Week 3 of the NFL season is in the books, and some players are starting to show their true colors. Who should we start to worry about and should we be patient with? This is The Good, the Bad, and the Oh So Ugly from Week 3. The Good: 1) The entire Kansas City Chiefs offense is a beautiful thing to watch. The Chiefs put…...

Orthopedic surgeon and auction expert, Dr. Jeffrey Budoff, provides injury analysis for fantasy football owners during the 2019 NFL season. Today, he looks at the high ankle sprain suffered by Saquon Barkley. Barkley suffered a right high ankle sprain during Week 2. A high ankle sprain is an injury to the Syndesmotic Ligaments that hold the two bones below the knee, the tibia and the…...

Mike Evans caught eight passes for 190 yards and three scores in Week 3, leading the wide receiver position with 45 fantasy points. Keenan Allen wasn’t far behind with 13 receptions for 183 yards and two touchdowns. The mega-stars combined for 32 targets, but they also managed to outperform their volume. Evans ranked No. 1 in fantasy points over expectation (FPOE), while Allen finished in…...

There’s been a nearly overwhelming amount of developing injury news throughout this week. My general advice for the teams with questionable quarterbacking is downgrade everyone on those teams that isn’t a clear cut No. 1 option. But in the midst of so much uncertainty, let’s focus on buying the under-reaction and selling the over-reaction through two weeks. QUARTERBACK With so many teams scrambling to replace…...

Drew Brees, New Orlean’s future Hall of Fame quarterback, tore a ligament on his throwing thumb. In layman’s terms this injury is known as ‘Skier’s Thumb,’ as it’s the No. 1 injury from skiing. This happens when you wear pole straps and the pole jams against your thumb. So, when skiing, it’s not a bad idea to not wear pole straps to decrease the incidence…...

Tomorrow’s Moves Today uses the Strength of Schedule Streaming App to identify team positional units with favorable/unfavorable upcoming schedules and players on related teams that should be targeted or avoided. Welcome to 2019’s first edition of Tomorrow’s Moves Today! On a weekly basis, we’ll look ahead to find positional units with favorable upcoming schedules or soft matchups in the fantasy playoffs. Likewise, we’ll identify positional…...

The 3 and Out uses a number of RotoViz Apps to uncover significant workload changes; league, team, and player-specific trends; and hidden but powerful statistics. Welcome to 2019’s first edition of The 3 and Out! To start off the season, we’ll be looking at three interesting data points for every team. In the interest of full disclosure, “three” will be more of a guideline. The…...

Welcome to Week 3 of the Ultimate Zero RB Watchlist: AFC Edition. The Watch List helps you find running back targets for your Zero RB teams before anyone else even knows about them. We’ll take a close look at depth charts around the league in order to find the next-man-up situations that nobody is talking about … yet. Throughout the season, we’ll monitor playing time…...

Giana Pacinell provides QB streaming options, 2-QB plays, and overall QB rankings and for Week 3 of the 2019 fantasy football season. Week 2 was a very costly fantasy week — Ben Roethlisberger suffered a right elbow injury which required surgery, marking the end to his season and Drew Brees will be sidelined for at least six weeks with surgery on his right thumb. On Monday…...

The Process Before I look toward Week 3 it is important to observe whether the selection process was effective. Here is a recap of last week’s recommendations. If you need a refresher on what to look for when analyzing kickers, read the Week 2 Fantasy Football Kicker Streaming article.  Name, Team Stat Line Week 2 Position Rank 1 Brett Maher, Dallas Cowboys FG 1/1 XP…...

Welcome to Week 3 of the Ultimate Zero RB Watchlist: NFC Edition. The Watch List helps you find running back targets for your Zero RB teams before anyone else even knows about them. We’ll take a close look at depth charts around the league in order to find the next-man-up situations that nobody is talking about … yet. Throughout the season, we’ll monitor playing time…...

If you spend any time reading RotoViz, eventually you’ll hear us talking about expected points. Expected points (EP) are the number of fantasy points that a target or carry should score based on game situation — down, distance, and field position. In other words, expected points allow us to transform raw opportunity, such as carries and targets, directly into fantasy points. From there we can…...

Kyler Murray currently leads the league in passing attempts and has thrown for 657 yards. Unfortunately, he’s struggled to find the end zone through the air and has left fantasy owners disappointed with only 17 rushing yards. The rookie phenom sits at QB13 through two weeks. All that is about to change. A Frantic Pace in Passing Attempts In Kliff Kingsbury’s desert air raid, Murray…...

The Strength of Schedule Streaming app allows you to see which players have the easiest or most difficult upcoming schedules, a potentially league-winning edge that gives you the opportunity to buy players right before they explode in plus matchups. In Week 2, the Buy Low Report tabbed Christian Kirk, D.J. Moore, Chris Godwin, and Calvin Ridley as players to buy. This week, we will once again…...

It didn’t take long, but Week 3 marks the first visit to the tight end wasteland of the 2019 season. The options are not great, especially given Darren Waller’s ascension to “every week starter” status following his TE8 finish in Week 2. For the second week in a row, Waller came to my rescue as the only one of my three suggestions to actually bear…...

Welcome to the Week 2 edition of the RB Market Share Report. In this column, I report usage statistics and advanced metrics for all NFL running backs. I will also summarize RB workload statistics for all 32 NFL teams and highlight key trends as applicable. I will publish updates to this column each week following the conclusion of Monday night’s games. As more games are…...