I mentioned in a previous blog that no owner in our league has ever won with Peyton Manning, since Manning burst on to the scene in 1999. Manning has never guided a FFB team to the finals in our league, despite his remarkable career.

Manning holds NFL records for consecutive years with over 4,000 yards passing, as well as most total NFL seasons with 4,000 plus yards passing. But, he remains a curse to anyone who proudly strolls out of our annual draft with Manning in toe.

This year, the team who drafted Manning is 3-6 and will surely end with a similar fate. Five QB’s have outperformed Manning. QB’s Jay Cutler, Kurt Warner, Drew Brees, Philip Rivers, and Aaron Rodgers have all done better. Only Drew Brees was drafted early out of that bunch. Manning is only two points ahead of RB Clinton Portis, the first non-QB top performer in our league.

Not once has Peyton Manning put up more than 30 weekly FFB points this year. The other five aforementioned QB’s have managed that 15 times combined. Six times they have posted over 35 points. The Manning curse continues in 2008.

Many owners in our PPR league this year went top heavy with WR’s in the draft. The feeling was that WR’s have caught up with RB’s in value, in recent years. Not so fast. In our league, 11 RB’s have outperformed the first WR on the list, Anquan Boldin. Only then does it begin to balance out. That is a notable trend, and one that this writer predicted pre-season. RB’s Clinton Portis, Marion Barber, Matt Forte, Frank Gore, Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Steve Slaton, Brian Westbrook, Michael Turner, LaDanian Tomlinson, and Ronnie Brown have all outscored the first WR. Three of them are NFL rookies.

WR Reggie Wayne is #63 on the top performers list. You must go to #74 on that list to locate Terrell Owens, and to #84 to locate Randy Moss. It really has been the year of the mid-round quarterback…