Daniel Kelley's Articles

(Knowing the right question to ask is as important as knowing the answer. In 100 Questions, FTN’s Daniel Kelley identifies the key fantasy football questions to ask heading into the 2021 NFL season. Today: The NFC East.) Under the NFL’s current alignment, there have been 36 instances of a division collectively finishing under .500 and […]

(Knowing the right question to ask is as important as knowing the answer. In 100 Questions, FTN’s Daniel Kelley identifies the key fantasy football questions to ask heading into the 2021 NFL season. Today: The AFC West.) Under Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs have won three straight division titles. But overall, the Chiefs have […]

(Knowing the right question to ask is as important as knowing the answer. In 100 Questions, FTN’s Daniel Kelley identifies the key fantasy football questions to ask heading into the 2021 NFL season. Today: The AFC South.) For obvious, Aaron Rodgers-y reasons, DraftKings Sportsbook doesn’t currently have a wins over/under line for the Green Bay […]

(Knowing the right question to ask is as important as knowing the answer. In 100 Questions, FTN’s Daniel Kelley identifies the key fantasy football questions to ask heading into the 2021 NFL season. Today: The AFC North.) Two fun facts: One, in its current configuration, no team has ever won the AFC North in three […]

(Knowing the right question to ask is as important as knowing the answer. In 100 Questions, FTN’s Daniel Kelley identifies the key fantasy football questions to ask heading into the 2021 NFL season. Today: The AFC East.) After a changing of the guard at the top of the AFC East for the first time in […]

(Knowing the right question to ask is as important as knowing the answer. In 100 Questions, FTN’s Daniel Kelley identifies the key fantasy football questions to ask heading into the 2021 NFL season.) There is essentially an infinite number of questions that can be asked each fantasy football. From big trend-based questions to micro, player-specific […]

In 2011, the Carolina Panthers, fueled primarily by the quarterback shift from Jimmy Clausen, et al, to top overall pick Cam Newton, saw their cumulative offensive PPR points (QB/RB/WR/TE) climb by a massive 67.5%. In 2012, they dropped by 9.3%. In 2019, the Pittsburgh Steelers, with Ben Roethlisberger hurt and Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell […]

We’re now past the NFL Draft, which means we’re also past NFL free agency. If you’re a football player and you’re not on an NFL roster right now, the odds of you being a real fantasy contributor this season are slim. But they aren’t zero. Last year, Cam Newton, Carlos Hyde and Jordan Reed were […]

Every year, the majority of the focus coming out of the NFL Draft, for both fantasy football and real life, lies with the players drafted. With 250-some careers are started over a three-day span, that makes sense. But for every career that starts, another has to end, and for every new full-time job acquired, someone […]

The NFL offseason is already underway, with three of the biggest names at the quarterback position already moved (or slated to move when the new league year starts). For fantasy football, it’s already been a ground-shaking offseason, and it’s only March. For us as fantasy football fanatics, as we gear up for franchise tags, free […]

The NFL offseason is already underway, with three of the biggest names at the quarterback position already moved (or slated to move when the new league year starts). For fantasy football, it’s already been a ground-shaking offseason, and it’s only March. For us as fantasy football fanatics, as we gear up for franchise tags, free […]

The NFL offseason is already underway, with three of the biggest names at the quarterback position already moved (or slated to move when the new league year starts). For fantasy football, it’s already been a ground-shaking offseason, and it’s only March. For us as fantasy football fanatics, as we gear up for franchise tags, free […]

Arizona Cardinals RB Kenyan Drake played the 2020 season under the transition tag, and that “transition” term may have been appropriate, as head coach Kliff Kingsbury appeared to hint Thursday that the team would be fine with Chase Edmonds as the starter for 2021. “As far as Chase goes, you’ve seen when he’s had his […]

The NFL offseason is already underway, with three of the biggest names at the quarterback position already moved (or slated to move when the new league year starts). For fantasy football, it’s already been a ground-shaking offseason, and it’s only March. For us as fantasy football fanatics, as we gear up for franchise tags, free […]

The NFL offseason is already underway, with three of the biggest names at the quarterback position already moved (or slated to move when the new league year starts). For fantasy football, it’s already been a ground-shaking offseason, and it’s only March. For us as fantasy football fanatics, as we gear up for franchise tags, free […]

