Survivor I - Tony Fisher Commentary

NOTE: this draft was completed on 7/24

Recent Stats

YR	RSH	RSHYD	RSHTD	REC	RECYD	RECTD	FPT	RANK
2002	70	283	2	18	70	0	47.3	60
2003	40	200	1	21	206	2	58.6	52
2004	65	224	0	38	277	2	66.5	46

Positives - I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but RBs get 1 pt. per reception. Fisher actually caught almost as many passes as Ahman Green last season (A. Green: 40 ; Fisher: 38) and actually had more receiving yards. Fisher was actually 15th in receptions among all RBs. He even threw for a TD. As a backup #2, Najeh Davenport out ran #3 Fisher 359 yards to Fisher’s 224 yards, but Fisher far surpassed Davenport in receiving yards 277 to 33 and also had 2 receiving TDs. So Fisher could be considered the #2 RB for Green Bay.

Negatives - Fisher is still considered the #3 RB currently behind Green and Davenport and as such (in theory) could see less playing time than both. But that’s the only negative I can see this late in the draft.

Draft Strategy - I feel like this was one of two late round gems I found. Fisher was the best projected RB left on the board. In fact, he was the projected #50 RB. That’s a pretty high rating this late in a Survivor League draft. To add a little perspective to this, the #49 projected RB was Mike Anderson with Denver who I took in the 12th round. Najeh Davenport, his cohort at Green Bay, was the #52 projected RB and he went in the 12th round as well. I would say that Fisher fits one and a half of the three criteria I mentioned earlier. He definitely plays behind a starting RB who is injury prone (although A. Green has held up pretty well the last few years). Fisher is no Larry Johnson, but he is good. I am not that confident in Green Bay’s offensive line which is why I believe Green’s projections are lower this year. But if Green gets hurt, I think it would be Fisher, and not Davenport, that would get the most playing time since Fisher is much more versatile. This may have been my second best value pick!