Surprise Fantasy Football Studs, Duds - Real or Mirage?

Justin Herbert had a massive game against the Steelers on Sunday Night Football, throwing for three scores to finish as QB-1 on the week while Aaron Rodgers had four scores of his own coming in at QB-2. Jalen Hurts continues to improve with a top-five finish while Trevor Siemian, Cam Newton, Kirk Cousins, Taylor Heinicke, Colt McCoy, […]

Booms and Busts - Starts and Sits for Week 11 Lineups

Week 10 in the NFL continued the trend of wild and wacky scoring around the league that leads to fantasy managers playing the guessing game. With players like Trevor Siemian and Kendrick Bourne occupying spots inside their respective top 10, the narrative continues to hold that setting your starting lineups is more than just putting […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Weekend Waiver Wire for Week 11

Now is the time to strengthen roster depth in the final four weeks of the regular fantasy season. Week 11 will see nearly every team, except for Denver and the Los Angeles Rams, compete and attempt to establish winning momentum entering the final half of the 18-game season. There are still plenty of high-upside players […]

Bold Predictions for Week 11

Bold predictions are always meant to be taken with a grain of salt, but ideally, they are not a bunch of takes thrown like you-know-what at a wall with the hope of sticking. These predictions come with backing to make them somewhat substantiated with the obvious caveat that it's playing into a range of outcomes […]

Fantasy Football Rookies to Watch in Week 11: Najee Harris, Michael Carter, and more

Every week, this column will spotlight the first-year players who are ripe for a breakout performance. Oftentimes, rookies can provide some of the most value as under-the-radar options. Through 10 weeks, Bengals receiver Ja'Marr Chase has been the most impressive rookie in fantasy. The LSU product has 44 receptions, 835 yards, and seven touchdowns in […]

Fantasy Football Trade Deadline Targets and Strategies: The Engel Eye

After playing in only three games this season, Chris Carson is out for the year, as he will undergo neck surgery. Alex Collins, who was downgraded on Thursday due to a groin injury, is now expected to play in Week 11 and should be Seattle’s starting running back for the rest of the season barring […]

Finding Tight End Breakouts - Champs, Chumps, and Contenders

We're officially to the playoff stretch! Hopefully if you've been following this series, it's helped you out with who to play at tight end, the worst position group in all of fantasy football. This series has touched on some of the bigger break-outs we've seen this year, including Dawson Knox who was fantastic prior to suffering […]

Offensive Outliers From Week 10 - Coaching Matters

We now enter the 10th week of this series, where I dive into offensive areas that will improve or decline based on coaching in order to glean insight as to fantasy football value. In Week 10, we saw stat lines such as the Atlanta Falcons wide receivers combining for 36 receiving yards, the Dallas Cowboys tight ends combining for […]

Top Trade Targets and Avoids for Week 11

Trade deadlines in fantasy leagues are fast approaching, so it may be the last opportunity to improve your team without relying on waivers. Most teams have had their bye week but a few still remain, so a player's remaining schedule is a consideration that must be taken into account. This column intends to advise fantasy […]

Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 11

Week 10 is officially in the books. This week, the Bears, Bengals, Texans, and Giants are back in action, with just the Broncos and Rams on Bye. In this weekly column, we'll look at players whose arrows may be pointing up, and players whose arrows may be pointing down based on the previous week's games. […]

Fantasy Football Champs and Chumps - Offensive Line Analysis for Week 11

Week 10 is in the books and the contenders in the NFL are starting to become more clear. Teams like Buffalo, Dallas, and Green Bay got back on track with convincing wins and strong performances on both sides of the ball. The Titans, Chiefs, and Patriots continued to win and put themselves in the playoff […]

Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups - Top Adds for Fantasy Football

The fantasy playoffs are getting closer so it's crucial to get your rosters ready for the postseason. It may mean making that smart RB stash or grabbing a QB with a favorable schedule. Only two teams are off in Week 11, the Broncos and Rams, so there should be fewer short-term needs than usual. Winning […]

FAAB Waiver Wire Bidding - Fantasy Football Pickups to Target for Week 11

Alongside our famous waiver wire pickups list, and our weekly waiver wire columns by position, this column focuses on suggested waiver wire bidding percentages for fantasy football owners in leagues using a Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB). With 10 weeks of action in the books, some of you may be sitting at the poker table […]

Michael Florio's Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 11: D'Onta Foreman, Wayne Gallman, Bryan Edwards

Hopefully Week 10 was kinder to you and your fantasy lineups after the abomination that was Week 9. I especially hope that because it's not a great waiver week. It's a week where if the right player or two are out there on waivers you can make a big splash - but outside of that […]

Top Running Back Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11: Rhamondre Stevenson, D'Onta Foreman, Devonta Freeman, Wayne Gallman

After 10 weeks of the regular season, some of you have been able to embrace the numbers that have been assembled by the running backs that are contained on your rosters. Unfortunately, an increasing number of you have been negatively impacted by injuries to your backs, while others have contended with disappointing output due to a […]

