Fantasy Football Talk 2014
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Oh, is he going to be a FA next year? How ridiculous is it that CAR spent all that money on Deangelo Williams and Stewart, only to have both be injury prone the entire time.
#1854
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CJ Anderson will be an interesting player for drafts next year. His performance down the stretch, and the changing of Denver's offensive philosophy, make him attractive. One early ranking I've seen linked from Yahoo has him in Tier 1 of RBs (right alongside Bell, Charles, Murray, Lynch, Foster, and Forte). That'll be tough for me to pull the trigger at that price. How often has the guy projected to be Denver's RB1 ended the season that way?
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Ok, maybe it was a bit of a stretch, but another playoff game with 100+ yards and I can see him in the RB2 range, despite his history.
Oh, is he going to be a FA next year? How ridiculous is it that CAR spent all that money on Deangelo Williams and Stewart, only to have both be injury prone the entire time.
Oh, is he going to be a FA next year? How ridiculous is it that CAR spent all that money on Deangelo Williams and Stewart, only to have both be injury prone the entire time.

If Stacy and Ball were drafted as RB1's this year off of their 2013 campaign, Stewart would certainly be a feasible RB2. I can't see myself drafting him in the first couple of rounds though.
CJ Anderson will be an interesting player for drafts next year. His performance down the stretch, and the changing of Denver's offensive philosophy, make him attractive. One early ranking I've seen linked from Yahoo has him in Tier 1 of RBs (right alongside Bell, Charles, Murray, Lynch, Foster, and Forte). That'll be tough for me to pull the trigger at that price. How often has the guy projected to be Denver's RB1 ended the season that way?
CJ Anderson will be an interesting player for drafts next year. His performance down the stretch, and the changing of Denver's offensive philosophy, make him attractive. One early ranking I've seen linked from Yahoo has him in Tier 1 of RBs (right alongside Bell, Charles, Murray, Lynch, Foster, and Forte). That'll be tough for me to pull the trigger at that price. How often has the guy projected to be Denver's RB1 ended the season that way?
But thanks for reminding me of 2005, when I drafted Mike Anderson with the last pick of the first round of a two-year-keeper league.

#1856
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The main guy that's going to be rocketing up draft boards next year is Odell Beckham Jr. Jimmy Graham drops a bit, which makes seeing where Gronkowski goes interesting. Andre Johnson fell off a cliff. Josh Gordon is still a headcase but people will remember 2013.
#1857
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Oh, I have my own history with Denver RBs. In 2006, I went along Mike Shanahan's evil ride of the unpredictable Bell backfield. In 2007, I drafted Travis Henry (passing on Brian Westbrook, who ended up as the top fantasy RB that year). In 2008, I accidentally drafted Selvin Young instead of Deangelo Williams. DeWill single-handedly won leagues that year. Does anyone remember Selvin Young? It seemed I kept drafting Knowshon Moreno with him always disappointing. The year I bailed on Moreno? 2013 of course.
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Oh, I have my own history with Denver RBs. In 2006, I went along Mike Shanahan's evil ride of the unpredictable Bell backfield. In 2007, I drafted Travis Henry (passing on Brian Westbrook, who ended up as the top fantasy RB that year). In 2008, I accidentally drafted Selvin Young instead of Deangelo Williams. DeWill single-handedly won leagues that year. Does anyone remember Selvin Young? It seemed I kept drafting Knowshon Moreno with him always disappointing. The year I bailed on Moreno? 2013 of course.

#1859
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I had Bell in one of the two leagues I won and Murray in the other. Bell was my earliest draft so he might have dropped afterward. The Murray draft was my latest and I remember I was also looking at both Bell and Zac Stacy then ended up going with Foster, which worked out but wouldn't have been as good as Bell.





Travis Henry was really hyped up that year. At that point in his career, he had 3 seasons of 1200+ rushing yards for inferior teams. Then he was going to the mighty Broncos, who at that point seemingly could take a guy off the street and make a 1000 yard rusher out of him. And ... Henry got hurt and never played after that season.

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I never drafted high enough to get AP. I wanted Ball and took him in a lot of mock drafts, but then he ended up rising too quickly on draft boards (no way I was going to take him as high as sixth, and he was always gone by the turnaround). Stacy I had last year but was a little wary this year, and Martin I wasn't going to touch with a 10-foot pole.
That Selvin Young pick still steams me years later ... probably why I know psychologically I could never handle playing for big money
I had Deangelo in my "watch list", hoping he would drop to me that round. When my turn came up, Williams was still there!
Though Young was highest ranking player remaining in the autodraft rankings. And then ... I hit the wrong f$%&ing button and drafted Young
Williams went with the next pick. And if you don't remember how they stacked up for 2008: Young, 319 total yards and 1 TD; Williams, 1636 total yards and 20 TDs. 




Travis Henry was really hyped up that year. At that point in his career, he had 3 seasons of 1200+ rushing yards for inferior teams. Then he was going to the mighty Broncos, who at that point seemingly could take a guy off the street and make a 1000 yard rusher out of him. And ... Henry got hurt and never played after that season.

#1861
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What's funny is that with Shanahan's name popping up for the coaching vacancies, that's the first thing I thought about, what kind of shanahanagans he's going to pull with rbs when he gets the job.