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Daniel Kelley and Jeremy Popielarz continue with the 2022 Sleepers, Busts and Bets series to preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming year. Next up: The New Orleans Saints.   Daniel and Jeremy will list their picks with confidence in “The Answers,” Then expand upon their picks with more details reason in “The Explanation.” […]

In simplest terms, a fantasy football draft pick is a lottery ticket. The early rounders carry the best odds, but they cost you a lot. Late-round picks are cheap and potentially life-changing if they hit, but the odds are long, so you have to grab a bunch of them to have a real chance at […]

Daniel Kelley and Jeremy Popielarz continue with the 2022 Sleepers, Busts and Bets series to preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming year. Next up: The Cleveland Browns.   Daniel and Jeremy will list their picks with confidence in “The Answers,” Then expand upon their picks with more details reason in “The Explanation.” Follow […]

Even in the offseason, we have fantasy football on the brain. So while there are no games to analyze, we thought it would be fun to offer up a few brain-teasers. These are our fantasy football quizzes.  Weekly winners? Most points ever? Who did what the best? Follow along as each day we tickle your […]

We’ve reached the finals of this season of Survivor, and (spoiler, but if you were waiting for the end of my season recap to find out the winner, you’re weird) Maryanne took the crown. But I’m left with one question: How do they learn to spell each other’s names? I will grant that editing copy is […]

Height is a help in football … until it isn’t. There have only been three running backs listed at 6-foot-4 or taller to reach 1,000 career PPR points, none at 6-5 or more. There have been plenty of wide receivers at 6-5, but once you get to 6-6, the list falls off a cliff. Basically, […]

Exactly what it means to be “unlucky” as a receiver in the NFL is fair to debate, but here’s a fun measure: Over 100 yards, no touchdowns. It’s hard to put up those two things at the same time, and it’s especially difficult to do it more than a time or two. But some of […]

Two players in NFL history have been named a first-team All Prop 10 times. Neither has been around for a while – Jim Otto’s career ended in 1974, while Jerry Rice called it quits in 2004. Among active players, seven first-team All Pros is the current leader. There are 28 active players (meaning they played […]

Passer rating is of course an imperfect measure, but it’s a decent shorthand. If you put up a high number, odds are you performed well; if you put up a low number, odds are you didn’t. When the stakes are highest, that’s just as true.   So for today’s Quiz of the Day, let’s look […]

Having satellite TV (I’m the last remaining non-cord-cutter, I think) is good, but man, rain is annoying, especially since Survivor doesn’t drop to streaming until the day after. Long story short, it’s 6:55 a.m. Thursday morning as I write this, which feels like an extremely nerdy way to live your life. Anyway, Wednesday was our penultimate […]

In theory, a quarterback passing for at least a single passing touchdown in a game isn’t that remarkable. Guys do it all the time. In practice … they fail to do so more often than you’d expect. In practice, only 30 quarterbacks entered the offseason on streaks of even two games with at least one […]

Obviously, the “best” season in a team’s history is subject to interpretation – context, position, team success, etc. But one way (decidedly not the only way, perhaps not the best way, but a way) to measure such a thing is simple fantasy points. Who had the most PPR points in a season in each team’s […]

Getting a single carry and a single reception in a game isn’t a sign of a dominant fantasy player, obviously, but it is a sign of a player who at least has a role in the offense. Doing it over and over and over just solidifies that. There were 12 players who entered the offseason […]

Anyone can score a long touchdown (well, not anyone-anyone, but you know what I mean). One break in coverage and suddenly a 5-yard play become an 80-yard catch-and-score and makes that week’s highlight reel. But the players who can go for big yardage over and over are the ones who break the game. Last year, […]

There’s an argument to be made that the NFL schedule release day is the most overhyped day of the football calendar, because we know from the minute the previous season ends who everyone will be playing the next season. The schedule is just the order, and while that matters for fantasy football, it’s not that […]

Thursday’s Quiz of the Day looked at the single-season target leaders around the league since 2000. Unsurprisingly, it was a WR-only list, as they are obviously the ones who dominate targets. But the recent generations of football have seen an explosion in targets for running backs as well, so let’s look at them next. Today’s […]

