Landing the top overall pick in your fantasy football draft is a thrill. You’re locked into the player you view as the best in the game, and you likely start crafting creative team names around him well before you enter the draft room.
That’s great, but your job isn’t done with grabbing Bijan Robinson (or Jahmyr Gibbs). How you handle the rest of the draft, in fact, will determine your fate this season, so I’d like you to take a walk with me through the construction of a strong roster from that slot.
Fantasy Football Draft Strategy With Bijan Robinson Rostered
The beauty of landing a Tier 1 running back is that it allows you to ignore the position for a minute. That’s not to say you don’t pounce if a talent falls, but in running through mock drafts, the WR talent falls around my tiers in a perfect way as Round 2 ends and Round 3 starts.
In this example, I was able to land both A.J. Brown and Malik Nabers, receivers who I truly believe have top-5 potential at the position from the jump this season. Brown joins the most accurate deep ball thrower from 2025, a marriage made in heaven that could spark memories of the Tom Brady/Randy Moss connection (settle down: a lesser version, but that sort of strong skill-set match).
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As for Nabers, he looked like one of the 10 best wideouts in the sport the second he put his feet on an NFL field, and now he has QB upside in Jaxson Dart. He may not be pushed hard out of the gate, but this is a team that is going to need to score and one that lacks secondary receivers with Wan’Dale Robinson now in Tennessee.
In the vein of playing the long game, the G-Men head to Detroit and Dallas to round out the fantasy season, a two-step that could see them score 55-60 points. If that’s the case, my guess is that a route count in September isn’t going to be on your mind as you’re raising the trophy in January.
My decision to grab D’Andre Swift (Round 4) and Tucker Kraft (Round 7) shouldn’t be surprising given all of the content this summer. Swift set career highs in rushing yards and rushing TDs during Ben Johnson’s first season at the controls of this Chicago offense, and his floor feels so safe given his versatile skill set in a unit that is going to put points on the board with regularity.
Everything sounds good when it comes to Kraft’s recovery, and that has him firmly residing in my second tier at the position, something the market disagrees with. At full strength, he profiles as peak George Kittle, and with the Packers thinning out their WR room this offseason, we could be looking at an elite ball-in-hand option that gets his hands on the rock 100 times this season.
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From a strategic standpoint, I was thrilled to land Quentin Johnston and Zach Charbonnet. They are investments that I’m holding onto: assets that will appreciate with time and put me in a position to succeed when it matters most.
The ACL recovery makes the Charbonnet case straightforward, and I think the schedule plays out perfectly for Johnston to be a fantasy football playoff hero.
Choosing Bo Nix over Patrick Mahomes might seem like a bit of a hot take, but is it?
Both had 10 top-15 finishes a season ago, and I’m betting on the one with a more upward-trending profile. Not only does he get Jaylen Waddle to weaponize, but I’m confident that Sean Payton can continue to develop him (last 30 fantasy games for Nix: 34 TD passes against 1 INT in the red zone).
Mahomes is the more comfortable click because of what we know he can do, but which team do you think is more likely to prioritize the regular season?
Since the Chiefs made Mahomes the 10th overall pick, Kansas City has two more Super Bowl appearances than Denver has playoff games. The Broncos are going to hold the gas pedal down, and that’s the strategy I want from my fantasy QB.
My Starting Lineup
- QB: Bo Nix
- RB: Bijan Robinson
- RB: D’Andre Swift
- WR: A.J. Brown
- WR: Malik Nabers
- TE: Tucker Kraft
- FLEX: Chuba Hubbard or Jakobi Meyers
