Fantasy Football · 2026
Draft Return
Half PPR · 132 drafted players with a qualifying benchmark
Draft Return compares where the draft market took a player with where he ranks at his position now. The preseason side is Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP from 2026-09-09 -- the last aggregate draft market published before the season's first kickoff; it is fixed for the season and is never assembled from more than one day -- and the current side is our own rest-of-season projection.
Both sides are positional ranks in Half PPR, because an ADP is a pick number and a projection board is an ordering of expected points, and the two share no unit. Preseason positional rank - current positional rank; positive means the player has outperformed the position he was drafted at.
Draft Return deltas are ordinal rank differences. They describe one player against one position and may not be summed, averaged or compared across positions without a value curve that converts a rank into a quantity.
Preseason market against the board now
QB Draft Return
Scoring
Where each player ranks at his position on our rest-of-season projection, against where the draft market took him. A forecast, not a result.
Moved up most vs preseason market
- Jared Goff QB12 → QB4 +8
- Patrick Mahomes QB13 → QB5 +8
- Joe Burrow QB3 → QB1 +2
- Trevor Lawrence QB10 → QB8 +2
- Jayden Daniels QB7 → QB6 +1
- Jordan Love QB19 → QB18 +1
Moved down most vs preseason market
- Jalen Hurts QB8 → QB49 -41
- Jaxson Dart QB16 → QB52 -36
- Justin Herbert QB14 → QB31 -17
- Lamar Jackson QB4 → QB19 -15
- Matthew Stafford QB6 → QB21 -15
- Drake Maye QB2 → QB14 -12
- Baker Mayfield QB18 → QB29 -11
- Bo Nix QB15 → QB25 -10
Every drafted QB
| Player | Preseason | ADP | Rest of season | Return | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Allen | QB1 | 30.0 | QB3 | -2 | Held |
| Drake Maye | QB2 | 51.4 | QB14 | -12 | Down |
| Joe Burrow | QB3 | 55.1 | QB1 | +2 | Held |
| Lamar Jackson | QB4 | 56.2 | QB19 | -15 | Down |
| Dak Prescott | QB5 | 63.9 | QB7 | -2 | Held |
| Matthew Stafford | QB6 | 70.2 | QB21 | -15 | Down |
| Jayden Daniels | QB7 | 75.5 | QB6 | +1 | Held |
| Jalen Hurts | QB8 | 76.4 | QB49 | -41 | Down |
| Caleb Williams | QB9 | 87.2 | QB12 | -3 | Down |
| Trevor Lawrence | QB10 | 87.6 | QB8 | +2 | Held |
| Jared Goff | QB12 | 96.7 | QB4 | +8 | Up |
| Patrick Mahomes | QB13 | 103.9 | QB5 | +8 | Up |
| Justin Herbert | QB14 | 104.5 | QB31 | -17 | Down |
| Bo Nix | QB15 | 109.8 | QB25 | -10 | Down |
| Jaxson Dart | QB16 | 120.2 | QB52 | -36 | Down |
| Kyler Murray | QB17 | 129.5 | QB23 | -6 | Down |
| Baker Mayfield | QB18 | 138.6 | QB29 | -11 | Down |
| Jordan Love | QB19 | 139.3 | QB18 | +1 | Held |
Based on players with a qualifying preseason draft-market benchmark: 132 of the 203 the Fantasy Football Calculator board of 2026-09-09 priced. Everyone else is listed below with the reason rather than shown at zero.
Who is not on the chart
- 40
- The market priced him off too few drafts for the comparison to mean anything.
- 31
- Kickers and team defences are priced by the draft market and ranked by no board we publish.
Sources
Where these numbers come from
Preseason ranks are positional ranks over Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP board of 2026-09-09, counted over that board's own order. A price behind fewer than 25 drafts is not used. Current ranks come from our own board of 2026-11-05 (rankings-v1.5.2).
Preseason positional rank - current positional rank; positive means the player has outperformed the position he was drafted at.
Draft Return deltas are ordinal rank differences. They describe one player against one position and may not be summed, averaged or compared across positions without a value curve that converts a rank into a quantity.