1a.Foster 1b.Rice 1c.McCoy 4.CJ 5.DMC 6.Murray 7.Forte 8.Charles 9. AP 10. S. Jackson
This is my ranking if I had to draft today. The first four are a no-brainer for me. After that, I'm going with guys that I feel confident will actually be playing week 1. I don't know how you can rank MJD top ten without knowing if he plays a down before week 10.
hopsjr2 wrote:1a.Foster 1b.Rice 1c.McCoy 4.CJ 5.DMC 6.Murray 7.Forte 8.Charles 9. AP 10. S. Jackson
This is my ranking if I had to draft today. The first four are a no-brainer for me. After that, I'm going with guys that I feel confident will actually be playing week 1. I don't know how you can rank MJD top ten without knowing if he plays a down before week 10.
I agree. I can rank all I want, but I'm not going to draft him if he's there when I pick. I'll skip over him to the next guy on my list, or just remove him all together. If he falls in a certain league into the second round, I'll take him. Same with DMC and Mathews, both just too injury prone to justify a first round pick. Can't win a league in the first round, but can damn sure lose it.
4. CJ - I flirt with putting DMC in this position, CJ may not have his upside but hasn't missed a game in 3 years, I'll take the durability with my first rounder
5. DMC - straight up finishes #1 overall if he plays all 16 games, he probably won't but it's worth the risk IMO
6. Charles - continually gets bumped up my ranking, has looked good in preseason (good lateral movement) and runs behind a dominant O-line, the players below have bigger question marks
7. Forte - a solid option but I have questions about how he'll be utilized this year (staying back to protect Cutler so BMarsh can do his thing), I believe he'll regress slightly but still put up around 1,400 total yards
8. Murray - IMO I don't even think he should be ranked here but there aren't many other options, he's a much bigger injury risk than people think, dating back to college and he's rather unproven
9. AP - hey, he woke up with no swelling in his knee yesterday after going a bit harder in camp, if this keeps up he moves up, simple as that
10. SJax - he's gotten more hype this year than any year I can remember due to the anemic state of the position, solid RB2 but risky RB1, good for 1,400 total yards, 40 catches though