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Revisiting ADP Risers and Fallers in FFPC Best Ball Drafts, and Pinpointing a Few More Pre-Free Agency Buys at QB and RB
Zachary Krueger
March 9, 2021
At the beginning of February, I wrote an article about players whose ADPs could rise and fall in FFPC best ball tournaments prior to the player movement that will take place during free agency. As rumors continue to swirl, and teams make cuts/trades in hopes of finding more salary cap space to work with, we are left to watch the fluctuation of ADPs all offseason…....
Jalen Reagor Infamously Headlines 2020’s Empty Calorie Fantasy Scorers List
Michael Dubner
March 9, 2021
In this 2020 NFL Best Ball Review, Michael Dubner uses Functional Fantasy Points to expose the WRs who contributed the fewest fantasy football points to starting rosters. Last offseason I debuted the concept of Functional Fantasy Points (FFP), which are the fantasy points a player scores above baseline at their position calculated on a weekly basis. Essentially, FFP measures the number of points a player…...
The Raiders Wanted Henry Ruggs to Be Their Tyreek Hill, But Is He Actually Another Mecole Hardman?
Neil Dutton
March 8, 2021
There was great excitement within the Las Vegas Raiders after taking Henry Ruggs III with the 12th overall selection in the 2020 NFL Draft. Ruggs had blazed a 4.27 forty-yard dash time in the pre-draft process, and the feeling was that the Raiders had found their own version of Tyreek Hill. This would give them an offensive piece to use as they attempted to go…...
Just How Crazy Was 2020? Insights from the Win the Flex App and Strategies for 2021 Drafts
Blair Andrews
March 5, 2021
Drafting successfully means, at least in part, picking the right kinds of players and avoiding the wrong kinds. We provide a lot of guidance at RotoViz on who the right and wrong kind of players to draft are. Still, getting the player selection tactics down is only part of the solution for finding the game-changing win rates we know are possible. Shawn Siegele has detailed…...
Jalen Reagor’s Rookie Campaign Was Disappointing, But You’re Probably Too Low on Him in 2021
Neil Dutton
March 5, 2021
Wide receiver is a position that the Philadelphia Eagles have struggled to get production from in recent years. You have to go back to 2014 for the last time an Eagles wideout — Jeremy Maclin — crested 1,000 receiving yards. But they have certainly tried to find playmakers at the WR spot over the years. A year after re-acquiring DeSean Jackson and drafting J.J. Arcega-Whiteside, neither of…...
Jerry Jeudy’s Rookie Season Comps Display a Wide Range of Outcomes, But a Breakout May Be On the Horizon
Neil Dutton
March 4, 2021
Going into the 2020 NFL season, the Denver Broncos offense had the hallmarks of a unit that could surprise the league. While not 100% sure that Drew Lock was the answer at quarterback, the Broncos were going to give him a chance to succeed. They already had Courtland Sutton and Noah Fant, but in the first round of the draft, they added Alabama wide receiver…...
Tyler Boyd Headlines the 5 Best Values in Early Best Ball Drafts
Shawn Siegele
March 4, 2021
Shawn Siegele locates the five best values in early best ball drafts, including always overlooked star Tyler Boyd. In the Best Ball Workshop I’ve been showing you how to beat your FFPC Classic and Slim drafts in a wide variety of ways. The initial Superflex lesson provides a quick QB hack to boost your win rate above 10%. The PK lesson demonstrates how a couple of…...
Improvements to Breakout Age Make It Even More Effective in Locating Wide Receiver Gems
Matt Spencer
March 3, 2021
It’s rookie season again in the NFL analytics community and the fights are already starting at the wide receiver position. Be prepared to stumble into many arguments over how Jaylen Waddle failed to breakout or how it took Devonta Smith until his fourth and senior season to achieve his breakout all while we are forced to use Ja’Marr Chase’s age-adjusted production from 2019 due to…...
