Fantasy Football 2016: Full Position-by-Position Rankings, Creative Team Names

With the lengthy preseason slog finally kicking itself into high gear, we can officially shift our focus to fantasy draft season.

While it’s not advisable to begin drafting leagues until after Week 3 of the preseason, it never hurts to start doing research. Rankings and lists of sleepers give you an idea of what to expect on draft night, even if it all gets thrown out the window once your buddy has three too many beers and takes Zach Sudfeld in the sixth round. 

Seriously. It happened. 2013 was a dark time. Or maybe I play in better fantasy leagues now. At any rate, do not draft Zach Sudfeld in the sixth or any round this year.

And do yourself a favor by taking a look at these rankings and making sure you don’t Sudfeld yourself in 2016.

Quarterback Sleeper: Robert Griffin III, Cleveland Browns

This may look hilariously bad when the Browns are 0-4 and Griffin is being benched for Cody Kessler or Josh McCown, but RG3 should finish among the top 20 fantasy quarterbacks this season. Call it a gut feeling, intuition or stupidity. 

There wasn’t a more toxic quarterback situation over the last two seasons than Griffin in Washington. He hated being there; the team hated having him. It was a rapid spiral of mistrust from the second his historic rookie season ended with a blown-out knee. The relationship never recovered and perhaps Griffin’s career never will, either. 

But if it’s ever going to, this will be the season where it begins. Griffin isn’t competing for the starting job. He has it. Josh Gordon is coming back in Week 5, and the Browns drafted another explosive Baylor star in Corey Coleman. 

Beware: Blake Bortles, Jacksonville Jaguars

When studying stats, one of the first things you learn is to spot outliers. Blake Bortles’ soaring touchdown total in 2015 screams it from the mountaintops. Nearly all of Bortles’ rate stats were within an expected improvement range from his rookie season. He still threw a ton of picks, fumbled the ball too much and completed just 58.6 percent of his passes.

Touchdowns were the only stat that made Bortles a good fantasy quarterback last season; it also stands out as his likeliest regression spot in 2016. After finding the end zone on 2.3 percent of his throws in 2014, he ascended all the way to 5.8 percent in his second …

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