Hey guys, like I said on the episode from earlier this week on utilizing front office decision-making,

I'm taking a long weekend to relax and recharge after a wild couple of months with the draft.

So instead of the typical perspectives episode, you're about to listen to an episode that I did last year

on what I call the pocket passer trap.

It's a good one to listen to before we get going with our season long

research because yes, season long fantasy football is about to be here. I appreciate you listening.

I'll be back in your ears next week. Almost exactly a year ago, I published an episode of the

podcast called The Rise of the Early Round

Quarterback. Years and years ago, when I first started in the fantasy football industry,

quarterback's reading selected really early in drafts. But based on supply and demand and predictability,

it didn't make much sense. A late round quarterback approach was much more approachable. So I wrote about it.

I published the late round quarterback ebook in 2012, and I've been brain-vobbiting fantasy takes

ever since. We've been through a journey over the years. In that 2014 to 2015 time frame,

drafting a quarterback early was legitimately worthless. When looking at

top 18 quarterbacks by ADP in 2015, for example, the correlation between where those

quarterbacks were drafted and the number of fantasy points per game that they actually scored

was zero. QB2s were getting you just as many points as QB1s.

We were terrible at predicting performance.

That all changed in 2020.

And the reason it changed in my eyes is because of Lamar Jackson.

Look, I've missed on a lot of things in fantasy football through the years.

That's part of this gig.

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