The 2016 season is over and it’s time to take a walk back into history and see how we all did in the draft
Round 1
1 DON – Ezekiel Elliott RB DAL | Position Rank: #1 So yeah, this worked out for Don, especially when you see how bad some things went for other first-round picks. The rookie back averaged 330 fantasy points per game, earning a stunning first-team All-Robio award. A rookie running back has only done that twice before; Doug Martin in 2012 and Edgerrin James way back in 1999.
2 ROBIO – Jamaal Charles RB KC | Position Rank: 100+ Talk about a fail. The Chiefs running back, coming off a ACL injury, barely saw the field. He got a total of 14 touches for 54 yards and a single score. This could have been a disaster since I actually drafted the wrong handcuff. Luckily for me, no one else picked Spencer Ware and he played well for me for about half a season.
3 MOLLY – Eddie Lacy RB GB | Position Rank: #51 Lacy played only six games, but don’t be fooled, Lacy wasn’t that good when he was playing. In those six contests, he rushed for 100 yards just once, caught a total of four receptions and never saw the end zone.
4 RICH C – A.J. Green WR CIN | Position Rank: #8 Through ten weeks, Green was looking like a fabulous pick, putting up digits to match players like Antonio Brown and Julio Jones, catching 66 balls for 964 yards. Yet, he shredded his hamstring in week ten, becoming the last of many first-round picks to end the year on the IR.
5 RICH B – Rob Gronkowski TE NE | Position Rank: #10 He missed the season’s first two weeks and didn’t get going until Tom Brady returned in week five, but he was certainly dominant for a solid five weeks, catching 24 balls for 529 yards and three scores. He looked like he could earn an All-Robio award despite not really starting the season until week five. Yet, the injury bug would bite him again and he ended the season on the IR.
6 JEFF – LeSean McCoy RB BUF | Position Rank: #5 An excellent pick and the biggest reason why Jeff earned his first ever top seed and trip to the finals. McCoy earned a third-team All-Robio award and for the season he produced over 1,600 total yards and fourteen scores, missing only half a game this season.
7 ROB M – Dez Bryant WR DAL | Position Rank: #29 All-in-all, this was not a successful year for Bryant. Not only did he miss three games due to injury again, but even when healthy, Dak Prescott never really targeted him like a WR1. While he showed flashes, Bryant never hit 100 yards receiving in a single game. By the time he hit 300 fantasy points in week sixteen, Masterson’s season was long over.
8 ERIC – Antonio Brown WR PIT (Keeper) | Position Rank: #2 How good has Brown been in his career lately? He caught 30 less balls and 550 less yards than he did last year and still earned him a first-team All-Robio award. He ended the season with eight 200-point games.
9 MATT – Julio Jones WR ATL (Keeper) | Position Rank: #1 Jones earned his second straight first-team All-Robio award, proving that he truly is the best wide receiver in fantasy. Still, he tended to rely on the big game, as he failed to hit 100 fantasy points four times. Matt eventually shipped Julio off to Bob for basically Todd Gurley and the moved didn’t pay off. Yet, when Bob needed Julio the most, the Falcons receiver wasn’t available, getting hurt come fantasy playoff time.
10 BOB – Keenan Allen WR SD | Position Rank: N/A I thought this was going to be a great pick. Both myself and Bob should have known better, as Allen is a walking injury. He couldn’t even make it through one game, catching just six balls for 63 yards. That’s it.
11 COLBY – Brandon Marshall WR NYJ | Position Rank: #31 While plenty of first-round picks killed their teams due to injury, Marshall did it simply by sucking. A year after delivering 1,502 yards and fourteen scores, Marshall caught just 59 of his 129 targets, for 788 yards and three scores. Colby had little choice but to bench the Jets receiver, eventually unloading him to Bob for Dak Prescott. So bonus.
12 GRIFF – Adrian Peterson RB MIN (Keeper) | Position Rank: N/A Peterson was a big reason why Griff was the heaviest of favorites entering the 2016 season, but a huge reason why Griff struggled throughout the year. Peterson didn’t even make it through two games and in those two games, he was pretty awful. He finished the year with 31 carries and 50 yards rushing and zero scores. Griff’s top pick managed to produce 114 fantasy points. That’s all, folks.
For the record, seven of the twelve 1st-round picks were injured when their team’s season came to an end, six of them were on IR.
Round 2
13 GRIFF – Cam Newton QB CAR | Position Rank: #16 Cam Newton, along with Adrian Peterson, David Johnson and Odell Beckham, led Griff to an impressive 2015 title run, producing 45 touchdowns and nearly 4,500 total yards (passing and rushing). Yet, in 2016, Cam collapsed, having arguable his worst season in the league. He completed just 52.9% of his passes, delivering nearly 700 less yards, scoring just 24 times to 16 turnovers. Who knows what could have happened to Griff’s playoff hopes if he had shipped Cam Newton away and not Matt Ryan.
14 COLBY – C.J. Anderson RB DEN | Position Rank: #29 Seeing how little Colby got from his top two picks, I’m starting to wonder how Colby even won five games. Anderson was a popular sleeper pick. In fact, I really considered taking him with the second overall pick. After one week, I wish I had. He produced 139 total yards and two scores. Yet, every week his numbers dipped and between weeks 3-6, he couldn’t even muster 50 yards rushing per contest. In week seven, he did produced 107 yards and a score, but that would be his last game of the year, as he would go on IR. Colby would eventually shipped Matt Ryan (who he received in a trade) to land his handcuff, who also performed poorly.
15 BOB – Aaron Rodgers QB GB | Position Rank: #1 It took a little while, but Aaron Rodgers bounced back nicely and kept Bob’s championship hopes alive throughout the second half of the season. After failing to hit 300 in three of his first five games, Rodgers dominated, averaging 391 points per game, earning his fifth career All-Robio award and third 1st team award. However, in the semifinals, when Bob needed him the most, he got stuck in a frozen tundra in Chicago and scored a season low 166 fantasy points in a Bob defeat.
16 MATT – Alshon Jeffery WR CHI | Position Rank: #49 So, Matt traded away his first-round pick and his second round pick was suspended for four games because of PEDs. Maybe Jeffery should have taken stronger stuff. Prior to his suspension in week eleven, Jeffery had one 100-yard game (in week one) and scored just one touchdown.
17 ERIC – Thomas Rawls RB SEA | Position Rank: #54 Eric gambled by taking Rawls, who was coming off a season-ending injury the year before and wasn’t expecting to play at all in the preseason. Sadly, this gamble didn’t payoff. Rawls played just a game and a half before another injury sidelined him. The RB2 spot was a major problem for Eric all season long and even when Rawls did return, he put up just one good game (118 yards, two scores in week 13). That would be the only time he would crack 200 fantasy points.
18 ROB M – Matt Forte RB NYJ | Position Rank: #10 This proved to be such a typical Matt Forte season. Throughout the year, he puts up a couple of huge games, disappears in others and eventually gets hurt. Yet, one day in the future we’ll look back and see Rob had a top-10 fantasy running back. Feels like a lie, right? Should. Forte scored 2,546 fantasy points for Rob, but 56% of those stats came in just four games.
19 JEFF – Jeremy Hill RB CIN | Position Rank: #19 We keep waiting and hoping that the Jeremy Hill we saw at the end of 2014 will return. That guy rushed for 1,124 yards on just 222 carries, averaging a stout 5.1 yards per carry. Yet, for the second year in a row, continuing to split time with Gio Bernard, Hill failed to average 4.0 yards per carry. At best, he was a bye-week fill-in for a stacked Jeff backfield. He did eventually get the start when Melvin Gordon went down, but in his two starts (in the semis and finals), his stat line was: 27 carries, 51 yards and one score.
