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The 2023 NFL season has officially come to an end, which means it is time to look ahead to 2024 — starting with the top NFL free agent players available. Teams will start evaluating their rosters and analyzing the free agents to see which holes they can fill on their roster ahead of the 2024 […]

The Super Bowl is right around the corner, which means we are on the cusp of the 2024 offseason. Just four teams remain in the NFL playoffs, leaving 28 other teams focusing on the future. Many of the moves made in the coming months will have a fantasy football impact. Earlier, FTN Fantasy took a […]

The 2023 NFL regular season is officially over, which means it is time to start preparing for 2024. Over half of the NFL understands where they will be picking in the 2024 draft and can start assessing their team needs. The next few months are crucial for NFL teams, but the moves that happen can […]

Week 17 marks the end of the fantasy football season for the vast majority of football players. Monday, we dropped a fantasy overview for the AFC teams in 2023. Today, we will review the NFC teams.   You can never be too early in refining your process in fantasy when preparing for the next fantasy season. […]

For most, the 2023 fantasy football season came to a close after Week 17. Others may still have a championship that needs to be decided by the chaos of Week 18. Regardless, we are close to talking about the 2023 season in the past tense.   Now that the fantasy season is essentially over, we […]

For many, Week 17 marks the fantasy championship round. At the very least, nearly every league is facing the final four competitors making a move for the fantasy championship. Fantasy managers must pull out all of the stops to try and secure a crucial win to take down their fantasy championship.   This article will […]

The fantasy playoffs are here, and fantasy managers were given a friendly lesson in variance in “win-or-go-home” matchups. Give yourself a round of applause if you had the foresight to start Baker Mayfield, Aidan O’Connell or Joe Flacco above players like Dak Prescott or Patrick Mahomes at quarterback. Celebrate if you found your way into […]

Week 14 marks the end of the fantasy football regular season for many leagues, which means it is time to gear up for the playoffs. Fantasy managers got to see some excellent performances in Week 14, but were forced to watch as key players like Justin Herbert, Nico Collins and Justin Jefferson were knocked out […]

The trend of underwhelming offenses and injuries continued in Week 13. Unfortunately, those struggles were amplified thanks to six teams on bye, including players from big fantasy offenses like Buffalo and Baltimore.   Still, there were some great performances, specifically from the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers. The fantasy playoffs are just around the […]

Offenses continue to struggle to generate momentum during the 2023 season. That (and a slew of injuries) has led to many frustrating fantasy weeks for fantasy managers. The injury bug continued to bite in Week 11, with big names like Joe Burrow and Mark Andrews being lost for the season. And that was just on […]

Week 10 of the NFL season had some very fun matchups that were enjoyable to watch but didn’t yield a ton of fantasy football production. Sure, fantasy managers who invested in the Chargers and Cowboys’ offenses were ecstatic to watch Justin Herbert and Dak Prescott air it out, but many other managers were wildly underwhelmed. […]

Week 9 started rough for fantasy football managers thanks to bye weeks from some of the most consistent fantasy producers in the NFL (San Francisco, Detroit and Jacksonville). While we did get to enjoy some excellent, high-scoring games, we were once again subject to bad football thanks to many teams being forced to start bad […]

Week 8 was a nice (short-lived) reprieve from bye weeks during the 2023 season. Unfortunately, this year’s trend of ugly football continued. Teams are still struggling to move the ball this season amid stout defensive performances and the ever-growing amount of injuries across the NFL.   There were plenty of positive and negative performances for […]

Fantasy managers were forced to navigate their way through six teams on bye in Week 7. Thankfully, we get everybody back in action in Week 8 before the bye weeks start back up in Week 9.   There was still plenty that we learned about different players seven weeks into the season, especially since there […]

FTN’s positional rankings keep on rolling as we enter the midpoint of the NFL season. So far, the FTN team has broken down offensive line ranks, defensive line ranks, pass catching units, backfields and linebacking groups. This week, we will be looking at all of the secondaries in the NFL and ranking them at the […]

