It’s easy to say that we’re into the area where the picks don’t really matter, that they have minimal or even negative roster value, but I don’t think that’s the case for several reasons. First, the likely direct backup to Jonathan Stewart went in this round. Stewart’s backup always has value. Second, several intriguing IDPs came off the board in this stanza. Adding excitement…...

  Round 4 may have been the strangest, most quixotic, and potentially most interesting of the RDL stanzas as participants vied to grab their favorite sleepers before they were snapped up by someone else. This is also a very fertile area for IDPs, the defensive player element adding some sizzle and entertainment to a portion of the draft that often falls flat in offense-only formats…....

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  With fantasy football now a year round activity, sleepers aren’t necessarily players sliding below the radar – everyone is on the radar – but players whose names still don’t command much in the way of an ADP-boosting narrative. Here’s a look at 10 players I’m looking to acquire this offseason. All are currently valued outside the Top 100, and seven fall outside the Top…...

“Torrey Smith Will be a Top 12 Wide Receiver,” articles are an annual tradition in the fantasy football community. I am not going to participate in that tradition today. However, I do think there are seven compelling reasons why you should draft Torrey Smith in 2015, so I’m going to lay those out in list form. 1) The Hype Is Gone According to the Best…...

Fantasy football leagues are typically won by owners who are able to identify the players who have the biggest return on investment (ROI). ROI, in the context of fantasy football, can be described as how a player performs in comparison to his draft position. When a fantasy player is ready to break out, there’s typically more than one indicator of a potential statistical leap. These…...

Earlier today I posted perhaps an unneeded Michael Floyd article where I posited that even though I’m not targeting Floyd now, I’m paying attention to see if the conditions might materialize for Floyd to become a value. I offered a sensitivity table in that article which had some hypothetical fantasy point totals based on varying numbers of targets. As I was doing that I realized that…...

  As we move into Round 3, we’re following the same template from Round 1 and Round 2.  Keep in mind that our staff rankings and rookie ADP do not include IDPs, so it’s necessary to make the mental adjustment for the defensive players selected. Only one IDP was taken in the first 24 picks and three more came off the board here in the…...

We’ve been working on our staff composite projections lately and while I was projecting the ARI offense it occurred to me that Michael Floyd is between a rock and a hard place in terms of providing fantasy value. No. Name Age G Tgt Rec Yds Y/R TD Lng R/G Y/G 11 Larry Fitzgerald 31 14 103 63 784 12.4 2 80 4.5 56 12 John…...

Everyone is hot for rookies right now. It’s May, the NFL Draft is not even a month old, and we are all still excited about the influx of new young talent into the league. What we usually find around this time are many veterans getting pushed down draft boards in favor of younger, flashier new players. This often leads to value. Here are four veteran wide receivers…...

ESPN Dallas’ Todd Archer was recently asked if Felix Jones or other RBs could be the starter in Dallas. I think there was a little overreaction to the workouts of Felix Jones, Ben Tate and Daniel Thomas, among others. I would put those workouts in the category of standard operating procedure. Teams work out players all the time because you never know what you will…...

Once upon a time, Jay Ajayi looked like one of this season’s most promising rookie running backs. He came in third at the position in the RotoViz Pre-Draft Rookie RB Rankings done in late April. He looked like a sure Day 1 or Day 2 pick for the NFL Draft. And then it happened. Reports started to surface about Ajayi’s right knee, the one in which he…...

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