A.J. Dillon Might Not Be the Next Derrick Henry, but His Comps Suggest We Haven’t Seen His Ceiling Yet
Zachary Krueger
March 3, 2021
Last week, as part of the RotoViz Rookie Review Series, I took a look at Rams running back Cam Akers and some of his closest rookie comps according to the RotoViz Screener. For this week’s article, I take a look at yet another running back, but one who saw significantly less work than Akers did in 2020. The Green Bay Packers had a controversial rookie draft class. Coming off…...
2021 QB Range of Outcome Projections: Justin Herbert Is a Star
Dave Caban
March 2, 2021
Dave Caban considers 2021 quarterback projections built by the RotoViz Range of Outcomes app. The Range of Outcomes app (ROO) is one of my favorite tools we have at RotoViz. No joke, I actually get butterflies in my stomach when I roll it forward each year and get a first glimpse of the results. Last year, I wrote an in-depth article that details what the…...
Tyler Johnson Is Primed To See His Value Go Nuclear In The Coming Year
Sam Wallace
March 1, 2021
This offseason, many of the finest at RotoViz will be highlighting a slew of 2020 rookies using the lens of one of the single most powerful tools in the industry: The RotoViz Screener. We’ll be breaking down their rookie seasons, seeing how they fared when stacked up against their historical comps, and identifying how those comps performed in their second season. Here are a few…...
Brandon Aiyuk’s Rookie Comps Suggest a Breakout Is Coming, but Are There Enough Targets to Go Around in San Francisco?
Neil Dutton
March 1, 2021
Back in March 2020, a revered and much-respected writer for RotoViz[1]This writer looks a bit like me, and even lives in my house. wrote that Arizona State wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk could be the Deebo Samuel of the 2020 NFL Draft. As if to amplify this comparison, the same team that drafted Samuel in 2019, the San Francisco 49ers, took the plunge and spent the…...
Best Ball Workshop: Playing DEF Correctly in FFPC Leagues Is Like Adding Another Star to Your Roster
Shawn Siegele
February 26, 2021
Shawn Siegele shows you how to gain a big advantage in your FFPC Classic best ball league just by making some simple decisions on defense. The rhetoric around fantasy leagues increasingly focuses on hitting a high win-rate player early and trying to land a sleeper. Of course, this helps. And I’m (very) biased, but I think RotoViz is your leading source of those hits. Last…...
A Late Season Surge Has Drafters High on Cam Akers in 2021, but What Do His Comps Suggest?
Zachary Krueger
February 26, 2021
The Rams drafted running back Cam Akers in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft in hopes of replacing former stud Todd Gurley. Often viewed as a solid athlete whose production was capped by a poor supporting cast at Florida State, Akers entered his rookie season with a ceiling some thought was yet to be realized. A strong finish to the season that resulted in two playoff…...
Using Regression Tree Analysis To Understand WR Profiles and the 2021 Prospects
Dave Caban
February 25, 2021
Ja’Marr Chase has been lauded by many as one of the best wide receiver prospects to enter the NFL in recent memory. With a ranking of 19 in the current RotoViz Dynasty Rankings, he’s our top prospect from the 2021 class. Why are we, and many others, so optimistic about his future? It’s pretty simple. He’s projected as an early Round 1 pick, made an…...
Superflex Dynasty Startup: Using Scenario-Based Drafting to Load Your Team With Impact Upside
Shawn Siegele
February 23, 2021
Shawn Siegele shows you how to bake in upside and draft a dynasty team with exploding long-term trade value as he explores the most important round of a superflex startup. Sam Wallace and I are involved in a duel to the fantasy death as we draft against each other in a dynasty superflex mock. We alternate picks. He gets six teams, I get six, and…...
Justin Jefferson’s Rookie Comps Are Elite, but Is There Value at His Current Price?
Neil Dutton
February 22, 2021
Before the 2020 NFL Draft, many NFL analysts, pundits, and prognosticators believed the Philadelphia Eagles would spend their first-round pick on a wide receiver. A large chunk of this group also believed that the player they would choose would be LSU WR Justin Jefferson. The Minnesota Vikings were also sure of this, as evidenced by their joy when the Eagles instead selected TCU speedster, Jalen…...
