2026 Draft Cheat Sheets

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

Standard · ranked by ceiling (upside) · 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 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	Team	Bye
1	Jahmyr Gibbs	DET	6	RB1	32.9	481	5	33	+242	Very Steady	1.5
2	Puka NacuaQ	LAR	11	WR1	26.2	384	5	26	+189	Very Steady	2.9
3	Jonathan Taylor	IND	13	RB2	28.7	419	4	29	+179	Steady	5.8
4	Josh Allen	BUF	7	QB1	38.6	538	10	39	+164	Steady	32.8
5	James Cook	BUF	7	RB3	25.7	376	4	26	+136	Very Steady	9.1
6	Amon-Ra St. Brown	DET	6	WR2	21.7	317	4	22	+123	Very Steady	7.7
7	Bhayshul TutenQ	JAX	7	RB4	24.6	359	0	25	+120	Average	53.7
8	Ja'Marr ChaseQ	CIN	6	WR3	21.4	314	3	21	+119	Very Steady	4
9	Drake London	ATL	11	WR4	20.8	303	2	21	+109	Steady	12.9
10	Bijan Robinson	ATL	11	RB5	23.6	346	5	24	+106	Very Steady	2.4
11	Trey McBride	ARI	14	TE1	18.7	277	3	19	+103	Very Steady	38.3
12	George Pickens	DAL	14	WR5	20.3	297	2	20	+102	Very Steady	19
13	Jaxon Smith-Njigba	SEA	11	WR6	20.2	295	3	20	+99	Very Steady	5.1
14	CeeDee Lamb	DAL	14	WR7	19.9	291	3	22	+97	Very Steady	12.4
15	Saquon Barkley	PHI	10	RB6	22.7	332	4	23	+92	Very Steady	17.3
16	Cam Skattebo	NYG	8	RB7	22.4	328	4	22	+88	Steady	39.6
17	Rashee Rice	KC	5	WR8	18.8	275	3	19	+79	Very Steady	17.3
18	Joe Burrow	CIN	6	QB2	32.4	451	10	32	+77	Very Steady	56.5
19	Brock Bowers	LV	13	TE2	16.8	248	3	17	+75	Very Steady	41.7
20	Lamar Jackson	BAL	13	QB3	31.7	442	10	32	+69	Very Steady	55.8
21	Chase Brown	CIN	6	RB9	21.1	308	4	21	+68	Very Steady	14.5
22	De'Von Achane	MIA	6	RB8	21	306	4	21	+67	Very Steady	11.4
23	Nico Collins	HOU	8	WR9	17.8	260	4	18	+66	Very Steady	21.4
24	Tee HigginsQ	CIN	6	WR10	17.8	260	2	18	+65	Very Steady	35.5
25	Colston Loveland	CHI	10	TE3	16	237	1	16	+63	Average	59.8

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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