Our Early 20 Top Rankings for 2026, and Jordan Ritter Conn on Fantasy Football and American Men

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Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz, and I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlbeck. And we are going over our top 15 or whatever, so players for 2026 We did our rankings. They'll be up soon at fantasyfootball.3r.com. We don't know exactly when. There's a small thing. It'll be fine. They're going to be up soon. And we submitted each other's rankings, and we have literally not talked to each other about them yet. And we're going to argue about them, but Craig can't wait. Craig, are you literally chomping at the, are you having a sandwich as we speak?
Yeah.

**Craig Horlbeck** (1:44)
Big sandwich right there.

**Danny Heifetz** (1:46)
You're eating a sandwich.

**Danny Kelly** (1:47)
What's on that thing?

**Craig Horlbeck** (1:48)
Turkey, Swiss, lettuce, tomato, avocado.

**Danny Heifetz** (1:52)
Did you make it?

**Craig Horlbeck** (1:53)
No, no, I didn't. I went to a local deli.

**Danny Kelly** (1:56)
Oh, OK.

**Craig Horlbeck** (1:59)
But yes, I just it's May and I don't care. I love speculating about fantasy rankings. It's arguably more fun than actually playing fantasy football is talking about the rankings in my opinion.

**Danny Kelly** (2:11)
If you're being serious or not.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:12)
No, I do love the like May to July when you're just like thinking about who you should pick and how you should make your tears. I love it.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:20)
I've never felt more confident than I did just like sitting here in like early May being like, this is all very easy.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:26)
I know. Actually, the less you think about it, I think I should just keep these rankings as they are. I never changed them.

**Danny Kelly** (2:31)
And I have thought they were kind of blind rankings for the record, too. Like we kind of just went in vibes at first.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:38)
I did not look at anyone else's rankings.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:40)
No, I we're going to we also have a lot of e-mails weighing in on the revelation that DK and men of a certain age in Pacific Northwest think that they have a different definition for Chode.

**Danny Kelly** (2:53)
Chode versus Chode.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:54)
Yeah. Like, what does it mean? We have a lot of e-mails on that and also the pronunciation of Jeremy. And we're going to have Jordan Ritter Conn on at the end of this. Our ringer colleague, he wrote a book and we're going to talk to him about fantasy leagues. And yeah, so after e-mails, we're going to have Jordan on.
So that is also very fun. So but with that said, let's just do the rankings. Let's just get into it. So we did our rankings and we all submitted them. And we have not talked about any of these.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:17)
This is like a classics one quarterback, half PPR, top 200 This is kind of like your standard rankings.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:24)
So with that said, and as Craig said, half point per reception, the number one pick this year, basically everyone's going to come down to, it's just Jumeir Gibbs, the running back of the Lions, or Bijan Robinson, the running back of the Falcons, are like the 1A, 1B this year. And Craig and I put Gibbs one and Bijan two. And DK, you put Bijan one and Gibbs two.

**Danny Kelly** (3:41)
Yeah.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:42)
DK, age before beauty, why did you put Bijan? And do you actually care or did you just have to choose?

**Danny Kelly** (3:51)
Like truthfully, it was just like he's bigger. That's kind of like my thinking.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:56)
You mean like his height and weight?