Happy Friday!
Slowly but surely, the NFL season is approaching. Or actually, it may be coming at us fast - we only have three more draft weekends left before kickoff!
Real news to flag this week: Saints rookie WR Jordyn Tyson, the 8th overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, suffered a hamstring injury in a joint practice on August 13 and is expected to miss roughly two months - a timeline that could realistically push into the regular season. His ADP has fallen off a cliff as a result (down 76-82 picks depending on platform and format).
Let’s get to drafting!
In this week’s newsletter:
🏷️ This Week's Draft Values
📝 Draft Day Cheat Sheet
📈 Biggest ADP Movers
🥇 Top-10 TEs
🏷️ 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.
SEA WR Rashid Shaheed - ESPN Standard
FantasyPros ECR: 84 overall | ESPN ADP: 112
Landmine Score: 3.4
Shaheed just signed a three-year, $51 million deal to stay in Seattle after helping the Seahawks win the Super Bowl following his midseason arrival last year. This is his first full offseason and training camp with Sam Darnold. The Athletic named him Seattle's top breakout candidate for 2026. He's still best known as an elite returner, but the offensive role is real this time - and the price hasn't caught up yet.
BUF WR Khalil Shakir - Yahoo PPR
FantasyPros ECR: 121 overall | ESPN ADP: 142
Landmine Score: 3.7
He's led the Bills in targets each of the last two years and just signed a four-year, $52.9 million extension. Yahoo's dropping him more than two rounds behind consensus and there’s still a role for him in this offense. I’m buying.
GB TE Tucker Kraft - ESPN Standard
FantasyPros ECR: 62 overall | ESPN ADP: 1102
Landmine Score: 3.1
Kraft has nearly been a value all summer in draft rooms, and ESPN is the slowest to play catch up - the only platform to have him ranked outside the top-100.
📝 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
🔼 Rhamondre Stevenson (RB, NE): 97 → 64
🔼 Jordan Mason (RB, MIN): 138 → 109
🔼 Tyjae Spears (RB, TEN): 166 → 140
🔽 Tony Pollard (RB, TEN): 64 → 97
🔽 Makai Lemon (WR, PHI): 81 → 125
🔽 Jordyn Tyson (WR, NO): 76 → 152
Sleeper
🔼 Tank Bigsby (RB, PHI): 177 → 149
🔼 Alvin Kamara (RB, NO): 161 → 138
🔽 Malik Willis (QB, GB): 141 → 166
🔽 Juwan Johnson (TE, NO): 132 → 162
Yahoo
🔼 (quieter week - no moves over 20 picks)
🔽 Jordyn Tyson (WR, NO): steep drop across the board
🥇 2026 Top-Ten TEs
My 2026 rankings are LIVE, and here's an updated look at my top TEs. Feel free to view all player ranks at the link below. Ranks will continue to be updated.
Rank | Player | Team |
1 | Brock Bowers | LV |
2 | Trey McBride | ARI |
3 | Tyler Warren | IND |
4 | Colston Loveland | CHI |
5 | Tucker Kraft | GB |
6 | Harold Fannin | CLE |
7 | Sam LaPorta | DET |
8 | Kyle Pitts | ATL |
9 | Mark Andrews | BAL |
10 | Travis Kelce | KC |
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