The NFL offseason is already underway, with three of the biggest names at the quarterback position already moved (or slated to move when the new league year starts). For fantasy football, it’s already been a ground-shaking offseason, and it’s only March. For us as fantasy football fanatics, as we gear up for franchise tags, free […]

The NFL offseason is already underway, with three of the biggest names at the quarterback position already moved (or slated to move when the new league year starts). For fantasy football, it’s already been a ground-shaking offseason, and it’s only March. For us as fantasy football fanatics, as we gear up for franchise tags, free […]

The NFL offseason is already underway, with three of the biggest names at the quarterback position already moved (or slated to move when the new league year starts). For fantasy football, it’s already been a ground-shaking offseason, and it’s only March. For us as fantasy football fanatics, as we gear up for franchise tags, free […]

One of the biggest wrinkles about dynasty fantasy football is knowing when to get out of a player's stock. Any time you can sell a player off his last (or nearly his last) big season, you’ll get a better return than you will if you wait until that first bad season. With that in mind, […]

In a 12-team fantasy football league, 11 managers are left saying “What if?” at the end of the year. “What if I had started X over Y?” “What if I hadn’t made that trade?” “What if our draft hadn’t happened one day before that guy got injured for the season?” Congratulations if you aren’t saying […]

Every new week of fantasy football, eyeballs turn to the waiver wire to figure out who to add. But there’s another part of that quest that matters just as much: Who to drop. Obviously, every player you add means a player you have to drop (absent trades and IR moves, but you get the point). […]

Every new week of fantasy football, eyeballs turn to the waiver wire to figure out who to add. But there’s another part of that quest that matters just as much: Who to drop. Obviously, every player you add means a player you have to drop (absent trades and IR moves, but you get the point). […]

Every new week of fantasy football, eyeballs turn to the waiver wire to figure out who to add. But there’s another part of that quest that matters just as much: Who to drop. Obviously, every player you add means a player you have to drop (absent trades and IR moves, but you get the point). […]

Every new week of fantasy football, eyeballs turn to the waiver wire to figure out who to add. But there’s another part of that quest that matters just as much: Who to drop. Obviously, every player you add means a player you have to drop (absent trades and IR moves, but you get the point). […]

Every new week of fantasy fooball, eyeballs turn to the waiver wire to figure out who to add. But there’s another part of that quest that matters just as much: Who to drop. Obviously, every player you add means there's a player you have to drop (absent trades and IR moves, but you get the […]

With no preseason NFL games and fewer padded practices to monitor, making fantasy football adjustments based on preseason news has been different (and more difficult) in 2020 than in most recent seasons. But the past few days have brought us some of the most actionable pieces of news we’ve been able to scrounge up this […]

(You can’t answer a question if you don’t know what the question actually is. As we head toward the start of training camps after the weirdest offseason of our lives, FTN editor-in-chief Daniel Kelley asks — and attempts to answer — 3-4 fantasy-related questions about each team’s coming season. This is 100 Questions.) So they’re […]

(You can’t answer a question if you don’t know what the question actually is. As we head toward the start of training camps after the weirdest offseason of our lives, FTN editor-in-chief Daniel Kelley asks — and attempts to answer — 3-4 fantasy-related questions about each team’s coming season. This is 100 Questions.) Only 12 […]

(You can’t answer a question if you don’t know what the question actually is. As we head toward the start of training camps after the weirdest offseason of our lives, FTN editor-in-chief Daniel Kelley asks — and attempts to answer — 3-4 fantasy-related questions about each team’s coming season. This is 100 Questions.) The Tampa […]

(You can’t answer a question if you don’t know what the question actually is. As we head toward the start of training camps after the weirdest offseason of our lives, FTN editor-in-chief Daniel Kelley asks — and attempts to answer — 3-4 fantasy-related questions about each team’s coming season. This is 100 Questions.) In 2017, […]

(You can’t answer a question if you don’t know what the question actually is. As we head toward the start of training camps after the weirdest offseason of our lives, FTN editor-in-chief Daniel Kelley asks — and attempts to answer — 3-4 fantasy-related questions about each team’s coming season. This is 100 Questions.) There are […]

(You can’t answer a question if you don’t know what the question actually is. As we head toward the start of training camps after the weirdest offseason of our lives, FTN editor-in-chief Daniel Kelley asks — and attempts to answer — 3-4 fantasy-related questions about each team’s coming season. This is 100 Questions.) It’s easy […]