Book Fantasy Football Name Generator
Literary puns for readers who play fantasy football
Fantasy football team names for readers: The Sun Also Rushes, Catcher in the Bye Week, Call Me Fullback and Shelf Control. The puns pair a book, a line or a bit of reading slang with football and fantasy league talk, never with a player.
About book fantasy football names
A bookish team name outlasts a player pun. A joke about your first-round pick goes stale the week he is traded or hurt, while a joke about a novel works all season. The recipe is simple: take a title, a first line, a character or a piece of reading slang and swap one word for a football term. The Sun Also Rushes, Call Me Fullback, Reader, I Benched Him and TBR: To Be Rostered are all built that way.
The 1,000 names here run along a wide shelf. There are classic novels (Pride and Pass Interference, Wuthering Hikes), first lines and famous quotes, characters with positions (Captain Ahab's Deep Threat, Falstaff at Fullback), picture books and children's chapter books (Green Eggs and Handoffs, Some Pigskin), young adult and fantasy series, mysteries, science fiction, romance tropes and gothic horror, poetry and plays (Much Ado About Punting, The Center Cannot Hold), book-club slang, library and bookshop jokes (Shelf Control, Overdue for a Win), writing craft, grammar and publishing terms, and a run of names for a losing season.
None of them is built on a player or a coach. The jokes rest on titles, lines and fictional characters, and most books appear only once or twice, so a reroll keeps moving along the shelf.
How to choose book fantasy football names
- Pick a book your league has read. Catcher in the Bye Week and The Very Hungry Linebacker land with everyone, while a deep cut such as Oblomov Never Sets His Lineup is for a league of readers.
- Match the pun to your season. Great Expectations, Poor Draft suits a rough draft night, A Series of Unfortunate Injuries suits a crowded injury list, and The Kicker Who Lived suits the manager who won on a last-second field goal.
- Check your platform's character limit before you fall for a long first line. Shelf Control, Lit Blitz, Font Seven, Flex Libris and Bye the Book fit anywhere.
- Theme the whole league. Give every manager a shelf, such as mystery, poetry or picture books, or name the divisions Fiction and Nonfiction, and let the team names follow.
- Decide whether the joke is for the eye or the ear. Flex Libris and Jane Eyre Raid read best on a standings page, while To Bye or Not to Bye works when it is said out loud.
Frequently asked questions
What are good book themed fantasy football names?
Names in this list include The Sun Also Rushes, Catcher in the Bye Week, Pride and Pass Interference, A Farewell to Arm Tackles, Brave New Waiver Wire and Call Me Fullback. For readers of children's books, try Green Eggs and Handoffs, Winnie the Punt or Nancy Drew Them Offside.
Do any of these names use real players?
No. The names are built on a title, a line, a fictional character or a piece of reading slang, nearly always joined to a football term such as bye week, blitz, punt or red zone. That means the name does not go out of date when a player is traded, benched or hurt.
What are some short bookish fantasy football names?
Shelf Control, Lit Blitz, Font Seven, Read Option, Bye the Book, Some Pigskin, Moby Draft and Wuthering Hikes are all under twenty characters. Short names fit every platform and are easier to put on a league trophy or a group chat banner.
Is there a bookish name for a team that keeps losing?
Yes, the list has a full run of them. Try No Exit From Last Place, The Unabridged Loss Column, Remaindered by Week Eight, The Seven Habits of Highly Defective Teams or Good to Bad to Worse. They work best when you pick one before the rest of the league picks it for you.
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All 1,000 book fantasy football names
A: 63 names
- A Brief History of Wasted Timeouts
- A Canticle for Lead Blockers
- A Christmas Carol and a Playoff Bye
- A Clash of Kickers
- A Comedy of Turnovers
- A Confederacy of Dropped Passes
- A Farewell to Arm Tackles
- A Gentleman in the Pocket
- A Ghost Story for Week Seventeen
- A Good Kicker Is Hard to Find
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Losses
- A Is for Audible
A, continued
- A Kingdom by the Sideline
- A Midsummer Night's Training Camp
- A Novel Formation
- A Plague on Both Your Rosters
