Then again, there was Welker out on the field last week during the team's organized team activities running, cutting, frolicking and looking much like the guy fantasy owners have grown to know and love. A few weeks earlier, ESPNBoston.com's Mike Reiss took part in a Q&A with Welker about the speed of his recovery, and everything seemed positive. In good times, Welker is a borderline top-10 wide receiver, a durable catch monster with special value in point-per-reception formats but still darned valuable in standard leagues. I ranked him 50th with some trepidation, assuming, like my colleagues, that he won't get on the field until October at the earliest.
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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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