Switching Gears

Shanghai, China

News around the league have indicated that Monkeys' star runningback, has suffered a setback in his foot injury and is now likely out for the season. Johnson's injury has forced a major shift in the Monkeys' lineup - of which depth becomes a major issue. In the first significant lineup change in years, the Monkeys have revealed that the team will temporarily move to a run 'n gun formation utilizing 4 receivers with LT as the lone back in the backfield. According to Monkeys' GM, Evan Shiue, in his weekly update news conference, "We don't know yet if this is a permanent move but we'd like to give Brandon Marshall a shot. We have some flexibility with moving another runningback up to LJ's old position, particularly with Lendale playing well, but we wanted to try a more pass oriented offense against the Jubas this week"

ESPN fantasy football analyst, Mike Karabell, was concerned about the recent developments. "For the past several years, depth and bench players have never been an issue for the players. It was a given that you start Peyton, LT, LJ, TO and Quan. The only question was who would be the 3rd receiver and with the trade for Gates, that was even supposed to be an easy answer. With LJ out, the draft results of 2007 will be put squarely into the public eye. I like what the Monkeys' have done with Brandon Marshall but I'd like to think that White, Norwood and even Watson give the Monkeys pretty decent depth at the runningback position. We'll see. This isn't good news at any rate."