Kevin Szafraniec continues his deep dive into the AFC East by identifying the best and worst picks on the New England Patriots’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. No NFL team’s turnaround was as dramatic as what we saw from the Patriots last season. New England went from the AFC East cellar in 2024 to playing in the Super Bowl one year later. The sweeping…...

Kevin Szafraniec kicks off his deep dive into the AFC East by identifying the best and worst picks on the Miami Dolphins’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. The general consensus regarding the 2026 Miami Dolphins is that things will be bad. Real bad. The new regime in South Beach cleared house this offseason, taking on a league-high $179.2M in dead cap (per Spotrac), leading…...

Kevin Szafraniec finishes his deep dive into the NFC North by identifying the best and worst picks on the Minnesota Vikings’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. Perhaps no team was more eager to put 2025 in the rearview than the Minnesota Vikings. Despite finishing the year with a respectable 9-8 record, the JJ McCarthy experiment was an unmitigated disaster. The quarterback singlehandedly decreased the…...

Kevin Szafraniec continues his deep dive into the NFC North by identifying the best and worst picks on the Green Bay Packers’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. Everything was going right for the Packers at the start of 2025 before injuries derailed them over the second half of the year. But the team has had a full offseason to get healthy and once again…...

Kevin Szafraniec continues his deep dive into the NFC North by identifying the best and worst picks on the Detroit Lions’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. The Lions’ offense has offered a safe harbor for fantasy managers in recent years. Detroit hasn’t fallen out of the top five in total offense or scoring since 2021. During that time, the Lions’ offense has featured difference-makers…...

Kevin Szafraniec kicks off his deep dive into the NFC North by identifying the best and worst picks on the Chicago Bears’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. Flashy young head coaching hires rarely hit the ground running in Year 1. But it’s safe to say Ben Johnson delivered on the hype during his first year in Chicago, and then some. In his head coaching…...

Kevin Szafraniec finishes his deep dive into the AFC South by identifying the best and worst picks on the Jacksonville Jaguars’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. The Jaguars quickly became NFL darlings down the stretch in 2025, riding into the playoffs on an eight-game winning streak before eventually losing to Buffalo in the final minutes of the Wild Card round. Despite the disappointing loss…...

Kevin Szafraniec continues his deep dive into the AFC South by identifying the best and worst picks on the Houston Texans’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. The Texans have seen their fair share of success since head coach DeMeco Ryans and quarterback C.J. Stroud arrived in Houston back in 2023. However, that success hasn’t always transferred over to fantasy, where the value of the…...

Kevin Szafraniec continues his deep dive into the AFC South by identifying the best and worst picks on the Tennessee Titans’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. There’s no way around it; the Titans were an absolute dumpster fire in 2025. But a wide-scale makeover this offseason has helped renew hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. A new coaching staff…...

Kevin Szafraniec kicks off his deep dive into the AFC South by identifying the best and worst picks on the Indianapolis Colts’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. The Colts were the league’s hottest team in the first half of 2025, running roughshod over most opponents who dared to stand in their way. With their dreams of lifting the Lombardi Trophy at the end of…...

In the final installment of this series, Kevin Szafraniec uses the historical information from RotoViz’s Best Ball Win Rate Explorer and Roster Construction Explorer to draft a team from the six hole in the FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament. So far in this series, we have covered a lot of information: Part 1: Historical Win Rates By Draft Slot, League Winners, and Positional Heatmaps Part…...

Kevin Szafraniec wraps up his deep dive into the NFC West by identifying the best and worst picks on the San Francisco 49ers’ roster in 2026 best ball drafts. It feels like forever ago that Kyle Shanahan finally got his first shot to follow in his father’s footsteps as an NFL head coach, after being touted as one of the hottest young offensive minds in…...