July 27th, 2026
Monday Night Edition
The 2026 Fantasy Season is Here.
I've been playing fantasy football for over 25 years now and this time of season never gets old. It's the peak of summer and with the temperatures on the rise, the trash talking and draft day hype starts heating up just as much!
That traditional age old conversation of who's going at number one continues with names like Ja'Marr Chase, Jahmyr Gibbs, Puka Nacua, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba in the mix. Is a running back first the right strategy this year or is this the year that wide receivers dominate the top slots of fantasy scoring.
Last season, four of the top six fantasy scorers (FPPG) were running backs with Christian McCaffrey leading the way. The only wide receivers to finish top-10 were Nacua (#2) and Smith-Njigba (#7), standard PPR scoring according to FantasyData.
For season long numbers, Arizona Cardinal Trey McBride (#14) was the only tight end to enter the top 25; the distant number two tight end was Kyle Pitts Jr (#56).
A successful draft requires finding value wherever you can; if you took McBride early last season it probably paid huge dividends. The next three scoring tight ends, points per game had their seasons cut short due to injury. If you ignored the injury joo-joo talk surrounding McCaffrey and snagged him after Gibbs and Bijan Robinson, you made out like a bandit.
This season, Nacua and JSN should sit atop the receiver boards, returning with the same game slingers that vaulted them to the top a year ago, but Chase could be a risky bargain this season. Even with a healthy Joe Burrow (#15-fantasy QB), one has to wonder how bad will his offensive line be this season; the same one that saw Burrow go down in week 2 and only play 8 games last season.
How about under center this season, will Caleb Williams provide an encore performance to 2025 or will the league DC's use last season's film to pikc holes in his game? Can a healthy Baker Mayfield in Tampa and a healthy Lamar Jackson in Baltimore bounce back in 26? There's plenty of reason to believe so, but are names like Jaxson Dart, Justin Herbert, or even Jordan Love worth waiting on and taking later?
As you can see there is so much to dive into and plenty to talk about and were still in the month of July. Let the countdown begin and the fantasy smack talk unleashed, we're just getting started in here. It's time to hit the magazine stands, printout those cheat sheets, open a browser or two and dive into your research, the 2026 Fantasy football season is here.
That's My Take.
~David Ortega
~David Ortega
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