2021 Superflex Dynasty Mock: Round 4 is the Sweet Spot for Trading Back in Dynasty Startups
Sam Wallace
February 21, 2021
Sam Wallace breaks down Round 4 of a 2021 Superflex dynasty startup and explains why this is the perfect round to target if you are looking to trade back. In the Dynasty Draft-Off series, Shawn Siegele and I are in a pitched battle to see who can build the best startup rosters. We’ll alternate picks with each of us responsible for six squads. We’re not…...
Clyde Edwards-Helaire Disappointed in 2020, But His Rookie Comps Include Second-Year Breakout Stars
Neil Dutton
February 19, 2021
One of the goals of the fantasy manager is to obtain players who form part of potent offenses. So when the Kansas City Chiefs spent a first-round draft pick on LSU running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire last year, hopes were understandably high that the player would be an asset to fantasy managers as early as his rookie season. While he had his moments, there seemed to…...
FA Marlon Mack Has an Enticing ADP, But What Should We Expect in His Comeback from an Achilles Injury?
Jeffrey E. Budoff, MD
February 19, 2021
Are Achilles tendon tears still devastating injuries for running backs? Dr. Jeffrey E. Budoff answers this question and tells us what it means for Marlon Mack. Traditionally, Achilles tendon tears have been a devastating injury for NFL running backs, robbing them of the speed and burst necessary to play at a competitive level. The Achilles tendon is like a tightly tensioned rope that transmits the…...
Revisiting ADP Risers and Fallers in FFPC Best Ball Drafts, and Pinpointing a Few More Pre-Free Agency Buys at QB and RB
Zachary Krueger
March 9, 2021
At the beginning of February, I wrote an article about players whose ADPs could rise and fall in FFPC best ball tournaments prior to the player movement that will take place during free agency. As rumors continue to swirl, and teams make cuts/trades in hopes of finding more salary cap space to work with, we are left to watch the fluctuation of ADPs all offseason…....
Jalen Reagor Infamously Headlines 2020’s Empty Calorie Fantasy Scorers List
Michael Dubner
March 9, 2021
In this 2020 NFL Best Ball Review, Michael Dubner uses Functional Fantasy Points to expose the WRs who contributed the fewest fantasy football points to starting rosters. Last offseason I debuted the concept of Functional Fantasy Points (FFP), which are the fantasy points a player scores above baseline at their position calculated on a weekly basis. Essentially, FFP measures the number of points a player…...
The Raiders Wanted Henry Ruggs to Be Their Tyreek Hill, But Is He Actually Another Mecole Hardman?
Neil Dutton
March 8, 2021
There was great excitement within the Las Vegas Raiders after taking Henry Ruggs III with the 12th overall selection in the 2020 NFL Draft. Ruggs had blazed a 4.27 forty-yard dash time in the pre-draft process, and the feeling was that the Raiders had found their own version of Tyreek Hill. This would give them an offensive piece to use as they attempted to go…...
Just How Crazy Was 2020? Insights from the Win the Flex App and Strategies for 2021 Drafts
Blair Andrews
March 5, 2021
Drafting successfully means, at least in part, picking the right kinds of players and avoiding the wrong kinds. We provide a lot of guidance at RotoViz on who the right and wrong kind of players to draft are. Still, getting the player selection tactics down is only part of the solution for finding the game-changing win rates we know are possible. Shawn Siegele has detailed…...
Jalen Reagor’s Rookie Campaign Was Disappointing, But You’re Probably Too Low on Him in 2021
Neil Dutton
March 5, 2021
Wide receiver is a position that the Philadelphia Eagles have struggled to get production from in recent years. You have to go back to 2014 for the last time an Eagles wideout — Jeremy Maclin — crested 1,000 receiving yards. But they have certainly tried to find playmakers at the WR spot over the years. A year after re-acquiring DeSean Jackson and drafting J.J. Arcega-Whiteside, neither of…...
Jerry Jeudy’s Rookie Season Comps Display a Wide Range of Outcomes, But a Breakout May Be On the Horizon
Neil Dutton
March 4, 2021
Going into the 2020 NFL season, the Denver Broncos offense had the hallmarks of a unit that could surprise the league. While not 100% sure that Drew Lock was the answer at quarterback, the Broncos were going to give him a chance to succeed. They already had Courtland Sutton and Noah Fant, but in the first round of the draft, they added Alabama wide receiver…...
