Worthless Benchmarks

Briefly, you don't want 1000 yard seasons.

More to the point, you don't want 1000 yards over 16 games. 63 yards per game shouldn't get you excited. You can tell your league that 1000 yard seasons are really good if you want to blow smoke. They were more impressive when the NFL only had 14 game regular seasons. At least that would be over 70 yards per game.

I say you should devote your time to identifying players who will average at least 75 yards per game at their primary skill. QB's need to average 200 yards per game passing. Everything else is just bonus yardage as far as I'm concerned. Guys who don't get 1200 yards or 3200 passing yards aren't very good at helping you win championships.

Touchdowns are hard to predict, and I'd suggest that you try to get players who you feel can get you 10 TD's per year, or 25 pass TD's. Don't be upset if your player only gets 8 TD's but you can think about replacing him if he does worse than that.

Bottom line; You should look for players capable of 1200 yards and 10 TD's.