The 2010 National Football League is less than two weeks from kicking off its regular season, which means fantasy football is already in full swing. Most leagues have already had their drafts and the trash talking has already begun between best friends and bitter rivals.
With the preseason winding down its time to take a step back and look at what we’ve learned. It has once again been confirmed that Brett Favre is going to play until he cannot walk anymore. It’s all extremely too much talked about for it to be THAT much of a hindrance.
Everyone knows he is an old man, two weeks away from his 41st birthday, but the fact at hand is that the man can still play football and he still knows more about the game than anyone else on the field. Period. He is being drafted at the 54th spot overall, according to ESPN fantasy sports.
It’s always a risk when your starting quarterback is a fragile 41-year-old-man who can’t decide if he wants to play the game or not, but following up arguably the best season of his career in 2009 that may be a risk worth taking.
On the injury front, Maurice Jones-Drew has been sidelined for the rest of the preseason, due to a sore knee.
While it may be solely a cautionary it still is a cause for some minor concern, if nothing else, because he is being drafted as the third best running back in the league.
One of the biggest impact wide-outs I have questions about is Larry Fitzgerald. There is no denying that Fitz is as good as they come on the outside.
He’s big, strong, fast and has phenomenal hands, but there is one huge question mark about the Cardinals offense…who is their quarterback?
If you’re basing your assumption off the 2010 preseason I think you’re back to square one. Brett Anderson is currently no. 1 on the depth chart, but with only 53 attempts and an even worse, two touchdowns, it’s tough to see the light at the end of this season, fantasy-wise, for Fitzgerald.
Although its only preseason, it’s a little scary when you see only one reception for 16 yards.
Happy drafting, if you haven’t done so already, and best of luck to you this year.