Fantasy Football: Week 9 Matchup Breakdown
By JASON SABLICH and JUSTIN SABLICH
Colin Kaepernick, Nick Foles and Ronnie Hillman are among the recommended fantasy football players in Week 9.
Football games and seasons have been canceled over the dwindling number of healthy players before, but the flow of examples makes this year stand out.
Colin Kaepernick, Nick Foles and Ronnie Hillman are among the recommended fantasy football players in Week 9.
Romo sustained what Coach Jason Garrett called a back contusion during Monday’s loss, with Garrett saying the injury was unrelated to the herniated disk Romo sustained last season.
Rookie receivers have caught 38 touchdown passes through eight weeks and, to put it simply, are tearing up the N.F.L.
There is no better way to grieve over a Jets loss than to switch right to “Jets Post Game Live” on SNY.
At times during his midseason news conference, Idzik, the general manager of a 1-7 Jets team, sounded more like a politician campaigning for re-election.
Colt McCoy led Washington to a 20-17 overtime victory in Dallas, and Kai Forbath kicked a 40-yard field goal to provide the difference.
Eli Manning has drastically reduced his interception rate this season, but Reese, the team’s general manager, is pushing the Giants to put up more yards and points.
After Geno Smith threw three early interceptions, Michael Vick helped the Jets trim their deficit to 24-17. But Vick ended up committing three turnovers himself, and the Jets lost their seventh straight.
Carson Palmer threw a 75-yard scoring pass to the rookie John Brown with 1 minute 21 seconds left, and Arizona (6-1) earned a 24-20 victory over Philadelphia.
Fans at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., have a new, old way to enjoy Packers games: Half-dollar-size radio receivers.
Jason and Justin Sablich provide weekly player rankings for standard and PPR scoring formats. They will be updated throughout the season.
Entering a stretch of the season with several bye weeks, the focus of fantasy owners should be to simply stay afloat until the fantasy playoffs.
Charts resulting from a statistical algorithm find natural tiers and clusters within fantasy football player ranking data.
This chart indicates what kind of fantasy matchup a team’s top receiver, or WR1, will have.
The Brooklyn Bolts are one of four teams in the Fall Experimental Football League, which hopes to avoid mistakes of past minor league football leagues by keeping costs down while avoiding serious injuries.
Four side-by-side lockers in one corner of the Giants’ locker room have emerged as a distinct power corridor, a kind of leadership command center for a team with more than 20 new players.
Gruden, in his sixth season with “Monday Night Football” on ESPN, had a head-scratching performance during the Jets-Bears game.
Johnny Manziel has spurred ticket and merchandise sales as well as hopes that the Browns may someday win a championship, something that hasn’t happened since 1964.
The wildly divergent paths of the top two picks in the 1998 N.F.L. draft have become shorthand for the frustrating process of identifying character traits that lead to success.