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The Mock Market Report

The Mock Market Report

Since the official opening of Fantasy Football mocks on April 27, 2009, Mock Draft Central (MDC) users have participated in a record-smashing number of practice drafts.

This past week was sizzling hot, with full mock drafts running at all times of the day. Every Friday, The Mock Market Report will highlight the biggest movers and shakers from those drafts.

League drafts have started at MDC and one thing is clear: this isn't your father's Fantasy Football.

The days of stud RBs ruling the landscape are clearly over, as five WRs left the board in the first-round of a 14-team, point-per-reception (PPR) draft held this past Thursday.

Take note, especially those in PPR leagues: WR runs are going to come hard and fast. Be ready for anything after the first wide out, most times Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals, leaves the board.

There's also been some interesting movement by pass-catchers at the bottom of drafts after a trade between two of 2008's cellar dwellers.

A 16 percent increase in value has revived the pulse of St. Louis Rams WR Ronald Curry who moved to the Gateway City after a July 22 trade between the Rams and Detroit Lions.

Curry should have no trouble taking over the No. 2 WR job in St. Louis which gives him value, especially in deeper leagues, and explains the nearly three-round jump.

Lions WR Bryant Johnson, now the undisputed No. 2 in Motown opposite Calvin Johnson, has also received a boost from the trade with a 13 percent increase in value.

The hottest RB has been Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens, who is approaching the Top-100 players selected after a 6.4 percent increase in value.

Drafters are banking on Rice breaking away from Le'Ron McClain and Willis McGahee and establishing himself as the Baltimore RB to have, evidenced by the second-year pro going as early as the sixth-round of the aforementioned 14-team league draft.

Though he fails to show on MDC's ADP report, Free Agent QB Michael Vick is receiving love at the end of some drafts, a sign that the previously incarcerated speedster may be working his way back into the hearts and minds of Fantasy Footballers everywhere.

We'll update you on his status next week, when he should no longer be teamless