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6 Players to Avoid in Fantasy Football Drafts
With the NFL season rapidly approaching, who are highly valued players you should avoid in upcoming drafts?

Justin Forsett, RB, Baltimore Ravens

this offense isn't changing -- not drastically, at least. If preseason is any indication, they aren't lying.

In their Week 3 preseason "tune up" game, the Ravens only threw one pass to a running back (Javorius Allen), and Forsett has only one reception for four yards through three games.

Heck, we don't even know how Trestman will do as a play caller and coach in the running back friendly zone blocking scheme that Kubiak employed. Denver certainly didn't have much success after he left in 2005, with only one back rushing for over 1,000 yards in Denver from 2006-2010 (Tatum Bell at 1,025) until Willis McGahee broke the trend in 2011 with Tim Tebow.

Finally, Forsett's three year contract extension was hardly a vote of confidence, paying him less than Mark Ingram, C.J. Spiller, Ryan Mathews, Shane Vereen or Frank Gore received in free agency, all backs he outperformed. The Ravens then drafted Allen, who has a similar skill set, and talked up second year back Lorenzo Taliaferro for his goal line and short yardage ability.

Would it shock me if Forsett had a good season? No, it wouldn't. But I'd rather not spend a second-round pick betting on a marginal athlete who has only one good season on his resume since 2008.

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