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2026 ADP Values: Where the Draft Market Is Getting It Wrong

The best picks every year are the players the room lets slide a round too far.

Marcus Reed

Senior Fantasy Analyst

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Average draft position is a consensus, and consensus is slow. It over-reacts to last year's touchdowns and under-reacts to changes in role, which means every summer a handful of players are systematically mispriced. Finding them is the cheapest edge in fantasy football.

How to read ADP as a value tool

Compare where a player is going to the role his depth chart actually implies. When our projection sees a starter's workload and the market is still drafting him as a bench piece, that gap is the value. Do the reverse for names being paid for a scoring rate that will not repeat.

  • Buy the ascending second-year player before the market fully prices his snap growth.
  • Buy the veteran whose role improved on a new team while his name-brand cost stayed flat.
  • Fade the player whose ADP is propped up by a career-year touchdown total.
“You do not beat the room by liking the same players sooner. You beat it by taking the right ones later.”
TTP ranking methodology

Cross-check every name against the rankings board and the tier cuts. When our tier and the market's ADP disagree, that disagreement is exactly where your draft-day profit lives.

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