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Tampa's Mike Williams appears to be back in 2010 form. In his last two games, Williams has pulled down 13 catches, for 167 yards and 2 scores. Prior, he hadn't scored since Week 1 and has yet to top 100 yards in a game all season. Things are pointing in the right direction. We expect Williams to continue to produce, but he'll have his hands full with Chris Gamble vs. the Panthers. New England, New Orleans and Green Bay are the three best offenses in the league. They all take pass-first approaches and stay throwing in the red-zone. As games appear to be well in hand, there is no letting up. The more points they appear to score - the better they play. The New York Giants had no answer for Drew Brees and Co. They will have similar struggles vs.... read more

Fantasy Football Brother's offers up our Week 13 Tight End Rankings. The position continues to be a nice source of points for fantasy owner's. They are either giving owner's that extra oomph, if that's a word, or they are filling in nicely as a receiver two, sometimes a receiver one in most cases. As I said in First Look this week, the G and G boys, Gronk and Graham continue to make a mockery of NFL defenses. The Brother's look for the trend to continue as the Patriots take on the Luck-less Colts* ( pardon the expression) and the Saints battle the Lions. *In case you were born under a rock, there is popular belief that the Colts are throwing this season to win the Andrew Luck Sweepstakes. In case you don't follow NCAA Football, Luck... read more

  Fantasy Football Brother's looks at the positions no fantasy owner likes to get beat by, that is the kickers and the defensive units. Last week Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski put on a clinic. Fantasy owner's were kicking themselves (pardon the pun) for leaving this guy on their waivers, or maybe you were one of the unfortunate feeling his wrath last Sunday as you eyed the score constantly going up in increments of three. On a side note, has any player contributed more to his team than Janikowski throughout the years? Who said Al Davis drafted only speed? Davis drafted a left-footed Polish kicking mule who can stretch the field in the kicking game. Here are the Kicker Rankings for Week 13: 1) Mason Crosby - GRE - KI, at New York Giants, Sun 4:15 PM 2) John Kasay - NOR - KI, vs. Detroit Lions, Sun 1:00 PM 3) Dan Bailey -... read more

1) C.J. Spiller - BUF - RB, vs. Tennessee Titans, Sun 1:00 PM Although he didn't do much with them, Spiller received 23 touches on Sunday. If he wasn't picked up last week, you need to go get him. Spiller will make a decent flex play going forward. 2) Johnny Knox - CHI - WR, vs. Kansas City Chiefs, Sun 1:00 PM Knox had a team high 10 targets with Caleb Hanie under center. He managed to catch 4 of them for 145 yards and a touchdown. The Brotherhood was very high on Knox in the preseason, but he couldn't get consistent looks with Cutler under center. Now that Hanie has taken over Knox could prove to be the most valuable Bears receiver. 3) Santana Moss - WAS - WR, vs. New York Jets, Sun 1:00 PM Moss wasn't... read more

RB Two Where are you?   I feel like I have been asking this all season long. A few weeks ago I wrote about how maybe it's time to re-evaluate the RB draft philosophy. This is the first time the RB2 guys have all shown up at once. It was also a lot easier to notice their arrival with all of the disappointing performances from the elite backs in week 12. Was it a perfect storm of matchups and coincidences? Or are some of the backs that we have been waiting on all year finally healthy? I think we are dealing with a lot of factors that would best explain week 12. One it was a perfect storm of events. Chris Johnson finally breaking some long ones. Wells finally healthy enough to carry the ball more than 13 times in a game or to even be on the field on back to back... read more

Fantasy Football Brother's offers our First Look Series. This week we take a sneak peek at the tight end position for Week 13 in the NFL. It's getting to be do or die time, put up or shut up time across the fantasy landscape as owner's jockey for playoff position. The tight ends continue to impress and Rob Gronkowski of the Patriots and Jimmy Graham of the Saints are option 1 and 1A every week. They are dominant on the football field and they play for coaches who know how to utilize their immense skill set. Other tight ends such as Jermaine Gresham of the Bengals are just quietly putting up great fantasy seasons, while some such as Dallas Clark of the Colts are memories of yesteryear. Owen Daniels of the Texans will be playing with whoever at quarterback and his stock takes... read more

