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Fantasy Football ADP – Draft T.J. Hockenson or Mark Andrews?
(All summer, Adam Pfeifer will be putting the tightest fantasy football picks under the microscope in our ADP Decisions series.) A lot of fantasy football drafters have a specific approach when it comes to the tight end position: You either draft one of the top three players in Travis Kelce, Darren Waller or George Kittle, or […]
Adam Pfeifer
NFL
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Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: Kansas City Chiefs
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
Derek Brown
NFL
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Stock Watch: Fantasy Football ADP Movement
Fantasy Football drafts are starting to ramp up as we get closer to the NFL season, which means we have a good two months of draft data to take a look at. Below you’ll see a list of players who have seen their fantasy football draft stock rise and fall over the past four weeks. […]
Chris Meaney
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Fantasy Football ADP – Draft Clyde Edwards-Helaire or D’Andre Swift?
(All summer, Adam Pfeifer will be putting the tightest fantasy football picks under the microscope in our ADP Decisions series.) The 2020 draft class was absolutely loaded. We know the receivers were historically good, but the running backs were outstanding as well. The first two running backs selected in last year’s draft were Clyde Edwards-Helaire of […]
Adam Pfeifer
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: The Reigning Champs. Fantasy Football Booms — Buccaneers Mike Evans, WR When the rumors of Tom Brady […]
Derek Brown
NFL
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: Converting air yards to actual yards
(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.) Thursday, we took a look at the top 20 WRs based on air yards from the 2020 NFL season. Air yards are the number of yards the […]
Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: Cincinnati Bengals
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
Derek Brown
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Fantasy Football Multiverse: Cleveland Browns
(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down […]
Matt Jones
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Buy these 5 players on Underdog Fantasy
Underdog ADP shifts every day as the craze of zero-RB and hero-RB takes over. Receivers are moving up the board and running backs are falling down it. As drafts become less of fantasy football Twitter-heavy and more casual drafter-laden, expect running backs to move back up the board and ADP to shift back some. There […]
Eliot Crist
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The leaders in air yards
(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.) Air yards become one of the hottest terms in the fantasy football industry a few years ago, and for good reason. Sorting players by air yards does […]
Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: Cleveland Browns
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
Derek Brown
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How to use box defender stats in fantasy football
Part of the launch of FTN’s Premium Stats and Fantasy HQ was box defender stats. The box on defense is an imaginary line set to define players near the line of scrimmage. The concept is that the more defenders in the box, the harder it is to run the ball. While this is almost always […]
Eliot Crist
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: New Orleans Saints
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: The Fighting Fleur de Lis. Fantasy Football Booms – Saints Michael Thomas, WR The rumors of the […]
Derek Brown
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Fantasy Football ADP – Draft Ryan Tannehill or Tom Brady?
(All summer, Adam Pfeifer will be putting the tightest fantasy football picks under the microscope in our ADP Decisions series.) Our first quarterback discussion of this series features one of the most efficient quarterbacks in the NFL and, well, the best quarterback to ever play the game. Both Ryan Tannehill and Tom Brady are two […]
Adam Pfeifer
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The WRs who trailed teammates when targeted
(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.) Our last few Stat of the Day articles have taken a look at QB ratings for WRs. We’ve looked at the WRs with the highest QB rating […]
Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: Baltimore Ravens
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
Derek Brown
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Fantasy Football Multiverse
The multiverse — you change one small thing, and it affects everything down the road — is captivating. In fiction, it can mean any number of things and lead to blockbuster series. In fantasy football? It’s another way of looking at a range of outcomes. As we head toward the start of the football season, […]
FTN Staff
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ADP Decisions: The toughest calls of 2021 fantasy football drafts
Dividing players into groups and tiers in fantasy football is a key part of the job of drafting, but on draft day, you actually have to decide between specific names. Guys going close to one another might have similar outlooks, but you still have to make the final call. To that end, all fantasy draft […]
FTN Staff
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Way-too-early mock draft – 2022 NFL Draft
If you know anything about me, you probably realized years ago that I am obsessed with the NFL draft. It’s my Super Bowl. Since 2019, I am No. 3 in total FantasyPros mock draft points and the only person to finish in the top 20 each year. I don’t mean to brag. Rather, I mean […]
Matthew Freedman
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Fantasy Football ADP – Draft Terry McLaurin or CeeDee Lamb?
