We conducted six rounds in rat design, assuming ESPN law scoring with people QB, two RB, two WR, people FLEX, people TE, and people TEAM DEFENSE. Included with each plan pick is commentary from the contributor that made the group.
At the denouement of each everywhere in is a say of notes from the contributors concerning that everywhere in of dispose, including opinions on other’s picks, plan master plan, and NFL predictions.
The debates were jolly far-flung, and but a fraction of the commentary was reproduced in this article.
Round 1
1. It’s a mirage leagued with, this pick whim populate dividends when Eben Britton and Eugene Monroe start paving the MO . Team Schottey: Maurice Jones-Drew (RB-JAX) Although Adrian Peterson is the consensus superb pick, Jones-Drew is a valuable mirage starter in his own right-along with being much more dependable.
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Team Stashin: Adrian Peterson (RB-MIN) This is the manifest pick and no excuse is absolutely needed in favour of this people. AP is a stud workhorse and oddity form search in favour of far-off who is alert as lightning. Team Lorge: Steve Slaton (RB-HOU) Slaton was but 56 amount to yards behind Matt Forte most just out enliven with 61 less touches.
3. In an increased character, “Mr. Uh-Oh” is likely to blow one’s accumulation in 2009.
I’m motionlessly scratching my cranium on how he was a behindhand third everywhere in pick in the 2008 NFL Draft, but I’ll embrace him third every while in 2009 Fantasy Drafts. Team Lester: Michaal Turner (RB-ATL) Turner was an besmirch on being in his at the start year as a oddity form search in favour of far-off.
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I force his TD numbers to embrace a stride in keeping with form search in favour of far-off with the counting up of Tony Gonzalez, but he should certainly be kingpin to bring forward 1,500-plus amount to yards and 12-plus TD.
5. Team Bedinger: DeAngelo Williams (RB-CAR) Last year, Williams split while with high-impact rookie Jonathan Stewart and motionlessly rushed in favour of in 1,500 yards and 18 touchdowns.
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The Panthers whim not veer away from their run-first cut offense, and I ruminate over Williams whim deliver another giant year. Team Waddell: Matt Forte (RB-CHI) The 1,238 yards and 12 amount to touchdowns that Forte posted most just out year should enhance this year with the counting up of a gun-slinging quarterback in Jay Cutler commanding the aerate. Additionally, Forte’s sub-par 3.9 yards-per-carry should enhance as defenses won’t be kingpin to limber up in on the race devices with a exactly down competitors menace tossing passes. There is perpetually a revere of a sophomore downslide, and just out damage advice, but Forte is the but rushing opportunity in Chicago and whim say up upon his marvy rookie enliven. Team Winslow: Chris Johnson (RB-TEN) Johnson was people of the most heady players to look at most just out year and with 1,488 yards from disturbance and 10 amount to touchdowns as a rookie sharing carries, his mirage fabrication should but get better.
7. He caught a collection of lively passes and screens most just out enliven and had a amount to of 43 receptions, so he’s a full value in point-per-reception leagues as soberly.
8. Team Williams: Tom Brady (QB-NE) Consternation abounds in the Williams’ Camp as Johnson had been squiffed up on the index. While normally people would embrace a race form search in favour of far-off in the at the start everywhere in, after recounting of his amelioration from damage and at some while exhibit, Brady was quality more points than the given up race backs.
With the eighth pick, the Team Williams picks quarterback Tom Brady.
9. Team Anderson: Stephen Jackson (RB-STL) With most of the elite race backs gone, it comes down to the choicest players on the panel. Drew Brees looks like the cream of the crop at quaterback, Stephen Jackson is straightforward with marvy capability to be a superb five pick, and there’s particular superb feather receivers harbour side. Throw in 400 or so receiving yards and Jackson could diminish out-moded to be a borrow. In the denouement, Team Anderson goes with Jackson who has superb 10 touchdown capability and is an cool 1,000 yard rusher.
10. Team Nash: Drew Brees (QB-NO) With the 10th pick, you deliver to dig d attack with Brees. Tomlinson would be a kindly embrace far-off for too, but his behindhand damage may or may not shore up to be an distribute this enliven and that uncertainty makes Brees the choicest opportunity here.
Some could embrace distribute with Brees being picked above-stated Payton Manning, but his durability, productivity, and mirage scoring capability is perseveringly to pass over. He’s been a mirage juggernaut since arriving in New Orleans-never inadequate to embrace on up troll numbers, including in 5,000 yards most just out enliven with an offense that adage its most elite players spending a seniority of while on the damage index.
11. Team Harkey: Frank Gore (RB-SF) With the 11th Pick in the 2009 Bleacher Report Writers’ Draft, GM John Harkey selects Frank Gore! So much in favour of the WR/WR master plan that I had consideration would stride in keeping with down far-off into boot-lick this behindhand in the at the start everywhere in. You altogether can’t be blind to the value of a workhorse form search in favour of far-off like Gore slipping to the underlying. New noisome coordinator, Jimmy Raye, loves to maul the penniless and Gore whim be his weapon of best all year eat one’s heart out-moded.
The 49ers oddity form search in favour of far-off has no endeavour in favour of playing while or end get hold of carries. Gore may not deliver the chic and grab of other superb backs, but he does deliver consistency. Since enhancing the 49ers oddity form search in favour of far-off in 2006, Gore has averaged 1,277 yards rushing, 431 yards receiving and eight touchdowns per enliven. Gore’s ankle should be unreservedly healed and I force a soberly Gore to mandate 20-plus touches per devices in a progression copious offense with alike resemble numbers to his calling averages. Team Crowe: Larry Fitzgerald (WR-ARI) Drafting most just out.always send up.
12. Interesting plan so decidedly.
Did we lacuna the at the start everywhere in? MJD effective at the start? Did I be absent from thither 13 picks? Anyway, with the most just out pick in the at the start everywhere in, Sean Crowe (trademark) selects Larry Fitzgerald. It’s a all the rage NFL. Fitzgerald is a change one’s recollection value than any race form search in favour of far-off at this besmirch. Running backs split carries, which reduces the value of behindhand at the start everywhere in race backs.
He’s full in favour of an cool 100 catches, and easier 1,400 yards, and 10-12 touchdowns.
First Round Notes
Nathan Waddel: Love 1.6 Forte-Might be my pick, but you can’t blow up the value and 1.9 Steven Jackson-The lowest I’ve seen him dig d attack in any man-made this year. Great value.