 Cleveland Browns Expected To Use Committee Approach If Montario Hardesty Or Peyton Hillis Is Active RB Tashard Choice Could Play For Buffalo Today WR Andre Johnson Is Active And Will Start *WR A.J. Green Is Active *RB LaDainian Tomlinson Is OUT *WR Julio Jones Active Ruled out before Sunday: QB Jason Campbell (collarbone), TE Dallas Clark (fibula), QB Jay Cutler (right thumb), WR Malcom Floyd (hip), WR Jacoby Ford (foot), RB Fred Jackson (fibula), WR Donald Jones (ankle), K Rian Lindell (shoulder), QB Peyton Manning (neck), RB Darren McFadden (foot), RB Adrian Peterson (ankle), WR Naaman Roosevelt (shoulder).   Top players we're watching Early games (1 p.m. ET) RB Joseph Addai (hamstring, questionable) ACTIVE RB Montario Hardesty (calf, questionable) ACTIVE WR Percy Harvin (ribs, questionable) ACTIVE RB Peyton Hillis (hamstring, questionable) ACTIVE QB Kevin Kolb (toe, questionable)  OUT TE Visanthe Shiancoe (hamstring, questionable) ACTIVE   Late games (4:05, 4:15 p.m. ET)   WR Deion Branch (hip, questionable) ACTIVE WR Darrius Heyward-Bey (neck, questionable) ACTIVE WR Jeremy Maclin (hamstring, doubtful) OUT WR Denarius Moore (foot, questionable) OUT QB Michael Vick (ribs, questionable)... read more

Fantasy Football Brother's would like to take the time to wish all our reader's a Happy Thanksgiving. We know there is a great slate of games on Turkey Day, in fact the best we can remember in quite some time, but we should stop and take the time to give thanks. Granted our country is in the crapper and world markets are collapsing, unemployment is at an all time high, but in the end there is football, which we almost didn't have. Be thankful this isn't the NBA..... Rob Gronkowski of the Patriot's again tops our list as he and Jimmy Graham battle it out for fantasy supremacy at the position. Let's get to the ranks.... Week 12 Tight End Rankings: 1) Rob Gronkowski - NEP - TE, at Philadelphia Eagles, Sun 4:15 PM 2) Jimmy Graham - NOR - TE, vs. New York Giants, Mon 8:30 PM 3) Jason Witten -... read more

The Top-10 is filled with favorable match-ups. The Green Bay/Detroit game will leave fantasy owners quite thankful. The aerial statistics that will be accumulated in that game could break holiday game day records. There is no receiver hotter than Jordy Nelson. He plays opposite an elite talent, while being on the catching end of the league's best arm. His receiver tree has all the branches. He can move the chains, stretch the field, and most importantly - find pay dirt. Expect bounce-back weeks for Greg Jennings and Calvin Johnson who found themselves out shined by their supporting cast in Week 11. Roddy White appeared to return to relevance last week. The Falcon receiver has been an overall disappointment, providing labile stats throughout the season. With Julio Jones nagging injury struggles - White will step up when it counts. Andre... read more

To All of our readers, we wish a very Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours.   I'll be back on Friday with more RB news that you can use INJURIES RB Fred Jackson-BUF Jackson went from questionable to already ruled out to maybe out for the year. We don't have any details other than he is definitely out this week. C.J. Spiller will be moved back from WR to RB. The Bills just lost a huge piece of that offense. Jackson has been the lone spark plug to that offense, since the passing game has gone down hill over the last month. Spiller might not be a great runner but he is a great pass catcher. Spiller becomes a decent flex play in PPR leagues. Johnny White... read more