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June 5, 2023

Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 New Orleans Saints

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 […]

Daniel Kelley

NFL Fantasy

June 5, 2023

2023 Fantasy Football Draft Strategy: ADP Rumblings (6/6)

Fantasy football drafts are just around the corner as we enter the dog days of summer. That means that more and more fantasy drafts are taking place (especially on sites like Underdog Fantasy), which is making ADP more and more clear. As more data comes in, we will get a better picture of players moving […]

Dan Fornek

NFL Fantasy

June 3, 2023

2023 NFL Team Offseason Roundup: Miami Dolphins

It’s time to look ahead to the 2023 NFL season! Follow along with all our fantasy football team offseason roundups here. It’s been a very busy NFL offseason, with free agent signings, coaching changes and several new players entering the league via the NFL Draft. As we prepare for the 2023 fantasy football season, it’s […]

Scott Spratt

NFL Fantasy

June 3, 2023

2023 NFL Team Offseason Roundup: New England Patriots

It’s time to look ahead to the 2023 NFL season! Follow along with all our fantasy football team offseason roundups here. It’s been a very busy NFL offseason, with free agent signings, coaching changes and several new players entering the league via the NFL Draft. As we prepare for the 2023 fantasy football season, it’s […]

Scott Spratt

NFL Fantasy

June 3, 2023

2023 NFL Team Offseason Roundup: New York Jets

It’s time to look ahead to the 2023 NFL season! Follow along with all our fantasy football team offseason roundups here. It’s been a very busy NFL offseason, with free agent signings, coaching changes and several new players entering the league via the NFL Draft. As we prepare for the 2023 fantasy football season, it’s […]

Scott Spratt

NFL Fantasy

June 3, 2023

2023 NFL Team Offseason Roundup: Buffalo Bills

It’s time to look ahead to the 2023 NFL season! Follow along with all our fantasy football team offseason roundups here. It’s been a very busy NFL offseason, with free agent signings, coaching changes and several new players entering the league via the NFL Draft. As we prepare for the 2023 fantasy football season, it’s […]

Scott Spratt

NFL Fantasy

June 3, 2023

Second-Year Scouting Report: Skyy Moore

As the calendar turns to June, there are less than 100 days until the start of the 2023 NFL season. We are exactly 96 days away from the Thursday night kickoff matchup between the Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs.    Best ball season is in full swing, and redraft leagues will begin shortly. As […]

Mike Randle

NFL Fantasy

June 2, 2023

NFL Splits Tool: The Up-and Down Jets

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 […]

Sam Choudhury

NFL Fantasy

June 2, 2023

2023 Fantasy Football NFL Coaches and Coordinators Breakdowns

Every season, we find examples of NFL coaching staffs either holding a team back or helping them ascend, which directly impacts things in the fantasy football world. Understanding coaching staffs, schemes and tendencies is just one of the many different aspects of fantasy football, so it seems like a logical idea to rank the top […]

Adam Pfeifer

NFL Fantasy

June 2, 2023

Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Carolina Panthers

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 […]

Nick Makowitz

NFL Fantasy

June 2, 2023

Streaming a DST in Fantasy Without Knowing Anything About Football

They say you can’t win your fantasy football league in the first round, but you can lose it. Basically, everyone should be getting an excellent player in the first round, and your job is to just avoid the failures. Sure. Makes sense. The unspoken corollary, then, is that you might not be able to lose […]

Daniel Kelley

NFL Fantasy

June 1, 2023

Second-Year Scouting Report: Kenneth Walker

Every year, a few hundred new players enter the NFL, either through the draft or as a free agent afterward. And understandably, the new crop of players get the big attention from NFL and fantasy football fans alike. That means there is a whole group of rookies from the year before who are now technically […]

Jeremy Popielarz

NFL Fantasy

May 31, 2023

NFL Pass-Catcher Unit Rankings 2023

Our positional rankings series continues at FTN Fantasy with a look at the best pass-catching groups in the NFL. Keep in mind that when compiling these rankings, I am considering running backs and tight ends, too, not strictly the wide receiver position. That certainly changes some things. Let’s go. Follow along with our whole position […]

