Jimmy Vanderpool

The Sobering, Staggering, and Startling After 11 weeks of high octane fantasy action, most leagues should be barreling into their last week of regular season play. There isn’t much gold in the neighborhood of sleepers at this point in the season, so instead we will conduct an oversight of who you should look to be [...]

The NFL was able to avoid the injury bug for a solid 10 weeks. But injury to key NFL players each season is like death in real life, in that it cannot be cheated. As much as the loss hurts, it also seems to sprout new potential in places nobody thought to look before. Week [...]

The 2009 Kansas City Chiefs have been an absolute embarassment when it comes to fantasy football production. So why would they suddenly be expected to change? The answer becomes the new-face regime of the offense. If you change enough of the bad personnel who were in key positions, then you potentially inject a new life [...]

The 2009 Fantasy Football Season is showing itself as one that has been extremely stingy with injuries to key RBs. Some owners employed a tactical strategy, on draft day, of waiting until the later rounds to secure high potential backup RBs and/or handcuff RBs in anticipation of the routine rash of RB injuries. In most [...]

Anybody who witnessed Carson Palmer during the 2005 NFL regular season, remembers how impressive he can be when he gets hot. Well as of week 7 in 2009, fantasy owners can now consider Palmer “hot”. On the first play of this game, Carson did a play action 20yd “floater” pass, a trademark pass which he [...]

Could the start of the NFL’s RB injury plague for 2009 already be upon us? Although nothing of astronomical assortments has occurred, we do have a slight opening in the “door of opportunity” at the RB position. Injury, through various degrees of severity, has offered Justin Fargas, BenJarvis Green Ellis, and Javon Ringer a bigger [...]

To date, the young 2009 NFL season has provided owners a temporary luxury by delaying the devastating IR injuries to the elite RBs. But owners should anticipate this to change within the next couple of weeks. Since the waiver wires are almost completely depleted of immediate impact talent, the RB sleeper watch should now be shifting to the backup [...]

Each and every season, fantasy owners will latch onto a few absolute no-name players as their last resort waiver reserve. Just as beauty is “in the eye of the beholder”, so is the viewed potential talent of a fantasy player. Some basic keys used for these types of assessments include college production, preseason exposure, the [...]

How is it that a pool that was so rich with WR talent over the first few weeks, dries up within a blink of an eye? This phenomenon is the “settling of the dust”. Each season presents an early season shakedown to find WRs that slipped past all of the experts. Since a lot of [...]