Huevos League Auction

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Updated on August 26, 2021 11:37AM EST

We had our annual Huevos League Auction, commished by Ballys Sports' Brad Evans and filled with a lot of the Yahoo Sports crew. It's 14-team, half-point PPR, super-flex format with $200 budgets and large rosters: QB, 2-RB, 3-WR, 1-TE, 2-FLX, 1-QBFLX, 1-Defense, five bench spots.

Here are the results:

Del Don	$	Harmon	$	Loza	$	Williams	$
Jalen Hurts	$26	Antonio Gibson	$41	Christian McCaffrey	$55	Derrick Henry	$44
Nick Chubb	$40	Lamar Jackson	$30	Dalvin Cook	$50	Ben Roethlisberger	$12
Alvin Kamara	$39	Allen Robinson	$28	Kyler Murray	$30	Aaron Jones	$38
San Francisco	$3	Sterling Shepard	$4	Mark Andrews	$11	Darren Waller	$27
Trey Lance	$21	Brandon Aiyuk	$22	Ryan Tannehill	$17	Derek Carr	$12
T.J. Hockenson	$16	Trey Sermon	$15	Robert Woods	$21	Pittsburgh	$2
Chris Carson	$21	Zach Wilson	$12	Elijah Moore	$6	Sony Michel	$8
Jimmy Garoppolo	$5	Chase Edmonds	$8	Mohamed Sanu	$1	Brandin Cooks	$12
Ronald Jones	$8	Tyler Higbee	$10	J.D. McKissic	$1	Ja'Marr Chase	$12
Bryan Edwards	$3	Michael Gallup	$12	Albert Wilson	$1	Deebo Samuel	$12
Darnell Mooney	$6	Mike Williams	$10	Rashaad Penny	$2	Marquise Brown	$5
Mecole Hardman	$8	Cole Beasley	$1	Juwan Johnson	$1	Michael Thomas	$6
Jared Cook	$1	Tony Jones	$2	Chicago	$1	Nelson Agholor	$2
Tre'Quan Smith	$1	Terrace Marshall	$3	Breshad Perriman	$1	Mike Gesicki	$3
Nico Collins	$1	Carlos Hyde	$1	Eric Ebron	$1	Nyheim Hines	$4
Trent Sherfield	$1	Amon-Ra St.	$1	Malcolm Brown	$1	Tevin Coleman	$1
Behrens	$	Schoenke	$	Evans	$	Liss	$
Ezekiel Elliott	$48	Davante Adams	$40	James Robinson	$31	Saquon Barkley	$37
Austin Ekeler	$37	Tyreek Hill	$37	David Montgomery	$32	Patrick Mahomes	$39
Marquez Callaway	$10	Kareem Hunt	$14	Ryan Fitzpatrick	$12	DeAndre Hopkins	$33
Josh Allen	$34	Trevor Lawrence	$18	Justin Jefferson	$32	DK Metcalf	$35
Denver	$3	Javonte Williams	$17	Kirk Cousins	$13	Miles Sanders	$19
Dallas Goedert	$4	D'Andre Swift	$15	Baltimore	$2	New York	$1
Dak Prescott	$30	Russell Wilson	$27	Logan Thomas	$10	Carson Wentz	$10
DJ Moore	$19	Irv Smith	$8	Tee Higgins	$17	DJ Chark	$8
Tyrod Taylor	$5	Jared Goff	$6	JuJu Smith-Schuster	$11	Gabriel Davis	$2
Curtis Samuel	$4	Indianapolis	$1	Courtland Sutton	$12	Devin Singletary	$4
Dyami Brown	$1	Michael Carter	$6	DeVonta Smith	$9	Cam Newton	$5
Cole Kmet	$1	T.Y. Hilton	$3	Zack Moss	$8	Chuba Hubbard	$2
Tyrell Williams	$1	Jalen Reagor	$3	Taysom Hill	$2	Hunter Henry	$1
A.J. Green	$1	Rondale Moore	$2	Giovani Bernard	$5	Zach Ertz	$1
Mark Ingram	$1	David Johnson	$2	James White	$2	Kenneth Gainwell	$1
Salvon Ahmed	$1	Marlon Mack	$1	Evan Engram	$2	Van Jefferson	$2
Pesavento	$	Bell	$	Stopa	$	Beer	$
Travis Kelce	$31	Najee Harris	$38	Los Angeles	$3	Justin Fields	$17
CeeDee Lamb	$28	Kyle Pitts	$22	Stefon Diggs	$35	Terry McLaurin	$35
Clyde Edwards-Helaire	$29	Tom Brady	$26	Calvin Ridley	$34	Keenan Allen	$28
Baker Mayfield	$15	New England	$2	J.K. Dobbins	$21	Adam Thielen	$18
Aaron Rodgers	$23	Jerry Jeudy	$18	Matt Ryan	$11	Chris Godwin	$20
Diontae Johnson	$23	Tua Tagovailoa	$17	Amari Cooper	$17	Darrell Henderson	$14
Myles Gaskin	$14	Cooper Kupp	$23	Odell Beckham	$17	Melvin Gordon	$8
Raheem Mostert	$11	Antonio Brown	$12	Joe Burrow	$17	Laviska Shenault	$9
Buffalo	$1	Damien Harris	$13	Chase Claypool	$14	Will Fuller	$6
Henry Ruggs	$4	Jarvis Landry	$6	AJ Dillon	$13	Robert Tonyan	$5
Marvin Jones	$8	Jaylen Waddle	$7	Noah Fant	$4	Jonnu Smith	$2
DeVante Parker	$4	Jakobi Meyers	$9	Tony Pollard	$4	James Conner	$7
Kenyan Drake	$2	Rob Gronkowski	$3	Blake Jarwin	$2	Mac Jones	$10
Rashod Bateman	$3	Hunter Renfrow	$1	Marquez Valdes-Scantling	$2	Jamaal Williams	$8
Rhamondre Stevenson	$3	Andy Dalton	$2	Darrel Williams	$2	Gus Edwards	$12
Deshaun Watson	$1	Devine Ozigbo	$1	Emmanuel Sanders	$3	Green Bay	$1
Schwab	$	Pianowski	$
Sam Darnold	$9	A.J. Brown	$35
Joe Mixon	$31	Tampa Bay	$3
Jonathan Taylor	$42	Matthew Stafford	$25
Josh Jacobs	$17	Mike Evans	$22
Washington	$3	Justin Herbert	$22
George Kittle	$19	Mike Davis	$15
Julio Jones	$16	Tyler Boyd	$12
Daniel Jones	$11	Tyler Lockett	$26
Robby Anderson	$14	Corey Davis	$11
Kenny Golladay	$10	Teddy Bridgewater	$9
Jameis Winston	$9	Leonard Fournette	$9
Michael Pittman	$15	Phillip Lindsay	$5
Kadarius Toney	$1	Gerald Everett	$2
Russell Gage	$1	Alexander Mattison	$2
Devontae Booker	$1	Austin Hooper	$1
Quez Watkins	$1	Ty Johnson	$1

