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We all know the importance of drafting well. While our Impact Reports are specifically designed to keep you on top of the waiver wire, they will also provide you with pre-season updates and updated suggested draft positions. Be it poor performances, injuries, position battles or anything that might affect a player's fantasy value, it is all factored into our Fantasy Impact Reports. When the season begins we have our staff analyzing all 256 games with the main goal of finding the next Marques Colston. As you can see from the sample Impact Reports, our staff spends hours digging up statistics. Why? Stats do not lie. In most cases, the biggest player breakouts in the past had a statistical trail. We're going to help you follow those trails to victory! Are you sick and tired of being the last person to find out about that major injury because you've been going to one site that gives you free rankings but only updates every three weeks? Our Fantasy Impact Reports and everything else you receive as a Fantasy Football Indepth subscriber is updated daily, in many cases hourly. So make losing a thing of the past and join the Fantasy Football Indepth team.
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Is Michael Turner Worth It?
| Former San Diego Charger Michael Turner, considered by many to be this year's top free agent running back officially signed a six year deal worth 34.5 million dollars with the Atlanta Falcons. This move was considered risky by some, due to the fact that Atlanta paid a high price for Turner, who has had the luxury of playing his entire career behind one of the greatest backs of all time, LaDainian Tomlinson. Turner has an impressive career average of 5.5 yards per carry, yet has never carried the ball more than 80 times in a season. Atlanta will release Dunn and use Norwood and Turner to complement each other. This duo does provide Atlanta with a solid one two punch, Turner being the bruiser and Norwood providing the big play potential. With this acquisition, it safe to say Atlanta will pass on McFadden and shoot for Matt Ryan in this upcoming draft. It's interesting to note that Atlanta gave Turner $15 million in guaranteed cash. McFadden would have only cost them a few more million. In reality, Turner is just as unproven as McFadden with only 228 career carries and does not even come close to McFadden's potential. We also have to keep in mind the far more affordable DeShaun Foster and his 2 year 1.8 million dollar deal. Foster who has been extremely inconsistent at times still averaged approximately 4 yards per carry on 851 career carries. Not as impressive as Turner, but also not nearly as easy as Turner's situation. Here are some examples to help you appreciate why Foster may have been a wiser choice than Turner. First, Ron Rivers, who was Barry Sander's backup from 1995-98. Through those four seasons he averaged 5.1 yards per carry. After Barry Sander's retirement, Rivers averaged a poor 3.6 yards per carry. Second, Troy Hambrick, who was Emmitt Smith's back up from 2000-02. Through those 3 seasons, he averaged a solid 4.7 yards per carry. The Cowboys were so naively confident in his productivity, the next season with Emmitt in Arizona, Hambrick was named their full time starter. That was a complete failure. Hambrick averaged a dismal 3.5 yards per carry as a first year starter. Both examples thrived behind their big name backs but struggled when on their own. So we can easily conclude that running behind premier backs is fairly easy. So was Turner productive because of his ability or was he facing some of the easiest defensive looks as Tomlinson's back up? Will Foster prove to be a wiser choice? Only time will tell. |
| What kind of fantasy impact can we expect from Tuner? Turner will be tough to evaluate. Some experts will strongly push him as a legitimate number two back, but we are not going to jump on that bandwagon just yet. While Turner will be the starter, Norwood will still see a decent dose of carries as a change of pace back. Expect Turner to touch the ball between 16 - 18 times a game as well as most goal-line situations. As for Norwood, we wouldn't be surprised if he touched the ball 12 times a game. If all goes as expected and the Falcons do draft quarterback Matt Ryan, don't be surprised if both Turner and Norwood struggle early on with an inexperienced quarterback. This, in our eyes, makes Turner more appealing as a third option. There is an intriguing upside to this deal, though. Norwood will fall on most cheat sheets and he may be a steal as your fourth running back. Norwood is a playmaker and Atlanta still plans on using his abilities. We will monitor the Falcon's backfield closely in the upcoming months to provide you with any information that may effect either Turner's or Norwood's value. |  |
