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Scott Engel - RotoBaller

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Inaugural member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association's Hall of Fame. Four-time FSWA award winner and 13-time finalist. SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio host. Former Editor and Writer at CBS Interactive. Former Fantasy Analyst and Editor at ESPN and Managing Director of RotoExperts. Fantasy Writer for Seahawks.com. Nationally syndicated writer and credentialed media member. Three-peat champion in the prestigious GST Fantasy Football league in New York City. Two-time FSGA Fantasy Baseball Champion and 2022 CBS NL Experts League Champion. Won the 2021 FSGA Fantasy Basketball Experts League Championship. Known as "The King" of Fantasy Sports.

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Rome Odunze - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Rome Odunze, Kimani Vidal, Rashid Shaheed, Kyle Monangai, Kenneth Walker, Jalen Coker, Jaxson Dart, more

Welcome again to our Key Starters and Tough Calls feature for Week 10 of the 2025 season. Scott Engel's Week 10 Lineup Spotlights column focuses on key players to start or sit when faced with tight lineup decisions. "The King" showcases players who may be causing fantasy anxiety. The fantasy football players included in this […]


TreVeyon Henderson - Fantasy Football Rookie Rankings, RB Draft Sleepers

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Alec Pierce, Kyle Monangai, Kareem Hunt, TreVeyon Henderson, Bam Knight, Tory Horton, Parker Washington, Jared Goff, more

Welcome back to our Key Starters and Tough Calls article for Week 9 of the 2025 season. Scott Engel's Week 9 Lineup Spotlights column features key players to start or sit when faced with challenging lineup decisions. "The King" features players who may be causing fantasy anxiety for those who roster them. The fantasy football […]


Troy Franklin - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, Waiver Wire

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 8 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Kyle Monangai, Troy Franklin, Aaron Rodgers, Rashee Rice, more

Welcome to RotoBaller’s Key Starters and Tough Calls article for Week 8 of the 2025 season. Scott Engel's Week 8 Lineup Spotlights focus on notable players to start or sit when faced with challenging lineup calls. This week, "The King" features deeper lineup options to consider because six NFL teams are on bye weeks. The […]


Rico Dowdle - Fantasy Football Rankings, Waiver Wire Pickups, Draft Sleepers

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 7 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include A.J. Brown, Rico Dowdle, Mason Taylor, Rashee Rice, more

Welcome back to our Key Starters and Tough Calls article for Week 7 of the 2025 season. Scott Engel's Week 7 Lineup Spotlights column features key players to start or sit when faced with challenging lineup decisions like A.J. Brown, Arian Smith, Rico Dowdle, Kayshon Boutte, Isiah Pacheco, Mason Taylor, and more. "The King" features […]


Calvin Ridley - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 6 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Stefon Diggs, Derrick Henry, Calvin Ridley, Kareem Hunt, more

Welcome back to our Key Starters and Tough Calls article for Week 6 of the 2025 season. Scott Engel's Week 6 Lineup Spotlights column features key players to start or sit when faced with challenging lineup decisions. "The King" features players that may be causing fantasy anxiety for those who roster them. The fantasy football […]


Woody Marks - Fantasy Football Rankings, Rookie Sleepers, Running Back Sleepers

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 5 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Woody Marks, Rico Dowdle, Michael Carter, Ladd McConkey, more

Welcome to our Key Starters and Tough Calls rundown for Week 5 of the 2025 season. Scott Engel's Week 5 Lineup Spotlights column includes notable players to start or sit when faced with tough lineup situations. "The King" features players who could be causing fantasy uncertainty. The fantasy football players presented in this Week 5 […]


James Cook - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

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Quentin Johnston - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL DFS Lineup Picks

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 4 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Drake London, Quentin Johnston, Harold Fannin, Romeo Doubs

Welcome again to our Key Starters and Tough Calls feature for Week 4 of the 2025 season. Scott Engel's Week 4 Lineup Spotlights column showcases significant players to start or sit when faced with tough lineup choices. "The King" focuses on starting options that could be causing fantasy anxiety. The fantasy football players included in […]


Rome Odunze - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 3 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Rhamondre Stevenson, Isiah Pacheco, Rome Odunze, and more

Welcome back to our Key Starters and Tough Calls article for Week 3 of the 2025 season. Scott Engel's Week 3 Lineup Spotlights column features key players to start or sit when faced with challenging lineup decisions. "The King" features players that may be causing fantasy anxiety for those who roster them. The fantasy football […]


