I'm one of those owners -- and there are plenty like me -- who rarely selects any defense before Rounds 14 or 15, and I do so even that early because I save the kickers for Round 16 -- the very end. As we at ESPN Fantasy continually point out in various forms, there's constant upheaval when it comes to how fantasy defenses perform from year to year. The Jets were terrific last season, and on paper they should be again. But they weren't the best fantasy defense last season. They hardly distinguished themselves from others in terms of fantasy points, which factors in defensive touchdowns, turnovers, sacks, etc. I could probably give you 10 guesses and you wouldn't have picked the top defense from 2009 (the San Francisco 49ers).
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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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