Free Agency Winners & Losers: Tight End
Heading into free agency, we all thought two tight ends could do great things in new places. Unfortunately, Hunter Henry and Jonnu Smith both signed with the same team. Sheesh! …
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Free Agency Winners & Losers: Wide Receiver
This week is winner’s week here at Football Absurdity. Unfortunately, it’s also losers week. Put them together, and what do you get? Free agency winners and losers! That’s right, every …
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Free Agency Winners & Losers: Running Back
The free agency dust has (mostly) settled, and the running back musical chairs are complete. Unfortunately for guys like Todd Gurley, James Conner, and Le’Veon Bell, the music stopped and …
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Free Agency Winners & Losers: Quarterback
On the Football Absurdity Podcast yesterday, we pretty much determined that free agency dwindled to a close. Numerous running backs are still out there to ruin some backfields, but it’s …
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Kenyan Drake Signs With Las Vegas Raiders: Fantasy Football Fallout
I think Jon Gruden and Mike Mayock have it out for Josh Jacobs. They obliterated their offensive line, ditching Pro Bowl center Rodney Hudson, Trent Brown, and Gabe Jackson. They …
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Kenny Golladay Signs With New York Giants: Fantasy Football Fallout
Kenny Golladay took his talents to The Big Apple this free agency period. The former Lion signed a four-year, $72 million contract ($40 million guaranteed) with the New York Giants. …
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Houston Texans Add Phillip Lindsay, Mark Ingram: Fantasy Football Fallout
It’s hard for the Houston Texans to do anything without having people scratch their heads. Last season, they went all-in on a second-round pick and David Johnson for All-Everything wide …
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Corey Davis Signs With New York Jets: Fantasy Football Fallout
Corey Davis spent three years in Tennessee coming well short of expectations given his fifth-overall pick selection in the 2017 draft. Prior to 2019, he averaged 622 yards per season …
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Emmanuel Sanders Signs With Buffalo Bills: Fantasy Football Fallout
The Buffalo Bills brought 34-year-old Emmanuel Sanders into the fold with a one-year deal. The former Steeler, Niner, Bronco, and Saint played in 31 games in the last two years …
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Washington Football Team Adds Ryan Fitzpatrick, Curtis Samuel: Fantasy Football Fallout
What happens when the Ryan Fitzpatrick Cycle has no victim? Or did Ryan Fitzpatrick reach through space-time to make Dwayne Haskins be one of the dumbest people in the NFL, …
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Carlos Hyde Signs With Jacksonville Jaguars: Fantasy Football Fallout
Is this your king? Is this the addition that scared you so much? Last week, everyone filled their pants over a (Jags GM) Trent Baalke quote about filling out the …
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New England Patriots Sign Kendrick Bourne & Nelson Agholor: Fantasy Football Fallout
My first instinct when I see Nelson Agholor’s contract is to make a joke about drops. When the truth of the matter is that Agholor only dropped ten balls over …
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Hunter Henry Signs With New England: Fantasy Football Fallout
The New England Patriots continued their shopping spree, snagging both top tight ends on the market. They added Hunter Henry and his 60 catches for 650 yards career average for …
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Jonnu Smith Signs With New England: Fantasy Football Fallout
The first big fantasy football domino of the legal tampering period fell at about 10 AM Pacific on Monday. Jonnu Smith, formerly of the Tennessee Titans, agreed to a deal …
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Aaron Jones Re-Signs With Green Bay Packers: Fantasy Football Fallout
If you felt a great disturbance on Sunday, as millions of voices suddenly crying out in terror before being suddenly silenced, it was because Aaron Jones re-signed with the Green …
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If Drew Lock isn’t the Answer For Denver, Then Who is?
The Denver Broncos have everything in place for a quarterback to succeed in their offense. They’ve stacked the deck with Jerry Jeudy, Cortland Sutton, K.J. Hamler, Noah Fant, Albert Okwuegbunam, …
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Dak Prescott Got Paid
Dak Prescott got what he wanted from the Dallas Cowboys: a long-term contract north of $40 million annually with a no-trade clause and a no-tag clause. Dak Prescott has, as …
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2021 Miami Dolphins: RB or not RB?
