ROUND ONE
#1 MATT – Le’Veon Bell RB PIT | POSITION RANK: #2 A no-brainer if there ever was on. Bell had no problem dominating in the Steelers backfield. He finished with over 400 touches on the season, hitting nearly 1,900 total yards, easily earning another first-team All-Robio.
#2 MARC – Odell Beckham WR NYG | POSITION RANK: #71 Thanks to injuries, the Giants stud receiver only managed to squeeze in four games, breaking 200 fantasy points just twice, helping to make Pattini’s first season in the league, a forgettable one.
#3 GRIFF – Mike Evans WR TB | POSITION RANK: #21 On the season, Evans failed to live up to his 2016 hype. He had 25 less receptions, 300 less yards and seven less touchdowns. During Griff’s fantasy season, he mustered only three 200-pt efforts.
#4 COLBY – LeSean McCoy RB BUF | POSITION RANK: #7 Playing among a subpar Buffalo offense, McCoy put up solid numbers, breaking 1,500 total yards on the season. Four times in the fantasy season, he managed to score over 300 and was the only consistent back on a Colby team that missed the playoffs for a second straight year.
#5 RICH B – Christian McCaffrey RB CAR | POSITION RANK: #15 Of all the stud rookie backs, McCaffrey was the first one taken, although he only managed to finish fourth among them, ahead of only Joe Mixon and Dalvin Cook (who tore his ACL). While the Panthers rookie did finish the season with 80 catches (second to Kamara), he never got enough carries (little over seven a game) and barely hit 1,000 total yards. Not good enough for a first-round back. He sat on Rich’s bench for most of the year, behind Freeman and Ajayi.
#6 ERIC – Antonio Brown WR PIT (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #1 Brown become the first wide receiver in league history to earn first-team All-Robio for a fourth straight year; and a record third straight for Eric; thus I awarded him League MVP (first wideout to earn it) over Todd Gurley. He finished the season with over 1,000 receptions and 1,500 yards. His only drawback…he failed to hit double-digit scores.
#7 ROB M – A.J. Green WR CIN | POSITION RANK: #7 While Green finished 7th among all receivers, it sure felt like a off year for him. He caught barely 50% of his targets for 75 receptions and 1,078 yards on the season. His 14.4 yards per catch was his lowest since his sophomore year.
#8 DON – Ezekiel Elliott RB DAL (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #9 Considering he was suspected for six games, the fact that the Cowboys’ back still finished among the top-10 among backs, just shows you how good he was. Prior to his suspension, he was averaging 312 fantasy points per contest. However, with Don’s season headed south, he looked ahead to 2018 and traded Zek away to Bob for Kamara/Cook. With one more year of eligibility, Elliot will make a fine late first round keeper for Bob.
#9 ROBIO – Dez Bryant WR DAL | POSITION RANK: #26 Despite all the evidence from years past, I tricked myself into thinking Bryant was an elite WR1. I was fooled. Dez delivered zero 200-pt games during the 13-game fantasy season. He was benched by mid-season and the face of a failed fantasy franchise.
#10 BOB – Julio Jones WR ATL (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #4 For our fantasy season, Jones finished fourth, earning a second-team All-Robio. That’s not bad and plenty of guys would have been happy to have his season numbers, but it certainly felt like a disappointment for Julio. Fact is, he’s a first-teamer or bust, who actually only cracked 200 fantasy points per game four times. His stats got a huge bump, thanks to a 656-point outing in week 12. Take that week away and he finishes 18th among all receivers.
#11 JEFF – – Amari Cooper WR OAK | POSITION RANK: #40 Easily the biggest bust of 2017. Cooper was supposed to be among the elite, after back-to-back 1,000 yard seasons to start his career. Yet, his quarterback couldn’t hit a building from the sidewalk and Cooper had enough drops to last a lifetime. He had two or less catches in a game five total times and finished the year with only 48 catches and 680 yards. He’s the only first rounder to get cut this season.
#12 RICH C – Doug Baldwin WR SEA | POSITION RANK: #15 Baldwin continued his streak of “good, but not great” years. Seven seasons into his career, he’s still never sniffed 1,200 yards. This year, he caught just 75 balls for a struggling Seahawks passing game and failed to secure 1,000 yards in receiving. By mid-season, he was sitting on Rich’s bench, behind the much better DeAndre Hopkins and Adam Thielen.
Fun fact: Half of the first-round picks in the 2017 draft ended the season sitting on a team’s bench.
ROUND TWO
#13 RICH C – Leonard Fournette RB JAC | POSITION RANK: #8 While he only finished third among best rookie running backs, he still managed to be a stud pick for Rich, cracking the top-10, despite missing two games due to injury. On the season, he hit 300 four times, failed to hit 100 just twice and cracked 1,300 total yards, despite only averaging 3.9 yards per carry. Because Rich was smart enough to draft Baldwin first, Fournette should be a solid keeper option in 2018’s second round.
#14 JEFF – – Lamar Miller RB HOU | POSITION RANK: #10 This easily might be the least sexiest top-10 season by a running back ever. Miller failed to rush for 1,000, scored only three rushing touchdowns. However, he never got hurt and he caught some balls, so he somehow hit 1,100 total yards and earned a top-10 finish in fantasy. Still, he never rushed for 80 yards in any game and was benched by the end of the season, as Jeff rolled with Kenyan Drake down the stretch.
#15 BOB – Dalvin Cook RB MIN | POSITION RANK: #54 Oh what could have been. Bob suffered a double blow to his backfield in week four, losing both starting running backs for the season. Of the two, Cook was easily the bigger loss. Of the rookie backs, he probably would have produced the best season, as he hit 274 and 398 in two of his first three games in a offense that loved to pound the ball. Despite these loses, Bob still managed to find some backs and reach his fifth title game. Impressive. Cook was eventually shipped off to Don in a trade deadline dump, along with Kamara.
#16 ROBIO – Aaron Rodgers QB | GB | POSITION RANK: #28 The first quarterback taken was riding high early in the season, scoring three straight 300-pt games, before getting knocked out for the season in week six. This injury killed my season, as I had not just Rodgers as my starting quarterback, but two other Packers. With Rodgers out, Jordy Nelson became worthless, costing me any shot at the postseason.
#17 DON – Mark Ingram RB NO | POSITION RANK: #5 With the Saints signing Adrian Peterson and drafting Alvin Kamara, it was expected that Ingram’s fantasy value would plummet. Shows what I know. After Purple Jesus was shipped off to Arizona, both Ingram and Kamara exploded onto the scene. After week six, Ingram would deliver four 100-yard rushing games and finish the year with a career high in rushing yards (1,124) and scores (12). Obviously, he couldn’t save Don’s season, but he was shipped off with Zeke Elliot, to help him land Kamara, as a late round keeper in 2018. He would finish the year earning a third-team All-Robio award.
#18 ROB M – Kareem Hunt RB KC | POSITION RANK: #4 Talk about a strange rookie season for the Chiefs’ back. Through three weeks, he was the greatest thing since pancakes covered in bacon; averaging 469 points per game. Over the next four weeks, he came back down to earth, but he scored over 200 in all four, averaging 232 points per game. Yet, in his last five regular season games, he fell off the earth, averaging only 118 points per contest. Oddly enough, he scored a stunning 532 fantasy points in what would be our semifinals. Too bad for Rob, his season ended the week before.
