Fantasy Football's Top-50 Rankings for PPR Leagues, Part One

Nobody really knows how Mike Martz is going to use him, although with Nolan’s head under the guillotine, you would think he would get at least 300 carries. But with Martz’s history of under utilizing the running game, and Nolan’s history of bringing knives to a gunfight, you just never know.

11) Reggie Wayne

I’ve had him in the majority of my leagues for the past two years, but I won’t be able to get him this year because everyone has caught on. Much like how I was able to consistently draft Andre Johnson as a reserve until last season.

I don’t think Harrison’s status affects him, btw.

12) Terrell Owens

It took five years, a suicide attempt, and owning Tony Romo, but I’ve finally forgiven him for screwing over the 49ers.

I remember his last season with the team fondly. Promptly after predicting he would get 2,000 yards, Aeneas Williams lit him up in Week Two, and he spent the rest of the year refusing to go up the middle and short-arming passes.

After playing like a dog all year and leading the team to a 7-9 record, he blamed everything on the rest of the team, especially Jeff Garcia, going so far as to insinuate that Garcia was gay.

A year later Garcia was in Cleveland, and his future wife (2004 Playmate of the year Carmella DeCesare) is getting in a bar fight with his ex.

(I believe that’s check, and mate, Mr. Owens.)

13) Braylon Edwards

When the Browns slog through their brutal schedule and devastate Cleveland with their six-win season, Edwards will be the only one who doesn’t fall off. If I was convinced the Browns aren’t going to be disappointments this year, I might put him ahead of Owens and Wayne. He’s that good. He should be higher.

14) Ryan Grant

He’s legit. He ran really well last year, he’s young, has a lot of tread left on his tires, the offense should revolve around him, and I believe in Aaron Rodgers. You should be able to pick him in the mid-second round in a 10-team league.

I’ve got a good feeling about him, the same feeling I had with Reggie Bush last year.

(Forget I just wrote that.)

(Refusing to acknowledge the huge elephant hanging over the Packers.)

15) Tony Romo

As long as Jessica Simpson isn’t watching, I’m on board

Listen, last year, I watched a lot of Cowboys and Colts games (I had Addai, Wayne, Barber, Romo, and Witten in one league), and Tony Romo was better then Manning. He’s also a lot of fun to own\watch, and this is from a 'Niners fan who HATES the Cowboys.

(How was I able to field a team with those five? Addai and Wayne were nabbed in the early rounds, I stole Barber in the fifth or sixth, traded for Romo, and took Witten in the 12th. Unfortunately, the Jessica Simpson game was in the first round of the playoffs.)

16) Peyton Manning

Let’s recap:

For the past three years the jackasses at the major networks took sides between him and Brady over whom was the greatest QB of their generation, and once Peyton was given the Super Bowl, EVERYONE decided he was better then Brady.

Until last year when EVERYONE decided that Brady was the best QB that ever played, while the Pats rolled over a schedule consisting of CFL and semi-pro teams, until he shat himself in the Super Bowl (Oh wait, he had one drive.)

As for Peyton, he’s got the weapons (even if Harrison doesn’t return to form), and Brady showed him up at his own game last year (running up the score by padding his stats against weak teams, then falling apart at the worst possible moment in the season, which went against his M.O. for his entire career up until that point), so he’s in line for a big season.

(I have to add this here, since he’s not making my list, but I’m watching an Eli interview right now, and he looks like Kramer in the Seinfeld

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