It’s never too early to prepare for your 2022 fantasy football draft. What better way to do so than to mock draft against the top experts in the fantasy football industry! You can use our FREE mock draft simulator to do just that. Let’s take a look at our latest mock draft and player notes.
And make sure you join the FantasyPros Discord so you can draft against our experts and other subscribers throughout the offseason. Andrew Erickson recently completed a mock draft with users on Discord. Here are his takeaways from the mock draft.
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Fantasy Football Mock Draft Recap, Analysis & Takeaways
Consider yourself lucky when you’re drafting against the FantasyPros Mock Draft Wizard and not members of the FantasyPros Discord channel. Because that’s exactly what I had to do in this most recent mock draft, and felt the full force of drafting against elite competition.
After proclaiming my desire for the 1.05/1.06 as my preferred draft slot with my goal to acquire either Dalvin Cook or Justin Jefferson, both guys are off the board by my No. 5 pick. Woof.
I ultimately took Austin Ekeler, after losing out on the main target. This would be a common theme throughout this entire 12-team PPR mock draft. Those Discord subs are SHARP.
I contemplated Ja’Marr Chase and Cooper Kupp at 1.05 as well, but definitely would have felt the drop-off in running back in Round 2 had I not taken Ekeler.
In Round 3, I settled for Nick Chubb after missing out on high-profile WR targets like Michael Pittman Jr. and Tee Higgins. Should have just taken Courtland Sutton.
I also want to point out that tight ends continue to fall in these mock drafts I’ve conducted with real drafters. Darren Waller, Dalton Schultz and George Kittle were drafted all between 5.11 and 6.08.
Schultz usually goes in this range, so it’s not crazy to see him selected. But the fact that Waller and Kittle fell into the range suggest to me that they are being valued appropriately by smart drafters.
As I identified in my Boom-or-Bust report on tight ends, I am of the mind that Schultz and T.J.Hockenson should be drafted closer to Kittle/Waller. Otherwise, those players are being drafted much earlier than they should be.
So you can only imagine how painful it was to think I got great value with Kittle in Round 6, just to see T.J. Hockenson fell all the way to Round 9.
Through the first 13 weeks of the 2021 season, the Detroit Lions tight end ranked sixth in points per game, fifth in targets per game (7), first in route participation (85%), third in target share (19%) and third in air yard share.
Highway robbery.
But the most egregious law-breaking draft selection was undoubtedly my selection of Kirk Cousins with my final pick.
Late-round quarterback is not dead and an excellent strategy when you know your leaguemates won’t draft two quarterbacks.
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