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A New Era in Fantasy Football?: Strategy Considerations Amid Historic TE and QB Stats

Peter Schoenke

Peter Schoenke

Peter Schoenke is the president and co-founder of RotoWire.com. He's been elected to the hall of fame for both the Fantasy Sports Trade Association and Fantasy Sports Writers Association and also won the Best Fantasy Baseball Article on the Internet in 2005 from the FSWA. He roots for for the Minnesota Twins, Vikings and T-Wolves.

The basic strategy for success in fantasy football appears to be changing. Where once securing two workhorse running backs with your top two picks was optimal, now multiple quarterbacks are flying off the board in the first round, and even tight ends are going in the second. Meanwhile, the era of the every-down running back appears to be dead.

The question then is whether this is an enduring paradigm shift, or a case of fantasy owners merely overreacting to recent short-term trends. To answer that, let’s examine these trends in more detail:


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