College Fantasy Football - One draft strategy to consider
Yahoo Sports hosts Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton are joined by Yahoo College Fantasy Football analyst Eric Froton to discuss why his 'Power 3 Theory' is one for managers to consider when drafting their teams this season.
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Video Transcript
We all know, and everybody that, that likes to engage with Yahoo Sports Fantasy knows, that everybody has their own draft strategies when it comes to NFL fantasy football.
For me, for example, I don't like to have a wide receiver and quarterback on the same team.
I don't like boom or bust.
What are some draft strategies that might differ in the college football fantasy game than maybe some draft strategies that exist for NFL fantasy football?
Sure.
I'll, I'll kind of go to the, the wide receivers again.
I- there's a method that I have come up with.
It's the, called the power three theory, and that's the potent offense wide receiver three.
And what happens is frequently on the best offenses, you will project who we think preseason is going to be the wide receiver one.
This is very common.
If you think back to the Alabama days where you had DeVonta Smith, and Ruggs, and Judy.
Well, Jerry Judy was the nominal one, Ruggs was considered the two.
Going into their final season, it was DeVonta Smith who came out and have 1,200 yards and, and double digit touchdowns.
He was the lead dog.
And that happens more often than you'd really think because of the talent that is constantly being brought in through the freshman recruiting process.
You're always getting super talented guys coming into these, all these rooms like Ohio State.
Same thing, you know, speaking of Ohio State, Emeka Egbuka, his breakout year as a sophomore.
It was supposed to be Jaxson Smith-Njigba, who's the now number one wide receiver in all of fantasy.
He got injured.
Egbuka comes in as that wide receiver three and completely dominates.
It happens all the time.
So don't, at the end of your draft, rather than take sort of, you know, you could take a shot at a less, you know, effective passing offense and go with their wide receiver one, or, you know, in those 15th, 16th, 17th rounds, you can take a heavy pass offense that you think's gonna score 35 plus points per game, is gonna be putting up 30 plus passes per game, and attack the back end of that room with talented players that they usually have.
And if they work out, they're gonna work out in gangbusters.
And if they don't, you'll be able to kind of cut them at the end of your roster and replenish them with a bi-week player or somebody that ends up taking over a starting role that wasn't projected to do so in the preseason.
And that happens all the time in the top three, the first three weeks.
Major, major depth chart movement.
You have to be on the waiver wire
