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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

Fantasy Football: Team-By-Team Breakdown
Fantasy 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

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: Analyzing First-Round Running Backs
Fantasy Athlon Sports takes a look at the pros and cons of the 10 running backs that will come off of your fantasy football draft boards first during your 2011 drafts. More on our top five backs. A...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: Fantasy, Adrian Peterson, Arian Foster, Chris Johnson, Darren McFadden, Frank Gore, Jamaal Charles, LeSean McCoy, Maurice Jones-Drew, Ray Rice

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: Top 12 Injury Concerns
Fantasy Athlon Sports looks at the top 12 injury concerns overall and by position for the 2011 fantasy football season. These are 48 guys that may concern you in your draft preparation, and that you may be...
1 year ago by Braden Gall Tags: Fantasy, Antonio Gates, Austin Collie, DeAngelo Williams, Frank Gore, Joseph Addai, Matthew Stafford, Maurice Jones-Drew, Michael Vick, Owen Daniels, Ryan Grant, Sidney Rice, Steve Smith

Fantasy Football: Repeating the Magic Season
Fantasy Every once in a while there’s that player who has the “magic” season in fantasy football. But what does history say his next season will look like? Let’s take a look at those players over t...
1 year ago by Corby Yarbrough Tags: Fantasy, Aaron Rodgers, Arian Foster, Chris Johnson, Jason Witten, Michael Vick, Peyton Manning, Randy Moss, Tom Brady, Tony Gonzalez

Fantasy Football: Know the Schedule
Fantasy Some say you have to make the playoffs before you can even consider what the schedule for your fantasy playoffs may be. I whole-heartedly disagree. You need to at least have an idea of what kind of...
1 year ago by Corby Yarbrough Tags: Fantasy

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

Fantasy Football: Standard League Mock Draft
Fantasy Athlon Sports' second post-lockout mock draft is here. This week, we cater to the old school players — those in leagues with no flex, no PPR and four points for passing touchdowns. This format, h...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy

Jeremy Maclin's Mystery Illness: Fantasy Discount?
Fantasy With the no-news emerging about the Philadelphia Eagles' Jeremy Maclin's mystery illness that's plagued him for the last five months, it's hard to tell where he should go in your fantasy football d...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Fantasy, News, Jeremy Maclin, NFC East, Philadelphia Eagles

Fantasy Football: 2011 Values and Overvalues
Fantasy Athlon Sports has come up with plenty of value players, overvalued players and top rookies in our Best Bets story, but here we highlight a few of them. Here are a number of players we like with goo...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy, Fantasy Football, Overvalued, undervalued

Fantasy Football: Breaking down the New York Giants
Fantasy NEW YORK GIANTS • Inside the Locker Room With Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News Will Eli Manning's single-season production surpass Peyton's in 2011? No, and I think we all nee...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy, Eli Manning, Hakeem Nicks, New York Giants

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