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Welcome back for another year of rent-a-defense, another year of fantasy football, and another year of one of our last somewhat universally shared experiences in these strange times.

When I started this column (12 years ago? 14 years ago?

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The past gets blurrier in the rearview mirror, and I’m not much of a record keeper), it was still common practice for most fantasy football players to try to draft a “good” D/ST and ride them. Now more and more people are streaming, so we have to go deeper.

And sometimes the shark move is to ride a hot D/ST instead of trying to catch lightning in a bottle each week when more others are doing the same. So as we slough D/ST and depend on the waiver wire and even randomness to save us every week, let’s consider this more “rent-to-buy” than pure “rent-a-defense” when weighing our potential pickups, especially at the beginning of the season when the big reveal shows us who might be