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Jimmy Johnson is a football legend. He had great success as the head coach at the University of Miami and as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. But his biggest impact on the game may have been [...]

An NFL scout recently told me that his team was targeting one of two players at the start of free agency in March 2025. In the conversations about those two players, one front office person said [...]

Last year, I wrote an article entitled Top Five Mistakes Fantasy Football Owners Make. Therein I listed a few things that fantasy owners do that torpedo their success; like assuming they know [...]

In 2000, I drafted Daunte Culpepper in round 11 of my fantasy draft. My friend Eric literally laughed aloud when I took Culpepper as my first quarterback. Several other guys chuckled in shock [...]

Updated September 2, 2025 My mantra in fantasy football, for nearly three decades, has been: Fantasy football is always all about value. My goal is to draft players that I think are very likely [...]

Updated September 2, 2025 At the risk of sounding haughty, I’ve been pretty dang good at fantasy football for a long time. I’ve been asked, “Kenny, what’s your [...]

Typically, when an NFL team signs a player to a blockbuster deal that doesn’t work out, you potentially set the franchise back several years. It ends up being a point of embarrassment—just [...]

Over the last two seasons, the team that I’ve most frequently covered and cited on this site and on the Walterfootball.com podcast, has been the New Orleans Saints. That’s because [...]

Some NFL teams are always looking for ways to manipulate the NFL salary cap. Financial flexibility in a league where things change fast is paramount. One recent tactic has been the deployment of [...]

In previous eras, option clauses and option bonuses in contracts were a big deal. It was a helpful way for NFL teams to retain talent. But such option structures and option bonuses have mostly [...]

In the early 1990s, NFL players wanted a much larger slice of the league’s overall revenue. One of the mechanisms that was crafted to help accomplish this was the salary floor. What is the [...]