What's your strategy for drafting in the 6th round? It can be a crucial pick for most teams, and can even be the difference between a playoff win or loss. Let's say this is your first 5 picks:
Andre Johnson Roddy White Philip Rivers LeSean McCoy Arian Foster
Assuming Dallas Clark and Antonio Gates have been drafted, where do you go with your next pick, and why?
It depends on a lot of things... how many do you start at each position? If you start 2 RBs and 3 WRs, you should look at WRs and TEs. If you have a flex position, you should look at RB/WR/TE. This advice is given with the caveat that you don't pass on good value at another position just to fill a "need", especially in the 6th round... i.e. don't reach for a TE if there's tremendous value at RB in the 6th... take the best player available.
I went Steelers defense last season, and it paid dividends for me all season. My TE and Flex were weak all season, but my top 6 picks carried me to a championship. I'm thinking of going the same route, and picking a defense if one of the top 2 are still on the board. If not, then maybe another RB to help bolster the position.
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I'm one to go with best players available myself, but it all depends on how the draft is playing out to me. I think the 6th round may be a bit too early for a D/ST, but its hard to argue based on the fact they do get a lot of points.
Indibuck wrote:It depends on a lot of things... how many do you start at each position? If you start 2 RBs and 3 WRs, you should look at WRs and TEs. If you have a flex position, you should look at RB/WR/TE. This advice is given with the caveat that you don't pass on good value at another position just to fill a "need", especially in the 6th round... i.e. don't reach for a TE if there's tremendous value at RB in the 6th... take the best player available.
This. The 6th is still pretty darned close to BPA for me, especially if I have a QB, RB, RB, WR, WR start - if there's a flex spot then that would be ideal, but either way I'd go for the best guy I can get rather than addressing need there (i.e. stretching for a TE or doing something insane like taking a D/ST) ...
Indibuck wrote:It depends on a lot of things... how many do you start at each position? If you start 2 RBs and 3 WRs, you should look at WRs and TEs. If you have a flex position, you should look at RB/WR/TE. This advice is given with the caveat that you don't pass on good value at another position just to fill a "need", especially in the 6th round... i.e. don't reach for a TE if there's tremendous value at RB in the 6th... take the best player available.
This. The 6th is still pretty darned close to BPA for me, especially if I have a QB, RB, RB, WR, WR start - if there's a flex spot then that would be ideal, but either way I'd go for the best guy I can get rather than addressing need there (i.e. stretching for a TE or doing something insane like taking a D/ST) ...
Yea, I kind of go against the grain sometimes, and I always listen to my gut. When I drafted Foster last season in the 5th in both my drafts, people gave me a strange look like "why pick a nobody that early?" Sometimes you gotta go with instinct. Still, I can see why drafting a defense that early can be a head scratcher.
I have always found the best strategy is none at all. Your strategy goes out the window anyway after the first position run.
I take the best possible player each round until I start filling all of one position. For example if I am in the 6th and have 2 rb's, 2 wr's and a TE I am usually going with a WR or QB to finish the position unless the RB available is just so good I cant pass it up.
I wait on D's and K's. If you have a league of really goo players they wont be taken early anyway. I do try to be one of the top 5 or so though when the run on D's starts. But it pretty much always ends up the same for me either way. Last year I tried to jump the gun by taking the Jets. I ended up being top 5 instead of the top D like I hoped. Other times I wait and end up playing Waiver Wire D's all year
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6th for me in 90% of leagues is my WR3 or my RB3 so its always BPA of the two positions.
By this round I have filled my RB1, RB2, WR1, WR2 and either QB1 or TE1. I would NEVER consider taking a D/ST this high. If I take a D/ST in a round that isn't double digits, I am on autodraft
Me personally I love the upside of Finley, I was taking him before Clark last year and probably would this year too. He wouldn't be a bad pick at all here, but that's impossible to say without knowing the value of WR or RB left. Because if say Jonathan Stewart is here I'd take him and look for Finley later.
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by Pitfan2782 » Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:27 pm 
