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Remaining Free Agents Who Could Provide Fantasy Football Value
The draft has come and gone, and now the fantasy football community can shift its focus entirely to the regular season … well, almost. We’ve seen plenty of blockbuster moves from this supremely insane offseason, but that doesn’t mean teams are finished polishing their rosters.   While the free agent pool has dried up significantly, […]
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Nick Makowitz
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Longest-Tenured Player
Most of our quizzes focus on the fantasy football side of things. But today, we’re doing a little pivot, and this might be a particularly hard one: Can you identify the longest-tenured player currently on each NFL team? We have players who have been with their team for 17 years, and players who have been […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Veteran Winners and Losers of the 2022 NFL Draft
Most of the attention of NFL Draft weekend is concentrated, very understandably, on the draft picks. We just saw 262 young men have the single biggest piece of their future decided for them, with another large handful getting signed as undrafted free agents, and they will help to shape the fantasy football landscape for the […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Active PPR Point Leader
For much of this week, the Quiz of the Day has centered on the active leaders in the various types of yards (rushing, receiving and passing) for each NFL team. But we’re here to talk fantasy, so let’s bring it all together today: Can you name the active leader in PPR points for all 32 […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Active Passing Leader
Unlike our recent quizzes on the active rushing leaders and active receiving leaders for all 32 NFL teams, the question of which active players lead each franchise in passing yards is probably going to garner fewer surprises. The list is populated mostly by big names who had long tenures with their respective teams. So much […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Vacated Opportunity: Which Teams Have the Biggest Holes to Fill Entering the Draft?
The 2022 NFL Draft has arrived, which means it’s time to take an updated look at vacated opportunities around the league. We did this right before free agency, but obviously all of those moves shook everything up. And while there is really no longer a “clean” way to do vacated opportunities (players switching from Team […]
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Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy Football Draft Strategy: ADP Rumblings (4/27)
Over the course of the offseason, fantasy football average draft positions are going to continue to change. So every few weeks here at FTN Fantasy, we will take a look at what stands out. And with the NFL Draft just a little over a day away, so much more is going to change, so let’s […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Active Receiving Leader
In our offseason of wide receiver upheaval around the NFL, a lot of active team leaders in receiving yards find themselves on different teams heading into the 2022 season. The active career leader in receiving yards for seven different franchises (so far?) appear to have played their last season for the team they are leading […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Active Rushing Leader
Even in our modern “running backs don’t matter” landscape, some backs rack up some major yardage for their teams. Six active players have at least 5,000 rushing yards for a single team, including one player over 11,000. So let’s test your memory. Today’s Quiz of the Day asks how many teams’ active rushing leaders you […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Best Fantasy Rookie Seasons for an Undrafted Free Agent, Last 10 Years
You’d always rather be drafted than not in the NFL, but sliding through the seven rounds without hearing your name called isn’t a death knell. In the last decade, 19 players at the skill positions have put up at least 100 PPR points as a rookie despite not getting drafted, including some of the game’s […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Best Fantasy Rookie Seasons for a Day 3 Pick, Last 10 Years
It might be harder to find immediate fantasy contributors on Day 3 of the NFL Draft, but it is by no means impossible. The Cowboys found their franchise quarterback in the fourth round in 2016. A fifth-round receiver in 2016 just got traded for a massive haul a few weeks ago. One from 2015 is […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Football Mock Drafts: A Rookie Mock Before the NFL Draft
The NFL Draft is less than a week away. Here at FTN, we have been preparing in a ton of ways.  One way has been a pre-draft rookie mock to get a feel of where players are going and how they are being valued. Of course, a lot is going to change once landing spots […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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The Candidates to Be the Overall TE1 in 2022
Rostering the highest-scoring player at a position feels a lot like having a superpower in fantasy leagues. You just know that player is going to deliver for your fantasy squad every week. We’ve taken a look at the top candidates to be overall fantasy QB1 in 2022, and the WR1 candidates too. And I still […]
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Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Best Fantasy Rookie Seasons for a Day 2 Pick, Last 10 Years
The first round of the NFL Draft gets the headlines, but there is plenty of fantasy value to be found after that. Day 2 Friday brings us the second and third rounds of this year’s draft, and there have been a world of fantasy stars found in the second and third rounds of recent drafts, […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Which Teams Have Picked First Overall in the 2000s?
