The Patriots’ ‘Best All-Around’ Player Might Be a Sleeper Tight End
There’s a 6-foot-7-inch 253-pound pass-catching beheamoth wreaking havoc on the New England Patriots’ training camp defense and grabbing the attention of one Tom Brady. His name, somehow, is not Rob Gronkowski. He’s un-drafted free agent tight end Zach Sudfeld, and if Gronkowski does indeed miss the early part of the season—up to six weeks, perhaps—Sudfeld could be […]
Tight Ends With The Lowest Fantasy Football Ceilings
Fantasy football owners are a safe lot, bent on making the most conservative selections early in drafts, hoping not to submarine their season with a dud of a first rounder. I get that. I do that, in fact. It’s when this uber-conservative approach is applied to late-round picks that I wince in pain for your […]
The Fantasy Football Beneficiaries of Percy Harvin’s Hip Surgery
If you were like a lot of mock drafters, Percy Harvin‘s imminent hip surgery and his subsequent absence from the Seattle Seahawks’ offense in 2013 saved you from yourself. Harvin, who griped his way out of Minnesota in April, was going in the middle of the third round in fantasy football drafts, often as the […]
Is Ed Dickson a Suddenly Viable Fantasy Football Option?
Baltimore Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta, as a fantasy football commodity, has been removed from store shelves for the 2013 regular season. Pitta, fantasy’s seventh highest scoring tight end in 2012, fractured his hip July 27 at Ravens’ training camp – an injury that some beat writers have called career threatening. It’s all very sad, […]
Pushing the Late-Round Quarterback Strategy to its Limits
There is a season for experimenting in fantasy football, and this is it, as we await training camps and preseason games that will solidify the overvalued, the undervalued, and everyone in between. Toying with approaches – even those that might make you squirm in your seat – is the sign of a fantasy football owner […]
David Wilson, Andre Brown and an Epic Injury History
Your draft day arbitrage plan might include snagging New York Giants running back Andre Brown near the end of the seventh round instead of his uber-skilled backfield buddy, David Wilson, four rounds earlier. This will be a quick addendum to my piece on what Tom Coughlin’s and Kevin Gilbride’s running back usage history might mean […]
Searching 29 years of Coaching History to Gauge David Wilson’s Fantasy Football Prospects
David Wilson doesn’t quite fit the classic definition of a polarizing fantasy football commodity because, well, you’re either tepid about the second year running back’s 2013 prospects, or you’ve abandoned all thought of drafting him at his current mid-third round average draft position. To put it unkindly: No one loves David Wilson. You won’t, however, […]
Fantasy Football: Finding Predictibility in Tight End Route Running
Judging a tight end’s fantasy football production based on how he produces on a per-snap basis unfairly punishes guys whose run and pass blocking acumen has them sealing off defensive ends instead of busting one up the seam. That’s a central reason for why I think the fantasy points per route run (FPPRR) metric gives […]