I continue to be amazed by the immediate expectations many in the fantasy community have for incoming rookies, and the rush to judgement they have if a player doesn’t live up to those immediate expectations. I’m also amazed by the degree to which many let themselves fall victim to recency bias. There are a ton […]
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Breshad Perriman is an ideal mid-round wide receiver to take in your fantasy football dynasty drafts. In 2015, the Baltimore Ravens selected Perriman in the first round of the NFL Draft to be their number 1 wide receiver of the future. At the time, Baltimore still had a crowded wide receiver depth chart, with players
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With the recent release of WR Jeremy Maclin by the Kansas City Chiefs, Maclin dynasty owners everywhere are wondering, “Where do I want him to land?” The Chiefs’ decision to release Maclin was sudden and surprising to most, and the general belief amongst the NFL and fantasy community is that it was almost entirely cap
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The Debate: A.J. Green vs. Amari Cooper: Recently on Twitter, a debate raged between a few main antagonists for nearly a month about the worth of particular receivers in dynasty leagues. One of the fun things about dynasty is that there are so many different strategies deployed by various teams at varying times making it
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In case you missed it (or you have never listened to the Edge Crushers – IDP Podcast) this is a written translation of one of the many segments we do on the show. Now we know what you are thinking, “But, Eric Decker doesn’t play defense.” This we are aware of, and our IDP centric
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Rodney Adams – Senior / 6’1″ / 191 – South Florida via Toledo DOB 9/15/1994 Games Watched: 2012: High School highlight reel 2015: Western Kentucky 2016: South Carolina, Navy, East Carolina, Syracuse, Memphis, Central Florida At Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg Florida Adams excelled at WR and QB (in option and Wildcat formations) as
Deep Sleeper: WR/KR Rodney Adams, Minnesota Vikings Read More »
In the NFL Draft, typically at least 30 WR are selected. I’ve watched tape on roughly 90 WR prospects that will be eligible this upcoming season. The type, extent and quality of tape I’ve reviewed varies from prospect to prospect. I gave 45 players a top-30 grade but chose to trim the list down to
Top 30 2018 Draft Eligible WR: 10-1 Read More »
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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John “JuJu” Smith-Schuster (@TEAM_JUJU9). I looked at him differently than many of the players I evaluate pre-draft and it had nothing to do with his hyphenated last name (okay, so I did wonder what that was about). I was skeptical about how good he is. A couple of years ago, Smith-Schuster was commonly the first
JuJu Smith-Schuster: Here to Prove Everybody Wrong Read More »
The second part of this series will look at identifying player groupings for the wide receiver position. Using the same methodology from “Identifying Player Groupings: Running Backs,” I was able to sort players into the same three categories: PPR Machines Yard Monsters Touchdown Dependents PPR Machines 2016 Standard Rank PPR Rank Player Fantasy Points Targets
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Here we are in the middle of another NFL offseason and coming upon another summer filled with Josh Gordon speculation. It’s become a fairly standard annual event at this point, at least it feels like it, right? Each breaking news report starts another ride on the Gordon rollercoaster. Gordon working out, or out at a
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Back in April of 2016, I wrote an article illustrating why Donte Moncrief was overvalued, a trap and would underperform even on a redraft level. Fast forward and Moncrief falls slightly above my “Low” Projection if we extrapolate out his per-game numbers for 2016. However, I understated how bad it really would be for Moncrief,
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Hot Take Alert: Laquon Treadwell sucks, he’s terrible, he’s slow, and runs bad routes. In fact, I think I saw Treadwell on the grassy knoll when JFK was assassinated. At least to hear Dynasty Twitter and various podcasts tell it, and well what we’ve seen so far from
Laquon Treadwell Ain’t Dead(Yet) Read More »
Everyone lately seems to love the idea of “life hacks.” If you’ve opened a social media application in the last 24 hours, I’m sure you know what these are. For those of you who aren’t on social media, a “life hack” is really not a hack at all; rather it is a quick tip that
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If you start to look into it, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more interesting story, athletically, than that of Patriots’ wide receiver Chris Hogan. Football and all major American sports for that matter have many athletes who excelled at other sports, the pinnacle, of course, being players like Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders and Brian
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In general, by nature, I’m a pretty pessimistic, negative person. Some see the glass as half full; I see it as half empty and full of urine and cigarette butts. I try to be aware of it and not let it affect my day-to-day life too much, but after the recent events during the recent
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This is the third part of a 4-part series on buy-low candidates in the 2017 offseason. We discussed Buy-low RBs last week. When determining the best buy-low candidates, I look for players whose value is currently less than what I expect it to be next year. I also look for players whose current value is less
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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 redshirt junior receiver Chad Hansen, Cal Golden Bears. WR-Chad Hansen, California 6’2” 205 lbs. This year’s receiver class has been described as wide, meaning that there are a
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Currently, your fantasy teams are littered with Clemson wide receivers, with the likes of DeAndre Hopkins, Sammy Watkins, Martavis Bryant, Jaron Brown, Charone Peake, Adam Humphries, and soon to be Mike Williams plying their trade in the NFL. In another year we will be adding another name to this list, Deon Cain. Cain has been
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Jerome Lane WR, Akron 6’3 220 2016 season stats: 62 Rec, 1018 Yards, 6 TDs Jerome Lane is going to be a big time value for a team in the upcoming draft. He has terrific body control and catching ability in traffic. His physicality allows him to win contested catches and box out defenders. He has
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