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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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
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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
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Regardless of the position, when ranking NFL rookie draft picks freshly after an NFL Draft has completed, you have two factors to consider: landing spot and opportunity. Obviously talent is also a part of the equation, but I tend to place more emphasis on the particular team a rookie got drafted to, and how much
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With the NFL Draft having wrapped up this weekend, I thought it would be interesting to see what impact, if any, the draft had on the MyFantasyLeague.com (MFL) Average Draft Position (ADP) data for quarterbacks. Last week saw the debut installment of my Sports Jerks’ ‘Top 30 ADP in 2-QB Leagues’ series, and the NFL Draft
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Spotting wide receivers with artificially depressed average draft positions (ADP) is a little easier than pinpointing quarterbacks and running backs who will see an ADP uptick because, for better or worse, there’s only a certain kind of fantasy owner participating in mock drafts today. Call them obsessive, call them degenerate, call them any manner of
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Three days, 254 picks later, and the 2013 NFL Draft is finally over. Questions have been answered and quarterbacks have been chosen. As 2-QB fantasy league fanatics we obsessed over which quarterback would be drafted first. Would it be Geno Smith to the Jaguars, Raiders or Browns within the first six picks? Or would it
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The St. Louis Rams wouldn’t burn a top-10 NFL Draft pick on wide receiver Tavon Austin if they weren’t going to use him in all variety of ways. Forget his size. Austin is going to get the pigskin in his hands, and get it plenty. The Rams’ offense is free of the glut of hungry
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