NFL Week 13: Thunder Dan's NFL DFS Tiered Rankings (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome, RotoBallers, to my official tiered rankings for week 13 of this NFL season! You can find my core plays at RB and WR each week in my Anchors column as well as the rest of my favorites plays in our premium cheat sheet. […]

Dalvin Cook Officially Ruled Out For Week 13

Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook (shoulder) has officially been ruled out for the Week 13 contest against the Detroit Lions. Cook is dealing with a torn labrum in his left shoulder and is expected to keep him out this weekend and next, although the Vikings are expecting to have him back for a late-season […]

Week 13 NFL - Single Stat DFS Prop Picks for PrizePicks

Hello everybody and welcome! The 2021 NFL season is moving right along and that means our new friends over at PrizePicks have a TON of great props we can look to take advantage of. PrizePicks is a great DFS props site where you can choose to select plays in terms of fantasy points or single […]

Week 13 NFL - Fantasy Score DFS Prop Picks for PrizePicks

Hello everybody and welcome! The 2021 NFL season is alive and well and that means our new friends over at PrizePicks have a TON of great props we can look to take advantage of. PrizePicks is a great DFS props site where you can choose to select plays in terms of fantasy points or single […]

NFL DFS Prop Picks for Monkey Knife Fight - Week 13

Week 13 is ready to get rolling and that means our friends at Monkey Knife Fight are offering some fantastic props for us to play. Our friends at Monkey Knife Fight offer some of the coolest, and easiest to win, NFL DFS games in the industry. There are no massive tournaments where you have to get […]

The King's Week 13 Lineup Rankings and Analysis (Premium Content)

Scott "The King" Engel issues his full Week 13 lineup rankings in PPR, Half-PPR, and Standard formats. He also includes analysis of key players at each position. The rankings will continue to be updated as news breaks prior to Sunday's games. Following the positional analysis below you'll see the rankings widget. Enter KING at checkout to […]

Week Thirteen NFL DFS Betting Picks (Premium Content)

NFL Week 13 is almost here and I am coming at you with another week of my favorite bets across the sportsbooks in hopes of helping you make a little bit of cash this weekend!   Background I am a big-time fantasy football and fantasy baseball player. I have been in leagues for about two-thirds […]

NFL DFS Value Plays for Week 13 (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to Week 13, Rotoballers! Last week was busy in DFS land with the Thanksgiving slate and the quick turnaround for the main schedule on Sunday. Now, we turn our attention to the final five weeks (how did it fly by so fast?!) of […]

Week 13 Rankings: Fantasy Football Half-PPR Rankings and Injury News: DeAndre Hopkins, Melvin Gordon, Miles Sanders, D'Andre Swift

Welcome RotoBallers to Week 13, we are officially in crunch time as we approach the fantasy football playoffs! We are back with our early fantasy football rankings for Week 13.  This week there are several teams on byes, and some serious injury situations to deal with that will affect our fantasy football rankings. For those […]

Adam Thielen - Week 13 Outlook for Fantasy Football

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen is the WR7 in PPR leagues and is tied for the NFL lead with 10 receiving touchdowns. The Vikings have such a condensed passing game that despite sharing the field with Justin Jefferson, Thielen is still 16th in the league in targets. That high volume and his consistent ability […]

Justin Jefferson - Week 13 Outlook for Fantasy Football

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson is the WR5 in PPR leagues entering the Week 13 matchup against the Detroit Lions. At first glance, the matchup against the winless Lions seems like a slam dunk, but teams are only attempting 30.91 pass attempts per game against them. Jefferson torched the Detroit secondary in Week 5 […]

Kirk Cousins - Week 13 Outlook for Fantasy Football

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins enters the Week 13 matchup with the Detroit Lions as the QB8 on the season. Cousins is completing 67.7% of his passes for 3,013 yards, 23 touchdowns and only three interceptions. The game script could be the only thing holding Cousins back against a Lion defense that is so bad […]

Week 13 NFL DFS Cheat Sheet: Expert Picks and Lineups (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to Week 12 of the 2020 NFL Season! Each week, I'll be bringing you our famous NFL DFS Cheat Sheet with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet. The "fantasy points allowed rank" […]

NFL DFS Lineup Anchors: RBs and WRs for Week 13 DFS Lineups

All other Week 13 Premium Tools and Content can be accessed on the premium dashboard. In this piece, we're looking at the top running backs or wide receivers to build your cash or tournament lineups around. Most weeks I'll highlight two running backs and two wide receivers who you can use as foundational building blocks […]

Finding Tight End Breakouts - Champs, Chumps, and Contenders

There are plenty of injuries fantasy managers need to stay on top of this week. Darren Waller and Cole Kmet both did not practice on Wednesday and Pat Freiermuth is still in the concussion protocol. All three could have big fantasy implications as fantasy managers are surely in win-or-go-home mode, so be sure to keep […]

