2026 Week 1 Rankings
These are Pat Kerrane's PPR weekly redraft rankings. Tiers are intended to help with tiebreakers and FLEX decisions. Rankings and tiers will initially align closely with the tiers outlined in the Walkthrough, but will then be updated until kickoff.
Week 1 Walkthrough: Colston Loveland's Burden of Proof
Welcome to the Week 1 Walkthrough—the first Walkthrough of the 2026 season. This weekly preview article series will run through Week 17. In this article, I'll outline critical fantasy football context for the first glorious football Sunday of 2026. (The stats below are from PFF, NFLfastR, rbsdm.
2026 Week 1 Rankings
These are Pat Kerrane's PPR weekly redraft rankings. Tiers are intended to help with tiebreakers and FLEX decisions. Rankings and tiers will initially align closely with the tiers outlined in the Walkthrough, but will then be updated until kickoff.
Week 1 Walkthrough: Colston Loveland's Burden of Proof
Welcome to the Week 1 Walkthrough—the first Walkthrough of the 2026 season. This weekly preview article series will run through Week 17. In this article, I'll outline critical fantasy football context for the first glorious football Sunday of 2026. (The stats below are from PFF, NFLfastR, rbsdm.
Quick Slant: TNF - This Same Sacred Ground
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant Game Environment 49ers Rams On August 7, 1858, Melbourne had sprouted from a muddy colonial outpost into a gold-rush boomtown, swollen with ships, money, migrants and men who had come from half a world away to make their fortunes. The sod had been turned
Quick Slant: NFL Kickoff Game - Right Where We Left Off
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Game Environment * Patriots * Seahawks Everything faded from nothing at once, and I just came to – slight at first. Pressure, tugging, sterile light, moisture, heat, mechanical whirring, chatter, my growing form – it all rose. Then out. Asleep. Back again. Terrifying silence, the first I’d ever
FAABulous Football Week 1: Guess Who’s Back
Welcome to Week 1 Steph is back, back again for what is my fourth year writing my FAABulous Football waiver column and a third year here at Legendary Upside. There is no offseason for fantasy football fanatics anymore… yes, if you are reading this it most likely applies to you.
2026 Dynasty Rankings
Updated 9/7/26
2026 Legendary RB Upside in the Dead Zone
Last week, I published my 2026 Legendary RB Scenarios for the first two rounds of the draft. 2026 Legendary RB Scenarios - Round 1Five years ago, I wrote an article on Rotoworld called Don’t Draft an Early Round RB Without Legendary Upside. And as a follow-up to that article,
Mat Irby's Apex Score: Tight Ends
If you’ve been sticking with me lately, you’ve seen me slowly roll out a metric I’m calling Apex Score. The idea behind Apex Score is to boil indicators of future upside down to a single number. This, alone, may be foolish. I’ve gotten really deep into
