A KICKER IN THE NINTH
Kashir has played in two of the last three finals and lost both — to Bilal in 2023 and to Ivan in 2024. Last season he slid to tenth, and Asim's postmortem still named him someone "who could have won the whole thing." His response was to draft the best receiver duo in the league, Amon-Ra St. Brown and Justin Jefferson, assembled by pick 15, and then a kicker in round nine.
I keep coming back to it. Brandon Aubrey, 9.10, pick 106, priced at 134, with starting running backs and quarterbacks still on the board. He followed it with the Texans defense at 10.03. The agenda was special teams, and it was pursued with total conviction.
The rest is a superteam funding a shelter: Skattebo, Jaylen Warren, Corum, Braelon Allen, Bigsby, Blue, Pacheco. Seven running backs, no locked starting job among them. The stated plan for Corum, per the chat, is that "it's time," which is a hope wearing a plan's clothes. McBride makes it three elite pass-catchers, which is why ninth feels low here and honestly might be.
Kashir posted another site's low ranking of his team with the caption "I guess I don't know ball." The desk would never say that. The desk simply drafted its kicker in round eleven.