The 2015 college football bowl season is underway, and on Monday, December 21, we will see the Miami Beach Bowl, which features Western Kentucky (11-2) and South Florida (8-4). Western Kentucky’s offense has a few draft-eligible prospects of note, including redshirt senior tight end Tyler Higbee…....

The 2015 college football bowl season begins on Saturday, December 19, and one of the five games on that slate is the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl, which features Brigham Young (9-3) and Utah (9-3) battling in a postseason version of the “Holy War.” Unfortunately, Utah’s best player, redshirt senior running back Devontae Booker, will not be playing in the game (he’s recovering from what seems like a…...

Welcome to the Position Report, often irrelevant, always irreverent…....

Welcome to the Position Report. I took a Week 6 bye, and now for Week 7 and hopefully for the remaining weeks of the season the Position Report will come out on Tuesday (as it did the last two seasons) and not the weekend (as it did in Weeks 1-5). But, rest assured, even with this change the Position Report will still be what it…...

“Hey, Matt, can you tell me everything I need to know about running back Charcandrick West in fewer than 1000 words?”…...

Welcome to the Position Report, often irrelevant, always irreverent…....

Welcome to the Position Report, often irrelevant, always irreverent…....

Welcome to The Position Report, the weekly column that is scheduled to come out on Thursday or Friday or Saturday morning at the absolute latest but because of other writing commitments and end-of-week procrastination comes out on Sunday morning a few hours before kickoff when it’s least useful to anyone. Fortunately, no one reads it. As I start writing this, it once again is literally…...

Welcome to The Position Report, the weekly column that gives you “more variety than you’re used to.” I’m not really satisfied with that joke, but I have to use it because my wife said, “I have a joke for your Position Report,” and then she said that tagline, followed by, “You’re going to use that, right?” This is me using what my wife gives me…....

Welcome to The Position Report, the weekly column in which I will humor myself and maybe a few of you by looking at the NFL franchises and coming up with something to say. Some of the time, what I say might even be (ir)relevant. If you’re looking for actionable information, you should probably stop reading. Otherwise, read on—but remember that I gave you fair warning…....

In his recent turn as guest cohost on RotoViz Radio, Josh Norris of RotoWorld & NBC Sports mentioned Cardinals fifth-round rookie wide receiver J.J. Nelson as a player who could come out of nowhere to have a fantasy impact this season. [By the way, that episode with Josh was fantastic. We were joined by Chris B. Brown of Smart Football & Grantland. You should check it out.]…...

In the Houston Texans’ first practice of training camp with full pads, running back Arian Foster suffered a season-altering groin injury. The injury will require surgery, and Foster is likely to be placed on injured reserve/designated to return, costing him at least the first half of the season. While most fantasy owners on this news are buying 2014 sixth-round selection Alfred Blue as if he were Adrian Peterson‘s cousin, and while old-timers Pierre Thomas and BenJarvus…...

During the 2013 and 2014 NFL seasons, I did separate weekly rundowns of the running back and wide receiver positions on a team-by-team basis. Respectively, these posts were called the Backfield Report and the Wideout Report. This year, I am consolidating the two columns into one document, The Position Report, which sounds like the name of an Inside Amy Schumer skit about a sex therapist…....

During the 2013 and 2014 NFL seasons, I did separate weekly rundowns of the running back and wide receiver positions on a team-by-team basis. Respectively, these posts were called the Backfield Report and the Wideout Report. These pieces, somewhat popular among a very narrow subsect(ion) of the human population, were two-fifths informative, one-fifth actionable, one-ninth descriptive, one-eighth satirical, one-seventh inimical, four-fifths nonsensical, and 100 percent…...

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Seinfeld, Season 4, Episode 11, “The Contest” George: Well, I tell you this though: I am never doing . . . that again. . . . Jerry: No chance. George: You think you could? Jerry: Well, I know I could hold out longer than you. George: Care to make it interesting? . . . Jerry: You’re on. . . . Elaine: I want to be…...

The answer to the question posed in the title of this post is “no.” Wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham shouldn’t be the No. 1 pick in rookie fantasy drafts—because he can be had for cheaper…....

Last year before the NFL Combine, I posted an ambitious two-part series on the thirty sleeper wide receivers almost no one was talking about—guys from whom I believed could emerge a player with a real chance of becoming the Miles Austin of the 2014 draft class. In Part 1, one of the guys I profiled was Jeff Janis, who eventually was drafted by the Packers…...