Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums
This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
Chris Brown placed on IR - season over (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter gbill2004
- Start date
Bob Lee Swagger
Footballguy
Big news for Steve Slaton owners?
Gopher State
Footballguy
Thats Frank Gore.
Max Power
Footballguy
click on the link under Headlines.
a_rackowski
Footballguy
Most underrated player in fantasy football right now is Ahman Green.
Qtip Callahan
Footballguy
Just don't see that. When was the last year that he had an impact? Longshot IMO.
DrJamesAndrews Fan
Footballguy
Overated IMHO
Franchise Playa
Footballguy
Who exactly has been pumping him up or talking about him starting/producing for him to be overrated? 2 weeks ago he was rumored to be cut until he reconstructed his contract....so how is he overrated?I agree about him being underrated cause when healthy (and that has been rare) he still can produce.
taz
Footballguy
He's the starting RB most likely to break down.
Mike
Footballguy
For many people, if he's on a fantasy roster, he's overrated.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
How has Chris Taylor looked? I liked what I saw from Slaton, but turf toe is a bad injury.
footballnerd
Footballguy
Dude is 31 yrs old and played 25 games in the last 3 yrs. The fact that people even have him on their draft list is wishful thinking.
GregR_2
Footballguy
What you call wishful thinking is what wins leagues. People over-react to a player's age or injury situation and ignore that the hardest thing to get in the NFL is opportunity. A player who will definitely get opportunity but has a greater chance to miss some time is often more valuable than the player who is less likely to be hurt, but who pretty much requires someone else on his team to be hurt to get any opportunity.In recent years guys like Thomas Jones, Jamal Lewis, Warrick Dunn, Issac Bruce, Terry Glenn, Derrick Mason, etc, have outperformed their draft slots and provided the same value as "healthier" or "non-washed up" players that were taken many rounds ealier than them.Yes, players like that have risk associated with them, but older/injury prone proven players often have a better chance of paying off than does an NFL backup who will only get touches if the starter ahead of him goes down.In the case of Ahman Green... any RB who is likely to get at least a half-share of his team's carries if healthy is worth a roster spot in any but the tiniest of leagues.Dude is 31 yrs old and played 25 games in the last 3 yrs. The fact that people even have him on their draft list is wishful thinking.
footballnerd
Footballguy
That's a good point. I think Ahman is unique to the above group in that hes 31 and coming off a ruptured quadriceps injury only 3 yrs ago. Out on IR last year for a knee bruise?? Likely hood of getting decent amount of carries not looking good. He's not making my RB2 and I'm sure I can find a better WR flex option or future keeper more worthy of my draft slots. Love someone else to waste a pick on him. But that's my opinion.What you call wishful thinking is what wins leagues. People over-react to a player's age or injury situation and ignore that the hardest thing to get in the NFL is opportunity. A player who will definitely get opportunity but has a greater chance to miss some time is often more valuable than the player who is less likely to be hurt, but who pretty much requires someone else on his team to be hurt to get any opportunity.In recent years guys like Thomas Jones, Jamal Lewis, Warrick Dunn, Issac Bruce, Terry Glenn, Derrick Mason, etc, have outperformed their draft slots and provided the same value as "healthier" or "non-washed up" players that were taken many rounds ealier than them.Yes, players like that have risk associated with them, but older/injury prone proven players often have a better chance of paying off than does an NFL backup who will only get touches if the starter ahead of him goes down.In the case of Ahman Green... any RB who is likely to get at least a half-share of his team's carries if healthy is worth a roster spot in any but the tiniest of leagues.Dude is 31 yrs old and played 25 games in the last 3 yrs. The fact that people even have him on their draft list is wishful thinking.
footballnerd
Footballguy
Iwannabeacowboybaby!
Footballguy
It's a full blown RBBC between Green, Taylor and Slaton until one or more drop off due to injury.
After watching the game versus Dallas, I liked Chris Taylor between him and Slaton. I think Slaton may have prettier runs, Taylor is a straight forward, hard running game who appears to do his job.
In that game, he started in that game over Slaton and in the 2nd quarter after Slaton was in, Houston got the ball with 2 mins to go. Out came Slaton and in came Taylor for the 2 minute drill. To me, Chris Taylor is ahead of Slaton but what does that really mean? You can't start any one of these 3 players. I doubt the leading rusher on the team hits 15 carries for the game.
After watching the game versus Dallas, I liked Chris Taylor between him and Slaton. I think Slaton may have prettier runs, Taylor is a straight forward, hard running game who appears to do his job.
In that game, he started in that game over Slaton and in the 2nd quarter after Slaton was in, Houston got the ball with 2 mins to go. Out came Slaton and in came Taylor for the 2 minute drill. To me, Chris Taylor is ahead of Slaton but what does that really mean? You can't start any one of these 3 players. I doubt the leading rusher on the team hits 15 carries for the game.
Ned
Footballguy
still sounds like they plan on green being the starter if he's healthy.
GregR_2
Footballguy
Well, no one should be taking him to be your RB2 or your flex player. You should take him to be your sleeper or your 5th or 6th RB, after you already have some guys that are a surer thing to get consistent playing time. You take him in the same area of players who may have a stretch of games due to injury to other players where they may be worth starting or a bye week filler or a flex spot, but where you can't count on them to be an every week player.And amongst those type of players, an Ahman Green should be extremely high up on the list. You say his likely hood of getting decent carries is not looking good, but it is a lot better than the backup RB on a team with a workhorse back or the 3rd best guy in a RBBC team.footballnerd said:That's a good point. I think Ahman is unique to the above group in that hes 31 and coming off a ruptured quadriceps injury only 3 yrs ago. Out on IR last year for a knee bruise?? Likely hood of getting decent amount of carries not looking good. He's not making my RB2 and I'm sure I can find a better WR flex option or future keeper more worthy of my draft slots. Love someone else to waste a pick on him. But that's my opinion.GregR said:What you call wishful thinking is what wins leagues. People over-react to a player's age or injury situation and ignore that the hardest thing to get in the NFL is opportunity. A player who will definitely get opportunity but has a greater chance to miss some time is often more valuable than the player who is less likely to be hurt, but who pretty much requires someone else on his team to be hurt to get any opportunity.In recent years guys like Thomas Jones, Jamal Lewis, Warrick Dunn, Issac Bruce, Terry Glenn, Derrick Mason, etc, have outperformed their draft slots and provided the same value as "healthier" or "non-washed up" players that were taken many rounds ealier than them.footballnerd said:
Yes, players like that have risk associated with them, but older/injury prone proven players often have a better chance of paying off than does an NFL backup who will only get touches if the starter ahead of him goes down.
In the case of Ahman Green... any RB who is likely to get at least a half-share of his team's carries if healthy is worth a roster spot in any but the tiniest of leagues.
