Super Bowl champion Nick Foles credits AI for getting him into fantasy football

Super Bowl champion Nick Foles credits AI for getting him into fantasy football in an interview with Fox News Digital.

AI has become a part of all walks of life, and that includes fantasy football. 

As the NFL’s popularity has grown, so has football fans' desire to play fantasy football and run their own teams. Super Bowl champion Nick Foles told Fox News Digital that AI has helped him get into fantasy football in his post-playing career. 

"(AI has) intrigued me to actually do fantasy football because now I have all the information. I’m at the beginning stages, so you get to see the genesis of me starting to play fantasy football because of this," Foles told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.

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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles (9) makes a throw during the third quarter of an NFC Divisional playoff football game against the New Orleans Saints at Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Jan. 13, 2019. (Chuck Cook/USA TODAY Sports)

"So I’m actually at the beginning stages like a newbie out there, but it intrigued me that they have this WatsonX AI in it to make these decisions because, beforehand, I’m like I don’t have time to research all these players to build a fantasy team, but now with it, it allows that."

Foles compared using AI in fantasy football to how an NFL general manager has different departments that acquire information for him. 

"You are the general manager of your own fantasy football team, but beforehand you didn’t have information a general manager has, like Howie Roseman for the Philadelphia Eagles. He has this entire staff that the Eagles are paying that does sports analytics, free agents, rookies, whatever it may be," Foles