Your NFL draft was a boon to your fantasy football values with the college players entering this league, but not be to your veterans who will come to be losing playing time and perhaps their jobs to the talented rookies joining their teams.
Consider this a companion piece to my column a week ago about players whose fantasy values went up after the NFL draft. Now we will take a look within the flip side of your coin, because while some draft picks can certainly help enhance the fantasy values of their new NFL teammates, other first-year players is going to be ruining the fantasy prices of some guys on the roster.
Just at the time you thought Sanchez's fantasy value cannot get any lower, the NFL's favorite turnover machine now is required to fight and claw simply start in 2013.
Injury-prone comeback story David Garrard was already signed during the offseason, so Sanchez at the very least had a little competition since southpaws Mark Brunell and Tim Tebow never truly had Sanchez shaking in his boots right after they were around.
But with The big apple drafting Geno Smith with the second round, now Sanchez might not even be on the team when season starts, let alone become the No. 1 quarterback. Even though Smith is often a walking question mark and for no reason a sure thing like Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were when they were drafted, his presence will employ more pressure on Sanchez when compared to any Buffalo Bills blitz has recent years.
The Jets probably will not be a ground-and-pound group in 2013. New offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg always favored passing over jogging when he and Andy Reid produced the Philadelphia Eagles offense the last several seasons. That is great for Sanchez in the event that he starts. That "if" is larger than D'Brickashaw Ferguson, though.
With Smith and Garrard forcing Sanchez in to a three-way dance for your starting QB gig, Sanchez's imagination worth has definitely become concussed.
By drafting Notre Dame standout Tyler Eifert inside first round, Cincinnati could now have just about the most potent tight-end twosomes within the NFL. But is that really good for Gresham's future imagination value?
Sure, there have been instances where two tight ends on the same team have both previously had great fantasy values, like Indianapolis' Dallas Clark and Marcus Pollard in earlier times and New England's Take advantage of Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez in the present.
But Cincinnati does not have a high-powered offense together with a future first-ballot Hall with Fame quarterback throwing the passes just as in those two teams. The mix of Cincinnati's somewhat conservative system plus the very average Andy Dalton at QB causes it to become less likely that a couple tight ends can either rack up enough yards and touchdowns to remain viable fantasy-wise.
Gresham's experiencing yardage has improved above his first three months, so he appeared primed on an 800-yard, eight-TD campaign in the event the trend held true with his fourth year. But with Eifert up to speed it is more remarkably questionable than Dan Le Batard that Gresham might reach those plateaus.
Green-Ellis is proficient at what he does—running involving the tackles, finding the end area and defending criminals to the Good Wife.
The problem is Green-Ellis has receiving skills of about Jose Canseco's boxing skills. He has never had above 22 receptions in a season and contains never scored a experiencing touchdown. This limits this fantasy value, and now it seems he may never get an opportunity to get on the niche on third down once again.
Enter second-rounder Giovani Bernard, who has speed in spades and to be able to take a harmless swing pass and transform it into a touchdown faster than it is possible to say, "Hush up, Geno Kirkland! "
Bernard averaged 5. 8 yards per take and caught 92 passes for 852 yards and six touchdowns over her two seasons at Idaho. He has speed and hands, the two issues Green-Ellis sorely lacks.
Green-Ellis should stay Cincinnati's primary ballcarrier within 2013, but Bernard has the knowhow and talent to always keep Green-Ellis off the field some more often next season, which means "The Law Firm" might not have as many fantasy football clients.
Pittsburgh's running-back-by-committee system past season worked about and Van Halen using Gary Cherone as its lead singer for an album.
Nobody out in the motley crew of Redman, Jonathan Dwyer, Rashard Mendenhall and Chris Rainey played sufficiently to stand out of the pack and become the highest tailback, but heading inside the offseason Redman looked for example the favorite to become probably the most valuable fantasy-wise in 2013 as a consequence of his all-around skills.
But with Pittsburgh picking out Michigan State's Le'Veon Bell within the second round of that draft, Redman's worth is drowning with the fantasy toilet bowl. Pittsburgh offensive coordinator Todd Haley is gushing about him, the program looks as if Redman and Dwyer shall be fighting over part-time lean against, while Bell could find the full-time touches.
Redman can still often be a decent late-round handcuff get in fantasy drafts since is great at putting up receiving yards and because Bell may well be a rookie flop. But his ranking upon preseason cheat sheets certainly has become tackled by Bell's planned arrival.
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