It stinks that Charles, a consensus top-three fantasy pick this season, has rushed for his last yard until 2012, but that's what it looks like after he ruined his left knee on the first drive of Sunday's demolition in Detroit. While I ranked Charles well for this week, it certainly was in the back of my mind that the team's embarrassing 41-7 home loss to the Buffalo Bills in Week 1 was not a fluke, and it could prevent Charles from repeating his terrific 2010 campaign, when only Arian Foster and Adrian Peterson scored more standard fantasy points among running backs. Now it really doesn't matter.
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Eric Karabell
Eric Karabell is an ESPN.com senior writer. He has worked at ESPN since 1997 and covered fantasy sports for ESPN since 2001, specializing in baseball and football. Eric appears several times per week on SportsCenter, NFL Live and other ESPN shows, contributes to ESPN Radio and ESPN The Magazine and is the host of the Baseball Today Podcast. He has been honored twice as fantasy sports writer of the year by the Fantasy Sports Writers Association, his blog was named best fantasy baseball series for 2007 and he was inducted into the inaugural FSWA Hall of Fame class in 2010.
Eric grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, and accordingly, favors Philly teams first, his fantasy teams second. He previously served as ESPN.com's lead NBA editor, and is a former Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer. Eric is also the author of "The Best Philadelphia Sports Arguments," published by Source Books and available in bookstores and online.
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