#19 ERIC – Drew Brees QB | NO | POSITION RANK: #9 The second quarterback taken in the draft, Brees had a fine season, although maybe didn’t live up to his typical standards. He still managed to crack the top-10, but in fantasy that makes him bottom four in a 12-team league. The problem was, the Saints became a running team, especially in the red zone. Brees still managed 4,000 yards passing, but threw only 23 touchdowns. On the fantasy season, he had only three 300-point games and two of them came before week three.
#20 RICH B – Rob Gronkowski TE NE | POSITION RANK: #2 For the first time since his rookie year, Gronkowski finished the season healthy, but did not earn first-team All-Robio. Having said that, he still was a stud this year. He broken 1,000 yards receiving and scored eight times and would have earned first-team if it wasn’t for missing week five with a injury. He only missed it by 28 fantasy points (14 yards).
#21 COLBY – T.Y. Hilton WR IND | POSITION RANK: #17 If you look at the total stats, you wouldn’t knock Hilton too much. Despite missing Andrew Luck, he still managed to finish as a WR2. Yet, that might be overstating it. Fact is, so much of his stats came from a small sample of games. In three of his games this year, he scored 1,190 fantasy points. In the other ten, he scored just 602 (60.2 points per contest). This is why he spent most of the latter season on Colby’s non-playoff team bench.
#22 GRIFF – Keenan Allen WR LAC | POSITION RANK: #3 After missing the postseason in 2016, Griff managed to sneak back, despite losing David Johnson, thanks to picks like Allen. The oft-injured Chargers receiver finally stayed on the field and dominated, finishing behind only Antonio Brown and DeAndre Hopkins. That’s pretty good company. He was most brilliant down the stretch, as Griff was fighting for a playoff spot, putting up back-to-back 4oo-point games in weeks 11 and 12. This was the third straight season Griff has had a second-team All-Robio receiver on his roster (the other two seasons were Beckham).
#23 MARC – Brandin Cooks WR NE (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #8 No shame in finishing among the top-10 at receiver, although Cooks proved to be a bit inconsistent. He had more sub-100 games (five) than he had 300-pt games (three).
#24 MATT – Davante Adams WR GB Adams started the season well, producing a pair of 200-point games, but like every other Packer, his stats dipped when Rodgers went out. However, unlike every other Packers receiver, he eventually got back to begin a good receiver. Between weeks 10 through 14, he scored over 220 four different times and managed to rotate in and out of Matt’s championship starting lineup, although he was on the pine during the title game.
ROUND THREE
#25 MATT – Alshon Jeffery WR PHI | POSITION RANK: #14 Okay, he was fine, although Neatock should have taken DeAndre Hopkins (as should have the next ten guys). The new Eagles receiver had a slow start and he certainly didn’t look like Wentz’ favorite target, but he came on strong later in the season, settling in as a solid WR2.
#26 MARC – Martavis Bryant WR PIT | POSITION RANK: #62 Easiest way to head to the league basement is to go all homey with a homer pick. Coming off a suspension, there was no justification to take Bryant this early. He had a truly awful season, breaking 100 fantasy points just once, living on Marc’s bench for most of the year.
#27 GRIFF – Isaiah Crowell RB CLE (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #25 Crowell, one of the least sexiest keepers of all time, lived up to the lack of hype by once again failing to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. Despite getting a career high 206 carries, he failed to hit 900 yards and had only one more touchdown (2) than fumbles (1) for a 0-16 Browns team. He eventually found his home living on Griff’s bench.
#28 COLBY – Russell Wilson QB | SEA | POSITION RANK: #3 The third quarterback taken in the draft, proved to be the best. Wilson earned first-team All-Robio, scoring nearly 400 more points than the next guy (although to be fair to the next guy, he got hurt). Oddly enough, Colby also had Alex Smith, who was the better of the two quarterbacks for the first half of the season, so Wilson actually split time as a starter for a little while. Yet, despite the dynamic duo, Colby still failed to qualify for a postseason invite.
#29 RICH B – Kelvin Benjamin WR CAR | POSITION RANK: #43 Remember that rookie year when Benjamin was good? He had 73 catches for over 1,000 yards, scoring nine touchdowns. He looked like the next great wide receiver. Then he tore his ACL, got fat and then shipped to Buffalo. He had more sub-50 point games (four) than 200-pt games (one) and lingered on Burrier’s bench.
#30 ERIC – Marshawn Lynch RB OAK | POSITION RANK: #22 Beast mode returned to the NFL, but he more like a fragile kitten. Actually, that’s not fair. He wasn’t too bad with the ball, averaging 4.3 per carry, catching 20 balls and scoring seven times. He just didn’t get enough touches to be more than anything than a low-end RB2.
#31 ROB M – Joe Mixon RB CIN | POSITION RANK: #18 While other rookie backs really exploded out of the gate, Mixon appeared to be a bust. He struggled to receive double digit carries, averaging only 3.5 yards per rush. Rob was lucky if he broke 100 early in the season, although between weeks 8-12, he averaged a decent 161 PPG. Of all the rookie backs, he was the worst, if you exclude Dalvin Cook, who got hurt.
#32 DON – Jarvis Landry WR MIA | POSITION RANK: #20 Of all the wide receivers drafted in the third-round, Landry proved to be the best, but that’s not saying much. The Fins receiver had more sub-100 games (3) than 200-pt games (2). He started for Don most of the year, but that’s like saying you’re the coolest member of Smash Mouth.
#33 ROBIO – Carlos Hyde RB SF (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #11 Hyde had his moments, breaking 200 points five times, but also had his fair share of “what the fuck” games; including his eight carries for 11 yards in week five against a awful Colts D. In reality, he was the only consistent starter on my non-playoff team.
#34 BOB – Cam Newton QB | CAR | POSITION RANK: #5 For a hot minute, it looked like Newton would struggle, get benched on Bob’s squad behind Deshaun Watson. Yet, the rookie got hurt and Newton proved to be a solid arm for a 14-win team.
#35 JEFF – – Melvin Gordon RB LAC (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #6 This guy is amazing. He’s never rushed for four yards per carry in any of his three seasons, but continues to produce like a top-10 back. This year he earned third-team All-Robio, thanks to 283 carries and 83 targets (58 receptions). He topped 1,500 total yards and for the second straight year, scored double digit touchdowns.
#36 RICH C – DeMarco Murray RB TEN (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #16 Alongside Le’Veon Bell, Murray led Calderon to the top in 2016, but proved to be a major headache in 2017. Rich kept rotating him and Henry in and out of the starting lineup, but more often than not, he guessed wrong. Murray, who had over 1,600 total yards last year, failed to sniff 1,000 total this season. He rushed for over 60 yards in a game just twice and was a non-factor in Tennessee’s passing game.
ROUND FOUR
#37 RICH C – DeAndre Hopkins WR HOU | POSITION RANK: #2 In what proved to be one of the best picks in the draft, Hopkins amazed the league with a stunning 175 targets, 96 catches, nearly 1,400 yards and 13 scores. Of course, this is nothing new for Calderon, as Hopkins was Rich’s fifth 1st-team All-Robio receiver over the last eight seasons.
