Geno Smith, Stephen Hill and The Deep Ball

You probably spent a couple FAAB dollars on Stephen Hill after his 5 reception, 89 yard, 2 touchdown performance in Week One against the Buffalo Bills. You also probably dropped him after his 2 consecutive zeros. However, relying on rookies in redraft leagues is very rarely going to pay off for you. In Jon Bales’ book “Fantasy Football For Smart People: What The Experts Don’t Want You To Know” he notes that since 2000, only Eddie Royal, Mike Williams, Torrey Smith, Julio Jones and A.J…

Quarterback Dynasty Fantasy Football Rankings

My dynasty fantasy football goal this year was to put together dynasty ranks that I can keep updated constantly. Whenever I’m overthinking a trade, I can go back and look at where I have players ranked, then assuage my fears. To make these rankings, I used the method ProFootballFocus’ Scott Spratt wrote about here. I used point projections from the RotoViz Similarity Score apps, although it does come with one caveat: the app doesn’t know that Shonn Greene isn’t a starting running back anymore; it…

Rapid Reaction: Stedman Bailey, WR, St. Louis Rams

Being a Patriots fan is hard. You see one of your favorite wide receivers in the draft falling and falling, just praying that maybe they make at least one of your wishes come true. Then they take Aaron Dobson. Such is life. The Rams, Seahawks, 49ers, and Cardinals are in a fascinating arms race that is rapidly spirally out of control, much to delight of football fans everywhere. The Rams reunite the West Virginia waterbugs Stedman Bailey and Tavon Austin to along with newly signed tight end…

Sports Wunderkind 2013 NFL Draft Quarterbacks Podcast

In the final edition of our preview podcast, myself and Coleman Kelly break down the incoming quarterbacks class. Spoiler alert: It isn’t very pretty. We discuss Geno Smith, Tyler Bray,Tyler Wilson and a few special sleepers who might have be surprising come 2013 NFL Draft Day! Sports Wunderkind 2013 NFL Draft Quarterbacks Preview