Way Too Early QB and RB Rankings for 2026
Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry
NBC Sports, Matthew Berry
4.3 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
April 2: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR), Jay (@croucherJD), Connor (@ConnorJRogers), and Lawrence (@LordDontLose) reveal a unique drink free candidate and react to Kirk Cousins reportedly joining the Raiders before diving into Matthew’s way too early QB and RB rankings for the upcoming season. Justin Herbert, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, and Caleb Williams headline the QB conversation, while Bijan Robinson, Christian McCaffrey, Saquon Barkley, and Chase Brown highlight the running backs. The show wraps up with the early best bets from the crew on 2026 Offensive Player of the Year.
(1:10) – Matthew explains why UConn basketball drinks for free and finds another way to throw backup Producer Pete under the bus
(7:20) – Rotoworld Player News: Kirk Cousins reportedly agrees to deal with Raiders
(11:35) – QB Rankings: Malik Willis, Justin Herbert, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Caleb Williams, Patrick Mahomes, Jaxson Dart, Matthew Stafford
(31:25) – RB Rankings, Pt. 1: Bijan Robinson, Christian McCaffrey, Saquon Barkley, Chase Brown
(47:30) – RB Rankings, Pt. 2: Quinshon Judkins, Kenneth Gainwell, James Conner
(50:15) – Last Call: Best bets for 2026 Offensive Player of the Year
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| 0:00.0 | Look at this apparel. |
| 0:01.6 | You're damn right. |
| 0:03.3 | Gripping. So, let's hear it. Because I couldn't get one. There was 9,000 people. Yeah, I just cut the line. Stephen was on the line, by the way. Getting ready to producer's show. Can you get him one? I apologize to everyone. And I'm apologizing and I'm apologize to anyone here. So when the awful announcing article comes out about how I cut the line, I just want to make sure I get that to them. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm acknowledging it. I'm acknowledging it and apologizing to everyone at NBC. But I had, we had 10 minutes to air, you know what I mean? So anyway. It's hard to predict when the show's on, too. That's a Ruby 30. We'd rather you had cut that line to get that shirt to you to come on this set with no shirt at all. |
| 0:44.2 | Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry. |
| 0:48.8 | Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour. |
| 0:51.1 | Connor Rogers, Matthew Barry, Lawrence Jackson, Jay Croucher. |
| 0:54.1 | It is a backup producer Pete Day. Hold on to your butts. |
| 0:57.7 | Anything can happen here. Just anything can happen here just like anything could happen in |
| 1:03.7 | NTA basketball. Yukon drinks for free. One of the all-time great plays. My wife went to |
| 1:10.6 | Yukon, so we're a husky household. |
| 1:13.1 | You guys have a lot to move for in your house. |
| 1:15.7 | But I'm just saying, like, I come by it legitimately. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm not so bandwaggingly. |
| 1:18.8 | I married into it. |
| 1:20.2 | A&M, Alabama, Yukon basketball. |
| 1:22.7 | Can you adopt? |
| 1:23.6 | Wait until Syracuse gets good again. |
| 1:25.1 | Now that we got Jerry McNamara. |
| 1:26.4 | You adopted Maryland as Is your big 10th time? That was, yeah. Maryland. He forgot about that. It was extremely brief. Yeah, there was like a big deal at a time. I've chose Maryland three weeks later. I've never watched Maryland again. I mean, like, but I mean, Jay, the odds of, that is one of the all-time great NCAA plays. And arguably, the best one when you think about in totality because of... They were getting their ass kick the entire game, right? And then just the odds of... Like, all they had to do was hold the ball. There was 10 seconds left. There was not to be a back court violation. Literally, once they inbounded it, all they had to do is just |
| 2:02.7 | hold it. Yeah. The other thing, too, is like |
| 2:04.7 | everyone focuses on the |
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