Safety Last! — Draft Day Card

$260 · 12 teams · superflex (Q/W/R/T) · full PPR · 6-pt passing TD · no K / DEF · 16 spots + 2 IR · 30s nominate / 20s bid · Yahoo 290699
Sun Aug 30 · 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CDT

The lane — decided

Lane B: three mid-tier QBs, ~$78 (30%). Herbert / Purdy / Dak / Dart / Nix / Caleb — the room let ten QBs go for $17–26 last year. You need three.
Only switch: a top-6 QB on the clock at $50 or less. Take him. Otherwise stay in B.

Three rules

  1. Two QBs before pick 90. Non-negotiable. At pick 90 with one QB → buy the next startable one at any price.
  2. Never bid $5–9 on a flier. Go $1–3 or go $12+. You bought seven in that band last year (room avg: two).
  3. Spend the last dollar. Max bid = $ left − (spots − 1). Last 20 picks: max bid above $1 means you're underbidding.

Checkpoints

ByYou ownIf not
501 QBBuy the next $20–32 QB nominated
701 QB + both anchorsStop buying WRs — QB2 now
902 QBsEmergency — best QB left, any price
1102 QB + TE + 2 mid flexTE will cost $2. Fine
150All but 3–4 endgameStart spending down

Pace: $ left ÷ spots left starts at $16.25. Room is 45% spent by pick 24, 68% by 48 — rich at pick 50 wins this draft.

$260 map

QB ×3Herbert / Purdy / Dak / Dart / Nix / Caleb$78
Anchor 1Chase / Gibbs / Bijan / JSN / ASB / Puka$48
Anchor 2London / Taylor / Cook / CeeDee / Judkins$36
TE (punt)T. Warren / Fannin / Loveland$17
Mid flex ×4$12–20 players$64
Endgame ×6$1–3 fliers$17

QB targets — pay up to

QBMax'25 hereNote
Herbert LAC$42$23Best value on the board; McDaniel OC
Purdy SF$36$2624.2 FPPG healthy
Caleb CHI$36$18Don't chase to $45
Lawrence JAX$32$11Cap it
Dak DAL$30$24Pickens + Javonte
Dart NYG$28Run-first, but 553 rush yds proj.
Nix DEN$28$23Waddle is his WR1
Goff DET$25$156-pt helps a pure passer
Mahomes KC$24$41Nominate, don't buy
Kyler MIN$18$24Never worse than QB12 PPG
Willis MIA$12Rushing floor; best cheap QB2
Shough NO$917+ pts in last 6 starts

Top 6 (Lane A trigger ≤$50): Allen $70 · Lamar $60 · Maye $58 · Daniels $55 · Hurts $54 · Burrow $52

QB3 darts, $2–4 after ~QB18 sells (pick ~81): Geno · Cousins · Tua · Brissett · Rodgers. Penix / Mendoza = stashes only.

Price enforcement

  • Tier-2 QBs: bid to ~80% of value — worst case you win a QB you wanted.
  • Anyone you don't want: never past 60%.
  • Watch who still needs a QB2 — desperate teams overpay. Nominate QBs when only they have money.

Nomination script

1Mahomes$41 here last yr; "on track" for Wk 1 → room pays $40+
2SaquonRoom paid $75 — biggest price of 2025
3Josh AllenSkip only if you flipped to Lane A
thenCMC ($59 here) · Henry · Davante · Evans · LaPorta ($15 here, healthy again) · Jacobs (suspension pending)

Never early Herbert · Purdy · Nix · Dak · Dart · Caleb · Fannin · T. Warren · Loveland

Injury flags — check 1pm

ChaseKnee hyperext. Aug 25, "minor," no practice since$51
PukaPsoas; no practice since Aug 18, expected back this week$48
JeantyAnkle; Kubiak "another week to assess"$24
EgbukaToe; no team drills since Aug 12$17
JacobsNFL reviewing May arrest; GB "preparing" for a suspension$14
Judkins"Nagging," precautionary; expected Wk 1$26
Nabers✅ Out of non-contact jersey; "reasonable to assume" Wk 1$25
LaPorta / Burden✅ Both back at practice — no IR stash left$10 / $17

Endgame ($1–3)

  • Handcuff your own anchors at $1–2 in the last 20 picks; others' only with a standalone role (Harvey $8, Mason $6, Gainwell $6, Corum $5, Rodriguez $5).
  • Rookies worth a bid: J. Love $27 · Tate $11 · Price $11 · Lemon / Stribling $4 · Lane / Fields / Sadiq / M. Washington $2.
  • TE fallbacks: Kittle $10 · LaPorta $10 · Kraft $6 · Kincaid / Likely $3.
  • All 16 picks are real players — no K/DEF. Don't autodraft the end.
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