20 RICH B – Russell Wilson QB SEA | Position Rank: #17 Slowly, Wilson had been creeping up the list of top fantasy quarterbacks and after the way he ended the 2016 campaign, it looked like he was ready to sit on the very top. Yet, with a horrid offensive line, the Seahawks and Wilson were a inconsistent mess. He failed to hit 200 in five of his seven, failing to throw a touchdown pass in five games. He was even benched by Burrier for a bit. He had a nice three-game run, averaging 366 PPG between weeks 9-11, but then faltered at the end. When Rich needed him the most, the quarterfinals, he threw five interceptions and delivered only 78 points.
21 RICH C – Le’Veon Bell RB PIT (Keeper) | Position Rank: #6 Historically, this could go down as one of the greatest trades in league history. Think about it. In the 2015 season, Rich was going nowhere, so he gave up Dez Bryant, who would end up playing just two more worthless games, before going out for the year. In return, he got Bell. After serving a three-game suspension, the Steelers running back would average an amazing 355 points per game for Calderon, including a stunning 776 in the semifinals.
22 MOLLY – Brandin Cooks WR NO | Position Rank: #11 The Saints receiver began the year scoring 428 fantasy points. Was he about to become an elite WR1? No, he wasn’t. Sure Cooks did finish 11th among all receivers, but he was a wideout that relied on the big game to pump up his stats (410 in week six, 256 in week ten). Generally, Molly couldn’t rely on him. During our regular season, he hit 200 just three times, failing to hit 100 three times.
23 ROBIO – Greg Olsen TE CAR | Position Rank: #1 Oh how to judge this season? For six weeks, Olsen was putting together the greatest season ever by a tight end. He was on pace for over 1,600 yards receiving, averaging 227 fantasy points per game. However, over the next seven weeks, he became a liability, averaging only 80 points per game. At the very least, he held on to earn first-team All-Robio and played well in both my playoff games (174 in the quarters, 170 in the semifinals).
24 DON – Julian Edelman WR NE | Position Rank: #32 Talk about a quiet year. On the season, Edelman nearly had 100 receptions for over 1,106 yards, but during the fantasy season, he never really amounted to much. He didn’t produce a 100-yard game until week thirteen and caught just three touchdowns, spending his season bouncing in and out of Don’s starting lineup.
Round 3
25 DON – Andrew Luck QB IND | Position Rank: #8 Despite having no running game and anything that resembles an offense line, Luck still managed to put up nice numbers. On the year, he passed for over 4,000 yards and 31 touchdowns, missing one game due to injury. Yet, by season’s end, Don went with Matt Stafford, which meant Don’s third round pick was riding the pine in the post-season.
26 ROBIO – Carlos Hyde RB SF | Position Rank: #20 Despite playing on one of the worst offenses the league had to offer, Hyde managed to put up decent numbers when healthy. In his first five games, he averaged 247 PPG, breaking 300 twice. Yet, he missed two games, was ineffective in a third, bounced back and forth from good-to-average down the stretch. With a good coach in 2017, he could be a solid category one keeper.
27 MOLLY – Ben Roethlisberger QB PIT | Position Rank: #10 I have no problem with someone taking Big Ben in the third round. He’s a good quarterback. He finished 10th this year, despite missing one game and the fact is numbers dipped a little. But not for Molly, who has a long history of failed third-round picks. She already had a stud quarterback being kept deep in the draft, one that eventually became the full-time starter, making Roethlisberger a third-round pick riding her bench. Just imagine if she would have simply taken the next pick.
28 RICH C – DeMarco Murray RB TEN | Position Rank: #4 One of the top picks in the draft, Murray rebounded after an awful year in Philadelphia. He had over 100 total yards in seven of his first nine games, scoring at least one touchdown in seven out of eight games starting in week three. Sure his numbers dipped a bit at the end, but he still came through with back-to-back 240-point efforts in the quarterfinals and semifinals. He finished the fantasy regular season averaging 283 points per game, earning second-team All-Robio.
29 RICH B – Latavius Murray RB OAK | Position Rank: #16 Back-to-back Murray’s performed well, although DeMarco won this one. Still, when healthy, Latavius averaged a solid 222 points per game. If he didn’t miss a pair of games, he would have cracked the top-10 among all backs.
30 JEFF – Melvin Gordon – RB SD | Position Rank: #3 I had penciled in Gordon as my fourth round pick prior to the draft. Luckily for Jeff, he was thinking one step ahead of me. Thanks to a week one ACL tear by Danny Woodhead, Gordon became the man in San Diego and become a legit RB1. Despite only averaging 3.9 yards per carry, he got 295 touches on the year (missing the final three games) and scored 12 touchdowns. Sadly, due to injury, he was not around for Jeff’s title run, but could be a solid keeper heading into 2017.
31 ROB M – Amari Cooper WR OAK (Keeper) | Position Rank: #7 It seemed like all season long Michael Crabtree outplayed Cooper, but in the end, it was Cooper who finished with the better fantasy stats, because let’s be honest, with Carr at quarterback, there can be more than one star receiver in Oakland. Anyhow, Cooper just missed out on a All-Robio award. He scored over 200 four times, breaking 300 twice and 400 points one time.
32 ERIC – Jeremy Langford RB CHI | Position Rank: #63 Back-to-back running back fails for Eric, although the Thomas Rawls pick always proved to be more costly. See, despite the fact Eric failed to get a proper handcuff for either back, he was able to drop $56 dollars on Jordan Howard, when Langford went down. Howard was the better back, finishing his rookie campaign with 1,313 yards, averaging 5.2 yards per carry, turning Langford into a handcuff.
33 MATT – Demaryius Thomas WR DEN | Position Rank: #21 Due to some awful quarterback play, Thomas dropped down to a second receiving option in Denver on a team that couldn’t pass the ball. His receptions, yards and touchdown totals were his lowest since 2011, when he missed five games.
34 BOB – Randall Cobb WR GB | Position Rank: #41 Typically, the WR2 in Green Bay has been a fantastic fantasy option. Cobb was that guy back in 2014, when he hauled in 1,287 yards and 12 scores. With Jordy back, it was assumed Cobb would slide back into that roll. Instead, it was Devonte Adams. Meanwhile, Cobb had only a couple of decent games early and then nearly disappeared at the end, averaging just 80 fantasy points per game in Bob’s final seven games. He ended the year riding the pine.
35 COLBY – Jonathan Stewart RB CAR | Position Rank: #28 After a slow star that saw the Panthers back miss three games, Stewart was traded to Griff as part of the Matt Ryan deal. While he certainly had his duds (scoring 84 and 78 in weeks nine and ten), Stewart also put up some nice numbers. He broke 280 four times down the stretch and was a reliable starter for a non-playoff team.
36 GRIFF – Donte Moncrief WR IND | Position Rank: #72 After a solid rookie campaign, many projected that Moncrief would supplant T.Y. Hilton has Luck’s favorite target. Yet, an injury knocked him out of seven games and Hilton remained the top WR in Indianapolis. Moncrief did return and while he never piled up the yards, never catching more than 55 yards in a game, he did score in six of his last seven games.
Round 4
37 GRIFF – Michael Floyd WR ARI | Position Rank: #61 Congratulations to Michael Floyd, becoming the only person drafted in fantasy football to get a DUI and then cut by his team. Of course, his negative effect on Griff’s season had already been complete by then. Expected to finally make the leap to 1,000-yard receiver, Floyd had the worst year of his career. Sure we can blame Adrian Peterson’s injury for Griff’s downfall, but basically wasting his third and fourth round picks didn’t help either.
38 COLBY – Travis Kelce TE KC | Position Rank: #2 Through ten weeks, Kelce looked good, but never fantastic, but towards the end of the year, he was one of the many reasons Colby was such a dangerous team down the stretch. The Chiefs TE averaged 225 fantasy points between weeks 11-16. Good thing for the rest of us, Colby wasn’t in the postseason to enjoy it.
