Week 2 Waiver Priority Adds
This year Perfect Spiral is going to do their best to bring you all the important nuggets to get an edge on your fantasy matchups! After an interesting first week, here are four fantasy options that you may want to get a head start on before Week 2 begins:
2024 Mock Draft
We are approaching the end of the month of August - and with that the end of the Fantasy prep season. It’s a sad time, but also an exciting time as the regular season is literally NEXT WEEK. As per normal, the boys got together to do a live mock on their latest episode (Episode 141 on Spotify!) This mock consisted of standard PPR scoring snakestyle! If you didn’t want to listen to the full episode, below are the contents of that mock draft!
2024 Fantasy Season: Tight Ends
In our final rankings of the 2024 season, we potentially have the deepest position - Tight End. And I don’t think we’ve ever been able to say that. There are some phenomenal pass catchers here. Last year, we saw a Tight End eclipse 100 catches (Engram) and a rookie make an All-Pro Team (Laporta) all while Travis Kelce still did his thing. With second year guys such as Dalton Kincaid and Michael Mayer ready to make an impact, it should be a great year for tight ends. Hell, it may even be the year to consider playing a Tight End in your flex spot…
2024 Fantasy Season: Wide Receivers
At its core, fantasy football beings and ends with Wide Receivers. The position is deeper than it’s ever been where you can draft a receiver between Rounds 10-14, and they can be league winners. Take last year for instance. Guys like Nico Collins, Jayden Reed and Puka Nacua are just a couple of guys who won leagues last year. Not to mention that the big four - Hill, Jefferson, Lamb and Chase - are all guys that can flip any fantasy game on its head
Surprise, Surprise…These Players will Finish in the Top 5!
If you havent heard yet, it's fantasy football season. We are a couple weeks removed from when most drafts will take place, but alas, is there every too much information on fantasy football? With that I mind, let's discuss something everyone wish they had prior insight too. Every single year there are players that shock the system and surprise everyone with an unreal season. These players are usually “has beens” or mid-round draft picks, or Day three rookies that go completely unnoticed.
2024 Fantasy Season: Running Backs
The Running Back position. The conundrum in fantasy football. You can talk to ten different people, and get ten different answers on how people value the running backs. One guy will draft two back to back. One guy will go back, receiver, back. One guy will go receiver twice before going back. One guy won’t draft a running back until round 10. It’s the strategy that is forever changing. And now more than ever, the position is becoming less and less dominant by one player. There are less than five teams who have a true (true) three down running back.
2024 Fantasy Season: Quarterbacks
Somehow, someway, we made it all the way back. August is here, and with that we know what that means. Yes, fantasy football is in the god damn drivers seat. We all know that everyone reading this piece is a fantasy fiend. And we get it, we are too. Normally we would wait to put out fantasy rankings, however, with the fact that almost no starters play pre-season anymore, we figured why the hell not. So we start with the quarterback position. A position that is ever growing in fantasy worlds. More and more do I see leagues where passing touchdowns are six points and no longer four points.
Week 3 Fantasy Football Sleepers
Yes, last week was bad. I own that. But as it is with the theme of this weeks sleepers, it is early. We shouldn’t be throwing guys in the trash or forgetting about them because they got off to a slow start, or they may be older. It’s a long, long season. And guys may surprise you. The list of players below is a theme of that. We have rookies, veterans, and cast offs alike this week. Put your ego aside and think about these guys for a second - you’ll come to realize that they are the way to go this week if you want that “W” in your win column.
Week 2 Fantasy Football Sleepers
We are back for Week 2 for Fantasy Football Sleepers! Last week, I went 3/7, but was very happy to see Roschon Johnson come through as RB8 (according to Sleeper). We also hit on Josh Reynolds as a FLEX play and the Commanders defense who finished in the Top 10 amongst defensive scoring last week. This week we are going to get a little spicier, and we were off to a rocking start as the Thursday Night Football play of the week, D’Andre Swift, had one of the best games of his career. He finished with about 27 fantasy points, depending on your scoring, but there is no question he is a factor moving forward. As for Week 2, let’s see who has a chance to light up the scoreboard…
Fantasy Football SZN - Tight Ends
We’ve covered Quarterbacks. We’ve covered Running Backs. We’ve covered Wide Receivers. But we absolutely cannot forget about Tight Ends! The evolution of the Tight End position from 1980-2023 has been astonishing. Not only have we seen the position become a vital part of offenses, but we have seen guys such as Antonio Gates, Rob Gronkowski and Travis Kelce become the focal point of their offenses. We live in a different world. And while in years past the TE position we not really considered “deep”, I think this year may be a little different. Different in the sense that there are a lot of up and comers. When you get to Tier 3 and Tier 4, you’re gonna say to yourself “Hey, I like those guys.” Well, we do too. Everyone loves Travis Kelce, and you should draft him with confidence in Round 1. But if you find yourself facing a Dallas Goedert/Pat Freiermuth dilemma in Round 6, that’s a pretty good spot to be in as well. To complete our positional rankings of 2023, here are our tiers for the Tight End position.
