Fantasy Football Recap:

Laveranues Coles - est. 1400 yds, 9-10 TDs; only 950 yds and 1 TD due to the new offense and his lingering toe injury

Rod Gardner - est. 900 yds, 6 TDs; Gardner will also have a bigger year but not huge (a late round pick); only 650 yds and 5 TDs; very disappointing season will probably result in Gardner departing the team in one form or another

James Thrash - est. 400 yds, 1-2 TDs (do not draft); 200 yds, no TDs; Gibbs regrets not making more use of Thrash but given the passing game maladies

Darnerian McCants - est. 200 yds, 3 TDs; McCants' red zone TDs will likely give way to Portis rushing them in (do not draft); extremely surprising that McCants was inactive so often this season

Clinton Portis - est. 1700 yds rushing/receiving, 15 TDs (a mid-1st rd pick); 1550 yds rushing/receiving, 3 TDs; although the total yardage was surprisingly close, the TD total was obviously far below expected; when you look at the body of work, Portis got the ball a lot throughout the year - the only times he had less than 20 touches were the first Philly game (18 touches for 33 yds), Pittsburgh (6 runs for 17 yds) and Dallas (10 carries for 32 yds). Continuing to tailor the run game to Portis with more stretch plays should pay dividends next season. Factor in the return of Jon Jansen and this could increase to 2000 yds rushing/receiving.

Mark Brunell - est. 2400 yds passing, 16 TDs/7 INTs; I see Brunell missing about 1/3 of the games due to injury (draft as 3rd QB); 1200 yds passing, 7 TDs/6 INTs; Brunell proved remarkably resilient and ineffective for playing the first half of the season; inconceivably passed for <100>Patrick Ramsey - est. 1100 yds passing, 6 TDs, 4 INTs subbing for Brunell; 1665 yds passing, 10 TDs, 11 INTs; Ramsey got more playing time than I anticipated but threw picks at the worst times; still not a viable fantasy option with only ~1 TD per game; in our league, his scores for his starts would have been 3 (PHI), 8 (PIT), 23 (NYG), 6 (PHI), 13 (SF), 7 (DAL), 15 (MIN).

Chris Cooley - est 200 yds, 2 TDs; not worth drafting"; 314 yds, 6 TDs; Cooley was the only player who exceeded expecations; Ramsey really looked to him in the second half and Cooley caught at least 3 balls in the last 6 games; however, even at his best, Cooley will never be in the same group as a Gonzalez, Gates, Crumpler or Witten