Drafting a fantasy football team is about making the best of what's available when your pick comes around. You can map out a plan to get player X, but if and when said player comes off the board right before your turn, it's important to know what to do in that event rather than lament your pre-draft target getting taken from right out under you—odds are it will happen again.
When drafting out of the back half of the first round—which will be addressed here in the third installment of the draft strategy series—there are no guarantees. The only true guarantee in a draft comes with the pressure of picking first.
So how can you be ready for the prospect of drafting from draft slots 7-9? Let me and my editor, Matt De Lima, walk you through different roster-building strategies for this range of picks.
