NFL Rookies to Watch in Week 5

Each week, we will look at rookies who have either performed well the previous few weeks or who have a favorable matchup in the upcoming week. These may be high-profile names or under-the-radar depth players; the only thing that matters is that they are first-year pros ready to make a name for themselves. Hopefully, by […]

Week 5 Half PPR Rankings (Top 300)

Welcome back RotoBallers. Below you will find our overall Week 5 Half-PPR rankings for fantasy football. Three of our lead fantasy football columnists, Bill Dubiel, Pierre Camus and Frankie Soler, have analyzed the NFL matchups and game slates for Week 4. Below you will find their consensus staff ranks. Feel free to click those links and give these fine gentlemen a follow, or let them know […]

Week 5 Standard (Non-PPR) Rankings: Top 300

Below you will find our overall Week 5 standard rankings for fantasy football. Three of our lead fantasy football columnists, Bill Dubiel, Pierre Camus and Frankie Soler, have analyzed the NFL matchups and game slates for Week 5. Below you will find their consensus staff ranks. Feel free to click those links and give these fine gentlemen a follow, or let them know how much you […]

Week 5 PPR Rankings (Top 300)

What's up RotoBallers. Below you will find our overall Week 5 PPR rankings for fantasy football. Three of our lead fantasy football columnists, Bill Dubiel, Pierre Camus and Frankie Soler, have analyzed the NFL matchups and game slates for Week 4. Below you will find their consensus staff ranks. Feel free to click those links and give these fine gentlemen a follow, or […]

Alvin Kamara (RB, NO) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in +12 PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 45% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: The New Orleans Saints signed Adrian Peterson this past offseason in the hopes that he may experience the type of late-career renaissance Jamaal Charles appears headed towards in Denver. Unfortunately for both parties, that hasn’t been the results, as Peterson has seen very […]

Jerick McKinnon (RB, MIN) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 3% of leagues ANALYSIS: Minnesota Vikings running back Jerick McKinnon will get a rare second chance to prove himself capable of being more than a backup. Dalvin Cook's season-ending ACL injury opens up the backfield to him once again, just as Adrian Peterson's injury did last season. […]

Alex Collins (RB, BAL) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: Baltimore Ravens running back Alex Collins picked up 82 yards on nine rushes in Week 3, mostly in the fourth quarter of a blowout loss in London. He was largely ignored in the fantasy community, even after John Harbaugh inserted him into the starting […]

Andre Ellington (RB, ARI) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: Arizona Cardinals running back Andre Ellington won't fill the massive void left behind by David Johnson in the running game, but he's certainly trying as a pass-catcher. Ellington was targeted a whopping 14 times in Week 4, catching nine balls for 86 yards. […]

Jamaal Charles (RB, DEN) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add +12 Team Leagues OWNED IN: 46% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: following a disappointing 2016 strife with injuries and the inability to remain on the field, the Kansas City Chiefs parted ways with longtime offensive superstar Jamaal Charles. At 30 years old and past his prime, the move appeared to signal the end of the […]

Smashmouth - Offensive Lines Impacting Fantasy Football For Week 5

In a typical NFL season, by Week 5 fantasy owners and NFL fans generally know how their favorite NFL teams and players will perform on a week-to-week basis. 2017 has shown us that the more we see, the less we know with the shocking upsets of the Falcons and Patriots at home by large road […]

Eddie Lacy / Thomas Rawls (RB, SEA) - Week 5 Waiver Wire

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deeper Leagues OWNED IN: 17% / 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: Dynamic rookie Chris Carson fractured his leg Sunday night and will likely miss most, if not all, of the year. Seattle's backfield has turned from bad to worse. Rawls and Lacy figure to share early-down work now, with CJ Prosise and JD McKissic battling for scraps in the passing […]

Aaron Jones (RB, GB) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add / Stream in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: In a cruel twist of fate, Green Bay lost both their starting running back Ty Montgomery (ribs) and his backup, Jamaal Williams (ankle), to injury Thursday night. While Montgomery and Williams don't have long-term injuries, they could both sit out a week or two. Jones […]

Waiver Wire Rankings for Week 5

It's an especially interesting and busy fantasy football week for the waiver wire. We've received a lot of questions of which players to add off the waiver wire, and who to let go of. We thought it would be a good idea to publish our list of Week 5 waiver wire rankings. This is our […]

FAAB Auction Bidding - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

Welcome to Week 5 everyone. With a quarter of the season over and bye weeks starting, there might be even more urgency for many fantasy owners to hit the waiver wire. Below are my recommended FAAB waiver wire bids for Week 5. Each FAAB auction price recommendation will be based on a $100 FAAB budget, […]

