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Fantasy Bounceback Candidates: The Class of 2018

Every year during fantasy drafts, there are players that have been left for dead. Players that failed to meet expectations in the previous season and may have cost their owners playoff appearances or even championships. I’m not talking about players that suffered significant injuries; this article won’t mention Aaron Rodgers, David Johnson, or Odell Beckham […]

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2018 Fantasy Bounceback: Amari Cooper

[profiler]Amari Cooper[/profiler] is well on his way to becoming one of the most polarizing players of Fantasy Football Twitter. You can go through and see anything from “he sucks, he isn’t even the best WR on his team” to “Cooper is a generational talent” and just about every take in between. In order to parse

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Week 15 Injury Wire: Carson Wentz

Dr. Eric Fjeldheim, PT Another week and another budding star goes down. In this week’s Injury Wire, we will take a deep dive and discuss Carson Wentz’s injury/recovery and more. With a torn ACL, Carson Wentz’s season is over, and he will need surgery. (Editor’s note: Wentz reportedly underwent surgery on Wednesday.) What will his

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Injury Impact: Carson Wentz

Every Eagles fan and many fantasy owners worst nightmares were confirmed today. With Wentz lost for the year we need to examine the impact this will have on the other fantasy assets on the Philadelphia Eagles roster. Nick Foles Taking a look at Foles’ career stats on Profootballreference.com shows one magical season… then a whole

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Alshon Nesting

Now that Alshon Jeffery is off the 2018 free agency market after signing a 4 year $52 million contract to remain an Eagle through 2021, let’s examine what this means for Jeffery and the rest of the Philadelphia Eagles receivers. All stats are through week 12 Alshon Jeffery Though Jeffery is on pace to miss

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Prepping for the Playoff Push: Wide Receivers

    With the fantasy football regular season rapidly coming to a close, it’s time for teams to start preparing for their run in the playoffs. Many owners factor in fantasy playoff matchups as early as a draft day, long before the season even begin. I am not one of those people. Although I do

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Injury Update: Aaron Rodgers

A video surfaced yesterday of Aaron Rodgers throwing the football. This is a great sign that his recovery and healing is going well. Most post-operative rehabilitation protocols limit excessive shoulder elevation and rotation for the first 6-8 weeks, and Aaron is throwing footballs just over 5 weeks post-op. Good stuff. He is eligible to return

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Prepping for the Playoff Push: Tight Ends

With the fantasy football regular season rapidly coming to a close, it’s time for teams to start preparing for their run in the playoffs. Many owners factor in fantasy playoff matchups as early as a draft day, long before the season even begins. I am not one of those people. Although I do support the

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Prepping for the Playoff Push: Running Backs

    With the fantasy football regular season rapidly coming to a close, it’s time for teams to start preparing for their run in the playoffs. Yesterday I broke down the playoff schedule for quarterbacks, today I’ll take a look at running backs. Many owners factor in fantasy playoff matchups as early as a draft

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Prepping for the Playoff Push: Quarterbacks

    With the fantasy football regular season rapidly coming to a close, it’s time for teams to start preparing for their run in the playoffs. Many owners factor in fantasy playoff matchups as early as a draft day, long before the season even begin. I am not one of those people. Although I do

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Injury Impact: Chris Thompson

        Week 11 brought another devastating injury with the season-ending injury to Washington running back [profiler]Chris Thompson[/profiler] who was in the midst of a breakout season.  Chris Thompson Thompson was in the middle of a superb season. Going into Sunday Thompson was the RB9 averaging 16.1 points per game. Through 9 complete games,

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The Benching of Tyrod Taylor

It wouldn’t be a Wednesday without some head scratching news regarding an NFL Quarterback. Today’s news is the the Buffalo Bills are benching [profiler]Tyrod Taylor[/profiler] for Nathan Peterman. Looking at the numbers, this benching makes little sense. The Buffalo Bills are a surprising 5-4 on the season, and Tyrod Taylor is a big reason why. The

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George Kittle: The next “Elite” move Tight End

This past summer, Fantasy Twitter whispered about a little known tight end out of Iowa who was taken in the fifth round with the second pick by the San Francisco 49ers. He is an elite level athlete who smashed the NFL combine. That player was 49ers rookie tight end, George Kittle.     [profiler]George Kittle[/profiler] did

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Trade for Devin Funchess Now

    With the loss of Cam Newton’s safety blanket, Greg Olsen, and defenses adjusting for the dynamic [profiler]Christian McCaffrey[/profiler] space has opened up for another offensive threat to step up in the Carolina offense. So far, that player has been Devin Funchess. From Weeks 2 through 8 (post-Olsen injury), Funchess has averaged 8.1 targets per

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Injury Impact: Aaron Rodgers

Sunday’s action brought yet another catastrophic injury for the NFL and fantasy football. [profiler]Aaron Rodgers[/profiler] was lost in the first quarter to what was later confirmed to be a broken collarbone. Rodgers will miss most if not the rest of the regular season, eliminating him for the rest of the fantasy season. Anthony Barr did the

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Scouting Notes Flashback/Update: QB Kevin Hogan

Despite popular thought and fan pressure, the Cleveland Browns did not draft a QB in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft. Instead, they opted for the raw but promising golden domer [profiler]DeShone Kizer[/profiler] of Notre Dame. This was a surprising move especially considering they had three first round picks. Then, in possibly the the

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