39 BOB – Todd Gurley RB LAR (Keeper) | Position Rank: #18 Expected to challenge David Johnson as the top back in football, the Rams offensive line just couldn’t open up any holes for Gurley. Through four weeks, he had rushed for over 55 yards just once, scoring over 200 (280 against Tampa in week three) a single time. Thus, Bob had enough and in a four-player trade, sent Gurley packing for Julio Jones. The Rams running back floundered on Neatock’s two-win team. He never rushed for 100 yards in any game, averaging an awful 3.2 yards per carry. Matt sees him as a good keeper option in 2017. He’s probably right, because it’s not like Gurley could get any worse.
40 MATT – Seahawks DST SEA | Position Rank: #5 The first defense taken never finishes first among defenses and this year was no exception. The Seahawks were good, finishing fifth. In fact, one could argue that Matt’s DST was his best player outside Marcus Mariota.
41 ERIC – Larry Fitzgerald WR ARI | Position Rank: #10 After a solid start that saw the ageless receiver score over 200 in three of his first four, he soon struggled, as the Cardinals offense never clicked. He would score 200 fantasy points just once more (in week ten), averaging just 133 fantasy points in Eric’s final eight games. In his quarterfinals loss, Fitzgerald got the start and managed to catch just three balls for 12 yards.
42 ROB M – Tom Brady QB NE | Position Rank: #19 We knew someone would take Brady; it was just a matter of how early. Rob answered the question and it proved to be the right answer. After serving his four-game suspension, Brady ripped through the league, throwing 28 touchdowns to just two interceptions on the season. He delivered four 400-point games in his first six games as Masterson’s starter and Rob can’t blame him for another quarterfinals defeat. He delivered 410 in that game.
43 JEFF – Drew Brees QB NO (Keeper) | Position Rank: #2 If I recall, this was actually a mistake on my part. Brees was suppose to be a fourth round keeper, but I had him in round five. Jeff had taken DeSean Jackson in round four. No one said he wanted Jackson after we figured out the mistake and all was well. Anyhow, Brees was a beast all season and if it wasn’t for one bad two-game stretch where he threw zero touchdowns to six interceptions, starting in week 13, he would have easily walked away with the top spot.
44 RICH B – Devonta Freeman RB ATL (Keeper) | Position Rank: #7 A year after earning first-team All-Robio, Freeman’s numbers took a slight hit in 2017, despite the fact his yards per run went from 4.0 to 4.8. The issue was touches. For the whole season, Freeman got 38 less carries and caught 19 less passes, as Tevin Coleman ate up a ton of his production. In fact, through the season’s first seven weeks, Coleman was the better start, beating his teammate head-to-head, 4-3, until an injury knocked Coleman out for a month.
45 RICH C – Doug Baldwin WR SEA | Position Rank: #14 At times, Baldwin looked like a number one wide receiver. In his five best games, he scored a total of 1,614 fantasy points. In his remaining 11 games, he scored just 1,136. That kind of production can be soul-crushing, especially for Calderon. Four of those great games happened in the regular season and only once was when he was in Rich’s starting lineup (week one). However, Baldwin managed to have his best game when it mattered the most, the championship game. He came through with 404 points and yes, he was in Calderon’s starting lineup.
46 MOLLY – Rashad Jennings RB NYG | Position Rank: #32 Technically the starter in the league’s most useless and crowded backfield, Jennings never sniffed 100 yards in a game, averaging just 3.3 yards per carry, reaching the end zone only four total times.
47 ROBIO – Jarvis Landry WR MIA | Position Rank: #22 Drafted to be my bye-week replacement, Landry got three starts for me. His production in those three games: 122, 60 and 66. Thanks, buddy.
48 DON – Emmanuel Sanders WR DEN | Position Rank: #19 Of the two Denver receivers, Sanders proved to be the better of the two, finishing two spots ahead of Thomas, despite getting drafted one round later. Yet, he was a true hit-or-miss player. He broke 300 fantasy points twice, 200 points twice more, but failed to hit 100 in a game seven times. That’s a lot.
Round 5
49 DON – Golden Tate WR DET | Position Rank: #27 When the season began, Marvin Jones was all the rage in Detroit, while Golden Tate was an afterthought to an afterthought, averaging 57.6 points per game through five games. I can’t believe Don didn’t cut him. Instead, he held Golden, who eventually took the role of top target of Matt Stafford. He delivered a pair of 350-point efforts, regaining his starting spot on the Squad.
50 ROBIO – Broncos DST DEN | Position Rank: #2 The previous two seasons were bad years and in both cases, I struggled to field a proper tight end and defense. I went into 2016 looking to eliminate that and it paid off. Greg Olsen was the #1 tight end, while the Broncos DST finished #2. Of course, I spent two top-five picks to get them, so who really knows if the value truly paid off.
51 MOLLY – T.Y. Hilton WR IND (Keeper) | Position Rank: #4 Excepted to play second fiddle behind Donte Moncrief, Hilton had other ideas, clearly remaining Andrew Luck’s favorite receiver. He was targeted 156 times and delivered 1,448 receiving yards on the season. Sadly for Molly, he heads back to the draft pool in 2016.
52 RICH C – Blake Bortles QB JAC | Position Rank: #11 Okay, not every decision can be a winner. Bortles was a popular pick to join the elite, after finishing 2015 as the 7th best quarterback. Yet, he regressed. In fact, his 11th place finish among all arms is not a true representation of how bad he was since so much of that came in junk time. Anyhow, Calderon threw in the towel midseason, trading for Matt Ryan…a major improvement to say the least.
53 RICH B – Duke Johnson RB CLE | Position Rank: #31 After finishing 2015 as the 34th back in football as a rookie, Johnson was sort of expected to make the leap to RB2 status. However, the Browns offense just sucked and Duke was never able to take enough touches away from Crowell.
54 JEFF – DeSean Jackson WR WAS | Position Rank: #40 After a decent start where Jackson scored 204 and 252 in two of the first three games of the season, the Redskins receiver went through a deep funk. Between weeks 4-9, he averaged just 71.2 points per game and rode Greenblatt’s bench nearly the entire time. However, after sitting out in week ten, DeSean came back strong and was a key part of Jeff’s playoff push, averaging 215 points per game in his final six games.
55 ROB M – John Brown WR ARI | Position Rank: #76 Here’s Brown’s season in a nutshell. During weeks three and four, he caught 16 balls. During the remainder of the fantasy regular season, Brown caught 16 balls.
56 ERIC – Coby Fleener TE NO | Position Rank: #8 One fact was known in fantasy, Drew Brees loved his tight ends. He made Jimmy Graham an All-Robio player and he even made Ben Watson the 7th best TE in 2015. Just imagine what Fleener, a young and athletic player, could do. Apparently, not much. He caught just 50 balls and scored only three times. His 631 yards was just seven yards above his career average.
57 MATT – Chris Ivory RB JAC | Position Rank: #45 I’m really going to have to do a full write up on how bad Matt’s running back draft was. A year after rushing for over 1,000 yards for the Jets, Ivory flopped down in Jacksonville. He looked old and injured and failed to crack 500 yards rushing.
58 BOB – Derrick Henry RB TEN | Position Rank: #47 A very popular sleeper pick, Henry showed flashes. He averaged 4.5 yards per carry, but DeMarco Murray was one of the league’s best. This left Henry a true backup, who never got off Bob’s bench. Worse yet, based on how Murray played, I can’t even call Henry a solid keeper for 2017.
59 COLBY – Doug Martin RB TB (Keeper) | Position Rank: #48 After two awful, injury-plagued years, Martin got his shit together, stayed healthy and lead the league in rushing in 2015. He was a awesome keeper deep in round five. Yet, he reverted back to his old self in 2016, missing a total of eight games. Even when he did play, he wasn’t good, averaging only 2.9 yards per carry. Now, thanks to a PED suspension looming in 2017, he’s probably not a good keeper option.
