Shawn Siegele breaks down 20 of the most exciting developments from the first week of preseason action. He has some fun with bold predictions and dives into a few below-the-radar developments with import for managers in deep leagues.
Depending on your perspective, the first week of extensive preseason action was a welcome respite from the summer doldrums or a brutal reminder that football is more fun when starting quarterbacks play. If you fit into the second category, I watched the preseason games so you didn’t have to.
Preseason is all about injury avoidance in the modern NFL, but the absence of stars allowed rookie QBs to shine and RB battles to play out in real time.
Frequent listeners to Stealing Bananas know that I often drop bold predictions into the last 10 minutes of our shows. After a full hour of chatting with Ben, the filter slips a little and the enthusiast comes out. Today I have a full article of bold predictions for you, because if there’s one thing better than massively overreacting to the first week of the regular season . . . it’s overreacting to a bunch of backups facing off.
And since this is RotoViz, I’ll still have plenty of evidence for you, and images from our suite of tools that now numbers more than 40. I’m still on a high from the weekend. I hope you enjoy it with me.
