Dilemma for "Weak" Week 1 RBs

[GregTheKeg]

Neither Moreno nor Hightower makes me all that comfortable. Hightower has a nice matchup against KC. Both of these RBs will be sharing carries - Hightower with Wells and Moreno with Buckhalter. My league awards a half point per reception. My fourth RB option is Michael Bush on OAK, but he won't get off my bench until healthy and perhaps once the RB picture in Oakland comes into focus. Luckily my WRs are much more solid than this RB crew. Any suggestions/feedback you can provide would be appreciated. Thanks!

[dannygordo]

Neither Moreno nor Hightower makes me all that comfortable. Hightower has a nice matchup against KC. Both of these RBs will be sharing carries - Hightower with Wells and Moreno with Buckhalter. My league awards a half point per reception. My fourth RB option is Michael Bush on OAK, but he won't get off my bench until healthy and perhaps once the RB picture in Oakland comes into focus. Luckily my WRs are much more solid than this RB crew. Any suggestions/feedback you can provide would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

First of all, Hightower is playing the Rams, and secondly, Wells is most likely sitting as his status is Doubtfull. I'd start Hightower ONLY in this scenario.

[GregTheKeg]

First of all, Hightower is playing the Rams, and secondly, Wells is most likely sitting as his status is Doubtfull. I'd start Hightower ONLY in this scenario.

 

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Thank you for your input, dannygordo. I drafted Moreno before Hightower, but figure it will be a coin flip week to week.

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My squad in a 10 team league, half a PPR, 6 points for QB passing TD:

 

QB - Schaub HOU

RB - Rice BAL

RB - Moreno DEN

WR - Moss NEP

WR - Jennings GB

TE - Daniels HOU

K - Gostkowski NEP

D - Philly

 

Bench QB - Flacco BAL

Bench RB - Hightower ARI

Bench WR - M. Floyd SD

Bench TE - Miller OAK

Bench K - Feely ARI

Bench D - San Diego

Bench Wild Card- M. Bush OAK

[Haskel]

for a 10 team league, you're extremely thin at RB. why in the world would you draft 2 TEs, 2 Ks and 2 Defs?????

[GregTheKeg]

for a 10 team league, you're extremely thin at RB. why in the world would you draft 2 TEs, 2 Ks and 2 Defs?????

 

Those are the leage rules. We draft 15 players and they MUST be as follows: 2 QB, 3 RB, 3 WR. 2 TE, 2 K, 2 Def, and 1 Wild Card at any position. Trust me, I don't enjoy carrying two Ks and Ds, but thems the rules in this league.

[GregTheKeg]

Those are the leage rules. We draft 15 players and they MUST be as follows: 2 QB, 3 RB, 3 WR. 2 TE, 2 K, 2 Def, and 1 Wild Card at any position. Trust me, I don't enjoy carrying two Ks and Ds, but thems the rules in this league.

 

I have been in that league for about 12 years so have gotten used to it. Plus I have a second league without player position caps or restrictions that is of course more flexible and you can stock up RBs, WRs in place of those 2nd K, D, and TE. Looking back at the draft for that strict league with the caps on number of players at each position...I had the 4th pick...

 

Round

1 Ray Rice

2 Randy Moss

3 Greg Jennings

4 Matt Schaub

5 Knowshon Moreno

... Got Higtower at round 12 and Michael Bush at round 8. In retrospect I wish I had grabbed a better 2nd RB instead of waiting to round 5 for Moreno. Its a tough call because our QBs get 6 pts per passing TD so there is always an early run on QBs.

 

Anyway, best of luck this year! Later