WR Guru

Amen. Now that Gates has his damned record, maybe the Charges will stop screwing around and give more work to the younger, better player.

West is barely average and already dinged up. Woodhead is a situational player and already dinged up. Allen has a very good opportunity here to become a weekly 15-20 touch guy.

He's one of these coaches who thinks he's a genius and more important than the players. If it were feasible to rotate QBs, he'd probably do that too.

Even if he was reinstated tomorrow, what really is the expectation here? The guy hasn't played a down of football since, what, 2014? (and didn't look very good then after a long layoff)

Boo-hoo. There were no bye weeks in the NFL until the 1990s. Every team played 16 straight weeks for many years and I don't think bye weeks did anything to curb injuries. Reducing the number of games back to 14 or 12 is the only way to do that. It was always about adding a week of TV revenue to the coffers, which is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Same reason many current owners favor an extension of the season to 18 games.

Well, I had Mariota way up in my rankings based largely on the Titans' upgrades at the WR position. So here's hoping Decker has another 1,000 yard season in him. Tennessee should be a pretty potent offense.

Did you see Lockett's injury? The guy's leg snapped like kindling in December. The bone punctured the skin. If he's physically and mentally right to produce at a high level just 8 or 9 months later, then kuddos to him. As for Baldwin's fantasy ranking, well, yeah, he's been force-fed the ball by an elite QB for a few years now because they've had no other reliable option at WR. He's still a middling talent in real, non-fantasy terms.

No, it's one of the weakest units in the league. Baldwin is miscast as a #1, although he has surprised with his production and played over his head. No idea what to expect from Lockett just 9 months or so removed from a gruesome leg injury. The fact that he's not currently listed as a starter tells me a lot about where he's at physically/mentally. And Richardson has shown little at the NFL level.

Yes, but already gimpy and limited this year and entering his age 29 season, which is right at the dreaded "Running Back Wall"... I hope it's just one of these veteran "I don't want to work in August" ailments that magically clears up on opening day. But, again, I feel it's almost mandatory to handcuff Henry if you're heavily invested in Murray.

Seattle continues to do nothing to upgrade their WR situation and, unless that o-line is a lot better than it was last year, I almost feel like they need to have Prosise on the field to save Wilson's life as a capable outlet receiver. Rawls and Lacy are below average pass catchers.

I kinda like Prosise to be the top producer in that backfield if he can stay healthy. He looked like an elite pass catcher out of the backfield- maybe the best in the league. Rawls seems like an injury-prone guy who will never put it all together for more than a short period of time. Lacy is Lacy- he will be out of football next year.

Murray faded pretty badly last year after being a top-3 RB during the first half of the season. Only topped 100 total yards once in his last 6 games. I still cautiously like him to get his 15-20 touches every week in what I expect to be a strong offense in Tennessee, but I would not want him as my RB1 without the Henry handcuff (and I paid handsomely to get that handcuff in my auction league).

He's a near lock for 20-touches every week. Not a lot of RBs you can say that about anymore. On pure volume alone he's an RB2. I don't care how bad the Jets are, they're still a professional team that will move the ball and score occasionally. I'd be surprised if he didn't at least top 1,000 total yards and a handful of scores. I'd say that's his floor.

Robby Anderson. Default #1 WR (albeit on a bad team). Big and fast, showed flashes as a rookie. Jets will be behind a lot. Plenty of garbage time. Anderson gets downgraded because of the fragility of McCown at QB. But even the backup QB, Petty, showed a willingness to force-feed Anderson last year (and that was when Brandon Marshall was also on the field). Like him in the WR3/4 range with upside. 900 yds, 5 TD

But when can you believe your eyes? A player looking explosive against a defense using a vanilla scheme because they don't want to put anything on film in the preseason- what does that mean? Or, conversely, a running back getting stuffed on all his carries but his offense is only using a fraction of their playbook- what do you take from that? It's like watching a player light it up in garbage time during a regular season game- tells you little or nothing of value about what to expect in future games. This is why every single year you see a whole slew of preseason darlings and hype machines hitting the waiver wire or trade block after week 1.

There are 3 kinds of lies: 1) Lies 2) Damned Lies 3) Preseason Football NEVER change your evaluation of a player significantly based upon what you see in exhibition games. They are less than meaningless. Established players and stars are trying to exert themselves as little as possible. Marginal players and rookies are fighting for jobs. Teams are not utilizing their full scheme and playbook that you will see when the games count. Coaches approach things differently. Entire teams will look real good in the preseason and then be a bottom feeder on week 1... If you were high on player before based on talent and opportunity, then stick with that. For every 1 training camp hero who translates that into real production during the season, there are 10 August superstars who are who you thought they were to begin with.

Will anyone be surprised when Blount has 25 carries and 3 TDs this week? This is New England we are talking about.

I don't know how Newton is doing it right now. His supporting cast, in terms of skill positions, may be the weakest group I've seen in recent NFL history. Carolina's inability to surround him with better weapons is criminal.

Hankerson is a marginal talent. He had opportunities to step up in Washington and never really impressed. He'll tease with a big play or a nice game, then lay a 1 or 2 catch stink bomb on you.

Wait for a decent game from AJ if you can and try to move him then. His trade value is rock bottom right now. Even more concerning than AJ's slow start is the emergence of Moncrief, which will lower AJ's ceiling even when Indy improves on offense.

He's still the only legitimate RB option the Colts have. When they go out and sign some veteran off the street and turn this into a committee situation, then I'll be concerned. That offense will come around.

To me, the main argument in favor of replay is to reverse blatantly horrendous officiating mistakes, like that "batting" call against the Steelers. But then you find out that that one is unreviewable, meanwhile you spend 15 minutes determining if a guy's heel touched one blade of grass out of bounds or if a ball moved a tiny fraction of an inch when a receiver hit the ground. It's absurd and it's making more and more games nearly unwatchable. If it wasn't for fantasy, it's questionable how much of this crap I would even watch anymore. Thank god for Redzone.

Of all the ticky tacky and relatively insignificant plays that get reviewed non-stop all day, THAT one is unreviewable? Good grief. I'm becoming less of a fan of replay with each passing season.

Congrats to Peyton the Stat-Padder for throwing it 50 times against a team that's lost 12 in a row when your RBs are averaging 8 yards a carry. Asshat.

I definitely don't think he's right physically. He's got 6 targets already in this game, but not getting any separation not able to physically dominate much smaller defenders. The only catches he's getting are dinks and dunks, none of the big chunk plays we're used to seeing. Just doesn't seem to be the same player we saw in September and October.