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Fantasy Football Sleepers/Creepers: Nov.4
Published: November 4, 2009
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| Updated November 4, 2009 JunkyardJake.Com
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Malcolm Floyd ,WR 
– Well, apparently the Chargers had enough of watching Chris Chambers get in the way of their other receivers who have a chance of catching the ball. They summarily granted the 31 year old receiver his release on Monday, leaving career backup Malcolm Floyd to vie for the residual passes that don’t go in Vincent Jackson’s or Antonio Gate’s direction. At 6-5 and 225 lbs, Floyd is a huge target and has decent speed to boot, so it wouldn’t be surprising if he does well as a starter. Keep in mind however that the Charger’s passing offense is still largely controlled by a Phillips/Jackson/Gates oligarchy, so Floyd’s value will likely be limited to a speculative play going forward.
Dustin Keller ,TE 
– Dustin Keller finally broke out of his slumber against Miami to deliver the respectable fantasy output he is capable of. Unfortunately, many fantasy managers probably either dropped him or watched Keller help their bench players outscore their selected week 8 lineup. It’s difficult to say if Keller will be trustworthy going forward, but note that he led the team in targets with 13 in week 8. Also consider that Keller was the preferred target over Jerricho Cotchery and Braylon Edwards in the redzone, where he was targeted three times this past week.
Jamaal Charles/Kolby Smith ,RB 
– The Kansas City Chiefs offense no doubt spent the bye figuring out different ways that they could represent an abject embarrassment to professional sports. Of course, we won’t see the details of this plan in action until Sunday, but what we do know for certain is that the scoreboard operator will not be deprived of his typical naptime and Larry Johnson will be suspended for at least one game. Jamaal Charles should be the primary beneficiary of the Johnson suspension, but don’t count out Kolby Smith who returns from injured reserve this week. Whatever the ultimate RB mix this week, the Chiefs get a decent matchup versus the Jacksonville Jaguars, so either guy is worth flex consideration.
Zach Miller ,TE 
– Zach miller is kind of like the conscientious GM assembly line worker helping to churn out Chevy Aveo’s for a bankrupt and languishing organization. Of course, the sad thing about this analogy, is that comparing the Oakland Raider offense to a Chevy Aveo may actually be too generous. For now, Miller remains the only member of the Raider offense who is arguably worth consideration as a fantasy starter, and you can’t help to wonder what Miller could actually accomplish on a functional offensive team with a competent quarterback.
Mike Thomas ,WR 
– Mike Thomas is an interesting rookie receiver who has quietly been assuming a more significant role over the past two games for the Jaguars, where he has accumulated over 50 yards in each game. Against the Titans this past week, he actually had more pass targets (7) than Mike Sims-Walker (3). He is almost certainly still available on your waiver wire, because at a dimutive 5-8 (5-9 with his fancy shoes), he is a little bit difficult to locate. If you need depth at receiver though, he’s not a bad guy to consider, especially in leagues that award points for return yardage.
Josh Freeman/Antonio Bryant ,QB/WR 
– To any saavy fantasy player, this will not occur to be a revolutionary thought, but it needs to said anyway—it seems very unlikely that a midseason transition to rookie QB Josh Freeman is going to help reverse the fortunes of the team’s dreadful passing offense. Freeman does have a rocket arm, but will need to improve his accuracy to make an impression in the pros. Moreover, he is considered quite raw, even compared to the typical rookie QB. Really, the only way that the Buccaneers could have sent a clearer signal that they were conceding the remainder of the 2009 season, is if they replaced the pennant on the Raymond James Stadium pirate ship with a white flag exhibiting a new team symbol of Droopy Dog holding a bottle of Prozac.
Steve Slaton ,RB 
– Given that Steve Slaton was abruptly pulled after serving up his 3rd turnover in three weeks, it’s probably safe to conclude that Houston head coach Gary Kubiak has a low tolerance for chronically fumbling runningbacks. At least Slaton got his day over early, because his fumble and immediate benching occurred on his very first carry of the game. Maybe we should have seen this coming, as Kubiak still makes his youngest son do 75 pushups and a couple laps if he drops a cookie on the kitchen floor.
Donnie Avery ,WR 
– Donnie ‘Peanut Brittle’ Avery had his big chance to do something significant against the Lions in week 8, and as we should have expected, he blew it. At least the fragile 2nd year receiver seemed to emerge from the Rams latest passing offensive debacle without hurting himself again. Unfortunately, fantasy teams who chose to start Avery had no such luck, as they absorbed the usual damage that results from starting any receiver associated with the Rams.
Mohamed Massaquoi ,WR 
– How long is Browns head coach Eric Mangini going to stick with his awful decision to start Derek Anderson ? Maybe he is waiting for Titans owner Bud Adams to give him a call and tell him to switch back to Brady Quinn ? That seemed to work, at least temporarily, in the Vince Young situation. Please Bud Adams, do Cleveland Browns fans a favor and give Mangini some much needed QB advice so Derek Anderson can pack up his 36.2 QB rating and head back into hibernation.
Julius Jones ,RB 
– Julius Jones started off the season on a very optimistic note, with 119 yards and a TD in week one. However, considering Jone’s undistinguished performance over the past couple years, we should have suspected that this one week explosion was just a cruel hoax. Sure enough, as the 2009 season has progressed, Julius Jones is drifting deeper into the Seattle fog. He’s now reached the point where he is now almost exactly on pace to match his unmemorable 2008 season, when he finished with 698 yards and a paltry 2 TDs. Seattle plays Detroit this week, so if by some miracle Jones has a significant game it would be a great opportunity to dump him in a trade of some kind.
