Draft Sharks Fantasy Football Podcast

Can the Seahawks' wildly disappointing Week 15 create DFS opportunity in NFL Week 16? There's room for them in tournament lineups at least. But there's also an affordable QB on the other side of the country, a pair of expensive RBs in the league's best backfield, some volume bets toward the other end of the cost spectrum and a range of TE options to digest. At WR, is there a clear top guy or a pair to try to squeeze in. And what should we do with Dede Westbrook after he crushed fantasy dreams last week?Check our Week 16 PPR rankings for potential sleepers and busts, and click here for Jared's top picks on DraftKings.And here are the Week 16 lineups for the Crown His Ass Challenge, where Kevin triumphed to sweep the staff contests last week ...Kevin (5.5 wins)Jared (6.5 wins)Matt (3 wins)

With Kevin still out tending to parental duties, Jared and Matt open the NFL Week 16 show agreeing disturbingly easy. That's because there's a nicely priced, strong-performing, under-played QB in a nice matchup to build around on FanDuel this week. His lead WR could be in for a big bounce back as well. In between, there's a RB who has been delivering for a while but could get a boost from a teammate's injury -- along with a cheap rusher who has been loading up on volume lately. At WR, both Sharks try to rebound from a terrible Week 15 by looking at which decisions were truly bad vs. which simply didn't pan out. And TE ... well, there are some expensive guys and then a huge muddle.Check our Week 16 rankings with FanDuel dollars per point. Click here for all of Kevin's top picks on FanDuel.And now for the Week 16 lineups in the SharkDuel, where Kevin won a week ago to stay in the running for the season title ...Kevin (4 wins)Matt (5 wins)Jared (6 wins)

You probably drafted T.Y. Hilton somewhere in the 1st 3 rounds. But does that mean you need to put him in your lineup in Week 16? Not if you've been paying attention to his (looooooong) rough patch. And what about the quietly tough matchup facing Jordan Howard? Should we start him because his team's on a mini roll? Is it safe to go back to Joe Mixon against a soft Detroit run D? Do the injuries to Hunter Henry and O.J. Howard mean you can rest your championship dreams on Antonio Gates or Cameron Brate? With no Thursday action this week, let's run through every game for the matchups and situations to target -- or avoid.Check our Week 16 rankings to answer all your start/sit questions.

Let's kick this week's show off with some key defensive injury situations to watch for NFL Week 15. Then we have updates on Denzel Perryman, some intriguing rookie LBs and some nice defensive matchups in the Eagles-Giants game ... along with a few other notes.Check our Week 15 IDP rankings to answer your start/sit questions.

It's not usually easy to find certain touches way down the RB price list, but this looks like a good week to do so. We've got no fewer than 3 options at $5K or cheaper that can play across contest formats in NFL Week 15. We've also got affordable QBs from multiple games to like and a potentially underserved game stack out west.Check our Week 15 PPR rankings for potential sleepers and busts, and click here for Jared's top picks on DraftKings.And here are the Week 15 lineups for the Crown His Ass Challenge, where Jared extended his season lead in Week 14 ...Jared (6.5 wins)Kevin (4.5 wins)Matt (3 wins)

The enticing Steelers-Patriots matchup is forcing Matt to look to a QB he hates to use, while Jared remains more focused on the other side. There are plenty of affordable RBs to go around, along with differing opinions on the Jaguars WR to favor against Houston this week. There's agreement at TE and on defense, however.Check our Week 15 rankings for FanDuel dollars per point. And click here for all of Kevin's top picks on FanDuel this weekend.And now for the Week 15 lineups in the SharkDuel, where Matt pulled within a game of Jared's season lead with a Week 14 win ...Matt (5 wins)Jared (6 wins)Kevin (3 wins)

Blake Bortles. No one has been comfy starting him in real life or fantasy since that fateful day the Jaguars drafted him 3rd overall. But 2 straight encouraging outings plus a stellar Week 15 matchup has changed that. We're figuring out during this week's podcast just how many other QBs we're willing to push Bortles ahead of. Jimmy Garoppolo? Jared Goff? Kirk Cousins? Drew Brees? (There's at least 1 "no" in that group.) We've also got decisions to make at RB, WR and TE. What does Nick Foles change about the Philly offense? Can we trust Jordan Howard after his bounce back game? Can we believe in Patriots RBs after they bottomed out last week? We're going game by game through a loaded Week 15 slate and hitting all the pertinent trends and matchup stats.Check our Week 15 rankings to answer all your start/sit questions.