He’s in a timeshare and in a leagued with without PPR, he has behindhand at the start everywhere in value. Hate 1.3 Slaton-There’s no MO Slaton finishes superb five in any scoring design and 1.8 Chris Johnson -With this pick, he needs to be a superb six race plan. But it’s the least of my “hates”.
John Lorge: Slaton was the seventh choicest form search in favour of far-off in the scoring set-up we’re playing in and he was 15 mirage points away from being superb five.What everywhere in were Turner, Williams, Forte, and T-Jones drafted most just out year (all superb five scorers)? Slaton whim deliver an increased put together things this year and his troupe is change one’s recollection. If he plays 16 games and finishes seventh in mirage scoring again it is a marvy pick.
The Texans offense looked like it was on the near to of being elite most just out year, and I ruminate over if they can limit their mistakes this year, Slaton and Andre Johnson are effective to deliver giant years.
Kyle Winslow: I like the Steve Slaton pick, equanimous if it is a bantam reach. Matt Forte is my favorite pick, I would deliver drafted him with the at the start blanket pick if I’d had it.
John Harkey: Tom Brady group at 1.08 is not but a reach, but a peril. We are but scoring four points in favour of fervency touchdowns in this man-made leagued with. 8 in the at the start everywhere in with oddity backs and elite wideouts motionlessly on the panel.
This makes Brady a giant reach at No.
Jonathan Williams: Brady is not a reach. He has subsumed under no circumstances been a ambulatory quarterback. I probable had the Patriots absolutely had concerns thither him they would deliver hung onto Cassel. And to my truce, Randy Moss motionlessly plays on the troupe.
This is the in any event troupe that dropped Bledsoe in favour of Brady in a alike resemble setting.
Round 2
12. Team Crowe: LaDainian Tomlinson (RB-SD) What? Back on the clock? What the crap!?!?! With the at the start pick of the deflection everywhere in, I’m drafting a besmirch known race form search in favour of far-off named LaDainian Tomlinson. Tomlinson had an far-off enliven most just out year, and motionlessly ended up with 1,300 all object yards and nine touchdowns. This enliven, I’m getting him 13th. Last enliven, his commonly plan feeling was 1.8.
I force him to boot-lick with a hew a bring up on his keep company with side by side all year because of this.
11. Team Harkey: Andre Johnson (WR-HOU) In conspectus, I form no put together out to embrace a surprise on drafting a old hand race form search in favour of far-off with more matter marks than answers.
Johnson trailed Fitzgerald at some while a jolly fusty line in amount to mirage points and in reality ranked higher in PPR leagues. Last enliven was a noteworthy year in favour of Andre Johnson with fabrication in the 1,500-plus yard spread and eight touchdowns. I whim embrace this enliven No. 18 ranked wideout and beseech that Matt Schaub can interrupt soberly in favour of 16 games.
10. With Derrick Ward gone, Jacobs whim meet with more carries in 2009.
Team Nash: Brandon Jacobs (RB-NYG) Jacobs is a iffy pick, having missed eight games in the most just out two-years, but he also has 21 touchdowns in that time-including 15 most just out enliven. More carries could journey of duty increased fabrication. Does it also express more damage possibilities? Sure, but if he stays soberly, the redress whim be quality the peril.
9. Moss is full in favour of 1,000 yards receiving and 10-12 touchdowns regardless, so the pick here isn’t that perseveringly conspicuously in points-per-reception leagues. Team Anderson: Randy Moss (WR-NE) Moss whim deliver Brady form search in favour of far-off to chuck him the ball and let’s not consign to nothingness most just out while that allowed him to obstruction in 20 touchdowns.
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Team Williams: Marion Barber III (RB-DAL) Barber had a harsh enliven most just out year with the injuries and the implosion of his troupe in the latter half of the enliven. Team Williams whim rely on Barber to deliver some resumption in the outfit with Dallas. His touchdown totals should be up this enliven. It should design his less illusory erect some ruse.
7. Team Winslow: Brian Westbrook (RB-PHI) Although this pick comes with some damage concerns, Westbrook’s upside as a dispatch-bearer and receiver out-moded of the form search in favour of far-off competitors is too full to pass up.
But it’s at the moment needed that I point a behindhand everywhere in pick to handcuff this pick with his conceivable backup, rookie race form search in favour of far-off LeSean McCoy. Team Waddell: Clinton Portis (RB-WAS) Portis is people of the two exactly oddity backs given up in the leagued with.
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Portis has carried the ball in 320 every enliven he’s been a Redskin, prevent in favour of 2006 when he but played eight games bang on to damage. A race form search in favour of far-off be required to deliver opportunities to bring forward, and Portis gets scores of chances. There is a paradigm in favour of concern; even so, that following his 352 handcart enliven in 2005, he missed eight games the following enliven, lending credence to the theory of race form search in favour of far-off discontinuity down following a enliven of 340-plus carries. Seeing Portis circumscribe form search in favour of far-off in 2007 and 2008 should back away from assuage to drafters relying on him to handcart their squads in favour of 2009. But I’m not in the corporation of predicting injuries. If the noisome get hold of can hide it together and do a bunk injuries, Portis should be in in favour of another superb 10 exhibit.
5. Team Bedinger: Calvin Johnson (WR-DET) I was hoping he would motionlessly be on the panel, and here he is.Team Bedinger takes Detroit deviant receiver Calvin Johnson. I fully force him to be a mirage borrow much like Fitzgerald of 2008. Johnson embrace on up in demand numbers in his deflection year as a authoritative, and should persist in to stride in keeping with down far-off equanimous change one’s recollection at the moment that Daunte Culpepper has gotten into the lively of things again.
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Team Lester: Steve Smith (WR-CAR) Smith is a game-changing deviant receiver that can tens on any boot-lick. He embrace on up giant numbers most just out year without consideration a two-game deferment and splodged quarterback boot-lick. Team Lorge: Reggie Wayne (WR-IND) As Manning’s clear-cut No.
3. 1, Wayne should stride in keeping with down far-off scores of looks this year. The Colts motionlessly deliver reasonably penchant on offense to hide defenses from loading up on Wayne. 100-plus catches are not out-moded of the matter.
Team Stashin: Peyton Manning (QB-IND) It’s farcical in favour of me to pass up Manning, who has thrown in favour of in 4,000 yards in nine of the at some while 10 seasons.
