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Berry: Brady suspension hurts ranking, but still a top-10 QB

There is, like most things in life, a good side to this and a bad side to this.

The bad news, of course, is obvious. Tom Brady, the second-best quarterback in fantasy last season (335 points, Cam Newton led with 373), must serve a four-game suspension at the start of this season, the result of a federal appeals court overturning a lower judge in the "Deflategate" battle between the NFL and the NFLPA. Your tax dollars at work!

Some quick back-of-the-envelope math shows that Brady averaged 21 fantasy points per game in 2015, and if you subtracted 84 points (his four-game average) from his season total, his 251 points would have put him 15th at QB for the season, just behind Alex Smith.