We’ve all been there. It’s draft day, and you’re up in three picks. You have your guy. He’s highlighted, underlined, and circled on your draft board. You can already see him helping your team to the league championship.
One pick goes by, and then another. Your guy is still there. Just one pick left. As you start to rise up out your chair to head over to the draft board, he gets picked.
D’oh!
Panic sets in. Everyone is looking at you. Who do you pick? Quick, make a decision. You frantically scroll through a top-300 list and then rapidly glance at some positional rankings hoping a name, some name, any name sticks out. Then one does. You casually put his sticker on the board, acting like nothing happened, and walk nonchalantly back over to your seat.
As soon as you sit down, you see it: The obvious pick you overlooked in your desperate search. It was right there in front of you, and you’re already starting to kick yourself. It gets in your head and doesn’t go away. You keep thinking about this mistake for the next several rounds. And you know what? You make more mistakes because of this one slipup. To borrow a term from poker, you’re on tilt.
Of course, this is an absolute worst-case scenario, but even small mistakes on draft day have a ripple effect that can potentially impact your entire draft.
To avoid these mishaps, you want to go into draft day prepared and with a solid draft board in place. Today, I’m going to give you my actual 2017 draft board. You can use this to help build your own board and make sure the nightmare situation above doesn’t happen to you this year.
Before we get to the actual board, here are few tips to keep in mind that will help you dominate your draft:
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