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[brid autoplay= “true” video= “1385528” player= “10951” title=” 2023 Fantasy Football Rookies” duration= “173” description= “0:24 Jahmyr Gibbs 1:05 Kendre Miller 1:54 Jaxon Smith-Njigba “uploaddate= “2023-08-19” thumbnailurl= “https://cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/snapshot/1385528_th_64e0200ad8139_1692409866.jpg” image= “https://cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/snapshot/1385528_sd_64e0200ad8139_1692409866.jpg” contenturl= “https://cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/sd/1385528.mp4” width= “480” height= “270”] Well, folks, it is about that time. Training camps are complete. The three-week preseason is complete. I have published […]

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Host Bobby LaMarco is joined by Ben Wasley to discuss their five MUST-HAVE sleepers for fantasy football in 2023. Tune in to hear why Jaylen Warren, Van Jefferson, Michael Wilson, Parris Campbell, and Luke Musgrave are some of the biggest fantasy football steals at their current ADP this season. Luke Musgrave (6:42) Van Jefferson (11:58) […]

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[brid video=”1194619″ player=”10951″ title=”Week%2013%20Buy%20Sell%20Hold%20%202022%20Fantasy%20Football” duration=”177″ description=”undefined” uploaddate=”2022-11-27″ thumbnailurl=”https://cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/snapshot/1194619_th_1669520976.jpg” contentUrl=”//cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/sd/1194619.mp4″ width=”480″ height=”270″] What are air yards, you say? The name kind of gives it away, doesn’t it? Air yards, irreverently discussed in this air yards primer, matter because we actually get some context of how much a quarterback WANTED to get their receiver the ball, not just […]

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This week, the esteemed ex-girlfriend of the guy who convinced us that “Neon” is the hardest song to play on guitar released an album. People say it’s good. I wouldn’t know, what with my ears ruined by Norwegian black metal. But are you here to learn about a drone on a drop-tuned C string or are you here to learn about D’Andre Swift? Probably the latter. ENYWHEY. Just like Taylor Swift released an album this week, our good friend and fantasy football savior D’Andre Swift has been released from the injured list. Just in time for our 1-6 team to be saved! Hooray! 

Now, let’s join and commiserate about how we lost Ja’Marr Chase. 

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Perhaps the greatest skill employed by fantasy footballers is napkin math.  And the weird thing is, it’s useless to study napkin math; you can only get better at it after a couple beers and some takeout. What’s that you say? Door Dash calculated everything for you? Awesome. I suppose you had a computer algorithm choose your fantasy football team, too, eh? Is that how you ended up with Tom Brady as the fifth overall pick? ENYWHEY.

I saw a colleague post something recently about drafting your third wide receiver (WR3) before you take your second running back (RB2). Of course, going receiver-heavy is a strategy that can win, but it flies in the face of longitudinal evidence we’ve been collecting that getting 2 main RBs and 1 TE by round 5 is a strategy that wins everything from NFC tournaments to the RazzBowl to the Underdog Milly Maker tournaments. For your home leagues, it’s equally important to grab RB instead of WR because top RB are scarce. 

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This group is one that good fantasy managers will know well. Wide Receivers 41-80 offer a mix of high-upside youngsters whose ceiling seems unlimited and old reliable veterans who provide a stable floor. The variance in predicting their future fantasy production is exacerbated by the fact that many of them are free agents, so we must evaluate them without team context, which can be a beneficial exercise. It is more pertinent to know the player than their situation. I like to get a mix of the high floor and ceiling players from this bunch, but I would rather have more ceiling than floor, a bad blueprint for a carpenter, but a good plan for a fantasy manager. My team design requires I take at least three players from this group at the draft. Whether that is WR 2 through 5 on my rosters, or 3 through 6 is relatively inconsequential to me. Let’s analyze this group player by player.

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Air Yards have told quite the tale of the wide receivers in 2021. In the top ten list, air yards had some no-doubter homeruns like Justin Jefferson, Stefon Diggs, Cooper Kupp, Tyreek Hill, and Davante Adams. But there were also some swings and misses such as Terry McLaurin, DJ Moore and Courtland Sutton. If you were counting on any of these guys as your WR1/2, your season probably ended two weeks ago. But all is not lost! Store this info in the back of your mind and monitor these situations when quarterbacks start signing. Guys like McLaurin, Moore, and Sutton don’t just get air yards because they are lucky. Targets are earned and if these guys can get some more capable arms delivering the ball, they become the sleepers in your draft. 

Each week, this column dissects air yards for actionable info in the weeks to come, but for this column there will be a focus on championship week. For Week 17, we will do a quick analysis of the list of the 73 wide receivers who finished last week with at least 30 air yards and see if there are any diamonds we can mine from the rough.

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