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Thursday, Sep 4th
Cowboys 19.75
Eagles 26.75
Friday, Sep 5th
Chiefs 23.75
Chargers 20.75
Sunday, Sep 7th — Early
Bengals 25.0
Browns 19.5
Giants 19.0
WFT 26.5
Cards 23.0
Saints 19.5
Bucs 25.0
Falcons 22.5
Raiders 20.0
Patriots 23.5
Panthers 21.0
Jaguars 24.5
Steelers 21.25
Jets 18.25
Dolphins 22.0
Colts 23.5
Sunday, Sep 7th — Late
Titans 17.5
Broncos 25.0
49ers 23.5
Hawks 22.0
Lions 25.0
Packers 23.5
Texans 21.25
Rams 24.25
Ravens 25.0
Bills 26.5
Monday, Sep 8th
Vikings 22.0
Bears 23.5

Lou’s 12 Team PPR Mock Draft Analysis

I did a mock draft Sunday morning to try something I haven’t done much of this offseason. I took an RB early, with pick two overall, and my goal was to see how my roster shapes out, considering I am usually a WR early guy.

This roster starts 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 flex, DST, and a K. It’s PPR and 12 teams

Round 1: Pick 2: RB Bijan Robinson, Atlanta Falcons
  • Bijan could easily end the year as RB1, but as long as he is healthy, he will be rock solid and can be a hero RB if I don’t end up with a good second RB. 
Round 2: Pick 11: WR Drake London, Atlanta Falcons
  • My intention was not to take another Falcons player here, but London was the best WR on the board, and after going RB early, I was looking for a WR. 
Round 3: Pick 2: WR Cooper Kupp, Los Angeles Rams
  • Kupp could be as good, if not better, than Puka Nacua this season and is still a very good WR2. If I can get a couple more good WRs here, I will more than make up for not taking Lamb or Hill with the number two overall pick. 
Round 4: Pick 11: WR Stefon Diggs, Houston Texans
  • If you listened to me on SiriusXM this past weekend, you know that Diggs is one of the players I am hesitant to draft because the Texans have so many mouths to feed. In this scenario, though, I feel like I got good value, and as my WR3, I am not as reliant on Diggs to be a WR1 every week. 
Round 5: Pick 2: WR Zay Flowers, Baltimore Ravens
  • I was thinking about my RB2 here but instead quadruped down on another WR. Flowers has no competition for WR targets in Baltimore and could wind up being a WR2 this year, so getting him as my top flex option and WR4 feels like a big win. 
Round 6: Pick 11: RB Najee Harris, Pittsburgh Steelers
  • I could have gone QB here and gotten one of the bigger-name guys, but because it’s a one-QB league, it wasn’t necessary. It would have been a mistake on my part to pass up on a very solid RB2 in Najee Harris, who runs behind an excellent offensive line and plays in a run-first offense. 
Round 7: Pick 2: TE Evan Engram, Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Once again, I could have gone QB here, but for the same reasons I mentioned with Najee, I didn’t feel the need. Engram was the last of the elite TE options, and because of his massive target share in the Jags’ offense, he has a pathway to ending the season as a top-three TE in fantasy. 
Round 8: Pick 11: RB Chase Brown and Round 9: Pick 2: RB Zack Moss, Cincinnati Bengals
  • I needed a third RB, and because I was picking near the turn, I was able to get both Bengals backs. Unless I suffer an injury to Bijan or Harris, I won’t need to use either guy early on this season, so I have time to see which one turns into the RB1 in the offense. Either way, I have the Bengals backfield and feel great about it. 
Round 10: Pick 2: Romeo Doubs, WR Green Bay Packers
  • You can never have too many WRs in a PPR format, so instead of going QB, I once again decided to go with the guy who could be the number one WR for Jordan Love in the Packers offense. 
Round 11: Pick 11: QB Kirk Cousins, Atlanta Falcons
  • It was finally time to draft a quarterback, and my choices were one of Cousins, Trevor Lawrence, or Deshaun Watson. I think most people would have gone with Lawrence, and I was never considering Watson in this spot. My decision to go with Cousins was pretty simple, though. I already had Bijan and London and considering the Falcons offense is expected to be great this season, I now have the three biggest pieces of it. 
Round 12: Pick 2: Steelers DST
  • Sometimes, I will wait until the second last round to take a defense; in this case, though, this was the last of the top defenses available, and I already had some solid depth on my bench. 
Round 13: Pick 11: RB MarShawn Lloyd, Green Bay Packers
  • I wanted to get one more RB, and the goal was to get one that I don’t need early in the season but one that can help me in the second half of the year. Lloyd fits that description to a tee. 
Round 14: Pick 2: WR Ricky Pearsall, San Francisco 49ers
  • This is either a slam dunk pick or my first drop when I need a bye-week replacement. If Brandon Ayiuk is traded, Pearsall gains a ton of value and should be the number two WR in an elite offense. If Ayiuk stays in SF, bye-bye to Pearsall. 
Round 15: Pick 11: QB Geno Smith, Seattle Seahawks
  • I needed a backup quarterback for Cousins and one who has a different bye week than him. I was hoping for Baker Mayfield, but he went three picks before me. I do think Geno will bounce back this year in a new-look Seahawks offense that will focus more on the passing game. 
Round 16: Pick 2: K Kai’imi Fairbairn, Houston Texans
  • I usually like to stream kickers throughout the season, but at least to start, I like Fairbairn. He kicks for an elite offense that is going to score plenty of points.