Fantasy football is a way for NFL fans to create their own teams of players and compete against their friends every week. People can play fantasy football on various platforms such as Sleeper, ESPN Live, or NFL Fantasy.

Many JC students have their own fantasy football leagues where they draft during the summer and then play against other people in weekly match-ups. In these weekly match-ups, players have to select NFL players who are going to score well in that week.

Most fantasy football leagues have a starting roster of one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one flex player who is either a running back or wide receiver, one defense and one kicker.

During the summer, people who play fantasy football will draft, and then, throughout the season they can trade with other people in their league for different players if they want to adjust their roster.

Each week the participants will select who on their team will score the best, and then they put those players in each starting spot. Players could either boom or bust, meaning they do extremely well, or they could do absolutely awfully, and sometimes the winner of the match-up could be decided off of one player.

Senior Ty Hensley enjoys fantasy football so much that he has been commissioning a league for six years, and he loves “the competition with my friends.”

His favorite part of fantasy football is “the strategy,” and he likes to “trade with people and figure out what will benefit [him] the most through strong players without giving up too much of [his] own team in return.”

He enjoys the competition between his friends and how “we can all enjoy it and still talk about it without any pressure, and it keeps people I haven’t seen in a while together.”

So far for this year, Ty is 3-3, but he said he should start to do better as “some guys come back from injury.”

Senior Zac Dickens also plays fantasy football, and his favorite part of fantasy football is “denying trades that are blatantly unbalanced.”

This year Zac is very pleased with his team, and he is confident that his team “will get [him] to the playoffs.”

Zac also enjoys the friendly competition and said that fantasy allows him to “keep track of what’s going on in the NFL.”