Hi Guys,I have a new scenario since the last time I wrote in, that I want to throw at you. I'm in a 10Team,.05PPR and I will be drafting in the 9 spot in a straight 1-10 draft. I can keep one of these players as my first round pick, J.Jones,Murray or McCoy. I do not have a 5th rd pick due to a trade. So my question is this year if I keep Jones as my first rd pick should I try to balance my team at 2WR/2RB by the 5th round or go balls out and get 3 WR or 3RBs and use middle rounds to fill in. I guess I'm asking how other people feel about this zero RB theory. Thanks for your input.
I think you can't go wrong with either McCoy or Julio with the ninth pick, so I'd definitely use it on one of those guys. We like McCoy, but I feel better about Julio myself. I've been taking McCoy after my top 3-4 WRs are off the board.
I don't really buy into Zero-RB as a strategy, I just pick value and sometimes that means RBs, sometimes that means WRs. I have a league where I went Evans/Jordy from the 8 spot, and I have another league where I went McCoy/Fournette from 7. It really just depends what's sitting there for me.
That being said, the quality of WRs in the first couple of rounds, combined with the uncertainty of the RBs does make it very viable to go after top WRs early and then fill in the roster with mid-tier RBs hoping a guy hits big. I'd also be looking to grab backups at the end of the draft behind injury prone players if you've got a large enough roster to do so.
But I'd keep Julio, then with the second round pick, take the best guy available. That might be Jordy Nelson, or it might be Jordan Howard. Either way, you're going to be in good shape.
