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Fantasy Football: Breaking down the Buffalo Bills

NFL BUFFALO • Inside the Locker Room With Leo Roth of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Will C.J. Spiller break out in his second season? Yes. Spiller was very underutilized as a running bac...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy, Buffalo Bills, CJ Spiller, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Steve Johnson

Fantasy Football: Breaking down the Washington Redskins

NFL WASHINGTON • Inside the Locker Room With Rich Campbell of the Washington Times Who will be the focus of the Redskins’ offense? Coach Mike Shanahan wants to establish a running game fi...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy, Anthony Armstrong, LaRon Landry, Rex Grossman, Ryan Torain, Santana Moss, Washington Redskins

Fantasy Football: Breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers

NFL PITTSBURGH • Inside the Locker Room With Scott Brown of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Is Ben Roethlisberger an under- or overrated fantasy option at QB? Depends on where you have him ra...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy, Ben Roethlisberger, Hines Ward, Mike Wallace, Pittsburgh Steelers, Rashard Mendenhall

Quarterback Carousel

NFL Kevin Kolb, Cardinals Arizona traded away 2008 first-round pick (No. 16 overall) and 25-year-old Pro Bowl cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie along with its 2012 second-round pick to acquire t...

1 year ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NFL, Arizona Cardinals, Brett Favre, Carson Palmer, Donovan McNabb, Kevin Kolb, Kyle Orton, Matt Hasselbeck, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, Tarvaris Jackson, Tennessee Titans, Vince Young

Albert Haynesworth to Patriots

NFL Bill Belichick has done it again, acquiring former $100-million man Albert Haynesworth for pennies on the dollar. The Patriots will send a 2013 fifth-rounder to the Redskins in exchange for Was...

1 year ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NFL, Albert Haynesworth, Bill Belichick, New England Patriots, Randy Moss, Washington Redskins

NFL Lockout Heroes and Villains

NFL Best lockout: Chad Ochocinco Eighty-five set the standard for player activity during the lockout — riding a bull for 1.5 seconds, playing 30 minutes in a scrimmage for the MLS’s Sporting Ka...

1 year ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NFL, Chad Ochocinco, Eli Manning, James Harrison, Kenny Britt, Peyton Manning, Robert Kraft, Tony Romo

Live NFL Free Agent Signing Ticker

NFL The NFL's offseason frenzy, where moves can be conducted at warp speed, has been kicked up to ludicrous speed, and Athlon will try its best to keep you informed with up-to-the-minute updates as mov...

1 year ago by Scott Henry Tags: NFL, News, NFL Free agency, ticker, updates

NFL's Ten High-Priority Moves as Lockout Ends

NFL By Scott Henry (Twitter: @4QuartersRadio) With free agency’s usual five-month time frame being condensed into five weeks, the phones of both team executives and the players they’re pursuing...

Lockout Ends, Athlon NFL Mags Coming Soon!

NFL The light at the end of the NFL lockout tunnel is here. And it only took 136 days – give or take a day or two. In the coming week, fans can expect literally thousands of transactions. Every d...

1 year ago by Braden Gall Tags: NFL, Fantasy, News

Kenny Britt-ney Spears

NFL Kenny Britt may not want the cops to keep putting handcuffs on him, but the third-year Tennessee Titans wideout had no problem submitting to Britney Spears during her Femme Fatale Tour’s sto...

1 year ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NFL, Britney Spears, Kenny Britt, Tennessee Titans

Golden Tate vs. NASCAR Nation

NFL Golden Tate runs a 4.42 in the 40-yard dash; but even he can’t keep up with the nearly-900 horsepower of a NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car. The second-year Seahawks receiver inadvertently threw d...

1 year ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NFL, NASCAR

Field of Dreams 2: NFL Lockout

NFL Field of Dreams 2: NFL Lockout with Taylor Lautner If you build it, they will come. With no football in sight, Taylor Lautner builds his own field, and Ray Lewis, Tony Gonzalez, Ant...

1 year ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NFL

Vince Young, LeBron James and South Beach

NFL A few years ago, Vince Young was at a nightclub hitting on the younger sister of a friend of mine — no surprise there, since this girl is some sort of heavenly combination of Beyonce and Stacey D...

1 year ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NFL, LeBron James, Miami Dolphins, Vince Young

Successful Ex-QB's Offer Role Models For Pryor

NFL By Scott Henry (Twitter: @4QuartersRadio) Optimistic words continue to filter out about the end of the NFL lockout, heralding the possible beginning of free agency, training camps, and the pres...

1 year ago by Scott Henry Tags: NFL, Terrelle Pryor, Ohio State, Anquan Boldin, Antwaan Randle El, Baltimore Ravens, Hines Ward, Pittsburgh Steelers

NFL, NFLPA Eyeing Date For Lockout's End

NFL According to a report on ESPN this morning, the NFL and NFL Players Association are close enough to an agreement that a deal could be ratified during the league meetings that begin July 21 in Atlan...

1 year ago by Scott Henry Tags: NFL, News, NFL, NFL Labor, NFL Lockout

Ray Lewis Translator [Lockout Edition]

NFL Baltimore Ravens linebacker and all-around wacky guy Ray Lewis claimed that crime would go up if there was no NFL season this year. To better understand Ray, we translated some of his quotes. ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Overtime, Ray Lewis

NFL Draft Grades - NFC

NFL The good, the bad and the sexy from the 2011 NFL Draft. ...

2 years ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NFL

NFL Draft Grades - AFC

NFL The good, the bad and the sexy from the 2011 NFL Draft. ...

2 years ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NFL

Chad Ochocinco Rides A Bull For 1.5 Seconds

NFL On Twitter, he likened the experience to the first few seconds of the AeroSmith ride at Disney... ...

2 years ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Overtime

NFL Draft Tweeting

NFL After spending three days behind a computer screen, Tweeting to my heart's content about the NFL Draft and how I think it affects the world of fantasy football, I have compiled for y...