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The Cut List – Who to Drop for Fantasy Football Week 9
Through seven weeks of NFL football, the 43.4 total points per game average is the lowest it has been since 2010. This, of course, is resulting in much lower fantasy matchups, but it's making what to do with the backend of our fantasy rosters an absolute nightmare. In recent years, fantasy managers seemed to be […]

Offensive Line Champs and Chumps - Fantasy Football Matchups To Target, Avoid (Week 9)
Week 8 provided a glimmer of hope for offensive football in 2022. Eight teams (a 2022 season high!) scored at least 30 points in Week 8. Collectively, offensive line play didn’t improve immensely, but we also dodged any significant long-term injuries for the first time in a long time. Unfortunately, Week 9 is one of […]

NextGen Stats - Week 8: RB Breakdowns and Takeaways
We're officially past mid-season and if that doesn't make you sad enough, how about the fact that even the trade deadline has passed us now? Eh? Was that what ultimately broke your hopes of football staying on forever? Too bad. The good news, as always, is that a new week full of games is ahead. […]

Biggest Week 8 Busts: Fantasy Football Reactions for Josh Jacobs, Daniel Jones, Davante Adams, Gave Davis, Tyler Higbee
The eighth NFL Sunday of the 2022 season has come and gone. Hopefully, you woke up on Monday morning feeling very good about how your week went. However, this week's slate of games was certainly stress-inducing for many fantasy football managers. Part of that stress was caused by a group of players who drastically underachieved […]

Fantasy Football Week 8 Busts? Players Who May Disappoint: Aaron Rodgers, Najee Harris, Diontae Johnson, Jakobi Meyers
Welcome to Week 8 RotoBallers! The season has been flying by, and it is now crucial to make the optimal lineup decisions on a weekly basis. As injuries and bye weeks pile up, it is important to start racking up some wins to stay in the thick of the playoff race. Heading into the eighth […]

Finding Tight End Breakouts for Fantasy Football – Buy/Sell Trade Targets for Week 8
We're officially about halfway through the fantasy football regular season and with seven games in the books, teams and players are pretty much who they are. We shouldn't be expecting any miracles from here on out, but that doesn't mean things can't change. It just means we need to be realistic in regard to our […]

Fantasy Football Warning Signals for Week 8: Russell Wilson, Najee Harris, Drake London
With injuries and middling performances ravaging fantasy teams to start the season, it's okay to consider benching players who were relatively highly drafted (top-100) for this week and moving forward. This may be hard to stomach as you bench your QB1 or RB1 for a free-agent acquisition, but sometimes such measures must be taken to […]

The Cut List – Who to Drop for Fantasy Football Week 8
Another week of NFL football, another edition of the Cut List. One of the biggest mistakes I see fantasy managers make is not making enough moves. Don't be afraid to be wrong. A stagnant roster is often a losing one. From draft day to the fantasy football playoffs, your roster should look very different than […]

Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 8
Week 7 is officially in the books and we're now over a third of the way through the 2022 season. We now have a lot of good information we can use to help make decisions as we head into Week 8 and beyond. In this weekly column, we'll be looking at players whose arrows may […]

Offensive Line Champs and Chumps - Fantasy Football Matchups To Target, Avoid (Week 8)
What more can be said about the continued lack of explosive offense in the NFL during the 2022 season? Scoring (real and fantasy) is down across the board as offenses struggle to find their footing this year. That is also true for offensive line units across the league. Just 10 teams had a combined PFF […]

Biggest Week 7 Busts: Fantasy Football Reactions for Lamar Jackson, Deebo Samuel, Leonard Fournette, Mark Andrews
The seventh NFL Sunday of the 2022 season has come and gone. Hopefully, you woke up on Monday morning feeling very good about how your week went. However, this week's slate of games was certainly stress-inducing for many fantasy football managers. Part of that stress was caused by a group of players who drastically underachieved […]

Fantasy Football Week 7 Busts? Players Who May Disappoint: Jared Goff, Courtland Sutton, David Montgomery, Clyde Edwards-Helaire
Welcome to Week 7 RotoBallers! The season is starting to ramp up, and it is crucial to make the optimal lineup decisions on a weekly basis. As injuries and bye weeks start to pile up, it is important to start getting some wins under your belt to stay in the thick of the playoff race. […]

Booms and Busts: Week 7 Fantasy Football Studs and Duds Including Romeo Doubs, Josh Jacobs, David Montgomery, T.J. Hockenson
It happens every year in fantasy when there comes a time when the injuries begin to mount, causing undervalued players to emerge. That was the case in Week 7 when you scrolled through the leaderboards at each position. Sitting atop the running back list for the week, we saw waiver wire wonder Deon Jackson take […]

Fantasy Football Warning Signals for Week 7: Jared Goff, J.K. Dobbins, D.J. Moore
With injuries and middling performances ravaging fantasy teams to start the season, it's okay to consider benching players who were relatively highly drafted (top-100) for this week and moving forward. This may be hard to stomach as you bench your QB1 or RB1 for a free-agent acquisition, but sometimes such measures must be taken to […]

