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NFL Fantasy Football
Place Kickers
Do not pick a
kicker in any of the first 10-12 rounds of your fantasy football
draft; it will usually be a wasted pick. The one exception is if one
of the rounds becomes the “place kicker round.” Most of the time,
it only takes one person drafting a place kicker to spark a flood of
place kicker picks. If you miss out on the initial flood of picks
and all of the elite kickers are gone, wait until free agency to get
your kicker. I can almost guarantee that no one in your fantasy
football league will pick two kickers in the draft (at least no
competent fantasy football manager will). Usually the difference in
points between the elite kickers and the second tier kickers isn’t
very large, so don’t worry if you miss out on one of the top tier
place kickers.
Every year there
is some “Neil Rackers” that racks up a huge amount of field goals.
The only trouble is that the same kicker will often not do this from
year to year. Field goals are more an indication of an offense that
stalls out at the 30 yard line than a great kicker. Every year
there are at least two or three teams whose offense will constantly
stall out and not score touchdowns. This doesn’t mean you want to
pick the kicker on the worst offensive team; because more likely
than not, they will be punting more often then they will be kicking
field goals.
I’ve usually gone
with either a Buffalo Bills’ kicker, a Miami Dolphins’ kicker, or a
Cleveland Browns’ kicker, because I tend to minimize the kicker
position and wait until free agency to pick a kicker up. In years
past, these were teams that could move the ball, but wouldn’t score
too many touchdowns. Early on in the season, look for teams that
score more field goals than touchdowns.
The
advantage of having an elite kicker on your fantasy football team is
the NFL team’s confidence in the place kicker kicking long field
goals. In many fantasy football leagues, the length of a field goal
will gain you extra points for longer distance field goals. Also,
in some fantasy football leagues, missed field goals will deduct
points from your place kicker’s total.
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