Draft Sharks - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Podcast: Week 1 Preview 9-5-19 Sep 06, 2019

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The regular season is finally upon us, and we have our 1st full slate of real games to preview ... even if it won't include Antonio Brown. Which big-name QBs should you sit? Which backfields should you try to avoid? And which wideouts face the best matchups?

Here's the rundown:

Antonio Brown news ... 2:29

Washington at Philadelphia Eagles ... 4:03

Buffalo Bills at New York Jets ... 9:44

Atlanta Falcons at Minnesota Vikings ... 14:18

Baltimore Ravens at Miami Dolphins ... 19:06

Kansas City Chiefs at Jacksonville Jaguars ... 21:41

Tennessee Titans at Cleveland Browns ... 27:11

Los Angeles Rams at Carolina Panthers ... 30:05

Cincinnati Bengals at Seattle Seahawks ... 33:36

Indianapolis Colts at Los Angeles Chargers ... 36:56

San Francisco 49ers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers ... 42:35

New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys ... 45:51

Detroit Lions at Arizona Cardinals ... 48:45

Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots ... 53:21

Houston Texans at New Orleans Saints ... 56:46

Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders ... 59:45

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Emergency Pod: Zeke and Gordon 8-30-19 Aug 30, 2019

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Ezekiel Elliott and Melvin Gordon STILL haven't joined their teams, and we're just days away from the start of the regular season. Both guys have dropped down our RB rankings, but does that mean you should change your draft plan? We'll sort out both situations, and then we'll hit on what the Patriots revealed by starting their veteran receivers in Thursday's final preseason contest.

Here's the rundown:

Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard ... 00:34

Melvin Gordon and the Chargers backfield ... 8:11

Demaryius Thomas worth a look? ... 13:00

Check our full fantasy football rankings now and make sure your customized MVP Board is ready to go.

Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
Mock Draft Simulator
Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

Podcast: Last-Minute Tips 8-29-19 Aug 29, 2019

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We're on the cusp of the final big fantasy football draft weekend of the year. That means it's time to hit on any last-minute questions. If you're a DS Insider, then you know we never stop giving you answers. Today we're hitting the latest round of mailbag entries, covering keeper selection, a big-name trade and what to do with this crop of rookie RBs. We've also got some last-minute draft tips of our own and a sneak peak and whose early schedule adds fantasy value.

Here's the rundown:

Late QBs and defenses to target ... 4:18

Picking an auction keeper ... 10:22

Rookie backs climbing too high? ... 12:54

T.Y. Hilton vs. Robby Anderson ... 16:00

Is Sammy Watkins a value or fool's gold? ... 18:08

Aaron Rodgers vs. Deshaun Watson ... 19:48

Last-minute draft tips ... 22:33

Check our full fantasy football rankings now and make sure your customized MVP Board is ready to go.

Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
Mock Draft Simulator
Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

Podcast: Preseason Winners with Dwain McFarland 8-27-19 Aug 28, 2019

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With 3 weeks of NFL preseason games behind us, we've seen all the action that's likely to affect your 2019 fantasy football team (or not). We asked Dwain McFarland to come help us sort it all out, because he has spent those 3 weeks crushing the preseason analysis. What should you make of Arizona's bumpy preseason? Who might be a winner and a loser at wideout? And which TEs should be going higher or lower in fantasy football drafts?

Before we get to that, though, we have a big Saturday night AFC South shakeup to deal with.

Here's the rundown:

Andrew Luck's retirement ... 1:40

Lamar Miller's knee blows up ... 11:16

Introducing our guest ... 14:40

What to watch for in preseason ... 15:48

What's in store for the new Arizona Cardinals? ... 19:49

Preseason winners ... 29:24

Preseason losers ... 51:49

Check out Jared's preseason winners and losers. See where injuries and retirements have moved the Texans and Colts players in our fantasy football rankings. And then make sure your MVP Board is ready to help you dominate your draft.

Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
Mock Draft Simulator
Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

Podcast: Zeke Update and Mailbag 8-22-19 Aug 22, 2019

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We're finally hitting the peak of draft season, and that means everyone has questions. What do we do with Ezekiel Elliott, Melvin Gordon and their backups? Which draft position is the best? Which rookies look ready to help our teams right now ... and down the road? And which later-round options should you be targeting this weekend?

Here's the rundown:

What’s your favorite draft position? … 2:06

Keenan Allen returns … 5:00

Darwin Thompson’s rise … 6:00

Tarik Cohen disappearing? … 7:40

Where to draft Melvin Gordon and Austin Ekeler … 10:02

Ezekiel Elliott’s effect on fantasy drafts and Tony Pollard … 13:42

Dalvin Cook or Alexander Mattison at ADP? … 20:12

Should you start RB-RB-RB? … 22:17

Who are the WR targets at the 2-3 turn? … 23:53

Where you need to draft Antonio Brown … 24:33

Impact rookies … 25:51

How to use Tom Brady in fantasy … 28:09

Keeper selections … 29:54

Breakout WRs for dynasty … 31:14

6 players to target this weekend … 35:01

Check our up-to-date 2019 fantasy football rankings and get your MVP Board ready to dominate.

Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
Mock Draft Simulator
Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

Podcast: Preseason Week 2 Revelations 8-20-19 Aug 20, 2019

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The 2nd weekend of preseason games is done, and we have plenty to talk about with the usage and performance of some key players and situations. Before we get to that, though, a big-time talent has returned to 1 of the NFL's perennial top offenses.

