Breaking Down The 4 Top QBs From The 2023 NFL Draft Class

Quarterback is the most important position in all of sports. In the NFL, you either have one or you are searching for one. That is why the position is almost always the focal point of every draft class – ignoring the terrible QB class of 2022. This year will be no different as we may... Read More

Now Is The Time To Buy Khalil Herbert In Fantasy Football Dynasty Leagues

“Yesterday's price is not today’s price.” The great Fat Joe once said that, and many other rappers have repeated it since. Fat Joe was also obviously talking about fantasy football – specifically dynasty leagues. Free agency and the draft are set to shake up a ton of players' values, but if you wait for that... Read More

How NFL Free Agency will Impact 2023 Fantasy Football

Free agency along with trades shook up the NFL as we had never seen before the last offseason. I am not sure we will reach that level of chaos, but this offseason will certainly provide fireworks. And it all gets started on March 15. We may see some trades made before then and we will... Read More

What Went Wrong for Kyle Pitts in 2022 Fantasy Football?

Let me start out by apologizing. There was no one higher on Kyle Pitts heading into last year than I was. “Kyle Pitts in the third round no matter what!” was something that I tweeted out far too often last summer. In fairness, I fully believed it and drafted him there quite often myself. But... Read More

Florio's Takeaways from the 2022 Fantasy Football Season

The Super Bowl will be played this week and it will put a final stamp on the 2022 NFL season. It is a season that will be remembered for a number of different reasons - perhaps the biggest being Damar Hamlin. We continue to wish him a speedy and miraculous recovery. While that will largely... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays, and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 17 - Brock Purdy, Tyler Allgeier, Jahan Dotson, Hunter Renfrow, Greg Dulcich

Championship week is here! Whether you start preparing for your drafts in June, July, or January (for you sickos) – this is the week you dream of! You envision yourself playing and winning a fantasy title. But before you can win it all, you have to get there. And if you are still playing, that... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays, and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 16 - Gardner Minshew, Deon Jackson, Darius Slayton and Juwan Johnson

Congrats to those still in need of sneaky starts or pivot plays – that likely means you are in your league's semifinals! That in its own right is a huge accomplishment. More importantly, it also means you are just two wins away from that ultimate goal you set out to achieve every summer – winning... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays, and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 15 - Elijah Moore, Pierre Strong, Chris Moore, Greg Dulcich, Rex Burkhead, Dare Ogunbowale

If you are reading this, the chances are you made the fantasy playoffs in your league! Congrats, it's a big accomplishment. If you are in the consolation bracket, you probably are not going to like the next thing I say. I believe that the first run of waivers should go to players who have made... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays, and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 14 - Ryan Tannehill, James Cook and Jameson Williams

One more week and then it's night-night forever. Well, only for some of your fantasy teams, and hopefully not even that! Shoutout to anyone who is a big Impractical Jokers fan like myself and understood that reference. Anyway, the goal this week is to get you into the fantasy playoffs in your league and help... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays, and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 13 - Zonovan Knight, Elijah Moore, Olamide Zaccheaus

There somehow are just two weeks left of the fantasy football regular season! After spending months preparing, debating, drafting, and all that other good stuff, the season just flies by in the blink of an eye. It is not over yet, at least not if you are reading this article. There is still time to... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays, and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 12 - Donovan Peoples-Jones, Elijah Moore, James Cook, and Jahan Dotson

I am in the business of pivot options, at least with this article, but I hope you do not need as many as normal this week. Why? Because the NFL’s Thanksgiving gift to us is that all 32 teams are playing this week. That’s right, no byes this week! For the first time since Week... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays, and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 11 - Daniel Jones, Jerick McKinnon, Darius Slayton, and Isaiah Likely

After a bad week of injuries paired with the fact that there are four teams with many useful fantasy pieces on bye, this is a week where many fantasy managers are having to go a little deeper to find a starter. And before we even get into the pivot options, I just want to say... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays, and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 10 - Marcus Mariota, Terrace Marshall Jr., Elijah Moore, and Greg Dulcich

What a week it has been in the NFL. We saw a TV analyst get hired to be a head coach and if I knew they were going to go that route, I would have thrown my hat in the ring! We also have injuries starting to pile up as well as four teams on... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 9 - Marcus Mariota, Tyler Allgeier and Terrace Marshall Jr.

