Week 6 Do Not Drop List - Don't Panic Yet

As we leave Week 5 and enter Week 6 of the 2017 NFL season, we have a sizeable chunk of data to evaluate. With five games of film on the majority of teams, we’re reaching the point where slow starts or infrequent usage can no longer be ignored. Furthermore, we’re in the thick of bye […]

Fantasy Bomb Podcast - The More You Know...

RotoBallers Pierre Camus is joined by Kyle Richardson to bring some dynasty perspective to the 2017 season. We wistfully look back at the early part of the season to reflect on what life lessons (fantasy football life) we've learned. Be sure to tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every […]

Fantasy Football Buy-Low and Sell-High Candidates For Week 6

The New York Giants are not the only team running out of healthy players. The injuries are piling up in the NFL and the bye weeks are underway, so fantasy football owners will have to make trades to make sure they have enough bodies to fill out a lineup in the coming weeks. Now is […]

Smashmouth - Offensive Lines Impacting Fantasy Football For Week 6

Another week in the NFL leads another mess for fantasy owners. The Giants seemingly have lost their entire receiving corps to foot and ankle injuries, including Odell Beckham and Sam Bradford is back where he has spent too much time in his NFL career, the sideline. Each of these injuries can be devastating to not […]

Duke Johnson is Dynasty Gold

Let’s begin this article with an exercise. Close your eyes (not really because then you would not be able to read this) and imagine the player I am describing. In his first two years, he has totaled 1,793 total yards and three touchdowns on 178 rushing attempts and 114 receptions. In 2015, he finished as […]

Deeper PPR Sleepers For Week 6

Kudos to anyone who still has anything that even remotely resembles a healthy, usable lineup through five weeks. This is one of the most sporadic, soul-crushing fantasy football seasons I've ever been a part of, and I'm sure most long-time veterans would agree. It's ugly out there. Just need to keep on truckin' through the mud. […]

Fantasy Football Starts and Sits - Week 5 Matchups

Welcome to our Week 5 matchups analysis and starts/sits column for fantasy football. We'll be covering every matchup from every Sunday game to help you make the best decisions for your fantasy lineups. We'll also be updating this as injury reports come in so check back often. I'll be on Reddit each Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning […]

Monday Night Football Matchups and Starts/Sits (Week 5)

Happy Monday RotoBallers! Another week, another Monday. But hey, at least you're not Chris Foerster (if you haven't caught up yet, that's the Dolphins offensive line coach who had a video leaked doing cocaine before a team meeting). Tonight's matchup sends the 2-2 Vikings to Chicago to take on the 1-3 Bears, as both teams look […]

Heroes and Zeroes - Week 5 Fantasy Football Picks

Sometimes you just get that feeling... this week is going to be special. A typical NFL week can turn into a horror show when it's rife with injuries, or if the team you had stacked in multiple leagues gets upset at home... cough cough, Falcons, cough... But this is one of those weeks where each game […]

Under-the-Radar Booms/Busts - Week 5

Let the booming and busting begin! Thursday night’s New England-Tampa Bay contest already had a couple under-the-radar booms (Doug Martin, Cameron Brate) and an under-the-radar bust (Dwayne Allen couldn’t catch a pass with Rob Gronkowski sidelined?). This trend will continue into Sunday, guaranteed. Here are some under-the-radar booms and busts for the fifth week of […]

Top 10 Fantasy Football Lineup Busts - Week 5

Some anecdotes from my home league that illustrate some thought processes about a few of last week's bust picks: Two weeks ago, two teams in my league made a trade: Dez Bryant for Amari Cooper. This was before Cooper stopped existing the past two weeks and I was, at the time, surprised someone would give up […]

NFL Survivor League Picks (Week 5): Survivor Pool Targets and Avoids

I had a different intro written before last night's game, but I hadn't seen an ending like that in some time. This is not a gambling column, but this can not be passed up. No, not the field goal, but the final play. The Chiefs were favorite by 6.5 and the over under was 49. […]

Fantasy Football Risers & Fallers: Week 5

Whether due to their own play, the play of others, or injuries, players' stock increases and decreases on a weekly basis. Perhaps more than any other, the NFL is a league that experiences ups and downs at a rapid pace. With only 16 games, there’s little room for error and seemingly endless opportunities for improvement. […]

Fantasy Football Buy-Low and Sell-High Candidates For Week 5

Heading into Week 5, fantasy football owners should be ready to wheel and deal. We are now a month into the NFL season. Fantasy owners now know where they stand with their rosters and the strengths and weaknesses on their teams. That means they should be peppering owners in their leagues with trade offers and packaging […]

Joe Mixon - Buy Low or Return to Sender?

