Why hasn Brady been gotten into top rankings in Fantasy Football before now?”
One preseason game. That’s all it took to realize Tom Brady is the top fantasy football quarterback for 2009. Putting Brady at the top of the list over Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Kurt Warner shouldn’t be a major surprise to anyone, especially with a second round Average Draft Position early on in the fantasy football preseason. In his last 20 competitive football games, Brady has averaged 280.9 passing yards, 2.8 touchdown passes, and 0.55 interceptions per game. In comparison, Brees averaged 316.8, 2.1, and 1.0 last season. The only reason Brady hasn’t been considered the consensus top quarterback is because in his last game that mattered, he left in the first quarter with an injury and did not return for the rest of the season.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a fantasy football magazine or Web site that doesn’t list Vikings running back Adrian Peterson as the consensus No. 1 pick for standard-scoring leagues. And to be honest, I would make a similar call when holding the top pick in fantasy drafts. However, I’d like to point out that just 12 months ago — in publications like Fanball, Rotowire, Rotoworld, ESPN, Sporting News, etc. — Chargers rusher LaDainian Tomlinson was the obvious No. 1 by a country mile, so much that many so-called experts would shame in you into thinking otherwise (don’t look at me … try blaming Steve Spurrier or his director of football operations). Of course, history would show us — once again — there are no sure things in the fantasy realm … whether we’re talking about LT’s never-ending bout with turf toe last year or Tom Brady’s season-ending injury suffered in Week 1. My point to all of this? If you truly believe that Peterson isn’t primed for the best season among the top-flig
Tom Brady’s rankings in fantasy football are good examples of how one event, his injury early in the last game that mattered, can skew rankings. In his last game that mattered, he left in the first quarter with an injury and did not return for the rest of the season. That said, Brady is looking very good this preseason and is well deserving of top rankings in the fantasy league.
