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NFL Bets
2022 NFL Player Prop Betting Guide
One of the most exciting parts of every NFL offseason is when sportsbooks release their first player props. It’s sometimes a slow rollout, but as the season approaches, bettors can find passing, rushing, receiving and defensive props for almost any player.   The player prop market is one where bettors – and fantasy football players […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Crossroads: Justin Herbert vs. Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes has been maybe the league’s best quarterback for a few years now, but Justin Herbert could make a case to supplant him as soon as this season. But which elite signal caller should lead your fantasy football rosters for 2022? The consistent, elite Mahomes or the ascending Herbert?   Let’s find out which […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
2022 Fantasy Coaching & Coordinator Breakdown: Indianapolis Colts
The Colts are coming off an up-and-down 2021 season where they looked at points like a legitimate AFC contender. However, there were also stretches where they didn’t, which is why they found themselves out of the playoffs. Frank Reich enters his fifth season as the head coach, while the Colts will have a new defensive […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Wide Receiver Rankings 2022
These are the WR rankings for 2022. There will be three sections. First off are the top 30 receivers in football heading into 2022, but then we’ll follow that with bounceback veterans — players with top-30 potential looking for a rebound — and young guys to keep an eye on — players looking to take […]
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Bryon Cook
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NFL Fantasy
Deja Vu: Who is This Year’s Leonard Fournette in Fantasy Football?
When it comes to fantasy football, using the past to predict the future is something I love to do, especially when it comes to taking an analytical approach. While nothing is a perfect science when it comes to predicting sports, we know that if we can find someone in our drafts to repeat the success […]
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Kyle Murray
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NFL Fantasy
Worst Fantasy Football Draft Pick by Round: 2022
Fantasy football draft season has arrived, and it’s time to mark your 2022 cheat sheets with your favorite targets in each round — and cross off the names you should avoid at cost.   This article will review the worst picks in each round for your fantasy football draft strategy in 2022. Average draft position […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL DFS
PrizePicks Plays of the Day for Thursday (8/11)
Welcome to the PrizePicks Play of the Day. If you are new to PrizePicks, it is a simple game where you choose the over or under on multiple picks (between 2 and 5). Different payouts are available depending on the style of the play and how many picks you to do in each play. You […]
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Kyle Murray
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NFL DFS
DFS Picks and Plays for NFL Preseason Week 1 (Thursday)
The volatile Hall of Fame Game is behind us, and now we get to dive into some preseason classic NFL DFS slates. You are going to want to be in the NFL Discord as lock approaches so that you don’t miss any late breaking news, depth chart changes or any other evolving thoughts we may […]
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Walter Waddell
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NFL DFS
CFL DFS Plays for Week 10
It’s Week 10 in the CFL, and this season truly is just flying right by. We have plenty of data at this point to make informed DFS decisions at every position but with a handful teams struggling and the injury bug working its way through the league, things are still a bit tricky. In this […]
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Walter Waddell
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Mock Drafts: A 12-Team PPR Mock Before the Season
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Michael Dolan
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NFL Fantasy
2022 Late-Season Hammers in Best Ball Fantasy Football
Underdog Fantasy has launched the largest best ball tournament in history, featuring 451,200 entries and $10 million in total prizes. 30% of the prize pool will be split among three entries, including $2 million to first, $1 million to second, and $1 million to the highest-scoring team in the regular season (Weeks 1-14). Drafts consist […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
Best Fantasy Football Draft Pick by Round: 2022
Fantasy football draft season has arrived, and it’s time to mark your 2022 cheat sheets with your favorite targets in each round. You’ve come to the right spot. This article will review the best picks in each round for your fantasy football draft strategy in 2022. Average draft position data comes from FTN’s Underdog ADP […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Scott Spratt’s Top 20 Fantasy Football TE Rankings and Stats 2022
My preseason ranking annotations find their end at tight end. And while uncrowded top tiers led me to a chalky top 10 at the position, possibilities for increased target shares and better touchdown fortune have catapulted a few of my TE2 preferences to five or more spots ahead of their average draft positions.   You […]
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Scott Spratt
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NFL Fantasy
Second-Year Scouting Report: Khalil Herbert
Rookies get all the attention. They’re the flashy new piece that could be anything. And then a class of rookies comes through and they’re old news, replaced by the next flashy, new thing. But last year’s rookies aren’t gone, and in many cases, they’re going to be even better than the exciting new pieces that […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Draft Strategy: Capitalizing on Host Site ADP Discrepancies
Many of us often forget what a small bubble fantasy football Twitter is. There are certainly even folks reading this who aren’t active there and don’t have the time to scroll and keep up with all the takes. According to a FSGA study in 2021, over 40 million individuals in the United States play fantasy […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL Fantasy
2022 Fantasy Coaching & Coordinator Breakdown: Cincinnati Bengals
The Cincinnati Bengals had a magical 2021 season, coming up just a few plays short of a Super Bowl victory. Entering the 2022 campaign, the regime in Cincinnati is mostly the same, while the offense made some key additions this offseason, potentially making this unit even more productive.    Let’s look at how the team’s […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Cornerback Rankings 2022
These are the top 30 CB rankings heading into the start of the 2022 NFL season. This takes into account both slot cornerbacks and inside cornerbacks, rather than splitting them into separate categories.   The guys that generally rank higher have shown an ability to excel in both aspects of man and zone coverage as […]
