Fantasy Football 2016: 1st-Round Mock Draft and Strategy for Later Rounds

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The NFL season kicks off in less than two weeks, so it’s crunch time for fantasy football drafts.

There are countless lists and strategies out there for you to pour over before you’re on the clock, so let’s keep things simple with this one.

Here’s a breakdown of a first-round mock draft for a 12-team, standard-format league, followed by three simple strategies to follow in regard to how you draft at some difficult positions in the later rounds. Everyone wants to look smart and find the steal of the draft, but if you remain patient with these strategies, you’ll find yourself benefiting from others’ mistakes.

              Strategy for Later Rounds

Finding a Quarterback

Don’t be the owner in your draft room who reaches for Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton or Green Bay Packers signal-caller Aaron Rodgers. Someone will do it, and you can sit back and enjoy the benefits of the other top players falling down the board.

Sure, it would be nice to have one of the top quarterbacks leading your team, but there will be better value in the middle rounds of the draft.

ESPN.com’s fantasy rankings place only three quarterbacks in the top …

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