Last I heard, scoring touchdowns is a fairly important part of both football and fantasy football. Jacobs and Jones are tied this year at 15 and last year Jacobs, in 11 games scored six compared with two for Jones in 16.

Again, I’m not arguing that Jones would be a terrible choice. I like the guy. I just wouldn’t take him in the first round. If someone else chose to it’s not a pick I would necessarily criticize.

As for Leon Washington, he’s gotten fewer and fewer carries each season in the pros. At 5-8, 202 pounds, he’s not going to eat into Jones’s carries too much–only on some 3rd downs, and some in the passing game–although Jones does alright in the passing game too.

But I don’t see him as a first rounder. For me it’s a combination of his age, his history and the fact that he’s the type of running back teams will start, but that they also always seem to be trying to replace as their starter, see Chicago with Cedric Benson – not that it worked well.

It also doesn’t help that whenever Leon Washington gets in the game he seems to make big plays for the Jets as well – a fact I think will slowly start to eat into the carries of the very solid, but more plodding, four-yards-at-a-time Jones.

I do like him, though, and if he fell to me in the second round next season I’d be thrilled. I’d add Brandon Jacobs to my first round list, however, before I’d add Jones.