stays healthy), and Jacobs (should get a strong workload, always overlooked). I ended up with Henry for $76, rather than CMC ($73) or Jacobs ($72).

Goal #3: Take one of the big-3 TEs in order to win the Flex position frequently. I ended up with Kittle for $39 instead of Bowers ($86) or McBride ($62).

Goal #4: Park a large chunk of money at QB to help insulate against injuries. My goal is to win the Superflex position most weeks. I ended up with Burrow as the fifth-most expensive QB ($85) and Mahomes as the sixth-most expensive QB, though he only cost $61 which I see as one of the best value picks in the draft.

Post-draft thoughts:

I followed the playbook more closely than I usually do, which meant significant spending early on Burrow, Henry, Mahomes, and Kittle, but then doing almost nothing until most other teams were down to <$40 bankrolls. Scooping up myriad cheap WRs with upside was critical to the strategy, and that ended up working very well. Most excited about Pearsall’s pricetag ($8). I think he will surprise people with his workload.

I wanted to build a team that could absolutely crash and burn but could also realistically have a championship lineup, which is largely dependent on the cheap draft costs of Rice and Addison allowing me to fill out the rest of the team. Not interested in being anywhere in the middle-ground.

Case for contention:

Kittle and Henry stay healthy all year and provide elite production for my Flex and RB1 spot respectively. Rice returns from suspension and resumes his WR1 pace from last year (he was at 20+ ppg), combined with the Mahomes stack. Addison also returns and continues his TD-scoring dominance (19 TDs in career 32 games, WR20 and WR21 in his first two years) for my WR2 slot. Henderson gets lead-back work for the Patriots including pass-catching and ends up as a high-end RB2. Calvin Ridley, Ricky Pearsall, Josh Downs, and Chris Olave all see significant target shares on their admittedly flawed offenses and provide meaningful Flex value.

If those things play out, this team has a championship ceiling.

Worst-case scenario:

Henry gets banged up. Henderson loses too much work to Stevenson, so I am forced to rely on my very-thin RB depth (Kaleb Johnson and JK Dobbins). Rice and Addison are shaky after their time away and lose me the WR1 and WR2 slots most weeks.

If Burrow or Mahomes miss time, I am likely in big trouble.

Most important player to determine the season, not including injuries: TreVeyon Henderson could sink my season if he is largely useless, as I could not easily fill the RB2 hole, but if he is a rookie phenom, this team will be exceptionally balanced and dangerous when Rice and Addison return.

Worst pick: Cam Ward for $5 was a stupid mistake and is completely unnecessary. I really wish I would have had the additional lineup vacancy at the end of the draft, especially considering I ended with $7 extra. Taking $12 and being able to spend it on an additional RB or TE in the late stages of the draft would have been very helpful and would have made the team less reliant on Henderson hitting his ceiling.

Draft grade: B+

– Andrew Wheeler, MD

What a summary by the illustrious Andrew Wheeler, MD. He’s surely got an astute view of his own draft. He’s even got some feedback on the rest of the draftees. Let’s continue on to our reigning back-to-back champs. Look forward to other drafters reviews sprinkled in throughout.

Kingmakers

Kingmakers entered the draft with a clear plan to defend their crown and executed it to near perfection. Step one was to lock down a top-two QB. Even though Josh Allen’s price rocketed to $150, they managed to sign Lamar Jackson for only $100—the first steal of the night. With an ELITE QB secured, the focus shifted to anchoring the roster with top-tier talent. While other managers pushed RBs over $100, Kingmakers grabbed PFF’s highest-graded WR over the last two seasons, Nico Collins, for $68—a value that could define the season. Patience was the next play, letting others blow their budgets and fill their rosters. Then, when the time was right, the Kingmakers lived up to their name, locking in the true “Kingmaker” himself: Christian McCaffrey for $73—the single highest-ceiling player in fantasy. The foundation was set, and it was time for the long haul, waiting for later round value. But fortune favors the bold, so when the EXPLOSIVE Brian Thomas Jr. was about to go for less than expected, Kingmakers struck, securing another stud receiver for $56. While unplanned, they recognized the value could not be passed. Then in a generally unconventional move, they sniped the #1 rated defense for $2, the Denver Broncos, to free roster space by eliminating the need to churn defenses all season—a subtle edge that could pay dividends down the stretch. Next came one of the most exciting acquisitions of the night: Omarion Hampton for $40—the freakishly talented first-round rookie slotted into Greg Roman’s run-heavy offense, poised to shoulder a workhorse role from day one. Superflex value was the next target, and Justin Fields for $32 fit the bill perfectly; though a volatile QB, Fields’ rushing upside has proven league-winning before—and Jackson’s dominance at QB1 smooths out the risk. Flex depth was built around WR1 profiles in uncertain but improving situations: Rome Odunze for $10, a top 10 draft pick tied to Ben Johnson’s innovative Bears offense, has the juice to ascend to WR1 status, and Stefon Diggs for $10, a proven veteran stepping in as New England’s WR1, has been turning heads at camp. Finally, Kingmakers signed several running backs with tremendous upside to fill out their team; most notably, Zach Charbonnet—a league winner if Kenneth Walker were to get injured again.

