Westbroke?
Hyperextended jock strap is perhaps the only malady that hasn't landed Brian Westbrook on the injury report.
Being a Brian Westbrook owner has always been a risk/reward proposition. When he was on he produced numbers that were consistently among the best in fantasy football. The long runs, the seemingly endless amount of Donovan McNabb check downs (PPR leagues applaud!), and enough one yard TD dives to make Jerome Bettis’s face blush, if he’s wasn’t stuffing it with hot wings.
Sure you were concerned by his seemingly interminable stay on the injury report with any number of ailments. Yes, you wasted hours of Sunday mornings subjecting yourself to Chris Berman’s red-faced wheezing and Three Dog Night references while you waited for injury updates. It was usually much ado about nothing. Westbrook would be questionable until 11:59 and go out and put up 150 total yards and two TD’s and set the pace for your team. (Is it sad that I’m already wistfully recalling what 2006 was like? No, it’s the world that’s wrong.)
That risk/reward proposition has gone from a little bad and a lot of good, to something more akin to jumping out of a plane without a parachute or giving Lindsey Lohan a gram of coke and a set of car keys. The results are messy and generally crippling to your fantasy team. Westbroke (feels like something Mariotti would come up with) has eschewed the weekly questionable status with high productivity trend with a much suckier one. He now misses entire weeks and is terrible when he plays.
Since all seasoned Westbrook owners handcuffed themselves to LeSean McCoy this trend is just an aching pain in the ass. McCoy hasn’t been a world-beater as a fill-in but can be counted on for 80 total yards and a good chance at a TD. Westbrook has taken on the Willie Parker, Edgerrin James, and Warrick Dunn role of fantasy cock-blocker whose time has passed.
Here’s a quick message to the Eagles brass as they evaluate this situation going forward. LOYATLY IS FOR SHIT IN THE NFL, LET THE LESEAN MCCOY ERA BEGIN! FIGURE IT OUT SO I CAN KEEP MCCOY IN MY KEEPER LEAGUE!! (Sorry for the caps. SERIOUSLY SORRY!)
