2026 Draft Cheat Sheets

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

Half-PPR · ranked by projected points minus a volatility penalty (safe) · season points (17-game), floor-to-ceiling, value over replacement and week-to-week consistency from WaiverWire's own engine.

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123 (7.2/gm) season points, with per-game steady 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	Team	Bye
1	Jahmyr Gibbs	DET	6	RB1	14.2	207	6	37	+116	Very Steady	1.5
2	Puka NacuaQ	LAR	11	WR1	13.1	191	6	33	+106	Very Steady	2.9
3	Bijan Robinson	ATL	11	RB2	12.2	178	6	27	+87	Very Steady	2.4
4	Jonathan Taylor	IND	13	RB3	11.5	168	4	31	+77	Steady	5.8
5	James Cook	BUF	7	RB4	11.3	165	4	27	+74	Very Steady	9.1
6	Trey McBride	ARI	14	TE1	10.2	150	4	25	+74	Very Steady	38.3
7	Ja'Marr ChaseQ	CIN	6	WR3	10.7	156	4	28	+71	Very Steady	4
8	Amon-Ra St. Brown	DET	6	WR2	10.7	156	5	28	+70	Very Steady	7.7
9	Josh Allen	BUF	7	QB1	18.3	255	10	39	+67	Steady	32.8
10	Jaxon Smith-Njigba	SEA	11	WR5	10.4	152	3	25	+65	Very Steady	5.1
11	CeeDee Lamb	DAL	14	WR4	10.3	151	4	28	+65	Very Steady	12.4
12	Rashee Rice	KC	5	WR6	10.2	149	5	24	+62	Very Steady	17.3
13	Kyren Williams	LAR	11	RB5	10.3	150	6	21	+59	Very Steady	27.7
14	De'Von Achane	MIA	6	RB6	10.2	149	5	24	+58	Very Steady	11.4
15	Chase Brown	CIN	6	RB7	10.2	149	5	24	+57	Very Steady	14.5
16	Nico Collins	HOU	8	WR7	9.7	142	5	22	+56	Very Steady	21.4
17	Lamar Jackson	BAL	13	QB2	17	237	10	32	+49	Very Steady	55.8
18	Christian McCaffreyQ	SF	8	RB8	9.5	139	4	23	+48	Very Steady	7
19	Drake London	ATL	11	WR8	9	131	3	26	+45	Steady	12.9
20	Cam Skattebo	NYG	8	RB9	9.2	135	4	25	+44	Steady	39.6
21	Saquon Barkley	PHI	10	RB10	9.2	134	4	24	+43	Very Steady	17.3
22	Drake Maye	NE	11	QB4	16.6	232	12	29	+43	Very Steady	51.5
23	Joe Burrow	CIN	6	QB3	16.6	231	10	32	+43	Very Steady	56.5
24	Brock Bowers	LV	13	TE2	8.1	119	3	22	+42	Very Steady	41.7
25	George Pickens	DAL	14	WR9	8.7	127	3	25	+40	Very Steady	19

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–K21 · 21 players within 0.8/gm · order here is a coin flip
1	Tyler Bass110 (6.9/gm) BUFadp 145.7bye 74-13 fcvor +8n/a
2	Trey SmackR107 (6.8/gm) GBadp 159.9bye 114-13 fcvor +6n/a
3	Andre Szmyt104 (6.6/gm) CLEadp 169.88bye 114-11 fcvor +5Very Steady
4	Jake Bates106 (6.7/gm) DETadp 142.5bye 65-13 fcvor +5Very Steady
5	Will Reichard104 (6.6/gm) MINadp 156.2bye 64-14 fcvor +3Very Steady

Defense / ST

top 5

Tier 1DEF1–DEF7 · 7 players within 1.1/gm
1	Broncos DST108 (6.3/gm) DENadp 93.7bye 103-18 fcvor +36Very Steady
2	Texans DST107 (6.3/gm) HOUadp 97.6bye 82-17 fcvor +36Very Steady
3	Seahawks DST104 (6.1/gm) SEAadp 80.1bye 111-19 fcvor +33Very Steady
4	Vikings DST93 (5.5/gm) MINadp 106.2bye 61-18 fcvor +22Steady
5	Steelers DST93 (5.5/gm) PITadp 136.7bye 92-15 fcvor +22Very 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.

Projections are statistical estimates only. Not financial or gambling advice.