Now I’ve been nice all summer long by pumping out sleeper posts. I gave you a Chris Ivory Sleeper post, a Sam Bradford Sleeper post and even a Chris Givens Sleeper post. Yes that was a clever ruse to get you to click around the site a bit. At least I’m no Bleacher Report and giving you a slideshow with every article. ‘And now let’s discuss why Mark Sanchez is bad for fantasy football. Slide 1: butt fumble, Slide 2: butt fumble.gif, Slide 3: Butt Fumble in slow motion, Slide 4:…’, eh, you get the point that I’m an internet whore but not THAT kind of internet whore. Moving on, I just wanted to say you have to sometimes take the gloves off with players. Can’t always say ‘tremendous upside’ or ‘great value pick’. Sometimes you have to point out what’s missing. So let’s discuss Hakeem Nicks and why he’s avoidable in most drafts for 2013 Fantasy Football…
To understand why Nicks is overrated, let’s look at some numbers: 14/13/15/13. No, there’s no sequence going there so don’t try to guess the next number and no it’s not the the ages of Gary Glitter’s crushes. Those are the number of games Nicks has played in each of his 4 seasons in the NFL. Notice none of them say 16? Yeah, me too. I’m gonna point something very simple out: Running Backs get hurt all the time and miss games. We have come to this realization and accept it. We draft the Darren McFadden’s of the world with a full understanding that we may only get 12 games out of them. Are we happy about it? Heck no, but RB is such a physically grueling position, it’s hard to expect a healthy 16 games from it very often and at the very least aren’t surprised to see 14 games next to a running back that gets picked in the first 2 rounds. But Hakeem Nicks is not a Running Back. I know that, Imaginary Reader, but I’m setting up the juxtaposition. Isn’t that what a Liberator Whirl is for?  Maybe in your house it is, I.R., but in this house it’s to point out the contrast. You see, your wide outs should not be injury prone. Not that playing the position isn’t physically demanding but nagging injuries and always being on the ‘probable’ or ‘questionable’ side of the injury report at this position is a dubious distinction to own and not one you should have if you’re the 17th best wide receiver going off fantasy boards in yahoo drafts. Look, I get it, Nicks is a very talented player. But the question is, ‘does the value carpet match the ADP drapes’ and the answer is ‘not when guys like Kenny Britt are going 40 spots behind him’. What I’m saying to you is, if you’re looking to take risks at the wide receiver position, you can do it for cheaper then a WR2 price tag and I strongly encourage you to do so.
