Daniel Kelley's Articles

You’d always rather be drafted than not in the NFL, but sliding through the seven rounds without hearing your name called isn’t a death knell. In the last decade, 19 players at the skill positions have put up at least 100 PPR points as a rookie despite not getting drafted, including some of the game’s […]

It might be harder to find immediate fantasy contributors on Day 3 of the NFL Draft, but it is by no means impossible. The Cowboys found their franchise quarterback in the fourth round in 2016. A fifth-round receiver in 2016 just got traded for a massive haul a few weeks ago. One from 2015 is […]

The first round of the NFL Draft gets the headlines, but there is plenty of fantasy value to be found after that. Day 2 Friday brings us the second and third rounds of this year’s draft, and there have been a world of fantasy stars found in the second and third rounds of recent drafts, […]

The 2022 NFL Draft is mere hours away from starting, with the Jacksonville Jaguars selecting first overall for the second year in a row. As fate would have it, since the turn of the century, exactly half of the league’s 32 teams have picked first overall in the draft, which means exactly half of the […]

Sometimes I envy the job of Survivor editors. When there are three legitimate candidates to be voted out and everything is like an episode of 24: The Tropics or something, with constant shifty eyes, well, that’s just fun. Intersperse shots of tigers and snakes, toss in some dramatic music stings, and you can sleep well that night. […]

We’re only a day away from the start of the 2022 NFL Draft. There’s more mystery about who will go No. 1 overall than there has been in several drafts, but whoever it is will get added to an illustrious list that includes 50 Pro-Bowlers and 14 Hall of Famers. Lot of big names, right? […]

Teams and fans alike envision their first-round picks in the NFL Draft coming in right away and producing in a big way. Sometimes they do! And of course, sometimes they don’t. In the last 10 years, for example, no one picked ninth overall at a fantasy position has put up more than, ahem, -0.8 PPR […]

With the 2022 NFL Draft this week, this week’s slate of quizzes will all be draft-related in some way. That start with today, and our look at the top fantasy performers from 2021 for each Power-5 school. Fun fact: Neither of 2021’s top two fantasy performers (Cooper Kupp and Josh Allen) played for a Power-5 […]

It’s hard to be a (relatively) short NFL quarterback. Big athletes on both sides, some of them trying to knock you down, all of them hard to see over – it’s no wonder teams want their signal callers to be of at least above-average height. In fact, since the 1970 merger, only one quarterback listed […]

A top-12 weekly fantasy finish isn’t the be all, end all of fantasy relevance, but it’s an excellent shorthand. A lot of relatively anonymous players can do it once, but doing it over and over really tells you something. If you lead your position in top-12 weekly finishes, odds are you had one of the […]

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. […]