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NFL Fantasy
The Value of the Highest Fantasy Floors
A ceiling is nice in fantasy football. It’s fun to toss Lamar Jackson into your lineup every week and know there’s a chance he’s going to give you one of those electric 42-point outings like he offered in Week 2 last year against the Dolphins. But floors can be killer, like Week 7, when Jackson […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
10 to Avoid in the First 5 Rounds of 2023 Fantasy Drafts
Whether you’re new to fantasy football or a seasoned vet, scanning the draft board can be intimidating. There’s so much research to do, so many things to know and so many players to choose from. And when we’re dealing with the early rounds, they’re good players.   One way to navigate the draft board more […]
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Nick Makowitz
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NFL Fantasy
Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Denver Broncos
Welcome to Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions for the 2023 fantasy football season. All summer, our analysts, two at a time, will preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming season. We’ll pick a pair of sleepers, a pair of busts and a pair of bold predictions. Sometimes they’ll be the same pick! Sometimes they […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
The Candidates to Be the Overall RB1 in 2023
Welcome to our “No. 1 Overall” series for 2023, where we take a look at which players are most likely to finish as the top fantasy scorer at their position. Up today: RBs. This series is as simple as it sounds. We’re going to go through the RBs — in tiers — that have the […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
2023 Fantasy Football Draft Strategy: ADP Rumblings (5/21)
Training camp is just around the corner, which means that fantasy drafts will be starting up again soon (unless you’re a degenerate like me who has been drafting since mid-April). As more drafts startup, that means we can start analyzing average draft position trends to identify players who are going too high, too low, or […]
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Dan Fornek
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NFL Fantasy
Should you draft Amon-Ra St. Brown or Garrett Wilson in 2023: Fantasy Crossroads
All summer long, I’m taking a look at the fantasy landscape heading into 2023 and helping drafters make some of the toughest decisions. If two players are close to one another in ADP, who should you choose? That’s the plan here. This is Fantasy Crossroads.   In 2022, Amon-Ra St. Brown had a breakout sophomore […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Indianapolis Colts
Welcome to Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions for the 2023 fantasy football season. All summer, our analysts, two at a time, will preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming season. We’ll pick a pair of sleepers, a pair of busts and a pair of bold predictions. Sometimes they’ll be the same pick! Sometimes they […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Splits Tool: How Did the WRs Who Changed Teams Last Year Fare?
With most of the significant offseason movements in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to look forward to the upcoming league year and start preparing for our 2023 fantasy football drafts. In this series, I’ll be using the FTN Fantasy Splits Tool to look at how changes in environment and situations have impacted teams and players in […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
The Perception/Production Gap in Fantasy Football 2023: WR/TE
We’re wrong in fantasy football far more often than we are right. The drafting community selected Christian McCaffrey first overall in 2020, but then he got hurt and finished as RB54. James Robinson was a fairly anonymous undrafted rookie the same year, going 58th among running backs, and he finished as RB7.    For every […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Arizona Cardinals
Welcome to Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions for the 2023 fantasy football season. All summer, our analysts, two at a time, will preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming season. We’ll pick a pair of sleepers, a pair of busts and a pair of bold predictions. Sometimes they’ll be the same pick! Sometimes they […]
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Michael Dolan
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NFL Fantasy
The Perception/Production Gap in Fantasy Football 2023: QB/RB
We’re wrong in fantasy football far more often than we are right. The drafting community selected Christian McCaffrey first overall in 2020, but then he got hurt and finished as RB54. James Robinson was a fairly anonymous undrafted rookie the same year, going 58th among running backs, and he finished as RB7.    For every […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Houston Texans
Welcome to Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions for the 2023 fantasy football season. All summer, our analysts, two at a time, will preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming season. We’ll pick a pair of sleepers, a pair of busts and a pair of bold predictions. Sometimes they’ll be the same pick! Sometimes they […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
Keys to the 2023 Fantasy Football Season
The month of May always signals the start of fantasy football redraft season. Teams have now added rookies, signed free agents and started to provide a rough draft of their positional depth charts. It is truly a glorious time of year.  As fantasy football players, it’s officially time for us to devise a play for […]
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Mike Randle
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NFL Fantasy
The Candidates to Be the Overall QB1 in 2023
Welcome to our “No. 1 Overall” series for 2023, where we take a look at which players are most likely to finish as the top fantasy scorer at their position. Up today: QBs.   This series is as simple as it sounds. We’re going to go through the QBs — in tiers — that have […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
2023 NFL Offseason Winners and Losers: Offensive Line
The conclusion of the 2023 NFL Draft and the start of rookie camps give us a natural opportunity to begin assessing NFL rosters to start preparing for the upcoming fantasy football season. While there aren’t really any leagues that account for offensive line play (yet!), understanding the teams that have a solid unit in the […]
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Dan Fornek
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NFL Fantasy
Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Chicago Bears
