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Which WNBA teams must step it up in the second half of the season?
Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton and women basketball writer Cassandra Negley look ahead to the second half of the WNBA season as they discuss which teams need to take it to the next level if they want a spot in the playoffs.
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a day ago
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Mock Draft 1.0: 6 essential lessons from our standard 12-team, half PPR draft
Subscribe to Yahoo Fantasy Forecast Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Justin Boone break down 6 key takeaways from the Yahoo Staff Mock Draft 1.0. From surprising draft trends to picks they already wish they could take back, the guys share insider lessons to help you crush your own draft. Plus, they reveal the best value steals you should be targeting. Don't draft blind, take notes and get ahead of your league: (2:00) - IMPORTANT POD NOTE: Episodes move over to new YouTube channel on Aug. 4 (5:15) - Draft takeaway #1: Multiple RBs is the way to go (15:55) - Draft takeaway #2: Prioritize WRs in the middle rounds (30:30) - Draft takeaway #3: Beware of the gap after the elite QBs (42:50) - Draft takeaway #4: Beware of the gap after the top 3 TEs (58:30) - Draft takeaway #5: Best value picks (1:06:55) - Draft takeaway #6: Picks you might regret 🖥️
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2 days ago
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Will Dalton Kincaid be the Bills' top receiving option in 2025?
Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Justin Boone discuss Dalton Kincaid and Keon Coleman's fantasy upside in the Buffalo Bills offense and what the ceiling is for the third-year tight end specifically. Hear the full conversation on the 'Yahoo Fantasy Forecast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript When I look at the Bills on paper, doesn't it look like one of either Keyon Coleman or Dalton Kincaid kind of has to take a step forward for this pass-catching core to reach its ceiling, cause in ADP Kincaid and Coleman are, they're like touch and tags, they're right by each other. Do you agree with that? And if you had to pick between the two, who do you think is more likely to take a step forward and Coleman, his second season, and Kincaid in his 3rd season?. Kincaid in his 3rd season. I think it's Kincaid. Like they took both those guys early. I totally agree with you that they're expecting, you know, hopefully one, ideally both to give them more than they've given them so far. Coleman was the kind of guy, I think we saw very early on when he came in last year that he was going to be a little bit of a project, right? He had that really fun personality, he had all the enthusiasm in the world, but once he got out there, it was pretty evident that it was going to take a little bit of time for him. Kincaid's had that opportunity, right? The, the time has been there. Now he's just got to get to it. He finished 2nd on the Bills in targets last year with 75, despite the fact that he was battling through the injuries that I mentioned. So, if he's out there, if he's healthy for a full year, what does that look like? What does that number look like? Can he potentially be that, you know, #2 target in the offense? Now, the concern I think with him, and you could look at this with Kraft as well, had the Bills and the Packers just decided like, we're not gonna have a number one receiver. We're not gonna have a guy that we're constantly going to. We're gonna game plan every single week. We're gonna spread the ball around. We're gonna let our quarterbacks and, you know, these offensive play callers really handle a lot of that. And are they gonna have success doing that? I mean, you could argue that they have, right? The Bills have gotten away with it ever since Joe Brady took over. So do they necessarily need that guy to emerge as that you know, guy who can win no matter what week in and week out, or do they just let Josh Allen kind of find the open guy? That's my biggest concern with Kincaid right. Now, because I think he was showing enough before the injury-filled year last year. I think he was showing enough that he was on a path to being a decent fantasy tight end. Is he going to be one of the, you know, top 3, top 5 tight ends? Maybe not, but he can easily be a, a fantasy tight end one, a top 10, top 12 guy. Uh, we just need to see him stay healthy, really. Close
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2 days ago
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Is Chase Brown a 'must draft' fantasy first rounder?
Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Justin Boone discuss the Bengals running back's performance last season and why he could be a sneaky first round value who is going much later in early drafts. Hear the full conversation on the 'Yahoo Fantasy Forecast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Chase Brown here in the 3rd round. This is a guy that I'm targeting basically in every draft. Last year from week 4 on, he was a top 7 fantasy back and top 7 fantasy points per game in half PPR leagues. I don't see any reason why he can't do that again. Hopefully, the Bengals can get the contract situation sorted out with some of those defensive guys that are unhappy. Let's get those guys in there. I think this team could be better. I think he could get more scoring opportunity. I'm not that worried there about any of the other options in that backfield. Zach Moss coming back from injury, Taj Brooks, the rookie. I think they're just going to be complimentary pieces. I don't think they're coming for the top role by any means. And Chase Brown proved last year he can handle big workloads and he could put up good fantasy points. I think this guy might be like a round one value that people are getting in the 3rd round right now. I highly recommend everybody should be out there trying to get him. I think that, uh, Chase Brown is where the tear drops off to like another group at running back, cause I kind of hesitated between, I took Lamar Jackson at the top of the 3rd round, and Brown was maybe like my last tier of running backs where I do think there's a drop off to the Kenneth Walker, Bruce Hall, Kron Williams, like that James Cook, that group of guys. That was where running backs sort of dropped off to me, and I really will come back to elite quarterbacks cause I decided to go with Lamar Jackson there instead of Chase Brown, but I do think that's kind of the guy, the last one I see in this group of like, all right, like locked in running back one status. Close
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2 days ago
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How concerned should we be about Mookie Betts and the Dodgers?
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman discuss Mookie Betts' recent struggles and bigger concerns for the Los Angeles Dodgers' offense. Hear the full conversation on the 'Baseball Bar-B-Cast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Mookie struggles. Feel pretty concerning to me. We've talked about this so much, trying to pick through this Dodgers season when they struggle, what is real, what is meaningful, what is small sample size theater. But the Mookie stuff every week that it continues, I think it gets more and more concerning. Would you agree with that? Yeah, and you can kind of cling to the things that he's still doing well, which is, of course, playing a good shortstop. He's not striking out, he's not swinging and missing. He feels like he's healthy, uh, he's tried to work through a lot of these different things. And yet, the results are just not there. There is just no juice in that bat. And so even though he is making a lot of contact, it is just not the kind of contact that we're used to seeing from him. So, it is pretty concerning. I think putting it all on Mookie is, is a little bit unfair. Obviously, he's the one hitting at the top of the lineup, but there are a lot of other hitters in this lineup, especially with Muny out. They're not necessarily keeping this, uh, this lineup moving. So, I don't know, man, it is, it is quite a departure though. I mean, we've never, we've never seen Mookie healthy and playing this poorly. It is, it is, or at least offensively, it is that simple. The Dodgers' intimidation factor stemmed from an unbelievable top 3 and a very, very impressive top 6, right? The top 3 being Otani Bets Freeman, Otani Solotai, Freddie and Mookie have been bad now for 2 months. Mookie has an OPS that starts with a 6. Which is not what you're expecting from the future Hall of Famer at the top of the lineup, but once you go past that top 3 and you go to Will Smith, Te Oscar, Hernandez, Max Muncy, Will Smith has been one of the best hitters in the world this year, but Muncy is out and Te Oscar has been bad for a month and a half, and so, This is not an offense that can single-handedly win games in the way that it could for the first two months of the season when the Dodgers were rolling out me and you to suck up innings as they tried to get their pitching healthy. And so that's why I think they've hit the n. Close
