2023 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 10 Team League Half-PPR

It’s fantasy football’s simulated season, and things are no different here at Yahoo Sports. Ten team members recently conducted a 10-team fantasy football simulation, half a point per catch, and all the picks are in the cool chart above. Scroll to the right of the chart above to see the full draft results.

Team-by-team results are at the end of the article – but first, some interesting findings on results from our own Andy Behrens.

The first and most important thing you need to understand about a 10-team fantasy football draft is that you can get away with pretty much any strategy. Everything is on the table; nothing will backfire.

Tight end of the first round? Go ahead. There is no penalty.

Second-round quarterback? It’s frowned upon in certain circles, but the opportunity cost isn’t that great.

ZeroRB? You’ll love the backs available in double-digit spins.

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As a general rule of thumb, every coach in a 10-team league will be happy with their roster at the end of the draft. It is a extremely forgiving the size of the league – especially if you’re playing in a standard Yahoo format with just a starting QB and a single flex point. It’s such a painless draft experience.

Earlier this week – hours before news broke that Saquon Barkley It is Josh Jacobs hadn’t struck long-term deals with their teams – the extended Yahoo Fantasy family came together for a 10-team mock draft using our standard half-PPR public settings.

We encourage you to use our results as a rough guide in your next drafts.

Also, feel free to pick a favorite squad if that’s your style, but please know that I’m personally undefeated in mocks dating back to the late 90’s. I just don’t miss mocks, ever. I’m basically the Edwin Moses of mock writing.

If you want some general takeaways from this mid-July exercise, here are three things that leap off the screen (the first of which is something we covered earlier)…

You can find great QB options in the draft

It’s not as if any of the three managers who selected the halfbacks in the third round – or the other three managers who selected them in the fourth – were left with the feeling that their lineups suffered as a result. Again, this is definitely a no-regrets format.

But you know who else isn’t sweating their QB pick? Scott Pianowski, the mock writer who waited the longest at the position. he took Aaron Rodgers in round 11, then Deshaun Watson one round later. Rodgers, of course, is just a year away from winning an MVP. When we last saw Watson complete a full season, all he did was lead the NFL in passing yards and Y/A, finishing as one of the top five quarterbacks.

You’ll also notice that last season’s overall QB5, Geno Smith, was taken in Round 14 in our mock. america sleeper, Anthony Richardsonwaited until round 12. kirk cousins It is Jared Goff undrafted off seasons of 4,400 yards and 29 TD. Simply put, quarterback is an extremely deep position for fantasy purposes. It’s reasonable to craft it early – in this era, the best fantasy QBs have a league-winning edge – but you can still wait a long time to broach this point and be content with the result.

Novice skepticism is your friend

sesame robinson in the second round it was an assault. Jahmyr Gibbs in the fifth it was pure robbery too. Nowadays, when NFL teams use premium draft picks on running backsthese guys are relentlessly fed.

Rookie receivers did not leave the board until the ninth and tenth innings, despite the fact that freshman wideouts consistently finished in the top 25 at the position. Once Richardson is in control of Indianapolis, he will be a force of fantasy. I might as well be on an island with the rookie tight end Sam LaPorta, but he’s a serious talent with a first-day role in a rising offense. (Did you know that Detroit’s tight ends combined a dozen TD receptions last season? Well, now you do.)

If this simulation accurately represents the fantasy community’s distrust of the rookie class of 2023, then these players will collectively be among the best values ​​in our game.

It gets late early at wide receiver

A funny thing happens on the receiver in fantasy drafts. One minute, we’re getting guys like Chris Godwin, Tyler Lockett It is mike williams, and everyone is feeling pretty good about their options. But within a round or two, suddenly the names that show up in the chat draft are kind of creepy: Rashod Bateman, Kadarius Toney, Treylon Burksand others.

It’s almost like someone hacked the game and removed a wide receiver tier. This isn’t a big deal if your league setups only call for two starter WRs and one flex. But in a deeper format – say, three starting receivers and 2-3 push-ups – it’s important to recognize the limits of the player pool. It’s easy to talk yourself out of someone like Bateman or Toney when they’re simply a bench rider, but it’s another matter to carve your way into a situation where you to need these guys to produce.

Here are the team-by-team mock draft results in selection order.

Collin Brennan, Yahoo Fantasy Podcast Producer

Trevor Lewis, Social Editor at Yahoo Fantasy

Jason Klabacha, Head of Content at Yahoo Fantasy

Dan Harris, video director for Yahoo Fantasy

Matt Harmon, Analyst at Yahoo Fantasy

Dan Titus, Yahoo Fantasy Analyst

Dalton Del Don, Yahoo Fantasy Analyst

Andy Behrens, Yahoo Fantasy Analyst

Kathryn Buckles, Director of Social Media at Yahoo Sports

Scott Pianowski, Fantasy Analyst at Yahoo