Welcome to Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions for the 2023 fantasy football season. All summer, our analysts, two at a time, will preview all 32 NFL teams for the upcoming season. We’ll pick a pair of sleepers, a pair of busts and a pair of bold predictions. Sometimes they’ll be the same pick! Sometimes they […]
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Michael Dolan
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NFL Fantasy
Should you draft Derrick Henry or Tony Pollard in 2023: Fantasy Crossroads
All summer long, I’m taking a look at the fantasy landscape heading into 2023 and helping drafters make some of the toughest decisions. If two players are close to one another in ADP, who should you choose? That’s the plan here. This is Fantasy Crossroads.   It’s that time of the year. As the weather […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Sleepers, Busts & Bold Predictions: 2023 Fantasy Football Team-By-Team
It’s summer. The NFL Draft is behind us, and so is (most of) free agency. There are still plenty of roster moves to come, to be sure, but at this point we have a pretty good idea of who will be on what rosters come Week 1 of the 2023 NFL season, and that means […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Schedule Release: The Worst Bye Weeks of 2023
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 big a […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Worst Offseason Moves for Fantasy Football in 2023
The reality show that is the NFL offseason has again delivered the type of drama that your favorite dating show craves. We’ve had halted contract talks, big-name free agent signings and huge trades that figure to have a massive impact on the NFL landscape.   However, not all impact is positive. Now that we’ve made […]
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Nick Makowitz
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NFL Fantasy
Bust TE Candidates for Fantasy Football in 2023
We’re running through our 2023 fantasy sleepers and busts series with a look at 2023 WR busts. Check out more in the series here:   2023 QB sleepers 2023 QB busts 2023 RB sleepers 2023 RB busts 2023 WR sleepers 2023 WR busts 2023 TE sleepers 2023 TE busts (you’re reading it now) Looking for […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Welcome to the FTN Fantasy 2023 Best Ball Guide
Welcome to the 2023 FTN Best Ball Guide! Best ball season has officially begun, with drafts occurring daily until the 2023 NFL season kicks off Thursday, Sept. 7. We are still four months away from the start of the season, and there’s so much yet to transpire – trades to be made, training camp, depth […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Best Offseason Moves for Fantasy Football in 2023
The reality show that is the NFL offseason has again delivered the type of drama that your favorite dating show craves. We’ve had halted contract talks, big-name free agent signings and huge trades that figure to have a massive impact on the NFL landscape. Now that we’ve made it through the bulk of free agency […]
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Nick Makowitz
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NFL Fantasy
Best Remaining Free Agents Along the Offensive Line
The NFL offseason is flying by. The first wave of free agency has completed, teams have addressed needs through the NFL Draft, and rookie minicamps are officially underway. In no time, teams will be reporting for training camp and we will be able to enjoy football once again.    In the coming months, teams will […]
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Dan Fornek
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NFL Fantasy
The Fantasy Options Most Hurt by Their Division in 2022
Because teams play only 17 games every NFL season, the identities of the teams they face change all the time. The Vikings might play the Giants one year, the Falcons the next, the 49ers the next. But for every team, there is the constant of the division. The Vikings might see those other teams only […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Mock Draft: Bijan Robinson Rises to the Top of a 2024 Mock
Coming immediately after the NFL Draft, one of the popular pieces on many football sites is a mock draft looking a year down the road. Which hot prospect quarterback will rise to the top to be the first overall pick the next year?    So why not do that exercise for fantasy football? Today, I’m […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
The Fantasy Options Most Helped by Their Division in 2022
Because teams play only 17 games every NFL season, the identities of the teams they face change all the time. The Vikings might play the Giants one year, the Falcons the next, the 49ers the next. But for every team, there is the constant of the division. The Vikings might see those other teams only […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Fantasy
Welcome to the 2023 Rookie Fantasy Scouting Guide
Even for a seasoned fantasy football player, it’s hard to have a full read on every prospect about to enter the NFL. There are hundreds. People have lives.  Enter us. We’ve been watching this year’s draft class for years, getting ready for their big day at the end of April. Since the NFL season ended, […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Scott Spratt’s Fantasy Football Rookie Tiers
The NFL Draft is dead. Long live dynasty rookie drafts! What follows are my updated dynasty rookie rankings grouped into the grandest of tiers. The plus and minus totals in parentheses show how much each prospect jumped or fell from my pre-draft rankings. An asterisk means I did not previously rank a player in my […]
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Scott Spratt
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Remaining Free Agents Who Could Still Provide Value
Free agency has come and gone, and now the NFL Draft has too. Despite this there are a few players who remain NFL free agents and could provide value in the 2023 season. Most of these players offer name value more than anything else right now, but there’s still a chance that they can help […]
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Michael Dolan
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Draft Round 2 Takeaways
Day 2 of the NFL Draft is in the books and for fantasy purposes, it is always the most exciting because this is where we see so many skill position players selected. Friday proved no different, as quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and tight ends came flying off the board, setting the stage for the […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Draft Round 1 Takeaways
The NFL Draft never disappoints.  Thursday Night’s first round brought a flurry of trades that triggered a myriad of reactions across social media.  It is rare that trades occur during the draft, but the list of Day 1 moves made for superb content.  There were six trades in total that occur after the draft officially […]
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FTN Staff