Dynasty Fantasy Football Rookie Drafts: A View from the 1.04

For many dynasty players, the highlight of the off-season is the annual rookie draft, and we are now mere days away from many of those drafts kicking off. Once our respective dynasty teams are eliminated from contention (and sometimes even before), we tend to turn our attention to the incoming rookie class, and delusions of grandeur take over. In fact, dynasty players spend nearly the entire off-season preparing for how they will use their draft picks or if they will use them at all.

In this twelve-part series, we will use the latest data available here at Dynasty League Football, namely our April Rookie ADP and the Dynasty Trade Finder, to ensure you are as prepared as possible when your draft begins. Based on our most recent Superflex ADP data, we will suggest the player you could be soon adding to your team, and if you don't like that, we will also include a potential pivot option. In addition, we will include options based on the updated 1QB ADP for those who play in that format. Finally, using the Dynasty Trade Finder, we will examine some recent trades that have taken place with each specific draft pick.

We all know the first round of rookie drafts includes the players we've been hearing about for months if not years, but difference-makers can be found in the second round and beyond, as well. Because of that, we will also address the other picks that accompany each respective first-round draft slot.

ROOKIE SELECTION 1.04

THE PICK: Anthony Richardson, QB, University of Florida

The alpha specimen of the QB position. They don’t make humans like Anthony Richardson often. Measuring in at 6’4” and 244 pounds at the combine, he melted the collective faces of the fantasy community when he blazed a 4.43-second 40 Yard Dash. Then he jumped out of Lucas Oil Stadium with a 10’9” Broad Jump, and then the hype truly took flight with a 40.5” Vertical Jump.

Richardson is a very polarizing player in the fantasy community. When you look at the spider graph from Mockdraftable, his numbers are in the “Create a Player” region of physical gifts. Those are just numbers we don’t see often at the position. Anthony Richardson is the best size/speed athlete we have ever seen at the position.