Slow PPR Live Draft Blog, Entry 11

This will be the last entry I have of this draft. This draft finally ended yesterday after ten days. Absolutely ridiculous and fun at the same time. I will outline my picks in the 13th, 14th, & 15th round. Beyond the 15th round, I took some reaches on players where I would be happy if one of the five worked into my roster on a semi-regular basis. For the 13th round pick, I probably should have included this player considering my last two picks were Giants. The draft went as follows after I picked the Giants D.

12.01
The Knuckles
Giants, New York NYG Def
12.02
SUPERDAVE
Gostkowski, Stephen NEP PK
12.03
Philippe27
Washington, Nate TEN WR
12.04
Green Bowl Packers
Scott, Bernard CIN RB
12.05
Philippe27
Scheffler, Tony DEN TE
12.06
Pain Train
Celek, Brent PHI TE
12.07
River-Rats
Muhammad, Muhsin CAR WR
12.08
Feisty Ferrets
McGahee, Willis BAL RB
12.09
Jaguars
Miller, Heath PIT TE
12.10
The Grim Reaper
Chargers, San Diego SDC Def
12.11
White Mules 1
Betts, Ladell WAS RB
12.12
We Need to Win 1
Finley, Jermichael GBP TE
13.01
We Need to Win 1
Orton, Kyle DEN QB
13.02
The Knuckles
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This appeared to be the time to take a QB as I needed a backup & had enough positions with depth at this point. QB's available at this point were Manning, Edwards, Flacco, & Pennington. I decided to keep the brothers together as well as make my third consecutive Giant pick with Manning. No real justification, but I think Manning's the best of the bunch, plays on a good team, and will be a nice bye-week (Giants play New Orleans in the bye) backup for Peyton.

After Manning, the draft had more players where any impact would likely be because of injury as seen below

13.02

The Knuckles

Manning, Eli NYG QB
13.03
The Grim Reaper
Edwards, Trent BUF QB
13.04
River-Rats
Bears, Chicago CHI Def
13.05
Philippe27
Clayton, Mark BAL WR
13.06
Jaguars
Faulk, Kevin NEP RB
13.07
Pain Train
Pennington, Chad MIA QB
13.08
Feisty Ferrets
Burleson, Nate SEA WR
13.09
Green Bowl Packers
Moore, Mewelde PIT RB
13.10
Smackdown
Taylor, Fred NEP RB
13.11
SUPERDAVE
Flacco, Joe BAL QB
13.12
White Mules 1
Jones, Kevin CHI RB
14.01
Smackdown
Campbell, Jason WAS QB
14.02
SUPERDAVE
McClain, Le'Ron BAL RB
14.03
The Knuckles
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My focus here was RB and option again were bleak. Buckhalter, Caddy Williams, Choice, Maroney. I ended with Maroney. A 14th round pick for the "starter" on one of the best teams in the league. How could I go wrong? All I need is for Taylor, Morris, Faulk, & BenJarvus to all go down. Worth the gamble at this stage and again, hopefully in the distant future, Maroney can be used in a spare situation.

After Maroney, I had the 10th pick in the 14th round as well. Draft again goes as follows

14.03
The Knuckles
Maroney, Laurence NEP RB
14.04
Green Bowl Packers
Boss, Kevin NYG TE
14.05
Smackdown
Jets, New York NYJ Def
14.06
Pain Train
Delhomme, Jake CAR QB
14.07
River-Rats
Favre, Brett MIN QB
14.08
Feisty Ferrets
Maclin, Jeremy PHI WR
14.09
Jaguars
Schilens, Chaz OAK WR
14.10
The Knuckles
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This time, I looked at WR. Very surprised this once buzzworthy name was still available and I was happy to take the chance on Davone Bess. Probably does not help at all that he might lose his starting gig to a 4th round rookie WR in Hartline, but Bess would be next to step in if Hartline or even Ginn is injured or performs poorly. Happy with this pick as I do not see as much upside in picking up someone like Chambers, Camarillo, Jenkins, or Austin in this slot.

Final pick for me in the 15th round was Caddy Williams. At that point, no RB's were available of any service and while Caddy isn't much better than that, at least he got a pre-season start. Amazed that Raheem Morris still think there's still something left in Cadillac to merit a 2-2-1 split between Ward, Graham, & Williams as suggested and if so, I am willing to take a 15th round flier on the idea.

Long, long draft. In the next couple posts, I am going to compare drafts that I have done with the one I just completed just to show some differences in the selection process. Process always depends on scoring, knowledge/bias of owners involved, but comparing them brought up some differences from league to league on the opinion of certain players. When I look back in retrospect on some of the picks, I am sure there are many players we will regret hyping up too much or letting go down so far in many of these drafts.