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Hunter Henry vs. 2017 Rookie Tight End Class
Los Angeles Chargers tight end Hunter Henry was easily the best rookie tight end in the NFL and in fantasy football last year, but will he be better than all of the league’s new rookies this year? This year's crop of tight ends features some of the best high-end talent the draft has seen for... Read More
Rookie Tight Ends in the Best Fantasy Situations
2016 was a bad year for tight ends, and even worse for rookie tight ends. Thanks to a lackluster crop that had no tight ends worthy of a first-round pick, nobody at the position had 500 receiving yards on the season, and only San Diego’s Hunter Henry posted anything fantasy-wise as he hauled in eight... Read More
Two Things Fantasy Football Players Assume Will Happen (But Won’t)
You need more than a crystal ball or an intelligent football brain to accurately predict what will happen in the NFL every year. Heading into the 2016 campaign, fantasy football owners probably thought Dallas’ Dak Prescott had no chance of being the best rookie quarterback in the NFL, that Matt Jones would easily emerge as... Read More
Fantasy Spin - Tony Romo to the Broadcast Booth
Just when you think you have the NFL and fantasy football figured out, something happens that makes you realize that you can never truly know everything. Tony Romo could have continued to play football and get paid handsomely as a starting NFL quarterback. There was no shortage of teams in need of his services. With... Read More
Fantasy Spin - Brock Osweiler to the Browns
Brock Osweiler did not help one single fantasy owner win a championship this past season. For an encore, he might even have less fantasy value next season. In today’s pass-happy NFL, even though he played in 15 games last year for the Houston Texans, Osweiler did not pass for 300 yards in any game, nor... Read More
Fantasy Spin - Pierre Garcon to 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers upgraded their pitiful receiving corps this offseason, but they did not exactly land the next Jerry Rice. Pierre Garcon signed a five-year, $47.5 million deal with the San Francisco 49ers last month, a contract that had many like myself wondering if this was going to be a colossal fiasco like the... Read More
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Fantasy Spin - Eddie Lacy to the Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks may not have Marshawn Lynch any more, but they will have someone in their backfield who runs almost as hard in 2017. Eddie Lacy signed a one-year contract with Seattle last week. My Green Bay Packers-loving cheesehead wife is mourning the loss of Lacy, and she is probably not alone. Fantasy owners... Read More
2017 Rankings Analysis - Tight Ends in PPR Leagues
Just because the 2016 season was a downer for tight ends it does not mean that 2017 is destined to be a repeat. There are several wild cards at tight end because there is a bumper crop of young up-and-comers just entering their primes who showed flashes of great promise this past season. This coupled... Read More
Fantasy Spin - Terrelle Pryor to the Redskins
Terrelle Pryor was a breakout fantasy star in 2016, but that might have just been the appetizer to what he can do this season for a main course. Many experts thought Pryor would drown in multi-millions when he hit the free-agent market after racking up 77 receptions for 1,004 yards in his first full season... Read More
Fantasy Spin - DeSean Jackson to Bucs
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a glaring need for a No. 2 wide receiver, and they spent millions to fill it. DeSean Jackson has taken his fleet feet to Tampa Bay. Now, the Buccaneers look like one of the most explosive and fantasy-friendly passing attacks in the NFL. With Jameis Winston at quarterback, top-5 fantasy... Read More
2017 Rankings Analysis - Wide Receivers in Standard Leagues
The landscape has changed in fantasy football when it comes to how important wide receivers are. 23 wide receivers broke the 1,000-yard barrier in 2016, so the NFL continues to be a pass-first, run-second league. While receivers were third in the pecking order behind running backs and quarterbacks in fantasy football 3-5 years ago, the... Read More
2017 Rankings Analysis - Tight Ends in Standard Leagues
Stop me if you've heard this before: 2016 was not a great year for tight ends. Nobody at the position scored double-digit touchdowns and only two had 1,000 receiving yards. Thanks to serious injuries to major players at the position, fantasy owners were scrambling like Tyrod Taylor to find tight end help throughout the season. But... Read More
Early Sleepers for 2017 - Tight End
Is there are any tight end waiting in the wings ready to become the next Rob Gronkowski? Probably not. There are some young tight ends with terrific talent and breakout potential, however. It is never too early to write some names down on your fantasy football draft chart or cheat sheet and track these players’... Read More
Early Sleepers for 2017 - Wide Receiver
There is now no doubt that the NFL is a pass-first league. Need proof? How many fantasy owners predicted Pierre Garcon, Tyrell Williams, Mike Wallace and Kenny Britt would all break the 1,000-yard barrier this past year? It is possible that none of the foursome were drafted in many, if not most fantasy leagues in... Read More
Early Sleepers for 2017 - Tight Ends
2016 was not a banner year for tight ends, it was a bummer year. Only two (Travis Kelce, Greg Olsen) cracked the 1,000-yard plateau after four had done so the previous year. The top dog at the position, New England’s Rob Gronkowski, had his season ruined by another injury. Other top-10 tight ends like Jordan... Read More
Biggest Busts and Disappointments of 2016 - Tight Ends
Not every tight end had the season Kansas City’s Travis Kelce had in 2016. While Kelce caught every Alex Smith dump-off in sight on his way to a career-high 1,125 yards that topped all tight ends, many others gave their fantasy football owners a tremendous pile of garbage games, DNPs and head-scratching weeks. 2016 might go... Read More
