Fantasy Football Mock Draft, 10-team non-PPR: Nick Chubb at the turn

Fantasy football mock draft for a 10-team, non-PPR league at the No. 10 pick.

With just over two weeks until the 2020 NFL season kicks off, that means it’s fantasy football draft season. Fans can peruse rankings, listen to expert predictions and consume all of the analysis possible. But perhaps the best resource to attack your draft with is a fantasy football mock draft. That can either mean participating in your own or looking at the results of others.

Obviously, you’re here to do the latter. Where this fantasy football mock draft differs from many others that you’ll see is that this wasn’t compiled by a number of industry experts getting together. Instead, this was compiled on Fantasy Football Calculator in a 10-team, non-PPR league with four other users (five in total) and five autodrafting computer slots.

Mock drafting with other regular fantasy football players and even the computer, in my opinion, gives you a better window into how your league-mates will be drafting. Thus, it will help you the most in your own drafts whenever they come around.

For this fantasy football mock draft, once again in a 10-team, non-PPR league, we’ll be picking at the turn with the No. 10 pick in the first round. So let’s see what kind of team we can construct to hopefully be a league-winner.

Note: All stats are via Pro Football Reference and all 2019 fantasy scoring info is via ESPN Fantasy unless otherwise noted. 

Round 1

• Team 1 (1.01) – Christian McCaffrey, RB, CAR
• Team 2 (1.02) – Saquon Barkley, RB, NYG
• Team 3 (1.03) – Ezekiel Elliott, RB, DAL
• Team 4 (1.04) – Alvin Kamara, RB, NO
• Team 5 (1.05) –  Dalvin Cook, RB, MIN
• Team 6 (1.06) – Michael Thomas, WR, NO
• Team 7 (1.07) – Derrick Henry, RB, TEN
• Team 8 (1.08) – Patrick Mahomes, QB, KC
• Team 9 (1.09) – Josh Jacobs, RB, LVR
• Team 10* (1.10) – Nick Chubb, RB, CLE

In a non-PPR league, the premium already placed on running backs this fantasy football season is heightened. A player like Derrick Henry, who doesn’t contribute much in the passing game, sees his value skyrocket. And to some degree, the player who I took at No. 10, Browns running back Nick Chubb, fits in the same category, albeit to a slightly lesser degree.

Chubb got his first full season as the lead running back in Cleveland last season and, despite the immense dysfunction of that team, the former Georgia Bulldogs standout was a stud. He finished as RB6 in non-PPR leagues while rushing for 1,494 yards and eight touchdowns on 298 carries while also catching 36 of 49 targets for 278 yards.

Detractors from Chubb will point out that he’s sharing a backfield with Kareem Hunt, which he did for the second half of last season. That’s a concern, sure. Having said that, that rings as more of an issue in PPR leagues than non-PPR as Chubb should be the workhorse on running downs. Furthermore, new head coach Kevin Stefanski relies on his rushing attack, which is better news for Chubb.

Perhaps the biggest reason why I love Chubb at 1.10 is the simple fact that Cleveland is going to be better. The Browns improved the offensive line this offseason and the arrival of Stefanski should simply make them more functional. After rushing for just shy of 1,500 yards last year, it wouldn’t shock me to see Chubb better that and find the end zone double-digit times.