The 2020 season will kick off a new decade of NFL football, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are also hoping to put the woes of the 2010s behind them, and signing Tom Brady to lead their offense seems like a good place to start.
But before the new season rolls around, ESPN’s NFL Nation decided to take a look back at some of the best and worst from the NFL over the past decade in terms of signings, teams and even fantasy players.
And when it comes to fantasy football, it seems no player was worse than former Buccaneers running back Doug Martin.
Here is Tristan H. Cockcroft’s reasoning:
“Martin had the second-highest-scoring fantasy game by any player in the 2010s (55.2 PPR points, Week 9 of 2012), and the sixth-highest-scoring season by any rookie in the 2010s (311.6 PPR points, 2012), but Martin’s disappointments overshadowed his accomplishments. He was the No. 5 overall pick on average in 2013, and saw an 8.1-PPR-point-per game decline in production before suffering a season-ending labrum injury in October. He was the No. 8 pick in 2014 and 2016, and failed to reach the 90-point threshold in either season. From 2012 through 2018, Martin played in 84 games, and in only 10 of them did he score as many as 20 PPR fantasy points.”
While the ESPN piece is bad news for Martin, it’s good news for Tom Brady, whose New England Patriots were, perhaps not surprisingly, named the team of the decade after five Super Bowl appearances and three wins.
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