Biggest Surprises of 2016 - Tight End
2016 was a season full of surprises at the tight end position. With top fantasy tight end Rob Gronkowski limited to only eight games due to injury and No. 2 tight end Jordan Reed battling his own myriad of injuries throughout the season, fantasy owners who burned early picks at the position were constantly scrambling to find... Read More
The 2016 Fantasy Football All-Bust Team
2016 was the best year of my life, as I got married to the girl of my dreams. 2016 was not as good to many others, however, especially in the NFL and in the fantasy football world. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, fantasy football owners and marijuana stoners! Please allow me to introduce the... Read More
Week 17 Tight End Waiver Wire Pickups and Adds
The fantasy football season may be over for many of you, as most fantasy football leagues do not hold their Super Bowl during Week 17. It is a week where superstars are rested either because their teams have qualified for the playoffs and are locked into their seeds, or because their teams have no chance... Read More
Charles Clay (TE, BUF) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 18% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Charles Clay was a non-factor during the first 70 percent of the season. After 11 games, he had not scored a touchdown or sniffed an 80-yard performance. In fact, he had more games with fewer than 10 receiving yards than games with... Read More
Playoff Push: The Four Determining Factors For Picking the Perfect Lineup
This is not the time to pull a Leon Lett and have a brain cramp when making out your starting fantasy lineups for the rest of the football season. Fantasy owners cannot afford to make any mistakes from here on out. If you insert an injured player into your lineup and he does not dress... Read More
Jermaine Gresham (TE, ARI) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Stream in 10-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 7% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: I never would have guessed that Gresham would have a fantasy impact again after spending 2015 in fantasy Alaska. His 18 receptions for 223 yards and one touchdown were all career-lows and he looked like a shell of his former self. There is no way he was... Read More
Daniel Brown (TE, CHI) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Stream in 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 1% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Chicago’s new starting tight end is starting to have an effect on the fantasy football world. There were not many fantasy experts who thought Chicago’s former backup tight end would do much after Zach Miller and Jay Cutler suffered season-ending injuries. Brown was an undrafted second-year player... Read More
Charles Clay (TE, BUF) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Stream in 10-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 38% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Every week I say Clay is a waiver wire nominee to consider, and every time I do that he makes me look dumber than the Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne. But this time I am gambling and going all-in on Clay, because I believe this could be... Read More
Week 15 Tight End Waiver Wire Pickups and Adds
Many if not most fantasy football leagues are starting their playoffs this week. If you did not qualify for the playoffs in your league, you might as well stop reading. A tight end’s touchdown or zero-point outing could decide millions of fantasy playoff games across the globe. So if you need a tight end because... Read More
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Tight Ends Waiver Wire: Week 14 Pickups & Adds
There are millions of fantasy football owners dealing with a colossal void at their tight end position. Rob Gronkowski is not coming back this season, fantasy folks. I know those of who you own him have been soaking plenty of handkerchiefs, tissue paper and your spouses’ shoulders with your tears. But while there is no... Read More
Jermaine Gresham (TE, ARI) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Stream in 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 6% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Don’t look now, but Jermaine Gresham has been finding the end zone as often as the top tight ends in the NFL lately. After going scoreless in his first nine games of the season (and not even recording a catch in three of them), the wily veteran... Read More
Ladarius Green (TE, PIT) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 36% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Ladarius Green has now proven that the injured ankle that forced him to miss the first half of the season is no longer injured. With several 30-yard receptions over the past two weeks, he is easily the most explosive tight end available on most fantasy league waiver... Read More
Dennis Pitta (TE, BAL) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Stream in 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 42% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Dennis Pitta had not scored a touchdown since 2013 and had only one multi-touchdown game to his credit during his entering the NFL in 2010, so it made perfect sense for him to catch two touchdown tosses from Joe Flacco against Miami’s ninth-ranked pass defense this past... Read More
Jared Cook (TE, GB) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 10- and 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 39% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Jared Cook’s fantasy value is bipolar. One game he torches a defense for 100 yards and makes you think he is Green Bay’s best tight end since Jermichael Finley. Then the next game he catches one lone pass and is back to being someone who should... Read More