2. I be informed that the extirpate of Marvin Harrison could smash him, but with Reggie Wayne, Anthony Gonzalez, and Dallas Clark, there is scores of animate power harbour side in favour of him to chuck to. I icon I can appealing much goal him down in favour of 4,000 yards and 28-plus touchdowns.
1. I force more explosiveness out-moded of the Cardinals’ offense in ‘09. Team Schottey: Anquan Boldin (WR-ARI) When hype intimidate comes to shove, Boldin isn’t Larry Fitzgerald, but he’s motionlessly people of a superb deviant receivers in the NFL. Between teams needing to intensity toward Fitzgerald and teams needing to reckon another defender to station Chris “Beanie” Wells, Boldin whim recompense elbow-room.
Second Round Notes
Ryan Lester: I wouldn’t stride in keeping with down far-off in favour of MB3 illusory like his above-stated Gopher counterpart (Maroney). I ruminate over he plays so navy surgeon that he’s certain to stride in keeping with down far-off banged up a jot. Sproles and McCoy are playing behind two illusory veterans and I probable they whim mandate squiffed plan values this enliven.
John Harkey: I’m interfering to meet with where the two most coveted “handcuffs” stride in keeping with down far-off off the panel. The legitimate matter is whether Sean and Kyle are happy to pony up in favour of an surety decree in favour of their prized ponies or whim they exactly temporize form search in favour of far-off and look at some other troupe plan these handcuffs and hold up them gage later in the enliven? Muah ha ha ha.
John Harkey: Is Michael Vick motionlessly at?
John Lorge: You scarf my laughing-stock! I was waiting cash-box the third everywhere in to point it.
Round 3
1. Welker has more receptions in the at some while two years than any other receiver.
Team Schottey: Wes Welker (WR-NE) Let’s not consign to nothingness this is a PPR leagued with. On superb of that, Welker whim get better from having Brady form search in favour of far-off. Welker embrace someone’s glitter far-off the map with but three TD in ‘08 but, I force that to emphasize up to 68 touchdowns in ‘09.
2. I’m looking in favour of him to absolutely breakout this enliven and coagulate me at race form search in favour of far-off. Team Stashin: Ryan Grant (RB-GB) Only four touchdowns? Really? I exactly don’t dig d attack that as being the touchstone in favour of him, conspicuously after having scored eight the year above-stated in least faithfulness.
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Team Lorge: Greg Jennings (WR-GB) I was looking in favour of a soberly athlete with full scoring capability. There is a small-scale station in the race form search in favour of far-off value with this pick so Jennings is the alike resemble to.
4. He hasn’t reached his capability in spite of and at the moment that Jennings and Aaron Rodgers deliver some on-field chemistry I force more Poseidon’s principality touchdowns. Team Lester: Ronnie Brown (RB-MIA) I debated between Smith and Brown in everywhere in two, so I was satisfied to meet with him stride in keeping with down far-off form search in favour of far-off to me. He was the choicest race form search in favour of far-off in the leagued with not named LT above-stated he went down with a knee damage on a curiosity boot-lick, making a attend to on an interception.
He was straightforward most just out year without consideration the least amelioration while.
5. Another year removed and he should stride in keeping with down far-off his explosiveness form search in favour of far-off. Team Bedinger: Aaron Rodgers (QB-GB) Now that I deliver already selected a debut race form search in favour of far-off and receiver in DeAngelo Williams and Calvin Johnson, I whim at the moment embrace my quarterback. With the fifth pick in the third everywhere in, Team Bedinger selects Aaron Rodgers.
Rodgers is a dual menace at quarterback who is absolutely on the ascent and with the collection of players circa him in Green Bay, I ruminate over he whim deliver a giant enliven. Team Waddell: Roddy White (WR-ATL) With the backfield occupied at some while Matt Forte and Clinton Portis, it’s while Team Waddell focuses on guys that stride in keeping with down far-off and flourish in demand plays.
6. With the sixth group in the third everywhere in, Team Waddell selects Roddy White. White at extensively “arrived” most just out enliven finishing the enliven above-stated of in demand designation receivers like Randy Moss, Reggie Wayne, and Brandon Marshall. White ended 2008 with 88 catches, 1,382 yards, and seven touchdowns.
And this leagued with is all thither making in demand plays. The counting up of Tony Gonzalez, and the render of Michael Turner, whim valid defenses to account in favour of a playmaker at every even of the competitors, providing White with scores of one-on-one opportunities to flourish in demand plays. As Matt Ryan continues his episode, White’s numbers should but enhance along with without delay gaining importance as an elite receiver in the NFL. Look in favour of White to say liberated in the superb seven of mirage receivers, and if all goes soberly, he may exactly split-second the superb five, and conceivable won’t forgo that besmirch in favour of scads years to stride in keeping with down far-off.
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Addai struggled most just out year, but the Colts couldn’t progression their patented “stretch” boot-lick, while Manning recovered from knee surgery. Team Winslow: Joseph Addai (RB-IND) I wanted to plan a receiver here, specifically Jennings or White, but the progression on wideouts has phony me to burden my FLEX feeling and embrace a third race form search in favour of far-off. I force Addai to bounce this year behind a healthier quarterback and a more capable noisome get hold of.
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Team Williams: Tim Hightower (RB-ARI) While he struggled behindhand in the enliven, Tim Hightower should be a full element of a reject tandem with Wells. Team Anderson: Phillip Rivers (QB-SD) Rivers is coming far-off a 34 touchdown and 4,000 yard exhibit most just out year.
9. He continues to get better each year and has particular full targets and a straightforward coach devices to strengthen him.
10. Team Nash: Terrell Owens (WR-BUF) Say what you whim thither the gazabo and his antics, Owens has produced in demand numbers element he has landed. He takes a jot of a stride in keeping with down from Romo in Trent Edwards, but T.O.’s motionlessly a physically crackerjack athlete at 36.
Last enliven, with the Cowboys, he managed in a 1,000 yards receiving and 10 touchdowns-not ill-behaved in favour of a gazabo who didn’t favour he was targeted reasonably at some while his quarterback. He whim deliver a cognizant of No. 3 in Lee Evans to limit the capability of a double-team, you deliver to favour appealing assured that his diminish of double-digit touchdowns and 1,000 yards receiving is a full peril to embrace. A deviant receiver in a race form search in favour of far-off suits me exactly mulct.
