Should I start marshawn lynch adrian peterson marion barber or joseph addai?
Peterson- The Cards play better pass defense than rush and the Vikings will probably start Tevaris Jackson and encourage him not to throw. P.S. How on earth did you get all those choice RBs onto your team?
Marshawn Lynch and dwayne Bowe for Demarius Thomas and Matt Forte?
Well at this point you are essentially giving up a 1st and a 4th round draft pick for two 2nd round draft picks. Forte and Thomas should both put up very good numbers this year but then again so should lynch and bowe. I am a big believer in Forte though and I think he is going to see a lot of passes out of the backfield where he excels and this will be a bit of a breakout year from him. I would go for this trade.
I finally got the first overall pick in my league this year. Who should I pick?
I assume people who are way more fantasy savvy than I am will tell you what to actually do, but I strongly recommend against picking quarterbacks early. I would say go look at people who do fantasy for a living and they don't pick quarterbacks generally till round 4-7. The reasoning I think is because there are so many quarterbacks who start that will play the entire game, so they all get close to the same amount of points. The highs are projected for 300+ points in a season while the mid-range quarterbacks are projected for like 250+ points. That's a lot quarterbacks that are decent and everyone only starts one. So 20+ of them and your league only starts 12.On the other hand, how many running backs are three down backs who will rack up crazy points? 5? 10? 15? and your league can start 36 running backs. That's a huge disparity between quarterbacks. A lot of teams are pass heavy ->Not a lot of points for running backs. A lot of teams rotate 2 or 3 running backs constantly. -> No high scorers there. For me I ended up with ninth pick and picked Anderson and then Demarco Murray on the second round (Only a 10 team league). Second time through picked a wide receiver and a T.E. (Graham was on the board and very tempting). On the fifth round I picked another wide receiver and THEN on the sixth round I picked Peyton Manning because there was a huge selection of quarterbacks left. I would suggest looking up professional sites like ESPN or Yahoo and see who they say is number one. I ended up with 6 running backs, 6 wide receivers, 1 quarterback, 1 TE, 1 defense, and 1 kicker. And there are still quality quarterbacks I can pick up if need be whereas almost every decent running back or wide receiver has been chosen.
Green Bay Packers or Chicago Bears?
with the nick barnett deal done and the rest of the defense finally meshing green bays defense will be great next year. the packers are bringing in randy moss and either marshawn lynch or adrian peterson. so with a good running back and moss and jennings on the outside and driver in the slot this team will be great next year. and what did the bears do with there offseason. mess things up with briggs, and lose thomas jones. they got to the superbowl by running the ball, and they get rid of the guy who ran it. benson cannot carry all the wiehgt on his shoulders. the bears will not win the division. my prediction is green bay (1) bears (2) detroit (3) vikings (4)
Your worst draft mistake?
Team 1 Braylon Edwards... 4th round. LaDainian Tomlinson... 1st overall. Terrell Owens... 2nd round. Take your pick. -or- Team 2 Plaxico Burress... 4th round. MarShawn Lynch... 2nd round. -or- Team 3 My 2 QB's after the draft were Matt Hasselbeck and Derrick Anderson. I don't recall what picks they were exactly, though they were later rounds. 5th at the earliest, but I'm thinking more like 7th-or-8th for Hasselbeck who was my first QB taken. Never-the-less, these 2 amounted to nothing this season and regardless of where they were taken, they were colossal busts. Note: teams 1&2 are competing in 3rd place games this week, while team 3 is in the championship! So I was able to manage around the bad drafts. As for next years first pick, I'd take Adrian Peterson, no question about it.
National Football League (NFL): If Marshawn Lynch retires, will the Seahawks go after a big free agent RB, look to the draft or go with their backup RBs?
It's hard to predict what any GM would do, but I'd be pretty surprised if they signed a big name RB. Spending money on a DeMarco would be risky. Any free agent RB who can command a big salary will typically be 26-27 years old and it's pretty much guaranteed that when a RB hits 30, their game falls off a cliff. So spending big money on a long term deal for a RB at that age is going to lead to cap problems down the line. And who knows when they will get injured? It's much safer and more cost-effective to have a committee of 2-3 RBs with different skill sets. Committee RBs make $3-5M. The DeMarco Murrays make $10M+. Seattle drafts well, so that's a good option also. Seattle doesn't have much cap space to play with. They will have to do some creative maneuvering to re-sign Wilson and Lynch (assuming he doesn't retire) and need to save as much money as possible to keep that defensive unit together. All that being said, DeMarco Murray and some of these other free agents (there's a lot of good names this year) will definitely get paid by someone. It just doesn't make much sense for Seattle to replace Lynch like that mainly cause of money and the scarcity of longevity and durability for RBs.
Is Rob Gronkowski worth a fantasy first round pick?
Maybe a late first-round pick. But I'm in agreement with Court, who notes that taking Gronk in the first creates a gaping hole at RB. I get that Gronk gives you a clear advantage over all other tight ends, but it's important to focus on just how significant that advantage actually has.In standard leagues, Gronk scored 178 points. Guys like Greg Olsen (131) and Martellus Bennett (123) were clearly well behind him, which is reflected in their ADP (ESPN late 5th for Olsen, 7th for Bennett). Mathematically, the difference between Gronk and Olsen or Bennett was about 3-3.5 points per week.But if you look at RB/WR with the same draft gaps, you get bigger point disparities. Marshawn Lynch (mid-1st ADP) scored 253 points, while Joique Bell (mid-7th ADP) registered 154. Over 16 weeks, that's a 99 point (6.2 points per week) difference.Then there's Antonio Brown (251) and Demaryius Thomas (223), compared to Golden Tate (151, late-5th/early 6th ADP) and Mike Wallace (137, early 8th ADP). On the extreme end, you have a difference of 114 points, and on a more conservative scale, a 72 point difference (though it should be noted that Tate's numbers were inflated by a Calvin Johnson injury). Any way you slice it, that shows you a difference of between 4.5-9 points per week when you pick Gronk over a 1st round RB/WR. Running backs and wideouts are often more involved in their teams' offenses than tight ends, and it shows in the aggregate production. Gronk is a transcendent talent, but tight ends just don't touch the ball that much. When they do, they're usually getting the ball on intermediate/shorter routes or in red-zone situations, which puts a cap on their yardage potential. If you really want to take the plunge with Gronk in the late 1st, it's not the worst thing in the world. You're basically locked in as having the best TE in your league. ESPN ADP (14.6) has him going in the early/mid 2nd, and that seems pretty fair. It accounts for Gronk's ability to provide a decisive edge, while acknowledging both his moderate injury risk and the greater overall scoring potential the top-shelf RB/WR have. To me, an elite tight end is a luxury. I'd trade for Gronk if I had enough extra talent accumulated mid-season (to really complete a dream team). But I would never draft him if I had to take him in the mid-1st or earlier.