Welcome to fantasy football 2021! What you see below is an ever-growing link-fest to our fantasy football draft coverage. Rankings, projections and cheatsheets will be updated frequently, we’ll have regular chats and mailbags, and your feedback isn’t just welcome — it’s encouraged. If you see something missing, drop it in the comment section and if we can do it, we’ll get on it.
One big thing we’d like to point out is Jake Ciely’s customizable cheat sheet. It’s a tool Jake built (with the help of hockey cheat sheet guru Dom Luszczyszyn) that allows you input your league settings and have his award-winning projections spit out a customized series of rankings. You can tweak Jake’s projections and the sheet will auto-adjust your personalized rankings. You can adjust a team’s pass/run percentages. You can give D’Wayne Eskridge as much of the Seattle target share as you’d like. It’s awesome.
We expect this kit to hit about 100 columns by September — with strategy, mock drafts, projections, rankings, deep analytics and everything in between. We even brought back IDP expert Gary Davenport! We’ll have new content coming nearly every day in August. And if you aren’t already a subscriber, we’ve unlocked this page so you can get a taste of what we offer.
You don’t just get this draft kit (and the full season…and offseason… and “Jeopardy James” Holzhauer!!) with a subscription — you get the entire site. For those who can legally bet and enjoy the occasional sports wager, BetMGM is running a free year special offer. For everyone else, there are subscription deals attached to all of the linked stories.
Now let’s get moving on the road to a fantasy title…
The 2021 Fantasy Football Draft Kit
Our fully customizable cheat sheet with auction values
Jake Ciely’s dynasty/keeper league rankings
Fantasy football QB tiers (updated for Mac Jones as the Patriots starter)
Brandon Funston’s Big Board: Top 100 fantasy players
The Athletic staff’s 2021 Sleepers: Phillip Lindsay, Darnell Mooney and more AND we updated them for late August!
Fantasy football 2021 IDP rankings
Our updated 2021 fantasy football sleepers (August 24)
Our pre-camp 2021 fantasy football sleepers (July 14)
Hater’s Ball: Everything that’s wrong with the Top 50 players in fantasy football
Michael Beller’s ‘My guys’ for 2021: Raheem Mostert, Rondale Moore and more
Sammy Watkins, Devontae Booker and more players with a new-team value boost
Discount defenses: Cheap fantasy D/STs with significant upside
14 fantasy football super stashes, deep dives and waiver wonders of the future
Early-round running backs to target and avoid
KC Joyner’s top overvalued players: DK Metcalf, CeeDee Lamb, Ryan Tannehill
KC Joyner’s top rankings outliers: Robert Woods, CEH and more
Dominick Petrillo‘s ‘My guys’ for 2021: Kirk Cousins, David Johnson and more
12 second-year players who will make a big jump in 2021
12 players who will take a big leap forward in 2021
Jake Ciely’s 2021 Top 5 breakout QBs
J.K. Dobbins and the Top 5 breakout RBs for 2021
CeeDee Lamb, Jalen Reagor and 8 more breakout WRs
Kyle Pitts, Tyler Higbee, Cole Kmet and 2 more breakout TEs
Justin Herbert, Julio Jones and more overhyped fantasy football players for 2021
Clyde Edwards-Helaire and 10 more top bounce-back candidates for 2021
Dynasty mailbag: Stashing Chris Evans, Larry Rountree, valuing 2nd-round picks and more
Dynasty league look ahead: Early ranking of the Top 12 rookies for 2022 drafts
Jake Ciely’s dynasty/keeper league rankings
Jeff Haverlack’s dynasty league rankings
Top 10 dynasty buy-low targets
Top 12 dynasty league storylines for 2021
Dynasty mailbag: Darrell Henderson’s booming value, late-round targets for a start-up draft and more
Pumping the brakes on dynasty league draft trends
Kellen Mond, Kylin Hill and more dynasty league rookie sleepers
Blowing it all up: 7 steps to performing a successful dynasty league rebuild
Results, analysis from a 12-team, PPR SuperFlex mock draft (feat. Ryan Zimmerman)
Results, analysis from a 12-team, half-point PPR mock draft
RB roundtable: Ezekiel Elliott’s draft position, RB obsessions and more
QB roundtable: SuperFlex duos to target, the value of rookies as starters and more
Results from a 14-team, 20-round, PPR, NFFC-style mock draft (from August 6)
Draft board breakdown: Chris Vaccaro’s observations from a recent NFFC draft
July Roundtable: Get Michael Carter, avoid Kenny Golladay and more
12 team PPR mock draft (from July 27)
Favorite reaches: Deebo Samuel, Kareem Hunt and more of KC Joyner’s draft darlings
Is starting your draft by picking four consecutive receivers a prudent move?
