Kevin Szafraniec

Full-time Cat Dad, Sneakerhead, Record Collector, LOTR Fanboy, and Jeopardy Enthusiast. Fantasy football writer and beatmaker in my free time. Follow me on X and Bluesky @thecatdadff

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16 Final-Round Targets Who Have the Potential to Become Weekly Staples in 2025 Redraft Lineups

Kevin Szafraniec examines the 2025 ADP landscape and highlights players at each position who can be selected in the final round of drafts and have the potential to become weekly starters in 2025 redraft lineups. There is no feeling quite like hitting on a player in the late rounds who ends up becoming a staple in your weekly starting lineup. Given that redraft leagues offer…...

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Making the Most of a Suboptimal Roster: The Franchise League Football Blueprint, Part 2

Last week, Renee introduced the Franchise League Football format of dynasty fantasy football (FLF). Today she digs deeper into the strategy of managing a team. Once your league is full, the commissioner will “activate” the preseason, which means the starting 14-man rosters will be randomly assigned to each fantasy GM. We employ an algorithm that draws on one of 10 realistic contract databases to assign…...

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The Do Not Draft List: 12 Players Who Won’t Be On My 2025 Redraft Rosters, and 13 Others On the Bubble

Kevin Szafraniec highlights 12 players who represent landmines for redraft rosters at almost any cost, plus 13 other players who aren’t far behind them. It always feels better to be an optimist than a pessimist. But sometimes there is no helping a bad situation. Unfortunately, this can apply to fantasy football, or more specifically, fantasy football ADP. The rise of best ball has allowed us…...

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7 Things You Missed From NFL Preseason Week 1 – RotoViz Overtime

Get ready for a recap of the most exciting and overlooked moments of NFL Preseason Week 1 and how they impact fantasy football drafts. From breakout performances to coaching decisions that raised eyebrows, Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly have got you covered. The guys dive into the top plays, surprises, and takeaways that you might have missed from the first week of preseason action, and how

Never Chase Your Zero RB Winners, Right? Even for a Young, Supercharged Version of Aaron Jones?

What would you pay for a young, supercharged version of Aaron Jones, especially if he labored for one of the NFL’s best offenses? For years, I’ve forced myself to avoid Zero RB hits during their follow-up seasons. After all, taking the next step and becoming a 350-point sensation requires a mix of attributes that is incredibly difficult to deliver. Of course, it’s always tempting to…...

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Good Players Are Still Good: The Most Undervalued Wide Receiver Metric

If you think you fully understand the importance of fantasy efficiency, think again. Fantasy football doesn’t have to be difficult. We love digging into all the advanced metrics, refining our models, and finding tiny edges using new data sources. But sometimes the old standbys still give you the best bang for your buck. We’ve advocated using win rates to evaluate player seasons for several years…...

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Auction Draft Strategy – RotoViz Fantasy Football Show

One of the most fun and challenging ways to create your fantasy football team is through auction drafts. While talking about his recent Kings Classic auction, Colm Kelly breaks down the results of the salary cap draft, from draft preparation to nominations, roster building, finding undervalued players, to managing your tiers and budget. Listen in to optimize your fantasy football draft strategy. Subscribe to the

The Concentrated Player Pool in FastDraft’s Flex 4 Contest Leads to a Wealth of Low-Owned Player Targets Ready to Lead Your Team to Victory

Kevin Szafraniec discusses why the unique format of FastDraft’s Flex 4 contest has quickly become one of his favorite ways to play best ball. The tournament’s innovative structure leads to unique strategies to exploit the contest’s early edges. As a fantasy manager who is always looking for fresh and exciting ways to play the game I love, the Flex 4 contest on the FastDraft app…...

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When Rules of Thumb Fail: Winning the Next War

Shawn Siegele argues that occasionally simple rules of thumb end up not being so simple. Understanding the trajectory for players as they move through the NFL can be very important. That’s one of the reasons I so frequently reference Blair’s groundbreaking WR age series. It’s also helpful to understand the role that draft slot plays in establishing a baseline for a player’s likely usage. While…...

