Daniel Kelley's Articles

A two-hour Survivor episode! A two-hour Survivor episode with the merge, so there’s a lot more than normal going on! A two-hour Survivor episode while there’s a tornado warning where I live, so my signal goes out and my power keeps blinking on and off, and episodes don’t drop to streaming until the day after! What I’m saying […]

The longest two touchdowns of the 2021 NFL season were both scored by the same guy, and they were scored in consecutive weeks. Do you remember the hype after those two touchdowns? For a few days, that player was super famous, despite being in his fifth season and having all of 5 career touchdowns before […]

Today’s quiz if a big one: Can you name every team’s Week 1 starting quarterback over the last eight years? Obviously, the starting quarterback is the most important position, so getting every name on this list should be easy, right? In some cases, yes! Five teams have had the same Week 1 start in every […]

Aging curves are crazy in football these days. The best season ever for a 21-year-old came in 2017; the best season ever for a 44-year-old came in 2021. Players of all types are succeeding younger than ever these days, and players – well, one specific player, who you will definitely guess – is totally breaking […]

Famously, over the last 19 years, there have been 19 different players finish as the RB1 in PPR leagues. But it’s worth noting that repeating as the top scorer at any position is a tough game. We had the same QB1 in 2020-2021, the first time a player has gone back-to-back since Daunte Culpepper in […]

Yardage is a big deal, but nothing matters more for fantasy football than touchdowns. So today’s Quiz of the Day wonders how many of the top touchdown scorers among active players you can name. We have the top 25 active touchdown scorers – rushing scores and receiving combined – in today’s quiz, and your only […]

In seventh grade, my aunt and uncle took me on a trip to DisneyWorld along with their son, my cousin. It was a weeklong trip. The first few days were the best days ever. The next few were still pretty cool. The last day or two? I wanted to kill my cousin. My cousin wanted […]

Leading your position in fantasy scoring in a season makes you good. Leading it for an entire decade makes you a legend. Today, we’re going all the way back to 1980 and asking for the top fantasy scorer for each decade by position. No, we aren’t doing 2020-2021 here. The most recent decade gets expanded, […]

There were 166 players who rushed for at least 50 yards in the 2021 NFL season. Of those 166, 153 played either quarterback or running back. That leaves 13 players – all wide receivers – who hit the 50-yard mark from one of the not-traditionally-a-ball-carrier position. At the top we have some big names who […]

All we want in this game of ours is points. Obviously, the longer you play, the more you score, but still, today’s Quiz of the Day is simple: Who has given us the most points of all time? There are no surprise names on this list. It’s just a matter of remembering all 20. Can […]

Generally speaking, we want to pretend we are purely objective in fantasy football, that we perform the cold calculations and make the best choices and toss fandom to the wind. There are obviously exceptions to that, but the general point is that if you can look back at your season and see that all of […]

Generally speaking, we want to pretend we are purely objective in fantasy football, that we perform the cold calculations and make the best choices and toss fandom to the wind. There are obviously exceptions to that, but the general point is that if you can look back at your season and see that all of […]

Getting 10 targets in a game once shows a player has some fantasy upside. Doing it over and over makes a player a star. In NFL history, 35 players have at least 50 10-target games. (The best is Larry Fitzgerald, who somehow has 22 more than anyone else. Only three players are within 30 of […]

Wednesday’s quiz, on every game with 250 or more rushing yards in NFL history, featured only 14 entries, and most of them (though not all) were stars and fairly famous. Today’s, on every game with 250 or more receiving yards in NFL history, features 25 entries, and it’s only that short because I limited this […]

You would assume that most people who watch Survivor have also played some level of board games in their lives, because the show is basically a board game with real-life meeples. And the key to a board game is to include a measure of luck — so the person who is best doesn’t win every time — […]

After a tough run of quizzes lately, today we’re tossing up a relative softball: Can you name every quarterback who has a season with 40-plus passing touchdowns? There have been 18 such seasons in NFL history, but only 10 quarterbacks have done it, and there are no real interlopers on the list, so this shouldn’t […]

