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Bobby Sylvester’s Way Too Early 2019 Fantasy Football Rankings

Bobby Sylvester’s Way Too Early 2019 Fantasy Football Rankings

You may not be doing your fantasy football draft for another seven months, but it is never too early to dream on the next season. While much will surely change through the NFL draft and free agency from now and the summer, this is how I would select my teams were the live draft today. Now before I show you all the rankings, let me tell you about four players I am especially excited about drafting next season.

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Jameis Winston (QB – TB)
The expert consensus hasn’t been built up quite enough yet to know where Winston will end up, but chances are that he will be available after the first 100 picks. He may not have finished the season strong against two great defenses and a nasty wind storm, but prior to that, he was spectacular. In fact, he and Ryan Fitzpatrick combined for the #2 fantasy QB season behind only Patrick Mahomes. The offense should return all of their major pieces and may end up with a top-notch running back talent like Le’Veon Bell or Kareem Hunt.

Dalvin Cook (RB – MIN)
Anyone who was optimistic about Cook this prior season hated themselves for drafting him in the second round. The fault should be credited to injury optimism, however, not Cook himself. The Vikings took it easy on Cook’s body, holding him out of five full games and having him split the backfield with Latavius Murray, and it may have cost them the season. Murray is leaving this off-season and while Roc Thomas or Mike Boone will surely get some work behind him, the backfield will return to Cook, who we’ve seen as a workhorse before. Add in the fact that he was touch-for-touch as good as anyone else in the NFL and we might be looking at a monster.

Chris Godwin (WR – TB)
I am 100% in on the Bucs’ passing game as you can see. Mike Evans and O.J. Howard are still around, but Desean Jackson will be out of town and Adam Humphries is likely to play a more marginal role as Godwin progresses. The 22-year-old may not be the most dynamic athlete, but he is a professional route-runner through and through. Add perhaps the best body control in the NFL and we could see Godwin explode from 842 yards and 7 touchdowns on 95 targets to 1,000+ and perhaps even double-digit touchdowns. I’ll be drafting myself plenty of exposure.

Hunter Henry (LAC – TE)
Henry won’t do much in the playoffs which will significantly hurt his draft stock. Everyone will imagine he is washed up rather than someone playing a mere seven months after a torn ACL. Rather, we are looking at the single most efficient young tight end in the history of the league. Thus far in his career, he has more fantasy points per target than Travis Kelce, Zach Ertz and Rob Gronkowski did in the same period. The only difference was the target share which should no longer be a problem with Antonio Gates out of his way.

 


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