NFL-Giants: NY Giants football news

We have some known fantasy commodities like Brandon Jacobs and Eli Manning.

What about a guy like Domenik Hixon. He’s likely to be our #1 receiver next year. What about Hakeem Nicks? He has a good shot at seeing playing time even as a rookie. Steve Smith is likely to be our #2 receiver. Ahmad Bradshaw is likely to spell Brandon Jacobs. Any of these guys in the later rounds could be a good pick.

These rankings are based on fantasy football stuff.

The linebackers are ranked 7th in the NFL, best in the NFC East. I think this is a fair ranking though I hope we end up better (which we will if Arrington plays the way we hope he will).

The defensive line is ranked 9th with Strahan and Osi obviously leading the charge. Some nice things said about William Joseph as well. I agree with this ranking. It’s tru that we don’t know who will play nose tackle, but we have several possibilities.

Tight ends are ranked 11th behind Washington and Dallas. In fantasy terms this makes sense because Dallas will be using two tight end sets (with Owens and Glenn that’s a potent offense) and Cooley is a go-to-guy for the Redskins.

The Giants’ receivers being ranked 19th is lunacy. The Chargers, Dolphins, and Titams are all ranked higher. Oh and even the Vikings?

Ranking the Giants running backs at number 16 is even crazier.

The Giants QBs at number 15? I don’t understand. Seriously if you were a fantasy owner would you be looking at the Redskins before the Giants?

Fantasy football draft is one of the best times of the year for the fan who likes to show off his skills at being a general manager, or something like that at least. The most integral part in having a winning team, for the most part, is to have a good draft. It may seem tempting to take Giants players with early picks in a honorable act of being a homer, but the smart thing to do is to take the best players available. This guide will tell you where to take your favorite Giant fantasy studs.

Tiki Barber

This fantasy football analysis notes that Manning should be a good fantasy pick because the NFC East is going up against some bad defenses.

He also calls the Giants pass defense “toothless”:

- Anquan Boldin, Cardinals. The true test of a schedule’s teeth is examining the five out-of-division road games. Next season the Cardinals visit the Cowboys, Giants, Texans, Colts and Lions, all of which ranked 19th or worse against the pass in 2004. In a word: toothless.

Peyton might be setting the fantasy leagues on fire, but the suggestion here is not to start Eli. Of course this is more an indictment of the Giants passing game overall (receivers and line) than Manning himself. For more questions about Manning and the Giants passing game, see my previous post.

I don’t write much about fantasy footabll, but when I saw this advice about not picking Shockeye because he’ll never stay healthy I just had to link to it. And hope it’s completely wrong, but we’ll see.

I’ve been thinking about joining a fantasy football league so when I saw this fantasy football mock draft, I was pretty interested. The first round is all running backs, but Tiki Barber doesn’t get picked until the second round. Considering that he’s asking for a lighter workload, that certainly makes sense from a fantasy perspective. If he goes back to being a third down back he’ll see fewer carries and that’ll mean fewer yards. Plus if someone else becomes the short yardage back we might see fewer touchdowns from Tiki.

It’s hard to say where Shockey will be drafted because of his foot. No one knows if he’ll play every game at full strength… In this mock draft Tony Gonzalez is the first tight end taken and that’s in the fifth round. I expect that Toomer will be drafted before the seventh in many leagues, but in this mock draft that’s where he ends up.

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