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Fantasy Football Sleepers & Busts: Tight Ends

Fantasy Athlon Sports looks at the sleepers and busts at the quarterback, running back, wide receiver and tight end positions this week. These are the players we think you can wait on and still get solid p...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Fantasy, busts, Fantasy Football, sleepers

Fantasy Football: Sleepers, Deep Sleepers and Overvalues

Fantasy Athlon Sports gives its Best Bets — sleepers, deep sleepers, overvalues, top rookies, bounce-back and top IDPs from the each of the 32 NFL teams — for fantasy football in 2011. For more on each...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Fantasy

Five NFL Teams That Improved and Five That Got Worse

NFL By RALPH VACCHIANO No one has ever won an NFL championship in the spring and summer, and no one has ever lost one either. That’s not for lack of trying, of course. Just ask the “Dream...

Fantasy Football: Team-By-Team Breakdown

NFL Fantasy football season is here. In order to help you better prepare for your drafts, Athlon Sports breaks down all 32 NFL teams. What you will find on each team page: NFL insiders answer key...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy

College Football Coaching Alignment Chart

Overtime Alignment charts have been a popular staple on the Internet for a while. (Who doesn't like to break anything down to a nice chart?) So we thought we'd take a look to how some of the biggest coachin...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, alignment chart, College Football Coaches, Jim Tressel, Joe Paterno, Mack Brown

Fantasy Football: Beware of Michael Vick

Fantasy Athlon Sports’ 2011 Fantasy Football magazine has Philadelphia quarterback Michael Vick ranked No. 6 at his position and No. 26 overall because we don’t trust him. Will Mike Vick beco...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Fantasy, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Michael Vick, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, Peyton Manning, Philadelphia Eagles, Philip Rivers, San Diego Chargers, Tom Brady

Fantasy Football: Who's Number 1?

Fantasy Athlon Sports has made Houston Texans running back Arian Foster our No. 1 overall player. But it did not come without a healthy debate. Below the case is made for Foster being the consensus No. 1. ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Fantasy, Adrian Peterson, Arian Foster, Chris Johnson, Jamaal Charles, Ray Rice

Fantasy Football: Players To Avoid

Fantasy If you are in a keeper or dynasty league, we believe the following players will begin their descent down the rankings after this season. Steven Jackson, RB – STL Athlon Top 280 Rank: 14 Jac...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Fantasy, Anquan Boldin, Brian Urlacher, Cedric Benson, Charles Woodson, London Fletcher, Michael Turner, Ray Lewis, Reggie Wayne, Steve Smith, Steven Jackson, Tony Gonzalez

Fantasy Football: Overrated Players

Fantasy These are the fantasy players or positions from each of the 32 NFL teams that we are going to either avoid altogether, or for the most part, make them a late, late pick in our drafts. Arizona ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Fantasy, Fantasy Football, Overrated Players

Miami Hurricanes' Hottest Fan: Danielle

Overtime We found the Hurricanes hottest fan. And no, she's not Nevin Shapiro. ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, ACC, Miami Hurricanes, Hottest Fans

Are The Eagles The Best Team in the NFL?

NFL By RALPH VACCHIANO The Philadelphia Eagles made a big free-agency splash over the last two weeks. All that was missing from the first few days of the NFL’s wildest free-agent frenzy was Andy...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Andy Reid, Michael Vick, Nnamdi Asomugha, Philadelphia Eagles, RALPH VACCHIANO, Ronnie Brown

Oakland Raiders 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL The Raiders snapped their string of seven straight seasons with 11 or more losses last year and finished 8–8, sweeping the AFC West and avoiding a losing record for the first time since reaching ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Al Davis, Darren McFadden, Oakland Raiders, Rolando McClain, Sebastian Janikowski

San Diego Chargers 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL Chargers fans, so accustomed to hearing and reading about how their team has one of the most talented rosters in the NFL, have to be thinking that 2011 can’t be any worse than 2010. The Chargers ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Bob Sanders, Marcus McNeill, Philip Rivers, Ryan Mathews, San Diego Chargers

