![]() I was mocked, especially by the guy who drafted Leinart, for only drafting one QB who wasn’t even his team’s starter or so they thought. With the 160th and final pick of the 2008 draft, I selected our leagues Mr. To add insult to the league, I chose to select a defense in round 14 and a kicker in round 15. I bit my lip, hard, when another owner selected his “breakout QB of the year”, Matt Leinart. I coyly smiled and tucked my phone back into my pocket. Roughly halfway through, my phone buzzed with an ESPN alert: Cardinals name Kurt Warner Week 1 starter. By random draw, I was assigned the first overall pick and I was fully intent on waiting to draft a QB towards the end of the draft. Draft day for my main league was that memorable Saturday. However, ESPN had a newsfeed text messaging system and I was tuned in. In August 2008, the adoption of smartphones wasn’t yet in full swing and fantasy sports information was not being pushed out to phones as quickly as the Rotoworld blurb writer hit submit. For those that forget how quickly times change, the very first iPhone was released in June 2007. I’ll never forget my very best wait on QB moment: August 30th, 2008. I recognized early in my fantasy career, as early as 2006, that a good enough QB could be drafted late. I like to consider myself a bit of a forerunner for the wait on QB strategy. This strategy focuses on drafting a QB strictly for Week 1 and then use the waiver wire as your QB bench each week to pick up the QB with the best matchup of the week. As more owners bought into waiting to draft a QB, an even more obscure strategy came out: streaming QBs. Since then, QB ADPs have slowly declined as more and more owners are buying into the “wait on QB” strategy as they recognize that the QBs available later in drafts are just as viable as starters as the mid-round QBs. After a terrible year for QBs, 2013’s first two QBs came off the board in the mid-third round, but still saw eight drafted by the end of round six. In 2012, three QBs had first round ADP’s and eight in the first five rounds. Single QB Strategy HistoryĪs little as five years ago, the “wait on QB” strategy was an obscure strategy for those crazy people who were trying to buck a trend. Editor’s Note: Find out Andy, Mike, and Jason’s premium QB projections in the Ultimate Draft Kit. Pre-order before it releases on June 1st. ![]()
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