Every offseason the fantasy football community over values a few NFL Draft players and this year was no different. Analysts from metric Twitter and film Twitter shouted for their can’t miss players, their sleepers, and their breakout stars. Some of these players didn’t make it through the first round of cuts. Some landed on the […]
There are quite a few sleepers in the 2017 NFL Draft class to keep an eye on. This article will provide you with three wide receivers to target in the mid to late rounds of your rookie drafts. #1. Cooper Kupp– Los Angeles Rams Cooper Kupp is a wide receiver to keep an eye on
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Even in a draft that was lauded for its tight end talent, finding a sleeper is akin to putting a puzzle together without the box. It CAN be done but good luck! For consistency sake, I decided to use the same 5th Round or later line of demarcation from my Sleeper Rookie Running Back article
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There is a flood of dynasty content with draft strategy and advice on how to build a roster for the future. However, if you are a contending team in “win now” mode, the information provided here may help you “hoist the hardware” this season. Maybe you have some glaring hole in your lineup
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Never Wake a Sleeping Lion Golladay presents a curious case for the dynasty community. He embodies that prototypical height, weight, speed prospect that we all covet and landing in Detroit does nothing to hurt his dynasty stock. Golladay was a late-bloomer who received little fanfare out of high school which led him to the University
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Let’s start with what classifies someone as a sleeper. Is it a player drafted in a particular round or overall pick? Is it a player that you just don’t see coming? Perhaps it is simply a player that far exceeds expectations regardless of draft capital? For this article, I assessed a simple line of demarcation
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Today we come to an end of our initial post-NFL draft rookie mock. Hopefully we’ve helped cystalize some of the rookies values in the process. 3.01 – @DFF_BMack – Wayne Gallman, RB, New York Giants Who knows what’s going on with the Giants’ backfield. Paul Perkins is the presumed starter, Shane Vereen is
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Just in case you missed Round 1. 2.01 – @DFF_BMack – O.J. Howard, TE, Tampa Bay Bucs Probably the most complete tight end in this draft class, but not the best pass catcher. I prefer to take Evan Engram after someone else takes Howard. But, that’s not how this
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After completing 450 Dynasty Rookie mock drafts pre-NFL Draft, the DFF team finally got around to completing our first post-NFL Draft. Please let us know your thoughts on our picks. 1.01 – @DFF_BMack – Corey Davis, WR, Tennessee Titans Corey Davis is my 1.01. In a dynasty league, I’m almost always going to go
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The mission of this article is to make our in-house experts sizzle and bristle over the hot-button issues that face dynasty owners. Our experts make the entire route tree HOT as they address topics from the world of IDP, Devy, Start/sit, Non-PPR, PPR and everything in between. Try not to get burned by
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Now that the NFL Draft has officially ended and our coveted rookies have found homes for 2017 and beyond, one name has seemed to rise to the consensus 1.01 of rookie mocks: Corey Davis. This is not surprising of course. An amazing athlete was taken 5th overall by a team that desperately needed a number
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For years, fans and analysts have argued the validity of the NFL Draft Combine. How much does it really predict? Which drills matter the most? While these answers may vary, one thing certainly agreed upon by most; this is not an exact science. With that being said, I will attempt to narrow things down and
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The dynasty fantasy football world has marveled over Leonard Fournette ever since he committed to LSU. Since his days at Saint Augustine High School, Fournette has drawn comparisons to Adrian Peterson, this generation’s top running back. During his Senior year in high school, the hype was further pushed as Fournette finished ranked number one
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Today we’ll finish Rookie Mock 2.0. It truly is amazing how deep this draft class is, there are multiple players who in no way shape or form have dropped to these rounds last year. But thankfully for us, the depth is such that we should be able to uncover gems all the way through the
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After our 1st rookie mock draft, way back in December 2016, a few things have changed. Namely Nick Chubb and Courtland Sutton (breaking my devy writers collective hearts) decided to forego the draft and go back for one more season of college ball. Now that we definitively know who will be joining the league next
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This year in leagues all over, we saw a trendy new draft strategy emerge known as “Zero RB.” It was, in my humble opinion, a slight overreaction to what was a down year for the position in 2015. It wasn’t unfounded by any means. It was, after all, a year that saw only seven running
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There are hundreds of stories being told during the planning and anticipation of the 2017 NFL Draft. Today we will be looking at a scouting report for Isaiah “Zay” Jones, the former East Carolina Pirate. The ECU Pirates are not an ordinary college team as they threw the ball an amazing 554 times in 2016
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Many dynasty championships are won with quick thinking and more times than not a great deal of research. I get excited each year during bowl season, perhaps it’s the optimism in the air as a few good prospects that go under the radar can make all the difference in the world to building a competitive
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In this third edition of Devy Watch, we’ll take a look at the New Year’s Six Bowls plus the College Football Playoff. These are the big ones, the teams that everyone knows, the players already on your taxi squad in devy leagues. Let’s take a look anyway and see if we can uncover a not-so-obvious
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Welcome to Round 2 of DFF’s Superflex 12 team rookie mock draft. Round 1 can be found here. One note, I’ve listed the writer’s twitter handle next to the pick, just in case you’d like to reach out to them directly to pick their brain regarding their selection. 2.01 Alvin Kamara, RB, Tennessee (@_CodyGarrett) Kamara
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