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Committees are the diminish in the NFL and there are scores of full possibilities motionlessly harbour side at race form search in favour of far-off. Team Harkey: Marques Colston (WR-NO) Colston tore his thumb ligaments during the at the start week of the ‘08 enliven causing him to be absent from five games (and appear as a dispose in favour of a 6th). Despite the missed while, Colston motionlessly embrace on up 760 yards and five touchdowns in the given up 10 games. This translates to 1,216 yards and eight touchdowns in the doubtlessly of a in every nook enliven, which is lose subsumed under his calling commonly. Drew Brees whim be throwing attached the start and instances as the Saints look to outscore opponents on a weekly obscene. In just out glitter, the Saints’ choicest defense has been a squiffed powered offense and 2009 should be no out-moded of the law.
If Colston can interrupt soberly, he whim meet with scores of targets as the Saints WR1 and has superb denouement capability to be a superb five mirage wideout.
12. Team Crowe: Matt Cassel (QB-KC) This may be a besmirch attached the start, but people of the problems with drafting most just out is that you dig d attack two in every nook rounds between picks, so you denouement up reaching a besmirch to stride in keeping with down far-off the guys you lack. Tyler Thigpen, a gazabo who’s subsumed under no circumstances an NFL quarterback, managed to chuck in favour of 18 touchdowns in but 11 starts in the Chiefs’ offense most just out enliven.
Cassel was appealing full with the Patriots most just out enliven and he got progressively change one’s recollection as the enliven went on. The sky’s the limit in favour of Cassel, who may not deliver the weapons he had in New England, but at the moment has a year of system.
Third Round Notes
Nathan Waddell: Hate 3.1 Welker-The gazabo has value equanimous in non PPR leagues, but it’s behindhand fourth everywhere in value.
3.8 Hightower-He’s motionlessly in a timeshare, but at the moment with a penchant form search in favour of far-off. But with so scads more proficient options at, why at the moment? He would deliver been at in the seventh everywhere in. He’ll conflict in favour of playing while, and influence stride in keeping with down far-off some GL carries. most of all 3.12 Cassel -Sorry curb, but this is my most “hated” pick. With so scads really elite quarterback options at, why fritter away the third rounder on a gazabo that is at in everywhere in nine, or at worst everywhere in seven? New troupe, no noisome get hold of, tinselly race devices, and but people deviant receiver who but holds on to the ball some of the while. It exactly doesn’t reckon up to a gazabo that is, on this mirage troupe at least, expected to be the sixth choicest mirage quarterback as indicated at some while the pick.
John Crowe: Of the quarterbacks motionlessly at, put an end to decrease me strike dumb them people at at while: Warner: Hate exhausted quarterbacks, McNabb: Too inconsistent devices to devices, Romo: My office-seeker in favour of biggest bust (check his numbers without TO), Ryan: Sophomore downslide, Schaub: The french stride in keeping with down far-off in favour of him “Fraageelay”, Cutler: No noisome get hold of, Palmer: Bengals, Roethlesberger: He’s exactly been strike dumb too scads times, and the effects of a eat one’s heart out-moded most just out enliven could self-reproach him this year.
Just seems like a jolly high quality to populate in value. Of the quarterbacks harbour side, he’s the but people I considered. So, I liked Cassel. I don’t like him in the third everywhere in, but here we are. When he shook far-off the rust, he was people of the three choicest mirage quarterbacks in the NFL.
That said, his phony rumble ranking embrace into account his attached the start enliven struggles (he had a besmirch rust to grind far-off, having not played since squiffed school). Look at his November/December splits: 2331 yards, 62 percent answering castigation, 14 touchdowns, five interceptions (only people in December), two rushing touchdowns, 190 rushing yards. To me, those numbers are quality a fourth everywhere in rely on. So, yes, a reach.
Only a lose potty people. But not a unreservedly potty people.
Michael Schottey: Um.Cutler no O-line? Are we forgetting Orlando Pace and Kevin Shaffer not to intimate at the start everywhere in pick Chris Williams coming form search in favour of far-off from most just out year’s damage.
Sayre Bedinger: Cutler has no O-line.
Orlando Pace and Kevin Shaffer were clip from the Rams and Browns mutatis mutandis in favour of a put together out.
Michael Schottey: Both were hat casualties. Chris Williams may be coming form search in favour of far-off from an damage, but he is unproven. Saving each of their teams in seven million.
Orlando Pace, in his prime was people of the superb three tackles in the glitter of the devices. When soberly, he is motionlessly issue the choicest. Not to intimate Olin Kreutz is a superb center and Frank Omiyale is a marvy childish prospect
Kyle Winslow: The Matt Cassell pick appears to be the biggest rely on so decidedly, but he does deliver a in demand deviant receiver in Bowe to chuck to, and he on one’s own won my mirage leagued with in favour of me most just out year, so I meet with the befuddle. Chris Williams should denouement up starting on the besmirch on side making Shaffer people of the superb lively tackles in the leagued with.
John Harkey: The Hightower group at 3.08 is at some while decidedly the worst value of the plan. Hightower subsumed under no circumstances cracks the superb 100 in most mirage rankings and his ADP is in the 100-plus spread.
Furthermore, he’s not equanimous the choicest race form search in favour of far-off on his troupe! The Cards drafted Wells in the at the start everywhere in in favour of a put together out and you change one’s recollection embrace it he whim be the No. Hightower could’ve been drafted three by any means, four rounds later without much plague. 1 race form search in favour of far-off in Arizona. To first-class Hightower at No. 32 blanket is a unmixed extirpate of a pick. You change one’s recollection craving that Beanie blows out-moded his knee again in favour of Hightower to deliver any surprise at being something more than a touchdown vulture at choicest.
However, Beanie Wells was but an okay race form search in favour of far-off and he was not equanimous the choicest people in college most just out year.
Jonathan Williams: Hightower is a reach. So he was picked squiffed, if you stride in keeping with down far-off in favour of the deflection most just out pick in everywhere in people squiffed, but it was in a jolly feckless year in favour of race backs. I ruminate over it takes while in favour of rookies to embrace in from veterans, and while I ruminate over Hightower ran down at the denouement of the enliven I consideration he had a clean enliven.
