Friday, September 3, 2010

Browns RB Montario Hardesty Tears ACL

Cleveland Browns RB Montario Hardesty tore his ACL during the preseason game against the Bears last night.

Fantasy Impact: Hardesty has been rather snake bitten with injuries involving his knees over the past couple years.  This is a real shame since Jerome Harrison failed to impress the coaching staff while Hardesty was nursing his latest knee injury.  Hardesty started last night and looked great while getting more than was blocked on his carries, but his torn ACL ends his season.  Those of us unlucky fantasy owners who took a shot with Hardesty as their RB4/5 can cut bait immediately.  Jerome Harrison will be the feature RB of this team for at least the first couple weeks, and he'll be a RB2 during that time as he doesn't much competition for carries yet.  James Davis made a nice impression again last night, so he will move into the backup role and receive change-of-pace snaps.  Davis can be added as a RB5 in case Harrison falters, and he could push for playing time as the year goes on.

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