Fantasy Life Show

📋 Week 1 is here. We're breaking down the smash spots and crash spots at every position, hitting the injuries that could wreck your lineup, and going rapid-fire on the start/sit calls you're still sweating. Kendall and Pete discuss smash and crash spots for players you are deciding on starting or sitting this week, they go through a rapid-fire of start/sit questions, discuss rankings, injuries, and more. In addition, they will build out a DFS lineup together on the show to finalize an action-packed show heading into opening weekend. 🔍 Topics in this video: fantasy football start or sit this week f...

Right now, before a single snap has been played in Week 1, your fantasy football waiver wire is the most wide open it will be all season. Nobody has panicked yet. Nobody has dropped anybody. This is the window. Kendall Valenzuela, Dwain McFarland and Peter Overzet each bring four moves to make before Week 1 kicks off — real adds and stashes on players who are still sitting on waivers in most leagues. Dwain goes to Terrance Ferguson, who could climb into top-12 tight end territory if he has a real role in Los Angeles, then Ja'Kobi Lane, and closes with a ge...

No ADP. No rankings. Just doing a fantasy football draft where we get sixteen picks of players we actually want to root for in 2026 fantasy football. For the final draft of the 2026 preseason, Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet threw out the board and ran an Underdog best ball draft on one rule: only take guys you genuinely love. The result is a roster that would horrify a projections model and might just win the whole thing. It opens with Omarion Hampton and Saquon Barkley, then a receiver room built entirely on conviction — Garrett Wilson, Luther Burden, Rome Odunze, Michael Pi...

This is the last time these fantasy football tight end rankings change before Week 1.
Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet go through Fantasy Life's final preseason tight end rankings and stop on the names where the room genuinely disagrees.
Both tiers come with the full consensus list plus each player's highest and lowest rank across the staff, so you can see exactly where the confidence is and where it isn't.
The top twelve starts with the hardest question at the position: one tight end outscored the TE2 by 105 PPR points last season and is still ranked behind...

This is the last time these fantasy football quarterback rankings change before Week 1.
Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet go through Fantasy Life's final preseason quarterback rankings and stop on the names where the room genuinely disagrees. Both tiers come with the full consensus list plus each player's highest and lowest rank across the staff, so you can see exactly where the confidence is and where it isn't.
The top twelve opens with the question that decides your whole draft approach at the position: do you spend a second or third-round pick on one of the two elite...

This is the last time these fantasy football wide receiver rankings change before Week 1.
Kendall Valenzuela, Dwain McFarland and Peter Overzet go through Fantasy Life's final preseason wide receiver rankings, all 48 of them, and stop on the names where the room genuinely disagrees. Every tier comes with the full consensus list plus each player's highest and lowest rank across the staff, so you can see exactly where the confidence is and where it isn't.
The top twelve gets into whether there's regression coming for a WR3 who just lost his offensive coordinator, whether a new quarterback puts...

This is the last time these fantasy football running back rankings change before Week 1.
Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet go through Fantasy Life's final preseason running back rankings, all 48 of them, and stop on the names where the room genuinely disagrees. Every tier comes with the full consensus list plus each player's highest and lowest rank across the staff, so you can see exactly where the confidence is and where it isn't.
The top twelve opens with the debate that decides the 1.01, and whether it actually matters as much as everyone thinks. Then the widest disagreement on...

The same player isn't the same value on every platform. ESPN, Yahoo and Sleeper all price players differently, which means the guy you're reaching for in one league is a bargain in another. Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet go position by position and platform by platform to find the biggest gaps between where each site's ADP has a player and where Kendall actually ranks him. Every value comes with the exact math: the positional ADP, Kendall's positional rank, the difference, and how many spots of overall value you're capturing. At quarterback it's Justin Herbert on ESPN, going as the...

You can walk into a draft with a perfect plan. Targets identified, sleepers ranked, a strategy for every slot. And then three rounds in, none of it survives contact. Kendall Valenzuela, Peter Overzet and Dwain McFarland break down two real drafts from Draft Nation, pick by pick, including one where almost nothing went the way Dwain wanted it to. First up is the 16-round best ball draft where Dwain sat at pick 11 with Pete right ahead of him at 10 — which meant getting sniped repeatedly by the guy sitting next to him. They walk through every stage of the build: As...

