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Pro Bowl Player
- Joined
- Dec 14, 2015
- Messages
- 10,296
- Reaction score
- 27,263
happy draft day!
here id like to share some pre-draft thoughts of general nature . hope you don't mind and can share yours.
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First thing one should keep in mind going into the draft is the actual roster (to balance the binkies infatuation and needs frenzy). Its a 2 year league so here's Pats 2 years roster (bolded players signed through 2019). You have age at start of 2018 league and cap hits in M$ for 2018, 2019 beside each name. (*=ST; bolded grey - possible 5y option; underlined players I could/like see extended)
QB - 12Brady (41, 2019, $22--$22), 2Hoyer (33, 2019, $0.9--$3)
RB - 34Burkhead* (28, 2020, 2.3--$3.2), 28White (26, 2020, $2.4--$4), --Hill (26, 2018, $1.3), 35Gillislee (27, 2018, $2.2), 38Bolden* (28, 2018, $0.9)
FB - 46Develin* (30, 2018, $1.5)
WR - 11Edelman* (32, 2019, $4.2--$4.7), 15Hogan* (29, 2018, $3.3), 19Mitchell (25, 2019; $0.7--$0.9); 13Dorsett* (24, 2018+1, $1.5--c.$9*), 80Matthews (26, 2018, $1), --Patterson* (KR/ST, 27, 2018, $3.2), 85Britt (30, 2018, $1.5), 81C.Hollister* (25, 2018, $0.5), 84McCarron* (slot,PR; 25, 2018, $0.5)
TE - 87Gronkowski (29, 2019, $11--$12), 83Allen (28, 2019, $5--$7.4), 47J.Hollister* (24, 2019, $0.5--$0.6), 82Tye (27, 2018, $0.5), --Niklas (25, 2018, $0.9)
OL - 62Thuney (25, 2019, $0.9--$0.9), 60Andrews (26, 2020, $2.3--$2.8), 69Mason (25, 2018; $2), 61Cannon (30, 2021; $5.8--$7.5), 68Waddle (27, 2018, $1.6), 75Karras (25, 2019, $0.6--$0.7), 74Croston (24, 2019, $0.5--$0.6), 63Garcia (24, 2020, $0.7--$0.9), 76Jelks (T, 25, 2019, $0.5--$0.6), 72J.King (25, 2018, $0.5), 64Ferentz (29, 2018, $0.5), --Tobin (T, 28, 2018, $0.7), Bowanko (T, 27, 2018, $0.7), John (T, 26, 2018, $0.7)
DL - 90Brown (24, 2018+1, $2.4--c$7*), --Shelton (25, 2018+1, $2--c$7*), 93Guy (28, 2020, $3.6--$4.3), 99Valentine (24, 2019, $0.7--$0.9), 70A.Butler (24, 2019, $0.5--$0.6), 98Flowers (25, 2018, $2), --Clayborn (30, 2019, $4--$6), 91Wise* (24, 2020, $0.6--$0.8), 95Rivers* (24, 2020, $0.7--$0.9), 55Lee* (24, 2018, $0.6), 96Grissom* (25, 2018, $0.7), 51K.Davis (24, 2019, $0.5--$0.6)
LB - 54Hightower (28, 2020, $8.5--$10.4), 53Van Noy* (27, 2019, $3.6--$6), 52E Roberts* (24, 2019; $0.6--$0.7), 59M.Flowers* (26, 2018, $1.8), 50Grigsby* (LB, 26, 2018, $0.6), 48Langi* (26, 2019, $0.5--$0.6),
S - 32McCourty* (31, 2019, $12--$13.5), 23Chung* (31, 2020, $3.8--$3.6), 30Harmon (27, 2020, $3.8--$4.5), 37Richards* (25, 2018, $1.2), S 39Travis* (24, 2018, $0.5), 26D.Jones* (25, 2018, $0.5)
CB - 24Gilmore (28, 2021, $12.5--$13.6), --J.McCourty (31, 2018 $3), 25Rowe* (25, 2018; $1.1), 31J Jones* (24, 2018; $0.6), 41Cy Jones* (25, 2019; $1.1--$1.3), 27R.Lewis* (CB/FS/ST; 24, 2018, $0.5), 22Wiltz (24, 2018, $0.5)
ST - 3Gostkowski (34, 2018, $5), 6Allen (28, 2018, $2), 49Cardona (26, 2018; $0.7),
36King (LB, 25, 2019, $1.2--$1.4), 43Ebner (S, 29, 2019, $2-$2.8), 18Slater (WR, 33, 2019, $2--$3)
here id like to share some pre-draft thoughts of general nature . hope you don't mind and can share yours.
