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Stephan Jaeger A Dark-Horse Contender In Mexico
Stephan Jaeger put forth the most consistent season of his career in 2022-23 by finishing the campaign with 10 top-25 finishes across 31 starts. The UT-Chattanooga alum has maintained that consistency during the FedEx Cup Fall Series, posting a pair of top-25s across his three most recent outings. The 34-year-old's ball striking has been outstanding, […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoCameron Young Set To Make First Start Since August
Cameron Young is scheduled to tee it up in this week's World Wide Technology Championship. It will be his first start since the BMW Championship in August. The 2022 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year has fought through a bit of a sophomore slump in 2023, as his inconsistent iron play and frequently bad putting […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoSahith Theegala Targeting Second Win Of FedEx Cup Fall Series
Sahith Theegala is set to tee it up in this week's World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico. Theegala scored his first career PGA Tour victory in September at the Fortinet Championship and will look to add to his growing trophy case this week at El Cardonal Golf Course. The Pepperdine alum has quickly proven himself […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoBeau Hossler Looks To Stay Hot At WWT Championship
Beau Hossler heads to Mexico as perhaps the PGA Tour's hottest player during the FedEx Cup Fall season. The former Texas Longhorn most recently recorded a runner-up finish at the ZOZO Championship, a result that came on the heels of a T7 at the Shriners Open in mid-October. Hossler's recent spike in results can be […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoLudvig Aberg Searching For First PGA Tour Win In Mexico
Ludvig Aberg heads to this week's World Wide Technology Championship in search of his first career win on the PGA Tour. The 24-year-old has already flashed prodigious talent during his brief time as a pro. Aberg has recorded six top-25 finishes with a pair of top-five results across nine PGA Tour starts. The Swedish phenom […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoDraftKings Core Four: PGA DFS - 2023 World Wide Technology Championship (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Hi, RotoBaller fam, and thank you very much for joining me for the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship! The 'Core Four' represents the foundational building blocks of my PGA DFS player pool for the week. This core isn't specifically crafted for use in one […]
Joe Nicely PREMIUM 1 year agoWeek 8 DraftKings NFL DFS Picks (2023): Break The Slate With Lamar Jackson, Breece Hall, A.J. Brown, and more
Hello, RotoBallers, and welcome back to Break The Slate. Before we dive into the Week 8 DraftKings picks, I'd like to give a huge shoutout to my good friend Thunder Dan Palyo for covering (and crushing) last week's edition of this article while I was away. Although there are no bye weeks on this slate, […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoIs Brock Purdy Playing in Week 8? Fantasy Football Injury Update
Second-year quarterback Brock Purdy has been a revelation for the San Francisco 49ers. The former "Mr. Irrelevant" has been a crucial factor in San Fran's success across the past two seasons. After missing the 2022 NFC Conference Championship game with an injury, Purdy started the 2023 campaign both healthy and sharp, leading the Niners to […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoKeaton Mitchell (RB, BAL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The rookie running back out of East Carolina got his first career NFL snaps in Baltimore's Week 7 pounding of the Detroit Lions. Mitchell earned just one touch, taking a shovel pass for nine yards. Unfortunately, the explosive back whose pro career […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoFantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 7
Hello, RotoBallers! Football fans and fantasy managers might still be recovering from wild Week 6 action that included both San Francisco and Philadelphia losing, Desmond Ridder scoring more fantasy points than Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen, as well as injuries to elite fantasy producers such as Christian McCaffrey, Justin Fields, David Montgomery, and […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoWeek 6 DraftKings NFL DFS Picks (2023): Break The Slate With Justin Fields, Matthew Stafford, Raheem Mostert, Ja'Marr Chase, and more
Welcome back RotoBallers to my DraftKings NFL DFS Picks for Week 6 -- let's break the slate! As we head into Week 6 of the season, we've reached the point in the year where injuries start to become a major DFS factor on a week-to-week basis. This feels like the most heavily impacted slate that […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoFantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 6
Hello, RotoBallers! Week 5 was a rather wild ride, as we saw surprising outcomes, amazing fantasy performances, and significant injuries to elite fantasy football assets. I'll be filling in for the incomparable Adam Koffler for the next two weeks and we'll keep this weekly column very much in line with Adam's vision...we'll be looking at […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoDraftKings Core Four: PGA DFS - 2023 Shriners Children's Open (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Hi, RotoBaller fam, and thank you very much for joining me for the 2023 Shriners Children's Open! The 'Core Four' represents the foundational building blocks of my PGA DFS player pool for the week. This core isn't specifically crafted for use in one lineup […]
Joe Nicely PREMIUM 1 year agoTime To Hang It Up? Five NFL Players That Might Be In Their Final Season
Most football fans are well aware of the demands the sport places on the human body. While NFL players are almost superhuman physical specimens, eventually, everyone's body wears down. However, there are always outliers, and some veterans continue to make notable contributions to their teams. At the other end of the spectrum are players who […]
Joe Nicely 1 year ago2023 Shriners Children's Open Power Rankings: Top 10 Golfers To Watch At TPC Summerlin
With the pomp and circumstance of the Ryder Cup now firmly in the rearview, we got back to the business of the PGA Tour last week in Mississippi with the Sanderson Farms Championship. The FedEx Fall season continues this week, as we head to my buddy Spencer Aguiar's hometown of Las Vegas for the Shriners […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoWeek 5 DraftKings NFL DFS Picks (2023): Break The Slate With Anthony Richardson, Bijan Robinson, Ja'Marr Chase, and more
