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If you're eyeballing an obscure receiver such as Patrick Crayton or Terrance Copper as a possible free agent this week, do yourself a favour and don't think about it. Just pick them up, even this late in the season and even if they seem like unlikely fantasy football stars. As New Orleans rookie Marques Colston proves, the key to success in free agency is just throwing a bunch of names ...

The Bears are no doubt certain Rex Grossman's rotten play of late is just a phase, but impatient fantasy football players have another thought: Grossman just might have to go. Grossman is in the middle of his best season with a career-high 14 touchdowns, but when he's bad he's really, really awful. Just look at Chicago's last three games, all against weaklings. Grossman ripped the 49ers, but in the other ...

As usual, Tiki Barber's retirement announcement got all the attention in North America's largest media market. As usual, low-profile Curtis Martin flew under the radar when he declared himself done for the season _ and maybe for his career. The status of the two marquee New York running backs illustrates one of the facts of life in the NFL: Most players have to be dragged off the field because they ...

If the Bengals are wondering how to get back on track after two straight losses, all they need to do is ask the fantasy football geeks who drafted Rudi Johnson. The answer would come quickly, and probably even a little bitterly: Feed Rudi! Johnson averaged 24 carries, 96 yards and a touchdown in the Bengals' 3-0 start. In their two losses since, he's only had 16 carries and fewer than ...

After his Detroit Lions blew a 14-point fourth-quarter lead and lost their fifth straight in Minneapolis last week, Rod Marinelli said: ``A theme throughout our team is not doing our jobs, understanding our jobs and doing what we are coached to do.'' Question: If they are not doing what they are coached to do, doesn't that fall on Marinelli? OK, give the guy a break, he's been a head coach ...

Mario Williams got his first sack in his fourth game. Reggie Bush is a ``disappointment'' in New Orleans because he's only been good, not great. Vince Young is, predictably, struggling on a bad team. Matt Leinart gets his first start this weekend and, like most young quarterbacks, is likely to have problems. So much for high-profile rookies in the first quarter of the 2006 season. Better to drop all the ...

There are 25 million reasons to watch the Cowboys-Eagles game this week, but for fantasy football players Dallas receiver Terrell Owens isn't very high on the list. Of course he's very interesting, with the publicist, the stationary bike, the bitter feud with the Eagles and all the rest that goes along with being T.O. However, unlike years past, his football production is nowhere near the hype. He has only one ...

It seems like just a couple weeks ago the anti-Brett Favre bandwagon was barrelling through Green Bay at about 100 miles per hour, overloaded with experts demanding that the greying interception machine hang it up immediately. Oh yeah, it was just a couple weeks ago. Since then Favre has put together two straight 340-yard, three-TD games, making him a fantasy football saviour to many in need of a quick fix ...

San Francisco is a lot closer to six wins than a sixth Super Bowl title, but for fantasy football leagues these 49ers are championship material. Yes, the crummy little Niners of recent years suddenly have some players: Frank Gore's been a monster featured back, with 307 yards total and three scores. Antonio Bryant has gone over 100 yards receiving in two games as a 49er. Even Alex Smith is improved, ...

Tiki Barber, an All-Pro with 13,505 yards from scrimmage in 10 years in the NFL, was breaking one of football's unwritten rules when he criticized his coaches after a playoff loss last season. But at least he had the track record to give him credibility and his ``we were outcoached'' remark after a loss to Carolina came at the end of what until then had been a good season for ...