Seattle Seahawks 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL Pete Carroll did the Seahawks shuffle when he took over as coach, engineering 284 roster moves in his first 12 months. During this dizzying transformation, he lost his players in a big way at midse...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, NFC, Lofa Totupu, Marshawn Lynch, NFC West, Pete Carroll, Seattle Seahawks, Sidney Rice, Tarvaris Jackson

Arizona Cardinals 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL It seems patently unfair to say this is a critical season for Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt. After all, Whisenhunt led the moribund Arizona franchise to the Super Bowl just three seasons ago. ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Arizona Cardinals, Beanie Wells, Ken Whisenhunt, Kevin Kolb, Larry Fitzgerald, NFC West, Ryan Williams

San Francisco 49ers 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL The year was 1979 when Eddie DeBartolo Jr., after two disastrous years as owner of the San Francisco 49ers, hired an innovative offensive coach from just down the road at Stanford in hopes of reviv...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, NFC, Alex Smith, Ed Debartolo Jr, Frank Gore, Jim Harbaugh, Michael Crabtree, Mike Singletary, NFC West, Patrick Willis, San Francisco 49ers

How To Recruit A Miami Hurricane (Flowchart)

Overtime The Nevin Shapiro scandal involving the Miami Hurricanes has exposed a lot of problems with the process by which players are recruited and the treatment they get once they sign with a big coll...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, Miami Hurricanes, Nevin Shapiro

Kansas City Chiefs 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL Somehow, the Chiefs did it. After three miserable seasons, it all came together in 2010 for a remarkable season in which the team went 10–6 and won the AFC West. Quarterback Matt Cassel was s...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Derrick Johnson, Dwayne Bowe, Jamaal Charles, Kansas City Chiefs, Matt Cassel

Denver Broncos 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL If the Broncos aren’t rebuilding, someone forgot to tell the man in charge. That would be John Elway, still the face of the franchise after all these years. Elway, now the Broncos’ executive vi...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Champ Bailey, Denver Broncos, Elvis Dumervil, Kyle Orton, Tim Tebow

St. Louis Rams 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL The Rams haven’t had a winning season since 2003, and haven’t made the playoffs since 2004, when they squeaked in as an 8–8 wild card. Is this the year the team finally gets over the hump? In...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Donnie Avery, Josh McDaniels, Sam Bradford, St. Louis Rams, Steve Spagnuolo, Steven Jackson

Indianapolis Colts 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL The sun rises and sets in Indianapolis on the shoulders of four-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning, so this season’s Colts outlook includes an obvious proviso: If Manning recovers from a second neck sur...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Dallas Clark, Dwight Freeney, Indianapolis Colts, Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne

Tennessee Titans 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL The Music City melodrama between Jeff Fisher and Vince Young is finally over. The either-or ultimatum resulted in both high-profile personalities leaving town with varying degrees of regret, disapp...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Chris Johnson, Jake Locker, Kenny Britt, Matt Hasselbeck, Michael Griffin, Tennessee Titans

Jacksonville Jaguars 2011 NFL Team Preview

NFL Last season was termed as a make-or-break year for both Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio and quarterback David Garrard. It wasn’t. The Jaguars were in contention for the AFC South title all the way int...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Blaine Gabbert, David Garrard, Jacksonville Jaguars, Maurice Jones-Drew, Rashean Mathis

Why Tim Tebow Will Never Be A Good NFL Quarterback

NFL Tim Tebow, the heralded Florida Gator quarterback who walked on swampwater, is now in a quarterback controversy with Kyle Orton in Denver. And his millions of followers can't believe it. But th...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Tim Tebow, Denver Broncos, Tim Tebow

Matt Hasselbeck Has Some Great New Hair

Overtime With hair like this, it's hard to see how the Seattle Seahawks could trade away a player like Matt Hasselbeck. It's also hard to see how he could get his head inside a helmet. I wonder is he's...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, Matt Hasselbeck, Tennessee Titans

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