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  If You Had to Choose: Michael Vick or Arian Foster?  Icon SMI  More Articles from Fantasy Football Freaks Reminder: Site Survey for the 2012 Season iPad Winner Revealed Super Bowl Rankings Conference Championship Rankings Divisional Round Rankings Wild Card Weekend Rankings Fantasy Football Freaks are the Champions of the 2011 All Pro Leagues 32 Team Expert League Week 17: Gems for the Last Weekend The Freaks Projections and Ratings 2011 Week 17 The Freaks Sleepers 2011 Week 17 Mark Henesy from NY asks: I am in a keeper league and have the tough decision of picking 1 of the 3 to keep. Michael Vick, Arian Foster or Jamaal Charles. any help is appreciated Mark, with a nucleus like that I sure hope you won last season. That's a pretty terrifying trio to square off against. I know you're not looking forward to parting with any of them. Let's start with a process of elimination. You have two RB to choose from and we currently have Arian Foster ranked as the #1 pick overall and Jamaal Charles as the #4 pick in our Draft Ranks. Both guys are 24 years old (Foster is 4 months younger) so age isn't a factor. A quick run down of the stats shows that Foster had the edge in total yardage last season, 2200 compared to 1900, but where Foster really made his money was in his scoring ability. Foster (16) rushed for more than 3x as many TD's as Charles (5). Until Charles consistently finds the end zone, you have to roll with Foster. So it's down to Foster and Michael Vick, the #1 and #2 top scoring fantasy players from 2010 in most standard leagues. The scary thing is Vick managed that feat in only 12 games! Even if you compare their 2010 points per game, the drop-off until the next ranked player at the same position is about the same from Foster (19.9) to Adrian Peterson (15.8) as it is for Vick (26.5) to Aaron Rodgers (21.1). If I absolutely had to pick one...3 hour pause...I'd take Arian Foster. Why, you ask? Foster's 2010 numbers are too hard to ignore and if he can play out to that potential, you could have yourself a top 3 RB for several years. Vick on the other hand comes with some injury risks. From 2001-2010 he's played 8 seasons. In half of those seasons he played 12 games or fewer. He's played the full 16 only once. But honestly, you could go with a coin toss here, you can't really lose - even though it will feel that way every time you play the guy you decide to cut. Have a fantasy football question of your own? Click Here to ask us. |
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| enoch | August 18, 2011 |
| In FFball you have to with the RB | |
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| enoch | August 18, 2011 |
| In FFball you have to with the RB | |
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| enoch | August 18, 2011 |
| In FFball you have to with the RB | |
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| enoch | August 18, 2011 |
| In FFball you have to with the RB | |
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| gsrvtec1 | August 8, 2011 |
| A career year for Vick which I don't see him quite equaling in 2011. Teams were starting to figure him out towards the end of the season. Foster has 3-4 dominant years left in him before his body starts to break down. Also I would take him over Charles since he's almost always good for 2 TD's a game. | |
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| asalladay | August 8, 2011 |
| I don't see Eagles being as good as last year and in turn I don't see Vick being as dominate either. I think teams have had more time to prepare for him than in the past. | |
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