Fantasy Football Week 3 Projections: Players with No Business in Your Lineup

Putting together your fantasy football lineup each week is nothing if not an evolutionary process. The lineup you start in Week 1 is often times very different from the lineup you put out there in each of the following weeks of the season.

Injuries, inconsistencies and poor performance dictate this. As an owner, you have to be proactive about your team. You run the risk of having a sub-par season if you wait too long to make changes.

Don't be that overly passive owner and get these players out of your lineup (or off your team) in Week 3.

Eli Manning: New York Giants

For better or worse, Eli Manning has come to embody the middle class among quarterbacks.

On the positive side of things, many owners hang back and let other owners draft quarterbacks high in the draft knowing that they can always fall back on Manning.

Negatively, owners with Manning always seem to be looking for an upgrade. You could do a lot worse than Manning at quarterback, but you could also do a lot better.

This season has been no different. In two games, he has averaged about 250 passing yards and thrown two total touchdowns. Those aren't embarrassingly bad numbers, but they aren't anything to write home about, either.

Eli and the Giants take on the Eagles and their elite defense in Week 3. Do all you can to find a replacement for him before that game. It promises to be his worst.

Arian Foster: Houston Texans

There is, of course, a chance that Foster returns to his 2010 form before this season it out, but those chances are looking slimmer and slimmer as the weeks pass by.

The hamstring injury that has plagued Foster since training camp doesn't appear to be going away any time soon. Every time he gets back out to test it, he aggravates the strain. Hamstring pulls and strains can linger, and I think that's what Foster has on his hands here.

At the very least, Foster's role will be diminished if he ever gets back on the field. He won't be taken out of the offense completely, but Ben Tate has played well enough that he will certainly cut into carries that Foster would normally get.

I'm not advocating benching Foster if you have him. You drafted Foster high enough that you have to play him if you won him. I'm saying that you should do everything you can to trade him to someone else. Let another owner play the guessing game on whether or not Foster will ever be the same.

Sam Bradford: St. Louis Rams

I'm as big a Sam Bradford fan as there is out there, but he just has too much working against him in Week 3 of the NFL season.

The matchup against the Baltimore Ravens isn't a good one. The Ravens have a physical, attacking defense that will force Bradford to make decisions under duress.

The bigger problem, though, is the fact that the offense around him is really banged up . Slot receiver Danny Amendola will again be out with an elbow injury and running back Steven Jackson, the man that makes the offense go, may or may not be active.

Bradford will be a good fantasy option just about every other week this season, and eventually in his career, he will be an elite quarterback, but neither of those things will be apparent this week against the Ravens.