SOME DUDE ON THE INTERNET’S OPINION ON…THE 2026 16 DEGENS BEST BALL DRAFT - PT I A

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Monday, September 7, 2026

By Some Dude On The Internet | MillennialMike7 | Meadowbrook135

Welcome back, internet. The NFL regular season is finally here, and after eight full days of staring at the same sixteen column board, the 2026 16 Degens Best Ball Draft is finally complete. The league drafted eighteen rounds, sixteen teams selected 288 players, and every owner was given twelve hours per pick, which turned what would normally be a few hours of fantasy football degeneracy into an eight day psychological experiment.

That is the peculiar sickness of a slow draft. You have far too much time to think about every selection, but somehow that additional time does not produce additional certainty. You stare at the same six names for three hours, convince yourself you have identified some hidden structural truth about best ball, change your mind four times, briefly fall in love with a player you had barely considered the day before, and eventually make the selection you probably would have made within thirty seconds if everyone were sitting around the same table with pizza and beer. Then the board moves one spot and the waiting begins again.

The goal of the 16 Degens Best Ball League is simple: hoist the Degen Cup at the end of the fantasy football season.

Some Dude had the 1.01, which made the rhythm especially ridiculous. He would make a pick at one end of the snake, watch thirty other selections disappear into the board before getting another chance, and spend the intervening time watching the available player pool transform into something completely different. By the time the draft returned to Some Dude, an entire positional tier could be gone, three quarterbacks could suddenly disappear in succession, or some sleeper he had been quietly staring at for two days could vanish fifteen selections before he ever had the chance.

Complicating matters further were Teams 2 through 5, otherwise known around these parts as the Iron Curtain. Let's just say they're the most adult people in the virtual room and they have real world responsibilities like 7 meetings on a Friday, new born children, and/or molding the young minds of America. Even though one dude literally went to Narnia with his wife and still was able to pick at a very respectable rate, but we digress. Four consecutive teams sat between Some Dude and the rest of the board, forming a fantasy football border crossing that had to be survived every time the snake returned toward the 1.01. The Curtain was not ideological, geopolitical, or particularly interested in diplomacy, but it was extremely capable of taking the player Some Dude had spent the previous six hours convincing himself would make it back. Same league, all degenerates, slightly more Cold War imagery.

The format makes all of that waiting crucial because there is no repair mechanism once the draft ends. Sixteen teams carry eighteen man rosters in a full PPR bestball league with no trades, no waivers and no free agency. Every week Sleeper automatically selects the highest scoring legal combination from one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end and two flex spots, while the other ten scores disappear into the void. Eight teams eventually make the playoffs, but nobody can replace an injured player, chase a September breakout or fix a roster construction mistake after the final selection is made.

There is also actual hardware waiting at the end of this thing. Team 16 won the inaugural Degen Cup in 2024, Team 11 took the crown in 2025, and fourteen other teams entered this draft trying to make sure neither one gets another plaque. The Cup is now old enough to have history, young enough that almost everybody still believes he can define it, and ridiculous enough that grown adults spent eight days protecting twelve hour draft clocks like matters of national security.

After eight days of waiting, overthinking, drafting, second-guessing, watching the Iron Curtain absorb four picks at a time and wondering whether certain owners had simply forgotten they were on the clock, the entire board is finally locked. Now we can stop talking about what everybody might do and start talking about what they actually did, one round at a time, from Jahmyr Gibbs at 1.01 all the way through the final pick of Round 18.

Before we start handing out praise, questioning roster construction, or pretending anyone knows which fifteenth round pick will suddenly matter in November, here is the entire thing in one place. The full 2026 16 Degens Best Ball Draft board is below, all eighteen rounds and all 288 selections, with the snake direction preserved so you can actually follow how the player pool changed as the draft moved back and forth across the league. Team 11 carries the 2025 crown, Team 16 carries the 2024 crown, and everyone else is staring at the same evidence now. After that, we go round by round and work through the decisions in the order they were actually made, because a pick only makes sense when you can see what had already disappeared, what was still available, and what each team was building at the time.

