Introducing Factory Divisional Nuggets. We break down every division to give you the takes you need. Who will boom and who will bust? Are there values to be found? All that and more. This week the article will be a bit more long-form than your typical bi-...
Six months is a long time to be digging up stats and researching football. Through all that confusion, fantasy fans develop hard stances on players’ situations and refuse to change their mindset. We either get sucked into believing the hype of a player,...
Welcome to the IDP Nation Podcast, the Factory Sports Network’s IDP-centric show. We are your hosts Dan Cook and Darrell Winstead. Are you ready for some tenacious IDP discussion? We’ve got you covered from your LB1 to your taxi squad. This is IDP Nat...
Welcome to the Dynasty Outlook series where I discuss a buy low, sell high and deep sleeper for each NFL team. Today we will start off with the NFC North. There are plenty of fantasy-relevant players in this division. Let’s take a deeper dive into the v...
The NFL Draft is quickly approaching! The IDP department is breaking down each team post-free agency and what they should look to address in the draft. Detroit Lions Detroit has struggled on defense for a few years. Their offense has carried this team. Th...
Be Thankful Detroit Lions football on Thanksgiving is a tradition that Michiganders love. The rest of you may despise watching the Lions lose year after year while you gorge yourself during the most American of holidays. Here in the mitten state, we wou...
As IDP enthusiasts we fall in love with prospects every year. Annually my summer ends with cutting one, two or three of the rookie safeties I have collected on a hunch in the hopes that they will start. Inevitably I cut the wrong guy (i.e. Budda Baker). S...
Hot Stock S, Kevin Byard, Tennessee Titans No player is hotter right now than Kevin Byard. I have been saying since last year that Byard is a name to own in the IDP world. Over the last three weeks, with a bye sandwiched in the middle, Byard’s play has ...
Hot Stock DT, A’Shawn Robinson, Detroit Lions – Robinson is coming off a monster game in Week 7 versus the Saints. Robinson’s stock skyrocketed. You want to buy a stock before it takes off, so you can capitalize on your return. Fortunately, the Lion...
Hot Stock DT, Darius Philon, Los Angeles Chargers If your league is position specific and requires you to start a defensive tackle, then Philon is worth adding. He has has six tackles, four of which are solo and two sacks, in last two weeks. This is a pos...
What to Watch For: Can the Vikings passing attack continue to succeed against the Lions secondary? and Adam Thielen are both WR1’s through the first 3 weeks of this young fantasy season. $100 to anyone who predicted that. An extra $100 to anyone that t...
As we anticipate the start of the 2017 NFL season, the DFF Degenerates (@DFF_Degenerates) are tearing down every team in the NFL – #32Teams32Days. We’re going round-trip to tackle the entire country – AFC East to West, then NFC West to East. We di...
The Injury Starting OLB Tahir Whitehead of the Detroit Lions left Friday night’s week three preseason game versus the New England Patriots early in the 1st quarter and was officially ruled out for the game at halftime. He had already been dealing with a...
As Jacob Rickrode has shown, year after year the same Wide Receivers finish in the top 24 in PPR scoring. Largely, they do at least. I promise to stop stealing Jacob’s hard work shortly. But he’s also shown that on average there are 3 receivers that f...
As we begin to settle into this off-season, our team here at DFF has decided to tackle a list of Sleepers at each position. As you’ve probably already noticed, this isn’t just offensive Sleepers; this 7-part series will consist of IDP Sleepers as well...
It’s a well-known trope that tight ends typically take several years to develop into productive members of the fantasy football community. There are outliers to this truism such as Gronk, Tony Gonzalez, Antonio Gates and Greg Olsen, who just happen to b...
Matthew Stafford is arguably one of the least sexy starting quarterbacks in the NFL, but why? First off, he was the #1 ranked high school quarterback when he enrolled in Georgia and from there went on to a strong career that made him the 1st overall pick ...
It was reported that third-year tight end Eric Ebron had to be carted off the field Saturday with an apparent Achilles injury. The Achilles tendon is the tendon that attaches your calf muscle to the back of your heel. Ebron’s Injury According to multipl...
Let’s have some fun and play a little game. Test our knowledge if you will, while commencing Operation: Information Download. Note: If at anytime, while your reading this, you realize this is the DeAndre Levy that you know and love, please jump up and d...
Eric Ebron’s claim to fame, thus far, has been as the guy the Detroit Lions selected instead of Odell Beckham Jr. as the tenth overall selection in the 2014 NFL Draft. After foregoing his final year of eligibility at North Carolina, Ebron entered the NF...