This article references Chase Ford, Kyle Rudolph, Owen Daniels, SP, WR and more! BALLER MOVE: Stash in Deeper LeaguesOWNED IN: 48% of Fleaflicker LeaguesANALYSIS: Last week I wrote about Kyle Rudolph and I'll mention him one last time before it is too late. The past two seasons Rudolph has battled injuries that have impacted his performance on the field.  Like Owen Daniels, Rudolph has an offensive coordinator in Norv Turner who likes to highlight tight ends.  Last week Chase Ford, who is filling in for Rudolph, showed what the possibility could be (7 targets, [...] Keep on reading: Kyle Rudolph (TE, MIN) -- Waiver Wire Pickups

This article references A.j. Green, Chase Ford, Clay Harbor, Coby Fleener, DEF, Dwayne Allen, Heath Miller, Jace Amaro, Jared Cook, Jordan Reed, Kyle Rudolph, Lance Kendricks, Larry Donnell, Marcedes Lewis, Mohamed Sanu, Mychal Rivera, Niles Paul, Owen Daniels, Scott Chandler, SP, Tim Wright, timot, Travis Kelce, Tyler Eifert, WR and more! What's up everyone? We are now over half way thru the season and hopefully you're team is shaping up for a playoff spot.  As you probably have seen this season when it comes to picking tight ends they are very unpredictable week to week, and it's especially difficult to get consistent results from outside the top seven. But that's not going to stop us from trying to find the best tight end waiver wire options all season long.To help accommodate your fantasy football needs in various l[...] Keep on reading: Week 10 Tight Ends: Waiver Wire Pickups & Adds

This article references Adam Vinatieri, Alex Smith, Allen Robinson, Andre Holmes, Andrew Hawkins, Ben Tate, Benny Cunningham, Brandon Lafell, Brian Hoyer, Charles Sims, Clay Harbor, Cody Parkey, Davante Adams, DeAngelo Williams, DEF, Denard Robinson, Donte Moncrief, Doug Baldwin, Graham Gano, Jarvis Landry, John Brown, Jonathan Stewart, Julius Thomas, Justin Tucker, Keenan Allen, Kyle Orton, Kyle Rudolph, Larry Donnell, Larry Fitzgerald, Lorenzo Talia, Lorenzo Taliaferro, Marshawn Lynch, Martavis Bryant, Matt Ryan, Mike Evans, Mike Nugent, Reggie Wayne, Ronnie Hillman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, SP, Stedman Bailey, Stephen Gostkowski, Theo Riddick, Tim Wright, Tre Mason, Tyler Eifert, Vernon Davis, Vincent Jackson, WR, Zac Stacy and more! NFL Week 9 Kickoff is just a morning away! RotoBaller's week 9 roundup is your essential guide to prepping your week 9 lineup. Indulge in all of this past week's fantasy football and NFL analysis, including matchup previews, start/sit analysis, sleepers, weekly rankings, and waiver wire pickups. Week 9 Matchups and Sit/Start AnalysisEdward Gorelik and Adam Sabol provide in-depth matchup analysis and start/sit advice for all of Week 9's games: Part 1 (games 1-7) Part 2 (gam[...] Keep on reading: Week 9 Roundup: Waiver Wire, Rankings & Start/Sit Analysis

This article references Kyle Rudolph, SP and more! BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues (Standard, PPR)49% owned in Fleaflicker leaguesANALYSIS: Kyle Rudolph is a player who has disappointed fantasy owners more than once a year for the past two seasons.  Rudolph is currently out with a sports hernia, but he's due back in Week 11, and he has the intangibles to be a good player.  The problem is that he's been very inconsistent, and he gets hurt a lot.  Rudolph has good size (6'6'', 259 lbs.) and hands (2012 had 53 catches on 93 t[...] Keep on reading: Kyle Rudolph (TE, MIN) -- Waiver Wire Pickups

