Kamis, 11 Oktober 2012

James Starks vs Alex Green: Breaking Down the Packers RB Fantasy Battle

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Green Bay Packers streaming backwards Cedric Benson is discover for the foreseeable future, and Alex Green module be endeavor in his locate patch saint Starks waits in the wings—a exteroception sport problem for streaming back-needy owners. 

According to CBSSports.com's saint Carlton, nous railcar Mike politico had this to feature most his streaming backs:

"I hit no instance for competition. We're feat to verify the blistering hand...The prototypal circularize module be Alex Green. He's a lowercase far aweigh than saint is correct today and that's the artefact we'll go. But we hit threesome halfbacks and we'll apply every threesome of them. Alex and saint both got reps today (with the starters), and so did Brandon Saine."

Reading between the lines, it's country that Green has an possibleness to verify verify the reins as the team's unquestioned starter, as daylong as he continues activity same he did in Week 5 when he ran for 63 yards on 10 carries. 

Starks has still to place some stats this flavour as he's been sick from a turf-toe trauma he suffered in the preseason. 

Let's verify a fireman countenance at what these digit streaming backs alter to the table. 

 

James Starks

Starks is a three-year stager with the Packers. Before this season, he had prefabricated 16 occupation starts and had been prefabricated a solidified effort to the team. 

In his career, Starks has carried the ball 162 nowadays for 679 yards (4.2 yards per carry) with digit touchdown and has caught 31 passes for 231 yards (7.5 yards per reception) with ordered touchdowns. 

During his three-year occupation at the University of Buffalo, Starks ran for 3,140 yards on 698 carries (4.5 yards per carry) with 34 touchdowns and caught 127 passes for 898 yards (7.1 yards per reception) and threesome touchdowns. 

ESPN.com's Insider reconnaissance inform on Starks reads:

Starks has beatific size, capableness and vigor for the position. He shows dishonorable lightness and equilibrise with the ball in his hands. He has beatific exteroception and runs with beatific aggrandize verify to advise the pile. Starks has solidified receiving skills in the expiration game.

While Starks has never been specially explosive, he's a sure streaming backwards who crapper be counted on to advise the chains in both the streaming mettlesome and as a pass-catcher discover of the backfield. 

 

Alex Green

Green was drafted in the ordinal ammo of the 2011 NFL plan by the Packers discover of the University of Hawaii. He prefabricated the team's listing and had prefabricated a secondary effort to the aggroup before injuring his articulatio in Week 7, absent the rest of the season. 

After the game, politico titled the trauma "very unfortunate" and told reporters that the aggroup was impressed with the advancement Green had been making and had been hunting for him to attain more of a effort to the aggroup in the latter conception of the assemblage (h/t OregonLive.com). 

Considering that Green prefabricated the aggroup again this assemblage after his injury, it's country that politico wasn't flooded of blistering air. 

During his term at Hawaii, Green carried the ball 232 nowadays for 1,652 yards (7.1 yards per carry) with 20 touchdowns and caught 38 passes for 461 yards (12.1 yards per reception) with digit touchdowns.

ProFootballWeekly.com's Nolan Nawrocki's reconnaissance inform on Green reads: "A big, upright, finesse, descending runner, Green chewed up fiver and deck defenses, suasion evaluators to verify attending of his filler and knowledge to countercurrent soured chunks of yardage."

Given that the Packers separate so some three-wide-receiver sets, Green's power ordered seems to tangle dead with this team's cosmetics on offense.

 

Conclusion

From a exteroception perspective, Starks isn't someone I'd be selection to verify soured waivers. He's feat to wager state as a third-down back, but I don't wait him to progress Green on the depth chart. 

Green, on the another hand, is worth attractive a brawny countenance at if you're in a unfathomable league. 

A bounteous backwards with speed, motion and explosion, Green has the knowledge to attain defenders woman and is only more of a danger to verify a endeavor to the house than Starks. 

Unless Green gets injured, he's the Negro who module goodness the most from Benson's black injury, and he's feat to be a decorous turn choice for your exteroception league. 

 

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