March 23, 2026
Chicago Bears running back
D'Andre Swift posted another solid statistical season in 2025, recording 1,386 scrimmage yards and 10 touchdowns on 257 touches across 16 games. The 27-year-old may not offer incredible upside, but he's provided fantasy managers with extremely stable production in recent seasons. Dating back to 2023, Swift has played at least 16 games and recorded over 1,200 scrimmage yards with at least six touchdowns in three consecutive years. However, Swift may not be assured of the RB1 role in Chicago heading into 2026. Fellow Bears running back
Kyle Monangai emerged as a trusted contributor in the team's backfield over the course of 2025. Across the team's final seven games of the regular season, neither Swift nor Monangai played more than 59% or fewer than 41% of the team's offensive snaps. A seventh-round pick in 2025, Monangai could be the team's running back of the future, while Swift will hit free agency at the conclusion of the 2026 season. Swift could easily remain a low-end starting fantasy running back in 2026, but he now faces role and playing time questions that were not present in prior years of his career.
--Will BradySource: RotoBaller
March 23, 2026
Veteran tight end
Travis Kelce has officially signed his new contract with the Kansas City Chiefs and is locked in for the 2026 NFL season, per Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. There had been some speculation immediately following the conclusion of the 2025 season that Kelce was considering retirement, but the 36-year-old will be back in Kansas City for at least one more year. Rapoport reports that Kelce's new contract is worth over $54 million over three years and guarantees him $12 million in year one. While Kelce is no longer the player he was at his peak, he still recorded 76 receptions for 851 yards and five touchdowns across 17 games in 2025. Kelce has also played in at least 15 games in every season since 2014 and remains a featured piece in the Chiefs' offense, earning over six targets per game in 2025. He profiles as a lower-end fantasy TE1 in redraft formats for 2026.
--Will BradySource: NFL Network - Ian Rapoport
March 23, 2026
In his final collegiate season at the University of Washington in 2025, wide receiver
Denzel Boston recorded an impressive stat line of 62 receptions for 881 yards and 11 touchdowns across 12 games played. Boston showcased a nose for the end zone throughout his college career, collecting 20 touchdown catches over his final 25 contests for the Huskies. Boston opted out of testing in most drills at the Draft Combine in March, bringing about some questions about his top-end speed. Even still, Boston has profiles as an early-second round pick in the upcoming draft and may even have an outside chance at sneaking into the final few selections of the first round. RotoBaller currently ranks Boston as the 42nd-best wide receiver for dynasty formats.
--Will BradySource: RotoBaller
March 23, 2026
University of Notre Dame running back
Jadarian Price is considered one of the top prospects at his position heading into the 2026 NFL Draft. Price was overshadowed during his college career by fellow Notre Dame running back
Jeremiyah Love, who is expected to come off the 2026 draft board early in the first round. Across 12 games this past season for the Fighting Irish, Price recorded 761 scrimmage yards and 13 touchdowns on just 119 touches. Still, Price posted impressive testing numbers at the Draft Combine in March and has a chance to be the second running back selected after Love this April. It's more than likely that Price will find himself in a backfield timeshare early in his NFL career. However, depending on where he lands, Price has the physical traits to emerge as a feature back sooner rather than later. RotoBaller currently ranks Price as its 25th-best running back for dynasty formats.
--Will BradySource: RotoBaller
March 23, 2026
University of Louisville wide receiver
Chris Bell (knee) is currently recovering from a torn ACL that he suffered in late November. However, the 21-year-old is reportedly on track in his recovery and is expected to be ready for his first NFL training camp this summer. Across 11 games in his final season at Louisville, Bell recorded 72 receptions for 917 yards and six touchdowns. Despite the injury, Bell is expected to come off the board in either the late second or early third round of the upcoming NFL Draft. He's known as a big-bodied possession receiver who relies more on size and speed than lateral quickness, so he may have an easier time returning from a torn ACL than other wideouts. Still, expectations for Bell's impact as a rookie should likely be tempered. In dynasty formats, Bell's injury could provide a buy-low window for fantasy managers.
--Will BradySource: RotoBaller
March 23, 2026
Former Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks running back
Travis Homer signed an undisclosed deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday, a source told Adam Schefter of ESPN. In the last three seasons in Chicago, Homer only had seven rushing attempts for 21 yards while catching three of his four targets for 11 yards in the passing game in 36 games (zero starts). The 27-year-old will strictly serve as RB depth in Pittsburgh and can continue to be ignored in both single-year and dynasty/keeper leagues in 2026.