__________
First thing one should keep in mind going into the draft is the actual roster (to balance the binkies infatuation and needs frenzy). Its a 2 year league so here's Pats 2 years roster (bolded players signed through 2019). You have age at start of 2018 league and cap hits in M$ for 2018, 2019 beside each name. (*=ST; bolded grey - possible 5y option; underlined players I could/like see extended)
QB - 12Brady (41, 2019, $22--$22), 2Hoyer (33, 2019, $0.9--$3)
RB - 34Burkhead* (28, 2020, 2.3--$3.2), 28White (26, 2020, $2.4--$4), --Hill (26, 2018, $1.3), 35Gillislee (27, 2018, $2.2), 38Bolden* (28, 2018, $0.9)
FB - 46Develin* (30, 2018, $1.5)
WR - 11Edelman* (32, 2019, $4.2--$4.7), 15Hogan* (29, 2018, $3.3), 19Mitchell (25, 2019; $0.7--$0.9); 13Dorsett* (24, 2018+1, $1.5--c.$9*), 80Matthews (26, 2018, $1), --Patterson* (KR/ST, 27, 2018, $3.2), 85Britt (30, 2018, $1.5), 81C.Hollister* (25, 2018, $0.5), 84McCarron* (slot,PR; 25, 2018, $0.5)
TE - 87Gronkowski (29, 2019, $11--$12), 83Allen (28, 2019, $5--$7.4), 47J.Hollister* (24, 2019, $0.5--$0.6), 82Tye (27, 2018, $0.5), --Niklas (25, 2018, $0.9)
OL - 62Thuney (25, 2019, $0.9--$0.9), 60Andrews (26, 2020, $2.3--$2.8), 69Mason (25, 2018; $2), 61Cannon (30, 2021; $5.8--$7.5), 68Waddle (27, 2018, $1.6), 75Karras (25, 2019, $0.6--$0.7), 74Croston (24, 2019, $0.5--$0.6), 63Garcia (24, 2020, $0.7--$0.9), 76Jelks (T, 25, 2019, $0.5--$0.6), 72J.King (25, 2018, $0.5), 64Ferentz (29, 2018, $0.5), --Tobin (T, 28, 2018, $0.7), Bowanko (T, 27, 2018, $0.7), John (T, 26, 2018, $0.7)
DL - 90Brown (24, 2018+1, $2.4--c$7*), --Shelton (25, 2018+1, $2--c$7*), 93Guy (28, 2020, $3.6--$4.3), 99Valentine (24, 2019, $0.7--$0.9), 70A.Butler (24, 2019, $0.5--$0.6), 98Flowers (25, 2018, $2), --Clayborn (30, 2019, $4--$6), 91Wise* (24, 2020, $0.6--$0.8), 95Rivers* (24, 2020, $0.7--$0.9), 55Lee* (24, 2018, $0.6), 96Grissom* (25, 2018, $0.7), 51K.Davis (24, 2019, $0.5--$0.6)
LB - 54Hightower (28, 2020, $8.5--$10.4), 53Van Noy* (27, 2019, $3.6--$6), 52E Roberts* (24, 2019; $0.6--$0.7), 59M.Flowers* (26, 2018, $1.8), 50Grigsby* (LB, 26, 2018, $0.6), 48Langi* (26, 2019, $0.5--$0.6),
S - 32McCourty* (31, 2019, $12--$13.5), 23Chung* (31, 2020, $3.8--$3.6), 30Harmon (27, 2020, $3.8--$4.5), 37Richards* (25, 2018, $1.2), S 39Travis* (24, 2018, $0.5), 26D.Jones* (25, 2018, $0.5)
CB - 24Gilmore (28, 2021, $12.5--$13.6), --J.McCourty (31, 2018 $3), 25Rowe* (25, 2018; $1.1), 31J Jones* (24, 2018; $0.6), 41Cy Jones* (25, 2019; $1.1--$1.3), 27R.Lewis* (CB/FS/ST; 24, 2018, $0.5), 22Wiltz (24, 2018, $0.5)
ST - 3Gostkowski (34, 2018, $5), 6Allen (28, 2018, $2), 49Cardona (26, 2018; $0.7),
36King (LB, 25, 2019, $1.2--$1.4), 43Ebner (S, 29, 2019, $2-$2.8), 18Slater (WR, 33, 2019, $2--$3)
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