Happy Friday!

Quieter week on the ADP front - most of the board barely moved, which tracks with the Trend Watch story last week. The one real mover worth flagging: Sam LaPorta has already jumped 29 picks in a single week on ESPN. Jauan Jennings, one of last issue's actual picks, climbed another 9.

Let’s get to drafting!

🏷️ This Week's Draft Values
📝 Draft Day Cheat Sheet
⚙️ Draft Room Mechanics: Standard vs. PPR
🥇 Top-10 QBs

Every week I’ll highlight draft values found in draft rooms, primarily using my Abusing Draft Rankings tool to help find these players.

FantasyPros ECR: 87 overall | ESPN ADP: 121
Landmine Score: 3.3

Corum is locked in as the clear backup to Kyren Williams, but "backup" undersells his actual role — from Week 7 on last season, he ranked 5th in the NFL in explosive run rate and 6th in missed tackles forced per attempt. The Rams believe he's ready for an even bigger role in 2026, and head coach Sean McVay has been vocal about wanting both backs heavily involved. (SI.com)

FantasyPros ECR: 94 overall | ESPN ADP: 125
Landmine Score: 3.3

Johnston posted a career-best 735 yards last season and led the Chargers in touchdowns for two straight years, but he's still being treated like a boom/bust afterthought. New OC Mike McDaniel has compared his size and after-catch ability to Andre Johnson and Julio Jones, and exercised his fifth-year option as a vote of confidence. (ESPN)

FantasyPros ECR: 58 overall | ESPN ADP: 78
Landmine Score: 4.2

Watson is having the kind of camp that's hard to ignore — he's scored on three straight practices, been described as looking like he's at the "peak of his powers," and just signed a four-year deal worth up to $110.5 million. His chemistry with Jordan Love has been a daily camp storyline. (Heavy.com)

Another year, another update to my draft cheat sheet - JuiceSheets!

These sheets pair nicely with my Abusing Draft Rankings as it includes projections and a value column for Standard, Half PPR and PPR scoring on ESPN, Sleeper and Yahoo. Check it out as a tool to use as you draft.

New recurring section this draft season: I want to identify structural difference between platforms and scoring that's worth knowing.

ESPN and Yahoo barely adjust their default draft order based on your league's scoring format. Sleeper actually does.

I checked where the same top-12 backs and receivers land across the Standard, Half PPR, and PPR versions of each platform. On ESPN and Yahoo, the numbers are nearly frozen - RBs and WRs sit in almost the exact same spot whether you're in a Standard or PPR league. Yahoo's default order is functionally identical across all three formats. Sleeper is the outlier: in Standard leagues, its room pushes RBs up near pick 9 on average and WRs all the way down near pick 21 - correctly reflecting that catches matter less without PPR. Move to full PPR, and that gap nearly closes, with RBs and WRs landing within a few picks of each other.

What this means for you: if you're drafting on ESPN or Yahoo, the default board you're staring at doesn't actually know what scoring format your league runs - it's the same list either way. That's most exploitable in ESPN or Yahoo Standard leagues specifically, where the room is still quietly pricing receivers like it's a PPR draft. Sleeper drafters get a room that's already adjusted for scoring, so this particular gap is smaller there - though as we've covered all season, Sleeper has its own separate quirks (the QB devaluation being the big one).

The first draft of my 2026 rankings are LIVE! Here's a look at my top QBs, powered by FantasyPros ECR. Feel free to view all player ranks at the link below. Ranks will continue to be updated.

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