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Bryon Cook
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Draft Strategy: ADP Rumblings (8/10)
ADP data keeps rolling in meaning we have new trends to track as we get closer and closer to fantasy football draft season. The Hall of Fame game has passed and this weekend we get to enjoy a full slate of preseason games, meaning ADP is going to move rapidly and with reckless abandon.   […]
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Dan Fornek
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NFL Fantasy
Second-Year Scouting Report: Kenneth Gainwell
There’s nothing quite like the allure of a promising NFL rookie. Their unproven nature oftentimes leads to ADPs being inflated with optimism, but that same optimism tends to vanish if the player doesn’t produce right out of the gates. This volatility is stressful for many, but it presents a golden opportunity for the savvy fantasy […]
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Michael Dolan
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NFL Fantasy
2022 Early-Season Producers in Best Ball Fantasy Football
Underdog Fantasy has launched the largest best ball tournament in history, featuring 451,200 entries and $10 million in total prizes. 30% of the prize pool will be split among three entries, including $2 million to first, $1 million to second, and $1 million to the highest-scoring team in the regular season (Weeks 1-14). Drafts consist […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
Scott Spratt’s Top 20 Fantasy Football QB Rankings and Stats 2022
My annotated fantasy rankings series continues on Day 2 with quarterbacks. And as rushing has become a bigger and bigger part of the modern position, you will find that rushing touchdown luck plays as much a part of my preferences versus ADP at this position as it did for running backs.   You can find […]
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Scott Spratt
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NFL Fantasy
2022 Fantasy Football Auction Draft Strategy
Auction drafts aren’t as common as their snake draft counterparts in fantasy football, but it’s an exciting format that every fantasy football player should try. Where snake drafts are checkers, auction drafts are chess. Auctions have a much more nuanced strategy and give you the possibility for a wider set of outcomes for your rosters.  […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
2022 Fantasy Coaching & Coordinator Breakdown: Los Angeles Chargers
You can legitimately make the argument that the 2022 Los Angeles Chargers have the best roster in the NFL.   It should lead to the first playoff appearance of Justin Herbert’s young career, especially with the defense set to vastly improve. The Chargers have an aggressive head coach and an experienced offensive coordinator, but what […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
NFL Quarterback Rankings 2022
Below are the 2022 NFL QB rankings as it pertains to projected starters. There does include a few interesting QB battles that will make the list go to 36 players. These players will be grouped in different tiers.   (Check out my other player rankings so far: Cornerback | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | Running Backs | […]
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Bryon Cook
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NFL Fantasy
Second-Year Scouting Report: Elijah Mitchell
Rookies get all the attention. They’re the flashy new piece that could be anything. And then a class of rookies comes through and they’re old news, replaced by the next flashy, new thing. But last year’s rookies aren’t gone, and in many cases, they’re going to be even better than the exciting new pieces that […]
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Nick Makowitz
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NFL Fantasy
Scott Spratt’s Top 40 Fantasy Football RB Rankings and Stats 2022
As the new player on the FTN fantasy football campus, I’m late to the rankings party for the 2022 season. And in what I can only assume is a hazing ritual that I somehow forced on myself, I am pulling back the curtain on my rankings by sharing the stats that motivated my choices for […]
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Scott Spratt
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NFL Fantasy
Pope’s Pick 6: Wide Receiver Rooms to Avoid in Fantasy Football
With all the high-powered offenses emerging throughout the league, more and more wide receivers are becoming fantasy viable. On the flip side, there are still those teams that struggle to produce any viable options.    Avoiding these players can help you significantly, especially in PPR formats. With that in mind, I have compiled a list […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
Second-Year Scouting Report: DeVonta Smith
Rookies get all the attention. They’re the flashy new piece that could be anything. And then a class of rookies comes through and they’re old news, replaced by the next flashy, new thing. But last year’s rookies aren’t gone, and in many cases, they’re going to be even better than the exciting new pieces that […]
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Nick Makowitz
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NFL Fantasy
2022 Fantasy Coaching & Coordinator Breakdown: Seattle Seahawks
Things continue to change in Seattle. Russell Wilson, the greatest player in Seahawks franchise history, is no longer with the team, while the defense has seemingly taken a step back each of the last five or six seasons. What will the Seahawks look like in 2022?   Let’s take a look at how the team’s […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Pope’s Pick 6: Running Back Rooms to Avoid in Fantasy Football
Welcome to Pope’s Pick 6. Twice a week I’ll be bringing you a quick look at my fantasy football thoughts in quick-hit form. Today: Running back rooms I’m not even bothering with in fantasy football this season.   “Running back by committee” — The four most dreaded words when it comes to running back fantasy […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
Biggest ADP Discrepancies in Best Ball Fantasy Football
Underdog Fantasy has launched the largest best ball tournament in history, featuring 451,200 entries and $10 million in total prizes. 30% of the prize pool will be split among three entries, including $2 million to first, $1 million to second and $1 million to the highest-scoring team in the regular season (Weeks 1-14). Drafts consist […]
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Sam Choudhury
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NFL Fantasy
Deja Vu: Who is This Year’s Ja’Marr Chase in Fantasy Football?
When it comes to fantasy football, using the past to predict the future is something I love to do, especially when it comes to taking an analytical approach. While nothing is a perfect science when it comes to predicting sports, we know that if we can find someone in our drafts to repeat the success […]
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Kyle Murray