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New England Patriots’ Drake Maye The highs and lows of watching a new rookie class can bring a lot of fantasy football uncertainty. While it’s fun to have shiny new players to plug into lineups, their immediate usage and trends may not have fantasy managers jumping for joy just yet. Here, I aim to give you an update on how …

Sam Panayotovich FOX Sports Betting Analyst We’re cooking with gas now. That’s an 8-3 football run over the last two weeks here at FOX Sports, and now we enter the home stretch of college football’s regular season and the meatiest stretch of the NFL campaign. I’ve got two college football plays and three NFL wagers this weekend. Remember, this space …

The Yahoo team delivers their most steadfast predictions for Week 11. Russell Wilson offers top-five upside Just four weeks ago, during the first quarter of Wilson’s first start of the season, many of us were begging for Pittsburgh to pull the plug and reinsert Justin Fields at QB. As ever, the NFL remains the wildest and least predictable league. Russ …

Game environment is the foundational starting point in making fantasy football lineup decisions. As such, I’m going to break down each game on the slate into three categories: Binge, Stream and Skip. Games you want to “binge” are like the show you can’t miss; you’re watching as soon as it goes live and might just crush all the episodes in …

Fantasy football sit-and-start advice should always be relative and league-dependent. Many starts and sits are obvious too, so we will instead focus on fringe options in this column, the ones that take real thought. Good luck with your Week 11 lineups! Green Bay Packers @ Chicago Bears Start: Josh Jacobs Jacobs remains due for further touchdown regression, and he gets …

The following is an excerpt from the latest edition of Yahoo’s fantasy football newsletter, Get to the Points! If you like what you see, you can subscribe for free here. Start-sit questions can be anxious for even the best fantasy managers. Here’s a traffic light report to help get you ready for Week 11. ✅ Green Light WR Calvin Ridley …

Another huge defensive stand propels Eagles to a key win originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Commanders had three plays to go less than a yard. And the Eagles stuffed them. After the Eagles took a two-point lead early in the fourth quarter, Jayden Daniels and the Commanders were driving at the Linc with a chance to go ahead. …

Perry reveals Van Pelt’s prize for Patriots who win ‘pickup’ award originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The New England Patriots dominated in several stat categories during last Sunday’s 19-3 win over the Chicago Bears — including “pickups.” If you’re unfamiliar with that metric, it’s because Alex Van Pelt made it up. The Patriots offensive coordinator told reporters Thursday that …

Dominate your fantasy football leagues with these keys to victory for Week 11. Best spot of the week: J.K. Dobbins vs. CIN Dobbins is coming off an interesting week. He played his usual 67% of the team’s snaps but only handled 45% of the rush attempts. Gus Edwards returned for this game and immediately saw 10 carries to Dobbins’ 15. …

In our everlasting mission to predict the future, a top-down look at how an offense might attack their opponent’s defense is, in my humble estimation, a good place to start. We find defenses every season that profile as a so-called run funnel, meaning opponents lean unusually hard on the rushing attack in neutral and positive game scripts. The same goes …

Bears safety Jaquan Brisker remains in concussion protocol. He landed there after an Oct. 7 game against the Panthers when he self-reported symptoms. Brisker, who had a violent collision with Panthers tight end Tommy Tremble during that Week 5 game, still isn’t practicing and will miss his fifth game Sunday. The Bears finally placed him on injured reserve Thursday. Considering …

The Ravens head into Sunday’s game against the Steelers with a 7-3 record and that puts them in the thick of the AFC playoff race, but other numbers work against them on that front. One number in particular is the 294.9 passing yards per game that they are allowing. That would be the most a team has allowed over an …

Tyreek Hill said on Thursday that he might need surgery on his wrist, but he is willing to wait until the offseason to take care of the issue. “At the end of the day, I just got to suck it up and just deal with the pain,” Hill said. “It’s going to get worse the more I play, but I …

The Lions’ injury report got a little longer on Thursday. Cornerback Carlton Davis was added to the report. Davis was limited by a hand injury. Davis had two interceptions in last Sunday night’s win over the Texans, so he plays a significant role in the secondary for Detroit. Friday will bring an update on his status for Sunday’s game against …

The Chiefs added kicker Harrison Butker to their injury report on Thursday. Butker was listed as a limited participant in practice due to a left knee injury. The Chiefs don’t currently have a kicker on their practice squad, so they may look to make a roster move if there’s any doubt about Butker’s ability to play against the Bills this …