A lot of fantasy owners probably had DeShawn Wynn active for Monday night, since he was the starting running back and the Denver Broncos wouldn't be able to stop him. It seemed obvious, though as regular blog readers know, I wasn't a big Wynn fan. Also, of course you always have Donald Driver in your lineup. Wynn and Driver, and on to fantasy victory, right? So what happens?
For only the fourth time in a decade, a pair of rookies or first-year teammates ran for 100 yards and caught 100 yards worth of passes in the same game. Congrats to you if you had reserves Ryan Grant and James Jones in your lineup. I didn't. That's because I had no Packers running backs active, rather than playing some guessing game, but these two choices were pretty unlikely ones as Brett Favre led the Packers to a 19-13 overtime win.
Who were the other three sets of raw teammates to accomplish this feat? Well, let's just say Grant and Jones can go in two directions, as these players had.
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Eric Karabell
