Who's Gonna Dance With The Devil: Picking Jerome Simpson Up

[Hunter Morrow]

Simpson is a free agent. I have Martellus Bennett, Dennis Pitta, Donnie Avery and Pierre Garcon. I'm totally looking to cut Avery and get Simpson as a free agent and start him against the Lions. I feel like Simpson could very easily have a 100 yard game and tons of catches in my PPR league. Am I nuts or what?

I can get him this Wednesday, that is when free agency starts again.

[Crax]

I'm considering grabbing him and putting him on my bench. It'll be interesting to see how he gets used. I'm curious to see how many actual targets he gets. We have a large bench and I'm not using quite a few guys on it anyways.

[dead_poet]

Depends on how deep your league is and if you think anyone else will pick him up, but I'd wait. I'm more of a "wait-and-see" guy the first week with an unknown guy. Of course, I was that way with Brown from the Giants this week and I'm going to lose both games due to benching him and starting what I felt was a more "consistent" player. It's entirely a gut call. I can see him getting 2 receptions for 47 yards, but also 4 for 81 and a score. But don't expect a HUGE game for him, especially right out of the gate. There's still Harvin, Rudolph and AD that will be fed. I'd consider him a WR4/5 right now, with upside.

[Hunter Morrow]

With guys coming back for the Giants I am iffy on Bennett. My starting guy is probably Pitta or Garcon. Yuck. Simpson as a two guy if I can drop Avery for him makes sense.

I feel for you on Brown. I dropped my RB4, Jonathon Dwyer and got him. He got 29 points in my league but I wanted to start Sproles instead. Awful, awful call that cost me 23 points.