Tyler Boyd Headlines the 5 Best Values in Early Best Ball Drafts
Shawn Siegele
March 4, 2021
Shawn Siegele locates the five best values in early best ball drafts, including always overlooked star Tyler Boyd. In the Best Ball Workshop I’ve been showing you how to beat your FFPC Classic and Slim drafts in a wide variety of ways. The initial Superflex lesson provides a quick QB hack to boost your win rate above 10%. The PK lesson demonstrates how a couple of…...
Improvements to Breakout Age Make It Even More Effective in Locating Wide Receiver Gems
Matt Spencer
March 3, 2021
It’s rookie season again in the NFL analytics community and the fights are already starting at the wide receiver position. Be prepared to stumble into many arguments over how Jaylen Waddle failed to breakout or how it took Devonta Smith until his fourth and senior season to achieve his breakout all while we are forced to use Ja’Marr Chase’s age-adjusted production from 2019 due to…...
A.J. Dillon Might Not Be the Next Derrick Henry, but His Comps Suggest We Haven’t Seen His Ceiling Yet
Zachary Krueger
March 3, 2021
Last week, as part of the RotoViz Rookie Review Series, I took a look at Rams running back Cam Akers and some of his closest rookie comps according to the RotoViz Screener. For this week’s article, I take a look at yet another running back, but one who saw significantly less work than Akers did in 2020. The Green Bay Packers had a controversial rookie draft class. Coming off…...
2021 QB Range of Outcome Projections: Justin Herbert Is a Star
Dave Caban
March 2, 2021
Dave Caban considers 2021 quarterback projections built by the RotoViz Range of Outcomes app. The Range of Outcomes app (ROO) is one of my favorite tools we have at RotoViz. No joke, I actually get butterflies in my stomach when I roll it forward each year and get a first glimpse of the results. Last year, I wrote an in-depth article that details what the…...
Tyler Johnson Is Primed To See His Value Go Nuclear In The Coming Year
Sam Wallace
March 1, 2021
This offseason, many of the finest at RotoViz will be highlighting a slew of 2020 rookies using the lens of one of the single most powerful tools in the industry: The RotoViz Screener. We’ll be breaking down their rookie seasons, seeing how they fared when stacked up against their historical comps, and identifying how those comps performed in their second season. Here are a few…...
Brandon Aiyuk’s Rookie Comps Suggest a Breakout Is Coming, but Are There Enough Targets to Go Around in San Francisco?
Neil Dutton
March 1, 2021
Back in March 2020, a revered and much-respected writer for RotoViz[1]This writer looks a bit like me, and even lives in my house. wrote that Arizona State wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk could be the Deebo Samuel of the 2020 NFL Draft. As if to amplify this comparison, the same team that drafted Samuel in 2019, the San Francisco 49ers, took the plunge and spent the…...
Best Ball Workshop: Playing DEF Correctly in FFPC Leagues Is Like Adding Another Star to Your Roster
Shawn Siegele
February 26, 2021
Shawn Siegele shows you how to gain a big advantage in your FFPC Classic best ball league just by making some simple decisions on defense. The rhetoric around fantasy leagues increasingly focuses on hitting a high win-rate player early and trying to land a sleeper. Of course, this helps. And I’m (very) biased, but I think RotoViz is your leading source of those hits. Last…...
A Late Season Surge Has Drafters High on Cam Akers in 2021, but What Do His Comps Suggest?
Zachary Krueger
February 26, 2021
The Rams drafted running back Cam Akers in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft in hopes of replacing former stud Todd Gurley. Often viewed as a solid athlete whose production was capped by a poor supporting cast at Florida State, Akers entered his rookie season with a ceiling some thought was yet to be realized. A strong finish to the season that resulted in two playoff…...