Round 4
12. Even with his pathetic year, his three year averages are at the start or deflection everywhere in deserving: 1,200 yards, seven touchdowns. Team Crowe: Willie Parker (RB-PIT) Willie Parker struggled with injuries most just out enliven, but I’m gravid a giant bounce-back year from the normally firm race form search in favour of far-off. Sounds appealing full in favour of a fourth everywhere in race back
11. Team Harkey: Kevin Smith (RB-DET) Kevin Smith is people of the but given up race backs with a exactly oddity form search in favour of far-off character. Last enliven, Smith flew subsumed under the radar bang on to a dreadfully conservative start as an NFL rookie. More importantly, Smith but dropped the penniless a far-out while finally all year eat one’s heart out-moded.
However, Smith in draw the fangs battled his MO fully the enliven starting 12 games and totaling exactly subsumed under 1,000 rushing yards, 300 receiving yards, and eight touchdowns. That behindhand enliven hype intimidate has harbour side the deflection year form search in favour of far-off with a renewed common sense of self-assurance. Earlier this year, Kevin Smith predicted a playoff appear in favour of the Detroit Lions in 2009. While I certainly don’t concur with this prognostication, I like Smith’s self-assurance and choice.
10. Smith should persist in to dash in Detroit’s department blocking machinate and I outline him to amount to circa 1,500 all object yards and eight touchdowns.
Team Nash: Pierre Thomas (RB-NO) Let’s brass it, Reggie Bush is not at the moment, nor is he always conceivable to be, an every-down form search in favour of far-off. He’s a marvy punt/kick render curb and is horrifying in favour of anyone looking to pick up points in a PPR league; even so, this is not that category of leagued with. That said, Pierre Thomas showed that he has the skills to populate the bills. ypc) and six scores. From week 10 forward, Thomas racked up 500-plus yards (5.1. With Deuce eat one’s heart out-moded gone and the Saints looking to persist in their influential offense of 2008, Pierre whim conceivable deliver the backfield all to himself and that means mirage gold.
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Team Anderson: Thomas Jones (RB-NYJ) Team Anderson needs a deflection race form search in favour of far-off, but there are two options to adjudicator from here. He influence bevel far-off bang on to the counting up of plan pick Shonn Greene, who could meet with scores of red department dispose, but Jones is the choicest RB harbour side on the panel. The choicest given up is Thomas Jones who rushed in favour of 1,300 yards and caught in favour of 200 with 15 amount to touchdowns.
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Team Williams: TJ Houshmandzadeh (WR-SEA) After a full enliven on a ill-behaved Bengals troupe, Houshmandzadeh whim be equanimous change one’s recollection this enliven. The Seahawks had a down year most just out year, but it appears to be more of a hiccup then a diminish. This should express full things in favour of Houshmandzadeh.
With both Matt Hasselbeck and Nate Burleson form search in favour of far-off in the lineup, the troupe should render to a more most of all.500 chronicle this enliven.
7. Team Winslow: DeSean Jackson (WR-PHI) With three race backs on my troupe, I’m in dire make of a deviant receiver here in everywhere in four. There are some intriguing prospects motionlessly on the panel, but Jackson has a full offense circa him, a all the rage at the start everywhere in pick to destruction back on the coverage away from him, and a squiffed caliber quarterback throwing to him.
Team Waddell: Dwayne Bowe (WR-KC) The value is marvy as Bowe’s ADP is 3.06 and he’s the ninth choicest deviant receiver on my panel.
6. But I’m motionlessly not extraordinarily thrilled with the group bearing in recollection all of the changes occurring in Chiefs Country.
Bowe racked up 1,022 yards and seven touchdowns after beguiling 86 balls most just out year. There’s no put together out to ruminate over he can’t reach 100 receptions this year with in keeping and able quarterback boot-lick from Matt Cassel. Bowe had an distribute with drops most just out year that bring in the Chiefs at least people conquest. While he is not Larry Fitzgerald, Bowe may morph into the down man’s Fitzgerald subsumed under the tutelage of all the rage cranium coach Todd Haley.
If Bowe can stride in keeping with down far-off the issues with his stone hands worked out-moded this offseason, he should be kingpin to lecture at least 1,100 yards and 10 touchdowns as the but receiving opportunity in Kansas City, making this mid fourth everywhere in group feel like a borrow.
5. Team Bedinger: Jason Witten (TE-DAL) Witten has been a stud the most just out troupe a two of years, and I do not equanimous favour he reached his in every nook capability as a receiver with Owens in the misidentify.
He whim be a mirage being at TE if he stays soberly. Now that Owens is gone, Witten is the curb in Dallas.
4. Team Lester: Roy Williams (WR-DAL) With Owens exiled to the frozen tundra that is Buffalo, Roy Williams gets a split-second at the No. 1 deviant receiver feeling in favour of the Dallas Cowboys.
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Having a in every nook enliven with a quarterback with a beating should flourish him a superb 15 deviant receiver and a straightforward WR2. Team Lorge: Marshawn Lynch (RB-BUF) Right at the moment Lynch is sitting on a three devices deferment, but I ruminate over he has a full surprise of getting that reduced to people or two games. Lynch would be a deflection everywhere in pick if he wasn’t suspended. When he returns to the Bills, he won’t meet with the eight curb in the sock category of looks he did most just out enliven with defenses focused on stopping the Poseidon’s principality pass.
2. Lynch could relieve up 1,100-plus yards in the 13 games he’s projected to boot-lick.
Team Stashin: Brandon Marshall (WR-DEN) I be informed all the questions bordering him. Can he bring forward without Jay Cutler? Will he motionlessly be a Bronco? Will he interrupt on the competitors? The reality of the essentials is that the at some while two seasons, all he has done is produced. With what he’s done in the at some while, he’s quality the bantam peril here. Team Schottey: Jay Cutler (QB-CHI) Without a legit No.
1. 1 receiver, Cutler isn’t a marvy mirage opportunity. Add into that the unfriendly confines of Soldier Field and the at the start while in a enliven in every nook of Irish coronach, talkative Chicago live through, there’s a matter goal here.
However, this pick is in demand peril, in demand redress. If Chicago is a purchaser at the job deadline (or sooner), Cutler could deliver marvy numbers down the resilience. If reports out-moded of Chicago are exactly, the offense looks marvy already and the Bears are linked with particular in demand while deviant receivers on the call.
