As a Browns fan, I could not wait until I had the chance to see Donte Stallworth on the field for the Browns. I felt that he was overshadowed by Randy Moss and Wes Welker last year. Stallworth showed big play potential every time he caught the ball for the Patriots.

As far as his fantasy value is concerned, he has yet to grace the football field this year. If you have an available roster spot to hold Stallworth to where he does not count against you, I would definately hold him. He is not however worthy of a start until you see two consecutive games of either a touchdown or at or near 100 yards recieving. The Browns offensive unit has entirely too much talent to be this lathargic all year. The addition of Stallworth should open up the entire field for the rest of the offense. It is fairly easy to double the Browns only deep threat in Braylon Edwards, use a safety with cover corner abilities on Kellen Winslow and stack the box on Jamal Lewis, all at the same time. When you add a Stallworth to the opposite side of Edwards, the defensive scheme to cover all four becomes much more difficult. Based on Edwards most recent rash of the dropsies, Stallworth may hold more value than Edwards if this continues. The entire offense will benefit from a “healty” Stallworth.

In order to give you educated advise, I would need to know the full scoring breakdown for your league. If you have a point per reception, is there a point per carry. What is your yardage scoring and are there any yardage bonuses, are Td’s worth 6?

This is difficult because neither of your options are doing anything significant at this point to produce. In Derick Ward’s last two games combined, he still did not have as many carries as Sammy Morris had last week. Ward is averaging about a third of Brandon Jacobs carries where Morris has recieved the most carries to this point in the New England backfield. Unless Jacobs sustains an injury, or the Cleveland Browns game turns into a complete blowout and the Giants decide to rest Jacobs while trying to run out the clock, Morris would be the likely start in this scenario. If your lucky “the genius” will place Morris back into his goalline role.

Unfortunately you can’t consider those three sleepers with the stats they produced last year. Usually a sleeper would be considered someone who is taken extremely late in a draft, or not at all. I am sure that none of the three you listed made it out of the fifth round in any league, period. I do agree that their slump this year makes them a difficult decision to start, but if they produce, it is expected and would not be a suprise to anyone.

Go Browns!

What about Derek Anderson, Braylon Edwards or Kellen Winslow? I’m assuming with how bad they’ve been all three could be considered sleepers now. Think they can get anything going against the G-men on Monday night?