DraftKings Best Ball is 20 rounds. By Round 17 or 18 the pickings are slim especially in late August when everyone knows everything about training camp and pre-season and rookie WRs and RBs are rising. Any RBs left by pick 200 or so are handcuffs at best (shoutout Samaje Perine but I digress) and will likely provide zeroes most weeks. The WR landscape is little better. QB? Only if you like the Browns. Yeah, no.
There are still viable tight ends available this late. Starters. For the longest time I was taking 3 tight ends at most. Sometimes two. I'm now becoming slowly convinced that you can take a tight end or two through the middle rounds, say Terrance Ferguson and Dallas Goedert or something like that, and then pepper TE late with two IF NOT 3 additional tight ends and cobble together a viable TE1 because surely one of the 5 can catch a TD week to week. Darren Waller is particularly interesting late considering the absolute state of the Carolina Panthers passing game. This strategy might not work, who knows, only one way to find out, but plenty of sharp people are playing best ball this way. If you miss out on the top 4 or 5 TEs I don't see much of a difference in waiting. And waiting.
There are still viable tight ends available this late. Starters. For the longest time I was taking 3 tight ends at most. Sometimes two. I'm now becoming slowly convinced that you can take a tight end or two through the middle rounds, say Terrance Ferguson and Dallas Goedert or something like that, and then pepper TE late with two IF NOT 3 additional tight ends and cobble together a viable TE1 because surely one of the 5 can catch a TD week to week. Darren Waller is particularly interesting late considering the absolute state of the Carolina Panthers passing game. This strategy might not work, who knows, only one way to find out, but plenty of sharp people are playing best ball this way. If you miss out on the top 4 or 5 TEs I don't see much of a difference in waiting. And waiting.
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