With Fantasy Football season ready to kick in high gear, FanHouse is here to preview each and every team -- one per day until we've done them all.
Meet the ... First Chicago Bears team with a franchise quarterback since face masks were invented. A message to non-Bears fans from Bears fans: Don't bring us down. If you want to make fun of us for being a bit overzealous about Jay Cutler, then maybe you should take a gander at the load of crap the Bears have been using at quarterback. From Cade McNown to Moses Moreno to Chad Hutchinson to Peter Tom Willis to ... whatever. You get the point. Let us also remember that having Cutler doesn't necessarily make everyone fantasy gold automatically. The tremors are more real than fantasy.
With the departure of Mike Brown from the Bears, a hole was left in the Windy City secondary. Adding Josh Bullocks via free agency and drafting Al Afalava in the sixth round of the draft don't appear to be answers. With the roster seemingly set for the 2009 season, the Bears will have to find a free safety starter in-house. They have many cornerbacks, so moving one to safety could work well.
Who moved to the head of the NFL class during the draft? Find out with FanHouse's team-by-team 2009 Draft Grades.
When the Bears made one of the biggest offseason splashes by trading for Jay Cutler, they were left without a first-round pick. Many Bears fans would argue this was a blessing in disguise, considering general manager Jerry Angelo's rocky history with first-round picks (David Terrell, Cedric Benson, Rex Grossman, Michael Haynes).
Still, there were more needs than just quarterback on this team for the near future. Would Angelo be able to fill all those holes with a bunch of second-day draft picks?
With the draft approaching, we ignore projections and identify the dream scenario for each team in a series we call The Perfect Draft.
The Steelers are never big players in free agency, so the draft is of vital importance to the Steelers ability to contend year in and year out. With two Lombardi trophies and another AFC Championship appearance in the past five years, it's clear that Kevin Colbert and the Steelers' scouting department have done their job well.
The Steelers rarely draft players to start right away. Even 2003 first-round pick Troy Polamalu played only sporadically as a rookie and last year's top two picks, Rashard Mendenhall and Limas Sweed, will be asked to play much bigger roles in 2009 than they did in 2008.
With the draft approaching, we ignore projections and identify the dream scenario for each team in a series we call The Perfect Draft.
When you put together the league's best record and bring back most everyone from that team, you don't have many pressing needs. Even after losing Albert Haynesworth to a massive deal in free agency, the Titans still have a very solid defensive line, an above-average secondary and a solid group of linebackers.
With the draft approaching, we ignore projections and identify the dream scenario for each team in a series we call The Perfect Draft.
For all the good that Mike Holmgren did in Seattle (and everywhere else he coached), it's hard to argue that the first year of the Jim Mora Era hasn't already started out better than the Holmgren Farewell Trainwreck Tour. The Seahawks traded Julian Peterson, but they signed T.J. Houshmandzadeh and managed to pick up Colin Cole. Sure, it's not that impressive, but it's still better than what happened to Holmgren and Co. last year.
Several mock drafts have had the Steelers picking Vanderbilt corner D.J. Moore with their first-round pick. It's safe to say after a poor pro day showing that if the Steelers want him, he'll be available with pick No. 32.
According to NFL.com, Moore ran a 4.57 and a 4.59 in two 40-yard dashes. That's a very good time for a tight end, but a very bad time for a cornerback, especially when you add in the detail that Moore was running with the wind at his back. Moore also ran a 4.58 at the NFL combine, so we can safely state that Moore is a high 4.5's guy.
That probably means that he won't be a Steeler. Pittsburgh likes its corners to tackle, something Moore is only OK at partly because he's undersized, but it's really hard to imagine the Steelers taking an undersized and slow corner in the first round. This year's corner class doesn't have many players with first-round grades, but a lot of corners with second-round ability, Moore just slipped into that group of second rounders.
Because the NFL season never ends, we present our 2009 Offseason Roadmaps for front offices to navigate through the summer.
Mike Holmgren has long been one of the primary identities of the Seattle Seahawks. He took them to the Super Bowl and made them a perennial winner of the NFC West. Then last year happened. As Holmgren's retirement tour rolled along, more and more injuries piled up, Seneca Wallace had to start at quarterback for a few games, and the Seahawks stumbled to a 4-12 record.
The draft has become one of the biggest events of the year for NFL fans. Maybe because everybody's a winner on draft day, or maybe because hope springs eternal and all that. Whatever the reason, we're fully trying to horn in on the action. Round 2 of the FanHouse mock draft follows. And we'd like to stress "mock."
With Fantasy Football season ready to kick in high gear, FanHouse is here to preview each and every team -- one per day until we've done them all. 
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Who moved to the head of the NFL class during the draft? Find out with FanHouse's team-by-team 
With the draft approaching, we ignore projections and identify the dream scenario for each team in a series we call 
With the draft approaching, we ignore projections and identify the dream scenario for each team in a series we call 
Several mock drafts have had the Steelers picking Vanderbilt corner 
Because the NFL season never ends, we present our 
