Who Wants to be a Fantasy Football Star® Winner Set to Make Debut on Sunday

Gainesville, Florida - The dream ride that Danny Woodhead has been on for the last 3 weeks became even more real on Wednesday. The wide receiver/running back, who has spent the preseason on the Jets practice squad and the last three weeks on the New England Patriots, has been called up to defending champion el mundo's 18-man roster and will make his first start this week.

Woodhead arrived three weeks ago with a buzz after he won Michael Irvin's Who Wants to be a Fantasy Football Star® reality show on Spike TV. Woodhead famously defeated Michael Vick's younger brother, Marcus Vick, on the final episode by refusing to take a Tom Brady handoff on the last play of the game, believing he'd be tackled for a loss, reducing his rushing total from 101- to 99, and his fantasy output from 10 points to 9. The split-second decision, resulting in a shocking Patriots loss, was especially brilliant with the knowledge that Woodhead's fantasy team owned the New York Giants Defense and his fantasy opposition was a devoted Tom Brady disciple. All in all, the play resulted in a +5 gain for Woodhead's fantasy team, narrowly beating out Vick and his woeful decision to throw the ball for a touchdown from the 1 yard line out of the wildcat instead of running it in for 6.

After arriving at el mundo's facilities, he said having a couple weeks of learning fantasy football under his belt from teammates Arian Foster, Jahvid Best, and Jamaal Charles has made his debut this Sunday much easier.

"The game has slowed down 100 percent after watching those three beasts," Woodhead said during el mundo's Organized Team Activities (OTAs) on Wednesday. "Just being able to know the offense with Big Ben under center and then having to go out there and run - it's sure slower than before when things were going 1,000 miles a minute. I'm able to go out there and just fly around in Beast Mode - there's not much thinking going on."

Beyond his stint as a reality star, Woodhead's story is very much a mystery to most of the PSAS faithful. After winning the Harlan Hill Trophy in 2007, awarded to the best Division II college football player, Woodhead hadn't been heard from since. Out of football, he even turned his attention to acting. In fact, Woodhead spent the past two years on a deserted spot in New Zealand shooting the Peter Jackson-directed Eddie Furlong biopic, "Jaded Tasks: Brass Plates, Black Ops, and the True Story of John Connor", due out later this year.