Joe Mixon is an enigma. Fantasy owners had no idea what to do with the rookie running back entering the season. Many over-drafted him due to his immense talent and tremendous upside. Others stayed far away due to him joining a crowded backfield running behind a bad offensive line. Four weeks into the season, people on […]

Smashmouth - Offensive Lines Impacting Fantasy Football For Week 5

In a typical NFL season, by Week 5 fantasy owners and NFL fans generally know how their favorite NFL teams and players will perform on a week-to-week basis. 2017 has shown us that the more we see, the less we know with the shocking upsets of the Falcons and Patriots at home by large road […]

Week 5 Do Not Drop List - Don't Panic Yet

As we approach Week 5, the Broncos, Falcons, Redskins, and Saints are our first round of teams with a bye week in 2017. Fantasy owners with more than one or two players taking the week off, and/or fantasy owners in shallower leagues are, no doubt, going to have to make some very difficult add/drop decisions. […]

Deeper PPR Sleepers Heading Into Week 5

Sunday's Week 4 slate was absolutely brutal for fantasy owners. It's obviously never fun to see any player in the NFL go down with a serious injury, but fantasy football ends up making the heartbreak that much worse. Not only that, but there have been way too many head-scratching moments this year, and Week 4 was no […]

Deeper Sleepers for Standard Leagues (Week 5)

Waking up early the past two weeks for the London games has left me too drained from football to watch the Sunday night games all the way to the end--once the Seahawks opened the floodgates, I went to sleep. In theory, I like the idea of twelve-plus hours of football, but there's a reason I've […]

Fantasy Football Starts and Sits - Week 4 Matchups

Welcome to our Week 4 matchups analysis and starts/sits column for fantasy football. We'll be covering every matchup from every Sunday game to help you make the best decisions for your fantasy lineups. We'll also be updating this as injury reports come in so check back often. I'll be on Reddit each Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning […]

Heroes and Zeroes - Week 4 Fantasy Football Picks

Last week went much better, as the players who are supposed to be stars actually played like it, even some that we didn't expect to. As predicted in this column, Kirk Cousins went bananas, as did Kareem Hunt and A.J. Green. James White... not so much (that's what I get for trying to trust a […]

Week 4 Defense (DEF) Streamers and Starts: 2017 Fantasy Tiers, Rankings

Below are RotoBaller's Week 4 defense tiers and rankings, or which defenses to stream and start for Week 4 of the NFL and fantasy football season. Our tiered defense rankings are your guide to drafting defenses, making waiver wire pickups/adds to improve your lineups, and to decide which defenses to start, sit, target, avoid or stream for Week […]

Air Yards and Target Share Analysis - Buy Candidates

When it comes to fantasy football there are the people that stand by the community’s consensus of value, and there are those that look a bit deeper to find where the true value lies.  One of the many secrets to success is using the inside information that is available at your fingertips to find value […]

Top 10 Fantasy Football Lineup Busts - Week 4

We're about to reach the quarter-mark of the 2017 NFL season and the fantasy football picture still feels unsettled. For example: is Jordan Howard going to live up to his ADP? Uhh, maybe! Were Brandin Cooks' first two weeks of usage a fluke and this is what we get moving foward? Hmm, I don't know! […]

Under-the-Radar Booms/Busts: Week 4

The booms and busts keep flying in faster than Tyreek Hill flies by cornerbacks! Week 4 of the NFL season is underway, and fantasy football owners watched Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers throw four touchdown passes Thursday night, while the Chicago Bears decided it would be better to make Jordan Howard's fantasy owners happy instead of […]

Dynasty League Rookie Round Up - Week 4

Each week, I'll take a quick look at the top rookies in dynasty fantasy football leagues. I'll review their recent performance (PPR scoring) and offer some thoughts about their upcoming games as well as their long-term dynasty value. Last week, I offered my dynasty rookie rankings. This time around, I'll look at four rookies with interesting […]

Target Risers and Possible Breakouts for Week 4

Fantasy football can be a seesaw game of boxscore chasing, as throughout the season even the best players on our fantasy teams will likely take their lumps. In a feast or famine league, most players see a wide variance in their fantasy scoring from week-to-week, yet we ceaselessly hope to decipher whatever patterns we can […]

Smashmouth - Offensive Lines Impacting Fantasy Football For Week 4

It really is remarkable each week in the NFL that more quarterbacks and other high-profile players are not injured on a weekly basis due to poor offensive line play. There are currently seven teams with a sack rate of over 10% after the conclusion of Week 3 including the Texans and Bengals, two of the […]

NFL Survivor League Picks (Week 4): Survivor Pool Targets and Avoids

Week 3 was the week of the dogs. Eight of nine underdogs in the early games covered the spread and six of those teams won outright (not including Vikes because it went off as pick 'em). In total, the underdogs went 11-4. That's absurd. Vegas probably made a killing. The public's two favorite teams did not […]