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4/14/2010: Signed a five-year, $47.3 million contract. The deal contains $12.5 million guaranteed, including a $5.5 million signing bonus and $6 million of Marshall's 2012 salary barring a league suspension in the first three years.

2010: $4 million,

2011: $6.5 million (+ $3 million roster bonus due 4/2),

2012: $9 million,

2013-2014: $9.1 million,

2015: Free Agent

Contract data sourced from Rotoworld.com

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Pull It Together, Marshangale

Brandon is another in a long line of super-talented thug wide receivers.  Nicknamed “the Beast” because of his size and brute strength, one could also argue that past girlfriends or the local police blotter may have had input on that one, too.  Shameful.  Hey douche bag, you are entering a contract year, can’t you pull it together for even one off-season?  His timing is further worsened by the fact that the dude (Jay Cutler) who targets him an average of 176 times over the last two years left via trade because there was only room for one large ego in Mile High.  Marshall’s near-term future seems a bit compromised.  

He didn’t enter the league as a polished product, but it didn’t take him long to develop.   He finished an overall unspectacular career at Central Florida but the numbers are deceiving; he didn’t start until his senior season.   He has always been known for his physical approach to the WR position, never fearing any type of contact.  He doesn’t possess good top end speed clocking his 40 yard dash at 4.57, but he is an enormous target for a QB and quickly adjusted his game to the pros.  He was hugely fantasy relevant just one game into his second season and hasn’t looked back. 

Trouble Ahead

Marshall was targeted 12 more times than the next closest receiver in the league last year (182). Jay Cutler found a comfort zone in such a large target, but that duo has been dis-banded.  And after we got over our disgust in Josh McDaniels for coming in and making his first order of business to piss off his franchise QB, we have come around a bit on that as he netted two first round picks, a third rounder, and Kyle Orton for Cutler. Not bad for the franchise, but it is for Marshall, though. While Orton finally showed promise last season throwing the ball to one of the worst WR corps in the league in Chicago, a Cutler he is not.

The Cutler to Orton Effect

Given all of the organizational changes, it's hard to imagine The Broncos offense matching last year's performance (2^nd overall offense and 3^rd in passing average at 279.4 YPG).   Marshall was not a top 10 fantasy WR with Cutler.   Cutler has a gunslinger mentality and can hit open receivers deep in stride, while Orton has a weak and highly inaccurate arm, makes poor decisions, and has never made time for his receivers.  Cutler is quite mobile giving Marshall more time to find openings.  Cutler ran for 200 yards in both 2007 and 2008, while Orton has 92 rushing yards in his 33 career games.  Denver threw the ball 38.8 times per game last year, which was only behind the Saints and Cardinals.  Kyle Orton throwing 38 passes a game will ensure McDaniels his first losing season as a head coach...and they have a stud rookie in Knowshon Moreno.   

Denver will throw at least six or seven less times per game this season then they did in 2008, or at least they should.   Less throws from a worse QB will mean Marshall will most likely finish around 80-85 catches this season.  We aren't seeing how Marshall can even maintain top 15 WR billing.  Orton has only completed 55.3% of his career passes and that's with an offense not asking him to do much; he has a  30-27 TD to INT ratio over his career.   Marshall's career TD count is low (13) relative to how much he has been targeted.

2009 Fantasy Outlook

There are too many unknowns surrounding Marshall to consider him as a #1 fantasy WR this season. He was barely one with Cutler (finished 11th in WRs in a basic format in '08). It gets worse; Denver's schedule is brutal this season, registering a 26 on the rush SoS and 29 on the pass SoS. They have out-of-division matches against Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philly (in the fantasy playoffs), Indy, New England, and Dallas. Ouch. They'll be playing from behind, but that may be in large part because Orton can't complete a pass. The only thing Marshall has going in his favor from a fantasy perspective is that he is entering the final year of his rookie contract, and the Broncos won't be offering him up an extension. Let someone else take a chance on this feminine hygiene product, but if he's sitting there after 17 receivers are gone, go ahead and grab him. Make him the 11th WR selected and hope for higher returns.

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