Finding Tight End Breakouts for Fantasy Football – Cracking the Code for Week 7
Tight end is a dreadful, empty position and because of that, I understand – to some extent – the appeal and rush to get Taysom Hill on your fantasy rosters after his Week 5 explosion. However, as appealing as those boom weeks are, the reality is he’s simply not playing enough. We touched on that […]

Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 7
Week 6 is officially in the books and we're now over a third of the way through the 2022 season. We now have a lot of good information we can use to help make decisions as we head into Week 7 and beyond. In this weekly column, we'll be looking at players whose arrows may […]

Offensive Line Champs and Chumps - Fantasy Football Matchups To Target, Avoid (Week 7)
Offensive scoring is down across the league and offensive lines continue to struggle across the board. Just seven teams finished with an average PFF grade above 65.0 across their entire offensive line in Week 6. Unfortunately, injuries continue to stack up along the offensive lines as well. Arizona lost starting left guard Justin Pugh to […]

NextGen Stats - Week 6: QB Breakdowns and Takeaways
It's been a month since the last time we took a look at our beloved quarterbacks. Numbers are numbers, and numbers don't lie. You can twist them, but looking at them objectively, numbers say that no matter what, rushing the ball is almost always a worse option than passing it in today's game. That's why […]

Don't Get A-Rob'd: Why The Rams Are Struggling And Why Robinson Will Not Repeat
In the early weeks of this NFL season, fantasy managers have been vexed by players like Kyle Pitts, Darnell Mooney, Cam Akers, and many a Moore. One player who was expected to do well upon joining a new team for a presumptive quarterback upgrade was Allen Robinson II. Yet in his first game as a […]

The Cut List – Who to Drop for Fantasy Football Week 7 Including Aaron Rodgers, Elijah Moore, Antonio Gibson, Terry McLaurin
One of the most important aspects of being a good fantasy manager is constantly being active on the waiver wire. How you prioritize your bench is very important. It's crucial to have 1–2 players that on any given week you feel okay about them being in your starting lineup. No one likes going to their […]

Fact or Fiction: Fantasy Football Reactions From Week 6
Hello, RotoBallers. As we put Week 6 of the NFL season in the rearview, it certainly stands out as a unique one from a fantasy perspective. In this article, we'll tackle some of the week's biggest fantasy storylines with a game of "Fact or Fiction". Perspectives can swing wildly over the course of an NFL […]

Biggest Week 6 Busts: Fantasy Football Reactions for Nick Chubb, Aaron Jones, DK Metcalf, Mike Evans, Tyler Higbee
The sixth NFL Sunday of the 2022 season has come and gone. Hopefully, you woke up on Monday morning feeling very good about how your week went. However, this week's slate of games was certainly stress-inducing for many fantasy football managers. Part of that stress was caused by a group of players who drastically underachieved […]

Fantasy Football Week 6 Busts? Players Who May Disappoint: Zach Wilson, Najee Harris, Mike Williams, Amari Cooper
Welcome to Week 5 RotoBallers! The season is starting to ramp up, and it is crucial to make the optimal lineup decisions on a weekly basis. As injuries and bye weeks will start to pile up, it is important to start getting some wins under your belt to be in the playoff mix all season […]

Booms and Busts: Week 6 Fantasy Football Starts and Sits
Hello, fantasy football friends! Ok, wow...that's a lot of F's. Instead of F's, let's focus on another letter in Week 6...the letter B. B as in Bye weeks. For the first time in 2022, we have teams on byes, as the Lions, Titans, Raiders, and Texans won't be available to fantasy managers this week. B […]

Finding Tight End Breakouts for Fantasy Football – Cracking the Code for Week 6
What better way to define the tight end position than to say that a player who has more special team snaps than tight end snaps is currently the TE3 in half-PPR scoring. That is the landscape fantasy managers are being asked to muddle through at this maddening position and there doesn't seem to be any […]

Fantasy Football Warning Signals for Week 6: Najee Harris, Drake London, Russell Wilson
With injuries and middling performances ravaging fantasy teams to start the season, it's ok to consider benching players who were relatively highly drafted (top-100) for this week and moving forward. This may be hard to stomach as you bench your QB1 or RB1 for a free-agent acquisition, but sometimes such measures must be taken to […]

Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 6
Week 5 is officially in the books and we're now almost a third of the way through the 2022 season. Overreactions will undoubtedly continue to be made, but there's also a lot of good information we can use to help make decisions as we head into Week 6 and beyond. In this weekly column, we'll […]

The Cut List – Who to Drop for Week 6?
In recent seasons, it feels as though the NFL is becoming more and more pass-heavy with each passing – ha! – year. This 2022 NFL season has certainly given off some different vibes, however. Last year, there were nine quarterbacks who had a PPG average of 20 or more. Through five weeks, there are just […]

Offensive Line Champs and Chumps - Fantasy Football Matchups To Target, Avoid (Week 6)
Six weeks are in the books and defenses continue to dominate to start the 2022 season. Nine games went under the opening projected scoring in Week 5. So far, at least eight games have gone under the opening scoring line every week of the season. There were once again some major injuries across offensive lines […]