Ashton Jeanty went down in practice, and while it looks better than the initial fear, he is nowhere near the only problem on draft boards right now.
Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet go through twelve of the most heavily drafted players currently dealing with injuries and rate exactly how panicked they are about each one, on a scale of 1 to 10.
Jeanty's sprained ankle and the question of whether Mike Washington has become a must-draft handcuff. Mike Evans leaving practice early with a quad. Tucker Kraft's ACL recovery and a possible first-half snap count. Jordyn Tyson looking at...

You don't win your fantasy league in the draft. But you can absolutely lose it there, and it usually happens in the first twenty minutes. Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet go pick-by-pick through every single draft slot, 1.01 through 1.12, and lay out the worst possible way to start your 2026 draft from each one. Not bad players — bad combinations. The two-pick starts that look defensible on the clock and leave your roster broken by Round 4. Then they flip it. Every slot also gets the best way to open, so you're not just walking away knowing what to avoid. Bijan Robinson, Jahmyr Gi...

Three years ago, eight running backs went off fantasy football draft boards in the first two rounds. This year it's thirteen. Is that surge justified, or has the fantasy community wildly overcorrected? Kendall Valenzuela, Peter Overzet and Dwain McFarland settle it the only honest way — by doing a mock draft. They run a single fantasy football mock together, sixteen rounds, with each of them locked into a different approach to the position. Pete takes Zero RB and won't touch a running back in the first three or four rounds. Dwain runs Hero RB, taking exactly one back in the fi...

Last year Ashton Jeanty finished as the RB15 at 14.4 PPR points per game. You drafted him as the RB6. This year he's going as the RB7 or RB8 — so you're paying nearly the same price for a player who hasn't yet paid it off.

Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet are joined by Fantasy Life's Alex Cupps, who built a model that predicts second-year breakouts. Alex explains what the CUPPS Score actually measures, what goes into it and how accurate it's been historically — in sixty seconds or less — and then they run nine of his favorite year-two player...

ESPN's ADP is doing some genuinely strange things this year, and Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet went through all sixteen rounds to find it.
Every round gets the same treatment: one pick you should be running to the podium for, and one you should be letting somebody else make. It starts in the first with Christian McCaffrey and Jonathan Taylor going in wildly different directions, then Brock Bowers and Josh Allen in the second, Breece Hall and Josh Jacobs in the third. Round 4 brings Emeka Egbuka and Tyler Warren, Round 5 has Jaylen Waddle and Quinshon Judkins, and Round 6...

Kendall Valenzuela and Dwain McFarland finish the 2026 wide receiver tiers. Part 1 covered the WR1s (check it out here: https://youtu.be/fSvyvFbbTn0); this is everything after — from the high-upside WR2s all the way down to the late-round names where drafts are actually won. It starts with the tier that might matter most in your draft: Emeka Egbuka, Tetairoa McMillan, Ladd McConkey, Luther Burden III, Zay Flowers, Jaylen Waddle and Garrett Wilson. Then a group of proven veterans in new or changed situations — Mike Evans, Davante Adams, DJ Moore, Terry McLaurin and Chris Godwin — followed by the bet-on-the-leap names...

Everyone has a list of 2026 breakout candidates. Almost nobody puts a number on how confident they actually are.
Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet take the most popular breakout names in fantasy football and rate each one from 1 to 10 on how likely they are to genuinely break out — with a strict definition: a breakout means you'll be drafting that player at least one full tier higher next season. And Pete is only allowed to give one player a 10 all episode.
They work through Luther Burden, Emeka Egbuka, Tetairoa McMillan, Bhayshul Tuten, Jonathon Brooks, Parker Washington, Ladd McConkey, Josh Do...

Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet run a full PPR redraft 2026 fantasy football mock draft — every pick, every round, and the reasoning behind all of it. No gimmicks and no exotic format here. This is the draft you're actually doing in a few weeks: standard PPR scoring, ESPN ADP, a normal redraft league, and the real decisions you'll be staring at when the clock is running. Kendall and Pete take turns on the board and explain each selection as they go, including the ones where they'd have gone a different direction. It starts with James Cook in the first round an...

Kendall Valenzuela is joined by Dwain McFarland and Peter Overzet to go through Dwain's 2026 wide receiver rankings — not as a flat list, but in tiers. This is Part 1 of 2, covering the first four tiers and the 15 receivers Dwain considers true WR1s.
Are Ja'Marr Chase and Puka Nacua really in a class of their own, or has someone closed the gap? Where does Jaxon Smith-Njigba land after his breakout, and does Amon-Ra St. Brown or CeeDee Lamb come off the board first? Then the group Dwain thinks is the most misunderstood range on the board — Justin Jefferson, Malik Nabe...

Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet count down the 10 biggest wide receiver values in 2026 fantasy football — the guys where Fantasy Life's rankings are furthest ahead of where the rest of the industry is drafting them. Every name comes with the actual gap: our rank versus ESPN, Yahoo, Sleeper, Underdog and RT Sports ADP, so you can see exactly how much free value you're getting at each pick.
The list runs from a five-spot edge all the way up to a 21-spot gap on the No. 1 value, and the names span every round of your draft. Malik Nabers, DeVonta Smith an...

Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet settle the biggest positional debate of 2026 drafts: do you pay up for an elite tight end, or wait until the double-digit rounds and punt the position entirely? They each build a real Underdog best ball team around one strategy — and then grade each other's rosters.
First up are the four tight ends coming off the board early: Brock Bowers in the second round, Trey McBride in the third, Colston Loveland in the fourth and Tyler Warren in the sixth. Are they actually worth the price? Then we get into the middle of the bo...

Fantasy football expert Dwain McFarland joins Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet to give you the full tight end picture for 2026 fantasy football — all the TEs that matter, sorted into seven tiers, with Fantasy Life rankings and projections attached to every single name.
If you're deciding whether to pay up at tight end or wait until the double-digit rounds, this is the episode that settles it. Every tier comes with projected PPR points per game, targets, receptions and touchdowns, so you know exactly where the cliffs are before you draft.

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Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet are joined by Rich Hribar (@LordReebs) to break down the five players he's targeting — and the five he's fading — in 2026 fantasy football drafts.
The fades are spicy: Why is Rich out on Patrick Mahomes? Should Jonathan Taylor's Round 1 price scare you off? Is De'Von Achane being drafted at his absolute ceiling — and what's holding back Brian Thomas Jr. and Trey McBride? On the flip side, Rich makes the case for Justin Herbert, Saquon Barkley, Terry McLaurin, Emeka Egbuka, and Sam La...

Training camp hype is about to send ADPs flying — so we're getting in before the spike. Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet each reveal the players they think will SKYROCKET in ADP once camp news starts breaking, then put their money where their mouths are by hopping into a live Underdog best ball draft to lock those targets in at today's prices. Pete is buying Matthew Golden, George Kittle, Rashid Shaheed, Stefon Diggs, Jaydon Blue, and MarShawn Lloyd. Kendall is targeting Rome Odunze, Rhamondre Stevenson, Josh Downs, Michael Pittman, Rachaad White, and Antonio Williams. Where do their ADPs sit on Un...

Training camps are opening across the NFL — the perfect time to get caught up on every player in a new place and what it means for fantasy football. Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet tier rank every fantasy-relevant player who moved this offseason — free agents, trades, and rookies — grading each landing spot on how much we love the fit, from S-Tier (Match Made in Heaven) all the way to F-Tier (Hate Everything About It). Can Kyler Murray revive his fantasy value in Minnesota? Is Kenneth Walker set up to smash in Kansas City? Should A.J. Brown managers be excited about...

