Fantasy Football One-Hit Wonders

With the emergence of Marion Barber III, probably the grittiest guy ever to have "the third," attached to his name, and Mike Furrey as the token white reciever, thoughts come to mind of other suprise fantasy one hit wonders. Here is a list of the ten most memorable fantasy one hit wonders, who won leagues for the guys who picked them up, and utterly destroyed the suckers who picked him up. Excluded from this list are players like David Boston, James Stuart, any of the Denver Running backs. You need to have really been a one hit wonder.

10) Marc Boerigter, WR, 2000 KC:

The guy was writing another Wayne Chrebet story, as the token undrafted white guy reciever. He had a rookie campaign for 420 yds, but the impressive thing was his 8 TDs which put him in the top ten of the league, and a 99 yd touchdown catch, which is a complete fantasy day, in a single play. Had everybody saying, who the hell is Marc Boerigter? The guy is out of the league now, but his heart has gone on, back to the CFL.

9) Drew Bennett, WR, 2004 TEN

VOLEK TO BENNETT, VOLEK TO BENNET!!! Story of the 2004 Tennessee Titans. More in the token undrafted white guy department, Bennett had 80 receptions for 1247 yards and 11 TDs. Not ranked higher only because he had 500 yards the year before, and his qualification for this list is questionable. Some of his catches were incredible

8) Chester Taylor, RB, 2006 MIN

Currently he has 999 yards, and 5 TDs to go along wiht about 250 yards recieveing. This guy was the epitome of a mediocre runningback in Baltimore, and now gets the chance to prove exactly that, he's a godsend as a second RB, for those who got reciever happy on draft day. Remains to be seen if he's a one hit wonder, but he isn't exactly the solution in Minnesota.

7) Quincy Morgan, WR, 2002 CLE:

Probably the only Cleveland player other than Kevin Johnson to have had fantasy value at one point. Put up 964 yards on 7 TDs, on a Browns team that snuck into the playoffs. Nothing else has happend for the Q man though, and has since been ripped a new one by Parcells, and lost a depth chart battle to Patrick Crayton.

6) Christian Fauria, TE, 2002, NE:

Fauria had only 250 yards, but an astounding 7 TDs, which is absolute gold at a position that was incredibly thin at the time. In every other season, his career high in TDs is 2.

5) Moe Williams & LeRoy Hoard, RB, 1999 & 2002, MIN:

Williams did a good job keeping Michael Bennet's value near zero. Of his his 84 rushes, 11 went for TDs. This guy wrote the book on goal line sniping.

As for Hoard Apparently Dennis Green did not think that Robert Smith, a thousand yard rusher had what it took to find the stripe. Hoard broke through Hordes of tacklers and had 10 TDs, and 500 yards. With these two, and the musical running backs fo the era Green became the second most frustrating fantasy running back coach after Mike Shanahan.


4) Bert Emanuel, WR, 1997 ATL:

The guy's name ws Bert, for crissake. If only he got the chance to play with Ernie Conwell. Better remembered for the "Bert Emanuel Rule," where the Bucs got snubbed from the super bowl. Anyways he went 65 for 991 and 9 TDs, catching from truly great quarterbacks by the name of Billy Joe Tolliver, Tony Graziani, and Chris Chandler.

3) Lamar Smith, RB, 2000, MIA

My friend had never seen the name Lamar before, so he called him "Lamer." The guy was pretty lame, for the entirety of his career. In fact, as a back he was pretty lame, rushing for only 1139 yards, on a 3.7 ypc average despite being the team's started for the whole season. The saving grace. A sweeet sweet 14 TDs, good for third in the league.

2) Patrick Jeffers & Steve Beuerlein, WR, CAR, 1999:

Patrick Jeffers is more of a guy who kicked your ass after you told him Killian's Red was a legitimate beer. The only thing Steve Beuerlein was costing $750 in wheel of fortune vowels. Doesn't really matter. Jeffers went 63 receptions for 1082 yards, 12 TD, good for second in the leage, and during the last five weeks of the serason caught 8 TD passes, with over 100 in each game. As for Beuerlein, try 4436 yards and 36 TDs plus two more TDs rushing, more than twice as many as he'd put up in any season of his 11 yr's to date. The only reason Beuerlein isn't number one is the fifteen picks he threw. These two waiver picks singlehandedly won me my league.

1) Randall Cunningham, QB, MIN, 1998

Who would have thought this guy wasn't washed up yet. Cunningham came back from the depths of mediocrity and threw for 3704 yds and 34 TDs, leading the vikes with the tandem of Moss and Carter to a 15-1 regular season record, and losing on a missed field goal by a previously perfect kicker.