ABOUT US
A Brief History of Late-Round FANTASY FOOTBALL
JJ Zachariason has spent more than a decade talking fantasy football with a passionate audience — earning industry recognition and lifelong friendships along the way — all while wearing gym shorts almost every single day.
A Brief History of Late‑Round Fantasy Football
How One E-Book Spawned a Fantasy Football Empire
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2012
JJ publishes The Late-Round Quarterback, an e-book that changes the trajectory of his career — and introduces a data-driven way to think about fantasy football.
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2013
The Late-Round Quarterback leads to a role at numberFire, a startup offering statistical fantasy analysis, where JJ helps build the site’s content business from the ground up.
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2015
numberFire is acquired by FanDuel. JJ continues on, eventually becoming Editor-In-Chief. At FanDuel, JJ develops one of the most popular podcasts in the fantasy football space.
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2022
JJ leaves FanDuel to start Late-Round Fantasy Football, an independent platform built around thoughtful, analytical fantasy strategy.
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2024
The Late-Round Podcast wins the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Award for Best Football Podcast for the third time in five years.
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2025
David Kitchen joins as Chief Operating Officer, bringing experience and vision to guide what comes next.
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2026
Brandon Gdula is added to the team to bring data-driven insights and more analysis for Late-Round Fantasy Football members.
Meet the
Late-Round
Team
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JJ Zachariason
Chief Executive officer
JJ wrote an e-book called The Late-Round Quarterback in 2012. And it changed his life.
That document led him to a job at numberFire, where he helped build the site’s content business from the ground up. numberFire was later bought by FanDuel in 2015, and he went on to spend years as the company’s Editor-In-Chief. There, he developed one of the most popular podcasts in the fantasy football industry. He eventually left the gig to start Late-Round Fantasy Football in January of 2022.
JJ’s now talked to an audience of fantasy football diehards for more than a decade. He’s met lifelong friends, won Fantasy Sports Writers Association awards, and worn gym shorts nearly every day of his 14-year career as a fantasy analyst.
When JJ’s not shouting into his microphone about fantasy football, he’s hanging out with his wife and two kids or riding his Peloton. Just not at the same time. He’s a born and raised Yinzer who now calls Charlotte, North Carolina his home.
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David Kitchen
chief operating officer
In 2012, David won a daily fantasy sports (DFS) contest called “The Worm.” From those winnings, he dove right into the world of fantasy sports.
From selling customizable fantasy football draft boards to flying all over the place as a “DraftKings Pro,” Kitchen immersed himself in fantasy sports media. He hosted shows for DraftKings, RotoGrinders, and SiriusXM, and would eventually start Fantasy Insiders. FI was a DFS site (a few shows even featured JJ!) that would be acquired by RotoGrinders in 2017, where he worked for over eight years.
While David hosts just two shows these days (The Swolecast and The Late-Round Fantasy Football Show), he loves the business side of fantasy sports and building relationships within the industry.
When he’s not analyzing fantasy sports, he’s fully embracing life as a girl dad of three and devoted husband. A Nashville native through and through, he experiences the highs of sports by coaching basketball and the mostly lows of being a Titans and Vandy fan.
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Brandon Gdula
Senior analyst
Before joining Late-Round Fantasy Football, Brandon had worked in the fantasy sports industry for more than a decade.
Most of that time was spent with JJ at numberFire and FanDuel.
In his time there, Brandon analyzed golf, basketball, and of course fantasy football, specifically focusing on advanced analytics and game theory: waiver wire production, touchdown regression, range-of-outcome probabilities, and more.
Since his start in the fantasy sports industry more than a decade ago, Gdula has been nominated for more than a dozen Fantasy Sports Writers Association awards, winning five times across numerous categories, including football, golf, and podcasting.
When not watching sports, Brandon is most likely spending time with his wife and cats, building out yet another sports model, watching pro wrestling, lifting weights, looking for a pickup game of basketball, or trying to make a tee time.