2016 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: Round 9
- Mock start date: Saturday, May 14th- Mock end date: Saturday, May 28th
Scoring: This mock draft is based on standard-scoring formats and is for the 2016 season only (i.e., not keeper or dynasty leagues). Passing touchdowns are worth four points while rushing and receiving touchdowns are worth six points. In addition, one point is earned per 25 passing yards, 10 rushing or 10 receiving yards.
In this mock draft, four of our contributors -- Kevin Hanson, Brendan Donahue, Sean Beazley and Dan Yanotchko -- will each draft for three (of 12) teams.
Note: This is a "slow" mock, but picks will be added once they are made with commentary from Kevin Hanson.
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Here is Round 9 of our post-draft 2016 Fantasy Football Mock Draft:
9.01 - Dan Yanotchko (Team 1): Blake Bortles, QB, Jacksonville Jaguars
In his second season, Bortles threw for 4,428 yards, 35 touchdowns and 18 interceptions and ran for 310 yards and two more scores. Bortles needs to cut down on the turnovers and he's unlikely to repeat the 35 touchdowns, but he was consistent in terms of fantasy production last year. Finishing with the fourth-most fantasy points among quarterbacks, Bortles was a top-10 weekly performer 10 times last season.
9.02 - Brendan Donahue (Team 1): Dorial Green-Beckham, WR, Tennessee Titans
The Titans have a number of receivers on their roster, but Green-Beckham is the most talented and the second-year wideout certainly has the most upside out of the group. The 6-foot-5 receiver had both of his 100-yard games in December so he will look to build upon his late-season momentum.
9.03 - Kevin Hanson (Team 1): Arian Foster, RB, Free Agent
A ruptured Achilles ended his 2015 season prematurely and he will turn 30 prior to the start of the 2016 NFL season as Foster currently remains an unsigned free agent. A couple of potential landing spots, such as Miami or Washington, could lead to a sizable workload for Foster, which makes him a high-upside, low-floor option at his current eighth-round ADP.
Using the first three of this team's picks on receivers, I've loaded up on running backs since then as Foster would be this team's RB5. Considering Jay Ajayi, my fifth-round pick, projects as the team's RB2, Foster provides some insurance in the event that he signs with the Dolphins.
9.04 - Kevin Hanson (Team 2): DeSean Jackson, WR, Washington Redskins
Taking this team's starting wide receivers -- Julio Jones and Keenan Allen -- in the first three rounds, Jackson is a high-upside weekly option as my WR3. And even though Washington used a first-round pick on Josh Doctson, D-Jax remains a boom-or-bust weekly option that should finish with 1,000 yards or so provided he remains healthy.
A hamstring injury limited Jackson to just nine games last season so his overall numbers dropped to 30/528/4 after finishing with 56/1,169/6 in 2014. Over the final six weeks of the season, Jackson had 25 catches for 469 yards, 11th-most among wide receivers during that span, and all four of his touchdowns.
9.05 - Sean Beazley (Team 1): Markus Wheaton, WR, Pittsburgh Steelers
With Martavis Bryant suspended for the season, it should lead to a higher volume of targets and production for Wheaton, who finished with 44 catches for 749 yards and five touchdowns last season. Over the first 10 games of the season, five of which Bryant missed last year, Wheaton had less than 20 yards seven times. Over the final six games, however, Wheaton had a total of 476 yards and four touchdowns.
9.06 - Sean Beazley (Team 2): Kendall Wright, WR, Tennessee Titans
Missing six games last season, Wright finished with 36 catches for 408 yards, both of which were career lows in terms of absolute numbers and per-game production. With the team signing Rishard Matthews this offseason, it's possible that Wright is off the field in two-WR sets, which makes him a low-upside WR4/5.
9.07 - Brendan Donahue (Team 2): Marvin Jones, WR, Detroit Lions
Jones set career highs in receptions (65) and yards (816) in his final season with the Bengals last year. While the Lions should be more balanced this year, no team threw the ball on a higher percentage of their plays than Detroit last year. And while Golden Tate should lead the receiving corps in targets and production, the retirement of Calvin Johnson and lack of depth beyond Tate and Jones should lead to new career highs in catches and yards for Jones.
9.08 - Brendan Donahue (Team 3): Isaiah Crowell, RB, Cleveland Browns
Finishing in the top 25 in both categories, Crowell carried the ball 185 times for 706 yards last season. He also added 19 catches for 182 yards and scored a total of five touchdowns. New coach Hue Jackson has talked up Crowell (and backfield mate Duke Johnson) and he could once again finish as a top-25 rusher once again.
9.09 - Dan Yanotchko (Team 2): Eli Manning, QB, New York Giants
For a second consecutive season, Manning finished as a top-10 fantasy quarterback. In both seasons, Manning threw 600-plus times and exceeded 4,400-plus yards while throwing a total of 65 touchdowns. With one of the league's most dynamic players as his go-to receiver, there's no reason Eli shouldn't finish as a top-10 fantasy quarterback once again. And coincidentally, Manning is the 10th quarterback off the board in this mock.
9.10 - Dan Yanotchko (Team 3): Derek Carr, QB, Oakland Raiders
Slumping down the stretch, Carr averaged 18.33 fantasy points (263.18 Y/G and 24:6 TD-to-INT ratio) through Week 12, but he averaged only 14.34 (218.4 Y/G and 8:7 TD-to-INT ratio) over his final five games. That said, Carr still finished as fantasy's QB14 overall in 2016 and he's a low-end QB1/high-end QB2 going into the 2016 season.
9.11 - Kevin Hanson (Team 3): Torrey Smith, WR, San Francisco 49ers
Smith is coming off a career-worst season -- 33 catches, 663 yards and four touchdowns all set or tied career lows. With Anquan Boldin no longer in San Francisco and Chip Kelly taking over as coach, Smith is the No. 1 receiver in an offense that should rank in the top 10 in the league in number of plays.
9.12 - Sean Beazley (Team 3): Kirk Cousins, QB, Washington Redskins
Over the final 10 games of the season, few quarterbacks were as productive as Cousins, who threw 23 touchdowns, rushed for four more and threw only three interceptions. During that 10-game span, Cousins finished as a top-10 fantasy quarterback seven times and as fantasy's weekly QB1 three times.
Whether Cousins plays out this season under the franchise tag or both sides agree to a long-term deal before the July 15th deadline, he is set up for success with a talented supporting cast that drafted TCU's Josh Doctson in the first round and a favorable fantasy strength of schedule (ninth-best).
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