Fantasy Life Show

📋 Week 7 is in the books, four more teams are on bye in Week 8, and we’re overreacting to all of it.Kendall and Pete open with Overreaction Monday. Tony Pollard as a perpetual top-five fantasy back in Seattle. Why the Steelers waited so long to unleash Jaylen Warren. John Harbaugh and Cam Skattebo apparently working things out. Zay Flowers as this year’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Whether Ashton Jeanty is not who we thought he was coming out of college. And Bo Nix seeing the memes about his yards per attempt. Plus Imagine That, presented by Xfinity Shield, on Jonathan Taylor...

📋 Week 7 is here. We’re breaking down fantasy football rankings, 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 go through the top 12 quarterbacks, top 24 running backs, top 24 receivers and top 12 tight ends, then get into the spots that actually decide your week — Kyler Murray in a smash spot with Patrick Mahomes in a crash spot, Braelon Allen and Jaylen Warren at running back with a warning on Jonathan Taylor, Matthew Golden and Omar Cooper Jr. at receiv...

Nobody’s stock is falling this week, and five of the seven risers are young receivers. Kendall Valenzuela, Dwain McFarland and Peter Overzet go through the fantasy football players whose utilization is climbing going into Week 7 — and what’s actually driving each one. Germie Bernard rises to a high-end WR3. Carnell Tate joins him at high-end WR3, and his utilization comps paint an interesting picture — receivers at his utilization score have gone on to a top-24 season 46% of the time. Omar Cooper climbs to a high-end WR4. Jalen Coker and Emeka Egbuka both move up to mid-range WR2, with Egbuka c...

📋 Week 6 is in the books, four more teams are on bye in Week 7, and we’re working through all of it — the overreactions worth having, what’s actually real, and the waiver wire. Kendall and Pete open with Overreaction Monday. Pete wiring money to the Nigerian prince known as Colston Loveland. Whether we’ve seen Jameis Winston’s last snap of the season. Cam Skattebo being in the doghouse in New York and whether he belongs in yours. Germie Bernard, Carnell Tate and Omar Cooper finishing 1-2-3 in Offensive Rookie of the Year voting, in that order. Whether the A.J. Brow...

📋 Week 6 is here. We’re breaking down fantasy football rankings, 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 go through the top 12 quarterbacks, top 24 running backs, top 24 receivers and top 12 tight ends, then get into the spots that actually decide your week — Jameis Winston and Kirk Cousins in smash spots with Trevor Lawrence in a crash spot, Rhamondre Stevenson and Tony Pollard at running back with a warning on Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Carnell Tate plus both Packers r...

Marvin Harrison Jr. is in Houston, and that’s not the only thing that moved. Kendall Valenzuela, Dwain McFarland and Peter Overzet go through the fantasy football players whose utilization shifted going into Week 6 — and what’s actually driving each one. Rhamondre Stevenson climbs to a borderline RB1. Marvin Harrison Jr. rises to WR4 with WR3 upside, and they get into what specifically about the Texans offense changes his outlook. Isaiah Likely pushes into high-end TE1 territory, and Mike Evans moves up to a high-end WR2. Going the other way: Jaylen Waddle falls into WR3 range. Then the part your l...

📋 Four teams are on bye in Week 6 — Bengals, Lions, Dolphins and Vikings — which means a lot of lineups are about to have holes in them. We’re getting you ready, plus overreacting to Week 5 and figuring out what’s real. Kendall and Pete open with Overreaction Monday. Not being able to get a second-round pick for Marvin Harrison Jr. in dynasty. Whether Michael Wilson is the Marvin Harrison Jr. of the Cardinals. Whether the Commanders outsourced clock management to AI, plus general Washington-Giants fallout. The Packers’ new playbook being “Christian Watson and Matthew Golden are down there somewhere.” Drake Maye having the w...

📋 Week 5 is here. We’re breaking down fantasy football rankings, 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 go through the top 12 quarterbacks, top 24 running backs, top 24 receivers and top 12 tight ends, then get into the spots that actually decide your week — Jacoby Brissett and Matthew Stafford in smash spots with Brock Purdy in a crash spot, D’Andre Swift and Aaron Jones at running back with a warning on James Cook, Jameson Williams and Michael Wil...

One well-timed trade can still change your season. Kendall Valenzuela, Dwain McFarland and Peter Overzet go through the fantasy football players whose utilization moved going into Week 5 — and what's actually driving each one.
Kyren Williams climbs all the way to a low-end RB1, and RJ Harvey rises to RB3 with RB2 upside. At receiver, Tetairoa McMillan moves up to a high-end WR2, Michael Wilson to a low-end WR2 and Malik Nabers to a mid-range WR2. Going the other direction: Omarion Hampton falls to a high-end RB3, and the usage behind it is the part worth paying attention to.

📋 Someone call the medic. Week 4 did real damage, and we're working through all of it — the injury report that reshaped multiple offenses, what's actually going on with a few teams, the overreactions worth having, and the Week 5 waiver wire.Kendall and Pete open with the Week 4 injury report. Lamar Jackson's ankle and how far you downgrade the Ravens pass catchers if Tyler Huntley is under center. Saquon Barkley's hamstring; DJ Moore re-aggravating his shoulder and whether Keon Coleman is the clear pickup. And Rashee Rice's hamstring plus Tyquan Thornton's ankle leaving Kansas City thin enough that signing Tyreek Hill start...

