😱 Oh No, We're Drafting Again?

In this week's P.O. Box:

If you thought drafting in February was crazy last year, wait until you hear that people started drafting in January this year.

I know—even as someone who has no problem drafting all offseason, I was still not ready for contests to drop weeks before the ink dried on the 2023 NFL season.

For the past couple years, I’ve drafted my first teams of the year at Underdog’s Super Bowl weekend events. I’m always flying totally blind that early in the offseason—I mean, what was I thinking with this Miles Sanders pick—because there’s no ADP or ranks out yet.

But this year is much, much different.

There have already been over 25,000 entries in The Big Board contest, which has a $200,000 top prize. The Little Board contest is absurdly 64% full with over 36,000 entries:

Fantasy Life has already dropped a couple sets of Top 150 ranks. Kerrane and ETR released full Underdog rankings that you can easily upload and use to draft.

There are best ball streams happening on a seemingly hourly basis.

It’s complete and utter madness.