If the early rounds are where we lay the foundations for our team and decide on the strategies to follow, then the middle rounds are where we capitalize and start to take stands on certain players, fill out our stacks and find potential league-winners.

This article is the second of a three-part series looking at how to approach each third of the draft. Each article will provide strategy advice, positional allocation nuggets, and players to keep in mind.

Before considering how we approach the middle rounds, it’s essential to be mindful of how we’ve approached the early rounds. If you have four running backs by the start of round seven, it’s time to forget about them for most, if not all, of the rest of the draft. In every draft I do, I have three points that I’m keeping in mind when I get to the middle rounds:

• Stacks
• Strategy
• Positional Allocation

That’s not to say that these overrule factors like taking players who I really like or those who fall below their ADP for no good reason, but it does stay at the front of my mind for how I plan to react if a value pick pushes my team build into a risky area.