By Matt on Friday, June 20, 2008

The RB-RB approach, dissected

If you found yourself in your league's championship matchup last season, there's a good chance you got there despite your running backs, rather than because of them. It was just one of those seasons where most owners found themselves banking on their receivers and quarterbacks rather than on their injury-prone or lackluster RBs. In short, it wasn't a good season for the vaunted "take RBs in rounds 1 and 2, always" drafting mantra.

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By Matt on Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Trading down in fantasy football drafts?

I'm intrigued by something I just read in this post on Rotowire's fantasy football blog. Blogger Peter Schoenke believes there's pretty solid consensus for the top five picks in '08 ("Tomlinson, A. Peterson, Westbrook, Addai, S. Jackson") and weighs who he'd take with the 6th spot (I'd go with Lynch, but that might be the Bills bias talking).

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