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Originally Posted by sixfour
I know, I was wondering what the hell I was going to do expecting the top 5 QB's to all be gone by my pick but I get two of them at 9/12. It's a crap year for QB's but still
The thing with QBs is at after the first 6 (Newton, Rodgers, Luck, Wilson, Brees, Rape), the differences between the remaining QBs is pretty negligible. On top of that, there's also a significant drop off in talent. So, the difference between a low end QB1 and low end QB2 is lesser than the difference between the top QB in the league and a low end QB1.
As a matter of fact, if Brees wasn't there in the 2nd for me, I probably wouldn't have picked a QB2 until at least the 6th or 7th round, possibly much later than that. Last year there were plenty of QBs that were projected to be low-end QB2 or even backups on 2 QB teams that ended up doing very well.
According to our 2 QB scoring system, Ryan Fitzpatrick was ranked 11th in fantasy scoring in 2015. In the draft that year, he was the 31st QB selected in our draft. Kirk Cousins was ranked 8th but was the 28th QB picked.
Really, getting a strong QB1 followed by a committee for your QB2 could be a valid strategy if you pick well. I think people who picked Derek Carr, Ryan Tannehill or Brock Osweiler in our league are going to be pleasantly surprised. Carr could very easily put up QB1 numbers and Tannehill has a good chance to do so as well yet they were picked 17th and 20th among QBs. Meanwhile, Osweiler was picked 25th and could put up respectable 2nd QB numbers.