Training Camp Daily Dose: Daily Dose: Kelvin Crisis When you earn a living as a professional fantasy football writer, your buddies tend to ask you a lot of lineup questions. But mostly, they just want you to run their league for them. Or maybe I’m just a control freak who wants to run every league I’m involved with. One or the other. Anyway, I’ve been in a league with my high school friends … [Read more...]

Eli Manning on wanting to be NFL's highest-paid player: 'Never said it' Eli Manning is a smart guy, and semantics are everything, right? But let's assume for a moment that Manning was being earnest when he said, per New York Daily News' Ralph Vacchiano, that the reports of Manning wanting to be the NFL's highest-paid player are bunk. Vacchiano tweeted Manning's quote when asked: "No. That's … [Read more...]

Rotoworld Roundup: The Shy-Away Top 40 We've seen each team play a preseason game or two while closely monitoring camp reports on every skill-position player in the NFL. The recommendations in this column are inherently negative (see title), but based on the facts we've gleaned, represent an informed and reasoned projection.This isn't a list of overvalued players, necessarily, or projected busts. … [Read more...]

Seahawks cut green beret long snapper; now let's hope he gets legit shot The Seattle Seahawks cut a long snapper on Tuesday, which normally would be the kind of training-camp move that gets buried on a busy agate page (newspapers, kids — look it up!) transactions page and immediately forgotten. But the long snapper in question, Nate Boyer, just so happens to have a great story. He's a former … [Read more...]

Training Camp Daily Dose: Dose: J-Matt To Be Focal Point Admittedly, I wasn’t buying the WR1/2 hype on Jordan Matthews earlier this offseason, as I was more #TeamAgholor in support of first-round WR Nelson Agholor being the receiver to own in Philadelphia. I was being stubborn and completely ignorant to just how good Matthews is and was last season. Matthews was the No. 4 fantasy scoring rookie … [Read more...]

Dez Bryant gets slugged in the face during big Cowboys-Rams fight The NFL sent a memo to teams to knock it off with the fighting. And then the St. Louis Rams and Dallas Cowboys had a brawl at a joint practice. This was a pretty good one. It wasn't just one player shoving a bit with another player before they got broken up. Guys from both sides were getting after it, and it went on for a … [Read more...]

Tom Brady misses Patriots practice, but will he attend deflate-gate hearing? New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has missed practice twice the past two Tuesdays, but is he planning to attend Wednesday's hearing in New York over the lingering deflate-gate case? Initially, USA Today's Tom Pelissero reported that Brady would, but Pelissero later indicated that Brady — believing that … [Read more...]

'L.A. Rams!' Fans fans flock to watch practice with team's future in doubt In the three-team monte for Los Angeles, the team that's farthest away geographically — the St. Louis Rams — might have the strongest local support. Will the Rams return to L.A., the city they left in 1994? We don't yet know that, and last week's owners meeting outside Chicago to discuss that very issue provided few … [Read more...]

Who are this year's dark horse Super Bowl contenders? The NFL season is upon us, and since it's never too early to make Hail Mary predictions, let's talk Super Bowl! We know that teams like the Seahawks, Packers, Steelers, and Patriots are going to be in the playoff mix late in the year. But who could join them? Let's kick around a few of the possible dark horses who could work their way … [Read more...]