The linebacker position can look very different on a team-by-team basis in today’s NFL. Some teams utilize outside linebackers to generate pressure or drop in coverage. Others use two or three off-ball linebackers, opting to go with bigger defensive linemen to control the line of scrimmage.   Through six weeks, there have been clear examples […]

Scoring is down in the NFL this season, which means that defenses must be playing exceptionally well. The key to any good defense is the ability to get after the passer. Consistent pressure on quarterbacks helps the secondary and keeps teams from finding a rhythm and stringing together chunk plays down the field.   Six […]

Special teams in the NFL can be a fickle thing. Kickers and punters are seemingly unstoppable for years at a time, but then will suddenly fall off out of the blue. Some kickers are stellar in one season but then can’t hit a field goal the next year. Additionally, the NFL rules are designed to […]

During the offseason, FTN ranked the starting offensive line groups in the NFL heading into the 2023 season. Now that we have six weeks of data, we can revisit those rankings based on actionable data and game film.   Below you will find a midseason ranking update for all 32 offensive lines a third of the […]

Week 6 was extremely underwhelming for fantasy football, with 21 teams scoring 20 points or fewer. If that wasn’t bad enough, there will be six teams on bye in Week 7, with many teams featuring key fantasy contributors.   While there weren’t many standout performers in Week 6, there were still some important trends to […]

Believe it or not, we are nearly a third of the way through the NFL season. The fantasy playoffs aren’t as far away as it seems, which means fantasy managers must take stock of their rosters, evaluate positions to upgrade and make the changes necessary to push for a spot in the fantasy playoffs.   […]

Week 4 saw more impressive performances from plenty of players across the NFL despite the general struggles from quarterbacks across the league. There were just five quarterbacks who eclipsed 300 passing yards in Week 4 and just four quarterbacks with more than two passing touchdowns.   However, more players are seeing their roles grow or […]

Three weeks are nearly in the books, and we are starting to get a feel for which players we can trust and which players we can cut loose in fantasy. Every week is an opportunity to learn with a constant stream of data points to help fantasy managers adjust on the fly.   There were […]

Streaming DSTs in fantasy football is a popular practice that allows fantasy managers the ability to fade defense during the draft to put together a comprehensive group of skill position players. Finding the right defenses at the start of the season (when data is skewed by a single good or bad performance) can be difficult. […]

Thankfully, offensive football rebounded after a terrible Week 1. Plenty of teams that were underwhelming to start the season had a strong showing in Week 2, while some teams (looking at you Chicago Bears) continued to be bad.   Regardless, each week provides us with more information to analyze. The fantasy managers who can sift […]

The NFL season is finally here. And now that we have seen nearly every team in action, it is time to start planting flags and posting hot takes based on the most limited sample size possible. Despite the need to overreact to everything we saw in one game, some very useful things can be gleaned once […]

Teams have cut down to their 53-man rosters and NFL action is less than a week away. At the start of the offseason, I went through all 32 teams to assess their biggest need heading into free agency and the draft. This article will focus on how well each team filled their biggest needs throughout […]

The preseason is over, teams have cut their rosters down to 53 and the NFL season is officially on the horizon. Teams have had months to build out their roster and make the improvements they needed to be competitive for the 2023 season. This article is a callback to early in the offseason when each […]

The NFL preseason has officially come to a close, and NFL teams are beginning the process of cutting down to 53 players. We are less than two weeks until kickoff at the start of the NFL season.   ADP has never been more fluid than at this time of the offseason. Injuries are popping up […]

Two NFL preseason weeks have come and gone, and we are starting to get a clear picture of which players will have fantasy football value during the 2023 NFL season. While the preseason typically features limited reps for starters in watered-down versions of the offense, important information can be gleaned based on who plays, who […]

Every team was in action this past weekend with the NFL preseason under full swing. While preseason information isn’t the most reliable for many players, we can glean some important data points that can inform fantasy football drafting. At the very least, “meaningful” NFL snaps can cause big movement in ADP as fantasy managers react […]

Best ball season is in full swing, and redraft leagues preparations have intensified. As more and more fantasy managers begin drafting, this year’s rookies start to gain momentum. As the rookies gain attention, the sophomore class from last season starts to become overshadowed.    Taking advantage of the prioritization of rookies over established veterans is […]