Why Tiers Beat Rankings at Every 2026 Draft
The single most useful thing you can do before your 2026 draft is redraw your rankings as tiers. Here is how the drop-offs change every pick you make.
Marcus Reed7 min read
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The spring guessing is over and the pads are on. These are the camp battles whose outcomes swing whole draft tiers, and where the winners are still gettable cheap.
Trevor Okafor6 min read
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You cannot predict touchdowns directly — they bounce too much. What you can predict is who gets the ball inside the ten, which is the input touchdowns come from.
Dana Whitfield5 min read
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Target share tells you what happened. Targets per route run tells you how much the offense wants to throw him the ball — which is what predicts next season.
Dana Whitfield5 min read
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OTAs and minicamp bury a few real signals under a mountain of highlight-clip noise. Here is how to tell the reps that survive to September from the ones that do not.
Dana Whitfield5 min read