60 GRIFF – Isaiah Crowell RB CLE | Position Rank: #17 In a perfect world, Griff would have only used Crowell to fill in for some bye-weeks. However, when Adrian Peterson went down in week three, Crowell was now Griff’s starter. He was alright, putting up a pair of 300-point efforts in the season’s first month, but Coomer soon lost faith and traded away Matt Ryan for Jonathan Stewart.
Round 6
61 GRIFF – Josh Gordon – WR CLE | Position Rank: N/A Let’s show the world how we miss the playoffs: First round pick plays just three games due to injury. Second round pick is a extremely underperforming QB. Third round pick and fourth round pick: Wide receivers that are barely worth of a bench spot. Fifth round pick: Doesn’t completely suck. Sixth round pick: Doesn’t play a single down of football.
62 COLBY – EricDecker WR NYJ | Position Rank: #100 Listen, Decker played just three games before a season-ending injury, but based on how the Jets collapsed this season, was Decker ever going to do something?
63 BOB – Christine Michael RB SEA | Position Rank: #25 Bob snagged a pair of handcuffs in rounds five and six. I’ve already documented how Henry did nothing. One pick later, for a hot minute, Michael looked like a possible steal. Rawls was hurt and Michael was the lead back in Seattle. In weeks 3-6 he scored 342, 240 and 286. Bob felt so confident in Michael, he shipped Gurley away for Julio and at that brief moment, I flirted with the idea of Bob being the top team. Well, Michael went back to being the Michael we all knew, suddenly unable to gain yards and was actually cut by the Hawks.
64 MATT – Arian Foster RB MIA | Position Rank: #93 You know it’s not your year when your sixth round sleeper running back retires after just 22 carries. And to think he was the opening day starter for Miami and Matt.
65 ERIC – Giovani Bernard RB CIN | Position Rank: #26 Like always, Bernard shared the backfield with Jeremy Hill and out-produced him, despite getting drafted three rounds later. He certainly had his moments (264 in week two, 234 in week seven), but his season came to an end in week 11 thanks to a torn ACL. He could end up falling late in the 2017 draft if he’s slow to recover.
66 ROB M – LeGarrette Blount RB NE | Position Rank: #8 How great was this pick? Just go back and look at the earlier picks from this round. They basically went: Suspended without playing a down, season ending injury, retired after just 22 carries and season ending injury. With Dion Lewis still hurt, Blount dominated at times as the lead back in New England. In Rob’s 14 games this season, he broke 200 nine times, hit 400 three times and never dipped below 100 in any game.
67 JEFF – Willie Snead WR NO | Position Rank: #33 He fooled us all in week one, scoring 404 fantasy points. Maybe Jeff had another mid-round steal. Snead would crack 200 just one more time all year, failing to hit 100 six different times, as Drew Brees continued to spread the wealth in New Orleans.
68 RICH B – Jay Ajayi RB MIA | Position Rank: #12 Let’s talk about one of the strangest seasons ever by a fantasy back. In week one, Ajayi was a healthy scratch that didn’t even make the trip. Over the next four weeks, he was just one part of a RB committee. However, over the next three weeks he became the best back in football, scoring 1,346 points, rushing for over 200 yards in back-to-back games. Was he really an elite back? No. His next great game wouldn’t be until he scored 478 in week sixteen, two weeks after Burrier’s season ended. He averaged only 131 PPG in Rich’s final six games.
69 RICH C – Frank Gore RB IND | Position Rank: #14 Gore just does what Gore does. He never gets hurt, never miss a game, never really impresses anyone, but when the season is over, he has over 1,000 yards. This was his 10th career 1,000-yard season. Anyhow, with DeMarco Murray and Le’Veon Bell, Rich had no real need to Gore.
70 MOLLY – Texans DST HOU | Position Rank: #13 Without J.J. Watts, the Texans DST fell out of the top-10. From the previous year, their sack total was down by 14 and turnovers dropped from 25-18.
71 ROBIO – Allen Robinson WR JAC (Keeper) | Position Rank: #30 This piece of shit. After scoring 2,880 points the previous season, earning third-team All-Robio, Robinson fucked me hard in 2016. He scored 1,196 points less, despite being healthy all season long. He had three great games this year: 234 in week three, 212 in week nine and 294 in week ten. He was on my bench during all three
72 DON – Danny Woodhead RB SD | Position Rank: #82 Thanks to a ACL tear in week two, Woodhead had 19 carries for 116 yards. That is all.
Round 7
73 DON – Jordan Matthews WR PHI (Keeper) | Position Rank: #35 Probably because he’s had a new starting quarterback every year he’s played, but Matthews just can’t seem to make the leap forward. Three years in the league and his receiver totals remain even. His catches: 67-85-73. His yard: 934-872-804. This year he dropped from WR2 status down to three after scoring just three touchdowns.
74 ROBIO – Philip Rivers QB SD | Position Rank: #14 Partly because his two favorite targets (Allen, Woodhead) failed to play past week two, Rivers only got about four starts for me, always based on match ups. He did fine, but at age 35, it’s hard to see him being a stud QB again.
75 MOLLY – Austin Seferian-Jenkins TE | Position Rank: #50 When you draft a tight end in the seventh round, who gets cut before the season starts, you’re probably not doing your pre-draft homework. He eventually got picked up by the Jets and caught 13 balls, but Molly had cut him long before that.
76 RICH C – DeAngelo Williams RB PIT | Position Rank: #46 A little early for a handcuff for a normal situation, but with Bell suspended for three games, Calderon didn’t want to take any chances. Williams was fantastic in weeks one and two, scoring 462 and 324. That’s all Rich wanted and needed.
77 RICH B – Allen Hurns WR JAC | Position Rank: #58 The dude delivered 1,000 yards last year, but fell off the fucking earth in 2016; missing a total of five games, failing to reach 500 yards, scoring only three times. Burrier kept him on his roster, but he rode the pine pretty much all season.
78 JEFF – Charles Sims RB TB | Position Rank: #65 Jeff reached up and snagged Colby’s handcuff and it looked like it would pay off, when Doug Martin went down with an injury. However, Sims followed Martin to the IR and his season was done.
79 ROB M – Eli Manning QB NY | Position Rank: #18 Drafted as a four game fill-in for Tom Brady, Masterson did manage to go 4-0, but I’m not sure he can thank Eli for that. He was average at best during those four games, averaging 204.5 points per game.
80 ERIC – Tyrod Taylor QB BUF | Position Rank: #15 Is it me or does it seem like every “high ceiling, but low floor” guy that Eric drafted (and there were a lot of them) failed to live up to expectations? Taylor’s stats were nearly identical as last year, but playing in one more game. Last year he had 3,035 yards. This year: 3,023. Last year he had 24 total scores and 7 turnovers. This year: 23 scores and eight turnovers.
81 MATT – Ryan Mathews RB PHI (Keeper) | Position Rank: #27 Mathews would prove to be Matt’s best running back, but that’s not saying much.He missed his standard three games again this year, rushing for 661 yards in a crowded Eagles backfield.
82 BOB – Corey Coleman WR CLE | Position Rank: #89 After scoring 328 fantasy points in his second career game, it looked like Bob had awoken another sleeper, but that would be the last game the Browns rookie would play until week nine. He remained on Bob’s bench the entire season wearing a red shirt.
83 COLBY – Panthers DST CAR | Position Rank: #20 Like so many Panthers this year, the Carolina defense struggled and at times was one of the worst defenses in the league. Three times this year they gave up negative points (-20 against Atlanta in week four, -56 two weeks later against the Saints and then in week thirteen, then they scored -42 against Seattle). Brutal.
