PPR Targets - Undervalued Running Backs

Preseason games have now begun, which has launched a surge in activity for redraft leagues that will accelerate until the Falcons and Eagles kickoff in Week 1. Whether you are preparing for upcoming drafts, or have already been building your rosters, one of your ongoing priorities is to identify players that supply excellent value once you […]

Running Back Stat Sleepers - Missed Tackles Forced

Plunging into the world of football analytics is without question a great way to find fantasy sleepers for the coming season. Especially in the case of running backs, considering overall elusiveness is arguably the best way to determine how good (or bad) a player's performance was. We're going to dive head-first into some grade-A elusiveness […]

Five Tight End ADP Draft Values

As the NFL season approaches, and leagues begin to host their fantasy drafts, we have a pretty good idea of where most players will be drafted. While the early rounds are chock full of studs and obvious picks, it's the middle and late rounds that will truly make or break your draft. We already looked […]

Five Wide Receiver ADP Draft Values

As the NFL season approaches, and leagues begin to host their fantasy drafts, we have a pretty good idea of where most players will be drafted. While the early rounds are chock full of studs and obvious picks, it's the middle and late rounds that will truly make or break your draft. Today, I present […]

#TrendingNow - Risers and Fallers after Preseason Week 1

Welcome to the first #TrendingNow of the 2018 season! If you haven’t had a chance to read this piece in the past, then let me take a second to introduce it. Each week throughout the pre-season and regular season I’ll look at several players who are either #TrendingUp or #TrendingDown. This is focused primarily on […]

Stop that Hype Train! Albert Wilson (WR, MIA)

With the ease at which information is transmitted in this modern day and age, players that otherwise would have had a low ADP and tantalizing upside are being forced up draft boards by consensus within the community that they are undervalued. However, if the masses recognize that some players are at an ADP that is […]

Which Rams Receiver is Most Valuable at Their ADP?

The Rams receivers were almost impossible to predict going into last season. The first four guys on the depth chart didn't play for the team in 2016, their quarterback hadn't won a game in the NFL, and their new coach ran an offensive system that got all kinds of people touches. Many expected the newly […]

Fantasy Bomb - Preseason Week 1 Risers/Fallers and ZeroRB Targets

RotoBaller fantasy football lead editor Pierre Camus and writer Chris Mangano recap the first week of NFL Preseason game action, lament early injuries and list their depth chart risers and fallers. Also, Chris identifies his top Zero RB draft targets at the running back position. This radio show is sponsored by our good friends over at RTSports. Be sure […]

NFL Preseason Week 1 Review - Fantasy Impact

The first week of preseason games are in the books, and while the games don't mean anything, there is still information we can glean from them. You'll hear a lot of overreaction from other sites, but we're here to tell you what really matters this early in the exhibition season. There are two things that […]

ADP Sleepers or Busts? How to Treat Jacksonville's Receiving Options

In my mind, there are two ways you can look at the Jaguars wide receiver battle this preseason. First, you can take a gander at the five promising players there -- Keelan Cole, Marqise Lee, Dede Westbrook, Donte Moncrief, and D.J. Chark -- and think wow, someone is going to emerge from that mess and be […]

Could Tavon Austin Be Zeke's Kryptonite in PPR?

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott could be the top overall player in fantasy football in 2018. In fact, I had this notion throughout the offseason that he would be utilized more in the passing game and parlay his league-leading rushing yard-per-game average into an overall RB1 finish. But I'm taking it back. Dez Bryant […]

Fantasy Headliners - 2018 Deep Sleepers

Every year you need to find some deep sleepers in your fantasy football draft to give your team that added depth. In this episode, Jake will share a couple late round fliers that could turn into some serious deep sleepers that could help out your fantasy football roster. In this episode, Jake will discuss a […]

WR Stat Sleepers - Slot Performance

Plunging into the world of football analytics is without question the best way to find fantasy sleepers for the coming season. Especially in the case of wide receivers, where how they are lining up on the field has a direct correlation with production. Slot receivers don't quite offer the boom-upside an outside receiver will deliver […]

Offenses To Trust and Which Will Bust for 2018 Fantasy Football

It perhaps goes without saying that fantasy owners should look to draft players on high-powered offenses, as they usually offer a bevy of startable assets and have a higher chance for scoring opportunities than most teams. Although stud players can often rise above their circumstances, projecting which teams will prosper on the offensive side of […]