Zach Charbonnet - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL DFS Picks

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 2 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Zach Charbonnet, A.J. Brown, Keon Coleman

Welcome back to our Key Starters and Tough Calls article for Week 2 of the 2025 season. Scott Engel's Week 2 Lineup Spotlights column features key players to start or sit when faced with challenging lineup decisions. "The King" highlights players that may be causing some close start/sit calls for you this week. The fantasy […]


Jerry Jeudy - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 1 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include TreVeyon Henderson, Jerry Jeudy, Ricky Pearsall

Welcome back to our Key Starters and Tough Calls article for Week 1 of the 2025 season! Scott Engel's weekly Lineup Spotlights showcase key players to consider for your fantasy football lineups. "The King" features players to go with when dealing with challenging lineup calls. The players that are covered in this article are based […]


Keon Coleman - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Fantasy Football Bold Predictions - Scott Engel's 2025 Picks for Every Team

Fantasy football analysts very often get things wrong. Sure, we love to boast when we make correct calls. Because the goal is to help readers, listeners, and viewers win their own leagues. When a player forecast misses the mark, though, we must admit it was a whiff. Several months from now, I can look back […]


James Cook - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Scott Engel's Fantasy Football Rankings and Stock Report: The Latest Preseason Risers And Fallers

We are now firmly into fantasy football draft season, and I am constantly revising my 2025 fantasy football rankings based on the latest news, observations, and insights. This feature is necessary because over the last week-plus, my ranks have required significant overhauls. This latest preseason fantasy football stock report includes my newest risers and fallers […]


Isiah Pacheco - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News

Scott Engel's Fantasy Football Rankings and Analysis: The King's Favorite Draft Targets

It’s already a busy season for fantasy football analysts, as I have completed over six drafts to this point while regularly adjusting my fantasy football draft rankings. In addition to my updated rankings below, the Fantasy Football Season Pass on RotoBaller is overflowing with tremendous amounts of articles and analysis to prepare you for a […]


Tyreek Hill - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Picks

Scott Engel's Fantasy Football Draft Review: Scott Fish Bowl 15 Picks and Analysis (2025)

My 2025 draft recently concluded in the legendary Scott Fish Bowl, the largest and most notable tournament in the fantasy football industry. The competition includes over 400 leagues and nearly 5,000 teams. This year, the theme was divisions named after favorite sports teams, so I competed in a 12-team league in the Seattle Seahawks division, […]


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Scott Engel's Dynasty Fantasy Football Picks - Tough Draft Day Decisions for Startup Leagues (2025)

As August approaches, the fantasy football draft season is underway, and many participants are joining startup dynasty leagues. In the early rounds of 2025 dynasty drafts, you are going to face some tough decisions. Taking the younger player of two possible picks isn’t the simple and only method of deciding when you are on the […]


Max Meyer - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, Waiver Wire Pickups

6 Fantasy Baseball Bold Predictions - Scott Engel's Picks for May

Having patience during the fantasy baseball season isn’t easy, and is more difficult for head-to-head league participants than those in Rotisserie leagues. But as savvy competitors know, we cannot make firm judgments about any players based on just one month of results. We are going to see some notable players produce much better or worse […]


Justin Fields - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

The Top-25 NFL Offseason Moves for Fantasy Football Impact in 2025

In terms of generating fantasy football headlines, this offseason has not been comparable to the previous one. Before the 2024 campaign, we saw Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs, Aaron Jones, and Joe Mixon change teams. This offseason, Najee Harris was the biggest running back name to make the news, and we haven’t seen any […]


Julio Rodriguez - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, MLB DFS Picks, Betting Picks

7 Fantasy Baseball Bold Predictions - Scott Engel's 2025 Picks

Drafting your fantasy baseball team is only the beginning of the 2025 journey. In real life, baseball is a constant game of adjustments, and you will always have to make your own adjustments as a fantasy player because rosters are so large and there is more work to be done in this game than in […]


Malik Nabers - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL DFS Picks

Scott Engel's Fantasy Football Mock Draft - The King's 2025 Offseason One-Man Mock

Throughout the fantasy football offseason, I am constantly revising player outlooks and potential rankings based on the latest news, player movement, and ongoing research. This is the first of my offseason one-man mock drafts, where I pick players for every one of 12 teams in the first four rounds of a projected seasonal PPR draft. […]


Dylan Crews - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Prospects, Draft Sleepers

