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Hosted by Matt Hicks, the Rookie Big Board Fantasy Football Podcast provides industry-leading analysis for scouting, tracking, and valuing NFL rookies for fantasy football. Seasonal and dynasty fantasy football players, NFL draftniks, and college football fanatics will be entertained while learning about the unique formula for fantasy football success when evaluating rookies.
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Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Matt breaks down his 9-22nd ranked running backs in the 2023 NFL Draft. He digs into players left off his initial list, including Devone Achane and Kendre Miller. There are plenty of backs he expects to still be impactful including Kenny McIntosh, Roschon Johnson and DeWayne McBride.
Matt also breaks down his process for evaluating rookies, especially RBs. This episode gives you an overview of how you can start to conceptualize the class and how he arrives at the rankings.
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Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Matt breaks down his top 8 running backs in the 2023 NFL Draft. He digs into the consensus RB1 Bijan Robinson out of Texas and compares him to the fantasy football values of Breece Hall, Najee Harris and Saquan Barkley.
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Then he analyzes Jahymyr Gibbs and Zach Evans, who both present major fantasy football upside. Matt digs into a tier of 5 backs, including Sean Tucker and Blake Corum who are all candidates to be popular picks with eary and mid-second round selections.
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Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Join Matt in his 2023 rookie mock draft, 3.0! He goes in depth on 48 rookies from the 2023 NFL Draft class that you need to know about.
He discusses his ranking of the players against the consensus of the fantasy football community and compares that to what he is hearing from the NFL Draft side of the equation.
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Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Matt introduces the class of 2026 to the Devy Big Board by highlighting give players that can help keep put the value of the class into the context of the rest of the devy rankings. He discusses how a big week 5 effects the value of Kenneth Walker, Breece Hall and Dameon Pierce moving forward. The show finishes with a watch guide, with a specific lense on devy fantasy football, for Week 7 of the college football season.
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Matt mocks the selections made in Shane Hallam's most recent 2023 NFL Mock Draft. He runs through every fantasy football relevant player mocked in the first three rounds and discusses how their landing spots would effect their fantasy football value.
You can read Shane's article, available at Draft Countdown, here: https://www.draftcountdown.com/mock-drafts/2023-7-round-mock-draft-rounds-1-3-shane-2-0/
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Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Join Matt as he discusses 5 players with difficult dynasty values to dissect. He then identifies four rookie fantasy football players who have not hit big yet, but he expects to be treats in the month of October. The episode finishes with a watch guide for College Football Week 6, from the perspective of a devy fantasy football player.
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Tune in for this two-round Devy Fantasy Football Mock Draft. With a month of college football behind us, it's time to react to some changing values across the devy fantasy football landscape.
This mock draft features eligible players in the 2024, 2025 and 2026 classes. Matt highlights top players like Brock Bowers and Marvin Harrison Jr while taking the time to analyze the value trends of positions. He discusses Drake Maye and Caleb Williams' early season successes. He also discusses the value of the 2025 Running Back class and the quarterbacks headlining the 2026 quarterback class.
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Matt talks through 4 trends stemming from his recent 2023 Rookie Big Board update. He discusses the strength of the RB class, the debates sure to ensue about the second tier of the wideout group and the drop off from tier 1 quarterbacks.
Next he discusses 10 risers in the devy rankings; including a focus on the strength of the 2025 RB class.
The episode finishes with a watch guide for College Football Week 5, with an emphasis on what to watch from a devy fantasy football perspective
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
The 2023 Fantasy Football Rookie Draft season is set to be one of the strongest in the past few years. Matt breaks down 24 rookies while going through a two round PPR superflex TE premium rookie mock draft.
Hear him break down why he expects CJ Stroud to go over Bryce Young in rookie drafts, the rise of Syracuse's Sean Tucker, and how he values a strong group of wideouts.
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Matt introduces 3 candidates that fit his criteria for the "Justin Jefferson Rule". He breaks down what the rule means and which players could see a similar rise in fantasy football value during their rookie season. He also checks in on 6 sophomores to assess how we can react to their rapidly changing dynasty fantasy football value.
He finishes the episode with a full run down of the perfect day of Week 4 college football, specifically for those wanting to watch from a devy fantasy football perspective.