Kingmakers crushed value across the board, securing a foundation of superstars while layering in upside plays that can swing matchups. A couple missed opportunities keep this from being a perfect draft, but make no mistake—with the highest Week 1 projection in the league, the reigning champion once again built a roster worthy of the crown.

Final Grade: A

Other Thoughts:

Andrew Wheeler, MD –

Makers: Significant capital invested in RB at the top unlike the previous two years’ drafts. Big gamble with the money tied up in CMC ($73) and Hampton ($40). I feel like the point of drafting so many cheap handcuffs (Charbonnet, Chubb, Allen, Gordon, Benson) is that it allows you to spend less at RB overall, so the large investment at the top seems incongruent.

Best pick: Huge fan of Nico Collins for $68

Worst pick: I am just not a Hampton guy. The Chargers don’t have a good offensive line to begin with, and they already lost their best lineman, Slater, for the entire season. It’s not that I particularly like Najee Harris (I definitely don’t), I just think the $40 pricetag for a guy in Hampton’s situation is way too much for me.

Honorable mention: Fields for $32 is not crazy, but you’re basically solely hoping for rushing production at this point, and that’s simply inconsistent. He will lose the Superflex position regularly when he doesn’t get a rushing TD.

The Cool Guy –

Definitely some big words from the reigning champ. Not entirely sure how Lamar Jackson for $100 was a steal. Was basically his draft price. You don’t get extra points for someone else full sending it. Anyways I’ll probably see this King in the finals once again.

Troll Hunters

Starters: A-
Depth: C
Overall: B+

Overall, my squad is all about the young guns with a few elders sprinkled in… as such, we have a lot of potential but some of this potential hasn’t actually proven themselves yet or just for one year.

QB – a top tier guy in Daniels and a top 10 super flex for Bo. No team has a better pair than these two (there are a few teams with a comparable pair though). Only issues is both guys are young.

RB – similar to above, top 5 potential and top 10 potential has me locked and loaded for a strong year. Ones a rookie and ones a sophomore so hopefully they aren’t a rookie or one year bust… can’t find another team with better pair!

WR: two top 15 guys with raising star and The Chetah!! Okay 1-2 teams have a better pair so could’ve been better but can’t complain when I focused on QB/RB

Flex: opportunity to improve. Lots of young talent to shine and jump into starting spot!

Depth: could be better, missed on a solid backup RB so went a little wild on rookie/young options. WR top 5 picks… at one point in their careers so hopefully they can dust off a few of those big weeks to shine again!

Overall solid core squad that far exceed a normal snake draft. However, depth is lacking but that’s only needed if someone gets hurt which probably won’t happen right?

Other Thoughts:

Andrew Wheeler, MD –

Hunters: I feel like I should like this team. This team is built logically and makes sense. It’s balanced, has depth, has upside, and has some interesting bench pieces (Kupp, Warren, Pittman) that could be big contributors. It all fits together nicely. And I simply don’t like it. I don’t know why; I know that I should like it. I don’t. This team gives me bad vibes somehow. Sorry Hayden, I genuinely cannot explain it.

Best pick: Ladd McConkey for $39

Worst pick: Marvin Harrison Jr. was so unbelievably underwhelming last season (on my FF team…) that I struggle to even consider his upside case, which is admittedly immense. I think Kyler also made him look worse, but when I watched him last year, he just didn’t look like the college player I recalled. I am worried about him.