WR/TE strength of schedule: Pats TEs have upside, Keenan Allen is overvalued and more
QB strength of schedule: Jimmy Garoppolo is undervalued and Derek Carr is a risky QB2
RB strength of schedule: Broncos, Browns backfields looking good, but not the Bucs, Saints
Best picks for each of the first nine rounds of a typical 2021 fantasy football draft
Why drafting running backs in Rounds 2-3 is a waste
Why we shouldn’t have separation anxiety with Ja’Marr Chase and other top receivers
Why the Chargers, Chiefs are among the O-lines to be trusted, and why the Rams are not
How to draft tight ends: Why you need to pay up for the top-tier options in 2021
The Athletic’s analytics glossary: Defining football’s most meaningful numbers
How to target the seven rookies likely to be relevant in fantasy football 2021
The art of waiting on Chase Edmonds: How reaching for ‘your guy’ early is a profit-killing ego trip
Fantasy football 101: Auctions, waivers, dynasty tips, ‘helium’ and more
Stacking QBs and WRs in season-long leagues
32 bold and not-so-bold NFL predictions for 2021 (Sheil Kapadia, NFL senior writer)
One fantasy football sleeper pick for each from The Athletic team of NFL beat writers
One fantasy football breakout pick for each from The Athletic team of NFL beat writers
One burning fantasy football questionfor each from The Athletic team of NFL beat writers
What to make of Ja’Marr Chase’s drops (Paul Dehner Jr., Bengals beat writer)
Houston Texans fantasy projections: Who to draft, who to avoid (by Aaron Reiss, Texans beat writer)
What the Saints’ WRs look like after the Michael Thomas injury (by Kat Terrell, Saints beat writer)
Lions fantasy projections: The numbers on Jared Goff’s offense, sleeper picks and T.J. Hockenson’s importance (by Chris Burke, Lions beat writer)
Isaiah Hodgins wants to show the Bills the wait was worth it after missing his first year to injury (by Matthew Fairburn, Bills beat writer)
Jameis Winston, Damien Harris and more last-minute draft risers and fallers
Assessing the ADP validity of each of the Top 20 running backs
Hacking the draft room: Exploiting the WR rankings at ESPN, Yahoo, MFL
Hacking the draft room: Exploiting the RB rankings at ESPN, Yahoo, MFL
Hacking the draft room: Exploiting the QB rankings at ESPN, Yahoo, MFL
Stock watch: Saints Jameis Winston, Marquez Callaway trending up
ADP risers/fallers: Antonio Brown, Justin Fields surging, Miles Sanders dropping
ADP wild cards: Jakobi Meyers, Justin Herbert and 4 more with cloudy position data
Darrell Henderson, Xavier Jones and more high-ceiling, and high-floor, RB values
Targeting Courtland Sutton, fading Julio Jones and more value-based guidance at WR
ADP Report: Jonathan Taylor drops out of first round, Dallas Goedert falls and more
NFL training camp report: Killing the buzz on Trey Lance, Travis Etienne and more
ADP dissonance at RB: Joe Mixon, Myles Gaskin among top bell-cow bargains
ADP dissonance at WR: Laviska Shenault is a discounted alpha
ADP dissonance at TE: Doubting Logan Thomas
Injury mailbag: OBJ cleared for takeoff, D’Andre Swift iffy for Week 1 and more
A breakdown of Dak Prescott’s shoulder injury, clarifying Tyreek Hill’s knee tendinitis and more
Carson Wentz surgery fallout: The effect of his injury on the Colts, Eagles, fantasy, odds and more
Is Ryan Tannehill the most underrated quarterback in fantasy football?
Should you invest in a Clyde Edwards-Helaire post-hype breakout?
A Kyle Pitts deep dive: Does the hype meet reality?
Can Adam Trautman be a No. 1 tight end in an offense that relies on them? (by Kate Terrell, Saints beat writer)
Rebuilding Joe Burrow: Bengals QB cleared for more of everything as training camp begins (by Jay Morrison, Bengals beat writer)
The QBs who will go over 300 rushing yards in 2021
Mailbag: When to draft Travis Kelce, Zeke vs. Derrick Henry and more
A beginners mailbag, curated by IndyCar driver (and fantasy rookie) Scott McLaughlin
Most fun fantasy football team: Justin Herbert, Travis Etienne among top young bargains
Mailbag: The dynasty value of Michael Thomas, stacking Chiefs and more
Sunday Sermon, and 176 more of the best fantasy football team names for ’21
14 tricks to pull off in your fantasy football league
Mailbag: Strategy for drafting on the turn, Mike Davis’ value and more
17 ways the new 17-game NFL schedule affects fantasy football
35 pretty sweet ways to run your fantasy football draft lottery
39 fantasy football rule ideas for the 2021 season
The best league and scoring settings for fantasy football
It’s time to ban kickers from fantasy football
(Top photo: Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
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