
In today's Fantasy Life Newsletter, presented by Mike's Hard Lemonade, no cursing when you're sniped, wide receiver sleepers, mock draft, and my guys.

In today's Fantasy Life Newsletter, presented by Mike's Hard Lemonade:
Let’s play a game. We’ll call it Finish the Vulgar Draft Day Phrase. (Kids, ask your parents for help.)
… Did you guess them all right? I bet you did. You potty-mouth.
I heard each of those phrases, and so many more R-rated insults that aren’t fit to print, countless times during my home league’s draft this weekend. Heck, I might’ve even said one a time or two. Or 12. Just not to the commissioner.
In all my years of playing fantasy football, nothing has captured the spirit of this wonderfully dumb game quite like the sounds of grown adults—with real jobs and bills and sometimes even children who depend on them—losing their freaking minds because someone else drafted the player they wanted to draft. Every snipe followed by an automatic, involuntary, dirty word salad straight out of a Quentin Tarantino movie. And then a lot of laughs.
I’ve had some of the biggest belly laughs of my life while sitting at a table covered in laptops and appetizers, listening to the chaos that comes from a player getting snatched away a few picks sooner than some people hoped. Someone was so sure their draft darling was going to fall to them. They’d studied the ADP! They’d compared it to their preferred rankings! They’d done dozens of mock drafts, for cryin’ out loud! And yet, it didn’t work out the way they planned.
This year, a few player selections caused major crash-outs in my home league:

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It’s easy to let up a little once the picks turn toward the triple digits. You’ve got your starting lineup pretty set. It might be time to take “another” backup RB. This is actually a great point in the draft to take a look at wide receivers that your leaguemates might be ignoring.
Ian, Dwain, Kendall, and Freedman continued their series of identifying sleepers at different positions. After hitting quarterbacks and running backs in the past couple days, it’s time to go out wide with the WRs who could pop late in drafts. And we know cooterdoodle will approve of at least one of them. ⤵️

The 1.08 isn’t a sexy pick, sure. But you can certainly end up with a sexy-looking roster when drafting from the 1.08 … if you do it right.
Four WRs and eight RBs later—yes, you read that correctly—and it’s looking like Freedman did, indeed, do it right.
With a starting WR trio of Malik Nabers, Brian Thomas Jr., and Tyreek Hill, you’d think he all but punted the RB position.
Not so fast.
He rounded out his RBs with elite game-breaking upside and two of the buzziest running backs in the entire league right now.
Dive into Freedman’s latest mock draft approach and how you can apply it to your upcoming drafts. ⤵️

It’s Kendall Valenzuela’s turn to uncover her “My Guys,” as we’re in the thick of one of the busiest draft weekends of the year. It might be a certain point in your draft when you’re teetering between two players, when you remember about this article and it could point you toward a certain player. You can thank her in the new year after you’ve won your title.
Kendall identifies three players that she can’t stop drafting. One is a QB ready to make a sophomore leap, a rookie WR whose playing time has cleared up, and an RB who could be the hammer in a timeshare on a new team. Keep these players in mind in the latter stages of your drafts. ⬇️
Let’s get to work, people! It’s draft season!!
🏈 The Week 3 Preseason Utilization Takeaways are being updated all weekend.
👀 ICYMI: The perfect draft strategy for the major platforms.
🫵 If you play IDP, we have the draft strategy for you.
👏 ESPN 12-team mock draft. Won’t you be my Nabers?
🏆 After a rough start, the Bears won their Super Bowl final preseason game with a walk-off TD.
😎 Remember, be nice to your league’s commissioner.
💪 Sam Wallace and cooterdoodle battle it out over Derrick Henry vs Aston Jeanty.
🔟 Stuck the landing. Our judges gave it a 10.
🤩 This year’s Jayden Daniels, just at another position.