Say what you will about new, beleaguered and winless Cleveland Browns coach Eric Mangini, but the decision he made to switch quarterbacks this week, which some view as possibly shortsighted and reactive, does help fantasy football owners and the Browns. On Tuesday, when I thought popgun-armed Brady Quinn was still the Browns' quarterback, I didn't consider Braylon Edwards a top-25 wide receiver in our rankings. I placed him at No. 28, and he received that good a spot solely because the position is so decimated this week with byes, injuries and the like. In Week 3, Edwards was my No. 34 wide receiver.
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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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