Please attempt to choke down the laughter just a bit as you take a glance at my preliminary top 8 at QB and RB heading into this season. I certainly am not putting a lot of stock into them at this point and frankly neither should you. So why put it up here? Well, you have to start somewhere.

Very Preliminary Top 8 QBs
1. D. Brees
2. A. Rodgers
3. P. Manning
4. M. Schaub
5. T. Brady
6. T. Romo
7. P. Rivers
8. B. Favre

My two cents….
I rarely target top 8 quarterbacks in my leagues. If one happens to fall to me I will take him, but I typically like to take the value you get selecting a quarterback in the mid rounds. For example, last year in one of my leagues I was the last team to draft a quarterback and ended up with Ben Roethlisberger. Value is there in drafting a QB in the later rounds and I think it will be again this season. Guys like Joe Flacco, Matt Ryan and Jay Cutler are all guys that I think could have good seasons for where they might be drafted.

Very Preliminary Top 6 RBs
1. C. Johnson
2. R. Rice
3. ADP
4. MJD
5. S. Greene
6. R. Grant
7. S. Jackson
8. J. Charles

My two cents…
I am sure that a couple of people will think that I am a bit nuts with Greene at No. 5. Part of me thinks I am as well. However, the moves they have made this offseason along with the continued development of Sanchez should make it pretty hard for teams to key on the run. One thing I did notice in doing this list is that there were a lot of guys that I really wanted to include. I really like the depth at running back this year and the value I think you can get in later rounds.

Random Thought

At some point somebody really should tell Josh McDaniels that having All-Pro level
players on offense isn’t a bad thing. This might be why Eddie Royal had such a horrible season last year, he didn’t want to get traded.

Thoughts? Comments? Jokes?