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Free Agency Merry-Go-Round: Hooper Lands in Cleveland with a Thud

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Unrestricted free-agent Austin Hooper signed a four-year, $42M contract to play for the Cleveland Browns last month. The deal makes him the second-highest-paid tight end in the NFL behind only Hunter Henry. He’ll join a team that finished 2019 at 6-10, results that prompted ownership to fire the GM and coaching staff. Hooper leaves a high-volume pass offense in Atlanta for one in Cleveland featuring a duo of strong running backs and a quarterback who’s still developing.

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Dead to Me

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Year after year you get your hopes up just to be let down by inconsistent, underwhelming, and untimely performances. These guys are only hot when they burn you, otherwise, their fantasy production is as cold as ice

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In the Scope: Week 15 Targets, “All-In the Scope Team” Announced

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With most competitive redraft fantasy leagues ending next week, this week our “In the Scope” targets will be back-end players who should still be out there available for nothing, that you could play in Week 16 – whether you’re vying for a title or just trying not to get last.Also, as this will be our final “In the Scope” column of the season, I’d like to introduce the 2019 “All-In the Scope Team.” This is a roster filled entirely with players we have mentioned in this column before they were priority adds.

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NFC North Factory Divisional Nuggets: Week 11

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Every week this series will attempt to bring clarity to the goings-on, both on and off the field within each NFL Division so that dynasty owners can make championship level decisions based on our actionable information. Our writers will be digging through data and film for inference on coach/front office decision making so that they can keep you equipped with the “nuggets” you need to succeed.

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NFC North Divisional Nuggets: Week 7

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Jace Sternberger (TE)
The promising rookie looks to be set for a return from IR soon, as he is back at practice. I wouldn’t look for him to take the starting role from Jimmy Graham any time in the near future, but if you need a nice flier at the position, now would be the last time to pick him up before playing time increases his price.

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In the Scope: Week 8

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Due to recent injuries, breakouts, and trades, there seems to be a buzz around the waiver wire for the first time in a while heading into Week 8.And while you’re still using your FAAB and waiver claims on priority adds like Ty Johnson and Kenny Stills (both of whom were featured in this column earlier this season), it’s still important to take your chance on a flier to fill out your bench once the waivers have cleared.As always, here are your Week 8 “In the Scope” candidates who have the potential to be next week’s top waiver claims

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NFC North Divisional Nuggets: Week 5

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Geronimo Allison (WR-GB)
It’s very clear that Allison is the team’s third-best option when Adams and MVS are both healthy, but if he finds a way to produce before Adams can come back from injury you’ll want to act fast in selling him. He’s only commanding an 11% target share and 11% of the team’s air yards, even with the increased opportunity the last couple games. Those figures are just not something you can reliably start any given week, as 11% of 35 passes is just three targets.

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Divisional Nuggets: NFC North Week 3 Update

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Allen Robinson, WRHe’s the best option in the passing game. Trubisky stares him down on plenty of plays. He’s averaging nine targets per game, good for 26.5% target share. Nobody else on the team is above 20%. Taylor Gabriel is outscoring Robinson for the year, largely because he’s probably caught 60% of his yearly touchdowns vs the Redskins. Even with the great Gabriel performance, Robinson commands 38% of the team’s air yards. It’s only a matter of time before Robinson starts to find the end zone and breaks out. If somebody is just box score scouting, I’d offer a late first pretty easily for him. He’s just entering his athletic prime, more than a year removed from the ACL tear, and getting awesome volume. Gobble up those shares.

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In the Scope: Stealthy Free Agent Finds

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Holdouts, retirements, trades, extensions, and a whole lot of Antonio Brown drama made this preseason one for the books.And Week 1 of the regular season only followed the trend. Big Plays, coming-out parties, injuries, and total disappointments rocked both the NFL and the fantasy world Sunday.But, if we thought we saw it all in the preseason and Week 1, Week 2 should be just as exciting.The waiver wire and free agency should be in full effect this week. And while we know you are going to need a top waiver pick or an excessive amount of FAAB to acquire the likes of John Ross, Marquise Brown, and Malcolm Brown, “In the Scope” has got you covered with some stealthy additions that have great chances of being next week’s top waiver claims.

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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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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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Kyle Rudolph Contract Extension

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Kyle RudolphIt’s important that we note the contract he had before. For those who don’t spend a lot of time on Spotrac, he had a $7.625m cap hit with zero dead cap (money still counting towards the team’s cap for the year). Virtually any time a player has zero dead cap in a year, he represents a cut candidate, or what some people may call a “cap casualty”. This fact was especially exacerbated by the fact that the Vikings were up against the salary cap for the year with very little room for flexibility. It’s not uncommon for teams to look at having $7.625m more cap space as being more valuable than a player. In this case, the Vikings found a way to have their cake and eat it too, while also giving Rudolph some short term guarantees………..

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IDP Predraft Preview: Minnesota Vikings

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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. Minnesota Vikings The Vikings made it to the NFC Championship game last year on the strength of their defense, considering their offense was being led by Case Keenum. This

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DFF Fantasy 5 Spot: Rams vs. Vikings

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Los Angeles Rams 7 vs. Minnesota Vikings 24 Dan Cook (@seahawksdan8) Los Angeles Rams [profiler]Jared Goff[/profiler] came back down to Earth a little this week. He did not play terribly, but could not do enough to help his team in this premiere matchup of division leaders. He didn’t make any critical mistakes though and the

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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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IDP Player Profile: Danielle Hunter DE, Minnesota Vikings

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Since Danielle Hunter was drafted in the 3rd round of the 2015 NFL Draft, he’s been shattering expectations. At the time he was drafted, he was looked at as a high “potential based” pick for Minnesota. Since then, he has been a pleasant surprise in both seasons for Mike Zimmer and the Vikings. While Hunter has

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Player Profile: WR Stefon Diggs

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Home Body Stefon Diggs has the pedigree to maintain his production for years. Looking back, he was a five-star recruit coming out of high school and was rated as the 2nd best wide receiver, behind current Philadelphia Eagles WR Dorial Green-Beckham in the class of 2012. Additionally, he had offers from Ohio State, Auburn, USC,

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