I have my work fantasy football live draft on the 30th of this month.

There are twelve teams in the league. I get the second pick.

First pick will probably go to Adrian Peterson.


So, my question to you all is: Who should my pick be? Keep in mind that I get the 2nd, 23rd, and 26th picks.

I'm torn between Tom Brady (my top choice) and Matt Forte, Jones-Drew, and Michael Turner.

Normally, I would have no problem picking Tom Brady first. My team is a 6-point TD for QBs. Here's my problem. If I pick Tom Brady first, I have to wait til pick 23 to get a RB. I figure that by pick 23, all the top-notch RBs will be gone. However, if I go with a RB as pick 2, even if Tom Brady goes before I get to pick him, I still probably have Rodgers, Romo, Warner, and Ryan to pick from. They're not going to score as many points as Brady, but they will make a decent 23rd or 26th pick.

Thoughts?

Absolutely I would go for a RB for 2nd pick.

Also, Brady's gonna get injured in the first game and will be out for the season again.

You have to pick a RB with your first pick. Unless the league is setup really strange thats where your majority of points per position are going to come from.

You will get an elite RB with 2nd pick, besides; Brady might even be around still in 23rd because a lot of players pick 2 RBs or an RB and a WR before they get into QBs.

I guess I should clarify a bit.

For the past 5 years, at least 8 of the top ten players in my league have been QBs.

The new league I'm in (the one with the second pick) has the exact same scoring system.

Only problem is that of the 12 players, only 6 have played a live draft before, so I am worried that they might not go with RBs before QBs.

What RB should I pick then? I'm really looking at Michael Turner. For whatever reason, he seems more appealing than Jones-Drew or Forte.

going to have to agree with makri and coldbladed here, the point difference between the best QB and an average one isn't near the point difference between the best RB and an average one

I think Forte's awesome, and that was with Orton at QB last year...his numbers can only be better this season with Jay Cutler. He'd be my pick anyway.

I think of those three RBs it'll be a crap shoot as to which really outperforms the other two. Barring an injury.

If you think your scoring system really is QB centric then you might want to grab a QB first thing and maybe hope some of the newbs feed off of that and save you a few RBs. I just gotta agree with clansman in that the gaps are very different.

There is also the psychological aspect of fantasy football that you can take advantage of. Comment to other players that you know QBs are the way to go in your league. Put down good RBs and WRs to try and inject some doubt in the less experienced players. Hype up supposed Sleeper picks that are "probably worth drafting early".

I think I'm going with Michael Turner. I hope I'm right with this lol.

Thanks for the advice!

I don't think MJD is going to be worth quite as much as people seem to think he is.

Turner, Forte, definitely.

I agree. I think he's *waaaaaaaaay* overrated.

I don't like Forte, because he now has Cutler, which means they'll pass a lot more than they used to.

But Turner was spotty last season. He wasn't real consistent. That's what I'm worried about.

I think I'll have enough good quarterbacks to choose from at pick 23. Hopefully Aaron Rodgers will be one of them.

Really football is a game treated as fanatism in Eruopian countries.There are good teams also.This games more attarcted bye glamour as well money.

You know, I'm in two leagues this year. And in one league I picked two RBs first. The other league I did a trial and picked Brees first and went with some good WRs. And I was still able to get starting quality Running Backs. From now on, I'll pick the best QB first and a couple of WRs because points are points and no one is a guarantee.

Current stats for the 3 RBs talked about here...

1. Maurice Jones-Drew 296 yds rushing, 97 yds rec., 5 TD (4 games)
2. Michael Turner 226 yds rushing, 5 yds rec., 2 TD (3 games)
3. Matt Forte 271 yds rushing, 92 yds rec., 1 TD (4 games)

So far MJD has produced (surprisingly) nice totals (actually, he's not far behind Adrian Peterson).

But to be fair, 119 of MJD's yards come from one game. And 3 of his touchdowns. He's been spotty the other three games (like last week).

Turner really needs to step it up. I don't have good running backs in either of my leagues.

Yeah.. then again, Peterson has been spotty too, going from monstrous week 1 37 (standard fantasy) point performance to having 33 points total in the following 3 games (37 minus 4 for a couple lost fumbles).

As for Turner, I don't think there's going to be much improvement this week against SF defence.