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Years Of Guarantees With Josh Allen

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Editors’ Picks

Happy Pi Day! Our heads have been spinning with numbers all week because of NFL Free Agency, so let’s catch up on these articles you may have missed …

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Thor Nystrom’s Guest Mock Draft: Tate Stays in Ohio

It’s great to welcome back our dear friend and former colleague Thor Nystrom to do a guest mock draft. He’s over at SKOR North wearing a variety of hats, including a show covering Minnesota sports. He’s also on a weekday show on the Vikings and, of course, a show where he breaks down all things NFL Draft. Speaking of the draft, he got back in the saddle for Fantasy Life and dropped a mock draft, just like old times. Before you click below for the full first round of the mock draft, here’s where Thor is sending a player who has been getting plenty hype this cycle:

6. Cleveland Browns: WR Carnell Tate

Cleveland shops local, tabbing Tate from nearby Columbus. The Browns simply cannot enter training camp with a starting WR trio of Jerry Jeudy, Cedric Tillman and Isaiah Bond. Tate taking over as Cleveland’s alpha boundary WR1 would kick Jeudy back inside to the slot, giving the Browns a legitimate receiving corps again. Tate is a big-bodied chain-mover in the vein of a George Pickens or Tee Higgins.

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The Free Agency Dust Is Starting To Settle

It’s been a whirlwind first week of free agency. While the Maxx Crosby to the Ravens fiasco has garnered most of the headlines, there have also been a bunch of moves that have impacted the fantasy landscape.

Pete Overzet did a great job of highlighting some of the biggest winners who stayed put in a recent newsletter, but we want to focus on some of the biggest risers and fallers who changed teams. Let’s dive right in.

📈 Kenneth Walker (RB8)

It’s tempting to dream about the idea of placing Walker into the prime Chiefs’ offense. That said, it’s important to remember that the current version of the Chiefs isn’t the same one that dominated during the early Patrick Mahomes years. They were 20th in yards and points per game last season, and they were among the worst running teams in the league. They were 24th in rushing yards per game, while their offensive line was 25th in ESPN’s Run Block Win Rate.

Still, the idea of Walker getting a bell cow role has to be considered an upgrade for fantasy purposes. Walker is an elite talent at the position, earning the No. 1 Pro Football Focus grade in 2025-26. We got a glimpse of what he could do with a bell cow role in the playoffs last season. He averaged 104 rushing yards in his three playoff contests, and he added 3.0 receptions and 34.7 receiving yards per game. He also scored 4 total touchdowns.

The change of scenery is enough to vault him into the top 10 in the RB rankings for the upcoming season. Hopefully, Mahomes will be ready for the start of the season, and the addition of Walker helps the Chiefs’ offense return to prominence.

📉 Michael Pittman (WR43)

It felt like the Colts had too many pass catchers at times last season, so it’s not surprising that they’ve thinned the herd a bit for 2026-27. They brought back Alec Pierce for nearly $30M a year across the next four seasons, and to help offset that cost, they shipped Pittman to the Steelers.

Pittman quietly finished as WR18 last year in terms of PPR scoring, despite slumping down the stretch with Daniel Jones on the sidelines. He racked up 80 catches, 724 yards, 7 touchdowns and led the Colts with a 21% target share.

It’s hard to imagine him getting back to that threshold with the Steelers. DK Metcalf figures to be the team’s No. 1 option, and he led their receiving corps with a 22% mark last season. No other receiver was above 13%, so he should be looking at a downgrade in volume.

The quality of those targets could also be lacking. It’s still unclear who will be under center for the Steelers next season, but Aaron Rodgers remains the odds-on favorite. Rodgers is a shell of his former self at this point. He got rid of the ball faster than any QB in football last season, and he averaged just 5.79 intended air yards per attempt. It’s hard to imagine Rodgers being able to support two fantasy-relevant receivers, so Pittman is likely looking at some serious regression.

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Around the Watercooler

The latest fantasy and NFL gossip, news, memes and more from our merry band of football nerds …

👀 Free agency shook up the fantasy rankings … and nobody stands out more than these handful.

🔥 A new set of positional rankings dropped. The best CBs in the 2026 draft.

🙊 So now we know how to pronounce Etienne. Thanks for the clarification.

🏈 Looks like A.J. Brown is staying put. For now.

☝️ The top 3 in our WR rankings for the draft are clear cut. Who’s No. 1?

🙌 Carnell Tate is smooth like Santana. And like a fellow Buckeye.

Free Agency Changed Ian’s Rankings

How high is too high for Kenneth Walker after he landed with Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs? Is Malik Willis the new late-round QB that your favorite fantasy analysts are targeting? Free Agency changed things in the NFL landscape, and Ian Hartitz ran through how his rankings changed after all the player movement on this episode of the Fantasy Life Show.