HELLO EVERYONE, and welcome back for another week of Unpacking the NFL. If you are new here, I will be posting a stat/takeaway dump every Monday, unpacking different players and situations around the league. This article was inspired by JJ Zachariason's Monday Dumps on BlueSky, so shout out to him and make sure to check him

Welcome to the NFC West version of Optimus Fantasy's Team Previews! Today, we're looking at the Los Angeles Rams. In order to best know where we're going, we often need to study where we've been. With that in mind, I will cover what the team looked like in 2024, fantasy significant changes to philosophy and

If you read Superflex: In Theory, then you're likely wondering what a Superflex draft would look like. Thanks to Optimus Fantasy's Monday Night Mock Drafts with Evan and its wonderful host, Evan Sather, we have exactly that. If you'd like to follow along with the mock draft I'll be discussing, you can do so here.

In this offseason series, I'll break down the intriguing, interesting, questionable, and downright ugly NFL offseason moves and their fantasy football impact for the 2025 season. For most football fans and fantasy football managers, the Super Bowl signals the end of their interest in the NFL until August, when kids are gearing up for school

Get ready to dominate with this fantasy football best ball stacking strategy guide, here to lead you to optimal roster construction, from Kacey Kasem. Best ball = chef's kiss. You get to draft a team, close your laptop, and (hopefully) win some money. It's fantasy football without the weekly lineup stress. No start/sit decisions, no

Oh em gee. Did you get your "wrap" from that music streaming service with the horrendous user interface? Me neither. I much prefer the native app on my iPhone. In fact, I'm writing this with my "Writing Juice" playlist coursing through noise-cancelling headphones. It's a mix of my favorite tracks from Led Zeppelin, Deftones and

The oatmeal chocolate chip cookies I baked a few weeks ago have been enshrined into the permanent rotation. Cooking and baking are like art and science, left brain and right. The former is boundless, untethered from the rules and formalities in baking. What happens if you add too much or too little of one thing

The fantasy football playoffs are mere weeks away, and squaring away your rosters is becoming more critical. Here are the top Week 10 Waiver Wire QBs and how to approach them before locking in your claims ahead of Wednesday morning. 

The fantasy football playoffs are mere weeks away, and squaring away your rosters is becoming more critical. Here are the top Week 9 Waiver Wire QBs and how to approach them before locking in your claims ahead of Wednesday morning.

The fantasy football season is an unstoppable force. Regardless of injuries, underperformances or subpar coaching scenarios, it moves forward like a living, breathing thing. We do what we can with what we have. However, your Week 8 waiver wire pickups could be the saving grace that keeps your season going.

Let's get into who’s who and who you should target for your Week 8 waiver wire pickup, plus D/STs you can stream with confidence and droppable roster cloggers.