We're finally here, football fans. NFL training camp has arrived. With all rookies reporting over the next week, the regular season will be upon us before we know it. More importantly for us, this is a vital time for fantasy football because many of the questions we have about teams will begin to get answers.

The back end of drafts can be frustrating. There simply are not many slam-dunk contributors outside the top 100 players in Average Draft Position (ADP). Drafters as a whole have become smarter, making the hunt for late-round sleeper targets all the more challenging. This article aims to ease the stress of filling out your bench.

Welcome to the twelfth part of a thirty-two-part series: Reading the NFL Offseason Tea Leaves. Fantasy football tasseography is deeply rooted in predicting future fantasy fortunes. Some of the team tea cups we'll be looking into may be larger than others. The smallest of cups may have the most alluring blends of offensive weaponry, or

It's that time of year again - time to start building out the first version of my redraft player rankings. Over the years of doing this, I have found a process that works for me, and it starts with tiering out each of my position groups. [of_sfb_ad] Draft RB Rankings Tiers I find cutoffs at

The NFL Draft is the signal for fantasy football managers that spring has arrived. The draft is over. Our favorite prospects' landing spots are locked in, and we can start to prognosticate on these players' futures through our fantasy football crystal ball. That is exactly what we aim to do for you in this 2026

12 angry men sit around a table in an enclosed room, arguing loudly record scratch Oh, it's Week 12, you say? Oh, I just heard the number 12 and went with it. Week 12, got it. Wait, how is it Week 12 already?! We just had the last preseason game the other day, and I

Welcome to Week 10 of Angles & Leverage! It's the first week we've had this season, some truly uneasy lineup decisions this week, especially in DFS. I can't believe I was scouring stone-minimum wide receivers with actual intent to start one of them. It was gross! Four more teams are on bye this week, including

There has been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of sports betting and gambling recently. Here at Optimus, the only gambling we do is in this article each week.  Well… that's not entirely true. We do have some incredible DFS and betting tools that you should absolutely check out, BUT that's not

Yeah, it can feel like that sometimes. You do your best, you study the ADP, you listen to all the experts, you put more work into your hobby than you do your actual job, and crush your draft. Of course, some guys don't perform as well right out of the gate. "That's OK," you think

Welcome to Week 8 of Angles & Leverage! As every single fantasy football content creator inserts the term "BYE-MAGEDDON", we get ready for this week without our Detroit Lions, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Rams, Arizona Cardinals, Parker Washington (and the rest of the Jacksonville Jaguars), and the Las Vegas Raiders, I suppose. We have some