Putt Putt Bogey Boys

ADP, Target Percentage, blah blah blah. Words designed to confuse. Here we have Ashley Hanson stepping in to give the lowdown on the Bogey Boys draft:

Team Putt-Putt Bogey Boys lived up to their name in this years draft.  After a rough 2024-25 season where they saw their GHIN slump from 3.2 to an embarrassing 18 (or avg Bogey per hole) the boys lost their naming rights and will forever (if by some miracle the boys pull out a championship) be known as PPBB during the 2025-26 campaign.  Their GM treated this years draft like the 3rd day of an all inclusive boys golf trip after staying out all night sipping Transfusions (the new Tanq and tonics, shout out GMMBP) singing Friends in Low Places, Piano Man and Kesha’s Backstabber (not sure who added that to the touchtunes).

While there was no literal hangover, the lack of prep and attention had Mr. GM shaking over 3 foot putts and lacking commitment on some hefty prices right out of the gate.  The Bogey Boys did grab themselves a solid top 5 pick with JJ while not overpaying but also not getting a deal.  The overall draft was a lot of chasing old school names with D. Adams, J. Hurts, J. Waddle, D. Smith (but nice combo with Hurts), Ekeler, Godwin, Thielan, like did this guy know we were drafting in 2025 and not 2020??  Again, there was not much overpaying but no deals, steals and chasing the “I don’t want to be last place” names.  Additionally, ended with maybe ~$15 of extra cash which, while better than some other draftees, is not how you want to end the night.  

Overall, I feel like depth was achieved in WR, likely overpaid in the QB/SuperFlex (not on the players but could’ve downgraded and beefed up other spots) and is soft in RB.  PPBBs I believe are going to have a rough front 9, maybe line 2-5 but will overcome their name and finish birdie, eagle, birdie, birdie and be in contention for a playoff spot late in the season.  

Overall Grade: B- (bonus pts for the hometown stud while the extra cash remaining really caps how high a grade I can give)

Other Thoughts:

Andrew Wheeler, MD

Putters: Pretty big fan of this balanced team build. Jefferson, Hurts, and Achane give this team a high ceiling, with the major team risk factors being Achane’s health, Conner’s age, and Adams’ new situation. If CMC misses time, this is a championship contending team due to Brian Robinson.

Best pick: Already mentioned Robinson, so I’ll shout out Matthew Golden for $5

Worst pick: Davante Adams for $24 is not a good value, in my opinion. Stafford is already injured, and I just struggle to see Adams returning good reliable value with Nacua being the guy.

Honorable mention: Joe Mixon literally night not play this season. Holding onto him may end up being nothing but a useless roster spot.

The Cool Guy: We received this grade on the Bogey Boys from the Ashley Hanson email address. The Bogey Boys wife is keeping on top of things isn’t she?

River Gypsies

Well, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that going into this draft, I may have believed TEs were 1.5 ppr in this league… I had never felt less prepared for a FF draft than I did going into this one, and that really came through in my incorrect memory of a basic scoring metric of this league. I started to question why I was able to get both Bowers and McBride for such good prices, so I had to do some recalculating on my end. But don’t get me wrong, there was no way that was going to stop me from drafting Mr. Swift at the stellar price of only $15. How could that steal of a deal be passed up? (And please don’t refer to the other nine people in the league who did in fact pass that up, most of whom did not yet have a TE at all…)

 Looking back, might it have been better to spend more than $5 on QBs in a Superflex league, and less than $163 on TEs when there is not even a requirement to start one? Who is to say? I’ve drafted three elite TEs in the past, and without getting into the nitty gritty of historical data, lets just pretend that worked out flawlessly for me then, which is obviously why I have repeated that splendid approach once again. 

I went into this draft with exactly zero players I was targeting to draft. My approach was solely take the value where it was, and take any players who seemed like they were going for any sort of discount. I think this worked out fairly well for my rbs and wrs. I’m content, but not thrilled, with my starting rbs of J Taylor, K Williams, and K Walker. And the same can be said for my WRs with Nabers and Higgins. We simply won’t address the lack of depth at wr, that is why we are rolling with three TEs, I shouldn’t be starting more than two wrs much nearly ever this season. And I asked Nabers and Higgins to not get injured, so we should be good to go.