- A Portrait of the Punter as a Young Man
- A Punt as Lovely as a Tree
- A Rake's Fourth Quarter Reform
- A Room of One's Own End Zone
- A Room With a Review Booth
- A Separate Piece of the Playbook
- A Series of Unfortunate Injuries
- A Storm of Sacks
- A Study in Scarlet Jerseys
A, continued
- A Tale of Two Tight Ends
- A Tragedy in One Half
- A Wrinkle in Overtime
- Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter the Red Zone
- Abandoned on the Nightstand at Oh and Six
- Achilles Heel Injury Report
- Acknowledgments to the Offensive Line
- Act One, Scene Two-Minute Drill
- Active Voice, Inactive List
- Advance Reader Copy of the Playbook
- Adverbs Run Quickly
- Air Quotes Defense
A, continued
- Alas, Poor Kicker, I Drafted Him
- All Aboard the Playoff Express
- All Happy Rosters Are Alike
- All Rookies, Except One, Grow Up
- All Systems Red Zone
- All the Pretty Rushes
- All's Well That Ends in the End Zone
- Alphabetical by Last Place
- Always Winter, Never Playoffs
- Amelia Bedelia Draws a Play
- An Inspector Calls the Play
- And Then There Were None on My Bench
- Anne of Green Turf
A, continued
- Annotated Game Film
- Antagonist: The Schedule
- Anti-Hero at Quarterback
- Apostrophe Catastrophe in the Secondary
- Appendix A: The Injury List
- Are You My Middle Linebacker
- Around the End in Eighty Plays
- Arrakis Sandworm Sweep
- Arsenic and Old Laces Out
- As I Lay Diving for the Pylon
- As You Wish Bone
- Atomic Habit of Losing
- Audiobook at Two-Minute Drill Speed
B: 56 names
- B Is for Bye
- Babbitt's Booster Club
- Back Cover Corner
- Backlist Running Backs
- Baker Street Irregular Formations
- Banned Books, Benched Backs
- Banned From the Playoffs
- Barbaric Yawp at the Refs
- Barefoot in the Pocket
- Bargain Bin Backups
- Bartleby the Scrimmager
- Because I Could Not Stop the Run
- Being Earnest About Kickers
- Beowulf's Stiff Arm
B, continued
- Bertie Wooster's Blown Coverage
- Bestseller List, Worst Seller Team
- Beware the Byes of November
- Beware the Jabberwock and the Blitz
- Big Blocker Is Watching You
- Binge-Read the Waiver Wire
- Biting Satire of My Own Draft
- Black Beauty of a Spiral
- Blank Verse, Blank Scoreboard
- Bleak House Rules
- Blind Date With a Blitz
- Blueberries for Sal, Targets for Me
- Blurb: A Tour de Force in Garbage Time
- Board Book Blockers
B, continued
- Bold Italic Blitz
- Bonjour Tristesse, Au Revoir Playoffs
- Book Club Wine and Screen Passes
- Book Drop Back Passers
- Book Fair Catch
- Book Hangover, Game Day Headache
- Book Haul of Fame
- Book Nook and Ladder
- Book Signing Bonus
- Book Smart, Bye Week Dumb
- Booked for Holding
- Bookends Rush
- Bookin' It to the End Zone
- Bookish and Blitzing
B, continued
- Bookmark Blitz
- Bookmark My Words, We Go for It
- Bookmobile Quarterback
- Bookstore Cafe Au Lateral
- Bookworms in the Backfield
- Borne Back Ceaselessly Into Last Place
- Bottom Shelf, Bottom Seed
- Box Set Stuffers
- Brave New Waiver Wire
- Breaking the Fourth and Wall
- Brideshead Revisited the Trade
- Brobdingnag Nose Tackles
- Bye the Book
- Byline on a Bye Week
C: 49 names
- Call Me Fullback
- Call Number Audible
- Candide's Best of All Possible Benches
- Caps for Sale, Salary Caps
- Captain Ahab's Deep Threat
- Captain Hook and Lateral
- Captain Nemo's Sub Package
- Captain Underpants and the Wedgie Formation
- Card Catalog of Excuses
- Casey at the Back Judge
- Cat's Cradle Catch
- Catch-22 Yard Line
C, continued
- Catcher in the Bye Week
- Catching Fire Off the Bench
- Catharsis After a Monday Night Miracle
- Cautionary Tale of a First-Round Bust
- Chapter Eleven Personnel
- Chapter One: I Am Benched
- Chapter One: They Meet at the Combine
- Character Arc of a Backup
- Charlie and the Chop Block Factory
- Charlotte's Web of Coverage
- Checked Out Since Week Four
- Chicka Chicka Boom or Bust
C, continued
- Childhood's End Around
- Children of Time of Possession
- Choose Your Own Audible
- Clear and Present Deep Threat
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Blitz
- Cliffhanger Monday Night
- Clifford the Big Red Zone Threat
- Closed Book, Closed Window
- Cloudy With a Chance of Touchbacks
- Cold Case of the Missing Run Game
- Colon: Followed by a List of Injuries
- Comfort Read, Uncomfortable Matchup
C, continued
- Common Sense Said Bench Him
- Concerning Halfbacks
- Coordinating Conjunction: But We Punted
- Copyright Page, Copycat League
- Corduroy's Missing Button Hook
- Cover to Cover Two
- Cozy Mystery, Cruel Schedule