Jaylen Warren,
Rico Dowdle, and
Kaleb Johnson will be ahead of him on the RB depth chart this fall. The 5-foot-10, 211-pounder will most likely factor in more on special teams for the Steelers in a kick-return role. Homer was drafted in the sixth round in 2019 out of the University of Miami by the Seahawks. He has a healthy 5.3 yard-per-carry average in his seven NFL seasons, but he's had just 90 carries for 474 yards and one touchdown on the ground.
--Keith HernandezSource: ESPN - Adam Schefter
March 23, 2026
Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver
DeVonta Smith finished the 2025 campaign, his fifth in the NFL, with 77 catches on 113 targets for 1,008 yards and a career-low four touchdowns in 17 regular-season games. Although he had a disappointing four touchdown catches, Smith did reach the 1,000-yard mark for the third time in his career and bounced back nicely from an injury-plagued season in 2024 in which he played in a career-low 13 games. The 27-year-old former 10th overall pick in 2021 out of Alabama finished the 2025 season as the WR20 in half-PPR scoring, just behind Dallas'
CeeDee Lamb. Going into 2026 with a new offensive coordinator in an offense that is looking to reset after a disappointing showing last year, there's still plenty to like about Smith. That will especially be true if the Eagles trade
A.J. Brown this offseason. If that comes to pass, Smith would most likely operate as Philly's WR1, giving him an even higher fantasy football ceiling as he enters his sixth year in the NFL.
--Keith HernandezSource: Pro Football Focus
March 23, 2026
Houston Texans running back
Woody Marks led the team with 703 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 196 rushing attempts in 16 regular-season games in his first year in the NFL, with
Joe Mixon (ankle, foot) missing the entire season. Overall for Houston, though, it was a lackluster rushing attack with Marks and veteran
Nick Chubb, as the team ranked 22nd in rushing yards per game (108). Mixon and Chubb won't return in 2026, and the Texans acquired
David Montgomery from the Detroit Lions this offseason to help bolster their ground game. ESPN's DJ Bien-Aime writes that Montgomery "will enter the 2026 season as the No. 1 back for Houston." It's bad news for the 25-year-old Marks' redraft and dynasty value heading into his sophomore campaign. The former fourth-rounder out of USC averaged 3.6 yards per carry last year and caught 24 of his 36 targets for 208 yards and three touchdowns through the air. Marks will still be involved in the Texans' backfield, but as long as Monty is healthy, he'll be more of a touchdown-dependent RB3/flex on a weekly basis.
--Keith HernandezSource: ESPN.com - DJ Bien-Aime
March 23, 2026
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver
Puka Nacua is now eligible for a contract extension, but the NFL Network's Mike Garafolo says that the expectation is that an extension for Nacua with the Rams "could take a while." Seattle Seahawks wideout
Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who was neck-and-neck with Nacua in 2025, for Offensive Player of the Year honors, just signed a four-year, $168.6 million extension on Monday, becoming the highest-paid receiver in NFL history. It might not be until later in the summer before we see any movement between the Rams and Nacua on a possible extension. The 24-year-old former fifth-rounder in 2023 out of BYU has quickly emerged as an elite fantasy football receiver in his three years in the NFL. In 2025, he was the WR1 in half-PPR scoring with a league-high 129 receptions for a career-high 1,715 yards and a career-high 10 touchdowns in 16 regular-season games played. Nacua now has already 4,191 receiving yards and 19 touchdowns on 313 catches in his first three NFL seasons. Contract situation aside, Nacua should be one of the first wideouts off the board in the first round of fantasy drafts this fall.
--Keith HernandezSource: NFL Network - Mike Garafolo
March 23, 2026
The New England Patriots are planning to release backup quarterback
Joshua Dobbs after they were unable to find a trade partner, sources told Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network. Dobbs, 31, signed a two-year, $8 million contract with New England in March of last year. He appeared in just four games for the Patriots in 2025 and went 7-for-10 passing for 65 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions as
Drake Maye's backup. Dobbs will now be free to sign with any other teams and should latch on elsewhere as a backup with plenty of experience in the NFL. He was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round in 2017 out of Tennessee. Dobbs' best season came in 2023, when he threw for 2,464 yards, 13 touchdowns, and 10 interceptions in 13 games (12 starts) with the Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings. In his six seasons with five different teams, Dobbs has completed 62.8% of his passes for 3,346 yards, 17 touchdowns, and 15 picks in 27 games (15 starts).
