Perfect 2024 fantasy football draft strategy, round by round for 12-team leagues: Picks 1-3. Don't stress about the first overall pick: Christian McCaffrey, CeeDee Lamb and Tyreek Hill have clearly been the top three options all offseason, and that hasn't changed.
Instead, it's perhaps more helpful to determine which positions you should focus on, rather than which players. ing to the same model, teams are typically best suited drafting wide receivers and running backs first, followed by a tight end, then a defense, then a kicker, and finally, a quarterback.
Start with a RB and WR, then with your next four picks take (in any order), a QB, a TE and some combination of RB/WR with the other two picks. This will set you up to have at worst a Top 8 TE and likely a Top 7 QB.
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In general, 1st overall is the best and 2nd overall is the second best. 1st overall guarantees CMC, then there are a lot of good ways to go from there. I personally like grabbing Waller and then the best RB/WR available at the 3.01, usually Joe Mixon or Michael Thomas.
There isn't a correct order. There are only correct picks based off your draft, and who's available and what you need. That's why research and practice is so important. CMC is the obvious first overall pick so you have easy mode there. But after that you want to know how to make the most well rounded team.
Standard rosters include one Quarterback (QB), two Running Backs (RB), two Wide Receivers (WR), one Tight End (TE), one Flex (RB/WR/TE), one Defense/Special Teams (D/ST), one Kicker (K) and seven Bench Spots (BE -- players on your roster who are not in your active lineup for a given week).
A fantasy football team consists of one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, one flex, one kicker, and a team defense/special teams.