The Worst 2026 Fantasy Football Picks in Every Round

**Danny Heifetz** (0:00)
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Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz, and I am still joined in person by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlbeck. We're still in Los Angeles, baby.

**Danny Kelly** (1:27)
We're still here.

**Danny Heifetz** (1:27)
Today, we're going over.

**Danny Kelly** (1:28)
You guys ever leaving or no?

**Danny Heifetz** (1:30)
Well, maybe.

**Danny Kelly** (1:32)
That's good.

**Craig Horlbeck** (1:32)
We're just going to live in a hotel forever.

**Danny Heifetz** (1:35)
We're going over the worst picks in every round today.

**Danny Kelly** (1:39)
We're following up the best picks in every round with the worst picks.

**Craig Horlbeck** (1:42)
The people that were just really not looking to draft.

**Danny Heifetz** (1:44)
Because you tell people who to take, but those people can be taken. Maybe it's more important to tell you who to avoid and what mistakes to avoid. So we're just going to go over and be like, basically, who's giving us the heck in each round? We're not saying never take these people, but if it's like, unless you're getting a real good deal.

**Danny Kelly** (1:58)
It's our least favorite pick at cost, as the fantasy people like to say.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:04)
And there's no right way to determine the definition of what our least favorite pick is, other than if we love you and you're asking us for advice on your team, and then we're like, how'd it go? And you send your draft back and we see these people, we're a little bit like, ooh.

**Danny Kelly** (2:20)
If your entire lineup comprised of these people, we'd be upset with you.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:24)
That would actually be a fun way to do it. Somebody should do that and you'll probably win.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:28)
And then they'd win. They would probably just go undefeated.
So yeah, we're gonna do that. And I also want to remind people that we have in-season episodes. We do Sunday night recaps. We do Monday waivers. So during the season, you gotta add, a lot of times during the season, a few different waiver picks can kind of determine the entire season.

**Danny Kelly** (2:43)
The fantasy season arguably starts after week one. And you could argue that what you do over the waiver wire over the course of the season is more important than your draft.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:51)
So we do waiver help for you on Mondays, and then we have power hours on Wednesdays, which are really fun, and then Friday previews. So four times a week during the season. So if you've liked the chaos and sanity of the show, then stick with us during the season. And we're gonna go over the worst picks in every round. But first, we're gonna take a quick break.
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**Danny Kelly** (3:43)
By the way, the list where you're using average draft position based on, we're doing fantasy pros, right? This is like a collection of ADPs across the internet. So this is like a compilation of that. It's like a consensus thing.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:53)
It's like half point per reception, but that's kind of the same thing as full point per reception. It doesn't change the rankings that much, honestly. And so it's part, you know, it's Yahoo, it's fantasy pros, it's sleeper, it's like an amalgamation.