--Keith HernandezSource: NFL Network - Ian Rapoport
March 23, 2026
For the first time in his NFL career, Detroit Lions running back
Jahmyr Gibbs looks to be entering the 2026 season in a true bellcow role. The Lions selected Gibbs with the 12th overall pick in the 2023 Draft, the same year they added veteran
David Montgomery through free agency. For three seasons, Gibbs and Montgomery shared Detroit's backfield as the most productive running back tandem in the league. 2025 signalled the beginning of a shift, with Gibbs officially taking over the starter title and out-touching Montgomery by nearly a two-to-one margin, despite the latter playing 17 games for the first time in his career. With Montgomery now being shipped to Houston, Gibbs is presumably in line for the largest workload of his career, and he deserves thorough consideration as the RB1 in both redraft and dynasty leagues. Detroit added former Chief
Isiah Pacheco in free agency to fill the vacated bruiser role, but injuries and inefficiency over the past two seasons have limited his role in a room with no true standouts, and he should not be viewed as a serious threat to keep Gibbs off the field.
--Patrick McGrathSource: RotoBaller
March 23, 2026
Wide receiver
Jaxon Smith-Njigba and the Seattle Seahawks have agreed on a four-year, $168.6 million extension that will make the reigning Offensive Player of the Year the highest-paid receiver in NFL history. The deal comes days after the team exercised Smith-Njigba's fifth-year option and includes over $120 million in guaranteed money, also a record according to NFL Insider Adam Schefter. A first-round pick in 2023, Smith-Njigba led the league with 1,793 receiving yards en route to a memorable Super Bowl-winning season. He is now tied to Seattle through the 2031 season, earning the kind of money that was reserved exclusively for quarterbacks only a few short years ago.
--Patrick McGrathSource: Adam Schefter
March 23, 2026
Vanderbilt tight end
Eli Stowers is a former track star, and while it was the presumed TE1 in this rookie class,
Kenyon Sadiq, who drew most of the headlines from the NFL Combine, he wasn't the only one entering the record books. Stowers broke the Combine tight end record with an 11'-3" broad jump, while his 45.5" vertical set the new historical high mark across all positions. A former college quarterback, Stowers is still relatively new to the position, but he understands coverages, and he has the collegiate production to match his athleticism. Unlike Sadiq, his improving but still sub-par blocking will likely keep him off the field near the low red zone, but his size and movement ability will allow for a creative playcaller to utilize him in the increasingly popular big slot role. In the right landing spot, Stowers could work his way into the back end of the first round in single-QB and tight end premium rookie drafts.
--Patrick McGrathSource: RotoBaller
March 23, 2026
Oregon tight end
Kenyon Sadiq is widely expected to be the first tight end selected in both the NFL Draft and dynasty rookie drafts, with projected mid-first-round capital in both. If selected on Day 1 of the NFL Draft, he would become a historical outlier in terms of both raw production and advanced analytics. His 1.92 career yards per route run would be the lowest of any first-round tight end since
Hayden Hurst in 2018. Some of his profile can be softened by the fact that he spent his collegiate career surrounded by other NFL receiving talent, and a fourth season at Oregon would have presumably boosted his overall production had he not declared early. The biggest thing working in his favor is that, historically, one of the best predictors of fantasy success at the position has been athleticism, and Sadiq has that in spades. His 4.39-second 40-yard dash at the NFL tight end was the fastest ever by a tight end, and his game-breaking speed shows up regularly on film. In single-QB, tight end-premium leagues, Sadiq belongs in the conversation to be the fifth player selected in rookie drafts.
--Patrick McGrathSource: RotoBaller
March 23, 2026
Ohio State wide receiver
Carnell Tate is one of five Buckeyes rookies who could hear their name called on the first night of the NFL Draft. Along with Tate, Arvell Reese, Sonny Styles, and Caleb Downs all have a strong case to be selected in the top half of the first round, but as the only offensive player in the group, Tate will undoubtedly have the attention of fantasy managers when Ohio State takes the field for their Pro Day on March 25. Tate ran slower than expected at the NFL Combine, but conflicting reports have since suggested that many teams clocked him notably faster than his laser-timed 4.53-second 40-yard dash. Tate is in the conversation to be the first wide receiver selected in both the NFL and dynasty rookie drafts, and a solid showing at his Pro Day could help to cement his case.
--Patrick McGrathSource: RotoBaller
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