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Zero Worries – High Stakes Lowdown

The High-Stakes Lowdown: A RotoViz Podcast: Eric Balkman chats with high-stakes fantasy football players. GUEST: Rick Ramaker Fresh off his third appearance in the FFPC Pros vs. Joes competition, seven-time FFPC league champion Rick Ramaker breaks down his draft with host Eric Balkman, along with his strategy when going for a pair of $1,000,000 grand prizes in the FFPC this season. In this episode, the guys

An Innovative Way To Take Your Fantasy Game To The Next Level – RotoViz Fantasy Football Show

How can you take your Fantasy Football game to the next level? Renee Miller (CEO of Franchise League Football) joins Colm Kelly to discuss FLF. They discuss the innovative additions to this format, which differentiate it from Dynasty and Keeper leagues, the contract scenarios at play, how the round robin style playoff works, and much more. They also discuss how you can join the first-ever

Patrick Mahomes Is Inevitable: Is 2025 the Year of the Chiefs’ Offensive Resurrection?

In the final installment of Kevin Szafraniec’s 2025 team preview series, he discusses what the chances are for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs to reclaim their spot as one of the NFL’s elite offenses and which players could be the biggest fantasy winners in the latest iteration of Kansas City’s offensive evolution. It feels like it has been longer than two seasons since we saw…...

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10 Fantasy Football Predictions That Will Shock You! – RotoViz Overtime

Get ready for the boldest and most shocking predictions for the 2025 fantasy football season! Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly are sharing the most outrageous upside cases for the players they draft in the FFPC Best Ball Tournament. Will these jaw-dropping predictions change the way you approach your fantasy draft? Listen in as draft from the 1.01 as they share draft strategies and player insights

Third Breakout’s the Charm: An Unsexy WR Set for a Stefon Diggs-Level Mid-Career Leap

Shawn Siegele examines a veteran star with perhaps the most bizarre ADP in all of fantasy. Stefon Diggs entered the NFL as probably the most hyped RotoViz sleeper in the site’s history, and he proceeded to play quite well during his first five seasons. He averaged over 200 points per season from 2016 to 2019 and constantly flirted with WR1 status. This was still a…...

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Win Your Fantasy Football League with This Proven Strategy! – RotoViz Fantasy Football Show

Want to dominate your fantasy football league and bring home the championship? Davis Mattek and Colm Kelly reveal a proven draft strategy that’s guaranteed to give you a competitive edge to crush your fantasy football draft. From identifying your Hero RB and breakout players to navigating ADP and creating a well-rounded roster, the guys cover all the essentials you need to implement the Hero RB draft

Caleb Williams Needs More Than a Coaching Change to Turn Things Around in Chicago, But There May Still Be Hidden Value in the Bears’ Offense

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down how the arrival of Ben Johnson in Chicago will alter the Bears’ approach in 2025 and explains why it may be wise to temper expectations for a wholesale turnaround from Caleb Williams and company in Year 1. When it comes to coaching hires, Chicago’s signing of former Lions’ offensive coordinator Ben Johnson was about as big as they get. Last offseason,…...

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2025’s Ultimate Big Gap Backfield Hack: Can Derrick Henry Defy History Again?

We’ve examined six small gap backfields in two previous articles, including three with rookies adding to the uncertainty and the one team with three rushers inside the top 150 in ADP. In the past, we’ve looked at big-gap and small-gap running backs to identify undervalued players based on their ADP. The idea comes from Jack Miller’s research on the win and hit rates for big or…...

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Malik Nabers’ Superstar Ascension Is Unstoppable: Why Even the Giants’ Offensive Struggles Can’t Prevent 2025’s Most Explosive WR Breakout

Kevin Szafraniec details the steps the Giants have taken this offseason to turn the franchise around and explains why not even continued struggles on offense can slow down Malik Nabers’ ascension to superstar status. Brian Daboll’s tenure as the Giants’ head coach started off with a promising debut in 2022, finishing the season with a winning record and making a trip to the divisional round…...

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Sharp Dynasty Managers Are Changing the Way the Game Is Played: An Introduction to Franchise League Football

Innovation comes slowly to fantasy football. Since I started playing, the two major, industry-wide additions to the standard format are PPR and Superflex. It’s not hard to find TE-premium scoring, and your league might employ a point-per-first-down element, penalize incompletions, or dozens of other small scoring tweaks. But you’re still playing the same essential game. Franchise League Football aims to change that. Franchise League Football…...

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A Secondary Breakout Will Help This Controversial WR Follow in the Footsteps of DeAndre Hopkins, CeeDee Lamb, and Amon-Ra St. Brown

Shawn Siegele explores the profile of a controversial 2025 wide receiver option. Is he an overrated cult favorite in a ready-made bust situation, or is he the most important fantasy WR in all of football? After the first 10 WRs are off the board in 2025, we have very limited options for additional, non-rookie WRs who might join that group in 2026. Fortunately, we do…...