#38 JEFF – – Demaryius Thomas WR DEN | POSITION RANK: #29 With no decent quarterback within 200 miles of the city of Denver, Thomas’s decline continued. He failed to hit 1,000 yards receiving for the first time since 2011, catching just five touchdowns. He recorded just two 200-point games for Jeff during the fantasy regular season.
#39 BOB – Willie Snead WR NO | POSITION RANK: #155 A projected sleeper, despite serving a three-game suspension to start the season, Snead proved to be one of the league’s worst picks in 2018. Once he came back, he was nonexistent in the Saints offense. He caught just eight balls for 92 yards on the season. Bob cut him by midseason and no one had any interest in picking him up.
#40 ROBIO – Tyreek Hill WR KC | POSITION RANK: #5 I thought it was a done deal that Bob would take Hill. He had him last year and he was solid down the stretch. Well, Bob passed on him and glory went to me. The Chiefs second-year domestic abuser produced over 1,200 total yards and seven scores, giving me my fourth straight 3rd-team All-Robio wide receiver.
#41 DON – Kirk Cousins QB | WAS | POSITION RANK: #6 Not sure I have any interest in this guy leading my actual NFL team. He just makes too many bad throws at the worst times. However, for the second straight year, he proved to be a nice fantasy arm, finishing top-six. With a move to Minnesota, one has to expect greater things in 2019.
#42 ROB M – Tom Brady QB NE (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #4 In what has to be the strangest relationship in fantasy sports, Rob Masterson kept Brady, who once again delivered a solid season. He just missed out on an All-Robio award, but in the two seasons Rob has had him, he has thrown for over 8,000 yards, 60 touchdowns to just 10 interceptions.
#43 ERIC – Stefon Diggs WR MIN min | POSITION RANK: #25 For a hot minute, this pick appeared to be a legit steal. Diggs, despite some quarterback issues in the Great White North, scored 294 in week one, 466 two weeks later and followed that up with 198. He was a first-team All-Robio receiver. Yet, then he got hurt, missed a game and later played second fiddle to Adam Thielen. He would put up just one more game over 150 fantasy points and by the time Eric was in the postseason, Diggs was on his bench, rightfully backing up Fitzgerald.
#44 RICH B – Devonta Freeman RB ATL (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #19 When the season began, Freeman looked like that back I cut as a keeper two years earlier, which was damn good. He produced back-to-back 300-point games in weeks two and three. However, Coleman started stealing his touches and suddenly, Freeman never got near 200 again. Towards the end, he ended up getting hurt and by the time he got back to 100% and was putting up dominating efforts (448 in week 15), Rich’s season had already ended with the Falcons back on the bench.
#45 COLBY – Travis Kelce TE KC (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #1 In fantasy, there are few sure things, but one sure thing was…if Rob Gronkowski played a full thirteen fantasy regular season games, he was the first-team All-Robio tight end. He had done it four times already. Yet, just as a 16-seed proved in the NCAA Tournament that it could beat a 1-seed, Kelce proved someone else can be the best TE in football by outscoring Gronk by 28 fantasy points (14 yards). Best yet, he did it at the end, scoring 308 points in week thirteen against the Jets (4-94-2). He became Colby’s first ever 1st-team All-Robio TE.
#46 GRIFF – Doug Martin RB TB | POSITION RANK: #50 Griff gambled big time with the homer pick, hoping that Martin would recreate that little magic we’ve seen from him after serving his four-game suspension. Well, he came back and showed us that maybe he’s not really that great. Let’s think about it. Martin has been in the league six seasons. In two of those, he’s exploded for over 1,400 yards rushing in a season (2012, 2015). Yet, four times now he has failed to rush for at least 500 yards. Something tells me, that’s what we should expect from him in the future.
#47 MARC – James White RB NE | POSITION RANK: #38 In all honesty, this is about where I started to worry about having Marc as the new member in this league. It was one thing to reach way too much for a homer receiver in round three, but White made no sense at all. Yes, he had a great playoff run the previous season, so I get why someone would eventually draft him, but this was the Patriots. The Patriots don’t deliver fantasy stars at the running back spot; too much of a committee every year. At best, White was a 8th round pick (maybe seven if you’re Burrier and you want to go homer). He had no business being taken in round four. On the season, he did catch 56 balls, but got just 43 carries and produced only 600 total yards.
#48 MATT – Todd Gurley RB LAR (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #1 For the second straight season, a team took a stud back that was either injured or struggling off of Bob’s hands in a trade, only to have that player come in the following season and dominate. In 2015, Calderon traded for an injured Le’Veon Bell. In 2016, Bell was the league’s best fantasy back and led Calderon to the title. In 2016, with Gurley struggling, Bob traded him to a bad Matt team. In 2017, Gurley was the league’s best fantasy back and led Neatock to the title. Thank you, Bob.
ROUND FIVE
#49 MATT – Allen Robinson WR JAC | POSITION RANK: N/A Listen, after a subpar 2016, it was no guarantee that Robinson was going to be anything other than a WR2, but just imagine how much more dangerous Matt could have been if Robinson looked anything like his 2015 season (80-1,400-14). Of course, we’ll never know. Robinson caught one ball for 17 yards in week one, before shredding his ACL and ending his season.
#50 MARC – Thomas Rawls RB SEA | POSITION RANK: #82 With Seattle’s backfield a complete mess from day one, I get why Rawls was a decent option for Marc, even this year. The fact is, his 2015 stats were amazing (5.7 yards per carry) before he got hurt. Yet, the decision proved to be a bad one. Rawls never looked like his old self. He was hurt early and when he eventually got double-digit carries (barely) around midseason, he did nothing with it. He mostly sat on someone’s bench, but that was probably a waste of a good bench spot.
#51 GRIFF – Greg Olsen TE CAR | POSITION RANK: #88 Injuries derailed what could have been a promising season for Griff. Obviously, David Johnson was the big hurt, but don’t underestimate how important losing Olsen was. A annual top-three tight end for nearly a decade, Olsen lasted just six quarters before getting hurt. He wouldn’t return until week 12, where he caught one ball and got hurt again. Meanwhile, the TE spot remained a sore spot all season long for Griff.
#52 COLBY – Ameer Abdullah RB DET | POSITION RANK: #33 Early in the season, there was hope for Abdullah. The guy I once thought would be the best back since Barry Sanders in Detroit scored a pair of 172-point games, before rolling Minnesota in week four for 278. He looked like a sure thing at running back. Sadly for Colby, that would be the highlight. Abdullah’s touches dropped as the season went along, as he averaged just 3.4 yards per carry on the year. By the time Colby was missing the playoffs again, the Lions back was sitting on his bench.
#53 RICH B – Dak Prescott QB | DAL | POSITION RANK: #11 This was a weird pick. Prescott had a great rookie season, leading the Cowboys back to the postseason as a rookie and finishing as the 7th best quarterback in fantasy. Still, a sophomore slump was expected, especially with Elliot’s suspension coming up. Well, he did not play as well as he did his first year, but he did throw a lot more, which kept him hovering around the top-10 the whole season.