Down Goes Dalvin - Analyzing the Impact of Dalvin Cook's Injury

Before the season started, I was mystified at the high ranking of so many rookies. I even said to a friend that to justify the lofty expectations, this rookie class would essentially have to break records. As it turns out, it was well on its way to doing so (and still might). Amongst those leading […]

Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups and Adds

There were many complaints about the lack of waiver-wire options at the end of Week 3, and this just goes to show that you need to be careful what you wish for. In a week that began with Ty Montgomery scaring us all with a rib injury and Davante Adams nearly getting Sleepy Hollow'd, we’d […]

Waiver Wire Express - Week 5 Lightning Round

In efforts of bringing you timely information, as fast as possible, consider this the waiver wire lightning round heading into Week 5. This column is published early every week and then updated on a daily basis. Over the course of each week, we also publish more in-depth waiver wire analysis for all positions. Waiver pickups […]

Running Backs Waiver Wire - Week 5 Pickups and Adds

Unfortunately, it's going to be a busy week for the RB waiver wire. This article should be accompanied by the theme music for M*A*S*H (Google it kids, it's a classic). Several injuries forced backup running backs into action in Week 4, with varying results. This article will aim to highlight Week 5 waiver wire adds […]

Week 5 Do Not Drop List - Don't Panic Yet

As we approach Week 5, the Broncos, Falcons, Redskins, and Saints are our first round of teams with a bye week in 2017. Fantasy owners with more than one or two players taking the week off, and/or fantasy owners in shallower leagues are, no doubt, going to have to make some very difficult add/drop decisions. […]

Week 5 Cut List - Fantasy Football Strategy

Plainly and simply, this will be your weekly list of those end-of-roster guys that you can safely let go of, with the occasional unfortunate star player that finds his way here due to injury. Each week from now until the end of the season, I’ll be offering my thoughts on players who don’t deserve to […]

Deeper PPR Sleepers Heading Into Week 5

Sunday's Week 4 slate was absolutely brutal for fantasy owners. It's obviously never fun to see any player in the NFL go down with a serious injury, but fantasy football ends up making the heartbreak that much worse. Not only that, but there have been way too many head-scratching moments this year, and Week 4 was no […]

Deeper Sleepers for Standard Leagues (Week 5)

Waking up early the past two weeks for the London games has left me too drained from football to watch the Sunday night games all the way to the end--once the Seahawks opened the floodgates, I went to sleep. In theory, I like the idea of twelve-plus hours of football, but there's a reason I've […]

Thursday Night Matchups Analysis (Week 5)

So much for a thrilling Bears-Packers rivalry game... What I thought might be more than a blowout Thursday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers ended up being a foregone conclusion by the end of the third quarter, with Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb, and Davante Adams each having caught a touchdown […]

Week 5 Waivers Podcast: Dalvin Cook Golden Parachute, Wayne Gallman Hava Nagila & FAAB

After Hours With RotoBaller Radio, featuring RotoBaller co-founder Real Talk Raph and esteemed co-host Anthony Aniano, is back (10/02/17) helping you find the best waiver wire pickups for Week 5 of fantasy football action. Let's win some leagues! Be sure to tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every Saturday from 5-7 PM EST. You can […]

Fantasy Football Starts and Sits - Week 4 Matchups

Welcome to our Week 4 matchups analysis and starts/sits column for fantasy football. We'll be covering every matchup from every Sunday game to help you make the best decisions for your fantasy lineups. We'll also be updating this as injury reports come in so check back often. I'll be on Reddit each Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning […]

Week 4 Dynasty Matchup Analysis

You probably have found enough articles that explain what to watch for each week. For the dynasty community however, we look at each week a little differently. Breaking down each matchup with a dynasty focus will allow you to buy or sell players early. The key to winning long term in dynasty formats is being […]

Heroes and Zeroes - Week 4 Fantasy Football Picks

Last week went much better, as the players who are supposed to be stars actually played like it, even some that we didn't expect to. As predicted in this column, Kirk Cousins went bananas, as did Kareem Hunt and A.J. Green. James White... not so much (that's what I get for trying to trust a […]

Air Yards and Target Share Analysis - Buy Candidates

When it comes to fantasy football there are the people that stand by the community’s consensus of value, and there are those that look a bit deeper to find where the true value lies.  One of the many secrets to success is using the inside information that is available at your fingertips to find value […]

Monday Night Football Matchups Analysis (Week 4)

Happy Monday RotoBallers! While you might be back at work and/or on the grind today, there's always some solace in knowing that Monday Night Football awaits. And if yesterday's Sunday slate was a preview of what's to come tonight, we should be in for a good one. Kirk Cousins and the Washington Redskins travel to […]

Red Zone Risers - Players With More Potential

Now that we have three games under wraps for the 2017 season, we can get a sense of how players are being utilized by their respective teams. While snap counts and targets are a great start, we need to dig deeper to find great values at the skill positions. Just like targets are the lifeblood […]