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He will be getting lots of dump offs in a sputtering offense. Good pickup in PPR
the Law Firm is the guy to get on imo...the kid is a beast inside and adds 2-3 yards falling forward onto almost every carry..kid seems to be getting better and better every game and will have some huge games down the stretch once the weather gets bad in the north east..i heard Fred Taylor on the radio weeks back saying BJBE is a star on the rise and now i thinking he wasn't fooling around.
My thoughts exactly.
Ok, I'll ask: how does Woodhead get listed as a WR?Was he a WR with the Jets? I thought he was a RB there, hasn't he always been a RB? How does this happen?As for the point itself yes - this guy ran for more yards than any player in college history, albeit at tiny program, but then Jerry Rice played his college ball in a town called Itta Bena. Woodhead just looks like a good player, he has it. Anyone who would have started Faulk as a fill-in (a reliable old fall-back) I'd say go ahead and start Woodhead in a pinch too.
Rice played at an HBCU, like Walter Payton, Deacon Jones, Michael Strahan, Shannon Sharpe, Aeneas Wiliams, etc,; Woodhead played at Chadron State, home of Don Beebe and not much else.
I just did that. Woodhead is the real deal and I'm sure bill loves that he took him from the jets and he is now producing.
With the Jets last year, he wasn't going to cut it as a RB, so to keep him around, they tried to convert him to a slot WR since the Jets depth was really poor last year. He was kind of an emergency WR/RB and special teamer last year. When Leon Washington went down, they used him as a third down RB at times.
My thought is that you are a week late with your revelation - he was added in a large number of leagues last week.Having taken the Kevin Faulk role for the Pats I don't think he is an every week starter, but could be added in larger leagues or ones with deeper rosters as a plug in, bye week type of player.....if he continues to be more involved (gets more targets going forward with Moss gone) then he could be started more often.
well that is a little much now isn't it?
He is also small. On Monday night they said he was 5'8 180. On his player page it says 5'9 200. Either way, he is a little guy who probably will occasionally produce 30-50 yards and a TD. Not worth an add unless you are desperate IMO.
well, if he can get 8-12 carries and 2-5 catches he is surely worth a spot. im just wondering where the indication came from that he would be a faulk like target. it seems they dont throw to him and instead use him as a backup rb. he has played well, and bb will use him if he believes in him.
This is the accurate size. He hasn't been 180 since high school. He's probably 5'8" though.Regardless, he's nearly the exact same size as Kevin Faulk (5'8" 202lbs).
In ppr I'd much rather have Woodhead. Woodhead's role is unlikely to change, Taylor is going to split with BGE IMO.
He's only caught 1 pass in 2 games with NE.
Very true, but I expect him to be the Kevin Faulk replacement:
I'm in that boat with you. I picked up Armstrong but Woodhead is still sitting there. It's a ppr league where rushing yards are twice as valuable as receiving yards. So anyone who has WR status but gets rushing yards can end up being pretty valuable.But Yudkin is usually pretty accurate on the Pats stuff, so I think I might just hang on to Armstrong and see how things go in Washington.
I will add the caveat that things will be different without Moss, and if Taylor is out Woodhead may get a few more carries than usual. Even so, I don't think he will get a big enough workload to keepo getting in to the end zone (that and teams will start paying more attention to him).
Oh sure, I tell people that you know what you're talking about and next thing you're backpedalling.
Agreed, he'd be good at RB or WR in ppr..I'm happy to have snagged him in the FCFS last week after another fella dropped him..
i kno this probably doesnt mean anything to you, but your scoring system is really wack. You double the value of rbs with the 5 rushing per pt, then you decrease the value of wrs by 50% by bumping it to 15 receiving per pt...thats nuts mang...even it out next season.
I believe the original thread was titled Danny Woodhead - The Future . Once again someone was ahead of the curve on this one. And I'm pretty sure an overzealous mod once again dismissed the thread as shtick and decided to stuff it into the existing 15 page New England Running Game Thread. Not really sure why information on a under the radar guy who could trot you into the title game would be tossed inside such a mess of a thread but I'm sure there's a few (thousand) FBG subscribers and posters who would have liked to have been the first to buy a ticket for this train.
I think he's quite a bit better than a 7+ ppg talent.
I'm guessing maybe a handful of people here knew where Chadron state was, or ever heard of it. I'm loving Woodhead in my deep leagues as my 4th RB and 10th offensive player, but how many people are confident starting him in shallower leagues? He's probably the 2nd best WW pickup behind Lloyd this year.
Faulk of '08' was good for 12.8 points a game (average) in this role....Woodhead could certainly match that...He's played in 3 games and averaged 12.8.. And he wasn't even given any real touches till this week..week 3 3 touchesweek 4 9 touchesweek 5 byeweek 6 16 touchesIf he can average 15 touches a game, I don't see why he couldn't average better than 12 points a week, which would be RB2/RB3 #'s
Teams haven't been game planning for him yet. Once they do, his numbers will decrease.
But if he's starting, he'll see a lot more weeks like week 6, and not so many like week3.. Bringing up his average, offsetting your defensive game planning idea.. still at 12 pts a week if you ask me..