(All summer, Adam Pfeifer will be putting the tightest fantasy football picks under the microscope in our ADP Decisions series.) The NFC East is loaded with talented wide receivers, but perhaps none are more exciting than Terry McLaurin and CeeDee Lamb. Both young wideouts — McLaurin of the Washington Football Team and Lamb of the Dallas […]
Adam Pfeifer
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2021 Fantasy Football Bold Predictions
It’s the dead time of the year’s sports calendar, but we’re sprinting toward the 2021 NFL season. So with that in mind, here are some of my key fantasy football bold predictions for the year. Tom Brady will be the No. 1 fantasy QB Yes, I’m a big fan of Tom Brady, but any quarterback […]
Nelson Sousa
NFL
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: WRs who beat their teammates
(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.) Our last few Stat of the Day articles have taken a look at QB ratings for WRs. We’ve looked at the WRs with the highest […]
Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: Pittsburgh Steelers
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
Derek Brown
NFL
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Booms, Busts, Breakouts & Bets: Detroit Lions
As the mercury rises and we inch closer to training camp openings, our resident fantasy football aficionados, Brad Evans and Derek Brown, profile their favorite Booms, Busts, Breakouts and Bets for every NFL team. Giddy up, gamers. Today’s topic: The Hello Kitties. Fantasy Football Booms – Lions T.J. Hockenson, TE T.J. Hockenson looks poised to […]
Derek Brown
NFL
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Fantasy Football ADP – Draft Jonathan Taylor or Nick Chubb?
(All summer, Adam Pfeifer will be putting the tightest fantasy football picks under the microscope in our ADP Decisions series.) We continue our ADP series with a battle of two elite running back talents that honestly project very similarly for fantasy football in 2021. Nick Chubb and Jonathan Taylor are true workhorse running backs who have the […]
Adam Pfeifer
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Fantasy Football Multiverse: Cincinnati Bengals
(FTN’s Matt Jones is going team-by-team to investigate some of the biggest fantasy issues around the NFL for the 2021 fantasy football season. Follow the whole Fantasy Football Multiverse series.) The idea of the multiverse is fascinating to me. You change one small thing in one timeline and it breaks off and affects things down […]
Matt Jones
NFL
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: WRs with lowest passer rating when targeted
(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.) Our most recent Stat of the Day article looked at which WRs helped their QBs the most in terms of passer rating. Davante Adams topped […]
Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy Football ADP – Draft Cam Akers or Joe Mixon?
(All summer, Adam Pfeifer will be putting the tightest fantasy football picks under the microscope in our ADP Decisions series.) We continue our 2021 fantasy football ADP series with an interesting debate between two talented, young running backs. Cam Akers showed flashes of brilliance to end his rookie campaign in 2020, while Joe Mixon has shown […]
Adam Pfeifer
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Fantasy coaching & coordinator breakdown: Jacksonville Jaguars
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
Derek Brown
NFL
Fantasy
Early look at RB landmines for 2021 fantasy football
Thursday, I took a look at three wide receiver landmines to avoid in 2021 fantasy football. Today, I am back to do the same with running back. The biggest thing with running backs is volume and weighted opportunity. Volume — which directly correlates to snaps played for running backs — is king in fantasy football. You […]
Eliot Crist
NFL
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Fantasy Football Stat of the Day: The leaders in passer rating when targeted
(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.) This week’s Stat of the Day pieces have been exploring “boom” plays for pass-catchers with a look at WRs that scored the most deep TDs and the […]
Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy football NFL coaching & coordinator breakdown: Houston Texans
(FTN’s Derek Brown and Matt Jones are going team-by-team to look at the coaching tendencies of every team and how that matters for fantasy football in 2021. Follow the whole coaching/coordinators series.) A critical point projecting players for fantasy football is forecasting their roles and the overall context of the team philosophies on both sides […]
Derek Brown