You can’t produce fantasy points if you don’t have opportunities. For running backs, that’s carries and targets, but at receiver, it’s basically targets only, unless your name is Deebo Samuel. Since the turn of the century, there have been 19 seasons where a player has gotten at least 180 targets in a season, peaking with […]

The Tim Tebow phenomenon in 2011 was interesting for a lot of reasons, but for me, the fun was that he just kept succeeded despite absolutely no justification for that success. He was an objectively bad NFL quarterback who nonetheless won seven of eight starts (before losing the last three of the regular season) and then […]

Some NFL players bounce around. After a decade with the Vikings, Adrian Peterson played for six teams in five seasons from 2017 to 2021. Tyrod Taylor signed with the Giants this offseason, his sixth NFL team. Chase Daniel has played for seven. But perhaps the two most-traveled players going right now are Josh Johnson and […]

Throwing a lot of interceptions doesn’t inherently mean a quarterback has been a disaster. Certainly, you’d rather not throw picks, but in and of itself an interception is not a death knell. Case in point: A certain quarterback who changed teams just last offseason tied for the league lead in interceptions in 2021 en route […]

When a player puts up 100 yards from scrimmage in a game, it’s a good game. When he does it for more than a month in a row, he trends on Twitter. Nine active players have put up streaks of at least seven games in a row with 100-plus scrimmage yards (for a total of […]

Today’s Fantasy Quiz of the Day comes with a freebie: In this year’s Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs, the Bills lost to the Chiefs 42-36 in overtime, but they also famously had one player – Gabriel Davis – go absolutely nuts in the game. Davis had 8 catches for 201 yards and 4 touchdowns […]

After last week’s extremely heavy episode of Survivor, this week we have something of a palate cleanser from an emotional perspective. The most emotion we see in this week’s episode is the videos from loved ones at the reward challenge. I am a notoriously heartless person, so this gives me the opportunity to confess that I […]

It shouldn’t come as any surprise to you that Tom Brady has the most career fantasy points in the postseason of any active player. In fact, he (comfortably!) has the most of any player of all time. (That’s a freebie for today’s quiz.) But as you go down the list at each position, some of […]

Last year, only three members of the Houston Texans – Davis Mills, Brandin Cooks and Rex Burkhead – reached 100 PPR points on the season. Not coincidentally, the Texans were possibly the least fantasy-relevant team in the NFL in 2021. In other words, it’s not a perfect proxy, but you could argue that the more […]

Most of our quizzes focus on the fantasy football side of things. But today, we’re doing a little pivot, and this might be a particularly hard one: Can you identify the longest-tenured player currently on each NFL team? We have players who have been with their team for 17 years, and players who have been […]

Most of the attention of NFL Draft weekend is concentrated, very understandably, on the draft picks. We just saw 262 young men have the single biggest piece of their future decided for them, with another large handful getting signed as undrafted free agents, and they will help to shape the fantasy football landscape for the […]

For much of this week, the Quiz of the Day has centered on the active leaders in the various types of yards (rushing, receiving and passing) for each NFL team. But we’re here to talk fantasy, so let’s bring it all together today: Can you name the active leader in PPR points for all 32 […]

Unlike our recent quizzes on the active rushing leaders and active receiving leaders for all 32 NFL teams, the question of which active players lead each franchise in passing yards is probably going to garner fewer surprises. The list is populated mostly by big names who had long tenures with their respective teams. So much […]

As I’ve watched each episode of Survivor this season, I’ve thought about what I’ll write in this space, whatever intro I use to tease the episode and make some jokes. I had some ideas for this week’s episode … and then the night’s second tribal council really threw all that out the window. Survivor has many […]

In our offseason of wide receiver upheaval around the NFL, a lot of active team leaders in receiving yards find themselves on different teams heading into the 2022 season. The active career leader in receiving yards for seven different franchises (so far?) appear to have played their last season for the team they are leading […]

Even in our modern “running backs don’t matter” landscape, some backs rack up some major yardage for their teams. Six active players have at least 5,000 rushing yards for a single team, including one player over 11,000. So let’s test your memory. Today’s Quiz of the Day asks how many teams’ active rushing leaders you […]