Slow PPR Live Draft Blog, Entry 7

A long wait for me back at 7.10 and I was very interested to see what was taken in the middle. Picks up until 7.10 shown below

6.03
The Knuckles
Ward, Hines PIT WR
6.04
River-Rats
Parker, Willie PIT RB
6.05
Feisty Ferrets
Jones, Felix DAL RB
6.06
Pain Train
Wells, Chris ARI RB
6.07
Smackdown
Romo, Tony DAL QB
6.08
Feisty Ferrets
Warner, Kurt ARI QB
6.09
Jaguars
Benson, Cedric CIN RB
6.10
Smackdown
Jones, Thomas NYJ RB
6.11
White Mules 1
Moss, Santana WAS WR
6.12
We Need to Win 1
Addai, Joseph IND RB
7.01
We Need to Win 1
Schaub, Matt HOU QB
7.02
White Mules 1
Cooley, Chris WAS TE
7.03
The Grim Reaper
Washington, Leon NYJ RB
7.04
River-Rats
Coles, Laveranues CIN WR
7.05
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Daniels, Owen HOU TE
7.06
Jaguars
Cotchery, Jerricho NYJ WR
7.07
Pain Train
Moore, Lance NOS WR
7.08
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Holt, Torry JAC WR
7.09
Smackdown
Hester, Devin CHI WR
7.10
The Knuckles
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I was willing to take the best available player at this point and was hoping that Schaub would drop even though I had Manning. More boom-or-bust picks as we got to this portion of the draft, but I was able to make a safer pick with a decent ceiling in the 7th round. Available players at this point were

QB:
Cutler
Ryan
Palmer

RB:
Stewart
White
Julius Jones
Sproles
Lewis

WR:
Berrian
Walter
Avery
Mason

The RB pool at this point still had some decent players still around (Stewart if Deangelo gets hurt; Julius Jones in what has to be a better Seattle offense), but I had my eye on WR’s. Avery, Walter & Mason all had good value at this spot and I deferred to Walter in this situation in an offense I expect to be high-powered. Mason & Avery are #1 WR’s on their team and I am very intrigued how both will fare. For me, the fear for Mason was age, for Avery, constant double-teams. I decided to go with Walter though, a safer pick, and here’s hoping he’s a Welkeresque player in a New England Lite offense. Time will tell when I look back on this in Oct/Nov if this was the right choice.