5 Fantasy Baseball Draft Sleepers: NL East Edition - Scott Engel's Value Picks

The National League East might be the best division in baseball for the 2025 season. The top three teams in the division are among the favorites to win the NL pennant. If any team in the NL can overcome the Dodgers, it may come from this division. The Braves have made the playoffs in each […]


Jahmyr Gibbs - Fantasy Football, Rankings, Draft, Sleeper, DFS, Running Back

NFL Playoffs Power Rankings for Fantasy Football - Divisional Round Picks for FFPC Playoff Challenge 2

You can still enter an NFL playoff league for fantasy football, as the Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) Playoff Challenge 2 begins with this week’s Divisional Round matchups. When constructing your fantasy football playoff rosters for this bonus contest, the first step is to project how far each team can advance through the rest of […]


Lamar Jackson - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

NFL Playoffs Rankings: Fantasy Football Draft Rankings and FFPC Playoff Challenge (2025)

Welcome, RotoBallers, to the 2025 NFL Playoffs and our continuing coverage of fantasy football playoff leagues. Fantasy football is still going strong during the NFL playoffs – including new drafts and contests forming before the Wild Card Weekend games. The NFL postseason starts with one of the most challenging and unique fantasy football playoff leagues […]


Jared Goff - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL DFS Picks

NFL Playoffs Power Rankings for Fantasy Football - FFPC Playoff Challenge Draft Picks By Team

When building your fantasy football playoff rosters, the first steps are to forecast how the conference brackets will shake out and how many games each team can potentially play. Those exercises are vital in the Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) Playoff Challenge, where you can only roster one player from each NFL team. My NFL […]


Marvin Harrison Jr. - Fantasy Football Rankings, WR, Waiver Wire, NFL DFS, Rookies

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 18 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football And DFS Include Blake Corum, Marvin Harrison Jr., Ricky Pearsall

For the final week of the 2024 season, those who are still participating in Week fantasy football Super Bowls must do two things. First, vote in a new league commissioner for next season. Secondly, consult our rundown of our best streamers and lineup pluggers to win a league championship. Using RotoBaller’s Week 18 Lineup Rankings […]


Jameson Williams - Fantasy Football Rankings, Waiver Wire Pickups, Draft Sleepers

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 17 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Upside Plays Tyjae Spears, Jauan Jennings, Jameson Williams

Welcome RotoBallers, to fantasy football championship weekend and our Week 17 article focusing on key starters and tough lineup calls. Scott Engel’s Lineup Spotlights are a prime weekly feature on RotoBaller.com for the 2024 fantasy football season. He centers on players to pick as starters when you are dealing with tight decisions. The lineup picks […]


Jakobi Meyers - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 16 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Kyler Murray, Jakobi Meyers, Breece Hall, Brenton Strange, more

Welcome back, RotoBallers, to the fantasy football playoffs and our Week 16 article highlighting key starters and tough calls. Scott Engel’s Lineup Spotlights are a highlighted weekly feature on RotoBaller.com for the 2024 fantasy football season. Every week, he zooms in on players to go with as starting options when you are dealing with close […]


Calvin Ridley - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 15 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Rico Dowdle, Zach Charbonnet, Calvin Ridley, Tua Tagovailoa

Scott Engel’s Lineup Spotlights are an essential weekly feature on RotoBaller.com for the 2024 fantasy football season. Every week, he focuses on players to choose as starting options when you are dealing with tight lineup decisions. The lineup picks included in this rundown are based on Scott’s Premium Weekly Lineup Rankings, available as part of the RotoBaller […]


Braelon Allen - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

Key Starters and Tough Calls - Week 14 Lineup Spotlights for Fantasy Football Include Braelon Allen, Parker Washington, Isaac Guerendo, Noah Gray

Welcome back, RotoBallers, to our Week 14 fantasy football lineup spotlights, where we discuss key starters and tough calls for Week 14 fantasy lineups. Scott Engel’s Lineup Spotlights are an essential weekly feature on RotoBaller.com for the 2024 fantasy football season. Every week, he focuses on players to choose as starting options when you are […]


Tony Pollard - Fantasy Football Rankings, Draft Sleepers, NFL Injury News

The King's Week 14 Lineup Rankings and Analysis (Premium Content)

RotoBaller senior writer Scott "The King" Engel shares his Week 14 fantasy football lineup rankings for PPR, half PPR, and standard scoring league participants. He also provides analysis of the rankings at every skill position. Regular starting options are included to highlight that some of your must-start players have a good chance of supplying winning […]

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