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"Maclin flew to St. Louis Thursday, Aug. 11, to meet with doctors to find out the specifics of his illness." The above from the Huddle newswire makes it sound like Maclin allready knows what his illness is. Since it has not been released to the press one gets a bad feeling about this. He was the most passed to receiver in a west coast offense that passed almost 70% if all plays. Jason Avant gets a big nudge up in my book (he has had a great camp so far).

Al Davis had John Madden, Jerry Jones had Jimmy Johnson....after each lost their SB winning coach they have done squat

I was afraid it would come to this..... Ok, lets take an example of a points per reception league (yes, in a non ppr league stud RB makes more sense at least in first round), out of the top 32 points producers you only have 7 RB's (Westbrook, LT, Addai, Peterson, Portis, Barber, and J. Lewis). Out of the same 32 there is 1- TE (Witten); 13 OB's (Brady, Romo, P Manning, TRoethlisberger, Brees, Anderson, Hasselbeck,Favre, Palmer, Kitna, Cutler, Warner, and McNabb): and 11 WR's (Moss, Owens, Wayne, Edwards, Houshmandzadeh, Fitz, Johnson, W. Walker, Colston, slipping in the parking lot Marshall, and T. Im old Holt). Of the top 15 you only have two RB's--Westbrook with 358.5 pts, and LT with 326.85 pts. In the same top 15 you have 8 QB's and 5 WR's (Moss 357.30, Owens 307.00, Wayne 294.70, Edwards 289.20, and TJ Joushmandzadeh 282.20. If I draft with say pick 12 of a 12 team draft I could get 2 of the top 5 WR's and then still be able to get a starting RB in a team that has a RBBC approach and then handcuff his partner with a later pick. For example, you can do this with two teams (say the Jets whom seem to be working hard on improving the offensive line, and CIN where both RB will be avaidable after the first two rounds). So pick three is a RB. Pick 4 you take a top 5 QB and from there you fill out your roster depending on number of players per position. Granted injuries, and acending, and declining values of players will change who the top 15 of 2008 are (put guessing tihem is what makes fantasy football so fun) but I would be willing to make a wag (wild assed guess) that the list will once again be full of WR's and QB's not RB's.

Yes there are maybe five feature RB's in the NFL at present, so if you have a top 5 pick in the draft, you can celebrate....but for everyone else it seems to make more sense to draft WR, WR in the first two rounds, or even go QB, WR; or WR, QB as you want the most potential point value for your selections. I think the RBBC "IS" a serious blow to the stud RB theory of drafting.

With more and more teams going to the running back by committiee approach, would it not be a better strategy to draft WR, WR in the first two rounds of any FFdraft, especially if you pick in the second half of the 1st round. You can pick up two of the top five WR's and still have a decent chance of picking up a quality RB in round 3. My feeling is that the RB position is being devalued (at least from a scoring prespective) in Fantasy football. Why pass on the sure scoring potential of a tried and true top WR to pick a RB who could have his "thunder" snatched by another back who is inserted for 10-15 carries a game? I have a feeling that a lot of Fantasy Football drafts this next year are going to reflect this. Insight anyone?

Jackson's contract expires after the end of the 2008 season. Leonard is the one to keep, and his value may increase if St Louis and Jackson can not rework a new deal.

Wolfe Wolfe So far not a single carry for the rookie. He looks like Westbrook...why not see if he can preform like Westbrook. It doesn't look like the Bears have anything to loose (besides I have carried him on 4 out of my 5 teams and I would be highly pissed off if they did not at least try him).

Just like he only went in the nudie bar to get something to eat.