IDP Rankings By Position: In The Trenches

The NFL pre-season is in full swing, and fantasy football general managers that play in Individual Defensive Player (IDP) leagues know that these training camp battles are crucial to setting up a successful draft board, and absolutely vital to assessing the effectiveness of each NFL team's defensive scheme. With many teams in the process of changing alignments, integrating new faces, and dealing with holdouts and injuries, it is always a moving target to pick out the breakout players for the upcoming season. There also are very little common scoring settings for IDP leagues, and position categories are not universal between leagues, host sites, etc. I will present a five part series outlining the players at each basic position that have the best chance at being successful this coming season. The first part will be focusing on the Defensive Tacles, followed by Defensive Ends, then Linebackers, Safeties, and Cornerbacks. Let's kick things off with a look at the Defensive ...