Fantasy Football Draft 2019 Preview

It's March 2019, and you're not even CLOSE to thinking about Fantasy Football! But that's because you're not an addict like me, and you're not even reading this right now. That's right, I'm not even talking to you, loser... I'm talking to my fellow addicts, because you guys and gals, YOU understand me! Hello my Fellow Fantasy-Football-Addicted friends, and welcome to my preview of the 2019 Fantasy Football season! My annual Fantasy Football Spreadsheet masterpiece has a first addition, and I have a few thoughts to share with you. So here we go, these are my rants and ravings of a lunatic who's obsessed with all things Fantasy Football, and hey BTW, my wife would kill me if she knew I spend time creating Fantasy Football rankings spreadsheets and writing a Fantasy Football blog, so please don't let her know about this! Shhhhhh!

1. The Curious Case of Antonio Brown

Oh Antonio, what have you done! You were my #1 ranked Fantasy WR, for years... for YEARS!! (think Goodfellas, the scene with a young Henry Hill and his father in their kitchen, as the father unloads a beating on young Henry after learning that he hadn't been to school in months, in MONTHS!!! https://youtu.be/2BSIR5FbayA?t=87)  So you shot your way out of Pittsburgh, blonde mustache and all, eh Antonio!?  As such, I now have 9 other WR's ranked ahead of you! That's mainly because you've landed in WR purgatory over there in Raiders Nation. Sure, I get it, you lined your pockets, and this is a business, I totally understand that. But you know who doesn't give a shit about that? Fantasy Football ADDICTS!  We don't give you style points or extra credit for getting rich, fella!  BTW, the last guy who languished in Raider WR purgatory, yeah... ummm, he is now ranked AHEAD of you.  And that guy wasn't even a top 10 ranked Fantasy WR heading into the 2018 season. I hope that stings. But it won't. Because you're like, totally uber-rich, and I'm 100% sure that you will never read these words.

2. Damien Williams Love Fest

Hi Damien, my name is Aaron, and I don't know, I was kinda-sorta wondering if you might like to maybe consider being on my Fantasy team this year? I mean, if you're like, into it or something, maybe... oh forget it, you probably have a ton of guys and gals asking you to go steady, forget every word I said!!!  Anyway, I kinda have a crush on Damien. A guy who was not ranked in my 2018 Draft Guide, and I had 90 RB's ranked!!!  The guy absolutely crushed it in 2018, I am drinking the Kool-Aid, and it's delish!  Question is this... is this the Kool-Aid that they served in Jonestown back in '78!? Or is this the sweet nectar of my youth that the portly Kool-Aid man used to rave about as he slammed through a wall!? Well I really want it to be the latter, mainly because I don't want to fall into a deep slumber quite yet, as I'm still hoping for a 2nd Eagles Super Bowl win!! (Don't hate me for this, at least I support the team that is closest to where I have lived for all 44 years of my life! And no, unlike Fabs and his Cowboy-Fantasy-Delusions, my Eagle-love does NOT creep into my Fantasy addiction, I'm able to keep the 2 worlds from colliding https://youtu.be/uPG3YMcSvzo?t=20 !).  Anywho, Damien is currently just inside my top 10 RB's, and I don't care about PPR vs Standard, this is an "any way you slice it" ranking for me. I feel like Williams was just getting into his groove, and for me, I just think that he's going to finish as a top 3 RB in 2019, barring injury (or video evidence of a crime that the NFL now pretends to care about because everybody got mad at them for not caring enough about it in the past and hence they now pretend to care more about this sort of thing, provided there is indisputable video evidence that gets leaked to the public about the thing that they pretend to care about, hence forcing them to pretend to care about it). SHEESH!

3. The Running Back Revival vs the "ZERO RB" Draft Strategy

Speaking of my love fest with a Running Back named Damien... there has been a trend in recent years called the "Zero RB Draft Strategy", and it was the opposite of a Love Fest.  The strategy had many permutations but was essentially based on the avoidance of drafting a Running Back with your early round draft picks. In using this strategy, you might draft 3-4 WR's and a TE1 before even thinking about taking your RB1 (preferably a "high upside" RB).  This strategy had been gaining momentum steadily in recent years, and had certainly peaked in 2018, as countless draft gurus and analysts touted the Zero RB strategy.  That strategy has officially reached GAME OVER status.  Thanks to the Kamara's and Barkley's and McCaffrey's and Zeke Elliott's of the world, there's plenty to love about taking a Running Back in the 1st and/or 2nd rounds. In fact, in my favorite 12 team league of 2018, before it was cool to piss on the Zero RB strategy, I went ahead and did just that!  I was sitting there with the 12th and 13th pick, and I decided to take Christian McCaffrey and Melvin Gordon back-to-back. Fast forward to week 15 of that season, spoiler alert, I won the league!  It was nice knowing you, Zero RB Strategy, don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out! Oh and by the way, the Running Backs of 2019 are REAL, and they're SPECTACULAR! (https://youtu.be/LaW4MBwGhF0?t=202)

That's all for now, my fellow Fantasy Football Addicts, I need to leave you now for a while so that I can try and repair a marriage, a marriage heavily damaged by the 2018 Fantasy Football season!!!!

-Fantasy Football Addict