As the preseason approaches, as well as many of your fantasy football drafts, it's time to write about some of the players that we recommend you target in your draft...players that most of the other owners in your league might not be thinking about (or even aware of). While making this list, I realized that a few of the players I wanted to include are not necessarily "sleeper" picks, so the list was expanded slightly to include players that are simply undervalued at their position, and that you should be able to pick up late in your draft. If you're in a keeper league, the young players on this list usually make for good pickups, with the hope that they can become stars in the future. Even if you're not in a keeper league though, the hope is that these players can help your team at some point in the season, if not immediately, so keep an eye on 'em!

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Over the course of the past month or so (yeah...it took that long!), we've been participating in another mock draft via e-mail. The draft was only four rounds and consisted of other fantasy football bloggers, including FF Librarian, FF Goat, FF Fools, Football Jabber, The Hazean, The Bruno Boys, West Coast Nonsense, Pancake Blocks, Football Burrito, Curveballs for Jesus and Football Outsiders. Here is how it went down (you'll find analysis on the first round picks, as well as the rest of the rounds and analysis, after the jump)...

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As previously mentioned, we're members of the Fantasy Website Drunken Pirate Slapfight Expert League (got all that? You can check out the list of websites involved here). Drafting from 10th position in a 12-team league, here's the squad we wound up with:

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ESPN appears to have revamped its fantasy football website significantly, and I like what I see. I'm moving my keeper league over from Fox Sports, a hassle I'm only undertaking because I'm so impressed. The layout is simple and easy on the eyes; the only comparably clean site out there is Yahoo's, which I refuse to use because of the inflexibility of its waiver wire system.

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In case you're not one of those fantasy football addicts that can't wait until your real league's drafts to have a fantasy team in front of you...those who, like myself, annually sign up for a Yahoo! Public league team just so that you have something to look at for the month before your draft...I figured I'd provide you with a quick glimpse of the new and improved Yahoo fantasy football draft room:

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In case you aren't a Firefox user yet, here's a great reason to become one: The fantastic (and fantastically simple) add-on called Hyperwords. Hyperwords allows you to select any word, name, or phrase on any page on the Web and immediately plug it into an online resource of your choice. Select an address and send it to Google Maps. Select a phone number and send it to Skype. Select someone's pompously cryptic French expression, translate it into English to find out what it means, then never tell anyone about it in case it's one of those expressions that everyone seems to know but you.

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I checked out FanSoft's newest offering, CheatSheet Creator, today. While I was encouraged by the nice design (us web designers are suckers for pretty colors and such), I quickly realized that I'll probably never use this unless the interface is reworked into something that's far less of a pain in my ass. I'm actually wondering whether they've actually sat down and tried to use their own product to build a cheat sheet before.

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This year FFGeekBlog has begun its infiltration into several fantasy football blogger leagues, with the plan of blogger league domination within a year or two. Currently Matt is drafting a team for a league set up by JunkyardJake.com called "Fantasy Website Drunken Pirate Slapfight Expert League". At this point our team is looking pretty solid, with the likes of Ricky Williams and Brett Favre leading the way (no joke!), so we plan to compete with the best in that league (we also have Joseph Addai, Maurice Jones-Drew and Braylon Edwards, in case you were wondering/worried - actually, this site allows anyone to see the teams without logging in, so check out our team here). We will make sure to post the final roster when the draft is complete, which should be today or early tomorrow I would guess.

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After participating in a few mock drafts to date, it became apparent that certain backup running backs are held to a higher standard than others. I figured it might be helpful to provide a list of all the starting running backs in the league, along with their primary backup. Also, I wanted to include how important it is to get their backup as a handcuff in your draft, or if you need to draft them at all. Below you can find my "Running back Handcuff Index", where I've grouped running backs into different levels (Very High to Very Low) of importance, in terms of making sure you draft their backup as an insurance policy. Please note that when I say "starter", I mean the player that is getting drafted earlier and should have the most fantasy impact on the season, not the player who has earned the ceremonial title. So here you go...

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As I've been preparing my power rankings this season, I've noticed a few names that I've had a lot of difficulty placing amongst the lists. For example, how can you decide between Marvin Harrison and Wes Welker? You know Welker will do well, but do you have a clue how Harrison will do? Neither do I. Players like this I've deemed the International Men of Mystery and I figured I'd write an article documenting my random thoughts on a few of them. This is by no means a comprehensive list, as knowing how any player will do in a given season is really a guess anyway. So, without further ado, here are your mystery men...

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