Week 1 of the 2026 NFL season is officially in the books. The opening week featured games on Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday, and Monday — and even included a game played down under in Australia between the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams — to appease eager football fans after a long offseason. With the […]

  In-Season Weekly Rankings and Preparing for Fantasy Football Drafts Welcome to our updated fantasy football weekly rankings. To begin your fantasy football preparation during draft season, or weekly once the season starts, our rankings help you research the top players for developments, role changes, and other factors that can influence their updated season projections. […]

After an exciting weekend of NFL action, it's time to hit the waiver wire to help find that player who can bolster your roster. At RotoBaller HQ, we have freshly updated our waiver wire rankings to account for the latest news and injuries with our fantasy football waiver wire rankings before Week 2 of 2026. Whether […]

Welcome, RotoBallers, to our Week 2 defense (D/ST) streamers, starts, and tiered rankings. Each week of the fantasy football season, we will rank every defense from No. 1 to No. 32 and break them into tiers along with matchup analysis. This article will be your go-to stop for all defensive rankings and streamers. In Week […]

Week 1 brought plenty of fireworks, with multiple games eclipsing the 60-point threshold. It'll be important for fantasy managers to weed through some of that and realize not all box scores are what they appear. This article breaks down my Week 2 fantasy football waiver wire pickups and stashes. Each position is broken into four […]

Week 1 has come and gone, and although we can't overreact to the first slate of action, it's time for the first waiver wire run of the year! Whether you are just looking for some depth stashes or already need immediate starter replacements, we have you covered with our Week 2 RotoBaller Staff waiver wire picks, […]

Fantasy managers always need to be careful not to overreact to Week 1. This is especially true this year because games are averaging 53.3 points per game, not counting Monday Night's contest. Six games finished with more than 60 points. 10 teams had more than 65 snaps. These kinds of stats can overinflate the box […]

One high-scoring week of football is in the books, and now it is time for us all to take a deep breath and react completely rationally moving forward, right? Amidst all of the scoring, there were still plenty of duds, disappointments, and injuries to mull over. Let's take a calculated first step toward the title […]

Did the high-scoring action from Week 1 make you feel alive?! Although we can't simply take one set of box scores and extrapolate the entire year, there is still intel to be gleaned and priors to adjust. We saw several double-digit fantasy performances from kickers; I count 12 by standard scoring measures going into Monday […]

If you just realized that the only tight end on your roster is Miami’s Greg Dulcich, who pulls a hamstring every third game, it seems, then you might be in the market for a tight end even though we are only one week into the fantasy football season. Week 1 was interesting for top tight […]

The wide receiver position always seems to have at least a few players who crush it every year that weren't drafted in most fantasy football leagues. The position also often features breakouts that don't come until later in the season, giving you an opportunity to boost your team significantly if you're able to land one. […]

The 2026 NFL season is finally here, and we saw some memorable performances in Week 1. Whether it was Caleb Williams showing that he may have taken another step as a player in 2026, finishing as the QB1 through Sunday’s games (37.2 points), or Lamar Jackson looking like he was in vintage form with a […]

The unbridled euphoria that engulfs the fantasy football community on an annual basis has transpired once again with the arrival of highly anticipated regular season matchupsThis has provided the first opportunity to assess the players that you secured for your rosters during the draft process. Some of you should be thrilled with the numbers that […]

Hey RotoBallers! Week 1 is officially in the books, which means it's time to turn our attention to Week 2. While many are looking to target breakout players on the waiver wire like Devaughn Vele and Tyler Shough, savvy managers should pivot to high-upside stashes who could prove league-winning down the stretch. Below, we will […]

RotoBaller drops our top fantasy football Week 2 waiver wire pickups for the 2026 season for RB, WR, TE, and QB. This week, we will look at two wide receivers who could be moved up the depth chart due to recent injuries and an intriguing high-end streaming QB with a string of favorable matchups this […]

Week 1 gave fantasy managers plenty of information about running back workloads, but it also created plenty of new questions. Which backfields are actually committees? Which players are going to see the valuable touches? And which Week 1 performances were simply the result of a favorable game script? One week isn’t enough to have all […]

Week 1 gave fantasy managers plenty to digest at the wide receiver position. Some players immediately looked like the stars we expected them to be, while others left us wondering whether their roles, target volume, or offensive environment will support consistent production. Now the real challenge begins: figuring out what we can trust and what […]

Week 1 brought plenty of fireworks, surprises, and upsets, making for a funky initial waiver pool on the horizon. Whether you're cruising to a 1-0 record on the back of a beatdown, or ailing from injuries and duds at 0-1, we're here attempting to strike a balance between preseason priors and ingesting one game's worth […]

The tight end position is once again giving fantasy managers plenty to think about. Week 1 gave us some big performances, some frustrating duds, and a few surprises that could force us to rethink what we thought we knew heading into the season. But one week isn’t enough to completely rewrite the fantasy landscape. Volume, […]

Week 2 is where fantasy football managers start separating the signal from the noise. The first week of the season gave us plenty of surprises, but one game doesn’t suddenly change everything we thought we knew about a player. Now, we have another week of matchups, usage and opportunity to help guide our decisions. This […]

Week 1 is officially in the books. Everybody loves their fantasy team right after the draft, but the best fantasy managers can objectively identify areas to improve and address them on the waiver wire. RotoBaller has plenty of articles to help fantasy managers in all league formats, but this one will cover deep-league waiver-wire targets […]

Hey RotoBallers! Week 1 of the fantasy football season is in the books, which means it's already time to turn our attention to Week 2. Even though it is still early, it's crucial to set our optimal lineups. Last week, we hit on many of our bust picks, such as Quinshon Judkins and Marvin Harrison Jr., who were […]

Hey RotoBallers, fantasy football season is in full swing, and we are already on to Week 2! Whether your fantasy team boomed or busted this past week, we help you get a jump-start on those fantasy lineups with our early Week 2 overall rankings. We'll update our Week 2 rankings throughout the week as injury […]

The NFL regular season is finally here. Starting with a pair of openers, Patriots-Seahawks and 49ers-Rams, Week 1 gave viewers some surprising results. It also gave fantasy managers a ton of high-scoring games. It's great to have fantasy football back. On this page, we're going to take a look at some "unexpected booms," which are […]

Football is back! The 2026 NFL season kicked off this past week with a plethora of exciting primetime games, plus a stacked slate of Sunday contests. This week featured a bunch of big plays, fantasy football explosions, and exciting storylines. However, not all was sunshine and rainbows. A common trend in Week 1 was that […]

RotoBallers, we are so back, and we are already speeding along to Week 2. Most fantasy managers know their starting running backs and wide receivers; deciding who to start at the FLEX can be a challenging decision when setting your lineup. To help you get started on early Week 2 preparations, at RotoBaller HQ, our […]

This past week we saw many high-scoring games and some great fantasy quarterback play from Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Caleb Williams, and Jalen Hurts. We are marching into Week 2, and can NFL teams replicate the offensive success for the upcoming week? We'll find out soon enough. At RotoBaller HQ, we already prepared our quarterback […]

Week 2 is here, and at RotoBaller HQ, we are back with more fantasy football rankings. Tight end was a boom-or-bust position this past week as we saw Cardinals star tight end Trey McBride catch nine passes for 95 yards and a touchdown while Colston Loveland failed to catch any of his two targets despite […]

The fantasy football season continues to chug along, and whether you won or lost your league matchup, it's never too early to start preparing for the upcoming week. At RotoBaller HQ, our early rankings help you kickstart the week and start preparing for Week 2. Today, we focus on wideouts and our 2026 early Half-PPR […]