Eat the meat

By now Jesse Chatman has likely been plucked from your free agent pool and some lucky sole is dangling him like a piece of meat in front of the owners desperate for running backs.

While I don’t normally advocate feeding waiver poachers, I have to suggest it here. Cam Cameron has always been in love with Jesse Chatman and there’s no reason to suspect Chatman will see less carries than Brown had been getting thus far this season. Chatman will get a chance to be a feature back and if he fails he may be forced to split time with Patrick Cobbs and/or Lorenzo Booker, but I don’t think he’ll fail.

Unfortunately, the loss of Chris Chambers hurts Chatman’s value (and it would have hurt Ronnie Brown’s just as much, if not more) and he’s on an awful team which will be trailing late in many games. Still though, Chatman will be a No. 2 or No. 3 running back for the rest of the season and I would trade guys like DeShaun Foster or Warrick Dunn for him in a heartbeat.