Today a number of heavily hyped rookies made the first start of their career...and in the case of Calvin Johnson, Marshawn Lynch, and Adrian Peterson, it was a pretty good debut.

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We've gotten so used to the idea that Tom Brady likes to spread the wealth, but maybe that's just because he's never had a guy like Randy Moss to throw the ball to before. Moss was absolutely nasty, and the Jets passing defense isn't all that horrible; they ranked 14th in the league last year. It seems hard to believe that he could so easily return to the Moss of old after being spending two years as the Invisible Man, but it's hard to remember another New England receiver having a performance like that.

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I'm watching the Buffalo-Denver game, and Lynch has looked absolutely Tomlinsonian in the 3rd quarter. He looks huge out there and is just plowing over defenders. His touchdown run in the 3rd was very impressive. On an earlier third-down play, he had two tacklers on him five yards from the first-down marker, the play and drive all but dead, and he somehow managed to push them both past the marker.

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Chester Taylor's hip injury has Peterson owners dancing in the streets, and rightfully so. The league's most talented rookie will carry the load for the Vikes until Taylor returns, whenever that is (could be later in the game for all we know). Peterson's a top-12 RB until Taylor comes back.

There's one in every league. They start players on their bye weeks, make a total of zero roster moves on the season, never respond to trade offers, and keep players on their rosters despite season-ending injuries. You're annoyed when they hand over easy wins to other teams, and you're even more annoyed when their autodrafted squad randomly puts up a huge week when you're matched up against them.

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