Jon Collins
Author's posts
Aug 23
Why I’m Fading DeVante Parker, Chasing Kendall Wright and Other Pre-Draft Thoughts
All it takes is a top-10 annual draft accuracy ranking to get an invite to go on air with an old friend and neighbour, I guess. In any event, it was a pleasure as always to share the thoughts on video below with Chris Meaney and FNTSY Sports Network viewers. Click play, listen and critique …
Aug 05
2017 NFL Draft Rankings (Standard)
Take it for what you will, but I had the honor of ranking with some heavy hitters in the top-10 of Fantasy Pros’ 2016 Draft Accuracy Ranks and have had a reasonably consistent run with them since 2013. For me, there’s not as much science to draft rankings as many would have you believe. It’s …
May 22
Jameis Winston looking forward to season with new tools on offense
There are plenty of reasons to be bullish on Jameis Winston heading into the 2017 Fantasy Football season. Maturing as a signal caller, he’ll be entering his third year coming off a 4,000 yard 28 touchdown season. He’ll have some impressive assets to work with as well, after the Bucs spent their offseason gathering assets …
Dec 13
Touches and Targets: Week 14 NFL Review
If you’ve been reading, you know the score. We go deeper into the box scores each week to review workload distribution and how it may impact players moving forward. With the season nearing an end, there is a clear ‘who can help me now’ focus to this week’s piece. And, to that end… on to …
Dec 05
Touches and Targets: Week 13 NFL Review
At this point in the season, the weekly reading of the box score tea leaves becomes much more about recent trends than season long observations. After all, as fantasy gamers the season has just become a week to week proposition. With that in mind, Malcolm Mitchel’s impressive outing headlines our piece again this week. Touches …
Nov 29
Touches and Targets: Week 12 NFL Review
At this point, the week to week trends can only tell us so much, with a 75% of a season’s worth of data in the books, but there are still notable weekly and recent usage changes that are worth dissecting… and, that’s what we do here after all. A breakdown of the box scores is …
Nov 21
Touches and Targets: Week 11 NFL Review
As we do every week, we go beyond the high-level box score to look at workload and usage, trying to make the most of workload distribution around the NFL to inform your roster for the week ahead. Touches and Targets: Week 11 NFL Review Mark Ingram left early with a head injury, and Tim Hightower …
Nov 14
Touches and Targets: Week 10 NFL Review
Each week, we take a deep dive into the box scores to provide some insight on workload distribution and what to make of it for the week that was. Ultimately, this is a view to rest of season player valuation with some insight into weekly waiver wire plays. With that in mind, this week’s top …
Oct 31
Touches and Targets: NFL Week 8 Review
You know the deal by now… we’re digging into the box scores to take a look at touches, targets and opportunities to provide some context to big games that were, those that could have been, and duds that aren’t yet worth panicking over… along with those that are. With that, on to the bullets. Touches …
Oct 24
Touches and Targets: Week 7 NFL Review
Another week is in the books, filled with its own shares of injury and underproduction that leads to a redistribution of targets and opportunities throughout the league. We’ll take a deeper look at all of the above, and any trends of note in assessing the meaning of another week’s worth of data. Touches and Targets: …