Using Regression Tree Analysis To Understand WR Profiles and the 2021 Prospects
Dave Caban
February 25, 2021
Ja’Marr Chase has been lauded by many as one of the best wide receiver prospects to enter the NFL in recent memory. With a ranking of 19 in the current RotoViz Dynasty Rankings, he’s our top prospect from the 2021 class. Why are we, and many others, so optimistic about his future? It’s pretty simple. He’s projected as an early Round 1 pick, made an…...
Superflex Dynasty Startup: Using Scenario-Based Drafting to Load Your Team With Impact Upside
Shawn Siegele
February 23, 2021
Shawn Siegele shows you how to bake in upside and draft a dynasty team with exploding long-term trade value as he explores the most important round of a superflex startup. Sam Wallace and I are involved in a duel to the fantasy death as we draft against each other in a dynasty superflex mock. We alternate picks. He gets six teams, I get six, and…...
Justin Jefferson’s Rookie Comps Are Elite, but Is There Value at His Current Price?
Neil Dutton
February 22, 2021
Before the 2020 NFL Draft, many NFL analysts, pundits, and prognosticators believed the Philadelphia Eagles would spend their first-round pick on a wide receiver. A large chunk of this group also believed that the player they would choose would be LSU WR Justin Jefferson. The Minnesota Vikings were also sure of this, as evidenced by their joy when the Eagles instead selected TCU speedster, Jalen…...
2021 Superflex Dynasty Mock: Round 4 is the Sweet Spot for Trading Back in Dynasty Startups
Sam Wallace
February 21, 2021
Sam Wallace breaks down Round 4 of a 2021 Superflex dynasty startup and explains why this is the perfect round to target if you are looking to trade back. In the Dynasty Draft-Off series, Shawn Siegele and I are in a pitched battle to see who can build the best startup rosters. We’ll alternate picks with each of us responsible for six squads. We’re not…...
Clyde Edwards-Helaire Disappointed in 2020, But His Rookie Comps Include Second-Year Breakout Stars
Neil Dutton
February 19, 2021
One of the goals of the fantasy manager is to obtain players who form part of potent offenses. So when the Kansas City Chiefs spent a first-round draft pick on LSU running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire last year, hopes were understandably high that the player would be an asset to fantasy managers as early as his rookie season. While he had his moments, there seemed to…...
FA Marlon Mack Has an Enticing ADP, But What Should We Expect in His Comeback from an Achilles Injury?
Jeffrey E. Budoff, MD
February 19, 2021
Are Achilles tendon tears still devastating injuries for running backs? Dr. Jeffrey E. Budoff answers this question and tells us what it means for Marlon Mack. Traditionally, Achilles tendon tears have been a devastating injury for NFL running backs, robbing them of the speed and burst necessary to play at a competitive level. The Achilles tendon is like a tightly tensioned rope that transmits the…...
Revisiting ADP Risers and Fallers in FFPC Best Ball Drafts, and Pinpointing a Few More Pre-Free Agency Buys at QB and RB
Zachary Krueger
March 9, 2021
At the beginning of February, I wrote an article about players whose ADPs could rise and fall in FFPC best ball tournaments prior to the player movement that will take place during free agency. As rumors continue to swirl, and teams make cuts/trades in hopes of finding more salary cap space to work with, we are left to watch the fluctuation of ADPs all offseason…....
Jalen Reagor Infamously Headlines 2020’s Empty Calorie Fantasy Scorers List
Michael Dubner
March 9, 2021
In this 2020 NFL Best Ball Review, Michael Dubner uses Functional Fantasy Points to expose the WRs who contributed the fewest fantasy football points to starting rosters. Last offseason I debuted the concept of Functional Fantasy Points (FFP), which are the fantasy points a player scores above baseline at their position calculated on a weekly basis. Essentially, FFP measures the number of points a player…...
The Raiders Wanted Henry Ruggs to Be Their Tyreek Hill, But Is He Actually Another Mecole Hardman?
Neil Dutton
March 8, 2021
There was great excitement within the Las Vegas Raiders after taking Henry Ruggs III with the 12th overall selection in the 2020 NFL Draft. Ruggs had blazed a 4.27 forty-yard dash time in the pre-draft process, and the feeling was that the Raiders had found their own version of Tyreek Hill. This would give them an offensive piece to use as they attempted to go…...
