For all those fantasy football nuts who are preparing in March you will find a general theme in my offseason articles, as I’ll focus on some players who might flying under the radar…better known as sleepers. I look for sleepers two different ways. The first is to search for a guy who is an extremely talented player who is getting ready to break out. Usually these guys have matured, or figured out the NFL just enough to showcase their talent. [...]

The 2008 fantasy football season saw its fair share of injuries that sent some fantasy managers scrambling to replace first round talent with waiver wire gold. Injuries are part of the game and managers can usually ride out the storm by making a trade or taking a gamble on a waiver wire player, but when you lose top talent to season ending or season limiting injuries it is very hard to rebound. Here is an update on two quarterbacks who [...]

2008 RECAP: NFC WEST – WESTERN WOES Outside of the thrilling playoff run by the Arizona Cardinals last year, which saw them use an explosive offense to run the table in the NFC bracket only to come up just short of the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII, the rest of the NFC West was the epitome of mediocrity in 2008. The West was the worst division in the NFL a year ago, posting a league low 22 wins and [...]

After all but disappearing last year on both NFL and fantasy radars, as he was lost in the shuffle of an absolutely horrid Cleveland Browns offense, Donte Stallworth has become tragically newsworthy and noteworthy once again. This time though, it’s not his glass hamstring, big play potential, or inconsistent production that brings him to our attention, but rather a horrible accident that killed one man and may have ended the career of another. Stallworth accidentally struck and killed a pedestrian [...]

This interesting equation will lead me into my sleeper discussion of the week. Terrell Owens + Lee Evans = Trent Edwards. I am going to save the Trent Edwards sleeper discussion for another time, as he might become everyone’s sleeper QB, which will make him overvalued. However, the guy I want to discuss this week does play ball for the same team. Fred Jackson Before you can really talk about Fred Jackson you need to address Marshawn Lynch. And here [...]

2008 RECAP: AFC NORTH – CHAMPS AND CHUMPS In a division cut sharply down the middle between the haves and the have-nots, the AFC North saw the elite defenses of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens dominate the division (and the league), while the woeful offenses of the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cleveland Browns struggled mightily in the wake of nagging injuries and lackluster performances by marquee players. Pittsburgh went undefeated in the division and Baltimore swept both of [...]

With the NFL combine in the rearview mirror, free agency underway, and the NFL draft getting closer every day it’s time to roll out 2009’s first edition of NFL Pecking Order (starring JoJo the Wonder Chicken). In Pecking Order, members of the Fantasy Football Oasis staff rank each and every NFL team from 1 to 32, first to worst, while Oasis’ own tequila-swilling, cigar-chomping Wonder Chicken JoJo provides his own unique, um, “insight” into each club. This edition’s rankings were [...]