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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football flex rankings for Week 6
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time to break out the flex fantasy football rankings for Week 5 of the 2021 NFL season. If you’re new to the concept of flex rankings, these are simply the combined overall rankings for running back, wide receiver, and tight end for each week during the fantasy football season. […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
Streaming DSTs for Week 6 in fantasy football
Streaming defense/special teams has been a fantasy football strategy for as long as I have played the game. More times than not I’m not going to be looking to get attached to any particular DST due to the schedule/matchups and being able to churn and burn via free agency.  Listed below are DST that I’m […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Streaming TEs for Week 6 in fantasy football
The tight end position continues to have a wide range of outcomes when it comes to fantasy points scored compared to their roster percentage. The top-five in fantasy points scored in Week 5 were Mark Andrews, David Njoku, Kyle Pitts, Dawson Knox and Hunter Henry. This was the second week in a row Travis Kelce […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football trade targets – Week 6
Five weeks of the NFL season are in the books, so it’s time to take a look at the Week 6 fantasy football trade targets. The goal here is to highlight a few players who have seen their stock rise and fall, which ultimately leads to buy-low and sell-high trade targets in fantasy football. If […]
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Chris Meaney
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NFL DFS
Top 5 NFL DFS slate-breakers for Week 6
Welcome to our newest article in DFS analysis: Slate Breakers. The phrase “break the slate” is tossed around often in the DFS world, and for good reason. First, it just sounds cool. And second, because it’s actually true.  Think of all fantasy points scored each week as a gravitational pull. When fantasy points are bell-curve […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL DFS
DFS Wins of the Week (10/13)
This quick article is going to highlight some huge DFS wins from DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo and SuperDraft that our FTN family hit this week. It doesn’t matter if its NFL, MLB, NBA, PGA or even eSports, if someone made a huge return on their money, we want to celebrate it. Take a look at some […]
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David Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Matt’s Musings | NFL Data Study, Week 6
Every Monday, I find myself in a bit of NFL data purgatory. We’re waiting for the week to come to a proper ending and the data is still yet to be finalized. It’s a great time, however, to look at some historical trends and do some digging on some things we can leverage in the […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart – Week 6
Welcome to FTN’s Week 6 fantasy football trade value chart, where we provide you with relative values for every fantasy-relevant player for the rest of the season to help you make a trade. The trade value chart is based on a 12-team league that starts 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, 1 TE and 1 […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
Dynasty moves to make entering Week 6
In dynasty leagues, it’s important to be ahead of the curve. If you’re one step ahead of your league mates in your transactions, then you can take advantage of windows to roster players before the market corrects or wises up. That’s what we’ll be covering weekly here — players to add, hold, or scrap from […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL Fantasy
Week 6 fantasy football waiver wire rankings
It’s time for the Week 6 fantasy football waiver wire. Fantasy waivers can often make or break your season. Making the right decision on which players to add and drop is crucial, so we have you set up with a deep list of potential waiver wire adds for Week 6. We cast a wide net […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
High-stakes fantasy Week 5 thoughts
It’s important each week of the NFL season to step back and take stock of what we saw in the previous week so we can properly prepare for the week to come. Each week, I’ll be offering my thoughts on what we saw. Here are my quick fantasy football thoughts from all the Week 4 […]
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Nelson Sousa
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NFL Bets
NFL betting trends entering Week 6
The results of Week 5 around the NFL are in, and it was a more straightforward week of NFL betting. Good teams won a lot of games. The ones that did lose lost to other good teams. We did have a few upsets, but they were not massive surprises. We had a few almost upsets […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Streaming QBs for Week 6 in fantasy football
Last week was another solid week for streaming quarterbacks in fantasy football, as Matt Ryan and Trevor Lawrence came through for us. Hopefully you went that route over Zach Wilson and Mac Jones, as they were disappointing. I’m excited for Week 6 as there are a couple of quarterbacks I feel really good about this […]
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Matthew Davis
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NFL Fantasy
NFL FAAB Strategy for Week 6
This weekly column will serve as a supplement of our traditional FAAB column, but with its own spin. Specifically, for the many of you who play higher stakes at NFFC and FFPC. The basis for our weekly bid review will the $350 NFFC Online Championship (OC). It’s the perfect weekly framework for our purposes for […]
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Vlad Sedler
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NFL DFS
Single-entry lineup review for Week 5
Each week throughout the NFL season, I’ll review my single-entry DFS lineup, as well as a couple others. I will also track success rates throughout the season. The criteria for the other lineups to make the article (and tracking) will be over 10% of my overall investment. This week, that includes: Single-entry lineup The goal […]
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Alex Blickle
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NFL DFS
Showdown ownership projections and picks for MNF | Week 5
First, a snapshot of the current ownership projections: The goal of this article is to use ownership to find paths to GPP success through the use of standard correlation and correlated leverage. I will be heavily referencing Derek Brown’s article, as well – the man is sharp! Game Script Builds Baltimore onslaught We always associate […]
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Alex Blickle
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NFL DFS
Monday Night Football: DFS Showdown Strategy