#54 ERIC – Larry Fitzgerald WR ARI | POSITION RANK: #11 Despite losing his quarterback early, the ageless Fitzgerald continue to do just enough to keep him not only on a roster, but starting, which was what he was doing on Eric’s semifinals team.
#55 ROB M – Golden Tate WR DET | POSITION RANK: #19 The Lions receiver got off to a slow start, three times in five weeks failing to hit 100, but a strong November where he scored over 200 three times put him back in Rob’s starting lineup, where he managed to finish the year as a low-end WR2.
#56 DON – Mike Gillislee RB NE | POSITION RANK: #57 Never draft a Patriots running back. I mean, how many times do I have to write that? For two weeks, that looked like bad advice, as the new Patriots pounder scored 270 and 198. Yet, those were the highlights. He would break 100 just one more time, before getting hurt and cut in week 11.
#57 ROBIO – C.J. Anderson RB DEN | POSITION RANK: #20 The 428-pt week two production gave me much hope, but it proved to be a fluke, when he would produce 86 and 34 over the next three weeks. Sharing the backfield on a team with a swiss cheese offensive line meant Anderson couldn’t get the touches. Hell, even when he got the touches, he barely did much with it. He rushed for a uneventful 1,007 yards on the year. I ended up cutting him in week 13, so I could pick up potential keepers. Bob added him and stashed him on his title run.
#58 BOB – Adrian Peterson RB NO | POSITION RANK: #40 The man formerly known as “The Child Swatter,” had one of the more interesting seasons in Robioland history. Peterson never took off in New Orleans, failing to register more than 33 yards rushing, sharing the backfield with Ingram and Kamara (another Bob pick). Eventually, Castrone had enough of him and cut him. There he sat for a week, untouched. Then the Saints traded him to Arizona, where Matt proceeded to pick him up. That week, sitting on Matt’s bench, Peterson scored a stunning 388 pts. Two weeks later, it was 304. It looked like the league’s top team just ripped off the league. Yet, Matt saw the flukness on the wall and traded Peterson a way, where he proceeded to do nothing for Pattini, before going out for the year in week thirteen.
#59 JEFF – – Sammy Watkins WR LAR | POSITION RANK: #36 Watkins continued his trend of being a worthless inconsistent mess. Let’s put it this way. In his three best games in our regular season, he totaled 750 fantasy points. In his other nine games, he scored 666 points. Anyhow, the Rams wide receiver played on three teams, Jeff’s, Calderon’s and Colby’s, where he actually was starting at the end, but that probably said more about Colby’s receiver problem.
#60 RICH C – DeVante Parker WR MIA | POSITION RANK: #66 The Fins receiver actually had a decent start, averaging 173 points through his first three games, but after getting hurt in week five and missing three games, he never managed to rediscover that spark. Calderon kept him around, before finally cutting him before the playoffs.
ROUND SIX
#61 RICH C – Derrick Henry RB TEN | POSITION RANK: #26 In what proved to be a maddening experience for Rich, the Titans never let one of their backs dominate, thus leaving Calderon to guess which one was going to be the big performer. Unfortunately for him, he guessed wrong more often than not. The good news is that Murray is gone. Yes, the Titans added Dion Lewis, but one has to believe Henry is the primary back.
#62 JEFF – – Paul Perkins RB NYG | POSITION RANK: #96 The second year running back followed up his 628 total yards rookie campaign with a 136 total yards, that including a 2.2 yards per carry. He was released in week five and never saw a spot on a team again.
#63 BOB – Rex Burkhead RB NE | POSITION RANK: #41 Now this was the one guy I thought could break through the mess that was the Patriots’ backfield. Yet, injuries derailed his season early and Bob let him go. However, Burrier stashed him and by week 12, he was getting enough touches to be effective, delivering back-to-back 226 and 326-point games. He even was starting for Rich in the quarterfinals, over Freeman.
#64 ROBIO – Rob Kelley RB WAS | POSITION RANK: #70 Fat Kelley did little with the ball (3.1 yards per rush, just four receptions) and was cut the moment he got hurt. Of course, Calderon, a man who has never met a cut running back he didn’t want to pick up, picked him up. He did little for three games, before getting knocked out for the year. Rich let him go in week nine.
#65 DON – Brandon Marshall WR NYG | POSITION RANK: #108 Wow, remember all the hype he received when he joined the Giants? All that talk about how well Marshall performs when he’s at a new home in a first year? Nope. He had just two fluke catches in the first two games and by the time his season came to an end in week five, he had just 18 catches for 154 yards and no scores.
#66 ROB M – Darren McFadden RB DAL | POSITION RANK: N/A It’s not really my thing to call a sixth-round pick “the worst pick of the draft,” but McFadden might be the worst pick in the draft. For the record, his stats on the year: 1 carry for -2 yards. Rob went and chased after Elliot’s handcuff, but snagged the wrong cuff.
#67 ERIC – Frank Gore RB IND | POSITION RANK: #17 Frank Gore is the Chuck Norris of fantasy football. He scored 11 touchdowns in just 10 red zone appearances, on just nine touches. Frank Gore can kill two stones with one bird. When Frank Gore cuts onions, onions cry.
#68 RICH B – Jay Ajayi RB MIA (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #27 He was supposed to be a great sleeper option for Burrier, but never proved to be consistent enough. For every 28-carries, 122 yard game he had, he had two 23-carries for 51 yards type of game. He was eventually shipped off to the Eagles, which produced a pair of 200-point games, but that’s about it.
#69 COLBY – Pierre Garcon WR SF | POSITION RANK: #55 He put up one 200-point game, before making a permanent move to Colby’s bench. He officially traded him to Bob, as to keep his trading streak alive, but as a commissioner who controls all history, this one will not be in the record books.
#70 GRIFF – Emmanuel Sanders WR DEN | POSITION RANK: #51 For the first month of the season, he looked like the best receiving option in Denver, but that’s not really saying much. At best, he was a mid-level WR2. However, after missing two games in weeks seven and eight, he never looked the same. Take away a solid 274 in week 10, he averaged just 33.6 in five weeks after week nine. He was cut by Griff prior to his brief playoff run.
#71 MARC – Martellus Bennett TE GB | POSITION RANK: #34 One of the top tight ends going to play on one of the best offenses for arguable the best quarterback…what could go wrong? Apparently, a lot. Bennett broke 100 just once, before getting let go by the Packers. He moved on back to New England, but no one wanted him. Marc cut him for Jason Witten in week eight.
#72 MATT – Terrance West RB BAL | POSITION RANK: #81 Here we finally end what proved to be a brutal round of drafting. Among the 12 players who were drafted in round six, none managed to become full-time starters. Only Henry, the first player taken in the sixth managed to be a part-time starter with keeper potential. As for West, he scored 220 in week one, lost his starting spot two weeks later, got knocked out for the year in week five and was cut by Matt three weeks later.
ROUND SEVEN
#73 MATT – Zach Ertz TE PHI | POSITION RANK: #3 After years of drafting the homer tight end, one would have thought Matt would be done with all the disappointment. Yet, he snagged Ertz again and it finally paid off. He was clearly one of the league’s three best tight ends, along with Gronk and Kelce.
