When you've got the No. 2 pick in a Fantasy Football draft this year, you've also got the first decision to make. Christian McCaffrey is going to go No. 1 and it should require exactly zero seconds of consideration to come to that conclusion. But the No. 2 pick will require at least a little bit of deliberation, even if most drafters will ultimately settle on Dalvin Cook there.
But not me. At least, not in a full-PPR league. For me, the choice is Alvin Kamara. It's not an obvious choice, but Kamara's playmaking in the passing game is the differentiator for me. No matter what choice you make, you know you're going to have an elite RB from one of the first three picks, so when it comes to building your team, the real decisions come later. With the No. 2 pick in our latest pick-by-pick series, I decided to go with a balance build from this spot, with two running backs, two wide receivers, and a tight end in my first five picks.
How did it turn out? See for yourself:
I'm generally not the kind of player who is going to double up on RB from this spot, but I would have been happy to if David Montgomery fell to me. When he didn't, I decided to go with Allen Robinson, betting that Jamey Eisenberg wouldn't take George Kittle with either of his two picks at the turn. I bet right, and ended up with my No. 2 running back, my No. 6 wide receiver, and my No. 2 tight end to start the draft. So far, so good.
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Round 4 is where things start to get complicated, and I'm still not sure if Miles Sanders was the right choice there. Myles Gaskin and Mike Davis went off the board right before that pick and Gus Edwards went right after, and while I do have Sanders ranked ahead of them, I have no real faith in that order. I like Sanders as a talent, but if he can't figure out his issues with drops, is he just an early downs back? And if that's the case, is he really better than Edwards?
This is where chasing positions might have let me down. If I wasn't thrilled about the remaining running back options, shouldn't I have just gone with two wide receivers at the four-five turn? I could have ended up with Tee Higgins and Jerry Jeudy there and probably felt a lot better about my situation. I always say, putting a priority on filling out your starting lineup instead of just taking the players you like best can steer you astray, and I worry that may be what happened here.
I still ended up with pretty good wide receiver options, though your mileage may vary depending on how much you like Deebo Samuel, D.J. Chark, and Will Fuller as your WR3. I'm pretty confident one of them will emerge as a must-start player -- Fuller is my pick -- but if something happens to Robinson or Higgins, it starts to get dicey. Especially because I took Javonte Williams in the sixth round as a contingency plan in light of my concerns about Sanders. A butterfly flaps its wings, I draft Miles Sanders, and look at the consequences.
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Still, this is definitely a high-upside team build, with breakout candidates like Higgins, Williams, Samuel, Fuller, Edwards -- plus my quarterbacks. I took Justin Fields in the 13th, and he remains one of my favorite picks in all drafts because of his considerable upside. I followed that up with Tua Tagovailoa, my favorite breakout QB, to start while Fields waits for the Bears to do the right thing and hand him the starting job. If you don't love Tagovailoa's Week 1 matchup against the Patriots, you can consider Baker Mayfield against the Chiefs, Matt Ryan against the Eagles at home, Kirk Cousins against the Bengals, Trevor Lawrence against the Jaguars, or even Tyrod Taylor against the Jaguars. Among that group, only Lawrence was picked in this one.
The nice thing about picking this early is, even if you don't love some of your picks, that elite RB anchoring your team will always give you a chance.
So which sleepers, breakouts and busts should you target and fade? And which QB shocks the NFL with a top-five performance? Visit SportsLine now to get Fantasy cheat sheets for every single position, all from the model that called Josh Allen's huge season, and find out.
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