Adam Pfeifer

NFL Fantasy

May 31, 2023

Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Atlanta Falcons

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 […]

Michael Dolan

NFL Fantasy

May 30, 2023

Second-Year Scouting Reports: Last Year’s Rookie Class, Revisited

It’s true that rookies are the shiny new toy in fantasy football, the piece that can be just about anything. But even though we’ve watched last year’s rookies for (in many cases) a year now, that doesn’t mean we have seen all they are or will ever be. That’s where the Second-Year Scouting Reports come […]

FTN Staff

NFL Fantasy

May 30, 2023

Second-Year Scouting Report: Brock Purdy

We are just two days away from the month of June, which means the countdown to the 2023 NFL season has officially started. There are exactly 100 days left until the Thursday night kickoff matchup between the Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs.    Best ball season is in full swing, and redraft leagues will […]

Mike Randle

NFL Fantasy

May 30, 2023

The Candidates to Be the Overall WR1 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: WRs. This series is as simple as it sounds. We’re going to go through the WRs — in tiers — that have the […]

Tyler Loechner

NFL Fantasy

May 30, 2023

Fantasy Crossroads: The Biggest Draft-Day Conundrums of 2023

The majority of fantasy football advice looks at the macro: Is a player a good investment, a mediocre investment, a bad investment? Does a running back belong in the early rounds, the late rounds, or not at all? It’s obviously the most important part of this whole thing, figuring out who fits in what general […]

Adam Pfeifer

NFL Fantasy

May 30, 2023

2023 Handcuff Rankings: Fantasy Football Running Backs

Now that we have released our NFL backfield rankings (shout out to Scott Spratt for the excellent work), we can start diving into the different backfields in the NFL to determine which handcuffs to target with fantasy football seasons around the corner.   The premise of this article is relatively simple: We are working to identify […]

Dan Fornek

NFL Fantasy

May 29, 2023

Should you draft Bijan Robinson or Jonathan Taylor 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.   Our Fantasy Crossroads series continues with a look at […]

Adam Pfeifer

NFL Fantasy

May 29, 2023

Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Las Vegas Raiders

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 […]

Nick Makowitz

NFL Fantasy

May 26, 2023

Potential Fantasy Landing Spots for DeAndre Hopkins

After an offseason of trade rumors that apparently went nowhere, the Arizona Cardinals gave up on the idea Friday, reportedly releasing veteran WR DeAndre Hopkins. The receiver, who turns 31 next month, immediately becomes a free agent. Hopkins has made five Pro Bowls, including his last three years in Houston in 2017-2019 and his first […]

Daniel Kelley

NFL Fantasy

May 26, 2023

2023 Dynasty Rookie Rankings for Fantasy Football

Dynasty fantasy football rookie draft season is here, so it’s time to finalize our big board for 2023 dynasty rookie fantasy football rankings. With all the dust settled following the draft, we’ve seen a lot of movement in our fantasy football rookie rankings. We have the top 30 listed below, but if you want a […]

Jeff Ratcliffe

NFL Fantasy

May 26, 2023

Sleepers, Busts and Bold Predictions: The 2023 Los Angeles Rams

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 […]

Michael Dolan

NFL Fantasy

May 26, 2023

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 […]

Daniel Kelley

NFL Fantasy

May 25, 2023

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 […]

Nick Makowitz

NFL Fantasy

May 24, 2023

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 […]

Sam Choudhury

NFL Fantasy

May 23, 2023

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 […]

Tyler Loechner

NFL Fantasy

May 23, 2023

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 […]

Dan Fornek

NFL Fantasy

May 22, 2023

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 […]

Adam Pfeifer

NFL Fantasy

May 22, 2023

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 […]

Jeremy Popielarz

NFL Fantasy

May 19, 2023

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 […]

Sam Choudhury