In the Fantasy Football Guide 2015 Professional Edition mock draft, we had a glitch (as discussed earlier on the corrections page). Tim Heaney, sportswriter at USA Today, friend, and all around good guy, was unable to connect with the draft room, and his team was autopicked.
The problem was that we did not have time to gather another 14 fantasy experts and have another mock draft, and while Tim’s team was not one he would have picked in a million years, it wasn’t a total joke. Tim agreed to comment on his autopicks, and we decided to run with what we had.
Kind of like having an online draft with 13 regs and that one guy who always screws up.
While writing this up for the correction page it occurred to me that I should have had Tim write up who he would have taken with each of his picks, if he’d actually been drafting. Shoulda, but I didn’t, then. But I did this week, and here are the guys Tim says he would have picked if he’d been able (he had the 12th pick) :
1 Calvin Johnson WR1
2 C.J. Anderson RB1
3 Keenan Allen WR2
4 C.J. Spiller RB2
5 Matthew Stafford QB1
6 Charles Sims RB3
7 Charles Johnson WR3
8 David Johnson RB4
9 Pierre Garcon WR4
10 Tyler Eifert TE1
11 Danny Woodhead RB5
12 Rueben Randle WR5
13 Jameis Winston QB2
14 Dan Herron RB6
15 Indianapolis Colts DT1
16 Matt Prater PK