2026 Fantasy Football: Depth Charts, Projections, and Cheat Sheet (Updated 8/24)

2026 Fantasy Football Cheat Sheet, Depth Charts, and Projections

My Google NFL Cheat Sheet remains in request status. Over the past month, I started to do a second run through the 2026 NFL players by position. My plan was to do about the first 10 rounds of players to help me tighten up the projections. I have six tight ends to go. As the fantasy football season flips into mid-August, player news and training camp updates will drive ADPs in both directions. I will add some sleeper and deeper articles after I finish the top 120 players.

To help you view this year’s draft board. I started to highlight the players on the 2026 NFL Player Writeup page on my cheat sheet. I sorted these players by NFFC ADPs on 7/28, but I won’t change the listings by rank going forward due to a tedious, slow process. Almost every player has links to their writeups on my Substack Note page if someone is looking to compare a couple of players when making draft decisions.

The NFFC Footballguys online championship is a PPR format with six points for passing touchdowns and minus two for interceptions. My early focus on my highlighted players was from the front of the player pool that I wrote about in the last two weeks. I add more as I work my way further through the player pool while also paying attention to player news and injury updates.

I’ll have the FantasyFootballPaydirt.com site updated shortly.

Here’s the recap of your top PPR projection changes from 8/14 → 8/24:

Quarterbacks — bigger swings this update than last time:

• Michael Penix: 81.9 → 116.5 (+34.6)

• Tua Tagovailoa: 202.2 → 168.8 (−33.4)

• Fernando Mendoza: 272.4 → 244.1 (−28.3)

• Kirk Cousins: 50.8 → 72.2 (+21.5)

• Cade Klubnik (+15.7), Geno Smith (−14.4), Joe Burrow (+8.0), Daniel Jones (+8.0)

Running Backs — the most volatile position again:

• Tyrone Tracy Jr.: 117.0 → 48.8 (−68.2) — the single largest move on the whole sheet

• Ashton Jeanty: 277.0 → 243.0 (−34.0)

• Cam Skattebo: 204.8 → 176.8 (−28.0)

• Mike Washington: 62.5 → 90.2 (+27.7)

• Kyle Monangai (−26.7), Alvin Kamara (−25.8), Kaytron Allen (+20.7), Josh Jacobs (+13.8), Jaydon Blue (+13.7)

• New to the sheet: Najee Harris (114.1 pts), Kaelon Black, Kendre Miller

• Dropped: Isaac Guerendo, Jerome Ford, Trey Benson, Eric Gray, CJ Donaldson

Wide Receivers:

• Nick Westbrook-Ikhine: 78.4 → 17.5 (−60.9)

• DeMario Douglas: 58.7 → 85.4 (+26.7)

• Jordyn Tyson: 149.0 → 123.1 (−25.9)

• Jaylin Noel (+21.3), De’Zhaun Stribling (+20.4), Devaughn Vele (+18.7), Keon Coleman (−17.3), Xavier Hutchinson (+15.6), Ja’Kobi Lane (+15.5), Kayshon Boutte (+15.4)

• New to the sheet: Keenan Allen (139.0 pts), Kyle Williams (122.3 pts)

• Dropped: Jayden Higgins, Ashton Dulin, Xavier Weaver, Jake Bobo

Tight Ends — much quieter than last update:

• Oronde Gadsden II: 148.9 → 131.7 (−17.2)

• Tyler Warren: 212.9 → 200.2 (−12.7)

• David Njoku (+9.8), Brock Bowers (+6.0)

• New: Drew Ogletree (40.1 pts); Dropped: Will Mallory

The headline story this cycle is running back roles shaking out hard — Tyrone Tracy Jr., Ashton Jeanty, and Cam Skattebo all took big haircuts while backups/complementary pieces like Mike Washington, Kaytron Allen, and Josh Jacobs gained. On the WR side, several depth/waiver-relevant names (Douglas, Noel, Stribling, Vele) jumped while Nick Westbrook-Ikhine cratered.