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 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,
2026 Legendary RB Scenarios - Round 2
If you're looking for Part 1 of my 2026 legendary RB scenarios, or if you stumbled across this article and are wondering what legendary RB scenarios even are... start here: 2026 Legendary RB Scenarios - Round 1Five years ago, I wrote an article on Rotoworld called Don’t Draft
2026 Legendary RB Scenarios - Round 1
Five 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, I detailed whether or not that year's highly drafted RBs would turn in legendary seasons or become silent killers.
Can the Sophomore RB Class Beat Upside Inflation?
So far this summer, I've dug into the best ball outlook for the rookie WR and rookie RB classes: Are Best Ball Drafters Too Low on the 2026 WR Class?The 2026 rookie class, as dynasty players will tell you, is not strong. This has been covered in
Is there any Best Ball Value in the 2026 Rookie RB Class?
I recently wrote up the 2026 rookie WR class through a best ball lens. I'm now turning my attention to running back. In this article, I'll be looking at the 2026 rookie RB class. And then in a follow-up article, I'll dive into