2011 Fantasy Football: Busts, Players to Avoid
There will be many more 2011 Fantasy Football Rankings and features in the summer, including tons of 2011 Fantasy Football Mock Drafts, Player Rankings, Sleepers and Busts. I'll also have an extensive 2011 NFL Fantasy Football Preseason Stock Report. Follow me @walterfootball for updates.
2011 Fantasy Football - Busts, Players to Avoid (Updated July 25):
This is a list of players to avoid in your 2011 Fantasy Football Drafts. Some of these players have injury/age risks. Others are overvalued and will be drafted too early.
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DeSean Jackson, WR, Eagles DeSean Jackson suffered a monstrous hit in a Thursday night battle against the Texans. Ever since then, he ran nothing but go routes. He demolished the Cowboys the following Sunday, but subsequent teams caught on. Jackson's final three games: seven catches, 131 yards, no touchdowns. And speaking of no touchdowns, Jackson found the end zone only once after Nov. 15.
Jackson is one of the most dynamic players in the NFL, but he's way too brittle. Let someone else spend an early pick on him.
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Marques Colston, WR, Saints I currently have Marques Colston at No. 50 in my 2011 Fantasy Football Top 150 Cheat Sheet, so if I could get him in the fifth round, I wouldn't have any problem with that. The issue is that Colston is being drafted earlier than this despite the fact that he's coming off his fifth knee procedure in five years.
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Peyton Hillis, RB, Browns I owned Peyton Hillis in many of my leagues last year. While he got me to the playoffs in all of those leagues, he also cost me in the playoffs when he wore down and did nothing. Hillis cannot shoulder a heavy workload, yet he's being drafted like he can. He's going way too early in many fantasy mock drafts.
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Michael Crabtree, WR, 49ers Michael Crabtree has been busy this offseason. He's spent half his summer vacation berating Alex Smith. When he hasn't been doing that, he's been taking care of his foot injury - the same foot that caused him to drop in the 2009 NFL Draft. Crabtree is a douche - an injured douche - and he and Smith just don't have a very good rapport. Don't bother with Crabtree. Until he adjusts his attitude, he won't accomplish much in the NFL.
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Daniel Thomas, RB, Dolphins As of this writing, Mark Ingram's ADP is 5.09. That's fine because he figures to score a bunch of touchdowns in New Orleans' offense. But what is Daniel Thomas going to do? Thomas won't have nearly as many red-zone opportunities. And he's not even guaranteed the starting gig; the Dolphins have discussed bringing a free agent in to complement Thomas, who has an insanely early ADP of 6.02.
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Ryan Torain and Roy Helu, RBs, Redskins A popular mid-round draft strategy this year is to obtain both Ryan Torain and Roy Helu.
"Muhahahaha!" these people laugh. "I've just guaranteed myself the starting running back of the Washington Redskins!"
Well, congratu-f***ing-lations. You've used two mid-round picks to obtain a pair of mediocre talents, one of whom figures to average 3.1 yards per carry for the worst offense in the NFL.
Don't overthink things. Avoid these bums and focus on drafting better players.
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Michael Turner, RB, Falcons If you've been reading this Web site for a while, you'd be shocked if Michael Turner didn't make this list. Turner's ADP is insanely high at 2.02. He's not even in my top 20 running backs. Check the 2011 Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings to read why.
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Knowshon Moreno, RB, Broncos Knowshon Moreno's ADP as of this writing is 4.09. Also as of this writing, the Broncos are considered the favorites to land DeAngelo Williams. Denver reportedly doesn't see Moreno as an every-down runner, which makes you wonder why Josh McDaniels spent such an early draft pick on Moreno.
Even if the Broncos don't sign Williams and keep Moreno as their starter, I still wouldn't touch Moreno anywhere near the fourth round. He can't stay healthy, his work ethic stinks, and he's not going to score many touchdowns with Tim Tebow getting all of the work inside the 5-yard line.
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BenJarvus Green-Ellis, RB, Patriots Scouring through Fantasy Football Calculator's ADP list, I was SHOCKED to see BenJarvus Green-Ellis at 6.06. God doesn't even know what the hell Bill Belichick is going to do with his billion running backs, so I just don't understand how anyone can spend such an early pick on Green-Ellis. Let's wait until the preseason - maybe we can figure out what Belichick plans on doing then.
