I participated in the 2015 Lindy's Sports experts fantasy draft last night. It's the mock that will run in their annual preseason magazine, and I've been representing Fantasy Football Index in it for several years now.

We're not allowed to talk about the entire draft, don't want to spoil it for their magazine. But we can talk about our own teams. And one thing that became clear early, middle and late in our draft was that there's some bias against older players in the fantasy world.

Picking 7th in a 12-team snake draft (non-PPR scoring), I started off with DeMarco Murray; that was fine. When the second round came around, Arian Foster, who we have ranked only three spots lower, was still there, so I took him. Pretty nice pair of running backs to start with.

As I started to take receivers in the middle rounds. older players were simply available a lot later than our rankings suggested. Roddy White in the fourth, Larry Fitzgerald in the sixth. The rankings suggested Antonio Gates would have made sense as a top-5 tight end as early as the seventh or eighth round; his wizened, mummified corpse was finally helped up to the podium in the 11th.

My dynasty league is my favorite league, so I fully understand the sentiment to favor young players with upside. But everyone, young and old, gets hurt; that's why you draft a bench. Just because Roddy and Larry are older players, should they really be disregarded in the middle rounds of fantasy drafts? These are still some of the league's best receivers, working with some of the league's better quarterbacks.

I'm not going to sit here and claim I feel fully comfortable with older players. Gates in particular I avoided in favor of younger options Zach Ertz and Delanie Walker.

But last year we saw Steve Smith (Sr.!) have a strong season. Peyton Manning was breaking records in 2013, so the fact that I got Drew Brees in the fifth round last like feels like highway robbery. Some of these guys are older than is ideal, but for many of them it just means they know how to take care of themselves and train and practice and prepare hard all offseason, so they can still put up great numbers in the regular season.

It's just one draft, one group of experts. But I'm getting the early sense that a lot of Index teams are going to have the likes of Foster, White, Fitzgerald and Gates on them. And they'll be dancing with their canes deep into the 2015 fantasy season.