Just How Crazy Was 2020? Insights from the Win the Flex App and Strategies for 2021 Drafts
Blair Andrews
March 5, 2021
Drafting successfully means, at least in part, picking the right kinds of players and avoiding the wrong kinds. We provide a lot of guidance at RotoViz on who the right and wrong kind of players to draft are. Still, getting the player selection tactics down is only part of the solution for finding the game-changing win rates we know are possible. Shawn Siegele has detailed…...
Jalen Reagor’s Rookie Campaign Was Disappointing, But You’re Probably Too Low on Him in 2021
Neil Dutton
March 5, 2021
Wide receiver is a position that the Philadelphia Eagles have struggled to get production from in recent years. You have to go back to 2014 for the last time an Eagles wideout — Jeremy Maclin — crested 1,000 receiving yards. But they have certainly tried to find playmakers at the WR spot over the years. A year after re-acquiring DeSean Jackson and drafting J.J. Arcega-Whiteside, neither of…...
Jerry Jeudy’s Rookie Season Comps Display a Wide Range of Outcomes, But a Breakout May Be On the Horizon
Neil Dutton
March 4, 2021
Going into the 2020 NFL season, the Denver Broncos offense had the hallmarks of a unit that could surprise the league. While not 100% sure that Drew Lock was the answer at quarterback, the Broncos were going to give him a chance to succeed. They already had Courtland Sutton and Noah Fant, but in the first round of the draft, they added Alabama wide receiver…...
Tyler Boyd Headlines the 5 Best Values in Early Best Ball Drafts
Shawn Siegele
March 4, 2021
Shawn Siegele locates the five best values in early best ball drafts, including always overlooked star Tyler Boyd. In the Best Ball Workshop I’ve been showing you how to beat your FFPC Classic and Slim drafts in a wide variety of ways. The initial Superflex lesson provides a quick QB hack to boost your win rate above 10%. The PK lesson demonstrates how a couple of…...
Improvements to Breakout Age Make It Even More Effective in Locating Wide Receiver Gems
Matt Spencer
March 3, 2021
It’s rookie season again in the NFL analytics community and the fights are already starting at the wide receiver position. Be prepared to stumble into many arguments over how Jaylen Waddle failed to breakout or how it took Devonta Smith until his fourth and senior season to achieve his breakout all while we are forced to use Ja’Marr Chase’s age-adjusted production from 2019 due to…...
A.J. Dillon Might Not Be the Next Derrick Henry, but His Comps Suggest We Haven’t Seen His Ceiling Yet
Zachary Krueger
March 3, 2021
Last week, as part of the RotoViz Rookie Review Series, I took a look at Rams running back Cam Akers and some of his closest rookie comps according to the RotoViz Screener. For this week’s article, I take a look at yet another running back, but one who saw significantly less work than Akers did in 2020. The Green Bay Packers had a controversial rookie draft class. Coming off…...
2021 QB Range of Outcome Projections: Justin Herbert Is a Star
Dave Caban
March 2, 2021
Dave Caban considers 2021 quarterback projections built by the RotoViz Range of Outcomes app. The Range of Outcomes app (ROO) is one of my favorite tools we have at RotoViz. No joke, I actually get butterflies in my stomach when I roll it forward each year and get a first glimpse of the results. Last year, I wrote an in-depth article that details what the…...
Tyler Johnson Is Primed To See His Value Go Nuclear In The Coming Year
Sam Wallace
March 1, 2021
This offseason, many of the finest at RotoViz will be highlighting a slew of 2020 rookies using the lens of one of the single most powerful tools in the industry: The RotoViz Screener. We’ll be breaking down their rookie seasons, seeing how they fared when stacked up against their historical comps, and identifying how those comps performed in their second season. Here are a few…...
Brandon Aiyuk’s Rookie Comps Suggest a Breakout Is Coming, but Are There Enough Targets to Go Around in San Francisco?
