With high stakes drafts happening fast and furious, Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Redraft Dashboard to reverse engineer a roster.

Yesterday, I focused on the 5 Most Undervalued Players in Redraft, but these values don’t exist in a vacuum. As Curtis Patrick and I prepare for our own Main Event, we need to know not only which players to prioritize early, but also which ones we might grab late.

If our late-round selections are mostly WRs, we might feel more comfortable deviating from Zero RB in the opening stanzas. If we prefer a string of six straight RBs from Round 11 to Round 16, it might push us more WR-heavy early. Do we like QBs extremely late, or do we want to spring for a superstar?

While many picks in the double-digit rounds won’t pay off, last year’s Reverse Draft landed D.J. Chark and Lamar Jackson. The Win Rate Explorer displays the dominance of that stack.

The Board

This is how FFPC drafts have played out over the last week. With its balanced 2-RB, 2-WR, 2-Flex format, it should be similar to your home league as well.

Building a team from Round 20 to Round 11 will prepare us for difficult decisions earlier in the draft. These eight picks could launch you to a title.

Round 19 and 20

We’ll again save these picks for K and D as high-stakes champion Monty Phan recommends in his series on FFPC Tactics.

Round 18

The Options: Eno Benjamin, Lynn Bowden, Will Dissly, Drew Lock

The news reports aren’t particularly glowing for Bowden, but that could change in a hurry with a handful of big plays in the first month.^[1]The Kentucky prospect wasn’t necessarily a speed threat in college, but that didn’t stop him from posting video game numbers as a rusher. Bowden looks like he could be the next David Johnson, and a similar fantasy playoff eruption would make him a league winner.

Meanwhile, Benjamin is a Clyde Edwards-Helaire doppelganger in a dream offense for running backs. The recent Kenyan Drake drama reinforces the importance of his backups.

Dissly suffered two brutal injuries in patellar tendon and Achilles tears, but he’s back at practice and competing with Greg Olsen for snaps. If you miss out on the Seattle receivers, their TEs also post gaudy efficiency numbers. As a lottery selection, Dissly offers compelling upside.

Dissly has rarely been on the field, but he’s returned a TE1 performance in 60% of his active games.

The Pick: Eno Benjamin

Round 17