Everything that happens in the NFL has additional context when viewed from a fantasy football perspective. From position battles to injuries and so much more, the news cycle will constantly affect player values in fantasy football.
Our Fantasy Football Buzz file, with contributions from our ESPN fantasy writers and our NFL Nation reporters, aims to provide fantasy managers with the intel they need as news breaks around the league.
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Fantasy Focus Football talks rookies
While last weekend's NFL draft isn't considered particularly deep in fantasy talent, there were some notable names on Day 1 which will be called out during your fantasy football drafts this preseason. Field Yates, Stephania Bell and Mike Clay staged a mini rookie mock draft and dove deeper into the top players' skills sets, projections and injury concerns.
Key takeaways on Jeremiyah Love
Clay: The last nine running backs that have been picked in the top 12 of the (NFL) draft -- nine straight -- all finished top 12 in fantasy points (among running backs) as a rookie.
Bell: I actually thought there was a bit of a referendum on the running back room with them taking Love... James Conner is coming off a massive foot injury. You can't expect him to take the volume coming off an injury like that. Trey Benson was injured in Week 4 and never came back. There's a lot of mystery there about what Benson can and will be going forward. Love, to me, has the run of that room.
Yates: He's a better prospect than Ashton Jeanty. He's also more dynamic as a receiver and, for our purposes -- PPR scoring -- the better you are as a receiver, the higher floor you tend to have, and higher ceiling, for that matter. (But) here we are again. Highly touted rookie running back goes (early in the draft) and Tyler Allgeier is there. Allgeier got $7M guaranteed this past offseason. We know he is a serviceable player -- he had 1,000 yards as a rookie. The fear would be, to the extent that the Cardinals are going to be in scoring range, from the 5-yard line and in, that Allgeier could be like David Montgomery to Jahmyr Gibbs.
Key takeaways on Jadarian Price
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