Fantasy football, like any other crusty old American institution, has its dogma.
One of the guiding principles in our game for many years was that you did not want to be the first manager in your league to draft a quarterback. Those people were doomed. Dead money. They were newbies who could not be taken seriously.
Experts generally urged extreme patience at QB, viewing the position as a spot that only rarely delivered a difference-making individual season. Fantasy-wise, the statistical separation between early round quarterbacks and the mid-to-late-round options wasn't substantial in a typical year.