📋 Week 4 is here. We're breaking down fantasy football rankings, 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 go through the top 12 quarterbacks, top 24 running backs, top 24 receivers and top 12 tight ends, then get into the spots that actually decide your week — Patrick Mahomes and Bryce Young in smash spots, Dak Prescott in a crash spot, Chase Brown, David Montgomery, and a warning on Omarion Hampton. At receiver it's Parker Washington and Josh Downs in plus matchups with...

Whether you're 0-3 or 3-0, one well-timed trade can change your whole season. Kendall Valenzuela, Dwain McFarland and Peter Overzet go through the fantasy football players whose utilization is on the rise going into Week 4 — and what's actually driving each move.
Cam Skattebo climbs to a mid-range RB2 after a Week 3 where his snaps, rushes and route work all jumped at once. Jeremiyah Love rises to mid-range RB2 off a backfield that's tilted almost entirely his way. Josh Downs moves to a low-end WR2 as his role shifts downfield. Kenyon Sadiq jumps to a high-end TE2 after a 23.5-p...

📋 Week 3 is in the books and it was a rough one. We're overreacting to the biggest results, holding an emergency press conference on four quarterback situations that fell apart, working through an injury report that reshapes multiple backfields, and getting you set for Week 4 waivers. Kendall and Pete open with the Week 3 injury report which covers De'Von Achane's torn ACL and a season that's over, Baker Mayfield's thumb and a possible two-to-four week absence, Breece Hall's thigh with no update until Wednesday, Mike Evans' rib and oblique, and Jalen Coker's quad.Week 3 winners and worries — Jahmyr Gibbs at 41.4 and the R...

📋 Week 3 is here. We're breaking down fantasy football rankings, 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 go through the top 12 quarterbacks, top 24 running backs, top 24 receivers and top 12 tight ends, then get into the spots that actually decide your week — Brock Purdy and Geno Smith in smash spots, Matthew Stafford in a crash spot, Jaylen Warren, Quinshon Judkins, and a warning on Travis Etienne. At receiver it's Parker Washington and Ladd McConkey in plus matchups with...

Matthew Freedman and Zain Dhanani go game by game through the entire Week 3 slate, all 16 matchups, using spreads, implied totals, injury reports, and last year's positional funnel data to sort out who's actually startable and who you're better off benching.
They open in Rio de Janeiro with Ravens-Cowboys, the highest total on the board at 52.5, where Dallas's defense was No. 1 last season in fantasy boost allowed to both quarterbacks and wide receivers. From there it's Chargers-Bills, Cardinals-49ers, and Jets-Lions before the afternoon slate, with Chiefs-Dolphins, Patriots-Jaguars, Raiders-Saints, and a Bengals-Steelers game that's suddenly a very different conversation.<...

Kendall Valenzuela, Dwain McFarland and Peter Overzet go through the fantasy football players whose stock actually moved after Week 2 — and more importantly, the specific utilization behind each move.
Parker Washington climbs again, this time to a low-end WR1. Jalen Coker rises into mid-range WR3 territory. Dalton Kincaid moves all the way into the top five at tight end. Going the other way: Rashee Rice slides to a low-end WR2, and the Bears pair of Colston Loveland and Luther Burden both drop, Loveland to a low-end TE1 and Burden to a high-end WR4.
Then the part your league is...

Two starting quarterbacks (and a ton of other players) went down this week. Welcome to injury hell. Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet recap fantasy football Week 2 action — and this week they bring in someone who has actually called plays in the NFL. Former Raiders and Commanders offensive coordinator Scott Turner joins for Real Football vs. Fake Football, breaking down exactly how a coaching staff rebuilds a game plan when a star quarterback like Jayden Daniels or Caleb Williams is out, and what that means for every fantasy starter around them. Then Overreaction Monday. Is it going to take Colston Lo...

📋 Week 2 is here. We're breaking down fantasy football rankings, 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 go through the top 12 quarterbacks, top 24 running backs, top 24 receivers and top 12 tight ends, then get into the spots that actually decide your week — Dak Prescott and Jayden Daniels in smash spots, Trevor Lawrence in a crash spot, Aaron Jones against the Bears, Bucky Irving, and a warning on Jeremiyah Love. At receiver it's Mike Evans and George Pickens in pl...

Kendall Valenzuela, Dwain McFarland and Peter Overzet go through the fantasy football players whose stock actually moved after Week 1 — and more importantly, the specific utilization behind each move. Christian Watson climbs to a mid-range WR2 and Matthew Golden to a high-end WR3 in a Green Bay offense that suddenly looks settled. Ashton Jeanty is a high-end RB1. Parker Washington is a low-end WR2 on a route share that could still grow. And Dalton Kincaid moves into the TE7-to-TE9 range. Then the part your league isn't thinking about yet. Colston Loveland led every tight end in route participation at 89% an...

It's Monday after Week 1 of fantasy football. Somebody in your league is about to drop a player they drafted in the fourth round. Don't be that person.
Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet are kicking off "Overreaction Monday" on everything Week 1 threw at us! We're sorting the results that actually mean something from the ones that are going to look silly in three weeks.
They start with the takes that feel true right now and probably aren't: the Bears as the highest-scoring offense of all time, the Bills looking like a Super Bowl lock after what they did...

📋 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...