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Footballguy
I picked him up off waivers last year in my big $$$ league and having spent some time looking at the situation really believe he's going to have a monster season
Obviously he had a very solid 2011 campaign of 69/1108 with the only blemish being that he only scored 2 TD's.
reasons why I think he'll improve
- TD's are historically the most volatile stat.
I don't think anybody would flinch an eye if he jumped from 2 to 7 this year. Even with the same yards/receptions that would boost him from the #24 WR in FBG's last year to the #14
- Mike Wallace
The holdout has played out perfectly for Antonio Brown. With Wallace out of the picture all pre-season, it's given him and Ben more time to gel and given Ben the ability to trust him more.. BUT now with Wallace back in the fold defenses will have to respect his speed and will likely shade a safety over his way.. Guys who sit out the entire preseason take time to get to game-speed and a lot of guys who really depend on quickness and burst suffer some nagging injuries.. Even without some added injury risk Wallace will likely be disgrunteled and we saw what that can do to a guy like DeSean Jackson.. In the best case scenario (for Brown), Wallace suits up every game keeping the defense honest and Brown takes advantage
- Hines Ward
Although he didn't do very much last year, he still accounted for about 400 yards which will go elsewhere this year. I expect it to get split between the receivers with Sanders getting the majority of them..
- Third Year
As chronicled at infinitum, this is the year that most receivers break out..
- targets
Last year there were only 1 game where he had less than 4 targets and many where he had 8+.. Ben isn't a brain surgeon and they don't have that many weapons so I can only see that continuing.
- Pre-Season
Brown is having a monster pre-season culminating in the 108/2 TD performance in the last pre-season game.. I think Ben has faith in him to make plays.
- Running game
Without Mendenhall and Redman you have to imagine the Steelers are going to have to throw the ball more often.. although to be fair that may mean that he'll see more coverage too
- PPR
I don't play in PPR but you have to love the fact that he caught 69 balls last year.. I can easily see that jumping to 90+ this year
calling 95/1300/8 plus 8/50 rushing
Obviously he had a very solid 2011 campaign of 69/1108 with the only blemish being that he only scored 2 TD's.
reasons why I think he'll improve
- TD's are historically the most volatile stat.
I don't think anybody would flinch an eye if he jumped from 2 to 7 this year. Even with the same yards/receptions that would boost him from the #24 WR in FBG's last year to the #14
- Mike Wallace
The holdout has played out perfectly for Antonio Brown. With Wallace out of the picture all pre-season, it's given him and Ben more time to gel and given Ben the ability to trust him more.. BUT now with Wallace back in the fold defenses will have to respect his speed and will likely shade a safety over his way.. Guys who sit out the entire preseason take time to get to game-speed and a lot of guys who really depend on quickness and burst suffer some nagging injuries.. Even without some added injury risk Wallace will likely be disgrunteled and we saw what that can do to a guy like DeSean Jackson.. In the best case scenario (for Brown), Wallace suits up every game keeping the defense honest and Brown takes advantage
- Hines Ward
Although he didn't do very much last year, he still accounted for about 400 yards which will go elsewhere this year. I expect it to get split between the receivers with Sanders getting the majority of them..
- Third Year
As chronicled at infinitum, this is the year that most receivers break out..
- targets
Last year there were only 1 game where he had less than 4 targets and many where he had 8+.. Ben isn't a brain surgeon and they don't have that many weapons so I can only see that continuing.
- Pre-Season
Brown is having a monster pre-season culminating in the 108/2 TD performance in the last pre-season game.. I think Ben has faith in him to make plays.
- Running game
Without Mendenhall and Redman you have to imagine the Steelers are going to have to throw the ball more often.. although to be fair that may mean that he'll see more coverage too
- PPR
I don't play in PPR but you have to love the fact that he caught 69 balls last year.. I can easily see that jumping to 90+ this year
calling 95/1300/8 plus 8/50 rushing
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