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In this episode 1089 of the Late Round fantasy football podcast, thanks for tuning in.

We're in the thick of it with the NFL draft.

We're talking prospects, and we're doing so from both a dynasty angle and a season-long angle.

With best ball especially, redraft is becoming more and more of a year-round game.

Dynasty has always been that way, but it's becoming more and more of a year-round game. Dynasty has always been that way,

but it's becoming more evident in the season-long game types too. So since we're talking rookies and dynasty, let's talk about rookies and redraft as well. You might recall, but last summer,

I did an episode on the rookie edge in redraft leagues. It was actually episode 1,000 of

the late round podcast. There was a lot of chatter about rookies no longer being good redraft bets

because the market now rightfully understands that rookies can be valuable in redraft. So I dug

into the topic. What I generally found was that rookie wide receivers, there were good bets across the board.

We were also coming off a season where those rookie wide receivers dominated, so that wasn't

much of a surprise finding.

And for the record, it's something I've written about in the late round draft guide each year.

For running backs, they were still okay enough picks, but it did appear as though the market

was drafting them earlier than usual.

And when that's the case, expectations change. They weren't players that you needed to avoid,

but they weren't players you needed to aggressively target either. Now, thanks to this past season,

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