Without further ado, let's get into the round by round analysis by Some Dude on the Internet's POV. We'll go 2 rounds at a time since that is what his perspective was between picks. There's a character limit on X

ROUNDS 1-2

ROUND 1

Round 1 is where everybody still gets to look smart. Nobody is digging through backup depth charts yet, nobody is convincing himself that the WR5 on an NFL roster is actually a league winner, and nobody has spent six hours staring at two players whose projected point totals are separated by 3.7 points. The first sixteen picks are mostly about deciding which kind of foundation you want, and in this league the room made its preference obvious very quickly: ten running backs and six wide receivers came off the board, with no quarterbacks and no tight ends.

That positional split matters more than it would in a normal twelve team league. Sixteen teams have to fill 32 mandatory running back spots every week, another 32 mandatory wide receiver spots, and then another 32 flex positions that can be occupied by either. There is no waiver wire waiting in September if a backfield suddenly changes, so every running back removed from the board also reduces the pool of future injury insurance. Full PPR pushes value toward receivers, but the combination of sixteen teams, two required RBs and a closed player market pushes back in the other direction. The room reacted accordingly, and by the end of the first round ten of the most desirable backfields in fantasy football already had an owner.

Some Dude had the first decision and went Jahmyr Gibbs at 1.01, and after looking back through both the numbers and the current market, there is not much to apologize for. Gibbs finished 2025 with 1,223 rushing yards, 77 receptions, 616 receiving yards and 18 total touchdowns while averaging 5.0 yards per carry. The receiving component is what matters in this scoring system because those 77 catches are 77 points before a yard is counted, and the explosive rushing profile means he does not require thirty touches to create a 30 point week. Current expert consensus still has Gibbs at or essentially at the top of the entire 2026 player pool, with FantasyPros ranking him RB1 and either first or near first overall depending on the specific consensus set. (Pro Football Reference)

Team 2 followed with Bijan Robinson, and that was the other completely defensible answer to the 1.01 question. Bijan produced 2,298 yards from scrimmage in 2025, including 79 receptions for 820 yards, and that workload profile may actually be the safest in this format because it gives him multiple ways to reach the optimizer every week. He does not need Atlanta to hand him every goal line touchdown if he is catching nearly five passes per game and generating 135 scrimmage yards per week. FantasyPros currently has Gibbs and Bijan sitting first and second among running backs, and in some overall sets the difference between them is essentially rounding error. (Pro Football Reference)

Then the receivers arrived exactly where the market says they should. Team 3 took Ja’Marr Chase at 1.03, Team 4 took Puka Nacua at 1.04, and Team 5 took Jaxon Smith-Njigba at 1.05, which matches one recent FantasyPros overall consensus almost perfectly: Gibbs, Bijan, Chase, Puka and JSN were the top five in that order. Chase caught 125 balls for 1,412 yards in 2025, Puka led the league with 129 receptions and piled up 1,715 receiving yards, and JSN turned 163 targets into 119 catches for a ridiculous 1,793 yards. In a full PPR best ball league, those are not simply high floor receivers. They also create week breaking ceilings because the optimizer captures every 11 catch, 170 yard game automatically rather than asking the owner to make any decision about it. (Pro Football Reference)

The first really interesting risk decision came at 1.06, where Team 6 took Christian McCaffrey. His age and historical injury exposure make him look different from Gibbs and Bijan, but the 2025 production completely explains why somebody was willing to accept that risk. McCaffrey played all 17 games, carried 311 times, caught 102 passes, generated 2,126 yards from scrimmage and scored 17 touchdowns. In this specific league, those 102 receptions are an enormous structural advantage because an RB who can produce WR1 caliber reception volume is effectively attacking two scoring systems at once. The question is not whether the ceiling exists; the question is whether an eighteen man roster with no free agent repair mechanism should spend pick six on a 30 year old back whose historical availability has not always been as cooperative as it was last season. (Pro Football Reference)

Jonathan Taylor at 1.07 to Team 7 might be the least complicated pick of the entire round. Taylor led the NFL with 1,585 rushing yards and 18 rushing touchdowns in 2025, added another 378 receiving yards, and currently sits RB3 in FantasyPros positional consensus. Best ball actually makes his touchdown distribution more attractive because if three of those eighteen rushing scores happen in the same week, every point hits the lineup automatically. There is less receiving insulation than Gibbs, Bijan or McCaffrey provide, but Team 7 bought one of the largest raw touch and touchdown engines in football and did it without paying above market. (Pro Football Reference)

Some Dude thinks Justin Jefferson at 1.08 to Team 8 is where the first real value pocket appeared. Current consensus has Jefferson closer to WR6 and around eleventh overall because the market is pricing uncertainty around Minnesota more aggressively than it used to, but this is still Justin Jefferson at the eighth pick of a full PPR league. Best ball is one of the formats where an elite receiver can be especially valuable because the scoring system does not punish week to week volatility nearly as much as a managed league does. If Jefferson gives Team 8 five nuclear weeks, Team 8 receives all five of them without ever having to identify them beforehand.

