welker in PPR (1 Viewer)

[abe froman]

How is he not the steal of the draft in a PPR? He's going in the 4-6th rounds but even at 4 he has huge value. Especially if you have escalators(100yd rush/rec bonus). Although I dont assume he will reproduce 09 #'s you have to consider that He finished in top 5-10 WR. In my league his PPG was higher than AJ (.9 higher). I really feel he's in that 2nd WR tier although he's being drafted as if he's in the 3rd tier or worse. In a PPR Id take him over Desean, Jennings, Colston, both S.Smiths -all guys who are often times reached for. I would even go out on a limb and add Wayne to this list this year.

 

[Happy Ragnarok]

How is he not the steal of the draft in a PPR? He's going in the 4-6th rounds but even at 4 he has huge value. Especially if you have escalators(100yd rush/rec bonus). Although I dont assume he will reproduce 09 #'s you have to consider that He finished in top 5-10 WR. In my league his PPG was higher than AJ (.9 higher). I really feel he's in that 2nd WR tier although he's being drafted as if he's in the 3rd tier or worse. In a PPR Id take him over Desean, Jennings, Colston, both S.Smiths -all guys who are often times reached for. I would even go out on a limb and add Wayne to this list this year.

I believe very strongly in his talent, and in his will. In a vacuum, I don't think anybody who watched him haul in going-on 300 passes his last two years could make much of an argument against him.I just don't believe in his body.I don't think one comes back from an ACL in 7 months time and plays up to potential. Will or no will. As a Steeler fan, I got to watch Rod Woodson try it, and he was a lost cause for a couple years before ultimately giving up on playing the quickness/cutting intensive CB role and reinventing himself as a safety elsewhere in the league. Rod was as hard a worker and as impressive a specimen of will and athleticism as I've seen. And he just couldn't do it. He made it back...but nowhere near the level he exited from.With Welker relying SO much on quickness and change of direction, I just don't believe his knee is going to perform well enough to take him back where he was. I'm not saying this from a position of complete blindness or ignorance. We know what the ACL does (structurally), we know how important it is to certain kinds of movements, and we know how long it typically takes even world-class elite athletes to recover from a catastrophic injury to it. And we know Welker is really pushing it on that front.Would I like to believe he's worth a 4th rounder? Sure. Hard not to root for the guy.Do I? Not really. I see him as either playing through the year at about 60%, with greatly reduced snaps and greatly reduced effectiveness...or else going balls to the wall, pushing it for all he's got like he has every play for the past five years, and ending up back on the shelf a few weeks in. I wish the history of ACL tears wasn't what it is. I wish I believed his larger than life will to excel mattered here. But I don't.

 

[LawFitz]

In PPR, he was the highest PPG WR last season. And he's going in rds 3-6 right now. In some early drafts he was being taken much later. Think about that for a second if he can even be top ten this season on a PPG (points per game) basis.