The best shape of his life of Michael Turner

Turner lost a considerable amount of weight during the spring and seems very determined this year. He's not as much of a factor in the passing game (unlike other top-tier running backs), but he's still going to get a ton of touches and all of the carries around the goal line. Even in an injury-shortened season, new Turner jerseys scored 10 touchdowns last season. For a back you can purchase around pick No. 7 or 8 in drafts, I think he presents a pretty nice value.

It comes out every preseason. It's a sentence that has come to signal the start of training camps. Even more widely used than the "we're expecting big things out of [insert player name here]" or "[insert player name here] has done everything right," it's a sentence that has become dreadfully overused. While it wasn't directly expressed in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article Tuesday, it was basically insinuated: Michael Turner jerseys is in the best shape of his life. "Over the offseason, the Falcons finally attributed Michael Turner's slow start in 2009 to him being out of shape," AJC scribe D. Orlando Ledbetter wrote. "Turner, determined to prove that the 1,700-yard season in 2009 was not a fluke, has basically lived at the team facilities this offseason. If he does get off to a slow start, fitness will not be the issue."

According to the Falcons football jerseys' "unofficial" training camp depth chart, Jerious Norwood is the No. 2 tailback ahead of Jason Snelling.

Norwood is the better bet for touches when the entire Atlanta backfield is healthy, but Snelling would likely receive the bulk of early-down carries if Michael Turner got hurt. Thus, Snelling is a better Turner "handcuff" for fantasy purposes. The Falcons clearly envision Norwood as only a change-of-pace back. Snelling severely outplayed him down last season's stretch

Analysts including Sydney-based Michael Turner and Su-Lin Ong lowered RBC's forecasts for New Zealand rate increases after Bollard raised the official cash rate for the second month in a row and said the growth outlook has "softened." Traders cut expectations for interest rates after Governor Alan Bollard said in a statement further increases are likely to be more moderate than the central bank's June projections.