Last year several rookie WRs, led by Mike Evans and Odell Beckham Jr., burst onto the scene, putting up massive numbers and helping many patient owners to fantasy football championships.
This year’s rookie crop includes Amari Cooper, a wideout from Alabama whom many think has game equal to or better than anyone who came into the league in 2014. But will it show right away on a team that has many shortcomings and has not made the playoffs since roughly 1882?
After looking merely mortal through the first four games of 2014, Brady reeled off 29 TD passes in the last 11.5 games of his season, breaking the 4,000-yard mark for the fifth time in six seasons since he tore up his knee in 2008.
His offseason has been a tumultuous one, however, as the Patriots have dealt with Deflategate. Brady’s resulting suspension – and one would guess also his age – have conspired to deflate Brady’s draft stock, all the way down to the eighth round. Would you take a chance on the Pats’ signal caller at that spot?
Buy: Andy
Tom Brady in the eighth round? Seriously!?!?!? You could suspend him for the first half of the season and still sign me up for that. (more…)
Joique Bell has led Detroit in rushing the last two seasons. With Reggie Bush moving on it looked like Bell might finally claim the main job for himself, until Ameer Abdullah was drafted in the second round.
Some say Abdullah was drafted to take over the starting job as soon as possible. But Bell has been a solid contributor now for three years running and he sounds confident he’s going to grab hold of the starting job, now that Reggie Bush is out of town.
He’s getting drafted in the early sixth round. Is that a pick you would make?
Demaryius Thomas has been one of the league’s top wide receivers the past three seasons. He’s still playing with a Hall of Fame-to-be QB in Peyton Manning on an offense with more weapons than most. So you’d be a fool to doubt that he can duplicate his numbers from recent years?
The tight end position in 2015 consists once again of Rob Gronkowski, Jimmy Graham and … everyone else. One of the guys emerging at the top of that next tier is Travis Kelce, who put up 67 catches and five TDs as an understudy to the since-departed Anthony Fasano last year.
Now Kelce ranks as high as the third-highest TE off the board in some ADP listings and drafts. Heading into his third year on a team with a QB in Alex Smith who struggles to get the ball downfield, can Kelce live up to that billing? Or was his 2014 season the peak of his production?
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