Training camp is almost here — and it's going to answer the biggest questions hanging over 2026 fantasy football drafts. Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet are joined by Zain Dhanani to break down the biggest mysteries that could be solved during NFL training camps, and what each answer would mean for your draft board. Where will Stefon Diggs and Deebo Samuel actually land? What will the Bhayshul Tuten and Chris Rodriguez split really look like? Who's the WR1 in Jacksonville — and how involved will Travis Hunter be? Plus: the Commanders backfield puzzle, whether it's time to come back around on Aaron Jone...

Should you load up on running backs early or wait and attack the position later in your 2026 fantasy football drafts? Fantasy football experts Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet settle the Robust RB vs. Zero RB debate with a LIVE Underdog best ball draft, where they go head-to-head using two of the most popular roster construction strategies. Kendall builds a Robust RB team by hammering running backs early, while Pete embraces the Zero RB approach, and you get to see which roster comes out on top.
Before the draft battle, they break down the 2026 running back landscape on Underdog...

It's time to tier up the quarterbacks. Dwain McFarland reveals his full 2026 fantasy football QB rankings and tiers, and Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet are here to debate every call — from the elite tier at the top all the way down the board.
Which running backs are locked into the top tier? Which running backs have higher upside due to their pass-catching abilities? Who has the chance to be a workhorse running back in their offense, but may not be being drafted like it? And which popular picks does he have ranked as fades? We go tier by ti...

Which running backs should you be drafting in 2026 fantasy football — and which ones should you pass on at their current price? Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet are joined by Lawrence Jackson Jr. of NBC Sports (@LordDontLost) to play Draft or Pass with the most debated RBs on the board.
Is Saquon Barkley being slept on after a down season? Should we be lower on Cam Skattebo than consensus? Lawrence breaks down his favorite and least favorite running backs for 2026, the numbers behind each call, and where he disagrees most with the consensus.
Whether you're prepping for best ba...

Should you draft a quarterback early or wait in 2026 fantasy football drafts? Fantasy football experts Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet settle this draft strategy debate with a LIVE Underdog best ball draft, where they go head-to-head using dueling QB strategies. Kendall is drafting her QB early, Pete waits, and you get to see which roster comes out on top.
Before the draft battle, they break down the full 2026 QB ADP landscape on Underdog Fantasy — where every tier of quarterback is going, where the value pockets are, and how to build the best possible roster around your QB decision no...

Check out Dwain's full Quarterback tiers here: https://www.fantasylife.com/articles/fantasy/quarterback-tiers-for-fantasy-football-2026-jayden-daniels It's time to tier up the quarterbacks. Dwain McFarland reveals his full 2026 fantasy football QB rankings and tiers, and Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet are here to debate every call — from the elite tier at the top all the way down the board. Which quarterbacks are locked into the top tier? Where do the rushing QBs separate from the pocket passers? Which signal-callers is Dwain higher on than their ADP — and which popular picks does he have ranked as fades? We go tier by tier...

Which quarterbacks should you be drafting in 2026 fantasy football — and which ones should you pass on at their current price? Kendall Valenzuela is joined by Faraz Siddiqi (@UpperHandFantasy) of Upper Hand Fantasy to play Draft or Pass with the most debated QBs on the board.
Is Brock Purdy a screaming value where he's going in drafts? Is Caleb Williams a trap at his ADP? Faraz breaks down his favorite and least favorite quarterbacks for 2026, the numbers behind each call, and where he disagrees most with the consensus.
Whether you're prepping for best ball drafts on Underdog or yo...

Best ball ADP is on the move — and it's the sleepers making the biggest jumps. Kendall Valenzuela and best ball expert Peter Overzet break down the biggest ADP risers and fallers in Underdog Fantasy drafts over the past month, including where the market has moved on Quentin Johnston, Adonai Mitchell, Harold Fannin, Greg Dulcich, and Chris Rodriguez.
Are drafters right to be moving on these players — or is the market overreacting? We dig into why each ADP is shifting and whether you should be buying or fading at the new price.
Then we put it all into prac...

