NFL Week 10: A bunch of games will be played

It was kinda special on its own, but I do get your point. They already had a strong core in place, but 15 rookies made the team in 1974, including eight draft picks. The best of the free agent rookies who made the team was Donnie Shell, who went on to intercept 51 passes, start for 11 seasons and make five Pro Bowls.

Part of that was probably the strike during training camp, which gave the rookies more opportunity to prove themselves than they would in a normal year.

 

Just think how cool a fantasy draft from, say 1962 would be, and combine it with both the NFL and AFL.

Brown could be the first pick, Jim Taylor the second, Unitas maybe the third pick. Bobby Mitchell and Lionel Taylor would be top receivers. Abner Haynes would be a great all-around player.

 

Ex-Dolphins, Rams running back Pead reportedly in critical condition after accident

 

Tampa Bay had two HOFers in the first round of the '95 draft (Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks), but no one else of note.

 

Fun question. Without looking up anything, I wonder if Jerry Rice would have the highest season score in history (in a PPR league).

 

Possibly. Priest Holmes or LaDanian Tomlinson might have had better ones. Both caught a lot of passes and each had seasons with big touchdown totals. It might depend on the scoring system. I'm not a big fantasy football guy, but I have been in leagues that gave fewer points for receiving touchdowns than they do for rushing touchdowns.

 

Not likely. He only had one season that ranks in the top 30 in receiving yards, and in that season he didn't lead the league in touchdowns.

The year he did go bonkers in TDs (22 in 12 games in 1987), he only had 65 catches.

 

I was trying to do it without looking anything up, but if you look at Rice's numbers, LTL is right.

His best year in a PPR league might have been 1995, with 122 receptions for 1,848 yards and 15 touchdowns and one rushing touchdown, but look at the monster years Holmes had for the Chiefs in 2002 and 2003.

2002: 1,615 yards and 21 touchdowns rushing with 70 receptions for 672 yards and three more scores.
2003: 1,420 yards and 27 touchdowns rushing with 74 receptions for 690 yards.

 

And barely 1,000 yards. Without doing the actual math, it looks like his 1995 season was his best. He went 122/1,848/15. Career highs in catches and yards, and a really good touchdown total. At least one touchdown or 100 yards in every game except one -- Week 13 against Buffalo, which was a 5-for-32 turd burger that would have had a ton of fantasy players burning their Rice jerseys in effigy.

 

I know you picked that year off the top of your head, but '62 was the worst year of Brown's career -- the only one he didn't lead the league in rushing.

 

Wow, I just realized the Sunday night game this week is actually good.

 

Steelers notebook: Pouncey to start Sunday against Cowboys

Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey had surgery to repair a dislocated thumb on his right hand earlier this week, but he took every snap in practice Friday and he is going to start Sunday against the Cowboys.

They will have to get better play up front to keep up with the Cowboys Sunday. Roethlisberger should be better in his second game back from knee surgery and Pittsburgh has been much better at home, but the Steelers still have problems at receiver with Markus Wheaton and Darius Heyward-Bey both still out.