The 26 Best Players Under 26, Part 1. Plus, a Request to the Seven and Craig's Close Encounter With Spielberg.

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**Danny Heifetz** (1:42)
Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz, and I'm joined by Danny Kelly, Craig Horlbeck. And today we are recording. It is May 28th. And you're listening to this later in June. And we're going over the top 26 players under 26 for 2026 Is that we're doing, TK?

**Danny Kelly** (1:57)
Yes, that was very good presentation of that. Yes, it's basically the 26 best skill players under 26 years old. So 25 and under.
And it's kind of from a dynasty lens, but it's also just from a these guys are awesome lens. We kind of blended that. But this is our top 26 players who are 26 under 25 years or younger.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:17)
Yeah, quarterbacks, tight ends, running backs, wide receivers.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:20)
Is it like the best players kind of is it players we would want in a super flex dynasty fantasy football league mostly? Did we also include how much they matter in real life a little? Are we going to agree on the parameters of this? Never. No, definitely.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:36)
The Ringer is built on confusing categories.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:39)
We did. Yeah. So we did rank the top 26 players. Not only did I find myself disagreeing with you guys, I actually kept looking back and I'd be look at my own rankings and I'd be like, these are really dumb. I don't know what I'm doing.
I felt like really right, but also really wrong about sometimes the same player at different times. So I don't know. We're going to get we're going to count down. This is going to be two episodes.
Candidly, we're doing this. I'm leaving for my honeymoon in Sweden immediately after this. Spotify's 20th Anniversary is next. Well, for you in the past two weeks ago, for me next week, it's May 28th. We're recording this next week in June. We're in Stockholm and then on my honeymoon. So we're doing two parts right now. This is part one. We're going to have part two. That's going to come out for you next week. And yeah, we're going to count on the 26 We're going to yell a lot, talk about hot quarterbacks. I don't know. But anything that happens between now and then, if there's some big trade or something, we didn't address it. That is why. So without further adieu, you guys want to go through the top 26 players under 26?

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:37)
Yeah, we're going to start with we're going to start with 26 to 13 So we're going to do two parts, 13 guys for each episode. So this will be the bottom half. OK, 26 to 13

**Danny Heifetz** (3:45)
I do want to start with honorable mentions and dishonorable mentions. I actually want to start with the player who came in dead last. The worst player under 26 years old is JJ. McCarthy from the Minnesota Vikings. I know this was two weeks ago for the people listening now. We decided we don't care because the quote that came out OTAs with JJ. McCarthy, Kyler Murray, the back to back quotes where Kyler Murray comes out and is asked about his relationship with JJ. McCarthy and Kyler Murray gives the most boilerplate veteran answer. DK., if you want to read it, I actually wrote it down. I'll send it to you. Read it's literally so vanilla what Kyler Murray says.