Check out the 2026 Fantasy Draft Guide here: https://
fantasylife.com/fantasy-football-draft-kit
Part 8 of our series breaking down every fantasy-relevant player for 2026 fantasy football. In this episode, Ian Hartitz and Kendall Valenzuela go team by team through the AFC South — covering every quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and tight end you need to know about for the Texans, Jaguars, Colts and Titans.
Is Bhayshul Tuten locked in as the RB1 in Jacksonville? Is Tyler Warren really the only Colts pass catcher you want? How will David Montgomery fare in Houston? Will Carnell Tate shine his rookie season? We...

Ian Hartitz, Dwain McFarland, and Kendall Valenzuela break down the riskiest players you can draft in 2026 fantasy football. These aren't necessarily bad players. Some of them are actually "my guys" and upside plays for the same analysts who flagged them as risky at their current ADPs. That's what makes them so dangerous: massive ceiling, massive floor, and at prices that give us pause.
We go player by player through the names keeping our analysts up at night. De'Von Achane on a terrible Miami Dolphins offense. Malik Nabers' injury history. Rashee Rice dealing with off-the-field issues. Cam Skattebo as...

Check out the 2026 Fantasy Draft Guide to see all of our sleepers for 2026: https://fantasylife.com/fantasy-football-draft-kit Pete Overzet and Kendall Valenzuela reveal 11 fantasy football sleepers you need to know before your 2026 drafts. These are the players being overlooked, underdrafted, or completely ignored at their current ADP — but they have the talent, opportunity, and situation to massively outperform expectations.From a former WR1 at a discount to a rookie nobody is talking about to a quarterback change that could unlock an entire offense, these are the late-round values and sneaky picks that could be the difference between winning and lo...

Check out the 2026 Fantasy Draft Guide here: https://
fantasylife.com/fantasy-football-draft-kit
Part 7 of our series breaking down every fantasy-relevant player for 2026 fantasy football. In this episode, Ian Hartitz and Kendall Valenzuela go team by team through the AFC East — covering every quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and tight end you need to know about for the Bills, Patriots, Dolphins, and Jets.
Is De'Von Achane a bit too risky at his current price? How will Garrett Wilson fare with Geno Smith at QB? How will A.J. Brown and DJ Moore do on their new teams? Will Ja...

Fantasy football experts Kendall Valenzuela, Ian Hartitz and Dwain McFarland open up their Underdog Best Ball portfolios and reveal the players they have NOT been drafting enough of heading into the 2026 fantasy football season. Which quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends haven't yet found their way onto their rosters — and why?
Where do they overlap? Where do they disagree? And which players are they sticking by fading at their current ADP?
Then they put it all into action with a live Underdog Best Ball draft — showing you their strategy in real time, pick by pick.
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Pete Overzet and Kendall Valenzuela take 12 of last year's biggest fantasy football storylines and find the players most likely to follow the same path in 2026. Who's going to be this year's Jaxon Smith-Njigba breakout? Which top-tier running back could fall short like Saquon Barkley? Who's the next Chris Olave bounceback from injury? And which player is set up for a George Pickens-style breakout in a new place? We go comp by comp through quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends — matching last year's most memorable fantasy seasons to the players poised to repeat history in 2026. ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Coming Up 02...

Check out the 2026 Fantasy Draft Guide here: https://
fantasylife.com/fantasy-football-draft-kit
Part 6 of our series breaking down every fantasy-relevant player for 2026 fantasy football. In this episode, Ian Hartitz, Dwain McFarland, and Kendall Valenzuela go team by team through the AFC North — covering every quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and tight end you need to know about for the Ravens, Bengals, Steelers, and Browns.
Joe Burrow is going as the QB3 in Underdog drafts?! Is Zay Flowers this year's JSN? Harold Fannin the most sure-fire fantasy asset on the Browns? Who will win out in the Steelers ba...

Ian Hartitz and Dwain McFarland open up their Underdog Best Ball portfolios and reveal the players they've been drafting the most heading into the 2026 fantasy football season. Which quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends keep ending up on their rosters — and why?
First, Dwain breaks down his highest exposure players. Then Ian reveals his. Where do they overlap? Where do they disagree? And which players are they both pounding the table for at their current ADP?
Then they put it all into action with a live Underdog Best Ball draft on camera — showing you their stra...