{"id":8920,"date":"2011-08-23T07:47:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T11:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2011-09-02T19:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:06:17","slug":"2011-fantasy-football-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2011\/08\/23\/2011-fantasy-football-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Fantasy Football Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new Fantasy Football season!\u00a0 As we did last year, I will list the best free agent pickups of the week every Thursday.\u00a0 For the preseason we will pass along some drafting tips and here is an informal but updated <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/uploads\/FantasyFB_2011.xls\">fantasy draft cheat sheet<\/a>.\u00a0 For this week we will list the players who I think are going too high in mock drafts and others who are being drafted too low.\u00a0 The 1<sup>st<\/sup> number is where they are being drafted.<\/p>\n<p>Over drafted<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arian Foster(2)-\u00a0 He broke out big time but already      battling injuries like he did at Tennessee, will be lucky t play 12 games      at the most.<\/li>\n<li>Darren McFadden (9)-\u00a0\u00a0 Another big break out star last year      who continued to miss games and is hurt as well this preseason, not meant      for full time carries, if you get stuck with him, make sure you draft Bush      one round early.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Gore (16)-\u00a0 Every year you think this is the one he      breaks out except he breaks down and with that QB situation, it going to      be a long year for him and the 49ers.<\/li>\n<li>Peyton Manning (19)- He      needed 100 more passes last year to ge his stats than the year before, he      is still great but with the neck injury and age creeping in, the downfall      starts.<\/li>\n<li>Matt Forte (20)- With the      new addition of Barber, he will get some numbers but the lack of TD\u2019s will      be a killer.<\/li>\n<li>Hakeem Nicks (25)-If you      want 10 great games he is your man, but has never played a full season      going back to UNC.<\/li>\n<li>Reggie Wayne (27)-\u00a0 While solid he is no longer a WR1 as      Peyton continues to share with way too many weapons.<\/li>\n<li>Dwayne Bowe (32)-\u00a0 Most of his damage happened in a 6 game      stretch last year, has never been consistent and will come back to his      normal self.<\/li>\n<li>Cedric Benson (35)-\u00a0 Rookie QB, no playmakers and less than 4      yards a carry when they did have them, stay far away.<\/li>\n<li>Matt Ryan (38)-Better real      life QB than fantasy, make sure you get one of the top 7, if not      Fitzpatrick will be better.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Matthews (39)-\u00a0 Big rookie bust who cannot get and stay      on the field, let someone else take a chance.<\/li>\n<li>Green Ellis (45)-\u00a0 You do not draft 2 Rb\u2019s and expect him      to get all the carries, was a nice surprise who will come back to earth.<\/li>\n<li>Marques Colston (50)-\u00a0 Always solid with 1K yards but with      another knee surgery let someone else live through his 6 weeks where he      scores less than 3 points like last year.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Ingram (54)-\u00a0 Way too many RB\u2019s in the mix for anyone      to have solid week to week starting ability.<\/li>\n<li>Steelers D (62)-\u00a0 There is no defense worth taking before      the 11<sup>th<\/sup> round, way too volatile position year to year.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Crabtree      (83)-\u00a0 Undraftable for me due to his      injuries and his QB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under drafted;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Sims-Walker (144)-\u00a0\u00a0 Could have a Brandon Lloyd type year in Josh McDaniels offense, only big play guy at WR for the Rams.<\/li>\n<li>Beanie Wells (131)-\u00a0 He is the starter and with their job share a good guy to take a chance on at this spot.<\/li>\n<li>Pierre Thomas (122)-\u00a0 I expect similar stats with Ingram and he is going 70 spots later.<\/li>\n<li>Jacoby Ford (116)-\u00a0 Put up WR! Stats the last 4 weeks in 2010, if he can stay healthy, I expect him to be a solid WR3.<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Stafford (94)-\u00a0 The Lions threw more than every other team other than Colts, if he can stay on the field, expect huge numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Mike Tolbert (89)-\u00a0 Matthews is becoming a bust and Norv loves him, expect RB2 numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Austin Collie (80)-\u00a0 Before he got hurt he was catching more passes than any other player and was a top 10 WR, even if you get 8 games well worth it a round or 2 earlier.<\/li>\n<li>Mario Manningham (77)-\u00a0 He can stay healthy and put up similar numbers as Nicks 6 rounds later.\u00a0 Also no Steve Smith to take snaps.<\/li>\n<li>Marshawn Lynch (76)-\u00a0 Broke out in playoffs and Petey has no other every down options.<\/li>\n<li>Fred Jackson (62)-\u00a0 Nothing but solid and is a perfect RB2 as Spiller is more of a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> down guy.<\/li>\n<li>Felix Jones (60)- Easily the RB! In Dallas, if he stays on the field enjoy the rewards.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Grant (48)-\u00a0 Was healthy by December last year but was on IR,\u00a0 will hold off Starks.<\/li>\n<li>Tony Romo (44)-\u00a0 Was a top 5 QB before the injury and will get that back this year.<\/li>\n<li>Larry Fitzgerald-\u00a0 Kolb may not be accurate but they will be losing a tons of games and volume will be high, could be the #1 WR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow me on Twitter and feel free to ask any and all fantasy football questions <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dvond\" target=\"_blank\">@dvond<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also visit the Jets Nation <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/index.php?\/forum\/12-fantasy-sports\/\">fantasy football forum for more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good Luck this week!<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new Fantasy Football season!\u00a0 As we did last year, I will list the best free agent pickups of the week every Thursday.\u00a0 For the preseason we will pass along some drafting tips and here is an informal but updated fantasy draft cheat sheet.\u00a0 For this week we will list the players who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fantasy-football"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-2jS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8971,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions\/8971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}