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Fantasy Football Sleepers/Creepers: October 28th
Published: October 28, 2009
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Chris Wells , RB 
– Nothing against Tim Hightower, but watching him over the past two years it really seems that he excels in two distinct areas – 1) running face first into a pile of defenders for two yards and 2) catching five yard dump-off passes.
This past week, rookie Chris Wells was finally given a chance to show what he is capable of, and he finished the day with 14 carries for 67 yards and a touchdown. Considering that Wells accomplished this against the Giants defense, it should be considered a fairly encouraging career development for the rookie.
While Tim Hightower still has the better hands to contribute on passing downs, Wells should gradually become the primary rushing option for the Cardinals.
Nate Washington/Kenny Britt , WR 
– As long as the Titan defense is going to give away points like Oprah gives away 40 inch TVs, Tennessee will need throw the ball more often than they want (Or should be allowed to).
Nate Washington remains the closest thing the team has to a skillful and experienced receiver, while Kenny Britt should continue to whittle away at Justin Gage’s playing time.
As far as the unstable quarterback situation, it shouldn’t matter much if Kerry Collins gets benched, because Vince Young really couldn’t do much worse.
Shonn Greene , RB
– After Leon Washington’s unfortunate injury, which is very likely season-ending, rookie Shonn Greene now finds himself the number two RB option for the NY Jets.
Not blessed with impressive speed, and with only one notable statistical season in college, Greene appears to be somewhat of a classic overachiever. On the positive side, Greene has great size and shows a real knack for breaking tackles and running over people.
While his huge outing this past week was clearly facilitated by the blundering Oakland Raider run defense, if Greene continues to overachieve in the magnitude of anything close to 144 yards and two touchdowns, we’ll take that all day long.
LeSean McCoy , RB 
– It was a relief to see that Brian Westbrook was not seriously injured this past Monday night. Evidently, the bell on his trolley was clanged pretty hard, and now it appears that he may need to sit this week after a fairly nasty concussion.
As terrific a player as Brian Westbrook has been over the past eight seasons, he has never been able to play a complete season, and with his ongoing knee/ankle issues, this year has been especially tenuous.
LeSean McCoy has not looked great the past three weeks, averaging about 2.5 YPC, but he filled in competently when Westbrook missed time in week three and has enough upside to make him worth stashing on your roster for the 2nd half.
Fred Davis ,TE 
– Davis was a highly-regarded TE prospect in the 2008 draft, but he played the part of a dumbfounded rookie a bit too well last season and gave himself little chance to see the field.
Of course, having Chris Cooley ahead of him on the depth chart didn’t help either, but with Washington’s starting TE out for at least one month, Davis now gets his chance. He’s got great hands, deceptive speed and he’s not bad after the catch so Davis should be able to step in for Cooley as a decent fantasy contributor.
Not to mention, if there is anything that the Redskin offense seems to do well, it’s the prosaic and usually innocuous nine yard pass to the tight end.
Larry Johnson , RB
– The Chiefs will use this week’s bye to conduct a thorough and ultimately pointless investigation into Larry Johnson’s Twitter ramblings, because if there is anything the NFL can’t tolerate it’s slandering the press with words that could be possibly construed as politically incorrect.
Let’s just hope Johnson didn’t call anyone a ‘big doodie-head’, because the league will be forced to levy a hefty and proportional punishment that fits that brand of transgression.
Notwithstanding the outcome of Johnson’s Twitter controversy, the more relevant reason to stray away from Johnson from a fantasy perspective is his 51 yards per game, 0 touchdowns and 2.7 yards per carry.
Trent Edwards , QB 
– Trent Edwards is arguably a better quarterback than Ryan Fitzpatrick, but the sad reality is that the margin of difference is not worth calculating, and for now, Fitzpatrick has somehow used his negligible skills to pull off two victories for the Bills.
While Edwards is still shaking off the effects of his recent concussion, Fitzpatrick will get yet another start this week against Houston, then the Bills have a bye, then who knows what Buffalo will decide to do.
In conclusion, there is probably little reason to hold onto Edwards if you can use the roster spot more constructively.
Derek Anderson , QB
– Forget about water boarding, the CIA should use game film of Derek Anderson throwing a football as part of their cruel and unusual interrogation methods when trying to get information from international terrorism suspects.
Rumor has it that rookie receiver Brian Robiskie was ready to confess to the assassination of King Henry III just to get out of viewing game film this past week. While Brady Quinn wasn’t doing anything special as the Browns starter, at least he cracked 150 yards in his two full starts.
Anderson is averaging 121 yards per game with a passer rating of 40.6, and should be purged from fantasy rosters before he does any more damage.
Lendale White , RB
– Unlike last year, the Tennessee haven’t had a great deal of luck getting near the goalline very frequently, and this has rendered Lendale White essentially useless for fantasy purposes so far.
Without the chance of easy touchdown plunges and with rookie Javon Ringer looking pretty good, it could be that Lendale White’s only hope of using his girth in some beneficial way will be as a Salvation Army Santa this upcoming holiday season.
Ted Ginn Jr. , WR 
– Between his untimely pass dropping, and his chronic inconsistency, Ted Ginn Jr. appears to be close to playing himself out of a starting job in Miami.
Moreover, since Dolphins GM Bill Parcels is not known as the patient, naturing type, it wasn’t surprising to hear the rumor that Ginn was discussed as a possible trade candidate before the recent deadline.
Going forward, Ginn might be good for an occasional long touchdown with Chad Henne at quarterback, but with only 5 touchdowns over 35 career games you might be better off waiting for the Loch Ness Monster to stop by and help remove those tree stumps in your yard you’ve been hoping to get around to.
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