Here's the rundown:

The impact of Josh Gordon … 2:22

Derrick Henry returns … 8:09

Derrius Guice and the Washington offense … 8:58

D.K. Metcalf needs knee surgery … 12:22

Jaguars get Marqise Lee back … 13:14

Preseason Week 2 Notes:

Chris Carson’s the man … 15:43

Marlon Mack is, too … 16:52

Is Kerryon Johnson? … 18:34

Sorting the Ravens backfield … 20:48

Mark Andrews missing person report … 23:28

Sam Darnold slingin’ … 27:29

Cole Beasley in charge? … 30:33

Can James Washington climb? … 32:08

Jimmy Garoppolo struggles … 33:14

Emmanuel Sanders looks good … 34:35

Denver’s backfield doesn’t … 35:20

Check our constantly updated 2019 fantasy football rankings to see who's moving up or down your MVP Board.

Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
Mock Draft Simulator
Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

Podcast: Perfect Draft and Mailbag 8-15-19 Aug 15, 2019

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We've just completed and posted our highly anticipated annual full suite of Perfect Draft articles. We're starting this show with some takeaways from the process of preparing those. Then we'll run through some of the most important news items affecting fantasy football draft values this week. And then it's mailbag time. Questions hit on keeper decisions, auction strategy, how to spend your 1st-round pick and more.

Here's the rundown:

Perfect Draft lessons ... 0:11

Andrew Luck ... 8:13

Target Chargers D ... 10:21

Other injuries to track ... 11:20

Emmanuel Sanders ... 16:22

Derrius Guice ... 18:15

Another TE for the Patriots ... 19:24

Mailbag ... 22:04

Check out our full 2019 fantasy football rankings and test out your strategies with our FREE Mock Draft Trainer.

Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
Mock Draft Simulator
Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

Podcast: Preseason Week 1 Reactions 8-13-19 Aug 13, 2019

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Do you hate the NFL's preseason games? Well, you're not alone. But these fake contests aren't totally worthless. We can judge performances. We can get a signal of playing-time patterns. And we can just generally get some info that will help us determine how to treat plenty of players in our fantasy football drafts. So did the 1st week of exhibitions teach us anything?

Here's the rundown:

What to look for in preseason ... 2:11

David Montgomery ... 3:40

Chris Carson ... 5:45

Curtis Samuel and D.J. Moore ... 8:22

Jamison Crowder ... 11:05

Terry McLaurin ... 12:56

Dwayne Haskins ... 15:18

Daniel Jones ... 16:35

Dontrell Hilliard ... 17:45

Preston Williams ... 19:20

Falcons backfield ... 20:34

Antonio Brown ... 21:59

Mitchell Trubisky ... 23:56

Dante Pettis and the Niners wideouts ... 27:53

Darrell Henderson ... 31:08

Parris Campbell ... 32:36

Keke Coutee ... 34:26

Dallas Goedert ... 36:17

Broncos backfield ... 38:06

Buccaneers backfield ... 39:17

Mark Andrews ... 39:45

Check out our full 2019 fantasy football rankings and test out your strategies with our FREE Mock Draft Trainer.

Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
Mock Draft Simulator
Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

Podcast: Duke Trade and Mailbag 8-8-19 Aug 08, 2019

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None of us wanted to move Lamar Miller up our rankings, and now we don't have to. The Texans acquired former Browns RB Duke Johnson on Thursday. Let's break down the deal's effect on Johnson, Miller and Nick Chubb -- and perhaps a few others. Then it's time for our 2nd mailbag. We've got questions on keepers, auction strategy and superflex formats.

Here's the rundown:

The Duke Johnson trade ... 1:06

How early is too early for Joe Mixon? ... 10:29

Where to target QBs in a superflex league ... 12:19

Le'Veon Bell or a top WR to open a keeper draft? ... 15:53

Keep Aaron Jones or Dalvin Cook? ... 17:17

What's wrong with O.J. Howard? ... 18:31

Cheap QB targets in an auction ... 21:10

Damien Williams ... 23:16

When will we see Melvin Gordon? ... 24:53

Check our 2019 fantasy football rankings to see where the Browns-Texans trade moved everyone. And try out your altered draft strategy in our FREE Mock Draft Trainer.

Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
Mock Draft Simulator
Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

Podcast: Training Camp Movers 8-6-19 Aug 07, 2019

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This guy's dominating his position in workouts. Another guys struggling with drops. One starter has been sitting with a bum hamstring. Another injury-prone guy is finally healthy. How is it all affecting our fantasy football draft plans? Today's show hits on the key movers up and down since the start of training camp.

Here's a loaded rundown:

Eagles backfield ... 5:13

Sony Michel ... 7:41

Is Lamar Miller finally rising? ... 9:13

Kalen Ballage ... 11:44

The Bills' top backfield target ... 14:35

The #1 Panthers WR? ... 16:17

The #2 Steelers WR? ... 17:45

The #3 Cardinals WR? ... 19:00

The OTHER rookie Ravens WR ... 20:40

Young wideouts in New England not named N'Keal Harry ... 22:52

Jordan Reed ... 24:29

Damien Williams ... 25:58

Kenyan Drake ... 27:49

Sorting the Niners' backfield ... 30:01

The most disappointing Cardinals wideout? ... 32:33

The odd man out in Buffalo? ... 33:46

Kliff Kingsbury TEs and other things that don't exist ... 35:03

Kicker duel in Green Bay ... 36:36

Check out our full 2019 fantasy football rankings and test out your strategies with our FREE Mock Draft Trainer.

Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
Mock Draft Simulator
Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

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