The waiver wire giveth, and the waiver wire taketh away. Since taking the field for the Philadelphia Eagles back in Week 2, rookie linebacker Jordan Hicks has been nothing short of a revelation. In fact, since entering the starting lineup ...

For some IDP owners, Week 9 could mean bidding bye-bye to fantasy playoff hopes. By this point in the season, fantasy owners of 3-5 or 2-6 teams don’t have much margin for error. Eat another loss, and the season is ...

Well, crud. It’s been a wildly up-and-down season for Miami Dolphins defensive end Cameron Wake. The 33-year-old opened the season colder than cold, managing all of one assist over the first four games of the season. Then Wake woke up ...

Well, we’re halfway home. In fact, in many IDP leagues, the regular season is already more than halfway over. Sunday the calendar will turn to November. Before you know it, it will time to make the final push for the ...

It happens every year in IDP leagues. Every season, there are defensive stars who get off to sluggish starts. These defensive stars are then cut loose by panicky fantasy owners, especially once the bye week crunch hits. And as often ...

Patience can be a hard virtue in fantasy football. After watching Miami Dolphins defensive end Cameron Wake post all of one assist in four games to start the 2015 season, many IDP owners cut bait on the veteran. The only ...

It’s just about that time of year. The time of year when the line between prudence and panic becomes blurred. Granted, no one wants to be Chicken Little. October is much too early to be throwing in the towel on ...

It just goes to show you. Sometimes, for all the preparation and examination of matchups in the world, success in fantasy football comes down to factors that are just outside our control. Last week, I advised starting New York Giants ...

Five weeks into the 2015 season, some trends have emerged in IDP leagues. Along the defensive front, the name of the game has been disappointment. Defensive end Mario Williams of the Buffalo Bills has 10 tackles and two sacks. Ends ...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. That’s what both the Miami Dolphins and IDP owners are saying four weeks into the 2015 season. After pouring over $100 million into signing defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, the belief was ...

OK, so now you can start freaking out. We’re four weeks into the season, and what was a fluke after one game, a coincidence after two and a trend after three is now something else altogether. It’s trouble. Miami Dolphins ...

It’s still early in the 2015 season. Much too early to gloat about the things we’ve gotten right. Or to panic about the things we haven’t. But three weeks into the NFL campaign, certain things are beginning to become apparent. ...

We’re three weeks into the 2015 NFL season, and that means a couple of things. First, injuries are starting to mount. In Sunday’s win over the New Orleans Saints alone, the Carolina Panthers lost both defensive end Charles Johnson and ...

Some weeks you’re the windshield. Others, you’re the bug. Unfortunately, where this article is concerned last week it was the latter. Granted, the week wasn’t a total loss (Brian Cushing of the Houston Texans piled up an OK seven stops ...

It was inevitable. During Sunday’s win by the Dallas Cowboys over the Philadelphia Eagles, a big-name linebacker went down. The stunner was that it wasn’t Sean Lee. That isn’t to say there wasn’t a major injury, however. In fact, the ...

In many respects, it’s the early part of the season that can be the hardest to predict from an IDP perspective. You’re left to base lineup calls either off of information from last year that could be woefully out of ...

Yips (noun): Nervousness or tension that causes one to fail to perform effectively. The yips are a condition that usually affects golfers—a hitch in their swing that causes them to send the ball sailing into the trees. However, the yips ...

“I’ll tell you this. In any fight, it is the guy who is willing to die who is going to win that inch. And I know if I am going to have any life anymore it is because, I am ...

It’s go time, folks! On Thursday night, the Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots will kick off the 2015 NFL season, and with it another year of fantasy football. Teams have been drafted. Even as we speak, lineups are being ...

Every Thursday evening from 9-10 PM ET, Fantasy Sharks Senior Staff Writers Gary Davenport and Walton Spurlin take to the airwaves of Fantasy Sharks Radio for the Fantasy Football Feeding Frenzy. So come on in — the water’s FINE! The ...

This past weekend brought with it the third preseason game for most NFL teams — the all -important “dress rehearsal.” It’s the most extensive action that starters see in the preseason, and our best glimpse of how teams have really ...

If you’ve been a long-time reader of my work here at Fantasy Sharks (Hi, Mom!) then you know that most years I’m a proponent of loading up on linebackers early in your IDP draft. They are far and away the ...

It’s one of the most often asked questions among IDP owners — “will (linebacker X) play in subpackages?” And it’s certainly a valid question. After all, a player can’t make tackles if he isn’t on the field, and with so ...

Every Wednesday evening from 9-10 PM EDT, Fantasy Sharks Senior Staff Writers Gary Davenport and Walton Spurlin take to the airwaves of Fantasy Sharks Radio for the Fantasy Football Feeding Frenzy. So come on in — the water’s FINE! It’s ...

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article at Fantasy Sharks about Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt. In that article (“Watt to Do, Watt to Do“) I argued that even though Watt was coming off a monstrous season ...

It’s August, and that means two things for fans of the NFL and fantasy football. It’s time for training camp, and fantasy draft season is rapidly ramping into high gear.  And at least one respect, those two items intersect — ...

Every Wednesday evening from 9-10 PM EDT, Fantasy Sharks Senior Staff Writers Gary Davenport and Walton Spurlin take to the airwaves of Fantasy Sharks Radio for the Fantasy Football Feeding Frenzy. So come on in — the water’s FINE! The ...

If you’ve read much (or any) of my work here at Fantasy Sharks, then you know that the next time I spend an early IDP pick on a defensive back will be the first time. The reasons are legion. Defensive ...

It’s shaping up to be one of those years on the defensive line in IDP leagues. As if the talent pool wasn’t already significantly shallower than at linebacker or defensive back, but now that pool has suffered another major blow. ...

It’s every NFL team’s nightmare — a star player getting seriously hurt while doing something, how shall I put this, stupid. Well, that nightmare has become a reality for both the New York Giants and IDP owners already staring at ...

Every Wednesday evening from 9-10 PM EDT, Fantasy Sharks Senior Staff Writer Gary Davenport and Staff Writer Walton Spurlin take to the airwaves of Fantasy Sharks Radio for the Fantasy Football Feeding Frenzy. So come on in — the water’s ...

As we move deeper into Individual Defensive Player (IDP) draft season, you’re going to notice a recurring theme with my IDP articles here at Fantasy Sharks. Given the relative lack of fantasy depth on the defensive line in 2015, I’m going ...

  Each Wednesday evening from 9-10 P.M. Eastern, Fantasy Sharks Senior Staff Writers Gary Davenport and Walton Spurlin take to the airwaves of Fantasy Sharks Radio with a new episode of “The Fantasy Football Feeding Frenzy.” Come on in – ...

2014 will forever live in the annals of IDP infamy as “The Year of the Injured Linebacker.” It seemed that each passing week brought with it another season-ending injury to another IDP stalwart. In fact, of the top 15 fantasy ...

In the National Football League, games are decided in the trenches, at the line of scrimmage. Looking for an example? Look no farther than Super Bowl XLII, where the New York Giants’ front four helped propel the Giants to a ...

The NFL draft has come and gone. So has the majority of free agency, although there will still be some moves when the wave of post-June 1 cuts passes. For the most part, though, we know which individual defensive players ...