Week 5 sees the first bye weeks in the NFL season, and in concert with a host of underperforming players is an ideal opportunity to take stock of your fantasy rosters. This is especially true at the tight end position. Seriously, folks, it’s a dumpster fire out there. You don’t have to tell me. Although it was nice to see some familiar faces at or…...

Why would a review make the point of saying someone’s not a genius? You think I’m especially not a genius? [Pause] You didn’t even have to think about it, did you? – Eli Cash, The Royal Tenenbaums Bears’ leaders met with Shane Waldron and he responded with D’Andre Swift Unleashed. But on a week where Rashee Rice was lost for the season, it’s imperative to focus on the…...

Week 4 of the 2024 season has been the best we have seen from the NFL so far this year. With big-time performances from some RotoViz favorites like Justin Fields, Chase Brown, and Nico Collins, on top of multiple games that were decided in the final minutes, this was the week we have been waiting for all season. Unfortunately, it wasn’t all positive, as injuries…...

Welcome to The Wrong Read. This weekly article uses advanced team-level metrics to preview the week’s upcoming matchups. The goal is to try to understand how an upcoming matchup might play out in terms of each offense’s ability to execute their game plan. How successful will they be when trying to pass? How much will they be able to run the ball? It’s impossible to…...

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the Passing Game Matchup Rater — to help readers better understand the challenges facing wide receivers and tight ends in the coming week. As my process makes heavy use of the Matchup Rater, I’d highly recommend that you set aside half an hour to watch the tutorial/walkthrough and…...

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the Passing Game Matchup Rater — to help readers better understand the challenges facing wide receivers and tight ends in the coming week. As my process makes heavy use of the Matchup Rater, I’d highly recommend that you set aside half an hour to watch the tutorial/walkthrough and…...

Welcome to The Wrong Read. This weekly article uses advanced team-level metrics to preview the week’s upcoming matchups. The goal is to try to understand how an upcoming matchup might play out in terms of each offense’s ability to execute their game plan. How successful will they be when trying to pass? How much will they be able to run the ball? It’s impossible to…...

As we continue to get more data from the 2024 season, we begin to see a clearer picture of how the rest of the year could play out. Malik Nabers’ performance against the Browns is enough to make us think that his Week 1 score — not Week 2 — may have been the outlier. Andy Dalton starting at quarterback for the Panthers brought some…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 4 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

The more current-season data RotoViz tools have to work with, the more accurately they’ll reflect what we can expect going forward. The picture is still starting to come into focus, but we can use slowly shifting perceptions to our advantage. The Minnesota Vikings (D/ST1) probably shouldn’t be available in five times as many fantasy leagues as the Dallas Cowboys (D/ST20), but lingering memories of the…...

Rome Odunze was the last top-10 wide receiver draft pick who still needed to have a breakout game in 2024. Now that he, Marvin Harrison, and Malik Nabers have all finished near the top of the WR ranks in at least one of the first three weeks, it’s worth asking how the current class stacks up against past classes. Listen as Hasan, Kevin, and I…...

Spike weeks for low-owned players can be a blessing and a curse. For fantasy managers who were fortunate enough to just roster, let alone start, Jauan Jennings or Cole Kmet in Week 3, they are resting easy with the added trade value their assets have accrued in such a short time. For the rest of us on the outside looking in, trying to weigh our…...

I’ve been a massive fan of Dallas Goedert for a very long time. It makes my heart sing to see him sit atop the tight end fantasy scoring charts after three weeks of the season. But did I ever think it would happen while Travis Kelce, Sam LaPorta and Mark Andrews had a combined four more fantasy points than Goedert? No sir, I did not…....

Nature versus nurture. At the end of the day, the answer generally comes down to a combination both. If NFL performances were based solely on raw athletic ability, Anthony Richardson would be the league’s best quarterback. If NFL success were the result of learning offensive strategy and proper fundamentals, the entertainment value of watching the “athletes” involved wouldn’t be strong enough to survive on public…...

“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Between burgeoning injury lists and…...