Looking for Fantasy Football opinions y'all. (It's that time of year again
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Anyway, long story short, my big money keeper league is set up with a seven round draft. Where players are picked, gives them that number (ie, a player drafted in the 2nd round is a 2). FWIW, we pick actual defensive players, not a team's defense.
Anyway, I can protect up to 8 players. A 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and a Franchise. Pretty straight forward stuff. Now, where I'm looking for opinions is on this, my team currently has three 1's on it and I can only protect two, (my 1 and my Franchise). Said players are Larry Fitzgerald, Eli Manning and Trent Richardson. Richardson is a no brainer but I can't decide which of the other two to let go. Eli is streaky and can put up huge points but also goes through
*LOOOONG* bouts of being useless and Fitzgerald is amazing but up until this season had no one to throw him the ball. In an interesting caveat, I picked up Carson Palmer (Fitzgerald's new QB) as an undrafted free agent last season. If I cut Eli, that means Palmer is my starter unless I overpay for a meh QB (all the good ones are obviously protected) but if I cut Fitzgerald, that leaves me with only three receivers: Victor Cruz, Cecil Shorts and Dwayne Bowe at WR with no bench (I play 3 WR and 1 TE, not 2 and 2). One other option is to cut Eli and then try to redraft him in a lower round but then, I run the risk of losing him.
What would you guys do in this situation. As of right now, I'm leaning towards keeping Larry and cutting Eli, but not 100% sure yet. Palmer is an Okay Fantasy Player even though he'll never win anything in real life