- Cracked Spine, Questionable to Return
- Crime and Punt Coverage
- Curiouser and Curiouser Play Calls
- Curl Route Up With a Good Book
- Currently Reading the Defense
- Cyclops Field Vision
D: 43 names
- D'Artagnan's Fourth Musketeer Flex
- Dandelion Wine and Cheese Tailgate
- Dangling Modifier, Dangling Ball
- David Copperfield Position
- Deadline Day Dump-Off
- Death of a Sales Pitch for That Trade
- Death on the Goal Line
- Debut Novel, Debut Fumble
- December Is the Cruelest Month
- Decline and Fall of My Dynasty
- Dedication: To My Bench
- Deep in the Stacks Formation
- Denouement in the Fourth Quarter
- Deus Ex Machina Hail Mary
D, continued
- Devil in a Blue Jersey
- Dewey Decimal Dime Package
- Dial M for Motion
- Dialogue Tags and Franchise Tags
- Diary of a Nobody in Twelfth Place
- Diary of a Wimpy Kicker
- Dictionary Definition of Rebuilding
- Did Anyone Read the Injury Report
- Dig Until You Find a Running Back
- Dime Novel Nickel Package
- Discussion Questions About That Trade
- Divergent Routes
- DNF: Did Not Field Goal
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Scoreboards
D, continued
- Do I Dare Disturb the Depth Chart
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Bye Week
- Doctor Dolittle on Offense
- Dog-Eared Playbook
- Don Quixote Tilts at Goalposts
- Don't Let the Pigeon Call the Plays
- Double Booked, Double Covered
- Double Indemnity, Double Coverage
- Double, Double Team and Trouble
- Double-Spaced Linemen
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide the Ball
- Dramatis Personae Fouls
- Drop Cap Space
- Due Date: Sunday at Noon
- Dynamic Character, Static Offense
E: 23 names
- East of the End Zone
- Eat, Punt, Lose
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves the Pocket
- Eeyore's Injury Outlook
- Eighty-Four Games Without a Catch
- Elegy for My Running Game
- Elementary, My Dear Wideout
- Ellipsis Before the Snap
- Emma's Matchmaking Matchups
- End of Sentence, End of Half
- End Zone Notes
E, continued
- Endnotes on the End Around
- Enjambment at the Line
- Epic Poem, Epic Collapse
- Epigraph Before the Kickoff
- Epilogue: Still Benched
- Epistolary Trade Offers
- Et Tu, Kicker
- Ethan Frome the Slot
- Exclamation Extra Point
- Exit Stage Left Tackle
- Exit, Pursued by a Linebacker
- Extended Metaphor, Extended Drive
F: 49 names
- Fahrenheit Fourth and One
- Fake Dating, Real Handoff
- Falling Action on the Loose Ball
- Falstaff at Fullback
- Far From the Madding Crowd Noise
- Farewell, My Lovely Running Back
- Faustus Trades His Soul for a Back
- Fear Is the Drive-Killer
- Fearful Symmetry in the I Formation
- Ferdinand Just Wants to Sit Out
- Fiction Aisle: My Projections
- Filed Under 796.332
F, continued
- Final Draft Grade: C Minus
- Fine Print Run
- Fire and Icing the Kicker
- First Contact Drill
- First Draft, Final Regret
- First Edition, First Down
- First Person Shotgun
- Five Little Monkeys Jumping Offside
- Five More Pages Until Kickoff
- Five Seven Five Wide
- Five Stars, Zero Wins
- Flags, Flags Everywhere
F, continued
- Flashback Formation
- Flat Stanley in the Flat
- Flea Flicker Market Paperbacks
- Flex Libris
- Font Seven
- Footnote in League History
- Footnote One: See Standings
- For Whom the Ball Rolls
- Foreshadowing a Fumble
- Forever War at Running Back
- Foreword Progress Stopped
- Found Family, Lost Fumble
F, continued
- Foundation and Empty Backfield
- Four Downs Good, Two Downs Bad
- Frame Story, Framed for Holding
- Freckle Juice Move
- Free Verse, Free Agent
- Friends of the Library, Enemies of the Punt
- Friends to Lovers to Rivals Week
- Friends, Romans, Linemen
- Frog and Toad Are Starters
- From Here to the End Zone
- Full Fathom Five Wide
- Fully Booked Bench
- Future Perfect: We Will Have Lost
G: 25 names
- Galley Proofs and Goal Posts
- Gather Ye Fumbles While Ye May
- Ghostwriter of the Game Plan
- Gift Wrap Around Draw
- Giraffes Can't Tackle
- Glossary of Excuses
- Go, Dog. Go Route
- Going Post Route
- Gone Girl, Gone Lead
- Good Fences Make Good Offensive Lines
- Good to Bad to Worse
- Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Waivers
G, continued
- Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Run Game
- Goodnight Nobody on My Bench
- Gothic Manor, Leaky Secondary
- Gravity's Rainbow Coverage
- Great Expectations, Poor Draft
- Greek Chorus of Boos
- Green Eggs and Handoffs
- Grendel's Arm Tackle
- Grounding in the Classics
- Grumpy Sunshine Backfield
- Guards! Guards! Tackles!
