Justin Boone is a two-time FantasyPros champion Most Accurate Expert Award (2019, 2025) and nine top-10 finishes in competition.
Below you can see his early work 2026 Season Fantasy Rankings. More expanded rankings, including PPR scores and rookies, will be available in future updates.
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Early 2026 Fantasy Rankings
Key takeaways from the early Top 150 rankings
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Unlike previous years, you can make a strong case for several players to be the No. 1 pick in the 2026 fantasy draft. Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr Gibbs are the only two backs to be top-four fantasy RBs in each of the past two seasons, Puka Nacua averages the best among WRs, Ja’Marr Chase remains a high-end producer despite losing Joe Burrow to injury for some games, Christian McCaffrey is the top-scoring fantasy RB, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba had a breakout year that put him in the conversation with the elite players at his position. You could even make an argument for players like DeVon Archaon and Jonathan Taylor, depending on how well their teams perform at quarterback.
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Trey McBride is the first tight end to average more than 15 points per half PPR since Travis Kelce accomplished the feat in 2022 (18 FPPG PPR). Just like Kelce back then, McBride has a considerable advantage over other players at his position, averaging 2.4 points more than the next closest tight end in halfcourt PPR and 3.5 points more in PPR. To give some context, that would make him the WR7 behind Nacua, JSN, Rashee Rice, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Ja’Marr Chase and George Pickens. The Cardinals need to make a decision with their coaching staff and quarterback, but Jacoby Brissett unlocks a version of McBride that makes him a borderline first-round pick in fantasy.
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If you missed out on McBride, don’t worry, I think there are seven tight ends available in the 2026 draft. McBride, Brock Bowles, George Kittle, and Tucker Craft have all shown the high-end fantasy upside we want from the position. Meanwhile, a trio of sophomores in Harold Fannin Jr., Colston Loveland and Tyler Warren showed intriguing ceiling as rookies and will try to join an elite group of fantasy producers next season. We’ll see where ADP ends up settling, but I’ll be disappointed if I don’t get one of these seven items in my draft.
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The quarterback position is extremely deep, which means the position will have value in later rounds. In 2025, we drafted nine quarterbacks outside of the top 100 picks, and they were all solid starters. Matthew Stafford, Derek Meyer, Brock Purdy and Trevor Lawrence round out four of the top six fantasy quarterbacks in points per game. Other deep value players such as Jared Goff, Justin Herbert and Caleb Williams also rounded out the top 12 quarterbacks. We even saw Daniel Jones maintain QB8 numbers through 13 weeks before his injury, while Jaxson Dart emerged as a top-10 fantasy option after Week 4 began. Herbert, Dak Prescott, Dart, Purdy, Lawrence and Williams don’t crack my top five quarterbacks in my early 2026 rankings, but I could easily make a case for any of them to be in that range by season’s end.
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Once you get beyond the top 100 picks, it’s time to fill your bullpen with as many backup RBs as possible. So it’s no surprise that 26 of the final 50 players in the table below are running backs. Ball-carriers like Jakoli Kroski-Merritt, Braylon Allen, Kenneth Ganwell, Bashur Taten, Trey Benson and Jordan Mason are obvious targets who could play a big role in the offense next season. But there are several backs who have excelled in relief duty this year and will become fantasy stars again in 2026 due to an injury, such as Kendall Miller, Tank Bisby, Sean Tucker, Emmanuel Wilson and others.