Overall, I walked away feeling very meh about my draft. I wish I hadn’t miscalculated values for TEs so I could have used some of that money to get some value players at other positions. But that’s life with nearly zero preparation. I’ll give myself a C+ overall for the draft, but I have full confidence that my TEs will do what needs to be done to carry my team to another playoff berth. And we know anything can happen in the playoffs, so let’s see where this goes!

Other Thoughts:

Andrew Wheeler, MD –

Gypsies: Botched the QB position badly enough that championship hopes don’t exist anymore. This team will easily make the playoffs, but even if the position players stay healthy and play well, the gulf at QB1 and Superflex will eventually doom RG against a playoff team with strong players in those slots.

Best pick: Kyren Williams for $51

Worst pick: Kenneth Walker for $25 is good value but not when you have almost no draft money remaining. It prevented the Gypsies from being able to spend more than $3 on any remaining players, at a time when they had no QBs on the roster.

Honorable mention: Bowers for $86. Big premium paid relative to McBride ($62) and Kittle ($39).

Bogey Boys – Gypsies: I’m at a loss for words spending 40% of your budget on 3 TEs and benching $15 cuz starting 3 TEs would be stupid.

Northside Angels

Hey, told you I’d be back. It’s me. I don’t usually hang out with these people. I have backpacking friends.

Anyways, I heard about this draft and went in feeling like I needed to threepeat that championship game. Yeah, yeah, I know I lost twice in a row to the new guy, but come on RedZone, why am I pulling all the weight here?

I will be honest and say I went on tilt a bit this draft. Like I aways do. But I stuck with my boy one more year. That’s right! Let’s go Chase! Da number one WR once again back on the Angels. Let’s fly!

I was really hoping to get that Bengals stack, but the Outlaws held firm so I kind of scrambled after that to grab Jahmyr Gibbs and CeeDee Lamb. At that point I knew I was locked into the studs and duds strategy and was basically out of money. Picking up Dak should hopefully work on out season long combined with the stack of CeeDee and Ferguson, but those TEs are gonna be huge for me. Best value probably was Jones, but the pain of watching the new DE of the Packers eat him up will stop that.

Overall, it was kind of a rough draft but I just gotta work that waiver wire and keep the fingers crossed for the injury gods. But hey, the Angels are on the heavenly side. Providence will prevail once again!

Draft Grade: C+ mainly due to the studs.

Other Thoughts:

Andrew Wheeler, MD

Angels: This is the best example of Studs-and-Scrubs we have this year. Studs: Dak, Gibbs, Chase, Ceedee. Scrubs: Essentially everyone else. These are always fun teams because when they stay healthy and hit with a couple later picks, these are easy contenders, but one single injury could send this team packing to last place. No way to prognosticate, but I do admire the fact that none of the studs have consistent problems with injuries in the past. Gotta give you that.

Best pick: Aaron Jones for $16

Worst pick: I absolutely hate the Sutton pick for $15, not because I particularly hate Sutton’s game (I think he’ll be decent with Bo), but because it killed your hopes of grabbing any high-value late-draft trendy sleepers even for just like $3. Grabbing five $3 guys oftentimes ends up infinitely better than five $1 guys because you avoid being stuck with the dredges like Anthony Richardson and Najee Harris… Those couple bucks are a huge difference.

Honorable mention: See above

Fulton Jail Inmates

The Fulton Jail Inmates. Former college basketball player. Now locked up.

I’m just ignoring Roji’s $150 Josh Allen cause I just don’t get it. His RB 2 is a meme player. F

Everyone else: What happened at the beginning of that draft? Let’s compare to past years

2025 WR 1-3
Chase $122
JJ $95
Ceedee $80

2024 WR 1
Ceedee $79
2023 Wr 1
JJ $100

2025 QB 1-4 (leaving out that awful Josh Allen $150)
Lamar $100
Hurts $92
Jayden $89
Burrow $85

2024 QB 1
Josh Allen $97
Hurts $92

Meanwhile I was able to take advantage of y’all’s weird bidding. Still getting incredible value. I’ll break it down for you in snake draft.

AJ brown 3rd round
James cook 4th round
Kamera 4th round
Mike evans 4th round
Caleb 5th round
Chubba 5th round
Goff 5th round
Drake Maye 5th round
Tet 5th round
Harvey 6th round
Hunter 6th round
Worth 6th round
Pacheco 7th round
Jameson Williams 7th round
Egbuka 10th round

Average ADP 5th round.
Average ADP in a snake draft? 8th round.

