Late Round Quarterbacks With The Highest Fantasy Football Ceilings
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 […]
Fantasy Football: Making a Case for Shane Vereen in 2013
It’s highly likely that you wouldn’t consider a team led by Tom Brady, with pass catchers like Rob Gronkowski, Aaron Hernandez, Brandon Lloyd and Wes Welker, as a haven for fantasy gold in the ground game. But that’s exactly what the New England Patriots stable of runners were in 2012, a dominant fantasy stable of […]
Fantasy Football: You’re Still Going to Draft Rob Gronkowski
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 […]
How the Green Bay Packers Will Use Eddie Lacy and Johnathan Franklin
Most of the fantasy community felt like they were given a springtime gift when the high-octane Green Bay Packers offense drafted bulldozing Alabama running back Eddie Lacy with the 61st pick in April’s draft. That feeling was short lived, however, as general manager Ted Thompson traded up to snag the versatile runner, Johnathan Franklin, from UCLA two rounds […]
A Look at Where Quarterbacks are Drafted in 2-QB Fantasy Football Mocks
When drafting in 2-QB leagues, we can’t look at standard ADP data, because most of it is skewed toward leagues that only start one quarterback. That’s not to say that all the drafts, mock or real, included in ADP databases are all 1-QB leagues, but the majority of them are. If you were preparing for […]
What the Denver Broncos Hiring of Alex Gibbs Means for Montee Ball
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 […]
Post-NFL Draft Average Draft Position Report
Fantasy football average draft positions are fairly static until May, and for good reason. Nothing’s happening, and if it is, the fantasy implications are almost entirely guesswork, with so much time to go before the season. Now, though, thanks to the NFL Draft, we have something to talk about. I’m going to use the excellent […]
Denard Robinson and the NFL’s ‘Joker’ Role
He’s a converted quarterback whose upper body might be too small to play running back in the NFL, and he’s stuck behind one of the sturdiest workhorse runners of a generation in an offense led by an abysmal signal caller. The arguments against Denard Robinson as a fantasy commodity, as you can see, are plentiful […]