This might not be the most exciting slate of games for the season, as the football world recovers from the Brett Favre Monday night extravaganza, but they all count the same in fantasy football. In weeks like this, when some of the key players in our world don't have tough matchups, one can say it's even more critical to get a big performance.
Look at Tony Romo, for example. The Kansas City Chiefs are awful. Only four teams have allowed more fantasy points to quarterbacks, and only six have been more helpful to wide receivers. Romo has to go off in this one, right? I ranked him in my top 10, but I admit I'm concerned with his lack of targets to throw to. Roy E. Williams has looked terrible. Give Miles Austin a chance, I say; it couldn't go worse. Romo has thrown one touchdown pass in three games, and we can't pin all the blame on his play. But against the Chiefs, what could go wrong? Well, a lot could. The Dallas Cowboys could run wild. They could struggle. Romo could throw three picks. Romo's fantasy value might be more intact after this weekend if he were playing a good team. Now he'd better do something special, or his value takes a real hit.
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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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