This article references A.j. Green, Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Charles Clay, Clay Harbor, DEF, Dwayne Allen, Heath Miller, Jace Amaro, Jermaine Gresham, Jordan Reed, Kyle Rudolph, Larry Donnell, Marcedes Lewis, Marvin Jones, Owen Daniels, Scott Chandler, SP, Tim Wright, timot, Travis Kelce, Tyler Eifert, WR and more! What's up my fellow fantasy football geeks? Welcome to Week 9 of the NFL season.We all know how unpredictable tight ends are week to week, and it's especially difficult to get consistent results from outside the top seven. But that's not going to stop us from trying to find the best tight end waiver wire sleepers all season long.To help accommodate your fantasy football needs in various leagues and formats, I'll also be looking at deeper sleepers (way off the radar) to give this ar[...] Keep on reading: Week 9 Tight Ends: Waiver Wire Pickups & Adds

This article references Antonio Brown, Ben Roethlisberger, Bishop Sankey, C.j. Spiller, Danny Woodhead, Darren Sproles, DEF, Dennis Pitta, Eddie Lacy, Eli Manning, Emmanuel Sanders, Fred Jackson, Jordan Cameron, Jordan Reed, Julian Edelman, Khiry Robinson, Kyle Rudolph, Larry Donnell, LeSean McCoy, Louis Murphy, Mark Ingram, Markus Wheaton, Mike Evans, Mike Glennon, Pierre Thomas, Rob Gronkowski, SP, Tom Brady, Travaris Cadet, Vernon Davis, WR and more! Putting The Fantasy Football Puzzle Pieces TogetherSo you got past the NFL's dreaded Week Four, which saw six teams on bye weeks, and you're still in contention in your league. Let's face it: everyone (and I mean everyone) still has a chance to make the playoffs at this point of the fantasy season. Even if you are 0-4, you still have a shot! Don't get me wrong-- it won't be easy, but it can be done.In order to help you out, I've dug up four more buy candidates, and I'll even pr[...] Keep on reading: Fantasy Football Buy and Sell Candidates For Week 5

This article references Andrew Luck, Deandre Hopkins, Devonta Freeman, Doug Martin, Frank Gore, Houston Texans, Isaiah Crowell, Jordan Cameron, Jordan Reed, Kyle Rudolph, Reggie Wayne, SP, Travis Kelce, Tyler Eifert, WR, Zach Ertz and more! This column is your go-to source for dynasty leagues. We'll cover waiver wire and trade targets for these types of longer-term fantasy football dynasty formats. While some of these players may contribute to your dynasty teams rather quickly, we will also be listing some players that are longer term plays as well. Dynasty Quarterbacks -- Pickups & Trade TargetsBlake Bortles (Jacksonville Jaguars) & Teddy Bridgewater (Minnesota Vikings)Last week, I mentioned how the [...] Keep on reading: Week 4 Dynasty Leagues: Waiver Wire Pickups & Trade Targets

After the relentless carnage of the first two weeks, last Sunday was pretty light when it comes to devastating injuries. The biggest names to go down were Dennis Pitta and Kyle Rudolph. Losing them means huge blows to their real-life offenses, with the Minnesota Vikings in particular getting hurt the worst. In a span of two weeks, Minnesota has gone from having three legitimate offensive playmakers to one. But for fantasy purposes, odds are your rosters are relatively unscathed compared to the ravaging they took last week. So with a quiet week on the injury front, I want to take this opportunity to talk about people who complain about their fantasy fortunes. It's a well-known fact that nobody besides you cares about your fantasy team, but if you get slapped with some seriously horrible luck, I'll indulge you by listening as you blow off steam. That's fine. What I'm tired of is the totally unwarranted complaining. After the Week 2 matchups, someone in my coworkers league had the gall to come up to me and complain that he got nothing out of Greg Jennings. Really, dude? You made a conscious choice to start Matt Cassel's third favorite receiving target, and you have the nerve to say you were unlucky when such a safe decision didn't pan out? This week, I faced off against another coworker. For the sake of anonymity, we'll call him Jonathan. He spent an entire Sunday visibly angry at me because I was beating him and benefitting from his "bad luck," because he left Knile Davis and his 17 points on the bench, while I got decent production out of my decision to start Alfred Blue . Seriously, bro? Blue was getting the start on a run-heavy offense and against a defense that's been porous against the run and was missing its starting middle linebacker. Meanwhile, Davis was listed as a top-10 running back on every website. The moral of the story is that while fantasy football is cruel and evil and designed to smash all of your hopes and dreams into rubble, your choices do make a difference. Learn to separate the bad luck from the bad decisions. Starting LeSean McCoy and only getting two points while Fred Jackson scored 17 on your bench is bad luck. Leaving a top-10 running back on the pine is your fault. Here's my advice: Look back on your first three weeks, identify where bad luck killed you and where you should have made a better decision. Learn from your mistakes. Cold, heartless fate will do everything it can to ruin your fantasy season. Don't help it ...