- Guess How Much I Love My Flex
- Gulliver's Travel Squad
H: 30 names
- Had We but World Enough and Timeouts
- Happily Ever After the Catch
- Happily Ever Punter
- Hard Times, Soft Schedule
- Hard-Boiled Linebackers
- Hardback Halfbacks
- Hardcover Corners, Paperback Line
- Harriet the Spy on the Sideline
- Hatchet Job on the Offensive Line
- Hate-Read the Box Score
- Heathcliff Notes on the Blitz
- Heavy Edits on the Offensive Line
- Hell Is Other Managers
- Hero's Journey to the Consolation Bracket
- Heroic Couplet of Tight Ends
H, continued
- Hester Prynne's Letter Jacket
- Hike and Seek the Sequel
- Hold List Holding Call
- Holden Caulfield Goal
- Holes in the Zone
- Hope Is the Thing With Shoulder Pads
- Horton Hears a Hard Count
- Hosting Book Club at Halftime
- Hot Route Off the Press
- House of Leaves It on the Field
- How to Eat Fried Turf
- How to Lose Games and Influence Nobody
- Howards End Around
- Hubris in the Second Round
- Hyphenated Tight-End
I: 37 names
- I Am an Invisible Tight End
- I Am Fearless and Going for Two
- I Am Legend in the Consolation Bracket
- I Awoke From Uneasy Dreams With a New Kicker
- I Contain Multiple Tight Ends
- I Saw the Best Backs of My Generation
- I Solemnly Swear I Am Up to No Huddle
- I Think I Can, I Think I Can Start Him
- I Wandered Lonely as a Punter
- I Would Prefer Not to Punt
- I'm Nobody, Who Are You Starting
- I, Robot, You Punter
I, continued
- Iago in the Group Chat
- Iambic Pentameter Protection
- Ichabod Crane Kick
- If Music Be the Food of Love, Play Action
- If on a Winter's Night a Kicker
- If You Can Keep Your Helmet On
- If You Give a Mouse a Carry
- If You Really Want to Hear About My Draft
- Ignatius Reilly's Concession Stand
- In a Hole in the Line Lived a Halfback
- In My Villain Era, Vetoing Trades
- In the Woods, Out of the Playoffs
I, continued
- Inciting Incident: The Opening Kickoff
- Index of Fumbles
- Indie Bookstore, Major Upset
- Infinite Jest, Finite Bench
- Inspector Javert's Pursuit Angle
- Interlibrary Lateral
- ISBN Thinking About a Trade
- Island of the Blue Chips
- Isn't It Pretty to Think So, Said Last Place
- It Came From the Waiver Wire
- It Was a Pleasure to Blitz
- It Was Love at First Snap
- Italics Mine, Points Theirs
J: 10 names
- Jane Eyre Raid
- Jean Valjean's Yards After Contact
- Jeeves Calls the Audible
- Jo March Down the Field
- Journey Before Destination, Bye Before Playoffs
- Journey to the Center of the Line
- Judge a Book by Its Cover Three
- Just Browsing the Free Agents
- Just One More Chapter, Just One More Yard
- Just So Stories, Just So Many Injuries
K: 5 names
- Kerning the Corner
- Kicker, Kicker, Missing Right
- Kidnapped by the Waiver Wire
- Kill Your Darlings, Drop Your Kicker
- King Lear Divides the Carries
L: 29 names
- Large Print Playbook
- Last Night I Dreamt of the Playoffs
- Late Fees and Late Hits
- Laurie's Lateral
- Leather-Bound Pigskin
- Leitmotif: The Missed Extra Point
- Les Miserable Kickers
- Let Me Count the Yards
- Let the Wild Rumpus Kick Off
- Life of Pi, Death of My Season
- Lit Blitz
- Lit Majors, Minor Injuries
- Literal Laterals
- Literary Agent, Free Agent
L, continued
- Little House on the Fifty
- Little Women, Big Linemen
- Llama Llama Red Zone Drama
- Locked Room Coverage
- Logan's Run Game
- Long Day's Journey Into Monday Night
- Long Read, Short Yardage
- Look Homeward, Angle Route
- Look on My Roster, Ye Mighty, and Despair
- Loose Leaf, Loose Ball
- Losing Battles, Losing Matchups
- Love in the Time of Play Action
- Love Triangle Formation
- Love You Forever, Bench You for Always
- Love's Labor's Lost Fumble
M: 39 names
- Madame Defarge Knits the Depth Chart
- Magical Realism in the Red Zone
- Main Character Energy, Backup Stats
- Major Major Major Penalty
- Make Way for Fullbacks
- Man Versus Nature Versus Zone Coverage
- Manuscript Under Center
- Margin Notes on the Play Sheet
- Marriage of Convenience Store Kicker
- Martian Chronicles of a Losing Streak
- Master of My Fate, Captain of My Team
- Matilda Moves the Chains With Her Mind
- May the Matchups Be Ever in Your Favor
M, continued
- Measure for Measure, Bring Out the Chains
- Measured Out My Life in First Downs
- Meet-Cute at Midfield
- Midway Upon the Journey of Our Season
- Minor Characters, Major Penalties
- Misery Loves a Losing Streak
- Miss Havisham's Stopped Clock
- Miss Marple's Village Blitz
- Miss Nelson Is Missing a Kicker
- Misshelved in Flex
