Willie Parker

by Portland 8/19/2007

STATS

Who ran for 1494 yards and 13 TDs?  Who had 222 receiving yards and 3 TDs?  Answer...WILLIE PARKER. 

Steelers love to run the football.  Mike Tomlin loves to run the football.  The Steelers have four great leaders on the team with new coach Mike Tomlin, Ben Roethlisberger, Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu.  Players will play their hearts out for guys like that.  I am going to bet that Willie Parker will have another great year. 

The Steelers face the Ravens twice a season where he has had tough games but the Ravens lost Adalius Thomas who allowed Ray Lewis to make plays.  Even if Parker has two bad games because of the Ravens, he will make it up with huge numbers when he plays Cleveland and Cinci in four combined games. 

Your choices after the first four picks of the draft will include Willie Parker, Shawn Alexander, Joseph Addai, Reggie Bush, Brian Westbrook and Rudi Johnson.  Rudi Johnson led the pack with 12 total TDs and Westbrook led in yards with 1916 total yards.  Combine Westbrooks yards with Rudi's TDs and you have about 200 more yards than Willie but fall four touchdowns short of him.  In Fantasy world, those four TDs equal 24 pts...the 200 yards equal 20 pts.  With the combination of the best stats from five guys, they fall 4 fantasy pts short of Willie Parker's 2006 fantasy point total. 

Age and injuries come to mind when I think of Shawn Alexander and Brian Westbrook.  Stable and boring remind of Rudi Johnson.  Joseph Addai is only a pond in a chess game where Payton Manning is King.  Reggie Bush is Reggie Bush...one season from greatness.

No matter what draft selection you hold this year...Willie Parker is a great pick.  After the draft, you will compare your RBs with your buddies (who drafted fourth or later) and not one of them will have a back who will score more than Fast Willie will.

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