Sabertooth
Footballguy
I was poking around thinking of players I'd like to acquire and I was focusing in on Terrance Williams. Initially I offered a first round pick to the Williams owner, and then thought which player of mine I'd include with him and almost clicked Marlon Brown. Then I started comparing the two players and thinking about their relative fantasy needles and more importantly WHY their needles are not in sync despite them having a lot of similarities.
Marlon Brown -
Pros - Big tall and fast. He's 6'4" in listed at 205 on MFL. He tied the Ravens rookie TD record last year with 7 (Torrey Smith). In part because of his height. He has a nice TD catch in the snow here vs. the Vikings. Steve Smith doesn't make that catch. I don't even think Torrey Smith makes that catch.
Cons - draft pedigree. He wasn't drafted and had to earn his spot the old fashioned way. But I found it interesting that he was a top 5 high school recruit and was considered the heir apparent to AJ Green in Georgia. He's had his share of misfortune to say the least. Apprantly his ACL injury was pretty bad and caused by a defensive player putting a helmet on his knee.
He isn't a player that came out of nowhere exactly. He just had some misfortune along the way. But last year playing on a surgically repaired knee, he was a pretty good.
So why are people largely ignoring him? Opportunity? I don't know that Steve Smith or Torrey Smith offer anything close to what Brown offers as far as height. Footballguys is projecting a stat regression which is strange for a sophomore who was playing injured much of his rookie season.
Marlon Brown -
Pros - Big tall and fast. He's 6'4" in listed at 205 on MFL. He tied the Ravens rookie TD record last year with 7 (Torrey Smith). In part because of his height. He has a nice TD catch in the snow here vs. the Vikings. Steve Smith doesn't make that catch. I don't even think Torrey Smith makes that catch.
Cons - draft pedigree. He wasn't drafted and had to earn his spot the old fashioned way. But I found it interesting that he was a top 5 high school recruit and was considered the heir apparent to AJ Green in Georgia. He's had his share of misfortune to say the least. Apprantly his ACL injury was pretty bad and caused by a defensive player putting a helmet on his knee.
He isn't a player that came out of nowhere exactly. He just had some misfortune along the way. But last year playing on a surgically repaired knee, he was a pretty good.
So why are people largely ignoring him? Opportunity? I don't know that Steve Smith or Torrey Smith offer anything close to what Brown offers as far as height. Footballguys is projecting a stat regression which is strange for a sophomore who was playing injured much of his rookie season.