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16 Final-Round Targets Who Have the Potential to Become Weekly Staples in 2025 Redraft Lineups

Kevin Szafraniec examines the 2025 ADP landscape and highlights players at each position who can be selected in the final round of drafts and have the potential to become weekly starters in 2025 redraft lineups. There is no feeling quite like hitting on a player in the late rounds who ends up becoming a staple in your weekly starting lineup. Given that redraft leagues offer…...

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Making the Most of a Suboptimal Roster: The Franchise League Football Blueprint, Part 2

Last week, Renee introduced the Franchise League Football format of dynasty fantasy football (FLF). Today she digs deeper into the strategy of managing a team. Once your league is full, the commissioner will “activate” the preseason, which means the starting 14-man rosters will be randomly assigned to each fantasy GM. We employ an algorithm that draws on one of 10 realistic contract databases to assign…...

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The Do Not Draft List: 12 Players Who Won’t Be On My 2025 Redraft Rosters, and 13 Others On the Bubble

Kevin Szafraniec highlights 12 players who represent landmines for redraft rosters at almost any cost, plus 13 other players who aren’t far behind them. It always feels better to be an optimist than a pessimist. But sometimes there is no helping a bad situation. Unfortunately, this can apply to fantasy football, or more specifically, fantasy football ADP. The rise of best ball has allowed us…...

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7 Things You Missed From NFL Preseason Week 1 – RotoViz Overtime

Get ready for a recap of the most exciting and overlooked moments of NFL Preseason Week 1 and how they impact fantasy football drafts. From breakout performances to coaching decisions that raised eyebrows, Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly have got you covered. The guys dive into the top plays, surprises, and takeaways that you might have missed from the first week of preseason action, and how

Never Chase Your Zero RB Winners, Right? Even for a Young, Supercharged Version of Aaron Jones?

What would you pay for a young, supercharged version of Aaron Jones, especially if he labored for one of the NFL’s best offenses? For years, I’ve forced myself to avoid Zero RB hits during their follow-up seasons. After all, taking the next step and becoming a 350-point sensation requires a mix of attributes that is incredibly difficult to deliver. Of course, it’s always tempting to…...

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Good Players Are Still Good: The Most Undervalued Wide Receiver Metric

If you think you fully understand the importance of fantasy efficiency, think again. Fantasy football doesn’t have to be difficult. We love digging into all the advanced metrics, refining our models, and finding tiny edges using new data sources. But sometimes the old standbys still give you the best bang for your buck. We’ve advocated using win rates to evaluate player seasons for several years…...

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Auction Draft Strategy – RotoViz Fantasy Football Show

One of the most fun and challenging ways to create your fantasy football team is through auction drafts. While talking about his recent Kings Classic auction, Colm Kelly breaks down the results of the salary cap draft, from draft preparation to nominations, roster building, finding undervalued players, to managing your tiers and budget. Listen in to optimize your fantasy football draft strategy. Subscribe to the

The Concentrated Player Pool in FastDraft’s Flex 4 Contest Leads to a Wealth of Low-Owned Player Targets Ready to Lead Your Team to Victory

Kevin Szafraniec discusses why the unique format of FastDraft’s Flex 4 contest has quickly become one of his favorite ways to play best ball. The tournament’s innovative structure leads to unique strategies to exploit the contest’s early edges. As a fantasy manager who is always looking for fresh and exciting ways to play the game I love, the Flex 4 contest on the FastDraft app…...

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When Rules of Thumb Fail: Winning the Next War

Shawn Siegele argues that occasionally simple rules of thumb end up not being so simple. Understanding the trajectory for players as they move through the NFL can be very important. That’s one of the reasons I so frequently reference Blair’s groundbreaking WR age series. It’s also helpful to understand the role that draft slot plays in establishing a baseline for a player’s likely usage. While…...

