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Thankfully, the 2025 fantasy football season is just around the corner. Each year, fantasy players want to construct their team with a proper mix of good-value players and upside sleepers while avoiding players with high bust potential. Let’s dive into some notable fantasy football players from the NFC North. Fantasy Football Draft Busts: NFC North ADP via FantasyPros Fantasy Football Bust Candidates DJ Moore (CHI): ADP 48.6 | WR20 Many were afraid to draft Moore last year after the Bears added Keenan Allen and Rome Odunze in the offseason. The veteran finished as the WR16, averaging 14 PPR fantasy points per…

The Lions are planning plenty of formations with running backs Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery on the field together this season.Lions quarterback Jared Goff said the Lions are working on ways to force opposing defenses to account for both Gibbs and Montgomery on the same play.“We’re working on how many different ways we can use them,” Goff said. “As often as we can get both those guys on the field is a good thing for us. Finding creative ways to do that is the hard part, and that’s the challenge upstairs for those guys, but they’re doing a good job…

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Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest) – striker, £7.5mWood looks like he could be great value once again this season, with Nottingham Forest having excellent opening fixtures against Brentford, Crystal Palace and West Ham.Promotion to the Europa League means no midweek fixtures for his side in August, and keeping Morgan Gibbs-White – one of Forest’s best creators – in this window is another key positive.Wood scored 20 goals last season, making a fast start to the campaign. A full pre-season will help him, after injury hampered the latter stages of 2024-25.Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa) – midfielder, £7mRogers has increased in price this…

SAN DIEGO — Six weeks ago, after returning home from a frustrating road trip, the Padres awoke on the fringes of wild-card contention. They were 46-40. Their odds of making the postseason, according to FanGraphs, were at a little more than 40 percent. The site’s projections gave them less than a 1 percent shot of winning the National League West.That owed to the continued dominance of their chief rivals.That night, the Los Angeles Dodgers finished off a seventh consecutive winning series and moved to a season-high 24 games above .500. They appeared to be cruising toward a 12th division crown…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox.Antoine Walker turns 49 years old today! During his 12-year career: He finished 12th in MVP voting in his second season, said he shoots so many 3-pointers because there are no 4-pointers and had one of the greatest video game commercials ever. Happy birthday, ‘Toine!Calendar UpdateWe have opening night and Christmas schedules!I know what you’ve been thinking. You’ve been wondering just how bad this new “War of the Worlds” movie can be about the NBA’s upcoming schedules on some of its biggest days. Wonder no…

Yafai – a 2020 Olympic gold medalist for Great Britain – previously lost his secondary belt to Rodriguez via a one-sided, unanimous decision on June 21 in his hometown of Birmingham, England. However, Rodriguez’s dominant victory on the road was since clouded in controversy after it was learned that he tested positive for the banned substance heptaminol. 

As we inch ever closer to the thick of draft season, the Ballers are taking the “practice makes perfect” approach with yet another mock draft! Most fantasy leagues will be drafting over the next several weeks, so making sure to get plenty of practice in can only solidify your draft strategy to dominate your league this season! While the guys usually are drafting against each other, this version of the mock draft put them together as a team to take on a draft room full of producers, writers, and Footballers staff! Andy, Mike, and Jason drew the 1.04 in this…

Running backs experienced a renaissance in 2024 thanks mostly to the likes of Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, and Josh Jacobs. But while their collective production — coupled with team success — has likely helped all running backs financially, it is still mostly normal for clubs to deploy a clear running back by committee approach. Outside of those unicorns listed above, particularly Barkley and Henry, classically defined feature backs don’t exist in the NFL. Therefore, it’s vital to understand the capabilities of RB2s and even RB3s on every team. This article provides my picks for those RB2s and RB3s who could step into…

Brett OkamotoAug 13, 2025, 01:05 PM ETCloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare…