Training camps are underway, the NFL season is right around the corner, and to get you ready for 2008, FanHouse previews all 32 teams, "heat index" style. We'll rate each club in 10 categories on a scale of 1 to 10, high score wins.

Quarterback: The young Jason Campbell made some nice strides last year ... but had a huge problem holding onto the ball too long. His fumbles, unnecessary sacks and bad decisions led to some poor end-of-game situations. Now with Jim Zorn calling the shots, Campbell will be in his 7th different system in eight years (counting his time at Auburn). Now he will be learning the West Coast offense that takes QBs a while to learn. Backup Todd Collins was golden in his duties last year and it was a bit of a surprise that he re-upped in Washington again. Colt Brennan is a project as the No. 3. Heat Index: 5

Running Back: Heading into last year, many people figured that the Redskins would go to a dual-back system. Didn't happen. Clinton Portis (who is always nicked up) brought it all season long, taking his place near the top of the yardage and TD rankings. Ladell Betts wasn't bad or anything -- he just didn't get the opportunities to shine as he did in 2006. Still, Betts is a very serviceable backup who could get more touches if Zorn really does want to run the football. Heat Index: 8

By most accounts, Colt Brennan had a spectacular senior season up until the Sugar Bowl, and then things took a turn for the worse. He was uneven at the Senior Bowl and the Combine and the quarterback many people thought might be a first round (or, at the very least, a first day) draft pick ended up going to the Redskins in Round 6.

But everything happens for a reason, and Brennan, currently somewhere on the depth chart behind Jason Campbell and Todd Collins, is embracing this opportunity to prove all his detractors wrong.

He has heard the criticism: He's too small. He's too fragile. He's a gunslinger. He's a system guy. He's a liability off the field. He doesn't stand a chance.

"I think I learned more than anything how to battle adversity," Brennan said. "I'm the kind of guy where I have a chip on my shoulder and have tough skin. A lot of times, that's what you need in the fourth quarter to win games, and I think I have that. I have so much experience having to battle through adversity. I'm never nervous. I'm never scared."

Brennan is facing pretty long odds, but who knows, if Collins continues to struggle, maybe Brennan wins the job. I don't see it happening, but, honestly, who had Mark Brunell as an NFL starting quarterback two years ago? Exactly.

In the meantime, Brennan will continue to work hard and do quirky things like wear tights to practice and play the ukulele. And who knows, if this all works out, maybe he can have a recurring role in one of Clinton Portis' many productions.

The Washington Redskins must really believe in QB Colt Brennan because they just signed him to a 4-year deal worth around $1.8 million. Brennan will join Todd Collins and Derek Divine in backing up Jason Campbell.

the good news for Brennan and the team is the positive medical report he received. Last week, Brennan was cleared to practice and participate in camp, where he has a very good chance of becoming the No. 3 quarterback on the roster behind Jason Campbell and Todd Collins.

The former Hawaii quarterback had minor hip surgery to repair the labrum on April 8. Though some thought he might have to start camp on the physically unable to perform list, Brennan made a quick recovery. Through weight lifting, he is 220 pounds.

Brennan has a pretty good shot at becoming the Skins' #3 quarterback. Campbell is the starter with Collins as a very steady backup. His main competition is Devine, who was signed by the team this past May.

The scary thing is that he has been assigned the #5 (he wore the #15 in college ... which is Collins' number). All Redskins fans remember that Heath Shuler wore that number when he was a first round pick in 1994. Shuler was a bust, starting just 18 games in his three-year career in D.C.

If this NFL thing doesn't work out, Redskins tight end Chris Cooley should think about making some of those "how to get rich by sitting on your ass" infomercials. He's been blogging for all of four months, and he expects to pull in $250,000 by the end of the year (Calendar? Fiscal? Does it matter?), primarily from sponsorships and memorabilia sales.

Obviously, a lot of Cooley's online success has to do with the fact that he's wildly popular, and his willingness to open up about, well, anything. I can't imagine, say, Todd Collins having such success. (Fred Smoot? I'd read that.) But Cooley, who signed a six-year, $30 million deal in April, isn't blogging for beer money. His reasons are noble:

[The financial payoff isn't] bad for a website run entirely by three people - Cooley, his younger brother and a friend - and created with the simple goal of making enough money to send the brother to medical school.

"We're going to way over-generate," Cooley said. "Everything that I don't give to my brother and my friend, I will donate to charity. I don't have a foundation. I don't have a cause. I don't have something that I care about enough to spend the rest of my life having a foundation. But I feel strongly about giving back."

You wouldn't suspect it to look at him, but Cooley's something of a visionary. When asked about how his blog came about, he offered: "We started looking at player websites, and they're pretty generic, pretty boring. ... We said if we want to do it, let's do something creative."

So, yeah, thank God for creativity.

The Washington Redskins took Colt Brennan with the 186th pick in last weekend's draft. He was the tenth quarterback selected, and although Brennan seemed like a potential franchise player last fall, he'll struggle to make the 53-man roster behind Jason Campbell and Todd Collins. So what happened? According to the Honolulu Advertiser, it was all about timing:

The former University of Hawai'i quarterback's decision to return for his senior season will cost him about $1,378,500 over a three-year period.

Brennan, who was projected to be a first- or second-round pick after the 2006 season, saw his value drop after a poor outing in the Sugar Bowl, an illness that caused his weight to drop to 185 at the Senior Bowl, and a recent hip surgery

Brennan confirms as much, and his college coach, June Jones, suggested that by returning for his senior season, Brennan was turning down $25 million.