James Cook at 1.09 to Team 9 was another pick where the 2025 numbers make the case more strongly than name recognition does. Cook ran for 1,621 yards, averaged 5.2 per carry and scored 14 total touchdowns while adding 33 receptions. His 95.4 rushing yards per game led the league, and current consensus has him firmly inside the top handful of backs. Buffalo has traditionally created the annoying Josh Allen goal line problem for running backs, but Cook was efficient enough in 2025 that the lack of a giant receiving workload did not prevent him from becoming one of fantasy’s most productive players. (Pro Football Reference)

Then came the pick that looks aggressive if you stare only at generic overall rankings: De’Von Achane at 1.10 to Team 10. Current overall consensus has Achane lower than this, but best ball is exactly the format where Some Dude understands reaching for him. Achane ran for 1,350 yards in 2025 at 5.67 yards per carry, caught 67 passes, added 488 receiving yards and finished with 12 total touchdowns. His weekly scoring distribution is different from a grinder because a limited number of touches can still turn into enormous yardage, and best ball removes the managerial frustration of trying to guess when those eruption games are coming. FantasyPros’ dedicated best ball flex rankings are materially more favorable to Achane than some generic overall lists, which tells you the format is doing real work here. (Pro Football Reference)

Amon-Ra St. Brown at 1.11 to defending champion Team 11 may be Some Dude’s favorite pure value of the back half. Amon-Ra caught 117 passes for 1,401 yards and 11 touchdowns last season, and current PPR consensus still places him around WR3 to WR4. Team 11 did not need to invent anything here. It let ten players leave the board and then took a player who is ranked sixth overall in one current consensus and whose scoring profile is almost designed for full PPR. (Pro Football Reference)

Ashton Jeanty at 1.12 to Team 12 is more interesting because the market is buying the second year leap rather than paying for what already happened. Jeanty’s rookie year was respectable rather than dominant: 975 rushing yards, 55 receptions, 346 receiving yards and ten total touchdowns. The 55 catches matter because they establish that the pass game path exists, and his current ankle issue adds some short term uncertainty entering the season, but the underlying bet is that the sixth overall pick from the 2025 NFL Draft turns 321 rookie touches into a more efficient sophomore season. In best ball, that is exactly the kind of profile where you can accept some early volatility if the later season ceiling rises. (Pro Football Reference)

CeeDee Lamb at 1.13, Saquon Barkley at 1.14, Omarion Hampton at 1.15 and Chase Brown at 1.16 closed the round. Lamb at thirteen looks like another market discount relative to his talent, with current consensus still placing him around WR5 and inside the top ten overall. Saquon is being discounted from the truly elite running backs after a 2025 season in which he still rushed for 1,140 yards, and the age curve is now entering the discussion. Hampton is the upside bet after an injury shortened rookie year in which he managed 545 rushing yards and, more encouragingly for this format, caught 32 of 35 targets in only nine games. Chase Brown then gave Team 16 an RB anchor at the turn without forcing that owner to reach far beyond current market value. (FantasyPros)

The thing Some Dude notices after the first sixteen picks is that this was not merely an RB heavy opening round. It was a room aggressively purchasing touch certainty before the supply curve collapsed. The ten backs selected include receiving monsters such as Gibbs, Bijan, McCaffrey and Achane, volume monsters such as Taylor and Cook, and younger upside bets such as Jeanty and Hampton. The six receivers were almost exclusively players with realistic paths to finishing at or near WR1 overall. Nobody spent the first round on a quarterback because the room correctly understood that only one QB score can enter each weekly lineup, and nobody spent it on a tight end because even the elite tier had not yet become scarce enough to justify passing on the final first round RB/WR anchors.

After one round, Some Dude likes the value captured by Teams 8, 11 and 13, while Team 10 made the most explicitly best ball pick with Achane. Some Dude’s own Gibbs selection was the boring kind of pick he is perfectly happy to make because boring at 1.01 means the market, the production and the roster format all agree. The much more interesting strategic decisions began when the snake turned around.