There’s a persistent drumbeat that makes fantasy analysts go “wow that would be awesome.” It involves the Miami Dolphins shoring up their running back room by signing Aaron Jones …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Nick Foles Traded To Chicago Bears
The Bears made their biggest splash of the 2020 offseason by trading a fourth-round compensatory pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars for Nick Foles. The biggest story for the Bears this …
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Fantasy Football Podcast – Free Agency Frenzy Pt 2
Jeff may or may not have the coronavirus so Mike, (@RFLRedZone), Evan (Evan Hoovler on Facebook), and Waleed (@IamTheWaleed) take a look at 2020 fantasy football free agency with some …
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Super Bowl Odds After Week One of Free Agency
It is impossible to know when sports will continue. It seems like such a small thing in the grander scheme in our current world. A worldwide pandemic has made the …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Tennessee Titans Franchise Tag Derrick Henry
The Tennessee Titans had two big contracts they needed to dole out this offseason. They gave Ryan Tannehill the big boy, long term contract, and they slapped the Franchise Tag …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Eric Ebron Signs With Pittsburgh Steelers
It wasn’t that long ago that Eric Ebron had fantasy football value. It’s hard to remember the before times, back when we could leave our houses, and back when things …
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Emmanuel Sanders went from one NFC Super Bowl contender (after playing in the Super Bowl) to another last week, as he signed with the New Orleans Saints. What does his …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Melvin Gordon Signs With Denver Broncos
A mid-20th century philosopher and poet, Michael Philip Jagger once said, “you can’t always get what you want.” He then went on to opine that sometimes you get what you …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Todd Gurley Cut, Signs With Atlanta Falcons
In July of 2018, with Todd Gurley’s fifth-year option still on the table, the Los Angeles Rams handed him a four-year, $60 million contract extension ($45 million guaranteed). Again, this …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Jason Witten Signs With the Las Vegas Raiders
Erstwhile ESPN jibber-jabberer, former Dallas Cowboy and eternal tight end Jason Witten will play for a different franchise for the first time in his NFL career this season. Witten joins …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Philip Rivers Signs With the Indianapolis Colts
The Colts getting a quarterback via free agency is new to me but they pried Philip Rivers away from the Los Angeles Chargers. As a life-long Colts fan (40-years), the …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Stefon Diggs Traded to Buffalo Bills
The Minnesota Vikings and Stefon Diggs’ mutual parting of ways is one of the least surprising developments of the 2020 offseason. Diggs redefined vaguebooking, routinely making social media posts that …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Tom Brady, Tampa Bay Buccaneer
Well, the mad lad went and did it. Tom Brady sent the free agency world ablaze on Tuesday, announcing in the morning that he would no longer be on the …
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Atlanta Falcons / Baltimore Ravens / Cleveland Browns / Fantasy Football 2020 / Free Agency / Tight End
Fantasy Football Fallout: Austin Hooper to Cleveland, Hayden Hurst to Atlanta
The Cleveland Browns signed former Atlanta Falcons’ tight end Austin Hooper away on the first day of legal tampering. In order to fill that hole in the offense, the Falcons …
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Arizona Cardinals / Fantasy Football 2020 / Free Agency / Houston Texans / Running Back / Wide Receiver
Fantasy Football Fallout: DeAndre Hopkins-David Johnson Swap, Randall Cobb, and Kenyan Drake
The Houston Texans and Arizona Cardinals completed one of the most baffling one-for-one (plus miscellany) swaps in NFL history on March 16. The Texans sent DeAndre Hopkins and a fourth-round …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Cincinnati Bengals Franchise Tag A.J. Green
A.J. Green missed the entire 2018 season with a foot/ankle injury that spiraled out of control and ended with the Bengals placing Green on IR in week sixteen. This came …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Tennessee Titans Re-Sign Ryan Tannehill
The Tennessee Titans spent just a fourth-round pick to secure Ryan Tannehill’s services in 2019. To keep him in and around the Nashville area, they spent quite a bit more. …
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Fantasy Football Podcast – Hunter Henry, Delanie Walker, Free Agency Frenzy Wishlist Pt 2
Mike, (@RFLRedZone), Evan (Evan Hoovler on Facebook), and Jeff (@jeffkrisko) take a look at 2020 fantasy football free agency with some preferred destinations for wide receivers and running backs. They …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Los Angeles Chargers Re-Sign Austin Ekeler
Running Back Austin Ekeler broke out last season for the Los Angeles Chargers in Melvin Gordon’s stead. Gordon held out for a big-money deal, which he did not get from …
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Free Agency Primer: Quarterbacks
The confetti is all but swept away from this past Sunday’s Super Bowl. Congratulations to the Chiefs and their fans! Unfortunately, the rest of the league and their fans are …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Tevin Coleman to San Francisco
Tevin Coleman signed a bafflingly awful two-year, $10 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers. It contains no guaranteed money outside of the first year. It is hysterically bad, and …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Devin Funchess to Indianapolis
Devin Funchess moved from the Panthers to the Colts, and will earn up to $13 million dollars for his trouble. Now, before we look at the fantasy football implications of …
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Football Absurdity Fantasy Football Podcast – Free Agency Winners & Losers
Jeff & Mike take a look at winners and losers from the first week of free agency and conceive of the worst possible fantasy football setting. The Football Absurdity Podcast …
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Fantasy Football Fallout: Antonio Brown Traded to Oakland
The NFL’s most recent biggest-ever soap opera is over, as the Pittsburgh Steelers basically gave away traded superstar wide receiver Antonio Brown to the Oakland Raiders. The Raiders, in turn, gave him a massive …
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Fantasy Football: Free Agency Legal Tampering Winners & Losers (TE)
The NFL’s “legal tampering period” (AKA the real start to free agency, but with a delayed signing) started on Monday. Through the first couple of days, some clear winners and …
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Fantasy Football: Free Agency Legal Tampering Winners & Losers (RB)
The NFL’s “legal tampering period” (AKA the real start to free agency, but with a delayed signing) started on Monday. Through the first couple of days, some clear winners and …
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Fantasy Football: Free Agency Legal Tampering Winners & Losers (WR)
The NFL’s “legal tampering period” (AKA the real start to free agency, but with a delayed signing) started on Monday. Through the first couple of days, some clear winners and …
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Fantasy Football: Free Agency Legal Tampering Winners & Losers (QB)
The NFL’s “legal tampering period” (AKA the real start to free agency, but with a delayed signing) started on Monday, and through the first couple of days, some clear patterns …
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2018 NFL Free Agency Quarterbacks
The celebratory debauchery should be almost washed away in Philly and now it’s on to the dreaded business side of the game for 31 teams who failed last year. If …
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