Author name: C.D. Carter

C.D. Carter is a reporter, author of zombie stories, writer for The Fake Football and XN Sports. Fantasy Sports Writers Association member. His work  has been featured in the New York Times.

Average Draft Position Report: Josh Gordon, Ben Tate, and Vernon Davis

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Fantasy football average draft positions are about to make their annual journey toward normalization, when sleepers become overvalued and all out best laid plans from March and April become high comedy. Casual fantasy owners are making their way back to mock draft rooms and altering the ADPs of, well, everyone, including the guys you pegged […]

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Late Round Quarterbacks With The Lowest Fantasy Football Ceilings

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If you’re going to wait and wait and wait some more before snagging a quarterback in fantasy football drafts this summer, you might as well go nuclear. You’ll have so precious little invested in these late-round options, as we’ve discussed, that it won’t matter all that much if your signal caller doesn’t pan out as

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Michael Crabtree’s Achilles Tear Opens a Fantasy Football Void

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Things changed for a whole bunch of fantasy football commodities yesterday, as Michael Crabtree’s Achilles tendon tore, stripping Colin Kaepernick of his prized target, boosting the values of San Francisco 49ers running backs, and altering the perceived fantasy value of borderline elite wide receivers taken after Crabtree in mock drafts: guys like Jordy Nelson and Hakeem Nicks.

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Late Round Quarterbacks With The Highest Fantasy Football Ceilings

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If you’re willing to wait on drafting a quarterback as your fellow fantasy football fiends are drafting their backup signal callers, laughing as your supposed folly, you might as well ignore the fantasy downsides of the available quarterbacks. Focus on upside – ceilings – instead. The reason is fairly straightforward: the quarterback you draft in

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Fantasy Football: You’re Still Going to Draft Rob Gronkowski

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There’s a secret formula for converting an injured fantasy football stud into a top-flight option: one part draft day discount on said superstar – in this case New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski – and one part replacement-level players with appealing weekly matchups. Combine, shake, and presto: you’ve scored more fantasy tight ends points

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What the Denver Broncos Hiring of Alex Gibbs Means for Montee Ball

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Montee Ball isn’t a particularly special runner, and in an offense managed by Peyton Manning and a run scheme devised by Alex Gibbs, that doesn’t really matter. Ball, selected by the Denver Broncos in the second round of April’s NFL Draft, isn’t a shifty runner and won’t outrun the secondary. The former University of Wisconsin

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