There’s a slice of the fantasy football world that does not like Jordan Matthews and keeps doubling down on that dislike each year. Meanwhile Matthews has had an incredibly productive first two years in the league considering the fact that his quarterbacks include mostly players that would be sources of excuse-making for other wide receivers. I’m not one of the Jordan Matthews haters. I have…...

Wide receiver Devin Lucien started his career at UCLA where compiled not very many yards in a three season career before transferring to Arizona State. As a college graduate he was immediately available for the 2015 season and finished his career on a high note as a Sun Devil. Lucien had fewer than 800 yards during his first three years in college and then this…...

This is a continuation of my attempt to get as many off the radar guys into posts before draft night as possible. To give you a hint as to how I’m arriving at some of these names what I’m doing involves using the arbitrage function of the Box Score Scout. The arbitrage setting limits the comps to current year rookies. So all I do is…...

We’re getting closer and closer to the NFL Draft so I thought rather than write up our 20th Corey Coleman post I would take the time to highlight some really under the radar guys who still have a snowball’s chance in hell of being fantasy relevant at some point in their careers. These are guys who, due to draft position or holes in their prospect…...

Anthony Amico wrote a YOLO QB Power Ranking yesterday that I highly endorse because it puts Brett Hundley at the top of the list. I wrote about Hundley last year, and I continue to think he would be a good alternative for a team that finds itself in QB purgatory or is faced with the prospect of paying a large contract to a mediocre or…...

This will be a short post because I don’t think there’s a lot you need to do right now from a dynasty standpoint; James Hanna is more of a wait and see guy. Here’s a heatmap from the Box Score Scout that shows some athleticism measures for James Hanna and some guys he’s similar to. Note that a few of the comps in that table are…...

I’ve never even seen the movie “All is Lost” but for some reason the title of the movie really resonates with me because I’ve now used it in multiple RotoViz article titles…....

Aaron Butler wrote a good piece at the start of the offseason where he argued that Donte Moncrief was the buy low of the 2016 dynasty season. However, Shawn Siegele wrote a piece later in which he argued that most of the IND fantasy assets are overvalued. Shawn made some good points related to Moncrief in that piece although it also preceded some important free…...

If it seems like I’m overly focused on the 49ers as a landing spot for rookies consider the following tables from our new Team Splits App…....

I’m going to be honest. When I thought of this one it almost blew my mind. Before I get to how this would shake up rookie drafts let’s talk about how it could happen. According to Play the Draft Tyler Ervin might not even get drafted. The scouts that power the RSI disagree slightly but their rating would still imply something like a fourth round…...

Between now and draft day we’re going to speculate on some pie in the sky – too good to be true – landing spots, that if they happened would shake up rookie drafts. To be fair, those ideal landing spots don’t always result in great rookie draft picks (looking at you Bishop Sankey) and often if the player in question would have gone to a…...

To this point in draft season I think the most charitable thing we’ve said about Laquon Treadwell is that scouts love him. But we haven’t gone to bat for him on any level and at best our language is really hedge-y, if that’s a word.[1]It probably isn’t. Well I’m here to hedge more. I’m always interested to think about ways that I might overlook the…...

I like to search out instant opportunity for dynasty receivers because it reduces the odds that the player involved will be beaten out in a depth chart competition. At the same time, you’re also getting the potential that the player appreciates faster compared to other receivers who might take longer to develop. Here are some teams that I’ll be watching on draft day because they…...

If you haven’t heard, Laquon Treadwell just clocked something like a 4.63 at his pro day 40 yard dash. If you’re adjusting that time, due to pro day 40 times sometimes being faster than combine times, it could potentially be adjusted up to the 4.7 range. A widely liked player running a poor 40 time is the lowest of the low hanging fruit in terms…...

Jared Cook has signed with the Packers which probably more than doubles the value of my Jared Cook dynasty shares from being worth zero to being worth… zero? Fucking math…....

Just a couple of free agency signings of note to go over. First, Nate Washington signed with the Patriots, which would create the league’s messiest depth chart at wide receiver if that distinction didn’t already belong to the Eagles. Ignoring Julian Edelman, since he’s the receiver whose spot on the depth chart doesn’t seem to be in doubt, let’s take a look at the other…...

One thing that comes up any time a player changes teams is trying to figure out whether the player was being held back by their previous team, or whether they might have been propped up by their previous team. There probably isn’t a really good way to know for sure the relative talent level of all of the inter-connected players on a field, but Kevin…...

In case you missed the news, Rueben Randle is now a member of the Philadelphia Eagles after signing a one year deal. The first thing that occurs to me, and the thing that makes me nervous trying to project the Eagles in 2016, is that their wide receiver depth chart is now a total mess. Jordan Matthews is probably the most accomplished player in the…...