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2010 NFL Free Agency: Top Available Restricted Free Agents

Posted: 9th April 2010 by Jonathan Schechter in NFL
The NFL owner’s choice to opt out of the collective bargaining agreement created an unprecedented number of restricted free agents in 2010. This has left over 200 players with less than six seasons in the NFL almost completely under the control of their current teams. The other issue with being a restricted free agent is that it usually costs another team at least one draft pick, if not multiple picks. Depending ...

2010 NFL Free Agency: Top Available Unrestricted Free Agents

Posted: 8th April 2010 by Jonathan Schechter in NFL
With the owners opting out of the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement, it severely limited the number of unrestricted free agents this year. Only those players who have been in the league six years are now unrestricted, and the top players have already been signed. Almost everyone on this list is either considered “old” by NFL standards, coming off surgery after a productive 2009 season, or trying to return from an injury that ...
Though the San Francisco 49ers finished two games behind the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC West, they had a better division record (5-1) and swept the Cardinals during the 2009 season. The retirements of Kurt Warner and Bertrand Berry, the trade of Anquan Boldin, and the free agent defections of Karlos Dansby and Antrel Rolle have all arguably positioned the 49ers to overtake the two-time defending division ...

2010 Fantasy Football: Top 10 Third-Year Wide Receivers

Posted: 15th March 2010 by Jonathan Schechter in NFL
In fantasy, the greatest feeling besides winning a championship is finding a sleeper late in your draft.  It might've been Wes Welker, Marques Colston, Steve Slaton, or Mike Sims-Walker.  It makes us smile and even though we lost, we feel like winners anyways. One theory that a lot of fantasy players ascribe to when searching for sleepers is that of the third-year wide receiver (3YWR). For those new to fantasy, the theory states that ...