{"id":4312,"date":"2013-04-18T22:18:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T02:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2013-04-18T22:18:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T02:18:56","slug":"top-ten-2013-pre-nfl-draft-fantasy-football-rookie-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/top-ten-2013-pre-nfl-draft-fantasy-football-rookie-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten 2013 &#8211; Pre-NFL Draft &#8211; Fantasy Football Rookie Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what to watch for at the 2013 NFL Rookie Draft.<\/p>\n<p>#1 &#8211; RB1 &#8211; The first overall pick in every rookie-only dynasty league draft is whoever the Broncos take at RB late in the second round. Le&#8217;Veon Bell (MSU), Eddie Lacy (ALA), Giovani Bernard (UNC) would be ideal.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>#2 &#8211; RB2 &#8211; Whichever one of those RBs that wasn&#8217;t taken with the first pick that goes to the Lions. Giovani Bernard to the Lions in the early third round isn&#8217;t a stretch and would be big!<\/p>\n<p>#3 &#8211; Cordarrelle Patterson WR (TEN) &#8211; Patterson going to Miami with the #12 pick could be huge in fantasy. Ran 4.42 40 at combine, 6th among WRs.<\/p>\n<p>#4 &#8211; Keenan Allen WR (CAL) &#8211; A WR to the Rams at #16 or #22 overall in the first round would be nice paired with Sam Bradford.<\/p>\n<p>#5 &#8211; DeAndre Hopkins WR (CLEM) &#8211; Time for the Texans to start grooming an heir to Andre Johnson with the 27th pick?<\/p>\n<p>#6 &#8211; Tavon Austin WR (WVU) &#8211; There are four receivers that could be considered at least as high as #3 overall in fantasy rookie drafts depending on where they land in the NFL on Thursday. Tavon ran a 4.34 40, second fastest among all <em>players <\/em>at the combine.<\/p>\n<p>#7 &#8211; Justin Hunter WR (TEN) &#8211; The 9th fastest WR at combine with 4.44 40. Has ideal NFL size at 6-4 205. Top performer among WRs in vertical jump and set a combine record in the broad jump.<\/p>\n<p>#8 &#8211; Mark Wheaton WR (ORST) &#8211; The 10th fastest WR at 40 yard dash with 4.45.<\/p>\n<p>#9 &#8211; Geno Smith QB (WVU) &#8211; For two years I haven&#8217;t believed in rookie QBs contributing much in their first years and I&#8217;ve gotten burned on Cam Newton and Andrew Luck. I&#8217;m sticking to my guns. Geno is a long term prospect at best.<\/p>\n<p>#10 &#8211; Stepfan Taylor RB (STAN) &#8211; I&#8217;m reaching for a last RB to watch for here, there are a couple QBs (Ryan Nassib, EJ Manuel, Mike Glennon) and WRs (Robert Woods, Terrence Williams and Quinton Batton) that are more deserving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what to watch for at the 2013 NFL Rookie Draft. #1 &#8211; RB1 &#8211; The first overall pick in every rookie-only dynasty league draft is whoever the Broncos take at RB late in the second round. Le&#8217;Veon Bell (MSU), Eddie Lacy (ALA), Giovani Bernard (UNC) would be ideal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,1,19,5],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-rookie-draft","category-uncategorized","category-qfl-nation-news","category-fantasy-football-rookies","tag-rookie-draft"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}