BUF · Bye 7
James Cook
LMD RB7 for Week 3 · 16.2 projected Half PPR points · RB6 rest of season
Regular season
Week 3 and rest of season fantasy rankings
We project 16.2 points this week, RB7. Top 3: 15% · Top 12: 46% · Top 24: 72% of simulated weeks. Down 1 since Week 2.
Week 3
RB7
8th by projected points
Rest of season
RB6
6th by projected points
Projected
16.2
week 3, Half PPR
Top 12
46%
Top 3: 15% · Top 24: 72% at RB
Movement
↓ 1
RB6 in Week 2, RB7 now
- Draft / market prior
- Positive+1.55 pts
- Recent usage & efficiency
- Slight negative-0.39 pts
- AvailabilityAvailable
- Neutral0.00 pts
- Outside projection
- Slight negative-0.14 pts
- Betting markets
- No signal
Why isn’t matchup a separate factor?
How to read
- Full model minus the model without each factor.
- Effects are not additive or changes in rank.
- Recent data includes its effect on blending weights.
- A range note means a factor moved the spread and not the expected points.
Half PPR scoring · Updated September 22, 2026
LMD Rankings are produced by Let's Mock Draft's own statistical and market model. They are not analyst rankings: consensus boards are not an input, and nothing is edited by hand.
Updates
Recent updates
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How each first-round pick wins (and loses) your fantasy football league: Buy Jonathan Taylor, fade James Cook
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Season performance
Performance vs. projection
Over 2 completed games James Cook has averaged +1.2 points a game against what we projected before kickoff.
| Week | Opp | Proj | Actual | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | @ HOU | 13.4 | 8.4 | -5.0 |
| Wk 2 | vs DET | 13.0 | 20.4 | +7.4 |
| Wk 3 | vs LAC | 16.2 | — | — |
Each week's projection is the last one Let's Mock Draft published before that game kicked off, recorded at the time and never recalculated afterwards. The shaded band is the middle 80% of that week's simulated outcomes. Actual points are scored from official statistics under the scoring rule selected above.
Draft Return
How he compares with his draft price
The draft market had him at RB5. For the rest of the season LMD has him 1 spot lower, at RB6.
Preseason market: RB5 · ADP 9.2
Season to date
Ranking what he has actually scored needs every player's season, and that board is not published yet.
Rest of season
RB6 −1
LMD has him 1 spot lower than his RB5 draft price.
Week 3
RB7 −2
LMD has him 2 spots lower than his RB5 draft price.
Half PPR scoring · benchmark September 9, 2026
Season to date is what he has actually scored, ranked among his position. Rest of season and this week are LMD's current expectations rather than results. All three are compared with where the draft market had him before the season started.
RB5 is where Fantasy Football Calculator had him on September 9, 2026, the last board taken before the season's first kickoff. Later boards absorb what has happened since, so they are a current market rather than a draft price.
Regular season
Why LMD has him here
We project 249.0 points this season, RB6. Top 3: 22% · Top 12: 90% · Top 24: 100% of simulated seasons. That is 16.6 a game over 15 remaining games. Up 1 since the Sept. 20 board.
Per game
16.6 / game
Over 15 remaining game(s)
Finishing odds
Top 3: 22% · Top 12: 90% · Top 24: 100%
Share of simulated seasons finishing inside that place at RB
Market input
none
No market signal available.
LMD Rankings, rankings-v1.3.0. Inputs: Ball Don't Lie (fantasy market, player status, projections). · 2026 Rest of season board updated September 22, 2026
Dynasty
Long-term value
LMD's dynasty model has James Cook #13 in 1QB and #18 in Superflex, RB7 at his position. Age 26.
1QB
#13
RB7 · tier 6 · of 297
Superflex
#18
RB7 · tier 5 · of 303
- Last season 285.7 pts 16.8 per game, half-PPR scoring, in the games he played.
- Availability 98% Share of his team's games he played over the seasons the model reads.
- History 3 seasons Seasons of production the model read; more history is weighed more confidently.
- Touches 18.3 / game Carries plus receptions per game; 8% of his team's targets.
LMD dynasty model 1.2.0: a 3-season projection from observed NFL statistics, priced above a lineup's replacement level. Our own ranking, not an ADP, a consensus or a market price. Updated September 2026.
Draft season Draft position and availability
ADP, draft range, availability at a pick and who goes around him, measured over 10,000 simulated 12-team Half PPR 1QB drafts.
Simulated draft position
Where he goes
Simulation average
1.09
pick 9.3 overall, averaged over every simulated draft
Median pick
1.09
half of simulations take him by pick 9
Draft range
1.07 - 1.11
the middle 80% of simulations (P10-P90)
Simulations
10,000
drafted in every one
Filters
League format
Availability
Odds he reaches your pick
Available at 1.09 in 73% of simulations
Pick 9 overall in a 12-team draft · 10,000 simulations
From draft slot 9, the same seat picks again at 2.04, where he is available in <1% of simulations.
Slot 9's remaining turns: 1.09 73% · 2.04 <1% · 3.09 0%
The middle half of simulations take him between 1.08 and 1.10.
| Pick | Available |
|---|---|
| 1.07 | 95% |
| 1.08 | 89% |
| 1.09 | 73% |
| 1.10 | 45% |
| 1.11 | 19% |
| 1.12 | 6% |
| 2.01 | 2% |
| 2.02 | <1% |
| 2.03 | <1% |
| 2.04 | <1% |
| 2.05 | <1% |
| 2.06 | <1% |
| 2.07 | <1% |
| 2.08 | <1% |
| 2.09 | <1% |
Distribution
Draft position distribution
| Pick | Share of simulations | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1.04 | <1% | 42 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.05 | 1% | 107 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.06 | 3% | 262 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.07 | 6% | 579 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.08 | 16% | 1631 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.09 | 28% | 2834 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.10 | 26% | 2581 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.11 | 13% | 1267 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.12 | 4% | 420 of 10000 simulations |
| 2.01 | 1% | 123 of 10000 simulations |
Draft context
Who goes around him
Measured over the 10000 simulations in which James Cook was drafted.
Usually taken just before
- Jonathan Taylor RB · IND 20%
- Christian McCaffrey RB · SF 17%
- Derrick Henry RB · BAL 13%
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR · SEA 9%
Usually taken just after
- Derrick Henry RB · BAL 13%
- De'Von Achane RB · MIA 12%
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR · SEA 11%
- Amon-Ra St. Brown WR · DET 10%
Methodology
How this is measured
Every figure on this page comes from a Monte Carlo batch of 10,000 simulated 12-team Half PPR 1QB drafts, each one played out pick by pick by the same simulated managers that fill an empty seat in a live room.
James Cook was selected in 10000 of those 10000 drafts. Every probability here rests on that count.
Each player's expected draft position starts from Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP as of September 17, 2026; the simulated managers move him from there. Players it does not price keep a price inferred from our own rankings.
A reach or a fall on this page is measured against Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP where it prices a player, and against a price inferred from our own rankings where it does not.
- Simulation model
- simulation-v1.2
- Generated
- September 17, 2026
- Player dataset
- nflverse-2026@8a41b71bb222a352
- Baseline
- mixed
- Market prior
- ADP data from Fantasy Football Calculator (2026-09-17)
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