After a brutal Week 7 that stole many weekly fantasy contributors from our lineup, Week 8 was much more kind. There were some injury scares, but we escaped in relatively good shape. Hopefully, that holds up moving forward. Even without the injuries, Week 9 is already taking away plenty of our usual starters.  There are... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 8 - Latavius Murray, JaMycal Hasty, Darius Slayton, Marquise Goodwin

Every week, I typically start off talking about byes or some injuries and how there are more pivot options than ever. But we as a fantasy football playing community have not been tested like we are coming after Week 7. There were so many injuries, it was hard to keep track. And they weren’t just... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 7

Pivot options may be more important this week than ever. There is no shortage of injuries this week, which starts on Thursday Night as both the Saints and Cardinals are very banged up, especially at the skill positions. Injuries have piled up around the league, meaning that many fantasy owners are already in need of... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 6

Injuries are certainly piling up in the NFL. Not only do we have some key players up in the air but we also have the bye weeks to deal with now. This week, the Lions, Raiders, Titans, and Texans will all be unavailable to our fantasy lineups.  Not only do the bye weeks take away... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 5

We are a month into the season and injuries are starting to pile up. We are fresh off of the biggest waiver wire run of the season and there are even more players that remain up in the air for Week 5. Though we would all prefer our lineups to be 100 percent healthy, savvy... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 4

There has been no shortage of injuries in the NFL this season. Some say this is because no one plays in the preseason anymore, while others claim this is how it goes yearly. But one thing is for certain – if you have a player up in the air for this week, you need to... Read More

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays and Post-Waiver Pickups for Week 2

After months of watching prospect tape, debating free agent signings and draft picks, and plenty of debates – the fantasy football season returned in grand fashion in Week 1! Whether you won or lost or even tied, you have to admit that it was awesome having football, particularly fantasy, back in our lives.  Now it's... Read More

NFL Players to Fade for Fantasy Football Best Ball Drafts (Premium Content)

Best ball drafts continue to grow in popularity and there is no better time to fully submerge yourself in best ball goodness than right now! Just a few years ago there was one option to go and play best ball – now there are so many. You can jump in a draft with a quick... Read More

Florio's Bullpen Week: Figuring out Bullpens First Week Post Deadline!

Last week, the trade deadline gave us the big reliever shake-up that we had been waiting for weeks to happen. But it did not disappoint. While we were able to speculate about a lot of the bullpen situations impacted we now have a week of games in the books and have seen the early plans... Read More

Take Stefon Diggs in the First Round of Fantasy Football Drafts

When you write/talk about fantasy football year-round, you tend to forget that many walk away from this game when the season ends and return the following summer. There are times when there is a “take” that seems consensus but to some may seem crazy. It’s why there is always an ADP shift in August (along... Read More

Florio's MLB Bullpen Report: Making Sense of Reliever Trades for Fantasy Baseball

For weeks, I spoke about the MLB trade deadline and how the bullpen position was greatly going to be impacted. And for weeks all that there was… were crickets. But, in classic trade deadline fashion, it did not disappoint, at least not when it came to a reliever shake up.  We saw a number of... Read More

League Winners for Fantasy Football Best Ball: Draft Targets (Premium Content)

Fantasy football best ball drafts are becoming more and more popular in the fantasy football community. They are great as they allow us to do what we love - draft - without having to worry about in-season management. I mean, if you have ever played in near double-digit leagues, you understand how tough those waiver... Read More

Closer Stashes for the Trade Deadline: Florio's MLB Bullpen Report

I have been talking about the trade deadline and the reliever shakeup we are (still) guaranteed to see. By this point, you may be thinking of me as the boy who cried wolf, but the trades are coming - the market has just been slow to develop.  But by the time you click on this... Read More

Florio's MLB Bullpen Report: Rangers Pen Changes, Stashes Before Deadline

We are just a week from the All-Star Break, which has become the official midway point in both the MLB and the fantasy baseball season. Once the break has come and gone, you can expect the reliever trade market to ramp up and ramp up quickly. But I have spent enough time in this article... Read More

Florio's MLB Bullpen Report: Braves Pen Changing, Stash Candidates

For over a month now I have been highlighting the fact that no position is more influenced by the trade deadline than the reliever position. That closers and other relievers would be traded which would be sure to shake up the fantasy baseball relief pitcher landscape. That we would see new closers emerge and some... Read More

Florio's Bullpen Report: Braves, Yankees Among Changing Bullpens

Death, taxes, bullpens changing around the MLB. I have spent a lot of time in recent weeks talking up the trade deadline and the number of bullpen moves we can see happen cause of it. That is not changing, in fact, it is quickly approaching, and you should remain ready to pounce if and when... Read More

Christian McCaffrey Remains a Top-Five Pick in Fantasy Football

There is no more polarizing player in fantasy football this season than Christian McCaffrey. If you have listened to RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM you know what I am talking about. If you haven’t, you can go back to the June 25th episode on demand to hear myself and Scott Engel get into it over CMC. ... Read More