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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In one of my leagues I went to bed last night winning by about 25 points or so. I woke up to see myself down over 45 points or so. What happened? Well the league plays 2 quarterbacks. My opponents two quarterbacks? Eli Manning and Tony Romo. Between the two of them, they scored him 72 points. They threw a combined 8 touchdowns and Romo rushed for another, as well as combining for over 650 yards passing. You might call that a bittersweet evening for me, however, the real pain goes to the owners of Eli Manning and Brandon Jacobs.

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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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With Terry Glenn's knee looking more and more like it could be a chronic thing this season, Crayton's obviously a lot more interesting. He's never scored a touchdown as a starter, but that figured to change soon in what should be a pretty potent offense.

I'd say there are a couple things we actually learned last night, and a couple things that it would be easy to say we learned, but probably didn't.

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