- Mixed Metaphors, Mixed Coverages
- Moby Draft
- Mood Reader, Streaky Scorer
M, continued
- Morally Gray Area Rules
- Mostly Harmless Pass Rush
- Mr. Collins Proposes a Trade
- Mr. Popper's Penalties
- Mr. Toad's Wild Card Ride
- Mrs. Dalloway's Tailgate Party
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of the Scout Team
- Much Ado About Nothing and Thirteen
- Much Ado About Punting
- Muffed Punctuation
- My Kingdom for a Running Back
- My Season Was Dead, to Begin With
- My Team, Prince of Last Place
N: 28 names
- Nancy Drew Them Offside
- Narrative Arc of the Deep Ball
- Natasha's First Ball Carrier
- Natty Bumppo and Run
- Needful Things at Running Back
- Never Let Me Go Route
- Neverwhere to Run
- New Arrivals on the Waiver Wire
- New Release at the Line
- Next Year's Bestseller
- Nineteen Eighty-Fourth Down
- No Exit From Last Place
- No Good, Very Bad Draft
- No Joy in Mudville, No Points on My Bench
N, continued
- No Man Is an Island Except My Cornerback
- Noir Huddle
- Noises Offside
- Nonfiction Section: My Record
- Normal People, Abnormal Lineup
- North and South End Zone
- Not All Who Scramble Are Sacked
- Not With a Bang but a Punt
- Notes From the Basement of the Standings
- Nothing Gold Can Stay Healthy
- Nothing Will Come of Nothing but Screens
- Novel Ideas, Same Old Punts
- Novella-Length Drive
- Nurse Ratched's Curfew Defense
O: 34 names
- O Captain, My Kicker
- Oblomov Never Sets His Lineup
- Ode on a Grecian Turnover
- Ode to a Punter
- Odysseus Takes Ten Years to Score
- Of Mice and Tight Ends
- Off With Their Helmets
- Oh Bother, a Flag
- Oh, the Places You'll Throw
- Old Man's War Room
- Old Yeller at the Refs
O, continued
- Oliver Twists an Ankle
- Omniscient Narrator in the Press Box
- On Hold for a Tight End
- On the Origin of Losing Streaks
- On the Road Underdog
- Once More Unto the Breach in the A Gap
- Once Upon a Dime Package
- Once Upon a Monday Dreary
- Once Upon a Two-Minute Drill
- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Zone, Blue Chip
- One for the Money, Two for the Conversion
O, continued
- One Hundred Yards of Solitude
- One if by Land, Two if by Air Raid
- One-Star Review of My Draft
- Open Book, Open Receiver
- Orient Express Lane to the End Zone
- Our Town, Your Loss
- Ours but to Go for Two
- Out of Print, Out of Bounds
- Out, Damned Spot of the Ball
- Overbooked Backfield
- Overdue for a Win
- Oxford Comma, Kicker, and Punter
P: 53 names
- Pacing Issues in the Hurry-Up
- Paddington's Hard Stare at the Refs
- Page Count and Snap Count
- Page One Onside Kick
- Page Turner, Turnover
- Page Turnovers
- Paper Cut Blocks
- Paper Towns, Paper Champions
- Paperback Exchange Under Center
- Paperback Fullbacks
- Paradise Lost in Overtime
- Parenthetical Bye (Week Nine)
- Passive Voice: Mistakes Were Made
P, continued
- Past Tense: We Led
- Pat the Punter
- Pathetic Fallacy, Pathetic Secondary
- Pen Name Penalty
- Penelope Unravels the Game Plan
- People We Meet on Waivers
- Periodicals Section, Periodic Scoring
- Persuasion Offense
- Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Downs
- Peter Rabbit in Mr. McGregor's Backfield
- Phileas Fogg's Eighty-Yard Drive
- Picture Book Catch
- Pigskin-malion
P, continued
- Pinocchio's Nose Tackle
- Pippi Long Snapping
- Place Holder Text
- Play It by the Book
- Please Sir, I Want Some More Carries
- Plot Hole in the A Gap
- Plot Twist: We Scored
- Poet Laureate of the Trash Talk
- Point of View From the Bench
- Pollyanna Projections
- Pop-Up Book Kick
- Pre-Ordered My First-Round Pick
- Preface Mask Penalty
P, continued
- Prequel to a Losing Streak
- Presumed Innocent of Holding
- Pride and Pass Interference
- Prince Caspian's Comeback Route
- Print Run Game
- Project Hail Mary Pass
- Prologue to a Blowout
- Proofreader's Mark on the Forty
- Proper Nouns, Improper Formations
- Prose and Cons of Punting
- Prospero's Playbook
- Psychohistory Says Start Him
- Punting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
- Purple Prose, Purple Bruise
Q: 3 names
- Query Letter to the Commissioner
- Question Mark at Quarterback
- Quill and Pigskin Society
R: 44 names
- Rabbit Is Benched
- Rabbit, Run the Ball
- Rage Against the Dying of the Lead
- Ramona the Pass Rusher
- Rare Books Room, Rare Wins
- Raskolnikov's Guilty Holding Call
- Rated It Two Stars, Went for Two
- Read Dog Blitz
- Read It and Weep: The Box Score
- Read It for the Plot, Started Him for the Matchup
