Steven Jackson signs with Atlanta Falcons: Escape From 8 in the Box
Steven Jackson inked a three-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons today, confirming one of the worst kept secrets of this year’s free agency cluster hug (edited for general audiences). The 30-year-old steamroller of a running back never failed to eclipse 1,000 total yards in his final eight years with the St. Louis Rams. He was a […]
Reggie Bush is a Detroit Lion: All Sorts of Fantasy Goodness
Reggie Bush, a day after it was reported that the Detroit Lions were offering him a three-down gig, signed in the Motor City, simultaneously becoming a potential cold-blooded PPR killing machine while submarining the fantasy value of Mikel Leshoure. Bush, who wasn’t exactly used as a workhorse back in Miami – receiving 12 carries or […]
Late Round QB Draft Strategy in 2-QB Fantasy Football Leagues Part 1
Let’s say that for the majority of your fantasy football playing career you’ve predominantly played in 1-QB fantasy football leagues and that this year is the first year in your fantasy football playing career that you want to play in a 2-QB league. Now, let’s also say that you’ve decided not only to play in a 2-QB […]
The Nuclear Fantasy Fallout of Percy Harvin to Seattle
Don your radiation suits. It may be the only way to protect yourself against the fantasy community’s reaction to Percy Harvin’s transfer to the Great Northwest, where he’ll catch passes from and eventually complain about Russell Wilson. Beyond being a malignant locker room tumor and a diva no longer in training, Harvin is an exceedingly […]
Wide Receivers for Free
It’s a passing league and all that. I’d rather not rehash 10,000 real and fantasy football articles on how the NFL is trending toward more than more and more passing, so I’d refer you to an excellent explanation of said trend and leave it at that. The fantasy repercussion of an increasingly pass happy league […]
How to Work the Waiver Wire in 2-QB Fantasy Football Leagues Part 2
If you read part one of this series then it must mean you’re interested to find out more about my thoughts on how to work the waiver wire in 2-QB fantasy football leagues, which you can find below, where I touch upon how quarterback injuries and taking a chance on potential changes your 2-QB waiver […]
How to Work the Waiver Wire in 2-QB Fantasy Football Leagues Part 1
When playing in a 2-QB fantasy football league you have to look at the league you play in differently in every aspect. Your draft rankings, draft strategy and waiver wire strategy will all be different from how they would normally be like in a league where you start only one quarterback. Last season when Week […]
Finding a Late Round Tight End In 2013
There’s no use lying to ourselves: Rob Gronkowski and Jimmy Graham are on a fantasy tight end tier of their very own, with Gronk rising well beyond Graham if he were to manage a 16-game season. It’s finding gems in the lowest tight end tiers that interests me, and should interest you unless you’re ready […]