Brian Westbrook remains owned in more than 83 percent of ESPN standard fantasy football leagues, which is probably more than I figured at this point of the season. I understand the lure of keeping your second-round draft pick around on your bench, in case he can eventually help you win, but would I really use him in Week 16? No, I would not, but from the day-after press conference Monday it sure sounds like Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid will.
- "Just watching him the last couple of weeks at practice, the next step, if all goes well is to get him back in the game and see what he can do there. He'll have limited reps and see how he feels and evaluate it as he goes. When you have great players that helps you win a little bit more. We're not going to get worse with Brian Westbrook coming back. I think it's good for everybody. It's good for him. It's good for the team. He's a good football player."
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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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