Darren McFadden has been the bane of many an Oakland Raiders fan's existence; he's the NFL equivalent of a five-tool baseball player who shows immense promise but fails to deliver on it season after season, usually due to injury.
Fantasy football owners feel the same way about McFadden. Maybe former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback and current NBC analyst Shaun King is a former McFadden owner whose season was reduced to rubble, because he took some vicious rips at him on the air when discussing his 2013 fantasy value.
"Darren McFadden, if you put him on your team, you will lose your league," King said. "You will regret the fact that you drafted him, and you will emotionally be unstable because of the fact he does not care."
That wasn't all for King, who walked into the studio that day with some fire in his belly and fictional football rage in his heart.
"I looked at Darren McFadden against the New Orleans Saints and what I wanted to see is this a running back who wants to prove his detractors wrong, wants to go out and have a big year in a contract year, or is this a guy that's just trying to collect a check," King said. "All I saw was a guy who wanted to collect a check."
While King might not haven needed to attack him so personally, it is fair to wonder whether McFadden is someone worth investing in as a fantasy or real-life running back going forward. While he has performed admirably in bursts, Run-DMC has never played in more than 13 games before.
Last season he played in 12 games and averaged a measly 3.3 yards per carry on 216 attempts. On the plus side, even in down years McFadden is a threat to catch passes out of the backfield. In 2012 he caught 42 passes for 258 yards and a score.
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