No matter when you’re reading this column—be it on the day it is published, over Labor Day Weekend or at some distant point in the future to take stock of my calls—we will be no more than one week away from the start of the 2016 NFL season. The time for ranking players, uncovering deep sleepers and highlighting busts has passed. You have your teams, both the fantasy and real-life versions. All that’s left to do now is watch the season unfold.
Before we can do that, however, we must plant some flags.