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Fantasy Stock Watch: RB James Davis Gets A Second Chance For The Browns

September 3, 2010 by Kurt Turner

James Davis just woke from his fantasy coma

With the news last night that rookie running back Montario Hardesty has a torn ACL and is now out for the season, the fantasy landscape changes for RBs in Cleveland.

Last summer, rookie RB James Davis suffered a similar fate as Hardesty. Now by virtue of Montario's injury, Davis may just be fantasy relevant again. I have been saying all along not to dismiss his presence. Remember, Davis was the guy who kept CJ Spiller on the bench at Clemson. The talent is there.

As 2009 opened the expectation was Davis would supplant Jamal Lewis as the team's #1 RB, then he got hurt and Jerome Harrison rose to be "that guy."

While I'm taking nothing away from Harrison, but I did give you four reasons not to draft him earlier this summer. One of those reasons is gone, making the others more relevant.

Below are the team's preseason stats. As you can see, James Davis leads all RBs, and even FB Peyton Hillis has a much better YPC than Harrison's paltry 3.1.

Rushing Statistics
Player Att Yds Yds/Att Long TD
James Davis 26 103 4.0 19 0
Jerome Harrison 23 72 3.1 9 1
Peyton Hillis 21 80 3.8 10 1

We'll have to wait to see how this all plays out, but I would wager that Harrison's stock remains steady at this point but Davis is on the rise and most assuredly a sleeper who could usurp Harrison much as Hardesty was thought to.

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