The Whiz brings you a complete list of all Declared Underclassmen who have declined their last year of college to become eligible for the NFL Draft. They are sorted by position.

This list is updates on 1/16/08.

This Dynasty Pulse is the first issue of what I hope will become a weekly series, depending on your interest and feedback. With so much of the Whiz’s readership involved in Dynasty leagues, there should be a lot of interest in staying on top of young players who we can target with the hope they will grow into long-term stars. So that’s what this article will be about – focusing on the Dynasty perspective, looking at the long term, and keeping an eye on the development of young, new, and future NFL players to help you make any roster moves that can allow you to optimize the position.

(1) Forum Discussion

The Whiz is a home for FF fans who want more in-depth information than “Start Tomlinson this week – he should be good.” Members of the Whiz also typically want a deeper experience than the familiar redraft leagues with team defenses – We’re hard-core FF fans who thrive in dynasty leagues with Individual Defensive Players (IDP) and extended rules. With this in mind, the Whiz is making an initial gesture in its first year to reach out to these FF die-hards by sponsoring four new and challenging fantasy football leagues: the Badlands Dynasty Leagues.

So far, the results have been positive – the leagues filled very quickly and all four (BL-1 through BL-4) have now completed their initial veteran drafts and have moved on to (or completed) their rookie drafts. Each twelve-team league held their beginning 48-round draft to select non-rookies on their own MyFantasyLeague.com (MFL) site, and with the results in, we can now compare and review the drafts.

A big part of the fun of the preparation for a new fantasy football season is looking for sleepers – little-known or under-appreciated players who seem to come from nowhere and exceed everyone’s scoring expectations.  It’s a great feeling to be able to point out to your league-mates how they missed out on a guy that they foolishly overlooked, and to let them all know how you were smart enough to take a chance on him. Of course, we will ignore the other nine sleepers who are still snoring away on our bench – just having that one-in-ten hit is worth a little bragging.

Well, since others have been highlighting potential sleepers and rookies with potential, I’d like to take a look at the other side of the coin:  Which guys are likely to fall out of the upper fantasy levels in order to open up the space for the new guys to move into?  Who are these stars poised to plummet?