O.J. Howard

Rob Gronkowski used his second 20-plus fantasy point performance of 2017 in Week 12 to vault him back into the overall TE1 spot on the year. Gronkowski is battling Travis Kelce and Zach Ertz for that distinction. It should be quite a battle down the stretch. On the other side of the Week 12 spectrum was Vernon Davis. Davis had a pristine Thanksgiving Day matchup against the New York Giants. We’ve touched on it plenty of times in this space, but the Giants have been the most fruitful matchup in the entire NFL in 2017. Davis…

Over the course of the last couple of months, I’ve made a lot of statements that reflect my thoughts on the values of various players for the upcoming fantasy football season. Some of the statements I have made have been rather chalky and some have been a little bit bolder. When it comes to fantasy football, the truth is that fortune does favor the bold. Most leagues offer payouts to fewer than half of the teams, and most savvy fantasy owners have access to the same information. In order to succeed, you have to be willing to…

Tight ends are sort of like quarterbacks for fantasy purposes. You need to start only one tight end each week, and you likely won’t need to draft more than that. The difference is that tight ends are inherently riskier than quarterbacks. The odds of Rob Gronkowski playing in all 16 games in a given season are far less than those of Aaron Rodgers doing so. So if you feel the need to draft a backup tight end, I suppose I won't kill you for it. I would suggest drafting a single tight end and just picking up the best one…

With the 2017 NFL Draft on the horizon (it starts on Thursday), I have decided to put together a Mock Draft of the first round.  This is all in fun as it seems almost everyone has an opinion on what teams will do in the draft and they are usually wrong.  Here is the way I think it will go, barring trades:Also, check out Jim Bay's Mock Draft HereCleveland Browns - Myles Garrett, DE, Texas A&M - The Browns suffered through a horrible 1-15 season in 2016, so they earned this pick.  With it they do the smart thing…