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Fantasy Football Week 17 Start Em Sit Em

We're going to take a look at this afternoon's "meaningless" Cowboys at Eagles game from a fantasy football perspective. We've known pretty much all week that Michael Vick was going sit. So in his place Kevin Kolb or Cowboys backup Steven McGee probably aren't bad options. We've seen a little more of Kolb than McGee and we know that has stepped in and played well... but considering the Eagles will be resting some starters, McGee will have better weapons in this game and he'll be going against backups from an already weak Eagles secondary.

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WR DeSean Jackson is likely to sit for most if not all of this game, but Jeremy Maclin is definitely going to play. He only needs 36 yards to reach 1,000 for the season. However, it remains to be seen how much he'll play once he does reach that mark.

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A sleeper to take a look at might be Eagles backup RB Jerome Harrison. Just because his backups are in doesn't mean Andy Reid is going to stop throwing, but given than LeSean McCoy is probably the second most important guy on offense behind Vick he's likely to get a rest. So Harrison should have some opportunities at least in the second half of this game,

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