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Michael Vick is poised to have an unprecedented year.

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Last year, I grabbed Peyton with the number 1 pick. Once you get past the first 3 RB's, the next group is all kinda even, but Peyton will stand out above the rest (maybe not Brady this year if Moss and Stallworth pan out). Grab a no.1 from another position and get your RB on the way back. I also won my league with the best record in head-to-head, points and flat out dominated everyone in all of the playoffs. Of course, some of my other gambles paid off too, so it wasn't all Peyton winning for me.

In your spot, with those guys off the board, I'd go for Shaun Alexander or even Peyton before either Addai or Parker. And I don't really like Gore this year, purely just a hunch, but whatever.

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Figure that Tomlinson, Steven Jackson, and Larry Johnson will all be gone. Both leagues' point systems are catered more towards running backs. So who do you take witht he fourth pick?

I'm heavily leaning towards Frank Gore. But both Jospeh Addai and Willie Parker are still in the running. So give some input ****************

My league is auto-draft, but we rank the players - so it goes after the last preseason game ends, thus I haven't really been watching yet.

However, I don't like Larry Johnson's chances of surviving the season. Further, in the AFC West, the only team's defense I would actually want to run against is KC, and that's who LJ plays for. Six games of utter misery incoming.

I'd lean towards Addai. With that other guy gone to Oakland, unless they have some short yardage back, he's going to score. A lot. And catch passes.

I like Parker because traditionally Pit is a running team. Dunno about the new head coach. Further, historically they use many backs, each in specialized situations. I'd shy away from him because of the uncertainty, but if you know Parker is their guy and they are going to run like they did in the past, he could outperform Addai.

I like Gore because he plays in the weakest division in football and he piled up yards last season. He seems to be their clear number one guy. However, he fumbles too much for my tastes and I'm not sure the 49ers will really be that good.

Lots of teams are going to use two backs, heavily, this year. I can see a strategy of, say, taking both guys from the Saints (Deuce and Bush) - under the assumption that if one of them doesn't score, the other will (particularly if you are in a large 14+ team) league. I like that combo because they throw to the back and thus Deuce could be the leading rusher and Bush still could do well as a receiver.

Or Jones/Barber in Dallas - if you think you can get those guys in rounds 2 and 3, that means you can go for Peyton in round one. He's more of a sure thing. Even if the Colts are down this year, that likely means they are going to throw more.

I don't know how long your draft goes, or how many teams in the leagues, but if in the late, late rounds you want a player no one has heard of, you could do worse then Cleo Lemon. He should beat out Trent Green in the battle of quarterbacks the San Diego Chargers rejected.

Brian Westbrook was a monster last season even without McNabb.

And if your league awards points for receptions: Get him.

btw, you actually going to joing my league or what? I sent you the invite like, 2 weeks ago.

If you can get a running back with good hands he's money. I lucked out and got Steven Jackson in like the 3rd round last year. He got the most points for me of anyone else on my team.

Well in one draft I took Frank Gore fourth overall. The draft I had tonight the girl in the third slot took Peyton Manning. So Larry Johnson fell into my lap. No complaints from me on that one

In most leagues your first round (if not first two rounds) should be running backs. As you already mentioned it's pretty much Tomlinson, Larry Johnson, and Steven Jackson for the first 3 picks. The 4th pick is a pretty crappy position to be in, but Frank Gore wouldn't be a bad choice. I also like Shawn Alexander and Brian Westbrook. Maroney and Addai too, but I would rather the aforementioned backs. Of course, you most likely wont see any of these players on the way back so pick whoever you like more.

There are plenty of good quarter backs and not nearly as many good backs (fantasy wise) so, unless your like the 7 or later pick I'd avoid Manning and Palmer as you will have two average backs.

I would probably go with Gore because of Westbrook's durability issues.