Kene Nwangwu (RB, MIN) - Fantasy Football Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 16+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Tests revealed another torn labrum for Dalvin Cook and it appears he will be unavailable for the next few weeks, and even potentially into the fantasy playoffs. Alexander Mattison should be universally rostered by midweek if he isn't already, but who is the […]

Alexander Mattison (RB, MIN) - Fantasy Football Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 49% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The concept of securing Mattison as protection for your roster if Dalvin Cook were to be sidelined for any reason has been a consistent recommendation in this column for anyone who depends on Cook as their primary back. This strategy of deploying Mattison as […]

Kene Nwangwu Will Be Involved

Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer said that rookie running back Kene Nwangwu will be involved in the offense with Dalvin Cook (shoulder) out at least the next two weeks with a torn labrum in his left shoulder. "He wants to be involved in the offense and we'll find some ways to use him," Zimmer […]

Fantasy Football Warning Signals for Week 13

This has been a hard week for many fantasy players. A few days ago, we received news that Christian McCaffrey will be out for the season due to an ankle injury. That wasn’t the only news to float down the pipeline. We also caught wind that Dalvin Cook will be out a few weeks because […]

Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 13

Week 12 is officially in the books. This week, the Cardinals and Chiefs are back in action, with the Titans, Packers, Browns, and Panthers all on Bye. In this weekly column, we'll look at players whose arrows may be pointing up, and players whose arrows may be pointing down based on the previous week's games. […]

NextGen Stats - Quarterback Breakdowns and Takeaways

You won't believe it, but you weren't dreaming. That turkey you stuffed your face with a few days ago? Real. Your weekly meeting with football on the telly this past Sunday? Also real. All of that together only meant one thing: the fantasy football regular season is almost over, and with just one/two more weeks […]

Thursday Night Football Start 'Em, Sit 'Em: Cowboys vs Saints

Time to wake up from that food coma. Hopefully, everyone didn’t sleep through another exciting week of NFL football. Finally, the NFL seemed to have a more “normal” week this year and a lot of questions were answered. I think it’s officially safe to say that Seattle and Russell Wilson are not a good team […]

Vikings Work Out Kerryon Johnson Tuesday

The Minnesota Vikings had free-agent running back Kerryon Johnson in for a workout on Tuesday. Starting running back Dalvin Cook (shoulder) suffered a dislocated left shoulder and a torn labrum in the Week 12 loss to the San Francisco 49ers and is expected to miss at least the next two games, leaving the Vikings looking […]

Waiver Wire Express - Week 13 Lightning Round

We here at RotoBaller hope you all were able to enjoy a long holiday weekend of football (you Americans out there) as we coast into December and the fantasy season's home stretch. Whether you celebrated Thanksgiving or not, there was plenty of action to fill up on and now we finish November strong with the […]

FAAB Waiver Wire Bidding - Fantasy Football Pickups to Target for Week 13

We meet again, RotoBallers. With 12 weeks behind us, most of you still reading are either in win-at-all-costs mode or planning ahead for the playoffs. Let's deal with the immediate needs first, shall we? As always, joining our famous waiver wire pickups list, and our weekly waiver wire columns by position, this column focuses on […]

Top Running Back Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 13: Alexander Mattison, Matt Breida, Chuba Hubbard, Dontrell Hilliard

We are rapidly approaching the fantasy postseason and many of you have embraced the production that has been delivered by your running backs. Unfortunately, an increasing number of you have been negatively impacted by injuries to runners that are contained on your rosters.  This certainly applies to anyone who has been depending on Christian McCaffrey […]

Top Tight End Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 13: Evan Engram, Jack Doyle, Cole Kmet, Logan Thomas

Welcome to Week 13 of the fantasy football season, and my weekly article taking a look at the top tight end waiver wire pickups that may be available in your leagues. The good news outweighs the bad this week at the tight end position. The bad news is that another four NFL teams are on […]

The Cut List – Who to Drop for Week 13?

It's Week 13 and the injuries are really starting to pile up now. It's been a trend all season, but now in the playoff push, some of these injuries and waiver wire adds are going to end up being league winners. And if not league winners, certainly guys who are going to help decide who […]

Dalvin Cook Expected To Miss At Least Two Games

Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook (shoulder) is expected to miss at least the next two games -- this Sunday at the Detroit Lions and the following Thursday against the Pittsburgh Steelers -- with the hope being that he can return the following week for the Monday night game at the Chicago Bears on Dec. […]

Surprise Fantasy Football Studs, Duds - Real or Mirage?

Quarterback scoring was a little down in general in Week 12 with guys like Trevor Lawrence (228 yards and 2 TDs) and Joe Burrow (190 yards and 2 TDs) finishing in the top-12. Josh Allen led the way on Thanksgiving with four touchdowns while Aaron Rodgers threw for two and ran one in for a score with […]