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Zero Worries – High Stakes Lowdown

The High-Stakes Lowdown: A RotoViz Podcast: Eric Balkman chats with high-stakes fantasy football players. GUEST: Rick Ramaker Fresh off his third appearance in the FFPC Pros vs. Joes competition, seven-time FFPC league champion Rick Ramaker breaks down his draft with host Eric Balkman, along with his strategy when going for a pair of $1,000,000 grand prizes in the FFPC this season. In this episode, the guys

An Innovative Way To Take Your Fantasy Game To The Next Level – RotoViz Fantasy Football Show

How can you take your Fantasy Football game to the next level? Renee Miller (CEO of Franchise League Football) joins Colm Kelly to discuss FLF. They discuss the innovative additions to this format, which differentiate it from Dynasty and Keeper leagues, the contract scenarios at play, how the round robin style playoff works, and much more. They also discuss how you can join the first-ever

Patrick Mahomes Is Inevitable: Is 2025 the Year of the Chiefs’ Offensive Resurrection?

In the final installment of Kevin Szafraniec’s 2025 team preview series, he discusses what the chances are for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs to reclaim their spot as one of the NFL’s elite offenses and which players could be the biggest fantasy winners in the latest iteration of Kansas City’s offensive evolution. It feels like it has been longer than two seasons since we saw…...

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10 Fantasy Football Predictions That Will Shock You! – RotoViz Overtime

Get ready for the boldest and most shocking predictions for the 2025 fantasy football season! Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly are sharing the most outrageous upside cases for the players they draft in the FFPC Best Ball Tournament. Will these jaw-dropping predictions change the way you approach your fantasy draft? Listen in as draft from the 1.01 as they share draft strategies and player insights

Third Breakout’s the Charm: An Unsexy WR Set for a Stefon Diggs-Level Mid-Career Leap

Shawn Siegele examines a veteran star with perhaps the most bizarre ADP in all of fantasy. Stefon Diggs entered the NFL as probably the most hyped RotoViz sleeper in the site’s history, and he proceeded to play quite well during his first five seasons. He averaged over 200 points per season from 2016 to 2019 and constantly flirted with WR1 status. This was still a…...

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Win Your Fantasy Football League with This Proven Strategy! – RotoViz Fantasy Football Show

Want to dominate your fantasy football league and bring home the championship? Davis Mattek and Colm Kelly reveal a proven draft strategy that’s guaranteed to give you a competitive edge to crush your fantasy football draft. From identifying your Hero RB and breakout players to navigating ADP and creating a well-rounded roster, the guys cover all the essentials you need to implement the Hero RB draft

Caleb Williams Needs More Than a Coaching Change to Turn Things Around in Chicago, But There May Still Be Hidden Value in the Bears’ Offense

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down how the arrival of Ben Johnson in Chicago will alter the Bears’ approach in 2025 and explains why it may be wise to temper expectations for a wholesale turnaround from Caleb Williams and company in Year 1. When it comes to coaching hires, Chicago’s signing of former Lions’ offensive coordinator Ben Johnson was about as big as they get. Last offseason,…...

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2025’s Ultimate Big Gap Backfield Hack: Can Derrick Henry Defy History Again?

We’ve examined six small gap backfields in two previous articles, including three with rookies adding to the uncertainty and the one team with three rushers inside the top 150 in ADP. In the past, we’ve looked at big-gap and small-gap running backs to identify undervalued players based on their ADP. The idea comes from Jack Miller’s research on the win and hit rates for big or…...

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Malik Nabers’ Superstar Ascension Is Unstoppable: Why Even the Giants’ Offensive Struggles Can’t Prevent 2025’s Most Explosive WR Breakout

Kevin Szafraniec details the steps the Giants have taken this offseason to turn the franchise around and explains why not even continued struggles on offense can slow down Malik Nabers’ ascension to superstar status. Brian Daboll’s tenure as the Giants’ head coach started off with a promising debut in 2022, finishing the season with a winning record and making a trip to the divisional round…...

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Sharp Dynasty Managers Are Changing the Way the Game Is Played: An Introduction to Franchise League Football

Innovation comes slowly to fantasy football. Since I started playing, the two major, industry-wide additions to the standard format are PPR and Superflex. It’s not hard to find TE-premium scoring, and your league might employ a point-per-first-down element, penalize incompletions, or dozens of other small scoring tweaks. But you’re still playing the same essential game. Franchise League Football aims to change that. Franchise League Football…...

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A Secondary Breakout Will Help This Controversial WR Follow in the Footsteps of DeAndre Hopkins, CeeDee Lamb, and Amon-Ra St. Brown

Shawn Siegele explores the profile of a controversial 2025 wide receiver option. Is he an overrated cult favorite in a ready-made bust situation, or is he the most important fantasy WR in all of football? After the first 10 WRs are off the board in 2025, we have very limited options for additional, non-rookie WRs who might join that group in 2026. Fortunately, we do…...

