As part of an ongoing Rookie Comparison Series, Sam Wallace takes a closer look at Darnell Mooney’s rookie season through the lens of The RotoViz Screener. Does the arrival of rookie quarterback Justin Fields signify a second-year breakout or is Mooney best left on your bench? An annual tradition in the fantasy football community consists of trying to identify the next breakout wide receiver. At…...

Sam Wallace identifies two veteran players to consider adding to your dynasty squads this offseason as you work towards a fantasy championship in 2021. Player values continuously fluctuate during the calendar year. Dynasty managers have become adept at determining the most optimal time to trade away, or trade for, players and future rookie picks. We all know when rookie fever sets in, and we’ve heard…...

If the tales of various former scouts and front office executives are to be believed, every year during the NFL Draft there will come a time when an evaluator will vigorously champion the cause for a player he dearly wants the team to draft. Often these incidents occur late in the draft after the obvious blue chippers have all been taken. But the scouts, people…...

As part of an ongoing Rookie Comparison Series, Sam Wallace takes a closer look at Justin Herbert’s rookie season through the lens of The RotoViz Screener. How does Herbert’s future outlook compare to his historical comps? Is he primed to establish himself as one of the premier fantasy producers at the quarterback position? Record-setting seasons, especially by rookies, are tough to evaluate through a dynasty…...

The NFL Draft is firmly behind us, and the vast expanse of rookie and dynasty startup drafts lies ahead. To be sure, it’s an exciting time. The offseason period between the Super Bowl and the NFL Draft is quite the journey, but now we have landing spots for each of the incoming rookies, and prospective depth charts are starting to take shape. If you did…...

Shawn Siegele looks at a couple of inexpensive rookie running backs to stockpile in dynasty leagues and consider in deep best ball formats. Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve focused on evidence-based methods for crushing your rookie drafts and creating the permanent championship window. The PCW is the foundation of our Dynasty Workshop series, and it’s not based on any single tactic. Rather, it’s…...

Shawn Siegele explains why the wrong players are being targeted in the second and third rounds of 2021 rookie drafts and helps you find prospects with the characteristics that lead to exploding dynasty value. I tend to think of the RotoViz Dynasty Workshop as an attempt to get just that little bit better at everything. Perhaps this is similar to Dave Brailsford’s Aggregation of Marginal…...

Shawn Siegele re-selects every rookie draft from the last seven years and shows how the results can inform your 2021 selections. In presenting the 5 Reasons You Should Trade Down in Your Rookie Drafts and explaining how to find the next Chase Claypool, I found myself frequently referring to an exercise I did a year ago when I re-drafted every rookie draft from 2015 to…...

Shawn Siegele explores where fantasy owners go wrong in their search for the next Chase Claypool. He looks at the key metrics for uncovering the next inexpensive rookie breakout and explains why your best bet for 2021 won’t cost you anything at all.  Last week, I looked at the 5 Reasons You Should Trade Down in Your Rookie Draft. I have Claypool on a large…...

Will it be Bae-tman or Bait-man? — that is the question. Not all things in life have extreme outcomes, but it sure does feel like Rashod Bateman’s outlook for 2021 and beyond is one such thing. Is Bateman primed for a massive career and ready to become the alpha in Baltimore, or is his path much like Marquise Brown, where the draft capital and college production does…...

Editor’s Note: I’ve been extremely excited for the release of Matt’s machine-learning WR model, so I have to brag on him for a few moments before we get into the article. Matt’s model includes eight composite metrics. Age-adjusted production: This incorporates a lot of our signature RotoViz research, including Breakout Age, which Matt recently updated and improved, as well as whether prospects hit a 30%…...

Here at RotoViz, we like our incoming rookies to be young. It’s certainly shown in the past to impact their hit rate and career longevity. And since this is true, we always try to provide a place where you can access a quick answer to all your age-related questions on these prospects. That’s where this Draft Rookie Age Database comes into play. You can find…...

Hello and welcome to the post NFL Draft edition of my annual Top 100 Rookies series! If you’re new to the series, every year I put together 100 rookies entering the NFL and rank them based on the impact I believe they’ll have for fantasy football purposes. So no, this is not a “how good this player will be for real football game impact” conversation. This is…...

Hello and welcome to the post NFL Draft edition of my annual Top 100 Rookies series! If you’re new to the series, every year I put together 100 rookies entering the NFL and rank them based on the impact I believe they’ll have for fantasy football purposes. So no, this is not a “how good this player will be for real football game impact” conversation. This is…...