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NFL FanHouse Midseason Midtacular: Best Old Face in a New Place

Nov 8, 2007 – 7:00 PM
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Josh Alper

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Every NFL team has now played eight games, meaning the season has reached the halfway point. So this week we're presenting our NFL FanHouse Midseason Midtacular.
Best Old Face in a New Place nominees:

Randy Moss, WR, New England Patriots
It's hard to believe now that people actually thought trading a fourth rounder for Moss might backfire and ruin the Patriots season. Quite the opposite as Moss has 56 catches for 924 yards and 12 touchdowns, numbers which any team would be happy to have for an entire season.

Wes Welker, WR, New England Patriots
Welker carves teams up underneath and has 61 catches to show for it. The Dolphins got a second and seventh round pick in return for Welker but when you take his 11-yard average on punt returns into account he'd have been a bargain at twice the price.

Jeff Garcia, QB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Jon Gruden churns through quarterbacks like a quiting smoker through Nicorette but he found a winner when he signed Garcia to a two-year contract this offseason. He's led the Bucs to a 5-4 record with a 95.5 quarterback rating and has had just one bad game all season.

Eric Steinbach, G, Cleveland Browns
The surprise team of the AFC has had great success whenever they run behind their new left guard. And Derek Anderson could make the Pro Bowl because of the way the Browns line secures his pocket.


And the winner is...

Randy Moss. If he continues his torrid play he'll be in the conversation for league MVP when all is said and done and may challenge Jerry Rice's single-season record of 22 touchdowns. He's back to being the Moss of Vikings days of yore when you could triple cover him, throw a ball up for grabs and know that he'd do whatever it took to bring the ball down for six points.
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