2012 "USFL Dynasty League" Rookie/Free Agent Draft

I will be posting the picks made from my dynasty league as they occur. The league's format is 12 teams, relatively standard scoring with PPR, no IDP, and our starting requirements allow the possibility of starting a second QB in a flex position. I will post and briefly comment on most picks. The draft officially began May 1st. Since owners from this league visit this site, I will not mention, and attempt not to reference, any players who have not yet been picked. Here is the direct link to the draft forum we made our official picks in: 2012 USFL Draft Big Board

**My Picks
Free Agent Picks

1.01 ~ RB Trent Richardson, CLE

1.02 ~ QB Andrew Luck, IND

1.03 ~ RB Doug Martin, TB

**1.04 ~ QB Robert Griffin III, WAS

1.05 ~ WR Justin Blackmon, JAC

1.06 ~ WR Michael Floyd, ARI

1.07 ~ RB David Wilson, NYG

1.08 ~ WR Alshon Jeffery, CHI

1.09 ~ RB Isaiah Pead, STL

1.10 ~ TE Coby Fleener, IND

1.11 ~ WR Kendall Wright, TEN

1.12 ~ RB Lamar Miller, MIA

2.01 ~ WR Stephen Hill, NYJ

2.02 ~ RB Ronnie Hillman, DEN

2.03 ~ WR Mohamed Sanu, CIN

2.04 ~ WR Brian Quick, STL

2.05 ~ QB Ryan Tannehill, MIA

2.06 ~ WR Ryan Broyles, DET

2.07 ~ QB Brandon Weeden, CLE

2.08 ~ WR Rueben Randle, NYG

2.09 ~ RB LaMichael James, SF

2.10 ~ WR A.J. Jenkins, SF

2.11 ~ WR Nick Toon, NO

2.12 ~ TE Ladarius Green, SD

3.01 ~ RB Bernard Pierce, BAL

3.02 ~ WR Chris Givens, STL

3.03 ~ WR Tommy Sreeter, BAL

3.04 ~ RB Chris Rainey, PIT

3.05 ~ WR Marvin Jones, CIN

3.06 ~ TE Adrien Robinson, NYG

**3.07 ~ RB Chris Polk, PHI

3.08 ~ RB Robert Turbin, SEA

3.09 ~ WR T.Y. Hilton, IND

**3.10 ~ WR Greg Childs, MIN

3.11 ~ TE Martellus Bennett, NYG

3.12 ~ WR Keshawn Martin, HOU

3.13 ~ RB Terrance Ganaway, NYJ

4.01 ~ WR Juron Criner, OAK

4.02 ~ TE Dwayne Allen, IND

4.03 ~ TE Michael Egnew, MIA

4.04 ~ RB Vick Ballard, IND

**4.05 ~ RB Cyrus Gray, KC

4.06 ~ QB Russell Wilson, SEA

4.07 ~ RB Dan Herron, CIN

4.08 ~ WR Marvin McNutt, PHI

4.09 ~ WR DeVier Posey, HOU

4.10 ~ WR Joe Adams, CAR

4.11 ~ RB Edwin Baker, SD

4.12 ~ WR T.J. Graham, BUF

5.01 ~ WR Devon Wylie, KC

5.02 ~ QB Brock Osweiler, DEN

5.03 ~ PASSED

5.04 ~ QB Ryan Lindley, ARI

**5.05 ~ PASSED

5.06 ~ QB Kirk Cousins, WAS

5.07 ~ PASSED

5.08 ~ K Randy Bullock, HOU

5.09 ~ QB Nick Foles, PHI

5.10 ~ WR LaVon Brazill, IND

5.11 ~ TE Evan Rodriguez, CHI

5.12 ~ PASSED

I'M BACK!!!...again...

The time gap between this post and the last (somewhat embarrassing titled) post is quite large. So, am I back with my irregular posting? For now I don't know, but I have gained too many readers and regulars to just simply quit alltogether. As I have explained multiple times throughout previous blog posts, the addition of my third daughter (now 20 months old) and my most recent promotion (little more than a year ago) seriously overwhelmed me and exhausted most of my "free time." To top it off, I was working off of a desktop PC, which was quickly becoming a freezing and crashing relic because of its sub-1 GB of RAM and the apparently outdated AMD Athlon 64 bit processor. That fossilizing PC had to be located in my bedroom due to home and play-area arraingments, along with my value keyboard and mouse, and their loud clicks. My promotion and expanded work hours essentially eliminated any chance of blogging during the day, and having less "down time" alltogether caused me to better value relaxing over blogging after work. Besides, the sleeping wife stirs when the clicking and clacking occurs.

All things considered, I then decided to at least take a hiatus from blogging and considered shutting down the blog entirely. All of last season, I went blog-free to further concentrate on my family and try to recover a little bit of my "free time." I hadn't thought about getting back to blogging until the motherboard on my desktop got fried by an electrical surge, apparently not stopped by the heavy duty surge protector with individual outlet transformers. Being left without any computer caused me to bring my future plans of investing in a high quality laptop to the present. I have invested in an HP Pavilion dv7 with 8 GB of RAM, 750 GB of storage, an Intel 2nd Generation Core i7 processor, a ton of bells, many whistles, and a bathroom sink (kitchen sink is a bit cliche). Effin A right! I am mobile within my home, which means I can tap away as much as I want after the rest of the family is sleeping, and I am in the comfort of not my bedroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah...make fun of me making my first laptop purchase ever (not counting the hand-me-down POS I had from 2001-2005) and being excited about added mobility. Three children has equated to extreme debt and tapered splurging for me and my wife. I have yet to own a smart phone!

My new laptop has given me added opportunities to spend my late nights doing more tapping on a keyboard instead of a remote. Am I promising to blog more frequently? Possibly, but I will certainly try to renew my committment to my likely reduced corp of readers. I have a few ideas to help streamline the blog posts and improve production, such as simplifing the posts into more of a classic blogging style and researching lesser known but still important stat lines. The next post will be the coverage of the recent "USFL Dynasty League" rookie/FA draft, which concluded little more than two weeks ago.