The 2016 fantasy season came and went like Marvin Jones’s fleeting WR1 status. Here at SI.com we’ll still have your fantasy needs covered through the NFL playoffs, and we’ll start on those efforts next week. But before we look forward, we must look back at the season that was.
Running backs re-asserted their primacy in the fantasy world in 2016, with the top-eight fantasy backs outscoring the No. 1 wide receiver, Antonio Brown. The quarterback position played largely to script, with a few surprises, both positive and negative. Tight end became a trouble spot for nearly all fantasy owners at one point or another this season, and the position as a whole could be downgraded in value next year.