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Fantasy Football Week 3 Starter Rankings: Arian Foster, Bernard Pierce Out, Alfred Blue and Lorenzo Taliaferro Become Options

By Jason Lisk

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Here are your fantasy football starter rankings heading into week 3’s Sunday games, with the early game inactives. This includes Arian Foster for Houston (Blue, Grimes and Ronnie Brown to play) and Bernard Pierce for Baltimore (Forsett and Taliaferro). We don’t know about Jamaal Charles since he plays in a late game, but the guess is he does not play, or will be limited. So if you have another option, you should probably just roll with it.

Notable actives who were on this week’s injury report and you will want to consider: A.J. Green, Dez Bryant, DeSean Jackson, and Jordan Cameron.

QUARTERBACKS

  1. Drew Brees
  2. Aaron Rodgers
  3. Matthew Stafford
  4. Andrew Luck
  5. Peyton Manning
  6. Nick Foles
  7. Jay Cutler
  8. Russell Wilson
  9. Philip Rivers
  10. Cam Newton
  11. Tom Brady
  12. Tony Romo
  13. Andy Dalton
  14. Colin Kaepernick
  15. Kirk Cousins
  16. Ben Roethlisberger
  17. Geno Smith
  18. Ryan Tannehill
  19. Alex Smith
  20. Joe Flacco
  21. E.J. Manuel
  22. Matt Cassel
  23. Eli Manning
  24. Austin Davis
  25. Ryan Fitzpatrick

RUNNING BACKS

  1. LeSean McCoy
  2. DeMarco Murray
  3. Giovani Bernard
  4. Alfred Morris
  5. LeVeon Bell
  6. C.J. Spiller
  7. Knile Davis
  8. Matt Forte
  9. Pierre Thomas
  10. Ahmad Bradshaw
  11. Andre Ellington
  12. Joique Bell
  13. Montee Ball
  14. Eddie Lacy
  15. Lamar Miller
  16. Stevan Ridley
  17. Chris Ivory
  18. Darren Sproles
  19. Khiry Robinson
  20. Terrance West
  21. Trent Richardson
  22. Matt Asiata
  23. Rashad Jennings
  24. Zac Stacy
  25. Alfred Blue
  26. Justin Forsett
  27. Chris Johnson
  28. Lorenzo Taliaferro
  29. Jonathan Stewart
  30. Frank Gore
  31. Toby Gerhart
  32. Reggie Bush
  33. Danny Woodhead
  34. Darren McFadden
  35. Jeremy Hill
  36. Fred Jackson
  37. Donald Brown
  38. Isaiah Crowell
  39. Shane Vereen
  40. Shonn Greene
  41. Jonathan Grimes
  42. Silas Redd
  43. Damien Williams
  44. Jerick McKinnon
  45. DeAngelo Williams
  46. Joseph Randle
  47. LeGarrette Blount
  48. C.J. Anderson
  49. Bishop Sankey

WIDE RECEIVERS

  1. Calvin Johnson
  2. Jordy Nelson
  3. Dez Bryant
  4. Brandon Marshall
  5. Antonio Brown
  6. Demaryius Thomas
  7. Percy Harvin
  8. Randall Cobb
  9. Julian Edelman
  10. Cordarrelle Patterson
  11. Keenan Allen
  12. Andre Johnson
  13. Emmanuel Sanders
  14. A.J. Green
  15. Mike Wallace
  16. Pierre Garcon
  17. Brandin Cooks
  18. Sammy Watkins
  19. Jeremy Maclin
  20. Reggie Wayne
  21. Kelvin Benjamin
  22. Alshon Jeffery
  23. Marques Colston
  24. Michael Floyd
  25. Michael Crabtree
  26. Golden Tate
  27. T.Y. Hilton
  28. Victor Cruz
  29. Brian Quick
  30. Anquan Boldin
  31. Steve Smith
  32. DeSean Jackson
  33. Larry Fitzgerald
  34. Eric Decker
  35. Markus Wheaton
  36. Kendall Wright
  37. Cecil Shorts
  38. Andrew Hawkins
  39. Greg Jennings
  40. Mohamed Sanu
  41. Terrance Williams
  42. Torrey Smith
  43. Rueben Randle
  44. Justin Hunter
  45. Jeremy Kerley
  46. Miles Austin
  47. Riley Cooper
  48. Robert Woods
  49. Doug Baldwin
  50. Malcom Floyd

TIGHT ENDS

  1. Jimmy Graham
  2. Julius Thomas
  3. Rob Gronkowski
  4. Antonio Gates
  5. Greg Olsen
  6. Delanie Walker
  7. Zach Ertz
  8. Larry Donnell
  9. Niles Paul
  10. Martellus Bennett
  11. Jordan Cameron
  12. Dennis Pitta
  13. Kyle Rudolph
  14. Travis Kelce
  15. Jared Cook
  16. Jason Witten
  17. Dwayne Allen
  18. Charles Clay
  19. Jermaine Gresham
  20. Heath Miller
  21. Eric Ebron
  22. Mychal Rivera
  23. Garrett Graham
  24. Derek Carrier
  25. Zach Miller