Scheduling leaves us with no Le'Veon Bell, Antonio Brown or Patriots for NFL Week 14 ... which just might make the DFS lineup decisions a bit more interesting. For starters, we've got suddenly popular dudes Jimmy Garoppolo ($5,500), Giovani Bernard ($3,100) and Josh Gordon ($5,500) to sort through. All figure to be highly owned across contest formats. Does that mean you need to get a piece, fade all 3 or something in between? We're looking elsewhere for our main picks, including some priced-down early-season studs who haven't delivered in recent weeks, multiple Buccaneers options and a pair of defenses that bring lots of ability but questionable matchups into the weekend.Check our Week 14 PPR rankings for potential sleepers, and click here for Jared's top picks on DraftKings.And here are the Week 14 lineups for the Crown His Ass Challenge, which Matt has won each of the past 2 weeks ...Matt (3 wins)Jared (5.5 wins)Kevin (4.5 wins)

With Russell Wilson facing the Jaguars and Rob Gronkowski taking himself out of action for being an idiot, there are some tough calls in redraft fantasy football leagues. But those factors plus the Patriots and Steelers being out of main-slate DFS consideration actually adds some intrigue to the lineup building on FanDuel. We're looking toward the top end of the QB group for both floor and TD upside. At RB, we're giving a look to an early-season stud who has been letting fantasy owners down for a while. WR presents a clear top shelf but also some other big names who might go lower-owned than usual in tournaments. And TE presents an interesting pocket of mid-priced TD scorers ... if you don't want to pay up for Travis Kelce.Check our Week 14 rankings for potential sleepers and FanDuel dollars per point.And here are the Week 14 lineups for the SharkDuel, where Jared edged Matt last week ...Jared (6 wins)Matt (4 wins)Kevin (3 wins)

Now that we're into fantasy football playoff time, you don't want to overthink your lineup decisions. So we're here to do the overthinking for you. The NFL Week 14 game-by-game breakdown starts with the effect of Tyrod Taylor and Tre'Davious White injuries on the Bills-Colts matchup. Rob Gronkowski's suspension has us pondering which TEs we're willing to reach for -- and we're having trouble agreeing on whether it's time to trust Ricky Seals-Jones. We're also not on the same page with every QB decision. Who's more willing to trust Josh McCown and/or Case Keenum this week? Who's more willing to follow his recency bias and start Jimmy Garoppolo? And which 2 QBs make it into the beer bet that develops during this beefy preview show? Listen in for all the answers ... and many more.Check our Week 14 rankings to answer all of your start/sit questions for the week.

We should be leading off the NFL Week 13 recap podcast with Josh Gordon's return, but Rob Gronkowski and the Giants wouldn't be upstaged. The Giants finally canned HC Ben McAdoo on Monday, in a move that might not impact any of our fantasy football teams. Gronk's vicious cheap shot to the back of Tre'Davious White's head, however, figures to leave us without an early-round performer for at least 1 fantasy playoff week. Beyond that, we are talking Gordon, then backfield situations around the league through the middle of the show and a run-through of key Sunday passing-game performances to close it out.Click here for the Week 14 Free Agent Focus, and check our updated Rest of the Way rankings after the Monday night game.

It's Week 13 and yet we still have muddy LB situations that aren't clearing up. Can B.J. Goodson help our lineups immediately upon return from his 4-week ankle injury? Do we have a Chargers LB we can count on? We'll try to sort through those spots. But there's an old guy in Jacksonville who looks like a fantasy starter despite not playing full time all year. There's an Oakland lineman who might be able to capitalize on a nice matchup. There's a stud lineman leaning way in the other direction, threatening to leave us looking elsewhere down the stretch. And then there's Adoree Jackson. You'll want to play him this week.Check our Week 13 IDP rankings for all your start/sit questions and any other potential sleepers.

There's DeAndre Hopkins at WR, Jamaal Williams at RB and Hunter Henry at TE. Those are the obvious DFS starting points this week. But that doesn't make them must plays. We've got e very similar target at wideout who figures to come at a significantly lower owned rate in either cash games or tournaments. There's intrigue at the top of RB and a cheap bust from last week that Kevin's willing to go back to. Listen in for all of our favorite DK plays for NFL Week 13.Check our Week 13 PPR rankings, and click here for all of Jared's top plays on DraftKings for the weekend.Matt (2 wins)Jared (5.5 wins)Kevin (4.5 wins)

Julian Edelman, Spencer Ware and Cameron Meredith will not be playing any more football this year. But that means a lot more touches available for a bunch of their teammates. We'll touch on the specific impacts and players you should target in today's show. We're also updating the backfield situations in the AFC and NFC now that all the 1st-teamers are done with August action. Who's up, who's down and whose hold on their job just might be shakier than we once expected?

The DS crew spent Friday arguing some players up and down the rankings as we head into 1 of the summer's heaviest draft weekends. We'll discuss some key movers on today's show, as well as how those players and changing ADPs might be altering our drafting habits. We're also talking positional tiers and specific targets among team defenses.