AAF Week 5 Fantasy Football Recap (Sunday)
We continue to the Sunday games, which featured the Atlanta Legends and San Antonio Commanders picking up massive victories for their playoff hopes over the Memphis Express and Arizona Hotshots. Officially being midway through the season, here is how I rank the QB, RB and WR positions going forward : QB RB WR 1. Garrett […]
Landon Collins Lands Lucrative Deal With Redskins
Free-agent safety Landon Collins agreed to terms on a six-year contract worth $48 million with the Washington Redskins on Monday. The 25-year-old tackle machine has averaged 109.3 total stops over his first four NFL campaigns with the New York Giants. He also has registered four sacks, three forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries, eight interceptions and […]
Jets Add Josh Bellamy, Jamison Crowder To Wideout Stable
The New York Jets have agreed to terms with free-agent wide receiver Josh Bellamy (Bears) on Monday. The deal is expected to be for two years at $7 million max, with $2.75 million fully guaranteed at signing. The deal comes on the heels of a large add, when they agreed to terms with free-agent WR […]
AAF Week 5 Fantasy Football Recap (Saturday)
It is incredible how much better the games become once the correct players are inserted into the starting lineup. The Memphis Express and Atlanta Legends were slow out of the gates to figure out who their best quarterback was this season, even if the rest of the world seemed to know that Christian Hackenberg and […]
Running Back Target Leaders - Finding PPR Value at the RB2/Flex
To be successful playing fantasy football, you have to...well, you have to do a lot of things, but one of those things is to get good value on draft night. In PPR leagues, one of those ways to find value is to draft running backs who are active in the passing game. A guy like […]
Dynasty Tight Ends - Buy-Low Candidates for 2019
With the offseason in full swing, dynasty owners should be looking for any small way of upgrading their roster ahead of the NFL Draft, and one of those methods is to embrace the trade market and go after some guys who are lower in the rankings who could be available at a discount. Of all […]
2019 Wide Receiver Dynasty Ranking - Tiers and Analysis
As we continue our progression through the offseason, the designation of franchise and transition players is complete. We are about to experience the rapid-fire assortment of roster transformations that will occur during free agency, and these impending changes in destinations and expectations will impact anyone who manages rosters in dynasty leagues. The team at RotoBaller […]
Redskins To Acquire Case Keenum From Broncos
The Washington Redskins agreed to terms to acquire quarterback Case Keenum from the Denver Broncos on Thursday, sources informed of the situation told NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. The Broncos will receive a sixth-round pick and the 'Skins will get a seventh-rounder. Keenum, who had a very mediocre season in his lone year with Denver in […]
Tight End Dynasty Rankings - Tiers and Analysis
2018 was probably the best year for tight ends in the history of fantasy football. Philadelphia’s Zach Ertz set the NFL single-season record for receptions by a tight end with 116, while San Francisco’s George Kittle set the single-season record for receiving yards for a tight end with 1,377. What’s crazy is that neither of […]
AAF Week 4 Fantasy Football Recap (Sunday)
We continue on to the Sunday games, which featured two of the favorites to win the title go down at home. Both Birmingham and Arizona were unable to get anything going on offense and faltered late during their surprising upsets. Before the weekend, the home team had won nine of 12 games throughout the season, […]
Running Back Dynasty Rankings - Tiers and Analysis
In case you didn't know, Rotoballer's 2019 Dynasty Rankings are here in all of their glory! The running back position isn't rife with bell cow backs that the game has had in recent memory, but there are a number of players at the top of the position or deeper in the rankings that can provide […]
AAF Week 4 Fantasy Football Recap (Saturday)
Week 4 shook up the standings in the AAF. The Orlando Apollos became the last undefeated team, the Birmingham Iron dropped their first game, and the Atlanta Legends and Memphis Express found the winner's circle for the first time. We are beginning to see inconsistency from practically every team, but the thing that surprised me […]
Quarterback Dynasty Rankings - Tiers and Analysis
The rankers here at RotoBaller are committed to providing you with detailed fantasy football rankings for dynasty leagues. Our rankings also include tiers which supply a more detailed breakdown on which players to target for your rosters, along with the performers that you should avoid. These rankings are updated continuously and should be used as […]
Early 2019 Fantasy Football Rankings Analysis - Tight End
We wind down our look at the early 2019 fantasy football PPR rankings with the tight end position. Our top rankers (Nick Mariano, Dom Petrillo, and myself) got together to release a pre-draft look at each position for re-draft leagues. We're not including the 2019 rookie class just yet, seeing as how we have no […]
Early 2019 Fantasy Football Rankings Analysis - Wide Receiver
With a long offseason ahead of us, football fans are left with little to do while baseball takes center stage. That doesn't mean we can't start our draft prep though! At RotoBaller, we always look ahead and strive to provide our readers with the best analysis possible. We've assembled some of our top fantasy football […]
