During the preseason there’s been a decent amount of talk in the fantasy community about the battle for the Saints third wideout spot and Brandon Coleman. Coleman was named in Shawn Siegele’s Top 15  Dynasty Deep Sleepers For 2015, and Heith Krueger knighted him a wideout flying under the radar. Looking at preseason play I think it’s fair to say Willie Snead has now made his case. Before we begin…...

This season, a group of RotoViz writers will submit their Play of the Week (POTW), which we’ll share with you each Friday afternoon. We hope these recommended plays will help not only your DFS lineups, but your regular fantasy lineups as well. That’s right – our best ideas, each week, straight to you. So, what’s a Play of the Week? A POTW is a player…...

BRACE FOR IMPACT Greetings and welcome to what will certainly become the most popular recurring column on RotoViz![1]Insert audience laughtrack. Throughout the season, I will analyze the “Dynasty Impact” of the previous week; performance, injury, trades, arrests, etc. But wait, there’s more! In this special preseason edition of Dynasty Impact, I will unveil my positional dynasty rookie rankings, which I will keep updated throughout the…...

Welcome back for the second season of my Joe 2 Pro series. Last season I wrote How to Dive Into Daily Fantasy Football without Drowning Immediately. Those same sentiments hold true to this day and are the same principles I use in daily fantasy sports. If you followed along with me last season, then you know how this works. Each week I’ll broadcast my thought…...

Welcome to the first installment of Diary of a DFS Novice. If you can’t guess based on the title, I’m going to take my daily fantasy play to another level this season, but have not had a ton of previous experience. I’m talking less than 50 dollars total of previous experience in NFL DFS. This will be just one of two ongoing diaries we will have…...

Fantasy football news, featuring Ameer Abdullah and the NY Jets. Ameer Abdullah Over the weekend, Rotoworld suggested that the release of Jeremy Ross would make Abdullah Detroit’s primary returner. If your league doesn’t score return yardage, I wouldn’t be a fan of that move. Going back to 1995, here are the seasonal and per-game PPR fantasy points for rookie running backs, drafted in the first or…...

Tevin Coleman had a ton of buzz before the NFL draft, but during fantasy draft season he has received virtually no hype. Some believe that Devonta Freeman will limit his upside, but let’s examine the two as prospects to disprove that notion. Coleman or Freeman?   Coleman was drafted 73rd overall this year, and he clearly trumps Freeman in both production and speed. Some will argue…...

Christine Michael has been traded to the Dallas Cowboys and Robert Turbin has been placed on season-ending injured reserve. The running backs left on the Seattle Seahawks roster are juggernaut Marshawn Lynch, newly acquired 34 year old Fred Jackson, and unheralded, unknown, undrafted rookie Thomas Rawls. In May, RotoViz super scout (and truth bearer of Kevin White’s real age) Jon Moore pegged several under-the-radar college…...

I love waiting on quarterback. While there are definitely some strong arguments for taking a QB early, it has just never suited my drafting style. It is really important, though, to not just go into waiting on your QB without preparation. It will probably take more work, more paying attention to schedules, more mixing and matching of options. After all, you aren’t just looking to…...

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Dallas Running Backs This offseason has seen no shortage of coverage of the Cowboys’ backfield. For a while, it’s seemed that Joseph Randle would be the back to own. But now that Dallas has acquired Christine Michael, things are murky once again. Let’s take a look at the concerns presented by each running back, and plot a course of action. Joseph Randle Let’s do a little timeline,…...

Chris Johnson Chris Johnson didn’t look terrible on Thursday night, although he was running against the second and third-team defenses. Arizona’s signing of Johnson was never a deal breaker for me when it came to Andre Ellington because Ellington is one of the guys on my “do not draft” list. I was however, interested in David Johnson. Ellington’s ADP has stayed relatively constant since Chris Johnson…...

Lets just get this out of the way – Ezekiel Elliott is phenomenal. Widely viewed as the top running back prospect for the 2016 Draft, Elliott put together a season for the ages last year. The point of this article isnt to figure out whether or not he’s any good, but rather to examine the magnitude of his excellence and compare him to other players on…...