Nate Polvogt and Mike Vadala are joined by Lou Brunson, Senior Analyst at Optimus Fantasy, for a 12-team, 10-round 2QB PPR dynasty startup mock draft.
2QB is the most unforgiving format in fantasy football. Twelve teams need 24 starting quarterbacks out of a league that only has 32, and the panic starts on the very first pick. Josh Allen has held the 1.01 throne in dynasty startups all offseason, but Drake Maye is climbing hard, Jayden Daniels is sliding into value territory, and the age question on Lamar Jackson is finally getting loud. Nate, Mike, and Lou break down whether you anchor your QB room early or dare to let the run happen without you.
The other half of the fight is what you give up to do it. Bijan Robinson, Jahmyr Gibbs, Ja'Marr Chase, Puka Nacua, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba are all sitting there while the QB board burns, and in a 10-round startup there is no bench to hide a mistake. The crew works through the second QB tier where Caleb Williams, Joe Burrow, and Jaxson Dart live, when Brock Bowers and Trey McBride are worth the TE premium of a startup pick, and where the youth movement of Jeremiyah Love, Carnell Tate, and Emeka Egbuka fits into a roster you have to live with for a decade.
Every pick comes with the reasoning behind it, so you can take the logic straight into your own 2QB or Superflex startup.
Topics covered in this episode: whether Josh Allen is still the correct 1.01 in a 2QB startup, how early the QB run really begins with 24 starting spots to fill, anchor QB vs waiting on the position, what the elite RB and WR tiers cost you in QB opportunity, the second QB tier and where the cliff actually is, the TE decision in a dynasty startup, youth vs win-now roster construction, and Lou's biggest takeaways from the board.
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