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2024 NFL Draft Scouting Report: Devontez Walker
Last Updated: 2/21/2024   Devontez Walker has had a turbulent and uphill climb to get to this point in his career. He started with a commitment to NC Central, but an ACL injury and the pandemic year caused him to transfer to Kent State. He had two impressive years there, earning first-team All-MAC Honors in […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
Players to Watch at the 2024 NFL Combine
The NFL offseason is in full swing, and the NFL Combine is upon us. Obviously, it’s a pivotal week for many of the incoming rookies, with some looking to cement their draft stock and others looking to shoot up draft boards.   With that, we have to take a look at the over 300 prospects […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football 2024 Bounceback Candidates
The Super Bowl isn’t even three weeks removed, but our attentions are already turned to the 2024 NFL and fantasy football season.   There is no denying the frustration and disappointment you feel when drafting a player relatively high in drafts, only for them to massively disappoint. And while it may feel easy to simply […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Fantasy Football Free Agents in Dynasty Leagues
With March 13 on the horizon, we need to take a break from rookie content to peek at just how strong this free-agent class is this year. As dynasty managers, staying ahead of the curve is vital, so understanding who could see a value spike or decline after free agency is pivotal to sustained success.  […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
Best Ball Drafts: What We’ve Learned So Far in 2024
The week after Super Bowl LVIII is the official end of the 2023 NFL season, but it also signals the start of 2024 best ball drafting! Underdog Fantasy immediately posted two 2024 Pre-Draft Best Ball contests: The Big Board and The Little Board. Both are the standard best ball format with 20 players on each […]
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Mike Randle
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NFL Fantasy
2024 NFL Draft: First Round and Full Draft Order
The 2023 NFL season is now complete, the Kansas City Chiefs have hoisted the Lombardi Trophy, and now we can all turn our attentions to the 2024 NFL Draft. In addition to finishing off the season, last week’s Super Bowl gave us the last piece of information we needed for our draft prep: The final […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
Potential Injury Discounts in 2024 Fantasy Football
You draft a player in the middle to late rounds of your fantasy football draft, they appear to be a league-winner and suddenly they go down with an injury. Just like that, their season is over and you’re left wondering what if. There’s nothing worse. Except wet socks. Or stepping on a pile of Legos. […]
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Adam Pfeifer
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NFL Fantasy
Who Should Be 1.01 in 2024 Fantasy Football Drafts?
Each year at FTN, I’m tasked with identifying who should be the 1.01 in next year’s (2024) fantasy football drafts. In 2022, I picked Christian McCaffrey (correct). In 2023, I picked CMC again (correct again).  So who is it going to be in 2024? Well, probably CMC again … but let’s make the case for […]
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Tyler Loechner
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NFL Fantasy
QB Carousel – Who Will Start for All 32 NFL Teams in Week 1 2024?
This offseason, there are somewhere between two and five quarterbacks in this year’s NFL Draft who could start in Week 1 for whatever team they land on. There are somewhere between two and five quarterbacks on the trade/free agent market who could say the same. And there are somewhere between 10 and 15 teams that […]
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FTN Staff
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CFB NFL Fantasy
2024 NFL Draft Scouting Report: Drake Maye
Last Updated: 2/16/2024   As a true freshman, Drake Maye saw almost no action for North Carolina, but he exploded in 2022, leading the ACC in passing yards (4,321), completions (342) and passing touchdowns (38). We saw him take a step back statistically in 2023 after UNC lost multiple pieces of his supporting cast to […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Fantasy
2024 NFL Free Agent Rankings: Top 75 Players Available
The 2023 NFL season has officially come to an end, which means it is time to look ahead to 2024 — starting with the top NFL free agent players available. Teams will start evaluating their rosters and analyzing the free agents to see which holes they can fill on their roster ahead of the 2024 […]
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Dan Fornek
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NFL DVOA
Dynasty Rankings Update 2024
The Kansas City Chiefs were already a dynasty. But now they’re a Dynasty, capital-D, all rights reserved. After the NFL’s 100th season in 2019, I went back on our old website and attempted to systematically rank every dynasty in the history of the league, casting a wide net to attempt to catch any sustained period […]
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Bryan Knowles
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NFL Fantasy
Mike Randle’s 2024 NFL Mock Draft 1.0
It is time.  The 2024 NFL Draft is a little over two months away, and it’s time to start analyzing team needs and potential landing spots for players. Gathering information and trying to predict the first round is one of my favorite exercises of the sports year. This season brings even more uncertainty, as there […]
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Mike Randle
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NFL Fantasy
What We Learned in 2023 for Fantasy Football: IDP Leagues
Before we start drafting defensive players for our 2024 fantasy football teams, we pause to look back at the 2023 season to see what lessons can be learned.    Whether you finished first, last or somewhere in between, I think we can all become a better fantasy managers by digging into our successes and failures […]
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Leo McNeeley
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NFL Fantasy
2024 NFL Offseason Fantasy Football Wish List: NFC
With the Super Bowl in the rearview, it’s time to turn our attention to the 2024 NFL and fantasy football season. (No I’m not letting the season breathe, this is way more fun.)  Every offseason, my first exercise is trying to sketch out an idea of what the offseason might look like. Obviously there’s more […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL Bets
NFL 2024 Super Bowl Odds and Best Bets
The Chiefs are once again champions of the NFL, winning back-to-back Super Bowls for the first time since the Patriots nearly two decades ago. Patrick Mahomes won his third Super Bowl MVP and totaled 333 yards and two touchdowns through the air, with an additional 66 yards on the ground.    Like the Patriots, the […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Fantasy
2024 NFL Offseason Fantasy Football Wish List: AFC
