By Zack Cimini
notjustagame23@gmail.com

Fantasy gurus usually stick their noses out with bold predictions. Some are outrageous claims that get muddled and forgotten through the years transgressions and constant attention on the new hot fantasy topic. We like to stick to our guns and make sure you remember which site to rely on for years to come. Bookmark us and stick with a site that will keep your fantasy sports teams balanced.

Before the season kicked off we projected our top ten fantasy players to disappoint. The link is below here. Lets analyze these ten players and see how correct we were.

http://www.notjustagame.com/2009/09/03/696/

1. Brian Westbrook- Anyone that tried to rely on Westbrook as a number one running back this year probably tried desperately to convert a trade or ferociously glanced the waiver wire in hopes of finding a way to secure some sort of production. It’s been a true tough break year for Westbrook who has battled concussions and the injury bug. Thus far he only has 225 yards rushing and a little over 150 receiving. Ouch.

2. Peyton Manning- Lets remember we made this pick based on Manning’s average draft position, which was many rounds ahead of most quarterbacks. We suggested you could land better value at the same spots Manning was going and still get a quality quarterback to put up near Manning numbers. Grabbing a Philip Rivers or Donovan McNabb two to three rounds later we still believe was the smarter move.

3. Michael Turner- We saw this one coming from miles a way. Too many carries last year meant that he was going to wear down in 2009. From the early part of the season he struggled. The only good thing was he was able to still find the end zone with consistency. For a back that doesn’t catch it out of the backfield he has to fall a bit to a late first round back in 2010.

4. LT- Which ever rise people want to try and say on LT being back over the last few weeks we are not buying. He is giving it his all but stats do not lie. Tomlinson is only averaging 3.2 yards a carry and has zero…that’s right zero 100 yard rushing games. He has hit the end of the road and can’t be counted on as a feature fantasy or feature NFL running back ever again.

5. Terrell Owens- Not much to analyze on this one except we said Buffalo wasn’t going to be able to throw the football with their quarterbacks. It didn’t matter who was running routes they weren’t going to be fantasy friendly. Terrell Owens still got drafted based on his name and that is looking like a great pick by those owners that wanted statistics of a fifth receiver on fantasy rosters.

6. Tom Brady- Similar to what we said on value you could find at quarterback in later rounds.

7. Frank Gore- It looked like Gore was going to prove us wrong when he rushed for 200 yards in week two. Instead that has proved to be 1/3 of his season thus far yardage wise. He is sitting at 668 going into week 14 and has not been the same since his knee injury suffered at the tail end of that monster Seattle game. He still has four games to make a season of it, but will not do enough to show enough value of a first round pick.

8. T. J. Houshmandzadeh- Read word for word on what we wrote in the initial article on TJ.

9. Thomas Jones- We’d have to be wrong on at least one player. Jones is one of those rare backs that seems to find that groove and get better later in his career. He is entering that tier one phase of premier backs.

10. Eddie Royal- Royal’s speed and big play ability is similar to DeSean Jackson. The problem is the Broncos do not like to air it out deep and would rather rely on preserving the clock and throwing median route balls to Brandon Marshall. Royal is starting to become a special teams factor and that’s it. It’ll be interesting to see if he can retain a starting job throughout next years training camp.