WR rankings: Fitzgerald, Rice await QB decisions 

January, 26, 2010
01/26/10
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We can all feign surprise and dismay at what is sure to be the next round of Brett Favre's offseason roller-coaster ride -- will he retire or won't he? -- but the fact is this affects Minnesota Vikings wide receivers Sidney Rice and Percy Harvin quite a bit as well. Same goes for the Arizona Cardinals with their productive, yet prehistoric, quarterback Kurt Warner, who is also considering stepping aside for good. It's only January, but what happens at quarterback over the next seven months stands to greatly affect the 2010 fantasy football rankings at wide receiver.

I didn't rank Favre or Warner among my top 10 quarterbacks for the 2010 season, but if I knew these guys were coming back, I'd call Larry Fitzgerald the No. 2 wide receiver in my WR rankings, while Rice would be in the top 10 and Harvin and Anquan Boldin would certainly be in the top 20. But today, as I type this, we don't know whether Favre or Warner will return, and I wouldn't have much confidence in either of those teams' passing games if they didn't. I mean, if Favre retires, the Vikings would go with Tarvaris Jackson, or Sage Rosenfels, or Michael Vick, or Chad Pennington, or a different signing, or shoot, maybe they're better off bringing back Tommy Kramer. In Arizona, it's Matt Leinart, who might as well be viewed as a rookie.

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Eric Karabell
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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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