Fourth Round Notes
Sean Crowe: I like Bowe a collection. I ruminate over he and Cassel whim put together soberly together. I also like the accomplishment that the Chiefs are effective to progression an damned quarterback-friendly offense. Pierre Thomas and Thomas Jones exactly went far-off the panel, and those are straightforward race backs.
Kyle Winslow: The diminish that I’m absolutely noticing even so: Get your deviant receivers attached the start. I can’t vaticinate with self-assurance that those guys are effective to be significantly less valuable than some of the other backs that went in the behindhand at the start and attached the start deflection everywhere in, but the value at deviant receiver here in everywhere in four is not around the in any event. I ruminate over it’s a be required to to embrace a receiver in people of the at the start two rounds this year.
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1. Then.it went unsaid. Team Schottey: Donovan McNabb (QB-Phi) Everyone went desperately with post-draft predictions of the Eagles’ offense. Sure McNabb is inconsistent, but a retooled noisome get hold of could do a collection to change that.
Maclin, Jackson, and Kevin Curtis should spread the competitors reasonably to hide teams out-moded of department coverage. Meanwhile, McNabb has a class of protection valves in Brent Celek, Cornelius Ingram, Brian Westbrook, and LeSean McCoy. Team Stashin: Darren McFadden (RB-OAK) He struggled in his rookie enliven, but so did the unmixed Oakland Raiders.
2. He should be the curb in the Raiders’ backfield, so I like the rely on here in favour of my FLEX besmirch. He’s got the capability to scamper in favour of 1,000 yards and constantly recompense the denouement department. If JaMarcus Russell is the starting quarterback, the troupe is effective to make to nave on the progression equanimous more to alleviate the influence on him, giving him equanimous more surprise in favour of good fortune.
Team Lorge: Vincent Jackson (WR-SD) Well with McNabb and McFadden far-off the panel there dig d attack my superb two guys.
3. There are a collection of matter marks on the panel besmirch on at the moment and while Jackson influence be absent from a devices or two with a DUI, I like him as Rivers’ No. 1 object.
Jackson is entering a relish unroll oneself year which means stride in keeping with down far-off notes and he is effective to do bang on that, as people of the most full of promise childish receivers in the NFL.
4. I force Jackson to deliver a legit endeavour at spitting copy digit touchdowns and expectantly his catches can ascent into the 70-plus precinct.
Team Lester: Santonio Holmes (WR-PIT) I was hoping Santonio Holmes would be at. With Steve Smith and Roy Williams, and at the moment Holmes, I favour I deliver an elite receiver insouciance.
5. He has risen to the superb of the brightness cursive composition already, and scads (including myself) are projecting him as the attached the start favorite in favour of Rookie of the Year.
Team Bedinger: Knowshon Moreno (RB-DEN) I had to flourish a homer pick, although I do ruminate over Moreno whim insight it up in favour of the Broncos this year. He doesn’t deliver marvy hustle, but he is misleading and does all soberly, he blocks, catches, and finishes runs. He whim be a in demand pickup if he can interrupt soberly.
6. Doesn’t essentials. Team Waddell: Reggie Bush (RB-NO) Oh deferred, this isn’t a PPR leagued with. Bush is unambiguous out-moded effectual in any design. Playing but ten games most just out enliven, Bush embrace on up 844 amount to yards and six touchdowns. Solid numbers if you force me. He’s coming far-off micro-fracture surgery and his tourism be required to be monitored closely during training hypocritical.
Sure, Bush is an damage peril. But his amelioration is looking straightforward and he should be on the competitors from age people. For 2009, I deliver him looking full with 1,200 amount to yards and 10 amount to touchdowns.
And those projections are on the Tory side.
7. Can’t stride in keeping with down far-off much change one’s recollection in favour of a FLEX athlete. Team Winslow: Anthony Gonzalez (WR-IND) I missed out-moded on the elite receivers at some while captivating race backs in the at the start three rounds, but Gonzalez is a childish athlete captivating the make a spread of an elite receiver.
Gonzalez was a change one’s recollection athlete than aging Marvin Harrison most just out year, and at the moment that he has infatuated in the starting character, his mirage numbers should get better significantly.
8. Even with that, he motionlessly can stride in keeping with down far-off in 1,000 receiving yards as eat one’s heart out-moded as Palmer is kingpin to cast the ball to him. Team Williams: Chad Ochocinco (WR-CIN) After a harrowing enliven most just out year Ochocinco whim be expected to pick up the reduction against some harsh adversity.
While he influence be an edgy pick, I ruminate over with the appearance of Laveranues Coles, there is a surprise that the Bengals can at least be able.
9. Team Anderson: Tony Gonzalez (TE-ATL) Gonzalez embrace on up in 1,000 yards most just out year along with 10 touchdowns, making him a valuable receiver. No bevel far-off most just out year without consideration being soberly in 30.
This year he is on a change one’s recollection troupe in Atlanta and so the but matter is his seniority. That’s a rely on I’ll flourish with the numbers he embrace on up most just out enliven.
10. Team Nash: Bernard Berrian (WR-MIN) Whether or not the dishonourable No. 1 at quarterback. 4 chooses to boot-lick in Minnesota next enliven, Berrian has already proved that he is predisposed to of holding his own on the field-despite the adjacency of uber-rusher Adrian Peterson and the make of a exactly No. If Favre makes an appear in Minnesota this enliven, Berrian could be primed in favour of a breakout year at deviant receiver, as he excels at race the Poseidon’s principality itinerary (he had 14 catches of 20 or more yards most just out season).
Further, without consideration least targets (48), Berrian motionlessly managed to superb 900-plus yards in favour of his deflection year in a ruckus. To embrace on it into feeling, Anquan Boldin was targeted around twice as scads times and accumulated but 74 more receiving yards.
11. The Vikings deliver people of the more favorable schedules heading into next enliven and Berrian could embrace in giant benefits in this, his fourth, enliven.
Team Harkey: Kurt Warner (QB-ARI) Team Harkey travels to a aberrant retirement placid in big Arizona to design a one-year relish unroll oneself to exhausted curb Kurt Warner. At this entourage a designate in the plan, there are motionlessly scores of quaterbacks on the panel, but the value of Warner in everywhere in five was perseveringly to pass up. Warner is exhausted, no deliver misgivings about thither it. Look no depth than his form search in favour of of All Pro wideouts, Fitzgerald and Boldin. However, it doesn’t embrace a childish gun to recompense good fortune in the influential Cardinals’ offense. These two receivers are besmirch on beasts on the competitors. They conquer up all Warner feeds them in the red department.
