{"id":12,"date":"2008-06-08T00:30:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T05:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-03-27T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T03:24:22","slug":"2008-rookie-rb-class-keeps-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/2008-rookie-rb-class-keeps-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Rookie RB Class Keeps Getting Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A really good year for rookie-only drafts got even better as a result of the Benson cut. There are now FIVE rookie RBs that look certain to get enough carries to be fantasy football worthy in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The other Adrian Peterson is a sleeper now as well, but Matt Forte will get a long look as Chicago&#8217;s main RB now that Benson is gone. McFadden, Stewart, Kevin Smith and Mendenhall are obviously the other top rookie RBs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are also several other rookie RBs in backup roles that could have an impact in future years, and are good as handcuffs this year; Felix Jones, Chris Johnson, Ray Rice, Steve Slaton and Ryan Torain.<\/p>\n<p>We predict Jamaal Charles and Tashard Choice are going to be fantasy busts without major injuries in front of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really good year for rookie-only drafts got even better as a result of the Benson cut. There are now FIVE rookie RBs that look certain to get enough carries to be fantasy football worthy in 2008. The other Adrian Peterson is a sleeper now as well, but Matt Forte will get a long look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}