{"id":9161,"date":"2011-09-13T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T19:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2011-09-13T15:18:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T19:18:58","slug":"fantasy-football-pickups-week-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2011\/09\/13\/fantasy-football-pickups-week-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Football Pickups &#8211; Week Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Fantasy Football Fans!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to a new Fantasy Football season!\u00a0 Each Tuesday, I will list the best free agent pickups.\u00a0\u00a0 I built this list by looking at the many leagues I am in which range in participation from 10-14 teams so I will try and have a pickup for every level.\u00a0 After an injury filled week one, let\u2019s get to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Average Size Leagues<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ben Tate-Carried the load      after the Ward and Foster injuries, both are shaky for this week, if he is      there this could be a great investment.<\/li>\n<li>Caddy Williams- Steven      Jackson is out for this Monday while he filled in quite nicely and filled      up the stat board.<\/li>\n<li>Devery Henderson-With      Colston and Moore out this week he should get you double figures again.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Meachem-Same as      above.<\/li>\n<li>Nate Burleson- Looks      locked in as the #2 target on a team who throws the ball more than anyone      else in the NFL.<\/li>\n<li>Jacoby Jones- He now moves      up to WR2 with Walter out, good spot play.<\/li>\n<li>Fred Davis- He always      plays well when in the lineup and Shanahan has already announced that the      2 TE set will be their base offense.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Fitzpatrick- Get him      for you bye week now, he is shining in the Chan Gailey pass happy offense.<\/li>\n<li>Jerome Simpson-The Bengals      looked pretty good and even though he had only 4 catches, did get 9      targets and I would think they will be trailing a lot this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Deep Leagues<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian Hartline-Looks to be      the WR2 in this new pass happy offense and had 7 targets last night.<\/li>\n<li>Brandon Gibson-With      Amendola out, he could be the main target for Bradford and the Rams.<\/li>\n<li><em>Mohamed<\/em><strong> <\/strong><em>Massaquoi-      He received 7 targets and may be ready to make the jump in his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> year.<\/em><em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Eric Decker- Orton looked to him 5 times and      seems to have pushed Eddie Royal aside.<\/em><em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ben Watson- Always overlooked, had a solid      season last year and was targeted 7 times by McCoy.<\/em><em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Chad Henne- If you like to carry 3 QB\u2019s you can      see they will be a throwing team especially in the red zone.<\/em><em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ernest Graham-He played double the stats of      Blount, got 9 targets and ran the ball 6 times, another guy who could give      solid stats later in the year on your bye week.<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dvond\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and feel free to ask any <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/forum\/12-fantasy-sports\/\">fantasy football questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good Luck this week!<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Fantasy Football Fans! Welcome to a new Fantasy Football season!\u00a0 Each Tuesday, I will list the best free agent pickups.\u00a0\u00a0 I built this list by looking at the many leagues I am in which range in participation from 10-14 teams so I will try and have a pickup for every level.\u00a0 After an injury [&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-9161","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-2nL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9163,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}