Fantasy Football And Dynasty Cornerstones

Passing

It is official that the NFL is now a passing league, with a record-breaking passing season last year that saw six quarterbacks throwing a minimum of 4,500 yards and three actually throwing for 5,000 yards.  Although passing offences may be better than ever, however, a number of signal-callers are likely to see a dip in their fantasy fortunes during this upcoming season, one of which will definitely be Drew Brees from the New Orleans Saints.

Drew Brees is just coming off one of the very best seasons for a quarterback that has ever been witnessed in the entire history of the NFL, with a league-leading 46 touchdown tosses and a record-breaking 6,476 passing yards.  The flipside to this is that after an amazing season like that, there really is nowhere for Brees to head but downhill.

Brees will find it enormously difficult, if not impossible, to duplicate those kinds of numbers during the coming season, particularly since prior to 2011 he had never thrown over 34 touchdown passes during a season. The fact that he will for the first time be quarterbacking sans head coach Sean Payton makes a very compelling argument that Brees’ fantasy worth will inevitably sink.

On the other end of the spectrum we have certain rising stars sure to make an impact over the coming seasons.

Dynasty Cornerstones

The term ‘dynasty cornerstone’ applies to players whom the owners of fantasy football leagues are able to draft and who they believe will continue to be mainstays on their squad for at least the next few seasons.  

In terms of NFL draft prospects that might be potentially be dynasty cornerstones, some experts believe that there are only a handful of names that fantasy football owners should be looking at this season.  
Andrew Luck from Stanford Cardinal is one such prospect, viewed by many as being the very best thing to have emerged from college in a long time.  

Luck is able to make all of the throws, has above average mobility (making 453 running yards in 2010), and also has outstanding leadership qualities in addition to not buckling under stress in late game pressure situations.  He has pinpoint throwing precision (with a 71.3 percentage in completions last year) and is also the size that NFL scouts tend to prefer ((6-4, 235).  Positioned in the right kind of offensive system with a terrific group of receivers and handled with some quality coaching, Luck could end up being a perennial 4,000-yard, 30-TD for more than the next ten years.

Luck could quite easily end up being taken among the drafts’ top ten quarterbacks in late August, particularly in keeper leagues where people will be able to hold onto him for a variety of reasons.  Some experts are tipping Luck to wind up being a footballing superstar.