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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 […]

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 […]