![]() On the other hand, he was a year removed from a QB4 finish, two years removed from being one of five quarterbacks ever to top 400 fantasy points in a year. Peyton Manning was 39 in the 2015 season. (Don't worry, I'm not mocking you, I won my home league in 2020.) Quarterback Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos (2015) And if you won in 2020, you are probably actually a terrible fantasy player. ![]() You didn’t screw up - the fates just hated you, and I wanted to point it out to increase your general paranoia. Basically, if you nailed your draft in 2020, you lost your league. The QB3 (Prescott), RB1 (McCaffrey), RB2 (Barkley), WR1 (Thomas), WR4 (Jones), TE2 (Kittle) and more high-drafted options at every position were hit pretty hard by injuries that year. I’m exempting injuries from this exercise, but I just wanted to note the pile of suck that was 2020. Sign up for an FTN subscription today! Honorable Mention: 2020Ĭhristian McCaffrey, RB, Carolina Panthers Now, fine print out of the way, let’s take a look at the worst fantasy draft picks of the last 10 years. A higher pick could barely edge out a much lower one and still be a worse pick because of cost to acquire. And because there’s a difference between a player going second at quarterback and ninth, fourth at running back and 18 th, this is not just a rundown of the lowest point totals. If you got hurt halfway through Game 10, well, you’re eligible, but since I’m looking at total points and points per game, your performance up to that point was also kind of on you. If you weren’t taken that early at your position, you couldn’t reasonably have been that bad a pick, because it didn’t take much to get you. So to be included, a player (a) had to be drafted within the first 10 picks at QB/TE, first 20 at RB/WR in a given year, and (b) played at least 10 games. Unless you’re here looking for “Don’t draft guys who will get hurt a couple weeks later, you non-crystal-ball-having person,” it’s not exactly helpful for me to criticize that pick. In 2020, Saquon Barkley was the second running back off the boards and proceeded to tear his ACL in Week 2. But Objective 2: Can we learn anything?įirst off, a caveat: Generally speaking, I’m forgiving injury here. Objective 1: Let’s have some fun Remembering Some Guys ™. So today, per a suggestion from FTN CEO Kevin Adams (Hey I’m looking at the worst draft picks of the last 10 years. If we knew a player was going to bust, we probably wouldn’t be taking him early in the first place. ![]() Unfortunately, that’s, you know, kinda hard. ![]()
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