• QB614.3
• RB919.6
• WR1454.4
• TE389.2
• K141.6
• DEF111.9

Salty Meatflaps won the draft by 0.13 points, which is less a margin than a rounding error. He opened with Bijan Robinson and Derrick Henry back to back, the kind of bruising RB-RB start that nobody drafts anymore, and it worked anyway.

The real edge came at tight end. He took Kelce at 78 and Mark Andrews at 118, both of them well after the positional run had burned itself out, which means that in a league named Clash of the Tight Ends he was the only manager who bought the position at a discount.

Balanced everywhere and thin nowhere, it is the most boring draft here and comfortably the best one.

Best pick

Travis Kelce, 78. Eighth round for a 198-point tight end, in the one league on earth where that position carries a premium.

Worst pick

He rostered two quarterbacks and two tight ends on a team that starts one of each, which leaves Caleb Williams projecting 298.9 points from a folding chair.

Also noted

He got 389.2 at tight end without spending a pick on the position before the eighth round, while everyone else either paid up early or went without entirely.

• QB602.3
• RB874.3
• WR1507.7
• TE385.7
• K140.5
• DEF120.3

Tony named this team after Drake Maye and then did not draft Drake Maye. LizzyLou took him at pick 50, after which Tony waited another 32 picks before addressing quarterback at all and settled for Jayden Daniels.

Everything else is close to a perfect draft. McCaffrey and Jefferson to open is the best two-pick start anybody managed, and the receiving room he built behind them with DeVonta Smith, Zay Flowers, DJ Moore and Jordan Addison finished second in the league at 1507.7. He lost the top spot by a tenth of a point.

The team itself will be fine, but the team name is now a permanent monument to a pick he never made.

Best pick

Justin Jefferson at 24. A top-three receiver in the second round needs no further explanation.

Worst pick

The Texans defense at 87 was 13 picks earlier than anybody else went for a defense, and the last one off the board at 152 came with a better Week 1 matchup anyway.

Also noted

Harold Fannin Jr. at 67 gives him 215.0 out of the tight end slot, third-best in the league, for what amounted to a seventh-round price.

• QB609.9
• RB762.0
• WR1514.2
• TE459.2
• K143.8
• DEF120.4

He owns the best tight end room in the league at 459.2, built on Bowers at 29 with Ferguson added later, which in a league named after the position counts as reading the assignment.

The backfield is where it falls apart. He took Gibbs at 1.2 and then went 53 picks before his next running back, leaving him ninth of ten at the position and one hamstring away from a dead lineup slot every week.

Everything else on the roster is loaded, and his 1514.2 at receiver trails only Dungeon Masters. This is a team built to move the ball through the air that then hands off to nobody in particular.

Best pick

Brock Bowers at 29. The second-highest tight end projection in the draft at 277.3, and he landed it in the third round.

Worst pick

Less a single pick than a gap, he let 53 selections pass between his first running back and his second.

Also noted

He waited until picks 122 and 139 for his defense and kicker and still finished with the best pair in the league at 143.8 and 120.4, which is exactly how those positions are supposed to be handled.

• QB603.7
• RB1277.3
• WR1068.8
• TE355.4
• K139.3
• DEF114.1

Craig drafted six running backs in Chase Brown, Hampton, Irving, Judkins, Tuten and Pollard, and his position total of 1277.3 finished 126 points clear of the field and 618 clear of last place.

You start two of them.

The bill came due at receiver, where he sits ninth in the league and will be starting Courtland Sutton most weeks. All that backfield depth is trade capital if he moves it and dead weight if he does not, so every manager who went light at running back should be calling him in September.

Best pick

Lamar Jackson at 56. The second-best quarterback projection in the league, bought in the sixth round for roughly the price of a bench receiver.

Worst pick

Bhayshul Tuten at 75 was his fifth running back, and it came fully 20 picks before he got around to a third receiver.

Also noted

Six backs covers every bye week he will ever face and leaves a trade chip for every manager who went light at the position, which makes his the most important phone number in this league.

• QB571.0
• RB887.4
• WR1414.3
• TE412.6
• K141.9
• DEF111.1

Chris drafted five Los Angeles players in Nacua, Herbert, Johnston, Stafford and Keaton Mitchell, and he announced it himself in the chat after taking Stafford at 117, typing "boom, with my boy puka and the other LA dynamic duo of herbie and johnston" before following it with "mic drop."

The team is named after a Miami quarterback and rosters zero Dolphins.

The receivers hold up perfectly well, and LaPorta alongside Kittle gives him the third-best tight end room in the league. But he finished ninth at quarterback at 571.0 with a backup who out-projects his starter, and that is the bill that comes due when you draft by area code.

