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Fantasy Football 2016: First-Round Mock Draft, Projections and Top Team Names
- Updated: August 21, 2016
Like a mock draft addressing the real thing, a fantasy football mock draft has plenty of variables making the feat difficult.
Think back to the 2016 NFL draft itself, when nobody got Laremy Tunsil’s eventual destination correct thanks to an off-field incident.
Variables nobody can ever predict present themselves and mess with predictions, so it’s important for fantasy owners to prepare as much as possible before a fantasy draft. It’s where a mock comes into play—a recent one provides a look at player projections, positional value and more.
Here’s a look at a first-round mock in a 12-team standard league:
Even without context, the trends this year weren’t too hard to predict—certain wideouts who happen to be target hogs trump running backs because the latter continues to trend more and more toward a committee approach.
Target hogs such as Julio Jones (204 in 2015), Antonio Brown (195) and DeAndre Hopkins (192) are locks for elite-level production barring an injury and with pretty much anyone at quarterback. These sorts of rare wideouts can not only go up and get a jump ball, they can take high-percentage passes behind the line of scrimmage and do the yardage work for themselves.
Running back is trickier. It’s critical to find an incredible, efficient workhorse such as Adrian Peterson (327 carries, 1,485 yards, 11 touchdowns and 217 points in 2015) or Doug Martin (288, 1,402, six and 187, respectively).
That, or find a versatile player whose quarterback trusts him to snag passes out of the backfield. The perfect example is Devonta Freeman, who broke onto the scene last year by leading all backs in scoring at 230 points because he not only rushed 265 times for 1,056 yards and 11 scores, but caught an eye-popping 73 passes for 578 yards and three scores.
This year, there isn’t much in the way of change when it comes to the first round …
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