Many happy returns

Almost every fantasy football owner has been faced with the dilemma:

Is it worth it to start a guy who only gets points from kick and/or punt returns?

Kansas City's Dante Hall, a wide receiver, was the first to present this question to fantasy owners.

Hall would catch two or three passes a game, but his only real value came in the form of returns - he picked up 12 return touchdowns from 2002-2007.

But it always seemed too much of a crap shoot to start a guy who may take two to the house or may not touch the ball once in a game.

Well, we may have just found our exception to that theory.

Bears return man Devin Hester has become such a dominant return man (10touchdown returns in his 27 career games) that starting him on your fantasy team might not be such a bad decision.

Hester has posted 62 fantasy points this season, in contrast to starting wide receivers including Calvin Johnson, Derrick Mason and Hines Ward, who get started weekly in most leagues.

If you play in a league with 10 or more teams, look into picking up Hester.

He may not touch the ball that often, but when he does he's as good a threat to score as any player - at any position - in the league.