With the Super Bowl in the rearview, it’s time to turn our attention to the 2024 NFL and fantasy football season. (No I’m not letting the season breathe, this is way more fun.)  Every offseason, my first exercise is trying to sketch out an idea of what the offseason might look like. Obviously there’s more […]
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Daniel Kelley
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NFL DVOA
Super Bowl LVIII DVOA and Quick Reads
The Kansas City Chiefs ended up with a higher DVOA than the San Francisco 49ers in their Super Bowl LVIII win. But as you might imagine given how good the Niners were in the regular season, that’s because of opponent adjustments. As befits a game where the Chiefs recovered six of seven fumbles including both […]
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Aaron Schatz
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NFL DFS
Super Bowl DFS Showdown: 49ers vs. Chiefs
The Super Bowl is here, as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers Sunday night in Las Vegas. This article will give you my DFS showdown picks and strategy for DraftKings and FanDuel.  I tend to go with a correlated build that tells a story. I find that wins more than it […]
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David Jones
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NFL DFS
NFL DFS Injury Report: Super Bowl
Fortunately, there is not a rash of injuries that should hurt this year’s Super Bowl. The San Francisco 49ers have a clean injury report as far as anyone being listed as questionable while the Chiefs are only missing one key player for the offense and defense.  Check out the injury report heading into the Super […]
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Adam Strangis
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NFL Bets
Gross Bombs: Super Bowl NFL Props
We have reached the final game of the 2023 NFL season, as we’ve hit the Super Bowl! As you’ll see across FTN Bets, there will be numerous pieces of content, as well as our terrific statistical tools available to all subscribers. If you haven’t already joined our Discord server, I certainly recommend doing so, as our […]
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Josh Gross
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NFL DFS
TwoGun’s GPP Core NFL DFS Picks for the Super Bowl
In past years, I made a more generic Super Bowl article covering not just DFS but other random bets I liked for the Big Game. This year, I’m just dedicating my article to showdown strategy for this slate. For whatever reason, this year has been the year of small-slate DFS for me. I won all […]
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Michael Cohen
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NFL Bets
Super Bowl Betting Breakdown
There’s no better time to get some sports betting action in than the NFL playoffs, and the Super Bowl is officially here. Whether it’s sides and totals or player props, we have you covered here at FTN with our NFL betting models and NFL player props tool. But before we put some wagers in play, […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Fantasy
Super Bowl Betting Breakdown
There’s no better time to get some sports betting action in than the NFL playoffs, and the Super Bowl is officially here. Whether it’s sides and totals or player props, we have you covered here at FTN with our NFL betting models and NFL player props tool. But before we put some wagers in play, […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL DVOA
Super Bowl LVIII DVOA Preview
Well, here we are again with the question of whether we have to consider Patrick Mahomes as “playoff LeBron.” Does Mahomes specifically raise his game in the playoffs, to the point where we can’t accurately analyze the Super Bowl LVIII matchup because we can’t use past statistics to determine Kansas City’s strengths and weaknesses? Last […]
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Aaron Schatz
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NFL DVOA
Aaron Schatz’s 2023 NFL Award Ballot
This was my fourth year as an official Associated Press voter for both the All-Pro team and the end-of-season awards. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a long article about my All-Pro votes. With the NFL awards now given out, I wanted to do the same and divulge my award ballot. Sign up for […]
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Aaron Schatz
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NFL DFS
NFL DFS Breakdown: WR vs. CB Matchups for the Super Bowl
DFS is all about the matchups, especially when it comes to WR vs. CB. Remember when fantasy matchup analysis used to be “Team A gives up the most fantasy points to wide receivers”? Well, we’ve moved from analog to digital and now look at matchups on an individual level.  Each week, I dig through the […]
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Jeff Ratcliffe
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NFL Bets
Super Bowl LVIII Cross-Sport Prop Picks
One of the best parts of the Super Bowl is the sheer number of props involved with the game. Included in those are the cross-sport props in almost every sport that will be played that weekend. The key when trying to play these potential bets is deciding if there’s value and if you can find […]
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FTN Staff
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CFB NFL Fantasy
2024 NFL Draft Scouting Report: Jayden Daniels
Last Updated: 2/8/2024   Over the last five seasons, Jayden Daniels has battled his way to become one of the top names in the draft. By the time he was done, he had eclipsed 12,000 passing yards and 3,000 rushing, becoming the only player to do so in their college career. His Heisman campaign in […]
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Jeremy Popielarz
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NFL Bets
NFL Same Game Parlay Picks – Super Bowl Same Game Parlay
This Super Bowl, like last year’s, is not light on the questions or storylines. For example: It’s a rematch of the 2019 Super Bowl, and if Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs can beat the 49ers Sunday, the Tom Brady comparisons will get ever louder. Can the children of the ‘90s Denver Broncos (Kyle Shanahan and […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL DFS
Super Bowl DFS Preview: San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs
We have a fascinating Super Bowl matchup this year between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. The 49ers had expectations throughout the season of being here while the Chiefs looked a lot shakier at points with the offense not living up to expectations. Let’s discuss each of the main positions and how players […]
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Adam Strangis
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NFL Bets
FTN Super Bowl LVIII Novelty Prop Picks
All NFL season long, you can bet on spreads, over/unders, player props and so many more things. But it’s in the Super Bowl that the real fun begins.   The Super Bowl is the biggest betting showcase every year, with more props and more lines available than any other single game. But sportsbooks also go […]
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Daniel Kelley