- Read Option
- Read Shirt Freshmen
- Reader, I Benched Him
- Reading Challenge Flag
R, continued
- Reading Goal Line
- Reading Slump, Scoring Slump
- Ready Player One-Yard Line
- Recurring Theme: Three and Out
- Red Herring Route
- Red Pen, Red Zone
- Red Rising Stock
- Redwall of Blockers
- Refusal of the Call on the Field
- Regency Rules, Modern Scoring
- Rejection Letter From the Playoffs
- Remainder Table Running Backs
- Remaindered by Week Eight
- Remembrance of Leads Past
- Renewed for Another Losing Season
R, continued
- Required Reading: The Rulebook
- Reread the Defense
- Return Slot Receiver
- Revisions to the Depth Chart
- Rhyme Scheme, Zone Scheme
- Rich League, Poor Draft
- Rip Van Winkle Sleeper Picks
- Rising Action, Falling Standings
- Roadside Picnic Tailgate
- Room on the Bench
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Benched
- Rough Draft Board
- Roughing the Narrator
- Round Character, Late Round
- Run-On Sentence, Run-Heavy Offense
S: 80 names
- Sacks and Sensibility
- Salem's Lot of Injuries
- Sancho Panza's Lead Blockers
- Sans Serif, Sans Playoffs
- Sarah, Plain and Tall Receiver
- Science the Heck Out of This Lineup
- Scrooge's Salary Cap
- Season of Mists and Mellow Fumbles
- Second Chance Romance, Second Half Team
- Second Draft, Same Mistakes
- Second Foundation, First Down
- See Also: Defeat
- Self-Published Depth Chart
S, continued
- Semicolon; Still Winless
- Sentence Fragment. Incomplete Pass.
- Sequel Rights and Wrong Routes
- Series Order: Run, Run, Pass, Punt
- Setting: A Rainy Sunday in Last Place
- Shadow and Bone Bruise
- Shall I Compare Thee to a Sunday Slate
- She Stoops to Recover the Fumble
- She Walks in Beauty Like the Night Game
- Shelf Control
- Shelf Life of a Running Back
- Shelf Talkers and Trash Talkers
- Shelved Until Next Season
S, continued
- Shelving Cart Before the Horse Collar
- Shhh, Silent Count
- Short Story, Long Bomb
- Show, Don't Tell the Play Call
- Shush Rushers
- Signed Copy, Unsigned Free Agent
- Sing, Muse, of the Rage of My Group Chat
- Sister Carrie the Ball
- Six of Crows, Half a Dozen of the Other Team
- Skim the Middle, Throw the Deep Ball
- Slam Poetry, Slant Route
- Slow Burn Offense
- Slush Pile at the Goal Line
- Small Gods, Big Linemen
S, continued
- Small Press Coverage
- Snow Crash Course in Tackling
- So Much Depends Upon a Red Zone Target
- Soliloquy in the Huddle
- Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Their Flex
- Some Kickers Are More Equal
- Some Pigskin
- Sometimes Benched Is Better
- Somewhere in La Mancha, a Punter Waits
- Speaker for the Dead Ball
- Special Collections Teams
- Speed Readers in the Slot
- Spine Out, Face Mask Out
S, continued
- Spine Tacklers
- Spinoff Move
- Split Infinitive Backfield
- Spoiler Alert: We Punt
- Sprayed Edges, Sealed Edges
- Staff Picks Six
- Standalone Season, No Sequel
- Star-Crossed Routes
- Starship Troopers on Special Teams
- Stately, Plump Nose Tackle
- Stay Goal Line, Ponyboy
- Stellaluna's Upside-Down Standings
- Stet the Starters
S, continued
- Sticky Tabs on the Scouting Report
- Still on Page One of the Rebuild
- Stock Character, Stock Down
- Stopping by Woods on a Bye Week
- Stranger in a Strange Stadium
- Strangers on a Trade
- Stream of Consciousness Play Calling
- Stuart Little Chance on Fourth
- Study Guide to the Blitz
- Such Stuff as Screens Are Made On
- Summer Reading Program, Fall Collapse
- Superfudge the Spot
- Suspension of Disbelief in My Projections
- Sylvester and the Magic Pylon
T: 244 names
- 'Twas Brillig and the Slithy Backs
- 'Twas the Night Before Kickoff
- Table of Contents Under Pressure
- Tales of a Fourth Down Nothing
- TBR: To Be Rostered
- Tender Is the Hamstring
- Terrible, Horrible, No Good Bye Week
- Terrific, Radiant, Fumble
- Text Blockers
- The Abridged Season
- The Age of Innocence and Illegal Motion
- The Agony and the Agony
- The Alibi: I Was on a Bye
- The Andromeda Strained Hamstring
T, continued
- The Art of Warming the Bench
- The Artful Dodger of Tackles
- The Awakening of My Bench
- The Back Fled and the Safety Followed
- The Beautiful and the Benched
- The Best of Drafts, the Worst of Drafts
- The Better Part of Valor: Fair Catch
- The BFG: Big Friendly Guard
- The Big Sleeper
- The Blade Itself Is Offside
- The Book of Disquiet in the Locker Room
- The Book Was Better Than My Team
- The Bookshop Cat on a Hot Tin Bench
- The Borrowers of My Roster Spots
T, continued
