A few days ago I gave my thoughts on 3 of my top fantasy players for the 2011 season. Here are 3 more that will fly a little under the radar.
Jimmy Graham – TE
In the last 7 games of the season he averaged 36 yards per game. Not spectacular but in his last 3 games he had 4 TD’s. He’s 6-6 and weighs 260. Drew Brees is one of the best QB’s in the league and he has underachievers in Colston and Moore. Graham is going to be the starter and I assure you he will be a quality TE this year.
Kenny Britt – WR
Yes, he got arrested during the off season. He plead not guilty and probably won’t be reprimanded because it was during a “lockout.” Can Kenny Britt play football? Even with Kerry Collins at QB, let’s look at the numbers. He averaged 72 yards per game and had 7 TD’s in his first 7 games. Yes this includes a 225 yards, 3 TD game vs the Eagels but it still shows the potential. He was injured and he missed the next 5 games. I think you know he’s not playing 16 games when you draft him for one reason or another. He finished the last 4 games of the season and averaged 85 yards per game and caught 2 TDS. If he falls into the later rounds, he’s worth a gamble.
Miles Austin – WR
I really like Miles as a player on a team with limited WR’s. People may think Dez Bryant is the next best thing but I just don’t see it. Romo and Miles have a strong relationship that Dez Bryant isn’t breaking up this quickly. Miles is consistent and his numbers are deceiving because Romo went down in Week 6. In the 4 games with Romo at QB, Miles averaged 118.5 yards a game with 2 TD’s. The rest of his season was still pretty good but I promise you he will go later in drafts than he should.
I have to disagree with the majority of this post…first off if you think Dez Bryant is a stud and that Colston is an underachiever you don’t know much about football and base your “knowledge” of football on fantasy points alone. Colston has averaged 1000+ yds and 8 TDs over his first 5 years in the league(missed 5 games in 2008).
If you ever actually saw Dez play you can see he is an absolute beast and was able to score 6 Tds (8 if you count punt returns) as a rookie. Hard to call Miles Austin an under the radar guy after back to back huge (pro bowl)years, he is easily a top 10 WR. Hard to say Dallas has limited receiving options, 6th in the league in passing even with Jon Kitna playing half the year and when their tight end avgs just under 80 catches and 800 yds for his career.
Not sure you should put Jimmy Graham in the stud category, he’ll be top 10-12 tight end and really after the top 5 guys at the position there is not a big difference between 6 and 15. Judging by this post you probably believe you have the talent to be a NFL GM because you played “fantasy” football.