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ROUNDS 6-8 POSTED TODAY! -- We're opening up our Analysis Mock Draft season with a number of analysis drafts from our staff in various formats. To open, we're starting traditional with a standard 12-teamer, full point PPR with a Flex.

After Ben Roethlisberger was lost for the season, the Steelers’ entire passing game became as unappealing as anchovies on a fudge sundae. The sky is still the limit for Smith-Schuster..

In Episode 2 of the Fantasy Sharks Weekly Podcast, John Lanfranca will reveal ten important stats to know, each correlating to a player he is bullish on for the 2020 season. What do these stats really tell us? And do ...

It’s a long ways off but we’ve run some numbers and wanted to share an overview of where the best position is to be this year in a standard fantasy 12-team snake-draft. We’ve done analysis in the past on season ...

We’ll follow up with the all-important rookies for dynasty leagues list, but for redraft leagues we’ve put this together for you. Each player is assigned a value that we calculate using our evaluation algorithm, which produces a players expected fantasy ...

In a move that shocked no one, the Bengals got their franchise QB. While it is not enough to immediately make A.J. Green & Joe Mixon first round picks in fantasy drafts, their value has gone up a bit. As far as Andy Dalton's future, he should only be drafted by people who also got Burrow, just in case Burrow gets hurt.

The Bengals got their guy on the offensive side of the ball and now they can make out like bandits and get one of the best O-Line prospects in the draft to help protect him. Isaiah Wilson can immediately slide in to replace Cody Glenn and will be just as good as Glenn was.

While I do not have to sit in an airport to get to the NFL draft this year, I did still sketch out two rounds, here is Round 1. Keep in mind, these are picks based on rumors, where players have made visits and other general information based on team needs. Enjoy!

Red Zone statistics can be a valuable tool if used correctly.  Obviously, the teams with better offenses will have more opportunities and we can use this data to exploit certain match-ups or identify players that could be overlooked while looking ...

Chris Carson averaged over 4.6 yards per carry in his first two seasons in the NFL and his fantasy performances last year were impressive. He finished as the RB15 for the year, but over the course of the last six weeks, he was the RB11 and won a lot of people leagues in Weeks 12-16 where he was the RB5.

As recently as 2017, Ansah was a Top 12 IDP option among defensive linemen in Fantasy Sharks Default IDP Scoring. That sort of upside is very rarely available in DL4 territory on draft day.

The NFL is a wildly successful business. It consists of 32 teams that all have positive revenue and operating income in the millions. How many businesses can say that? Everyone is a winner in this business model.

If there is any knock on Sony Michel in this game, it’s that he failed to score from the 1-yard line, and fullback James Develin scored on the next play -- a familiar sight for anyone who rostered Michel last year. Develin will most likely continue to vulture some touchdowns in the regular season, but you shouldn’t let that turn you off from Michel.

Many experts have been high on Nick Chubb as a player for the upcoming year -- despite some glaring red flags. Others see the red flags at the cost of picking Nick Chubb at the start of the second round of drafts.

Since so many of you found my Consistency Rankings so useful-- and were nice enough to subscribe to my social media outlets-- I was inspired to come up with some projections for your drafts. These projections are one part Fantasy Sharks analysis, one part Consistency Rankings, and one part geeky math...

Preston Brown isn’t being drafted like a three-down middle linebacker for a bad Cincinnati team whose defense could be on the field a ton in 2019. Or like a player who racked up four straight 100-tackle seasons while with Buffalo — including 144 total stops two years ago.

He's not a sleeper. He's not a value pick. If you want him, you need to go out and ensure that you land him. Everyone in 2019 is on the same page when it comes to Chrisitan Kirk.

This past weekend has rapidly become my favorite of the year. I was again honored to represent Fantasy Sharks at the second King’s Classic fantasy drafts at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Ohio.

Fantasy owners are understandably cautious after Adam Thielen’s production dipped in the middle of last season when Minnesota switched offensive coordinators, but he’s just too talented to pass up at his current third-round draft price.

Welcome back one and all to the 2019 Shark Leagues! This is where we separate the champions from the chum. Once again we are offering the best free leagues on the planet where the competition gets harder the more you win.

