Shawn Siegele uses the Advanced Team Stats Explorer to peek behind the curtain and provide a little texture to running back performances. He breaks down a few key late-week injury updates and looks ahead to find the next Saquon Barkley – for good or bad. After a couple of thrilling weeks for RB acquisitions, the crickets are back out ahead of Week 14. Kenneth Walker…...

Travis Kelce finally grants a reprieve to the rest of the fantasy universe, as young WRs blow up in Week 13. In a fully free article to celebrate the most fun week of the fantasy season, Shawn Siegele dives into some of the biggest storylines from a scintillating Sunday. Running backs from the first two rounds have performed admirably through the first 12 weeks of…...

Shawn Siegele tells you how to play the hot RB pickups in Week 13 and explains why James Cook won’t be the only sleeper to hit. While Week 12 belonged to Josh Jacobs, plenty of additional moves shook up the fantasy landscape, none bigger than the injury to Travis Etienne. After back-to-back RB2 performances in Weeks 5 and 6, Etienne finally jumped to a full…...

After a season punctuated by high-profile fantasy injuries and marred by offensive capitulation, Week 12 gave us three tremendous Thanksgiving games and a Sunday slate that more than lived up to the fast start. We had two contests with totals in the 70s, two contests won by two-point conversions on virtually the final play, and a game forced to overtime by a one-handed David Njoku…...

Thanksgiving is one of the best days of every year, a chance to gather with friends, family, and football to express our gratitude for all of the big joys and little pleasures of life. Football fans could be particularly grateful yesterday. After a season of low-scoring and often depressing games, the three-game Thanksgiving slate featured two back-and-forth barnburners and a hard-fought effort from the Giants…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down some of the biggest performances of Week 11 and discusses the key strategic moves that will determine your 2022 playoff results.  Offensive trends in 2022 haven’t been particularly conducive to rookie wide receiver scoring, and that made Week 11 even more fun by contrast. Treylon Burks finally arrived on Thursday night and was still overshadowed by a sterling follow-up performance from…...

Today’s Stealing Bananas episode focused on questions about playoff stashes at the RB position. We covered the key names across a variety of price levels and discussed the way in which unique needs will cause individual fantasy squads to prioritize players differently. Blair Andrews helped you understand the full RB landscape in the Zero RB Watch and Corbin Young brought you up to date on…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the epic performances from Justin Jefferson and CeeDee Lamb, praises Cooper Kupp’s historic run, and discusses the unparalleled running ability of Justin Fields. The biggest stories in Week 10 featured a Bills/Vikings game for the ages, the transcendence of Justin Fields, the reemergence of Aaron Rodgers, and the dominance of the Miami Dolphins. But before we get there, this is the…...

Shawn Siegele uses the Advanced Team Stats Explorer, Strength of Schedule Streamer, Weekly Stat Explorer, and Stealing Signals tool to investigate NFL backfields ahead of Week 10. D’Onta Foreman got Zero RB teams off to a good start in Week 10 with a 19-point performance on 31 carries. This isn’t the first or last time we’ll mention it, but Foreman is quite a load to…...

Shawn Siegele examines the up-and-coming performances from a pair of young RBs and dives into under-the-radar plays that had a big impact this week in fantasy. Week 9 had a difficult task in following up the fireworks from Week 8, especially with so many high-profile players on the bye. It still delivered in a big way for an eclectic mix of players. The first wave…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the best deep options for a tricky bye week and explores a variety of RB plays that could pay off down the line. Kenneth Gainwell got us going on Thursday night with 12.8 points for desperate managers. Let’s check out the full roster of Week 9 panic plays in the Zero RB Playbook. Want more Gainwell analysis? Shawn and Ben discuss…...

Shawn Siegele dives into the biggest WR performances from Week 8, including a handful of star veterans and at least one curious interloper. I wrote the full intro for this article yesterday. Suffice it to say that Week 8 was everything we’ve been dreaming about for an NFL Sunday. The 2022 season has finally arrived, or at least we can tell ourselves for a few…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down Christian McCaffrey’s historical performance and explains how he can maintain his production in San Francisco. After seven weeks of drudgery punctuated by the occasional fantasy eruption, Week 8 reminded us what football – reality and fantasy alike – is supposed to be. The NFL teams awakened from a prolonged slumber and gave us contests like Dolphins/Lions (that featured over 500 passing…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down all of his favorite deep stashes and look-ahead waiver options. Plus, a deep dive into an NFC backfield with league-winning potential. The 2022 season hasn’t been much fun for young RBs as Javonte Williams and Breece Hall go down. D’Andre Swift has been further marginalized as a potential workhorse after suffering shoulder and ankle injuries that have a chronic feel. Those…...

Shawn Siegele celebrates the emergence of Zero RB stars, laments the loss of 2022’s best story (and perhaps best overall player), and grapples with a zero-catch performance from Mark Andrews. Zero RB Options Continue to Roll Week 7 was a great example of the way Zero RB works to build power teams that annihilate opponents during the bye-week stretch. Michael Hitchcock and I were lucky…...

Shawn Siegele looks at Eno Benjamin’s breakout game, Christian McCaffrey’s new situation in San Francisco, and plenty more in the Week 7 edition of Zero RB Playbook. Well, that got exciting. I wrote a big chunk of the Zero RB Playbook Thursday afternoon, and then everything seemed to happen at once. RotoViz favorite Eno Benjamin blew up in Arizona’s dominant Thursday night performance, and Christian…...

After focusing on three separate elements of the RB position in his Week 5 articles, Shawn Siegele takes stock of the receiver position six weeks into the 2022 season. Week 6 featured more fireworks at the wide receiver position, but the variety made it special. We got further confirmation from Stefon Diggs and Tyreek Hill that the 2022 season will revolve around them. Bounceback performances…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the key backfields heading into Week 6, including deep-league stash options, look-ahead free agent adds, and tactics for exploiting schedule quirks. Both of my earlier articles this week have centered around the running back position. On Monday, we examined the Return of the Veteran Star and considered the impact of stud performances from early-round picks. On Wednesday, the focus switched to…...