All aboard. A free boarding pass can be handed out to 80 percent of football fanatics. Once they see one glimpse of a great season, it’s a cause for a celebration.

Perhaps the athlete does deserve greater attention in fantasy football drafts, but please don’t get out of hand with player projections.

We are not going to name names, but there is a particular fantasy football magazine that has some outrageous player rankings. It’s one thing to be bold, but backing that up with factual evidence would help.

Warning: The next paragraph goes into specifics of the aforementioned.

Okay, when I first saw this wide receiver posted at the numero uno position, I almost past out in laughter. I was so dumbfounded that I dropped the magazine, and paced back and forth very quickly. As I rubbed my eyes and glanced down again, the previous vision was still there.

Tennessee Titan’s Drew Bennett…2005’s number one receiver.

Yes, yes, laugh it up. If Comedy Central had their own fantasy football show, then this would be a reasonable determination. Wait, take that back, it still wouldn’t.

It still has me shaking worse than Charlie Murphy’s giggling during the Prince episode on The Dave Chappelle Show

There are so many mind boggling factors that would ring a bell to not even consider Bennett as a top 10 receiver. However, before we start on that top five list, we want to say that this has nothing negatively to do with Bennett. The sole purpose of this article is to clear cobwebs out of owners heads, which might have been brainwashed from reading that magazine.

Breathe in deeply, and arrive back to Earth.

5. Derrick Mason’s Gone

Drew Bennett has developed rapidly, but will now have the burden of leading the receiving corp. Derrick Mason had that pressure for the last several years, and helped Bennett’s growth tremendously.

4. Size

Big receivers with quickness and extreme raw ability are linked hand and hand. At 6’5" tall, Bennett is listed in that category of rare receivers that aren’t project players melting on the sideline. Still, when is the last time a tall receiver has done well in the NFL?

Uh, Uh? Plaxico Burress and Marcus Robinson are the only two to even consider. The key point with those two athletes is consistency. They’ll bounce back and forth on the radar with a few off the chart performances, but then there are the weeks when they won’t even catch the ball. It’s a problematic situation that won’t go away with tall receivers.

3. McNair’s Health

Steve McNair deserves a lot of praise for what he has endured over the last several years. If he is fully recovered, there is no telling how he will finish out his veteran years. That has been a big concern over the last few seasons, so the gap of uncertainty bumps Bennett down automatically.

When McNair tried to play hurt last year, it hurt the offenses direction. McNair also is a chain-to-chain quarterback, while Bennett is a big play receiver. That doesn’t mesh well, unless the Titans plan on opening up the deep pass. Figuring two-to-two together and banking on Bennett as the number one receiver is just out of the question.

2. Travis Henry and Chris Brown

Here are two running backs that could easily both be ranked as top 15 in the league. There won’t be an official starter, as Jeff Fisher has stated that they will use both. Expect the Titans to be running the ball effectively with both backs like the Falcons and Rams do. That could open up the deep ball for Bennett after long drawn out drives catch the defense sleeping.

1. Where’s Volek?

Looking…looking….looking. There it is. During the three week stretch from NFL week 13 through 15, Bennett produced more than half of his season totals. He had 517 reception yards and 8 touchdowns. Take that away and for 13 games Bennett had 730 yards and 3 touchdowns. He did his damage when Billy Volek was quarterback, and when Chris Brown was banged up. Hmm, Volek isn’t projected to start, and the fact up above is a ding dinger for run-run-run.

Now that we are complete with that tirade, let’s get realistic. Bennett is one of the elite emerging receivers in the league. He presents a lot of problems for defenses, but gearing to shut him down will also become easier, especially since Tennessee has serious question marks at that position.

Bennett will now face the opposing teams number one corner with Mason gone. If Bennett does create problems for the number one defensive back, than the defensive coordinator will just adjust with a crowding scheme.

The lack of depth at receiver for the Titan’s, and Bennett’s barely dabbed success, put him right inside the top 20 receiver rankings on my list. He literally outperformed his previous two seasons combined with his stats from last season. Bennett’s trust from fantasy owners can’t come until after this season, when a realistic figure of a season should happen.

With Randy Moss, Marvin Harrison, Andre Johnson, Terrell Owens, Javon Walker, etc, it may be awhile before Bennett even cracks the top 10.

You can breathe a sigh of relief, as your treatment has been successful. Once I snap my fingers, your memory will be erased and you will no longer remember reading that magazine.

Snap!