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.

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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	Team	Bye
1	Jahmyr Gibbs	DET	6	RB1	36.9	539	6	37	+265	Very Steady	1.5
2	Puka NacuaQ	LAR	11	WR1	33.3	487	6	33	+242	Very Steady	2.9
3	Jonathan Taylor	IND	13	RB2	30.5	446	4	31	+172	Steady	5.8
4	Amon-Ra St. Brown	DET	6	WR2	28	409	5	28	+164	Very Steady	7.7
5	Josh Allen	BUF	7	QB1	38.6	538	10	39	+164	Steady	32.8
6	Ja'Marr ChaseQ	CIN	6	WR3	27.7	405	4	28	+159	Very Steady	4
7	Trey McBride	ARI	14	TE1	25.4	376	4	25	+156	Very Steady	38.3
8	Drake London	ATL	11	WR4	26.2	384	3	26	+138	Steady	12.9
9	Jaxon Smith-Njigba	SEA	11	WR5	25.5	373	3	25	+125	Very Steady	5.1
10	James Cook	BUF	7	RB3	27.2	398	4	27	+125	Very Steady	9.1
11	George Pickens	DAL	14	WR6	25.4	371	3	25	+124	Very Steady	19
12	CeeDee Lamb	DAL	14	WR7	24.6	360	4	28	+115	Very Steady	12.4
13	Bijan Robinson	ATL	11	RB4	26.5	387	6	27	+114	Very Steady	2.4
14	Rashee Rice	KC	5	WR8	24.5	358	5	24	+111	Very Steady	17.3
15	Brock Bowers	LV	13	TE2	22.1	327	3	22	+107	Very Steady	41.7
16	Bhayshul TutenQ	JAX	7	RB5	25.4	371	0	25	+98	Average	53.7
17	Cam Skattebo	NYG	8	RB6	25	366	4	25	+92	Steady	39.6
18	Saquon Barkley	PHI	10	RB7	24.4	357	4	24	+83	Very Steady	17.3
19	Colston Loveland	CHI	10	TE3	20.4	301	2	20	+81	Average	59.8
20	Chase Brown	CIN	6	RB8	24.3	355	5	24	+79	Very Steady	14.5
21	Chris Olave	NO	8	WR9	22.2	324	2	22	+78	Steady	22.3
22	Joe Burrow	CIN	6	QB2	32.4	451	10	32	+77	Very Steady	56.5
23	De'Von Achane	MIA	6	RB9	23.9	349	5	24	+75	Very Steady	11.4
24	Nico Collins	HOU	8	WR10	22	321	5	22	+75	Very Steady	21.4
25	Omarion Hampton	LAC	7	RB10	23.6	345	3	27	+71	Steady	23.1

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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