Lelie joins Falcons, and Duckett to Washington
Things were looking good for Portis. He was coming off a solid year and looking into increasing his role in the offense as well as looking at more scoring opportunities. Then he busts his shoulder making a tackle in a preseason game, and now the Redskins have just acquired TJ Duckett. Another vulture to steal those precious TDs as well as carries. Who’s value goes up in this trade? Every RB not named Clinton Portis. I suppose Ladell Betts loses too. The Washington running back situation is looking pretty bad right now. Portis drops from a first round pick to somewhere around the fifth, depending on how lucky you’re feeling. Actually, Warrick Dunn should be skyrocketting up your charts. Without Duckett to steal goalline carries, Dunn gets more opportunities to show his quality.
As far as Ashley Lelie, he wasn’t even on my radar screen, and he stays that way until his place in Atlanta is known. Couple that with the fact that Atlanta receivers are amongst the worst picks to begin with.
another thing for fantasy players to know about portis is that his shoulder injury severly weaknes both the joint and it’s surrounding muscles some NFL experts and analysts say that this injury could reagrivate multiple times over the season causing him to miss multiple games