{"id":6110,"date":"2015-02-11T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2015-02-11T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T19:00:47","slug":"players-to-avoid-in-2015-keeper-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/players-to-avoid-in-2015-keeper-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Players to Avoid in 2015 Keeper Leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QSN takes a look at prominent #fantasyfootball players to avoid in 2015 keeper and dynasty league drafts. Its early but these players are projected to be first-few-round selections in 2015&#8230; and shouldn&#8217;t be. Don&#8217;t get sucked in by last year&#8217;s hype. Always consider the career rush attempts, pass attempts and receiving yards of a player before committing a first round selection on someone like Marshawn Lynch, for instance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>RBs<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Steven Jackson <\/strong>&#038; <strong>Frank Gore <\/strong>are obvious fades. But also avoid <strong>Marshawn Lynch <\/strong> (first round selection in many early projections) and <strong>Adrian Peterson <\/strong>due to their high career rush attempts. They have one year left at max which is not a recipe for long-term success in a keeper league format.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/rush_att_career.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/rush_att_career.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>QBs<\/strong><br \/>\nIf <strong>Peyton Manning <\/strong>doesn&#8217;t retire this off-season he needs to be avoided due to his #2 all-time pass attempts ranking behind only Brett Favre. <strong>Drew Brees <\/strong>and <strong>Tom Brady <\/strong>are also high up on this list and should be avoided even if they have one year left in the tank. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/pass_att_career.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/pass_att_career.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WRs<\/strong><br \/>\nThe only surprise WR to avoid in the early rounds of 2015 keeper &#038; dynasty league drafts is <strong>Calvin Johnson<\/strong>. Although he may have two year&#8217;s left in the tank why waste a 2nd rounder on him when you could grab Julio Jones, AJ Green, Dez Bryant or even TY Hilton and keep them for at least 4 years at the same cost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/rec_yds_career.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/rec_yds_career.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TEs<\/strong><br \/>\nAvoid <strong>Antonio Gates <\/strong> if he doesn&#8217;t retire anyway.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/rec_yds_career.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/rec_yds_career.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QSN takes a look at prominent #fantasyfootball players to avoid in 2015 keeper and dynasty league drafts. Its early but these players are projected to be first-few-round selections in 2015&#8230; and shouldn&#8217;t be. Don&#8217;t get sucked in by last year&#8217;s hype. Always consider the career rush attempts, pass attempts and receiving yards of a player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[407],"class_list":["post-6110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-qfl-nation-news","tag-players-to-avoid"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6110"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}