FANTASY FOOTBALL ARTICLES

First Round - WHAT?!?! First time in 18 years. Way to send a message to the most egotistical of all positions.

Second Round – This round has historically not produced many starters and almost none with fantasy relevance. Greg Jennings in the lone exception over the last five years but he loses Brett Farve this year. Making this year even more wierd, there was a huge run on wideouts and a historically high number of wideouts (ten) were drafted in this round. They did not so much exclude first round wide receivers this year, they just shoved them all into the second round. Evaluating this year's class has to consider that Thomas, Hardy and Nelson could have all been first rounders in other years.

Third Round – This round has produced some nice players but rarely more than one per year if that. Anquan Boldin had a great rookie year but Reggie Brown took a couple of years to catch on. Bernard Berrian has come on well but this is the round of players who take time to develop - if they ever do.

Fourth Round – Not a lot of value has come from this round in the last five years though Cotchery and Ernest Willford have produced marginal fantasy value. Usually this round (and deeper) serves up guys who become serviceable #2 wideouts for teams - if even that. Brandon Marshall is the lone exception here.

Rounds Five to Seven – Oddly enough, the fifth and sixth rounds have done nothing to produce starters and yet Donald Driver, T.J. Houshmandzadeh and of course Marques Colston came from the seventh round to becoming starters. The majority of these players do nothing if they even make the team but there have been some big surprises from the final round every couple of years.

2008 -   What to think when no NFL teams wanted a wideout in the first round of the draft this year. But the floodgates opened in the second round and drained ten players out. Avery is a curious first wideout drafted and goes to a bad situation in STL who will not need him this year. James Hardy has the most promising opportunity of any rookie wide receiver thanks to a dearth of decent players in Buffalo . Jordy Nelson has promise in Green Bay but Favre retired and Driver hasn't. The prospect this year are not good outside of Hardy but down the road, any of these second rounders have some promise obviously and Thomas, Nelson and Sweed most likely have #1 wideout talent.

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