Welcome back RotoBallers to my DraftKings NFL DFS Picks for Week 5 - let's break the slate! With the NFL's bye weeks kicking in, the Week 5 Main Slate is an interesting one. We once again have a potential shootout environment that looms large over the entire slate with the Chiefs vs. Vikings matchup, as […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoKeaton Mitchell (RB, BAL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 26% of Leagues ANALYSIS: No, Keaton Mitchell is not a create-a-player. He is indeed a very real person who plays running back for the Baltimore Ravens and accounted for over 3,000 rushing yards during his college career at East Carolina. The little-known undrafted rookie began the […]
Joe Nicely 1 year ago2023 Sanderson Farms Championship Power Rankings: Top 10 Golfers To Watch At Country Club Of Jackson
With all of the Ryder Cup buzz now settling down, we get back to reality, as the PGA Tour's rank and file assemble for the Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi. In this article, you will find my Sanderson Farms Championship Power Rankings, which gives golf fans a first look into the top 10 golfers who […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoPGA Expert Roundtable - 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Hello, RotoBallers and thanks for joining us for the 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship! We're offering this article each week as part of our PGA Premium subscription, and we hope that you will find it useful. This gives readers the chance to get inside the […]
Joe Nicely PREMIUM 1 year agoDraftKings Core Four: PGA DFS - 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Hi, RotoBaller fam, and thank you very much for joining me for the 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship! The 'Core Four' represents the foundational building blocks of my PGA DFS player pool for the week. This core isn't specifically crafted for use in one lineup […]
Joe Nicely PREMIUM 1 year agoShould I Drop Kyle Pitts In Fantasy Football? Week 5 Waiver Wire Outlook
Atlanta Falcons tight end Kyle Pitts seems to have all the tools to be an impact player. Unfortunately, the third-year pro has been unable to produce in Falcons head coach Arthur Smith's run-heavy offensive scheme. The former first-round pick has recorded just 11 catches across the team's first four games of 2023. Will things get […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoWeek 4 DraftKings NFL DFS Picks (2023): Break The Slate With Josh Allen, D'Andre Swift, Keenan Allen, and George Kittle
Hi there, RotoBallers, and welcome back to our weekly DraftKings NFL DFS article! I appreciate you joining me in our season-long quest to find the best plays at each position for every DraftKings Main Slate. The Week 3 Main Slate was an explosive one, as the Miami Dolphins lit up the scoreboard and the popular […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoFantasy Football Injury Reports For Week 4 (Sunday Morning Updates): Jimmy Garoppolo, Deebo Samuel, Austin Ekeler, Derek Carr, Deshaun Watson, Miles Sanders, and more
Fantasy managers have been forced to be on their toes as the 2023 NFL season gets underway, as players across the league have been dealing with a high number of injuries across the first month of the season. That's also been the case ahead of Week 4. Our injury updates and reports for Week 4 […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoWeek 4 NFL Running Back Power Rankings: All 32 Starting NFL RBs
Controversy ruled at the running back position during the NFL offseason. As the 2023 season has gotten underway, not much has changed, as the running back position has been largely plagued by injuries and ineffectiveness. Despite all the turmoil and upheaval, the running back position is still one of the most exciting in football and […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoFantasy Football Reactions, Ramblings, and Quick Hitters from Week 3
Ok...now we're cooking. After what I'd consider a fairly benign first two weeks of the season, Week 3 provided plenty of excitement, shocks, and disappointments for fantasy managers. We'll start out with Miami's eye-opening dominance and close with Dallas' surprising debacle in the desert while touching on several other fantasy-relevant topics along the way. This […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoShould I Start George Pickens in Week 3? WR Fantasy Football Rankings Analysis
As a Week 3 meeting with the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday Night Football looms, fantasy managers with Pittsburgh Steelers on their rosters are likely already fed up with Steelers offensive coordinator Matt Canada. With Pittsburgh's offense struggling to get anything going across the first two weeks of the season, second-year wide receiver George Pickens […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoShould I Start Kyren Williams in Week 3? RB Fantasy Football Rankings Analysis
Despite being just two weeks into the 2023 NFL season, there's been enough drama in the Los Angeles Rams backfield to fill multiple episodes of the Real Housewives reality series. With Cam Akers expected to serve as the Rams lead back in 2023, second-year RB Kyren Williams received a surprisingly large workload in the season […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoShould I Start Zay Flowers in Week 3? WR Fantasy Football Rankings Analysis
Despite making just two NFL starts, Baltimore Ravens rookie wide receiver Zay Flowers has already made an impression on the fantasy football community. Flowers has popped on tape thanks to his electric speed and dynamic moves. With fellow Ravens receiver Odell Beckham Jr. ruled out, Flowers jumps into serious fantasy consideration in a Week 3 […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoAustin Ekeler Ruled Out For Week 3: Should I Start Joshua Kelley For Fantasy Football?
Los Angeles Chargers running back Austin Ekeler was a consensus top-five fantasy football draft pick ahead of the 2023 NFL season. Ekeler rewarded those who selected him with a monstrous outing in Week 1 of the season. Unfortunately, the superstar RB has been dealing with an ankle injury that he suffered in the season opener […]
Joe Nicely 1 year agoWeek 3 DraftKings NFL DFS Picks (2023): Break The Slate With Kirk Cousins, Tony Pollard, Justin Jefferson, and more
Hi there, RotoBallers, and welcome back to our weekly DraftKings NFL DFS article! I appreciate you joining me in our season-long quest to find the best plays at each position for every DraftKings Main Slate. After a Week 1 that was fairly underwhelming from a scoring perspective, things picked up in Week 2, with multiple […]
Joe Nicely 1 year ago