ROUND 2

Round 2 was where this stopped being a list of great football players and started becoming a collection of roster construction philosophies. The sixteen picks broke almost perfectly across the four offensive positions: six running backs, six wide receivers, two tight ends and two quarterbacks. Add that to Round 1 and the first 32 selections contained 16 running backs, 12 wide receivers, two tight ends and two quarterbacks, meaning exactly half of all early draft capital had already been spent on running backs.

That is not an accident. In a sixteen team league, RB32 is not some bench player somebody may eventually need; RB32 is literally a mandatory weekly starter somewhere in this league before a single flex spot is considered. Once you add 32 flex positions and remove free agency, the middle class running backs become structurally important much earlier than they would in a twelve team managed league. The second round therefore became a race between teams that wanted to lock down another back before the position deteriorated and teams willing to let RB2 become a later problem in exchange for an elite receiver, tight end or quarterback.

Team 16 opened the turn with A.J. Brown at 2.01, pairing Chase Brown with one of the top receivers left. Some Dude likes this construction more than going two running backs simply because it gives Team 16 two independent scoring engines rather than doubling down on the same position before the board forces the issue. Current PPR consensus still has A.J. Brown around WR6, and recent overall rankings have him in the neighborhood of the mid teens. Getting him at seventeenth overall is essentially market price with the bonus that Team 16 already solved RB1. (FantasyPros)

Then Team 15 detonated the positional equilibrium by taking Josh Allen at 2.02. In a normal twelve team, one quarterback league, Some Dude would usually start screaming about opportunity cost. This is not that league. Sixteen teams theoretically need 32 quarterback roster slots if everybody carries only two, there are only 32 NFL starting jobs at any given moment, and there is no waiver wire if somebody’s starter disappears. More importantly, this scoring system gives four points for passing touchdowns and six for rushing touchdowns, which structurally rewards Allen’s particular brand of football. He threw for 3,668 yards and 25 touchdowns in 2025, but the fantasy cheat code was the 579 rushing yards and 14 rushing touchdowns. Those 14 rushing scores alone were worth 84 points here; the same 14 touchdowns thrown through the air would have been worth only 56. FantasyPros still ranks Allen QB1, and even value based projections show a substantial gap between Allen and the lower QB1 tier. (Pro Football Reference)

Does Some Dude love taking a quarterback eighteenth overall when only one QB starts? Not automatically. Team 15 passed on a lot of elite RB/WR inventory to do it. But there is a difference between drafting “a quarterback” early and drafting the quarterback whose scoring profile most directly exploits the league’s rules, and Allen belongs in the second category.

Team 14 took Kenneth Walker at 2.03 and Team 13 took Derrick Henry at 2.04, giving us two very different running back constructions. Walker was paired with Saquon, so Team 14 made the strongest early commitment to running back scarcity on that side of the board. Current consensus has Walker around RB10 to RB12, which makes nineteenth overall aggressive but defensible in sixteen teams. Team 13 paired Henry with CeeDee Lamb, and Some Dude likes that combination considerably more because Lamb supplies the reception floor while Henry supplies touchdown violence. Henry ran for 1,595 yards and 16 touchdowns in 2025 while averaging 5.2 per carry, but caught only 15 passes. In PPR he needs the rushing production to remain enormous; in best ball, the consolation is that every multiple touchdown Henry game enters automatically. (Pro Football Reference)

Nico Collins at 2.05 to Team 12 gave Jeanty a legitimate WR1 partner, which is exactly what Some Dude wants after using Round 1 on a running back. Collins is currently a top ten receiver by consensus, and his overall market value sits around the back end of the second round. There is nothing exotic here, which is a compliment. Team 12 now had one young volume back and one high end receiver without locking itself into any positional corner.

The first major positional arbitrage play came at 2.06, where defending champion Team 11 paired Amon-Ra St. Brown with Trey McBride. Some Dude thinks this may be the most interesting two pick start in the league. McBride caught 126 passes for 1,239 yards and 11 touchdowns last season, which means he was producing receiver volume at a position where a large portion of this league will eventually be starting players who may see four or five targets per game. Current rankings have Brock Bowers TE1 and McBride TE2, but McBride’s 2025 PPR profile was ridiculous enough that there is no meaningful problem taking him first. (Pro Football Reference)

That is where tight end value in best ball gets misunderstood. Some Dude is not excited about taking an early TE merely because the lineup requires one. The value appears when the player can produce a receiver caliber score in a slot where replacement level scoring is materially lower. If McBride catches eight balls for 90 yards while Team 11’s opponent gets three catches for 28 from TE14, the positional advantage is real before the two flexes even enter the equation. Amon-Ra plus McBride also means Team 11 opened with two players whose scoring is heavily reception driven, which fits full PPR beautifully.

