Brett Whitefield's Articles

North Dakota State wide receiver Christian Watson came into Senior Bowl week as a relative unknown to most. After a good showing in Mobile and being awarded the National Team WR of the Week award, the buzz on Watson has gotten borderline out of control. The crazy part is, Watson wasn’t originally included on the […]

Day 1 of Senior Bowl practices are in the books, and I think it is safe to say it is probably a good thing we can put that one in the rearview mirror. Tuesday, we saw two incredibly sloppy practices.   Whether shaky quarterback play, offensive line failings, or wide receiver error, it was hard […]

It’s the most exciting time of the year. Though there’s still some football left to be played to conclude the 2021 NFL season, the offseason – and most importantly draft preparation – is in full swing for most teams. Most of, if not all 32 teams will have representatives down in Mobile, Alabama this week […]

Which team has the best offensive line in the NFL? As many fans know, one of the most important aspects of football at any level is the offensive line. When it comes to fantasy football, it often goes by the wayside but offensive lines can change the game for the better (or worse) for your […]

We continue along in our series ranking each position group in the NFL by looking at each team’s pass-catching units. With camp already opening for some teams, NFL rosters are mostly settled at this point, and we have a pretty good understanding of where each team stands on paper and we can take a legit […]

RB gash rate: The percentage of a running back’s runs that go for 10 yards or more.Yards after contact (YCOC):  The average amount of yards after contact per carry generated.Forced missed tackles: The amount of missed tackles a skill player forces.  With the launch of the new FTN Data site this summer, we continue our […]

Brick wall rate: The percentage of short yardage runs that don’t result in a first down or touchdown. With the launch of FTN Data’s new site we thought it was important to spotlight some of our new Insider Stats that will be commonly seen and talked about at both FTN Fantasy and FTN Data. Here […]

Gash rate allowed: The percentage of runs allowed that go for 10 yards or more. With the launch of the new FTN Data site this summer we continue our series spotlighting some of the Insider Stats that will be commonly seen and talked about at both FTN Fantasy and FTN Data. Here we take a […]

Playmaker Score: A weighted composite score, normalized on a scale of 0-100, which quantifies a pass-catcher’s ability to make extraordinary plays relative to opportunity. Taken into account are explosive plays, deep receptions, work after the catch, created receptions and separation. Traditional stats like first downs, touchdowns and drops also factor into the score slightly. Introducing […]

We continue along in our series Exploring FTN Data. Our new website along with a plethora of new amazing tools will launch sometime this summer so we are taking the opportunity to talk about a lot of the different metrics and insider stats that will be commonly mentioned over at FTN Data and FTN Fantasy. […]

We continue along in our series ranking each position group in the NFL with defensive line rankings. With each NFL team's roster mostly settled at this point in the offseason, we have a pretty good understanding of where each team stands on paper, and we can take a legitimate accounting of where everyone is at. […]

With the 2021 NFL Draft on the horizon, here are my Top 150 players based on score, powered by FTN Data. Composite scores are based on a numeric scoring system consisting of four major buckets: Film Score Production Score Athleticism Score Intangibles Score Each of these four buckets are weighted differently with film score leading […]

(Follow along with all things 2021 NFL Draft with the FTN 2021 NFL Draft Hub!) Amon-Ra St. Brown is a former 5-star recruit who played wide receiver for the USC Trojans. While some believe he didn’t quite live up to expectations, St. Brown has turned himself into a very good NFL prospect. With St. Brown NFL […]

Elijah Moore is a position-versatile, undersized wide receiver who is a high-level route runner and also excels at generating yards after the catch. Since breaking out his sophomore season at Mississippi, he has been the go-to guy in the Rebels’ offense, earning a target share of over 30 percent in each of the past two seasons. […]

(Follow along with all things 2021 NFL Draft with the FTN 2021 NFL Draft Hub!) The past two seasons, WR Dyami Brown has been a major part of the suddenly dominant North Carolina Tar Heels offense. Over the past two seasons, not many receivers at the collegiate level have been as productive as Brown, who has […]