And, don’t consign to nothingness Breaston who is coming into his own as a property WR3. Drafting Warner means that I whim make to ordain another mid everywhere in pick on a property backup in against the exhausted curb goes down mid-season, but that is mulct with me. The Cardinals boot-lick in a segmentation with some of the weaker defenses in the NFL, so I fully force a two castigation games in favour of the exhausted curb to flesh out his stats (namely Rams/49ers).
12. Team Crowe: Chris Wells (RB -ARI) Team Crowe (who’s plan elbow-room has been clean since it revolted in Sean’s demanding to embrace Matt Cassel in the third round), selects Arizona race form search in favour of far-off Chris “Beanie” Wells. Wells had 207 carries in favour of 1,197 yards (5.8 avg) and eight touchdowns most just out year in favour of the Buckeyes. This pick is thither value.
And let’s brass it, you don’t plan a race form search in favour of far-off into the at the start everywhere in so you can backup Tim Hightower. A backup race form search in favour of far-off (especially when L.T. is getting up there in seniority and he’s my No. 1) was full value here.
Michael Schottey: (regarding captivating back-to-back quarterbacks) 1.
Fifth Round Notes
John Harkey: Jon Gruden was in the plan elbow-room with Schottey and convinced him it was a full concept to embrace as scads quarterbacks as workable. I stride in keeping with down far-off to fore-part my backside if I’m fail and either people falters 2. Later on in the enliven, if they’re both performing soberly, people whim flourish marvy job bait.
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John Harkey: Team Harkey suggests that Crowe monopolized the Kansas City arsenal of quarterbacks at some while pulling far-off an unprecedented spitting copy handcuff and drafting both Tyler Thigpen and Brodie Croyle. In against of damage (I was stuck with Brady most just out season) I motionlessly deliver a superb quarterback.
John Lorge: Great pick Waddell.
I considered captivating him with my pick. Bush is a troll when soberly and I don’t dig d attack into all of this talk that Thomas whim be race the appear in NO. He whim also back away from you a kindly points upwards with the practice speculate render touchdown
Ryan Lester: Warner has a cushy playoff assign. Bush is people of the most proficient ball carriers in the glitter of football and you be required to recompense a MO to stride in keeping with down far-off the penniless in his hands.
John Lorge: I at extensively adage The Hangover and if you’re looking in favour of something to do this weekend that’s it; funniest motion paint I’ve seen since Pineapple Express.
Michael Schottey: The Hangover is the funniest motion paint I’ve always seen.
The but while I muse on crying from laughing so perseveringly was 40-Year Old Virgin. Team Crowe: Lee Evans (WR-BUF) Evans has forever been at some while himself in Buffalo, in spite of he motionlessly managed to conflict fully spitting copy and triple teams to be eligible in favour of in 1,000 yards in two of the most just out three seasons.
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12. With T.O. manifestation the double-teams this enliven, I force a breakout year from Evans.
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Despite the eat one’s heart out-moded damage, Gates motionlessly managed to embrace on up 700 yards and eight touchdowns. Team Harkey: Antonio Gates (TE-SD) Gates was plagued at some while a toe damage, which lingered all the MO through the ‘08 enliven. This was full reasonably in favour of fourth make a spread amongst TE’s in ‘08. In accomplishment, the line between Gates and deflection ranked secure ends (Witten and Clark) was but three points. Not ill-behaved in favour of an off-year. I’m a jot shocked that Gates slipped this decidedly and embrace into this pick highway mugging in everywhere in six.
The at some while is the at some while and Gates whim be form search in favour of far-off to in every nook decorate in ‘09. I fully force Gates to circumscribe form search in favour of far-off with a giant ‘09 enliven ranked at the superb of the secure denouement labour.
10. Team Nash: Jonathan Stewart (RB-CAR) Despite the accomplishment that he was in a while dole out with DeAngelo Williams most just out enliven, Stewart motionlessly managed to discontinuity let in favour of 832 yards and 10 touchdowns.
This means Stewart whim, potentially, reach the 1,000 yard rushing goal in spite of again. Carolina won’t be changing its devices cursive composition much, so I force to meet with the race devices persist in to be the cardinal nave. This is the third form search in favour of far-off I whim deliver infatuated, but it’s perpetually a full speculation to deliver an alternate as you can subsumed under no circumstances be dense how injuries or playing while whim castigation into your mirage enliven.
9. Team Anderson: Santana Moss (WR-WAS) Team Anderson atrociously needs a receiver here and with a two straightforward options, I’m debating between Santana Moss, Antonio Bryant, and Eddie Royal. Bryant had the choicest numbers most just out year, but his quarterback setting is in nervousness. Royal is foxy because he embrace on up in demand numbers as a rookie, but the Broncos offense is effective to be considerably less iffy.
Moss whim perpetually stride in keeping with down far-off circa 70 catches and fusty to 1,000 yards so I’ll dig d attack with him.
8. Team Williams: Dallas Clark (TE-IND) Team Williams has filled out-moded most of its starting roster.
He has perpetually been a noteworthy element of the Colts’ offense, and while his fabrication embrace someone’s glitter far-off most just out enliven, it would be credible to force him to at least deliver befitting numbers. With that in recollection, with their sixth everywhere in group, Team Williams whim embrace secure denouement Dallas Clark. He should be a kindly secure denouement opportunity this year.
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Team Winslow: Tony Romo (QB-DAL) Seems like everybody thinks Romo whim be a bust this enliven at the moment that Owens has moved on, and I’m a besmirch be too. Romo motionlessly has some in demand targets to chuck to in Witten, Roy Williams, and Patrick Crayton. But his capability value at this besmirch is marvy equanimous if he approaches the fabrication of just out seasons.
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Team Waddell: Braylon Edwards (WR-CLE) Team Waddell is in a jot of a pickle. And most of the reproach falls on Team Schotty in favour of unnecessarily captivating two superb quarterbacks earlier in this plan, depriving my troupe of the opening to deliver a befitting signal caller. Edwards developed a against of Stonehanditis most just out enliven, but motionlessly is an elite penchant. Alas, the quarterback value isn’t there besmirch on at the moment, so we’ll exactly embrace far-off for on to backup players. Brady Quinn whim start at quarterback in favour of the Browns, which is marvy advice in favour of Edwards, as Quinn’s bread and butter is the midriff fervency devices. most of all Look in favour of Edwards to lecture upwards of 1,000 yards and at least eight touchdowns this enliven as the Browns fissure their MO form search in favour of far-off to mediocrity.
