2019 NFL Fantasy Football Season

A place for all that is the 2019 NFL Fantasy Football season. Player Rankings to helping select rosters each week.

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Gearing Up for the end of the preseason

It’s that time folks. The best time of the year. The Summer heat is in full force on the east coast, the beaches are packed, and Camps around the NFL are moving into practice mode as we waltz into week 3 of the preseason.  At the beginning of camp we touched on how to look at your ranking of players. So much information has come out and changed since then that the rankings could be changing on a day to day basis based on who’s doing what in camp. Were you excited about the prospects of Larry Fitzgerald or Christian Kirk? Well now Add Michael Crabtree to the fold and if he can still run, will probably make that team and steal a target share.  He slowly started to build a chemistry with Lamar last season at the very end. I’m not saying he’s a viable fantasy option for your team, but I am saying he cuts into target shares for other players if he makes that team. Not like you should be targeting Arizona Cardinals any AMIRITE!!!! What I wanted to get across today is that you can never be prepared enough for anything. ANYTHING. I had over 70 individual RB and WR’s ranked going into this week. I decided that wasn’t good enough based on how my mock drafts were acting so I needed to adjust. Re Ranked 75 at each and locked it into my spread sheet. I’ve re-reviewed the yardage share for Running backs from last season and have adjusted my RB’s accordingly, especially with the Gordon and Zeke holdouts. 

Speaking of those holdouts, how bad does it suck to actually have the 4th or 5th pick in any Fantasy draft this year? You're going to be staring Zeke right in the face... you know if you do it and he plays you’re going to get a steal, but Le’veon Bell also set a dangerous precedent for us fantasy footballers. Even worse is Melvin Gordon who seems further away from seeing the field, yet has more of a gripe to holdout. I have Melvin Gordon pretty much locked in the third round right now. If he’s there at the end of the second I’m considering it if my WR Targets and Kelce are gone.  I Do not have a lot of top tier WR talent. It ends at Antonio Brown... if it stretches that far. He’s a special talent and I don’t doubt he will produce this year, but I question how much the raiders can FORCE him the ball and be competitive. With that being said and in no order, try to get one of these WR by the end of the second round: Hopkins, Julio Jones, Davante Adams, Michael Thomas and the bubble guy here is AB84.  What do you think?

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It’s NFL Fantasy Off-season Prime Time!!

It’s that special time of year folks! It’s time to start preparing for your 2019 NFL Fantasy Football season. Wait, what’s that? It’s too early to start preparing for your Fantasy Football? We are still in the middle of Baseball season? WHO CARES!!!! I’m an Orioles fan so as long as I can remember this is Fantasy Football Off-season time. It’s time to start breaking down where players went to shift the balance of power in the Offenses and Defenses around the league. Take a look at who drafted players that could have immediate impacts on the squads that selected them. Most of all it’s a time to reflect on how much you want to invest into your upcoming season.  As a long time competitor in Fantasy Football I’ve learned the earlier you start your prep work, the better your season will be (obviously). You don’t get caught waiting to get lucky on the waiver wire, when you drafted a team of Studs. The only thing that has derailed me in the past few years has been injuries. You’d think that isn’t something that you can predict but you really can. If Todd Gurley is your number one pick this year at RB, then be ready to get his Handcuff, Rookie Darrell Henderson because Todd is about to hit that Production Wall as a star at Running back.  In the years I’ve been doing this it’s rare for a player to extend beyond 4-5 years as a top of the line Fantasy Running back stud. The only reason I’ll be high on Le’Veon Bell this year is because he sat out a season. This is a good year to reach a little bit at some younger talent like Alvin Kamara (who’s name should be in your top 3 ranking at a minimum, if not number 1 now that Ingram is gone). Saquon Barkley is another one. Someone is going to steal.... STEAL HIM ..... in the second round of most drafts.  On the outskirts of the offense, AB has been a perennial top WR talent. I dropped him from my number 1 spot last year for Deandre Hopkins and this year more than one player will most likely jump ahead of him now that he is on a team that cannot move the ball like the Steelers teams he’s been on. While we are talking about the outside, this year’s TE crop should all be pretty tight knit outside of the top 2-3 TE’s. After Travis Kelce, there isn’t a dominant TE who doesn’t have competition at the position for looks. Dallas Goedert should begin to take looks away from Ertz even more than he has already.  We could go on all day with anecdotes about seasons past leading into this one but the short and hair of this is If you haven’t done any type of preliminary top 10 of position players yet, you are behind. The pro’s are already making their pre season draft guides that you can buy but why buy when you can be that guy!!!! Follow my blog this season to get a feel for how a successful Fantasy Football player manages multiple leagues and rules at one time, while staying competitive. I’ll be releasing my pre season rankings of RB, WR, QB and TE. I’ve ranked the most players at RB and WR than I ever have this year. I’ve also done some leg work on more advanced statistics I’ll share with you going into draft season and release tools you can take into your draft to help you succeed at drafting a team that makes you laugh at the waiver wire pick ups.  So click the button to hang around for this season, and don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Bazookaboh and find all the best NFL jokes this year on NFL Shieldpsoting on Facebook and Twitter.