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16 Final-Round Targets Who Have the Potential to Become Weekly Staples in 2025 Redraft Lineups

Kevin Szafraniec examines the 2025 ADP landscape and highlights players at each position who can be selected in the final round of drafts and have the potential to become weekly starters in 2025 redraft lineups. There is no feeling quite like hitting on a player in the late rounds who ends up becoming a staple in your weekly starting lineup. Given that redraft leagues offer…...

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Making the Most of a Suboptimal Roster: The Franchise League Football Blueprint, Part 2

Last week, Renee introduced the Franchise League Football format of dynasty fantasy football (FLF). Today she digs deeper into the strategy of managing a team. Once your league is full, the commissioner will “activate” the preseason, which means the starting 14-man rosters will be randomly assigned to each fantasy GM. We employ an algorithm that draws on one of 10 realistic contract databases to assign…...

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The Do Not Draft List: 12 Players Who Won’t Be On My 2025 Redraft Rosters, and 13 Others On the Bubble

Kevin Szafraniec highlights 12 players who represent landmines for redraft rosters at almost any cost, plus 13 other players who aren’t far behind them. It always feels better to be an optimist than a pessimist. But sometimes there is no helping a bad situation. Unfortunately, this can apply to fantasy football, or more specifically, fantasy football ADP. The rise of best ball has allowed us…...

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7 Things You Missed From NFL Preseason Week 1 – RotoViz Overtime

Get ready for a recap of the most exciting and overlooked moments of NFL Preseason Week 1 and how they impact fantasy football drafts. From breakout performances to coaching decisions that raised eyebrows, Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly have got you covered. The guys dive into the top plays, surprises, and takeaways that you might have missed from the first week of preseason action, and how

Never Chase Your Zero RB Winners, Right? Even for a Young, Supercharged Version of Aaron Jones?

What would you pay for a young, supercharged version of Aaron Jones, especially if he labored for one of the NFL’s best offenses? For years, I’ve forced myself to avoid Zero RB hits during their follow-up seasons. After all, taking the next step and becoming a 350-point sensation requires a mix of attributes that is incredibly difficult to deliver. Of course, it’s always tempting to…...

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Good Players Are Still Good: The Most Undervalued Wide Receiver Metric

If you think you fully understand the importance of fantasy efficiency, think again. Fantasy football doesn’t have to be difficult. We love digging into all the advanced metrics, refining our models, and finding tiny edges using new data sources. But sometimes the old standbys still give you the best bang for your buck. We’ve advocated using win rates to evaluate player seasons for several years…...

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Auction Draft Strategy – RotoViz Fantasy Football Show

One of the most fun and challenging ways to create your fantasy football team is through auction drafts. While talking about his recent Kings Classic auction, Colm Kelly breaks down the results of the salary cap draft, from draft preparation to nominations, roster building, finding undervalued players, to managing your tiers and budget. Listen in to optimize your fantasy football draft strategy. Subscribe to the

The Concentrated Player Pool in FastDraft’s Flex 4 Contest Leads to a Wealth of Low-Owned Player Targets Ready to Lead Your Team to Victory

Kevin Szafraniec discusses why the unique format of FastDraft’s Flex 4 contest has quickly become one of his favorite ways to play best ball. The tournament’s innovative structure leads to unique strategies to exploit the contest’s early edges. As a fantasy manager who is always looking for fresh and exciting ways to play the game I love, the Flex 4 contest on the FastDraft app…...

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When Rules of Thumb Fail: Winning the Next War

Shawn Siegele argues that occasionally simple rules of thumb end up not being so simple. Understanding the trajectory for players as they move through the NFL can be very important. That’s one of the reasons I so frequently reference Blair’s groundbreaking WR age series. It’s also helpful to understand the role that draft slot plays in establishing a baseline for a player’s likely usage. While…...

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Zero Worries – High Stakes Lowdown

The High-Stakes Lowdown: A RotoViz Podcast: Eric Balkman chats with high-stakes fantasy football players. GUEST: Rick Ramaker Fresh off his third appearance in the FFPC Pros vs. Joes competition, seven-time FFPC league champion Rick Ramaker breaks down his draft with host Eric Balkman, along with his strategy when going for a pair of $1,000,000 grand prizes in the FFPC this season. In this episode, the guys

An Innovative Way To Take Your Fantasy Game To The Next Level – RotoViz Fantasy Football Show

How can you take your Fantasy Football game to the next level? Renee Miller (CEO of Franchise League Football) joins Colm Kelly to discuss FLF. They discuss the innovative additions to this format, which differentiate it from Dynasty and Keeper leagues, the contract scenarios at play, how the round robin style playoff works, and much more. They also discuss how you can join the first-ever

Patrick Mahomes Is Inevitable: Is 2025 the Year of the Chiefs’ Offensive Resurrection?