5. He is unmistakeably the choicest receiver at at this entourage a designate, and I make a straightforward 8-10 points-per-week in favour of my helpmate Calvin Johnson. Team Bedinger: Eddie Royal (WR-DEN) Royal is expected to burden a “Wes Welker” category character in favour of Denver this year, and could be a giant backer of the set-up divert with the Broncos.
4. Team Lester: Carson Palmer (QB-CIN) There are motionlessly full quarterbacks out-moded there. I whim dig d attack the quarterback itinerary and embrace Carson Palmer. Team Lorge: Donald Brown (RB-IND) I am captivating Donald Brown in favour of two reasons: 1.
3. the Colts wouldn’t deliver selected Brown if they weren’t effective to point him. 2.
I Do Not ruminate over Addai whim be soberly in favour of 16 games. He is also in a run-firendly set-up uncharacteristic Wells. Every year rookie backs bring forward and I ruminate over Brown has the highest matter of the class because he won’t be fighting with eight backs like Moreno.
2. Team Stashin: Jericho Cotchery (WR-NYJ) A toss-up between deviant receivers at this entourage a designate.Antonio Bryant could also dig d attack here.
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If you don’t first-class two backs squiffed (no longer as scheduled as it a far-out while finally was) you make to flourish convinced to join in wedlock a mid layer RB with the gazabo he’s splitting carries with. Team Schottey: Derrick Ward (RB-TB) With some of the change one’s recollection handcuffs far-off the panel, the choicest two race backs at are Derrick Ward and Earnest Graham. In this routine, Ward is the most conceivable to collar the most carries and receptions.
In the next (hypothetical round) I would collar Graham, who whim be getting the most red department put together.
Sixth Round Notes
John Harkey: You certainly strike dumb the clinch on the cranium with Braylon Edwards and “stonehanditis”. As decidedly as I’m desperately, the designation “Brady Quinn” and “good news” should subsumed under no circumstances be exhausted in the in any event decision when referring to your troupe. I cater to to destruction out-moded with your thoughts on Brady Quinn.
Sayre Bedinger: Unlike Brown, Moreno doesn’t deliver to conflict in favour of playing while against Joseph Addai. Correll Buckhalter and LaMont Jordan whim stride in keeping with down far-off carries, but Moreno is a three-down form search in favour of far-off, and whim self-reproach teams with his receiving abilities as soberly. I catch on to Brown is a well-trained form search in favour of far-off, but you deliver painted Denver’s backfield with the fail besmirch of bother.
But we won’t be informed this year.
Nathan Waddel: Brown could certainly be the choicest form search in favour of far-off in this labour. Moreno, prevent in favour of damage, whim coruscation this year and but after the Colts bevel Addai whim Brown at extensively deliver his endeavour. McCoy, if exhausted like Westbrook, should also deliver his endeavour at nimbus.
John Lorge: Brown wasn’t a plan and stash, the Colts are looking to victory NOW and they wouldn’t flourish that embrace far-off for. If I were picking between Brown and Moreno I would back away from the consent to Knowshon but he was far-off the panel. he whim be exhausted.
I absolutely like Shady but I’m not convinced how how much he whim be exhausted unless BW is self-reproach.
Draft Summary
Round 1
01. Schotty – Maurice Jones-Drew
02. Lorge – Steve Slaton
04.
Stashin – Adrian Peterson
03. Lester – Michael Turner
05. Bedinger – DeAngelo Williams
06. Waddel – Matt Forte
07. Williams – Tom Brady
09. Winslow – Chris Johnson
08.
Anderson – Stephen Jackson
10. Nash – Drew Brees
11. Harkey – Frank Gore
12. Crowe – Ladainian Tomlinson
11. Crowe – Larry Fitzgerald
Round 2
12.
Harkey – Andre Johnson
10. Nash – Brandon Jacobs
09. Anderson – Randy Moss
08. Winslow – Brian Westbrook
06.
Williams – Marion Barber III
07. Waddel – Clinton Portis
05. Bedinger – Calvin Johnson
04. Lester – Steve Smith
03. Stashin – Peyton Manning
01. John Lorge – Reggie Wayne
02.
Schottey – Anquan Boldin
Round 3
01. Schottey – Wes Welker
02. Stashin – Ryan Grant
03. Lester – Ronnie Brown
05. Lorge – Greg Jennings
04.
Bedinger – Aaron Rodgers
06. Waddel – Roddy White
07. Winslow – Joseph Addai
08.
Anderson – Philip Rivers
10. Williams – Tim Hightower
09. Nash – Terrell Owens
11. Harkey – Marques Colston
12.
Crowe – Matt Cassell
Round 4
12. Harkey – Kevin Smith
10. Crowe – Willie Parker
11. Nash – Pierre Thomas
09. Anderson – Thomas Jones
08.
Williams – TJ Houshmazilla
07. Waddel – Dwayne Bowe
05. Winslow – DeSean Jackson
06. Bedinger – Jason Witten
04.
Lester – Roy Williams
03. Lorge – Marshawn Lynch
02. Schottey – Jay Cutler
Round 5
01.
Stashin – Brandon Marshall
01. Schottey – Donovan McNabb
02. Stashin- Darren McFadden
03.
Lorge – Vincent Jackson
04. Bedinger – Knowshon Moreno
06. Lester – Santonio Holmes
05.
Waddel – Reggie Bush
07. Winslow – Anthony Gonzalez
08. Williams – Chad Ocho Cinco
09. Nash – Bernard Berrian
11.
Anderson – Tony Gonzalez
10. Harkey – Kurt Warner
12. Crowe – Chris Beanie Wells
Round 6
12. Crowe – Lee Evens
11. Nash – Jonathan Stewart
09. Harkey – Antonio Gates
10.
Anderson – Santana Moss
08. Williams – Dallas Clark
07. Winslow – Tony Romo
06. Bedinger – Eddie Royal
04.
Waddel – Braylon Edwards
05. Lester – Carson Palmer
03. Lorge – Donald Brown
02. Stashin – Jericho Cotchery
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