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2023 DFF SF Rookie Mock Draft – Pre NFL Draft: Round 3

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The DFF Army got together for its first analyst-only mock draft of the 2023 off-season. Here we randomly selected spots and then ran the draft in a linear order; the settings are Superflex and PPR. Hopefully, this can help give you an early sense of the players you should be considering at the top of your draft and the gems you will want to target later. Check out every second-round selection below and each writer’s reasoning behind their pick.  Click here to see the previous round. Rounds three and four are publishing soon! 

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The WR1 Rating Dynasty Rookie Countdown: Part 2

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For those new to the WR1 rating, this is a proprietary formula I developed to provide a data-driven forecast of future dynasty value for incoming rookie wide receivers. The WR1 model scores rookies on nine predictive metrics and then combines those individual metric scores into a total WR1 rating score. The goal is to provide a single easy-to-use score for those who don’t want to spend all the time dissecting different metrics. 

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2022 DFF SF Rookie Mock Draft 3.0: Round 1

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The DFF Army banded together for another 12-team full PPR Superflex rookie mock draft! This time we are post-combine and pro-day, but pre-NFL Draft. Check out every first-round selection below and each writer’s reasoning behind their pick. Stay tuned for rounds two, three, and four dropping over the next few days.

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Pre-Combine 2022 Rookie Positional Rankings – QB

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Your author has broken down his pre-combine rookie rankings into positional rankings with tier designations to help you better view the dynasty rookie draft landscape. It is important to remember these rankings are created with fantasy football purposes in mind. We will dive eight players deep with the QB and TE positions and ten players deep with the RB and WR positions. Up first, the QB position is detailed for the upcoming 2022 NFL Draft. 

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Selling High on Hype

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During this “dead period”, of impact Fantasy Football content, it’s always good to take inventory of your roster and identify “who’s hot” and “who’s not”, from a Dynasty values perspective. The idea lends itself to helping you make strategic moves and improving your starting line-up production while insulating with production potential. The following recommendations are meant to help you find ways to expand your production potential via the off-loading of “hyped” assets, whether proven or unproven. These examples are not to say that these players possess poor value; rather it’s due to the perceived value that might allow you to move them in to strengthen your overall roster.

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Navigating Your Rookie Draft- 2021 Running Backs

Rookie RB Prospect Model: Regression Analysis

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Today’s fantasy landscape grows more and more complex. When evaluating rookie prospects we have so many different stats and metrics to look at. The hard part is figuring out which ones are important and which do not matter. That is where regression analysis can come in and play a large role. I will be using regression analysis to help build a predictive grading model that can be used to easily sift through many players to quickly identify guys to avoid and target. Our end goal when selecting rookies is who will be the best fantasy assets when they hit the NFL, and the best assets are the ones who score us the most fantasy points. To create my rookie model I used regression analysis and sorted through multiple different metrics to determine which correlated to NFL fantasy points per game (FP/G) the most and which correlated the least. 

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Have Patience with Kyle Pitts

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I get it. Kyle Pitts is the savior that’s going to rescue your fantasy team from the desolate tight end landscape. Based on the eye-test and a lot of metrics, that seems to be true. HOWEVER, if Kyle Pitts is truly an NFL-level tight end, he would have to absolutely smash all rookie records in order to meet some of the expectations being laid out by the fantasy community.

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DFF Senior Bowl Part 1: Big Game Performers

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The Draft starts in Mobile, Alabama. Over the past two seasons, the player who has won Senior Bowl MVP honors was selected early in the first round of the NFL Draft. In 2019, that was Daniel Jones going sixth overall to become the New York Giants franchise quarterback. In 2020, Justin Herbert scorched the Senior Bowl, earning MVP honors and being selected sixth overall to the Los Angeles Chargers. Herbert went on to set rookie quarterback records and is one of the most valuable Superflex dynasty quarterbacks and players overall. Since 2014, there have been a number of players to play in the senior bowl and go on to become very good NFL players and correspondingly very valuable fantasy assets.

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NFL Draft Rounds 4-7: Redraft Reaction

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In this article, I’ll give rapid-fire takes on any skill players in Rounds 4-7 of the NFL Draft that I believe might be redraft viable. On Thursday, I wrote up the first round, on Friday, I did articles on the second and third round. Those links are at the bottom of this article. For these last four rounds, I’ll only pick out a few notable players that I expect to make an impact in redraft potentially. With each player, I’ll note their path to redraft relevance. It is important to note that any player listed below is, by definition, a long-shot. Very few late-round rookies hit in redraft. 

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ROOKIE FEVER EPISODE 73 – Week 12 Top 12 Rookies RECAP – 12 Minutes of Madness (Bonus)

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Quick recap of the top 12 Rookies from week 12  Thanks for listening, please download, subscribe, 5-star review, and tell a friend. Follow us on Twitter @RookieFever @AardvarkTV @DFF_Swag If you love Dynasty and you love NFL Rookies, you’ll love the Rookie Fever Podcast.  Brought to you by the Dynasty Football Network and powered by Dynasty

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ROOKIE FEVER EPISODE 75 – Week 13 Rookie Predictions – Going Back For Seconds!

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Don’t miss Rookie Fever’s Week 13 Top 12 Rookie Predictions. The Feverish Fanaro is flying solo in a bonus episode on Black Friday.  Did he crash and burn?  You decide.  Thanks for listening, please download, subscribe, 5-star review, and tell a friend. Follow us on Twitter @RookieFever @AardvarkTV @DFF_Swag If you love Dynasty and you

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ROOKIE FEVER EPISODE 74 – Thanksgiving Plates Are Full – Rookie Redraft 2018 & 2019 Classes

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Happy Thanksgiving!!! Feverish Fanaro and Swag with a thankful take on a rookie and rewind draft Tons of fun Thanks for listening, please download, subscribe, 5-star review, and tell a friend. Follow us on Twitter @RookieFever @AardvarkTV @DFF_Swag   If you love Dynasty and you love NFL Rookies, you’ll love the Rookie Fever Podcast.  Brought to

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ROOKIE FEVER EPISODE 72 – Easy Rookie Buys…Don’t Wait!

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Feverish Fanaro, Swags and Rookies Rookies to target for your contenders and pretenders Easier to get Rookies you should still have the Fever for Quick recap of the top 12 Rookies from week 11 Week 10 prediction results are in! Bold predictions for week 12 Swag takes advantage of the Guest Thanks for listening, please

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ROOKIE FEVER EPISODE 71 – Is Rashaad worth a Penny?

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Feverish Fanaro, Swags and Rookies Metcalf and Lockett Rashaad Penny Preston Williams and so much more! Quick recap of the top 12 Rookies from week 10 Week 10 prediction results are in Bold predictions for week 11 Swag takes advantage of the Guest Thanks for listening, please download, subscribe, 5-star review, and tell a friend.

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ROOKIE FEVER EPISODE 70 – From Gardner to Water Boy with @JmicCheck

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Rookie Fever welcomes Jmic from the Open Bar to talk Rookies. We quickly get the Jags fan’s opinion on Gardner Minshew and Nick Foles. The newest blow to the Rookie class: Preston Williams with a season ending knee injury.   Quick recap of the top 12 Rookies from week 9 We predict some of the

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Rookie Fever Episode 69 – Trick or Treat The Top 20 Rooks (Midseason Edition)

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Fanaro  and Swags go through top 20 through now that we are half way through the 2019 season.  Was this rookie class as bad as advertised or are there a few guys that are league winners?  Who’s a trick and who’s a treat?  Swags and the Feverish Fanaro give their takes on which player is

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