Posted by Lisa on August 28, 2007, 12:00 pm, in reply to "Thanks for the advice!!" My eldest son wanted to do fantasy football and in his first ever draft he was faced with the same scenario you described. The only difference was he was drafting at #6 (so there were a little bit better rbs left, but not by much) and I advised him to take Manning. Again in the second round he was faced with either Steve Smith or Chad Johnson and a bunch of committee rbs. I like Johnson a bit better because I like Palmer better than Delhomme, so I completely understand your dilemma and cannot criticize your picks since I advised my son to do the same thing. He somehow still ended up with Maurice Jones-Drew and Marshawn Lynch as his RB1&2...his backups are Tatum Bell and Brian Leonard. He was so disgusted with his draft, he went back to ESPN and joined another league. LOL I had told him he should practice drafting before he joined a league, but as with all teenagers he was absolutely positive that he knew what he was doing. I got called in to help with about 10 seconds to prepare...after about 3 years of being out of fantasy football. Boy, did I feel under the gun! Good thing I've continued to pay a little bit of attention to the rest of the nfl other than the Lions (though more with an nfl draft purpose). His next draft, he picked at #2 and took Stephen Jackson and he feels much better now. We'll see which league he does better with. I'm sorry to read that I couldn't help you with the QB thing. I hear the Jets are really looking at Kellen Clemons for the future (with Pennington looking really bad during this pre-season). I would say though that Campbell looks like the most sure thing of the four because at least he has secured his job. Grossman had a much better statistical game (though, imo he still looked pretty regurgitating-esque) his last game; but if I were Lovey, I would have Brian Grease warming up.
Generally speaking, WR is probably the easiest position to improve off the waiver wire. For rb you almost have to wait for a rb to get injured, and that nobody picked up his backup. QB you can get lucky.
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