2026 Draft Cheat Sheets

How Waiver Wire drafts · process, board-vs-market values, and using Coach on the clock

Half-PPR · ranked by ceiling (upside) · season points (17-game), floor-to-ceiling, value over replacement and week-to-week consistency from WaiverWire's own engine. Condensed print: rank, points and ADP only.

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How to read this sheet
123 (7.2/gm) season points, with per-game ceiling points alongside
Pos (All Players board) position and rank there, e.g. RB12 = 12th-ranked RB
ADP market average draft position (half-PPR consensus)
Bye team bye week
FC floor–ceiling per game (~10th–90th percentile outcomes)
± this player's team lost snaps or targets we can see but can't yet split with confidence — the ceiling is widened and the projection is lower-confidence than the number alone suggests
VOR value over replacement: season points above a 12-team replacement starter
R rookie
InjuryQquestionable,Oout / IR / PUP (live from Sleeper)
Risk(week-to-week consistency):low = steadymediumhigh = volatile
Tip click any player name to see this season's projected line next to last season's actual stats.
Tiers group players of similar value. A new tier marks a projected-points cliff (a meaningful drop-off). Players inside a tier are roughly interchangeable, so only reach past a tier break when you need that position. Each tier header shows how many players it holds and how few points separate them — where that span is wide, the rank numbers inside it are dimmed, because the projection genuinely can't tell those players apart and the order is a tiebreak rather than a forecast. Read the tier, not the integer.

Sorted by value over replacement (VOR). Click any column header to re-sort.

#Player
1Jahmyr GibbsRB15391.5
2Puka NacuaQWR14872.9
3Jonathan TaylorRB24465.8
4Amon-Ra St. BrownWR24097.7
5Josh AllenQB153832.8
6Ja'Marr ChaseQWR34054
7Trey McBrideTE137638.3
8Drake LondonWR438412.9
9Jaxon Smith-NjigbaWR53735.1
10James CookRB33989.1
11George PickensWR637119
12CeeDee LambWR736012.4
13Bijan RobinsonRB43872.4
14Rashee RiceWR835817.3
15Brock BowersTE232741.7
16Bhayshul TutenQRB537153.7
17Cam SkatteboRB636639.6
18Saquon BarkleyRB735717.3
19Colston LovelandTE330159.8
20Chase BrownRB835514.5
21Chris OlaveWR932422.3
22Joe BurrowQB245156.5
23De'Von AchaneRB934911.4
24Nico CollinsWR1032121.4
25Omarion HamptonRB1034523.1

Kickers and defenses are ranked on their own below rather than blended into the board above — they don't compete for the same roster spots as skill players, and their point scale isn't comparable, so mixing them in would just relocate them to odd-looking spots without adding real signal.

Kickers

top 5
Tier 1K1–K2 · 2 players within 0.7/gm
1
Brandon Aubrey283 (17.9/gm)
DALadp 133bye 143-18 fcvor +51Very Swingy
2
Jason Myers272 (17.2/gm)
SEAadp 128.4bye 114-17 fcvor +40Swingy
Tier 2K3–K5 · 3 players within 0.8/gm
3
Ka'imi Fairbairn267 (16.9/gm)
HOUadp 136.9bye 85-17 fcvor +34Swingy
4
Spencer Shrader259 (16.4/gm)
INDadp 169.91bye 131-16 fcvor +27n/a
5
Charlie Smyth255 (16.1/gm)
NObye 81-16 fcvor +22Very Swingy

Defense / ST

top 5
Tier 1DEF1–DEF3 · 3 players within 1/gm
1
Seahawks DST325 (19.1/gm)
SEAadp 80.1bye 111-19 fcvor +67Very Steady
2
Vikings DST312 (18.4/gm)
MINadp 106.2bye 61-18 fcvor +55Steady
3
Broncos DST308 (18.1/gm)
DENadp 93.7bye 103-18 fcvor +50Very Steady
Tier 2DEF4–DEF7 · 4 players within 0.6/gm
4
Cowboys DST286 (16.8/gm)
DALadp 140.6bye 140-17 fcvor +28Very Swingy
5
Texans DST286 (16.8/gm)
HOUadp 97.6bye 82-17 fcvor +28Very Steady

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Projections, floor-to-ceiling and the consistency read — how tightly a player's weekly scores cluster around his own average, graded against his position — are generated by WaiverWire's own engine and blended with market ADP. Bye weeks from the 2026 schedule. Market ADP last refreshed Sep 1, 2026.

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