Pigskin Time

It’s pigskin time! My favorite time of the year is about to begin — football season is here. I’ve had two Fantasy Football drafts in the past week. One league at work using FOXSports, and one with a bunch of buddies using Yahoo. Yahoo has really put a lot of work into their fantasy sports site since last year and I have to say it’s quite impressive.

In my work league, I picked up Corey Dillon in the first round, while it was Willis McGahee in the other league.

Matt Jones is one of my sleeper predictions. He’s taller and faster than almost all the wideouts in the league and looked impressive in the preseason games. I think he’ll prove that he can make the transition to receiver and his background as a quarterback will only help.

Also, take a look at Kyle Orton. He was just named as the Bears official starter. I know he’s a rook, but he might prove to be a good backup QB on a fantasy team, especially in bigger leagues where the QB well dries up quickly. Of course, I was wrong once, maybe twice, before.

College football kicks off this weekend (well Thursday night really) and I’ll be in Auburn for the first game against Georgia Tech. My dad went to Tech so Auburn needs to win big so I’ll have some bragging rights… And to make up for two years ago. The game is at 7:45 p.m. (CT) on ESPN which means we’ll have a full day of tailgating.

Saturday cannot come soon enough!