Kevin Szafraniec highlights seven players going in the early rounds of best ball drafts who disappointed in 2025 but whose current ADPs may be an overcorrection.
Everything in fantasy football is cost-related. Theoretically, any player can turn into an ADP value if their price drops low enough.
As is the case every year, 2026’s best ball environment has no shortage of players whose ADPs have fallen since last year. There is almost always a valid reason for a player’s cost to decline, be it injury, production, team environment, or any combination of the three. Still, the stigma of a bad season can stick with a player even as they tumble down the draft board, acting as a scarlet letter in fantasy circles.
Even so, we have to take circumstances into account and weigh new information against our lingering biases and emotions. Therefore, we will be taking a look at players whose ADPs have fallen a little too far in the current best ball landscape, which now presents us with an opportunity for inflated returns. After covering the late rounds in Part 1 and the middle rounds in Part 2, we will finish things off by taking a look at Rounds 1 through 5 of the FFPC’s Best Ball Tournament ADP.
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