Frank Gore announced Sunday that he was signing a one-day contract with the San Francisco 49ers so he could retire as a member of the team he played 10 years for. Gore last played for the Jets in 2020 at the age of 37. He first ran for 1,000 yards (1,695) as a second-year player […]

Whenever you hear about a team making significant halftime adjustments, you get a former player tut-tutting about how there really isn’t that much time, and really it’s just about taping you up and getting back out there, and any real adjustments are minor. In a sense, adjustments over an NFL team’s bye week are the […]

In fantasy football, your end-of-season total is your end-of-season total. If one player puts up 16 points per game over 17 games and another puts up 34 per game but only plays in eight games, well, they had the same total for the season. (Shout out the Tweet Of Great Debate.) But we don’t play […]

In Thursday’s Quiz of the Day, we asked how many of the all-time longest streaks of 1,000 receiving yards you could name. Most of them were expired streaks, but there were two active ones on there (Mike Evans and Travis Kelce, so there are some spoilers if you haven’t taken that quiz yet). That’s not […]

You probably know that Mike Evans holds the all-time record for most consecutive seasons with 1,000-plus receiving yards to start a career, making it to eight in 2021 and looking to extend it in 2022. But how does that streak rank all-time? Spoiler alert: It ranks pretty well. You’re welcome for one of the answers […]

Every season on Survivor, the castaways say something you immediately know is false. “I’m going to run this game.” “I will not lie out here.” “I won’t tell anyone what I do in the real world.” It’s rarer, though, that you hear someone say something you know is the absolute truest thing anyone has ever said. […]

Our Quiz of the Day Tuesday offered up a generous threshold for relevance in fantasy football – averaging 10 PPR points per game. It’s not easy, but it’s attainable enough that 145 players did it a year ago. Bumping up the threshold, though, makes it more exclusive. Last year, there were still 58 players who […]

Just about any NFL player can put up 10 PPR points in a game. It’s not a high bar to clear. Even averaging that over a whole season isn’t that big an ask – 145 different players averaged 10 PPR points per game in 2021, from Cooper Kupp at 25.85 to Brandon Aiyuk at 10.02. […]

Anyone can tell you the Packers and Buccaneers had two of the best records in the NFL last year, the Jaguars and Lions two of the worst. 2021 is fresh on our memories. But can you remember which teams have fared the best and worst over the last 10 years? Today’s Quiz of the Day […]

In Thursday’s Quiz of the Day, we asked whether you could name every team’s most recent 1,000-yard receiver. It wasn’t the easiest task in the world, but at the same time, every team has had at least one 1,000-yard receiver since 2015, and everyone but the Jets has gotten there since 2018. So the names […]

It’s easier to go for 1,000 receiving yards these days than 1,000 rushing yards. Last year, 26 players cracked 1,000 receiving yards, compared to only seven on the ground. Over the last five years, those numbers are 109 and 50, respectively. So naming the most recent 1,000-yard receiver for each franchise should be easy for […]

Intellectually, as a fantasy football player, you probably already downgrade flex options past their 30th birthday. It’s ingrained in us — players drop off as they age, 30 is the kiss of death, all that. Let me tell you right now that however much you downgrade the older players, it probably isn’t enough.   Obviously, […]

They say, in the theater, that the worst night to see a play is the second night. First night, everyone’s on point. Later, the kinks are ironed out. The second night? The adrenaline is diminished, the wrinkles show. The second episode of Survivor is often the same way. The first episode is devoted to at least […]

Rushing for 1,000 yards in a season doesn’t guarantee you had a dominant fantasy season, but it gets you a lot of the way there. So you’d think it would be easy to remember the last player to do it for each team, right? Let’s find out. Can you identify the last 1,000-yard rusher for […]

Leonard Fournette re-upped with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tuesday after a brief flirtation with the Patriots. In his two years in Tampa, Fournette has scored 16 touchdowns, including two through the air, adding him to the amazing 90-name-deep list of players who have caught a touchdown pass from future Hall of Famer Tom Brady. Which […]

When a player puts up at least 10 PPR points in a given game, he’s had a fine week. Not a world-beating week, but if you have him in your fantasy football lineup, it’s at least some degree of acceptable. A low bar. But when he does it over and over, and you learn you […]