Happy Holidays, and welcome to the RotoBaller Christmas Thursday start 'em, sit 'em picks for Week 17! The NFL has recently invaded Christmas Day, and 2025 gives us three compelling matchups to kick off the fantasy football championship week for many teams. So unwrap the presents, pour some eggnog, and let's dive into the last […]

The second round of the 2025 fantasy football playoffs begins on Thursday Night Football, and we've got a great matchup to start the week. Besides the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks, both being teams with a plethora of fantasy-relevant players, this game could determine who wins the NFC West and takes the top seed […]

Thursday Night Football games are winding down, and so is the fantasy football season. Only Weeks 15 and 16 are left as traditional Thursday night games before we get a triple-header on Christmas Day. This Thursday night brings an intradivisional matchup between two struggling teams as the Atlanta Falcons visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Atlanta […]

After a three-game buffet of Thanksgiving football last week, we are back to our regularly scheduled Thursday Night Football. If this is the dessert from a long week of football, we have a matchup that could deliver some tasty fantasy goodness. The matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions has the highest implied […]

Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome to the RotoBaller Thanksgiving Thursday start 'em, sit 'em picks for Week 13! Many - including myself - believe Thanksgiving is the single best football day of the year, and 2025 gives us three compelling matchups (including five teams in playoff contention) to fill us up all day long. That is, […]

In the last five weeks of Thursday Night Football games, we have been treated to underwhelming teams such as the New York Jets, Las Vegas Raiders, Cincinnati Bengals, Miami Dolphins, New York Giants, and Minnesota Vikings (J.J. McCarthy? Yikes). Week 12 gives us a reprieve from those underwhelming teams as the Buffalo Bills, one of […]

I'm not quite sure what kind of cruel trick this is from the NFL, but after serving us the Las Vegas Raiders and the Miami Dolphins on back-to-back Thursday Night Football games, now we have the New York Jets to look forward to. At least on the other side, we have a legit Super Bowl […]

Well, the Thursday Night Football streak of quality games is officially over. After the Baltimore Ravens beat the Miami Dolphins by a score of 28-6, it marked three of the last four Thursday games that were decided by more than 17 points. With the Denver Broncos coming in as large favorites, will we have another […]

As the 2025 NFL season moves along, we might expect to get a primetime game or two from time to time against teams with 2-5 and 2-6 records, but the Baltimore Ravens and Miami Dolphins are not your average also-ran teams. Baltimore is favored to win their division in many sportsbooks, while the Dolphins just […]

Just when you thought Thursday Night Football was going to disappoint, they bring you Aaron Rodgers and Joe Flacco last week, who combined for 81 years and 64 points in a turn back the clock kind of night. Can Justin Herbert and Carson Wentz bring some of that offensive magic to this Week 8 Thursday […]

I am quite sure that the NFL schedulers did not expect this Week 7 Thursday Night Football game to feature two quarterbacks whose combined age is the same as Mick Jagger, but here we are. Aaron Rodgers (41 years old) and Joe Flacco (40) will face off in an AFC North battle with their teams […]

If ever you needed more evidence that the wild and wacky always occur on Thursday Night Football, look no further than last week. The junior varsity San Francisco 49ers outlasted the Los Angeles Rams in overtime in a game that gave us many strong fantasy football performances. For Week 6, we have two games with […]

If you didn't get your fill of NFC West football last Thursday night, I've got some good news for you! In Week 5, we get the other two teams in the division as the San Francisco 49ers travel to face the Los Angeles Rams. For fantasy football, some of the game's elite performers are suiting […]

You never know what you're going to get on any given Thursday Night Football game. Last week, the Bills were 12.5-point favorites against the Dolphins before kickoff, but the game stayed within one score for 59 minutes and 38 seconds. It wasn't until a Bills field goal with 22 seconds left that Buffalo put the […]

This week's matchup between the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins has a very high implied total. Will that matter? Over the years, we have seen a lot of different variations of Thursday Night Football. Some games are mind-numbing punt-fests while others are offensive explosions. But the one thing you never want to see, especially for […]

