A look back at the Freakingbeastness Fantasy Draft of 2018: Steelers Suck

DISCLAIMER: 

• Position ranking is taken from the end of year stats from each player.
• Pick position ranking is referring to when they were selected in our leagues draft.
  
• I.E. Christian Mccaffrey being the 13th RB selected in the draft means he has a pick position ranking of 13.
• Kickers and Defenses are not taken into account for these reviews. In the draft overview section if it looks like a round is missing, that is where a defense or kicker was selected.

Drew AKA Steelers Suck: 

• Rank 3/10
• Record 11-3
• Points Scored: 1,594
• Points Against: 1,382

After having not made the playoffs since the inception of the Freakingbeastness league, Drew’s team finished with the league’s best record this past season. Unfortunately this did not translate to postseason success as he was knocked out in a hard fought first round matchup with My Picks are Stupendous. The box score from this game leads me to say something that I didn’t think was possible but if he had only played Trubisky over Roethlisberger he could’ve won. 

Looking through this draft overview gives further proof that in standard setting leagues (no 2 QBs or superflexes) it can be beneficial to load up on the skill positions and wait until the later rounds to get your QB. 

Patrick Mahomes wasn’t even drafted in our league, he was picked up off the waiver wire after week 1.

As I stated back in Gold Teams article, a shocking trade was made between these two teams after week 5. One that you could say wasn’t even necessary as Drew’s team already had Julio Jones, Mike Evans, and Robert Woods. 

But to review, the trade was Juju Smith-Schuster (WR#9) for Sterling Shepard (WR#29), jazz hand snapchats, and a franchise name change. 

Ironically enough, for how much has been said about Mike Evans letting this team down in previous years, it was Juju who let the team down this year only managing to get 4 points in the critical playoff matchup.

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Steelers Suck Average Position Rankings

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• QB Ranking: 6th
• RB Ranking: 7th
• WR Ranking: 1st
• TE Ranking: 6th

It’s clear the WR’s are the highlight of this team, having four that ended up with a top-ten ranking. Big Ben also ended up being the QB#3 despite all the drama surrounding the Steelers last year and not having his all-pro RB.  

The RB’s were serviceable enough for most of the year with Melvin Gordon keeping things afloat, although he was not available for the playoff game and I’m sure the 0.8 contribution from Lamar Miller that week still stings. On the bright side, Lamar shredded his knee and won’t be playing this year so it can’t possibly happen again.

Steelers Suck Draft Overview