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Good morning.
Only one more week without real NFL football until February! While my wife is distraught, I’m pretty fired up.🔥
But this week isn’t for resting, it’s for building an absolute juggernaut of a fantasy squad in your upcoming drafts. To help you with that, we’re doing the opposite of Monday’s newsletter as we highlight the worst pick you can make in every round. Once again, we'll use FantasyPros’ Real-Time ADP as a guideline and assume a typical 10-team, Half-PPR, single-QB league with 16 rounds.
Let’s get after it…
Today's newsletter highlights:
Worst Pick in Every Round ❌
Rookie Spotlight: Ja’Kobi Lane 🔦
Fantasy Environment Score 📊
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Worst Pick in Every Round ❌
CMC? Not For Me
CMC // Ezra Shaw, Getty Images
Round 1: RB Christian McCaffrey (ADP: 5th overall)
This one’s tough, because CMC could easily repeat as the RB1 if he stays healthy. But that’s the major concern here—McCaffrey turned 30 in June and just had 450 total touches in 2025, including the playoffs. This is the 3rd time in his career that he had at least 400 total touches in a season (2023 with the 49ers and 2019 with Carolina) and he missed 13 games due to injury the following year both times, per CBS Sports’ Jamey Eisenberg.
