Chaka said:
It's funny but IMO the pool of QBs and WRs seem shallower and RBs seem much deeper than in the past few seasons.
Did someone time warp you back to 1994?
No.
Brees, Rodgers, Manning are the sure fire locks. I like Cam & Romo to produce top fantasy numbers. Ryan has the tools but also has a bottom 5 offensive line and Brady has an entirely new supporting cast. However I think all 7 are ones you can rely on and after that it is a crap shoot.
Stafford put up record passing numbers while only managing 20 TD passes sure that could have been an aberration but so could the 41 TDs from the previous season. Plus he has played 16 games one time in 4 seasons
Then you get to the 2nd year QBs which are always a toss up whether or not they were the real deal or aberrations. Kaepernick, Wilson, RGIII & Luck all have the potential to be great but do we really know what they are? I like Luck and Wilson out of this group but Kaepernick lost his favorite receiver, RGIII is coming off ACL surgery.
For the WRs there are Calvin, Dez, AJ, Marshall, Julio, Demaryius and probably Fitz and Roddy then a hole big pool of "I hope". Andre Johnson has trouble staying healthy and has never put up 10 TDs. Randall Cobb? Seriously? Victor Cruz who was abysmal for the second half of last season (52 ypg and 3 TDs) and Eli looks terrible and 2/5 of the o-line is injured. Vincent Jackson is another guy who has never put up 10 TDs.
And then the cupboard really gets bare with the likes of Bowe, Amendola, Colston, Wayne and the like.
But at running back there are no fewer than 15 guys you can reasonably expect to dominate the touches on their respective team. I have never seen a season with so many RBs having a compelling argument to finish as the #1 fantasy RB with Peterson, Foster, Martin, Charles, Spiller, Richardson, Lynch, Rice & McCoy. The next tier could potentially explode too with Morris, Chris Johnson and Forte. Then you can add Ridley who leads the team that has scored more rushing TDs than any other team over the last three years, Steven Jackson who is in the best situation of his career and MJD who has produced top 5 numbers on worse teams than he is on now.
I would be thrilled with either of those last three as my #1 RB if I was able to get two of the top 6 WRs in the first two rounds.
Then there are guys like Lacy and David Wilson as well as guys like Gore & DeMarco Murray and even Reggie Bush is looking like he has potential to make it into the top 10.
It's a very deep year for RBs.
As I bemoaned earlier it is sad that in most leagues guys like Wilson, Gore & Lacy will be drafted ahead of guys like Fitz & Romo but that's just the sad, and kind of pathetic, reality. But it doesn't change the fact that this is a very deep year for RBs.