Drafting Tips for Kickers

Do not pick a kicker in any of the first 10-12 rounds of your fantasy football draft; it will usually be a wasted pick. The one exception is if one of the rounds becomes the “place kicker round.” Most of the time, it only takes one person drafting a place kicker to spark a flood of place kicker picks. If you miss out on the initial flood of picks and all of the elite kickers are gone, wait until free agency to get your kicker. I can almost guarantee that no one in your fantasy football league will pick two kickers in the draft (at least no competent fantasy football manager will). Usually the difference in points between the elite kickers and the second tier kickers isn’t very large, so don’t worry if you miss out on one of the top tier place kickers.

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