The premise is simple: I'll tell you what players you can confidently start the season with, and what players should cause your stomach to wobble if you have to start them.
The Dallas Cowboys
2006 stats at NFL.com and pro-football-reference.com
Dallas is a loaded fantasy football team; there are a lot of players you can confidently start the season with. They are one of the really loaded offenses capable of dousing the field with points.
Tony Romo (QB): a decent fantasy starter with great talent around him. He’s a consistent fantasy scorer, and the people he throws to give him the potential for a lot of large games.
Terrell Owens (WR): one of the very best fantasy starters. He’s always a risk to draft because you never know if he’s going to freak out or anything else. I’d draft him, start him week one, and always be willing to trade him if he’s playing well.
Terry Glenn (WR): Glenn is a decent #2 fantasy receiver. Decent--I wouldn’t go bonkers over starting him, but I wouldn’t throw up, either.
Jason Witten (TE): only one touchdown last season was very disappointing, but he produces yards and is capable of more touchdowns. I never consider TE a priority in fantasy football; after the top 2-4 are drafted, you can get a guy like Witten to do well for you.
I’d want to start the kicker if I could know for sure who the kicker is. In our league, this will be the first year we’re required to know the names of kickers; in the past we’ve just drafted team kickers like you’d draft a team defense. I’ve liked only vaguely knowing the names of the kickers, and now I have to learn them.
It might be worth it to start both Julius Jones and Marion Barber: their combined yards and TDs can match up against another combo (last year they combined for 2,076 total yards and 20 total TDs), and if you’ve got Jones and Barber as your starting backs, hopefully it means you are strong at other positions. I’d be afraid to start the season with one or the other, however; perhaps after a few weeks one or the other will emerge.
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