Happy Friday!

Welcome to preseason kickoff, where things begin to get more real. Fantast drafts are popping up on the calendars, football is on the TV regularly, Brandon Aiyuk is likely being traded. Things feel right.

Whether your drafts are this weekend or in a month from now, it’s always a good time to know some draft values.

Let’s win these drafts.

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

Obviously right now it’s too early to take advantage of these values, unless you’re drafting this weekend! It’s still a massive benefit to keep an eye on both ADP trends (listed in the next section) and consistent discrepancies between ADP and expert ranks.

Draft room rank: 76 | Expert rank: 49

FantasyPros ECR has Christian Kirk as the WR26 while ESPN draft rooms have him as the WR35. on top of being a massive value when looking at these numbers, Kirk also enters a season where he can be the true WR1 again for the Jaguars now that Calvin Ridley is out of the picture. Count me in at this discount.

Draft room rank: 92 | Expert rank: 73

He may not be the sexiest pick, but you can do much worse than a player who will be the primary target on the offense in the 8th round. With a two round discount on Johnson, it’s hard not to get on board.

Draft room rank: 33-34 | Expert rank: 26

It’s not a steep value, but Waddle is a guy I’m targeting this season in drafts and draft rooms appear to be showing him off later than I’d pick him. There’s also a steady drumbeat from experts on a Waddle hype train that could slowly cause his ADP to rise as the season nears, so buy in soon.

Have any draft questions? Need an extra brain to help with some keepers? Let me know! Feel free to reply to this email and I’ll help you out.

Some weekly updates from training camps. This will not be where you find player hype, but mostly key news out of camps; contracts, injuries, starters. You get it. Maybe a fun one once in a while. Let’s look at this week:

🗞️ Dallas doesn’t seem close to a deal with WR CeeDee Lamb

🗞️ Falcons WR Rondale Moore will miss the season with a knee injury

🗞️ Colts WR Josh Downs to miss some time with an ankle injury

🗞️ QB Sam Darnold to start for the Vikings for preseason opener

🗞️ Jets WR Mike Williams was activated off the PUP list

Let’s take a look at ADP (average draft position) and some of the biggest movers from the past few weeks.

📈 Risers
🔼 +20 - Geno Smith - QB, SEA
🔼 +15 - Rashod Bateman - WR, BAL
🔼 +9 - Noah Fant - TE, SEA
🔼 +8 - Baker Mayfield - QB, TB
🔼 +8 - Dameon Pierce - RB, HOU

📉 Fallers
🔽 -22 - Marvin Mims - WR, DEN
🔽 -20 - Khalil Herbert - RB, CHI
🔽 -20 - Luke McCaffrey - WR, WAS
🔽 -18 - Roschon Johnson - RB, CHI
🔽 -18 - Ja'Tavion Sanders - TE, CAR

This week’s RB rankings:

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