Whether you have been drafting throughout the offseason or recently in the summer, the market continues to shift with each week of preseason football. That’s due to injury news, camp hype, and other transactions.

There’s no contest, in my view. CFL Football played by the Montreal Alouettes may be more exciting than any games you’ll see in Canada or the U.S.

The 2027 NFL Draft has the potential to be one of the all-time greats. However, the recent explosion of NIL salaries across the college football landscape has made many players return back to school.…

The 2026 college football season is officially underway, and that means it’s time for the return of my favorite column. For new subscribers, Stock Up is a weekly write-up of some of the top-performing NFL Draft prospects. In a full week, anywhere between six and 12 players who are eligible for the 2027 class will receive in-depth breakdowns of their per…

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Football season is here.

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Back in 2010, I was a young, naive graduate student still finding my way in the world at journalism school. One day, the great Prof. Sandy Padwe brought in a guest lecturer, Alan Schwarz of The New York Times. Schwarz’s superb reporting at the time focused on an overlooked issue that was largely met with groans and shrugs at first in the sporting world:…

Welcome to The Football Notebook, the place where I spend entirely too much time thinking about whether college football should continue sending teams across the Atlantic Ocean every August.

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Netflix’s The Whisper Man headlines the lineup of new movies and series ushering in September, alongside returning shows such as The Gentlemen.

Legacy · August 2026

As a teacher by day, the school year has been ramping up, meaning it’s been busier during the week. I’ve been writing several off-season fantasy football articles at RotoBaller while we’re regularly checking the prices and injury updates. That said, let’s touch on the injury news to Ashton Jeanty and George Kittle, before covering the top risers and fal…

NIL was established in 2021. In short, it’s a stream of revenue for college athletes (and eligible for high school, though states vary) to earn based on their name, image, likeness.

When was the last time you heard the phrase “student-athlete” in college football? It’s no longer applicable when three-time-transfer quarterbacks blow off all classes. When a player’s future is at stake inside a Power 4 conference — the upper tier of autonomy — it’s egomaniacal and cold when the power players band together and don’t care a lick a…

A full week of NFL preseason games arrived, causing fantasy managers to tilt with injuries, highlight plays, and more. We’re looking at the risers and fallers in Average Draft Position (ADP) over the past week in the Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) leagues, seen below.

“Football doesn’t build character, it reveals it,” Terrion Arnold said, on the tape from the 2024 NFL combine. In Seattle last week, John Schneider grinned and brought other Seahawks officials in to watch it.

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The Protect College Sports Act (PCSA), a bill we’ve been watching closely in this newsletter, was supposed to be the big win for the coalition of commissioners, presidents, athletic directors, and coaches who have spent seven years lobbying Washington for a federal fix to NIL, eligibility, and antitrust problems in college sports. But it’s not a done de…

I added the first cut of Week 1 depth charts and position rankings. They’ve been added to Fantasy Football Paydirt. This information is only a starting point, and much will change over the next two and a half weeks. My goal is to check the data and the math to make sure everything lines up with my Excel spreadsheet.

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Last April, I raced home...grabbed the TV controller from my wife...and asked her if I could change the channel. I have been married for 40 years, so this happens from time to time; in both directions! She asked, “What is so damn important?” I said, “It’s the NFL draft!” She said, “Isn’t this just some guy reading a card?” I said, “You don’t understand.…

We have football. We no longer have pro football AND college football. If this makes sense in any subterranean landscape, Dae’Quan Wright has been cut by the Cleveland Browns and is waiting to play for the LSU Tigers. I always say the Supreme Court has taken a hatchet to sports — gambling, NIL, transfers — and left permanent gouges.

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