- The Caine Mutiny in the Huddle
- The Call of Cthulhu Audible
- The Call of the Wildcat
- The Canterbury Tailgate
- The Case of the Vanishing Lead
- The Cask of Amontillado Tailgate
- The Cat in the Hat Trick Play
- The Cat Who Read the Playbook
- The Center Cannot Hold
- The Children of Men in Motion
- The Chosen One at Pick Twelve
- The Color of Play-Action Magic
- The Corrections to My Lineup
- The Crucible of Week Fourteen
- The Cruel Prince of the Waiver Wire
T, continued
- The Crying of Lot Forty-Nine Yards
- The Curious Incident of the Late Flag
- The Da Vinci Cover Two
- The Dark Forest of the Depth Chart
- The Dark Tower of a Tight End
- The Day of the Juke
- The Day the Kickers Quit
- The Demolished Man on the Blind Side
- The Dragon Reborn Off Waivers
- The Dragonriders of Punt Return
- The Elements of Style Points
- The End, Said the Scoreboard
- The Enemy's Goal Line Is Down
- The Fall, the Winter, the Whole Season
T, continued
- The Fault in Our Starters
- The Fifth Season Opener
- The Firm Handoff
- The Giver of Free Points
- The Giving Tree Gives Up Forty Points
- The Glass Menagerie of Running Backs
- The Golden Compass Points to the End Zone
- The Grapes of Sacks
- The Graveyard Book of Busts
- The Great Gatsblitz
- The Gruffalo's Goal Line Stand
- The Halfback Prince
- The Haunted Depth Chart
- The Haunting of Hill House Rules
T, continued
- The Heart Is a Lonely Punter
- The Hero of My Own League
- The Hound of the Basket Catch
- The House of Seven Fumbles
- The Hunt for Red Zone October
- The Icing of the Kicker Cometh
- The Idiot Who Drafted a Kicker Early
- The Invisible Life of My Third Receiver
- The Jungle Book of Plays
- The Kicker Who Lived
- The Last Battle for Sixth Place
- The Last Chapter Was Week One
- The Last Unicorn in the Slot
- The Left Tackle of Darkness
- The Lies of Locke Down Corner
T, continued
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tanking
- The Lightning Thief of Possessions
- The Lincoln Lawyer Up, Commissioner
- The Lion, the Witch and the Waiver Wire
- The Little Engine That Could Not Convert
- The Little Prince of Punts
- The Long Dark Bye Week of the Soul
- The Long Goodbye Week
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Linebacker
- The Lorax Speaks for the Tight Ends
- The Lost World of My Lead
- The MacGuffin at Running Back
- The Man in the High Press Box
- The Man in the Iron Face Mask
T, continued
- The Man in the Yellow Flag
- The Masque of the Red Zone
- The Maze Runner Up
- The Merry Wideouts of Windsor
- The Metamorphosis of My Roster
- The Minority Report on My Kicker
- The Mists of Avalon Hide the Play Clock
- The Mixed-Up Files of My Draft Board
- The Mock Draft Turtle
- The Monkey's Paw Draft Wish
- The Monster at the End of This Schedule
- The Moon Is a Harsh Schedule
- The Mouse and the Motion Penalty
- The Mousetrap Play
T, continued
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd's Season
- The Mystery of the Third-Quarter Collapse
- The Name of the Wind Advisory
- The Night Circus Catch
- The Ninth Circle of Waivers
- The No. 1 Ladies' Defensive Agency
- The Notebook of Trick Plays
- The Old Almanac Predicts a Loss
- The Old Man and the Seam Route
- The Once and Future Kicker
- The Past Is a Foreign Depth Chart
- The Pearl of the Late Rounds
- The Perfect Foil for a Pass Rush
- The Phantom of the Offense
- The Phantom Toll Booth Review
T, continued
- The Pickwick Six Papers
- The Picture of Dorian Gray Area Call
- The Pigeon Wants a Trade
- The Play Action's the Thing
- The Plot Thickens at the Line
- The Poky Little Pass Rush
- The Portrait of a Lateral
- The Postman Always Blitzes Twice
- The Postman Delivers on Third Down
- The Power of Negative Yardage
- The Prince of the Cellar
- The Prisoner of Zone Coverage
- The Purloined Letter of Intent
- The Quarterback Sneetches
T, continued
- The Rainbow Fish Shares His Targets
- The Read Zone
- The Reading Lamp Post Route
- The Red Badge of Carries
- The Remains of the Bye
- The Restaurant at the End of the Bench
- The Road Team
- The Runaway Bunny Screen
- The Saddest Box Score I Have Ever Heard
- The Scarlet Letterman
- The Scottish Play Call
- The Screens Must Flow
- The Secret Garden Variety Kicker
- The Secret History of My Trades
T, continued
- The Secret of the Old Play Clock
- The Sense of an Ending in Week Six
- The Sequel Nobody Drafted
- The Seven Habits of Highly Defective Teams
- The Shadow Over the Injury Tent