Early 2019 Fantasy Football Rankings Analysis - Quarterbacks
After compiling our initial fantasy football staff rankings for 2019 it is now time to look at each position to see where some values or pitfalls could be found. The top players are pretty self-explanatory with the likes of Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers and Andrew Luck leading the way. After the top tier though, it […]
AAF Week 3 Fantasy Football Recap (Sunday Games)
Now that we are three weeks into the AAF season, some clear trends are starting to emerge. Orlando is the team to beat and clearly has the most fantasy assets on its roster. Atlanta is looking like an unmitigated disaster and Memphis isn't much better, although the QB change to Zach Mettenberger could do wonders. […]
Early 2019 Fantasy Football Rankings Analysis - Running Back
As we progress through these initial weeks of the offseason, the designation of franchise and transition players is underway while we steadily approach the highly anticipated period of free agency. That will create a massive number of roster alterations which will dramatically impact the value of many players. But it is never too early to […]
Top 10 Wide Receiver Rookies - NFL Draft Preview
The 2019 wide receiver draft class may not be stockpiled with potential studs at the NFL level, but it could be one of the deeper positions this year. You may not see many of these receivers make an immediate impact in the league but odds are a few of these names will be making spot […]
AAF Week 3 Fantasy Football Recap (Saturday Games)
I think we discovered a few new things during Week 3 of the AAF season, but many of the same elements that we have become accustomed to seeing held steady. Defensive lines continue to overpower the offensive lines, wide receivers are still dropping easy passes and most quarterbacks are struggling to find a rhythm. Only […]
AAF Week 2 Recap - Fantasy Risers, Fallers (Sunday Games)
The initial buzz of Week 1 excitement is gone, but Week 2 of the AAF season produced noticeably better football. The Orlando-San Antonio game was a barn burner that qualifies as the first candidate for AAF Game of the Year. We also saw our first 300-yard passer (Garrett Gilbert), 100-yard rusher (Zac Stacy) and 150-yard […]
AAF Week 2 Recap - Fantasy Risers, Fallers (Saturday Games)
Week 2 of the AAF season is officially in the books, and it did not disappoint. Milestones for the first 300-yard passer (Garrett Gilbert), 100-yard rusher (Zac Stacy) and most receiving yards in a game (Charles Johnson) took place during the week, not to mention that the early candidate for game of the year came […]
Early 2019 Fantasy Football Rankings (Top 300): Tiers 1-4
It is the first week of February. Super Bowl LIII has just come to an end, which sadly means the NFL season is over. After eight months of mini-camps, training camps and a season full of big plays and big games, a champion has been crowned and for our purposes here a new fantasy season […]
Early 2019 Fantasy Football Rankings (Top 300): Tiers 5-14
We continue our look at the Never Too Early Player Rankings for our top 300 players and 2019 redraft leagues. These player rankings are brought to you courtesy of RotoBaller NFL writers Pierre Camus, Nick Mariano (11th-most accurate expert on FantasyPros in 2018, 9th-most accurate in 2017), and myself, Dominick Petrillo. These rankings are a fun […]
Early Dynasty Football Mock Draft - Rounds 10-16
The Super Bowl has come and gone, but the RotoBaller staff hasn't given up football. A select group of us participated in the 2019 Way Too Early Dynasty League Startup Mock Draft, which gave us just another reason to keep fantasy football at the forefront of our minds. This will be a 12-team, one-quarterback, PPR […]
Biggest Surprises of 2018 - Quarterback
Quarterback is arguably the most important position in all sports. How important is the quarterback position? Since 2000, a player manning the quarterback position has won the Associated Press' Player of the Year in 14 of the last 18 years, which includes each of the last five years. In addition, a quarterback has captured the Super Bowl […]
2019 AAF Fantasy Football Draft Recap
Here at RotoBaller, we are always searching for ways to give our readers the best fantasy sports content possible. With that goal in mind, we are very proud to announce our first-ever draft for the Alliance of American Football league (AAF). You can also read our AAF fantasy football rankings. For those of you that […]
Nick Mariano's 2019 AAF Rankings (PPR)
While Super Bowl LIII and another Patriots parade that surrounded my condo marked the end of the 2018-19 NFL season, football is not over. In case you've been living under a rock and missed the huge news, the Alliance of American Football (AAF) starts up on February 9 -- yes, this Saturday -- and ends with […]
2019 NFL Draft Class Preview - Quarterback
Over the last couple of weeks, we've begun previewing the incoming 2019 NFL Draft Class. We started off with the wide receivers and followed it with the running backs. There's really no sugar-coating this QB class. It's bad. There's no obvious star and, while you'll probably hear it a few times in the lead-up, there's […]
Redskins Interested In Re-Signing Adrian Peterson, Josh Johnson
The Washington Redskins plan on keeping quarterback Alex Smith (leg) around despite the fact that they still don't know if he'll be able to play again. If they were to cut him now, they'd take a salary cap hit of $40 million. Smith would have $32.2 million in dead money if they were to cut […]