Matthew Freedman's Articles

The Super Bowl is the only game that remains in the 2021-22 NFL season, which means it’s time for me to update my 2022 NFL mock draft. Over the past three years, I’m the No. 3 mocker in the FantasyPros Accuracy Contest. Obsessing about the first round is what I do. I haven’t made any bets […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 13-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 18 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 14-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 17 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

This week can’t be any worse than last week was, can it? Here are the quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends who stand out to me in this Sunday’s 14-game main slate based on our expert rankings and fantasy projections as well as the Week 17 betting odds and our wealth of football content across FTN Fantasy, FTN […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 11-game main slate this weekend. To see all my Week 16 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 11-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 15 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily, and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 11-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 14 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 11-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 13 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily, and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 10-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 12 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily, and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 11-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 11 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily, and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 11-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 10 bets, check out our […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 11-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 9 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily, and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 10-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 8 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily, and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 10-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 7 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

We have six teams on bye around the NFL this week. I have no idea what I’m to do with all this free time. In the main 10-game weekend slate, here are the quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and tight ends who stand out to me the most based on our expert rankings and fantasy projections as […]

After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily, and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 10-game slate this weekend. To see all my Week 6 bets, check out our FTN Bet Tracker. Use […]

The bye weeks are here. The fantasy gawds are merciful. And we have another London game. The fantasy gawds are just. In the main 10-game weekend slate for NFL Week 6, here are the quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and tight ends who stand out to me the most based on our expert rankings and fantasy projections […]

Introductions are for people who can reed, right and spiel. Sow, u no, knot 4 me. After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily, and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — among my favorite DFS candidates for the 12-game […]

It’s Week 5. We’re past the point of introductions … … checking contract … On second thought, maybe I should write an introduction of … checking contract … between 50 and 1,000 words. I’m not sure how many words I’ve written so far, but I think another sentence — one that’s way, way longer than […]

The Cure have a lot of great songs. My favorite is probably “Friday I’m in Love.” You know the song I’m talking about. Here’s the first verse. I don’t care if Monday’s blueTuesday’s grey and Wednesday tooThursday I don’t care about youIt’s Friday I’m not writing an introduction. After spending all week consuming all the […]

This past weekend, the fantasy community lost one of our stars, Mike Tagliere, who was the lead NFL writer at FantasyPros. Tags was a good dude. He loved people and loved football. He was far too young to leave this world. This weekend, please do me a favor. At some point — while you’re watching the […]

I’m not writing an introduction to this piece. You can’t make me. Neither can FTN content czar Josh Collacchi.  Especially on a Friday afternoon. The sooner I finish this piece — this very sentence, in fact — the sooner my weekend can begin. Ah, the weekend … the weekend … updating rankings … filling out […]

Week 3: Seconds, minutes, days have passed us by — and soon the end of the 2021 NFL season will be here, staring us in the face with all of its aged glory. As the song goes: “Time, time, time. See what’s become of me, while I looked around for my possibilities.” Time doesn’t fly. […]

Week 2: The point in the journey of the 2021 NFL season where we discover how little we know — and how little interest we have to read yet another introduction to yet another fantasy football article. Let’s skip all of that and get into what matters. After spending all week consuming all the football […]

Week 2: Just like Week 1 — except totally different. Now we know just how little we know. I could expand on that idea with a long introduction, but I’m too lazy and you’re too busy. Let’s get into the good stuff. In the main 13-game weekend slate, here are the quarterbacks, running backs, wide […]

It’s Friday afternoon of Week 1, and I’m still recovering from my Thursday night heartbreak. Gotta say, it feels good to have football back. After spending all week consuming all the football content we offer at FTN Fantasy, FTN Daily and FTN Bets, I believe that the following five players are — if not my very favorites — […]

Ah, Week 1. It has finally arrived. All shiny and dewy in its newness, like a late-April weekend morning. I’m a weird guy, so Week 1 always calls to mind for me the American poet Billy Collins, who is basically the poetry version of Mark Twain, who is essentially the 18th-century American version of Shakespeare, […]

Recently, FTN content czar Josh Collacchi asked me to write a piece highlighting six players to select in fantasy football drafts outside of the top 100. This is that piece. Naturally, I have some questions. First of all, why six? Is that a magic SEO number? Why not five? Or 10? Secondly, what’s the difference […]

Since joining FTN a month ago, I’ve written a number of fantasy football pieces highlighting players I like for 2021: Fantasy football breakouts Upside quarterbacks Upside running backs Upside wide receivers Upside tight ends Bold calls But apparently that’s not good enough for content czar Josh Collacchi, who seemingly wants me to earn my paycheck. […]

A couple of weeks ago I released my 2021 dynasty fantasy rankings, and now, with the regular season approaching at a rapid pace, it’s time to publish the first draft of my position-by-position redraft rankings. These are specifically for PPR scoring, although for most players the format doesn’t make a huge evaluative difference on an intra-positional […]

Last week, I published a series on my favorite upside quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and tight ends for 2021 fantasy football. And now I ask myself the question: What’s the real difference between a breakout player and an upside player? Here’s my answer: The term “breakout player” might have a different kind of SEO juice. The breakout player […]

I’m a pessimist by nature, so you’d think that I’d love writing a piece about my fantasy football fades for 2021. But that’s not the case. I almost never write about guys I’m fading — and that’s intentional. The longer I’ve been in the industry, the more I’ve realized that most people want positive information, […]