Early Keeper Help

[2014olympicgold]

So my league has their keepers put in and here’s the top 10 available:
Fournette
Dalvin Cook
Crowell
McCaffrey
Pryor
Kelce
D.Thomas
K.Allen
Lynch
D.Adams

then guys like Hunt, Mixon, Anderson, Ingram, Peterson, Lacy

How would you rank these guys for my team who kept 3WR, 1RB (PPR league with 3WR, 2RB, Flex)

[Goldendelicious]

It's hard to pass up a guy like Allen in PPR, but he's killed me to much recently to trust. But a full 16 game season, he's a dynamite PPR player to have especially as your WR3/4.

Do the keepers occupy picks in specific rounds or are they just off the board and you draft fresh?

[2014olympicgold]

Keepers occupy rounds 1-4, we start picking at round 5. I honestly may do a "super reach" and take Hunt if he's available.

[Goldendelicious]

Keepers occupy rounds 1-4, we start picking at round 5. I honestly may do a "super reach" and take Hunt if he's available.

With the draft operating that way, Hunt to me is not a 'super reach'. Yahoo has junk ratings and he simply is not rated high enough at the moment. He may be listed down the draft board but should not be treated as such. I would take him over Fournette and Cook for sure.

Allen is enticing because of PPR but given your WR depth, I'd go Hunt.

[2014olympicgold]

My draft:
Keepers-Julio Jones, M. Thomas, Baldwin, Ajayi
Draft:
47-Hunt
56-Jimmy Graham
66- Tyrell Williams
76- Tevin Coleman
86- Mariota
96- KC Def
106- Hogan
116- Thielen
126- Lacy
146- Jamaal Charles
151- Beasley
156- Edelman (IR’d, then picked up a Kicker after the draft)
166- Mike Williams (Dropped for Charcandrick West)
176- Brate

[TheWhale]

My draft:
Keepers-Julio Jones, M. Thomas, Baldwin, Ajayi
Draft:
47-Hunt
56-Jimmy Graham
66- Tyrell Williams
76- Tevin Coleman
86- Mariota
96- KC Def
106- Hogan
116- Thielen
126- Lacy
146- Jamaal Charles
151- Beasley
156- Edelman (IR’d, then picked up a Kicker after the draft)
166- Mike Williams (Dropped for Charcandrick West)
176- Brate

Personally I would have taken one of the WR's you dropped in round 1 but Hunt could be a big producer. How did the 1st round go in your draft?

[2014olympicgold]

Personally I would have taken one of the WR's you dropped in round 1 but Hunt could be a big producer. How did the 1st round go in your draft?

1^st round:
Amari Cooper (Someone kept 5, forfeits 1^st rounder, would have picked like 3^rd last)
Fournette
Cook
Crowell
McCaffrey
Allen
Hunt
Pryor
DT
Kelce

Round 2
Crabtree, Adams, Lynch, Abdullah, M. Bryant, Graham (Me), Parker, Benjamin, Mixon, CJ Anderson

[Goldendelicious]

Beasley is a steal at that position, well done.

You could really stand to upgrade at RB. You don't have much after Ajayi and Hunt. I'd try to trade away Coleman. You have to anticipate regression coming from last season for the whole Falcons offense. Would not be expecting another 10+ TD season, unless Freeman were to go down.

Do your keepers from this season expire next year? Because I personally don't see any reason why you drafted Edelman. Even PPR, he doesn't top any of your keepers.

[2014olympicgold]

Beasley is a steal at that position, well done.

You could really stand to upgrade at RB. You don't have much after Ajayi and Hunt. I'd try to trade away Coleman. You have to anticipate regression coming from last season for the whole Falcons offense. Would not be expecting another 10+ TD season, unless Freeman were to go down.

Do your keepers from this season expire next year? Because I personally don't see any reason why you drafted Edelman. Even PPR, he doesn't top any of your keepers.

They don't expire, but i figured we had an IR spot, and no one really else i liked around there was available i thought, "why not?". So instead of drafting a kicker (all teams had kickers at that point actually), I drafted an IR eligible guy who would practically be my Kicker. IR Edelman, picked up Boswell (I think) to be my kicker.

I do need an RB, but in our league the RB1s are a premium. I was thinking of targeting the Freeman owner to give him the handcuff. But he's Crowell, Freeman and no other RBs really.