The 2009 SportPops Fantasy All-Disappointment Team

Now that the regular season is almost finished in most fantasy leagues, I thought I would select the 2009 SportPops Fantasy Football All-Disappointment Team. These are guys who have simply not lived up to expectations and are killing their owners. Hopefully you don’t have too many of the guys on this list. And if this is your starting lineup, well, your season is probably done already and you likely aren’t even reading this.

QB – Jay Cutler

Everybody was thinking Jay Cutler would just carryover from his Denver days of putting up big numbers. Well, he must have passed through the Bermuda Triangle going from Denver to Chicago, because only the Bad Jay Cutler showed up. Good Jay Cutler may be lost forever. He’s been awful in the red zone, and those big INT games were very much appreciated in leagues that penalized interceptions.

RB – Matt Forte

Chicago is apparently a fantasy wasteland. Matt Forte is likely the MVP of this team. In a PPR, he may not be totally killing you, but regardless, considering most folks took this turd in the top five picks, you are not getting the return you were expecting. You don’t win your league in the first round, but you can sure as heck lose it, which you probably are if he was your first rounder.

RB – Steve Slaton

Ugh. Another guy likely taken very high and simply isn’t coming through. Fumbling problems, sharing time with lesser backs (seriously, he’s fighting for a good share of carries with Ryan Moats and Chrissy Brown?), and inconsistent production. Again, you might be hanging on rolling with him in a PPR, but he hasn’t been what you would expect from a guy taken when he was. You wonder if he’s going to get it together.

WR – Eddie Freakin’ Royal

On one hand, I’m happy, because I felt he was overrated, and should never have overshadowed DeSean Jackson last year. On the other, I drafted him this year in my Halton redraft league. Who would’ve thought that among the things Josh McDaniels would eliminate from the Broncos would be Eddie Royal’s value. At least he was my #4 WR, many of you were relying on him to start. I saw him on a milk carton the other day.

WR – Greg Jennings

Apparently deep threat WRs have trouble being effective when the offensive line is made of cheese, and not the good Green Bay kind. He’s had a couple of nice games here and there, but he was typically taken as a top 10 wideout in most leagues. He’s nowhere near that area right now. It’s not helping him that Donald Driver still has it at 57 years old, and Rodgers is getting it to him a lot because he doesn’t have time to hit Jennings. WRs are generally inconsistent, but this guy is taking it to new levels.

WR – Dwayne Bowe

As a Dwayne Bowe owner in my FFA keeper league, there’s nothing I enjoy more than looking at Kansas City stats at the half and seeing him one or two catches, if he’s on the stat sheet at all. KC’s terrible offence is killing him, though you’d think with him being pretty much their only weapon that they’d try to get him the ball more often. He’s been salvaging bad games with TDs, but this guy should be a force, especially when you see castoff CHRIS FREAKIN’ CHAMBERS putting up big numbers the last couple weeks, numbers that you would think Bowe should be getting. Of course, the four game suspension is the icing on the Christmas fruit cake (no, not the Christopher Street Boys that Larry Johnson tweets about). You know the kind I’m talking about, that awful stuff people insist on giving for the holidays. Who actually eats that stuff?

TE – Jason Witten

Apparently TEs DO need a good WR1 to keep attention off of them. At least in Dallas. Witten was pretty much the consensus top TE in drafts this year, so you were probably reaching if you nabbed him. And he’s rewarded you with unbenchable mediocrity. Even the emergence of Miles Austin doesn’t seem to be helping him. This guy should be getting the ball a lot more than he is.

PK – Who cares?

D/ST - Well, since only one of the leagues I play in uses D/ST, I’ll go with the one on my Halton team that is disappointing me. The Chicago Bears. You aren’t seeing the return TDs anymore, and the D is not what it was, especially with Urlacher out. I was planning on playing DSTBC with Chicago and New England. New England is now my unquestioned started. Yes, even against New Orleans. The offence’s struggles haven’t done them any favours either.

Got anybody you want to nominate? All comments are welcomed below.