I like that Foxsports has a lot of free material, including fantasy football with free live scoring, bless them. But really, I have always valued their cheat sheets the least. I don't trust them. So it's no surprise that I don't like this article.
Roger Rotter is a McNabb fan. I like McNabb. But Rotter appears to argue that he should be a top tier QB if not the first QB taken.
Though McNabb is being drafted after Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Carson Palmer and even Marc Bulger, he was projected to pass for 4,567 yards and 32 touchdowns over a full season before his season-ending injury in the Eagles' 10th game. That would have clinched him as fantasy's top quarterback last season.
Nevermind that McNabb has completed all 16 games only 3 of his 8 seasons and is recovering from a torn ACL. He'll be good, sure. He always is. But odds are you'll be needing your QB2 more than you would prefer for such a high draft pick.
Unlike Brandon Jacobs, Droughns has shown he can handle extensive running back duties over a full season
Um-hmmm. Reuben Droughns was deemed expendable by Cleveland. In favor of Jamal Lewis.
He also tags Kevin Jones as undervalued. Ehh... maybe. But I've heard that locals expect Tatum Bell to be the starter even if Jones weren't on the physically unable to perform list with no expected date to be off of it, which he is.
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Drafting McNabb is Fantasy Suicide
I'm in a zillion public leagues and see this mistake in every draft. The problem with drafting McNabb is that you have to have a backup because he's not Peyton. However, the QB2 is so expensive, a good GM would never make the initial pick. First, in the public leagues, McNabb has been the 5QB or 6QB taken and will cost you an early round pick (likely 1-4). Now if, like most of the GMs I've seen, you decide to treat this as a normal QB pick, the back-up doesn't come until the later rounds, when no one even remotely approaching his caliber will be able to fill in when the inevitable injury comes, and it will come. You've just wasted the pick for a starting roster spot.
The only responsible way to draft McNabb in a public league is to spend the very next pick on the back-up. But now McNabb has cost you two early-mid round picks before your starting roster has been filled. Your RB2 is now Samkon Gado and your WR1 won't outscore anyone else's WR3.
In a competitive league choosing McNabb has, shall we say, built-in Darwinian fail safes. It'll be the opposing GMs saying "championship," not you.
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