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Happy Friday!
We saw the biggest ESPN draft room ranking shakeup last night, which took away a loooooot of values from those draft rooms. This is to be expected, it happens every year - the draft rooms are catching up to true 2026 values as the season nears.
This is one of the biggest draft weekends of the year, and one of the last! Let’s make it a good one.
Let’s get to drafting!
In this week’s newsletter:
🏷️ This Week's Draft Values
📝 Draft Day Cheat Sheet
📈 Biggest ADP Movers
🥇 Top-10 WRs
🏷️ This Week’s Draft Values
Every week I’ll highlight draft values found in draft rooms, primarily using my Abusing Draft Rankings tool to help find these players.
MIN RB Jordan Mason - Sleeper Standard
FantasyPros ECR: 74 overall | Sleeper ADP: 103
Landmine Score: 4.6
Mason led the Vikings in rushing last year, and camp reports have him pushing hard for a bigger share of the backfield as Aaron Jones ages into his age-32 season. The signs are there that Mason will be the lead back in Minnesota, but he’s still appearing in drafts as a backup in this backfield.
GB TE Tucker Kraft - ESPN Standard
FantasyPros ECR: 54 overall | ESPN ADP: 110
Landmine Score: 2.6
Still a steal in this draft room! Kraft continues to show up as a top-3 value in nearly every ESPN format we track - a top-60 overall player still falling to pick 110. If you’re eyeing to fade tight ends in your drafts, Kraft is a cheaper pick here.
TB WR Chris Godwin - ESPN Half PPR
FantasyPros ECR: 82 overall | ESPN ADP: 97
Landmine Score: 4.8
Still climbing back toward a fair price, but the gap hasn't closed yet. One of the biggest values all summer and continues to be a buy on my list.
GB QB Jordan Love - ESPN Half PPR
FantasyPros ECR: 120 overall | ESPN ADP: 149
Landmine Score: 3.4
Another repeat visitor on this list. The broader QB market has mostly corrected in draft rooms, but Love's still sliding well past his consensus rank on ESPN specifically.
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📝 Draft Day Cheat Sheet
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.
📈 Biggest Movers This Month
A running look at which names have shifted the most since the start of the summer, across each platform.
ESPN
🔼 De'Zhaun Stribling (WR, SF): 130 → 81
🔼 Stefon Diggs (WR, WAS): 125 → 84
🔼 Rico Dowdle (RB, PIT): 96 → 64
🔼 Chris Godwin (WR, TB): 128 → 97
🔽 TreVeyon Henderson (RB, NE): 63 → 99
🔽 Bo Nix (QB, DEN): 84 → 113
🔽 Matthew Stafford (QB, LAR): 86 → 115
Sleeper
🔼 Keenan Allen (WR, LAC): 203 → 170
🔼 Jonathon Brooks (RB, CAR): 113 → 104
🔽 Chig Okonkwo (TE, WAS): 157 → 168
Yahoo
🔼 Dalton Schultz (TE, HOU): 211 → 151
🔼 De'Zhaun Stribling (WR, SF): 116 → 89
🔽 Tyrone Tracy (RB, NYG): 132 → 197
🔽 Alvin Kamara (RB, NO): 152 → 188
🥇 2026 Top-Ten WRs
My 2026 rankings are LIVE, and here's an updated look at my top WRs. Feel free to view all player ranks at the link below. Ranks will continue to be updated.
Rank | Player | Team |
1 | Ja'Marr Chase | CIN |
2 | Puka Nacua | LAR |
3 | Jaxon Smith-Njigba | SEA |
4 | Amon-Ra St. Brown | DET |
5 | CeeDee Lamb | DAL |
6 | Drake London | ATL |
7 | Justin Jefferson | MIN |
8 | A.J. Brown | NE |
9 | George Pickens | DAL |
10 | Nico Collins | HOU |
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