Kenyan Drake: Year 3 Recalibration

Kenyan Drake is a Day 2, who finally saw an expanded opportunity late in Year 2 with the trade of Jay Ajayi to the Eagles. Get the rest of this content plus Rankings, Metrics, and 100s of Premium Podcast Episodes becoming a General Manager subscriber! As a BONUS, General ...

Corey Coleman: Dynasty Soul Searching

Corey Coleman is now 2 years removed from being a mid-Round 1 NFL Draft pick and consensus top-4 rookie pick in 2016. Now, his future in Cleveland is in question with the signing of Jarvis Landry, Josh Gordon back (for now), and a drove of ...

LaQuon Treadwell: Year 3 Recalibration

LaQuon Treadwell has had minimal impact through 2 seasons, following a lackluster NFL Draft process back in 2016. Here is a look at similar prospects through 2 years: Get the rest of this content plus Rankings, Metrics, and 100s of Premium Podcast Episodes PLUS an Audio App becoming ...

Darius Powe: A Metric Look

Very rarely during an NFL season does a player get meaningful snaps in a game where the proverbial 'who is that?' reaction falls over me. I am watching games into the early hours of Monday mornings and Darius Powe was one of those players in ...

The ‘Don’t Forget About Me’ Dynasty Wide Receivers

While we all want our breakout calls to occur on our schedule, fantasy football does not always work on our projections. Here is a look at the notable dynasty wide receivers to be patient with to close 2017 and heading into 2018: Get the rest of ...

Revisiting Rashard Higgins

With Kenny Britt underwhelming and Corey Coleman likely out for a couple of months, the Rashard Higgins jumped up in snap count in Week 2. Get the rest of this content plus Rankings, Metrics, and 100s of Premium Podcast Episodes PLUS an Audio App becoming a General Manager ...

Kenneth Dixon: Year 2 Recalibration

Kenneth Dixon was one of the strongest metric running back prospects from Day 3 in recent memory. Landing in Baltimore offered an optimistic depth chart to open his career. Terrance West was a reclamation project who collected most of the early down work for the ...

Jordan Howard, Year 1 Success, Projection Metrics

I have looked at Jordan Howard under the lens of a Day 3 running back before, but here is another: Get the rest of this content plus Rankings, Metrics, and 100s of Premium Podcast Episodes becoming a General Manager subscriber! As a BONUS, General Managers receive a free week ...

Devy League Year 1: Dynasty Season Review

This season review is for a 12-team PPR devy league, start 1-1-1-1-4Flex-1Sflex with 26-man rosters. The league has a 2-round devy draft each year but only 2 devy players are eligible for a taxi squad per team. Any other devy will take an active roster spot. ...

Dynasty Season Review: Year 2 UTH Roster

This season review is for a 12-team PPR league, start 1-2-3-1-1Flex with 30-man rosters and a 2-year taxi squad for all drafted rookies. This was Year 2 for the league. Even with a UTH start-up, I performed well in Year 1 but unfortunately was the ...

5 Discount Metric Studs: Wide Receivers

The projection model and targeting strong metric wide receivers is all about probabilities. One of the best subsets of metric prospects are the well-balanced ones. They have positive marks in the three major categories. For wide receiver prospects, they include Size, Athleticism, and Production. Here ...

Jordan Howard: Year 1 Checkup

Through 13 weeks, Jordan Howard is averaging a robust 15.5 PPR PPG. Not bad for the No.150 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft. Sifting the projection model, here is some information on Howard with Year 1 factored into the equation: Get the rest of this ...

2016 Rookie Value Roller Coaster

The 2016 rookie class was widely portrayed as a 'down year.'  Trading 2016 picks for 2017 picks was almost impossible and at the peak, some analysts were claiming they would take a random 2017 1st over pick 1.05.  Typically a current year 1st round pick ...

2016 Rookie Running Backs Recalibration

The projection model saw a significant upgrade during the 2016 NFL season, the addition of recruiting scores to the wide receiver prospects as a metric factor. Also, I recalibrated the overall scores to center around 0% where above-average prospects reside on the positive side and ...

2016 Rookie Wide Receivers Recalibration

The projection model saw a significant upgrade during the 2016 NFL season, the addition of recruiting scores to the wide receiver prospects as a metric factor. Also, I recalibrated the overall scores to center around 0% where above-average prospects reside on the positive side and ...

2017 Running Back Class: Ezekiel Elliott Equivalency

Ezekiel Elliott was the gold standard of the 2016 NFL Draft class, the clear 1.01 in rookie drafts, and already churning out meaningful production in his opening month in the NFL. Overall, though, it was a down class in 2016 with 2017 drawing acclaim by ...

Jordan Howard: When to Have Day 3 Running Back Skepticism

Jordan Howard has been a soapbox player during the midseason of 2016. With Jeremy Langford out with injury, Howard surged to log multiple strong games. For a player I liked during the draft process among the running back position, why was I quick to cut ...

Don Jackson: Metric Profile

Don Jackson was not in the projection model until this week. In 99 times out of 100, it means the player is a very weak athlete and/or producer in college. With the Packers running back depth chart running on fumes, Knile Davis was brought in ...

Carson Wentz’s Historical Hot Start

In addition to being 3-0, Carson Wentz is red hot. He has completed 65% of his passes, averaging more than 250 yards per game, and has a pristine 5-to-0 touchdown-to-interception ratio. Here are some similar quarterbacks in thier first three career games: Get the rest of ...

Chester Rogers: Metric Profile

Chester Rogers has an opportunity to rise in playing time with Donte Moncrief out for at least a month in Indianapolis. The small school 2016 rookie did not make the projection model back in the spring but warrants attention now with an opportunistic depth chart ...