The 2022 NFL Draft is mere hours away from starting, with the Jacksonville Jaguars selecting first overall for the second year in a row. As fate would have it, since the turn of the century, exactly half of the league’s 32 teams have picked first overall in the draft, which means exactly half of the […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: The Last 25 No. 1 Overall Draft Picks
We’re only a day away from the start of the 2022 NFL Draft. There’s more mystery about who will go No. 1 overall than there has been in several drafts, but whoever it is will get added to an illustrious list that includes 50 Pro-Bowlers and 14 Hall of Famers. Lot of big names, right? […]
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Daniel Kelley
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The Candidates to Be the Overall WR1 in 2022
Rostering the highest-scoring player at a position feels a lot like having a superpower in fantasy leagues. You just know that player is going to deliver for your fantasy squad every week. We’ve taken a look at the top candidates to be overall fantasy QB1 in 2022, and the WR1 candidates too. Now it’s time […]
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Tyler Loechner
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most Rookie Fantasy Points for Each Draft Slot, 2012-2021
Teams and fans alike envision their first-round picks in the NFL Draft coming in right away and producing in a big way. Sometimes they do! And of course, sometimes they don’t. In the last 10 years, for example, no one picked ninth overall at a fantasy position has put up more than, ahem, -0.8 PPR […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Offseason Winners and Losers: Offensive Line
The NFL offseason has finally slowed down as teams shift their focus to improving through the draft. From a fantasy perspective, one of the most important positions that receive very little attention is the offensive line group. Yes, offensive linemen don’t do the most important thing for fantasy managers, which is score points. However, 45% […]
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Dan Fornek
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most 2021 Fantasy Points for Each Power-5 School
With the 2022 NFL Draft this week, this week’s slate of quizzes will all be draft-related in some way. That start with today, and our look at the top fantasy performers from 2021 for each Power-5 school. Fun fact: Neither of 2021’s top two fantasy performers (Cooper Kupp and Josh Allen) played for a Power-5 […]
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Daniel Kelley
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The Candidates to Be the Overall RB1 in 2022
Rostering the highest-scoring player at a position feels a lot like having a superpower in fantasy leagues. You just know that player is going to deliver for your fantasy squad every week. We’ve taken a look at the top candidates to be overall fantasy QB1 in 2022. Now it’s time to review which RBs have […]
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Tyler Loechner
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So You Got Traded: The Fantasy Football Values of the Offseason’s Top Traded Players
The 2022 NFL offseason resembled that of a Madden franchise. We saw trade after trade after trade, unlike anything we’ve ever seen from a football offseason. And so many of these moves featured some of the top players in all of fantasy football.   Today, we’re taking a look at fallout of the trades. So […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most Fantasy Points, QBs Under 6 Feet Tall
It’s hard to be a (relatively) short NFL quarterback. Big athletes on both sides, some of them trying to knock you down, all of them hard to see over – it’s no wonder teams want their signal callers to be of at least above-average height. In fact, since the 1970 merger, only one quarterback listed […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most Top-12 PPR Finishes, Last 2 Years
A top-12 weekly fantasy finish isn’t the be all, end all of fantasy relevance, but it’s an excellent shorthand. A lot of relatively anonymous players can do it once, but doing it over and over really tells you something. If you lead your position in top-12 weekly finishes, odds are you had one of the […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Football Rankings for the USFL
The USFL is almost here, and that means the chance for some more fantasy football. If you’re thinking of starting an USFL fantasy football league, we have you covered here at FTN.   To be clear, alternative pro football leagues don’t necessarily have the best track record, given the AAF’s complete flame out in 2019 […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: The Longest Touchdowns of the 2021 Season
The longest two touchdowns of the 2021 NFL season were both scored by the same guy, and they were scored in consecutive weeks. Do you remember the hype after those two touchdowns? For a few days, that player was super famous, despite being in his fifth season and having all of 5 career touchdowns before […]
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Daniel Kelley
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The Candidates to Be the Overall QB1 in 2022
Rostering the highest-scoring player at a position feels a lot like having a superpower in fantasy leagues. You just know that player is going to deliver for your fantasy squad every week. And owning the overall QB1 is often as good as it gets, as QBs typically score more points than any other position in […]
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Tyler Loechner
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2022 Fantasy Football Breakout Candidates
One of the key player types to look out for in fantasy football drafts is the breakout. If you can get an ascending talent before his value spikes, you can get a prime return on your draft investment.    Whether the breakout year comes from a veteran who finally finds the right situation or a […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Team’s Week 1 Starting QB, Last 8 Years
Today’s quiz if a big one: Can you name every team’s Week 1 starting quarterback over the last eight years? Obviously, the starting quarterback is the most important position, so getting every name on this list should be easy, right? In some cases, yes! Five teams have had the same Week 1 start in every […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Best Fantasy Seasons By Age
Aging curves are crazy in football these days. The best season ever for a 21-year-old came in 2017; the best season ever for a 44-year-old came in 2021. Players of all types are succeeding younger than ever these days, and players – well, one specific player, who you will definitely guess – is totally breaking […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Every Active Player with a No. 1 Fantasy Finish
Famously, over the last 19 years, there have been 19 different players finish as the RB1 in PPR leagues. But it’s worth noting that repeating as the top scorer at any position is a tough game. We had the same QB1 in 2020-2021, the first time a player has gone back-to-back since Daunte Culpepper in […]
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Daniel Kelley
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Fantasy Quiz of the Day: Most Career Touchdowns, Active Players
Yardage is a big deal, but nothing matters more for fantasy football than touchdowns. So today’s Quiz of the Day wonders how many of the top touchdown scorers among active players you can name. We have the top 25 active touchdown scorers – rushing scores and receiving combined – in today’s quiz, and your only […]
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Daniel Kelley