Hello everyone, here are my Top-200 rankings for 2017! It’s my first ever attempt at one of these, so please leave any thoughts and comments about any such player or decision below. Hopefully I can follow in the footsteps of the great rankers before me, Jay and Tehol (soon!), and now Matt Bowe! Check out our entire 2017 Draft Kit with so much analysis and rankings that will have you on your way to fantasy dominance in the 2017 season. Enjoy!
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ADP – Average Draft Position
Sammy Watkins – I want to be high on Watkins, but I’m not. This isn’t the same player I fell in love with in Buffalo. He’s now in Los Angeles and his schedule is BRUTAL. He has to face some of the top cornerbacks in the league, not to mention those in his division in the NFC West. Right now he’s at 54th overall, but that number might grow larger unless we hear some fantastic reports with his chemistry with Goff and the rest of the offense.
LeGarrette Blount – Right now I’m higher on Blount on average than the rest of the fantasy community, and I’m okay with that. He’s running behind one of the best offensive lines in the country in Philadelphia, and without Ryan Mathews in the picture, Blount should be a bell-cow runner for this team with a very large volume.
Derek Carr – Yes, I’m high on Carr compared to the rest of the community. I really have no idea why people aren’t more excited about Carr. True, he has a difficult SOS as of now with playing DEN and KC twice a year, but he has one of the best offensive lines in the NFL (probably #2 or 3 behind DAL and PIT), with a great receiving corps of Cooper, Crabtree, and Cook, who will be the first decent TE Oakland has had in a while. Add in a quietly solid group of backs with Lynch, Washington and Richard, and you’re looking a quite a lethal offense. Carr was a fringe MVP candidate before his injury, so why shouldn’t we think that he’ll be just as good in 2017?
Mike Gillislee – I’m low on Gillislee compared to the rest of the community, but it’s for good reason. As a Pats fan, I don’t need to tell you how confusing Bill Belichick can be when it comes to running back play on his team, and I except much of the same this year. Should we be fully convinced that Gillislee is the starter? He’s being drafted as one, but when you check depth charts, Dion Lewis is the first back listed. It’s such a loaded and crowded offense that I’ll likely stay away until we truly see who the starter is in this offense.
Cam Newton – Nope. I’ve talked about this numerous times, but I do not like Newton at all. Coming off of injury, he’ll stop running the ball, they’ve invested heavily in McCaffrey and Curtis Samuel, and he’s just not the greatest thrower. I’ll already have a QB before he comes off the board.
Delanie Walker and Eric Decker – Outside of Demarco Murray, Marcus Mariota, and possibly Derrick Henry, I want to stay away from this offense. Too many solid players and not enough room for all of them to be fantasy relevant. Walker and Decker have to compete with rookie Corey Davis and established receiver Rishard Matthews, and they can’t all be fantasy machines. Collectively, they’re very good, but I don’t want to invest heavily in all of them come draft day. They’re like a poor man’s New England Patriots.
No Eddie Lacy?
@Chucky: He should be there at 76th overall. If he isn’t showing up in the indiviual RB rankings, there is an issue with FantasyPros. For some unkown reason I have Lev Bell at #2 overall but he doesn’t show up in my individual rankings. Let me know if there are any other issues my man!
Lacy is slotted at #76 between Woodhead #70 and AP #86 on the overall, yet no listing for either Woody or Lacy on RB chart. AP listed at #29.
While I got ya….Wendell Smallwood, getting some love with Matthews release? Blount GL/short yardage and Sproles, passing down. Any chance he gets to be a two down back?
@Chucky: Yeah those are FantasyPros errors in the rankings that I’m trying to fix. Woodhead and Lacy are in the rankings, but for some reason aren’t in the RB rankings themselves. I’m working on it.
As for Smallwood, I think he’s a great PPR late round flier, but I don’t think they would give him anything more than a passing downs role. Blount should be the bell cow
Hey Zach
12 team .5ppr
Can only keep 3 and only 1 per position
Choices narrowed to:
Qb: Winston Prescott
Rb: Ajayi Gurley
Wr: Cooper Dez Keenan Allen
Te: Rudolph
Also got a trade offer of Aj Green for my Ajayi
Which three would you keep?
@Nightpandas: also would you trade Dez for Carr?
@Nightpandas: I would keep Dez because you already have a great QB in Winston
@Nightpandas: What’s up my man?!! I would keep Winston, Gurley and Cooper.
As for the trade, I think I would pull it because you’re in a 0.5 PPR league.
Thanks for the question!
Are these rankings standard or PPR?
@SDub88: Standard. I’m working on PPR as we speak!
Keeper league question. $200 cap. Non-PPR points league. We are allowed to keep two players at $5 more each season. I have David Johnson as a no brainer at $12. Trying to decide between Carlos Hyde at $23 or Jameis Winston at $11. I am all aboard the Bucs bandwagon but secondary QBs are usually not that pricey. RBs seem to be hard to come by, but I’ve kept Hyde for 3 years in a row and been disappointed.
@chris f.: Hyde is a tough player to read this season, as there have been conflicting reports about his status in San Fran. It’s a crowded backfield, and it’s too risky, so I’d go with Winston. He’s in a great spot.
I have a keeper conundrum. Can keep up to 4 guys in a PPR. They take place of first 4 picks, so if you keep 2, you pick in 3rd round.
Antonio Brown
Amari
Doug Baldwin
Keenan Allen
Matt Ryan
AP
Bilal Powell
Eifert
Tevin Coleman
Obviously keeping Brown and Amari. I can’t decide whether keeping one of Baldwin/Keenan and/or Matty Ice is worth giving up chance to grab an impact rookie.
Thanks for the help!
@Fish: What’s up Fish!?
I’d go with Brown, Baldwin (instead of Amari), and Bilal Powell (PPR specialist). I don’t think it’s worth giving up an impact rookie to take Matty Ice. Never take QB’s off of a career year unless you’re getting a serious discount.
Let me know if you have any further Q’s. Thanks man!
Will the rankings include auction values? This is my first season auction drafting for football, so I never paid attention if Razzball posted in the past.
Auction values will come out Monday or Tuesday next week!
Really liking what Kareem hunt is doing, would you trade Eddie Lacy for Kareem Hunt?
And should I try to try to upgrade TE position might cost me Pryor or stay still
And lastly who would you consider my top 3 RBs in order and who to start yearlong
QB Aaron Rodgers
RB Mark Ingram
RB Frank Gore
WR Jordy Nelson
WR Dez Bryant
TE Austin Hooper
Flex Terrelle Pryor
Bench
QB Eli Manning
RB Danny Woodhead
RB Robert Turbin
RB Jamaal Williams
RB Eddie Lacy
WR Martavis Bryant
K Adam Vinateri
Def Bengals