The 2026 Guru Draft Plan Is HERE!

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**John Hansen** (0:42)
Hey, what's up? It's John Hansen. Brian Drake and I are back with another edition of the Fantasy Points Podcast. And not just any edition, the draft plan for 2026 has dropped at fantasypoints.com. We'll cover it, everything that I'm thinking this year, my plan of action, 12 essential player targets, we'll talk quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, we'll talk players that I'm not drafting, and we'll draft a fake team using ADP and the draft plan to put it all together. As always, thanks for subscribing. Please throw us a bone and give us a good comment. And as usual, you are welcome.

**Brian Drake** (1:38)
All across the Fantasy Universe, it's that wonderful time of the year when we get to pick the Guru's brain, lay out the road map to Fantasy success. Because today, folks, it is the unveiling of Guru's Draft Plan here on the Fantasy Points Podcast. Brian Drake alongside the Guru, John Hansen. John, I'm always excited when I go to fantasypoints.com and I see your article on the site. It is the Draft Plan. Today, we're going to go through and give people a preview of it. We're not going to go and give everything away. We do want you to go to the website and read the article. But I know this is a long labor of love. You've done for 30-plus years. Congratulations on banging it out. And it's got to feel like a weight off your shoulders to have this thing finally done and ready to unveil your baby to the world.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:24)
Yeah, a little bit.

**John Hansen** (2:25)
That's a great point because it is... I always have called it a manifesto for over 20 years because that's kind of what it is. But I will say this that it's only kind of part one of it because I will be updating it daily if need be in the month of August. But yeah, that is a nice little hurdle to climb. But I'm feeling pretty good about all the analysis, as we've said a million times, been saying it over and over again here on various podcasts and live streams. And by the way, all I'm doing now, and this was always my goal, the only things I do right now is Fantasy Points. That's it. I go on the Fantasy Points morning show on SiriusXM. I do this podcast. I do the live stream, write the articles for Fantasy Points and all that. So yeah, feel very good about where I'm at because I'm tightening up my criteria and I'm pickier than ever in aiming to be more accurate. And speaking of that, you know, I think if you're wondering about like the effectiveness of the draft plan and the player recommendations, you can actually go back if you're considering subscribing to a podcast that we did, I guess, may have been right after the Super Bowl, somewhere between the Super Bowl, right after the Super Bowl and the regular season. So, you know, maybe a four week period there. We did, maybe we did it over a course of two podcasts.
We kind of did a review of last year's draft plan. And, you know, certainly got a couple of things wrong. Like I keep mentioning, I'll mention it again. I love TJ Hawkinson as my tight end guy last year. It was a horrible call. That will never happen again. But otherwise, it was pretty damn good, as you'll hear on the podcast. And this year, I think will be even better. Because again, I'm tightening up my criteria.
If a guy's on my list and highlighted and profiled in the draft plan, you could be damn sure I've gone under the hood and I've looked a full inspection, if you will. And these guys are checking off a lot of critical boxes. So that's why I'm into them. And that's why I think they'll be great draft picks and they're a big part of my draft plan.