Recent content by Slothrop

:bag: I swear, if I get to hear about one more owner's umbrage at "having" to play in a league that awards 6 points per passing TD, or "having" to draft in August, I'm gonna bust some heads.

They certainly haven't been for the past few years - I definitely think Lee Evans is a little overvalued in this year's draft, for example - but there's still a place for taking a chance that a promising rookie could change that, and if rookies never did, teams wouldn't draft them.

Just because people want to know how to evaluate a rookie doesn't mean they're all running out to draft him, or assuming he's going to have ridiculous numbers. Knowing anything about Lynch is better than knowing nothing at all.

I would absolutely never take: Clinton Portis - got burned last year; only downhill from here Shaun Alexander - likewise; 05 was a fluke Travis Henry - everyone talks like he's guaranteed 15+ TDs; he has upside, but there are no guarantees Willis McGahee - I'd take him in the 4th round, but...