With the 2018 NFL draft just 10 days away, I thought I should come out of retirement and deliver some value to the fantasy football community. Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to come back and write another edition of the Phenom Index, which has been posted at RotoViz every year since 2014.

The NFL Combine gets under way later this week, which means we’re officially in the thick of prospect season. As such, I’ve been invited back to write another edition of the Phenom Index, which has been posted at RotoViz every year since 2014.

Imagine that you just woke up from a four-month slumber, looked at the calendar and thought, “Crap! The NFL draft is in a few days and I have no clue about any of these guys.”1 The RotoViz 2016 NFL Draft Guide is your hub for every bit of draft content we’ve written, condensed into one, easy to navigate place. We’ve got positional rankings, prospect profiles, mock drafts, new metrics and more. And they’re all here. In my mind, I read that in my Aziz Ansari voice.  (back) In my mind, I read that in my Aziz Ansari voice.

While working on the RotoViz Draft Guide1 today, I noticed that we have written nothing about Auburn WR Ricardo Louis. I decided to dig into his profile and the conclusion I reached was, “why the f*** have we been ignoring Ricardo Louis?” He has some really intriguing data points! yes, really. Stay tuned.  (back) yes, really. Stay tuned.

One of my favorite things about the offseason is tracking how players’ value changes over time. In this article, I’m going to look at 7 rookies falling in dynasty drafts, based on the RotoViz pre-combine rookie mock and the pre-draft rookie mock.

Over the last few years, Matthew Freedman has written extensively about how running backs who carry a workhorse load in college tend to outperform expectations in the NFL. Today, with his blessing, I’m going to apply his methodology (or something close to it) and some of my own to examine the top workhorse running backs in the 2016 class.

One of my favorite things about the offseason is tracking how players’ value changes over time. In this article, I’m going to look at 7 rookies rising in dynasty drafts, based on the RotoViz pre-Combine rookie mock and the pre-Draft rookie mock.

Last year I wrote about the hidden value of special teams stats and suggested that guys like DeMarco Murray, Duke Johnson and Karlos Williams would have looked like much better prospects if we appropriately valued their return-game contributions.

Last year I wrote about the hidden value of special teams stats and suggested that guys like Antonio Brown, Wes Welker and Doug Baldwin would have looked like much better prospects if we appropriately valued their return-game contributions.

With all due respect to Kevin Cole, Charone Peake isn’t the next Martavis Bryant. Chris Moore is.