It's been awhile since we have had less than 32 owners for our draft, and my first instinct was to use my dummy account and draft for them. Not sure I want to do that, as I think it makes it harder to get a new owner. I had one person think a team was no longer available because it "had an owner", which was my dummy account.

Also, there could be a perceived conflict of interest. My real team picks after Memphis, so what would I do if a player I want for New Jersey is available for Memphis and makes sense for them too?

If anyone was going to draft for Memphis, I would prefer it be one of the teams that picks just before the Showboats.

Does anyone know about draft boards? Like, if I go in under my dummy account and filled the Memphis draft board, would those picks stay if I abandoned the team right away? Or would it go back to AI doing whatever it wants?

I think it would forget your draft board if you abandon the team.

I would recommend making the picks and leaving after the draft (after making sure they are below 60 players before Training Camp).
If nobody takes over before regular season I would recommend taking over again to get the roster down to 53, then leaving again.

I trust you to not do anything sneaky with the picks.

Hopefully I woke up in time to give Private Snowflake time to pick a good player.

Fyi, there were picks in the manual draft board.

That's interesting to know. The previous owner said he put 3 names on his list, and they were gone when his pick came, so he ended up with a punter. He must have been adding names while he was arguing with me about it being no big deal taking a punter in the 1st round.

I hate arguing with people but he wasn't going to be very good for the league and I'm glad it worked out for you to get your team back.

Worked out perfect. I love difficult rebuilds. Thanks.