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Factory Divisional Nuggets: NFC North

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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-weekly installment, but I wanted to give a preview and set baselines for expectations for all the NFC North teams.

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Redraft: Take a Chance on Hockenson

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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, or we ignore a beautiful situation because we have convinced ourselves that a team is no good. We’re all guilty of it.
Check out my arguments to why I believe T.J. Hockenson will deliver year one production.

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IDP Nation Podcast – Episode 7 – Bonus Show NFC North

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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 Nation! This week’s episode: Same hosts, same great IDP content, new name!

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Dynasty Outlook: NFC North Edition

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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 values on these fantasy players![exceltable id=’47826′]Chicago BearsBuy Low: Mitch TrubiskyIn the month of June, Trubisky had an ADP of 148.7 and is the 18th quarterback taken off the board, while he finished last year as QB14. He threw for 3,223 yards, 24 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions while rushing for 421 yards with 3 touchdowns in 14 games. He was in his first year under Head Coach, Matt Nagy, and I look to see him have a breakout third season. The current QB14 taken in startup drafts is Jameis Winston with an ADP of 133.7, which is about a round before Trubisky. Of the top 20 quarterbacks in 2018, only two played in 13 games (Baker, QB17 and Mitch, QB14), one played in 14 games (Cam, QB10) and the other 17 played in all 15 fantasy football season games. If Mitch doesn’t miss those two games and keeps his 19.4 PPG, he would have finished inside the top 10 for fantasy quarterbacks last season.

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IDP Predraft Program: Detroit Lions

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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. The addition of Head Coach Matt Patricia should improve their defense. Their

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Blount rides on to the Motor City: Speaking Blounty(ly)

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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 wouldn’t know what to do without it. It saves us. You’ve got a

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IDP Sophomore Sleepers: Linebacker Edition

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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). So yeah, we all make mistakes. This series

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Week 4 Fantasy Preview: NFC North

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What to Watch For: Can the Vikings passing attack continue to succeed against the Lions secondary? [profiler]Stefon Diggs[/profiler] 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 thought the success would continue with Case Keenum under center.

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DAY 27: Detroit Lions

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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 didn’t have to do it, but we did. Buckle up! It’s a bumpy ride.

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IDP Injury Impact: OLB Tahir Whitehead

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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 knee injury that had caused him to miss some workouts during

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Golden Tate Will not be a Top 24 Wide Receiver in 2017

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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 fall out of the top 24 every season. In

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2017 IDP Defensive Back Sleepers

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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. We know not every league is offense-only so we’ve got you

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High Hopes: TE Edition

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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 be the four greatest tight ends to play during my lifetime. They all broke

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LB DeAndre Levy, Detroit Lions

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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 down and congratulate yourself. You’re the big winner! DeAndre Levy was

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