I'm not quite sure that Week 2 Thursday Night Football can come close to matching the entertainment that we had with the kickoff game last week. After Spit-Gate, a lightning delay, one amazing half of offensive football, and one amazing half of defensive football, something really strange would have to happen this week between the […]

The 2025 NFL season and the fantasy football season kick off on Thursday night when the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles host the Dallas Cowboys. As the Eagles receive their rings and unveil the Super Bowl banner, this normally elite matchup will have some extra spice on opening night. Two of the best offenses in […]

There is a popular theory in fantasy football circles that players in their second year make a huge leap up to the next level of production. Rookies take a while to get acclimated to the NFL, the pace of play, and the more physical game they were used to in college. With a year of […]

The 2025 NFL season is fast approaching, and fantasy football drafts are already taking place at a furious pace. Now is a great time to draft, especially while there are tons of undervalued players and sleepers available in the middle or late rounds. Once more game footage and training camp news emerge, some of these […]

The most recent data that's available tells us more than 30 million people play fantasy football on an annual basis. Most of them play on popular fantasy platforms like ESPN, Yahoo, CBS, or Sleeper. But with that many people playing and so much time and energy invested in the hobby, there are bound to be […]

The 2024 season was an outlier in running back injuries, which led to massive scores from all the top running backs. However, despite what the evidence from last season might tell you, running backs get injured or lose their effectiveness all the time. Every year, running backs succumb to major injuries or start to perform […]

The fantasy baseball world was delivered a bombshell on Monday morning when Emmanuel Clase, the dominant closer for the Cleveland Guardians, was put on non-disciplinary paid leave as the league looks into his role in a gambling investigation. This was, and still is, the week that we expect many closers to be dealt before the […]

We are less than 10 days away from the Major League Baseball trade deadline, so if you have not been stashing potential closers for fantasy baseball, now is the time to start! Last year, closer-relevant players like Carlos Estevez, Tanner Scott, Gregory Soto, Lucas Erceg, Ryne Stanek, and Seranthony Dominguez were all traded near the […]

The Major League Baseball All-Star break is a good time to take stock of what relievers are still sitting on your fantasy baseball league's waiver wire. Chances are, many closers are about to be traded in the next two weeks, and the direct backups are often free for the taking. More and more national beat […]

When this piece is published, we will be about three weeks from the Major League Baseball trade deadline. That date has massive implications for fantasy baseball, and perhaps the MOST fantasy implications for closers who are traded. Where traded closers end up matters a great deal to their rest of their season value. In the […]

Every year, there are a handful of rookies who make an instant impact in fantasy football. Sometimes those rookies make a bigger impact than in other years. In 2024, for example, players like Malik Nabers, Brian Thomas Jr., Jayden Daniels, and Brock Bowers were just some of the rookies who made a fantasy impact right away. However, relative […]

We are now one month away from the Major League Baseball trade deadline, which should once again have huge implications for fantasy baseball. The closer and bullpen market is always robust during this month, as contending teams are looking for help with new arms and are willing to trade prospects or other players to get […]

Running backs are often considered the foundation, the backbone, of any fantasy football roster. For a 10- or 12-team league, it's much easier to fill quarterback or wide receiver spots, considering there are 32 starting quarterbacks and at least 64 starting wide receivers. But most leagues require two starting running backs, and there are only […]

Playing the waiting game on a handcuff closer in fantasy baseball can be risky. There are plenty of people out there (myself included) who drafted several shares of Bryan Abreu this spring, hoping for high strikeouts and around 5-7 saves this year. Well, the strikeouts and ERA have been nice, but no saves through the […]

Among closers who started the year looking impenetrable, we are seeing some cracks in their armor. Most teams have established their bullpen pecking order at this point in the fantasy baseball season, but are still willing to change it if pitchers start to struggle. Injuries are also beginning to mount, which is causing upheaval in […]