The 13 Best Values in Fantasy Football Drafts

Tyrod Taylor, QB, Buffalo Bills

Similar to your approach when you stress-eat an entire bag of potato chips, when you draft your quarterback late in fantasy football, you've got to remove the negatives.

Last season, Tyrod Taylor finished as fantasy football's 16th-best quarterback in total fantasy points scored. But on a per-game basis, only six relevant quarterbacks were better. Had Tyrod played the entire season, there's little reason to believe his 2016 QB15 draft cost would be as low as it is.

Could he regress? Certainly. Though Taylor was top-10 in per drop back efficiency according to our Net Expected Points (NEP) metric last year, his 45.69% Success Rate ranked 22nd. Success Rate measures the percentage of positive throws made by a quarterback -- in this case, it's telling us that Taylor's high efficiency was buoyed a bit by big plays.

But last year, only Ben Roethlisberger saw a higher percentage of his yards come strictly from the air -- that is, with yards after catch removed -- meaning Taylor could have some growth coming from his receivers in the yards after catch department.

And, again, if we're looking strictly at upside, Taylor has an opportunity to run for more than the 4 touchdowns he saw on over 100 attempts last year. In fact, just two more rushing scores a season ago would've given him a better fantasy points per game average than all but four passers.

It's all about upside with late-round picks -- especially quarterbacks -- and Taylor gives you exactly that.