Fantasy Football

As the NFL inactive lists filter in, here's the news you need to know when setting your fantasy football roster for the early games.

Arizona Cardinals at Kansas City Chiefs

For the Cardinals today, Beanie Wells is active and will start. He's still a tough call from a fantasy perspective though. If you've got no one else, start him, if you've got someone more consistent, sit him.

For the Chiefs, rookies Dexter McCluster and Tony Moeaki are both inactive today. Earlier in the year, these guys put up decent numbers for fantasy rookies and brought a new element to the Chiefs passing game that was missing last season.

Baltimore Ravens at Carolina Panthers

For the Panthers, ...

The corner returns as Sascha Bartels takes a look at the studs and duds of the past week, and looks ahead to the next week in the world of Fantasy Football.
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It's about that time for Fantasy Football to start kicking off with live and automatic drafts. Who are you going to trust when it comes to advice on who to pick first, second, third, eighth, 12th? Look no further because it's me.

After being in multiple leagues over the last two seasons, I've finished in the playoffs and won in a few (two championships last year, one the year before). I know a thing or two about fantasy football, so you may want to pay attention.

So the purpose of this article is to give you guys a draft board to help guide your decision making process on draft day. I'm going to give my top 25 position players (QB, RB, WR, TE, K, DEF) as well as some of my sleepers and steals that you can get in later rounds (unless you have some homers for that specific team who pick all their players ...

Week 1 is over, and that means scurrying the Waiver Wire for the latest hot pickups, identifying who is trade bait, and who is a breakout waiting to happen. Wolverine takes a weekly look into the ups and downs of this week's fantasy action.

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Fantasy football experts all say the same thing. The order of their advice might be different, and granted, some experts have different takes on players.



There is one constant from all experts of the fantasy football realm, and that is the value of running backs. Each year, fantasy gurus shove running backs down our throats, saying any successful team needs two top-tier rushers, and that they should be drafted with your first two picks, or at worst, ...

Drafting rookies for a fantasy football squad is normally a crapshoot. For every Matt Ryan, there's a Eli Manning (as a rookie). For every Chris Johnson, a Cedric Benson.

Well, luckily for you, you've got me, a junkie who watched many of these players tear up the college gridiron, and who has absolutely no expertise on fantasy football. Take these tips at your own peril with the knowledge that I've never won a fantasy football league.

Possibly because I once drafted Cedric Benson.

In my defense, he was no longer a rookie.

So here's five rookies to watch (read: don't draft them just yet, ...