Photo By: Joshua S. Kelly / USA TODAY Sports DeAndre Hopkins HOU (1st RD) - While Cordarrelle Patterson may have the best upside from a raw skills perspective in this years class, it is Deandre Hopkins that is No.1 on my board. In Hopkins you have the most polished receiver in this class and he should be a slam dunk, week one starter opposite Andre Johnson. At worst case Hopkins will be a bye week starting ...

Photo By: Jayne Kamin-Oncea / USA TODAY Sports We don't have a deep class of running backs this year, with starter upside. It's probably a good idea to pass on running backs in the middle rounds of your draft if you should miss out on the first eight backs on this list. Giovani Bernard, CIN (1st Round) - Bernard had a hard upbringing as his mom passed away when he was a kid and he even lived with another fa ...

Photo By: Rich Barnes / USA TODAY Sports E.J. Manuel, BUF (1st Round) - Whether you agree or disagree with the Bills moving back up in the first round to select Manuel, you have to admit GM Buddy Nix did a good job adding weapons, via the draft. Adding receivers Robert Woods, Marquise Goodwin and tight end Chris Gragg add speed to Buffalo's offense, and the pickup ultra-talented yet troubled receiver Da'Ric ...

Photo By: Gary A. Vasquez / USA TODAY Sports Tyler Eifert, CIN (1st Round) - Perhaps a sign the Bengals aren't happy with what they've seen from Jermaine Gresham as they went for the top tight end in this years draft, with one of their two first-round picks. I had the chance to hear an interview with Eifert on Movin' The Chains, about a week before the draft and they asked him if he'd visited any teams for ...

Photo By: Chris Humphreys / US PRESSWIRE I find it interesting that the 2013 NFL schedule will kickoff with the defending Super Bowl Champs heading to Denver to take on Peyton Manning and the Broncos. While many of us will likely allocate our Sports Betting money to the Broncos side of this matchup (mainly because of home field, and all the turnover in Baltimore) it is a player like Manning, that should giv ...

Photo By: Kyle Terada / US PRESSWIRE The most talked about quarterback heading into the divisional round of the 2013 playoffs wasn't Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Matt Ryan or even Aaron Rodgers by NFL pundits, it was 49ers Colin Kaepernick. The second-year quarterback received an opportunity to start after Alex Smith suffered a concussion, and because of his play against the Bears and Saints the youngster was ...

Photo By: Jake Roth / USA TODAY Sports With Jonathan Stewart out of the lineup it appears we can finally trust a running back in our lineups out of Carolina. For the second year in a row DeAngelo Williams is playing his best football down the stretch, and we should expect the veteran to touch the football over 20 times this week as the Panthers are sure to roll up a big lead on the Raiders. Week 16 Standard ...

Photo By: Kirby Lee / USA TODAY Sports Heading into Super Bowl showdowns for many fantasy leagues it's probably not a good time to say this is the weakest week for waiver options throughout the entire season, but that's exactly what we have. Outside of an opportunity opening up in San Diego because of anther collarbone injury to Ryan Mathews, there's really nothing to discuss at running back if this is your ...

Photo By: Michael Ivins / USA TODAY Sports If you happened to draft Brandon Lloyd this past summer like I did, you've probably been shaking your head when watching the Patriots play on prime-time television the past two weeks as the veteran has looked like a Pro Bowl star. In that time Lloyd has been targeted a whopping 25-times, hauling in 17-receptions for 279-yards a score and even picking up a fumble re ...

Photo By: Cary Edmondson / USA TODAY Sports While many have made the case for Michael Crabtree being a first round bust, it appears the 4th year receiver is starting to come into his own. Early signs in the off-season suggested this could be a breakout year for Crabtree, if for no other reason than he finally overcame his problematic foot issues. For the first-time Crabtree actually played in a preseason ga ...