#74 MARC – Ben Roethlisberger QB | PIT | POSITION RANK: #10 He passed for over 4,000 yards, but his 15 turnovers were a fantasy bite in the ass. He never broke 300 until week 11, where he proceeded to score over 400 in three of four. Too bad for Marc, his season had already crashed and burn by then.
#75 GRIFF – Philip Rivers QB | LAC | POSITION RANK: #8 Despite being 35 years old and basically playing 16 road games, Rivers was a solid starter for Griff all season long. No, he’s no longer an elite quarterback, but he managed one 400-point game and a pair of 300’s.
#76 COLBY – Jamison Crowder WR WAS (Keeper) POSITION RANK: #39 Through seven weeks, this was a truly awful keeper. Crowder averaged just 47 points per game, getting shut out once and scoring -2 on opening day. Of course, he had a better second half, beginning with Dallas, where he scored 270. Despite this showing, after getting zero points the following week, Colby cut him, only to watch him score 342 points in week 12. Jeff picked him up, but just stashed him on his pine.
#77 RICH B – Randall Cobb WR GB | POSITION RANK: #49 Before Aaron Rodgers got hurt, Cobb recorded three games where he scored over 140 points. After Rodgers got hurt, he would break 140 in our regular season just one more time (week 12). By then, Burrier had already cut him.
#78 ERIC – Kyle Rudolph TE MIN | POSITION RANK: #8 With just 57 catches and 532 yards, Rudolph managed to remain on a roster as a starter for nearly the entire year. After Eric cut him in week nine, Bob snagged him and inserted him right into his starting spot. I’m sure his eight touchdowns played a part in that.
#79 ROB M – Terrelle Pryor WR WAS (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #93 After producing 1,000 yards receiving on a Cleveland team with no quarterback, Pryor was a popular sleeper after moving to Washington and playing with Cousins. Yet, the two never clicked. Pryor produced just two games over 100, before getting knocked out for the season in week 10. By then, Masterson had already sent him back to the wire.
#80 DON – Delanie Walker TE TEN | POSITION RANK: #5 He doesn’t get drafted with the big boys, but he continues to play almost like one. While Walker isn’t elite, he’s surely the next level, producing over 800 yards receiving for the fifth straight season. His problem? He didn’t score much, delivering only three touchdowns all year.
#81 ROBIO – Ty Montgomery RB GB (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #45 The Packers former receiver-turned-running back looked like keeper gold when he produced 246 and 340 fantasy points (with 279 coming via the air) in the season’s first three weeks. Yet, he got hurt in week four and lost his starting job once he returned. In fact, at one point, I had three Packers running backs on my roster.
#82 BOB – Tyrell Williams WR LAC | POSITION RANK: #56 Williams, who finished with 43-728-4 this season, has just one claim to fame in 2017. He was the guy Bob cut to pick up Deshaun Watson in week four. #footnote
#83 JEFF – – Tyler Eifert TE CIN | POSITION RANK: #83 He played on the same amount of teams (Jeff, Rob M) as games played (two). Injuries wrecked his season.
#84 RICH C – DeSean Jackson WR TB | POSITION RANK: #34 Unable to find a true spark in Tampa, Jackson jumped from fantasy team to fantasy team (Calderon, Matt, Marc), failing to catch 700 yards worth of balls for the second time in three seasons.
ROUND EIGHT
#85 RICH C – Andrew Luck QB | IND | POSITION RANK: N/A So yeah, this didn’t quite workout the way Rich had probably hoped.
#86 JEFF – – Danny Woodhead RB BAL | POSITION RANK: #90 One catch. Four yards. Injured. Season over. Next!
#87 BOB – Chris Hogan WR NE | POSITION RANK: #41 For five weeks, this looked like a fantastic pick. Hogan had the look of Tom Brady’s newest favorite target, averaging 182 points per game, breaking 200 points three times. Then he started to slump and eventually got hurt, catching just one ball after week ten.
#88 ROBIO – Corey Coleman WR CLE | POSITION RANK: #97 He played two games before ending up on the DL. I cut him and Masterson grabbed him. Yep, he put up a few decent games (160 in week 11, 184 three weeks later), but he had zero impact on the fantasy season.
#89 DON – Jeremy Maclin WR BAL | POSITION RANK: #61 It seems Baltimore is where wide receivers not named Steve Smith go to die. Maclin, a man who once had back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons, had his worst season as a pro (not counting his 2013 when he tore his ACL in the preseason).
#90 ROB M – Matthew Stafford QB | DET | POSITION RANK: #12 Obviously, with Tom Brady, Rob didn’t need him, but I’m sure it was emotional comfort to have him on the bench.
#91 ERIC – Sterling Shepard WR NYG (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #46 He basically had three amazing game; 326 in week three, 284 in week ten and 338 in the semifinals and I’m pretty confident he was on Eric’s bench for all three. Actually, I checked. He was.
#92 RICH B – Jamaal Williams RB GB | POSITION RANK: #42 For five weeks, Williams barely saw the field, so Burrier let him loose. He continued to do nothing for two more weeks. However, in week nine, he started to see some action, so I picked him up in week 11. Over the next three weeks, he would score 1,052 ponts. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to put me in the postseason, but perhaps I have a nice keeper option in 2018.
#93 COLBY – Andy Dalton QB | CIN | POSITION RANK: #19 Colby saw the writing on the wall early and cut Dalton in week two (-84 in week one will do that). He spent a couple days with Calderon and three weeks with my depleted team, but he was a disaster for most of the season; failing to break 200 four times.
#94 GRIFF – Texans DST | HOU | POSITION RANK: #17 Thanks to a ton of injuries, the once-great Texans D were great no more, so Griff cut them. But thanks to expectations, a quarter of the league picked them up at some point (Calderon, Jeff, Rob M).
#95 MARC – Eric Decker WR TEN | POSITION RANK: #75 After five straight games failing to hit 100 fantasy points, Marc had enough and sent Decker packing. No one was interested, as the receiver couldn’t even muster 600 yards on the season.
#96 MATT – Rishard Matthews WR TEN | POSITION RANK: #35 Teams desperate for a wide receiver could do worse than Matthews, but he continued to appear and disappear with too much ease. Sure he had four 200-pt games in 16 NFL games, but he also failed to hit 100 a total of seven times.
ROUND NINE
#97 MATT – Marcus Mariota QB | TEN (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #21 I went back to last year’s squad to see if Matt wasted a keeper by keeping Mariota and looking over his roster and instead it just showed the beauty of fantasy football. His team really sucked last year. I mean, really, really sucked. I wouldn’t wish that lineup on my worst enemy. Yet god bless Allah, because a new season means a new beginning. What does this have to do with Mariota? Nothing. He split a few early starts before Matt gained full trust of Wentz and eventually was shipped off to me for the Seahawks D.
