deeney0 wrote:Randy Moss, TO, Steve Smith, Johnson and Houshmandzadeh, Reggie Wayne, Fitzgerald and Boldin... pretty hard to make a case for Colston over those eight guys. You can talk about Colston with guys like Braylon Edwards, Roy Williams, Donald Driver and Greg Jennings, Lee Evans, Andre Johnson. Then there's the old(er) guys: Plaxico Burress, Tory Holt, Marvin Harrison, Hines Ward, Santana Moss. Where do you put them? And who knows where Calvin Johnson fits in.
Ranking WRs for fantasy gives me enough of a headache, let along ranking them in on the field contributions. I don't see how Colston comes out top 5. Top 10, maybe, but I think I'd have him lower.
I'll give you Moss, TO, Smith, and even Holt for sure, Reggie Wayne, and Chad Johnson I'd take to, but Houshmanzadeh benefits from single coverage that Chad draws. Marvin Harrison is the number 2 guy at this point IMO in Indy.
Then you have Roy Williams, Driver, Jennings, Lee Evans and Andre Johnson. Roy Williams has one comparable season to Colston's two in 4 years, Driver has been solid, but hasn't even hit 10 TD's once, Jennings is a big no, he's not even a number 1 option at all. Plax hasn't had any seasons as good as Colston's last year.
Braylon Edwards broke out, and was impressive, he's hard to say for or against.
Healthy Marvin Harrison is definitely better, but how much has he slowed at this point? he's too hard to rank. I'm wary of Reggie Wayne though, he's great, I love him as a New Orleans guy, but I'm not sure he does anything better than Colston does, and if Colston replaced him, Indy might be better, he can do everything just as well, but he's 6'4 230.
The guy's rookie year he played 14 games, but in 2 he only played 1 snap, so in 12 games he caught 70 balls for 1038 and 8 TD's, then followed that up the next year with 98 catches for 1202 yards and 11 TD's.
Like Icness said, he's the only guy to throw to, but he's the only guy to cover here, Devery Henderson was our number 2 receiver, and our running game was non existent because of line woes. Not like he had it easy, or saw single coverage, the guy IS the target, he had some pressure off him in his rookie year, but as a sophomore he was blanketed, which was why he started the season so slow, and needed to adjust.
I'll take
Moss
TO
Smith
Holt
Chad Johnson
Fitzgerald
Probables
Reggie Wayne
Marvin Harrison(not sure what to do with him to be honest, I have no idea what we will see)
Then the next group are guys that are ranked about right with Colston IMO:
Housh
Braylon
Brandon Marshall(he was great last year)
Boldin
I thought he was better than everyone on the list after Reggie Wayne last year, so he's easily in my top 10, but I can't see a legitimate argument for anyone outside of the rest of these guys, especially a lot of those guys you listed, I could be forgetting someone though
