Hunting for Bounty: Startup Draft Review Part 1

Another offseason and the dynasty startup draft circuit is already underway. I was invited into this league with a few familiar owners from other leagues over the years. Settings 12 teams 25-man rosters Start 1-1-2-1 with 1 RB-WR-TE Flex Full PPR Elevated QB scoring with 6pt TDs, 20yds/pt Rookie Slots Included in ...

Chris Matthews: Buy-In or Sell-Off?

Chris Matthews was not a well-known entity prior to his massive Super Bowl effort against the Patriots. This was his 4th NFL season, but not his first time on the dynasty radar. However, Chris Matthews is on at least 95% of dynasty waiver wires and ...

Is Dorial Green-Beckham the Next Cordarrelle Patterson?

Looking back at recent NFL Draft classes in the projection model is a hobby of mine. Where were the caution flags? Where did we need to take a stand? One thing about the 2013 wide receiver class was the questionable scores of Tavon Austin, Cordarrelle Patterson, ...

Rudy Rudolph: Projection Model Crasher

Another 'Who?!?' prospect in the 2015 NFL Draft class is wide receiver Rudy Rudolph. When I updated the projection model for the new year, the Christopher Newport product broke one of the metrics. Here is the need-to-know information on Rudy Rudolph: Rudolph is not overly old ...

Kevin White: Early Comparable Prospects

Kevin White has been one of the more stable wide receivers of the 2015 NFL Draft class, rarely straying from the top-half of Round 1 in early rookie drafts. Like DeVante Parker, Kevin White has the height that dynasty owners crave and is projected as ...

Dominique Hayden: Small School, Big Upside

One of the calling cards of UTHDynasty is going deep. Not deep like who is the third-string running back on an NFL depth chart, or even a practice squad player, but small school 'no one is uttering his name' prospect deep. One name I brought ...

Dynasty Twitter: Trade Explanation Collection

The comment box that accompanies trade offers is an interesting animal. Is the one proposing the deal trying to convince the recipient? How does one respond to an insulting offer? Like draft comments logged to the league site, I enjoy seeing banter unfold in the ...

Mike Evans, Kelvin Benjamin, and Oversized Rookie Receivers

From 1999 to 2014, there are 22 drafted wide receivers in my database that were drafted by the NFL and weighted at least 225 pounds in the pre-draft process. Why 225 Pounds? That weight is the threshold to be in the top-20% of the entire wide receiver ...

Melvin Gordon: Underwhelming First Round Running Back

The projection model data can be sifted and sorted in a myriad of ways. One way to diagnosis the strength of a particular prospect is through historical NFL Draft data. Melvn Gordon is projected to be a first round NFL Draft pick as of late-January ...

Addressing Anti-UTH Arguments: League Stability

With a non-mainsteam (for now) view on the dynasty fantasy football playground, I have heard plenty of opposing views to the strategy I began spouting back in 2011 on the BlogTalkRadio 1.0 version of the Under the Helmet podcast. An awareness of the argument against ...

Kasen Williams: Full of Sound and Fury

Kasen Williams started out his Washington college football career with promise and the projection model profile matched. Williams had one of the bigger market share production fades in recent memory, however, which turned a positive outlook back in 2012 to a cloudy fantasy football picture ...

Mike Davis: Early Comparable Prospects

Mike Davis declared for the 2015 NFL Draft out of the University of South Carolina. Here is the early projection model data: Mike Davis: Relatively Young At 22.5 years old for Week 1 of his rookie season, Davis earns an above-average mark by age. Staying an extra ...

Ameer Abdullah: Stuck in the Middle

Ameer Abdullah is one of the running backs I look forward to studying on tape more than most of the 2015 NFL Draft prospects. Nebraska games were not a major part of my college football viewership this season and with 145 total yards per game ...

Donatella Luckett: Rarified Air

Small school prospects are my favorite profiles of the pre-draft process. The odds are already stacked against a college player hidden at a school that few, even diehard football fans, could identify the state in which it is located. Players emerge on a regular basis ...

UTH Film Session #1: Tevin Coleman

Welcome to the latest project here at UTHDynasty.com, film sessions featuring Chad Parsons and Doug Veatch digging in and watching tape together. In the first installment, Chad and Doug evaluate Tevin Coleman, Indiana running back in the 2015 NFL Draft process, against Ohio State in ...

David Cobb: Early Comparable Prospects

David Cobb is one of the lost names amongst the glamor running back prospects in the 2015 NFL Draft class. However, Cobb could end up as a solid value in the mid-rounds for both an NFL team and dynasty owners. https://twitter.com/BMHolstein3/status/556549593870397440 Production The production scores in the projection ...

Addressing Anti-UTH Arguments: Do You Ever Play to Win?

With a non-mainsteam (for now) view on the dynasty fantasy football playground, I have heard plenty of opposing views to the strategy I began spouting back in 2011 on the BlogTalkRadio 1.0 version of the Under the Helmet podcast. An awareness of the argument against ...

2015 NFL Draft: All-Star Game Metric Movers

Here are a few highlights of the projection model shifts from the official measurements coming in with the Shrine game and Senior Bowl: Running Backs David Cobb: Confirmed his big-bodied frame at 229 pounds and 9.4" hands checks that box with an average score. David Johnson: Shorter than ...

The Power of Cascading Dynasty Trades

The theory behind #PackageUp deals is to inch your way up rookie draft boards (or the rankings) until an initially low-level asset becomes a core player for the long run. While logging my transactions from my various dynasty leagues for the 2014 season, I noticed a ...

Know Your Role: All or None with Quarterbacks

The quarterback position is the most unique one in dynasty fantasy football. On one hand quarterbacks have the long careers that dynasty owners crave. On the other hand, serviceable starters are dirt cheap in start-1QB formats with many leagues having at least a spot starter ...