#98 MARC – Bilal Powell RB NYJ (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #34 We said, based on what we saw the year before, if Powell was given the chance to be a feature back, he could be a excellent keeper. Well, this being the Jets, they continue to ignore Powell, even after he gained 190 total yards against the league’s top D in week four. I’m sure a Jets fan like Masterson would argue, he wasn’t that good when he got the ball, but I’ve always felt Powell was an old school back. He needed to get into a grove and stay in it.
#99 GRIFF – Marlon Mack RB IND | POSITION RANK: #48 Stuck behind Frank Gore, Mack really wasn’t about 2017. Sure he had his moments, but as long as Gore was healthy (which is basically always), he wasn’t going to get his minutes (basketball lingo!). The question is, with Gore gone in 2018, is Mack a valuable keeper?
#100 COLBY – Broncos DST | DEN | POSITION RANK: #14 You know it’s not your season when you can’t trust the Broncos DST. While they only cracked 200 once all year, they weren’t too tragic until the end, once the injuries and lack of offense took effect.
#101 RICH B – Kenny Golladay WR DET | POSITION RANK: #76 In week one, the rookie wide receiver had two touchdowns, producing 258 fantasy points. Rich inserted him into his lineup and he was going to be the greatest sleeper in Burrier’s history. He would go on to score just 66 points in his next two, before disappearing for a while. Rich eventually cut him, which means he’s arguable Rich’s greatest sleeper.
#102 ERIC – Eddie Lacy RB SEA | POSITION RANK: #79 Fat Lacy’s career probably came to an end this past season. He looked like a slug glued to the floor when running the ball. He registered a 2.6 yards per carry, which seemed impossible when this guy broke out for back-to-back 1,000 yards seasons in his first two years in Green Bay.
#103 ROB M – Donte Moncrief WR IND | POSITION RANK: #64 With no Andrew Luck, there was no reason for Moncrief to exist. He lasted just one game on Masterson’s squad and no one dared pick him up. He caught more than three balls in a game just twice all year.
#104 DON – Cardinals DST | ARI | POSITION RANK: #23 They failed to score 100 points in a game seven times out of twelve in our regular season. In fact, they failed to hit zero on two occasions. Don eventually cut them, as the Cardinals D landed on Burrier’s bench.
#105 ROBIO – Hunter Henry TE LAC | POSITION RANK: #9 I wanted to draft a tight end and definitely wanted Henry before Bob got him (the only other team yet to draft a tight end). I felt like I had a real sleeper. However, after a 0-0-0 day in week one, I cut him. Of course, he would actually put up decent numbers first for Calderon, who added him and cut him twice, before ironically producing three solid games for Bob at season’s end.
#106 BOB – Eli Manning QB | NYG | POSITION RANK: #23 Eli sucked, so let’s not waste our time talking about him. Instead, let’s talk Calderon. Bob kept Eli around until about week five, before cutting him and you’ll never guess who swooped in and picked him up (twice). Yep, Calderon…who is becoming the king of the wire. Not so much for his saviness, but when it comes to pure volume, nobody can challenge him. In 2017, he committed 41 transactions.
#107 JEFF – – LeGarrette Blount RB PHI | POSITION RANK: #29 A month in and it looked like Blount could be a star…maybe. He scored 154 in week one, before getting shutout in week two. Perhaps that was a hiccup, as he hit 194 in week three. However, against the Chargers, he exploded for 312 points. He looked like a RB1, especially with Ryan Mathews out of the picture. Yet, the Eagles traded for Jay Ajayi and once again, Blount was sharing too many carries to be truly effective.
#108 RICH C – Jordan Reed TE WAS (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #35 Glass man. Has there ever been a more disappointing three-year keeper? In five seasons of football, Reed, who looked like the next Rob Gronkowski when healthy, has missed 28 total games.
ROUND TEN
#109 RICH C – Vikings DST | MIN | POSITION RANK: #7 After a slow start to the year, the Vikings DST proved to be one of the more consistent ones, breaking 150 in eight out of nine games, starting in week three. Yes, it’s a slight drop off from their #1 ranking in 2016, but no shame in this season.
#110 JEFF – – Chiefs DST | KC | POSITION RANK: #29 On the flip side, the Chiefs brought shame to the concept of defense. They ended the year as the worst of the drafted defenses in 2017.
#111 BOB – Michael Crabtree WR OAK (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #37 For six weeks, it was clear that Crabtree had become the number one target in Oakland, as Cooper dropped everything thrown to him. However, the Raiders offense, especially Derek Carr, got worse as the season went along and was lucky to break 100 in a game down the stretch.
#112 ROBIO – Seahawks DST | SEA | POSITION RANK: #8 They were fine this season, but I picked up the Eagles DST, which sent the Hawks to my bench. In the end, after losing Aaron Rodgers, I shipped them off to Matt for Mariota. I actually told him he could have either of my Ds and he picked the Seahawks; feeling like he had too many Eagles…as if.
#113 DON – Carson Palmer QB | ARI | POSITION RANK: #30 Here is indispensable proof that Don has lost his way in fantasy. In week seven, Palmer was lost for the year. Yet, proving once again that fantasy football is an afterthought in his life, Don kept the 38-year-old injured quarterback on his bench (he didn’t even put him on IR). I miss straight Don.
#114 ROB M – Corey Davis WR TEN | POSITION RANK: #107 In his first game, the rookie wide receiver caught six balls for 69 yards, then got hurt the following week. Those stats were good enough to keep him on Rob’s bench. Yet, when he came back in week nine, he couldn’t produce, so Rob finally threw in the towel in week thirteen.
#115 ERIC – Samaje Perine RB WAS | POSITION RANK: #39 With little to no hope of seeing the field, Eric ended up cutting Perine twice during the season. Perhaps he should have had more patience. As the entire Redskins’ backfield went down, Perine got his shot and Griff picked him up. He produced 312 and 260 in weeks 11 and 12, the latter helping to propel Griff into the postseason with a big win over…Eric.
#116 RICH B – Robby Anderson WR NYJ | POSITION RANK: #10 In a tale of two seasons, Anderson did nearly nothing in the season’s first seven weeks, averaging only 112 points per game (breaking 200 just once). However, over the last five weeks, he became a star, averaging 259 points per game, helping to get Burrier back into the postseason part.
#117 COLBY – Theo Riddick RB DET | POSITION RANK: #44 With Abdullah penciled in as a starter, common sense said to grab his handcuff. Of course, neither did much of anything.
#118 GRIFF – David Johnson RB ARI (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #106 Wow, what a tragic way to end one of the greatest keepers in league history. Johnson, in his final season as a keeper, was suppose to be the catalyst to Griff’s return to the top. Yet, he didn’t even make it out of week one. Brutal injury. Griff’s Nuts squad battled all season long and got back to the postseason, but he was never able to replace the numbers Johnson could put up.
#119 MARC – MATT – Bryant PK ATL | POSITION RANK: #6 Rule #1 in Robioland…don’t draft a kicker in round 10. Rule #2 in Robioland…don’t ever fucking draft a kicker in round 10.
#120 MATT – John Brown WR ARI | POSITION RANK: #84 Fun stat, John Brown, who was cut by Matt, but picked up by Don, was the only player on the end-of-season roster to be starting on 1% on teams, according to CBS. Only Don.
