How the 1st Round of 2026 Fantasy Drafts Should Go
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
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0:00 - it's rude to skip intros
0:24 - bijan robinson, RB, ATL (pick #1)
2:41 - jahmyr gibbs, RB, DET (pick #2)
5:18 - puka nacua, WR, LAR (pick #3)
5:48 - jaxon smith-njigba, WR, SEA (pick #4)
7:30 - ja'marr chase, WR, CIN (pick #5)
9:15 - christian mccaffrey, RB, SF (pick #6)
10:50 - jonathan taylor, RB, IND (pick #7)
12:18 - amon-ra st. brown, WR, DET (pick #8)
12:41 - ceedee lamb, WR, DAL (pick #9)
14:20 - james cook, RB, BUF (pick #10)
17:19 - justin jefferson, WR, MIN (pick #11)
19:54 - saquon barkley, RB, PHI (pick #12)
21:20 - ashton jeanty, RB, LV (honorable mention)
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, friends and enemies, and welcome back into the very first fantasy football video of the |
| 0:06.2 | 2026 season. This is how I believe in my humble expert, never wrong, sometimes early opinion, |
| 0:14.0 | the first round of 2026 fantasy football drafts should go. This is one quarterback leagues, primarily PPR scoring, which leaves |
| 0:24.0 | us with Bijon Robinson at the very top, the 101 for the 2026 fantasy football season. He just |
| 0:30.9 | ripped off 2,300 yards from scrimmage, and it kind of felt like a tame season for him, to be |
| 0:35.8 | honest, and he's just hitting his prime, obviously, |
| 0:56.4 | he's just hitting his peak. And it felt tame because he scored 11 touchdowns. When you look at all the other players within this mix, within this mold, the guys that has scored at the top of fantasy leaderboards, it was because the number of touchdowns that they typically have. Now, when we're looking at Atlanta situation, Tyler Algier is no longer there. He's in Arizona now. And that matters because they were forcing him the ball on the goal line, obviously. |
| 0:54.5 | Alger and Bijan last year had the same amount of rushes inside the five-yard line, right? Some dudes that had more carries inside the five-yard line last year than Bejohn Robinson, Jacori Kroski Morrette, Sean Tucker, Devin Singletary, Chris Rodriguez. It is important to note that Brian Robinson has now been brought into Atlanta. |
| 1:14.3 | I don't think he'll play as significant as a role as Tyler Ajeer did, but I do think they |
| 1:19.2 | got him for a nice discount based on what Tyler Auxer ended up getting paid. |
| 1:23.4 | And I do think they'll use him to spell Bjean. |
| 1:25.0 | But even last year, you could see the significant change in just overall touches, production, and how they wanted that offense to flow through Bijon Robinson. So I think you take that a step down further in terms of where the touch split is going to go more so towards Bichon. Last year, the Falcons ranked 10th in run blocking in their offensive line, which was really surprising even the fact that Drew Dalman left to go over to Chicago and was one of the big reasons that they were so good in the run blocking unit. They also lost Caleb McGarry and Storm Norton, their tackles for the entire season early on in the season last year, and they'll be getting both of those guys back now. The big question here is obviously quarterback play. Can we get sustainable QB play from either Pennix or Tua? We saw Tua dice it up with Devon A-chan this year. We also have Kevin Cefancy coming in as the head coach. We have his former OC, Tommy Reese from Cleveland coming in as well. Bejohn's an OC-proof guy, pretty much a quarterback-proof guy. The other thing to note here, too, is like even if the quarterback play is not great, they're still playing in the NFC South. They still get to play Carolina, New Orleans, Tampa Bay, six times a year. Most of their games are going to be in good weather. Most of their games are going to be played in the dome. And I would also argue that the poor quarterback play from last year factored in to the reason that Bejohn only had seven rushing touchdown. So that felt like a little bit of a floor season for Bijan if we're being honest with each other here. So Bijan will be my number one. We'll move to number two, which is Jemir Gibbs and I actually have zero, zero issues with anyone that wants to take Jemir Gibbs over Bejohn at one. I feel like arguing the one, two, three, anyone in like the top five, you're wasting your breath. Like none of them are going to lose you your season. Jamir Gibbs, similar to Bijan who loses Tyler Al Jemir, Jimir Gibbs now loses David Montgomery. He's in Houston. And it's crazy to say because Jemir Gibbs over the last two seasons has scored 18 and 20 touchdowns somehow comes into this year with touchdown upside on top of those numbers. That might |
| 3:09.8 | be one of the crazier storylines going into this year. He somehow has scored almost 40 touchdowns |
| 3:14.5 | over the last few years and has untapped touchdown upside and potential. Last year he had eight |
| 3:19.1 | carries inside the five-yard line. Dave Montgomery had 14, which was eighth most among running |
| 3:23.0 | backs. If you take a look at this chart, this is the splits with Jamir Gibbs and Dave |
| 3:27.0 | Montgomery playing together versus without them. |
| 3:29.0 | Obviously, this is a huge storyline. |
| 3:30.4 | Anytime David Montgomery is out, Jamir Gibbs goes fucking nutty in the fantasy world. |
| 3:34.6 | You can see in the out split column there and also just the green column to the right of it. |
| 3:39.5 | His rushing yards go up by 43 yards. |
| 3:42.3 | He scores almost an extra half a touchdown per game. |
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