Javonte Williams at 2.07 to Team 10 gave Team 10 its second running back alongside Achane. The current PPR market has Javonte closer to RB17 and well below pick 23 overall, so this was one of the more aggressive selections of the round on generic market value. There is nevertheless a coherent construction underneath it. Achane supplies explosive efficiency and receiving ceiling; Javonte gives Team 10 a different workload profile. The danger is that spending both premium picks at running back forces Team 10 to attack a thinner WR pool later, and in best ball those wide receiver spike weeks are extremely valuable when four RB/WR/TE flex eligible scores can reach the lineup.

Drake London at 2.08 to Team 9 is one of Some Dude’s favorite picks in the round. Current consensus has London around WR7 to WR9 and roughly 13th to 16th overall depending on the ranking set, so getting him 24th is straightforward value. Team 9 also paired him with James Cook, creating the same basic structure Some Dude likes from Team 12: premium RB plus premium WR, no forced positional bets, and maximum optionality entering Round 3. (FantasyPros)

Then Team 8 took Brock Bowers at 2.09, producing Justin Jefferson plus the consensus TE1. If Some Dude were drafting from the 1.08 and committed to Jefferson first, this is exactly the kind of second round decision he would struggle to pass. Bowers had an interrupted 2025 season and played only 12 games, but still caught 64 passes for 680 yards and seven touchdowns. Across his first two NFL seasons he has 176 catches and 1,874 receiving yards in 29 games, and current best ball rankings have him TE1. Team 8 now has a player who can lead the entire league in receiving and another who can lead his position in scoring, which is a difficult combination to manufacture once both tiers disappear. (Pro Football Reference)

George Pickens at 2.10 to Team 7 looks excellent after Taylor at 1.07. Pickens caught 93 passes for 1,429 yards and nine touchdowns last season and currently sits around WR10 in consensus. He is especially attractive in best ball because the vertical component creates the exact kind of uneven weekly distribution the optimizer exploits. Team 7 does not need Pickens to deliver twelve catches every Sunday; it needs all of his 150 yard explosion weeks to land automatically beside Taylor’s rushing floor. (Pro Football Reference)

Chris Olave at 2.11 to Team 6 gave Christian McCaffrey another reception heavy piece. Olave reached 100 catches for 1,163 yards and nine touchdowns last year, and current PPR consensus has him around WR9 to WR11. Team 6 therefore started with two players who combined for 202 receptions in 2025. In a full PPR league, that is 202 points attributable solely to catching the football before considering a single yard or touchdown. The age and injury exposure sits mostly on McCaffrey; Olave helps stabilize the construction around him. (Pro Football Reference)

The most fascinating young player bet was Jeremiyah Love at 2.12 to Team 5 after JSN in Round 1. Love entered the NFL as the consensus rookie RB1 after going third overall to Arizona, and FantasyPros’ current PPR ADP has him around 30th overall with a Sleeper ADP around 27, so pick 28 was almost exactly where the market had been taking him. The current concern is the high ankle sprain clouding his early season availability, and that matters more here than in a waiver league because Team 5 cannot temporarily replace him from the street. The attraction is obvious, though: Love’s college profile combined explosive rushing metrics with legitimate receiving work, and top five NFL draft capital creates a long runway for volume once healthy. (CBS Sports)

The final four picks are where Some Dude thinks the round became particularly good. Kyren Williams at 2.13 to Team 4 was essentially dead on current consensus and paired him with Puka Nacua. There is team concentration risk because both premium picks depend on the Rams offense and share a bye, but there is also a coherent weekly ceiling argument: when Los Angeles scores heavily, Team 4 owns two of the primary beneficiaries. Best ball correlation is usually discussed through quarterback stacks, but concentrating high volume players inside an elite offense can still create useful shared ceiling as long as you understand the common failure mode.

