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Field Yates, ESPN Insider
There comes a point every summer, typically in the middle of August, when a wave of text messages pours into my phone from friends and acquaintances who are just starting to prepare for their upcoming fantasy football drafts.
Initially, it’s befuddling that there are people who exist who do not comb through fantasy research during the offseason; and then I remember that my existence of perpetually thinking about fantasy football makes me the outlier in life.
This column is for those who don’t have notifications on for Adam Schefter’s X (formerly known as Twitter) page during free agency or those who didn’t spend the months of March and April breaking down Jahmyr Gibbs’ college tape. This column is for those who allocate much of their time during the offseason to more conventional priorities, such as parenting, travel, golf, watching several seasons of “Survivor” in succession — whatever it is you love to do most.
With August now upon us, we’re just a few weeks away from the busiest time of the year for fantasy football drafts, which often hover right around Labor Day weekend. If you’ve dedicated little time to your offseason preparation, bookmark this page and keep it handy until your draft room opens and you are on the clock. Fantasy football class in in session.