Fantasy Football Cut-N-Go: Big Decisions for the Dallas Cowboys

The Cut-N-Go is back to keep you up-to-date on all the NFL news that affects the upcoming fantasy football season.

The Dallas Cowboys have become overnight Super Bowl contenders. By overnight, read offseason and know that all this hype is power on paper. No one has taken a snap yet and rosters around the league are nowhere close to being set.

The National Football Post has Dallas ranked as the third best team headed into training camp. Fox Sports places them in fourth position and so does Pete Prisco of CBS Sports.

The Cowboys finished 11-5 last season and were bounced by the Minnesota Vikings from the playoffs. A decent draft and a ton of position players from last season still on the roster are fueling the Super Bowl flames in 'Big-D'. But, as Gerry Fraley of The Dallas Morning News says, there are still position battles to be fought in camp.

• Save drafting a kicker until the very late rounds. But when you do, be careful about grabbing any Dallas kicker until the job is securely his.

If Buehler does the expected and wins the job against what is now minimal competition, he will be the 10th rookie kicker for the Cowboys since 1990, when Ken Willis debuted. Only one of those kickers reached a Super Bowl: Lin Elliott with the 1992 club.

• If return yardage makes a player more valuable in your fantasy football league, keep an eye on Dez Bryant. There is a chance that the Cowboys will turn to him for return duty.

Rookie wide receiver Dez Bryant returned three punts for touchdowns in his final two seasons at Oklahoma State but is inexperienced on kickoffs. Receiver Titus Ryan ranked sixth in the Canadian Football League for kickoff returns last season with an average of 23 yards.

• Don't expect Dallas to stray from the three-headed running back monster of Marion Barber, Tashard Choice and Felix Jones. The big question is how the team will split up the carries.

The Cowboys last season were among 10 teams that had three backs with 60-plus carries. Look for the time-sharing arrangement with Marion Barber, Tashard Choice and Felix Jones to continue. It worked well enough for the Cowboys to rank seventh in rushing with 131.4 yards per game.

What else is going on around the league?

• Joe Flacco likes the fact that he has such an able backup quarterback in Marc Bulger, but according to Jamison Hensley of The Baltimore Sun, Flacco is also worried that it might negatively affect team chemistry.

"Hopefully, we just all get along well," Flacco said over the weekend. "When you have a little bit of tension in the room, it doesn't lend to playing well. Yeah, he might bring a thing here or there that helps me out. We'll see. It's all about going out there, preparing during the week and having a good time doing that. Hopefully, we can do that."

• Joe Reedy, of The Cincinnati Inquirer, thinks that if first-round draft pick Jermaine Gresham is in training camp no later than day three, he'll become the starting tight end for the Bengals.

• Trying to make a decision between Reggie Wayne, Larry Fitzgerald and Miles Austin in your fantasy football draft? Aren't we all? I'm not going to make the decision for you, but I will tell you that Phil Richards of the Indianapolis Star ran into Wayne at a basketball event and the receiver says that he wants to be in camp on day one.

Wayne is dissatisfied with his contract, a six-year, $39 million deal that has two years to run with base salaries of $5.47 million this season and $5.95 million in 2011. He did not participate in the club's offseason voluntary organized team activities or mandatory minicamp.