Tyler Loechner's Articles

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) A “boom or bust” WR is one of the most popular things to aim for when settings weekly lineups. You can’t have a team filled with boom-or-bust […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) FTN’s Eliot Crist recently wrote a must-read piece on the fantasy dominance of rushing QBs —also known as Konami Code QBs. The gist of it is that […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Breaking tackles is important for any skill position in football, but it’s arguably most important for RBs, who often face pressure from the defense as soon as […]

The Scott Fish Bowl, known as the SFB, is the most well-known season-long fantasy competition in the fantasy football world. The massive Pro-Am is done for charity, but that doesn’t mean the competition isn’t fierce. To mix things up each year, the league commissioner, Scott Fish, adds a twist to scoring or drafting. This year, […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) In this week’s Stat of the Day pieces, we’ve looked at the RBs and WRs that are able to elude the most tackles per touch. Some big […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) In Wednesday’s Stat of the Day article, we wrote about the RBs who were able to elude the most tackles per touch. (Not surprisingly, advanced stat king […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) We wrote Tuesday about how not every rushing attempt is an equal opportunity for RBs to rack up the yards because certain running backs face “stacked boxes” […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Not all running backs are created equal — and not every rushing attempt is an equal opportunity for RBs to rack up the yards. If the defense […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Play action passing is discussed as a Holy Grail of sorts in the NFL world. All of the data supports the notion that play action passes are […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) People love to talk about what makes an “alpha” WR — but there’s one stat that really captures the meaning better than any other: Team target market […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Vultures are the worst. And I’m not talking about the birds that eat dead animals. You think that sounds bad? How about backup RBs that steal touchdowns […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Many players in the upcoming Scott Fish Bowl (SFB11) will take a TE much earlier than usual thanks to the unique scoring rules the major tournament features. […]

Not everything that someone digs up in their fantasy football research needs 2,000 words devoted to it. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of attention. And so FTN’s own Tyler Loechner is spending the summer offering up his Fantasy Stat of the Day, a daily (almost) look at something interesting he’s found in his […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) The Scott Fish Bowl (SFB11) has several unique scoring rules, one of which is that RBs, WRs and TEs get an extra 0.5 points per first down. […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) The Scott Fish Bowl (SFB11) is coming up, and it’s the biggest tournament in the season-long fantasy football industry. There are also several unique scoring rules in […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Only a few QBs truly excel in deep passing — and Julio Jones might be in for a bit of a surprise in Tennessee if he thinks […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Coaching decisions obviously vary from team to team, but generally speaking, most NFL coaches play things similarly when in similar situations. One area where that “generally speaking” […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Scoring TDs is so fundamentally important for fantasy success, that almost nothing can be as frustrating as watching your player fail to score time and again. This […]

Every fantasy player loves when their RB pounds the rock into the end zone. It’s a quick six points for their fantasy squad and the primary reason we love RBs in fantasy to begin with. In our most recent Stat of the Day article, we looked at which RBs saw the most carries from inside […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Running backs deliver the fantasy goods down by the goal line. Thursday, we focused on the best breakaways rushers in the NFL. Below, we’ll review the RBs […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Power rushing pays the bills down by the goal line, but nothing is more exciting on rushing plays than when a running back rips off a long […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Knowledge is power. So are end zone targets. 13% of all fantasy receiving points are scored on passes that are thrown when the receiver is in the […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) A.J. Brown is primed to be the next Julio Jones, so it’s only fitting that Brown gets to play with actual Julio Jones as he […]

(Leading up to the 2021 NFL season, FTN’s Tyler Loechner will dive into the fantasy football numbers to bring you his Fantasy Stat of the Day, five days a week.) Date: June 2, 2020.Location: FTN Slack.Event: FTN content czar Josh Collacchi messages me and says I get to write a story each day about a […]

There are rarely many great tight ends that hit the free agent market, which may be a symptom of the fact that there aren’t many great TEs in the league to begin with, and the ones that are the best always re-sign with their original team. 2021 was a little bit different in that two […]

There was a ton of WR movement during the 2021 NFL free agency period. And it wasn’t just small pieces moving around — 2021 was one of the most active free agencies for big-name WRs in recent memory.  The Lions were gutted of their WR talent with Kenny Golladay and Marvin Jones both finding new […]

There was a decent amount of RB movement during the 2021 offseason, but there were no major names involved with most players signing one- or two-year deals. Mike Davis capitalized on his moderately successful stint as Christian McCaffrey’s fill-in by joining the Falcons, Phillip Lindsay goes from backing up one old RB to another, and […]

It’s not just an exciting group of rookie QBs that are shaking up the NFL. There was also a ton of movement at the QB position during the offseason. Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford swapped teams, Sam Darnold and Carson Wentz have been given second chances with new franchises, and Ryan Fitzpatrick is continuing his […]

The results are in: NFL Draft capital matters a lot for fantasy football. More than you might realize at first, at least. Ahead of the 2021 NFL Draft, I took a look at the historic performance (from 2000-2020) of fantasy players compared to their draft positions to see how indicative draft position is of future […]

No position is slower to change in fantasy football than tight end. It takes years for the best to be dethroned, and new challengers emerge every season. This year will be no different. Travis Kelce and George Kittle still reign supreme — with Darren Waller wedging his way into the room — while there are […]

In fantasy football, NFL draft day doesn’t alter WR fantasy value quite as much as RB value, but it can definitely stir the pot. Saturday, we went through three RBs you should buy in dynasty before the draft shakes up values. Today, we’ll be looking at five WRs to make offers on ASAP. These five […]

The 2021 NFL Draft is drawing closer, which means we’re days away from fantasy football dynasty trade values going through some serious changes. From a fantasy perspective, you can argue that no position sees a more dramatic shift in player value during the draft than RBs. Only a select, elite few RBs have bulletproof fantasy […]