Fantasy Football News, Notes and More Blog

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FantasyDraftEdge.com is participating in another fantasy football mock draft starting August 1st, 2009.  We’ll be tweeting all the picks in the draft – so make sure you are following us on Twitter.

It is an e-mail draft made up of leading fantasy football website owners.  With an e-mail draft you’ll see picks come in bunches followed by long periods of no picks often followed up by another flurry of activity.

Enjoy the draft and look for our commentary about our picks and the draft in general posted here.

Reports out of Oakland continue to indicate that Darren McFadden will be used in a variety formats and several plays are designed specifically to get McFadden the ball.

We’ve been inching McFadden up our cheat sheets all summer long – this guy is an amazing talent and it appears the Raiders are ready to take advantage of it.

Bills head coach Dick Jauron has said that he’d like Fred Jackson to get more carries as he’s earned them with solid play over the past few years.

This could mean a few less carries for Lynch, but not too many would make sense.  We’ve seen Marshawn be much more effective with 20+ carries a game so although Jackson might be a nice back to spell Lynch he’s not a great fantasy play behind a guy like Lynch.

It was always unlikely that Turner would again see over 370 carries, but certainly would exceed 300 and be one of the top producers in the league at running back –  a great option on any fantasy team.

However, the Falcons are indicating they’d like to see Turner carry the ball more like 275 times in 2009.

FantasyDraftEdge.com Take

That’s easy to say in July but when it comes time to win games and Jerious Norwood is hurt again they’ll give the ball to Turner.  Yes, the Falcons have more weapons on offense but we expect Matt Ryan to regress a bit this season and the run game despite best intentions for balance will still be the primary focus of the Falcons offense.