I think the Canton Repository's Steve Doerschuk has it right in the very first sentence of today's column: "Chances are, you're sick of Brett Favre." Of course, that doesn't keep him from devoting a few hundred more words to the subject, nor did it keep me from reading, and then regurgitating it here.

Anyway, Doerschuk rattles off some teams that could use Favre's services next season, assuming that he wasn't, you know, retired. It might've been easier to list those teams that didn't need him, but whatever, here ya go: Cardinals, Ravens, Bills, Panthers, Bears, Lions, Vikings, Texans and Redskins.

Of the eight, I love the idea that everybody thinks so little of Nick Lachey's BFF that the Cards should give serious consideration to finding their next franchise quarterback. Even if he's 38 years old.

Baltimore is a no-brainer, even if they draft Matt Ryan, and while Trent Edwards is unproven in Buffalo, I'm guessing some fans (even those not related to Edwards) would rather see him get experience than hand the job to Favre.

Chicago is also an obvious destination, Colt Brennan or not, as are the other two NFC North teams. But I can't imagine anybody in Washington would want Favre over Jason Campbell.

What an offseason for the Washington Redskins. Two things that rarely happening are occuring: they aren't signing anyone's else free agents ... yet they are resigning their own.

After bringing Todd Collins back already, the Redskins have surprisingly got Rock Cartwright to return, too.

Cartwright, one of the more popular Redskins and a team leader, emerged as the Redskins' primary kick returner the last two seasons.

Last year, he moved into fourth place on the franchise's all-time kickoff return yardage list with 3,157 total yards.

Cartwright was 2nd in the NFC in average kickoff return yardage (to the Vikings' Aundrae Allison, who returned just 20 kicks to Rock's 52) and has been a decent fill in at running back, when needed. The last two years haven't seen him contribute to that part of the team (only seven rushes after getting 27 carries in 2005) but he does want to get some more looks there.

For the Redskins faithful, this continues to follow the path of keeping this team together (despite all of the coaching turmoil). There have been no major losses in free agency, yet, for the Skins.

In a somewhat surprising development, quarterback Todd Collins will stay in Washington as the Redskins' backup QB. Collins will continue to be second string to Jason Campbell.

Last season, Collins took over for an injured Jason Campbell and led the Redskins on a four-game winning streak and a playoff berth. He made his first NFL start in 10 years.

In a remarkable showing, Collins completed 67-of-105 passes for 888 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions to close out the regular season.

It isn't shocking that he stayed, just a bit surprising. Many experts had Collins at the top of a very, very, very poor free agent class of quarterbacks. With openings around the league, you'd figure someone would throw a shot at a starting gig in front of him. The fact that he waited ten years between starts and then played so well led many to believe that he wanted one last shot to be the man before he hangs 'em up.

Also, Al Saunders is now gone in Washington and one of the main pluses of Collins was that he knew Saunders' offensive system like the back of his hand.

For the Skins, this is a big get. Collins is exactly the veteran leader this team needs, especially in a time of a coaching and offensive philosophy changeover.

The Vikings admitted on Thursday that the Kelly Holcomb experiment didn't work out. They cut loose the veteran quarterback, leaving the team with only Tarvaris Jackson and Brooks Bollinger on the Vikings roster.

Holcomb wasn't going to be part of the Vikings plans, so getting rid of him is no big problem. But the team does still have a desperate need for a quality quarterback. Coach Brad Childress has gone back and forth over whether Tarvaris Jackson should face competition for the starting job, but at the least the Vikings need a quality backup, something they've lacked the past two years (as an aside, if they had a quality backup last year they could have kept seventh-round pick Tyler Thigpen instead of Bollinger).

There's been rumors of a trade for Donovan McNabb, but that doesn't seem like it will happen. But if the Vikings aren't going to make a big splash, they should at least sign one of the mid-range free agents available in this year's market. Todd Collins may be old (36), but he looked good in his time as the Redskins starter last year, and Quinn Gray was very solid for the Jaguars last year. Neither of them should land a break the bank contract, and both could possibly be induced to sign just for the opportunity to compete for the starting job, because there aren't that many starting jobs available through free agency this offseason.

Man, it seems like less than two months ago that Todd Collins, backup quarterback to ... whomever else was on the depth chart during his 13-year career, was about to parlay a nice little end-of-the-season run into a lucrative new deal. And then Joe Gibbs up and quit, owner Dan Snyder canned offensive coordinator Al Saunders (who brought Collins with him from Kansas City) and Collins' career in Washington seemed to be over.

Not so fast, according to new head coach Jim Zorn.

...Zorn phoned quarterback Todd Collins this week to relay the team's interest in retaining the potential free agent as a backup. ... Zorn told Collins that Jason Campbell would start this fall, but praised Collins's production last season, league sources said, telling the veteran he considers him a strong No. 2.

After Campbell went down with an injury, Collins led the Redskins to four consecutive wins and a wild-card victory over the Buccaneers before a wild-card loss to the Seahawks. Some fans thought Collins had earned the right to the starting job, but Zorn would be out of his mind to not go into camp with Campbell as the No. 1 quarterback.

Collins has said that he's eager to be a starter somewhere in the league, but isn't averse to returning to Washington. Even if Trent Dilfer would "challenge" him for the backup job.