Best pick

A.J. Brown at 34. A third-round price on the one pick in this entire roster that had nothing to do with geography.

Worst pick

Quentin Johnston at 104, taken when he already had Herbert, which is a real pick spent stacking his quarterback with a fourth receiving option.

Homer pick

All of it. Five Los Angeles players across two franchises, announced in the chat and punctuated with "mic drop," and sixth place is the receipt.

• QB606.9
• RB1065.0
• WR1206.1
• TE396.1
• K137.7
• DEF114.5

The entire league spent the draft roasting Chris over the Los Angeles thing while Gavin quietly took four Packers and nobody said a word. Kraft at 58, Watson at 78, Golden at 113 and Love at 143 were spaced far enough apart that no single pick ever tripped an alarm.

The rest of it is fine without being interesting. Taylor and Walker to open gave him 1065.0 at running back, and he is solid everywhere and great nowhere, though two tight ends in a one-TE lineup leaves 396.1 projected points splitting a single chair.

Seventh is about right for a roster where a quarter of the names share a bye week and a weather forecast.

Best pick

Jonathan Taylor at 8. There is nothing wrong with it, which makes it the last uncontroversial thing that happened in this draft.

Worst pick

Dalton Kincaid at 93, taken with Tucker Kraft already rostered, and onesie positions do not reward doubling up like that.

Homer pick

Four Packers taken across four separate rounds and never mentioned once, which the rest of the league should read as evidence that Gavin is capable of real patience.

• QB595.7
• RB1151.2
• WR1202.1
• TE284.9
• K141.2
• DEF121.2

LizzyLou took a kicker in the seventh round. Cameron Dicker went at pick 70, the next kicker off the board went at 81, then 124, then 152, and the one taken at 152 projects more points than Dicker does.

The rest of it is better than eighth place suggests. Lamb and Barkley to open, McBride at 30 for the highest tight end projection in the entire draft at 284.9, and the best defense in the league. She also took Drake Maye at pick 50 off the manager whose team is named after Drake Maye, which is the funniest thing anybody did all night.

Best pick

Trey McBride at 30. The highest tight end projection in the draft, in the league named after tight ends, bought at the end of the third round.

Worst pick

Cameron Dicker at 70, which was 82 picks early for 0.11 fewer projected points than the last kicker off the board.

Homer pick

Two Cardinals in Jeremiyah Love and Trey McBride, though the team name is the real tell here. It reads as a five-player wishlist she went 2-for-5 on, and one of the two hits cost her a seventh-round pick.

• QB576.9
• RB926.5
• WR1183.2
• TE411.8
• K146.2
• DEF125.3

She held the first overall pick and finished ninth, which takes some doing.

Picks 81, 100 and 101 went to a kicker, a defense and a backup quarterback, three straight rounds spent on positions that barely move a lineup and taken in exactly the range where everyone else was still buying starters. Aubrey is genuinely the best kicker in the league at 146.2, and he was also available 40 picks later, because they always are.

Her backup quarterback also out-projects her starter, with Goff at 295.4 against Mahomes at 281.5, and she paid pick 60 for the worse of the two.

Best pick

Ashton Jeanty at 20. The turn handed her Jeanty and Kyren Williams back to back, and those two are the spine of a 926.5 backfield.

Worst pick

Brandon Aubrey at 81, the first domino in a three-round stretch that produced nothing she can actually start.

Also noted

Colston Loveland at 41 is quietly excellent, worth 241.0 from the tight end slot and fourth-best in the league at the position.

• QB566.1
• RB658.9
• WR1403.6
• TE215.0
• K42.0
• DEF93.2

Her kicker projects 42.0 points while everyone else in the league lands between 137.7 and 146.2, which leaves a hundred-point hole in a single lineup slot. That gap is wider than the one between third place and eighth.

The start was genuinely good, with St. Brown, Garrett Wilson and Marvin Harrison Jr. giving her the fourth-best receiving room in the league. Everything after that broke, and she finished last at running back by 103 points, last at tight end, last at defense and last overall by 391.

The receivers are real and they will trade for something, and kickers are free and sitting on the wire right now.

Best pick

Amon-Ra St. Brown at 5. There is nothing wrong with this pick, and we wanted that on the record before the next line.

Worst pick

Jake Moody at 42.0 projected, the worst starting slot in the league by 95 points and the single most fixable problem on any roster here.

Also noted

Three genuine number-one receivers inside the first three rounds is a real foundation, and it will fetch a running back from somebody before October.