NFL - 2010 Fantasy Football Buffalo Bills Team Preview

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We have many great articles planned leading up to the 2010 Fantasy Football season including sleepers, busts, rookies, strategy, full player rankings and projections all wrapped up into a nifty draft kit to help you win your league next year. Stay tuned for more, but for now, here's a team preview for you.

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OFF-SEASON TRANSACTIONS

KEY ADDS

  • Spiller, C.J. RB (rookie)
  • Jackson, Chad WR (DEN)

KEY SUBTRACTIONS

  • Owens, Terrell WR (FA)
  • Reed, Josh WR (SD)

NOTE: Spiller should get every opportunity to reprise the game-breaking ways he showed at Clemson last season. Owens underachieved mightily last year, and it's possible that "T.O." just might stand for "Too Old" these days.

 

THE BIG QUESTION

How will the team get more production and points out of its pathetic offense?

The Bills are obviously banking on top draft pick C.J. Spiller to give their ground-pounding (and utterly inept) offense the kind of outside speed that will hopefully spread the opposing defense out a bit. Teams loaded up the box against Buffalo last season, daring the Bills to beat them through the air. Though Trent Edwards and Ryan Fitzpatrick still aren't capable of keeping defenses honest, they can handle flicking a flat route to Spiller now and again. If C.J. can become a true home run threat, he'll demand defensive attention - which could result in a few more holes for tailback Fred Jackson. Before you get too excited, though, remember that the Buffalo O-line is mediocre at best, and Owens' departure leaves a big hole to fill at wide-out... with no obvious successor. Look for Buffalo to get the ball to Spiller in as many ways as possible, including kick returns, but his slight sub-200-pound frame precludes the possibility that he'll become a feature back in the NFL. He should catch a boatload of passes, effectively diminishing Jackson's value in that regard. 

Wide-out Lee Evans is once again the top aerial threat in Buffalo, but the perennial fantasy tease probably won't post big numbers so long as Fitzpatrick and Edwards are under center. There is a logjam for the number two spot on the depth chart, but no one in that jam carries much fantasy appeal. By and large, most fantasy owners would rather give their pet ferret a shave than draft a Buffalo offensive player not named Fred Jackson... and it's hard to make a case for altering that philosophy this season.

 

FANTASY DEPTH CHART

QB

  • Edwards, Trent
  • Fitzpatrick, Ryan
  • Brohm, Brian

RB

  • Jackson, Fred
  • Spiller, C.J.
  • Lynch, Marshawn

 WR

  • Evans, Lee
  • Hardy, James
  • Parrish, Roscoe
  • Jackson, Chad

 TE

  • Schouman, Derek
  • Nelson, Shawn

NOTE: There are more questions than answers in the Buffalo depth chart right now. How will the Bills deploy Spiller? Can Brohm win the starting quarterback's gig? Who will grab the No. 2 wide-out job? The Bills have a tight end? Really? Who has had more issues...Marshawn Lynch or National Geographic?  Rian Lindell is a solid (if underused) place kicker, while Spiller could develop into one of the game's most dangerous return men almost immediately.

 

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