Week 14 fantasy football waiver-wire targets

With the college football regular season just about over, NFL scouts are also nearing the end of their many miles on the road and all those nights spent in Hampton Inns. The first wave of team meetings to set the draft board will be happening in December, and when they do, we’ll also see a flood of rumors …

Week 13 added a compelling wrinkle to the AFC playoff picture. There’s a three-way tie atop the AFC West. At this point, which team looks most equipped to take the division crown? The Oakland Raiders came into the year as a popular preseason favorite. The Kansas City Chiefs started the season 5-0.

There may be no stopping the New England Patriots (10-2) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (9-2) from capturing their respective divisions and winning the two top seeds in the AFC. The Philadelphia Eagles (10-2) and Minnesota Vikings (10-2) may not command the same amount of attention at this point, but …

The Eagles have made it all look easy this year: winning games, changing the world and having fun doing it. The NFL‘s most overtly, unapologetically activist team is out to prove that it’s possible to win a Super Bowl while fighting for causes and sticking it to the “stick to sports” crowd once and for all.

The one-game suspension the NFL handed to New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski on Monday for his juvenile, dangerous shoulder to the head of an unsuspecting, defenseless opponent was shamefully insufficient by 2017 standards. How so? Let’s start with what we know about those types of …

Their concern was that the NFL would allocate funds already earmarked for charity, or spend it on public service announcements that essentially are advertising for the league. With rumors swirling that the league is considering keeping all teams in the locker room during the national anthem for the 2018 …

A thrilling Week 13 is now in the books and playoff races around the league are heating up for the stretch run. Week 14 should be just as exciting, as we’ll be treated to multiple games between teams in the thick of the playoff race. It’s still early, and as injury news trickles in throughout the week some …

Over the weekend, Will Leitch had a very smart piece about the NFL in New York magazine. You can read it here. I like Leitch a lot and this essay if very much worth your time. He contends that a variety of factors have converged to cripple the NFL—safety, politics, oversaturation—and that football may …