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Anquan Boldin, WR, Ravens Anquan Boldin's ADP is insanely high at 5.09. I don't get it. Have people forgotten that he averaged 35.4 yards and scored two touchdowns in the final nine weeks of the 2011 season? And that doesn't even include his brilliant performance at Pittsburgh in the second round of the playoffs: one catch, minus-2 yards.
Boldin's done. He can't separate anymore, and unlike his time in Arizona, he no longer has the luxury of having Larry Fitzgerald on the other side to draw attention away from the opposition. He's currently No. 60 in my 2011 Fantasy Football Wide Receiver rankings.
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Mike Gaughan
07-25-2011
03:06 pm
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Hi,
So these players are on your waiver wire: Knowshon Moreno Ryan Grant Ryan Torain You would unquestionably go with Ryan Grant? Thanks!
ATrepp
07-25-2011
02:53 pm
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Walt-
Have you had a chance to check out Matt Berry's piece on ESPN.com? http://sports.espn.go.com/fantasy/football/ffl/story?page=NFLDK2K11_TMRManifesto Pretty interesting analysis on Vick and Gates. What are your thoughts?
@MTW6
07-25-2011
11:16 am
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Desean may or may not be overrated as a fantasy commodity, all I am saying is that the "brittle" label and the idea that he was afraid after taking a big hit are inaccurate. Bad secondaries or not both times he took big hits last year he followed them up with big games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeiWqSFS4qg
D
07-25-2011
10:19 am
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Dallas Clark and Jermichael Finley should be on this list. Both are coming off season-ending injuries and are on teams with crowded WR corps. Finley is also very unproven while Clark has only had one full 16-game (his outlier 2009 season). They're too risky to be drafted as the 2nd and 3rd TE's with so much depth at the position.
D
07-25-2011
10:01 am
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I agree with @MTW6- DeSean isn't as brittle as most people probably think. Anybody who saw the hit in the Falcons game can't blame him for missing time. I also heard that DJax stopped running shorter routes over the middle after that hit because he didn't want to get hurt before signing a contract extension. Next season (if he's signed to a longterm deal) he should be as productive as he was early in the 2010 season as he'll be running shorter routes and keeping defenses guessing. He's still a top 10 WR.
Schu
07-25-2011
08:46 am
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@MTW6
Both teams are terrible in the secondary.... I thought he only ran go and post routes from the beginning... He isn't that impressive to me
@MTW6
07-25-2011
08:40 am
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Desean doesn't seem any more brittle than the rest of the NFL. He has only missed 2 games in 3 seasons due to injury. The Eagles rested starters in week 17 (he wasn't out with injury) which skews the stats you posted of his final 3 weeks. You also failed to mention that he did score during that time, the game winning punt return to beat the Giants in the Game Of The Year. And alluding to him being soft "only ran go-routes" isn't accurate as he immediately bounced back from vicious hits...
The week after Desean took that hit against the Texans he had 4 receptions for 210 yards and a TD against the Cowboys. After the devastating concussion he had vs the Falcons, Desean had 7 receptions for 109 yards and a TD against the Colts.
Nobody
07-16-2011
11:56 am
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Peyton Hillis will have a bad season because of the Madden Curse, too
Jonetta
07-05-2011
04:37 am
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More posts of this quiltay. Not the usual c***, please
Mitch
06-05-2011
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hahah it honestly seems to me the op just went through and just kept on complementing himself with random made up names. hahah WALT you really need to make a user account sign in doo-hickey
Lavigne
05-23-2011
11:26 am
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That's way the betesst answer so far!
Buffie
05-22-2011
07:47 pm
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Wow, thatÂ’s a really clveer way of thinking about it!
Caiden
05-22-2011
05:03 pm
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THX that's a great asnewr!
Lily
05-22-2011
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Hey, good to find someone who ageres with me. GMTA.
Josh
05-05-2011
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I don't think you have to worry too much about Foster losing TDs because Tate is back. Foster had about 550 more total yards than Peterson and 5 more TDs; even if Tate could steal that type of production, Foster would still be a top two RB.
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