This article is going to take you through my Showdown thought process for FanDuel and DraftKings. The two different sites have very different strategies at rostering CPT or MVP and Flex players. I am focusing heavily on MME strategy, but will also list my top plays in order for single entry.   General Rules I use […]
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David Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football waiver wire targets for Week 6
Every Monday during the NFL season, I am going to be presenting you with my top three waiver wire claims to prioritize for your fantasy football teams. I will also include a shortlist of other options. These are players worth consideration if your team is in a bind, but not ones that take priority over […]
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Joe Metz
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NFL Fantasy
Matchups to target for Week 6 in fantasy football
Week 5 of the NFL is just about in the books, but I am already looking forward to fantasy football in Week 6. It is always fun to look ahead at the next slate and make a mental note of some of the players with the best matchups and now that we are five weeks […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy football preview for Week 6
We are now just about five weeks into the NFL season, and plenty continues to change in the fantasy football landscape. Keeping track of notable information and applying it going forward can be very important to your fantasy success and with bye weeks starting in Week 6, it becomes even more important.  Let’s take a […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL DFS
MNF Showdown Breakdown – Indianapolis Colts vs. Baltimore Ravens
Monday night’s game features two teams heading in opposite directions. The Colts are limping into this game at 1-3, while the Ravens can improve to 4-1 and puff out their bird chests as the top team in the AFC North. Indy will have their hands full with Lamar Jackson in this game.  Indianapolis Colts vs. […]
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Derek Brown
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NFL DFS
NFL DFS Week in Review – Ownership, GPP Winning Lineups
The Week 5 main slate is officially in the books. The 1 p.m. EST window was wacky, highlighted by the Packers vs. Bengals. Neither team wanted to win, with the two kickers combined for five missed field goals at the end of regular and overtime. Things weren’t quite as wild in the late afternoon games, […]
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Matt LaMarca
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NFL DFS
Sunday Night Football: DFS Showdown Strategy
This article is going to take you through my Showdown thought process for FanDuel and DraftKings. The two different sites have very different strategies at rostering CPT or MVP and Flex players. I am focusing heavily on MME strategy, but will also list my top plays in order for a single entry.   General Rules I […]
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David Jones
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NFL DFS
MagicSportsGuide Week 5 DFS breakdown
Welcome to The Breakdown for Week 5, a deep game-by-game breakdown that covers game theory as well as player/game analysis for the full NFL weekend DFS slate. If you have been with me from a past life, welcome back! I know there are many game-by-game articles out there, so I truly appreciate the loyalty. I […]
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Kevin Adams
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NFL DFS
Must Javs: NFL DFS locks for Week 5
Welcome, football fans. I’m back again to break down my DFS “Must Javs” for Week 4 of the NFL season. This is the time of the year where I am most locked in. I qualified for the maximum number of entries in the FanDuel live final in 2019 and NFL was my most profitable sport […]
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Javi Prellezo
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NFL DFS
SNF Showdown Breakdown: NFL DFS Week 5
Showdown slates are some of the best sweats that NFL DFS has to offer. If you’re building lineups correctly, you can take advantage of these quick sweats week in and week out. I’ll be going through position-by-position to break down everything you need to know for the showdown slate that night.  What Does Vegas Think? […]
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Matt Jones
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NFL Fantasy
Sunday Football Locks and DFS Breakdown – Week 5
QB Tom Brady Kyler Murray RB Derrick Henry Aaron Jones Ezekiel Elliott Damien Williams Chuba Hubbard WR Davante Adams Chris Godwin DeAndre Hopkins Mike Evans A.J. Brown Jaylen Waddle TE Mike Gesicki Hunter Henry Dan Arnold DEF Minnesota Vikings New England Patriots Bets Tampa Bay Buccaneers -10 Arizona Cardinals -5 Note: There’s still some injury […]
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Nelson Sousa
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NFL Bets
Monday Night Football Betting Breakdown
Week 5 comes to a close with a Monday Night Football showdown between the Indianapolis Colts and Baltimore Ravens. The Colts managed to get in the win column last week with a victory over the Dolphins, while the Ravens have racked up three wins through their first four games. The Ravens are the clear better […]
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Matt LaMarca
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NFL DFS
TwoGun’s core NFL DFS picks for Week 5
As we head into the Week 5 NFL DFS main slate, I haven’t seen so many important truly questionable tags on running backs in a very long time. Don’t get married to your lineups this week, since you might be editing them last minute due to injury updates. It makes having a “core” a bit […]
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Michael Cohen
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NFL DFS
Top 10 DFS plays under 10% for Week 5
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Eliot Crist
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NFL DFS
SuperDraft DFS picks and predictions for Week 5
Week 5’s main NFL DFS slate is approaching, and for the first time this season, there are only 12 games on the slate instead of 13, given the game between the Jets and Falcons kicking off at 9:30 a.m. ET in London. As I have every week so far, I will be providing my top […]
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Joe Metz
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NFL Bets
Top 3 NFL DraftKings betting picks for Week 5
Across the sports betting market, there tends to be strong uniformity in NFL sides, totals and moneylines — but not total uniformity. Using our NFL odds page to lineshop, I’ve identified the following three lines that right now offer the most value at DraftKings Sportsbook relative to the rest of the market. For my best Week 4 […]
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FTN Staff