Best Ball Plays & Strategy

This article features the top five Breakout Finder disappointments of 2023. Which players didn’t test well according to the Breakout Finder?

David Montgomery has been signed by the Detroit Lions. The Saints have signed Jamaal Williams. The Bears have brought in D’Onta Foreman. What does it all mean for fantasy football?

Chris Olave saw a lot of usage, especially as a deep threat for the Saints in 2022. Will Olave continue to trend upward for Dynasty gamers? How do his Redraft and Best Ball value look for 2023 with Derek Carr in the fold?

Rookie wide receivers are sought-after assets in the NFL. They are still available late in fantasy drafts as drafters catch up to the trend. This article shows fantasy gamers exactly how much value there is in drafting rookie wide receivers in fantasy football drafts!

One of the factors in determining Pickens’s future role will be determining how sustainable his style of play will be. Will Pickens be a solid fantasy contributor in 2023? Or will he take a step back as the Steelers look to re-tool their receiving corps?

This is Back to the Future: Looking Back at Past RB1s! How can the past tell us what might happen in the future? What qualities should fantasy gamers be on the lookout for as we try to identify the RB1 in fantasy football for 2023?

Elite wide receiver tandems in the NFL boast multiple Alpha receivers, facilitated by the team’s investment in the position. Which tandems will prove the most valuable for fantasy football? What members of each duo should we be drafting in 2023?

This will be the last week I take a league-wide view of NFL backfields in this column. With the playoffs approaching and trade deadlines largely passed, the utility of analyzing players not already on your team, and not available on the waiver wire reduces significantly. That’s why, instead of focusing on usage shifts in backfields generally, I want to instead focus on the best opportunities for playoff running back stashes.

If not for Elliott’s contract, and Jerry Jones’s unwillingness to admit a mistake, Pollard would be Dallas’s lead back. To Elliott’s dismay, he sat out Week 8 against the run sieve known as the Chicago Bears while Pollard exploded for 131 rushing yards and three scores on just 14 carries. That’s 9.4 Yards per Carry, folks. Elliott has never put up 9.4 Yards per Carry in 99 career regular-season or playoff starts. In the 19 career games, when Pollard has been given 10 or more carries, he averages 5.9 Yards per Carry. Only two backs this year, Khalil Herbert and Travis Etienne, are averaging more. Only Rashaad Penny did better last year.

Drafting is paramount in seasonal leagues. Leagues can be lost messing up the early portion of the draft, but they are definitely won finding the players later that outperform their draft prices. Here are players that I would consider ADP Smashers in 2022 according to their Underdog ADP’s.