(Follow along with all things 2021 NFL Draft with the FTN 2021 NFL Draft Hub!) Jaylen Waddle is yet another top-tier prospect from the infamous 2019 Alabama receiving core, which – when is all said and done – is likely to produce four first-round picks with Jerry Jeudy (2019), Henry Ruggs III (2019) and Devonta […]

Week 16 of the NFL and fantasy football season is here, which means it's championship week for most of you. Congratulations to everyone who either made it to their fantasy football championship or the semifinals. Thank you for checking out the article all season long and don’t worry, we’ll finish the final two weeks strong […]

Congratulations to all of you who advanced out of the first round of your fantasy league. For those of you who stream defenses weekly, hopefully you read last week’s article and decided to stream the Football Team or Cowboys DST, who both finished top-three in most scoring formats this past week. Week 15 is upon […]

The 2020 fantasy football playoffs are here. At least they are for most of you anyway. Hopefully, you followed this article along all season long and gained an edge in streaming your defenses as we ran pretty hot all season long. Before we dive into Week 14 and the first round of the playoffs, let's […]

Week 12 of the NFL and fantasy football season is in the books, and for most of you we have just one more week to secure a playoff spot (or first-round bye) in your fantasy leagues. Hopefully you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. For those of you on the cusp sweating out each and every […]

It's a no-bye-week slate ahead for fantasy football! This season continues to fly bye as we are on to Week 12, which also happens to begin with my second favorite holiday week in which we get to immerse ourselves in family, food and football. With a full 16-game slate, options for streaming are plentiful and […]

Week 9 in fantasy football was huge. This article absolutely crushed the Week 9 slate when it came to streaming defenses. Let’s recap: The Titans put up the second-most fantasy points of the week, the Giants came in at No. 4, the Dolphins at No. 7 and Washington came in 10th, which isn’t too shabby. […]

Full transparency: The Week 8 slate was not kind to me or my suggested fantasy football DST plays. The consolation is that the Week 8 slate was bad for fantasy DST at large and in most scoring formats only five teams scored double-digit points. Moving on, the halfway-ish point of the season has passed. After […]

Is it just me, or are we moving at warp speed? We are already rapidly approaching the half-way point of the 2020 NFL season which is entirely scary. As we head into Week 8, let's recap what happened in Week 7. For the most part, the most widely owned defenses were the top scorers. Possibly […]

We made it, folks. Four teams on bye and about a dozen COVID-19 scares leading all the way up until kickoff, but we got through the murderous Week 6 slate and as a matter of fact, we did pretty darn well with our streaming DST suggestions, pegging two of the top five overall DST scores […]

It's bye week season in the NFL and fantasy football alike. While COVID-19 has certainly given us an early plunge into the madness, this week we will again have to deal with at least four teams being off. If you are a DST streamer and thus reading this article, this mainly affects you as you […]

After a hot start to the season with our DST picks for fantasy football, Week 4 left a bit of rubble behind. While we did all right with the Denver pick — the Broncos DST scored the sixth-most fantasy points for the week — they weren’t great, same as pretty much every defense in the […]

Sound the alarm because this article is on fire! After a good start in Weeks 1 and 2, I handed you the top two scoring DSTs of Week 3 on a silver platter. You heard me right, in this very article, an article in which I present varied levels of streaming DST options per week, we […]

Week 2 of the 2020 NFL season has come and gone, and the fantasy football world is settling in nicely. As we all get into midseason form, now is about the time the season starts moving too fast. Closing the page on Week 2, let's do a little recap of what was discussed in this […]

Week 1 of the 2020 NFL season is in the books! What a great week it was as well with seven of the 16 games being one-score contests at the end. Closing the page on Week 1, let's do a little recap of what was discussed in this very article a week ago. If you read […]

Football is back, baby. Week 1 has arrived which means it is time to talk DST streaming options for fantasy football. Every Tuesday during the season I will be taking a look at my favorite DST streaming options for the week.  Stand by to get some.  (Roster percentages from Yahoo.) Los Angeles Chargers (45% rostered) […]