84 GRIFF – Martellus Bennett TE NE | Position Rank: #7 When seasons go south, it usually involves a bad draft or bad injury luck, but you can always find bad decisions and panicked decisions. A good example of this…Griff drafted Bennett. He didn’t do great in week one with Gronk out, so Griff cut him. However, between weeks two through five, he exploded with a 288, 218 and 314 point games. Colby had picked him up by that point and then traded him back to Griff, for All-Robio quarterback, Matt Ryan. For the reminder of Griff’s season, despite the fact Gronk would end up on the IR, Bennett was useless, breaking 100 fantasy points just one time (204 in week ten). Basically, Griff gave up the league’s third best quarterback and excellent keeper for 66.8 points per game.
Round 8
85 GRIFF – Jaguars DST JAC | Position Rank: #23 They lasted two weeks. After scoring 110 total points in weeks one and two, Griff cut the Jaguars DST for the Packers. They ended up going to the Pounders for a bit, before ending the year with Don.
86 COLBY – Mike Evans WR TB (Keeper) | Position Rank: #3 One of the best keepers and best players of the year. Evans cracked 200 seven times in the regular season (hitting 400 once and 300 another three times). In fact, heading into week thirteen, he was the league’s top wide receiver, before finally settling for second-team All-Robio. A lot went wrong for Colby this year, but Mike Evans played no part. For the record, the Bucs’ receiver heads back to the draft pool in 2017.
87 BOB – Devin Funchess WR CAR | Position Rank: #82 Devin Funchess failed in bunches, catching just 23 balls, as Cam Newton rarely looked his way.
88 MATT – Ameer Abdullah RB DET | Position Rank: #79 Matt’s running back nightmare finally comes to a close with Ameer, who had so much promise. In week one, as the Lions starter, he had 17 touches and produced 110 yards, a score and a stunning 300 fantasy points. A week later he had six carries before getting knocked out for the year. If only…
89 ERIC – Sterling Shepard WR NYG | Position Rank: #98 Shepard produced a decent rookie campaign. As Eli’s second favorite target, he record 65-683-8, receiving 105 targets, although he had no real impact on Eric’s fantasy season. The question moving forward, will there be room for improvement? Beckham will remain the #1 option and the two things the Giants offense desperately needs is a stretch the field wideout, plus a tight end who can actually catch a ball.
90 ROB M – Antonio Gates TE SD | Position Rank: #24 After catching 12 touchdowns two years ago, the old man finally started looking like an old man. He missed a pair of games and only caught 53 balls for 548 yards. Rob eventually cut him, settling on Jimmy Graham. Gates ended up with Neatock and started some games, but that’s not saying much coming from a two-win team. I think his days of getting drafted are over.
91 JEFF – Cardinals DST ARI | Position Rank: #4 They were exactly what we thought they were. When the opponent was weak. the Cardinals feasted, scoring 292 against the Buccaneers, 232 on the 49ers and 210 when facing the Jets. Down the stretch, injuries started to hurt them, as their scores started to dip below 100. In the semifinals, they were rocked by the Saints (21 fantasy points) and were benched by Jeff in the title game.
92 RICH B – Marvin Jones WR DET | Position Rank: #26 For a hot minute, this looked like a steal. Jones was not Megatron, but he was clearly Stafford’s favorite target. Three weeks into the season and he was the best wide receiver in fantasy, thanks to a 530 points at Green Bay. Yet, slowly but surely his stats fell. In his final five games of Rich’s season, he averaged just 70 points per game, which explains why he spent much of it on Burrier’s bench.
93 RICH C – Tyler Lockett WR SEA | Position Rank: #66 A hot sleeper pick, he never really saw the ball much in Seattle. The second-year receiver did manage 364 yards in his four best games (in weeks two, ten, thirteen and fifteen), but had just 233 in the rest of his games. Calderon eventually cut Lockett and he ended his season on Jeff’s bench.
94 MOLLY – T.J. Yeldon – RB JAC | Position Rank: #34 With Chris Ivory struggling with injuries and basically ineffective, the opportunity for Yeldon to shine was there. He failed. Averaging just 3.6 yards per carry, Yeldon become more a third-down back (50 receptions on the year). He broke 200 just once all season, spending most of his Sundays on Molly’s pine.
95 ROBIO – Kirk Cousins QB WAS | Position Rank: #6 I decided to wait to draft a quarterback and the move basically paid off. After a slow start to the year, Cousins was one of the top-three quarterbacks for a good two months throughout the season. He scored over 280 eight times, including six straight between weeks 6-12, where he averaged a solid 358 points per game. He easily took the starting job over Philip Rivers (taken two rounds earlier) for me.
96 DON – Gary Barnidge TE CLE | Position Rank: #21 Even with a good quarterback, it was unlikely that Barnidge would deliver a second straight stud season. With nothing but shit throwing the ball to him, the Browns tight end’s numbers dropped significantly. He was targeted 43 less times, caught 24 less balls for over 400 less yards. He had nine touchdowns last year, but only two this year. Don cut him and he remained a free agent when the season finally came to a close.
Round 9
97 DON – Justin Forsett RB BAL | Position Rank: #80 Last year, Forsett went in the first-round, after competing for an All-Robio award in 2014. However, this year he couldn’t even muster up 300 yards rushing for two different teams. Don finished the year with ten of his top twelve picks this year still on his roster. The two that didn’t? His last two.
98 ROBIO – Charcandrick West RB KC | Position Rank: #60 With Jamaal Charles health issues, I needed his handcuff. Unfortunately for him, I drafted the wrong one. Luckily for me, no one else grabbed Spencer Ware and I was able to snag him via free agency.
99 MOLLY – Cameron Artis-Payne RB CAR | Position Rank: #75 Injured through two weeks, Molly threw CAP back in the water, but with Jonathan Stewart out, Artis-Payne finally got some carries. Jeff picked him up and it looked like a steal, as the Panthers back delivered 290 fantasy points in week five. However, that would be the last action he would see, as he was inactive most of the time once Stewart returned.
100 RICH C – Jordan Reed TE WAS (Keeper) | Position Rank: #5 There is no doubt if Jordan Reed was healthy, he’d be the top tight end in football. When healthy, he was the Redskins top target and he delivered stud performances like 266 against the Browns, 258 against the Bengals and 310 against the Cowboys. Unfortunately for Rich, Reed is made of glass and was the leader of the walking wounded come playoff time. He watched Calderon win it all from the bench.
101 RICH B – Tavon Austin WR LAR | Position Rank: #56 The Rams threw $42-million to this guy in the offseason, just going to show that everyone in that organization deserves to be fired, not just the head coach. Austin was basically a no-show this season, catching just 58 balls for 509 yards, which sadly are career highs and probably his ceiling.
102 JEFF – Delanie Walker TE TEN (Keeper) | Position Rank: #4 Despite missing at least one game again (which is his M.O.), Walker finished the year with over 800 yards receiving for the third straight season. Best yet, his seven touchdowns were a career high. He was a season-long starter for the top-seed in Robioland.
103 ROB M – Bilal Powell RB NYJ | Position Rank: #39 Rob smartly grabbed Matt Forte’s backup, although he never really needed him, as Forte didn’t go down and out until week thirteen and by then, Rob had cut Powell (he ended up with Molly). However, were the Jets smart for keeping Powell behind Forte? In the final month of the season, Powell saw most of the touches and he dominated, averaging 321 fantasy points per game.
104 ERIC – Chiefs DST KC | Position Rank: #7 Overall, Chiefs were a fine DST, thanks to eight defensive touchdowns. Overall though, they could certainly be a negative for a fantasy team. Six times out of 13 regular season games, the Chiefs DST failed to hit 100 fantasy points.
105 MATT – Marcus Mariota QB TEN | Position Rank: #4 Hey look, a good pick by Matt, although at first, it certainly didn’t look like one. Mariota began the year a turnover machine, throwing five interceptions, to go along with three fumbles, in the season’s first month. However, once he protected the ball better, Mariota was damn good. In fact, between weeks 4-12, Mariota averaged a stunning 371.5 points per game, which is how he nearly earned All-Robio.
