Daily tournaments come and go, but championship glory is forever. With so much at stake, we’ll focus mostly on waiver wire targets this week and leave the DraftKings bargain hunting for another time. If you’re reading this, you probably didn’t plan ahead for your championship D/ST, and that’s OK. But even if you did plan ahead, you couldn’t have been targeting Brady Cook, Max Brosmer, or Quinn…...

The fantasy semi-finals give me worse anxiety than the finals. For the true fantasy football addict, we don’t just want to win. We want to keep playing. Otherwise, we have to go back to watching football like regular people, without compulsively checking our phones and doing eight layers of fantasy math about how Darnell Mooney‘s touchdown affects our prospects in various leagues. Gross. If you’ve…...

The fantasy playoffs are here. I know you planned ahead, and you’re ready to start nothing but elite defenses with top matchups each Week 15-17. You stashed the Texans D/ST back in Week 4, and definitely didn’t let Kaleb Johnson clog your roster until Week 12. But just in case you’re like me and you shocked yourself by sneaking one of your worst rosters into…...

If you’re reading this, you’re likely fighting either for a fantasy playoff spot, or a coveted Week 15 bye. In either case, the stakes are as high as they come. Whatever free agent budget you’ve hung on to isn’t going with you once the season is over, so it’s time to bid like you mean it. But that’s not all. The first order of business…...

It’s push time. Time to drop those Joe Mixon shares and grab a second or third D/ST to get you to the playoffs. Time to wish you had rostered the Seahawks defense two weeks ago when you had the chance. Time to sweat waiver decisions like the Jaguars vs the 49ers (good problem to have). Time to hit the bathroom a fourth or fifth time on…...

At this point in the season, you should probably be rostering two D/STs at a time, and with the way players are dropping onto IR, you probably have the roster space. Rostering two defenses helps you beat the bidding wars by being a week early, lets you hold elite D/STs through their bad matchups, and allows you to prep for the fantasy playoffs. Each week…...

Streaming D/STs is about more than chasing QB injuries, but if that’s all you focus on, you still might beat the field. Because backup QBs (and other high-leverage positions) are such a target for us, we find ourselves in the distasteful position of profiting off the real pain of our favorite players. So, before we start sifting through the bad news from Week 10 to…...

Yesterday’s price is not today’s price. The injury train keeps chugging along, and a wild day of trades shook up the landscape at the deadline. As the fantasy playoff picture gets clearer, we’ll have to make some tough roster choices, including making space for week 15-17 D/ST stashes. The Colts defense just missed inclusion this week, but whether newly acquired Sauce Gardner makes it to…...

The lines are clear this week between the best D/ST options available in most managed leagues and the best daily tournament plays. Mostly, that’s great. The best matchups this week are the best matchups, and some of them could really get out of hand. If you’re reading this after news of a Brock Purdy setback (and you’re a bit of a risk-taker), the Giants will…...

With elite defenses like the Seahawks, Lions, and Rams on bye this week, not even D/STs are spared the chaos of mid-season fantasy football. If you snagged one of the top options from last week’s article, you would have averaged 17 points from your D/ST, while the top D/STs by ADP (Broncos and Steelers) averaged . . . three. Streaming works, matchups matter more than…...

Fifth-round quarterbacks in their first NFL start will always hold a sentimental place in my heart for D/ST streaming, but obliterated offensive lines are where we make our money. For daily tournaments, it’s mostly about pairing high-upside defenses with your favorite of players, whatever price range fits into your other selections. But in managed leagues, our options are more limited, and our downside risk is…...

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