A common discussion in the dynasty community revolves around the ages of players. It’s nice to have a foundation of youth to keep your team competitive each year, but you still need those veteran players with solidified roles to put up consistent points on Sundays. Despite the debate surrounding “age cliffs” for specific players, there are players each year who both surprise and disappoint us…....

The fantasy community yearns for consistency and predictability. We like knowing our players have defined roles on their respective teams. The running backs are locked in for three-down roles, the wide receivers accrue a large weekly target share, and the tight ends are more than just run blockers. Unpredictability is another issue altogether. This is where fantasy owners are with Keenan Allen. For the first…...

Trading away good players is hard enough. It’s nearly impossible to trade away a player who returned such value on investment that he was being considered a league-winner. Enter Darren Waller. Turn back the clock a year, and Waller was coming off of his fourth straight underwhelming year in the league. Through those four years, he totaled 29 targets, 18 receptions, 178 yards, and two…...

Scouting reports are a quick way to get a sense of a player’s characteristics, what he does well, where he struggles, and the things that NFL teams are likely to assume he needs to work on. Of course, that doesn’t mean that everything we read in a scouting report is accurate. There are certain traits, such as route running ability, that are hard to quantify…...

Initially, I was going to take the seemingly annual run at identifying whether or not Will Fuller was worth the risk this coming season considering his prolific injury history. Then, free agency happened. When the Houston Texans traded away DeAndre Hopkins and his 150 targets from 2019 to the Arizona Cardinals, the entire fantasy football community was shaken to its core. While there will likely…...

In the age of “buying low” on some players, fantasy owners shouldn’t be afraid to pivot and “buy high” on other players. This doesn’t mean breaking the bank for Patrick Mahomes in a single quarterback league or selling the farm for Christian McCaffrey. It does mean being okay paying for talented players who can help you win matchups and championships. Acquiring youth and building for…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down his 12 rookie picks in a recent mock-draft extravaganza for the Dynasty Command Center Rookie Guide. He examines all of his options in Superflex, TE Premium, and Classic formats. As we put the final touches on Volume 2 of the Dynasty Command Center Rookie Guide, I wanted to evaluate my picks in each of our mocks. The DCC Rookie Guide provides…...

At RotoViz, we like our NFL Draft Prospects to be precocious — producing early and at a young age. As a result, age is an important part of our prospect evaluation process. Of course, collecting every prospect’s date of birth and calculating their age can be a time-consuming endeavor. To make things easier for our readers, we’ve annually published a Draft Prospect Age Database. 2020’s…...

We often compare dynasty fantasy football to the stock market, and for a good reason. Buy low. Sell high. Be the first to predict the next move successfully, and beat others to the punch. As each NFL season comes to a close, we’re left with a wide range of possibilities and free agency pipe dreams that would lead our rosters to long-term success. One way to…...

Cam Akers played his final game for Florida State on November 30, but due to his athletic profile, he may have done more to improve his draft profile in the last month than he’d done during his three-year career with the Seminoles. Akers has become one of the hottest prospects over the past few weeks, but is it fully deserved? High School Pedigree Akers was…...

Shawn Siegele unveils his 2020 Dynasty Top 150 and breaks the rankings into tiers. The dynasty rankings include SuperFlex formats, tight end premium scoring, and the new rookies who will be part of the 2020 NFL Draft. We took a short interlude from the Dynasty Tiers Series to focus on the NFL combine and examine how the 2020 prospects performed in our projection and comparison…...

The original version of this article was published on January 30. We now have measurements from the combine to add to our assessment. How does Harrison Bryant’s combine performance change his NFL outlook? The winner of the award for the best tight end in college football is draft-eligible in 2020. Yet some ranking services seem to be less than impressed with him. This is a…...

Speculation is one of the toughest aspects of fantasy football, especially in the dynasty community. If you’ve been around fantasy football long enough, you’ve likely come across different people touting their model for identifying prospects or how what shows up on film is more important than what shows up on paper. It gets even tougher to accurately project a player when he hasn’t played a…...

The original version of this article published on January 6. We now have combine numbers. Did Hunter Bryant’s athletic measurements do enough to cement his place as one of the top tight ends in the draft? Hunter Bryant is one of the best young TEs in the nation. His 2019 success in concert with his athletic gifts no doubt played a part in his deciding…...

The original version of this article published on January 23. We now have physical and athletic measurements from the combine. Was Colby Parkinson’s combine performance enough to move him up draft boards? Since 2010 there have been seven tight ends out of Stanford drafting by NFL teams. This includes players like Coby Fleener, Zach Ertz and Austin Hooper. 2020 should see this number rise to…...

We are at the point of the offseason where rookie fever is reaching its peak. The combine is behind us, and the NFL Draft is fast approaching. The urge to either sell or acquire rookie picks is strong. However, I am here to suggest an alternative route, especially if your team is contending. As the league becomes more pass-friendly, there is value to be had…...

The original version of this article published on December 30, 2019. Since that time, we have combine numbers. How does Hopkins showing at the combine change his NFL outlook? Read on to find out? If Brycen Hopkins needs any help in how to deal with the pressures of being a top draft prospect, he only needs to turn to his family for advice. Hopkins’s father,…...

Shawn Siegele uses the NFL Combine Explorer to locate and discuss the top athletic comps for the elite wide receiver prospects in the 2020 NFL Draft. The Combine Explorer from Dave Caban is another of my favorite tools. It records all of the measurements from the combine and helps us place them within historical context at each position. It also finds the 20 closest athletic…...