Yet I’m right there for projected points. Injures and byes come up, won’t affect me.

Enjoy your 2 studs and 10th round picks. A championship has never been easier

Oh yeah my Grade? A-, wish I spent more on Jamo.

Other Thoughts:

Andrew Wheeler, MD –

Gophers: Milquetoast team build I was specifically trying to avoid. This team will also easily make the playoffs due to depth, but it doesn’t have one single elite player, so I don’t realistically see how it could win a championship. Very high-floor, very low-ceiling.

Best pick: Isiah Pacheco for $16

Worst pick: $25 for Caleb Williams is riding the line of not-good QB for a starter but also not-cheap draft cost. Either combine with more money and go up to a Baker Mayfield type, or you go cheaper and get Herbert ($10), Stroud ($7), etc.

Honorable mention: Juking the stats by spending $39 on Jameson Williams to close. Lots of money leftover, in reality.

River Gypsies:

Speaking of a lack of studs, look no further than Fulton Jail Inmates. Honestly the draft came together better than it was looking at one point for him, but when your top player drafted is maybe James Cook, that is one interesting technique. He took the studs and duds approach, but forgot to draft the studs! Mismanaged funds cost this team dearly, every team can afford to shell out for at least one top dog. If FJI had been able to snag one stud from the get go instead of blowing money at the end, this draft could look a lot different. But the lack of a top true talent on this team, means it’s going to require hitting on a number of middling players to really have the firepower to contend. 

This team can contend for a playoff spot for sure, but I don’t think it will be able to challenge other teams when their studs go off, because there are simply no studs to try and matchup with opponents. The one upside of having no studs is bye weeks won’t affect FJI as much, because the drop off from their best player, to their strong bench, is not as extreme. Too bad there aren’t bye weeks come playoff time 😉

Bogey Boys – SadGopher: zero studs and a lot of $20 crap, with a blatant $ waste on your last pick

The Cool Guy – Studs? 0. Duds? 0? Money? 0. Snake Draft? Not this league. Now what happens? The season be over.

Twin Cities Tree Cats

Well the scorching got bad there, but let’s detour a bit with the Tree Cats. Surely, they have something lovely for us to review?

You know the old wisdom is to say less, win more. Here is the draft recap by TCTC in the form of 3 Haikus. My self draft grade is a passing C

Cats climb to the top
With no drama tight ends picked
Kelce? What a joke

Expensive QBs
Allen, JJ, Stroud and Dart
No one else is good

Talk your trash all day
Yes I ran out of money
Josh Jacobs, nuff said 

Best of luck,

Dan

Other Thoughts:

River Gypsies

$150 for Josh Allen is ludicrous. I mean, for that price, you could practically have Bowers, McBride, and Kelce. Seems like a clear decision there… Speaking of TEs, did you know a team drafted more TEs than River Gypsies? It’s true, TCTC spent $9+ on four separate TEs! Tyler Warren for $12?!? I know there was one exception recently, but haven’t we all heard about rookie TEs before? 

Aside from Josh Allen, this team has no true studs. A number of middling players across the board. Most teams at least have a major strength in one or two position groups, but this team has put all of their eggs into the Josh Allen basket. A down year or injury to Josh Allen, and it’s going to be a major uphill battle just to try and sneak into the playoffs. I hate to say it (no I don’t), but we already have our frontrunner for the toilet bowl this year… 

Bogey Boys

Tree Cats: somehow grabbed 4 TEs and might start three of them as well as spending half the budget on QBs which in itself isn’t bad but you could’ve had Jackson and Burrow for less.  Like Pitts at $12 and Montgomery at $9, I think both will give great value.

Andrew Wheeler, MD

Tree Cats: Can’t really start anywhere besides the astonishing $150 for Josh Allen, combined with another $45 for JJ McCarthy. Keep in mind, I bought the QB5 and QB6 for less than Allen alone. That’s a huge gamble and puts stress on every other position as far as spending goes, and that stress ended up materializing in the WR2 slot with either Isaac TeSlaa or Keon Coleman. There are four QBs on the roster (total $203) and also amazingly four TEs on the roster as well (total $52), making this arguably the most unique team build I can remember. Honestly, I don’t know that it’s gonna work great.

