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Fantasy Football Today

Lessons Learned from a 2019 Draft (05/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today

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4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes it is helpful to revisit history. Today we'll look at a PPR draft we did just before the start of the 2019 season and see what lessons we can learn. First, we read an email comparing Mike Evans and Amari Cooper (2:55) and as "The Last Dance" has come to a close, we reflect on what made Michael Jordan such a captivating athlete (6:15) and of course debate Jordan vs. LeBron ... Quick news items (13:31) on the WAS WRs, James Conner and more before we get into last year's draft! As we look at Round 1 (16:08) we wonder who will become this year's Dalvin Cook. In Round 2 (21:05), the RBs were largely disappointing but the TEs were not. Round 3 (27:15) makes us question the value of small sample sizes when it comes to RBs and Round 4 (30:30) brings up a discussion about TE depth ... What can we learn about RBs who rarely catch passes as a few of them were drafted in Round 5 (35:31)? And as we look at the rest of the draft (41:00), we discuss rookie RBs, drafting WRs who have a chance to be the #1 guy on their team, the best players to take late and plenty more ... Your emails at [email protected] 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow the new FFT Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/FFToday Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @YardsPerGretch, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviK78rIWXhZdFzJ1Woi7Fg/videos Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports.

0:04.8

Here we go.

0:05.8

Email us at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com.

0:09.8

It's time to dominate your fantasy league.

0:14.0

Let's go!

0:15.0

Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and Eve.

0:19.2

Welcome to your Monday edition of Fantasy Football Today.

0:22.2

We are looking back at a PPR draft that we did last year.

0:25.6

Back to the Fantasy Football Today league.

0:28.0

And this was the last starting lineup that I submitted.

0:31.2

You can tell how my team went.

0:33.4

Sam Darnold, Todd Gurley, Ronald Jones,

0:37.0

Keenan Allen, DK Metcalf, Sterling Shepherd,

0:40.0

some reason Gerald Everett is starting a tight end.

0:43.2

Stefan Digs, and the Titans DST.

0:46.2

I don't know who they were facing.

0:47.6

I did. I have a very good year this league.

0:49.6

But you won your final game.

0:51.6

I did.

0:52.6

Well, it does in the standings that you have a one-game win streak.

0:56.0

Yes.

0:57.0

Um, I didn't.

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