Ranking The Top-9 Strategies For 2026 Best Ball (Episode 981 with Adam Levitan, Pete Overzet, Justin Herzig)
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Pete Overzet joins ETR's Adam Levitan and Justin Herzig for the yearly ETR tradition of breaking down what they believe are the best roster construction strategies to take into your NFL Best Ball drafts to take advantage of how ADPs are settling and how others draft.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:15 - #1 Robust RB
10:10 - #2 Hero RB
15:02 - #3 Elite QB
23:58 - #4 Elite TE
30:32 - #5 Zero RB
35:44 - #6 Three Late QBs
40:29 - #7 Double Elite QB
42:41 - #8 Double Elite TE
44:38 - #9 Single TE / Single QB
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 981 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | My name is Adam Levittant. |
| 0:22.5 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR, and Best Ball Summer is heating up. |
| 0:26.9 | It is time to talk some high-level strategy. |
| 0:31.9 | For this, I am joined by two of the sickest bestball virgins I know. |
| 0:39.5 | First up, our own Justin Herzig, |
| 0:44.7 | winner of Best Ball Mania 1 and a bunch of other best ball stuff. Herzig, how's going today? |
| 0:49.9 | Doing well, doing well. I love this episode each year because it let us kind of take a look at the meta of this year, gets ahead of where the EDP's going, all that. So excited to chat through these strategies. |
| 0:56.0 | Also joining us, one of the oldest friends of the show. |
| 0:59.6 | You used to know him as Pete Manzanelli, aka the Man's. |
| 1:02.8 | Now you know him as the preeminent thought leader in the best ball space. |
| 1:07.7 | YouTuber Peter Overzette. |
| 1:09.4 | How's going today, buddy? |
| 1:10.7 | Yeah, and I know when you say YouTuber, it's a pejorative, but, Peter Overzette. How's going today, buddy? Yeah, and I know when you say |
| 1:11.9 | a YouTuber, it's a pejorative, but, you know, the young people will find that as a compliment. |
| 1:17.1 | Yeah, now, excited to do the show. I listen to this one every year, and I do think it's a pretty |
| 1:21.8 | unique landscape compared to what we've seen in previous years. There have been some macro |
| 1:26.2 | trends that have, |
| 1:28.2 | you know, forced us to rethink some of these macro strategies. So I'm excited to talk through it. |
| 1:32.6 | Couldn't agree more. And we'll get into that for sure. On today's show, we are going to rank |
| 1:37.7 | best ball strategies for 2026. Everyone thers out things like zero running back, elite tight end, hero running back, |
| 1:46.5 | but which are the best for this year specifically? Before we get into it, do need to note |
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