Now that the first week is over, you may find that your team isn't in quite the same shape that you thought it was to begin the season. You might have lost a player to injury or realized that your veteran might not be playing at the same level he has in the past. You might realize that your player just won't be a good fit for the new team he's playing on or you might just want to start planning for next year (with a keeper league Post-Draft Draft). In any case, my new weekly post should help you out in these areas. I'll provide a list of good waiver-wire pickups that should be able to help you out throughout the season. I'll also provide a list of the recent players that you might want to start looking at for the future of your keeper league team. Finally, I'll provide a list of a couple players that will make good bye week or injury plug-and-plays to get you from week to week. So here we go with the Week 1 selections...

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Over the weekend, I was checking on one of my rosters after the 1:00 games had finished and noticed that one of my starters had gotten me ZERO points. I was confused at first, as this player was supposed to be the number one wide receiver on a pretty decent passing team. Quickly I thought to myself, maybe they play at 4:00 or something. After checking that, I was wrong. Deion Branch had played the entire game against Tampa Bay and finished with 0 receptions for 0 yards. I then started to notice a trend of some pretty high caliber players pulling off great disappearing acts on my other rosters or on the rosters of other teams in my leagues. Below you will see a list of these players that went AWOL, along with my immediate analysis of whether or not this will be a continuing trend to be worried with, or something to shake off and give them another shot in Week 2...

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Really, you can predict damn near anything before week 1 of the regular season and it'll sound at least plausible. But once the games actually count and coaches turn past page 1 of the playbook, you quickly learn that what you said in the preseason can easily sound downright retarded after week 1.

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