NFL Experts League Draft breakdown.

NFC Hick Experts League Draft breakdown.

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As we enter the 3^rd season of the NFC Hick Franchise Fantasy league, the most recent draft threw up some usual surprises, along with some usual stupidity. Players dropped down draft boards, and other players leaped up draft boards. The usual contenders played things safe, yet smart, whilst last season’s pretenders, threw up the usual LOL moments of the draft.

Defending champions Terminators FC was clever enough to win the number 1 pick while public enemy and league Chairman, Coven Club gained the number 5 pick. Perennial favourites Milwaukee Drillers and Ball So Hard gained the 12^th pick and the 4^th pick respectively.

The beast that is AP.

Round One.

Terminators FC predictably took Adrian Peterson with the 1^st overall pick. Newcomer ‘She said NO Ben’, who was selected for the final member of the Experts League contentiously due to ‘brotherhood’ ties, made the rookie error of taking a QB (Aaron Rodgers) so early. In a league where Carson Palmer sits on the waiver wire, QB’s are so deep, he passed on potential number 1 RB’s in CJ Spiller, Marshawn Lynch, and the crispest of all RB’s heading into the regular season, LeSean McCoy. The round was finished off with one of the pretenders, Biggleswade Bigfoots taking rookie RB Lamar Miller with the 10^th pick. When Daniel Thomas is giving you a challenge for the starting job, everyone questioned the decision making there by the Bigfoots.

Rounds 2 and 3.

These rounds went pretty much to script, with round 2 WR heavy, with She Said NO Ben perhaps taking the risk of the draft by picking the ‘GRONK’ with the 22^nd overall pick. Round 3 was where everyone started getting itchy trigger fingers and started to pick the QB’s too early. Brees, Manning, Luck, and Newton all came off the board in the 3^rd leaving some great bargains for rounds 4-6. Everyone blames Ball So Hard for this trend because as he was the one who picked the first QB in round 3, and once the ball gets rolling…

Rounds 4, 5, and 6.

Coven Club's man crush on Anquan
Bolden continues into the 3rd season.

We saw some great bargains in these three rounds. Along with the usual foolish picks of Toronto Thunderbirds taking Tony Gonzalez at the start of round 4 and Coven Club expecting Anquan Boldin to step into Michaels Crabtree’s shoes when he hasn’t had a 1000 yard season since 2009…The Drillers got a steal getting Steven Jackson at the start of the 4^th round, as did the Suh Squad drafting Frank Gore in the middle of the 4^th and potentially a steal with Run DMC in the middle of the 5^th. Injury Squad perhaps? Perhaps the pick of these three rounds was Cheltenham Green drafting Eddie Lacy with the 66^th overall pick or Terminators FC stealing Dwayne Bowe with the final pick of the 6^th round. Does anyone else know how good Bowe could be with a decent QB in Alex Smith this year?

Rounds 7, 8, 9, and 10.

The middle rounds of this draft went the predictable way for NFC Hick Experts drafts. Defences and Kickers started to come off the board! With the Thunderbirds taking the Seahawks in round 6, Round 8 saw a slew of defences drafted. Steamboat Bay Streamers got a potential sleeper in Daryl Richardson in round 7, while the Thunderbirds continued their great draft by taking the electrifying Jonathan Stewart in the 7^th. Terminators FC used their inside knowledge to hear that Michael Vick had won the starting job in Philly and took him in Round 9, while Dinky’s Dwarves loves the look of the Panthers backfield, so he decided to draft perennial underachiever, DeAngelo Williams in the 9^th round. Cheltenham Green and Ball So Hard made a couple of nice picks in Rams receiver Tavon Austin and the Bengals rookie RB, Giovani Bernard, respectively.

The rounds of hope and no idea (11-15)

Zach Sudfeld hoping for a better fate as the Patriots new TE

Backup QB’s, young WR’s, burnt out RB’s, and time wasting were the plan of attack for these last five rounds. Some nice picks were the Bigfoots taking Denarius Moore who showed flashes last year playing for the champions Terminators FC, the Suh Squad taking Ben Tate – if Arian Foster goes down, he turns into a 2^nd round back, the Britannia Tridents taking Steelers TE Heath Miller, and finally Terminators taking Patriots rookie tight end Zach Sudfeld in the final round of the draft who will be hoping he turns into the next Aaron Hernandez alongside the Gronk.