Happy Friday!

I have a question for everyone reading - how do you decide your draft order?

You don’t need to answer, but I’m a curious guy. Do you do anything fancy or special? Hop on 100YardRush.com and randomize your draft order? Pull names out of a hat? I’m curious!

One year, the commissioner of my primary home league bought a Cameo from Ray Lewis to announce our draft order, letting him pick the order himself. It was awesome and felt super personalized - if you needed any ideas.

However you pick your draft orders, I hope it’s about time to announce your draft spots so you can fully prepare for your draft slot.

Now, let’s win these drafts.

In this week’s newsletter:

• 🏷️ This Week’s Draft Values

• 📈 Draft Room Trends

• 🥇 RB 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.

TEN WR DeAndre Hopkins – Sleeper

Fantasy drafters are much higher on Calvin Ridley than they are on Hopkins, while experts have the two much closer than draft rooms have the two. My personal choice between them is Hopkins, and that’s not even at value - I want Hopkins over Ridley overall! But that’s a different discussion, right now Sleeper has Hopkins ranked in draft rooms at 89th overall, while experts have him ranked 76th. Give me all of that value in the 7th/8th round.

NE WR Javon Baker – ESPN

Here’s a solid last round dart throw for you if you’re drafting on ESPN - a rookie wide receiver entering a scenario where the WR1 on the team is still a question mark. Truthfully, I think Baker finds himself behind both Demario Douglas and Ja'Lynn Polk on the depth chart, but there’s still opportunity here in the late round. He’s ranked in the top 200 players but doesn’t show up in ESPN drafts until pick 435 (AKA round 36 AKA undrafted)

SF WRs Brandon Aiyuk & Deebo Samuel - ESPN

I mentioned both of these WRs last time we spoke and they are still values, specifically on ESPN. You can get Aiyuk over a full round later than he’s ranked, and Deebo almost two rounds later than he’s ranked. Steals.

CLE WR Amari Cooper – All Platforms

I spoke a bit about Cooper last time we spoke as well, and his value decreased a tiny bit but he’s still being drafted later than myself and other experts have him ranked. A mid-round steal at the moment.

📈 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
🔼 +23 - Russell Wilson - QB, PIT
🔼 +18 - Will Levis - QB, TEN
🔼 +12 - Josh Palmer - WR, LAC
🔼 +11 - Jaleel McLaughlin - RB, DEN
🔼 +10 - Taysom Hill - TE, NO

📉 Fallers
🔽 -37 - Drake Maye - QB, NE
🔽 -33 - JJ McCarthy - QB, MIN
🔽 -5 - Justin Herbert - QB, LAC
🔽 -5 - Adam Thielen - WR, CAR
🔽 -5 - Josh Downs - WR, IND

I’ll soon have a whole spreadsheet highlighting ADP trends to share, but it’s too early for it to be full/complete. Keep an eye out for that soon!

🥇 RB Rankings

This week’s RB rankings:

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