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Only Julio Jones reeled in more receiving yards than DeAndre Hopkins did last season. Even so, Nuk is going off the board first in 2019 fantasy football drafts while Jones has been the second or third wide receiver selected. It makes perfect sense for a number of reasons. Hopkins has played in at least 16 games in all but one of his six NFL seasons, and the one season he failed to do so, he still took the field 15 of times. Second, he enters 2019-20 off a career campaign in which he hauled in 11... 

Coming off the biggest season of his professional career, online sportsbooks have pegged Davante Adams as one of the elite wide receivers in the game evidenced by him carrying the second highest passing yardage total on the board behind that dude that makes his home in Houston. Adams was the complete package last year in adding a career-high 13 touchdowns to go along with a career-high 1,386 receiving yards. If not selected first, he’ll no doubt be the second wide receiver taken off the board in... 

In averaging a tick under 1,150 receiving yards over the last four seasons of his NFL career, Brandin Cooks has been about as consistent a wide receiver as any team owning his services could ask for. Luckily for the Rams, his talent and explosiveness will be in their huddle for the foreseeable future after impressing in his Los Angeles debut a season ago with 1,204 receiving yards and 5 TD. Linemakers at online sportsbooks expect Cooks to be a major contributor to Sean McVay’s offensive attack o... 

Amari Cooper looked rejuvenated after bolting the city of Oakland for Big D. His production ramped up in a hurry which has many prognosticators at online sportsbooks and fantasy footballers of the belief that a full offseason under the belt in the Cowboys’ system will have Cooper ready to explode in 2019-20. Currently being selected late in the third round of fantasy football drafts, Cooper will have every opportunity made available to him to grossly out produce his average draft position being ... 

A healthy Andrew Luck meant a return to form for TY Hilton last year. The Colts’ WR1 finished with under 1,000 yards for the first time since his rookie season in 2017, but he had a bounce-back campaign and eclipsed 1,200 yards for the fourth time in his career last season. As long as Luck remains healthy, Hilton stands to put up big numbers once again in 2019.... 

Last year, the Minnesota Vikings became the seventh team in NFL history to have two receivers finish the season with over 100 receptions and more than 1,000 yards. Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen were two of the most productive receivers in the league, and they will look to become the first duo in NFL history to repeat that feat. Both players have receiving totals of 1,000 yards per the NFL prop betting odds this season, but the bettors have tended to favor the under on Diggs.... 

Adam Thielen crushed his passing yards prop at online sportsbooks last season; it wasn’t even close! However, 925 of his 1,373 total yards were accrued in Minnesota’s first eight games. In other words, he was nothing more than a WR2 or WR3 in terms of fantasy in the Vikings final eight games. It can be argued that his gargantuan drop in production ultimately led to Mike Zimmer’s squad just falling short of the playoffs after falling in the NFC title game the previous year. While those that backe... 

The hype surrounding the Cleveland Browns entering the 2019-20 season is at a fever pitch! The Browns are currently slight favorites to win the AFC North at online sportsbooks for the first time in forever, and it has everything to do with how Baker Mayfield and company closed last season and the reinforcements brought in over the course of the offseason. One of those huge pickups happened to be none other than Odell Beckham Jr. who has been one of the most productive wide receivers in the leagu... 

The Oakland Raiders are quickly discovering how much a chore it is to roster one of the premiere players in the game. To say Antonio Brown has been a handful since arriving in Oakland would be putting it very lightly with the Pro Bowl wide receiver suffering a fluke cryotherapy injury to his feet and then throwing a hissy fit about not being able to wear his helmet of 10 years. When it’s said and done, his primadonna ways best see some major production on the gridiron or else. You know it’s bad ... 

The team that led the league in passing yards last season will be a surprise to many fans. It wasn’t Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, or New Orleans…it was Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers were playing from behind a lot, so they let it fly through the air with both Jameis Winston and Ryan Fitzpatrick posting big numbers through the air throughout the course of the season. That led to Mike Evans having the biggest season of his career, as the wide receiver from Texas A&M finished the year with over 1,500 receiving yards for the first time. ... 

Michael Thomas got paid this offseason. The New Orleans Saints made Thomas the highest-paid wide receiver in the league on July 31, signing him to a five-year, $100 million extension. Thomas had outperformed his rookie contract during his first three seasons in the league by a significant amount, and he was deservedly rewarded. He will look to have an even better season in 2019.... 

Week 3 of the preseason is what’s known as the ‘dress rehearsal’ and the Pittsburgh Steelers are doing everything this week in preparation for their game with the Tennessee Titans like it’s a normal week during the regular season. Things will look familiar when the team takes the field on Sunday, too, with Ben Roethlisberger in line to see his only action of the preseason. The game will take place at Nissan Stadium in Nashville and air on NBC at 8 p.m. ET. Current NFL odds favor the home team.... 

