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Dan Reeves, former Cowboys player and head coach for the Broncos, Giants, and Falcons, has died at age 77. (Photo by STEPHEN JAFFE/AFP via Getty Images) Former NFL player and head coach Dan Reeves has died at age 77, his family said in a statement released to the NFL on Saturday morning.  “Legendary NFL player and coach Dan Reeves passed away early this morning, peacefully and surrounded by his loving family at his home in Atlanta, GA. He passed away at age 77 due to complications from a long… Source link

We know the majority of fantasy football owners in traditional leagues are done for the season but for DFSers, There are two more weeks — and two more main slates — remaining in the 2021 regular season. The drama promises to be high with a number of teams still in the mix for a playoff berth — or on the hunt for their conference’s lone bye. While there are a couple of exceptions, we wanted to place our focus on players from those teams still competing for… Source link

Who didn’t play in Week 16 was more important than the players on the field. COVID ravaged rosters around the league while bettors reacted by targeting totals in several games. The roster challenges combined with the NFL coming off its lowest-scoring week of the year had bettors driving totals down in a big way. The average closing total this past weekend hit a season-low 43.1 points. Bettors’ expectation of another low-scoring week never came to fruition. Overs went 10-5 and those who bet… Source link

Season-long leagues are winding down — some may even have crowned their champion — but fantasy owners who need their fix can turn to daily fantasy football moving forward. We’re headed into Week 16 which means there are three more main slates remaining in 2021. Our Week 16 Yahoo DFS tournament picks include several low-price, high upside values, and we think we have the right configuration to take a shot at the top spot in GPP tournaments.  We’re also calling… Source link

Special to Yahoo Sports Writing this column after the fantasy football massacre that was Week 15 isn’t easy, but I’ll do my best to sort through what went down in order to best prepare you for Week 16. Hopefully, some of you made it through last week’s debacle and get a fresh slate for this next round. Rosters still need to be trimmed of all the fat and what-ifs so they are streamlined for success over these next few weeks. Below is a look at some players who can be dropped and sent… Source link

Nobody should have been rooting for more Monday afternoon and Tuesday NFL football after last season. But here we are.  COVID-19 has again caused massive disruptions across sports, and last Friday the NFL finally decided to push back three games due to outbreaks. The first of those rescheduled games is the Las Vegas Raiders at the Cleveland Browns, which was initially going to be played on Saturday.  Let’s discuss that game before the regularly scheduled Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears… Source link

This weekly NFL wrap column is called Booms and Busts. Perhaps Busts and Busts would be a better title this week. All sorts of big-name players went poof in Week 15, or weren’t available for fantasy use. Ah, but it’s the holidays. It’s time for happiness, positivity, good cheer. So let’s shine a light on some of the lesser-known players you might have opted for in Week 15, your working-class heroes. A working-class hero is something to be. Bills secondary options come through Start with Source link

Urban Meyer is a bully. That has been true for a long time. It’s a character trait, if not an outright strategy. In football, especially the college level, it is neither rare nor necessarily negative. It wasn’t for Meyer. It fueled his enormous success — three national titles — far more than any schematic advantage. Urban Meyer wasn’t a play-caller. He was a recruiter, a motivator and a bully. He bullied his players, and bullied his assistant coaches, and bullied administrators, and… Source link

On Tuesday, the 644th day of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly two years after it began ravaging American life, more than 100 players in the nation’s two biggest sports leagues were sidelined by the virus. Thirty-six NFL players tested positive on Monday. Dozens more joined them Tuesday, including eight Cleveland Browns. In the NBA, meanwhile, 10 Chicago Bulls and seven Brooklyn Nets are in the league’s health and safety protocols. Practices are being canceled. Team facilities are being… Source link

Paying up at the quarterback position isn’t a move we go out of our way to make very often. However, Kyler Murray has as much upside as anyone at the quarterback position, and we can include him in our Week 15 Yahoo DFS tournament picks without sacrificing elsewhere. Since we’re playing in GPP tournaments, we’ll have our fair share of guys with low floors and high ceilings, but that’s part of it. We’re also calling on a few chalky DFS plays, but we’ll have… Source link