By Jim McCormick
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Justin Forsett is cheap and has some decent upside.

In the wake of last week's attrition comes this week's bountiful crop of values. In this game, injuries and underperformance are invited, as they create instantaneous discrepancies between price and potential. The market simply can't react quickly enough to account for a dramatic scenario shift, like Michael Turner's ankle injury. Thus a fullback who was the 244th pick of the 2007 draft, Jason Snelling, becomes a premier prudent buy on the marketplace.

With no more bye weeks, we must shift investment strategy somewhat. It's time to balance your portfolio of players with a mixture of savvy short-term investments, like Snelling, combined with more enduring commodities, like Justin Forsett and his inviting schedule or Beanie Wells and his emerging role on a potent offense.

During the byes, retaining players and accruing dividends between locked and market prices proved difficult, to the point where I even espoused dismissing the pursuit of dividends and instead solely focus on that week's production. It seemed that saving money on a particular player who would soon face a bye week disagreed with the core goal of simply putting up the most points each week. But now, without interruption, we can speculate on lasting promise and really maximize our budgets. … MORE

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