I don't usually go into auctions with much of a plan other than to spend at least half my budget early on a few stars and then to wait as long as possible to have money left for the usual end-game bargains.

I felt I executed pretty well, though the Patrick Mahomes buy for $39 was an accident. I hit the plus-one button at 36, and apparently two other people hit it just before I did, and next thing I knew I had him for $39. Not a huge deal to get a player you like at $37 for two dollars extra.

I often jump bid players to speed things along -- there's no point in going from $1 to $2 to $3 on someone we all know will go for more than $30, so I'll sometimes just push a guy up to $30 or $33 and see if it sticks. DeAndre Hopkins stuck at $33, something I'm happy with given the prices of the other receivers in his range. I went to the mat for DK Metcalf at $35 though -- he's my No. 3 overall receiver.

The one somewhat rash move I made was getting Miles Sanders for $19. I thought the price was right at the time, and the quality of backs available were declining, but it's only half-PPR, and I could have used the money on other players at that point. I was happy with DJ Chark at $8, and I gambled on Cam Newton for $5, as I think he's still 50/50 to win the job.

Roster By Position:

QB: Patrick Mahomes

RB: Saquon Barkley/Miles Sanders

WR: DK Metcalf/DeAndre Hopkins/DJ Chark

TE: Hunter Henry

QBFLX: Carson Wentz

FLEX: Devin Singletary/Gabriel Davis

BENCH: Cam Newton/Chuba Hubbard/Van Jefferson/Zach Ertz/Kenneth Gainwell