High-stakes fantasy draft from the 1.08 with Dwain McFarland

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Ian Hartitz and Fantasy Life Director of Analytics Dwain McFarland draft an FFPC high-stakes team from the 1.08 in tight end premium scoring, pick by pick, with the reasoning on every call.

Brock Bowers or Christian McCaffrey at 1.08? In TE premium, with both guys already sitting on plenty of their teams, the answer was Bowers. From there it was two running backs sooner rather than later, a receiver room built almost entirely between rounds six and nine, and a late-round plan that shores up the backup running backs before touching the onesie positions.

THE FULL SQUAD
1.08 Brock Bowers, TE
Round 2 Omarion Hampton, RB
Round 3 Travis Etienne, RB
Round 4 Tee Higgins, WR
Round 5 Tucker Kraft, TE
Rounds 6 to 9 Mike Evans, DK Metcalf, Quentin Johnston, Makai Lemon
Backup running backs Chris Rodriguez, Tank Bigsby, Brian Robinson, Malik Davis
Quarterbacks Brock Purdy and Jordan Love
Late darts Chris Bell, Oronde Gadsden II, Evan Engram
Ravens DST and Andres Borregales, the Venezuelan Viper

Also in here: why Labor Day weekend is one of the best weekends of the year to draft, what happens to ADP once the grinders move out of the Gorillas and into the Main Event, and the FFPC wrinkle that lets you swap a Wednesday or Thursday game out of your lineup after you have seen the score.

Check out all of Dwain's work at fantasylife.com. Ian and Dwain are live every Sunday night at 8pm ET.