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A few NFL tidbits with some fantasy impact from the last few days.

Brett Favre a Viking! Yes, we’re back to FavreGate on FantasyDraftEdge.com but with reports that’s he IS going to attend the Minnesota Vikings training camp and new rumors that a deal is done for him to be the Vikings QB is tough to continue to ignore.   Favre could be a nice mid to upper level fantasy QB with a ground game and offensive line.

Alex Smith Stunning in Practice – The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that QB Alex Smith is out performing Shaun Hill by a significant margin in practice right now.  Although we believe the Alex Smith may still have a decent NFL season in him somewhere; being better than Shaun Hill is hardly a resume builder for Canton.  Someone will win this job but without some significant real game evidence to the contrary neither will be a great fantasy lineup option.

Bernard Scott impressive for the Bengals - Rookie RBs can often look quick in minicamp, and Scott has according to many reports.  If he can continue this impressive performance and stay out of trouble (not easy in Cinncy apparently, and Scott had 5 arrests and attended 4 different colleges) this could be a nice late round, nobody even noticed pick in your next fantasy draft.

Braylon Edwards not likely going anywhere – Very similiar to our comments recently on Brandon Marshall and his trade demands – it takes two to tango.  The Browns have a high asking price and Edwards not exactly in high demand.  As with Marshall, perhaps Edwards focuses and produces a big season to make him more tradable.

As we get into training camp we’ll be looking to have daily news story by story.  Still in mid-June news carries a bit less weight than it will in late-July and early-August.  However, some interesting news stories of the past few days:

Brett Favre Talks – This story, not surprisingly, won’t die.  Bottom line here is he either plays for the Vikings or he doesn’t play at all.  I can’t even begin to try and estimate how this will eventually conclude but as I’ve said previously – where there’s smoke there’s fire so there is some truth to some of what you hear.  Sorting out which and where is another story.

Brandon Marshall requests a trade – It’s unlikely anybody will have too much interest in taking on this huge problem.  But what we can hope is that Marshall realizes he needs a huge season, staying out of trouble if he really wants to be a commodity that has any trade value.  Don’t expect a trade to happen this season

Three headed running game in Baltimore – Not great news for fantasy football owners.  It looks like Jim Harbaugh in Baltimore wants to use all 3 of his backs equally this season.  So LeRon McClain, Ray Rice, and Willis McGahee will all get several touches but none will be featured backs and put up big numbers.

Colts looking to run more in 2009 – Having Peyton Manning makes the idea of a pass heavy offense a solid idea.  But to win consistently in the NFL you have to run the ball and the Colts want to run more often next year.  That upgrades both Addai and rookie Donald Brown on our cheat sheets.  And perhaps a slight reduction in projected stats for Peyton Manning.

After he plead guilty to a DUI manslaughter charge in Miami Donte’ Stallworth has been suspended indefinetely by the NFL.

Although ‘indefinetely’ can mean a lot of things even considering drafting Stallworth as a WR on your fantasy team right now does not seem like a smart play.  FantasyDraftEdge.com will of course monitor his status as the season approaches and our customizable cheat sheets will be adjusted accordingly.

More on Donte’ Stallworth being suspended.

The 14th round, as seen on Twitter, looks a lot like the 13th round.  Grabbing up the remaining defenses and adding QBs to the roster.

With the 10th pick in the 14th round FantasyDraftEdge.com selects Le’Ron McClain, RB, Bal
Plenty of competition in Baltimore but this team runs a lot, we like a 14th round pick as a back up RB with a chance to get some carries.

The rest of round 14, as expected was rather uneventful.  We did like pick 14.12 – Kevin Curtis, WR, Phi

The final few rounds of a fantasy football draft are rather uninteresting and all look about the same.  People scraping up players who they hope will surprise and/or recapture past glory.  At this point in the draft – why not…..

With our pick in the 13th round we selected the Tennessee Titans defense which we have ranked #10 on our cheat sheets so we’re very happy with this 13th round selection.

Other 13th round selections we liked….

13.05 Matt Hassleback – we’ve always been a big fan of Hassleback.  The Seahawks pass happy offense helps and perhaps if Hassleback is finally healthy he’ll return to some big numbers.  Plus in their division they get to play some very soft defenses.

13.11 Ricky Williams – the talent remains, and another season of getting back in full football shape behind him and the Dolphins a run heavy team this is a nice risk/reward pick.

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