Top Wide Receiver Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11: Rashod Bateman, Kendrick Bourne, Deonte Harris, Marcus Johnson

Another week of NFL action is behind us. Are there any players left on the waiver wire wasteland? Let's find out. Below, you'll find some wideouts that you should be targeting on the waiver wire ahead of Week 11. Not all options are the same. Some players may be better in PPR or deeper leagues, […]

Top Tight End Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11: Tyler Conklin, Logan Thomas, Evan Engram

Fantasy football’s regular season is past the halfway mark and headed for home! Fantasy football managers will be without Denver’s Noah Fant and Los Angeles’ Tyler Higbee at tight end this week due to their teams being on bye. This is on top of the ongoing Rob Gronkowski injury saga. There have been worse weeks […]

Top Quarterback Waiver Wire Pickups and Streamers for Week 11: Cam Newton, Mac Jones, Justin Fields, Tua Tagovailoa

For the second consecutive week, NFL teams struggled on offense leading to underwhelming fantasy scores. Only five teams (Dallas, New England, Buffalo, Carolina, and Philadelphia) found a way to score at least 30 points in their games. Conversely, five teams failed to score more than 20 points on offense, including an explosive Seattle offense that […]

Surprise Fantasy Football Studs, Duds - Real or Mirage?

The quarterback position was much more predictable in Week 10 than Week 9 as Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott and Josh Allen finished as the top-three at the position. Jalen Hurts bounced back after a few poor performances to finish as QB-6 and Mac Jones threw for three touchdowns against the Browns to finish as QB-5. […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Weekend Waiver Wire for Week 10

By this point in the fantasy season, rostering and starting players who fell outside of drafts is not done out of desperation. It's necessary. Injuries to star players have been a continuous theme throughout the NFL this year, forcing fringe players into massive roles at a moment's notice. This isn't the only explanation for why […]

Booms and Busts - Starts and Sits for Week 10 Lineups

Throughout the 2021 season, we have seen some baffling player production every week. But in Week 9, we somehow landed in the Bizzaro world of fantasy football. Sure, there were your traditional names littered among the top of positional rankings. But overwhelmingly, we saw several players come from out of nowhere to produce starter-level statistics […]

Fantasy Football Rookies to Watch in Week 10: Elijah Moore, Pat Freiermuth, and more

Every week, this column will spotlight the first-year players who are ripe for a breakout performance. Oftentimes, rookies can provide some of the most value as under-the-radar options. With the league now entering the back half of the season, many of this year's top rookies have already been identified. It is no longer particularly noteworthy […]

Finding Tight End Breakouts - Champs, Chumps, and Contenders

Week 9 was almost the first week of the NFL season where everything in the fantasy world of tight ends was right until rookie Pat Freiermuth screwed everything up. Still, we saw George Kittle, Travis Kelce and Darren Waller finish No. 2, 3 and 4 respectively in half-PPR scoring. The rookie out of Penn State […]

FFPC Dynasty League Buy and Sell Candidates: The Engel Eye

The Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) dynasty league trade deadline is looming, at the kickoff of Week 12 NFL games. Time is running out to consider what players you should acquire to help you win this season or in the future. You may also be thinking about moving players who may not perform up to […]

Top Trade Targets and Avoids for Week 10

In a perfect world, you would have traded away Khalil Herbert two weeks ago as recommended and acquired James Conner before Week 9. I won't tell you to make those moves now because the window to get anything of value for Herbert is completely shut now that David Montgomery is back to a full workload […]

Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 10

Well, that was an interesting week. Heavy favorites fell, cellar dwellers won, and many of the top fantasy scorers were on benches or waivers. It's unlikely that Week 10 will bring the same level of unpredictability but that's the great thing about the NFL - you never know what to expect. In this weekly column, […]

Offensive Outliers From Week 9 - Coaching Matters

We now enter the ninth week of this series, where I dive into offensive areas that will improve or decline based on coaching in order to glean insight as to fantasy football value. In Week 9, we saw stat lines such as the Carolina Panthers wide receivers combining for 40 receiving yards, the Denver Broncos running backs combining for […]

Fantasy Football Champs and Chumps - Offensive Line Analysis for Week 10

Week 9 finished as one of the most frustrating fantasy football weeks in a long time thanks to a lack of scoring across the league. Offenses we have come to rely on (Buffalo, Kansas City, Dallas) failed to provide much fantasy value. Teams that we have avoided this year (New York Jets, New England Patriots, […]

Surprise Fantasy Football Studs, Duds - Real or Mirage?

Week 9 was one of the wildest weeks we've had for fantasy football in quite some time. Matt Ryan came off a very disappointing performance in Week 8, only to crush the stingy Saints defense to finish as QB-3, while Carson Wentz and Josh Johnson finished as top-five options in a Thursday night game that […]