Best pick: Drake London for $50

Worst pick: I think spending $7 on CJ Stroud when you’ve already got both QB starters locked in for $195 is a major error. That $7, combined with the $1 spent on Dart, with the two accompanying roster spots, could have been used to augment the WR corps which somehow only ended up with 3 WRs. For example, $5 for Jerry Jeudy and $3 for Josh Downs would make this team look quite different.

Honorable mention: Kyle Pitts for $12 is evidence that Daniel believes more than I do. I just can’t do it anymore with Pitts.

Kingmakers

Worst draft belongs to the Twin Cities Tree Cats. Dropping $150 on Josh Allen really limited their ability to build a strong team.

The Cool Guy: Whew. I mean I like Josh Allen so I think he was worth the big buy if you are all in on him. But man. Twas a shock to see. Let’s go JJ! But how dare you impugn Mr. Swift. That is Travis Swizzle!

Inmates:

I’m just ignoring Roji’s $150 Josh Allen cause I just don’t get it. His RB 2 is a meme player. F

302 Cadets

We didn’t get to hear much from the Cadets on the whole draft, so we’ll let the others speak for them:

The Cool Guy:

Gotta be honest, what a balanced team from a spend perspective. No one to crazily expensive, but all solid players and he didn’t even have to spend $4 on the Steelers D. The stance of this team seems to be the everyman. And they could be the best in aggregate. Grade: A-

Andrew Wheeler, MD

Cadets: Arguably the most balanced build in the league with top-end talent at every level. Don’t be fooled, last year’s QB#4 Mayfield ($51) is the Cadets’ QB1, not Murray. This team is gambling on Breece Hall having a return to form, and on DK Metcalf having a strong season with Rodgers. If those happen, this team will go very far in the playoffs.

Best pick: Jakobi Meyers for $1

Worst pick: Kyler Murray for $45 is going to be a frustrating experience all year with decent highs and head-scratching lows. I would have gone cheaper instead (Maye, Goff, Herbert, etc) and used that saved capital to upgrade from DJ Moore ($18) to a better WR like McConkey, London, Tyreek, etc.

Honorable mention: Colston Loveland, even though he was only $1, just feels like a useless roster spot. Rookie TE on the Bears? Not the bet I’d personally make. 

Big City Hillbillies

The Hills and their billies stayed quiet from the great eastern shore. But we have the expert analysis of the plains folk to tell us more:

Andrew Wheeler, MD

Hillbillies: This QB room (Lawrence for $4, Herbert for $10, Love for $4) is literally exactly what the Gypsies should have done if they hadn’t foolishly taken Walker. Great allocation of resources. The RB duo (Robinson and Barkley) combined with Nacua make it easy to see how, pending injuries, this team intends to reach the top. This does seem like the most likely team to get derailed by the injury bug, though.

Best pick: JSN for $35

Worst pick: Garrett Wilson for $22 with Justin Fields throwing to him… Not into that at all, despite Wilson’s obvious talent. Just seems like a situation to avoid entirely. Honorable mention: Evan Engram for $8 seems bizarre to me.

The Cool Guy:

The Hillbillies, besides the Outlaws, were my personal nemesis this year. Just a solid RB room that scares me and grabbed the ones I wanted. Felt like I had to get Gibbs away from him otherwise they’d run all over us! Team to watch this year. Grade: A

Bogey Boys

Best Draft: Hillbillies – heavy RB play (over 50% budget) feels like it’s going to provide a solid base and believe picking the best player on bad teams for WR is going to pay off (LAR, NYJ, SEA, CLE) with some value at TE.

Boom

Well, it happened. And to be honest I am jacked. Jacked to the tits! Football is here and we are about to turn into 16 weeks of highs and lows, injuries and sleepers, and the painful realization once again that the Northside Angels will make it to the championship on the back of Ja’Marr Chase.

Overall self-grades alongside the Cool Guys’ Grade for those who didn’t self-grade:

Team	Draft Grade
Outlaw Nation	B+
Kingmakers	A
Troll Hunters	B+
Putt Putt Bogey Boys	B-
River Gypsies	C+
Northside Angels	C+
Fulton Jail Inmates	A-
Twin Cities Tree Cats	C
302 Cadets	A-
Big City Hillbillies	A

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