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Good morning.
And thank goodness for all you Ashton Jeanty managers out there who may have dodged a bullet… In case you didn’t hear, his injury is believed to be just a sprained ankle. Hallelujah!🙌
As for today’s newsletter, we’re looking at some players we have no idea how to rank, with the hopes that after digging through some additional insight, we can try to get off the fence and decide whether we’re in our out on them at their current ADP.
Let’s get after it…
Today's newsletter highlights:
Hardest Players to Rank 🤔
Rookie Spotlight: De’Zhaun Stribling 🔦
Dwain McFarland’s Preseason Week 2 Takeaways ✍️
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Hardest Players to Rank 🤔
Doubting De’Von?
De’Von Achane // Imagn Images
Dolphins RB De’Von Achane (ADP: RB9)
Since entering the league in 2023, Achane ranks 1st among RBs with at least 150 carries in yards per carry and yards after contact per attempt, per Fantasy Life’s Adam Pfeifer. He’s also averaged 72.5 catches and 86 targets per year, thanks to Tua Tagovailoa’s healthy 14.5% checkdown rate. That likely won’t be the case with new QB Malik Willis, who has a 15% scramble rate, while sporting a checkdown rate of only 6.7%. Achane averaged only 10.5 fantasy PPG in eight games without Tua (compared to 19.9 PPG in 37 games with him), per PFN’s Jason Katz, so it’s hard to know which guy we’ll get in 2027.
Take: HC Jeff Hafley said Achane should expect 40+ touches per week, so it’s hard to fully fade that kind of workload. But out of personal preference, I lean in favor of the RBs on good teams in this range (Brown, Cook, Barkley, Walker, Hampton) for their TD-upside.
