Last week, we previewed the RB and QB classes for the upcoming NFL Draft. This time, we're focused on pass-catchers. And the WR group this year looks like the best of the offensive bunch. Have we settled on a clear top 5? How many others could sneak into Round 1. Walter Cherepinsky has been covering the draft for years on his site, WalterFootball.com, so we asked him to join us in digging into this classes. We're also taking a look at a much less interesting TE group, searching for guys who might present some fantasy upside.

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​Are Malik Willis and Breece Hall the clear leaders at their positions for fantasy football drafts out of this NFL rookie class? And even if you're set on "yes" for them, how does the class settle out behind them. We're still waiting on the NFL Draft to answer some final questions, but Jared and Matt have some favorite prospects they'll be tracking ... as well as some seemingly overrated guys to avoid.

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It obviously takes some good luck to win a best-ball fantasy football tournament. But the process is about attacking edges to set yourself up to take advantage of those lucky breaks. That's especially true in a full-season format such as that on Drafters, as opposed to the weekly playoffs that finish some other best-ball tourneys. Ben Hauver won the 2021 regular-season tournament, so we invited him on to ask what worked, how DFS and best-ball play feed each other and how he's planning to keep the success going in 2022.

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Your 2022 fantasy football rankings are LIVE! Our rankings are never really "finished," of course, until the regular season starts. We'll tweak them constantly: after each move in NFL free agency, after the NFL Draft, sometimes just because we read some news or discovered some indicator that has changed our minds about a player. But having them available at the earliest date ever -- for at least the 2nd year in a row -- can give you a big advantage in your early best-ball drafts. We're talking some today about the process, but then diving into some of the biggest standouts vs. early ADP: potential draft sleepers and total avoids.

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• Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
  We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
   
• Mock Draft Simulator
  Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
   
• Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
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​Bradley Stalder and Billy Muzio stop by to chat with Matt about how you need to plan before your draft starts, what you need to do throughout the draft if you're hoping to win a big best-ball prize and some players we love -- or hate -- in early drafting.

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• Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
  We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
   
• Mock Draft Simulator
  Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
   
• Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
  We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

​It's been a while since Matt and Jared did the pod thing together, so this reunion show ran a little long. It's for good reason, though, as there's a lot to talk about on the dynasty frontier. We're starting by revealing some key enhancements to our dynasty tools (1:02), then assessing the Russell Wilson- and Deshaun Watson-led offseason QB market (5:32), looking at what to do with Elijah Mitchell, Antonio Gibson, Michael Carter and other RBs (27:23), evaluating the robust trade market's effect on WR values (55:22), and wrapping up with some disagreement on a big-name TE (1:19:42).

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• Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
  Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
   
• Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
  We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
   
• Mock Draft Simulator
  Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
   
• Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
  We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

​What does it really mean for a player to be "better in best ball"? Underdog's Hayden Winks has been answering that question for a couple of years now, and his findings can help you draft better teams. We'll talk about how many QBs you should be drafting -- both in common formats and superflex -- as well as how to treat the other positions. And then we'll dig into some rookie talk. What matters for assessing each position, and who deserves more attention in fantasy football drafts right now?

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• Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
  Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
   
• Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
  We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
   
• Mock Draft Simulator
  Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
   
• Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
  We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

How should you be building our your best-ball tournament rosters? How should you be assessing your player portfolio? Should you even be jumping into these drafts at all? Justin Herzig took down the $200K top prize in Underdog's 1st Best Ball Mania 2 years ago, and he's here to share his best-ball expertise with us in this episode.

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• Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
  Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
   
• Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
  We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
   
• Mock Draft Simulator
  Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
   
• Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
  We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

If you're drafting best-ball teams right now, then you've probably seen Eaglezzz in your room at some point. That's James Brimacombe, and he's joining us on this episode to talk about his best-ball experience. We'll look at what's changed since best-ball arrived, how to approach certain tournaments and who we're targeting or avoiding at each position. And if you stick around to the end, you'll hear a warning story about diving in too deep.

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• Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
  Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
   
• Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
  We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
   
• Mock Draft Simulator
  Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
   
• Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
  We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.

​Ben Standig covers the Washington football beat for The Athletic, and in a past life he used to work in the fantasy football industry. So Matt invited him on the day after the Commanders acquired QB Carson Wentz from the Colts. We're not stopping at addressing that situation, though. We're tapping Ben for insights on Curtis Samuel's outlook, the J.D. McKissic plan and why you should remember the name Cam Sims.

Check out our fresh 2022 fantasy football rankings, as well as up-to-date dynasty rankings.

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Award-winning fantasy football rankings, projections and draft tools. Live-draft sync, player analysis, draft strategies and expert advice to dominate your leagues.

HELPFUL LINKS

• Draft War Room - Featuring Live Draft Sync
  Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet”. As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.
   
• Award Winning Fantasy Football Rankings
  We calculate floor, ceiling, and consensus projections for all fantasy-relevant players. These projections all feed into our 3D Value system. 3D Values are calculated using a cross-positional algorithm based on your exact league setup and scoring.
   
• Mock Draft Simulator
  Our Mock Draft Simulator will help you prepare for your upcoming drafts, allowing for a customized setup to fit your specific league settings.
   
• Trade Calculator and Trade Value Charts
  We made winning fantasy football trades easy. Powered by real-time player stats, our award-winning 3D projections and expert rankings, these trade tools assign each player a value based on your league's unique scoring system.