One of the most difficult tasks in head-to-head fantasy leagues is trying to determine who the “hot” and “cold” players will be in any given week. You can’t use historical or seasonal averages because, well … by their very definition, ...

Trey Flowers is also an excellent edge-setter, as evidenced by his 119 total tackles over the last two seasons. Flowers has finished inside the Top 20 defensive linemen each of the past two seasons. If he can goose that sack total a bit a move just inside the Top 10 is by no means out of the question.

If we take Mike Williams’ 2018 receiving numbers and extrapolate them out over a full season of 100 targets, he would have ended the season with 1,003 receiving yards and 15 touchdowns. Any player who could average a touchdown a game is definitely someone to target.

Playing more in the preseason is usually evidence of distrust of a player especially in the first game. Here are some mid-to-late round players with signs pointing for optimism based on injuries and playing time.

If you love either Zach Ertz or George Kittle at tight end, you could conceivably also look at filling that position early, but know that down the road it will cost you depth at the running back or wide receiver position.

I looked at wide receivers (since 2007) who had amassed at least 170 targets in a season and had a reception percentage of at least 55 percent — then I examined how they fared the following season. The results were good, if not outstanding.

Ekeler actually had a productive outing against Arizona, but he made one of the worst mistakes a running back can make: he fumbled on a goal-to-go carry. On 1st-and-goal at the 2-yard line, he got stood up at the line of scrimmage, and linebacker Jordan Hicks stripped the ball..

Every year, readers will point out how this season will be different, that their favorite runner will buck the odds … and every season, the math holds up. Don’t be unnecessarily reckless; if you’re at the top of your draft, convince some other suckers to grab Saquon Barkley or Christian McCaffrey.

You can’t have all the studs on your team and you don’t need them all to win. The middle of the draft can make or break a team and if you look closely, there are values to be had. Teams that ...

The NFL is a young man’s game. Sure, veteran stars like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are still among the best in the game, but success in the NFL nowadays is about stockpiling young talent on relatively inexpensive rookie contracts. ...

The question on the minds of the fantasy masses right about now, is how to navigate drafts with the holdouts of running backs Melvin Gordon and Ezekiel Elliott looming over draft rooms world-wide?

You’ve probably heard the mantra that “You don’t win your league on draft day, but you can lose it”. Fantasy drafts are riddled with land mines. The more mistakes you can avoid on draft day, the better foundation your draft ...

Terrell Edmunds' first NFL season was admittedly, um, yeah. But Edmunds was drafted in Round 1 for a reason, and he's entrenched as Pittsburgh's starter at strong safety. If his production in 2019 comes anywhere close to his perceived talent level, a breakout sophomore campaign could be in the offing.

Buffalo is a great team defense to start the year with and you should have little trouble taking them very late in your draft. They start the season with a set of very favorable matchups (at New York Jets, at New York Giants, vs. Cincinnati).

When should you draft different positions? Should Saquon Barkley be taken ahead of Michael Thomas? Should Aaron Donald be grabbed ahead of George Kittle? Heck, where should any position be drafted as compared to any other position?

Each year, more NFL teams are converting to a running back by committee, or RBBC offensive build. This means that teams are regularly using two, three or even four ball carriers in a game and fewer teams are going with ...

With the recent emergence of best-ball popularity among fantasy professionals and more casual players, everyone needs differentiation between players good for regular leagues and those who will win best-ball leagues. With best-ball leagues starting on Yahoo! for the first time ...

Many thought that after the stunning news of RB Kareem Hunt’s release from the Kansas City Chiefs last season that the team would struggle to find another RB to replace his awesome production. Right about that same time Head Coach Andy Reid told those doubters, “hold my beer.”

A liability in the Grigson years, the Indianapolis Colts have done a 180 degree turn by turning their O-Line into a strength under new GM Chris Ballard.

In more IDP leagues than not, the young players listed here won’t be drafted at all. None are any sort of sure bet to have a big fantasy season. But there’s some upside present here — enough to warrant putting them in dart-throw territory late in drafts.