August 02, 2019

Fantasy football 2019 mock draft round up, expert ADP

How did experts at ESPN, SI, CBS, and NFL.com draft their fantasy teams?

By Evan Macy
PhillyVoice Staff

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Below are the results of expert mock fantasy football drafts from four of the most popular mainstream draft resources on the internet: NFL.com, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated and ESPN. A lot of information can be gleamed from the tables below, including when it may be appropriate to pull the trigger on any particular player or what players may be available when you are slated to draft.

It's worth noting that the results posted below were from drafts conducted at varying times during the offseason, ranging from May through July. As such, some of them have taken into account different levels of information regarding players holding out (like Ezekiel Elliott and Melvin Gordon). Still, the results don't seem to differ too much based on injuries and hold outs.

Here's a useful look at what the experts did in their respective drafts (NFL.com, CBS and ESPN is PPR with otherwise conventional scoring, SI.com is just conventional scoring):

Round 1	NFL.com	CBS Sports	SI	ESPN
1	Ezekiel Elliott	Kamara	Barkley	Barkley
2	Saquan Barkley	Barkley	Kamara	Elliott
3	Alvin Kamara	Elliott	McCaffrey	McCaffery
4	Christian McCaffery	McCaffery	Elliott	Kamara
5	David Johnson	Bell	Patrick Mahomes	Gordon
6	LeVeon Bell	Hopkins	Gordon	Johnson
7	Davante Adams	J. Jones	Conner	Hopkins
8	DeAndre Hopkins	Johnson	Bell	Gurley
9	Melvin Gordon	Adams	Beckham	Adams
10	Joe Mixon	Beckham	Gurley	Bell
11	Todd Gurley	Kelce	Hopkins	J. Jones
12	James Conner	Conner	Brown	Conner

• The same top four, not surprisingly, appeared in all four drafts with three different No. 1 overall picks. The NFL.com draft that has Elliott first overall was conducted in mid-July, with full knowledge of a possible hold out.

• If you're wondering, Sports Illustrated's Kalyn Kahler, a MMQB producer and writer pulled the trigger on Mahomes at fifth overall.

• NFL.com went RB heavy, with the first six picks — all RBs, and 10 of the first 12.

• Only CBS's Dave Richard took a tight end in the first round.

Round 2	NFL.com	CBS	SI	ESPN
13	Michael Thomas	Gordon	J. Jones	Mixon
14	Odell Beckham Jr.	Thomas	Thomas	Thomas
15	Julio Jones	Mixon	Mixon	Kelce
16	Travis Kelce	Cook	Smith-Shuster	Beckham
17	JuJu Smith-Shuster	Gurley	Kelce	Brown
18	Damien Williams	Brown	Johnson	Cook
19	Dalvin Cook	Smith-Shuster	Adams	Chubb
20	Nick Chubb	Allen	Chubb	Smith-Shuster
21	Antonio Brown	Chubb	Evans	Allen
22	Mike Evans	Green	Cook	Evans
23	George Kittle	Evans	Kittle	Ertz
24	Marlon Mack	Hilton	A. Jones	Thielen

• NFL.com's Marcus Grant and SI's Tom Mantzouranis picked George Kittle before Zach Ertz was off the board.

• Michael Thomas, who obviously signed his monster contract Wednesday, went in the second round in all four drafts. Whether that should be different with him now reporting to camp is an unknown — but it would be hard to slot him above DeAndre Hopkins, Devante Adams and Julio Jones.

• Speaking of Adams, he went No. 7 over in NFL.com's drafty but fell to 19th in SI's.

Round 3	NFL.com	CBS	SI	ESPN
25	A.J. Green	Diggs	Green	Michel
26	Adam Thielen	Fournette	Allen	Freeman
27	Leonard Fournette	Aaron Jones	Hilton	Hilton
28	Zach Ertz	Kittle	Cooper	Cooper
29	Sefon Diggs	Cooper	Diggs	Kittle
30	T.Y. Hilton	Ertz	Thielen	Fournette
31	Amari Cooper	Williams	Mack	A. Jones
32	Keenan Allen	Thielen	Sony Michel	Green
33	Derrick Henry	Edelman	Fournette	Mack
34	Julian Edelman	Henry	Ertz	Diggs
35	Josh Jacobs	Tyreek Hill	Chris Carson	Mahomes
36	Kerryon Johnson	Jacobs	Devonta Freeman	Edelman

• A.J. Green's ankle injury has him going in the third round in three of the four drafts.

• Only one other person took a QB in the first three rounds, with Mahomes going late in the third to ESPN's Anita Marks. Mahomes goes 44th overall in NFL.com's draft and 55th overall in CBS's. Experts generally tend to take QBs later than casual fantasy players.

Here's a little more on when some notable players went in the mock drafts:

Player	NFL.com	CBS	SI	ESPN
Tyreek Hill*	53	35	(not drafted)	109
Miles Sanders	60	79	113	65
Andrew Luck	66	75	51	93
DeShaun Watson	67	67	65	56
Baker Mayfield	96	111	73	90
Carson Wentz	133	109	87	86
Darryl Henderson	75	63	(not drafted)**	79
N'Keal Harry	86	117	89	102