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Drafting from Pick 16 in Superflex: Mining Value After the Position Runs

Superflex logic centers on the QB Premium Window: two lineup slots can start a quarterback instead of one, so QBs jump tiers fast.

Around Pick 16

PlayerPosTeamTier
Derrick HenryRBBALC1
Anthony RichardsonQBINDB2
A.J. BrownWRPHIB2

The Turn (Pick 39)

PlayerPosTeamTier
Lamar JacksonQBBALA2
Dak PrescottQBDALC1
Brock BowersTELVB1

Third Wave (Pick 62)

PlayerPosTeamTier
Jayden DanielsQBWASB2
Trevor LawrenceQBJAXC1
Jalen HurtsQBPHIA1

Trade Logic

In superflex, pick 16's trade-up target is pick 9 — De'Von Achane (MIA, RB) (tier B2) sits right there, and with two lineup slots pulling from the same shallow QB pool, that wraparound bucket is exactly where the position compresses. Justin Jefferson (tier A2) is the alternative sitting in that same window if the QB run has already passed you by. There is no pick past 16 to bank a trade-down into from here, so the only real question left is whether the QB pool still has starter-caliber equity worth reaching for before the position dries up entirely. This deep, the discount plays are the ones with real rushing or volume equity at the position — the QB2 stash market lives here. Value-tier superflex picks are about finding the passer the field has priced like a bench arm when the equity says otherwise.

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Sleepers & Fades

With two lineup slots pulling from the same shallow quarterback pool, the names past the tier table for this value-tier pick at pick 16 are really a QB-tier-volatility read, not a straight sleeper-fade call. Brock Purdy (SF, QB), tier C1, ECR 34, shows a std_dev of 12 — in two-QB math that volatility is the tier-jump risk, a name the room could still price as a QB1 stash or let fall as a QB2 dart. Kyren Williams (tier B2) sits at a std_dev of only 4.1, tight enough that the two-QB market has already found his tier — a locked-in stash, not a volatility play. Only 6 ECR spots separate them, but in superflex the std_dev gap is the entire decision — Brock Purdy is the QB-premium swing worth a bench stash, Kyren Williams is the name whose two-QB price is already settled.