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FanEx Analysis
Draft
Review
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Draft Rounds
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Round 12
   
  
 12.01 WR
Troy Williamson (R)
By TC Cannon
Rookie time! Williamson should be a fine rookie receiver
for the Vikes and this team. Not only will he have opportunities
to score, he has the immature talent to be productive between
the 20s.
Every rookie is a gamble.
Every rookie WR is a BIG gamble. It's boom-or-bust time in the
top of the 12th round.
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 12.02 TE
Bubba Franks
By Duane Cahill
I'm glad to see Big Bubba sitting
here at the beginning of round 12. Last year, I had
targeted Antonio Gates and Jason Witten as late-round sleepers
at tight end, but I don't see many similar choices at the
position. I was hoping that I could get Franks here, but
because of my earlier move up to get Eli Manning, I had to
wait for him to fall. I couldn't afford to trade up
again. Fortunately, I didn't have to.
I have Bubba Franks rated higher
than three of the tight ends that were selected ahead of him,
so I get value at the position. He's averaged seven
touchdowns per season in the last four years, and there
hasn't been any significant change in the NFL's fifth-highest
scoring offense that would suggest that he can't repeat
that number.
Strategy-wise, I like having the
TE to go with my RB1. How many times have you seen your
running back at the goalline, rooting him on for a score, only
to have the offensive coordinator pull a fast one? You
sit and watch helplessly as the quarterback FAKES to your back
up the middle, drops back a step and a half, and hits a
wide-open TE in the corner of the end zone for what should
have been YOUR touchdown!
Well, now I get that Packer
touchdown either way.
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 12.03 WR
Justin McCareins
By Dolfi | Walls
Dolfi’s
Take
– We considered taking one of the first defenses here or the
first kicker, but then our hangovers wore off and we realized
that we still had some pretty good players left to round out the
skill positions on our roster.
The RBs left
are unexciting and many can be had even later in the draft.
The QBs were already completely picked over before we
picked up the 2 we have, so another here would have been a
wasted pick. That
left WR. And WR is
a fine choice for us here – we automatically start 3 and a
flex player, so we definitely needed more than the 4 WRs we
already had on our roster.
Justin McCareins is the perfect compliment to our WR corps at
this point in the draft. He’s
young, he’s the #2 man on the Jets – and Pennington has been
improving. We had
actually thought about grabbing McCareins with our last pick,
but had decided on Charles Rogers due to what we felt was a
higher upside potential. It’s
not that McCareins doesn’t have upside potential, he certainly
does - but he was a guy that was more of a solid, week-in,
week-out performer last year than a player who can light it up
on any given weekend.
When McCareins
dropped to us at this slot, it was a fairly easy selection to
make. (In fact only
one other WR even piqued our interest at this point… but
we’ll hold off on naming him in case he’s still around for
us next round…) ;-)
And Justin is exactly the compliment to our boom/bust
pick of Rogers – a steady, young performer that will ensure we
see some catches each and every weekend.
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 12.04 DT
Colts
By Shannon O'Leary
I have selected the Colts defense here in the 12th round,
and I had Pittsburgh ranked pretty much the same. The
contributing factors of putting the Colts ahead of the
Steelers are Tony Dungy and the play of Dwight Feeney.
Dungy's teams have always been top notch defenses and you
can see this bunch turning the corner too. Feeney has the
motor to fire up the defensive side of the ball.
Another factor is the
effectiveness of the Colts offense. How often do you see the
Colts zip right down the field and score? The way I see it,
that provides more time for the defense to be on the
field making plays.
The Colts also concentrated on
defense with their picks in this years draft.
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 12.05 TE
Heath Miller (R)
By Jim Butler
Here is another rookie that is falling
in to the perfect position for great success this season. The one thing
that Big Ben failed to have last season was a strong reliable receiver
at the TE position. Now he has that and I'm glad to have him.
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 12.06 WR
Amani Toomer
By Del Pilar | Bonini
Who
We Took and Why:
After selecting the
Buffalo Bills defense in the last round we had our eye on three
receivers, but two of them (Detroit Lions WR Charles Rogers and
Minnesota Vikings WR Troy Williamson) were taken,
and there was suddenly a lot of uncertainty surrounding Seattle
Seahawks WR Koren Robinson, who was the third receiver
consideration. Therefore we went with New York Giants WR Amani
Toomer, who is a solid veteran and a player who has posted
1,000-plus receiving yards in five of his last six seasons.