- The Shining Moment in Garbage Time
- The Sign of the Four-Three Defense
- The Snap Count of Monte Cristo
- The Sorrows of Young Kickers
- The Sound and the Fumble
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Bench
- The Stand at the Goal Line
- The Stranger in the Slot
- The Subplot Is My Bench
- The Subtle Knife Through the Line
T, continued
- The Sun Also Rushes
- The Suspect Secondary
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Standings
- The Sword in the Stone Hands
- The Tale of Desperate Throws
- The Taming of the Screen Game
- The Tell-Tale Heart Monitor
- The Thin Man Coverage
- The Thirty-Nine Step Drop
- The Three Blocketeers
- The Three Laws of Clock Management
- The Three-Body Problem at Tight End
- The Thursday Night Murder Club
- The Tiger Who Came to Tailgate
T, continued
- The Time Traveler's Wide Receiver
- The Trial by Replay
- The Trojan Horse Collar Tackle
- The Tyger, Tyger Blitzing Bright
- The Unabridged Loss Column
- The Unbearable Lightness of My Bench
- The Understudy Starts Sunday
- The Unread Blitz
- The Velveteen Running Back
- The Very Hungry Linebacker
- The Voyage of the Down Treader
- The Wallflower at Wideout
- The War of the Wild Cards
- The Wealth of Fumbles
T, continued
- The Westing Game Plan
- The Wheel Route of Time
- The Wind in the Wideouts
- The Winter of Our Disconnected Offense
- There and Back Again Shoulder Fade
- There Once Was a Team From Last Place
- There Was a Kicker and He Almost Deserved It
- Thesaurus Entry for Loss: Us
- They Lived Happily Ever After the Bye
- They Seek Him Here, They Sack Him There
- Thicker Than a Phone Book: My Loss Column
- Thing One and Thing Two-Point Conversion
- Think and Grow Benched
- Third Person Limited Snap Count
- This Is Just to Say I Took Your Kicker
T, continued
- This Month's Pick Six
- This Side of the Fifty
- Three Men in a Bootleg
- Three Sisters, Three Tight Ends
- Three-Act Structure, Four-Down Territory
- Throne of Glass Ankles
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Bye
- To Bye or Not to Bye
- To Seek, to Find, and Not to Punt
- Toilet Bowl Reading List
- Tom Sawyer's Fence Blockers
- Tome Field Advantage
- Tortilla Flat Route
- Tote Bag Full of Turnovers
T, continued
- Trade Paperback Deadline
- Tragedy in Five Acts and Four Quarters
- Tragedy Shelf Regulars
- Tragic Backstory at Left Guard
- Tragic Flaw: I Trust My Kicker
- Travels With Charley Horse
- Treasure Island Coverage
- Trilogy of Turnovers
- Tuck Everlasting, Tuck Rule Never
- Turn the Page Sweep
- Twelve Angry Men on the Field
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under .500
- Two Routes Diverged in a Yellow Wood
- Two Straight Lines of Scrimmage
- Typo in the Lineup
U: 11 names
- Ulysses Takes Forever to Punt
- Unabridged Blitz Package
- Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Headset
- Unhappy Ending, No Sequel
- Unhaul the Bench
- Universally Acknowledged: Kickers Go Last
- Unputdownable Pass Rush
- Unreliable Narrator, Unreliable Kicker
- Up Past Midnight Setting Lineups
- Uriah Heep of Penalties
- Used Books, Used Timeouts
V: 4 names
- Van Helsing's Stake in the League
- Vanity Fair Catch
- Villanelle of the Repeated Three-and-Out
- Volume Two-Point Conversion
W: 39 names
- Waiting for Godot to Return From Injury
- Want to Read, Have to Punt
- War and Pass Protection
- Warp Drive Block
- Washington Square Out
- We Are in a Playbook
- We Are Merely Punters
- We Happy Few, We Bench of Brothers
- We Have Always Lived in the Cellar
- We're All Mad Here About the Refs
- We're Going on a Bye Hunt
- Weeping Over the Waiver Wire
- Well-Read Zone Offense
W, continued
- Whan That August With His Preseason Soote
- What Fools These Kickers Be
- What to Expect When You're Rebuilding
- Where the Red Zone Grows
- Where the Sideline Ends
- Where the Wild Things Blitz
- Where's Waldo in Coverage
- White Fang, Red Zone
- Who Moved My Chains
- Whodunit? The Kicker Did
- Wide Margins of Victory
- Wine Now, Read Later, Set Lineup Never
- Winnie the Punt
W, continued
- Winston Smith's Room 101 Yards
- Wise Blood, Dumb Penalties
- Wool Over the Commissioner's Eyes
- Word Count: Zero Touchdowns
- Words of Radiance, Yards of Offense
- Works Cited for Holding
- Workshop Critique of My Draft
- World-Building Through the Draft
- Writer's Block in the Back
- Writing Retreat to Prevent Defense
- Written Off by Week Five
- Wuthering Hikes
- Wyrd Sisters, Weird Lineup