ESPN Releases Week 1 Fantasy Football Rankings — SkimNews
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- ESPN released Week 1 fantasy football rankings as an aggregate of eight PPR rankers and three IDP rankers, covering Quarterbacks through D/ST plus Top 40 DLs, LBs, and DBs.
- The eight PPR rankers are Matt Bowen, Mike Clay, Tristan H. Cockcroft, Daniel Dopp, Eric Karabell, Liz Loza, Eric Moody, and Field Yates, with Clay, Cockcroft, and Moody handling the IDP rankings.
- Eric Karabell separately provides superflex rankings — a Top 150 of QBs, RBs, WRs, and TEs — throughout the season.
- Rankings are published every Tuesday and refreshed throughout the week for news and emerging analysis.
- Players from Wednesday's Patriots-Seahawks and Thursday's 49ers-Rams games have already been removed from the refreshed rankings ahead of the full Sunday slate.
Why it matters: Fantasy managers setting Week 1 lineups get an 11-expert consensus from ESPN across PPR, IDP, and superflex formats, with players from the two early Week 1 games already filtered out. The Tuesday publish cadence means rankings will continue updating through the weekend as injury and depth-chart news lands before kickoff.
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