SportsLine 2026 Fantasy Rankings: Allen, Gibbs, Nacua Lead — SkimNews
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- SportsLine's model simulated the NFL season 10,000 times and released its 2026 Fantasy football positional rankings, sleepers, breakouts, and busts for the final draft weekend before kickoff, leaning on a track record that includes calling Daniel Jones' huge 2025 season in Indy, Terry McLaurin's down year, and A.J. Brown as a 2020 sleeper.
- Josh Allen is the No. 1 Fantasy QB despite his fewest passing yards (3,668) and TDs (25) in six years in 2025; his 41 rushing TDs over the last three years are second most in the league regardless of position, and he has at least 500 rushing yards in seven of his eight NFL seasons.
- Jahmyr Gibbs tops the RB rankings with David Montgomery now gone, and in six career games without Montgomery he has averaged 152.3 scrimmage yards and 10 total touchdowns while posting at least 1,800 scrimmage yards and 18 TDs in each of the last two seasons.
- Puka Nacua leads the WR rankings after pacing the NFL with 107.2 receiving yards per game in 2025, posting a career average of 95.3 yards per game — the highest in NFL history — and recording zero Fantasy duds outside of one injury-shortened game.
- Trey McBride holds the TE1 spot, averaging 8.1 catches for 80.3 yards with 10 total TDs in 12 games with Jacoby Brissett as Arizona's starter, compared to 5.8 catches for 55 yards and 1 TD in five games with Kyler Murray.
- The model breaks from consensus by ranking Dak Prescott ahead of Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye at QB, citing his receiver duo of George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb as a potential middle-round steal in a 15-round draft window.
- Colston Loveland, a Bears rookie, lands at TE3 after taking over for the injured Cole Kmet in Week 8, ranking second in positional Fantasy points from Week 8 through Week 18 and adding a 137-yard playoff game.
Why it matters: The model's sharpest contrarian call puts Dak Prescott ahead of Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye at QB, framing him as a middle-round value with George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb — a draft-weekend divergence from ADP that could reshape how the top tier of QBs comes off the board across the remaining 15 rounds.
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