Neil Dutton
March 1, 2021
Back in March 2020, a revered and much-respected writer for RotoViz[1]This writer looks a bit like me, and even lives in my house. wrote that Arizona State wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk could be the Deebo Samuel of the 2020 NFL Draft. As if to amplify this comparison, the same team that drafted Samuel in 2019, the San Francisco 49ers, took the plunge and spent the…...
Best Ball Workshop: Playing DEF Correctly in FFPC Leagues Is Like Adding Another Star to Your Roster
Shawn Siegele
February 26, 2021
Shawn Siegele shows you how to gain a big advantage in your FFPC Classic best ball league just by making some simple decisions on defense. The rhetoric around fantasy leagues increasingly focuses on hitting a high win-rate player early and trying to land a sleeper. Of course, this helps. And I’m (very) biased, but I think RotoViz is your leading source of those hits. Last…...
A Late Season Surge Has Drafters High on Cam Akers in 2021, but What Do His Comps Suggest?
Zachary Krueger
February 26, 2021
The Rams drafted running back Cam Akers in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft in hopes of replacing former stud Todd Gurley. Often viewed as a solid athlete whose production was capped by a poor supporting cast at Florida State, Akers entered his rookie season with a ceiling some thought was yet to be realized. A strong finish to the season that resulted in two playoff…...
Using Regression Tree Analysis To Understand WR Profiles and the 2021 Prospects
Dave Caban
February 25, 2021
Ja’Marr Chase has been lauded by many as one of the best wide receiver prospects to enter the NFL in recent memory. With a ranking of 19 in the current RotoViz Dynasty Rankings, he’s our top prospect from the 2021 class. Why are we, and many others, so optimistic about his future? It’s pretty simple. He’s projected as an early Round 1 pick, made an…...
Superflex Dynasty Startup: Using Scenario-Based Drafting to Load Your Team With Impact Upside
Shawn Siegele
February 23, 2021
Shawn Siegele shows you how to bake in upside and draft a dynasty team with exploding long-term trade value as he explores the most important round of a superflex startup. Sam Wallace and I are involved in a duel to the fantasy death as we draft against each other in a dynasty superflex mock. We alternate picks. He gets six teams, I get six, and…...
Justin Jefferson’s Rookie Comps Are Elite, but Is There Value at His Current Price?
Neil Dutton
February 22, 2021
Before the 2020 NFL Draft, many NFL analysts, pundits, and prognosticators believed the Philadelphia Eagles would spend their first-round pick on a wide receiver. A large chunk of this group also believed that the player they would choose would be LSU WR Justin Jefferson. The Minnesota Vikings were also sure of this, as evidenced by their joy when the Eagles instead selected TCU speedster, Jalen…...
2021 Superflex Dynasty Mock: Round 4 is the Sweet Spot for Trading Back in Dynasty Startups
Sam Wallace
February 21, 2021
Sam Wallace breaks down Round 4 of a 2021 Superflex dynasty startup and explains why this is the perfect round to target if you are looking to trade back. In the Dynasty Draft-Off series, Shawn Siegele and I are in a pitched battle to see who can build the best startup rosters. We’ll alternate picks with each of us responsible for six squads. We’re not…...
Clyde Edwards-Helaire Disappointed in 2020, But His Rookie Comps Include Second-Year Breakout Stars
Neil Dutton
February 19, 2021
One of the goals of the fantasy manager is to obtain players who form part of potent offenses. So when the Kansas City Chiefs spent a first-round draft pick on LSU running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire last year, hopes were understandably high that the player would be an asset to fantasy managers as early as his rookie season. While he had his moments, there seemed to…...
FA Marlon Mack Has an Enticing ADP, But What Should We Expect in His Comeback from an Achilles Injury?
Jeffrey E. Budoff, MD
February 19, 2021
Are Achilles tendon tears still devastating injuries for running backs? Dr. Jeffrey E. Budoff answers this question and tells us what it means for Marlon Mack. Traditionally, Achilles tendon tears have been a devastating injury for NFL running backs, robbing them of the speed and burst necessary to play at a competitive level. The Achilles tendon is like a tightly tensioned rope that transmits the…...
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