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We’re now a day away from the AFL’s 7th annual draft and every team’s keeper selection has locked. Now feels like a good time to discuss everybody’s keeper options and whether they made a wise choice or not. As a precursor to my opinions, I am including an overview of our keeper rules below: Everybody is allowed one keeper, protected through the round he was drafted in last year. Until this year, a player could only be protected through the 8th round, but that limit has been lifted. Any player who was unowned at any time last season and added via waivers/free agency is protected through the round they were drafted last season or the 8th round, whichever is earlier. But players who were never unowned (retained through the season or acquired via trade) keep their value from last year’s draft (minus two rounds or 25-percent of the draft, whichever is greater, if he was a keeper in the 2018 AFL draft). So let’s get to it! Cory Puffett  – Kerryon Johnson, RB, Detroit Li...

This Sunday on The Sportsballers Podcast, we will preview the 2019 fantasy football season. We plan to change things up slightly from last year, taking the approach of comparing our individual rankings to current fantasy football ADPs (average draft positions) to see which players we really like at their ADP and which guys we think might be over-valued by the general public. We come from a half-point per reception mindset. It’s a happy medium between standard and full PPR players, but more importantly it’s  the right scoring setup . It offers value to fantasy owners who pay attention and are aware of which players the passing game runs through without devaluing receiving yards and touchdowns. As we did last year, we are publishing our consensus top 20 players at each offensive position today. We don’t agree on each player’s ranking. In some cases, we disagree by a significant margin and I’m sure we’ll discuss many, if not all, of those players on Sunday’s podcast. So witho...