Fantasy Football SZN - Wide Receivers
For as long as I can remember, when you thought of Fantasy Football, you thought of Running Backs. But as is the case in the NFL, we are now a full on passing league. And the Wide Receivers have overtaken the Running Backs as the most important position in FF. Getting a top flight receiver is like winning the lottery. You don’t get the first pick anymore and immediately think running back. Sure, you think Christian McCaffrey and Austin Ekeler. But you also think Justin Jefferson, Tyreek Hill, Ja’Marr Chase, Cooper Kupp and Davante Adams. Receivers put up points in bunches and you can take a WR50 who can break out for a 20+ point week.
Below you will have a tiered Wide Receiver ranking of 80 players. Eighty. We go from the mother crystals to the diamonds in the rough to the jewels who aren’t worth a damn anymore at the store. Everyone has a place in the receivers. In a 12 team league, upwards of 60-70 receivers are being drafted. That’s each team having 5 receivers at minimum. We can’t underestimate how important it is to nail this position when you are drafting. So obviously, you should follow our rankings to the letter of the law. Away we go…
Fantasy Football SZN - Running Backs
The most premium position in Fantasy Football - the Running Back. It has been steadily declining in value over the last few years, and now more than ever, the days of the three down running back are far and few between. The two running back system is in full effect and there is nothing we can do to stop it. Being able to correctly identify solid running backs for fantasy is a skill that can catapult you to the top in more years than not. People want to talk about the “Zero RB” theory and how not drafting a RB until Round 10 is fine. It’s not. You should always try to get the most points as humanly possible at every position. Our tiers below for the position explain where we think the dip starts, but there is talent even as deep as the 50s. You can find a diamond in the rough late, but you can’t bank on those guys. I’m not saying you need to draft a RB in Round 1, but you should have some sort of stud before the 4th round. Onto the rankings….
Fantasy Football SZN - Quarterbacks
We have begun the ascent. With the Hall of Fame taking place today, we now will have a football game every week until the middle of February. Smell those flowers. Take your time to take in the surroundings. Take that extra second in whatever you’re doing before you go on to the next task. Life is good. Especially when you realize that Fantasy Football season is in full swing. This is the perfect time of year to check out all the lists of players, who the sleepers are going to be, who the busts are going to be, and who this years Jalen Hurts is.
We pride ourselves on our Fantasy knowledge. Between the three voices at PSP, we accumulate 10 Fantasy titles amongst various leagues as well as having a knack for nailing some deeper sleepers year in and year out; thank you Isaiah Pacheco and Amon-Ra St. Brown for 2022. While people argue about who the Top RBs are and who the belongs in Tier 2 or 3 of the WR group, we often forget that the QB position is maybe the most important in Fantasy. Personally, I belong in leagues where the QBs can get upwards of 40-50 points per game, while in another league 25 points for a QB is a lot. While those metrics are a see-saw, one thing cannot be overstated - you want a stud at the position. Flip flopping quarterbacks based off of weekly matchups almost never works, and betting on a guy with potential when he is unproven isn’t a wise strategy unless you already have someone who is the veteran who can be expendable.
What do I mean by that? Let’s take in 2023 for a second. We all know that dual threat Quarterbacks are king in Fantasy Football. The darling of the off-season so far is Justin Fields. Now, Fields was an excellent Fantasy QB last year (7th among all QBs). However, he was so hit and miss cause of his passing inaccuracies that it was difficult to wonder which weeks would be good and which would be bad. In all three of my leagues last year, the champion in each one had Patrick Mahomes as their QB. That’s not a coincidence. If you plan on drafting Fields in 2023 hoping for him to jump into the Top 5; hell, even Top 3 - I would be keen to draft another one who has proven he can do it on a week in-week out basis in the event Fields can’t figure out the passing game.
Do we have Tiers for our QBs? Of course we do. But we are gonna get down and dirty with out tiers this year. Each QB ranked (Top 35), we will provide some numbers from last year and then give our analysis on what we expect from them going forward. Most of the advanced statistics come from Fantasypoints.com, which is a fantastic spot to get all your fantasy information! Let’s get started with the juggernauts…