Redskins Fantasy Player Rankings and ADPs

After June OTAs and minicamps conclude, the dog days of summer for the hardcore NFL fan commence. Weeks go by without any on the field action, and football diehards start to develop an itch that homicidal tight ends and QB weddings just don't scratch, but there is hope on the horizon. Rookies will report to training camp for a number of teams in just over a week, and the preseason kicks off in less than a month. NFL football is coming, and that means that the fantasy football season is even closer.

Unless you are a degenerate fantasy football player like me, then you probably haven't done too much research up to this point. However, now that the NHL and NBA finals are over and the 4^th and its adjoining long weekend have come and gone, it's time for everyone to shift their focus to upcoming fantasy football drafts. So in honor of fake football's eve I thought it would be a useful exercise to look at how the experts and the degenerate masses think that our beloved Redskins players stack up against the rest of the fantasy landscape. Hopefully, this information will give you a better understanding of how to value and when to select some of your favorite players. If I can prevent just one outrageous homer reach then I'll have made a difference. First, let's look at how the experts rank Redskins players.

**Note: Each player's overall ranking and ADP is followed by the player's positional ranking or ADP in parenthesis. If a player did not make the rankings he receives a NR. All ranking and ADP data was collected on July 8^th. You can click on the website links in the tables to see how these players are ranked relative to their peers. **

**Note: NFL.com does not post Overall PPR rankings, so only their positional rankings will be listed in the following table.**

An often overlooked, but extremely valuable piece of information for any fantasy draft is a player's Average Draft Position (ADP). This data is derived from the thousands of mock and live draft's that have already taken place. It basically gives you a general idea of how the general public values a given player by displaying at what pick on average that the player in question is being selected. It is one of the best tools that you can use to help you to decide when to target a player.

**Note: FantasyPros.com does not list positional PPR rankings from Realtimefantasysports.com, so only the overall RTS.com ADP will be listed in the following table.**

After reviewing the rankings and ADPs for some of the more fantasy relevant players on the team (Morris, Griffin, Garcon, Davis, Forbath and the defense), I strongly believe that the fantasy world is still not giving the Washington Redskins the credit that they deserve. I can't help but think that the majority of fantasy prognosticators and the general public alike are simply too fixated on injury concerns and the team's past history as a perennial NFC East cellar dweller. So you might be asking yourself why I'm saying that most Redskins players are undervalued when earlier I said not to reach for any of these same hometown heroes. I don't think that you should reach for these players, but I do think that selecting them slightly ahead of their rankings and ADPs could pay huge dividends for your fantasy teams in 2013.

Do you think that the experts and drafters aren't giving the Redskins enough love, or are they actually overvaluing them? Let us know which player's rankings and/ or ADPs you think are off and why?

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