Target Risers and Possible Breakouts for Week 4

Fantasy football can be a seesaw game of boxscore chasing, as throughout the season even the best players on our fantasy teams will likely take their lumps. In a feast or famine league, most players see a wide variance in their fantasy scoring from week-to-week, yet we ceaselessly hope to decipher whatever patterns we can […]

Target Risers and Possible Breakouts for Week 3

You know the drill. To succeed in fantasy football, you need players who will have ample opportunities to touch the ball from week to week. In the passing game, a reliable volume of targets is usually a prerequisite for consistent production. In this installment of Target Acquired, we'll take a closer look at some players […]

Week 3 Do Not Drop List - Don't Panic Yet

We now have two games of data to examine as we make our decisions of who is or isn’t expendable ahead of the upcoming round of waivers. While a pair of duds to open the season is sure to make a fantasy owner nervous about any player, I’ve compiled a list of guys who I […]

Corey Davis (WR, TEN) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

OWNED IN: 46% of leagues BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues ANALYSIS: Corey Davis missed almost all of preseason with an injured hamstring, but that didn't stop him from drawing 10 targets from Marcus Mariota in the Titans opening contest against the Raiders. Davis caught six of ten passes for 69 yards, including a ridiculous […]

Carson Wentz (QB, PHI) - Week 1 Waiver Wire Pickups

OWNED IN: 63% of leagues BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team leagues ANALYSIS: In the first four games of his rookie season in 2016, Carson Wentz completed 91 of 135 passes for 1,007 yards, seven touchdowns, and just one interception. The initial results were promising enough that he became a popular waiver add at the end […]

Coby Fleener (TE, NO) - Week 1 Waiver Wire Pickups

OWNED IN: 52% of leagues BALLER MOVE: Add in 12 team leagues ANALYSIS: After being overhyped during the summer of 2016, Fleener was a consensus top 7 TE in drafts a season ago. Having a disappointing season that saw him finish 14th among TEs, fantasy owners have approached the Saints TE with caution. Late in […]

Week 2 Do Not Drop List - Don't Panic Yet

Every NFL season, the early part of the schedule sees players dropped in fantasy leagues that wind up having hugely productive fantasy seasons for a team that didn’t draft them. It’s a phenomenon that is especially important to pay attention to early, as your impatient league mates might cut players that you want on your […]

Charles Clay (TE, BUF) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: While Charles Clay has only just barely managed to crack the top 20 at the tight end position in each of his two years with Buffalo, there is reason to believe his arrow might be pointing up. Closing out the 2016 season […]

Sam Bradford (QB, MIN) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deeper Leagues OWNED IN: 25% of leagues ANALYSIS: Arriving to Minnesota via trade on August 31st 2016 after a gruesome knee injury to presumptive starter Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Bradford didn't put up usable fantasy numbers last season. That said, he was quietly one of the most efficient quarterbacks in football, completing […]

Monday Night Football Matchup Analysis (Week 1)

Are you ready for some football? The fun may have kicked off on Thursday and the bulk of the action takes place on Sunday, but there's still something special about Monday Night. That's especially true in Week 1 when we are lucky enough to have two games on the schedule! This article aims to preview […]

Stop That Hype Train! - Terrelle Pryor

Last year, in his first full season playing wide receiver, Terrelle Pryor finished 18th overall at the position. Catching 77 balls on a ridiculous 140 targets, Pryor finished with over 1,000 yards playing for a Cleveland Browns team that ranked 28th in the NFL in passing, with a total net of just 3,264 yards through […]

Late-Round Wide Receivers - ADP Draft Values

A general discussion of strategy seems like as good a preface as any for this topic. There’s something to be said for predictability in fantasy football. When you take a player in the early rounds, it makes you feel a little bit more warm and fuzzy to have some idea what that player is going […]

2017 NFL Team Outlook - Washington Redskins

In the 2016 NFL season, the Washington Redskins finished third in total offense and second in passing offense. Despite tremendous success in these facets, they only finished 21st in rushing offense and 12th in points per game. Additionally, the Redskins ranked a pitiful 30th out of 32 teams in red zone touchdown efficiency. As prolific […]

Kirk Cousins Still Underrated? I Like That

Heading into the 2016 fantasy season, there was a general reluctance within the fantasy community to treat Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins as a fixture inside the top 10 ranks among signal callers. Through his first six games in 2015, he had thrown just six TD passes to go with eight interceptions, including four multi-turnover […]

DeAndre Washington (RB, OAK) - 2017 Fantasy Football Sleeper

The Oakland Raiders were sixth in the NFL in rushing in 2016. Employing a three-headed running back committee led by Latavius Murray, Oakland also got significant contributions from a pair of impressive rookies in DeAndre Washington and Jalen Richard. While Latavius Murray turned his lead role into 1,052 yards from scrimmage and an RB13 finish in […]

Running Back Handcuffs With Stand-Alone Value

The conventional wisdom in fantasy football that verges on outright dogma is that there is no more important position to a team’s success than a running back. While we have seen rule changes that have caused a spike in passing numbers and an increase in the popularity of PPR formats, championship teams from a year […]

Jack Doyle (TE, IND) - 2017 Fantasy Football Sleeper

The 2016 NFL season was far from a banner year for the tight end position as it relates to fantasy football. Travis Kelce was the consensus #5 TE heading into 2016 drafts and managed an impressive 85 catches, 1,125 yards, and four TDs. While this did net him a #1 finish at the position, his […]