A first-round pick injured in Week 1 is comparable to getting a beautiful 32-oz. porterhouse — with a curly black hair on it. And nothing kills your Fantasy Football season quicker than a busted first-round pick. Well, that and picking a kicker in the second round. Owners of Randy Moss in 2010 can attest to how a season can sour quickly. After being selected in...

You knew it was too good to be true. Marshawn Lynch’s arrest on suspicion of a DUI Saturday just screwed up the first two rounds of Fantasy drafts – and training camps haven’t even started yet. A possible Marshawn Lynch suspension just threw a wrench in our midsummer Fantasy plans. I need a drink. Now what do we do? This is not Lynch’s first brush with the...

500 pennies can change your Fantasy draft strategy for the better. I promise. So simple, yet so underutilized. Don’t draft your quarterback early – yet more than three-quarters of us do it every year. Hell, I did it last week, taking Cam Newton with the 3.01 pick in a writers’ mock draft. For Last week, I came across a website called LateRoundQB.com, which had...

In the first part of this look at when you should draft Calvin Johnson, we examined his 2011 season a little closer. We found that while he was great overall, he had some weak spots in the middle of the season. Were those weak spots enough to scare us away from drafting him in the top five or six spots overall? That’s still to be determined.   Value Based...

It would be a mistake for us not to value Calvin Johnson as the best receiver in Fantasy Football. After all, he was a solid 44 pointsbetter than the second-best receiver last season, using standard scoring. And there’s a reason his nickname is Megatron: his body of work is out of this world. But let’s not be too naïve. His numbers from last season indicate a...

I took part in another Fantasy Football writer’s league mock draft this week, this time as part of the RotoExperts group. This 2012 Mock Draft team came out pretty good, in my opinion, although I had to practice what I preach in the early going. (The draft is part of the RotoExperts.com 2012 NFL Xclusive Edge Offseason Package.) The following is a review of the...

Opening arguments: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, all summer, I’ve been admonishing the masses against taking Arian Foster first overall. But in my recent mock drafts, I’ve never had to practice what I preach – until Monday night in a MyFantasyLeague.com mock draft. I had to go ahead and take Ray Rice first overall in a RotoExperts.com mock draft (for the...

How do you know you’ve just eaten the best stadium food ever? Have you ever taken a bite of freedom? Have you ever heard the Vienna Boys Choir singing in your head while you chewed ballpark food? When was the last time you bit into something and your teeth cheered? Well, that happened to me on May 21, 2012, on a baseball trip to Oriole Park at Camden Yards with...

Fantasy Football owners that take their trade seriously understand the correlation between 2012 Fantasy player values to 2012 Offensive Line Rankings. A good running back usually only is as good as his offensive line allows (unlike what Barry Sanders’ career tells you). So I did some digging and found three sites that did lots of research to come up with their own...