The third season is generally a good year for a wide receiver to breakout. When it comes to the Saints’ Joseph Morgan that breakout may be due more to finally getting an opportunity than anything else.

Signed as an undrafted free agent in 2011, Morgan missed his entire first season due to a meniscus injury. Last year he appeared in 14 games, picking up 10 catches for 379 yards and 3 TD (21 targets). Those numbers alone tell us how dynamic he can be and, with Devery Henderson no longer in the mix, he should get the chance to show it significantly more often.

However, making only big plays would make him one-dimensional and too big of a gamble for fantasy owners. How often can we really count on a receiver, who is likely fifth on the depth chart (Marques Colston, Lamce Moore, Jimmy Gaham and Darren Sproles) to break a 60 yard TD?

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There are always risks in selecting a running back, though as we all know they tend to be the lifeline of your fantasy team.  Who is the right running back to be targeting?  Let’s take a look at how we currently rank them heading into the 2013 season:

1. Adrian Peterson - Minnesota Vikings
2. Arian Foster - Houston Texans
3. Marshawn Lynch – Seattle Seahawks
4. Doug Martin - Tampa Bay Buccaneers
5. Ray Rice - Baltimore Ravens
6. Jamaal Charles - Kansas City Chiefs
7. LeSean McCoy – Philadelphia Eagles
8. C.J. Spiller – Buffalo Bills
9. Trent Richardson – Cleveland Browns
10. Alfred Morris – Washington Redskins
11. Matt Forte – Chicago Bears
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by Ray Kuhn

Mark Ingram is entering his third NFL season, reportedly at full health. He had success at Alabama leading the Saints to draft him in the first round, but he has not been healthy since. He is claiming that his knee and toe injuries have fully healed, and the “best shape of his life” stories are already beginning.

It is important to remember that it is still June and the pads have not gone on yet. So with that being said, I would certainly take these reports with a grain of salt. If the reports are true and Ingram is legitimately healthy, then he is a player to keep an eye as a sleeper candidate.

Sean Payton is back from his suspension and it appears that he has made improving the running game a priority. While Chris Ivory is gone, Darren Sproles and Pierre Thomas are still part of the Saints backfield. Sproles is obviously more of a receiving threat so Thomas is Ingram’s direct competition.

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The common thought process is that, once Danario Alexander became a starter for the San Siego Chargers, Philip Rivers suddenly became a better quarterback. To an extent it is accurate, but it was hardly a metamorphosis.

Where Rivers improved was in his TD:INT, but that’s about it:

• First 7 Games – 64.6% completion percentage, 220.9 yards/game, 10 TD, 9 INT
• Final 9 Games – 63.7% completion percentage, 228.9 yards/game, 16 TD, 6 INT

So while Alexander helped him make some big plays, the overall numbers really were not improved. Unfortunately, there is also little reason to think that things going to change in 2013.

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by Will Overton

For the second time in four year the Cincinnati Bengals went with a tight end in the first round of the NFL Draft. What makes it unusual is that they are the only team in the last four years to take a tight end in the first round, and now they’ve done it twice.

This leads to a few different interesting discussions about the changing value of the tight end in the game today and whether they are more valuable than in the past and if that justifies these selections. This is a fantasy site though, so what we’re going to talk about is what kind of fantasy implications are involved with the Bengals and their two tight end situation.

The two tight end formation isn’t uncommon in the NFL anymore. We’ve seen the Patriots have huge success on the field and on the fantasy box scores using two TE’s together a large portion of the time. Last year the Colts drafted and used two tight ends quite often. So let’s just throw out the idea now that Jermaine Gresham and Tyler Eifert can’t both have value together, it’s more a question of will they. Read the rest of this entry »

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