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Editors’ Picks

Happy Spring! To our friends in the Northeast, trust us, it’ll be here soon. Hopefully. If you’re indoors or outdoors, here’s some content you can’t miss …

NFL Draft

Jeremiyah Love Rookie Super Model Profile

It’s time for the running backs to get under the Rookie Super Model microscope. Dwain McFarland has emerged from the lab and is starting at the top. Notre Dame’s Jeremiyah Love is the consensus top RB in the class, and the only one expected to go in the first round of the NFL Draft. One look at Love’s profile and it becomes pretty clear that all those big hurdles and long runs put him in an elite class of backs.

Dwain pointed to a couple key metrics that show how far Love has come in his three seasons in South Bend:

While the model doesn't account for year-over-year improvement, Love is an ascending talent. He upped his YPTA and RYPTPA each year:

• 2023: 0.69 YPTA, 0.24 RYPTPA (15% snaps, 17% designed attempts, 13% routes)

• 2024: 1.52 YPTA, 0.51 RYPTPA (50% snaps, 30% designed attempts, 33% routes)

• 2025: 2.56 YPTA, 0.86 RYPTPA (66% snaps, 48% designed attempts, 44% routes)

His Year 3 YPTA ranks 16th out of 271 prospects since 2017.

ICYMI: Here are the RSM profiles for Wide Receivers and Tight Ends.

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Getting Bold: Omarion Hampton Rides High

It’s time to get BOLD. It may be March, but it’s never too early to look 6+ months into the future and set the feet down on a certain stance. Adam Pfeifer does just that in highlighting five players set to either break out or disappoint in the 2026 season. One of the players Adam focuses in on is RB Omarion Hampton, who was on his way to a big season when injuries felled the Chargers, to their starting offensive tackles and to Hampton himself. With a return to health expected all around, and the addition of a certain OC, big things are coming for Hampton:

Another welcome sight is the addition of Mike McDaniel as offensive coordinator. One of the best run-game designers in football, McDaniel has gotten elite fantasy production from the likes of De’Von Achane (17.3 PPG as a rookie), Raheem Mostert (21 touchdowns and 17.9 PPG) in Miami, while the 49ers' run game was extremely efficient during McDaniel’s time as the run-game coordinator/offensive coordinator from 2018-2021. And that was with the likes of Matt Breida, Jeff Wilson and Elijah Mitchell. Hampton is set to see more movement, motion, screens and schemed touches in this offense, all of which are conducive to fantasy success. 

Can a young QB make the big leap to achieving QB1 status? ⤵️

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Around the Watercooler

The latest fantasy and NFL gossip, news, memes and more from our merry band of football nerds …

🏴‍☠️ Who’s the most draftable Bucs WR? Don’t forget 2024.

⬆️⬇️ Won’t be waiting long to draft JSN. ADP Risers and Fallers.

🤔 Jahmyr Gibbs or Bijan Robinson at the 1.01? What a choice.

💪 Eli Stowers leads a group of 20. Tight End Rookie Super Model.

🍋 Hard to imagine anyone returning this Lemon. No matter who’s picking.

🔔 Bhayshul Tuten RB1 szn is here and we’re all for it. Bell cow in Duuuuval?

🦅 Saquon Barkley vs. Logan Paul. Worst thing ever.

UNTITLED: Draft Only 1 RB From These Backfields

In this week’s episode of Untitled, Kendall Valenzuela and cooterdoodle examine the split backfields (too many for our comfort) and who they’re drafting. Plus, are the Dolphins, Jets and Cardinals tanking? See what they have to say.👇🏼