Torrey Smith should be valued above the “Arizona Three” of Larry Fitzgerald, John Brown and Michael Floyd in 2016.
Indeed, the analytics, metrics and advanced stats show Smith is a superior fantasy football value.
Hyper-competitive NFL coaches are are impatient with inefficiency, leaving yards on the field will eventually get a running back benched and Matt Jones may not finish as the team’s starting running back if he continues to play at his current rate
Matt Jones analytics and advanced stats & metrics player profile has all of the makings of a fantasy football value trap and draft day bust.
Miami is a great wide receiver talent configuration laboratory housing all WR archetypes, including the polar extremes: the overvalued Jarvis Landry commodity and the equally undervalued Kenny Stills gem.
Does Adam Gase possess the necessary fortitude to eschew popularity for efficiency? Gase’s true leadership qualities will be revealed in the Miami Dolphins offensive crucible this season.
With the NFL becoming more of a passing league every year, it’s no surprise that the ascendance of running backs who specialize in catching passes is being felt throughout the fantasy football landscape. Over the last three seasons, backs receiving a higher percentage of touches through the air than on the ground have been more fantasy viable than ever.
With fantasy football trending in the direction of Zero RB and reality football trending in the direction of pass-catching backs, rookies like Wendell Smallwood, DeAndre Washington and Kenyan Drake have a real chance of being fantasy-useful early on in their careers. These kinds of players are known as Profile 2 RBs, per Rotoviz, and could become potential league-winners if given sufficient opportunity.
We bear witness to an elaborate five round mock draft with fellow PlayerProfiler colleagues.
Sniped again. What are the odds? 2nd receiver off the board in the NFL draft AND they moved up to snag him, banking on BOB to know what he is doing. Hoping he turns out as Mike Wallace plus.
We post pre-draft rooking rankings on PlayerProfiler to satiate rank-me-ravenous sports fans, wannabe Mel Kipers, and sicko diehard dynasty gamers. The pre-draft ranking illustrate player quality in a vacuum, but much of a player’s NFL fate is determined on draft day.
Being drafted in the first round is not the only path to early-career fantasy relevance. A handful of less fortunate players landed on efficient offenses and/or soft depth charts that should maximize their abilities in 2016 even without draft day prestige.
After Ezekiel Elliott and Derrick Henry, it’s anybody’s guess as to which rookie RBs deserve to be ranked where before the NFL Draft takes place. That each runner brings such a unique skill-set to the field makes this class of backs both exciting and difficult to rank for fantasy purposes.
Tyler Ervin, Marshaun Coprich and Daniel Lasco are RBs who dynasty owners shouldn’t overlook in rookie drafts despite the relative lack of hype surrounding them. Depending on when they get drafted and by which teams, these three players could make for potentially game-changing late round rookie picks.
If fantasy footballers have learned anything from Doug Baldwin and Wes Welker, it’s that sometimes all you need to be a fantasy football dynamo is plus agility, a pass-happy offense, an above-average quarterback and a chance.
Despite the “whelming” nature of the 2016 rookie wide receiver draft class, there are some prospects with strong enough agility metrics to suggest that a season like Doug Baldwin’s 2015 is in their range of possible outcomes in a perfect storm-type of environment.
DeVante Parker, Dorial Green-Beckham and Phillip Dorsett have 54 combined fantasy points heading into Week 6. That’s 25 fewer than fantasy football’s top rookie WR Amari Cooper and only 10 more points than second-leading rookie WR Jamison Crowder.
Parker, DGB, and Dorsett could pop when their situations look bleakest.
Fantasy owners are always looking for the next waiver wire folk hero in the mold of 2014’s Odell Beckham. Be the owner acquiring the electric playmaker, not the owner who drops a league-winning rookie after one quiet week.
DeVante Parker, Dorial Green-Beckham, and Phillip Dorsett are three rookie WRs fantasy owners should acquire and stash now before they break out and become unattainable.