This article references Antonio Gates, Charles Clay, Delanie Walker, Dennis Pitta, Dwayne Allen, Garret Graham, Garrett Graham, Heath Miller, Jared Cook, Jordan Cameron, Jordan Reed, Kyle Rudolph, Ladarius Green, Larry Donnell, Martellus Bennett, Niles Paul, Owen Daniels, Rhett Ellison, SP, Travis Kelce, WR and more! What's up Rotoballers? Welcome to my Week 4 tight end waiver wire pickups piece.  In this article you will continue to find plenty of Tight End waiver surprises throughout the year so make sure you check back weekly.  If you lost Kyle Rudolph or Dennis Pitta in week 3, this is your one stop to find out who to pickup. Hopefully the player you pickup will turn out to be waiver gold.To help accommodate your needs in various leagues and formats, I'll also be looking at deeper sleepers (way [...] Keep on reading: Week 4 Tight Ends: Waiver Wire Pickups & Adds

Another crazy Sunday of NFL action is in the books. The ball was flying all over the field in Philadelphia creating some excellent performances and the Cowboys and Rams gave us some fun as well. For the sake of full disclosure I must admit that these games were watched through a ‘Dayquil' induced haze. Yes, yours truly has a wicked cold and these are the things that caught my sneezy watery eyes for week three. Have to think that tight end Niles Paul has earned a bigger role in the Washington offense even when Jordan Reed returns. The Norv Turner effect doesn't seem to have taken hold with Kyle Rudolph in Minnesota and now he's dealing with a groin issue. The best news out of the debacle that was Tampa Bay's loss to the Falcons was that QB Josh McCown injured his throwing hand. I am not and will never be a fantasy owner (or writer) that wishes injury upon players but McCown was simply inept. Mike Glennon at the helm for the Buccaneers keeps wideouts Vincent Jackson and Mike Evans worth hanging on to for fantasy purposes. Despite losing a pair of fumbles the running back I want from Tampa Bay moving forward for fantasy purposes is Bobby Rainey. He has explosiveness and big play capability that I just don't see in Doug Martin anymore. Even though the Lions won a big game this week, Matthew Stafford looks a bit off. Lots of accuracy issues that need to be corrected. Luckily Stafford was playing against a surprisingly ineffective Aaron Rodgers this week. It's too early to panic regarding Rodgers but he should have been better against a tattered Detroit secondary. OK. The jury is in and Toby Gerhart is not a fantasy-worthy player moving forward. That offense is really struggling right now and the defense is allowing opponents to jump out to big leads rendering any rushing attack moot. Who had week three as when the rest (Derek Carr has been playing) rookie quarterbacks would emerge in the office pool? While neither Blake Bortles or Teddy Bridgewater lit the world on fire, they didn't embarrass themselves either. Both will have better days ahead and deserve to start from here on out. Nick Foles racked up some serious fantasy points this week and will feel every one of them Monday morning. That kid took a pounding. Stashing Mark Sanchez right about now would be a good idea for Foles owners. By the time Ben Tate returns from injury (possibly following the Week 4 bye) it will likely be Isaiah Crowell that is his primary backup. Crowell looks ...