The list of Top 15 Zero RB candidates had a big year in 2015. The Top 5 included league-winners Devonta Freeman and Doug Martin. It also contained serviceable pass-catching backs Duke Johnson and Charles Sims. David Johnson clocked in at No. 7…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

This weekend NASCAR heads to New Hampshire Motor Speedway to the 1.058-mile, flat oval. Sunday’s race is 301 laps, meaning it is important to find the likely race dominators. If you don’t get them on your roster, you’ll be behind the eight-ball in the DraftKings NASCAR New Hampshire slate for cash games and will have zero chance at taking down a GPP…. Membership Required You must be a...

Source: Ian Rappaport on Twitter ​ #Bills RB Karlos Williams is being suspended 4 games for violating the Substances of Abuse Policy — Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) July 15, 2016 This is a mea culpa for me. In June, I wrote about the running backs behind LeSean McCoy, and I didn’t even mention Mike Gillislee. Even worse, I got shown up by 14Team Mocker, who highlighted Gillislee in a post arguing that now-suspended…...

Source: NFL exec on Eagles’ Nelson Agholor: He’s their best receiver “From strictly a talent standpoint, I still think he’s their best (receiver),” a personnel man for an Eagles’ opponent told NJ Advance Media. He was granted anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly about other teams’ players. “I’m not sure what happened there last year,” he said. “It’s not like he was…...

Victor Cruz is being completely ignored, and may have a massive role in one of the league’s best passing offenses. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

A recent article by Fantasy Douche and another by Shawn Siegele got me thinking about quality. Pondering quality is actually rather dangerous. On the one hand it can cause you to become enlightened, and on the other it can drive you batshit crazy. It can even do both at the same time…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member?...

Source: Vikings’ Adrian Peterson on Teddy Bridgewater: ‘I see greatness’ – Minnesota Vikings Blog- ESPN: [I]f this year’s Vikings are to take the step the 2009 team couldn’t, it will be incumbent upon Bridgewater to take command of an offense that ranked 31st in the league in passing a year ago. Peterson did not mince words, though, when he was asked whether he thinks Bridgewater…...

Devin Funchess stands 6 feet 4 inches and weighs 232 pounds. Dorial Green-Beckham can look down on his fellow monster from a height of 6 feet 5 inches. He weighs in at 237 pounds…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

We know Chip Kelly offenses tend to be up-tempo, and we know he emphasizes player health and sports science. Is it possible he is set to cycle receivers onto the field in a way we haven’t really seen at the NFL level?… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

Source: How Reliable are Way-Too-Early NFL Point Spreads? (Part II) There are two interesting lessons to be learned here. First, way-too-early spreads are as accurate as actual spreads in terms of predicting actual Week 1 margins of victory. Furthermore, this result provides even more evidence of my belief perseverance hypothesis from Part 1: Between CG’s release and Week 1, the betting public’s perceptions of relative team strength don’t seem…...

Now that the NFL draft is over and the high-impact free agents have found their homes, we can starting doing some early 2016 fantasy football projections. Today: the New York Giants, including a disappointing projection for Sterling Shepard that shows that being a WR2 isn’t that inherently valuable.  First things first, using our staff projection machine I set some baseline team-wide assumptions: For average point margin, I…...

After growing stale with the Chicago Bears, the professionally disgruntled Martellus Bennett faces a fresh start in his NFL career after landing in New England with the Patriots. MFL10 owners seem to have high hopes that this change of scene will help Bennett attain a degree of fantasy relevancy in 2016, but the RotoViz projections bros are not so sure. According to the RotoViz MFL…...

Source: Minnesota Vikings’ Adrian Peterson is training to outrun history – Minnesota Vikings Blog- ESPN Cooper is taking it somewhat easier on his longtime pupil and a group that includes San Diego Chargers running back Melvin Gordon, Buffalo Bills defensive end Jerry Hughes, free-agent receiver Andre Johnson and others. Even so, the day’s schedule has the tenacious Peterson feeling slightly apprehensive. He begins at Houston’s…...

This is part of a series that identifies key traits of the best/worst picks of 2015, and finds three candidates to be this year’s version of those players. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

Fantasy Douche wrote a great post the other day asking whether Jarvis Landry being good even matters. It reminded me of something I consider from time to time regarding the conclusions that can be drawn from baseball statistics, and how difficult the task is in football…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

There are only 11 running backs averaging a higher salary in 2016 than Shane Vereen. I’ll just let that sink in for a second. Shane Vereen, a man who hasn’t scored a rushing touchdown since December 2014, whose sole 100-yard rushing performance came in Week 1 of 2013. The 12th highest paid running back in football. Sometimes you don’t get what you pay for, and…...