106 BOB – Lamar Miller RB HOU (Keeper) | Position Rank: #15 With a new home and a new head coach promising to feed the former Dolphins running back, Miller was expected to challenge for an All-Robio award. Instead, he couldn’t even muster RB1 status. Averaging just 4.0 yards per game, Miller couldn’t find a lot of open space on the league’s worst offense. he caught just 31 balls (47 the year before) and scored just six touchdowns, which is pathetically low for a guy who almost never gives up a carry. Anyhow, Miller will always have his 2014 title with Bob, as he heads back to the free agent pool.
107 COLBY – Kevin White WR CHI | Position Rank: #36 After missing his entire rookie season due to a ACL injury, White was a bit of mystery. Healthy, he looked like your standard rookie, catching little more than half of his 35 targets, never cracking more than 70 yards in a game, never seeing the end zone. Yet a ankle injury ended his season and two years into his NFL career, White has now missed 28 of his potential 32 games.
108 GRIFF – Chris Johnson RB ARI | Position Rank: #94 If anyone can appreciate the value of a handcuff, it’s Griff. Luckily for him, he never needed to go to the bullpen with David Johnson, because Chris Johnson only played four games before needing his own handcuff.
Round 10
109 GRIFF – David Johnson RB ARI (Keeper) | Position Rank: #1 League MVP. So glad I cut him late in the season last year. I hope his children get Aids.
110 COLBY – Torrey Smith WR SF | Position Rank: #93 For the record, I pray David Johnson’s kids get Aids, not Griff’s kids. Anyhow, Torrey Smith still plays football. He caught 20 balls, scored a couple times. Colby cut him in week two for Michael Crabtree. Too bad he didn’t hold onto Crabtree.
111 BOB – Tyler Eifert TE CIN | Position Rank: #25 Bob waited patiently for the Bengals tight end, who missed the season’s first seven games. After he finally got his sea legs in week ten, he was pretty damn good, averaging 192 over his next six. However, in the semifinals, when Bob could have used him against Calderon, he caught just one ball for nine yards, leaving the game early with an injury.
112 MATT – Laquon Treadwell WR MIN | Position Rank: N/A Wow, this pick was fucking awful. Treadwell’s rookie stats: Nine games, three total targets, one catch for 15 yards. How is that possible? I’m starting to wonder how Matt fucking won two games.
113 ERIC – Sammy Watkins WR BUF (Keeper) | Position Rank: #94 Are we done with this guy yet? He played two shitty games before going back onto the IR. He never did anything when playing and by the time he had his one good game (368 against Miami in week sixteen), Eric’s season was long over.
114 ROB M – Mark Ingram RB NO (Keeper) | Position Rank: #13 This is a weird one. It seemed like Ingram struggled all year, as he went in and out of Rob’s starting lineup. However, when the dust settled, he had over 1,000 yards on the season on just 205 carries (5.1 yards per carry) and caught a decent 46 balls.
115 JEFF – Will Fuller WR HOU | Position Rank: #57 When the season got started, Fuller looked like a steal. The rookie delivered back-to-back 100-yard games, scoring one touchdown. Yet, that would be the highlight. He would never approach 100 yards again, scoring just once more (in week four). Jeff cut him late in the season. Colby scooped him up, because Colby, but even he eventually released him back into the wild.
116 RICH B – James White RB NE | Position Rank: #36 With Dion Lewis, White had an opportunity to be a feature back, but thanks to Blount, he was relegated to the receiving threat. He did manage 60 receptions, 551 yards receiving and five touchdowns, but once Lewis came back, that was it for him. White finished the year with Neatock.
117 RICH C – Devontae Booker RB DEN | Position Rank: #30 Talk about opportunity missed…not for Calderon of course. He was able to ship a running back who averaged 3.5 yards per carry off to Colby for Matt fucking Ryan, the third-team All-Robio quarterback, who could be a great keeper in 2017. I’m talking about Booker himself. When C.J. Anderson went down, Booker had the smell of a rookie stud being handed the golden ticket. Instead, as the starter, his stats per carry dropped. It got so bad, the Broncos brought in Justin Forsett.
118 MOLLY – Vincent Jackson WR TB | Position Rank: N/A Why you want to draft a wide receiver whose stats have been dropping for four straight years, I’ll never know. Coming off a career worst season, Jackson topped that (or is it bottomed it?) with just 15 catches in five games. This is probably the last we’ll see of Jackson in fantasy football.
119 ROBIO – Michael Crabtree WR OAK | Position Rank: #17 One of two late round picks I made that I cut early and never got to enjoy the stats they delivered. Playing in a system that reminded me of when the Colts had both Reggie Wayne and Marvin Harrison, Crabtree had 145 targets and caught 89 balls for 1003 yards and eight scores. Yet, I cut him before the season started. Colby had him for a few days before letting him ago. Finally, Bob snagged him in week four and had him penciled in as a starter for the remainder of the year.
120 DON – Rams DST LAR | Position Rank: #17 I’ll sum up the Rams defense in two games. In week 12, against the Saints they scored -62. A week later, they scored -1 against the Patriots. No one expects them to deliver 250 fantasy points against these foes, but they simply failed to show up in both cases.
Round 11
121 DON – Matthew Stafford QB DET | Position Rank: #9 Stafford ended up being a great pick that was never great enough to trade. The Lions QB ended up sharing the quarterback roll with Andrew Luck on Don’s squad.
122 ROBIO – Jordy Nelson WR GB (Keeper) | Position Rank: #6 After a slow stat, Nelson finally started paying off in the second half of the season. That’s to be expected coming off a ACL injury. Anyhow, he ended the year with 97 catches and 1,257 yards, but it was his 14 touchdowns that helped him earn a third-team All-Robio award.
123 MOLLY – Stefon Diggs WR MIN | Position Rank: #25 The Vikings wide receiver stormed from the gate with a pair of impressive performances; 204 against the Titans and then 424 against the Packers. Diggs had the look of a must-start WR. Yet, then came four straight where he failed to produce 50 yards receiving. That would be his norm, except for one game in week ten, frustrating Molly all season long.
124 RICH C – Kelvin Benjamin WR CAR (Keeper) | Position Rank: #54 Through two weeks, Benjamin looked like the “previous season, late-round injury, red shirt” that would pay off, not Jordy Nelson. He caught 13 balls for 199 yards and three scores. Yet, he would never match those kind of stats again. In fact, his receptions, yards and scores were all lower than what he produced as a rookie two years early. He was a spot starter once Rich lost A.J. Green, but he was on the bench when Rich won it all.
125 RICH B – Steelers DST PIT | Position Rank: #12 The steal curtain they are not. The Steelers defense continues to fall, as the interceptions, fumbles and sacks continued to decline. This once dominating defense hasn’t received any All-Robio award since 2010.
126 JEFF – Markus Wheaton WR PIT | Position Rank: N/A Not all picks can be gold and Wheaton certainly was not. He played three games, caught four balls and disappeared back onto the IR in week six.
127 ROB M – Michael Thomas WR NO | Position Rank: #16 Easily the best rookie wide receiver taken in this year’s draft, Thomas benefited from playing in Drew Brees’ high-octane offense. He caught 92 balls for 1,137 yards, scoring nine touchdowns. Remember, Laquan Treadwell was taken one round earlier and caught one ball all year long. Too bad for Masterson, he didn’t get to enjoy any of his success. He cut him in week three and three weeks later, Griff picked him up. He could be a solid keeper option in 2017.
128 ERIC – DeVante Parker WR MIA (Keeper) | Position Rank: #47 Parker did make a nice leap from rookie to sophomore. His catch totals went up +30 and he had 230 more yards. However, let’s not forget his rookie campaign was pretty lame, so in reality 56-744-4 are not good fantasy stats. Eric agreed and cut Parker.