Saquon Barkley is sure to earn the money owed to him in the second year of his $31.2M contract. Odell Beckham Jr. is no longer in the Big Apple to force opposing defenses to account for the Giants’ passing game. While Sterling Shepard, Golden Tate and Evan Engram are fine players, they won’t have opposing defenses shaking in their cleats. With that, Barkley is going to be staring into a bevy of stacked boxes over the season’s entirety. Though New York is likely to face a multitude of negative ga... 

One thing Marlon Mack has going for him entering the 2019-20 regular season is the fact that there’s nobody currently on the roster breathing down his neck to vulture snaps away from him. Have you seen all the moves the Indianapolis Colts have made in hopes of finding a capable backup? The RB1 slot is his to lose! With that, an ample workload for one of the more lethal offensive attacks in the league should go a long way in helping the third-year back produce the best statistical outputs of his ... 

With a new quarterback under center in Nick Foles and new offensive coordinator that loves to sling the pigskin around the ball yard in John DeFilippo, it’s tough to get a handle on Leonard Fournette heading into the 2019-20 regular season. When healthy, the former LSU Tiger has proven to be one of the premiere running backs in the league as evidenced by his excellent rookie campaign in which he combined for over 1,300 yards from scrimmage and 10 TD. That said, he still missed three games and on... 

The shackles are finally off of Joe Mixon with the Marvin Lewis regime finally a thing of the past and the Zac Taylor era set to kickoff for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2019-20. Grossly underused in the passing game over the course of his brief career, Mixon is in line for his biggest showing since controversially breaking into the league back in 2017. With his ability to take on a burdensome load and hold onto the football, Mixon is in line to become one of the bigger producers of all 32 teams. T... 

The Pittsburgh Steelers ranked out the No. 20 most effective running game in the league a season ago after gaining a total of 1,667 yards that equated to just over 104 yards per game. Linemakers at online sportsbooks look to be bullish on Mike Tomlin’s troops improving upon those outputs this upcoming season with James Connor putting forth a large share of the production. Entering his second full season as the Steelers bell cow running back, the former PITT Panther finds his rushing yards prop c... 

The Detroit Lions are expecting big things from Kenny Golladay in 2019. Golladay became the Lions’ go-to guy after Marvin Jones went down with an injury and Golden Tate was traded away midway through last season, and he thrived under the spotlight. He shook off a disappointing rookie campaign to finish with over 1,000 yards, and he is out to build off that in 2019. The oddsmakers have him favored to post consecutive 1,000-yard seasons per the NFL prop betting odds.... 

The Los Angeles Chargers took a chance on Keenan Allen, and he has rewarded them for their faith. Allen signed a big extension with the Chargers in the summer of 2016 despite only breaking 1,000 yards in one of his previous three seasons, and the decision to extend him didn’t look great after Allen tore his ACL in the first game of that season. He was a wildcard coming into 2017, but he has developed into one of the NFL’s top receivers in the last two years. Allen has been voted to two straight ... 

Week 3 of the NFL preseason is considered the dress rehearsal. It’s a time when regulars see their most and in some cases only action of the exhibition slate. That thought process has undergone serious consideration over the past several years and certain coaches have elected to rest their starters until the regular season. And we’ve seen some major line movement for this week’s games because of it.... 

There’s nothing quite as exhilarating as catching a touchdown pass, and nobody did it more than Antonio Brown in 2018. AB’s 15 scoring grabs were the most in a season since Dez Bryant snared 16 in 2014. And Brown has been a TD machine with 59 scoring grabs over the last five seasons with no less than nine in a campaign. AB changed teams this summer and will be catching passes from someone other than Ben Roethlisberger for the first time in his career.... 

The top three players on the odds board to win the 2019 NFL Defensive Player of the Year award are in familiar territory. That’s because the trio has combined to win the last five honors with Los Angeles Rams lineman Aaron Donald the betting favorite at top online sportsbooks to three-peat. Widely considered the best defensive player in the game today, Donald has amassed over 100 tackles with 31.5 sacks the last two seasons. As long as he stays healthy, Donald is in position to become the third ... 

The aerial circus in the NFL will continue to thrive and a number of talented pass catchers will be on the end of those tosses. Julio Jones topped the league in receiving yards last year and he is the odds-on favorite at top NFL sportbooks to do it again in 2019. Jones has caught passes from only one quarterback his entire career and he’s twice led the league while going over the 1400-yard level in receiving yards in each of the past five seasons.... 

With the “Air Raid” making its appearance in the desert, NFL bettors are buying into the Arizona Cardinals marching a competent unit onto the gridiron every passing week. One of the main contributors to benefit from this change in offensive ideology is sure to be David Johnson who more or less played shackled under the previous clueless coaching staff. You can bet your bottom dollar at online sportsbooks Kliff Kingsbury won’t have the best player on his offense locked down, but instead will look... 

Dalvin Cook has gained a grand total of 969 yards and played in just 15 overall games through his first two played seasons at the NFL level. So why is he still being taken amongst the first two rounds of fantasy football drafts entering the 2019-20 regular season? Its simple folks - the kid is flat out talented! That’s reflected by his 1,150.5 rushing yards prop at online sportsbooks being tied with Cincinnati’s Joe Mixon as the second highest output on the betting board. But you can have talent...