Fantasy football wide receivers yielding in Year 2: Golden Tate, Seattle Seahawks
Tate trudges forth
Fantasy football players fell in love with Golden Tate (5-foot-10, 202 pounds) far too quickly after the Seattle Seahawks drafted him in 2010.
Assuredly, the disappointment that many sleeper-seeking fantasy owners felt last year is fueling the lack of attention that Tate, 23, receives in drafts in 2011. The Seattle sophomore has made a different impression in his second NFL training camp.
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T.J. Houshmandzadeh on his way out of Seattle
The Seattle Seahawks will release wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh if they are not able to trade him, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter. The Seahawks are liable to pay whatever his team does not this season. He is guaranteed to make $7 million this season.
Immediately, it would seem that the values of Mike X. Williams, Deion Branch, Golden Tate and Deon Butler receive an upgrade. Reportedly, each of them has performed well in camp, to varying degrees. One caveat: The Seahawks have permission to discuss a long-term deal with the San Diego Chargers' Vincent Jackson. Tap your mouse here for more »
Overlooked fantasy football players: Deon Butler, Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks may have a surprisingly productive group of wide receivers this year. May, because a lot can go wrong when china doll Matt Hasselbeck is the quarterback, and jaded, potential malcontent T.J. Houshmandzadeh is the team's top target.
Mike Williams (Pete Carroll's USC version, not the more talented pass-grabber on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) may have found his Jesus (that would be Carroll). Second-rounder Golden Tate has really impressed the staff. And Deion Branch is ... well, he's just the wrong Deon in the Emerald City.
Butler answers bell Tap your mouse here for more »
Leon Washington joins Seattle Seahawks
Seahawks overhaul RB position
The New York Jets have traded running back Leon Washington and a seventh-round draft choice to the Seattle Seahawks for a fifth-round, No. 139 overall, draft choice, reports Adam Schefter, of ESPN. Tap your mouse here for more »
Ask KFFL's Experts: Nicholas Minnix
The new starter in Philly...
Random questions were posed to KFFL.com’s team of editors. Some queries are hypothetical. Most of them deal with fantasy football, while others address the NFL Draft. Each editor’s response is his own view of the situation at hand, so the answers may vary from the KFFL consensus. Tap your mouse here for more »
Fantasy football waivers: Any player is fair game
Us fantasy football players are incredibly reactionary. Why aren't we more anticipatory? Instead of waiting for Running Back C to blow up for 151 total yards and three touchdowns, put in your clairvoyant contacts and give yourself a chance to feel conspicuously clever.
You're probably one of innumerable fantasy managers who'll try to lay claim to the wavering Ryan Moats wave on your league's waiver wire. (I was and still am. Shhhh.) Tap your mouse here for more »
PPR fantasy football matchups: Planning for Week 7 (WRs and TEs)
You don't tell your players to look ahead. Focus on this week's opponent. Take care of business one game at time...
In fantasy football, that's poppycock; Week 7 is the beginning of a dangerous three-week stretch on the NFL schedule.
A couple of days ago I discussed how to begin preparation for this stormy forecast, beginning with quarterbacks and running backs. High-end wide receivers and tight ends aren't as scarce in Week 7, but that doesn't mean you're not in a bind. Clubs on holiday: Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, Seattle Seahawks and Tennessee Titans. Tap your mouse here for more »
PPR fantasy football matchups: Planning for Week 7 (QBs and RBs)
Every fantasy football player is a little anxious when bye weeks roll around. They're no sweat, for the most part, though. Usually, four NFL teams are off on any particular weekend, so byes don't debilitate any fantasy football squad to the point that it can't be competitive against that week's opponent.
I'm sure you make arrangements for particularly handicapping byes a week in advance, especially when players with enticing matchups for that particular set of games are floating in your league's free-agent pool. Tap your mouse here for more »
PPR fantasy football matchups: WRs vs. Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts have given up a shade more than 32 fantasy points per game wide receivers this season. That's out of character for a defense which for the past five or six years has routinely been among the toughest to pass on; last season they gave up about 10.5 fewer points per game to the position.
Obviously Indy's 2009 pace is drastically distorted by the Arizona Cardinals' showing Sunday night; Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan Boldin, Steve Breaston and, to a much lesser extent, Jerheme Urban combined for 22 catches, 267 yards and a TD in the 31-10 loss. The Colts were down underrated corner Kelvin Hayden (hamstring) and 'backer Gary Brackett (knee), who's solid in coverage. They were also without safety Bob Sanders (knee), but that's nothing new. Tap your mouse here for more »
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