129 MATT – Andy Dalton QB CIN | Position Rank: #13 And the think, Matt could have had Dak Prescott.
130 BOB – Dak Prescott QB DAL | Position Rank: #7 As a Cowboys fan, I like Prescott. I did not want them to trade up for any other quarterback. I read that Prescott would be available in round four and based on what I read about him and the few games I saw of him in college, I wanted them to take Dak. Yet, not even I could have imagined that he’d turn out not just good, but fantasy good. Passing for over 3,600 yards and nearly rushing for 300, Prescott had one of the best rookie years by a QB since Robert Griffin III. He finished with 29 touchdowns (23 through the air) to only eight total turnovers (four interceptions). Happy with Aaron Rodgers at QB, Bob shipped Dak off for Brandon Marshall, but Colby definitely got the better end of the deal. Prescott ended up starting for him down the stretch and will be a solid keeper in 2017.
131 COLBY – Carson Palmer QB ARI (Keeper) | Position Rank: #21 Why was Dark Prescott starting for the Quarter Pounders down the stretch? Because Carson Palmer sucked. With a line unable to protect him, Palmer threw for only 26 touchdowns, turning it over a stunning 18 times (14 interceptions, four fumbles).
132 GRIFF – Matt Ryan QB ATL | Position Rank: #3 Deep in the eleventh round, four straight quarterbacks were taken and the best of the bunch was the fourth one taken. Ryan threw for a career high 4,944 yards and 38 touchdowns, while tossing a career low seven interceptions. Oddly enough, of the four quarterbacks taken in a row in this round, none finished the season as a starter for the team that drafted them. Dalton was cut, Prescott was traded, Palmer was benched and Ryan was first traded to Colby, then to Calderon, earning his second career fantasy title. He ended the year as a third-team All-Robio quarterback.
Round 12
133 GRIFF – Brandon LaFell WR CIN | Position Rank: #42 Based on his career, LaFell had one of his best seasons ever. His 64 catches were the second most in his career, along with his 862 yards and six scores. Yet, that just shows his career has been pretty shitty. Griff eventually cut him and he finished the season on Calderon’s bench.
134 COLBY – Julius Thomas TE JAC | Position Rank: #26 Seems like the longer Thomas plays, the more time he spends on the IR. Playing just nine games, the Jaguars tight end was a non-factor, catching just 30 balls for 281 yards. Sorry buddy, but Peyton Manning ain’t walking through those doors.
135 BOB – Dwayne Allen TE IND | Position Rank: #22 With Colby Fleener gone, the door was open for Allen’s production to make a giant leap up. It didn’t. He caught just 35 balls all season long and even his six touchdowns are a fluke, since half came in one game.
136 MATT – Zach Ertz TE PHI (Keeper) | Position Rank: #19 Zach Ertz, the man destined to destroy Neatock’s soul. Through eight weeks, Ertz was awful, averaging 60 fantasy points per contest (Missing two games due to injury). Yet, in the final five weeks of the season, Ertz was one of the better tight ends in football, averaging 213 per game…just enough so Matt can have his soul crushed again next year.
137 ERIC – C.J. Prosise RB SEA | Position Rank: #50 With Thomas Rawls out and Christine Michael ineffective, there was a small crack for Prosise to take advantage of. In week eight he delivered 206 fantasy points. Two weeks later, he handed Eric 306. In week eleven, he was killing it again, producing 222 fantasy points by halftime, but then he got hurt and his season was over. Oh well.
138 ROB M – Tim Hightower RB NO | Position Rank: #35 Tim However was suppose to be Mark Ingram’s handcuff, but he got just enough touches to be a pain in the ass. Despite averaging a full yard less per carry, Hightower got 155 touches, gaining 748 total yards, stealing five scores.
139 JEFF – Stephen Gostkowski K NE | Position Rank: #12 And the winner for first kicker taken goes to Greenblatt, although this one didn’t really pan out. Gostkowski has been Mr. Reliable, but not in 2016. He missed three extra points, missing five field goals and only made two for over 50 yards.
140 RICH B – Ryan Tannehill QB MIA | Position Rank: #22 Tannehill actually started one game for Rich, when he benched a limping Russell Wilson. The Dolphins quarterback scored six fantasy points in that contest. Not a good decision.
141 RICH C – Jerick McKinnon RB MIN | Position Rank: #44 One of two handcuffs Rich drafted, who saw their starter go down with an injury. However, unlike Booker, who Rich was able to trade away for Matt Ryan, there was no value in McKinnon, who never got to carry the load in Minnesota. Calderon cut him in week ten and no one gave a shit.
142 MOLLY – Derek Carr QB OAK (Keeper) | Position Rank: #5 This is why you don’t draft Big Ben in the third round. Best yet, Carr still hasn’t even peaked yet. He didn’t throw for 4,000 yards and he only had 28 touchdowns. Just wait until the game really starts to slow down for him.
143 ROBIO – DeAndre Washington RB OAK | Position Rank: #55 Not all handcuffs can pay off. Unable to knock Murray out of the starting lineup, Washington didn’t break 130 until week sixteen, when he scored 354 against the Colts.
144 DON – Matt Jones RB WAS (Keeper) | Position Rank: #41 How bad of a keeper was Jones? he began the year the starter, but by week eight, he was a healthy scratch, giving up his starting job to Rob Kelley.
Round 13
145 DON – Paul Perkins RB NYG | Position Rank: #56 Never given a chance to do anything in the Giants backfield early in the season, Don gave him up in week seven. However, seeing keeper potential, I grabbed him in week 12 and in the final month he was the actual starter. In four games as the “lead” back, he rushed the ball 62 times for 271 yards (4.4 yards per carry). However, he had zero scores and just two receptions. Not sure I can keep him over Jordy Nelson.
146 ROBIO – Jimmy Graham TE SEA | Position Rank: #3 The second late pick I made that turned out great, but didn’t even try keeping him around (the other being Michael Crabtree). I actually cut him before the season began, Rob picked him up before the season began and got to enjoy his third-string All-Robio season.
147 MOLLY – Phillip Dorsett WR IND | Position Rank: #80 In two seasons, Dorsett has just 51 catches. I don’t think he’s going to make it in this league we call Robioland.
148 RICH C – Tajae Sharpe WR TEN | Position Rank: #65 He finished his rookie campaign with 41 catches, 522 yards and two scores. Not bad, but certainly not the sleeper many had predicted.
149 RICH B – DeAndre Hopkins WR HOU (Keeper) | Position Rank: #34 Even though Hopkins is a late-keeper, I have to say he was easily the biggest disappointment of the season. With a new quarterback, the Texans wide receiver received 42 less targets, caught 33 less balls for 577 yards less. His touchdown total dropped from 11 to 4.
150 JEFF – Shane Vereen RB NYG | Position Rank: #72 He played a total of five games and was cut by Jeff in week four. Since leaving the Patriots, Vereen’s career has gone down the drain.
151 ROB M – Jeremy Maclin WR KC (Keeper) | Position Rank: #79 After producing back-t0-back 1,000-yard seasons, the injury bug returned and bite Maclin hard. Rob eventually said no mas in week nine and then for reasons we can’t explain, Neatock got confused and thought it was 2014 and went and spent $50 on Maclin, who was injured. By the time he did return to do nothing, Matt’s season was already over.
152 ERIC – Theo Riddick RB DET | Position Rank: #22 With Abdullah going out for the year in week two, the opportunity for Riddick was just sitting there. The starting RB job was his. While he was never a great runner, he was a stud receiver out of the backfield. Through ten weeks, he had over 700 combined yards and six scores, but injuries derailed his season and he ended up on the IR.
153 MATT – Dorial Green-Beckham WR PHI | Position Rank: #84 There are three guarantees in fantasy. Matt will draft a Eagle. Matt will draft a former Eagle. Matt will draft a Rams player. Obviously Green-Beckham was a Titan, but it was fitting he was traded to the Eagles. For the record, Matt had ten players on his roster at some point who were either Eagles, former Eagles or Rams player. Anyhow, no matter where Green-Beckham played, this dude couldn’t even catch a handoff and Matt eventually cut him.
