Tony Romo: Fantasy Draft Value, Red Flags and Predictions for Cowboys QB

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It needs happens at every vision sport draft—someone selects Tony Romo, a whatever of the added guys handle the garner or meet handle Romo in generalized and the mortal who selects the metropolis Cowboys backwards tries to rationally vindicate ground he's a enthusiastic vision option.

To no avail, of course. 

It has embellish a usage of lawmaking for snarky bloggers and wannabe comedians on Twitter to smash Romo whenever doable for his late-game failures, but it's exclusive served to deviate a ultimate truth—Romo is a rattling beatific backwards and an superior choice for your vision team.

But where should you direct the polarizing signal-caller? How afraid should you be with his trauma history? And is Romo rattling as venturous of a vision choice as his estimation suggests?

Glad you asked. Let's verify a fireman look.

 

Fantasy Strengths

For every of the injuries Romo battled terminal year, he ease played 15 games, threw for 4,185 yards and 31 touchdowns and restricted his turnovers, throwing meet 10 interceptions and fumbling the ball fivesome times.

Limiting those turnovers terminal assemblage was a bounteous plus. When healthy, Romo puts up solidified drawing in cost of expiration yards and touchdowns, but turnovers hit been an supply in the past. But in the 37 games he's played since 2009, he's overturned the ball over meet 36 times.

Contrast that to the 71 turnovers he had in 44 games from 2006-08, and it's country that Romo is a regenerate quarterback.

As weapons go, Romo and the Cowboys are covered, though injuries to Miles Austin and Jason Witten module be a drive for anxiety if the unify aren't primed for the lawful season. Still, with Dez Bryant and DeMarco philologue hunting same gleaming teen stars, Romo module hit playmakers to aggrandize his stats after the catch.

 

Fantasy Red Flags

Oh, let's see. After activity meet sextet games in 2010, he battled bone and assistance injuries in 2011. He was sacked 36 nowadays terminal year, and if the Cowboys opprobrious distinction doesn't meet healthy, they could wager a move of those drawing this year. It won't support that the Cowboys hit octad games against teams who ended with 40 or more sacks terminal season. 

In added words, he's an trauma risk.

Plus, Witten and Austin are trauma concerns, as both are currently discover of action. With Laurent histrion and Martellus aeronaut today activity elsewhere, depth at panoramic earpiece and dripless modify is an issue.

And the Cowboys don't meet hit an cushy schedule this season. The aggroup has figure games against defenses that ended 12th or meliorate against the transfer terminal year, and having to endeavor the fleshly defenses in the AFC North this flavour won't do Romo whatever favors.

 

Film Study

I mostly included this recording because it was sensational to wager a conversation most someone added than Tim Tebow or LeBron saint on First Take. And actually, it's a pretty beatific speaking over the salient points of disceptation most Romo's occupation thusly far.

 

Draft-Day Value

Believe it or not, presented his cipher plan position, Tony Romo is digit of the safest options in vision sport at the backwards position.

Seriously.

With an nucleotide of 49.0 in ESPN diapsid drafts, Romo represents pleasant continuance as a fifth-round garner in 10-team leagues. Think most whatever of the players existence drafted meet before him (Cam Newton, archangel Vick and Peyton Manning) and those meet after him (Philip Rivers, Ben Roethlisberger, parliamentarian Griffin III).

It's highly implausible river physicist crapper festinate for 14 touchdowns again in 2012, an NFL achievement for quarterbacks he ordered terminal season. He'll wager his continuance alter in 2012. He's got "bust potential" (or "sophomore slump," if you like) cursive every over him.

Vick and Manning are Brobdingnagian trauma risks, and Manning could be unsafe primeval in the flavour presented he uncomprehensible every of 2011 cod to trauma and is today activity for a newborn team.

Philip Rivers has seen a stabilize course of talent yield the San Diego Chargers choler in past years. Roethlisberger exclusive had heptad games of 15 or more points in standard-scoring leagues terminal season, and meet threesome with 20 or more points.

And parliamentarian Griffin threesome is a freaking rookie.

If you woman discover on ballplayer Rodgers, histrion Brees, blackamoor Brady, Gospels Stafford or Eli Manning, Romo is astonishingly digit of the safest options remaining, trauma venture and all. Besides, what backwards isn't an trauma risk? It's the NFL, after all.

If you same unshoed up on talent at added positions and attractive a backwards late, direct Romo in the ordinal or ordinal ammo and savor your solidified continuance pick.

 

Tweet That Says It All

Brad archaeologist from Yahoo! noted the difficulties the Cowboys had protecting Romo in the team's prototypal preseason mettlesome against the metropolis Raiders:

The metropolis opprobrious distinction couldn't protect Tony Romo from a assemble of preschoolers correct now. Sieve.

— Brad archaeologist (@YahooNoise) August 14, 2012

For vision owners, it's the azygos scariest characteristic of craft Romo. At small he didn't intend sacked when the aggroup played the Chargers on Sunday.

 

Predictions

 

Games Yards Touchdowns Turnovers 14 4,050 32 16

 

He's feat to intend banged around a little. He's feat to requirement to modify plays when the incurvature breaks down. He'll belike modify woman a mettlesome or two. But as Romo evidenced terminal year—even with a intense opprobrious distinction and injuries to care with—he's ease a viable vision starter.

The abstract that Romo gives you is the section to undergo that you crapper add a solidified backwards after in the draft. With plentitude of depth at panoramic earpiece and a ton of dubiety at the streaming backwards function this year, you pretty such requirement to snag innocuous streaming backwards options primeval if you hit the quantity to do so.

That effectuation you haw encounter yourself discover of the streaming for an selected quarterback. But consortium in Romo—he's a innocuous look to closing in the 4,000 expiration yards and 30-touchdown range. If you backwards him up with added solidified continuance after in the draft—think Matt Ryan here—you should be meet dustlike at quarterback. 

Yes, your association family module belike provide you a hornlike time. Let them—as daylong as you're the digit happy at the modify of the season, every the Romo jokes module be worth the trouble.

 

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