As far as Rice and McGahee, it just appears that power backs have done very little against NE this year. Turner was largely ineffective, as was Jones the prior week. The best offensive production against NE this year was from Fred Jax in week 1 and he did most of his damage on screen passes. I like Rice in PPR and think Kelley Washington is a sleeper to put up a 5/80 line or thereabouts.

As far as Moreno, I think the Cowboys shutting down the Giants and Panthers running game has to give you pause, particularly in non-ppr. The Cowboys have been scorched this year by downfield passers and given up some big plays on blown coverage, but DEN is not the type of offense to exploit that weakness. I expect the Cowboys will game plan for DEN similarly to what they did with CAR and make Orton beat them, possibly from behind. I would expect to see Moreno catch some passes with an opportunity to make plays in space, but its also possible a big Cowboy lead could effectively take him out of the game.

I agree with Smitty on Brown. The Seahawks run defense has been awful this year (even excluding Gore’s two big runs in wk2) and I can see Brown ad Addai toting the rock 15-18 times each, both going for 75-100 yards and a score.

On another note, I think the Bengals D is worth a play this week.