154 BOB – Travis Benjamin WR SD | Position Rank: #54 Things seemed to line up just right for Benjamin. Coming off a season where he caught 966 yards worth of receptions, he was in a new home, with a better quarterback, who just lost his top receiver in week one. Yet, Benjamin just got worse as the season went on. In fact, he caught four balls in a game just once after week seven. By then, he was off Bob’s roster.
155 COLBY – Tevin Coleman RB ATL | Position Rank: #23 Through seven weeks, Coleman was actually the better fantasy running back in Atlanta. He took just enough carries, caught plenty of balls and scored five times. Colby even managed to get him a couple of starts, although seemed to guess wrong more often than not. However, a week seven injury would keep him out for a month and reestablished Freeman as the lead dog.
156 GRIFF – Buccaneers DST TB | Position Rank: #9 When it comes to all-time homers, I know Matt would be on the top of the list, but Griff wouldn’t be too far behind. At least the Buccaneers DST had it’s moments, finishing in the top-10, which is the first time they’ve done that since the 2008 season.
Round 14
157 GRIFF – Odell Beckham WR NYG (Keeper) | Position Rank: #5 Because Beckham is a metal fucknut, it’s easy to assume he’s having a rough year. His slow starts also lend to that perception, but my midseason, Beckham was rolling through 200-point games, plus one 534-point effort in week six. He earned a third-team All-Robio award and would have been amazing in the postseason, scoring 248, 206 and 300 fantasy points. Too bad for Griff, he wasn’t there to enjoy him. After three amazing years with Coomer, Beckham returns back to the draft pool.
158 COLBY – Steven Hauschka K SEA | Position Rank: #9 The second kicker drafted missed more extra points (six) than field goals (four). He also made only one field goal of over 50 yards.
159 BOB – Bengals DST CIN (Keeper) | Position Rank: #21 Rushing yards were up, interceptions, sacks and forced fumbles were all down. Now you see why Bob cut them.
160 MATT – Carson Wentz QB PHI | Position Rank: #23 Matt fucking Neatock. Only Matt fucking Neatock would draft a Philadelphia rookie quarterback, smartly red shirt him so he can keep him another year, then despite sitting in last place with no real shot to make the playoffs, start him late in the season, thus breaking his red shirt and losing one year of keeper eligibility.
161 ERIC – Mason Crosby K GB | Position Rank: #16 He made a stunning 44 extra points, while making just 26 of 30 field goals. Only six were for over 40 yards. He ended the year as a free agent.
162 ROB M – Vikings DST MIN | Position Rank: #1 You know you’re doing something right when you wait until the 14th round to take a defense, nine rounds after the first defense went off the board, yet it is you who ends up with the top D in all the land.
163 JEFF – Hunter Henry TE SD | Position Rank: #18 With Antonio Gates hurt, the Chargers young tight end showed flashes, including a pair of 200-point efforts in weeks five and six. However, he didn’t do enough to warrant a constant roster spot. He would end up playing for four teams (Burrier, Jeff, Masterson, Calderon) before ending the year as a free agent.
164 RICH B – Rishard Matthews WR TEN | Position Rank: #24 Matthews never got a shot with Burrier, who cut him in week one. However, after a slow start, Matthews was a nice, consistent wide receiver. Jeff picked him up in week seven and started him down the stretch. In his final 13 weeks, he averaged 170 fantasy points per game, thanks to 944 yards receiving and nine scores.
165 RICH C – Giants DST NYG | Position Rank: #10 Despite being one of the better defenses in football, the Giants didn’t really have an impact in fantasy. Calderon cut them in week one and didn’t pick them back up until week eleven. They got one start, before getting shipped back to the wire. I had them for a week, but that was all. A pretty strange odyssey for a top-10 defense.
166 MOLLY – Zach Miller TE CHI | Position Rank: #12 Through ten games, Miller was the top target for the Chicago Bears, catching 47 balls for 485 yards and four scores. However, he couldn’t stay healthy and ended the year on IR.
167 ROBIO – Alfred Morris RB DAL | Position Rank: #64 Drafted in case Elliot went down with an injury, he was never needed and eventually shipped off to Don for a handcuff swap.
168 DON – Adam Vinatieri K IND | Position Rank: #3 The old man in Indy just doesn’t quit. Vinatieri was a perfect 44-44 kicking the extra point and hit 27-31 field goals, including a stunning 17 from 40 yards or more; seven of those were from 50 yards or more.
Round 15
169 DON – Tyler Boyd WR CIN | Position Rank: #68 The rookie wide receiver was fine, delivering 603 yards receiving on 54 catches. However, he never reached 80 yards in a game and caught just one touchdown all year long. Don cut him.
170 ROBIO – Chandler Catanzaro K ARI | Position Rank: #22 After missing just about every field goal, he was cut in week five. No one picked him up. He missed four extra points and seven field goals.
171 MOLLY – Graham Gano K CAR | Position Rank: #17 Ended up playing for both Molly and myself, as he struggled to hit his kicks. He missed three extra points and eight of his 38 field goal tries.
172 RICH C – Blair Walsh K MIN | Position Rank: #31 He played for both Calderon and Neatock before the Vikings actually cut him. He was just 15-of-19 hitting extra points, missing four of his sixteen field goals.
173 RICH B – Justin Tucker K BAL | Position Rank: #1 The league’s top kicker in 2016. Rich drafted him and kept him until the Ravens bye-week, where he sent him packing. However, he failed to get him back, as Griff snagged him and earned his first-team. On the year, he was perfect kicking extra points (27-of-27) and hit a solid 38-of-39 field goals, including a league high 24 that were 40 yards or more and 10 that were 50 yards or more.
174 JEFF – Jameis Winston QB TB (Keeper) | Position Rank: #12 With Drew Brees as his starter, Jeff had no need for Winston, who could be a solid keeper again next year. His sophomore numbers were solid, passing again for over 4,000 yards, throwing for 28 touchdowns. He just needs to do something about those 18 interceptions.
175 ROB M – Chris Boswell K PIT | Position Rank: #27 He lasted five weeks with Masterson and was never picked up again, despite never missing an extra point and missing just four field goals. He never made one for over 50 yards.
176 ERIC – Sammie Coates WR PIT | Position Rank: #69 The rookie receiver seemed to be progressing nicely when the season began. Still, Eric cut him in week four. A week later, Burier got to enjoy his 398 fantasy points scored in week six. He looked like a steal. He would catch just two balls the rest of the way.
177 MATT – Brandon McManus K DEN | Position Rank: #8 Like Blair Walsh up above, McManus would bounce around from Neatock’s team to Calderon’s team, before ending the year as a free agent.
178 BOB – Dan Bailey K DAL | Position Rank: #6 While Bailey was a solid 46-for-46 kicking the extra point, the league’s most accurate kicker missed five of 32 tries and after a short stint with Bob and then with me, he ended the year as a free agent.
179 COLBY – Jordan Howard RB CHI | Position Rank: #9 Arguable one of the best final round picks ever and Colby didn’t even get to enjoy it. In fact, He cut the Bears handcuff before the season began. Yet, in week four, Langford went down and the job was Howard’s to have. Eric dropped $56 to get him and that proved to be money well spent. Averaging 5.2 yards per carry, Howard had 1,313 yards on just 252 carries and added in 298 yards receiving. He was an absolute beast down the stretch, averaging 281 fantasy points per game in the Bears’ final nine games.
180 GRIFF – Roberto Aguayo K TB | Position Rank: #29 The only question I have is, how did he last until week three on Griff’s team? One of the worst kickers in football, the rookie out of Florida State missed five of his first 11 field goal tries. He eventually settled down, but still finished the year making just 22 of 31 field goal attempts.
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