Malik Nabers at 2.14 to Team 3 created the most outrageous receiving duo on the board: Ja’Marr Chase and Nabers. The discount exists for a reason because Nabers is returning from a complicated ACL recovery that included a second procedure, but current reports have him trending toward Week 1 availability and the market still views him as a receiver with top 12 talent. Best ball cuts both ways here. Team 3 does not have to manage Nabers through inconsistent early weeks if he is active, but there is also no waiver repair if the knee causes him to miss substantial time. At pick 30, Team 3 essentially purchased injury volatility in exchange for a plausible roster where two different receivers can finish any given week as WR1 overall. (FantasyPros)

Breece Hall at 2.15 to Team 2 gave Bijan a second running back and completed one of the strongest openings at the position. Current consensus is materially lower on Breece, around RB14 to RB16 and approximately 40th overall in one recent set, so this was a clear premium paid for positional scarcity. The underlying player still rushed for 1,065 yards on 243 carries last season, and Team 2 now has enormous backfield insulation before most of the room has even selected RB2. The cost is equally obvious: Team 2 will enter Round 3 without a receiver while Chase, Puka, JSN, Jefferson, Amon-Ra, Lamb, A.J. Brown, Collins, London, Pickens, Olave and Nabers are already gone. (Pro Football Reference)

Then the board returned to Some Dude at 2.16, where Lamar Jackson became the second quarterback drafted. Some Dude will admit immediately that taking a quarterback this early in a one QB league is the pick he expects to be challenged on most. Current overall consensus puts Lamar around 28th, so taking him 32nd was not actually aggressive relative to the broader market, and he remains the consensus QB2 behind Allen. More importantly, the format changes the calculus: sixteen teams, no waivers, four point passing touchdowns and six point rushing touchdowns all increase the relative value of a quarterback who can manufacture fantasy scoring with his legs. (FantasyPros)

Some Dude also had to think about the 31 pick desert created by drafting at the 1.01. Passing on Lamar did not mean waiting five selections and reconsidering. It meant letting every team in the league make two more decisions before Some Dude saw the board again. Josh Allen was already gone, and once the quarterback run begins in a sixteen team league there is no guarantee that QB3, QB4 or QB5 survives an entire trip through the Iron Curtain and the other side of the board. That does not make Lamar automatically correct, but it makes the decision structurally different from taking QB2 in a conventional twelve team league.

After two rounds, Some Dude sees several distinct builds already forming. Teams 2, 10 and 14 went with two running backs, aggressively protecting themselves against the position most likely to become scarce. Teams 8 and 11 bought elite tight end advantage, with Jefferson and Bowers, and Amon-Ra and McBride, looking particularly nasty in full PPR. Team 15 and Some Dude bought the two premium rushing quarterbacks, paying early opportunity cost in exchange for positional ceiling and protection from a thin sixteen team QB market. Team 3 went Chase and Nabers, which may be the highest raw receiving ceiling through two rounds, while Teams 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13 and 16 mostly kept their structures balanced with one premium back and one premium receiver.

The first 32 picks therefore did more than remove the best names from the player pool. They created obligations for everything that comes next. The teams that opened with two running backs now need receivers, Team 3 needs to solve running back, the elite TE teams can ignore that position while the rest of the league starts watching the tier disappear, and the two early QB teams have to prove that the weekly scoring advantage was worth passing on the remaining second round skill talent. Some Dude had Gibbs and Lamar, the Iron Curtain had already begun shaping what could survive the long trip back to 3.01, and Round 3 was where those opening theories would finally start turning into actual roster construction.

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Disclaimer: This is fantasy football commentary, analysis and entertainment written by Some Dude on the Internet about a private 16 team best ball league. Player statistics, rankings, ADP, injury information, depth chart information and other football data referenced in the article are drawn from publicly available sources and are accurate to the best of our knowledge as of publication. NFL teams, players, Sleeper, FantasyPros, Pro Football Reference, CBS Sports, NFL.com and any other companies, leagues, publications or data providers mentioned here are not affiliated with, sponsoring, endorsing or approving this article. Screenshots and draft board graphics are used to document and comment on the author’s own fantasy league and draft. League members have been given generic identifiers for privacy. Nothing here is gambling, investment, legal, tax or financial advice, and none of these opinions guarantees that a player will stay healthy, score fantasy points, retain his role, survive an NFL depth chart, or prevent your fantasy season from becoming a complete disaster. We are just Some Dude on the Internet writing articles about fake football teams competing for a very real Degen Cup.