Over the span of the next few weeks, we’re going to be bringing you our 2024 versions of the “Perfect Draft.” Anyone who has followed us for any length of time knows you can’t enter a draft without a strategy but which strategy you choose will directly affect who you want to target. With that in mind, these are the strategies we’re going to cover:
- Win Now
- Value
- Balanced
- Productive Struggle
- Fake Punt
- Bully QB/TE
- Robust RB
Today, we’ll continue the series with an analysis of a superflex draft using the bully QB/TE strategy. With this strategy, we’re going to focus on the “onesie” positions in fantasy football. By that we mean the positions you only need to start one of: quarterback and tight end. By loading up on those positions, you can force your opponents to make mistakes and pay up for those positions in the middle rounds of the draft, creating values at other positions. It also gives you the piece of mind to be all set at those positions. That allows you to focus on the more valuable and important positions, running back and wide receiver, on the waiver wire and in upcoming rookie drafts.
These teams are going to be mostly win now teams, while keeping an eye on the future as well. Quarterbacks and elite tight ends tend to have longer shelf lives than the other positions, so a pick like Josh Allen can be both a win now and a win later pick. We’re going to look at three different areas of the draft to demonstrate how to execute this strategy from anywhere in the draft order. Early is defined as picks one to four, middle as picks five to eight, and late as picks nine through 12. Many startup draft picks are bound to be traded and every draft format is a little different but this will give you an idea of who you can target throughout the draft.
Using July ADP, let’s have the perfect dynasty startup draft.
First Round
Just because this is a bully QB/TE draft plan, we aren't going to make any mistakes early on in the draft. There are no quarterbacks or tight ends that are worth a first round pick in 1QB leagues, so we’re going to target the best player available.
Since we will be using some of the upcoming rounds focusing on quarterback and tight end, it’s very easy to miss out on the best running backs, and find yourself scrambling at that position. I certainly want to make sure I have a good base at running back, and Robinson is about as good as you can get.
Late (Team Three): Puka Nacua, WR LAR
Nacua is our final first-round pick in this exercise, I believe he’s the best wide receiver available at the end of the first round. He had an historic rookie season, but he’ll need to prove that he can step up and ball out while Cooper Kupp is healthy and on the field. Either way, the end of the road for Kupp is fast approaching and Nacua seems primed to be the Rams lead receiver for years to come.
Second Round