ROUND ELEVEN
#121 MATT – Raiders DST OAK | POSITION RANK: #27 Not sure what Matt saw with the Raiders, but no matter. All he had to do was trade a backup quarterback for the Seahawks D, once I lost Aaron Rodgers.
#122 MARC – Patriots DST NE | POSITION RANK: #20 After getting hammered the first two weeks, Marc cut the Pats D. Calderon added and cut them twice (this is what Calderon does), before they finally landed with Eric down the stretch. They ended up pretty damn good in the final month of our regular season, averaging 196 PPG between weeks 10-13.
#123 GRIFF – Michael Thomas WR NO (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #12 With the Saints running the ball much more often, Thomas wasn’t able to make that leap to super elite All-Robio status, but there is no complaints about having a low-end WR1 this late in the draft. Solid keeper. He ended up having five 200-point games while Griff was still alive.
#124 COLBY – Kenny Britt WR CLE | POSITION RANK: #91 Sitting on Colby’s bench, Britt caught one ball in one game and was unceremonially released, never to be heard from again.
#125 RICH B – Giants DST NYG | POSITION RANK: #31 You know what’s super cold, like Ice Ice Baby cold? When you draft the second worst defense in the league and the guy picking right behind you picks the second best defense. Ice Ice Baby, too cold, too cold.
#126 ERIC – Ravens DST BAL | POSITION RANK: #2 An absolute steal, as the ninth defense taken, ended up as the second best in the league. They ended 2017 with 41 sacks, 34 turnovers and seven touchdowns.
#127 ROB M – Panthers DST CAR | POSITION RANK: #9 After getting rocked in 2016, the Panthers D surprised everyone with a top-10 finish. They produced four 200-pt games, thanks to 50 sacks on the season. Rob kept them on his roster all season as his top starting defense.
#128 DON – Jonathan Stewart RB CAR | POSITION RANK: #37 It’s one thing to draft Stewart, a guy who hasn’t rushed for 1,000 yards since 2009, but it makes zero sense why this guy somehow occupied a spot on Don’s bench the entire season. It was clear from day one he had no juice left in the tank.
#129 ROBIO – Jordy Nelson WR GB (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #44 Through six weeks, Nelson wasn’t too bad, averaging 157 points per game, breaking 200 points in half those games. However, when Rodgers went down, Nelson might as well have gone with him. He was so useless, I had to bench him.
#130 BOB – Jeremy Hill RB CIN min | POSITION RANK: #89 Relegated to third-string in Central Ohio, Hill never broke 60 fantasy points in any game and his claim to fame is, being cut in week two for Chris Carson.
#131 JEFF – – Mike Wallace WR BAL | POSITION RANK: #45 Mike Wallace..he combines for 30 fantasy points in weeks one and two. Jeff cuts him. He sits on the wire all season long. Down the stretch, he starts producing a bit, so Neatock not only picks him up prior to the title game, he starts him. He scores 120 and now Mike Wallace is a championship wide receiver.
#132 RICH C – Matt Ryan QB | ATL (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #16 In one of the most shocking results in 2017; Matt Ryan, coming off a year where he was an elite quarterback who help lead Calderon to a second title, completely bombs with a new offensive coordinator in 2017. While he did avoid the truly soul crushing results (never below 100, below 200 just three times in 14 weeks), he never was great. He threw for 300 yards only two times and he never tossed three touchdowns in a game, thus he never scored over 300 in a fantasy games. That’s pretty hard to do in this league.
ROUND TWELVE
#133 RICH C – C.J. Prosise RB SEA | POSITION RANK: #94 He played in only four games, did little to nothing in those games and spent most of his weeks on Bob’s bench.
#134 JEFF – – Ted Ginn WR NO | POSITION RANK: #27 Despite being a low-end WR2, there was not a lot of value in Ginn, who never started a game. Jeff kept him for nine weeks before cutting him. Marc picked him up and packaged him to Matt for Adrian Peterson.
#135 BOB – Eric Ebron TE DET | POSITION RANK: #23 He was on a roster for a total of three weeks. He was on Bob’s team for week one, then cut. He was on Masterson’s squad for week three, then cut. Then in the title game, he was back on Bob’s team for that one week. Of those three weeks, he started one of them and scored 18 points (for Bob in week one).
#136 ROBIO – Joe Williams RB SF | POSITION RANK: N/A Oops…wrong handcuff.
#137 DON – Cole Beasley WR DAL | POSITION RANK: #82 It’s like defensive coordinators woke up in 2017 and said, “hey, we should cover that little white dude on the Cowboys.” And they did…successfully.
#138 ROB M – Duke Johnson RB CLE | POSITION RANK: #23 Oh Duke Johnson, a solid back who will never get the opportunity to be a great back. First, he sat behind Crowell and now he’ll have to sit behind Hyde. Despite getting double-digit carries just once, Johnson still managed to finish as a low-end RB2 thanks to his receiving skills (74 catches). He actually totaled 1,041 yards.
#139 ERIC – Jalen Richard RB OAK | POSITION RANK: #53 Always smart to take Marshawn Lynch’s handcuff.
#140 RICH B – DeAndre Washington RB OAK | POSITION RANK: #63 Not so smart to grab the handcuff of a handcuff.
#141 COLBY – Danny Amendola WR NE | POSITION RANK: #47 He was a potential deep sleeper, as someone needed to fill some shoes on the Patriots. Unfortunately for Colby, it wasn’t him. Despite scoring over 150 only three times, he remained on Colby’s squad the entire year and was actually starting at the very end.
#142 GRIFF – Darren Sproles RB PHI | POSITION RANK: #92 He played in only three games before shredding his ACL, which should end his NFL careet.
#143 MARC – Derek Carr QB | OAK (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #18 Projected by many to be an All-Robio candidate, Carr just looked awful. He developed happy feet and couldn’t hit a receiver with a deep ball if you gave him 10 tries. Yes, he’s a 12th round keeper, but he was a projected starter and should be considered one of the league’s biggest bust in 2017.
#144 MATT – Jamaal Charles RB DEN | POSITION RANK: #61 Always got to be stealing my handcuffs. What..ran out of Eagles to draft?
ROUND THIRTEEN
#145 MATT – John Ross WR CIN | POSITION RANK: N/A His claim to fame; getting cut for Adrian Peterson.
#146 MARC – Jacquizz Rodgers RB TB | POSITION RANK: #67 He actually looked decent in the three weeks Doug Martin was suspended. He scored 194 in week two and 216 in week three, but that had more to do with volume (he got 37 touches in those games). Yet, by midseason, he fell deep into the depth chart and was worthless.
#147 GRIFF – Taylor Gabriel WR ATL | POSITION RANK: #73 He surprised some with his 579 yards and 16.5 yards per catch in 2016. But that had to do with Julio Jones being out. With Jones playing, Gabriel only mustered 378 yards on 11.4 yards per catch.
#148 COLBY – Tevin Coleman RB ATL (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #13 In any situation where he could be the feature back, Coleman could be pretty damn good. Just look at the three weeks Freeman was hurt. In those games, Coleman scored 726 points. That’s not Le’Veon Bell, but that’s solid. As long as he is sharing the backfield though, he’s nothing but a solid handcuff.
