![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The next year, he was the 21st player taken in a typical fantasy football draft. The Chiefs star threw for 5,097 yards and 50 touchdowns in 2018, cruising to the MVP Award in his first year as a starter. He was the 22nd pick in fantasy drafts by ADP the following season.īefore him, it was Patrick Mahomes breaking the mold. He easily won the 2019 MVP, becoming the second player in league history to do so in unanimous fashion. Lamar Jackson put together a season for the ages in 2019, throwing for 3,127 yards and 36 touchdowns while running for 1,206 yards and seven scores. And then there’s fantasy football, where we’ve marginalized the most important position in all of team sports. If you’re an elite player on the field, court, ice or pitch, you’re a top pick in your sport. In most fantasy sports, a player’s draft status mirrors his real life value. I’m not a hockey guy, but I’m willing to bet that a paragraph on that sport would look like the two above. This year’s MVP, Nikola Jokić, was the fifth player off the board in a typical draft. Kawhi Leonard slipped to the second round because of load management concerns. Giannis, Dončić, Harden and Davis were the top four picks by ADP, and LeBron was sixth. He was followed in the voting by LeBron James, James Harden, Luka Dončić, Kawhi Leonard and Anthony Davis. Giannis Antetokuonmpo won his second straight NBA MVP Award in the 2019-20 season. They were also the first seven picks in a typical fantasy baseball draft. Since I’m railing against that laziness here, perhaps you’ll overlook this one indulgence in artistic laziness and allow me to bring back a version of something I wrote in this space last year.Īt the start of the 2021 MLB season, any list of the best players in the majors included Ronald Acuña Jr., Fernando Tatís Jr., Mike Trout, Juan Soto, Mookie Betts, Jacob deGrom and Gerrit Cole, in some order. They’re stuck in a bygone era, failing to take full advantage of this game we all love so much, and ignoring the one great truth about the NFL: If you don’t have a quarterback, you don’t have anything. I’m just saying, one-quarterback leagues are lazy. Don’t get me wrong, everyone should play fantasy football exactly how they and their leaguemates want to play the game. Then again, playing traditional fantasy football with one quarterback is also as lazy as it gets. ![]()
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