See this post for an idea that could be adapted to this. It's a simple approach to parse the line into a hash in position => name form. In fact, your application would be simpler. The hash could be used to create the DML.

Update: maybe not simpler - the repetition of positions will cause my approach problems!

Update 2:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $string = "QB Carson Palmer RB Chris Ivory RB Eddie Lacy WR A.J. Gr
+een WR John Brown WR Davante Adams TE Martellus Bennett FLEX Jeremy H
+ill DST Panthers";

my @words = split ' ',$string;
my $i = 0;
while ($i <= $#words) {
  if ($words[$i] =~ m/^[A-Z]{2,4}$/) {
    $words[$i++] .= ' ->';
  } else {
    $words[$i-1] .= ' ' . splice @words,$i,1
  }
}
print Dumper(\@words);

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Output:

$VAR1 = [
          'QB -> Carson Palmer',
          'RB -> Chris Ivory',
          'RB -> Eddie Lacy',
          'WR -> A.J. Green',
          'WR -> John Brown',
          'WR -> Davante Adams',
          'TE -> Martellus Bennett',
          'FLEX -> Jeremy Hill',
          'DST -> Panthers'
        ];

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In reply to Re: Recommendations for breaking up string? by GotToBTru
in thread Recommendations for breaking up string? by jdlev

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