• The Bucs must be feeling better about Carnell Williams' surgically-repaired knee - the only RB they took in the draft was Cory Boyd in the 7th round. Cadillac, for his part, says it's "definitely a possibility" that he'll play in week one.
• If going to Atlanta wasn't the worst-case scenario for Matt Ryan, I don't know what was.
• Say what you want about Oakland, they stay true to form year after year. They take the most talented player available, regardless of how horrible a fit he is for their organization. That's the McFadden pick in a nutshell - they're more than set at RB already. Still... it might be fun to watch McFadden and JaMarcus Russell working together. Four guys you don't want to run into at a night club this week: LaMont Jordan, Justin Fargas, Dominic Rhodes, and Michael Bush. You might also want to avoid any burly keeper-league owners who had high hopes for Bush in 2008.
• The Jets did what we said they'd do.
• Cedric Benson had to be happy when the Bears made the "no duh" move of taking an OL with their first pick. Then they wiped that smile right off his face with their 2nd-round pick, RB Matt Forte, who will undoubtedly steal at least a few carries and could challenge Benson outright for the starting job. Bears GM Jerry Angelo isn't mincing words about it, either: "Maybe (Benson's) not the featured back we thought he'd be." Ouch.

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Not that I watched it. Anyone who actually watches the NFL draft coverage should realize that they are on equal footing with the people who sit through an entire American Idol results show. Sure, I'm interested in the outcome (of the former, that is), but I don't have such a burning desire to know who goes where that I need to find out right at the instant it happens.

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In case you hadn't heard the news yet, recently the Denver Broncos top receiver, Brandon Marshall, was injured in a freak "fast food bag" incident. According to Stats.com:

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I had fully expected him to spend the season splitting time with Julius Jones, and he'd probably be perfectly adequate in that role, but the Seattle Times is making it sound like the bell may be tolling soon:

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JaMarcus Russell is a big fatty.

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Apparently the Raiders have decided that Javon Walker is a better receiver than Randy Moss and have agreed to sign him to an insane 6 year, $55 million contract. If the Raiders couldn't get it done with the greatest receiver of this era, then why the hell would they think they could with Walker? How can they justify paying Walker so much money, especially considering the fact that he's coming off a season where he played in a whopping five games and that he's only started every game in a season once in the past six years? Many questions surround this move by the Raiders, but one thing is certain...they will be a bad team again next year, unless JaMarcus Russell turns into Tom Brady over night.

Sara, AKA the Fantasy Football Librarian, is featured as a guest blogger on the NY Times football blog The Fifth Down this week. Her blog, if you haven't checked it out already, is home to an absolute wealth of fantasy football information, so it wasn't surprising that I learned something new from her Times post - apparently there's a documentary about fantasy football out there. This I gotta see.

With their victory over the Dolphins yesterday, the Patriots are now one win from reaching that undefeated mark. One game!!! Tom Brady is two touchdowns from breaking Peyton Manning's single season record of 49, while Randy Moss is two scores from breaking Jerry Rice's single season record of 22 grabs. If all of these records are broken in that last game, that will be pretty badass, I must say.

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Willie Parker (RB-PIT): 1 carry, -1 yards, 1 broken leg

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...and the big question is, do the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrate? Or do they sink further into depression as the only winless team in NFL history? In other news, the Patriots won again (although not in the blow-out fashion that all the analysts expected) to move to 14-0. Only two more wins to reach that undefeated mark (fingers crossed)!

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