After Week 8 in the NFL, the 4-3 Bears are just as much of a mystery as they were before the season started. Does beating the Browns 30-6 even count as a full win?
Anyway, I was looking at fantasy football stats and couldn't help but notice this little gem:
Cedric Benson: 720 yards (4th in NFL), 5 TDs (T-7th)
Thomas Jones: 704 yards (5th in NFL), 7 TDs (T-3rd)
Both former Bears RBs are in the Top 10 overall for the season in fantasy football. If you drafted them both, you are either insanely lucky or a genius.
Meanwhile...
Matt Forte: 408 yards (18th), 3 TD (way down there)
Forte, who was going as high as third in some drafts this year, is barely cracking the Top 100 in my league.
And, to rub it in, the guy who we should have drafted, Ray Rice...
Rice: 525 yards (9th), 4 TD, 38 rec, 349yds, TD ... is leading all NFL players in total yards from scrimmage, as well as crushing every other RB in receptions and yardage. Rice went twenty picks after Forte last year.
Jerry Angelo, I hope you are paying attention. Chicago could easily have at least one of these monster running backs in the navy blue and orange right now. Instead we are stuck with Garrett Wolfe, whose NFL ceiling is best expressed as "Homeless Man's Warrick Dunn," except without the toughness, as our backup.
I would love to get into a fantasy league against Angelo - he can pay a premium for Forte, while I get Jones and Rice in the 4th and 8th rounds. Good deal.
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