SportsLine simulated the new NFL season 10,000 times and identified Fantasy football busts 2026 and the riskiest Fantasy picks to fade during your Fantasy football draft prep

Below, I’ll give you some of my favorite defenses to target in fantasy football drafts this summer, but I also wanted to touch on my general strategy for drafting defenses. This is a strategy discussion I had in my other article as well,

Our analysts go around the table and give you the one wide receiver they are staying away from in 2026 fantasy football drafts.

Evaluating who is the better fantasy draft pick between Browns RB Quinshon Judkins and Buccaneers RB Bucky Irving.

Fantasy football managers are officially on the clock. Or up against the clock, rather. With the 2026 NFL season kicking off on Wednesday, Sept 9., it'll probably be a little while longer before managers are actually on the clock and needing to submit their selections.

Smith-Njigba scored 13 or more fantasy points on 16 occasions last season, matching Cooper Kupp (2021) for the most such games in NFL history. That's difficult to match, even for a player such as Amon-Ra St. Brown, the most logical alternative from this slot and a player who averaged 9.6 targets per game over the past three seasons.

With Josh Downs sidelined for an undisclosed amount of time, two Colts receivers see a potential bump in production as the ramp up to week 1 turns up.