Happy Friday!

Did you guys see that? The football game that was just on last night?! It may have been cut short, but we’re so back.

The Hall of Fame Game every year signifies the absolute start of fantasy football season. Does it ever really end? No, but it’s the start of the nationwide interest in fantasy football rather than year-long followers of this fantasy sport.

Whether you’re new here or been here since last season, I’m happy you’re around.

Now, let’s win these drafts.

In this week’s newsletter:

• 🏷️ This Week’s Draft Values

• 📈 Draft Room Trends

• 📰 Training Camp News

• 🥇 QB Rankings

🏷️ This Week’s Draft Values

Every week I’ll highlight draft values found in draft rooms, primarily using my Abusing Draft Rankings tool to help find these players.

Obviously right now it’s too early to take advantage of these values, unless you’re drafting this weekend! It’s still a massive benefit to keep an eye on both ADP trends (listed in the next section) and consistent discrepancies between ADP and expert ranks.

WR Malik Nabers - Yahoo

Draft room rank: 60 | Expert rank: 44

I’m so in on Nabers this year. Nabers is being ranked as the WR23 and Yahoo draft rooms have him at WR30 and appearing in draft rooms over a round later than his overall rank. Even if you’re not high on him in his rookie year, you can still get him at a value in relation to expert rankings.

Stud Quarterbacks – ESPN

Draft room rank: 42-50 | Expert rank: 19-32

The top ranked tier of QBs (Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Anthony Richardson, Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson) on ESPN is cheaper than just about any other draft spot. It may not be your draft strategy, but if you are drafting on ESPN I would consider it a little bit more. It allows you to grab some quality early round players and still get a stud QB.

Returning Values

• SF WRs Brandon Aiyuk & Deebo Samuel - ESPN

• IND WR Michael Pittman - Sleeper & Yahoo

• CLE WR Amari Cooper - ESPN & Sleeper

🤔 Need some draft help?

Have any draft questions? Need an extra brain to help with some keepers? Let me know! Feel free to reply to this email and I’ll help you out.

📰 Training Camp News

Some weekly updates from training camps. This will not be where you find player hype, but mostly key news out of camps; contracts, injuries, starters. You get it. Maybe a fun one once in a while. Let’s look at this week:

🗞️ A technical Chain Gang replacement is being tested this preseason

🗞️ RBs Rashaad Penny and Tarik Cohen hang their cleats. Happy retirement!

🗞️ Steelers WR Roman Wilson suffers ankle injury, is now week-to-week

🗞️ Browns RB D’Onta Foreman was sent to the hospital after a hit to the head in practice 🙏

📈 Draft Room Risers & Fallers 📉

Let’s take a look at ADP (average draft position) and some of the biggest movers from the past few weeks.

📈 Risers
🔼 +5 - Joshua Palmer - WR, LAC
🔼 +4 - Dontayvion Wicks - WR, GB
🔼 +4 - Elijah Mitchell - RB, SF
🔼 +4 - Ja'Tavion Sanders - TE, CAR
🔼 +3 - Alvin Kamara - RB, NO
🔼 +3 - Najee Harris - RB, PIT

📉 Fallers
🔽 -33 - Geno Smith - QB, SEA
🔽 -29 - Drake Maye - QB, NE
🔽 -24 - Rashod Bateman - WR, BAL
🔽 -23 - Dameon Pierce - RB, HOU
🔽 -14 - Roman Wilson - WR, PIT

🥇 QB Rankings

This week’s QB rankings:

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