In the final installment of Kevin Szafraniec’s 2025 team preview series, he discusses what the chances are for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs to reclaim their spot as one of the NFL’s elite offenses and which players could be the biggest fantasy winners in the latest iteration of Kansas City’s offensive evolution. It feels like it has been longer than two seasons since we saw…...

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10 Fantasy Football Predictions That Will Shock You! – RotoViz Overtime

Get ready for the boldest and most shocking predictions for the 2025 fantasy football season! Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly are sharing the most outrageous upside cases for the players they draft in the FFPC Best Ball Tournament. Will these jaw-dropping predictions change the way you approach your fantasy draft? Listen in as draft from the 1.01 as they share draft strategies and player insights

Third Breakout’s the Charm: An Unsexy WR Set for a Stefon Diggs-Level Mid-Career Leap

Shawn Siegele examines a veteran star with perhaps the most bizarre ADP in all of fantasy. Stefon Diggs entered the NFL as probably the most hyped RotoViz sleeper in the site’s history, and he proceeded to play quite well during his first five seasons. He averaged over 200 points per season from 2016 to 2019 and constantly flirted with WR1 status. This was still a…...

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Win Your Fantasy Football League with This Proven Strategy! – RotoViz Fantasy Football Show

Want to dominate your fantasy football league and bring home the championship? Davis Mattek and Colm Kelly reveal a proven draft strategy that’s guaranteed to give you a competitive edge to crush your fantasy football draft. From identifying your Hero RB and breakout players to navigating ADP and creating a well-rounded roster, the guys cover all the essentials you need to implement the Hero RB draft

Caleb Williams Needs More Than a Coaching Change to Turn Things Around in Chicago, But There May Still Be Hidden Value in the Bears’ Offense

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down how the arrival of Ben Johnson in Chicago will alter the Bears’ approach in 2025 and explains why it may be wise to temper expectations for a wholesale turnaround from Caleb Williams and company in Year 1. When it comes to coaching hires, Chicago’s signing of former Lions’ offensive coordinator Ben Johnson was about as big as they get. Last offseason,…...

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2025’s Ultimate Big Gap Backfield Hack: Can Derrick Henry Defy History Again?

We’ve examined six small gap backfields in two previous articles, including three with rookies adding to the uncertainty and the one team with three rushers inside the top 150 in ADP. In the past, we’ve looked at big-gap and small-gap running backs to identify undervalued players based on their ADP. The idea comes from Jack Miller’s research on the win and hit rates for big or…...

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Malik Nabers’ Superstar Ascension Is Unstoppable: Why Even the Giants’ Offensive Struggles Can’t Prevent 2025’s Most Explosive WR Breakout

Kevin Szafraniec details the steps the Giants have taken this offseason to turn the franchise around and explains why not even continued struggles on offense can slow down Malik Nabers’ ascension to superstar status. Brian Daboll’s tenure as the Giants’ head coach started off with a promising debut in 2022, finishing the season with a winning record and making a trip to the divisional round…...

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Sharp Dynasty Managers Are Changing the Way the Game Is Played: An Introduction to Franchise League Football

Innovation comes slowly to fantasy football. Since I started playing, the two major, industry-wide additions to the standard format are PPR and Superflex. It’s not hard to find TE-premium scoring, and your league might employ a point-per-first-down element, penalize incompletions, or dozens of other small scoring tweaks. But you’re still playing the same essential game. Franchise League Football aims to change that. Franchise League Football…...

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A Secondary Breakout Will Help This Controversial WR Follow in the Footsteps of DeAndre Hopkins, CeeDee Lamb, and Amon-Ra St. Brown

Shawn Siegele explores the profile of a controversial 2025 wide receiver option. Is he an overrated cult favorite in a ready-made bust situation, or is he the most important fantasy WR in all of football? After the first 10 WRs are off the board in 2025, we have very limited options for additional, non-rookie WRs who might join that group in 2026. Fortunately, we do…...

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