Other
Candidates Considered:
We still thought about K-Rob, but his situation is simply
too uncertain. We also looked at Tampa Bay Buccaneers WR Joey
Galloway and Cleveland Browns WR Braylon Edwards, but felt
Galloway’s injury history and Edwards’ role in a potentially
anemic offense made Toomer the better choice.
Current
Strategy:
We would’ve preferred to land an exciting receiver with
upside for our fourth choice, but it simply wasn’t in the
cards so we ended up with a safer, albeit dull selection. In the
next round or two we’ll likely look to land our final receiver
and we may go after our place kicker as well.
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12.07 DT
Steelers
By Jerome Hickerson
The Steelers are a perennial top 5 defense. I expect them to
repeat that again this season. Picking a defense is always a
bit of a crapshoot. Defenses often bounce all over the board
from season to season. You can often grab a good defense as a
free agent during the season – but not in FAD. In FAD, you
have to guess right in May and June. So I place my bet on the
Steelers.
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 12.08 TE
LJ Smith
By Tony Holm
I'm fairly stoked about this selection as I've been watching LJ
Smith for three rounds now. Three rounds ago I thought
about taking him but it felt
too early and he is flying under the radar this season, so I
decided to let him go instead of wasting a pick. When I
selected the Patriots D with my last pick, it came down to the
Pats D or LJ Smith. I decided to push my luck just one
more round and hope that Smith would be here for me as I wanted
to come away with the Ravens, Pats or Bills D in this draft and
I felt that was my last opportunity to get one of them.
L.J. Smith is about as solid of a breakout candidate as there is
at the TE position in 2005. The team is committing more to
him and Andy Reid can't say enough good things about him.
In the Super Bowl against the Patriots, it was L.J. Smith that
roped in the first TD for the Eagles.
The one concern is that Chad Lewis is with the team but his
numbers have been steadily declining as LJ Smith's have steadily
been climbing. In the FAD scoring, LJ Smith finished 13th
on the TE list overall (ahead of guys like Dallas Clark) as
compared to Chad Lewis who finished 25th.
Smith's numbers should go up again this season as Lewis fades
into the background and find himself when all is said and done,
a top 10 TE. For the 15th TE selected in this draft, that
should be pretty good value.
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12.09 RB
Dominic Rhodes
By Brady Tinker
Rhodes is actually quicker than James and has the full trust of
his coaches and his quarterback, he has been in the Indy system
for a long time and will step right in if James gets hurt.
Rhodes has also benefited in recent years by James willingness
to come out of games in the red zone.
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 12.10 DT
Falcons
By Jim Butler
|With Defensive units required, and
the separation between the first and fifteenth defense being only 2
points per week, I chose to go with the Atlanta Falcons. They showed
last year that they were a quick defense that just tends to fly around
the field making plays and there is no reason to think that would
change this season. As the team settles in to the schemes by the new
coaching staff from last year, I think that they could even improve
upon being the 4th best scoring defense in the FAD last season.
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12.11 RB
Najeh Davenport
By Houston | Pitzer
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12.12 RB
Derrick Blaylock
By Greg Kellogg
Blaylock proved a capable backup during his
four-year Kansas City career. Blaylock averaged 4.6 yards per carry and
accounted for 723 rushing yards on 156 carries while scoring 10 TDs. He
added 45 receptions for 474 yards and two more receiving TDs. This all
done as a backup while sharing carries with Priest Holmes and Larry
Johnson.
Since moving east, Blaylock has improved his situation to where he is
now backing up Curtis Martin, a 33-year old running back coming off,
arguably, the best year of his career. For Blaylock to crack my
starting lineup, it is pretty clear that an injury will have to occur.
But of all the backups in the league, I think I will take my chances on
a backup to an old man with 3,758 NFL touches. If nothing else, the
Jets will likely use Blaylock to spell Martin in an effort to keep him
healthy for the end of the season.
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