Quarterback Stat Sleepers - Adjusted Completion Percentage

There are plenty of factors that go into a fantasy quarterback's success in any given season. While some passers could be said to be more "accurate" than others, what does this really mean? Completion percentage does little to tell us about a quarterback's overall ability in that department because it can easily be skewed by […]

Sam Bradford - 2018 Fantasy Football Sleeper

There’s this Discover commercial where a lady calls their customer service department to inquire about these new social security alerts and ends up speaking to herself. The gist is that you’ll receive as good of service from their customer service representatives as you’d give to yourself. Not a bad marketing campaign, in theory, until you […]

Jake Butt - 2018 Fantasy Football Sleeper

We continue our preseason fantasy football sleeper series with a look at Denver Broncos tight end Jake Butt. While the first few rounds of every draft are essentially a wash-rinse-repeat of the consensus top-36, we can always count on those middle and late rounds to cement our confidence in this year's sleepers. The definition of […]

Road to #1 Running Back - NFC North

Each year, elite running backs are a necessity for fantasy football rosters. With guaranteed touches each game, these consensus top-tier running backs are some of the first names off of draft boards and consistently perform well throughout the season. However, there is also a good amount of unpredictability at the position, with breakout players appearing […]

Dynasty Discount - Solid Veterans Who Come Cheap In Dynasty Drafts

We all know dynasty football is a young man’s game. Veterans have no place on a roster. That is unless you are looking to actually win this year and possibly next, in which case let us look at some old guys who can help you do just this. Here are veteran players who come at […]

Running Back Committees to Buy in 2018

Training camp is in full swing and so are the daily tweets from beat reporters showing 30-second highlight clips of fades to the corner of the end zone or quick comments from coaches that start to cast doubt on whether we picked the right player this off-season. This is the time of the year where […]

Tyrod Taylor - 2018 Fantasy Football Sleeper

We continue our preseason fantasy football sleeper series with a look at Cleveland Browns quarterback Tyrod Taylor. While the first few rounds of every draft are essentially a wash-rinse-repeat of the consensus top-36, we can always count on those middle and late rounds to cement our confidence in this year's sleepers. The definition of the […]

Road to #1 Running Back - NFC West

Each year, elite running backs are a necessity for fantasy football rosters. With guaranteed touches each game, these consensus top-tier running backs are some of the first names off of draft boards and consistently perform well throughout the season. However, there is also a good amount of unpredictability at the position, with breakout players appearing […]

Nick Mariano's 2018 PPR Sleepers List (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Please unhinge yourself from the word "sleeper" and look past the titles because we live in an information era where you all can just type in "sleeper" and get thousands of hits. You can go through our rankings from top to bottom and see […]

Keke Coutee - 2018 Fantasy Football Sleeper

The Houston Texans have spent much of their short existence with issues at the slot receiver spot. From the recent disappointment of former Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller, who hasn't adapted to the position nearly as well as he looked like he would after playing his final year as a Buckeye as a receiver, to […]

Latavius Murray - 2018 Fantasy Football Sleeper

One of the true joys of fantasy football is the ability to find an undervalued asset from the depths of a league's draft pool or waiver wire that ends up becoming an absolute gem. These under-the-radar options usually have tantalizing upside and are only an injury or poor performance away from taking over a certain […]

Road to #1 Running Back - NFC South

Each year, elite running backs are a necessity for fantasy football rosters. With guaranteed touches each game, these consensus top-tier running backs are some of the first names off of draft boards and consistently perform well throughout the season. However, there is also a good amount of unpredictability at the position, with breakout players appearing […]

Darren Sproles - 2018 Fantasy Football Sleeper

We continue our preseason fantasy football sleeper series with a look at Philadelphia Eagles running back Darren Sproles. While the first few rounds of every draft are essentially a wash-rinse-repeat of the consensus top-36, we can always count on those middle and late rounds to cement our confidence in this year's sleepers. The definition of […]

Road to #1 Running Back - NFC East

Each year, elite running backs are a necessity for fantasy football rosters. With guaranteed touches each game, these consensus top-tier running backs are some of the first names off of draft boards and consistently perform well throughout the season. However, there is also a good amount of unpredictability at the position, with breakout players appearing […]

Boom or Bust that ADP

Last year I wrote about the seismic shift that took place amidst the RB renaissance and coined the concept #AllBenchRB. This year, I'm starting off with a new concept called #BBADP, which stands for Boom/Bust ADP. You see, I think rankings and ADPs are limited. The range of outcomes for two players juxtaposed in ADP […]