Fantasy Index

Factoid

Old wide receivers

4 Mar , 2016
In this century (since 2000), we have seen 230 wide receivers catch 80-plus passes in a season. The ripe age for this kind of big season is around 25-28 years old...

Tight ends

3 Mar , 2016
That’s how it played out last year, with guys like Gary Barnidge, Delanie Walker and Jordan Reed really kicking butt. Tyler Eifert outscored A.J. Green...

New York Jets

2 Mar , 2016
While the rest of the NFL is zigging, the Jets are zagging...

Marques Colston

2 Mar , 2016
It's rare for wide receivers to go over 1,000 yards as rookies. Since the NFL went to a 16-game season nearly 30 years ago (1978), it's happened only 16 times...

Running backs

1 Mar , 2016
There was no knockout running back. We are now 16 seasons into this century...

Sam Bradford

1 Mar , 2016
But maybe the team realizes they're just as likely to do worse without Bradford as better; more likely, perhaps...

Melvin Gordon

29 Feb , 2016
Gordon wasn’t explosive or decisive enough. He didn’t score a touchdown all year (thought he did have a nice somersault-style touchdown in the first game that was overturned on a replay)...

James Laurinaitis

29 Feb , 2016
Over the last four seasons, Laurinaitis is one of only eight linebackers who have had at least 100 tackles in all of them...

Quarterbacks

28 Feb , 2016
Newton and Wilson, in fact, have been hit a lot more often than any other quarterbacks in recent years. Over the past four years, they’ve both handled the ball around 600 times on runs and sacks...

Takeaways

27 Feb , 2016
However you slice it, turnovers are down. In this century, 90 teams have turned the ball over 34-plus times in a season. It didn’t happen at all last year...

Quarterbacks

26 Feb , 2016
Some complain that the game has been watered down (not me, I think the game is still plenty violent). But rules changes and emphasis by the officials have helped to keep quarterbacks on the field...

Wide receivers

25 Feb , 2016
And this seems to be a league-wide trend. In each of the last two years, five wide receivers have been targeted over 100 times and also caught over 70 percent of the passes thrown to them...

Detroit Lions

24 Feb , 2016
Cooter simplified the offense, getting much better results out of Matthew Stafford...

Top Run Defenses

24 Feb , 2016
Over the last 10 years, the Patriots and Steelers are two of just eight teams that have ranked in the top 10 defending the run at least five times...

Brock Osweiler

23 Feb , 2016
Osweiler played almost half of last season, and in that sizeable chunk of action, he wasn’t any better than Manning at driving the ball downfield...

Fantasy Index