Jason Campbell

I'm seeing and hearing good things about Jason Campbell in Washington. The man is obviously not as big a star as Jay Cutler or Matt Leinart, but the young QB is earning the respect of his team.



Portis reportedly said he'd never seen a player grow as much in one year. I saw an interview with Chris Cooley on NFL Today where he was heaping praise on his QB. Remember last year, I think it was Campbell's first game under center as starter and there was a play for a TD with the clock ticking. After the game, we learned the headset in his helmet was out and he called the play on the fly, under pressure.


The Mustard: You can worse for a QB2 than Jason Campbell. He's liked by his teammates. As long as he's growing, the coaches have an incentive to let the first round pick play. There's not any competition on the roster. He has a seven game streak of TDs - current longest active streak, actually. When the doodoo hit the fan last year on my QB front on one team I plugged Campbell in. He didn't win me any games all by himself, but he didn't lose them for me either. Although I have a lot of other QBs projected higher, I expect Campbell will be a consistent producer, if not a stellar one.

Cooley is worth a pick as TE1. His routes are improving and his rapport with Campbell, who liked to target the TE, is apparently good. I was hoping he would fly under the radar, but Football Guys have him 7th and Beckett's Fantasy football mag has him in Tier 2 (Tier 1 consists entirely of Antonio Gates - hard to argue with that.)

And while we're on the Redskins, go look at the stats for Clinton Portis and Ladell Betts. Betts has a much higher YPC at 4.7 compared to 4.1. If you draft Portis, you had better grab Betts. I would expect at least an RBBC by the end of year and wouldn't be surprised to see it immediately. If that happens, Betts may end up with the lion's share of the carries and receptions out of the backfield.