#149 RICH B – Zay Jones WR BUF | POSITION RANK: #81 A very popular sleeper pick that managed just 27 receptions on the year.
#150 ERIC – Stephen Gostkowski PK NE | POSITION RANK: #2 This was the fifth time in six seasons, Eric has drafted Gostkowski. I get it. He’s earned four All-Robio awards in those five seasons.
#151 ROB M – Jimmy Graham TE SEA (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #4 After scoring just 18 fantasy points, Graham finally got it going. Yes, he finished 4th, but he was by no means an elite tight end. There was a big difference between the top three and the rest.
#152 DON – Latavius Murray RB MIN | POSITION RANK: #30 Murray was nothing but Cook’s handcuff in Minnesota, but when the rookie got knocked out for the year, it wasn’t even Murray who took over. Luckily, Don kept him around, as he eventually took over the top spot. In his final six regular season games in fantasy, he averaged a solid 219; although he never saw any action in Don’s lineup.
#153 ROBIO – O.J. Howard TE TB | POSITION RANK: #17 The rookie scored just over 900 fantasy points, but a third of them came in week seven, as he was never able to lock down the tight end spot in TB.
#154 BOB – Alvin Kamara RB NO | POSITION RANK: #3 In what proved to be the steal of the draft, Kamara was a guy who barely registered on my radar, with the Saints already having Ingram and Peterson. Yet, by midseason, Peterson was gone and the team could produce two All-Robio running backs. Yet, with Deshaun Watson penciled in as his late-round keeper, Bob stunned the league and traded Kamara away for Ingram and Elliot, setting himself up nicely for 2017.
#156 RICH C – Adam Thielen WR MIN | POSITION RANK: #6 The 13th round proved to be a pretty damn good one. In fact, six of the 12 picks were starters down the stretch (Coleman, Gostkowski, Graham, Murray, Kamara and Thielen). If you were going to draft any Minnesota wide receiver it would have been Diggs, but it was this guy who really took over midseason. After nearly hitting 1,000 yards last season, Thielen nearly hit 1,300 this season, catching 91 balls. For him to continue that leap to elite, he just needs to score more. He had just four touchdowns this past season and has just 10 for his career.
ROUND FOURTEEN
#157 RICH C – Josh Doctson WR WAS | POSITION RANK: #53 Thielen was a steal, but Doctson was a bust, although 502 yards for what was basically his rookie season (he had just two catches the year before) isn’t half bad. Don’t be surprised to see him make another jump forward in 2018.
#158 JEFF – – Mason Crosby PK GB | POSITION RANK: #26 With no Aaron Rodgers, the Packers kicker only attempted 19 field goals on the season.
#159 BOB – Justin Tucker PK BAL | POSITION RANK: #3 He’s become one of those kickers you don’t cut during their bye-week. The Ravens kicker has now booted 33 or more field goals in three straight seasons and 30 or more in five of six seasons in the league.
#160 ROBIO – Deshaun Watson QB HOU | POSITION RANK: #17 Yep, it’s your annual guy I draft every year in category three, cut him real early, only to watch him dominate. Luckily for me, he tore his ACL, so I didn’t have to get kicked in the balls all season long like I did with David Johnson two years earlier. Still, if he’s legit, it’s going to be a shitty two years for me, watching him dominate for Bob.
#161 DON – Adam Vinatieri PK IND | POSITION RANK: #16 No lie, this is the sixth time Don has had Vinatieri on his roster. The first time Don and Vinatieri hooked up? Don’s first season, back in 2001, when he picked up the Patriots kicker off the wire.
#162 ROB M – Matt Forte RB NYJ | POSITION RANK: #36 Yes, a handcuff, but a Jets fan should have known his career was over.
#163 ERIC – J.J. Nelson WR ARI | POSITION RANK: #57 Through five weeks he put up a pair of 140 games and one 300-point effort. After that, he never sniffed 100 fantasy points in a game.
#164 RICH B – Jack Doyle TE IND | POSITION RANK: #10 Perhaps with a healthy Andrew Luck, Doyle could be a solid tight end. Without him, just be lucky he finished in the top-10. He ended the season as Eric’s starting tight end.
#165 COLBY – Dan Bailey PK DAL | POSITION RANK: #28 The most reliable kicker in NFL history got hurt and when he finally came back, he couldn’t make a field goal.
#166 GRIFF – Joe Flacco QB | BAL | POSITION RANK: #27 You’d be better off drafting an aborted fetus. At least you’d have less interceptions.
#167 MARC – Antonio Gates TE LAC | POSITION RANK: #43 He was dropped before Marc ever played a game and he was never picked up by anyone.
#168 MATT – Carson Wentz QB | PHI (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #2 Easily the best keeper in 2017, but don’t let Matt fool you. He had no idea what he had. He tried desperately to trade him before the season began. Luckily for him, no one else saw what he had either. If it wasn’t for him getting hurt late in the season, he easily would have earn a 1st-team All-Robio award. Matt hasn’t had a 1st-team All-Robio quarterback since Carson Palmer in 2005 (another late round keeper).
ROUND FIFTEEN
#169 MATT – Sebastian Janikowski PK OAK | POSITION RANK: N/A Never played a game.
#170 MARC – James Conner RB PIT | POSITION RANK: #91 A homer handcuff that helped Marc land Adrian Peterson. Did not see that coming.
#171 GRIFF – Chris Boswell PK PIT | POSITION RANK: #7 Ended up playing on four teams, including Calderon’s (of course). He made 35 field goals, including 13 that were over 40 yards.
#172 COLBY – Jonathan Williams RB DEN | POSITION RANK: N/A Zero games played, zero runs, zero yards, zero touchdowns; Colby cut him before the season started.
#173 RICH B – Wil Lutz PK NO | POSITION RANK: #5 Another kicker who survived on one team all season long. The Saints kicker made 31 field goals and over half were 40+ yards.
#174 ERIC – Jordan Howard RB CHI (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #12 Howard was expected to a be a star, after averaging 5.2 yards per carry, delivering over 1,300 yards as a rookie in 2016. Yet, despite getting more carries and receptions this seasons, his numbers went down. Obviously, no shame in finishing as a low-end RB1, but this season just felt like a disappointment.
#175 ROB M – Matt Prater PK DET | POSITION RANK: #4 Made 30 field goals, 40 extra points, ended his season with Griff.
#176 DON – Jordan Matthews WR BUF | POSITION RANK: #89 Did nothing, got hurt, Don cut him. Wait, Don cut somebody?
#177 ROBIO – Graham Gano PK CAR | POSITION RANK: #14 Only missed one field goal, but took no shots over 50 and ended the year on the wire (the waiver wire, not the show).
#178 BOB – Bengals DST CIN | POSITION RANK: #13 Their claim to fame; the Bengals D were cut and added five times this season. You’ll never guess who was one of those teams? Yep, Calderon.
#179 JEFF – – Jameis Winston QB | TB (Keeper) | POSITION RANK: #24 Entering his third season, Winston was supposed to be a game-changer; the kind of keeper that turns runner ups into champion. Well, he couldn’t stay healthy and he couldn’t stop turning the ball over (11 interceptions and seven fumbles).
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