Next Stop For Flacco In the Stars
By Eddie Mayrose
Ranking quarterbacks for a Fantasy Football Draft isn’t exactly rocket science. Drew Brees, Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers are the 
top three, followed closely by Tom Brady and Matt Schaub. Easy stuff, actually, and pretty much universal. Rating the next five becomes a little dicey, however, as you’ll get very different opinions from Fantasy Football Owners as to which signal callers warrant these spots. The vast differences of opinion create the potential for selections that will make or break a Fantasy Football Season. For Professor Wagstaff’s money, the one man in that second five with the best chance of producing on the same level as the top tier is the Ravens’ Joe Flacco.
In 2008, Flacco, then a rookie out of Delaware, led the Ravens to the AFC Championship game; mostly by managing an offensive system that had been scaled down significantly in order to limit his mistakes. The handcuffs came off last year and Flacco owners benefited from an increase in his production although, Baltimore’s less than stellar wideouts limited the bump in Fantasy points.
This season, however, Flacco could be directing an offensive juggernaut; something Ravens’ fans have never seen before, even during their Super Bowl season. WR Mark Clayton, last year’s go-to guy, is now the third option after the acquisitions of Anquan Boldin and Donte’ Stallworth while RB Ray Rice has become a first rounder in most Fantasy Football drafts due to his status as the NFL’s best receiver out of the backfield. With the supporting cast now at Flacco’s disposal, he need only to continue the improvement he’s already shown to be that middle round pick you’ll point to when recounting how you managed to win your league in 2010. Continue reading »
money, but he did manage to break even on this season’s first venture into the world of pro football. Gil, having assured us he’d confer with his wife, Jill, returns this week to give his two cents on who we might be watching two weeks from now in Super Bowl XLIV.
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make up most of the final rounds with few exceptions. The three or four elite TE on your draft list warrant mid round selections but, for the most part, its hard to pass on a productive WR or RB just to fill a required roster spot. Defense/Special Teams is next in the pecking order with Kickers bringing up the rear. Too many intangible factors determine the success or failure of these units to even consider taking any in the middle of the draft. Don’t think so? Ask anyone that drafted the highly rated Chargers last year before Shawn Merriman went down for the season.
